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« % * % * 4 4 Atlanta HELP YOUR UNITED APPEAL ATLANTA, GEORGIA THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1964 $5.00 PER YEAR 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- CONTINUED ON PAGE 10 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