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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1964
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SCHEMA 13
Implementing Pop
‘’Dialogue With Woi
BY JOHN COGLEY
VATICAN CITY (RNS) —The
crucial Schema 13, on the
Church and the Modern World,
is different from other docu
ments prepared for the Fath
ers of Vatican II. Necessarily,
it is a theological treatise like
the others, but it also deals with
a number of highly concrete,
controverted subjects of ex
treme complexity, like family
planning, the distribution on
national income, the use of nu
clear weapons, world organi
zation, the problem of hunger,
etc.
happy about the fact that in this
area the bishops are so depen
dent on the wisdom, judgment,
and prudence of the Council
periti. For it must be acknow
ledged that a number of them
are wary of certain important
periti — and it is not the
theologians’ scholarship and
learning which fall under su
spicion but precisely their wis
dom and prudence.
of his remarks, an unprece
dented departure from custom.
This tension between bishops
and periti has long been known
in Rome, Since Vatican II be
gan, it has been a Conciliar
version of the old town-and gown
struggle. It came as a relief,
then, for some bishops who have
the Conciliar authority but not
the influence enjoyed by the
leading periti when one of
their own tore into at least
some theologians. It is said
that the archbishop really had
one particular theologian in
mind. Still, the "few*' he re
ferred to were enough to stand
as symbol for all the theological
experts against whom resent
ments have been building up,
especially among the conser
vative bishops,
THE theologian it was sug
gested Archbishop Heenan
zeroed in on is a slight, ut
terly serious moralist, Fath
er Bernard Haring, a German
attached to the Redemptorist
College in Rome, Father Har-
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THIS was evident last week
after a bitter attack on a "few”
periti by Archbishop John Hee
nan of Westminster, the tart
leader of the British hierarchy.
Archbishop Heenan’s outspoken
assault on the theological ex
perts was vigorously applauded
by a certain number of Council
Fathers, not only when he
finished but also in the course
ARCHDIOCESAN PARTICIPATION
There are some Fathers who
believe that the idea of the
Council’s wrestling with such
issues is ill-advised. Their
view is that Conciliar state
ments should be kept at a high
level of generality and abstrac
tion and the bishops should avoid
getting immersed in contempo
rary situations. The work of
translating principles and
ideals into concrete applica
tion, which is inescapably ha
zardous and tricky, these Fath
ers believe, should not be even
attempted by the Council, It
would have been better to have
left such matters to the normal
give-and-take of the perennial
theological enterprise in the
Church or to await mature
judgments form the Pope him
self. For the Fathers to try to
resolve such issues can only
lead to frustration,
FOR more than 2,000 bish
ops t o say anything "final"
about the merits of the con
troversial birth-control pill,
for example, is hopelessly un
wieldy. By and large the bish
ops do not have the scientific
knowledge necessary to reach
a judgment. Few of them are
theologians capable of handling
the subtleties necessary for
responsible decision on the
question. The same is true of
the problem of nuclear weapons,
which has long baffled even the
most seasoned theologians.
Conference On Worship
Rated A Huge Success
CBS President
NEW YORK (NC)--'The Cath
olic Apostolate of Radio, Tele
vision and Advertising will pre
sent its annual CARTA Award to
Arthur Hull Hayes, president of
CBS radio.
In the course of celebrating
the first Mass in English in the
South Archbishop Paul J. Hal-
linan noted in his homily that
this language change was the
beginning of liturgical develop
ment. Greater involvement of
the faithful in the worship life
of the Church will follow, he
stated, through growth in un
derstanding and in active par
ticipation.
Priest, S.M. and by the entire
congregation.
Proper parts of the Mass
were sung in English by
the choir and the congregation
sang the ordinary parts, the
responses and hymns. Holy
Communion was distributed at
three “stations" with the re
cipients standing and singing
the Communion hymn.
Four outstanding speakers
were featured during the Con
ference. Msgr, Daniel J. Tar
rant, Chairman of the Liturgy
Commissions of Dubque, Iowa,
spoke to a conference of clergy
of the archdiocese and also at
two general assemblies of the
participants. John Mannion,
Executive Director of the Li
turgical Conference, addressed
the clergy on pastoral aspects
Requiem Mass
VATICAN CITY (NC) — Am-
leto Cardinal Cicognani, Papal
Secretary of State, will cele
brate the annual requiem Mass
for cardinals who have died in
the past year. The Mass will be
offered in St. Peter’s basilica
Nov. 3 in the presence of Pope
Paul,
of the current liturgical re
newal. He also spoke to the
youth assembly held in con
nection with the Conference at
St. Joseph High School.
Mrs. Mary Perkins Ryan,
noted author and liturgical au
thority, spoke on the place of
the liturgy in daily life to the
general assembly and to the
youth gathering. She also ad
dressed the annual banquet of
the Archdiocesan Council of
Catholic Men, Father Gerard
S, Sloyan, past president of the
liturgical Conference and head
of the department of religious
education at Catholic Univei>-
sity, spoke to a conference of
religious Sisters and to the
general assembly on the re
newal and the Sacraments.
Four fully participated Mass
es, employing the English texts
approved by the American hier
archy, were the high point of
the four-day Conference on
Worship. Every technique of
congregational participation
was used on these occasions.
Hymns were sung by all pre
sent during the Entrance Rite,
the Offertory, Communion and
Dismissal. The bread and wine
to be consecrated at the Masses
were carried to the altar by
representative members of the
congregation.
Men from various parishes of
the archdiocese of Atlanta con
ducted discussion workshops on
six topics related to the liturgy.
An important feature of the Con
ference was the presence of
non-Catholic observers during
the discussions and celebra
tions. Louis A, Erbs was chair
man of the Conference and Fath
er John Stapleton, moderator of
the A.C.C.M,, presided.
On Sunday, October 25, a
High Mass for the Feast of
Christ the King was sung by
an inter-parish choir under the
direction of Father Ellis de
ARCHBISHOP Paul J, Hallinan and Fr. Leonard F.X, Mayhew
examine the first copy of the Benziger Missal of the Mass
in English. This first copy was presented to the Archbishop
by the publisher because of his role in liturgical renewal in
the United States,
Because they lack confidence
in their own judgment on such
matters, these Fathers ap
proached Schema 13 with ap
prehension. Others are not