PAGE 12 — The Georgia Bulletin, March 12, 1987
Key Seattle Officials Meet With Vatican Commission
SEATTLE (NC) — Key church officials of the Seattle
Archdiocese and the Pacific Northwest met March 6 and 7
with the Vatican's special commission assessing the church
situation in Seattle following the division of Archbishop
Raymond Hunt hausen's authority, the commission an
nounced March 8.
The three-member commission — Cardinals Joseph L.
Bernardin of Chicago and John J. O'Connor ol New York
and Archbishop John R. Quinn ol San Francisco — was
named in February.
In a series of meetings at St. Patrick's Seminary in Menlo
Park. Calif., the panel separately interviewed eight Pacific
Northwest bishops, the seven members of the Seattle arch
diocesan Board of Consultors. and five key members of
the archdiocesan staff.
A commission-approved announcement ol the meetings
was released by the Seattle archdiocesan communications
office. It said the commission had called the meetings m
order "to talk with several key people of Archbishop Hunt-
hausen's designation.”
The announcement said nothing about the results of the
meetings. It said that "no further comment is expected" on
the commission's proceedings before its work is completed.
Last September Archbishop Hunthausen revealed that ai
the request of the Holy See he had relinquished all authority
in several key areas of governance, including liturgy and
priestly formation, to his auxiliary. Bishop Donald Wuerl.
That decision, reached after an investigation in the arch
diocese by the Vatican, provoked sharp divisions among
Catholics in Seattle and many other parts of the country.
In November the U.S. bishops discussed the Seattle situa
tion for more than four hours behind closed doors. Their
meeting ended with a public statement offering their ser
vices as mediators in the controversy
Shortly after the three-member commission was ap
pointed. it met with Archbishop Hunthausen and Bishop
Wuerl.
The eight Northwestern bishops the commission inter
viewed in Menlo Park were: Archbishop William Levada
and retired Archbishop Cornelius Power, both of Portland.
Ore.; Bishop Thomas Connolly of Baker, Ore.; Bishop
Sylvester Treinen of Boise. Idaho; Bishop Elden Curtiss of
Helena. Mont.; Bishop Thomas Murphy and retired Bishop
Elden Schuster, both of Great Falls-Billings. Mont.; and
Bishop William Skylstad of Yakima, Wash.
Archdiocesan officials interviewed in addition to the
seven priest-consultors were Father Michael Ryan,
chancellor and vicar general; Father Michael McDermott,
director of administration; Father David Jaeger, director
of seminarians; Patrick Sursely. associate director of ad
ministration; and Edward Dolejsi. director of the arch
diocesan faith and Christian community office.
Pastors' Survey:
Saturday Masses "Abused" In St.
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ST. CLOUD, Minn. (NC) - Several pastors answering a
St. Cloud diocesan liturgy survey complained that Saturday
evening Masses have become an abuse.
Liturgies on Saturday evening too often are "quickie
Masses." viewed with an "in-and-out, get-it-over-with at
titude. one pastor said.
Another pastor called Saturday Masses an "abused
privilege," and a third described them as a "grave
liturgical abuse."
More than one suggested that Saturday evening liturgies
be held only in "certain designated areas" to serve the
needs of the few who really cannot attend Mass on Sunday
"I think the exception has become the rule and many
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of Sunday." one pastor wrote.
Another suggested that the Saturday Masses have con
tributed to a climate in which few Catholics pay attention to
holy days and "an increasing number seem less scrupulous
about what constitutes servile work on Sundays."
The survey, by the diocesan Office of Worship, was in
itiated in 1985 by Bishop George Speltz of St. Cloud, now
retired, and asked pastors to evaluate their weekend and
holy day Mass schedules in terms of quality and attend
ance, with an eye to eliminating poorly attended Masses
where possible and improving the quality of each celebra
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Of 131 pastors who responded to the survey. 38 said they
reduced the number of weekend or holy day liturgies by
eliminating Masses at which the church was less than half
filled.
Some reported that the change was satisfactory or
helpful, while others said they returned to their old
schedule because of problems created by Ihe change.
More than half the respondents said their church was
more than half filled for every weekend Mass, leaving no
room for reducing the number
A number of pastors took the opportunity offered by the
survey to express their feelings about liturgy habits and
practices, and criticism of Saturday liturgies was one of the
more frequent elements found in the responses.
The liturgical practice of evening Masses the day before
a Sunday or major feast is based on a long tradition in the
church of viewing a feast as beginning with nightfall the
previous day.
This was revived in the Western church with the restora
tion of the Easter Vigil liturgy by Pope Pius XII in 1951. and
It was extended to other Sundays and holy days at the
discretion of bishops' conferences and local bishops in the
1960s and '70s.
In 1983 the new Code of Canon Law made the option
universal by saying Catholics can fulfill the Sunday and
holy day precept if they participate at Mass either on the
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