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PAGE 8 GEORGIA BULLETIN THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1964
PRELIMINARY VOTE
Council Statement Absolves Jews
Of Charge Of Christ’s Death
VATICAN crry (RNS)—The
Second Vatican Council, in an
action of historic and far-
reaching ecumenical impor
tance, approved a statement on
Catholic - Jewish relations
which absolved Jews of the
charge of deicide in the cruci
fixion of Christ,
The statement on the Jews
was among the most contro
versial topics to come before
the Council since it began three
years ago.
INCORPORATED in a 1,200-
word draft "On the Relation
of the Church to the Non-Chris
tian Religions," which also
dealt with Moslems, Buddhists,
Hindus and other major reli
gions, it was adopted by a vote
of 1,657 to 99, with 242 Coun
cil Fathers voting "yes" with
reservations.
The vote, however, was apre-
LEA VINE ROME
ROME (NO}— Bishop Edward
0, Daly, O.P„ of Des Moines,
Iowa, was killed (Nov, 23) when
a jetliner he was riding crash
ed and exploded while taking off
from Rome's Fiumicino air
port.
The 70-year-old prelate was
leaving Rome on his way to the
38th International Eucharistic
Congress in Bombay, India,
With him on the plane and also
killed in the crash was Msgr,
Joseph L. Sondag, pastor of SS,
Peter and Paul church in At
lantic, Iowa, and an official of
the Deg Moines diocesan court,
THE four-jet TWA airliner
was taking off for Athens with
72 persons aboard when a fire
broke out in a wheel assembly
The pilot attempted to brake the
plane, but it skidded across the
end of the runway and hit a truck.
After a few persons rumbled
from the doors, the plane sud
denly burst into flames.
Bishop Daly and Msgr, Son
dag were two of the 12 persons
who boarded the plane in Rome,
The flight originated in Kansas
City, Mo, Thirty of those
aboard survived. But eight of
these were in critical condition
(N.C.W.C. News Service)
ZURICH, Switzerland—Pro
testants in German-language
terriroty have expressed rath
er widespread disappointment
regarding the outcome of the
ecumenical council's third ses
sion. The critical reactions have
been caused by the postpon-
ment of the vote on religious
liberty and the last minute
amendments introduced by
"higher authority" into the de
cree on ecumenism.
The Neu Zuercher, Switzer
land's leading daily newspaper,
said it was unfortunate the ecu
menism text was amended u
refer to Protestants "seeking
God in Sacred Scripture" rath
er than their "finding" God in
it, as the original text read,
THE Rev. Oscar Cuilmann,
Protestant theologian at the
Universities of Paris and Basel,
Switzerland, said the change
was "in poor taste" Cuilmann
was at the council as a per
sonal quest of Augustin Cardi
nal Bea, president of the Sec
retariat for Promoting Chris
tian Unity.
Dr, Edmund Schlink of Heid
elberg University, who was a
council observer for the Ger
man Evangelical (Lutheran)
Church, conceded that the sche
mata adopted by the council in
dicate considerable progress.
However, he said in an inter
view, the definition of episcopal
liminary one. The draft must be
revised to take into account the
reservations expressed by the
large group of prelates. How
ever, the favorable first vote
meant that no substantial chan
ges can be made before the dec
laration is brought up at the
Council's fourth session for
final ratification.
Expected to become a formal
Council decree in due time, the
declaration condemns anti-
Semitism and all forms of dis
crimination or harassment on
the basis of race, color or
creed.
REGARDING the charge of
deicide made against the Jewish
people, the declaration says:
"Nothing in (Catholic) cate
chetical work or preaching
should teach anything that could
give rise to hatred or contempt
of Jews in the heart of Chris-
in Rome hospitals.
Bishop Daly was born in Cam
bridge, Mass,, on Oct. 24,1894,
He was the son of James Ed
ward and Elizabeth (Cairns)
Daly. He attended Boston Col
lege (1912-14) before entering
the novitiate of the Dominican
Order at Somerset, Ohio , in
1914. He took courses at the
Dominican house of studies in
Washington, D.C., from 1915 to
1924, After his ordination, June
12, 1921, he studied canon law at
the Gatnolic University of
America from 1921 to 1924,
later serving as professor of
canon law at the Dominican
House of Studies, Washington,
FROM 1923 to 1948 he served
as secretary and archivist at the
Apostolic Delegation in Wash
ington. He was appointed bishop
on March 13,1948* and was con
secrated in Des Moines that
May 13 by Archbishop (now
Cardinal) Amleto Cicognani,
then Apostolic Delegate to the
Unived States,
Bishop Daly was named an
Assistant at the Papal Throne
by Pope Pius XII on May 25,
1958. He was an elected mem
ber of the Second Vatican Coun
cil's Commission for Religion.
collegiality "in no way detracts
from the traditional concept of
papal primacy which we Pro
testants cannot accept,"
Other Protestant leaders re
ferred especially to the "ex
planatory note" regarding col-
legiality that was attached to
the Constitution on the Church
as a quasi-official document.
Despite the overwhelming vote
of approval on the constitution,
they regard the note as indicat
ing a fundamental division of
opinion between the Pope and the
council majority of this basic
issue.
Some Protestants here have
also expressed misgivings
about the ceremonies held in
Rome's Basilica o f St. Mary
Major during the council's last
day. They said the ceremonies
indicate undue emphasis on
Marian piety. They feel that
Pope Paul's proclaimation of
the Blessed Virgin as Mother of
the Church runs counter to the
will of the council majority and
is likely to be misunderstood
by other denominations.
First Friday
Reverend Eusebius Beltran
will be guest speaker at the
First Friday Club luncheon
meeting at twelve noon on
THURSDAY December 3rd in
the Medallion Room of the Pied
mont Hotel,
tians. The Jewish people should
never be presented as one re
jected, cursed or guilty of dei
cide. What happened to Christ
in His Passion cannot be attri
buted to the whole people then
alive, much less to that of to
day."
The declaration adds that the
Church "held and holds that
Christ underwent His death
freely because of the sins of all
men and out of infinite love,"
IN A section on Moslems, the
declaration says" that "in the
past, many quarrels and hos
tilities have arisen between
Christians and Moslems," but
the Council "urges all not only
to forget the past, but also to
work honestly for mutual un
derstanding and to further as
well as guard together social
justice, all moral goods, es
pecially peace and freedom, so
that mankind may benefit."
Of other diverse non-Chris
tian religions, the draft says
that "nothing that is true and
holy in these religions the Cath
olic Church scorns ... The
Church regards with sincere
reverence those ways of action
and life, precepts and teachings
which, although they differ from
the ones she sets forth, reflect
nonetheless a ray of that trutl
which enlightens all men."
The vote on the declaration
came at the Council's 127th gen
eral congregation or just a day
before the solemn closing of its
third session.
n WAS presented by Augus
tin Cardinal Bea In the name of
the Secretariat for Promoting
Christian Unity which he heads
and which prepared the draft.
Declaring that "we can apply
to this declaration the biblical
comparison of the grain of mus
tard seed," he said it was first
intended as a brief statement on
the Church and the Jewish peo
ple, "but in the course of time
this little seed has become al
most a tree in which many birds
are already finding nests, that
is to say, in which all non-
Christian religions are finding
their proper place."
“It was not an easy task,"he
added, "to sum up all this ma
terial in a few pages. The sec
retariat endeavored to weigh
carefully all observations im
partially and sincerely."
THE original draft on Catho-
lic-Jewish relations was intro
duced toward the close of the
Council's second session last
year, but there was insufficient
time to discuss It. The first ver
sion emphasized that all man
kind, not the Jews alone, was re
sponsible for the death of
Christ, and this was hailed by
Jewish leaders as a clear repu
diation of the ancient charge of
deicide which was regarded as a
basic cause of anti-Semitism.
Later it was reported that the
declaration had been revised
during the Council recess to
state merely that Catholics
should "refrain from accusing
the Jews of our times of what
was perpetrated during the Pas
sion of Christ."
This, plus what was said to be
a stress in the revised draft on
“the Church’s great desire" for
the conversion of the Jews, stir
red critical reactions in many
Jewish circles.
THE NEW text not only clear
ly absolves the Jews of deicide,
but limits itself to a general ex
pression of hope for the ulti
mate reunion of all in Christ.
It says:
"Even though a large part of
the Jews do not accept the Gos
pel, they remain dear to God for
the sake of the patriarchs. The
Church awaits the day known to
God alone, on which all people
will address the Lord in a sin
gle voice and 'serve Him
shoulder to shoulder* (Sophon-
ias, 3, 9)," Sophonias is a
Jewish prophet also known as
Zephanlash.
Among American prelates
who spoke out strongly for a
strengthened statement on the
Jews at the third session were
Richard Cardinal Cushing,
Archbishop of Boston, and Arch
bishop Patrick A. O'Boyle of
Washington, D, C.
CARDINAL Cushing told the
Council at its 89th general con
gregation that the declaration
"must deny that there is any
special culpability of the Jews in
the death of Christ.,. If no voice
has been raised in the past (in
defense of the Jews), it falls up
on us to raise our voices now."
Archbishop O'Boyle, declar
ing that he spoke as an Ameri
can "whose country has more
Jews in its population than any
other country," called for "an
act of contrition and repara
tion" from the Council for past
misdeeds against the Jews.
(In an interview in New York
prior to the Council’s vote,
Cardinal Cushing said: "I would
be tremendously disappointed if
the Jews do not get a favorable
statement. I left my vote there
(In Rome), I couldn't do any
thing more than that... I don't
see how the declaration cannot
he approved. I can’t say the Jews
will get everything they want,
but they will get a statement that
will be favorable to them.")
CHIEF opposition to the draft
at that time came from Middle
East patriarchs, concerned
over possible political conse
quences in Arab countries. They
Included A.rchbishop Joseph
Tawil, Patriarchal Vicar for
Melkite Rite Catholics in Da
mascus, Syria, and Ignace Gab
riel Cardinal Tappouni, Patri
arch of Antioch of the Syrians,
who spoke in the name of four
other Middle East patriarchs.
In its current form, the dec
laration is in five parts. It in
cludes a general introduction
saying that "the community of
all people is one*' in the re
ligious problem of seeking an
swers to riddles of man's fate.
The following sections take up
in order: The diverse non-
Christian religions; Hinduism
and Buddhism; the Moslems;
the Jews. Finally, there is a
call for universal brotherhood
without discrimination.
Of the Jews, the declaration
says:
"THE Church of Christ grate
fully acknowledges that, ac
cording to God's saving design,
the beginnings of her faith and
her election were already
among the Patriarchs, Moses
and the prophets. All Chris
tians — Abraham's sons ac
cording to faith — were in
cluded in the same patriarchs’
calls.
"The Church cannot forget
that she received the revelation
of the Old Testament from the
people whom God in His mercy
concluded the former covenant.
The Church believes that by
His Cross, Christ reconciled
Jews and Gentiles, making both
one,"
The declaration also notes
that "the son of Mary, the Vir
gin, the Apostles, as well as
most of the early disciples,
spring from the Jewish peo
ple."
SPEAKING of the Moslems,
the declaration said that
"though they do not acknowledge
Jesus as God, they revere Him
as a prophet. They also honor
Mary, His Virgin Mother, At
times they even call on her with
devotion.*. They worship God
through prayer, almsgiving, and
fasting, Th$y seek to make the
moral life — be it that of the
individual or that of the family
and society — conformable to
His will."
In the section of various oth
er non-Christian religions, the
declaration says that "reli
gions in an advanced culture
have been able to use more re
fined concepts and more de
veloped language in their strug
gle for an answer to man's
religious questions."
"In Hinduism," it states,
"men use myths and philosophi
cal ways in the effort to fathom
the divine mystery," while
Buddhism "teaches the way of
liberation through self-denial
and inner purification in order
to obtain a state of lasting
rest."
At Holy Family
The Holy Family Hospital Aux
iliary will hold an Executive
Meeting at the Holy Family Hos
pital 501 Fairburn Rd. S.W. on
Thursday, Dec. 3, 1964 at 10:00
a.m, the board will meet at 11;0Q
a.m.
Bishop Daly Dies
In Airline Crash
EUROPEAN PROTESTANTS
Council Outcome
Draws Criticism
DIVINE LITURGY in the Byzantine Rite concelebrated by 14 Eastern Rite prelates (Nov. 13) in the presence of Pope
Paul VI and council Fathers in St. Peter's basilica. Bishop Nicholas T. Elko of the Pittsburgh Byzantine Rite diocese, and
Ukrainian Rite Archbishop Maxim Hermaniuk, C.SS.R., of Winnipeg, Man., were among the 14 concelebrating prelates.
IN WASHINGTON
ARTHRITIS
Negro Women’s Meeting
Gets Assist From NCCW
The convention of the National
Council of Catholic Women just
held here attracted some 5,000
participants. It required the fa
cilities of two large hotels to
accommodate the delegates and
the various sessions of the
meeting. During most of the
same days, the National Coun
cil of Negro Women was also
meeting in one of the two ho
tels.
Shortly before the conven
tions opened,and while the two
organizations wereworkingona
joint project, Dorothy Height,
president of the National Coun
cil of Negro Women, noted that
Barbara Ward (Lady Jackson)
the English economist, was
scheduled to address the Na
tional Council of Catholic Wo
men. Miss Height confided to
Margaret Mealey, executive
director of the NCCW, that
her organization had wanted
Barbara Ward on their pro
gram. They had not been able
to contact her, probably be
cause the noted lecturer was
enroute.
MISS WARD had arrived in
the U. S. by that time, and
Miss Mealey urged Miss He
ight to repeat the invitation,
addressing it to a hotel in
New York. At the same time,
Miss Mealey supported the in-
FROM WALSINGHAM
vltatlon with an appeal of her
own, and Miss Ward readily ag
reed to make a second-talk In
Washington.
Miss Ward's talk to a capa
city audience of the NCCW on
Friday was a highlight of the
Catholic women's convention.
Her talk at a luncheon next
day was an outstanding event
of the Negro women's meeting.
Friday night, at the NCCW
convention banquet, Jane Wyatt,
star of screen and television,
was featured in a performing
arts program produced by the
Speech and Drama Department
of the Catholic University of
America. After the dinner.
Miss Wyatt expressed regret
that, due to day-long rehear-
slas, she had not been able to
hear Miss Ward's address on
Friday.
MISS MEALEY asked Miss
Height if Miss Wyatt might at
tend the Negro women's lunch
eon which Miss Ward was to
address next day. Miss Height
was delighted, and the National
Council of Negro Women had
two stars at its closing day
session, thanks to the NCCW.
Earlier Saturday, Miss Height
was on a panel program of the
Catholic women’s meeting.
The NCCW convention here
Anglican Advocates
Marian Devotion•
CLEVELAND (NC)~An Eng
lish Protestant minister visit
ing here advocates a renewal
of devotion to the Blessed Vir
gin Mary,
Father Colin Stephenson, an
Anglican, is administrator of a
40-year old shrine to Mary
at Walsingham, site of Eng
land's Catholic shrine to Mary
dating from the 11th century.
IN town to dedicate a rep
lica of the Anglican shrine's
statue of the Blessed Mother
and the Christ Child in St.
James Episcopal Church here,
Father Stephenson's message
was that England is returning
Luncheon, Talk
At St. Anthony’s
St. Anthony’s Altar and Ros
ary Society will give a Bridge
Luncheon, sponsored by St. Jo
seph’s Circle, Thursday, Dec
ember 3, 10 a.m. Church Aud
itorium. Donation $1.25.
On Sunday, December 6, at 3
p.m. in the church auditorium,
Sister Mary Benedict, of Our
Lady of Perpetual Help Can
cer Home, will be guest spea
ker at the Altar and Rosary
Meeting. All ladies of the Par
ish are invited. Refreshments
will be served.
to Walsingham and Our Lady
is returning to England — to
stir a movementtowardChrist
ian unity and to drive away the
strife and bitterness of 400
years.
He said Walsingham, where
King Henry VIII destroyed the
ancient Marian shrine, is the
focal point of a movement in
the Church of England to re
store full honor to Mary and
to regain those elements and
practices of the ancient Faith,
lost in post - Regormation
change.
There is need for a larger
church in Walsingham, Father
Stephenson said, He hopes that
it will be built by Catholics
and Anglicans together who al
ready have been praying to
gether there in all-night vigils.
The present church contains a
replica of the house of the Holy
Family, he said, with walls con
structed of stones from almost
every religious house destroyed
at the time of the Reformation—
a living act of reparation.
"WALSINGHAM has great
value ecumenically," Father
Stephenson said, "because Ca
tholics find it hard to under
stand the apparent Protestant
coolness toward Mary, and be
cause Protestants need to en
gage in dialogue about her."
had the largest number of vot
ing delegates in the council’s
history. An official of the hotel
said the order for fish for the
Friday night banquet may well
have been the largest ever plac
ed for such a function in the
U.S.
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we know DOLCIN has helped millions
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you give it a fair trial, DOLCIN may
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a bottle at your drug store today?
INDIA: SISTER BOSCO’S SECRET
HER LIFE IS NOT HER OWN. IT BELONGS TO GOD'S
POOR In Karik-kattoor, south INDIA. “I am their servant,”
she says quietly. “To bring: them to.
Christ, one must live Christ, not talk
about Htro.” ; . . Prayerful common
sense is Sister Itosao'a secret wca-.
pon. The children she teaches, all
of them poor, will help make tomor-.
row’s India . . . Completely worn out,
she will sleep tonight on a packed-,
mud floor (there are no beds) in a
thatch-roofed, mud hut, with seven
other Sisters of the Sacred Heart,
_. Tomorrow morning, rain or shine,
Tat Holy Fetbtr s Mutton Aid they will trudge to Mass three miles
foe lb« Qriinid Ck*rth away . . . The Sisters need a convent
($1,600), with a chapel of their own ($900), of course. They also
need eight classrooms ($300 each). The penniless poor they
give their lives to can give the Sisters nothing in return . . .
Won’t you give whatever help you can? You may give the
convent ($1,600), or the obapef ($900), or a classroom, ($300) all
by yourself, if you wish, in memory of those you love, and name
it for your favorite saint. No gift Is too smaH (ft, $2, $5, $10,
$20). For years to come, the youngsters and Sister Bgmco will
remember you in their prayers..
FOOD—FOOD IS SO SCARCE in India (It’s being rationed
in Kerala State) the Holy Father’s agency is distributing canned
foods <2,000 tons), wheat and flour (1,700 tons), clothing (1,000
bales), and medicines, to, the poor . . . Like to help? Tell us to
use your gift <$10 will feed a family for a month) “where it’s’
needed most.**
VESTMENTS—FOR USE DURING THE EUCHARISTIC
CONGRESS in Bombay this week, the Holy Father has donated
500 copes and stoles. They’ll be given to poor parishes hi India
after the Congress closes ... In memory of a loved one, or as a
token of affection for someone still alive, give new Mass vest
ments ($50), a chalice ($40), a year's supply of candles ($20), or
altar linens ($15), to a needy mission ch^iel. We‘11 send a
GIFT CARD, if you wtsh.
CARDS—HAVE YOU SEEN OUR CHRISTMAS GIFT
CARDS? They combine your Season’s Greetings with a gift tq
the missions in the name of the person you designate. You
simply select a gift, send us the person’s name and address with
your donation—and we do all the rest. We’ll send that person
a GIFT CARD, In time for Christmas, indicating what yqu have
done . . . Here are some gifts to select from: Mass kit ($100),
altar ($75). medical kit ($75), monstrance ($40), ciborium ($40),
tabernacle ($23), sanctuary lamp ($13), pyx ($13), sgint’s picture
($15), sanctuary bell ($5).
PERSONAL TO R.V.—YES, WE HAVE THE NAMES of
hundreds of young girls In India who need financial assistance
in order to become Sisters. The cost of the two-yesr training
for each is $300 altogether ($150 a year, $12.50 a month).
Simply write to us. She will pray for you, and you’ll be part of
all the good she does.
TOYS—THE SISTERS AT OUR ORPHANAGE in Bethlehem,
Christ’s birthplace, need help at Christmas for 42 little girls.
Your gift <$1, $2. $5, $10) will fill innocent hearts with happiness.
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