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PAGE 6—The Georgia Bulletin, October 9,1980
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who said on the synod
floor that “Humanae
Vitae” is a ‘‘closed
document” that needs no
further discussion,
opposed the archbishop’s
intervention.
At the same time the
intervention will not
satisfy the large number of
Catholics who, as
Archbishop Quinn and
several other synod
members pointed out,
simply disagree with the
church teaching on
contraception.
What the archbishop
called for was a new
dialogue on the issue and a
concerted effort to place
church teaching on
sexuality and responsible
parenthood in a much
more positive light so that
the teaching of “Humanae
Vitae” would be more
widely understood and
accepted.
In that call he received
scattered support from
other synod interventions,
but not enough to make it
clear whether a majority
of the synod fathers would
support it.
By contrast, one of the
concerns that seemed sure
to gain strong synod
support was that raised by
numerous African bishops
on the sacrament of
matrimony.
From all parts of the
continent they came to
the synod with essentially
the same complaint,
summarized by a bishop
from Ghana: “The
problem militating against
Christian family life in
Ghana is Christian
marriage itself.”
In many African tribal
customs, they said,
marriage is viewed as a
series of steps over a long
period of time, finally
sealed as a lasting bond
when the couple has a
child. It deeply involves
the entire families of the
husband and wife and the
whole tribal village.
The African bishops’
complaint was that church
law and the marriage rite
do not in their present
form admit adaptation to
the African cultural reality
in a meaningful way.
The argument focused,
on the surface, on specific
aspects of church marriage
law and some kind of
recognition and admission
to the sacraments for
couples involved in tribal
marriage stages.
But there was an
underlying theme with
much broader
implications: decentraliz
ation of law and
decision-making in the
church, so that the whole
process of inculturation
(adapting the church to
local cultures) can be
pursued more vigorously
and fully.
The Canadian bishops
made this explicit in an
1 1-point written
intervention submitted to
the synod’s relator,
Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger
of Munish and Freising,
West Germany.
“One overarching
question is the greater
discretion or autonomy of
regional or national
episcopal conferences in
some matters touching
marriage and family
life ... The synod should
study how efficacious
decentralization can be
realized in these matters,”
said the Canadians.
The synod also
discussed an array of other
issues in the first week
that produced a
six-inch-high stack of
documentation.
Some form of pastoral
solution for Catholics in
second marriages ranked
high among the issues.
Others included:
-- A need to emphasize
the family as a source of
sanctity and witness to the
Gospel.
-- Sharp concern,
especially in the Third
World, over the invasion of
materialism and
consumerism that is
destroying traditional
social, economic, cultural
and spiritual underpinn
ings of family life.
- Strong concern over
the continuing trend
toward legalized abortion.
- The need to give a
deeper spiritual base to
marriage and family life.
-- Wide support for
natural family planning as
a morally acceptable
means of responsible
parenthood on the family
level and population
control on the broader
social level.
The natural family
planning approach was
viewed by many bishops,
probably a majority, as the
major front on which the
issue of artificial
contraception ought to be
confronted.
Pope Urges Mideast Peace
OTRANTO, Italy (NC) - Pope John
Paul II asked Oct. 5 for an easing of
tensions in the Middle East to prevent the
outbreak of new wars.
“The Middle East region is pervaded by
tensions and disputes, with ever impending
risks of the explosion of new wars,” the
pope told thousands at an open-air Mass in
Otranto, about 350 miles from Rome.
The main ingredients of the Middle
Eastern drama are well-known, said the
pope.
“The Jewish people, after tragic
experiences linked to the extermination of
so many sons and daughters, gave life to
the state of Israel,” he added.
“At the same time the sad condition of
the Palestinian people, who were in large
part excluded from their homeland, was
created,” the pope said.
He said that Jerusalem “today is the
object of a dispute which seems without
solution,” but expressed the hope that
“tomorrow it may be the crossroads of
reconciliation and peace.”
“We pray that Jerusalem, rather than
being - as it is today - the object of
contention and division, may become the
meeting point toward which Christians,
Jews and Moslems will continue to turn
their gaze,” Pope John Paul added.
The Mass in front of the Cathedral of
St. Mary of the Martyrs was the main event
of the pope’s 10-hour visit to Otranto,
Italy’s most eastern city.
Besides drawing thousands of visitors
from the Puglia region of Italy, the Mass
attracted a small contingent of Greek
Catholics from the island of Corfu.
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VATICAN CITY (NC) - “The poor have asked me
to tell you what they need and they told me, ‘give us
holy priests,”’ Mother Teresa of Calcutta, India, said in
a talk to the world Synod of Bishops.
The 70-year-old nun, winner of the 1979 Nobel
Peace Prize, was one of five auditors to the synod
invited to address the morning session Oct. 6.
Sprinkling her 30-minute talk with personal
experiences from working with the poor in India,
Mother Teresa presented a grim picture of world
poverty but said that the poor are neither bitter nor
despairing.
“You can never understand how much suffering
poor families endure,” she told the 202 synod
participants present at the session.
“I sometimes find it difficult in front of so much
suffering to say ‘God loves you,’ but I always tell them
that they are closer to Jesus on the cross,” she added.
The Albanian-born nun asked synod participants to
“say a prayer for the child who is lost and hungry in
the world.” Mother Teresa added that “the child is
lost, the family broken.”
“Without the child, what reason is there for the
family to exist?” she asked.
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serve the needs of the poor.
“I was never ashamed to look at the cross until I
met a mother who had been to three other convents
seeking milk for her child,” she said.
“She had been turned away each time because they
said she was lazy, that she would not work,” she
added. “The child died in my arms.”
She told bishops to “love your priests r nd then they
will give love and holiness to the people.”
DRAWING A CROWD - Mother Teresa,
who works with the poorest of the poor in the
streets of Calcutta, attracts a crowd of
photographers as she does everywhere she goes.
The Nobel Prize winner was arriving for a
session of the world synod of Bishops. (NC
Photo by John Zierten)
MAKING A POINT - Cardinal Terence
Cooke, right, of New York makes a point
during a discussion with Archbishop John
Quinn of San Francisco as a session of the
world Synod of Bishops is about to get
underway in the Vatican. (NC Photo)
U.S. Bishops: Men, Women Equal
VATICAN CITY (NC) - The church must take every
opportunity to proclaim that men and women are equal,
interdependent and complementary in marriage and
society, the U.S. bishops said in an intervention presented
to the world Synod of Bishops.
“There is no reputable theologian today who would
deny that the equality of man and woman is constituted
by God and confirmed by Christian teaching,” said the
written text presented on behalf of the U.S. bishops.
But the bishops warned that the Catholic Church can
accept only “those changes in the roles of sexes which
reflect Gospel values and the teaching of the church.”
The intervention listed several changes which it said
“are altering the structure of marriage and family life,
social consciousness, legal systems and other major
institutions of society” in the United States.
Among the changes, it said, are:
- An increasing refusal by women to accept low pay,
low status and poor working conditions.
- Altered work patterns which include flexible hours,
more parttime work and parental leave.
- Efforts by couples to “help one another according to
their gifts and talents rather than limiting themselves to
traditional roles of father and mother.”
- Demands for more equitable sharing of the duties of
family life.
- Increased sensitivity to sexist language in seculaY and
religious society.
“In the face of these changes, where both good and evil
are being experienced, the church - and notably this
synod on the family - cannot remain a passive observer,”
the intervention said.
“To be both prophets and pastors we must face the
inevitable tensions which all these changes engender,” it
added.
The U.S. bishops asked that church leaders “share in
the prophetic mission of Christ, to see people free in truth
and love, by using every opportunity we have to proclaim
that:
- “Co-equality, interdependence and complementarity
of men and women in marriage and in the institutions of
society is the will of God.
- “Those changes in the roles of sexes which reflect
Gospel values and the teaching of the church are
legitimate and respond to the inspiration of the Holy
Spirit.
- “The importance of work in Christian life must be
adequately understood and women must be given free
access to meaningful work and equal pay.”
The bishops asked church leaders to “seek ways to
serve the church and wider society by counteracting the
oppressive evil of depersonalizing situations, of
consumerism, of dominance and exploitation by either
sex.”
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lady, Mable Rou, who had
been deaf since birth cried
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HEARD. We continued
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developed the kind of new
synthesis on sexuality for
which many, both
conservatives and liberals,
hope. There is, in fact,
little chance that the
synod itself will be able to
do this. But the desire of
some participants at least
to sketch the outlines of
such a synthesis is
apparent.
“The church’s teaching
on sexual morality is
perennially valid,”
Archbishop Joseph L.
Bernardin of Cincinnati
said in the first
intervention of the synod.
“A more positive theology
of sexuality is needed, not
to replace this doctrine
with doctrine which is
different in substance, but
to help people understand
and accept what the
church teaches.”
This notion, the need
for a new theology of
sexuality, could become
one of the central ideas of
the synod. It involves
attractions and risks.
On the one hand it
holds out hope of making
doctrine more
understandable and thus
more acceptable. On the
other, it can be taken as a
code word for
compromise. Holding out
hope without hinting
compromise requires a
balancing act of exquisite
sensitivity. As Archbishop
Bernardin put it:
“As the development of
a more positive theology
of sexuality proceeds -
taking into account, of
course, the reality of sin
and its concomitant,
concupiscence - it should
become at once more
urgent and more feasible
to situate within it our
traditional teaching on
premarital sex,
homosexuality,
contraception and other
questions.
“It should also become
easier to disabuse people
of the notion that the
church has nothing to
offer relative to sexuality
and marriage except
prohibitions -- against
divorce and contraception,
for example -- while also
making it clear that the
prohibitions themselves
are needed to safeguard
positive values.”
Such appeals within the
synod have the best
possible support. Shortly
after the publication of
the encyclical “Humanae
Vitae” (Of Human Life),
which reaffirmed the
church’s condemnation of
articicial means of
contraception, Pope Paul
VI himself suggested a
“fuller, more organic and
more synthetic
exposition” of the moral
issues with which it dealt.
For the past year,
furthermore, one of the
more innovative
theological thinkers in the
church, Pope John Paul II,
has been laying down the
framework for a new
theology of sexuality,
intended to set the
church’s teaching on a
firm contemporary
footing.
Pope John Paul has
done this in a remarkable
series of talks at his
weekly general audiences.
Their content and
language are unusually
difficult, with the result
that they defy easy
summary. But many who
have followed them
closely contend that the
pope has in effect been
setting out a Christian
anthropology - a religious
view of the human
condition -- which for
once takes account of the
positive and destructive
potential of sexuality.
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