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PAGE 2—The Southern Cross, August 24, 1967
Roman Curia Reformed—
(Continued from Page 1)
Pope’s commission of car
dinals for curial reform.
Msgr. Pinna said that Andre
Cardinal Jullien of France
and Anselmo Cardinal Al-
bareda, aSpanish Benedictine,
had made up the rest of the
original commission until
their deaths. They were re
placed by William Cardinal
Heard, a Scot, and Efrem
Cardinal Forni, an Italian.
Among other features of the
curial reform listed by Msgr.
Pinna were:
—Emphasis on qualities of
piety and selflessness re
quired of all members of the
Curia;
—Closer collaboration bet
ween the Roman Curia and the
world’s bishops, “especially
by means of the episcopal con
ferences”;
—Greater coordination a-
mong the various departments
of the Curia “by means of
mixed meetings on various
levels.” Msgr. Pinna said that
would avoid a “dispersion of
energy, waste of time, un
certainty over competency, an
eventual clash between de
cisions.”
Among details of the reform
is the renaming of various
congregations:
The Consistorial Congrega
tion will be called the Congre
gation of the Bishops, the Con
gregation of the Council will
be called the Congregation of
the Clergy (and its competency
includes permanent deacons),
and the Congregation on
Seminaries and Universities
will be called the Congregation
for Catholic Education. The
Congregation for the Propaga
tion of the Faith, while
retaining its historical name,
will also be called the Con
gregation for the Evangeliza
tion of nations.
In the new reform, prece
dence is given to the Papal
Secretarist of State, now
known as the Papal Secre
tariat, and to the Council for
the Church’s Public Affairs.
The latter corresponds rough
ly to the former first section
of the Secretariat of State,
which was identical to the now
suppressed Congregation for
Extraordinary Ecclesiastical
Affairs.
Msgr. Pinna compared the
Council for the Church’s
Public Affairs to the foreign
ministries of secular govern
ments. However, he said the
word “foreign” could not be
applied to the Church’s public
affairs, because “in the
Church no affair is foreign
because no nation is a stranger
to her.”
The Council for the
Church’s Public Affairs will
deal, on the Holy See’s behalf,
with various foreign govern
ments and will handle diplo
matic relations. Like its pre
decessor, it will be closely
linked to the Papal Secre
tariat of State. The council’s
prefect is to be the secretary
of state, but the council and
the secretariat are to be wholly
distinct.
Under the new regulations
laymen may be called into the
C uria as consultors.
The Roman Rota assumes
competency over all cases of
nullity of marriage, whether
dealing with marriages bet
ween Catholics of the Latin
or Eastern rites, mixed mar
riages, or marriages between
non-Catholics, whether bap
tized or not.
The Congregation for the
Discipline of the Sacraments
holds competency over dis
pensations for marriages
ratified and nonconsummated.
The Congregation of the
Clergy will seek to obtain a
better distribution of clergy
throughout the world, while
maintaining the principle that
every priest should be in-
cardinated in a diocese.
The second section of the
Congregation of the Clergy
will concern itself with keep
ing pastoral activities in tune
with the times. Much of its
work will deal with the reli
gious instruction of persons
of all ages and with the pro
blems of religious practice
during vacation time.
A third section of the con
gregation will deal with the
clergy’s material needs.
Msgr. Pinna commented:
“Whoever serves at the altar
must live by the altar, and
every worker has a right to
a fitting recompense.”
The Congregation for
Catholic Education will help
foster cooperation among
Catholic universities, will see
to it that spiritual and even
material help is available to
students, and will supervise
Catholic education on every
level.
To the Congregation for Re
ligious will be added a special
section for secular institutes.
The Congregation of Rites
has been radically re
structured. It will consist of
two sections: one for worship
and the other for canoniza
tion causes. This second sec
tion will be divided into three
subsections: the first dealing
with the introductory phase of
the canonization process, the
second with the candidate’s
writings and virtues or with
his martyrdom, and the third
with miracles.
The Supreme Tribunal of the
Apostolic Signature retains its
title and function as the
Church’s supreme tribunal,
but it extends its competency
considerably. This is done
through the addition of an
entirely new institution for
the settlement of interdepart
mental disputes within the
Roman Curia.
A statistical institute for the
Holy See has been created, al
though the final details of its
structure have not been
settled. However, its purpose
is to gather data useful to the
Church for a better under
standing of its own condition.
It is also expected that the
statistical institute will be of
use to the bishops of the world,
and it will certainly draw upon
data supplied by them.
The Prefecture of the
Apostolic Palace has been re
formed so deeply that it is
described as a new organism.
It results from the fusion of
the office of major domo, of
the office maestro di camera
and of the Ceremonial Congre
gation, which has been sup
pressed. This new office of the
Apostolic Palace will super
vise the maintenance of the
pope’s residence, will handle
papal audiences and will ar
range pontifical ceremonies
within the framework of litur
gical norms already laid down.
Given the Pope’s penchant
for pilgrimage-making, its
most important function may
turn out to be the making of
arrangements for his pil
grimages.
The Secretariat for Pro
moting Christian Unity, the
Secretariat for Non-Christian
Religions and the Secretariat
for Non-Believers have been
formally absorbed into the
Curia. The Council for the
Laity and the Commission for
Justice and Peace have been
brought into the Curia on a
trail basis.
Various offices for the
writing of Latin documents
have been combined. The
Datary Apostolic, the Secre
tariat of Briefs for Princes
and the Secretariat for Latin
Letters have disappeared,
while an office for writing
Latin letters remains part of
the Secretariat ofState. There
is also a minor office for Latin
letters of lesser importance,
such as papal honors.
Priests—
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accompany the new priests on
the tour. Following supper
that evening at Nativity Par
ish, the Lay Apostolatg in the
diocese will be outlined by
Mrs. Sarah Lloyd, Dr. and
Mrs. Louis Castilian, Mr.
Thomas McLaughlin and Mrs.
William Schneider.
The Institute will come to its
conclusion on September 7th
when Bishop Gerard L. Frey
will give the priests their
assignments.
Those taking part in the
Institute include:
Reverends Michael A.
Burke, Michael G. Collins,
Daniel Dunne, Cyril Gabbett,
Thomas Healy, PatrickC. Mc
Kenna, William O’Neill, Ea-
monn J. O’Riordan, Frank
Patterson and Finbarr P.
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SENATOR KENNEDY SAYS
Church Must Share Blame
For Racial Unrest In US
By Richard
M. M. McConnell
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (NC)—
New York Sen. Robert F. Ken
nedy told the convention of the
National Catholic Conference
for Interracial Justice (Aug.
17) that the Catholic Church
“must bear part of the blame”
for the nation’s racial unrest.
Some 1,100 people, many of
whom had paid $5 to see the
senator, sat in the auditorium
of Rockhurst College here
in Kanasas City while Sena
tor Kennedy’s voice came
by telephone from his McLean,
Va., home. The senator was
introduced electronically by
Antonio Sandoval, president of
Kansas City’s Catholic Inter
racial Council, following a
welcome address by Bishop
Charles H. Helmsing of Kan
sas City-St. Joseph.
Speaking after aSenate floor
fight on the foreign aid bill
caused him to miss his plane
to Kansas City, Kennedy said
those churches which have
administered to an afflunt flock
while ignoring the hungry, the
ALBANY, N.Y. (NC) — The
next step for removal of the
73-year-old restrictions on
private school aid imposed by
the Blaine Amendment to the
New York state constitution
will be up to the voters in
November.
An overwhelming constitu
tional convention vote—al
most 3 to l--left little doubt
that the last two legal barriers
to its presentation to the
people in November will be
hurdled.
Now the big question is:
How will it be presented to the
people?
The convention must yet de
cide whether to present it as
a part of a completely re
written constitution — the
choice of its president, Demo
cratic Assembly Speaker An
thony J. Travia—or as a
separate item, which Republi
can legislative leaders, in
cluding Convention Minority
Leader Earl W. Brydges, who
is also state Senate majority
leader, favor.
Here the Blaine repeal can
rim into some political pre-
sures, as if the issure itself
was not already hot enough.
Because several of the De
mocratic decisions in the con
vention run contrary to Re
publican stands there is a
strong chance that a single re
jobless and the unclothed in
our cities; compromised the
moral imperatives of equality
to win the support of their com
placent followers; ignored the
plight of the migrant worker;
those churches and church au
thorities who have shunned
priests seeking to shatter the
wall of apathy between the two
Americans—“those churches
have not aided our security:
they have impeded it by de
priving us of the understand
ing and communication we so
desperately need.”
The New York Senator’s
harsh attack followed brief
words of gratitude for human
relations work done by the
Church. “Since 1960,” he had
noted, “you have worked to
bridge the chasm which has
for so long divided white and
black Americans.
“Your support for legis
lation to guarantee all men
the right to vote, to use public
facilities and to live where
they choose has helped to
eradicate long years of in
equality ingrained in our law
and customs.”
written constitution can face
solid G.O.P. opposition, re
gardless of the decisions on
individual issues.
Already, Blaine’s sup
porters, beaten badly on every
convention floor effort to keep
the restrictions of Article XI,
Section 3, have declared war
on the convention decision.
They threaten to work for de
feat of the entire constitution
if there is a single presenta
tion simply because of their
opposition to the removal of
Blaine. They are pushing for
a single presentation of Blaine
on the November ballot.
The consitutional conven
tion voted by 132 to 49
to remove the Blaine Amend
ment and insert working simi
lar to that of the First Amend
ment to the U. S. Constitution.
The new article also will
give New York State residents,
for the first time, standing to
bring suit for alleged vilations
fo church-state separation.
Another amendment to the
original article will require
that any school receiving
direct state aid must open its
doors to all children, regard
less of religion.
Only a handful of the 49
delegates who voted against
repealing Blaine oppose any
and all state aid to children
attending non-public schools.
Then he said: “However, I
did not come here to congra
tulate you, but to challenge
you. For this work is not
enough—too much remains to
be done for us to rest content
with past victories and even
present visions. We in Amer
ica have recently reaped the
stark harvest sown by seeds
of deprivation, of mistrust,
and of hatred.”
“I speak, of course, of the
violence that has exploded in
our cities, spreading across
the country, sending fear and
anger before it, leaving death
and devastation behind. . .”
he said.
“The Church itself,” the
Senator said, “must reaffirm
its involvement with the least
among us, by working in the
ghetto, devoting its energy not
to console the poor but to help
them end their poverty. The
Church must further carry the
moral imperative of equality
to every suburban pulpit and
into the homes of decent white
Americans, helping to turn
their fundamental sense of
justice into action.
“Merely to continue existing
programs, even it we continue
to fund them at best on an
increased level, is simply not
enought of an answer. Approa
ches to these grave problems
—employment, housing, ed
ucation—which may have
served us satisfactorily in the
past are no longer a complete
answer in the ‘60s and beyond.
' “We need no further evi
dence than the conditions of the
ghettoes today to demonstrate
that the old ideas of welfare
and government handout by
themselves will not give jobs
to our people, house their
families, educate their chil
dren, or slow movement of the
rural poor to the cities,” he
said.
“What is urgently needed
by our churches, our univer
sities, and by the unleashed
force of private enterprise,
is a new way to look at our
urban poor and creative and
imaginative ways to meet their
needs and our own.
“Today, at a time when in
justices long smolderingbegin
to explode with a rage newly
kindled, we must remain true
to this faith, shunning the cries
of those who counsel fear.
“We must reject absolutely
the leadership of fear, the
cries of those who find re
pression more congenial than
justice, and anger more popu
lar than compassion. Let them
go on their way. It is not
ours.”
While a dog barked in the
background, Sen. Kennedy con
cluded: “Let us instead turn
to the words of Albert Camus:
‘perhaps we cannot prevent
this from being a world in
which children suffer. But we
can reduce the number of suf
fering children,’ and if you
will not do this, who will do
it?”
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Up To Voters
IN PENNSYLVANIA
Public School
Hardship Seen
HARRISBURG, Pa. (NC)—A
study released here under the
sponsorship of the Pen
nsylvania Catholic Conference
warns that the “now distinct
possibility” of drastic reduc
tions in parochial school pop
ulation throughout Pennsy-
vania “Spells severe econo
mic hardship. . .and grave dis
turbance” for the state’s pub
lic schools.
Copies of the report were
made available to the governor
and members of his admini
stration, members of both the
State Senate and House of Re
presentatives, and other pub
lic and education officials.
It says there are “five fun
damental realities” which
must be faced:
—Non-public education —
embracing 23% of all elemen
tary and secondary school pu
pils in the commonwealth and
effecting tax savings to the to
tal public—is an important
fhetor in the economy and ed
ucational future of the state.
—Any substantial reduction
in number of the non-public
school population spells econ
omic hardship to Pennsylvania
and grave disturbance for pub
lic schools.
-Non-public education in
Pennsylvania cannot much lon
ger meet the cost of serving
the public in spite of any de
sires or sacrifices on the part
of its supporters.
—Many public school dis
tricts of the commonwealth
are faced with too severe fi
nancial difficulties to permit
their accommodating substan
tial additional population re
sulting from reduction in non
public school population.
—The solution of Pennsyl
vania’s educational crisis is
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a measure of support, within
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The report comes against
a background of repeated
warnings by Catholic officials
in this state that the public
schools should be prepared
for a large influx of Catholic
pupils whom the parochial
school systems can no longer
afford to accomodate. Arch
diocesan officials in Philadel
phia recently blamed a new
contract won by striking lay
teachers for the fact that the
archdiocese will be forced to
Charge tuition in Catholic
Schools. The move is expected
to result in a diminshed num
ber of students. Meanwhile
Catholic school officials here
as elsewhere are pressing for
some sort of public assistance
to Catholic school youngsters.
The Pennsylvania Catholic
Conference, for whom the re
port was made, is the central
agency for the eight Catholic
dioceses in the state.
The report says that parents
who are taxed for public edu
cation but also pay to have their
children, enrolled in non-public
schools can no longer be asked
to shoulder both burdens with
out help.
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