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PAGE 2—The Southern Cross, February 15,1973
Cardinal Ushers in Chinese
New Year with Ancestor Rite
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BY FATHER I VAR McGRATH, S.S.C.
TAIPEI, Taiwan (NC) -- Cardinal Paul
Yu Pin officiated at ceremonies Feb. 3,
the Chinese New Year, honoring
ancestors, a rite that Catholics had been
forbidden by papal decree to participate
in for more than 200 years.
When the cardinal first officiated at
the ancestor rites three years ago it
created quite a stir.
The Vatican finally conceded in 1939
that certain ancestral rites were merely
civil and not religious, ending many
years of bitter quarreling over the
signigicance of the rites and the use of
certain Chinese words for Christian
terms.
It was the progressive atmosphere
engendered by the Second Vatican
BY JUDY BISH
(NC News Service)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (NC) - “Did
you know unborn babies are killed
everyday and aren’t given the right to
happiness?”
“God didn’t say only some people
can live. He loves us all no matter if we
are black, white, red, American, Polish,
Jewish, Catholic, smart, dumb. So how
can anyone decide who can live?”
These were the questions being asked
by students in a special education class
at St. Peter School here, in letters
protesting the recent Supreme Court
decision legalizing abortion.
The letters were written to President
Nixon, Chief Justice of the Supreme
Court, Warren Burger, government
officials and news media by all 14
students in the special education class
for children who have learning
disabilities or are mentally retarded or
physically handicapped.
“They want to kill some unborn
babies,” wrote one physically
handicapped youngster. “One reason is
something might be wrong with them.
They might have to walk with a walker
like I do. I am happy. Everyone should
be born and have a chance to be
happy.”
Most of the students wrote, in one
form or another, that anyone has the
right to live and be happy in his own
way. “We all have the right to live
because we all can be happy,” wrote
Debby. “Everyone has the right to be as
happy as I am.”
Every baby should have the right to a
happy life like the kids in our
neighborhood,” wrote Steve. “Take a
kid, for example, he has a right to have
fun.” Steve went on to report how the
“happy bunch of kids in our
neighborhood” have wagon and coaster
races and a parade on “Hillbilly Day.”
Happiness for Steve is a coaster he built
by himself -- “It may not look sturdy,
but it is. I can stand on the roof and it
won’t cave in.”
Happiness for Debbie is being “good
at making Kool-Aid” and hamburgers.
For Ruthie and for others it’s loving
everybody and having them love you in
return.
“If I hadn’t been born,” wrote Karen,
“I couldn’t go to school and have fun
with my friends. I couldn’t go to Girl
Scouts and go on cam pouts. I wouldn’t
be with my smart dad and good cook
mom and ex-MP brother.”
Darrell said simply, “Every baby
should be born.”
Council and the personality of
Cardinal Yu Pin, however, that made it
possible for such a top Church official
to officiate publicly at a ceremony in
memory of Chinese wise men of
antiquity and other ancestors.
This new Year ritual of the cardinal
-exiled archbishop of Nanking - has
become an accepted and expected part
of the celebrations here and receives
front-page coverage in all newspapers.
This year’s ceremony took place in
the large Jesuit Holy Family church,
capacity-filled with some 2,000 people.
The cardinal was joined in the rite by a
large number of national figures,
including a Buddhist monk, a Protestant
leader, and the provincial governor.
At one time all Chinese performed
family rites honoring the ancestors at
Steve saw a little further into the
problem when he wrote, “Don’t they
(people who believe in abortion) know
that when they are old, people may
want to kill them. Sad, isn’t it?”
Writing the letters was the student’s
idea, said their teacher, Mrs. Patty Cox.
They studied the Fifth Commandment
shortly after Christmas and discussed
then that abortion is unjustified killing.
They wrote their feelings on the
question, “Who has the right to life?”
Upset by the recent decision of the
court, they dug up their old papers and
rewrote them as letters to national and
state officials. Each student wrote ten
copies of his letter.
VATICAN CITY (NC) - Pope Paul
VI has telescoped the customary
four-day round of ceremonies for the
creation of new cardinals into a single
day.
March 5 will be the “big day” in
more than one way for 30 new cardinals
whose names were made public Feb.
2-among them three Americans:
Archbishops Humberto Medeiros of
Boston, Timothy Manning of Los
Angeles and Luis Aponte Martines of
San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Vatican press spokesman Federico
Alessandrini said that the Pope’s
decision to compress the ceremonies to
a single day is a break with past practice
and signifies a “new style” in
consistories for the future.
Pope Paul, during the nine years he
has been Pope, has striven in his past
three cardinal-creating consistories to
reduce the pomp and public display that
in the past accompanied the conferral of
the honor of the cardinalate. The most
recent decision, shortening the entire
period to one day came as a surprise,
however, even to veteran Vatican
observers.
The schedule for March 5 consistory
was announced Feb. 12 by the office of
Msgr. Virgilio Noe, master of pontifical
ceremonies.
9:30 a.m.-the so-called secret
consistory is held during which the Pope
the New Year - with the exception of
Catholics who were forbidden to do so.
Most families still carry out the ritual
but with less than the former
enthusiasm.
The cardinal has said that he initiated
the public ceremony in order to restore
respect for the Chinese cultural heritage
and to stress the traditional family
virtues, based on what is known as filial
piety or respect for parents, involving
mutual parent-child relationships and
responsibilities, which lead to strong
family bonds and an ordered society.
The New Year rites are called
“worshipping heaven and honoring the
ancestors.” It is now generally accepted
that by heaven the ancients referred to a
personal God, and the cardinal’s
ceremony honoring ancestors is
preceded by a Mass with appropriate
scriptural readings. Thanks to the
vernacular Mass it is possible for the
mixed gathering to appreciate the
Catholic ritual.
The ceremony honoring ancestors
takes place at a table placed beside the
alter, where incense is burned and wine
and fruit offered in a symbolic gesture.
Excerpts from the Chinese classics are
read and also the first 15 verses of
Ecclesiasticus, chapter 44, which begins:
“Speak we now in honor of famous men
that were our fathers, long ago.”
The cardinal’s action would probably
please the 17th-century Jesuits who
allowed Chinese converts to participate
in ancestral rites that they felt were but
an extension of honors paid to parents,
teachers and living officials.
Catholic participation in the rites,
however, might horrify Pope Clement
XI, who in the early 18th century
forbade Catholics to have anything to
do with the rites.
ceremonially announces his new
cardinals to the already existing
cardinals present in Rome. This is
immediately followed by a public
consistory in which a number of minor
ceremonies and formal announcements
are made to the older cardinals and
other prelates.
While the public consistory is being
held, the 30 new cardinals will be
assembled in the papal audience hall in
Vatican City to receive the official
announcement of their appointment
from officials of the papal secretariat of
state. The audience hall can seat 6,000
persons and may be swamped by the
thousands of visitors and well-wishers
who will accompany the cardinals to
Rome.
11 a.m. - The Pope’s public
consistory, begun in the consistorial
hall, will move to the audience hall.
Pope Paul will give the cardinalitial red
biretta to each of the 30 new members
of the college of cardinals at that time.
At the same ceremony he will assign
titular churches located in Rome to
each of the new cardinals. The assigning
of those churches signifies in a special
way the cardinals’ special attachment to
the Diocese of Rome insofar as they are
electors of the Pope, the bishop of
Rome, and the principal collaborators
with him in governing the Church.
5:30 p.m. - Pope Paul will
concelebrate Mass in St. Peter’s basilica
with the new cardinals and present them
with rings made specially for the
occasion.
WASHINGTON (NC) - A new set of
Campaign for Human Development
(CHD) guidelines gives high priority to
“promising, innovative” antipoverty
projects operated by the poor.
The CHD, the U. S. bishops’
antipoverty agency, said it will
concentrate this year on funding
projects that involve legal aid, housing,
health, communications, education,
transportation and social and economic
development.
In addition, the agency said that the
highest priority will be given to
“promising, innovative projects which
demonstrate a change from traditional
approaches to poverty by attacking the
basic causes of poverty and by effecting
institutional change.”
High priority will also be given to
“projects which generate cooperation
among and within diverse groups in the
interest of a more integrated and
mutually understanding society.”
Projects which aid a relatively large
number of people will also be given high
priority, the CHD said.
CHD officials said that while the
guidelines list new priorities, they will
continue to insist that “the poor must
have the dominant voice in planning and
implementation” of all projects funded
by the campaign.
The campaign will also continue its
policy of funding only projects which
attempt to change institutions by
attacking the causes of poverty.
Low priority will be given to projects
which have operated for several years on
funds from other agencies and projects
sponsored by • organizations which
receive substantial sums from other
agencies.
CHD officials said, however, that
proposals which call for “seed money”
or “matching money” will still be
considered.
Also on the low priority list are direct
service projects, such as day care
centers, Headstart, and recreation
programs, community centers, drug
programs, and scholarships.
Academic research projects and
projects controlled by the government,
schools and churches will also get low
priority.
The guidelines say that CHD funds
will not go to organizations that would
use the money to fund other
organizations. Projects or activities for
which funding is sought must conform
to the moral teachings of the Church,
according to the guidelines.
All projects must be sponsored by an
incorporated, non-profit and
tax-exempt organization. CHD officials
Five Mt. De Sales High School
Students have been selected as
Outstanding Teenagers of America for
1973, according to Sister Mary Fidelis,
principal.
Selection for the Outstanding
Teenagers awards program
automatically qualifies these students
for further state, regional and national
honors and scholarships totaling $7,000.
Local nominees are: Gerald Clark,
Dennis McCunniff, Mary Jane Dickey,
Toni English, Mark Cassidy.
Nominated by their principals, the
Outstanding Teenagers of America are
chosen from individual schools across
the country for excellence in academic
achievement and community service.
The local students will now vie for the
Sister Mary Margaret Toomey, a
native of Washington, Ga., who spent
most of her religious life at Mount St.
Joseph’s in Augusta, died Wednesday
morning in St. Louis, Mo.
Funeral services will be held in St.
said that amounts requested normally
should range between $10,000 and
$200,000. Proposals must be submitted
by March 31.
Funds for the 1973 grants come from
the CHD collection last November. The
CHD has raised $16 million in the last
two years, with 25 percent remaining in
individual dioceses.
Application forms and copies of the
guidelines are available from the
Campaign for Human Development,
1312 Massachusetts, Avenue, N.W.,
Washington, D. C. 20005.
Outstanding Teenager of the Year
Trophy to be presented by the state’s
governor.
Similar trophies will be presented to
the winners in other states. The state
winners are selected by the Outstanding
Teenager Awards Selection Committee,
in cooperation with the Board of
Advisors.
The 51 state winners will be eligible
for awards totaling $7,000. One boy
and one girl will be chosen for national
scholarships of $1,000 each to be used
at the college or university of their
choice. Ten regional winners will also be
selected from the remaining state
winners to receive $500 regional
scholarships.
Louis.
She attended St. Joseph’s Academy
in Washington, Ga., and entered the
Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet,
Augusta Province, as novice and
received her habit in 1935.
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