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'NON E32D ANNOUNCES MEASURES TO EFFECT URGENT DECREES Of THE COUNCIL From JAMES C. O'NEILL in Vatican City.
THE DRIVE to bring the Church up to date gathered new momentum with Pope Paul's publication of a document implementing four more decrees of Vatican Council II, and introducing a variety of changes in existing laws. Among the most significant changes introduced in the motu proprio Ecclesiae Sanctae are provisions which: • Invite national episcopal conferences to propose to the Holy See the names of priests to be considered for the office of bishop; • Recommend voluntary retirement at least by the age of 75 for bishops and priests; •
Grant more dignity to auxiliary bishops;
• Establish the new diocesan office of episcopal vicar to assist the bishop in special fields within his diocese; • Provide for setting up in each diocese a senate of priests to consult with the bishop, and recommending a pastoral council of priests, Religious and laity to assist in bettering the religious life of the whole diocese; • Call for full and juridical establishment of national episcopal conferences; • Create a new 24-man commission to assist the Church's jinissionary Congregation of the Propagation of the Faith so as to better meet the needs in the mission fields. document, dated on the pastoral office of ! visions are being enactTHEAugust 6. but not bishops, on the priest1N ed on an experimental
Poor children like these lads in the crowded city of Coimbatore, South India, will benefit from the Indian Bishops' campaign against hunger and disease, to be financed by a collection all over India on September 4, and subsequent annual collections in the Lenten season. The collection is the result of two preparatory meetings for the Indian bishops' campaign against hunger and disease which were held in Bombay last week by Valerian Cardinal Gracias of Bombay. They were attended by priests, Religious, and laity. Cardinal Gracias pointed out that technological resources and organisational skills to overcome world poverty do exist, but he said that "selfishness, cynicism, and despair are the fundamental reasons" for their not being adequately used. "These attitudes," he said, "have no place in Christian hearts."
released until August life and ministry, on the basis, national episcopal 12, States that its pro- religious life, and on conferences are invited visions are to go into missions, to send to Rome their effect on October 11, the Not all points in each observations and suganniversary of the of the Council docu- gestions for eventual inCouncil's opening in ments are covered in clusion in the revised 1962. t he new motu proprio. code of canon law. The provisions are in Archbishop Felici said. Termination the experimental stage. He explained that mar.y according to Archbishop other points can be Archbishop Felici said Pericle Felici. secretary- covered in the revision that with the publicageneral of the post-con- of canon law now in tion of this motu proprogr ess. also and may ciliar Central Commisprio. the work of the sion. He said they may be acted on in the re- six post-conciliar combe modified in the formation of the Roman missions is ended, alfuture. Curia, also under way. though the effects and Because the new pro- conse Archbishop Felici, who quences of th,' held a special press conCouncil will be felt lonR ference to coincide with into the future. The the publication of the termination of the postdocument said it seeks conciliar c o m missions POLISH Catholics were urged to light governto deal with the most does not, however, affect urgent aspects of four ment -sponsored atheism with a "crusade of ei‘her the Consilium for Council decrees which Implementation of the love- by Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski of Warsaw. THE Wshops Comhad not been imple Constitution on the Litmented. mittee for Social and urgy or the secretariats "The greatest sin," he He said that he exThese are the. decrees Charitable Work s, for Christian unity and said, "is to take God pected to 'continue his which is responsible for contacts with nonaway from our chil- campaign of prea^hing for Australian CathoChristians and with dren." against the atheism belic Relief, has annon-believers. ing promoted by the nounced that the total Archbishop Feli i At the National Shrine government. amount received as noted that implementa- of the Black Madonna The Cardinal repeated at August 15, for the Czestochowa, he tion of the decrees on at that he had been refused Lenten Appeal for the !ay apostolate and claimed that economic permission to go to the HE Historic Churches overseas relief (Pro- en Christian education pressure was being used United States to cele ject Compassion has not yet to Preservation Trust.: create socia godless been comWhich was established 1966). was 8277,867 pleted. It has been de- ety. An estimated 75,000 brate Poland's Christian millenium with Ameriand cents, 85 with by the Archbishop of cided, he said, that the people were at the Marcans of Polish origin. Canterbury in 1952, has donations having goals of both ian shrine the for Cardocuments for the first time made been received from Although it has barred can be best achieved by dinal's sermon on the grants to two Cathollc every diocese in Austhe Cardinal from leavAssumption. the least of creation of two different tralia. ing the country, the Churches. new bodies. The Committee Polish government reexThe cum of $3.000 The one for lay aposportedly offered permisMany Servants Roes to St. Cypriari' . tends its gratitude to tolate—called for by the sion for another bishop Chudleigh, in Devon. all Catholics through- decree itself—is already A theism "has so many t o go in his place. Which was built in 1760. out Australia who under study by a proservants," he said, "becontributed so generIn commenting on re70 years before the visional c o m mission. cause there are so many Ca- ously and Nv'llingly strictions placed on pilto tholic Emancipation The other. for Christian people defending their grimages this appeal. . Czestoto Act. The funds will he e ducation, will be crusts of bread, their chowa from Warsaw, The sum of $2.250 allocated as early as brought into being with. jobs . . . People arc C ardinal Wyszynski Roes to St. John's, Nor in the general frame- ready to break any law, said, "If you meet obwitch, an architectural practicable to urgent work of the reform of violate every need s. right, in- stacles on your way to narticularly in the Roman Masterpiece built at th( Curia which cluding South-East Asia and freedom, in Czestochowa, please forexpense of the late Dukc is under study. order to hang on to their give those who erected New Guinea. of Norfolk. • See Page Six. crusts of bread." them."
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