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VOL 2 NO. 22
ATLANTA, GEORGIA
THURSDAY, JUNE 4, 1964
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HITS RACISM
Pope Addresses
American Jews
VATICAN CITY (NC) — Pope
Paul VI told leaders of the
American Jewish Committee
that Jews and other ethnic
groups should not because of
race have to suffer "any
diminution in your human
rights, which every civilization
truly worthy of the name can
not avoid recognizing."
The Pope received the groups
headed by the committee pre
sident, Morris B. Abram, and
spoke in English (May 30). He
touched briefly on racial, politi
cal and religious aspects of
Judaism.
FOLLOWING is the text of
the Pope’s talk:
Gentlemen, we thank you for
your visit and greet with at
tentive esteem the courteous
words you have addressed to
us. We have heard with grati
fication the resolution you have
manifested "to safeguard the
religious and cultural freedom
of all people, and the rights
of all groups to develop the
human values God has given
them free from coercion and
discrimination."
WE ARE glad of the op
portunity you offer us of con
firming what Is already well
known concerning the attitude
of the Catholic Church, and
in particular of the Holy See,
toward the Jews. This name
of Jew, in fact, raises several
questions which we consider
with serene attention.
First of all, the racial 'ques
tion: and in this regard we re
peat the heartfelt wish ex
pressed on numerous occasions
by our venerated predecessors;
namely that this should never
be for you or for any other
ethnic group a reason for un
dergoing any diminution in
your human rights, which every
civilization truly worthy of the
name cannot avoid recognizing.
Promote Mother
Seton’s Cause
CLEVELAND, Ohio (RNS) —
Archbishop Edward F. Hobanof
Cleveland has authorized the
formation of a Seton Society to
promote the canonization cause
of Blessed Elizabeth Ann Seton,
pioneer of the U. S. Roman
Catholic school system.
Blessed Elizabeth, beatified
March 17, 1963, was the foun
der of five branches of Sisters
of Charity. She was a widow with
fivp children when converted to
Catholicism.
SECOND, the political quest
ion, which is not our business
to pronounce ourself upon,
especially at this time; although
we always desire and augur that
it find just and peaceful; solu
tions, both for the populations
who have already sustained so
many trials and silfrerings, and
also by reason of the interests
which the Catholic Church and
the other Christian churches
may have therein and which
must not be disregarded.
Finally, the religious aspect,
which interests us most deeply
and motivates our particular
consideration for the Jewish
religious tradition with which
Christianity is so intimately
linked and from which it de
rives hope for trusting rela
tions and for a happy future.
HENCE, while we again
strongly deplore the horrible
ordeals of which the Jews have
been the victims in recent
years, we wish you every favor
from God, whom we invoke with
all our heart on your behalf
and that of all those who are
near and dear to you.
POVERTY DRIVE LEADER
THE “BREAD OF LIFE”—In the magnificent setting of the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel,
Pope Paul VI presided (May 24) over first Communion and Confirmation ceremonies for
34 children, many of them from Rome’s Institution of Don Orione for Deformed Chil
dren. To each child he gave a small bronze plaque with figures of the Virgin and Child.
BIRTH CONTROL
(SEE RELATED STORIES, PAGE 2)
ROME (RNS) — Alfredo
Cardinal Ottaviani, secretary
of the Sacred Congregation of
the Holy Office, sharply chided
individual churchmen for
speaking out on their own
initiative on the morality of
contraceptive pills without
prior consultation with the Holy
See.
Urging a stop to public de
bate on the issue, the 73-year-
old cardinal, frequently de
scribed as one of the most
conservative members of the
Roman Curia, stressed that
only the Pope can decide on
"such grave and debated'ques
tions!"
THE HOLY Office, of which
the Pope is the prefect or head,
is the Church’s principal body
concerned with protection of
faith and morals.
Cardinal Ottaviani’s state
ment was made in an interview
published in the Italian weekly,
Vita (Life). It appeared almost
simultaneously with an article
in Osservatore Della Domenica,
Vatican City weekly, which said
new medical discoveries of a
pill making it possible to reg
ulate the menstrual cycle and
thus permit the rhythm method
to be used with greater preci
sion might cause the Catholic
Church to take a new look at
its stand on birth control.
THE CARDINAL said the
issue of contraceptive pills
should properly be examined
by national conferences of bi
shops, or even by the Second
Vatican Council, as one of
major importance to the
Church. In taking this stand, he
said he strongly disapproved of
statements on the problem by
individual churchmen, irre
spective of their rank.
’The Holy See," he said,
"does not normally like a local
authority to express opinions
of doctrinal guidance, which
should come from the head of
the Church, We must maintain
unity in our thinking. The Holy
Office alone should express
opinions on important matters
which should not be left to the
evaluation of a single person,
cardinal, archbishop or bishop,
cardinal, archbishop or bi
shop."
CARDINAL Ottaviani replied
in this fashion after having been
questioned regarding a recent
statement by Leo Josef Cardi
nal Suenens, Archbishop of
Malines - Brussels, Belgium,
and another issued by Arch
bishop John C. Heenan of West
minster in the name of the hier
archy of England and Wales.
At a recent press conference
in Boston,. Cardinal Suenens
said medical science was on
the brink of discovering a pill
for family planning that would
be acceptable under teachings
of the Catholic Church,
NOTICE |
Families involv
ed should continue
to attend their pre
sent parish church
until Mass sche
dules and location
of temporary cha
pels are announc
ed by pastors
of the new par
ishes recently an
nounced for Atlanta
and Clarkesville.
DECLARING that "there are
really two questions involved"
in the birth control pill, he
said: "One is medical, the other
moral. Medically, the question
is whether the pill in question
is a direct sterilizing agent
or whether it merely reg
ularizes natural functions, so
that a woman will know three
or four days in advance when
she is able to conceive a child.
The moral answer depends on
the medical answer. Naturally,
we cannot accept direct sterili
zation, but I am told a pill
will be available very soon that
avoids this."
Archbishop Heenan’s state
ment reminded that artificial
birth control is outlawed by
the Church. It condemned a
new widely advertised con
traceptive pill as being banned
to Catholics along with other
birth control "instruments." At
the same time, however, it
noted that research was now
being conducted on a pill to
make the time of ovula
tion predictable, and this was
something on which the Second
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The Catholic Press Association
JOURNALISM
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Lead War On Poverty
Catholic Press Urged
Cardinal Hits ‘Pill’ Statements
PITTSBURGH (NC) — Sargent
Shriver* paid tribute to mis
sionaries throughout the world
as "the first Peace Corps
volunteers," in a speech to
the Catholic Press Association
convention here, and praised
their humble approach to the
world’s poor.
Speaking at the association's
annual formal banquet at the
Penn-Sheraton Hotel (May 28),
the head of the Peace Corps
and director of the "Poverty
Corps" hit at a now familiar
theme of the Johnson admini
stration throughout his talk.
"THE POOR rarely make
headlines," he said, "rarely
even the obituary notices. There
is discrimination which oper-
ates against all the poor—and
not just the Negro, the Puerto
Rican, the Spanish - speaking
American or the American
Indian."
"The poor need help", Shriver
said, "but before they need help
they need hope. And before
they can have hope they need
self-respect; and before they
can have self - respect, they
must enjoy the same opportuni
ties the rest of us have had."
"THIS IS why helping is not
easy," he said. "Helping the
poor is a sequence of things—
like building a monument. It
is a sequence of first providing
opportunities they can seize
voluntarily, then building their
self-respect, then giving them
new hope."
"Applying experiences
gathered from working with the
Peace Corps, Shriver said the
real problem is "how to help
the poor without alienating
them, without seeming.to tell
them *We want to elevate you
poor, backward people to our
own superior level.* "
"JUST AS important as what
you do for people overseas,"
he said, "is the way you doit."
He told the Catholic Jour
nalists, priests, Religious and
laity that they did not need
lessons on this point. "You
have been in peace corps and
poverty corps programs long
before we ever began them,"
BUT HE said it is the re
sponsibility of the press to give
the current program the at
tention it needs — "and
especially the Catholic press."
Quoting a former Bolivian
high administrator in techni
cal assistance programs who
said the Peace Corps "has
found at last not only the
pepple to help others, but the
secret of the way to help
others," Shriver said it does
not have to be a Secret.
"THE EFFORT to help the
poor can work just as success
fully in the anti - poverty
program in American as it has
in the Peace Corps overseas."
One of the major lessons the
Peace Corps learned, he said,
was that "they have to live at
PRESS CONTEST
the level of the poor and under
stand them before we can hope
to inspire them. They learned,
in short, that people need self-
respect perhaps even more than
education or jobs."
HE ADDED that the poverty
program, like the Peace Corps,
has to be trusted and accepted
by everyone—especially those
it is designed to help—before
it can be effective.
This trust and acceptance,
he said, can be greatly fur-
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Bulletin Wins
Three Prizes
(SEE CITATIONS BELOW)
PITTSBURGH (NC) — The
Georgia Bulletin,, official
newspaper of the Archidocese
of Atlanta, was a triple winner
in the Catholic Press Associa
tion Annual Newspaper Contest,
it was disclosed here.
The Bulletin got first prize
for "Best Front Page," another
first for the "Best Editorial,"
and a second prize honorable
mention in the field of general
excellence. The editorial was
written by managing editor Ger
ard E, Sherry and concerned
the bombing of a Birmingham
Negro Church last fall.
OF THE editorial, Judged the
best in the whole of the Catho
lic Press, the citation said;
"The editorial, 'ANegro Child,’
stands as a fine example of su
perior expression. With a
timely and gripping subject (the
bomb killings of four Negro
girls in a church), a writer
could easily rise to high-pitch
ed ferocity or descend to ban
ality and bathos. This writer did
neither. He made of the occa
sion a plea for love that for
gives, a ringing indictment of
hate. With compelling examples
to bring the reader into the dia
logue, with fine sensitivity in
the selection of words that grip
the reader's attention, he has
forged a compact message that
rings out with bell-like clarity
and insistence. It is force
ful, yet beautiful in structure
and style. It is memorable."
On the "Best Front Page",
the judges said of the Georgia
Bulletin, ’This paper has fine
reproduction with attractive
layout. It makes effective use of
white space; good placement of
art, well written headlines. It
keeps an eye on make-up bal
ance, without falling into the us
ual rigidities."
THUS, AFTER only twelve
months In operation (the judg
ing was for issues of 1963)
the Georgia Bulletin carried off
two firsts and a second out
of four entries.
TOP CPA AWARD—Father
Patrick O'Connor (above),
roving Far East correspond
ent for N.C.W.C. News Serv
ice has been awarded the
Catholic Press Association’s
top honor for “the most dis
tinguished contribution to
Catholic journalism” during
1963. The St. Francis de
Sales statuette, symbol of
the award, was accepted on
behalf of the St. Columban
priest by Floyd Anderson,
director of the news service.
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