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PAGE 2 GEORGIA BULLETIN THURSDAY, JUNE 30, 1966
Reflect On Past
Catholics, Jews Urged
To Unite In Slum Work
Decentralization
Pleasing To Pope
WASHINGTON (NC)--Msgr.
John Tracy Ellis urged here
that American Catholics and
Jews work together to aid the
current residents of urban
slums in which their own for
bears suffered.
“Probably no two distinct
groups in this Republic have
had as long, and often as sad,
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experience in the vast hu
man jungles that for more than
a century have constituted the
urban slums of this country,
as have the Catholics Eind the
Jews,” said Msgr. Ellis,
professor of church history at
the University of San Fran
cisco.
“What better background,
therefore, could one ask to
enable you Jews and us Cath
olics to unite our energies
against the present poverty,
illiteracy and spiraling crime
in those pockets of American
urban life where once your
forbears and ours struggled
through their pioneer years in
this land?” he asked in an ad
dress (June 25) to the Na
tional Community Relations
Advisory Council, a national
Jewish organization meeting
here.
In the face of the “patent
and pitiful need” of urban
slum dwellers, Msgr. Ellis
said, Catholic and Jews
should drop mutual prejudices
and suspicions and mobilize
their new wealth and social
status in a cooperative pro
gram of aid.
"To do less,” he said,
“may well invite a mark of
shame against the historical
record of our respective com
munities in the United States,
as it may likewise cast an
enduring shadow o ver .the her
itage we share as sons of
Abraham and children of
the same God."
The church historian also
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called for “sustained and
productive exchange ofviews”
between Catholics and Jews
in the area of theology based
on shared Scriptural resour-
ces.
Emphasis on the Bible, he
said, “focuses on what is the
common spiritual source of all
Christians, whether they be
Catholic or Congregationalist..
and in so doing it ultimately
and inevitably arrives at Jew
ish theology, tradition and his
tory, for the Old Testament
ways of the Jews.”
Turning to current “friction
spots” between American Jews
and Gentiles, Msgr. Ellis warn
ed against over - sensitivity
which would cause either group
to seek deletion of unfavorable
references from literary clas
sics.
“All of us, Jews and Catho
lics alike, must be reconciled
to see ourselves as we really
were and are and...to the un
pleasant duty of acknowledging
our mistakes and sins...Truth
is not served by distorting facts,
and when truth is injured, we
all suffer,'* he said.
In this connection he expres
sed regret that Jewish publi
cations have given relatively
little attention to the recent
book ‘The Last Three Popes
and the Jews” by Pinhas
Lapide, former consul of Israel
in Milan, which speaks favor
ably of Pope Pius XII’s treat
ment of Jews.
He also deplored the recent
ly published “Plus XII and the
Third Reich” by Saul
Friedlander, which he called
‘ ‘highly biased and inaccurate”
in its handling of the same sub
ject.
SEARCH FOR SOMEONE TO DIRECT the Culmer day care center in Miami ended when
Sister Marie Infanta Gonzales of Baltimore, Md., accepted the post. An Oblate Sister of
Providence, she is the first Religious to head an anti-poverty project in Florida. Last year
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Bishop, Others
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better than priests.
“You must also talk with your
child about the priesthood. His
choice must certainly be free.
This does not mean, however,
that a parent should not talk with
his son about being a priest
for fear of prejudicing him.
Complete silence is in no way
necessary to ensure feeedom.
“Parents must also give good
example. In your lives, there
fore, you must show that God
and religion are considered im
portant. You must also give pra-
tical evidence that you have
a real respect for the priest
hood. ^"
It was also announced that
Father Jerry Hardy, newly ap
pointed archdiocesan director
of priestly vocations in the
United States, will become cha
plain of the club. He replaces
Father R.Donald Kieman who
has been chaplain for 13 years.
In St. Louis, Joseph Car
dinal Ritter told Serra Inter
national that delay in renewing
the Church and a failure to
show a dynamic and meaning
ful Church are reasons for the
current shortage ofprlestly vo
cations.
The whole Church, the car
dinal said, must work to bring
about the renewal “so urgently
needed to make the Church and
all its institutions meaningful
to the modern world, meaning
ful to modern youth, a youth
living in a rapidly changing
world, revolutionized by man’s
scientific advances.”
And in Rome, Pope Paul VI
referred to the decline in the
number of aspirants to the
priesthood. He said, “Is it per
haps that the Lord is calling
not so frequently or that His
voice has become less effec
tive? Certainly not.
“It. is rather a question of
creating conditions, always with
great respect for the liberty of
souls, in which the divine call
can be heard and followed. ..
*To youths, generous and
strong by nature, the ideal of
the priestly life should be pre
sented in all its completeness:
not concealing the renunciations
and abnegations that it entails,
but also throwing lights on its
significance and value,»»the
Pope said.
Cardinal Orders
Textbook Study 3
VIENNA (NC) — Franziskus
Cardinal Koenig has initiated a
massive examination of all
Catholic religious textbooks
used in Austrian schools in or
der to ferret out any passages
which could foster anti-Jewish
feeling.
The Vienna archbishop or
dered the Coordinating Com
mittee for Christian-Jewish
Cooperation to study the text
books in the light of the ecu
menical council’s declaration
on the close ties between the
Church and the Jews. He said
that not only must all anti-
Semitic bias be removed, but
also that a positive picture of
the Jewish people is to be pre
sented, The cardinal gave th^
committee until "the- end of 1966
to complete tfie study and to
present its recommendations.
In Spain
Hierarchy Bans
Catholic Action
MADRID (RNS)—In an action here which observers/described
as “a bolt out of the blue,” the Permanent Commission of the
Spanish Episcopal Conference ordered all meetings of Spanish
Catholic Action on the national level to be canceled until fur
ther notice.
Georgian Known
By Yietnamese
DETROIT (RNS)—As Le Cong
Giao, manager of the Seventh-
day Adventist Vietnam Signs
Publishing House in Saigon
was introduced here to Des
mond T. Doss of Rising Fawn,
Ga., he said:
“Yours is a popular name in
my country.”
Doss also an Adventist, Is
the only conscientious objec
tor ever to win the Congres
sional Medal of Honor. Now 47,
the former medic was credited
in 1945 with rescuing 75 wound
ed men on Okinawa.
The American and Wetna-
mese met here during the 50th
quadrennial Adventist world
conference.
Giao, who served for three
years in the Vietnamese army,
told the Conference that he and
80 co-workers carry on a reli
gious mission in the war-torn
country as literature evange
lists. Nine others, he said, have
disappeared in battle areas.
Giao, one of about 3,000 South
Vietnamese Adventist, said the
Church’s 45-bed hospital In Sai
gon is operating at capacity.
In regard to U.S. participa
tion in the war, he said, “we'
appreciate America's effort...
thfe majority of our people hope
It continues. Your withdrawal,
could only mean tragedy,”
Scholarship Given
To Catholic Priest
By Committee
MAPLEWOOD, N.J. (NC)—
A priest here has been given
a scholarship by a Jewish or
ganization to attend a human
relations workshop at Rutgers
University this summer.
The award was given to Fa
ther Alden J. Kennu of Im
maculate Heart of Mary church
by the Essex County Chapter,,
American Jewish Committee.
In issuing the order, the com
mission voiced disapproval of
conclusions reached at the re
cent national convention of Ca
tholic Action leaders held in
Madrid.
These conclusions — reflec
ting the thinking of liberal-min
ded Spanish Catholics — were
not made public and the Epis
copal Commission also kept
^silent aS to their dbriferS.Th $re- '
ly saying they had a "clearly
temporal (secular) Imprint.”
According to private sources
close to the Church, the Catholic
Action leaders called, among
other things, for the elimina
tion of political considerations
on the part of the Franco re
gime in exercising its privilege
of recommending candidates for
vacant bishoprics, for an end to
political activity by key mem
bers of the hierarchy, and for
an open dialogue among all Ca
tholics in Spain.
Held at the Valley of the
Fallen and representing labor,
youth, farm, women's and other
groups, the Catholic Action
meeting’s concluding session
was attended by Archbishop
Casimiro Morcillo Gonzalez
of Madrid. However, apartfrom
asking that certain of the con
clusions be either amended or
dropped, he offered no com
ment.
Fears were voiced here that
what appeared to be a head-
on clash between the hierarchy
and the best organized, most
vocal and cultivated section of
Spanish public opinion may lead
to a state of open friction be
tween a conservative-minded
episcopacy and Vatican Coun
cil-minded laymen who form
the active backbone of Catholic
Action in this country.
Some observers said they
awaited the next move of the
hierarchy with “great anxiety”
since the bishops might, they
feared, endeavor to influence
Catholic Action to an extent
the organization would be un
able to accept. Said one obser
ver:
“The present situation be
tween the Church and the Ca
tholic laity as represented by
Catholic Action is very seri
ous, especially in a country
which, more than any other
state today is officially Ca
tholic and where tensions be
tween the episcopacy and Ca
tholic lay organizations may
have serious consequences,
both social and political.”
The National Episcopal Con
ference is a new body, form
ed early this year to replace
the Conference of Metropoli
tans in which membership had
been confined to the country’s
13 archbishops. Head of the
conference is Fernando Cardi
nal Quiroga y Palacios, Arch
bishop of Santiago de Compos
tela, generally considered to be
conservative in viewpoint.
The Episcopal Conference
action against the Catholic Ac
tion leadership coincided with
other developments reflecting
growing tensions inside Spanish
Catholicism.
Authorities ordered destroy
ed mbre than 2,00 copies of
the, June issue of Life Inter
national, , ; ,an American publi
cation, which carried a full-
page account of the incident at
Barcelona last May when po
lice clubbed “rebel” priests
who had attempted to protest
alleged police mistreatment
of a girl student in the Uni
versity of Barcelona.
Meanwhile, a confidential do-
cuement was reportedly circu
lated to the bishops by the Fran
co government, urging them to
prevail upon Archbishop Grego
rio Modrego y Cassaus of Bar
celona to dismiss the rebel
priests from theirparlshposts.
According to the document,
Barcelona’s civil governor, An
tonio Ibanez Freire, told the
archbishop that the priests’ de
ni onstraton had been politically
motivated and they must be se
verely disciplined.
VATICAN CITY (NC)—Pope
Paul VI, speaking to the recent
ly reformed Italian Episcopal
Conference, expressed satis
faction at the “balanced decen
tralization” which the new au
thority of episcopal conferences
has lent the administration of
the Church.
“You all know that many of the
functions which until the pre
sent were reserved principally
to the Holy See are now entrus
ted to the episcopal, confe
rences,” he said.
“We are gratified at this
balanced decentralization and
we like to regard it as a sign
of the Church’s vitality and of
the determination to collaborate
more fruitfully for its univer
sal increase, as well as a pos
sible coefficient of a more ca
tholic unity.”
The Pope noted that it was
the first time all Italian bis
hops had been gathered” in a
single, homogeneous and con
cordant ecclesiastical expres
sion.” He commented: “This
is not a small thing.”
Until revision In February
of the statutes of the Italian
Episcopal Conference, only the
presidents of the 19 Italian'
ecclesiastical “regions” had a
right to attend its plenary as
sembly. This Is the first ple
nary assembly under the re
vised statutes. It brought to
gether all Italy's Ordinaries
and all bishops with pastoral
responsibility—a total of more
than 300.
The Pope, turning to the re
cently concluded ecumenical
council which inspired the de
mocratization ' of the Italian
Episcopal Conference, said:
“It cannot be considered and
episode, concluded and finish
ed. Th council consigns to
the Church a ’tome’, a volume
of doctrines and decrees, that
can herald her new spring.
With respect to the conciliar
work, neither inertia nor cri
ticism nor revision nor re
jection can aid the Church.”
The Pope also spoke on "the
serious . subject” of the revi
sion of diocesan boundaries in
Italy. He recalled that the Se
cond Vatican Council had touch
ed on the problem of diocesan
boundaries in its Decree on the
Pastoral duties of Bishops, that
other popes—especially John
XXIII—had "drawn attention to
the need of a new ordering of
the Italian dioceses,” and that
the Holy See’s concordat with
Italy calls for a revision of
diocesan boundaries in Italy.
He said that at the outset of
his pontificate he had charged
the Consistorial Congregation
with studying the problem, and
that the congregation had in
turn asked the Italian Episcopal
Conference to examine the pro
blem.
Now, he said, he would give
the documentation thus farpre-
pared to a commission which
the Italian Episcopal Con
ference would create to study
this problem in conjunction with
the competent offices of the Holy
See. “And, at the opportune
moment, we shall see how to
provide for the promulgation of
the new regulations,” he con
cluded.
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