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SEARCHING FOR SOLUTIONS THURSDAY, JULY 23, 1964 GEORGIA BULLETIN PAGE 3 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- I CMMIT4I ft HOLY CROSS BROTHER • BOYI' unwu * RANCHIN* • OffICI WORM • TRAMS iNUMNMSMft For Ittformalion frlin ■rotlier'DeneM Hanaal, CM 104 Holy Cross School 4950 Dauphinc Street New Orleana. 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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. Office Equipment Business Machines Sales-Service-Supplies PHONE 525-6417 PHONE 525-6417 172 WHITEHALL STREET, S.W. 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