Crisis

For four days last week the eleventh U.S. Provincial Eucharistic Congress celebrated the centenary of the Roman Catholic diocese of Buffalo. Among the high ranking prelates from six countries were Peru's Cardinal Guevara and Brazil's Cardinal de Vasconcellos Motta--the first South American Cardinals ever to attend a U.S. Congress. New York's Cardinal Spellman told the Congress: "It is folly for us to deceive ourselves that we are at peace, for in truth we know naught for which we fought has come to fruit. The whole world and every human in it today face the greatest crisis in the history of civilization. . . . Man must offer himself to become the 'wheat of Christ' in Christianity's ancient principle of dying to self; or else . . . humanity shall know the graceless and terrible tragedy of self-destruction."

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