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MAJOR GENERAL CHARLES J. TIMMES (fight), the
general who got around, has just ended a three-year tour of
duty as chief of the U.S. military assistance advisory group
in Vietnam. He began each day with attendance at Mass,
which he usually served. The general traveled incessantly,
visiting camps, villages and jungle clearings. Here he is
visiting Sgt. Billy Bobbitt of North Little Rock, Ark., who
was giving medical aid to tribesfolk. (See story Page 2.)
Chaplains Assist
Alaska Recovery
FORT RICHARDSON, Alaska (NC)wArmy chap-
lains have donated $2,000 for repairs to Central Cath-
olic Junior High School in Anchorage, damaged in the
]' Good Friday earthqUake that devastated Alaska.
The gift was the latest in a series from the USARAL (U.S.
Army, Alaska) Chaplains Fund to relief and reconstruction proj.
ects launched in the wake of the earthquake.
The fund was launched shortly after the Good Friday quake.
Chaplains gathered some $27,800 from Army congregations in
the 48 continental states and sent the money to U. S. Army,
Alaska, headquarters.
Money from the fund has so far been used to pay off Army
tJi Emergency Relief loans, underwrite certain urgent private losses
and aid several organizations.
Previous gifts from the fund include $5,000 to the Disaster
Relief Fund established by Bishop Dermot J. O'Flanagan of
Juneau, $2,000 to the Episcopal Earthquake Disaster Fund,
! $2,000 to the Alaska Crippled Children's Association and $5,000
to the Anchorage Council of Churches.
The $2,000 check for repairs to Central Catholic Junior High
School was presented June 16 by Maj. Gen. Ned D. Moore, U.S.
Army Commander in Alaska, to Msgr. Edgar Gallant of Holy
) Family Church, Anchorage.. •
Msgr. Gallant, first Catholic priest ordained in Alaska and a
46-year resident of the state, said the gift "will help us get back
on our feet."
To Return Afartyr's
00Relic to Orthodox
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VATICAN CITY (NC) -- Pope Paul VI has an-
nounced he will return the relic of St. Andrew, the
brother of St. Peter, to the Orthodox Church in Patras,
Greece, where tradition says he was martyred.
The Pope told an assembly of cardinals June 23 the transfer
of the relic is being made at the request of Orthodox Metropolitan
Constantine of Patras.
The relic, said to be the head of the Apostle, was taken from
Constantinople by the crusaders in 1204 so that, in the Pope's
words, "it might be worthily preserved next to the tomb of his
brother, St. Peter, with the intention that it might be returned
one day, God willing." "
His gesture, the Pope said, testifies "to our veneration for
the Greek Orthodox Church and to our intention to open our
brotherly heart to it, in the faith and charity of the Lord."
Pope Paul said the council Fathers would venerate the relic
at the third session of the Vatican Council, and it would then be
taken to Patras by a papal mission.
Christian tradition credits St. Andrew with preaching the
Gospel in Asia Minor and Greece, and an early tradition holds
that he was crucified in Patras. In the fourth century the relic
of the Apostle was taken to Constantinople, and in 1204 to the
Cathedral of St, Andrew in Amalfi, in central Italy.
Headlines and Deadlines
oLodcje Comes Home
By George N. Kramer, Ph.D.
Headlines leaped high Tuesday to proclaim that
Henry Cabot Lodge had resigned as U. S. ambassador
to South Vietnam and was returning to Washington.
Speculation regarding the reason for the unexpected an-
nouncement made by President Johnson was quickly ended when
Lodge released a statement in Saigon a few hours later.
"I resigned," he said, "because it is my duty to do every-
thing I can to help Governor Scranton to win for President. I
also have accepted an invitation to address the resolutions com-
mittee of the Republican Party,"
His decision to quit his diplomatic post seems to have been
made on the spur of the moment, because as recently as last
week he again reiterated that he had no intention of resigning
soon.
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Pope Promises Pronouncement
On Birth Control Regulations
By Patrick Riley
VATICAN CITY (NC) -- Pope Paul VI revealed
that the Church is in the process of a major reevalua-
tion of the question of birth control and said that for
the present, at least, the pronouncements on the ques-
tion by Pope Plus XII must be considered valid and
binding for all Catholics.
Pope Paul spoke out June 23 with the apparent intention of
ending the current controversy over the possible legitimacy for
using certain recently discovered hormone pills which can pre-
vent conception. He did not refer explicitly to the "pill." But he
said that the Church is being aided by "many eminent scholars"
in an intensive study of the question, and that its findings will be
revealed as soon as possible.
Rules Remain the Same
Pending a further pronouncement, he said, nobody is to "take
it upon himself to speak in terms different from the norms" laid
down by Plus XII. -
Paul VI's statement came in the course of a 5,000-word dis-
course before a group of cardinals on the eve of the feast of St.
John Baptist, his baptismal Patron. He took the occasion to re-
view the first year of his pontificate.
But the bombshell of his discourse was the reference to the
birth control controversy and his promise to reveal the find-
ings of the current investigation as quickly as possible. For the
time being, at least, he demanded adherence to the findings of
Plus XII, whom he had served as a collaborator for many
years.
Pope Plus XII's detailed pronouncements on birth control re-
affirmed the Church's condemnation of active interference with
the procreative purpose of the marital act. He also reiterated the
illegality of direct sterilization--any deliberate attempt, either as
an end or as a means, to make procreation impossible.
Plus XII did not, however, condemn every act that would
bring about sterilization as an undesired effect, such as the sur-
gical removal of diseased ovaries.
Dealt With Problems of Pill
Shortly before he died in 1958, Pope Plus dealt with moral
problems connected with pills that prevent ovulation. He described
this effect as "temporary sterility." This is a judgment which
medical and moral specialists have been closely examining and
disputing.
Plus stated that the woman who takes such a pill as a neces-
sary remedy for an unhealthy uterus or organism, rather than
to prevent conception, "provokes indirect sterilization, which is
permitted according to the general principles governing acts with
a double effect." This traditional distinction of the "double
effect" refers to acts using legitimate means and having a licit
goal, but which could have a secondary result which would in
itself be illicit.
Speaking to participants in the seventh International Hemato-
logical Congress in Rome whom he granted an audience at Castel
Gandolfo Sept. 12, 1958, Pope Plus stated that it would be im-
moral to take such a pill if the goal were simply to prevent con-
ception.
"But a direct, and therefore, illicit, sterilization is provoked
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Pope Paul Own Grou CHILDREN 'ADOPT' PRIEST Signing
Asks NEA
Prays For To Reverse Father Kobayshi Sings of Rights
Senator Aid Policy First Mass for Pupils Bill May
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BOSTON (NC) w Pope
Paul VI pledged prayers
for Sen. Edward M. Ken-
nedy who suffered severe back
injuries in a plane crash at
Southhampton, Mass., when en-
route to the Massachusetts
State Democratic Convention.
The Pope's cablegram was
received in Boston by Richard
Cardinal Cushing. It stated:
"Request Your Eminence to
transmit the following massage
National Education Asso-
clarion has recommended pro-
ponents of general Federal aid
to public elementary and sec-
ondary schools abandon their
position and work for "cate-
gorical" aid for "politically
feasible" specific educational
objectives.
The recommendations were
made in a 30-page report issued
here by the Educational Poli-
cies Commission, which is an
advisory group of the NEA and
WASHINGTON (NC)w
President Johnson is ex-
pected to sign the historic
civil rights bill into law July
4 with an appeal that forces
mobilized in its support stay
active to urge compliance with
it.
The President's anticipated
appeal has been foreshadowed
in several statements, including
some to religious groups which
vigorously backed the legisla-
to Senator Edward Kennedy:
"We are deeply grieved to
learn of your airplane acci-
dent, and, while expressing
sincere sympathies to the
families of the deceased for
whom we have prayed, we
beseech Almighty God for
you and the others injured to
hasten your return to good
health.
"For this intention, we im-
part our apostolic benediction."
Anglican
Leader May
Visit Pope Paul
LONDON (NC) -- Archbishop
Michael Ramsey of Canterbury
declared that it is "more than
likely" that he will visit with
Pope Paul VI "in the near
future."
The Anglican prelate predict-
ed the visit in an interview
that appeared in the June 12
edition of the Economist, a
London weekly. It would be the
first visit between the heads of
the Catholic and Anglican
churches since Dr. Geoffrey
Fisher, then Archbishop of
Canterbury, met with Pope
John XXIII in December, 1961.
Dr. Ramsey declared in the
interview that the Catholic
Church's position on papal in-
fallibility and Marian dogmas
are still barriers to union with
the Anglicans.
He said it is possible that
someday the Anglican Church
may re-establish full ties with
Rome if it could keep its
married clergy and local cus-
toms, much like the eastern
churches which are in union
with Rome.
the American Association o$
S c h o o I Administrators. ,The
commission's stand represents
a reversal of the strategy of the
NEA and the AASA.
"In view of the failure of
Congress to establish nation-
wide Federal aid to education,"
the commission report said,
"and in view of the actual ex-
istence of a number of cate-
gorical aids, we recommend
that educational leadership de-
vote immediate and detailed at-
tention to the improvement and
spread of categorical aids, in
order to obtain, to the extent
possible, the values previously
sought through general aid."
In addition, the commission
also recommended the estab-
lishment of a U.S. department
of education on a cabinet
level. It said such a depart-
ment would give education
"a higher status at home and
abroad and more direct ac-
cess to the executive policy-
making machinery."
The commission's r e p o r t,
"Educational Responsibilities
of the Federal Government,"
it was predicted here, will stir
up considerable controversy
within the NEA and the AASA.
"A candid review of the ac-
tual blocks to passage of des-
irable legislation reveals that
it is not the issue of need or
the issue of control that ac-
counts for the difficulty in ob-
taining Federal action," the
commission report said.
"The real opposition," it con-
tinues, "arises from three is-
sues: 1. The issue of public
funds directed to church-related
schools. 2. The issue of deseg-
regation in public schools. 3.
The issue of expanded Federal
spending."
Requiem Sung
For Fr. O'Larey
M O U N T L A K E TER- attle, following a heart attack.
Presiding at the Mass was
the Most Reverend Arch-
bishop Thomas A. Connolly.
His chaplains were Rev. John
Egan and Rev. A. L. Leahy.
The celebrant was Rev. How-
ard Lavelle. Deacon was Rev.
William E. Gallagher and sub-
deacon was Rev. Anthony Mc-
Girl. The Rt. Rev. Msgr. Philip
H. Duffy was assistant priest.
The Rev. George McLean
was master of ceremonies at
the Mass and Rev. Stephen
Szeman was master of cere-
monies at the throne. The met-
ropolitan crossbearer was Rev.
James McGreal and the pro-
FATHER O'LAREY cessional crossbearer was Rev.
George McCabe.
Present in the sanctuary
was the Most Reverend Jo-
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RACEuA solemn pontifi-
cal requiem Mass was
sung Tuesday, June 23, at St.
Plus X Church for Rev. Lout-
ence O'Larey, 45, pastor of St.
Plus, who died Saturday, June
20, at Providence Hospital, Se-
tion on its year-long journey
through Congress.
Only five days before the
bill's passage in the Senate,
Mr. Johnson told an interfaith
group from New York:
"Certainly the nation's re-
ligious leaders can play a
very key role in creating an
............... attitude of compliance when
the bill is enacted."
After the bill's Senate pas-
sage, the Chief Executive com.
mented that the measure "will
enlist one of the most powerful
moral forces of American so-
ciety on the side of civil rights
--the moral obligation to re-
spect and obey the law of the
land."
The measure, the most
sweeping civil rights legislation
since the Reconstruction era,
passed the Senate June 19 by a
73 to 27 vote after 83 days of
debate. Tense galleries broke
into applause when the vote
tally was announced.
The ll-title bipartisan bill
outlaws racial and other dis-
crimination and c a ! I s for
equal opportunities in voting,
public accommodations, edu-
cation, public facilities and
private employment.
The measure approved by
the Senate is a substitute for
A JAPANESE PRIEST, Sacred Heart Father Augustine Hiroshi Kobayshi, offered his the one approved by the House.
But it follows the general lines
first solemn Mass in Cleveland's Our Lady of Good Counsel Church because the 1,049 of the House bill and House
pupils of the parish school adopted him. The children tried to raise enough money to leaders said they will accept
bring the priest's parents to the U.S. for his ordination in Fall River, Mass. Failing, the Senate version, confidently
they bought the priest a chalice instead. Making the presentation here are David Harden predicting that it will be
and Mary Ann Benedict. Father Augustine is a convert from Buddhism. cleared for the President by
July 4.
Prominent in the ranks of
NC Warns School Praye supporters ofthebillwereor-
on r ganizati°ns representing the ha"
tion's major churches, aligned
in a historic cooperative under-
WASHINGTON (NC)-- "The first amendment sop- themselves and provided added taking that saw the develop-
Legal Department of the orates Church and State by reason for caution." ment of varied forms of sup-
National Catholic Welfare prohibiting establishment of Among the principal Bible port from big interreligious
Conference has adopted an at- religion and also by prohibit- reading and prayer proposals rallies to the silent, 24-hour.a-
titude of caution and reserve ing government interference was that sponsored by Rap. day vigil maintained by semin-
arians near the Lincoln Me-
toward the proposed constitu- with the free exercise of re- Frank J. Backer of New mortal here.
tional amendment to permit ligion. The government is York, which would provide In Catholic ranks, there was
Bible reading and prayers in thus under a constitutional the constitutional amendment strong support for the legisla-
the nation's public schools, the obligation to show special re- to permit school p r a y e r. tion from individual prelates
spear for the religious liberty Catholic spokesmen took dit- and groups of bishops, such as
department's director had ad- of all citizens; forbidden to fernt views in testifying be- those in Michigan, New Mexi-
vised, prefer one religion to anoth- fore the committee. No post- co and Pennsylvania.
William R. Consedine made er, or to prefer irreligion tion in the controversy was Principal provisions of the
the point in a statement sent over religion." taken by the U.S. Catholic bill are:
to directors of Catholic bureaus The statement said the House hierarchy. -- Voting: Registrars must
of information in dioceses Judiciary Committee hearings "There is too much uncer- apply uniform standards to all
conducted by chairman Eman- tainty as to what should be seeking to vote. Rejection of
throughout the country, uel Celler of New York, "con- done, let alone the possible el- applicants for minor errors on
The statement accompanied tributed to the confusion fect on the existing guaran- their forms is barred. Literacy
issuance in pamphlet form of presented by t h e proposals tees," Consedine asserted, tests must be in writing, and a
a series of articles written by sixth-grade education is pre-
George Reed, associate director sumed enough to make a per-
°f the department' °n the I d I s°n literate" Applies °nly t°
prayer and Bible reading case. In To ayls Progress,, • Federal elections. Provides
The articles were written for • • •
means to speed up court litiga-
the N.C.W.C. News Service and Family of Vietnam Victim Receives His DFC ................ 2 tion of voting cases.
were print ed previously in Monastic Professions at St. Martin's Abbey .... ................ 3 -- Public accommodations:
Catholic papers throughout the For Us Sheep (Editorial) ....................................... 4 Discrimination barred in hotels,
country. Cuba and the Christian ......................................... 5 motels, restaurants, gasoline
stations and places of amuse.
"The department continues to 9,828 Volunteer Workers Answer UGN's Call 6 ment if the goods they handle
believe the present clauses in ...................
the Constitution are of incal- Thirteen Postulants Receive Dominican Habits ................. 7 move in interstate commerce
rulable benefit to religion," the The Many Achievements of Tom Kelley ....................... 8 or if local laws purport to re-
Consedine statement said. Danes Like Married Priest ..................................... I0 quire segregation.
