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4® 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. 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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. LEADING EXPERTS Liturgy Kit For Parochial Use WASHINGTON (NC) —The nat ional Liturgical Conference here has announced that it has prepared a "parish worship program" in kit form ex plaining how parishes can im plement the ecumenical coun cil’s decree on the liturgy. the Catholic University of America, president of the Liturgical Conference, said in announcing the new kit that the changes in the liturgy direct ed by the ecumenical council "are not simply a question of obeying this or that new rubric. 'THEY WILL require a thorough reeducation of both priests and people in the mean ing and importance of worship as the center of Christian life," The kit has been prepared by a committee of the Liturgi cal Conference including some of the leading liturgy experts in the U. S. and Canada, a spokesman said. AMONG THE materials in the kit are: a "Priest's Guide to Parish Worship," a full size book for the clergy; "Liturgi cal Renewal for the Layman," a 32-page popular pamphlet for parishioners; 'The Bible Ser vice," a booklet outlining the structure and importance of this form of service; instructions for the training of com mentators and lectors; a ser mon outline program; a com mentary on the liturgy con stitution, Including a complete translation of the document; and a manual for church audio siereo in c., •High Fidelity Components Sales and Service A. J. "DOC" SCHIER 2929 Peachtree Road, N. E. Atlanta, Georgia 231-4374 Father Gerard S. Sloyan of Boost Africans LAGOS, Nigeria (NC) —The Catholic population in Nigeria has increased by 15% in the last three years, increasing from 1,590,000 in i960 to 1,825,000. 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