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The Southern Cross. May 2. 1968—PAGE 3
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IHM Case ‘Groundless’
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superiors says the
“fundamental complaint
underlying the protests in
behalf of the Immaculate
Heart Sisters is really
groundless.”
It summarizes that
complaint as “the Sacred
Congregation is blocking
‘aggiornamento’ and is
therefore against Vatican II.”
Rather, the letter says,
“genuine renewal” as stated
in Vatican decrees and Pope
Paul’s motu proprio
[Ecclesiae Sanctae] “must
always be carried out under
the influence and guidance of
the Church.”
The congregation says it
has encouraged the orderly
updating of the Religious life,
“but at the same time the
congregation must insist that
the norms laid down.. .be
duly respected.”
“It is on this point that,
notwithstanding excellent
intentions, some of the
Immaculate Heart Sisters and
members of other institutes
have been found wanting,”
the letter says. “Nowhere
does the Council grant
Religious unrestricted
authority to experiment.”
The letter says the
congregation “has no
objection and will be happy
to approve” many of the
changes proposed by the
Immaculate Heart Sisters.
“For others, however, the
Congregation reserves the
right to give an answer in due
time. Nevertheless, even at
the present time. . .the sacred
congregation has deemed it
its duty to intervene on the
following basic points.”
The letter then reiterates
the rulings made against the
IHM’s renewal program in
February--the “habit may not
be eliminated completely;” it
is “inconceivable that there
should be any authentic
Religious community without
some form of community
prayer;” the “religious life is
not to be subordinated to the
apostolate in general or to
any particular form of the
apostolate;” and “in the
works of the apostolate, there
must be close collaboration
with diocesan authority.”
The letter voices surprise
that “such a wave of
disedifying publicity has been
stirred up around points
which are not open to
question, and that radio,
press and television have been
enlisted to publicize
arguments which are devoid
of objective foundation and
which can only cause trouble.
“Anyone who feels that
the necessary and ardently
desired renewal of the
Religious life can be built on
the use of secular and worldly
dress, on the elimination of
community life, on
subordination of the
Religious life to external
activities, and on
independence from the local
Ordinary in the apostolate, is
falling into serious error and
evidences an attitude
basically contrary to that of
genuine renewal.”
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priests in the U. S. Meanwhile, the bishops of the country, meeting in St. Louis, have indicated
they will seek permission from Rome to open the diaconate to some married men over 35 and to
unmarried men 25 and over. They would serve, it is indicated, in a limited ministry to relieve the
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INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
NAACP Director Defends
U.S. Human Rights Record
TEHRAN, Iran (NC) - At
the International Conference
on Human Rights here, the
record of the United States
on human rights was
defended (April 24) by Roy
Wilkins, civil rights leader and
head of the U.S. delegation.
Wilkins, executive director
of the National Association
for the Advancement of
Colored People, predicted “a
glittering future for all
Americans--black men and
white, Indians, Protestants,
Catholics, Jews and
nonbelievers.”
He asserted that human
rights are violated everywhere
“except in Antarctica or
outer space.”
Communications media,
he said, accused by many of
focusing on the bad points of
the U.S., “have destroyed
apathy, excited the American
conscience, and have spelled
the eventual doom of
discrimination in the United
States.”
Wilkins said that, in the
international field, “we have
proclaimed more human
rights than we have
implemented.”
This comment seemed to
echo the words of Pope Paul
VI in a letter sent earlier to
the conference. The Pope
expressed the hope “that all
men of heart may join
together peacefully in order
that the principles of the UN
may be not only proclaimed
but put into effect and that
not only the constitutions of
states promulagate them but
public authorities apply them
so that all men may finally
lead a life worthy of the
name.”
It was not the
proclamation of human rights
but the violation of those
rights that concerned
participants here the day
before Wilkins’ remarks.
The Arabs and their allies
charged Israel with violating
human rights in occupied
Arab territories.
Judge Zean Zeltner of
Israel rejected the charges and
said that Syrian radio last
June had called for the
“slaughter of the Jews.”
In answer to the citation
of “atrocities” in the
Israeli-occupied territories by
Mustafa Medani of the Sudan,
Judge Zeltner asked: “How
many Sudanese Negroes have
been slaughtered in the
southern Sudan in the last
few years, 100,000, 200,000,
half a million?”
(Since it became
independent Jan. 1,1956, the
Sudan has pursued a
unification policy in the
country by imposing the
Arabic language and the
Islamic religion on all
citizens. This has led to civil
war between Arab
northerners and Negro
southerners-many of whom
are Christians-on racial and
religious grounds. Troops
from the North have
massacred thousands of
Negro southerners, and
thousands more in the South
fled to Uganda and the
Congo. All Christian
missi oners were expelled
from southern Sudan).
The World Union of
Catholic Women’s
Organizations (WUCWO)
circulated at the conference
the resolution on prostitution
and all forms and practices of
slavery affecting the status of
women adopted by the
WUCWO board at its March,
1968, meeting.
WUCWO also expressed
satisfaction that the work of
non-governmental
organizations in this area has
been recognized and
appreciated, and it pledged,
“in the name of 130 affiliated
organizations, to continue
and intensify its campaign
against all forms of slavery
and similar practices
concerning women in
particular and which
constitutes a flagrant denial
of their dignity and fights.”
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ST. LOUIS (NC) - All
major superiors of women in
the United States have
received copies of a letter
from the Vatican
Congregation for Religious
deploring “groundless”
protests in behalf of the
Immaculate Heart of Mary
Sisters in Los Angeles,
according to a copyrighted
story in the St. Louis Review,
arch diocesan newspaper here.
The letter restates points
the congregation made in its
February letter to the IHM’s
which ruled that the nuns
must wear a religious dress,
must pray in common, must
keep their commitment to
teaching and must obey the
local bishop.
Superiors contacted by the
Review confirmed the
existence of the letter and
gave mixed reactions. Some
superiors sent or
communicated the letter to
members of their community.
Some said they preferred not
to comment, either because
of the nature of the letter
itself or because they had not
studied it thoroughly.
One superior general said
she “was irritated beyond
words that in such a time of
crises of race, war, poverty
and even faith that people are
still piddling around about
what women are wearing. It
seems to be an effort to
‘scare’ Sisters,” she said.
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Vatican congregation, dated
April 4, was reportedly
written on stationary without
a letterhead and was not
signed.
A letter from Archbishop
Luigi Raimondi, Apostolic
Delegate in the United States,
dated April 9, stated the
letter was from the Vatican
congregation. Archbishop
Raimondi’s letter was to
Mother Mary Omer, chairman
of the Conference of Major
Superiors of Women.
In a letter dated April 15,
Mother Omer sent the
Vatican letter to major
superiors.
A number of superiors said
they felt the impact of the
letter from the Vatican
congregation wau lessened by
the announcement of the
committee of Americans to
review the IHM case.
Archbishop James V.
Casey of Denver, chairman of
that committee, which was
named by the Congregation
for Religious, told the Review
he became aware of the letter
on April 21.
He said its existence would
not change anything about
the committee’s work. “We
are going to examine the
issues. I take it they (the
congregation) are restating
what they have stated
before.”
Archbishop Casey, in St.
Louis for the U.S. bishops’
conference, said his
committee has already
“talked several times” here
and “will plan more
meetings.”
At another press
conference here, Auxiliary
Bishop James P. Shannon of
St. Paul and Minneapolis, said
that the matter had not come
up at thhe bishops’ m eting
here “because the committee
is studying the matter and it
would be unfair to Cardinal
McIntyre, the IHM Sisters
and to Archbishop Casey to
bring up the matter
formally.”
Bishop Shannon did say
there was much informal
discussion and concern about
the situation.
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