Untitled - Digitizing America

addressed his Afro-American Unity organization
in New York City. ln August, the Watts riots cost
thirty lives. Massive anti-war demonstrations
rocked the Capitol and Hurricane Betsy devastated
parts of our South. Then Pope Paul, on a
mission of peace, visited New York-the first Supreme
Pontiff to come to these shores,
On that one day-October 4, 1965-Pope Paul
inspired a nation in person and through the miracle
of television, as he conferred with President
Johnson, spoke to representatives of the world in
his message to the United Nations, attended an
interfaith meeting at Holy Family Church, celebrated
a Papal Mass for Peace at Yankee
Stadium, and visited the Vatican Pavilion at the
World's Fair. Those who heard were encouraged
and enlightened for Pope Paul's words were
echoes of the Ecumenical Council, bringing joy not
only to those of the Catholic faith but to all the
peace-loving peoples:
"Peace must be built; it must be built up every day by
works of peace. These works of peace are, first of all,
social order; then, aid to the poor, who still make up
an immense multitude of the world population, aid to
the needy, the weak, the sick, the ignorant. Peace
must be like a garden, in which public and private
beneficence cultivates the choicest flowers of
friendship, of solidarity, of charity and love."
But not all people listened. Not all hearts were
opened.
On Sunday, July 23, 1967, six days of rioting
began in Detroit. During those terror-filled hours,
forty-one died, five thousand were rendered
homeless, and property damage mounted to five
hundred million dollars. The pale stone statue of
Christ at Sacred Heart Seminary turned Negrowith
the careful application of jet black paint to its
face and hands. Other riots continued to erupt
throughout the country-racial, anti-war, antidraft.
And in the following year, Dr, Martin Luther
King, Jr., and Robert Kennedy were victims of
assassins' bullets.
But it was in 1969 that the man-made miracle ot
the century occurred as the world watched and
waited. NeilArmstrong and Edwin Aldrin, Jr., took
a giant step for mankind--onto the moon.
And Now The Seventies
n the years after the Second Vatican Council,
the Synod of Bishops was convened as a new
advisory board to the Pope. During this period,
efforts were made by the Pope to expand the
College of Cardinals to include more members
from the United States and other countries. At this
time, the Bishop of Pittsburgh, John J. Wright,
became Cardinal along with John J. Carberry and
Terence J. Cooke of New York. Shortly thereafter,
in 1969, Cardinal Wright and the American Church
were honored by his appointment to the Pope's
Curia as Prefect of the Congregation of the Clergy.
CardinalWright relocated to Rome to assume his
new position at the Vatican. He has achieved the
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