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NEGOTIATED WITH KHRUSHCHEV U.S. Editor Reveals Role In Release Of Ukrainian Prelate NEW YORK— Norman Cousins, editor of the Saturday Review, disclosed he went to the Soviet Union in December, 1962, to negotiate with then Premier Nikita Khrushchev for the release of Archbishop Josyf Slipyi of Lvov, who had spent nearly 18 years in jail and under house ar rest. Archbishop Slipyi’s release was announced in Moscow on Feb. 9, 1963, two months after the Cousins-Khrushchev meeting, and at the very time that the Catholic prelate was secretly ar riving in Rome. Pope John XXIII confirmed news of the release on the morning of Feb. 10, a Sunday, and met the Ukrainian Catholic primate the same afternoon. Archgishop Slipyi has remain ed in the Rome area since his release, and last February Pope Paul VI conferred on him the new title of “major archbishop.*' COUSINS TELLS of his part in gaining free dom for the Byzantine Rite leader in the lead article of the Saturday Review for Nov. 7, entitled “Notes on a 1963 visit with Khrus hchev.” In it, the 52-year-old editor makes public the fact that he had long meetings with Khrushchev both on Dec. 7, 1962, and on April 12, 1963. He did not report on the meetings when they occurred, Cousins states, because he was serving as a “private emissary” rath er than as a journalist. The second meeting took place two days after Pope John’s encyclical on peace, Pacem in Terris, was released at the Vatican. Cousins relates that he had been entrusted with an ad vance copy of the encyclical, translated into Rus sian by Vatican officials, for presentation to the Soviet Premier. He recalls that when he gave the copy of the encyclical, Khrushchev told him he was pleased and would “read it with great interest.” Of the first meeting, in Moscow, Cousins sta tes: “I was acting in behalf of church leaders who felt the time might be opportune for ex ploring the possibilities of enlarged freedoms inside the Soviet Union. In particular, the object of the mission was to obtain the release of Bis hop Slippi, head of the Ukrainian Rite. . .” THE EDITOR records that his liaison with the Holy See in the Slipyi negotiations was Fath er Felix Morlion, O. P., president of the Pro Deo University in Rome. Of his initial meeting, Cousins states: “I was authorized to say that Pope John was hopeful that the bishop might spend his few re maining years—he was now in his seventies— at some distant seminary. “The chairman (Khrushchev) had said. . . that he would like to establish good relations with the Vatican and that he had a profound regard for Pope John, but he feared that the release of Bishop Slipyi would have exactly the opposite effect. “In what way?* I had asked. "The moment he is released, there will be big headlines saying the bishop was tortured by the Reds,* he had said. ‘This would not exactly help the cause of improved relations.' “I HAD REPLIED that it was my understand ing that Pope John was not seeking the release of Bishop Slipyi for the purpose of propa gandist exploitation. He was genuinely concern ed about the health and well-being of the bishop. As a matter of basic human justice, he hoped the bishop would be freed. “The chairman proceeded to expound on the case of Bishop Slipyi for almost 20 minutes. He traced the long history of rivalry between the Ukrainian Rite Orthodox Church and the Russian Orthodox Church. He spoke about Bis hop Slipyi’s predecessor, Metropolitan Shepty- tsky, who died, the chairman said, under cir cumstances that suggested his departure from this earth may have been unnaturally acceler ated, although he did not say by whom. In any event, he said the bishop had been imprison ed for good and sufficient reason. “My prupose was not to argue that point, I had said. But it was seventeen years since the arrest took place. Surely any further punishment could serve no useful purpose. “YOU MAY BE right, he had said, adding that he would look into the matter and let me know. CONTINUED ON PAGE 8 of Atlanta HELP YOUR UNITED APPEAL SERVING GEORGIA'S 71 NORTHERN COUNTIES iWii VOL. 2 NO. 44 ATLANTA, GEORGIA THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1964 $5.00 PER YEAR EVEN ‘CERTAIN POINTS’ Vatican II Fathers Urged To Face Birth Control Issue Courageously LOVE for the sick, the handicapped, the crippled, marked the life of Blessed Luigi Guan- ella, the social action priest whom Pope Paul VI beatified (Oct. 25). Here the Holy Father kneels to chat with a group from the Father Guanella Home in Rome. AID. APPRAISAL Educators Hopeful About Future Of School Issues SAN FRANCISCO (NC)—Two of the hottest topics in Catholic education—Federal aid and the reappraisal of Catholic schools —got encouraging forecasts at the 57th annual meeting here of the superintendents depart ment, National Catholic Educa tional Association. A complete set of “Crite ria for the Evaluation of Catho lic Elementary Schools,"which could be used by all U.S. dio ceses, was described by Sis ter St. Regina Marie of the NCEA’s elementary school de partment. A prediction that grants to meet specific needs WILL SEE MINDSZENTY Austrian Prelate To Visit Hungary VIENNA (RNS) Franz Cardi nal Keonig, Archbishop of Vi enna, may visit Hungary in Jan uary in another attempt to settle the controversial issue of Joz- sef Cardinal Mindszenty, ac cording to Austrian Underse cretary of State Carl H. Bob- leter, who was in Budapest on an official mission. He was reported here as say ing the expected Cardinal Koe nig would receive a visa in or der to meet the Hungarian Pri mate who has be«.n living in the U.S. legation in Budapest since October, 1956. MR. BOBLETER’S statement was made after he had confer red in Budapest with Archbishop Endre Hamvas of Kalocsa, head of the Hungarian Bench of Bish ops. Cardinal Koenig, as well as special emissaries of the Vati can tried to bring about a settle ment of the “Mindszenty case” last year, but without success. The Primate, who had been sentenced to life imprisonment in 1949 for allegedly leading a conspiracy to overthrow the Hungarian Communist govern ment, was freed by insurgents in the 1956 revolt, but had to take shelter in the U.S. legation when the uprising was crushed. Hungarian authorities have for some times indicated a readiness to permit Cardinal Mindszenty to leave the legation but only provided he goes into exile. However, the cardinal reportedly has refused to leave the country unless the govern ment agrees to liberalize its policies toward the Catholic Church. may be approved instead of a general Federal aid to educa tion program was made by Wil liam Consedine, director of the National Catholic Welfare Con ference's Legal Department. PRAISING the work of the 88th Congress, Consedine said “more good legislation has been passed for education in this ses sion than in any other Congress, and in every bit of legislation the private schools have been treated fairly, b nine major bills passed there has been no discrimination against the pri vate schools.” Looking toward future trends, Consedine said that a general aid program no longer seems likely and Congress probably will turn to a series of special -purpose grants for education al purposes. THIS, he noted, could possibly create a de facto general aid program without such a pro gram ever being enacted. “Congress seems to be con vinced of a national commitment to education as an essential ingredient to democracy,” he said. “President Johnson has said that he is for aid to educa tion within constitutional limi tations, This statement leaves the door open to those for and those opposing Federal aid to private, nonprofit schools to prove their own cases by trying to establish what is the mind of the Constitution.” BY JOHN COGLEY VATICAN CITY (RNS) — On October 28, Cardinal Agagi- anian, one of the four modera tors of the Ecumenical Council, told the Fathers that on “cer tain points” which fell under Schema 13, The Church and the Modern World, there would be no public discussion in the aula of Saint Peter's to avoid misinterpretation and mis understanding outside the Coun cil. It was generally under stood that among these “cer tain points;; would be the de licate matter of birth control, which has been on the Council Fathers’ minds ever since dis cussion of the schema got under way. The cardinal advised the bishops not to speak but to send in written interventions. That same day, Archbishop Patrick O’Boyle of Washington, D.C., speaking for all the American bishops in Rome, made a strong statement de nouncing racial segregation and every manner of discrimination based on pride of blood. Op position to racism, the arch bishop said, must be founded on sound theological principles. In this area, he told the Fa thers, the bishops of the United Sates have learned that cooper ation between Catholics and other Christians can be most fruitful. A YOUNG bishop from Gary, Indiana, the Most Rev. Andrew Grutka, was even more out spoken. He denounced the evils resulting from racial ghettos and cultural deprivation in his own country and elsewhere. “Virtue cannot be expected from a slum anymore than beauty can be found in a gar bage dump.” Catholics who move out of a neighborhood rat her than live side be side with a Negro family, Bishop Grutka said, have tarnished the image of the Church — “The pas toral work of priests is vi tiated and tne apostolic work of missionaries stymied.” Prelates from other parts of the world spoke against divorce, the continued existence of sla very, and. the growth of poly- Official The following appointment has been announced by the Chan cery Office: It is effective No vember 11, 1964. Reverend Joseph D. Kavanagh to be assistant at Immaculate Heart of Mary Church, 2855 Briarcliff Rd„ NE Atlanta. JOHN COGLEY gamy even among Christian Af ricans. Several pleaded for a statement from the Council af firming the dignity and rights of women. The social concern shown in the Council, then, was fairly universal. The problems vary from nation to nation and from continent to continent, but it was evident that the bishops felt the social doctrine of the Church was broad enough to meet dif ferent manifestations of injus tice, inequity, and social evil. Only a very few of the remarks made as the discussion proceeded would conform to the once-widespread image of the Catholic hierarchy as an ultra- conservative, complacently re actionary force in a revo lutionary era. FOR A TIME, it seemed as if the subject which was fore most in many of the Fathers’ minds— family planning and the control of population —might not come up in the aula at all but be dealt with secretly by commissions protected from the ever-curious press. That certainly is the way many of the Fathers would have liked it, for the subject of contra ception at this point in the Church's history is the most “delicate” matter imaginable. It would be less than honest to say that the Fathers of the Council see eye to eye on it. The possibility that by airing their differences thay would create a scandal was always present in their minds. The next day, though the breakthrough was made; the general congregation on Oct ober 29, 1964, was one of the most dramatic meetings of the Council since it began in the Fall of 1962. Only the day before, attendance had been meager and the coffee bar had been overly busy. On Thursday, the 29th, practically every place in the aula was filled. Word had gotten around Jhat three leading ecclesiastics were going to challenge the present Catholic teaching on birth con trol and plead for a new look at the problem. The three were Cardinal Sue- nen, Archbishop of Malines- Brussels, Belgium, Cardinal Leger of Montreal, Canada, and *s Beatitude Maximos IV Saigh, the Melkite Patriarch of Antioch, Syria. Each one of them is regarded as a giant among the Council Fathers. Any one of them would have received rapt attention. Together, they made a formidable team. A prelate like the retired former Archbishop of Bombay, the Most Rev. Thomas Roberts, S.J. — who has a reputation for being consistently off-beat and some thing of a “loner” — might easily have been dismissed as an eccentric. But these three are universally recognized as leaders among the bishops. CARDINAL Leger was the first to speak. He pointed out that confessors the world over are confronted by people who have difficulty with the Church’s teaching on marital sex. The bishops, of course, were pain fully aware of this. He suggest ed then that many of the dif ficulties facing the Church in this matter may be due to the "fear of conjugal love which has pervaded so many moral theology tracts.” The usual text book statements about procrea tion being the “primary" pur pose of marriage, he said, are not enough. In marriage, hus band and wife are not rfterely * procreators, they are also per sons who need each other’s love. More attention, then, must be given to the purpose not of mar riage abstractly conceived but of individual marital acts. The theology of marriage, short, CONTINUED ON PAGE 8 I X T E R X A T I OX ALLY KNOWN British author and economist. Barbara Ward, (Lady Robert Jackson) will address the 32nd national convention of the National Council of Catholic Women in Washington. D.C. (Nov. 13) .(See story, page 6) Archbishop’s Notebook • WE TURN A PAGE TOGETHER I want to thank you, once again, for the wonderful week of wor ship. Truly it was a fine teaching experiment involving thousands. It was a great demonstration, by voice and mind and heart, of how our people feel about God and about worship to Him. It awakened many local persons of different faiths who know we take seriously our part in the work of unity. But most of all it was an overwhelming prayer in which we all joined, a common banquet to which we all sat down and ate. One felt the Church of 1964 coming alive in us. The liturgy is the source and the summit of our lives. Now we begin to live out-at home and school and work and neighborhood - these mea sures of grace. The seed is planted. The harvest means work. The lamp is kindled. The full light will take time. But it is a great thing to have taken this first step. Let us walk with our Brother Christ toward the full worship of a full day. • IN AND OUT Apparently my stopping in at St. Joseph’s Hospital was a sur prise to everyone except the doctors and me., Actually, hepat itis is not only a long word; it has long effects. My schedule had called for me to go in, as prescribed, for tests, a check up and a rest. And contrary to everyone’s opinion, I did not over work during the Conference On Worship-our fine priests, Sisters and laymen did all the planning and work. It just happened that some virus made it necessary for me to be hospitalized the day after the Conference. I surely appreciate your prayers, but want to warn against panic everytime you hear, “the Archbishop’s in the hospitall” I expect it may happen again. Meanwhile, I still hope to get to Rome for some of the Council, and there’s plenty of work on my desk each morning. • AHEAD BIG PLANS By the end of the year, all of our 45,000 laymen, Sisters and priests will be viewing the growing Archdiocese with a new pers pective. Our members are few, but our future needs are many. We have to plan so that we do not duplicate. The three new parishes are going so well, four new convents are under way, and we have a growing program for a growing Archdiocese being lined up. Underneath it all is the growth of the mind (raising our Edu cational Standards) and the heart (touching our areas of compas sion). The new spirit of worship is our best Insurance that we will not be ^st engaged in an external show. It is the bond between God and us that really lives. (/Lj? 9- ARCHBISHOP OF ATLANTA