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PAGE 7—The Georgia Bulletin, August 15, 1974
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‘Master Plan’ for Church Future
Announced by Canon Law Society
DOUGLASTON, N.Y. (NC) - A 10-year “master plan
theology and pastoral practice together has been set by
America (CLSA).
” to help bring Church law,
the Canon Law Society of
The plan was drawn up here last May by a
theologians, and other experts.
‘think tank” of Church lawyers,
Father Edward Dillon,
Officialis of the Archdiocese
of Atlanta, was a member of
the 20-man “think tank,” and
is also a member of the
CLSA’s Board of Governors
which met following the four
day “think tank” sessions.
Father Dillon termed the 10
year master plan as
“extremely comprehensive”
and added that it ran the
whole gamut of the Church.
“Implementation will be
difficult,” said Father, “in
order to get to the specific
but I feel that our
establishment of a permanent
seminar for research in the
area of theology and law will
help pick out the areas of
concentration.” The Board of
Governors met immediately
following the four-day think
tank group to accept and
consider the recommenda
tions of the 20-man team.
The “master plan” calls for
the CLSA to initiate and
coordinate programs that will
help to make Church law
(canon law) more responsive
to the Church documents
issued during and since the
Second Vatican Council;
- educate bishops and
priests and laity to a better
understanding of Church
government;
- educate Church members
in the role of law in Church
life;
- take the first steps
toward designing “a new
international synod”
including ecumenical
participation that could
foster Church reunion;
- help make Church law
better reflect the nature of
the Church as a community
of believers, as well as a
hierarchical structure;
- broaden the concept of
ministry in Church law to
provide formal, structured
recognition of many
ministries that are now
recognized or encouraged
only informally, and pay
more heed to women and
minority groups in ministries;
re-integrate the
fundamental concept of
mission into the whole of
Church law and Church life.
The CLSA’s board of
governors met immediately
after the think tank meeting
and agreed to initiate several
projects immediately and to
review the think tank’s
recommendations regularly
over the next 10 years as the
chief focus and priority guide
for the CLSA’s activities.
Father Donald Heintschel
of Toledo, Ohio, president of
the CLSA, told NC News he
considers the program “a real
challenge, and a message of
hope for the future.”
“It took more than two
years to bring this idea into
focus,” Father Heintschel
said.
The approach to what the
CLSA should be doing to
support and promote the
solution of pastoral problems
that have developed out of
the massive changes since the
Second Vatican Council, was
assigned to the CLSA’s
Research and Development
Committee in 1972.
The committee, chaired by
Paulist Father John Lynch,
dean of the canon law
department at the Catholic
University of America in
Washington, D.C., gradually
evolved the idea of getting
together a think tank of
scholars and specialists to
present what they considered
to be the most serious hopes
and fears for the Church in
1984.
After reading one another’s
views, they met here May
26-29 to draw up a program
of the most significant areas
of concern in the immediate
future of the Church, and
what the CLSA could do to
help meet those concerns.
“Many of the things were
outside our area of expertise
as canon lawyers,” Father
Heintschel said. “But, as the
Holy Father said last year in
his address to the world’s
canonists, it is time that
canonists join with
theologians and others to
develop the possibilities of
law for Church life.
“We are willing to join
with others to find out what’s
happening.”
He pointed out that the
programs drawn up by the
think tank are interdiscipli
nary, especially demanding
input from theologians.
The most serious concern
expressed by the think tank
was a renewed understanding
of the role of law in Church
life. “Up until the 12th
century,” the report said,
“law and theology were not
viewed separately; the focus
was upon a lived theology.”
Father Heintschel noted
that, in the vast area of
continuing education for
clergy and laity that has
become an important part of
Church life since the Second
Vatican Council, “one of the
big areas that seems to be
missing is that of law. We
have not integrated a real
sense of the law of the
Church into our renewal
efforts.
“As a result, there is a
great deal of confusion today
about the role of law in the
Church.”
He said that the first thing
a canon law student learns is
that the weight of law in the
Church depends on the way
the law is formulated and the
source of the law; but that in
the past 10 years a huge mass
of decrees, orders,
regulations, and guidelines
have been produced by a
variety of different
authorities, and the result has
been confusion.
One of the first projects
recommended by the think
tank and approved by the
CLSA board of governors was
a study of the different
agencies with authority in the
Church, stating what type or
degree of authority each
agency has.
Father Francis Morrisey,
president of the Canadian
Canon Law Society, has
completed that study. Father
Heintschel said it was about
to be published.
Father Heintschel said the
concept of an international
synod with participation by
other churches is a long-range
goal that could not be
realized for years. The
underlying need, he said, is
for an approach to Church
law or Church order which
views the Church less in
hierarchical terms and more
in terms of a “communio” or
community of faith.
Specifically, the think tank
proposed that the CLSA
should engage in a research
project comparing different
Church orders, and
identifying models of Church
law or Church order that look
at Church structure as it
reflects more accurately the
idea of Church as
community.
“Since there is a need for
an on-going policy-making
structure at the world level in
which the Church as
‘communio’ can be
adequately expressed, a
symposium should be held to
design a new international
synod defining its
relationship with the Roman
Curia (the Church’s central
administrative offices), with
ecumenical councils, nd with
possible ecumenical
participation,” the report
said.
Evangelization Makes Christ Known
Pope Says in Mission Day Message
VATICAN CITY (NC) - The next World Mission Day, on Oct. 20, will be
celebrated within the framework of the Holy Year of 1975, Pope Paul VI stated in a
mission day message signed June 29 and released by the Vatican July 31.
In his message, Pope Paul referred to the twin themes of the Holy Year, Renewal
and Reconcilation.
“Evangelization,” he wrote, “as an act which makes Christ known to peoples,
aiming at renewing and reconciling them with Him and in Him, means to extend the
area and the degree of knowledge and of acceptance of His person and of His
message. It means to broaden the area of reconciliation injustice and love.”
2 Stressing the close
° connection between
missionary activity,
conversion and reconciliation,
Pope Paul continued:
‘‘This universal
brotherhood, insofar as we
are members of the same
family with Jesus Christ as
the chief brother, under the
same Father who is in heaven,
demands a conversion of, an
approach, a drawing near to
all our brothers.
“And conversion obligates
us, in the first place, to know
them since we must love
them and share with them
our wealth both in material
form and of a moral and
spiritual order.
“If we are to form a single
family with all men
belonging,” said the Pope,
“fraternal love obligates us
to be in reconciliation with
brothers of all races, tongues,
cultures and living conditions.
Many sins of omission for
which we must ask our
neighbor’s forgiveness are to
be laid at our door.”
Stating that reconciliation
with others must include the
reparation of such omissions,
Pope Paul added that we
must feel our brothers’
problems as our own and that
“this active desire to make
reparation for the egotism of
our countries and of
ourselves” is an essential
element in effecting the true
missionary activity of
reconcilation.
“The formation of an
authentic missionary
conscience must be based
upon a radical spiritual
renewal. Before preaching the
Gospel one must first live it.
The first missionary action
lies in the life of a Christian
or of a community,” the
Pope said.
“If one has not first
personally experienced that
Christ is the Savior then it is
difficult to feel the need to
make Him known to others,”
he added.
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- haste: “The work of
evangelization, apart from
being necessary, is urgent,
above all for reasons of divine
love, which is the highest
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effective way of promoting
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and service have complete
priority by reason of Christ’s
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because the mission of
preaching Jesus Christ is
theirs in a particular way.”
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