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PONTIFF SAYS
Economic Aid
Not Sufficient
ST. PIUS X students, in a tradition-setting ceremony, recently
planted a tree on the school grounds. Show here are, left to
right, Diane Seeley, Gaye Nevius, Susan Beckham and Helen
Hynes.
‘OUR MINISTRY HAS NEED’
VATICAN CITY (NC>--Pope
Paul VI rold an international
group dealing with aid to under
develop nations that economic
assistance is not enough, and
that human and spiritual pro
gress must also be provided
for.
The Pope spoke in French
(May 9) to members of a group
called the International Discus
sion of the Problems of Tech
nical Assistance and the For
mation of Leaders in Develop
ing Countries,
THE PONTIFF said that "the
problem of technical assistance
cannot be solved by a simple
addition od economic quantities.
It concerns the whole man and
particularly his soul, his in
telligence and his heart."
Stressing the need for con
cern with human spiritual pro
gress, the Pope said that "the
Pope Asks Reconciliation
Between Church, Artists
VATICAN CITY (NC)—Pope
Paul has told a group of leading
Italian artists that it it is nec
essary today "to reestablish
friendship between the Church
and the artists,"
The Pope laid the blame for
the distance between much of
modern art and the Church on
the shoulders both of artists and
of the Church in a discourse he
delivered in the Sistine chapel
on AscensionThursday (May 7),
after celebrating Mass for the
Italian "Artists' Mass" asso
ciation.
AS THE Pope celebrated
Mass beneath the great fresco
of Michelangelo's Last Judg
ment, a choir composed of
members of the Artists' Mass
movement sang motets of Pale
strina, one of the greatest of
all composers of Church music.
Well-known Italian actors read
the Epistle, Gospel and a special
prayer for artists in Italian.
The Pope told the assembled
artists that "Our ministry has
need of your help because, as
you know, our ministry is that
of preaching and of making ac
cessible and understandable,
and even stirring, the world of
the spirit, the invisible world of
God the unexpressible. And in
this operation of expressing the
invisible world in accessible
and understandable formulas
you are the masters. It is your
profession and your art is pre
cisely that snatching of the
treasures of heaven and of the
spirit and clothing them in un
derstandable words, colors and
forms,"
THE OPE stressed the need
for reestablishing friendship
between the Church and artists
although he added, "Ithas never
truly been broken." He said
that "We have always been
friends. But as happens among
relatives, so it happens among
friends, relations are some
times worsened. We have not
broken but we have strained our
friendship. May 1 say it? You
have somewhat abandoned the
friendship, you have gone far
afield to drink at other foun
tains."
The Pope told artists that "we
carry a certain wound in our
heart when we see persons in
tent on certain artistic expres
sions which offend us." Pointing
out that some artists separate
art from life, the Pope said
they "sometimes forget the fun
damental rule of your conse
cration to expression,"
THE RESULT is, the Pope
said, "the language of babel and
confusion." But on the other
hand, he said, the Church has
contributed to the rupture of
relations with the artistic world
because ' we have imposed as a
first rule that of imitation, on
you who are creators, vivacious
people and stimulators of a
thousand ideas and of a thou
sand innovations."
The Pope said the demand for
Imitation has placed "a leaden
cap" on the heads of artists
and he added, "Pardon us I" He
said artists have grown apart
because ' Nve did not explain our
side to you, we have not led you
to the secret cell in which the
mysteries of God make man's
heart dance with joy, hope,
happiness and rapture.
THE TENDENCY to adhere to
traditional forms left the artist
"incapable of finding his free
voice," the Pope said, "and we
have felt the dissatisfaction with
this form of artistic expres
sion. And—we are making a
complete confession of faults
at least here—we have treated
you worse. We have sought for
oleographs (imitation oil paint
ings) and works of art of little
artistic or real value, perhaps
because we have not had the
means of understanding great
things, beautiful things, new
things, things worthy of being
seen, and we have walked in
chains—and it is worse for us—
to the point where art and beau
ty and the worship of God have
been badly served.”
Instead of the distance be
tween the Church and art, the
Pope said that today "we must
return to being allies. We must
ask of you all the possibilities
such the Lord has given you and
it must be left up to you to sing
the free and powerful song of
which you are capable." Ar
tists in turn can draw from
Church teachings the inspira
tion they need as well as the
graces and the "gift of ton-
ques" ("charism") of art.
THE POPE cited portions of
the Second Vatican Council’s
Constitution on the Liturgy,
which make reference to the
uses of sacred art and music,
and "which constitute a pact of
reconciliation and rebirth for
religious art in the bosm of the
Catholic Church."
Pope Paul blessed the work
of the movement of the Artists'
Mass, calling it an "experiment
in the artistic life which has al
ready shown that between the
priest and the artist there is a
profound sympathy and capacity
for marvelous agreement."
ON A practical level, the Pope
said the Christian artist needs
to be instructed in matters of
the Faith to know thoroughly
what he is working with. At the
same time, the artist also needs
technical instruction so as to be
worthy of his subjects. Lastly,
the Pope said the artist has
need "of the indispensable
characteristic of the religious
moment, that is sincerity," so
that his work will be an expres
sion "from the depth of the
soul."
IN BRITAIN
twofold movement between the
nation which gives help and the
one which receives it, and vice
versa, the sending of experts
and the receiving of students
on scholarships, cannot be re
duced to a simple mechanical
process. - "
THE POPE said that such ex
changes are "a dialpgue be
tween different cultures and
civilizations, a dialogue center
ed on man and not on exchanged
goods or technology."
"Development does not mean
to run the risk of rendering the
people who benefit from it ma
terialistic. It is, on the con
trary, the giving of means for
making themselves whole, for
elevating themselves and there
fore for spiritualizing themsel
ves."
POPE PAUL warned those
who seek to help developing na
tions to avoid the errors of the
European industrial revolution,
which saw great technical and
material progress but not a cor
responding moral progress. He
continued:
"The young and promising
peoples reject materialism.
What a wonderful future would
open up before them if the ex
perts who are being sent to them
were not only technicians but al
so leaders and educators, and if
the spiritual quality of the
teaching which is imparted in
Europe to the future elite of the-
countries being helped were
such as to guarantee a develop
ment which would not be only
material and technical, but hu
man as well.’!
THE POPE noted that while
some Latin countries are slow
in giving technical assistance,
they might be able to contri
bute by their capacity for "the
human and spiritual value which
so well conforms to the tradi
tions of our civilization. Those
responsible for technical as
sistance might become valuable
instruments for the transmis
sion of the heritage ‘of ancient
Christianities to the people who
have now appeared on the inter
national scene."
ANSWER TO
i-AST WEEK'S PUZZLE
CONFER ON SALES STRATEGY—Mother Bernadette Mac
Veigh, 87-year old nun takes her sales assistant "Tiny" for
a ride in her wheel chair as they confer about plans for her
stuffed toy concession. Her booth, one of the most popular
at the annual Duchesne College Festival, at Omaha, Nebr.,
is usually the first to hang an "All Sold Out" sign where the
super-salesman-nun has her all hand-made and artistic toys.
The enormous pink pooch with the droopy eyes and ears
seems to smile approval
MANY DIGNITARIES
Dedicate Notre
Dame Library
NOTRE DAME, Ind. (NC)--
With a special message and
apostolic blessing from Pope
Paul VI, the Notre Dame Mem
orial Library was dedicated
here in the presence of three
princes of the Church and pres
idents and delegates of 200
colleges and universities.
Eugene Cardinal Tisserant,
Dean of the College of Cardi
nals, celebrated a Solemn Pon
tifical Mass in the morning and
delivered the papal message
during an afternoon academic
convocation. Both events took
place under sunlit skies in front
of the 13-story library. Form
ing a backdrop for the outdoor
ceremonies was the mammoth
library mural, "Word ofLife,"
Bishops’ Birth Pill Ban
Brings Mixed Reactions
SERVING THE CHl'RCH in
Austria, KATHPRESS
(Catholic Press Agency) is
headed by Dr. Richard Barta
(above) editor-in-chief, who
is also press representative
of Cardinal Koenig. The
agency’s members comprise
the Catholic publishing
houses of Austria and the
Conference of Bishops.
LONDON (NC)--Reaction to a
joint statement by the Bishops
of England and Wales condemn
ing the use of the contraceptive
pill (oral progesterone) as mor
ally wrong ranges from loyalty
and relief to outright antagon
ism.
The country’s three leading
Catholic newspapers gave full
coverage to the statement (is
sued May 8) but seemed less
excited about it than some crit
ics. The Catholic Herald de
scribed it as "a fresh if aus
tere guarantee to those who are
sorely pressed by the problems
of family life in modern condi
tions." The Universe and Tab
let both printed the statement
in full, but neither gave the
story top billing, as did some
of the national daily press. The
statement was released late in
th e week, just short of dead
line for the Catholic press.
Reaction was expected to be
expanded in subsequent issues.
Most outspoken Catholic com
ment so far has come from
Count Michael de la Bedoyere,
one of Britain's best known
Catholic journalists and think
ers, who for many years was
editor of the Catholic Herald
and now publishes a newslet
ter called Search. The first
major skirmishes into the ar
gument were published in a
Search interview with Archbis
hop Thomas Roberts, S. J„
formerly of Bombay, India, and
now resident in the Jesuit Farm
Street headquarters here. The
Archbishop had questioned the
traditonal stand of the Church
on the use of the contracep
tive pill.
IN AN article in the London.
Evening Standard, Count de la
Bedoyere said: ‘The very neg
ative statement of Archbishop
Heenan about birth control (re
ferring to the joint statement
of ' the Bishops released by
Archbishop John C. Heenan of
London) will cause dismay
among the more progressive
and informed Catholics...It is
well known that in this country
many good Catholics have felt
bound by the circumstances of
their life to limit their families
and to do so by some form of
contraception, because they
fear that the safe period may
not always be safe (referring
to use of the so-cal ed "rhythm
method" of family limitation,
accepted by church' theologians
as moral). We have to take ac
count also of mothers whose
periods are not stable yet can
not in the circumstances of
their life have more children."
'These and many other points
that are raised by the Catholic
Church’s traditional teaching,"
the Count said, "suggest to me
and many other Catholics that
the Church should welcome
and work for a change in the
traditional law rather than put
the shutters up as decisively
as our Bishops have just done
...Many people put great hope
in the contraceptive pills."
COUNT DE LA Bedoyere
claimed he highlighted the
growing feeling among Catho
lics here for some relaxation
of the Church's firm stand.
Catholics are becoming highly
educated, and he charged the
Bishops with "still living in
the era when the mass of Cath
olics were immigrants or de
scendants of immigrants from
Ireland and other countries with
relatively little education."
Further criticism cane from
Auberon Waugh, columnist for
the Catholic Herald, who said,
"the general attitude of mind
among Catholics of my own
generation, particularly the
married ones, is that thl* is
a mess which the theologians
have got us into and one from
which they must get us out...
If theologians continue to in
sist on the strictest interpre
tation of the natural law, we
will soon be left like the Jews
with 'liberal' and 'orthodox'
factions inside the Church."
ANOTHER NOTED Catholic,
.however, Professor Michael
Fogarty, who has been closely
connected with the problem for
many years as a leading mem
ber and chairman of the Cath
olic Social Guild, told the press
he totally agrees with the Bis
hops’ statement, adding he be
lieves it would be permissible
for Catholics to use a pill to
make the safe period safer, but
not "to ensure conception was
impossible at any given time."
A similar position was ex
pressed in the Bishops’ state
ment, citing the development
of new chemicals for use in de
termining more accurately the
point of ovulation, thus render
ing the rhythm method of fami
ly limitation more accurate.
Some scientists claim such a
pill will be on the market with
in a few years at most.
THE CATHOLJC Herald in its
comment (May 9) said: 'The
Bishops’ statement«..comes as
an invaluable counterbalance at
this moment. It reassures us
that the Church stands firm in
her Christ-given authority. It
is compassionate...it is in the
nature of a call to arms."
The Herald said the Bishops
"leave the door wide open to the
adventure of development in
doctrine but reassert proudly
and confidently what perhaps we
might call the integrity of God
—who is not mocked and does
not seek to mock us.„.There are
still many questions to answer
in this matter of family limita
tion and the advances of modem
science in regard to it."
Ed Curtin
Presents
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whose central figure is Christ
the Teacher.
RECALLING HIS 1960 visit to
Notre Dame, Pope Paul said the
new library will "serve as a
valuable instrument in the pur
suit of truth and the defense
and development of faith."
Catholic professors and stu
dents have the sacred duty "to
follow the Church’s authentic
magisterium in matters of faith
and morals, or in fields inti
mately connected with either of
these," the Pope said, "Nor
will this prove to be a detri
ment to science or to free
dom; rather will it be a safe
guard for the supreme human
and Christian values, and exalt
the prestige of the Catholic
universities."
PRESIDENT Grayson Kirk oi
Columbia University, in the
major convocation address,
said that "because the greatest
days of American higher educa
tion still lie ahead, the great
est days for America are also
in the future."
He described as "shallow"
those "who see in our contem
porary world only the portents
of despair, decay and doom."
'^CHANGE IS not to be feared
but to be grasped and used, for
therein lies the only hope of
our progress," he said.
Cardinal Meyer in his sermon
said the university world should
be "an open community, a com
mon enterprise, in which men
of many fields and specialties
serch honestly for truth and
confidently share their views."
Christ The King
The CYO at Christ the King
will hold a Swimming-Hambur
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outgoing seniors who have
worked so hard to make this
year a successful one for CYO.
The Party will be held at the
Darlington Pool from 6:30 until
10:30 p.m. on Sunday, May 17.
The new officers will be
elected at the party. Dress will
be casual and the charge of
75tf includes dinner and swim
ming. All Christ the King CYO
members are invited.
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