THE LAND OF /PLENTY
,
As
long,
As
We Should
God Not
is
Good
live
,to
Us
Selfishly,
lBishop Connolly IEmphasizes In Mission Support Plea
The ANCHOR
Pope Encourages Liturgists Keep Mind of Council
revision of the various liturgical books~ At the same time, he said that some' of the innovations introduced by ecclesiastical au thorLties and even by episcopal bounds set for them by the Sec conference "have been for us ond Vatican Council and to har monize, 'ljturgical reform' wItli the cause' of not 'a little anxiety the Church's inheritance 'of the ,andOOrrow." ,:"Liturgical reform cannot be past. ' considered in Such a way as to In audience (Oct. 14), some SO', toss aside the' 'sacred patrimony, participants in the 11th plenary of times past and of permitting 'n'lEietirtg of the' Consiliuin for the rashly wha'tever is new. What Implementation of the Second the .council Fathers proposed in Vatican Council's Decree on the this regard is well known: that Liturgy, Pope Paul thanked is, the innovations must har PRICE Uk' them for their efforts and en monize with wholesome tradi $4.00 per Y ~ar couraged them to continue the tion * * ...
VATICAN, CITY (NC) Pope P.aul VI has stressed _the .need, for. litu;rgJcal ex perts to sta~7 within the
fall River, Mass., Thurs'day, Oct. 17, 1968 Vol. 12, No. 42 © 1968 The Anchor
All must be aware, he said, that "the rites and liturgical formulas of prayer are not to be considered as a private affair which involve only the individ 00101' the parish or the diocese or a single nation, but rather ,that they are something pertain ing to the universfll Church, off which they express the voice of supplication.'" What has' recemly distressed him, said the Pope, is the man ner in which some innovations have been introduced in various par-ts of the Church. "It happens that in liturgical matters evena Turn to Page Fourteen
Condemns Evil and Misguided Paper Policy
,
KANSAS CITY (NC) Bishop Charles H. Helmsing @f Kansas City-St. Joseph h'as issued a strong "condem ~ation" of the NaUonal Catholic Reporter, lay controlled weekly JlM,Ublished here. The bishop, who lent assist ance to the paper during its early days, said he was forced 00 condemn it "for its disregard and denial of the most sacred 'l'lllues of our Catholic faith." He suggested that some NCR' "",ri,ters have been guilty of
Methodist Bishop Commen~s Pope On Encyclical PHILADELPHIA (NC) The recent papal encyclical I!l>IJ1 birth control has not had any effect "one way or the ~her"
on the ecumenical movement, Methodist Bishop Fred Pierce Corson said here on his return f!'Om a seven-week tour 4)£ Europe in which he partici- pated in four interfaith meetilings.
'IDhe retired spiritual leader (/ of Philadelphia's Methodists and ~e former president lJf the
World Methodist Council said ofibat Protestant leaders at the Methodist and AngliC8lll meet- lng'S he attended viewed the papal encyclical as 11 strictly infJe.rnal matter. The bishop, one of the few Protestant leaders to commend ebe Pope on the issuance of the encyclical, said, "'l'he Pope 'Wlderstands that there is a Protes6ant point of view and that][ (2H\dorse it. I commend the Pope Oil kill moral courage in taking a Turn to Page Two
heresy and called on the paper's' editors "in 'all honesty to drop the term 'Catholic' from their masthead." '(A spokesman for NCR said' the paper would not comment on the bishop's attack but would' carry the full text of his state- , m'ent in the Oct. 16 issue.) In his condemnation, Bishop Helmsing charged that the "misguided and evil policy" of the paper had "caused untold ,harm to the faith arid morals" of laity, priests and Religious., ~e also said' that 'the Church finds itself' increasingly more frustrated in its teaching of the ideals of Our Lord by the type of'reporting, editorializing and' ridicule that have become the w.eek-alter-week fare of the paper.
Set Cana Selries For Oak B~u~fs Rev. Donald Couza, pastor of the Sacred Heart Church, Oak Bluffs and St. Elizabeth's, Ed gartown on the island of Mar tha's Vineyard has announced a series of Cana Conferences for
all married couples, Catholic and non-Catholic, of the Island. The first series of conferences dealing with topics proper to married couples will be held at 3 on Sunday afternoon, Nov. 17, at St. Elizabeth's, Edgartown. All the couples are asked to at tend this first in a series of talks. At 3 on the following' Sunday, Nov. 24 the second of the Cana Conferences will be 'held at Sa cred Heart Hall in Oak Bluffs. In the Spring 011 1969 two more Conferences will be sched uled in the area for aU married couples. Also :in the Spring, a conference for young ao1ults will Turlll tc PaLJe Eighteen
Bishop Helmsing said that he had notified other U. S. bishops of his "official condemnation" of the paper in order to make known to all "my views on the poisonous character of this pub lication." , Describing his "condemnation" as a "last resort," Bishop Helms ing said: . "Within recent ,months the National Catholic Reporter has' expressed itself in belittling the BISHOP CONNOLLY ,basic truths expressed in' the ; • Aids Indigent Creed of Pope Paul VI; it 'has made I itself a platform for the airing of heretical views on the Church and its divinely consti tuted structure, as taught by the First and Second Vatican Councils.- "Vehemently to be repro bated," he continued, "was the airing in recent editions of an attack on the peI'petual virgin ity of the Blessed Virgin Mary
, POPE PAUL •• On Liturg,
BISHOP HELMSING .•• Flays Paper
MSGR. CONSIDINE •. Helps Missions
\
Expanded Fund Raising Plan For Missions NEW YORK (NC) - An expanded fund-raising pro gram to meet the increased needs of world missions was
announc~d here by the national director of the, Society for, the Propagation the Faith - the Church's central agency in the United States , , for the missions. Msgr. Edward T. O'Meara said at a press conference at the Overseas Press Club here that, the special campaign is being Turn to Page Eighteen
o{
Clothing Drive Date Changed A change of schedule for the annual Cl'Othing Drive spon sored by the Bishops of the United Sta,tes has been an nounced by Rev. John F. Hogan, administrator of st. John the Baptist Church, Central Village, and Diocesan Director of the campaign. Originally scheduled for the first week in November, the im 'nouncement has ,set the new date as the first week in Decem ber, Dec., 1-6. Notification on the method of collecting will be given in all parishes in the near future. , The type of clothing preferred falls into the following cater gories: blankets" sweaters, cloth ing for infants and heavy work clothes and shoes for men.
and the virgin birth of Christ. by one of its contributors. Finally, it has given lengthy space toa blasphemous and her etical attack on the Vicar of Christ." , , (Bishop Helmsing apparently referred to an article (Sept. IS) on Mary's Virginity by Rose mary Reuther and an ar,ticle (Oct: 9) on the birth control en cyclical and papal infallibility by Daniel Callahan.) He continued: "It is difficult to see how weD Turn to Page Six
Protests Co rson 'Tonight' Show's Slurs on Pope NEW YORK (NC)-The executive director of the Na tional Catholic Office of Ra dio and Television (NCORT) has sent Johnny,Carson a letter protesting a recent "Tonight" show in which two British show business personalities lampooned Pope Paul VI for his encyelical banning contraception, Humanae Vitae. The letter, from Charles Reilly,
concerned a program which featured a discussion of the birth control controversy by David Frost, an English satirist and television star who was sub stituting for Carson as host, and Robert Shaw, an English actor currently appearing in a play in New York. Shaw said' he admired Pope. Paul's courage in taking a standi against mass opinion but added that "the Pope, in my opinion, is not only a fool to do it, but he has no right to do it." When Shaw said, "As far aI I'm concerned all of that busi Turn to Page Six