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i y 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. SUV! CHRIST AS A HOLY CROSS BROTHER HACKING . ROYS’ HO MIS . RANCHING • OFFICI WORK • TRAINS • FORtlON MISSIONS •For Information Write: ft nrwlrf i rm** 104 Holy Cross School 4950 Dauphine Street New Orleans, La. 70117 Ed Curtin Now Featuring ALLEN COLLAY SEXTET -Plu$ . • a P.'T ct From NY. City JANA MocDONALD *> Dynamic Vocaliat Piu I ... 5:30 TO 7:30 BILL Cr ALLEN DUO Chatter • Humor a Mutio dance at the Setod Soud 760 Wast P'trea TR. 5-4251 Whpre tnsurahee is a Profession, Not a Sideline SUTTER St McLELLAN JA 5-2086