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WASHINGTON —(NC)— Three
epoch-making documents” promul
gated by the Second Vatican Coun
il chiefly “will influence the life
if the Church for all the forsee
ible future,” Cardinal-designate
awrence Shehan of Baltimore as
:erted here.
Preaching at the close of the
•hair of Unity Octave observance
n the National Shrine of the Im
naculate Conception here on the
lay he was elevated to the College
if Cardinals, the archbishop said
he three documents are the Con
titution on the Sacred Liturgy,
he Constitution on the Church and
he Decree of Ecumenism.
“OTHER DOCUMENTS still to
je produced are indeed important,
lome of them necessary for imple
nentation of the decisions contain
>d in these three. But it is on these
hat the work done by the council
hus far must be judged. It is chief
y these which will influence the
ife of the Church for all the for
seeable future,” he said.
The liturgy constitution already
is having profound influence on
the life of the Church through
Amplification of sacred rites and
through widespread use of the ver
nacular in the Mass and the sacra
ments, the prelate said.
The Constitution on the Church,
le said, is “of even greater sig
nificance.” The archbishop contin
ued: “Here we come to the very
tieart of the council, to the central
purpose which Pope John proclaim
ed in calling the council into exist
ence—the Church’s deepest reflec
tion on her innermost nature and
on her mission; the renewal of her
inner life; the restoration of her
oriainal beautv.”
v Cardinal-designate Shehan said
the council produced the Decree
on Ecumenism as the first definite
step toward curing the two great
schisms in the history of the
Church which have left wounds
that even today are “a source of
weakness to the Church and of
scandal to the world.” He said the
decree shows the Church has
jpened all doors, “shown herself
ready, in the spirit of humility and
contrition, to admit that the atti
tude of some of her ministers and
members in the past may have
fallen far short of the objective
Christian ideal.”
" “Thus, without watering down of
any dogma or the sacrifice of any
principles, the Church has made
an earnest effort toward the ulti
mate restoration of that unity
which is so essential to the fulfill
ment of God’s plan and Christ’s
work of salvation,” he said.
, ARCHBISHOP SHEHAN said
much of great importance remains
to be done by the council. He
enumerated: “The restatement of
the doctrine of Revelation in terms
relevant to the times and compre
hensible to Protestant and Ortho
dox of today is essential to the res
toration of Christian unity. To im
plement the Constitution on the
Church, documents on the pastoral
ministry of bishops, on the role of
priests, Religious and laity are still
necessary.
“We in this country particularly
need an authoritative statement on
Catholic education. The council
can hardly finish its work without
examining the great problems of
our times in the light of Christian
moral principles. But with the pro
mulgation on the Constitutions on
the Church and the Sacred Liturgy
and the Decree on Ecumenism, the
foundation has been firmly laid
for all that is to come, both within
and outside the council,” he said.
HIS EMINENCE Lawrence
Cardinal Shehan, Archbishop
of Baltimore, named to the
College of Cardinals (Jan.
25) by Pope Paul VI, to
gether with 26 other prelates
of various countries. (NC
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Site of Ancient
Abbey Discovered
LONDON — (NC) — A team of
archaeologists with government
backing has reported that it has
at last found the site of Faversham
Abbey in Kent, which was com
pletely erased during the Refor
mation.
The site of the medieval Bene
dictine abbey had long been a top
ic of conjecture. Two old buildings
in the town of Faversham were
believed to he the abbey’s gate
houses and a nearby street had
from time immemorial been
named Abbey Street.
Now the excavators have uncov
ered the white stones of the ab
bey’s foundations partly buried
under an orchard and showing
that the abbey, built in the year
1147, had a huge church 300 feet
long by 80 feet wide which is
nearly as big as the famous Gothic
cathedral in the neighbouring city
of Canterbury.
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Hoot 'N' Hop at
Cardinal Gibbons
High Reported (?)
The posters read “Post-Exam
Blast,” and that is just what it
was as exam week ended with a
hoop and a holler and a ‘hoot and
a nanny. Gathering together in Fr.
Price gymnasium Friday night the
students participated in a program
which featured guitar and vocal
groups from among their own
schoolmates and from nearby
Broughton High School. Misty
eyed ballads and hand-clapping
folk tunes soon made the audience
forget their examination blues in
the rocking rhythms of the balla
deers. When the singing was done
and the banjos disappeared into
the night there was only a short
pause for a Pepsi before the group
turned the table and needled their
flat friends into spinning a deep
beat or two; for an hour more or
less they sock-mopped the floor.
Verily, the Hoot ‘N’ Hop was a
smash!
More Missioners
Killed in Congo
ROME — (NC) — The deaths of
three more Catholic missionaries
and an African priest at the hands
of Congolese rebels have been re
ported by the Pious Society of St.
Francis Xavier for the Foreign
Missions of Parma, Italy.
The three Xaverian missioners,
all killed on Nov. 28, were Fathers
Giovanni Didone, 35, and Luigi Car
rara, 32, and Brother Vittorio Fac
cin, 31.
Father Carrara was the first to
die. He was hearing confessions at
his mission at Baraka on the shore
of Lake Tanganyika when a rebel
officer drove up and commanded
the priest to follow him. Suddenly
he shot him dead.
Brother Faccin ran to the spot at
the sound of shooting. He too was
shot dead.
The rebel officer then drove to
Fizi about 25 miles away. There he
murdered Father Didone and a
Congolese priest, Father Joubert.
Two other Xaverian mission
aries, Fathers Lorenzo Camorani
and Giuseppe Veniero, were re
ported to be in rebel-held territory
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For A Better World
By Father Cranor F. Graves
Brother Gabriel Justice of Glenmary
and I returned from giving a retreat to
gether at Via Coeli in Minnesota, where
the nights were 25 degrees below zero.
And Asheville’s weather seemed eager to
compensate us for the trouble: mild,
spring-like days to make us even gladder
to be back in North Carolina!
Then we had a wonderful month-end
retreat at Mount Mary. We agree that
giving this Better World retreat so fre
quently is a great nobility: we repeat to
our own advantage the meditations which
the retreatants are making for the first
Fr. Graves
time, we never tire of them, because the Gospel is always
fresh and new.
Let me share with you some of the reactions to our
Minnesota retreat; I like to share these “testimonials” of
retreatants with you, because you can hear others say in
their own words what the retreat meant to them.
A Christian Brother, director of his Province’s Schol
asticate, said:
“I found this retreat valuable in giving new insights
and deeper meaning to my grasp of the Christian life,
especially as-regards its essentially community nature and
its missionary^ obligations in the world today. The clear,
balanced approach of the Exercises and the atmosphere of
the retreat organization made the principal contributions to
this growth.”
A Minnesota pastor wrote:
“I wish every bishop, priest, religious could make this
retreat; then the message of the Gospel would come to be
realized in this world.”
A curate, ordained ten years said: “This is the first
time I made a seven-day retreat, but time-wise it seemed
shorter to me than any other retreat I have made.”
A middle-aged priest commented:
“The exercises have opened an entirely new approach
to Christian Renewal, by fostering brotherly love, service
to humanity, and a true Christian spirit. It is only through
love for others that we prove our love for God.”
A neighboring pastor who also joined us at Via Coeli
retreat house for priests wrote this opinion: “The most
positive approach to the reform of society I have ever
encountered. It is basic, practical and indispensable for the
renewal of self and the community.”
The youngest priest among the retreatants had this
to say: “Many retreats are like chalk-talks before a football
game; good and necessary information. But in this retreat,
you get in there and play.”
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