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^ortl) Carolina Catholic Edition of Our Sunday Visitor LVII September 1. 1968 No. 18 P.O. Box 9503 Subscription 85.00 10* per copy RALEIGH, N.C. ope Promises To Defend Cause of Poor' By Jaime Fonseca (NC News Service) Colombia — As im J5 is Pope Paul VI’S address £tamers at nearby San Jose “ “L reaction to it measured jythe thunderous applause. mk FIRST BURST of applause JLt when the Pope told the “You, beloved sons, are Christ tor us.” Other applause came when he will continue to defend nnr cause. . ■ • ^“We will thus continue to de gggnee the unjust economic in eauality between rich and poor.” Pope Paul won enthusiastic •Misuse also when he told the tamers (Aug. 23) that he will «sist those efforts aimed at curb ing the use of riches in “excessive ad perilous armaments.” And he fts applauded again when he Bked his audience “not to place par trust in violence and revo lution.’’ IRE LOUDEST APPLAUSE, however, came when the Pope mentioned Accion Cultural Popu ta — the famed radio school movement started by Msgr. Jose Joaquin Salcedo — which spon . sored the farmers’ rally. Such reaction showed that the Pope was in tune with the great issues that confront his audience and that there was a solidarity between the people and the strong words of the Pope. Pope Paul told the fanners that he knew their living con ditions. “They are, for many of you, he said, “miserable condi tions, often below the normal needs of human living.” The Pope said he knew also that in Latin America “economic and social development has been unequal," and that it has “passed over the multitude of the in digenous peoples, who have almost always been abandoned to an ignoble level of life and have EL DORADO AIRPORT — Pope Paul VI is welcomed to Bogota, Colombia, by Colombian President Carlos Lleras and Foreign Minister Alfonso Lopez Michelsen. (NC Photos) Editor's Desk The transatlantic telephone all informing us of the sudden death of the Et. Rev. Dennis A. Lynch, a priest of the diocese for 37 years was a shod to all who knew him. We have heard that death is no respecter of age. The call from Ireland was short on details but conveyed the ter rible finality. In appearance Monsignor was a well preserved man, 62' years age with few complaints of f«r health. Often the ups and downs on the health scale were 1 part of his Irish humor and one never knew when to him seriously on the mat The narrow escape which he ud from the fire at Immaculate of Mary rectory in High during the past summer ;fc*ye affected his entire HuJ)eine' Upon a request to Bishop shortly after the near he requested an in *™«e leave of absence from ■jUpartorate and took up resi J®6* m Ireland, which he had young man of 25 years. Jraere is a saying, “You’re a woueman and a scholar.” This ** he. Of an impressive ap J*“*nce with a sparkle of keen ™**ugence and humor in his we he carried his clerical role bright spirit Of his per character he seemed more for an academic teaching rather than one who meets constant demand of a pas Zr . hie* Monsignor - Lynch most content when k . - a quiet evening with ^••asics, his daily scriptural ’’P hn Greek and the points m theological periodicals, unes a visitor would be to run an obstacle across his study, there Wes of books everywhere, we best remember a -M, years “ Chancellor, student we received * pay check from him. c us on two trips to the Board Urged to Consider School Consolidations Cary — The Diocesan School Board has been urged to consider consolidation of schools and elimi nation of parish lines in setting attendance areas. The suggestion came from Dr. George Breathett, chairman of the department of social science and professor of history at Bennett College, Greensboro, who ad dressed the board at its organiza tional meeting in Cary. Present for the meeting were Dr. G. J. Kriz, N. C. State Univer sity; Dr. Tullio Pignani, East Carolina University; Joseph Lally, Gibbons Hall, Asheville; Sister Mary Michael, Sacred Heart College; Dr. Frank Fuller, East Carolina University, and Father Donald Staib, diocesan superin tendent of schools. DR. BREATHETT all noted the need for a define philosophy of Catholic education. Financing plans and budgets, lay participation, an occupational census and projections for the schools were among his other suggestions. Father Staib presented basic statistics regarding the schools, enrollments and faculties. He also gave a summary report of the meeting of school principals held in Greensboro in May. After a review of the budget of the Diocesan Department of Edu cation, Dr. Kriz was nominated as temporary chairman of the board and Sister Michael as temporary secretary. Dr. Kriz and Father Staib will serve on the agenda committee for the second meeting to be held in October in Greens boro. The board agreed that priority in future meetings should be given to items identified by Dr. Breathett and suggestions made by principals of diocesan schools. Pope Brands Soviet Attack A 'Disaster' Vatican City — (NC) — As he was boarding the plane for Bo gota, Colombia, and the inter national Eucharistic Congress, Pope Paul VI declared himself ready “at this very moment” to give up his Eucharistic pilgrimage to Latin America if by staying in Rome he could help dispel the shadows cast over Europe by the Soviet invasion of Czechoslo vakia. The gloom of the night still hung over Rome when Pope Paul, by the side of the jetliner that was to take him 6,000 miles to a continent seething with social discontent, branded the Soviet action “a disaster.” He said that it is bound to have “disastrous consequences.” Peace itself “is savagely wounded,” he declared, adding: “God grant that it be not mor tally.” sometimes been harshly treated and exploited.” HE TOLD THE FARMERS that the Church has undertaken their defense through the celebrated social encyclicals of the Popes, and added: “We ourselves have acted as patron of your cause in our encyclical The Development of Peoples.” The Pope urged the govern ments of Latin America and other continents, as well as the man agerial and well-to-do classes, to help bring about “the reforms necessary for a more just and efficient social arrangement, with progressive advantage for the classes today less favored.” He also called for a “fairer imposi tion of the fiscal burden on the more well-to-do classes, especially upon those who own vast estates and are unable to make them more fertile and productive . . . as also on those classes of per sons who with little or no real toil realize huge incomes or notable retributions.” ABOUT 300,000 farmers were arranged in neat lines on the vast expanse at San Jose — which looked like a huge hacienda, but instead of silos had imposing antenna towers that will soon start sending out literacy pro grams from powerful new trans mitters blessed by the Pope at a solemn rite that same day. One of the most imposing and memorable of the congress events, however, was the 40-minute ride of Pope Paul in a jeep-like “campero” farm machinery, spe cially fitted to carry him, through the long rows of cheering farm people. The ride lasted longer than planned, but the Pope was obviously moved by the warm enthusiasm shown by these men and women of the fields. POPE PAUL made the trip from Bogota to San Jose by heli copter after sightseeing with President Carlos LLeras Restrepo. That tour followed a scheduled protocol visit to the president’s palace. The full cabinet, plus high military and civilian figures at tended the reception. The Pope told President LLeras that the “courteous reception re flected “the relations happily existing between Colombia and the Holy See.” The Pope asked: “How can we fail to recall the influence that the Church, through her parishes, universities, schools and welfare works, has exercised and still ex ercises in the life and the moral uplifting of Colombia?” The Church, he said, gives “to the urgent social problems clear orientation and vigorous postu lates for their equitable solution.” AT THE END of the reception See Pope, page 8A Denies Backing 'Right of Dissent' Washington — (NC) — Pat rick Cardinal O’Boyle, in a state ment issued here, said that he wanted “to make it absolutely clear” there was no vindication of the claimed “right of dissent” at a meeting he held with cer tain faculty members of the Catholic University of America. A number of theologians at the university had signed a theo logical statement of dissent from the encyclical, Humanae Vitae. Cardinal O’Boyle is chancellor of the Catholic University of Amer ica. The cardinal said the meeting was held “to gather the facts and the opinions of all members of the faculty of the school of theology and the department of religious education.” Hi: ADDED that before the meeting ended, “a press release was agreed upon by everyone present This procedure should have prevented biased reports of the meeting and forestalled misinterpretations. Nevertheless two Of the dissenting theolo gians, Rev. Charles Curran and Rev. Robert Hunt, immediately presented to the news media an account of the meeting that se riously misrepresented my po sition." The cardinal said that “the false and misleading reports of the meeting suggested that my effort to be fair implied a vindi cation of the claimed ‘right of dissent.’ Both as a faithful Cath olic and as bishop of this arch diocese I want to make it ab solutely clear that there was no such vindication. Listening with patience does not imply agree ment." ... The Cardinal said that he did not “wish to judge anyone’s heart, but I am forced to the conclusion that some of these dissenters are purposely causing confusion among the faithful. Perhaps they think they are bound in conscience to do what they are doing, but if so, I am afraid this case is an example of the truth that conscience is not always ri^ht” HE ALSO SAID he had not intended to make any further public observations about the discussion at the Aug. 20 meet ing. “But,” he said, “since others have used this occasion to spread propaganda concerning their opinions, I think it is only fair to make a few remarks about the dissenting opinion.” Cardinal O’Boyle said that near the end of the dissenting theo logians’ statement are two key paragraphs, reading: “It is common teaching in the Church that Catholics may dis sent from authoritative, non-in fallible teachings of the magis terium when sufficient reasons for so doing exist. “Therefore, as Roman Catholic theologians, conscious of our duty and our limitations, we con clude that spouses may respon sibly decide according to their conscience that artificial contra ception in some circumstances is permissible and indeed necessary to preserve and foster the values and sacredness of marriage.” THE CARDINAL in his state ment said that “those who say that this is the ‘common teach ing’ about dissent offer no evi dence that the Catholic Church ever tolerated dissent of the sort they are carrying on and even instigating.” The second paragraph, he said, “asserts that the constant teaching of the Catholic Church, now once again solemnly re affirmed by Paul VI, may iii practice be subordinated to oth er factors in a Catholic married couple’s situation.” “In my judgment,” the car dinal stated, “those who give Catholics advice like this are misleading them because, by im plication, what they are saying is either that human judgment stands above the law of God or that the Catholic Church is lying when it claims divine authority for its moral teaching. “BECAUSE OF the impor See Bight of Dissent, page SA
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