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Miamian Named to Vatican Post Miamian named to Vatican post A Miami attorney who specializes in human rights policies, he said, "It's more federal practice and international law will the other way around, isn't it?" and added become the first Catholic ever to serve as a that he would not be involved with "pure personal envoy to a Pope for a U.S. politics." He also stated that his ap- president. pointment does not suggest any Vatican David Walters, 60, is a member of St. intention of influencing internal U.S. Kieran parish, a Knight of Malta, and a politics. member of the Miami Serra Club. He will Recommended for the Vatican succeed Henry Cabot Lodge who has position by key Church and political served in the Vatican post since 1970, leaders including Archbishop Coleman F. when he was appointed by former Carroll of Miami and Cardinal Terence president Richard Nixon. Lodge continued Cooke, Archbishop of New York. Walters in the post under former president Gerald served as general co-chairman of the Arch- Ford and generally visited the Vatican Bishop's Charities Drive in 1975 in Miami twice a year during his term. and is a member of the board of trustees Lodge's predecessor, Myron Taylor, and chairman of the Development Com- appointed by former president Franklin D. mittee at Barry College. Archbishop Roosevelt in 1940, made occasional visits Carroll and Cardinal Cooke backed his to the Vatican. nomination on a personal level, Walters Walters says that he sees no conflict said. in a Catholic representing the United A native of Cleveland, he was States at the Vatican. "It shows a good graduated from Baldwin College in Ohio, deal of enlightement has taken place," he the Cleveland School of Law and the said. "Of course, I'll be communicating for University of Miami Law School. During the President as an American, not just as a WW II he was awarded a Bronze Star as a Catholic." Special Agent in the Army's Counter- According to Walters his top priority intelligence Corps and formerly was an would be "human rights."Asked about the honorary consul to the Republic of Haiti. David Walters With Archbishop Coleman F. Carroll Vatican's support for President Carter's (Continued on page 15) ^VOICE VOL. XIX No. 17 PRICE 25c JULY 8, 1977 J Vatican urges state aid to Catholic schools By JOHN MUTHIG their members have given up a very heavy burden of cost to education," according to the education and establishes its VATICAN CITY-(NC)- teaching to work in other maintain an often highly im- document. own so-called neutral and In a major document, the pastoral fields. portant network of Catholic It explained that if the monolithic system." Vatican's top education The document, though schools. Catholic schools were to serve The document says that department has backed state generally positive in tone, "These Catholics need to "exclusively or predominantly" "professional organizations" aid to Catholic schools as the deplores the "nearsightedness" be assured as they strive to only the rich, the schools protecting school personnel ideal way for governments to of some governments which regularize the frequent in- "could be contributing to must not ignore the special guarantee pluralism in have not provided financial aid justices in their school situation maintaining their privileged apostolic mission of the education. for Church schools. that they are not only helping position, and could thereby Catholic school. The document, issued by In some countries, it says, to provide every child with an continue to favor a society "The rights of people who the Vatican Congregation for "governments have ap- education that respects his full which is unjust." are involved in the school must Catholic Education, asserts preciated the advantages and development, but that they are The document says that be safeguarded in strict that the Church is "absolutely justice," it says. "But, no convinced" that the Catholic matter what material interests school system must be con- may be at stake, or what social tinued for the good of the 'The Catholic school, far more than any and moral conditions affect Church and mankind. their professional development, In an indirect reference to other, must be a community whose aim a principle of Vatican (Council) unionization in Catholic 1 II has a special application in schools, the document defends is the transmission of values for living. this context: 'The faithful the rights of school personnel to should learn how to distinguish seek proper pay and work the necessity of a plurality of also defending the freedom of the Church is "absolutely carefully between those rights conditions "in strict justice." school systems which offer teaching and the rights of convinced" that Catholic and duties which are theirs as It stresses, however, that members of the Church, and alternatives to a single state parents to choose an education schools offer "an essential and those which they have Catholic school employes are system." for their children which con- unique service" for the Church as also carrying out a mission of In these countries, forms to their legitimate and that "the absence of (Continued on page 15) evangelization, required of Catholic schools "are more or requirements," states the Catholic schools would be a them by Baptism. less closely associated with the document. great loss for civilization." It urges them to take into national system and are The economic strait jacket The Catholic school, it consideration their assured of an economic and in which Catholic schools are continues, tries to meet needs evangelizing mission as well as juridical status similar to state often bound by government of "a society characterized by their rights as citizens when schools," asserts the document. refusal of aid has obliged some depersonalization and a mass formulating union demands. "These solutions," it says, schools "to restrict their production mentality." The 10,000-word document "are an encouragement to those educational activities to The document argues that also asks religious orders, responsible for Catholic schools wealthier social classes, thus Classified 21 Catholic school systems must Editorial 6 established for teaching, to in countries where the Catholic giving the impression of social be kept up "as the state in- It's a Date 16 "reassess" reasons why some of community must still shoulder and economic discrimination in creasingly takes control of Know Your Faith 11 Movies Et TV. 17 Parents at Marriage Encounter convention urged give Prayers: 14 Senate votes to curb Federal abortion funds p.3 Youth 18 All-Florida Charismatic Conference set for St. Leo's .. p.4 church new Spring of vocations p. 8 Bearers of the Good Newi, p.5 Is America recovering its senses? p.6 Lay persons's role cited in reaching unchurched p. 10 How will Pope Paul answer At.p. LeFebvre? p.6 Who needs theologians?. pgs. 11-13 See slight thaw in icy News briefs relationship between Vatican-Czechoslovakia ByJOHNMUTHIG VATICAN CITY-(NC)-Top Vatican diplomats are hoping that recent nods of friendship made by the Prague government to the Vatican may signal the end of almost 30 years of ice-cold relations between it and Czechoslovakia. The Czechoslovakian government has kept the Catholic Church in a strait-jacket in recent years despite its pledge to respect religious freedom at the Helsinki conference of 1975. CHURCH News Analysis It has repeatedly turned a cold shoulder to Vatican overtures to begin dialogue on the weighty problems of Czechoslovakian Catholics. PARKING But now it appears that Prague may want to defrost its relations with the Holy See. THE FIRST signs of the thaw became clear when Pope Paul VI announced June 2 that Prague's apostolic ad- ministrator, Bishop Frantisek Tomasek, was one of two prelates whom he had secretly named cardinals in 1976. Nice place to park: George Rice reads a old St. Louis Cathedral. The cathedral is Both Vatican and Czechoslovakian diplomatic sources magazine during a lull in his work. It's adjacent to the Gateway Arch, a popular confirm that the Prague government accepted well the public his job to keep tourists out of the parking tourist stop. naming of Cardinal Tomasek. lot unless they are attending Mass at the Although no government representative was sent from Prague, the top Czechoslovakian representative in Italy group has asked the United States to attended the solemn consistory to witness papal bestowal of Rumanian talks become "the refuge of last resort" for the red cardinal's biretta on Cardinal Tomasek. VATICAN CITY-The Vietnamese who are escaping their The presence of the government representative was a Vatican's roving ambassador, Arch- country by sea. A resolution passed major breakthrough. It was topped, however, several days bishop Luigi Poggi, has left Rome for June 25 by the board of Pax later when the government offered a formal reception for the two weeks of talks with Rumanian Christi—USA said that many new cardinal at its ultra-modern embassy. officials. The archbishop was ac- Vietnamese escape in unseaworthy It would be easy, however, to overestimate the companied by Divine Word Father crafts and are not being rescued by significance of this first handshake of friendship from John Bukovsky, a Slovak-American larger ships because no Asian ports Prague. official of the Council for the Public will accept the rescued refugees. FORMAL talks—if Prague ever agrees to start them Affairs of the Church in Rome. with the Vatican—would present negotiators with a Conditions are very difficult for Send open letter mountain of touchy topics. the about one million Latin-rite LONDON-More than 100 First on the list would be the government's refusal to Catholics in Rumania.
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