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PAGE 10 GEORGIA BULLETIN THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1964
AT OPENING SESSION
Bishops’ Mood Most
Difficult To Define
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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.
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LESS LIBERTY THAN BEFORE
Reconstitution Of Press
Panel Causes Confusion
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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
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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. Hallman at a
Clergy Conference held at the
Cathedral of Christ the King
on September 15,
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