Cardinal Tardini
Dies In Rome
VATICAN CITY — (Radio-NC)
—Domenico Cardinal Tardini, who
served the Holy See for 40 years,
died as he had lived—with obedi
ence, humility and faith.
Death came for the Vatican Sec
retary of State on July 30 after a
career that had included service
as parish priest, professor and
Vatican official.
Cardinal Tardini’s death leaves
83 Cardinals. Thirty of these are
Italians and 53 are of other nation
alities.
- MASS for the Cardinal was of
fered (Aug. 2) in St. Peter’s Ba
silica in the presence of Pope John
XXIII. The celebrant was Arch
bishop Antonio Samore, the Card
inal’s close collaborator as Secre
tary for Extraordinary Ecclesiasti
cal Affairs in the Secretariat of
State.
After the Funeral, his body was
taken to Vetralla, a small village
33 miles North of Rome, for burial
in a simple tomb which the Card
inal had built for himself several
years ago in the Carmelite Con
vent there.
At the time that he commision
ed the tomb, Cardinal Tardini told
friends he chose that particular
place because “I will be certain to
have someone who will pray for
my soul.”
ON JULY 31 the body of the
Cardinal was sealed in a coffin
with solemn ceremonies. Before
the coffin was sealed a lead cylin
See, Cardinal, page 7A
TV Violence
Condemned
By Priest
WASHINGTON — (NC) — A
priest expert on youth problems
suggested to a Senate subcommit
tee that action be taken to cut
down on the “diet of terror” offer
ed to youngsters by television.
Msgr. Joseph E. Schieder said
he believes there is a basic rela
tionship between TV violence and
the increase in crime. He testified
before the subcommittee on Juv
enile delinquency of the Senate
Judiciary Committee.
The director of the Youth De
partment, National Catholic Wel
fare Conference, noted that the
Federal Bureau of Investigation
recently released statistics show
ing that crime in the U.S. increas
ed 98 per cent between 1950 and
1960.
That decade, he stated “saw the
rise of the great program cycles
which are recognized in the pro
graming industry: the cops-and
robbers cycle, the cycle of the
Western, of the ‘private eye’ and
so on. A minimum of recollection
will remind us that the dominant
characteristic of the cycles . . .
has been crime and violence.”
“I for one,” Msgr. Schieder de
clared “do not hesitate to echo the
sentiments of the Attorney Gen
eral of the United States, as re
ported recently, that the portrayal
of crime and violence is a ‘major
factor’ governing the appalling in
crease of juvenile delinquency.”
PROTEST SCHOOL TAKEOVER — Various Christian organi
zations in Georgetown, British Guiana, staged a three-hour
protest over the seizure of 51 primary schools by the govern
ment of that British crown colony on the northern coast of
South America. About 3,000 parents and children joined in
the march which was climaxed by a mass meeting on the
capitol city’s Bourda Green. Of the schools seized, three were
Catholic schools. All Catholic, Anglican, Methodist and Mor
avian schools were closed temporarily in protest.
few vocations, little parish life
Crisis for Church in Peru
LIMA, Peru — (NC) — The
Church in Peru is facing a crisis
caused mainly by a severe short
age of religious vocations and an
almost complete lack of parish
life.
In the recent past these two
closely related problems were
even more acute. Some progress
toward their solution has already
been made with the aid of foreign
missioners. But they are still seri
ous and, observers here say, if
they are not overcome within the
next decade or two, the Church
in thL South American nation will
be face to face with disaster.
Today about 96 per cent of
Peru’s approximately 10 million
people are baptized Catholics and
Pope Sees Peace Rooted
In Individual Outlook
CASTELGANDOLFO, Italy —
(NC) — His Holiness Pope John
XXIII said that if international
peace is to be achieved, it must be
rooted within the individual.
The Pontiff was addressing par
ticipants in the third international
pilgrimage of Pax Christi, a move
ment founded in 1950 to promote
understanding of the Church’s
teaching on peace and to find prac
tical solutions to problems en
dangering world peace. The Pope
talked to pilgrims from 14 coun
tries, led by Maurice Cardinal Fel
tin, Archbishop of Paris and inter
national president of Pax Christi.
Pope John, receiving the group
at his summer villa here (July
26), said that Pax Christi members
must embrace the peace of Christ
if they are to achieve their goal of
spreading peace throughout the
world. Recalling that he had re
ceived the movement’s internation
al general council last year, he
called Pax Christi members “the
living symbol” of the peace and
unity they are seeking to spread.
The Pope said that despite the
news of world tension, division
and even conflict, he himself re
mains “absolutely faithful to the
peaceful teachings of Our Lord.”
He continued:
H “We are happy to point out that
■ur sons of Pax Christi are ani
mated by the same dispositions,
and We congratulate them for it.
They apply themselves with intel
ligence and self-denial to the
spreading of the peace of Christ
in the world by means of many
undertakings, such as the estab
lishment of an International Peace
Sunday, by congresses, pilgrimages
and meetings of members from
various nations, or even by means
of editions of attractive publica
tions and by participating in proj
ects of common help to underde
veloped countries. We hope such
efforts may be intensified for the
service of the contemporary
world.”
Pope John told his visitors that
if they really and truly want to
communicate peace and true
brotherhood, “We repeat to you
insistently that above all it is
necessary that this peace be root
ed within yourselves. Yes, it is
necessary to cultivate thoughts of
peace within yourselves. It is
necessary, so that it is maintained,
that you not hesitate in the face
of personal renunciations, that you
recognize openly and joyfully the
inheritance of wisdom and good
ness that each people possesses...
“You also know all that this re
quires of faithfulness to the Di
vine Will, to strict moral life and
to renunciation of self in favor of
others — in brief, of faithfulness
to Jesus Christ our Peace.”
their faith is still strong.
But, because of these two major
deficiencies, they are served by
only 2,000 diocesan priests and
the vast majority have inherited
a form of Catholicism that has
lost much of its vitality.
Most of the people go through
life with little knowledge of their
religion and without much hope
of ever learning more. Partly as
a result of this situation, only
about 10 per cent of Peruvian
Catholics go to Sunday Mass regu
larly.
The roots of the vocation short
age and the absence of parish life
go back to Peru’s colonial past
and are nurtured by present social
and economic conditions.
The Faith was brought here by
Spanish missionaries, most of
whom belonged to religious or
ders and were therefore unaccus
tomed to pastoral work. Their
task was to transplant Catholicism
from Spain to Peru and set up a
system of Church institutions in
this country.
The early missioners organized
settlements of from 400 to 500
families called “doctrinas” which
were usually centered on the
estates of large landowners. Here
North Carolinians
Receive Habits
NEWBURGH, N.Y. — Two
young ladies of the Raleigh Ca
thedral High Class of 1960 receiv
ed their religious habits in Investi
ture ceremonies for thirty novices
at the Dominican Novitiate here
recently.
Miss Joan Nutting of Lourdes
Parish, Raleigh, will be known as
Sister Marie Lawrence. Miss Paul
ette Thomas of Lexington received
the name Sister Mary Paul Eliza
beth.
Bishop James H. Griffiths, auxil
iary bishop of New York, presided
at the clothing ceremony, and
Bishop Vincent S. Waters preach
ed.
Questioned on her reaction to
her first year of postulancy in the
convent, Sister Mary Paul said. “I
never knew anyone could be so
happy on this earth. It was the
happiest year of my life.”
Dominican Sisters are in charge
of Raleigh Cathedral High School.
the early converts received in-'
structions and attended Mass.
The “doctrinas” had one seri
ous flaw. They had no resident
priests. As members of religious
communities, the missionaries re
turned to their monasteries after
they were through with their daily
work in the settlements. More
over, their efforts and plans were
often thwarted by government in
terference.
The vocation shortage, like the
parish problem, also has its source
in the colonial era.
Peru was under Spanish rule
for three centuries and during
that time the government authori
ties, who did not want to see In
dians raised to the dignity of the
priesthood, encouraged a Spanish
rather than a native clergy
After Peruvian independence
See, Church in Peru, page 7A
Committee Backs
5 Bills to Aid
Migrant Labor
WASHINGTON — (NC) — Five
bills designed to improve health,
education and working conditions
of migratory farm labor families
have been approved by the Senate
Labor Committee.
One bill would prohibit children
under 14 of migratory families
from working on farms.
Other bills provide: up to $2.5
million a year in Federal aid to
states for education and training
of migrant farm families; up to $3
million in matching grants to local
public health units for medical
care; registration with the Depart
ment of Labor of crew leaders
who contract for farm work and
transport migrants from state to
state; and creation of a 15-member
national advisory council on migra
tory labor to be appointed by the
President.
Society Needs Worshipers,
Not Engineers, Says Priest
LOVELAND, Ohio — (NC) —
What society needs today is “not
engineers, but worshipers,’ a
French theologian said here.
Father Jean Danielou, S.J., de
clared that “the danger to the
world of tomorrow is not lack of
scientific progress, but lack of
God.”
The French theologian, author
and Scripture scholar stressed that
religion must not be separated
from “ordinary life.”
He told an audience at Grail
ville Community College here:
“It is essential for us to see no
separation between religious and
ordinary life, because all life is
related to the designs of God.”
Father Danielou added: “It is
precisely the proper task of the
laity to introduce into ordinary
life the values of faith, of worship,
of grace ... to introduce these in
to married life, into social and eco
nomic life, into political and inter
national life.”
Separating one’s religious life
from one’s ordinary life is “a great
mistake,” he said, and results in
the failure of religion to influence
the secular world.
“Mankind is one in the design
of God,” he said. “It is the same
man who is engaged simultaneous
ly in secular history and in religi
ous history. He lives not two lives
but one life. To each man is given
one destiny.”
Father Danielou said: “We are
living actually in the middle of
sacred history — in a world where
God really acts.
“Perhaps the great lack of our
times is that the great part of
mankind fails to see this dimen
sion of history, because it sees
only the achievements of the
genius of man.”
Finland Rites
HELSINKI, Finland — (NC) —
The first priestly ordination in
Finland since the Reformation will
take place in September when
Martii Voutilainen receives Holy
Orders.
At the same time the only other
native Finnish priest, Msgr. Adolf
Carling, will be celebrating the
50th anniversary of his ordination.
Finland has only some 2,200
Catholics in a total population of
4,400,000.