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CONSTITUTION ON NATURE OF CHURCH PROMULGATED
Invest Dr. Battey
Of St. Gregory
PLACE WREATH AT KENNEDY'S GRAVE—Gloria Miller, President, and Shir
ley Lynch, Secretary of the Student Council at St. Vincent’s Academy, Savannah,
place wreath at President Kennedy’s grave on Sunday, Nov. 22nd, anniversary of
his death. A group of fourteen students were in the Washington-Baltimore area
on a tour of Catholic Colleges. Also pictured are Sister Mary Annunciata, R.S.M.,
Sister Mary Fidelis, R.S.M. and the following students: Brenda Diugozima, Mar
garet Ganem, Meg Grevemberg, Judy Hogan, Nancy Jackson, Nancy Mock, Betty
Parker, Camilla Porter, Karen Robertson, Sharon Robertson, Kathy Rochefort and
Elizabeth Thompson.
SUNDAY AT ST. MARTS, AUGUSTA
Bishop To
As Knight
Doctor William Whatley Bat
tey, prominent Augusta physici-
,an, Will be formally invested as
a Knight of Saint Gregory the
Great during ceremonies to be
held 1 during a special Mass
scheduled for Sunday at 6:15 p.
m. at St. Mary’s on-the-Hill,
Augusta.
Investing Dr. Battey will be
Bishop Thomas J. McDonough,
who will have just returned
from the Third Session of the
Ecumenical Council the day be
fore.
A reception is scheduled for
the Parish Hall immediately
following the Mass and investi
ture.
Dr. William Whatley Battey,
Jr. was born in Richmond Coun
ty, Georgia. He is the son of
Dr. William Whatley Battey and
• se Barbot Battey.
ter graduation from the
Medical College of Georgia, Dr.
Battey served as House Surge
on at New York Polyclinic Hos
pital and interned at St. Mary’s
Hospital in Brooklyn. New York.
After practicing in Augusta for
three years, he went abroad:
and spent one year at Allgeme-
ines Kraken Haus in Vienna,
Austria. He served as a dele
gate to the International Medi
cal and Surgical Association
Meeting in Baudapest, Hungary
in 1909.
Dr. Battey returned to Augus
ta and resumed practice of Med
icine and surgery In 1910, he
was appointed Instructor in Sur
gery, later Associate Professor
of Surgery and finally Clinical
Professor of Surgery. After 48
years teaching, he retired and
was appointed Emeritus Pro
fessor of Surgery.
He has been a Fourth Degreje
Member of the Knights of Co
lumbus Assembly for many
years.
He was married to Virginia
Dugas at St. Patrick’s Church,
Augusta, by Bishop Benjamin
Kelley on October 5, 1912. Mrs.
Battey died earlier this year.
He has four married daughters,
Virginia, Louise, Mimi and Ma
rie.
Bides For Parochial
Students Said Valid
DENVER, Colo. (NO—A law
school dean insisted here that
both tax rebates to parents of
parochial school students and
public bus transportation for
the students are constitutional.
Reynolds C. Seitz, dean of the
Marquette University law school,
Milwaukee, said: “If the state
wants to provide bus transpor
tation, it is not unconstitutional
as far as the Federal govern
ment is concerned.’’
“The U.S. Supreme Court has
Council Box Score
VATICAN CITY—Here is a box score on Second Vati
can Council accomplishments through the first three sessions.
Council acts debated, amended and promulgated:
The Constitution on the Liturgy and the Decree on Com
munications Media, in the second session (1963).
The Constitution on the Nature of the Church and De
crees on Ecumenism and the Eastern Churches, in the third
session (1964).
Schemata debated, amended, but not voted upon in final
form: f
The Pastoral Duties of Bishops, and the statement on
non-Christians, including Jews. This statement is to be an
appendix to the Constitution on the Nature of the Church.
Schemata debated and sent back for amendment, but
still complete in commission hands:
Divine Revelation, Religious, Seminaries, the Church in
the Modern World, Christian Education, Lay Apostolate.
Schemata debated and sent back for complete revision:
Missions, Priestly Life and Ministry.
Schemata not brought to the floor after being debated
and sent back for amending:
Religious Liberty.
Schemata transferred from conciliar authority and plac
ed in the hands of the Pope:
Matrimony.
Solemn Ceremonies Conclude
Ecumenical Council’s Session
not said it’s a right. It just has
said it’s not unconstitutional,”
Seitz added.
Dean Seitz spoke to 120 spe
cialists in education at the con
vention of the National Organi
zation on Legal Problems, one
of the most influential groups
in school legislation in the na
tion. He emphasized that be
cause tax rebates for tuition
payments and public bus trans
portation for parochial students
are constitutional, this does not
make them a right.
“Providing these services is
a matter left to the individual
states,” he said, “and if the
state does not want to give
them, or if it has statutes spe
cifically prohibiting them, then
it does not have to grant them.”
Dean Seitz said that he does
not believe the U. S. Supreme
Court will rule “in the forsee-
able future” that parochial bus
transportation and tax rebates
are rights of all parents who
have children in private and
parochial schools.
He criticizes the contention
of school boards that once they
sit down with teachers to dis
cuss their grievances the school
board is delegating its authori
ty.
“This is not a sound position,”
he declared, “because those
who hold this position don’t un
derstand collective bargaining.
“Collective bargaining is not
capitulation,” he added. “It
simply means that two parties
will sit down and listen and
make rejoinders, or give rea
sons for accepting or rejecting
demands,’’ he continued.
“School boards that contend
that it is capitulation or dele
gation of authority are uttering
nonsense,” Seitz said.
by Father John P. Donnelly
(N.C.W.C. News Service)
VATICAN CITY — With the
proclamation of the constitution
on the nature of the Church and
the decrees on ecumenism and
the Eastern Churches, Pope
Paul VI solemnly brought the
third session of the ecumenical
council to a close in the pres
ence of the entire body of the
Church’s bishops.
During the course of the cere
mony he proclaimed Mary “Mo
ther of the Church” and an
nounced that the council will
have its “definitive conclusion
in the fourth session.’’ The date
for this session was not an
nounced, and speculation in
council circles has ranged all
the way from March of next
year to a date sometime during
1966.
The proclamation of the coun
cil’s most important document
on the Church came immediate
ly after a Mass concelebrated by
Pope Paul and 24 council Fa
thers." Each of them has within
his diocese a major Marian
shrine and was chosen to con-
celebrate for this reason. The
Mass was that of the day’s
feast — the Presentation of
Mary in the Temple. Among
the celebrants was Archbishop
Patrick A. O’Boyle of Washing
ton, in whose diocese the Na
tional Shrine of the Immaculate
Conception is located.
After Archbishop Felici brief
ly read from the beginning and!
end of each chapter, a formal
vote on the constitution was
taken. The results were tabu
lated almost immediately: 2.151
affirmative to five negative.
The bishops were directed to
stand and remove their mitres,
and Pope Paul began:
“In the name of the Holy and
Undivided Trinity, the Father,
Son and Holy Spirit. The dog-
matic Constitution on the
Church, which has now been
read in brief in this sacred and
universal Second Vatican Synod,
lawfully a c sembled. has pleased
the Fathers. And we, by the a-
postolic authority given to us
by Christ, together with the
venerable Fathers, in the Holy
Spirit approve, decree and en
act this constitution and com
mand that what has been thus
enacted in the synod be promul
gated for the glory of God.”
Thunderous applause broke out
in the basilica.
The same formula was car
ried through for the two de
crees. first that on the Eastern
Churches, then on ecumenism.
The first was affirmed by a
vote of 2.110 to 39, and the sec
ond by 2.137 to 11.
In obvious deference to the
patriarchs of the Eastern
Churches w h o are mentioned
prominently in the decree. Pope
Paul then announced through
Archbishop Felici that its im
plementation was to take place
in two months, but he granted
to the patriarchs “the faculty
of reducing or prolonging this
time for just cause.”
Each proclamation was fol
lowed by prolonged applause.
Concluding the ceremony, the
Pope spoke for a half hour,
praising the assembly for hav
ing “studied and described the
doctrine on the Church, thus
completing the doctrinal task of
this Second Vatican Council.”
In all the Pope was interruot-
ed seven times by warm and
prolonged applause, increasing
in intensity as the speech pro
gressed.
The beginning of the morn
ing’s ceremonies w a s silent,
however. Contrary to his usual
custom in Rome, the Pope en
tered the basilica on his gesta-
torial chair without any greet
ing or applause from the con
gregation. The recessional at
the end quite different, in fact,
tumultuous, with cheers and
shouts, sustained clapping and
cries of “Viva il Papa.”
When he entered, the bishops
were already in their usual
places in the temporary stands
erected for the council down
the center portion of the basili
ca. They were dressed in cope
and mitre. The cardinals and
patriarchs entered in the papal
procession and took their plac
es at the front of the hall.
The Mass began immediately.
It was a high Mass, sung in
familiar chants by the council
Fathers and virtually the entire
congregation. The Epistle and
the Gospel were recited from
the high altar facing the con
gregation, while the Pope sat
on his portable throne below
and in back. After the Creed
was sung the Pope recited the
newly introduced “Prayer of the
People,’’ which according to the
new Liturgy introduced at the
council’s last session, varies
with the occasion.
He prayed: “Let us, beloved
brothers, ask God the Father
Almighty suppliantly that He
wiio has gathered the pastors
of the Church in the Holy Spir
it may abundantly pour out on
them all the gifts of His love,
through His only begotten Son.”
r he Julian Choir took up the
p-' iyer and intoned verses from
the Litany of the Saints.
Then the concelebrants, who
had been ranged around the
foot of the altar in a semicircle
up to this point, mounted the
altar steps and continued the
mutual offering of the Mass
with the Pope.
Their voices could be heard
one after another as the mi
crophone was moved around the
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Bishop
Daly Dies
In Crash
ROME (NC)—Bishop Edward
C. Daly, O.P., of Des Moines,
Iowa, was killed (Nov. 23) when
a jetliner he was riding crashed
and exploded while taking off
from Rome’s Fiumicino airport.
The 70-year-old prelate was
leaving Rome on his way to the
38th International Eucharistic
Congress in Bombay, India. With
him on the plane and also kill
ed in the crash was Msgr. Jo
seph L. Sondag, pastor of SS.
Peter and Paul church in At
lantic, Iowa, and an official of
the Des Moines diocesan court.
The four-jet TWA airliner was
taking off for Athens with 72
persons aboard when a fire
broke in a wheel assembly. The
pilot attempted to brake the
plane, but it skidded across the
end of the runway and hit a
truck. After a few persons tum
bled from the doors, the plane
suddenly burst into flames.
PRAY FOR OUR
DECEASED
PRIESTS
RT. REV. JOHN
BARRY D.D.
Second Bishop Savannah
Nov. 21, 1859
RT. REV. MSGR. HARRY
F. CLARK
Nov. 27, 1935
REV. WILLIAM MCCARTHY
Nov. 27, 1930
REV. GREGORY DUGGAN
Dec. 3, 1870
rev. John McCarthy
Dec. 3, 1920
Oh God, Who didst give to
Thy Servants by their sacerdo
tal office, a share in the priest
hood of the Apostles, grant,
.we implore, that they may also
be one of their company in
heaven. Through Christ Our
Lord, Amen.
GATEWAY TO INDIA—Many pilgrims to the 38th International Eucharistic Congress
to be held in Bombay, Nov. 28 to Dec. 6, will use their ships as hotels. Pope Paul VI,
who will fly to Bombay on Dec. 2, will be the first Pope ever to honor such a meeting
held outside of Rome with his presence. (NC Photos)
IN FLAG PLEDGE
U.S. Supreme Court Dismisses
"Under God” Phrase Challenge
by Russell Shaw
(N.C.W.C. News Service)
WASHINGTON — Children in
public schools can go on pledg
ing their allegiance to “one na
tion under God’’, as a result of
a new action by the U.S. Su
preme Court.
The high court dismissed with
out comment (Nov. 23) a chal
lenge to the use of the phrase
“under God” in the flag pledge
recited by children in New York
public schools.
The court thus in effect an
swered nagging questions about
how far it is prepared to go in
bar ring religious expressions
from public schools in the wake
of its 1962 and 1963 rulings a-
gainst prayer and Bible read
ing in the schools.
The answer appears to be
that the court has drawn a di
viding line between religious ex
ercises properly so-called — like
prayer and Bible reading—and
ceremonies in which religion is
present only by way of allusion
—as in the case of the flag
pledge. The former are forbid
den in public schools, the latter
permitted.
The challenge dismissed by,
the Supreme Court was brought
before it in September by an
organization called the Free
thinkers of America. The Free
thinkers contended that the Con
stitution’s ban on an establish
ment of religion was violated by
having children in public schools
say the words “under God” as
part of the flag pledge.
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.
In appealing to the Supreme
Court, the Freethinkers argued
that t h e lower court rulings
were “inconsistent” with the
high court’s prayer decisions.
However, last month the at
torneys general of 30 states ar
gued the contrary in a joint
amicus curiae (friend of the
court) brief filed with the Su
preme Court.
The words “under God” were
added to the flag pledge by an
act of Congress passed in 1954
and signed into law by Presi
dent Eisenhower. They have
been targets in a number of
Church-State controversies since
then.
Eariler this year Mrs. Mada-
lyn Murray, the controversial
Baltimore atheist whose suit to
eliminate Bible reading and re
citation of the Lord’s Prayer
from Maryland public schools
was one of two cases that led
to the Supreme Court’s 1963
prayer decision, asked the Bal
timore school board to drop the
words from the flag pledge in
public schools there.
The board rejected her re
quest. Mrs, Murray said then
she would appeal “to the Su
preme Court if necessary”.
More recently a dispute has
flared up in Hasbrouck Heights,
N.J., where town officials have
been flying pennants with the
motto “One Nation Under God’’
on municipal flag poles beneath
the American flag.
John L. Joseph of Hasbrouck
Heights protested the practice
on Church-State grounds. But a
Bergen County, N.J., grand jury
held in mid-November that the
town was violating no state law
by flying the pennants, and a
U.S. attorney in Newark said
the practice 1 represents “no vio
lation of Federal law.”
Use of the pennants has been
reported spreading in New Jer
sey and Connecticut in the wake
of the Hasbrouck Heights hassle
The New Liturgy
Sunday, November 29, at 8:30
A.M. at the Cathedral of St.
John the Baptist, the Most. Rev.
Thomas J. McDonough, Bishop
of Savannah, will preside and
officiate at the formal inau
guration of the New Liturgy,
which becomes mandatory in
every parish of the Diocese on
that date, according to the Rt.
Rev. Msgr. T. James McNam
ara, Diocesan Vicar General
and Rector of the Cathedral.
This will be the first official
function for Bishop McDonough
after his return to the Diocese
Saturday, Nov. 28.
Since the close of the third
session of Vatican Council II,
he has been visiting seminaries
in Ireland, speaking on behalf
of the diocesan vocations pro
gram and callng upon seminari
ans preparing there for the
priesthood in this diocese.
HEADLINE
HOPSCOTCH
NATION
It’s Deductible
WASHINGTON—Religious organizations received the biggest
share of the $7.5 billion listed as charitable contributions by Federal
income taxpayers who itemized deductions on ther 1962 individual
tax returns. According to a report from the Internal Revenue Serv
ice $4.6 billion was listed as contributions to churches, missions and
other religious organizations.
New Communion Fast
VATICAN
vatigajn un—in a surprise move, Pope Paul VI has chang
ed the Eucharistic fast regulations, reducing the time of fasting
from solid foods before Communion from three hours to one hour,
Archbishop Pericle Felici, secretary general of the council, made
the announcement at the council’s closing session. He said the
new relaxation applies to priests as well as to the faithful, and
was made “at the request of bishops of many countries.”
J.F.K. Mass In Vietnam
FAR EAST
SAIGON—Archbishop Paul Nguyen Van Binh of Saigon cele
brated an anniversary Requiem Mass for the late President Kenne
dy in the cathedral here (Nov. 21). The apostolic delegate, Arch
bishop Angelo Palmas, was present in the sanctuary. U.S. Ambas
sador Maxwell D. Taylor, Deputy Ambassador U. Alexis Johnson,
and Michael Forrestal, special assistant for Vietnamese affairs,
now visiting Vietnam from Washington, attended the Mass.