Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page.

1 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. 11 1 H i j k m -jfrl y J 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 Vatican Council In Review MACON BENEDETTO r LAUNDRY 3061 Houston Ave. Macon, Ga. Phone SH. 2-2361 J. H. STARR J. H. STARR, JR. F. J. STARR STARR ELECTRIC COMPANY COMMERCIAL & INDUSTRIAL 584 SECOND STREET TELEPHONE SH. 6-2441 MACON, GEORGIA Chris R. Sheridan And Company j/ r Building Contractors P. 0. BOX 1333 645 PLUM STREET MACON, GEORGIA 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 tained in the text because "our Willingham [Y/ & Payne INCORPORATED INSURANCE and SURETY BONDS Calder W. Payne — Alberta D. Williams 350 SECOND STREET MACON, GA. MACON FEDERAL SAVINGS & LOAN ASSOCIATION 337 THIRD STREET "Where you save or F inance your home does make a Difference” A MUTUAL INSTITUTION DEDICATED TO THRIFT AND HOME OWNERSHIP INSURED INSURED 3AVINOO home loans experience in the U. S. in re 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.) MARRIAGES GAUL-FRAPS SAVANNAH—Miss Ann Le ona Fraps, daughter of Arthur George Fraps, became the bride of Lt. Don Herman Gaul, son of Mrs. Bernice Dorothy Gaul of Arlington Heights, Ill., in the Cathedral of St. John the Bap tist, October 26th. The Rt.Rev. Msgr. T. James McNamara, rector of the Cathedral cele brated the Nuptial Mass. K€&nflGHAn, Inc. Jewelers and Silversmiths A;‘419 CHERRY STREET p/ fTlflcon, Georgia DESBOUILLONS Savannah’s Leading Bridal Store SINCE 1870 AD 2-1145 126,E. Broughton St. 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. For Wedding Invitations It’s The Acme Press 1201 LINCOLN STREET PHONE 232 6397 MOCK PLUMBING CO. —BILL MOCK — Day or Night Phone AD 2-1104 925 E. 37th St. Savannah ► Johnnie Ganem ► ► Steak Ranch < CHARCOAL BROILED STEAKS { PRIME STEAKS ^ I DINNERS-LUNCHEON ► COCKTAILS I ► DINNER MUSIC < t Gaston and Habersham I l AD 3-3032 ^ Savannah, Georgia Over 40 Years of Dependable Courteous Service SAVANNAH. GEORGIA "BY THE SIDE OF THE ROAD" ★ RESTAURANT & LOUNGE ★ WHOLESOME SOUTHERN COOKING ★ COMPLETELY MODERN ATMOSPHERE ★ EFFICIENT, COURTEOUS SERVICE ★ 100% AIR CONDITIONED ★ PARKING AREA FOR 300 CARS & TRUCKS ★ STANDARD OIL PRODUCTS ★ OPEN 24 HOURS A DAY Vz Mile of Traffic Circle Hwy. 17 N. (Pt. Wentworth Rd.) Savannah AD 65024 ^sss*** > (JrraduJed^SPf^mVitamin-D 4 Jlnneiteb-