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COUNCIL RECONVENES (Register Special) Pope and Council officials in St. The 2,500 Council Fathers Peter’s, which /ith the tiered Mrs. DENVER CATHOLIC Rome — The hundreds of have gathered in Roma to consi Council Fathers and mem seats in the main nave has der and approve 11 projects John grown to be a homelike setting that will round out the Council’s COKFRATERNITY and b e rs of almost every reli for the w orld’s Bishops. success. ven; gious order and Catholic associ The Mass marked the vast The penitential procession Mrs. ation of the area m arched with progress made by the Council opening this great climactic ses OF !ath- REGISTER Pope Paul VI through Rome’s which has already issued a his sion Sept. 14 went from the Ba All ancient streets as part of the toric liturgy decree spelling out silica of the Holy Cross to nect National News Section opening of the final session of such concelebrated ceremonies, St. John Lateran Basilica. The CHRISTIAN I the the Second Vatican Council. familiar in the Church of old Pope carried relics of the ’True tins The procession followed the but still an unusual sight for Cross in the more than two-hour and THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1965 DENVER, COLORADO VOL. LX No. 6 Mass concelebrated by the modern eyes. long march. D O C TR IN E ade linf! ISSUE ays - . Any Record Throng CALLS CCD }ar* Se Expected To Greet KEY TO _____ . - _ • V- Pope in New York -if?*:- FUTURE New York — Officials are It was reported from the Vati .,i. ’i2 (Register Special) preparing to handle on Oct. can, meanwhile, that '‘hundreds nes of inquiries” had been received Alexandria, La. — Parish [rs. 4 the greatest crowd in the about the Pope’s agenda. A and diocesan directors of history of this city which has spokesman said It had not been the Confraternity of Chris been host to almost all the decided, and would be an tian Doctrine have a special world’s great, but never a nounced within two weeks. role in the formation of the ive reigning Pope. People of God. which is co-ex- lat These officials say the throng tensive with the field of the greeting Pope Paul VI may be CCD, Bishop Charles P. Greco as large, or larger, than that P o p e ’s UN T a lk of Alexandria, declared. which greeted Gen. Douglas On Feast of Lial Bishop Greco, who is chair MacArthur on his return to the man of the Bishops’ Committee if United States in 1951. (On April ‘Peace Saint’ 'Py of the CCD, said the CCD is 20, 1951, New York turned out New York — 'The Pope’s “ not only growing in the United its largest throng in history, es historic trip to the United Na States and in Canada, it is timated to be 7,500,000 persons, tions to plead for peace falls to welcome MacArd.ur.) spreading gradually but effec on the Feast of St. Francis of tively all over the world.” Commis.sioncr of Public Assisi, the “Saint of Peace.” There are scattered but thriving Events Richard C. Patterson The saint’s famous prayer nd CCD organizations in South -said the Pope’s brief visit would for peace Is known the world America. he rank as “one of the most impor over, not only to Catholics but tant trips in the history of to other Christians and even Parish and diocesan directors .America.” non-Christians. It goes; of the CCD, Bishop Greco said, Thousands of police will be “Lord, make me an In have a special mandate from detailed to traffic and security strument of Thy peace; where the Bishop to share with him his duty along the route of the there is hatred, let me sow divine right to form and train Pope’s limou ine from the air love; where there Is injury, the laity for their particular The CCD Member's Aim: port to Cardinal Spellman’s res pardon; where there is doubt, apostolate; they have the direc idence, at the Unite< Nations faith; where there is despair, tion and coordination of the building, and on the streets to hope; where there Is dark religious education and instruc That All May Know God the stadium selected for the Pa ness. light; and where there is tion of the largest number of pal Mass. sadness, Joy. 0 Divine M ast our Catholic children (those at er, grant that I may not so Invitations for the Pope were tending public school — more much seek to be consoled as than 8 million today, of whom pouring into archdiocesan offi to console; to be understood, ces here. One came from May as to understand; to be loved, .slichtly more than half are be or Richard C. Daley of Chicigo. as to love; for it is in giving ing reached) and. what is in asking the Pontiff to offer hi.s that we receive; it is in par danger of being overlooked in Mass in Soldiers Field m that the press of daily duties, the REGISTER doning that we are pardoned; city. Soldiers Field has a capa and it is in dying that we are vast operation for the formation city of 250,000. bom to eternal life.” of our Catholic laity. “ I would venture to say that ROUNDUP the adult education phase of the CCD program is just as vitally 280 Students in Schools necessary as are the CCD Teachers THE ROAD TO UNDERSTANDING Schools of Religion,” the Louisi Cincinnati ana prelate declared. Today’s teachers are engaged in a high In Chicago on Shared Time “Unless we train our Catholic calling made more difficult by the weakening Ground Trod by Council Fathers laym en and laywomen to be of home influences. Auxiliary Bishop Paul F. Kennedy in the morning arrive apostolic witnesses to the truths Leibold of Cincinnati declared at a Elder High Chicago — An historic of Christ in their lives and in shared-time program under at St. Paul where they will be in school’s faculty day. "More powerful forces of class until 2:35 p.m. their environment, the great a “new mood of friendly Hollowed by Saints, Martyrs promises of the aggiornamento evil, not the least of which is television, are re cooperation between public and Both morning and afternoon will be lost,” he added. placing the social force for good that used to private schools” which did not groups will be taking cultural By Michael Wilson In 312, Emperor Constan oldest p ortrait of Christ, exist in family training,” he added. exist two years ago has begun geography, English, and reli Rome Correspondent tine. the first Christian em which is called “Acheiropita” “It is our challenge which the here without a hitch. gion at St. Paul and mathema Rome — When Pope Paul peror, presented it to the or “not made by human new look in Scripture, liturgy New York tics, science, physical educa and theology brings. The next The fourth session of the Vatican Council The program, the first be VI led the Vatican Council’s Bishop of Rome, Pope St. Mil- hands.” F or there is a pious tion, and a variety of other tech ziade. legend that the painting was ten years will tell the story if may last until Easter — April 10, 1966 — tween the public and Catholic nical subjects at Kennedy. fourth session opening’s Pen school systems here, involves begun by St. Luke and fi we have met this challenge.” he pointed out Bishop Ernest J. Primeau of Man itential procession Sept. 14 Pope St. Sylvester I, the added. John F. Kennedy high school, “The essence of this pro next Pope who reportedly nished by heavenly hands af chester. N. H-, in a national television pro opened last year, and the new gram is to treat these from “Santa Croce in Gerus- ter his death. The prelate said the great gram. He seemed to think that if thi.s happens students like young adults and adapted the great Hall of Jus • parochial St. Paul high school, alemm e” to St. John Lateran, tice, or Basilica, to the use of In the Lateran basilica are confusion in the minds of our there will be a Christmas recess. three blocks away. A group of not like children,” said Mon- he trod ground hallowed by the heads of St. Peter and St. people in the term s of the old • « « signor William E. McManus, a church, thus, say these 280 high school freshmen are in early Christian saints and sources, set a pattern for all Paul, which had been among and the new must be cleared The first Mass concelebrated in the Latin volved. archdiocese superintendent of steeped in earliest Christian the most precious relics of the schools. “ We want, to develop early church construction. up: teen-agers must be met on Rite at the Vatican pavilion of the World’s tradition. Sancta Sanctorum. their own level and in their own Brother Terence, principal of a sense of maturity and the F air climaxed an all-night vigil of the Blue St. John is the head of all Across the road from the Pope Paul started the term s. St. Paul, explained how the pro feeling that the students are Lateran Palace, on the north gram works. At 7:50 a.m. about Catholic churches and the ad procession from the Church Army and the Society of Reparation to the Im big enough to go to two eastern comer of the piazza, “ The CCD thus, I think, holds maculate Heart of Mary.