Official Newspaper for the Archdiocese of Seattle
Vol 66--No. 44 41 Seale, Wash., Friday, Nov. I, 1967
Monk Says Church
Not To Blame
In Diem Trouble
WATTALA, Ceylon (NC)mA Buddhist monk
told students here that no self-respecting Buddhist
should blame Ceylon's Catholics for the trouble be-
tween South Vietnam's government and Buddhists
there.
Boyagama Dhammaaratna Maha Nayake Thera,
a prominent Buddhist monk, told a meeting of the
Buddhist Student Union that Buddhists in South Viet-
nam suffered because of the dictatorial behavior of
one man and his followers.
Buddhists should protest against the actions of
the Diem government, he said, but Catholics in Cey-
lon should not be pilloried for something that is not
their fault.
In Jaffna, a working committee of the East Asian
Headlines and
Deadlines:
Reds Want
More Than
Just Wheat
By George N. gramer, Ph.D.
We haven't sold any
wheat to the Russians
yet. They would prefer
that we give it to them, or at
least favor them with prefer-
ential terms.
Since the Moscow wheat dele-
gation arrived in the U.S. to
meet with U.S. officials and
negotiate terms with private
American grain traders, no
progress has been reported on
closing the deal.
There has been much hag-
gling over the cost of shipping:
When President Kennedy grant-
ed permission to sell wheat to
the Soviet Union he stipulated
that shipments be carried in
U.S.-owned vessels and that
export licenses be granted "for
delivery to and use in the So-
viet Union and Eastern
Europe."
It now appears that the
Russians are complaining
about the e0/ts, because U.S.
transportation rates are too
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Christian Conference issued a
statement on the Vietnam situ-
ation, saying:
"W e associate ourselves
with the plea of His Holiness
Pope Paul VI that proper rec-
ognition of the rights of peo.
pie be accorded and that all
should work to establish fra-
ternal concord. As Christians
we advocate and defend for
all men everywhere the free-
dom that we seek for our own
churches and their mem-
bers."
Representatives from Chris-
tian Chur:hes in Ceylon, India,
Pakistan, Burma, South Korea,
the Philippines, Indonesia, New
Zealand and Australia were at
the Jaffna meeting.
Meanwhile, 20 nursing Sisters
have left a hospital in Well-
sara, yielding to a government
policy which will have all for-
eign nursing nuns out of Ceylon
by next March. At one time, 250
nuns were working in Ceylon's
hospitals. The last group of
nuns, 60 at Colombo General
Hospital, will leave in March.
Fears have been expressed
that a government white pa-
per soon to appear will make
the position of private schools
in Ceylon even more difficult
than it has been since a 1960
law led to government take-
over of most of the country's
smaller private schools.
Before the takeover started,
there were more than 700 pri-
vate schools.
Now there are 48, most of
them Catholic.
CYO
Convention
Draws 700
The Olympic Hotel, a
staid downtown Seattle
landmark, is the site and
setting of approximate-
ly 700 .teen-agers and
adult leaders, attending t h i s
Friday, Saturday and Sunday
the 10th annual Archdiocesan
Convention.
All proceedings will be on
the up-and-up and certainly do
credit to the reputable tradi-
tion that is found in the well-
known hostelry.
For the edification of its
younger as well as older dele-
gates, the convention includes
four plenary panels under the
headings of the social, athletic,
spiritual and cultural aposto-
lates.
Distinguished persons, known
regionally for their stellar
works, will participate as pan-
elists. Their presentation of
views will highlight the con-
vention theme, "The Y o u n g
Catholic in the Lay Aposto-
late."
Saturday's main social
event is the banquet, start-
ing at 6 p.m. Speaker is Rev.
William B. Greenspun, C.S.P.,
of Washington, D. C., na-
tional director of the Aposto-
late of Good Will of the Con-
fraternity of Christian Doe-
trine.
Award presentations at the
banquet will also include the
Archdiocesan Christ the King
Plaques to the best operating
teen clubs and the National
Eagle of the Cross Medals to
inspirational teen-agars.
The convention mixer, fol-
lowing the banquel, is: open to
all non-delegate CY0 c a r d-
carrying teen members. Ad-
mission is $1.50 per person.
Deanery delegates the three
days will wear various col-
ored h a t s, distinguishing
their respective deaneries:
green for central, gold for
northern, red for western
and blue for the southern
deanery.
The convention will conclude
the annual observance of Na-
tional Catholic Youth Week in
the Archdiocese.
e Medalist Praises Negro
Leaders In Rights Issue
NEW YORK (NC) Oct.
28 -- Leadership shown
by Negroes has been the
key force in the struggle
for equal rights for all
men, one of two men hon-
ored for interracial justice
work said here.
This noint was made by
James T. Carey, lecturer on
criminal sociology at the Uni-
versity of California, who with
Percy H. Williams, a member
of the President's Committee
on Equal Employment Oppor-
tunities, received a James J.
Hoey Interracial Justice
Award.
The silver medal awards,
named for the first president
of t h e Catholic Interracial
Council of New York, were
presented to the two men at a
luncheon by Auxiliary Bishop
Philip J. Furlong of New York,
who represented Francis Car-
dinal Spellman.
Carey, who is white, helped
, f o u n d Catholic interracial
councils in San Francisco
and Oakland. He now lives in
Berkeley, Calif. Williams, a
Negro, resides in Washing-
ton, D.C., and is a member
of the Washington archdio-
cesan Committee on Human
Relations.
A. Philip Randolph, presi-
dent of the Brotherhood of
Sleeping Car Porters, said in
an address at the luncheon:
"The coalition of three religi-
ous faiths has brought into the
civil rights struggle a new
force and a new factor that
can make the difference be-
tween failure and success in
working out the problems."
Referring to the August 28
civil rights march on Wash-
ington, Randolph, its organizer,
said it was the first time in
his experience that "the three
faiths agreed on a broad pro-
gram to develop and exe-
cute," and their participation
was "not in terms of mere dis-
cussion but in action."
Carey said in accepting his
award:
"I rejoice that I live in a
time when the leadership in
the struggle for human equal-
ity has passed from white to
black hands so that a new
people might continue in a
new way the story of human
dignity and freedom. I come
here today as a penitent aware
of my own inaction, of the in-
action of all white people, even
those who for a few brief dra-
matic moments affirm their
identity with suffering black
men."
Williams said much has been
accomplished "in the pursuit
of racial justice," but added
that "there is so much still to
be accomplished, and the ur-
gency of the situation demands
even more attention than it
has previously received."
Vatican Pavilion At World's Fair
DEPICTED IS AN architect's rendering of the entrance of the Vatican Pavilion at the
1964 New York World's Fair. Constructed on an oval-shaped plot of land of 50,000 square
feet, it will cost about $3,000,000. Surmounted by a lantern and a cross, it will rise 100 feet
high. This court will be the approach to the exhibit area featuring Michelangelo's famed
"Pieta" and other Christian art works.
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17- Friday's The
13th Are Enough,
Archbishop Writes
ROME (NC) Oct. 30--The Ecumenical Council
overwhelmingly voted to lay the groundwork for
giving Bishops a larger role in governing the Church
and for restoring the ancient order of deacons.
The CoUncil Fathers voted on four questions on
the role of Bishops and one on the permanent dia-
conate. An overwhelming majority agreed that the
bishops form a body or college Which succeeds the
College of the Apostles and, together with the Pope,
has full and supreme power over the Church and
has this power by Divine right.
The vote was taken to guide the Council's
Theological Commission in revising the schema on
the Nature of the Church.
BY THE MOST REV. THOMAS A. CONNOLLY
Archbishop of Seattle
ROME, Oct. 30 m How would you like to come
up against Friday the 13th each month for 13 months?
It is enough to set the naturally superstitious
rational believers in omens whirling with the blind
staggers. There would in all probability be a bounty
set on all black cats, but it would be a real holiday
for the goblins, the gremlins, the leprechauns and
others of that select society.
And yet, it is a distinct possibility for last week the date
for Easter and the new universal calendar, the amendments to
the fifth chapter of the schema on Sacred Liturgy which dealt
with the Liturgical Year, were all approved by overwhelming
votes in their favor. The Church itself would not draw up the
calendar reforms. That would be left to the proper authorities.
The United Nations and other organizations have been
s|udying a perpetual calendar for a number of years. The
Gregorian Calendar, under which we are now operating (since
1582), is said to have need of some revision. The action taken
by the Council merely indicated that the Church would have
no objection to the reforms on religious grounds.
I suppose something can be said in favor of a perpetual
calendar, something similar to the universal calendar, already
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Largest Hospital In Alaska
MOTHER JUDITH, Provincial Superior of the Sacred
Heart Province of the Sisters of Charity of Providence,
stands before the new Providence Hospital in Anchorage,
Alaska, on her first visit to the largest private hospital in
Aaska. Costing $6,000,000, the new 155.bed hospital serves
a wide area of the state. It is the only hospital (private)
equipped with a heliport, which is used regularly. The
Providence Sisters have served Alaskans since 1902.
Priest Drops Fasting
As Mayor Acts On Smut
NEW YORK (NC)- A
Catholic priest has "tem-
porarily" d r o p p e d his
water-only fast against
pornography following
city moves to crack down on
obscenity distributors.
The Rev. Morton A. Hill, S.J.,
of St. Ignatius Church here
took solid food for the first
time in three days October 28
after it was announced that
Deputy Mayor Edward F. Cav-
anagh Jr. had been named to
spearhead a drive against smut.
Father Hill had been living
on nothing but water since 6
p.m. October 25. He said then
he would continue until the city
took aclion against pornog-
raphy distribution.
At the same time Rabbi
Julius G. Neumann of Zichron
Moshe synagogue undertook a
dawn-to-dusk fast in protest
against pornography and op-
pression of Jews in the Soviet
Union.
The 48-year-old Jesuit priest
spoke of his fast and its pur-
poses in a sermon October
27 at St. Ignatius church.
He said distribution of por-
nographic literature to chil-
dren violates "parental civil
rights" and leads to such
evils as sexual perversion
and narcofie addiction-
Father Hill declared t h a t
New York Mayor Robert F.
Wagner last July had promised
a four-part anti-pornography
program in response to ap-
peals from Operation Yorkville,
an i n t e r f a i t h antiobscenity
campaign undertaken here last
year.
He said the program prom-
ised by the Mayor included
establishing a fulltime police
unit to take action against dis-
tributors of "hard core" per-
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I In Today's ]
P aro.ress...
Discrimination, Church.State
Relations Are Council
Topics .................... 2
Ft. Vancouver Program
Honors Pioneer Nun ....... $
Small But Real Beginnings
(Editorial) ................ 4
Civil Rights Statement On
Proper Role Of Clergy .... 5
Lung Study Grant Awarded
To Providence ............ 6
Library Opens At Bellevue's
Sacred Heart Parish ....... 7
Records Don't Mean a Thing
In 39th Prep-O'Dea Grid
Classic ................... 8
Fr. Lyons Aboard Sea-Going
College ................... 10
POPE PAUL VI elevates the Most as he celebrates a memorial Mass in St. Peter's Basil-
ica for the late Pope John XXIII. Fathers of the Second Vatican Council attended tie
Mass which marked the fifth amfiversary of Pope John's election.
--(Religious News Service Photo).
Throngs Note Pope John's
Election Anniversary
VATICAN CITY (NC) Oct. 28m
Pope Paul VI offered Mass in St. Peter's
Basilica for the Ecumenical Council Fa-
thers and a vast throng of laymen,
priests and Religious to mark the fifth
anniversary of tim election of Pope John XXIII
October 28.
The celebration of the election of a late Pope
is unprecedented in living memnry and per-
haps some authorities say certainly--in all his-
tory.
Leo Ca.rdinal Suenens of Malines-Brussds,
in an hour-long eulogy delivered after Pope
Paul's Mass, said Pope John "left men closer to
God and the world a better place for men to
live."
The Belgian Cardinal said that although
Pope John has left us, "we dare to believe that
he is more than ever present in our midst."
The Cardinal declared:
"It is right and fitting that we should ask
him to intercede for us now with God, so that
our council labors, which he inspired, should
evolve and come to perfection."
For the commemorative ceremony, St.
Peter's was still rich with damask wall hang-
ings of the previous day's beatification cere-
mony. Innumerable chandeliers installed for
Blessed Dominic Berberi's beatification illumined
the rites honoring Pope John.
The late Pope's two brothers were present.
Pope Paul shook hands with both of them as he
left the Basilica.
Cardinal Suenens noted in his eulogy that
"on the morrow of his election John XXIII
might have seemed to be a 'Pope of transi-
tion.' "
"And indeed he was that, but in an unex-
pected manner that the expression does not sug-
gest in its usual meaning. History will surely
judge that he opened a new era for the Church
and that he laid the foundations for the transi-
tion from the 20th to the 21st century."
Represenfafive Asks. U.S.
" ;ion of Education
PHILADELPHIA (NC)
Oct. 30 Rep. Hugh L.
Carey appealed here for
a national commission of
"men of good will" to
work out a solution to the is-
sue of Federal aid for elemen-
tary school children, including
those in private schools.
The Brooklyn, N.Y., con-
gressman, outspoken advocate
of including parochia ! and
other private school pupils in
Federal aid proposals, spoke
Oct. 26 to the convention of the
Pennsylvania federation of
the Citizens for Educational
Freedom.
Carey is a member of the
House Education Committee
and sponsor of the G.I. Bill for
Junior, a measure which would
give a flat grant to every school
child which could be spent at
any school. The bill is strong-
ly endorsed by the CEF.
Speaking at the convention's
banquet, Carey contrasted the
spirit of cooperation among
U.S. higher education with the
determination of principal edu-
cational groups on the pri-
mary and secondary level to
keep private schools out of
Federal aid proposals.
The difference in approach,
he said, is the reason why
NCEA. Official. Says
Schools Will Survive
WEST HARTFORD, Conn. (N.C.) Oct. 25---U. S.
Catholic schools face serious problems but they will
survive, "despite some predictions to the contrary,"
a National Catholic Educational Association official
said here.
The Roy. C. Albert Koob,
O. Praem., NCEA secondary
school department associate
secretary, cited "a new spirit
of determination . . . among
Catholic educators which is
leading to definite improve-
ment and higher standards."
"Most of our schools are far
better today, than they were
five years ago," he told the
annual Hartford archdiocesan
teachers' institute.
Father Koob conceded, how-
ever, that Catholic schools are
"moving more slowly in the
direction of improvement than
many critics would like."
He attributed this to three
causes: "lack of adequate
funds to expand and im-
prove; shortage of qualified
personnnel; and a traditional
policy of conservatism re-
garding change in methods
and techniques."
If some cutback in Cath-
die education should be
necessary, as for example
by dropping some elementary
grades, "it will be done re-
luctantly and with the hope
of catching up later for time
lost," he said.
Father Koob charged that
"the greatest weakness" of
Catholic schools today is "in
the area of religious instruc-
tion."
Congress is far advanced in
its work on Federal aid for
colleges and has not yet se-
riously begun work on aid to
pre-eotlege schools.
Carey then drew an imag.
ina/'y picture of representa.
fives of the two educational
levels before a Congressional
committee. He gave the name
"Edgar" to the figure repre-
senting pre-college schools and
"Vergil" to the college spokes-
man. It went this way:
"Edgar says: Sound educa-
tional policy demands that
funds be disbursed to public
elementary schools only.
"Vergil says: It is in the na-
tional interest to aid all st-a-
dents in all schools since ev-
ery school serves a public pur-
pose and we need to develop
the full potential of every
American.
"Edgar says: Aid to all
students will cause fragmen-
tation and endanger the cen-
tralized public system.
"Vergil says: The alterna-
tive to multiplicity of schools
is a state monopoly. A mon-
opoly cannot inspire and su-
stain that variety of thought
and belief essential to a free
pluralistic society.
"Edgar says: Aid to all stu-
. dents is unconstitutional, vio-
lating the Jeffersonian Separ-
ation of Church and State.
"Vergil says: No one seeks
aid to religion. It is the func-
tion of the Congress to write
constitutional legislation which
benefits the children and serves
the general welfare."
Care:/said a "new approach,'
is needed because public and
private elementary education
"in at least half the nation is
in a hazardous difficulty which
this nation can ill afford."
Nation Warned of Reckless.,
nconfrolled Experiments
U
By J. J. Gilbert
ASHINGTON Two
• • sober warnings
have been issued here
that mankind could get
too smart for its own
good.
The welter of speculation over
national politics, coexistence
with Soviet Russia, relations
with our NATO allies, the ad-
verse balance of payments, and
the like, pales somewhat before
the advice of two presidents
that reckless scientific experi-
ments may cause the human be-
ing and the world irreparable
harm.
President Kennedy, address-
ing the National Academy of
Sciences, noted that "science
today has the power for the
first time in history to under-
take experiment with premedi-
tation which can irreversibly
alter our biological and physi-
cal environment on a global
scale."
Dr. Frederick Seitz, presi-
dent of the National Academy
of Sciences, said advances to-
ward completely cracking the
"genetic code" and progress
should he closely watched "to
assure they don't get out of
hand," he said.
President Kennedy told the
scientists that he knew many
of them were concerned over
"our responsibility to control
the effects of our own scien-
tific experiments. .... For," he
said, "as science investigates
the natural environment, it al-
so modifies it--and that modifi-
cation can have incalculable
towards the artificial control of consequences, for evil as well
muscles conceivably could lead as for good."
to great benefits for humanity, Dr. Seitz said current ex'peri-
but there might be unforeseen merits in genetics might reach
adverse effects if such knowl- the point where investigators
edge were applied directly to might want to attempt altering
man and to his agriculture, the nuclei of human cells in
Experiments in these fields both the living and the unborn.
