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THE BULLETIN, September 29, 1962—PAGE 3 250 American Prelates To Attend Ecumenical Council BY MSGR. JAMES I. TUCEK (N.C.W.C NEWS SERVICE) VATICAN CITY - The U. S. Bishops who attend the Second Vatican Council will represent for the first time in such an assembly a Church which has fully come of age. Four ecumenical councils back, the New World had not yet been discovered—not by Columbus, at least. And it was only a short time after Colum bus’ discovery that the Fifth Lateran Council, the 18th of the councils, was held in Rome from 1512 to 1517. During that council, Vasco Nunez de Babboa was on his way to the Pacific and the Spanish conquistadores and missionaires were just begin ning to penetrate the Americas. COUNCIL PROTECTOR - St. Joseph, patron of the uni versal church and personal patron of His Holiness Pope John XXIII has been called upon to act as protector of the forthcoming Second Vati can Council. It is believed that before the council con venes the Holy Father will officially proclaim the "fos ter Father of Christ" to be patron of the council. (NC Photos) By the time of the opening of the Council of Trent in 1545, Francisco Vasquezde Coronado had led his expedition into what is now the southwestern United States, and Rodriguez de Ca- brillo had explored the Pacific coast of North America. Before the closing of the Council of Trent in 1563, the French were colonizing the shores of the St. Lawrence River. Franciscan missionar ies were fanning out into the regions of the Southwest, the Dominicans were in Tampa Bay and the Jesuits were preparing to establish their first mission on Chesapeake Bay. Three hundred years passed between the closing of the Coun cil of Trent and the opening of the First Vatican Council in 1869. In that time the mis sions were founded and flour ished. Possessions became co lonies and colonies became a nation. In that span of years the United States was born. When the First Vatican Coun cil was called, the young nation was just beginning .the work of recovery after the tragedy of the Civil War. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant had just entered office as the 18th president oftheU.S. The members of the U. S. Hierarchy at the First Vatican Council represented what the Holy See still considered as mission territory, techni cally at least, for the U. S. was still under the jurisdic tion of the Sacred Congrega tion for the Propagation of the Faith. Thirteen of the 50 States had not yet been admitted to the Union: Colorado (1876), Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota and Washington State (1889), Idaho and Wyoming (1890), Utah (1896), Oklahoma (1907), Arizona and New Mexico (1912) Alaska (1959) and Hawaii (1960). The American Archbishops were invited, by a letter of Cardinal Alessandro Barnabo of May 18, 1868, to select one man to go to Rome and join in preparing an agenda for the First Vatican Council. He was Father James A. Corcoran, Vi car General of the Charleston diocese. Father Corcoran ar rived in Rome in November, 1868, and served as a con- suitor of the Theological- Dogmatic Commission, whose president was Cardinal Luigi Bilio. Against the one priest who helped prepare the agenda for the First Vatican Council there were five cardinals, nine arch bishops, 12 bishops and 37 priests of the U. S. who were invited to prepare for the Se cond Vatican Council. The U. S. delegation at the First Vatican Council was made up of five archbishops and 40 bishops. Eighteen of these were the guests of Father Silas F. M. Chatard, rector of the North American College. To make room for them, Father Chatard moved some of his seminarians into a dormi tory, and gave the archbishops and bishops the small, cell like rooms, where they suf fered through the incessant rains of the winter of 1869 without heat. A marble plaque on the wall of the old American College on Humility Street—now renamed Casa Santa Maria dell’Umilta— names the members of the American Hierarchy who took residence there during the council. There were: Archbishops Martin J. Spald ing of Baltimore and John B. Purcell of Cincinnati; Bishops John B. Lamy of Santa Fe Tobias Mullen of Erie, Fran cis P. McFarland of Hartford, John McGill of Richmond, Ber nard J. McQuaid of Savannah, John J. Williams of Boston, James R. Bayley of Newark, John J. Conroy of Albany, Wil liam H. Elder of Natchez, John Loughlin of Brooklyn, Patrick N. Lynch of Charleston, James F. Wood of Philadelphia, James M. O’Gorman, O.C.S.O., Vicar Apostolic of Nebraska, and James Gibbons, Vicar Aposto lic of North Carolina. The lat ter, later 1 to become a cardinal, was the youngest American bi shop and the youngest bishop in attendance at the council at 35 years of age. The U. S. contributed two seminarians also to corps of stenographers during the First Vatican Council: Theodore Met calf of the Boston diocese and Peter Geyer of the Cincinnati archdiocese. A priest in graduate studies and five semi ceses for the summer with the understanding that they would be back again for the resump tion of conciliar business on November 11, 1870. By the end of the week of July 20, 1870, all the Amer ican Bishops had left Rome. Two months later, on Septem ber 20, the gates of Rome were stormed by the Italian troops and the council was never resumed. Pius IX issued the bull, Postquam Dei Munere, on October 20, suspending the council indefinitely. It was never formally terminated, ex cept by canon 229 which rules that a council is automatically suspended with the death of the pope who convokes it. On October 11, 1962, ananti- cipated 250 members of the American Hierarchy—cardi nals, archbishops, bishops and abbots—will take their places together with the Fathers of the Second Vatican Council. They will represent 43 million Ca tholics of a matured and vigor ous Church in the United States. They will be assisted in their work by a newly created Rome office of the National Catholic Welfare Conference, which will supply them with the means FIRST COUNCIL HELD IN ST. PETER’S BASILICA - The First Vatican Council held in 1869070 was the largest of the 20 ecumenical councils in the number of bishops taking part. It was also the first ecumenical council attended by an American bishop. The council is best remembered for its definition of the doctrine of papal infallibility. This photographic portrait was done by Altobelli during the council’s closing session in 1870. (NC Photos) narians will be members of the corps of stenographers from the U. S. in the coming council. While the First Vatican Coun cil was in progress, the Ameri can Bishops met once or twice a week in an assembly hall of the North American College. Later the conciliar authorities instructed that the hierarchies of nations of the same ling uistic groups should meet together to reach a common agreement on the disciplinary matters which they wished to be considered. Accordingly the chosen dele gates of England, Ireland, Cana da, Australia, British India, the British colonies and the United States held periodic meetings at the North American College. This turn of events brought under the same roof two out standing figures in the debate over the definition of papal infallibility: Archbishop Henry Edward Manning of Westmins ter, England, one of the most vigorous proponents of infalli bility, and Bishop Edward Fitz gerald of Little Rock, Ark., who cast one of the two dis senting votes on the final ballot on infallibility. The solemn public session of July 18, 1870, in which the vote was taken on the constitution defining papal infallibility, was also the last session of the First Vatican Council. On the day following, all the Fathers of the Council were given per mission to return to their dio Council Opening Via Telstar Hoped For NEW YORK - The U. S. tele vision networks hope to trans mit by the Telstar satellite the opening of the Second Va tican Council on October 11. Canada may also have a broad cast by Telstar. A spokesman for NBC-TV said here that technical prob lems facing the joint effort by his network and ABC-TV and CBS-TV are still to be com pletely worked out. He said the time of broad cast and whether it will be '‘live" or recorded from Rome are not yet known. Eastern Daylight Time is five hours behind Rome time. In the meantime, in Toronto, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation said it plans same- day coverage of the council. necessary to make a substan tial contribution to the work of the council. The Rome of fice, an extension of the N.C.W.C. Headquarters in Washington, D.C., will be under the general direction of the N.C.W.C. General Secretary, Msgr. Paul Tanner, and under the Rome direction of Msgr. Paul Marcinkus, a priest of the Chicago archdiocese em ployed in the Vatican Secre tariat of State. Msgr. Marcinkus will be as sisted by Msgr. Joseph Em- menegger of the Milwaukee archdiocese as liaison officer, and by Father Robert Triscoe of the Chicago archdiocese as research director. The N.C.W.C. Rome office will put a number of consul tants in specialized fields at the service of the American Bishops. These will be chiefly Americans with a knowledge of American problems, men from the universities and con gregations in Rome. There will also be a secretarial pool and a number of linguists to serve the Bishops. With the exception of that of Italy, the United States dele gation will probably be the lar gest of any single nation at the Second Vatican Council. ONLY AMERICAN - Arch bishop Martin J. O’Connor, rector of the North Ameri can College in Rome, was the only American to head one of the Preparatory bo dies of the coming ecumen ical council. Archbishop O'Connor, a native of Phila delphia, headed the secre tariat for communications media in preparation for the council. He was the only non- Cardinal to head one of the preparatory bodies. 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