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ROME AND HOME
This entry will be brief, — because I have so many things to
say. I expect to be home this Friday, and will save my summa
ries of the Second Session until I reach the Georgia border.
The mood in September was expectancy. The achievement?
It was mixed. There were solid gains like the completion of the
Consititution on the Liturgy, the growing unity of opinion on sev
eral vital issues, the overwhelming votes for the "open door"
program of Popes John and Paul. The setbacks? Some frustrat
ions in the commission, the delay on Religious Liberty, and of
course, the repetition of the speeches.
But, lest we forget, these are the human elements. This is
not an ordinary legislative body. This is the Church in action.
The Council is an instrument of the Holy Spirit, and we must all
be Catholic enough to rise above human frustrations by our trust.
We do trust. And the Council Fathers return, not to political
constituents who measure our progress by personal or local
gain. We return to our own, the men, women and children who
are God's holy people. We are In the middle stage, Isn’t that the
place where in school or work or life itself, the virtue of hope
is most needed? Our faith brought us to the Council, Hope sus
tains us, and we pray that out of it all, at God's bidding, will come
that charity which we are put in the world to manifest.
**•*
FREEDOM TO CRITICIZE
One of the great results of the Council thus far has been a
better climate of communication. Between Catholic and Protest
ant. Between Catholic and Jew. Between liberal and conserva
tive. Among Catholics themselves.
The freedom of the Catholic press is a good example. As it
matures in the United States, there will be those who prefer quiet
to questions. Some can see only scandal if the human parts of the
Church are put to a proper criticism. Yet journalists have a
commitment to truth as well as charity. The "holy liberty”
urged by Pope John carries responsibilities.If criticism is need
ed, it must be factual , proportionate and charitable. It must not
be petty, partisan nor vicious. Above all, it should not be criti
cism for the sake of criticism, but criticism for the sake of truth.
When a Catholic situation needs airing, should not the Catho
lic press do it first, rather than wait for others to do it? Rest
raint and courtesy are in order, but so are the facts, — and the
ultimate social good.
An increasing number of Catholic people today are asking their
Catholic papers to be courageous enough to tell the truth. And an
increasing number of Catholic editors are mature enough to do
this with charity.
This has had its effect upon the Council. Each day the press is
invited, Catholic and secular, to a press panel that was organi
zed last year by the American bishops. Experienced specialists
in different fields are ready to answer questions. Their replies
are frank and honest. Is the impact on the Church good or bad?
Generally, it is excellent.
Dr. Albert Outler, Methodist observer, has said that one of the
most impressive things about the Council was this freedom, this
openness, the Church willing to be seen by the world, not only in
triumph but in travail. Certainly there will be mistakes and mo
ments of anxiety. But the search for truth can hardly be scanda
lous. It was inspired in us by God.
****
SUNDAY MORNING IN A CONVENT
It was like being back in Georgia. I offered Mass November 24
at the motherhouse, of the Missionary Sisters of the Most Sac
red Heart of Jesus, on the Via Trionfale. The eight sisters there,
two of whom are Americans, welcomed Jerry Hardy and me
heartily, joined in the prayers of the Mass, and smiled with ap
preciation when I told them what great things had been achie
ved by their sisters at St. Mary's hospital and St. Joseph’s sc
hool in Athens.
Like every convent, it was spotless; not a large place, but in
beautiful taste, on a hill outside Rome. Over a fine breakfast,
we talked much of Georgia, of their missions all over the world,
and the growing role of the nun in contemporary society.
Pope Paul told us last month that in his opinion our sisters
are the "strength of the Church in the United States". Catholics
looking at our schools, hospitals and other institutions, ask,
"Where would we be without them?"
****
SUNDAY MORNING AT AN ORDINATION
At San Marcello church I attended the Ordination administered
by Cardinal Traglia. There were two priests and two deacons
ordained, and 75 young American men who received the "second
minors”. Among them was our Atlanta seminarian Jerry Hardy.
In addition to receiving the orders of exorcist and acolyte, he
then ran around to where the choir was ready to sing, and did
his part there.
There are four minor orders,— porter, lector, exorcist and
acolyte. Then will follow over the next year and a half, the major
orders of subdeacon, deacon and priest. The minor orders in the
early Church were accompanied by real duties, e. g. the porter
opened the doors of the church, the lector read the Scriptures,
and so on. Now their symbolism has been retained, although pra
ctically, each is now but a step to the priesthood. For breakfast
after the Mass, we invited three others in Jerry's class; and had
a .stimulating two-hour session.
THE NIGHT OF THE ASSASSINATION
So many have written of it that it is not necessary to say much
about it. When the word came, I was the guest of the Mays of
Roswell at dinner. We said a prayer, talked quietly, but over us
all the cloud persisted. Out on the Via Veneto, on my way home to
the Via Archimede, it was the same. Romans, tourists, cab-
drivers struggled to tell me, an American, what the death of this
great and good man meant to them.
We are re-learning the lesson of sacrifice. It was a terrible
lesson. But we had almost forgotten that the death of a man devot
ed to the cause of justice can say more to closed minds than
his most eloquent words could ever do. Will America take the
lesson to heart?
We can face the sorry spectacle of Dallas, the scrambling for
power in Washington, the cunning in Russia, the contempt in
China, if we pull ourselves together. It all seems now in bitter
contrast to the magnificent courage of the President’s widow.
Jacqueline Kennedy faces a bleak world, but for one terrible
week, she gave the whole human family a picture of dignity, a
profile of courage, a model of prayer. What she had done to guide
us in this awful week is as important to mankind as what Presi
dent Kennedy tried to achieve in his brief lifetime.
CATHOLIC JOURNALISTS
Pope Compares Members
Of Press With Priests
REQUIEM MASS for Father
John LaFarge, S.J. tabove),
author, editor and champion
of interracial Justice, was
held in St. Ignatius Loyola
Catholic Church in New
York, on Nevember 27. The
83-year old priest died in his
sleep.
VATICAN CITY (NC) — Pope
Paul VI told members of the
Catholic press here that their
task is something like that of
a priest.
Speaking at a Mass he said
in the Vatican's Pauline chapel
for 150 men and women journal
ists, the Pope urged his listen
ers to "discover where the true
light which spreads over the
things of this world comes
from.”
"IT COMES FROM above,”
he said. "This is why one
must fix his gaze on the things
above in such a way that one
CARDINAL URGES
Validity Of Non
Catholic Rites
VATICAN CITY (RNS)—Jo
seph Cardinal Frings, Archbis
hop of Cologne, proposed here
at the Second Vatican Council
that the Catholic Church recog
nize the validity of mixed mar
riages performed by non-Ca-
tholic clergymen.
Relaxation of the Church’s
rules regarding marriages be
tween Catholics and non-Catho-
lics would be a contribution to
Christian unity, the German
prelate declared,
'THE WORLD has great
hopes from this Council in the
field of ecumenism, but we
should take care to clarify some
points in order to forestall mis
understandings,” he said.
Cardinal Frings was sup
ported in his arguments by
Abbot Hilaire Capucci, Super
ior General of the Melchite
Basillan Fathers, of Aleppo,
Syria. They spoke during de
bate on a schema, or draft
document, on Christian unity.
IN ADDRESSING the Coun
cil Fathers, the cardinal ob
served that points of misun
derstandings lie in the fields
of religious education and mix
ed marriages.
From the outset, the prelate
said, the Church should be on
SMALL MAJORITY
record as opposing mixed mar
riages generally.
HOWEVER, HE stated, If the
non-Catholic party to a mixed
marriage feels it is against his
conscience to raise his child
ren as Catholics, thenheshould
not be subjected to pressure,
but urged not to marry under
the circumstances.
At the same time, Cardinal
Frings declared, the Church
should remove its ecclesiasti
cal penalties for mixed marri
ages contracted before non-
Catholic ministers,
"WE SHOULD (also) insist
on the question of religious
schools for the education of our
children,” he said. ‘This in
sistence is not prompted by any
desire to dominate die minds
of little ones, but rather by our
wish to provide a spiritual cen
ter and atmosphere for the pro
cess of education,"
"Naturally,” he continued,
* 'other Churches have the same
right and recognition of this fact
would be a great aid to tole
rance.”
"All this,” Cardinal Frings
asserted, "would clear the at
mosphere and prepare the way
for fruitful ecumenical activi
ty.”
Dissatisfaction Noted
On Communications
ARCHBISHOP OF ATLANTA
VATICAN CITY (NC)—The
relatively small majority by
which the ecumenical council
passed its decree on commu
nications media was due to
widespread dissatisfaction with
the decree itself and to dis
satisfaction with the amount of
time allowed to discuss it, a
council Father has said.
Bishop Andrea Pangrazio of
Gorizia, Italy, said this at a
press conference sponsored by
the council press office. He was
summing up the session's last
full week of work before the
Dec. 4 closing.
THE DECREE on communi
cations media received Just un
der 1,600 favorable votes and
Just over 500 unfavorable votes,
A two-thirds majority Is re-
Jews Honor
Fr. LaFarge
NEW YORK(NC) — The Ame
rican Jewish Committee has an
nounced plans for a memorial
in Israel to honor the late Fa
ther John LaFarge, S.J.
Rabbi Marc H. Tanenbaum,
director of the committee’s in-
terreliglous affairs depart
ment, said a "Father John La
Farge Grove of Trees” would
be established in Israel as a
"permanent and living memo
rial in the Holy Land of this
blessed priest and friend.”
RABBI TANENBAUM an
nounced plans for the memorial
in a statement paying tribute to
Father LaFarge, longtime
champion of better interracial
and interreligious relations,
who died Nov. 24.
may reach out if possible to
the very designs that are hid
den in the depth of divinity.”
The occasion for the Mass
was a week end meeting of the
International Union of the
Catholic Press.
"WE WHO MUST talk and
write,” the Pontiff continues,
"will thus obtain the echoes
of the eternal Word and, by
such an effort, will be drawn
toward us who must guide
others the grace to guide them
on the paths of light, of truth
and of life.
"Like the priest, therefore,
you are at the service of truth.”
All those present were individ
ually introduced After Mass to
the Pope by Father Emile Gabel
of Paris, general secretary of
the international union.
The union's meetings were
symposiums. Four speakers
Introduced general discussion
on problems of the social funct
ions of communications media.
THE PRINCIPAL speaker
was Father John Courtney Mur
ray, S. J„ of Woodstock Col
lege, Md., who stressed what
he called the "social necessity
of the Catholic press.”
He said that the right to in
formation on everything that
regards the Church is in
herent in her social character.
But he explained that the Ca
tholic press exists not just to
promote the interests of the
Church, especially if conceived
narrowly in a quasi-sectarian
sense. The problem, he said,
is how to harmonize this right
with the principle of authority
within the Church between the
hierarchy and the laity.
In performing this service,
he said, "a personal will of
self-direction is not at all in
compatible with any exercise of
authority that is so arbitrary
as to become an abuse of
authority.
AT THE CLOSING session
Giacomo Cardinal Lercaro of
Bologna said he was thankful
that such a vast world audi
ence has concentrated, so at
tentively on the ecumenical
council.
"This council, ” he said,
"really provides a great
schooling. The conciliar dia
logue with the whole world is
Inspired by a progressive trend
which helps us gain a new vision
of Catholicity.
"It is the ferment of the
Gospel of Christ which makes
possible the opening of wide
new horizons in the Christ
ianization of all humanity.
"a resolution unanimously
adopted by the meeting pro
poses setting up a study group
on the sociological aspects of
Catholic teaching on journal
ism.
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Bishop Pangrazio said that
some council Fathers objected
that people working in the field
of communications felt the
schema was Inadequate.
Others, he said, have point
ed out that the text had been
drastically reduced since it
was submitted for debate at the
first council session and should
therefore be given fuller de
bate at this session. It was cut
from 134 articles to 24,
THE BISHOP also spoke of
the "two ways of looking at
ecumenism” that were evi
dent in the debate on the ecu
menism schema. He explained
these by conditions in the coun
tries of the speakers.
"In countries with a strong
proportion VIMVU— Catholics, the
ecumenical dialogue helps to
overcome old misunderstand
ings and obviously produces
very good results,” he said,
"But in countries with a very
great majority of Catholics, the
attitude of some sects takes an
overly polemical tone, and con
sequently the possibilities of
dialogue seem difficult."
HE SAID that a "certain
doctrinal rigor" on the part
of prelates from predominant
ly Catholic countries is under
standable, while it is equally
understandable that prelates
from other countries are
"firmly convinced that thla is
the historic hour marked by
Providence,"
But he said that "in the va
riety of opinions, one must note
the unanimity of the conviction
that such a dialogue must be
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