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GEARED TO THE NEWS SERVING GEORGIAS 71 NORTHERN COUNTIES diocese of Atlanta VOL 2 NO. 22 ATLANTA, GEORGIA THURSDAY, JUNE 4, 1964 $5.00 PER YEAR 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 CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 The Catholic Press Association JOURNALISM AWARD JKe- Qjeoma I>ul(etin 0 . V f e- 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- CONTINUED ON PAGE 8 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. The Catholic Press Association JOURNALISM AWARD for fBestr'IEditomf Li \Q. Pfyfyni* ''•‘“•*1 \ Ckmrmm. Jtf—kn. 4mm* Cmmm.. The Catholic Press Association JOURNALISM AWARD Jvr f&est CErUtortaf *'«*»' ) Cimtmm, 4i C»um