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Tfl •---„*• - . . ' T *<'*- >F-ff><s« » •.* i .\.tjEr\^-*. '\Y :',; r ^ Aubllee Ljreefcnadl f „.^ ^s-^g^*^ Assembly of Latin Bishops Calls for Crash Program Of Renewal, Social Justice This most recent portrait by Varden Studios, Rochester uSiSvtop AameA C-. ^Jseartteu \-Jrdainecl a f^rie&t 60 Ujeart ~Arao September 1% 1908 in. flew IforL ClL V \I looked forward with concern to what retirement might mean. But I reasoned: if the Holy Father asks for it, then for me it is the Will of God.\ Bishop Kearney sat in a deep leather chair in his home at 947 East Avenue last weekend reflecting on what he has done with pearly two years of retirement after three score years as an intensely active priest and bishop. In mid-1966, at the age of 81, he yielded to the request of Pope Paul -VI that all Bishops over 75 submit resignations. The Pope accepted his offer in late October of that year and Bishop Fulton J. Sheen arrived to ON THE INSIDE Around the Country 5 Around the World 14 Commentary 18 Diocesan—.JJJJJ ,JLU ^ «_ UJU i... 7__ Editorial 6 Entertainment 13 Interracial 4 Pat Answers 7 IF YOU MOVE . . . let us know about it so we can keep your Courier coming to you on time. Phone ot mail us notice of your change of ad- dress. Include your old address and new address and the name of your parish. Courier-Journal, 35 Scio St., Rochester, N.Y. 14604, Phone 716-454-7050. succeed him as head erf the Roches- ter Diocese on December 15, 1968. \I wondered what I would do with myself in the years the Lord would still give me. But I remembered my mother often said: The Lord fits the back to the burden'. Ajid I can say now that when the Lord takes away burdens He adjusts the back to the future\. Sixty years as a priest began on the morning of September 19, 1908, when the future Bishop of Rochester was ordained in St Stephen's Church, New York City by Bishop Thomas F. Cusack, Auxiliary Bishop of New York. - A year of study at Catholic Univer- sity in Washington, 19 busy years as assistant at St. Cecelia's in New York, 4 years as pastor-builder of St. Fran- cis Xavier's in the Bronx, 5 years as Bishop of Salt Lake City, brought Bishop Kearney to Rochester on No- vember 10, 1937. His 31 years here have made civic as well as ecclesiasti- cal history. \I intend to mark my anniversary on Thursday, the 19th, very simply and quietly,\ the Bishop said. \A Mass of'ThanksglvIng right here in our little chapel — Just myself and the Lord, with my brother sharing and answering the prayers for me?' An 84th birthday and the 36th annL— versary of his consecration as a Bish- ' op will both occur on the same day next month, the 28th of October; and the Bishop admitted there might be \a bit more of a fuss nude then.\ A man in retirement has time for reading and Bishop Kearney revels in it. \There wire so many books I had to 'put by when I was; 'too busy' as Bishop. But, really, now I'm reading the old things with more pleasure than the new. I read more poetry than prose, I'll admit. Recently I've been having a wonderful time with Joyce Kilmer's works and an an- thology of Catholic poetry he put to- gether years ago.\ —' Keen of mind and aflert to every item in the throbbing world, the Bishop reads two Rochester papers and studies the NEW YORK TIMES every day and looks at a stack of weekly and monthly magazines both secular and religious. Asked about his travels or holidays since stepping out of the burdens of the Chancery, the Bishop, said he hadn't left the diocese for more than occasional trips to New York since his retirement. \I still ride the trains because I like them. I take an 11:30 train in the morning and the time passes very quickly with a good book. 1 like to read Shakespeare on trains. Usually I come back on the sleeper service from Grand Central.\ The \renewal of the Church\ began before the Bishop's retirement and it still concerns him. \Vatican II is un- justly accused of authorizing many things which are causing confusion today,\ he stated. \Many good advances came from the Council but they are being abused by the extremists in liturgy and the- ology. In their zeal to popularize the liturgy these rash people are forget- ting the majesty due to the King of Kings. However I have the utmost confidence in the Blessed Mother of the Church. Pope Paul In naming Our Lady 'Mother of the Universal Church' anticipated that the Church would need the heart of a tender Mother and the strong arm of a heavenly Queen.\ * The Bishop's health is \excellent\, he claims and attributes credit to his dally exercise of a mile-walk on East Avenue or in his backyard. \I walk -hriskly-for-^(K minutes-on-the- -driver- way out here keeping track of my time by 4he clock 1 see through the kitchen window\. The Bishop's social life is pleasur- ably full. He often goes to rectories for dinner parties, enjoys invitations to school functions, especially at the two colleges, visits St. Mary's Hospi- tal regularly and goes to many fu- nerals. \The charity of honoring the <Iead was often impossible for me -when, I had many commitments as a Bishop. Now I ean make up for it by going often to give the final benedic- tion of the requiem.\ _ The Bishop would not be drawn into quotable discussion on current controversies like birth control, celi- bacy, . papal authority, education or morality. But he spontaneously vol- unteered a quote about his successor: \The Diocese Is very fortunate In these times to have a leader of such spirituality and intellectual timber as Bishop Sheen. His pastoral letters are forceful and very well thought out They give us all a deep sense of confidence that a True Shepherd cares for this flock.\ . — Palhcr Richard Tnrmex By JAIME FONSECA (NC News Service) Medellln, Collombla — The second general assembly of the Latin Ameri- can Bishops recommended a crash program of Church renewal and so- cial justice to open the ways of sal- vation for millions of the poor in their countries. The summary included a condemna- tion of radical nationalism, ineffi- cient bureaucracy and political malad- ministration, as weH asTexcessive gov- ernment spending in areas unrelated to the needs and development of the people. It ended with a call for \all men of good faith to collaborate in truth, justice, love and liberty\ for a new Latin America. la a series of guidelines for the future work of tihelr parishes and organizations throughout the conti- nent some 130 bishops voted for deep changes. In the following areas of pas- toral work: • Justice and Peace: They con- demned violence-, both in its armed form of rural and urban guerrillas, and in the \passive\ form of viola- tion of human rights, such as the in- human conditions prevailing in many countries. They urgently called for governments and private leaders to increase production and distribute wealth, both in industrial and agri- cultural activities, and full Church support for those moves. • Family and Population: They urged responsible parenthood follow- ing the encyclical Hmnanae Vita? and exprfcsied opjkisitititl to government .,-M,. -birth<a)ntrol orMjrams. They- also ex- ' - pressed Chtif$ sutppoTt'of all efforti to educate the aliases on parental rights and dutlesjand. to Increase pro- duction by the better use of human and natural resources. —rEducattoni—\Instittittoiial\ edu- cation (school!, colleges, universities), they said must reform attitudes, pro- grams and methods to infuse a spirit of solidarity and! social justice. A drive for development in the stu- dents* \Pastoral'* education — the ad- ministration of trie sacraments, preaching, counseling, catechetical in- struction — they said, must enlighten the traditiqnnl faith and religious spirit, both at the grass-roots and elite levels.. • Training of Priests: Corrective measures to modernize teaching, to involve seminary living In community problems, and changes from large seminaries to smaller \family-like\ groups were suggested. • Lay Movements: They cited the need to promote Integration of lay persons into pastoral work to pro- vide good priest-moderators, to charge the laity with development projects and the financial support of parishes. They also urged the creation of a Latin American Lay Council. • Colleglallty: Church renewal, they said, is boujnd to Internal com- munication and dialogue regarding diocesan and parish work. Therefore, they explained, the pastor must count on lay advice, the bishop on priest councils. National bishops' confer- ences^ and the Latlrr American Bish- ops 7 Council (CfXAM) must continue their coordinationrthey said. • Youth: The bishops urged the establishment of pastoral programs and institutions addressed to the care of youth, stressing cultural, social and economic change and the future responsibilities of youth in leader- ship and development. They said recognition must be given to the aims of youth — an outlook for the fu- tuer, a truly fraternal society, a search for real evangelical values, and jus- tice. • -Poverty: The Church, they said, must fully identify with the poor, as a prophetic, missionary force in a' new world responding to the demands of the Gospel. Clergy and laity, they added, must be witnesses for sim- plicity and solidarity in daily living. Tfciey urged a reform of the stipend system to separate it from the sacra- ments. • Social Communications: The bish- ops also urged the use of more effi- cient, modern means of social com- munication as an Instrument of the Church in spreading the Gospel and promoting development and_Jn help- ing to foster free public opinion with- in the Church. CELAM Head Urges U.S. Bishops to Back Papal Volunteer Plan Washington — (NC) — Archbishop Avelar Brandao Vilela, president of the Conference of Latin American Bishops (CELAM), has asked the dio- ceses of the United States to promote the Papal Volunteer (PAVLA) pro- gram, which sends U.S. Catholic lay men and women to work in Latin American development programs. The archbishop of Tererma, Bra- zil, addressed his plea In a letter to United States bishops. He noted the PAVLA program bis developed great- ly since ltfol, when the first •vblun\- teei'a arrived in Latin America. ** \We write to you In support of the effort being made by the program. Papal Volunteers for Latin America, which we consider to be of great value,\ ArclibJshjatJton^^ \In its early years, the program was In need of better planning hut at the present time we feel that Its wort is being conducted with greater understanding of Latin America.\ he continued. \The precise intention of the pro- gram, in its operation in the United States just as in many countries In which it assists, Is to perform a very carefully selected task in such a way as to fulfill the necessary prerequi- sites, — that Is, knowledge of the re- crulred language, understanding not only of general Latin American cul- ture but particularly of each country each <cwintry, and coordination. jflttu- ^ the Joint Pastoral plaits of the coun- tries of Latin America.\ \Within tills spirit, we consider v<ery useful the cooperation of the per- sonnel that North Amorica is able to . cafto lo^flttC^jc^ijncjiLjM Church in which we are all vitally involved,\ he said. ,r Wo hopo that the diocoses of North America will re- spond affirmatively to this program, and we eagerly await that response.\ High School Students Show Overall Fncreace The ten major high schools of the Rochester Diocese are holding their own and even gaining a little, enroll- ment figures Indicate. The current total of 9*664 shows an overall net gain of 153 over last year's figure. Continued growth of the two co- educational schools In Rochester's northern suburbs more than offset scattered losses elsewhere. Bishop Kearney High School in Irondequoit gained 100 pupils, for a total of 1,612. Cardinal MOoney, in Greece, has 90 more than last year, or 1,420. Our Lady of Mercy, a girls' school that draws heavily from suburban areas, went up by 45, to 1.-026-. •- The greatest single loss \Was in Elmira, where Notre Dame High School increased tuition $100, to $300, and enrollment dropped from 649 to 583. In no case was a gain or loss found entirely In the entering class. Several administrators pointed out that en- rollment figures are not final this early in the term. In Rochester, Nazareth Academy dropped from 1,045 to 1.O08, but St. Agnes held steady at 837, despite a somewhat smaller freshman class. McQuaid \Jesuit gained 17 boys, for a current total of 818. Aquinas Insti- tute reported a rough total of 1,200, or the same as last year's. In Auburn, Mt. Carmel noted an increase of 20, to 761. DeSalcs High in Geneva registered 392, showing a loss of 14. A further loss, not Included in the totals for the large schools, results from the imminent closing of The Academy of the Sacred Heart in Rochester. This school, which will go oui of business next June, had 85 girls in Its secondary department last year, and Is down to 43 now. Inquiry Set on Encyclical Dissension (From Courier-Journal Sources) Washington — An extraordi- nary HT-tTouf rraeeTTng oTtMTfuF tees of the Catholic University of America — called to consider whether to fire Father Charles Curran and 17 other professors \who have disagreed with Pope Paul on birth control — resulted in^a compromise calling for an inquiry \through due academic process.\ The dissenters were warned how- ever that if they speak out against the encyclical or church authority during the inquiry they will be sus- pended from teaching, but with full\ pay. Before the meeting, faculty sources said that- if dissenting faculty were fired\ it would result in another strike like the one that closed down Catho- lic U. and turned back an attempt to fire Father Curran in the spring of 1967^. In a statement after the meeting in the Hotel Madison, the trustees called on the 18 faculty members Who have publicly opposed Ilafiuuiac Vitac not to engage in activities that involve^ the name of Catholic University and that are \inconsistent with the pro- nouncements of the ordinary teaching authority established in the church, above all that of the Holy Father.'' Neither the university nor the trus- tees would clarify what kind of ac- tivities would bring about suspension. Most faculty members, however, in- terpreted it to mean a ban against all public speeches or writings against the encyclical, but not a limitation on What might be said in the classroom. The only direct criticism of the theologians contained in the trustees' statement, which was read to the press by Board Chairman Carroll A. Hoch- walt, was the following: \The style and method of organiz-l ing and publicizing their dissent have raised serious questions as to the con- formity of their actions with respon- sible academic procedure as well as with the spirit of this~Tnrtversity.\ It was reported unofficially that the Investigation committee would be made up of the theologians' profes- sional peers, that is, of other univer- sity professors. The trustees' meeting, expected to last only through Thursday morning, did not end until shortly after 9 p.m. It was attended by 23 of the 29 mem- bers of the board, including four of the six American cardinals who are exofficio members, Patrick O'Boyle of Washington, James F, Mclntyre of Los Angeles, Lawrence Shehan of Baltimore and John Krol of Phila- delphia. Father Curran declined comment on the trustees' action and Jeft Wash- ington soon after the meeting. The trustees said a suspension with full pay during an Investigation of a teacher would be in accord with the tho standards of the Association of American University Professors. *August Bollno, president of the campus AAUP chapter, said the chap- ter planned no Immediate action be- cause the 18 theologians involved have not been officially notified of any action by the trustees. The essential question determined by the trustees was not whether the theologians havo the right to dissent, but whether in fact their partlclpa- ttion in drafting, signing.and solicit- ing other signatories to a statement opposed to the Pope's encyclical ex- ceeds their rights as professors. Their actions on the statement, although executed as individuals, inextricably tied the university's name to the op- position action, many observers hold. '<§ *t*4
