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I \ ' * b P JOHN F. KENNEDY R. I. P. VOL. 1 NO. 48 ARCHBISHOP HALLINAN Latin-English Changes Begun By Father Placid Jordan, O.S.B. (N.C.W.C. News Service) VATICAN CITY — Prelimi nary steps to change parts of the Mass from Latin to English have been taken by the Hierarchy of the United States at a meeting here, Archbishop Paul J. Hal- linan of Atlanta said in an in terview Legislation permitting these changes approved overwhelm ingly by the Fathers of the Sec ond Vatican Council, was so lemnly promulgated by Pope Paul VI at the closing public assembly on Dec. 4. ARCHBISHOP Hallinan told this correspondent that the American Bishops voted full use of the concessions granted in the new decrees, which allow the vernacular language in the parts of the Mass that are said aloud up to the Offertory, with one exception, the Collect. In addition, the Bishops agreed to English for the Offetory, Sanc- tus, the Lord’s Prayer, the Ag nus Dei, the Domine non sum dignus, and the Communion an tiphons. Asked how the decrees would affect the administration of the sacraments, Archbishop Halli nan said that the entire rite, as for instance in Baptism, is from now on permissible in English. The American Bishops'Com mission on the Liturgical Apos- tolate has been directed to re commend suitable English translations as soon as possi ble. The committee—of which Archbishop Hallinan is a mem ber, as he is of the council's liturgical commission-plans to study existing English Mis sal and Ritual texts at a meet ing in January. Then it expects to send samples of various choi ces to all American Bishops for their recommendations. AT ANOTHER meeting of the Hierarchy, proposed for next spring, the necessary decrees will be enacted after receiving the Holy See's approval.Trans lations of the Missal and the Ritual are also to be proposed at this meeting for the approval of the Bishops, who will then set the date for the vernacular to go into effect. Asked to what extend Eng lish will be permissible for the priest’s daily recitation of the Breviary, Archbishop Hal linan said it is expected that the Bishops will also approve an English translation of the Bre viary. But permission to use it must be obtained by individual clerics from their bishops or religious superiors. Religious women and Bro- thes may use the vernacular in the Divine Office when the use is granted to their entire community or institute, the At lanta prelate said. IN ANSWER to a question on how soon the use of the vernac ular will become permissible in the United States, Archbishop Hallinan replied: "Not even an approximate date for this can be set. For it will take quite some time to select, edit and properly ar range the translations. How ever, the American Bishops have agreed to put the vernacu lar concessions of the new de crees into effect at the earliest possible date." Asked whether common ver nacular texts are being prepar ed for use in English-speaking countries, Archbishop Hallinan answered: "YES. An international com mittee representing nine of these countries is already working on translations to be proposed to the various national hierarchies, work having been started in Rome. But it prob ably won’t be completed before the postconciliar commission on the liturgy, which has not yet been appointed, has revised the Roman Missal, Ritual and oth er liturgical books. "The international commit tee is presided over by Arch bishop Francis Grimshaw of Birmingham (England). Other members are Archbishop (Guil ford) Young of (Hobart) Aus tralia as vice chairman; Arch bishop (Denis E.) Hurley of (Durban ) South Africa; Arch bishop (Gordon) Gray of (St. Andrews and Edinburgh) Scot land; Archbishop (Joseph) Walsh of Tuam, Ireland; Arch bishop (Michael C.) O'Neill of Regina (Sask.); Auxiliary Bis hop (James H.) Griffiths of New York; Bishop (Leonard) Ray mond of (Allahabad,) India; Auxiliary Bishop (Owen) Sned- den of (Wellington,) New Zea land, and myself. ’THE MEMBERSof the Ame rican Commission on the Lit urgical Apostolateare Archbis- (CONT1NUED ON PAGE 8) New Nuncio VATICAN CITY (NC)~Pope Paul VI has named Archbis hop Carlo Martini to be Apos tolic Nuncio to the Philippines. The Archbishop had served as Nuncio to Paraquay. He suc ceeds Archbishop Salvatore Sii- no, who was named Nuncio to the Philippines in March, 1959, and died in Rome Oct. 8, 1963, THE COUNCIL FATHERS ASSEMBLE to hear Pope Paul VI promulgation of the decrees on litur gical changes and the communications media. LA YMEN-ECUMENISM Two Lay Auditors Address Concluding Council Meet VATICAN CITY (NC)— Two laymen, one French and the other Italian, took the floor of the council (Dec. 3) to speak of the need for ecumenism and of the laymen in the Church in the presence of Pope Paul VI and more than 2,000 bishops. The rare occasion for laymen to address the assembled bis hops of the council took place during a commemorative ses sion making the fourth cente nary of the Council of Trent. The speakers were French writer Jean Guitton and Italian Vittorino Veronese, long a le ader in the field of Catholic Ac tion. GUITTON said his vocation to the ecumenical movement "is founded onmeditationonthe reasons which, in the Gospel of St. John, Jesus gives for His sacrifice and on the certitude that this will of Christ is ef fective and that we must coope rate in it with our whole being." He warned against two false approaches to ecumenism. He cautioned against one app roach which would retain "solely that which is common to all Christians or which prepa re a new super-church said to be the synthesis of the histori cal churches" Rather than accept this approach, he said,- "true religious spirits prefer the solitude of disunion to an equivocal union" which offends truth. The second approach refe rred to was "immobilism," which holds that "the Catholic Church must restrict herself to waiting for the return and the submission of the churches Pope Biography LONDON (NC)—The British Broadcasting Corporation will telecast the life story of Pope Paul VI as a New Year's Day feature, A BBC team including Father Agnellus Andrew, O.F. M., its Catholic religious ad viser, is now in Rome making scenes for the program. which have broken the link of unity. But unity is a link of love, and love compels us to unity." GUITTON said ecumenism "demands two complementary sacrifices." On the one hand Catholics themselves must respond "with a humble, magnanimous and sorrowful effort of purifi cation so as to remove from the face of the Church the lines which mar her eternal youth. The blood which achieves unity cannot be shed on one side only." He also said it must be stres sed that "the Catholic Church is entrusted with the task of announcing to the world that she is the only church as willed by her Divine Founder." Yet this must not obscure the fact that Catholics must realize that unity will be perfect only when the legitimate forms of CONTINUED ON PAGE 8 TO VISIT HOLY LAND Pope Promulgates Liturgical Reform VATICAN CITY (NC)—The second session of the Second Vatican Council came to an end on December 4 with: - An announcement by Pope Paul VI that he will go on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land in January. - Overwhelming passage of the Constitution on die Liturgy and the Decree on Communica tions Media. POPE PAUL noted that no pontiff since St. Peter has been in the Holy Land and added: "We are so convinced that for the final happy conclusion of this council prayers and good works are necessary, that after careful deliberation and much prayer, We have decided to be come a pilgrim." The Pope also expressed the wish in a six thousand word address that full council meet ings end with the third session acheduled for September 14 to November 20, 1964. He suggest ed that after that date council work should be terminated in commissions, with bishops be ing summoned to Rome for a final ceremony to promulgate the Council's total decrees. THE SECOND session’s last meeting approved the sweeping reform of the public worship of the Church by passing the Lit urgical Constitution byanover- whelming majority of 2,147 to 4. A tremendous burst of ap plause greeted announcement of the vote. The Pope then ap proved and promulgated the Constitution, making it the law of the Church. Pope Paul, in his speech, called the liturgical reform, "The first invitation to the world to break forth in happy and truthful prayer, and to feel the ineffable lifegiving force that comes from joining Us in the song of divine praise and hu man hope." IT WAS announced immedia tely after the promulgation that on February 16, 1964, the first Sunday of Lent, the Pope will issue instructions as to when and how the constitution's pro visions are to be put into prac tice. A warning was given that until the instructions are made public, no changes are to be made. The meeting also approved the Decree on Communications Media by a vote of 1,960 to 164. Applause for the vote was less than that given the Liturgical Constitution. Pope Paul also approved and promulgated the decree. POPE PAUL VI In his speech the pontiff said the decree is, "not of small value," and added that it in dicates the "capacity of the Church to unite the interior and exterior life, contempla tion and action, prayer and the active apostolate." POPE PAUL also spoke about the Collegiality of Bishops one MOW PROPRIO Bishops VATICAN CITY (NC)— A list of 40 faculties, or powers, was granted to bishops of dioceses by Pope Paul VI in his motu proprio. Pastorale Munus, pro mulgated here Dec. 3. The document was dated Nov. 30, the feast of St. Andrew, but was promulgated Dec. 3 on the occasion of the solemn comme moration of the fourth centen ary of the Council of Trent. MOST OF the faculties gran ted would be meaningless to the general body of Catholic. They have particular import ance for diocesan chancery of fices, relieving them of the bur densome and time- consu ming taskes of making a spe cial request each time the faculties are needed. The faculties pertain to ext raordinary circumstances in Joint Memorial SYDNEY, Australia (NC)--A church at Perisher Valley highest point in Australia, plan ned as a memorial to Pope John XXIII, will have an altar dedicated to the late President John F. Kennedy, of the most discussed issues during the second session, say ing that "the Episcopacy is not an institution independent of or separated from, or still less antagonistic to, the Supreme Pontificate of Peter. But with Peter and under Him, it strives for the common good and die supreme ends of the Church." The Pontiff’s address was a review of the work done by the Council so far, and noted thar "The Council has labored much. As you all know, it had ad dressed itself to many questions whose solutions are in part virtually formulated in authori tative decisions, which will be published in time after work on the topics to which they belong is completed." The final day's ceremonies began at 9 a.m. with more than two thousand bishops in their places in St. Peter's basilica wearing white copes and plain white mitres. The diplomatic corps accredited to the Holy See, Roman nobles and more than ten thousand people pack ed the church. Given the sacraments and to the ad ministration of certain goods and properties held by a dio cese. Those faculites having im mediate effect on parish life have to do with the celebration of Mass. Bishops of dioceses, for example, may permit their priests for a just reason to ce lebrate Mass twice on weekdays and thrice on Sundays and Holy days. ACCORDING to the new fac ulties, bishops of dioceses may allow priests afflicted with poor eyesight or some other in firmity to celebrate the votive Mass of the Blessed Virgin or of the dead daily. Infirm prie sts may be permitted to cele brate Mass in their homes, and seated if necessary. Th e faculties relating to the Sacrament of Penance allow bishops, among other things, to grant confessors faculties to absolve from reserved sins and censures with few exceptions. The motu proprio lists facul- CONTINUED ON PAGE 8 New Faculties VATICAN COUNCIL NOTES Second Session Found Bishops Aim At Unifying Role This is the first of a series on the second session of the Va tican Council by the GEORGIA BULLETIN’S managing editor, who has just returned after three weeks of coverage and conversations at the Vatican. BY GERARD E. SHERRY The Second Session of the Va tican Council was concluded this week. On the surface, little seems to have been accomplish ed. Only one piece of major legislation, the Schema on the Liturgy, has been promulgated. In addition, Pope Paul approv ed the communication schema. Yet, there have been great strides toward aggiornamento, renewal within the Church, since the late Pope John call ed the Council Fathers to Rome in 1962. One has to be present in Rome to completely grasp the many hidden accomplishments of the Council so far. Publicly, the Church ' still appears to be shackled with ponderous ma chinery, with some of its lead ers, not only not wanting renew al, but actually fearing it. How ever, my three weeks sojourn covering the Council in Rome, leads me to the conclusion that much was accomplished in changing the minds and hearts of all those concerned; that re newal is already taking place; that the basic unity of the Coun cil Fathers remains intact. At the first session, last fall, a deep cleavage seemed to be reflected in the Council debates. Entrenched Conserva tives seemed to be battling a minority' of Progressives (or Liberals) for the right to es tablish the norms of renewal. In press reports, the accent seem ed to be on acrimony between the leaders of these groups.lt seemed almost to come from out of the pages of Zane Grey, with the role of hero and vil lain being played by stars on the side you favored most. It would be less than honest to try to hide the fact that there were deep differences at the first session. Neither Xavier Rynne nor Robert Kaiser invented these differences—even if their books on the first session drew the ire and the censure of some in authority. The differences of the Council Fathers at the first session received so much play because of the over-emphasis on secrecy; the press was fed only the bare bones of the real news. Unknown to the outside world was the fact that these differences also led to a re examination of positions, and led toward a greater unity’. This is so very obvious to any observer at the second session just completed. One has only got to look at the votes on the matters debated to realize that in a space of nine months a great measure of unanimity has been achieved by the Coun cil Fathers. The Conservatives are still there, and they still fight from their entrenched po sitions. But the Progressives (or Liberals) have almost scal ed the heights, picking up strag glers on the way. Acrimony was less evident, and was con fined to some giants in both of the so-called camps. It is ob vious that with majorities of 80% or more on most of the matters voted upon we are well on our way toward that renewal so ardently desired by Pope John and his successor, Pope Paul VL The main accomplishment at this session was the promulga tion of the decree on the litur gy. This Involves complete re vision of the rites of the Sac raments and the Mass, with its emphasis on the vernacular. It also encourages local initia tive in relation to liturgical changes. But even here most of the work on the liturgy schema was done before and during the first session. For this reason, it was die first item on the agenda of the just-completed session. Our own Archbishop Hallinan was a member of the Liturgical Commission as were two other Americans, Fathers Frederick McManus, a canon lawyer from Catholic Univer sity, and Godfrey Diekmann, O. S.B., editor of Worship Maga zine, from St. John's Abbey, Collegeville, Minnesota. It is interesting to note that Father Diekmann has been one of this country's leading pio neers in the fight for liturgi cal change. He was one of the four priests banned from the Lenten series by Catholic Uni versity. He is now an expert officially appointed to the Coun cil. Three other priests who came under the ban, Jesuit Fathers John Courtney Mur ray and Gustave Weijel, both of Woodstock College; and Fa ther Hans Kueng, Swiss theo logian, have also been vindicat ed by their presence as experts at die Council. Perhaps the greatest consolation must have come to Father Murray, whose CONTINUED ON PAGE 8 -- - -