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PAGE 2 GEORGIA BULLETIN THURSDAY, JANUARY 7, 1965 BEGINNING IS AUSPICIOUS 9 Self-Abolition Seen As Ultimate Goal Of Secretariat For Unity BY FATHER PLACID JORDAN, O.S.B. (N.C.W.C. News Service) ROME—The Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity headed by Augustin Cardinal Bea, S.J.y the former rector of the Pontifical Biblical In stitute, has a goal rare among the numerous curial offices: eventually to eliminate itself. For Christian unity is the goal of the secretariat. Once by the grace of God it is achiev ed, its usefulness would be end ed. “Of course, " said Milwau kee-born Father Thomas Stran- sky, C.S.P., who has been close ly connected with the secreta riat since its foundation, ‘look ing at the pro spects realisti cally we knowwe won't live to see this and neither will the next ge neration, nor foreseeable ge nerations to 1 come." FR. STRANSKY HOWEVER, a hopeful start has been made. The two A- merican priests who are in on the ground floor of this far- reaching venture and their as sociates are convinced the be ginning is auspicious. Father Stransky is one of thesd two Americans; Father John Long S.J., iq the other. . Their associates are the secretariat's secretary, Dutch Bishop Jan Willebrands, French Msgr. Gianfraneesco Arrighi who heads the Protestant sec tion, Eastern authority Fath er Pierre Duprey, W.F., who j heads the Orthodox section, while a Swiss priest, Father Erich Salzmann, is in charge of the archives. The, i goyeirning body, of course^ is much larger than this small staff which has only j three Jay, people as office help, i Under- Cardinal Bea there are • two vtcfeliprisidents, Archbis-i hop John Carmel Heenan of Westminster and Bishop Emile de. Smedt of Bruges in Bel gium. Curia cardinals Paolo Marella, Gustavo Testa and Udebrando Antoniutti and hono rary members of the board along with 42 ordinary mem bers and 18 consultors. There are three Americans among the former: Archbishop Lawrence J. Shehan of Baltimore, Bis hop Charles H. Helmsing of Kansas City-St. Joseph, Mo., and Bishop Ernest J. Primeau of Manchester, N.H., and two Americans among the latter: Msgr. John Oesterreicher of Newark,. N.J., and Father George Tavard, A.A„ of Pitts burgh: also one Canadian: Father Gregory Baum, O.S.A. For 54 - year - old Father Stransky, the son of a former Wisconsin highway commis sioner, the great adventure be gan when the Paulists whom he had joined sent him to Europe in 1958, two years after his ordination. Convert and mis sionary work had been his a- voca.tion even in high school when he did quite a bit of writing and broadcasting and prepared himself for street preaching. THE thesis that earned him his licentiate in theology at the Catholic University of America after he had first obtained his B.A. and M.A, at the neigh boring St. Paul's College in Washington was a clear indi cation of it. It was entitled “Can you fall away from the faith in good faith?*’ Eventual- • ly he landed in Muenster, Ger many, as a student of a fam ed missiologist, the late Father Thomas Ohm, O. S. B. Pre viously he had picked up some French during a four-month stay in Paris. Now he added German to his liguistic lore. “I was asked to preach to war orphans for practice,’’ he explained to thi s correspondent, “My German language teacher termed these efforts 10-minute sermons with a 150-word vo cabulary!’’ WHILE in Germany Father Stransky became constantly more interested in ecumenism and the European theological revival. He went to lectures of Protestant theologians, and studied the liturgical and ca techetical movements. Even tually Father Ohm introduced him to Father Jan Willebrands, then die head of ecumenical | activities^ in Haarlem, Holland, : Father. Stbansky pursued hiS missiological studies at the Gregorian University in Rome and graduated there in 1959 with a licentiate in that dis cipline as well. The following year came the decisive turn of his life. He had been present in St. Peter's when Pope John XXIII announc ed the establishment of the Christian unity secretariat. Soon Cardinal Bea was appoint ed to preside over it, Msgr. Willebrands was the logical choice as its secretary because as a result of his ecumenical work in the Netherlands he was widely acquainted with both Protestant and Orthodox theo- COGGINS SHOE STORE SHOES FOR THE FAMILY 46 W. PARK SQ. 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Willebrands asked me in August of that year to help him with the English-lan guage work that was to be done," said Father Stransky. "So there I found myself in a bare room on Via dei Corridoi No. 64, a Vatican-owned building, helping these pioneers of ecumenism as best I could. “CORRIDOI, incidentally, is Italian for sprinters, and since in putting our fingers on ecu menical affairs the world over, we were on the move a great deal and it often was difficult to reach us, this address cer tainly was appropriate! “Later, while an observer for the secretariat at a Protestant mission conference in Mexico, I recall the rare experience due to the fact that one may not be seen puhlicly in cleri cal garb in that country- wearing a gray suit with a blue tie and being quartered in a Methodist girls' school dormi- toryl ‘ 'We just had one desk and one typewriter in those early days in Rome, no stationery of our own, not even soap in the wash room, and were sort of grop ing in the dark. However, by late fall that year, together with Msgr. Arrighi we managed to hold the first meeticg with the consultors who by then had been invited. One of our first as signments was to make ar rangements for the historic visit of the then Archbishop Geoffrey Fisher of Canterbury to Pope John. "BISHOP Willebrands, you know, is an inveterate cigar smoker as most Hollanders are. He almost smoked us outl But we stood pat. We now had a stable address and were gain ing some modest initial stature with the authorities in charge of organizing the Second Va tican Council. We soon manag ed to submit to the Central Preparatory Commission four draft proposals, one of these dealing with religious liberty, and a report on the mixed mar riage problem. “However, it was not until the spring of 1962 that we thought of inviting non-Catholic observers to the council. This unprecedented initiative, of course, was due to Cardinal Bea personally.'’ How did Father Long come into this picture, Father Stran sky was asked. "FATHER Long,*’ he replied, "Brooklyn-born, now 39 years of age and ordained in 1956, got himself a doctorate at the Oriental Institute here after having joined the Society of Jesus. He has specialized in Russian studies for many years and also in Byzantine Church history. He spent some time in both Greece and the Near East. After returning to Rome he was asked to join the se cretariat's Oriental section in 1963 as the assistant to Father Duprey, who has command of both Greek and Arabic. "Father Duprey also has a doctorate of the Oriental In stitute and did post-graduate work at the Orthodox theologi cal faculty in Athens. After teaching for nine years at the Melkite seminary in Jerusalem, he was asked by Cardinal Bea to become the head of the se cretariat’s Oriental section. Father Long, too, knows both Greek and Arabic," Adding up all theSe languages the secretariat can handle one must conclude that it is mul tilingual indeed. The list is im pressive: English, French, Ger man, Italian, Dutch, Greek, Rus sian, Arabic and, of course, Latin and Hebrew, THE two young women em ployed as secretaries fit into this pattern, too. One of them, Corina de Martini, who is Swiss, happens to be the first woman ever employed by the papal However,, the status of the secretariat within the frame work of the Vatican administra tion remains to be defined. “Indications are, ” Father Stransky said, “that the secre tariat will become a permanent institution, but right now we o- perate as a conciliar organ, and theoretically our task might cease once the council adjourns. "IN THE meantime we must carry on and we will. The be ginning has been made and the work done so far has found its tangible expression in the draft proposal on ecumenism the council has adopted. With it begins a new era of inter faith relations for the Church." COURT DECREE ‘Slaves’ Ordered To YieldChildren POPE PAUL VI greets the rector of the North American College in Rome. Bishop Francis F. Reh. at a private audi ence (Dec. 18) for 62 newly ordained American priests and their families. The Pontiff urged the new- priests to let their "lives shine as beacons for all men to follow.” WORCESTER INSTITUTE Religion Cited As Man’s Response To God-Bond WORCESTER, Mass.(RNS)— ' ‘Religion is not simply a bond between God and man; if is man's response to that relation ship. It is not only the union of man with God; it is the acknow ledgment of that union and the consequent living and practic ing of a way of life conform able to it." Thus did Catholic Bishop Bernard J. Flanagan of Wor cester challenge participants in the sixth annual Institute on the Person^ and the Common Good at Assumption College here to get on with their dis cussions of' ‘Religion, the Com munity and the Common Good." Protestant and Jewish leaders took part in discussions. IN HIS talk opening the con ference of 65 religious and civic leaders of the Greater Worcester area, Bishop Flana gan safd. “it seems hardly nec essary to delineate the oppor tunities and challenges’’vyhifh are presented to religious men and women for common action in today's world. "The problems of community and city life which beset us and cry out for action,’’ he said, “must not be left to solve or to be met by those who have no spiritual, moral or religious heritage to bring to them." They must be met and be sol ved, Bishop: Flanagan said, “by men and women who are com mitted as citizens of both the City of God and the City of Man.” BISHOP Flanagan's theme was echoed during panel dis cussions and by two other prin cipal speakers — Bishop John J. Wright of Pittsburgh and Dr, Samuel H. Miller, dean of the Harvard Divinity School. Commenting on his recent trip to India to attend the 38th International Eucharistic Con gress, Bishop Wright said the interest the non-Christian com munity took in preparing for that event and the enthusiasm and graciousness they showed to * pilgrims — not only to Pope Paul VI — proved that "re ligion is now the prophet of a wider human Unity than any theocratic state.' RELIGION has shown, Bishop Wright said, that it can contri bute to the community indepen dently of political structures and even of political loyalties, thereby promoting the common good. We might say," he com mented, in addressing himself to the theme of the institute, “that religion is the channel and the community the benefic iary of the common good.’ Dr. Miller said religion is the answer to man’s problems because', he said, ' the function of religion is to supply the world with a structure of symbolism which will articulate, not ex plain, the mysteries of human existence and give man some inkling of the ultimate purpose of life." “WHERE the people are able to carry in their minds some vision of what man ought to be and what life can be," Dr. Mil ler added, “they are able to re late themselves to one another in trust and understanding. By such a relationship they consti tute and sustain the very build ing of a social order, a com munity, a society." Dr. Miller acknowledged that there were, indeed, many ills '’besetting modern society, but, it has always, been so. , “The history of man," he .said, “is a prolonged drama of many scenes. The stage- set tings change from epoch to epoch, from the Garden of Eden to the skyscraper cities of the 20th Century. . .but in every' scene man stands at the cen ter of the action — tempted, tested, tormented, yet forced by the exigencies of time to answer the demands which his own epoch lays upon him." BUT, Dr. Miller continued, what man has been at his best “is simply inadequate for the world God thrusts into our 1 hands" today. Nothing less than a “radical transformation of man will meet the need we face today," he held. “Our vision must be vaster, our passion deeper, our insight more pene trating, our compassion wider and humanity humbler.” STILL RIVER, Mass. (RNS)~ The Massachusetts Supreme Court granted custody of five children to their father and or dered that they be removed : from a communal religious cen ter , here headed by an excom municated Catholic priest. Spiritual director, of St. Ben edict Center is Father Leonard J. Feeney, a former Jesuit ex communicated in 1953 as a re sult of his refusal to stop preaching that salvation is im possible outside the Catholic Church. HIS center moved to this village from Cambridge in 1957 with a group of followers, call ed Slaves of the Immaculate Heart of Mary. The 85 resi dents, including 39 children, live on a 100-acre farm and raise their own cattle, poultry, vegetables and fruit. In 1962 Father Feeney im posed on his followers a vow of poverty, chastity and obedience, resulting in a separation of families. The rule was objected to by a fc^lower, Robert H. Colpy, formerly of Akron, Ohio, who went to court to obtain custody BIOGRAPHICAL of his children who remained at the center with theirmother. A probate judge gave the children to Mr, Colopy, ruling that the youngsters should not have been placed at an early age under the supervision of persons who were not tlieir parents. MRS, Colopy appealed to the State Supreme' Court which has now upheld the lower court's decision. Father Feeney has been de prived of his priestly rights to administer the Sacraments and say Mass. But he maintains his excommunication was “canoni cally invalid," and continues to call himself Father and cele brate Mass at his village. Press Closes SOMERSET, Ohio (NC)~ The Rosary Press, operated since 1890 by the St. Joseph (Eas tern) Province of the Domin ican Fathers, has closed down here (Dec, 30), Besides print ing the Dominican’s Rosary magazine, the press printed the Josephinum Review, the Torch and the Holy Name Journal. Dictionary Of U.S. Heirarchy Published The Very Rev. Louis Dion, A.A., president of Assumption College, was host to the insti tute. Among those participat ing was Dr. Joseph L. Lichten of the B'nai B’rith Anti-Defam ation League, a co-founder of ' the six-year-old institute. RELIGIOUS FREEDOM? NEW YORK (NC)—Nearly one -third of the more than 850 mSh named to the American hierarchy since its establish ment 175 years ago are alive today. This is brought out in a one- volume biographical "Diction ary of the American Hierar chy" published here.The author is,Msgr. Joseph B. Code of New Franco’s Words Spur Protestant Optimism BUDDHIST LEADER AT VATICAN—Pope Paul VI is shown with Riri Nakayama. president of the Asian Budd hist Federation, whom he received in a private audience at the Vatican. MADRID (RNS)— Much hope ful speculation was touched off in Protestant circles here by a reference to the need for “mu tual tolerance between the var ious branches of the Christian community” contained in Gene ralissimo Franco’s customary end-of-the-year broadcast to the nation. “Spain,’* the Chief of State declared, "faithfully partici pates in the desire, of every one anywhere in the world to be able to exercise freedom (of worship) so far as the wel fare of the community permits. “IN OUR fatherland, history, over the course of several cen turies, has forced men of dif ferent races and beliefs to live together. Spaniards must not harbor doubt or suspicion where the exercise of liberty of conscience is concerned.” The Caudillo’s remarks were regarded as particularly signi ficant in view of long-stan- Quit Segregated Debate Tourneys DALLAS, Tex. (NC)— Three Catholic high schools in the Dallas-Fort Worth diocese have turned down invitations to take part in > segregated debating tournaments with public schools. First to reject such an invi tation was Jesuit High School here, which last year won a tournament with a Negro boy on its debating team. Also refus ing to participate in segregated tourneys have been Ursuline High School here and Nolan High School in Fort Worth. Dallas public schools are de segregating on a grade-by grade basis and integration has not yet reached the high schools, officials have explain ed. ding charges of restrictiye measures by the Franco re gime against the comparatively small Protestant minority in this , ... traditionally : Catholic \ country. 'A BILL ; to regularize the status of the Protestant Chur- l ches and afford them, awider ; latitude of freedom had been ex pected to comb before parli ament last Fall. However, it was announced that its Introdu ction would be delayed until the Second Vatican Council takes final action on a draft declaration on religious liberty — a document whichwon strong initial support at the third cession. General Franco’s reference to the problem of the non- Catholic minority was regar ded by observers as tending to confirm the impression al ready existing in both Catho- < lie and Protestant quarters that he is anxious to have the sta tus of the Protestant mino rity legally defined In ac cordance with the spirit of the Vatican Council’s declaration. York, former professor of his tory at the Catholic University of America, who compiled a similar work in 1940. COVERING the period from Nov. 6, 1789 to May 1, 1964, the volume contains 850 basic biographies of the men elevated to the American hierarchy and others who having been born or educated in the U.S.-and left the country to serve inither lands. •4*~ i r i f j>4rS; The biographical data and some 33 appendices which list the bishops in various categor ies show the progress of the Church in the United States, Other interesting facts in thei volume are: • Seventeen bishops . of American Sees have been ele vated to the College of Cardi nals, the last one, Joseph Car dinal Ritter of St. Louis, in 1961. • Seven Americans have been j consecrated by a pope, two by Pius XII, four by John XIII, one 1 by Paul VI. • One-fourth of the American ,y bishops were or are members of (39) religious orders. • Five archbishops and 10 bishops were converts to Cath olicism. • There were 16 blood-;, brothers in the American hier archy. • Eleven bishops-elect were never consecrated, for various reasons. 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