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BISHOP SHEEN
An ecumenical meeting. co-sponsored by the Cape Cod Deanery of the Fall ~iver Diocese and the' Cape Cod Council of Churches will be held at g o'clock Sunday afternoon, Aug. ,,8 in Barnstable High School, Hyannis. The public of all dEmominations is invited. . . Speakers will be the Most Rev. Fulton J. Sheen, D.D., National Director of the Society of the Propagation of the Faith and Auxiliary Bishop. of New York, and Rev. J. Robert Nelson, D.D., Fairchild ProfessOf' of Systematic Theology in the Gl'aduate School of Theology at Oberlin Colleg.e. Co-chairmen will be Rev. William F. Vandever of the Cape Cod Council of Churches and Very Rev. William D. Thom son, pastor of St. Francis Xavier Parish, Hyannis and Dean of Cape Cod. A musical program will be offered by a Falmouth interfaith 'choir directed by Rev. John Carajanes of Christ Lutheran Church,
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Fall River, Mass., Thursday, July 15, 1965 1965 The Anchor
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Falmouth, with'Rev. William ·C.· Canipben of St. Patrick's, Falmo'uth as· organist' Members are ffom 12 Protestant and four' Catholic churches'. . On Nov. 1, 1950, Bisj,op Sheen (then Monsignor) became National,DirectOr of 'the SoCiety for the Propagation ~of the Faith, which, according to the'Pope, is the Church's principal mission organi~ation.· To devote full time. to this duty and 1;0 secure the needed funds which the Pope alone can administer, Bishop Sheen resigned his professorship of philoBOphy at the Cath olic University of. America, where he had taught for over 23 years. When the National Oouncil of Catholic Men decided to spons6r the Catholic Hour Sunday evening broadcast~:in cooperation with the National Broadcasting Company, . Bishop Sheen became the program's first regular speaker on tlie program following Turn to Page Nineteen
REV. DR. NELSON
Vatican Paper Says Dioces'e
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VATICAN CITY (NC) The Vatican City daily news paper in a brief statement OIl the rel:eption of Luci Johnson's entrance into the Roman Catholic Church in effect said that it is up to diocesan authorities to decide whether conditional baptism is in order. The same s~~tement, published on 'the front page of L'Osserva tore Romano Monday, said that published statements in the con troversy attrIbuted to Vatican officials sho,Jld be considered· "entirely personal." , The paper was not specific' in its reference to· "Vatican oHi . dais." But' Father Thomas Stransky, C.S P., U.S.-born staff member of th~ Vatican Secretar iat for Promoting Christian had declared four d~ys , t~nity, after Miss Johnson was given conditional baptism in Washing tQn on July.:! that no Catholic would question the validity 'of the baptisma~ritual of the Book of Common f'rayer of the Epis copal Church-in which Miss Johnson wa'i baptized as an in-
Classma,te ·Lauds· Fr. 'Lynch As Chaplain, Cape Pastor
Rev. George' E. ~ullivan, pastor of St~ Joseph's Parish, "all River, and :a..classmate of Rev. James E. Lynch, eulogized the first pastor of St. Joan of Arc Parish, Orleans, 'as a "priest who accomplished much without show and ostenta aion." Following a solemn school, convent, rectory and hall. Pontificai Requiem Mass' In referring to Father Lynch'. eelebrated by. Most Rev. Turn to Page Five lames I:r. Connolly, Bishop of
fant-and th,>t it was "unfortu nate" that the American Presi clE'nt's daughter had been given cunditional baptism on entering the Roman Catholic Church. . L'Osservatore Romano's state ment said: "Stories recently appeared in H).e press regarding the' entry ir.to the Church of Miss Luci Jchnson, daughter of the Presi dent of the United States, with
particular refE'rence to the cir cumstances in which it took place. "In this connection, statements attributed to Vatican circles have been publishE'(I. These statements if genuine-must be considered entirely personal. It is obvious that, under circumstances such as those involved, the diocesan ecclesiastical authority is com petent to express a judgment.'~
Maryl.s.. Place in Church Source of, Confl ict .
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DAYTON (NC)-Although' Catholics and Prot~ta'llts are in opposite camps on the Blessed Virgin's place in Chris tian belief, they may someday find agreement. That is the opinIDn of Father WiHam J. Oole, S.M., of the theology department· at the Univer said he believes a "break sity of Dayton, all instit~ logy, through" already has been m.ade tioit' con due t. e d by the on' the' question· of Mary, "at Society· of, Mary. The Mari-· least on the' scholarly level." anist priest, a scholar·in Mario-
the Diocese, in Our Lady of the Visitation M1ssion Church, No. Expect Changes in Calendar and Breviory Eastham, Father Sullivan traced the tremendous accomplishments of Father Lynl'h as assistant and then developed the service rec Both Pope Paul himself and' the Post-Conciliar Liturgicl:\.l Commission have deemed ord of Father Lynch as Army chaplain during World War II in it necessary to warn that careful attention must be paid to the reformation desired and the South Pacific Theatre of hoped for by the church. It is important that it be made' clear that the Church is not € ) perations. abandoning her position' of divinely-granted authority nor are 'general permissions being This great priest, Father Sulli .an said, was recognized by the granted to do just any experimentfltion imaginable. At the same time, it was pointed government as a leader caring out that some changes, are expected in the liturgical calendar and in the Breviary. for the ooys away from home at war. This rE:('ognition was not True Reform No Generalities just a print.~d citation but an Army appointment to serve on In an audience in St. 'Peter's Basilica, 1'ope The Vatican Council's Liturgical Commission the faculty of the Chaplains Paul insisted that aggiornamento does not mean a has warned that there have been no general perSchool at 'Harvard. His ability "weakening of the moral. temperament of the missions given to e:icperiment in liturgical matters. was recognized to such a degree modern Catholic." It is und"lrstandable-though The only time ·such a permission was given that the apPt'intment really sig- not laudable-that in such times ,of change, 'tra was between July 3, 1964 and April 15, 1965. This nified the naming of a chaplain ditional norms .are. often placE'd in question.' .. concerned concelebration and the reception of to serve as the ideal for all Such an action could be laudable only if it were Holy Communi.n 'under both species. clergymen preparing to enter the accompanied by great and cautious study, always At no other time and concerning no other 8Crvice. according to the guidance of those who have liturgical affair was any kind of general permisWhen appointed by the late knowledge and the authority to lay down laws sion granted. Thus "when rites or ceremonies or Bishop Cassidy to serve as the of. Christian living.'; innovations of any kind seem out of harmony first pastor of the Orleans parish, There .is .a. tendency today, .the Pope pointed with today's laws in liturgical :rnatters,- all of this great churchman established out, to follow "sheeplike the mentality. of the them are to be considered 'personal' innovations,'. the first parochial .school on ,. current fashion," t9·be "the friend of. the world... · , arising. from 'private agitation'" .• and by that eapeCod. In 17 years he saw the All this certainly "is not how· we must conceive very .fact ·disapproved· by· the' Constitution and. «evelopment of a complete par~ the 'aggionamen.to' to wMch the·CouncilcalJ,s Uo" . *be Consilium (Oommission)" " , . . . 1Illit-parlah church, miuioa,. , . Turn ~Pale ·Seventeea;I.... Tum ~. Pa"e Seventeea·~·~.
Papal Warning' on Experimentation
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He acknowledged,. howeve~ that the great majority of Pro testants, including Protestant. ism's most respected theologians, "possess no real interest ill Mary" at the present time. He asked:
"Is it "not strange that the vert'
woman whom God chose to be Hut mother should be the source of the greatest difficulty be tween Catholic and Protestants, who both acknowledge her SoD. as their God and Saviour? '-Strange, yes, but it is an
indisputable fact that it is so.
C e I' t a i n I y most Protestants
would agree with the European
Calvinist theologian Max Thuri
an, who claimed that 'Catholic
theology poses the most agoni"
zing problem for ecumenical
thought.'"
Father Cole said that the in fluential Protestant theologians
Paul Tillich and Reinhold Nie
huhr have also criticized Catho
lic teaching on Mary. "Tillich and Niebuhr are lead ers in a new movement which might be called neo-Ptotestan..; tism," he said. "It tends to inter 'pret theanci~nt creedsymbo lically . and' to rule .out the TUi'1t to' Paae T"oVel,.. .