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By LOUIS OUZER be there when we need him, care. We bread is denied you and hunger sets in, lean on. For, in order to go forward we want to cLQ_alL-Q£Jhe-taMng: lQ_soraeeBe- -4he-battle becomcs-a-huge-rclicf. It is like- -Bittst-brace. ourselves on the_jjast_We_jjU- Mr. «uzcr, well-known Rochester photog- 7 whose voice we imagine exists so we can being out in the hot"sun for twenty years Tieed -to create ouFdwh- walls5 around us. #ireNif^FS rapher recently went to Israel where he ask the questions and give ourselves the and finally you get the right to take a visited the .historic "Wailing Wall" — answers. * • ;• • • • *• *' ' y - • -shower—the-tension-is relaxed. • 5. They say. irt..IgraeL.that"blood is only remnant of the ancient Jewish thicker than oil" but the rest of the world Temple at Jerusalem. He describes his 2. Qn the way home from Israel in an So, the Israelis sang into Jialtle^-for if seems to think that the opposite is true. I thoughts in this article written on his airplane, six miles high in the sky, I they lost the war, hot many would have think the Israelis are ready to defend To I stan return flight to America. thought perhaps I was closer to God but been around to see the morning sun. Not ''themselves again if necessary to the last I found He exists on earth as well as in many people see the mornirig sun but the drop, not for oil but for life. I think that heaven. It is the earth with its people fact that we know it exists is all that what the Wall is all about is that God in History reversed itself in Jerusalem in June when 1. The history of man and his bible that creates "The Wall." After all, there matters—the knowing it is there if we his wisdom, is waiting for man to put a Jews regained control of that city for the first time is, in itself, a beautiful story. is no "Wall" here at 30,000 feet, or is want to see it. door in it and build a bridge of under­ At S since the year, 70. there? standing. In certain areas of man's dreams, fable - I went to the ancient "Wailing Wall"— Parish activitiy rr became a necessary part of life. The 3. The Israelis, by the very nature of I could not identify with it as I could with 6. The Arab and Israeli children I pho­ Another historic reversal will takje place in Istan­ tographed all smile, cry the same as other during the summe need to possess, belong, to be accepted their heritage, are strong. If you were the newer memorial for the 6,000,000 places— bul this coming week when Pope Paul goes there to meet by someone other than.a human being was threatened for twenty years by your next victims of Nazi Germany because I was in children, all hold hands together walking again Greek Patriarch Athenagoras whom he met three man's constant search. We all need and door neighbor you would defend yourself the last war- in. Germany. with their parents, but they are all afraid. but not in the in years ago in Jerusalem. want someone to talk to—not someone to and become as expert as you could to "Why should fear have to be the breakfast talk back at—someone who will listen, protect your property. When the loaf of 4. Yet "The Wall" is a place for man to of their lives? July and August And Jerusalem is quite likely to be a topic the two packed months for this sector, be it Re prelates will talk about. Both, it seems* object to the IIIIIIHIIIIIIII! Hill Jewish takeover of the ancient Holy City. |i|i|!l!lil!H.MMIII1!ltNiMMi|!|:lil1l!m.ll!M1«il1:Mtt "Thlra~or~~ other urbi the diocese. Jerusalem was already ancient when Istanbul was In the next few i still a village called Byzantium. » Courier-Journal, sor parishes will be But when Saul — later St. Paul :— left Jerusalem Cod's Word —Bond for Christians, Jews their problems noti on his journey to persecute the refugee Christians at what is "being; done Damascus, Byzantium's destiny was then in large mea­ New York—(RNS)—Domini­ of Constantine," the theocratic Noah and because we are work­ coming. When he arrives, he said, in a slightly modified quo­ Take St. Bridget sure determined. can Father Bruno Hussar is a ideal of Church-state union ing for peace." "will have the same face for tation from the great Spanish ester, for example. man much concerned with which the Church received from The Rainbow Group represents both of us." mystic poet, St. John of the St. Paul took the infant faith, given him on the breaking down walls —a con­ the Roman Empire and which the kind of dialogue Father Cross. This 7th Ward ps cern natural, perhaps, for a has now, practically disappeared Meanwhile, he saidrlhe basis tered in the Hand-C road to Damascus, up to what we today call Turkey and — "except for an exceptional Bruno considers best for Chris­ for Christian-Jewish community , "St. John said 'Where there .^rnan, who lives where he lives tian-Jewish conversations — a between St. Paul S then to Greece and to Rome. Three centuries later when sand does what he does. case like Spain where Franco is the common devotion of is no love, sow love and you will - small group of highly qualified Christians and Jews to the reap love,'" Father Bruno ob­ ton Avenue North. the ^onvertea "Emperor* Constantine- transferred the is, in a sense, the last successor ulous section althoi , The priest's home is in Jeru­ of Constantine." men, deeply representative of Word of God. "We find this served. "I should correct him: capital of the empire from Rome to the little village on salem, a city which was until their own faith and fully com­ Word in different embodi­ someone will reap love, even if jority of the peor. the Bosporus he gave the frontier town a new name — recently divided by a wall more • The second is "the wall of mitted to it, who know what the ments," he said, "but it is the not the one who sowed it." Catholics. ' Constantinople. Today the Turk^s call it Istanbul. impassable than the one in Ber­ the Counter-Reformation" — a other parties believe and can Word of the same God." lin. He is the director of St. set of defense measures whose speak with understanding. On the final reunion of Chris­ As far as Fatr Isaiah's House, a small but diverse components include the The experience that brought tians and Jews, which he is sure Vogt, trie pastor, is For more than a thousand years, the silver trumpets ecumenically vigorous house of administrative centralization of With this sort of group, he home this fact to him most will occur without efforts at St. Bridget's is the of the Basileus echoed across the Bosporus — longer studies and center of dialogue. the Church, the Index Liborum, said, there Is no basis for the clearly, he said, was his pres­ proselytization or mass conver­ everybody in the ne than they had been heard across the Tiber at Rome. As a director, he has done Pope Pius IX's "Syllabus of fear of proselytization that ence at a Hassidic celebration sion, Father Bruno said simply some Jews associate with the Their summer pre many jobs, including answering Errors," the Inquisition and of the Jewish feast of Sichas that he believes "God will in­ this. The Christian emperors of Constantinople and the telephone, fund-raising and hundreds of other things which idea of dialogue. Torah. vent a way by which He will their patriarchal bishops soon came into conflict with even cooking for the small com- were once considered Essential "The purpose of dialogue," he "I watched a holy old man bring us together." • If you visit the Trrunrty~for"tts first three-years: for tire Church's survival. said, "is not to try to convert. 1. cajrying. the_ Torah., scroll. in . day, you'll fuuisoi the, Pontiff back in Rome and there began (he seeds of ""Nor is it to make some" sort To-describe- his Mew. of-the- " But his real Job, as Father "Pope John was the demoli­ procession," he said, "and I present situation of the Catholic -activities in-full swi *~ thar division which climax­ of marmalade of religion. It saw the expression of combined Bruno sees It, is "to> break tion expert who blew down is to understand—to break down Church in the post-Vatican II Special Educ ed in the year 1054 when down walls of misunderstand­ these walls," the priest said. joy and gravity on his face. I period, he chose, as might be Rome and Constantinople walls of misunderstanding and saw the elaborate, loving ritual Pre-school childi ing" which have separated "Now, in Pope Paul, we have an to form deep, true, personal expected, a Jewish comparison:' parted on their ecclesiasti­ Christians and Jews. engineer who can rebuild as with which they protect and the travels of the tribes of Is­ them, are being friendships which transcend our venerate the Torah and I knew their fall debut int cal paths. John would never have been differences." rael through the desert to the He unites Christianity and able to do." that their feeling for the Torah Promised Land. ten through the f< Judaism strikingly in himself— He said it was his "personal is most like my own feeling for Start program. Twc Crusade armies from In his own field, the promo­ the Blessed Sacrament. When cupy classrooms, twi western Europe later sack­ a son of Jewish parents, born belief—and one which I am "Referring to those who left in Egypt but now, after many tion of Jewish-Christian under­ prepared to demonstrate theo­ I carry the Blessed Sacrament Egypt with Moses," he said, bussed to the Acac ed Constantinople, sealing years of living in France, a standing, Father Bruno's insti­ logically" that "relations be­ in procession, it is with that "Jews call then! "The Genera­ Sacred Heart on the rift into a permanent citizen of Israel. He came to tute works on two levels—schol­ tween Christians and Jews must same joy and seriousness. The tion of the Desert' You will re­ daily. Sister Virgin enmity. New York to attend the sessions arship, to establish the kind of not be on a missionary level precautions the Church takes call that they wandered for 40 in charge at St. Bri of the United Nations General knowledge which is the only but on- an ecumenical level." with the Eucharist are like the years, and that all but two of ed by Miss Gloria L Pope John XXIII. while Assembly discussing the Arab- sure basis of love; and dialogue, care the Jews take in copying them left their bones in the Israeli war and to do what he for the fostering and expression "What unites us," he said, "Is and handling the Torah." desert. Even Moses did not The Head Start si still a Vatican diplomat in of that love. He is one of the could to support Israel. At the much more fundamental than "For Catholics," he said, enter the Promised Land. from 9:30 a.m. to 1 the Balkans, met many Or­ U.N., he found reflections of founders of the 'Rainbow what divides us. When our Jew­ days a week and in Group," which brings together "Christ is the Word of God be­ thodox clerics who later the same kind of misunderstand­ ish brothers say their great come man. For Jews, the Word "Today, after the Council, the lunch for trie chil ing that led to the war in the seven Jews and seven Chris­ prayer, 'Shema Ylsrael,' affirm­ Church is in a situation like school, the teacher came into key positions in tians for fraternal discussions. of God is written, embodied in first place. Asked to give an ing their belief in one God, we the Torah, which is holy for that of the Generation of the other two hours v their Church and his genial interview to Religious News Resides himself and two other can say it with them." Desert, waiting to enter the pupils' homes, gett character was the healing Latin Rite Catholic priests, the Christians also. Just as we reach Service, he said he would rather the Father through Christ, His Promised Land. We should re­ ed withi the paren balm, long needed in this talk about religion than politics. Christian membership of the Conversion, "Father Bruno member those 40 years and be gram Ls geared t group includes an Arab Greek- said, is "something that we all Word, Jews reach the Father quite un-Christian division through His Word in the Torah. prepared to wait before seeing youngsters make For Catholics, he said, It is Catholic priest, an Anglican, a need, not something that we can all the results of the Council. transition from nor of ten centuries duration. easier now to break down the Baptist and two Dutch Calvin offer en masse to the Jews." Christ and the Torah both take men beyond time and space to We should have much under­ and literally giv< ATHENAGORAS _ _ , ., , . "walls of misunderstanding" be­ ists. standing and love and not try "•head start" in t cause two other waits which The full union of Christianity the eternal Father. And when education. Pope Paul then chose to "We call it the Rainbow and Judaism may not come until I arrive there, I meet the Jew." to judge the elders of the have long surrounded the Calho- 1 Group; he expjained "because.-. the nrrival nf the Messiah, he Church who are unable to : make his dramatic trip to Jerusalem, where the Chris- ilcuChuJCiwhavu-disappeared,---^^ ( a i 3 , r =Day= CaBpi -TKr-ftffhide' all iirra%erCT~&~p1ff TKrt8r nie 1fl*v^ iaTige ar TaTJidry-^r some^pBcc-~"' ^ia^-4aith-wayborn^ari1>«*^e^e^ifc^ri^ed;ratrJeast=Mwithout the chasms which now mar its image toe the siah and we await his second dialogue might be expressed, he pie would like." • One, he said, is "the wall ion, because w-e are all sons of . .Thec, children c -AvorldT^Atheiragoras-met-the-^ontiff in an embrace-wit^ school age get^ a nessed by millions on television and then a year later some clay calhp ^they-revoked the edicts of—excommunication their pre- through the St. Porres CYO Day C; decessors a thousand years earlier thundered against ments are made t each other. youngsters by bus parks for a day of Theological and canonical divisions are not healed and swimming. A by an embrace, however, nor even by a revocation of an St Bridget's, and excommunication. But these are certainly necessary first steps. NuraVisitc And one of those steps is prayer. Arabs from area That is why Pope Paul will add to his Istanbul once under Jordan journey a visit to Ephesus-, traditionally said to be the city where the Blessed Virgin Mary and St. John lived control, and now 11 after our Lord's Ascension. Our Lady's last recorded words in Scripture are those spoken at Cana to the under Israeli con­ servants, "Do whatever He shall say to you." And St. While other John records the words our Lord spoke in the last mo­ trol, wait for bus sible -violence ii ments He was still a free man, prior to His agony in the four Sisters of Garden at Gethsemane, and it was His farewell wish that ride from Bethle­ hospitality and fri His disciples "might be one." be found there. hem to Jordan. Sisters of St. Jo: It seems these days God is bringing us full circle, David, .Adelaide Fr back again to a fresh start, giving us the opportunity to Many who fled Jew­ and Celine are usi accomplish what our ancestors where unable to do— to mer months to fam: ish takeover in June selves with the pei attain that unity which is the destiny of the human problems of ghetto family so that, at last, there may perhaps be peace. around St. Bridget' are now returning/ other sister, Sister —Father Henry A. Attvell will be-come the c faced with August visitor for the are ber. Meanwhile, h 15th deadline to re­ Faith Thought Still claim their homes. Alive in Red China Co u r i e r Photo by 3-D Louis Ouzer. Hong Kong — (RNS) — The first Chinese mem­ ber of the Roman Catholic hierarchy in Hong Kong is convinced that there are still true Catholics in Red AiFi China despite the fact the churches there have been Rev. It i c h a r c closed for many years. S.T.L., C.G.M., dire at the Chicago Bishop-elect Francis Hsu, named an auxiliary to Seminary of Saint Bishop Lorenzo Bianchi of Hong Kong, said: Lake, Mundelein, lecture to a wide "There Tslio 17»edorn~oT"worshIp In China hut of church musiciai I am sure that Catholics still remain true to Iheir tors frem 15 state; who will attend 1 faith. If you cannot go to Mass, God does not expect I'MUTi'i WIIIIIIM NiiTiiiiiiiii rum < ii|i|imii;i ITOHI'I 11111 w i n 11111111111111111111,| |i|inn:|!|i|,| \n\\ H WW\ H i wv i niniHii'iiii! mil M111111 if i'N iTiiiwrrrntrTOi'iTpnTiwim liturgieal music you to do so, but can still pray and follow the pre­ ducted by the Gn cepts of the Church in daily life." tute of America Fisher College, Au "Hong Kong is one of the bigegst dioceses in The "seminar is the Far East," Bishop-elect Hsu said, "and it is Word from the People of Cod — Irish Section the music commi growing fast. We've had ah eightfold increase in the Diocese of Roch number-of Catholics . . Fifteen years ago there were By GARY MacEOIN .should not be lost on political and reli­ What actually exists in Ireland is half seem "somehow to become swamped and manned by the P about 30,000^ Catholics, but today we number a gious leaders. It shows that he recognizes, a dozen colleges, each attempting to cover submerged in the excessive caution of A. Ehmann, paste Dublin — The Irish insist that the navy perhaps has long recognized without being an educational spectrum far wider than chael's Church. quarter of a million." saying is merely a variant of an old collective episcopal activity." 4Jaeli«? triads the - 04-tginalr -they— elaim,- able to do so, that religion is no justifi- its resources and narrower than national The theme of'Fa ran something like this: "Three'ways to nrtiori for separate stratification of the needs, all limited to the same spectrum, One bishop has just demonstrated what lectures and demoi il'HM'I'lil 11111 I.I 1111II MM I'll 11111 111 lililMTHIilWliliUHIMll |i| |<| |i| 11 n 111|||| 11111 do a thing, the right way, the wrong'way, nation's social and cudtural life. the effort complicated by the false Catho­ caution means. Notifying his priests that be "Tlie Musical the Irish way." lic - Protestant labels. The institutional Rome now permits them to say the Canon of Vatican II." He \ This is not yet ecumenism. Louis Mc- Church which long exercised and still ar­ aloud (in Latin, of course!) at public the spirit of con The Catholic Very much in the third of these three Rcdmond, one of the very few young rogates to itself exclusive authority in all Masses,, he added that he urgently ex­ and point out 'the I ways, Ireland Is today beginning to reveal intellectuals who attempt to express the areas of national life showed no unhappi- horted them under no circumstances to do so. spectres in rela a significant response to the' call for mood of their generation, describes it as ness with the situation. It is significant music of the Chi Church renewal of the Vatican Council. prc-ecumenical—an emotional sensing that that the State has= finally decided to take "official Catholic attitudes are inadequate, a major independent initiative. The col- The same caution has also been dem­ resultant rubrics The mood is encouragingly different from onstrated in the selection of the euphemis­ dures to be follov TH« NtwirAut or THe *pcM!sm Diocese Journal the combination of ignorance and resist­ Insulting to Protestants, frustrating for leges survive through major State sub­ ance I observed eighteen months ago, Christians who want to give expression to sidization, which means that the State tically described representatives of the Father Wojcik, the generous Instincts of the age." But if Irish laity to the upcoming World Con­ shortly after the Council ended, or the can here make its decision stick. ate studies in c Vol. 78 No. 42 Friday, July 21,1967 apathy still prevalent nine months ago. not yet ecumenism, it Is a mighty step gress of the Lay Apostolate. The proce­ It is still, however, Irish. There is nothing towards it. Surprisingly again, the public reaction dures for choosihg them was established were made at the has been universally favorable. Without at a secret meeting of a bishops' com­ stitute of Sacred simple about it. mittee. At least one delegate was notified MOST REV. FULTON J. SHEEN, Ph.D., D.D., President Another major step, also being taken- ever having been told what Vatican II has had many yei with Irish indirectness, is the proposed by mail of his appointment without any Published weekly by the Rochester Catholic Prem Association We have just had, for example, the meant when it spoke of the signs of the ence riot only in ( epoch-making and epoch-ending reception incorporation of Trinity and National in times, the Irish public has instinctively previous consultation. IJe still doesn't MAIN OFFIRB 35 Scio St. 4M-7OB0 ? Rochester, N. Y. 14604 a single Irish university. Formally, neither know why the divining rod pointed in his inary and parish of the Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury recognized this as one. direction. T ELMIRA OFFICE 317*Robldeon Did*.. Lake St. ^E 2-r>6tjH0r RE 2-342.1 and his colleague, the Church of Ireland is denominational. National is not even de grams, but also in AUBUBN OFFICE 168 K. Genesee, St. „ < \ AL 2-4440 facto Catholic in arty organic or construc­ implementing dea Archbishop of Dublin, by the Roman Cath­ Trieste and similar instances show that One question remains.unanswered. Will olic-Archbishop of Dublin. tive sense. Trinity," though still banned the thinking young people, lay and clerical gibnat programs fi Second claim iwBtiiKe paid nt Rochester, N.Y. by the Arclibishop (Jf Dublin as a danger alike, crave a leadership which is notori­ the bishops tell them what they are to say on behalf of. the Irish laity before archdiocese where """AS fequlrjld"tinder the Act of Conrfnefa-rfr Mnfch 3.' 1179. • The unanimous approval of the meeting. -'to the faithyhas a,Catholic head, av largely ously.lacking. Individual bishops are open ...._.SJmlLs2K.ifci~'- -y-°.a-r. ."Hk'ETiPi'SR in .U.S.,. J6,O0 ' of the three archbishops by the Irish Catholic faculty, and a largely Catholic" and trusting, Louis McRedm6nd wrote they leave for Rome in October, or will ber of the music # 1 'jQanado 15.60; Foreign Countries $0.75 ' CMhollc ~rrr"the -street- is -a -tessoir'thai" student'bodjf."" ~"~ - ~— l-ecenrly—in- the-Jestiit-«-Studies, but-they they Sail under sealed" orders to be Father Wojcik. w -opened-bnly-when ttne-enemy-is-slghted? ""pficTIcal Solution