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KORMKR PRESIDENT EISENHOWER gave a group of stamp collections, given Jo him
while President, to Francis Cardinal Spellman of New York. The collections include phila
telic "firsts” and autographed sheets of stamps. The collections will be put in the Cardinal
Spellman Philatelic Museum at Regis College, Weston, Mass. Sister Mary Fidelma, cen
ter, is curator of the museum. The presentation ceremony took place in the cardinal’s
residence.
foot monument at one end of
the bridge over the Tagus
river near Lisbon, Portugal.
It is the longest bridge in
Europe.
THWARTS RED MANEUVER. Archbishop Boleslaw Komi-
nek of Wroclaw, Poland, walks in a procession at Frombork,
where he rebuked the efforts of Poland's communist regime
to build him up to overshadow the "reactionary ' Stefan
Cardinal Wyszynski, Primate of Poland, as a leader of the
country's Catholics. Archbishop Kominek declared: “Pope
Paul VI and the whole world appreciate and have confidence
in the Primate of Poland."
THURSDAY, JUNE 30, 1966 GEORGIA BULLETIN PAGE 3
RT. REV. JONATHAN (iOODHl'K SHERMAN, left, fifth
Episcopal Bishop of Long Island, greets Bishop Walter P.
Kellenberg of the Catholic diocese of Rockville Centre, L.I..
outside the Cathedrnl of the Incarnation, Garden City. L.I..
following Bishop Sherman's institution. Bishop Kellenberg's
presence at the ceremony marked the first time a Roman
Catholic bishop wus in the cathedral sanctuary for an of
ficial function.
Russian Priests
Text Of Second Letter Released
Charge Leaders
PARIS (RNS)--A segment of Russian Orthodox of unknown pro
portions believes that the Moscow Patriarchate and most of the
hierarchy are betraying the mission of the Church by servility to
the Soviet regime and can redeem themselves only by summoning
a national council to proclaim the freedom of religion.
This became known when the
text of a second open letter of
two Moscow priests, Fathers
Nicolas Echliman and Gleb
Yakunin, was made available in
the West by the Committee on
Information on the Situation of
Christians in the U.S.S.R. whose
president is Francois Mauriac,
the Nobel Prize novelist. It
was printed in “Informations
Catholiques Internationales,”
Recently, the National Coun
cil of Churches in the U.S.A.
published,Ifte,/Jpglish ip$t,,gf
another open letter, an indict
ment by the two priests addres
sed to President N.V. Podgomy,
detailing the Soviet Union's sys-
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tematic violation of its own con
stitutional guarantee of separa
tion of church and state and de
manding the return of the chur
ches, monasteries and semi
naries closed or confiscated.
Subsequently, the suspension by
Patriarch Alexei of the two
priests who had asserted their
rights as Soviet citizens was
announced. (It is known that on
the same day, last December 15,
when they had mailed their pro
test to the Soviet political au
thorities, they had also addres
sed a remonstrance of 50 pages
to Patriarch Alexei and through
hinV to the' entire Russian Or
thodox hierarchy.)
“Put a stop to the intolerable
interference of Caesar in the
inner life of the Churchl Re
establish the canonical normsl*'
the second letter demanded.
The strong condemnation by
the two priests of alleged pas
sive complicity of ecclesiastics
in the continuing persecution of
the Church and their call for a
bold assertion of the rights of
religion in the Soviet Union are
given added significance by the
evidence furnished in a post
script to the letter indicating
that their viewpoint has the sup
port of some bishops, notably
that of Archbishop Ermogen of
Kalouga, a man of courage and
integrity.
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It is known that the archbish
op had been relieved of his ec
clesiastical functions for a full
year because of his public pro
test in 1960 against anti-re
ligious attacks in the press.
'Today in the Orthodox
Church," .asserted theletterto
the Patriarch, “there are a cer
tain number of bishops and
priests who consciously serve
the cause of illegality. They
are the people who have ac
quired a sad renown as zealous
destroyers of churches, who es
teem any sort of order from a
local political functionary above
the demands of the Gospel and
of the Gospel and of canon law,
who drive children from the
Eucharist and have contempt for
holy things.
Betray Church
To Work With Cody
Chicago Priests
Form Committee
CHICAGO (RNS)—More than half of the secular priests of the
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago formed a new Coordi
nating Committee of the Clergy (CCC).
The historic and unprecedented action was taken at the end of a
two-day meeting of 726 priests of the archdiocese. They elected
22 of the priests present as committee members.
Major tasks of the committee will be to improve communica
tions with Archbishop John P. Cody and to establish working
groups to deal in depth with other problems which the priests
feel are important to the work of the Church.
Among these problems, according to spokesmen, are such
issues as the structuring of local councils to bring lay people
into the decision-making process of the parish, communication
within the rectory structure, social issues confronting the urban
church, the role of the priest in society today, post-ordination
education, and the reappraisal of appointment plans in the arch
diocese.
'The CCC will supervise the research of these working groups
and coordinate their efforts so that practical proposals can be
presented to Archbishop Cody and to the clergy and laity of
the archdiocese," a committee statement pointed out.
'The archbishop, who addressed the priests at their meetings,
encouraged the efforts of the committee and invited the priests
to recommend solutions to the many complex problems which
the archdiocese faces."
The 22 priests elected to the CCC included nine members of
an earlier Ad Hoc Committee that voiced “apprehension...due
to lack of communication" in a report sent to the archbishop in
May. Among new members of the committee are several
well-known and respected leaders of the Chicago clergy.
They include Msgr. Daniel M. Cantwell, chaplain of the Catho
lic Adult Education Center, Catholic Council on Working Life,
Catholic Interracial Council, and other lay groups, and pastor of
St. dotilde church; Msgr. John J. Egan, director of die arch
diocesan Office of Urban Affairs, member of the Board of Con-
suitors and pastor of Presentation parish; and Msgr. John S»
Quinn, chief justice of the archdiocesan marriage court, who re
cently assumed Archbishop Bernard J. Shell's pastorate at St.
Andrew’s church.
The Rev. Francis J. Slobig, assistant pastor of Annunciation
parish, and one of the nine priests on the original committee,
said the CCC hopes to 'provide a direct pipe-line between the
priests and Archbishop Cody."
The Rev. Patrick O’Malley, administrator of St. Jarlath parish,
and also a member of the Ad Hoc Committee, said Archbishop
Cody ''encouraged strongly the formation of the Coordinating
Committee" during the sessions.
“Archbishop Cody has been kept constantly informed of the ac
tivities of the Ad Hoc Committee since it began in May," he said.
“He seems very much in favor of the proposed means of im
proving communication between clergy, laity and his office,"
Father O’Malley added.
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'They have sold their breth
ren and, having lost all fear of
God, they are aiding anti-re
ligious agents in their effort to
destroy our holy Church.
“All these people are well
known but it is not only a ques
tion of them.”
The language of the letter of
the two priests continued with
unremitting severity:
“We consider it our imper
ious duty to call the attention of
Your Holiness to the unques
tionable fact that there is in
the bosom of the Russian Or
thodox Church at present a
whole group of bishops and
priests who, under the cover of
piety, are consciously and ac
tively altering the spirit of Rus
sian Orthodoxy."
The postscript of the open
letter pointed to an “extreme
ly important fact" which ex
plains their protest. It dis
closed a decision of the Holy
Synod of the Moscow Patri
archate, approved by the As
sembly of Bishops in 1961, to
"democratize” and “decleri-
calize" the organization of
parishes by depriving pastors
of all financial and administra
tive control. In justifying the
measure the Patriarch had
mentioned pastoral needs,
adaptation to social progress
and the express demand of the
government. Three bishops at
least had expressed their oppo
sition to those modifications of
official arrangements with the
Soviet government dating from
1945.
The postscript of the open
letter revealed that in die sum
mer of 1965 eight bishops,
headed by Archbishop Ermogen,
sent to Patriarch Alexei a com
mon declaration criticizing the
1961 decision of the Moscow
Synod to yield control of parish
es to die government. Such a
measure, they insisted, should
have been authorized by a regu
lar meeting of the National
Council of the Russian Ortho
dox Church which “in the ac
tual practice of ecclesiastical
life in Russia does not exist."
Three years after the conces
sion of the Synod, the eight
bishops asserted, “parish life
is still further ruined’ and the
situation of the clergy is "ab
normal and contrary to both
canon law and civil legisla
tion.”
As a consequence of the dec
laration of the eight bishops,
Archbishop Ermogen was sum
moned to the Moscow Synod to
explain his protest and bidden
to disavow it or to withdraw
his signature. He refused. Last
November the Patriarch’s sec
retary asked him to .request
an indefinite leave of absence;
The archbishop countered by
suggesting his appointment to
another diocese. The reply of
the Synod was to retire the
archbishop, directing him to
live at the monastery of Jyro-
vitsy.
Women’s Groups Give
Support To Fair Housing
NEW YORK (RNS) — Leaders of eight national women’s organi
zations, representing more than 30 million Protestant, Roman
Catholic, Jewish and Eastern Orthodox women, sent an eleventh
hour appeal to the House Judiciary Committee in Washington for
passage of federal fair housing legislation.
The appeal was timed to ar
rive before the Juridiary Com
mittee’s vote on the 1966 Civil
Rights bill (H.R. 14765),
Signing the messages were
presidents of the United Church
Women, National Council of
Catholic Women, National
Council of Jewish Women, Na
tional Council of Negro Wo
men, National Board of the
YWCA of the USA, National
Federation of Temple Sistei>
hoods, National Women’s Lea
gue of United Synagogue of
gue of United Synagogue of
America and die Women's
Branch of the Union of Orthodox
Jewish Congregations of
America.
Calling for prompt passage
of H.R. 14765, which includes
prohibitions against discrimi
nation in rental and sale of
housing, the women asserted in
their statement that the time
*‘is long overdue to assure all
citizens their rights, including
the right to live in a neighbor
hood of one’s choice.
'We are opposed
tempt to weaken the proposed
legislation, including the sec
tion on housing. We oppose the
postponing of a decision on
housing which we know must be
reached before the justice we
seek can be achieved.
Leaders of the eight groups
have been consulting together
for several months in prepara
tion for a coordinated nation
wide program to support fair
housing in local communities.
Tuition Grants
Urged By Board
LANSING, Mich. (NC)—The
State Board of Education has
urged the Michigan legislature
to pass a bill designed to pro
vide tuition grants for students
attending private colleges and
universities in Michigan.
The board also urged Gov.
George Romney to sign the bill
into law if it passes the legis
lature.
The statement to the Judiciary
Committee is one result of that
coordination.
Residential segregation, the
women’s statement pointed out,
is thfe key to “segregation in
schools, playgrounds, health fa
cilities and all other aspects
of our lives. It impedes fell
access to employment oppor
tunities, creates a second class
status and is a potential source
of racial tension. Residential
segregation means handicap
ping our children in the suburbs
and the ghettos alike in the edu
cational experience essential to
becoming mature adults in a so
ciety and world of many races.
And there is no other society
today.”
A MEMORIAL to Arch
bishop John Ireland, first,
archbishop of St. Paul.
Minn., who died in 1918. is to
be erected near his birth
place 11838) in County Kil
kenny, Ireland. Archbishop
Ireland is one of the great
figures in American Church
history.
Nun Teaches
At Seminary
SAVANNAH, Ga. (RNS)—A
Franciscan nun is now a mem
ber of the faculty at St. John
Vlanney Minor Seminary here.
Teaching science to the young
seminarians is Sister Mary
Carmine of the Missionary
Franciscan Sisters of the Im
maculate Conception.
Father William V. Coleman,
seminary rector, said the ap
pointment was in keeping with
the Catholic Church's “on-go
ing updating” and will “lead
to a better appreciation of the
vocation of women religious
on the part of our future
priests."
He said the presence of a
Sister on the faculty “will add
a feminine influence to the
training of young seminarians
and enable them to understand
better the woman’s point of
view."
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