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PAGE 2 GEORGIA BULLETIN THURSDAY, JUNE 13, 1963
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By M. J. MURRAY
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CARDINAL CUSHING SAYS C T R A N G E g_u T T R U r
Little-Known Facts for Catholics
Mixed Marriage
Laws Outmoded
BIRTH CONTROL
NEW YORK (NC)— The Second
Vatican Council can and should
do something about the many
problems involved in mixed
marriages, Richard Cardinal
Cushing, Archbishop of Boston,
has declared.
The Church's marriage le
gislation should omit the pre
sent requirement that a non-
Catholic partner makes pre
marriage promises that the
children wil be raised in the
Catholic Faith and not to in
terfere with the Catholic part
ner’s religion. These and other
changes in Church law were
suggested by the Cardinal in an
interview appearing in America
Magazine (June 15), Jesuit
national weekly.
"CANON4 law is the result
of pastroal needs," the Cardi
nal said. "But the needs of one
time are not the needs of ano
ther. The laws of the past
that were put on the books to
take care of problems of the past
may not be of much help to
a later generation.”
Regarding the premarital
promises in mixed marriages,
he said: "They are an irri
tant to many, and some, it is
clear from what happens sub
sequently, make the promises
in bad faith. If we no longer
required the promises, we will
not be revoking any divine law;
we would not be changing any
dogma of the Church.”
"Remember when mixed
marriages could not be per
formed in church, but had to
take place in the rectory?” the
Cardinal recalled. "We changed
that and permitted*^® use of
the church. Instead of separa
ting that ceremony from a holy
environment we now start those
marriages off in a context of
church, which opens upthepos-
iibility of many actual graces
being given instead of the gen
erating of feelings of frusration,
hostility, etc...It was only half
a century- ago that we had
changes in the Church's mar
riage legislation, and the
Church went on.”
ALSO, the prelate continues:
"It would help, too, if diocesan
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bunals could have the power to
settle a number of cases that
now have to go to Rome, which
means a lot of work and a lot
of delay.”
Cardinal Cushing also pro
posed that the Vatican coun
cil abolish the Index of Pro
hibited Books and the proce
dure connected with it. He cited
the log jam in his own large
archdiocese where “it is simply
impossible to handle all the re
quests that come in on a per
sonal basis, for permission to
read books on the Index that
teachers think their students
should know something about.”
Regarding the movement for
more vernacular in the liturgy,
the Cardinal said: "i now favor
having at least the whole first
part of the Mass in the verna
cular” and also "the priest's
daily Divine Office.”
He also believed that there
should be some statement on
the Church-State question at the
coming session of the Council.
"There should not be any
denial of religious liberty in
the political and social order,”
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he declared. "I certainly would
not want anything done by the
Council that would give the im
pression that Catholic doctrine
demands full religious liberty
for Catholics where they consti
tute a minority, but denies it
to others when Catholics consti
tute a majority. We should
stress that nobody is to come
to the faith except voluntarily,
because faith is a free gift
of God. We do not want the
authority of the state coming
in to defend the Church against
other religious confessions...
We must respect personal con
science and the dignity of every
man created in God’s image—
therefore free.”
COUNCIL OF CHURCHES
Opposes Devotional Bible
Use In Public Schools
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NEW YORK, (NC)— The Nat
ional Council gt Churches gen
eral board has gone on the re
cord as favoring public school
policies that recognize Amer
ica's religious heritage but stop
short of "teaching for religious
commitment.”
The board said devotional use
of the Bible in public school
is not necessary either for good
education or for religion. But
it emphasized that the Bible has
a legitimate place in many
school studie s, “including those
related to character develop
ment.”
THE board, governing body of
the nation's largest federation
of Protestant and Orthodox ch
urches, took this stand in ado
pting (June 7) a complex prono
uncement on religion and public
schools that at one point threa
tened to split the council.
A spokesman for Archbishop
lakovos, spiritual leader of the
1.2 million Greek Orthodox in
the United States, read the
meeting a statement by the
Archbishop declaring that If the
pronouncement were adopted in
its original form, it might be
“necessary for the Orthodox
Church to review its present
position and relationship with
the council.”
The Archbishop objected that
the pronouncement's original
draft, prepared by the council's
Division of Christian Education,
went too far toward barring re
ligion from public schools.
”A ban on devotions is not in
the true Christian and God-
abiding interest,” he said.
THE pronouncement then was
turned over to a committee for
redrafting. When resubmitted
it was adopted overwhelmingly,
with the Orthodox represent
ative abstaining.
In other actions during its
spring meeting (June 6-8), the
general, board of the National
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Council, whose 31 Protestant
and Orthodox denominations
have some 40 million members,
took these steps:
— Strongly opposed racial
discrimination and called for
mass demonstrations where
needed and other social action
programs by church councils
and individual churches.
—Recommended that the
Federal Communications Com
mission exercise stronger con
trol over radio and television
networks, on the grounds that
the networks should "be held
accountable for broadcasting in
the public interest.” The board
took this action despiteopposit-
ion of a spokesman for the Nati
onal Association of Broadcas
ters to increased government
control of the networks.
The lengthy statement on rel
igion and public schools declar
ed that the doctrine of “separ
ation of Church and State”
“does not mean that the State
is hostile toward or indifferent
to religion.”
"As Christians we believe
that every individual has a right
to an education aimed at the
full development of his capaci
ties as a human being creat
ed by God, his character as
well as his intellect,” it said
“governments—national, state
and local—have prevailingly
acknowledged the importance
as well as the autonomy of
religion and have given expres
sion to this principle in many
ways.”
The document said the place
of religion in public education
“must be worked out within
this recognition of the prevail
ingly positive attitude of the
American people as a whole to
ward religion and the safe
guarding of religious liberty.”
“as Christians we believe
that every individual has a right
to an education aimed at the
full development of his capaci
ties as a human being creat
ed by God, his character as
well as his Intellect,” it said.
The document emphasized
that religious beliefs and val
ues and the contributions of ch
urches are "an integral part
of our cultural heritage as a
people.”
“The public schools have an
obligation to help individuals
develop an intelligent under
standing and appreciation of the
role of religion in the life of
the people of this nation,” the
pronouncement said.
However, it went on to declare
that “teaching for religious
commitment is the responsibi
lity of the home and the com
munity of faith (such as the
church or synagogue) rather
than the public schools.”
“NEITHER the Church nor
the State should use the public
schools to compel acceptance
of any creed or conformity to
any specific religious pra
ctice,” it said.
CARDINAL MONTINI
CLEVELAND, (NC)—A pr
iest-authority on Catholic fam
ily life said the prominence
attained today by birth control
lers and planned parenthooders
stems back to 1930 when the
Church of England broke from
its long standing opposition to
such practices.
Msgr. George A. Kelly, dire
ctor of the Family Life Bureau
for the New York archdiocese,
told the First Friday Club here
the Lambeth Conference of the
Church of England in 1908 is—
sued an encyclical which viewed
contraception "with requ-
gnance,” assailed it as "an ev
il which placed home life in
jeopardy" and condemned with
out reservation all phases of
artificial birth control.
IN 1914 and again in 1920,
Msgr. Kelly said, other Lam
beth Conferences took similar
action. But in 1930, in the de
gression era, he said, "another
conference of Anglican leaders
stated 'we cannot condemn the
use of scientific methods of
preventing conception which are
thoughtfully and conscientiously
adopted if there is a good and
moral reason why the way of
abstinence should not be fol
lowed.”
Msgr. Kelly said that Angli
can action breached the wall.
He added that once moral just
ification was given to con
traception in exceptional cases,
the exceptions grew more nu
merous. He said that in 1958
the Anglican leaders conceded
the use of contraceptives in
family planning could be "ad
missible to the Christian con
science.”
"What was a grevious sin
more than 50years ago,” Msgr.
Kelly commented, "now is not
only not a sin, but even may
be a moral duty,"
There are many today, the
monsignor said, who see con
traception as a means by which
the state can take over the pro-
creative process, telling coup
les how many children to have,
when to have them and keep
ing "undesirable elements”
from having too many children.
He said birth controllers and
family planners not only are
preaching their views to others,
but seeking government support
to enforce their views.
HE recalled that Margaret
Sanger, who made birth control
her life’s work, in 1934 pro
posed a "baby code" which pro
vided: "A marriage shall give
husband and wife only the right
to a common household and not
the right to parenthood; no wo
man shall have the legal right
to bear a child and no man shall
have the right to become a fat
her without a perm it for parent
hood; no permit shall be valid
for more than one birth."
Msgr. Kelly quoted the strong
stands taken by Protestant, Ort
hodox and Jewish leaders in
years past. He recalled there
was a time when all churches
were united against artifical
birth control, for the same re
asons the Catholic Church is
against it today.
"Contraception as a way of
life under any circumstances
was not approved by any Jewish
or Protestant theology I know
of,"Msgr. Kelly said.
Jewish and Protestant lea
ders now should make it clear
their approval of family plan
ning is not "the same uncondit
ioned absolute * approval as
preached by the Planned
Parenthood organization,” Ms
gr. Kelly said.
MILAN, Italy, (NC)—Catho
lics should not look back to the
person who was Pope John XXIII
"but toward the horizon which
he opened before the Church and
history,” Giovanni Cardinal
Montini declared during a Re
quiem Mass here.
The Cardinal Archbishop of
Milan told 30,000 people (June
7):
“SHOULD we wish to keep
our eyes fixed on the tombwhich
is now sealed, we could speak
of what he has left us, which
that tomb ^cannot: hold; of the
spirit which he instilled into
our age, which death cannot suf
focate, and we would be oblig
ed to predict the future which
springs forth from him, rather
than describe his past.”
The Cardinal said that Pope
John "outlined certain paths
which it will not only be wise
to remember but to follow.”
He added: "Can we turn aside
from the path he opened so
boldly to future religious his
tory, that of the universality
of the Catholic faith? That of
Roman ecumenism?”
Cardinal Montini said that
“Pope John personified and ex
pressed this essential char
acteristic of the Catholic Ch
urch in such a way that it brought
forth latent energies in both
the internal and external move
ment of the Church Itself.”
HE explained that the late
Pope “added to the heart and
the work of the Internal ecu
menism, external ecumenism,
for a twofold purpose: to reu
nite the many separated Chris
tian fractions within the organic
unity of faith and of charity of
the Mother Church—the one,
holy, Catholic and apostolic Ch
urch— and to work for the
most stable spreading of peace
among nations and social clas
ses—of civilized peace thro
ughout the world.”
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TO THE EDITOR:
This year's graduating class
at Marietta High School consis
ted of young people of a wide
variety of faiths, including not
only members of different Pro
testant denominations, but
Jews, Catholics and others.
Despite this, and despite the
fact that Marietta High School
is a tax-supported public
school, the graduating class’s
Baccalaureate Service was a
purely Baptist service, held
in the Baptist church and con
ducted by the minister of that
church. No other faithwas re
presented in a service which
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