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PAGE 7—The Georgia Bulletin, September 16,1971
Military Council Of Catholic Women
Pope Paul
Warns Of
‘Splintering’
CASTELGANDOLFO,
Italy (NC) — Pope Paul VI,
warning that unofficial
grass-roots religious
communities are splintering
the Church, said traditional
diocesan and parish structures
will not be abolished.
The Pope was addressing
about 400 participants in
Italy’s 21st National Study
Week of Pastoral Updating
who came to his summer
residence here Sept. 9.
Citing “the phenomenon
of church groups, given
various names, which you
have explicitly put under the
heading of ‘grass-roots
communities’,” Pope Paul
said.
The Military Council of Catholic Women of the Southeastern
United States marked its first anniversary recently at a quarterly
meeting in the Noncommissioned Officers’ Club at Ft.
McPherson, Ga. Cutting the birthday cake are, left to right, Mrs.
Marshall (Margaret) Stogner of Ft. Bragg, N.C., council
president; Chaplain (LTC) Michael A. Rusnock, deputy Third
U.S. Army Chaplain who serves as spiritual advisor for the
MCCW and Mrs. Ray E. (Eleanor) Sovia of Ft. Rucker, Ala.,
president-elect, who will assume the duties of the presidency in
November, 1971. The Council is composed of Catholic wives of
all branches of the military services, who are stationed in the
Third U.S. Army area.
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“We are not unaware of
the perils to which these new
community forms are
exposed, especially that of a
tendency to detach
themselves from the
institutional Church because
of their opposition to its
external structures.”
The Pope said it is
necessary “to make an effort
to help these groups, to
understand the dynamism
and positive values that can
be theirs, and . . .to integrate
them into the communion of
the local church.’
Once integrated, he said,
“these groups can
help . . .rediscover and
rebuild the sense of Church
community desired by the
(Second Vatican) Council.”
•Of religious gatherings in
the home, the Pope said:
“The ‘household church,’
original and primitive form of
the ‘congregation of the
faithful,’ can have its,
function in given situations,'
for example where the
Church’s public life is
hindered, or occasionally
where a special circumstance
recalls members of a family
and friends to a moment of
prayer or of instruction.
“But without good reason
and without due
authorization this splintering
of the Church’s community
should not be supported and
no personal interpretations of
religious living should be
upheld.”
Observing that there is
much talk of changing the
Church’s structures, the Pope
declared:
“We believe it is not
superfluous to state that the
structures of the diocese as a
community of salvation
headed by the bishop,
successor of the Apostles, will
remain in canon law in their
traditional form.”
That does not mean, he
continued, that tiny dioceses
cannot be combined or that
big city dioceses cannot be
subdivided in various
administrative patterns.
He described the parish as
“the diocese’s living cell,”
because it is “the community
organized locally under the
guidance of a pastor who
represents the bishop.”
The Pope continued: “One
hears talk today of a crisis of
the parish, and some
conclude that this institution
should be abolished. Despite
whatever real or presumed
crises that may have struck
the parish, it certainly cannot
be seen as an outmoded
institution.
“Even in densely
populated cities, you cannot
put aside territorial limits.”
The Pope cautioned also
against considering the local
church a “fraction of the
Church” to which other
“fractions” are added to form
the Universal Church,
“almost in the manner of an
arithmetical sum.”
Nor, he said, should the
local church be considered an
‘‘autonomous and
self-sufficient church,
juridically closed within
itself, or, worse, opposed to
the Universal Church and
with prerogatives that belong
properly to the latter.”
He urged sticking to the
Second Vatican Council’s
own conception of the
particular or local church,
which, he said, coincides with
the council’s conception of
the diocese.
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‘Shame & Embarrassment’
In his Mission Sunday Message for this year, Pope Paul
says that he wishes “to confide to you, the whole body of
the Catholic faithful - all of you, our collaborators in the
divinely assigned task of making the Good News known - a
matter which causes us shame and embarrassment.”
This statement comes as a “surprise” after the hopeful
words in the paragraph preceding it:
“We must invite all men to join the People of God, his
Church, that ever-growing society of hope, which is able to
look eagerly to the future without closing its eyes to the
present... No, we are not ‘ashamed of the Gospel’ nor are
your Pope and bishops ashamed to beg for the means by
which the Gospel may be made known. If, then, you find
them with begging bowls in their hands, beseeching alms of
you for the love of God and neighbor, this will not surprise
or scandalize you.”
What then is the “matter which causes us shame and
embarrassment?” In the Pope’s own words, it is this:
“We are unable to provide adequate support for the
Church’s missionaries, or to give sufficient assistance to the
many good works of religion and love which they
constantly undertake.
“These missionaries have made the commitment ‘for life’
to the Gospel. They go to the nations in our stead. They
carry out on our behalf the command of the Master ‘to
preach the Gospel to every creature.’ Nothing in our power
to offer could ever repay our obligation to these men and
women; but we must at least supply their daily bread and
provide the other necessities which their various works
demand.”
However, the Pope doesn’t leave us this “obligation”
without giving us his own solution. He says, “For almost a
century and a half, the oiganization of this support from
the Catholic faithful has been entrusted to an enterprise of
charity known as the Society for the Propagation of the
Faith.”
“After their donations have been gathered into one fund,
they are distributed to the missions... providing for the
daily necessities of our missionaries, building churches,
schools, hospitals, seminaries and novitiates: feeding the
hungry, relieving suffering, and bringing emergency
assistance in times of disaster.”
May we join with the Pope and turn unashamed to you
with begging bowls in our hands “to urge each and every
one of the Catholic faithful to make yet greater sacrifices
for the Faith.”
Please begin now. Clip the coupon
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for the Propagation of the Faith. Please cut out this column
and send your offering to Right Reverend Edward T.
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York, N.Y. 10001, or directly to your local Diocesan
Director the Rev. Jerry E. Hardy, 756 West Peachtree N.W.,
Atlanta, Georgia 30308. Sept. 16, 1971.
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New Womens Organization Formed
The executive committee of the new Womens Organization of Corpus Christi Church gathered at
the home of Mrs. Mary McCloskey in Stone Mountain, to discuss plans for the year ahead. The
ladies presently provide Altar care, Sunday morning nursery, and hospitality for the recently
formed parish. In the picture are Mrs. Benjamin Hale, corresponding secretary; Mrs. Robert
Robinson, first vice-president; Mrs. James Harkins, treasurer; Mrs. Mary McCloskey, president; Mrs.
Robert Boushell, recording secretary, and Rev. Joseph J. Beltran, pastor. Missing from the picture
is Mrs. William Zahn, second vice-president.
Asks F ast For Berrigans
NEW YORK (NC) — The president of the National Association of Laity (NAL)
has asked Catholics across the nation to show sympathy for imprisoned Fathers
Philip and Daniel Berrigan by fasting from solid foods every Sunday.
Jack Yorke, who heads the
federation of 25 U.S.
Catholic lay groups, said he
wants NAL members to fast
until Jesuit Father Daniel
Berrigan is paroled from
prison in Danbury, Conn.,
and until there is an open
hearing of the requested
parole for (Josephite) Father
Philip Berrigan, now in a
Springfield, Mo., prison.
The brothers are
incarcerated for destruction
of Selective Service files. In
addition, Father Philip
Berrigan has been indicted on
charges of conspiring to
kidnap presidential adviser
Henry Kissinger and to blow
up federal heating systems in
Washington, D.C. Father
Daniel Berrigan was listed by
the grand jury as a
co-conspirator, but not
indicted.
In a letter to the Berrigans’
attorney Paul O’Dwyer,
Yorke wrote that “the NAL
is 100 percent behind your
goal of obtaining a parole for
Dan Berrigan because of ill
health and of obtaining a
Congressional investigation of
the practices of the Federal
Parole Board.”
In an interview Yorke
remarked: “The issue behind
the fast is much bigger than
the Berrigans, although they
symbolize it and make it
painfully evident. The U.S.
practice in parole procedures
is damning to thousands of
prisoners because of the
clandestine way it
operates ... By the Sunday
fast we hope to focus public
opinion against prison abuses
now condoned by our
government.”
During the week before
Yorke announced the fast
Sept. 13, federal officials said
that during their investigation
of the alleged plot to kidnap
Kissinger they uncovered
plans by antiwar activists to
raid government offices in
nine states.
The disclosure was made
Sept. 7 in Harrisburg, Pa.,
when federal attorneys filed a
court brief in the case of
Father Philip Berrigan and
seven others indicted in the
conspiracy.
The court brief detailed
the role in the alleged
conspiracy of Boyd F.
Douglas, 30, accused by the
defendants as a government
informer. Douglas was a
prisoner with Father Philip
Berrigan in the Lewisburg,
Pa., federal penitentiary
before Father Berrigan was
transferred to Danbury and
then to Springfield.
Federal attorneys said the
defendants planned to raid
Selective Service offices in
Rochester, N.Y.; New Haven,
Conn.; Dover, N.J.,
Philadelphia and three
unnamed communities in
Delaware.
According to the brief, the
defendants also considered
raiding draft offices in
Buffalo and Syracuse, N.Y.,
Richmond, Va., Pittsburgh
and other unnamed
communities in Pennsylvania,
New York, Ohio, Indiana and
West Virginia.
The document named 41
persons, in addition to the
eight defendants, who
attended meetings where the
raids were discussed. They
included John Peter Grady,
46, alleged ringleader of a
recent raid on Camden, N.J.,
draft board offices, and other
persons charged in that raid.
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