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CHURCH AUTHORITIES GIVE APPROVAL FOR JOINT VtlISION Of NEW TESTAMENT June, Month Of The Sacred Heart Of Jesus
EDINBURGH, Scotland—A New Testament that combines Catholic and Protestant scholarship moved close to publication here this week with the issuance of the key approval by a Catholic Church a uthority. The Biblical work, a Catholic edition of the American Protestant Revised Version of the New Testament, was given a full immediate imprimatur tandard S Archbishop Gordon J. Gray, of St. Andrew's and Edinburgh, in whose diocese by the publishers, Thomas Nelson and Sons, are located.
It was also announced here that the Congregation of the Holy Office in Rome has given its approval in principle to an entire Catholic Bible, including the Old and New Testaments, based on the Revised Standard Version. Work on the Old Testament segment is said to be well advanced, and this joint Catholic-Protestant effort will soon be ready for the presses. When it appears it will be the first English Bible translated straight from the Hebrew and Greek texts with Catholic approval. The Catholic Biblical Association of Britain, led by bibliographists Father Reginald Fuller and Father Bernard Orchard, 0.S.B., started work on this project 11 years ago with the approval of the late Bernard Cardinal Griffin, Archbishop of Westminster. It was shelved by his sudden death and a reserved attitude on the part of his successor, William Cardinal Godfrey. Renewed impetus was given to it by Pope John XXIII's ecumenical trends and the arrival of Archbishop John C Heenan at Westminster. Archbishop Gray has been supporter of the project from its inception.
Few Changes The British Catholic scholars received the full cooperation of the American Protestant Council holding the copyright to the Revised Standard Version. They characterised it as a textually pure translation and found very few changes necessary in preparing their Catholic edition. The changes they made were largely a matter of change in emphasis. The American Protestant authorities agreed to them, while asking that they be marked by footnotes as they appeared in the text and also listed at the back of the volume. The Protestant scholars also agreed on the difficult problem of rearranging the books of the Apocrypha in a way suitable to Catholics. A rchbishop Gray sought and received final confirmation from the Holy Office before issuing his imprimatur here. A condition to the publication of the Catholic edition is that it has a special introduction—which was alreday prepared by Father Fuller—and the notes to the text. In issuing his approval, Archbishop Gray told :he British press: "We have felt the need for such an edition for some time. Apart from its tremendous ecumenical significance it will provide a valuable basis for the dialogue between Catholic and Protestant scholars."
Regime Accused B ERLIN: Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski has accused Poland's communist government of ignoring the. Church's contribution to Polish national life, according to reports here. The Polish Primate said in a sermon for 40 newly ordained priests at St. John's Cathedral in Warsaw that "the Church in our fatherland lives through difficult times . . . It cannot freely develop all its activities . . . Its merits are discounted and hidden away." Cardinal Wyszynski r eferred especially to the celebration earlier in May of the 600th anniversary of Cracow University by the communist party and government leaders. He said: "The university was created under the i nspiration of the Church. The universit-.brought forth saints, bishops and priests, but there came the proud and conceited who said nothing about this. "The Archbishop of Cracow, who has lectured at the university. was not even invited" to the celebrations, the Cardinal noted.
CARDINAL VISITS RIOT VICTIMS LIMA. PERU:
JUAN Cardinal Landazuri, of Lima, went from It/ ipital to hospital here to comfort the close to a thceusand persons injured in the soccer game riot which took hundreds of lives on May 24. Besides leading in the Prayers for the victims of the carnage, the Cardinal ordered the collection of funds for the survivors. directing that the Catholic c harities organisation supervise its distribution. President Fernando Belaunde of Peru decreed
national mourning a n d also asked the nation to pray for the eternal rest of the dead. At the same time, the government suspended the right of freedom' of assembly in an effort to avert further rioting. The disaster took place at the National Stadium, where a crowd of some 40,000 was watching an international Olympics elimination soccer match between Peru and Argentina. In the last minutes of the game when a, Uruguayan referee ruled out on grounds of foul the Peruvian side's tying goal,
the people stampeded on to the field to trounce him. Police started throwing tear gas grenades to quell them, and panic ensued. Thousands started racing for the stadium gates to escape, only to find them still closed. Many were crushed to death underfoot. Most of the deaths were laid to asphyxiation. however. • In Vatican City the daily newspaper L'Osservatore Romano decried the rioting and condenmed excessive sports enthusiasm as "blinding spectators and leading them to madness.''
The Feast of the Sacred Heart, celebrated throughout the Catholic world this year on June 5, commemorates the love and sacrifice of Christ for the redemption of mankind. ( John 19:31-37). The devotion to the Sacred Heart was revealed by Christ when he appeared to St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, a nun of the Visitation Order, at Paray-le-Monial, France in the 17th century. The above painting of the apparition hangs in the chapel o f the Convent of the Visitation Sisters in Bethesda, Md. Photo N.C.)
AGENCY DENIES REPORT ON MINDSZENTY TRIAL
BUDAPEST, HUNGARY: THE EDITOR OF HUNGARY'S SEMI-OFFICIAL CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE HERE HAS DENIED A REPORT TIIAT THE HUNGARIAN GOVERNMENT HAS APPOINTED A JURIDICAL COMMITTEE TO RE-EXAMINE THE TRIAL A GAINST JOZSEF CARDINAL MINDSZENTY HELD IN 1949. The report was cited in add to it?" In responding an inquiry from the Neth- with a denial, the editor erlands Catholic Press Bu- in Budapest said the matreau (KNP) at the Hague. ter "required detailed reIt asked the Hungarian search on my part." service, Magyar Kurir, to NO COMMITTEE chck whether such a committee existed, and also " . . . I have not wanted to check a further report to deny the false reports that the committee has the ( because they appeared mission of establishing in) the Catholic news whether or not the Cardi- agencies . . . Thus I have nal's testimony "was given kept silence up +0 now. pressure," a n cl However, when I received under " whether the trial eviyour letter . . . (I assumdence and testimony of ed) that something might witnesses correspond to have occurred in the the facts." The report al- Mindszenty matter after leged "recordings made all, without my knowing during the trial are to be it," the editor said. "Hence heard again and eventual- I went into the affair in ly additional witnesses are detail and have been able heard." be to The editor of the Hague to learn that there is no bureau. in his inquiry to special committee which t h e Hungarian service, is to review the affair of asked: "Are you in a posi- Cardinal Mindszenty. Here tion to check this report or in Hungary, the trial held
in the beginning of 1949 is considered to be closed. "And then there are also the events—as I was told repeatedly by competent authorities — of the year 1956. (referring to the Hungarian revolt, at which time the Cardinal was released from prison and took refuge in the United States Embassy in Budapest, where he still resides). "So much is clear—that such reports and similar ones about the Church or Religious, which crop up in.Ate West, only cause disorder . . . and lack any foundation. You may be sure that if anything concrete should take place in this matter. (we) will report it without delay," the editor concluded.