WASHINGTON (NC) The American Bishops will consider some dramatic new proposals aimed at putting the Church more completely at the service of the poor and disadvantaged when they hold their five-day semi-annual meeting: of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops here in the nation's capital, starting next Monday. One major agenda item for the gathering of 200 Bishops will be
a progress report on the United States Conference Task Force on Urban Problems. The bishops established the Task Force at their spring meeting in St. Louis last year to provide information and coordination for various diocesan agencies concerned with social action and the problems of the poor and minority groups, throughout the United States. , A variety of other concerns will range from seminary re-
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• Bishops, Meet Monday In Capital newal to changes in the liturgy. , Meeting in plenary session the hierarchy will hear presentations related ,to the work of the :Task Force by three co-chairmen of the Task FOfce Executive Committee, men chosen for their expertise in minority groups problems and race relations. The three-Father Geno ,Baroni, executive director of the Washington archdiocesan Office for Urban Affairs, Andrew Gallegos, member of the President's Council 'on Youth Opportunity and a representative of the Spanish-speaking community and Father Donald Clark of Detroit, president of the Black Catholic Clergy Caucus - will cite the
needs and aspirations of minority group members' and will suggest ways the Church might improve the traditional operation of its service organiiations in order to give fuller and more effective witness to its concern for the disadvantaged. The Bishops will consider the creation of a Central Office for Black Catholicism. This idea originated with the Black Catholic Clergy Caucus whose leaders have complained about lack of meaningful contact between the black Catholic community and members of the hierarchy. The country's hierarchy will consider guidelines, proposed by its Committee on Priestly For-
50th y ~ar Gives Bishops Reorganized Efficiency ROME (NC}-Next Monday, Nov. 10, some 200 American Bishops will converge on Washington, D.C., for the meeting of the Nat,ional Conference of Catholic Bishops.
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VATICAN CITY -(NC}-Instructions on the "Gradual Implementatio~ of the Apostolic Constitution 'Missale Romanum'" were issued Monday, Nov. 3, by the Holy See in regards to the newer rites to be followed in the offering of Mass. Father Annibale Bugnini, C.M., Secretary of 'co-exist peacefully till Nov. 28, 1971. Only then will it become the Congregation of Divine obligatory: thus a two year Worship, announced that period of transition and adjust"November 30 is the first day on which the new ordo in Latin can (not must) be used. "The new and the old rite (the present rite) will continue to
Services for' War Prisoners Nov. 9 In Richmond RICHMOND (NC) - The Most Rev. John J. Russell, bishop of the Virginia Diocese, has asked all pastors to designate Sunday, Nov. 9 as a day of prayer for peace and prisoners of war and to remember the duplex intention at all Masses in their parishes. Mrs. James A. Mulligan, a member of the National League of Families of American Prisoners of War in Southeast Asia, stated that the state's representative in Washington sponsored 'the proposal for a prayer day. A spokesman for the Office of Lay Activities for the Catholic Diocese of Richmond said that letters calling attention to the plight of the prisoners of war and urging support of the league's proposal have been received from William R. Bridgeford, Frederick J. Napolitano, president of the Star of the Sea Men's Club, and Mrs. Mary Barraco, publicity chairman of the Star of the Sea Home and School Association.
ment." "As regards the use of the vernacular, the most normal case in the Mass of the people, it is for the episcopal conferences to fix the date on which the new ordo goes into effect, naturally taking into account the preparation of the texts as well as of the clergy and the people." Such vernacular translations will have to be approved by the episcopal conferences and then confirmed by Rome before implementation. The translations should be one and the same for all the countries which use the same language. It will be up to the episc'opal conferences to establish the date of obligatory use of the new rites in the vernacular and the new melodies for the vernacular texts. It is for episcopal conferences to determine those parts of the Mass which the "Institutio Generalis Missalis Romani" leaves to their discretion: a) the actions and postures of the faithful during Mass; b) the gestures by which the altar and the Book of the Gos: pels are to be venerated; c) the sign of peace; d) the faculty of using only two readings in the Mass on Sundays and holydays of obligation; e) the faculty by which women may be allowed to read the biblical readings occuring before the Gospel. All the above concern the Turn to Page Two
tllation, for improvements for seminary training. If the guidelines are approved by the Conference and by the Vatican Congregation for C::;atholic Education, they will become the official 'policy in U. S. seminaries. Proposed liturgical changes to be considered include new translations of the Ordinary of the Mass and new rites for baptism, marriage and funeral liturgies. The translations were prepared in consultation with the International Committee on English in the Liturgy. The Bishops will consider a statement on priestly celibacy which two committees-priestly Turn to Page Two
The bishops of the United States will ponder their problems for five days, issue a statement and go home. In this, they will be little different from the group of 'bishops who began such meetings exactly 50 years ago in what was then known as the National Catholic Welfare Council-later becoming the National Catholic Welfare Conference. The vast difference, however, is the smooth-running, pell'mament operation that now works the year round with streamlined, efficient committees to advance the Church in the United States and tries to cope with its many problems. "We see the need for contin-
ual updating in our own organzation," the leader of the permanent secretariat, Bishop Joseph L. Bernardin, explained. As the general secretary of the conference, he is aided by two priests in the Washington headquarters, Msgr. Francis T. Hurley and Father Edwin B. Neill. "We have our officers, of course, with John Cardinal Dearden of Detroit as president. Since our reorganization three years ago we have had a 40member administrative committee. The members of this committee will change next week. The new committee will consist of the officers, the newly. Turn to Page Three
Cardinal 'Cushing Says Traditional Parish Still Relevant Today
REV. PAUl F. McCARRICK
Fr. McCarrick On Advisory Dr~g Board ·St. Anne's Hospital, Fall River, is among three Massachusetts hospitals which opened, facilities in October for the' care of drug addicts. The ,others are the New Bedford Area Mental Health Clinic, working in conjunction with St. Luke's HO!ipital, and the Evening Treatment. Center at Boston City Hospital. St. Anne's facility is a Dependency Clinic. Like the other centers it is conducted in conjunction with a community action program, and it offers 24 hour emergency service and scheduled treatments at· convenient evening and Saturday hours. Research by the, state Drug Ad-, diction Rehabilitation Board indicates that community action is an important factor in reaching drug addicts. When treatment Turn t9 Page. Ten
BUFFALO (NC)-Richard Car- "how effectively you and I in dinal Cushing of Boston took is- our parishes meet the demands sue here with some in the of. our society," he said. Cardinal Cushing called the Church who say that the traditional parish is a "relic of a by- parish "the universal Church gone era." , ' functioning locally. It is at this In a ringing defense of the par- level of the parish that our attiish, the prelate said the parish-- tudes are formed and our ideas was still relevant today, and the are nurtured." , success of Vatican Council II Turning to spirituality, the depends upon how vigorously cardinal said the response of the parishes take up its call for con- Christian must not mean a surcern and commitment. render to the spirit of the times. Cardinal Cushing preached at He warned against the "all too a Mass of Thanksgiving comTurn to Page Two memorating the 25th anniversary of St. Andrew's parish in nearby Tonawanda, N. Y. Some 1,000 parishioners and guests packed into the sevenyear-old church, newly redecorated and remodeled according to the latest liturgical directives. Look to Futull'e SAN ANTONIO (NC) Introduced by Msgr. Joseph E. "We have come to the conSchieder, pastor, as "one of the very distinguished princes of the clusion that Anglo law is adChurch," Cardinal, Cushing ministered to the detriment ' quickly brought ripples of muf- of Mexican-Americans. We seek fled laughter through the solemn justice and want the laws apcongregation when he told them: plied equally to everyone." "Relax, I'll only talk an hour." So says Dr. Hector Garcia, He lauded St. Andrew's pa- U. S. Civil Rights Commissioner rishioners for their accomplish- from Corpus Christi, who bements, but insisted that today is lieves the laws of the land are not a time to look to the past, too often applied unequally acbut instead to the present and cording to ethnic origin. to the future. Dr. Garcia referred to a court Recalling the work of Vatican case which has precipitated the Council II, the cardinal said the move of Mexican-American leadunique goal of the parish is to ers ,who are urging the removal give "flesh and blood" to the of Santa Clara County Superior council decrees. Court Judge Gerald S. Chargin. The effectiveness of the The 65-year-old jurist, a veteran Turn to Page Six Church in society depends upon
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