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PAGE 2 GEORGIA BULLETIN THURSDAY, JUNE 13, 1963 F By M. J. MURRAY Copyright. 1»«3, NCWC New* Scrv.cc 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 Huy Y :r Fro* MU" MAX MfTTZCL. Owner MAX’S MEN'S SHOPS * *14 Industrial Btvd. QuimhlM Pm* Shopping Crnur PFnir.* «51-1911 <*tS f**»chtr*« ft.*. PfK.nr TR 4-«MS - At 10U 8t. 1 Lays and archdiocesan marriage tri 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,” Anglican Action Breached Wall This remarkable caoss is MAor From scores of shells,stores and OTWCff CURIOSITIES COLLECTED W CHILDREN ALL OVER THE WORLD. /T VMS PRESENTED 70 FATHER* SORRELLi, Foundea of wr Famous House or orchihs W Naples. Italy. g pA& Arrf * fzoM * ** C£ ? T Y OLDEST CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY IN THE WORLD IS LOUVAIN, IN BELGIUM, which WAS FOUNDED BV Pope Martin V w 1425. jCtTACHED 70 MOST SPANISH CATHEDRALS iS A LAY OFFICIAL CALLED THE *StLEHCIARlo" WHOSE DUTY IT IS TO SEE THAT ALL WHO EATER are Suitably dressed. 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 em :E 1888 FRIIINmCTlOH l ^AlA Cl. 7-MM 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 Georgia’s Leading Block Company Georgia’s Largest Block Plant Georgia's Only All Autoclaved Plant Quality of Product Unsurpassed Bailey Autoclaved Lightweight Block - Holiday Hill Stone CONCRETE MANUFACTURING COMPANY Jackson 1-0077 747 Forrest Road, N.E. ATLANTA, GEORGIA 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.” To The Editor 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 Luis Ramon Falcon, 10, holds his high-altitu<l'\ cioss-cinintt y flying fish up to view. Luis flew by jet front Miami to Los Angeles with the two fish, holding them in his hand in a fishbowl ail the way. They are his pets all that the Cuban refugee boy has. But in Los Angeles, thanks to Catholic Relief Services, NCWC, a new life, new school, new friends and a new future await him. IGNATIUS HOUSE RETREATS Schedule fo next six weeks June 20-23 Men June 27-30 Women July 11-14 Men July 18-21 Women July 25-28 Women August 1-4 Men ie 255-0503 or Write 6700 Riverside Dr. N. W. Atlanta 5, CaillcL f terry A SELLING THE BEST IN APPLIANCES AND FURNITURE 9114 Chamblee-Dunwoodr Road Chamblee. 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