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* THURSDAY, JUNE 25, 1964 GEORGIA BULLETIN PAGE 9 ♦ AS NAZIS Pius XII Felt He Should Denounce Reds As Well WASHINGTON (NC) — Pope Pius XII told the United States at the beginning of 1943 that he could not specifically con demn nazi atrocities, as he was being pressured to do, without also denouncing the bolsheviks, and the Allies probably would not like that. ^ The Pope also made it clear that he felt that everyone should have seen in his Christmas message of a few days before a clear condemnation of nazi atrocities. THESE THINGS are brought out in an official State Depart ment publication, Foreign Re lations of the United States, 1943, Volume II, just made public. They have a particular timeliness in view of the cur rent stage play “The Deputy/' whose author Rolf Huchhuth charges that Pope Pius XII did not sufficiently denounce the nazi persecution of Jews. Pope Pius XII’s observation are contained in a telgram sent to the State Department by Harold H. Tittmann, then at the Vatican as assistant to My ron C. Taylor, President 1 Bow To Replace Genuflection TOKYO (NC)—Japanese Ca tholics may bow before the Holy Eucharist instead of genuflect ing, according to regulation which will go into effect June 29. The permission was given by the Japanese Bishops' Confer ence here at a meeting in which the bishops completed arrange ments for liturgical changes in this country. The bishops de creed that Japan’s traditional reverential bow may replace the genuflection, and that all genuflections and kissing of the bishop's ring are abolished, except where prescribed in li turgical^ functions. Remodeling Fr«« Estimates & Planning Room Additions Kitchens Modernized Roofing-Siding Painting Concrete & Block References Gladly Given F.H.A. Terms N. Atlanta Constr. Co. 231-1514 UNCE1M8 « '* m raft i NtPjtCT loJ^fcAVW.. 23J-3Q4$ Franklin D. Roosevelt’s per sonal representative to the Vat ican. Taylor was not in Vatican City at the time of the dispatch, dated Jan. 5, 1943, and sent through Switzerland. Reporting that he had a 40- minute conversation with Pope Pius XII “at the customary New Year audience," Tittmann said the talk at first dealt with the Holy See’s efforts to save Rome from aerial bombing, and then went on to other matters. “WITH REGARD to his Christmas message/’Titmann told his superiors in Washing ton, “the Pope gave me the impression that he was sincere in believing that he had spoken therein clearly enough to sat isfy all those who had been in sisting in the past that he ut ter some world of condemna tion of the nazi atrocities and he seemed surprised when I told him that I thought there were some who did not share his belief. “He said he thought that it was plain to everyone that he was referring to the Poles, Jews and hostages when he de clared that hundreds of thous ands of persons had been kill ed or tortured through no fault of their own, sometimes only because of their race or nat ionality. He explained that when talk ing of atrocities he could not name the nazis without at the same time mentioning the bol sheviks and this he thought might not be wholly pleasing to the Allies. “He stated that he 'feared' that there was foundation for the atrocity reports of the Al lies but led ms to believe that he felt that there had been some exaggeration for purposes of propaganda. Taken as a whole he thought his message should be welcomed by the American people and I agreed with (him). TfiTMAN N also reported that he told the Pope how much he appreciated being able to attend the midnight Mass the Pontiff had celebrated for mem bers of the diplomatic corps on Christmas Eve. “I said I was impressed by this demon stration above the havoc of war of the brotherhood of man when friend and foe alike were seen to kneel together at the altar in order to receive Holy Com munion from the hands of the Universal Father, 'Tittmann telegraphed. 'The Germans, however, were conspicuous by their ab sence and I could see that their lack of cooperation in this in stance had affected the Holy Father. He was inclined to at tribute the absence to fear on their part that they might in cur displeasure of the more ex treme nazi leaders had they attended,’’ THE RELEASE of this latest information recalls a com munication from Tittmann dated When Discerning People ^4 Think of Flowers They Think of ✓ Cxp»rts in the floral arts V Bridal specialists / 24-hours answering service Ayers' Town Carden, Inc. Weddings • Funeral Designs* Cut Flowers* Fresh and Permanent Arrangements A show room of antique furniture and accessories is an interesting blend of the old and the new. Free Parking in Rear Oct. 6, 1942, in which he said “another motive, possibly the controlling one, behind the Pope's disinclination to de nounce nazi atrocities is his fear that if he does so now, the German people, in the bit terness of their defeat, will re proach him later on” for hav ing contributed to the condi tion of German defeat, Tittmann said Germans had made similar accusations aga inst Pope Benedict XV for his World War I statements. “When it is borne in mind that Plus XII had many years of conditioning in Germany, it will not seem unnatural that he should be particularly sen sitive to this particular argu ment/’ Tittmann added, obvio usly referring to the long ser vice, Pius XII had in Germany as a diplomat of the Holy See. SEPARATED, BUT NOT REALLY APART—This family has not had a reunion in 28 years, not since Father George M. Ziebert, S.J., left for India. He is shown (seated) with his mother, Mrs. George P. Ziebert, 81, of Dayton, Ohio, and standing, left to right: his brother, Joseph and his sisters: Sisters M. Jeanette, Phoenix, Ariz.; M. Genevieve, St. Joseph, Mo., M. Vincentia, El Cajon, Calif.; M. Leonora, Dayton, Ohio, and Mrs. John Bistak, Cleveland. Ordained in India, Father Ziebert offered his first Mass in the U. S. (June 14) in Our Lady of Good Counsel Church, Cleveland. DECISIVE The First Year: Paul No Hamlet Antiques • FIOWIRS • Acc*st*ri*s 166 Courtland Street N.E., 524-0449 When Pope Paul VI was elect ed to the chair of Peter a year ago some dubbed him the “Ham let from Milan,” but this article by the head of the N.C.W.C. news bureau in Rome shows that the Pontiff’s first year has been marked by decisive and imaginative action. BY JAMES C. O'NEILL (N. C. W. C. NEWS SERVICE) VATICAN CITY—The first year of the reign of Pope Paul VI is so studded with momen tous and dramatic events that the man at the center of them almost is obscured from sight. Like his predecessor, Pope John XXIII, who was referred to at first as an “Interim Pope" by those supposedly in the “know/' Pope Paul VI was characterized by some as the “Hamlet from Milan.'* If the development of the first year of the papacy of Giovanni Battista Montini is any standard, the name of the indecisive “Ham let** will be no more applica ble to him than the insignificant term of “Interim” was to his remarkable predecessor. THE CARDINAL Archbishop of Milan was elected Pope on June 21, 1963. It was just 18 days after the painful but im pressive death of “Good Pope John.” Twelve days later Pope Paul's coronation was celebrat ed on the steps and balcony of St. Peter's in a dazzling cere mony to which 96 nations sent official envoys. In the next few months the new Pope threw himself into the task of becoming familiar with all aspects of his role as Christ's Vicar on Earth. Though he long knew many facets of it from his years as a close associate of Pope Pius XII there still were hundreds of reports to pour over, cardinals, prelates and people to talk with and a rou tine of audiences, speeches and visits to master. Many in the Roman curia, the top administrative offices which assist the Pope in gov erning the Church, found it dif ficult to determine what kind .of a pope the new one was going to be? A traditionalist? An in novator? POPE PAUL provided an in dication early in September. He summoned all officials of the curia and announced that he ex pected them to reform their of fices to meet better the demands of the present day. The speech m^xed praise for their work and for their loyalty with demands of modernization, internationa lization and greater efficiency. ANSWER TO LAST WEEK’S PUZZLE In short, Pope Paul served notice on his administrative as sistants that the “aggiomamen- to“ or “bringing up to date'* which was the theme of the Second Vatican Council ap plies also to the most central offices of the Church. The speech also had the effect of making it clear that Pope Paul considered the curia's reform his prerogative and not a pro ject for the council itself. As it stands today, no con crete results have been forth coming; however initial studies are already underway and a commission, still in the “em bryo stage'* as Vatican circles put it, is being readied for the time when the Pope deems it opportune to begin the immense task of overhauling the cum bersome administrative struc ture. WITH THE second session of the council, the interest of the Church and world centered on the debates Inside the council hall. In his inaugural address, Pope Paul made it clear he favored holding the council and stressed that he also supported fully its announced goals, set by Pope John: the “aggioraa- mento’* of the Church and the promotion of Christian unity. But while the debates ranged over the structure of the Church, the role of the bishops and the meaning and direction of ecumenism, the new Pope re mained in the background. He made a point of not Intervening in the discussion nor of throw ing his weight to one side or another as the debates dragged on. Even in his closing speech on the morning of Dec. 4, Pope Paul was non-committal on his per sonal views on the matters so warmly discussed for more than two months. Instead he reviewed dispassionately the various ar guments under debate. WHILE STAYING in the shad ows during the second session, the Pope in his closing speech revealed that he was by no means indifferent to the pro gress of the council. In effect he told the Fathers that mat ters had moved too slowly. Greater clarity of concepts, better and shorter schemata must be drawn up before the next session, he declared. At the Pope's instruction all matters pending before the council were drastically re viewed when the second session closed. Already prepared sche mata were reviewed, rewrit ten and pared to the essentials. The result has been a great reduction in the work to be submitted to the Fathers during the third session. For instance, the schema on the missions, which covered hundreds of pages in preparatory phase and which was reduced to some 20 pages by the time the second session was held, today is only seven pages long. THE POPE too was quick to implement the decisions of the council regarding the liturgy and mass communications. The Pope created a special com mission to carry out the far- reaching liturgical reform. The commission, headed by the re- form-minded Archbishop of Bo logna, Giacomo Cardinal Ler- caro, has done its work so well that less than six months after the promulgation of the liturgi cal constitution the new English texts for the Mass in the United States have been drawn up by the American Bishops and con firmed for use by the Holy See. Another Commission had been called on to carry out the pro gram laid down by the council for mass media. Another interesting point in the Pope's concluding speech was his indication that he was thinking of establishing a spec ial office of the Church to deal with non-Catholic religions. He actually carried this idea out in May, 1964, when he named Pao lo Cardinal Marella, head of the Secretariat for non-Christians, the first such office ever to exist within the Church and probably the first to be created by any Christian body to bridge the gap between the Christian and non-Christian world. THE SIGNIFICANCE of the Pope’s closing speech on Dec. 4th and his action and decisions later was all but lost on many observers because of the total ly unexpected climax of the speech—the Pope's announce ment of his pilgrimage to the Holy Land. The January pilgrimage cap tured the imagination of the world. The decision revealed a capacity, surprising to many, of the Pope to act independently, without reference to tradition^ or precedents. The meeting and embracing of the Pope, with eyes brimming with tears, and the Patriarch of Constantinople was dramatic proof that the new Pope had no intention of being content with paying lip-service to the goal of the reunion of Christendom. “Let fall the barriers,” Pope Paul had cried a few months earlier while visiting an Eas tern Rite monastery at Grotta- ferrata near his summer home at Castelgandolfo. His ecumeni cal journey to Jerusalem per haps has done more to shake the barriers between Catholi cism and Orthodoxy than any single act in 500 years. With his return from the Holy Land, the Pope repeated over and over his emphasis on the goal of Christian unity. Still he was not one to underestimate the difficulties and told a Jan. 19 audience in Rome: “It will be necessary to have much pat ience and much understanding; no hurry, but a great desire.” DURING HIS first year as Pope, Pope Paul was visited by a remarkable number of heads of state, including the presi dents of the United States, Tan ganyika, Somali, Italy, Ireland, and Brazil, the sovereigns of Denmark and Greece, the Sec retary General of the United Nations and two chancellors of Germany. President John F. Kennedy came to pay a courtesy visit on July 2, two days after the Pope’s coronation and not quite- five months before the Presi dent's assassination. Even that terrible event demonstrated another characteristic of the new Pope; the ability to make a 3527 WortLlJ. PLy., fl. W. ~>¥° r ' /it Tv 7v 237-4041 ST. INFIRMARY SODA FOUNTAIN COFFEE SHOP AND RESTAURANT LOCATED NEXT TO OUT SHOP ON IN NEW BUILDING ATLANTA, GA. FLOOR CLASSIFIEDS MOVING? PLEASE NOTIFY US SEND US THIS NOTICE TODAY: THE GEORGIA BULLETIN P.O. BOX 11667-NORTHS IDE STATION ATLANTA 5, GEORGIA NEW ADDRESS:', NAME, ADDRESS, CITY - .ZONE. quick decision on the spot if the situation warranted. Short ly after hearing the news on Nov. 22, the Pope, sweeping aside all protocol and ignor ing the normal usages, broad cast over an American radio network his heartfelt sympathy for the American people and the President’s grieving family. While the series of state vis its paid tribute to the office to which Giovanni Montini had been raised, it was the Pope's visits to and with others, mostly his own people of Rome, that gave a clue to his emotional side. On Nov. 10 he took possession as Bishop of Rome of his cathedral of St. John Lateran. During the ceremonies he promised to vis it frequently all sectors of his diocese, to be known and to know his people. He kept his promise. LIKE POPE John he visited Rome’s main jail, Regina Coeli, a visit touched by tears, and the city's hospitals. An early Lent found Pope Paul celebrating Mass in the parish churches of poor and populous areas of the immense diocese of Rome, preaching informally and dis tributing Communion to hun dreds and hundreds of people. After Easter the Pope rarely missed a Sunday to celebrate Mass in St. Peter's for the thousands of pilgrims and vis itors to the Eternal City or in the various chapels of the Vat ican for groups such as factory workers, artists or deformed children. A common mark of these oc casions was the warmth, the emotional content of his voice as Pope Paul spoke to his child ren. On Easter Sunday he had celebrated a low Mass at a small parish church and then hastened back to St. Peter’s for another low Mass. During the sermon at the later Mass, the Pope's voice shook as he described the scene of the parish Mass and that of the Eas ter story. His voice rising and falling, changes with overtones of tenderness and wonder, was far different from the measured and carefully modulated phras es which are characteristic of his formal addresses and de livery of written discourses. THE FIRST year of the reign of Pope Paul has been marked by the slow unfolding, the grad ual adaptation to the enormous demands of the papacy of the man who is Giovanni Battista Montini. Even in the things that he has chosen not to do, Pope Paul reveals a personal in dependence of action. AS FOR the opening encycli cal of his reign. Pope Paul de cided to substitute the “living word” of his address opening the second session of the coun cil, to “take the place of the encyclical letter, which, if it please God, we hope to ad dress to you once these toil some days are past.” The first year of the Pope’s occupancy of the Chair of Peter endied not with fulfillment as much as with promise. One brief year has revealed a Pontiff cap able of immense undertakings, one who chooses to study situa tions, yet who can under special circumstances react with warmth and emotion even to the edge of tears. HOUSES FOR SALE BULLETIN CLASSIFIEDS SELL Well arranged one floor house on secluded street with private pool membership available. 5 large bdrms., 3 1/2 bths., study, 16x16 screened porch with bro ken tile floor, mahogany panel led fam. room - kit. comb, with fireplace. Utility room & basement. Ideal play ground lot. 1418 Knollwood Terrace, Leaf- more Hills, Decatur. 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