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Council Giving Nuns Long
Step Forward In The World
BY FR. JOHN P. FOLEY
(N.C.W.C. News Service)
VATICAN CITY — A “new
look” in the work of America’s
Sisters was described here by
Sister Mary Luke, the only
American woman attending the
daily sessions of the Second
Vatican Council.
liturgy, through discussion on
the Church and on the layapos-
tolaie going on at the council,
Sisters are becoming more a-
ware of what the Church is
teaching today and they are
more able- to participate. Our
very presence here is evi
dent. of that.”
“Through the council,” she
said, “Religious women in the
Church will catch up with the
position of women elsewhere.
Through participation in the
“HOW many bishops,” she
continued, “have expressed
their gratitude that we (Sis
ters) are here at the council.”
And well the bishops might
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be grateful for the presence
of Sister Mary Luke—a small
woman of overflowing energy
whose expressive eyes cloud
over as she ponders a ques
tion and sparkle with enthu
siasm as she describes the
new role of Sisters in the
modern world. Her complete
ly unassuming air and her na
tural—or supernatural—spirit
of complete openness conceal
the fact that she carries the
burden of three important of
fices as superior general of
the Sisters of Lore tto (one of
the largest communities of Re
ligious women in the United
States); as chairman of the
national Conference of Major
Superiors of Women; and,
most recently, as the only
American woman auditor at
Vatican Council IL
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1964
Pope Paul Meets
With US Mission
GEORGIA BULLETIN PAGE 3
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VATICAN CITY (NC)—Pope
Paul VI met with a trade mis
sion of the National Association
of Manufacturers (Oct. 17) and
reminded them of the social as
pects and rights of personal
property expressed in recent
papal declarations.
The trade mission was head
ed by NAM President W, P,
Gullander of Bronxville, N.Y.
After thanking them for their
visit and praising the aims of
their organization, the Pope
spoke on the Mater et Magistra
and Pacem in Terris encycli
cals of Pope John XXIII.
Pope Paul expressed the wish
that the trip of the American
businessmen to several Euro
pean nations would deepen their
understanding of international
problems and of the numerous
ne ds of nations on the road to
full development.
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DESCRIBING the spirit of
“aggiornamento" already at
work in her own community,
Sister Mary Luke (she prefers
not to be called Mother) said
that teaching Sisters now visit
the homes of their pupils, they
attend Christian Family Move
ment meetings and join other
meetings of parents’ organi
zations.
ARCHBISHOP EGIDIO VAGXOZZI, apostolic delegate to the United States offered a
solemn- pontifical mass for the Uganda martyrs at the National Shrine of the Immacu
late Conception. Photo left to right: Archbishop Vagnozzi greeting the ambassador of
Uganda and Mrs. Asea.
In the new novitiate of the
Sisters of Loretto, she pointed
out, the novices work among
migrant workers in the area.
In the house of studies, she
said, the young Sisters visit the
homes of the poor on Saturdays.
to the children they teach the
apostolic formation called for
by the council schemata, Sis
ter Mary Luke said; “I wish
I had the answer. Forming the
committed Christian is our end
and goal. Liturgical partici
pation and the new catechetics
will help.”
SISTER Mary Luke reports
that the Sisters engaged in this
work have told her, "we don’t
bring Christ to these people;
we find Him there.”
TURNING to the inner life
of religious communities, Sis
ter Mary Luke said that any
depersonalization in community
existence can be counteracted
by revising community customs
and by continually asking:
"What is there in the struc
ture of the community which is
causing this to happen?”
Asked whether engagement in
other forms of the apostolateis
too great a burden for teaching
Sisters and leads to a danger
of dissipation of effort or to
danger to the spir.tual life,
Sister Mary Luke stated that the
amount of extra work would
necessarily have to be limited
and that time must remain for
periods of reflection and
.Vspiritual nourishment.”
SHE pointed out, however,
that with the proper doctrinal
formation the Sisters can rea
lize that such social action is
a true apostolate and that in
sofar as they participate in it,
they are making themselves
holy.
Sister Mary Luke didempha-
size that such “outside activi
ties” could not be permitted to
interfere with the maintenance
of the Sisters’ professional
teaching standards, but she did
say that such apostolic con
tacts would result in the Sis
ters becoming more realistic.
A general chapter of the com
munity, she noted, can overhaul
what Is not in the Church’s
canon law. It also should do so,
she said, because legislation is
generally behind need.
“IF THE Sister is to be
truly an individual,” she said,
“her initiative should be en
couraged."
"WHERE no general retire
ment bell is rung,” she said,
“ a Sister might stay up late
working one night, but she
won’t—she can’t—do it too of
ten.”
“YOU can’t be too realis
tic,” she said, “if you don’t
contact these things.”
Commenting more generally
Sister Mary Luke noted; “An
intelligent person, making a de
cision, realizes that charity is
the first law which sometimes
requires even setting aside the
rule.”
Asked how Sisters can give
UGANDA MARTYRS
”WE CAN be led to risky
things by this way of thinking,”
she admitted, “but we have to
Many Africans
At Canonization
VATICAN CITY (NC)--Twen
ty-two Africans have been en
rolled among the Church’s de
clared saints by Pope Paul VI
in a ceremony attended by 1,503
of their fellow Africans and by
the Fathers of the Second Vat
ican Council.
ish.
The canonization of the Ugan
da martyrs struck three notes
characteristic of the modern
Church and the modern world;
Laurean Cardinal Rugambwa
of Tanganyika, the country
neighboring on Uganda, acted as
deacon of the Mass celebrated
by Pope Paul. The subdeacon
was Msgr. Peter Waswa, vicar
general of Kampala diocese,
Uganda. Two Ubandese pre
lates, Bishop Joseph Kiwanuka
of Rubaga and Bishop Hadria-
nus Ddungu of Masaka, were
also at the altar.
THE emergence of the peo
ples of Africa (all 22 were Ne
groes).
A fresh realization of the lay
man’s role in the Church (all
were laymen).
EMPHASIS on ecumenism (15
Anglicans died side by side with
Catholics for refusing to give up
the Christian faith and its moral
code).
IN ST. Peter’s basilica for
the canonization ceremony was
Sister Mary Criblet, a mis
sionary of the White Sisters,
whose sudden recovery from
pneumonic plague after pray
ers to the Uganda martyrs was
one of the miracles recognized
by the Church as proof of their
holiness.
A chorus of 50 Ugandans sang
a specially-composed canticle
of praise in the language spoken
by the martyrs themselves. It
was composed by Joseph Kya-
gamhiddwa.
A Moslem doctor who witnes
sed Sister Criblet’s cure and
who testified to it, Dr. L. D,
Ahmed of Kampala, Uganda, had
hoped to come to Rome for the
canonization but was unable to
do so. However 165 people came
from Uganda especially for the
canonization.
FT WAS the first canoniza
tion of Africans of the Cantu
race. St, Benedict the Moor
was an Ethiopian while St, Mar
tin de Porres was half Span-
AMONG the civil authorities
of Uganda to attend were Sir
Wilberforce Nadioe, vice pres
ident, and agriculture minister
Mathias Ngobi.
think this way.’
Her companion, Sister Jame
Marie, interjected that com
munity life is often defined as
doing the same thing at the
same time in the same way.
“WHAT really unites us,”
Sister Jane continued, “is the
Eucharist. Our bond is pri
marily one of charity and there
is union in our common work.”
“Grace,” she concluded,
"vivifies nature, and it will
not be possible to lead a full
life of grace if our human
existence is depersonalized.”
SPEAKING of the religious
vows, Sister Mary Luke felt
that chastity is the most dis-
tincitve, since “many people
are poor and everybody must be
obedient.” The poverty and o-
bedience of a Religious flow
from the core of her dedica
tion in the vow of chastity, she
noted.
Even a small thing such as
not ringing a bell for retiring,
Sister Mary Luke commented,
looks to the Sister as an in
telligent person making her own
decision.
To create an awareness of
a community responsibility to
maintain a spirit of poverty,
Sister Mary Luke recommended
opening the community’s ac
count books to the Sisters.
SHE NOTED that Sisters and
lay people should know that
Sisters live on $2.00 a day—
with 50 cents of that going to
maintain student Sisters and
retired Sisters.
Voicing her hopes for the
future on the role of Sisters
in the Church, Sister Mary
Luke said she would hope to
have Sisters represented on
Church commissions and on
diocesan and parish councils—
a practice which, she said, is
more common in other parts
of the world than it is in the
United States.
Although small in stature,
MISS BARBARA Claire Kaiser,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd
E. Kaiser, 2440 Dawn Drive,
Decatur, entered the Gray Nuns
of Sacred Heart Convent on
September 8, 1964. Barbara
is a graduate of St. Pius X
High School, where she was ac
tive in the Glee Club.
MISS SHARON Ann Wall, daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Grant Wall
Rossville, recently entered the
School Sisters of Notre Dame
Convent at Baltimore, Mary
land. After attending St. Gerard
School in Fort Oglethorpe for
eight years.
Sister Mary Luke is large in
her vision of the new role to
be played by Sisters in the
drama of the Church in the
modern world.
VATICAN CITY (NC)—The
Secretariat for Promoting
Christian Unity announced that
the Greek Orthodox Patriar
chate o Alexandria has dele
gated two observers to the ecu
menical council.
They are Archimandrite Cyril
Koukoulakis and Dr. Theodore
Mosconas, archivist and librar
ian of the patriarchate.
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