On Eve of Council
Holy Father Renews Call
For Prayer and Penance
CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy — Repeating his call for
Draver and penance for the success of the ecumenical coun
cil pope Paul VI told his weekly general audience that his
piiSr in the Church gives him ?*™^Vr ma£r
nesses and a deeper awareness of the need for prayer
Thought obviously preoccupied with the fourth and -
nal sTess?on of the co£n%, the 67-year-old Pope appeared
relaxed and smiling at the audience. Contrary to recurren^
mmors that he had been ill, it seemed as if his short vaca
tion here in the Alban hills had restored his ene^. "1°
Shan an extended sabbatical does tor most men of hoi age.
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of people at the audience. He went on to say.
The usual image people form of tne papacy is xnai oi
a post of command, of authority, government, that is, for
the pastoral and doctrinal direction of the Church. It is not
observed often enough that here more than elsewhere one
realizes, nurtures and suffers a sense of human smallness,
a sense of the need of divine help, a humble sense of our
basic inadequacy, the torment of many longings along with
the comfort of great hope. It is not realized that here the
longings acquire immense — worldwide — proportions.
This is precisely because the mission of the Church is
a mission of charity and here the mission of the Church
becomes universal. Here the force, the multiplicity, the ar
dor of the longings unfold with all the vigor the human
heart can support. And since human capacities cannot
satisfy these supreme longings, the longings themselves
turn into prayer here more than anywhere else. In the
precise words of St. Thomas, ‘Longing falls under the pre
cept of charity; petition under the precept of religion. . . .
We must ask in prayer that which we need to long for; and
we must long for not only our own good, but also that of
others.’
“This is why we pray for the council and why we in
vite the people of the world to pray with us. It is love for
the Church and for the world which prompts us to pray. It
is the benefit the council provides for the Church and the
world which moves us to pray. It is the trust we have in
the operative virtue of the divine mercy of prayer which
invites us to it. It is the certainty that every good and de
vout heart adds an effective share to prayer for the good of
ail that prompts us to exhort all to pray together.”
In prayer, Pope Paul continued, people are “coopera
tors with God.” This concurrence of God in the “humble
circuit of our personal operation,” he said, “this encounter
of His will with ours, this marvelous and mysterious fusion
of His Love with our poor love, demands on our part the
modest but at the same time total contribution of our lim
ited efficiency, the best disposition to summon the divine
efficiency. It demands the state of longing and of supplica
tion which is called prayer.
“Prayer opens the doors of our hearts to the action of
God in us,” the Pope explained. “And if we Catholics and
believers are convinced of this supernatural way of doing
things in our lives, this way established by Christ, we will
Anti-Smut Bill's Future Dim ]
WASHINGTON—A House sub
committee has begun work on a
bill to create a presidential com
mission to combat smut, but there
is virtually no chance of House ac
tion on it this session.
The House has been the grave
yard in the past for identical
measures which have twice passed
the Senate. With adjournment
only a short time away, the same
fate is thought to await the bill
this session.
Nevertheless, appeals for action
were made to the Select Subcom
Life's Apology
Ends Litigation
By Five Priests
FRESNO, Calif. — (NC) — The
attorney for five priests .Who filed
a $5 million damage suit against
Time, Inc., said the litigation is
ended with publication this week
of an apology to the priests in Life
magazine.
Richard McCormick, legal
spokesman for the five Merced,
Calif., priests, stressed that the or
iginal purpose of the suit was a
retraction and not money damages.
“The priests did not ask for a
cash payment and none was made
as part of the settlement,” said
McCormic who added that peti
tions for dismissal of the suit will
be filed immediately in Merced
County Superior Court and Fresno
Federal Court.
Life, in a correction published
in its Sept. 3 issue, says that it
was misinformed when it reported
in a June 4 article that Merced
priests had counseled a Merced
Catholic housewife to proceed with
an abortion. She feared that Ger
man measles she contracted during
her pregnancy would cause phys
ical and mental damage to the
unborn child.
The priests, who are the only
priests in Merced, denied talking
with the woman, Mrs. Dolores
Stonebreaker.
McCormick said that the priests
first asked Time, Inc., for a re
traction, but that the parent com
pany of Life refused and the only
course left open to get a correc
tion was a damage suit.
be convinced that prayer is
a fundamental activity, a
necessary and normal atti
tude for the correct and holy
development of our present
existence and for the attain
ment of our destiny.”
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Edition of Our Sunday Visitor September 12, 1965
mittee on Education by the bill’s
author, Rep. Dominick V. Daniels
of New Jersey, and from familiar
figures in private anti-smut ef
forts, led by Charles H. Keating,
Jr., of Cincinnati.
Keating, a lawyer who founded
the national Citizens for Decent
Literature, Inc., came to the hear
ing (Sept. 1) with an armload of
picture magazines, nudisf publica
tions and paperbacks which he
said were purchased for $35 with
in blocks of the White House and
the Capitol.
Holding the picture magazines
up and calling attention to lewd
passages from a paperback dealing
with sexual perversion, Keating
said: “I want to emphasize that
this filth is available practically
anywhere.”
As he began reading a page de
scribing a scene of sadism, Rep.
John H. Dent of Pennsylvania,
subcommittee chairman, cut him
off, asking that the subcommittee
be “spared” the details.
“The subcommittee has had ex
perience with this stuff over the
years,” Dent said. “We all under
stand your complaint.”
Keating then picked up a nudist
magazine.
He said that today’s nudist mag
azines are “in no wise similar” to
the ones whose publication was
upheld in 1956 by the U.S. Su
preme Court.
Previously, he said, publishers
would use brush strokes or shad
ows to cover private parts of the
human body. Now, he charged,
they “grossly exaggerate” bodies
“in a manner calculated to arouse
prurient interest.”
Keating said the United States
has become the leading source
of pornography in the world. Un
restricted publication here is
drawing foreign smut merchants
who have been convicted of pur
veying pornography in their
homelands, he said.
Keating held that 50 percent of
the pornographic material avail
able today is being purchased by
youngsters under 21 years of age,
many of whom receive unsolicited
advertisements for it through ft,
“I urge you,” Keating said, %
get this commission under wl*
soon as possible so that the LS
10 years will find at least the
stantial majority of the LS
raphers rotting in prison Tw
they belong.” whe«
Daniels, sponsor of the mean*.
(H.R. 7465), explained ThH
would form a 16-member commit
tee named by the President to fy
ways to combat smut. The comZ
sion would report to the PreS
by January, 1967.
Daniels said he would “infinite
ly prefer” that the publishing £
dustry clean up its own backyard
but that because obscenity is »
widespread today, “the present at
uation cries out for action.”
“What we are dealing with jg
billion dollar industry whose n*
ten wares are in evidence in every
part of the United States,” he said.
Also appearing were a prig
and a rabbi, both of whom are vet
eran battlers against obscenity.
The priest last year protested
inaction against smut in New
York City by going on a water
only fast which brought prom
ises of a city cleanup. He did not
eat for four days. The rabbi bid
shown his sympathy by undertab
ing a dawn-to-dusk fast at did
same time.
The two are Father Morton K
Hill, S.J., of St. Ignatius church,
and Rabbi Dr. Julius G. Neumann
of Zichron Moshe synagogue. The
rabbi is chairman of the board
and! the priest is secretary of the
“Society for the Protection of Chi
dren’s Mental and Moral Health.*
In a joint statement, they called
creation of the presidential codk
mission “an urgent necessity."
It will mean, they said, that “the
vast majority will at last be heard
against the small but industriooi
and articulate minority which il
corrupting American youth.”
They urged that commisdoi
membership be denied to “mem
bers of any organization involved
in the defense of pornographen
or in any way involved in the
profits of pornography.”
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