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VATICAN AIDES are shown at Kennedy Airport in New York as they arrived
to prepare arrangements for Pope Paul’s visit to the United Nations on Oct. 4.
Greeted by Msgr. Timothy Flynn, left, who acted for Francis Cardinal Spell
man, Archbishop of New York, are Msgr. Pasquale Macchi, center, personal
secretary to the Pope, and Msgr. Paul Marcinkus of the Vatican Secretariat
of State. (R.N.S. Photo)
AT COUNCIL OPEMm
Pontiff Reveals Plans To
Form Senate Of Bishops
CITES CONFUSION ABOUT DOCTRINE
Pope Defends Traditional
Concept Of Holy Eucharist
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“IS NOT THE BREAD WE BREAK a participation
in Christ’s body?” (1 Cor. 11) Priest breaks the
consecrated Host which Pope Paul repiinds in En^
cyclical, “Mysteriupi Fidei” is changed into the sub
stance of the Body and Blood of Christ at the sac
rifice of the Mass. (NC Photo)
DENY ERROR CHARGE
Wot To Blame ?
Hollanders Say
By Father Placid Jordan
O.S.B.
VATICAN CITY (NC)—All
the feeling of hesitancy and
even uneasiness which for
some time has prevailed with
regard to the future prospects
of the Second Vatican Council
have been effectively and de
cisively scotched by Pope Paul
VPs announcement (Sept. 14)
that an episcopal ‘senate’ re
presenting the whole world’s
hierarchy is to be set up
as a supreme consultative and
executive body of the Church.
As anticipated for some
time and as already proposed
ROME (RNS) — Pope Paul
VI, in what was regarded as
his most outspoken condem
nation of communism, charged
that the Iron Curtain coun
tries were systemitcally per
secuting the Church and try
ing to indoctrinate young
people with atheistic doc
trines.
The occasion was a visit to
Rome’s Catacombs of Santa
Domitilla, near the Appian
Way, where the pontiff cele
brated Mass while on his way
back to Vatican City from the
papal Summer residence at
Castel Gandolfo, where he
had spent the past six weeks.
He said there were simi
larities between the Church
that took to the catacombs in
the early centuries of Roman
persecution and the Church
that today “suffers and just
barely survives in nations with
atheistic and totalitarian re
gimes.”
He said these governments
were doing their utmost to
supplant the Chruch’s teach
ings among young people by
spreading anti-religious doc-
in the council schema on the
pastoral functions of bishops,
this supreme synod is to be
composed for the greater part
of bishops freely chosen by
the various national hier
archies besides the appointees
of the Pope.
In other words, one of the
principal goals of this coun
cil—the decentralization of
the government oftheChurch-
-is now certain to be achieved.
However, the Roman curia will
continue to be used, as the
Pope pointed out, as an in
dispensable administrative
instrument. Supreme execu
tive powers will rest with the
trines. Moreover, he com
plained, official obstacles
were placed in the way of re
ligious vocations and normal
parish life.
“Identical,” he said, “is
the Chruch’s reasons for re
sistance then and today: to
defend truth and simultane
ously to reassert the sacred
right of every man to his own
responsible freedom, above
all the basic area of con
science and religion.
“Identical is the intent of
the ancient and modern per
secutors who, with physical
violence, or with the weight
of a legal, judicial or admin
istrative apparatus, seek to
impose their ‘truth’ and to
snuff out any show of dis
sent.”
The Pope said the Holy
See “abstains from raising a
voice in protest with more fre
quency and vehemence, not
because it ignores or hides
the reality of things but be
cause of a reflective thought
of Christian patience and in
order not to provoke worse
evils.”
Pope in direct conjunction with
the world’s bishops.
Once again the Pontiff has
stressed that he will in no
way interfere with their free
dom. The decisions yet to
be reached, therefore, will be
reached no less freely than
those reached up to now, and
all the decrees promulgated
will be executed in a true
spirit of reform and progress.
The tenor of the Pope’s
address at the opening of the
fourth council session was
fully attuned to these happy
prospects, since it empha
sized once more the basic
council theme previously out
lined by Pope John that this
is to be a pastoral council.
Chairty is to prevail, Pope
Paul said. “Instead of con
demning, the Church will en
tertain feelings of love while
remaining firm and unambi
guous in matters of doctrine.”
This, in particular, is to ap
ply in the relations of the
Church with the separated
brethren, in whose regard
Pope Paul once more pro
claimed the ultimate goal of
“reintegrating all Christians
in the unity willed by Christ.”
PATRICK RILEY will be one
of four staff members of N.C.
W.C. News Service reporting
from Rome on the fourth ses
sion of Vatican Council 11.
(NC Photo)
ROME (RNS) — Pope Paul
VI, in the third encyclical
of his pontificate, reaffirmed
the teachings of the Catholic
Church regarding the Holy
Eucharist, and strongly
warned against modern scho
lars who “spread abroad opi
nions which disturb the faithful
and fill their minds with no
little confusion about matters
of faith.”
A monumental, far-ranging
6,500-word document, the en
cyclical, dated Sept. 3, the
feast of Pope St. Pius X,
was entitled Mysterium Fi
dei (The Mystery of the Faith)
from its opening Latin words.
In his encyclical, Pope Paul
made frequent reference to the
Council of Trent, which, on
Oct. 11, 1551, promulgated a
decree on the Eucharist af
firming that Christ is present
in the Eucharist throughtran-
substantiation -- that is,
through the transformation of
the entire bread and wine into
the body and blood of Christ
although the original appear
ances remain. This decree
condemned any contention that
the bread and wine were mere
ly symbols.
It is also the definition of
the Council of Trent that
Christ is complete and entire
under both or either species,
and should that which appears
as bread or wine be divided,
Christ is wholly present in
each and every part.
Pope Paul said it was for
him “a cause of profound
consolation and joy” to note
the eagerness with which
members of the Catholic,
Church had received the Con
stitution on the Liturgy ap
proved by Vatican n, as well
as the “great number of well-
prepared publications which
seek to investigate more pro
foundly and to understand
more fruitfully the doctrine on
the Holy Eucharist, with
special reference to its rela
tion with the mystery of the
Church.”
“However. . . . there are
not lacking,” he said, “rea
sons for serious pastoral con
cern and anxiety. The aware
ness of our apostolic duty does
not allow us to be silent in
the face of these problems.
Indeed, we are aware of the
f^ct that, among those who
deal with the most holy mys
tery in written or spoken word,
there are some who, with
reference either to Masses
which are celebrated in pri
vate, or to the dogma of tran-
substantiation, or to devotion
to the Eucharist, spread a-
broad opinions which disturb
the faithful and fill their minds
with no little confusion about
matters of faith.”
It is, the Pope declared,
“as if every one were per
mitted to consign to oblivion
doctrine already defined by
the Church, or else to in
terpret it in such a way as
to weaken the genuine mea
ning of the word or the re
cognized force of the con
cepts involved.”
Declaring that it was “not
allowable to emphasize what
is called the ‘communal’ Mass
to the disparagement of Mas
ses celebrated in private” or
to speak without qualification
of what is called ‘transignifi-
cation’ and ‘transfiguration’
rather than t ran substan
tiation, the Pope said “every
one can see that the spread
of these and similar opinions
does great harm to the faith
and devotion to the Divine
Eucharist.”
“We certainly do not wish,”
he said, “to deny in those
who are spreading these sin
gular opinions the praise
worthy effort to investigate
this lofty mystery and to set
forth its inexhaustible rea
ches, revealing its meaning to
the men of today; rather we
acknowledge and approve their
effort.
“However, we cannot ap
prove the opinions which they
express, and we have the duty
to warn you (the entire hier
archy, clergy and faithful)
about the grave dangers which
these opinions involve for cor
rect faith.”
In citing “transignifica-
tion,” the Pope was apparently
repudiating a doctrine repor
tedly put forward earlier this
year by a group of prominent
Dutch, Belgian, German and
British Catholic theologians.
“Transignification” which is
similar to some Protestant
positions, suggests that a
transfer of meaning or symbol
is involved in the consecrated
bread and wine of the Mass.
The Pope stressed it was
'not only necessary to safe
guard the integrity of the faith,
but also “its proper mode of
expression, lest by the care
less use of words, we oc
casion (God forbid) the rise
of false opinions regarding
faith in the most sublime of
mysteries... It cannot be to
lerated that any individual
should on his own authority
modify the formulas which
were used by the Council of
T rent to express belief in the
Eucharistic mystery.”
In the course of his ency
clical, pope Paul exhorted the
faithful to attend Mass daily
and to receive Communion
“with a pure heart and give
thanks to Christ Our Lord
for so great a gift.”
He also said that in the
course of the day, the faithful
“should not omit to visit the
Blessed Sacrament, which ac
cording to the liturgical laws
must be kept in the churches
with great reverence in a most
honorable location.”
The Pope said there were
also “many practices of Eu
charistic piety which under
the inspiration of divine grace
have increased from day to
day and with which the Catho
lic Church is striving ever
more to do homage to Christ,
to thank Him for so great a
gift.”
ROME (RNS) — An unpre
cedented press conference ar
ranged by the head of the
Netherlands Roman Catholic
hierarchy saw a famed theo
logian deny chargesappearing
in the Italian press and else
where.
The noted Dominican scho
lar, Father Edward Schille-
FATHER DONAL O’MAHO-
NY, former editor of The Far
East, Columban Fathers ma
gazine, has been given a mis
sionary assignment in the
Philippines. He is a former
director of the Catholic Press
association and a nephew of
Bishop Edward J. Galvin,
founder of the Columban Fa
thers. (NC Photo)
beeckx, spoke to newsmen
here at the request of Ber
nard Cardinal Alfrink, Arch
bishop of Utrecht.
Stories published by the se
cular press in Italy made such
references as “the Pope de
rails Dutch theologians” and
that the encyclical may have
been directed in the first place
to “the Dutch faithful, among
whom there is a serious doc
trinal crisis.”
“Dutch theologians,” he
said, apparently meant Father
Luchesius Smits, O.F.M.,
Cap., and Father P.Schoonen-
berg, S.J.
Both theologians, he said,
“teach on transignification
and transfinalisation” and
“remain within the bounds of
doctrine as expounded by
Pope Paul in the new en
cyclical.”
“The Pope,” Father Schil-
lebeeckx continued, “does not
condemn the use of the terms
of transignification and trans
finalisation but stresses the
ontological reality of Christ’s
presence. That ontological
reality is also taught by these
Dutch theologians, although
this, at the outset, may not
have been sufficiently stres
sed by them.
“The encyclical, therefore,
does, not hit Dutch theologi
cal teachings.”
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NATION
Pope's Schedule
WASHINGTON D.C., (NC)--Here is an outline of Pope Paul’s
schedule for the Oct. 4 visit to the United Nations: arrive
New York. (10 a.m., EDT), arrive Cardinal Spellman’s resi
dence. (noon, EDT), address U.N. General Assembly. (3:30
p.m., EDT), offer Mass for peace at Yankee Stadium. (8 p.m.,
EDT), depart for Vatican. (10 p.m., EDT). (News reports
indicate the possiblity of a longer stay in the U.S.)
EUROPE
'Bach Has Confessed'
LONDON (NC)—In Douglas Woodruff’s column, in the Tab
let, “Talking at Random,” he relates the story of a suspi
cious traveler in Poland. He was humming continually, and
a plainclothes policeman thought it was a code. He asked
the hummer what he was doing, and with whom he was com
municating. “It is only a fugue of Bach,” the hummer said.
This did not satisfy the policeman, who took the hummer into
custody. Some hours later he was brought to a senior po
lice officer who looked at him sternly and said; “It is no good
your prevaricating: you had better come clean, for Bach
has confessed everything.”
MEXICO
No Catholics, Please
MEXICO CITY (NC)—Despite the need for 3,225 more tea
chers in Mexico’s public school system this year, the state
school authorities are rejecting applicants with private school
training, which in most cases means Catholic school educa
tion. It is estimated that only about 60% of the openings can
be filled by graduates of state or federal normal schools.
IN PAPAL TALK
Communists Hit
For Persecution