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SUBMITS STATEMENTS ON DISCRIMINATION ROLE OF WOMEN THURSDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1965 GEORGIA BULLETIN PAGE 3 Text Of Archbishop’s ARCHBISHOP HALLINAN intervened twice this week during a debate on the schema, titled The Church In the World of Today. Because of the earlier earmarking of speakers his remarks were written rather than oral. On October 11, his'council Statement covered the schema’s references to racial discrimina tion. On October 12, his written intervention concerned the schema’s study of the role of women in the church. The following are pertinent extracts of both in terventions. Discrimination Although racial discrimination is mentioned several times in this Schema, it is not given the clear and forceful treatment for which injustice cries out today. Certainly the crises in disturbed families and among warring nations require the words and example of Christ, Our Lord, and of His Church. But even more urgently, the cries of racial minorities for equal opportunity, of majorities oppressed by hostile government, and indeed of whole new nations for dignity, freedom and ad vancement, regardless of color or race, cannot continue to go unheard. This Church and this Council must, like the prophet, cry out her pro test without ceasing. Some nations have indeed tried to curb this discrimination by law, education and example. Many churches and synagogues have met their high obligations by leading their people along the high road of truth and justice instead of following them blindly into alleys of fear and hate. But if racial discrimination is to be progressively eliminated, every social force must work incessantly for the complete acceptance by all men of the concept of the equal dignity, as well as the rights and re sponsibilities, of all the children of God. It is appropriate that 95 African bishops spoke last week through Bishop Ddungu of Uganda against the inadequate treatment of racial discrimination in this Schema. That continent was the major victim of the scourge which cursed the Western world for centuries although it is true that every region of humanity has been soiled by some form of slavery from the beginning of history. Individual bishops and bodies of bishops have frequently condemned the sin of racial discrimina tion. But the universal Church, in a conciliar document, must publicly declare our position, not only against slavery, but against the evils it has spawned. Such a statement would strengthen the hands of bishops, priests, religious and laity as they earnestly try' to remove this moral offense from mankind’s catalog of sins. It would ennoble the difficult efforts of those governments that are concerned with the social evils in inequality. With justice and compassion, this statement would publicly accord to the victims of these evils the dignity that is inalienably theirs. And finally, it would assure the world that the Church will constantly proclaim God’s law of justice and love, constantly act upon it, and lead its members to live in that true harmony that only equality and fraternity can provide. This form of discriminationleavesmankindwith slavery, forced segregation, deprivation and de gradation. These in turn give rise to the mon strous inequalities in education, housing, jobs, even in the right to vote. But the most miserable irony is that racial minorities are even turned away when they want to worship in a particular church. The Council should condemn all this as unworthy Intervention At Vatican Council of the human person. Christians should work for racial justice always, justice motivated by love. ♦ ♦♦ Archbishop Hallinan’s interventionwas addres sed to all Christians and other religious bodies, to governments, and particularly to the victims of “this degradation qf the human Spirit,’’ Role Of Women The Schema, the Church in the World of Today, cites three important points in the enlargement of her teaching on the role of woman: the present condition, the origin in Genesis 1, 27, and the contemporary abuses (Section n. 9, n. 11 & n. 30). But there is very little application of these points to concrete "urgent problems’’ (Part II). This application is needed to activate and extend this vital factor in today’s society...the schema empha sizes woman’s communion with society and in the work of the church. This Communion must be one of harmony, love, respect and responsibility, and not a "Master-Subject’* union of subser vience. CERTAINLY, THE three statements are Chris tian, noble and urgently needed. But the emer gence of woman from the ancient role of slave or concubine, through the Judaeo-Christian trans formation to a person of dignity, rights and duties, demands much more of us today. We must not perpetuate the secondary place accorded to women in the Church of the 20th century; we must not continue to be late-comers in the social, political and economic development that has today reached climactic dimensions. Pope Pius XII clearly indi cated the proper part to be taken in the Church and society by women, both married and un married. In Pacem in Terris, Pope John XXIII stated the principle now incorporated by the Sec ond Vatican Council in the Constitution, De Ecc- lesia, (Ch. IV, n. 32): "There’is therefore in Christ and in the Church no inequality on the basis of race or nationality, social or sex,...For you are all ‘one’ in Christ Jesus." (Gal. 3, 28) In our society, however, women in many places and in many respects still bear the marks of in equality. This is evident in working conditions, wages and hours of work; and in marriage and property laws. Above all it is present in that gradualism, bordering on in-action, which limits their presence in the tremendous forces now working fOr universal education, for peace, for the rehabilitation of the deprived, the just and com passionate care of the young, the aged and the needy, the dispossessed and the victims of hu man injustice and weakness. Certain nations have led the way, but even in these the ideal and com plementary role of man aqd woman has not yet become the basis and norm of our social order. Has the Church, in this respect, given the lead ership that Christ, by word and example, clearly showed that he expected of her? Her history, in deed, has been a struggle to free womenfrom the old place of inferiority. Her great womensaints, and dedicated virgins, her defense of woman in the family, a few women-theologians, but es pecially in her defense of the unique honor given to God’s only perfect creature, Mary our Lady, --all these are part of that history. But the Church has been slow in denouncing the degradation of women in slavery, and in claiming for them the right of suffrage and economic equality. Particularly, the Church has been slow to offer to women, in the selection of their voca tion, any choice but that of mother or nun. In fact, among her saints, there are only three groups: martyrs, virgins, and a vague, negative category called "nec virgines, nec martyres." It is proposed, in order to clarify and strengthen the principles stated in Part I, that these emen- dationes be inserted into the present Schema: That the Church define the liturgical functions of women so that they could serve as lectors and acolytes, and, when properly prepared, also as they once did in the apostolic office of deaconess. They could thus, as deacons do, administer certain sacraments. That the Schema should include them in the in struments to be set up after the Council to further the Lay Apostolate. That women religious should have representa tion in those matters which concern their in terests, especially in the present and past Con ciliar agencies. That every opportunity should be given to women, both as Sisters and as Lay,women,, to of fer their special talents to the Ministry of the Church. Mention should also be made of women who are not married. Because of the universal call to women (inDeEcclesia) they also promote family values by witnessing in their own way to this universal vocation. Society needs, and the Church can provide, the Christian dynamic indicated in this Schema and these emendationes. It is rooted in the equality of men and women, and it flowers in both the Church and the public order when they comple ment each other, and fulfill the truly human aspirations God has implanted in them and in society. DIVINE REVELATION SCHEMA INCLUDED Important Council Decrees Ready By End Of October BY FATHER PLACID JORDAN, VATICAN CITY—With general debate on the crucial subject of the Church in the modern world ended, it was felt in the fourth week of the last Vatican coun cil session that from five to seven decrees will be ready for public proclamation by the end of October. s These decrees are the oties on divine 'revelation, the' duties of' bishops, Christian education, se minary formation, and on Reli gious. In addition, two others— on relations with non-Christians, expecially the Jews, and on the lay apostolate—may be ready. After the long All Saints and All Souls weekend the council Fathers will tackle revised sc hemas on the Church in the modern world, religious liberty, the missions and the priesthood. Commissions and subcommis sions revising the schema on the Church in the modem world have a big job going over a compli cated text that has been chal lenged in debate on many scores. It is expected that their new ver sion will be back on the floor by Nov. 10, with hopes of final bal loting by the end of November. LIKEWISE, the commissions responsible for the remaining schemas expect completion dur ing November. Thus presum ably the whole agenda will be taken care of in ‘ time for the solemn closing, still anticipated for Dec. 8 or shortly after. The highlight of the council’s fourth week undoubtedly was the near unanimous acceptance of the schema dealing with the pastoral duties of bishops. Remembering the many hurdles involved, this is clear evidence of progress in council thinking. For the issue was "collegiality" — the ques tion, in other words, of the rights of bishops in relations to the Pope and how far they .may exer cise independent jurisdiction through , national episcopal con ferences. In practice this means decen tralization and an international sharing in the government of the universal Church. It will have far-reaching consequences, al ready indicated by the establish ment of the supreme episcopal synod. It will lead to an actual sharing of responsibility by the Pontiff with the world’s hierar chies. TO SAY THIS is the beginning of a "democratic trend” would be an exaggeration. Neverthe less, the new openness of the Church in its relations with the world at large is evident here, as it was in Pope Paul’s New York voyage. Three major issues were up permost in the week’s debates: peace and war, world poverty and overpopulation, all included in the second part of the modem world schema. As one listened to the array of speakers, some very prominent, one might have thought them all pacifists. In a sense , of course, they all are. All were out spoken in unreserved condemna tions of war. Most demanded the proscription of nuclear arms Ed Curtin Presents, ATLANTA'S MOST EXCITING LOUNG'E PAUL PEEK TELEVISION AND ^RECORDING PERSONALITY 760 WEST PEACHTREE ST 875 4251 SviAuAance m ail U& jjOAmi./ Dj U% written, uve wAite it . . . Sutter & McleHan 1422 RHODES HAVERTY BLDG. JAckson 5-2086 WHERE INSURANCE IS A PROFESSION NOT A SIDELINE. and objected with Bernard Car dinal Alfrink of Holland even to Stockpiling them as deterrents or for defense. The "deter rent” argument was stated last year by Auxiliary Bishop Philip M. Hannan of Washington and other American, British and Ita lian prelates. THIS YEAR, Archbishop George A. Beck of Liverpool cal led nuclear defense morally jus tifiable, while Bishop MichalKle- pacz of Lodz, Poland, warned that peace was desirable, in deed, “but not at any price.” Eloquently, Abbot Christopher Butler, O.S.B., of Downside, En gland, stressed: ‘The weapons of the Gospel are not nuclear but spiritual. It wins its vic tories not by war but by suf fering.” The very intention to use nuclear weapons, which stor ing them implies, is gravely immoral, the abbot said. He stressed that men have a duty not only to country but to all mankind, and thus at times have the duty to "withhold obedience” when called to wage war. Several speakers contradicted Francis Cardinal Spellman of New York and upheld the right of conscientious objection to war. Auxiliary Bishop Gordon Whee ler of Middlesbrough, England, criticized what seemed to him the suggestion that such objec tors are "milksops.” He said in reality "the witness of the con scientious-objector is something to be valued and welcomed.” FOUR CARDINALS, Paul Emile Leger of Montreal, Ac- hille Lienart of Lillie, France, Joseph Martin of Orleans, Fran ce , and Leon Duval of Algiers, Algeria , insisted that the classi cal distinction between a just and unjust war can no longer be up held, if redress were to be gained "by inhuman means only.” Alfredo Cardinal Ottaviani of the Rome curia voiced the same sentiments when he asked for "one common fatherland where the peace of Christ would reign.” The nearly-blind secretary of the Congregation of the Holy Office won a spontaneous ovation when he spoke in fluent Latin without a manuscript. All these speakers, although accepting with Auxiliary Bishop Alfred Ancel of Lyons, France, the legitimacy of genuine patrio tism, refused to admit the ba lance of terror as a principle. They urged that "war be waged on war in order that man’s ma rathon race toward the preci pice of ruin’ ’ be halted, and that the budgets of armaments then be turned to fight world poverty. IN THIS RESPECT , Auxiliary Bishop Edward Swanstrom of New York pointed out the increasing discrepancy of wealth between rich and poor nations, and pro posed a permanent Vatican body be set up to promote world con cern and help for the poor and hungry. This project was back ed by others, notably Bishop Wheeler, who also suggested'a secretariat for world justice and development. Poverty and social injustice was put before the council as major causes of war. Joseph Cardinal Cardijn of Belgium emphasized that "sins against the worker are sins against God,’ and Bishop Char les Himmer ofToumai, Belgium, added that "the law of profit should not be supreme in eco nomic life.” These statements came after Cardinal Ottavianis came after Cardinal Otta viani's peremptory denunciation of all totalitarian systems of government as being primary i hi now sri JariJ bsbbs sH“ jgjM causes of war. Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski of Poland condemn ed under the same heading both capitalism and communism Which, he said, are "both wrong because they are not predicated on the dignity of the human per son.” The council heard two speakers contend that human dignity re quires a recognition that women as j well as -'Then-are made in the A:,s r, a W., Wftr A a. TSsfl AUDITOR SEES CHANCE Days Of Beer And Pretzels Over For Church Lay Units HUNTING, Ind. (RNS)—The days of Roman Catholic "beer and pretzel organizations” are over, according to James J. Norris, a lay auditor of Vatican it ”1 even think,” he said, "the days of all organizations as we knew them in the past are fin ished.” Mr. Norris, executive direc tor of Catholic Relief Services and first American layman ever to address an Ecumenical Coun cil, was quoted in the Oct. 17 issue of Our Sunday Vsitor, national Catholic ecumenical weekly published here. INTERVIEWED by Father Vincent A. Yzermans, head of CUERNAVACA DIOCESE Monk Psychoanalysis Gets Clarification VATICAN CITY (NC)—The psychoanalysis undergone by monks of the Benedictine mona stery of the Cuernavaca dio cese in Mexico was carried out on a group basis and over a period of 16 years, the bishop of Cuernavaca disclosed here. Bishop Sergio Mendez Arceo said that the world press had given a "wrong impression” of his appeal to the ecumeni cal council to give recognition to the findings of Sigmund Freud in the schema on the Church in the modern world. Press reports had tied Bis hip Mendez’ council statement to reports that 60 monks of the Benedictine monastery in his See had been psychoanalyzed in a mass experiment, and that 40 had left the monastery- several having decided that their vocation was marriage ra ther than the monastic life. IN A statement made public at the American biships’ press panel session (Oct. 7) by Msgr. Mark J. Hurley, vice chancel lor of the archdiocese of San Francisco, Bishop Mendez said the press failed to report that tye psychiatric experiment' at the monastery was carried out over a period of 16 years. Futhermore, the bishop said, the method used was not the individual analysis promotedby Freud, but instead the newer method of "group therapy.” Msgr. Hurley told the press that he assumed that "the group therapy method would have been unknown to Freud.” He noted also that one section of the council’s schema on Re ligious approved that morning dealt with the requirement of the vow of chastity for those embracing the life of Religious. He cited the approved section as saying that "psychological m aturity is required for this ,vow, and superiors should see to it that their subjects are not allowed to take such a vow without this maturity.” Bishop Named VATICAN CITY (NC)— Bishop George P. Dwyer of Leeds, England, has been ap pointed by Pope Paul VI to head the Birmingham archdiocese. He succeeds the late Archbis hop Francis J. Grimshaw, who died last March 22. the U.S. Catholic Bureau of In formation and OSV correspon dent at the Council, Mr. Norris said "the Catholic layman to day must be involved not only in his parish but also in his community.” The layman must also, he added, “come to understand more deeply that his commun ity is a world community.” Included in the publication's report were the comments of Martin H. Work, another Coun cil lay auditor who is executive director of the National Council of Catholic Men. OBSERVING that laymen want to work with and for the Church, Mr. Work said that the laityis "bothered about Church struc tures.” He offered this list of specific recommendations to ward producing lay activity in the Church. 1. Support and encouragement in the lay mission. 2. Release from excessive clerical direction or blockage. 3. Increase of spiritual guid ance and motivation from the priest. 4. Great communication with the clergy and the bishop. 5. The opportunity to express the apostolate of public opinion. 6. A "hearing” and proper action on that hearing — "or at least an intelligent response,” 7. General recognition on the part of the clergy that the lay man has a legitimate interest in the Church. 8. Less clerical and juridical documents, "IN A WORD, * Mr Work con cluded, the layman wants "a document from this Council that will form a magna carta for his role in the Church of the future.” image of God and therefore de serve more recognition from the Church. It was proposed that women be consulted on all mat ters touching their interests and be admitted more widely in litur gical functions. PROBLEMS of overpopulation appeared in the proper light when Bishop Mariano Gaviola of C.a- banatuan in the Philippines per,; ferred tB the late Pope John’s assertion that the so-called popu lation explosion is an uncertain theory. If contraception is men tioned as a remedy for what on the surface may seem an un desirable increase of the number of births, the Philippine prelated said, decreasing it artificially may have adverse effects on a country’s economic stability. Bishop Francis Simons, S.V.D., of Indore, India, count ered that 'overpopulation cannot be remedied by an increase of food production only, because medical science helps lengthen life expectancy, and the world’s resources are not inexhaustible. He therefore maintained that tra ditional arguments on birth con trol are "not at all convincing,” since moralists in the past fail ed to consider aspects now ob vious to many. After cloture was invoked on debate on the modern world schema, the completely rewritten schema on the missions Was taken up. The new text, more ecu menically oriented, proposes a special Vatican center to coor dinate all mission matters. I It would mean a reorganization of the present Congregation for the .Esopagat/pn of the,.Faith., Joseph Gardinaj., -FringS' ofjGplongne, agreeing, said “the whole-Church is a missionary.” Cardinal Al frink added that not only mission aries but all the faithful are called to mission activity and thus to the support of the 30, 000 priests in the field. Shriver Honored WASHINGTON (NC)—R. Sar gent Shriver has been named to receive the Cardinal Gibbons Medal of Catholic University of America, it was announced here. The medal, awarded for out standing contributions to the United States, will go to Shriver for his "multiple contributions to domestic social advance and international understanding” as director of the Peace Corps and the Office of Economic Op portunity. RAINBOW SWIMMING POOLS (Residential and Commercial) Specialist in swimming pool construction, over 15 years experience in Building Gunite pools. Installed anywhere SPECIAL $1995 CALL JAMES CONST. 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