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14 GEORGIA BULLETIN, THURSDAY, JUNE 13, 1968
Sen. Robert Kennedy
-Man Of Compassion
THIS PHOTO, taken Oct. 4, 196S, shows Sen. Robert F. Kennedy
and two of his young sons as they attended the Mass offered by Pope
Paul VI at Yankee Stadium, New York City, following the pontiffs
address before the United Nations.
(RNS Photo).
BLAKE ON WCC:
Sen. Robert F. Kennedy has
joined the immortals of the
nation and his death caused grief,
disquietude, uneasiness,
unhappiness and dissatisfaction,
Father John McDonough said at
an ecumenical memorial service
Sunday at Sacred Heart Church.
Father McDonough, pastor of
Holy Spirit, said grief over the
Senator’s death was “evidenced
on our television screens during
the past few days. President
Johnson’s own sense of personal
dismay, shock and horror was
shared by hundreds of thousands
of Americans who stood long and
weary hours to walk silently by
his bier.
“We do not propose to
eulogize too effusively Senator
Robert Kennedy. History, in due
time, will assess his position in
American life far better and
much more effectively than we
can.
Assembly Will Cover
‘Ultimates Of Life’
LONDON (RNS) - The
Fourth Assembly of the World
Council of Churches at Uppsala,
Sweden, in July will not be “just
another church meeting” but will
be concerned with the “ultimates
of human life,” according to the
WCC general secretary, Dr.
Eugene Carson Blake.
The American churchman
made the statement in an
exclusive interview published in
the Methodist Recorder, leading
independent Methodist
newspaper.
Three main dangers facing the
world would be discussed at
Uppsala, he declared, and
programs for study and education
in their fields would be outlined.
He named the three dangers as
distribution of the world’s wealth
among the nations; ideological
problems of communism and
nationalism; and, “most
College Priest
Not Suspended
M OR AG A, Calif. (NC) -
Bishop Floyd L. Begin of
Oakland, Calif., has not
suspended the chaplain of St.
Mary’s College here for his part in
a controversy over the reading of
papal documents on peace by a
student at a church service on
campus.
The San Francisco Chronicle,
daily newspaper, reported that
Bishop Begin had suspended the
chaplain, Father Roderick
Garvey, C.SS.R., from all his
priestly functions, including
celebrating Mass and dispensing
the sacraments.
Bishop Begin, in an official
statement (June 4), denied that
he had suspended Father Garvey,
“even temporarily.” Father
Garvey also denied that he was
suspended.
threatening of all,” race.
On race, he said: “You can
change the world markets, the
relationship of rich and poor,
even your ideologies, but you
can’t change the color of a man’s
skin, or his physiognomy, or
quickly eradicate the bitterness
of the past.”
In the context of communism
and nationalism, he also said it
was essential that Communist
China should be accepted into
the family of nations.
Dr. Blake stressed the need for
new thinking in church life. All
local churches and all church
members are affected by world
events, whether political, ethical
or theological, he said. More and
more the churches must relate
the gathering of their
congregations for Sunday worship
with the world and all its
problems and its new thinking.
“We have to bear in mind,” he
declared, “that most of the
church’s rules were drawn up at a
time when people lived their
entire lives in the place where
they were born.
“Now we have this
tremendous mobility and this
technological independence.
People are now living more and
more in cities. And religion has
never been so successful in larger
groups. Church life has, in the
past, been more or less
rural-orientated. Now the struggle
in terms of mission is in the cities
and this requires new thinking,
new emphases, a new approach.”
Uppsala, he said, would not be
pushing for a Utopia, but its
central aim will be directed to the
serving of man’s need in a world
which tends increasingly towards
Nihilism.
Dr. Blake said he did not
anticipate any major conflicts at
Uppsala. But criticisms were
expected and he thought the
main ones would be directed
from some sections against the
WCC’s closer relationship with
the Roman Catholic Church, the
rapid growth of the Council, and
whether the “center” has not
been changed on the question of
“what Christianity is all about.”
“Have we not moved out too
much into the world?” he asked.
His own answer was that the
Church had a seven-day week to
operate and must meet the claims
of Christianity, wherever these
could be fulfilled.
“But it is impossible for us
not to recognize that the man
felled by an assassin’s bullet was
an extraordinary person. As
President Johnson said, ‘During
his personal life, he knew far
more than his share of personal
tragedy, yet he never abandoned
his faith in America, he never lost
his confidence in the spiritual
strength of ordinary men and
women. He believed in the
capacity of the young for
excellence and in the right of the
old and poor to a life of dignity.”
Father McDonough said
Senator Kennedy, bom into
affluence, had a feeling for
people that few others have had.
“He had sympathy for and an
empathy with those who were
oppressed and discriminated
against. He was above all a
compassionate seeker of justice.
He spoke out again and again for
impoverished Negroes, the
striking grape pickers, the
neglected American Indians and
all the other lost ahd defeated
people.”
However, the priest said, it
was foolish only to talk.
“Something must be done to
alleviate the poverty, to curb all
violence, to put an end to
discrimination. A controversy
rages in our country today-Is
America a sick country? I don’t
know.
“It seems to me that on the
national day of mourning there
are good people in our country.
For the past few days some 1,500
people have searched the rugged
terrain of North Carolina for
4-year-old Cenda Schweers. One
man has given his life, many have
been injured. There is love and
dedication here.
“We all know what one man
has done in our own city, Mayor
Ivan Allen. We know what many
of our businessmen are doing ...
devoting time, energy and talent
in the pursuit of the well-being of
others.
“But in the last analysis, it is
we who have to examine
ourselves, find out what we can
do, search and keep searching
until we have in our own
individual lives the goals of Sen.
Robert F. Kennedy.”
Five hundred persons
attended the service, one of
several memorial services held in
Atlanta Sunday on the day of
mourning.
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