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6 GEORGIA BULLETIN. THURSDAY. TANUARY 18,. 1968
I Letters To The Editor |
EDITOR:
subject and what he should say
PREDECESSOR DID NOT
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Thank you for keeping us in
formed.
Please express appreciation
to those who helped to clarify
the issue of legislation perti
nent to Georgia's abortion laws.
Miss Rita Kitts
Warm Springs
EDITOR:
Concerning the fir st editorial
in this week’s Bulletin, "Change
in ‘68,’ " the question comes to
mind as to whether there is
much value to Catholics of this
diocese in having the editors
set forth their opinions as to
when Pope' Paul should issue
a Statement on a particular
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encourage people to have pa
tience and respect for any pos
sible statement on the matter
to which the Holy Father is
obviously giving the necessary
careful deliberation even though
some couples and others have
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And Declaration On The Jews
CARDINAL SEPER
ZABREB (RNS) -- Compared
to his predecessor, the world
knows relatively little about
Franjo Cardinal Seper, Arch
bishop of Zagreb, who will re
place Alfredo Cardinal Ottavia-
ni in the key post of propefect
of the Sacred Congregation for
the Doctrine of the F aith.
The basic facts of his life are
simple; born in Osijek, 'Yugo
slavia, on Oct. 2, 1905, he be
came a priest in 1930 and co
adjutor Archbishop of Zagreb in
1954. He succeeded to the see
on the death of Aloysius Car
dinal Stepinac in 1960.
Since his arrival on the scene,
relations between Church and
the Communist state have im
proved from outright hostility
to near cordiality. The new at
mosphere permits diplomatic
relations between Yugoslavia
,and the Vatican, mass pilgri
mages of Yugoslavs to Rome
and the Holy. Land and the re
vival of suppressed Catholic
publications.
An index of the changed cli
mate in Yugoslavia was the re
turn last year of an emigre
priest whom the government
' had sought for 20 years a a
"war criminal." In 1967, the
government, slightly embar
rassed, held a mass press con
ference to show that Father
Krunoslav Ekaganovic was at
liberty and that there seemed
to be little interest in prose
cuting him.
How much responsibility
Cardinal Seper had for this
change qf climate and how it was
achieved is largely a conjec
tural matter. The only concrete
evidence is a rather repetitious
seriesof news stories.reporting
private meetings with various
government officials, which
date back to his earliest day sin
what must have been a highly
difficult assignment—assistant
to a cardinal who was under a
prison sentence.
One point of difference be
tween Cardinal Seper and Car
dinal Ottaviani is clearly on the
record. During and since the
Second Vatican Council Cardi
nal Seper has favored decen
tralization of authority as firm
ly as Cardinal Ottaviani has op
posed it. He has spoken en
thusiastically, in general
terms, of the reforms of the
Council and has said that par
ishes should become "not only
liturgical communities but
communities of love and chari
ty.”
Franjo Seper, the son of a
tailor's assistant and of an
seamstress, was ordained toge
ther with Aloysius Stepinac,
whom he later served as a se
cretary and coadjutor and fin
ally succeeded. In his early
years as a priest, he was a,high
school teacher and before be
coming a bishop hewas the rec
tor of the Zagreb seminary and
a pastor.
At the council, he spoke in
favor of the declaration on re
ligious freedom, which Cardinal
Ottaviani criticized, as well as
the declaration on the Jews. He
favored concelebration of Mass
and, on special occasions, com
munion under both species, as
well as the institution of a mar
ried diaconate.
He has been described as
"fairly open” in theology.
At the Synod of Bishops in Oc
tober, 1967, he was elected by
his fellow bishops to prepare
a report on their reactions to the
debate on modern dangers to the
F aith •— a vote which may be
considered, in some ways, an
endorsement of his suitability
for the position to which he has
now been appointed..
Mariological Society Points
To Need For Devotion To Mary
DAYTON, Ohio (NC)— The
Church cannot minimize devo
tion to Mary and her place in
Redemption for the sake of
ecumenical understanding,
Father Joseph E. Manton,
C.SS.R., of Boston told the an
nual convention of the Mariolog
ical Society of America at the
Bergamo Center for Christian
Renewal here.
Marian dogma must be pat
iently explained, not denied or
changed, he said.
Declaring there was "no
downgrading of Mary" at Vat
ican II, Father Manton said the
"downgrading" comes from
those "yearning more f or pub
licity th»n for paradise."
Contending that the average
Catholic is confused on the
question of Marian devotion de
spite clear statements by Vati
can II, Father Manton said a
possible reason is that council
documents have not been Wide
ly readj#Ideas on Marian devo
tions on the other hand, have
been taken "from random re
ligious pieces in the press.”
In his presidential address,
Father William G. Most, re
tiring president, declared that
"honesty demands" that the
problem raised by the Interna
tional Federation of Catholic
Universities in its so-called
Land O’Lakes declaration on
academic freedom of the Cath
olic scholar be squarely faced.
The ‘Land O’Lakes’ docu
ment is a 2,400 word paper on
the Catholic university, which
was prepared -at a July 21-23
seminar last summer and sign
ed by 26 Catholic educational
leaders. The meeting, spon
sored by the North American
Region of the International Fed
eration of Catholic Universi
ties, stressed the importance
of academic freedom in the
university. Among the signers
were Archbishop Paul J. Halli-
nan of Atlanta and Auxiliary
Bishop John J. Dougherty of
Newark, president of Seton Hall
University.
That declaration, rejected by
Father Most, said in part that a
"Catholic university must have
a true autonomy and academic
freedom in the face of authority
of whatever kind, lay or cleri
cal, external to the academic
community itself."
Declaring this a declaration
of independence from the mag-
isterium (teaching authority) of
the Church, Father Most said
Vatican II has demanded that
Catholic theologians conform
to the magisterium, "even the
non-infallible ordinary magis
terium” of the Church.
"No one can invoke the Sup
port of Vatican II for any other
position. Intellectual honesty,
so highly and rightly prized, re
quires that if a man refuses to
accept the magisterium he
should frankly admit that he is
rejecting Vatican II, that he is
no longer functioning as a Cath
olic theologian. Nor does the
council say that he is excused
if he happens to be assigned to
teachittg'Classe&tiO’ S' Catholic
university." >
According to Father Most, the
council did not condemn acade
mic freedom, nor even make an
exception to it, but showed "the
presupposition of academic
freedom by showing the prime
means of determining where
truth lies in theology."
According' to the speaker,
academic freedom in any field
piresupposes that one follow the
method proper to that field.
The Church's teaching authority
is the prime means of finding
the content of truth, he con
tinued.
"It is precisely by the use of
this means that the Catholic
theologian is certain of where
theological truth lies. If he ig
nores thq magisterium, he has
thrown away the very prime
means of ascertaining theolog
ical truth. A plea that he must
throw away the means of de
termining theological truth in
order to find that truth is self-
contradictory nonsense, a re
jection of Vatican II, and an
escalator to a major level of
befuddlement,” Father Most
said.
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Sunday converted many Catho
lics into pedestrians and
changed the pattern of their
Sunday Mass schedules.
"In spite of icy hills, they
braved the weather, and I was
surprised that so many elderly
people and shut-ins attended
Mass,” said Father George J.
Meiluta, assistant pastor, Our
Lady of the Assumption. "The
roads weren’t too bad down
here and I don't think atten
dance dropped off,” said Father
Edward Danneker, assistant
pastor, St. John the Evangelist,
Hapeville. As the day went on
people crowded the later Mass
es in Atlanta parishes.
More than 100 women attend
ed a joint meeting of women’s
organizations at St. Anthony's
Sunday afternoon. "I was amaz
ed that so many turned out for
the meeting,” said Father R.
Donald Kiernan, pastor, "They
discussed reports of all parish
activities during the past year
and voted to cooperate with the
St. Vincent de Paul society in
its inner city program."
Bad driving conditions Fri
day night prompted Father Paul
Kelley, principal, to extend an
invitation to St. Joseph’s high
School students attending bas
ketball games. "I told them if
they couldn't get a ride home
we would provide a place for
them. We expected just a few,
and I was going to put them up
in a classroom.”
43 boys and 18 girls accept
ed the invitation. "The boys
took over Sacred Heart rec
tory and the girls made them
selves at home in the convent, ”
the priest said. "They slept on
the floor, couches and chairs.
The girls played cards and
the boys played ping-pong.”
"The girls had breakfast with
the sisters and played'nun for
a day'. All the students were
very cooperative. They vac
uumed and helped to put every
thing away before they left,”
Father Kelley added,” And we
won both basketball games,”
Convention sessions included
discussions on how to encourage
Marian devotions in the post-
conciliar era. One partici
pant said a major cause for de
clining devotion was not the fault
of the teaching of the Church,
but the widespread viewpoint of
the "modern woman," who
wants "neither virginity nor
motherhood,” as exemplified
by Mary.
Another took the view that it
is a mistake to assume that only
Marian devotions have been in
decline. "There has been a
huge fallout of confession,
weekday Mass attendance and
visits to the Blessed Sacra
ment," he said.
One of the major speakers
was Rt. Rev. Alexander Sch-
memann, dean of St. Vladimir's
Orthodox Theological semi
nary, Crestwood, N. Y., who
stressed the importance of
Mary in the Eastern Liturgy.
He said the ‘cult’ of Mary
is "not. a separate element in
the rich tradition of the
Church.” It is an "essential
dimension of Christian cosmo
logy, anthropology, ecclesiolo-
gy and eschatology," he said.
FATHER Joseph J. O'Neill M.M., of Kings Park, N.Y., views panorama of the modern capital
city of Caracas in Venezuela, with the towering Andes Mountains. The Maryknoll missionary is
assigned to a Santa Cruz parish located in a slum area on the outskirts of Caracas. Maryknoll
Fathers have been in South America since 1942. Besides Venezuela, they serve in Peru, Chile,
Bolivia, Colombia and Brazil. < (RNS Photo.)
Catholics, Episcopalians
See No Majoi* Difficulties
On Having Joint Eucharist
JACKSON, Miss (NC) — Del
egates to the fifth meeting of
the Joint Consultation onArigli-
can-Roman Catholic relations
here announced their agreement
that minor differences over the
role of the priesthood do not
prevent the two churches from
celebrating the Eucharist toge
ther.
An official statement releas
ed from the meeting comment
ed:
"After studying official docu
mentation and theological pap
ers on the necessity and role of
the ordained priesthood and the
relationship of this ministry to
the common priesthood and role
of the laity in the church, it was
agreed that there is no basic
difference of understanding on
these topics.
"Whatever minor differences
of understanding exist, they do
not in themselves constitute
a barrier to the two churches
celebrating and receivingCom-
munion at each other’s altars.
Meetings held over the past
two years have brought agree
ment that the Eucharist is the
central sign and cause of unity
and that there existed no signi
ficant difference between the
two churches in the United
States on understanding the Eu
charist as sacrifice.
Members of the consultation
have also begun discussion of
still-existing barriers to inter
communion. Among these are
papal primacy, jurisdiction and
infallibility and Catholic judg
ments on Anglican orders and
apostolic succession.
For their next meeting lay and
bishop delegates to the consul
tation have been asked to
explore the problems of unity
between Episcopalians and Ca
tholics from the viewpoint of the
laymen's experience and from ,
the bishops' viewpoint as guar
dians and representatives of
church unity.
The Rt. Rev. John M. Allin,
Bishop of Mississippi and mem
ber of the Anglican committee,
was local host for the consul
tation’s meeting in Jackson.
The Rev. Marshall James,
headmaster of St. Andrew’s
School, was host to the work
sessions which were held at the
school.
Other members of the joint
consultation for the Anglicans
were: Bishop John S. Higgins,
Rhode Island; Bishop Edward
Welles, West Missouri; Peter
St. Peter’s Council
Hears Wills Talk
Judge Joseph C. Jackson,
judge of the Civil and Criminal
Court in Troup County, spoke to
the St. Peter’s Parish Council.
In his talk on wills and es
tates, the judge said a will is
important even if the estate
is of nominal value. He said
a will should be drawn properly
in order to obtain the maximum
the law allows.
Day, ecumenical officer; Dr.
Clifford Morehouse, former
president, House of Eteputies
of General Convention; the Rev.
Massey Shepherd, Church Di
vinity School of the Pacific;
George Shipman, University of
Washington; The Rev. Arthur
Vogel, Nashotah House Theolo
gical School; and the Rev. Wil
liam Wolf, Cambridge Theolo
gical College.
Catholic members were: Bi
shop Cyril Vogel of Salina, Kan.;
Father Thomas Ambrogi, S.J.,
Woodstock College: i Father
Lawrence Guillot, Central Mis
souri State College; and Father
John Hotchkin, Bishops' Com-
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