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PAGE 2 — The Southern Cross, February 19.1970
PIEDMONT DISTRICT SCOUT RALLY WINNERS. Troop 10
members, hold up ropes which helped them to win three out of
five competition events last week in Macon. Troop 10 is
sponsored by St. Joseph’s parish Home and School Association.
TOP 22 GROUPS
Troop 10 Wins
Rally A t Macon
Boy Scout Troop 10, of
Macon, sponsored by St.
Joseph’s parish Home and
School Association, was the
unquestioned winner of the
Piedmont District Scout
Rally held last week at the
Macon City Auditorium.
Troop 10 finished first in
three of the five events on
which Scouts were judged for
a total of 23 points.
Twenty-two Troops and
approximately 300 Boy
Scouts participated in the
Rally.
The Scouts competed in
five events: starting a fire,
using only flint and steel to
K. OF C. LEAGUE
light kindling; scaling a wall 8.
feet, 6 inches wide; racing to t
a clothes mannequin and
undressing and redressing it;
pulling a sled with a rope;
inspection for - general
appearance, neatness and the
percentage of the official
uniform worn by troop
members.
Troop 10 took first place
in the flint and steel
competition, sled race, and
wall scaling.
The Troop’s Scoutmaster,
Thomas C. Madison and
Assistant Scoutmaster Robert
W. Hurley are both members
of St. Joseph’s parish.
Cathedral Upsets
St. James Cagers
Cathedral boys upset St.
James 20 to 19 in an exciting
game last weekend in the K #
or C Parochial School
Basketball League in
Savannah. This was a
significant victory for
Cathedral in that it has been
in the next to bottom spot in
the league all year and St.
James has been a power in
the league in all sports in
recent years.
Other scores last weekend
are in the boys division.
Blessed Sacrament 37
Cathedral 31; Nativity 39 -
Sacred Heart 18; St. Mary 57
- St. Michael 21; Cathedral 20
- St. James 19.
In the girls division -
Blessed Sacrament 33
Cathedral 19; Nativity 35 -
Sacred Heart 22; St. Mary 48
- St. Michael 13; St. James 34
- Cathedral 17.
This weekend all games
will be played at Blessed
Sacrament gym and are on
Saturday, February 21.
1:00 P.M. Blessed
Sacrament girls - St. Mary
girls; 2:00 P.M. Blessed
Sacrmanet boys - St. Mary
boys; 3:00 P.M. St. Michael
girls - Cathedrall girls; 4:00
P.M. St. Michael boys -
Cathedral boys.
On Sunday February 22:
1:00 P.M. St. James girls -
Nativity girls; 2:00 P.M. St.
James boys - Nativity boys;
3:00 P.M. Sacred Heart girls-
Blessed Sacrament girls; 4:00
P.M. Sacred Heart boys -
Blessed Sacrament boys.
Team standings are:
BOYS W. L
St. Mary 8 0
Blessed Sacrament 7 1
Nativity 4 4
St. James 4 4
St. Michael 3 5
Cathedral 2 6
Sacred Heart 0 8
GIRLS W L
Blessed Sacrament 8 0
Nativity 7 1
St. Mary 5 3
St. James 4 4
Sacred Heart 3 5
Cathedral 1 7
St. Michael 0 8
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CONFERENCE TACKLES TOPIC
Celibacy Hullaballoo
Continues Unabated
By NC News Service
Debate on priestly celibacy
has become worldwide.
Leo Cardinal Suenens of
Malines-Brussels said Belgium
will not have married priests
and the Belgian bishops will
continue to demand vows of
celibacy from all seminarians
seeking ordination.
However, Dutch Catholics
surveyed by an opinion poll
supported the recommenda
tions made in January by the
Dutch National Pastoral
Council that priestly celibacy
should be optional.
The “Septuagint’’ group of
Dutch priests and laymen,
which has challenged various
Church customs, said it
appreciated the Dutch
bishops’ declaration (Jan. 19)
supporting the pastoral
council and stating that the
Church in the Netherlands
would be better off if married
men could be ordained priests
and if priests who had
married could return to the
ministry in certain cases.
An Indian bishop, on the
other hand, expressed strong
opposition to any relaxation
of obligatory celibacy for
priests.
Eighty-four German-lang
uage theologians urged
bishops to plead with the
Vatican for dialogue on
celibacy. There are no
grounds for a rejection of
clarifying dialogue, they said.
Cardinal Suenens said the
problem of celibacy is not an
isolated one, but is bound up
with the status of the priest
and the situation of the
Church today. Suggesting
further study, he said there
could be at the same time a
review of canonical rules
which “perhaps are too
legalistic and do not take
enough account of all human
cases.”
The cardinal said he does
not think the Dutch Church
is the only one having trouble
with its priests concerning
celibacy. “The tendency,” he
said, “exists in all countries,
especially America,
Indonesia, Zambia and some
others. It is true it is more
acute in the Dutch Church.
Perhaps it is something in the
Dutch nature-they go from
one extreme to the other.”
The Dutch opinion poll,
taken by the Intomart
Institute at the request of the
Catholic radio and television
station KRO, showed that
71% of Dutch Catholics,
believe that priests who wish
to marry should be able to
continue their ministry, 25%
oppose this and 4% have no
opinion. The admission of
married men to the
priesthood is supported by
70%, 22% opposed it and 8%
have no opinion.
The survey was taken after
Pope Paul Vi’s rejection of
the Dutch bishops’ view on
celibacy and his letter to Jean
Cardinal Villot, papal
secretary of state, in which he
said in present celibacy
regulation would be
maintained. Opinion polls in
1969 had the same results.
The survey also showed
that 72% of Dutch Catholics
want dialogue between the
Dutch bishops and the Pope,
while 24% are opposed to
such dialogue. Concerning the
results of such dialogue, 44%
believe the Pope will maintain
his position, while 45%
expect him to make some
compromise with the Dutch
bishops.
Slightly more than half of
Dutch Catholics, 51% believe
that the Vatican could
excommunicate the Dutch
Church province if the
bishops were to admit
married men to the
priesthood and allow priests
who had married to continue
their ministry. Twenty-nine
per cent believe that the
Vatican would accept such a
decision, and
opinion.
20% had no
Concerning the right of the
Dutch Catholic community,
59% of those surveyed said
the council has such a right
and 32% said it does not.
In India, Bishop Michael
Arattukulam of Alleppey said
(Feb. 8): “It will be ruinous
for the Catholic Church all
over the world,” if the
celibacy regulation is relaxed.
The Church in India, the
bishop said, would lose all its
esteem in the eyes of Hindus
and Moslems if her priests
were to marry.
“Hindus and Moslems and
all Indians,” Bishop
Arattukulam declared, “have
a great veneration for the
Catholic Church because of
the celibacy of her priests and
the yirginity of her nuns.”
The bishop agreed that this
was because the people of
India instinctively associate
men of God with
self-imposed Brahmacharya
(celibacy).
“I do not think,” said
Bishop Arattukulam, “that the
Indian clergy will be very
much influenced by the
example of the Dutch priests.
“Indian priests are more
balanced than Dutch priests
and until now there are not
so many temptations against
priestly celibacy in India as
they exist in Holland.”
Quoting St. Paul, the
bishop said: “A man who is
married is divided between
God and his family.”
The eighty-four
German-language theologians
said the celibacy issue has
become very serious, not only
in the Netherlands, but in
other countries as well and
threatens to lead to schism.
They went on to say that
those who accept celibacy
regard the unity of the
Church as a greater good than
the maintenance of a
disciplinary law that has not
been valid at all times and is
not valid everywhere today.
They urged the German
bishops not to abandon the
Dutch bishops or bishops in
other countries who face
similar problems.
Commenting on the
statement of the theologians,
the noted Swiss theologian
Father Hans Kueng, professor
at the University of
Tuebingen, Germany, said the
theologians’ statement was
prompted by the impression,
based on recent events, that
the Vatican may be moving
toward a collision with the
Church in the Netherlands.
Interviewed in the
Stuttgart daily, Stuttgarter
Zeitung, Father Kueng said:
“This tendency may endanger
the very unity of the Church
because it forestalls serious
dialogue with the Dutch.”
FOR U.S.
Rome OK’s
Mass Text
WASHINGTON (NC)-
John Cardinal Dearden of
Detroit, president of the
National Conference of
Catholic Bishops, has
announced the Holy See has
confirmed the English
translation of the new Order
of the Mass and other revised
liturgical services, scheduled
to be introduced in the
United States on Palm
Sunday, March 22.
The decision also affects
the services of Baptism and
marriage.
Cardinal Dearden said the
Holy See action will enable
publishers to speed up the
distribution of official texts
for insertion in altar books.
When the National
Conference of Catholic
Bishops approved the
translations at its semi-annual
meeting here last November,
March 22 was set as the first
date for use, but the NCCB
left individual bishops free to
choose a later date. All
dioceses must employ the
revisions by Advent 1971.
Other changes, requested
by the American bishops,
were also made public. They
include optional use of white
vestments at Masses and other
services for the dead; violet or
black vestments may also
continue to be used.
For the marriage service
either the revised text or the
traditional formula may be
recited by the bride and
groom to express consent.
The new form reads: “I
take you to be my wife
(husband). I promise to be
true to you in good times and
in bad, in sickness and in
health. I will love you and
honor you all the days of my
life.” The more familiar
version is: “I take you for my
lawful wife (husband), to
have and to hold, from this
day forward, for better, for
GOLD STAR MOTHERS — Returning from Vietnam, where they had participated in dedication
of a memorial hospital to Americans who have died there, four Gold Star Mothers were received
by President Nixon at the White House. From left they are: Mrs. Elaine Huntoon, Mrs. Gladys
Berg, Mrs. Bertha Tofferi, and Mrs. Priscilla Gariepy. (NC Photo)
Housecleaning At Vatican
worse, for richer, for poorer,
in sickness and in health,
until death do us part.” Also
in the marriage rite, a final
blessing, not found in the
Latin original, has been
approved for the United
States.
In addition to the major
English translations of the
Mass, Baptism, and marriage,
a new version of the litany of
the saints will be used. All the
translations are the work of
the International Committee
on English in the liturgy.
Three requests of the
American bishops, made at
the November meeting, have
been deferred to a later date.
They are a request for the
reception of Communion a
second time on a day in
special circumstances; for
priests to celebrate Mass a
second time in order to join
in a concelebrated Mass, and
for a wider extentiori of
Communion under both
kinds at the discretion of the
local bishop.
The Vatican response to
these requests is under study
for possible inclusion in a
document affecting the entire
Church, the cardinal said.
By Patrick Riley
(NC News Service)
VATICAN CITY - During
the early 1950s a top official
of the Papal Secretariat of
State was often heard to
muse aloud that Vatican City
should be a model state.
Now, as Pope, he is trying to
do something about it.
But while this
housecleaning is in progress,
while the dust is flying and
the dirty laundry is being
washed, the Vatican is
beginning to “look like the
Casbah.” (The smile fell from
the lips of a despairing
Vatican official.)
The dirty linen so far
exposed to public gaze
includes the theft of tickets
to the Vatican museums (the
worlds greatest treasurehouse
of ancient art and no slacker
in the Renaissance
department), illegal sale of
gasoline coupons (Vatican
employes pay about half
what they would have to pay
on the Italian market, where
gasoline is the most expensive
in Europe), and the holding
of Vatican citizenship by
those with no right to it.
That the Pope’s agents
have orders to be
scrupulously impartial is
""demonstrated by the fact that
two of the Pope’s best friends
have already lost Vatican
citizenship;
The chief superintendents
of this housecleaning are
Archbishop Giovanni Benelli,
substitute secretary of state,
and Prince Giulio Sacchetti,
president of the Council of
Vatican City State.
Archbishop Benelli’s
growing reputation for
severity is probably due, in
part at least, to the
requirements of this task. Or
perhaps the Pope chose
Archbishop Benelli for this
task precisely because it
requires a certain severity, a
quality not easy to find
among the mild and
open-hearted Italians.
Many Italians of high
moral standards draw a
practical distinction between
what is technically illegal and
therefore irregular, and what
is substantially illegal and
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West Point Appointment
Representative Jack Brinkley today announced the
nomination of JOSPEH MALCOLM WARD as one of his
Principal nominees for an appointment to the United States
Military Academy, West Point, New York, for the class entering
in 1970. Joseph is the son of Colonel and Mrs. Albert Ward of
St. Anne’s Parish, Columbus, and is a senior at Pacelli High
School where he has established an outstanding record. He was a
lepresentative to Boy’s State this past summer and is president
of the Student Council.
SVA Parents’ Guild
St. Vincent’s Academy Parent’s Guild will meet on Tuesday,
February 24 at 8:00 p.m. at St. Vincent’s Hall. Sisters M Jude
and Marilyn will discuss crises in education as they pertain to St.
Vincent’s, the present academic program and plans for the
future.
St. Vincent’s Alumnae
bt. Vincent’s Alumnae will hold a meeting and drawing on
February 26 at 8:00 p.m. in St. Vincent’s Hall. Sisters M. Jude
and Marilyn will discuss “S.V.A., past, present and future”.
therefore immoral. But much
more common among Italians
of whatever morral standard,
high or low, is a
live-and-let-live philosophy.
Either or both could account
for much of what Pope Paul
clearly regards as
reprehensible and what the
rest of the world may regard
as scandalous.
For example, the average
Italian would consider it
pettifogging to strip a man of
Vatican citizenship merely
because some rarely read
regulation says he no longer
has a right to it. Vatican
citizenship means freedom
from many of the ordinary
anxieties of life. It means
exemption from Italian
income tax. It means freedom
from import duties and sales
taxes and road taxes, which
for a man with a car can
involve savings of hundreds of
dollars yearly. It means, in
many cases, free housing.
But under the new and
stern policy laid down by
Pope Paul, even such a
trusted and time-proven
confidante of the Pope’s as
Archbishop Sergio Pignedoli
has lost Vatican citizenship.
The same has happened to
Archbishop Mario Brini, like
Archbishop Pignedoli an old
friend of the Pope and like
him a high official of the
Holy See.
Archbishops Pignedoli and
Brini were no longer entitled
to Vatican citizenship
because they left the Holy
See’s diplomatic corps for
new assignments.
In all, about 15 persons
have lost Vatican citizenship
in the past year.
An integral part of the
reform of Vatican City state
is a six-month-old set of
regulations for state
employes, whose occupations
range over a broad spectrum
from antiquarian to
electronic technician, from
cop to streetsweeper.
(Employees of offices of the
Curia--Church’s central
administration-are subject to
a different set of regulations.)
In order to become a
Vatican employee, a
candidate must belong to “an
honest and religious family.”
He must not be a member of
any “association or political
party contrary to the
Church’s doctrine or
discipline.” His “religious,
moral and civil conduct”
must be “good.” He must not
have a criminal record.
All other qualifications
being equal, preference is
given to the candidate
“marked
participation
organizations.’
by
in
active
Catholic
AT METHODIST CENTER
Brunswick Area
Youth Jamboree
Some 102 youths gathered
last weekend at the Epworth
by the Sea Methodist Center
and concentrated on ‘doing
their own thing’ in life. The
St. William’s and St. Frances
Xavier CY O groups sponsored
the jamboree and invited
groups from Jesup, Valdosta,
and Waycross to come and
join in on the fun.
Involvement began Friday
evening with a welcome talk
by Norman La Hood- of
Valdosta. The theme of Mr.
LaHood’s talk was that the
youth of today have much to
offer to life and today’s
world. Entertainment was
provided for the evening by
some of the guitarists and
singers in the group. The
night came to an end with a
general get together session
and sing in.
Saturday morning a
concelebrated Mass was
offered. Father Will Leahy,
Jesup; Father Michael Delea,
Savannah; Father Michael
O’Keefe, Valdosta; and
Father Patrick Mallinson,
Brunswick, were the
concelebrants. At noon
Father Delea presented a few
ideas on the importance of
“coming into your own in
life.” A discussion followed
the talk.
Saturday evening had more
activity and opportunities for
exchanges. A cookout was
held in the early part of the
evening and was followed by
a dance.
The weekend came to its
climax with a folk tune Mass
on Sunday morning. A
breakfast was shared after the
Mass and the goodbyes and
farewells ended the weekend.
“A time just to be by
themselves, to share their joys
and hopes, to communicate
their readiness to make fun
and have a good time was all
part of the purpose of the
jamboree weekend,” said
Sister Rita McCormick, of St.
Francis CYO. “From the
beginning to the end of the
weekend these youths
showed in their reactions and
responses to each other that
they have much to share and
give to each other and they
can do much to enrich one
another and can contribute
toward their own growth
right here and now.”
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