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PACE'2 GEORGIA BULLETIN THURSDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1963
\ \ ATLANTA AREA
Shrine Scene Of Region
Newman Club Initiation
The Newman Clubs of the At
lanta Area held a joint initia
tion on Sunday, October 27, at
4:30 P.M. at die Shrine of the
Inmaculate Conception at
Hunter St. and Central Ave.
Fifty-seven new members
were initiated, representing the
Clubs of Agnes Scott College,
Atlanta University Center,
Emory University, Georgia St
ate College, Georgia Tech, and
Piedmont Hospital.
THE SERVICE was com
menced with the explanation,
blessing and distribution of the
Newman Pins by Rev. T. T. Mc-
THE ARCHDIOCESAN Saint Martin's Council on Human Relations shown at a blraclal meeting
held at Sacred Heart, Griffin, Georgia. Panel members were Mrs. Georgia Gunning, Mrs. Henry
DeGive, Leon Allain, and Dennis Hendry. G. Albert Lawton acted as Moderator. Very Reverend
Raymond Govern, C. SS. R., pastor, presided and lauded the panel for their straightforward and
enlightening presentation of the racial question in the light of the Church's teaching.
COUNCIL FATHERS
Race Equality, Church - State
Stand Asked By U.S. Bishops
VATICAN CITY (NC) —
America's Bishops provided the
highlights of the fourth week of
the ecumenical council's second
session by calling for council
statements denouncing racial
discrimination and clarifying
Church-State relations.
Speaking for the U, S. Hier
archy, Archbishop Lawrence J.
Shehan of Baltimore said
Church-State relations are too
critical and touchy a topic for
a complete council treatment
of the matter.
Bishop Victor J. Reed of
Oklahoma City a ml Tulsa re
ported that the U. S. Bishops
did not like the phrase "re
grettable separation''of Church
and State that was in the coun
cil document under discussion.
He said the experience of the
Bishops in the U. S., where
Church and State are separated,
"has been very good."
Bishop Robert E, Tracy of
Baton Rouge, La., said the coun
cil should make it clear that
racial discrimination cannot be
"reconciled with the truth, . ,
that God creates all men equal
in rights and dignity.’’
DURING THE WEEK the
council Fathers ended discuss
ion qf Chapter 111 of the draft
proposal—or schema—*t)n the
Nature of the Church" and be
gan debate on Chapter IV. The
third chapter deals with "The
People of God and Especially
the Laity;" the fourth is en
titled "Call to Holiness in the
Church."
Meanwhile, the Fathers also
passed Chapter IV as amended
of the liturgy schema. The
chapter concerns the breviary.
Later they passed all 10 amend
ments to Chapter V dealing with
the Liturgical year.
IN ADDITION the council pre
pared to vote on whether the
chapter on Our Lady should be
included in the schema on the
Church or dealt with separate
ly.
As the second session neared
its halfway mark, rumors re
garding its progress and con
tinuation began to flow, two of
which were often repeated in
usually reliable circles.
The first said that differences
have developed between the
council's secretary general and
the cardinal moderators on the
matter of controlling repetit
ious speeches. The second
said that Pope Paul VI is ready
to terminate the council as an
assembly of physically present
bishops and continue it as a
kind of "council by correspond
ence" with only the council
commissions preparing all
schemata for a final session,
A FULL AND accurate coun
cil treatment of the question of
Church and State was called for
at the Fathers* 54th general
meeting (Oct. 23) by Archbishop
Shehan. He said that "the
question of Church and State
is entirely too important and
too delicate to be treated only
In passing, almost casually,
in a discussion on the aposto-
late of the laity."
Archbishop Shehan added that
the question of Church and State
"should be placed in a context
where it can be treated with the
fullness and accuracy which it
needs. Likewise the text should
clarify the meaning of the term
'the world,’ After the example
of Christ, we should distinguish
the world in its disparaging
sense and the men who live in
the world. This will give a
better idea of the mission of
Faith and the scope of Catho
lic Action. It will also clari
fy our pastoral preaching on
'the world’ and provide a better
understanding of the Christian
vocation to holiness."
AT THE U.S. Bishops' press
panel following the council
meeting, Bishop Reed said that
the American Bishops do not
want to speak of Church and
State in the present schema,
but prefer that it be developed
in schema number 17, which
is on the Church in the modern
world. Archbishop Shehan pre
sented the mattsr at the council,
he said, because the suggestion
already had been made that the
subject be treated in the schema
under discussion.
Bishop Reed made the point,
which Archbishop Shehan him
self had covered in his council
speech, that the U. S. Bishops
object to the phrase "regrett
able separation" contained in
the text because "our experi
ence in the U. S. in relations
between Church and State has
been very good. The phrase
would not be an expression of
the true feeling of the Ameri
can Catholics."
THE FOLLOWING day (Oct.
24) the U. S. Bishops called
for a council declaration against
race discrimination. Spokes
men for the American Hier
archy was Bishop Tracy, who
noted that the text of the schema
states that there can be no in
equality among members of the
Church because of national
origins, social class or sex.
He asked that the text be amend
ed to include race.
He declared: "The inclusion
of this point would emphasize
that equality which is enjoyed
by ail the members of the people
New Distinction
VATICAN CITY (NC>— Mel-
kite-Rite Patriarch Maxlmos
IV Saigh at Antioch is res
ponsible for a special distinct
ion now granted to himself and
six fellow Eastern Rite Patri
archs: they are seated promin
ently across from the cardinals
in a tribune of their own just
below the statue at St. Peter
in the ecumenical council halL
The 84-year-old Patriarch
was the one to brin^ the matter
to Augustin Cardinal Bea. S.
J„ president of the Secretariat
for Promoting Christian Unity,
and Leo Cardinal Suenens of
Malines Brussels, Belgium, one
of the four council moderators.
He told them that equal dignity
had been conceded to patria
rchs and cardinals by Pope Leo
XIII, who was Pope from 1878
to 1903, on the strength of a
recommendation in 1439 by the
Council of Florence.
of God in the Christian economy.
No discrimination based on
racial considerations can be
reconciled with the truth where
by we believe that God creates
all men equal in rights and
dignity...
"IF THIS change is made it
will be easier for bishops to
provide their faithful with the
proper instruction on the quest
ion of race prejudice. It would
also reassure those who have
been humiliated or have been
deprived of natural rights be
cause of racial prejudice. In
addition it would serve as a
basis for important future de
clarations of the council."
At the Oct. 23 meeting a
U. S. prelate declared that the
laity should be encouraged to
take a greater part in the life
of the Church by means of a
"genuine dialogue between the
hierarchy and the laity."
Bishop Ernest J. Primeau of
Manchester, N. H„ stated:
"IT IS A fact of experience
that in many fields members
of the laity are much more
competent than the clergy or
the hierarchy. They have a
genuine love for the Church
and are animated with the spirit
of reverence for their superiors
in the Church. They want to
do their part,
"Unless this council deter
mines the respective roles of
liberty in the laity and
authority in the hierarchy, there
will be great danger that de
dicated laymen may lose in
terest in the mission of the
Church, give in to discourage
ment and eventually fall away,
"THE OBLIGATIONS of the
hierarchy in this respect have
particular importance when
dealing with intellectuals in the
Church, since it is necessary
to acknowledge their right to
freedom of investigation and
to intellectual initiative. Our
text is too negative and too
clerical. It might be said to
sum up the duty of the laity
as being: believe, pray, obey
and pay."
On Oct. 24 the presiding,
moderator of the day, Julius
Cardinal Doepfner of Munich
and Freising, Germany, called
for a standing vote to end de
bate on Chapter III of the schema
on the Church. The vote passed.
Then Cardinal Doepfner an
nounced that several Fathers
had requested that the doctrine
on Our Lady should be made a
chapter of the schema on the
Church rather than stand alone
as a separate chapter. By
agreement of the moderators
and the president of the
Theological Commission, Al
fredo Cardinal Ottaviani, he
said, it had been decided to
hear two members of the com
mission present the pros and
cons concerning this proposal.
RUFINO CARDINAL Santos
of Manila addressed the as
sembly urging a separate
schema for Our Lady, Fran-
zlskus Cardinal Koenig of
Vienna favored incorporating
it into the present schema on
the Church. A vote was to be
taken on the proposal on Oct.
28.
Bishop John J, Wright of
Pittsburgh, a member of the
Theological Commission, ex
plained the origin of the pro
posed vote at the press panel.
He said that prior to the coun
cil many bishops had asked
that a chapter on Our Lady be
incorporated in the schema on
the Church, After an exchange
of views in the council hall,
he said, the commission took
the question under advisement
and again there was disagree
ment within the commission.
It was then decided to resolve
the debate by an appeal direct
ly to council Fathers, asking
for their opinion by a vote.
DISCUSSION OF the chapter
on holiness in the Church be
gan Oct. 25. It contained these
general principles:
In the Church everyone is
called to holiness, Which is the
same for all, whatever their
state or way of life.
The council urges all priests,
secular and Religious, to ful
fill their ministry with holiness,
eagerness and strength, on the
model of the order of bishops,
with whom all priests are united
in the one Eucharistic Sacrifice.
THE COUNCIL also calls on
married persons and parents
to help each other in a life of
grace with faithful love, and
to give a Christian mind and the
evangelical virtues to their
children.
The evangelical counsels do
not constitute perfection; but
they contribute greatly to the
fervor of charity. There are
many in the Gospel, although
three are particularly praised
in the doctrine and practice
of the Church: poverty, chastity
and obedience.
ALL THE faithful are called
to holiness, though not ne
cessarily to the practice of the
evangelical counsels. Many
Christians practiced the coun
sels as a stable way of life, ap
proved by the Church, called
the State of Striving for Per
fection.
On account of his primacy in
the Universal Church, the Ro
man pontiff can, for the common
good, exempt institutes of per
fection from the jurisdiction of
the Ordinary. But Religious
must show reverence and pract
ice obedience to the bishops,
SINCE THE faithful are bound
to seek holiness, each should
strive to persevere and excel
in the vocation to which he has
been called for the glory of
Christ.
Discussion of Chapter IV was
led off by Paul Cardinal Rlchaud
of Bordeaux, France, who com
plained that "the text does not
place sufficient stress on the
element of penance and morti
fication."
PAUL CARDINAL SILVA
Henrlquez of Santiago, Chile,
made two points. First he
suggested that it would be help
ed to both Religious and lay
men to have a treatment of the
general vocation to sanctity and
of the profession of the evange
lical counsels in the same
chapter of the schema. Se
condly, he observed that the
exemption of Religious from
episcopal authority, as ex
pressed in the text, can be re
garded as a concrete mani
festation of the colleglality of
the bishops.
Nulty, O. F. M., Archdiocesan
Director of the Newman Aposto-
late. Serving in this ceremony
were Robert Stimler and Steve
Nimmer, of the Georgia Tech
Newman Club.
After the distribution of the
pins, Rev. Raphael Amrhein;
C. P., chaplain of the Atlanta
Uni vers ity Center Newman Club
gave a sermon in which he re
lated the martyrdom of the Mex
ican priest, Michael Pro, and
the induction of John Hen
ry Newman into the church
by Rev. Dominic Barbari to the
induction of the new members
into the Newman Apostolate, and
exhorted the Newmanltes "to
radiate the heat of the love of
Christ" in secular campuses.
THE SERVICE was concluded
with the benediction of the Bles
sed Sacrament by Rev. Alvin
Mathews, 0. F. M., chaplain
of the Newman Clubs at Emory,
Georgia State and Oglethrope.
After the ceremony, the ini
tiates joined the old members
at the Georgia Tech Newman
Japan Increase
TOKYO (NC)— The number of
Catholics in Japan has gone up
by two-thirds in the past 10
years, according to the annual
survey of the National Catholic
Committee of Japan. The survey
showed that Catholics numbered
308,814 on June 30, 1963, In
1953, Japan had 185,284 Catho
lics.
AT COUNCIL
House for supper.
THE INITIATES were the fol
lowing:
Agnes Scott: Julie Zechowski
and Susan Bergeron
Atlanta University Center:
Dan Grady, Allen Hodges,
Madeline McClellan, Emarie
Thompson, and Ann L. Willi
ams.
Emory University: p au j
Bismarck, Martha Carpenter,
Kathy Horne, Karen Kolmar
John Naas, Mary Beth Norse,
Anthony O'Donnel and William
Stubblefield.
Georgia State College: Eloise
Bollmer, Jerry Colley, Diane
Cronin, Pat Kelley, Tom Magu
ire,, Charles Mason, Mary Stu
bbs, Carol Sullivan, Pat
Warren, Holley Wysong.
Georgia Tech: Ed.Aubitz,
Tom Barret, Lee Clark, Ed Daly
Jack Dent, Carlos Garcia,
Mike Granada, Skip Gutierrez,
William Heartz, G. W. Holes,
Jerry Hale, Dick Jurgensen,
Hal Lamb, Chuck Landry, Vic
tor Langhans, Daniel Leevack,
Vince Margiotto, Pat F. Mc
Mahon, Anthony Peluso, Jack
Philley, Richard Prisbus, Jorge
Ravendos, Tim Riley, Steve
Roach, Harry Schwab, Antonio
Serbia, Dailey Smith, Daniel
Sullivan, Rick Uhrie, Barry
Wilhelm and Dan Woods.
Piedmont Hospital: Kay
Howe.
MONSIGNOR JOSEPH G. CASSIDY, P.A., V.G., pastor of Christ
the King Cathedral, shown giving the homily at the dedication of
the new Newman House chapel at Georgia Tech. Work on the
chapel was done by the Newman Club members.
BUILT BY MEMBERS
Tech Newman House
Chapel Is Blessed
The newest addition to the
Georgia Tech Newman House,
a modern chapel, was blessed
on Sunday, October 27, at 7:00
p.m.
The blessing, sermon, and
benediction were by the Right
Rev. Msgr. Joseph Cassidy, Vi-
Memo On Laymens Rights
Circulated Among Bishops
VATICAN CITY (RNS)—When
the second Vatican Council is
over, what will it have meant
to the layman in the United
States?
This was the question posed
in a memorandum privately cir
culated among the Council Fa
thers by a group of American
lay Catholics. In it they urged
that the layman "should, if he
so desires, be drawn more im
mediately into the ministry of
the world through approved offi
cial participation in the aposto
late of the bishop or the Holy
See in specific programs of
Catholic Action."
THE memorandum, embody
ing requests for full recogni
tion of the rights as well as du
ties of the laity, was signed by
Michael Novak and "other Ame
rican laymen." Mr. Novak, who
holds a theology degree from
the Pontifical Gregorian Uni
versity in Rome, is a Teaching
Fellow at Harvard University
who recently published his first
novel, "The Tiber Was Silver".
'The people of God," the me
morandum said, "are not foot
soldiers marched off into a hos
tile world by a high command.
They are a people among whom
God dwells, in whose worship of
God there is a ministry of word
and of sacrament, and among
them there is, by divine insti
tution, a chosen band of minis
ters, a hierarchy of service.”
However, "it may be said
that the present organization of
offices within the Church has
to a visible degree overlaid the
simple lines of the Gospels and
early tradition with cumbersome
forms of the civil societies of
the late Renaissance," the me
morandum declared, at the
same time asking, "Do not
our bishops bear about them
the vesture of such so
cieties?"
Catholic Pupils
Helped By Taxes
ST. LOUIS (NC)—Some 3,500
parochial school students in St.
Louis County Catholic schools
are receiving tax-supported
speech and hearing correction
training under a landmark pro
gram here.
Originally set up for benefit
of public school pupils only
the program was opened to non
public school pupils by a rul
ing on Church State issues han
ded down in February by Misso
uri Atty. Gen. Thomas F. Eagle-
ton.
IT SAID the recognition of die
dignity and rights of human per
sons "seems thus to the uncul
tivated layman far more advan
ced in civil societies than in
the ecclesiastical society whose
duty is to reveal the Gospels of
Christ."
The memorandum then out
lined six points which the Ame
rican group believed should be
brought to the attention of the
Second Vatican Council. They
were:
1. The layman wishes to be
entitled to the rights of person,
speech and property which be
long to him by Natural Law and
entitled to the protection of
these rights as much within the
Church as in civil society. Ec
clesiastical organs which touch
those rights must operate open
ly, with adequate care to defend
persons and liberty as well as to
protect doctrine and discipline.
2. Laymen sometimes feel
they are obliged to witness to
the Faith that is in them not
only to those outside the Church,
but also to those within it. (The
layman) sometimes feels that
the word of God is given to the
layman too, not only to the min
isters of the word. The layman
also inwardly knows that he
has the duty to cherish the cha
rismata of his state and condi
tions that favor them: ordinary
charismata of insight, criti
cism, challenge to practices
and discipline which in earlier
times went under the name of
prophecy. So for the expres
sion of prophetic criticism
there must be provision in the
Church.
3. The layman knows he is ob
liged to live as a pilgrim in this
world, vigilant and yet at peace,
for this world has been much
loved of God and is already re
deemed. He fulfills his vocation
as a Christian if, conscious of
his redemption, he does all
well and holily .
4. He is obliged to create
whatever lay organizations are
useful or necessary to the prac
ticing of spiritual or corporal
works of mercy, but desires to
see these organizations struc
tured and administered accord
ing to organizational methods
Candles Are Out
SCRANTON (NC)—A warning
against use of candles in ceme
teries throughout the Scranton
diocese has been issued here
because of the prolonged
drought.
deemed proper by lay creators.
5. The layman should, if he
so desires, be drawn more im
mediately into the ministry of
the world through approved of
ficial participation in the apos
tolate of the bishop or the Holy
See in specific forms of Catho
lic Action.
6. The layman is obliged to
respond to the ever varying
needs of history in whatever
forms of Christian life seem to
him demanded by the Gospels,
seeking the approval of the bis
hop only where it impinges on
the office of bishops. For the
role of prophecy, even in Christ,
social forms must be respected
and the benefit of doubt given
freedom.
In conclusion, the American
group said that "the common
distinction between the tempo
ral and spiritual orders, does
not do justice to die complete
ness of the layman's involve
ment in the people of God, nor
to the clerics* role in the
world."
car General of the Archdioce
se of Atlanta. Serving at the ce
remony were Robert Stim
ler and Charles Landry, of the
Tech Newman Club.
MSGR. CASSIDY in his ser
mon emphasized the need for
remembering religion in
our daily lives and the oblig
ation to comply with God's law
in our relationships with one
another. Msgr. Cassidy then
proceeded to the benediction of
the Blessed Sacrament.
The chapel, which was pre
viously an unused room of the
Newman House, was complete
ly reconditioned and rebuilt by
the Ga. Tech Newman Club
members. The stained glass
window depicting the moment of
truth of the prophet Jonah was
made and donated by the Cist
ercian monks of Conyers.
THE MODERN OILED walnut
altar and candlesticks were
made and donated by Mr. Har
old Katz of Guntersvllle, Ala
bama, father of the Newman
Club's 1962-63 president David
Katz. The necessary funds for
the remaining materials were
collected by Mrs. Fred Ajax
and Mrs. John Kinkela, of the
Parent's Association.
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