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PAGE 2 - The Southern Cross, November 21, 1968
Action-Packed Week—
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rights of farm workers to
organize, the bishops said
that “for 30 years
disadvantaged field workers
of the nation have stood by
helplessly and listened to
other Americans debating the
farm labor problem.
Burdened by low wage scales,
mounting health problems,
inadequate educational
opportunities, substandard
housing and lack of
year-round employment, they
have often been forced to live
a life devoid of security,
dignity and reasonable
comfort.”
The bishops urged the 91st
Congress to enact legislation
“to include farm workers
under the National Labor
Relations Act; to include
farm workers more
effectively under a national
minimum wage which will
insure them a decent standard
of living and to include farm
workers under the national
employment insurance
program.” They also
expressed the hope that ways
can be found to bring about
reconciliation in the current
farm labor dispute.
During the week, the
bishops heard a report from
the Committee on the
Revision of the Code of
Canon Law, which presented
27 norms for processing
marriage cases requiring
formal trials; these will be
submitted for a vote at the
April meeting after
suggestions from the bishops.
Bishop Ernest J. Primeau
of Manchester, N.H.. head of
the committee, reported on
present canonical procedures
in the laicization of priests.
Auxiliary Bishop Joseph M.
Breitenbeck of Detroit asked
for special consideration of
the canonical, spiritual and
personal problems of nuns,
and that the Rome procedure
be speeded up for granting
dispensation of vows.
John Cardinal Krol of
Philadelphia presented for
wider discussion the question
of due process, and asked
that specific recommendat
ions be submitted to the
Canon Law Committee.
The situation of the
dissident Washington priests
received attention at various
news briefings. At one,
Bishop McDevitt said
Archbishop John F. Dearden
of Detroit, president of the
National Council of Catholic
Bishops, said the conference
was not competent to deal
with the situation; that its
competence is limited to
what is given to it by the
Holy See.
A new structure was
proposed to coordinate the
work of all missions, with
members from he NCCB and
the Conferences of Major
Religious Superiors of Men
and of Women. As a first
step, approval was given to
dissolution of the Mission
Secretariat; and the bishops
“warmly commended”
Father Frederick A. McGuire,
C.M., for “his zealous and
effective work in the Mission
Secretariat for 19 years.”
The Committee on
Doctrine was asked by
Archbishop Philip M. Hannan
of New Orleans to make an
in-depth study on theological
assent and dissent, and
Bishop Alexander M. Zaleski
of Lansing, its chairman, said
such a study was already
under way.
A Liaison Committee for
Priests, Religious and Laity
was set up, with Lawrence
Cardinal Shehan of Baltimore
as chairman, and a charter for
it was approved.
The Liturgy Committee,
headed by Coadjutor
Archbishop Leo C. Byrne of
St. Paul and Minneapolis,
reported that approval had
been received from Rome for
use of English translations for
eight new prefaces and three
new canons in the Mass. An
effort is being made to have
the translations printed and
distributed so they will be
available by Jan. 1,1969.
Reporting on the Military
Ordinariate, Archbishop
Terence J. Cooke of New
York urgently requested the
release of more priests to
serve as chaplains. He said the
present total is 1,098
Catholic Chaplains on active
duty, and that the Army is
short 224 priest-chaplians;
the Navy, 29; and the Air
Force, 30.
The bishops approved
establishment of a committee
of bishops to set up a
foundation to promote the
study of human fertility, as
urged by Humanae Vitae.
Patrick Cardinal O’Boyle of
Washington suggested raising
$1 million as seed money for
the foundation.
The bishops also:
-Approved a report of the
Committee on Priestly
Formation forming part of a
program of priestly formation
to be submitted to the Holy
See.
-Discussed approving in
^principle establishment of
9 diocesan fact-finding boards.
-Heard a report on the
Catholic University of
America here.
-Approved a budget of
$10,900,000, an increase of
about $1 million over last
year, due both to expansion
of services and reorganization
of the United States Catholic
Conference.
In elections, the following
were named to head various
committees:
-Archbishop Thomas A.
Donnellan of Atlanta,
administrative committee
vacancy caused by death of
Bishop Loras Lane of
Rockford.
-Coadjutor Bishop Joseph
T. Daley of Harrisburg,
vocations committee.
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JESUP BLESSING - Bishop
Gerard L. Frey, celebrated
the Litury and blessed the
new crucifix at Jesup’s Saint
Joseph’s Church on Saturday,
November 16. Accompanying
the Bishop was Father
Kevin Boland, Chancellor of
the Diocese. The 3:00 P.M.
Mass was concelebrated by
Bishop Frey, Father Boland,
Father Edward R. Frank,
Pastor of Saint Joseph’s
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life-size figure of Christ was
donated by Mrs. Harold
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Mr. David Hickey, of
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the clergy and seventy
members of the parish
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the church grounds.
VATICAN CITY DAILY
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Denies
On Bishops’ Statements
BY PATRICK RILEY
VATICAN CITY (NC) -
The Vatican City daily
newspaper has denied that
any office or responsible
official of the Holy See has
commented on any statement
of a national group of bishops
on Pope Paul’s encyclical on
birth control, Humanae
Vitae.
The unsigned note in
L’Osservatore Romano was
described by a well placed
Vatican official as
“authorized.” This left open
the question of who had
authorized its publication.
The note first took issue
with press comments on the
French bishops’ statement on
Humanae Vitae, but
proceeded to deal with “any
other collective document of
an episcopal conference.”
It said-and the note as
read over Vatican Radio
began at this point:
“However no office of the
Holy See and no responsible
person of these same offices
has so far made a
pronouncement on the
declaration of the French
episcopate, as for that matter
on any other collective
document of the episcopal
conferences.”
This added a new element
to the discussion over
whether a letter from Papal
Secretary of State, Amleto
Cardinal Cicognani, saying
Pope Paul had received the
document of the Canadian
bishops “with satisfaction”
was merely a polite
acknowledgment of the
reception of the document or
a statement of approval.
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Cardinal Cicognani’s letter
was addressed, has
maintained from the
beginning that the words
“with satisfaction” are to be
taken at face value. Asked in
Rome whether the note in
L’Osservatore Romano had a
bearing on Cardinal
Cicognani’s letter, he said:
“What I have said before still
stands.”
A passage in the Canadian
bishops’ document said that
persons who “are involved in
what seems to them a clear
concept of duties, e.g.,
reconciling conjugal love and
responsible parenthood with
the education of children
already born or with the
health of the mother,” and
have tried unsuccessfully to
follow the encyclical’s
directives, “may be safely
assured that whoever
honestly chooses that course
which seems right to him
does so in good conscience.”
The French bishops too
raised the problem of what
they called “true conflict of
duties” without, however,
first introducing the element
of an unsuccessful attempt to
follow the encyclical’s norms.
Their solution: “On this
subject we simply recall the
constant moral teaching:
when one faces a choice of
duties, where one cannot
avoid an evil whatever be the
decision taken, traditional
wisdom requires that one
seek before God to find
which is the greater duty. The
spouses will decide for
themselves.”
The note in L’Osservatore
Romano said that
“deductions” made by
various newspapers and
periodicals from the
statements of the French and
other hierarchies “go without
doubt beyond the intentions
of the bishops, who in their
declarations reaffirm their
adhesion to the teaching of
the encyclical.”
It concluded: “Other
deductions even point to the
possibility of a bivalent
interpretation which in the
end would weaken the
binding value of the law.”
Follows is a translation of
the note. (The unnamed press
agency referred to at the
beginning is Agence France
Presse.)
‘‘A news agency
announced a few days ago
that ‘the Vatican is gratified
at the courageous stand of
the French episcopate
regarding the Encyclical
Humanae Vitae.’
“The item continues: ‘This
text-it is said in religious
circles-fits very well into the
prospects of the Christian
life. It distinguishes itself by
the choice of terms and
corresponds point by point to
the spirit of the pontifical
letter . . . . ’
“These concepts are
developed then to conclude
that there is made ‘an appeal
to reason and to the heart of
the Christian spouses’ that
they may realize that ‘the
feeling of being caught
between two conflicting
obligations is met with one
way or another in the life of
every marriage/ and that
‘everything in this document
is excellent.’
“This report is dated Nov.
9. However no office of the
Holy See and no responsible
person of these same offices
has so far made a
pronouncement on the
declaration of the French
episcopate, as for that matter
on any other collective
document of the episcopal
conferences. The deductions
which some newspapers and
periodicals have drawn from
this, as well as from other like
documents, go without doubt
beyond the intentions of the
bishops, who in their
declarations reaffirm their
adhesion to the teaching of
tlje encyclical. Other
deductions even point to the
possibility of a bivalent
interpretation which in the
end would weaken the
binding power of the law.”
TAX COURT RULES
Tuition Is Not
6 Contribution 9
WASHINGTON, D.C.
(RNS) - A U.S. Tax Court
here ruled that a Roman
Catholic couple could not
deduct as a “contribution”
tuition payments made to the
private catholic school their
children attend.
It rejected a 1964 claim by
Mr. and Mrs. James A.
McLaughlin of Marshfield,
Mass., to the Internal
Revenue Service that they
should qualify under the tax
law provision which permits
deductions of donations
made to charitable
institutions.
The court held that the
couple did not give $1,526 to
Sacred Heart School,
Kingston, Mass., as a
donation, but intended that it
be used to pay tuition for five
of their children.
It also said that the intent
of the individual taxpayer is
of prime consideration and
found that the McLaughlins
admittedly did not intend the
money solely as a donation.
A pertinent 19 54
regulation issued by Internal
Revenue Service lists as
“charitable donation” that
which is “contribution to or
for the use of’ a corporation
“organized and operated
exclusively for . . . education
services.”
The tax court did not
dispute that the Sisters of
Divine Providence, the order
which maintains the school,
was a qualified organization.
But, it said, “it seems clear
from the stipulations and
from the context of
petitioners’ brief that the
tuition payments were made
in order that the children
would attend Sacred Heart
School ...”
In its decision, the court
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it had further defined a
charitable contribution,
making it synonymous with
the world “gift.” In that case
it said, “A gift is generally
defined as a voluntary
transfer of property by the
owner to another without
consideration therefore.
“If a payment proceeds
primarily from the incentive
of anticipated benefit to the
payor, beyond the
satisfaction which flows from
the performance of a
generous act, it is not a gift.”
In its mention of the
petitioners, the court said,
“We think the payments were
personal living or family
expenses which are not
deductible ...”
The court made plain that
its ruling affected only
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“There is nothing in these
statutes to indicate that
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