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The Linacre QuarterlyVolume 32 | Number 2 Article 2May 1965The Moderator's Message ... New Leaven - NewMentalityKenneth P. MacKinnonFollow this and additional works at: http://epublications.marquette.edu/lnqRecommended CitationMacKinnon, Kenneth P. (1965) "The Moderator's Message ... New Leaven - New Mentality," The Linacre Quarterly: Vol. 32 : No. 2 ,Article 2.Available at: http://epublications.marquette.edu/lnq/vol32/iss2/2President's Pagemder th e capable ' to your attentioo , New York Cify, ·1edicine and reli­·ick's Cathedral at 2minence, Francu Astoria Hoteli.ill her Gerald Kelly, The programs of the Federation are developing very successf, direction of our various chairmen. Several coming events must be <­for your generous cooperation. First is the AMA's annual meetii June 20-25. There are two very worthwhile programs that relate gion. Our Annual Mass will be held on Wednesday, June 23 at St. 8:00 a.m. You have been notified of this in Guilds in Action. I Cardinal Spellman will celebrate the Mass. Breakfast at the Wale follow at 9:30 a.m. Francis J. Braceland, M.D. will deliver the fir� s_ .J. Memorial Lecture. Dr. Braceland is internationally recogni·zed · 1is extensive writ-mgs and lectures in the field of psychiatry and its moral implicatic Reservation form 1 for the Breakfast is to be found elsewhere in this issue. 1eme of Medicine ·A Department of ng program. (An The AMA is devoting Sunday evening, June 20, to the gener; and Religion. Reverend Dr. Paul B. McCleave, Director of the Medicine and Religion has arranged a most thoughtful and stimi:. article by Dr. McCleave appears in this issue) The . ·t· l · m1 1a prograi ,f this depa rtment 1 was presented in 1963 when those who attended will recall the �,  lent presentations m�d� by Bishop Fulton J. Sheen and Dr. Edward Rynearson, intrm· ng this concept ol religious and medical cooperation, so vital to the complete care of fr,, atients. The New York physicians, as hosts, are making determined elf<!rts to bring to· ;1er the clergy and the doctors as a _team effort for our mutual edification and dialog: It seems a logicalstep for each Guild to participate with them in this exchange. ��en though schedules may be heavy, the Federation hopes to , . m a "Day at the Fair and especially some program at the Vatican Pavilion Please ake a firm resolu-tion to participate. A�d-finally, we are very thankful for the increasing involvemu·. of the Guilds in the Mission Activities Program. Dr. Joe Grady and most of the offiu-· s were in Chicago for the CICOP (Cath 1 · I A · 0 ic nter- mencan Cooperation Program) , ,•eting in January. ' Our welcome from the Latin-A · B" h · . mencan 1s ops and the informed lay �dvisors was heart· warmmg and humbling. The devotion -of these truly poor and hum Lie servants of God who face the massive problems of socio-economic, cultural and medical revolutions· in the countries of Latin-America could o ] h · h . n Y emp as1ze ow meager are our present efforts. Dr. Grady will be info · f h J . . rmmg us o t e P ans for deeper participation uf each Guild phy· s1c1an. The very core of our lives and our vocations is medicine and it is in the medica l  , apostolate that we can fulfill Ch · · 1· . . our nst1an aposto 1c mission of caring for our neighbor. "!"e must do this well in today's context of our obligations and duties. Let our daily mvolvements so shape our world that we will be molded in return by the goal we strive to attain. GERARD P. J. GRlFFIN, M.D. 106 LIN ACRE QUARTERLY The Moderator's Message ...NEW LEAVEN - NEW MENTALITY In the early years of this century President Woodrow Wilso1_1 wr?te: "Th� edu:ated man is to be discovered by his point of view, by the temper of his mmd, by his attitude ioward life, and his fair way of thinking." One could as easily say that these qualities discover the Christian man. Spring, the Resurrection, the Council, all remind us of the "new leaven," the new mind which should characterize the Christian of the present time. One of the Bishops from Latin America stressed the need for a "change of men­tality" when he spoke at the CICOP meeting in Chicago. A great social revolution is taking place in Latin America, largely under Christian leadership. This represents a distinct change in· thinking to the south. North American thinking must keep pace with the change. Latin America is more than just Latin America. It is a complexus of many cul­tures, races, and languages; differing in economic development, political systems, and traditions; comprising many independent countries, proud of their national heritage. Their problems are diverse as well. We must grow in the awareness that, in offering our assistance in solving these problems, we are faced with particular problems, in specific countries, of Latin America. Along with this growing awareness of individual countries in Latin America is the need to look beyond them as "developing areas" and see them as people -people who are in need of the opportunity to fight poverty, ignorance, and despair; people with the right to receive our interest and our aid, and the right to apply these assists to their own problems, in their own way: And our greatest investment in Latin American oountries should be people, North American people. Why? As one South American priest gave expression: "We need you because we need other humans to solve human problems." Our Peace Corps men and the doctors involved in the Latin American Mis.sion Apostolate are filling this need - they ar.e _our most effective ambassadors, for they lay the groundwork for the most essential change. of mentality, understanding and mutual respect among the people of the Americas. One other thought on change came out of the Chicago meeting, and very pertinent to the thinking of North Americans. It was the considered judgment of the Christian leadership of Latin America that the greatest threat to their Christian social revolution was "anti-communism." Latin American problems are ·of long standing and go very deep; necessary reforms often "seem" too radical to the North American mentality, butso did the ideas of Thomas Jefferson, as expressed in 1776. Destroy the Christian leadership with the smear of Communism, and we will drive the helpless and hopeless, mas.,es into the hands of Communism. We must trust the Christian leadership to the south, for they know best both the problem and the solution. A prominent doctor from the Midwest went to several Latin American countries last �mmer with the most acceptable greeting imaginable. To the doctors of those l'OUntries he said: "I have come to learn." And he did. He learned a great deal about the doctors and the people of Latin America, and they about him. Our doctor gathered valu��le research material in his field of specialization; they learned something about :;ucme in North America. But the communication process was opened by a highly IICated North American with a new outlook: "I have come to learn." T . Along with the new spiritual · 1eaven of this season of Resurrection, may the thenumphant Christ instill in us the new mentality so needed to understand and meet needs of our time. MAT, 1965 Reverend Kenneth P. MacKinnon 107 

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