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AS PROPOSED BY SYNOD
Vatican Is Organizing
Theology Commission
VATICAN CITY (NC) -
The Holy See is proceeding
with the creation of the
international theological
commission proposed last
autumn by the Synod of
Bishops.
This was made public by
the Holy See’s press officer,
Msgr. Fauston Vallainc, in
m
commenting on press leaks of
a secret letter sent by the
general secretariat of the
synod to presidents of
national bishops’ conferences
and all persons who took part
in the synod.
Msgr. Vallainc said the
letter* “requests the bishops’
conferences to send in the
Duffy Named Secretary
Patrick Joseph Duffy Jr., of Savannah, has been elected
secretary of the freshman class at Belmont Abbey College,
Belmont, N.C. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Patrick J. Duffy,
Sr., and a graduate of Benedictine Military High School.
Cabrini P.C.C.W.
Savannah’s St. Frances Cabrini Parish Council of Catholic
Women will hold its December meeting on December 2 at 8:00
p.m. at the Windsor Arms Recreation Room, Largo Drive. Mrs.
F. N. Goodson Jr. will give a presentation on flower arranging.
All ladies of the parish are invited.
St. Nicholas Dinner
On Monday, Dec. 2, at 8:00 P.M., the St. James Parish
Council of Catholic Women will hold its annual St. Nicholas
Day Dinner at the Tiffany House Restaurant. Busses will leave
the St. James parking lot promptly at 7:15 for those needing
transportation. Members and guests are invited to attend. For
reservations, call Mrs. Ellie Brickner, 355-1292, or Mrs. Alida
Smith, 355-0823.
Cathedral P.C.C.W.
Various projects were outlined at the November meeting of
the Cathedral Parish Council of Catholic Women. Volunteers are
being sought to handle the selling of religious articles as a
council project. Father Lawrence Lucree, pastor, urged
attendance at the annual Novena in honor of the Immaculate
Conception to be held December 1-9. The group will sponsor
the collection of infants clothing for the Holy Father’s Store
House. Parishioners are asked to bring these articles
(gift-wrapped) to be placed at the altar of Our Blessed Mother
on December 8th. Council voted to send a Christmas
contribution to Gracewood.
Cabrini Parish Supper
Members of Savannah’s newly established St. Frances Cabrini
parish gathered for a covered dish supper on Saturday,
November 23, at the Windsor Forest Country Club. The supper
was sponsored by the Cabrini P.C.C.W. with the women bringing
the food. In addition to parish members and Father Stephen
Connolly, pastor, the following special guests were in
attendance: Bishop Gerard L. Frey, Bishop of Savannah; Father
Kevin Boland, Chancellor Diocese of Savannah, and Father John
Cuddy, pastor of St. James Church. Edward Petrevitch,
chairman of the St. Frances Cabrini Confraternity of the Laity
Drive, presented Bishop Frey with a check in the amount of the
parish quota.
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names of theologians with a
view to the establishment of
the doctrinal commission.”
The Synod of Bishops
proposed by an overwhelming
vote the creation of a
commission of theologians of
diverse schools “whose duty
it will be, acting with all
lawful academic freedom, to
assit the Holy See and
especially the Sacred
Congregation for the
Doctrine of the Faith,
principally in connection
with questions of greater
importance.”
There had been
increasingly vocal criticism of
Pope Paul for his “failure” to
implement this proposal. It
was argued that tension
between the Holy See and
various celebrated theologians
such as Belgian-born
Dominican Father Edward
Schillebeeckx and Swiss-born
Father Hans Kueng might
have been avoided if these
men had been able to discuss
the Holy See’s objections
with a group of their
academic peers acting in the
Holy See’s behalf.
However, a highly placed
and irreproachable source at
the Vatican stated that the
Pope had charged Franjo
Cardinal Seper, prefect of the
Doctrinal Congregation, to
outline the structure and
competence of such a
commission not long after
Cardinal Seper assumed his
duties as prefect in January.
This source asserted that
Cardinal Seper had found the
task extremely taxing.
It was widely believed that
a principal difficulty inherent
in the organization of the
theological commission was
the apparent overlapping of
competencies between the
commission and the Doctrinal
Congregation. But the
secretary general of the
synod, Bishop Ladislas
Rubin, told journalists only
that the difficulties were of
various kinds, including the
choice of theologians
genuinely representative of
various currents of
theological thinking and
genuinely representative of
the various regions. (The
synod had proposed that the
commission include men
“who reside in various parts
of both the Western and the
Eastern Church.”)
Bishop Rubin was also
questioned about the second
of the two proposals the
synod, on its own initiative,
made to the Pope: the
drafting by the Holy See of a
“positive pastoral declaration
concerning questions involved
in today’s doctrinal crisis, so
that the fai th of the people of
God may be given sure
direction.”
He replied only that the
letter his secretariat had sent
out to the heads of bishops’
conferences and others
connected with the synod
drew attention to the Credo
of the People of Cod that
Pope Paul had issued June 29.
Bishop Rubin added:
“Personal'./, I maintain that
everything the Pope said in
the Credo is the doctrine of
the Church of today.”
Msgr. Vallainc described
the letter from Bishop
Rubin’s office as “a normal
communication.”
He said that it recalled the
problems studied by the
synod, that it “states how far
the implementation of the
synodal decisions has
proceeded,” that it requested
nominations to the doctrinal
commission, and that it “asks
those concerned what Pericle
Cardinal Felici had already
asked at the end of the
synod, to send the general
secretarial proposals judged
opportune for an eventual
revision of the synod’s rules
of procedure.”
The synod dealt with the
revision of canon law,
doctrinal deviations,
seminaries, mixed marriages
and liturgical reform.
It was stated by a reliable
Vatican source that Bishop
Rubin’s letter to heads of
bishops’ conferences did not
include items to be included
on the agenda of any coming
synod.
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late Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, knelt in prayer at the grave of the late President, following their
prayers at the grave (Nov. 20) of Robert Kennedy. (NC Photos)
POPE PAUL ASKS
Is 6 The Echo Of Protest’
Helpful Role For Press?
VATICAN CITY (NC) -
Pope Paul VI, asserting that
the Church “expects
something quite different” of
the Catholic press than of the
secular press, asked whether
the Catholic press serves the
Church by making itself “the
obliging echo” of protest in
the Church.
The “immense mass of the
good faithful” can be thrown
off balance, he said, by
challenges to tradition on the
nature and exercise of
authority in the Church, on
the meaning of the
priesthood, on priestly
celibacy and on the
indissolubility of marriage.
Pope Paul was speaking
(Nov. 23) to Catholic
journalists. They were
members of the council of
the presidency and the
executive council of the
International Union of the
Catholic Press.
The Pope lavished praise
on the secular press, with
some reservations:
“Everybody knows and
sees every day how much the
Church owes in this domain
to the press of great
circulation. The press called
‘neutral’ often gives to
religious matters an attention
and an interest that are
limited and are often
conditioned by psychological
or commercial demands with
which we will not concern
ourselves here. If we were to
say a word it would be rather
to express satisfaction at
seeing that, especially since
the Second Vatican Council,
the religious element really
constitutes-even for the press
called ‘ n eutral ’ or
mass-circulation--a more
lively and more appreciated
center of interest than in the
past.
“But the Church expects
something quite different yet
of her sons who have chosen
to put their talents at the
service of the Catholic press.
Of them she expects a
veritable positive
collaboration of this vital
circulation . .. between the
WATSON HONORED — ATC Tom Watson was honored prior
to the 11 o’clock Mass at Brunswick’s St. Francis Xavier Church
Sunday, November 17th. Father Michael A. Collins, S.M.,
pastor, is pictured as he presented Chief Watson with a plaque
formally thanking him for his devoted service to the parish.
Special mention was made of his activity as a soloist in the
church choir. Watson and his family are moving to San Diego,
Calif., where he will be stationed with a Navy squadron. He has
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visible organism of the
Church. Such a vital
circulation is not one-way but
implies bringing to light the
directives coming from the
hierarchy as well of news of
the life of the People of God
spread throughout the world,
of its preoccupations and
problems, of course, but also
of its faith and positive
undertakings.
“This means that from the
mass of information it is up
to you to make a choice
inspired by a desire to give
the most accurate image
possible of the Church’s life.
That implies a great demand
of truthfulness, and it
supposes the ability to resist
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POPE PA l/L:
6 Death-Of-God-
Death Of Man’
VATICAN CITY (NC) -
The theology of the death of
God, according to Pope Paul
VI, boils down to the death
of man.
“To take away God as the
sought-for goal toward which
man turns by his nature,
means to demean man
himself,” Pope Paul told a
general audience (Nov. 20).
“The so-called ‘death of
God’ ends in the death of
man.”
It was the second week in
a row in which Pope Paul had
dealt with the death of God
Theology.
“It is forgotten that man
in his entire spiritual being,
that is, in his supreme
faculties of knowing and of
loving, is correlative to God.
He is made for God, and
every conquest of the human
spirit increases his disquiet
and kindles his desire to go
beyond, to reach the ocean of
being and of life, the full
truth which alone gives
happiness.”
He recalled the warning of
the Fourth Lateran Council
(1215) “that between creator
and creature one cannot
establish a similarity without
noting that the dissimilarity is
greater.” From this he
deduced that the search for
God must proceed
ceaselessly.
“But we men of today
rebel at this: What use is it to
seek God? Such a hidden
God? Is not that little we
know enough--or that little
we think we know? Is it not
better to harness our thought
to the study or things more
proportionate to our faculties
of knowing? Things such as
science, psychology-the
world and man?”
Pope Paul called this “the
great objection of the
contemporary outlook.”
To this objection he
answered: “But this criterion,
that establishes the real ambit
of natural reason, asserts
itself in our theoretical and
practical culture with
excessive pretensions, because
it erects its legitimate
prerogatives into negative
dogmas. And it easily bars the
way to the progress of
research.”
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