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Cardinal Theologian Backs Scriptural Approach to Theology ROME — A cardinal who was for eight years the second-rank ing official of the Holy Office and its successor agency at the Vatican, the Doctrinal Congre gation, has declared himself in favor of a Scriptural approach to theology. Pietro Cardinal Parente also championed the theory of the evolution of dogma and bela bored a “convenient inertia” in the face of the task of re-ex pressing the word of God in the language of man. But he cautioned against re garding older dogmatic formu las as “archeological relics.” Rather they are to be seen as “milestones,” he said in a talk at Rome’s Urban College, run by the Congregation for the Prop agation of the Faith. Cardinal Parente, who held the post of secretary of the Doctri nal Congregation at the time of his election to the College of Cardinals last June, said that God’s revelation in history is a “fact” before being a “formula.” Forgetting it led to enclosing theology in a “syllogistic system of theoretical formulas,” which tended to drain the faith of its “personal and charismatic as pect,” he contended. The Second Vatican Council “asked theologians to search out a way of explaining doctrine that would be in harmony with the developments of culture and of thought,” he commented. As for the evolution of dog ma, it is “substantially justified if well understood and defined, even if in the Modernist epoch it aroused suspicions. Today it opens the way to fruitful theo logical work desired by the council and already realized on an historical and speculative plane.” Of Thomism, Cardinal Parente said: “A just admiration for the genius and work of Aquinas brought many to think that we had reached the infrangible lim its of philosophical and theologi cal speculation, so that nothing remained for others but to water down his wonderful Summa in fixed formulas. “St. Thomas would be the firist to disown such a view,” Cardinal Parente said. CLOSED CIRCUIT TV New York — (NC) — The an nual catechists’ conference of the New York archdiocese was held here via closed circuit television. TOMMY’S DRIVE IN RESTAURANT Fred Harwell, Mgr. Dial 625-4656 1731 N. 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' COMMUNICATIONS MERGED Adelaide, Australia — (NC) — The Adelaide archdiocese’s press, radio and television services will be merged into a single depart ment. President at Mass Hears Prayer for Inspiration. Help WASHINGTON — An arch bishop declared here that the smooth running Organization of American States “should serve as a model for the United Na tions.” Archbishop Philip M. Hannan of New Orleans, preaching at the 59th annual Pan American Mass (Nov. 19) in St. Patrick’s church here, said the OAS today has forged “an impregnable defense against atheistic totalitarianism” and has inspired “an unyielding and resolute resistance to tyran ny of every kind." President and Mrs. Johnson came a half horn- late for the Mass, but heard the sermon. Usu ally the Sunday Mass at the church is at 11 a.m., but the special Pan American Mass be gan at 10:30. Patrick Cardinal O’Boyle of Washington, who presided, at the conclusion of the Mass spoke of the presence of the Chief Ex ecutive. He said: “We are grate ful for your presence. We real ize you have a difficult task and we want you to know, sir, you not only have our understand ing and our sympathy for the burden God has placed upon you, but also assurance of our prayers, day after day, that God may inspire you and help you.” The congregation included an outpouring of the diplomatic corps, as well as members of the judiciary, U.S. senators and rep resentatives, and government officials. Conceived by the late James Cardinal Gibbons of Baltimore to beg God’s blessings upon the na tions of the Americas, the Mass has become one of the most im portant religious events annual ly in the nation’s capital. 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