Newspaper Page Text
YOUR
PRIZEWINNING
NEWSPAPER
VOL. 3, NO. 28.
ATLANTA, GEORGIA
THURSDAY, JULY 15, 1965
$5.00 PER YEAR
SERVING GEORGIA’S 71 NORTHERN COUNTIES
NEGATIVE SUGGESTION
CALLED 6 FRUITFUL 9
GERMAN PRELATE
SNAKE DANCE—Maryknoll Fathers in. the diocese of Shinyanga, Tanzania, where this
snake dance was photographed, emphasize that one must understand the Africans en
thusiasm for dancing. New liturgical practices in Africa use the dance as much as pos
sible. Drums replace the organ in some services, and are used in processions. Dance melo
dies are adopted for religious song.
VATICAN CITY (NC)~The
Vatican City newspaper has re
jected the lastest in a series
of recent appeals by Italian
communists to set up a "dia
logue" with Catholics.
Commenting on the sugges
tion of a communist member
of parliament, Allessandro
Natta, L' Osservatore Romano
said "elementary commonsen-
se should put an end once and
for all to appeals which either
directly or indirectly call us
to work against our aspirations,
convictions and prerogatives,
that is to say against our
selves.’*
NATTA HAD suggested in a
report to a communist Central
Committee meeting that his
party should press for the dia
logue with Catholics and colla
boration even in probelms which
"imply ideological aspects,"
such as education and freedom
of speech.
The-.-committee’s published
communique (July 9) went a
step further and appealed to
Catholics "who wish to fulfill
the teaching of Pope John XX
III" to join forces with the com-
m unis ts in condem ning Am erl-
can policy in Vietnam.
L’Osservatore said the Natta
appeal was insidious and that
it was advanced on the pretext
of defending the "laicism” of
the state against "undue inter
ventions such as the speech of
Pope Paul VI at Pisa on June
11 is said to be."
The reference was to the ad
dress by the Pope at a Na
tional Eucharistic Congress in
Pisa appealing to the people
of the city and the surrounding
region of Tuscany to preserve
the Faith of their ancestors.
The Pope had said: "We would
wish our cry for constancy in
the Faith to reach across the
Tyrrhenian Sea to the beloved
and hard-working island of Sar
dinia with which Pisa has for
centuries had spiritual and civil
exchanges."
THIS SOLITARY reference to
Sardinia, since it came on the
eve of important regional elec
tions on that island where the
communist vote is a significant
factor, was roundly criticized
by the Italian Communist press
as Undue clerical interference
in politics. It was revised in
the Central Committee report.
"We must reject this affir
mation," L’Osservatore said.
"Anyone with any education is
aware of the age-old relations
between Pisa and Sardinia. The
archbishop of Pisa had for a
long time high spiritual juris
diction on the Tyrrhenian is
land.”
"It would appear, however,
that appeal to firmness in the
Faith is regarded as an ’inter
vention’ of a political nature
and therefore ’undue’ in accor
dance with a logic which leads,
in other places, to condemna
tion of churchmen 'for activi
ties contrary to the state,’ not
because of any specific acts
they have committed but be
cause religion itself and even
Christian morals are regarded
as ’disruptive.’ "
IN HIS report Natta had said
that any assessment of the pre
sent Italian government must
take into account "the fact that
from already grave forms of
direct and strong intervention
in the lives of Christian Demo
crats, the Catholic hierarchy
has gradually moved from ges
tures and attitudes (from the
episode of "The Deputy’) and
appeals for censorship, to an
election appeal addressed by the
Pope himself to the Sardinian
people, which are tolerated by
Christian Democrats in the
government, and mark illicit
interference in public life and
in Italian politics."
Appealing apparently to the
Catholic laity as opposed to the
hierarchy, Natta said it was
"necessary to press forces dis
posed to discussion in order
that concerted effort and com
mon projects may be encourag
ed, not only along two great
channels of action, one for peace
and the other for the struggle
of the workers, but also in
other fields which imply com
mon ideological commitment,
from school to family.”
“COUNCIL DAYBOOK: Vatican II. Sessions 1 and 2,” was
published July 1 by the National Catholic Welfare Con
ference, 1312 Massachusetts Ave.. N.W., Washington, D.C.
3
SUMMER SCHOOL is the order of the day for thousands of teaching nuns. Shown here,
Sister Mary Liliosa Shea, C.S.C., of Manchester, N.H., has included a course in the art of
stone carving among her studies at the Catholic University of America, Washington. D.C.
Urges Internal Dialogue
To Be In 6 Obedient 9 Spirit
"We confess in common the
Nicene Faith and therefore hold
that the Son, our Lord Jesus
Christ, Who was made man,
suffered, died and rose again for
our salvation, is true God; that
He is from God the Father as
Son, and therefore other than
the Father; that the Godhead
is the one and undivided; and
that the Holy Spirit, together
with the Father and the Son, is
to be worshipped and glorified.
"The Nicene Faith gathers
up and articulates the Biblical
testimony concerning the Son
and His relationship to the Fath
er.
‘THE NICENE Faith, formu
lated by the Council at Nicene
in 325 and developed in the Ni-
cene-Constantinopolitan Creed
(381) , was a response to con*
temporary errors. The church
was obliged to state her faith
Archbishop Paul J. Hallinan
will preside at the Mission De
parture Ceremony and present
the mission cross to Sister
Mary Carmen Gannon, R.S.M.,
of the Baltimore Province of
the Sisters of Mercy on July
22 at 4 p.m. in the chapel at
St. Joseph’s Infirmary. Sis
ter will leave for work inalep-
ersarium in Mahaica, British
Guiana on the first of August.
A native of Baltimore, Mary
land, Sister graduated from
Mercy Hospital School of Nur
sing, Baltimore, in 1952. Af-
Abbot President
AURORA, Ill. (NC)--Coadju
tor Abbot David Melancon, O.S,
B„ of St. Joseph’s abbey, St.
Benedict, La., was elected
president of the Swiss-Ameri-
can Chapter of the Order of
Saint Benedict at Marmion ab
bey here.
ter working at Mercy for a year,
she entered the novitiate of the
Sisters of Mercy at Mount St.
Agnes in Baltimore. She later
attended the University of
Maryland where she received
her Masters Degree in Medical
and Surgical Nursing. For the
past six years Sister has been
co-ordinator of the Medical/
Surgical Program at St. Jo
seph’s Infirmary School of Nur
sing.
Since June, Sister has been
preparing for her new assign
ment in British Guiana. Whe
she joins the six other Sisters
of Mercy in Mahaica, Sister
will spend her time caring for
lepers in the mission hospital.
THE CEREMONY will be fol
lowed by Benediction of the Most
Blessed Sacrament, following
a reception for the religious of
the area and family and friends
of Sister Mary Carmen.
watchful “lest in this struggle
for spiritual uplift, disloyal
means are used, such as lies,
defamation, demagoguery or
partisan interest.
CARDINAL Doepfner said the
Christian is not called to live
passively in the world, con
tent to be relegated to some
remote or isolated place, but
to help "fashion the world ac
cording to personal religious
convictions of which he is ob
liged to give complete testi
mony in every form of life."
Referring to relations be
tween Catholics and those out
side the Church, he said the
Church was engaged in three
different levels of dialogue —
"with the separated brethren,
non-Christians and atheists.”
"In these times, in which the
alternative is faith or atheism,
unity with all those who believe
in Christ is all the more nec
essary and urgent," he said,
adding: "In the dialogue with
non-Christians, Catholics are
called upon to promote a sin
cere respect for the high spir
itual and moral values of the
concept of life of the non-
Christian religions, and to fos
ter common ideals of religious
liberty, universal brotherhood,
culture, social well-being and
public order."
REFERRING to dialogue with
non-believers. Cardinal Doepf
ner said that in some cases this
might well be impossible, es
pecially when it involved mili
tant groups hostile to the Church
among whom "words become
reduced to purely dialectic In
struments and placed exclus
ively in the service of partic
ular and utilitarian interests."
"At times,” he said, "it
may become necessary to dis
continue dialogue which has be
come mere empty, sterile and
random ta,"
MUNICH, Germany (RNS)—
Julius Cardinal Doepfner,
Archbishop of Munich, caution
ed in a sermon here that the
dialogue within the Catholic
Church spurred by the Second
Vatican Council must not be dis
turbed by personal or group in
terests because "this could
harm the progress of internal
renewal in the Church.”
‘The aggiornamento to pre
sent needs," he said, "should
be the result of a cordial dia
logue in which all bishops,
priests and laymen are aware
of the importance of renewal
and accept it in an obedient
spirit.”
Preaching at Munich Cathe
dral, the cardinal, who is one of
the four moderators of Vatican
II, urged Bavarian Catholics to
cultivate a "prudent and con
structive dialogue with the con
temporary world.” His re
marks apparently were promp
ted by the schema on the Church
and the Modem World which
will come before the Council at
its fourth session.
He stressed, however, that
to start and conduct a fruitful
dialogue with the modem world
"it is necessary to have a
profound knowledge of the
world." At the same time, he
added, the faithful must be
FATHER HARDY
To Celebrate First
Solemn Mass in U.S.
Officers of the Mass will be
Rev. Patrick Connell, deacon,
Rev. John J. Cotter, Subdeacon,
and Very Rev. John J. O’Shea,
assistant priest. The homily
will be preached by Father
James Gilbride, S.M. There
will be a reception immediately
following the Mass.
The Reverend Jerry E. Har
dy will celebrate his first
Solemn Mass in the United
States at his home parish of St.
John the Evangelist on Satur
day, July 17, at 9:30 a.m.
can College in September 1961.
He is the son of Mr. and Mrs.
J. E, Hardy of 194 Brewer Blvd.
Father Hardy recently com
pleted his tenure in Rome,
Italy. He left the Holy City 1
to return to his native Georgia
for the first time in almost
four years. Ordained in Rome
at Christmas time last year,
he stayed to complete his stud
ies begun at the North Ameri-
FR, JERRY HARDY
Catholic - Lutheran
Dialogue OpensWith
Creed As Theme
BALTIMORE (RNS)—At the
first official theological talks
between Roman Catholics and
Lutherans in the U.S., repre
sentatives of the two commun
ions acknowledged that "the
problem of the development of
doctrine is crucial today and is
in the forefront of common con
cern."
Stressing points of agreement
in their confrontation here, July
6-7, the 17 scholars and church
officials took pains to empha
size that neither Lutherans nor
Catholics minimize the dif
ferences of their respective un
derstandings of Christian be
liefs and practices.
The churchmen focused on
"the status of the Nicene Creed
as dogma of the church." The
Creed, adopted at the Ecumen
ical Council of Nicaea in 325
A.D., is a confession of faith
held by both Lutherans and
<3 atholiesS*'*■'“**• ’***"
SCHOLARS who participated
described the dialogue as
"fruitful," but cautioned that
the authority for the 1,640-
year-old Creed was still in dis
pute between the two Churches.
In a statement issued at a
press conference after the two
days of closed meetings, the
following points of agreement
were outlined:
in the Son in non-Biblical terms
to answer the Arian question,
(Arian rejected the divinity of
Christ).
’The confession that our
Lord Jesus Christ is the Son,
God of God, continues to as
sure us that we are in fact re
deemed, for only He who is
God can redeem us."
Both bodies use the Nicene
Creed now in their separate
sacraments of the Lord’s Sup
per.
The Nicene Creed was adop
ted by 318 bishops of the Cath
olic Church at the Ecumenical
Council of Nicaea in 325 and
amended at Constantinople in
381.
BECAUSE of its common use
by both Churches, the Creed
was selected as a starting point
for discussion.
The summary statement,
drawn up by the participants
said that "as we are aware
of the following:
’The Nicene Faith possesses
a unique status in the hier
archy of dogmas by reason of
its testimony to and celebration
of the mystery of the Trinity
as revealed in Christ our Sav
ior, and by reason of its de
finitive reply to an ever-recur
ring question. This does not
imply that the Nicene Faith ex
hausted the richness of Scrip
ture regarding the person of
Christ. For example, the Coun
cil of Chalcedon in 451 confes
sed that He was ‘in every re
spect like us, except without
sin.’
"We are agreed that authori
tative teaching in the church
serves the people of God by
protecting and nurturing the
faith. Dogma has a positive
and a negative- function. It au
thoritatively repudiates erron-
CONT1NUED ON PAGE 3.
IN LEPERSARIUM
Local Nun To Go
To South America
Vatican Daily
Rejects Red
‘Dialogue’ Plot