President Hails Annual Catholic Youth Week
Washington — (NC) — Presi
dent Johnson has hailed the 14th
annual observance of National
Catholic Youth Week scheduled
this year for Oct. 25 to Nov. 1.
The President, citing the week’s
theme — “Truth in Love: Bond of
Union” — said: “You have chosen
a most fitting standard of action
in our increasingly materialistic
and complex society, as well as
one which eloquently enshrines the
worthy activities of your vigorous
membership.”
OTHER MESSAGES in connec
tion with the observance came from
Augustin Cardinal Bea, S.J., presi
dent of the Vatican’s Secretariat
for Promoting Christian unity, and
Mrs. Robert F. Kennedy, wife of
the former attorney general.
National Catholic Youth Week,
sponsored by the National Catholic
Youth Organization (CYO), is the
largest national Catholic youth ac
tivity held annually in this country.
President Johnson in his mes
sage stated that “the steadfast pur
suit of truth, when accompanied by
the unselfish, dedicated qualities
of Christian charity, is a vital key
to many of the problems and hard
ships of our modern world. Sus
tained by brotherly love and moti
vated by the keen desire for right
eousness, Americans of all creeds
and nationalities can help to keep
alive and propagate our cherished
ideals of peace and justice. Toward
this end your organization has con
tributed with unflagging energy
and exemplary generosity.”
THE PRESIDENT extended his
“hearty good wishes for a success
ful and productive observance of
Catholic Youth Week.”
Cardinal Bea called it of “funda
mental importance” that young
people be educated in a spirit
which will “help shape the founda
tion” for Christian unity and for
harmony among all men.
Mrs. Kennedy said that “as stu
dents you stand on the brink of
the future and this future can best
be assuqpd by the daily application
of this theme to our neighbors in
this nation and throughout the
world.”
NATIONAL CYO president
Charles Rucker of Omaha, Neb.,
said the week’s theme “calls upon
all Catholic youth to work through
both prayer and action for a ‘bond
of union’ between all people of
God. As we work for such a uni™
we must seek the truth in
mosphere of love and trust.”
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national director of the CYo «\i
all programs for the youth week
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MEMENTO OF COUNCIL OPENING — The gold-lace stole
shown above was worn by Pope John XXIII when he opened
the first session of Vatican Council II in St. Peter’s Basilica
on October 11, 1962. Only shortly before his death, Pope John
directed that the stole be sent to the United States as a gift
to the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Wash
ington. D.C. The stole has been on loan from the Shrine for
exhibtion in the Vatican Pavilion at the New York World’s
Fair.
Familiar Hymns Banned
In Cleveland Diocese
Cleveland — (NC) — Archbish
op Edward F. Hoban has banned
23 hymns from the Cleveland dio
cese, including such familiar ones
as “Mother Dear, O Pray For
Me,” “On This Day, O Beautiful
Mother,” “Mother Dearest, Mother
Fairest,” “To Jesus Heart All
Burning,” and Schubert’s “Ave
Maria.”
Archbishop Hoban said in a let
ter to all priests and church musi
cians: “We recognize a greater
need for good hymns in our time,
and recognize also that there is still
considerable abuse in the matter
of hymn selection.”
Other points in his directive in
cluded:
• A reminder that Gregorian
chant is the official music of the
Church and is “entirely suitable
even on the most solemn occa
sions.”
• A recommendation that more
than 25 specific hymns be used in
parish music programs.
• A ban not only on 23 specific
hymns but also on all other hymns
which are not musically suitable
or not appropriate because of
style, theology or sentiment.
• A reminder that the wedding
marches from Wagner’s “Lohen
grin” and Mendelssohn’s “Midsum
mer Night’s Dream” are not per
mitted in church.
Archbishop Hoban said the list
of prohibited hymns carries the
force of law, while the list of rec
ommended hymns is “commenda
tory rather than preemptory.” Both
lists were prepared by the recently
established Diocesan Commission
for Sacred Music.
Other disapproved hymns, which
may not be sung either at liturgi
cal or extra-liturgical functions in
the Cleveland diocese, are: “Bring
Flowers Of The Rarest,” “Mary,
Dearest Mother,” “Queen Of The
Holy Rosary,” ‘Til Sing A Hymn
To Mary,” “ Tis The Month of Our
Mother,” “Daughter Of A Mighty
Father,” “Mother At Your Feet Is
Kneeling,” and “Good Night, Sweet
Jesus.”
ALSO: “Just For Today,” “Moth
er Beloved,” “Hide Thou Me,”
“Little White Guest,” “Agnus Dei”
(Bizet), “The Rosary” (Nevin),
“Our Father” (Malotte), “Ave
Maria” (Rosewig), “Softly and
Tenderly Jesus Is Calling,” and
“Ave Maris Stella” (Traditional).
The Celineau Psalms were de
scribed as “highly recommended.”
Recommended wedding marches
were volumes I and II of the wed
ding marches by Father Carlo Ros
sini, and marches of Bach, Purcell,
Franck and Nieland.
'Doesn't Hold Office'
Czechoslovak Reds Keep
Archbishop from Council
Vienna — (NC) — Czechoslova
kia’s Communist government has
refused to allow Archbishop Josef
Beran of Prague to leave the coun
try to take part in the ecumenical
council’s third session in Rome.
“I have been told that I will not
receive permission to go to Rome,”
the archbishop said (Sept. 12) in
a telephone interview. “The au
thorities maintain that it is out of
the question for me to attend the
council because I am not at pre
sent in office as an archbishop.”
Urges Serra Men
Staff Newman Clubs
Memphis, Tenn. — (NC) —
Serra International, the Catholic
laymen’s organization dedicated to
the promotion of religious voca
tions, has been urged to provide
volunteer college faculty members
for the Newman Apostolate on
secular campuses.
“Give us . . . a Serra faculty for
Newman” was the recommendation
of Father John C. O’Dwyer, Little
Rock, Ark., diocesan director of
the Newman Foundation, in an ad
dress to District 18 of Serra In
ternational here (Sept. 12). Father
O’Dwyer is the Newman Club chap
lain, at the University of Arkansas.
THE CHAPLAIN pointed to sky
rocketing enrollment of Catholic
students on secular campuses, to
the growth of religious vocations
resulting from the Newman apos
tolate, and then called for volun
teer college professors from among
the professional men who are Ser
rans.
He said the task facing the New
man movement “is far beyond the
capabilities of the Church, now and
in the future . . . the laymen of
this country are the key and the
answer,” he asserted.
FATHER O’DWYER spelled out
areas in which Serrans can help
the Church provide for the reli
gious welfare of more than 725,000
Catholics who will study on secular
campuses this year. He said that
by 1980, “a modest estimate by
N.C.W.C. warns us to expect 2.3
million.”
“Give us the Serrans,” Father
O’Dwyer urged, “to assist or com
plete our staffs as instructors of
fering subjects in keeping with
your college training.
“Give us for our staffs the Cath
olic doctor to instruct and counsel
the pre-med and medical students,
as well as the pre-nursing and
nursing candidate.
“GIVE US THE Catholic lawyer
to instruct, counsel and advise the
Catholic law students.
“Give us the Catholic psychia
trist and psychologist to counsel
with us, and assist in one of the
growing needs of our apostolate —
counselling the Catholic.
“Give us the banker, the business
executive, the agriculturists, the
journalists, the salesmen and rep
resentatives from all fields.
“GIVE US THE Catholic man
and wife to assist with the growing
number of married students.
“And above all, Serra, join hands
with Newman in a most neglected
field for future laborers in the
vineyard of the Master. .
« Father O’Dwyer said that “dur
ing the past five years out of 137
Newman centers and programs
have come 492 seminarians, 355
Sisters, 82 Brothers and 403 for lay
apostolic work” “And remember,”
he asserted, “these came from only
137 out Of the 913 schools where
Newman programs of some kind
were in effect.”
Father O’Dwyer told the Ser
rans that the Newman movement is
not a substitute for a Catholic col
lege education, but he pointed to
the great shortage of priests, to
minister to Catholics on secular
campuses, and he recommended
that Catholic colleges “disseminate
their faculties to offer at least a
minimum of courses in our New
man centers” — “we must pool our
resources, forget age-old ‘ghettoes’
within the walls of our own institu
tions,” he said.
The Czechoslovak prelatei
not allowed to attend the first
sessions of the council. In Octob
1963, he was released after
years of internment but was a
allowed to return to his archdj
cese. Instead, he was sent to H
karov near Prague where, dura
the first weeks following his i
lease, he was allowed relative pi
sonal freedom. He received visitoi
including newsmen and priests
the Prague archdiocese.
Hopes began to rise that i
agreement could be reached I
tween the Czechoslovak gova
ment and the Holy See td alb
Archbishop Beran to attend t
council’s third session. Last Api
however, the government-supportl
vicar capitular of the Prague S
Father Antonin Stehlik, compli
ed to the government’s religh
affairs office that Prague prfc
were going to Mukarov to see 8
archbishop on pastoral matte
instead of coming to him.
Soon afterward, Archbisho
Beran was moved to Radanov i
southern Bohemia and kept unde
closer surveillance. Guards on dut
at his residence there require
written permission from the re
gious affairs office before admit!
ing visitors. Later the office t
fused to issue permits to visit tt
archbishop on the grounds “th
conversations with ‘Mister’ Ben
might disturb the very difficult co
tacts with the Vatican.”
In August, the Czechoslovak gw
ernment said it was ready to gn
the archbishop permission to lew
the country to go to the coum
provided he agreed in writing a
to return to Czechoslovakia.
Declares Holy See
Encourages Science
Geneva, Switzerland — (NC) —
“The mere presence of a Holy See
delegation at this conference
should be considered as a token of
interest and of encouragement to
the world of science and techno
logy,” said Father Theodore M.
Hesburgh, C.S.C., in an interview
here.
Father Hesburg, president tf
Notre Dame University, was a
member of the Holy See’s delega
tion to the third United Nations
International Conference on the
Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy,
which concluded a 10-day session
Sept. 9. He had attended previous
conferences on the subject in 1955
and 1958 in the same capacity.
Head of the Holy See’s delegation
was Frank M. Folsom, chairman of
the executive committee of the
Radio Corporation of America.
“THE CHURCH wishes to be
present wherever and whenever
human interests and human
motion are at stake,” Father
burgh said, “and in this
scientific progress, technolo"
well as humanistic, has
been and remains a constant'
cern to the Church.”
“Through her presence ai
ferences such as this one
Church not only wishes to swwj
terest, but she intends to *
age active research wort to
of liberating man from***
misery. Most of humanity *
problems — food, clothing,
and education — can
solved through constant
and technological progress.
FATHER HESBUBGH, «jj
president of the W.
Federation of Catholic (
ties, said that a mosteffecwy
practical way for Churth i™1
tions to promote scientinci“
is through up-to-date t
science.