Moralist Predicts
No Radical Change
In Family Teaching
CHICAGO — (NC) — A mem
ber of the papal commission study
ing birth control and family ques
tions counseled people “not to
expect something like change” in
the Church’s teaching on these is
sues.
“Faith and knowledge can de
velop, but there can be no turning
back, no simple change” that con
tradicts previous teaching, declared
Father Bernard Haering, C.SS.R.,
in an interview.
“Whatever happens, it will be
in the direction of going ahead.
And it would be unwise for me
to draw conclusions which I do
not yet see.”
FATHER HAERING, besides be
ing a member of the papal com
mission on family questions, is a
secretary of the subcom
mission in charge of the ecumen
cal council’s schema on the Church
in the modem'world, where the
question of married love is con
sidered. He is a German moral
theologian who teaches in Rome.
He predicted in the interview
that Pope Paul VI will “say some
thing to direct the consciences of
people” after the papal commis
sion finishes its study of family
questions.
But in the meantime, he added,
“no one should anticipate what
the solution will be.” He did not
speculate as to when the Pope
would speak.
He said the norms set forth by
Pope Pius XII in 1958, condemn
ing the use of anovulant pills for
contraceptive purposes, must be
“observed in a reasonable, not rig
oristic, manner.”
Father Haering remarked that
the large family is an ideal, if
all conditions are favorable — but
the responsibility for making this
decision rests not with a govern
ment or a confessor but with each
individual couple.
He said he sees no conflict be
tween the work of the papal com
mission and that of the ecumeni
cal council sub-commission dealing
with the schema on the Church in
the world.
, “IN MY OPINION,” he said,
‘the council will give only great
Directions for the future. It would
be unfortunate if the council en
tered into the casuistic questions
of our year, which may no longer
he important in a few years.”
He said aU currents of theologi
cal opinion are represented on the
papal commission and it is unfair
to suggest that only conservative
thought has a voice there.
On the question of the council
end religious liberty, Father Haer
ing said the effort led by American
v bishops to get a preliminary vote
on the issue at the close of the
council’s third session, although it
oid not achieve its immediate ob
jective, was nevertheless a “real
success.”
Father Haering predicted that
the new draft of the council dec
laration on religious liberty, now
in preparation, will be “better bal
anced and less apologetic” than
its predecessor. He said it would
not seek to “whitewash” instances
of Catholic failure in the past to
respect religious liberty.
He also expressed the view that
several of the documents already
adopted by the council, including
the constitutions on the Church,
the liturgy and ecumenism, em
body the spirit of freedom. Others
still to come, like the schema on
the Church in the world arid the
schema on seminary training, do
the same, he indicated.
In New Encyclical
Pope Appeals for Peace
Vatican City — (NC) — Pope
Paul VI has issued an encyclical
letter calling for increased prayers
to Mary during the month of May
for the Church and for world
peace because “the present hour
is especially grave.”
The Pope’s encyclical letter,
Mense Maio (The Month of May),
was issued April 30 and though
it included the success of the ecu
menical council among the inten
tions to be prayed for, the letter
devoted more than 80% of its text
to peace.
THE SECOND encyclical of
Pope Paul’s reign opens by noting
that May is marked by special de
votion to Mary by Catholics and
that it is to Mary that Catholics
have turned “whenever the needs
of the Church demanded it or
whenever danger hovered men
SISTER LUKE ADDRESSES PROTESTANT WOMEN — Sister
Mary Luke, the only American nun among women auditors at
the third session of the Second Vatican Council, visits with
Mrs. Martin Luther King, Jr., wife of the famed civil rights
leader, and Mrs. Stuart Sinclair, president of the United Church
Women of the National Council of Churches, during a New
York ecumenical event of unprecedented nature. For the first
time, Roman Catholic Women were invited to such a UCW
function, with about 100 from the nearby area attending a
luncheon. Sister Luke, chairman of the Conference of Major
Superiors of Women and superior general of the Sisters of
Loretto, addressed the gathering, held in conjunction with the
annual meeting of the UCW Board of Managers. Mrs. King, a
member of the Board of Managers and a concert singer, pre
sented vocal selections.
BISHOP'S RESIDENCE
600 Bilyeu Street
Raleigh, North Carolina
April 28, 1965
My Dear Brethren:
We of the Diocese belong to one Spiritual Family.
Sometimes the older members of that Spiritual Family, the
Priests, need our help.
Some of our Priests are so devoted to spiritual work
that they often forget themselves and their ultimate needs
of the temporal order. Actually there are very few Priests
anywhere who die with much of this world’s goods. Most
of them are buried out of the charity of their parish, or
with some meager funds that they or the Diocese has saved.
At times, they are sick or disabled and unable to do work
for God and souls, and this makes them even more de
pendent upon all the members of our Spiritual Family.
Priests seldom can save much from their $75.00 or
$100.00 a month salary, but they are rich in the love and
appreciation of the people of our Diocesan Family, as
Priests everywhere. It is for these reasons that once a year,
as head of this Family, we permit a collection in the
parishes for the Aged and Infirm Priests who are depend
ent upon our generosity because of ill health or accidental
cause.
Our people each year have been generous to this col
lection for their Priests, and we hope this year, as always,
you will be generous on May 9th when the collection will
be taken up for the Priests of the Diocese who need our
combined help after age and infirmity have limited or
prevented their missionary apostolate of souls in the
Church.
With sincere appreciation of your generosity over the
years to every cause, and hoping that God will bless us
with vocations to the Priesthood, and that we will be able
to assist those who grow old in His Service, I remain.
Sincerely yours in Christ,
Says Reds Lead
Dominican
Rebellion
Miami, Fla. — (NC) — A
Jesuit educator caught in Santo
Domingo during the Dominican
fighting said after his return here
that the rebellion is definitely
“communist in character.”
Father Jesus Nuevo, S.J., princi
pal of Jesuit Prepatory School
here, had gone to Santo Domingo
for an educational meeting.
“The communist agitators took
immediate advantage of the situa
tion when the so-called Constitu
tionalist rebellion began and seized
the opportunity to create chaos
and to take the uper-hand,” said
the priest who was stationed in
Cuba but expelled by the Castro
regime several years ago.
(Father Nuevo was interviewed
two days before President Johnson
went on nationwide television
(May 2) to charge that “communist
conspirators” had seized control of
the rebellion and that the United
States would not tolerate another
Red government in this hemis
phere.)
Father Nuevo had no doubt that
a link existed between Fidel Castro
in Havana and the rebellious
troops and civilians in Santo Do
mingo. He said the radio controlled
by the troops fighting the rebels
had reported that telephone calls
had been intercepted between the
rebels and Havana.
The Jesuit said casualties in the
fighting were high. Hospitals in
the capital city, he said, were
crowded with wounded and that
students at the Jesuit seminary
of Santo Tomas had volunteered
as hospital aides.
acingly over the world .. when we
look at the present needs of the
Church or at the state of peace in
the world, we have compelling
reason for believing that the pres
ent hour is especially pave; that
it makes a call for united prayer
from the whole Christian people
more than ever a matter of urg
ency.”
Nowhere in his letter did Pope
Paul specify what areas of unrest
he was referring to. Instead he
chose to speak generally of the
The full text of ‘Mense Maio’
appears in the magazine section
of this issue.
world picture and to protest
against breaches of the peace
wherever they are to be found. He
wrote:
“TODAY, AS if no lesson had
been learned from the tragic ex
periences of the two conflicts
which shed blood in the first half
of our century, we have the dread
ful spectacle in certain parts of
the world of antagonism on the in
crease between peoples, and see
repeated the dangerous phenome
non of recourse to arms instead of
to negotiation to settle disputes of
the opposing parties. This means
that the populations of entire na
tions are subjected to unspeakable
sufferings caused by agitation,
guerrilla warfare, acts of war, ever
growing in extent and intensity,
which could at any moment pro
duce the s park for a terrible
fresh conflict.”
The Pope appealed to the
See Encyclical, page 2A
Legion of Mary
Reveals Plans for
Congress Saturday
GREENSBORO—Auxiliary Bish
op Charles B. McLaughlin will cel
ebrate Mass at 9:00 a.m., May 15,
in Our Lady of Grace Church to
open the {Legion of Mary Congress
here.
The program for the morning
also includes an address of wel
come by Rt. Rev. Hugh A. Dolan,
Spiritual Director of the Central
Curia, and an opening prayer by
Rev. Thomas Caulfield, Spiritual
Director of the Baltimore Senatus.
“The Legion of Mary—A Leaven
in the Community” will be the
theme of the first session. Mr. Rob
ert A. Wiggs, President of the
North Carolina Comitium, will
serve as chairman, and Monsignor
Dolan will act as moderator.
Following lunch in the Towne
House Restaurant and the recita
tion of the Legion Catena, the sec
ond session will begin at 1:30 p.m.
Mr. Robert Ford will be chairman
and Rev. John Barry, of Franklin,
N.C., will be moderator for the dis
cussion of “How the Legion of
Mary Can Help the Culturally De
prived.”
The last session, dealing with
the challenge which the Legion
presents to Catholic youth, will be
followed by Benediction at 4:15
p.m. All the business sessions will
be held at Our Lady of Grace
School, 2201 West Market Street.
OFFICIAL
The following appoint
ments, effective immediately,
are announced through the
Diocesan Chancery:
Rt. Rev. Michael J. Begley
is appointed Diocesan Direc
tor of the Cursillo for Wom
en.
Rev. Walter Sullivan is ap
pointed Assistant Diocesan
Director of the Cursillo for
Women.
James E. McSweeney
Chancellor