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PAGE 2—The Georgia Bulletin, February 21,1980
Vatican Radio
History Given
VATICAN CITY (NC)
- “Hear this all nations,
pay attention all who live
on earth.”
With these words,
spoken Feb. 12, 1931,
from the old studio in the
Vatican Gardens, Pope
Pius XI inaugurated
Vatican Radio.
Since that afternoon
message, broadcast from a
10-kilowatt shortwave
Marconi transmitter,
Vatican Radio has grown
to a huge complex on a
plot of land 10 times as
large as Vatican City’s 1.6
square miles.
The radio complex at
Santa Maria in Galeria,
about 11 miles from St.
Peter’s Basilica, houses a
500 kilowatt rotating
antenna, one of the largest
in the world.
Thirty-three languages
are broadcast, including
Hindi, Ukrainian, Latvian,
Armenian and Vietnamese,
in 620 weekly programs
beamed to five continents.
This means about 11,500
hours of programming per
year.
‘ ‘ In some cases,
especially in Eastern
Europe, Vatican Radio
places second to fourth”
on the list of stations most
listened to, wrote Jesuit
Father Roberto Tucci,
director general of Vatican
Radio, in an article
commemorating the
beginning of its 50th year.
Programs vary from
stereo music to news
analysis to interviews.
Vatican Radio’s life
began with the signing of
the Lateran Treaty
negotiated between the
Vatican and the Italian
government in 1929. The
treaty forms the basis of
the modern state of
Vatican City.
An article in the treaty
says that “Vatican City
will construct on its
territory an autonomous
radiotelegraph and
radiotelephone system.”
In 1929, Pope Pius XI
assigned the project of
building and installing the
system to Guglielmo
Marconi, developer of the
wireless radio.
One of the first English
speakers on the Jesuit-run
radio station was Msgr.
Francis Spellman, who
later became cardinal-arch
bishop of New York.
On Christmas 1937, a
25-kilowatt transmitter
replaced the Marconi
10-kilowatt one. Two
towers became four, used
to support four new
directional antennas. A
fifth vertical, omnidirect
ional antenna sat atop the
other four.
In 1939, regular
international programming
began with the move of
the studio to the Leo XIII
Palace on the summit of
the Vatican Hill. The
palace had previously been
used by Pope Leo XIII as
his summer residence.
With the beginning of
1940, daily programs in
Italian, French, English,
Spanish and German were
transmitted. Portuguese,
Polish, Ukrainian,
Lithuanian and Russian
could be heard two or
three times weekly.
World War II sharply
curtailed development and
Vatican Radio was
immersed in transmissions
dedicated to locating
civilian and military
missing persons.
In September 1939,
Pope Pius XII received a
letter asking him to
intervene in the search for
a man lost in the invasion
of Poland. With this letter,
the Information Office of
the Vatican, used in the
search for missing persons,
was born. It continued
until 1949.
Jesuit historian, Father
Robert Graham,
catalogued the wartime
activities of Vatican
Radio.
“In those years, priests
and laymen were arrested,
even sent to Dachau . . .-
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50 YEARS OF VATICAN RADIO - Pope Pius
XI listens to the address of Senator Guglielmo
Marconi at ceremonies in 1933 inaugurating the
world’s first station for radio communication by
ultra short wave. The radio-telephone system
inventented by Marconi linked the Vatican with
the pope’s summer residence at Castelgondolfo,
20 miles away. Seated by the pope is Cardinal
Granito Pignatelli di Belmonte, dean of the
College of Cardinals. Vatican Radio soon will
begin its 50th year.
and a certain number of-
cases exist in which one
may speak of the ‘martyrs
of Vatican Radio,”’ he
wrote.
Josef Goebbels,
minister of propaganda for
Nazi Germany, reportedly
said on April 17, 1941,
that “the Vatican Radio
station must be silenced.”
After the war, the
expansion and
development of Vatican
Radio resumed. The radio
formed a news service,
IRVAT, to collect, edit
and broadcast news of
worldwide church life.
IRVAT is the
forerunner of the present
Radiogiornale, the main
news program, which
broadcasts in Italian,
Spanish, Portuguese,
French, English, German
and Polish.
Contributions from
Catholics around the
world enabled Vatican
Radio to keep up with
technological advances.
In 1950, Dutch
Catholics raised the money
for a Philips 100-kilowatt
shortwave transmitter.
The old studio in
Vatican City was too small
for the new equipment
and in 1957 Pope Pius XII
inaugurated the new
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complex at Santa Maria in
Galeria.
Two new Telefunken
100-kilowatt shortwave
transmitters were installed
by 1962, one a gift from
the late Cardinal Joseph
Frings of Cologne, West
Germany, and the other a
gift from the Catholics of
Australia and New
Zealand.
In 1966, Pope Paul VI
inaugurated two more
shortwave transmitters.
Cardinal Francis Spellman
donated one RCA
10 0 - k ilowatt transmitter
and the other was given by
the Knights of Columbus.
Various U.S. groups
offered a 250-kilowatt
medium-wave transmitter.
Vatican Radio has
about 300 full-time
Religious and lay
employees and about 200
collaborators. Forty-three
different nationalities and
20 different Religious
orders are represented.
A shortwave program
beamed daily in English to
the United States can be
heard at 7 p.m. EST on
frequencies 6.015, 9.605,
and 11.845.
“Vatican Radio . . .
tries hard to present the
heart of the church
everywhere in the world,
expecially tying St. Peter’s
to local churches that find
themselves in precarious
conditions of religious
liberty. I know from my
own personal experience
how much the voice of
Vatican Radio is intended
to comfort the faith and
sustain the hope of the
faithful,” Pope John Paul
11 said recently on a visit
to the Vatican Radio
offices.
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Forbes Will Speak
At Prayer Breakfast
The Tenth Annual
Community Breakfast
sponsored by the Christian
Council of Metropolitan
Atlanta will be held
Saturday, March 1, at the
Peachtree Plaza Hotel,
with 1500 persons
expected.
o James Alexander
Forbes, Jr., Associate
Professor of Worship and
Homilectics, Union
Theological Seminary, is
the speaker. Forbes, 44, a
native of North Carolina,
holds a Bachelor of
Science degree from
Howard University, a
Master of Divinity degree
from Union Theological
Seminary and a Doctor of
Ministry degree from
Colgate-Rochester Divinity
School.
His p rofessional
experience covers 22
years, beginning in 1957
on the faculty of Kittrell
Junior College in North
Carolina. He has also been
on the faculty of United
Christian College in North
Carolina.
He has pastored St.
John’s United Holy
Church of Richmond,
Holy Trinity Church of
Wilmington, North
Carolina, and St. Paul
Holy Church of
Goldsboro, North
Carolina.
Forbes has been in
demand at college
campuses and has given
leadership at various
conferences across the
country. He has traveled in
Canada, West Africa,
Europe, Israel, Central
America and the West
Indies.
An abbreviated
program will also include
music provided by the
Emory University School
of Music.
Three outstanding
Atlantans, yet to be
named, will be honored.
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Religion Squelched At Olympic Opening
LAKE PLACID, N.Y.
(NC) -- There was
disagreement over the role
that religion was to play at
the opening of the XIII
Winter Olympic Games in
Lake Placid.
Some members of the
Religious Affairs
Committee (RAC) of the
Lake Placid Olympic
Organizing Committee
(LPOOC), which
scheduled an interfaith
prayer service as part of
the opening ceremonies
said Lord Killanin,
chairman of the
International Olympic
Committee (IOC), had
vetoed the inclusion of a
scheduled invocation by
Cardinal Terence Cooke of
New York during the
games’ opening ceremony
Feb. 13.
But Msgr. Eugene V.
Clark, director of
communications for the
New York Archdiocese,
said “the cardinal knew
from the very beginning he
might not be participat
ing.” The cardinal had
written and sent in a
prayer for use at the
opening ceremony, Msgr.
Clark said, but he had
raqver been invited to
participate.
“We’re not sure if the
IOC was exercising its
options” (referring to
1974 game rules which
specify a religious
ceremony can be
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optional), or “whether
there were some internal
problems on the LPOOC
(awarded the contract to
host the games in Lake
Placid),” said Dan
McCormick, RAC
executive secretary. The
cardinal had been invited
in March, 1979, by the
RAC to give the
invocation.
“In any case, we do
know that the IOC
opposed Cardinal Cooke as
a visible religious
presence,’’ said
McCormick. Just before
the winter games opened,
the IOC met for three days
and decided - after having
changed their minds
several times, according to
McCormick - that the
cardinal could either read
the invocation before the
official ceremony or have
his message broadcast. In
either case, he would not
•be seated in the
dignitaries’ box or seen by
the audience, McCormick
said.
The Rev. William D.
Hayes of Lake Placid’s St.
Eustace Episcopal Church,
chairman of the RAC, read
an invocation, but neither
was he allowed to be
visible to the spectators or
to the television audience.
No announcement was
made regarding the
absence of Cardinal
Cooke, whose name
appeared on the program.
Mr. Hayes was also the
only speaker not
announced or seen by the
audience at the official
ceremonies. In fact, Mr.
Hayes rehearsed twice for
the ceremony, thinking he
was going to give a live
invocation.
‘‘Based on the
leadership role Cardinal
Cooke has in the world
community of faith, the
IOC felt he might upstage
a lesser presence,” Mr.
Kayes commented to the
Adirondack Daily
Enterprise.
Msgr. Clark dismissed
the situation as “rumors
that sound so anti-Cath-
olic.” He added: “There’s
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all.”
The ecumenical service
preceding the opening
games did add a religious
perspective to the
dumpies, though, and
included a message from
Pope John Paul II read by
Bishop Stanislaus Brzana
of Ogdensburg and a
prayer by Archbishop Jean
Jadot, apostolic delegate
in the U.S.
“I bring you a welcome
and a blessing,” the bishop
told the cheering crowd of
8,000. “From another
athlete who could not be
here, a skiier, swimmer,
canoeist and woodsman -
Pope John Paul II.”
During the prayer
service, called “In
Celebration of God,” the
vast crowd seemed more
intent on celebration than
on quiet prayer. The
orchestra conductor often
had to motion for restraint
from applause and shouts
POPE SA YS
of appreciation. Several
times men, women and
teen-agers were seen
standing with arms
outstretched in
charismatic prayer and
jumping - almost dancing
- in celebration.
The opening procession
was an Olympic
spectacular, led by runners
who had brought the
Olympic flame to Lake
Placid from Virginia, and
followed by members of
the 27th Lancers from
nearby Fort Ticonderoga,
carrying flags of the 37
nations participating in the
games.
The torches and flags
formed an honor guard for
Archbishop Jadot, Bishop
Brzana, area and visiting
clergyman, and the 14
Olympic chaplains who
would minister to the
athletes during the games.
The audience was
unrestrained in its
applause, nearly drowning
out the orchestra.
Catholic Universities
Must Uphold Dual Role
ROME ( N C) --
Theology at a Catholic
university must uphold
“the rigor of the scientific
process” and “absolute
respect for divine
revelation,” Pope John
Paul II said during a visit
Feb. 16 to the Pontifical
Lateran University in
Rome.
Without scientific rigor,
he said, “the university
would descend to the level
of a second-class school.”
Without adherence to
revelation it would lose its
“ministry of teaching,” he
said.
In his lengthy address
to the university’s faculty,
students and alumni, the
pope declared that
theology intimately affects
life and that the modern
world needs “an active,
fertile and stimulating
circulation of Catholic
thought.”
He also called for a
theological critique and
synthesis of new
intellectual trends in
western Europe and Latin
America.
In those regions “new
positions and problems”
are arising “which - in the
name, of course, of a
healthy and defined
pluralism, and always
preserving the dogmatic
unity of the faith - can
have a right to citizenship
in the area of reflection
and theological
elaboration,” he said.
The pope declined to
spell out the “new
positions” mentioned, but
indicated that one of the
major areas of concern was
the theology of liberation.
He noted that on his visit
to Puebla, Mexico, last
year - where he discussed
theories of liberation
theology at length - he
spoke of inadequacies in
some of these theories.
The pope said he did
not want to enter into the
merits of various new
theological positions and
problems. “I will only say
that the emergence of this
fact cannot but solicit our
duty of discernment and
synthesis,” he added.
The pope called on the
faculty and students of the
Lateran University to take
the lead in exemplifying
the criteria that he said
should mark a Catholic
university. He listed these
as fidelity, exemplariness,
catholicity and a pastoral
character.
He praised the work of
the university’s Pontifical
Pastoral Institute, saying it
was engaged in teaching
priests the “art of
arts . . . the direction of
souls.”
He also said that the
university’s institute for
church and civil law is one
of a kind in the world and
‘‘attests to the
interdependence, in depth,
of the two systems.”
He urged the institute
to make a strong
contribution “in the great
cause of European unity, a
cause so close to the heart
of the Holy See.”
The Lateran University,
founded in 1773, is unlike
the other major pontifical
universities in Rome
because it is entrusted to.
the diocesan clergy of
Rome instead of a
religious order.
The last pope to visit
the university was Pope
John XXIII in November
1958.
Following his afternoon
visit to the Lateran, Pope
John Paul joined the
faculty and students of the
Pontifical Roman Major
Seminary for evening
prayer.
In a brief talk he
particularly urged them to
dedicate their priestly lives
to Mary, the mother of
Jesus.
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