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Best Forecast Of Ecumenical
Council Found In Pontiffs Words
(The following article is one
of a dozen special articles by
the head of the Rome bureau
of the N.C.W.C News Service
giving a preview of the ecum
enical council which opens next
October 11. The author served
as a member of the council’s
Preparatory Secretariat for the
Communications Media.
By Msgr. James I. Tucek
(N.C.W.C. NEWS SERVICE))
VATICAN CITY,—The best
forecast of the Second Vatican
Ecumenical Council can be
found in the words of His Holi
ness Pope John XXIII.
This is true because it was
he who first conceived the idea
for the council, he alone who had
the power to convoke it, and he
alone who by his approval can
give it an ecumenical character.
Almost four years have pass
ed since Pope John first an
nounced his intention to convoke
an ecumenical council. Not a
week has gone by since that
time in which he has not writ
ten or spoken on the subject.
An accurate picture of what
the council will be—not in its
details but in its pervading
spirit, motivation and hopes—
can therefore be drawn from
the monumental record of the
Supreme Pontiff’s spoken and
PAPAL AUDIENCES GIVE INSIGHTS TO COUNCIL - During audiences such as this,
His Holiness Pope John XXIII has himself given the best and clearest insights into what
the coming Second Vatican Council will be like. Above, he is shown welcoming a group
of dignitaries from a new African nation. On one such occasion, the Pontiff said: “The
work of the new ecumenical council is really directed entirely toward giving back to
the face of the Church of Jesus the splendor and the pure and simple lines of its birth,
and to present it as the Divine Founder made it, without stain or defect.’’ -(NC Photos)
Threat Of Deformed Child
No Justification Of Abortion
VATICAN CITY, (Ra
dio, NC) - Vatican Radio has
commented that even the threat
of a deformed child cannot
authorize abortion.
(The Vatican Radio commen
tator spoke against a back
ground of widespread press and
radio comment on the case of
a U.S. woman, Mrs. Sherri
Finkbine of Phoenix, Ariz., who
is seeking an abortion for fear
her baby will be deformed be
cause she took thalidomide, a
drug feared to be responsible
for the deformation of babies.
The commentator did not men
tion Mrs. Finkbine.)
The Vatican Radio commen
tator said:
“It is understandable that a
mother who is the prey of anx
iety because of the unhappiness
she foresees for her own child
can wish for its death, and thus
subjectively transform into a
testimony of love her desire to
suppress the life which grows
within her.
“But it is not permissible
that this subjective aberration
be turned into a moral idea of
life, into a moral principle.
“Homicide is never an act
of kindness. Love always
chooses life and never death.
The instinct of preservation
urges man to face any kind of
motivation as long as he can
keep his life. Love for those
dear to one leads people to
make sacrifices and toward a
sublime dedication to preserve
as long as possible the weakest
breath of life.
“From the first moment of
his conception, every human
being has all the rights in
herent in a human being. There
is nothing which can justify his
direct and voluntary sup
pression, not even the purpose
of saving the life of the
mother.’’
The commentator added:
“Human life is sacred and
all respect for human life dis
appears when one tries to draw
a line of distinction between its
different theological phases or
the gravity of its infirmity. This
would open the way to any kind
of decision, any kind of crime.
It is logical that one would be
tempted to extend the applica
tion of such a vague and in
definite principle to all people
of all ages who have been aff
ected by mental or physical
incapacities.’’
VATICAN COUNCIL
Bishop Celebrates Mass In
Protestant Church, Voices
Hopes For Christian Unity
TAIZE, France, (Radio, NC)
—Bishop Lucien Lebrun of Au-
tun voiced hopes for Christian
unity when he celebrated Mass
at the opening of the Church
of Reconciliation of the
Protestant monastic communi
ty here.
The new church was built
by young volunteer workers
from Germany as a gesture of
friendship for France and in
gratitude for the aid given by
the Taize community to refu
gees from the nazi regime.
The church was opened (Au
gust 5 to 6) in the presence
of Catholic, Protestant and Or
thodox churchmen from many
nations.
The church is divided into
two sections. The one is in
tended for prayers for Chris
tian unity and the second for
silent prayer.
Protestant and Orthodox
services marked the opening
(August 5) as well as the Mass
offered (August 6) by Bishop
Lebrun in the church’s crypt.
The Protestant prior of the
Taize community had written
to Bishop Lebrun before the
opening:
“To show that this church
will be in particular a pilgri
mage place for the reconcilia
tion of Christians, a crypt has
been opened so that Catholic
Mass may be offered there.’’
A number of Protestants, in
cluding ministers, attended Bi
shop Lebrun’s Mass.
The Bishop said in his ser
mon: “Nothing is impossible for
God. That is our hope as we
wait for the gift of unity.’’
Methodists Name Observers, Alternates
NEW YORK, (NC) - The
world’s 13 million Methodists
will be represented at the Sec
ond Vatican Council by three
official observers and six alter
nates.
Two of the observers had been
announced earlier. They are
Bishop Fred Piece Corson of
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The six alternates, who will
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tober 11 in Rome, are: the Rev.
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“It is Our intention to con
vene an ecumenical council to
deal with questions of greatest
interest to the welfare of the
universal Church,’’ he said Ap
ril 27, 1959.
The council’s “chief business
will concern the increase of the
Catholic Faith and the renewal
along right lines of the habits
of Christian people in the
adapting of ecclesiastical dis
cipline to the needs and con
ditions of the present times.”
(July 25, 1959). “The Church
will bring itself into step with
modern times. (July 29, 1960).
“The council intends to be
the starting point of a general
renewal; a new vigorous dif
fusion of the holy Gospel in
the whole world, with the Church
spreading it, making it known
and explaining its teachings.’’
(July 27, 1960).
“We have thought more than
once of what should be done in
regards to this undertaking
(liturgical reform) of Our pre
decessor. And, having examined
the matter well, We have come
to the decision that it would
be best to put before the Fa-
Council Fathers
St. Ambrose, Bishop of Milan
who died in 397 was a fore
most doctor of the Church
and a bitter opponent of the
Arian heresy which was con
demned finally at the First
Council of Constantinople in
381. Although Ambrose did
not take part in the council,
he was instrumental in rid
ding most of western Chris
tendom of the heresy that
denied the Divinity of the
Holy G^ost. Here, he is
shown \csted for Mass, his
mitre at his feet. He holds
i i his right hand the scourge,
symbol of discipline; and in
the other a scroll with the
first words of his famous
Paschal Hymn, “The Eternal
Gifts of Christ the King.”
(NC Photos)
Urges Public
School Prayers
ELIZABETH, N. J., (NC)
The nine-member Union
County Board of Freeholders
unanimously adopted a resolu
tion favoring prayers in public
schools.
The (Aug. 2) resolution ask
ed Congress to approve the say
ing of prayers in the schools.
thers of the future council the
principal fundamentals con
cerning liturgical reform and
that We should not do more
than reform the rubrics of the
breviary and the Roman
missal.”
“In a spontaneous manner
and with vast applications, the
Second Vatican Council seeks
to succeed in expressing that
which Christ still represents,
that which He represents today
more than ever before. . . .
It will not be a complete re
view of Catholic teachings, but
special attention will be given
to those points which refer to
fundamental truths, which are
contested or which are in con
flict with the contradictions of
modern thought, the results of
old errors which are now ex
pressed differently.”
“This will be a demonstra
tion of the Church, ever living
and ever young, which feels
the rhythm of the times and
which in every century beau
tifies itself with new splen
dor. . .At a time when generous
and increasing efforts are being
made in various sectors to re
build that visible unity of Chris
tianity which corresponds to the
wishes of the Divine Redeemer,
it is quite natural that the forth
coming council should provide
premises of doctrinal clarity
and mutual charity which will
quicken the wish in our separa
ted brothers for the desired
return to unity and it will pave
the way.
“Finally, to a world which
is lost, confused and troubled t
by the constant threat of new ,
and frightful conflicts, the ,
forthcoming council must offer
a possibility for all men of
good will to turn their thoughts
and intentions toward peace. . .
These are the fruits which We
so much expect from the coun
cil.”
The spirit of the council, he
said, will be “in the tradition
of all the councils that marked
the triumph of truth.” It will
be furthermore characterized,
he added, by the attributes of
the Good Shepherd.
In ail of the Pope’s spoken
and written words on the coun
cil there are constant refer
ences to what he longs to see
as its results. There are:
Christian unity, peace and so
cial order and “to see all
people enter on the way of
truth, charity and peace.”
But Pope John XXIII, who
knows his Church history ex
traordinarily well, has been
realistic enough to acknowledge
that “those who continue to work
after Us will be able to gather
the council’s fruits more abun
dantly.”
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