Inter-Session Work Completed
Last of Council's Revised
Texts Are Sent to Bishops
Vatican City — (NC) — Th«
last five of 11 texts to be discussed
and voted on during the fourth
session of the ecumenical council
have been sent to the world’s bish
ops, bringing to a close the form
al inter-session work of the vari
ous commissions.
The texts were accompanied by
a letter from Archbishop Pericle
Felici, secretary general of the
council, confirming that the contro
versial document on religious lib
First Lay Vice President
New Bern Native Given
New Post at Notre Dame
James W. Frick
Prelate Predicts
Major Debate on
Church & State
BALTIMORE — (NC) — Law
rence Cardinal Shehan predicted
here there will be major legal ar
guments about church-state rela
tions in the coming months.
The Archbishop of Baltimore
told the Maryland Bar Association
he hopes the outcome will not be
a setback for church-state cooper
ation.
He appealed to his audience of
lawyers and judges to continue to
develop “the practical policy which
makes possible cooperation of the
government with the forces of re
ligion and which through the years
has been characteristic of our fed
eral government.”
THE CARDINAL said that in
the coming months, “we are des
tined to hear much concerning the
relationship between church and
state” because of “anticipated at
tacks” on the new federal aid to
elementary and secondary educa
tion law.
inose opposed to reaerai as
sistance to any church-related
school are certain to review and
to elucidate further the fluctuating
American doctrine of separation
of church and state. No doubt, the
sttempt will be made to enhance
the metaphor of the wall of sep
aration,” he said.
He held that the general policy
of the federal government has been
one of neutrality “as far as all or
ganized religions or churches are
concerned,” but also a policy of
cooperation — “and even, one
might say, encouragement, towards
all on an equal footing when the
good of the country seemed to
call for it.”
The cardinal said he saw four
reasons for continuing this ap
proach instead of adopting a
“strictly legalistic policy of abso
lute church-state separation.”
THE REASONS he gave are:
—The government will be the
enemy of religion if it excludes all
religious influence;
-—Public good depends on mor
uhty and morality demands a foun
dation of religious truth;
—The current spirit of ecumen
ism favors the traditional policy
of cooperation and help on a non
Preferential basis;
Mr. James W. Frick, a native of
New Bern, North Carolina, has
been appointed vice president for
public relations and development
by the University of Notre Dame
in Indiana. He succeeds Father
John E. Walsh, C.S.C., who has
been named vice president for aca
demic affairs. Also appointed vice
president (for special projects) is
Dr. Francis T. McGuire, Frick and
McGuire are the first laymen to
become vice presidents of Notre
Dame, which is operated by the
Holy Cross Fathers.
In announcing the appointments,
Father Theodore M. Hesburgh,
University president, said they re
flect “the continuing expansion of
Notre Dame’s educational programs
and research as well as the need
to develop deeper understanding
and greater support for them.
“These appointments,” he said,
“will provide additional administra
tive leadership and strength at a
time when Notre Dame faces its
greatest opportunities to develop
new levels of excellence in teach
ing, research and public service.”
Under the leadership of Father
Walsh and Mr. Frick, Notre Dame
successfully completed its $18,000,
000 Challenge Program in 1963 and
has achieved 85% of its $20,000,
000 goal in the Challenge II Pro
gram scheduled to conclude in
June, 1966.
Frick has been associated with
the Notre Dame Foundation for
fourteen years and became its exec
utive director in 1961. In this post
he has directed professional em
ployees of the University and
organized thousands of alumni and
other volunteers in nationwide
fund-raising activities. A native of
New Bern, N. Car., and a World
War II Navy officer-veteran
Frick was graduated from Notre
Dame’s College of Business Admin
istration in 1951. He is a member
of the Board of Directors of Unit
ed Community Services of South
Bend and a member of the
Catholic Interracial Council. On a
number of occasions he has ad
dressed national and regional meet
ings of the American College Pub
; lie Relations Association and the
American Alumni Council. He and
his wife, the former Bonita Tor
bert, have three sons and two
daughters.
erty would De tne first item on tne
agenda.
THOUGH DISCUSSED at the
last session, it failed to reach vot
ing stage on a last minute deci
sion by the council’s presidency
over protests of a large number
of council Fathers. Since then it
has been revised by the Secretar
iat for Promoting Christian Unity,
in the light of the debate, and
was finalized during the mid-May
meeting of the secretariat.
Following renewed discussion on
religious liberty, the council will
pass to the document On the
Church in the Modern World, deal
ing with various phases of Church
thought and activity in the light
of special conditions of the present
day world. This includes topics on
marriage, nuclear warfare and
world poverty which underwent
heated debate during the council’s
third session.
BESIDES THESE, the docu
ments sent to the council Fathers
include a 40-page schema on the
missionary activity of the Church,
a 64-page schema on priestly life
and the ministry, and a 72-page
schema on the apostolate of the
laity. The schema on the modern
world contains 126 pages and the
one on religious liberty, 54.
All of these, except the one on
the apostolate of the laity, must
first be discussed and debated on
the floor of the council, then voted
on and amended before the final
balloting and promulgation. Dis
cussion of the lay apostolate —
and of another schema on Divine
See Revised Text, page 8A
Posthumous Award
Charlotte Girl's Bravery
Wins Presidential Medal
Mr. and Mrs. Carlos Espin of
Saint Patrick’s parish in Charlotte
have received word from the
White House that their little
daughter, Linda who died in a fire
two years ago has been designated
as a recipient of a Young Ameri
can Medal for Bravery.
Linda and her younger brother
had been trapped in the attic of the
home and Linda’s last act was to
push her brother to safety, after
which she fell back into the blaz
ing, smoke filled house.
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SPELLING CHAMPS—Michael Kerpan, Jr., 12, from Tulsa, and
Judy Marie Guarr, 12, from Topeka, Kan., joyfully end the 38th
National Spelling Bee as friends after battling through some
hard-to-spell words in Washington, D.C. finals. Michael won
first place by spelling “eczema” correctly. (NC Photos)
Nuncio Reports on Dominican Crisi
By Patrick Riley
(N.C.W.C. News Service)
VATICAN CITY — The apostol
ic nuncio to the rebellion-plagued
Dominican Republic said that per
sons “either coming from abroad
or taking orders from abroad have
been trying to transform an inter
nal dispute into an international
conflict of ideologies.”
Archbishop Emanuele Clarizio
told the N.C.W.C. News Service:
_The government can be aided
by religious groups in fighting so
cial problems, such as poverty,
crime, urban blight, inferior hous
ing and racial injustice.
“I have a strong impression that
the problem could be solved al
most immediately were it not for
infiltration.” The nuncio would not
specify which side or sides had
been infiltrated, but he did indi
cate that the infiltration was left
ist. He came to Rome to brief
Pope Paul VI on his peace making
efforts.
The day he spoke, newspapers
carried reports that a third Amer
ican peace team, including Ells
worth Bunker, U.S. ambassador to
the Organization of American
States, had met with failure. The
efforts of two previous peacemak
ing commissions of the OAS had
also been fruitless.
ARCHBISHOP CLARIZIO, who
was attending a bishops’ meeting
in Puerto Rico when trouble broke
out in the Dominican Republic,
flew to the capital city of Santo
Domingo on April 28 in a plane
carrying supplies of medicine and
blood.
“As soon as I arrived I was in
vited by generals of the junta to a
meeting at a military base in San
Isidro. A representative of the
U.S. government was present. The
generals asked me to do all in my
power to help put a halt to the
bloodshed. They were trying to
See Nuncio, page 6A
Attorney General Nicholas Kat
zenbach announced the awards -
were established by Congress to
honor boys and girls under 19 who
perform outstanding acts of brav
ery and service.
SEVEN YEAR OLD Linda had
been a student of O’Donoghue
school and was absent from school
that day with chicken pox. She
and her brother Carlos did not
understand or could not hear the
instructions that were called to
them during the blaze and ran up
to the attic. It was in the attic
window that the act of heroism
was performed.
The Last Rites on Holy Mother
Church were administered by Fa
ther Ralph Monk and the Mass of
the Angels was sung by Father D.
Edward Sullivan, with Linda’s
fellow students as choir members.
Mr. and Mrs. Espin will receive
the posthumous award from Presi-'
dent Johnson at a White House
ceremony in the near future.
Priest Hits
Reds' Policy
Toward Jews
WASHINGTON — (NC) — A
Catholic priest, speaking at a mass
protest meeting attended by about
1,000 persons called on the Soviet
Union to change its policy toward
the Jews in its country — a group,
he said, which is in “The throes
of spiritual and cultural geno
cide.”
Father Edward H. Flannery, ed
itor of the Providence (R.I.) Visi
tor, told the rally at Howard Uni
versity that, all denials to the con
trary, the USSR is carrying on an
anti-Jewish campaign started in
Russia under the czars.
“According to the Marxist dia
lectics, anti-Semitism was to dis
appear on the basis that the Jews
would disappear as a distinct eth
nical and religious group in the
development of the dictatorship of
the proletariat,” he said.
“It soon became clear that the
Bolshevists’ much-propagandized
opposition to anti-Semitism was in
spired of the principle that Jews
were to be allowed to survive phy
sically in order that they might
swell the ranks of communism’s
classless and faceless society, that
the Jew’s body was to be saved so
that his soul might be liquidated.”
Father Flannery said all reli
gions have suffered under the So
viets, but that Jews have suffered
more than others. He said they
have not been allowed to form
central organizations, to use their
language for liturgical services, or
to publish books.