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T T ■ PAGE 8 GEORGIA BULLETIN .THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1964 ON MISSIONS Schema Draft Overhauling Seen Needed Continued from page i ionaries had hoped for, they "promised nothing," as one disgruntled bishop bluntly stat ed, "This schema," he said, "will never inspire youth nor will it stimulate religious super iors to send their young men abroad,*' It is, he added, merely a "frustration" for missiona ries— a "few dry and miser able propositions" and no more, "We wanted power ful weapons to do the bat tles of the Lord and the com mission gave us bows and ar rows, , , We wanted a theolo gical background for the prea ching of the Gospel and the commission has given us a teW arid principles from a textbook on missiology," he roared from the speaker's stand. THE prelate who spoke so bitterly, even after the Holy Father's approval of the schema was stated, was the Most Rev, Daniel Lamont of Umtali, Southern Rhodesia, an orator ical Irishman of the old school who did not hesitate to under score his contempt for the docu- ment with powerful gestures and rippling waves of sound. Oratory of that kind is rare in the Council aula, where most of the speakers have to contend with unfamiliar Latin, It came, then, as a relief fromthe steady declaratory sameness of the usual interventions. At least. Bishop Lamont was heartily applauded. No one was quite sure whether it was his style or his contempt which stimulated such appreciation that practi cally all the bishops seemed to ignore the fact that they were applauding a view of the schema quite the opposite from the one propounded by the Pope himself only 24 hours earlier. But it was clear as the dis cussion moved along that more took Bishop Lamont's view than agreed with the Holy Fath er. The prelates who spoke on it found very little good to say for it. The missionary bis hops especially made no bones about their profound disap pointment with the prefunctory way in which the subject dear to them was being treated by the Council. rr WAS clear that this bloc of bishops feels a little like forgotten children, who are pra ised routinely for their sac rifice and zeal but are act ually neglected in the daily (life of the Church. The problems facing them are eno rmous. They are perennially short of personnel, short on cash, and short on influence in the Church Universal. They have to beg constantly just to stay afloat and are humiliating ly dependent on the generosity of the faithful and clergy in Europe and North America. Through they do not say as much, this dependence on good heartedness is galling, espec ially sincethey are quite convin ced that the missionary activity of the Church is a universal responsibility which should not fall completely on the few who give their whole lives to it and are henceforth required to stand outside waiting for the crumbs that drop from the table. TO meet this difficulty, there have been proposals made at the Council that some kind of mission coordinating com mission be set up and that the entire Church, as a mat ter of duty rather than gene rosity, be taxed for the sup port of indigent mission dio ceses. That way the bishops and superiors responsible for them would be relieved of the nagging, never-ending search for funds which takes up so much of their time and ef fort and keeps them from the evangelizing work they would rather be doing. These proposals, though, are gene rally given a polite but non-committal response. The diocesan authorities who would be required to slice off the tip ten per cent of their own income for such a tithing system, though they are frequently strapped themsel ves to keep their institutions going, are not overly anxious to see the plan get off the ground. One leading American pre late, for example, the arch bishop of one of the nation's wealthiest archdiocese, said he would be willing to support such a plan only if everyone else did. The great personal advan tage he saw in it, he added half-humorously, was that he might not then be the object of constant solicitation from missionaries who regularly made a bee-linefrom the docks to his chancery office. IF the missionary bishops feel neglected, they also feel SPIRITUAL, SOCIAL FIELDS U.S. Church More Complex 9 Varied Than Ever Before WASHINGTON QSC) — Mat ters more numerous, more var ied and more complex than ever before engaged the attention of the Catholic Church in the Unit ed States last year. Reports of departments and bureaus of the National Catho lic Welfare Conference submit ted to the bishops of the coun try show that well established boncerns in the spiritual and social welfare fields have been deepened dramatically by de velopments of recent years. EDUCATION, changes in the liturgy, international relief, ap plication of the Church's social teachings, refugee aid, assis tance to the Church in Latin America, missionary work, youth, the lay apostolate, health and hospitals , racial justice, and developments of the Second Vatican Council are among the interests discussed. The NCWC is a voluntary agency through which the bis hops of the U. S. deal with mat ters of common interest on a national level. The work of its various departments and bur eaus is the subject of the annual reports. Archbishop Patrick A, O'Boyle of Washington reported as chairman of the NCWC Admin istrative Board, indicating something of the variety which the ensuing reports were to re flect. Highlights of the department and bureau reports include the following: THE Legal Department said the 88th Congress enacted more significant legislation dealing with education and health than any previous congress, and that under this legislation public and private institutions received equal treatment. The National Council of Cath olic Men said it had "a most encouraging year" marked by increases in councils and affil iates, and disclosed plans to help affiliates meet the demands of the lay apostolate in the post council Church. Continued growth and "sig nificant communications break throughs" on national and world levels were reported by the Na tional Council of Catholic Wo men, which announced it now has 13,578 affiliates in 116 archdio ceses and dioceses, represent ing a total of 10 million women. ARCHDIOCESAN ACTION Ban Carmelite’s Los Angeles Talk LOS ANGELES (RNS)—Fath er George M. ingrisano, local Carmelite superior and acting pastor of St. Raphael's church here, was barred by Los Ange les archdiocesan authorities from speaking to a Catholic group on moral issues involved in segregation and housing dis crimination. The priest was to speak to "Pomona Catholics Against Proposition 14", a group op posing a California constitu tional amendment which would nullify all existing fairhousing laws and bar the legislature from reenacting such laws with out a public referendum. AFTER Father ingrisanowas forbidden to address the group, the Catholic organization, an unofficial body, invited Dr. Pierce Johnson, a Methodist minister from Claremont, as guest speaker. James Francis Cardinal Me Intyre, Archbishop of Los An geles, had earlier described Proposition 14 and the entire subject of housing discrimina tion as a "political" rather than a moral issue, THE priest confirmed that he received a telephone call from Msgr, John Rawden of the Arch diocesan Chancery who asked for an explanation about the scheduled appearance. Father Ingrisano informed Carmelite provincial superiors in Chicago that the priest would be ex pelled from the diocese if he delivered the talk. Later, it was said, the Carmelite provincial suggested that Father Ingrisano cancel his appearance. THE National Council of Cath olic Nurses stressed plans to develop the federation into a "truly representative" organi zation of the nation's Catholic nurses. Change and expansion were the keynotes of the NCWC Press Department report. It was stat ed that while the volume of Catholic news in general was at least as heavy as in any preced ing year, news from the second session of the Second Vatican Council greatly exceeded that of the first session. The Youth Department said it has called upon affiliates to streamline operations, mod ernize programs and confront the young people of today with real problems. Reporting the existence of 175 Newman Cen ters, an increase of 100 in ten years, the report said 725,000 Catholic students are now on secular campuses, as compar ed with 300,000 ten years ago. THE Immigration Department, which handled 43,000 cases benefitting 47,000 persons last year, reported intensified inte rest in modernizing the Immi gration and Nationality Act of 1952. The office of diocesan sup erintendent is being afforded expanding opportunity for pro fessional training, the NCWC Department of Education said. The NCWC Department of Social Action said that, while communists have increased their efforts to infiltrate civil rights groups, there are "no in dications of significant com munist influence in the main national civil rights organiza tions." ARCHBISHOP Luis Aponte of San Juan, Puerto Rico, appointed by Pope Paul VI (Nov. 5) to that See in suc cession to Archbishop James P. Davis, who became Arch bishop of Santa Fe, N.M., in January 1964. Story, page 3 that they are misunderstood and their apostolate is under rated. That too became clear as the discussion of the mis sions unfolded. Rarely do they have a chance to bring their particular problems to the at tention of the whole Church, and they were eager to make the most of the opportunity affor ded by the Council. There is, for example, the massive expansion of mission ary work in the Church which they were anxious to point up. Cardinal Agagianian, speaking for them, informed the Fathers that at the time of Vatican I, in 1870, the "mission terri tories" of the Church (those under the jurisdiction of the Propagation of the Faith of fice) included England, Ire land, Holland, Luxembourg, - Northern Germany, the United States and Canada. In all there were 275 territories. These European and North American countries were removed from this category in 1908. Still today, there are 770 ter ritories under the Propagation office. In 1870 there was not a single bishop of native origin in these mission territories, except among the Orientals. In the Middle East and Far East. TODAY, though, the native hierarchies of Asia, Africa, Oceania, etc., include four car dinals, 37 archbishops, and 126 bishops. There are in 1964 over 400 seminaries in these territories, while in 1870 there were less than ten. Only 15 years ago the Propagation of the Faith was responsible for 28 million Catholics. Todav the number is 50 million. The more successful the mis sionary effort has been, the more difficulties face the mis sionaries. For as the Church grows in these newly evangeli zed areas, the need for schools seminaries, preists, religious, and lay missionaries increases and the dependence on the established Church of Europe and America becomes more ac ute. As it is, however, voca tions to mis sion-sending cleri cal societies and missionary religious orders are actually falling off as relization of the need for mission workat home becomes more conscious. For example, France once the souce of thousands of mission ary vocations, is now preoc cupied with the de-Christiani- zation found in its own midst. As a result, young priests who would have been attracted to foreign fields a few decades ago are now engaged in evan gelizing the workers and others lost to the Church at home. THE break-up of colonialism has also had dire effects on the missions. When European na tions looked upon particular foreigh lands as their own, it was natural enough that the soldiers, technicians, busine ssmen, and other agents of the mother-country should be fol lowed by priests and religious. These clergy, though far from home, were protected and en couraged by the impreialistic authorities of their own nation. Nowadays, however, the mis sionary clergy are on their own and in lands where what ever smacks of the old imper ialism and cultural dominance fs highly unwelcome. If they are to stay and to be effective, under such con ditions, they cannot be thought of as cultural intruders and "outsiders." Catholicism in such places, then, has to adjust to native custom and gradually take on the coll oration of an indigenous religion. This is not easy for a missionary, espec ially one whose training led him to think of European culture as the Christian culture. But converts, becoming Catholic, are not ready to adopt a "for eign" way of life as the price of conversion — nor, insisted most of the mission-area bis hops at the Council, especially the "natives" among them, should they be. Then they ran through; the discussions of the schema. "Saint Paul formulated the Magna Charta for all aposto- lates when he declared that he was all things to all men in order to save all,” said Car dinal Rugambwa, the Bis hop of Bukoba, Tanganyika, Cardinal Doi, Archbishop of Tokyo, pointed out that the Church has to adapt its mes sage not such as is found in Japan. "Many Chinese have been kept from the faith be cause, though their national traditions were on many points conformable to Christian teach ing, becoming a Christian meant abandoning in large part one's own culture,' said Bishop Pie tro Massa of Nanyang. The missionary, a number of Fathers said, must become an adopted member of the people APPOINTED members of the Supreme Sacred Congregation of the Holy Office (Nov. 4) by Pope Paul VI are: (Left to right) Albert Cardinal Meyer of Chicago; Luigi Cardinal Traglia, Vicar General of His Holiness for the city of Rome; and Joseph Cardinal Lefe- bvre, Archbishop of Bourges. France. ARCHBISHOP COM. SUCCESSOR Bury Archbishop Rummel In New Orleans Cathedral NEW ORLEANS (NC)~Arch- bishop Joseph Francis Rummel, 88, of New Orleans, one of the mightiest warriors against racial injustice, was buried In a crypt beneath the sanctuary of St. Louis cathedral here. The internment (Nov. 11) followed a Solemn Pontifical Requiem Mass offered by Arch bishop John P. Cody, new spir itual leader of the archdiocese, who enplaned here from the Se cond Vatican Council with Aux iliary Bishop L. Abel Caillouet after learning the venerable prelate had succumbed to pneu monia (Nov. 8) at Hotel Dieu. Archbishop Rummel was tak en to the hospital the day be fore his death and had receiv ed the last rites of the Church shortly after his arrival. Later in the day, he rallied but by even ing lapsed into a comatose con dition. An outpouring of hundreds of thousands paid final tribute to the archbishop, who had ruled the New Orleans archdiocese since March 9, 1935 ^1® body laid in state first at Notre Dame Seminary, then later at the cathedral, before the funeral. When the cortege transferred the body from the seminary to the cathedral, thousands of school children lined the five- mile route, reciting the Rosa ry aloud as the procession pass ed. The whole Church sorrows in the death of Archbishop Rum- m el,’* Archbishop Cody said. “He was one in whom cour age, humility and devotion blen ded in rare proportion to form a leadership of justice and love a leadership of justice and love." GERMAN-BORN Archbishop Rummel, who early in his priest hood served in New York City's Harlem section populated by Negroes, began his fight for racial Integration in this stronghold of white segrega- tionsts in the early 1950’s. " Racial segregation as such is morally wrong and sinful because it is a denial of the unity and solidarity of the hu man race as conceived by God in the creation of Adam and Eve," Archbishop Rummel pub licly campaigned for racial inte gration. The archbishop, who was nearly blind and enfeebled by advancing years, saw clearly his course in the difficult sit uation and was strong in his action as he pressed toward his goal. In 1962 he issued a directive for the racial integration of Catholic schools of the arch diocese. This touched off a revolt among segments of the laity, who were warned by Archbishop Rummel against with whom he chooses to work. The idea of a group of miss ionaries turning their ter ritory into a little piece of America or Europe in some' foreign field may be charm ing as it is photographed for the missionary magazine, but it i s hopelessly inadequate to the real needs of this post colonial period of the Church's apostolate, they insisted. THE Missionary work of the Church, these Fathers seemed to be saying, has bare ly begun. The challenge pre sented by billions of people who have not heard the Gospel is temendous. But the challenge will not be met unless there is a untied effort on the part of the whole Church to support the missions, to replace depen dence on the sporadic gene rosity that has so far held them together— a putting aside of anything that smacks of pater nalism or culture dominance — and a total change from the old imperialistic methods of op eration on colonial habits of thought which nullified so much missionary effort in the past. They see the need. They are thrilled by the possibilities of what the missionary effort could be. And in the light of their hopes, the small-change sch ema on the missions presented to them was offensive. "The commission should have pres ented us with an adequate sch ema or have said nothing at all,” said Bishop John Baptist Velasco of Hsiamen, China, who in exile is serving as episcopal vicar for the Chinese in the Philippines. "We are reminded of the passage from Ezechiel," said the bombastic Bishop Lam ont, "where the prophet sees a field strewn with dry bones and states that only God knows if these bones will live.. . The cause is not completely lost. We must make these dry bones live, and then, as in Ezechiel, they will become a stalwart army for the cause of God." UNLESS the Fathers of the Council who are not missiona ries are totally deaf to the outspoken pleas of these daring brethren of theirs, then, it looks as if the diminished schema on the missions— despite the Pope's hope that it would be passed— will be sent back to overhauling. It is doubtful, though, that any other body of bishops would have been so out spoken after the Supreme Pon tiff had expressed an opinion about a particular schema. Perhaps this fearless qua lity found among the missiona- ies explaines to some degree why. they became missionaries in the first place. It may also explain why leaders of the pro gressive faction at the Council have felt right along that they could always count on the mis sionary bishops for support when the going got tough. NELSON RIVES REALTY 3669 CLAIRMONT ROAD CHAMBLEE, GEORGIA REAL ESTATE, INSURANCE SALES, RENTALS RESIDENTIAL AND COMMERCIAL PROPERTY PHONE: 451-2323 IINT Serving Atlanta Since 1912 •PRINTING • LITHOGRAPHING CO/HV>4/ry’ 550 FORREST ROAD, N. E., ATLANTA, GEORGIA • TRinity 5-4727 openly opposing his program. Anumber accepted the warning, but when other efforts failed tne archbishop publicly excom municated three of the segre gationist leaders—Leander H. Perez, Sr., political leader of Plaquemines parish (county); Mrs. B.J. Galliot, Jr., head of Save Our Nation, Inc., and Jackson G. Ricau, executive director of the South Louisi ana Citizens Councils. Archbishop Rummel was born in Steinmauren, Baden, Ger many, on Oct. 14, 1876. When a boy of six he came to the United States with his parents. He attended grade and high schools in New York and North East, Pa. He attended St. An selm's College, Manchester N. H., and studied for the priest hood at St. Joseph’s Seminary, Dunwoodie, N.Y., and the North American College in Rome. He was ordained to the priesthood on May 24, 1902. Bishop Retires VATICAN CITY (NC)—Bish op Johannes Theodor Suhr, O. S.B., of Copenhagen has re signed his See at the age of 68. A Dane himself, he has headed the single See of Den mark ever since his appoint ment by Pope Pius XI in De cember, 1938. Pope Paul VI has transferred him to be ti tular Bishop of Apisa major. INDIA: EVERY MOTHER’S WORRY IF YOU LIVED IN INDIA, YOU’D WORRY ABOUT DISEASE. You’d see suffering in your family, perhaps In the faces of your children . . . Cholera, smallpox, In fluenza, typhoid fever, typhus, mal aria, are common diseases in INDIA. That’s why parents in ERNAKULASf revere the SISTERS OF ST. JOSEPH CJ ... The Sisters have a hospital ” dedicated to St. Therese of Lisieux (“The Little Flower”), and they care for children especially. Rich or poor, Christian or pagan, patients are given the best care science can provide . . . The Sisters need help to continue what they’re doing. They need, in particular, a chapel in which they can show their patients Christ . . . The chapel will cost only $3,800, and it will make an excellent memorial for those you love, on the occasion of the Holy Father's pilgrimage. Will you help? . . . It’s scandalous, especially In INDIA, that a Catholic hospital for children does not have a chapel. Please send whatever you can. The SISTERS will pray for you always. Tbo Holy fair'/ Mission Aid lootkoOriontdCbmcb THE EUCHARISTIC CONGRESS IN INDIA two weeks from now will spotlight the fact that members of this Association build churches and schools, convents and clinics, and train most of the native priests and Sisters in Kerala State. Kerala was entrusted to us by the Holy Father 34 years ago. It is now 20% Christian. CALLING ALL TEACHERS—Teaching, Pope Paul said recent ly, is “the ’art of arts’, the highly noble choice of one who wishes to give his life the value of a spiritual mission.” Why not share the teacher's vocation? Sister Cordelia, in India, needs $306 altogether to complete her two-year training. You may make the payments to suit your own convenience ($12,5(1 a month, or $150 a year, for instance), and she will write to thank you. THANKSGIVING: FEED A FAMILY—You can brighten your dinner Thanksgiving Day (Nov. 26) by feeding hungry refugees in the Holy Land. $10 will feed a family for a month! As a token of our thanks, we’ll send You an Olive Wood Rosary from the Holy Land. HAVE YOU SEEN OUR GIFT CARDS?—They’re original, attractive, personalised—and we still have time, If you write tm now, to send one to friends and neighbors for Thanksgiving pay . . . Enroll your friends and neighbors in this Association $l-a- year for an individual, $5 for a family), send us their names and addresses, and we’ll send them a GIFT CARD telling what you have done. They’U benefit spiritually all year long, and they’ll be grateful to you. LET THE HOLY FATHER DECIDE?—That’s what you do when you send us a gift for the missions “no strings attaehsd." The Holy Father uses it where it’s needed most, in one of our 18 mission countries. WHEN YOU MAKE A WILL, MENTION THE CATHOLIC NEAR EAST WELFARE ASSOCIATION Dear Monsignor Ryan: Enclosed please find..... for. Namt Street City. .Zone. .State. dkISeartajtOlissloflsjM) PiAMC* CAtWNAl SHUMAN, Pr-Hm* Map. Jetaph T. tyua. Muff (mV laud «i tswwaalistUas Ht CATHOUC NIAS IAST W1LFARI ASSOCIATION Aes. * AM Sr. Maw Tut, Ml ▼. Hit?
