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The Sourtfhern Cross, July 1, 1965—PAGE 3
ON MASS CHANGES
Liturgy Expert Refutes
Traditionalists’ Charges
^WLTIMORE (NC)—The de-
c^es of the Vatican Council are
not the work of the specialists,
theologians and experts in Rome,
but of the Pope and the bishops,
Father Frederick R. McManus
said here.
The Constitution on the Lit
urgy, he noted, was worked on
for four j years, “debated
thoroughly,” and submitted to
about 100 distinct votes until ap
proved by the council Fathers
and the Pope.
“We have no desire to see
opposing camps in the Church,”
he said.
“But if we must choose be
tween opposing points of view,
we must surely choose the great
vision of the council: re
newal and refreshment and
reform—not only in the li
turgy but in every facet of the
Church’s life,” he said.
Father McManus, who spoke
(June 21) at the Liturgical Week
held here, is president of the
national Liturgical Conference
which sponsors the annual event
« secretary for the U.S. Bish-
Commission on the Litur-
1 Apostolate, Washington,
D.C.
The Boston priest spoke
against a background of increas
ing - agitation by the Catholic
Traditionalist Movement against
many facets of liturgical reform.
Movement spokesmen claim
many reforms were brought a-
bout by experts and specialists—
including Father McManus—who
allegedly went beyond the Vati
can council’s intention.
Two days after Father Mc
Manus’ talk, eight persons who
identified themselves as mem
bers of the traditionalist move
ment from the neighboring Wash
ington, D.C., area picketed the
liturgical meeting for about three
hours (June 23).
In 90-degree heat, they march
ed in front of the Civic Center
carrying placards. “We Want
Altars, Not Tables,” said one
sign. “We’d Rather Fight Than
Switch,” said another. “Viva il
Papa,” said a third.
William Collins of McLean,
Va., picket spokesman, said they
do not object to all liturgical
changes. What they want, he said,
is a “live and let live” attitude
which would give them a choice
in each parish between vernacu
lar and Latin Masses.
In his talk, Father McManus
noted that the implementation of
the liturgy reform, so far as
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the vernacular is concerned, is
a matter for national hierarchies
to decide. Ritual changes are ac
complished by the decree of the
Pope, based on recommendations
of an international panel, he said.
“Some in the Church are fear
ful, hesitant and timorous about
change, especially liturgical
change and ecumenical develop
ments,” he said.
“Their concern should be met
with sympathy, patience and love.
Yet it is curious that this fear
of the future, fear for the Church,
should be often combined with an
insistence upon the Church’s di
vine, unchanging, triumphant
side,” he told participants who
totaled about 6,000 during the
four-day assembly.
In other remarks, Father Mc
Manus warned that unless there
is change, liturgical preparation
and understanding, reform will
be seen only “as a new pattern
of rigid forms without explana
tion.”
“Even so blessed a sign of
progress as Eucharistic concele-
bration can appear to be a new
species of clericalized liturgy
unless there is full popular par
ticipation in the rite, unless there
is preparation and under
standing,” he held.
He also said the liturgical
renewal “is only beginning.” He
said that upcoming will be “to
tal revision of all public rites
and services” directed by an
international body of bishops.
This will be followed by “re
gional adaptation and evolution”
based on “cultural traditions,
backgrounds and patterns in dif
ferent countries,” he added.
Mentioning the structure or
outline of the Mass, he said that
clarification of this “has suc
ceeded in those places, and ap
parently only in those places,
where Mass is regularly cele
brated with the priest facing the
people, and where, without com
promise, the simple pattern of
sanctuary arrangement has been
accepted.”
This pattern, he continued, is
“the seat for the priest who
presides over the community as
it prays and listens to God’s
word; the lectern or ambo for
the reader...the altar where the
priest presides at the Eucha
rist, the sacrificial meal of the
Christian people.”
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P hillippine C ommunists
By Father Patrick
O’Connor, S.S.C.
What kind of person joined the
Communist party in the Philip
pines in the years when it was
developing its nearly successful
drive for power? Why did Catho
lics join it?
Luis Taruc, former supremo
of the Huks, military branch of
the communist organization, and
Alfredo Saulo, former communist
propaganda official, gave
N.C.W.C. News Service theiran-
swers to these questions. Both
surrendered to the government—
Taruc in 1954, Saulo in 1958—and
are now under detention in a mili
tary stockade outside Manila.
They told this correspondent
that they had left the commu
nist movement because they were
disillusioned with it. They stated
that they had never really ac
cepted its atheistic principles.
They were brought up catholics
and have been practicing their
religion again for some years.
Taruc never attended a Catho
lic school. Saulo studied in a
Catholic university for two years.
“Those who joined for ideolo
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sants also joined, because the
party at that time claimed to be
purely nationalist and progres
sive. These peasants understood
nationalism to be the primary aim
and socialism to be a future
possibility.
“Before the war, people join
ed on the basis of social justice
as an immediate program. During
the war against the Japanese, the
nationalist element was stressed.
There was no talk then about
fighting for socialism or com
munism. Only from 1944 was
Marxism studied in the inner
circles.”
(A “Stalin university” was es
tablished by the communists in
the Huk-held mountains of cen
tral Luzon.)
Social injustice made people
join the Communist party, ac
cording to Taruc.
“There had been along-stand
ing discontent about the un
christian way of living of some
Catholics,” he said. “There were
glaring contradictions. Hence the
socialists and communists who
showed they were ready to live
their principles found it easy
to convince the impoverished and
forgotten masses.”
Alfredo Saulo, who entered the
Communist party in 1946 as a
journalist and official of the Com
mittee of Labor Organizations
(CLO), told me when I first met
him in 1950 that he had not given
up his religion. His membership
in the party at that time was
suspected.
Now, interviewed by me years
later, he tried to recall why
people joined.
“One joined the party,” he
said, “because of lack of faith
in society, when society doesn’t
take care of its members.” What
attracted him, he stated, was
the communist slogan; “Land
for the landless, jobs for the job
less. “He dates his disillusion
ment with the party from 1951
but said he could not safely leave
it until 1958.
“At one time party leaders
attacked religion openly,” he
said. “After sad experiences the
leadership de-emphasized the
matter of religion.”
While still a Huk leader, Ta
ruc wrote his life-story up to
then in a book entitled “Born
To Be Free.” He says that the
part of this book that praises
Bolshevism was written not by
him but by one of the communist
leaders who had it inserted. While
a prisoner he has written another
book, still unpublished, “Born
Again,” in which he relates how
he was disillusioned in com
munism and returned to the prac
tice of his religion.
He says that youth is not re
ceiving enough inspiration. “On
television the main ingredient
is twist, senseless music, pro
grams that degrade the emo
tions of the young,” he com
plained. “The most important
thing is to give the young a
vision, a purpose, an ambition
that’s unselfish.”
He complains that anticom
munists in the West denounce
as communists people who are
only nationalists and who happen
to be in the same movement as
communists. He recognizes the
difficulty, however, when the
movement is so dominated by the
communists that there is no
choice but to oppose all con
nected with it.
Part of his disillusionment with
communism arose from the dis
covery that the leaders made
use of nationalism as a means
to their communist end.
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