Pope's Christmas Message: Christ Highest Hope of Man by JAMES C

Pope's Christmas Message: Christ Highest Hope Of Man By JAMES C. O'NEILL is new will of itself be fruitful for human pro- VATICAN CITY — (NC)-Christ is the"true gress. and highest hope of mankind" because only "No further credence is now given to the through Him can mankind be saved from it- stable values of faith, culture and institutions. self. Men look toward the future not in its chrono- This was the central theme of Pope Paul VI's logical aspect of coherence with an organic Christmas message to the world. Speakingfrom and developing tradition, but under a rebellious, a specially equipped studio in the Vatican, surprising and indefinible aspect, with an almost VOL. X NO. 42 15 Cents A Copy DEC. 27, the Pope noted that today "everything moves fatalistic and messianic confidence in a radical and changes under the sign and with the strength and general renewal and a happiness finally of hope."- The Pope said "we live in the era of free and entire." hope." The Pope singled out two factors which He added: have come together to "generate this tension " It is, however, a hope in the kingdom of of hope." this earth, a hope in human self-sufficiency. One, he said, was the "discovery of ever in- "And it is precisely in our day that hope is creasing possibilities, of unforeseeable conquests- going through a most serious crisis." through scientific exploration and the technical In his introductory remarks Pope Paul gently domination of nature." led his hearers into the vortex of the modern The other was the "observation of the con- paradox of hope and hopelessness in a world ditions of need in which, under so many aspects, beset by change and upheaval. "Every year at the greater part of mankind lives." this pleasant hour," he began, "the clock of These two factors bring about a serious time marks a moment full of surprise, of mean- crisis of hope, he said. Progress in some area* ing, of interest and of hope." creates enormous fearful dangers for all mankind. "The use which modern man can make But man's hope today, he went on, is leading of the murderous forces which he has mastered man not to be "any longer satisfied with what raise on the horizon not hope but heavy clouds exists at the present time. of terror and folly." "At one time the experience of the older gen- Speaking of the perils created by some forms eration was the guarantee of actual or desirable of progress for peace, Pope Paul added: "The order. But now it is just that order which is destructive power of modern man is incalculable. aftacked, arid precisely because it is inherited And the fatal probable use of such power to from the past. It is overturned rather than pre- devastate the city of man depends upon causes* served and renewed in the blind hope that what which are tragically free, which neither science nor technique can of themselves dominate. Thus it hap- 'Round The Clock War pens that instead of hope there comes forth anguish." Because man has built up an economic and social Against Drug Problem system with "superb prac- tical results," he runs the danger of it "becoming his Is Opened By Bureau prison, of depriving him of his personality, of turning By MARJORIE L. FILLYAW him into a mechanical instru- A 24-hour-a-day Drug Information Center to provide facts, ment of the great machine of referral, advice to parents, and treatment for drug abusers of all production." ages, from the marijuana-smoking adolescent to the hard core There is the danger that narcotic addict, has been inaugurated at the Miami Catholic Wel- this machinery will subject fare Bureau. man "to a colossal ap- Sponsored jointly by the Archdiocese of Miami, the Greater paratus of domination." Miami Crime Commission, the United Health Foundation of the This, said the Pope, gives r United Fund and the Dade County Juvenile Court, ihe center is rise to a "society redundant headed by Dr. Ben Sheppard, executive director of the Archdioc- with material well-being, sa- esan Catholic Welfare Bureau and a member of the Dade County tisfied, satiated, but lacking School Board. in superior ideals which give At the present time, according to Dr. Sheppard, social workers meaning and value to life, of the Bureau are staffing the center, which can be reached by and, as it were, deaf to the calling 379-0707, during the day and he is taking night calls. groans of the poor, near or When the center is completely organized, it is expected that a team far, who yet call themselves WHAT WITH listening to all those toy requests and pack- of volunteers from clergy of various faiths will assume responsi- men and are in fact ing all the goodies for his Christmas Eve ride, this tiny bility fpr the night line. brothers." tired Santa Claus fell asleep on duty during the annual VOLUNTEERS Among young people de- party at Centra Hispano Catolico this past weekend. Hun- "Many psychologists have volunteered to take groups of drug prived of absolute principles dreds of children were given gifts and candy. users," Dr. Sheppard said, explaining that he already has a group and assailed by doubt and of eight to 10 hard core addicts with whom; he meets once each agnosticism, "contestation week. became the fashion with the In January, he said, a seminar is planned for clergy of all temptation of degenerating faiths to explain in detail various aspects of the program. into rebellion, violence and In the two weeks that the center has been in operation, workers anarchy. In this social and Brazil Regime Arrests have reported a minimum of 35 calls daily in addition to nine or ideal field too, human hope 10 each night (Continued on Page 2) (Continued on Page 2) Two U.S. Missionaries WASHINGTON — (NC) — The U.S. consulate at Re- Two U.S. missionary priests cife had sent officials to visit are among the hundreds of the two priests in jail and was Pope Announces 2nd persons arrested in Brazil fol- trying to insure their legal lowing the assumption of extra- rights, includingrepresentation ordinary powers by President by a local attorney. ^Bishops' Synod Will Artur de Costa e Silva on The jailing of the two priests charges that leftist subversives followed by about two and a had been trying to overthrow half weeks the arrest of three the government. French Assumptionist priests Be Convened In '69 The arrest of the two Amer- and a Brazilian seminarian at VATICAN CITY - Pope Paul VI has an- icans' — Father Darrell Rupi- Belo Horizonte on charges of nounced that a Second Synod of Bishops will per, O.M.I., 31, of Sioux City, subversion. meet in Rome on Oct. 11, 1969. Iowa, and Father Peter Grams, Father Leo Figge, superior The Holy Father made the announcement O.M.I., 28, of St. Louis —was of the Oblates Central Province during his annual Christmas audience to confirmed hereby the U.S. State in SL Paul, Minn., said that Department. A state department Father Rupiper and Father Cardinals in Rome and prelates of the Ro- spokesman said that the two man Curia, as well as members of the Vati- Grams had been doing regular had been arrested Dec. 15 in parish work in the Jofdao sec- can staff and prelates of the Rome Diocese, Recife. So far no charges had tion of Recife and that he was on Monday, Dec. 23. been brought against the two. not aware they had been in- In a pre-Christmas speech, the Pope said: Another source, however, re- volved in any activity that "We are not unaware of the different reac- ported that they had been could be considered political tions caused by our pronouncement on birth charged with "serious sub- or subversive. control. We cannot keep silent the sorrow versive activities." (Continued on Page 2) caused us by seeing sometimes the incompre- hension or misreading of our intentions and even our words. "We have taken note of all with the re- THE VOICE, P.O.Box 1059, Miami, Fla. 33138 spect we owe to all," ihe Pope added, "and with the purpose of not failing, when the moment is right, fo make the replies which MILITARY VICAR for the U.S. Armed Forces, appear necessary, especially on the level of Archbishop Terence J. Cooke of New York, pastoral concern." greets servicemen and their families after Next year's Synod of Bishops will open on celebrating Mass in Ihe Eighth Infantry bar- a date which coincides with the seventh anni- racks at Baumholder, West Germany. He versary of the opening of the Second Vatican later was flown to Vietnam to spend Christ- Council. mas with GIs there. dtinillllllllKIIIIIHIIIIIIIIIIIIIMIIIIIIIIIIIIlfdllllllltlllllllJIIIIIIIIIIIilllllllllltilllllllllllltllS Christ Is Highest Hope Around-The-Clock War |2 U.S. Missionaries! Of Man, Pope Dedans Against Drug Problem (Continued from Page 1) (Continued from Page 1) possible abjection, his in-! Arrested In Brazi Meanwhile a Committee Logan, director of the new is being degraded and ex-consistent personality. All on Coordination on Nar-regional southeastern dis- trict of the Federal Bureau tinguished." these self-satisfied accusa- (Continued from Page 1) and strip individuals of po- cotics Investigation and The Pope lamented that tions are based on a terrible of Narcotics and Dangerous He did say, however, that litical rights. Among the Training has been organized in all the present confusion and seemingly irreputable Drugs. Initially he was asked they had been "closely as- measures taken was a strict by the Greater Miami Crime "historical, cultural and argument: Such is man.

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