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Courier-Journal — Friday, Oct. 4, 1968 Guide Issued For Dialogue With Atheists Vatican City - (RNS)—The Cath- olic Church this week issued an un- precedented call for all Catholics and members,, of all other faiths to join in dialogue with atheists. The appeal was issued in a docu- ment prepared by the Vatican's Sec- retariat for Non-Believers headed by- Francis Cardinal Koenig. The depart- ment was established by Pope Paul VI in April, 1965. The 5,700-word policy-making state- ment, called \Dialogue With Non-Be- lievers\ was not intended to convert people but to express brotherly-love and meet the needs of mankind, the Vatican spokesman said. It embodies broad suggestions for individuals and national groups en- gaged in an exchange of ideas with those who reject a supernatural creed or any purely religious values. The secretariat believes that the dialogue with non-believers can throw light on important world religious problems, such as the cause for the loss of faith in the young and religi- ous lndifferentism in general. Contrary to widespread belief, the secretariat does not envisage only or ~ even mainly dialogue with Commu- nists, at least not with Communists in Eastern Europe. The commission has long debated whether it should be a study center or simply act as a coordinating agency inspiring and suggesting initiatives by national groups. The secretariat in fact is now preparing a joint proj- ect with specialists of the University of California at Berkeley, on the cul- tural-sociological aspects of unbelief. In general, however, the secretariat has encouraged the formation of na- tional groups which can deal with the problem of unbelief as it really exists in the local climate. Among the national secretariats is that now functioning in the United States. A four-day conference is plan- ned for September 1969 at Notre Dame Univorsity on the theme, \Con- temporary Religious Unbelief.\ A planning sosslon was held in June at Pittsburgh under the leadership of Bishop John J. Wright, who is not only a member of the secretariat but also- chairman of the American bish- ops* program for study and dialogue on problems of unbelief. Consultors for the secretariat and members of the American commis- sion are tho following: Father Nor- ris Clark. S.J., Fordham University, N.Y.; Father Avery Dulles, SJ., Woodstock College, Md.; Father Daniel CHanlon, S.J., Alma College, California; Father Ernan McMullen, Notre Dame University; Father Pat- rick Reid. O.P.,' Providence (R.I.) Collego; and Father Richard Butler. O.P. of the Newman^FoundatiQr^ Chk, cago. Father ButMgSji t||f%e^pr>V of tho U.S. natiOTif^oiflmllttran. ^ Canadian Bishops Take Soft Stand On Encyclical Medieval Pictures on Unicef Cards A special series of Christmas cards with religious\ motifs drawn from medieval prayer book illustra- tions will be offered this year by UNICEF, the United Nations Children's Fund, to raise funds for starvation-relief in Biafra. Five different scenes will be available in the series, all presenting full- color reproductions of illustrations from richly ornamented 15th Century manuscripts. The two scenes shown above, a Nativity (at right and the angel announcing Christ's birth to the shepherds left) are taken from the 15th Century Franco-Flemish \Hours of the Yirgin.\ (RNS What GIs Want Most (Besides Being Home) Saigon — (NC) — \What would you like for Christmas?\ This year as usual the United Ser- vice Organization (USO) asked this question. As usual, the answers contained the perennial requests for soap, shaving equipment, shampoo, toothpaste, chewing gum, sewing kits, wash and dry hand towels, first-aid kits. According to the survey, the soldiers would like to get such things as paperback books, ballpoint pens, crossword puzzles, playing cards, medical scrub brushes,\small paint brushes, foot spray, key chains, small mirrors, foam insoles, small transis- tor radios, heavy-duty work socks. Every year new items appear on the \want list.\ This year they in- clude assorted greeting cards, instant breakfast drinks, canned foods, meats and fruits. For others, desirable items include Christmas decorations and Christmas trees and stockings, wallet-size calen- ders, nine-volt radio batteries, minia- ture chess and checker sets, pre-re- corded musical tapes, and poster-type pictures of stateside landscapes. Model kits of trains, cars, ships and airplanes are popular in the military hospitals for convalescing men. Other items requested are flower and vege- table seeds, pocket dictionaries and self-sealing envelopes. German Bishops Stress Human Rights Fuldi, Germany — (NC) — Ger- man bishops issued a statement on human rights that stressed the solidarity of the Church with the poor, the oppressed and the perse- cuted at the end of their fall meeting hore. The bishops urged *uie German government to speak out on bohaJf of human rights in Vietnam; in the sjfcessdonlst .state of Biafra, where where thousands of black African Christians have been massacred and sent into exile by government troops from the Sudan's Islamic north. The bishops also thanked the gov- ernment for the humanitarian aid it has already given to Biafra. The government was also asked to con- tinue its peacp policies despite the forced to cut back its liberalization efforts after troops from the Soviet Union and other Warsaw Pact coun- tries occupied the country. / Winnepeg, Man., Canada — (NC) — The Canadian Bishops' statement on the papal encyclical forbidding birth control has assured this nation that \Catholics should not be consid- ered shut off from the body of the faithful\ for opposing the encyclical \since they are not denying any point of divine and Catholic faith. nor rejecting the teaching authority of the Church.\ A spokesman for the 70 Bishops, Bishop Alexander Carter, president of the National Bishops' Conference meeting here, said that basically what the Bishops meant was: \We are giving you assurance, when you have done everything within your power to respond to this teaching of the Pope, when you have made your choice between God and your consci- ence, you must not consider yourself in a state of sin or that you have cut yourself off from the Church.\ Bishop Carter told the press, fol- lowing announcement of the bishops' statement: \We accept the basic state- ments of the Pope. But we went into concrete pastoral consequences which the Pope had no intention of doing and couldn't do in a letter addressed to the entire world.\ The bishops quoted Vatican II's documents to show that a man is bound to follow his conscience faith- fully but they said \this does not exempt a man from the responsibil- ity of forming his conscience accord- ing to truly Christian values and principles ... It likewise implies sound personal motivation free from selfishness and undue external pres- sure.\ The statement said \it is a fact that a certain number of Catholics, al- though admittedly subject to the teaching of the encyclical, find it either extremely difficult or even im- possible to make their own all ele- ments of this doctrine,\ Although the Bishops uphold the right of dissent which in effect will permit Catholics who follow their conscience in the use of contracep- tives to receive Holy Communion, they were not 'indicating indiscrimi- nate use of contraception. their good faith will be dependent on a sincere self-examination to de- termine the true motives and grounds for such suspension of as- sent and on continued effort to un- derstand and deepen their knowledge of the teaching of the Church.\ The statement that confessors or show sympathetic reverence for the of those who fail accept some point also pointed out counsellors \must understanding and sincere good faith in their effort to of the encylical.\ \In accord with accepted principles of moral theology, if these persons have tiled sincerely bat without suc- cess to pursue a line of conduct in keeping with given directives, they may be safely assured that whoever honestly chooses that course which seems right to him does so in good conscience.\ In other actions during the week- long meeting the bishops: —Approved the permanent dia- conate for Canada; subject to the ap- proval of the Holy See; — Reorganized the Canadian Cath- olic Conference into four departr meats; teaching of the faith; social; relations with the clergy, Religious and laity; and missions and ecu- menism; — Raised the question of a Cana- dian pastoral council of laity, priests and Religious and said they will study it; — Asked their conference's social action and social welfare depart- ment to initiate a meeting of simi- lar services of all churches to seek common action on poverty at home and abroad- COURIER-JOURNAL Julius Cardinal Doepfner of Mu- nich, president of the German Bish- ops' Conference, said that many Catholics had lost an understanding of ecclesiastical authority, but he also pointed out that much of the f iarsh .criUcljm^ofrthe Church often \Since they are not denying any point of divine and Catholic faith nor rejecting the teaching authority of the Church, these Catholics should not be considered, or consider them- selves, shut off from the body of the faith. '•But'they should remember that Vol. 80 No. 1 — Sept 27, 1968 Published \Weekly by the Roch- ester Catholic Press Association. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Single Copy 15c; 1 year Subscription in U.S., $6.00; Canada and South America, JJ8.50; other foreign countries, $9.50. Main Office, 35 Sclo Street, Rochester, N.Y. 14604. Second Class Postage Paid of flfcehester, KY. Bps. SK To Con ) At East] Bishop James E. Kearney will b principal concelebrant ,of a JEass c Thanksgiving with Bishop Pulton ; Shxeen, Auxiliary Bishops Dennis VI Hickey and John E. McCafferty, epii opal vicars and members of th Priest Council, to be celebrated t the Eastman Theater on Sunday, 0c IS, at 5:30 p.m. The Mass will observe the Centei nLal of the Diocese and the 60t anniversary of Bishop Kearney's o: dtnation to the priesthood. The Mass will be that of St. Joh Fisher, patron saint of the Oiocesi Hymns were selected ty Tatlw Charles McCarthy, pastor of St Ai drew's who will also direct the sinj insg. The sermon will be prea&ied b Rt. Rev. Msgr. James C. M«Anif pststor of St. Mary's, Eochestesr, wh was chancellor and vicar general m der Bishop Kearney. The public is invited to the Mas Groups and organizations wisiaing 1 be represented in the procession, an to* be seated in special section lor th M5ass, may make reservations wit Father Richard R. Brickler set Hoi Family Church rectory, Ajnes Stree 328-3110. All high schools and colleges wi be sending representative groups 1 be seated in special sections; an various non-parochial oxganizatloi will be present in the line of marcl Father Michael F. Conboy is chai mtan of the arrangements for tr Itass. The co-chairmen of ushers ai Douglas Walker and Raymond Blin under the direction of Father Danii J. Ttfheeland. Father Robert CNei wall serve as director of Deacons; an Father William J. Flynn will t chairman of traffic. The criairma off altar decorations is Father Albe HI Cason, assisted by Sister- Mai Ba-igid and Sister Kathleen Flaherl off the Sisters of Mercy. The chai mtan of ceremonies is Father Lew Barown; and the ecumenical ch-alrma Is Rt. Rev. Msgr. Charles V. Boyl Father Richard Brickler serves i chairman of non-parochial so«ietie and the procession will he directe by Father Eugene P. Sweeney. Episc Roman Catholic Archbishop ceremony which elevated D: cese of West Texas. Stmown vice-chairman of the House tor; Bishop Everett H. Jone: W. Lewis of the Armed For senting bishop; and Arctmbish %m.\i Shop Formcn's Midtown Tuesday and Thursday until 9. Culver-Ridge and Pitfsford every night, Monday through Friday, until 9 m#: &. 13&fc I 111 ! Natives Rel The U.S. and Microneihva fit at the nine resident* of BIi the tint time finee it bean OfftciaU of the U.S. and the the flap f 6 op to mark the n hat been adjudged «u
