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the UNITY OCTAVE

JANUARY 18-25

VOL 1, NO.3

ROMAN LEADERS

Businessmen Help Defray

Council Bill VATICAN CITY (NC) - A

group of Roman businessmen and bankers have given His Ho­liness Pope john XXlll about $130,000 to help defray the ex­penses of needy bishops coming to Rome for the ecumenical council.

And the Pope 1n expr 1 -ing his thanks said that the work the council has done thu tar Is bar ly "a sample" of what is to come.

Press Aids

Inter-Faith

Relations NEW YORK (NC)--Although

each expressed his own reser­vations, four panelists repre­senting the three major reli­gions agreed here that the tone of interfaith relations, as re­flected in the religious press , improved noticeably during 1962.

A Protestant editor , a rabbi and two Catholic editors dis­cussed "The Religious Press and Interfaith Tensions" at a panel (Jan. 10) sponsored by the Catholic Institute of the Press, an organization of Ca­tholics here In communications.

ALL AGR ED that the ecu­menical council had opened new vistas of Interfaith cooperation. Wayne Cowan, editorofthe Pro­testant magazine, Christianity and Crisis, declared: "We can't help but be Impressed by th Interested overage given to Vatican II In many Protes­tant journals.

"As most of us are aware, times are changing: we have begun to talk to one another and have even, on occasion, shown a newly discovered willingness to listen. There have been o}). vlous efforts to be charitable to Gne another, to write for one another, to reprint material from one another's pages and generally to acquaint our read-rs with new and dlfferent

views."

THE CHECK !or 81 million lire was presented to the Bis­hop o! Rome at an audience (Jan. 12) tor members of the dloc -san commission for splrltu l preparation for the council. Representatives of Rome's fi­nancial, managerial and \\Ork­lng people were pr s nt along with Archblsoph Ettor Cunlal, vice-regent of th Rome vica­riate. He Is president of the commission, which ha ralH d the citizens of Rome to upport the council both spiritually and financially.

At th s me time, the Pope received other gifts, including a gold bell from the Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Ag­riculture. The bell bears an image of the Good Shepherdand a Christian monogram, sup­ported by the figures of two angels.

REPRESENTATIVES of the workers of Rome gave the Pope a chalice and a gold pen and ink­tand.

Pope John said the presents had been given "in the light of the Epiphany" and "with the same good dispositions of those first pilgrims to Bethlehem."

OF THE ecumenical council, he said that future generations will look back with admira­tion at the work being done by the council Fathers on "what is really fundamental In llfe."

Meanwhile, the italian As­sociation for Cultural Rela­tions with the Soviet Union an­nounced that It has sent the Pope an engraving by Soviet ar­tis t AnatoU Borod1n. The asso­ciation said the purpose of the gltt was to show apprec iation for Pope John as a "fatherly, energetic champion of peace among peoples."

Convention Set MIAMI BEACH. Fla. (NC)

--The 56th annual convention of the National Association of Catholic Publishers and Deal• ers 1n Church Goods wlll be held January 24 to 26 at the Hotel Deauvllle here.

IN JERUSALEM

!Archdiocese of Atlanta

SERVING GEORGIA'S 71 NORTHERN COUNTIES

ATLANTA,GEORGlA THRUSDA Y, jANUARY 17, 1963 $5.00 I'ER YEAR

ARCHBISHOP Paul J. Hnllln n sho\ln with leaders of the Archdiocesan Committee directing the Cl!'nsus to be taken on March 3. Left to right top-- Louis Gordon, Dr. Norman Berry, Albert Lawson, jack Spalding, Leo Zuber, Left to right bottom - Very Rev, Harold j. Rainey, Chancellor, Paul Smith, Rev. John P. Stapleton, Pastor St. Jude Church, and Herb Farnsworth.

ARCHBISHOP HALLINAN

Realism .Not Resolution Need

In Reducing Racial Tensions • See Also Page 3

Archb1~hop Paul J. Hallinan Issued a statement marking the opening Monday of the National Conference on Religion and Race In Chicago, 1n which he said that it must move forward from the area of resolution to realism.

The Archbishop, a partici­pant in the Conference which ends today said:

"This Conference on Religion and Race Is 1gnUicant not only because It links these two fa­cets Into one objective - jus­tice . That is Its most obvious value, but it !s important for two other r asons which may not be as evident.

"FIRST, it · is national In scope, and we hope that this wUl not be mi sed In eith r the North or the South. The plague of racial Injustice Is not contained within geographi­cal Umits. It I'> not a regional

Issue. It is a national issue, and a national disgrace. The findings of this Conference w111 be drawn from the experience of Chicago and Washington as much as from Oxford and Al­bany. What one section does brutally by antiquate( \aw and

MEN FROM MARS

outdated custom, another does just as brutally by private a­greement and the curtain of si­lence. Fr eedom Is a human right and a moral condltlon. When it is diminished any place, it is reduced everywhere. This lesson of history seems to be

Space Age Doesn't

Affect Our Doctrine ROME (NC) - The possibl­

Hty of the discovery of other inhabited plantes besides Earth would not affect the Christian teachings of Revelation, a not­ed jesuit theologian sa.ld here.

Interviewed by the Rome weekly, Vita, Father Domenico Grasso, S, j., a professor at

the Pontifical Gregorian Uni­versity, was asked whether the teachings of Revelation would apply to national beings other than Earth men, if there are any.

"NO, AT least not direct• ly, '' he r(;pUed. "The order of Providence under which we live is dominated by two fundamen­tal event s : or iginal sin and the Redemption.

one of the most difficult for mankind to learn.

" Second, this Conference brings together (to use two medical terms) both the gene­ral practitioner and the re­search specialist. Too often In the past, the exposure of our racial sores has been left to the scholar, the social statis­tician and the publicist. While they have helped to highlight the Injustices, they have Jacked one basic qu111Uicatlon - re• spon 1bi11ty for public decision. To truly form the national con­science, we need not only the theologian, but the pastor; not only the teacher, but the super­intendent of schools; not only the political scientist, but the politician.

IN CHICAGO

Clergy Make Plea To End All Prejudice

CHICAGO (NC) -- A cardi­nal, a rabbi and a leading Pro­testant layman called her for coordlnat d efforts by the three major religious faiths toeradi­cate racial prejudice in thi country.

Albert Cardin 1 M yer, Rab­bi julius Mark and J . lrwln MUler told d 1 gates to the National Confer nee on Reli­gion and Rae that religion must be In the for front of the battl against racial discrimination.

ALL THRI::E spoke at an evening se sian on the opening day (Jan. 14) of the con! renee, the first national meeting to be convened by the major fa ith groups in the U.S. More than 600 voting delegates participat­ed in the sessions, and some 500 persons from the Chicago area attended as observers.

Cardinal Meyer, Archbishop of Chicago, called the race is­sue the • 'nation's unfinished business," and said that "our whole future as a nation and as a religious people may be de­termined by \\hat we do about the race problem in the next few years."

Rabbi Mark, prcsid~:-nt of the Synagogue Council of America, said the confcrLnce Is an effort "to impress the entire Ameri­can people with the urgent ne­cessity of translating Into daily practice the noble concepts of human equality" proclaimed by religion.

MILLLR, pre !dent of the National Council of Churches,

as ert~::d that "this nation can­not continue to pn ach to the whol '~orld ... the brotherhood of man and equal opportunity" \1 hllc at th ~ "''' time den~ ­lng Lhl."sc things ''wh rlver it I conv nl nt and plt•a. tng to th m JOrity ~o do o. ''

C rdlnal M y~ r warned first of "ml t k"n CJr ml:.gu!d d at­tempts" to d al with u h h ... sut•s a raclnl dl crimination,

Dl:.CLAIHNG that ''the g1·eat work" of the con!c rem:t• 1:s to 1 y the foundptlon for ''la t­

lng beneflt , " ht added that this requires • 'th cooperation of the difrercnt racial groups quite as \\ell as of the dlf­f rent faiths."

BERT M. \\AL~. ex~cutive sc(­ret ry of the M11dison, \\Is., Dloce .an Lnion of tht I loly Nam , will rcce v~: thh . ear ' s Vercelll Medal, annual av. ard of the a tiona I lloly Name.: So­ciety,

Unity Octave PRAYER

The following prayer was decreed by Pope enedlct . ·v for dally r~.:citatlon during the octave:

Antiphon: That they all may be one, a Thou, Father, in Me, and I in Thee; that the~ also me} b one In L.s; that the world may believe that Thou hast ent Me (St. john xvll, 21).

V. I say unto thet. thou art Peter:

R. And upon this rock I will build ly Church.

Police Protect Christian "The sin of Adam through

which all Inned, becomtna ene­mies of God, Is offset by the Redemption of jesus Chrl t through his Death and Resur­rection by which all were re­conciled with God and readmit­ted to His friendship . The so­lidarity of all men In s in and red mption Is founded on the common bond of human nature Itself.

IF THIS conference can fuse right ltleas with right actions -if we can move from the area of the proclamation to that of pragmatic testing, from the reading of resolutions to that of religious and racial realism, the nation and humanity wlll gain. In our social responsibi­lity a well as In our respon­sibility to God, we are r -minded that not all who say • 'Lord, Lord" shall enter Into th Kingdom of Heaven, but only those who do the wlll of the Father. His will Is jus­tic . "

0 Lord jesus Christ, .... ho :said unto Thin Apostle : Peace 1 leave with you, My p ace: I glw unto you: regard not our sins, but the faith of Thy Church, and grant unto her that peace and unity which are agreeable to Thy will. \\ ho l!v st and reignc t God forev r and ever. Amen.

FATHER joseph Connon, S. V. D., proreuor of homiletics at the Society of the Divine Word seminary, Techny, lll., wu eltcted presld nt of the Catho-11c Homiletic Society durtna the orsanlzation't annual meet­Ins in Cleveland. He tucc de Masr. John J, Casaells of Im­maculate Conception seminary, DarUnaton, N. J.

Institutions From Mobs jerusalem, Israel (NC) -Pollee hav been put on guard duty outsld all Christian insti­tutions in lara 11 J rusal m ln the wake of demonstrations in whlch window s of a Protestant school were broken and Ca­tholic nuna " re sp t at.

The demonstration• wer at­tributed to a sroup of youna Orthodix jewish fanatics. The Proteatant school were the win­dows y,ere broken 11 a Fin­nish mlulon ry chool. The demonstrator p r o t 1 t e d Chriatlsn proselytism of Jewa, charatng that the F lnnlah school hal youna non·Chrl ttan jewa amoni ttl pupils.

THREE Silt ra of Charltr

who were walking in the vici­nity with their pupil. at th time were pat at and jeer d by some of the demon trators .

The demon trations were

Dropout Meet A community conf rene on

dropouts -- octal dynamite -­will be h ld at th Hotel BUt­more, Atl nta, tomorrow start­Ing at 9:30 a.m.

Is ponsored by th Atl nta br nch of th Am rican A aoc! tlon of Unl­verslt>' Wom n, which states that th probl m or dropouts i s I I rlo S and &row Ina dang r

ff ctlns ver~ arc of our o­eiety and conorny.

viewed here as a s ign of the heady effect mong a segment ot Israel's Orthodox jewish minority of their ''victory'' In the December 6 ruling by the lsra 11 Supreme Court that a C rm Ute priest Is not entitled to Israeli citizenship simply be• cause h wae born a jew. Many Orthodox Jews who have oppoa­ed Christian miastonary worlc all alona view d t9e court de .. c ls lon as brtnatng the • 'mis­sion'' quettlon to a head.

Hamodla, dally paper which holds to Orthodox rell&lous con• vlct!ons, aid (Jan. 6). in com­mentln& on tla d monstratlons that Christian missionary act!· vltle should b prohibited by la\1 without tear of Gentile re­action.

FATHER Grasso aldh does not xpect that the space ge will hold any xtraordln ry con­sequ nces for theoloiY, ''s ince th Christian d rlv a the funda· m ntal knowleds of God, and man !rom the font of Revela­tion."

Concedtns that space dlsco­v ri s may throw more Hsht on the attributes of Ood, e -pecially on Hl1 immens ity and wisdom, Fath r Ora110 said: ''The knowledse of other inha .. blted worlds wUl lead only to the conclusion that thl c reative activity or Ood wa not limited to a stnale Inhabited world and to a slngl order of Provt .. dence."

HISTORY \\'AS made last wtek nd '4h n Ronald Thornton (2nd Rt.) plRye:d tn the stArting flv of St. joaeph' Htah baske:tball team again t t. Plus at acnd H art G}m. ,\ cap city crov.d, inclutl-1na Archbishop Paul J. Hallinan, v.a on hand tor Thornton's de:but.