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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1964 GEORGIA BULLETIN PApE 3
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FOR CHAPLAINS
Newman Bishop
Lists Priorities
MILWAUKEE (NC>—A bishop
here listed three top priorities
for Newman chaplains today—
the intellectual development of
students; their pastoral care,
and the formation of bands of
lay apostles.
Bishop James W. Malone,
episcopal moderator of the
chaplains, told a (Sept, 1) meet
ing of the National Newman
Chaplains Association here;
'The age of the self-made but
not formally educated leader is
over,”
are giving guidance. Other so
cial chairmen are sponsoring
dances. But if you do not pro
vide for the intellectual de
velopment of your students in
the Catholic tradition and show
its application to life, it will
hardly be accomplished at all,”
he said.
Referring to the formation of
lay apostles, Bishop Malone
said if the age of the laity is
to be dynamic and fruitiful, it
will need not many leaders, but
zealous leaders.
'THERE IS greater meaning
now to the adage that we can
change the world,” the auxi
liary bishop of Youngstown,
Ohio, said, "In exercising these
three tasks, the Newman Club
chaplain who is called reverent
ly by the name of Father, earns
the title In at least two spheres
--as a generator of knowledge
and as a generator of spiritual
life.”
Earlier, Auxiliary Bishop Je
rome J, Hastrich of Madison,
Wis„ told some 125 Newman
Club chaplains, "I feel you’ve
failed the undergraduate stu
dents in the Newman Clubs,”
"We are neglecting our un
dergraduate students. We're
paying too much attention to the
professors and instructors. In
Newman Clubs we’re trying to
entertain them a little, hop
ing that faith will rub off, but
we fail to impress that they
maintain their religious edu
cation,” Bishop Hastrich as
serted,
BISHOP MALONE said the
Newman Club chaplain's first
responsibility is the intellec
tual development of students
as Christians. He said this
function differs from the prime
duty of other priest-chaplains,
whose first job is pastoral
care.
He noted that Newman Club
chaplains must stand alert to
assist students to define their
Christian roles in the future—
to apply their theological know
ledge. The student who is the
product of Catholic education,
whether at a Catholic school or
through a Newman center, has
a distinct role in the future,
Bishop Malone said.
He said the student must be
ready to lend a sense of direc
tion and meaning to the gigan
tic progress which this genera
tion is experiencing,
'THIS IS the intellectual task
which I propose as being first
in priority,” Bishop Malone de
clared, "If you do not execute
it, the intellectual task is left
undone. All other aspects of
your work can conceivably be
performed by others,
"Other priests are hearing
confessions. Other counselors
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"It is the vocation of every
Christian to be an apostle,” he
said. "However, in this third
task I propose to you I have in
mind the formation of a group of
the spiritually elite, I have in
mind those who would be in
fact apostolic leaders,”
WHILE MANY factors com
bine for the making of an apos
tle, I would think,” he said,a
"that these three are para
mount: an understanding of the
social implications of Chris
tianity; an understanding of the
doctrine of the Mystical Body,
and a love for the world which
is the scene of our work.”
Bishop Hastrich charged that
the code of canon law which re
quires Catholic parents to edu
cate their children in Catholic
schools is not being enforced.
He said; "By our silence we
give the impression that they
can go to secular schools and
still maintain their Faith.”
Bishop Hastrich said under
graduates have problems and
difficulties which are measur
ed along two lines of thought—
"their education on one line
and their Faith on another.”
"We have an obligation of
finding out their ordinary dif
ficulties, developing a series of
textbooks for classes and the
development of an apostolic for
mation,” he declared. He add
ed this idea has worked out in
grade and high schools and
should work in colleges.
DURING A discussion period
following Bishop Hastrich’s
talk, a number of chaplains
disagreed with some of the
points he advanced, while oth
ers applauded his views. One
said the bishop's proposal to
use professional men to teach
religion "wouldcree’-eamirage
that is dangerous and those not
chained to the Church would
not buy it.”
Another objected to implica
tions that "secular campus”
and "Newman Clubs” are "dir
ty words,” The chaplain said:
' If we’re justified in being
where we are and if *Newman
Clubs' and 'secular campus’are
dirty words, then we have no
right to go there. The secular
campus should be the main ob
jective of our love. We should
join the secular campus to bap
tize it.”
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HEROIC Bishop Joseph Tran Van Thien, being led to safety by friendly South Vietnamese soldiers in Saigon, where he
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soldiers like these took him to safety in nearby school.
KEYSTONE OF COUNCIL
Third Session Directions Sure
BY FATHER EDWARD DUFF, S. J.
NEW YORK (RNS)—World
Catholicism in the person of
2,300 bishops from all conti
nents will reassemble in St.
Peter’s Basilica next Monday,
September 14, for the Third
Session of the Second Vatican
Council at what Pope Paul VI
has termed "the unique mom
ent reached in the life of the
Church.” In his recent encycli
cal Ecdesiam Suam the pontiff
also observed that "the major
pan of its deliberations lies
ahead.”
In the nine weeks of work be
fore its scheduled adjournment
on November 20 the Council will
continue the process of renewal,
reform and relating the Church
to the needs of modern man. It
will do so more expeditiously,
it is expected, by reason of the
experience of the two earlier
Sessions, the intensive work of
the Council Commissions dur
ing the intercession, the new
regulation devised to reduce
repetitious argument and es
pecially because of a wider ap
preciation of the urgency of the
problems to be faced.
THE evidence is inescapable
that the Council, despite con
tinuing divergences of view
point manifesting the inevitable
effects of cultural conditioning,
is finding its direction and clar
ifying its purposes. Summoned
by Pope John XXIII as "a step
forward toward a doctrinal pen
etration and a formation of con
science” the Council’s objec
tives have been particularized
by Pope Paul in four points:
”1, The self-awareness of
the Church, 2, her renewal, 3.
the bringing together of all
Christians in unity, 4. the dia
logue of the Church with thee
contemporary world,”
These objectives, the Pope
has made clear, are to be pur
sued through free and untram
meled discussion of all the bis
hops. Seldom has a Roman Pon
tiff so effaced himself during a
General Council. None has more
rejoiced than Paul VI at the
openness of Conciliar debate.
The 70-odd schemata or draft
documents- on assorted topics
that were distributed to the bis
hops before the opening of the
Council onOctoberll, 1962have
by reduction, revision, com
pression and exclusion have
been reduced to 13 agenda
items, seven of them taking the
form of "sense of the council”
resolutions that will not call
for floor discussion.
ON THE authority of Msgr,
Fausto Vallainc, head of the
Press Office of the Council, it
is known that the Council will
address itself in sequence this
fall to the following texts: those
on the Church, on the Pastoral
Office of Bishops, on Ecumen
ism with its two allied Decla
rations, the first on Religious
Liberty, the second on Jews
and non-Christians, and finally
a revised schema on Divine
Revelation.
Even t^iis much is a sizeable
amount of work to ambition
and, as projected, leaves for a
further Session the examina
tion of the topic of "the Church
in Today's World,” the theme
proposed by Cardinal Suenens
in the closing days of the First
Session and popularly but now
erroneously referred to as
"Schema 17.” Its present enu
meration is XIII and constitutes
a document of 42 pages.
The central burden and chief
challenge of Session 3 will be
the final elaboration of the Con
stitution on 'The Church,” an
exposition climaxing a century
of theological speculation and
answering the question as to
what the Catholic Church con
siders herself to be.
IN HIS recent encyclical Pope
Paul said "special tribute to
those scholars who, especially
during these last years, with
perfect docility to die teaching
authority of the Church and
with outstanding gifts of re
search and expression, have
with great dedication under
taken many difficult and fruitful
studies of the Church.” It was
a well merited tribute to a group
of theologians, not least Fath
ers Yves Congar, O.P., Henri
de Lubac, S.J., Karl Rahner,
S.J., who have greatly influen
ced Pope Paul's own thinking,
although their writings have
been undera cloud in certain in
fluential Roman circles.
The text on 'The Church”
which the bishops have receiv
ed constitutes a thick volume
incorporating the various and
rich suggestions offered dur
ing the last Session as well as
the profound Christological in
sights supplied by the pontiff
in his opening address. It of
fers a total view of the Church,
one deeper than a description
of her institutional structures
and legal machinery. It focuses
on the biblical figure of the
People of God, the community
in and through which Christ
lives and acts in the world,
the salvific center of human
history. Only its last two chap
ters await formal floor discus
sion. They concern the role of
Mary, the Mother of Christ, in
the Church and the Church in
glory, the community of the
Kingdom of God united with
Christ, its Head, after death
and at the end of time.
This strictly theological de
scription of the Church will
provide orientation for all other
topics to be considered subse
quently in the Council. It will
be the matrix, for example, of
the concept and organization of
the collegiality of the bishops
as well as for the analysis of
the natura and function of the
apostolate of the laity.
THE CONCEPT OF the col
legiality of the bishops of the
Catholic world, their universal
jurisdiction and common re
sponsibility as successors of
the twelve Apostles with and
under the Pope as successor
of Peter in the Church, is ad
mittedly the subject of quiet re
cent theological speculation, an
idea that has rested dormant
for more than a millenium. In
a lecture in Rome last fall
Pere Congar, an exponent of
the concept, doubted that theo
logical reflection has suffi
ciently matured to precise the
point in a Conciliar document.
In any case, there is general
expectation that from the Coun
cil will come some permanent
instrument of collaboration be
tween the Pope and his fellow
bishops, an organization some
times referred to as a "Senate
of the Church,” a public and ef
fective expression of the solid
arity which Pope Paul praised
in his recent encyclical when he
told the bishops: "We are
pleased to trust in your coope
ration and to offer you our own in
return.”
Curiosity is piqued on noting
the schema "On Divine Revela
tion” on the agenda and the
question as to which of the four
objectives Pope Paul assigned
the Council it further finds no
ready answer. This is a com
pletely revised text of the sche
ma on 'The Sources of Reve
lation” decisively rejected by
the bishops on November 20,
1962 at a turning point that
has been called "the end of
the Counter-Reformation.”
THE DOCUMENT WAS with
drawn by Pope John and re
manded to a Mixed Commission
drawn from the Doctrinal Com
mission on Faith and Morals of
which Cardinal Ottaviani is
President and the Commission
presided over by Cardinal Bea,
S.J. concerned with Christian
Unity.
In the absence of any news of
Joint meetings the rumor runs
that the text is exclusively the
work of the Theological Com
mission for whom pastoral con
siderations have never been
primary. Pope John is said to
have remarked of the subject
matter: ' Theologians have been
arguing the point for 400 years.
It will do no harm to let them
argue 400 years more.” Yet
the topic is back, obviously
with Pope Paul’s complaisance.
Curiosity abounds, too, as to
the reaction in the Council to the
dropping from the Declaration
on anti-Semitism of the explicit
exculpation of Jews from the
alleged crime of "delcide,” a
fact revealed recently by Jo
seph Cardinal Ritter, Archbis
hop of St, Louis. Several Ameri
can bishops, it is reported, pro
pose to make speeches calling
for the restoring of the excised
lines.
FOREIGN OBSERVERS have
noted the growing self-confi
dence and influence of the
American hierarchy in Council
deliberations. It is expected,
then, that in the Third Session
the bishops of the United States
will benefit from an increased
prominence, one that their num
bers and their importance in
the universal Church would
warrant.
Interest centers on what new
personalities will emerge into
public view. During the First
Session young Archbishop Paul
J. Haliinan of Atlanta, actively
identified with the schema on
the Liturgy, and Cardinal Rit
ter, exemplar of simplicity,
common sense and courage,
caught the Council’s attention.
In the Second Session it was
Bishops Charles Helmsing of
Kansas Clty-St, Joseph, Mo,
and Ernest J, Primeau of Man
chester, N.H, who voiced inau-.
thentically American accents
our experience and aspiration
for an active. indeDendent laitv
and for an enlightened ecumen
ism. Both were accordingly
elected to the Council Com
mission on Christian unity.
The political detente in East
Europe — or at least the res
tiveness in the satellite states
and the growing spirit in some
of them for greater indepen
dence from the Soviet Union —
raises the possibility of a larger
attendance of bishops from
Communist ruled lands. At the
First Session only 49 appeared,
A few mere were in St. Peter’s
Basilica for the Second Session,
the government of Tito’s Yugos
lavia, for example, interposing
no difficulty. On the other hand,
only five of Hungary’s 24 eligi
ble prelates were granted vi
sas. Nor does the situation seem
improved. Last August in Buda
pest Canon Miklos Beresztoczy,
a suspended priest and Vice-
President of the Hungarian Na
tional Assembly, told me that
Cardinal Mindszenty would be in
Rome for Christmas. Despite
on-and-off negotiations with the
Holy See looking to the appoint
ment of new bishops, little
change seems evident in the de
termination of the regime to
control religion.
HOWEVER, IT IS known that
Bishop Aaron Marton of Alba
Julia in Romania, under house
arrest for more than 15 years,
has received through the mail
the letter summoning him to the
Council, Normally, all com
munications from the Holy See,
including the texts of Council
schemata, are confiscated by
the Communist governments.
Whether the representation of
the laity as Auditors of the
Council wil be enlarged for the
Third Session is now known at
this time. Nor has there been
talk recently of the presence of
women, a group constitution, as
Cardinal Suenens reminded the
Council, more than half the pop
ulation of the world.
The representation of the Or
thodox Churches will seemingly
be as it was last year, the ada
mant refusal of the Church of
Greece making things difficult
(and amid the complications of
the crisis in Cyprus) for the
Ecumenical Patriarch, His Be
atitude Athenagoras I of Con
stantinople, known to favor
closer ties with the See of Rome
but compelled to defer the ques
tion to the Synod of the Ortho
dox Churches which is to meet
later this fall on the island of
Rhodes. A concrete realiza
tion of the high hopes, symbo
lized by the fraternal embrace
of Pope and Patriarch in Jeru
salem last January, has been
postponed.
So world Catholicism recon
venes again to pursue the task
on inner renewal, to foster the
"aggiomamento”, the updating
which Pope Paul announced to.
be his "program of action.”
The Council meets at a time
when, according to the recent
encyclical, 'The Church Tod ay
is more than ever alive,” The
following sentence offered this
counsel to the bishops: "But it
seems good to consider that
everything still remains to be
done. The work begins today and
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EVERYBODY'S PRAYER
A group of laymen and priests in Atlanta is at work compos
ing a prayer. It is not a private, personal, everyday prayer.
It will become an official part of the new form of the Mass be
fore the year is out.
Long ago, private prayers (for health, a job, a happy marriage)
began to drift away from the "set-prayers” of the Euchari
stic Service. About all that remained was the "Three Our Fathers
and Hall Mary's” for the deceased of the parish. Not a syll
able for those who were baptized, confirmed or married, although
all three groups may need it more than the dead.
Now, right after the Gospel and Homily, will be a brief new
litany-form prayer, the Prayer of the Faithful . It will alters
nate between the celebrant who will state the petitions, and the
congregation which will respond.
There will be a reminder of the Season — Christmas, Lent,
Pentecost. And if the parish is building, e. g., a school, or the debt
is high, or social tensions a danger, the people of God will ask
God’s help. The duties of civic officials will be remembered;
and the deceased and those who have received the Sacrament of
Marriage, Baptism and Confirmation.
In a real sense, this little prayer may do more than the ver
nacular and other changes to convince all of us that Liturgy and
Life cannot be kept in separate, airtight compartments.
DIRECTIONAL LIGHTS
A highlight of the delightful banquet of the Council of Catholic
Women was the introduction of the "introducer”, our Editor,
Mr. Gerard Sherry, — "seated, as Madame President said,
"on the far right.” Mr. Herb Farnsworth, bringing to the Coun
cil the good wishes of the Men’s Council, later remarked:
"I’ll wager that’s the first time Gerry has ever been situated
there, — on the far-right I”
OTHER LIGHTS ON THE CATHOLIC WOMEN’S CONVENTION
At the morning Mass which I offered at Sacred Heart Church,
at an altar facing the people, there was evidence of how well
most of our parish are "doing the dialogue”. Voices, sure and
clear, came from ladies from all over the Archdiocese.
The significant words of the installation of officers after the
Mass made one think of the time and skill and energy these
leaders put into this program. And, as Father Manning, the Mode
rator, said Saturday evening, think of the husbands too. (Just
like a man, to express that thoughtI)
Miss Peg Roach of Washington and Eugene Patterson of the
Atlanta Constitution! were the two principal speakers. The
prominent editor and columnist, stressing spiritual values in a
powerful nation, told of a Protestant dean’s sum-up:
"We are engrossed in the space Beyond Eartli and the form of
life beyond death, but we cannot even find a way of spending a
rainy Sunday afternoon!”
NO DRAFT CARD?
I dropped in on the Pius X-St. Joseph game later Saturday
evening, trying to maintain enough neutrality to avoid any indic
ation of partiality. Three freshman girls nearby finally came
over to greet me with the words, "You sure look like the Arch
bishop I” I assured them that this was one of my failings, but had
never been able to do much about it. In the ensuing discussion
which involved a few more freshmen, a couple of our priests
and several parents, I finally established my identity, but it
took a driver's license to do it.
That’s one of the troubles of being at the Vatican Council for
two sessions, and the hospital six months.
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