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GEORGIA BULLETIN, THURSDAY. APRIL 18, 1968
POPE PAUL VI washes feet of Petei Thiet of North Vietnam, a seminarian studying in Rome, during Holy
Thursday rites. The Pope washed and kissed die feet of 12 young men from around the world who are studying
in Rome for the priesthood. The traditional rite was first performed by Jesus who washed the feet of his 12
Apostles at the Last Supper as a sign of humility. Besides the North Vietnamese refugee, also taking part in the
Vatican ceremony were four other Asians, four Black Africans, an Australian, a Colombian, and a South Sea
islander from Tongo. (RNS Photo)
Pope May Issue Strong Document Against Racism
SISTER Ann Gerald G.N.S.H., St. Pius Class of 1960, greets her former
principal, Father James Harrison, pastor of St. Michael’s, Gainesville, at the
10-year reunion party held at the school stadium. Mary Finn, another member
of the 1960 class, joins in the exchange of greetings.
VATICAN CITY (RNS) -
Observers here believe that the
violent death of Dr. Martin
Luther King may prompt Pope
Paul VI to issue a strong
document against racism. Their
prediction is based on two
points: the Pope’s obvious grief
at Dr. King’s death and reports
that he had promised the
American Negro leader he would
issue such a statement.
After his audience with the
Pope on Sept. 18, 1964, Dr. King
said that Pope Paul had promised
to promulgate a document
condemning racism.
Although the Pope has
condemned racism on several
occasions, he has never issued an
encyclical or other statement
devoted exclusively to the
subject.
He has been asked to make
such a statement several times in
the last six months by both
American and international lay
groups, but before the death of
Dr. King Vatican spokesmen had
indicated that no document of
this kind was planned in the
immediate future.
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U.S. Most Violent
Nation In History
CHICAGO (RNS) - A Roman
Catholic Biblical scholar and
theologian charged here that the
U.S. is not a “Christian country,”
but the “most violent nation in
recorded history.”
Father John J. McKenzie, S.J.,
also claimed that the Catholic
Church has accepted violence “as
long as it is used by
governments,” and has remained
silent “in our present orgasm of
violence in Vietnam.”
Writing in the April-May issue
of The Critic, published by the
Thomas More Association, Father
McKenzie contended that this
country has been even more
violent than “such thugs as the
Assyrians, the Romans, and the
much overrated Mongols and
Tartars.”
No nation, he said, “has ever
killed so many people, citizens
and aliens, in so short a time. We
have inherited all the violent
traditions of Europe together
with our own violent traditions
of the frontier.”
To call America a Christian
nation, the Jesuit continued, is
“so manifestly false that one does
not know how to frame the
denial. If any one counts on the
Christian beliefs and habits of
white Americans to restrain their
violence, forget it.”
He asserted that history shows
that the “American way” of
resolving differences and
problems between men has been
' “to bash in the heads of the
disagreeing persons.”
Father McKenzie pointed to
the Vietnam crisis as an example
and maintained th^ U.S. has no
way of solving this conflict
“except the traditional way: kill
the bastards.”
Turning to the
institutionalized Catholic Church,
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with the status quo, which is not
as harsh as it sounds; it has
always stood for law and order
because it cannot stand for
lawlessness and disorder.”
But, he added, what does the
Church say when “law and order
institutionalize injustice?”
“It has rarely had a prophetic
voice in this situation,” the priest
said. “Its position at the moment
is ambiguous because the Church
may face an internal revolution;
but lack of unity means that she
sounds an uncertain trumpet.”
Father McKenzie said he was
not implying the Church is idle in
domestic problems facing this
country, and noted that “many
priests and laymen are engaged in
wholesome activities which are
intended to keep the situation
from becoming intolerable.”
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Frank J. Stephens of
Weehawken, New Jersey,
formerly of Atlanta, died April 6
of a heart attack.
Stephens was born in Atlanta
in 1905 and was a graduate of
Marist School.
Funeral services were held at
St. Michael’s Church,
Weehawken. He was buried at
Mount Hope Cemetery on the
Hudson.
Survivors include his wife,
Mrs. Margaret Stephens; three
brothers, W. G. Stephens, Jr., Dr.
George V. Stephens and J. L.
Stephens; three sisters, Mrs. Leo
Sullivan, Miss Cornelia Stephens
and Miss Agnes Stephens, all of
Atlanta.
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