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I 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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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 Office Equipment Business Machines Sales—Service—Supplies CZIka PHONE 525-6417 172 WHITEHALL STREET, S.W. 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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.