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No. 3163. Perth, Thursday, October 15, 1964
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The Fathers interrupted this discussion long enough to complete the voting on the three chapters of the schema on ecumenism. The chapters voted on stressed the ties that bind Catholics to separated churches in the East and West, and recommended that, under certain circumstances, Catholics take part in Orthodox services. The very first speaker on the lay apostolate schema, Joseph Cardinal Ritter of St. Louis, U.S.A., set the toile for what was to become the Fathers' general feeling towards the draft statement. Cardinal Ritter said the text as presented to the Fathers would need a complete revision, although he asked the Fathers to accept the text as a basis for discussion. NVRONG SPIRIT As for the flaws in the text, Cardinal Ritter listed a clerical spirit which seems to have a patronising tone, as if the highest r ole of the laity were to aid the clergy and not to pursue its own role. He criticised the document's juridical tone as being improper and nonpastoral, and he cited the fact that the activities generally grouped under the term Catholic Action are favoured in it to the detriment of the many other forms of the apostolate. Cardinal Ritter said the text was unorganised, that it contained non-essential elements, that the proper distinction between the laity 'and the hierarchy w as not brought out, and that the text did not have a pronci- theological basis fo-f' thQ lay apostolate. The majority of the remaining bishops who spoke during the first day of debate on the schema agreed With Cardinal Ritter. Michael Cardinal Browne, 0.P., Irish member of the Roman Curia, expressed his general satisfaction With the schema, but nevertheless suggested
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of the Dutch bishops, Bishop Gerardus De Vet of Breda said the text should allude to the fact that the lay apostolate is already being carried out and that it should not be regarded as a necessary evil. The world is the proper place for the laity to work because they are of it, he said.
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GREATER ROLE DESIRED FOR THE LAYMAN
Vatican City: The ecumenical council turned its gaze on the Catholic laity during the fourth week of its current session. Many council Fathers promptly sought a larger role for the laity than was proposed in the document under debate.
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Is Surely Hell In Chinese Prison
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The second day's debate continued in the same direction as the first, and i t was extended, when Archbishop Eugene D'Souza of sat at a reception desk Bhopal, India, suggested where I went to ask to see that laymen be permitted a priest. I had to fill out a to fill offices in the Roman form and say why. Then the priest came out. We Curia and the diplomatic OWN RIGHT corps of the Holy See. had to talk only in ShangGERMAINE SWAIN reports from HONG KONG Spanish Archbishop ViArchbishop D'Sou z a hai dialect. But the priest NEWS OF THE PERSECUTED CHURCH took issue with the state- cente Enrique y Tarancon would not talk to me about IN COMMUNIST CHINA, INCLUDING A REPORT anything. He was afraid." ment in the draft that of Ovieda claimed the text nothing in the lay aposto- is confused in many things OF THE DEATH OF AN IMPRISONED CHINESE Almost three of the late field can be under- and said he wanted it made seven years he spent in taken without the bishops. clear that laymen who SISTER, WAS BROUGHT HERE BY A LAYMAN He said it is false to be- dedicate themselves to the EXPELLED FROM SHANGHAI AFTER SEVEN _ prison. Matiatos said, were in the hospital gaol, partly lieve that no action can be apostolate are doing it in YEARS IMPRISONMENT. because of ulcers but also started without the their own right and not by because he -slashed his bishop's expressed appro- virtue of a benign concesJacques Matiatos (40), their community, Sister even part of his and arms val. In fact, he continued, sion from authority. He was imprisoned mainly for Marie, in prison. The nuns bishops must be careful said the activity of the his Legion of Mary acti- told him that another throat to get some edible not to usurp the responsi- laity should be clearly dis- vity, he told the N.C.W.C. member, Sister Louise, food. bilities of the laity in such tinguished from the acti- News Service at St. Paul's was re-imprisoned "It was hell there for all for areas as education, social vity of the clergy. Hospital, where he has writing to Hong Kong. of us and you had to fight, Even as the Council stayed since his arrival services and the adminiAbout religious practices for if you did not fight stration of temporal goods. Fathers expressed their here on September 30. in Shanghai, Matiatos said: back at the guards, you Using an English phrase, views on the text, there Suffering from ulcers, "They like to say you can would surely die. And it is Auxiliary Bishop Stephen was a movement afoot to he was released from pri- believe in any religion, but surely hell for all the good A. Leven of San Antonio, allow the lay auditors to son on June 5. that is for visitors. I went Chinese priests at hard U.S.A., declared that the speak on the subject. The Matiatos was in the to Christ the King Church. labour and almost martyrdocument should be auditors normally must same Shanghai gaol as 73- A communist party man ed for our Faith." streamlined and "given keep s.lent during the year-old Bishop James E. Council general sessions. Walsh, M.M., American more punch." The lay apostolate is not The au '" tors drafted their prelate who was sentenced a concession made to the request to speak and sent in 1960 to a 20-year term faithful but is their right, it to the Council's modera- for "subversive activities," he said. He added that tors, who in turn forward- and Bishop Ignatius Kung Pin-Mei of Shanghai., while bishops can' direct ed it to Pope Paul VI. The auditors selected this apostolate, they canBorn in Saigon to a not forbid it or so hem it Patrick Keegan of Eng- Vietnamese mother and a in with restrictions as to land, president of the Greek-born father who beWorld Movement of Chris- came a French citizen, make it meaningless. Bishop Leven said a tian Workers, to express Matiatos joined the French greater dialogue between their views, if permission army, then went to China By Father Placid Jordon, now Pentecost Sunday, and stayed there after his the hierarchy a! d the laity to speak were granted. O.S.B. in Vatican City. June 6, 1965. discharge. He was imis needed, declaring that During the six-month FUNERAL prisoned in 1957. little will be gained if a A JOINT MEETING OF interval between the third bishop consults only a few On the evening after the OFFICIALS OF THE and fourth sessions, comFAIRLY WELL people—especially if these second day's debate 22 ECUMENICAL COUNCIL mittees will have sufficient few are only his doctor cardinals and nearly one He said: "Bishop Walsh time to go over the many and housekeeper. REPORTEDLY HAS RE- amendments proposed for thousand Council Fathers looked fairly well and • Continued on Page Five. maybe recognised me as I SULTED IN A DECISION various texts so that the SENATE passed his cell in the NOT TO BRING THE Fathers will be able to Shanghai hospital gaol on complete the final voting In order to promote this June 3. He did not smile COUNCIL'S THIRD SES- during a fourth session to dialogue, Bishop Leven at me, but they say he SION TO AN ABRUPT be called shortly after called for the establishalways looks as if he is HALT. Easter. ment in each diocese of a praying." Bishop Walsh is senate similar to the one A majority of the Fathers The most probable clos- feel constantly attended by a which, it has been sugthat the schema on the Chinese bodyguard, and is ing date appears to be Church in gested, might be founded the modern never alone, said. November left 20. he after the Council to assist world requires special conAccording to reliable sideration which ought not Matiatos also said he the Pope. saw Bishop Kung Pin-Mei sources, the meeting of to be rushed. A feeling also NEWS was received Auxiliary Bishop Heinlast January in the hospi- the Council's presidency, prevails that many propolast weekend that Mr. rich Tenhumberg of Muntal gaol. "The Bishop could co-ordinating committee, sitions as now drafted Timothy Brosnan, father ster, Germany, speaking not have weighed a hun- moderators and general leave a lot to be desired of the parish priest of for 83 German-language dred pounds. He was spit- secretariat agreed that the and would result in genWembley parish, died Fathers, suggested laymen ting blood and looked very present session should be eral disappointment if not on Friday, October 9. could be placed in diosick," he said. long enough to permit dis- put on a more solid footThe late Mr. Brosnan cesan curias to assist the cussion on pending sche- ing. lived at Carrigeen, Kilbishops. LITTLE SISTER mata and propositions to larney, County Kerry, Eighteen Fathers spoke The schedule now concontinue without pressure. Ireland. Father Brosnan Two Chinese Little Sisduring the second day of will make it templated with him at the was ters of the Poor in Shangdebate, and they were in possible to provide for JUNE 6 death. of time his general agreement that the hai recently released, told these needs to eventually May he rest in peace. schema needed modificahim of the death in SepThe target date for the lead to more positive retions. •Speaking on behalf tember of a member of Council's formal closing is sults from the Council.
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