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THURSDAY, JUNE 18, 1964 GEORGIA BULLETIN PAGE 3
CONFESSION BY THE BOOK—Father Charles F. Theo
bald, priest of the Archdiocese of Newark who works with
deaf children, "hears” the confession of one of his charges
with the help of an illustrated 32-page book, "Confession Aid
for Children." They enter a special, well-lighted confessional
and hand the book to the priest who points to the different
illustrations and awaits the answer. The book is published
by the Mt. Carmel Guild of the Newark Archdiocese.
FOR COUNCIL
Family Planning
Draft Prepared
WASHINGTON (NC) — A de
claration that family planning
and limitation may be needed
in the modern world is being
readied for consideration by
the Ecumenical Council when
it convenes again in September.
very proper aspect of respon
sible parenthood. For some
people responsible parenthood
may mean a temporary or long
term limitation, but limitation
can never be considered as an
ideal, as a value in itself.
Father Bernard Haering, C.
SS.R., speaking at the Catholic
University of America (June
12), said a draft of the declara
tion has been completed. He
said the declaration is silent
on the means of family limita
tion.
QUESTIONED about its con
sequences, he predicted that
those who are “overcome by
human weakness'* despite their
desires to follow the Church’s
teaching on family planning
“will feel the great love and
understanding of the Church
for their situation."
Secretary of the commission
that prepared the draft, Fa
ther Haering said the Council's
17th schema, entitled The
Church in the Modern World,
does not consider these ques
tions under the mere aspect of
family limitation.
"THIS WOULD be a wrong
slant," he said. “These ques
tions are treated under the
“No statement will be made
that would make the council
appear ridiculous in the eyes
of men of the year 2050, but
the council will speak to men
of 1965 and die following
epoch.'*
THE PROPOSED declaration
would represent no relaxation
of the Church's ban on con
traceptive devices, the Redemp-
torist theologian said, but he
promised that it would be a
“pastoral help."
It will be Impossible after
the council to mix up the cases
of those who, by mere selfish
ness, arbitrarily limit their
offspring and use for this end
any possible means with those
who sincerely follow the prin
ciple of responsible parenthood
and in spite of trying to use
only honest means sometimes
are overcome by human weak
ness,’* he said. “There latter
people will feel the great love
and understanding of the Church
for their situation.**
You are cordially invited
to attend the
Public Observance
Marking The
Twenty-fifth Anniversary
of the
Free Cancer Home
established in the South
by Mother Rose & Hawthorne
Dominicans
at 760 Washington, S, W.
Atlanta, Georgia
on the
Feast of Our Lady of Perpetual Help
Saturday, June 27th, 1964
11:30 ANNIVERSARY MASS
2:30 - 4:00 OPEN HOUSE
4:45 PUBLIC BENEDICTION AT GROTTO
WASHINGTON LETTER
Gov. Wallace
Model Racist
BY RUSSELL SHAW
WASHINGTON (NC)—What
ever may come of it, the pres
idential candidacy of Gov.
George C. Wallace of Alabama
has already established Itself
among the major national phe
nomena of 1964,
is the major villain. He noted
in his opening remarks that no
Pulitzer Prizes were given this
year for fiction or drama, and
told the newsmen that, after
reading some of the things
written about him in Wisconsin
and Maryland, he is convinced
that “you was robbed."
Wallace’s announcement at
the National Governors Con
ference in Cleveland that he will
run for President in the fall as
an “Alabama Democrat'*
wherever he can get his name on
the ballot was a logical step. He
has already made surprisingly
strong showings in Democratic
primaries in three states —
Wisconsin (nearly 34% of the
vote), Indiana (30%), and Mary
land (43%) — and a Wallace-
backed slate of unpledged elec
tors won handily in Alabama
itself.
“I'm in good humor now and
you all be in good humor too,"
he remarked, recalling that in
Indiana his car top was dented
by pickets' signs reading “God
Is Love." This subject came
up again later when he said he
would “probably" be at the
Democratic convention in At
lantic City “if I can get through
the pickets." The crack had
special point for listeners who
had seen anti-Wallace demon
strators parading on the side
walk outside the Press Club
building.
WALLACE'S announced in
tention in the fall is to win
enough Electoral College votes
to throw the choice of Presi
dent into the House of Repre
sentatives. Though there seems
little likelihood at the moment
that he will achieve this, he has
already succeeded amply in
another aim: that of giving pub
licity and a rallying point to
opposition to the civil rights
bill and the Negro protest move
ment.
All in all, Wallace's hour was
a virtuoso performance that
gave more than a few clues to
his success with the voters.
The cynical minded might take
it as further proof that it’s
not so much what you say that
counts as the way you say it.
How
POPE AND BOY EXCHANGE PRAYERS—In the papal
library Pope Paul VI prays in English with a six-year-old
boy, Edmund Cook, shown there with his mother, Elva
Cook, on May 9. They were enroute to Lourdes from their
home in Wollongong, Australia, to pray for a cure of a cyst
on his pancreas. Edmund’s sister died some time ago from
a similar ailment. The Pope asked the boy to pray a Hail
Mary for him in Lourdes and promised to return the favor.
To Understand
These factors alone, however,
would seem insufficient to ex
plain Wallace's showing if he
were Just another old-time rac
ist politician. The Alabamian,
however, is no tub-thumper. On
the contrary, he is a distinctly
contemporary politician, witty,
well groomed and articulate. In
deed, it is precisely the attrac
tive wrapper on his brand of
racism that makes it dangerous.
WALLACE recently put his
style on display to a demanding
audience at the National Press
Club here and came off well.
In an hour of prepared remarks
and ad-libbed replies to written
questions, he demonstrated a
hair-trigger sense of humor and
a sophisticated grasp of politi
cal and social realities.The ca
pacity-plus crowd of newsmen
rewarded him with frequent
laughter and applause—tributes
more to his performing skill,
perhaps, than to his arguments.
Wallace is a short man who
looks younger than his 44 years,
wears his black hair in a
pompadour, and dresses con
servatively,.' He was introduced
as a former state Golden
Gloves champion, and his cocky,
aggressive manner make this
easy to believe.
One of his major assets, it
was apparent, and one that un
doubtedly has served him well
in his forays outside the South,
is the ability to give a ring of
intellectual respectability and
social responsibility to his anti-
civil rights, anti - Federal
government line.
He takes pains to deny
hostility to Negroes. Disclaim
ing a quotation that had been
attributed to him about
the “nigger bloc vote" in Mary
land, he insisted that he has
“never used that expression
publicly." “I don't even say
it privately,'* he added a little
later.
Liturgical Changes
BY ARCHBISHOP PAUL J. HALLINAN
This is the fifth of a series of articles written
by the Archbishop to assist the people of the Arch
diocese of Atlanta in an understanding of the fuller
worship in which they have been called to partici
pate.
V. Sacraments of Initiation: Baptist and
Confirmation
“Christening" is a good accurate word for the
sacrament of baptism. It means “to incorporate a
person in Christ to make him Christ-like".
In other words, when a baby is baptized, he is
sanctified, even though he is still screaming be
cause of the salt abruptly placed upon his tongue.
An adult being baptized is undei going the same
sanctifying process. In both cases, Christ ac
quires new brothers. The infant and the grown-up
have both been christened.
Water is poured in Christian baptism. “There is
hardly any proper use of material things which
cannot be directed to the sanctification of men and
the praise of God." Just as bread in the Eucharist
and oil in the Anointing have their roles to play,
in Baptism it is water, following the example of
Christ. (May we presume that all Catholics are
aware that every baptism by water and the proper
words is valid, regardless of the Christian church
or minister who performs it?)
The source of sacramental power is the Paschal
Mystery, i.e. the pasion, death and resurrection
of Christ. This is the fountain. From it a stream
of divine grace flows - by the sacraments, this
stream enters our being. The new law of the Lit
urgy states that “it is of the highest importance
that the faithful should easily understand (these
signs) and should frequent with great eagerness
(these sacraments)?*
Baptism and Confirmation are linked in several
ways. They constitute our initiation; they impress
a mark that cannot be removed; they are admin
istered only once. They are both gifts of God. But
they are quite distinct. In Baptism, grace is con
ferred; in confirmation, it is nourished. The sec
ond sacrament complements and completes the
first. Although all have their social aspect, Con
firmation is more evident than Baptism. The child,
POLISH
personally given the Christ-life in Baptism, can
perform Christ-like actions-individually. But in
Confirmation, the communal nature of the sacra
ment shines forth. His actions become public -
for others, for the church. Father Godfrey Diek-
mann, the great Benedictine liturgist, links Bap
tism to the virtue of faith, and also to the pur
gative way of mysticaHife in God. Confirmau^T
is connected with hope, and with the illuminative
way. It is worth your while to read die chapter
called “Unto full stature" in his book, Come,
Let Us Worship.
Besides the use of English throughout, the
changes in Baptism and Confirmation stress the
notion of initiation. Thus the steps of the Baptism
of adults will be spread over the period of the
catechumenate, with suitable instruction. Eventu
ally new rites will be designed, eliminating repe
titions, and adapted for infants and adults. A new
rite for converts already baptized will emphasize
that they are new being received into communion
with the church. In mission lands, native rites of
initiation will be studied and made use of when
suitable. Since both sacraments are connected with
the Eucharist, they are to be administered at Mass
when suitable.
Water and oil,The use of these simple materials
remind us of a fact of our times. As one litur
gist, Adrian Nocent, has said “a religion of ab
straction no longer appeals to the man of modem
men - it must compete with the reality of flesh and
blood." Father Congar adds that modem man is
“endowed with an irrepressible need of sinceri
ty." The Church knows man, and understanding
him, is ready to reexamine the format of her sac
raments to suit his needs.
Water simply poured with the proper words will
accomplish her divine task of making man Christ-
like, so that he will be able to act in a Christ-like
manner. Oil simply applied with the proper words
will complement this work of sanctification. And it
is all part of the worship of God “In the liturgy,"
adds Nocent, “there are not certain zones that
are exclusively worship, and others sanctifica
tion."
God is praised, and man is made holy.
BISHOPS
Red Religion Ban
DISCRIMINATION against
Negroes in Alabama? “Negroes
have just as much access to
public facilities as the average
whites,*' the governor declared.
“They may not be the same
facilities. . . ."
Indeed, from his Press Club
remarks, one would assume
that Negroes are really very
little in his thoughts and his
real foes are the Federal
courts and the northern press.
The Federal courts (“the
judicial oligarchy") are targets
of his heaviest artillery. Ac
cording to Wallace, they have
usurped the constitutional
powers of elected officials and
are now running the country
through “judicial legislation by
fiat." Civil rights bills
(“hypocrisy," “political gim
micks," the products of “left
wing agitating folks") are
merely an “extension of the
revolutionary seizure of
power*' carried out by the
courts.
PERSECUTION and dis
crimination—against George C.
Wallace — are another major
Wallace theme. Here the press
Protest
BERLIN (NC)—The Catholic
Bishops of Poland in a joint
pastoral letter denounced as
“immoral" and ''illegal" the
communist regime's barring
children attending summer
camps from religious obser
vances.
The letter, read out in
churches throughout Poland
(June 14), said the Red move is
part of "an evil antireligious
campaign" and is a violation
of the Polish constitution. It
said that inasmuch as a ma
jority of Polish citizens are
Catholicsm the use of their tax
money for operating such ir
religious camps is "even more'
illegal,"
^ THE PASTORAL stated:
"Children at these camps last
year were forbidden to go to
church. But this year their pa
rents have to sign a statement
■eying that they will not take
part in religious observances
during their period in summer
camps,"
First signatory to the pas
toral was Stefan Cardinal
Wyszynski of Warsaw, Primate
of Poland, who condemned the
antireligious features of the
state-run camps in two public
sermons last August.
THE PASTORAL was issued
shortly after a leading Polish
Catholic layman spoke out in
defense of the right of the Po
lish people to criticize the Po
lish United Workers’ (commu
nist) party,
Stanislaw Stomma of Cracow,
one of the small band of avowed
Catholic deputies in the Polish
parliament, was writing inTy-
godnik Powszechny, the coun
try's leading Catholic weekly,
NOTING THAT it was the eve
of the fourth congress of the
Communist party, Stomma call
ed on the party for a "guest
creative compromise" with the
Catholic Church. This would be
possible if the party were to take
a practical approach Instead of
standing firman the ideological
one, he said.
Stomma asserted that the
party had "revised its attitude"
atg the time of the bloodless
revolution against Stalinism in
October, 1956, and could make
further revisions now. He said
the party had in the past gone
through a period "of errors
when they forgot the social
background of the nation and at
tempted to bend life by the force
of their directives,"
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THEOLOGIAN ASKS
Office Of Pope
For Term Only?
THE HAGUE (NC)—A pro
minent Dutch theologian has
suggested that it is conceivable
that the office of pope could be
limited to a specific tenure
instead of being for life.
Father F. Haarsma, theolo
gical adviser of the Dutch Hier
archy for the Second Vatican
Council, said that the essen
tial Catholic concept of Chris
tian reunion—“the return to the
one Church under the one pon
tiff"—does not rule out the
possibility of major changes In
the office of the papacy.
FATHER Haarsma disagreed
on the pojnt that doctrine and
teaching authority cannot
change. They actually can and
do so through dogmatic evolu
tion, he held.
Of the office of the papacy,
the theologian spoke of “the
council discussions on the re
storation of unity with the Eas
tern Churches, which called
up the image of the pope as
the president of a community
of love."
He continued:
“CAN WE say at this mo
ment how far those changes
will lead the Church" The Ca
tholic conviction is that the
Church without Peter and the
other apostles is unthinkable.
But this does not preclude the
fact that, with the common re
flection of all Christians on
the Bible and tradition, under
the guidance of the Holy Spirit,
the pontifical office might take
on a form which we cannot
now possibly forsee,"
Father Faarsma was com
menting' on a speech made by
Dr. Leo Rogier, a leading his
torian, at the commemoration of
the 40th anniversary of the Ca
tholic University of Nijmegen.
Dr. Rogier had held that while
the “structure and outward ap
pearance of the Church might be
changed thoroughly." Protes
tants should not be led to be
lieve that “we are expecting
(to bring about ) Christian re
union by a kind of give and
take policy." Doctrine and
teaching authority in the Church
cannot change, he said, adding
that the main basis for re
union must be the return to the
one Church under the succes
sor of St. Peter.
Nurse Medal
WASHINGTON (NC)—AnneV.
Houck, retiring executive sec
retary of the National Council
of Catholic Nurses, was pre
sented the Papal Benemerenti
medal here at a gathering that
marked her departure.
The Papal medal was pre
sented (June 11) by Msgr. Paul
F. Tanner, general secretary of
the National Catholic Welfare
Conference.
“WE CAN rightly say of this
image that it differs and at the
same time corresponds with
today’s image of the pope...
“Would it per se be unthink
able, contradicting Revelation,
that a pope could be chosen
for a definite term of office?
If that were to take place, the
office of pope would call up
an entirely different image.”
FATHER Jan C. Groot, pro
fessor of ecclesiology at the
joint seminary of the dioceses
of Haarlem and Rotterdam and
the Dutch Hierarchy's delegate
for ecumenical affairs, also
commented on the Rogier
speech. He too upheld the re
quirement of “the return to the
one Church under the one pon
tiff."
“Peter’s position is of course
essential," he said. “But we
are trying to free his position,
that Is the papal primacy, from
the deposits of the centuries."
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