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The Southern Cross, November 5, 1964—PAGE 3
Nature Of Church Schema
Council Approves
Chapter On Mary
by Patrick Riley
(N.C.W.C. News Service)
VATICAN CITY—The ecumen
ical council, avoiding any ap
pearance of settling disputed
questions about the Blessed Vir
gin’s role as “Mother of the
Church,” is steering clear of
that title.
The chapter of the schema on
the nature of the Church deal
ing with the blessed Virgin, as
rewritten by the Theological
Commission according to the
virtually unanimous agreement
of the council Fathers, simply
affirms the Church’s devotion to
College
Expansion
Program
BELMONT, N.C.—A twenty-
year expansion program for Sa
cred Heart College, Belmont, N.
C., has been announced jointly
by Reverend Mother Mary Ja
mes, Chairman of the Board of
Trustees, -and Sister M. Stephen,
President of the College.
Ground - breaking ceremonies
took place on November 1 at
^^:00 P.M. for a dormitory which
Bs in the first phase of the ex
pansion.
Included also in this first
phase of the plan is a new li
brary, chapel and swimming
pool. The buildings will cater to
modern trends in style and
architecture.
The dormitory building will
accommodate 300 students, and
it will be air-cond'itioned
throughout. There will be a cen
tral lounge, snack bar, launder
ette and all facilities needed by
college students. The building
will be completed by September
1965.
Mary
er.”
‘as a most-loved Moth-
This formula, said Archbishop
Maurice Roy of Quebec in ex
plaining the commission’s revi
sions to the council Fathers, is
an equivalent expression of Ma
ry’s motherly role in the Church.
He asserted that the amend
ed text provides a better ex
planation of Mary’s motherhood
in the order of grace.
Regarding the title “media
trix,” which was questioned in
the council debate as tending,
unless very carefully explained
or properly understood, to de
tract from Christ as the sole
mediator, the amended text
contents itself with stating that
Mary has been invoked under
this title.
Archbishop Roy said the com
mission was in almost unani
mous agreement that this and
other titles such as “advocate”
and “helper” are perfectly faith-’
ful to- Holy Scripture.
Such an enumeration of vari
ous titles, he said, deliberately
avoids theological controversy
and simply affirms the fact of
this widespread invocation and
devotion.
The council Fathers passed
the amended chapter by an am
ple majority. A total of 1,559
council Fathers voted their un
qualified approval. With 2,091
votes cast the required majori
ty was 1,394.
There were only 10 “no” vot
es.
However, 521 Fathers voted
qualified approval, that is, ap
proval provided with changes to
be made. One vote was null.
The chapter was enlarged in
the commission to explain how
all apostolic activity in the
Church regards the Mother of
God and the Mother of men as
a perfect model.
INDIA: POPE PAUL, APOSTLE
“TU E POPE is becoming a missionary ... an apostle
ON THE MOVE.” . . . The Holy Father said this of himself when
he announced he would go to India
next month. In India, only one
person in a hundred is a Catholic.
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recent meeting. Father Lawrence A. Lucree, as-
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Convention which is scheduled for February.
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Marriage Problems Debated;
Racism Denounced At Council
(N.C.W.C. News Service)
VATICAN CITY — A strong
plea for a council denunciation
of racism and the long-awaited
debate on the problems of mar
riage and birth control high-!
lighted the seventh week of the
ecumenical council’s third ses
sion.
Archbishop Patrick A. O’
Boyle of Washington called on
the council in the name of all
American b i s h o ps present to
add a “forthright and unequivo
cal condemnation of racism in
all its forms” to chapter four
of schema 13 on the Church in
the modern world, the topic of
discussion during the week.
The archbishop told council
Fathers (Oct. 28) that racism
is “first and foremost a moral
and religious problem, and one
of staggering proportions,” and
that the “very least” they can
do is condemn it. The same day
Bishop Andrew G. Grutka of
Gary, Ind., also denounced ra
cial injustice and singled out
segregation in housing as a spe
cial evil.
Bishop John J. Wright of
Pittsburgh presented the report
on chapter four of schema 13—
which deals with the main task
of the Christian today — and
noted that it takes up some of
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the key themes in the life of
the modern world, such as hu
man dignity, family life diffi
culties, social and economic
problems, peace and world se
curity.
Bishop Wright told the Fa
thers that it is not their task to
find answers to all these prob
lems since that would take
many years. But, he said, they
must exert every effort to ap
ply the Church’s ancient wis
dom to the new and previously
unheard of conditions harassing
modern men’s consciences.
Joseph Cardinal Ritter of St.
Louis ^criticized the chapter for
the way it approaches the prob
lem of human dignity. He sug
gested that it say something on
how dignity is to be understood'
and fostered, and noted that
each person must recognize his
own dignity before he can rec
ognize that of others.
During the meeting, the day’s
moderator, Greg o r i o Cardinal
Agagianian, announced that cer
tain unspecified points — gen
erally thought to be connected
with birth control — would not
be discussed orally on the coun
cil floor in order to avoid mis
understanding and misinterpre
tation by outsiders. But he stat
ed that Fathers had full free
dom to express their views on
these points in writing.
The following day (Oct. 29)
Archbishop John F. Dearden of
Detroit presented the report on
the chapter section dealing with
family life noted that Pope
Paul VI had reserved to himself
the question of birth control
pills.
He said that the section lays
down the principle that fecundi
ty in marriage should be both
generous and conscious.
Judgment about how many
children a couple should have,
Archbishop Dearden said, be
longs to the partners in the
marriage. But their decision on
whether to restrict the number
of children should be made with
a correctly formed conscience
and according to the mind of
the Church, he added.
He explained that the ques
tion of the pills had been avoid
ed not only because the Pope
had reserved it to himself but
also because it is such an in
tricate problem that discussion
on the council floor could not
solve it.
Debate on the family life sec
tion was opened by Ernesto
'Cardinal Ruff ini of Palermo,
Italy, who lamented its omis
sion of any mention of the no
bility of Christian marriage. He
said the unity and indissolubili
ty of marriage must be safe
guarded at all costs.
. ✓
The cardinal criticized the
text for saying that married
couples with sufficiently serious
reasons to limit the number of
their children must still show
tender love to each other. He
said the section fails to explain
how such love can be express
ed. He asserted that it leaves
the door open to all sorts of
abuses by leaving the final judg
ment on the matter to the in
terested individuals.
Council Fathers applauded the
speeches of two cardinals and
an Eastern-rite patriarch who
called for a new study of the
Church’s teachings on marriage.
Leo Cardinal Suenens of Ma-
lines-Brussels urged the council
to be courageous in facing pas
toral demands for an objective
study of the theology of marri
age and asserted that there are
grounds for thinking that the
traditional outlook has been too
one-sided. He stated:
“It is true that the Church
cannot abandon a doctrine
which has been accepted and
which clearly comes from Reve
lation. But there is nothing to
prevent the Church from mak
ing a thorough inquiry to see if
all facets of a problem have
been sufficiently explored. Mod
ern science may well have much
to tell us in this connection and
we should keep a ready ear.”
Paul Cardinal Leger of Mon
treal said that some people
seem to be afraid of any revi
sion of the theology of marri
age and fear that the Church
will be accused of opportunism
if it undertakes a study on the
matter. But, he added, the coun
cil cannot forget that such a
study has been necessitated by
the worries of some Catholics
and that its only purpose is to
protect the holiness of marri
age.
He said difficulties have aris
en from inadequate explana
tions in theology manuals on
the purposes of marriage, ex
planations . which are not based
on Scripture but dictated by an
unduly pessimistic mentality.
Melkite - rite Patriarch Maxi-
mos IV Saigh of Antioch also
called on Fathers to have the
courage to tackle the problems
of the day. He said:
“There is question of a break
between the official doctrine of
the Church and the contrary
practice of the immense ma
jority of Christian couples. The
authority of the Church is call
ed into question on a vast scale.
We must have the courage to
approach a solution to this
problem without prejudice.
“Frankly, the official position
of the Church on this matter
should be revised on the basis
of modern theological, medical,
psychological and sociological
science.”.
He added that he wondered if
official positions might not de
rive from what he called a
“bachelor psychosis” among
persons “unfamiliar with mar
riage.”
The following day (Oct. 30)
several more cardinals spoke on
the question of married life be
fore council Fathers voted by a
large majority to close debate
on the topic.
Bernard Cardinal Alfrink of
Utrecht, the Netherlands, said
that an “honest doubt” is aris
ing among married people and
theologians on whether t h e
rhythm method of birth control
is the only moral means toward
this end. He said that t h e
Church must see to the observ
ance of divine law but must
State Attorneys Fight
Flag Pledge Challenge
WASHINGTON (NO—The at
torneys general of 30 states
have joined in asking the U.S.
Supreme Court to dismiss a
challenge to the use of the
words “under God” in the
pledge of allegiance to the flag
as recited in public schools.
Arguing that the challenge is
based on a “false premise,”
they called on the Supreme
Court to “lay to rest further
efforts to establish a religion of
secularism in our schools.”
They also warned that a rul
ing against “under God” in the
pledge would have “devastating
impact” and give aid and com
fort to “those whose unrelenting
and dedicated effort is to re
move from our public life ev
ery vestige of our religious her
itage.”
also be solicitous for human
problems.
Alf r e d o Cardinal Ottaviani,
secretary of the Congregation
of the Holy Office, urged the
council not to omit the role of
Divine Providence from its
treatment of marriage problems.
He criticized the schema for
implying that the Church has
erred in the past on a grave
moral problem and said the
council cannot possibly approve
the freedom the schema grants
to married couples to judge for
themselves the number of chil
dren they should have.
Says Risque
Films Have
Big Grosses
NEW YORK (NO—The lead
ing entertainment field publica
tion said here public acceptance
has made major financial suc
cesses of films whose treatment
of sex is unmatched for expli
citness in the past 30 years.
Variety, the show business
weekly, said (Oct. 28), however,
that although “the public may
be buying the rough stuff now,”
there may be a swift change
and demand for reforms.
Questioning the effectiveness
of the movie industry’s self-reg
ulatory Production Code, Varie
ty said one major studio re
cently edited out “some of the
bluer lines” in a new movie
which had been approved by the
code, but caused a “fufor”
when shown to a sneak preview
audience.
Of “the majority of big box-
off i c e hits in the past 18
months,” Variety said, the sub
jects covered in them “have in
cluded a carefree-to-affectionate
view of prostitution, ‘innocent’
sexual promiscuity, heterosexu
al perversion,’ incestuous lesbian
ism, indavertent bestiality (for
laughs yet!) as well as the
more or less conventional sexu
al act itself.”
Variety quotes a Hollywood
producer, Max E. Youngstein,
as saying that never before in
one comparatively short period
has the public so avidly accept
ed the bawdy, the blue and
downright vulgar.
N o t i n g "the U, S. Supreme
Court’s recent decision that the
movie, “The Lovers,” which
portrays the sex act, was not
an obscene film within the legal
definition. Variety commented
that the high tribunal this ses
sion may rule on a similar film
including two such controversial
scenes.
“The entire situation pertain
ing to adult screen fare may
well be reaching crisis propor
tions.” it commented.
Variety said that the National
Legion of Decency, the Catho
lic agency offering guidance on
the moral qualities of films, is
fighting tasteless movies by “di
rect. confrontation with produc
ers and distributors and a pro
gram to ‘educate’ audiences in
to non-acceptance of trash.”
Hoover Warns
Of Apathy
To Religion
WASHINGTON (NC) — Too
many Americans “no longer
care about religious ideals and
heritage,” FBI director J. Ed
gar Hoover has declared in a
Thanksgiving message to law
enforcement officials.
Hoover, writing in the Novem
ber issue of the FBI Law En
forcement Bulletin, urged that
this Thanksgiving be an occa
sion for “refurbishing our reli
gious ideals.”
“We Americans must never
lose sight of the fact that our
power, wealth, and happiness
come directly or indirectly from
our belief in God,” he said.
Deploring the decline of reli
gious concern among Ameri
cans, the FBI head declared
that “to some, our country is a
fantasyland filled with compli
mentary handouts of rights and
freedoms without obligations.”
“With patent indifference, they
shirk the mere suggestion of in
dividual responsibility,” he said.
“Their purpose in life is lost in
moral lethargy, self-indulgence,
and neglect of duty.”
Calling law and order the
“pillars of democracy on which
our safety and welfare rest,”
Hoover said law enforcement,
“as the main line of resistance
against all enemies of our heri
tage,” can be “proud of its con
tributions to the growth of a
nation founded on mutual trust,
understanding, and faith in
God.”
The case in question was car
ried to the high court in Sep
tember by an organization call
ed the Freethinkers of America,
which contends that the use of
“under God” in the flag pledge
recited by children in public
schools violates the First A-
mendment’s ban on an estab
lishment of religion.
The case originated in 1956 in
Port Richmond, N.Y. The New
York Court of Appeals, highest
in the state, last June unani
mously upheld lower court rul
ings in favor of the practice.
T h q state attorneys general
ask the high court to dismiss
the Freethinkers’ appeal in an
amicus curiae (friend of the
court) brief signed by Mary
land Atty. Gen. Thomas B. Fi-
nan and Assistant Atty. Gen.
David T. Mason.
Joining in the brief are the
attorneys general of these oth
er states: Alabama, Arizona,
Arkansas, Colorado, Delaware,
Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho,
Ka n s a s, Kentucky, Louisiana,
Maine, Mississippi, Montana,
New Hampshire, North Carolina,
North Dakota, Pennsylvania,
Rhode Island, South Carolina,
South Dakota, Tennessee, Tex
as, Utah, Vermont, Virginia,
West Virginia, and Wyoming.
The Freethinkers base their
appeal to the Supreme Court on
its decisions in the 1962 Engel
case, where it barred recitation
of a 22-word nonsectarian pray
er in New York public schools,
and the 1963 Schempp case,
where it ruled out Bible reading
and recitation of the Lord’s
Prayer in Pennsylvania public
schools.
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