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Newspaper Page TextGEORGIA BULLETIN THURSDAY, MARCH 27, 1963 PAGE 3 83-YEAR-OLD Cuban Cardinal Dies In Havana HAVANA (NC) — A Solemn Requiem Mass was offered in the Havana cathedral for Manuel Cardinal Arteaga y Betancourt, staunch advocate of inter-Ame rican solidarity who died in San Rafael Hospital here last week. The 83-year-old Archbishop of Havana had been in failing health for more than a year. He suffered from arteriolosclero- sis, and contracted pneumonia about two weeks before his death. BISHOP Coleman F. Carroll of Miami was among prelates St. Jude Altar Society Meeting attending the Requiem Mass. The Cardinal was buried (March 21) in the family mau soleum in Colon cemetery. At the time of the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba in April, 1961, the Cardinal took reftige at the Argentine embassy in Havanna. He remained there until Argen tina severed diplomatic rela tions with Cuba early in 1952, then was transferred to the hospital. Cardinal Arteaga is the third cardinal to die in 1963. His death reduces the College of Cardi nals to 82 members. John Car dinal D’Alton, Primate of All Ireland, died on February 1 at age 80, and William Cardinal Godfrey, Archbishop of West minster, died on January 22 at age 73. Mr. Joel Reeves, Dean of the Atlanta School of Art proved to be an interesting and infor mative guest to the members of St. Jude’s Altar Society at their regular monthly meeting held March 11th. CARDINAL Arteaga, who vi sited the U. S. several times, defense” of the Americas. Be fore the Castro takeover of Cu ba, the Cardinal had advocated reforms that would provide for religion courses in the coun try’s public schools. Mr. Reeves, assisted by Mrs. Martha Logan of St. Jude's pa rish participated in a very inte resting informal discussion which had as its theme "The future of Liturgical Art and Present Day Church Symbo lisms”. The meeting was followed by a social hour. Hostess for the evening were Mrs. Arthur M. Clark, Mrs. Virginia Roberson and Mrs. Virginia Thrner. JUHAN'S CLEANERS Kxport • Ptnonallttd scrvic* Olv*n to Rvcry Garment Coming Into Our Plant 111 X. Main Ht. FO. 1-4404 College Park, On. MOTOR HOTEL • TV A AIN CONDITIONING • FAMOUS MIAMI BUFFET • ICS A BKVBRAOI STATIONS • COFFEE MAKER, EACH ROOM I U< Kit /v 1 < < >NI * . i A Good AtlOiow <m All.into j J There was no funeral proces sion. The Cardinal’s body was transferred privately from the cathedral to the cemetery. Four of Cuba’s seven mem bers of the hierarchy were at the Requiem Mass, which was offered by Msgr. Cesar Zac- chi, charge d’affaires of the papal nunciature in Havana. The Cuban prelates at the Mass were: Archbishop Evelio Diazy Cia of Havana, Archbishop En rique Perez Serantes of San tiago, Bishop Jose Dominguez y Rodriguez of Matanzas and Bishop Manuel Rodriguez Ro zas of Pinar del Rio. The prelates, including Bis hop Carroll, imparted absolu tion in the cathedral. Absolu tion was imparted in the after noon by Bishop Alfredo Mueller y San Martin of Cienfuegos. The only two Cuban prelates not in Havana for the funeral ser vices were exiled Auxiliary Bishop Eduardo Boza Masvidal of Havana and Bishop Carlos Riu Angles of Camaguey, who is in Spain. Shamrock Knitting Mills Marietta, Georgia Phone: 428-9007 For All Your Banking Needs COBS EXCHANGE BANK 1311 ROSWELL ST. MARIETTA, GEORGIA PHONE 428-3351 IGNATIUS HOUSE RETREATS Schedule for next six weeks March 28 - 31 Men April 4 - 7 Women April 18 - 21 Women No retreats during Holy Week Phone 255-0503 or Write 6700 Riverside Dr. N. W. Atlanta 5, Ga. Read The Classified •To Buy .To Rent •To Offer or Seek Services Phone Today 231-1281 UKRAINIAN Rite Archbishop Josyf Slipyi of Lviv, (right) recently released after 18 years imprisonment in the Soviet Union, assists in St. Peter's Basilica at the beatification of Blessed Luigi Palazzolo (March 19). Shown with the Ukrainian Rite prelate are Ignatius Cardi nal Tappouni, Syrian Rite Patriarch of Antioch (left), and Gustavo Cardinal Testa, Secretary of the Sacred Congregation for the Oriental Church. Archbishop Slipyi will ordain a priest at the Ukrainian Seminary in Rome on April 21, the first time he has conferred Holy Orders in 20 years. 1N CHURCH LAW Canonist Asserts Changes FROM CATHOLIC WOMEN U.N. Civil Rights Group Hears Sudan Persecution GENEVA*—The policy of the government of the Sudan in volves racial discrimination against the Negro minority as well as persecution of Christ ians, the United Nations Human Rights Commission has been told. The assertion was made in a memorandum drafted by the World Union of Catholic Wo men’s Organizations and sub mitted to the commission dur ing its 19th session here. The union's official observer at the session also presented copies of the memorandum to all de legates and other observers in behalf of her organization, which claims to represent Catholic organizations with a total membership of some 36 million. THE STATEMENT came Needed To Eliminate 'Trial Marriages Following is one of a series of articles by experts on ques tions up for consideration when the Second Vatican Council re convenes next September 8. The writer received his bachelor's degree from the Catholic Uni versity of America at the end of World War II and went on to Rome, where he earned his doc torate in canon law at the Gre gorian University. A professor at West Baden University in Indiana, he has served as an officer of the Canon Law So ciety of America and is coedi tor of the Canon Law Digest. By Rev. James L O’Connor, S. J. (N.C.W.C. NEWS SERVICE) Canon lawyers are wonder ing out loud whether the ecu menical council ought not change the Church law which holds that if a Catholic is not married in the presence of a priest he is not married at all. That requirement has been in effect throughout the Latin Rite Church since 1908. Church law now states that in ordinary cir cumstances, an authorized priest and two witnesses must be present at a marriage cere mony involving at least one Ca tholic, or else that marriage is invalid-null and void. THERE IS nothing in divine law requiring the presence of a priest at a marriage cere mony. As a result, the Church can change this legal formality if she believes a change would promote the spiritual welfare of individuals. The present legal require ment has led to several unde sirable results, Catholics know that if they enter into marriage before a non-Catholic minister, a justice of the peace, or other qualified civil official, their marriage is null and void be fore the Church. Some Catholics misusing their knowledge, have married outside the Church once, or in some instances, many times. If the marriage turns out well, they will eventually have it rec tified by a priest. If the marri age proves too difficult or un pleasant, they can get a divorce and try again until a compati ble partner is found. At such time, a declaration of nullity can be obtained for the pre vious invalid marriage and the new marriage rendered valid. Both chancery officials and canonists have very appropri ately called this maneuver: "trial marriage among Catho lics.” THIS circumvention of the law has led to criticism and became a kind of scandal to some. It includes well-inten tioned Catholics who have obey ed the marriage laws of the Church, contracted a valid mar riage, and, occasionally, found married life very difficult or even practically Impossible. Yet, because they observed the law, they could not break up the unhappy union and start mar ried life anew with another partner. Still another undesirable ef fect of the present law is some times met when a Catholic, hav ing married a non-Catholic out side the Church, wishes to get the marriage "fixed up” by the priest. The non-Catholic partner often objects, some times strenuously, to having the marriage looked upon as null and void and, therefore, that their life heretofore has real ly been only a life of concubin age and, further, that any chil dren already born are illegiti mate. From these various consi derations, the idea has arisen of changing the present law con cerning the ritual celebration of marriage back to what it was before 1563 when the Council of Trent enacted the basis for our present law. PRIOR to 1563, every mar riage, even when it involved Catholics, was valid if the for malities of the civil law con cerning a qualified official and witnesses were observed. If both parties planning mar riage are by divine and Church law free to marry, a return to the pre-Trent law would make every marriage valid, provid ed that the requirements of the civil law concerning the autho rized official and witnesses were fulfilled. The Church law requisite of the presence of an authorized priest would be pre scribed only for the licitness of the marriage, not its vali dity. This change of the Church’s law would immediately destroy the subterfuge used by some Catholics for trial marriages. If they observed the civil law con cerning the authorized official and witnesses, their marriage would be just as valid as one contracted before a priest- even though illicit. As a re sult, the marriage bond would be exactly as strong and indis soluble as a marriage before a priest. MOREOVER, the new, law would also relieve the con science and answer the objec tion of non-Catholics marry ing Catholics outside the Church, while it would be va lid and thus indissoluble, it would be gravely illicit and the Catholic would commit a mor tal sin. Canon lawyers see two argu ments against such a change in the law. The first questions whether the civil law requires the explicit act of consent to marriage demanded by the Church, TTie legal ritual of the civil law ceremony in the Occident generally seems to meet this Church requirement. Common law marriage, since it lacks the legal ritual, would not be incuded under the chang ed law. The second objection is more serious, as the canonists see it. It concerns the lack of promise by both parties to baptize and educate all children to be bom of the union in the Catholic re ligion only, and the further promise by the non -Catholic not to hinder the Catholic in the free and faithful practice of the Catholic religion. SEVERAL remedies for this problem are proposed. One is that an equivalent form of the promises be accepted as has already been done in some mis sionary areas, such as that the Catholic promise to do all in his or her power to effect the Catholib Baptism and education of children to be bom of the marriage. Another answer to the problem is to tolerate such a situation without giving any approval to it. The new law would have two effects: 1) reducing very greatly the number of invalid marriages and the sins resulting there from, as well as opening the sacraments to very many oth erwise denied them. 2) providing the occasion whereby some children might fall to be baptized and educated as Catholics. The first effect is not ack- ieved through the second; they are totally independent effects. The first would far outstrip the second . The first would be the direct Intent of the new law; the second would not be In tended although It would occur because It cannot be prevented. This answer Is an application of the moral principle of dou ble effect: Two effects simul taneously result from the same cause. The bad effect Is not the means for achieving the good effect. There is a pro- portianately serious reason for allowing the second effect to occur. A SOURCE of many head aches is that of determining whether a marriage Is valid or not because of one or more conditions attached to the con sent at the time of the marri age. The present law has seve ral provisions about condition ed consent. When the Church law for Oriental-Rite Catho lics was promulgated in 1949, it cut this Gordian knot of con ditioned consent by prohibiting marriage if the consent was conditioned in any way. The council Fathers may adopt this Oriental Church law for the La tin Rite Church as well. In the recent past, we have heard more and more of marri ages of a certain kind being dis solved by the Holy See—these marriages always involving at least one partner who has never been baptized in any religion. There must also be at stake some special advantage for the good of Catholicism if the mar riage is dissolved. Hence it is that this form of dissolution of marriage is called a privilege- of-the-Faith case. THE ORIGINAL announce ment of such a case was made by St. Paul in his first Epis tle to the Corinthians. The ba sic reason why such marriages can be dissolved is that they are notsacramentalmarriages, even though they are valid. One aspect of these privilege- of-the-Faith cases which has been receiving considerable at tention is that in which a bap tized non-Catholic has validly married a non-baptized person. According to the existing law and practice of the Catholic Church, if either party wishes to become a Catholic or if some other special benefit to Catholicism would derive from the dissolution, such a mar riage can be, and at times is, dissolved. Some cannonists are of the opinion that this procedure ought to be changed. They wish a return to the law of Trent which legislated that a valid marriage could not, without a dispensation, be contracted by a non-baptized person and any baptized person, whether the baptized person was Catholic or non-Catholic. TWO beneficial effects could come from such a cnange. First, it would do away with privilege- of-the-Faith cases from this source because, ordinarily, all such marriages would be inva lid. Hence no dissolution would be required; just a declaration of nullity. Secondly, a deeper respect for the nature of Bap tism would follow, especially on the side of Catholics. One counter-argument is that very many marriages between non-Catholic and a non-baptiz ed person would be invalid, and thus no real good for souls would follow from the restoration of the ancient scope of this im pediment. It can be also argued that allowing prlvilege-of-the-Falth cases will help generate appre ciation of the Catholic religion since conversion to it can, in the circumstances, provide the opportunity for a dissolution of the former marriage if there are really solid reasons for dissolving it. ALL CASES cl nullity and dissolution of marriage are subject to certain judicial pro cedures. Occasionally, nullity cases will have to go to the high court in Rome known as the Sacred Roman Rota. Since cases go to the Rota from all over the world, backlog of cas es can often build up. This is part of the reason why nullity cases take so long to be pro cessed, heard and adjudicated. Very great relief of this sit uation, often intolerable and of ten dangerous to souls, could result if a rota were set up in each of the larger countries and in regional areas for smal ler countries. after the Muslim-controlled Su danese government in Khartoum has ousted at least 143 Christ ian missionaries from the non- Muslim southern part of the country in five months. Thirty thousand persons are Fort Oglethorpe Altar Society The St. Gerard Altar Society Fort Oglethorpe met for their monthly meeting at the School Cafeteria. Mrs. Grant Wall, president, presided. The Rev. Lawrence Murphy, pastor, dis cussed the activities of the National Counicl of Catholic Women and offered the opening and closing prayers. The membership approved a number of suggestions concern ed with material improvements for Holy Week and Easter. Miss Harriet Orwig will have charge of the altars and linens for April. Mrs. C. E. Hunt made a report concerning flowers for the coming holy days. Another item on the agenda was the discussion and approval of an ad in the school Annual. The next meeting will be one week later than usual, April 25. Mrs. Allen Bishop reported on the sewing at Memorial Hospital, stating that she and Mesdames Hunt and Thomas Burbank would sew this month. Mrs. Bishop received the attendance gift with Mrs. Robert Bearden hostess and Mrs. Burbank a new mem ber present. now in prison in the southern part of the Sudan—five times more than before the Sudan became independent in 1956, the statement said. It said that while the Sudan ese constitution proclaims "complete freedom’’, the gov ernment has explicitly demon strated "that it aims at eli minating all the differences pe culiar to the southern part of the country, and to impost the northern ways of life and thought by moral, political and even physical coercive measures,” "AS AN inevitable conseq uence of this policy,” said the World Union of Catholic Wo men’s Organization, "tens of thousands of Sudanese refugees have fled to Uganda, the Con go, Chad, the Chad, the Central african Republic, Ethiopia, Kenya and Tanganyika.” Noting that the Human Rights Commission was scheduled to discuss the problem of religious intolerance, the union called attention to the fact that while the majority of the peoples of the southern Sudan are pagans, there are well over 500,000 Christians in the region, more than half of them Catholics. The memorandum cited the longrange steps leading up to the present open persecution, beginning with the nationalizat ion of the 385 Catholic and Pro testant mission school. The schools in the south are now in effect Muslim schools, it noted, and even Christian children thus have to learn the Koran, the Muslim holy book. Are You Enjoying SEA-FRESHSeafood P Serve Gorton's FreshIxxJc FISH STICKS ♦ Fresh-Lock Seafoods. produced by a new process exclusive with Gorton's, retain natural juices and nutritive elements af fresh caught fish ta bring you truly fresh flavor and goodness. SOLD AT LEADING STORES'