Sweeping Changes Urged
in vnurcn Administration
ROME — (NC) — A leading
Italian priest has called on the
forthcoming ecumenical council to
make sweeping changes in the
church’s administrative staff, in
cluding the establishment of a
“world senate” of Catholic lay
men.
Father Riccardo Lombardi, S.J.,
founder of the Movement for a
Better World, made his recom
mendations in a New book, “The
Council.”
He said there is a need for a
“reform of the Church” by the
second Vatican Council to offset
a decline in morality, the growth
of secularism and the efforts of
atheistic communism.
THE NOTED Jesuit preacher
urged that it be made possible for
non-cardinals to be elected to the
papacy, and that the Vatican ad
ministrative staff — the Roman
Curia — be thoroughly interna
tionalized.
Priest's Aunt Dies
SOUTH BEND — Sister Mary
Clothilde, aunt of Fr. James
Jones, pastor of Sacred Heart
Church, Pinehurst, and Director
of the Diocesan Mission Fathers,
died at the motherhouse of the
Sisters of the Precious Blood in
South Bend, Indiana. Father
Jones assisted at the funeral.
May Sister rest in peace!
Theoretically any male Catholic,
even a married layman, can be
elected Pope. But in practice all
Popes since Urban VI (1378) have
been cardinals. Most of the of
ficials of the curia at present are
Italians.
FATHER LOMBARDI said that
while during the last 100 years
“the list of Roman pontiffs has
had a succession of very great
figures,” he hopes that in the fu
ture Popes may be drawn from
a wider basis than the college of
cardinals. He added, however, that
“there are many reasons to as
sume that the most suitable man
for the pontificate is, due to cir
cumstances, among the men who
attend the conclave.”
He declared that the Curia must
not be merely an administrative
body, “but something that inte
grates and orients, something ar
dent and apostolic.”
Father Lombardi said “the
curia must appear to everyone as
a body that is governed by a
single, indomitable and brilliant
ly noble aspiration: the general
welfare of the Church and of hu
manity to the exclusion of any
other interest.”
TO ACHIEVE this, Father Lom
bardi said, “Curia appointments
should be given always and solely
to the ftiost suitable and really
competent people, and these
should be chosen from among the
See Sweeping Changes, Page 7A
Sees Trouble
In Reducing
Work Week
ST. LOUIS —(NC)— A shorter
work week will “do very little” to
help solve the mounting unem
ployment problems caused by au
tomation, a priest-labor arbitrator
said here.
Father Leo C. Brown, S.J., head
of the Institute of Social Order at
St. Louis University, said in an
interview that a shorter work
week could actually result in
greater unemployment for some
men.
“You shorten the work week,
and many more women are avail
able for unemployment,” he ex
plained. “Many women are very
highly educated, and capable of
holding down demanding jobs.
“There are women who cannot
work 40 hours a week, but find it
easy to work 30 hours, for exam
ple. And women like these can
handle complex assembly work
just as easily as the male.”
Father Brown acknowledged
there was a paradox of mounting
unemployment occurring while
the overall employment in the na
tion was at one of the highest
peaks in history.
“It is true that there is more
employment,” he said, “but there
is also more unemployment. The
demands of industry for skills are
out-running the skills of a major
part of the population.
“The result is that more and
more people today can’t do the
jobs that industry needs to have
done.
“Take a job in a power plant,
for example. Employment in a
power plant 35 years ago meant
shovelling coal and wheeling cin
ders. A large number of jobs like
that were available.
“Go into a power plant today.
Unless you are prepared to repair
complicated instruments, and read
the most involved blueprints, or
notif changes in complex tele
metering devices, there is no job
for you.”
Father Brown said the prob
lems caused by automation had
See Sees Trouble, Page 5A
Any Questions?
SIDNEY, Australia —(NC)—
What is a Nuptial Mass and what
is a Requiem Mass? This ques
tion in a final exam for sixth
graders in the Catholic schools
here brought one answer which
read: “A Nuptial Mass is said
for the bride and a Requiem
Mass is said for the groom.”
UNPACKING ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND ROSARIES — In the process of unpacking 100,000
rosaries donated by the people of the United States and Ireland to the people of Venezuela, is
Father Patrick Peyton (left), director of the Family Rosary Crusade, and Msgr. Cayetano
del Duca, a Venezuelan priest who is director of the Crusade of the Family Rosary in Caracas.
Msgr. del Duca, aided by a prominent group of Venezuelan men and women, have formed a
permanent committee for the maintainence of the Rosary Crusade in his country.
WAC MEETS THE CARDINAL — Typical of the hundreds of
American servicemen and women greeted by Francis Cardi
nal Spellman, Archbishop of New York, on his Christmas tour
of Germany, is Specialist 4th Class Rita Holeko of SACOM
Headquarters, Munich. Cardinal Spellman, Military Vicar of
Catholics in the U.S. armed forces, visited troops in both Ger
many and France during the Christmas holidays.
Cardinal Lauds Military,
Tells of. Fears for Berlin
NEW YORK — (NC) — Francis
Cardinal Spellman returned from
His 11th Christmas tour of Ameri
can overseas bases with high praise
for American military personnel
but serious doubts about the future
of Berlin.
“I don’t think anyone has a clear
idea of the future of Berlin,” the
New York Archbishop said on his
arrival at Idlewild Airport. He said
that his own feeling was that the
situation was “very dubious.”
Asked about reports that he had
traveled six feet into East Berlin,
the Cardinal said he did not know
that he had but pointed out that
he did not get to the barrier.
“If I had, I might not have got
ten back,” he said with a faint
smile.
The prelate drew a graphic con
trast between the two sectors of
the former German capital:
“On one side there were Christ
mas trees and lights and a living
city, and on the other side it was
dull and drab.”
Cardinal Spellman said he had
been depressed by the sight of fam
ilies separated on Christmas day
and said that he had watched peo
ple waving across the communist
built wall dividing the two sectors
to loved ones on the other side.
“One of the most depressing
things is that we don’t know the
solution or when it is going to
come,” he declared.
The Archbishop of New York
had high praise for American of
ficers and for the inspiring and
steadying effect of their leadership
on the young recruits.
“The officers of the U.S. armed
forces are superior in character,
ability, dedication and the quality
of leadership,” the Cardinal said.
“That always has been so, but it
impressed me greatly on this trip,
especially so because many of the
soldiers did not have long notice
before being called up.
“The example of leadership of
the officers has had a very inspir
ing effect on the men. They have
explained to the men that they are
there to protect the United States
and their loved ones at home. They
know why they are there.”
He added that the soldiers are
“prepared to do their duty.”
Cardinal Spellman, who left here
December 19, visited bases in Ger
many and France. On Christmas
day he celebrated three Masses, in
cluding a Midnight Mass, for Amer
ican personnel in Berlin.
When he arrived at Idlewild
Airport he was met by a large
delegation of clergy from the New
York archdiocese.
Priest Sees Drop
In Percentage
Catholics
CINCINNATI — (NC) — The
percentage of Catholics in the
world decreased in the past eight
years, a priest said here.
Father Henry J. Klocker, nation
al secretary of the Catholic Stu
dents’ Mission Crusade, said Cath
olics made up 19.3 per cent of the
world’s population in 1953 and 18.3
per cent in 1961.
And, he told the St. Clare’s Par
ent-Teacher Association, the pros
pect is for further decline in this
percentage.
“The greatest growth in popula
tion,” he explained, “is expected
in countries which are not Catholic
or where the Church’s resources
are inadequate.”
Father Klocker, who is also Cin
cinnati archdiocesan director of
the Papal Volunteers for Latin
America program, said the Church
today needs “a tremendous new
apostolic zeal.”
“The Church must be put in a
‘state of mission,’ so that every
member of it will begin to contrib
ute to the Church’s apostolate what
he is really able to contribute,” he
said.
Congress Due to Debate
College and Teacher Aid
WASHINGTON — (NC) — Fed
eral aid for colleges and for addi
tional training of selected grade
and high school teachers appear
as the major education proposals
facing the 1962 Congress.
President Kennedy is expected
to spell out his recommendations,
to Congress shortly. It is thought
he will not make a serious effort
for adoption of large-scale aid for
public schools in view of last year’s
defeat.
The principal measure the ad
ministration is expected to support
is a proposal to assist construction
by U.S. colleges — public and pri
vate — now facing the wave of
students which has been sweeping
through grade and high schools for
the past decade.
The Chief Executive proposed
such aid last year, but it was bot
tled up by an 8 to 7 vote of the
House Rules Committee which de
cides what measures go to the floor
for debate.
A drive to force Rules Commit
tee reconsideration has been
launched by administration sup
porters. Rep. Adam Clayton Pow
ell of New York, chairman of the
House Education Committee^ has
appealed in a letter to the commit
tee to send the bill to the House
floor.
The measure calls for a $1.8 bil
lion, five-year program.