The Georgia bulletin (Atlanta) 1963-current, October 21, 1965, Image 2

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Newspaper Page Textf i PAGE 2 GEORGIA BULLETIN THURSDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1965 FOLLOWING INTERVENTION Pleas Mounting For Revision Of Woman’s Place In Church BY RICHARD HORCHLER NEW YORK (RNS) — When Archbishop Paul J, Hallman last week at the Council cal led for a revision of woman’s position in the Catholic Church, his was only the most recent and notable of a chorus of voices being raised on this subject. In his written intervention on Schema 13, the Church in the Modem World, the Atlanta prelate complained that 1 al though the draft cites "im portant points in the enlarge ment of her teaching on the role of woman...there is very little application of these points to concrete ’urgent problems.*” Archbishop Hallinan went on to say to his fellow-bishops: “We must not perpetuate the secondary place accorded to women in die Church of the 20th Century; we must not con tinue to be late-comers in the social, political and economic development that has today reached climactic dimen sions.” WHAT ARCHBISHOP Halli nan referred to is the tradition and discipline of the Catholic Church saying that women may not receive Holy Orders, even minor orders, and may not serve at the altar as acolytes or even readers. But beyond and above mere Church regu lations because it is what pro duced and maintains then> say the feminist reformers, is an entire ancient-medieval attitude Ed Curtin Presents, ATLANTA'S MOST EXCITING LOUNG'E §euci PAUL PEEK TELEVISION AND RECORDING PERSONALITY 760 WEST PEACHTREE ST 875 4251 MC DONALD CHAPEL MOTE COLUMNS ON HU STREET PHONE 227-5532 45? NORTH HILL STREET J. SPENCE MCDONALD GRIFFIN, GEORGIA PITTMAN-RAWLS Funeral Home JAMES W. RAWLS •THE HOME OF SYMPATHETIC SERVICE 633 MERIWETHER STREET ' GRIFFIN, GEORGIA PHONE 227-2236 which assumed that woman is an inferior creature. This view has been abandoned in recent decades by more Protestant Churches — women are being ordained in, at last count, no fewer than 20 Pro testant denominations — and in the last few years has been challenged more and more in sistently within the Roman Ca tholic’ Church. This year the Episcopal Church ’ in the United States went through a crisis of sorts over the declared inten tion of Bishop James A. Pike of California to ordain a woman deacon to Holy. Orders. Catholic argument over the question has been heard, in the last few years alone, in France, Germany and the United States. In Germany the discus sion has been led by, among others, the Jesuit theologian and Council peritus Karl Rahner. The French Informations Catho- liques Internationales recently presented an article on the sub ject by another Jesuit, Father Jose A. Idigoras, who also worte his doctoral dissertation, at Gregorian University, Rome, on the place of women in the Church. And several months ago the lay-edited American Catho lic journal Commonweal ran a special issue asking the forth right question, "Should Wo men Be Priests ” AT THE COUNCIL, sixteen of the Fathers have judged the question of woman’s role in the Church to be pressing enough for them to deliver in- . terventions on it. All of them ur ged that women be granted a role of greater importance and responsibility. Objections to the ordination of women or even to a fuller recognition of woman’s dignity and rights used to be based partly on the now discredited notions of the ancient philoso phers, the scholastics and St; Thomas that in the process of procreation the woman was pas- stye; and’ iaaiwhrej^tvthe man furnished the "substantial form” while the woman sup plied the "matter,” and that a fern ale was only a malformed male. Since these ideas have been repudiated, the arguments now are based chiefly on the fact that none of the Apostles was a woman, on some other Scrip- tual texts, including some in St. Paul, and on tradition. BUT THOSE who argue for full participation in Church life by women say that these grounds are specious, based on mere cultural and sociological acci dents and not on anything es sential in the Faith. In Infor mations Catholiques Interna- THE NEW AND CONVENIENT *■€i I Is ready to serve YOU in any capacity, immediately... 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Others elected to office were: David Sellers, Vice-President; Geor ge Coleman, Secretary; Thomas Daniels, Assistant Secretary; A.L, Idlett, Treasurer; William Browing, Sargeant at Arms. fer® tionales, Father Idigoras wrote that "there is nothing explicit in the Bible nor in tradition for that matter to deprive wo men of a place in the Christian ministry.” Related to the new ideas on the role of women in the Church is the on-going revolution in the understanding of the role of the nun in the Catholic Church. Leo Joseph Cardinal Suenens of Belgium, in his much discussed book ‘The Nun in the Modern World,” described as "ridiculous” the robes of some nuns and the convention that nuns must travel always in two’s like little girls "who have to have a companion holding them by the hand.” In his book Cardinal Suenens asked, in ge neral, that Sisters be allowed to act 'like adult women.” Also related to the stirrings in the Church on women and nuns is the current controversy on birth control, although it is not much realized. The argu ments on birth control are superficially concerned with such things as family limita tion, natural law, the "pill”, etc. But what is actually at the core of all these discussions is a much more profound chal lenging of traditional Christian ideas on sex, marriage -- and woman. Last year, for example, Patriarch (now Cardinal) Maxi- mos IV Saigh charged in the Council that Catholic teachings in this area were the product of of "a bachelor psychosis.” THE QUESTION of woman's role is in all the Christian Churches increasingly impor tant not only in terms of re form and renewal, or "aggioi> namento,” as Pope John put it, but in regard to the ecumenical movement as well. Two years ago Dr, Lukas Vischer, the World Council of Churches’ re search secretary, said that Christian unity in the future may depend to a large extent on the question of ordaining women to the ministry. What Archbishop Hallinan called for in his Council inter vention last week was not as radical as full ordination for women. He asked for amend ments to Schema 13 to provide that women be permitted to act as readers and acolytes at Mass, that they be permitted to serve as deaconesses, preaching, baptizing; and dis tributing Holy Communion, that they be encouraged to become teachers and consultants in theology, that they be represen ted in post - Council organiza tions to implementthelayapos- tolate and that they be repre sented, as they are not now, in the Congregation of Religious in the Curia and in the commission revising canon law. On this last subject, a Ca tholic woman’s group in Rome has been campaigning for what seems a pathetically minimal reform of Canon Law, merely that it speak in the future of "homo”, the generic term for human being, rather than, as it 1 now does, "vis,” the Latin word of man in the masculine sense. WINNERS OF the autographed footballs and die guest speaker at The Shrine of the Immaculate Conception Holy Name Meeting, honoring Fathers and Sons are shown, left to right, Freddie Hoger, who won the St. Joseph award; Edward Hein, winner of the Marist football, and Paul Datin is the proud owner of the St. Pius awards The 3 footballs were autographed by the coaches and varsity foot ball members of the 3 Catholic High Schools. Also in the picture is the Guest Speaker for the occasion, Mr. Arthur LeClaire, a graduate of Fordham University, and presently on the research staff of Emory University, and Mr. Eddie Gasperini, President of The Shrine Holy Name Society. 500 ATTEND Stage Pro-ILS. Demonstrations • See editorial page 4 BY PETER K. ILCHUK WASHINGTON, D. C. —Not all the demonstrations here last week-end were staged in pro test of U.S. action in Viet Nam as was evidenced by an opposing group of students demonstrat ing in support of the U.S. ac tion. A large group of students participated in a pro-govern ment Viet policy demonstra tion march last Saturday in the nation’s capitol. -xo II njsoi&jY it) a.io ..elG ic Among the over 500 demon strators were many students from the Catholic colleges in the Washington are a. Although receiving very little coverage from the news media in comparison to the anti-po licy demonstrators, the group succeeded in expressing their support of President Johnson and sympathy for the VietNam- ese people in a simple cere- AT ST. PETER’S Pope Leads Pilgrims Venerates ‘Blessed’ VATICAN CITY (RNS)~Pope Paul VI led Romans and pil grims at St. Peter’s Basilica in venerating a martyred Je suit missionary who had befen beatified earlier in the day dur ing solemn rites attended by 28 cardinals, several hundred bis hops and thousands of faithful. Proclaimed a Blessed was Father Jacques Berthieu. He had worked for some 21 years on the island of Madagascar, now the Republic of Malagasy, where he was tortured to death on June 8,1896, by anti- French guerrillas for refusing to re nounce his faith. In a talk enlarging upon the significance of Father Bert- hieu’s beatification — a ma jor step toward canonization — Pope Paul noted that it took place a week prior to the ob servance of Mission Sunday, and after the Second Vatican Council had discussed an im portant schema on the Church’s missionary activity. HAILING Father Berthieu as a "heroic example of Catholic evangelization,” he said the priest had "recorded in deed the missionary necessity de riving from the plan of salva tion established by the wisdom and goodness of God.” He said the martyr’s missionary voca tion was "a record as Well of the passionate love for souls and charity toward all men.” The Pope said a new son of France had been raised to the honor of beatification and that the occasion recalled “the many fruits of grace and sanctity, the many proofs of her loyalty to the Chair of Peter that nation has given in its thousand-year history.” Pope Paul referred also to the Society of Jesus of which Father Berthieu was a mem ber, saying that "today, as yesterday, the Jesuits continue to work as missionaries in this world in order to bring it, in poverty, chastity and obe dience, the heroic witness of the friends of Jesus.” BEST WISHES SACRED HEART PARISH GALAXIE FALCON FAIRLANE MUSTANG RANDALL & BLAKELY, INC. 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