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1 T 7 T ’ CARDINAL MARELLA HEAD THURSDAY, MAY 21, 1964 . GEORGIA BULLETIN PAGE 7 Pope Sets Up Secretariat For Non-Christian Groups JUANITA HUFF, May Queen in Drexel High's first annual May Procession, places crown on statue of the Blessed Mother in picture at left. She was attended by Ingrid Frazier. In picture at right, members of the sodality form an honor guard while the remaining members of the Drexel student body form a living rosary. Fr. Richard, C. P., the principal, addressed the students. EXPERTSAYS Parent Right Submerged In School Prayer Debate BY GEORGE E. REED (N. C. W. C. NEWS SERCICE) One of the disturbing aspects of the House Judiciary Commit tee's hearings on the prayer amendment is the submergence of the parental right to educate. Neither side in the controver sy has taken full advantage of the importance of this right as a ( factor in solving the vexations problem of religion and edu cation. ARGUMENTS in behalf of an amendment to nullify the U. S. Supreme Court’s 1962 and 1963 decisions against prayer and Bible reading in public schools have focused on government. The stress has been on the right of government, acting through public school boards, to provide religious exercises by virtue of the authority of the Constitution. Opponents of an amendment have on several occasions ad vanced arguments based on the right of parents, but this ap proach has not dominated their testimony. OCCASIONALLY, the prope rs sition was put forward that a : prayer amendment would con flict with the Supreme Court’s famous Oregon school case de- cision in 1925. The court held then that the parental right pro- Hhihits the state from preventing Bpperation of private schools. The court stated that the 14th "fsBunendment “excludes an;, gen- power of the states to stan- Wdardrze its children by forcing them to accept instruction from public school teachers only.” Some witnesses have con tended that a prayer amendment will authorize the state to ' “standardize” the religious at titudes of school children by permitting adoption of a parti cular prayer or version of the Bible—regardless of the desire of parents. THEY HAVE said that free dom “of” religion and freedom “from” religion are essential parts of the fundamental paren tal right guaranteed by the Con stitution. No attempts have been made by amendment supporters to re fute this argument. One factor in this failure is possibly a ten dency to see the state as the primary educator. Or, to put it more moderately, to lookup- on the public school system as the exclusive agency of the state. Consequently, the parental stake has not drawn the atten tion it deserves. One result has been’to stifle development of the argument that the Supreme Court, by banning prayers and Bible reading, is not really taking a neutral attitude toward parents, but helping to erect a psychological wall of resis tance to parental inclucation of religion. THE CHILD whose school day is exclusively structured along secular lines tends to develop an attitude of indifference to ward religion. This reaction is well documented. On the other hand, the majori ty of parents may not coerce the minority to adhere to a designated form of prayer. Had arguments stemmingfrom parental right received more attention at the hearings, the problem of religion and edu cation would have been empha sized in terms of the religious freedom of two groups of par ents, rather than dealt with as an issue between one group and government. The legal debate would have been cast in terms of religious freedom, rather than in terms of doctrinaire establishment, and thus open the door to a dif ferent approach to the problem. FOR EXAMPLE, would not a different approach be a system of religious instruction classes conducted after the school day and on school prem ises? i Instructors would be other than public school teachers. The program would not be integrated or enmeshed with the public school machinery. There would be no coercion on students if the plan was properly administered. More over, religion would still be associated with the school to an extent that would accommo date the religiously minded par ent. Such a plan would not put government in the business of imparting religious education. Rather, this system would ac commodate the facilities of the public school system to the in terests of parents. IT WOULD reflect the mutual character of the publid school system as designed to imple ment the interest of both par ents and the state in education. This approach has been ex plored tentatively by the Judi ciary Committee. One difficul ty seen was the use of public school property. The Supreme Court, in the McCollum case, has condemned such use, but the circumstances were different. Religious in struction was given during the school day and with substantial involvement of the school, in matters such as keeping atten dance records. UNDOUBTEDLY the commit- ACADEMY winners of state language examination receive news of awards, including medals for students and plaque and trophy for winning schools, Left to right Camilla Capo, Mary Ann Lam bert, Maria de Give, Florence Farnsworth, Michaela Ruppert, and Sophie Gatins. tee will give additional atten tion to this approach. In its careful weighing of the propo sal, the committee may take up the possibility' of an amend ment which would end the con stitutional uncertainty concern ing the use of public school property. Such a system of religious instruction, in addition to re flecting the mutual concern of parents and state, would be an application of principal enun ciated by the Supreme Court in the Zorach case. The court up held in that case the constitu tionality of released-time re ligious instruction held off pub lic school premises. It said: "When the state encourages religious instruction or coope rates with religious authorities by adjusting the schedule of pub lic events to sectarian needs, it follows the best of our tradition for it then respects the religious nature of our people and accom modates the public service to their spiritual needs.” This is the third andfinalar ticle in a series analyzing im plications stemming from a proposal to amend the Consti tution to permit prayer and Bible reading in public schools. The series has been prepared for the Catholic press by George E. Reed, associate director of the Legal Department of the National Catholic Welfare Con ference, who is an authority on the question of Church-State re lations in constitutional law. BY JAMES C. O’NEILL (N. C. W. C. NEWS SERVICE) VATICAN CITY—Pope Paul VI chose the feast of Pentecost to announce to the world that he has decided to set up a secre tariat for non-Christians some what similar to that established by Pope John XIIII to deal with relations between Roman Cath olics and other Christians. Pope Paul’s revelation came almost at the end of a lengthy sermon on the significance of the catholicity of the Church. He was speaking in St, Peter's before 20 cardinals, more than 6,000 seminarians studying in Rome, and thousands of other pilgrims. Among the cardinals present were Laurian Cardinal Rugambwa of Bukoba, Tangan yika, and Stefan Cardinal Wy- szynski of Warsaw. IN THE course of his address, the Pope defined true catholici ty as transcending all differen ces, so that “every’ national ism is merged in the good of the world community, every form of racism is condemned, every form of totalitarianism is revealed in its inhumanity.” The Bishop of Rome deliver ed his sermon during the solemn Mass of Pentecost (May 17) He developed the theme of the efforts to “bring closer to gether, even through simply contacts, those who belong to other religions.” AMONG THE efforts he cited were the ecumenical council and the establishment of the secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity. In connection with these ef forts, Pope Paul stated that he wanted to announce that ' we shall institute shortly here in Rome the secretariat for non-Christians, an organ which will have very different func tions but the same structure as that for the separated Chris tians.” THE POPE went on to reveal that the head of the new secre tariat was to be Paolo Cardi nal Marella — “the cardinal archpriest of this basilica (St. Peter’s), who in addition to the wisdom and virtue which make him dear to and venerated by the Roman Church, has a rare competence in the field of re ligious ethnography.” Cardinal Marella, 69, is a veteran papal diplomat who ser ved as Apostolic Delegate to Japan for 15 years and became an expert on Shinto. He has also headed papal missions in Aus tralia and France, and served from 1924 to 1933 at the Apos tolic Delegation in Washington. He was in the spotlight in April when he went to New York as papal legate for the opening of the Vatican pavilion at the world’s fair. POPE PAUL in his address went on to say that by his tak ing these steps, “no pilgrim, however far geographically or religiously may be the country from which he comes, will any longer be wholly a foreigner in this Rome which is still faith ful today to the historic role which the Catholic faith as signs to it—that of the ‘pat- ria communis’ (common fath erland).” In the opening portions of his sermon, Pope Paul spoke di rectly to the assembled semi narians on that characteristic of the Catholic Church “which we call today catholicity, that is to say, universality.” WARMING to his theme, the Pope noted that the using of words over and over again “of ten detracts from the vigor and the wonder of their signifi cance.” Such a word, he said, is ’catholicity,’ “We use this term of ’cath olicity’ with extreme ease, practically without realizing the fullness to which it refers, the dynamism which emanates from it the beauty which it implies and the effort which it imposes. “IN ORDINARY language, it often becomes a term which de fines, and therefore tries to circumscribe and limit, the one and true Church—which is, pre cisely, the Catholic Church—to distinguish it from other seg ments, respectable and also gifted with immense Christian treasure, but still separated from the catholic fullness. Sometimes we prefer instead of the term ’catholic’ that of ’Christian,’ almost forgetting that in concept and in reality the first is intended to encom pass all of the second and not POPE THANKS KING—King Hussein I of Jordan is greeted by Pope Paul VI during his state visit to the Vatican on May 11. The Pope thanked the youthful monarch for his hospitality during the papal pilgrimage to the Holy Land. The king is shown wearing the uniform of Chief of the Royal Jordanian army w’ith Arab headdress. He also wore the Golden Spur, second highest papal decoration and one rarely given to non-Catholic chiefs of state. INC Photos! Set All-Parish Guild Program The Saint Gerard Guild of Immaculate Heart of Mary in vites members from the ladies’ clubs of every parish to attend Plan Awards Presenting awards to its honor students at the fifth an nual Honor Banquet was the faculty of St. Pius X High School, The Hellenic Center on Cheshire Bridge Road was the scene of the banquet. a special Mother’s Program at 8 p.m. on May 25th in the school 'cafetorium, 2855 Briarcliff Rd. The program includes a short film on the life of St. Gerard Majella, a panel on ths enthrone ment of the Sacred Heart in the home and an informal discus sion concerning how St. Gerard has helped many members of the Guild. Refreshments will be served following, giving every one a chance to get acquainted and discuss the proceedings. ANSWER TO LAST WEEK’S PUZZLE always vice versa.” The Pope said that the mark of catholicity calls on all for a meeting with God’s mercy and “with this call forms the new people, His people, the assemb led people of the Church.” BUT HE noted that man ha bitually seeks his self-interest and that of his immediate fami ly and perhaps, with some de velopment that of his country or social class. “Even today,” he said, “the heart of modern man finds it difficult to surmount these in ner barriers, and when civil progress urges him to widen his capacity for love toward the world, he replies with uncer tainty and makes the selfish condition that it should work to his benefit.” ONLY WITH a true catholi city can these inner boundaries be overcome, the Pope declar ed. Then he said: “IF THE Catholic name is truly there forever, every sel fishness is overcome, every class difference is raised to full social solidarity, every na tionalism is merged in the good of the world community, every form of racism is condemned, every form of totalitarianism is revealed in its inhumanity. The small heart goes to pieces, or rather it acquires an unknown capacity for expansion.” Despite the mark of catho licity being in implicit opera tion in the Church as one of its inborn rights, the Pope said, in extrinsic reality it has not gone far enough: “Indeed inconcrete reality the catholicity of the Church still is enormously lacking.” AS PROOF of this he cited the fact that “innumerable peo ples, whole continents, are still outside the Christian evangeli zation. The greater part of mankind has not yet received the message of Pentecost. The world is not yet catholic.” The Pope asked the semi narians present if it was not the desire to spreadtheGospel, to be missionaries, which led them to become candidates for priesthood. He answered for them saying: “MISSIONARY dynamism stems from the potential but still not effective catholicity of the Church, it stems from the investiture of Pentecost given to the little Church to become universal. From the apostoli- city of the Church springs its vocation to catholicity. The missionary receives on his shoulders the mandate of an apostle which urges him for ward along paths which will make the world catholic.' This duty of Catholicism, said the Pope, is what creates the perennial Pentecost within the Church, and the “urgency of responding to this duty of Cath olicism blows in the sails of the Church.” As examples of the response the Pope cited the development of present day lay and clerical apostolates, the ecumenical council, the Church’s relations with all forms of modern life and its efforts to draw closer together separated Christians and non- Christians as well. n WAS at this point that the Pope made his announce ment of the new secretariat. The idea of such a secretariat for non-Christians was sug gested in April of 1963 by Bis hop Antoine Thijssen, S.V.D., of Larantuka, Indonesia. It won the prompt seconding of Thom as Cardinal Tien, S.V.D., Apos tolic Administrator of the Tai pei archdiocese in Formosa. In a letter addressed to Eu gene Cardinal Tisserant, Dean of the College of Cardinals, last Sept. 15, Pope Paul indicated that he was considering estab lishing such an organization. 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