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PAGE 8 GEORGIA BULLETIN THURSDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1963
NATURE OF CHURCH
Council Fathers
Continue Debate
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tire episcopal conferences on
the general content of the sche
ma. Those Fathers who have
expressed various views on the
schema should arrange to co
ordinate their remarks and pre
sent them to the commission
in doctrine, he added.
HIS REFERENCE was to such
men as Joseph Cardinal Fringe,
Archbishop of Cologne, who
spoke on behalf of 65 German
speaking and Scandinavian Bis
hops, and Raul Cardinal Silva
Henriquez, Archbishop of San
tiago, Chile, who spoke for 44
Latin American Bishops. Such
group spokesmen should be
given particular attention, ac
cording to Cardinal Lercaro. He
also urged that some arrange
ment be made to create other
Joint statements—perhaps with
an eye to reducing the number
of individual, and sometimes
repetitive, speeches.
Benjamin Cardinal de .Arriba
y Castro, Archbishop of Tarra
gona, Spain, followed. He spoke
in the name of *'60 bishops,
mainly from Spain.” In oppo
sition to the urgings of Cardi
nal Silva and Bishop Sergio
Mendez Arceo of Cuernavaca,
Mexico, who had spoken two
days earlier, he proposed that
treatment of the Virgin Mary
be kept as a separate schema.
THE CHILEAN Cardinal and
Bishop Mendez had asked that
the schema on St. Mary be in
corporated in that on the
Church in order to give devo
tion to the Mother of God a pro
per persepctive and to avoid re
moving it from the proper devo-
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Serra Clubs in the District to
review club activities, plan fut
ure programs and generally
outline new activities to be con
sidered by the local clubs.
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tlonal life of the Church. Car
dinal Arriba instead held that
the Importance of Mary in the
Church merits a separate treat
ment.
Carlo Cardinal Confalonie-
ri, Secretary of the Consisto-
rlal Congregation, proposed
that a clearer definition of the
Church could be gained by re
calling the *‘outpouring of the
Holy Spirit on the Church on
Pentecost.”
INCREASED ATTENTION to
“the praying Church” was urg
ed by Paul Cardinal Richaud,
Archbishop of Bordeaux,
France.
Cardinal Ritter, the second
prelate from the United States
to speak in the second session
of the council, alluded to the
schema’s reference to the
Church as a “sacrament of
uon.” He said that the text
should Indicate how the Church
is a sign and an Instrument of
this union.
The Cardinal went on to say
that preaching and teaching,
while sacred duties, are eith
er poorly done or not fulfilled
at all. The necessary reforms
brought about by the Council of
Trent were responsible for
putting preaching somewhat in
to the background, he said.
But he added that it is now
necessary to restore to preach
ing its basic importance as an
indispensable condition for the
success of all other reforms.
ARCHBISHOP EUGENE D’-
Souza of Nagpur, India, also
touched upon the Church’s duty
to preach, but in the frame
work of the mission world. The
missionary responsibility of
individual bishops, he said, does
not end when they have evange
lized their own dioceses.
Then Cardinal Bea attacked
the schema’s use of certain
Scriptural passages. He urged
that its quotations from Scrip
ture and its arguments from
Tradition should be carefully
reexamined. Some of the pas
sages used, he said, did not
actually prove what they at
tempted to prove. As to the
arguments from Tradition, he
said that they should come from
sources prior to the eastern
schism of 1054 in order to
better serve the purposes of the
council.
THE TEXT SHOULD make
special mention of the Jews,
said Archbishop Franjo Seper
of Zagreb, Yugoslavia, because
of their close common bonds
with the Church and the pos
session of the Old Testament.
Archbishop Geraldo de Pro-
enca Slgaudof Diamantina, Bra
zil, proposed a new paragraph
in the text which would discuss
the Church as the family of
God, since God is the Father
of all men.
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Church Will Beatify Celebrated
Italian-Born Passionist Theologian
FERDINAND BUCKLEY
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HERB FARNSWORTH
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DR. NORMAN BERRY
Treasurer
JOHN M. THOMAS
Secretary
AT A RECENT meeting of the Archdiocesan Council of Catholic
Men, the above officers were elected for the coming year.
When the Venerable Dominic
Barberi, the missioner and the
ologian who received Cardinal
Newman Into the Church, is bea
tified here on the Feast of
Christ the King (Oct. 27) Arch
bishop Paul J. Hailinan of At
lanta will preach. Archbishop
Hailinan is episcopal moderator
of the Newman Clubs In the
United States.
A member of the Congrega
tion of the Passion (Passionist
Fathers), Fr. Barberi was born
at Pllanzana, near Viterbo,
Italy, on June 22, 1792, and died
at Reading, England, on Aug. 27,
1849. He began miss ionary work
in England in 1841 and four
years later received the future
Cardinal Newman, a convert
from Anglicanism, into the
Church.
THE BEATIFICATION of Fa
ther Barberi will be the second
to take place in the pontificate
of Pope Paul VL The first will
be the beatification on Sunday,
Oct. 13 of the Venerable John
N. Neumann, Bishop of Phila
delphia from 1852 to 1860.
On Nov. 3, Father Leonard
Murialdo, Italian founder of
the Pious Society of St. Joseph
of Turin (Italy), whodiedin 1900
will be declared a Blessed. Ano
ther beatification, on Dec. 8,
will be that of the Italian youth,
Nunzlo Sulprizio, who died at the
age of 19 in 1836.
THE CAUSE for the beatifica
tion of Father Barberi -- known
in religion as Dominic of the
Mother of God — was initiated
shortly after his death. The final
decree was approved by the
Sacred Congregation of Rites
on Sept. 23.
BEAITIFICATION of the Ita
lian Passionist is of special in
terest because of his reputation
as an ecumenical pioneer in
England, where he established
many strong Anglican contacts.
Besides Cardinal Newman, he
also received into the Church
several other outstanding Ang
licans, including John Dobree
Dalgairns, and two of Newman's
companions, E. S. Bowles and
Richard Stanton, all of whom be
came distinguished members of
the Congregation of the Oratory.
Large groups of pilgrims
from the UnitedStates, England,
Ireland, France, Germany, Hol
land and Belgium are expected
to be in Rome when Father Bar
beri is declared a Blessed, the
first major step toward canoni
zation.
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NEWARK, N. J. (NC)--A
priest-missioner stressed his
conviction that the future of the
Church In Latin America rests
with laymen.
Father Vincent J. Prestera,
a priest of the Newark arch
diocese, Is back here for a brief
vacation from Tegucigalpa,
Honduras, where he is pastor of
a parish served by two other
priests of the archdiocese.
“THE FAITH is lost in Latin
America unless laymen play an
active role in the Church as
responsible agents, not as pup
pets with the priests pulling the
strings; not as clerks, but as
real true apostles who have a
specific mission in the world.”
he said. “There Is no essential
difference between the aposto-
late of the layman and that of
the priest—the difference is in
their function.”
Father Prestera, who has vi
sited 13 South and Central Ame
rican countries in the past year,
is attempting to put his views in
to practice in the Tegucigalpa
parish, one of the poorest sec
tions of one of the poorest na
tions in the Americas.
BY SPRING, he expects to
have a layman preaching from
Archbishop
Released
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Bishop Vojtassek of Spis, in
Slovakia, is now 85. He was ar
rested in September of 1950 and
sentenced to 24 years in prison.
Bishop Zela, 70, was also ar
rested in September, 1950, when
he was Auxiliary Bishop of
Olomouc, Moravia. He receiv
ed a 25-year prison sentence.
BISHOP LADISLAV Hlad was
convicted of “performing in
secret the functions of a bishop”
in March of 1960. He was sen
tenced to a nine-year Jail term.
The Prague newspaper Svo-
bodne Slovo stated at the time
that he had been consecrated a
bishop in secret without the
required government permit.
The Annuario Pontificio, the
official Vatican directory, car
ried the name of Bishop Hlad
simply as titular Bishop of
Cediae, with none of the usual
personal statistics and without
listing his nationality or as
signment.
The release of Archbishop
Beran and the four bishops fol
lows by two months the an
nouncement by the Czechoslo
vak regime that it had released
three other Catholic bishops.
They were listed as Bishops
Josef Hlouch of Budejovice;
Stepan Trochta, S. D. B., of
Litomerice, and Karel Otce-
nasek, Apostolic Administrator
of the Diocese of Hradec Kra-
love.
the pulpit of Holy Family
church. The layman is Jesus
Gonzalez, director of the apos-
tolate to the Spanish-speaking
in Chicago, who recently con
ducted a successful mission In
Panama.
“We have 55,000 people
spread out over more than 300
square miles,” Father Pres
tera said. “It Is ridiculous to
think three priests can reach
them all* The solution lies in
training lay leaders—laymen
who will actually be able to
conduct some services in the
absence of a priest, laymen who
will multiply the priests.”
FATHER PRESTERA said It
will take five years before a
substantial number of people—
he's hoping for at least 60-
will be trained to catechize,
preach and conduct the sort of
liturgical service recommend
ed by his bishop in Honduras.
The service would consist of
Gospel readings and a sermon,
prepared either by the bishop
or a priest, or even by the
layman himself.
Father Prestera said he is
fortunate to have the help of a
layman In his work—Paul Mor
ris sy, 24, a graduate of St.
Francis Xavier University, An-
tigonish, Nova Scotia. Morris-
sy is entrusted with the socio
economic phase of the Hondu
ras mission.
“I STUDIED theology, he stu
died economics, about which I
know nothing,” Father Prestera
explained. “I am his assistant
in his field.”
Morrissy is establishing ra
dio schools In the parish—five
have been started so far—which
find people gathered around a
radio set for lessons in read
ing, writing, agronomy and re
ligion. He is organizing co-ops
“and he decides which meetings
a priest should attend.
HE AND THE priests have
been successful in getting elec
tricity for one of the villages
in the parish, and for planning
a clinic to be staffed by a Hon
duran doctor and a medical stu
dent In another village. A build
ing has been acquired at which
foo'd will be distributed soon,
the pastor said.
In his efforts to reach the men
of his parish, Father Prestera
is trying another experiment—
Mrs. J. Harrison
A Requiem Mass was offered
Friday at Sacred Heart, Atlanta,
for Mrs. John M. Harrison of
623 Orme Circle, NE
Mrs. Harrison was past pre
sident of the Sacred Heart Al
tar and Rosary Society. She was
also a member of the National
Council of Catholic Women and
of the Auxiliary of Our Lady of
Perpetual Help Free Cancer
Home. She is survived by four
daughters and two sons.
NEGRO RIGHTS
visiting and offering Mass only
at those villages where men go
to church. A village which pro
duces a congregation which
numbers more men than wo
men has a priest to offer Mass
every Sunday.
FATHER PRESTERA said he
is having the altar at the main
church transferred to the mid
dle of the nave and will offer
Mass facing the people who will
be seated In a companionable
semi-circle.
"It is necessary to make
every single contact between
priest and people Instructive-
Mass facing the people, Mass
in Spanish, the language they
understand, sermons that teach
the simple message of the Gos
pels,” he explained.
HE EXPRESSED the convic
tion that "Latin America is
either going to have a commu
nist revolution throughout or a
Christian social revolution.”
Priest Criticizes
Whites In Alabama
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SELMA, Ala. (RNS) — A
Roman Catholic priest, in a
letter to a local newspaper,
lashed out at white residents
o! this Deep South community
for denying Negroes their basic
rights.
“When will this community
Navy Group Meet
At St. Joseph’s
The Navy Catholic Action
Group of St. Joseph’s, Athens,
has put out die first issue of
Its new monthly bulletin, “The
Fishline.”
As part of its October pro
gram, the Navy group has sche
duled a discussion on “The
Catholic Church; What Can Be
Changed and Who Can Change
It?” The meeting will be held
Oct. 13, at 8:15 In the Parish
House.
K Of C Council
Plans Benefit
Final plans have been com
pleted for the Benefit Card
party put on by the Ladies Aux
iliary, Knights of Columbus Co
uncil 4358.
The parry will be held Satur
day evening, October 19, 1963
at 8:00 p.m. at the DeKalb
County Federal Savings & Loan
Assn. 116 Clairmont Ave., De
catur, Ga. The proceeds will
benefit the St. Joseph's Boys
Home and A Seminarian Fund.
Tickets may be obtained by
contacting Mrs. Larry LaBonte
377-2396 or Mrs. Paul Kelley
DR 3-4978.
and others like it in Alabama
realize that basic rights are
not something that can be given
or withheld from one citizen by
another citizen playing God?”
asked Father Maurice F. Ouel-
let, S. S. E., pastor of St. Eliza
beth’s Mission, a parish serv
ing Negroes in Selma,
IN HIS letter, which appeared
in the Selma Times Journal,
the 37-year-old priest also ac
cused Alabama Gov. George
Wallace of guiding the state to
disaster in his handling of the
explosive race situation.
“We have the example of a
chief executive, the governor
... posing under the guise of
states' rights, operating under
a false sense of importance and
leading the people of this sure
down the road to chaos,” Father
Ousllet declared.
THE PRIEST, who has tried
without surcess to form a bl-
racial committee in this com
munity, observed that civic
rights belong to all men, re
gardless of origin, creed or
color.
'The Negro community has
turned to every possible group
in this city and asked that they
be allowed to speak concern
ing what they believe to be in
justices against their race,”
he wrote, "every group has
turned its back on them. To
whom can these people address
them selves? Will no one listen?
What recourse do they have?
"WHO, THEN, has really
caused the tension in our city
during the past week7 ” he ask
ed. 'Trose who ignore
Justice!”
FOLLOW'LN'G the beatifica
tion, a Triduum in thanksgiving
will be held in Rome's Church
of Sts. John and Paul, the titu
lar church of Francis Cardi
nal Spellman, Archbishop of
New York. Preachers will be
the Rev. Alfred Wilson, C. P.,
of London, and Archbishop Hai
linan.
An American pilgrimage
leaving New York by air on
Oct. 22 will be under the pa
tronage of exiled Bishop Cuth-
bert O'Gara of Yuanling, Chi
na.
THE VENERABLE Dominic
of the Mother of God was the
youngest of six children bom
to his peasant parents, who died
when he was a boy. Adopted by
a maternal uncle, Bartolomeo
Pacelll, the young Dominic was
hired to care for sheep and when
he grew older did farm work.
Deeply religious from child
hood, he had no formal educa
tion until he entered the Con
gregation of the Passion, his
only instructors having been a
kindly Capuchin priest and a
country lad of his own age who
taught him to read.
The future missionary was
received into the Congregation
in 1814 and on March 1, 1818
was ordained a priest. For ten
years he taught philosophy and
theology to students of the Con
gregation. Then came a period
when he held, successively, the
offices of rector, provincial
consultor and provincial, at the
same time conducting many
missions and retreats.
IN 1840, FATHER Barberi
founded the first Passionist Re
treat in Belgium, at Ere, near
Tournai. Two years later he
went to England, where he es
tablished the Passionists at
Ashton Hall, Staffordshire, and
later erected three other mona
steries.
The greatest happiness of his
life was the reception of Cardi
nal Newman into the Church,
climax to his seven years of
missionary work in England.
Meanwhile he turned out many
notable works in the field of
philosophy and moral theology-.
In 1841 he addressed a Latin
letter to the professors of Ox
ford University in which he
answered theological objec
tions propounded by Anglicans.
His works included a volume on
the Passion of Our Lord, and
one for nuns on the Sorrows of
the Blessed Virgin.
Father Barberi died after
collapsing at the Pangbourne
railroad station near Reading,
and was burled under the high
altar of St. Anne’s Retreat,
Sutton, St. Helen's.
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