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PAGL 2 GEORGIA BULLETIN THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1964
ELECTED IN ROME
Archbishop Shehan Named
Head Of NC Press Dep’t
ROME (NC) — Archbishop
Lawrence J, Shehan of Balti
more was elected a member
of the Administrative Board of
the National Catholic Welfare
Conference at the annual gene
ral meeting of the Bishops of
the United States held here.
Archbishop Shehan was
chosen episcopal chairman of
the NCWC Press Departmental
the organization meeting of the
board which followed. He
succeeds Archbishop Joseph T,
McGucken of San Francisco,
who retired from the adminis
trative board after serving the
permissible five consecutive
one-year terms.
ARCHBISHOP Patrick A. O'
Boyle of Washington, D, C„
was chosen chairman of the
NCWC administrative board, a
post he held last year.
Other members of the board
and their offices are:
Archbishop William E. Cou
sins of Milwaukee, vice chair
man of the board and episco
pal chairman of the NCWC De
partment of Social Action; Ar
chbishop Karl J, Alteh of Cin
cinnati, secretary of the board;
Archbishop John F, Dearden of
Detroit, treasurer; Archbishop
John J. Krol of Philadelphia,
episcopal chairman of the
NCWC Department of Educa
tion; Bishop Emmet M. Walsh
of Youngstown, Ohio, episcopal
chairman of the NCWC Legal
Department; Archbishop Tho
mas A, Connolly of Seattle,
episcopal chairman of the
NCWC Department of Lay Or
ganizations; Archbishop John P,
Cody of New Orleans, episcopal
chairman of the NCWC Youth
Department.
THE Cardinals of the United
States are ex-officio members
of the administrative board.
The following prelates were
named to serve as assistant
chairmen of the various NCWC
departments:
THANKSGIVING
Auxiliary Bishop Clarence E,
Elwell of Cleveland, Depart
ment of Education; Auxiliary
Bishop John A, Donovan of De
troit, Legal Department; Auxi
liary Bishop Stephen A, Leven
of San Antonio, Department of
Lay Organizations; Auxiliary
Bishop Philip M, Hannan of
Washington, Press Department
Auxiliary Bishop T. Austin
Murphy of Baltimore, Immi
gration Department; Bishop Fr
ancis J. Schenk of Duluth, De
partment of Social Action; Bis
hop Coleman F, Carroll of Mi
ami, Youth Department,
AUXILIARY Bishop Ernest L,
Unterkoefler of Richmond was
named assistant secretary of
the board, and Auxiliary Bis
hop Henry E, Donnelly of Det
roit was named assistant trea
surer.
Bishop Thomas K. Gorman of
Dallas-Fort Worth was named
assistant to the chairman of
the administrative board for the
NCWC Bureau of Information,
Auxiliary Bishop John J, Dough
erty of Newark was named as
sistant to the chairman of the
board for the NCWC Office of
United Nations Affairs,
Bishop Ernest J, Primeau
of Manchester, N, H„ was
named episcopal advisor to
the NCWC Youth Department tor
the National Federation of Cath
olic College Students, Auxiliary
Bishop James William Malone
of Youngstown was namec Epis
copal advisor to the Youth De
partment for Newman Clubs,
THE following prelates were
named episcopal advisors to the
NCWC Department of Social Ac
tion:
Auxiliary Bishop Joseph B,
Brunini ofNatchez-Jackson, for
hospitals; Bishop Leo C, Byrne,
Apostolic Administrator of
Wichita, for charities; Bishop
Frederick W, Frekingof Salina,
for rural life; Bishop Andrew
G, Grutka of Gary, for prison
LBJ Proclamation
Asks Poverty End
AUSTIN, Tex. (NC)—Presi
dent Johnson, proclaiming Nov,
26 as Thanksgiving Day, pled
ged the nation to seek the era
dication of poverty in the U. S.
and throughout the world.
The President's proclama
tion called on Americans in
their homes and places of wor
ship to “give thanks to God for
His graciousness and His gene
rosity to us. . . and to pray
to Him that the forces of evil,
violence, indifference, intole
rance and inhumanity may soon
vanish from the face of the earth
and that peace, reason, under
standing and good will may
regin supreme throughout the
world."
NOTING that the U. S. owes
God gratitude for "another year
in which we have been blessed
with a bountiful harvest, with
intellectual, humanitarian, eco
nomic, scientific and technical
advances and achievements and
with other gains too numerous
to mention," Mr. Johnson said:
"Although we have been
blessed with unsurpassed pro
sperity, we recognize that
poverty and want exist through
out the world—even among us—■
and we pledge ourselves to the
eradication of those evils."
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chaplains, and Bishop Christo
pher J, Weldon of Springfield,
Mass,, for family life,-
Msgr, Paul F. Tanner, a
priest of the Archdiocese of
Milwaukee, was reappointed
General Secretary of the NCWC,
Msgr, Francis T, Hurley, a
priest of the Archdiocese of San
Francisco, was reappointed As
sistant General Secretary,
DURING their annual general
meeting, held at the North Ame
rican College, the bishops
took part in a recited Mass
of requiem offered up in the col
lege's chapel for Archbishop
Joseph F, Rummel of New Or-
leans, who died a few days
earlier. The Mass was offered
by Bishop Charles P, Greco
of Alexandria, La„ a longtime
friend and suffragan of Arch
bishop Rummel,
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In otheractions attheirmeet-
ing the bishops set up new
committees to study or to im
plement decisions being taken
at the Second Vatican Council,
The committees will deal with
ecumenical affairs, updating of
the NCWC and the bishops'con
ference, a study of lay orga
nizations in the U. S„ and li
aison between the bishops and
men and women Religious,
The bishops also approved a
recommendation of the board of
trustees of the Catholic Uni
versity of America to sell the
off-campus law school build
ing in Washington, D. C„ and
to construct a new one on the
university's campus. The re
commendation was made be
cause it was believed that law
students would benefit from an
on-campus school through
closer association with other
courses of study being offer
ed on the campus.
THE bishops voted to broa
den the purposes of the Ameri
can Board of Catholic Missions
to permit its funds to be used
by U, S, missioners and lay
apostles in Latin America,They
also voted to contribute
$1,250,000 for the rebuilding
and modernization program of
Montezuma Seminary in New
Mexico,
The bishops abolished their
committee on migrant workers
and entrusted its functions to
the Bishops* Committee for the
Spanish Speaking.
They voted to establish new
offices at the NCWC headquar
ters for ecumenical affairs
and the liturgical apostolate.
The general meeting added
the following bishops to exist
ing committees:
COMMITTEE on L a t i*n
America: Archbishop Edward
J, Hunkeler of Kansas City in
Kansas and Bishop Robert E,
Tracy of Baton Rouge, La.
Committee for the North
American College in Rome:
Bishop Francis J, Reh, rec
tor of the college, and Auxili
ary Bishop John J, Maguire
of New York,
Committee for the Monte
zuma Seminary: Auxiliary Bi
ship Edward E, Swanstrom of
New York, executive director
of Catholic Relief Services-
NCWC.
COMMITTEE for the National
Shrine of the Immaculate Con
ception: Archbishop Joseph T,
McGucken of San Francisco,
Committee for the Spanish
Speaking: Archbishop Luis Ap
onte Martinez of San Juan, Pue
rto Rico, Bishop George J. Re
tiring of Toledo, Bishop Francis
P, Leipzing of Baker, Ore,;
Bishop Coleman F, Carroll of
Miami, Auxiliary Bishop John
J, Maguire of New York, and
Bishop Hugh A, Donohoe of
Stockton.
Committee for the Liturgical
Apostolate: Bishop William G,
Connare of Greensburg, Pa„
andBishop Francis J, Furey,
Apostolic Administrator of San
Diego,
The term of Auxiliary Bishop
John A, Donovan of Detroit on
the Committee for Radlo.Tele-
vision and Motion Pictures was
extended for another year.
Bishop Donovan was given the
task last year of making a
study for the bishops on how the
Church In the U, S, could
make most effective use of
mass media.
CONDENSED FORM
Schema On Priest Training
Stresses Pastoral Aspects
THE VIRGIN and the Child Jesus, a new life-size sculp
tured group by New York sculptor Jean de Marco, domin
ates the recently completed Mary, Queen of All Hearts
chapel in the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception,
Washington, D.C. Tho chapel is the gift of the Montfort
Fathers and will be dedicated in 1965.
VATICAN CITY (NC)—The
schema on the formation of
priests, as it reached the floor
of the Second Vatican Council,
was reduced from a lengthy
treatise entitled "On Semi
naries" to 22 propositions with
a brief introduction.
This, however, represented
an expansion upon an earlier set
of 19 propositions to which the
original version had been re
duced by order of the council's
coordinating commission.
THE introduction to the re
vised schema insists that the
renewal of the entire Church de
pends in large part on the der^
gy. Therefore the training of
priests is of first importance.
The first proposition, in view
of local diversity of peoples and
conditions, merely sets forth
general laws. Individual con
ferences of bishops are charg
ed with drawing up programs
for priestly formation—to be
periodically revised and sub
mitted to the Holy See for ap
proval. In this way, the univer
sal laws will be adapted to the
needs and characteristics of in
dividual peoples and countries,
THE second proposition: The
entire Christian community,
especially parents and priests,
should foster vocations to the
priesthood by prayer, penance,
good example and other means.
Vocations should be fostered to
WIND UP NINTH WEEK
Council Fathers Get Ready
For Debate On Ecumenism
VATICAN CrTY (NC) —
Strong criticism of the draft
document on Religious and more
favorable treatment of that on
seminary training marked the
ninth week of the ecumenical
council's third session.
The council Fathers conclud
ed the week by clearing the
way for promulgation of the
schema on ecumenism, which
treats of the Church's attitudes
on Christian unity. They did
this by passing the ecumenism
schema's third chapter, thus
winding up their chapter-by
chapter balloting on the
schema.
THE council participants
groaned as they heard plans to
bring them into the council
hall for double sessions on
some days of the final week.
In their voting on six propo
sitions in the draft document
on the Religious they showed
such dissatisfaction with the
statements offered to them that
they insured that the proposi
tions will have to be heavily
revised.
In the discussion on the pro
positions dealing with seminar
ies, there were two major is
sues. One centered on whether
or not the philosophy and theo
logy of St. Thomas Aquinas
should be given special rever
ence in seminary studies. The
other was concerned with pos
sible breaks in seminary tra
ining to allow candidates to
gain experience in daily life
as it affects the priesthood.
Archbishop Dino Staffa of the
MEET MODERN NEEDS
Cardinal Urges
Nuns’ ‘New Deal’
VATICAN errY (RNS) — A
"new deal" for the Church's
1,200,000 nuns was urged by a
progressive cardinal when the
Second Vatican Council debated
19 propositions on how relig
ious orders of men and women
adapt themselves to changing
world conditions.
Leo Jozef Cardinal Suenens,
Archbishop of Malines-Brus-
sels and Primate of Belgium,
was one of 19 speakers at the
120th gener^J congregation,
most of whom criticized the
draft propositions as unsatis
factory because they failed ade
quately to stress the need for
renovation. However, Ernesto
Cardinal Ruffini, Archbishop of
Palermo, Sicily, and other con
servatives warned that the dan
ger of renovation might give
rise to a desire for excessive
change,
CARDINAL Suenens spoke
with special authority on the
question of the women's orders.
He is the author of a widely-
discussed current book, 'The
Nun in the Modern- World,"
which is concerned with the
needs of nuns to adapt their
spiritual lives to present de
mands made upon the Church.
The 60-year-old primate, one
of the Council's four modera
tors, complained that too many
of the religious orders "retrain
ridiculous complications from
past centuries which give more
of an impression of the Church
growing old than that of meet
ing the needs of today",
ONE complication, he said,
was the robes of some nuns,
which he described as a cause
of ridicule in the street and
elsewhere. Moreover, he ar
gued, these robes were also
most impractical for the var
ious tasks facing nuns. Nor, the
cardinal said, is there any need
for nuns to be like little girls
"who have to have a compan
ion holding them by the hand
every time they leave the
house". This was a reference
to regulations which require
nuns always to go in pairs when
engaged in ourside duties.
Cardinal Suenens said there
were many "anachronistic us
ages and customs" among nuns
which should be abolished.
He severely criticized the
excessive "matemalism" of
mothers superior and said this
was one of the two dangers to
be avoided. The second danger,
he said, was a consequence of-
the first—"passive abdication
of the personality with conse
quent infantilism that resulted
from rules of obedience that
were too strict",
"IF ACTIVE Sisters," he
said, "are to correspond to the
needs of the Church, they must
be made conscious of their hu
man qualities and be allowed to
act like adult women."
Besides urging that antiquat
ed customs inside convents be
abolished and that mothers su
perior be given limited terms of
office, he suggested that Sis
ters have a more active say in
governing the conduct of their
individual chapters, instead of
leaving all decisions to the
mother superior.
In conclusion, Cardinal Suen
ens called for a new theological
approach to the question of
nuns, with more stress on the
positive side of the vows they
take.
OTHER speakers who called
for improvements in the draft
had in mind the 800,000 priests
and brothers who are members
of religious orders,
FATHER Joseph Buckley,
American-born superior of the
Society of Mary (Marist Fath
ers) complained, in the name of
130 other Council Fathers, that
"young people today do not easi
ly accept the archaic formulas
according to which the voice
of the superior is purely and
simply the voice of God."
Roman Curia called St,Thotnas
the "man of all hours" who is
as valid today as ever. But
Paul Emile Cardinal Leger of
Montreal commented, "Woe to
the Church of one teacher"
and asked that the council re
cognize that several philosophi
cal systems may be useful.
OPPONENTS of the proposal
to break seminary training for
encounters with the world out
side came up with two sugges
tions. One was for a period of
pastoral apprenticeship by new
priests r for as long as two years
after ordination. Another was
for the use of vacation periods
to provide the practical contacts
with thelife of the laity.
Menawhile, it has been learn
ed that the council declarations
on non-Christian religious and
religious freedom may not be
promulgated at this session.
The latter is being held up
because a key passage concerns
the concept of collegiality and
collegiality itself has still not
been approved by Fathers in its
final form.
Leo Cardinal Suenens of
Malines-Brussels told the 120th
council meeting (Nov. 11) that
the propositions on Religious
were unacceptable and that a
new document was needed. He
said that nuns* grab is a "cause
for ridicule" and called for an
end to the requirement that a
nun going outside her convent
must be accompanied by another
Sister, He said some super
iors grant Religious little or no
participation in community life
and that some Religious resign
themselves to obedience bor
dering on infantilism,
INDIAN Archbishop Dominic
Athaide of Agra criticized the
clothing ceremonies of some
congregations, saying they are
often marked by undue pomp
and expense.
Father Joseph Buckley, S.M.
Minnesota-born superior gene
ral of the Society of Mary,
objected that the document con
tained no ' gesture of friend
ship" for the diocesan clergy
who, he said, have much in
common with Religious priests.
Jaime Cardinal de Barros
Camara of Rio de Janeiro said
the propositions should deal
with the problems of religious
only in a general way, leav
ing the details up to a post
council commission,
ERNESTO Cardinal Ruffini of
Palermo, Italy, warned against
excessive renovation in re--
ligious communities, saying
that this could lead to wild de
sire for undue change,
Paul Cardinal Richaud of
Bordeaux, France, asked for a
better treatment of the differ
ences between active and con
templative Religious and said
that the text was too juridical.
Juan Cardinal Landazuri Ric
ketts, O.F.,M., of Lima, Peru,
said he wanted a clear state
ment on the role of contempla
tive Religious in the Church,
Criticism continued the fol
lowing day (Nov. 12) when the
Fathers decided to cut off the
debate. Despite critical com
ments, the Fathers voted 1,155
to 882 not to send the proposi
tions back to commission for
extensive revision.
MOVING on to the proposi
tions on seminary training, Al
bert Cardinal Meyer of Chica
go said that much in the sem
inary proposition is good but
added that he wanted a clear
er statement of what is com
mon to all seminary training
and what is adaptable to local
circumstances and needs,
A former seminary professor,
he said he was pleased that the
text entrusts national episcopal
conferences with adaptation for
their areas, subject to the Holy
See's approval.
To provide for a clearer vis
ion of unity for the priestly
apostolate, he suggested that
the propositions on seminary
training be combined with those
on the priesthood to form one
expanded schema.
Another former seminary
professor. Archbishop Giovanni
Colombo of Milan, said the
text assures the formation of
priests who are mature men and
not narrowminded. However, he
cautioned aginst emphasis on
preserving seminaries from
the "contagion of the world"
which leads to passivity toward,
the world and its problems, He-
also urged that the Church as
sure that students will be free
to leave the seminary at any
time if they feel they lack ad
vocation without fear of being
accused of unfaithfulness to the
grace of God, disloyalty to fam
ily, ingratitude and the like.
JOSE Cardinal Buenoy Mon-
real of Seville, Spain, said
the text is acceptable but that
the council Fathers must add a
clearer notion of "vocation"
as applied to the priesthood,
which is distinct from the
otherr vocations. He sugges
ted that training in minor se
minaries be broadened so that
it might provide a preparation
for life in the lay world if a
youngster decides he has no
priestly vocation.
GOLD MEDALIST Ulis Wil
liams. of the winning U.S.
1,600-meter relay team at
Tokyo Olympics, has joined
the Los Angeles CYO staff
as a group social worker.
meet not only local needs but
also those of the church every
where.
Third: Minor seminaries
should respect the norms of
sound psychology. Students
should not be too isolated from
the world and their families.
The curriculum should be plan
ned to allow those who leave the
seminary to continue their stud
ies elsewhere without difficul
ty. Seminaries for late voca
tions are to be promoted.
Fourth: Training for the
priesthood must be markedly
pastoral, especially in major
seminaries.
Fifth: Superiors and profes
sors of major and minor semi
naries should be chosen from
among the most capable priests
and should be especially pre
pared for their jobs.
Sixth: Ever greater care
must be exercised in screening
vocations.
Seventh: Interregional semi
naries should be organized
where a satisfactory diocesan
seminary cannot be organized.
Large seminaries should group
their students to allow more
attention to the personal for
mation of each individual stu
dent.
Eighth: Spiritual formation
in seminaries must be solid and
Chfist-centered. It must be
aimed at acquiring priestly vir
tues.
Ninth: A deep sense of the
Church must create in priests a
spirit of unity, service, obed
ience and abnegation.
Tenth: Priestly chastity
should be inculcated, and stu
dents should be warned and
equipped against modern dan
gers to chastity.
Eleventh: Priestly forma
tion must apply all norms of
Christian education, taking ad
vantage of progress in psy
chology and pedagogy—the art
of teaching.
Twelfth: Bishops must allow
vocations to mature in young
men, using all the means and
time necessary br opportune.
Thirteenth: A solid scien
tific and humanistic prepara
tion shall precede ecclesias
tical studies.
Fourteenth: Ecclestical
studies will begin with an intro
duction to the mystery of Christ,
which will recapitulate the his
tory of humankind and will serve
as a center of all priestly for
mation.
Fifteenth: Seminarians should
be given a clear and coherent
grasp of the principles of tra
ditional philosophy. They should
also learn about other philoso
phical systems, especially
modern ones, and about scien
tific advances, so as to under
stand and answer the questions
of modern man.
Sixteenth:, Theological educa
tion should enable the student,
under the guidance of the
Church’s teaching authority, to
.grasp Revelation. Holy Writ
must be the soul of all theolo
gical studies in such a way as
to become also the soul of all.
priestly life. Seminarians
should also learn of the Chris
tian communities separated
from the Holy See and of non-
Christian religions, too.
Seventeenth: Teaching meth
ods should be revised and mod
ernized, subjects and class
hours should be kept at a mini
mum, and obsolete questions
should be eliminated.
Eighteenth: Bishops are to
send their more talented candi
dates for special training not
only in sacred studies but also
in other fields to meet the needs
of the apostolate.
Nineteenth: Special attention
should be paid to pastoral for
mation.
Twentieth: Such broad and
modern pastoral formation
must have a universal spirit.
Twenty-first: This pastoral
formation is to be practical as
well as theoretical and is to be
accompanied by apostolic train
ing.
Twenty-second: Episcopal
conferences will study the most
effective means of enabling
priests to pursue their forma
tion after the seminary.