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PAGE 6—The Georgia Bulletin, September 25,1980
Scholars Back Papal Norms
For Catholic Universities
WASHINGTON (NC) - A committee of the Fellowship
of Catholic Scholars has hailed the norms issued by Pope
John Paul II in 1979 for Catholic ecclesiastical universities
and faculties as necessary to “prevent the replacement of
Catholic teaching with academic opinion.”
The norms, contained in the apostolic constitution,
“Sapientia Christiana” (Christian Wisdom) and an
accompanying document prepared by the Vatican’s
Congregation for Catholic Education, are needed to
“protect the right of the faithful to hear the word of God
as this is proclaimed by His church,” said the 12-member
committee.
The committee’s report was released in Washington by
its chairman, William May, associate professor of moral
theology at the Catholic University of America. The
Fellowship of Catholic Scholars was established in 1977 as
an interdisciplinary group of Catholics in the academic
world who support the official teaching authority of the
church.
The committee called for “speedy and full
implementation” of “Sapientia Christiana,” which is to go
into effect on the first day of the 1980-81 academic year.
Describing the background of “Sapientia Christiana,”
the committee said that for the past 15 years there has
been serious opposition within the church to many
authoritatively proclaimed church teachings.
“At times certain teachings of the church have been
rejected by scholars as erroneous or historically and
culturally conditioned,” it said. “Among those opposing
and even rejecting the authoritative and authentic
teaching of the church are theologians, some of whom
were engaged in teaching seminarians. Newly ordained
priests and seminarians are at times of the opinion that
their special mission within the church is to liberate the
faithful from what they consider to be the intolerable and
unnecessary burdens imposed upon them by the
magisterium (official teaching authority of the church). In
their turn, hitherto faithful Christians have been led to
believe it now is right and proper to depart from the
authoritative teaching of the church on many questions.”
Some theologians, the committee said, claim that there
are no moral absolutes, that contraception is morally
permissible for married persons for a variety of reasons,
that unmarried persons may at times rightly choose to
have sexual relations and that abortion is justifiable for a
wide range of reasons.
The committee said theologians also question the
divinity of Christ, the infallibility of the church, the
importance of the sacraments and the relevance of the
priesthood.
Theologians at times argue, it said, that there are two
sorts of authority in the church, the pope and the bishops
on the one hand, and theologians on the other, and that
when the teachings of the two conflict, Catholics have the
right to choose which to accept.
Recalling the principal features of “Sapientia
Christiana,” the committee said that:
- It applies directly to universities and faculties
canonically erected or approved by the Holy See and
which have the right to confer academic degrees by the
authority of the Holy See. It applies indirectly to other
institutions of higher learning in the church concerned
with teaching Catholic doctrine, in particular seminaries.
- It insists that these institutions adhere “to the full
doctrine of Christ and whose authentic guardian and
interpreter has always been through the ages the
magisterium of the church.”
- It states that the chancellor, who governs such
institutions, represents the Holy See and has the
responsibility “to insure that Catholic doctrine is
integrally followed.” If the local bishop is not the
chancellor, the bishop has the duty, whenever something
in the institution is known to be contrary to doctrine,
morals or church discipline, to take the matter to the
chancellor and, if the chancellor does nothing, to have
recourse to the Holy See.
- It states that those who teach matters touching on
faith and morals are to be conscious of their duty to teach
in full communion with the magisterium and must receive
a canonical mission from the chancellor. Before these
teachers receive a permanent post or are promoted to the
highest category of teacher, they must receive special
approval from the Holy See.
The committee said theologians have sometimes
asserted the need for legitimate dissent in the church to
justify the positions they have taken. But the Second
Vatican Council, the committee said, “insists on the
serious obligation that the faithful, including theologians,
have to give a religious assent to the teachings of the
magisterium.” The council documents also “clearly and
firmly teach that the magisterium, vested in the Roman
pontiff and the body of bishops under his headship, alone
has the right to determine questions of faith and morals
and to speak in the name of Christ.”
The committee continued: ‘“Sapientia Christiana’ is
fundamentally an effort on the part of the Apostolic See
to help secure for the Catholic faithful their right to hear
the voice of the church, the church that speaks through
the mouth of Peter, of Leo, of Paul, of John Paul II. This
right of the faithful is jeopardized when those who teach
in ecclesiastical universities and faculties - and in other
institutions publicly recognized as ‘Catholic’ - believe that
it is their mission to replace the teachings of the
magisterium with the speculations of academics.”
Debate
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leave for the classroom,
‘Be sure to say a prayer
before you start your
day’s work.’ But I don’t
think that the state, the
board of regents, a board
of education or any state
official should try to
compose that prayer for a
child to recite,” said
Anderson.
During rebuttal, Reagan
and Anderson repeated
their past views on the
subject of abortion.
Reagan remarked that
those who cite freedom of
choice for the individual
fail to take into account
the view of the individual
“who’s being aborted.”
“And I’ve noticed that
everybody that is for
abortion has already been
born.”
Reagan said he wished
medical evidence would
determine “once and for
all” whether an unborn
child is a human being. “I
happen to believe it is,” he
concluded.
Anderson responded, “I
also think that that
unborn child has a right to
be wanted.”
He said for the state to
interfere in a woman’s
decision to have an
abortion “goes beyond
what we want to ever see
accomplished in this
country if we really
believe in the First
Amendment, if we really
believe in freedom of
choice and the right of the
individual.”
-ARCHDIOCESAN SCHOOLS
Opening On A Note Of Justice
BY GRETCHEN REISER
If children in the
Archdiocese’s schools
are to learn that seeking
social justice is a central
part of. being a
Christian, they must
first see it in their
teachers, said Sister
Veronica G rover,
director of the National
Center for Justice and
Peace Education.
In meetings setting
the tone for the
learning to teach peace
and social justice.
Sister Grover, a
Sister of the Holy
Child, was a teacher in
Philadelphia’s inner city
schools, before
becoming the first
director of the National
Center almost four
years ago. She is
co-author of an NCEA
publication, Seeking a
Just Society, which is
an educational plan to
Seeking a Just
Society will be
implemented in
archdiocesan schools in
the future, according to
Sister Patricia Geary,
assistant to the
superintendent.
Teaching social justice
“is a basic thrust of the
schools, and has been,”
Sister Geary said.
Five years ago, the
Archdiocese sponsored
an Institute on Justice
SISTER VERONICA GROVER,
left, with Teresa Westwood, third
grade teacher at Immaculate Heart
of Mary School, during a break in
the teachers’ gathering at Christ the
King School last week. (Photo by
Gretchen Keiser.)
1980-81 school year,
Sister Grover, who
heads the center, which
is a division of the
National Catholic
Educational Associat
ion, said teachers, as
role models, need to
examine their own
attitudes about the
social justice teachings
of the Church. “Do the
students we teach see
us trying to be just
people?” she asked.
Admitting one’s
difficulties in living up
to this role, she said, is
not defeat, but a
necessary part of
mesh social justice
teaching with the
general curriculum in
elementary and
secondary schools. The
NCEA decided to
publish the guide itself,
after a survey of the
market showed that no
such material existed
for teachers and
administrators, and
after attempts to
interest private
publishers failed, Sister
Grover said.
The work is three
years old and in its
fourth printing, she
said.
and Peace, and it was
“received very well
then by our teachers,”
she said. In inviting
Sister Grover to give
the opening school year
addresses to teachers
and parents, school
officials believed “it
was time now for a
renewal of emphasis on
the whole concept of
‘educating to justice’”,
Sister Geary said.
Sister Grover
addressed groups of
teachers and
archdiocesan parents on
the topic in a series of
meetings last week.
Speaking at Christ
the King School, she
said that educating
children for justice and
peace is “not an extra
course added to the
curriculum nor is it the
latest fad which is going
to be dropped next
year.”
“It is deeply rooted
in Ju deo-Christian
experience,” she said.
“All of us by reason of
our baptism are called
to a ministry of
justice.”
Specifically, children
need to be taught that
to be a Christian “is to
be called to service,”
she said, and they need
to have a basic
understanding of the
Church’s social teaching
and be developed into
critical thinkers who
have the necessary
skills, in speaking,
writing and acting, to
become transformers of
society at large.
Two main goals of
Catholic education have
been to accomplish
personal sanctification
and to transform the
world, she said, but
“I’m not sure we’ve
always emphasized
transformation of the
world.” In the last
decade, the bishops
have issued several calls
for new emphasis on
this goal.
After the talk, Sister
Grover said that the
renewed emphasis upon
social justice teachings
of the Church seems to
be increasingly well
received. “The time
seems to be right now,”
she said. “I find much
more reception now
than there would have
been five years ago.”
“Like a lot of other
things in the Church,
you have to plant the
seed and let it go.”
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family life.
He said it will talk
about positive factors that
can help family life such as
broadened educational
possibilities, scientific
advances, better
understanding of sexuality
and the reevaluation of the
role of women.
It will also talk about
negative factors such as
divorce, abortion, living
together without marriage,
and a variety of social
forces that can hurt family
life, he said.
Archbishop Tomko said
the 1980 synod, the fifth
general Synod of Bishops,
will feature several
novelties.
One of these is that it is
the first under Pope John
Paul II, who attended the
other synods as archbishop
of Cracow, Poland.
Another novelty, the
archbishop added, “is the
presence of several married
couples as auditors and
auditresses at the synod,”
Cardinal Terence Cooke
of New York and
American Ukrainian-Rite
Archbishop Myroslav
Lubachivsky are among 24
bishops personally named
by the pope to participate
in the synod.
Archbishop
Lubachivsky last year was
named coadjutor
archbishop of Lvov, Soviet
Union, the major
archdiocese of the
Ukrainian Rite. He is
former archbishop and
current apostolic
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Papal Prayer For Synod
Lord God, from you every family in heaven
and on earth takes its name.
Father, you are Love and Life.
Through your Son, Jesus Christ, born of woman,
and through the Holy Spirit, fountain of divine charity
grant that every family on earth
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a true shrine of life and love.
Grant that your grace may guide
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for the good of their families
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Grant that the young may find in the family
solid support for their human dignity
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Grant that love,
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may prove mightier than all the weaknesses and trials
through which our families sometimes pass.
Through the intercession of the Holy Family of Nazareth,
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Offices for Family Life
and for Pro-Life Activities,
was named one of 10
synod experts described as
“aides to the special
secretary” of the synod.
- Sister Regina Casey,
Dr. and Mrs. Claude
Lanctot, and Mr. and Mrs.
Richard McBride were
among the list of 43
auditors at the synod, the
majority of which are
married couples.
Sister Casey, who now
resides in Rome, is
superior general of the
Missionary Sisters of the
Sacred Heart.
Dr. and Mrs. Lanctot,
natives of Canada and the
United States respectively,
live in Kensington, Md. He
is executive director of the
International Federation
for Family Life Promotion
(IFFLP) at its
headquarters in
Washington and teaches
obstetrics at Georgetown
University in Washington.
Mrs. Lanctot is a
registered nurse.
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of Long Beach, Calif., are
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