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SEARCHING FOR SOLUTIONS
THURSDAY, JULY 23, 1964
GEORGIA BULLETIN
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Youth Increasingly Devoting
Vacations To Action Programs
BY RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE
Young men and women are ex
periencing this summer a new
awareness that breakthroughs
In world problems will not take
place tomorrow without their
participation today in the search
for solutions.
And In large measure, the
Increasing involvement of youth
In efforts to attain a healthy
public order was being spear
headed by religious groups and
religiously-motivated indivi
duals.
Summer is, and for most
young people, will remain a
time for play, rest and employ
ment between school terms; but
to a new degree, youth around
the globe are giving over their
vacations to projects aimed at
helping others.
IN THE United States, the
populace has been both stirred
over the participation of hun
dreds of college students in the
drive for racial justice. The
disappearance, and suspected
murder, of three of the youthful
volunteers in Mississippi
brought some calls for the re
moval of all the students from
the embattled state. Virtually
all of the volunteers, however,
have remained at their free
dom-school, community cen
ter and voter registration tasks.
According to both churchmen
and civil rights leaders, their
firm determination is broadly
based on religious and moral
principles.
Such a comment was made in
advance of the Mississippi Sum
mer Project by one of its orig
inators. He was John Lewis, a
26-year-old Negro graduate of
American Baptist Seminary who
is chairman of the Student Non-
Violent Coordinating Committee
(SNCC, called "S n i c k"),
“Snick" was one of the four
civil rights groups forming the
Council of Federated Organiza
tions, which was directing stu
dent activities in Mississippi.
ment based on the precepts con
tained in the Sermon on the
Mount and made a plea for in
creased church participation in
the civil rights drive in order
to maintain non-violence.
“We must remain non-vio
lent because this is not a war
of hate between black and
white," he declared. “A com
munity of love is our goal and
we cannot use non-Christian
means of violence to attain that
goal... If this nation is to be
come a redeemed community
of God, there must be hun
dreds of thousands of people,
black and white alike, ready to
say 'I believe, I'm ready to
stand up for what is right.' "
AS PLANS developed for the
summer student project, the
National Council of Churches'
race commission played a ma
jor role, arranging and leading
training and orientation ses
sions for the participating vol
unteers. As the project contin
ued, the commission enlisted
Protestant and Catholic clergy
men and rabbis to serve as
counsellors for the interrelig
ious corps of students.
Earlier, in the wide religious
effort to secure passage of the
Civil Rights Act, young people
were conspicuously present in
numerous demonstrations. Per
haps their most stirring parti
cipation was the Theological
Students Vigil for Civil Rights.
For two full months, Protes
tant, Catholic and Jewish semi
narians maintained a round-
the-clock prayer vigil for rac
ial justice in front of the Lin
coln Memorial in the nation's
capital.
While hundreds of youth were
witnessing to their beliefs in
Mississippi, thousands of oth
ers around the globe were en
gaged in a variety of meaning
ful, if leas dangerous, pursuits.
NCCJ PRESIDENT
Participation in numerous
work-projects, many of them
on an ecumenical basis, appear
ed to be on the upswing.
ACROSS EUROPE this sum
mer, a team of Christian youtfi
was organized to carry out vil
lage development work in Cyp
rus. The project was under the
direction of Elrene, an agency
conducting programs of “inter
national Christian service for
peace" under the auspices of the
Mennonlte Central Committee,
the Brethren Service Commis
sion and the International Fel
lowship of Reconciliation. Greek
Orthodox Bishop Gennadlos of
Paphos requested the help for
Cyprus villages which have both
Greek and Turkish citizens.
Under a project announced by
the Catholic Ecumenical Insti
tute of Nieder-Alteich on the
Danube, in Lower Bavaria,
Catholics will work at a set
tlement for the homeless ope
rated by Protestants near
Cologne, Germany, and at an
Orthodox youth center near
Athens, Greece.
A far-reaching ecumenical
work camp program has been
maintained for several years
by the Youth Department of the
World Council of Churches' Di
vision of Ecumenical Action.
Currently - operating on a
$55,000 budget, raised by
Christian youth groups through
out the world, one-month youth
camps are held annually for
about 1,200 young people from
over 50 countries. The campers
work on church and community
projects and study local relig
ious, social and economic con
ditions.
METHODS OF raising funds
for aid projects were seen this
spring in London, when young
members of a motorcycle club
quickly distributed posters and
publicizing a campaign to raise
cash for the Christian Aid De-
Announcing the program be
fore the Presbyterian Interra
cial Council at Oklahoma City
last May, Mr. Lewis described
his organization as a move-
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NEW YORK (RNS) — Dr.
Lewis Webster Jones, presi
dent of the National Con
ference of Christians and
Jews, will retire from that
post effective June 30, 1965,
His forthcoming retire
ment was announced here by
the NCCJ's three national co-
chairmen, Robert D, Murphy,
Carrol M. Shanks and Lewis
L, Strauss,
THEY SAID they deferred
"with greatest reluctance to
Dr, Jones' decision to retire
in 1965," and added that the
step “is activated solely by
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his determination to observe
the established rule relating
to the age limit,"
The co-chairmen said a six-
man committee of NCCJ board
members from various parts
of the country has been named
to carry on the search for a
succeisor to Dr, Jones,
In informing the NCCJ of
his decision to retire, Dr,
Jones noted that he reached
the retirement age of 65 on
laat June 11,
DR, JONES has been NCCJ
president since 1958 when he
succeeded Dr, Everett R,
Clinchy, who resigned to be
come full-time administrative
president of the World
Brotherhood organization,
now the Council on World
Tensions.
The central focus of Dr,
Jones' career over the last
30 years as educator, pre
sident of three universities,
government adviser and NCCJ
head has been on public af
fairs and social issues.
During that period he has
repeatedly enunciated his
strong conviction about the
vital interplay of religion and
politics in the American de
mocracy and has called for
the translation of religious
and moral principles into
practical civic action.
World Congress
Set For Laity
ROME (NC)--Forty experts
from 15 countries have met here
to prepare for the third World
Congreas of the LayApoatolate.
The congress will meet af-
ter the ecumenical council ends,
Thus the date is not known.
Even the congress agenda will
be affected if not determined by
the course the council takes,
For the present, preparatory
studies have centered on
Christ's prayer for unity and
faith "thst all msy be one,,,
that the world may believe,"
partment of the British Council
of Churches. Youth also parti
cipated in house-to-house col
lections and other money-rais
ing projects for the campaign.
This summer, 52 students at
the Roman Catholic Marymount
College, Tarrytown, N.W., em
barked on a missionary project
in 15 areas of the U.S., Canada,
Puerto Rico, Jamaica and South
America. They were to work
with both Negroes and whites
and in many instances among
• non-Catholics.
Across the United States, the
denominational work project
season is in full swing. Young
people of more affluent congre
gations often are traveling hun
dreds of miles to assist less
fortunate churches.
THOUGH for the most part
fruitful ventures for all con
cerned, one such work project
was delayed this summer as a
result of the boiling racial is
sue. White teenagers from
Mount Lebanon Presbyterian
Church near Pittsburgh, Pa.,
traveled to Elm City, N.C., to
paint and repair a Negro Pres
byterian church, only to be
promptly forced out of town by
the local Ku Klux Klan. It was
later decided to complete the
work with college-age and adult
volunteers, an interracial group
from both North and South.
A unique project involving 195
seminarians and college stu
dents is underway this summer
in 43 national parks, under the
direction of the National Council
of Churches' Department of a
Christian Ministry with People
in Leisure-Recreation. In addi
tion to conducting Sunday ser
vices for vacationing Ameri
cans, the students are leading
Bible study, religious drama,
music and other Christian edu
cational activities.
"The tourist industry is mov
ing toward second place among
our business activities," said
the Rev, Warren Ost, director
of the ministry. "I am convin
ced that improper use of leisure
time is the number one threat
to American spiritual life." A
special parks ministry main
tained for the last 11 years la
being expended, he said, to in
clude many other recreation
areas auch aa resorts, national
and itate forests, ski lodges,
beaches, coffee houses andpas-
senger ships.
MEANWHILE, young people
around the world continue their
summer self-education activi
ties, through group travel and
participation in conferences.
Typical was the tour by 63
Mormon youths from the U.S.
who visited the Holy Land for
two weeks aa guests of the Is
raeli Pilgrimage Committee.
Included in their itinerary was
a three-day seminar with Is
raeli leaders, to discuss polit
ical aa well as religious sub
jects.
At denominational and inter
denominational young peoples'
meetings this summer, parti
cipants will closely examine
their roles in the ecumenical
movement and in seeking ans
wers to pressing political, so
cial, moral and economic prob
lems.
ONE EARLY conclave was the
first Ecumenical Youth and Stu
dent Conference of the Middle
East, at Broummana, Lebanon.
Sponsored by the World Coun
cil of Churches’ Youth Depart
ment and the World’s Student
Christian Federation, the meet
ing had the theme; "Behold, I
Make All Things New," re
flecting the search for new
ways to express Christian tra
ditions in today's secular and
technological world.
In a special message to the
Lebanon conference, the World
Council general secretary, Dr.
W, A, Viiaer't Hooft, called
on youth to become an instru
ment for church unity as well
as renewal. Listening, in addi
tion to Protestant and Orthodox
delegates, were youthful Cath
olic observers. It was expected
that such lnterrellgioua partici
pation would be a feature of
many coming meetings.
Through both action and dis
cussion, it la apparent that to
day’s young paople are increas
ingly determined to make a bet
ter place of the world they will
soon lead.
H ODGKIN’S DISEASE
Mickey Mantle
Aids Research
father, died of Hodgkins'
disease in 1951, shortly after
his 40th birthday.
The foundation named for
the Yankee ballplayer actual
ly began 10 years ago when
New York City's Commis
sioner of Records, Maurice
J. O'Rourke, himself a victim
of Hodgkin's disease, heard of
the circumstances of Mr.
Mantle's death and Mickey's
apparent interest in research
involving the disease.
MR. O’ROURKE arranged a
meeting between the Yankee
outfielder and Cardinal Spell
man. "Since then," according
to a Mantle adviser, “this has
been Mickey’s favorite
charity. We have worked with
out fanfare. Mostly it has
been a matter of diverting
certain monies received.’’
Attending the ceremony
here were the Cardinal, Mayor
Robert Wagner of New York,
a contingent of nursing nuns,
some Yankee ballplayers, and
as many of the occupants of the
children's wards as could
cram into the room for
Mickey's autograph.
Observer Assays Nature
A CATHOLIC LAY WOMAN, Dr. Ann M. Wallace will be
principal of the Paulist Fathers’ St. Paul parochial school
in New York City when it opens this fall. She is shown here
with Mother M. Loretto (left) Provincial Superior of the
Sisters of the Holy Cross who conduct the school, and Sis
ter Paul Francis, C.S.C., assistant principal. The Paulist
Fathers using- a combined staff of nuns and lay teachers
plan a program of urban education that will meet the needs
of children in their integrated parochial elementary school.
ORTHODOX THEOLOGIAN
NEW YORK (RNS) — The
"proudest moment in my
life," according to Mickey
Mantle, didn't happen on a
ballfleld — it came here in
St. Vincent’s Hospital,
The New York Yankees'
star referred to the establish
ment in the Catholic institu
tion of the Mickey Mantle
Foundation for Hodgkin's
Disease. Francis Cardinal
Spellman, Archbishop of New
York, blessed the plaque
identifying the foundation in
the hospital's new research
building.
FOR MICKEY, a Protestant,
it was the fruition of a long,
unpublicized “favorite chari
ty" — help for St. Vincente
19 - year - old research pro
gram of research into a
disease which strikes only
the very young or those
"in the prime of life.”
Elvln C. Mantle, Mickey's
Of Vatican Council II
GENEVA <^C) — One of the
delegate observers for the
World Council of Churches at
the Second Vatican Council
holds that while the assembly
in St, Peter's is making a real
effort to promote understand
ing between the Roman Catho
lic Church and other Christian
churches, the Catholic Church
is not yet "really ecumeni
cal."
The WCC official, Dr, Nikos
Nlsslotls, also holds that the
Vatican Council schema on the
nature of the Church places
such great stress-on Christ-
that it neglects the Holy Spirit,
As a result, according to Dr,
Nlsslotls, there is too much
emphasis on the sociological
and juridical bases in the con
cepts of the hierarchy and the
People of God,
DR, NISSIOTIS, a Greek
Orthodox lay theologian who
la associate director of the
WCC's Ecumenical Institute at
nearby Bossey, expressed hla
views in an article entitled "Is
the Vatican Council Really Ecu
menical?" in the July issue of
the WCC quarterly, the Ecu
menical Review.
The same issue also car
ries an article on "Roman
Catholic Ecumenism and the
World Council of Churchea,"
by the Rev. Lukas Viacher,
research secretary of the
WCC'a Department of Faith and
order, and also a delegate ob
server at the Vatican council.
Dr, Viacher made the point
that the Roman Church and the
member churchea of the World
Council of Churches must spell
out their own concepts ofthqm-
selves so as to be also to ad
vance to "the level of living
and acting together in a fellow
ship of divided churches,"
DR, NISSIOTIS in his article
presented an Orthodox view of
what an ecumenical council is.
In this context he criticized
the Church of Rome for using
the term "ecumenical" in re
ferring to Vatican II. Instead,
he held, ft is a "pan-Roman
synod,"
Turning to the discussions on
episcopal collegiaiity at Vati
can II last fall, Dr. Nlsslotls
said:
'THE discussion on the col
legiaiity of the bishops is a
sign of the deviation of the First
Vatican Council which is fully
maintained by the second. It
is a discussion which has no
place in ecdesiology; it can be
regarded aa an indirect denial
of the fulness of the episcopacy
of the Catholic Church even to
question the fact that the bi
shops belong to one episcopacy
of the one Church, The de Jure
divino foundation of episcopacy,
which is posed as a problem in
St. John 23rd?
MADRID (NC)--The govern-
lng committee of Spain's Na
tional Union for the Lay Apoa-
tolate has approved by accla
mation a request to Spanish
bishops that they press for the
canonization of Pope John XX111,
all of five questions addressed
to the Fathers of the second
session after the discussion on
collegiaiity, shows a preoc
cupation with correcting a seri
ous ecclesiological situation
created by the First Vatican
Council, But the correction is
equally dangerous for further
developments, and especially
for an ecumenical debate about
the priesthood as a whole, which
is inevitable in a third Vatican
council," a . -
Dr, Nlsslotls held the root
of this ecclesiological approach
to lie in the absence of a sound
doctrine of the Holy } Spirit:
"An Orthodox is tempted to
turn to a quarrel of a theologi
cal nature which has immediate
bearing on ecdesiology, that ii
the question of the doctrine of
the Holy Spirit, The Roman neg
lect of the Holy Spirit la more
evident than ever before; the
schema De Ecclesla, though it
begins with a trinitarian basil
and by accepting the mystery
of the Church, proceeds, in lti
systematic exposition, to over
look both things.
'THE HOLY Spirit, once
mentioned, la entirely forgot
ten throughout the rest of the
text, . ,In thia way its right
chrlitologlcal basis becomes
in the end chriitomoniam which
is quite inflexible in the dis
cus alon of the particular con-
troveralal Issues of ec-
clesiology. Thus the concept*
of the hierarchy and the People
of God, a a well as the royal
priesthood, are thought out on
a sociological and Juridical
rather than a charismatic
basis. The lines of succession
Christ — Peter — Pope, and
Christ — the Eleven — bishops
become the inflexible de jure
divino structure of a hierarchi
cal institution which is obliged
afterwards to set definite limits
to the one Church, taking as
criterion, not the wholeness of
the sacramental charismatic
life of the Church, but the
discipline and order sub
Romano Pontifice,"
The Greek Orthodox
theologian declared, however,
that the council sessions iq St,
Peter’s have indeed offered En
couraging signs for ecumeni
cal relationships. He said;
“ALMOST all the objections
that the Orthodox have to the
limited Roman view in the
schemata De Ecciesia and De
Oecumeniamo have been made
clearly and sometimes with ex
traordinary force by cardinals
and bishops, with one exception
perhaps, which is for the
moment at least impossible In
practice, namely the objection
to the conception of the primacy
of the Pope,
"Of course, for an Orthodox
this is sufficient to defeat again
all the efforts of those who are
seeking a peaceful inner re
formation within Roman ec-
deaiology; but it it precisely
here that the Orthodox East
must ahow patience and
spiritual solidarity with those
inaide the Roman Church who
are eager to overcome this dif
ficulty and contribute to the re-
establlshement of the broken
communion between Rome and
the other churches,
'THE MOST important sign
of the positive attitude of this
council is the fat that the Ro
man Church and its bishops are
engaged in a free discussion,
open to a tremendous publicity
and subject to criticism by those
outside it. Thus the practice of
the council belles the theory of
primacy and structure, as it la
formulated and maintained by
the lntegrlesta and canon law
especially after Trent and the
Firat Vatican Council, A church
which believei simply and ab
solutely in the ex cathedra in
fallibility of the Biahopof Rome,
in the way that the Eastern
Orthodox understand the Ro
mani to do, would never allow
an open pan - Roman council.
It would be easier and more
reasonable for the Btihop of
Rome, after consultation with
hii Immediate advisers, to
give a prompt solution to all
the vital problems the Roman
Church faces,"
Referring to the traditional
Catholic concept of ecumenlim
as a "return to Rome," Dr,
Niailotli declared:
"All churches apeak in one
way or another of ‘return’ if
they are sincere about the truth
they represent, but the question
is: ’return where and how?',
I personally think that if it la
return to a geographic center
then this does not mean a
gathering of the churchea in
Christ by the Spirit, but return
to a sacred social institution
which, de Jure divino, replaces
the euchariatic and charisma
tic center in Christ expressed
by the local church and the
tradlton of the historical Church
as a whole, the Ecciesia,"
Vows In English
ATCHISON, Kan, (NC)--For
the first time in the 105-year
history of St. Benedict’s abbey,
eight young Benedictines took
their vow* in English during a
ceremony (July 12).
PRESIDENT Johnson sent a
telegram congratulating the
ballplayer and St. Vincent’s
for establishing the foundation.
Among the speakers was
Whitey Ford, the Yanks’ star
lefthander; he waa accompani
ed by infielders Phil Linz and
Joe Pepitone and pitcher Bill
Stafford. Ford noted that the
public can contribute to the
foundation through St. Vin
cent's Hospital,
"I don’t know whether we
have joined the Yankees or
whether the Yankees have
Joined us," said Sister
Anthony Marine, admini
strator of St. Vincent's.
"But they shall have our
prayera."
HODGKIN'S disease was
something Mickey had not
heard of until 1951. That year
he waa hurt in the World
Series; taken to the hospital,
he was soon Joined by hla
father for "a reat," and they
shared a room. It waa then he
learned from hla family that
his father had contracted the
disease.
Ordinarly, few of those
stricken survive for more than
five years. In Mr, Mantle's
case, he lived only a year,
Commiaaioner O’Rourke, who
helped establish the founda
tion, is a rarity: he has lived
with the disease for 11 years.
The Mantles, father and son,
were very cloae, Mickey’s dad
literally made him a ball
player, and he was ao well
trained he spent only a short
time in the minora before
being brought to the Yankees,
MICKEY'S father alio
forced him to become a
■witch-hitter, to bat left -
handed as well as right -
handed.
Mickey’s percentage as a
lefty is far below his mark
as a right-handed batter. But
he hits most of his home runs
left-handed. And, as a sports-
writer has said, the home runs
account for that $100,000 - a-
year.- salary.
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