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ON RENEWAL . vy.".... v..; • Cardinal Cites Bishop’s Role ROME (NC)—The bishops of the world have been reawaken ed to their role In a manner which Is perhaps unprecendent- ed in history, Augustin Cardi nal Bea said here in an address to an Italian Catholic Action group. The Jesuit Cardinal, who is head of the Secretariat for Pro moting Christian Unity and one of the leading figures of the ecumenical council, spoke at the opening session of the 26th congress of the Catholic Action section for university graduates (Jan. 2). TOUCHING UPON several themes treated by the council Fathers, Cardinal Bea noted first the importance of the dis cussions on the nature and role of the episcopacy. He said that Vatican II has continued the work which had been begun by the Councils of Trent and Vati can I. It is, he said, “rewak ening (the bishops) in the awareness of their own mis sion, of their own possibilities and responsibilities in a manner perhaps unprecedented in his tory." He remarked that “the bene ficial results of this renewed awareness of the Church are unforeseeable and incalcul able." He added, however, that in his opinion the chief impor tance of the "growth in the awareness of the world Catho lic episcopate" will lie, not so much in its participation in the central government of the uni versal Church, as "in the ac tivity of each bishop in his own diocese and in the joint activity of the bishops in their coun tries. HE FORECAST “a wealth of responsible initiative" in the episcopate comparable to that which developed in the papacy after the definition of primacy and infallibility. On the consideration on the subject of the laity in the coun cil, Cardinal Bea remarked: “It is very significant that the council Fathers decided that a chapter on 'The People of God* should come before the hierar- chial constitution of tHeChurch, thus determining the place of laymen as an integral and es sential part of this people. This position will then also have to find its expression in the re formed code of canon law which so far has given the laity a place which is inadequate." hnce i»e$ mhhnsuctiontcau.; 231-3040 C & S 1 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 As to the effect of the coun cil on other religious denomi nations, Cardinal Bea said “the council has already achieved a meeting—in prayer, medita tion, brotherly conversation and exchange of ideas— with the representatives of the majority of the non-Catholic Christian communities. In this last ses sion there were also first signs of far wider meetings, that is to say with members of the non-Christian religions. From the mustard seed of the first idea of the council a tree is about to spring to life, the size of which we cannot now even imagine." PAST YEAR THURSDAY, JANUARY 9, 1964 GEORGIA BULLETIN PAGE 3 British Catholics Show Increase CHURCH IN THE ROUND. This 1,000-seat church will be built for St. Thomas More parish, Cleveland. The altar will be in the center and around it will be 10 sections of pews, each only 10 rows deep and separated by aisles. It will have bronze pillars along the circumference of the structure to provide an unobstructed view of the altar from anywhere in the edifice. CHRISTMAS TEXT LONDON (NC)—The Catholic population of England and Wales rose by 101,000 during the past year, according to the official Catholic Directory for 1964. The Catholic population is put at 3,827,000 compared with 3,726,500 last year. AS LAST year, when it was suggested that increasing moves toward Christian unity were having a bad effect on conversions, adult conversions again declined from 14,174 the previous year v to 13,280. The directory gives an esti- Pope’s Address To Curia Following is the text of the address by Pope Paul VI on Dec. 24 to cardinals and members of the Roman curia made in reply to the traditional Christmas greetings from the dean of the College of Cardinals. YOUR EMINENCE: To you, to the Sacred Col lege, to the prelates of Rome and the members of the Roman Curia, our heartfelt thanks for the devoted homage to which this numerous and impressive presence bears witness, and for the kind wishes which the authoritative voice, so well known and beloved to us, of the dean of the Sacred College nobly interpreted. We deeply appreciate the ec clesiastical significance of sup port, of fidelity which such a gesture holds for us, who are still surprised by our assump tion of the apostolic office and who today for the first time re ceived the profession of these noble sentiments. WHILE WE ARE always aware of the extent to which our duties exceed our humble resources, we seek and find in these sentiments a strong com fort, and regard them as pro viding in the solitude, concern and responsibility we are ex posed to by the office of the Supreme Keys, the assurance and almost the experience of a Communion no less sincere than solid. You desired, My Lord Car dinal, to associate your greet ings with the recollection, brief but concrete and enlightening, of the most important events that interested and moved the Roman Church in the year that is about to close. The Church was the protagonist in some of them, the spectator in others, and always most attentive and sensitive, as is her wont and her duty. We share the rea sons of interest and piety which suggested this resume to you, and we equally share in the high and religious sentiments you drew from them. ONE OF THE events recalled cannot be left without mention by us (a grave duty), that of the pious death of our venerat ed and mourned predecessor John XXIII, whose spiritual heritage Divine Providence de creed we should receive and whose great and difficult work NELSON RIVES REALTY INC. 3669 CLAIRMONT ROAD CHAMBLEE, GEORGIA REAL ESTATE, INSURANCE SALES, RENTALS RESIDENTIAL AND COMMERCIAL PROPERTY PHONE: 451-2323 9<*Uvicutce in all iti 9l it'd, written, ute w^iite it . . Sutter & McLelfan U22 RHODES HAVERTY BLDG. JAckson 5-2086 WHERE INSURANCE IS A PROFESSION NOT A SIDELINE it decreed we should continue. Let us therefore once more render reverent homage and pay the tribute of pious suffrage to his dear memory. But let us not at this moment dwell on the vis ion of his brief but illustrious pontificate; rather let us take from his very memory the in vitation, the warning, the pledge to continue on the path he trac ed, looking forward to the im mediate future at least, leaving it to the Divine Pilot, who is guiding us all, to head the bark of Peter toward the distant shores which our eyes cannot sense except by anticipation and hope. Like you. My Lord Cardi nal, on looking back, so we now, looking forward, wish in our turn to formulate wishes for all those in this great assembly, and we may well say for the whole Roman Church. Our na vigation—to stick to our well- known and beautiful image of the apostolic vessel—is taken up with the recurrent twofold problem: to preserve the pre cious and intangible cargo of its religious patrimony and to move ahead in the stormy sea of this world. To stay afloat and to sail ahead at the same time is the task of the Roman Church, expressing splendidly the scope of her duties and her destinies in the twofold symbol of the rock of the ship. Who does not know that the sea of our present history is swollen with winds and storms? We shall certainly pray to the Divine Captain, who sails with us and appears to be myste riously sleeping while our an xiety for the uncertainty at hand and the danger impending grows, that He not allow us to perish. And He will not let us perish. BUT LESTT WE deserve the reproach He addressed to the disciples in the Gospel episode of the storm He calmed, that they were men of little faith, should we not ask Him to give us precisely a greater faith, and with it a great capacity on the one hand to defend the sac red deposit of faith and on the other to face the sea which sur rounds us, that is to say, to get to know the historical moment we are living through, to ap proach the unbelieving but noble world in which we live? That is to say we wish for ourselves and for all who are our collabora tors—many of whom humanly speaking are far more exper ience and able than oursel ves—to have the greatest pos sible (but attentive, sagacious and loving) knowledge of our times so as to overcome its snares, to seize its opportuni ties, discover its sufferings, search out its hidden virtues. To establish this relationship between the changeless ele ments of our faith and the high ly changeable environment of our times is a difficult art, is a wisdom which demands divine enlightenment; it i s charity which presumes detachment from all that is not of real in terest to the kingdom of God. And this is our wish for the forth-coming feast and for the coming year, which we address especially to you who are not only close to us in the peri lous government of the Church, but also trusted and willing col laborators, precisely because the present hour demands such virtues. IT IS NECESSARY, venerable brothers and beloved sons, that the ecumenical council, whose second session has just come to *ose, b e brought to a happy >- iidusion. And this last phase of the universal synod seems to us the most laborious, the most important* While we owe all of you sinceire thanks for the toil some work you have done on the occasion of the two sessions of the council itself which have al ready been held, we must sum mon you to the more toil for its third phase, which under many aspects is grave and de cisive. Much still remains to be done. And though the council has giv en Itself a structure of its own of considerable size and com plexity, this does not excuse the Roman curia from its pro ductive functioning, both be cause the activity of the conci liar commissions Is unfolding within the framework of the re ligious problems with which the Roman offices basically oc cupy themselves, and because not a few of you have personal responsibility and work within the commissions themselves. ON YOUR COOPERATION depends largely the practical outcome of the next conciliar period. It is necessary that the council be helped by your ready industry in speedily reaching conclusions that will have the supreme approval of the Pope, as well as that of the assembly of the council Fathers. The meeting of tho council is not (as some naive and in cautious Journalists have in sinuated) a trial of strength among opposing powers, but is rather the expression of one supreme power itself, which speaks with a single voice re sulting from the voice of the conciliar members joined to the sovereign voice of the Pope; that is to say a moment of su preme communion of souls and intellects which the Roman Church must be the first to predispose, doing everything in her power so that the greatest manifestation of authority should coincide, in appearance and in spirit, with that of the greatest charity. THAT THIS MAY come to pass, as you My Lord Cardinal Just mentioned, and that the great aims the council has set for itself may be achieved, we shall go in a few days’ time in humble and brief pilgrimage to the land of Jesus, to Palestine, the country which was the scene of the biblical story, of the pa triarchs, of the prophets, of the apostles and of Christ Our Lord, as i f to draw from the roots the certainty and the strength the Church has such deep need of today, in this great epiphany of its perennial vitality, and confronted with the discord and needs of the world. We shall go in joyful and awe some astonishment at being the first to walk, in the opposite direction, along the path first taken by the Apostle Peter, leading him to Rome to place there and seal with his blood his first and unshakeable tes timony. WHAT IS THIS Journey? A tourist excursion? A political expedient? A dodging of duties that demand our presence here A Priest At 72 DUBLIN (RNS)—A 72-year- old former Iriah senator, one of Ireland’s best-known lawyers before his retirement in 1961, was ordained a Jesuit priest at Mllltown Park Jesuit church here. and tie us down? No. If it were so, we would fear that at the very outset we would meet with what Peter met on a day that may be historical but is surely symbo lic, In his famous discourse against Auxentius, St. Ambrose tells of how the Apostle Peter was in great danger in Rome at the beginning of the first perse cution. "Good souls among the Christians begged him to go away for a while. And though he was anxious to face death, he nonetheless gave in out of con sideration for the people who implored him. They begged him, in fact, to spare himself so that he could instruct and con firm the community. But what happened? One night he was walking outside the walls, but on seeing Christ approaching him near the gate he asked: 'Domine, quo vadis? Lord, where are you going to?’ And Christ answer ed "Venio iterum cruclfigi. I am coming to be crucified again.’ And Peter understood that the divine answer refer red to his own cross, and spon taneously retraced his steps." (Serm. C. Auxentium, 13.) WE ALSO HOPE to meet the Lord on our Journey, which be cause of its novelty, its signifi cance and its publicity seems to us to be of great importance. Its extent is for us unfathom able, but we have the intuition that it is immense, at least symbolically, in its seeds of hope and in its Intentions. It is in fact a historic Journey, possibly productive of grace and peace. Well then, on meeting the Lord Jesus we hope that He will not halt but will guide our steps; and we shall not ask Him where He is going, but we shall say to Him that it is to Him that we are coming, and with humble, high courage, like Peter on the stormy lake, we shall ask Him: "Domine si Tu es, Jube me ad Te venire super aquas. Lord, if it is You, bid me come to You over the water." And we hope to hear, in the immense space, in the deep night of our mys terious era, His hidden, power ful, divine voice crying, “Come, Come." (Matt., 14, 28-29.) AND WE SHALL go to Him, and we shall ask for forgive ness for all our failings, and we shall express our faith—inspir ed and rendered invincible by the Father—and our humble and total love: Tu scis quia amo Te. You know that I love You, We shall offer Him “His Church," the Church built on the rock He Himself chose and made solid and set as a founda tion of His mysterious edifice. We shall beg Him to give us the supreme fortune to receive in it all the brothers in Chirst, even those who may still be on the threshold, and all peoples, even the separated, for the per fect unity of His Church her self, and for our peace. We shall then return, vene rable Brothers, If He is will ing, to resume with you, with the Church of the City of the World, today's work, which is the council, and the work of the centuries, which is the redemp tion of the world. TRUSTING IN YOUR prayers, your collaboration and your obedience, in the spirit of Holy Christmas we wholeheartedly return every best wish for you, for all you hold dear, for all your toilsome good work and ratify this with our apostolic blessing. mate total of 799,150 Catho lics in Scotland, 7,000 more than the previous year. It also estimates that of the 550,- 357,000 people in the British Commonwealth, nearly 41,- 000,000 are Catholic. The directory’s figures are generally recognized to be the lowest common denominator for practicing Catholics in this country. Gathered by the direc tory editors themselves from parish and diocesan returns of known permanent residents they take no account of the big float ing population of practicing Ca tholics. THE TRUE figure for pi ticing Catholics out of a tout population of some 50,000,000 is usually estimated at around 5,000,000 or 6,000,000. Many thousands more, often Irish, who have no practical religion, would call themselves Catholic in any official procedure or document and marry, baptize their children and die as Catho lics. The total number of Catholfc schools in England and Wales is given as 2,888 with 756,352 students. MOTHER, SON ARE CLASSROOM TEAM. AlthouffhWnd" since the age of 7, John Schuch, now 27, teaches 33 third grade pupils in St. Casimir’s school, Milwaukee. His mother, Mrs. Isabelle Schuch, shown with her son, handles the paper work for the class. Schuch, a second grade pupil at St. Casimir’s when he lost his sight, holds bachelor and master degrees from Marquette University, Milwaukee. He reads with his fingers. PROFANE and SPIRITUAL Pope Sees Role Of Bridge VATICAN CITY (NC)—The Catholic layman must be a bridge between the profane and spiritual world, Pope Paul VI said in an address to an Italian group of university gra duates. The Pope spoke during a Mass celebrated in St. Peter's basilica (Jan . 3). HE ADDRESSED the univer sity graduates as men who are preparing themselves for act ive professional life, who in the future will combine the practice and profession of their Faith with the exercise of their pro fessions. Pope Paul added; “The fact, so simple to state and yet so complex to define, that men like you should call themselves and be Catholics is of very great interest to us." He went on: "You know that our doctrine recognizes for the faithful layman participation in the spiritual priesthood of man and therefore his capacity—in deed his responsibility- for the excercise of the Apostolate which arises as the mission proper to the present hour. "WE SPEAK OF the consecr ation of the world and the spe cial prerogatives which are at tributed to the layman in the sphere of secular life— a sp here ripe for the possible spre ading of the light and grace of Christ—precisely because he can act on the secular world from within,.while the prieat who is to a large extend sepa rated from secular life, cannot act on it, except in the eternal way, through his words and through his ministry. “Our Catholic laymen have this function of being a bridge. It is a function which has be come extraordinarily import ant and in a way Indispensable. And this is not to insure the Church's interference as a dominating factor in the field of temporal realities and in the framework of wordly affairs, but to make sure that the world will not be left without the mes sage of Christian salvation." THE POPE SPOKE of the lay man's having a dual citizen ship. He insisted that contrary to what many claim, the two citizenships are not incompati ble. He said, instead, that the “dualism" which insists that the profane and the spiritual are two Incompatible worlds "can be accentuated to such a point that it can make of the eccles- ial community a closed cena cle on the one hand, remote from the society community a closed cenacle on the one hand, from the society where it nevertheless finds itself, and paralyzed in its doctrinal as well as in its teaching, chari table and social efficiency, while rendering the secular world, on the other hand, insen sitive to religious problems of life, and therefore exposed to the recurrent danger of beli eving itself to be self-sucific- ient with all the sorrowful consequences which this illus ion finally entails. “The faithful layman cannot forget that he is a man of this world, precisely to remain a participating member in the communion of the Mystical Body nor can the man of this world neglect every memory and every pledge of the Chris tian conscience in order to be free to devote himself wholly to the demands of his secular pro fession." 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