Louisiana Diocese
Bishop Orders End
To Discrimination
ALEXANDRIA, La. — (NC) —
Bishop Charles P. Greco of Alex
andria has called for an end to
discriminatory practices in Catho
lic Churches under his jurisdic
tion and announced that Catholic
schools in some areas will be de
segregated in September.
In a letter released to the press
three days before and then read
at Masses in churches and chapels
serving the 89,000 Catholics of the
northern Louisiana diocese, Bish
op Greco reiterated an appeal in a
previous letter that Catholics “cast
off the yoke of prejudices and wil
lingly and calmly accept desegre
gation, out of love of God and in
conformity with the requirements
of good citizenship.”
Elaborating on the injunction
“to discontinue discrimination in
our churches,” the statement re
ferred to segregated seating and
segregated procedures for receiv
ing Holy Communion which,
though discontinued in some
churches, still exist in others.
“If we hope to live as brothers
Pope Sends Lion
Cubs To Brescia
Rome, Italy — (NC) — Because
Vatican City suffers from a lack
of lion cages and keepers, Pope
Paul VI has sent two lion cubs to
his home town of Brescia. The
cubs were a goodwill gift from
the Indian state of Gujarat.
The Pope made the gift to May
or Bruno Boni of Brescia in a spe
cial ceremony in the Vatican’s
Consistorial Hall attended by a
delegation from Brescia, by mem
ers of Rome’s Indian commu
nity, and the cubs themselves.
At the end of the audience the
cubs were taken in tow by the
director of the Brescia zoo, Giu
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of Christ, we must be willing to
pray to Him as brothers of one
another,” the letter stated.
DISCRIMINATION “IN educa
tion, housing, voting, job oppor
tunity and public accommoda
tions” does not “conform to God’s
law of justice and love,” the Bish
op pointed out.
Announcement of desegregation
of Catholic schools was expected
in view of several court suits in
troduced in various parts of the
diocese to desegregate public
schools.
“Because of the closely knit
method of operation of our Catho
lic schools with the public schools,
in most parts of our diocese, it
will be our policy beginning with
the 1965-66 school year, to deseg
regate some of our Catholic
schools as the public schools de
segregate, according to a pattern
which we will shortly announce,”
the letter said.
THE POLICY of desegregating
Catholic schools in conjunction
with court orders desegregating
public school facilities has been
followed by many Southern dio
ceses. The Diocese of Alexandria
is the last diocese in the South
to have public schools within its
borders desegregated.
Of his approach to racial mat
ters, Bishop Greco observed: “We
have prayed for God’s light and
guidance and have taken counsel
with clergy and laity and have
endeavored to act when and how
the cause of God, of His Church
and of His people of all races
would best be served, always bear
ing in mind that the good of souls
must be the supreme law.”
Previous pastoral statements on
racial matters were issued by Bish
op Greco in July 1963, and, togeth
er with other Louisiana prelates,
in July 1964.
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degrees (June 4) on Joseph Cardinal Ritter of St. Louis and two ministers of the church,
Rev. Roland H. Pantermuehl of New Orleans (left), and Rev. Hartland H. Helmich of New
York City. Cardinal Ritter also delivered the main address, perhaps the first tune a U.S.
Cardinal has been honored in this fashion by a Protestant seminary._
Pope Urges World to Accept Faith
PISA, Italy — (NC) — Speak
ing to a world dazzled by the ex
ploits of science, Pope Paul VI
challenged it to accept on faith the
doctrine of the Eucharist, surpass
ing the capabilities of the scientif
ic mind.
His platform was Italy’s Nation
al Eucharistic Congress, whose
theme—God with Us—he trans
formed into an eloquent discourse
on the mystery of Christ’s presence
in the Blessed Sacrament.
His stage was this ancient city
of Pisa, renowned for its scholars
and scientists, among them the
celebrated Galileo, to whom the
Pope paid public tribute.
With deliberate gravity, Pope
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of Christ’s real presence in the
Eucharist with “the complete as
surance which our apostolic teach
ing office authorizes us to profess
—in fact, obliges us.”
He did this, he said, “to
strengthen the practice of this
authentic devotion, nourished by
the Gospel and theological doc
trine . . . and to dissipate a few
uncertainties which have arisen in
recent times from the attempt to
give an elusive interpretation to
the traditional and authoritative
doctrine of the Church concemim
a matter of such importance.”
The Pope’s almost ominooi
phrasing suggested his preoccupy
tion with the danger of heresy it
the area of Eucharistic theology,
Though he did not specify, some
observers felt it was a reference
to recent efforts—many by com
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the phrasing of doctrine with new
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