National Conference 0/ Catholic Bishops
• Renews Vitality of Church tn U.S.
The Bishops of the United ~ates have reached momen ~tIlS decisions which actuall.~' will soon-touch the iJ.ves of all AmericanCathol'ics. "he decisions came at the annu !rt meeting of the newly named ~aiional Conference of Catholic Bishops in the nation's capital llast week. 'lI'he more than 200 cardinals, archbishops and bishops-spoke @ecisively on liturgical matters, LPriday abstinence, the race Qiuestion, peace, birth control linnder government auspices, and ~hel' weighty matters. .After voting for their offi ~& fOI' the first time, the new-
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ly established body of bishops elected some 40 archbishops and bishops to serve on their new and enlarged administrative board. The bishops reorganiz~d their own structure and secre tariat. _Henceforth the bishops' body shall be called the National Con ference of Catholic Bishops and shall deal with spiritual matters while the secretariat, the U. S. Catholic Conference, Inc. shall deal with civil matters. Numerous committees WeI' e formed and matters referred to them were '3f such historic im portance that it will be neces sary for the bishops to hold an extraordinary plenary meeting
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Hierarchy Apply Vatican Council To U. S. Needs a PERMANENT DEACONS • • • • • • •
VERNACULAR MASS COMMON WORSHIP MEATLESS FRIDAYS RE·ORGANiZATION RACIAL EQUALITY VIETNAM PEACE PRIEST 'POOL'
in Chicago the week o.f April 10, '1967. , On abolishing obligatory Fri day abstinence for all the Fri· days in the year except during . Lent, the billhops actually re emphasized· the need for a· real·
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and voluntary penance. The free from the obligation, tradi weekly switch to fish was often tionally binding,. under pain of not a penance for most Ameri sin, in what pertains to Friday cans but more often than not a abstine)1ce, except as noted * '" l) customary thing, an appetizing for Lent." Thus the new legislation states treat or even for many an all-but -voluntary act which effected a that: I'Following the instructjons of real act of obedience but not one necessarily that spoke of the Holy See, we declare that the penance.. . obligation both to fast and to In establishing the new peni abstain fro in meat, an obligation tential legislation, the bishops observed under a more strict for mality by' our fathers in the for U. S. Latin Rite Catholics": established clearly the need for faith, still binds on Ash Wednes penance in the lives of all Cath . day and Good Friday. No Catho olics without· exception. They lic Christian will lightly excuse also spoke of the high esteem himself from so hallowed an Friday has always haC: in the obligation "'. ':' *" eyes of Christians - from the "In keeping with the letter very founding of the Church-as and the spirit of Pope Paul's a day of penance. They even Constitution "Poenitemini", we openly hopeq. that most Catholics preserve for our dioceses the tra would continue on their own dition of abstinence from meat to .follow the ancient tradition of oil each of the Fridays of Lent, confident that no Catholic Chris meatless Fridays. '.Briefly, the bishops decreed tian will lightly hold. himself Turn to Page Six that ':our· people are henceforth·
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Benefits for Diocese Bishop Connolly has appealed for support of the Cath
<>iic Universitv in the nation's capital in a letter read in
~U parishes 0'£ the Diocese last Sunday. Emphasizing its oontl'ibution in the field of Catholic higher education and i1ts service in training bish~ . . . trouble to visit the University \llll>S priests, religious and la- itself. Yet the keystone of our VISITORS WELCOME: A visit from her Cassidy classmates is always welcomed by frty for service to God and whole educational system is the oountry, the Bishop wrote: Catholic University of America. Debbie Cardoza, hospitalized at Canton Children's Hospital. Visitors are Cynthia Terra Beloved People of God: Since the year 1889 thousands left, and -Marie Powers. Debbie is the daughter of Mr ,and Mrs. Manuel Cardoza and a Since the marriage of Presi- of priests have studied there fOl' . member of St. Anthon,y's· parish, Taunton. See StoQ' on Page Ten. dent Johnson's daughter, much higher degrees. Many, many of Catholic interest has centered on our bishops have attended Cath the Shrine to Our Lady. This, olic University. In fact, of Bish as we all know, stands on the ops appointed since last April, (Q:ampus of' Catholic University eleven have been educated at m Washington; D. C. Catholic University, Certainly Most Catholics visiting Wash- this is significant. ., ST. LOUIS (NC) The not, "the patient as an orgal)ic . t~eir right to grow in person-. 611lgton see the Shrine inside But the chief beneficiaries of ' entity may ·well survive and im hood" if there is' no coilabora time has. come for church lMtd out, - few ever take the Turn to Page Two prove, but he will be cheated. Non on policy, he pointed out. related management at a11 as a person." ·Members of the "Unless the hospital is a true levels to sound a "requiem. hospital staff are also robbed hof Turn to Page Twelve for bureaucracy,"· says· Father· Trafford P. Maher, S.J., director
of the education department of
St. Louis University and found
er-director. of the university'.
Christian Unity, based Human Relations Center
NEW YORK (NC) - The Promoting spoke 'at a meeting of the Amer for Training and Research, iEuture of Christian unity ican Bible Society's advisory stressed the need for more per- • ROME (NC)-The 31st general congregation of. the' ])tinges on production of a board. He requested cooperation sonal hospital management. common bible for all Chris of the society in the common Father Maher urged at the Society of Jesus ended Noy. 17 after drawing up plans and tian faiths, a Jesuit authorit~· on Bible venture. decrees that will guide the Jesuits' future throughout 'the Sisters Of Mercy Hospital Insti The society, which' is sup Scripture declared here. tute, that each ,hospital become world. The congregation which met oyer a ,two-year· period Fathel' Walter M, Abbott, S.J., ported by some 65 Protestant de "a real community." If it does -the first time this has hap 413, assigned by Pope Paul VI to nominations, was censured by pened in the Society's 400The major work of the Soci ~oordinate efforts towl:\rd com Pope Leo XII in the 1820s on a
\. year hisory- is important ety's delegates was to reneW"
!llIIon Catholic-Protestant Bibles .chal'ge of perverting the S"Crip · Ii)nS!?<ensiI1Its@/Jil for it is the order's law-mak- and adapt ~he spirit and ~cti:,ity fun all languages, asserted: "Witti. tUI'es. Three subsequent 19th ing body. The first session open- of. the Society to the gUldel~nE9S (!)ut agreement on the Bible there century Pepes-Pius VIII, Greg , The Most Reverend Bishop ed on May 7, 1965 and lasted laid d~w.n by the Se?ond Vab?a.m .u.s no hope for the Chr.istian ory XVI and Pius IX-I'eiterated dispenses the faithful of the ·until July. The second opened CounCil 111 accor~ With the ong.t \lAnity movement." the censure. Diocese of· Fall River from Sept. 8, 1966 and closed with anal c.oncept of ItS founder, St. The Jesuit, a personal assistant Officials of the society, now abstinence on Friday, Nov. concelebrated Mass with the Ignabu~ of Loyola. ~ Augustin Cardinal Bea. head celebrating its 150th anniversary, 25, the day follow i n g Thanksgiving... a; Ulc Vatican Secretariat for Turn to Page Twelve Pope on No~. 17. Turn to page Eighteen
Reform Hospital Management
father Abbott Asserts Basis for Unity is Common Bible'
Jesuit Guidelines Ready Post-Conciliar Growth·