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Cardinal Bea Gives
Views On Ecumenism
ROME—(NC) The fact that
proposed statements on the
Church’s relations with
Judaism and on religious
freedom were not acted on at
the last session of the ecumen
ical council will work in their
favor when the council re
convenes Sept. 14, Augus
tin Cardinal Bea, S. J„ has
stated.
The Cardinal, who is Pre
sident of the Secretariat for
Promoting Christian Unity,
spoke in an interview published
by the Rome Jesuit review, Civ-
llta Cattolica.
CARDINAL BEA discussed
the second council session’s
handling of the schema on ecu
menism, which Included the
proposed statements. He noted
that 471 council Fathers com
mented on the schema either
orally or in writing.
In general, he said, the com
ments were constructive and
enabled members of his sec
retariat to revise the original
document during the Interim
between sessions so that as it
stands today it is “clearer, bet
ter balanced and in a certain
sense even more open.”
THE CARDINAL said that
non-Catholic delegate-observ
ers at the council had been ask
ed to offer frank criticism of
the schema and that they had
done so willingly. He added;
“Those criticisms, as was
expected, dealt mainly with thej
doctrine of .the Church and its
essential structure, which are
the basis of the schema. It is on
this point, in fact, that there
exist the greatest differences
between us and non-Catholic
Christians, whether they are
Orientals (Orthodox) or those of
the Reformation, although dif
fering in degree and manner.
“NOTWITHSTANDING the
existence of these differences,
the criticisms have been use
ful in that they have given us a
means of finding a way of stat
ing things that may ficilitate
the clearest possible under
standing of Catholic Doctrine
even for non-Catholic Chris
tians.”
Asked about the council’s
failure to discuss Chapters 4
and 5 of the schema—the pro
posed statements on the Jews
and religious liberty—Cardinal
Bea said they were not discuss
ed “solely because of the lack
of time and for no other
reason.”
HE OBJECTED to reports of
pressure, behind-the-scenes
manuevers and other measures
cited by some as the reason
for the council’s lack of action
on these two proposals. He said.
“Even admitting the exis
tence of perplexity among some
Fathers regarding these two
chapters—a perplexity, more
over, that is easily understood
— the reasons for the develop-
COMMISSION DECIDES
Will Streamline
Council Debate
VATICAN CITY (NC)—The
ecumenical council's 10-cardi-
nai Coordinating Commission
has streamlined the form of
debate the council will follow at
its third session which opens
Sept. 14.
This should forestall a recur
rence of the slow-motion debate
the council got enmired in fora
critical fortnight last October.
THE COMMISSION made its
decision at a two-day meeting
(April 16 and 17) held in the
apartment of its president, Am-
leto Cardinal Clcognani, in the
Vatican palace. Of the cardinal
members, only Francis Cardi
nal Spellman of New York was
absent. Archbishop JohnJ. Krol
of Philadelphia, who as a mem
ber of the council secretariat
had a right to take part, was
absent as well.
The meeting was the fourth
held by the commission since
the end of the second council
session. It met earlier on Dec.
28, Jan. 15 and March 10.
A COUNCIL press office
communique said that the com
mission had “established the
timing and method of discussion
on various schemata for the
coming third council session.”
It added: “While some sche
mata will still require deep
examination and debate, others
can follow a more rapid pro
cedure, since the Fathers have
already had an opportunity to
express their opinions on
them.”
THUS A timetable will prob
ably govern debate at the third
session. Debate will probably be
considerably shortened on
schemata such as the ones on the
Church and on bishops and dio
ceses, which have already been
debated to some extent in the
council hall. It is known that
certain other schemata have
been reduced to their central
principles, and these too should
be disposed of in an abbreviat
ed form of debate.
The communique said the
commission examined other
problems relating to the work of
the general congregations
(working assemblies of the
council Fathers) “in order to
facilitate debate on individual
subjects and to streamline the
manner of speeches.”
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THIS COULD refer to a plan,
known to be under considera
tion, to appoint a sort of “Dev
il's advocate” to sum up criti
cisms against each schema,
while leaving the defense of the
schemata to a “relator” ap
pointed by the commission that
drafted it.
The communique said that the
Coordinating Commission had
examined schemata on the
Church, the pastoral office of
the bishops, Oriental chur
ches, ecumenism, priests, Re
ligious, the lay apostolate, mar
riage, the formation of priests,
and Catholic education.
IT EMPHASIZED that the
commission examined these
schemata not to judge their con
tent—which is outside the com
mission's competence—but to
see whether they have been re
drafted according to instruc
tion*. According to the commu
nique, the Coordination Com
mission expressed great satis
faction with the way the other
council commisaions had ac
complished this task.
The Coordinating Commis
sion will meet again around the
middle of June, At this fifth
meeting it will examine sche
mata still being redrafted.
ment of events are not those
which were whispered about and
passed around. It can be said,
and it seems to me very rightly,
that a general vte on all five
chapters of the schema as a
block would have run the risk
of creating much perplexity
among the council Fathers and
great confusion as to how to in
terpret such a vote and its re
sults.
“FOR EXAMPLE, what of
those council Fathers who had
doubts about the opportuneness
of Including the chapter on the
Jews in the schema? Should they
nevertheless have accepted the
whole schema or rejected It?
And is it just to reject a whole
schema only because of such a
doubt, which is more or less a
technical one?
“On the other hand, wouldnot
accepting the schema in general
mean accepting in a definitive
manner the inclusion of the
chapter on the Jews within the
schema on ecumenism?”
CARDINAL BEA said that
with this thinking as a basis,
it was decided to separate
Chapters 4 and 5 and pre
sent only the first three chap
ters for a general vote, and to
wait until discussion oftheflrst
three chapters had been con
cluded before presenting the
last two.
Asked if the failure to Intro
duce the two final chapters at
the last session had worked
against their ultimate passage,
Cardinal Bea said he did not
think so. He said:
“AT ANY RATE a prolonged
discussion among the council
Fathers on ecumenism, that is
on a matter which was rather
new to not a few of them, has
without doubt greatly benefited
the strengthening of the ec
umenical idea among the Fath
ers and made for greater clari
fication."
The Cardinal noted that
“while a vote, even if only a
general vote, on the question of
the Jews and on religious free
dom might have seemed rather
hasty and not sufficiently ma
ture, in view of the brevity of
the lapse of time after the coun
cil Fathers had received the
text, the Fathers now have the
opportunity of considering mat
ters in omplete quiet,
“IN VIEW OF the importance
of these chapters in the life
the present day Church and its
position in the modern world, it
is very necessary that their ac
ceptance should truly reflect
the widest and deepest convict
ion of the council Fathers.”
Cardinal Bea stressed the
purely religous character of
the chapter on the Jews and said
that representatives of the Arab
League have recognized this
and are not opposing the state
ment.
HE REJECTED the idea that
the Church has taken up the ec
umenical approach in an effort
to win the Orthodox Church
away from protestantlsm and
the World Council of Churches.
He said that the schema was
addressed to both and that papal
statements have consistently
called for the unity of the whole
Christian body.
CARDINAL McINTYRE
God An ‘Enigma’
To Some Pupils
HEADS STUDENT BODY—
First Negro in the 113-year
history of St. Joseph’s Col
lege, Philadelphia, to be
elected president of the stu
dent body is Johnson E. Col
lins, 20, (above). A history
major, he ranks number one
student in his class. He is
an altar boy, a Knight of
Columbus, vice president of
his class, and a member of
seven other extra-curricular
organizations.
Nun Jailed
BERLIN (NC)--The Lodz ap
peals court in Poland has upheld
the Sierdaz district court in giv
ing Sister Sophia of the Order of
St. Ursula a suspended sentence
of a month in jail following her
conviction on a charge of refus
ing to admit firemen who claim
ed they wanted to make a safety
inspection of her convent, it was
reported here.
LOS ANGELES (NC) — James
Francis Cardinal McIntyre
charged here that to children
attending school, God is * an
enigma, not the Creator.”
"Christ is not even recog
nized among noteworthy men
of history,” he told civic and
business leaders at a Town
Hall luncheon.
“EACH year,” he said,
“new subjects are added to the
curriculum, but emphasis is
given only to separation of re
ligion from education. Even the
basic and universally aedepted
principles of religion that have
guided men and nations for
centuries are ignored.”
He said newspaper reports of
“lawless and irresponsible
conduct of teen agers” confirm
the gradual erosion of the “in
herited capital of these basic
principles of religion.”
The Cardinal asked his audi
ence to consider his viewpoints
and to take "whatever action
may be within the bounds of your
competency and responsibili
ty.”
“WE CAN all venture.” he
said, "to imagine what would
be our position today were we,
ourselves, here present, not
given a religious heritage of
right thinking and right living
in our days of youth.
'This heritage is fast dis
appearing in our time. And let
us further be mindful that these
qualities, which we possess and
treasure in our own lives, and
the lives of our children, have
not come to us spontaneously.
They came from proper train
ing.”
Cardinal Mclntryre said edu
cation was the natural outgrowth
of releigion.
“IN FACT, the most funda
mental question facing man has
always been the question —
where did I come from? And the
consequent question is of equal
importance and urgency —
where am I going? Religion
and religion alone has made
the study of these questions a
primary one,” he said.
Saying that religion and edu
cation today "are the subject
of Supreme Court disjunction,”
the Cardinal added:
“Is it not strange that in the
public school system which has
developed In the United States,
the children may not be taught
that there is a God? To them,
He is an enigma, not the
Creator.
"Perhaps only in Russia to
day is the recognition of God,
or a Supreme Being, denied.
Are we not keeping strange
company?"
CATHOLIC EDUCATOR
Asks Cooperation Between
Musicians And Liturgists
The presence of the Orthodox
Church in the World Council of
Churches Is certainly of great
usefulness to the cause of
Christian unity, he said, “and
one cannot see why the Roman
Church would or should seek to
separate it from the council.”
REGARDING THE World
Council of Churches, he added
that “every friend of Chris
tian unity is grateful to. . .
(it) for what it has done and is
doing in favor of the great cause
of union, and the Secretariat for
Promoting Christian Unity has
sought from its beginning to
cooperate with the council and
will do so in the future.”
New Provincial
NORTH EASTON. M.ss (NC)--
Father Richard H. Sullivan, C.
S. C., president of Stonehill
College here has been appoint
ed Provincial of the Eastern
Province of the Holy Cross
Fathers. The appointment was
made by Father Germain-M.
Lalande, C.S.C., Superior Gen
eral, following the provincial
chapter of the Holy Cross
Fahters here..
ST. LOUIS (RNS)—Catholic
musicians are anxious to make
full use of their art in order
to make liturgical music “as
beautiful as possible” the
chairman of the liturgical de
partment of the National Catho
lic Music Educators Associa
tion said at the group’s 17th
national convention here.
Father Lawrence F. Heiman,
C.PP.S., music department
chairman at St. Joseph Col
lege, Rensselaer, Ind., told
1,800 teachers, organists, con
ductors and choir directors that
the desire of musicians to co
operate closely with liturgists
was "clearly manifested" at
the convention.
HE SAID THE work will be
experimental in both new forms
and functions, and will give
each factor in the “liturgical
drama” its own proper role —
choir, congregation, minister.
“We are vitally interested in
the liturgy, and we are not out
to make a musical show of the
Sacrifice of the Mass,” he’said.
“UNLESS WE have a period
of mutual understanding be
tween musicians and litur
gists,” he stressed, “both
groups will fail. We should not
act separately; rather, we need
to unite our forces.”
He said that liturgical musi
cians must not abandon the past
but “preserve what is good and
appropriate. At the same time,
we will not shrink from develop
ing the new.”
ANOTHER convention speak-
Baptist Aids
Maryknoll
WASHINGTON (NC)-- The
Catholic parish newspaper La
Voz in Puno, Peru, didn’t miss
one issue last year-thanks to
an American Baptist Peace
Corps member.
Robert F. Clark, 26, of Be-
thesda, Md.. who Just returned
here from a 32-month tour
with the Papal Volunteers in
Puno, told how he was unable
to put out the weekly paper for
the Maryknoll Fathers during
a month-long Journey to Lima.
He found a volunteer in a
young Peace Corps member
whose mother, back home in the
United States, wrote hymns for
the Baptist church. The paper,
he said, waa as good as ever
with its Baptlsh editor.
er, Father Cletus P. Madsen,
called on the delegates to ac
cept “with a greater vitality
than ever before the fact that
change will dominate every bit
of living from now on.”
Father Madsen, former na
tional president of the Catholic
Music Educators Association
and a director of the North
American Liturgical Confer
ence, noted that the teacher’s
role is to “guide students into
a tomorrow that is theirs,”
not ours.”
A MUSIC professor at St.
Ambrose College, Davenport,
Iowa, he said that “our world
has been dominated by stabili
ty. Students will respond to
teaching only when the teach
ers have accepted the Consti
tution on the "Sacred Liturgy
to the extent that it becomes
a conviction.”
He referred to Section 21 of
the Constitution which says that
"liturgy is made up of immu
table elements divinely insti
tuted, and of elements subject
to change.”
“WHILE THE essentials can
not change," he said, “there is
nothing so unchangeable as the
way we do things.
"It is the teacher who has the
knowledge, experience and gen
ius needed to guide the ideas of
students.”
A LACK of conviction, he ex
plained, can arise because of
the “comfortable way we have
categorized our notion of God.
It has been said, with some
grain of truth, that the changes
proposed in the Constitution
will be hardest to accept for
the best Catholics.”
“Resistance to change weak
ens conviction,” Father Madsen
warned. “If the liturgy is not be
ing accepted by students, it is
because no matter how much lip
service we give it, we are not
convinced ourselves.”
HE URGED delegates to ap
proach new problems scientifi
cally and enthusiastically. “We
need to find ways and means of
worshipping God 24 hours a
day,” he said, noting that lit
urgy has tended to be something
apart from everyday living.
“I find our situation compar
able to the ecumenical move
ment," he said. “We don’t know
the answers, but we are finally
coming to grips with the prob
lem scientifically.”
Father John H. Miller, C.S.
C., a board member of the
North American Liturgical
Conference, held that a well-
trained lay commentator Is a
“pastor’s prize possession.”
LITURGICAL editor of the
new Catholic Encylcopedia, he
said that experience has shown
the effectiveness of lay com
mentators.
"The commentator keeps the
congregation on its toes,” he
said, “He reawakens the people
’warns* them of what is coming
next in the great drama of the
Mass.”
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