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Jtorti) Carolina Catholic Edition of Our Sunday Visitor Subscription $3.50 Copy 10c Vol. LII June 23, 1963 No. 8 RALEIGH, N.C. P O. Box 9503 Bible Reading, Lord's Prayer High Court Bars Devotional Exercises in Public Schools (N C.W.C. News Service) WASHINGTON — The U. S. Su preme Court has ended a year of nationwide suspense by barring de votional Bible reading and recita tion of the Lord’s Prayer from pub lic schools. These practices and the laws re quiring them are “unconstitutional under the establishment clause” of the first amendment and violates the “wholesome neutrality” of the state toward religion, the court held (June 17) in an opinion by Justice Tom C. Clark. IN A SEPARATE ruling the same day, the high court upheld the right of a Seventh Day Adven eumenieal Center Will e Opened in Montreal MONTREAL, Que.—(NC)—Paul Smile Cardinal Leger, Archbishop if Montreal, will open a ecumeni :al center here shortly to “con ribute to a mutual better under itanding between Catholics and Christians of other religious de lominations.” The center is a follow-up of the Cardinal’s pastoral letter of Janu ary, 1962, on the problem of “dis united Christians,” and his estab ishment in May, 1962, of a dioce ian ecumenical commission. THE NEW CENTER will offer he services of a specialized li >rary, a lecture hall and a meet ng place open to all Christians desiring to become better acquaint ed among themselves and to orient themselves towards the unity de iired by Christ, it was explained. The center will conduct study :ourses on problems posed by the livision among Christians and formative courses for the exten don of the ecumenical spirit. Study :ircles, reunions and evenings of arayer will be organized, the an louncement stated. Father Irenee Beaubien, S.J., ^resident of the Cardinal’s dioce san ecumenical commission, was ippointed director of the center jy Cardinal Leger. FATHER BEAUBIEN, known shroughout Canada as one of the top ecumenical leaders, said: “Fol Speakers Announced For Liturgical Week WASHINGTON _ (NC) — Prin cipal speakers for the 1963 Liturgi cal Week, to be held in Philadel >hia from August 19 to 22, were jnnounced here by Father Gerard doyan, president of the Liturgical Conference. Father Joseph Connolly of Balti nore, a member of the confer ence’s board of directors, will speak on August 19 on “The Re newal of the Church.” Other speakers and their topics: • August 20: Father Sloyan, The Mystery of Christ”; Father tichard Sneed, O.S.B., of St. Gre lory’s Abbey, Shawnee, Okla., See Speakers, page 6A lowing the example of Pope John XXIII, who up to the very last moment of his life ardently desired the unity of Christians, the Cardi nal Archbishop of Montreal once again has extended a hand to help Protestants, Anglicans, Orthodox and Catholics to better appreciate each other in a climate of charity, fraternity, dialogue and prayer.” It is expected that by October the center will be able to accommo date all persons who wish to profit from its services and possibilities. SECRETARY — Archbishop Francesco Carpino, secretary of the forthcoming conclave which begins June 19, will have the honor of handing the newly-elected pope the white skullcap symbolic of the papacy. The new pontiff may, like the late Pope John XXIII, place the red skullcap he wore as cardinal upon the secretary’s head to signify his intention of making him a cardinal. Archbishop Carpino is now Secretary of the Sacred College of Cardinals. ;ist woman to receive state unem ployment compensation even :hough she refused, on religious grounds, to work on Saturday. To ieny her the money, the court said, nfringed her religious liberty without there being any compelling date interest to justify such in 'ringement. Only Justice Potter Stewart dis sented from the ruling on pulbic school prayer and Bible reading, which applied immediately to schools in Maryland and Pennsyl vania. But it was evident that the issue had stirred soul-searching imong many of the other members rf the court. The justices wrote five separate spinions totaling 121 pages and used such phrases as “elusive”, “delicate” and a “most difficult and sensitive task” in reaching their conclusions about the relations that should prevail between religion and the state in America. JUSTICE CLARK, in a key pas sage of his 23-page majority opin ion, said the “test” of whether a law violates the constitution’s ban on an establishment of religion lies in the answer to this question: “What are the purpose and the pri mary effect of the enactment.” He answered in these words: “If either is the advarfcement or the inhibition of religion then the enactment exceeds the scope of legislative power as circumscribed by the constitution. That is to say that to withstand the strictures of the estblishment clause there must be a secular legislative purpose and and a primary effect that neither advances nor inhibits religion.” Devotional Bible reading and prayer in public schools do not meet this test, he and seven other justices held. BUT JUSTICE STEWART in his dissent characterized the majority’s definition of the establishment clause as “insensitive.” He held that the cases raised the See Devotional, page 2A THE MAJESTIC CATHEDRAL of Notre Dame de Paris, this year celebrating her eight hundredth anniversary, seen from Left Bank quays directly across the River Seine. Religious and civic ceremonies marking the centennial are being held this week. (Photo courtesy of French Government Tourist Office) Hear Last 'Farewell' 50,000 Crowd St. Peter's For Pope John's Funeral VATICAN CITY — (NC) — “Farewell, Holy Father, Farewell Forever.” These words of the Holy See’s chosen eulogist echoed in St. Peter’s Basilica at a final solemn funeral Mass for the beloved Pope John XXIII. And they echoed in the hearts Jesuit Says Nurses' Training Should Include Theology Course CHICAGO — (NC) — A good theology course is essential for the proper education of a nurse, a theologian said here at the an nual meeting of the Conference of Catholic Schools of Nursing. • Father Joseph E. Kerns, S.J., professor of theology at Wheeling (W. Va.) College, said that if a girl wants to be a nurse she must find some answer to the following question: “Why does a human be ing have to go through the trag edy that is sickness?” The Jesuit theologian said many nurse training programs in the U.S. only “assume the fact of sickness” and “how to remedy it,” and as a result the “nursing taught this way always seems to emerge as a refined technique in hiding things.” FATHER KERNS said that Les son I in “How to hide things from the patient” follows this for mula: “You design his room with bright colors and curtains and soft lamps and a TV set as though he’s moving into a firstclass hotel. In this wonderful world there’s no such thing as pain. “You tell him that they didn’t have to operate and he’ll soon be discharged, but don’t let on that he’s already beyond treatment and might as well be allowed to die at home. You come in smiling, then jab him with a needle.” He said Lesson II consists in knowing how to hide things from yourself: “Smile at everybody, as though you didn’t know the total sum of misery that’s found in an ordinary hospital on an ordinary day.” “SICKNESS is a mystery, but the nurse must learn to look at it with reverence,” Father Kerns ex plained. “The ultimate reason for it is not only wise but good. Any training program that can lead her this far will be giving her at least some preparation, but a Catholic nursing school should take her one step farther. It should show the prospective nurse, he stated, that sickness “depends on two historical events, two decisions of a free will, two things that didn’t, have to hap pen.” He said these are original sin and the reaction to original sin by which God gave Christ to the world. “Now, if sickness is the result of two historical events, sin and redemption,” Father Kerns con tinued, “then theology, formal See Theology, page 4A and minds of those present: The cardinals of the Holy Roman Church, bishops and priests, Chris tians of many denominations and representatives of most of the world’s nations. ABOUT 50,000 persons crowded into the transepts of the great ba silica. The nave was still occupied by rows of seats for Pope John’s great project — now suspended with his death — the Second Vati can Council. Other thousands were outside the church in St. Peter’s Square. At that same moment, half a mile away, hundreds of other friends of Pope John heard another Requiem Mass for him. They were the inmates of Regina Coeli prison. Neither they nor the world had forgotten his visit to fhe prison the day after Christmas, 1958. It was a visit that told the world that a new and distinctive personality had arrived on the scene. Only the hundred or so candles on a symbolic three-tiered cata falque were lighted as the great basilica began to fill with people. Even while the representatives of state entered, the church was still immersed in gloom. BUT BRIGHT lights went on for arrival of the cardinals at 10:00 A.M. when the ceremony began. Seventy-two of them entered two by-two, each attended by a prelate. They filed silently into rows of chairs on either side of the cata falque, which stood between the al tar of the confession beneath the dome and the altar of the chair at the far end of the church. Behind the cardinals were rep See 50,000 Crowd, page 6A POPE APPROVED 15 PROJECTS FOR COUNCIL BEFORE DEATH VATICAN CITY — (Radio, NC) — Pope John XXIII reviewed and approved before his death all but 2 of the 17 projects revised for the second session of the ecumenical council, it was revealed here. Bishop Alfredo Cavagna, confessor of the late Pontiff, said here that he helped the Pope review 15 of the projects. He said that the Pope was very pleased with the clear and simple form which was given to the projects and that he personaUy initialed the 15 projects.
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