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PART XV POPE JOHN AND THE ECUMENICAL COUNCIL On January 25, 1959, less than three months after his election to the papacy. Pope John XXIII surprised the world and re newed the hopes of Christen- dome by calling for an ecumeni cal council. Ever since his election, An gelo Roncalli had constantly stressed his interest and con cern for the reunion of Chris tians in “one fold, one shepherd.” This had been his , text in the unexpected speech he delivered during the course of his coro nation. The Pope’s call for a world wide council of the Catholic bishops was accompanied by an appeal to the separated com munities to find unity. The announcement of the council came on the feast of the Conversion of St. Paul, the concluding day of the Church’s annual eight days of prayer for Christian Union. PRAYERS FOR PERSECUTED That morning the Pope had driven to the Basilica of St. Paul’s Outside the Walls to at tend a pontifical Mass and to take part in special service of prayer for persecuted Catholics and especially for those of C & S REALTY COMPANY “Specialists in Commercial- Industrial Real Estate” 604 Morigage Guarantee Building Warehouses, Stores, Mfg. Plants, Acreage, Shopping Center Dev., Industrial Dev., Subdivision Dev., Insurance MIKE 8c STEVE SERTICH JA. 4-2053 China threatened by schism. The morning of the historic announcement was an unusual one in Rome. Black clouds darkened the sky and there was the threat of a major storm. Wind and rain scattered the clusters of Romans who had planned to watch the papal car drive to the basilica. As the Pope was carried on his portable throne to the main altar inside the church, his face was grave. Though he blessed the crowds with his familiar small sign of the cross, his lips moving in prayer constantly, he did not seem to resnond to the warm enthusiasm of the cheer ing thousands. When his prayer for perse cuted Christians was recited af ter the Mass, the Pone buried his face in his hands as he knelt before the papal altar. After he left the basilica, the Pope issued his call for the council. He chose to do it in a room of the adjoining Benedic tine monastery. Assembled were 17 Cardinals to whom the Pope read a discourse in Latin. It called for the council, for a diocesan synod (a meeting of all the priests and officials of a diocese to legislate and confer on diocesan affairs) and a bring ing up to date of the Code of Canon Law. the body of laws governing the faithful and the clergy of the Latin rite Catho lics. News of the decision was giv en to the world in a com- munieme issued by the Vatican Secretariat of State. 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OJC(ty\ 3nc. 231 Mitchell Street, S.W., JA 2-9960 “His Holiness dwelt upon cer tain points of more important apsotolic activity (in his speech to the Cardinals) suggested by the experience of these first three months of his pontificate and regarding his responsibility as Bishop of Rome and Supreme Pastor of the Universal Church. “As Bishop of Rome, the Holy Father stressed the great development which the city has seen in these last ten years and the grave problems which are connected with the spiritual as sistance of the population. “As Supreme Pastor of the Church, he noted the dangers which become more greatly menacing every day to the spiritual life of the faithful, that is, the errors which enter every where and the immoderate at traction material goods, increas ing today more than ever with technical progress.” The Pope’s remedy was to call for a council, a synod and the revision of canon law. The council captured the world’s imagination and as the Vatican communique put it: “As far as the ecumenical council is concerned, this, in the thinking of the Pope, looks not only to the edification of the Christian people, hut would be besides an invitation to the separated communities to find unity, to which so many souls today in every part of the world aspire.” ANCIENT TRUTH- NEW FORMS After the speech to the Car dinals, the Pope met with the Benedictine monks of St. Paul’s. Speaking of himself in the third person, he said: “The new Pope hopes to bring to the attention of the whole world the ancient truth reflect ed under new forms. Some peo ple dare to speak ill of the Church, claiming it is behind the times. “But the Church is alive and is not the custodian of a mus eum. Though the Church has great respect for what is an cient, beautiful and good, her first concern is souls. This is why the Church intends to give dioceses better ecclesiasti- . cal and juridical structure.” Immediate reaction to the Pope’s call for a council was widespread. Dr. Visser’t Hooft, Secretary General of the Prot estant World Council of Church es, said the calling of the ecu- “mutual coming together, not under conditions laid down by one church for all the others.” Bishop Angus, MacQueen of London, Ontario, Canada, mod erator of the United Churches of Canada, said “the whole thing revolves around what the Pope means by ‘seeking unity.’ •A LONG ROAD . . .* The Pope in succeeding days dwelt at length on his hopes for the council. Speaking to a groun of Armenian Rite Catholic priests the Pope reaffirmed his belief that unity “can be achieved . . . and with perfec tion.” Vatican Radio hailed the call ing of the council as a major step toward unity. Tt ventured to guess that it would he, in all probability, as important as the Council of Trent, which took place more than 400 years ago. It noted, however, that a stumbling block to unity with the Oriental dissident churches was the fact that manv of them are linked vitally with various political and national organiza tions. Cardinal Montini, Archbishop of Milan, hailed the convocation and forecast that it would be come “the greatest which the- Chureh has ever celebrated in its 20 centuries of history.” L’Osservatore Romano, the Vatican Citv daily, was quick to call down those who considered the summoning of a council as a political move. The paper cell ed “grotesque” claims that the Pope had decided on this as a means of readjusting religious and political power or because of the growing fear of commu nism’s strength. It’s editor, Count Guiseppe Dalla Torre, declared that these claims dissolve “in their ridi culousness and there remains only the majesty of the council of unity which was born pre cisely in the mind and soul of the Pope and which is in har mony with the mind and chari ty of the Church.” The Pope’s announcement took everyone, with the excep tion of a few intimates, by sur prise. Every Congregation and office of the Roman Curia, which aids the Pope in handling the many sided affairs of the Church, immediately set itself to studying the questions and problems under its competence. 'INTERIM POPE'? In his Christmas message of his- first year as Pope, Angelo Roncalli gave a hint of his thought to call a council to at tract all to the unity of the Ca tholic Church. Referring to at tempts to establish various forms of cooperation and under- CLERGY CHARGE CRIMINALS USE STRONG-ARM METHODS TO FORCE SALE OF SMUT (N.C.W.C. News Service) NEW YORK —- A Catholic priest and a Protestant minis ter charged that criminal ele ments are using strong-arm methods to force the sale here of magazines which are “sala cious in content and abnormal in psychology.” Some magazine distributors are handling the salacious ma terial under threats of violence or business ruin,, they told a special meeting (Jan.. 7) of the New York Joint Legislative Committee on Obscene and of fensive Material. Msgr'. Charles M. Walsh, di rector of the Confraternity of Christian Doctrine of the Arch diocese of New York, testified as a co-chairman of the Mayor’s Committee of Religious Lead ers. He said two local distributors had told committee members privately that if they had giv en public testimony on maga zine distribution practices, “they would have two broken arms and two broken legs the next morning.” The Rev. Dr. Dan M. Potter, executive director of the Pro testant Council of New York and a co-chairman of the May or’s Committee, asserted that “off-the-record” talks with dis tributors indicated segments of the magazine sales industry are influenced by criminal ele ments and should be investi gated. He testified that one distrib utor said that if he had told what he knew “he wouldn’t get home alive.” The Rev. Dr. William F. Ros- enblum, representing the New York Board of Rabbis as well as the Mayor’s Committee, tes tified that the lower courts gen erally try to implement laws against obscene publications, but that the higher courts were sometimes insensitive to the needs of the public and that their judges frequently had an “ivory tower” outlook. “If you want to operate in freedom,” Dr. Rosenblum said, . “you must first be responsible.” Pope John XXIII looking thoughtful and wrapped in his cloak to protect him Irom the wind, walks down the arcade of the Cloisters of St. Paul s Outside the Walls on the way to the room in which he announced his intention of calling an menical council. menical council demonstrated standing which have mailed, the the “tremendous importance Pope said: which the problem of unity has assumed in our times.” To the Orthodox Metropolitan Antony Bashir, Archbishop of the Syrian Antiochian Archdio cese, with its headauarters in Brooklyn, N. Y., the Pope’s pro posal was an important event. “I do not find any reason why the apostolic churches should be divided,” he said. “There is only one holy, Apostolic church, Its differences could be ironed out in ecumenical councils.” However, he added, to es tablish unity if would be neces sary to return to the way things stood before the great schisjn of 1054, discarding all that was added after that. The Rev. Dr. Edwin T. Dahl- berg, President of the National Council of Churches, welcomed the council but said that for it to work it would have to be a PROFESSIONAL BAND INSTRUMENTS SMALL BRASSES - WOODWINDS STRINGS & PERCUSSION INSTRUMENTS SERI(/£*. ' STUDIOS f DeKalb Musicians Supply 14-5 Clairmont Avenue DR 3-4305 DECATUR “The vexing problem of the broken unity of the heritage of Christ still remains and ob stacles still hinder its solution. It will be a long road of bur dening, difficulties and uncer- tanties. “The sadness of this sorrow ful observation does not arrest, nor will it arrest, we hope to God, the effort of our soul to continue the loving invitation to our dear separated brothers, who also carry on their fore head the name of Christ and who read His holy and blessed Gospel, and who are not insen sible to the inspirations of reli gious piety, of beneficient and blessed charity.” Repeating the words from the Gospel of St. John, Pope John XXIII, at Christmas time utter ed the prayer of Christ shortly before his death: “That all may be one, even as thou, Father, in me and I in. thee: that they also may be one in us that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.” Whatever had been said be fore about an “interim Pope,” Pope John XXIII had left little doubt that he would be record ed by history as a Supreme Pontiff in every best tradition of that title. 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