esuit Asserts Freedom as
Keynote of Church Renewal
Collegeville, Minn. — (NC) —
^discovery of the meaning of
eedom will mark the “ageofre
pwal” now being entered by the
hurch, Father John Courtney
lurray, S.J., said here.
Father Murray, professor at
IToodstock (Md.) College, made
his prediction at the 108th annual
ammencement of St. John’s Uni
*pa!f'Christ! Awards, conferred
nnually by the university on an
utstanding clergyman and layman,
'ere presented to him and to
[gorge N. Shuster, assistant to the
resident of Notre Dame Univer
ity and former president of Hunt
r College in New York.
FATHER MURRAY said that
uring the last four centuries,
hile society generally was giving
lcreasing emphasis to freedom,
the Catholic Church has not join
ed this human pilgrimage.”
“On the contrary,” he said, “it
has opposed man’s historical move
ment toward freedom.”
He maintained that this stance
by the Church was “right and
necessary in the circumstances,”
since, historically speaking, it rep
resented a defense of doctrinal
authority and the authority of God
against opposing counter-pressures.
But at the same time, he said,
“there was also a failure on the
part of the Church, her magistery
and her people, chiefly the intel
lectuals. There was a failure to
recognize the signs of the times,
to look beneath the surface of error
and deviation and to discern the
genuine human aspiration that was
at work — man’s perennial aspira
tion to possess his birthright of
freedom.”
Father Murray, who has played
DIOCESAN NEWS BRIEFS
deceives Degree From
)unbarton College
Miss Mary Jane Hill daughter of
irs. Ethel S. Hill of 811 South
eventh Street, Wilmington, North
arolina, was one of 120 members
[ the Class of 1965 of Dunbarton
ollege of Holy Cross, Washing
>n, D.C., on whom degrees were
>nferred at Commencement Ex
rcises conducted at the college,
is Excellency, the Most Rever
id Patrick A. O’Boyle, D.D.,
rchbishop of Washington, presid
i and presented the degrees to
le graduates.
tatesville Reception
A reception to bid farewell to
ather Allan Foran, O.F.M., and
i welcome Father Michael
’Keefe was held at St. Pius X
hurch, Statesville on the first
hursday of June.
Father Foran has been assigned
i a Franciscan mission in Florida,
ather O’Keefe, the new pastor,
as most recently stationed at St.
nn’s Church, Charlotte.
Yins Essay Contest
Miss Lenore Betty Micucci, a
lember of St. Pius X Parish,
tatesville, is the recipient of an
ward for an essay on respect for
le American flag. The award was
resented by the Statesville Sen
>r High School, where Miss Mi
icci finished in the first ten per
ent of the graduating class. She
also president of the C.Y.O. of
t. Pius X.
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Court Bishop Hafey No. 1088 of
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a leading role in preparation of
the Second Vatican Council’s pend
ing declaration on religious liberty,
said that “for all its dangers, free
dom remains the first truth about
man, a positive value, both per
sonal and social, to be respected
even when it involves man in error
and evil.”
He said the “turning point” in
the Church’s recognition of the
importance of freedom came with
Pope Pius XII. Then, he said,
Pope John XXIII in his encyclical
Pacem in Terris added freedom to
the traditional “tried” of basic
social principles — truth, justice
and love.
“Finally,” he said, “in its turn
Vatican Council II has affirmed,
in act even more than in word, the
positive value of freedom within
the People of God.”
DESCRIBING freedom as “the
forgotten truth” within the Church,
he added: “The new age which
the Church is entering is to be —
such is our hope — the age of re
newal of this truth.”
Father Murray emphasized that
an individual achieves true free
dom only by a process of growth
in “gradual stages.” He said:
“Freedom therefore is inward
ness, spontaneity, the capacity of
a man to find within himself the
reasons and the motives of his own
right decisions and action, apart
from external coercion. Freedom
therefore is authenticity, truthful
ness, fidelity to the pursuit of truth
and to the truth when found.
“In further consequence, free
dom is experienced as duty, as re
sponsibility — as a response to the
claims of justice, to the demands
of rightful law, to the governance
and guidance of legitimate author
ity.
“In its intimately Christian sense,
however freedom has a higher
meaning than all this. Freedom
in the deepest experience of it, is
love. To be free is to be-for-the
others.
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Donald F. Cole, left, of Asheville, presents the State Council
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Wilmington Council No. 1074. Presentation was made at the
recent State Convention of the Knights of Columbus, held in
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