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Newspaper Page TextHELP YOUR UNITED APPEAL VOL. 3, NO. 41 ATLANTA, GEORGIA THURSDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1965 $5.00 PER YEAR iocese of Atlanta SERVING GEORGIA’S 71 NORTHERN COUNTIES % 0 0 BY POPEPAULVI VATICAN CITY (RNS)--Pope Paul yl, at his first general audience following his United Nations visit, said "there has been a great deal of propa ganda done on behalf of peace this year, but it has not really been effective.” Therefore, he told the crowd of Romans, tourists and pil grims gathered in St. Peter’s Basilica, "we must take up this great idea again, examining it in the light of Christian principles. We must all make it an impor tant part of our consciences.” "We should not,” the Pope added, "do this for demogogic or unpatriotic motives nor for selfish or hedonistic ones, but for a really human one. This will give to peace its true ex pression: a spiritual and so cial order of justice and social service and love toward all. This will be an ideal vision of mankind that can really be call ed catholic, that is, universal.” CHURCH STATE STAND period when it is firmly estab lished and enjoyed.” The pontiff stressed the force of public opinion. "We wish to say that peace is a duty, a duty of everyone.” Pope Paul paused at this point to repeat a portion of his talk to Vatican II in which he discussed the obligation of extending char ity to the poor of the world. He then concluded by saying: "WHEN YOU hear about the social teaching of the Church or our mission, or world hunger, or Catholic unity, or union in our Church of Christ with our separated brethren — you are hearing about the value that modern Christian life places on peace. "Make your work, too, so that it will merit for you the reward spoken of in the seventh Beatitude: 'Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the children of God.’ ” CUBICLE LIVING—Hong Kong is so crowded that this family combines parlor, bedroom, bath, kitchen, nursery and study room in one small room. Such conditions threaten traditionally strong Chinese family ties and contribute to juvenile delinquency. Role Of Public Opinion Stressed In Peace Search Supreme Court Maturity POPE PAUL said he was still "deeply moved” by his visit to the UnitedNations head- quarters. ’This,” he said, "has been much discussed. We will add nothing to the news items and commentaries. We think that this event has not only news value, but also value in the eyes of history and of God. We leave it to you to judge the various aspects of our jour ney." Pope Paul said he would limit himself to "a simple spiritual observation which will join this audience to the purpose of our visit — to announce peace to the world.’’ "Perhaps,” he continued, "you share the opinion of the many people who think that peace. is the responsibility of governments and those who are responsible for what happens to their people. These people are very interested in peace. They enjoy it when it is present. They mourn when it exists no longer. However, they are normally without the power to influence responsible, even fatal, decisions on which peace depends. "WITHOUT DOUBT, peace is a political problem in its criti cal moments. But it js also a collective act of the people in the preparatory period and in the SISTER Mary Raphael, superior and principal of D’Youville Academy has been appointed the new Assistant Superior General of the Grey Nuns of The Sac red Heart. See Story, Page 8. •BROOKLYN, N.Y.—The U.S. Supreme Court has arrived at a new "Maturity” in dealing with Church-state issues, a Ca tholic educator said here. Father John J. Regan, C.M., Dean of the College of arts and sciences at St. John’s University, described the Supreme Court’s new attitude as "benevolent neu trality" intended to promote re ligious liberty. He said the court has rejected "sterile and wooden metaphors" about absolute separation of church and state and has instead adopted a doctrine making re ligious liberty one of the "pre ferred freedoms" under the Con stitution. FATHER REGAN delivered the sermon at the annual Red Mass of the Kings County chapter of the Brooklyn diocesan Catholic Lawyers’ Guild. The Mass was in St. Charles Borromeo church (Oct. 7) The priest laid particular em phasis on the Supreme Court’s ruling in the 1963 caise of Sher- bert vs Vemer. The court there held that South Carolina could not constitutionally deny unem ployment compensation to a Se venth Day Adventist woman even though she refused—on religious grounds—to accept a job that would have required her to work on Saturday, the Adventists’ sab bath. The Supreme Court ruled that the state’s action violated the woman’s freedom of religion, since it' forced her in effect to violate her religious beliefs in order to obtain state benefits. FATHER REGAN said the court in his ruling disregarded the "separation” and "strict neu trality” theories of church-state relations. On the basis of this decision, he said, it appears that "religious neutrality must...mean more to the court than a rigid and blind folded principle of non-dis crimination. "It is a friendly , a bene volent, a wholesome neutrality. It means, in particular, that in certain circumstances govern ment must or at least may enact legislation to further religious interests and advance religious liberty.” APPLYING this principle to the question of state aid to pa rochial schools, Father Regan said: "If you look at this matter as an establishment question, you may argue that this is a for bidden aid to religious activi- VATICAN CITY—Alfredo Cardinal Ottaviani, secretary of the Congregation of the Holy Office , his voice vibrant with emotion, urged the ecumenical council to summon all nations to a one-world republic that would end the threat of nu clear doom for the world. Council Fathers gave him one of the warmest and longest ovations in the council’s four- year history. This applause signalled an end of the anti pathy focused upon Cardinal Ottaviani at the council’s first session as a leader and sym bol of immovable conservatism in the Church. Cardinal Ottaviani’s speech demolished this image with a series of vigorous strokes: • HE "HEARTILY” second ed the demands of other council ban all war aboslutely. • He called for the world wide development of the ideal of international brotherhood with out distinction of race, color, cultural levels and the like. • He asserted the right and duty of people to reject their own legal government if it is leading them into a ruinous war. CARDINAL OTTAVIANI, after concurring with council Fathers who had pleaded for a total ban on war, criticized the schema for dealing too briefly with the means of forestalling war. He said the first of these is ties. But if benevolent neutra lity is the key principle...you may well ask whether govern ment is neutral when it with holds educational funds on re ligious grounds. Father Regan cautioned against oversimplifying the court’s doc trine. He noted that there are "forbidden degrees of involve ment" between government and religion. education, both civic and re ligious. Such education, he said, would incline governments and the governed to spurn every form of discrimination, class strug gle and political or economic imperialism. Another means of prevent ing war listedby theCardinalis the fostering of hum an brother hood among all peoples of the world. Through this means men would be ready to sacri fice themselves for the common good of all mankind, he said, and would help ensure a fair er distribution of the world’s goods throughout the entire hu man family. "Another element in the pre vention of war is the continued struggle against totalitarian ism," he said. POINTING /OUT that com munists wage war under other names, such as the "struggle for national liberation,” he said all forms of violence should be banned. He included ideolo gical warfare on the grounds that it easily leads to real war. With obvious emotion, Car dinal Ottaviani then expressed what he called a "most fer vent wish” that the council call all nations to unite in a worldwide republic transcend ing national barriers in order that the peace of Christ might reign throughout the world. LETS OVATIQN Cardinal Asks For Nuclear Threat End STATEMENT TO COUNCIL Archbishop Hallinan Seeks Increased Role For Women VATICAN CITY—Far-reaching changes in the role of women in the Catholic Church bave been proposed to the ecumenical council by Archbishop Paul J. Hallinan of Atlanta. In a statement filed with the council’s general, secretariat, the American prelate declared that since women "constitute half the people of God” they should be given equal consideration in the council’s schema on the Church in the modem world. THE ARCHBISHOP asked whether the Church "has given the leadership that Christ, byword and example, clearly showed he ex pected of her." ‘ "In proclaiming the equality of man and woman the Church must act as well as speak by fraternal testimony, not only in abstract doctrine,” he said. Therefore, "every, opportunity should be given women, both re ligious and lay, to offer their special talents to the service of the Church, and their role of auditors in the present council must be only the beginning,” SPECIFICALLY, Archbishop Hallinan recommended that: • In liturgical functions women should be permitted to act as lectors and acolytes at Mass; • Women after proper study and formation should be allowed to serve as deaconesses by preaching and in providing those sac raments which deacons do, especially Baptism and the distribu tion of Holy Communion; • Women also should be encouraged to become teachers and con sultants in theology when they have attained competence in the field; • Women should be included in whatever organization is estab lished for the post-conciliar implementation of the lay apostolate; AFTER DAILY session of the Second Vatican Council, Archbishop Paul J. Hallinan is shown in St. Peter’s Square with, left, Arch bishop Guilford Young of Hobart, Austrailia and Archbishop John Murphy, of Cardiff, Wales. COUNCIL IS TOLD • Women Religious should be fully represented and consulted, at least in all matters concerning their interests, in the Congre gation of Religious and in the commission revising canon law. IN HIS STATEMENT, Archbishop Hallinan referred to a state ment made in 1961 by Pope Paul VI when he was archbishop of Milan, which reads: "Women must come closer, to the altar, to souls and to the Church in order to gather together thepeople of God.” Archbishop Hallinan said the "community-between man and woman” mentioned in the schema on the Church in the modern world "should not be one of subservience but one of harmony, mutual respect, love and responsibility.” Therefore, "we must not continue to perpetuate the secondary place accorded to women in the Church of the 20th century. We must not continue to be late-comers in the social, political and economic development that has today reached climactic conditions.” In our society, he explained, "women in many places and in many respects still bear the marks of inequality. This is evident in working conditions, wages and hours of work, in marriage and property laws. Above all it is present in that gradualism, bord ering on inaction, which limits their presence in the tremendous forces now working for universal education, for peace, for rehabi litation of the deprived, the just and compassionate care of the young, the aged and the needy, the dispossessed and the victims of human injustice and weakness.” *** AS FOR THE Church, Archbishop Hallinan said, "her history ...has been a struggle to free women from the old place of in feriority. Her great women saints, her dedicated virgins, her de fense of woman in the family, a few women theologians, but es pecially the unique honor given by her to God’s only perfect crea ture, Mary Our Lady—all these are part of that history.” "But the Church has been slow in denouncing the degradation of women in slavery, and in claiming for them the right of suf frage and economic equality,” he said. "Particularly, the Church has been slow to offer women, in the selection of their vocations any choice but that of mother or nun. In fact, among her saints, there are only three groups: martyrs, virgins, and a vague, negative category called ’neither virgins, nor martyrs.’ ” SIXTEEN council Fathers have so far made interventions in the council demanding that a role of greater importance be granted to women in the Church. During the second council session, Leo Cardinal Suenens of Malines-Brussels demanded that "in our agewhenwoman almost travels to the moon” greater recognition be given to their im portance in the Church. Besides that of Archbishop Hallinan, there were written inter ventions regarding the position of worn an in the Church by Michael Cardinal Browne, O.P., of the Roman curia; Bishop Michael Vial of Nevers, France; Archbishop Claude Dupuy of Albi, France; Bishop Luigi Civardi of the Roman curia; Archbishop Elie Zoghbi, the Melkite-rite patriarchal vicar for Egypt; and Coadjutor Bishop Herbert Bednorz of Katowice, Poland. Clerical Celibacy To Be Preserved VATICAN CITY—Pope Paul VI informed the Second Vatican Council that he intends not only to preserve the ancient law of celibacy of the clergy of the Latin-rite Church, but also "to reinforce its observance.’’ The Pope thus in effect re moved , the subject of celibacy from the competence of the council. His decision was re vealed in a letter read to the council during its 145th gen eral congregation (Oct. 11) by secretary general, Archbishop Pericle Felici. The letter was addressed to Eugene Car dinal Tisserant, first of the council presidents. In it, the Pope said he was aware that some council Fathers had ask ed to speak on the law of clerical celibacy in the Wes tern Church when the schema on the priestly life and min istry came up for debate. The Pope said that "with out impeding in any way the liberty of the Fathers," he wanted to express his own opi nion. "PUBLIC DEBATE is not opportune on this subject which is so important and which de mands such profound prudence. Futhermore it is our intention not only to maintain this an cient, sacred and providential law with all the force of which we are capable, but also to reinforce its observance, call ing on priests of the Latin Church to recognize anew the causes and reasons why today, especially today, this law must be considered most suitable. Through it priests are able to consecrate all their love com pletely to Christ and to dedi cate themselves exclusively and generously TO service of the Church and to souls." The letter ended with a state ment that Fathers still wishing to express their views on the subject could submit them in writing to the council’s pre sidency for transmission to him personally for his "attentive examination before God.” With Pope VATICAN CITY (NC)—Me tropolitan Emilianos Timiadis of Calabria, head of the obser vers from the Orthdox Patriar chate of Constantinople at Va tican Council II, had a special audience with Pope Paul VI (Oct. 9). ARCHBISHOP Paul J. Hallinan is shown in Rome with Father Eusebius Beltran and Dr. Joseph Wilber, of Christ The. King Parish. Dr. Wilber returned to Atlanta last week.