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Newspaper Page Text1 Atlanta SERVING GEORGIA’S NORTHERN COUNTIES HELP YOUR UNITED APPEAL VOL. 3, NO. 43 GLOBAL APPEAL Pope Asks More Help In Mission Tasks In World HISIIOI’-KLEOT Paul F. Tanner, has been named titu lar bishop of Lamasba by Pope Paul VI, and will con tinue his work as General Secretary of the National Catholic Welfare Conference, Washington, D. C. DEC. 8 CLOSE VATICAN CITY (NC)—Pope Paul VI has appealed to the Catholic world for help in the Church’s missionary task which, he said, is complicated by the growing number of non- Christians, nationalism, relig ious indifference and moral re lativism, the scarcity of work- Council’s Work Is Nearly Done VATICAN CITY — Provid ing the Dec. 8 target date for closing the ecumenical coun cil is adhered to, by the ca lendar it is about half-time for the fourth and final session. But at the close- of the coun cil’s weeklong recess, the feel ing began to spread among the council Fathers that the job is almost done. In fact, because the general debate is now over, many are wondering how they will spend their time profitably. ANOTHER RECESS is sche duled from Oct. 30 to Nov. 8, afther which the council will convene to vote on the docu ments readied by then. There is a faint hope, that with another public session!to promulgate the remaining documents, the coun cil may be able to close by Nov. 22. An early closing date is still speculation, however, because in the council’s caucus rooms the Fathers are skirmishing/ over unfinished documents. The Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity has completed its work on die religious li berty declaration and has dis tributed its draft to the Fathers. There is a good chance it will pass its final test quickly, al though some opposition to it re mains. There is also a divergence of views on the schema on di vine revelation. That docu ment’s thorny problem of re- MISS HOGAN lating Scripture and tradition has yet to be resolved. THE SCHEMAS on the mis sions and on the priestly life are alsobeingprocessed.There is some disagreement over the former, especially over the role to be given to the planned ad visory body made up of miss ionary bishops and Religious superiors, and how this body will be related to the Congre gation for the Propagation of the Faith. The most difficult task of all, however, is the one faced by those entrusted with producing a satisfactory text on die Church in the modern world. An attempt is being made to lengthen this schema—already 82 pages long—by incorpora ting new suggestions made dur ing the fourth session. But the 25 subcommissions working on the document still do not see the light of day. Once they are ready, perhaps by Nov. 10, the revised text must go to the printers, be' distributed to the Fathers, and be discussed anew. If further amendments are of fered as seems likely, one more council recess will give the commissions an opportunity to study them. ANOTHER complication has arisen because more than 500 bishops led by Bishop Luigi Carli of Segni, Italy, have de- ■ manded that the modern world schema include a strong con demnation of communism. New Social Services Head Is Appointed MISS MARY Julia Hogan, former district director of the Greater Boston Family Service Association, has been named the new executive secretary of the Catholic Social Services in At lanta, the Chancery office an nounced this week. Miss Hogan who assumes her duties November 15 will take over the social service position under the direction of the Rev. Walter Donovan. She is a graduate of St. Mary of the Springs College, Colum bus, Ohio and was awarded her Master’s degree by the School of Social Work, University of Pittsburgh. MISS HOGAN has served as assistant director of social ser vices at the Guadalupe Center, ' Kansas City, Mo. and as child welfare consultant and staff su pervisor, Kansas Child Welfare Division, Topeka, Kansas. MISS HOGAN She also served as instructor at the St. Louis University School of Social Service. Miss Hogan was also super visor of Catholic Family Coun seling, Boston, Mass. ers and the scarcity of means. He spoke in a worldwide ra dio broadcast of Vatican Radio on Mission Sunday (Oct. 24). Pope Paul declared that the Church's missionary character is part of the Church’s very nature. IN BRINGING God’s word to all lands, the Pope, said, the Church is responding to two cries, one from heaven and one from earth. The heavenly cry, the Pope said, is God’s. It tells the Church: “Cry, cease not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet” (Is. 58, 1). The earthly cry, the Pope said, “comes from the peoples who desire the triumph of broth erly charity, respect for jus tice, peace and the recognition of the common father, who is God.” HE SAID this cry is: "Show us the father” (John 14, 8.) "We have heard this strong and potent voice, pleading even when unspoken in words, in our apostolic and missionary voy ages in Palestine, in India and to the United Nations,” the Pope said. He added: “It seems there can be no more felicitous or promising moment than now for a great missionary development of the Church.” Pope Paul said it is evident that the efficiency of the Church’s missionary effort ”is conditioned to the unity of the cooperation of all its members, that is, of all the faithful, around the sole pastor God has put at the head of His Church.” He continued: "IT IS WELL known that the Church ordinarily radiates the light of truth through the fire of love, and works of charity are the easiest ways of showing that God is love. For this reason, wherever it goes, the Catholic Church introduces itself with corporal and spiritual works of charity: schools, asylums, hospitals.*' The day the Pope’s appeal was broadcast, he appeared before a crowd of about 30,000 people who had assembled in St. Pet er’s Square to say the custo mary Sunday noon Angelus with him. Before praying, he recalled that it was Mission Sunday and that Catholics throughout the world were praying for the missions. "PRAYER for the missions, ” he said, "stems from very ex alted thoughts, such as that of the universality of the evangeli cal message; that of human brotherhood and Christian civ ility in the faith, in charity and in peace, that of the duty of all to help spread God’s kingdom, and that of the merits and needs of the missioners scattered throughout the world.” Mark Millenium LOS ANGELES (NC)—The 1966 Mary's Hour observance, to be held next May in the Los Angeles Coliseum, will be dedi cated to Poland’s patroness, Our Lady of Czestochowa, as part of the Los Angeles arch diocese’s participation in the worldwide celebration of the millenium of Christianity in Poland. ATLANTA, GEORGIA THURSDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1965 $5.00 PER YEAR Bernard Cardinal Alfrink NAVY HONORS HERO CHAPLAIN—Maryknoll Sister Rose Marie waves after launch ing Destroyer Escort 105, named in honor of her Jesuit brother, Congressional Medal of Honor winner as a Navy Chaplain, in World War II, the late Father Joseph T. O’Cal laghan. With her are her tjfcotlmrs, John €>’C|illa.^:han cf; Boston, and Neil of Philadelphia. ‘TOO DISASTROUS 9 Flays Nuclear Warfare VATICAN errY (NC)— Ber nard Cardinal Alfrink of U- trecht, The Netherlands, has declared that modem war with its nuclear, bacteriological and chemical weapons, "would be so disastrous that it cannot be classified under ancient ethical categories." As a consequence, he assert ed, “war must be considered as an absolutely outmoded means of solving problems.” The Dutch cardinal spoke at a press conference organized by the ecmenical council’s press office. He is the international president of PaxChristi, Catho lic organization for peace. "THE QUESTION is no longer one of war or peace, but rather one of life or death,” he said. He described this assertion as an "ethical problem which must be recognized not only by every Christian of good will but also by every human conscience.’ 1 He said he shares to a cei> tain point the opinion that all war is in flagrant opposition to the Gospel. But he'added that this principle cannot be taken as the exclusive foundation of work for peace. "Human weak ness is such that situations a- rise in which the maintenance of peace does not depend on only one side of a dispute... Self defense and the defense of others is a duty , which has its roots in the Gospel,” he stat ed. To prevent war, he said, "new means must be sought out, new structures and new forms of regulating international rela tions.” IN THIS regard he cited Pope John XXIII’s encyclical, Pacem in Terris, which declared that "justice, right reason and the sense of human dignity demand., that atomic weapons be outlaw ed.” He asserted that this text has been widely misinterpreted "in this context it means not that the Church should prohibit ato mic weapons but that they should be prohibited by the community of peoples itself.” Referring to the treatment of atomic war in .the council’s draft document on the Church in the modem world as "a veritable treatise of ethics on the use of arms,” he continued: "BUT IT IS clear that this has not abolished war. There still can be ecclesiastical do cuments of great force, and all Christian churches may pro ceed to a unanimous condem nation of modern weapons. But if men are unwilling to listen, the problem cannot be solved and war will always remain a terrible threat.” He asked whether the cri terion of a just war is still ‘UNHEALTHY’ MAYNOOTH, IRELAND (NC) The Irish people have been told that the practice of honor*- ing the dead by "funeral of ferings” is an unhealthy and materialistic exhibition. Proinsias O’Conluain, a com mentator on Irish affairs, sug gested putting an end to a prac tice prevalent in some parts of Ireland, in an article in The Furrow magazine, published at Maynooth seminary. "The collecting of money at Admits Sisters MADISON, Wis. (CN)—The Madison Diocesan Council of C atholic Women has invited Sis ters to become members of the group. acceptable. ’Those who would discard this theory as outdated are becoming increasingly nu merous,” he said, " because a war which would entail the use of ABC (atomic, biological and chemical) arms could only with difficulty be regarded as just inasmuch as the harm which would result from it would far outweight the injustice in flicted.” Cardinal Alfrink, pleading that he did not want to discuss politics, declined a reporter’s request that he evaluate the morality of the war in Viet nam. In reply to a question on whether the council should con demn communism, he said: "What is condem.iable in com munism has been condemn ed many times by the Church. It would not be convenient to condemn it again..” the altar rail with the corpse present, the calling of names and amounts contributed, the compulsive and competitive at titude engendered among a con gregation in which each member wants to show that he is at least as good as his neighbor- all these, seem to me no less lacking in dignity than dancing and singing in a wake house,” O* Conluain wrote. ’The dead are thus honored only in the most materialistic way—in the amount collected.” "Onehesitates to use terms like ’compulsion’or‘blackmail’ to describe some of the means resorted to,” but these col lections appeal " to human pride, snobbery or status seek ing,” O’Conluain said. Funeral Offerings Receive Criticism U.S. BISHOPS DECIDE More English Decreed For New Liturgy • See also page 2 VATICAN CITY (NC)——In creased use of English in the liturgy, so that virtually all parts of the Mass recited aloud or sung are in the vernacular, has been decided on by the bishops of the United States and confirmed by the Holy See. Father Frederick R. Mc Manus, executive secretary of the U.S. Bishops’ Commission for the Liturgical Apostolate, announced (Oct. 20) that the Holy See’s Commission for Imple mentation of the Constitution on the Liturgy approved the A- merican request in a document dated Oct. 15. It provides for the use of English in the Col lect, Prayer over the Offerings, Preface, the prayer for peace and deliverance from evil which concluded the Lord’s Prayer, and the Postcommunion. All the dialogue prayers—the salu tations and responses between priest and people—are also to be in English, The new concessions for the United States—which have been in effect in Australia and some other English—speaking coun tries for months—were made by the postconciliar liturgy com mission in behalf of the Pope. THEY CAME in answer to decisions taken this past sum mer by American bishops, who balloted by mail and reached al most unanimous agreement. The decrees were sent to Rome Sept. 3 by Francis Cardinal Spellman of New York, the sen ior American cardinal. Publishers of altar missals for the U.S. will begin type- ; setting at once for the official English - Latin missal sup plement. It is expected that pro duction of the supplements for use by the celebrant at Mass will take at least four months. Only when the publicatibn date is determined will the con ference of bishops set an ef fective date, permitting the wider use of English in the li turgy throughout the United States, Father McManus said. For new Mass prayers, the text approved by the American bishops is adapted from ’The Daily Missal of the Mystical Body," known as the Maryknoll Missal. There will be no change in the provisional translations of other parts already in use, except that the dismissal. "Go, the Mass is ended,” will be replaced by ’The Mass is end ed. Go in peace.” Besides this greater use of the vernacular at Mass, the new edition of "the Roman Ritual” in English, translated by Father Philip Weller of Loyola Uni versity, Chicago, was officially approved. This is for supple mentary use in case of sacra mental rites not contained in the official U. S, ritual, the "Collectio Rituum,” published last year. Also approved were translations of instructions tobe given by the bishop at the be ginning of ordination services. Commenting on these de velopments, Archbishop John F. Dearden of Detroit, chair man of Bishops’ Commission for the Liturgical Apostolate, said: ’’All translations approv ed are provisional. The policy thus far has been to choose the best available English translations from those already in existence. The long-range project of translation has been turned over to the international committee on English in liturgy, headed by Archbishop Gordon Gray of Edinburgh.” AS SOON as the date for publication of the official missal supplement can be set, general permission will be given to pub lishers to use all approved translations in books, booklets, and leaflets. In order to pro tect the public and publishers against too frequent changes, the release of some texts was withheld until additional verna cular concessions were ready, according to Father McManus. It is not known how long the pre sent translations will remain in effect. This depends upon the next stages of the revision of the Roman liturgy, now being prepared by bishops and spe cialists from all parts of the world, he said. The gradual development in the use of English at Mass re presents a second step taken by the American bishops. At their meeting in Rome in No vember, 1963, just before is suance of the council's Con stitution on the Liturgy, the bis hops agreed upon the most ex tensive possible use of English in the Church’s public worship. The first formal step, voted almost unanimously by the U.S. conference of bishops in April 1964, became effective last No vember. It permitted English for the biblical readings and for the prayers of the Mass re cited by people, as well as for the sacraments, sacramentals, and funeral services. THE SECOND step, when it goes into effect, will mean that the United States has complete use of vernacular language in liturgy, to the extent permitted by the Pope at the present time, Father McManus said. Priest Workers Are Back VATICAN CITY (NC)--The French hierarchy has announ ced that with the Holy See’s approval, it has decided to re open the controversial priest- worker experiment. This in effect is a reversal of a series of decisions by the Holy See during the ’50s. In 1951 the Holy See judged the priest-worker experiment "more dangerous than useful and ordered that no more priests be added to the 85 then working in factories. In 1959 the last concession of part- time work by priests was with drawn. VATICAN RADIO, broadcast ing the communique of the French hierarchy (Oct. 25), said the latest decision was taken at a plenary assembly of the hierarchy in Rome. Under a new plan, a "small number” of priests will be au thorized to work full-time in factories of workshops. The authorization extends for three years. The priests will re ceive "appropriate prepara tion” and will be selected on the basis of their attitudes and formation.