'No More Surprises
Council's Work Nearly Done
VATICAN CITY — (NC) — At the close of
the Council’s weeklong recess, the feeling began to
spread among the council Fathers that the job is
almost done. In fact, because the general debate
is now over, many are wondering how they will
spend their time profitably.
“There are no surprises anymore,” remarked
one bishop, “so let’s pack our grips.”
Another recess is scheduled from Oct. 30 to
Nov. 8, after which the council will convene to
vote on the documents readied by then. There is
a faint hope that with another public session to
promulgate the remaining documents, the council
may be able to close by Nov. 22.
* AN EARLY closing date is still speculation,
however, because in the council’s caucus rooms the
Fathers are skirmishing over unfinished documents.
The Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity has
completed its work on the religious liberty declara
tion and has distributed its draft to the Fathers.
There is a divergence of views on the schema
on divine revelation. That document’s thorny prob
lem of relating Scripture and Tradition has yet to
be resolved. The schemas on the missions and on
the priestly life are also being processed.
The most difficult task of all, however, is the
one faced by those entrusted with producing a satis
factory text on the Church in the modem world.
AN ATTEMPT is being made to lengthen this
schema — already 82 pages long — by incorporating
new suggestions made during the fourth session.
But the 25 subcommissions working on the docu
ment still do not see the light of day. Once they
are ready, perhaps by Nov. 10, the revised text must
go to the printers, be distributed to the Fathers,
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WITH ALL THE conquering going on, Jaffa
was never a dull town. Greek mythology gives Jaffa
as the site of the Andromeda legend. Andromeda,
daughter of the king and queen of Ethiopia, was
chained to one of Jaffa’s rocks to placate a sea
monster then ravaging Ethiopia. Luckily she was
found by Perseus on his way back from killing Me
dusa. Pereus not only rescued her; he married her.
The Old Testament contains several references
to Jaffa. The Lebanese cedar used to build Solo
mon’s temple in Jerusalem arrived through this
port. Simon the Machabee made it a part of Judea
in 144 B.C.
ONE OF THE most famous of the travelers who
passed through Jaffa was a man named Jona who
“went down to Joppe and found a ship going to
Tharsis” to escape the commanding voice of God.
Not as fortunate as Andromeda, Jona was tossed
overboard by the crew members and swallowed by
a whale. After three days of that he decided to obey
the Lord. He preached to the Assyrians at Niniveh
and converted the city.
The Acts of the Apostles tells us that St. Peter
“stayed some time in Joppe at the house of one
Simon, a tanner.” It was here that he raised the
woman Tabitha from the dead, and it was near here
that he had the vision of the clean and the un
clean food, impelling him to preach to the Gentiles.
IN CHRISTIAN times, Jaffa became the see of
a bishop. It was captured by the Moslems, recap
tured by the Crusaders in 1126, taken again by
Saladin in 1187, and overcome by Richard the Lion
hearted: in 1191. King Richard’s armored knights
lost only two of their own in the battle and killed
700 Turks, But the crusading era was drawing to a
close. The port was taken again by the Turks in
1196 and the city was burned to the ground 200
years latejr when another invasion threatened it.
Despite the intermittant battles, Jaffa was a
major seaport in the Middle Ages for pilgrims trav
eling from Europe to the Holy Land. From Solo
mon’s time to the present day it has been known
as the principal seaport of Jerusalem.
Jaffa is due to close as a commercial port on
Nov 9. No one here knows what will happen to it
after that, but no one believes its lohg history is
over.
and be discussed anew. If further amendments are
offered as seems likely, one more council recess
will give the commissions an opportunity to study
them.
Another complication has arisen because more
than 500 bishops led by Bishop Luigi Carli of Segni,
Italy, have demanded that the modern world schema
include a strong condemnation of communism.
Other council Fathers regard the condemnation
as inopportune. As Bernard Cardinal Alfrink of
Utrecht, Holland, said, everything that can be con
demned in communism has been condemned already
and needs no further condemnation.
ONE LOOKS back over the first six weeks of
the council and cannot help being astounded at what
has been accomplished.
The work done in previous sessions has borne
fruit in large measure, as will be demonstrated by
the wealth of material accumulated for future use
in the documents Pope Paul VI will promulgate. Of
course, these are, in a sense, but blueprints. It is
their practical application in the years to come that
will prove their worth as instruments for the
Church’s inner renewal.
Pope Paul’s strategy is now paying off. The
note of confidence injected into the council by his
announcement of the creation of a world synod
of bishops at the beginning of this session makes
up for whatever business may remain unfinished.
The synod, according to the view now prevail
ing here, will in due course help solve many prob
lems which on paper may appear to be left in the
air. The synod will actually be an extended coun
cil.
Jack Balts Scores
Four Touchdowns as
Cougars Triumph
By Fred Seely
Charlotte News Sports Writer
Jackie Balls weighs only 160
pounds and isn’t any taller than
the average waterboy, but every
inch of him contributes to the best
speed in Charlotte.
Just ask West Montgomery’s
football team, which got run
around, over and through by the
speedy Charlotte Catholic halfback
Saturday in a 44-0 loss.
Balls scored four touchdowns in
the romp, gaining a total of 257
yards via pass receptions and runs.
His work gained him the title of
News Player of the Week.
“Jackie is the best halfback in
the city for my money,” says
Coach Willie Campagna. “He may
not weigh too much now, but he
should get up to 190 pounds. We
think he’s a great college pros
pect.”
Balls grabbed touchdown passes
of 30, 65 and 40 yards from quar
terback Terry Layman and tallied
a fourth on a seven-yard dash, in
all, he caught four passes for 144
yards and rushed for another 113.
Liturgy Changes
Continued from page 1A
tion of middle-aged Catholics” find
the changes hard to accept.
Among reasons, he said, has
been “misleading clerical pro
nouncements that Vatican council 1
will produce little or no change
in the life of Catholics.”
Father McManus stressed 'iis
concern that parishes implement
ing the changes would stress the .
new positions and moves of the j
participants in the Mass more than
the motives. ’ ^
HE HELD THERE is a danger
that “changes in the external
forms will be treated as rubrical
prescriptions, grudgingly accepted
because authoritatively imposed.”
“There can be a crisis of obedi-^ '
ence, even a chaos arising from di- j?
versity and welcome flexibility,
but these are far less to be feared
than formalism and neo-rubricism.
“The answer seems to be in
more and more profound study
and diffusion of the Constitution
on the Liturgy as a doctrinal pro
nouncement—proclaiming a theol
ogy of the Church and the
Church’s worship and supporting
pastoral and disciplinary changes *
with reasons and motives,” he' V
said.
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