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The Southern Cross, December 5.1968 — PAGE 3
ON ANGLICAN ORDERS
Episcopal Bishop Seeks
Re-study Of 1896 Probe
PROVIDENCE, R. I.
(RNS) — Hope that records
of the special Vatican
commission which
investigated Anglican Orders
in 1896--and declared them
null and void-will be opened
for study was expressed here
by Episcopal Bishop John
Seville Higgins of Rhode
Island.
The entire question of
orders, or ordination of
ministers and priests, in the
church is being examined,
Bishop Higgins said, adding
that it probably will come
out differently than expected
by either “stuffy Anglicans”
or “stuffy Catholics.”
Bishop Higgins responded
to questions addressed to him
after a talk on “The Nature
of Orders in the Church” by
the Rev. John Jay Hughes,
former Episcopal priest who
was conditionally ordained to
the Roman Catholic
priesthood last January in
Germany.
Father Hughes’ address was
one of a series of dialogue
meetings between Catholic
and Episcopal Church
clergymen and Rhode Island.
A member of the group of
Episcopal and Catholic
bishops that has been meeting
nationally for three years,
Bishop Higgins said that “in
some sense all orders have a
certain validity.”
He then quoted Father
George Tavard, a Catholic
theologian at Pennsylvania
State University, as having
told him that any person who
acts and does the things a
priest can do and lives the life
that a priest should live “is a
priest.”
Author of “Absolutely
Null and Utterly Void,” a
recently published account of
the papal condemnation of
Anglican Orders in 1896,
Father Hughes took the
position that some good
resulted from the
condemnation.
It forced Anglicans to
defend their orders on
Catholic principles, he
declared.
Current re-examination of
the issue by Catholic
theologians has led “to a
broader doctrine of the
ministry” which in turn is
helping toward reconciliation
with Anglicans and all
Protestants, he said.
And, he added, the “inner
Catholic debate” over the
issue provides for both
Anglicans and Protestants “an
excellent example of the
strict limits of the doctrine of
papal infallibility.”
The son of the late William
Dudley F. Hughes, former
rector of St. Columba’s
Episcopal church in
Middleton, R.I., Father
Hughes said that the 1896
investigation was one-sided,
against the Anglican position,
and that a new study might
produce different results.
He said that his study was
undertaken at the request of
German theologians and will
result in the publication of a
second volume next fall.
His study is based on
public records. A “full
investigation”, he said, waits
on the opening of the
documents “which are still
locked up in the highly
secret” archives of the former
Holy Office.
The issue of Anglican
Orders, he said, “is not a
central dogmatic issue
separating Canterbury and
Rome,” but does raise
dogmatic issues and
resentments exist as a result
of it.
Father Mark Heath, O.P.,
chairman of the Department
of Religious Studies at
Providence College where the
meeting was held, disagreed
with Father Hughes.
If the results of any new
study of Anglican Orders
should prove to be as
inconclusive as those of 1896,
Father Heath said, the issue
would probably be resolved
with another declaration of
invalidity.
The Rev. Armand A.
LaVallee, rector of St.
Thomas’ Episcopal church,
Greenville, R.I., called for the
opening of the Vatican
documents “to pairs of
scholars” representing the
two Churches.
Father Heath and Father
LeVallee ' were official
“responders” to Father
Hughes.
The meeting drew more
than 300 priests, Brothers,
nuns, and members of the
laity from both
denominations.
Now curate at St. Thomas
More church in Muenster,
Germany, Father Hughes was
originally ordained in New
York City in 1953 by
Episcopal Bishop Horace
Donegan.
It was because a Polish
National Catholic bishop was
included among Bishop
Donegan’s co-consecrators
that Father Hughes was able
to be conditionally ordained
in the Roman Church, he
said.
Polish National Catholic
orders are regarded by Rome
as valid, he said.
Father Hughes’ conditional
ordination took place last
Jan. 27 in the private chapel
of Catholic Bishop Josef
Hoeffner in Meunster.
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Normally an Anglican
minister becoming a Catholic
priest would be ordained by a
Catholic bishop because his
Anglican ordination is not
considered valid by Catholics.
“Conditional” ordination is
based on the possibility that
the individual may have been
validly ordained.
The meeting was sponsored
by the ecumenical
commissions of the Catholic
Diocese of Providence, the
Episcopal Diocese of Rhode
Island, and Providence
College’s religious studies
department.
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BY PROTESTANT JOURNAL
Religion Census Of U.S.
Congressmen Published
SURVEY FINDS
Fewer Students
Going To Church
MINNEAPOLIS (RNS) -
Students at the University of
Minnesota attend church less
as they advance in class rank,
according to a survey
conducted by the
Minneapolis Tribune.
In interviews with 448
students, the newspaper
found 46 pet cent of
freshmen said they attend
church services regularly.
“Regular attendance”
responses came from 41 per
cent of the sophomores, 32
per cent of the juniors, 29 per
cent of the seniors and 25 per
cent of the graduate students.
Father Harold Bury,
assistant director at the
university’s Catholic Newman
Center, said the data
indicating a progressive
decline in church attendance
squared with his observations.
“It’s not the university’s
fault that attendance
declines,” he said. “The
students’ faith often has not
been internalized when they
get here. They are in the
habit of going to church but
they go out of habit, not
internal consent.
“When they get into a
social milieu where not
everyone goes to church, they
have to make a decision
about whether to go or to
stay in bed. I’m not wringing
my hands about the situation.
It’s a challenge to me to
demonstrate to young people
that the Eucharist and
religion have meaning and
value in their lives.”
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WASHINGTON (NC) -
Christianity Today, an
independent Protestant
journal, has published an
“authoritative Religious
Census of Congress,” which
gives the following “complete
list of categories” for the
upcoming 91st Congress:
Roman Catholic-111 (13
Senators, 98 Representatives)
Methodist-90 (23 Senators,
67 Representatives)
Presby terian--82 (13
Senators, 69 Representatives)
Episcopalian--67 (14
Senators, 53 Representatives)
Baptist-53 (10 Senators, 43
Representatives) United
Church of Christ and
Co ngregational--29 (6
Senators, 23 Representatives)
Jewish-19 (2 Senators, 17
Representatives)
Lutheran-14 (3 Senators, 11
Representatives) Christian
Church (Disciples)-13 (1
Senator, 12 Representatives)
Latter-Day Saints-10 (4
Senators, 6 Representatives)
Unitarian-Universalist-7 (4
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NEW YORK (RNS) - The
International Order of the
Alhambra, a fraternal
organization of Roman
Catholic men dedicated to
assisting retarded children,
has announced plans to build
a mental retardation research
center.
Vincent F. Caputo of
McLean, Va., supreme
commander, said the
installation will be in the
northeast at a site yet to be
selected.
A three-day conference
here was attended by 85
officers, board-members, and
regional directors from 27
states and Ontario and
Quebec.
The Alhambra, which is
not affiliated with any other
Catholic society, was founded
in 1904. It has 20,000
members in the U.S. and
Canada, and maintains
headquarters in Baltimore.
In the past year the
fraternal society allocated $1
million in aid to retarded
children through teacher
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through direct contributions
to Catholic dioceses in North
America where programs to
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maintained. Since its
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Senators, 3 Representatives)
Churches of Christ-6 (1
Senator, 5 Representatives)
Christian Science-5 (1
Senator, 4 Representatives)
The publication said three
Senators and nine
Representatives describe
themselves as “Protestant,”
and three Representatives
prefer not to be listed. It says
“other groups” are Greek
Orthodox, 3; Society of
Friends, 3; Evangelical Free
Church; 2, and Reformed
Church in America; 1;
Schwenkfelder Church, 1;
Apostolic Christian Church,
1; Christian and Missionary
Alliance, 1; Evangelical
Convenant Church, 1, and
Seventh-Day Adventists, 1.
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The journal says these
figures represent an over-all
increase of two in the number
of Catholics in the Senate and
House.
The census also says that,
among the new governors of
states elected this year, 9 are
Methodists, 8 Roman
Catholics, 7 Baptists, 6
Episcopalians, 6
Presbyterians, 4 United
Church of Christ, 3 Christian
Church (Disciples of Christ),
2 Lutherans, 2 Latter-Day
Saints, and 1, Jewish, 1
Unitarian and 1 “Protestant.”
The “religious balance”
that prevailed among
members of the 90th
Congress “will be generally
maintained” in the 91st
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