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6 GEORGIA BULLETIN, THURSDAY, JANUARY 11, 1968 CARDINAL SA YS IN NEW BOOK Church Will Remain Restless Until Statement On Birth Control Vatican-Spain Dispute Keeps 8 Sees Vacant CARDINAL HEENAN Papal LONDON (RNS)--The Roman Catholic Church will “continue to be restless and troubled” until Pope Paul makes his promised pronouncement on birth control, according to John Cardinal Heenan of Westmin ster, In a new book just published here, he also declared that a restatement of Catholic teach ing on contraception is “ur gently needed,” “It is embarrassing and pain- COMPARE 634-3197 OUR PRICES David’s Jewelers Toco Hills Shopping Center $|50 SPECIAL CHISOLM’S TV STEREO REPAIRS TV Motorola Admiral Furniture v 1 il y USED 874-6169 23" Color and TVs ^ 824 N. Highland Ave., N.E. Appliances Clay Appliance Service Prompt, Dependable,, and fully guaranteed Sales & Service - Frigidaire Dealer M. E. McDaniel - Prop. - 4015 Peachtree Road, N. 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RIVERSIDE REALTY 6365 RIVERSIDE DR., N. W. M PET.^you bet!” PET MUX COMPANY DAIRY DIVISION For Convenient Home Delivery In Atlanta Call 636-8677 ful for those in authority to be able to give so little guidance,” said Cardinal Heenan, “It is easy for those without responsibility to attack the Pope’s attitude and, indeed, it has become popular to do so. There is no doubt, as the Pope haS said, about the Church’s teaching. Even those outside the Church know the current C atholic teaching on contracep tion, abortion and divorce. . ‘‘But while there is no doubt about her teaching there are grounds for saying that cir cumstances have changed so much — the status of women, for example, and the notion of love in marriage — that the relevance of the traditional lan guage may be questioned. Even the words ‘contraception’ and ‘birth control’ have undergone changes of meaning in our time. ‘‘It is clear that a restate ment of Catholic teaching is ur gently needed. This does not m ean that the Church now doubts the validity of the moral princi ples upon which her teaching has been based.’’ But the Church must Show herself ready to examine new evidence, he added. Earlier in the book, Cardinal Heenan agreed that the birth control issue has undermined the confidence of many Roman Catholics -- and then made what appears to be a new disclosure about the Vatican Council's dis cussion of the subject. The whole Catholic world, he said, was thrown into confusion when two or three speeches were made to the Council which questioned that accepted view of contraception. “Nobody there fore was surprised when the Pope hurriedly withdrew con traception from public debate,” he added., “This was obviously . a wise decision. Delicate is sues affecting the consciences of millions should never have been broached, in a company of thousands. “When the full history of the Second Vatican Council is writ ten it may be revealed that a few days earlier one hierarchy, foreseeing this very danger, had s ent a memorandum to the Pope requesting that this subject should be debated not publicly in St. Peter's but; at private meetings of national hierarch ies. “The results of! these dis cussions were theri to be given to the Holy Father for consi deration and action. Perhaps it is unfortunate that this pro posal was not found ac ceptable.” Cardinal Heenan expressed these views in. a somewhat un usual book, "Dialogue — The State of the Church Today,” just published here by Geof frey Chapman Ltd. He shares authorship with Mrs. Rosemary Haughton, who has sometimes been called the “darling” of the English Catholic radicals. She contributed a section to the con troversial best-seller, “Objec tions to Ronian Catholicism,” published three years ago. In “Dialogue” Mrs.Haughton wrote a section giving her own lay view of the situation in the Church while Cardinal Heenan wrote, a second section present ing his personal reflections on the post-conciliar scene. In two further sections each author commented on the other's views and expounded in earlier sec—, tions. , > On the question of birth con trol, which led to Cardinal Hee- nan’s comments, Mrs. Haughton wrote: "The miseries of Catho lic married Couples over the ban of contraception did not begin with the Council. “But when there seemed to be no possible question about the Church’s teaching the matter was at least clear cut. Either you obeyed and stayed in, at least until illness and mental breakdown made religion irre levant anyway, or else you couldn’t face it and got out ~ quietly and miserably, or de fiantly and noisily. What has now made a situation almost unbearable is the sense of hope deferred. . “The result of all this is not only a constant trickle of people leaving the Church. It is also a pervasive depression, a sense of futility." Cardinal Heenan also an swered various points made by Mrs. Haughton about“restless ness” in the Church. Addres sing himself in the book to Mrs. Haughton, he wrote: "I do not share your belief that the bi shops were afraid the (Vatican Council) would lead the faithful to ask too many questions and ultimately question the need for the Church’s continued exis tence. This kind of speculation did not arise from the Council any more than the new cele brated ‘Is God dead?’ “The things you say we hoped for when the Council started — a simpler liturgy, an up-to-date presentation of theology, closer ties with men of other faiths — are all being realized. “I do not think that the Council is entirely responsible for the restlessness which exists among all who love the Church and who, irrespective of their standard of education, search for the message the Church is giving to the men of our time. “But thiSi restlessness is ex aggerated by the disgruntled within the Church. Its main cause is probably lack of gui dance on contraception... "Another reason for discon tent and bewilderment is the constant change in the manner of celebrating Mass. Everyone with pastoral experience knows that these should have been in troduced more gradually. Un fortunately the experts gathered in Rome have relatively few among their numbers who have been parish priests. Prudent delay is regarded as betrayal.” Mrs. Haughton also raised the question of Leftist elements in the Church, saying: "It is not mere cussedness that makes people seize on Marxist lan guage to re-express Christian ideas.” Cardinal Heenan replied: “Every group, however, small or lowly, is the concern of the Church. You, I think, are un duly influenced by those who employ revolutionary lan guage... I agree that many of this group are earnest Chris tians who use Marxist termino logy... But some are religious dilettantes. They have no good ’ word for the Church and probab ly only a superficial knowledge of the Marxism they admire and advocate. “The tragedy of the ‘Chris tian Leftists' you describe is that their powerful and authen tic desire of reforming the • Church is drained of love. They have declared war on the au thorities in the Church and re jected the whple notion of dia logue (which is, of course, a form of Christian love). The unhappy outcome of the constant battering of the pastors of the flock is that whatever good things the critics have to say MADRID .(NC) — In the past few years only four new bishops have been appointed in Spain. E ight dioceses continue vacant after long negotiations between Vatican representatives and the government of Generalissimo Francisco Franco. At stake is the state's cen turies-old prerogative to pre sent its own candidates for bi shops. Church’ sources here say the apostolic nunciature has tried for the last two years to end the prerogative, recognized by the 1941 accord between the Franco regime and the Vatican, and maintained when a formal concordat was signed in 1953. More vacancies of Sees are in the making if the Second Vatican Council’s recommen dation that bishops retire at 75 years of age, is followed. About 15 of the present 66 Sees are, led by men well past retirement age. Some sources say that the Nun, Layman To Discuss Church Change A nun and a layman will dis cuss “The Changing Church” Monday, Jan. 15, at 8 p.m. at the St. Thomas More Adult Pro gram, Part III, The program will be in the cafetorium. Sister Elizabeth Carmelita, S.N.D., superior, will discuss the “Changing Church” and Paul Shields, chairman of the Archdiocesan Board of Com munications and news director of WAGA-TV, will comment on her ideas. Both will be answer questions and discuss com ments from the floor. A discussion on holding the classes in the homes of parish ioners will be held at the end of the meeting. government is willing to re nounce this right—inherited from the old royal patronage dating back to the colonial mis sionary efforts—but that it is asking in exchange that all pre sent vacancies be filled with its nominees. Apparently the list does not fully satisfy Vatican represen tatives here, who have the un derstanding and support of the younger bishops and the more militant clergy and lay leader ship. Most of the older members of the hierarchy were staunch supporters of Franco during the Spanish civil war (1936- 39). The violent death of thousands of priests in that three-year war resulted in the wide differ ence in ages today between the clergy and the bishops. According to a study by Fa ther Jose Luis Martin Descalzo published in the Madrid Catho lic weekly Vida Nueva, 37 of Spain’s 81 bishops were ap pointed 20 years ago, 62 were ordained before 1936 and only 18 after the civil war. Of Spain’s approximately 16, 000 priests, almost 9,000 are under 40 years of age, and ano ther 3,000 under 50. Butch Pastoral Asks For Married Clergy STAN’S RADIO & TV REPAIR ^.yjprpJlei .car Oadlos . stereo^, ape-recorders L ' ;y & Hi-Fi. 325 Pharr Rdv'N.E. 261-4789 ( Formerly with Radio Hosp. ) BRIARCLIFF CLAIRMONT AREA BURKETT TV ^AL£,S’SER*\TGE^RE^TALS 2783 CLAIRMONT ROAD N.E. ATLANTA 30329, GA. ANTENNA SPECIALISTS PHONE 636-7509 BY HANS BRONKHORST (NC News Service) NOORDWIJ KE RHOUT, The Netherlands—The assembly of the Dutch National Pastoral Council here unanimously approved a re solution asking that married men be allowed to be ordained priests in this country and that priests who have married be al lowed to do pastoral work in the Church. Bernard Cardinal Alfrink of Utrecht supported the resolu tion on behalf of the Dutch bis hops. Another resolution stated that all Christians, individually and collectively, must try to relieve the needs of the world and that they must support all institu tions working for peace and in ternational development. A report on the problem of authority in the Church, written by Msgr. Jan Josef Loeff and others, was not adopted as a document of the national pas toral council. Bishop Peter J.A. Moors of Roermond Strongly criticized the report in a speech, although many participants praised it. The report will now be rewrit ten in a shorter and simpler version by the pastoral coun cil’s central committee. Earlier, in his opening speed/ to the council, Cardinal Alfrink said that the report on the pro blems of authority could not be considered a document issued by the Dutch bishops. The report said that, for many Catholics, particularly the younger ones, the institutional nature of the Church has be come an obstacle in the way of the Gospel message. It referred to a question put by Martin Luther—What has the institu tional Church with its view on authority to do with the Gospels? --and says that the question still needs ah answer. In the early Church, the re port said, there was quite a dif ferent understanding of the nature of authority. In those days, authority was regarded principally as a “servant to the Christian community.’. But over the centuries authority within the Church has become identified with the kind of authority exercised by the state or by civil Units, it stat ed. This, it claimed, led to the Church’s leaders becoming rulers in a uniform body, in which, instead of taking the lead in freedom, they began to im pose and enforce their power and assume a decisive voice in such fields as politics, educa tion, social welfare and family life. Church officials, according to the report, simply proclaim ed their positions and called upon the Catholic community to accept them. Such an identification with the state or with secular organiza tions was called “disastrous” by the report, which regarded the Church as a body that is not comparable to such societies. The Church is the Mystical Body of Christ, it emphasized, and this means that it is a “com munity in love” of its individual members. In this view, the report con tinued, the Church’s leaders— the Pope, the bishops, their as sistants and fellow-workers in the pastoral field—should not act as rulers, but should turn their office to the service of the faithful. Many yourtger Catho lics, and older ones as well, re gard this as the authentic or der of authority according to the Scriptures, it declared. In practice this means, ac cording to the report, that the exercise of Church authority must be based on respect for human dignity and individual re sponsibility. Officials then will witness actions rather than en force them, and will be in the m iddle of the community rather than isolated from it, will dele gate many of theirpowerstothe experts, will accept a diversity of views and encourage open ness. The report said that the se lection of officials should not be a one-sided process orginating from above; but should rest with the whole Christian community. Terms of office, it recommend ed, should not be for lifebutfor limited periods. The pastoral council rejected also a resolution suggesting that it should send a delegation to the Vatican to explain the situa tion of the Church in this coun try. In rejecting the resolution the council accepted the advice of Cardinal Alfrink, who was against the proposal because he considered it impractical. In his opening speech to the council Cardinal Alfrink said that the meeting “cannot be con sidered a parliament that makes decisions that have to be execut ed by the bishops.” “But,” he added, “I expect this Dutch National Pastoral Council to draw conclusions that will be gladly executed by the Dutch hierarchy.” The cardinal said that the na tional council is not a provin cial council according to the de finition of the Code of Canon Law of 1917. It is a much more gene ral pastoral deliberation of the Church in the Netherlands. “I repeat that the Dutch hier archy feels no need and has no intention to line up against any thing in the Church, nor against our episcopal brothers or the Pope, whom we accept as the person placed by the Lord over His whole Church,” Cardinal Alfrink said. The cardinal said that the council is being held in the spirit of the Second Vatican Council’s Decree on the Bis hops’ Pastoral Office in the Church. Taking part in the Dutch na tional pastoral council are 168 people, .mostly elected repre sentatives of the Catholics in the Netherlands. All the Dutch bishops are present. President of the council is Prof. Johannes T. Snijders, who teaches psychology at Gronin gen University. Among the guests are the papal pro-nuncio to the Netherlands, Archbishop Angelo Felici, and Msgr. Roger Etchegaray, secretary general of the European Bishops’ Con ference, and representatives of Protestant churches in the Net herlands. Of the 168 partici pants, 109 have voting rights, among them 64 lay people. At the next meeting of the Dutch National Pastoral Coun cil, to be held here April 8, 9 and 10, the items on the agenda wil be the missions, aid to de- 1 veloping countries and peace. Parents Group To Hear Talk By Elmo Ellis Elmo Ellis, nationally recog nized author, lecturer, and gen eral manager of WSB radio in Atlanta, will be the speaker for the January meeting of Christ The King School Parents Asso ciation Monday, Jan. 15 at 8 p.m., in the Cathedral Center. The theme Of Ellis ’ talk will be “The World’s Most Impor tant Person” (your child and his education),- One of the more recent of the many honors and awards re ceived by Ellis is the highly coveted Peabody Award, He has taught at both Emory University and Georgia State College. WSB listeners can hear Ellis daily with his "Pro & Con’ ’ commen taries. He also writes and de livers the WSB weekly editor ials. He received his bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Alabama and holds a master’s degree in journalism from Emory University. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and was named the outstanding student at Alabama in his sen ior year. RENE’ CLEANER ONE HOUR MARTINIZING “51. 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