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8 GEORGIA BULLETIN, THURSDAY, JANUARY 11, 1968
World Needs Order,
Openness $ Reform
LATROBE, Pa. —Today’s
world needs a keen sense of
. order in the midst of turmoil
’ and a bold instinct f or openness
and reform, Archbishop Paul
J. Hallinan said.
The archbishop's sermonwas
read by Father Paul Kelley at
the installation of Archabbot
' Egbert Herbert Denovan as the
eighth Benedictine abbot of St.
' Vincent Archabbey here. Arch
abbot Donovan was serving in
I Savannah, Ga. when elected co-
; adjuter archabbot.
“What is needed is what
j Benedict, Gregory and Bernard
„ found lacking in their times —a
; keen sense of order in the
„ midst of turmoil and a bold in-
| stinct for openness and re
form,” the archbishop said in
his sermon.
"It has never been too diffi
cult to follow tradition. Ser-
: vice, although it can be mono
tonous, is the mark of good
Secularity
: (CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1)
theme: 'Our salvation comes
about within the one reality
that is, ours, within the scope
of our own life in this world.' ”
The archbishop said Johann
Metz, professor of theology
at the University of Munster, in
like manner, flaws the Chris-
tian who sees the worldliness
of the world as fundamentally
contrary to a Christian view
of the world. He said Metz
points out that the creature-
liness of the world always
stands against the background
of the history of salvation.
“And if we cannot not dis
associate them, how can the
word and the world be in oppo
sition?” the archbishop ask
ed. "The enduring wisdom of
the word and the changing know
ledge of the world can be in
tension, but not in conflict.”
men, but not necessarily of
good leaders. What we need
today in our monasteries and
our dioceses, is a -renewed
dedication to the Christian
sense of good order and the
open approach.
"We must deal with the world
around us, the men and the
things, knowing and loving them,
using and appreciating them.
Our worldliness is a part of
life, not a perversion of it,”
the archbishop commented.
The archbishop said the world
> can be too much with man. “It
can clutter our thinking, cloud
our passions, bloat our appe
tites. It can be dangerous. But
it is that same world of creat
ed nature and very human
creatures that God made and
called good. In the Fourth
Gospel, the long treatise about
the world's hostility and its
danger must be read carefully.
Christ does not call upon us to
come forth from the world,
but to enter and save it.
"Today there are scatter
ed defenses of secularity by
Bonhoeffer, the ‘death of God'
theologians, by Harvey Cox in
'The Secular City.’ Up to date,
these have helped to probe the
religious situation of our times.
They have thrown a focus of
light upon the faulty ex
pressions of our past faith.
"Their general weakness is
their failure to see that the
ultimate answer to Christian
ity is the Incarnation of the
Son of God.
“This is the key to it all.
The Son of God became man.”
The archbishop said God did
not ban the world, not order man
to flee from, it. "He created! it
and loves it--his heart-break is
what men do with it by abuse,
idolatry and perversion. But
scarred and alienated as it
was, He entered it, took on
human flesh, lived in a definite
s time and place, left us His
flesh and blood and redeemed
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By that act Pope Paul con
fided what is widely 'regarded
as the second most important
office in the Church's central
administration (after the pap
acy itself) to a cardinal from
a communist-ruled country.
In that one act the Pope com
bined two of the goals he set
himself in reforming the Rom
an Curia, the complex of offices
and tribunals which constitutes
the Church's central adminis
tration. He gave a key curial
post to a non-Italian (he had
promised to internationalize the
Curia’s membership) who is a
diocesan bishop (he had promis
ed to bring diocesan ordinaries
into the Church’s central ad
ministration).
He also brought into the
Church’s most important doc- 1
trinal post a man whose frank
ness and levelheadedness has •
won him admirers among both
conservatives and liberals. •
During the Second Vatican
Council he spoke forthrightly
on atheism, religious liberty
and justice for the Jews. Dur
ing the subsequent synod of
bishops he got the largest num
ber of votes in the election for
the synod’s doctrinal commis
sion, and was named its chairs
man by Pope Paul.
The Pope paid tribute to
Cardinal Ottaviani in a letter
he wrote in his own hand to the
retiring pro-prefect of the Doc
trinal Congregation.
The Pope’s letter gave every
indication that Cardinal Otta
viani’s resignation had been
voluntary. He spoke of "the
very noble gesture by which
ybu, giving a new and lofty con
firmation of your sensus ec-
clesiae (sense of the Church) .
have desired to put at our dis
position the post of pro-pre
fect of the Sacred Congregation
for the Doctrine of the Faith.”
The Pope remarked that the
cardinal’s decision was promp
ted "especially by a growing
Weakness of eyesight." Cardi
nal Ottaviani has been able to
read only slowly and with the
help of a powerful magnifying
glass.
The Pope said that he is
"certain that your experienced
wisdom and your fervid zeal will
continue to spend themselves
without reserve and with great
fruit for holy Church, and for
your beloved activity in the
apostolate and in charity.” Car
dinal Ottaviani is the patron of
a youth club and of a girls’
orphanage, and takes an active
interest in both.
The Pope’s letter was dated
J an. 6, two days before its pub
lication.
Cardinal Ottaviani had been
top man in the Doctrinal Con
gregation (more precisely, in
its predecessor, the Holy Of- *
fice) since 1959 when he suc
ceeded Giuseppe Cardinal Piz-
zardo as secretary of the con
gregation. With the reform of
the congregation in December of
1965, he filled the newly creat
ed post of pro-prefect.
Cardinal Seper waS summon
ed to Rome less than three
weeks before his appointment
was made public. During his
three-day stay in Rome, just
before Christmas, he had an
audience with the Pope. News
o f this audience was not publish-
ed in L’Osservatore Romano,
Vatican City daily. He left
Rome telling close associates
that he could not speak of the
reason for his summons to
Rome.
Cardinal Seper, who studied
in Rome from 1924 to 193),
speaks Italian fluently and
French with precision. His
English is less perfect.
One close associate says of
Cardinal Seper: ”1 have
rarely met so humble a man,
rarely so simple a man, rarely
so honest a man."
In 1966, Cardinal Seper visit
ed the United States and re
ceived an honorary degree,
from Villanova University.
When he dedicated the Votive
Church to the Prince of Peace
at America’s oldest mission,
the Mission of Nombre de Dios
in St. Augustine, Fla., he spoke
in English and said that peace
is the concern of everyone, not
merely that of politicians and
diplomats.
"We know,” he said, "that
good will alone is not enough for
building true peace and avoid
ing the horrors of war.
"The problems which torment
mankind are too complicated,
and the distrust is too great to
believe that romantic good will
could solve all the problems
at once.”
Recalling President John F.
Kennedy's words, "Mankind
must put an end to war or war
will put an end to mankind,”
Cardinal Seper said: “The na
tions repeat his words with
anxiety and determination. It
was for this reason that the en
cyclical Pacem in Terris of
Pope John XXIII so excited the
entire world; for this reason,
also the Second Vatican Coun
cil took the question of peace
as one of its most important
questions.”
Cardinal Seper was bom in
the Slovenian city of OsijekOct.
2, 1905. His parents, both in
the tailoring trade, took him to
Zagreb, the capital of Croatia,
one of the republics of Yugos
lavia, when he was five years
old. He completed his secon
dary education there.
He did his ecclesiastical
studies at Rome's Gregorian
University, while residing at.
the German Hungarian college.
Following his ordination in 1930
he remained in Rome to com
plete his studies (he holds doc
torates in philosophy and theo
logy) until 1931. Back in Zag
reb he taught religion until his
classmate, Father (later Car
dinal) Aloysius Stepinac was
named coadjutor of the arch
diocese in 1934. The Arch
bishop Stepinac made him one
of his secretaries and confided
several jobs in the diocesan
curia to him. In 1941 he be
came rector of the major sem
inary of Zagreb.
It is known that Cardinal Sep-
er’s resignation from the post
of re ctor in 1952 was prompted
by the suggestion of ecclesias
tical authorities, who felt it
would be better to yield to the
Yugoslav regime’s presure and
the pressure of certain politi
cally minded students.
He then became pastor of the
working-class parish of Christ
the King in Zagreb. While pas
tor he was arrested by com
munist authorities on charges
of violating the country’s re
ligious laws. He served a short
term repairing streets in a work
gang. However, the cardinal
laughs off his encounter with
the police as an "administra
tive error.’’
In 1954, while his former
classmate Cardinal Stepinac
was still serving a sentence
imposed on him by a Yugoslav
court, Father Seper became co
adjutor. Upon Cardinal Stepi-
nac’s death in 1960 he suc
ceeded him as archbishop, and
in 1965 he became a cardinal.
Cardinal Seper, who was rec
tor of the seminary at the time
of Cardinal Stepinac’s arrest,
obtained counsel for Cardinal
Stepinac and put himself for
ward as a witness for the de
fense.
The Rev. Roland Perdue,
pastor of a Presbyterian church
in an all-white neighborhood,
wonders what will happen to his
congregation if the area' be
comes racially mixed.
Though the neighborhood
around Hillside Presbyterian
Church on Columbia Drive, De
catur, has not experienced any
racial “turnover,” Perdue
thinks it will.
"There is no doubt that the
neighborhood will change. We
are trying to give gradual ex
posure to the realities of urban
life so when the neighborhood
does change, this church and its
membership can be involved
in stabilizing the community.
"There is a general panic
running through South DeKalb
County right now and wq have
to deal with this. To do this we
must realize that many of our
attitudes toward Negroes are
founded on myths. We have to
demythologize the myths."
Perdue said his church must
be open in its corporate ex
pression and also support the
individual who works for an
open society. "I don’t believe it
is a church if it will not serve
every section of society, black
and white, rich and poor.”
Sunday night, members of the
church heard reports from two
Negro ministers and two white
laymen on what happens to a
church when an all-white neigh
borhood faces integration.
Joe Kilpatrick, a steward at
East Lake Methodist Church,
said the community surround
ing the church "went from all
white to all black within two
years.
"The church had a closed-
door attitude at one time be
fore the community changed.
Many of us didn’t think we
were responding to God's call
by closing doors. When we be
gan to invite Negroes many
whites left.”
Kilpatrick said the drop in
church membership also placed
financial burdens on the con
gregation. He said the church
membership is now about "half
and half,” but white members
do not reside in the area.
The Rev. Calvin Houston,
pastor of Rice Memorial Pres
byterian, a predominantly
Negro church, said "Igetfeed-
back from people who move into
former white neighborhoods,
but return to the ghetto to goto
church.
“Some desire a black ex
pression of religion and think
it is impossible to find what
they are lookin'g for in a white
church.
"Others say they find a
superficial welcome. Negroes
don’t want just the opening of
doors, they want to become
part of the church.”
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Jack Murray, a layman at
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Ministry, said there are many
Negroes who have lost interest
in integration.
"They find themselves fac
ing a white power structure
which says ‘no,’ and the des
perate don't think there can be
a creative dialogue with white
groups.”
Bottoms said there are sev
eral views involved in the ques
tion. "We can try to take the
jungle in which we live and
make it into a garden.
"Or we can use the pater
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people to like the jungle. This
has been tried.”
He said some disenchanted
Negroes believe that "you ei
ther have to overthrow the
power structure or quarantine
. white power.”
Bottoms told the audience,
"Don’t deal only with an inte
grated church. Deal with hous
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Dr. George Smith, associate
secretary church extension with
the Atlanta Presbytery, intro
duced the panelists. In opening
the discussion, he said, "Many
churches will have to face the
problems and opportunities in
volved in serving racially mix
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