Hierarchy of United States Issue Collective Pastora~ Continued from Page One responslbillty, and to the future with faith which is the sub stance of hope." The Church itself, the pastoral explains, is a servant Church among the sons of men but even more, it is the servant of God. It is also a necessity for all men who wish to follow Christ, for "without the Church the follow ing of Jesus' subtly becomes a following of self or even a fol lowing of those false prophets against whom Christ warned and whom the Church resists."· That the Church must exist is seen from the fact that the Holy Spirit is given in His full ness only to the community. This is true even tho~gh man both lives and dies in solitude and because God makes de mands on each individual that He makes on no one else, de spite the existence of the com munity that is the Church.
strike the balance between free dom and authority, experiment and license, the good of the in dividual and the good of the community. Drawing heavily from En gland's John Henry Cardinal Newman, the Bishops explain the rights and responsibilities of conscience. "We cannot· agree," they say, "with those who derive th,e force of conscience only from social or environmental influ enves. Conscience ultimately derives from the image of God in which man is made and the grace of God by which man is called 000"
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"Yet conscience does not of itself give us all the answers or even all the elements for the definition of what is good; (it is) so easily puzzled, obscured and perverted as to need the formation and perfection the An] .Arr~ N~cessary Church provides." . Quoting from the Second Vati Therefore, while the Church in cludes men, it is more than a lean Council's Declaration on merely human community, more Religious Freedom, the Bishops than a social service office. reiterate that "in all his activity, a man is bound to follow his "The Church is a sacred, reli gious, charismatic, incarnaUonal conscience faithfully, in order reality" that reaches into the that he may come to God, for lives of -men. Bea:ause of this, whom he was created 0 0 0 and any injustice among men should he is not to be forced to act in arouse in Christians a deep and . a manned contrary to his con science." burning concern. As a result, Catholics are Similarly, the Church that called on to overcome the -divi works among men must be a sions within the Church and the visible Church, not because ~his conflicts that beset each indi- is making the best of an incon vidual in an, effort to reform venient situation, but because it and reaffirm the Church's pres is essential to the life of Christ ence, to do the work urged by in the world. If this were not God in our time. so, the pastoral points out, the Save Only God visible Church "would some how parallel the invisible For now, .the Bishops con Church, being tolerable when clude, God is calling loudly, useful for the less enlightened, urging Christians to take their but not for those who, as in places in the world. Tho.ugh the every form of Gnosticism, think Bishops say that "there are of themselves as a religious elite times w~en He simply bids WI and deprecate the need for .a to be still and see that He is visible or, as they sometimes God," they add that "at other say, institutional Church." times, and ours is one of Just as the visible Church bJ them, His voice is once again in necessary, so is the hierarchy. the tumult, the tempest, the Together, the laity, clergy' and thunder and the sound of flood hierarchy form the Church. ing waters." Without any 'one group, the Therefore, because the Church Church could not properly interprets the voice of GOd to exist. those who must balance the ser vice of God and the service of COl!1lsdence of Man man, "we must love the Church Yet within the whole Church, as we love nothing else, save members of each group have tl only God, if the Spirit of God special function. The laity bear is to dwell in our midst, re responsibility for the sanctifica deeming the times and renew tion of human society; the cler ing the face of the earth." gy bear with them the hopes of all the redeemed; while the Bishops preside in place of God over the flock whose shepherds they are, "as teachers for doc trine, priests for sacred wor ship and ministers for govern ment." • The pastoral outlines the norms needed by individuals t:,l)
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THE ANCHORThurs., Jan. 11, 1968
Ask for Action On Race Crisis' In Iowa. City DES MOINES (NC)-Iowa. religions leadel'S issued a joint statement here express ing "deepest alarm" at the
racial tensions and problems m the state and calling for "con structive action to meet the growing crisis." The Catholic, Protestant and Jewish leaders also announced that they will jointly sponsor six public meetings throughout the state in January to help in form "every citizen of the crisis CARDlINAL GUT CARDINAJL SEPER that exists and arouse us all to APPOINTED NEW POSTS: Franjo Oardinal Seper, take positive action in meeting the problems that are before us." Archbishop of Zagreb in Yugoslavia has been appointed by Principal speaker at the Pope Paul to head the Doctrinal Commission of the Roman meetings, the first of which win Curia and Benno Cardinal Gut, former Abbot-Primate of be held in. Des Moines on Jan. the Swiss Confederation, has been named, to head an office 21, will be Gov. Harold E. that will combine the work of the Congregation of Rites Hughes. The 18 ~igners of the state and Liturgy Reform according to Vatican II. ment on the racial crisis in cluded the heads of the foW' Catholic 'dioceses in the state Archbishop James J. Byrne of Dubuque; Bishop Gerald F. 25 [ll@'Wl?y-l<es$ GF@omSg OM'rB(!ll!M®!fllt-less O'Keefe of Davenport; Msgr. L. V. Lyons, vicar general of Bride$ in India Comnulll'il~fry W@d1&ing Des Moines; and Bishop Joseph. of applications processed by l5l M. Mueller of Sioux City. KURIYACHIRA (NC) - A group of 25 couples was married marriage bureau set up by' the The statement said in part: "Our nation, which has stood here in the first gold-less and priest-married before Bishop dawry-less Catholic wedding m. George Alapatt of Trichur in the for the right of self-determina presence of a gathering of thou tion, the rights and dignity of Kerala state. every human being, freedom The community wedding, held IlI3nds. Metropolitan Mar Thoma under law, and deliverance on the grounds of St. Joseph'l3 church, was organized by ilhe Dharmo of the. Church of the from discrimination, finds itself today bewildered by the hatred, East blessed a common wed parish priest, F,ather Joseph Va dakkan, in symbolic protest ding cake which was cut by local violence, lawlessness and rebel lion that exist in its common agadnst Wihat he calls a "mania'" Protestant Bishop T.B. Benja life. min. for gold and money in the Cath Attending the ceremony were olic, community in the state. Threatens Destruction The dowry-less brideg,rooDlS Protestant ministers. E. K. Im "The crisis in American life, and their 25 ornament-less brides bichi Bawa and B. Wellington dramatized on the streets of OUF' -chosen II:rom among hundreds of Kerala and communist leader cities, threatens to destroy us as C. Achyutha Menon. !i\ nation. Other Kerala ministers sen'!; "With the deepest alarm we messages. have noted the tensions and Malankara-r,ite Bishop Athan problems in our own state d Get PopaR Honors asios Cheriyan Polachirakal of Iowa. LONDON (NC)Douglas Wood Tiruvalla said in his sermon thad; "In Iowa, too; we have mis ruff, 70, for over 30 years editor ime community wedding was II trust, bigotry and prejudice. We of the Tablet, British national challenge to the "evil system" have the problems of racial ten Catholic weekly review, was <Olf dowry and ornaments which sion, lack of respect for law, awarded the Grand Cross of the bas plagued the Kerala Catholic, segregated housing, unequal ed Order of St. Gregory the Great. =muni.ty for ages. ucational opportunity, job dis Mr. Woodruff, retired editor Describing Father Vadakkan crimination, apathy and despair. of the ';l'ablet, is chairman of as a "revolutionary," the bishop "As leaders of the major reli Associated Catholic Newspapers, said that the wedding was a gious bodies in Iowa, we feel n which publish the Universe, !.l great event in the h[story of the deep and particular responsi national Catholic weekly news Catholic community and it bility toward the social ills that paper. should be imitated by all Cath threaten our community. Another journalist, Maurice olics. "We invite' and urge every Quinlan,. former acting editor citizen to attend one of these and news editor of the Universe ~@~~@@@ AiQ)IJ»g"(»ves meetings and trust that from and later news editor of the them the people of Iowa will 00 ~@@[9)@[j'@iru@[ii) P~@OlJ Catholic Herald, another na moved to constructive action to tional weekly newspaper, was at BALTIMORE (NC) - Father meet the growing crisis." the same. time made a knight Joseph A. Sellinger, S.J., presi of the Order of St. Gregory tAle dent of Loyola College, an Great. nounced the college's board' of trustees has approved a two year experimental program for [f'fi'@~@li'@ ~li'ilcjJC~S~$ academic cooperation with three lUM~ER additional area colleges-Gouch M@s~~~ Uli1l H@m®~ PATERSON (NC) - Bishop er, Morgan State and Towson Lawrence B. Casey of Paterson State. So. 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"These home Masses," the cf elective courses available to bishop said, "for small family students. gatherings such as this, are not intended to supplant the Masses in your church, which repre sents the entire parish commu ON CAPE COD nity.
"But we celebrate home Masses in order to develop tl better awareness of the spirit IlnJILD~NG MATERIALS of community we should have at Sunday Mass in our parish-not Q thousand people, separated and praying their own private devotions, but one large com munity, united with Christ and each other through the Eucha AMPLE PARKING rist. Just as you are in this fam ~ grouP," he continued.
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