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V f t PAGE 2 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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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. 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