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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 Sidney Poitier In lilies Of The Field Opens Wednesday November 6th AMPli: HIKE IVAHKIVf; HQSEB2S9E3IS3H Peachtree at 13th TR 5-3022 Phon* 522-6500 5*9 FOMUCSr RO, N. E • ATLANTA 12, GA IGNATIUS HOUSE RETREATS Schedule for next two weeks November 14-17 November 21-24 Men Women Phone 255-0503 or Write 6700 Riverside Dr. N.W. Atlanta 5, Ga, Office Equipment Business Machines Sales-Service—Supplies PHONE 525-6417 172 WHITEHALL STREET, S.W. ATLANTA 3, GEORGIA 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. Peachtree Road Pharmacy Pick Up and Delivery Service Call CE 7-6466 4062 Peachtree Rd. Atlanta 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. FRED A. YORK PEST CONTROL SERVICE Our SIbgan — Nearly Right Won’t Do Our Service - Always Guaranteed Our Products On Sale At Office CALL FOR FREE INSPECTION OR INFORMATION 7M State Si. t N. W Phone TR. S-8371 Atlanta. G* ST. JOSEPH’S INFIRMARY SODA FOUNTAIN COFFEE SHOP AND RESTAURANT LOCATED NEXT TO GIFT SHOP ON MAIN FLOOR IN NEW BUILDING ATLANTA. GA. 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