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VOL. 4, NO. 30
ATLANTA, GEORGIA
THURSDAY, JULY 28, 1966
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Hits Clerical Critics
Cardinal Labels War
A ‘Hard Way To Peace’
iocese of Atlanta
GEORGIA’S
NORTHERN
COUNTIES
SERVING
han of Balitm ore warned against
"lethal appeals" to unlimited
warfare, and said some sug
gestions occasionally made are
clearly "contrary to Catholic
teaching.” j
"We must constantly recall
that only on moral grounds can
our cause in Vietnam be just.
If our means become immoral,
our cause will have been be
trayed,” he cautioned.
“Let us also avoid the nar
rowness of supposing that all the
vice and the bad will lie on
the other, ” he added.
Delegates Are Told
Although the Christian ideal
is peace, the cardinal said, the
war in Vietnam "is what must
be done, as we judge it, to
make peace a reality in the
future. We have not forgotten
our ideal, not even closed oUr
eyes to it; we have struggled
to bring ourselves and other
men close to its realization.”
The speech was read to the
banquet of the CDA’s biennial
convention by the cardinal’s
secretary, Msgr. Joseph
Maguire. The cardinal was un
able to attend because of ill
ness.
Two other American car
dinals have also expressed
themselves on the war in Viet
nam.
In a pastoral letter issued
July 1, Lawrence Cardinal She-
BOSTON (NC) -- The War
in Vietnam is "the hard way"
to peace, but "the only way it
can be made in a hard world,"
Richard Cardinal Cushing of
1 Boston told the Catholic Daugh
ters of American here.
He also said religious lea
ders should talk on moral is
sues and not try to be "mill—
. tary strategists and political
• pundits.”
They Learn To Stand
On Their Own Feet.
See Page 7.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Members of the Catholic Traditionalist
Movement are shown as they participated in *'a combination pe
tition and protest demonstration" outside the Washington, D.C.,
residence of Archbishop Egidio Vagnozzi, Apostolic Delegate to
the United States. Pickets rapped what they called "misin
terpretations and abuse" of Vatican II decrees, particularly
that on the liturgy, William O. Collins of McLean, Va., vice-
president of the CTM, said he believed the picketing was the
first ever carried out at the home of an Apostolic Delegate.
The movement is headed by Father Gommar A. DePauw, presi
dent, who charges that misinterpretation of Council decrees are
"Protestantizing" the Church. (RNS Photo)
Churches Should Shout ‘No!’
On The Use Of Nuclear Force
4 Imported Speakers’
‘Big-Name’ Conferences
Scheduled In Archdiocese
The promotion of new-type priests’ retreats and "big-name"
conferences for the clergy of the Archdiocese of Atlanta has been
assigned to Father Eusebius J. Beltran, who has been appointed
Secretary of Priests, a new post.
Word of the new-type retreats
as an option to standard re
treats has been spread by Fath
er John L. Hein S.J., of Ignatius
House, Archbishop Paul J. Hal-
linan said. One of the retreats
was held for a mixed group of
priests, sisters and laity. The
archbishop said response has
generally been favorable. He
said regular retreats were of
fered for the diocesan clergy,
both at the Trappist Monastery
and at Ignatius House.
Father Beltran has also, ar
ranged for priests’ conferen-
Must Wait
To Marry
SYDNEY, Austrialia (RNS)—
Religious leaders here gave
guarded endorsement to a pro
posal by Britian’s general
Council of the Bar for a com
pulsory six-month engagement
period for couples planning to
marry.
The Rev. Gordon Beatty, di
rector of the Church of Eng
land’s marriage guidance cen
ter, said the idea was "well
worth considering.”
"During the engagement per
iod,” he said, "couples can dis
cover their compatibilities and
incompatibilities, with the ex
ception of sex, which has to
wait until marriage, of
course.”
Father E.P. Phills, director
of the Catholic Welfare Bureau,
commented that "longer en
gagements give time for rea
son to prevail rather than the
emotions.”
However, he added, "there
is one risk in a proposal
like this —it could fopce some
people into defacto situations.”
The Rev. W. J. Hopping,
director of the Methodist
Church’s departmentforChris-
tian citizenship, had more posi
tive reservations about the Bri
tish proposals.
ces with such speakers as Msgr..
William Baum and Father Jos
eph Connolly and Dr. Albert
Outler of Southern Methodist
University. He has scheduled
a "Scripture Conference" fea
turing one of the world’s re
nowned biblical scholars, Fath
er Barnabas Aheam C.P. for
Nov. 9. In addition, Leo Cardi
nal Suenens of Belgium will
speak in 1967.
In most cases, evening lec
tures will be held so both lay
men and clergy may attend.
"Our priests are entitled to
the best opportunities for their
scriptural and intellectual for
mation," the archbishop said.
"Although the ferment of Cath-
FR. BELTRAN
olicism is steady in the South,
there are no great centers of
Catholic culture easily avail
able. It is necessary to im
port. In other words/ we are
bringing the brains to the back-
field.’’
Bishop Wants
Tight Control
On The ‘Pill 9
PHILADELPHIA (RNS ) —
Methodist Bishop Fred Pierce
Corson of Philadelphia told a
news conference here that birth
control pills should be dispens
ed only when strict controls and
proper medical and ethical
safeguards can be provided.
He held that the birth control
pills should be subjected to the
same controls as dangerous
drugs.
Bishop Corson’s statement,
his first on the subject, came
amid a running controversy
over Pennsylvania’s main
tenance of a birth control pro
gram for welfare clients. The
state’s Roman Catholic hierar
chy has used a full-page news
paper ad to explain its opposi
tion to the plan. Some forty
religious and community or
ganizations, including the State
Council of Churches, countered
with similar display ads sup-
(CONTINUED ON PAGE 2)
GENEVA (RNS) — Churches today must
shout an unqualified "No!" when militarists
and politicians consider the use of nuclear
force to solve international disputes, dele-
gates to the World Conference on Church and
Society were told here.
Tfhree speakers before the international
World Council of Churches ’ gathering—J ap-
anese, Dutch and Geriiian'world affairs spec
ialists — declared that the Christian distinc
tion between the "just" and "unjust"
war is not applicable in the atomic age.
Among participants in the discussion of
Christian attitudes toward the use of force
on the international scene, Prof. Helmut Goll-
witzer of the Free University of Berlin, Ger
many, declared that the existence of nuclear
weapons requires the church to re-examine
its entire attitude toward the use of lethal
force.
A similar theme was sounded by Dr. Max
Kohnstamm, vice-president of the Action
Committee for the United States of Europe,
of the Netherlands Reformed Church, and
Prof. Yoshiaki Iizaka, professor of political
science at Gakushuin University, Tokyo,
ard secretzry of the East Asia Christian
Conference’s international affairs commis
sion.
In the discussion, Prof. Gollwitzer main
tained that churches must ’lose reticence"
and become actively involved in political af
fairs. Dr. Kohnstamm, stating that while
such involvement is necessary, argued that
church efforts toward peace must concentrate
on a search for new socio-political struc
tures.
Prof. Iizaka struck out specifically at what
he called the identical "self-righteous mes
sianic mentality” of both the United States
and China in thinking that they alone can
save the world.
This same attitude, thejapaneseprofessor.
said, developed respectively from Buddhism
and Puritanism and has evolved into-what can
become "pride, lack of compassion, cruelty
toward what is regarded as wickedness and a
sense of moral superiority.”
Prof. Gollwitzer noted that throughout
history the churches have given two classic
answers to war -- pacifism and the attitude
that some wars are justified as legitimate
protest to unjust situations.
The German theologian and philosopher
added that while pacifism ’leaves to non-
Christians that secular task which requires
the greatest love and unselfishness,” the
"just war’ approach "involves Christians
so deeply in the world’s conflicts and in set-
dement of those conflicts that it is almost
impossible for them to bear witness to their
adversaries of the joyful message of Christ."
Dr. Kohnstamm declared that "violence
and war result from man’s nature, and from
the temporary orlasting inability of his socio- •
political structures to deal satisfactorily with
vital problems.”
"Man’s nature, and the shortcomings of the
structures he has developed, not armaments,
are the causes of war,” he added.
St, Joan Without Her Horse
Father Daniel S. Rankin walk
ed through the Cathedral of
Christ the King looking for
St. Joan of Arc in one of the
stained-glass windows. "There
she is,” he said, "without her
horse.”
He then began to tell of his
research on the life and times
of St. Joan of Arc and the books
that he and a collaborator have
done on France’s soldier-saint.
An American, Father Rankin
went to France inl956 to get
the atmosphere and background
to write a critical, historical
•evaluation of St. Joan, who was
burned at the stake as a here
tic and later cleared. He visited
in Atlanta recently and looked
for St. Joan after saying Mass.
"I had been collecting through
the years all references on St.
Joan which . were written by
Americans to write an intelli
gent appreciation of what
Americans thought of her. Most
of the things written about her
are toq. emotionally favorable,"
he said.
Father Rankin said he and
Dr. Clare Quintel, an American
scholar, have researched St.
Joan’s Trial of Condemnation in
1431 and her Trial of Vindica
tion in 1455 in which she was
cleared of alt heresy.
He rejected George Bernard
Shaw's contention thatjoanmay
have been the start of the Re
formation because she appeared
to take action without consent of
the Church’s establishment.
"She appealed over and over
again at her trial, ’Take me to
the Pope,' ” the priest said,”
but' they always gave her the;
lame answer that the Pope was
too far away.”
Father Rankin said Joan was
not a protestant; He said many
churchmen and soldiers de
spised her because she thwart
ed their ambitions.
The priest said that St. Joan
was tall, slender and thoroughly
athletic. "She had enormous
physical endurance and could
ride a horse all day without
getting off. She was courageous,
but never foolhardy.” I
His first book published by
the University of Pittsburgh
Press, was a translation of
manuscript with annotations and
comments. He said a second
FR. RANKIN
book, "The Indictment of St.
Joan,” is now being read by
a university.
How did Father Rankin be
come so interested in St. Joan?
"I don’t know why, but the idea
grew and I used her as an exam
ple when I was a Navy chaplain
and in preaching retreats. She
received communion frequently
which was not the custom in the
15th Century.”
The priest said he used the
saint as example of bravery
when he served aboard the USS
New York during World War
II. Father Rankin served in the
He also asked for prayers
that "reasonable and honora
ble negotiations” may be be
gun.
Francis Cardinal Spellman of
New York, receiving an award
in February from the United
Service Organizations, Inc.,
(USO), warned that any peace
ful settlement of the war must
also be just.
But, he added, "more and
more in this modern world of
ours, war becomes madness...
More and more must strive
, for peace, and pray for it. de
sperately -- as oniy men pray
who are in desperate need.”
In his 1965 Christmas mes
sage, Cardinal Spellman said:
"When the freedom and the
dignity of people anywhere are
challenged, the freedom and the
dignity of people everywhere
stand in peril. When tyranny is
allowed to take on bold step
in some distant land, it has al
ready begun its terrifying
march across the world."
Vaticanll
To Create
Problems
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. (RNS)
~ The "new energy and in
dependence" stirred up by the
Second Vatican Council will
create discipline problems for
the Roman Catholic hierarchy
"for some years,” according
to a Lutheran observer at the
Council.
Pacific and lost his eye at Iwo
Jima. "I won the war single- $
handed and got no credit,” he
quipped.
"I’ll never forget when the
captain of the ship told me to :|;j
try and help the men overcome $
their fright. He said he was
frightened and I replied that I
was terrified,” Father Rankin
said. The priest then spoke to j;j:
the crew on the woman's bra-
very. j:|:
The priest said that whenever
he visits any city he looks at *8
church windows to see if there
is a panel of St. Joan. "1 have
found her in a Presbyterian
church in Chicago, at St. John
the Divine Episcopal Cathedral
in New York and in many other
churches.
"Most of the panels show Joan j;j:
on her horse, wearing armor, $
but I have seen pictures of her
in a skirt. These pictures of her
in a skirt are prudish, he com-
mented. ;j;
Asked if Joan of Arc had
any significancefor modernCa-
tholics, Father Rankin replied,
"She was intelligent and alert j;j
and is an example of the moral
responsibility of freedom of con—
science.” 8
Dr. Warren A. Quanbeck,
professor at Luther Theological
Seminary, St. Paul, made the
prediction in an article in "dia
log,” an independent Lutheran
theological journal published
here which devoted itfe entire
Summer issue to evaluating Va
tican II
He said the discipline pro
blems are "a compound of the
restlessness of the spirit of re
newal and of the accumulated
resentments againsttherigidity
and legalism of the past:
"Arbitrary laws on mixed
marriages, an unevangelical
ai/d rigid position on birth con
trol, hierarchial treatment at
times of laymen, priests and
nuns as though they were chil
dren or incompetents -all these
irritations have begun to throb
at thesuggestionsof new free
doms intimated by the Council.
"All these liabilities, how
ever, may well be offset by the
new fervor generated by th£
Council, the openness to new
ideas, the capacity for self-
criticism and dedication to the
service of Christ and His