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Notebook
Easier In Latin
In any great forward movement, it’s easy to spot minor irritants
and call them typical of the whole. The American Revolution had its
Benedict Arnold and the Civil Rights’ Movement has its beatniks.
The liturgical renewal has its fringe of faddists, way-outers
and Mass commentators with a secret yen to sound like drill-
sergeants. But these neither carry nor delay what is going
on. The renewal is so powerful, so expressive of the Pope and the
Council in Rome and the people in the pews, that it is moving
forward with amighty thrust.
There are stubborn islands in the great wave of spirited coopera
tion here in the United States. Some are unhappy about the reply
to "Go, the Mass is ended’’. True, "Thanks be tp God” may ring
out with too much enthusiasm after a long, hot sermon. Many
feared that the series of "You Who”s in the Gloria sounds more
like a Swiss yodelling than an American praising his God. But
it looks worse on paper than it sounds to the ear.
v
A recent magazine had a column and a half on the theme,
"whether it might not have been simpler to leave everything
in Latin." Some Frenchmen think it’s undignifed to address God
with the familiar Tu instead of the formal Vous. Clerics in
Tuscany complain that "Go in peace” is the local way to shoo
panhandlers away. A Japanese priest translates "Dominus
Vobiscum” with the obscure phrase that in English would be;
The Lord be together with everyone". In the South Pacific,
the natives use pidgin to translate God as "Big fellow master too
much who bosses heaven and ground”. And we have the magazine
writer’s word that the best way to say "Hail Mary” there is
"Mary, ypu stay right here."
Did anyone, think that the grave task of changing from sonorous,
majestic and largely non-understandable Latin into the hun
dreds of dynamic, living, intelligible languages and dialects
would be easy? The Church in the Liturgy Constitution didn’t.
The bishops with hundreds of lingual choices before them didn’t.
The International Committee for Vernacular English (dubbed
the "Common Market") estimates that it will take five years
to produce such a text. But the group, of which I am a member,
is confident that the Englishman who reads John F. Kennedy and
Adlai Stevenson with pleasure, and the American who reads
Winston Churchill and T.S. Eliot with equal joy can meet on a
vernacular that will have dignity without dullness, familiarity
without foolish talk.
A fine squelch was delivered to the antiquarian view of
noted English Catholic writer who lamented that he and his
wife could no longer tour the French, German, Slavic and Spanish
churches of the continent and hear the ancient Latin in each.
A practical woman of middle-class England spoke up for the mil
lions who stay at home: 1
"I suppose it’s nice to hear Latin when you travel. Me,
I've only been out of Liverpool once when the family
went to London, and it all sounded foreign to me, even
the sermon. I like to know what I’m saying to God,—
right here in Liverpool."
Quote And Re-Quote
The Georgia Bulletin and its editor get quoted regularly in .
newspapers all over the country. The Southern Colorado Re
gister recently put Mr. Sherry’s words between those of Car
dinal Bea and Cardinal Spellman:
"Whatever gulf there is between the laity, the clergy and
the hierarchy is of our own making. It is because of mutual
distrust and a failure to recognize the structure of coll
aboration among the people of God."
The column was headed, "Great Sayings”. The trouble was
that exactly the same_ paragraph appeared on the same page of
the same issue of the same paper, orilv two
columns away. This time it was headlined in a minor key,
"Notes and Quotes."
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BRINGING EACH CLOSER TO THE OTHER
Catholics, Presbyterians Talk
ARCHBISHOP OF ATLANTA
WASHINGTON (NC)—Catho
lics and Presbyterians at their
first meeting at the national lev
el figuratively as well as lit
erally rolled up their shirt
sleeves and began roughing out
draft plans for bringing their
two churches closer together.
The initial sketches were no
more than outlines. But in a
joint statement issued at the
conclusion of their meeting, the
representatives of the Roman
Catholic Church and the United
Presbyterian Church in the USA
said that their future talks will
focus on "a joint exploration
of the theme of reform and re
newal as a continuing process
in the life of the Church and its
people." They agreed that their
"future association will involve
doctrine, worship, and social
action, in an ongoing search for
fidelity to the Gospel of Christ,"
THE DAY-LONG meeting,
held at the Georgetown Presby
terian Church here (July 27),
was marked by the same spir
it of cordiality and frankness
evidenced at meetings earlier
this summer between other del
egations appointed by the Cath
olic Bishops’ Commission for
Ecumenical Affairs and rep
resentatives of the Episcopal
Church and of the major Lu
theran churches in the United
States.
The head of the Catholic del
egation, Bishop Ernest L. Un-
terkoefler of Charleston, said
at a news conference following
the encounter that it had "met
with my highest expectations."
He said that the first session
brought about "a bond of friend
ship and a bond of unity which
augurs well for future meet
ings."
Richard L. Davies of Wash
ington, Presbyterian layman
who as chairman of his church’s
Committee for Ecumenical Re
lations headed the United Pres
byterian Church delegation, al
so voiced his "greatest enthus
iasm” over "the fellowship
of our worship together and our
relations."
BISHOP Unterkoefler, who is
chairman of the subcommission
for talks With Presbyterians of
the bishops* ecumenical dbm-
mission, announced' that ft*
steering committee had been
set up and asked “to meet
within a month" to map out
agenda and a date for the next
meeting. He said the next full
meeting will/probably take place
in November.
The meeting opened and clos
ed with devotional services in
the classically simple chapel of
Georgetown Presbyterian, with
Catholic and Presbyterian cler
gy and laity alternating respec
tively in offering prayers and
reading from the New Testa
ment. At the first service,
Bishop Unterkoefler recited a
prayer invoking the guidance of
the Holy Spirit, and then led in
the joint recitation of the Lord’s
Prayer, with the inclusion of the
final doxology commonly used
by Protestants. There were
fewer than two dozen partici
pants but they so raised their
voices in the singing of the
hymns chosen from the Pres
byterian hymnal- "Praise Ye
the Lord, the Almighty, the King
of Creation,” and "Holy, Holy,
Holy, Lord God Almighty”—
that their prayer resounded
throughout the parish complex.
FILLING IN as organist for
the hymns was the Rev. Robert
McAfee Brown, professor of
religion at Stanford (Calif.) Uni
versity and an observer-dele
gate of the World Presbyter
ian Alliance at the 1963 ses
sion of the Second Vatican Coun
cil. Dr, Brown said at the news
conference that the field of
social action "emerged as a
major theme in the course of
the day.”
He said that "the thrust of
the Church in our day is to go
out into the world...to listen to
what is being said to us from
outside the Church." But he
said that in the past the Church
has often "failed to be involved
where it should have been,’ A
significant area of this past
neglect, said Dr, Brown, is
the field of racial justice, where
the churches "are a little John-
ny-come-lately,"
Msgr, Henry G. J. Beck, pro
fessor of church history at Im
maculate Conception Seminary,
Darlington, N, J„ and pastor of
Sacred Heart parish in Lynd-
hurst, N.J. — who with Dr.
Brown drew up the joint state
ment at the conclusion of the
meeting—said that "the Cath
olic participants would go along
lOOJo’ with Dr, Brown’s as
sessment of church belatedness
in giving vital Christian wit
ness for racial justice,
MSGR. BECK also upheld Dr.
Brown’s point on "the focus
both Catholics and Presbyter
ians now have in the theme of
reform and renewal." The
priest of the Newark archdio
cese said that "Catholics have
been thought of as people un
able to envision ongoing re
form,’’ But, he said, the Sec
ond Vatican Council has brought
out the fact that "the human
element in the Church is in
need of constant renewal,”
On the United Presbyterian
Church side at this first con
versation were five ministers
and five lay people, including
three women. The Catholic
delegation of 10 included two
laymen and one woman—Mar
garet Mealey of Washington, ex
ecutive director of the National
Council of Catholic Women.
The meeting also had ecu
menical overtones within the
Calvinist heritage. The chief
executive officers of the two
Presbyterian churches next in
size to the United Presbyterian
attended the meeting as individ
ual observers. They are the
Rev. James A. Millard, Jr.,
of Atlanta, stated clerk of the
Presbyterian Church intheU.S.
--the "Southern” group which
split off from the "Northern"
Presbyterians at the start of
the Civil War—and the Rev.
Marion de Velder of New York,
stated clerk of the Reformed
Church in America and chair
man of the North American
Area of the World Alliance of
Reformed Churches.
THE UNITED Presbyterian
Church counts 3.3 million adult
members, while the Presbyter
ian Church in the U.S. has about
940,000 and the Reformed
Church in America almost 230,-
000.
The United Presbyterian del
egation was composed of
Davies; Dr. Brown; William P.
Thompson, Wichita, Kan., at
torney who is moderator (pre-
siding officer) of the church’s
General A^hemblyj Mrs. Walter
R. *Clyde of Pittsburgh, chair-;
'■mSti'bf th§®cdtfimfftee T Sn'fecu-
mienical relations of United
Presbyterian Women; Parke A.
Dickey, head of the department
of earth sciences at Tulsa (Ok-
la.) University; the Rev. Nor
man A. Horner, dean and pro
fessor of missions and evan
gelism at Louisville (Ky.)Theo-
logical Seminary, who recent
ly made a tour of Roman Cath
olic missions around the world;
the Rev. John T, Middaugh,
pastor of the Brown Memorial
Presbyterian Church, Balti
more; the Rev. Joseph L. Rob
erts, Jr., pastor of the Elm
wood i Presbyterian Church,
East 'Orange, N.J.; Dr. Mar
garet- Shannon, New York, an
associate general secretary of
the United Presbyterian Com
mission on Ecumenical Mis
sion and Relations; and the Rev.
J ohn Coventry Smith, New York,
general secretary of the com
mission.
THE REV. Eugene Carson
Blake of Philadelphia, stated
clerk of the United Presbyter
ian Church, and the Rev. Ros
well P. Barnes of Wyalusing,
,Pa„ former executive secre
tary of the U.S. Conference for
the World Council of Churches,
are both expected to take part
in future meetings.
The Catholic participants, in
addition to Bishop Unterkoefler,
Msgr. Beck and Miss Mealey,
were: Father Maurice Schep-
ers, O.P., of the Dominican
House of Studies, Washington;
Father Kilian McDonnell, O.S,
B„ of St. John’s University,
Collegeville, Minn,; Donald A.
Farrell, Washington, program
director of the National Council
of Catholic Men; Leonard Swid-
ler, professor of history atDu-
quesne University, Pittsburgh,
and co-editor of the Journal of
Ecumenical Studies; Fathers
Christopher Kiesling, 0,P„ and
John V. Thomas, O.P., profes
sors at Aquinas Institute of
Theology, Dubuque, Iowa, which
has recently joined in forming
an association of Roman Cath
olic and Protestant faculties;
and Msgr, William W, Baum,
Washington, executive secre
tary of the Bishops’ Commis
sion for Ecumenical Affairs.
THE BISHOPS' commission
also appointed Father George
Tavard, A.A., chairman of the
theology department of Mount
Mercy College, Pittsburgh, to
the standing group for talks with
Presbyterians. Father Tavard
was unable to attend the initial
meeting.
The way for die meeting at
Georgetown Presbyterian was
paved both by the Decree on
Ecumenism enacted by the Vat
ican council last November and
by the statement on relation
ships with Roman Catholics
adopted by the 117th General
Assembly of the United Pres
byterian Church in Columbus,
Ohio, last May, That statement
said that Presbyterians should
"listen to receive what God in
His Providence would give them
through the insight and exper
ience of their brothers of the
Roman Catholic Church, and in
gratitude and sincerity...share
with their brethren what God
has entrusted to the Reformed
tradition,"
The General Assembly not
only urged Presbyterians to
study their own doctrinal posi
tions in preparation for the
‘ ‘ecumenical dialogue” with
Roman Catholics, but also com
mended "to the attention of
Presbyterians two documents
from the Second Vatican Coun
cil, De Ecclesia (The Consti
tution on the Church) and De
Ecumenismo (Decree on Ecu
menism),’’
THE STATEMENT urged Unit
ed Presbyterians "to initiate
fraternal relationships” in the
following areas:
"1. Through association:
Congregations with Roman
Catholic parishes; presbyteries
and synods with dioceses and
archdioceses.
"2. Through study encoun
ter on particular issues of com
mon concern which involve us
all.
"3. In United efforts in the
area of human relations; i.e„
race, civil rights, urban re
newal.
"4. In encouragement and
guidance to youth to pioneer in
new efforts of understanding
and cooperation.
"5. In occasions for com
mon prayer; i.e., the Week of
Prayer for Christian Unity and
other ecumenical gatherings.”
The Catholic - Presbyterian
joirit statement was hot as spe-1
~ clfid ’as ' the" earlier’guideline '
for United Presbyterians. Ac
cording to one participant, it
was kept general in tenor pur
posely so as to await the out
come of Vatican II, especially
the council document on the
Church in the modern yrorld,
which is expected to deal with
such problems as nuclear war
fare, the population explosion,
human rights and poverty.
FOLLOWING is the text of
the joint statement:
We have met today as fellow
Christians, conscious both of
the unity in Christ that we en
joy by virtue of a common
Baptism, and of the disunity as
churches to which we have all
contributed and for which we
ask forgiveness of God and of
one another.
Our consultation has included
both clergy and laity of the
Roman Catholic and United
Presbyterian Churches, as an
expression of the belief we
share in common in the priest
hood of all the faithful.
Our purpose today has not
been to arrive at premature
conclusions but to clarify the
direction our future meetings
should take. We have discov
ered two clear types of con
cerns, one focusing on theolog
ical issues that should involve
us as separated Christians, the
other focusing on the common
task we face together as be
lievers bearing witnesses to
Christ before all mankind. We
are sure that these concerns
must not be separated from one
another.
We have decided that the par
ticular thrust of our discussion
will be a joint exploration of
the theme of reform and renew
al as a continuing process in the
life of the Church and its peo
ple. By this we hope to high
light not only man’s role but al
so the role of the Holy Spirit,
within our separate and com
mon worship, and in a fresh
encounter with what He is say
ing to us through the voice of
the secular world.
For this purpose we envis
ion that our future association
will involve doctrine, worship,
and social action, in an ongoing
search for fidelity to the Gos
pel of Christ.
Biblical Group
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