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Urges Marshall Plan Type Aid
Dayton, Ohio — (NC) — A massive govern
ment program similar to that undertaken in Eu
rope through the Marshall Plan is necessary to
solve the problems of America’s urban ghettos,
Archbishop Karl J. Alter of Cincinnati said here.
Speaking at a Mass opening the Dayton series
of the archdiocese’s Project Commitment, the arch
bishop called on the some 1,000 parish leaders
present to give the government “your support,
influence and votes” to bring about such a pro
gram.
New Montreal Archbishop
Ottawa, Ont. — (NC) — Bishop Paul Gregoire,
56, a strong supporter of the ecumenical move
ment, has been named by Pope Paul VI to be
archbishop of Montreal to succeed Cardinal Leger,
who left Montreal last Dec. 11 and is now doing
missionary work among lepers in Africa. Since the
Cardinal’s departure, Bishop Gregoire has been
serving as administrator of the archdiocese, larg
est in Canada.
'Unity Is Christ's Will': Pope
Vatican City — (NC) — To an ecumenical pil
grimage on its way to the Holy Land, Pope Paul
VI recalled the words he spoke on his own pil
grimage there in 1964: that unity is “the will of
Christ.”
He said that it was with “particular pleasure
that we welcome this ecumenical pilgrimage from
the United Kingdom to the Holy Land. You are
about to follow in the footsteps of God made man
in the country of His birth, His mission and His
blessed death *for us men and for our salvation’
(Nicene Creed).
“Your visit calls to mind our own unforget
table pilgrimage to the Holy Places. From the
grotto of Bethlehem, we then declared: ‘It now
appears clearly to all that the problem of unity
cannot be eluded. Today, this will of Christ is im
posed upon our minds and demands that we under
take, with wisdom and love, every possible way
of bringing all Christians to enjoy the great benefit
and supreme honor of the unity of the Church.’ ”
Elect New Catholic
University Trustees
St. Louis — A new and vastly changed board
of trustees for the Catholic University of America,
Washington, D.C., was elected here and provides
broader representation of the national Community
it serves.
Non-Catholic, Negroes, women, and members
of the clergy outside the hierarchy are represented
for the first time. Total membership is now limited
to 30, with at least 15 being laymen.
Following the final meeting of the outgoing
trustees at the Chase-Park Plaza Hotel, Cardinal
O’Boyle of Washington, chancellor of the univer
sity, announced (April 21) election of the new
board, including persons nationally known in fi
nance, government, the arts and sciences, educa
tion, the professions and industry.
/ The acting rector said they are seeking al
most double the financing which the university
now is receiving. Specifically, he said, they are
seeking $4.5 million a year, which compares with
approximately $2.4 million the university now- is
getting.
There has been “slow growth in diocesan col
lections” for the university, Father Whalen said.
He noted that around 1953 this annual nationwide
collection represented 32% of the university’s
operating budget, but now it represents only 11%.
Film of Meeting Available
New York — (NC) — A filmstrip of .the his
toric meeting between Pope Paul VI and Patriarch
Athenagoras in Istanbul on July 25, 1967, is avail
able through the Greek Orthodox archdioceses of
North and South America offices here. The film,
entitled “Day of Destiny,” includes a tape record
ing and scenes from ceremonies in the Patriarchal
church and the Catholic cathedral in Istanbul.
Urges Biblical Studies
Vatican City — (NC) — Pope Paul VI has
urged biblical scholars to utilize “all the resources
furnished by modem technique—in the literary
historical and archeological domains.”
' Speaking to Old Testament scholars from 25
nations and all major Christian religions, he de
clared that their work is “of the greatest worth
for bringing back the very highest values into
modem society.”
His audience of 150 Catholic, Jewish, Orthodox
and Protestant scholars had been participating in
the fifth International Congre^ of Old Testament
Scholars. The papal audience was given on the
final day (April 19th of the five-day congress,
which met in Rome’s Biblical Institute under the
chairmanship of the Institute’s rector, Father Rod
rick Mackenzie, S.J. ,
The Pope, speaking in French, pointed out
that the “three great families, Jewish, Protestant
and Catholic,” hold the Old Testament “in equally
high honor.”
He continued, “They can then study and ven
erate these holy books together. We say more:
they can pray over the same texts. And what
prayer is more deeply religious, more universal in
its object, more moving in its accents than that
of the Psalms?”
The Catholic Church, he said, “intends to be
neither the last nor the least active” in the study
of the Old Testament.
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U.S. Commissioner of Education
Challenges Catholic Schools
San Francisco — U.S. Com
missioner of Education Harold
Howe, in a speech delivered to
12,000 participants in the Na
tional Catholic Education Asso
ciation’s 65th annual convention
here (April 18), challenged Cath
olic educators to take a long,
close look at Catholic schools
and their role in American so
ciety.
Outlining the problems faced
by education in the U.S., the 40
year-old Howe suggested that
Catholic schools have a unique
opportunity to bail out American
education, if only they will take
some chances. This opportunity,
he said, grows from three spe
cial characteristics of the Catho
lic school system:
—First, the Catholic education
al system is mainly metropoli
tan, and so is especially well
suited to dealing with the prob
lems of the city.
—Second, Catholic schools are
free of the political considera
tions that often clog the admin
istration of public education.
—Third, the diocesan bound
aries of the Catholic school sys
tem include both cities and sub
urbs, and so allow Catholic ed
ucators to operate on a regional
basis while public school educa
tors are limited by city govern
ments and localized school
boards.
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“These three characteristics,"
Commissioner Howe said, “fit
the Catholic educational system
to join the public system in im
proving urban education, and
they give it some possibilities for
elements of leadership. . . .
“You,” he told the Catholic
educators gathered here, “can
mount experimental programs
without the slow prpcess of seek
ing formal public approval; you
can jreach for desegragtion with
out fearing retaliation at the
ballot box — though you may
encounter it in the collec
tion basket.
“Indeed, you can seek new
adventures of cooperation with
public schools, if you can locate
school leaders who are unafraid
to challenge some of the uncon
structive assumptions of tradi
tional Church-state separation.
Leaders of this character are
emerging in at least a few cities.
Why Tackle Problems?
“In response to such a sug
gestion from a public official,
Catholic education officials
might well ask, ‘why?,’ ” Com
missioner Howe continued:
“Why should Catholia education,
which received precious little
help from the public sector on
its own financial problems, ex
pect its resources to accomplish
a social redemption that may
properly be called the responsi
bility of public agencies?
“Why should the Catholic par
ent, who supports his own parish
school and at the same time sup
ports public education with his
taxes, dig even deeper in his
pocket to educate non-Catholic
children in the ghetto?
“Catholic education emerged
partly as a defense against a
public education that was clearly
Protestant, even anti-Catholic in
nature. The public schools did
not merey ignore the Catholic
belief of some of their students;
they were positively hostile to it.
“That time has passed.”
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