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VOL. 1 NO. 51
ATLANTA, GEORGIA
THURSDAY. DECEMBER 26. 1963
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ISRAELI BISHOP:
Visit Of Pontiff
Seen Important
To Jewish Race
POPE PAUL VI—This painting of Pope Paul VI, by artist Bernard Godwin of New York
was shown in Rome just before the close of the second session of Vatican Council n. It
is said to be the first portrait for which ,Paul VI agreed to sit since his election as pope,
U.S. EXPERT SAYS
Decree Enactment
John’s ‘Renewal’
POPPS CHRISTMAS MESSAGE
Food, Technology,
Peace, Three Basic
World Necessities
HAIFA, Israel (NC)~ Pope
Paul Vi's January visit to the
Holy Land will have great im
portance for the Jewish people
Israel’s only Catholic bishop
said here.
Melkite Rite Bishop Georges
Hakim of Acre told a press con
ference:
"The Holy Father’s visit is
of great importance. It is proof
that he bears no ill will toward
either the Jews or the Mos
lems."
THE BISHOP added that "the
papal pilgrimage to the Holy
Land has importance for the Je
wish people because of the good
will manifested when the docu
ment on Catholic relations with
the Jews was presented to
the ecumenical council.”
He also stated that the visit
will "create a better atmosp
here on the question of pil
grims’ access to the holy pla
ces of Jordan and Israel, and
Israelis will one day again be
able to visit the Wailing Wall
(in Jordanian Jerusalem) as
well as other sacred sites."
Bishop Hakim spoke as Isra
eli offficials returned from
Rome with technical and secur
ity plans for the Pope's visit
to this country., The officials
of the special cabinet commit
tee for the papal visit—
the director general of the
prime minister's office, Teddy
Kollek, and Police Inspector
General Yosef Nahmias — not
ed that the plans are still se
cret. But it is known that more
than 3,000 policemen and se
curity officers will be posted
around the holy places where
the Pope will go to protect
him and maintain as much sil
ence as possible during his pra
yers.
MEANWHILE, the Israeli
Government Press Office an
nounced that the government is
making every effort to provide
all possible facilities for the
newsmen who are coming here
to report the visit.
\ At his press conference,Bis-
tiop Hakim expressed his grat
itude for the government's ef
fort to ensure a successful pa
pal pilgrimage. He also re
gretted the protest Issued by the
NEW APPOINTMENT
The resignation of Mr. John
Scanlon from the position of Ex
ecutive Secretary of Catholic
Social Services was announced
by the Chancery Office.
At the same time, it advised
that the new Executive Direc
tor will be Mr. John O. Berry,
M. S. W.
Mr. Berry is eminently
qualified for this position: gra
duate of Holy Cross; Master's
Degree (Social Work) from
Boston College; law at Boston
University, and Graduate Semi
nars at the Smith College Sc
hool of Social Work.
Mr. Berry has served as the
Director of Casework of the Ch
ildren’s Home Society of New
Jersey; Consultant, Children’s
Division of the Health and Wel-
nationalist Herut party against
the Pope’s entry into Israel out
side of Jerusalem and the sug
gested meeting between Pope
Paul and President ShneorSha-
zar in Megiddo instead of Jer
usalem. He sid:
"While everybody here
knows that this is all internal
politics, the Herut motion may
be misunderstood by the out
side world. Arab broadcasts
are already exploiting it, cl
aiming that Israel doesnotwant
a papal visit."
At the time Bishop Hakim
spoke (Dec. 19), the Pope’s it
inerary in Israel had not been
officially confirmed. But news
papers widely reported that he
will enter the country (Jan. 5)
from Djennin, Jordan, and be
welcomed by President Shazar
and cabinet members in
Megiddo. Raido and television
facilities have been installed in
that town. As an alternative,
papers here said, the Pope
might fly from Jordanian Jeru
salem to Lydda airport bet
ween Israeli Jerusalem and
Tel Aviv.
POPE PAUL was not expect
ed to enter Israel in Jerusa
lem because of die strictly re
ligious character of his visit.
It was believed possible that
such an entry would be regar
ded by some as reconition of
Jerusalem as the Israeli capi
tal. Although Israel regards the
part of the city under its con
trol as its capital, both the Holy
See and the United Nations have
called for its internationaliza
tion.
Bishop Hakim told newsmen
that "If asked, I am convined-
that the Pope will be happy to
offer his good offices in the con
flict between the Arab states
and Israel." The Bishop also
said he was convinced that the
Pontiff will pray for peace dur
ing his visit here.
The Bishop also said at the
press conference:
"I have asked President Sha
zar to grant a good will amnes
ty to die 30 Christian convicts
who are still in prison, among
them a Coptic priest who was
convicted as a spy.
"I have founded the Pope Paul
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fare Council of Philadelphia;
Executive Director of die
Children's Aid Association of
Hampshire County, Massa
chusetts; Director of the Infant
of Prague Adoption Agency,
California; and Casework Sup
ervisor in various Child and
Family Service Agencies. In
addition, Mr. Berry taught at
the University of Massac
husetts; Springfield College;
Georgian Court, and Rutgers
University.
Mr. Berry will arrive in At
lanta on December 26th, and as
sume his new responsibilities
on December 27th. After Mr.
Berry has had time to familia
rize himself with Atlanta and
the Catholic Social Serlvces, we
are confident that he will carry
on the fine traditions of the
Agency.
Liturgy
Is Pope
(The author of the following^
article, the first of a series 1
on the sweeping liturgical
reform provided for by the ec
umenical council, serves as
one of the council's official ad
visers on liturgical matters. A
priest of the Boston archdioce
se and a professor of canon law
at the Catholic University of
America, Washington, he is the
immediate past president of the
North American Liturgical
Conference.)
BY FATHER
FREDERICK R. MCMANUS
(N. C. W. C. News Service)
By enacting the Second Vat
ican Council’s first document,
the constitution on worship or
liturgy, Pope Paul VI and the
other bishops made concrete
Pope John's goal in summoning
the council— to renew the
Church, to bring the Church’s
ways up to date.
The liturgical constitution
will go into effect for the whole
Church on the first Sunday of
Lent, next Feb. 16; the waiting
period is to enable clergy and
faithful to become acquainted
with the council’s statement.
The importance of reading
and studying the document in the
interval is obvious. In it the
council’s motives and plans are
made perfectly clear.
THIS LENGTHY document—
it runs to more than 16,000
words—is the real beglnnihg of
reform within the Church. Itaf*
fects the single occasion when
Catholics come together every
‘week, the Sunday morning
Mass. It confronts what has
been called the "Sunday morn
ing rflsis" — congregations
that are uninvolved or indiffe
rent, rites that are routine or
unintelligible.
Four hundred years to the
day after the 1563 closing of the
council of Trent, Pope Paul and
the Fathers of the present coun
cil decreed and issued this new
constitution. The historical
parallel goes deeper.
On Dec. 4, 1563, the bishops
at Trent entrusted to the pope
the task of revising the offic
ial missal—and thus revising
the Mass text and rites.
On Dec. 4, 1963, a similar
but much broader revision was
initiated, this time with care
ful directives and explanations
of the reasons for the renewal.
THE CONSTITUTION spells
out clearly the mind of the
Church concerning the renewal
New Post
CULLMAN, Ala. (NC) —Father
Brian J. Egan, O.S.B., former
president of St. Bernard Col
lege here, has accepted a post
as chaplain at the Newman
Center at Pennsylvania State
University in University Park,
Pa. The university has an
enrollment of 18,500. Father
Egan served as president of
St. Bernard’s for nearly 10
years. He left the post the
past October.
of her public worship. But the
practically minded have an im
mediate question about the con
stitution's effects: How soon
can we expect the Mass texts
to be In English? How soon can
we expect the revision of the
sacramental rites?
Part of the answer—the time
element—involves risky specu
lation. A better answer is to
describe the council’s legis
lation on the liturgy under four
rough headings:
(1) Doctrinal. Each of the
seven chapters of the constitu
tion on worship has an im
portant doctrinal introduction.
In the first chapter, for ex
ample, there 1 s a fundamental
section on the nature of public
worship and its significance in
the Church’s whole life. The
council explains that the liturgy
continues Christ's priestly act
ion in all the members of the
Church, how Christ acts in
every liturgical celebration,
that "the liturgy is the sum
mit toward which the activity of
the Church is directed; at the
same time it is the fount from
which all her power flows."
The faithful, says the coun
cil, "must be convinced that
the preeminent manifestation
of the Church consists in the
full active participation of all
God’s holy people in these
liturgical celebrations, es
pecially in the same Eucharist,
in a single prayer, at one altar,
at which there presides the bi
shop surrounded by his college
of priests and by his minis-
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VATICAN CITY (NC)— Pope
Paul VI addressed himself to
"three great needs" inhisfirst
Christmas message to the
world. Food for world's hungry
mouths, technical aid for
emerging nations, and peace.
He said that "solution can be
found in the meaning of Chris
tmas itself: love and unity of
mankind, based on the link
which Christ forged between
God and man."
The Pope also referred to his
pilgrimage next week to the Holy
Land and stressed anew that its
purpose is purely religious. He
said one intention will be to pray
for Christian unity — that there
be "one fold and one shepherd."
In looking at the world’s pro
blems, the Pope said, "The
first is hunger.lt has now been
scientifically proved to Us that
more than one-half of the hu
man race has not enough,
food. Entire generations of
children, even today, are dying
or suffering because of indes
cribable poverty."
The Pope said the solution is
not "In attacking the very fecu
ndity of life by means which
human and Christian ethics
must condemn as illicit."
Instead of increasing the supply
of bread, he said, this solut
ion would dirniqf.jph "by illicit
means the number of those who
eat". This is unworthy of
civilization, he added.
THE POPE SAID his mission
as Supreme Shepherd makes
him look with great sympathy
and loving interest "on new nat
ions achieving independence in
Africa and Asia." He reminded
That the Catholic Church, "by
means of missions among
people has always striven
without thought of greater gain
to develop them to the utmost
capacity, holding in honor all
their human and upright qualit
ies while proclaming to them
their vocation to the supreme
destiny of redeemed man."
He noted that there is a gre
ater need for all to help "those
emerging nations not with
humiliating and self-seeking
beneficence, but with scientific
and technical assistanceandfr-
iendly solidarity to the inter
national world in brotherhood,
in place of paternalism."
In his plea for world peace,
the Pope came up with a new
definition for peace: "Peace is
a well balanced motion," he st
ated, paraphrasing St. August
ine’s view of peace as "tranqu
ility of order."
HE NOTED that peace to
day is based "more on fear
than on friendship; maintained
more by terror or deadly we
apons than by mutural harmony
and by faith among people." He
added: "And if tomorrow peace
WASHINGTON (NC)—Face-
to-face encounters between po
pes and the patriarchs of Con
stantinople have been few over
the centuries— and always
dramatic.
The last such meeting ended
in 1439 after Patriarch Joseph
II and Pope Eugene IV came
together in northern Italy in an
effort to heal the breach which
had split Constantinople and
Rome in 1054.
THEOLOGICALLY, this en
counter was successful because
the two bodies agreed to reso
lve a major bone of contention.
But the agreement was popular
ly repudiated and pope and pat
riarch have not met since.
This is the background to the
possibility that Pope Paul VI
and Patriarch Athenagoras I of
Constantinople (now Istan
bul, Turkey) may meet during
should be broken — which God
forbid — all humanity would be
destroyed."
Men are not at peace, the
Pope added, because their
minds are not united. "Union
of minds is the great need of
contremporary man," the Pope
declared. This can not be achi
eved by clture, he said. But the
unique link forged by Christ
between man and God," enabl
ing each man’s person as it
does, is the most soldi and
hopeful base for unity between
man," he added.
THE POPE said he proposed
his solution for peace especia
lly to those "we believe to be
most ready to receive it: the
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the Pope's pilgrimage to the
Holy Land next month. Athena
goras is honored by other Or
thodox Pariarchs as "first
among equals.”
THE FIRST MEETING of
pope and patriarch took place
in 536 A. D. and it was a har
binger of the tensions that were
to grow until the two split fin
ally.
Pope St. Agapitus went from
Rome to Constantinople be
cause he suspected a newly
named patriarch was guilty of
adhering to the Monophysite
heresey which taught that
Christ had only.one nature, the
divine.
WHEN THE POPE met the
patriarch, in February, 536, he
became convinced his suspic
ions were true and he set about
to remove the patriarch, Anthi-
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PAPAL TRIP MAP—This special newsmap shows some of the Christian shrines in Israel
and Jordan which Pope Paul VI will visit during his Jan. 4 to 6 pilgrimage to the Holy
Land. The Jerusalem map (right) indicates the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, built over
the site where Christ was entombed, where the Pope is scheduled to offer Mass on the
feast of the Epiphany. Jan. 6. (gee also page 3)
John Berry Heads
Up Social Services
ROME AND ORTHODOXY
Pope-Patriarch
Meetings Rare