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Outlines Holy
Office Procedure
VATICAN CITY, (NC) —
Strictly speaking, no person is
tried and condemned by the Holy
Office without a hearing.
This was clearly stated by
Msgr. Henry Cosgrove of the
Brooklyn diocese, in an ex
planation of the Holy Office pro
cedure at the U. S. Bishops
press panel. His remarks were
occasioned by the opposing
speeches of Jospeh Cardinal
Frings of Cologne, Germany,
and Alfredo Cardinal Ottaviani,
secretary of the Sacred Con
gregation of the Holy Office, in
the council assembly Nov. 8.
Msgr. Cosgrove made it clear
that his remarks were given in
a private capacity and that they
did not represent a declaration
of any sort in behalf of the con
gregation or his superiors.
The Congregation of the Holy
Office is composed of the per
manent membership of the car
dinal members whose duty is to
protect faith and morals, and
to combat heresy, he said. Only
the Pope gives definitive effect
to the acts of the Holy Office.
The cardinal secretary of the
Holy Office does not have the
power of the cardinal prefects
of the other congregations.
There are two major pro
cedures in the Holy Office,
Msgr. Cosgrove detailed—
namely, criminal and doctrinal.
“Criminal cases,” he said,
"deal with heresy, schism, pro
fanation of the Eucharist and the
like, and consist in a real trial,
not just a warning. The person
► accused must be and always is
heard. The hearing is con-
* ducted by the Holy Office or by
a diocesan tribunal at the re
quest of the Holy Office.
“The accused must be repre
sented by counsel,” he con
tinued. “The act of the trial
must be submitted by the
promoter of justice whose duty
it is to draw up an opinion
based on objective truth.
“The acts of the hearing and
the opinion of the promoter
of justice are sent to each of
the consultors of the Holy Of
fice, who meet every Monday
morning. Each consultor is cal
led upon to discuss the entire
matter and to express his view
'in a vote according to his con
science. In so doing, he must
give his reasons,” the Monsig
nor said.
The views of the consultors
are collected, Msgr. Cosgrove
explained, and copies are sent
to the cardinal members of the
Holy Office, all of whom live
in Rome. Normally, he said,
the cardinals will take up the
case 10 days after the consul-
tors meeting, that is, on the
Wednesday of the week following
the Monday meeting of the con
sultors.
Each cardinal then is re-
-quired to express an opinion,
/ Msgr. Cosgrove explained. The
discussion of the case at this
point is expected to be based
upon equity, that is, the final
opinions are directed toward the
best interest of the Faith and
the faithful, he said.
Finally, the entire matter is
submitted to the Pope at the
regularly scheduled audience in
which the cardinal secretary of
the Holy Office is received. A
complete dossier is sent to the
Pope in advance of this au
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dience, so he will have had a
chance to read and consider the
details of ther hearing at his
convenience, the Monsignor
continued.
In this audience, Msgr. Cos
grove said, “the Pope may ac
cept the decision of the con
gregation, may reject it and
order a new study or may order
any modifications he chooses.
His decision is final.”
There are several dif
ferences in the doctrinal pro
cedure as opposed to the cri
minal procedure, Msgr. Cos
grove explained.
“The doctrinal procedure,”
he said, “concerns the work of
the author and not the author
himself or his intention. There
fore it should not be said, in
the strict sense, that an author
is condemned, but rather his
work. More frequently than not
the author is heard, but this is
not required by the Holy Of
fice procedure. Whether he has
been heard or not is not an
nounced, because it is covered
by the 'Secret of the Holy Of
fice’. ”
Msgr. Cosgrove explained to
the journalists attending the
panel that when a book or other
publication is denounced—usu
ally by someone outside the Holy
Office but also possibly by
someone inside—an official is
appointed to examine the mat
ter. He determines whether or
not there is good reason for the
denunciation and whether or not
it should be taken under fur
ther study by the Holy Office.
If the official recommends
further study, Msgr. Cosgrove
continued, a number of ex
perts are appointed to study
the work under question, nor
mally two, but sometimes as
many as seven or eight. At the
same time, the congregation
seeks information from the bi
shop of the diocese involved or
from a religious superior. The
various reports are then distri
buted to the consultors of the
congregation, who draw their
own conclusions. Again the car
dinal members are asked for a
vote. Lastly, the case goes to
the Pope for a final decision,
he detailed.
“These norms and proceed
ings,” Msgr. Cosgrove said,
“have been worked out by the
congregation to get to the truth
of the matter in charity. It is
not logical to suppose that the
officials of the congregation
have a desire to harm. They are
intelligent men and it is unjust
to accuse them of harboring
thoughts of hatred and evil de
signs. Much study, much thought
and much prayer goes into their
decisions. Though their judge
ments are not infallible, they
are based on good and prudent
reasons.”
After Msgr. Cosgrove had
concluded his remarks, Father
Gustabe Weigel, S. J., of Wood-
stock (Md.) College, theologian
and a regular panel member,
raised two objections against
the Holy Office procedure. His
first criticism was of the rule
of secrecy.
“If you are accused of a
crime;,” he said, “you are
,heard. But in doctrinal matters
you are not necessarily heard.
I know of cases in which wri
ters were not called.”
Voicing a second objection
he said, “The thinking of the
officials of the Holy Office
appears to follow a certain
theological thought but only of
one. When you see that a cer
tain line of theology is always
rendered suspicious and that
such writings are liable to
action by the Holy Office,
there is the inclination to aban
don the great amount of work
necessary and to turn to more
profitable areas of inves
tigations.”
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Catholic Charities Head
Scores Welfare Programs
CHICAGO—In a hard-hitting
speech prepared for delivery
at the annual meeting of the
National Catholic Conference
for Interracial Justice Novem
ber 15, in Washington, the head
of the National Conference of
Catholic Charities criticized
legislators for not coming to
grips with the reality of what
is involved in what he termed
their “penny-wise” philosophy
of public relief.
“They still harbor the notion
that these people (welfare re
cipients) are unworthy and are
responsible for their own pov
erty,” said the Rt. Rev. Msgr.
Raymond J. Gallagher.
"As a result, they are not
inclined to think in terms of
justice. If they could only un
derstand the downward cycle of
repetition, generation after
generation, which results,
they would relish the opportuni
ty to break that cycle in this
present day by awarding the
kind of benefits that would en
able the family on relief to
move upward and outward from
the ghetto of poverty. . . This
inequity, inadequacy, and injus
tice can be swept under the car
pet no more.”
Monsignor Gallagher also
charged that Americans in gen
eral are not meeting the chal
lenge of poverty, race, and re
ligion, and that ignorance of the
facts is no excuse.
“It is impossible to be ig
norant of the fact that almost
25 per cent of the people in the
United States live below the
minimum standard and level of
living. How could anyone be
inattentive to the demanding
voices rof 40 million people
in this country who must go to
Pope Takes
Possession Of
His Cathedral
ROME, (NC) — Pope Paul
VI, on taking possession of his
cathedral church, the Archba
silica of St. John Lateran, said
he hopes to give “new vitality”
to the parishes of his See of
Rome.
The 66-year-old Pontiff also
told the people of Rome (Nov.
10) he intends to make “pas
toral visits” to encourage
them.
Fifty cardinals and 1,200pat
riarchs, archbishops and bi
ships were among the more than
20,000 at the stately rites which
lasted more than four hours.
Thousands lined the route
the Pope took across Rome from
Vatican City to the Lateran.
The Pope received the keys to
the basilica, symbolizing his
assumption of full powers as
Bishop of Rome, when he reach
ed the entrance. He himself of
fered Mass at the basilica’s
main altar.
In a discourse after the Gos
pel, the Pope recalled that the
Lateran basilica had been the
scene of five ecumenical coun
cils and that its history marked
the progress “sometimes slow
and painful, sometimes free and
victorious, of the mysterious
passage of Christ through
time.”
“Today,” he said, “this ba
silica, as never before in the
long centuries of its existence,
holds almost all the world’s
episcopate to receive splendidly
and solumnly the latest of her
pontiffs, the lowliest and most
humble,” in the whole line of
popes.
“He has no right to enter
here as lord and master,” he
said, “other than the irrefu
table right of having been can
onically elected Bishop of
Rome.”
bed each night hungry and dis
consolate,” he said.
He declared that the ratio
of Negroes to whites among the
poverty stricken is “almost
two and one-half to one,” and
expressed concern over his in
ability to see any constructive
programs on the economic
horizons which would alleviate
the situation.
The NCCC secretary sug
gested that the Church should
use its facilities to teach de
prived and neglected people the
methods of making a full and
rewarding life for themselves
as it did with immigrants to
whom it taught the American
urban life, the language, litera
ture and culture of this nation.
“In the after hours of the day
we could assist them to per-
Liturgy
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priest will be bound slavishly
to follow the Sunday Gospel next
in his sermon. It does mean
that he should preach in the con
text and setting of the sacred
texts of Mass, trying always to
relate an iiidividtial truth bf
doctrine of faith to the whole
Christian message.
This, even apart from the
liturgy, is one of the great
lessons of the council, that
doctrines may not be isolated
one from the other, but must
be integrated—the doctrine of
the Blessed Virgin Mary seen
in the mystery of God’s plan
of salvation, the Church, for
example.
If the preaching at Mass is
always in the context of wor
ship, it will never appear to be
extraneous. And the Church’s
way of teaching, through a year
ly celebration of the mysteries
of Christ, will have a chance
to work. It will evidently be
inappropriate to preach on the
matrimonial impediments on
the First Sunday of Advent or on
improper books on the feast of
Pentecost.
All this has ecumenical over
tones, both the emphasis upon a
real announcement of God’s
word from the Bible and upon
preaching at Mass. In theory the
Church has never neglected
this: the word of God is read
to the people at every Mass.
In practice, the reading, espec
ially on weekdays, seems hur
ried and superficial, and the
sermon an extra element. Pro
testants, who traditionally place
great stress on God’s word, may
see in this new development of
Catholic worship something
comprehensible and attractive.
Giving public worship back
to the people, or better, bring
ing the people back into wor
ship, involves action or parti
cipation. The revision of the
Mass text and rite in the next
few years will eliminate un
necessary additions (like the
Gospel or the prayers after
Mass) and simplify complex
parts (like the over-long Offer
tory prayers of the priest).
But a simpler, clearer service
will not be enough if the peo
ple do not take part actively
and consciously.
This is the third aspect of
liturgical growth that we may
picture for the future. It has
been called, and probably mis
named, the “dialogue Mass.”
The point of course is that every
Mass at which the people assist
is, or should be, a dialogue
Mass. Whether low Mass or high
Mass, there should be a dia
logue of prayer and response
between priest and people. The
priest leads and presides, the
people respond.
In many places the faithful
are well prepared for this de
velopment, urged by popes and
’feet their . housekeeping me
thods, their care of children,
the womanly arts of crafts and
sewing, the techniques for mak
ing their houses into homes
that are the equivalent of any
about them,” he said.
He also suggested that, on
an organized basis, Catholic
men could offer their counter
parts in deteriorating neighbor
hoods brotherhood first and
their skills and talents after
wards. “Their intervention in
obtaining job opportunities is
the goal they might strive to ac
hieve, while in the meantime
they could impart some of their
skills and their 'know-how' for
maintenance, repair, and con
struction, thus preserving the
spirit and the initiative of the
men with whom they work.”
Action
bishops and priests for many
years. Elsewhere it still seems
a novelty, something for a spe
cial occasion or a special group.
The mistake has been to look
upon the common response, re
citation and singing of the peo
ple as something exceptional,
for example, with two Sunday
Masses “dialogue Masses” and
the rest silent services. There
will always be a distinction
between Masses with elaborate
participation by the congrega
tion, high Masses and low Mas
ses with hymns and the like, on
the one hand, and weekday Mas
ses or Sunday Masses with
smaller numbers present on the
other. But the people’s part is
found in every Mass, at least
in brief responses and reci
tation of prayers.
The council’s decision is that
the missal of the future should
clearly indicate the people’s
part at Masses, whether re
sponses, acclamations, psalms
or chants. Thus a regular and
ordinary pattern will be set up
to give the people a chance at
every Mass to express their
common and public praise and
worship. Nothing could be fur
ther from the intention of the
bishops than that this would be
a mechanical effort, vocal par
ticipation for the sake of mere
change. But it is the one sure
way of awakening priests and
people to the community nature
of Christian worship, in which
all the members of Christ unite
with him in prayer to the Fa
ther in Heaven.
These are broad aspects of
liturgical development, all di
rected toward involving the laity
more deeply in the Church’s
public worship. The Constitu
tion on the Liturgy is the first
achievement of the council call
ed by Pope John to renew and
revitalize the Church. In the
first days of the council in 1962
the opposition to liturgical
change was fierce but, as it
turned out, fractional—only the
smallest minority of the bishops
had any fundamental hesitations
about bringing the people more
fully into the services of wor
ship.
Since the Second Vatican
Council got under way, it has
been generally agreed that its
purpose is “pastoral,” but the
meaning of the term is not al
ways clear. If it means that the
pastors or shepherds of the
Church, the pope and the other
bishops are primarily con
cerned with the people’s needs
rather than with the clergy or
Religious, the council’s action
on the liturgical renewal is pas
toral. It opens up new oppor
tunities for the people to have
their faith and love of God
deepened as they assemble Sun
day by Sunday as the pray
ing people of God.
U. S. Aiding
Half Million
Congolese
LEOPOLDVILLE, the Con
go (NC)—Nearly half a million
persons in the Congo are being
fed under the relief program of
U. S. Catholics. These include
school pupils, widows with
young children and about 50,000
sick persons.
Directors of the Congo’s,
schools and medical institu
tions have told Catholic Re
lief Services—National Cath
olic Welfare Conference, which
administers the distribution of
the food, that without it many
Congolese would have died and
many of the country’s welfare
institutions would have closed.
In addition to the food, which
is supplied from U. S. govern
ment stores of surplus com
modities such as powdered
milk, wheat and vegetable oil,
more than a half million pounds
of used clothing, bedding and
blankets are being distributed.
These are gathered in America
through the annual Bishops’
Thanksgiving clothing collec
tion.
Before the current fiscal year
is concluded, the Congo govern
ment will have spent nearly
$750,000 in moving the relief
supplies inland from Atlantic
ports. Catholic and Protestant
mission facilities are cooperat
ing with the transportation and
distribution facilities.
In the past year Catholic Re
lief Services has distributed
medicines valued at $63,000.
Fifty-two Catholic medical
mission stations received 51,—
000 pounds of medicine sent
through the Catholic Medical
Mission Board.
Father Roland Bordelon, di
rector of the Catholic Relief
Services office here, emphasiz
ed that the relief food is always
given to the most needy. Most is
directed toward institutions, he
said, except for emergency and
famine relief, such as that for
the Baluba people of South Ka
sai.
The U. S. Catholic relief ag
ency is also sponsoring or sup
porting several community de
velopment programs. These are
agricultural experiments and
self-help projects in the inter
ior aided by religious and lay
volunteers.
An interesting aspect of U.S.
Catholic relief work in the Con
go is the support given to it by
the British voluntary agency
known as OXFAM, the Oxford
Committee for Famine Relief.
Non-denominational, it has the
support of British Catholics.
Here its trucks have been used
to good effect by the Catholic
volunteers in their projects.
Covered Dish
Dinner Dec. 2
At St. Janies
SAVANNAH—St. James par
ish council of catholic women
held their regular monthly
meeting on Monday evening,
November 4th, in the meeting
room of the school.
First on the agenda was the
naming of the nominating com
mittee by the president, Mrs.
Cleuse McElveen: Mrs. E. B.
Anderson, chairman; Mrs. A. J.
Schano; Mrs. Rosalie Tucker.
Plans were discussed for the
annual Advent Covered Dish
Dinner to be held December 2nd
at 7:30 p.m. with Mrs. John
B. Schroder, chairman.
Three new members were
welcomed and introduced: Mrs.
Anna Remler, Mrs. Joan Rent
ier and Mrs. Anna Canan.
Mrs. Barbara Reardon, com
mittee chairman On “Catholic
Charities” reminded members
that linens were needed for
sewing cancer pads.
Mrs. Rosalie Tucker, com
mittee chairman of "Library
and Literature” announced that
Bibles and Religious articles
would go on sale for Christ
mas Gift giving the first Sunday
in December. It was reported
that “Tiny Tots Sunday School”
registration had jumped to a
total of 134. Miss Raline Par
ker and Mr. Henry Parker as
assistant will take over this
committee.
Motion was made by Mrs.
John Stevens, Chairman of St.
Mary’s Home Guild that a do
nation of $50.00 be given by the
council toward the support of
St. Mary’s Home. Msgr. John
D. Toomey, spiritual modera
tor, offered an additional $50.-
00 toward this donation, mak
ing a total donation of $100.00
to the Home.
Msgr. Toomey praised the
parish council in their efforts
in going all out in working in
all fields of Catholic action,
especially since the council has
100% participation in all
committees set up within the
council.
The Southern Cross, November 14, 1963—PAGE 5
Jotting
(Continued From Page 4)
ever our friends think of us,
whatever our material contri
bution, nothing can balance our
moral failure.”
* * *
ONE does not have to reach
forty to experience this. In my
once romanticized idea of death,
I thought I’d never live to see
forty. Maybe I won’t. I still have
some years to go. I do know
that death is not merely an end
of pain, separation, loneliness
and reunion with those who have
gone before. As I think over my
long list of dear dead daily but
especially in this month of the
All Souls, I preceive how de
serving each one of them had
been. They were plucked from
the earth at the moment their
souls were most perfected
through personal example,
bearing great physical pain or
enduring mental sufferings.
Again, this is not always so.
We can only judge through hu
man eyes as we read of un
timely deaths. Our human eyes
mourn the passing of those un
timely souls. Only God sees
the full biography of the soul.
While I would yearn to be with
those whom I have loved and
lost in a physical sense—and to
be free from the prison of body,
I still realize that heaven and
death is something that must be
deserved. This vale of tears is
a novitiate for mansions of hea
ven.
* * *
THIS NOVEMBER within the
atmosphere of crisis, we con
template a little longer and a
little bit more realistically our
own deaths perhaps. All of us
are left on earth for a purpose.
Our loved ones died because
their time had come to be with
God. We are in the waiting
rooms, some nearer than
others. Some must learn to bear
pain, some must experience the
ravage of age humbly. There is
a reason. I mourn the high hopes
and aspirations of youth. When
we remember what we wanted to
be and failed to be that is the
great tragedy. Father Von Zell
er says: “What monk or nun
can claim that the high hopes
entertained in the novitiate have
been verified? Who can look at
those early retreat notes
without a very real — and not
merely emotional — sense of
shame? Who, whether under
vows or in the world, can com
pare without uneasiness the
standards which were his when
he first understood the implica
tion of religion with the stand
ards which he allows himself
now.”
And with the poet, I would say:
“Let me not die before I’ve done
for Thee. My earthly work,
whatever it may be. Call me
not hence with mission unful
filled.”
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Lebanon: Where A Fire May Be Started
Christ’s amazing words “I am come to cast fire on the earth.
And what will I but that it be kindled” are brought to us
through St. Luke in his Gospel.
These are no ordinary words.
Nechaev, inspirer of Lenin, wished
to burn down everything. The atom
bomb hovers over us with its mes
sage of fire. Christ wanted another
kind of fire—the fire of the Holy
Spirit . . . You can help spread this
fire in KHOURBEH. a village in
Lebanon. Here 400 Greek Melchite
Catholics are trying to replace a
very old and very poor Chapel, 45
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for the Oriental Church ing, a wooden one, was badly dam
aged in World War II and again in the Arab-Israeli conflict.
Then in addition, an earthquake in 1956 added to the damage.
The outside wall was so badly damaged experts said it would
be less expensive to build a new Chapel. The poor people have
scraped together $300 for the new building. They appeal to us
for $2500 to complete the job. Will you help?
JO ANN WRITES
She is a young friend in Los Angeles. She writes: “I’m eleven
and I know there are other youngsters that could use this
money. Love is God so may He love and watch over you always.
Your little friend.” OUR REPLY: We thank you for your gen
erous help of $2. You mark it as a STRINGLESS GIFT. Do you
know that this type of gift enables us to help the Holy Father
where he feels the need is greatest?
MINCE PIE
A contemporary magazine informs us that this delectable
item of the Thanksgiving menu was once a test of faith in Puri
tan England and colonial America. To the Puritans, mince pie
was an abomination; for Catholics a delight . . . We don’t know
how delectable the THANKSGIVING meal will be for many
PALESTINE REFUGEES this year. We do know that a $10
FOOD PACKAGE will make the occasion more pleasant for
these needy people. We will send an Olive Seed Rosary from
the Holy Land.
CHRISTMAS CLUBS
Just about now, the Christmas Clubs are preparing to pour
out money to the members, a painless way of meeting a gift
giving day . . . Our MARY’S BANK is a painless way of making
deposits of grace in the bank of Heaven. The $1 a month we ask
along with a prayer helps us educate SISTERS-TO-BE.
CHRISTMAS GIFT CARD
We’ll send one to someone on your gift list when you send
something to the missions in their name. The card will be ac
companied by one with pressed flowers from the Holy Land.
Some gift, suggestions:
JOIN OUR ASSOCIATION. SINGLE PERSON: $1 A YEAR;
FAMILY: $5: PERPETUAL MEMBERSHPS: SINGLE, $20;
FAMILY. $100.
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