Evening star., 1960-03-28
Three Elevated Secretly
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81. of Tokyo; the first prince
Of the church from Japan.
Archbishop Rufino j. San
tos. 81. of Manila, the first
cardinal from the brown race.
Bishop Laurian Rugambwa,
a, of Rutabo, Tanganyika, the
first Negro cardinal.
Archbishop Bernard Jan Al
trink, SO, Of Utrecht, Holland.
Archbishop Joseph Lefebvre.
81, Of Bourges. France.
The Most Rev. Luigi Traglia,
"a, an Italian of the Vatican
Curia. ..
The Most Rev. Antonio Bacci,
81, an Italian of the Vatican
Curia and the Vatican's Latin
expert.
Nothing that the church now
has its first Negro, first Japa-
hese and first Filipino cardinals,
the Pope said:
"All are equally created to
the glory of the Lord that
sanctifies the peoples without
discrimination of language,
descent or color"
The pontiff said that while
this development was most
new in the history of the
church and of peoples" it is,
nonetheless, "the seal Of ancient
doctrine and tradition followed
for two milleniums.
On this day, when Negroes
in South Africa were in mourn
ing for victims of last weeks
racial violence, the Pope said:
I'VE think with profound sor-
row of the worsening, in many
places, of cruel treatments that
violate religion and Chris
tian civilization and the re-
spect that is due to individuals I
and collective liberty.
Stepinac Mentioned
"At times a wave of pity as
sails us at the vision of so
much suffering, Incompetent
sion and uncertainties that dis
turb social life and make diff
cult the relations of govern
ments."
In addition. said the Pope.
there are Theological conflicts
that are the more dangerous,
the more they remove (men)
from the teachings of Christ"
Pope John also mentioned
the late Alojzije Cardinal
Stepinac. who died February
10 while confined in his little
native village of Krasic, Yugo-
Slavia.
This prompted speculation
that one of the three cardinals
''in pectore" might be a Yugo-
slav prelate. Normally, but not
always. cardinals are created in
this manner to avert danger
they might face If their names
were announced.
Vatican sources also spec
.ulated that another cardinal
"in pectore" might be a prelate
Of Lithuania. which was almost
solidly Catholic before it was
absorbed by the Soviet Union.
Beran May Be One
Another mentioned as a pos
sible cardinal in pectore" was
Archbishop Josef Berau of
Prague, who has been removed
from his archdiocese by Czech
oslovakia's Communist author
tiles. His whereabouts are not /
known here.
After reading the names of
the cardinals already known
publicly, the pontiff told the
assembled cardinals:
In addition to those listed.
we nominate as members of
the sacred college three other
illustrious personages which we
reserve in pectore'."
The Pope said he would pub
lish their names "at the mo-
ment we think opportune.
The practice of naming cardi-
nails "in pectore"-one rarely
used-dates to the time of Pope
Martin v in 1417..
When the names of the car
dinals now held in the pontiff's
heart are made known-pos-
sibly at the next consistory-
their investiture will date from
today'S consistory.
Although unknown, they are
cardinals as of now to all in
tents and purposes. But should
the Pope die without ever hav-
ing announced their names
they could not then be recorded
on the church's list of cardinals.
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