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By James C. O’Neill
(N.C.W.C. News Service)
GENEVA — Debate on the role
of the World Council of Churches
in the movement to restore Chris
tian unity opened on the second
day of its meeting.
It was evident that there was a
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By Membership of
Rocky Mount Court
Court Christ the King of the
Catholic Daughters held their
monthly meeting Monday night in
the church hall. Miss Dorothy Ben
nett, Grand Regent, presided.
Letters of appreciation were
read from Sister Lisbeth, Mrs. Jo
seph Kopka and Mrs. Charles Al
brycht. Letters were also read
from Mr. Harvey Gregory, Mrs.
Frank Belknap and Mrs. Vela Pat
terson, thanking the Court for re
membering them at Christmas
time.
Mrs. Willard Brock, Share the
Faith Chairman, gave an interest
ing and informative report on the
Retreat for Women held in Pine
hurst. She said that Father Mc
Sweeney was a wonderful Retreat
Master, and gave them a compre
hensive review of the Ecumeni
cal Council.
A letter from Mrs. Cartee, a tour
ist whose husband died while pass
ing through Rocky Mount, was
read by Mrs. James Murphy. Mrs.
Cartee remembers that the people
of Rocky Mount were most kind
to her at that time.
The Court voted to send a dona
tion to the Catholic Relief Services
to help the Children of Korea.
It was announced that The
Clothes Box will undergo reno
vations. It will be repainted and
stocked with a better assortment.
All members of the Parish are
called on to help as it will be
manned by volunteer help only.
The Saint Patrick’s Day dinner
for the parish will be held on
March 17. This is an annual affair
sponsored by the Court.
Mrs. Edward Wiltrakis, Lecturer,
introduced Dr. Allen Whitaker
who explained the need of a new
county hospital for Nadh County
and Rocky Mount. He said that
this would attract more specialists,
surgeons and nurses to our city
and would have all of the new
and modern facilities needed so
that Rocky Mount would not have
to send special cases to other city
hospitals. He also stated that our
hospitals are overcrowded and
that there is great need of more
hospital beds.
At the close of the meeting re
freshments consisting of coffee
and doughnuts were served.
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lack of agreement on what should
be the basis of church unity and
how that unity would eventually
make itself apparent.
A preliminary draft on the “Ec
umenical Way” and the specific
role of the WCC was read at the
new ecumenical center here to the
members of that organization’s 100
member central committee.
The draft stated that today’s ec
umenical movement has arisen
from the fact that the churches
have turned again to the Bible and
have come to see more clearly the
vision and reality of the people of
God, and that many churches are
concerned with the basic question
of the unity of the church of
Christ.
WCC Secretary General Willem
A. Visser ’t Hooft told the press
after the morning’s adjournment
that the draft was a “functional
paper” rather than a theological
treatise along the lines of the Vat
ican Council’s Decree on Ecumen
ism. “We of the WCC hold the
principle that it is essential that
the ecumenical movement should
be realized within the historic
churches” rather than by private
groups.
SUCH GROUPS have their own
contribution to make, he said. He
cited private efforts by Roman
Catholics over past years which he
said resulted in the ecumenism de
cree of Vatican II and exploratory
ecumenical meetings now being
carried on by Catholics and the
WCC and other individual church
es. Nevertheless, he said, the 20th
century development of the ecu
menical movement has been a
phenomenon which has developed
within the life of the churches
themselves, within the WCC, and
in Vatican II.
While speakers commenting on
the draft affirmed the greatly felt
need and desire for restoring
church unity, they differed on how
it is to be approached and what
is to be its basis.
The Rev. John C. Smith, New
York, of the United Presbyterian
Church in the U.S.A., objected that
the paper “assumes that the major
body of Christians affected by
God’s work in history and in the
Scriptures is that which is repre
sented by the WCC. There is brief
mention later in the paper of what
has happened to Roman Catholics,
and even briefer mention of Chris
tians outside of any such group
ings . . .
me paper migiu ijchci nave
begun by stating that there is now
evidence that every community of
believers is being affected by what 1
God is doing.”
While not advocating desertion
of areas of theological study lead
ing to unity, Dr. Smith stated he
was “convinced that theological re
flection and common action must
mutually stimulate one another in
a church which witnesses to the
world in our time.” !
HE CITED conversations be- <
tween his church and subcommit
tees of the American Catholic Bish- (
ops’ commission on ecumenical re- 1
lations. “After various discus- ,
sions,” he said, “it was agreed to j
work in terms of a theme—‘reform ,
and renewal of the Church as a |
continuing process under the guid- •
ance of the Holy Spirit.’ Under this
banner, theologians and activists
can meet in a rhythm of reflection '
and action which can lead to serv- ;
ice and witness and renewal,” he
said.
Bishop Hanns Lilje of Hanover -
Germany, insisted that obstacles 1
should be seen in a theological
context and that the major obsta
cle to unity is the “evident fact
that the churches have not yet
made much progress on the way
toward fuller agreement as to the
substance of the gospel and as to
its proclamation.”
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tEV. CARL BUFALINI, C.S.C.,
a graduate of Rome’s Gregorian
University, will preach the an
nual mission at St. Thomas
More Church in Chapel Hill,
beginning this Sunday, Febru
ary 20.
He questioned the wisdom of
trengthening the WCC to facili
ate ecumenism.
“Would it ever be conceivable
>r desirable that the council ought
o do what the churches evidently
eem to be incapable of achiev
ng?” he asked. “Ought the real
:olution of the problem not rather
>e located within the churches
hemselves?” /
Orthodox Archpriest Vitaly Bor
>voy, who was an official observer
>f the Patriarchate of Moscow at
Vatican II, challenged the view
hat common belief in the Bible
s sufficient to bring about the re
composition of Christian unity:
Plan Daily Masses
At Shopping Center
ATLANTA, Ga. — (NC) — Mass
will be offered daily at 12:30 p.m.
during Lent in a popular shopping
center here.
The project, known as “Mass on
the Mall,” will be carried out alter
nately on the weekdays by Arch
bishop Paul J. Hallinan of Atlanta
and Father Noel Burtenshaw.
Carrying a Mass kit, packing and
unpacking altar supplies, will be
nothing new to Archbishop Halli
nan, who served as an Army chap
lain from 1943 to 1945, or Father "
Burtenshaw, who formerly served
in the Georgia missions. The Mass
will be offered daily in the audi
torium of the Lenox Square Shop
ping center.
Archbishop Hallinan said the
project is designed to bring the
Mass to the people, not wait for
them.
“Biblical theology cannot be a
basis for our unity because of this
very simple fact, that we have no
common consensus in our under
standing and our interpretation of
the Holy Scripture . . . Disunity
in the interpretation of Holy Scrip
ture can hardly be the foundation
of our calling to unity." The true
unity of Christians can be based
only on a true consensus, true
unity in understanding of the
Word of God in this divine revela
tion to us.
“But this true consensus in
fundamental doctrinal issues can
be reached only by common agree
ment to have common criteria
which are rooted in our common
treasure and heritage from the ^
time of the undivided Church.”
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