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PAGE 8 GEORGIA BULLETIN THURSDAY, JANUARY 27, 1966
IN SPAIN
Dominican Head Favors
Cathoiic-Marxist Dialogue
MADRID (NC)— Hie master
general of the Dom inican F a-
thers told a national television
audience in Spain that this coun
try must open itself to new lines
of thought in the modern world,
including even a dialogue be
tween Catholics and Marxists.
It is estimated that several
million persons watched the
televised interview with Spa
nish-born Father Anieeto Fer
nandez, O.P., Among other
things, he said persons in power
have an Obligation to enforce
the ecumenical council’s decla
ration on religious liberty, and
he said Dominican theologians
must base their work on Scrip
tural sources as well as St.
Thomas Aquinas.
Questioned by newsmen, Fa
ther Fernandez stated that Spain
in recent years has kept it
self apart from events in other
nations. “Spain,” he said, must
keep prepared if it wishes to
preserve its faith. And in order
to preserve it (Spain) must
open itself.
“IT IS. NECESSARY that we
make ourselves, congenial,
more understanding and chari
table toward all mankind. We
must not be intransigent-in any
thing. There are many questions
which can be freely discussed.”
Questioned about a possible
Christian-Marxist dialogue, an
idea that has been attacked by
some Church authorities in
Rome, Father Fernandez said
such contacts are made diffi
cult by the basic anti-Christian
nature of communism.
“Nevertheless,” he added,
“collaboration should never be
excluded.
w “IF WE COULD agree to help
each other to lift the status
of the people, why not do so?
This could be a means of en
tering into a friendship and
dialogue with them, and thus
a means for them to under
stand the truth of the Chris
tian religion.”
While the incompatibility of
Christianity and Marxism is
obvious, Father Fernandez said
that fact does not make them
enemies. “We can remain very
firm in our faith and in our
beliefs and treat the com-
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munists with great charity to
see whether we might under
stand one another and make
them see the truth,” he said;
“Why should we not talk to
each other? We are all men.
There are undoubtedly many
communists with good inten
tions who want the very poor
to find a better standard of
living. In this we can agree.”
The Dominican leader, who
has been described in'the past
as a conservative - minded
churchman, even supported the
idea of priest-workers within
his religious order. The priest-
worker experiment was under
a cloud of Church suspicion for
several years, but it was rein-
Stituted last year in France by
the bishops of that country.
“I belieye they represent a
means to achieve contact with
Marxist workers,” he said.
“What the Church needs today
is to put itself in contact with
and communicate with the wor
kers.”
Father Fernandez said the
decrees of the ecumenical coun
cil, such as the one on reli
gious freedom, “bind all Chris
tians, and consequently bind all
Christians who are in power to .
their fullest extent.
“PARTICULARLY in regard
to religious freedom, Spain
must accept all that it stated
in the council decree.”
However, he added that the
freedom to think and worship
as one pleases does not free
a person from the obligation
of seeking the truth. And even
in the area of worship he said
the state has the right to en
force certain restrictions
necessary for good public or
der.
Father Fernandez praised the
assistance that members of the
Dominican order gave to the
ecumenical council in the field
of philosophy ahd theology. “It
was a question of expounding
theological and philosophical
doctrine not simply in a scho
lastic and professional sense,
but in a popular, biblical sense,”
he said, "for such was the lan
guage of Jesus Christ.”
Father Fernandez was in
Spain to dedicate a Dominican
theology school in Santander.
The school has been made a
university and is affiliated with
the Pontifical University of St.
Thomas in Rome.
INTER-RELIGIOUS COMMITTEE AGAINST POVERTY — Vice President Hubert H.
Humphrey met with representatives of a new committee to rally religious support in
the national war against poverty (Jan. 18). Left to right: Louis Stern, New' York, past
president, Council of Jew’ish Federations and Welfare Funds; Archbishop Robert E.
Lucey, San Antonio; the Rev. Dr. Eugene Carson Blake, Philadelphia, stated clerk of the
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A.; the Rev. Dr. Norman Baugher, Elgin, Ill., gen
eral secretary of the Church of the Brethren general brotherhood board; Rabbi Seymour
Cohen, president of the Synagogue Council of America, and Bishop Raymond J. Gallagher
, of Lafayette, Ind.
Letters To The Editor
TO THE EDITOR:
THERE IS a great need in
these days to return to the old
paths when discrimination was
a good word and properly used.
Also, there is a need of the
virtue of consistency. Many are
very discriminating as to the
type house they live in, the car
they drive, the clothes they
wear, the food they eat and that
they allow their children to eat,
but pay little attention to the
material they read. We need
to be just as concerned about
what the .mind is fed on as we
are the body. Just as bad food
Any Suggestions?
HERE IS your chance to get your thoughts and suggestions in
cluded in the efforts of the Lay Congress for presentation to the
1966-Archdiocesan Synod. Whatever your suggestions, whether
in the fields of administration, education, or future plans and
expansion include them in the form here, or on an additional sheet
of paper and mail to Herbert G. Farnsworth, 176 Bolling Road,
N.E., Atlanta, Ga. 30305.
I would like these suggestions to be discussed by the Lay Com
mittees of the Lay Congress to be held in the Spring of 1966:
Name: _
Parish:
Address:
‘LANGUAGE OF WORSHIP’
Latin Is Decreed
For Seminarians
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VATICAN CITY (NC)-—The
Congregation of Seminaries and
Universities has issued guide
lines for the liturgical training
of future priests, including the
provision that Latin is to be the
language of their public wor
ship.
The document, entitled Na-
tivitate Domini and sent to all
the world's bishops, states that
Latin is the language of the
Church and should be known
by every seminarian. It cau
tions against using the verna
cular to such an extent that
Latin is excluded, stating that
the Church, while granting the
use of the vernacular, does not
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can poison the body, so can
bad reading material poison the
mind.
It is a proven fact that much
of the delinquency today is due
to the filthy, trashy reading
material that youth can obtain
so easily from almost every
news stand, even in the grocery
and drug stores.
PARENTS, TEACHERS, civic
leaders, ministers and all
others need to awaken to the
danger of producing a genera
tion whose minds are so cor
rupted by allowing the distri
bution of pomograhpic read
ing material, that society is
down graded and moral decay
sets in that will bring ruina
tion. Already we are seeing
this to too large a degree among
the youth and older people as
well.
The eye-gate is the main ac
cess to the mind and memory,
and pornographic material is so
written and illustrated as to
make lasting impressions on the
mind of the reader. This ma
terial is so rotten that even the
postal authorities have set up
stringent regulations against is,
and every citizen should co
operate with them.
Pornography is of such a na
ture that it is often peddled
as dope and very often by the
dope peddlers themselves. Just
as dope addicts the user, so
does pornography and leads to
a continual decay and destruc
tion of character and body. The
Wesleyan Evangelical Mini
sterial Alliance, composed of
twenty - two ministers repre
senting six denominations in the
Greater Atlanta Area, protest
the sale and distribution of such,
and call upon the parents and
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wish clerics to igpore the study
of Latin.
The instruction notes that the
liturgy makes use of the arts,
especially poetry and music, and
has formed great teacher in the
course of centuries.
REGARDING music it gives
first place to the use of tra
ditional Gregorian chant. It re
commends music chosen from
the large treasury of classic
polyphony as well as modern
compositions. It calls for the
formation of ascholacantorum,
a specially trained choir for
Gregorian chant, and demands
a minimum of one hour instruc
tion in the liturgy , each week
for four years.
The document has been drawn
up in light of the Constitution
on the Liturgy. It is composed
of an introduction and four chap
ters, plus an appendix.
The first chapter deals with,
the practical means of inculca
ting liturgical acts in the life
of the seminary. The second
chapter covers the resources
which superiors and spiritual
directors must know in order
to train future priests.
THE THIRD chapter discus-
sess practical initiation inpas
toral liturgy. Lastly, the docu
ment outlines a program of
studying the liturgy in the light
of theology.
whether Negroes in this district
were really free to vote against
Mr. Bond without fear of intimi
dation from the more militant
elements of the Negro commun
ity.
I am assuming, and I think
somewhat reasonably so, that
the managing editor of the BUL
LETIN, Mr. Gerard E. Sherry,
either wrote or directly approv
ed the editorial in question.
Now, no one can, dispute the
right of Mr. Sherry to present
a reasoned argument explaining
his position on Mr. Bond. But
why was it not developed in its
proper setting, the personal
opinion column entitled “Reap
ings at Random?” Why was
this obviously controversial
stand taken on the editorial
page? I suggest that Mr. Sherry
knew quite well the interpreta
tion which would be placed by
the secular press on statements
in the editorial column of the
* ‘official’ ’ local Catholic news
paper, and that it was precisely
because he realized his com
ments would be widely inter
preted as reflecting “official”
Catholic thought that he pre
sented his viewpoint in the man
ner that he did.
Finally, I must confess that
I find it hard to understand how
the Archbishop, with his exten
sive experience in such mat
ters, could have been so sur
prised at the general impres
sion which was created, assum
ing, of course, that he was
aware of the contents of the edi
torial prior to its publication.
LEO E. REICHERT, JR.
DECATUR, GA.
TO THE EOrrOR
IN THE January 13 issue of
THE BULLETIN, the editorial
page carried an article entitled
“Legislative Folly” in which
it was argued that a * ‘bleak day
for Democracy” had occured
the previous Monday when the
Georgia legislators had refused
to seat Mr, Julian Bond because
of his controversial support of
the SNCC statement violently
attacking U.S. policy in Viet
Nam, and encouraging draft-
card burning and other unlaw
ful acts to avoid service in the
armed forces. Shortly there
after, Atlanta newspapers car
ried articles with lead head
lines proclaiming that "Catho
lics” supported Mr. Bond’s
right to be seated as a repre
sentative of the 136th district.
As a result, the Archbishop felt
it necessary to point out pub
licly that, although he himself
agreed with the position outlin
ed in the BULLET IN, this did not
represent "official” Catholic
thinking on the matter.
There are a number of cate
gorical assumptions contained
in this editorial which are, 1
submit, open to some debate.
As, for example, whether Mr,
Bond would have been elected
by the 136th district had he
made his views known publi-
cally prior to the election and,
preach a strictly limited area
of defense?
And ihe whole piece was less
than competent, for it espoused
the cause of some callow youth
who seemed to think he had a
right to speak for the Univer
sity without any faculty super
vision. The Catholic institutions
did exactly right in refusing to
give him lectern space. But the
fact that a Methodist univer
sity permitted itself to be a
sounding board for him does
not speak highly of their ecu
menical efforts for peace a-
mong churches. Even the fact
that a priest on his side pub-
lically called the administrative
head-priest a liar does not en
hance the persuasive value of
the charges.
All this only proves that you
ought to do your fellow-Catho-
lics a favor by circulating cop
ies of the Archbishop’s quali
fications for a responsible cri
tic. And you might check your
own news by the same yard
stick.
MYRTLE
PIHLMAN POPE
ATLANTA
TO THE EDITOR:
WHOEVER set the type for the
article on St. John’s University
should have first consulted the
Archbishop’s column. His plea
for responsible lay criticism of
the clergy specified that such
criticism should be competent,
truthful, courageous, prudent,
reverent, and charitable.
A news report can hardly
be regarded as competent if it
fails to take into account facts
that would vitiate its own-argu
ment. It is not courageous if it
fails to face the fact that noth
ing short of courage will enable
a writer to defend the politi
cal right nowadays. It said noth
ing at all about the subversive
elements (now rampant on most
college campuses) which are
seeking to wipe out every
vestige of religion, and against
which the wisest of administra
tions are helpless without the
aid of the churches.'
It is not prudent of the edi
tor to have more regard for his
right to spread anti-Catholic
sentiment in a Catholic news
paper than he has for the sur
vival of the Church—or does he
imagine that the gates of Hell
will not prevail against the wa
vering members of the Church
who read his persuasive doc
trine? (But of course he has
plenty of company in the Catho
lic press everywhere!)
The scurrilous remarks
quoted about Irish Catholicism,
as though this were an evil thing,
are certainly not reverent, or
even charitable of whatever ex
traordinary failings may have
been ascribed to the Irish. Or
is the racism against which you
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EDITOR’S NOTE:
We do not make the news—
we merely print it. As regards
the dispute at St. John’s Uni
versity, we have given equal
space to both sides. Our news
on this subject comes mainly
from the news service of the
National Catholic Welfare Con
ference, an agency of the
American Bishops.
-W
TO THE EDITOR:
At the risk of beating a sub
ject to death I would like to an
swer Mrs. Gemazian’s letter
(Jan. 21, Georgia Bulletin) in
which she implied that the wo
man who questioned Msgr. Con
way about Birth Control needed
only to get a new "view” to
solve her problems. Mrs. Ger-
nazian makes this sound as
easy as flipping a switch. Were
this true, I doubt thatMilledge-
ville would be so crowded. Per
haps one day all Catholics will
be charitable enough to admit
that while some couples cam
adequately rear large families,
others cannot, and leave the de
cision to the individual couple.
They are the ones who will ans
wer to God for their actions.
- Mrs. Gernazian obviously has
a talent for writing - perhaps a
paragraph or two by her on the
meaning of the Indian proverb
about not judging another till
you’ve walked for a time in his
moccasins, might be forthcom
ing in a future issue of the
Georgia Bulletin.
MRS. W.P. STALLWORTH
TUCKER, GEORGIA.
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