’De-Supernaturalizing'
Is Not Council's Intent
Montreal, Que. — (NC) — Paul
Emile Cardinal Leger said the
Second Vatican Council “is not
trying to ‘de-supematuralize’ reli
gion.”
Speaking to 500 delegates at the
National Social Life Conference
meeting here, the Montreal arch
bishop said the council “is seeking
means to present the vital living
reality of the mercy of God in
such a way that somehow, some
day, all men will know their home
is in the mystical body of Jesus
Christ.”
Requiem Offered
For Francis Toomey
A funeral Mass for Francis
(Frank) Peter Toomey, 61, a part
ner in the Toomey Brothers Heat
ing and Plumbing Co., was held at
10 a.m. Thursday, June 3, at St.
Patrick’s Church, Charlotte.
The Rev. Patrick Gallagher of St.
Mary’s Catholic Church in Laurin
burg and the Rev. D. Edward Sul
livan of St. Patrick’s officiated.
Burial was in Sharon Memorial
Park.
Mr. Toomey died in a local hos
pital. He lived at 2321 Toomey
Ave. A Charlotte native, he was
born Dec. 23, 1903, son of the late
Tim C. and Mary Phelan Toomey.
He was educated at O’Don
oghue School and Belmont Abbey.
He was a member of St. Patrick’s
Catholic Church, the Holy Name
Society and the Nocturnal Ado
ration Society of St. Patrick’s and
a fourth degree member of
Knights of Columbus.
Mr. Toomey was a member of
the Charlotte Plumbing and Heat
; ing Contractors Association.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs.
Kathleen Gallagher Toomey; two
daughters, Miss Dolores Toomey
of the home and Mrs. Peggy Hege
of Charlotte; two sons, Tim C.
Toomey of the home and Pete C.
Toomey of Charlotte; seven sis
ters, Mrs. G. J. Krepper of Beau
mont, Tex., Mrs. J. D. Edwards,
Mrs. G. P. Hunter, Mrs. Earl Fes
perman, Mrs. W. W. Harlan, Miss
Catherine Toomey and Miss Joyce
Toomey of Charlotte; two broth
ers, T. C. Toomey Jr. of Charlotte
and Ben Toomey of Beaumont,
Tex., and 11 grandchildren.
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The Church, he said, is engaged
in an often-agonizing effort to
understand itself better and to
cut away what is superfluous, “but
only so the world may know her
for what she is.”
The cardinal said that today it
is often those who criticize and
are impatient who have the deep
est love for the Church, Our Lord
and the coming or His Kingdom.
CARDINAL LEGER said Chris
tianity had been in danger of be
coming an ideological superstruc
ture “or kind of special depart
ment where people talked about
forgiveness, redemption, the Cross
and Resurrection while life and
the world waited outside.”
“Against this view, there is a
growing awareness that faith is
not merely this optional super
structure which is superimposed
on human and secular relation
ships and institutions, but some
thing which ought to touch and
vivify every aspect of life seven
days a week,” he said.
The structure of the Church, no
matter how fluid and changing,
must be maintained, he said.
“The Church is the means by
which Christ, absent from the uni
versal human community, contin
ues to abide with men,” he de
clared.
Cardinal Leger said the notion
of authority is remote from con
temporary thinking and the diffi
culty increased “because authority
has been claimed and used in
spheres beyond which it could
legitimately be expected to be
obeyed.”
“AT THE MOMENT the Catholic
community is moving into a per
iod when it will regulate its af
fairs $nuch more by discussion
than it did in the past, when af
fairs tended to be regulated by
orders from above with little ex
planation for their grounds,” he
said.
“But if the laity are to take
their part in discussion, then the
bishop has a right to expect rather
more from you than criticism of
the local parish priest’s sermon,”
the cardinal added.
Three National Study Weeks on
Workshop Reform Are Scheduled
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is about. Since the present stage
of Catholic worship reform has au
thorized concelebration and the
reception of holy communion un
der both kinds, the daily Mass at
all three Weeks will feature the
concelebration of twelve priests
with the presiding bishop or
priest, as well as communion un
der both kinds for selected reli
gious and married couples who
are observing anniversaries.
Music for the eucharistic cele
brations has been selected to illus
trate what can be done in terms
both of congregational singing
and expert choral contribution.
Each Week begins with Mass at 5
p.m. on Monday, has a Mass cele
bration at 11:30 a.m. on Tuesday
and Wednesday, and closes with
Mass at noon on Thursday.
Among the major speakers of
the Weeks will be Bishop James
P. Shannon, auxiliary of St. Paul,
at Portland, Bishop Ernest L. Un
terkoefler of Charleston, at Balti
more, Bishop Charles A. Buswell
of Pueblo, at Chicago. Addressing
general sessions in all three loca
tions are Rev. Gerard S. Sloyan,
past president of the Liturgical
Conference, author of many vol
umes on theology, liturgy, cate
chetics; Mr. William Stringfellow,
lawyer and theologian, author of
My People Is The Enemy; Rev.
Frank Norris, S.S., author of God’s
Own People; Rev. John Harmon,
priest of the Episcopal Church, ex
pert in ecumenical and urban
problems; Mr. Robert Rambusch,
artist and consultant in church
building, and many others.
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ing of specialists and pioneers has
become the interest and the con
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ber of American bishops have be
come patrons of Liturgical Weeks,
which have been held in every
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and wider representation of the
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seating capacity, for the general
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RECENT PROGRESS in ecu
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committees have invited Orthodox,
Anglican and Protestant represen
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ing or auditorium in each case has
offered a hospitality room to en
courage fraternizing. Each year the
number of clergy and laity of oth
er confessions in attendance at
the Weeks has grown. This year
two of the general session speak
ers are Episcopalians, and a Lu
theran and a Methodist will ad
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life in Baltimore and Chicago re
spectively.
The importance of study weeks
of this kind is becoming increas
ingly evident to American Catho
lics as they find themselves in the
early stages of reform in public
worship, changes for which many
have not been prepared. Surveys
in many parts of the country have
shown an enthusiastic response to
this reform. They have also indi
cated, if less conclusively, that
hesitation and worry about the
“changes” are coupled frequently
with lack of information about the
meaning and the spirit of the re
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PASTORS are sometimes in the
same position as their congrega
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course, to accept developments in
the celebration of Mass and other
sacraments as they are handed
down by authority. But even a
brief acquaintance with the coun
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principally a matter of law and
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conferences, training sessions. So
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that these efforts are not suffi
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Liturgical Conference, in conduct
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summer in widely-separated areas
of the country, hopes not to fill
the need but to stimulate more
sectional and local activity in this
aspect of Christian education and
formation.
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be obtained from the Liturgical
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Washington, D.C. 20018. Informa
tion about hotels and about spe
cial housing for sisters and sem
inarians will be sent to those who
use the advance registration form.
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