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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1963 GEORGIA BULLETIN PAGE 3 Wonderful Christmas Gift for your friends and relatives, A recording of the high moments in the reign of Pope John XXIII. Bring the voice and inspira tion of Pope John into your home. Produced with Authori zation of Vatican City Mono $4,98 C3 Stereo $5.98 CD send albums Holy Word Pro- ductions, P, 0, Box 338 Mur ray Hill P. 0., N. Y. 16, N.Y.□check lnclosedQcOD ECHOLS TRANSFER INC. Hauling fit Moving Truck fit Driver $3.50 Per Hour Tractor Trailor & Driver $4.50 Per Hour 370 Lee St., S.W. PL 3-2153 Atlanta ”|OLD AT HADING STORM" “PET.»you bet I" PET MILK company DAIRY DIVISION For Convenient Home Delivery In Atlanta Call 636-8677 Visit the Shrines of Europe on Irish International Take the pilgrimage of your dreams on Irish Inter national. Irish offers convenient service to Europe’s major shrines and holy places. 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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. COGGINS SHOE STORE SHOES FOR THE FAMILY 46 W. PARK SQ. 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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 _ j •• • For any occasion: Weddings, organizational meetings, any social events • Formal or informal • Special menus custom* prepared to your requirements • Piping hot foods— meet end fish • Sandwich platters • Hors d'osuvres • Gourmet canapes • Beverages of all kinds • Bar service arranged • Chine e Flatware • Napery • Decorations • Walters and waitresses • Butlers • Personal attention of catering consultant • Instant service. We're reedy, willing, end able •to do tha catering right away. • Budget terms. Affairs tailored to your budget. Nothing too big... nothing too small. 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