ENCYCUCAL TREATS NEEDS OF MISSIONS Supplement to the Denver Catholic Register N a t i o n a l N a t i o n a l PONTIFF ASKS UTHOIICS S e c t i o n THE S e c t i o n TO ASSIST FELLOW MAN REGISTER (Name Registered in the U. S. Patent Office) MIMtCR OF AUDIT tUNKAU OF CISCULATIONS Ay Migr. J*m*i I. T v c tk TU* Paper Is CotuMcM wltb NCWC WasbInftoB Nrss tMdqusrtsrt br Its Own Lssssd W lru U u Its tiwo John Leads Us to the Messias Vatican City,—Counsels for entrusting ^ a te r SperUI Ssrrtcs. RsIlfMus News Ssrvtcs, Mission Ssrvleos. Rsllflous Nsws Photos and NCWC Plcturo Sorvke responsibility to native Bishops and clergy in the Thursday, December 3, 1959 missions, for training native priests, and, for the first time in an encyclical, an appeal “to all those lay Catholics, wherever they might be, to come LAITY CHALLENGED TO SERVE forward in the professions and in public life to consider seriously the possibility of helping their brothers" are stressed in the fourth encyclical of Love in Action Vital Pope John XXIII’s Pontificate. Fntitled Princept Paxtomm For priests to be able to pen­ (The Prince of Sbepberda) and etrate the cultured classes, Pope dated Nov. 29, the document Jota instructed Bishops to pro­ mark! the 40th anniveraary of f i t “centers of culture In which For Aiding Missions 3 another great encyclical on the foreign missionaries and native miasions, Pope Benedict XV's priests may be able to put to Chicago. — Too many Ameri­ More than 400 persons st- for colleges to develop leaders Mortmum Jliud. which gave in­ advantage their intellectual pre­ cans “are not aware of the tended the two-day conference for the lay apostolate. “It is not sistence on the need for re­ paration to the benefit of the crises of our time. What is co-sporjored by Loyola Univer­ one course or program,” she cruiting and formation of na­ society in which they live.” needed is not an ineffectual feel­ sity and the Catholic Action said, “that forms the apostolate, tive clergy. Addressing himself to the ing that something must be Federations of Chicago. The but the whole sum of courses, Addressed to the Bishops and faithful, the Pontiff said that drnie, but a positive step Into rally stressed the need for teach­ teachers, and integrated train­ faithful of the entire Catholic the Church must be active "with suffering, love in action. Lore ers, joumalistf, doctors, archi­ ing that contribute something world, Pope John’s encyclical its whole organic structure, and in action ii a barih thing, but tects, and tradesmen to work in vital to the working of the continues the theme of Pope not therefore only with the Hier this is what we are called to mission areas of the world. apostolate." Benedict's document. The set­ areby and its various orders, but give.” ting and force of the new en­ also with the laity.” Dangers OuHined No Spirihiol Isolation Elizabeth Reid, former lay cyclical's directives are found in Dr. Paul Mundy of Loyola missionary journalist in Houg Dangers besetting mission • t, the fact that “ many mission ter­ Christianity Brings Chonges University, conference chair­ Kong, sounded this challenge at work, she continued, are the ritories are undergoing a phase He cautioned against the error man, condemned “religioua the first national conference of arms race, the disarmament of social, political, and economic that reckons the spread of isolationism” among (Catholic lay miasion work. “ Only four p r o b l e m , the international evolution that has important Christianity in numbers of con­ Americans u “no less excusable, per cent of the miuion help, growth of Communism, and the consequences for their future.” versions and Baptisms, and said no leas fatal than political isola­ she noted, 'comes from the U.S., upsurge of extreme nationalism. 4 Parti in Encyclical it should be figured according tionism.” He asserted that lay­ although 75 per cent of the Sister Mary John of Regis There are four parts to the to the change that “ newly ac­ men “must be challenged to ful­ money is given by Americans.” College, Weston, Mass., called encyclical. The first two are quired Chfistlanity brings about fill their personal'duty to serve dedicated to local Hierarchies in a man's practical life.” the world's people, especially in and clergy, and the last two to In calling for generogity from Latin America, Asia, and the laity in mission territories. the whole Church in support of Cardinal Defied Commies, Africa.” Taking into account the en­ the missions, the Roly Father Cardinal-designate Albert G. cyclicals of Pius XI and Pius also stated it is important for Meyer presided at the convoca­ XII on the missions, Pope John the faithful in these lands to be Nazis; May Become Saint tion. Highlighting the confer­ explains that "enough can never educated to the practice of sup­ Vatican City.—The late Car Cardinal Schuster also was ence was the prmntation of an plying their own material needs be done to bring about the ful credited with a major role in honorary doctor of science de­ Referring to the catechists, he dinal l l d e f o n s o Schuster, fillment of the wish of the the defeat of the Communiata gree to Dr. Thomas A. Dooley, called them “the right arm of O.S.B., who defied Fascist, Divine Redeemer that all the during the Italian general elec lay mission doctor in Laos and the workers of the Lord." lambs may be part of one single Nazi, and Communist tyranny, tions o f 1948. co-founder of MEDICO, by Fa­ flodc under the guidance of one “The ‘g o o d f i g h t ’ for the ther James F. McGuire. SJ., Bom in Rome, the son of a single Shepherd.” faith," the Pope continued, “is president of Loyola. [NCWC Papal Swiss Guard, Cardinal He recalls the observation of fought not only in one’s consci­ W ire] Pius XII that, whereas ecclesias­ ence or in the- intimacy of the Schuster entered a Benedictine tical life once flowed from its home, but also in the public life monastery at the age of 11 and ancient European sources, today in all it forms. In -the held of was professed in the order at 5,000 Churches Due “many regions in other contin­ public activity the laity of mis 19. Ordained in 1904. he held ents have long since passed the siOD countries have tbeir moat various high offices, and be­ To Extension Society THE PRECURSOR SEHDS HIS DISCIPLES TO JESUS missionary phase of their ec direct activity. came an authority on art, the­ clesiastical organization and give ology, and Church music and IT WAS THE PURPOSE of John the however, as with many of the Jews, may not “In particular in the field oi Chicago.— More than 5,000 spiritual and material g o ^ fo history. Baptist to' prepare the way for Jesus. have thought that Jesus measured up to their the problems of the organization mission churches have been the Church, whereas before they of the school, or organized social When be w u imprisoned by the civil authori­ ideas of what the Messias should be, for they Cordinol in 1929 built with the aid of the Cath­ only received them.” assistance, or work, or poLtical ties. be sent two of his disciples to Jesus to expected a great temporal ruler. Father Schuster was elected Reviewing the progress made life, the presence of native Cath olic Church Extension Society ask: “Art Itiou He who is to come (l.e.. the Jesus answered by citing the miracles He was Abbot of the Basilica of St. in mission lands since the pub­ olic experts wilt have the most in the past 50 years. Archbishop Messias), or do we look for another?” ((Gospel working— "The blind see. the deaf bear, the Paul Outside the Walls in lication of Maximum lUud, the happy and beneficial influence William O’Brien told the so­ for the Second Sunday of Advent, Matt. 11, 2-10). dead rise, the pmr have the Gospel preached Rome in 1916, and remained Pontiff notes that "a rapid so long as they base their inten It is the best opinion that John himself to them.” Such miracles fulfilled Messianic there until bis elevation as ciety’s board of directors. glance at the statistics for the tions on Christian principles." never wavered in his knowledge that Jesus phophecy of Isaias xxxv. 5 sq; xli. 1. We too territories entrusted to the Archbishop of Milan in 1929. The prelate, president of the was the true Messias. Some of his disciples. must follow John to the Messias. Sacred Congregation for the Precious Graces In the same year he was cre­ group since 1925, revealed that Propagation of the Faith, not in­ To the m em bers of the ated a Cardinal by Plus XI. contributions to the society to­ LATJIV AMERICAN BISHOPS TELL CATHOLICS cluding those at present sub­ Church of Silence, (he Pontiff He died in 1954 at the age of taled $1,975,109 for the fiscal jected to persecution, reveals urged them “to persevere in 72. The beatlficatioD cause of year ending Sept. 30, an in­ that the first Bishop of Asian their holy fight. For the Lord, the Milan Archbishop is the crease of S264.068 over the pre­ vious year. The Archbishop's re­ PROMOTE SOCIAL JUSTICE origin was consecrated in 1923, always merciful in His inscrut­ second one involving a Cardi­ port said much of the society's and that first Apostolic Vicars able designs, will not leave them Cardinal Schuster nal submitted to the Congrega­ Fomeque.