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PAGE 2 GEORGIA BULLETIN THURSDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1963
COUNCIL FATHERS
Debate Role Of The Bishops
And Stall Vernacular In Mass
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VATICAN CITY (NC) —The
Fathers of the ecumenical cou
ncil during the second week of
its second session passed ame-
nodments to the schema— or
draft consitution— on the lit—
rugy that will eventually Intro
duce the vernacular into parts
of the Mass.
This history-making decision
was taken as the Fathers pas
sed all 19 amendments to the
pecond chapter of the liturgy
schema—each one by a large
majority-between October 8
and 10.
While voting on the liturgy
amendments, the council simul
taneous! continued to debate the
schema "On the Nature of the
Church." During discussions
the questions of the collegia-
lity of the bishops and the
restoration of the permanent
diaconate Dearly emerged as
two of the major issues of the
council’s second session.
IN CONNECTION with the
former the matter of the First
Vatican Council's teaching on
papal primacy and infallibility
also came up. Archbishop Law
rence J. Shehan of Baltimore
urged that the text of the sc
hema on the Church "be amen
ded so as to show that .the
‘definitions’ (of doctrine) of the
pope are never to be under
stood as being against or with
out the consent of the Church.”
The liturgy amendment on
the vernacular makes it pos
sible to use modern languages
in the parts of the Mass "per
taining to the people." Precis
ely how much or how little of
this concession will actually be
applied was left by the pro
visions ofthe schema to the
national hierarchies. However,
“parts pertaining to the people"
could include all the chants of
the Ordinary (Kyrie, Gloria,
Credo, Sanctus and Agnus Dei)
and of the Proper (Introit, Gr
adual, Offertory and Commun
ion).
ARCHBISHOP PAUL J. HAL-
L1NAN of Atlanta, a memberof
the council Liturgy Commission
who had an active part in pre
parting the schema, said at a
press conference that there are
four steps to be taken before
the vernacular may actually
AT COUNCIL
Cordial Reception
Surprises Critic
ROME (NC) — A longtime
critic of the Catholic Church in
the L. S. has expressed agree
able surprise at the gracious
ness he has received from offi
cials as an accredited corres
pondent covering the ecumeni
cal council.
C. Stanley Lowell, associate
director of Protestants and Ot
her Americans United for Sepa
ration of Church andState, made
this remark in an interview with
Msgr. Mark Hurley, columnist
for the Monitor, San Francisco
Catholic Weekly.
LOWELL, WHO IS an editor
of the POAU publication. Ch
urch and State, said he was
not surprised at receiving ac
creditation from the council
press office. "I expected to be
received with some degree of
cordiality and to be extended the
full privileges of a news cor
respondent," Lowell said.-
“But I was honestly surpris-
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which I was received. I must
confess that I had expected the
reception to be a bit more fri
gid than it was. But actually
it has been very cordial indeed
and many courtesies have been
shown me. Since I am only hu
man, I am deeply appreciative
of these.’’
THE POAU EDITOR also said
he found the general press "dir
ect and frank” in its efforst
to cover the council. "There has
been a direct confrontation in
the council by theological ex
perts,” he stated, "and the
press had asked its questions
in great candor.
"On the whole I do not think
there has been any misrepres
entation by the press. The stor
ies I’ve seen in the press have
rather accurately reflected
what went on.”
LOWELL SAID that he is
getting the impression that the
Church is very sincere in its
work at the council, particularly
in its work for reunion with
other Christians.
The POAU official related
that he tries to attend all meet
ings that he can in connection
with the council. "If I encoun
ter any difficulties, I announce
loudly that I am a Protestant
minister, and that seems to be
the magic trick and opens the
door and I get in," he said. It
was noted that Lowell attended
the private caucus here of the
South .African Bishops.
HE ADDED that while he is
receiving a great amount of
“cordiality, warmth and
friendliness,” he does not feel
that he is being “taken in.’’
He said his purpose in coming
to the council was to see what
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be introduced into the Mass:
1. Approval of the Amended
second chapter of the liturgy
draft constitution, which now
appears virtually certian.
2. Promulgation of the const-
tiution by Pope Paul VI and the
council.
3. Approval by national hier
archies.
4. Preparation of texts in the
vernacular.
ARCHBISHOP HALLINAN
reported tat informal meetings
of bishopws belonging to diffe-
erent language groups are al
ready being held to prepare uni
form vernacualr texts.
Other amendments to the lit
urgy schema:
• Directed that changes be
made in the text and rite of the
Mass to make for greater sim
plicity.
• Presented the sermon or
homily as an intergral part of
the Mass and ordered that a
sermon be preached at all Mas
ses on Sundays and holy days
of obligation.
• Recommended that people
take part in the Mass by rece
iving Communion.
• Proposed the extension of
Communion under both species
to others than the celebrant on
certain occasions.
• Urged priests to exhort the
people to be present at both
parts of the Mass, that is "the
service of the word and the
Ecuharistic service."
IN THE DEBATE on colleg-
iality of the bishops, Achille
Cardinal Lienart, Bishop of Lil
le, France, said (Oct. 10) that
the “treatment of the colleg-
iality of the bishops and of their
relationship with the Roman
pontiff could give the impress
ion that there is a question of
two antagonists, one of whom
must eventually be sacrificed
to the other.’’ This is a wrong
impression, he said.
The following day, Giacomo
Cardinal Lercaro, Archbishop
of Bologna and one of the four
moderators who direct daily
council meetings, announced
that the moderators haddecieed
that “because of the import
ance of the matters under dis
cussion, the time is not yet
right to close off debate on the
collegiality of the bishops and
the restoration of the perman
ent diaconate.”
BUT, THE CARDINAL war
ned, speakers "should take spe
cial care not to repeat what has
already been siad on the floor.”
The first Vatican Council’s
teaching on papal primacy and
infallibility was brought up by
Archbishop Joseph Descuffi, C.
M., of Izmin, Turkey. His re
marks turned on the phrase used
by the first Vatican Council:
“Ex sese, non ex consensu ec-
clesiae” (of himself and not
by consent of the Church.)
Archbishop Descuffi said
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there should be a special par
agraph in the schema explain
ing how the privilege of in
fallibility makes the definitions
of the pope irreversible of
themselves, by virtue of spec
ial divine assistance and not by
virtue of the consent of the
Church.
IT IS TRUE, he said, that the
Uiversal Chur, h is likewise
infallible, but this is not in con
flict with the infallibility of the
pope.
The same argument was tak
en up by Archbiahop Shehan,
who quoted from Bishop Vin
cent Gasser, who spoke on the
same matter at the First Vat
ican Council: “We cannot sep
arate the pope from the conse
nt of the Church because this
consent is never wanting. Since
we hold that the Roman Pontiff
is infallible, we automatically
teach that his definitions will
have the consent of the Church
because the body of the bishops
cannot be separated from its
head and the entire Chuch can
not be found wanting.”
THE ARCHBISHOP raised
this point, he said, ’’because
the Catholic doctrine of papal
infallibility gives rise to many
difficulties with our separated
brethern.”
Fernando Cardinal Quiroga
Palacios, Archbishop of Santia
go di Compostella, Spain, rais
ed the issue of the juridical
aspects of the collegiality of
the bishops. He said:
“It is not clear whether the
bishops have been constituted by
the will of Christ into a juri
dical moral person or whether
the teirm ‘collegiality’ design
ates only the totality of the
bishops. It is true that the col
lege of bishops by the will of
Christ, in union with its head,
has the power to make laws.
"BUT THIS POWER does not
necessarily constitute a colle-
go in the strict sense. If the
bishops from a college only in
virtue of moral union, deriving
from the pursuit of one same
end and the use of common
means, then there is no doubt
about collegiality. But if the
term means that the bishops,
in union with the pope, enjoy
legislative power over the en
tire Church, then we must de
termine clearly whether this is
divine or only ecclesiastical
law. That it is divine law does
not yet seem ot be conclusiv
ely proved.”
Discussing the restoration of
the permanent diaconate, Paul
Cardinal Richaud, Archbishop
of Brodeaux, France, said he
favored it and stated that’many
young men fear the priesthood
because they see many priests
worn out by numerous occup
ations not directly connected
with the administration of the
Sacraments and theexericiseof
priestly powers.” His sugges
tion was that permanent diaco
nate would relieve this pro
blem.-
Fernando Cardinal Cento,
Grand Penitentiary, also favo
red the permanent diaconate,
but only under celibacy.
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Group Of Bishops
ROME (NC)—Archbishop Ge-
raldo de Proenca Slgaud of Di-
amantina, Brazil, has come out
against strong national confere
nces of bishops, saying they wo
uld restrict the powers of lo
cal bishops and of the pope.
In a Divine Word news ser
vice interview he said: "Confe
rences of bishops should not be-r
come a new kind of power over
diocesan bishops, limiting the
power of the individual bishops
and even destroying it."
THE POWER TO rule the Ch
urch was given i solely to Peter
"as a personal power and from
Peter it was transmitted to his
successors in the papacy,” he
said.
He said that the pope himself
could not change the structure
of the Church as founded by Ch
rist and begin to rule the Ch
urch through a permanent sort
of council. The Brazilian pre
late added:
"THIS WOULD be a major
alteration In the organizational
structure of the Church, con
trary to that laid down by Ch
rist and it would be creating
a new kind of international ec
clesiastical parliament to rule
the Church in place of the Pope,
whose powers would be reduced
to those of a chairman on an ep
iscopal board.”
The Archbishop stated that in
the strictest sense of the word
the world's bishops constitute
a college only during an ecu
menical council. As a council
the decision of the majority of
the bishops, once approved by
the pope, becomes binding and in
this they have collegiality. But
once a council ends, he said,
the bishops again become an
episcopal college “in the broad
sense of the word, without le
gislative power over the entire
Church."
ROME (NC)—The terms “vi
car of Christ" and “pope" were
applied to all bishops in the
Church up to the 11th century,
a German theologian said here.
Father Joseph Ratinger, pro
fessor at the University of Bonn
and expert for the ecumenical
council, speaking at a press
conference sponsored by the
German Bishops, also said that
in the early Christian centur
ies, “pope" meaning father,
was generally applied to all
priests.
FATHER RATZLNGER said
that this clearly shows that or
iginally all bishops were con
sidered to be “vicars” of Ch
rist, acting on behalf and by
the grace of Christ, and that
all are members of one and the
same college, just as the 11
Apostles were “colleagues” of
St. Peter.
All this, he said, should be
kept in mind in connection with
the present council discussions
on the “collegiality of the bis
hops.”
ONE SHOULD remember, he
said, that the problem is pri
marily spiritual in nature since
it refers to the innermost sou
rce of the Church's life which
is Christ.
Diversity in unity marked the
early Christian Church, he said.
Christian communities were
linked with each other by the
fact that they all offered the
Mass. Administrative respon
sibilities which eventually led
to centralized authority were
taken on later on by the Bishop
of Rome. This centralization
reflected monarchical rather
than democratic ideals, he said.
MONARCHICAL ideas were
stressed further, Father Rat-
zinger said, when the First Vat
ican Council (1869-1870) em
phasized the primacy of the
pope.
The present council upholds
that primacy without reservat
ions, he said, without exclud
ing the many direct practical
consequences w hich come from
the fact that administrative re
sponsibilities should now be sh
ared by the pope and the bis
hops.
The Church is now not “Ro
man” but universal, he said,
and local decisions should be
left to authorities in the coun
tries affected by these decis
ions.
This can be done w ithout in
fringing at all on the supreme
authoritiy of the pope, he said.
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Degree Rule Explained
WASHINGTON (NC) —Msgr.
William J. McDonald, rector of
the Catholic Univesity of Ame
rica, Washington, D. C., said
(Oct. 11) that he has not re
ceived a decree from Rome on
granting honorary doctorates,
much less any notification that
the decree has been suspended
for the United States.
Newsweek magazine reported
in its October 14 issue that the
Roman Curia recently “issued a
worldwide decree ordering all
Catholic colleges and universi
ties to submit well in advance
the names of any persons they
planned to honor so the Curia
could make sure they were de
serving." The indignation of of
ficials in U. S. Catholic colle
ges, Newsweek said, “led to the
indefinite suspension of the dec
ree for the United States."
“OF COURSE, if it were a
case of granting an honorary de
gree in Sacred Theology," Ms
gr. McDonald said, “we auto
matically refer it to the Con
gregation. That has always been
done."
He added that the matter
never came up during the early
September meeting of rectors of
pontifically-erected Catholic
universities throughout the
world which took place at Cat
holic University.
N. C. W. C. News Service’s
Rome bureau reported (Oct. 11)
that officials at the Sacred Con
gregation of Seminaries and
Universities would not talk
about the decree.
(In September, officials of the
Sacred Congregation of Semi
naries and Universities said
that the congregation had under
study a proposal to require its
approval before a Catholic uni
versity could grant an honorary
degree in any field.
(The officials pointed out that
under Pope Pius XI’ 1931 apo
stolic constitution Deus Scient-
iarum Dominus, which is still
in effect, permission of the Con
gregation of Seminaries and
Universities must be received
before degrees can be granted
in theology and other ecclesi
astical studies.
(In the United States, top of
ficials at several pontifically
erecetd Catholic universities
denied then having received any
instruction from the Congregat
ion of Seminaries and Univers
ities which would require them
to get prior approval from Rome
before granting honorary de
grees.
Such an instruction allegedly
was Issued last May 25. Top
officials of two pontifically ere
cted universities said they had
neither seen it nor heard any
thing about it. A high adminis
trator in a third suvh univer
sity told the N. C. W. C. News
Sevice that while he had not seen
such an instruction.
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