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Pope Flooded By Messages While Showing
General Improvement In Illness
VATICAN CITY, (NC) - His
Holiness Pope John XXIII,
showing general improvement
from the illness which forced
him to bed, has received a flood
of messages from all parts of
the world wishing him a speedy
recovery.
The Pope was suffering from
gastric troubles that caused
anemia. The illness was first
made public November 27, when
his audiences were canceled.
But by four days later, his
physicians indicated that sur
gery was not planned.
A Vatican statement (Dec. 1)
said;
“ Authoritative Vatican sour
ces confirm that no surgical
intervention is in prospect.
The Pope’s health is generally
improved. In fact, it is improved
to the extent that he was able to
follow the work of the ecumeni
cal council today.”
Archbishop Pericle Felici,
secretary general of the coun
cil, announced to the council
Fathers at the 31st general
congregation, (Dec. 1) that the
Pontiff’s health was much im
proved. The council’s press
communique said that the par
ticipants applauded the announ
cement. A Vatican spokesman
in turn said that the Pope “was
particularly moved” by this
expression of devotion.
He saw the applause as he
watched the council proceedings
on the special TV set that has
been installed in recent days in
his apartment. This receiver is
linked by a closed circuit to a
stationary unmanned camera in
the council chamber.
First Catholic
Lay Observer
PARIS (NC) -- For the first
time, a Catholic layman has
been invited to be an obser
ver at the general meetings of
the Second Vatican Council.
His Holiness Pope John XXIII
personally invited JeanGuitton,
a member of the French Acad
emy whom the Pope knew when
he was Apostolic Internuncio in
Paris after World War II, to be
An indicator of the general
optimism about the Pope’s
health was the expectation ex
pressed in the official Latin no
tification (Dec. 1) of the cere
monies scheduled for Decem
ber 8 and 9, the council closing
and a canonization at St. Pe
ter’ s Basilica, that they would
be held in the presence of the
Pope.
An earlier bulletin (Nov. 30)
stated that the treatment the
Pope had received had enabled
him to walk around and to work
on various problems dealing
with the government of the
Church.
In making its first announce
ment about the Pope’s health,
the Vatican City daily,
L’Osservatore Romano, point
ed to the signs of improving
and said that there was hope
that the Pontiff would soon be
able to resume his work sche
dule.
This was the text of the pa
per’s announcement (Nov. 29):
“As our newspaper has regu
larly reported, the Holy Father
for the past several weeks has
been granting special and con
tinued audiences to the numer
ous prelates of individual
nations who have come to Rome
to take part in the Second Vati
can Ecumenical Council.
"It is easy to realize—also
‘rom remarks made by His
Holiness in his recent speeches
--the profound joy that has come
to him from these meetings
which, it can be said, summar
ize in a happy synthesis by a
spirit of ardent fervor and of
laudable intentions of unity and
an observer at the council.
Guitton joins one of his fel
low professors at the University
of Paris in the tribune reserved
for observers — Oscar Cull-
mam a protestant.
He also joins a fellow member
of the French Academy at the
council, Eugene Cardinal Tiss-
erant, Dean of the Sacred Col
lege of Cardinals.
Guitton, a specialist in the
study of the reunion of the
churches, has published sev
eral works in religious history
and in Christian morality.
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of peace.
“Unfortunately this series of
meetings—which so adequately
reflect the developments of the
Kingdom of God and which al
ready had brought to the Vati
can halls pastors from many
lands—has had to undergo an
interruption.
PONTIFF
GIVES
BLESSING
VATICAN CITY - Pope
John XXIII made a brief
appearance at an open
window of his apartment Sun
day, December 2nd.
Many Bishops, here for
the Council sessions, joined
the throngs in St. Peter’s
Square when it was announ
ced the Pontiff would give his
usual Sunday blessing.
“Since last Tuesday, on the
advice of doctors, it has become
necessary to interrupt the
course of these audiences be
cause of the accentuated sym
ptoms of gastric troubles for
which the Holy Father had been
undergoing for some time ap
propriate medical and dietic
treatment, and which caused
rather strong anemia.
“Everything leads to hope
that as a result of treatment
arranged and underway, the
August Pontiff may very soon
resume these welcome aud
iences. As is obvious, all his
children scattered all over the
world are not content with sim
ple good wishes, even though
expressed with ardent devotion
to the Common Father, but they
add to this the commitment of
particular prayers that any
slowing down of the fullness of
the apostolic ministry of the
Vicar of Jesus Christ may soon
disappear.”
GREETS OLDEST U.S. COUNCIL FATHER — At an audience for U.S. Bishops, Arch
bishop Martin J. O’Connor, (left) rector of the North American College, Rome, presents
Archbishop Edward D. Howard of Portland, Ore-j* to His Holiness Pope John XXIII.
Archbishop Howard is the oldest U.S. Bishop taking part in the Council. Others shown
are Bishop Allen J. Babcock of Grand Rapids, Mich, (center), and Joseph Cardinal Ritter,
Archbishop of St. Louis (partially hidden behing Pontiff) at right.
COUNCIL FATHERS TAKE
UP UNITY QUESTION
VATICAN CITY, (NC) — Par
ticipants in the Second Vatican
Council voiced their over
whelming approval of the sub
stance of a formal statement on
mass media of communications
and at the same time learned
that His Holiness Pope John
XXIII has decided to postpone
the opening of the council’s sec
ond session until next Septem
ber.
The two’developments came
(Nov. 27) at' the 28th general
meeting of the council when the
guest for Christian unity occu
pied much of the discussion.
The postponement was an
nounced to the council Fathers
by Archbishop Pericle Felici,
secretary general of the coun
cil. The regular daily commun
ique said that the prelate told
the gathering in St. Peter’s that
Pope John “in response to wish
es of many council Fathers, es
pecially those living a great
distance from Rome, and also
taking into account reasons of a
pastoral character, has fixed
the date for beginning of the
second session of the council
as September 8, 1963, instead
of May 12.” September 8 is the
feast of the Birthday of the Bles
sed Virgin Mary.
Following this announcement,
a motion was put to the coun
cil by the council presidency
concerning the draft text on
communications media.
The motion was put to a vote
and approved. There were 2,160
council Fathers present and
voting and thus under the two-
thirds rule a total of 1,440
votes were required for ap
proval. The vote was 2,138
in favor, 15 against, and 7
invalid votes.
Following the voting, Arch
bishop Felici read a statement
in behalf of the council’s Com
mission for the Oriental Chur
ches. Its purpose was to clear
up possible objections which
might be brought up in connec
tion with the subject taken up
for consideration the previous
day, the Catholic Church's
desire for restoring unity with
the separated Eastern Church
es.
First of all, according to the
council communique, it was
noted that the draft text’s title,
“De Unitate Ecclesiae: Ut Om-
nes Unun Sint,’’ could easily be
changed. Objections had been
raised to the effect that this
title (On Church Unity: That
All May Be One) did not make
it clear that the document un
der discussion concerned only
separated Eastern Christians
and did not include Pro
testants.
The bulletin reported that the
statement read by the secretary
general also said “in the first
part of the project there is the
intention merely to illustrate
the conditions which have arisen
as a result of the separation
of the Oriental Christians and
that it is not intended to make
theological declarations for a
constitution of the Church. In
the second part, it said, there
is the intention of outlining
those teachings from which one
might draw the means proposed
for union, without wishing in the
least to treat those matters
which pertain to the constitu
tion ‘De Ecclesia.’
Again referring to theOmnes
Unun Sint” treatise, the
bulletin said that the statement
by Archbishop Felici noted that
it “is addressed to all sons of
the Catholic Church that they
may use suitable means indica
ted in it for promoting and
achieving union with the sepa
rated brothers of the East.”
Among the points made were
that instead of one subject un
der consideration there were
actually three. The first was
the one under debate — “De
Unitate Ecclesiae: Ut Omnes
Unun Sint.” The second was a
treatise drawn up by the Sec
retariat for Promoting Chris
tian Unity under the title of
“De Ecumenismo.” The third
was a chapter drafted in the
same subject by the council’s
theological commission.
The bulletin said the three
texts refer to different aspects
of an identical problem. It cited
the suggestion to unite them into
a single text which would syn
thesize in a single document all
the multiple doctrinal, lit
urgical and psychological
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The bulletin said that “some
of the Fathers noted that the
theological and doctrinal pre
mises of the project are for
mulated in a rather harsh and
peremptory manner without an
ecumenical spirit and that it
might indispose the separated
Oriental brothers to whom it is
addressed.
It was suggested that there
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members of the Catholic hier
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non-Catholic Christian com
munities, and also that there is
a need for “greater caution”
in the use of terms “which
might offend the sensibilities
of the Orientals.”
Some speakers said there was
a need to distinguish clearly
between what separates Cath
olics from Eastern Christians
and what separates Catholics
and Protestants. “The elements
which unite the Catholic Church
with the separated Oriental
churches are in fact greater
than those which divide them,”
it was stated.
The bulletin said:
“The Oriental Church, it was
added, owes its birth, develop
ment, organization and its lit
urgy to the Apostles who found
ed it and to the Fathers of the
first centuries, without owing
anything historically to the Lat
in Church of Rome. This is a
fact which must be taken into
To Broadcast
Closing Session
Of Council
VATICAN CITY, (Radio, NC)
- The closing general meeting
of the first session of the ecu
menical council will be broad
cast December 8 by Vatican
Radio.
Broadcasts will be In English,
French, Italian, Czech, Russian
and Swahili.
Vatican Radio will also
braodcast the canonization on
December 9 of Blesseds Fran
cis Mary Croese, Peter Julian
Eymard and Anthony Pucci in
English, French, Italian, Span
ish, German, Ukrainian and Ru
manian.
The English-language short
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will be transmitted over 31.10
meters.
Council To Speak On
Authority Of Bishops,
Prelate Declares
LONDON, (NC) - Archbishop
John Heenan of Liverpool said
here that “it is thought to be so
likely as to be almost certain
that at the Second Vatican
Council the authority of the body
of bishops will be clearly
stated.”
Archbishop Heenan, spoke in
the Catholic Herald in a review
of a book, “The Episcopate and
the Primacy,” by Father Karl
Rahner dealing with the
authority of Catholic bishops.
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