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PRAY FOR THE COUNCIL diocese of Atlanta SERVING GEORGIA'S 71 NORTHERN COUNTIES VOL. 1 NO. 40 ATLANTA, GEORGIA THURSDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1963 $5.00 PER YEAR CARDINAL BEA SAYS Unity Progress Matches Scripture Study Growth THE 1963 James J. Hoey Award for Interracial Justice will be presented in New York, October 27, to Dr. James T. Carey, (left) of the Department of Criminology, University of California, Berkeley, Calif., founder of the Catholic Interracial Council of California and to Percy H. Williams, (right) of Sacred Heart parish, Washington, D. C. Mr. Williams is a member of the Pre sident's Committee on Equal Employment Opportunities, serving as Assistant Executive Director of Contract Compliance. ST. LOUIS, Mo. (RNS) — In a message to St. Louis Uni versity, Augustin Cardinal Bea, president of the Vatican Secret ariat for Promoting Christian Unity, held that "it is not ac cidental that the growth of the Ecumenical movement has cor responded to the renewed in terest in the study of Sacred Scripture." "If we are to unite," he said, "we must go constantly to the Word of God, and try to pene trate more and more deeply into the mystery of His re velation." NATURE OF CHURCH Council Fathers Continue Debate THE GERMAN-BORN Je suit's message was recorded in Rome and delivered on tape to the university. It was featured at the opening of a public lect ure series on ' The Ecumenical Movement," sponsored by the Catholic university. Cardinal Bea cautioned that ''union will not come about by VATICAN CITY (NC)--Criti cism of the document on the na ture of the Church continued unhurriedly on the fourth day of the ecumenical council's sec ond session. Augustin Cardinal Bea, pre sident of the Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity, as serted that some of the Bibli cal passages cited in the text did not prove what they were supposed to prove. JOSEPH CARDINAL Ritter, Archbishop of St. Louis, indi cated that the document does not give enough emphasis to the need for restoring preaching to its proper place in the life of the Church, tical Body of Christ are one but are not considered under one same aspect, he said. We must admit, he continued that our separated brethren are in corporated into the Church by their Baptism, and that Bap tism imprints a sacramental character on their souls, even though heresy or some other ob stacle may interfere with the full exercise of their rights and with their share in the spiritual and social benefits deriving from the Church. Just any reading of Scriptures. God has spoken, but we must listen with open heart, with full readiness to accept everything God is saying to us," "OTHERWISE," he said, "we are in danger of hearing only what we wish to hear; we are in danger of putting the Word of God in chains against St. Paul's statement that The Word of God is not bound.' The majority of the critics of the "De Ecclesla" schema made two particular points: that the text should be more clear about the fact that through Bap tism all Christians are included in the Church, and that the place of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the Church should be treated in the schema on the Chur h rather than separately. With an apparent reference to the speeches made previous ly in the council hall by the Fathers, Cardinal Lercaro df dared that the doctrinal com mission—the Commission on Faith and Morals— should not concern itself only with minor textual changes. It should, he said, give special attention to the views expressed by the en- CONT1NUED ON PAGE 8 "Unless our reading of the Scriptures is humble and open, the 'sin of disunity* will con tinue as a scandal to non- Christians and a hindrance to the mission of the Church." Cardinal Bea said 'love of truth and love of our neighbor must permeate all our actions." "WE WILL be quick," he stressed, "to find that which is good in the teachings of relig ions different from our own and PERMANENT DEACONS? Cardinal Critical THIS 40th GENERAL congre gation since the beginning of Vatican Council II was held on Thursday, October 3. The pre siding moderator was Leo Car dinal Suenens, Archbishop of Malines-Brussels, Belgium. Of Diaconate Plan Giacomo Cardinal Lercaro of Bologna left the moderators’ table to go to the microphone and open the day’s discussion on the first chapter of the schema on the Church. VATICAN CITY (NC)—Fran cis Cardinal Spellman, Arch bishop of New York, strongly criticized a proposal to bring back a permanent diaconate to the Catholic Church as the ecu menical council entered discus sion on the second chapter of the proposal "On the Nature of the Church This has been particularly urged by missionary bishops who want to use die diaconate to help overworked missionary priests. THE CHURCH and the Mys- Cardinal Spellman objected to a provision in the schema which would abolish the pre sent Church law which requires that the diaconate be conferred on no one unless he intends to continue on toward priesthood. IN THE LATER half of the council's 41st general meeting after discussion on the sche ma's first chapter ended and discussion on the second chap ter opened. Cardinal Spellman addressed the assembly and ex pressed surprise that the text should propose establishing the diaconate. ARCHBISHOP Josef Beran, (ab- obe) of Prague, has been re leased after 14 years of arrest under the communists, along with four other bishops of Cze choslovakia. See Story this Page. IN THE sacrament of Holy Orders, there are seven steps: four minor orders (porter, lec tor, exorcist and acolyte) and three major orders (subdea con, deacon and priest). In the early church, the diaconatewas an order to which a man could aspire without intending to go on to the priesthood. St. Francis of Assisi, for example, was a dea con but never a priest. But, in relatively recent Church legis lation, the diaconate has been restricted only to those who in tend to be priests. This is a disciplinary mea sure, he said, first of all, which has no place in a dogmatic con stitution, There is even some doubt, he added, as to whether it should be discussed at all. With the passage of time, the diaconate as a stable rank in the hierarchy has become ob solete and for this reason no steps should be taken to re store it to its previous form without careful consideration of the reasons which led to the original change. In recent years, some here asked that the permanent sta tus of diaconate be restored. THE CARDINAL noted what he considers practical difficul ties which stand in the way of restoring the permanent dip- conate. in the men of goodwill who lead holy lives according to their convictions. "We will not attribute bad faith to those who differ from us/ The cardinal said the most challenging problem of the ecu menical movement "is the dis covery of that union which Christ wills and which He gave to His Church. It is generally agreed and, especially in re cent years, has often been stated in the World Council of Churches that this union is something beyond that which is now had by all who believe in Christ as God and Saviour. In other words, it is Just not an invisible union but one which is manifested in the Visible Church." POPE PAUL VI took time off from the cares of the Second Vatican Council to hold a special audience in the courtyard of St. Damasus, where 250 polio victims, some in wheelchairs, on stretchers and on foot gathered for his blessing. The Holy Father is shown here as he caresses the head of a polio-stricken girl held in the arms bi her lather. AGREEMENT HINTED Archbishop And Bishops Released By Czech Reds VATICAN CITY (NC) —Arch bishop Josef Beran of Prague has been released after 14 years of arrest under the communists, along with four other bishops of Czechoslovakia, the Vatican nr*««i office haa announced. Almost simultaneously with the Vatican announcement came a similar announcement from the communist government of Czechoslovakia. The chief dif ference between the two com- mitnintON wan that fho Rod re gime referred to "theex-Arch- bishop of Prague." Archbishop 9 s Text On Mariology COMMUNIST POLICE in Prague arrested Archbishop Beran on June 19, 1949, one day after he had publicly vowed he would "never conclude an agreement dial injures the rights of the Church and of its bishops." Detained at first in his official residence in Prague, he was later moved from place to place in an effort to keep his whereabouts unknown. BY GERARD E. SHERRY Managing Editor Last week the Associated Press released a story from Rome concerning a statement by Archbishop Paul J, Hallinan on the place of Mary, the Mother of Christ, in the vene ration of the faithful. Neither the Vatican com munique nor the Czechoslovak one gave any indication of why the five bishops had been re leased. But observers here took the fact that the commu niques were virtually simulta neous to mean that some agree ment had been reached between the Holy See and the govern ment of Czechoslovakia. Several newspapers, in reporting the story, used headlines or lead paragraphs suggesting that the Archbishop attacked so- called “excessive Mariology ’, and that he was urging the downgrading of the Blessed Mother in the life of the Church. DESPITE AN initial report that the prelates were already in Rome when their release was revealed, there was no word in either communique as to where they were staying or whether they would be leaving Czechoslovakia shortly. We have received the text of the state ment issued by Archbishop Hallinan. Since it conforms to traditional Catholic teaching about the Blessed Virgin Mary, newspaper reports implying such downgrading are in error. Archbishop Hallinan*s statement fol lows; “If our Lord Jesus Christ is kept in the center of the Christian life of prayer and worship, all other elements appear in their proper place. Surely the place of his mother, Mary, was made clear by Christ himself at the wedding feast of Cana, and at Calvary by Mary herself, and should be clear to all of us. Because she is the Mother of Christ, she has the claim upon our filial love and our proper veneration. But to attempt to cen ter our religion in Mary, to exaggerate her cult, to multiply her devotion in such a way that Christ is obscured or forgotten would be blasphemy to the Son, and embarrassment to the memory of the mother, and a pathetic deviation on the part of those baptized in Christ.” The communist communique specified that Archbishop Ber an and Bishop Karel Skoupy of Brno had been "freed to day (October 3) from intern ment.*’ It said on the other hand that Bishops Jan Vojtassak of Spis, former Auxiliary Bis hop Stanislav Zela of Olomouc, and Bishop Ladislav Hlad—who was consecrated secretly in 1950 and whose assignment has not been revealed—were all "freed at the same time thanks to an amnesty granted by the President of the Republic (Antonin Novotny)." Archbishop Beran, now 74, has been Archbishop of Prague since 1946. His arrest by the communist regime inl949came four years after he had been liberated by the U. S. Army—- along with the other prisoners —from nazi Germany's infam ous concentration camp at Da chau. He had been a nazi pri soner for three years. BISHOP SKOUPY of Brno, in Moravia, is 76. He was arrested in 1953. AWAITS POPE’S NOD Fathers Vote Vernacular For Masses VATICAN CITY (NC)— The Council Fathers voted over whelmingly on Wednesday to incorporate the vernacular (la nguage of the country) In many parts of the Mass. This would still require the approval of the Pope. Ballots were also cast on the amendments to the liturgy sch- ma "On the Nature of the Ch- vernacular. It therefore pref erred to adopt a middle-of-the- road position to insure that no particular group would be able to Impose its views on the oth ers in a body of universal leg islation. For this reason, the amendments provide for vary ing practices in different local ities, always under the control of competent ecclesiastical aut hority. urch" was conducted sim ultaneously. Thus two separate currents were going in the coun cil hall at the same time: silent decision on one and liv ely discussion on the other. The first five of 19 amend ments to the second chapter on the liturgy schema were pas sed by an overwhelming majo rity. Voting on the remaining amendments was to continue in the following days. It was anti cipated that the entire second chapter would be completed be fore October 11. Regarding receiving Com munion under two species, he said, the mind of the commis sion under two species, he said, the mind of the commission again was to avoid any univer sally binding regulations, but to allow an elasticity of practice. Discussion of the schema on the Church continued while vot ing was in progress. Bishop’s The five amendments passed were briefly summarized as follows: Function • A new Introductory para graph was given to the second chapter of the schema expla ining the Mass as the Euchar istic Sacrifice entrusted to the Church by Christ as the memo rial of His Death and Resurre ction, as the sign of unity and as the Paschal Banquet. ROME (NC) —A noted French theologian said here that the question of the collegiality of the bishops, one of the chief problems facing the ecumenical council's second session, has only recently come under close theological scrutiny. • An addition to the text was proposed to the effect that the revision of the rite of the Mass should keep in mind especially those of the Sunday and feast- day Masses in which the great er number of the faithful parti cipate. Father Yves Congar, O. P., said that, as a result, "many questions are not ripe in many minds, many ideas are not ex act." HE SAID THAT before the end of October there would be a "confrontation’’ on the quest ion within the council hall. He spoke at the council documen tation center. • More directives for the change of die Mass text and rite were proposed which would give greater simplicity to the Mass and omit certain duplica tions and additions which have been added to the Mass in the course of history but which are now considered less useful. The question of collegiality— the position and authority of all the world’s bishops when considered as a body succeed ing the college of the Apostles —arises in the council's schema, or draft declaration, "On the Nature of the Church," which is now before the coun cil. One report stated that: die commission had been confron ted with a wide variety of re commendations on the use of the FATHER CONGAR said that the very word "collegiality*' was not used among modern Catholic theologians until about 10 years ago. CONTINUED ON PAGE 8 A LIVING ROSARY was presented by the School of Nursing, St. Joseph’s Infirmary, Atlanta on Oct. 3. The tableau con sisted of the nuns of the faculty, forming the cross, and the student nurses, forming the circle. Sponsor was the St. Jo seph’s Infirmary Sodality'.