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GEARED TO THE NEWS rchdiocese of Atlanta SERVING GEORGIA'S 71 NORTHERN COUNTIES COLLEGIALITY Hungarian Prelate Cites Bishops’ Freedom, Authority BUDAPEST (NC)--The hoid of the Hung«rl*n Bishops' con ference said here that every bishop must exercise both authority and freedom in his own diocese, Bishop Endre Mamvas spoke on the role of the bishops in an address at the 117th annual meeting of the St, Stephan’s publishing house, today the only Catholic publishing firm in Hungary, SPEAKING on 'The Second Vatican Council and the Epis copal Office," he told the as- HOLY OFFICE sembly which Included several bishops, leading Hungarian in tellectuals and newsmen that in the past many proper functions of diocesan bishops were as sumed by both kings and the Holy See, "In Europe," he said, "the monarchical form of govern ment resulted in the gradual loss of the apostolic power of the bishops, in favor of the monarchs. This occurred to such an extent in Europe that a bishop did not even have the power to allow an old, ailing priest to celebrate Mass in his home, "But then a new age appear ed, in which, throughout the whole world, and also here in Europe, peoples and nations began to undergo democratiza tion. This also opened a window of worldwide scale for ecclesiastical administration through which fresh air rushed in even into the building of the universal Church. Vatican Modifies Cremation Stand VATICAN CITY (RNS) — Roman Catholic Church re strictions against cremation have been eased in a decree by the Supreme Sacred Congrega tion of the Holy Office, headed by Pope Paul VI. •“While making clear that the Church still opposes cremation, the decree modifies one issued by the congregation in 1886 which condemned the practice. IT BROADENS the conditions under which cremation may be permitted and declares that Catholics choosing cremation should no longer be consider ed sinners and may be given the Last Rites and a Christian burial. Copies of the decree were sent to Catholic bishops around the world, accompanied by a let ter from Pope Paul. The pontiff pointed out in his letter that the anti-religious aspects of ACCM Board To Meet The Regular Board meeting of the Archdiocesan Council of Catholic Men will take place at Sacred Heart Church, At lanta Sunday, June 14, at 3p,m, Officers and presidents of parochial mens’ organizations are urged to attend. cremation have less emphasis today than in the 19th century. The Pope also noted that in many lands national custom and tradition allow cremation for economic or hygienic reasons. Cremation has been condem ned by the Church as showing a lack of reverence for the body as the temple of the Holy Spir it and as representing an at tempt to deny the doctrine of the resurrection of the body of Judgment Day to be united with the soul. THE 1886 decree was adopted to counteract a campaign by some Christians who denied the final resurrection of the body. The Church’s ban against cre mation was not based on the natural law, on Church dogma or a divine commandment. That decree said that the Church prohibited cremation because it tended to diminish man’s natural reverence for the dead and tended to annihilate many convictions respecting the supernatural in a Christian peo ple. The 78-year-old decree also said the practice was advocated almost exclusively by those who did not recognize the super natural claims of the Chris* tlan religion and denied the ex istence of an after life. ’THIS BEGAN particularly with Pope John XXIII and is now being continued by Pope Paul VI. Pope Paul VI has indeed made it quite clear that he in tends to do away with limita tions on the episcopal authority, with the exception of those cases in which the interest of the whole Church Indicates that certain matters belong to the sphere of activity of the central authority. "On this subject, I have my self experienced an indicative incident. When I came for the first time before the present Holy Father in audience, ac cording to previous practice, I removed the skullcap from my head and held it in my hands. The Holy Father said to me: 'Put on your cap, for you are a bishop yourselfl ’ “At the council no one doubt ed even for a minute that the episcopal rank is of divine origin; hence it no more can be terminated by the suc cessor of St. Peter and re placed by another institution, than St, Peter could have ter minated the authority of his apostle colleagues, "What binding power ought the bishops' conferences to have? This ( was the last topic in the debates on the bishops. It must be observed that the resolutions of the bishops' conferences cannot have any Juridically binding power. In his diocese, the bishop is the supreme legislator. This power of his cannot be limited by the episcopal conferences. In the case of a unanimous resolution, or in the case of a majority resolution being made a unanimous one, —and this is the case in the Hungarian epis copal conference—then the con ference resolutions are moral ly binding on all the members. The episcopal conferences can not have greater Juridical ly binding authority than, for example, the regional councils, which only have such power when their resolutions have been approved by the Pope,” New Hospital TAIPEI, Formosa (NC)— A new 60-bed St. Joseph Hos pital and Nursery in the hill country of southern Formosa opened its doors (May 30) to serve the 15,000 aborigine re sidents. The Hospital is staffed by Dominican Sisters. TO BUSINESSMEN .MOKK THAN HALF MILLION VISITORS per week now enter the Vatican Pavilion (above) at the New' York’s World's Fair, according to Msgr. John J. Gorman, director, Next to the General Motors exhibit, it is second in popularity. Nearly 45',. of the total number of fair-goers each week view the famed marble statue of the Pieta by Michel angelo. on loan to the Vatican Pavilion from St. Peter’s basilica in Rome. TO AID CATHOLICS Council Of Churches Backs Shared-Time Relief Benefit NEW YORK )C) — The Na tional Council of Churches here has backed shared time educa tion, saying it might be oneway of giving a financial breather to Catholic and other private school supporters. A pronouncement endorsing experiments in shared time Was adopted (June 4) by the policy making general board of the na tional council, a federation of major Protestant and Orthodox churches. SHARED time, under way in varioua forma in an estimated 300 school districts in 35 states, sees students enroll ed in parochial and other pri vate schools spend some of their school day in public schools. Shared time, also known as "dual enrollment'' has receiv ed attention as a possible solu tion to the impasse over the role of parochial and other pri vate schools Federal aid to edu cation. The 120-member general board's statement said that in creasing costs of education have caused Catholic educators and parents to seek inclusion of parochial school education in government aid programs, THE STATEMENT noted that the national council has oppos ed such requests in testimony before Congress. But it added that "resistance and opposition are not a satisfactory perman ent stance for Christians" and went on to support experiments in shared time. The 34 demoninations and 40 million members represented by the general board are aware, said the statement, "of the fin ancial difficulties under which their Roman Catholic brethren and others labor in supporting two school systems." Shared time, it said, appears to be "one possible solution to this problem" and "we there fore approve further experi mentation." THE STATEMENT said ar- NATIONAL ‘BEE’ rangements must be worked out community by community". "It is our hope that dual school enrollment may prove to be a means of helping our na tion to maintain the values of a general system of public education, yet at the same time meeting the needs of those who desire a system of church- related education, while uphold ing the historic American prin ciple of separation and interac tion of Church and State," it concluded. Parochial Students Are High Spellers WASHINGTON (NC) — Paro chial school students captured three of the top six places in the 37th annual National Spell ing Bee finals here. The first prize went to a diminutive sev enth grader from Boltch Junior High School, Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio. William Kerek, 12, took the national honors (June 4) by correctly spelling "syncop- hant," which means a hanger- on. He won $1,000, a trip to the New York World’s Fair and an appearance on an nationwide television show. The second-place finisher was Robert O. Mathews, 13, of Gahanna, Ohio, He missed on the word 'geophagy," which is the practice of eating dirt, IN FOURTH place was Anne Restivo, 13, an eight-grader at Christ the King School in Den ver. After correctly handling such words as "agnostic" and "aphelion," she stumbled in the 18th round on "nubllous." Although parochial school students numbered only 14 of the 70 youngsters who went in to the national finals here, they took three of the top six places. In fifth place was Mary Eli zabeth Joy, 13, of St. Patrick's School, Oneida, N. Y. Roxanne Wood, 13, an eighth-grader at St. Francis Xavier School, Phoenix, Ariz„ finished sixth. MOVIE OWNER Challeng es Law Licensing Films MISSIONARY SISTERS of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, who staff and operate St. Mary's Hospital, Athens, Ga., take special interest in new life, and with the most modern equipment. The sisters were featured in last weeks issue of the GEORGIA BULLETIN, when this photo should have appeared. WASHINGTON (NC)~The U.S, Supreme Court has been asked to strike down Maryland’s film licensing law on the grounds that it violates the Constitution's free speech guarantees. The law requires movie ex hibitors in Maryland to sub mit films to a state Motion Picture Censor Board before showing them publicly, The^ board can ban movies it judges to be obscene or tending "to debase or corrupt morals or in cite crime,” THE CHALLENGE has been brought before the high court by Ronald L, Freedman, man ager of the Rex Theater in Bal timore, who was fined $25 by Baltimore Criminal Court for violating the law. His convic tion was upheld last Feb, 10 by the Maryland Court of Appeals, Freedman’s is a deliberate test case. In November, 1962, he exhibited a film called "Re venge at Daybreak" without submitting it to the censor board but after having notified an offi cial of the board of what he in tended to do, FREEDMAN says the state has conceded that, had he sub mitted the movie to the board, it would have been approved. His appeal to the Supreme Court argues that Maryland *'ln Imposing criminal penalties on the very act of free expression of concededly legitimate mat ter," has "directly transgres sed the First and Fourteenth Amendments" to the Constitu tion, BUT THE Maryland Court of Appeals held in affirming his conviction that the law does not violate free speech. Pope Asserts Religious Role For Economics VATICAN CITY (NC)--Pope Paul VI has defended the right of religion to a place in economic affairs and con demned the Manchesterian Liberalism of the 19th century. He characterized the dia lectic materialism of Karl Marx, and his followers as "antique," and asserted that the Catholic Faith, by establishing the pri macy of God over all things, establishes the primacy of man in temporal things, HIS SPEECH Monday to parti cipants in a congress of the Christian Union of Businessmen and Executives was a strong denunciation of lalssez- falre economics and the theory that money profits constitute the sole purpose of the economy. He said the "religious coef ficient" is not to be seen as "a mere paternalistic, useful corrective to mitigate the pas sionate and easily subversive explosion of the working class against the businessmen," On the contrary, by establish ing the primacy of man in temporal affairs it supplies "the motive that stimulates and Justifies social dynamism," AT THE outset of the speech, he placed businessmen and executives in a category with teachers and physicians, "among the principal trans formers of society." Then, pointing to the word "Christian" in the title "Christian Union of Business men and Executives," he asked whether it was not "almost an invasion of a foreign agent Into the system itself," He further asked whether religion, the Gospel and the Church "do re present a contamination of the scientific and specific rigor that governs and encloses within it self the cycle of our (economic) activity," He answered: "You have un derstood that there are ob jections which bar the way to the entrance into your sector of spiritual elements, and the very lack of these spiritual elements is in great part the cause of the deficiencies, disorders, dangers, tragedies that may exist—and how they exist I—in the realm created by Industrial civilization." "THE TECHNICAL and ad ministrative sides work per fectly, but the human side does not," he said, ’The business enterprise, which by its nature demands collaboration, accord, harmony, is it not still today a clash of minds and of interests? And sometimes is it not considered an indictment of the one who put it together, Paper Defends Married Deacons MUNICH, Germany (NC) — If the ecumenical council res tores the dlaconate as a perman ent order but does not allow for married deacons, it will be a fu tile restoration, according to the Catholic Action periodical, Die lebendige Zelle (The Liv ing Cell). Holding that a celibate dla conate would attract "only a few" men, the periodical ad ded: "We respect the celibacy of the priest, but the world al so needs the sacrament of Mar riage and therefore the marr ied deacon." directs it and administers it?" "Is it not said of you that you are the capitalists and the only guilty ones? Are you not often the target of social dia lectic? There must be some thing profoundly mistaken, something radically lacking in the system itself, if it gives rise to such social reactions. "IT IS true that whoever speaks of capitalism today, as many do, with the concepts that defined it in the past century, gives proof of being out of touch with reality. But it remains a fact that the socioeconomic system generated from Man chesterian Liberalism (a school of British economics advocat ing laissez-faire and the profit motive) still persists. It per sists in the conception of the onesidedness of possession of the means of production and of the economy directed toward the private profit." At this point the Pope began speaking of the "religious coefficient." He said it would "reveal with its light the basic deficiency of the system that pretends to regard the human relations born of the industrial phenomenon as pure ly economic and self - regulating.” He added: "And so you have understood many pain ful and redeeming things. You have understood the need to rise above the primitive stage of that industrial era when the economy of one-sided—that is, selfish — profit ruled the system. . , "YOU HAVE understood that so many calamities rising from a search for human welfare founded predominantly or ex clusively on economic goods tnd on temporal welfare, are the children of this materialistic outlook on life. Such an outlook is attributable not only to those who make the fundamental dogma of their un happy sociology out of an antique dialectic materialism, but also to the many who erect a golden calf in the place be longing to the God of heaven and earth, "You have understood that for you the acceptance of the Christian message constitutes a sacrifice, While for the have- not it is a message of bliss and of hope, for you it is a message of responsibility, of renunciation and of fear," PAYLIST HIPKKIOR— Father John F. Fitzgerald, C.S.P. i above i, pastor of St. Paul the Apostle Church, Los Angeles has been elected to serve as Superior General of the Paulist Fathers for a six year term. A native of Bos ton, he is the 12th priest to head the Missionary Society of St. Paul the Apostle, founded in New York 106 years ago, by Isaac Heckcr, convert-priest.