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Alumni of Savannah’s
Benedictine Military School
marked ‘homecoming’ day
during and after a gridiron
clash with Groves High
School. Benedictine won, 26 -
7.
Before the opening
kickoff, Father Aelred Beck,
O.S.B., Benedictine
Headmaster introduced
parents of Benedictine squad
members to a large crowd of
fans.
After half-time concert by
the Benedictine Band, all the
members of the school’s
PAGE 2 -- The Southern Cross, October 30,1969
POPE PA UL VI
Calls On Mary
To Strengthen
Celibacy Vow
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twenty-fifth graduating class
present at the game were
introduced and the
homecoming Queen was
crowned. She was Miss Terri
Lynn McLendon. First and
second place runners-up,
Patty Clary and Mary
Connors served as the
Queen’s Court.
The observance of
‘homecoming’ night was
capped by a social at the
School after the game and a
dance. About 150 Alumni
and their guests attended the
social and dance.
Father Bernard Haering,
German Redemptorist
theologian, told newsmen
that the Pope had just as
much right as Cardinal Marty
in expressing his opinion on
the subject of celibacy.
Without referring to
Cardinal Marty’s suggestion,
the Pope took the occasion of
the special Mass he celebrated
(Oct. 25) for the synod in St.
Mary Major’s to speak of the
“superhuman virtue” of
celibacy.
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CROWNING OF QUEEN highlighted ‘homecoming’ ceremonies at football game between
Savannah’s Benedictine Military School and Groves High School. Here, Queen Terri Lynn
McLendon (center) is flanked by Court Members Patsy Clary (left) and Mary Connors (right).
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With most of the 146
bishops of the synod
attending the Mass, the Pope
said in a prayer to the Blessed
Virgin.
“Teach us what we already
know and already humbly
and faithfully profess: to be
immaculate as you are; to be
chaste with that tremendous
and sublime commitment
which is our sacred
celibacy-something so much
discussed by many today but
not understood by some.
“We know what it is: more
than a state, it is a continuous
act, an ever-burning flame. It
is a superhuman virtue, which
therefore needs supernatural
support. You, Mary ever
virgin, make us understand
the paradoxical essence of
this state, which belongs to
the Latin priesthood and, for
the episcopal order and the
Religious state, to the
churches of the East as well.
And make us also understand
its worth: its heroism,
beauty, joy and strength; the
strength and honor of a
ministry without reservation,
wholly directed toward
dedication and immolation in
the service of men; the
cruifixion of the flesh, the
unconditional soldiering for
the kingdom of God.”
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Readies New Constitution
ROME (NC)-In expressing
the hope that the
extraordinary Synod of
Bishops would end under the
guidance of Mary, Pope Paul
VI called on the Blessed
Virgin to strengthen the
priestly vow of celibacy,
which is “not understood by
some.”
At the West Coast
Regional Convention of the
Holy Name Society, October
17-18, it was decided that a
constitutional convention be
convened in early 1970.
Representatives from
various dioceses throughout
the United States will
partcipate in this meeting to
debate and to define a
constitution for a national
association of the Holy Name
Society.
With the exception of the
Southern and Southwestern
dioceses, all dioceses
elsewhere have been given an
opportunity, through regional
conventions, to share in the
framing of such a
constitution.
These meetings have been
held within the past year and
a half. Representatives from
the Southern and
Southwestern dioceses will be
invited to convene
immediately before the
constitutional convention, to
consider the proposed
constitution. For practical
reasons, this regional
convention will be combined
with the constitutional
convention. Both will meet in
New Orleans at a date soon to
be announced. It is estimated
that 50 dioceses will
participate in the final
discussion.
The decision to combine
the conventions was agreed
upon at Kentfield House,
Kentfield, Calif. The facilities
of this house were provided
by the Dominican Fathers of
the Holy Name province,
through Father Hubert Ward,
O.P., the Provincial Director
of the Society.
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Sunday broadcasts in the
month of November, aired
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Sunday morning at 11:05.
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answering questions on
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and Bible History by Hugh
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The Savannah Catholic
Program is sponsored jointly
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631, Knights of Columbus and
the Cathedral of St. John the
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The Student Council for
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Religion is sponsoring a
picnic-discussion from 11 am
to 4 pm on Sunday,
November 2nd. While
primarily for students in the
high school of religion, they
wished to invite all Catholic
students to participate, in
announcing the program,
Father Michael Smith,
Director, said.
“All high school students
are invited to a picnic-dis
cussion to be held on Sunday,
November 2nd, from 11 am
to 4 pm at St. John’s Center,
Grimball Point Road. Jerry
Meredith of the ‘Uptight
Crisis Center’ will be the
featured speaker. Student-led
discussion groups on four
current topics and a folk Mass
will complete the program.
Bring your own lunch. Drinks
will be provided. Come and
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papalism, absolute monarchy
on the one hand, and to pleas
for the closest union and
complete allegiance to the
successor of Peter on the
other, he say through it all,
taking notes, occasionally
smiling and at coffee breaks
chatting with his fellow
bishops.
In essence, the discussions
of the first week’s meetings
were on the theological basis
for the sharing of authority
over the Church by the pope,
the supreme authority as the
sucessor of St. Peter, and by
the bishops as the successors
of the first apostles. It was
finally agreed by all that
there simply was not a
sufficient development of
doctrine on the subject and
that it should be sent to a
group of theologieans for
further study.
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duscussion, the bishops broke
up into separate language
groups to discuss the two
other subjects on the agenda:
the “vertical” relations of the
national bishops’ conferences
with the Holy See, "and the
“horizontal” relationship of
episcopal conferences among
themselves.
These discussions were on
a more practical level. And
although they produced a
bewildering amount of
suggestions and ideas, they
also seemed to have
crystalized thinking on a
number of subjects which the
synod fathers generally held
in common.
Among these were the 13
proposals which were voted
on at the next-to-last plenary
session, of which three have
already been accepted by the
Pope, in principle at least.
Commenting on the
accomplishments and failures
of the second Synod of
Bishops, Bishop Alexander
Carter of Sault Sainte Marie,
head of the bishops’
conference of Canada and a
bishop who can be fairly
easily termed a liberal,
summed up his views the day
the synod closed.
On the positive side he
listed:
1) There was a moral
unanimity for the need for
the greater exercise of
collegiality;
2) Establishment of a
structured synod, synods to
meet on a regular basis;
3) A new awareness
among the bishops of special
needs and of sharing of
responsibility;
4) Coming to a deeper
realization of the implications
of coresponsibility, right
down the line, even to the
local church;
5) Restatment of the
rights of local churches, their
rights and responsibilities;
6) Better communications
to be established with the
Vatican offices and the
bishops’ conferences;
7 ) The challenge
presented to the bishops by
the missionaries and by the
mission lands to what has
been called “the sickness of
the West;”
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8) The personal
involvement of the Pope and
the bishops at an immediate
level without intermediates;
9) Introduction of
language workshops as
contrasted in the past
meeting with a too
formalized approach lacking
direct contacts.
On the negative side
Bishop Carter noted:
1) The notion of collegial
action is still uncertain in the
form the present synod has
taken;
2) Despite good
intentions, the thinking of
this synod is still too juridical
and hierarchical, and, in
terms of structures and need,
needs to become more
responsive to human demands
and less juridical;
3) The synod is still an
extension of papal primacy;
an office of advice and
consultation rather than an
instrument of collegiality ; the
bishops participate by
invitation rather than in their
role as bishops and as
members of the college of
bishops;
4) There is a need for
better work methods; direct
questions get asked, but no
one seems to have to answer
them;
5) The pretense of secrecy
should be abolished because
it gives a false impression; all
interventions by synodal
fathers should be made
available to the press
immediately and completely
and the bishops should be
available to answer questions
about their statements;
6) Procedural matters
must be improved; They are
unsatisfactory, the lack of
communication and
consultation by the Pope
with the bishops on major
subjects, such as the Pope’s
Another of the liberal
churchmen, Leo Cardinal
Suenens of Malines-Brussels,
Belgium, described the
second synod in the terms of
an elevator:
“The synod is off the
ground. It is like an elevator
which has arrived at the third
floor but must go to the
10th. Seen from the 10th
floor it has a long way to go.”
Only the day before the
Pope spoke these words,
Francois Cardinal Marty of
Paris had said (Oct.24) that
the subject of priestly
celibacy should be discussed
in any forthcoming synod of
bishops.
Two days after the Pope’s
comments, Leo Cardinal
Suenens of Malines-Brussels,
Belgium, and Bishop
Alexander Carter of Sault
Saints Marie, Ont., president
of the Canadian Bishops
Conference, backed up
Cardinal Marty’s request.
At a press conference
(Oct. 27) following the
closing of the synod, Bishop
Carter said: “One of the
problems is what our priests
are feeling at this time and at
this moment of history.
Conferences should have the
right to submit subjects for
the agenda and I see no
reason why celibacy should
not be among them. ”
At the same press
conference, Cardinal Suenens
said that Cardinal Marty
spoke in the name of many
bishops who had already
agreed upon discussing
celibacy in the future.
Cardinal Suenens also said
that the next synod should be
devoted to world affairs and
the more pressing affairs of
the Church.
He added that the future
agendas should include more
than just internal Church
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