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PAGE 2—The Georgia Bulletin, August 31,1978
New Pontiff Outlines His Program
VATICAN CITY (NC) -
In a 10-page Latin speech to
the College of Cardinals one
day after his election, Pope
John Paul I laid out the
general program he wants to
follow during his pontificate.
Sitting beneath
Michelangelo’s “Last
Judgement” in the Sistine
Chapel, Pope John Paul said
that he wants to:
- Continue in the true
spirit of Vatican Council II,
without yielding to those
who push too hard or others
who drag their feet.
Promote ecumenism
“without giving in on
doctrine and without
hesitation.”
- Continue the revision of
church law to “conserve
intact the church’s great
discipline” and maintain each
Christian’s liberty through
“solid and sound juridical
structures.”
- Stimulate the preaching
of the Gospel to all men and
promote “serene and
constructive dialogue” even
with non-Catholics.
- Give greater weight to
the concept of shared
decision-making both through
the world synods of bishops
and through participation of
the world’s bishops in the
work of the Roman Curia,
the church’s central
administrative offices.
- Work for peace and
social progress and against
hunger and illiteracy as well
as for a more just
international economic
system.
The pope gave the speech,
which was addressed to his
“dear sons and daughters in
the entire Catholic world,” at
the end of a Mass he
eoncelebrated with the
College of Cardinals in the
Sistine Chapel.
On the evening of his
^Humility’ Papal Motto
VATICAN CITY (NC) - A man of humble beginnings, Pope
John Paul I has chosen as his papal motto the same brief theme
that he used as patriarch of Venice: “Humilitas.”
That word, “humility,” which was also the motto of St.
Charles Borromeo, still characterizes the life of the new pope,
who was born into a migrant laborer’s family 65 years ago.
On the brief vacations (seven days each year) that he allowed
himself during his years as head of the Venice Patriarchate, the
future pope was known to enjoy spending his time on the bocce
courts (bowling greens) and in a small trattoria (an
unpretentious restaurant) engaging in conversations with the
patrons.
Although his worker-father was a Socialist organizer, Pope
John Paul’s mother was a devout Catholic.
While Italian socialism is generally quite anti-clerical, young
Albino Luciani’s father respected his son’s decision to enter the
priesthood, and even was known to attend church.
Like his predecessor Pope Paul VI, Pope John Paul has been
generally considered to be of frail health, although he appears
more robust than Pope Paul.
Although he has been labeled a conservative in much of the
media, the new pope has enthusiastically implemented changes
stemming from Vatican Council II. He insists on exercising his
episcopal authority together with his priests, and once said to a
journalist, “I believe that a bishop cannot go against a decision
taken by the priests’ council.”
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election, Pope John Paul had
asked the cardinals to remain
in conclave until the next
morning in order to be able
to concelebrate Mass with
them.
“In what for us is an hour
of trepidation, but also an
hour comforted by divine
assurances we salute all our
children. We would like to
have them all present here to
look them in the eye, to
embrace them, and to infuse
courage and confidence in
them,” said the new pope.
Besides revealing the main
points of his program, the
pope also extended special
wishes to various groups,
including youth, men and
women involved in
evangelization, persecuted
Catholics, the sick, prisoners
and residents of Lebanon, the
Holy Land, the
drought-stricken Sahel zone
of Africa, and India.
“We want to continue to
bring to life the inheritance
of Vatican II,” said the new
pope. “Its wise norms must
still be brought to fulfillment.
“(We must) be vigilant,
lest a generous yet unforeseen
push betray its contents and
meaning or lest fearful forces
which tend to put on the
brakes slow down its
magnificent thrust for
renewal and life,” he said.
Speaking of ecumenism,
the new pope said, “We
intend to dedicate thoughtful
attention to all that can
promote union without giving
in on doctrine, but also
without hesitation.”
“We want to conserve
intact the church’s great
discipline,” he continued.
“And to do this we will carry
forward the revision of the ,
two codes of canon law of
the Eastern and Latin
traditions.”
“Solid and sound juridical
structures,” he said, will
guarantee the “sacred
liberty” of Christians.
He recalled that the
church’s “first duty is to
evangelize ... To study every
means, seek every path,
‘opportune and inopportune’
(2 Timothy 4,2), to sow the
word.”
“We want to continue
with patience and firmness
that serene and constructive
dialogue” of Pope Paul VI, he
said.
“We want to promote all
praiseworthy and good
initiatives which can protect
and increase world peace in a
troubled world.”
He asked for the
cooperation of men of good
will to end “blind violence
which only destroys and sows
ruin and grief.”
The new pope pledged to
work “to promote social
progress, to decrease hunger
of body and ignorance of
spirit, and to advance the
development of peoples less
fortunately endowed with
goods, although rich in
energy and will power.”
Speaking of the world’s
bishops, the new pope said
that “we want to strongly
augment the value of
collegiality by making use of
their efforts in governing the
universal church both
through the structure of the
synod and through the
structures of the Curia in
which they participate by
right.”
Some bishops are members
of various curial bodies.
The pope’s last remarks
seemed to be a response to
calls by many cardinals for a
greater say in major church
decisions.
The new pope, considered
to have been elected for his
great pastoral experience,
gave a special salute to
“pastors and those who are
dedicated to the direct care
of persons often living in bad
conditions or real poverty.”
He said that men and
women who evangelize are
“the most dear of those who
are dear to us.”
“We will never forget them
in our prayers or concerns,
since they have a privileged
place in our hearts,” said the
pontiff.
He especially greeted
young people, whom he
called “the hope for a
tomorrow which is cleaner,
healthier and more
constructive.”
He asked families to “hold
the line against the
destructive ideologies of
hedonish which snuff out
life.”
The new pope warned
Catholics against the
temptation to make
“autonomous decisions which
ignore moral laws, bringing
modem man to run the risk
of reducing the earth to a
desert, the person to a robot
and brotherly coexistence to
a collectivized leveling of
society, introducing often
death where God instead wills
life.”
First Papal Talk Wins Hearts
VATICAN CITY (NC) -
In his first public talk, Pope
John Paul I won Rome’s
heart by speaking off-the-cuff
about his secret election and
his most embarrassing
moment.
The new pope began to
speak in an informal style
front the balcony of St.
Peter’s Basilica at noon the
day after his election despite
the formal setting and the
presence of 300,000 total
strangers.
Quickly dropping the
formal papal “we,” the new
pope began: “Yesterday
morning I walked tranquilly
to the Sistine Chapel to vote,
never imagining for a moment
what would happen.
“But as soon as the danger
began to form around me,
two colleagues seated next to
me whispered words of
encouragement.
“One said, “Be strong. If
the Lord gives a heavy burden
he also gives the strength to
bear it.’
“The other one said,
“Don’t be afraid, in all the
world there are so many
people praying for the new
pope.’”
The new pope, vested for
the first time in public in his
simple white cassock, said,
“When the moment came, I
accepted. Then they asked
me what name I wanted to
take.
“I thought for a little bit
and reasoned in this way:
Pope John (XXXIII)
consecrated me here in this
very basilica with his own
hands. Then I happened to
become his successor in
Venice, a city full of his
memory.”
He said that Pope Paul VI
“not only made me cardinal
but also a few months before
made me blush before a
crowd of 20,000 near St.
Mark’s Square (in Venice)
when he took off his stole
and placed it on my
shoulders.
“My face has never been
so red,” he confided to the
300,000 onlookers and to
millions more who watched
the televised ceremony.
“Besides during his 15
years as pope, he showed me
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and the whole world how to
love, serve, work and suffer
for the church of Christ.
“For this reason I said that
I would be called by this
name.
“I don’t have the wisdom
of heart which Pope John
had,” said Pope John Paul,
who as pope has kept the
motto he took as bishop -
“Humilitas” (Humility).
“Nor do I have the
preparation or the education
of Pope Paul VI,” he added.
“But I have their job, and
I must seek to serve the
church.
“I hope you will help with
your prayers,” he concluded.
His brief talk was certainly
one of the few times in
history that the majestic
central balcony of St. Peter’s,
always reserved for the most
solemn of occasions, served as
the scene for such a
heart-to-heart talk.
The Romans, many of
whom dabbed their eyes with
handkerchiefs, realized that.
Said one: “I seemed to me
almost as if the grandiose
central balcony was lowered
to the level of the common
man.”
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WITH PREDECESSOR - Cardinal
Albino Luciani, patriarch of Venice, is
greeted by Pope Paul VI at the world
synod of bishops in Rome last October.
In 1972 Pope Paul and the man who
would succeed him smile at the crowd
gathered at St. Mark’s Basilica during
Paul’s visit to Venice.
Birth Control Opposition ‘Fantasy’
ROME (NC) - Reports
widely circulated in the
secular press and on television
that Pope John Paul I, as a
bishop, had opposed the
issuance of a papal encyclical
condemning artificial birth
control are “fantasy,” said
the priest who was secretary
of the papal birth control
study commission at the
time.
Dominican Father Henri
de Riedmatten, now secretary
of the Pontifical Council
“Cor Unum” that coordinates
church charitable activities,
was secretary of the special
papal commission which
studied birth control.
Father de Riedmatten said
the new pope, who was then
bishop of the Italian Diocese
of Vittorio Veneto, “was
never a commission
member.”
In 1964 and 1966, Pope
Paul VI enlarged and revised
membership of the birth
control study commission
originally established by Pope
John XXIII in 1963. In 1966
a majority of the commission
advised Pope Paul that the
church’s teachings on
a r t i ficial birth control
methods could be changed,
but urged him to maintain
silence concerning specific
methods and not to endorse
any particular one.
Pope Paul set aside the
commission’s recommendat
ion and in the encyclical
“Humanae Vitae” (“Of
Human Life”) in 1968
reaffirmed the church’s
position condemning artificial
birth control.
After Pope John Paul was
elected, United Press
International reported that as
a bishop he had been a
member of the study
commission and had sided
with the majority. UPI later
changed that and said he had
been a consultant to the
commission. A number of
U. S. daily newspapers
published the UPI story and
some television networks and
stations broadcast it. Pope
John Paul, then Bishop
Albino Luciani, is not listed
as either a commission
member or consultant.
Some Italian newspapers
reported that the new pope,
as bishop of Vittorio Veneto,
wrote to Pope Paul to advise
against making a
pronouncement on the issue,
but that once “Humanae
Vitae” appeared the bishop
had defended it vigorously.
Father de Riedmatten said
that a letter from Bishop
Luciani would have come to
his attention and that he has
never heard of such a letter.
Monsignor Mario Ghizzo,
who was vicar general of the
Vittorio Veneto Diocese
under Bishop Luciani and is
still a diocesan official there,
said in a phone converstaion,
“There was no letter.”
“That’s a rumor,”
Monsignor Ghizzo said of the
reports. Bishop Luciani
“followed the problem, like
any good bishop,” he said,
and consulted doctors and
theologians.
“He had his opinion,
whether published or not, I
don’t know,” the priest
added. “I do not believe he
was favorable to
contraception.”
The biography of the new
pope which appeared in the
Vatican daily newspaper
L’Osservatore Romano and
which was distributed by the
Vatican press office said,
concerning that period in the
new pope’s life: “He was
involved in a meticulous
study of the subject of
responsible parenthood,
accompanied by
consultations with noted
doctors and theologians. It
was a difficult problem. He
was aware of the great
responsibility of the church -
of the church magisterium
(teaching authority) - to
pronounce on such a delicate
and controversial question.
“The publication of the
encyclical “Humanae Vitae”
removed any doubt he had.
The bishop of Vittorio
Veneto was among the first
to circulate it and to support
its indisputability before
those who experienced
perplexity with regard to the
papal document.”
Will Pope John Paul Travel?
VATICAN CITY (NC) -
What will Pope John Paul’s
first trip be?
Observers are guessing that
the new pontiff may travel to
Turin, Italy, for the current
exposition of the Holy
Shroud, which is due to
continue until Oct. 8.
It is also felt that he might
go to Puebla, Mexico, where
the third general assembly of
the Latin American bishops is
to begin in mid-October.
Pope Paul VI broke new
ground when, in the early
years of his pontificate, he
became the first pope in
history to travel to all parts
of the globe.
Pope John Paul has not
traveled very widely.
Three years ago, however,
he visited Brazil.
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