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By Rt. Rev. Msgr. John S. Kennedy The newly publiHhed American Participa~ion ~n the Second Vatican'Council (Sheed and Ward, 64 Umversity PL, New York, N.Y. 10003. $14.95) is a big book for which its editor, Monsignor Vinc:ent A. Yzermans, makes a vary mod est claim. He says thmt it is Christian Religions. But it was an interim report about the by nq means limited to these. :American bishops at the Rather, it covered the whole iOOuncii. it is not a history range of subjects treated, and cl: that significant subjed, but only part of the raw materials for such a history, which will l>l u rei y b e ~ritten o'ne day. ':w hat Monsignor Yzermans Jh a s provided ~ll undoubted Jy be of prime Interest and ·,..alue to tomor :row's historians. But it is also of interest and 'Value to any ebserver of the Church, and es pecially of the Church in Amer ica today. In this volume of almosa '700 pages, with introduction by JOM Cardinal Krol of 'PhiladeUphia, «he greater part of the space is given to the interventions of the American bishops during the (louncil. . . By an intervention is meant • set of comments on a matter lIP for consideration by the eounci!. Some interventions were deli vered orally in the council hall; othere were written and handed in to the appropriate • nciliar authority. American Interventions Monsignor Yzermans does not give us al: the American inter ventions, for the simple re3Son that all of them are not avail able. He wrote to each of the bishops, once in 1965, again in 1966, asking for the texts of their interventions. The first letter brought 84 re plies, the second 76 replies. Many who had made interventions ,mid that "they had kept no copies. Fifty-six American bishops had made interventions. Their iotal interventions were 472, with 118 made orally, 223 made In writing. The largest number by one American was 131, made by Cardinal Spellman. Included in this book are those oral interventions of which a text could be procured. Some of the written interventions are IJUlDmarized or quoted in part. 'But this is by no means the' full 18ubstance of the work. Evidence of Fact Monsignor Yzermans' plan is 60 follow the order of the 16 ClOnstitutions, decrees, and declarations of the council, each with an historical iiltroductisn by the editor and followed b,' a eommentary by an American el: pert who played a part ill .tlle _uncil work. The outstanding feature olt'.':le book is its evidence of the fact lind extent of American partl.d pation in the eouncil. The Amer ican influence is most obY.ious and decisive In the' shaping (}f Itle Declaration on ReligiCMJlil Freedom and at least some ttall't .t the Declaration on' the Reln tionship of the Church to Nom-
Honor Sir Hugh ST. BONAVENTURE (NC) Sir Hugh Stott Taylor, president of the Woodrow Wilson Nationlll1 Fellowship Foundation, has beeUl named by St.. Bonaventure Uni versity to receive its 1967 Cath olic Action Medal. The presenta,* tion will be made Sunday in n campus ceremony.
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bore incisively on many of them. To one reader, at least, the most· impressive of the Ameri can interventions are those by the late Cardinal Meyer of Chi cago. Cites Development What can be most strikingly , discerned as one goes through the book is development. This, of course, was one of the chfef notes of the council as a whole, and it is hardly surprising that the experience and the utterance of the American bishops should reflect it. Thus, some of the interven tions in the first session· (1962) disclose that' the American bish ; ops, iike their hrothers all over the, world; beg~n' with little grasp on the nature 'and crucial busine~ss of the council and the . opportunity it presented. But a reorientation of-thinking was soon evident, and its growth is 'fascinatingly exemplified in the history of ,the council itself which is informally but telling ly exemplified in this volume. Different from Original Other lines of development are instanced. There is that of the documents themselves, going through revision after revision, vote after vote, being radically altered, surprisingly amplified., and coming out, at last, altogeth er different from the schemata . originally. proposed to the assembly. There is development from document to document, from one promulgated at one session to another promulgated at a later session. . Thus, there is development of the doctrine on the Church as expressed in the Dogmatic Con: stitution on the Church and., thereafter, in the Pastoral Con stitution on the Church in the Modern World. Religious Freedom There is still 'another form of development in the eventual emergence of pronouncements on subjects which were never even mentioned in the preliminaries of the council and at its outset. An example of this is the coun cil's mounting concern' for reli gious -freedom. ' , More than once there is sound ed the note that there has to be . development after the council, •. continuing process. Discussing tile Dogmatic Constitution 'on the Church, Fatber Diekmann that, whatever tbe excellence of . ,its letter....its $Pirit demandl!that U be interpreted t i tbremMd rather 'than .temlinus." . . Monsignor Yzermans' ·several historical introductions' are,con cise and 'meaty. They eontain ' lKHDe information not previously Publish'ed, so' far as I know, and seme anecdotes which are more ,than entertaiiling. . Analyses of Doeuinenis Fcn commentators, he has chosen the. best qualified people and has got from them splendid analyses of the documents. The service performed by Monsignor Yzermans' book (and., in this respect, it is unique among aU the works on the council to date) is like that of The Federalist and the papers of the Founding Fathers in respect to the Constitution of the United States. This » no mean service.
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it has reached some agreement em liturgical renewal with Pat
WINS EAGLE AWARD: Mr. and Mrs. LaurierE. Cor-' mier admire' Eagle Scout award 'merited by th~ir son Richard. They are membe1'8 of St. Joseph's :parish, New Bedford.
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rick Cardinal O'Boyle of Wash ington. . Representatives of the club met with the cardinal as tbe re s:ult of a letter some 40 members sent to him several weeks ago protesting a pastoral letter on the liturgy in which he asked "The People," a floating litur gical group, to cease celebration of weekly "Action Masses." Members of the Vatican IX Study Club found the meeting with the cardinal "a fruitful one and a significant contribution to liturgical progress in the dio cese," according to Father Joseph F. Byron, club chairman. Basic Agreement Father Byron, , chaplain at American University, said that the club representatives and the cardinal reached a "basic agree- . ment" 'on the following points: The main orientation of litur gical renewal is pastoral. The thrust muSt be toward providing the opportunitY for greater involvement by all who
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provide this' opportunity.. Father Byron also reported that the cardinal told the' priests he would undertake a program of implementing liturgical re newal in the archdiocese but did not reveal details. The priest declined comment on the cai-dinal's reaction to the priests' public disagreement with his pastoral letter.
FRESNO (NC) - Vice Presi:" director of the diocesan agency. dent Hubert H. Humphrey has The vice president spent an heaped words of praise on the hour asking 4iluestions of children Catholic-operated Trinity Street in the Head Start project, a part Opportunity Center here in Cali of tbe center, and also answering fornia. their questions. He called the Vice President Humphrey was project "one of the' best pr0 shown the oper.1tion, sponsored . grams we have, and' one of the by the Catholic Social Services most ~ccessful in the country." of the Monterey-Fresno diocese, "You all make me feel very by Odell Johnson Jr., the direc happy about our country," be tor and Msgr. Roger Mahoney, stressed at the conclusion of hia visit. Rei~sft<tDtement Out side the center Humphrey met Cantor Michael Loring of Of Martin luther Temple Beth Israel, also a work TORONTO (NC) - A promi er in the anti-poverty program nent theologian expressed the here. The vice- president knew hope that the Cl:lurch will lift the cantor's father, t!l rabbi in itsexcommunicat:ion of Martin Minneapolis. Luther. Fat her Bernard Haering, C.ss.R., moral theology profes sor at Rome's Lateran Universi ty, who is attending a theology congress here, said Luther had striven hard to remain in the Church but had been forced out by a ruling of the Roman curia. Father Haering said he hoped there would be "a spirit of pen ance in the Church of Rome." "The first step," he said., you "should be that we recognize re sponsibility-that Martin Luther Should not have been excommu nicated."
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