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VOL 2 NO 24
ATLANTA, GEORGIA
THURSDAY, JUNE 18, 1964
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COMMENCEMENT
President Urges
Renewed Battle
Against Misery
INFORMATION DIRECTOR
Father Vincent A. Yzer-
mans l above i. editor of the
St. Cloud (Minn.l Register
has been appointed director
of the Bureau of Informa
tion. National Catholic Wel
fare Conference, Washington.
He has been director of the
St. Cloud Diocesan Bureau
of Information and the Radio
and Television apostolate
there for the past seven
years. He replaces Father
John P. Donnelly of Spokane,
who has been reassigned as
correspondent of the N.C.W.
C. News Service in Rome.
NEW YORK (NC)—The Amen
can Civil Liberties Union has
denied that it or any of its
chapters is challenging the con
stitutionality of the military
chaplaincy.
John de J. Pemberton, Jr.,
executive director of the ACLU,
said the organization "has
never attacked the concept of
the chaplaincy program." He
said a recent resolution on the
issue by the Military Chaplains
Association "wholly misrepre
sents the facts."
THE CHAPLAINS Associa
tion at its annual convention last
month in Chicago adopted a re
solution pledging its efforts to
continue the chaplaincy and say
ing "it is reported that" Civil
Liberties Union chapters in
Camden, N. J„ and Los Angeles
had challenged the con
stitutionality of having military
chaplains.
Pemberton, in a letter to
Msgr. (Maj. Gen.) Patrick J.
Ryan, president of the Chap
lains Association, said "we are
at a loss to understand this
statement for it wholly mis
represents the facts of our
affiliates’ actions and the in
terests of the ACLU on this
issue."
WORCESTER, Mass. (NC)—
President Johnson urged here
that Americans fight poverty,
disease and the problem of dim
inishing natural resources with
the same determination they
have brought to the cold war.
"These are the problems
which will persist beyond the
cold war," the President told
the graduating class of Holy
Cross College (June 10). "They
are the ominous obstacles to
man’s effort to build a great
world society— a place where
every man can find a life free
from hunger and disease— a
life offering the chance to seek
spiritual fulfillment un
dependents in public school
buildings, but "no legal action
was taken or is contemplated."
He said that "at no time"
had the ACLU branch in
southern California brought or
considered a suit involving the
chaplaincy. He suggested that
the Military Chaplains Associa
tion "may have had in mind" a
suit filed by the southern Cali
fornia affiliate on behalf of a
high school teacher who re
fused on conscientious grounds
to lead the Pledge of Allegiance
containing the words "under
God."
’THE PURPOSE of the suit
was not to eliminate this phrase
from the flag salute, but to pre
vent the dismissal of the school
teacher," Pemberton said. He
added that the suit was settled
last October when the Los
Angeles Board of Education de
cided in favor of the teacher.
On the issue of the military
chaplaincy, Pemberton said the
ACLU’s Church - State Com
mittee has agreed on opposing
any discrimination against
minority religious groups in the
program and any compulsory
religious services held by the
armed forces.
hampered by the degradation
of bodily misery."
SOME 22,000 people jammed
the Holy Cross stadium to hear
the Chief Executive, and an es
timated 150,000 to 200,000 oth
ers lined the streets of Wor
cester to see him.
In presenting his vision of a
world without want and needless
suffering, Mr. Johnson invoked
the memories of "two of the
great men of this century,"
Pope John XXIII and President
Kennedy.
"They both left a world trans
formed by their triumphs and
lessened by their leaving," he
said. "They both handed on a
heritage of hope, a vision of
the future which will occupy
the thought and labors of men
for generations to come."
Even if peace is achieved,
he said, "we will only have
taken a first step toward final
fulfillment of the hopes of Pope
John and President Kennedy."
"FOR JUST as the cold war
has consumed our energies, it
has often limited our horizons,
he declared. "We have tended
to place every challenge in the
context of conflict, to regard
every difficulty as part of a
struggle for domination."
Appealing for a global war on
poverty, Mr. Johnson said the
current per capita product of
developed countries is $1,730,
compared with $143 indevelop-
ing countries. "And the gap
is widening, not narrowing," he
added.
One disease, the President
pointed out that every year
three million people die from
tuberculosis, five million from
dysentery, 500,000 from meas
les, and that in some countries'
one-sixth of the population suf
fers from leprosy. "Yet we have
the knowledge to reduce the
toll of these diseases and avert
these millions of separate tra
gedies of needless death and
suffeimg," he said.
AS FOR resources, he said
it is estimated that to bring the
entire world population to the
U. S. standard of living, itwould
be necessary to extract many
basic metals at a rate well over
100 times the current annual
rate of production.
DIRECTOR CLARIFIES
Not Challenging
Chaplains: ACLU
PEMBERTON said the chair
man of the South Jersey chapter
of the ACLU had written to the
Secretary of Defense protesting
alleged use of chaplains for
religious classes of military
Permits Sunday
Farm Work
MUNICH, Germany (NC—
Munich’s Cardinal has given
Bavarian farmers three guides
about permissible Sunday work.
Julius Cardinal Doepfner,
Archbishop of Munich and Fre
ising, noted that in the past
rural pastors had given blan
ket permissions to farmers for
Sunday work. Now, he said, he
was putting the matter squarely
up to Individual .onsciences.
The guides he supplied were
these: 1) Sunday farm work
should not be done before Mass;
2) permissible work is that
which cannot be postponed, or
otherwise done on weekdays
with good planning, and 3) no
work should be done on Sunday
that is purely for monetary pro
fit.
MINISTER COUNSELOR—
Jaime Fonseca, 47 (above i,
for the past 22 years asso
ciated with the staff of No-
ticias Catolicas, and its edi
tor since 1945, will leave the
Spanlsh-language news serv
ice to take up new' duties on
July l. as Minister Counselor
to the Costa Rican Embassy
in Washington. A native of
Costa Rica, he had previous
ly served as consul at the
embassy.
Outlining a response to these
challenges to coincide with the
1965 International Cooperation-
Year—which will commemo
rate the 20th anniversary of the
United Nations— Mr. Johnson
said that by September he will
report to the third international
conference in Geneva on peace
ful uses of atomic energy, "an
economic breakthrough" achi
eved in recent months by the
U. S. in the use of large-scale
atomic reators for commercial
power.
He said this new power source
offers a "dramatic prospect"
of' desalting sea water and
providing economical electric
power in many areas.
HE ALSO pointed to a U. S.
program which, in the past year,
has resulted in immunizing
one-fourth of the susceptible
population in seven West Afri
can countries against measles,
the largest child-killing disease
in the region. And he said the
U. S. plans to "move ahead
with plans to devise a world
wide weather system" using
satellites and facilities of ""all
industrialized countries."
CARDINAL BEA AT HARVARD—Augustin Cardinal Bea (right) and German Chan
cellor Ludwig Erhard chat on the campus of Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass.,
before ceremonies at which they both received the honorary Doctor of Law's degree. Car
dinal Bea s citation hailed him for his ecumenical work; "Among the differences of man
kind, this revered scholar seeks fraternal dialogue, evoking harmony in Christendom.”
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Second Vatican Key
Word Is Collegiality
BY FATHER JOHN DONNELLY
(N.Q.W.C. NEWS SERVICE)
One word stood out at the
second session of the ecu
menical council last fall, and
it is likely to leave an im
print on deliberations for some
time to come.
"Collegiality" is the word.
Without a proper understanding
of its meaning, the observer is
likely to be left in the dust as
he watches giant steps being
taken in the council.
THE CONCEPT of col
legiality is difficult to describe
because its exact meaning is
still being debated by the coun
cil Fathers. Nor is it likely
they will I move swiftly on
this point. Unlike the pastoral
and practical concentration evi
dent in the Constitution on the
Liturgy and th e Decree on the
Media of Mass Communications
passed thus far, the concept
of collegiality is a theological
issue, to be argued at the level
of doctrinal formulation.
Collegiality is in fact an ex
amination of the very structure
of the Church as it relates to
the role of the bishop and the
pope. Its clarification will
strongly influence two vastly
Important "schemata" or draft
decrees on the council's agenda.
ONE DECREE, "On Bishops
and the Government of
Dioceses," as teacher, ruler
and sanctifier. This would in
clude his relationship with ex
empt Religious orders, thus
far left somewhat vague.
It would al&o establish a work
able structure for the relation
ship between the bishop and the
pope in Rome, surrounded by
the various offices or con
gregations of Roman curia
through which he rules the
Church. And it would set more
definite guidelines for the ex
panding role of national bishops'
conferences.
Even more basically the
council Fathers need a clear
and precise definition of col
legiality to complete the draft
decree "On the Nature of the
Church." This draft, obviously
• fundamental in its importance
and sweeping in its range, con
tinues theological refinements
accented at the First Vatican
council in 1869-1870, when the
doctrine of papal infallibility
itself was defined and broad
outlines drawn for future de
velopment in the relationship
between the pontiff and the
VATICAN cornea
Schemata
For Next
VATICAN CITY (NC)~The
coordinating commission of the
Second Vatican 'Council will
meet late in June for a final
look at all four schemata which
remain to be sent to the world's
bishops.
These schemata are: on the
nature of the Church, the Church,
in the modern world, on the
missions and on Revelation.
THE COUNCIL officials con
firmed reports that the coordi-
Ecuador Relief
Director Dies
GUAYAQUIL, Ecuador (NC)
—Father Charles F. McCarthy,
M.M., a director of Catholic
Relief Services- National Cath
olic Welfare Conference in
Latin America died here (June
14) of a heart attack.
At the time of his death,
Father McCarthy was directing
socio-economic projects in
Columbia, Ecuador, Bolivia,
Chile and Peru. He coordinated
social action projects and help
ed maintain cooperatives, cre
dit unions, savings and loan
associations and educational
projects in those countries.
group ("college" perhaps?)
chosen by him to rule the
Church at least on local levels,
the bishops.
IT IS difficult to say how far
this notion might have pro
gressed at Vatican I had it
not been for the nationalistic
political upheaval in Italy which
sents bishops scattering home
before the agenda was com-
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Session
nating commission will hold
its fifth meeting of the interim
session late this month, pro
bably beginning June 26,
The schema on Revelation
has been subjected to pro
longed discussion and pains
taking redrafting in the mix
ed commission created by Pope
John XXIII for that purpose
when the original schema en
countered heavy resistance at
the council’s first session.
Since then it has been repor
ted at least half a dozen times
that a satisfactory draft had
been achieved. The draft to be
presented to the coordinating
commission represents more
than a year of intensive dis
cussion.
THE SCHEMA on the Church
in the modern world was scru
tinized at a three-way meeting
early in June of a mixed com
mission draw from the theo
logical commission and a lay
apostolate commission.
The theological commission
also put the finishing touches
on the schema on the nature
of the Church at a week-long
meeting that began June 1, The
commission on the mission did
the same to its schema at a
week-long session beginning
June 4.
HOLY SEE umm
Vatican Sets
Guidelines On
‘Socialization’
BARCELONA (NC)—The Holy
See, in a letter to the 23rd
Spanish Social Week, has re
cognized the growing "sociali
zation" of modern life while
warning of dangers if the pro
cess is left to "exclusive state
power ordeformed ideologies,"
The letter, written in the
name of Pope Paul VI by Amleto
Cardinal Clcognanl, Papal
Secretary of State, dealt with the
theme of the Social Week meet
ing — "Socialization and
Liberty."
IT DEFINED socialization as
"the progressive multiplication
of the relations of coexistence,
with the consequent shaping of
many modes of life and of social
activity which are recognized
for the most part in public and
private law."
Modern man, the letter con
tinued, is "more and more sur
rounded and integrated by
social relations. His human
well-being depends more and
more on the social bodies which
were created for this purpose.
"IN HIS work, as in the use
of his free time, in the search
for security from unfore
seeable dangers of life, in the
effort to achieve a higher edu
cation, in keeping with his
aspiration to elevate himself
humanly and socially and to
spend a serene old age, the
man of industralized society
as well as of a society which is
in the process of development
hopes that society itself will
help him, organize his con
ditions of life, and that it will
eliminate the sense of in
security and the preoccupations
which oppress him."
The letter warned, however,
that there are dangers in this
trend toward socialization if
it is unbalanced "or left to the
mercy of unilateral forces such
as exclusive state power orde
formed ideologies." These, it
said, can have the effect of
"lessening true human values
such as the sense of responsi
bility in the family, profes
sional and civil fields, of
lessening the initiative which
creates individual personalities
and therefore liberty itself, in
the exercise of the fundamental
rights and duties of life."
SOCIALIZATION should
come about in a way that
guarantees "for the citizen the
greatest number of advantages
and avoids or at least reduces
the drawbacks," the letter
stated.
By safeguarding the role of
the human person and such
human values as family life and
personal responsibility, the
document continued, men can
avoid becoming mere instru
ments of anonymous forces and
irresponsible agents.
IN THE era of socialization
it is necessary to discard the
idea that public matters can be
abandoned to those who have the
ambition to direct them," the
letter said, "Christians partic
ularly must not forget that by
their honored and generous
pledge to contribute to a social
order ever more worthy of man,
they cooperate in realizing the
designs of Providence which has
ordained that man, grateful for
benefits it has given him, should
work on earth and perfect in
stitutions so that he can, while
always blessing the Lord, also
lift up his spirit to divine
realities,"
Oath Is Taken
VATICAN CITY (NC)—Four
bishops- elect— Msgr. Jan
Willebrands, secretary of the
Secretariat for Promoting
Christian Unity, and three
members of the Roman curia:
Msgr. Ernesto Camagnl, Msgr.
Giovanni Fallanl and Abbot
Pierre Salmon, O. S. B.—took
the oath against modernism
(June 13) before Jaime Cardi
nal Copello, Chancellor of the
Holy Roman Church. Later they
swore loyalty to the Holy See
before Alfredo Cardinal Ottavi-
ani, secretary of the Congrega
tion of the Holy Office.
SCHOOL IS OUT for this nun, one of seven Franciscan Sis
ters of the Immaculate Conception, who staff St, Anthony's
Hospital, Milwaukee, Sister M. Jeane, O.S.F., night super
visor, has her head measured for sombrero size by Juan B.
De La Torre, an instructor in Spanish for the Milwaukee
Institute of Technology. The nuns studied the language so
they could communicate better with many of their patients
who speak nothing else. And it will be a help should mission
duty call them.