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* I I 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," Fot Information WrUti Scatter T>*m»l 4 *««•!, CSC 104 H#ly Cross School 4950 Deuphine Strort ffsw 6rUtp«, L». 7011T 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." C.& S REALTY COMPANY “Specialists In Commercial and Industrial Real Estate 0 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 audio sfereo tdigh Fidelity Components Sales and Service A. J. “DOC" SCHIER 2929 Peachtree Road, N. E. Atlanta, Georgia 23.1-4374 HOUSEKEEPER WANTED Live-in housekeeper required for rectory. Send all particulars, including references, to Dept. A, P. 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