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PAGE 10 GEORGIA BULLETIN THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1964 AT OPENING SESSION Bishops’ Mood Most Difficult To Define CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 against demonstration in Saint Peter's and he blessed the crowd as he passed, thus mak ing it extremely difficult for anybody to clap hands (did you ever try blessing yourself and clapping hands at the same time?). No, the present Pope's mood is distinctly on the side of restraint in external exhibi tions. However, this is not the tradition of Rome and tradi tions are not uprooted but only gradually removed. The im pression is that Paul is grad ually removing a lot of things. The ceremony ofconcelebra- tlon was most impressive - twenty-four Bishops all saying Mass at once with the Pope himself. How they did it is a question. I would have been petrified. They all stood around the same great altar under the great Bernini Ciborium and said the Mass together, using one Host and one Chalice. How ever, additional Hosts were consecrated, large ones for the Bishops to receive communion and small ones for the Faithful to communicate. The text of the Mass was arranged by Papal Decree, A Low Mass essential ly, but with singing at certain Points.. Beautiful copies of the entire Mass text were distrib uted to each Bishop and there was most impressive participa tion throughout. It was a truly great historic event harking back to the earliest ages of Christianity and a truly great devotional act which was not lost on the thousands who viewed it with hushed reverence, AFTER MASS, Archbishop Felici, the official starter at the Council, got up onto his familiar tub and made a pack of announcements in Latin like Cicero might have used addres sing the Roman Senate, only more so. Archbishop Felici handles Latin words like a mon key handles a cocoanut, Then the Holy Father sat down on his throne and set the sights for all of us with a most deeply thought out address. This is what we had been waiting for. After all, it is the Holy Father who sets the pace at the Council. It is he who decides the matter to be taken up by the Fathers, and it is he who decides the spirit in which the Council is to move. Today we got the word in no uncertain terms. Most important in Pope Paul's address today were the words, 'The hour has sounded in history when the Church which expresses herself in us and from us receives structure and life must say of herself what Christ intended and willed her to be and what the age long medi tation of the Fathers, Pontiffs and Doctors in their wisdom has explored with piety and fidelity. The Church must give a defini tion of herself and bring out from her true consciousness the doctrine which the Holy Spirit teaches her thus must be completed, the doctrine which the first Vatican Council was preparing to enunciate." THE discussion on this doc trine remains to be completed. The Council has many subjects to treat of, but this seems to us to be the weightiest and the most delicate, and then the Holy Father explained why he had de cided on concelebratlon to start the Council. "We wanted to tune in with Divine Providence in celebrating this historic mom ent by giving you our Brothers in the Episcopate the honor which our Lord desired to show to the Apostles together with Peter," Now isn’t th»t as nice a way to put it as you could possibly imagine? "But," the Pope goes on, "Our position in no way defrauds you our Broth er Bishops of your due authori ty. Restrictions are Imposed solely for good of the Church which has proportionately greater need for centralized authority. As its world wide extension becomes more com plete, this centralization is more of a service than anything else and will always be balan ced by an alert and timely dele gation of authority and faculties to local Pastors of Souls. Dis persed as you are throughout the world you have a need of a Center of Unity, a Principle of Unity in Faith and Catholicity, a unifying power such as you find in the Chair of Peter. Now the Council has many more im portant items to treat of; the nature and mission of the Pas tors of the Church, the Constitu tional prerogatives of the Epis copacy, the relations between the Episcopate and the Holy See, the relations between East and West in the Church, the true nature of Hierarchical Au thority for the sakeofoursepa-. rate brethren, and so forth. But the central objective of the third session remains among its many concerns to Investigate and clarify the nature of the Church, thus making of this third session of Vatican II a logical continuation of the First Vatican Council." The Pope goes on in his opening one- hour address to salute various groups, the Auditors, the Guests, etc,, who are present at this most solemn opening session, and having addressed himself to all at hand, he final ly calls upon everyone to Join with him in a fervent VeniCre ator Spiritus (Come Holy Ghost). Thus began the third session of the Second Vatican Council. I think that in this session the Fathers will enter the deep wat ers of the Council, that is, those penetrating questions which will most greatly affect the Life of the Church for many years to come. But one thing seems cer tain, Pope Paul VI has gotten action. The Fathers have re ceived Schemata which are completed in a tone that will al most certainly win quick aj>* proval from the Fathers as sembled. THERE will be battles on some questions still under de bate. But many a vital question like collegiality is no longer debatable. It remains only to be voted on, and the result from this corner looks like a land slide. Tenth Man Club Dinner Meeting The members of The Tenth Man Club will hold their first meeting of the new school year at St. Thomas More Auditorium on Monday, September 21 at 6:45 p.m. This will be a Dinner Meeting and at this meeting there will be election of officers for the new year. All young men of High School age who are interested in know ing "more about the Priesthood as a way of life" are cordially invited to become members of The Tenth Man Club. This in vitation is extended to those who are not as yet members, who attend not only our Catholic High Schools, but public high schools or private schools. Those young men who wish to attend the meeting of this or ganization are asked to make reservations by phone no later than September 18. Please call Drake 8-4588. 1*Jlower(and 3Ltsl 2775 PEACHTREE ROAD N. E. CE 3-1168 1938 Peachtree Road N. W. TR 5-9174 2 Loc.uons to ».rve you IN ATLANTA J. P. 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The Institute will close Friday with a Bible Devotion in the parish Church at 9:00 p.m. | LESS LIBERTY THAN BEFORE Reconstitution Of Press Panel Causes Confusion CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 the commission or council Fathers. 2- They are forbidden to lob by, establish factions or cur rents of thought, or to divulge or defend their private opinions on council matters. 3 - They are to abstain from criticizing the council or coun cil Fathers and from instruct ing outsiders on the secret business of the commissions. NOT INCLUDED in norms, but threatened by Archbishop Felici at the first meeting, was that experts falling to follow these directives would be liable to lose their status as experts. Father Trtsco said this was something new, and had not been announced after the Coordinating Commission's meeting in December. But he said that Archbishop Felici an nounced that he had such power. Answering questions of Jour nalists as to how it was pos sible to interview and pursue their work with such restric tions, Father George Tavard answered; "There is a dif ference between a strict secret and an Italian kind of secret." Others on the panel said that they felt the new rule would not impose new restrictions or change the method of opera tion for journalists, since the experts have always been bound to such secrecy. As for res trictions on lobbying and ex pressing personal opinions, there did not seem to be much hope among the panel that this would be observed too strict ly. ARCHBISHOP McGucken said that the norms had caused some concern at first among the American bishops as to whe ther they could continue the panel of experts. He said he had asked Msgr. Paul Marcin- cus, Chicago priest in the Papal Secretariat of State, who took the matter up with Amaleto Cardinal Clcognani, Papal Sec retary of State, and was as sured that the panel couldfunc- tion provided that the ground rules of the panel were follow ed. These include no personal opinions by panel members, and restricting its efforts to providing background for jour nalists of what is being dis cussed in the council. Cardinal Clcognani told Archbishop Mc Gucken to go ahead with his plans and said he would inform Archbishop Felici of the dif ficulty and of the decision made. Von Feldt pointed out that the panel has always had it as its purpose to provide back ground, even though at times panelists have expressed their personal views. He said it is perhaps true that the purpose of the panel had not alw ays been properly stressed, and thus the present guidelines have been drawn up. Following are the "ground rules" under which the press panel of the U. S. Bishops is operating during the third ses- 1 slon, a panel spokesman said here: !. The U. S. Bishops' Press Panel has been established thr ough the National Catholic Wel fare Conference, the secre tariat of the American bishops as a service for working repor ters, Unfortunately, limitat ions of space demand that the briefing sessions be limited to the working press, with the con sequent exclusion of seminar ians, guests- and spectators. 2. The purpose of the press panel is to make available to newsmen the professional help of specialists who can provide factual, theological and back ground Information and clari fication, which may be desir able to develop fully their re ports on the council. The panel is not designed to provide a forum to promote the personal opinions or projects of indi viduals, whether panel mem bers or journalists. In view of this purpose, questions by re porters, aimed at soliciting the personal opinion of the panel members, will be ruled out of order. 3. Panel members may be quoted, but the clarifications and back ground information they provided should not be re presented as coming from the universities, colleges or insti tutions to which these men are attached. 4. Reporters are free to ask any questions seeking clarifica tion or background information on a subject currently being considered by the Council Fath ers. If a reporter has ques tions which are not on the sub ject, he is asked to contact the panel director. Arrangements will be made for a panel mem ber to answer his ques tions fully, but in private. This For New CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 be followed by a form of the Prayer of the Faithful, a series of petitions for various needs of the Church, the civil govern ment, the diocese and the par ticular parish. Included in this Prayer will be petitions for individual members of the parist) who have a special need of prayer, for example, those recently deceased and those who have recently been baptiz ed or married. Stress is also placed on the necessity of an adequate pub lic address system in all churches. Microphones are to procedure will avoid wasting the time of other reporters. 5. All reporters should iden tify themselves and their pub lications before giving their questions. THE FOLLOWING is what the press release described as an "initial listing" of the mem bers of the press panel at the third session: Father Francis J. Connell, C. SS.R., former dean of the School of Sacred Theology of the Catholic University of Ame rica. Moral Theology. From Boston. Msgr. Mark J. Hurley, chan cellor of the Stockton (Calif.) diocese. Education. From San Franciso. Father John J. King, O.M.L, superior of the General House of Studies in Rome for Oblate priests. Dogmatic Theology. From Lowell, Mass. Father Francis J. McCool, S. J., professor erf introduction to the New Testament at the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome. Sacred Scripture. From New York. Father Frederick McManus, professor of Canon Law at the Catholic University of America. Canon Law and Liturgy. From Boston. Msgr. Geroge W. Shea, rec tor of Immaculate Conception seminary, Darlington, N. J. Dogmatic Theology. From Belleville, N. J. Father George Tavard, chai rman of the theology depart ment of Mount Mercy College, Pittsburgh. Theology and Ec umenism. From France. Father Robert Trisco, pro fessor of Church History at the Catholic University of Ame rica and associate editor of Catholic Historical Review. Church History. From Chica- be used so that the congregation may easily hear both the read ings and homily from the lec tern and also the audible pray ers at the altar. This was con sidered particularly important since, after the introduction of English, the celebrant and con gregation will recite or sing in common several parts of the Mass, Copies of the Guide for Liturgical Practices were dis tributed to the priests of the archdiocese of Atlanta by Arch bishop Paul J. 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