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Church Sees Marxism Foe .of Mankind,
Council Fathers Deal With Atheism" By Msgr. Humberto
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Diocesan Chancellor - Council Peritus
FATHER ARRUPE
ROME-As we were walking out of the NCWC Rome office early this week, Bishop Connolly called Bishop Gerrard's attention and my -own to a large book on a shelf to our left: it was Fabro's Introduction to Modern Atheism. I could not get to the vol ume, since the bookcase was locked, and I have never read it. Its very size is enough to discourage readers like me. And it is only an introduction to atheism! Its thousand pages or more pre sumably do not deal ait all with the older forms. I could not help but think of the practically impossible task facing the writers of Schema 13 when they broached the subject of ·atheism. I could almost sense their feeling of '. helplessness at hearing Cardinal Koe nig of Vienna express a desire for a'
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Vatican Council' Session Rapidly Nearing Close There are only four days of meetings that remain
for the Second Vatican Council.· The Bishops cast their" votes on Nov. 19 so as to give the commission a final idea as to the wording and spirit the final decrees are to have.. This week is given vine Revelation decrees to a over to the co~missions' fruitful end, the Bishops have work. Besides the ceremo been busy voting on each future Ilial votes of Nov. 18 which decree's article, paragraph and . br{)ught the Apostolate and Di- chapter. The votes last week concen / trated on two decrees: Religious Liberty and The Church in the Modern World. It was significant that a year to the very hour, when before there had been near dispair, confusion and heated argument, WTEV Television announ now a quiet, anxious but certain ees a·.one-time-only program., atmosphere cast forever the entitled "Special Report: Church's seal of approval on Rome", to he presented from the Religious Liberty Declara· 8:30-9:00 on Thursday evening, tion. Just last year, Cardinal Tis
Nov. 25 on Channel 6. Using film shgt in Rome expressly for serant shocked the assembled WTEV, the program will deal bishops and the waiting world with the sudden news that. the with the meetings of the Ecu menical Council, and the role long awaited vote on the Rell· played by three distinguished gious Liberty schema had been regional prelates: The Most Rev. postponed. Now, on the same date, nearly the same hour, the erend James J. Gerrard, Auxil Iaa7 Bishop of the Fall River assembled bishops cast their Diocese; Monsignor Humberto votes approving the decree. The Medeiros, also of the Fall Ri Vel' vote quietly and overwhelmingTurn to Page Seven Turn to Page Five
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fuller development of this ph~nomenon, by listing its various forms, by showing its causes and giving the remedies to cure them, as well as by stating the Church's attitude towards atheism. More than one Council Father has called for the specific condemnation of Marxist atheism. Others feel, how ever, that this is not a Council of ana~ themas or condemnations and that while rej,ecting error everywhere, the Church must befriend 'all' men and enter into dialogue with them, even, and especially, when they are in error. Today as in times past. there is more than one form of atheism but it seems that Marxism is the most dan gerous that has ever appeai'ed on earth because of its "organization, its dif fusion, its doctrine: which can' be popularized rather easily, its fighting spirit and the enthusiasm which aniTurn to Page Ten
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CARDINAL KOENIG
Swift Papal Actions May B'ring More New Council Surpr'ises By Rev. John R. FoIster
St. Anthony's Church - New Bedford
It seems characteristic of Pope Paul that actions 'speak louder than words. Whelt' the Council Fathers briefly hesitat~d on the ecumenical implications of turning toward the East and the Orthodox, the Holy Father visited the Holy Land and embraced the Ec;.' umenical Patriarch of the Orthodox. When there was a reluctance to really' tackle the' problems that plague m o d - ' . ern day man in and out of Curia will be revised; Popes Pius XII and John XXIII, the. Church,' the Pope vfsited 4. A jubilee for the entire would strengthen the Church'. Church will be declared from spiritual renovation, the Pope India. He addressed the Dec. 8, this year, to Pentecost, assured the bishops, therefore, United Nations not only to en- May 29, 1966. he would inaugurate their ca courage it but, as he stated to Many are beginning to wonder nonical process of beatification. the 'Fatpers in Council, to com':' what other suprises or great This would allow for local ven lurches forward the Holy Father eration of the saintly pontiffs and mit. the Church; puring his address opening may have reserved for Dec. 7 hopefully open the way for their this last session of ·the Vatican and 8th, when he shall solemnly eventual canonization. This step, the Pope explained, , COllncil, the 'Pope surprised most proclaim the remaining decrees by :not only referring officially and close the council. was in answer to the requests to collegiality but by .revealing: With so many hopes for the of innumerable bishops. It would the practical· workings of this' future marked out in detail in assure "the patriIJ:lony of their congregation of the· world's the council's decrees, the Pope spiritual legacy··· the preser· Bis~ops. ' . spoke of the care needed in cre- vation of the authentic image. of , Now, during the promulgation ating new agencies, organiza- these well beloved figures··· of the ~ay Apostolate and Divine tioU:s and commissions for put- for .our own veneration and for Rev.elation Decrees; .last Thurs- ting the decrees into effect. If it that of succeeding generations. day, the Pope again sprung a few, takes, time, it is not because the The Roman Curia is not "anti surprises: 'Holy See will do this grudgingly quated or inefficient, selfish or , 1; The ~ew: Synod !>f Bishops but' so that all possible care can corrupt" the Pope emphasized. will meet for the first time in' be paid to such important work. Most of the present day's well· 1967 at the latest; The Pope said. that. he hoped being in the Church is due to 2•. The p.rocesses of peatifica- . to spare the Church "the encumthis body's industrious and faith· tion of Popes Pius XII and John brances of bureaucracy and use- ful service. XXIII have been per'sonally' in- less financial burdens. We do not However, improvements are augurated by the present Pope; . want to form a new and artifi- always possible. The higher and 3. Procedures in the Roman pial hierarchical concentration; . Turn to Page Fourteen 'but we want to involve the epis copate in the task of applying conciliar regulations." This drew attention to the real can6nica~ importance of the re gional episcopal conferences and the Pope's own episcopal repre sentation from throughout the The Most Reverend Bishop Bishop Connolly appealed world-the Synod of Bishops.
has directed that a triduum The Holy Father said he hoped
for support of the Catholic to convoke this Synod of Bishops ,of prayer be held in every University' in the nation's "if not next year (1966), which parish and religious house capitol in a letter read in all will be entirely taken up by in the Diocese and has composed parishes of the Diocese on last other post conciliar concerns, at a new prayer of the faithful to Sunday. least in 1967. be ,recited as Session IV of Vat Emphasizing its growth over The examples and words of ican Council II comes to a close the years and its service in edu in Rome. cating priests, religious and The prayer of the faithful wiD Dispensation laity (or service to God and be recited on Sundays Nov. 28 country, the Bishop wrote: and Dec. 5 during the Triduum The Chancery Office an "Next Sunday, the First Sun nounced tha.t the faithful are of Dec. 5, 6 and 7 and also 011 day of Advent is the day when dispensed from the law of ab Dec. 8. we give to support our Catholic In the Episcopal letter that is stinence on Friday, November University in Washington. to be read on Sunday, the Ordi 26, the day ~-iJlJ; Thanks Turn to Page Sixteen giving Day. Turn to Page Sixteen .
Sunday's Appeal A,ids Expansion Of University
Bishop Connolly Orders Triduum In Parishes