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THURSDAY, JULY 30, 1964
GEORGIA BULLETIN
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IN PARLIAMENT
Archbishop Sees
No ‘Roman Plot’
: bishop-'
CATHEDRAL CENTER was the scene of Tuesday’s Leader Convention of the Archdiocesan
Council of Catholic Women. Shown, left to right, alee Mrs, Thomas Bookman, Mrs. James Cal-
lison (president), Mrs. Eugene Lowe, of Rome, Mrs. Herb Mallon, Mrs. John Lambert and Mrs.
G. C. Crowell, Jr., Decatur.
STUMBLING BLOCK?
Priest Asks For Changes
In Church Robes, Titles
LONDON (NC) — Anglican
Archbishop Michael Ramsey of
Canterbury has denied in
Parliament a suggestion that
proposed changes in Church of
England laws were a “plot”
to join the Roman Catholic
Church.
The primate, who as a senior
bishop of the established Church
of England has a seat in the
House of Lords, the upper
chamber of Parliament, was
speaking in a rather heated
debate on a measure to approve
the use of certain Catholic-like
vestments.
EARL Alexander of Hills
borough, a leading Labor party
spokesman and president of the
Council of Protestant Churches,
claimed that changes in the law
on what Anglican churchmen
may wear at services were "a
direct departure from the ori
ginal Protestant prayer book.”
"If we are not going to be
different from the Church of
Rome then what is the use of
having a Protestant Church?*'
he asked. "I would like to
interrogate the bishops in
dividually and ask them: Are
you a Protestant? We should
know. The great days of this
country and the Commonwealth
it has built up have been through
the acceptance by the people of
the principles of the Reforma
tion. Grant it may continue.”
WAS THERE, he asked, some
special reason why the Church
must pass this measure? "Is
it because members of the
Anglican priesthood in the
Anglo-Catholic sector (of the
Church of England) wish to
be free to go on without break
ing the law? .... The vest
ments practically speaking are
the vestments of the Mass,”
A government supporter,
Lord Brentford, called the
measure "the greatest act of
appeasement since Munich.” He
said that to give clergymen
freedom to wear the vestments
they choose was part of a trend
to direct Church of England
policy towards a sympathetic
outlook to Rome.
contemplates this, it can only
be on the terms of the
supremacy of the pope,” he
added. "That would involve
elimination of the sovereign as
the head of the (Anglican)
Church. Whatever alleged safe
guards may be Introduced into
the arrangements it could only
result ultimately in the com
plete dominance of our Church
by Rome.”
The Archbishop of Canterbury
in his reply said:
"I am a Protestant precise
ly in the way in which the Prayer
Book and . the. Anglican formu
laries say I am a Protestantv.
without any qualification. I
believe in what these formu
laries call the Holy Catholic
Church precisely in the sense
in which our formularies do—
without qualifications. . .
"1 WANT to repudiate and
deny from my heart and my con
science that behind our Church
legislation there is some kind
of subtle plot to assimilate the
Church of England to some other
Church in Christendom. That
is not true.”
The suggestion is "either*
scandalous or silly,” he said.
He added that he values vest
ments because they symbolized
the continuity of the Christian
Church down the ages and they
add color. The Anglican church
needs to bring its obsolete laws
up to date, he stated.
THE MEASURE—the Vest
ments of Ministers Measure—
was approved by 86 votes to 15.
To date the only legal vesture
of Anglican ministers during
their ministry has been the cas
sock and surplice, though a cope
could-be used for Communion
in cathedrals. But a great
majority of Anglican clergy
now use such Catholic vest
ments as the stole, alb and
chasuble and the same liturgi
cal colors as the Catholic
clergy. These will now be per
mitted by law.
MONTREAL (NC) — A noted
priest - sociologist says titles
and robes of office not only
have outlived their usefulness
for clerical dignitaries in the
Church but they also present
a stumbling-block for the un
believer.
Canon Jacques Leclerq, a
former professor at Louvain
and first president of the Inter
national Conference of Religious
Sociology, says the whole pur-
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ness to face the third session
will be reconsideration of the
schema on ecumenism. This
schema, which originally had
five chapters was divided dur
ing the last session. The first
three chapters were introduced
for discussion on the floor. They
dealt with the general princi
ples of ecumenism wu...
Christendom. The text of the
other two chapters never reach
ed the floor during the session
and therefore were not discus
sed.
Since the three chapters of the
ecumenism schema have al
ready been discussed, council
Fathers will vote only on the
amendments proposed. The two
other chapters—on the Church's
relations with the Jews and on
religious freedom—are now
termed "declarations" and will
be presented for discussion and
vote.
REPORTS have been frequent
that the former chapter on the
Jews has been altered and au
thoritative sources confirm that
the text of the "declaration” to
be presented during the third
session will differ from the text
of the original chapter. How
ever, they also point out that
the text is only presented for
the basis of discussion and the
Fathers themselves have the
right to make any changes they
think necessary. On the other
hand, the text on religious liber
ty has been clarified to express
the issue even more boldly than
it was in the original.
Next on the agenda is the com
pletely revised schema on Rev
elation. This document was pre
pared after the first draft was
ordered withdrawn by Pope John
XXIII during the first session
in 1962. Many of the more ad
vanced biblical scholars still
find the new document objec
tionable, but other experts feel
sufficient support could not be
found among the Fathers to ap
prove a radically different
document.
IF WORK is completed on all
the foregoing, the council Fath
ers will pass on to considering
the schema on the lay aposto-
late and even possibly the one
on the Church in the modern
world. However, it is generally
will have left behind it a legacy
of immense Importance.
pose of Pope John's aggiorna-
mento and the ecumenical
movement was to adapt the
Church to the needs of our
times. Writing in the July -
August issue of Malntenant, a
monthly review published here
by the Dominican Fathers,
Canon Leclerq discussed the
question of the "prestige" of
the Church,
HE ARGUED that many of the
costumes and titles of pre
agreed that it is unlikely that
work on these last two will be
completed unless the council
8 its longer than it has in the
past. No closing date has been
established for the third ses
sion and it is possible that Pope
Paul VI may ask the Fathers to
stan on in Rome longer than
during past sessions to com
plete more work.
Even if the session is not ex
tended, the prospect for accom
plishment for this portion of the
council is great. If the council
Fathers complete all work on
the schema on the Church, on
the pastoral duties of bishops
and on ecumenism—to say noth
ing of making significant head
way with the schema on Reve
lation—then the third session
lates belonged to another age,
that the habit did not make the
monk and that "any unbelievers
and persons of weak faith are
driven away from the Church
by these exterior forms. ,
"Titles which to them seem
solemn and pompous and in
signia and robes of office which
appear to belong to another age
are interpreted as the refine
ments of a purely human in
stitution . . . (they) lead to the
condlusion that there is no rap
port between the Church and
Christ,"
CANON Lerlerq noted that the
success of many of the minor
religious sects is in part due
t& their simplicity and the
meaningful use of the word
"brother."
"How can you treat like a
brother someone you must ad
dress as 'monsignor?* "
queried Canon Leclerq, ‘The
bishop is often called the Fa
ther of his diocese: how can you
see your father in a personage
you must address as ‘ex
cellency?* ”
CANON Leclerq commented
on the pope’s title: Holy
Father — "it is more simple
than the titles of all his en
tourage ... yet it does not
diminish his prestige.”
"The most powerful men in
the world are . , , the president
of the United States and the
leader of the Soviet Union . . .
they possess neither title of
honor nor special robes of of
fice,” he said.
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IN SUMMER RESIDENCE
Americans Are Impressed
By Pope’s First Audience
CASTELGANDOLFO, Italy (NC)
—"I’ve never seen anything like
it; and I live in New York City.”
Thus one American woman
described in the most glowing
terms she knew the first gen
eral audience held by Pope
Paul VI (July 22) after begin
ning his summer stay in the
papal villa here. She and some
10,000 others had come for the
audience to this small village
in the Alban hills overlooking
the beautiful countryside and
little Roman villages clustered
here and there in the valleys
and atop smaller hills.
THEY CAME the 16 mile
trip—mostly by buses, which
slowly climbed the steep grade
to the castle, or "castel,” ori
ginally built by the Gandolfi
family from Genoa in the 12th
century and given to the popes
in 1596. It has been the sum-,
mer residence of 22 popes to
date.
The buses jammed the tiny
streets and squares of the vil
lage which has grown up around
the castle. There they stopped,
packed tight, and people from
all sides converged on the gates
of the papal villa in the swelter
ing heat—the worst in years
according to the papers.
They passed religious article
booths on either side, and here
and there a soft drink stand
displaying trade names familiar
to Americans.
A SHORT path from the gates
leads through a field of grass
with a formal statuary garden
on the left, and a turn to the
right leads to the front of the
general audience hall. Built by
Pope Pius XII and inaugurat
ed Pope John XXIII in 1959,
it is 360 feet long, 82 feet
wide and 32 feet high. Modern
in design, its interior right
wall is faced with an intricate
pattern of smooth red bricks,
while on the left windows run
the entire length of the hall and
give more light to the interior
than is seen in most buildings
in Rome. The papal dais stands
elevated at the far end, sur
rounded by bright red drapes,
and directly behind a red -
upholstered throne hangs a gold
drape to set it off.
The audience is scheduled for
10 a.m. and the hall is filled
to its 8,000 capacity and be
yond by 9:30. Here and there
a group of French, another of
Germans, burst into a hymn.
There are none in English, even
though Americans seem to be
in the majority. Their natural
reticence for public hymn -
singing vanishes though when
someone begins the familiar
"Credo” of the Mass in Latin.
Here is something they know
from endless practice under
the watchful eye of some
grammar school nun.
AT 10:15, THE papal Mer
cedes-Benz, with license plate
SCV 1 (for Stato della Citta
Vaticana—the State of Vati
can City) arrives outside the
hall from the castle several
hundres yards up the hill. The
Pope transfers to his portable
throne and, carried on the
shoulders of the sedari, or
papal chair - bearers in their
bright red capes and long red
stockings, enters the hall amid
shouts and hand-clapping. The
Pope turns from side to side,
hands extended, and there and
there points to a group and
directs their way a special
blessing. Passing down the long
center aisle, he leans overfrom
time to time and touches an
outstretched hand or the head
of a child held up above the
crowd by a parent.
Then he takes his place on
Urges Observers
AUCKLAND, New Zetland
(RNS) — Anglican Bishop Eric
A. Gowing has urged that Cath
olic observers be invited to
Protestant church union nego
tiations in progress here.
The negotiations involve An
glicans, the Associated
Churches of Christ, Congre-
gationallsts, Methodists and
Presbyterians. Bishop Gowing
cited the spirit of Pope John
XXIII in inviting non-Catholic
observers to the Vatican Coun
cil.
the throne and the audience be
gins. First in Italian, a mon
signor announces the groups
present from Italy. As their
names are called, each shouts
and claps and Pope Paul smiles
and waves an arm in their di
rection. Then he speaks to them
in Italian. The same is repeated
in French, then English,
German and Spanish.
FORM America, a monsignor
announces, are several groups
including one from the Jesuit-
run Seattle University, another
large group of American mili
tary personnel and their fami
lies. Of all the American
groups, theirs has the loudest
response.
but who have stood for almost
an hour in the blazing sun or
sought the shade of the garden
hillside which rises abruptly
from the windowed side pf the
hall.
Pope Paul spots a young boy
in the crowd pressing against
the barricades and the papal
gendarmes restraining them.
He beckons to him and the boy
ducks under a guard and over to
the car where for his efforts
he receives a blessing and a
papal pat on the head. Not to
be outdone, a little girl runs
after him—maybe a sister, and
she also receives the special
attention of the Pope.
Pope Paul thanks the Ameri
cans for coming so far for
this visit.
"It is a sign of your great
faith,” he says, and a com
fort to the Holy Father.
AFTER blessing the group,
the Pope again mounts the
portable throne and returns to
his car. The top of the converti
ble is lowered in the bright
morning sun and he steps in to
stand a moment and bless the
several hundred who could not
crowd into the audience hall
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speeds away with the Pope
standing in front of his single
chair in the back. The audience
is over
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CANA: CHILDREN AT THE WEDDING?
WERE THERE CHILDREN AT THE WEDDING WHEN
CHRIST CHANGED WATER INTO WINE AT CANA? . . .
Gosnel account rto-sn’t mention
children, but we daresav they tvern
there. After all, children love a
par<y . . , Four miles or so from
Nazareth, CANA today looks much
CJ ** did in the time of Christ.
** Youngsters play ball In the sun-
baked streets, run for water to the
villafe well, and wonder about the
world outside . . . The Franciscan
Sisters are teaching these children
Jbt Holy Pstbtt'i Mutio* Aid * "* d •"* * s * h '
i rk l catechism—In a school that 1s much
for the Ontnisl Cbunb too small. In fact, 180 youngsters
are squeesed In. shoulder-to-ehoulder, in a single classroom!
Under these conditions, how can they possibly learn? ... By
pinching pennies the Sisters can double the school's capacity
for only 87.000 . . . 8475 more will buy the desks and benches,
and even a blackboard! . . . Won’t you help? Christians are few
and far between in the Holy Land, and these youngsters must
he given the chance to learn . . . Please send whatever you can
<81, 85, 810, 8100), and mark it "CANA.” You'll be helping
the youngsters Jesus loved.
REFUGEE VOCATIONS
VIOLETTE HAJAR and THERESE DANIEL arc the first
girls In our refugee camp at Jlsr-El-Basha. Lebanon, to ask
admission to the convent. They will join the Aleppine Sisters
(Maronite Rite), who teach catechism in the camp . . . Each
girl needs a "trousseau” (840) . . . Will you help her puvehase
one?
SPEAKING OF REFUGEES . . .
WE NOTE THAT AMERICANS will consume 97 pounds oi
beef a person in 1964, or two pounds more than the record pei
eaplta consumption in 1963 ... In LEBANON. JORDAN. SYRIA
and the GAZA STRIP, our Palestine refugees (they now numbei
more than 1.4 million) eat meat, at beat, onee or twice a yen
. . . We can FEED A FAMILY FOR A MONTH for only 810 .. ,
If you will FEED A FAMILY FOR A MONTR we'U send you, in
thanks, an Olive Wood Rosary from the Holy Land.
HOW TO TRAIN A SISTER
□ $l-a-month (812 a year) pays your membership dues In
MARY'S BANK, our sponsors’ club for training native
Sisters.
□ $3 supports a novice for about a week.
□ 85 buys shoes for a Sister-to-be.
□ 87.50 provides incidentals for one year.
□ 810 is the cost of a Sister’s habit.
□ 812.50 supports one Sister for a month.
□ 8150 supports one Sister for a year.
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