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PAGE 8 GEORGIA BULLETIN THURSDAY, AUGUST 6, 1964 CARDINAL EXPLAINS ‘Little Council’ Would Be Symbol Of Collegiality CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 some. In many cases it could be better. Speaking on the two docu ments approved at the Second Vatican Council, Cardinal Al- frink had high praise for the one on liturgy and slight disappoint ment about the one on the com munications media. The constitution on the sac red liturgy, and its effects around the world, promise a great deal for the success of the whole council, he said. He praised the work also of the post-conciliar commission on the liturgy, which will have to work out further changes to re new Catholic worship. Cardinal Ritter and Archbishop Paul Hal- linan of Atlanta are the two American members of that in ternational commission, OF THE communications me dia decree, Cardinal Alfrink said: "It was not a very ex cellent decree. But it said sev eral things that could be use ful," He counseled critics of the decree "to try to see some of the good" applications of that document. On the schema concerning re ligious liberty, the Dutch Car dinal again expressed confi dence that it will be voted by the council. ‘The revised text is better than the first," he said, "and the first text was good." He said there are complicated questions involved in the state ment on religious liberty, but he believes that revisions made in the schema presented have solved those difficulties, MORE difficult is the pro posed statement on the Jews, he said, though he felt certain that such a statement will be achieved by Vatican II. "The Jewish question could be very difficult," he said, be cause some persons "speak of the religious character of Jews and others speak of the political side of the Jewish question." He added: "I hope the council will find the right answer in speaking on this subject." IN HIS address at St. Louis University, the cardinal laid some ground rules for ecumeni cal activity. "Dividedness," he said, "is in the literal sense of the word a scandal for humani- JERSEY OTY ty, a stumbling block for the mission Christian Faith has to fulfill in the world." There "is no sense" in de bating "who is to blame" for divisions of Christianity, he said. "On both sides they will have to plead guilty of the his torical schisms." Among the points on which unity can be based, the cardinal said, are one Baptism, one Eucharistic ban quet, the same Holy Scripture, as well as "the love of the same Lord because we believe that by His death on the Cross and by His Resurrection we have been transferred from the darkness of sin to the realm of His Light." Disorder Caused By Frustrations JERSEY CrTY, N.J. frTC)~ Street rioting between police and 500 Negroes in one of this city's colored "ghettos" has been the result of racial frus trations and big-city tensions, according to a Catholic leader in interracial work. Father Aloysius J. Walsh, the Newark archdiocesan coordina tor of interracial Justice pro grams, expressed the wary hope that "if handled correctly" the riots would stop short of those in Rochester or nearby New York, STREET fighting broke out Vt Gallon of SWEET CREAM In every pound of LAND O’ LAKES Swaat Cream Butter “PET.*you betl” PET MWMwunr DAIRY DIVISION For Convenient Home Delivery In Atlanta Call 636-8677 9ndunance in all iU, 9ft i£i written, uie utAite it . . . Sutter & McleHan 1422 RHODES HAVERTY BLDG. JAckson 5-2086 WHSRK INSURANCE !• A PROFESSION NOT A SIDELINE INVITA TION NATIONAL LITURGICAL CONVENTION ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI AUGUST24/27 BE PART OF THE ATLANTA DELEGATION LEARN FROM EXPERTS THE MEANING OF THE LITURGY RENEWAL IMPORTANT FOR: PRIESTS RELIGIOUS TEACHERS PARENTS LAY LEADERS CHOIRS ORGANISTS LECTORS COMMENTATORS CONTACT: REV. LEONARD F. X. MAYHEW P.O, 11667- NO RTHSIDE STATION ATLANTA, GEORGIA 30305 (Aug. 2) when a group of Ne- gores attacked police while try ing to make an arrest. Before the night was over, 37 persons had been injured by the flying bricks and stones, ihd 14 were arrested. Father Walsh said he spent the next morning phoning pas tors in an attempt to keep adults and young people out of the riot-tom area. He said the fighting in Jersey City’s La fayette neighborhood was a "spontaneous reaction due more to the frustrations of the people more than to any reac tion to the police." HE SAID the fighting was contained along one long street that serves as a residential area for Negroes and a truck route for vehicles pouring out of the Holland Tunnel from New York City. * The noise alone keeps peo ple congregating on the streets, and it gives them the impres sion that the world is passing them by," he said. FATHER Walsh said there have been some "minor racial tensions" in the community, but that the main cause for the fighting has come from "the frustrations and tensions than have built up among Negroes because they have been an un derprivileged minority." Even as the city’s 900-man police force was placed on standby alert in case of more fighting, interracial groups were meeting in an attempt to stave off the threat of further rioting. Two interdenomina tional groups, the Hudson Val ley Conference on Race and Religion, and a similar group in Union County, took part in the discussions. ONLY ONE small parish for Luthuanian-speaking Catholics was located in the area of the fighting. However, at least two priests from nearby Christ the King parish--Msgr. Eugene J. Reilly and Father John Ken nedy—were present at the scene of the rioting. Laetare Medal To Poet WESTON, Conn. (NC)--Poet Phyllis McGinley received the Laetare Medal for 1964 at a private ceremony in her home here. The presentation was made (July 30) by Father Theodore M. Heaburgh, C.S.C., president of the University of Notre Dame, which has conferred the honor annually since 1883 on an out standing American Catholic lay person. Miss McGinley was named this year’s Laetare Medal recipient on March 8, Laetare Sunday. THE err AT ION accompany ing the award said in part: "Your poems are like pools of light falling on the ground be tween the trees of a forest. Surely you have plucked them from the sky, stolen them from the sun. THK EUCHARIST AND THE NEW MAN* la the theme of the 38th International Euch- urlutic Congress to be held in Bombay, India, Nov. 25 to Dec. 16, 1964. Pictured in a model cf the huge main altar to be erected in the Oval Maidan, a public park. Each day and evening the pilgrims will witness a litugical function here. A mass ordination of priests from all the dioceses of India and the consecration of five bishops, each from a different continent will take place at this altar. TELLS RETREAT GROUP Lay Movement ‘Strictly And Obviously Spiritual’ DETROIT—(NC The lay re treat movement was charac terized here as a “powerful Instrument in the building of the Church in America" by Bishop John J. Wright of Pitts burgh. He gave the keynote address (July 29) at the opening ban quet of the 20th biennial convention of the National Cath olic Laymen’s Retreat Con ference. THE NCLRC was one of three national retreat groups which met here (July 29—Aug. 2) for the first international re treat congress. The other two are the National Catholic Lay- women's Retreat Conference and the Canadian Retreat Con gress, which held its sessions at the University of Windsor campus across the Detroit River. Bishop Wright, who is epis copal adviser to both the U. S. laymen's and laywomen's re treat groups, said that the lay retreat movement is “strictly and obviously spiritual." HE SAID the movement of fers no political program, how ever legitimate. “It teaches no economic theories, rightist, leftist or neutral. “It has no doctrine to sell or point of view to argue on social or cultural questions; it has no position on questions of labor or management," he continued. “THE LAY retreat movement is concerned with one ques tion only. That quest!an is strictly religious, strictly spi ritual." Bishop Wright said that men who beling to the reatreat move ment align themselves person ally with any objective that obtains among Christians and which they find consistent with Catholic moral and soci; 1 teachings. "BUT THE lay retreat move ment is not concerned with such matters; it is quite content to leave to other and specializ ed Christian organizations dis cussions of this character," he said. The Pennsylvania prelate said themovementuses all of the spiritual resources of Scrip ture, theology and human ex perience. “It projects the most attractive of all possible images of die Catholic Churchas a people vitally concerned, above all, with the building of the spiritual kingdom of God which is Cctholicism’s sole con cern," the bishop said. Father Alcuin Schutkovske, 0. F. M. Cap., of Appleton, Wis., NCLRC's spiritual mod erator, said that with this year’s convention he saw the retreat movement passing through its pioneering stage. “We can now look forward to a period, a plateau, wherein we can solidify our gains." He warned against “novelties’* in the retreat movement, against changes which could distract from the movement’s goals. THE NCLRC also presented its first Pius X Awards to 10 laymen for their efforts in promoting the retreat move ment among the laity. Two special plaques also were given. Pius X Awards were presen ted to Adam Kronk of Detroit; Richard Balthar of Faulkner, Md.; Lyle Becker of Green Bay. Wis.; Victor Carpenter of Hudsn, N. H.: William David son of Warrington, Mo.; Ber nard Gottbrath of Mount St. Francis, Ind.; Elmer Hor- wath of Dayton, Ohio; John F. Ruen of Carey, Ohio; John Van Den Wymlenberg of Appleton, Wis. and Louis Wizen of Hous ton, Tex. SPECIAL citations were pre sented to outgoing national pre sident Donald R. Stautberg of Cincinnati and to Dr. Harry M. Klenda of Wichita, Kan., a member of the national board of directors. At a panel (uly 31) on “The Retreat and the Alcoholic," a prminent Detroit psychiatrist told delegates that the move ment is “a valuable aid" to psychiatry in the treatment of the chronic alcoholic. HISTORICAL NOTE Prelate Clarifies Council ‘Incident’ PARISH HALL BURNED Priest Praises Rights Workers CLEVELAND, Ohio (NC) — A Mississippipreistwhosepar- ish hall was burned down six weeks ago following its use by a Negro group says he be lieves the college students con ducting a voter registration drive in the state this summer are doing a necessary' job. Father John Kersten, S. V. D„ stated that Mississippi Negroes need outside encouragement be fore they can stand on their own. In the long run, he said, they will have to work out their own problems, but added: “1 CANNOT say when that will be. I think the volunteers agree that they must work to make themselves superflous." In a telephone interview with the Cleveland Universe Bulle tin, Cleveland diocesan news paper, Father Kersten ex plained how a hall serving Holy Rosary parish burned to Miamian Named MIAMI, Fla. (NC) — Father Ambrose DePaoli, a priest of the diocese of Miami, has been appointed to the English lan guage section of the Vatican Secretariat of State by Amleto Giovanni Cardinal Cicognani, Papal Secretary of State. A copanelist, Father Aloys- isu Hayden of Vicksburg, Miss, said that whenever possible, retreats for alcoholics should be given by reformed alco holic priests because only such a preist possesses the neces sary personal expeirence, sym pathy and understanding to deal Delegates to the National Catholic Laymen’s Retreat Conference elected James As- muth of Neenah, Wis., as nat ional president for a two- year term, succeding Stautberg. FATHER Campion Clifford, C. P., director of Detroit’s St. Paul of the Cross Retreat League, was named the new national spiritual moderator for the NCLRC. Elected executive vice-pre sident was William M. Lennox of Philadelphia, P. Retaining their posts are John J. Raymond of Detroit as NCLRC's treasurer, and Fath er Thomas F. Middendorf of Covington, Ky., is executive secretary. NEW MEMBERS to the group’s national board of dire ctors are Adam B. Kronk of Detroit; Lyle Becker of Apple- ton, Wis.; Michael Gammino of Providence, R. L; William Davidson of St. Louis, Mo.; Edward J. Murtagh of Garden City, N. Y.; Dr. W. J. Brulet of Lake Charles, La., and Wil bur Rollins of Miami. Miss Mary Lou McGowan of Sacramento, Calif., was named president-elect of the Nat ional Catholic Lyawomen's Re treat Congress. She will as sume office at the group’s 1965 convention. ST. LOUIS ^IC)--Historians please note: Bernard Cardinal Alfrink, a major participant in a famous incident of the Second Vatican Council, set some history straight during his visit here (July 26). rr HAS been alleged in arti cles and books that during the discussion on liturgy on Oct. 30, 1962, Alfredo Cardinal Ot- tavianl, head of the HolyOffice, spoke beyond the lCLminute time limit and his microphone was cut off. the ground in mid-June several hours after a Negro business and professional organization met there. ALTHOUGH the Negro group had been using the hall for six weeks, Father Kersten said he had received no threats prior to the fire and has received none since. Insurance money will pay for part of a new hall, and Father Kersten is trying to collect the rest from friends of the parish. Liturgical Step NEW YORK (NC)--Francis Cardinal Spellman announced here that the New York arch diocese will take "the first ma jor step in implementing the long-range provisions of the Constitution on the Sacred Lit urgy" by setting up a liturgical commission for the archdio cese. Remodeling Fr«» Estimate* & Planning Room Additions Kitchens Modernized Roofing-Siding Painting Concrete & Block References Gladly Given F.H.A. Terms N. Atlanta Constr. Co. 231-1514 OlLttoiL MOTOR HOTEL # FREE PARKING # TV & AIR CONDITIONING e RESTAURANT # ICE & BEVERAGE STATIONS # COFFEE MAKER. EACH ROOM C. O. Hultay, Manager American Exproao Credit Cards Accepted CONE AT LUCKIE ST. 4 Good Address In Atlanta AFRICA: EIGHT HOURS BY MULE IN HIS convention report, "No, it didn’t happen,” said Cardinal Alfrink, who was the president of the council during the session. "It wrs very sim ple. I knew that Ctfdinal Otta- viani had spoken .too long. I waited. But then l said, *Your Eminence, you hav? spoken 15 minutes.’ " CARDINAL Alfrink said the curia cardinal stopped, picked up his papers and left the mic rophone. Cardinal Alfrink. who has presided over many of the coun cil sessions, said “It is impos sible for the president to turn off the microphone.” IN A MALARIA-INFESTED VILLAGE MILES AWAY, parishioner is dying. FATHER JOHN GIIEBUKKIDUH takes the Blessed Sacrament and goes to him by mule . . . The trip by mule sometimes takes ei?ht hours. Cath olics are few and scattered in the Aftican lowlands, and there arc no HV WSM " rnv ' ,s - • FATHER JOHN lives in vT* ^ GHILAS. one of 20 villages for which he Is responsible. He cooks his own meals outdoors, over an open fire. His "rectory" is a circu lar thatched hut made of mud, . which serves also as a church on Th$ Holy Father t Mutton Aid § uilt jay. Day by day, one sees him for tht Oritntal Church slowly wearing out . . . Does anyone care? You do, and so de we. The Holy Father asks our help. .>. To save the ssuls entrusted to him. to give his people a decent life, FATHER JOHN needs a new church (S4.800), and a school <52,800). An adequate rectory will cost S1.600 . . . Won’t you help—just a little at least? If everyone who reads this column gives only SI. $2, S5, FATHER JOHN can have what he needs. Send something now . . . Maybe, by spacing the payments to your own convenience, you can build this church, school, or rectory all by yourself, as a permanent mission memorial to parents or a loved one Let us hear from you . . . Meanwhile, please pray for FATHER JOHN. Wasting away in Africa, he needs your prayers, your sympathy, your financial help. SHANK YOl K BLESSINGS? WHATEVER YOU GIVE to the Catholic Near East Welfare Association is used, under the direction of the Holy Father him self. to help the needy in 18 countries in which Catholcs are a very slim minority. Gifts of any amount arc welcome . . . To help regularly, tell us you want to join one <or more) of these Sl-a-month clubs: □ CHRYSOSTOMS • educates poor boys for the priesthood) □ MARY’S BANK it reins Sisters-to-be) □ DAMIEN THE LEPER CLUB 'cares for lepers) □ THE BASILIAXS 'maintains mission schools) MASS FOR YOUR INTENTION? Our missionary priests will offer promptly the Masses you request. BETHLEHEM: A CHILD FOR YOU READY FOR BED. their faces glistening. 42 happy little girls will kneel tonight in BETHLEHEM to thank God for “parents they have never seen . . . The offspring of Palestine refugees, the girls get love and care from the Sisters of the Apostles in the Pontifical Mission Orphanage. The “parents" they pray for are American Catholics who pay S10 a month for their support .'. . Write us now, it you or your group would like to •adept” one of these girls, or an orphan equally as needy. Or send S3.50 to buy an orphan a pair of shoes. The Sisters in BETHLEHEM will welcome your help. Dear Monsignor Ryan: Enclosed please find for Name Street City Zone State l^l2earSst(Qis$iottsj^i FRANCIS CARDINAL SPELLMAN, President Mtfr. Joseph T. Ryan, Nar'l Soc'y Send «!l communications to: CATHOLIC NEAR EAST WELFARE ASSOCIATION 330 Madison Avt. of 42nd St. How York, N. Y. 10017