IRtHBISHUr rAtlj J. oi miania was presented wun a special «.a Aiiare uei
medal (April 14) at the 19th national conference of diocesan Boy Scout chaplains and lay
chairmen held in Atlanta. Thomas Harkins, River Forest, 111., and Bishop William G. Connare
of Greensburg, Pa., chairman of the Catholic Committee on Scouting, congratulate the Arch
bishop. __
Protestant Missioners Reaffirm
Abiding Ties with Reformation
WHEATON, 111.—(NC) — Dele
fates to one of the largest mis
ionary gatherings in history said
lere (April 16) that they saw dan
fer in regarding the Roman Cath
)lic Church as “our great sister
Church.”
They also reaffirmed the “abid
ng validity ... of the Protestant
■eformers.”
Delegates to the First Congress
m the Church’s Worldwide Mis
sion—sponsored by the Evangeli
al Foreign Missions and Inter
lenominational Foreign Missions
\ssociations — represented 13,000
>verseas missionaries, or nearly
iwo-thirds of all the United States
foreign missionaries. The two as
iociations represent most of the
fundamentalist, Evangelical Prot
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At the windup of the Congress,
the 1,000 delegates unanimously
declared:
“Whereas Roman Catholic prac
tices may change, they say their
dogmas are unchangeable. Accord
ing to the Roman Catholic view,
reunion of the Churches must be
on papal terms.
“We rejoice in the wider use of
the Scriptures among Roman
Catholics. We shall pray that all
those who study the Scriptures will
be led by the Holy Spirit to the
saving faith in Christ.
“We shall urge Evangelicals to
seize today’s unique opportunities
for witness among Roman Catho
lics.
“We recognize the danger of
looking upon the Roman Catholic
Church as ‘our great sister Church,’
even as we reaffirm the abiding
validity of the Scriptural princi
ples of the Reformers, that salva
tion is through faith alone, and
that the Bible is the only rule of
faith and practice.”
National leaders of the Younger
Christian churches in countries
abroad—including the Rev. Doan
Van Mieng, president of the 40,000
Evangelical church of Vietnam,
the Rev. Timothy Kamau, of the
Africa Inland Mission in Kenya,
East Africa, the Rev. Ruben Lores
of the Latin America Mission
Evangelism staff in Costa Rica,
all agreed that the “day” of the
missionary is not over.
They said they need more mis
sionaries to aid in the proclama
tion of the Gospel in their coun
tries.
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ATLANTA, Ga. — Archbishop
Paul J. Hallinan of Atlanta said
here Catholics active in the Scout
ing movement were in the thick
of ecumenism before it became
the fashion.
“The Catholic Scouters, along
with the Newman chaplains and
the armed service chaplains, have
been practical card-carrying ecu
menists long before it was re
spectable,” Archbishop Hallinan
said.
He addressed the closing ban
quet of the 19th national confer
ence of diocesan Scout chaplains
and lay chairmen of Scouting.
“We are all grateful,” he said,
“for the manner in which Catho
lic Scouting has cooperated with
the Boy Scouts of America, and
all the more grateful for the hand
of friendship and mutual sharing
extended by the national body. We
are united not because of weak
ness but because of strength.”
Describing the goals of Scout
ing, the archbishop said “we are
not fighting the world in which
we live.”
Rather, he said, “we are fight
ing our own complacency, our
own ignorance, our own resistance
to change. It is to ready our young
men to fight this creeping apathy
that you invite them to become
Scouts, meet with them, instruct
and train them, motivate them,
and share with them nature’s ri
gors as well as nature’s joys.”
Archbishop Hallinan received a
special Ad Altare Dei Award of
the Catholic Scouting movement
at the banquet.
During the conference, pro
posed changes in the require
ments for boys to receive the Ad
Altare Dei Award were discussed.
A. A. Kirk, executive secretary
of the Catholic Committee on
Scouting and director of the Cath
olic relations service of the Boy
Scouts of America, said the pro
posed new requirements are “built
around the new liturgy, the Scrip
tures, and social change in Amer
ica and in the Church.” They will
stress service by Scouts to Church
and community, he said.
It was announced that William
H. Condon will succeed Kirk as
director of the Catholic relations
service of the Boy Scouts of Amer
ica and as executive secretary of
the Catholic Committee on Scout
ing. Condon has been coordinator
of special services in the rela
tionships division of the Boys
Scouts at their headquarters in
New Brunswick, N.J., since 1963.
Kirk is retiring in June after
serving 40 years with the Scouting
movement in a professional ca
pacity. He was honored at a ban
quet during the conference here.
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