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IN GRATITUDE FOR OLDER PRIESTS
The chief reason for the deepChristian commitment of our Geor
gia Catholics is the work of a band of priests, some diocesan,
some of religious orders, over the past forty years. These men
came as other-Christs to Atlanta, to Rome, to Athens, to the mis
sions on our north and those to the south. They offered Mass, they
baptized babies, they witnessed marriages and funerals, theylist-
ened. to thousands of confessions, journeyed to sick-calls, visited
hospitals, preached and taught and counselled Christ's way.
On Nov. 29, these priests will be among thousands of other ' old
er priests" who will use the new liturgical forms, the English
language, and the new positons and gestures. It will not be easy for
them, any more than their lay contemporaries. But no diocese in
the country, I am convinced, has been so well served, in matters
liturgical, by its senior clergy, than ours. They are not complain
ing about the changes or getting off worn-out comments about
"hoping to be allowed to die in the same Church in which I was
baptized." They are explaining it all to the people, and because
they are good and loyal priests, our people are learning fast and
participating well.
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IN PRAISE OF YOUNGER PRIESTS
The priests ordained in recent years bring fresh gifts to our
Archdiocese. Their training has been more in tune with biblical,
theological, liturgical and ecumenical developments. Now they are
learning, the hard way, what no Seminary can give - the pastoral
usage of all this in care for our people.
The ideal parish team is actually becoming the norm rather
than a dream. The younger men using their own skills and parti
cular insights in a well-knit apostolate under the direction of a
pastor whose experience, wisdom and judgment are established, -
that is the perfect parish unit of administration. Our young priests
are splendidly taking their role in the great aggiornamento.
A BASEBALL AND A TELEGRAM
I recall that as a kid, Iwasa failure as a ball-player, but manag
ed to play left-field because of my persistance and the fact that I
owned the baseball. But when the big game came with the Court-
land St, Tigers, I was laid low by pleurisy (in 1924) and had to eat
my heart out by myself. We won and my team-mates brought me the
battered baseball all autographed. They were all too kind to sug
gest that they had won because I wasn't playing.
A cablegram from Rome this week reminded me affectionately of
my old baseball. Signed by Cardinal Spellman, it read: ‘The Car
dinals, Archbishops and Bishops at their annual meeting at the
North American College in Rome send cordial greetings and best
wishes." I know they had plenty on the agenda, but they knew how
anxious I was to hear from diem.
I hadn't been in a hospital for forty years. But when you are, and
you're missing a ball-game or an Ecumenical Council, a word from
the team-mates can be a real treasure.
jO-jO-x!-
ANOTHER FIRST - THE NEW TRANSLATIONS
One unexpected feature of the Nov. 29 renewal will be a new
translation of the Epistles and Gospels, Since Catholics sometimes
treat the Bible like Fundamentalists, a word of explanation might
be helpful.
The OldTestament, by and for Jews, was Hebrew. Our Lord him
self spoke Aramaic, The Evangelists and Apostles wrote their
accounts in Greek. There was no official Latin version until St.
Jerome issued the Vulgate * n the late 4th century.
In the English-speaking world, Protestant Bibles generally follow
the great Authorized (King James) Version - with subsequent re
visions; the Revised Version, the American Standard Version, the
Revised Standard Version, and the New American Standard Bible.
Now the first new translation is appearing under the title, ‘The
New English Bible."
Catholics meanwhile have followed the Douay-Rheims Version
of the 17th century, which Bishop Challoner revised in the mid-18th
century. In 1941, the U.S. Confraternity of Christian Doctrine
started a new revision. After the encouragement of Plus XII in
1943 to use original sources, the Catholic scholars, authorized
by American bishops, began a completely new task,' the New Con
fraternity translation."
It will be the Epistles and Gospels of this translation that Cath
olics will be hearing for the first time Nov. 29.
Two characteristics of the new translation are the dropping of
Thee and Thou, and the use of contractions, e.g. The chief priests
say to the temple police who had been sent to seize Jesus, "Don't
tell us that you have been fooled too."
What is desired is clear understanding. What is used to get this
is accurate use of originals, in correct American English. In
short, style, ancient usage, a sense of awe, incomprehensible
words must make way for - truth.
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MEMORIAL BELL commemorating the two Johns- President John F. Kennedy and Pope
John XXIII a gift of a group of Italo-Americans. will hang in the tower of the shrine of
St. Gabriel of the Sorrowful Mother, located at Isola in the Abruzzi region of Italy. De
tail at right depicts the Pope and President sowing seeds of Justice and Peace upon the
earth.
CHRISTIAN EDUCATION DRAFT
U.S. Cardinals Urge State
Aid To Religious Schools
VATICAN CITY (NC)— Fran
cis Cardinal Spellman of New
York has called on the ecumen
ical council to declare that since
it is the function of the state
to facilitate civil freedoms,
"justice and equity demand
that a due measure of public
aid be available to parents in
support of the schools they sel
ect for their children."
The cardinal was the first
of five Fathers to take the floor
when the council’s 124thmeet
ing turned its attention (Nov.
17) to a declaration on Chri
stian education.
HE WAS joined by Joseph
Cardinal Ritter of St. Louis,
Archbishop John P. Cody of
New Orleans and by two French
bishops.
Cardinal Ritter rejoiced that
the declaration was not limited
only to Catholic schools,
since “most of the Catholic
children and students in the
world are in state schools and
must be, in fact, the object of
the solicitude of the Church,
the family and especially the te
achers in these schools for their
religious education."
CXiring the day’s session,
chapter containing the key con
cept of the collegiality of the
bishops, was passed in its final
form by a large majority. When
passage was announced, the
news was greeted with warm
applause. Two other chapters of
the schema on the Church were
also approved with great ma
jorities. This left only three re
maining chapters of the docu
ment to be voted on Nov. 18
before it was ready for promul
gation at a plenary public meet
ing on Nov. 21.
AT THE Nov. 17 meeting the
new text of the declaration on
religious liberty was distribut
ed. It was announced that voting
was to begin on it on Nov. 19.
The Fathers, moreover, voted
to accept the propositions on se
nt inaries and gave overwhelm
ing approval to the first three
propositions in separate votes.
Although discussion on the
seminary propositions had been
closed at the end of the pre
vious day’s meeting, three
Fathers took the floor in the
first part of the Nov. 17 meet
ing to speak in the name of
BISHOP DECREES
Children’s Masses
Out In Pittsburgh
ARCHBISHOP OF ATLANTA
TIARA which Pope Paul VI
has given to charity, shown
at his coronation, June 30.
1963 the only time the Holy
Father used it. • See page 3,
PITTSBURGH (NC) -- Child
ren's Masses on Sundays and
Holy Days, traditional and com
pulsory in some parishes, will
be discontinued at the end of
the current school year in the
Pittsburgh diocese, Bishop John
J, Wright has decreed.
In a pastoral letter written
from Rome in connection with
the Nov, 29 liturgical changes,
Bishop Wright said; "If it be
true that the family that prays
together stays together, surely
every effort should be made to
encourage families which can
conveniently do so to pray to
gether at Mass,"
HE ADDED: ’Those families
which, because of their gene
rous and praiseworthy num
bers, cannot attend Mass as a
unit should certainly have the
deserved consolation and ..
strength that comes from each
parent attending Mass accom
panied by some of the child
ren."
The bishop’s pastoral said
*we shall.,.follow the binding
requirement that all public low
Masses be participated Masses
in which all present are invited
to take their full and proper
part."
The pastoral also established
"an offering of five dollars ($5)
...for a public participated low
Mass, this stipend to be retain
ed by the celebrant."
AT THE same time the letter
asked that "all organists hence
forth be put on a mutually
agreeable fair salary basis,"
"In those places where or
ganists already receive a fixed
salary,” it said, "it was the
mind of the (Diocesan) Consul-
tors that an equitable adjust
ment be made in the payment
of the organists in order to
take care of the fact that the
need for and demands on par
ish organists will necessarily
increase as the liturgical re
newal produces its full effect
in parish life."
ARCHBISHOP Lawrence J.
Shehan of Baltimore, new’
chairman of the N.C.W.C.
Press Department, was
chosen by his fellow’ Bishops
for membership on the N.C.
W.C. administrative board at
last w'eek’s meeting of the U,
S. bishops. • See page 2.
MONUMENTAL TASKS AHEAD
Further Session Seen
As Urgent Necessity
70 or more Fathers. Two of
them said they wanted positive
consideration of the celibacy of
the clergy and that it must not
be looked on as a “sort of ad
mission ticket" to Holy Orders.
The opening Mass, celebrat
ed by Latin-rite Patriarch Al
berto Gori, O.F.M., of Jerusa
lem, was offered for all the sick
and particularly for sick bis
hops. The Gospel was enthron
ed by Abbot Anselmo Tranfa-
glia, O.S.B., head of the inde
pendent abbey of Monte Verg-
ine, Italy.
CARDINAL Spellman told the
assembly that the "direct inten
tion of the schema is to affirm
the rights of children and their
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BY JOHN COGLEY
VATICAN CITY (RNS)—Rome
is a lovely place to visit, but
even bishops — or most of
them anyway — would not want
to live there. Nothing, then, but
an urgent sense of duty is behind
their decision to carry Vatican
.II on to a fourth session, and
even a fifth, if necessary.
Last year, there was hope,
generally shared by the Fath
ers, that the third session, now
coming to a close, would be the
last. Aside from the bishops'
desire to get back to their dio
ceses, there were pressing fi
nancial reasons to wind it up.
The Council has been an expen
sive undertaking. The
Vatican picks up the cost of
travel and living for the mis
sionary bishops who come from
great distances to attend the
sessions — and that adds up.
The sheer household expenses
connected with such a meeting
run high; holding commission
meetings between sessions re
quires another large outlay of
money,
AT THE beginning, no one had
counted on such a big expendi
ture, Pope John himself, ac
cording to Archbishop John
Carmel Heenan of Westminster,
England, thought that the Coun
cil could be wound up by Christ
mastime, 1962, a few months af
ter its opening session. Few of
the bishops expected it to run
beyond two sessions. There was
general agreement, conse
quently, on a big push to make
the present session the last.
The managers of the Council
should certainly get an "A" for
effort. The third session began
at a breathless pace and has
maintained a rigid schedule.
Only once in the 10 weeks of
the session were the Fathers
given a break from the gruel
ling labors necessary to keep
the Council moving along. Ir-
relevancies and detours from
the subject under consideration
in the aula of St, Peter's were
sternly handled no matter how
eminent the offender.
Still, the effort was not suc
cessful. The end of the Council
is still not in sight. The least
successful of all speed -up de
vices was the attempt to cut
back a number of important
schemata to a series of "prop
ositions." Among the drafts so
reduced were those on the mis
sions, the priesthood, religious,
and seminaries. For a certain
number of Fathers, each of
these topics is of monumental
significance, and the decision
to deal with them with less than
full solemnity given other sub
jects was resented. The result
was that not one of the cut
back schemata was universally
welcomed. All of them have to
be largely re-written and will
come back for consideration at
the next session. Had they been
left as they were, full schema
ta, time might actually have
been saved. For the hours spent
criticizing them in their abbre
viated versions, much of it used
to denounce the cut-back, was
as great as would have been used
up for discussions of the origi
nal drafts.
THE IDEA when the abbrevia
tions were made was that there
would be no general discussions
of the "propositions." They
would simply be submitted to the
Fathers for a yes or no vote.
But this brought on immediate
dissatisfaction. The missionary
bishops, for example, would
have none of it, nor would those
prelates — like Cardinal Suen-
ens and Cardinal Leger — who
are concerned about the quality
of seminary training.
Early during this session,
then, Archbishop Pericle Fe-
lici, general secretary of the
Council, announced that "brief"
discussions would be allowed.
At first this was thought to be
merely a concession that two
speakers, one pro and one con,
would be permitted for each set
of propositions. But the Fathers
did not sit still for this, either.
So the result was that the sche-
mata-become-propositions re
ceived practically as lengthy at
tention as they would have got
ten had they been left in their
original state.
The cut-backs turned out to
be largely unsatisfactory. In al
most every case, the "relator"
introducing an abbreviated draft
explained that all that was left
of his commission’s work was
the bare bones and stated that
the rounded document originally
prepared for the Fathers was
better than the material he now
had to place before them. The
"bare bones," in several cases,
New Bishop
Is Named
WASHINGTON (NC) -- Pope
Paul VI has named Msgr, Jo
seph F, Donnelly of New Haven,
Conn., to be Titular Bishop of
Nabala and Auxiliary to Arch
bishop Henry J. O'Brien of
Hartford.
The appointment was announ
ced here by Archbishop Egidio
Vagnozzi, Apostolic Delegate in
the United States.
Bishop-elect Donnelly 55, is
pastor of St. John the Baptist
church, New Haven, a past pres
ident of the National Catholic
Cemetery Conference, and a
member and official of nume
rous Catholic and civic agen
cies.
INTERNATIONAL
amounted to flat, uninspiring
declarations about the matter
under study plus a few retreat-
master spiritual exhortations.
Time and time again, they were
brushed aside as "platitides,"
"sermons," and banalities, as
the bishops particularly con
cerned demanded that the Coun
cil dig deeper.
SO rr WAS with the proposi
tions on the missions, which,
despite the specific approval
they received from Pope Paul,
spoken in the aula itself, were
rejected by the Fathers. This
rejection of course was particu
larly painful, since the bishops
were loathe to oppose openly
what had already been given the
Holy Father’s personal appro
val. To go against the Pope’s
express wish that they give the
propositions their approval was
unheard of. Their boldness, in
fact, shocked many of the more
traditional-minded prelates in
Rome. It is rumored, also, that
the Holy Father was openly
displeased. . .But the Council
Fathers who voted again't the
Pope's wish were persuaded
that the supreme pontiff had
been badly advised in making
any such statement.
More important, they were
convinced that the missions
were not receiving the atten
tion they should have been given
in the Council. It is a sign of
the bishops' new sense of re
sponsibility that they did not
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Official
The faithful are reminded
that Archbishop Paul J. Hall-
inan has granted a dispensa
tion from the law of abstin
ence on Friday, Nov, 27, the
day after Thaksgiving. Meat
may be eaten on Friday, Nov.
27.
Pacem In Terris
Peace Study Set
CHICAGO (NC) —"This won't
be a meeting to propose uni
versal disarmament; this will
be a conference at which we'll
try to find the answers to how
peace can be achieved."
In these words, Robert M.
Hutchins, former chancellor of
the University of Chicago and
now president of the Center
for the Study of Democratic
Institutions, Santa Barbara,
Calif., explained the aims of his
group’s forthcoming meeting to
study one of Pope John XX-
III's encyclicals,
PLANNED for Feb. 18 to 20
1965, in New York City, the
meeting will be based on the
late Pope’s encyclical "Pacem
in Terris" (Peace on Earth).
Representatives of nations a-
round the world, including in
ternationally known figures—
even communists—have been
invited to attend.
Hutchins said the gathering
will parallel the late Pope's
encyclical by;
"STATING those principles
by which men of all faiths and
philosophies profess to live, and
asking the questions they know
must be answered if the world
is to have a chance of survi
val.
"Peace is the most basic
issue of our time."
At a luncheon meeting in the
Tavern Club, the group's aims
were spelled out for invited
guests.
W, Clement Stone, Chicago
philanthropist and insurance
executive, said he shared the
.group’s principles, but asked;
"WHAT are we going to do
with those countries that don’t
go along with our theories of
disarmament—those who would
like us to disarm so they can
extend their own power? You
just don’t disarm and let some
one else beat you up."
Hutchins answered that "one
of the purposes of the coming
convocation is to find an answ
er to just the question you've
posed."
Another speaker at the lunc
heon, Supreme Court Justice
William O, Douglas, agreed in
an interview that v> unilateral
disarmament is nonsense."
Deny U.S. Trip
VATICAN CITY (NC) — Re
ports by some news agencies
that Pope Paul VI is planning
to visit the United States are
without foundation, according to
Vatican officials.