Catholic Action
'Live Options'
Facing Laymen
Milwaukee—(NC)—The Catholic
layman today stands “eyeball to
eyeball with” a wide range of “live
options” concerning his role in
the Church and the world, a na
tional Catholic lay leader said
here.
The Church today has “thrown
open its doors and its windows.
As always, new choices be
come possible as our knowledge
of ourselves, of our religion, of
the world increases,” declared
Martin H. Work, executive director
of the National Council of Catho
lic Men.
WORK SPOKE at the Wisconsin
Catholic Action convention, which
was attended by some 10,000 high
school students from Wisconsin
and neighboring states.
Basic to aU the options facing
laymen today, he said, is the an
swer to the question: “Do we opt
for the God of the gospels or for
atheism?” . ,
Work described atheism as be
ing “like an actor that plays many
parts.”
“AT ONE TIME,” he said, “he
flatly denies God; at another he
says that man can know nothing
about Him. Then he appears on
the stage as the brilliant scien
tist who says that everything can
be explained by scientific reason
ing alone—or that there is no ab
solute truth.
“He then changes his costume
and says that man is so exalted
that God is an anemic figure of
pre-history. Lately he’s come on
stage as the ‘God is dead’ theolo
gian.”
The NCCM official said that “as
an actor atheism is pretty tricky.
For example, he will create such
a false idea of God that when he
declaims against Him it is not the
God of the gospels that he’s talk
ing about at all but a straw-filled
figure to stick pins in.”
WORK WARNED that atheism
is a threat even to those who
profess themselves to be Chris
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he said, “are in some degree prac
tical atheists already—and ill pre
pared to meet the crisis of faith
that the world faces nearly all of
us with at some time in our lives.”
He urged his audience to be
concerned for the welfare of the
Church and the world, and said:
“You can' choose to be a vital
member of the community of the
faithful that is our Church, work
ing together with Sisters, Broth
ers, priests and bishops in mutual
co-responsibility for the church’s
mission, or you can refuse to ac
cept your responsibility in the
Church and become one of the
modern day foot-draggers or gun
jumpers — which usually means
ending up as a boring, destructive
critic.”
In another convention ad
dress, Father Emmanuel Sprigler,
C.P., of Chicago warned the teen
agers against the “sin of indiffer
ence—the worst sin of all.”
“Indifference kills — it doesn’t
burn faith to death, it freezes it
to death,” the Passionist missionary
said.
“You are the light of the world
because Christ invites us to be
like himself,” Father Sprigler said.
“Our witnessing of Christ must be
visible to all men not only in
church but everyday in the work
day world.”
CHURCHES COLLECT
Vienna — (NC) — All the Cath
olic churches in Austria took up
collections on Septuagesima Sun
day (Feb. 6) for needy persons in
North and South Vietnam. The
money is being forwarded through
International Catholic Chanties of
fice in Paris. Hope was expressed
that the International Red Cross
can forward some of the funds to
North Vietnam.
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been made a separate province ecclesiastically with the appointment by Pope Paul VI of
Archbishop Joseph T. Ryan to be Archbishop of Anchorage, with suffragan Sees of Fairbanks
and Juneau. The Church of the Holy Family in Anchorage will be the cathedral. (NC Photos)
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his own diocese of Rome into five j
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jurisdiction of his vicar for Rome,
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The Pope made these arrange
nents in a decree entitled Ro
nanae Urbis, dated Feb. 2. Its
>ublication was withheld until two
idditional auxiliary bishops were
lamed, Bishop-elect Oscar Zanera,
’ormerly of the papal secretariat
>f state, and Bishop-elect Dino
rrabalzini, pastor of a parish in
Rome.
Each auxiliary is given power
;hroughout the entire diocese to
idminister the sacraments and sac
•amentals, to assist at and bless
narriages and to carry out what
ever the vicar decrees. The Pope
specified this power is given to the
auxiliaries notwithstanding Canon
1096-1 of the Code of Canon Law,
which limits jurisdiction for mar
riage ceremonies.
The other auxiliaries are Bish- '
ops Filippo Pocci and Giovanni Ca
nestri.
Bishop-elect Zanera was born in
Rome Nov. 14, 1915. He studied at
Rome’s Gregorian University and
was ordained Feb. 3, 1940. He en
tered the service of the state set
retariat in 1947 and at the time of
his nomination was a secretary in *
its section for ordinary affairs. He
has been appointed to the titular
See of Surista.
Bishop-elect Trabalzini was born
at Montepulciano, about 100 miles
to the northeast of Rome, on April
28, 1923. He was ordained April 5,
1947, after studies at Rome’s Lat
eran Atheneum (now university).
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