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Vol. 66--No. 31 41 Sea÷fie' Wesh., Friday, Aug. 2, 1%3 President
Scores Coverage Of Ward Trial:
, Vatican City Daily Hits
Secularist Trend In U.S.
VATICAN CITY, July
31 (Radio, N.C.) m The
Vatican City daily news-
paper has criticized secu-
larist influences in the
United States and the sensa-
tional coverage by the world
press of the Ward trial in Lon-
don while at the same time
commenting on racial integra-
tion in the U.S.
The editorial in L'Osservatore
Romano, signed by assistant
editor Federico Alessandrini,
dealt first with the problem of
racial integration in the U.S.
The newspaper said it recog-
nizes the difficulties involved
in the problem, noting that "it
is a simple matter to solve for
those Who are distant and
strangers to the environment."
It also stated that only six of
146 dioceses in the U.S. have
not yet integrated their schools.
L'Osservatore quoted Dr. J.
H. Jackson, president of the
National Baptist Convention,
U.S.A., Inc., the parent conven-
tion of Negro Baptists, as say-
ing:
"If a prize were given to a
religious denomination for
merit in the fight against
segregation, the prize should
go to the Catholic Church."
Laws Not Enough
The editorial then continued:
"The courage of those p01i-
ticians more conscious of those
duties to the community which
call upon them for leadership
can do much. But the laws, as
good as they may be, do not
suffice alone to form a new
reality when it is a matter of
banishing prejudices, affirm-
ing in consciences the peren-
nial values of the Christian
message as the foundation of
a true equality--not only legal
but also moral--and especially
when it is a matter of promot-
ing and rendering effective a
sense of that charity which is
the true animator of brother-
hood, and therefore of con-
cord."
The general statement of this
problem was followed by an
editorial note that seemed to
refer to the June 17 U.S. Su-
preme Court ruling barring
recitation of the Lord's prayer
and Bible reading in the public
schools, although no specific
reference was made to the
ruling.
"There are indications in
American life," the editorial
stated, "of a 'laicization' of
the European variety which
tends to exclude religious in-
fluence from life.
"That separation which until
a few years ago was meant to
affirm only an equidistant im-
partiality between the public
powers and all religious de-
nominations now tends to be-
come almost legally agnostic.
A long and noble tradition
seems to be /veakened.
Christians Can Do Much
"But as far as the private
citizens are concerned, the
Christians can do much to re-
form, in themselves and in
their environments, those states
of mind which give bad counsel
-- and in certain cases oppose
themselves openly -- to the
profession and practice of
Christianity. Their efforts will
be at the same time a religious
and a civic service."
Turning to newspaper cover-
age of the trial of Dr. Stephen
Ward, charged with procuring
and with living on the earnings
of prostitution, the Vatican
City daily said:
"Except for rare and
praiseworthy exceptions," the
general press dedicates col.
umns and pages to the trial
"in all its most abject de-
tails, so that the episode has
become one of the most re-
pugnant which journals have
reported in recent years."
L'Osservatore made c I e a r
that its criticism "is not simply
because immorality is reported,
for immorality presupposes the
consciousness of morality, but
the display of absolute indif-
ference to decency."
"The news chroniclers be-
lieve," the newspaper con-
Prelate Predicts Faster
Pace At Council Session
CINCINNATI, July 3i
(NC) -- The change of
popes will not change the
character of the Second
Vatican Council, Arch-
bishop Karl J. Alter believes.
The Cincinnati Archbishop,
former chairman of the Na-
tional Catholic Welfare Con-
ference administrative board,
said that he expects the coun-
cil, which will resume Septem-
ber 29, to follow "the course
already set."
The only change he looks
for, he added, is in a "speeding
up" of the procedure of the
council meetings.
Sees Canon Law Changes
In addition to the liturgical
revisions approved by an over-
whelming vote at the council's
first session, Archbishop Alter
believes the council will lead
to changes in canon law.
These changes, he said, would
eoncera the further interna-
tionalization of the Roman
curia, the Vatican administra-
tive staff, and "a decentraliza.
tion in favor of more local
episcopal authority Jo decide
questions where local informa- make clear their relationship
tion and judgment are re- to the universal Church . . .
quired." We can foresee also an expan-
In an interview with the sion-of the competence and au-
Catholic Telegraph, Cincinnati
archdiocesan weekly, the Arch.
bishop emphasized that the in-
ternationalization of the Roman
curia "will require a more
universal outlook not only on
the part of the present curia
officials but on the part of all
of US."
Curia Needs Best Men
"The curia," he pointed out,
"cannot become more interna-
tional in character unless
bishops throughout the world
are willing to send more of
their best men to Rome for
service in the curia."
As for decentralization, the
Archbishop expressed his hope
that the council will bring
about "a clarification of the
status of bishops that will
thority of national conferences
of bishops," he said.
Archbishop Alter admitted
that improvement in the
press coverage of the coun-
cil "is desirable," and indi-
cated that "certain changes
in bringing this about are
under consideration."
But he took a negative view
of admitting reporters to the
council sessions. "What good
will it do them to hear speech-
es in Latin?" he asked. "Their
presence would bring the
danger of misinterpretation' of
highly important dogmatic and
moral statements. Because of
this danger, the Fathers would
not always feel free to speak
candidly. Many of them would
object to this proposal."
HeadWnes and
Deaa00ines:
I
What's
Mark On
Paper?
By George N. Kramer, Ph.D.
For five long years the
mountain labored might-
fly and, to borrow an ex-
press-ton from the ancient Latin
poet Horace, brought forth a
ridiculous mouse.
This is to say that after five
ears of persistent effort the
est finally succeeded in get-
ting the Soviets to initial a
document cast in the form of a
treaty agreeing to a partial nu-
clear test ban.
Foreign Minister Andrei
Gromyko is expected to sign it
tentatively for the Soviet Union
next week, while British For-
eign Minister Lord Home and
Secretary of State Rusk will
sign for the West.
At first widely heralded as
a bisturid breakthrough for
peace, it was very soon re-
garded with "calculated opti-
mism" and "cautious enthu-
siasm."
Those who heard President
Kennedy's speech to the nation
Friday or read it in the papers
must have noticed the rela-
tively small importance he at-
tributed to the treaty draft as
such.
While hopefully describing it
as a "victory for mankind" and
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Nuns Till lO0-Acre Farm
A NUN of the Franciscan Mission of the Divine Mother.
hood order drives a tractor in a wheat field at Godalming,
England. It is one of the many jobs done by the nuns on
the 100-acre farm surrounding their training school for
missionary nurses. (NC Photos)
Step.Up Urged In Referrals
To Birth Control Agencies
BALTIMORE, July 30 (NC)--
The Maryland State Board d
Public Welfare has urged case-
workers to take the initiative in
referring couples on relief to
birth control information agen-
cies.
The board acted in accord-
ance with a policy approved
last Setember which permits
case workers to suggest to cou-
ples on relief that they consult
their physicians, the health
department or Planned Parent-
hood clinics for information on
birth control.
An informal report submit-
ted to members of the board
here by Mrs. Elizabeth Don
Leavy, head of the division of
supervision of local services,
showed that only 119 couples
in Baltimore and in eight
counties had been referred to
birth control information cen-
ters during the past I0
months.
Mrs. Ralph O. Dulany, a
board member, said that case
workers should suggest that
couples on relief seek birth
control information only 'if it is
warranted and if the families
have no religious objections."
tinued, "they ought to collect,
annotate and amplify for var-
ious reasons -- either for
money or to accuse society--
the more apparent evils of so-
ciety, the leprosy which seems
to corrupt the body and, more
than the body, the soul itself.
"The fact is that the post.
tive sides of our times are
disappearing and are being
overcome by the defense,
direct or indirect, of those
negative and deteriorating
aspects, with the result that
there is lacking an authentic
sense of true social conduct,
even in the most qualified
sociology.
"That is," the newspaper
concluded, "there is missing
that awareness that the pro-
tection of moral values is not
mere conventionalism or a
manifestation of the spirit of
the 'petite bourgeois,' but re-
spect for the dignity of the per-
son and for the conditions of
life and of death for a society
of men who want to be civil-
ized."
Bishop Gill
To Bless
USO Home
The Most Reverend
Thomas E. Gill, V.G.,
Auxiliary Bishop of Seat-
tle, will formally bless the
quarters of the USO-National
Catholic Community Service
Club Sunday, August 4, at its
new location, 217 Seneca St.
The solemn ceremony will be-
gin at 8 p.m.
Bishop Gill will preside at a
reception, following the cere-
mony and honoring 140 volun-
teer workers and 18 assisting
organizations.
The event highlights the
club's grand opening, scheduled
within the 10-day Seafair cele-
bration.
Among the dignitaries invited
to participate are Rev. Dennis
G. Moore, Lt. Col., chief of
Catholic chaplains at Fort Lew-
is; Rev. Bernard Filmyer, Lt.
Cmdr., chaplain at the Whidbey
Naval Air Station; and Rev.
John J. Curran, Capt., chaplain
at McChord Air Force Base.
VATICAN CITY, July
29 (Radio, N.C.) His
Holiness Pope Paul VI
stressed that the state
visit of Italian President
Antonio Segni to the Holy See
was tangible proof of the good
working relations b e t w e e n
Church and State.
President Segni's visit July 24
was the fifth by a head of
state during the Pope's month.
long reign. The others were
President John F. Kennedy,
President Eamon de Valera
of Ireland, President Joao
Goulart of Brazil and King
Baudouin of Belgium.
The visit of Italy's chief
of state was taken by Vati-
can observers as forecasting
a possible return visit by
Pope Paul to the Italian
Presidentiul P a I a e e, the
Quirinal.
After an elaborate cere-
monial p r o t o c o 1, President
Segni was received in private
by the Pope for 35 minutes.
Following this, in an address
televised throughout I t a I y,
Pope Paul noted that this was
the third time within a year
that President Segni had
been received at the Vatican
on a state visit.
The first was his July 3,
1962, visit to Pope John XXIII
after his election as President
of Italy, and the second his
Women Active
Vincentians
LISBON, Portugal (NC)-
Portugal's St. Vincent de Paul
Society has an active women's
section which reported distrib-
uting more than $500,000 in
charitable assistance last year,
in addition to operating nurs-
eries, schools, hostels and soup
kitchens.
The St. Vincent de Paul
women, who number 17,600 in
884 conferences, are making in-
tensive efforts to recruit young
people into their ranks.
Pope Sends
Earthquake
Victims Aid
VATICAN CITY, July 31
(Radio, NC)- His Holiness
Pope Paul VI has sent emer-
gency aid and messages to
Yugoslavia expressing his sym-
pathy over the loss of life and
the d a m a g e to earthquake-
stricken Skoplje.
The telegrams were sent to
Archbishop Josip Ujcic of Bel-
grade and Bishop Smiljan
Cekada of Skoplje.
The message to Archbishop
Ujcic said in part:
"We share wholeheartedly
in the sorrow of the noble
Yugoslav nation . . . and We
ask you to communicate to
all the ecclesiastical and
civil authorities and to your
beloved people the expres-
sion of Our sentiments."
The second message, sent to
Bishop Cekada. was signed by
Amleto Cardinal Cicognani,
Papal Secretary of State, in
the Pope's behalf, saying:
"The P o n t i f f intimately
shares the grief caused by the
cruel earthquake which de-
stroyed your city and your re-
gion and, mourning with you
over the death of so many, he
recommends with fervent pray.
era their souls to the divine
mercy and embraces the
wounded with paternal affec-
tion . . . to help you provide
for the most urgent needs the
Vicar of Christ sends an emer-
gency contribution to assist the
most needy families."
Announced By Delegation:
Bishop Furey, Pope Divides
Msgr. Hastrlch Pittsburgh
Named By Pope Exarchate
WASHINGTON, July 31 (NC)
--His Holiness Pope Paul VI
has made the following appoint-
ments in the hierarchy of the
United States:
Auxiliary Bishop Erancis J.
Furey of Philadelphia becomes
Coadjutor Bishop with right of
succession to Bishop Charles
F. Buddy of San Diego.
Msgr. Jerome J. Hastrich,
Vicar General of the diocese
of Madison, becomes Titular
Bishop of Gurza and Auxiliary
to Bishop William P. O'Connor
of Madison, Wis.
Bishop Furey was named
Auxiliary to the late John
Cardinal O'Hara, C.S.C., then
Archbishop of Philadelphia in
1960, and was renamed Auxili-
ary to Archbishop John J.
Krol, Cardinal O'Hara's suc-
cessor, the fellowing year.
Archbishop Krol named Bishop
Furey a Vicar General.
Born in Summit Hill, Pa., in
1905, Bishop Furey was or-
dained in Rome March 15, 1930.
WASHINGTON, July 31 (NC)
--His Holiness Pope Paul VI
has divided the Exarchate of
Pittsburgh into two jurisdic-
tions which will have the status
of eparchies immediately sub-
ject to the Holy See.
One eparchy is located in
Pittsburgh, while the other is
in Passaic, N.J.
Bishop Nicholas Elko is ele-
vated to the status of Eparch
of Pittsburgh. Bishop Stephen
Kocisko becomes Eparch of
Passaic. He has been Auxiliary
Bishop of Pittsburgh since 1956.
These actions of the Pope
were announced here by the
Apostolic Delegation.
The Eparchy of Passaic will
have 94,682 faithful of the
Byzantine Rite, 69 secular
priests, I0 Religious and 68
Religious Sisters. It will in-
elude 74 parishes and 13 paro-
chial schools with an attend-
mace of 2,247 pupils.
The Cathedral Church of St.
Bishop- elect Hastrich was Michael in Passaic can accom-
born in Milwaukee, November modate 3,358 persons and is
13, 1914, the son of George P.
and Clara M. (Dettlaff) Hast-
rich. He was ordained at St.
Francis Seminary February 9,
1941.
He made post-ordination stud-
ies at the Catholic University
of America, specializing in the
work of the Confraternity of
Christian Doctrine.
a spacious edifice suitable for
episcopal functions.
Bishop Elko, who has been
Apostolic Exarch of the By-
zantine Rite Exarchate of
Pittsburgh, was named Apos-
tolic Administrator in Decem-
ber, 1954, and was consecrated
Titular Bishop of Apollonias in
1955.
Pontiff Greets Head of State
THE VISIT of Italian President Antonio Segni to the Holy See July 24 was the fifth by
a head of state during the first month's reign of Pope Paul. After an elaborate ceremonial
protocol, he was received (above) in private by the Pope for 35 minutes. (NC Photos).
visit to present the Balzan
Peace Prize to Pope John.
In expressing his wishes for
Italy's freedom and independ-
ence, Pope Paul expressed the
wish that it "not consider its
incomparable and religious
heritage as a burden left over
from past centuries, but rather
as a source of constantly
youthful energies for its new
culture and modern develop-
ment." He stated:
"May it be the glory and
fortune of Italy not only to
call itself Catholic, but to
feel and really be Catholic.'"
In an exchange of gifts after
the audience, the Pope gave
the President a silver-framed
autographed picture of him-
self, a mosaic copy of the
image of Our Lady of the
Romans which is venerated in
the city's Bascilica of St. Mary
Major, and a gold medal com-
memorating h i s coronation.:
President Segni gave the Pope:
a !7th-century monstrance of
silver set with precious stones.
Report Claiming Church
Anti-Buddhist Challenged
NEW YORK, July 31
(NC)A veteran priest-
journalist has challenged
statements by a U.S. min-
ister linking the Catholic
Church to alleged anti-Buddhist
acts of the South Vietnamese
government of President Ngo
Dinh Diem.
Rev. Patrick O'Connor, S.S.
C., Far East correspondent of
the N.C.W.C. News Service and
a former president of the Cath-
olic Press Association. said
that "to imply that the Cath-
olic Church is responsible for
government policy in Vietnam
would be sheer misrepresenta-
tion."
He also said
that, whatever
the faults of
the Diem gov-
ernment, "life
in South Viet-
nam i s im-
m easure-
ably freer,
easier and
better than
in Communist-
ruled N o r t h FATHER
Vietnam." O'CONNOR
Father O'Connor in a letter
to the New York Times, July
25, denied several statements
about the situation in South
Vietnam attributed by the
Times to the Rev. Donald S.
Harrington.
The Times, in a July 1 news
story on a sermon preached
by the Rev. Harrington at the
Community Church here, re-
ported him as saying that the
Catholic Church and the United
States government must share
responsibility w i t h President
Diem for the death of a Budd-
hist monk who publicly burned
himself to death in Saigon
as a protest against the Diem:
government's p o 1 i c y toward
Buddhism.
The U. S. government has
been a e t i v e I y supporting
South Vietnam's war against
Communist Viet Cong guer.
rillas. President Diem and his
family are Catholics. Cath.
olios in South Vietnam num-
ber about 1.25 million (nearly
nine per cent) in a total
population of some 14.1 mil-
lion,
The number of Buddhists is
variously reported. Some esti-
mates say the population of
South Vietnam is 70 per cent
Buddhist. Other estimates, how-
ever, say the number of prac-
Louisiana Bishop Takes
Desegregation Step
BATON ROUGE, La., July 31 (NC)Bishop
Robert Emmett Tracy has ordered racial integration
at four Catholic high schools in September, 1964,
as the "initial step" toward abolition of segregation
in all Catholic institutions in the Baton Rouge diocese.
The announcement was made
by the Bishop in a pastoral
letter which was read July 28
from the pulpits in all Catho-
lic churches in the 12-parish
(county) diocese.
Bishop Tracy directed that
racial bars be dropped in the
llth and 12th grades of four
Catholic high schools in East
Baton Rouge Parish in Sep-
tember, 1964.
The prelate said this will
bring the Catholic high schools
in line with public schools
which will begin accepting
Negro students in the 12th
grade in September in the par-
ish. The integration of the
public schools was ordered as
a result of a recent Federal
Named Prefect
ILDEBRANDO C A R D I-
NAL ANTONIUTTI, 64,
has been named Prefect of
the Sacred Congregation of
Religious, filling the vacan-
cy caused by the death of
Valerio Cardinal Valeri July
22.
court order after an eight-
year legal battle. Bishop Tracy
said the court order came too
late to effect integration for
the Catholic schools this year.
Bishop "[racy said the
action is the "initial step" in
the eventual integration of all
Catholic institutions, educa-
tional and otherwise, through-
out the diocese. He said the
complete desegration w i 11
come "all in due time."
The Bishop said that regi-
stration at all schools affected
will be held in March, 1964, at
a date to be fixed later. He
stated: "Let us all pray that
we may meet in good con-
science the delicate and acute
social problems of our times.
We shall be judged by God for
our part in this advance by a
more Christian society. Sup-
port for the Church's program
of social justice will make that
judgment easier for it will in-
duce in our souls-a Christlike
attitude of peace and harmony
and good will toward all men
but especially toward those
who are of the household of
the Faith."
In addition to the Bishop's
pastoral letter, a pamphlet
entitled "Official Position of
the Diocese of Baton Rouge
on Racial Justice" was dis-
tributed throughout the
diocese.
The Bishop said in the pam-
phlet that he had sent to the
40,090 Catholic homes in his
diocese a copy of the 1958
statement of the U.S. Bishops
on the issue of racial justice,
and a copy of the pamphlet
"Let's Talk Sense About the
Negro," by Rev. Clement J.
McNaspy, S.J.,
ricing Buddhists is only three
or four million, while the Gen-
eral Buddhist Association, the
organization behind the cur-
rent protests, has only one mil-
lion members.
The Times story on the Rev.
Harrington's sermon said he
listed several instances of
alleged government repression
of Buddhists and favoritism to-
ward Catholics. It quoted him
as saying:
Embarrassing To Church
"This situation must be ex%
tremely embarrassing to thd :;
Roman Catholic Chqrch. If it
goes unreprirriani,'he Cath-
olic Church can have no
future in Vietnam.
"It is utterly contrary to the
spirit of Pope John. It casts
a shadow of shame on the new
brightness Pope John had
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Criticism Of
Catholic Press
Called 'Unfair'
NEW YORK, Aug. 1
(NC)--The executive sec-
retary of the Catholic
Press Association has de-
scribed recent criticism
of the Catholic press by the
president of the American Med-
ical Association as "unfair and
inaccurate" and has asked for
an apology.
In a letter to Dr, Edward
Annis of Miami, AMA presi-
dent, James A. Doyle, head of
the CPA's national office here,
refers to remarks by Dr. Annis
which characterized an edito-
rial in a Catholic newspaper as
"typical of the distortion of the
Catholic press."
Doyle wrote in his letter:
"It is simply not a fact that
distortion eharaeterizes the
Catholic press. What is typi-
eal of Catholic publications is
a never-ending seareh for
truth--a regular and constant
effort to apply the fundamen.
tal truths of the Catholic
Faith to all those aspects Of
social life today which are the
legitimate concern of all peo-
ple and all publications."
Dr. Annis made his remarks
recently in commenting on an
editorial in the Catholic Star
Herald. newspaper of the Cam-
den, N.J., diocese. The news-
paper was critical of the AMA's
opposition to Medicare. Presi-
dent Kennedy's proposal for
hospital care of the aged under
the Social Security program.
Doyle said: "If Catholic pub-
lications happen to disagree
with your feelings and say so,
that's not distortion--that s de-
mocracy-and it's typical of the
freedom of expression and the
freedom of the press we all
want to guard most jealously."
"I think you owe our Cath=
olic press an apology," Doyle
wrote, "and we would be happy
to give you the opportunity--
in our association publication--
to set the record straight, so
that our editors and publishers
will know that you know them
well enough to characterize
them properly--as honest, fair.
inqmring journalists, seeking
after truth in a variety of im-
portant areas of American life
life today."
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