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PAGE 2 GEORGIA BULLETIN THURSDAY, JUNE 18, 1964
WRITER DECLARES
Pope Paul Perpetuating
John’s Legacy To World
At this time last year, the
entire world — Christian and
non-Christian, believers and
unbelievers — was mourning
the death of the immensely and
universally beloved Pope John
XXIII. Speculation was rife both
over who would succeed him and
whether the new Pope would
perpetuate the great ecumeni
cal legacy of his predecessor.
In Catholic churches around
the world last week — from
majestic St, Peter’s Basilica
in Rome to the humblest chapels
in remote mission areas —- the
extraordinary and still-felt im
pact of Pope John’s compara
tively brief but epoch-marking
pontificate was reflected in the
Memorial Masses offered on the
first anniversary of his death.
IN THE Italian Diocese of
Bergamo where he was bom,
50,000 priests and faithful
meanwhile had signed a petition
for his beatification and event
ual canonization. Other Italian
dioceses were reported circu
lating similar petitions. And it
was even proposed that the Sec
ond Vatican Council — the
greatest single monument of
his reign — canonize him by
“acclamation” when it recon
venes for its third session in
September.
Whether or not the Church,
soon or late, raises Pope John to
the supreme dignity of the altar,
it is clear that he has already
been canonized in the hearts not
only of the Catholic faithful,
but of men everywhere touched
by his simple goodness and all-
embracing human warmth.
At the same time, it seems
equally clear that Paul VI, al
though contrasting greatly in his
personal characteristics and
strictly his own Pope, is hew
ing closely to the spirit and
example of the man whose man
tle he has inherited.
WHEN HE was elected Pope,
John XXIIlwas already 76years
old and many saw him as a
"transitional Pope” — an im
pression that was soon to be
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dissipated as he began briskly
to open up a whole new, excit
ing era for the Church.
What Pope John accomplished
in his brief pontificate of four
years, seven months and six
days was to create a new cli
mate of inter-religious rela
tions which moved one Cana
dian Protestant commentator
to describe him as “the best
Pope the Protestants ever had.”
This was largely in tribute not
only to his action in inviting
both Protestant and Eastern Or
thodox observers to the Vatican
Council, but in setting up a Sec
retariat for Promoting Chris
tian Unity.
THROUGH two great social
encyclicals — Mater et Magis-
tra and Pacem in Terris, which
each found a worldwide re
sponse probably unparalleled in
the case of any papal document
— the aged pontiff provided
practical guidelines toward the
establishment of a Just and
rational social order in a world
of far-reaching political and
economic changes.
Dead a year, Pope John is
still present in the world in a
two-fold way: through his suc
cessor, Paul VI, and through
the inspiration of his life and
the atmosphere of intercreedal
rapprochement that now in
spires the guest for Christian
unity.
On the morrow of his prede
cessor’s death, Pope Paul, the
former Giovanni Battista Car
dinal Montini, Archbishop of
Milan, proclaimed that “the
tomb of John XXIII will not be
able to confine his heritage,”
And in the first days of his
pontificate, the new Pope set
doubts at rest by announcing
his intention to continue the
Second Vatican Council, which,
he said, had "opened new ave
nues to the saving activity of
the Catholic Church,”
FROM POPE Paul have come
many clear indications that he
intends to give full reality to the
dreams and aspirations of his
predecessor of whom many had
spoken as being, like John the
Baptist, “a man sent from God,’
In various pronouncements
and at audiences to Catholics
and non-Catholics, Pope Paul
has issued the same invitation
to openness and dialogue, to
doctrinal and pastoral chari
ty. In him have been found al
so the same insistence on con
structive, positive work, the
same desire to translate the
message of the Gospel into a
language modern people under
stand.
Pope Paul's determination to
perpetuate the ecumenical
flame lighted by his predeces
sor was evidenced especially
by his recent decision to set up
a new Secretariat for Non-
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secretariat, Pope Paul spoke of
the need of a “catholicity” in
which “every nationality is
merged for the good of the world
community, every form of ra
cism is condemned, every form
of totalitarianism Is revealed
in its inhumanity,”
In promulgating the Consti
tution on the Sacred Liturgy ap
proved at the close of the Vati
can Council's second session,
Pope Paul took the first major
step in the aggiomamento, or
bringing of the Church up to
date which Pope John had en
visioned as the Council’s pri
mary goal.
It fell to Pope Paul’s lot, too,
to accomplish something that
his predecessor had himself
dreamed of, but was never des
tined to undertake —the prece
dent-shattering trip to the Holy
Land. There he also became the
first pontiff in over500years to
meet Eastern Orthodoxy’s most
exalted figure. His cordial en
counter with Ecumenical Patri
arch Athenagoras was ranked
as one of the great ecumenical
events of modern times and seen
as a portent of a new and hap
pier relationship between Rome
and the Orthodox East.
POPE JOHN was a man of
initiative; and his successor is
no less so. This week, Paul VI
granted a relaxation of the
Church's ban against crema
tion under certain conditions.
He has also made a change in
the formula for the distribution
of Holy Communion to permit
the faithful to participate “more
actively and fruitfully” in the
Sacrament; simplified his title
by changing the traditional
formula, The Holiness of Our
Lord, to that of the Holy Fath
er; broadened the influence of
the Eastern Rite hierarchies
within the Sacred Congregation
for the Oriental Cburch by nam
ing 16 consultors to that body;
and appointed a group of of
ficial lay delegates to the Vati
can Council’s second session —
striking testimony to the impor
tance he has attached to the role
of the laity in the Church.
Last July, he made a notable
gesture toward the Russian Or
thodox Church by approving the
appointment of a bishop to attend
celebrations in Moscow mark
ing the jubilee of Patriarch
Alexei, head of the Russian
Church.
It has been said of Pope Paul,
son of a lawyer and a man of
scholarly inclination, that he
resembles Pope Pius XII (under
whom he served closely for 25
years in the Vatican Secre
tariat of State), and emulates
Pope John —especially in seek
ing to communicate with people,
even though he might be hap
piest alone aL day in a bood-
filled studio.
In Rome,at first a barrier of
coolness surrounded Pope Paul
when he succeeded the enor
mously popular John XXIII. But
in his many public appearances,
his Lenten visits to the station-
al churches, his excursions to
hospitals and other institutions,
including the Regina Coeli pris
on, have since won for him the
warm affection of the Romans.
Many have been deeply impres
sed by his humble, deeply sin
cere manner. It is on his innate
gentleness and understanding,
combined with his wide experi
ence and great administrative
skill, that the Catholic Church
depends for continued inspired
and prudent leadership in its
complex modem world.
HOLY SEE PERMITS
POPE AT PREDECESSOR'S TOMB. Early in the morning on the first anniversary
(June 3) of the death of Pope John XXIII, Pope Paul VI went privately to the grottoes
beneath St. Peter’s basilica to offer Mass at an altar near the tomb of his predecessor.
Before leaving the grottoes, Pope Paul lit a large candle which had been sent there the
day before, and kneeling before the tomb of Pope John recited the De Profundis. This
picture shows the Holy Father at prayer that morning. The Pontiff also greeted relatives
of Pope John.
ON RACE QUESTION
Los Angeles Priest
Challenges Cardinal
LOS ANGELES (RNS) — A
29-year-old parish priest an
nounced here that he had writ
ten to Pope Paul VI to ask the
removal of James Francis Car
dinal McIntyre as Archbishop of
Los Angeles,
Father William H. DuBay, as
sistant at St. Albert the Great
church in Compton, a suburb,
charged in his unprecedented
action that the prelate had "fail
ed to exercise moral leader
ship among the Catholics of
this diocese on racial discrim
ination.”
THERE WAS no immediate
comment from Cardinal Mc
Intyre or archdiocesan officials.
The priest made his announ
cement at a news conference
he called at the Los Angles
Press Club. He said that his
pastor, Father Martin D. Mc
Govern, was unaware of his ac
tion. The pastor is now in Ire
land.
FATHER DuBAY, who es
timated that his parish congre
gation is approximately 80
per cent Negro, told reporters
that he had been "disciplined
several times for speaking on
the issue" of racial justice and
was "threatened -a year ago with
suspension from priestly duti r -
if I continued to preach th...
integration is a moral issue,”
Responding to a question, he
said he was prepared to lose
his parish post as a result of
his action. He held that his "in
sult” to Cardinal Me Intryre was
less than "the insult and injury
suffered by the several hundred
thousand Los Angeles Negroes
at the hands of white Cathol
ics whom the local church re
fuses to instruct in their spec
ific moral obligations.”
AMONG THE charges the
young priest made against a
Prince of the Church were
"gross malfeasance in office...
and abuses of authority.”
Segments of his 700-word let
ter sent to Pope Paul follow.
"CARDINAL McIntyre has
perpetrated inexcusable abuses
in two areas: he has failed
to exercise moral leadership
among the white Catholics
of this diocese on racial dis
crimination; and he has con
ducted a vicious program of
intimidation and repression
against priests, seminarians
and laity who have tried to reach
the conscience of white Catho
lics in his archdiocese,” (and)
"has often protested that there
is no racial problem in South
ern California. . .
"His action promoted the
prolongation of Negro grie
vances by falling to mobilize
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the social evils of segrega
tion. Los Angeles is the third
most segregated city in the
United States.
"IN ADDITION to simple in
action, His Eminence has sev
erely chastised priests for
speaking out against segrega
tion. His Eminence has refus
ed to receive groups of respon
sible Negro Catholic laymen
concerning their just grievan
ces. His Eminence has insist
ed that the civil rights issue
in California is a purely poli
tical one, in which the Church
has no right to interfere.
"By using harsh reprimands,
he has tried to prevent students
of St. John’s Major Seminary
at Camarillo from learning the
Church’s social teachings in
matters of local concern.
"ALL OF us concerned with
giving Negro congregations
(such as St. Albert's) positive
leadership in their yearning for
full protection under the law,
equal opportunities for educa
tion, jobs and housing, cannot
reconcile the clear teachings
w < hrist and the Church with
the restrictive and nullifying
policies of the cardinal.
"Our Caucasian congrega-
tio. . , too, are not free to
act in a Christian manner un
less they are told not only
general commitment to racial
justice and for taking part in
an informal conversation with
John Howard Griffin, noted
Catholic author and spokesman
for the civil rights movement.”
He held that one student was
dismissed, another "recalled
from receiving ordination to the
subdiaconate,” one left the
seminary for reasons of con
science and others we*-* sent
home "for vacation on proba
tion.”
THE LETTER to Pope Paul
claimed that the cardinal "has
contributed to the possibility of
serious racial violence by de
priving civil rights of respon
sible Catholic and clerical lea
dership necessary to encour
age Chi 4 .i forms of non
violent protest.”
During his press conference,
Father DuBay said he had
difficulties shortly after his or
dination in 1960. Assigned to
Our Lady of Lourdes Church,
Northridge, he was criticized,
he claimed, by the cardinal’s
office for listing in the church
bulletin a compilation of Catho
lic statements on race for gui
dance of parishioners facing an
influx of Negro students.
"I WAS told,” he said, "not
to say anything more on the
race problem. I was moved in
one month to La Canada.”
While at the second parish,
he said, he received an offer
to go "on loan” as an African
missionary. Father DuBay said
the cardinal refused to grant
the transfer because priests
were badly needed in the Los
Angeles archdiocese. He later
was moved to his present post
in Compton "where I could
serve local Negroes rather than
African Negroes.”
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HE SAID that he had been
instructed by Msgr, Benjamin
G, Hawkes, then secretary to
the Cardinal, not to speak out
on race while at the La Canada
parish.
“Msgr, Hawkes told me that
race w. s no problem in Los
Angeles, and that it was not a
moral issue here,” he told
reporters. Father DuBay said
he then wrote a letter to the
cardinal that asked for a
“statement of policy,”
SUMMONED to Cardinal Mc
Intyre’s office, the priest said
the prelate “denied all the
questions I had put. He denied
that there was a racial issue
here and said it was not a
moral issue. He said there
were many other reasons for
discrimin' ion besides race,
“ ’After all, white parents
have to protect their daughters,’
he told me,”
ASKED WHAT good would
come of his letter, Father Du
Bay replied: "It will clear my
conscience. If the cardinal
wants to impose his views on
us, let him do this openly. Now
it is done in secret by secret
policies secretly enforced.”
On the day before Father
DuBay's announcement, Cardi
nal McIntyre also was critized
by a Catholic lay editor, who
charged him with failure to
"speak out” on the racial is
sue and against an initiative
which seeks to abolish Cali
fornia's fair housing law,
EDWARD M, Keating, pulish-
er of Ramparts, a magazine
edited by Catholic laymen in
suburban Menlo Park, claimed
that priests were afraid to
speak out on the issue,
"I have been informed,” he
said at a press conference,
“there are a number of priests
in this archdiocese thinking at
this time of signing a public
statement calling on the arch
bishop to issue a statement
promulgating the Church’s
doctrine.”
’THE PROBLEM of racism
is a moral and religious
question,” he said, "It is clear
ly a sin against one’s fellow
man and against Almight God.”
The summer issue of
Ramparts contains an article
by an unidentified priest who
cited Cardinal McIntyre’s "re
moteness” from racial pro
blems.
“Cardinal McIntyre can con
tinue to say that there is no
racial problem in his arch
diocese,” the authorwrote, "An
incredible statement. No one
who is in touch, who reaus, who
knows what is going on could
make it with a straight face,”
VATICAN CITY (NC)--The Holy
See has granted permission for
some dioceses to have Masses
on Saturday afternoon or even
ing which would satisfy the Sun
day Mass requirement for the
participating faithful.
The permission, being grant
ed to dioceses where the short
age of priests or vacation or
weekend schedules are deemed
to warrant the exception, has
been given by the Congregation
of the Council.
AUTHORITIES of the congre
gation told the N.C.W.C. News
Service that the faculty is not
a blanket one. It is granted
only to specific dioceses at the
request of the local bishop.
Spokesmen for the congregation
said also that the permission
is given only for a specified
period of time, after which
renewal must be sought, and the
necessary conditions surround
ing its original granting must
still exist.
The congregation’s rescript
states that decisions regarding
the time, place and choice of
churches in which this faculty
is to be exercised are to be
decided in the prudent judg
ment of the Ordinary. But such
a Saturday Mass fulfilling the
Sunday obligation cannot be
celebrated before the first
Vespers of the Sunday, which
according to existing law must
be recited sometime after noon
on Saturday.
VATICAN RADIO in com
menting said that the faculty has
already been granted to various
dioceses in Italy, Switzerland
and Argentina. Among the rea
sons for the permission, it said,
is that weekend traveling in
winter and summer “makes
observance of the Sunday Mass
obligation very difficult.” It
said also that the concession is
designed to ameliorate difficul
ties caused by scarcity of
priests in some dioceses, inas
much as priests are limited to
offering three Masses on Sun
days, and by being able to offer
four Masses which would fulfil
the Sunday obligation a greater
number of people will be able
to participate.
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