0 4 8 0 0 0 0 0 3 Pennsylvania's DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY largest weekly LOCUST fc COLBERT STS circulation I T T S B U ï PITTSBURGH PA 15219 l O L I C 139th Year, CXLIV No. 49 15 cents in 1844: America’s Oldest Catholic Newspaper in Continuous Publication Friday, February 17, 1964 brings people closer to God (See editorial on page 4) address to the entire church. It was dated Feb. The letter also showed papal concern over the period except in terms ot an incomparable By JOHN THAVIS 11, the fe ast of Our Lady of Lourdes. Its Latin title threat of nuclear war. accumulation of sufferings, even to the possible self-destruction of humanity," he said VATICAN CITY (NC) — Human suffering is "Salv fici Doloris" and its title in English is That threat, he said, is linked to the "collective brings people closer to God by opening them to “ On the Christian Meaning of Suffering." meaning" of suffering Not all suffering, the pope said, can be grace, and in that way completes the work of Effortÿ to relieve human suffering are an understood as the consequence or punishment for The last two world wars, the pope said, brought the faults of individuals or society. But he added Christ's redemptive acts. Pope John Paul II said essentia cultural element and individual human a "harvest of death” and immense human on has no equal in dealing with the that suffering cannot be divorced from the sinful in a 13,000-word document. compass* suffering The pope said that suffering, while undoubtedly sufferings of another, the pope said. background of human history At the basis of linked to evil, has a saving power that is "The second half of our century, in its turn, human suffering, he said, "there is a complex understood in Christ's passion. He also stressed The lei ter touched on a frequent theme of Pope brings with it — as though in proportion to the involvement with sin ministering to the suffering. John Pad's pontificate: that while suffering is mistakes and transgressions of our The passion of Christ, he said, is the key to an The document, an apostolic letter on suffering, always a trial, italsocalls people to perseverance contemporary civilization — such a horrible was made public at the Vatican Feb. 10 and and reveals human dignity. threat of nuclear war that we cannot think of this (Continued on page 3) Inside Diocese plans s t u d y o f e m p i o y m e n t Bishop Bevilacqua has evaluate the data and to make its announced the appointment of a recommendations to Bishop N a m e d committee that will g ather Bevilacqua. information concerning the Sister Michele O'Leary is Other members of the of lay named first president of the conditions of employment committee are Aux. Bishop John parish employees throughc ut the Pittsburgh Mercy Health McDowell; Fr. Hugh Lang, ^Corporation. Page 3. Pittsburgh Diocese. superintendent of diocesan In announcing the study Bishop schools: Sister Shawn Fitzpa­ was P r o b l e m s Bevilacqua said that he trick, OP, principal of St. Albert insibi- exercising his pastoral respi the Great Elementary School, lity in the Church's conce m for Because of mechanical Baldwin Borough; John D. Joyce, social justice. "We have a special difficulties, some columnists, a parent from St. Elizabeth obligation to assure the protection and sections, such as letters-to- parish. Pleasant Hills; and and care of all our employe« $ who the-editor, won't appear in this Virginia Simone, a teacher at St. said, assist us in our mission,"hi Therese of Lisieux Elementary edition. them "W e are obliged to provide School, Munhall. D e a t h s with just renumeratior and reasonable benefits." In addressing the priests of the Dr. Eileen McDowell, The study process will eo /er all diocese, Bishop Bevilacqua Philadelphia, formerly of parish lay employees. The first said: "I am confident that you are Allison Park. phase will begin with parish aware as am I that our holy work Life portrait William J. Russo, New Castle. elementary school teacher s. Both is aided immeasurbly by English artist Curtis Hooper has produced what he to be the one used for Christ's burial. After Anastasia T. Medonis, pastors and teachers will be dedicated and loyal lay believes is the most accurate rendering ever of how studying the image on the shroud. Hooper sculpted Pittsburgh. contacted. After the information employees. Theirs is a special Jesus Christ really looked. The portrait, left, which a life-size clay model of the face and showed it to Mary L. Tuscano, New has been gathered, the commit­ vocation to assist us as pastors surgeons, a mortician and a forensic pathologist Castle. tee, under the chairmanship of appears in the February issue of Life Magazine, and to serve the Church." who suggested how to recreate the fare as it Stella Suslowicz, McKees Aux. Bishop Anthony G. Bosco, is was finished after seven years of research, mostly appeared before it was injured. (N C photos I Rocks. charged to analyze aid to (Continued on page 3) on the Shroud of Turin, the cloth believed by many C o n a e e r a t e P o p e urged to warn world of peril w orld io VATICAN CITY (NC) — Nuclear war could "carry in on the global climate. severely afflicted. Such nations as India. Brazil, its wake a destruction of life unparalleled at any time "In a nuclear war, weapons exploded near the Nigeria and Indonesia could be struck by unparralleled M ary: Pope during the tenure of humans on earth," said 18 ground would inject large quantities of dust into the disaster, without a single bomb exploding on their scientists in a renort to PoDe John Paul II. atmosphere and those exploded over cities and forests territories. They urged the pope to warn the world of the peril of a would suddenly generate enormous amounts of sooty "A large proportion of humans who survive the WASHINGTON (NC) - Pope "nuclear winter," the long-range harmful effects of a sinoke from the resulting fires," they said. immediate consequences of nuclear war would most John Paul II has asked the nuclear war on the global climate. ["The clouds of fine particles would soon spread likely die from freezing, starvation, disease, and in bishops oi the world to join him The scientists prepared the 600-word report during a throughout the Northern Hemisphere, absorbing and addition, the effects of radiation." they said. on March 24 or 25 in Jan 23-25 meeting at the Vatican. The NC Rome bureau scattering sunlight and thus darkening and cooling the They added that "the extinction of many plant and consecrating the world to Mary received a copy of the report, "Nuclear Winter: A earth's surface. Continental temperatures could fall animal species can be expected, and. inextremecases. The prayer he proposed asks Warning," which as of Feb. 10 had not been released by rapidly well below freezing for months, even in the extinction of most non-oceanic species might occur. Mary to deliver the world from Nuclear war could thus carry in its wake a destruction the Vatican. summertime — creating a nuclear winter . ' This would sin and hate, "from every kind of life unparalleled at any time during the tenure of The January meeting was sponsored by the happen even with wide variations in the nature and of injustice." and Iron» nuclear Pontifical Academy of Sciences. entent of nuclear w ar," they said. humans on earth, and might therefore imperil the war, from incalculable self- future of humanity. " The scientists said that even in a limited nuclear war, The scientists told the pope that they recently destruction." The scientists said that "there are still uncertainties "longer-term consequences might be as dire as the discovered "how severe the cold and dark might be, The papal letter was dated in the present evaluations,'' and stated that' 'additional prompt effects, if not worse." eapecially as a consequence of intense and numerous last Dec.8, the Feast of fires ignited by nuclear explosions and from attendant scientific work and continuing critical scrutiny of the Immaculate Conception, The pope made his first reference to the report Feb. 9 methods and data are clearly required " However, changes in atmospheric circulation. was released Feb. 14 in the in an address to Kaarlo Juhana Yrjo-Koskinen, they added that "unanticipated further dangers from "This would produce a profound additional assault United States by the National Finland’s new ambassador to the Holy See, when he u|>on surviving plants, animals and humans," they nuclear war cannot be excluded." Conference of Catholic Bishops said, "the work of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences Professor Carlos Chagas. head of the academy, told said. "Agriculture, at least in the Northern It linked the act of consecra­ has shown the danger (of nuclear warfare) to the entire NC News that the academy plans a further and more Hemisphere, could be severely damaged for a year or tion with the special 1983-84 Holy planet." broad-based meeting on this topic in the near future. more, causing widespread famine." Year of Redemption U.S. scientists at the meeting included Steven Gould, The 18 scientists, who came from the United States, Mary, God's mother, "in a The scientists said that the effects would spread far a paleontologist from Harvard University: Carl Sagan, the Soviet Union, Brazil, West Germany, France, most particular degree beyond the Northern Hemisphere, where nuclear war an astronomer from Cornell University, Ithaca, N Y : Sweden and Italy, said that society already realizes experienced this salvific power" is most likely to occur.