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GEORGIA BULLETIN THURSDAY, JULY 16, 1964
FREEDOM OF CONSCIENCE ISSUE
Unusual St. Louis Wedding
Brings Official Comment
ST, Louis (NC)—An official
of the St, Louis archdiocese
has said permission may be
given for more mixed mar
riages to be witnessed by cler
gymen of Catholic and some
non-Catholic Christian reli
gions.
Msgr. Joseph W. Baker, can
on law advisor to Joseph Car
dinal Ritter of St. Louis at the
Second Vatican Council and vice
chairman of the archdiocese’s
Commission on Ecumenism,
made the statement.
He was asked for comment
on the ceremony here June 13
in a Catholic church in which
Susan H, Ekberg, an Episcopa-
CARDINAL TO GO
lian, married Patrick C, Bark
er, a Catholic. Officiating were
a Benedictine priest and an
Episcopalian minister.
ASKED if the event set a
precedent, Msgr. Bake»- said it
did and that it could not be
called an '’isolated” incident
as alleged in some press re
ports.
“While it would be wrong to
consider this to be the general
pattern, there is no reason to
think that such permission
would not be granted in the fu
ture, given the same set of cir
cumstances,” he said.
The circumstances, he ela-
CDA Convention
At Miami Beach
MIAMI, Fla. (NC)--Richard
Cardinal Cushing of Boston will
preside at a Solemn Mass of
fered by Bishop Coleman F.
Carroll of Miami in the Cathe
dral of St. Mary here July 19,
opening the 30th biennial na
tional convention of the Catho
lic Daughters of America. The
sermon will be preached by
Bishop Vincent S. Waters of
Raleigh, N.C., national CDA
chaplain.
Cardinal Cushing will give the
keynote a few hours later at the
convention banquet in the Hotel
Diplomat, Hollywood, head
quarters for the July 19 to 23
convention expected to attract
more than 1,000 delegates.
OTHER MEMBERS of the
hierarchy expected to be pres
ent include Bishop Paul Hagar-
ty, O.S.B., Nassau; Bishop Jo
seph H. Hodges, Wheeling, W.
SAN FRANCISCO
Va.; and Bishop William G.
Connare, Greensburg, Pa.
Bishop Carroll will be the
principal speaker during a July
20 luncheon. Other convention
speakers will include Msgr.
Raymond J. Gallagher, Wash
ington, D.C., secretary, Nation
al Conference of Catholic Char
ities; Msgr. Joseph B. Lux,
Chicago, president, Catholic
Church Extension Society;
Father Thomas J, O’Donnell,
S.J., director of English lan
guage radio programs, Vatican
City; and Msgr. Joseph M. Nel-
ligan, Baltimore, national con
sultant - moderator. Catholic
Daughters of America.
Margaret Buckley, Chevy
Chase, Md„ CDA Supreme Re
gent, will preside at the ses
sions. Mrs. Catherine McGin-
ness, State Regent, West Vir
ginia, is convention chairman.
Prelate’s Prayer
Opens Convention
SAN FRANCISCO (NC) —Arch
bishop Joseph T. McGucken
opened the Republican national
convention here with a prayer
that God illuminate the minds
and hearts of delegates.
The archbishop of San
Francisco prayed that God's
St. Paul Relic
VALLETTA, Malta (NC) — An
armbone relic of St. Paul was
taken along by five priests of
the Maltese Catholic Action or
ganization who left here for
Australia, where they are due to
visit the Maltese emigrant
community.
guidance help * lest partisan
spirit pervert the order of
justice or ignorance lead us
into error.”
HE' PRAYED that through the
convention’s deliberations the
country's defenses may be
morally and physically strong.
He petitioned that men dis
cover the means by which
every breadwinner may get em
ployment, every worker a Just
reward, all may obtain the full
possession of their human
rights and thaf it be realized
nations may no longer safely
pursue, their interests in iso
lation from one another.
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cerity and her allegiance to her
Faith.
Permission for the ceremony
was granted by Cardinal Ritter
and is thought to be the first
ever given in the United States.
The Cardinal’s decision was
made, it has been disclosed, af
ter the prospective bride and
her mother brought to his atten
tion the problem of conscience
they said they would face if for
ced to give up entirely the
Christian ceremony in which
they believed.
CARDINAL Ritter has gone on
record several times during the
sessions of the Second Vatican
Council as saying that the con
sciences of sincere non-Cath
olic Christians should not be
violated.
Shortly after the second ses
sion of the council ended, the
family of Miss Ekberg began to
investigate to see if a Catho
lic-Episcopalian wedding could
be arranged in which the beliefs
of both bride and groom were
represented,
"I had been thinking about it
some time,” Mrs, John Paul
Ekberg, Jr„ the bride's, moth
er, said in a telephone inter
view from her home in Green
wich, Conn. The family, long
residents of St. Louis, moved
to Greenwich, last summer.
The Ekbergs are active Epis
copalians, Mr, Ekberg for many
years was senior warden of the
Episcopal Church of the Good
Shepherd here. "We take our
religion seriously,” Mrs, Ek
berg said.
AS IT became clear their
daughter was planning to marry,
the Ekbergs felt a growing prob
lem of conscience, she related.
They knew of the late Pope
John XXIII’s permission for
Princess Sophia of Greece, who
is Orthodox, and Prince Juan
Carlos of Spain, who is Catho
lic, to have a dual wedding
ceremony in a Catholic church
and then in an Orthodox cathe
dral,
“But I did not want two ser
vices,” Mrs. Ekberg said. “Af
ter all, you only get married
once,”
She wrote to Episcopal Bishop
George L. Cadigan of Missouri
telling of her dilemma. He wrote
to Cardinal Ritter. Mrs, Ekberg
and Susan then visited the Cath
olic chancery in St. Louis.
“We had a nice visit with
Msgr. William M. Drumm, the
Cardinal’s chancellor,” Mrs.
Ekberg recalled,
“HE COULDN’T have been
nicer to us; he went out of his
way to be helpful. We kept try
ing to find different ways—
ways that would be canonically
all right with the Catholic
Church and still achieve what
we were trying to achieve.
"Of course there were ups
and downs, but Msgr. Drumm
seemed to understand what we
were trying to do. It does seem
to me that people who honest-
to-God care about God can man
age to figure out the canon law
problems," she said.
Subsequently, the Ekbergs
and Bakers received permis
sion not only for the Episco
pal Book of Common Prayer to
be used, but for the Ekberg's
minister, the Rev. Mr. Clau
dius Miller, to be a witness
with Father Leonard Jackson,
O.S.B.
FIRST scheduled for a pri
vate home, the wedding was
switched to the Catholic church
of Ste, Genevieve du Bois in
Warson Woods at the request
of the groom’s mother.
At the ceremony, Catholic
canon law requirements were
observed in that the priest re
ceived the couple's vows. He
was witness of the marriage at
the precise moment it took
place. The bride and groom got
the usual permissions and made
the usual promises.
From an Episcopalian point
of view, the Book of Common
Prayer was used for the entire
ceremony and the minister of
ficiated at roughly half of the
ceremony. The Episcopal min
ister pronounced the couple man
and wife.
The only time the Roman
ritual—from which the wedding
rite is customarily taken in
Catholic churches—was used at
the very beginning of the cere
mony when the priest read the
invocation.
THE BRIDE said after the
ceremony, "I’m happy and glad
we did it,”
"A wedding is supposed to
start you off right, and it did
not make sense to me to have
either of us married by a church
we did not believe in,” Susan
Ekberg Barker said.
Would she recommend it to
another couple?
"I don’t know,” she said.
“Every case is so completely
different. It is a lot of trouble
to do what we did if you really
don’t care very much about the
issues.”
Susan said she did not re
gret signing the papers custo
mary in mixed marriages,
agreeing to raise her children
as Catholics,
MSGR, BAKER said the Ek
berg-Barker wedding was un
usual because of the issue of
what the Church calls "commu-
nicatio insacris”—mutual par
ticipation in worship.
"What is frequently over
looked is the fact that the dis
pensation granted to enter a
mixed marriage is already
communicatio in sacris. It is
the entering into the celebra
tion of a sacrament in which the
ministers of the sacrament—
the bride and groom—belong to
different churches,” he said.
“What was involved in the Ek-
berg-Barker wedding was the
form and the participation of a
minister as witness. The Car
dinal granted permission for
his participation as a witness
out of consideration for the re
ligious convictions of the Epis
copalian partner to the mar
riage,” he said.
FOR CORPUS CHRISTI
A MEDAL FOR THE POPE—Pope Paul VI receives the
Thomas More Association Medal on the 25th anniversary
of that organization. Shown presenting the medal are, from
left, Msgr. Edward Herr, principal of Central Catholic High
School, Lima, Ohio; his brother Dan Herr, president of the
Thomas More Association, Chicago and John Drahos, sales
manager. The Association was founded to promote Catholic
reading and reading among Catholics.
FOR FARMS
Priest Scores
Water Policies
WASHINGTON (NC)— A na
tional Catholic rural life
spokesman has sharply criti
cized Interior Department pol
icies which he said favor "huge
industrialized” farm opera
tions over family farms.
Father James L. Vizzard,
S.J., director of the Washing
ton office of the National Cath
olic Rural Life Conference,
singled out for attack a pro
posed contract between the gov
ernment and the Westlands Wat
er District in California. He
made his charges before a Sen
ate irrigation and reclamation
subcommittee.
THE proposed contract would
govern distribution of water in
the San Luis irrigation and re
clamation project in southern
California’s San Joaquin Val
ley.
Under existing law, water
from a federally financed pro
KEY PROGRAMS
Parochial Schools
In Anti-Poverty Bill
WASHINGTON (NC)—The Sen
ate Labor Committee has re
ported the administration's
“war on poverty” bill to the
Senate floor after amending it
to permit participation by pri
vate, non-profit agencies in two
of its key programs.
Under the amendment, pri
vate, non-profit agencies, in
cluding church-related schools,
would be authorized to partici
pate in the measure’s work
training and work-study pro
grams, envisioned as a plan to
give work experience to young
people aged 16 to 21 to in
crease their employability and
to provide part-time employ
ment to enable them to stay in
school.
THE MEASURE calls for
some 200,000 young people to
take part in the work-training
program. Participation by
Pope Aids Serbs
TRIESTE, ITALY (NC) — Pope
Paul VI has sent $2,393 to
Bishop Alfred Pichler of
Banjaluka to cover part of the
cost of rebuilding the Orthodox
church there which was de
stroyed by resistance fighters
during the last war, it was re
ported here. Patriarch
Germanos of the Serbian
Orthodox Church has already
thanked the Pope for his
financial aid, it was said.
Airline Cooks
RIO DE JANEIRO (NC) —The
Sisters of Jesus Crucified help
support a novitiate here by
preparing in-flight meals for a
Brazilian airline. In 25 years
of existence this Brazilian re
ligious community has grown
to a membership of 2,185 in 122
houses throughout the country.
church-related schools and oth
er private agencies would be
allowed so long as it did not
involve youths in projects for
the construction, operation or
maintenance of as much of a
facility as is used for sectar
ian purposes.
The amended Senate bill thus
is close to the House version of
the legislation, which is now
before the Rules Committee.
The House bill provides for
participation of church-relat
ed schools and other agencies
in the work-training and work-
study programs provided their
projects do not involve the
youths in projects on facilities
to be used "solely" for sec
tarian purposes.
Other major sections of the
$962.5 million bill approved by
the Labor Committee (July 7)
include a job corps for teen
agers, a work-study program
for college students and a $340
million fund to support com
munity anti-poverty action pro
grams.
ject can legally be obtained by
an individual owner for no more
than 160 acres—or 320 acres
in the case of a husband and
wife. Owners of excess land,
however, can get such water
for all their land for 10 years
if they sign a contract agreeing
to dispose of the excess land
under conditions acceptable to
the Secretary of the Interior,
But some large landowners
in the Westlands Water District
have announced that they will
refuse to dispose of their ex
cess land. Opponents of the pro
posed contract between the gov
ernment and the water district
attack the pact on the grounds
that such non-complying land
owners would nevertheless
benefit from two factors: irri
gation water would seep through
the ground into the underground
water table and become avail
able to them; and, to the extent
that complying land owners used
irrigation water, the under
ground water would become
available almost exclusively to
the non-complying owners.
THE OPPONENTS of the con
tract have argued that the pro
posed distribution system
should not be built until the
owners of excess lands agree to
dispose of them under the usual
conditions.
Father Vizzard in his testi
mony 'July 9)» argued that the
proposed contract would bene
fit non-complying “huge in
dustrialized operations” which
he said are “the very antithe
sis of the family farm.”
He said that the Interior De
partment "is, to put it mildly,
showing less than adequate re
spect for facts, for law and for
long-standing public policy” in
advocating the contract.
Since the passage of the Na
tional Reclamation Act in 1902,
he said, the “whole purpose”
of Federal irrigation and recla
mation activities has been "to
promote family farming in this
country and to prevent land and
water monopoly.”
But, he charged, through the
proposed contract with the
Westlands water district and
through other recent actions the
Interior Department has been
guilty of "failure to discharge
its responsibility for public pol
icy.’’
U.S. GIVES CUBANS AID
WASHINGTON (NC) —The
United States is extending fin
ancial aid to 370 Cuban refugees
to help them qualify as physi
cians, teachers, and librarians
in this country.
The U.S. Office of Education,
Department of Health, Educa
tion, and Welfare, made avail
able grants of $581,970 to seven
colleges and universities under
terms of the Migration and Re
fugee Assistance Act of 1962
to help the refugees. The Cu
bans were selected by the in
stitutions from registration
lists at the Cuban Refugee Cen
ter in Miami', Fla. All are Cu
ban nationals opposed to the
Castro regime in their home
land.
SOME GRANTS are for study
programs for as short as eight
weeks. Others cover this sum
mer and the 1964-1965 aca
demic year which ends in Sep
tember, 1965. Cubans selected
are all proficient in English
and have the equivalent of at
least two years of college edu
cation. The additional study will
qualify them to hold positions
in this country in fields that
require the equivalent of a
bachelor’s degree. Most of them
held professional positions in
Cuba.
Pope Will Visit
Medieval City
VAT ICAN C rr Y (RNS)—Pope
Paul VI will make a one-day
visit to the medieval city of
Orvieto, about 65 miles north
of Rome, to attend ceremonies
on August 11 marking the 700th
anniversary of the Feast of
Corpus Christi.
His trip will be the pontiff’s
first major journey since going
to the Holy Land last January.
Since then, however, he has
made a number of visits to
Rome and its suburbs,
ORVIETO, a diocese directly
attached to the Holy' See and
not to a province as a suf
fragan, has played a major
role in Church history. Because
of its geographical location it
was often used by Popes as a
place of refuge in the middle
ages, and has a "Palace of the
Popes” built by Boniface VIII
who reigned from 1294-1303.
The first recorded Bishop of
Orvieto was known as John,
who headed the diocese about
590, Its cathedral, one of the
most beautiful churches in Italy,
was begun in 1285, designed in
Gothic style by Lorenzo
Maitani.
IT HAS three naves and the
cathedral’s tripartite facade is
embellished with scenes from
the Old and New Testaments
and with mosaics and statues
of the Blessed Virgin Mary,
the Apostles and the Prophets.
The cathedral’s interior con
tains many famed religious
works by noted Italian artists.
In one of its chapels is a large
reliquary in which is preserved
the traditional ' miracle of the
corporal.”
A CORPORAL is a small,
square white linen cloth on
which the Sacred Host and
chalice are placed during Mass.
According to a centuries-old
belief, a few drops of wine from
a chalice fell on a corporal
during a Mass. The reddish
spots formed on the linen are
said to depict the profile of a
face of the type by which Christ
is often represented.
The Feast of Corpus Christi
commemorates the institution
of the Holy Eucharist by Christ
at the Last Supper. It was es
tablished locally in 1246 at the
suggestion of St. Juliana of Mont
Comillon by Bishop Robert de
Thorete of Liege, France,
where the first observance was
held a year later.
ON SEPT. 8, 1264, the feast
was extended to the entire
Church by Pope Urban IV in a
bull entitled “Transiturus,”He
designated the Thursday after
Trinity Sunday in the Christian
calendar as the feastday. In 1964
the movable feast fell on May
28.
The Office for the Feast of
Corpus Christi, regarded as one
of the most beautiful in the
Church’s liturgy, was written
by St. Thomas Aquinas, famed
philosopher and Church doctor.
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