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Observers’ Hotel Is Multilingual
By Father Placid Jordan,
O.S.B.
(N.C.W.C. News Service)
ROME—If you drop in at the
Hotel Castello, just a few blocks
from the Vatican, you may be
welcomed with a "Bon jour,”
or "Gruessgott,” or "Buenos
Dias,” or some other similar
greeting in most every language
of the world. Next to the ecu
menical council, this happens to
be one of the most interna
tional spots in the Eternal City.
Here the Secretariat for
Chrisitan Unity headed by Au
gustin Cardinal Bea has ac
commodated 27 of its 65 non-
Catholic observers and guests.
They represent 16 of a total of
22 Christian communities which
accepted invitations to the great
assembly in St. Peter’s basili
ca.
At noon and at night the hotel
dining room buzzes with poly
glot conversations. Near the
window is the table reserved for
the three Russian delegates,
Archpriests Vitaly Borovoy and
Iakov Illich of the Orthodox
Patriarchate of Moscow, and
Nikolai Anphinogenov, layman
who is secretary of the Russian
Orthodox delegation to the
World Council of Churches in
Geneva.
Across from them are the'
Anglicans, the Presbyterians
and the Congregationalists
sharing a table, among them Bi
shop John Moorman of Ripon,
England, and Dr. Douglas Hor
ton, of Randolph, N. H., former
moderator of the International
Congregational Council, and
former dean of the Harvard Di
vinity School.
Then there are the represen
tatives of the Coptic Church of
Egypt, the Orthodox Church of
Ethiopia, the Syrian Orthodox
Church of India, the Apostolic
Armenian Church. With them is
a delegate of the Old Catholic
Church.
At another table you may
see Father Gustave Weigel,
S. J., of Woodstock College,
Maryland, engaged in animated
conversation with Bishop Fred
Pierce Corson of Philadelphia,
president of the World Metho
dist Council, and Dr. William
George Baker, Edinburgh, Scot
land, of the World Convention of
Churches of Christ (Disciples).
Father Weigel acts as inter
preter for all the English-
speaking observers and guests
at the council sessions, and of
ten shares his meals with
them.
At the Hotel Castello—
so named because of the pro
ximity of the Castel Sant’ An
gelo—all these men, many
with their wives, live to
gether peacefully under one
roof. Many profitable contacts
thus are established which helps
ecumenism and shows that at
least outwardly we can be one
in Christ.
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PAPAL AUDIENCE— Bishop Thomas J. McDonough, Bi
shop of Savannah was among a group of Prelates and Pil
grims received by His Holiness Pope Paul VI on Thursday,
October 17th. The Philadelphia pilgrims were in Rome for
the beatification of Bishop John Neponucene Neumann and
were joined by members of the Hierarchy for the audience.
Pictured above is only part of the group. Bishop McDonough
is in the center of the first row.
The Fourth Week
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VATICAN CITY (NC) —
America’s Bishops provided the
highlights of the fourth week of
the ecumenical council's second
session by calling for council
statements denouncing racial
discrimination and clarifying
Church-State relations.
Speaking for the U. S. Hier
archy, Archbishop Lawrence J.
Shehan of Baltimore, said
Church-State relations are too
critical and touchy a topic for
the council to deal with casu
ally, and stressed the need for
a complete council treatment
of the matter.
Bishop Victor J. Reed of
Oklahoma City and Tulsa re
ported that the U. S. Bishbps
did not like the phrase "re
grettable separation” of Church
and State that was in the coun
cil document under discussion.
He said the experience of the
Bishops in the U. S. , where
Church and State are separa
ted, "has been very good."
Bishop Robert E. Tracy of
Baton Rouge, La., said the coun
cil should make it clear that
racial discrimination cannot be
"reconciled with the truth. . .
that God creates all men equal
in rights and dignity.”
During the week the council
Fathers ended discussion of
Chapter III of the draft pro
posal—or schema— "On the
Nature of the Church" and be
gan debate on Chapter IV. The
third chapter deals with "The
People of God and Especially
the Laity;" the fourth is en
titled "Call to Holiness in the
Church."
Meanwhile, the Fathers also
passed Chapter IV as amended
of the liturgy schema. The chap
ter concerns the breviary. La
ter they passed all 10 amend
ments to Chapter V dealing with
the Liturgical year.
In addition the council pre
pared to vote on whether the
chapter on Our Lady should be
included in the schema on the
Church.
As the second session neared
its halfway mark, rumors re
garding its progress and con
tinuation began to flow, two of
which were often repeated in
usually reliable circles.
The first said that differ
ences have developed be
tween the council’s secretary
general and the cardinal mod
erators on the matter of con
trolling repetitious speeches.
The second said that Pope Paul
VI is ready to terminate the
council as an assembly of phy
sically present bishops and con
tinue it as a kind of "council
of correspindence" with only
the council commissions pre
paring all schemata for a final
session.
A full and accurate council
treatment of the question of
Church and State was called for
at the Fathers’ 54th general
meeting (Oct. 23) by Archbi
shop Shehan. He said that "the
question of Church and State is
entirely too important and too
delicate to be treated only in
passing, almost casually, in a
discussion on the apostolate of
the laity.”
Archbishop Shehan added that
the question of Church and State
"should be placed in a context
where 'it can be treated with
the fullness and accuracy
which it needs. Likewise the
text should clarify the meaning
of the term ’the world.’ After
the example of Christ, we should
distinguish the world in its dis
paraging sense and the men who
live in the world. This will give
a better idea of the mission
of Faith and the scope of Ca
tholic Action. It will also clar
ify our pastoral preaching on
’the world’ and provide a bet
ter understanding of the Chris
tian vocation to holiness."
At the U. S. Bishops’ press
panel following the council
meeting, Bishop Reed said that
the American Bishops do not
want to speak of Church and
State in the present schema,
but prefer that it be developed
in schema number 17, which is
on the Church in the modern
world. Archbishop Shehan pre
sented the matter at the coun
cil, he said, because the sug
gestion already had been made
that the subject be treated in
the schema under discussion.
Bishop Reed made the point,
which Archbishop Shehan him
self had covered in his coun
cil speech, that the U. S. Bi
shops object to the phrase,
"regrettable separation" con
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lations between the Church and
State has been very good. The
phrase would not be an ex
pression of the true feeling of
the American Hierarchy or of
American Catholics."
The following day (Oct. 24)
the U. S. Bishops called for
a council declaration against
race discriminations Spokes
man for the American Hier
archy was Bishop Tracy, who
noted that the text of the schema
states that there can be no in
equality among members of the
Church because of national ori
gins, social class or sex. He
asked that the text be amended
to include race.
He declared: "The inclusion
of this point would emphasize
that equality which is enjoyed
by all the members of the peo
ple of God in the Christian
economy. No discrimination
based on racial considerations
can be reconciled with the truth
whereby we believe that God
creates all men equal in rights
and dignity. . .
"If this change is made it
will be easier for bishops to
provide their faithful with the
proper instruction on the ques
tion of race prejudice. It would
also reassure those who have
been humiliated or have been
deprived of natural rights be
cause of racial prejudice. In
addition it would serve as a
basis for important future de
clarations of the council."
At the Oct. 23 meeting a U.S.
prelate declared that the laity
should be encouraged to take
a greater part in the life of
the church by means of
a "genuine dialogue between
the hierarchy and the laity.’’
Bishop Ernest J. Primeau of
Manchester, N. H., stated:
"It is a fact of experience
that in many fields members
of the laity are much more com
petent than the clergy or the
hierarchy. They have a genuine
love for the Church and are
animated with the spirit of re
verence for their superiors in
the Church. They want to do
their part.
"Unless this council deter
mines the respective roles of
liberty in the laity and author
ity in the hierarcyy, there will
be great danger that dedicated
laymen may lose interest in the
mission of the Church, give in
to discouragement and even
tually fall away.
"The obligations of the hier
archy in this respect have par
ticular importance when dealing
with intellectuals in the Church,
since it is necessary to ac
knowledge their right to free
dom of investigation and to in
tellectual initiative. Our text is
too negative and too clerical.
It might be said to sum up
the duty of the laity as
being: believe, pray, obey and
pay."
On Oct. 24, the presiding mo
derator of the day, Julius Car
dinal Doepfner of Munich and
Freising, Germany, called for
a standing vote to end debate
on Chapter III of the Schema
on the Church. The vote passed.
Then Cardinal Doepfner an
nounced that several Fathers
had requested that the doctrine
on Our Lady should be made :
a chapter of the schema on the
Church rather than stand alone
as a separate chapter. By
agreement of the moderators
and the president of the Theo
logical Commission, Alfredo
Cardinal Ottaviani, he said, it
had been decided to hear two
members of the commission
present the pros and cons con
cerning this proposal.
Rufino Cardinal Santos of Ma
nila addressed the assembly ur
ging a separate schema for Our
Lady. Franziskus Cardinal
Koenig of Vienna favored in
corporating it into the pre
sent schema on the Church. A
vote was to be taken on the pro
posal Oct. 28.
Bishop John J. Wright of
Pittsburgh, a member of the
Theological Commission, ex
plained the origin of the propo
sed vote at the press panel.
He said that prior to the coun
cil many bishops had asked
that a chapter on Our Lady be
incorporated in the schema on
the Church. After an exchange
of views in the council hall, he
said, the commission took the
question under advisement and
again there was disagreement
within the commission. It was
then decided to resolve the
debate by an appeal directly to
council Fathers, asking for
their opinion by a vote.
Discussion of the chapter on
holiness in the Church began
Oct. 25. It contained these gen
eral principles:
In the Church everyone is
called to holiness, which is the
same for all, whatever their
state or way of life.
The council urges all priest,
secular and Religious, to ful
fill their ministry with holiness,
eagerness and strength, on the
model of the order of bishops,
with whom all priests are unit
ed in the one Eucharistic Sa
crifice.
The council also calls on
married persons and parents to
help each other in a life of
grace with faithful love, and
to give a Christian mind and
the evangelical virtues to their
children.
The evangelical consels do
not constitute perfection; but
they contribute greatly to the
fervor of charity. There are
many in the Gospel, although
three are particularly praised
in the doctrine and practice of
the Church: poverty, chastity
and obedience.
All the faithful are called to
holiness, though not necessari
ly to the practice of the evan
gelical counsels. Many Chris
tians practice the counsels as
a stable way of life, approved
by the Church, called the sta
te of Striving for Perfection.
On account of his primacy
in the Universal Church, the
Roman pontiff can, for the com
mon good, exempt institutes of
perfection from the jurisdic
tion of the Ordinary. But Re
ligious must show reverence
and practice obedience to the
Bishops.
Since the faithful are bound
to seek holiness, each should
strive to persevere and excel,
in the vocation to which he
has been called for the glory
of Christ.
Discussion of Chapter IV
was led off by Paul Cardinal
Richaud of Bordeaux, France,
who complained that "the text
does not place sufficient stress
on the element of penance and
mortification.”
Raul Cardinal Silva Henri-
quez of Santiago, Chile, made
two points. First he suggested
that it would be helpful to
both Religious and laymen to
have a treatment of the
general vocation to sanctity and
of the profession of the evan
gelical counsels in the same
chapter of the schema. Second
ly, he observed that the exemp
tion of Religious from episco
pal authority, as expressed in
the text, can be regarded as
a concrete manifestation of the
collegiality of the bishops.
The Southern Cross, October 31, 1963—PAGE 3
Proposed Breviary
Changes Listed
VATICAN CITY (NC)—Vot
ing by the Fathers of the Sec
ond Vatican Council indicated
some substantial changes in
the breviary, the book contain
ing the Divine Office, which
priests are obliged to recite
every day.
The amendments proposed
for the text — Chapter IV of
the liturgy schema—were:
1. Emphasis on the fact that
Christ continues His priestly
activities through the Church
not only in the celebration of
the Holy Eucharist, but in oth
er ways as well, especially in
the Divine Office, which offers
to the Father both praise and
intercession for the salvation
of the world.
2. Addition of exhortation to
those who recite the Divine Of
fice to do so with great fer
vor and devotion.
3. A statement that priests
engaged in the pastoral minis
try have a special need to recite
the Office prayerfully, that the
Lord will make their labors
effective.
4. Provides that the hour of
Matins (originally the night Of
fice—which consists largely of
psalms and readings from the
Bible and the Fathers of the
Church) should have fewer
psalms and longer readings.
5. Proposes thesupressionof
the hour of Prime, which is a
second form of morning pray
er and somewhat of a duplica
tion of the principal morning
prayer, which is Lauds.
6. Provides that an indivi
dual who is obliged to pray the
Office should be bound to re
cite only one of the three re
maining shorter hours of the
day. (The "little hours" tra
ditionally have been Prime,
Terce, Sext and None. This
amendment and the preceding
one would considerably shorten
the total length of the Office.)
7. A new article urging
priests and all who take part in
the Church’s public prayer to
make it a source of holiness and
personal spiritual growth.
8. Decrees that the revision
of the Latin translation of the
Book of Psalms should take into
account the nature of Church
Latin, the fact that the psalms
are chanted, and the traditions
of the Latin Rite Church. (The
point here is that a translation,
which, might be technically and
literlly satisfactory, might not
be the best for public worship.)
9. Proposes that some specif
ic but minor details in the orig
inal schema relative to the rev
ision of the Office be suppres
sed. (The point here is that
specifics be left to a postcon-
ciliar commission and that
the council concern itself only
with general directives and
statement of principles.)
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10 and 11. According to these
amendments, which are really
additions' to the schema, provis
ion would be made (A) to ex
cuse from the recitation of
some parts of the Office those
clerics or Religious who par
ticipate on a given occasion in
some other liturgical function,
and (B) to allow bishops and oth
er Ordinaries to dispense from
the obligation to recite the Of
fice for good cause.
12. While insisting that the
traditional Latin Office be
maintained by the clergy of the
Latin Rite, the amendment con
ceded a faculty to bishops and
other Ordinaries to permit the
clergy in individual cases to re
cite the Office in an approved
text of the vernacular.
13. Recommends that the Of
fice be prayed in common when
possible, expecially in the case
of priests who live together.
U. N. Type
Translation
For Council
VATICAN CITY (NC)—Pope
Paul VI has given his approv
al for the installation of a mul
tilingual simultaneous transla
tion system in the ecumenical
council hall in St. Peter’s bas
ilica, such as is involved
in the General Assembly ses
sions of the U.N.
The system will enable Coun
cil Fathers who find it diffi
cult to follow Latin debates to
tune in on them in their native
tongues.
Tests are being made during
hours when there are no coun
cil meetings to establish which
arrangment is technically most
suitable. The preference ap
pears to be for a wireless set
up whereby council Fathers can
use individual portable trans
istor receivers no matter where
they might be in the council
hall.
It is hoped that installation
will be completed by Nov. 4
Diaconate Would *
Aid Latin America
PALM BEACH, Fla. (NC)—
Restoration of the diaconate
would help the Church in Latin
America, Bishop Alfred E.
Mendez, C.S.C., of Arecibo,
Puerto Rico, said here.
The Bishop told a district
convention of Serra Internation
al, organization which helps
in the education of young men
for the priesthood, that in Latin
America there is only one priest
for every 8,500 Catholics.
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