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STEPPED-UP-PACE Council Zipping Along With Throttle Wide Open BY BISHOP ROBERT E. TRACY This article by BishopTracy of Baton Rouge is taken from a letter written on the Council and addressed to hi^ people. We feel it in teresting and informative enough, and, with Bishop Tracy’s per mission, reprint a digest of it. The stepped-up pace of this Third Session of Vatican Council II has affected even these "Rome Letters”. There is so much action in the Aula to account for these days that there is little space (or time) to devote to colorful little items of atmosphere. For example, I would like to tell you right now about the quaint old-world picnic baskets (complete with egg-cups and champagne glasses) that I saw in a shop window yesterday or the odd three-way cross-buck on the Via Veneto between the Tourists, the Council crowd and the La Dolce Vita set or the young African lay auditor who goes to Holy Communion every day in St. Peter's with the brightest toga, worn blanket-style over one shoulder - and bare feet I BUT ALL sorts of things must wait. Action at the Council, as you have been reading in NCWC news- releases at home, is zipping alongwith the throttle wide open, tak ing all the curves on such dangerous bends as Religious Liberty and Revelation with a sure hand and without letting the accelerator off the floorboard for a minute. THIS morning, however, we did sort of pull into a road-side bay to let the engine cool off a bit, while stem-winding orations on Revelation droned on and on and on. Most of these inter ventions dealt with the precisions of word-changes and should have been simply handed to the General Secretary in writing. They did not make the best "music to sit in the Aula by". But, one must hand it to the Moderators this Session. For the , - 5 " * Si!: | most part they have kept an iron hand on procedure to the point that even Cardinal Bea had to beg for "just one more minute tc make my conclusion” the other day.The result has been an amaz ing record both for Debate and for Voting in only 13 days of work (September 15 to October 1, today inclusive): NOW, let me go on to give you the "character" of the debate as it has unfolded during these 13 days: 1. * LAST THINGS” (Eschatology) Mainly the Church in Heaven: Ch. VII. This Chapter was generally well received and all remarks merely sought improvement here and there. But Cardinal Suenens drew "first blood” at the Council this Session when he rose to call present procedure of canonization of saints "too slow", "too expensive" and "too centralized”. This has all appeared in the newspapers at least two weeks ago. So there is no point in rewarming it here. 2. "MARY" Chapter VIII. This debate provoked many sharp exchanges. The issue was "minimalism” (giving Mary a carefully approved honor largely for reasons of restraint and ecumenism) us. "Maximalism" (giving Mary honor with such extreme titles as "Co-redepm- trix”, "Mother of the Church” and "Mediatrix of all Graces” — which have a correct meaning, but which are open to easy misunderstanding.) Cardinal Suenens scores again: Mary's maternity is linked with the apostolate. Marian piety cannot be isolated from life; and Mary must never become simply an example to be admired. At this point, Bishop Mendez Arceo (whose Cathedral I visited in Cuernavaca, Mexico, before planning the restoration of St. Jo seph's, Baton Rouge), rose to make a "reductio and absurdum” CONTINUED ON PAGE 8 YOUR PRIZE-WINNING NEWSPAPER SERVING GEORGIA'S 71 NORTHERN COUNTIES Archdiocese of Atlanta 'L VOL. 2 NO. 40 ATLANTA, GEORGIA THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1964 $5.00 PER-YEAR HOLY FAMILY Hospital Makes Administrative Changes Here Sister Mary Theophane, Ad ministrator of Holy Family Hospital, has been promoted to a special assignment within the order it was announced this week by Rev. Mother Benedict, SISTER M. THEOPHANE The following appointment has been announced: The Rev. Rene Maynard from Immaculate Conception, Atlanta to Assistant Pastor, St. Mary’s Church, Rome, Geofgia. SCMM, Provincial of the American Province of Medi cal Mission Sisters. Named Administrator at Holy Family is Sister Mary Jacob, who has returned to this city where she previously held as signments including Superior of the former Catholic clinic. She was most recently Administra tor at St. Vincent’s Hospital in Philadelphia. IN MAKING the announce ment, Mother Benedict lauded the work of Sister Theophane especially in Atlanta. She said: "The construction of Holy Family Hospital and the recent dedication and opening at its location on Fairburn Road stand out as a monument to the cour age and hard work of Sister Theophane. A capable adminis trator, she has successfully concluded the tasks given her and now she moves on to a new assignment (to be announced later) and new adventures in the Apostolate pf the sick and the suffering. "I know that her many friends in Atlanta join me in wishing her Godspeed and prayerful best wishes. She shall be miss ed by Catholic and non-Catholic alike, for her work was to all irrespective of race or creed. The Lord's vineyard is huge and the work of the Medical Mission Sisters has a special role. Sister Theophane's new assignment will further this role, placing upon her new re sponsibilities and new challen ges. I know she will meet them with prayerful resolution. *We hope that the people of Atlanta will take to their hearts the new Administrator of Holy Family, Sister M. Jacob, and that the cooperation between the Hospital and the Community continues in the wonderful spirit of love and charity which has been the hallmark of our past relations.” Sister Theophane is a Ken tuckian and was educated in Kentucky schools, at Trinity College, Providence Hospital School of Nursing and at Cath olic University of America. She entered the Order in 1933 and took her perpetual vows in 1941. Sister Jacob is from Detroit. Educated in Detroit, at Trinity College and Catholic Universi ty, she took her final vows in 1950. In addition to her previous assignment in Atlanta she has served as administrator of St. Vincent's Hospital in Philadel phia. correspondent sees Greatest Challenge Troubled Vietnam Red Influences At Shows Work At the first session of the Council two years ago, Cardinal Suenens, the dynamic Berlgian churchman, summed up the ills afflicting the Church as "cle ricalism,, legalism, and trium phalism." BY FR. PATRICK O’CONNOR (N. C. W. C. News Service) A Buddhist bonze gives hotly political "sermons " over loudspeakers, night after night in Saigon. Students in Saigon and Hue stage demonstrations to make the government yield to their political demands. "People* s Committees for National Salvation," organized by a coterie of leftist pro fessors and students, usurp the powers of local governments, threaten people and arrest them. FALSE rumors are spread to make Catholics think that Budd hists are going to attack the churches, to make Buddhists think that Catholics are about to burn down pagodas. Meanwhile the dull thud of guns by night tell that the "Na tional Liberation Front for South Vietnam" forces, the communist Viet Cong, are at tacking outposts and villages. THESE are all parts of one operation, one concerted, mul tiple offensive to make South Vietnam and its allies, espec ially the U. S. yield to com munism. Precious time and effort are wasted when these activities are treated as separate, unre lated problems. EVERYBODY taking part in them is not consciously pro communist, The devout Bftd- dhist listener, inflamed by a wild story about weapons argument does not realize that neutral ism, as advocated by the Viet Cong communists, would only clear the way for com munist rule. But the top leaders, who have carefully planned all these CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 being forged for Catholic use, does not realize that he—or, more often, she—is being goad ed to promote a communist objective. The young student demonstrator guesses only va guely , if all, at the aims be hind the slogans prefabricated for him. The professor or doc tor who accepts a neutralist WORSHIP CONFERENCE English Liturgy Celebrants Named The first Masses to use the new English liturgy will be cele brated during the Conference on Worship, October 22 to 25, sponsored by the Atlanta Coun cil of Catholic Men. Celebrants for these five Masses have now been announced. On the opening day, October 22, Archbishop Paul J. Halli- nan will offer Mass in the Cathe dral at 6:30 p.m. On Friday, October 23, there will be two Masses: one at 3:00 p,m. in Sacred Heart Church, for high school students, celebrated by Very Rev. Vincent P. Brennan, S. M.» president of Marist School; and one at 6:30 p.m. in the Cathedral, offered by Rev. Leonard F. X. Mayhew, chair man of the Liturgy Commis sion. On Saturday, Rev. John F. McDonough, rector of the Cathedral of Christ the King, will off 'x Mass at 12 noon. The closing day of the Con ference, Sunday, October 25, the feast of Christ the King, will be highlighted by the first English Sung Mass. The celebrant will be Rev. John Stapleton, Mode rator of the archdiocesan Coun cil of Catholic Men. At this Mass, an inter-parish choir, under the direction of Rev. El lis de Priest, S.M., will sing the proper parts of the Mass. The entire congregation will sing the ordinary parts and the customary hymns. This Mass will be at 4:30 p.m. Hebrew Pacem JERUSALEM, Israel (NC)~ A Hebrew translation of Pacem in Terris, the encyclical Let ter of Pope John XXIII, was pub lished here (Oct, 1). A mem ber of the Israel Interfaith Com mittee, which prepared the translation, wrote an introduc tion on Catholic-Jewish rela tions and on the spirit of Pope John. IN these three words it is possible to find a negative ex pression of the Council’s aims — namely to uproot the idea of the Church as a clerical monopoly, with the laity reduc ed to auxiliary status and not-quite-full membership in the Body of Christ on earth; second, to banish the notion of Christian faith as mere com mitment to an intellectual sys tem and of the spiritual life as essentially the observance of ecclesiastical canons and cod es; and third, to annihilate for ever the idea of the Christian vocation as a triumphal march of men cut off from their fel lows and their own time but bravely waving banners to cele brate victories never won in wars never truly fought. 11 was important that these three failings should be clear ly identified and fearlessly fac ed if the Council was to suc ceed in Its purposes. But so much attention has been fasten ed on them in subsequent re porting and discussion that it is easy to lose sight of Vat- icanll’s more positive goals of renewal. AFTER more than a thousand hours of general discussion in Saint Peter’s Basilica, hundr eds of committee meetings, tens of thousands of hours of private study, and millions of earnest prayers for its success, what can be said of the Council’s progress and prospects, in the light of its high aims? First, as a religious event. The record is impressive. Thanks is great part to the universal acceptance of Pope Ahead BY JOHN COGLEY VATICAN CITY (RNS)— As the Second Vatican Council moves toward its 100th gene ral congcftgafion, it is not too early to begin assessing it— first as a religious event in a secularist age, then as the most serious attempt since the Coun cil of Trent 400 years ago to renew the spirit of Catholi cism, and finally as a monumen tal effort on the part of the Church to speak meaningfully to separated Christian brethren, to non-Christians of other faiths, and to that vast number of alienated non-believers whom Pope Paul in his first encyclical delicately address ed as the "lontani"— the far away brothers. WINNERS of James J. Hoey Award for Interracial Justice are (left) Arthur J. Holland, mayor of Trenton, N.J., and Frederick O’Neal, president, Actors Equity Association. Medalists are honored "for outstanding leadership in the cause of interracial justice.” Award will be presented Sun day, Oct. 25, by the New York Catholic Interracial Council. ARCHBISHOP Hallinan administers Communion to boys from St. Joseph’s Home, Washington, dur ing their visit to Atlanta. The boys were the guests of Council #660, Knights of Columbus. During their weekend visit the boys were taken to Funtown and the Zoo. PRIEST^BSERVER WOMAN AUDITOR—One of seven laywomen appointed by Pope Paul VI as an audi tor at Vatican Council II, is Miss Rosemary Goldie of Australia, executive secre tary of the Permanent Com mittee for International Con gresses of the Lay Aposto late. John, the most beloved man of our generation, almost no one suspects the Council of being anything other than what it is— a gathering of religious lead ers with no ulterior motive in mind who are sincerely intent on renewing the spiritual ener gies of their ancient Church. THIS may seem like a small thing, but it is well to remem ber that not long ago any such impressive meeting at the Vatican would have been held suspect and been charged with having "imperialistic” inten tions of secular domination. Less than a decade ago In the U. S., maqy sincere people would have interpreted such a display of "Catholic power" rather as a rally of militant "enemies of freedom" than as a meeting of devout ecclesiastics seeking to serve their God and to be of more service to their fel low men. It is something of a mir acle, then, that today one has to go beyond the reaches of healthy minds to find anyone who does not take Vatican II at its face value. THE reason? Aside from the influence of Pope John, there is the fact that the Council has been persuasively ecumenical. It has not been preoccupied with "holy wars," denuncia tions of communism, secular ism, heresy, or any other aber rations. The tone has been ire- nic, the public expressions humble in character and posi tive in their impact. This of course has not always pleased the inveterate militants of the Church. Those who re- CONTINUED ON PAGE 8 Honor Fair Head NEW YORK <NC)—'ThomasJ. Deegan , Jr„ chairman of the executive committee of the New York World’s Fair, will re ceive the second annual Cath olic Layman of the Year award of the Associated First Friday Clubs of metropolitan New York. For Council