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PAGE 2 GEORGIA BULLETIN THURSDAY, JANUARY 14, 1965
HOLY FAMILY FEAST
Crying Babies Drown Out
Pope’s Remarks At Center
BY JAMES C. O’NEILL
(N.C.W.C.News Service)
VATICAN CITY—Like many
a new father Pope Paul VI,
"Father of Christendom," en
dured the frustrating exper
ience of trying to make him
self heard over a baby’s bawl
ing.
But instead of one or two
screaming infants the Pope had
to try to speak over the squal
ling of 210 babies. The occa
sion was his visit (Jan. 10)
to the Santa Maria Infants’ Cen
ter on the Feast of the Holy
Family. The center, which de
pends for funds on the Vatican,
supplies milk, food, clothing,
medicines and medical aid to
infants up to ten months of age
from poor Roman families.
LOCATED within Vatican
City, the institute has provided
necessities for needy infants for
the past 42 years, taking care
of more than 12,000 babies in
that time.
The applause which greeted
the Pope’s entrance into the
main dining room of the instit
ute was drowned out by the yow
ling infants. The Pope moved
slowly through the crowds of
children and beaming parents
and patted the tots as he walk
ed to an armchair at the end
of the room. A 7-year-old boy
made a little speech of wel
come that was lost in the noise
of the room and then a little
girl carrying a big bouquet of
flowers tripped on the steps
and fell headlong at the Pope’s
feet.
The Pope helped her up and
the girl, still frightened, pre
sented, her bouquet accompanied
by a burst of encouraging ap
plause.
TO THE assembled mothers
the Pope expressed "tender
ness and reverence for this
state which is so., holy and
beautiful." He urged them to
cultivate the virtues of patience,
sweetness and the capacity- of
never being tired and of re
maining vigilant that their home
be ever more sanctified by the
Lord’s presence.
Then turning his attention to
his noisy guests the Pope said:
"Now we would like to speak
to the children. But how is this
to be done?"
The Pope did not explain if
he were referring to their in
capacity to understand his
words or just to the fact that
they could not hear him.
"PERHAPS they wish that I
were already finished, "he said.
"Yet, how I would like to have
them all here near me, to ca
ress them and bless them. In
their simple and clear faces
we see the very image of the
Lord. They have on their faces
the sun and light of innocence.
From them we must draw a
lesson of humility, innocence
and submission.”
Pope Paul distributed gifts
to children in the front rows
of the audience and to 12 sets
of twins.
On 14s return trip to his
apartment the Pope stopped off
at Santa Maria Hospice, a
house for Vatican clerical per
sonnel run by the same Santa
Maria Sisters who operate the
infants’ center, where he visit
ed 94-year old Archbishop An
gelo Rotta, retired Vatican dip
lomat.
AT NOON the Pope appeared
at his window to bless the
crowds in St. Peter’s square
and took occasion to speak of
the significance of the Feast of
the Holy Family.
"By honoring the Holy Fami
ly we honor all families, that
is to say the family as such,
as the sacred source of life.
We will pray that the family
may always be founded on love
and a holy bond which makes
it stable and united. We will
pray that families may be heal
thy, good, fruitful and happy
and we will pass along these
desires to society that it may
draw from the family its ex
ample and that it may be it
self a family sustained by love,
by brotherhood, by respect for
authority and by the prosperi
ty of work.”
CATHOLIC EDUCA TOR
Opposes Realtor
On Rights Policy
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ST. PAUL, Minn. (RNS) —
A Catholic educator took sharp
exception here to a statement
by the president of the-National
Association of Real Estate
Boards that private property
rights are more basic to human
liberty than the civil rights of
a minority group.
Msgre. James P. Shanon,
president of the College of St.
Thomas here, took exception to
the remarks of Edward Menden
hall who reportedly told the Real
Estate Boards*national conven
tion that if the freedom tohold
and dispose of private property
is abridged, the foundation upon
which all rights rest is weaken
ed, if not destroyed.
"THE basic tenet of Men
denhall is, I maintain, fall
acious,*' Msgr. Shannon wrote
in the St. Thomas college new-
paper.
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"Property rights, sacred and
useful though they be, are sim
ply not the fundamental rights
from, which all others flow,"
he continued. "It is correct to
say that a stable and healthy
.economy predicated on the right
to own and sell property, does
promote the common good and
does provide the means for such
other goods as education and
public transportation.
"Many of these goods would
be lessened or eliminated if our
economic freedom were cur
tailed or abolished. But this is
not the same as saying that all
human rights and all civil rights
derive from economic freedom.
"Admirers of our system of
free enterprise seriously injure
the statement of their case when
they endorse Mendenhall’s her
esy. Our economic system is
probably the best one that has
ever been devised for sharing
the greatest amount of the good
things of this earth with the
greatest number of people. In
fact, our system of economic
freedom is so strong that it
does not need fallacious argu
ments to buttress it. It can stand
on its historic record and on its
intrinsic merits.
‘The zealous real estate
dealers Who elected Menden
hall to be their current leader
would do well to analyze his
recent speech and to realize that
all the rights of free men flow
from man’s fundamental free
dom as a human being.
"HUMAN rights, the rights
of a person who is a child of
God, are the basic, universal
and radical rights of all men.
These elemental privileges are
often called civil rights under
the law.
"But whether they be termed
human rights, personal rights or
civil rights, they are by de
finition much more basic than
the derivative rights to trade,
to speak, to assemble and to
worship. First of all man is
man. Only secondarily is he an
economic man.
"Mendenhall's error is as
tonishingly close to the classi
cal Communist mistake of eva
luating men only in terms of
their possessions, production
and consumption. Let. us be
ware of such reasoning,*’
Birch Opposed
CHICAGO (NC)— A priest, a
rabbi and IS ministers sign
ed a statement opposing plans
of the John Birch Society to
open an "opinion library" in
suburban Homewood because of
its "divisive effect.” Catho
lic signer was Msgr. Walter
E. Croarkin, pastor of St. Ag
nes Church, Chicago Heights,
Ill.
CHURCH COURT
JARS. OAHRISO
TOWARD CHRISTIAN -UNITY—Poster for the Chair of Unity Octave, devoted to the
cause of unity among Christians, to be observed Jan. 18 to 25.
CHURCH-WORLD SCHEMA
Laymen Will Participate
In Framing Council Draft
, . VATICAN* CI'I!Yj (NC)~Lay-
men wiu ne‘conSuned tfrfoUgH-t
out the complicated process of
re-editing the ecumenical coUn-f
cil’s draft document on ther
Church in the modern world.;
Ah eclesiastical expert
charged with giving unity and
polish to this wide-ranging do
cument—which at last count was
being reworked by seven coun
cil subcommissions—noted that
the layman’s touch was sadly
lacking from the draft present
ed to the third session of the:
council last year.
FATHER Roberto Tucci, S.J.,
director of Civilta Cattolica,
Rome Jesuit fortnightly review,
also said that a deadline at
the end of May has been set
for a final draft of the docu
ment, known as schema 13.
It will then be sent out to the.
world's bishops for study be
fore they meet Sept. 14 for the
fourth and final session of the,
council.
In the words of Father Ber
nard Hearing, C.SS.R., secre
tary of the conciliar mixed com-1?
mission and its subcommls-;
sions is to "correct the text
in the precise sense expressed
in the council during the de
bate at the third session.” All
seven subcommissions, with a-
bout 100 members, are now en
gaged in this "very detailed
study," Father Hearing said.
All of these priests have been
involved in one capacity or an
other with drafting the schema
on the Church in the modern
world from the very outset.
Father Haubtmann played a key
role in drafting the schema’s
annex on economic and social
life. During the council’s se
cond - and third sessions he
handled daily briefings for
French-speaking reporters.
Father Tucci described him
as “an excellent organizer”—
an ability clearly demanded by J
the job of coordinating the work
of a half dozen and more sub
commissions.
SECTIONS of schema 13 have
now begun their layrinthine
way through commissions and
subcommissions. The first stop
for each section after being
drafted by its subcommission
is Father Haubtmann’s coordi
nating and editing subcommis
sion, in whose meetings Father
Haering takes an active part.
There, the text is assembled,
unified and polished.
The next stop is a full meet
ing of all subcommissions. This
is. scheduled for early Febtfn- , a subcommission drawn from
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The text will then appear be
fore a limited meeting-of the
central subcommission of the
mixed commission responsible
for the final draft.
(This requires some histori
cal explanation. When the ecu
menical council first decided
to accept the challenge of Leo
Cardinal Suenens of Malines-
Brussels, Belgium, and tackle
the problems of the modern
world in a single document,
a mixed commission of the dog
matic commission and the lay
apostolate commisssion was
created for the task. Although
this group retains final autho
rity over the draft, most of its
work is .now being handled by
Md^eVei^'te^fliis
subcommission have been added
various bishops from through
out the world with the hope
they would rescue the schema
from its westernized approach.)
THE DRAFT, loaded with re
commendations from this ex
panded subcommission, will
then be returned to the sub
commissions and Father Haubt
mann’s coordinating group.
Its final stop before being
mailed to the council Fathers
will be a meeting of the con
ciliar mixed commission itself.
The bishorajwho were added to
the central'subcommission do
not form a part of this com
mission and therefore will not
attend.
URGED FOR NUNS
Responsibility,
Not Conformity
FORT WAYNE, Ind. (NC)—
Moral responsibility rather
than unquestioning conformity
is the trademark of "the nun in
the modern world,* a Sister-
college president told other
nuns here.
Yesterday’s Sister, accord
ing to Sister Mary Ann Ida,
president of Mundelein College
in Chicago, "the one that taught
you and me in first grade, was
brought up in the kind of men
tality that canonized what had
been. It made sacred the ex
ternals of dress and behavior."
SHE TOLD 400 Sisters from
schools and other institutions of
the Fort Wayne-South Bend dio
cese at two separate sessions
that "in the past we were so
taken with following regulations
that we did not look for the in
ner commitment that made us do
what we did."
Face Which Way ?
PENYAS, Bolivia (NC>—
Liturgical reform ran into
opposition from an unexpected
quarter in an Qymara Indian
parish here. After the Mary-
knoll pastor, Father Francis
B. O’Hara, of Newton, Mass.,
had completed his first Mass
facing the people, he went out
side to find the old church or
ganist objecting londly: "But
the Padre had his back to the
Virgin...*’
But Sisters today, the educa
tor insisted, "are developing a
new spirituality, a new approach
to their commitments."
She emphasized that the nun’s
basic vows of poverty, chastity
and obedience have not changed.
BUT in examining the vows,
she explained that poverty calls
for "the proper understanding
of the use of things, the ability
to use them and not let them
use us."
Chastity, she said, should be
considered not as a sacrifice
but as a greater fulfillment, a
deeper involvement with
Christ."
Obedience should be the obe
dience of mature adults, Sister
Ann Ida asserted. "If.we class
room teachers can deepen our
own sense of mature responsi
bility, we will pass this feeling
along to the children. We will
turn out young people able to en
joy freedom with restraing in
stead of expecting them to ac
cept total restraint.
"WE should talk of changes
in religious communities on the
basis of principles: what we
need, what the Church needs
of us. Vte don’t want to change
for the wrong reasons," she
said.
Pope Addresses
Rota Officials
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VATICAN CITY (NC)—Pope
Paul VI told officials of the
Roman Rota, high Church court,
that their veneration of justice
will lead them to avoid both
laxhess and excessive rigor,
delay and excessive expense.
The Pope received judges,
lawyers and other Rota offi
cials (Jan.ll) at the annual au
dience for them following a Red
Mass celebrated by Bishop Pe
ter van Lierd , vicar general
of Vatican City. The officials
were led to the audience by the
Rota’s American dean, Msgr.
Francis Brennan of the Phil
adelphia archiocese.
POPE Paul noted that since
the Rota does its work in the
Church’s name, itmust "there
fore be above the suspicion of
a shadow of any injustice.”
Saying that he was speaking only
hypothetically, the Pope warned
the officials that some "un
scrupulous professional specia
lists" may tamper with cases
to be presented and that cau
tion and prudence are necessary
in examining material pre
sented to the court.
"In accepting or rejecting an
allegation,” he said, "you will
therefore heed a vigilant sense
of justice so that cases with
out any foundation, or obviously
based on falsehood or even on
facts that are true but juri
dically inadequate to obtain the
desired effect, may be reject
ed with courageous firmness.
"Worshipful veneration of
justice will make you avoid a
certain laxity which, on the one
hand, may induce dangerous il
lusions in the parties (to a
case) and lead them to useless
expense and to real damage,
precluding more just solutions
for them. On the other hand,
you will shrink from any ex
cessive rigor which refuses to
give reasonable trust to par-
| ties and risks placing, obsta
cles irt^tjie j»stftF°f appelahts
with harmful consequences to
their very eternal salvation
when it is a matter of heal
ing painful moral situations.”
THE Pope also said that to
avoid any suspicion of injus
tice cases and decisions should
be processed with care. But,
he added, "you know that any
culpable delay caused by neg
ligence or external concerns in
doing or executing justice is in
itself already an injustice,
which every member of an ec
clesiastical tribunal must...try
to avoid even indirectly."
Speaking of court costs, the
Pope said "it would be in it
self an injustice, inadmissible
in the bdSofti of the Church,
should a private individual be
without hope of obtaining justice
except at a high cost. Church
tribunals are above this re
proach—and of this they can be
proud before men and God—
because they are largely ge
nerous in granting the bene
fit of free assistance.*’
The Pope lauded the Rota
for granting in the past year
free legal aid or a reduction
of costs in 40% of its cases.
He said that “for this we are
very grateful to you, especial- tC
ly to you, - dear and illustrious *
advocates who are qualified to
plead before the tribunals of the
Church.
"To proceed in a different
way, you will agree, would be
all the more reprehensible,
since it would provide an un
merited reason for criticizing
the whole work of the Qhurch.”
Melkite Easter
Date May Alter
JERUSALEM, Israel (NC)—
Melkite-rite Catholics in Israel
may move the date of their
celebration of Easter this year
to coincide with the celebra
tion by the Greek Orthodox
community, Melkite- rite pisj-
hop Georges Hakim of Acre
declared here. 1
The prelate is currently poll
ing his priests in the Galilee
villages, which would be most
affected by the innovation, to
ascertain their reaction to the
change.
Bishop Hakim said he was
moved to the proposal by the
fact that Greek Orthodox com
munities are tending more and
more to celebrate Christmas
on Dec. 25 instead of their
traditional date of Jan. 6, and
the Easter change would be seen
as a reciprocal step in good
will.
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SAN ANTONIO, Tex. (NC)~
Archbishop Robert E. Lucey of
San Antonio has told priests
of the archdiocese they may
say the Mass prayers at the
foot of the altar facing the
people.
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