K of C Nafr'l Convention Ends
ANAHEIM, Calif. — The best short descrip
tion of modem society is that it is “greatly per
turbed and horribly confused,” the chief executive
officer of the Knights of Columbus said here.
Supreme Knight John W. McDevitt said the
age is “ultra-permissive . . . indulgently tolerant of
sin . . . prefers vice to virtue . . . afflicted with an
obsession for speaking out and an aversion to
thinking through . . . rich in gadgets but poor in
the joys of the spirit . . . rich in scientific know
how but poor in the wisdom of salvation.”
McDevitt presented his pessimistic world view
at the 86th annual meeting (Aug. 20-22) of
Knights’ Supreme Council, the top policy making
body of the 1.2 million-member Catholic fraternal
organization.
3 Appointments of U.S. Bishops
WASHINGTON — Pope Paul VI has made the
following appointments in the hierarchy of the
United States:
Most Rev. Stanislaus Brzana, who has been
auxiliary of Buffalo, to be the Bishop of Ogdens
burg.
Msgr. Michael J. Dudick, pastor of the Church
of St. George, Newark, N.J., to be the Eparch of
Passaic.
Msgr. Arthur J. O’Neill, pastor of the Church
of St. Peter, Rockford, 111., to be the Bishop of
Rockford.
Negro Nuns Hold Meeting
PITTSBURGH — Dr. Nathan Wright, Jr., of
the department of urban work in the Newark, N.J.,
archdiocese, established the mood for the first
National Black Sisters Conference there by asking
all non-blacks to leave the room when he began
his opening address of the conference.
The conference brought 155 black nuns from
76 religious communities together for a week of
lectures, workshops and panel discussions aimed
“at deepening the awareness of the contemporary
moods of black people, to be a support to one
another and as black religious women, to move
forward in the nation’s attempt to create a positive
living relationship between black and whites.”
Recommended TV Program
NEW YORK — (NC) — The National Cath
olic Office for Radio and Television (NCORT) lists
the following network presentation as a program
of special interest. The times indicated are for
the New York City area and may vary in other
^^day, Aug. 30, 10 to 11 p.m.: “The New
American Catholic” (NBC): An examination of
some of the new movements and trends coursing
through the Catholic Church in America.
Physicions Support Pope
PHILADELPHIA — (NC) — The executive
committee of the St. Francis Catholic Physicians
Guild meeting here pledged full support and
obedience to Pope Paul’s birth control encyclical
Humanae Vitae, and urged all guild members to do
the same.
The committee’s statement was released by
Dr. Gino Papola, vice president of the national
federation of Catholic physicians guilds.
“The vicar of Christ has spoken,” the state
ment said. “Pope Paul was guided by the same
God who gave Moses the Ten Commandments, and
it is mandatory on all Catholics whether laymen
or Religious to use their energies in guiding their
families, their neighbors, and their communities
to follow the laws of God, rather than to engage
in the hair splitting activities that have been going
on since the encyclical was made public.
Pleads African Cease Fire
NEW YORK — A cease fire in the Nigerian
Biafran conflict “must be the immediate aim of
all of us,” Bishop Edward E. Swanstrom, executive
director of Catholic Relief Services, said here.
Bishop Swanstrom preached (Aug. 18) at a
special Mass for peace in Nigeria at St. Patrick’s
Cathedral. Archbishop Terence J. Cooke of New
York was the celebrant.
“We must beg for it (a cease fire) in our
prayers,” Bishop Swanstrom said, “just as we pray
for peace in Vietnam, and we must ask our Presi
dent and the officers of our own government, we
must ask the United Nations to use their good of
fices to bring this about.”
'Right of Dissent'
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tance of these two paragraphs,
I asked for written professional
opinions on them from all the
theologians who met with me
at Catholic University yesterday.
Three agreed to comply with
this request within the time I
suggested — ten days. Many,
however, replied with all sorts
of excuses. The majority claimed
that it would take much longer
than ten days to provide such
an opinion.
“It seems odd to me,’’ the car
dinal continued, “that those who
signed the dissenting statement
in which these two paragraphs
were included did not find them
selves able to render a profes
sional opinion upon them as I
requested.
“I should have assumed that a
competent theologian would not
have subscribed to a statement
carrying with it vast implica
tions for the salvation of souls
and the unity of the Church un
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trouble to investigate the matter
about which he was speaking.
And if the dissenting theolo
gians conducted such an investi
gation, and conducted it in a
competent theological manner,
why did they not have the re
sults of this study ready at
hand?”
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20 Talk with Cardinal at C.U.;
Fr. Curran Says Meet Affirmed
Freedom of Dissent Tradition
Washington — (NC) —: Pat
rick Cardinal O’Boyle, chan
cellor of the Catholic University
of America, met (Aug. 20) with
faculty members of the univer
sity’s school of theology and de
partment of religious education.
The cardinal said: “I have called
this meeting to hear what you
have to say about the situation
following the publication of Hu
manae Vitae,” referring to the
recent encyclical of Pope Paul
VI on birth control.
The cardinal said: “I have to
fulfill my responsibilities as
chancellor, and in doing so I
want to make sure the rights of
all concerned are properly pro
tected,” explaining his desire to
get an accurate picture of the
problem.
According to a statement re
leased after the meeting, the
cardinal passed out during the
meeting copies of the theological
statement of dissent and asked
for comments from the faculty
members present. The statement
for the press said that the car
dinal listened for more than an
hour to the views of the theo
logians on the problem they
thought the theological state
ment of dissent might raise for
die Catholic University of Amer
ica as a pontifical institution.
Cardinal O’Boyle said that a
stenotype record was made of
the meeting, and that this will
be transcribed and given to the
faculty members.
At the end of the meeting, the
cardinal said he probably would
refer the situation at the uni
versity to a special meeting of
die university’s board of trustees.
A statement released after the
meeting said that advance re
ports had suggested the meeting
would be a showdown between
the cardinal and dissenting
members of the theological fac
ulties, but, the statement said,
the cardinal “did not call the
meeting to lay down any ulti
matum.” The -cardinal empha
sized that he had called the
meeting to listen to the com
ments of faculty members.
The meeting was attended by
20 members of the university
faculties, including Father John
P. Whalen, acting rector; Charles
E. Curran, Thomas Flannery and
George Hamilton III, attorneys
for the university; and two rep
resentatives of the Washington
branch of the American Associa
tion of University Professors
(AAUP). The AAUP representa
tives were invited to the meet
ing by Father Curran and other
faculty members. Father Curran
said the faculty had requested
the presence of the AAUP rep
resentatives because they had
not been presented with an
agenda in advance.
“In discredit to myself,” he
said, “I tended to be rather sus
picious of what might take
place.”
But he said his fears had been
completely misplaced. He said
Cardinal O’Boyle chaired the
meeting and encouraged all fac
ulty members to speak their
minds freely. Father Curran said
the cardinal did not enter into
discussions and made no threats
nor gave any hints of discipli
nary action against the dissent
ing faculty members.
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