Vigil Precedes "Sunday" Mass
VATICAN CITY — (NC) — The Congrega
tion of Rites has published a notice that on Sun
day, Dec. 24, the Mass to be celebrated is that
of the vigil of Christmas rather than that of the
fourth Sunday of Advent.
This provision is a standard one. However,
the congregation also ruled that in those places
where by apostolic indult attendance at the Satur
day evening Mass of Dec. 23, can fulfill the Sunday
Mass obligation, the Mass to be celebrated is that
of the fourth Sunday of Advent and not of the
vigil of Christmas.
Jesuit-Alaska Bishop
WASHINGTON — (NC) — Pope Paul has
named Father Robert L. Whelan, S.J., to be co
adjutor with right of succession to Bishop Francis
D. Gleeson, S.J., of Fairbanks, Alaska. Father
Whelan has been pastor of St. Anthony’s church
in Anchorage, Alaska. He is a native of Iowa.
Cardinal Departs for Africa
MONTREAL — Cardinal Leger has left Can
ada for Africa and given up the office of arch
bishop of Montreal for the life of a missionary
to African lepers.
Some 1,000 persons, including Cardinal Roy of
Quebec, gathered at International Airport to say
goodbye to the 63-year-old prelate before he board
ed an Air Canada flight for New York where he
transferred to an Air Afrique plane for Dakar,
Senegal.
Before leaving Montreal, Cardinal Leger re
ceived a letter from Pope Paul VI who had ap
proved the cardinal’s resignation. In the letter the
Pope said:
“At this point, when you are leaving your
episcopal city and native land to go to Africa to
give the rest of your life to the service of lepers
and the missions, we feel the heartfelt need to
inform you of our profound emotion and our inti
mate participation in this serious and noble deci
sion you have made.”
Catholic-Orthodox at Moscow Meet
VATICAN CITY — (NC) — A Vatican dele
gation including two U.S. priests, has visited Mos
cow for talks with officials of the Russian Ortho
dox Church on the “social teaching of the Catholic
Church.”
After the news was released in Moscow the
Vatican Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity
confirmed the fact that a delegation of Catholic
theologians and other scholars had gone to the
Soviet Union to meet with officials of the Russian
Orthodox Church.
The Vatican delegation was led by Bishop
Jan Willebrands of the Netherlands, secretary of
the unity secretariat, and included Msgr. George
G. Higgins, director of the social action depart
ment of the United States Catholic Conference,
Washington, and Jesuit Father John F. Long of
New York, an official of the unity secretariat.
Ask Israel Shrines Boycott
BEIRUT, Lebanon — (NC) — A group of 85
Americans in Beirut who founded a group called
Americans for Justice in the Middle East during
the July War, have called a “mockery” any at
tempt to observe the traditional Christmas feast
in Israel-occupied Jordan.
“The Christmas message of peace on earth,
good will toward men is meaningless in the pres
ent circumstances,” they said. “Great hunger,
cold, death, tragedy desperation, are the lot of
many hundreds of Arabs, including Christians who
are now wandering and waiting for food and
shelter in the face of a bitter winter.”
“We ask all pilgrims to refrain from visitihg
the holy places in Israel-occupied Jordan,” they
said.
D.C. Cardinal Loosens Ban
WASHINGTON — (NC) — Cardinal O’Boyle
has lifted his ban on the “Action Mass,” by per
mitting the group sponsoring it to worship to
gether four times yearly.
The group — known as The People — have
been petitioning the cardinal to relax his opposi
tion to the “Action Mass,” which he had criticized
sharply in a pastoral letter. The cardinal said in
his letter that the “Action Mass” did not conform
to diocesan liturgical regulations and was “de
structive of the very concept of the parish.”
The People celebrated Mass together on Dec.
10, for the first time since the cardinal issued his
pastoral letter.
Extension Seeks New Aims
SAN ANTONIO, Tex. — (NC) — The national
director of the Extension Society Volunteers said
here that the society has set its sights on a pro
gram of total involvement in the modern world
and has turned its attention from financing church
construction to touching the daily lives of people.
Father John Sullivan, whose headquarters are
in Chicago, headed a recruiting team at Catholic
Colleges here. He said that during its early days
the society “helped build over 8,000 churches,”
but added that “it became apparent to us, a few
years ago that what we were doing was not the
most gripping program in the world. There are
greater needs than for church buildings.”
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Washington — After more
than a week of delay over civil
rights amendments, the Senate
passed a three-year, $14.2 billion
version of the Elementary and
Secondary Education Act.
A joint Senate-House confer
ence committee met immediate
ly to work out a compromise be
tween versions of the bill passed
by . the two houses. Their hope
was to have a final bill approved
and on President Lyndon B.
Johnson’s desk by the time Con
gress adjourned Dec. 15 or 16.
The Senate vote came after a
week of delay caused mainly by
Southern efforts to water down
federal desegregation standards.
The threat — sometimes, but not
often, carried out — that school
districts which fail to meet de
segregation guidelines might lose
their federal aid has long an
gered Southern Congressmen.
The Senate listened more at
tentively to professional educa
tors, who want to know well in
advance What they will get from
government.
The second dispute concerns
the control of $500 million for
development of innovative edu
cational programs. The House bill
gave the states control of the
money; a similar proposal failed
in the Senate.
In its place, the Senate passed
a compromise under which the
states will control one-third of
the funds the first year, half the
second year, and two-thirds in
the final year.
The House provision was
strongly opposed by representa
tives of church-related schools,
who argued that experience has
shown that many states will shut
out their schools on the basis of
church-state conflicts.
The Senate version gives fed
eral authorities, private school
representatives and state educa
tors a chance to work out their
differences before its full effect
is felt.
A fourth difference involves
desegregation. The Senate bill is
silent; the senators accepted
instead Gardner’s assurances.
The House bill contains an
amendment which would prevent
Gardner from cutting off any
funds until a full hearing is
held — a process which can take
up to two years.
A final difference concerns
the church-state conflict. The
Senate version would permit tax
payer suits testing aid ito chil
dren in church-related schools.
The House version does not.
That situation is nothing new,
however. Sen. Sam Ervin, who
sponsored the measure, has seen
similar efforts defeated four
times in Senate-House confer
ences.
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