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THURSDAY, JULY 7, 1966
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God Love You
MOST REVEREND FULTON J. SHEEN
The first word of Our Lord’s public life was "Come.” His
last word was “Go.” First we come to Him, then we go to the
world; first we lean on His breast in prayer to learn the secrets
of His Sacred Heart, then with His love enkindled, we go out
to inflame other hearts. The present tendency of the Church
is to be all “Go Go” with little or no "Come Come.” We yell
about the necessity of “adaptation to the world,” but rarely
whisper the need of “attachment to Christ.”
We play the guitars of the world to make
every day a Palm Sunday, without having
learned the music of Good Friday. Ecumenism
thus becomes indifference to making con
verts; liturgical reform hardens into shift
ing the Eucharistic Lord to an out-of-the-
way corner and we define freedom as con
tempt of authority with a dose of brash
ness.
Why are we deluged with books about the
“secularization of Christianity”? Because the world cannot see
any great difference between the way we act and the way it acts.
No one can influence the world who is too identified with it.
Paul tried the Go-Go method in Athens by secularizing his
speech with pagan poetry, but he had sense enough when he went
to Corinth to say that, from then on, he would know only Christ
and Him Crucified. It was a ComeaCome Church which showed
the scars of Christ in the beginning of Christianity. Today,
not even the devil is afraid of a Christ without scars. A Go-
Go Church is a missionary Church, and a missionary Church is
one who, like Peter, “has been with the Galilean.” During the
year 1964, Catholics closed 102 churches in the French colony
of Tunisia, among them the massive Cathedral of St. Louis,
and left open only seven Why? The French moved out and the
Church had not been sufficiently missionary so as to influence
the mass of Tunisian society. If we care only for our parish
ioners, what will happen to the lonely crowd who stumble in
the darkness, which neon lights only make darker.
Christ redeemed humanity and it is to humanity, in all its
phases, that the Church must Go Go. Go to the teenager who
is rebellion against the world - and rightly sol He would go mad
if he did not react in a mad way against a mad world. What
are we doing for the millions who stomp and squeal as de-
tribalized and dis-herded young elephants in protest against
their frustrations and loneliness? They are unhappy because
they lack mission. The teenagers who write to us, sending
their odd-job money and allowance for the poor, are happy and
normal teenagers. They have a mission. They are serving, which
is the condition of happiness. May we hear from others?
Finally, lest we become a truly Go Go Church, will there
be a sufficient number of our readers who will try to redeem
our times with a double “Come Come.” Come daily to Our
Lord in the Blessed Sacrament to atone for the loss of faith
in this “mystery of faith,” and to beg God to raise our priests
to greater holiness. Come away from the table, the snack bar
or your pleasures after denying yourself something little such
as an extra cigarette or a cocktail and, at the end of each month,
send us the equivalent to help feed the poor and give the love
of Christ to those in mission lands. Write to me.'Qod Love
You I
GOD LOVE YOU to the 11 Garrow children for $5. . to
M. R.S. for sending her paycheck of $38.03, a week’s wages for
the poor of the world. . .to E.C. “We are a family of farmers
and in our long day’s work it is very difficult for us to fast
during Lent so we send this $100 instead.”
Cut out this column, pin your sacrifice to it and mail it
to Most Rev. Fulton J. Sheen, National Director of The Society
for the Propagation of the Faith, 366 Fifth Avenue, New York,
N. Y. 10001, or to your Diocesan Director, Rev. Noel C.
Burtenshaw P.O. Box 12047, 2699 Peachtree Road, N.E.,
Northside Station, Atlanta 5, Georgia.
Still Observers
Bretheren Church
Not Joining COCU
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (RNS) —
The Church of the Brethren vot
ed here against joining at this
time the eight-member Consul
tation on Church Union (COCU),
but agreed to maintain its pres
ent observer-consultant rela
tionship., ^11,
Delegates at the annual con
ference voted 881 to 220 infav
or of accepting a report from
the Brethren Fraternal Rela
tions Committee which had rec
ommended that the denomina
tion not join COCU.
An overriding concern among
many delegates regarding pos
sible merger with other denom
ination’s was the matter of unity
among the Brethren. This feel
ing had been reflected by the
committee’s report which stat
ed that the Brethren “are not
in a good position at this time
to decide on full participation in
the COCU except at the consid
erable risk of misunderstand
ing and possible disunity within
the Brotherhood.”
The report, however, called
on the Brethren “to be even
more creatively and responsi
bly involved” in the ecumeni
cal movement.
It urged the denomination to
“move as rapidly and resolute
ly as possible to explore pos
sible mergers of our Church
with such Churches or groups of
Churches as are sufficiently
similar to us in doctrine, po
lity, and mission that merger
may be feasible and produc
tive."
The comm ittee said it saw the
Brethren denomination “as a
bridge Church, actively seeking
to promote cooperation and pos
sible merger with a constella
tion of Churches which are
close to us in doctrine and poli
ty and with whom we can share
in the concepts ofmission which
we now see to be the will of
God for our time.”
The conference, foreseeing
an increase in Brethren dia
logue with other church groups
and concerned about unity at die
local level, asked the General
Brotherhood Board to make a
study of a “new struct ing
to coordinate matters of church
unity, faith and order and ecu
menical involvements.”
Erhard Speaks
BAMBERG, Germany (NC)—
German Chancellor Ludwig Er
hard, a Protestant, will ad
dress the Katholikentag, the
national meeting of Catholics
and Catholic organizations.
This year's Katholikentag will
open July 13 in the Bavarian
town of Bamberg.
Among reasons cited by the
Fraternal Relations Committee
in opposing COCU participation
at this time were the probable
“impatience” by consultation
leaders with a new member
entering negotiations at this
• late, date, and doubts about j a
“vast” church organization.
Other reasons included the
effect of a merger on the Breth
ren Church’s peace, moral and
ethical positions, and a possible
endangering of the denomina
tion’s conversations with other
Churches.
The committee noted that
COCU, in its negotiations look
ing toward a united Protestant
Church, regards only baptism
and communion as sacraments.
This, it said, “diminishes the
recognition of the presence of
God in other acts of the church
such as feet-washing, anoint
ing, marriage and ordination.”
In addition, the committee’s
report said, “theforms and of
fice of the ministry in the mer
ging united Church, based upon
the acceptance of the historic
episcopacy, seem to perpetuate
the sharp cleavage between
clergy and laity, and give in
sufficient recognition of the
growing creativity of the min
istry of all believers.”
The report also noted that by
joining the consultation, the
Brethren Church would lose its
identity. One of the oldest and
smallest - denominations, the
Church of the Brethren has
about 200,000 members, while
the eight bodies in the COCU
total some 24 million.
Also noted by the committee
was the fact that COCU has set
many of the principles of church
union and the Brethren “would
now have to enter the consul
tation on the basis of these ac
cepted principles.”
Prior to the vote on joining
COCU, delegates approved two
resolutions concerning fair
housing and communism.
The housing resolution sup
ported national legislation which
would require real estate agents
to institute fair housing prac
tices in selling or renting.
On communism, the confer
ence urged Brethren to refrain
from supporting “either Com
munist or anti-Communlst cru
sades which tend to distort the
Christian faith.” It asked the
federal government to recog
nize diversity in types of com
munism and in national revolu
tions and to adapt its foreign
policies to the specific situa
tions in each country.
THE WORLD
Government Cancels Ceremony
BUENOS AIRES (RNS)—Argentina's new government cancelled
a ceremony in which it was to have formally relinquished its
privilege of submitting the names of three candidates for con
sideration by the Vatican in naming Argentine bishops.
The cancellation came in the wake of the military coup which
overthrew the regime of President Arturo niia.
The privilege enjoyed by the Argentine state is centuries-
old, one known as the “patronado.”
Need For More Bibles Cited.
RIDGECREST, N.C. (RNS)—An American Bible Society official
warned here that Russia is spending annually about 100 tiroes
more on atheistic literature than what the world's Christian
churches spend annually on new Bibles.
Dr. John H. McCombe, Jr., ABS executive secretary for
church relations, told the Southern Baptist foreign mission con
ference that churches are doing “almost nothing” to place
Bibles and other Christian literature in the hands of the esti
mated 20 million people around the world who become literate
each year.
Catholic Doctors Seek Clause
LONDON (NC)—A Catholic doctors’ group here has declared
it will press for a “conscience clause” in any legislation to
widen the present grounds for abortion in Great Britain.
The move, meant to safeguard the positions of Catholic doc
tors and nurses who refuse to take part in abortion operations,
is being made by the Guild of St. Luke and St. Cosmas. A
emmorandum is being sent to all members of Parliament giv
ing the guild's view on abortion.
Muslims Want Texts Dropped
LUCKNOW, India (NC)—A Muslim organization has demanded
“secularization” of education in Uttar Pradesh state by drop
ping the present official textbooks, which, it said, are full of
mythology and religious teachings of the Hindu community.
The demand is voiced in a memorandum submitted here
(June 25) to state education minister Kailash Prakash by the
Dlnl Taliml Council, an educational organization of Muslims.
Priests Backs Ecumenism
LONDON (NC)—There is a danger that the ecumenical move
ment will create an atmosphere in which some Christians will
change their allegiance from one church to another, but this is
a risk that has to be taken, said Father Herbert Keldany, direc
tor of the Westminster archdiocese’s Ecumenical Center.
NOTE THIS CALENDAR
JULY
8 - Archbishop Hallinan will speak at the Rotary Club meeting
at the YWCA Building—Rotary at noon the “New Perspec
tives On Catholicism.”
9 - The Holy Cross Parish Annual Picnic will be held Saturday,
July 9 from Noon to 7 p.m. at Mathis Dairy.
10 - Archbishop Paul J. Hallinan will speak to the Society of
St. Vincent de Paul on Sunday, July 10, at 4 p.m. at Christ
the King Assembly Room. All interested in how the society
operates are invited to attend.
10 - The Sacred Heart Program dealing with problems in rela
tion to the Catholic position on tolerance including the
Church’s historical stand will be broadcast on WAGA-TV,
Channel 5, on July 10 at 7;30 a.m.
10 - Our Lady Queen of Heaven Curia, Legion of Mary, for the
Archdiocese, will hold its monthly meetingat4p.m. Sunday,
July 10, in the Assembly Room of Sacred Heart Rectory.
20 - Annual Leadership Conference of the Archdiocesan Council
of Catholic 'Women is set for Wednesday July 20. Details
to be announced later.
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