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BY JESUIT THEOLOGIAN
Celibacy Agitation Seen
Veiled Attack On Papacy
VATICAN CITY (NC) -
Vatican City’s daily
newspaper, L ’ Osservatore
Romano, has front-paged an
accusation by Jean Cardinal
Danielou, S.J., that some of
the current agitation against
priestly celibacy is a
smoke-screen for an assault
on the papacy.
Attacks on celibacy are
always a sign of wavering
faith and weakening spiritual
vitality, the Jesuit theologian
claimed.
Zeroing in on the Dutch
bishops’ public appeal for a
new look at the celibacy law,
Cardinal Danielou loosed a
broadside against Dutch
Catholic progressivism.
“It is no mere coincidence
that in these same circles
people are contesting not
only the celibacy of the priest
but even the specific
character of the ministerial
priesthood, that there are
intercommunions and
intercelebrations that imply a
total misunderstanding of the
reality of the Eucharist, that
the authority of the
Sovereign Pontiff and,
broadly, the divine institution
of the hierarchy are
challenged, that the Church’s
life is tending toward
progressive secularization,”
the cardinal said.
The French theologian,
whose decades as a lonely
liberal gave him the aura of a
prophet and whose months as
an outspoken cardinal have
brought him the epithet of
house liberal, thundered that
“hatred of Rome’s authority”
is the dark mover behind
pressures on the papacy.
For some, he claimed, the
celibacy issue is only a tool
“to shake loose the pope’s
authority, to blackmail it and
Finally to suppress it.”
How achieve this?
“We are witnessing the
appearance of a maneuver
consisting in playing off
episcopal collegiality against
Paul VI,” Cardinal Danielou
said. “Smoothly, appeals are
addressed to the world’s
episcopates to close ranks
with the Dutch episcopate.”
Through “crafty
maneuvers” the realities of
the celibacy issue are being
obscured, he declared.
“These maneuvers are
going to multiply,” he added.
“Will the Christian people
allow small pressure groups to
lay down the law? Will it
abandon its shepherds to run
after the masters of error?”
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Those most astonished and
scandalized at attacks on
Rome’s authority “are
sometimes our Orthodox and
Protestant brothers who
recognize the strength that
Rome’s authority represents
for the whole of
Christianity,” the cardinal
continued.
Cardinal Danielou said:
“Rome will not let herself
be shaken. But it is necessary
that in the face of this
contestation, an immense
wave of the Christian people
proclaim their Fidelity and
declare their conFidence to
the sovereign pontiff, to
defend him against those who
would drag the Church into
decadence.”
Cardinal Danielou said
that many of the reasons
advanced against priestly
celibacy are “deceitful.”
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He cited some:
“We are told that at the
origins of Christianity, the
priests were married. That is
to slice pretty swiftly through
highly controversial
questions. It is certain, First
of all, that was never a
general law, and that from
the outset the consecrated
celibacy of priests held a
great place.
“More, when it concerns
the ordination of married
priests, one forgets to say
that the question arises
whether these married men
were asked to be continent.
As we have said, that was the
general law in the high middle
age.
“Not only in the West is
celibacy the general law from
the fourth century on, but
the Council of Carthage in
390 considered that it was a
matter of apostolic tradition.
“One forgets to say that in
the East, if married men were
ordained, celibate priests
were never authorized to
marry.
“What emerges, then, is
that while priestly celibacy
has never been an absolute
rule, it has always appeared as
expressing an original
tradition, and in the West as
the ordinary norm.”
Cardinal Danielou then
turned to the argument that
priestly celibacy is challenged
by the Christian people. He
said surveys are put forward
to substantiate this argument.
“But these surveys are for
the most part the expression
of determinate groups,” he
said. “They do not
correspond to the thought of
the ensemble of the Christian
people.”
Without specifying
further, he said the surveys
were taken “in the Atlantic
churches.’’ This was
interpreted by some as
referring to northwestern
Europe and North America.
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Mid-Winter Meeting Of
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-by Alida Smith
The Winter Meeting of the
Savannah Deanery Council of
Catholic Women was held in
St. James Parish on Sunday
afternoon, January 25, 1970.
Highlight of the meeting was
the Memorial Mass celebrated
by Father John Cuddy,
pastor of St.James Church, in
memory of Msgr. John D.
Toomey, former pastor of St.
James Church as well as
former Savannah Diocesan
and Deanery CCW Moderator.
Since the Mass on this
special occasion was said
principally for the members of
the Savannah Deanery
Council of Catholic Women,
the ladies were allowed to
participate actively in its
celebration. Sister David
Marie, I.H.M., Principal of St.
James School, read the
Epistle, and a group of eight
members read the prayers of
the Faithful which they
themselves had written. Mrs.
E.B. Anderson, standing at
the lectern within the
sanctuary, began the reading
of the Prayers, then she was
joined in the remainder of
Prayers by the following
members of the congretation:
Sister David Marie, Mrs. H.R.
Beville, Mrs. Norman
Fesenmyer, Mrs. F.R.
MacCauley, Mrs. J.F.
McBride, Mrs. Thomas F.
McLaughlin, and Mrs. William
P. Schneider.
At the Offertory of the
Mass, while an appropriate
hymn was being sung, all who
were to receive Holy
Communion formed a
procession and walked to the
front of the Church where a
table was set with a Ciborium
and two baskets containing
unconsecrated wafers. Each
person took a wafer from the
basket and placed it in the
Ciborium, to symbolize the
individual’s perfect offering
of self to God. Father Cuddy,
who explained each step of
the Mass as it progressed from
beginning to end, then
consecrated these wafers and
distributed them during the
Communion.
In his sermon to the
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priest. He said a priest must
be “all things to all men” and
that Msgr. Toomey had
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told of personal glimpses of
Msgr. Toomey not only as a
priest, but also as a friend and
a companion who could bring
life and vitality to any
occasion by his enthusiasm.
He assured the members of
the Savannah DCCW that
they now have their own
patron saint in Heaven who
will pray for them always.
The meeting, which
preceded the Mass, was called
to order by Mrs. J. Harry
Persse, President of the
Savannah Deanery CCW. Mrs.
Persse called on the president
of the St. James PCCW, Mrs.
Eugene V. Smith, to give the
welcome address. Responding
for the membership was Mrs.
Fred D. Foster, President of
St. Benedict’s PCCW.
A $25 check was
presented to Father Cuddy
by Mrs. Persse on behalf of
the Deanery CCW for the St.
James Building Fund in
memory of Msgr. Toomey.
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Msgr. Toomey, a resolution
was read by Mrs. William C.
Broderick expressing the
profound sorrow of the
Savannah Deanery CCW at
the utimely death of their
friend and former moderator.
This resolution was adopted
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Pope On Celibacy—
(Continued from Page 1)
married men where priests are
few, but pointed to the
difFicuity of containing this
practice within fixed
territorial limits. The problem
must be examined “by our
brothers in the episcopate, in
union with us.”
The Pope’s First statement
on celibacy was given (Feb.
1) at a regular Sunday address
to pilgrims in St. Peter’s
Square. He prefaced it with
an appeal for prayers, for the
moral support of the
Christian people.
Although he there
declared that celibacy could
neither be abandoned nor
subjected to discussion
-precisely the requests made
by the Dutch hierarchy-the
Dutch bishops’ secretariat
said the bishops “do not have
the impression” that the
Pope’s speech was a reply to
them.
The Pope’s public
assertion that celibacy was
beyond change and even
beyond argument seemed to
explain the failure of
Bernard Cardinal Alfrink, the
Dutch primate, to come to
Rome to discuss the
statement he and his fellow
bishops had issued. At the
time of its issuance (Jan. 19),
Cardinal Alfrink indicated
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