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* PAGE 10 CEORGLA BULLETIN THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1964 schema M Implementing Pope’s ‘Dialogue With World’ CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 ing has been publicly suppor ting the concept of “responsi ble parenthood”, which is em phasized in the schema on the Church and the Modem World. It is also widely known here that he was chiefly responsi ble for the section of the schema in which is found the treatment of marriage. It is remembered too that this was not the first time Archbishop Heenan and Fath er Haring dashed. The Bri tish hierarchy, undre Arch bishop Heenan's leadership, issued a statement last Sum mer reaffirming the tradi tional Catholic teaching on birth control and Pius XU's early condemnation of the con traceptive pill as a '‘sterili zer,'’ Soon after it was re leased, it was reported in the English press that Father Har ing had flatly contradicted the bishops' statement. Then it turned out that the British journalists, misled by the priest's heavy German accent, had been mistaken-about what he really said. Later, though, Father Haring continued to pro pagate a position that could hardly be called sympathetic to the “causa-finita-est" tone of the English hierarchy's state ment. THIS background gave rise to the suspicion that Archbish op Heenan was aiming at the Redemptorist in particular. Al most immediately, a coffee- bar quip, Heenan has gone af ter a ' red Haring”, swept a- cross Rome, Father Haring, ir*- cidentally, is well known in the city, not only as a theologian but because he conducted a re treat some months ago for Pope Paul and members of the Vati can household. Archbishop Heenan's drama tic intervention took place when the Fathers were still debating whether or not to accept the scehma on the Church awl the Modern World as the basis for Council discussion. The Eng lish prelate thought thatitought to be thrown out and a fresh start made. He called the schema a ' set of platitudes" and stated that if the Fathers accepted it, it would become a “laughing stock of the world.” 'THE document is going to dash the hopes of everyone who has been waiting for ...it reads like a sermon.” It is so ob scure, he said, to be under stood it will need interpreta tion — and the interpretation will be given by the periti who helped draw it up. 'Y3od for bid that this should happeni” He went on to say that * be tween sessions of this Coun cil, the Church of God has suffered a great deal from the writings and speeches of some of these periti ...(who) care nothing for the ordinary teach ing authority of the bishops — nor, 1 regret to say, for that of the Pope.” It is useless, Archbishop Heenan said, to "seek advice only from those who since their youth have spent their lives in monasteries, seminaries, or universities. These eminent men may hardly know the world as it really is. The world can be unpleasant and cruel. These scholars often have a childlike trust in the opinions of men in the world,” HE suggested then that the work begin all over again with a fresh group of advisers drawn from experienced pa r i s h priests, husbands, doctors, scientists, and economists. Give them thre e or four years and then let them com.? back with an acceptable document. Of course other Fathers were quick to point out privately that the issues with which the schema deals, notably the prob- len of “the pill,” which in Eng land is called "Heenan's Bitter PU1,” are basically theological and that if bishops don't feel too sure about their moral as pects, .housewives are not like ly to provide the missing light. Archbishop Heenan's sweep ing suggestions, however, were not accepted. The draft as it is was voted on the next day and kept as the basis for dis cussion of the Church and the Modern World. THE next day, too, a Bene dictine Abbot, Benediktus Reetz of Beuron, Germnay , spoke. “It is with fear and trembling that I undertake to speak to day after having heard it pro claimed yeaterday that monks cannot be expected to know anything about the world," he began. The abbot reminded the Fathers then that in all the 12 centuries since Pope Gre gory sent 70 monks to make "angels" out of "angels,"peo ple have flocked to monasteries with their problems. The monk does not leave the Church when he leaves the world, he said— and the Church still has her own wisdom. Reminding Archbishop Hee nan of the monastic origins of English Christianity so point edly was perhaps not exactly a reply to the Archbishop's charges, but as a good-humor ed counter-thrust it was en joyed thoroughly by the Fath ers. NOT al* the Council Fath ers by any means took Arch bishop Heenan's low view of the schema. There were the usual criticism of the language in which it is couched and its lack of precision — but these have come to be expected every time a new schema is before the Council. Some Fathers, de spite such criticisms, found "the Church and the Modern World” an excellent starting- point. The opening discussions of Schema 13 were limited to a general treatment of it, so there was little or no debate yet about the specific issues touched on in it. That will come later as the discussion proceeds, and it will probably continue right up to the end of the present session, which Pope Paul has set for Nov. 21. THE preliminary discussion was solidly theological in tone, involving attitudes toward the “world” — a word which more than one Father stated is used ambiguously in the draft. A number of them were eager to point out that in Christian teach ing the world is used in several senses — as the physical uni verse, as the enemy of the spirit (worldliness), as the home of manking, as the various civili zations developed by men, as all that is not the Church, etc., etc. The present schema never makes explicit what particular usage it is employing when it speaks of “mundus.” Though these separate mean ings of the word were recog nized, it was clear from the Fathers' discussion that one or the othe» understanding colored their various interventions. One group, for example, insisted on the treachery and evil to be found in the world and criti cized the schema for being too optimistic and not insistent e- nough on the permanent pre sence of sin among men. Others put emphasis on the fact that not only the men in the world but the world itself has been redeemed and that “matter” will share in the eschatological victory of Christ over death, Still others accented the close relationship between Church and world, not ing that while the Church is not of the world, it is in the world and cannot be cut off from it. THE most searching inter vention during the discussion, and perhaps one of the most profound interventions deliver ed since the Council began, was given by Albert Cardinal Meyer, the reserved and scholarly Archbishop of Chicago, whose prestige grows with each pass ing day at the Council. Cardi nal Meyer, aide d by two bibli cal-minded periti, a lean, as cetic-looking Passionist priest named Barnabas Aherne, and a good-humored Irish-born New York Jesuit, Francis McCool, Czech Seminary BONN (^C) — Nineteen new students have enrolled in the Czechoslovak Catholic semi nary of Litomerice, according to the German Catholic news agency, KNA, At present 82 seminarians are already en rolled in the seminary, the only one in operation in Bohemia. set a standard that will be hard to surpass. Long after many of the razzle-dazzle contribu tions to the Council are for gotten, like Archbishop Hee nan's front-page intervention, Cardinal Meyer's words may live on. The text is not available. What the cardinal said, though, in essence was that like so much coming from religjous sources, the “Church and the Modern World" seemed to suf fer from a fear of contagion from the world, as if one some how had to choose between the life of the spirit and the life of matter. The Church, said Cardinal Meyer, must work in the world, not against the world but for it. HE said he missed in the draft before the Fathers a sound theo logical basis for joyful accept ance of the world and rejection of the “false dualism” which would separate soul from body, the Church from the world, spirit from matter. In essence, he said, all of creation goes to gether. Men, consequently must realize that their daily work is a part of the plan of sal vation. The Redemption was to tal. It was not a snatching of man's blithe spirit from the weight of his body nor did it imply a hopeless break between the world o f the spirit and the world of flesh, matter, and physical energy. In the divine economy, Redemption meant much more than the salvation of souls. It meant also the re surrection of bodies and indeed the resurrection of the physical universe itself. The universe, he said, is destined to share In the redemption of Christ. It is never, then, a question of the Church against the world, but of the Church instructing the world in its own high des tiny. THE vision which moved the reticent Archbishop of Chicago to such eloquence seemed to put the whole schema back into fo cus, not as a kind of unwelcome intrusion into the neat, tidy, or derly universe of the theo logians but at the center of con cern for this Council which was called to “reform' and “renew.” There was something of the same spirit in a statement made not on the Council floor but at a later press conference by Bishop John J. Wright of Pitts burgh. Fundamentally, Bishop Wright said, the Council is not so much interested in sol ving the “moral crisis” which the world is facing in our day as it is in digging beneath that crisis to probe more basic disorders. The Church, the bishop said, does not pretend to have all the answers. Still, the message of the Church, in a profound way, is the answer. For what is at stake in the turmoil of modern man is the search for meaning. The Church must take man as he is, and then tell him — in accordance with the truth that has been revealed to her — what his life adds up to. The Church must concern itself with the ultimate whys rather than with packaged “answers.” THIS is the spirit in which some of the Fathers approach the schema on the Church and the Modern World, They are less interested in finding an swers to the dilemmas facing modern man than in presenting him with questions and waiting for his response. This “dia logue” with the world Pope Paul recommended in his first en cyclical. Toward it the Fathers of the Council made the first tentative steps. Those Fathers who felt that they would be ex pected to come up with solu tions to all the problems be deviling contemporary man were keenly aware of their own inadequacy. Those who interpreted the charge of the Council as a chal lenge to the Church to give the world what is uniquely hers to give — the message not that the world can be redeemed but that it already has been re deemed — welcome the intro duction of such a theme into the world of the Council, MONTE CASSINO, most famous monastery of Italy, to which Pope Paul VI helicopted Saturday, Oct. 24, to dedicate the abbey church. The Holy Father also proclaimed St. Benedict, who founded the abbey and western monasticism, "the patron of Europe.” Present restoration, following 1944 Allied bombings, is fourth rebuilding in the mona stery’s 14-century history. CHIEF JUSTICE Warren’s Anti- Smut Position Endorsed CINCINNATI (NC) — U. S. Chief Justice Earl Warrendrew praise from Citizens for Decent Literature for his stand on the enforcement of anti-obscenity laws. In an official statement is sued from its national head quarters here, CDL’s executive committee endorsed Chief Jus tice Warren’s opinion that de termination of the “fact of ob scenity" is “the prerogative of the individual states." THIS leaves the legal deter mination of obscenity to the lo cal community, the statement pointed out. “Warren’s admonition that the court has seen ill-prepared prosecution cases allowing por- nographers to go free,” the statement continued, “coin cides with CDL's position that proper, well-prepared law en forcement and prosecution pro tecting civil liberties are vital." THE CDL statement under scored Chief Justice Warren's comment that if cases were well prepared and conducted with ap propriate concern for consti tutional safeguards, courts would not hesitate to enforce laws against obscenity. “With this in mind,” the statement concluded, “CDL is urging increased prosecu tion. It should be borne in mind that the court recently upheld conviction of two paperback pomographers.” NOW-FAST RELIEF FROM MODERATE ARTHRITIC RHEUMATIC MUSCULAR y ★ • Good Housekeeping • RAINS WHENEVER THEY OCCUR ' * m ^ *DOLCIN TABLETS Monty-back guarantee USE BULLETIN CLASSIFIEDS FOR FAST SERVICE Charles Weltner 1962-1964 Accomplishments DEFENSE “A world safe for democracy requires a strong, vigilant and alert America. Our surest weapon for peace is preparedness ■ Supported all legislation in the field of defense. ■ / oted against any amendments that would weaken our defense and space programs. ■ Voted for the House Resolution supporting the bombing of Viet Nam bases. COMMUNISM We must support our allies. We must shore up our neighbors against Communism. We are the leaders of the free world ...with all the responsibilities that position implies. ■ Supported the military assistance program to help our allies in their fight for freedom. ■ l oted for aid to our allies, which General Lucius Clay has called “one of the most important weapons in our Cold War arsenal.” FOREIGN MARKETS Exports are a solution to the Nation's gold outflow problem. They also promise enlarged profits, expanded mar kets, and increased employment for Atlanta and the South.” ■ Supported in Committee and in the House the extension and expansion of the Export-Import Bank. • Assisted in the establishment of direct Atlanla-Paris-London air service and towards Atlanta Airport's designation as an international port. ■ Helped establish the Atlanta Export Workshops to help businessmen enter the export field. EDUCA TION Through education lies the answer for the South's economy in a period of rapid technological change... making more and beltei jobs for Georgians. ■ Supported the Health Professions Assistance Act and the Nurse Training Act to expand facilities for medical, dental, nursing, and related colleges and to provide loans to health profession students. ■ Voted for the Library Services Act to provide beltei public libraries in urban and rural areas. ■ Supported the National Defense Education Act which includes college and graduate stu dent loans and teacher training. ■ Arranged the Atlanta Conference on Jobs, Education and Automation. JOIIS l am a free enterprise man. I believe that the private sector of our economy offers the only hope of a continued expansion to provide new and better jobs for all Georgians. ■ Voted for the tax cut bill which will release $11 billion to the private sector of our economy. ■ If orked with local and state economic development groups to gain new payrolls for Georgia. MANPOll ER TRAINING “The rapid advances in science and technology require new eforts in education and manpower training.” ■ / oted for the Vocational Education Act to provide training in new skills needed in the industrial South. ■ Supported the Manpower Development and 7 raining Act which have already resulted in new training programs for 1,500 Fifth District citizens. URIIAN PROGRESS Cities are the home of the majority of Americans. We must attack urban problems of air and water pollution, transportation, and slums. ■ Supported the Clean Air Bill to solve the problems of air pollution. ■ Voted for the Water Resources Act to at tack icater pollution in our state. ■ Arranged the first meeting of the President's Water Pollution Control Board in the South to discuss pol lution in the Appalachicola-Chatlahoochee-Jlint Rivers. ■ Supported in Committee and voted for the Urban Mass Transit Act to provide tapid transit for Atlanta. ■ Voted for the Housing Act to provide slum clearance and urban renewal. II lule serving you in Congress, Congressman Weltner worked hard in other areas not covered in the 1962 platform. ■ Obtained appropriations for a navigational study of the Chattahoochee River and a flood control study for the Metropolitans Creeks Basin. ■ Arranged for the Southeastern Region Consumer Affairs Conference to be held in Atlanta. ■ Assisted in expanded aerospace research reflected in a new $1 million space sciences building for Georgia Tech. ■ Worked closely with local and federal officials to obtain through urban renewal the site for the new auditorium. ■ Opposed legislation that would increase the cost of foodstuffs and goods to the consumer. ■ Voted for mental health legislation to help those who cannot help themselves. Leadershi p • Abi I ity • Cou rage John McCormack, Speaker of the House of Representatives, savs this about Congressman ff eltner. There is no member of Congress u ho has made more progress in the period of time he has been a member than Charles ff eltner. He eniovs mv confidence and re spect, and the confidence and respect of his colleagues. He reflects great credit . . . not only on the people of the Fifth District of Georgia, but also on the nation through his ability and courage." Vote Again! Win Again November 3rd! Governments proper function is service to the people!”