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PAGE 2—The Southern Cross, October 22, 1964
Proposition On
Eastern Churches
Summarized
RUNESTONES like these are found in parts of Sweden,
where more than 2,000 of them exist, dating from the 11th
century or earlier. Father Richard Werner, S.J., pastor of
St. Eugenia parish in Stockholm, an expert at deciphering
runestones, discovered what appears to be a representation
of the head of Christ on one of the stones above. (NC
Photos)
Proposes
“Catholic Public
VATICAN CITY (NC) — Fol
lowing is a summary of the pro
position on the Eastern Church
es discussed by the ecumenical
council (Oct. 15).
The proposition consists of an
introduction and s i x sections
contained in a total of 28 num
bered paragraphs, plus an ap
pendix of additional suggestions
compiled after the proposition
was sent to bishops early in
1964.
The introduction recalls the
respect enjoyed in the Univer
sal Church by the institutions
and practices of the Eastern
rites. It states that the council
wants to discuss certain prob
lems touching them, while leav
ing other questions to the rites’
individual synods and to the
Holy See.
Part one recognizes the diver
sity of the Catholic Eastern
Schools
TRENTON, N.J. (NO — A
Catholic school superintendent
proposed here the Church’s
schools should be called ‘ Cath
olic public schools” to make
clear that they serve a public
purpose.
Father William M. Roche, su
perintendent for the Rochester,
N.Y., diocese, said the term
“parochial school” has taken on
some “rather unfortunate mean
ings.”
Valdosta
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Saint John’s Catholic Wom
en’s Club (Valdosta) held their
annual membership supper at
the new school auditorium on
Gomto Road. A covered dish
affair, all the members fixed
their favorite dishes. Following
the meal, a short business
meeting was held being presid
ed over by Mrs. Carol Dave,
President. The meeting was
opened by Father Thomas
Payne, and members with the
Holy Year Prayer.
Reports were given by the
Officers. A short report was
given by Mrs. Leona Seyfried,
secretary of the Columbus Dean
ery. Mrs. Seyfried also gave a
report on Foreign Relief and
what can be done to help with
it.
Father Payne discussed the
different projects that the Club
and all the Circles can partici
pate in to develop Spiritually
and to learn more about the
Faith. He also spoke on the Le
gion of Mary and urged all to
take advantage of the library,
which is one of the Legion’s
projects.
A monthly newsletter is being
published with all news of the
parish functions.
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He told the Trenton Diocesan
Conference of Parent - Teacher
Associations (Oct. 12) that the
word “parochial” gives the con
notation “of being provincial or
limited” and raises “the ques
tion of the proper function of
civil and religious authority in
the minds of many outside the
Church.”
He said he believes there are
Catholic public schools, Jewish
and Protestant public schools
and community-operated public
schools. “All of these schools
perform the same public func
tion and all should be given
precisely the same standing in
the community,” he said.
“We must consider our schools
as positive contributions to the
welfare of this nation,” he said.
“They have a right to the ti
tle of public schools. They are
not divisive and they do not
separate any American children
from the so-called ‘main stream
of life’. .
“Perhaps we have unfortu
nately and unwittingly caused
the wrong impression. We do
not keep our children ‘out’ of
the public schools, we rather
put them into a setting where
they will learn in an atmos
phere of Christian morality,” he
said.
Father Roche described ade
quate financial support of Cath
olic schools as an “urgent prob
lem.” He said a part of their
support should come from pub
lic funds and he felt that state
aid rather than federal assis-
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The northeastern and New
England states, he said, can do
more to help themselves than
they could realize through fed
eral aid. “We should begin to
think in terms of the state aid
rather than federal aid,” he
commented.
“In most of our states,” he
added, “we shall be a long time
in obtaining justice in this re
gard, because most state con
stitutions specifically prohibit
aid to schools operated by reli
gious institutions, whereas the
Federal constitution does not.
“However, the way to correct
this discriminatory situation is
not by crying about it, but by
beginning now to plan for
changes in our various state
constitutions wherever this
might be necessary.”
rites within the Mystical Body
and affirms the primacy of the
Pope over individual rites which
are equal among themselves. It
also urges bishops who exercise
jurisdiction over identical terri
tories to hold conferences in or
der to establish unified policy.
The second part recognizes
the special spiritual heritage of
the Eastern Churches and urg
es them to retain and even
purify their disciplines and
rites. It also urges Latin-rite in
stitutions in the East to know
the East and to establish hous
es or provinces of the Eastern
rite.
The third part acknowledges
the existence and jurisdiction of
the patriarchs, confirming their
rights and privileges, adding
that the pope or the council can
erect patriarchial Sees if neces
sary.
Part four discusses various
matters pertaining to Eastern
usages in administering t h e
sacraments. It contains a rec
ognition of a permanent diacon-
ate or its restoration if it has
been abandoned. In regard to
mixed marriages between East
ern-rite Catholics and baptized
Orthodox Christians, it admits
that such a marriage is valid,
though unlawful, if it is per
formed before an ordained Or
thodox priest.
Section five deals with vari
ous matters of divine worship,
including Holy Days, a common
date for the celebration of Eas
ter and authorization of Eastern
clerics and Religious to follow
their own disciplines in reciting
the Divine Office.
The sixth and last section
deals with relations with separ
ated Christians, and in essence
it permits the reception of Pen
ance, Holy Eucharist and Ex
treme Unction by Catholics from
non-Catholic Eastern priests if
they are unable to find a Catho
lic priest.
At Warner Robins
Fall Meeting Of
Columbus Deanery
The fall meeting of the Co
lumbus Deanery Council of
Catholic Women was held in
Warner Robins on Oct. 14th fea
turing with a dialogue Mass
with English responses, at Sa
cred Heart Church. Father Rob
ert Brennan, pastor of Sacred
Heart Church, was celebrant of
the Mass.
As this was the first Mass
with the English responses to
be celebrated in Warner Rob
ins, The Right Rev. Monsignor
John D. Toomey, Spiritual Mod
erator of the Savannah Diocesan
Council of Catholic Women, ex
plained the various changes in
the Mass as it was being said.
He later spoke to the women on
the “Liturgical Renewal in the
Church”, and explained reasons
for certain changes which will
become effective Nov. 29th.
A luncheon meeting at the
Robins Civilian Employee’s Club
followed with Mrs. H. F. Gall-
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nating day and night shifts, wear their religious garb at
work. Persecution of the Church may have become more
subtle, but is reported no less severe than wheYi it began 15
years ago. (NC Photos)
Washington Mass
Pays Tribute To
Uganda Martyrs
man of Columbus, President of
the Columbus Deanery of Cath
olic Women, presiding. Rev. Rob
ert Brennan and Mrs. Daniel
Doyle, President of the Sacred
Heart Ladies’ Guild welcomed
the women to Warner Robins.
Deanery Committee chairman
presented plans for the coming
year and Our Lady of Lourdes
Parish, Columbus, extended an
invitation for the Spring Dean
ery meeting to be held at their
parish.
Mrs. Melvin Hardy of Our La
dy of Lourdes Parish gave an
interesting talk on the layman’s
view of the Liturgical Confer
ence held recently in St. Louis.
Approximately ninety women
were present including Mrs.
Pauline Peuffier of Augusta,
president of the Savannah Dio
cesan Council of Catholic Wom
en.
WASHINGTON (NC) -Canoni
zation of the 22 Uganda martyrs
is dramatic evidence of the
Church’s commitment to racial
equality, a speaker at a Mass
marking the martyrs’ elevation
to sainthood declared here.
The canonization “trumpets to
the world the cardinal doctrine
of the Catholic Church concern
ing the basic equality of all men
in the eyes of God, their com
mon Father,” said Father Har
old R. Perry, S.V.D., a Negro,
who is provincial of the Socie
ty of the Divine Word mission
aries’ southern province.
Father Perry preached at a
Mass (Oct. 18) in the National
Shrine of the Immaculate Con
ception celebrating the canoni
zation of the Uganda martyrs
the same day in Rome by Pope
Paul VI.
Archbishop Egidio Vagnozzi,
Apostolic Delegate in the Unit
ed States, offered the Mass fac
ing the congregation at a por
table altar, midway between the
shrine’s main altar and Com
munion rail. It was the first
time that Mass has been offer
ed facing the .people in the
shrine and the first time it has
been so offered in the Washing
ton area by an archbishop.
A number of diplomatic rep
resentatives and government of
ficials were in the congregation,
including the Ambassador of U-
ganda and Mrs. Solomon B.
Asea.
The Uganda martyrs were 22
laymen who died for their faith
during a persecution between
the years 1885 and 1887 in Bu-
ganda, a kingdom that is part
of modern-day Uganda. Alto
gether some 200 Christians, in
cluding both Catholics and An
glicans, died during the perse
cution. The martyrs were beati
fied in 1920 by Pope Benedict
XV.
Although the persecution’s aim
66 Innovations 99 Seen
Return To Traditions
DARLINGTON, N.J. (NC) -
Much of what sounds newest in
the deliberations of the ecumeni
cal council is really oldest, a
Church historian said here.
Just back from three weeks
at the council, Msgr. Henry G.
J. Beck of Immaculate Concep
tion Seminary said in an inter
view that the council is “re
turning the Church to its sourc
es.”
While all that is going on in
the council looks like innovation
Msgr. Beck said, “in reality it
is the behavior of the earliest
Christians.” He declared:
“The reevaluation of the epis
copacy as a collegiate, body cer
tainly represents a change in
attitude. But it was also a very
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was to stop the advance of
Christianity, Father Perry said
in his sermon, “the result was
exactly the opposite.”
Whereas the number of bap
tized Catholics in Uganda in
1886 was less than 200, he not
ed, four years later it was 12,-
000 and today it is 2 million.
The country has 250 African
priests and three African bish
ops in eight dioceses. Among
them is Archbishop Joseph Ki-
wanuka, first Negro bishop on
the African continent in modern
times, who is a direct descen
dant of one of the martyrs.
Father Perry said the prog
ress of the Church in Uganda
“mirrors the extraordinary
growth of the Church all over
Africa.”
“In less than a century,” he
said, “the number of Catholics
in Africa has risen from several
tens of thousands to 26 million.
This shows that the rhythm of
the Church’s development in Af
rica is far ahead of that among
the European peoples during
the first centuries of our era.”
Underlining the significance
of the martyrs’ canonization, he
noted that it is the first time
in history that Africans of the
Bantu race have been officially
declared saints by the Church.
Furthermore, he s a i d, the
canonization is “particularly sig
nificant in that all the 22 Afri
can martyrs were laymen, who
were deeply aware of their re
sponsibility to spread to faith
among their neighbors.”
“Today more than ever,” he
commented, “the Church feels
the need of a laity which will
assume greater responsibility if
offering to others the benefits
of their religion.”
Father Perry, reviewing the
Church’s apostolate to peoples
of Negro descent, called its suc
cess “remarkable”. He said the
Catholic population of Africa is
today 25 million, compared with
a half-million at the turn of
the century, with 73 African
bishops as against none prior
to 1939.
In the U.S., he added, the
number of Catholic Negroes is
about 723,000 in a total Negro
population of about 20 million.
Negro priests number 146, com
pared with only two in 1900.
“We pray and hope that the
canonization of the martyrs of
Uganda will awaken in Catho
lics everywhere a still greater
enthusiasm for the sharing of
the treasures erf the faith with
Negro peoples who are not yet
members of the Mystical Body
of Christ,T be said.
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Literature for his stand on the
enforcement of anti - obscenity
laws.
In an official statement is
sued from its national head
quarters here, CDL’s executive
committee endorsed Chief Jus
tice Warren’s opinion that deter
mination of the “fact of ob
scenity” is “the prerogative of
the individual states.”
This leaves the legal determi
nation of obscenity to the local
community, the statement point
ed out.
“Warren’s admonition that the
court has seen ill-prepared pro
secution cases allowing pornog-
raphers to go free,” the state
ment continued, “coincides with
CDL’s position that proper,
well-prepared law enforcement
and prosecution protecting civil
liberties are vital.”
The CDL statement underscor
ed Chief Justice Warren’s com
ment that if cases were well
prepared and conducted] with
appropriate concern for consti-
t u t i o n a 1 safeguards, courts
would not hesitate to enforce
laws against obscenity.
: “With this in mind,” the
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Urging increased prosecution. It
should be borne in mind that
the court recently upheld con
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prominent realty at the ecu
menical council of 50 A.D.
“The restored diaconate is a
most significant change. Yet the
function of dleacons was clearly
outlined 1 in the Acts of the A-
postles.
“The reevaluation of our pffl^
seology of Scripture and Tradi
tion is a change. In the last 400
years theologians have been in
clined to separate Scripture and
Tradition, and now the council
is welding them together, plac- *
mg Scripture within Tradition.
But this reunderstanding harks
back to the early apologists,
like Irenaeus of Lyons writing
in 180 A.D.
“The apostolic labor of the
layman dates back to the very
Epistle of St. Paul where the
community is addressed as
bearers of the message of Christ
by their witness and their life.”
The historian commended' the
readiness of the council and
Pope Paul VI to admit that
Catholics share the blame for
divisions among Christians.
“The greatest problem separ
ating the Christian community
in the past 400 years,” he said,
“has been that neither side was
willing to budge an inch . . .
The only way to begin is to say
we are sorry for what we have
done to hurt you.”
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called the recent return of a
relic of St. Andrew to the
thodax “one of the truly si|
cant acts” of the council’s
session.
m.
“Pope Paul’s January visit to
Jerusalem and Patriarch Athen-
agoras, and this September’s
return of the relic will, 100
years from now, be seen as the
beginning of the reappreche-
ment 1 between the Church and
the, East,” he predicted.
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