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be real. Years later he could
write to the Galatians (III.28):
“You are all one person in Jesus
Christ.”
Our Lord had actually said
it — though on the Damascus
road Saul knew nothing of that
— at the Last Supper: or rather
on the way from the Supper
room to the Garden of Gethse-
mane (John XV.5): “I am the
Vine, you are the branches.”
The phrase is decisive. The
union of Christians with Christ
is no mere union of love and
obedience; it is a living, organic
unity. Branches are not simply
a society that the vine decides
to found and take a kindly in
terest in. The vine lives in the
branches, the branches live in
the vine, live with the very life
of the vine. Vine and branches
are not two but one.
Our union with Christ is of
such a sort that He lives in us,
we live in Him, live with His
very life.
The truth is at once marvel
lous and mysterious. It is St.
Paul who goes deepest into the
mystery — naturally, because
it alone Our Lord had uttered
in converting him. The Church
is the body of Christ and we
are all “members” of His body,
parts of His body. With our
present knowledge of the hu
man body’s structure we more
readily think of ourselves as
cells in His bodv. We shall re
turn to St. Paul later: here note
one text (1 Cor. XII.27): “You
are Christ’s body, organs of it
depending upon each other.”
We have come to call the
Church the Mystical Body of
Christ: the adjective simply
means mysterious. Thus we
distinguish it from the natural
Body, in which He was con
ceived in the womb of His
Mother and born in Bethlehem,
which hung upon the Cross, is
now at the right hand of the
Father, is received by us under
the appearance of bread in the
Eucharist. Theologians speak of
the second Body as the succes
sor of the first, because in it
Our Lord continues to act
among men as He did in His
natural Body during His short
life upon earth.
To call the Church Christ’s
Body is no more a piece of
rhetoric than was His own
phrase to Saul. The Church is
not simply an organization to
which we resort for the gifts
He wants us to have; to think
of it only as a society founded
by Him is not enough. In our
human experience a living body
comes closest to giving us the
true idea of it. For it is of the
essence of a living body that
there is one life-center, so that
every element in it lives by
one same life.
That we are thus living cells
in a Body of which Christ is
head is the most important fact
about ourselves. We shall try
to see further into it next week.
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Dear Doris:
My parents think that Catho
lic scientists have one strike
against them before they start
out just because they are Catho
lics. I want to specialize in
science but now I’m a little dis
couraged. What do you think?
JACK Z.
Dear Jack:
I have some general ideas on
this subject, but I think it is im
portant enough to seek the
opinion of a specialist in the
field. I have asked Dr. Roland
Nardone, associate professor in
the Department of Biology at
the Catholic University of
America in Washington, to an
swer your letter. Dr. Nardone
has done a considerable amount
of writing both on his own sub
ject of biology, and on science
in general. Incidentally, Dr.
Nardone received his PH. D. at
the age of 23!
BY ROLAND M.
NARDONE, PH. D.
Your letter repeats a wide
spread misconception which may
have been partly true years ago.
Because of a variety of complex
factors including economic pres
sures and the need to build
a strong, spiritually-minded
Church, science has been the
weakest link in the Catholic
cultural chain.
For example, 50 years ago the
outstanding minds of the Cath
olic population in America were
devoted almost exclusively to
the pursuit of a trade or a small
business. The few wealthier
ones studied law, medicine, fine
arts, religion, letters, or philoso
phy.
Catholic institutions lagged
behind in the development of
science programs,. Thus very
few outstanding Catholic scien
tists were produced and judg
ments of Catholics in science
were based primarily on the
poor facilities and programs in
Catholic schools and the medio
cre product of inferior training
— the Catholic scientists them
selves. This led to a lack of total
acceptance of Catholic scientists
rather than to an anti-Catholic
attitude. Catholics had to prove
themselves in science,
The poor situation was ag
gravated when uninformed Ca
tholics misled the public to
think that Catholics are not free
to investigate some very im
portant scientific subjects such
as evolution.
We have come a long way
since those dark days. Within
cultural circles it was soon rec
ognized that a person who
knows about the history and
development of scientific ideas
is just as cultured as a person
who may know, for example,
the history and development of
social ideas. It was also evident
that a scientific age was upon
us and competent Catholic
scientists would be needed. This
change in attitude marks a very
important milestone because it
was responsible for the growth
of science programs in Catholic
schools.
This growth did not come
easily. The bishops had to di-
ect the intrduction of science
programs and yet insure ade
quate training in the other dis
ciplines. Many devoted Sisters
and Brothers were asked to go
back to school to resume the
difficult grind of advanced
studies in a new field. Others
answered the challenge by giv
ing up their summer vacations
to prepare themselves for the
teaching of new courses. The
generous finanical support of
lay people helped build the
needed expensive laboratories.
ENCOURAGING SIGNS
Perhaps nothing has helped
more to gain the acceptance of
Catholic scientists than the per-
son-to-person contacts between
Catholic and non-Catholic scien
tists. Through these contacts at
conventions, academy meetings,
and research laboratories the
improved teaching facilities,
the freedom of thought which
Catholic scientists enjoy, and
the competence of Catholic
scientists was made known.
Equally important have been
the research contributions of
Catholic scientists.
Today Catholic scientists
stand a good chance to advance
in their chosen field and make
outstanding contributions. Dr.
William J. Thaler, a graduate
of Loyola College and Catholic
University recently proved this.
You may recall that he develop
ed a new radar system which is
capable of detecting missile
launchings minutes after firing.
There are many other encour
aging signs. For example, Ca
tholic high school students are
getting a share of the science
fair awards proportional to their
effort C at h o 1 i c universities
have many research projects
supported by money from the
government. However, there is
room for much improvement.
We must recognize that there
are no outside forces holding us
back. It is up to young Catholics
such as you to work hard to
prepare yourselves for a hard
but fascinating Career.
If you are sure you have an
aptitude and liking for science,
and if you are not afraid of
keen competition don’t worry
about acceptance in scientific
circles. Our country and Church
sorely need first-class scientists.
The well-informed Catholic
scientist can continue to make
very special contributions to
the Church and society by the
integration of his religion with
science.
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The appointment will con
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general election when the post
will be decided by Bibb County
voters. McKenna will succeed
Judge Hal Bell who has been
named to the newly created
third Superior Court judgeship
in the Macon Judicial Circuit.
McKenna, 41, is married and
has three sons. He has served as
a Bibb representative in the
General Assembly since 1952,
and served for a time as chief
r-'1,y sheriff under James I.
Wood. A lieutenant colonel in
th^ Georgia National Guard, he
served in Europe during World
War II and participated in five
major campaigns with the 83rd
Infantry Division. McKenna is
a member of St. Joseph’s
Church, the Fraternal Order of
Eagles, Veterans of Foreign
Wars and other organizations.
And is Advocate of the Georgia
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have the maximum number of
children?
A. There is no such Church
law. The Church’s position is
that whereas children consti
tute the primary end and the
greatest blessing of marriage,
reasonable family limitation
can be perfectly licit.
Q. This means that a husband
and wife are wholly free to de
cide not to have more children,
right?
A. If this statement were not
an oversimplification, it would
be correct. As it reads, though,
three principles must be assum
ed beforehand. The first is that
by virtue of the sacrament of
marriage, a husband and wife
are no longer two, but one
flesh. In the words of St. Paul:
“The wife has not authority
over her body, but the husband;
the husband likewise has not
authority over his body, but the
wife.” (I Corinthians VII:4).
The second principle is that
a sufficient moral cause, such
as a health or an economic fac
tor, is required before a couple
can be wholly free in con
science to make such a decision
without incurring some blame.
For example, a married couple
could hardly be lauded for re
fusing to increase their family
merely for reasons of selfish
ness, As one theologian has
written: “The Church by no
means recommends parents to
bring children into the world if
and when there is no prosect
of supporting them and bring
ing them up as children should
be brought up. But it is only
too easy to make this ‘Christian
prudence’ an excuse for very
un-Christian selfishness and
worldliness.”
Then, too, couples who de
cide to have no more children
must be capable to avoid sin—
of overcoming moral dangers
occasioned by abstinence. Con
sequently, they are not free to
decide not to increase their
families if they cannot do so
without prudence to marital
chastity or without jeopardiz
ing their marriage through ten
sion or loss of affection.
Q. Is it really true that the
Church will never change its
prohibition against birth pre
vention?
A. Nothing could be truer.
For deliberate birth prevention
as explained in the first answer
above (i.e., contraception, direct
sterilization, direct abortion,
and the like) does violence to
the natural and divine positive
laws, neither of which the
Church is competent to alter. If
the Church were capable of de
claring such birth prevention
moral (as many non-Catholic
sects have done), then it could
logically declare as moral other
sins forbidden by natural and
divine laws (i.e., adultery, the
deliberate taking of innocent
human life, divorce and remar
riage, lying, blasphemy, etc.)
Q. Could the present "popu
lation explosion" threat excuse
people from such moral laws,
then?
A. It is a stupid man, indeed,
who would sell out an eternal
moral law, upon whose observ-
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TOLEDO, Ohio, (NC) — The
Catholic Church is growing at
the rate of 4,000 converts a year
in the Vicariate Apostle of
Wewak, New Guinea, a mis
sionary bishop estimated.
The natives receive a mini
mum of two years of instruction,
but some are not baptized until
three for four years after in
struction, Bishop Leo Arkfeld,
S.V.D., said in an interview
during a visit to the Society of
the Divine Word Seminary near
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Ability to provide the instruc
tions is the big problem, said
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Butte, Neb. He has served in
New Guinea since 1944, follow
ing ordination at the Divine
Word mother house in Techny,
111. He was consecrated a bishop
to serve as Vicar Apostolic of
Wewak in 1948. Working in the
vicariate with him are 58
priests, 17 Brothers and 60
Nuns. About half of the nuns
are natives, of New Guinea.
Bishop Arkfeld spends about
400 hours a year traveling by
plane for Confirmations and
other visitations, in the central
New Guinea mission area.
There are three planes used to
cope with transportation diffi
culties of the Pacific island. The
prelate will return to New
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ance the salvation of his very
soul depends, when “threaten
ed” by any issue or circum
stance, no matter how appar
ently formidable. “Apparently
formidable,” because the so-
called population explosion is
not based on real evidence, but
merely on statistical guesswork.
Yet even if such guesswork did
prove to be accurate — hun
dreds of years from now, say —
the solution to overpopulation
could not possibly lie in immor
al methods. Since all science
has its source in God, the Eter
nal Truth in whom there can
be no contradiction, the answer
to any scientific problem must
begin only after the eternal dic
tates of the science of morality
are assumed.
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former Texas Catholic news
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offered in St. Ann’s church.
Mr. Scheibl was editor of the
Southern Messenger for 35 years
until 1957, when it merged with
the Alamo Register to form the
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