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PAGE 8 GEORGIA BULLETIN THURSDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1963 LA YMEN-ECUMENISM Two Lay Auditors Address Concluding Council Meet s T R A N G E B U T t r u r VATICAN COUNCIL NOTES (CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1) Christian and human diversity have once more found their place and their just freedom in the bosom of the Church. Guitton then conjured up a vbion, saying: "LET US imagine, venerable brothers, that all our separated brothers wanted to enter tomorrow the Catholic basilica. "She would widen her nave, she would open up her cupola, she would make her useless or- UtVI 04*1*1 Ai A HOLY CROSS BROTHIR '• riACMttM • aovt’ moms • KAMCMIMO • OfrKt WOM • TtAMi « KMI*OM MllitOMS For Information Writmi leather DmU Memel, CtC 104 Holy Croat School *r»« Dauphin* Stmt New Orleans. La. 70117 naments, her antiquities disap pear, so that everyone should feel at ease in her suplime si mplicity. She would preserve the same form, the same es sence, the same structure. Nothing that is essential in dog ma, in worship and in authority would be modified. But this same inalterable form, enrich ed by so many contributions and so many sorrows, would then have its flowering, its perfect plenitude, I might even say its anticipated glory. What a testi mony this would be in the face of the worldl". GUITTON told the bishops that "this unity of Christians is Nun-shy Patient Mokpo, Korea—A mother brought her little boy for treat ment to St. Columban's Hospi tal here. As the boy’s eyes were blindfolded, the Sister asked what, exactly was wrong with his eyes. "Oh, it’s not his eyes,’* an swered the mother. 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So many converging prayers rise toward Godl So many lives have been offered on one side and the other for uni- tyl" He concluded by saying: "May graces be given to you for listening to a layman speak ing of his experience. He has done it fearlessly like a son before his father in whom he pl aces all his hope I” VERONESE thanked the Pope for including laymen as audi tors of the council. He said such a recognition affords laymen the opportunity of being "the in terpreters of that Catholic laity which otherwise we #ould not have know how to represent.** Noting that the bishops of the council are returning home, Veronese said: "we too return to our neighbors. . . We return to our parishes and to our fami lies" to update the spiritual and corporal works of mercy as de manded by the problems of the times. Call For Schema On Reds ROME (NC)—A petition sig ned by more than 200 council Fathers from 46 countries ask ing for a special schema on communism, Marxism and so cialism has been handed In to Amleto Cardinal Clcognanl, Pa pal Secretary of State.. This was reported here by the Divine Word News Service, THE PETITION called com munism and Marxism the "greatest and most dangerous heresy of this century,** It said that the ‘faithful will re main puzzled If the council does not treat a question of such great Importance,’* The petition, contained in a bound volume, asks that Catho lic social doctrine be set out clearly and that the "errors of Marxism, socialism and com munism** be treated philoso phically, sociologically and economically. The petition asked for con demnation of the Marxist error that "any person In need or any nation In need can take from another person or another na tion by force those goods which the person or nation attacked did not strictly need to keep alive.” O^yrlfhL IMS, H.C.W C. Nr*> s.rvkt r CUPOLA IN TH£ * lain T IGNATIUS IN * IS ILLUSION / Cfffc ,S A flat, AAmreo '%{. C UP ? r< tCUTCD N£AALY 0 CuA-^aIsAGO & MO**A & S & y ^i S NAST£A OF FCR$P£cTlY£ * po* i0 '.fe/*K £Hny * £S7& **Di CONDITION ( Second Session Found Bishops In Unity Role 1963 IS TWE IOO!!* anniversary or -rwc death or T9 fi?EDf RICK FABCR, the author or MANY FAMOUS HYMNS - such as 'Faith of OUR FATHERS, "which ARC STILL DTiNG SUN(2 IN CHURCHES THE WORLD OVKft . Muha del Cabmen Qk>as. ' A SPANISH MISSIONARY AT KYONDO OH THE EQUATOR,HAS PERFORMED MORE THAN 1 8000 MAJOR SURGICAL OPERATIONS AT Wr HOSPITAL 5WE FOUNDED THERE IN 19S6 . CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 views on religious liberty caus ed him to be slienced for quite a while, even though he was permitted to continue teaching at the Jesuit Seminary. Father Murray is credited with a ma jor contribution in the work of preparing the council draft on religious liberty. His views have been eagerly sought by groups of Council Fathers from all over the world. The implementation of the various liturgical changes will take time, but the American Hierarchy has already taken Mass In Moscow Five hundred diplomats and Russians crowded into Mos cow’s Catholic Church of Sl Louis where an American priest sang a Requiem Mass for President John F. Kennedy on Nov. 24. MOW PROPRIO Pope Grants Faculties Privileg es To Bishops CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 ties and privileges. Faculties belong to the bishops by right and, strictly speaking, are not conceded. Privileges do notbe- belong to them by right and are granted by the Holy See. THE MAIN feature of the pri vileges is that bishops will now enjoy the privilege, formerly granted exclusively to cardina ls, to preach and hear confes sions anywhere in the world un less the local Ordinary explici tly objects in a particular case. Most of the faculties now res tored to the bishops in the motu proprio were regularly includ ed in the quinquennial faculties that may bishops renewed every five years. For some time pastors have had the privilege of confirming in danger of death. Now bishops may give the same privilege to certain hospital and prison chaplains. BISHOPS already had the right to exercise the Pauline privilege. By force of the motu proprio, however, they may, without recourse to Rome, dis pense from the requirement of obtaining a statement from one party that he or she is unwil ling to become a Catholic or live in peace with the mate who wants to become a Catholic.. The faculties belong to resid ential bishops only, who may delegate them to their coadju tors or auxiliaries and the vi car general. The privileges be long to all bishops, residential or titular. FORMAL AGREEMENT America Bishops Back Vernacular ROME (NC)--America’s Bis hops have announced formal agreement "to make full use of the vernacular concessions made by the council” In the lit urgy. The U. S. Bishops released a Joint statement here Dec. 4 on the council’s Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy, promulgated the same da. the same day. They said they "welcome it wholeheartedly and dedicate themselves to fulfill its purposes,” THE BISHOPS said they have directed the Bishops’ Copimis- ARCHBISHOP HALLINAN Latin-English Changes Begun CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 hop (John F.) Dearden of De troit, myself, Bishop Griffiths, Bishop (Vincent) Waters of Ra leigh (N.C.), and Bishop (Vic tor J.) Reed of Oklahoma City and Tulsa. "From all of these countries experts in liturgy, Scripture, music and literary style will be invited to assist the interna tional committee, A secretariat for this purpose has been set up, temporarily in the United States. Existing English lit urgical texts may be used until such time when common texts are available,*’ On being asked the other prin cipal purposes of the new de crees, the Atlanta Archbishop said: ’They are two: a vast pro gram of liturgical promotion and the revision of the rites. The program is already under way in many American dioceses to encourage the clergy and faithful to live the liturgical life, with each assuming their proper roles, especially at Sun day Masses, while seminary courses will emphasize the lit urgical formation of future priests. Regarding the revision of the rites, the Mass, the administration of the sacra ments, and the Divine Office will be affected, ’THE SPECIAL postconci- liar commission will apply the general terms of the decrees promulgated by the Holy Father in preparing this revision. Its principal purpose is to make the Mass and all other services more intelligible so as to assure fuller participation of the peo ple. "Specifically, greater stress will be laid on Scripture read ings, with perhaps longer cycles replacing present annual epis tles and Gospels, Also, ser mons will become an integral part of the liturgy, while Holy Communion under both species will be permissible on certain occasions, and concelebration of the Mass allowed to manifest the unity of the priesthood.” Concluding the interview, Arch bishop Halllnan said that "all this will be a long-range effort and in the beginning there is bound to be some experimen tation,” He added: "Of course, all the decisions of the national hierarchies must be approved by the Congregation of Rites. After 50 years of la bor by dedicated men—espe cially in France and Germany, and more recently in the United States—who sparked liturgical reforms so as to bring about deeper understanding of the Faith, the council now has put the seaon the seal on these efforts and the renewal of the public worship of the Church is now at hand." steps to make sure that it will still be "as soon as possible’’. Another obvious accomplish ment of the second session of the Council has been the widen ing of real liberty within the Church. Some of the statements made during the Council de bates lead me to believe that we laity are le s courageous than our bishops. Perhaps this is only to be expected in view of our reverence for authority; but some American bishops hardly seemed bashful in lecturing to their superiors, including the cardinals present at the de bates. Certainly some of the remarks of these bishops con tained points which laymen here have expressed - and some which they wish they had. Alas, 1 have known much milder re marks by laymen and priests to have been reported to the Holy Office, with die suggestion that they contained the seeds of anti clericalism or encouraged the flouting of authority. One great disappointment, to my mind, was the position of the lay auditors. The firs t thing that must be said right away Is that hardly any of the fifteen originally appointed are con cerned in the day to day work ings of the lay apostolate. They are basically administrators. Furthermore, as auditors, their main Job is to listen, even though it is claimed that various com missions of the Council consult diem at will. No doubt steps will be taken to give lay auditors a greater part in future Coun cil deliberations. This can be seen by the appointment of two additional lay auditors, Martin Work, executive director of our own National Council of Catho lic Men, and Patrick Keegan, former international president of the Young Christian Work ers, and now an official of the International Lay Apostolate Movement. So, too, we shall see the advent of women audi- gors. While I was in Rome, Car dinal Suenens, Primate of Bel gium, urged an increase in lay auditors, including women, "since women constitute one- half the population of the world." The great expectations of this second session of the Council may not have been realized. However, what is 'clear is that Pope Paul and the majority of bishops are determined that the updating of the Church will be come more than an empty pro mise. It is no longer a question of a struggle between Conser vatives and Liberals, but rather between an entrenched system and the desire by an overwhel ming majority of the Council Fathers to seek new positions in the propagation of eternal truths. There is no question of changing doctrine, but only that of updating the methods. (To be continued.) C & S REALTY COMPANY "Specialists in Commercial and Industrial Real Estate” Suite 200 Henry Grady Bldg. Atlanta 3, Ga. Warehouses, Stores, Mfg» Plants, Acreage, Shopping Center Dev,, Subdivision Dev., Industrial Dev„ Insurance 524-2052 MIKE & STEVE SERTICH India: Where St Clare NeedsaChrlstmas Gift slon on the Liturgical Aposto late "to propose Enllsh trans lations for die consideration of all the Bishops.” Tl\ey added: A "At a formal meeting of the Bishops, now proposed for the spring of 196*4, formal decrees will be drawn up and sent to the Apostolic See in Rome for confirmation. At the same time official translations will be ap proved by the Bishops for pub lication. Only then can a date be determined by the Bishops* for the actual Mise of English in the liturgy.** THE BISHOPS also announ ced that they have authorized representatives towork with an international committee that "will ultimately propose trans lations based upon the reformed rites for the consideration ef the respective hierarchies of the English-speaking world.” The statement was issued by members of the Bishops* Com mission on the Liturgical Apos tolate: Archbishop John F. Dearden of Detroit; Archbishop Paul J. Halllnan of Atlanta, Ga,; Auxiliary Bishop James H. Griffiths of New York; Bishop Vincent S. Waters of Raleigh, N. C., and Bishop Victor J, Reed of Oklahoma City and Tul sa. Matt Talbot Cause Set In Dublin DUBLIN (NC)—The beatifi cation cause of Matt Talbot has reached the stage of examina tion for heroic practice of vir tue, Archbishop John McQuald has written to the people of Dublin from Rome, Directing a Dublin diocesan collection to promote the bea tification cause, Archbishop McQuaid reminded that proces ses requiring years of careful Investigation still lie ahead. He also urged prayers invoking Matt Talbot's intercession with God be offered, so that there be an opportunity for possible mi racles, which are necessary in the cause, Man Talbot, a Dublin lum beryard worker and reformed alcoholic, died in 1925. An ex ample of deep spirituality to his fellows, he had secretly worn a belt of chains as a penance. Specifically a chapel for her POOR CLARES at KIDANGOOR in the archdiocese of ERNAKULAM in Southern India. The Provincial of her Sisters writes: ’T told you about the construction of our novitiate. We received some help but more is necessary. We nerd $1,500 for a chapel to be dedl* W 9 cated to St. Joseph” . . . The Arch- <P" bishop of ERNAKULAM explains her problem a little more. The Sla ters borrowed to the limit of their credit to build their novitiate. There are no funds left for a chapel. He appeals to the generosity of our The Holy Father's Mittion Aid readers . . . When we mention St. for the Oriental Church Joseph’s name in this column the response is immediate. The Combination of St. Joseph and St. Clare should be irresistible. The Sisters can scarcely have their much needed chapel for thia Christmas but your gift, large or small, will make it a certainty for next year. A GIFT LIST FOR THE CHRIST CHILD onstruct a CHAPEL or CHURCH in the Near or Middle East. The cost: $2,000 to $6,000. A wonderful MEMOR IAL for a loved one. elp the lepers (DAMIEN CLUB), aged (PALACE OF GOLD), orphans (ORPHAN’S BREAD), training of Sis ters (MARY’S BANK), education of seminarians (CHRYSOSTOM CLUB). $1 a month and a prayer. 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