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PAGE 7 — The Georgia Bulletin, April 2,1970
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PHILADELPHIA (NC) -
Father James Groppi,
Milwaukee civil rights leader,
told an audience of priests,
nuns and students at nearby
Villanova University that
Catholics should stop
building churches and put
their money to better use.
A veteran of 12 arrests and
occasional beatings, Father
Groppi criticized the Church
for its continued silence in
the face of racism.
“I hate racism with all the
strength and passion of my
soul. I’ve seen what it has
done to kids. And I hate the
silence of the Church and
tolerates it,” he said.
The Church, he continued,
“has to speak to racism where
it is--in the white
communities.”
About 1,100 persons heard
the 39-year-old priest’s
speech in the university field
house.
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SARASOTA, Fla,
(NC)--Support of a papal
review of the disciplinary
cases against 19 Washington,
D.C. archdiocesan priests has
been voted here by the St.
Petersburg diocesan priests’
senate.
The priests’ body took this
position as it supported a
March resolution of the
National Federation of Priests
Council that had set a
deadline of April 20 on its
request that Pope Paul VI
review the penalities imposed
upon the priests by Cardinal
Patrick O’Boyle of
Washington.
The senate, meeting here
with Bishop Charles B.
McLaughlin of St. Petersburg
present, also appointed two
priests to represent the
diocese at an emergency
meeting of the national group
on April "20, if nothing is
heard from Rome by that
deadline date.
In other actions, two
priests were named to a
three-man board that will act
with Bishop McLaughlin on
future parish appointments in
the diocese.
Vatican To Review Priests’ Problems
BY FATHER LEO MCFADDEN
VATICAN CITY (NC)-A
Vatican prelate has revealed
that an international response
from bishops on the problems
of the modem priesthood will
form a “large part of the
agenda for the plenary session
of the Congregation for the
Clergy” scheduled for April
20.
Cardinal John Wright,
prefect of the congregation,
in an NC News interview, also
spoke of two documents
coming from his congregation
on the need for priests’
councils and associations. He
added that he stands solidly
behind the invitation issued
last month to the priests of
the world to renew their vows
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annually and lamented the
press coverage-or the lack of
press coverage-given the total
document on “The
Permanent Formation of the
Clergy.”
The document on the
proper implementation of
priests’ councils to give them
a say in governing the local
Church will be released in
early spring, perhaps as early
as April, the cardinal said.
The second document, an
instruction on voluntary
association of priests for
deepening their intellectual,
spiritual and social lives will
be discussed at the upcoming
plenary session in the light of
the responses from the
bishops of the world, he said.
“The best response by far
came from the American
hierarchy both in respect to
substance and to originality,”
the cardinal stated. He
emphasized also that this was
an example of “people who
write letters get things done.”
This was an obvious
compliment to the bishops
who wrote in their replies to
the congregation.
He explained that an
investigation by - the
congregation had determined
that in many parts of the
world the priests’ councils are
not functioning correctly.
Fault was found in a few
areas with the “indifference”
of bishops, while in other
places the weakness of
councils was attributed to the
gradual loss of interest on the
part of the priests themselves,
he said.
Cardinal Wright said that
the instruction on priests’
councils that will come out
next month, based on the
investigation and a prolonged
discussion at the last plenary
session of the congregation,-is
designed “to meet precisely -
those defects mentioned in
councils already in
existence.” He was emphatic
in stating that the document
“attempts to make clear to
the bishops their obligation
to take seriously the letter
and spirit of the Vatican
Council with respect to the
establishment of priests’
councils in every diocese.
“At the->-same time,” he
continued, “the document on
councils seeks to indicate
those areas of priestly life and
ministry, as well as diocesan
general policies, in which the
consultation of the clergy
through their duly elected
representatives is essential
under modern conditions.”
He further revealed that
the document, finished
approximately six weeks ago,
is now under review by the
papal secretary of state' and
Pope Paul personally. This
was being done, the cardinal
insisted, not only because of
standard Vatican procedure,
but also because of his desire,
in the name of the
congregation, “to have
behind the document the
highest possible authority.”
He indicated that in
addition to reviewing the
theological and canonical
premises on which the
document is based, definite
guidelines, norms and
directives are provided for the
guidance of the local bishop
and, those priests chosen to
help him constitute the
diocesan priests’ councils.
Cardinal Wright also
disclosed that immediately
upon completion of the
document of “required
priests” councils,” the
congregation began its work
on a document for voluntary
associations for priests. Such
associations, he explained, set
up with ecclesiastical
approval, would provide for
the intellectual, spiritual and
social needs of those priests
whose particular interests
would best be served by
voluntary associations and by
the opportunity of meeting
with priests of similar
interests.
To prepare such a
document on suggested
voluntary organizations' for
specific priestly purposes and
needs, the congregation sent
out a questionnaire to the
presidents of all bishops’
conferences with the request
that these questionnaires be
relayed to every bishop
within the conference.
Cardinal Wright described
the response as “uneven,”
particularly on the part of the
new nations. But he added
that the replies from many
nations were “astonishing” in
their frankness, promptness
and completness
The cardinal said that
Bishop Joseph L. Bemardin,
general secretary of the U.S.
Conference of Catholic
Bishops, replying for the
United States, sent the
cardinal a “fantastic package”
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participating as one of the
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Federal Judge Myron
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every opportunity to explain
his action, and listened to
character-reputation
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Despite the testimony of a
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“easily the first in importance
both with respect to
substance and originality.”
These responses, dealing with
every aspect of priestly life,
will eventually surface in the
document prepared by the
congregation on voluntary
associations of priests.
The cardinal said he
lamented the reaction given a
circular letter on priestly
formation issued by his
congregation. This was the
letter made public in
February in which priests
were invited to renew their
voWs of celibacy and
obediende on Holy Thursday.
The cardinal expressed his
regret that press coverage
gave “inadequate and, in
many cases, no coverage
whatever” of the actual
contents of the letter. The
letter he was referring to
offered 25 suggestions for
priestly formation, but it was
the cardinal’s opinion that
only the renewal of vows
received any attention in the
press.
“For instance,” he said,
“my mail from the United
States and elsewhere, while
referring to the suggestion
concerning the renewal of
vows, obviously was written
withh little or no knowledge
of the other major points of
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