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7/ Council Voting Seen Nearly Unanimous But With Absolute Liberty VATICAN CITY (NC)—Voting on the liturgical project in the ecumenical council has focused attention on two facts: the al most unanimous agreement of the council Fathers and the ab solute liberty with which they cast their votes. These points were made by Auxiliary Bishop Jose Cirarda Lachiondo of Seville, Spain, in a press conference given in the council press office. The Bishop said that the una nimity shown in the council is the result of the discussions of last year and of the maturing of thought since the last ses sion. “All has contributed to create a conciliar climate which makes us hopeful,” he said “The conciliar commissions have followed a middle road between extreme positions and the results of the voting assure us that the road followed is a good one.” Bishop Cirada noted that the “law” of the council Vis the law of unanimity, which can be obtained solely by comprehen sive dialogue among the Fa thers. No one seeks to impose his point of view but all are con cerned with the good of the Church and of souls in this particular moment of history.” The Bishop pointed out that the Fathers had four days to study the new amendments to the liturgical project before they were asked to vote on them. Commenting on the long de bate on the collegiality of the bishops, Bishop Cirarda said it was “providential” that this problem was not thrashed out at the First Vatican Council a century ago. He explained that since the definition of the infallibility at the First Vatican Council, a second debate on the collegiality of the bishops could have had serious consequences for the success of the council and for the Church. Today, however, debate is proceeding with serenity and thoughtful ness. “All the Fathers admit a so lidarity of the episcopal body and a responsibility of each sin gle bishop in the life of all the Church. Both these realities are founded on the episcopal consecration, Many Fathers see in it the base of a collegiality necessary for exercising the universal responsibilities of bi shops; others consider the term ‘college’ as too juridical, and fear that proclaiming it as di vine law, one diminishes the authority of the primacy of the Supreme Pontiff, although it is affirmed that the ‘college’ is subject to the pope as its head.” No Money For Fallout Shelters WASHINGTON (NC)--The House has supported its Ap propriations Committee and voted to refus e funds for a pro gram to build and equip fallout shelters in public and private buildings, including schools and hospitals. Obituaries Sister Francoise SAVANNAH—Funeral serv ices for Sister Francoise Bal tina were held October 14th at the Little Sisters of the Poor with the Reverend Luke Bain, O.S.B. officiating. The sermon was delivered by Rt. Rev. Msgr. Andrew J. Mc Donald, J.C.D., Chancellor of the Diocese. Survivors include a brother, a sister, and several nieces and nephews, all of France. Mrs. McGinley SAVANNAH—Funeral serv ices for Mrs. Sarah Ann McGin ley were held October 11th at the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist. Surviving are two sons, Frank McGinley of Atlanta and Mat thew H. McGinley Jr. of New York City; a daughter, Mrs. Alice McCarthy of Decatur; five grandchildren and several nieces and nephews. iSt IN AUGUSTA . . . MEMORIALS S.R. KELLY & SON, INC. PA 2-6972 Irvine Henderson 'Funeral Home PH. AD. 2-7181 Irvine C. Henderson Irvine C. Henderson, Jr. James E. Henderson, III 121 W. Hall St. SAVANNAH Mrs. G.C. Jones SAVANNAH—Funeral serv ices for Mrs. Margaret Clubb Jones were held October 14th at the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist. Survivors include her hus band, George C. Jones, and a daughter, Miss Ann Jones. John I. Magill AUGUSTA—Funeral serv ices for John I. Magill were held October 14th at St. Patrick Church with Father Ralph E. Seikel officiating. Mr. Magill, husband of the late Mrs. Elizabeth Lyon Ma gill, was a retired postal em ploye. He had made his home in Miami for 25 years. Carlton B. Thornton COLUMBUS—Funeral serv ices for Carlton B. Thornton were held October 12th from the Church of the Holy Famigy with Walter L. DiFrancesco officiating. Survivors include his widow, Mrs. May Mayer Thornton, Co lumbus, and a son Carlton B. Thornton Jr., Miami, Fla. , \ 0 r REFRIGERATOR SERVICE Bishop’s Appliance Service 31 Years Experience in Savannah Automatic Washers - Freezers - Refrigerators Air-Conditioners EXPERT GUARANTEED SERVICE AD 6-1197 Nights 354-6880 TELEVISION CENTER SERVICE COMPANY * /Where tv is a business NOT A SIDELINE AD 3-4145 AD 3-6352 SAVANNAH, GEORGIA y person - to - person Service all uour banbtna needs for your bantoiny SAVANNAH BANK & Trust Co. Savannah, Georgia Member F. D. I. C. Savannah’s Only Discount House DIXIE FURNITURE \ // MART “Where Everybody Trades” 2517 Bull Street Savannah, Georgia Phone AD6-8616 PULASKI DAY was marked in Savannah with a Military Mass celebrated at the famed Savannah fort named for the American Revolutionary War hero, a Polish Count. Celebrant was the Rev. Leonard O’Brien, assistant rector of the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist. Cadets from Benedictine Military School served the Mass and provided the honor guard. The Southern Cross, October 17, 1963—PAGE 3 To Christian Unity, Prelate Says “Excessive Interpretations 99 Of Papal Primacy Obstacle ROME (NC)—The doctrine of the primacy of the pope is not an obstacle to union but “ex cessive interpretations” are, said Melkite Rite Patriarch Maximos IV Saigh of Antioch in an interview granted to the Divine Word news service. The Patriarch declared: “The dogma of the primacy of the Roman Pontiff defined by the First Vatican Council gave rise to misinterpretations which disfigured the pri macy and made it an obstacle to union for Christians, where as in reality the primacy is a charism (special gift) granted by Christ to His Church. We are convinced that the obstacle to union is not the doctrine of the primacy itself, sufficiently well founded in Sacred Scrip ture and the traditions of the Church, but rather the ex The Second Week Vatican Council In Review The following is a roundup story of debates during the sec ond week of the ecumenical council’s second session. VATICAN CITY, (NC)—The F athers of the ecumenical coun cil during the second week of its second session passed am endments to the schema—or draft constitution—on the lit urgy that will eventually intro duce the venacular into parts of the Mass. This history-making decision was taken as the Fathers pass ed all 19 amendments to the second chapter of the liturgy schema—each one by a large majority—between October 8 and 10, While voting on the liturgy amendments, the council simul taneously continued to debate the schema “On the Nature of the Church.” During discus sions the questions of the col legiality of the bishops and the resoration of the permanent di- aconate clearly emerged as two of the major issues of the coun cil’s second session. In connection with the for mer the matter of the First Vatican Council’s teaching on papal primacy and infallibility also came up. Archbishop Law rence J. Shehan of Baltimore urged (Oct. 10) that the text of the schema on the Church “be amended so as to show that the 'definitions’ (of doctrine) of the pope are never to be understood as being against or without the consent of the Church.” The liturgy amendment on the vernacular makes it possible to use modern languages in the parts of the Mass “pertaining to the people.” Precisely how much or how little of this con cession will actually be applied was left by the provisions of the schema to the national hier archies. However, “parts per taining to the people” could in clude all the chants of the ordinary (Kyrie, Gloria, Cre do, Sanctus and Agnus Dei) and of the Proper (Introit, Grad ual, Offertory and Communion). Archbishop Paul J. Hallinan of Atlanta, a member of the council Liturgy Commission who had an active part in pre paring the schema, said at a press conference (Oct. 9) that there are four steps to be tak en before the vernacular may actually be introduced into the Mass: 1. Approval of the amended second chapter of the liturgy draft constitution, which now appears virtually certain. 2. Projulgation of the consti tution by Pope Paul VI and the council. 3. Approval by national hier archies. 4. Preparation of texts in the vernacular. Archbishop Hallinan report ed that informal meetings of bi shops belonging to different lan guage groups are already being held to prepare uniform ver nacular texts. Other amendments to the lit urgy schema: —Directed that changes by made In the text and rite of the Mass to make for greater simplicity. —Presented the sermon or homily as an integral part of the Mass and ordered that a sermon be preached at all Mas ses on Sundays and holy days of obligation. —Recommended that people take part in the Mass by re ceiving Communion. —Proposed the extension of Communion under both species to others than the celebrant on certain occasion. —Urged priests to exhort the people to be present at both parts of the Mass, that is "the service of the word and the Eucharistic service.” In the debate on collegiality of the bishops, Achille Cardin al Lienart, Bishop of Lille, France, said (Oct. 10) that the ’’treatment of the collegiality of the bishops and of their rela tionship with the Roman pontiff could give the impression that there is a question of two an tagonists, one of whom must eventually be sacrificed to the other.” This is a wrong im pression, he said. The following day, Gia como Cardinal Lercaro, Arch bishop of Bologna and one oO the four moderators who di rect daily council meetings, announced that the moderators had decided that “because of the importance of the matters under discussion, the time is not yet right to close off debate on the collegiality of the bishops and the restoration of the permanent diaconate.” But, the Cardinal warned, speakers “should take spe cial care not to repeat what has already been said on the floor.” The First Vatican Council’s teaching on papal primacy and infallibility was brought up by Archbishop Joseph Descuffi, C.M., of Izmir, Turkey. His re marks turned on the phrase used by the first Vatican Council: “Ex sese, non ex consensu ecclesiae” (of himself and not by consent of the Church). Archbishop Descuffi said there should be a special para graph in the schema explaining how the privilege of infallibility makes the definitions of the pope irreversible of themsel ves, by virtue of special divine assistance and not by virtue of the consent of the Church. It is true, he said, that the Universal Church is likewise infallible, but this is not in conflict with the infallibility of the pope. The same argument was taken up by Archbishop Shehan, who quoted from Bishop Vincent Gasser, who spoke on the same matter at the First Vatican Council: “We cannot separate the pope from the consent of the Church because this consent is never wanting. Since we hold that the Roman Pontiff is infal lible, we automatically teach that his definitions will have the consent of the Church because the body of the bishops cannot be separated from its head and the entire Church cannot be found wanting.” The rchbishop raised this point, he said, “because the Ca tholic doctrine of papal in fallibility gives rise to many difficulties with our sep arated brethren.” Fernando Cardinal Quiroga y Palacios, Archbishop of San tiago di Compostella, Spain, raised the issue of the juri dical aspects of the collegiality of the bishops. He said: “It is not clear whether the whether the bishops have been constituted by the will of Christ into a juridical moralpersonor whether the term 'collegiality* designates only the totality of the bishops. It is true that the college of bishops by the will of Christ, in union with its head, has the power to make laws. “But this power does not necessarily constitute a college in the strict sense. If the bish ops form a college only in vir tue of moral union, deriv ing from the pursuit of one same end and the use of com mon means that the bishops, in union with the pope, enjoy leg islative power over the entire Church, then we must determine clearly whether this is divine or only ecclesiastical law. That it is divine law does not yet seem to be conclusively prov ed.” Discussing the restoration of the permanent diaconate, Paul Cardinal Richaud, Archbishop of Bordeaux, France, said he favored it and stated that “Many young men fear the priesthood because they see many priests worn out by nu merous occupations not direc tly connected with the adminis tration of the Sacraments and the exercise of priestly pow ers.” His suggestion was that the permanent diaconate would believe this problem. Fernando Cardinal Cento, Grand Penitentiary, also fa vored the permanent diaconate, but only under celibacy. cessive interpretations of this primacy in doctrine and prac tice,” he stated. Patriarch Maximos IV said that once freed from exaggera tions in doctrine and practice, the “Roman primacy will not only cease to be a principal obstacle to unity among Chris tians but will become the chief force which seeks and main tains this union. The primacy is absolutely indispensable as a center of unity for the Church.” Thus, he said, it is the task of the Second Vatican Council “to clarify and complement the words of the First Vatican Council on the primacy in the light of the Doctrine of the di vine institution of the episco pacy and its inscrutable rights.” The Patriarch made the point that the head of the Church is Our Saviour Jesus Christ and He alone. As Peter was head of the Apostolic College, so the Roman Pontiff is head of the Episcopal College. Since the successor can have no more power than the one whom he succeeds, it is not proper to Administrator Elected OGDENSBURG, N. Y. (NC)— Msgr. Louis D. Berube, Vicar General of the Ogdensburg dio cese, has been elected diocesan administrator pending the ap pointment of a new bishop. Bi shop Leo R. Smith of Ogdens burg died (Oct. 9) in Rome of a heart attack. South African Archbishop Holds Ecumenical Council Should Deal With Racism speak of the Roman Pontiff as the head of the Church.” He said he agreed with bi shops who maintain that the “foundation of the Church con sists not only in Peter but in all the other Apostles as well, as many texts in the New Tes tament prove.” Patriarch Maximos IV said that this does not oppose the primacy of Peter and his suc cessors, “but places it in anew light.” He explained that “the bishops are rulers in their own diocese, as is clear from the development of the Oriental Church from apostolic times.” He said the Eastern Rites had a sacramental, liturgical, the ological and disciplinary life “in which there appears only a rare intervention by the Holy See.” He said that the universal powers given to the pope “are given to him essentially in sofar as he Is the head of the entire hierarchy and precisely so that he may fulfill a pri mate’s role of service.” He called the primatial power a pastoral one, “because it is a ministry, a service, a diacon ate, a pastoral, as Pope Paul VI himself has said.” The Patriarch said that nei ther the nomination of bishops nor their canonical mission * * are reserved by divine right to the Roman Pontiff alone. It is not right to extend universally a practice and a doctrine which is merely a contingent fact of Christianity in the West.” Chatham Typewriter Co. (The following article gives the views of a veteran champion of racial justice on the problem of racism, which he sees as a question which should be con sidered by the ecumenical coun cil when it treats of the presence of the Church in the modern world. The author is a native of Cape Town who became a bishop in 1947, when he was 31 years old. Archbishop of Durban since 1951, he served on the Central Preparatory Commission of the council and is an elected mem ber of its Commission for Semi naries, Studies and Catholic Schools.) By Archbishop Dennis E. Hurley, O.M.I. (N.C.W.C. NEWS SERVICE) Racism has not yet appeared on the agenda of the Second Vatican Council. Whether of not it will depends in large measure on the joint commis sion set up after the first ses sion to compile a draft on * ‘The Effective Presence of the Church in the Modern World.” The council had to undergo quite a process of evolution before it got to the stage of contemplat ing a draft of this nature. One of the features of the pre paration of the council was the curious anomaly whereby the two powerful trends in the Church, the conservative and the progressive, talked past and not to each other for about three years. Pope John XXIII launched the Council to bring the Church up to date in its methods and pre sentation. Those who directed the council’s preparatory stages never realized what he meant. They saw the Church as perenially perfect. There was nothing wrong with the traditional presentation. All that was needed was a slight toning of the dogmatic muscles and a little stiffening of the canonical sinews. This would remove whatever slight blur ring prevailed around the sharp edges of the Church’s image. If people did not recognize the Church it was their fault. Pope John obviously meant something entirely different. He wanted his aggiornamento, and the way he spoke about it indicated that he expected it to be quite a shake-up. He appa rently was not satisfied that, in this question of not recognizing the Church’s image, all the blame was with the people who could not see. He was prepar ed to admit that quite a fair amount might lie with the Church itself that could not be seen. The purpose of the council was to face up to the failings of the Church and seek out the remedies. A month before the council opened he spoke along these lines in his radio allocution of September 11, 1962. He said that the Church aimed at evok ing, through the achievements of the council, a more vigorous response in the modern world to the twofold manifestation of her vitality—internal (ad intra), by which she teaches, prays and imparts life, and external (ad extra), by which she involves herself in the solution of man kind’s problem. This was again the burden of the allocution that opened the council on October 11, 1962. It was an incredible and in congruous situation. We sat there listening to one of the most revolutionary speeches ever made by a pope, with a packet of schemas in our hands that, in the main, would have damped down the French Revo lution itself. What happened to the bulk of these schemas—characterized by the then Cardinal Montini, in an article in the December 2 issue of Italia: “immense, ex cellent, but disconnected and uneven”—is now history. In dealing with them the council found its soul, the soul that Pope John had been trying to infuse into it. The council also found its purpose, a purpose magnificent ly formulated by Cardinal Sue- nens of Belgium last Decem ber 4, in his famous speech echoing the allocution of Sep tember 11, and suggesting a plan for the future work of the council. The theme, he said, should be the Church, Light of the Nations, and all conciliar declarations should fall under the two head ings: The Church in itself, ad intra, and the Church to the world, ad extra. A special com mission should take up the pro blem of the Church to the world. That commission in due course received a splendid lead from Pope John’s last testa ment to mankind :Pacem in Ter ris. This encyclical spoke out against racism. Whether or not the council will treat of the pro blem is not yet clear, but taking all things into consideration it does look impossible for the council to avoid it. When we talk of racism today we think mainly of the black- white clash. We should cer tainly not overlook the fact that anti-Semitism had its racial as well as religious im plications. There are many who hope that the council will formu late a clear Catholic attitude in this field. But black-white rela tions remain the outstanding racial issue. When you reduce the problem to its principal areas of conflict you find them geographically very limited: the United States, the Republic of South Africa, Southern Rhodesia and, to some extent, Australia. For that rea son the problem hardly seems worthy of the attention of an ecumenical council. On the other hand, there is no escaping the fact that the racial conflicts of the United States and Southern Africa rever berate around the world. This is because no matter what the philosophers may say about the empirical nature of man’s mind, it thinks in universals. This does for insults as well. The scope of an insult depends largely on the quality or aspect affected in the insulted person. The insult may strike at him self or his family or his nation or his race or his color. The black races the world over are insulted by the racial sins of American, South Aftican and Rhodesian whites, because the are so deeply conscious of their identification with what feels the lash of the white man’s scorn in the United States or Southern Africa. Governor Praises Schools RALEIGH, N. C. (NC)—Gov. Terry Sanford of North Caro lina told the Raleigh diocese’s annual Teachers Institute it is “highly important” the Church maintain its leadership in edu cation. * 'The moral and spiritual ba lance afforded by Church-spon sored education is vitally need ed,” he said in the institute’s keynote address. Cash Registers - Adding Machines Typewriters New and Used Reconditioned 317 EAST BROUGHTON SAVANNAH, GEORGIA AD 6-3351 termites Sf - y ear roimd Specializing in Commercial Mortgage Loans Corporate Funding. Flem G. Cliett Jr. 145 WHITAKER ST. 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