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GEORGIA BULLETIN, THURSDAY, MARCH 2, 1967 3
Bishops Warn
On Viet War
BUDAPEST (RNS)~ Several
Hungarian bishops, including
Archbishop Endre Hamvas of
Kalocsa and Bishop Pal Brez-
anoczy, secretary of the Hungar
ian Bench of Bishops, have
endorsed a statement condemn
ing "the continuation of the un
just, devastating war in Viet
nam against which the Holy
Father has so often raised his
voice in anxious warning,"
The statement was drawn up
and unanimously approved at a
joint meeting of the Opus Pads
executive committee and the
Catholic Committee of the Na
tional Peace Council. .
The meeting also issued a
statement welcoming .the Hun
garian people's efforts “to
promote the construction of so
cialism" and praising the
"maintenance and development
of good relations between our
Church and the State.”
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MAP SHOWS routes to the New World believed taken by St. Bren-
A dan, an Irish monk, in 525 A.D., long before Columbus came to
America. In support of Irish claims that St. Brendan discovered
America, William E. Verity (right) undertook last May a 65-
day, 4,500 mile trip on his 12-foot sloop from Ft. Lauderdale,
*A* Fla., to Tralee, Ireland, retracing the saint’s reputed voyage.
TZ Mr. Verity, who built the sloop, wrote of his trip in the March
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vZ that St. Brendan reached North America twice--the first voyage
was to the North and West, and the second to the South and West.
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New Decree On Catholic-Orthodox
Marriages Is Issued By Holy See
VATICAN CITY (NC) ~ The
Holy See has published a decree
recognizing the validity of mar
riages contracted in an Ortho
dox ceremony between Latin-
rite Catholics and members of
the Orthodox Church.
Although such marriages will
still be considered illicit—:con-
trary to Church law—they will
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marriages. Catholic priests
are ordered to make an official
record of them.
The same recognition was
given marriages between
Oriental-rite Catholics and the
Orthodox contracted in the
presence of an Orthodox priest^
by the Second Vatican Council’s
Decree on i Eastern Catholic
Churches, -promulgated Nov-. 21,
-1964. The- stated-purposeofthe
practice for Catholics of the
present decree is to extend this
recognition so that the Church’s
practice for Catholics of the
Latin Rites will be the same as
that for Oriental Catholics when
there is a question of marrying
a member of the Orthodox faith
in the latter’s church.
The new legislation goes be
yond the council, however, in
that it gives local bishops pow
er to dispense Catholics from
the “canonical form” requir
ed for marriage. In other
words, it is up to the bishops
to decide when to remove the
legal prohibition from such
marriages between Catholics
and Orthodox in Orthodox
churches. If they do, the mar
riages are not only recognized
as valid, but are also licit.
That is, one would not break
Church law by entering them.
The "canonical form” re
fers to conditions required for a
Catholic’s marriage to be valid:
it must be contracted under for
mal circumstances before an
authorized Catholic priest and
two witnesses. With the newde-
cree, a bishop can allow a,Cath
olic under his authority to
marry an Orthodox in the pres
ence of an Orthodox priest in
cases where circumstances
make it very difficult for the
marriage to be held in a Cath
olic church. It will also pre
sumably do away with the pre
vious arrangement whereby in
.such cases dual ceremonies
were often held, one in a Cath
olic church and another in an
Orthodox.
The legislation was contain
ed in a decree of the Congre
gation for the Oriental Church
approved by Pope Paul VI and
published (Feb. 25) in L'Os-
servatore Romano, Vatican City
daily. It bears the date of
Feb. 22.
Father John Long, S.J., an
expert on the Oriental Church
who is an official of the Vati
can Secretariat for Christian
Unity in Rome, hailed the docu
ment as a “big step forward
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in the ecumenical dialogue with
Orthodoxy.’’
"It does not solve the whole
problem,” he said, “butopens
up new possibilities for collab
oration and for the solution of
other connected problems.
Previous refusal to recognize
the validity of such marraiges
has been one of the major
stumblings blocks to dialogue."
He noted that the U.S. is one
of the places where the problem
of mixed marriage between Lat-
in-rite Catholics and Orthodox
often comes up, since the .vast
majority of Catholics in the U.S.
are of the Latin Rite.
, The document states that the
Pope's decision was promoted
by a desire of “preventing in
valid marriages between the
faithful of the Latin Rite and
the non-Catholic Christian
faithful of the Oriental Rites, of
showing proper regard for the
permanence and sanctity of
marriage, and of promoting
charity between the Catholic
faithful and the non-Catholic
Oriental faithful.’’
The key provision of the de
cree is worded as follows:
“When Catholics, whether
they be Orientals or . Latins,
contract marriage with non-
Catholic Oriental faithful, the
canonical form for the celebra
tion of these marriages obliges
only for lawfulness (liceity);
for validity, the presence of a
sacred minister ,su(fjice^, as
long as the other requirements
of law are observed." .
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According to Father Long,
these “other requirements of
law" which must be observed
would include provisions of in
struction on mixed marriages
(“Matrimonii Sacramentum”)
issued by the Doctrinal Congre
gation (March 18, 1966). One
of them was that the non-Cath
olic party is to be "invited”
to promise he will not interfere
with the Catholic’s profession
of his faith, and that children
will be baptized and educated
in the Catholic faith. If the
non-Catholic Cannot in con
science do this, the case must
be referred to the Holy See.
Dialogue’s Promise
Is Still Unfilled
WINOOSKI PARK, Vt. (NC)
—The interreligious dialogue,
fruitful though it may seem,
has failed . to produce signi
ficant results- in some areas,
two speakers declared at an
ecumenical meeting here.
Dr. Joseph L. Lichten, di
rector of the intercultural af
fairs department of the Anti-
Defamation League of B’nai B'-
rith, addressed the third an
nual ecumenical workshop at
St. Michael's College here.
He said there is a ''per
sistent" anti Semitism in the
U.S., which Is based to some
degree^ on a religious level.
Dr. Stanley I. Stuber, As
sociation Press director,
pointed out that there is a
“dangerous undercurrent of
hatred" in the U.S., "not only
between various colors, but also
between certain religious
groups."
In his address, Dr. Lichten
remarked that a phenomenal
change has taken place in Ca-
tholic-Jewish relations over the
last eight to 10 years.
"In that brief period,"-he
said, "our communities have
executed an about-face from
the estrangement that has cha
racterized so much of the com
mon era."
According to Dr. Lichten, re
cent surveys show that there
still are broad pockets of anti-
Semitism in the U.S. Much of
the prejudice stems, he said,
from a religious base.
Dr. Stuber observed that
"when we examine our educa
tional and religious insti
tutions, we discover that what
is taught in our schools has
little, if any, influence on a
higher morality or real reli
gion."
He asserted, however, that
the Second Vatican Council de
claration on the Jews "opened
up an entirely new relationship
between Christians and Jews,
and holds forth greater pro
mise for the future if all of
us will implement these very
important documents."
The statements in the de
claration, Dr. Stuber said, put
the Roman Catholic Church on
record as opposed to any kind
of discrimination due to race,
color, condition of life or re
ligion.
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ATHENS, GEORGIA
SAIGON (NC)—The Vietna
mese government has reduced j
the sentence of Maj. Matthew
Dang Sy, a Catholic officer
condemned to life imprison
ment in June, 1964, to' three
years, from this month. He is
generally admitted to be the vic
tim of a rigged trial by a "rev
olutionary tribunal,” the legal
ity of which has been questioned.
The recently decreed reduc
tion is the second. On Oct.
31 of last year the sentence was
reduced, to five years, to be
Calculated from that date; Maj.
Dang Sy has been in prison
since November, 1963.
The sentences of eight other
prisoners, who like Dang Sy
served under the government of
the late President Ngo dinh
Diem, were also mitigated this
month. The government was
expected to take this action just
before Tet (Feb, 9), the lunar
New Year, Vietnam's principal
festival season. Keen disap
pointment was felt by the pris
oners and their families when
thb festival passed without the
anxiously awaited announce
ment.
Maj. Dang Sy was in charge of
security in Hue on May 8,1963,
when a disorderly crowd, in
cited by the militant Buddhist
bonze, Thich Tri Quang, threat
ened the government radio sta
tion. The province chief, a
Buddhist, and the corps com
mander, also a non-Christian,
Ordered Dang Sy to protect the
station.
He had MK-3 concussion gre
nades issued to his men. But
before he gave the signal to use
them, two violent explosions,
the authors of which have never
been identified, took place.
Eight persons were killed, all
on one side of the top step of
the radio station veranda. The
upper parts of their bodies
were terribly torn.
After these explosions Dang
Sy ordered his men to throw
their concussion grenades
around the edge of the crowd to
make it disperse, as he feared
that the Viet Cong had taken
advantage of the turrtioil. The
^grenades were thrown around
the yard without causing any
fatalities.
Bishop Supports
New Wage Bill
SANTA FE, N.M. (RNS) —
Archbishop James Peter Davis
of Sante Fe has given his sup
port to a minimum wage bill
now being considered by the
New Mexico State Legislature.
The measure has been en
dorsed by a House committee
by a 6-3 vote. Various organi
zations, including the Archbis
hop’s Council, submitted their
views to the committee.
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ary, Saginaw, Mich,, has
been appointed by Pope Paul
VI titular bishop of Taraqua
and auxiliary to Bishop
Stephen Woznicki of Sagi
naw. (NC Photos)
Minister Blasts
Congo Missions
DETROIT (RNS) — Charging
that a "real crisis" exists in
the church in the Congo, a min
ister here said he will file a
formal Complaint with the
American Baptist Foreign Mis
sion Society (ABFMS) attack
ing its mission program.
The Rev. Louis Johnson, pas
tor of the Friendship Baptist
Church, recently returnedfrom
a tour of American Baptist mis
sions in the Congo.
He charged certain Baptist
missionaries with high-handed
ness, lack of communication, .
segregation and suppression of
Congolese aspirations.
While complimenting Baptist
hospitals and schools in the
Congo, Johnson said that al
though Baptist missionaries
“are generally competent, they
are generally living in another .
age."
’There appears to be a
breakdown in communications
between the missionaries and
the Congolese," he said.’They
seem to be saying two different
things. Relations between the
missionaries and the Congolese
do not seem to be as cordial
as they might be."
He stressed that in Kinshasa,
the Congo, there is “muchten-
sion about missionary housing
which is so far superior to that
of the Congolese people.”
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