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T PAGE 2 GEORGIA BULLETIN THURSDAY, APRIL 23, 1964 COLE’S JEWELRY CHINA - SILVER A CRYSTAL EXPERT WATCH REPAIR NEWNAN STREET 832-8642 CARROLLTON, GA. HEATH MOTORS IMMtPIIAL-CHNVaL**—PLYMOUTH-VALIANT FORD TRACTORS AND IMRLIMINT* NSW HOLLAND HAY COUIRMtNT TILIFHONI II2 U17 114-m MAPI! STRICT CARROLLTON. OCOROIA VATICAN COUNCIL ALMON ^une’taL/iomo 548 NfWNAN STRICT Tftemden 0{f Hit 0%cUn O4 Hit (falde* Hult 2 Way Radio Controlled Emergency Ambulance Service Griffin-New Pharmacy Phone TE 2-6331 Alabama At Maple St. CARROLLTON. GEORGIA FREE DELIVERY OXYOEN EQUIPPED AMBULANCE SERVICE MARTIN & HIGHTOWER FUNERAL HOME 120 West Center Street Dial TErrace 2-6326 CARROLLTON, GEORGIA MATHER Furniture Co. COMPLETE HOME FURNISHINGS & AP PLIANCES. NEWLY WEDS ARE INVITED TO SEE THE LARGEST FLOOR SELEC TION IN CARROLL COUNTY. 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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.” BEST WISHES ST. MARY'S PARISH GREEN MEADOW DAIRY, INC. "Owi PvmIucU t ‘Womt 'P’teA&tn, 1504 DEAN ST. ROME, GEORGIA 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. 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