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Pilgrimage appraisal REGISTER 'Success Beyond Expectations/ DENVER CATHaiC ROUNDUP I ^ ' J C D Council Unity Official U.SJI. Moral Issue Rome — success be­ to be identified. "It was more ready given instructions to var­ yond all e.xpectations." than tte had hoped for." ious Roman congregations and Washington The warmth and good will ofher officers such as the unity President Johnson in his State of the Union message told t ■ This was the appraisal of shown by Patriarch .\then- secretariat to draw up studies Pope Paul VPs pilgrimage agoras 1 of Constantinople and and reix)rts looking toward fur-' Congress that racial discrimination is basically a moral issue National News Section to the Holy Land by a the great courtesy extended by thcr ecumenical efforts. and asked the new session to do more for civil rights "than spokesman for the Ecumenical the other Patriarchs and Bish­ The secretariat spokesman the last hundred sessions combined.” He urged an “all-out war” Council’s Secretariat for f^ro- on human poverty and unemployment in the U.S., and called THURSDAY, JAN. 16, 1964 DENVER, COLORADO VOL. LVIll No. 23 ops not in union with the Holy emphasized that for all the en- motin:? Christian Unity. See was "especially gratifying," thusiam felt in ecumenical cir­ for special federal effort to improve teaching, training, and "We are all greatly pleascfl." the si)okesman pointed out. cles. an “over-optimistic" ap­ counseling in schools in hard-pressed sections of the nation. No said the official, who chose not Pope Paul reportedly has al­ proach must be avoided. mention was made of the issue of aid to parochial schools. May spread world wide Woodstock, Md. Funeral services for Father Gustave Weigel, S.J., noted theo­ logian, were impressively ecumenical as mourners at the fu­ neral Mass and at the graveside services at Woodstock college included, in addition to Catholic leaders, many Protestant and Orthodox scholars who had been associated over the years with \ the famed ecumenical leader. Messages and letters of sympathy ‘Spiritual Clinic’ from leaders of all faiths were received at the college. Father THE CHURCH UNITY OCM/EyN CV,. >,^U A R yi8'”to25"» Weigel. 57, died unexpecedly of a heart attack. Chicago Plans for recruiting 200 U.S. Catholic laymen for urgent projects in Latin America will be mapped at the first national council of the Papal Volunteers for Latin America at the Edge- Changing Lives water Beach hotel Jan. 22 and 23. The meeting will follow the first annual conference of the Catholic Inter-American Coopera­ Rome—A “spiritual clin­ social field, are emerging." ; literary, and pedagogical tion Program (CICOP), Jan. 19-21, which will bring together ic” established two years Aim of the center, said Don ^ areas. They lend aid and coun- leading U.S. and Latin .-American clergy and laymen for dis­ ago as an experiment de­ Grasso, was to give not only Isel in matters pertaining to en- TljC cussions on furthering cooperation among Catholics of the West­ signed especially for young young people but adults a "dis­ Igagements and marriage and in ern hemisphere. Currently nearly 250 P.WL.\ volunteers are people is now being conducted creet therapy” that will estab­ all problems." UNITY serving in 13 Latin American countries. by 200 experts throughout Italy lish an accurate diagnosis of He said of the 200 experts and is considered as one of the their individual needs after they engaged, about 60 are laymen West Allis, Wis. have been encouraged freely to ALL world’s most unusual Catholic who have joined the center of Father Oscar Winninghoff, pastor of St. .■Moysius’ parish, has voice their personal opinions their own free will. He stated MEN apostolates. proposed that the local public school board build a new school and then accept advice. almost all of the ecclesiastical near his church property to accommodate students in the parish Because of the success “Our experts," he pointed out, .expprts belong to seminaries or which the Center of Moral "operate in the fields of the­ other major youth organizations school on a “shared time” basis. He said the public school could and Religious Consultations ology and philosophy, and in so­ and have direct contact with 7 offer science, mathematics, geography, civics, and physical edu­ has met, the Vatican authori­ cial, political, scientific, medi­ problems confronting young cation classes while the existing parish school would continue to ties reportedly are seriously cal. psychiatric, psychological. people. teach reading, history, spelling, religion, and possibly other sub­ considering inaugurating sim­ jects. "Religion should not enter into this proposal,” the priest ilar round-the-clock services In told the school board. "All we’re asking is that you help us edu­ other countries and ultimately cate our chidren.” Board members said there were “tremendous making them world wide. problems” in the plan, but agreed to study it and announce a de­ cision later. Don Pier Giovanni Grasso. a professor in the Pontifical Sale- 'Believers' Turn sian Atheneum. director of the f r j center, said it was set up after Close Chapels an ecclesiastical survey team had found tlfat young people Soviet Tactics Berlin were in a perpetual state of TO Poland’s Communist government has been accused by Po­ "cultural imbalance” in which land’s Primate, Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski, of using administra­ materialistic alternatives to tra­ m tive means to violate men’s consciences, according to reports ditional values, such as family Against Atheism reaching here. In August the Polish Bishops had warned that . a K f i T y ' and religion, had “dangerously 40 thousands of functionaries of the Communist regime have the Munich, Germany—Com­Iganda courses for the Party and and negatively influenced their munist Russia, which seeks Komsomol (Young Communist sole task of harassing the Church. Meanwhile the government outlook on life." world domination by infil­'League) political circles for has closed the parish chapels in Warsaw, Cracow, Opole, Lud- Don Grasso in an interview trating'the countries of the Free years” wikowo, and Lipiny. Force was used to close the chapel at Li- said that, in the opinion of the World with its atheistic ideology Albert says that the Soviet piny against the resistance of parishioners. experts engaged In the new and propaganda, appears to be government is administering its apostolate, young people today getting an internal dose of its ' vaccine of atheism in sharp are increasingly lonely, de­ .own medicine. I doses these days in an attempt THE VATICAN 'Traveling Pope' spite the growing number of to counteract the increasing This analysis was made here .Already other trips outside the Vatican have been forecast social organizations and agen­ |spread of religious convictions by Valery M. Albert, a Ukrain­ for Pope Paul VI. who is, now being given the name "Traveling cies dedicated to their sertTce, In the Soviet Union. ian-born journalist, speaking on Pope.” It is conjecturedHhat he will visit Milan, where he was The reason, Don Grasso said, behalf of the Institute for the (The Herald Tribune News Archbishop at the time of his election as Pope, Florence, and Study of the USSR ("a free cor­ was that "certain values, either Service reported that at a meet­ Venice as well as Lourdes and Bombay, India. Dutch Radio poration of scholars who have too traditionalistic in form or ing [Jan. 7] of the Council of broadcast a story that the Pope intended to visit President John­ left the Soviet Union”), else not based on a sound phil­ Ministers of the Russian Fed­ son in Washington and that he would like to address the United Albert claims that members osophical or theological basis, eration there was unanimous The Arch Toward Triumph Nations assembly in New York. are dissolving. On the other of the clergy have actuaUy used support for establishment of a « • • hand, the taste for fresh ex­ Communist instruction sessions special commission aimed at I periences, more authentically to further the cause of religion. "creating new civil ceremonies Cardinal John H. Newman Rome Radio reported that the Pope would soon hold his first religious in character, is laris- "Some preachers are reported of all kinds,” presumably in­ Consistory to create a number of new Cardinals. Rumors have ing. Despite divergencies and to be the best orators in their cluding christenings and wed­ been frequent in recent months that the Pontiff would elevate differences, the world today respective neighborhoods,” he dings.) 'Absept' Council Father new Cardinals to replace those who died in 1963. knows a renascence of the reports, “and some of them, to Albert says that according to J By Bishop Robert J. Dwyer « • • search for truth, moral and gain the experience which they the Soviet press the antireli- The death of Cardinal A’bdre Jullien, French-born member spiritual, a research in which need to expose atheistic propa­ gious crackdown has increased npllE ASCETIC FIW RE of John only that in the welter of publications. of the Roman Curia, reduced the College of Cardinals to 79. new values, particularly in the ganda. have attended propa- j since June. L Henry Newman towers ever more articles and books, which has pro­ • * • imposingly over the horizon of the Sec­ liferated since the first adumbration of ond Vatican Council. In a very exact the Council, his name and his works A revision from the Sacred Congregation of the Holy Office sense it could be called his Council, the allows priests to calculate the Eucharistic fast to the moment have been quoted more extensively of the priest’s Communion, similar to the rule governing lay Moy J7 Is Called Target Date fulfillment of his vision and the justifi­ than those of any other theologian or persons’ reception of the Eucharist.

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