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YOUR PRIZE-WINNING NEWSPAPER SERVING GEORGIA’S 71 NORTHERN COUNTIES diocese of Atlanta VOL 2 NO 24 ATLANTA, GEORGIA THURSDAY, JUNE 18, 1964 $5.00 PER-YEAR 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.” IMPRINT ON DELIBERATIONS 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- CONTINUED ON PAGE 8 Readied 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.