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I 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." n a Home Heating? Choose electric... it's flameless! GEORGIA POWER COMPANY 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, j | f 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.