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PAPAL AUDIENCE FOR ROYAL COUPLE - Pope Paul VI is shown following a private audience,
April 7, at which he received Dutch Princess Irene and her finance, Spanish Prince Carols de
Borbon-Parma. Princess Irene's conversion to Catholicism was revealed last January.
RELIGIOUS GROUPS
Ask ‘Strongest Possible’
Civil Rights Legislation
WASHINGTON, D.C. (RNS)—
A demand that th4 United States
Senate pass the pending civil
rights bill "in the strongest
possible form” was made here
in a joint statement by leading
representatives of a majority of
American Protestantism, Cath
olicism and Judaism.
Welfare Conference, and Rabbi
Uri Miller, president of the
Synagogue Council of America.
Spokesmen for the bulk of the
nation's religious community —
described by many as having de
cisive power in the struggle to
obtain equal justice for all citi
zens — said that the "moral
and spiritual" implications of
the proposed legislation make it
impossible for churches and
synagogues to watch the Senate
debate "as uninvolved specta
tors."
IT WAS expected that the con
vocation, to be held in McDon
ough Auditorium at Georgetown
University, would be the "larg
est gathering of ministers,
priests and rabbis ever before
assembled in a witness to racial
justice."
The planned meeting was seen
as an effort by the nation's re
ligious community in behalf of
civil rights which would paral
lel or surpass in impact the
Protestant - Catholic - Jewish
participation in last summer’s
March on Washington for Jobs
and Freedom.
THE RELIGIOUS groups will
make a mass expression of in
volvement in the issue, the in
terreligious representatives
said at a press conference,
through a convocation of unpre
cedented scope on April 28,
LIKE THE Lincoln Memorial
program during the March on
Washington, the forthcoming
convocation will have a special
section of reserved seats for
each of the 535 U.S. Senators
and Representatives.
Issuing the Joint statement
and announcing plans for the
convocation were Dr. Eugene
Carson Blake, chief executive
officer of the United Presbyter
ian Church in the U.S.A. and
chairman of the National Coun
cil of Churches'Commission on
Religion and Race; Father John
F. Cronin, S.S., assistant direc
tor of the Social Action Depart
ment of the National Catholic
Main speakers will be Dr.
Blake, Catholic Archbishop
Lawrence J. Shehan of Balti
more, Md., and Rabbi Miller.
Special music will be presented
by an interracial, interreligious
choir of 200 voices.
.AND TO broaden the outreach
of the event, it was announced,
simultaneous church and syna
gogue-sponsored meetings are
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Also, the convocation will be
a prelude to continuing worship
services and expressions in
support of the civil rights bill
in each of the religious groups.
THE NATIONAL Council of
Churches’ Commission on Re
ligion and Race has scheduled
Monday-through-Saturday wor
ship services, called "contin
uous" inasmuch as no benedic
tion will be given until a strong
civil rights bill is passed, at
the Lutheran Church of the Re
formation on Capitol Hill.
More than 125 of the na
tion’s most prominent Protes
tant and Orthodox ministers,
priests and laymen have been
invited to the Protestant ser
vices, it was announced by Dr.
Robert W. Spike, executive di
rector of the NCC race com
mission.
INITIAL SPEAKERS will in
clude Dr. Spike; Bishop B. Ju
lian Smith of the Christian
Methodist Episcopal Church and
a vice chairman of the NCC
commission; Dr. John C. Ben
nett, president of Union Theo
logical Seminary in New York,
and Dr. Benjamin Spock, in
ternationally - known pediatri
cian.
Within Catholicism, Father
Cronin said, follow-up mes
sages to the convocation will
stress that justice and respect
for human dignity call for equal
voting privileges, equal access
to public accommodations —
whether publicly or privately
owned — and equal educational
and employment opportunities
for all citizens.
RABBI MILLER said the con
vocation would be followed in
synagogues by prayers and ser
mons in behalf of equal rights.
Credit for spearheading plans
for the convocation and other
religious moves for civil rights
was given at the press confer
ence by Dr. Blake to Catholic
Archbishop Patrick A. O'Boyle
of Washington.
HE SAID the archbishop has
"given leadership which all
America should appreciate."
Spokesmen for the various re
ligious groups have been in
"almost daily contact" in map
ping plans for the convocation
and the follow-up program, Dr,
Blake said.
In addition to the organized
features of the interreligious
civil rights campaign, the press
conference principals said that
spokesmen of religious groups
would call on legislators to
urge passage of the pending
measure.
FATHER CRONIN said the
action is not to be construed
as an attempt at lobbying, but
of drawing to the attention of
the legislators the sentiments
of the churches toward civil
rights.
"We should not go to this
Senator or that and tell him
which provision he should or
not vote for," Father Cronin
said. "He would resent that,
and rightly so."
THURSDAY, APRIL.16, 1964 GEORGIA BULLETIN PAGE 3
KEY DOCTRINE
Patriarch Stresses Need
For Defining Collegiality
CAIRO (NC)—The concept of
episcopal collegiality—that the
supreme power over the Church
on earth belongs to the bishops
as a body, with the Pope at
their head—is a key doctrine
which will "open the door to
all the answers that the (Ca
tholic) Church needs in her
dialogue with Orthodoxy,"
Patriarch Maximos IV Saigh
of Antioch declared here.
the Roman Catholic Church of
the charge of lapsing dogmati
cally from the ancient Church
(tradition).
PATRIARCH Maximos was
asked in an exclusive interview
with the N. C. W, C. News
Service what he considers "the
most critical problem" that
the ecumenical council still
must deal with.
"Indeed, the existence of this
Church in her Eastern apostolic
aspect, as continued by
Orthodoxy, is positively in
comprehensible without the
doctrine of collegiality. It alone
can provide an acceptable in
terpretation of papal infallibili
ty. This doctrine of collegiality
must give dogmatic completion
to the (infallibility) doctrine of
Vatican 1."
The prelate, who bears the
full title of Patriarch of Antioch
and of all the East, of
Alexandria and of Jerusalem,
replied:
"Collegiality, which is the
government of the Church by the
bishops having at their head
their leader, the Pope, is a
doctrine-key to open the door
to all the answers that the
Church needs in her dialogue
with Orthodoxy. Moreover, a
definitive formula must be given
to the voting on collegiality
which took place last Oct. 30.
PATRIARCH Maximos said
that if the council is to act
on all the work now before it,
it must sit for several more
sessions besides the third one,
scheduled for next fall. But he
said , that since the council
Fathers in general hope to con
clude with the third session,
this can be done by consigning
some council projects for en
actment by the Holy See and
"by the ‘permanent synod’ of
the Universal Church which is
to be established by the coun
cil as a practical expression
of 'collegiality.' " •
"In reality, only collegiality
can enable a useful conversation
with Orthodoxy, which seeks a
confrontation between Rome and
the East. It alone can clear
In.any case, the bearded 36-
year-old Patriarch asserted,
top priority must be given to
"everything concerning the
nature oft the Church and
ecumenism." Except for these
two schemas, and the one up
holding freedom of conscience,
all problems can be worked out
FRANK H. Heller, national president of the National Council
of Catholic Men being greeted by ACCM president Ferdinand
Buckley after his arrival in Atlanta from Dallas for the annual
Brotherhood Dinner of the Southern Region Conference of Chris
tian and Jews. Mrs. Heller is also shown.
sion on a moral problem "in
which we all have a common
mind."
Veteran Washington obser
vers said the plans for the in
terreligious convocation and
other church and synagogue
civil rights efforts were being
viewed by Administration lead
ers with urgent interest.
true that law is the one way civi
lized communities have found to
make effective the moral will of
the community.
SEVERAL Representatives
reportedly have ' acknowledge
that their votes in the House for
the civil rights bill were largely
influenced by the growing ex
tent of religious support for
the measure.
'The churches and syna
gogues of this nation have the
double responsibility, first, of
winning their own constituen
cies to active support of free
dom, equality and Justice be
tween the races, and second, of
vigorously reminding the leg
islators that civil rights is
essentially a moral issue and
one which cannot be put off or
compromised as it has been
for a hundred years.
The statement released joint
ly by the NCC, NCWC and Syn
agogue Council representatives
said:
'THE LEGISLATION on civil
rights which is presently before
the Senate of the United States
must be passed in the strongest
possible form in order that the
nation may have a national legal
instrument strong enough to
make effective the new pattern
of the race relations which the
aroused conscience of the
American people now demands.
While it is said that you cannot
legislate morals, it is also
‘THE TASK of the churches
and synagogues is now, as al
ways, essentially a moral and
spiritual task, but this does not
mean that we can watch the de
bate in the United States Senate
as uninvolved spectators. We
are grateful for those Senators
who already have shown their
willingness to work together in
unprecedented bipartisan effec
tiveness for this legislation,
and we must urge all other
Senators to support the effort
to get the bill to a vote.
ANSWER TO
LAST WEEK'S PUZZLE
ANSWER
DR. BLAKE commented that
the convocation also is not to be
interpreted as "syncretism of
religious beliefs." It should be
viewed, he said, as an expres-
"We have made far-reaching
pronouncements against racial
discrimination over the years.
Now is the time, by strong per
sonal involvement, for mem
bers of religious institutions,
lnsprled by their ministers,
priests, and rabbis, to take
forthright stands for a new pat
tern of justice, freedom and
equality for all citizens,
by postconcillar bodies.
PATRIARCH Maximos said
he believes that the council
will both take up and pass a
declaration on freedom of re
ligion in the course of the third
session. As to whether it will
also adopt a declaration con
demning racism, he said he
could not predict. "But
the Church is definitely not
racist," he said.
The leader of a quarter mil
lion Catholic Arabs in the Near
East, the Patriarch reiterated
his earlier opposition to having
the council issue a declaration
on the Church’s ties to the
Jews. "As the Jewish question
is an irritating one for a large
number of peoples, we believe
that it would be better not to
deal with it at the council,"
he said. "We could at most
issue a general declaration con
cerning relations with all other
religions, without mentioning
the Jews in particular."
OUTSTANDING CATHOLIC YOUTH’ - Maurice J. Blackwell, 17,
of the Baltimore (Md.) CYO receives his award as the "Out
standing Catholic Youth in America" from Archbishop Law
rence J. Shehan of Baltimore. Blackwell was selected from among
nominees by the national presidents of the CYO, the National
Newman Federation and the National Federation of Catholic Coll
ege Students. The annual national selection is sponsored by the
Youth Department of the National Catholic Welfare Confer
ence.
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WASHINGTON (NC) —The nat
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the Catholic University of
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