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PAGE 2 GEORGIA BULLETIN THURSDAY NOVEMBER 7, 1963
COUNCIL FATHERS
Move Toward Diaconate,
Church Rule Statements
VATICAN CITY (NC)-The
ecumenical council in its fifth
week in session made these
sweeping moves:
Paved the way for a decla
ration stating the Bishops of the
world as a Body, led by the Pope
have divine right supreme pow
er over the whole Church,
• voted approval of die last
chapter of its document on the
liturgy, thus setting the stage
for final approval within a mat
ter of weeks of the whole sche
ma which looks toward broad
revisions in the public worship
of the Church,
• approved in principle the
ordination of deacons to serve
as such permanently, rather
than going on to the priest
hood,
• operated under procedures
revised in a way promising to
speed up its activity.
THE (OCT. 30) ACTION pro
mising a declaration onthecol-
legiality of the bishops was re
garded as a council turning
point.
The Fathers voiced their ap
proval of the concept of the col
lege of bishops and on the re
storation of the permanent dia-
conate in a special vote on five
questions. The voice was called
for by the council moderators as
a way to speed up procedures.
The balloting was to serve as
a way to speed up procedures.
The balloting was to serve as a
guide to the council Theological
Commission in revising the
chapter dealing with the hier
archy in the schema on thd na
ture of the Church. It thus pre
cluded further prolonged dis
cussion.
THE FIVE QUESTIONS, with
the voting results, were:
1. Whether episcopal conse
cration is the highest grade of
the Sacrament of Holy Orders;
yes, 2,123; no, 34.
2. Whether every bishop, who
is in union with all the bishops
and the pope, belongs to die
body or college of bishops: yes,
2,049; no, 104.
3. Whether the college of bis
hops succeeds the college of
Apostles and, together with the
pope, has full and supreme pow
er over the whole Church: yes,
1,808; no, 336.
4. Whether the college of bis
hops, in union with the pope, has
this power by divine right: yes,
1,717; no, 408.
5. Whether the diaconate
should be restored as a distinct
and permanent rank in the sac
red ministry: yes, 1,588; no,
525.
AT THE AMERICAN Bishops*
press panel following the meet
ing, Father Gregory Baum, O.
S.A., of Toronto, council expert,
noted that the vote in favor of
die five points was “an ines
timable aid and support of the
position of the moderators."
He said that the successful use
of this procedural device would
enable moderators in the future
to discover the majority feel
ing of the council Fathers on a
particular subject without the
need for hearing an intermi
nable multiplication of speak
ers.
Bishop John J. Wright of
Pittsburgh, a member of the
Theological Commission, told
the press panel that die vote on
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the five points would make It
“enormously easier" for the
subcommission dealing with dm
collegiality of bishops to re
vise the chapter. He said that
the Theological Commission it
now in a position to subdivide
itself into subcommissions, as
it has already done in order to
make points under considera
tion and reorganize the schema.
THE DAY IT took the special
vote on the collegiality concept,
the council also passed amend
ments to the liturgy schema's
chapter on sacred music. These
included among other things a
recommendation that tradition
al local music be adapted to the
liturgy, especially in mission
regions.
Then on Oct. 31, before re
cessing for a four-day holiday,
the council Fathers passed the
final chapter on the document
on public worship. They saved
almost a whole day's work by
combining into one two chap
ters dealing with sacred art.
AMONG THE
adopted were:
provisions
MEDALIST STATES
ARCHITECT'S RENDERING SHOWS how the new St. Mary's Hospital in Athens will look after its
completion. The 135-bed installation, located on Baxter St., will require about 18 months for its
completion. The architect is Mr. J. R. Wilkinson.
NEW HOSPITAL
Construction Is Begun
At St. Mary’s, Athens
• encouragement of the use of
contemporary—but not abstract
art forms in churches.
• establishing beauty, rather
than costliness, as die proper
criterion for images, vestments
and general church furnishings.
• a warning to the effect that
too many statues not only clut
ter a church but distract from
worship.
• a recommendation that
churches be so constructed as
to promote active congrega
tional participation.
• a call for solid instruction
in sacred art in the seminaries.
THE VOTES TAKEN in the
course of the meetings were
interspersed between the coun
cil Fathers' continued discus
sion of the schema on the na
ture of the Church. Concern
ing the chapter dealing with
“the call to holiness in the
Church,'* Bishop John J. Rus
sell of Richmond told the Fa
thers:
"Before taking up the ques
tion of sanctity in the mem
bers of the Church, the text
should speak of the essential
sanctity of the Church...We
know that the Church has sin
ners in its ranks, that there
are scandals among persons
consecrated to God, apostasies,
racial discrimination and the
like.
"UNLESS WE distinguish
these two aspects of sanctity,
we are open to the charge that
our insistence on sanctity in the
Church is only an attempt to
whitewash the facts."
Bishop Franjo Franlc of
Split, Yugoslavia, told the coun
cil whereas the schema pre
sents the order of bishop as a
model of holiness, "this is not
borne out by the facts." He
held that "the cause of a lack
of sanctity in bishops today is a
lack of evangelical poverty,"
Thus he called on the council
to determine "the concrete
forms of poverty for bishops."
Fernando Cardinal Cento,
Grand Penitentiary of the
Church, asked the council to
pass a resolution calling for
beatification and canonization
of more lay people. He said
this would encourage the laity
to strive harder for holiness.
Construction has begun on the
new St. Mary's Hospital in
Athens ,The new building, situ
ated on Baxter Street, is being i
erected by the Coite Somers
Company, of Vidalla.
The total estimated cost of
construction is $3,216,000.00.
Hospital officials report that
this is approximately $250,-
000.00 above the original esti
mate. The hospital decided to
complete for use areas which
were to be left unfinished, to
strengthen the foundation for fu
ture expansion, to use more es-
pensive materials which would
reduce future operating costs,
and to make additional outlays
for equipment - all of this
contributed to extra cost.
ADDITIONAL FUNDS bor
rowed by St. Mary's were, ac
cording to the hospital, “de
finitely needed on die basis of
revised planning to meet the pa
tient care requirements in
Athens in the next five to ten
years." The tota 1 estimated
cost of construction includes
construction cost paid to the
general contractor, equipment,
architect fees, and contingen
cies. Federal participation re
mains at the amount of $1,-
080,000.00 Initially requested
by the hospital.
All of the funds contributed
to the hospital for the construc
tion of the new wing, which was
originally intended, are being
applied to the new building.
Tliose who donated for a speci
fic room of die new wing, will
be recognized by plaques in the
corresponding area in the new
building provided the donation
was in the amount stated during
the campaign for a particular
area.
The Sisters of St. Mary's are
extremely grateful for all of the
contributions made during the
campaign and for those new do
nations still coming in to the
hospital.
DIES IN IRELAND
Priest Aided Thousands
To Escape Wartime Rome
DUBLIN ( RNS ) — An Irish
priest who became one of
Rome’s most colorful heroes
of. World War II died at Cahir-
civeen, County Kerry, where he
had retired after suffering a
stroke three years ago. He
was 65.
Msgr. Hugh J. O’Flaherty,
long-time official of the Roman
Curia, earned the nickname of
“the Scarlet Pmpemel of the
Vatican" because of his exploits
in helping thousands of Allied
prisoners to escape to free
dom, often under the very noses
of Nazi occupation forces.
AMONG HIS MANY decora
tions was the United States Me
dal of Freedom received in 1946
from Lt. Gen. John C. H. Lee,
Mediterranean Theater com
mander. It paid tribute to his
"e x c eptionally meri
torious conduct in the perfor
mance of outstanding services
to the government of the United
States in Italy between March,
1942, and June, 1944."
"His untiring energy and ef
forts, often at the risk of his
own life, and his unfailing devo
tion to the cause of freedom
were exemplified in the con
crete aid given to many es
caped prisoners of war," he
citation said.
THE TALL, SANDY-HAIRED
prelate, noted for unfailing good
humor and openhanded genero-
JOSEPH ODOM, JR., OUR LADYOFTHE ASSUMPTION school,
was the winner of one of the five bicycles given as prizes for
selling the most tickets to the Scoutacular recently held at
Chastain Park. He is a member of Troop 21. Cub Scout Pack
21 of the school received a tent for the unit having the greatest
sales. Cubmaster Gerald Moran accepted the tend for the Pack.
Shown above, left to right: Gerald Moran, Joseph Odom, Jr.,
and Moon Mullins, Atlanta Area Council, BSA.
sity as well as his oft-tested
courage, also was decorated by
the Italian, British and Greek
governments and by the Knights
of Malta for his unique servi
ces. England made him a Com
mander of the Civil Division of
the Order of the British Em
pire in 1945, a traditional w
pire in 1945, a traditional
award for heroes.
Msgr. O'Flaherty sometimes
disguised escaped prisoners as
nuns, monks, bus drivers and
even garbage collectors. He hid
them in 60 apartments through
out the city until it was safe to
smuggle them out of Rome. He
was helped by friends, includ
ing members of the Roman no
bility, who quickly responded
to the priest's pleas when, his
funds ran low or when he need
ed some special assistance. No
one ever betrayed him, not even
escapees recaptured by Nazi S.
S. troops or the Gestapo and
beaten or ordered shot.
ONE OF MSGR. O’Flaherty’s
most daring exploits — carried
out with the help of another
priest, Father John Buckley —
involved a British soldier stric
ken with appendicitis. The mon
signor “borrowed" a car be
longing to the Irish Minister at
the Vatican and delivered it to
Father Buckley who then drove
the soldier, wrapped to his ears
in a blanket to a hospital which
also served the Nazis' sick and
wounded.
A surgeon friend of Msgr.
O'Flaherty performed the ne
cessary operation, after which
Father Buckley then carried
the patient to an apartment on
the Via Imperia, where he was
nursed back to health.
NOT ALL THE escapees were
Allied soldiers. Ten years af
ter the war ended, th e Jewish
community of Rome presented
the Irish monsignor with a hand
some scroll to let him know they
would never forget the help he
had given Jews fleeing from Na
zi or Fascist persecution.
The Nazis were not long in
getting to know of Msgr. O'Fla
herty’s activities. They put a
price on his head, but he was
never caught. Itbecameanight-
and-day job for S.S. police chief
Col. Herbert Kappler to hunt
him down, but it was not until
after he had been arrested by
the liberation forces and put in
prison that the “Nazi I tcher
Negroes Are Key
To Rights Drive
NEW YORK (NC)—Leader
ship shown by Negroes has been
the key force in the struggle for
equal rights for all men, one of
two men honored for interra
cial justice work said here.
This point was made by James
T. Carey, lecturer on criminal
sociology at the University of
California, who with Percy H.
Williams , a member of the Pre
sident’s Committee on Equal
Employment Opportunities,
received a James J. Hoey In
terracial Justice Award.
THE SILVER MEDAL
awards, named for the first
president of the Catholic Inter
racial Council of New York,
were presented to the two men
at a luncheon by Auxiliary Bis
hop Philip J. Furlong of New
York, who represented Francis
Cardinal Spellman.
Carey, who is white, helped
found Catholic interracial coun
cils in San Francisco and Oak
land, He now lives in Berkeley,
Calif. Williams, a Negro, resi
des in Washington, D. C., and is
a member of the Washington ar
chdiocesan Committee on Hu
man Relations.
A. PHILIP RANDOLPH, pre
sident of the Brotherhood of
sleeping Car Porters, said in an
address at the luncheon; “The
coalition of three religious fa
iths has brought into die civil
rights struggle a new force and
a new factor that can make die
difference between failure and
success in working out the prob
lems."
Referring to the Aug. 28
civil rights March on Washing
ton, Randolph, its organizer,
said it was the first time in
his experience that “die three
faiths agreed on a broad pro
gram to develop and execute,"
and their participation was “not
in terms of mere discussion but
in action."
CAREY SAD in accepting his
award: “I rejoice .that Hi live
in a time when die leadership
in the struggle for human equa
lity has passed from white to
black hands so that a new peo
ple might continue in a new way
the story of human dignity and
freedom. I come here today as
a penitent aware of my own ina
ction, of the inaction of all white
people, even those who for a few
brief dramatic moments affirm
their identity with suffering
black men."
He said “the recognition
of effort in the field of race
relations. . .should go increas
ingly to black men and women
who struggle day by day to speak
out, to stand up while white men
and women quietly step into the
background and identify in my
riads of small ways with that
struggle.' ’
“THAT STRUGGLE," he ad
ded, "proclaims the unity of
all who suffer, whether from in
justice, psychological torment
or sickness—a struggle which
can, in the last analysis, help
us accept our own outcast sel
ves."
Williams said much has been
accomplished "in the pursuit of
racial justice," but added that
“there is still so much still
to be accomplished, and the ur
gency of the situation demands
even more attention that it has
previously received."
Mixed Marriages
LIGUGE, France (NC)—A
Benedictine monastery here,
especially dedicated to helping
research promoting Christian
unity, will start having special
sessions for mixed-marriage
couples next year. The sessions
are intended to give persons in
mixed marriages a place where
they can study and pray togeth
er to meet their special spiri-
tal needs.
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of Rome," as he was called,
came face to face with the mon
signor. What resulted was per
haps the strangest story of all.
WHILE AWAITING trial be
fore an Allied court, the colon
el expressed a desire to be
come a Catholic and was re
ceived into the Church by the
man he had vowed to destroy.
The chief reason which led him
to the Church, the former S.S.
chief later disclosed, was his
great admiration for the
priest’s courage and his readi
ness to help anyone in need,
regardless of their religion.
Msgr. O'Flaherty was born
in 1898 at Boherbee, a tiny
town in County Cork near the
County Kerry border. He had
already become a teacher when
he decided to enter the priest
hood. He enrolled at the Col
lege of Propaganda Fide in
Rome, planning after his ordi
nation to become a missionary
in Africa. But as it turned out,
he was to find himself the first
Irishman ever named vice rec
tor of the college. Later he be
came an official of the Vatican
Secretariat of State and finally
was transferred to the Sacred
Congregation of the Holy Of
fice, where ultimately he be
came head notary. He was nam
ed a Domestic Prelate by Pope
Plus XIL
FIVE CARDINALS lived in
the Holy Office building at the
same time that Msgr. O’Fla
herty had his apartment there.
One was Alfredo Cardinal Ot-
taviani, now the Secretary of
the Congregation, who, on hear
ing of his death was reported
as saying: “He always strove
to do good."
The Irish prelate’s exploits
were recorded in two books;
"Be Nor* Fearful," by John
Furman, and “Rome Escape
Line,” by Lt. Col. Samuel
Dery. He was also the subject
of a biography, "Operation
Escape,"
Archbishop Dies
CATICAN CITY (RNS) —
Dutch-born Archbishop Francis
Beckmann of Panama died
shortly after he was seized with
a heart attack while on his way
to attend the 58th general con
gregation of the Second Vatican
Council. Eighty years old, the
archbishop was the third pre
late to die here since the Coun
cil's second session began on
Sept. 29.
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