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JESUITS THESIS
LBJ PROGRAM
Reunion Would Achieve
Martin Luther’s Desire
WASHINGTON (NC)-Thc re
union of Catholic and Protestant
churches would fulfill the “deep
est desires” of Martin Luther
by creating a Church that is
truly reformed and truly united,
Father Avery Dulles, S.J., de
clared here.
The Jesuit theologian told a
congregation at the National
Shrine of the Immaculate Con
ception (Jan. 21) that the pres
ent ecumenical council is car
rying out the reform envisaged
for the Catholic Church by Lu
ther and left incomplete by the
Council of Trent in 1563.
Father Dulles was one of the
scries of speakers at services
in the shrine during the Chair
of Unity Octave (Jan. 18 to 25).
Speaking on Luther’s “unfin
ished reformation,” Father Dul
les said the Protestant Refor
mation had “enormous positive
significance” for Catholics be
cause it came at a time when
“Christian piety was undermin
ed by the scandalous lives of
some churchmen, by rampant
superstitions and by theological
teachings incompatible with the
Gospel.”
While the Council of Trent
cured some of these ills, he said
WASHINGTON (NC) — Luci
Baines Johnson, 17 - year - old
daughter of President and Mrs.
Johnson, is receiving instruc
tions in the Catholic faith but
has taken “no definitive steps”
toward becoming a Catholic.
The Johnson family “consid
ers religion a personal and pri
vate matter” and Luci is free
to make up her own mind, a
White House spokesman said in
confirming reports that the
younger of the two Johnson
girls is receiving instructions.
Luci, like her mother and her
older sister Lynda, is an Epis
copalian. She is a senior at the
Cathedral School here, an Epis-
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it did not meol some of the oth
er needs seen by Luther. Among
these, he said, were a Scriptur
al theology, a living vernacular
liturgy, a restoration of the dig
nity .of the laity, and a revival
of preaching.
“The Church in the Counter-
Reformation did not give suffi
cient value t.o these sound Lu
theran principles,” said Father
Dulles. “Only in the present
generation has Catholicism be
gun to be genuinely self-criti
cal. Since (Pope John XXIII)
summoned the Second Vatican
Council, the Church has been
engaged in a vast program of
self-examination and self-reform,
much of it in line with the cen
tral thrust of the Reformation.”
Father Dulles said the reform
of the Catholic Church has been
leading t.o a new reform of Pro
testant churches, and that those
movements taken together might
lead to full unity. He said such
a result would not have dis
pleased Luther.
“Modern Lutheran thinkers
. . . have frequently pointed
out that Luther envisaged the
Reformation as a corrective
movement within the Catholic
Church. A reformed Church he
wanted indeed, but not a separ-
copalian school for girls. Mr.
Johnson is a member of the
Disciples of Christ but some
times attends Episcopalian ser
vices,
Since last fall Luci has been
dating Paul Betz, 20, a Catholic
pre-medical student at Mount
St. Mary’s College in Emmits-
burg, Md. She wears his school
pin. Her interest in Catholicism
was reported to have begun
with her friendship with Bjeter.
(Last May the White House
confirmed that Luci had sent
her college board entrance ex
amination results to Marquette
University, a Catholic school in
Milwaukee, with the idea of
seeking admission there. The
White House said then that she
had not made any similar appli
cations to other schools.)
The White House would 1 not
say where Luci was studying
Catholicism. Other reports said
a priest from Mount St. Mary’s
College was believed to be giv
ing the instructions.
Taking instructions in Catho
licism does not necessarily in
dicate that the person involved
is going to enter the Church.
Frequently individuals receive
such instructions for informa
tional purposes alone with no
intention of becoming Catholics.
Under Church law a convert
who has been validly baptized,
as Luci reportedly has, is not
baptized again upon becoming
a Catholic.
The, Washington archdiocese
declined comment on the mat
ter, noting that conversion is a
personal and private matter and
that any statements should come
from Luci, her family or their
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ate Church. The only Church
which lit 1 willed to reform was
the one. holy. Catholic Church,
founded by Christ Himself.
“If all this is true.” said Fa
ther Dulles, “we must conclude
that I.iit hers Reformation is
still an .ongoing thing. So long
as there are two separate Chris
tianities. Protestant and Catho
lic. his objective remains but
half achieved.”
Speaking at a later ceremony
(Jan. 231. Bishop Ernest J. Pri-
mcau of Manchester. N.H., said
the main task of renewal inside
and outside the Church must be
done by individual Christians
rather than conciliar legislation.
Bishop Primeau called atten
tion to the thesis of Father Karl
Rahner, S.J., a German theo
logian, that today’s Church is
in “diaspora” (exile) and that
the institutional Church has be
come a stumbling block and a
sign of contradiction to the
world.
“Whatever be the truth of this
thesis, one thing is certain, that
the main work of renewal with
in the Church, of reunion with
other Christians and of pene
tration in the world outside will
be done, not by legislation or
decree, but by enough individu
al Christians who will accept a
moral obligation and responsi
bility in their everyday attitudes
and actions,” he said.
At the same time, Bishop Pri
meau said the Church cannot
carry out its missionary activity
in a divided state, nor can in
dividual Christians be effective
if they are not united to the
Church. Both the Church and
the individual must strive for
perfection, he said.
Auxiliary Bishop T. Austin
Murphy of Baltimore declared
in a sermon on the Orthodox
Churches (Jan. 19) that a “new
ora is dawning for the Churches
of the East and West”.
Bishop Murphy took particular
notice of the many personal
contacts made between Catho
lic and Orthodox leaders in the
past year, as well as the ecu
menical council’s decree on the
Elastern Churches.
Msgr. John M. Oesterreicher,
director of the Institute of Ju-
daeo-Christian Studies at Seton
Hall University, cautioned' a-
gainst misinterpreting certain
harsh words used against some
Jews in the New Testament as
applying to all Jews of all
times.
Citing as an example Christ’s
words in the Gospel of St. John,
“Your father is the devil,”
Msgr. Oesterreicher noted that
“the accusation of alliance with
the devil holds true, not only
for those fickle disciples of Je
sus’ time, but quite often for
me, for you, for all of us who
bear His name.”
The monsignor said this kind
of “transposition” of Christ’s
words onto the contemporary
scene is “the only one permit
ted.”
“Never may we extend a say
ing of Christ addressed to some
of his contemporaries to all of
them, even less to all Jews of
all times,” he said. “To do so
would be evidence of fuzzy . . .
collectivist thinking.”
Msgr. Oesterreicher said his
approach to Christ’s saying does
not “lessen the impact” but ra
ther gives it “its full force.”
“True, a Jew who persecutes
Christ and His Church makes
himself the devil’s servant . . .
But what about Christians who
persecute Jews, if only in
thought or word? However much
they object, they stand high on
the list gf devil’s mercenaries,
he said.
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-Thirty-nine seventh and eighth
grade students at Our Lady of
Perpetual Help School here
have been taking some courses
at a local public school since
last fall in Oregon’s first shar
ed-time education program.
Catholic and public school
spokesmen alike describe the
program as a success.
The parochial school students
take courses in shop, home eco
nomics and other subjects at
Lincoln Junior High School
while studying religion, lan
guage, arts, social studies and
similar subjects at the parochial
school.
LUCI BAINES
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ANNAPOLIS, Md. (NC)—Ar
guments on the constitutionality
of state grants to church-relat
ed colleges are scheduled to
open Feb. 23 in Anne Arundel
County Circuit Court here in a
case which has widespread im
plications in the field of tax aid
to religious affiliated schools.
Judge O. Bowie Duckett re
cessed the trial until Feb. 23
after Father Paul C. Reinert,
S.J., president of St. Louis Uni
versity, testified it is “difficult
to set guidelines to measure the
extent of religious influence in
church-affiliated colleges.”
He said Catholic institutions
are “not essentially different”
from other liberal arts colleges,
but acknowledged “there would
be no point in having Catholic
institutions unless there would
be other effects over and above
what a good liberal arts college
does.”
The suit was instituted by the
Horace Mann League and 13
taxpayers. It challenges the le
gality of $2.5 million in state
matching building fund grants
which would go to: Western
Maryland College, Westminster,
Methodist affiliated, $500,000 for
a science building and dining
hall; Hood College, Frederick,
United Church of Christ affiliat
ed, $500,000 for a dormitory; St.
Joseph’s College, Emmitsburg,
Sisters of Charity, $750,000 for
a science building, and the Col
lege of Notre Dame of Mary
land, Baltimore, School Sisters
of Notre Dame, $750,000 for a
science building. Disbursement
of the funds has been held up
pending the outcome of the liti
gation.
Attorneys for the Horace
Mann League, dedicated to
strengthening public school sys
tems, and the taxpayers have
contended that granting of tax
funds to a coliege is unconstitu
tional when a primary purpose
TO ROMAN ROTA —Msgr.
John A. Abbo, professor of
Canon Law at the Catholic
University of America,
Washington, D.C., has been
named by Pope Paul VI to be
a judge of the Roman Rota,
high Church court. (NC
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of the college is religious in
struction.
The lawyers for the colleges
have argued there is no way to
determine the extent of reli
gious influence in a church-re
lated institution. They also have
contended that if the opposition
argument prevails it would
mean no tax funds could go to
institutions like Harvard, Prince
ton and others which have mi
nor relations with church bod
ies.
Father Reinert testified that
the core content of liberal arts
education in a Catholic college
is “not essentially different”
from other liberal arts colleges.
He said: “Liberal arts colleges
WALTHAM, Mass. (NC)—The
church-bell of the future may
be a little thing of glass and
wire, weighing about two grams
but reproducing the sound of
cast-metal constructions weigh
ing more than a ton.
Glassblower Gerhard B. Fink-
beiner of Brandeis University
here, installed for the first time
in the United States a set of
the tiny bells in St. Susanna
Church, Dedham, Mass., named
for the titular church in Rome
of Boston’s Richard Cardinal
Cushing.
Finkbeiner, whose small glass
bells already are producing
kingsized sounds in ten church
es in Germany and France, has
produced a four-bell chime for
the Dedham church encased in
a metal cabinet only two feet
long and weighing a mere 40
pounds. In cast metal, equiva
lent sound-producers would oc
cupy a good-sized belfry and
weigh about 10,000 pounds. Fink
beiner envisions his discovery
as destined for churches which
cannot afford regular bells.
The new-style bells look like
nothing so much as the familiar
vacuum tubes found in any non
transistor radio, but they pro
duce a never-changing, high
quality sound which is fully
comparable to the metallic
clang of the old-fashioned bell.
Inside each vacuum tube in
Finkbeiner’s system, there is
a string-shaped length of glass,
which may be up to a foot in
across the country have a com
mon body of knowledge, a core
of courses which they judge ev
ery liberally educated student
should take.” He said that in a
Catholic liberal arts college
“you would find a sequence of
courses in theology” which
would be “over and above” the
course content of other colleges.
Trial of the suit started Nov.
30 and has been, interrupted by
two recesses. Argument on the
constitutional question beginning
Feb. 23 will pave the way for a
ruling by Judge Duckett, but a
final decision may be years a-
way as both sides have indicat
ed they will appeal an adverse
ruling to high courts.
length, and a tiny “hammer”
to produce the proper vibra
tions. These vibrations are con
verted into an electronic signal
which passes through an ampli
fier, is increased 100,000 times,
and comes out through a spe
cial speaker whose sound most
experts cannot tell from a me
tallic bell.
The sound of a heavy, metal
lic bell is “one of the most
complex of all musical sounds,”
according to Finkbeiner, but he
has been able to duplicate it
through parallel studies in glass-
blowing, electronics and vacuum
techniques.
His first set of electronic bells
was developed for a personal
friend, Father Paul Bourgeon,
who was pastor of a parish on
the west coast of France. Fa
ther Bourgeon’s parish was un
able to finance a costly set of
metal bells. He did not like the
sound of regular electronic car
illons, and asked Finkbeiner if
something better could not be
produced.
Finkbeiner, studying the prob
lem, discovered by accident that
a wine glass produced a much
finer sound than a metal struc
ture of the same shape. After
four years of experimentation,
he proved to his own satisfac
tion that glass is a better vib
rator than metal and perfected
his own system, which is win
ning favor in Europe and has
now been introduced to the U-
nited States.
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (NC)
— Stuart D. Hubbell, national
president of Citizens for Educa
tional Freedom, criticized Pres
ident Johnson’s education pro
gram because it fails to pro
vide equal treatment for all A-
merica’s school children.
“President Johnson's program
represents an historic educa
tional landmark for this na
tion,” he said. “It is the first
time in our country’s history
that a President has established
as his express purpose the equal
tr e a t m e n t of all America’s
school children under an educa
tional assistance program. This
is most praiseworthy.
“The program, however, fails
to meet this standard of equali
ty,” Hubbell said. “While the
President has declared the ad
ministration’s policy to be a
concern with need not creed, in
practice 80% of the program, in
terms of monies to be expend
ed, would be based upon a na
tional system of shared time.
Under such a shared time pro
gram nonpublic school chil
dren would be obliged to leave
the schools they have chosen
to attend in accordance with
their constitutional rights in or
der to participate in any of the
benefits under the program.
This is neither equal nor fair.”
Hubbell said a shared time
program may be an acceptable
experiment in local circumstanc
es but it “can hardly be propos
ed as a national solution for
providing quality education on
an equality basis for all school
children.” He said shared time
is impractical in “the great ma
jority of our nation’s communi
ties if for no other reason than
because of the plain facts of
geography.”
Hubbell said shared time has
been held questionable under a
number of state constitutions.
He also charged the shared
time as proposed in the Johm
son program makes “no allow
ance for the choice of the par
ent whose rights in this case
should be the particular object
of protection in view of the pov
erty status of that parent.”
“There is very little differ
ence between indicating that
equality can be achieved only
by surrendering the child’s at
tendance at a nonpublic school
for a full day and indicating
that to achieve equality the
child must surrender such at
tendance through shared time
for half a day,” the CEF head
said.
Hubbell said he wished to
make clear that CEF does not
believe, at this point, that the
program is without merit or
possibility. He added: “We are
confident that with the good
faith and high standard of e-
quality of treatment the
dent has insisted upon, thVe-
tails of this program can be
worked out in a manner which
is truly equal for all children
without requiring a surrender of
sacred parental rights in educa
tion of any child.”
CEF is a non-sectarian organ
ization devoted to seeking free
dom and equal treatment in ed
ucation today.
V ocation
Talk At
Aquinas
Sister Mary Alphonsine, O.S.U.,
directress of admissions at Ur :
suline College in Louisville,
Kentucky, recently addressed
the junior and senior girls. Ac
companying Sister was Miss
Pettinger, a student at the col
lege. Miss Pettinger told the
girls about the student’s view
of the life at Ursuline. Sister
Mary Alphonsine also addressed
the Theresians at their
meeting on “The Modern^^l
and Religious Life.”
Three students from Aquinas
who won recognition in the
Voice of Democracy Contest at
tended the Awards Dinner held
in the main hall of the V.F.W.
Post on Greene Street. After the
dinner first place award was
given to Alexander Bologne;
second place to Leanne Corda,
and third place to Janet Mul-
herin. The teachers represent
ing the Aquinas were Brother
Alphonse Justin, F.M.S. and
Brother Robert Baptist, F.M.S.
It was announced that Alexan
der Bologne has been chosen
the winner for the Augusta
area.
The Junior Chorale and the
Glee Club have begun prepara
tion for the annual spring con
cert. The theme for this year’s
preformanee is “Let There be
Music”. Folk music will be fea
tured extensively throughout the
program. For the first time the
Choir as a group will sing a
few selections.
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