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PAGE 2 GEORGIA BULLETIN THURSDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1963
UNDISCLOSED SCHEMA
Role Of Women In Church
World, To Engage Council
ROME (NC)—A French arch
bishop disclosed here that wo
men and their role in the Church
and in the world are to be con
sidered in two projects put be
fore the Fathers of the Second
Vatican Council.
Archbishop Rene L. Stourm of
Sens, in a press conference said
the place of women in the Church
is discussed in a project on the
lay apostolate and their role in
the world comes up in a project
on the Church in the world.
NO FURTHER details on the
two projects, or schema, were
given by the Archbishop. Coun
cil schemata have not been made
public.
Archbishop Stourm also said
that a proposal to admit women
as “auditors” to the council
has been made to the council
Commission on the Lay Aposto
late and is still under study. A
group of Catholic laymen re
cently was admitted to the coun
cil.
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ARCHBISHOP Stourm told
newsmen that he rates the pre
sent project, “De Ecclesla” (On
the Nature of the Church), as
"much superior to the original
one” presented during the first
session of the council.
"All those who have spoken In
general on the project have ex
pressed favorable opinions,” he
noted.
He remarked that journalists
and their reading public know
this to be true—“since there
is nothing hidden from journa
lists.”
HE OBSERVED that news of
die council this session has been
coming out to the world in a
greater atmosphere of confi
dence and collaboration.
Archbishop Stourm also com
mented on reform in the Church,
with special reference to Pope
Paul’s call for reform of the
curia, the central administra
tive body of the Church.
The French prelate said that
"the Church being entrusted to
men will always have the need
of reform.”
OF THE CURIA, he express
ed certainty it will continue to
exist and to assist the world's
bishops. Over-centralization, he
added, “Is not only the fault,
as Is often affirmed, of the cu
ria.”
"Experience tells us that a
central power always has the
tendency to increase centrali
zation; but it should be remem
bered that in many cases, the
curia was required to increase
Its powers to meet deficiencies
of the local hierarchies.” Of the
power and authority of local bis
hops, he said it will continue to
be necessary not only to coor
dinate these with the central
level <rf the Church, but he
thinks it will have also to be
done more on the national level.
“UP TO NOW, in fact accord
ing to Church law, every bishop
in his diocese has absolute pow
ers dependent only on the pope.
“For a long time, this situa
tion offered notable advantages,
but today it cannot be equally
so affirmed because many prob
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ces.”
In the meantime, three other
council Fathers, interviewed by
the Divine Word News Service,
expressed satisfaction with the
progress of the council, Two of
the three are from the United
States.
BISHOP VINCENT S. Waters
of Raleigh, N. C., said “from the
way that the presentation of the
discussion moved along during
the first few days, it seems that
we are going to get something
accomplished in a rather busi
nesslike way.”
Bishop Waters said he was
hopeful that the material put
before the Fathers will be wrap
ped up by December 4, the day
His Holiness Pope Paul VI has
said the council will recess.
Bishop Raymond J. Hunthau-
sen of Helena, Mont., pointed to
what he called “much greater
freedom of discussion among
Council Fathers both inside and
outside the council hall.”
THE MONTANA prelate said
he thought the experiences of the
first session broadened the ho
rizons of the Fathers so that
they “see the tremendous needs
that exist and the opportunities
we have to satisfy those needs.”
The third prelate, Archbishop
Anibal Muniz Duque of Nueva
Pamplona, Colombia, said he
thinks the council is "going
along a sure path.”
WIDER CQy (.EFT
AS POPE PAUL VI REOPENS SECOND VATICAN COUNCIL In reopenifig the second session of Vatican Council II, on Septem
ber 29, Pope Paul VI (left photo) issued a plea to non-Catholics for brotherly peace and pardon. He outlined the objectives
of the Council to include reform of the Church, Christian unity and the "dialogue of the Church with the contemporary
world.” The Holy Father is shown (upper right photo) praying at the opening Mass, and (lower right photo) reading his
homily, facing a group of non-Catholic observers seated in a place of honor near the main altar of St. Peter’s basilica and
close to the Pope.
Cardinals
Chosen
Vatican erry (nc) — his
Holiness Pope Paul VI has
broadened the membership of
the Sacred Congregaion of the
Holy Office by adding to it Au
gustin Cardinal Bea, S. J.,
president of the Secretariat for
Promoting Christian Unity, and
Udebrando Cardinal Antoniuttl,
Prefect of the Sacred Congre
gation of Religious.
The congregation, a key body
of the Roman Curia, has juris
diction over questions dealing
with faith and morals. It also
watches over publications and
the reading of books contrary
to Faith. The Pope himself
is the Prefect, or nominal head
of the congregation. Its ad
ministrative head is the secre
tary, Alfredo Cardinal Ottavi-
ani.
THE ADDITION of Cardinals
Bea and Antoniuttl brings to
11 the number of cardinals who
compose it. All are members
of the Curia.
Cardinal Bea, 82, is a Ger
man-born Jesuit and one of the
Church’s top Scripture scho
lars. A one-time confidant of
Pope Pius XII, he was also
close to Pope John XXHL
OBSERVER REPORTS
Realism Marks Council’s First Week Sessions
BY REV. EDWARD DUFF, S.J.
VATICAN CITY (RNS)-Dis-
cussions of the first week of the
second session of the Second
Vatican Council displayed a re
alism and a pastoral concern
that is identified with the mem
ory of Pope John XXI1L
Infallibility Is
To Be Re-defined
ROME (NC)-— The Church
properly understands itself If it
is aware not only of the duties
that stem from a spirit of
fatherhood but also from those
Inherent in a spirit of brother
hood,” a famed German theolo
gian said here.
Father Karl Rahner, S. J„
of Innsbruck University, Aus
tria, an ecumenical council ex
pert, spoke at a press panel
under the auspices of the Ger
man Bishops.
FATHER RAHNER stressed
the joint responsibility of all the
bishops for the welfare of the
Church and the need for doing
all possible in the cause of Ch
ristian Unity,
In this light, he said, the sc
hema stresses the Joint respon
sibility for the welfare of the
Church of all the bishops, since
they are successors of the Ap
ostles who were the partners
of St. Peter. It stresses this
rather than only the responsib
ility of the successors of St.
Peter, the popes.
THE CONCEPT of papal in
fallibility, Father Rahner said,
is now being widened in this
sense, as is shown by the deli
berations of the council Fat
hers.
Father Rahner said that in
his opinion this partnership bet
ween the successors of the Ap
ostles and the successors of
St. Peter should also become
evident outside the council when
it is applied In close concord
with the Bishop of Rome, the
Pope. This should lead In turn,
he continued, to a realization
that the individual bishop may
also act in the name of Christ
on his own authority rather than
by acting through delegated au
thority as if he were merely
an official of the Pope,
HE RECALLED in thiq con
nection that the Dutch Bishops
In their 1960 pastoral letter st
ated that "the definition of papal
infallibility at the First Vati
can Ecumenical Council re
sulted In an isolated dogma,
while actually this personal inf
allibility Is part of the infal
libility of the world hierarchy,
which in turn is supported by
the Infallible faith of the whole
body of the faithful.”
The translation of this state
ment by the Dutch Bishops was
at that time not allowed to be
published in Italy. But he said,
now these very thoughts are in
corporated in the schema being
debated by the council Fathers,
The application of these
thoughts, he declared, will be
examined by the Fathers when
they take up the schema on the
functions of bishops and dio
cesan government.
SUCCEEDS ARCHB. O’HARA
Delegate Appointed
To Great Britain
VATICAN CITY (RNS)—
Msgr. Igino Cardinale, chief
of protocol In the Vatican Se
cretariat of State, was named
by Pope Paul VI as Apostolic
Delegate to Great Britain.
He will succeed to the post
held for nine years by Ameri
can-born Archbishop Gerald P.
O'Hara, who died in London last
July.
IT WAS announced that Msgr,
Cardinale would be consecrated
a titular archbishop by Pope
Paul in St. Peter's Basilica
on Oct. 20, along with a group
of newly-appointed missionary
bishops. All prelates serving as
apostolic delegates have ar-
chiepiscopal rank.
Born at Fondi, Italy, Arch
bishop-designate Cardinale re
ceived part of his upbringing In
the United States. He was brou
ght to that country by his fat
her, who later returned with his
family to Italy where he ser
ved in the Italian Army during
World War 1, After the war,
the family again went to the Un
ited States, and remained there
until the father died.
ARCHBISHOP — designate
Cardinale was ordained in Rome
after completing his studies.
The subject matter was the
draft statement, radically re
vised in the light of criticism
made in the first session, onDe
Ecclesla, the schema on the nat
ure of the Church.
THE PRESENT document
contains an introduction and
four chapters, respectively en
titled: (1) ’The Mystery of the
Church;” (2) 'The Hierarchial
Structure of the Church with Sp
ecial Emphasis on the Episco
pate;” (3) 'The People of God
and the Laity;” (4) 'The Vo
cation To Sanctity in the Ch
urch.”
After two days of general
debate the schema or draft was
accepted as the basis for fur
ther detailed examination and
emendation. The vote was a lop
sided 2,231 affirmative versus
43 noes,
MOVING BRISKLY, consid
ering the size of the assembly,
the first week's discussions
covered the introduction, ch
apter one and broached the ex
amination of chapter two on the
episcopacy, probably the capit
al matter of the Council.
By my count 82 speakers from
26 countries were heard, four
being from the United States —
Francis Cardinal Spellman, Ar
chbishop of New York, Joseph
Cardinal Ritter, Archbishop of
St. Louis; Bishop Ernest J.Pri-
meau of Manchester, N. H., and
Bishop Joseph Marling of Jef
ferson City, Mo.
Frequently the speaker an
nounced himself as the spokes
man for a group. Thus, Jaime
Cardinal de Barros Camara,
Archbishop of Rio de Janeiro,
spoke in the name of 153 bis
hops of Brazil; Josef Cardinal
Frings, Archbishop of Cologne,
for 65 German and Scandina
vian bishops; Laurean Card
inal Rugambwa, Bishop of Buko-
ba, Tanganyika, In the name of
numerous bishops from Africa
and Madagascar; Benjamin
Cardinal de Arriba y Castro,
Archbishop of Tarragona, in the
name of 60 bishops, mainly
from Spain; and Archbishop An
toine Grauls of Kitega for 55
bishops of Burundi, Ruanda and
the Congo.
Very likely such a practice
is the outcome of the meet
ings of nearly all of the nat
ional hierarchies to study to
gether the agenda of the coun
cil during what is commonly
called the intercession.
IN ADDITION to the sugges
tions voiced during the first
week of this session, 372 am
endments to the first two chap
ters of the schema on the Ch
urch were forwarded to Rome,
based on the document as it had
been mailed to the bishops.
These suggestions, plus those
made during the public debate,
were referred to the Theologi
cal Commission which is to pre
pare a revised text for further
discussion and adoption.
As an aid in interpreting the
"main characteristics of the
dogmatic schema on the Church,
the official press bureau of the
Council distributed a release
on the "geneology*' of the docu
ment. Included among several
paragraphs of a recent state
ment of Julius Cardinal Doep-
fner of Munich, Germany, one
of the four moderators of the
Council, was the following:
THE SCHEMA on the Church
has not the slightest intention
to formulate revolutionary
principles. Like every other
Council, the Second Vatican Is
pursuing its task, deeply intent
on remaining faithful to the
divine constitution of the div
ine constitution of the Church
in the light of tradition. Never
theless, we cherish the hope that
this text will succeed in set
ting forth the fundamental prin
ciples which are to direct and
guide subsequent Council dis
cussion on the duties od bisho
ps, the apostolate of the laity,
the ecumenical movement and
numerous other problems and
duties of the Church in our
time.”
Surprisingly, this is a new
effort. Never has the Catholic
Church in general council asse
mbled specifically described
herself. There is, in fact, no
final dogmatic definition on the
nature of the Church. Protestant
observers are hopeful that the
theological dialogue will not be
foreclosed by a premature for
mulation of points of controver
sy that might profitably be left
open, pending deeper study and
reflection.
WHILE OBVIOUSLY thoro
ughly theological in scope and
language, the debate of the op
ening week of the second sess
ion was marked by a spirit of
realism and a total absence of
what Bishop Emile DeSmedt ol
Burges, Belgium, condemned as
“triumphalism” last year. Itis
as if the bishops, had made their
meditation on the intractable
fact that in today’s world one
man out of every four Is Chi
nese, two out of three are st
arving, one of every three lives
under communism and one Ch
ristian of every two is not a
Catholic. Valerian Cardinal
Gracias, Archbishop of Bom
bay, India, deemed the Church
* *a minority serving in the midst
of the world.”
Descriptions of the Catholic
Church chiefly emphasizing her
external aspects and instit
utional structures, including the
primacy of the Pope, to the neg
lect of the spridual reality that
she is, had no defenders.
PREFERENCE was general
for the Biblical concept of the
People of God as the most ap
proximate descriptive term, a
notion implying continuity in
time, beginning with the Church
of the Old Testament, a "faml-
lyhood” with the Father who-
sent His only Son to be one of
die people, a spiritual soli
darity with all men who aspire
in faith to be part of that fam
ily and a consciousness that
there were and will always be,
given the burdens of the human
condition, sinful members of
the family. It was connotat
ions of the concept that moved
a bishop of the Canary Islands
to point * *to the concern of the
Church, as a loving mother, for
the difficult lot of the working
class, the poor, the suffering.”
The missionary imperative,
it was stressed, derives from
the nature of the Church itself
and is not an optional activity
of supererogation reserved to
generous souls who can stomach
foreign food. Evangelism was
called an "essential function of
the Church”, by Negro Cardinal
Rugambwa, who continued:
'The Church today is present
everywhere in the world and is
a missionary Church even wh
ere the faithful are in the maj
ority. Hence, the Church must
regard herself as missionary,
always and everwhere."
AN ECUMENICAL concern
was voiced explicitly by a large
number of speakers who wanted
in the schema a more detailed
and definite consideration of the
place of those not formal mem
bers of the visible Catholic Ch
urch.
For the first time a speaker
turned to address directly the
non-Catholic delegate-obser
vers present when Bishop
Hermann Volk of Mainz, Ger
many, saluted them as "caris-
slml observatores.”
AUGUSTINE Cardinal Bea,
NATIONAL OBSERVANCE
Youth Week Hailed
By Vice President
WASHINGTON (NC) — Vice
President Lyndon B, Johnson
has hailed the 13th annual ob
servance of National Catholic
Youth Week, October 27 to Nov
ember 3.
"1 wish for you a successful
observance which will help to
prepare our young people for
the tasks that lie before them,'*
he said in a message to
the week's sponsor, the Nat
ional Council of Catholic Youth
here.
NOTING THE week's theme
is 'The Young Catholic in the
Lay Apostolate,” the Vice Pre
sident commented:
"It is of vital importance to
our country that our youth have
before them constantly the en
nobling traditions of the past.
"New times and new pro
blems demand new approaches
to the world. But these ap
proaches must not discard or
exclude the moral values which
we have inherited from those
that have gone before us.”
HE ADDED that these moral
values can best be taught "by
active aspirations of human be
ings."
president of the Secretariat for
Promoting Christian Unity and a
noted exegete, wanted more
careful scrutiny of the opposi
teness of the scriptural texts
employed. Arguments from tra
dition, he continued, should
come from sources prior to the
Eastern schism in order to ser
ve better the purposes of the
Council.
Such a procedure, he noted,
would be most consonant with
the mind of Pope Paul VI as
expressed in his allocution
opening the second session. Si
nce the pontiff Is known to be
following the Council discussion
on a closed-circuit TV in his
study, Cardinal Bea’s public
interpretation of Pope Paul's
viewpoint was surely not reck
less nor, probably, un
authorized.
THE COUNCIL now moves to
an examination of the role of
bishops in the Catholic Church
and, specifically, of their relat
ion as a group — "a college”
of the successors of the apos
tolic college — to the Pope, a
subject scheduled for study and
definition at the First Vatican
Council but interrupted per
force when the Franco-Prus-
sian War forced the Council's
adjournment.
The week of Oct. 7-12, then,
could be the most important
one In the life of Vatican IL
Last December 4, Leon-Jos-
eph Cardinal Suenens of Maii-
nes-Brussels, Belgium, rose in
the closing days of the first
session of the Council to urge
the radical redrafting of the or
iginal schema "De Ecclesla**
which was before the bishops.
He called for an entirely new
editorial viewpoint, one in keep
ing with the perspective of Pope
John's inaugral address of Oct.
li. Vatican I, the Belgian car-
diani noted, had been a Council
of the papacy! Vatican II should
be a Council of the Church of
Christ, examining its double as
pect. The inner spiritual reality
of the Church should be expl
ored, he argued, and its mission
to the world explained in de
tail.
THE SUGGESTION (if it was
not a demarche) was greeted
with general applause. The next
day, Giovanni Battista Cardinal
Montinl, Archbishop of Milan,
who had spoken only once be
fore at the session, took the mi
crophone to endorse explicitly
Cardinal Suenens’ proposal. On
the day following, Giacomo Car
dinal Lercaro, Archbishop of
Bologna, Italy, associated him
self strongly with what came to
be termed the Montinl-Suenens
thesis and which obviously re
flected Pope John's idea of the
function and scope of the Coun
cil.
Today Montinl is Pope Paul
VI, and Cardinals Suenens and
Lercaro are two of the four
moderators directing the work
the Council. The goal* the
guiding lines and, with the assi
stance of the Holy Spirit, the
outcome of the Second Vatican
Council cannot, then, be In
doubt.