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GEORGIA BULLETIN, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1968 3
Nonconformity Seen
As Christian Role
NEW ORLEANS (NC)-“The
plain fact is that the Christian is
forbidden to conform to the
spirit of the world,” Bishop John
J. Wright of Pittsburgh told a
meeting at Notre Dame Seminary
here.
“And yet the Christian has a
commitment to the world, a
vocation in it, and is responsible
for it,” Bishop Wright said.
Speaking on “The Attitude of
the Church Toward the Social
Problems of Today,” Bishop
Wright said the central
orientation of the Church in
confronting social problems is on
the person.
“■In Christian social attitudes,
from the Sermon on the Mount
and the parables of Christ to the
encyclicals of the contemporary
popes, the supreme norms is
developing the person, the life of
the person, the worth of the
person, the common good of the
social community as it is made up
of persons and promoting the
perfection of persons.”
Bishop Wright stated that the
Christian, like the Church, must
commit himself to “problems of
social justice, world peace,
underdeveloped nations, political
order, disenfranchised or
underprivileged people ... not in
order to make the world think
better of the Church, or to make
the Church relevant to the world,
but because otherwise the work
of Christ is not done and the
teaching of the Church becomes
empty, pointless and a fraud.
“The scandal of the contrast
between Catholic teaching and
Catholic performance does in fact
disappoint the world. But this is
not why it is scandalous. It is
scandalous because it defaults the
command of Christ and the
promises of the Church.”
Outlining the Church’s attitude
toward social questions, Bishop
Wright toward pointed out two
elements -- “a mood and an
orientation. Both are consistants
whatever the cultural, political or
structural forms of society in
which the Church is at work.
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“The mood flows from the
fundamental tension between the
Church and the world, a tension"
upon which Christ insisted,
against which St. Paul warned,
and which reveals itself at the
moment in the ambiguous sense
given to the words ‘involvement,’
‘commitment,’ ‘relevant’ and the
rest.
“As a result of this ambiguity,
or more exactly, ambivalence, the
Christian attitude toward the
world involves what might be
called a love and hate
relationship. The Christian is
called to love the world as did
God, Who so loved it as to give
His only begotten Son in its
behalf. But he must hold the
world at arm’s length, somehow
keep himself apart from the
world...
“Christians must be much more
honest with their secular
neighbors , and consistent with
their own values in all this
question of the desire to be
accepted as relevant to the world.
The plain fact is that the
Christian Gospel cannot be
relevant at all costs and at all
times. Certainly it cannot be
relevant on all terms. It cannot
mesh comfortably and
harmoniously with the machinery
of our times, its civilization and
its progress.”
. Turning to the technological
advances and prospects of our
age, Bishop Wright said that they
present both a “magnificent
potential for good” and an
“unprecedented threat to the
person.”
“Who will hear the cry of a
baby in the universe of the space
age? ... How many millions of
persons might be seen as easily
expendable to achieve conquests
of a prize as vast as space?
“Yet all this threat will be
dispelled if, while determined to
dominate space, we do so in
terms of its potential of service to
the person.”
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Archbishop Thomas A. Donnellan is pictured as he delivered the
Invocation at a banquet concluding the recent Boy Scout Convention
here in Atlanta, attended by more than 400 delegates from four
states, and the Canal Zone.
SCLC Leader Will
Talk At Convention
WASHINGTON, D. C. (RNS)
- The Rev. Andrew Young,
executive vice president of the
Southern Christian Leadership
Conference, will speak at the
National Catholic Inter-American
Cooperation Program (CICOP)
conference in New York City,
Jan. 24-26.
Mr. Young said here that he is
contemplating a tour of Latin
America to disseminate his ideas
on passive resistance and
non-violence.^Theme of the 1969
CICOP meeting is “Human Rights
and the Liberation of Man of the
Americans.” Some 2,000
delegates and guests from Latin
America, Europe, Canada and the
United States are expected to
attend the conference here.
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