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PAGE 8 GEORGIA BULLETIN THURSDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1963 NATURE OF CHURCH Council Fathers Continue Debate CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 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- Wall Speaks To Serrans Mr. Thomas Wall, Jr„ of Nashville, Governor of District Number 18 of Serra Inter national, was a recent speaker at the bi-weekly Serra Club lun cheon. Headquarters for District Number 18 is in Nashville and includes Serra Clubs in Atlanta, Charlotte,, Memphis, Little Rock and Nashville. Mr. Wall is on a tour of all 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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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. CHSIST AS NOW AVAILABLE FOR Hoji^^^iiiallJlup^rtnMm^Jowse^wBers Are Therm Cracks Between Your Tile Walls And Bathtub? Do You Need Extra Towel Racks? Do You Need Broken Fixtures Replaced? For All These Unsightly Small Jobs Call 233-6887 Anytime Bath Repair Service Free Estimates archbishop hallinan IQ preach Church Will Beatify Celebrated Italian-Born Passionist Theologian FERDINAND BUCKLEY President HERB FARNSWORTH Vice President 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. MISSIONER STATES Laymen Vital To Future S. America HOLY CROSS BROTHER > TIACMIMO • SOTS’ MOMtt • SAMCMINO • OtPICI WOM • HAMS • FOSIION MISSIONS For Information Writui brother Donald Hansel, CfC 104 Holy Cross School •1950 Daupbine Street Now Orleans, La. 70117 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 CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 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 FIRST MERIT Scholarship Semifinalist from D*Youville Academy Is Miss Pamela Park er, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James A. Parker of 412 Pine- crest Road, N.E, She is one 13,000 seniors throughout the nation who have attained this rank through outstanding per formance in the Merit Scho larship Qualifying Test taken last March. 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. Any Tim* — Anywhere Call a TAXI RADIO CABS DECATUR CO-OP CABS 310 How*r4 Ay*. 24-Hour Sorvic# Passengers Insured Trios Anywhere DR. 74816 — DR. 7-1701 DECATUR, GA. The Holy Father's Mission Aid for the Oriental Church INDIA: A GIFT FIT FOR A KING Sister Loyola, Superior of the Sacred Heart Convent in KAN- AYAANKAVAYAL in southern India writes: This village is a mountainous place. We walk five miles from the main road through a forest, across rope bridges, high hills and steep valleys to reaeli the 300 families who earn their living by < ultlvating the land . . . Our Arch bishop sent us here to teach the chll- dren catechism and to run the prim ary school We live in a small house without a chapel. The people are so poor they are unable to build us one or improve our building . . . Sister’s plea Is warmly seconded l».v the Archbishop of C1IANGANA- CHERRY who laments the fact he is unable to aid them more because of the extent and poverty of his mission field ... In this pleasant month of October when many consecrate themselves to the Sacred Heart on the Feast of Christ the King, it would certainly be a gift fit for a King if donations, large or small came in to make up the S4.000 these courageous and hard-work ing Sisters need. Your sacrifice will make their work more hopeful and you can be assured you will be long remembered in their prayers and those of the children and people they have in their care. STRINGLESS GIFTS ENABLE US TO HELP THE HOLY FATHER WHERE HE THINKS THE NEED IS GREATEST. VF.N'FH VBIE IOHN NEUMANN This holy last-century leader of the Philadelphia archdiocese will be beatified on Oct. 13 by Pope Paul VI. His great love and work was among children. He often taught them catechism personally and he founded the diocesan system of Catholic schools in this country ... A membership in our association wil enable future Bishop Neumanns in the 18 NEAR and MIDDLE EAST countries Oran, Iraq, Palestine, India, Egypt, etc.* to bring Christ's spirit and words to the children 'and grownups' of these countries . . . Membership is so inexpensive, only SI n year for a single person; $5 for a family. Perpetual membership is $20 for a single person: $100 for a family. You share in the prayers and Masses of the Holy Father and the 15.000 priests in these missionary countries. MAUREEN K. WRITES: Enclosed are ten dollars I received for my First Communion. I would like to send It to a needy child in the missions. OUR REPLY: Maureen, your kind sacri fice will go to help a PALESTINE REFUGEE child living In a eamp in the Near East. We help them with schooling ($25 a term); food (a package costs $10) and warm blankets (S2>. We also run a school for the BLIND CHILDREN OF GAZA. NEXT MONTH WE REMEMBER THE HOLY SOULS. OUR PRIESTS ARE THANKFUL FOR MASS STIPENDS. INSTANT ANGELUS The Cure d Ars had the answer for dark dreams. He said the Angelus on awakening, turning dark thoughts into white ones of apostolic action. Tomorrow morning, you can resolve to edu cate a seminarian or Sister like ANTONY PLAKKAL or SR. ROSALIND. $2 a week or $100 a year for six years educates a seminarian while $3 a week or $150 a year for 2 years prepares a Sister for her lifetime of apostolic work. What a wonderful prospect for a small sacrifice of 27 or 40 cents a day! We have the names of so many who need help. WHEN MAKING A WILL KINDLY REMEMBER: THE CATH- OLIC NEAR EAST WELFARE ASSOCIATION. Dear Monsignor Ryan: Enclosed please NAME STREET CITY find for. ZONE STATE ‘Rear East (Rissionsjafa FRANCIS CARDINAL SPILLMAN, President Miqr Jottpk T. tyox. Net'l $#«> $#in4 nit tf, CATHOLIC NIAR IAST WELFARE ASSOCIATION 480 Lexington Av*. at 46th St. Now York 17, N. Y.