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AT ST. PETER’S
Mourn Pope John
On Anniversary
VATICAN CITY (NC) —Pope
John XXIII was solemnly
mourned on the first an
niversary of his death CJune 3)
in St. Peter’s basilica by Pope
Paul VI, 24 cardinals and thou
sands of Catholics.
Meanwhile, in his home town
of Bergamo in northern Italy,
a petition signed by 50,000 per
sons asked for the beginning of
his beatification cause.
ST. PETER’S was dark as
thousands waited for the
memorial Mass to begin. The
cardinals entered and took their
places without ceremony. Only
after they were in their places
did the chandeliers of the
basilica blaze with light. At
10:30 a.m., the celebrant,
Giovanni Cardinal Urbani of
Venice, entered clad in a white
miter and a black-and-gold
cope.
Lastly the Pope entered,
walking in silence and without
any of the fanfare that usually
attends his participation in
public ceremonies. Wearing a
plain white miter and a cope
of crimson, a color specially
reserved for papal mourning,
he took his place on a throne
near the altar. The Swiss
Guards accompanying him wore
black helmets with red plumes.
AFTER THE Mass, attended
by the diplomatic corps
Sunday Strike
INDORE, India )C)~Thou
sands of textile workers here
went on strike in protest aga
inst a decision requiring them
to work on Sunday.
The strike, demanding rever
sal of the decision of the Mad
hya Pradesh (state) Mlllown-
ers’ Association, forced two
mills to close*
accredited to the Holy See and
by members of his household
and court, Pope Paul per
sonally imparted absolution *r.
a symbolic catafalque in the
sanctuary.
At 7 a.m. that morning the
Pope had gone privately to the
grottoes of St. Peter’s and of
fered Mass at an altar near
the tomb of his predecessor.
Many Masses were offered
throughout the morning in the
grottoes by the late Pope’s
friends and collaborators, in
cluding Amleto Cardinal
Cicognani, Papal Secretary of
State; Msgr. Loris Capovilla,
Pope John’s private sec
retary; and Msgr. Giovanni
Roncalli, his nephew.
BEFORE leaving the
grottoes, Pope Paul lit a large
candle which he had sent there
the day before and recited the
prayer, De Profundis. He also
greeted various relatives of
Pope John, as well as Dr,
Pietro Valdoni and Dr. Pietro
Mazzoni, who had cared for
him during his final illness,
At Bergamo, Bishop
Clemente Gaddi of that See re
ceived the 50,000-name petit
ion asking for Pope John's
beatificatiotl. The petition had
been organized by the Fathers
of the Sacred Heart of Bergamo,
a congregation of priests found
ed by the late Bishop Radini
Tedeschi of Bergamo when
Pope John was his secretary.
The priests consider the late
Pontiff a cofounder.
The petition, which was
signed by all bishops of the
Bergamo region and by more
than 200 parish priests, will
be forwarded to the Vatican for
consideration by the Con
gregation of Rites,
POLITICAL SCIENTST
AN UNUSUAL SETTING FOR AN ALTAR—Vines growing toward the ceiling behind
the sanctuary set off the altar in St. Rose of Lima Church, in Lima, Peru. The parish
has the first parochial school in Peru.
KENNEDY MEMORIAL WINDOW—The nine stained glass
windows devoted to historical themes in the new Our Lady
of Lourdes Church, West Orange, N.J., includes one (above)
memorializing the late President John F. Kennedy. The top
panel depicts Chief Justice Earl Warren administering the
oath of office in 1961 and the bottom panel shows the Ken
nedy grave site at Arlington National Cemetery, Va.
How To Understand
Liturgical Changes
BY ARCHBISHOP PAUL J. HALLINAN
This is the fourth of a series of seven articles
writen by the ArchbiBhop to assist the people of
the Archdiocese of Atlanta in an understanding of
the fuller worship in which they have been called
to participate,
IV.
THE WORD OF GOD
When the changes in our format of worship take
place this year, it will no longer make sense for
Catholics to come skidding into Sunday Mass just
in time to be present for the "principal parts",
The old term, "Mass of the Catechumens" will be
understood - but not imitated. When we invite a
Protestant friend, he will find himself very much
at home in the "fore-Mass" or "Service of the
Word."
The entire Mass is made up of two parts:
The Liturgy of the Word (up to the Offertory an-
tlpnon) ana tne Eucharistic Liturgy, The two
are so closely linked that they form one single
act of worship. Our Lord Is present to us in sev
eral ways; what is pertinent here is that he is
present in his word, since it is he himself who
speaks when the Holy Scriptures are read in the
Church. Do we have for the Bible that "warm and
living love" so much a part of Christion tradi
tion?
We are late, as a general sector of Christianity,
in appreciating scripture. Many Protestants excel
us in their knowledge and love of biblical texts, For
them it began with home-training; Sunday services
simply deepened and Increased their familiarity
with the Word of God. Their use of the vernacu
lar, of course, prevented that wall of misunder-
■tanding that has kept the average Catholic less
Bible-conscious,
The Liturgy of the Word is built around the
Epistle and Gospel. These elements will be re
focussed in the new changes. In the Sunday Mass,
the Epistle will be read to the people in English
by a lay-lector • the priest not reading but lis
tening. The Gospel (always from the New Testa
ment) will then be read aloud in English by the
priest. In later revisions, of the liturgy, a much
fuller use will be made of the Bible, using a
three- or four-year cycle instead of one.
It helps if we stop for a minute, and put aside
our worries about changes, revisions, the ver
nacular and the zones of worship. The vital thing
about the first part of the Mass is that it is built
of the Word of God. He, — infinite wisdom, —
speaks to us with our slow intellects and faltering
tongues, The lessons and psalms are right from
his eternal mind, the human authors faithfully
recording their meaning. The other prayers and
songs of the Mass are inspired by the Bible. The
meaning of the Eucharistic Action, and sacramen
tal signs is derived from its pages. That "warm
and living love" for the Bible comes only by fami
liarity. "Be still, and know that I am your God".
All liturgy teaches. It is chiefly a process of
worship but It is constantly instructing too. It
proclaims Christ’s gospel, and invites the people's
response. One German bishop (behind the Iron
Curtain) told us last fall that in his diocese, he
was not permitted to have Catholic schools, news
papers, or organizations, "Only in the liturgy",
he said "can the Church carry out her education
function".
When you hear next Sunday’s epistle and gospel
read, consider this for a moment: if the Mass
were the only means of Catholic instruction we had,
would we give it closer attention?
CHANCE SELLING OUT
Schools Drop Child Salesmen
PITTSBURGH, (NC) — Dio
cese of Pittsburgh parishes
have been asked to stop using
school children for selling
chances, or door-to-door soli
citations in connection with
charity or religious drives.
The recommendation was
made by the Laymen's Advisory
Council of the diocesan school
board. In approving it, the
school board asked pastors and
parishioners to treat the re
commendation as official board
policy.
THE LAY council said "cer
tain undesirable practices"
have crept into parish charity
drives that threaten to erase the
Family Donates
Parish Plant
CALI, Columbia (NC)— The
Caicedo Gonzalez family has
donated to this diocese a modem
parish center, consisting of a
church, schools, parish house,
convent, dispensary, coopera
tive, halls and an open-air thea
ter.
Presentation was made to
Bishop Alberto Uribe Urdaneta
st s public ceremony by Dr.
Jaime H. Caicedo on behalf of
the family and a directorship
society has been set up to run
the center, which cost $116,400
and occupies an area of 4,510
acres. The donation includes
equipment and material for ope
ration of the center and an ad
ditional $97,000 to assure-
stable growth of the institu
tion.
benefits which school children
can gain by participating. It
declared:
'These include: the foster
ing of an embarrassing spirit
of competition among in
dividuals, classrooms or
schools; the use of unworthy
incentives, such as a pointsys-
tem or prizes; and the em
ployment of school children for
the selling of chances.
"ALTHOUGH these extremes
may aid the charitable organi
zation materially, such bene
fits are often gained by
jeopardizing the spiritual en
richment of the child, and the
public image of the Church,
Since these efforts are often
not voluntary or personal, but
Pacifism Seen As No
Arms Race Solution
motivated by a sense of com
petition, or to gain a material
reward, they may have little
value spiritually,"
The lay statement said it
understood the need for charit
able and .religious drives, and.
it stressed that proper parti
cipation by children can be
beneficial. It commented that
what should be emphasized is
"a sense of duty and responsi
bility toward others, and ap
propriate spiritual motives in
assisting others,"This, it said,
would bear greater fruit than
any "superficial motives."
MINISTER SAYS
WASHINGTON (NC) —A Catho
lic political scientist said here
that pacifism and unilateral
disarmament are not accept
able solutions to the threat of
nuclear war.
‘To secure the peace it is
not enough to describe the hor
rors of war," said James E.
Dougherty of the University of
Pennsylvania’s Foreign Policy
Research Institute.
"SINCE the clear pronounce
ments of Pope Pius XII, Catho
lic theologians will not defend
a strategy which intends the
wholesale obliteration of cities.
But neither will the Church con
demn nuclear weapons and
nuclear deterrence as in-
trinscially immoral."
Dougherty urged greater un
derstanding and communication
between the advocates of peace
and the advocates of deterrence,
and said the "intellectual
schism’ ’ between the two groups
is dangerous.
"If we remain divided," he
declared, "the cause of neither
peace nor freedom will be
served well. The will to peace
is not the will to surrender;
the will to freedom is not the
will to holocaust,"
Dougherty spoke (June 2) at
a testimonial dinner at which
Father Edward A. Conway, S.J.,
director of the Center for Peace
Research at Creighton Univer
sity, Omaha, was honored by the
Catholic Association for In
ternational Peace.
Several hundred persons, in
cluding government officials,
attended the dinner to pay tri
bute to the priest for his ef
forts on behalf of peace. Long
active in governmental and
citizens' groups concerned with
peace and atomic energy,
Father Conway in 1962 was
chosen by President Kennedy as
one of 15 citizens on the Gen
eral Advisory Committee of the
U, S. Arms Control and
Disarmament Agency,
Dougherty, speaking on
"Arms and the Western
Conscience," said the nuclear
pacifist is wrong if he
"assigns to himself a monopoly
of virtue—if he thinks that his
own approach to the problems
of nuclear weapons constitutes
the only authentic moral re
sponse,"
"FOR PACIFISTS to look
upon all supporters of a nuclear
defense policy as potential Dr,
Strangeloves is no more justi
fied than for the advocates of
deterrence to brand all demon
strators for total disarmament
as communist sympathizers,"
he said.
Rejecting pacifism as a solu
tion to the problems created
by nuclear weapons, Dougherty
said the existence of such
weapons is "tragic, but not
immoral; we often confuse the
two."
"Morality is determined by
purpose and intention," he said.
"How and to what ends shall we
use this power in our hands?
These are moral questions. The
pacifist says that they will sure
ly come to no good and hence
must be renounced. My answer
is that we hope they will be
productive of some good and
Vietnam Archbishop
Will Not Be Tried
VISITATION — Very Rev.
James A. Kielt i above i. Su-
perlor General of the Colum-
ban Fathers is visiting the
four seminaries and eleven
houses of the Society of St.
Columban in America, He
will return to the headquar
ters in Ireland in June.
WASHINGTON (NC)—Nobody in
South Vietnam today pays any
attention to the case of Arch
bishop Ngo dinh Thuc of Hue,
according to that nation's
foreign minister.
Phan huy Quat said after a
speech at the National Press
Club here (June 3) that the
Archbishop "is regarded
simply as a priest, and that
is all at present." He spoke
in answer to a question from
the floor asking if South Viet
nam's government planned to
bring the Archbishop to trial,
ARCHBISHOP Thuc has been
living abroad since the regime
of his brother, the late Pre
sident Ngo dinh Diem, was over
thrown last November after
months of Buddhist agitation.
President Diem and his brother,
Ngo dinh’ Nhu, were killed while
in custody on Nov, 2. A third
brother, Ngo dinh Can, was ex
ecuted on May 9,
Foreign Minister Quat spoke
here a day after a Catholic of
ficer charged in Saigon that
government agents had tried to
force him to accuse Archbishop
Thuc of ordering repression of
Buddhists. Maj. Dang Sy made
his accusation during his trial
on a charge of being responsi
ble for the death of eight Budd
hists during demonstrations In
Hue last year.
that the worst thing to do in
the present historical context
is to downgrade the deterrent
by adopting a lopsided,
unilateral pacifism."
DOUGHERTY argued that the
West deserves the right to pro
tect itself, not only its own
sake but for the sake of the
world in general. "If the West
should ever go under, mankind
would be incomparably poorer;
the loss would be incalculable,"
he declared.
He said it is necessary to
remember that there are real
ly two great dangers facing the
world today—the threat of nu
clear destruction and the danger
of its being turned into an "ant
colony" society,
"Both of these represent high
moral challenges to our in
genuity," he said. "We shall
fall if we worry about only one
of them."
any opportunity s for "mean
ingful" arms agreements with
the Soviets, it should at the
same time guard against "un
warranted optimism" on this
subject.
"NO ONE CAN rule out the
possibility that Soviet corn-
possibility that Soviet com
munism may evolve in a more
benign direction. But after only
one year or so of ambiguous
'detente,* it is premature to
declare that the Soviets are per
manently mellowing in their
foreign polich," he said.
He noted that the arms con
trol problem presents "almost
a bottomless pit" in its com
plexity, but said it "does us no
good to wring our hands and
lament that there is so little
time,"
"If we have only a little time,
then we are in bad shape, be
cause we are going to need a
long time. We have been moving
into our present predicament
for a long time, for several
decades; we cannot untangle
ourselves as easily as some
pacifists believe — through a
sudden moral con version of
governments.
"Man has divided the secrets
of the atomic universe,"
Dougherty said. "He cannot
erase from his mind this awful
knowledge by any form of politi
cal or scientific exorcism, but
must live with it for the rest
of time. The best he can hope
to do is manage this power with
wisdom until it can be organized
under the ’world public
authority’ for which Pope John
XXIII called."
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