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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1964 GEORGIA BULLETIN PApE 3 W novf cross W BROTHER V*Yiaonno • korr »omA lm *KANCHI»*n . o«ia WO** m «tmdA • rotwoM****** For Information Writtt ta^uTrx —k _ IJ Bfoiutr i/viiuiv THinivii 104 Holy CroM School 4950 Dsuphloe Street New Orleans. La. 7011T your homo 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 "Ituy Yi'ur li«« rrom Mu" * MAX METSEL. Owner MAX'S MEN'S SHOPS NfH Pmthirrt Induitrtal Bird. Plain Shopping Otninr Plwni STft P*achtr*«. N E. Phom TR. 4.fS*l — At lOth at. Mlvi OttttT "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.” JUHAWS CLEANERS •' WtraoBaBaM Barrio* Otvan to c9<nr Oarmtnt Obml«f hoc Our PUnt ltS X. Mata M. BO. 1*44* 1 *Mfc, Ota BEWARE TERMITES auXr OtvnUM QbnRohm De1iv%ry t«t Attorn* Call 634*677 HEROIC Bishop Joseph Tran Van Thien, being led to safety by friendly South Vietnamese soldiers in Saigon, where he had tried to stop rioting that took at least three lives. When a hostile mob smashed the Bishop’s car and threatened him, 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 tn an Pnd ** A rchbishop ’s Notebook 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. 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