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Manner Is Gentle, His Ideals Firm I Giovanni Cardinal Montini, a veteran of some 30 years’ service in the Vatican Secretariat of State, has been chosen Vicar of Christ. The new pope is of medium height, spare build, and has blue eyes and a light complexion. His manner is gentle and his voice soft, but he does not hesitate to use that voice effectively and of ten in defense of Christian ideas and ideals. The pope, who served for some 10 years as either ecclesiastical assistant or moderator to the uni versity section of Italian Catholic Action, repeatedly stressed the need for Catholic youth to meet boldly, with the armor of Faith, the challenges of the modem world. IN A SPEECH in 1957, on the 90th anniversary of the founding of the Italian Youth Movement, he said: “It is up to youth to in vade new regions of life, bringing to them Christian light and love. Defense is not enough for the Christian heart — there must be conquest.” Five years before the Second Vatican Council was convoked by John XXIII, Archbishop Montini cited the importance of an ecu menical attitude toward non-Cath olics. "Is it well-professed orthodoxy to use truth as a hammer against others?” be asked in a Unity Oc tave sermon in February, 1957. . . We must not only nourish an immense feeling of charity' to wards our brothers who have wan dered astray, we must also learn something from them.” IN JANUARY, 1962, Cardinal Montini made a statement that could be regarded as a foretelling of the ecumenical council, which opened in October of that year. “Our spiritual attitude toward them [non - Catholics] must change,” the Cardinal said in a pastoral letter. “We must no long er consider them irreducible and foreign enemies, but brothers who have been painfully detached from the life tree of the one and only true Church of Christ. One must hope sincerely that some new and great event may come to change this sad state of schism among Christians.” Pastoral function and organiza tion have received much attention from the new Holy Father. In July, 1957, while an archbishop, he spoke at the dedication in Milan of the Saranno House of Studies, where newly ordained priests study for a year the methods of pastoral practice. “A CHANGE in the methods and form of [pastoral] organization is necessary if the Gospel message is to reach that great audience represented by the common peo ple." he said then. Pope Paul, who in 1953 was per mitted by Pope Pius XII to re fuse elevation to the cardinalate, has long been an arch foe of com munism. Six months after he was named Archbishop of Milan, he took the offensive against com munism in the Lombardy region of Italy by making a speech in the suburb of Sesto San Giovanni, so powerful a Red Stronghold at the time that it was called "The Little Stalingrad." The Archbishop drove home the point to the almost 100 RICHLAND SUPPLY COMPANY Building Material Feed & Coal W§yMsviNtf Noctfc CarofiN A KINDERGARTEN VISITOR — The new Pope Paul VI. is pictured, when as Archbishop of Milan, Italy, he visited a kindergarten run by a factory there for children of its workers. He is shown with a group of the children, in 1955. per cent communist workers that they had been duped by the lies of communist leaders. In a Lenten pastoral in 1956, Archbishop Montini warned that "every compromise of atheistic communism hides a secret plan to disarm and subjugate whomever deals with it” IN AVGUST, 1959, the Bishops of the Lombardy region, led by Cardinal Montini, warned in a long pastoral letter that “the pro pagation of Marxist ideas in our country is still serious and dan gerous.” Giovanni Battista Montini no doubt acquired much of his inter est in politics and diplomacy from his father, who served for three terms as a member of the Italian Parliament and was editor of a newspaper in Brescia. The future Pope was' born on September 26, 1897, in Concesio, located on the outskirts of Bres cia. He received a canon law de gree from the Pontifical Seminary in Milan and was awarded a de gree in Theology from the Greg orian University in Rome. AFTER HIS ordination on May 29, 1920, he served for a brief period as a parish priest and then enrolled in the Ecclesiastical Academy in Rome, where the Vati can’s diplomats are trained. He was only 25 when he was named by Pope Pius XI to serve as an attache at the Papal Nun ciature in Warsaw in 1922. He was in this post for a year, then was appointed ecclesiastical assistant to the university section of Italian Catholic Action and later its mod erator. In 1932, at the age of 35, he was made a clerk in the Vatican Sec retariat of State by Pope Pius XI, and four years later he was pro moted to’ the position of under secretary to the Papal Secretary of State. This office had been held by Pope Pius XII before his elec tion to the papacy. IN 1944 he was named a Vati can Substitute Secretary of State, together with the late Domenico Cardinal Tardini, and in 1952 he was named Pro-Secretary of State for Ordinary Affairs. In 1953, when Pius XII created 24 new cardinals, he revealed that he had planned to name both Msgr. Montini and Msgr. Tardini as cardinals, but they had asked him not to do so. Referring to this in 1958, when he accepted elevation to the car dinalate during the reign of Pope John XXni, Cardinal Montini said: "Formerly. I was allowed to refuse this dignity. And for this favor I am grateful to Pope Pius XII. . . Now other circumstances compel me to accept, and for this other favor I am no l.ss grateful to His Holiness Pope John XXIII.” IN NOVEMBER, 1954, Msgr. Montini was made an archbishop Thomas & Howard Wholesale Grocers Asheville, North Carolina STATE DISTRIBUTING CORP. DISTRIBUTORS FOR AMSTEL OF AMSTERDAM HOLLAND BEER • Imperial Reserve • Garrett's Virginia Dare • Almoden Vineyards Rose • Wurzburger Hofbrou Imported German Beer • Lobott's Imported Conodion Ale • Taylor's New York State 112 S*. Blount s». Raleigh, N. 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During his 1960 visit, the Car dinal said at a press conference in Boston that he was “very pleased to see Catholics here taking such interest in the condition of the Church in South America.” HE SINGLED OUT for praise the missionary activities in South America of the Society of St. James the Apostle, founded by Richard Cardinal Cushing, Arch bishop of Boston. In 1962 Cardinal Montini visited missions and cities in Ghana, Up per Volta, Nigeria and Southern Rhodesia. On his return to Milan, he said: “The Church in Africa is not regarded as a colonizing power but as a friend who seeks to aid greatly the progress of the African people.” The Cardinal does not cushion his words when speaking against lukewarm Christianity or other things he considers objectionable, but he is gentle and considerate in his role of chief pastor of the p& pie. HE SPENT the summer befot he was created a cardinal in visi ing parishioners living in the « mote mountain towns of the Mil) archdiocese. During these visit tions to the people — most i them farmers, shepherds or woo carvers — Archbishop Montini rt peated the following words t them: “Because you are farthi away and more humble, you at dearer to me.” In his speeches, he has criticize! writers who say they need “ have experience of evil,” score priests who have a narrow coo cept of their duties, cited the nee for Catholics to defend thei press, attacked the obscurity i some modern art, and warne against attempts to dilute ecclesi astical authority. Coronation Continued from page 1A the enthroned pontiff, saying: “Ac cept this ornate tiara of the thret crowns and remember that you are father of princes atad kings, pon tiff of the world, and vicar on this earth of Our Saviour Jesus Christ, whose honor and glory is forever and ever.” The Pope is crowned. IN THIS CASE, Pope Paul i using a gem-studded tiara datini back seven pontificates, and user for coronations ever since 1878 be cause of its relatively light weigh! — two pounds. The Vatican own other triple tiaras symbolizing thi supreme papal authority. But th< one now in use is the only ont suitable for use without imposini See Coronation, page 8A SELMA STYLE SHOP MISS CASS IE ABDALLA, Prop. "Smart Stylish Styles for Ladies” Coats — Suits — Dresses and Lingerie Phone WO 52903 Selma, N. C. “Try us for nationally advertised brands” _ WHITESIDES 6l CO. Insurance & Bonds Gastonia, North Carolina Hospitality Headquarters For Hendersonville THE SKYLAND HOTEL Dining Service Unsurpassed Hendersonville, N. C. Edwards & Broughton Company Established Lithographers and Engravers Printers and Publishers RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA NORTH CAROLINA CATHOLIC Edition of Our Sunday Visitor Jtme 30, 1963
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