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8 GEORGIA BULLETIN, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1968
Archbishop Asks
Priests To Renew
Ideals Of Life
SAN ANTONIO (NC) -
Archbishop Robert E. Lucey of
San Antonio has called upon
priests in the archdiocese to
“renew their ideals of the
priesthood and strive earnestly
for holiness of life without which
their labors will be fruitless.”
The archbishop’s plea,
contained in a pastoral letter was
obviously directed at the 51
priests who announced the
previous week that they had
written to Pope Paul VI and
other Church officials asking for
• Archbishop Lucey’s retirement.
The pastoral letter begins with
St. Paul’s admonition in his
..Epistle to the Hebrews: “ ‘Obey
your superiors and be subject to
them, for they keep watch as
having to render an account of
your souls; so that they may do
this with joy and not with grief
for that would not be expedient
for you.’ ”
According to Archbishop
Lucey, St. Paul’s reference is
“obviously to bishops and to the
priests authorized by them to
assist in governing the faithful.”
In the archdiocese of San
Antonio, he said, the bishops and
priests are responsible .. for the
salvation of more than a half
million souls.
“This,” he wrote, “is more
than a challenge—it is a
frightening obligation. God
demands of the clergy that in a
negative way they refrain from
giving bad example to the laity
and in a positive manner that
they preach the word, administer
the sacraments and strive
vigorously to lead the faithful to
eternal salvation.”
“Recently in this jurisdiction,”
the archbishop wrote, in his most
direct reference to the priests’
charges against him, “the Church
has been wounded publicly and
damage has been done to
immortal souls.
“This is contrary to all that we
believe, to all that we hop6 for,
to all that we love.”
Noting Christ’s call for unity
among the faithful, the
archbishop maintained that
“public hostility, dissension,
controversy, should have no place
among those who have been
consecrated as ministers ' of
Christ. After all, He is the
founder of our Church, He is our
Redeemer. When we baptize, it is
Christ who baptizes; when we
consecrate the chalice it is He
who consecrates; when we preach
the word, it is His Gospel that we
preach; but when enmity and ill
will divide us, He is not there. He
prayed for unity among His
priests; we must echo His
prayer.”
Mass Honors
War Victims
HONOLULU (RNS) -
Archbishop Terence J. Cooke
offered a memorial Mass at
Hickam Air Force Base here
“for all who have given their lives
in the Vietnam war.”
The prelate, who succeeded the
late Francis Cardinal Spellman as
Archbishop of New York and
Military Vicar to Catholics in the
armed forces, announced he will
spend Christmas in Vietnam,
following the practice of his
predecessor.
In his sermon at the air base,
the archbishop condemned war
'but praised the men who died in
Vietnam as “true heroes whom
we salute with pride and from
whose example we may draw
inspiration.”
“Although we can speak in
praise of our fallen heroes,” he
said, “we can only speak in
sorrow about war. We deplore
war as a means of settling
national disputes.” v
“Frankly I believe that
America’s intentions in Vietnam
have been honorable and I feel no
need to apologize for her
intentions,” he said. “But with all
men of goodwill I pray that a just
and honorable settlement of the
conflict may now at last be
found.”
“War,” he continued, “has
written some of the saddest
chapters in the story of the
world, and has etched deep the
lines of sorrow of the face of all
mankind.”
“Who will not echo the cry of
Pope Paul before the United
Nations: ‘War never again - never
again war!’ ” the archbishop
asked.
He spoke of the growing
concern over the war as it
dragged on for years. “We have
lived in constant fear of its
escalation which could spell
disaster of monstrous
proportions.”
Archbishop Cooke said that
American negotiators in Paris
must show the same
determination and courage as
that of the soldiers who died in
Vietnam. “The same devotion to
duty which urged on the men we
honor today must characterize
our negotiators as they strive to
gain peace.”
hristians Are Called Upon
To Evangelize-- Says Bea
Lt. Thomas Biddulph
Lt. Biddulph
Vietnam
Casualty
Funeral Services were held at
the Church of the Most Blessed
Sacrament on Tuesday of this
week for 1st. Lieutenant Thomas
A. Biddulph, killed in action in
Vietnam.
Lt. Biddulph was the son of
Mr. and Mrs. Charles J. Biddulph
and lived at 2111 Nisky Lake
Road in Southwest Atlanta. In
addition he is survived by a sister,
Mrs. Robert Evans of Quitman,
Georgia and his grandmother Mrs.
Helen Biddulph of Miami Beach,
Florida.
Lt. Biddulph attended Saint
Apthony’s School and was a
graduate of Marist College. At
Marist, he received the Class
Medal three consecutive years,
and the Scholastic Medal for four
years. A sports enthusiast, Lt.
Biddulph played Basketball and
Football and was the Co-Captain
his senior year in football.
He received a scholastic
scholarship to Holy Cross College
where he attended for one year,
completing his college education
at Georgia State, where he was
graduated from in 1967.
At Georgia State, Lt. Biddulph
was a member of Kappa Sigma
Fraternity, the Blade and Scabard
and the French Club. His degree
of a Bachelor Arts was in
History.
During his school days Lt.
Biddulph was an altar boy both
at St. Anthony’s and Most
Blessed Sacrament and was a
member of the Order of the
Arrow, Boy Scout Troop 203, at
Most Blessed Sacrament Church.
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VATICAN CITY (RNS) -
Dialogue and religious liberty,
according to Augustin Cardinal
Bea, do not mean the end of
Christian evangelization. The
so-called “foreign missions” have
still their traditional role to play
in the life of the Christian
Church, even though the Vatican
Council has cast the apostolic
endeavor in a different light.
Cardinal Bea, president of the
Vatican’s Secretariat for
Promotion of Christian Unity,
developed these thoughts in reply
to questions put to him recently
by Vatican Radio. His views were
sought because he was the official
commentator at the Vatican
Council of the draft decree on
relations with non-Christian
religions.
Said Cardinal Bea: “We should
not judge our non-Christian
brethren. Much less should we
fail in confidence in the
benevolent providence of God.
But we must also courageously
recognize and see with our eyes
open the weakness of men
deprived of the grace of Christ.
At that point we should feel
impelled to do everything in our
power that non-Christians may
achieve the fullness of truth,
grace and power in Christ.’
But won’t this disturb
consciences and therefore violate
religious liberty? The cardinal
rejected the suggestion that, since
the good faith of non-Christians
is recognized, they therefore
should not be importuned by
evangelizing Christians.
“There is such a thing as a
salutary unrest,” he declared,
“the unrest, that is, of the man
who searches; this unrest is good
for man. The Declaration on
Religious Liberty stressed the
duty of man to go in quest of the
truth and to make his own truth
that he has found.”
God himself, he commented,
iriade known'torriari the road to
truth and salvation and he must
not despise this gift of his
Creator.
There is a “misunderstanding,”
Cardinal Bea said, on the mind of
the Council on this point. “The
conciliar declaration wished to
say that man should seek the
truth with a free choice, but he
should and must accept and
follow it. He is not free to seek or
not to seek the truth, to accept it
or not accept it. His primordial
concern must be to search, to
accept and to follow the truth.
This is his merit, his dignity and
his grandeur.”
The German-born
octogenarian also declared that
the Council in its decree on the
Church in relation to
non-Christian religions, did not,
strictly speaking, affirm, as is
often supposed, the salvific
power of these religions. “The
decree,” he pointed out, “only
stressed the positive attitude and
regard of the Church towards
these religions.”
On the contrary, he added, the
same conciliar decree took the
occasion to say that the Church
“proclaims and must ever
proclaim Christ the way, the
truth and the life, in whom men
find the fullness of religious life
and in whom God has reconciled
all things to himself.”
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