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Conversation in English Pope Receives President; Seminarians Cheer JFK VATICAN CITY — (NC) — ^res ident John F. Kennedy became the second head of state to call on Pope Paul VI. The arrival of President Ken nedy’s motorcade in St. Peter’s Square at 9:45 a.m. Rome time was greeted by a cheering crowd kept back by wooden barricades. A platoon of Swiss Guards pre sented arms as the motorcade passed through the Arch of the Bells, and Papal Gendarmes lined the route which curves behind St. Peter’s Basilica and up into the San Damaso Courtyard. In the courtyard, a guard of honor from the Palatine Guard snapped to attention as the Pres Council's Second Session to Begin On September 29 VATICAN CITY — (NC) — The second session of the Second Vat ican Ecumenical Council will open on the last Sunday of September, it has been officially announced here. The date — September 29, the 17th Sunday after Pentecost and the feast of St. Michael the Arch angel — was set in a document signed by Amleto Cardinal Cicog nani. Papal Secretary of State, and issued following an audience with His Holiness Pope Paul VI. Earlier, in the first public ad dress of his pontificate, (June 22), Pope Paul had declared he would reconvene the council, which of ficially ended w.th the death of Pope John. Although all interim council work was stopped for a month by Pope John's final illness and death, and the election and coronation of Pope Paul, the opening of the sec ond session will take place only three weeks after it was originally scheduled. John XXIII had ordered the second session to begin on September 8. ANNOUNCEMENT of the new date has been sent to council Fa thers throughout the world by the council’s general secretariat. It was also announced that the work of the Coordinating Commis sion of the Council, headed by Car dinal Cicognani, was to begin on July 3 to complete its revision of the material to be dealt with at the second session. The commission was given the task of revising and' reducing the number of “schema” ♦r ,f°rma’ Projects to be submitted to the council’s second session. .Before his death, Pope John re viewed and approved all but two of he 17 revised projects, it was an nounced by Bishop Alfredo Ca |ngna, the late Pontiff’s confessor. e said Pope John was very P eased with the clear and simple of the projects and that he Personally initialled 15 of them. ldenrs car pulled to a stop, me President and his party alighted from the cars and stood at atten tion while the Palatine Guard band played the U.S. National Anthem. The President was then pre sented to Msgr. Federico Callori di Vignale, Papal Majorodomo, who accompanied the President on the elevator to the third floor of the Apostolic Palace. The group moved through a suc cession of colorful halls to the small throne room, where Amleto Cardinal Cicognani, Papal Secre tary of State met Mr. Kennedy. In the small throne room two armchairs were placed side by side See Pope Receives, page 6A IIN iHfc L,Arsu Of HIs ANCESTORS — Arriving from Berlin, on a three-day “sentimental visit,” during which he saw the Kennedy ancestral home in Dunganstown, County Wexford, Ireland, President John F. Kennedy had a warm smile for a group of nuns gathered to greet him. He was greeted at Dublin airport by President Eamon de Valera and addressed a huge crowd at Wexford, one of the stops on his tour. Sherbert vs. Verner Ruling Seen as Favoring Aid to Parochial Students This analysis of the Supreme Court’s recent ruling upholding the right of a member of a religious sect to receive public welfare bene fits without surrendering her right of religious freedom ivas prepared by George E. Reed, associate direc tor of the Legal Department Na tional Catholic Welfare Confer ence, and an authority on the ques tion of Church-State relations in constitutional laic. The U.S. Supreme Court has given parents of parochial school students a strong new argument to use in their efforts to win equal treatment for their children in the distribution of public welfare benefits. Overshadowed somewhat by the Pope Calls Large Representation 'Homage of High Significance VATICAN CITY—(Radio, NC)— His Holiness Pope Paul VI told representatives from 96 nations that their coming to his corona tion was a “homage of high signif icance.” In the Sistine Chapel, where — as the Pope himself noted — he was elected to the papacy, Pope Paul received (July 1) the mem bers of extraordinary diplomatic missions sent to the coronation. “Allow me to note that this is a homage of high significance both in the number of nations repre sented as well as in the quality of persons and the variety of ori gins,” the Pope said. “In truth, it is the world in miniature which We have before Us with its five continents its races and its peo ples.” THIS IN itself gives pause for meditation, he said, if one takes into account what was said in the coronation ceremony: “Know that you are the father of princes and of kings, that you are the guide of the earth, the vicar of Our Sav iour Jesus Christ.” The Pope, “by origin and forma tion belongs necessarily to a na tion and a determined kind of civilization and culture,” he said. “The circumstances of his life and service to the Church have brought him into contact with a number of nations, more or less extensively, but in any case limited by force of circumstances. But the sublime Bishop through the Diocesan Chancery: The Right Reverend Monsignor John P. Manley is granted a leave of absence due to illness. The Right Reverend Monsignor Dennis A. Lynch is ap pointed Administrator of Sacred Heart Church, Pinehurst, and will assume the duties of Diocesan Director of Retreats. The Right Reverend Monsignor George E. Lynch is ap pointed Pastor of St. Lawrence Church, Asheville, and Vicar Forane for the Asheville Deanery. The Reverend John J. Harper is appointed Pastor of St. Anthony’s Church, Southern Pines. The Reverend Francis M. Smith is appointed Director of the Home Missions Apostolate, and will represent the Diocese of Raleigh in the Western Division. The Reverend John L. Richardson is appointed Assist ant Director of the Home Missions Apostolate, and will represent the Diocese of Raleigh in the Eastern Division. The Reverend Francis T. Connolly is appointed Pastor ( of St. Mary’s Church, Laurinburg. <( Rev. Edward J. Waters is appointed assistant pastor of /{ mission with which he is invested gives him a heart and a soul of universal dimensions . . . “The Pope considers himself, like the Church, the enemy of no one. He does not know how to use any other language than that of friendship and trust. Your pres ence here, gentlemen, indicates that your nations also intend to use the same language when they deal with the Holy See.” THE POPE recalled that it was not too long ago that “not a few nations, busy with emporal com petitions, gave only passing atten tion to major events of the papacy and of the Catholic Church. One can now certainly say in all truth that the increased prestige of the recent pontiffs has changed this situation. “The convocation of the Ecumen ical Council, and still more the death of John XXIII — to cite only two events still in the memory of everyone — have captured the attention and the heart of the en tire world as you have seen. The impression produced has been too deep and widespread for one to attribute it to accidental circum stances. The world in chorus has today given recognition to the im mense treasure of the moral and spiritual riches which the Church possesses.” Pope Paul repeated an expres sion Pope John used on a similar occasion when he said he saw in the national representations “one of the signs of the times, bearers and heralds of great hopes.” He said he was reminded of the words of St. Peter who, when he saw the first pagans enter the Church, said: “Now I really under stand that God is not a respecter of persons, but in every nation he who fears Him and does what is right is acceptable to Him.” court’s ruling the same day, June 17, barring public school prayer and Bible reading, the decision in the case of Sherbert v. Verner may nevertheless have a substan tial bearing on the whole question of public aid for children in paro chial schools. In the Sherbert case, a member of the Seventh Day Adventist Church was discharged by a South Carolina employer because she would not work on Saturday, the sabbath day of her faith. She then filed for unemployment compen sation under the state law. THE STATUTE provides that to be eligible for benefits a claimant must be “able to work and avail able for work.” It further states that a claimant is ineligible for benefits “if he has failed without good cause to accept available suitable work when offered him by the unemployment officer or by the employer.” The South Carolina Employment Security Commission found that the appellant’s self-imposed re strictions — specifically, her re fusal to work on Saturday — con stituted a voluntary termination of employment which made her un available for work. Consequently, it held that she was not entitled to unemployment compensation. This ruling was supported by the Supreme Court of South Caro lina, which rejected the conten tion that the statute denied the appellant her right to the free ex ercise of her religion as guaran teed under the First Amendment. The U.S. Supreme Court, by a 7-2 margin, held that the South Carolina court was in error and reversed the judgment. Justice William J. Brennan, Jr., who wrote the majority opinion, relied on the school bus transportation case of Everson v. Board of Edu cation. In that case, decided in 1947, the Supreme Court had up held a New Jersey law under which the state paid the cost of See Ruling Favors, page 2A TELEGRAM Bishop Vincent S. Waters 600 Bilyeu Street Raleigh, North Carolina His Holiness warmest thanks for prayerful congratula tions. Bestows on Your Ex cellency and Diocese particu lar apostolic blessing. s/Cardinal Cicognani
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