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fee Vf «• f f I ». .. <* Ife*'.. v. : ^g| ' \T *,.>M-' NftysMr*** Of im friOcisB OF RmHES)-ER \ \ \ • Yol. B\ Np. 7 16>ag es Rochester, New York Price: 1: \ Friday, Nov. 14,. 1969 -•'Ml 1 By FATHER RICHARD TORMEY The first sight of jsome 250 Bishops gathered in one room is not very soui- sftirfingTBut last MoMajf mdnung In Washington I was fascinated by a close view of the U.S. hierarchy as- sembling for their annual meeting. Unmjtered and vested in black suits, the shepherds of the U.S. Church, ranked at green-covered tables, look much like-conventioneers at annual riieetings of the A.M.A. or the wholesale food industry. Appearing to average about 60 years of age, predominantly: grey- haired, less than half of them show- ing the pectoral chain of their rank, the Bishops had i happy air of men at an annual reunion. But having seen the agenda of their meeting, I expected this was going to be different from the conventions 250 Bis usually held under the ballroom chandeliers • of the Washington Stat- le&Hilton Hotel. These men were set for a week of long talk-sessions on issues vital to the -welfare of nearly 48 million Catholics. They were to discuss such subjects as poverty and racial -ten- sions, the formation of seminarians, the new Mass ritual, celibacy and clergy troubles. And there were rumors that a coali- tion of dissident groups of priests and laymen would be pressuring the Bish- ops for consideration of 41 priorities on a \People's Agenda\OncIuding U.S. withdrawal from Vietnam. Because the Diocese of Rochester had four Bishop-representatives there, (Archbishop. Sheen, Bishop-designate Hogan, Auxiliary Bishops Hickey and McCafferty) I joined the press corps M eet... a First - Hand Report to cover the first two days of their deliberations. Before the opening prayers Arch- bishop Sheen helped Bisriop-dlesignate Hogan break the ice by introducing him to many new colleagues, Other Bishops reading his nametag gresent- ed -themselves to /the newest\ mem- ber of the prelates' group. / It was easy to identify reen like Cardinals Melntyre, Deaxden_, Cooke, Cody and Krol from their rtews pic- tures. Familiars like Bishops Oasey of Paterson, Cunningham of Syracuse and Harper from the Virgin. Islands (who frequently confirmed in our diocese back in '65-'66) were graci- ous with greetings. Before the opening addLress by John Cardinal Dearden of Detroit president of the Bishops* Conference, reporters, photographers and TV news-pictures men roamed the as- sembly room freely. But after his brief \State of the Church\ speech the press were gently told to \remove your equipment and yourselves\ from the room and for the next four days all deliberations were held behind closed and guard- ed doors. Sessions ran from 9:30 un- til noon, from 2 pTnr. until 5. Each day the press group of near- ly 50 men and women, from secular and religious publications, met at noon and 5 o'clock to get a briefing of what had been said in the session just finished and a chance to question a panel of half-dozen Bishops who had played some role in that meet- ing. Reporters got hand-outs of all the speeches and summaries of the major points made in the closed sessions. But shut out of the assembly, they plunged into _|he group-interviews, working from the premise that the -filtered version of what transpired in executive session wasn't the most desirable version for their readers. In one press* conference the press haggled over how the Bishops' na- tional budget is established; in an- other they asked piercing questions about an 80-page document entitled \Program of Priestly Formation.\ They wanted detailed facts and they sifted the words looking for subjec- tive meanings. Some highlight of the four press conferences I attended: The reporters were excited about the \historic first speech by an ordi- nary priest\ before the Bishops' plenary gathering on Monday after- noon. Told that Father Patrick QTttailey; president of the National Federation of Priests' Councils, had urged the Bishops to make a \radical change in the.. decision-making process of the Church\ by bringing diocesan priests to the next meeting of the hierarchy as full voting members, reporters quizzed him carefully when he came to the press conference. Husky and handsome, with a confi- dent voice and a chin like Bert Lan- caster's, Father O'Malley made as good an impression on the press as he did before the Bishops. (Next morning, The. New York Times put reporter Edward Fiske's story on Fa- ther- O'Malley on-Page- 4v) - Speaking iat the federation of 118 diocesan priests' councils represent- \ ing 35,000 of the nation's approxi- mately 55,000 priests, the Chicago (Continued on Page 2) Abp* Sheen Mmches at Tlurfouowtag are excerpts from the homily delivered by Archbishop Sheen at Waifainiton'i National Shrine of the bamacatate Conception daring a pontifical Haw for Peace last Monday evening. A capacity audi- ence, including more^thin 100 U.S. Cardinals and Bithops, attended. Our theme Is peace. But we may not forget that immediately after tell- ing His disciples: \you must have peace in me,* Our Lord added, \in the world you win have trouble.\ (John 16/33) Let us not live under the delusion that thecessatlon of the Vietnam War- will bring peace, Peace is never the same as the cessation of hostilities. Shalom is not the. absence of trouble . U.S. Bishops Tackle Sociological Issues (FROM COURIER-JOURNAL SOURCES) Washington — The nation's Catholic Bishops, halfway through their week-long semiannual meeting here, had voted to set up a Com- mittee for the Nomination of Bishops, approved the request of black clergymen to open a national office serving the special needs of black Catholics, seriously studied reports of The choice before the Church is i - wtfether to believe-In violence or not. It is rather which kind of violence. Violence is of two kinds: one is vio- lence towards others, the other is violence to self. • - One uses the sword to swing out- ward, like'the sword of Peter, who as a swordsman, proved himself an excellent fisherman, for all he could do was to hactoff the ear of the ser- vant of the high priest Action is often a poor substitute for prayer. .- The Lord still says to those who use physical violence to prove them- selves Christians: \Put your sword back into itsjcabbard.\ (Matt. 26/52) The other kind of violence is the sword that our Lord brought, the sword that is directed inward cutting iput our vices. « The first sword is lethal and wounding; the second is healing and &ricMnI. '•> |- Could ft not be that as we Chris- tians dropped inner violence, which iV another name for discipline and mortification, that the world picked it up and turned it against us? As we drop the rosary, the 'hippies put beads around their necks; as nuns drop the long habits, the young women wear maxi-coats, and as we drop dying to self, or mortification, youth mortifies and does violence to -^ose^wfioTdiffer with. them. ~~* '\ J Hrtft are lift nbvinn* good humor iifh^«^lti» * hw»»k fruiH their training at the Kennedy .Space Center. The astronauts are, from lefj, Ckajrfei ,\Mte\ Conrad^ Jr., Richard F. Gordon Jr., and Alan L. Bean, (Religious N\ews Service) From Altar Boy to Astronaut Seattle, Wash. — (NC) — The dis- tance between a sleepy-eyed altar boy mumbling an j\et cum spiritu tuo\ . in an area rural church on a raw, cold morning and a clear-cut competent, crisp young astronaut giving a brisk \A-OK. All systems go\ in warm, Florida sunshine is great, both in time and space. But the gap will be a thing of the past with the Apollo 12 hlastoff-from Cocoa Beach, Fla., in the flight that is calculated to thrust man to the moon for the second'time. One of the three men in tiiat Apollo • capsule is Richard F. Gordon Jr., erstwhile altar boy at St. Peter's Church in Suquamish, Wash. Gordon was born here, son of Rich- ard and Angela Gordon. He was bap- tized in St Alphonsus Church and his godmother, Mrs. Rose Preston, of Lynwood, Wash., is in the family party which flew to Cocoa Beach to witness the blast-off. The astronaut's father, whso died in 1963, was an operating engineer. He moved the family- to rural Poulsbo, .while young Richard was .attending school. Richard and his brother \Wil- liam were the only two of the five ..Gordon children who did not arttend parochial school; such facili-1ies were nonexistent at that time In -Poulsbo. But Richard and Willlana covered the five miles between their home and St. Peter's Church on their bi- cycled as often as possible, frequent- ly rising at 5:30 a.m. They would race, and Father Jena Coneaamon, S.J., then on Seattle™ University's- faculty, who said Mass at S4. Peter's, would reward the winner by allowing him to be acolyte. Another priest who greatly influ- enced the astronaut, Mrs. Gordon said, was Father \Chris\ BMcDonald, S.J., now attached to Blessed Sacra- ment Church, Hollywood, Calif., but formerly of Seattle Prep. The impact of this priest*s personal- ity and spirituality on young Richard was so great that for a while he thought he might have a vocation to the priesthood, his mother said. Gordon was an outstanding, and popular student at the University of Washington. He accumulated 17 hours credit in excess of what was required for his degree. He was elected presi- dent of his fraternity, was active in many campus activities. He married the former Barbara Jean Field, of Whldbey Island, Wash., and the cou- ple now have six children. The astronaut's-jnother-Jhasvheen teaching in the Seattle archdi6cesan schools for the past 16 years. She is teaching fifth grade at St Matthew's school here. She .and members of her family, plus several*close friends, after 1 watching the Cocoa Beach take- off, will remain until after the splash- down. \We will all spend Thanksgiving to- gether and I'm looking forward to it,\ she said. a task force on national urban pover- ty and its relation to the Church, listened tq, requests for broader con- sideration of the unique problems of Spanish-speaking Americans. They also had argued a proposed statement on celibacy and sent to the Vatican an approved and much- debated 'Trogram for Priestly For- mation\ which will become binding on all U.S. seminaries if the Holy See accepts it Still ahead oh a crowded program which will m\ dose until Friday noon, were diseusslohs on arbitration, mediation and due process in cases of clerical disputes, the revised Mass liturgy expected to be authorized for next Palm Sunday, the new policy statement on celibacy and specific programs urging diocesan efforts as well as a national commitment on poverty problems. The president of the National Fed- eration of Priests' Councils became the first priest ever to address the hierarchy of the United States on priestly problems. Father Patrick O'Malley of Chi- cago, at a closed session of the Con- ference late Monday told the prelates that priests in NFPC \are asking for a share not t..'.,, I.i the implementing of programs for the good of the Church, but in the planning and de- cision making for that Church.'' Through Father O'Malley, the NFPC has asked the bishops to bring the elected head of their senate, or a priest elected at large from the dio- cese to the April, 1970, meeting of the bishops in San Francisco. The bishops have been advised by their liason committee to reject the proposal that they bring priests to their next meeting: He suggested five specific projects the bishops and priests groups could collaborate on: • Continuing education programs —for-priests; * Develop and innovate steps to- ward a new and more vital spiritual life. * Training hi personnel practices for bishops and priests. • A study of the value of celibacy. \Many priests,\ said Father O'Mal- ley, \feel that they are only needed when it comes time to implement — never to plan or to make decisions- The syndrome of 'merely consulta- tive' is not only contributing to the cynicism of priests, but it is damag- (Contlnued on Page 2) Seminary Amalgamation Advocated by BisEops There is such a thing asL\the vio- lence of love\; it is not based on ter- (Continued on Page 8) A First for Seminary Washington — (NC)—U.S. semi- naries will be amalgamated and stu- dents will get a more creative train- ing for the priesthood if the Vatican accepts a \Program of Priestly For- mation\ approved this week by the National Conference of Catholic Bish- ops meeting here. - 1 2_ __ ON THE INSIDE Commentary ,. ~ 15 Diocesan ? Editorial • 8 Entertainment 10 ipjwts , '.'12 -jti&ws Review: '•••'• 5 Fr. Hempel Reports 9 IF YOU MOVE. .. let us know about -it so we can Jkeep your Courier coming to us Sister a Fulltime Student at St Bernard's ? |ou on tune, Phone o* '$& of ycjii* change of ao^ d&ss. IrichM your 6id address ^ihitiew addilss W t$e Wnde * i &,'>.;> yl^^E^purfi^ -f5 r Scioi.iSt* KJ By SR. H. PIUS KEOUGH For the first tflme in its 76-year history, St. Bernard's Seminary open- ed Jts-doors this year to. a fulltime woman student-— Sister Mary Gratia\ of the Sisters of Mercy. Although a few women studentsjhave pursued a single course at^the Seminary on oc- casion, this is the first woman to matriculate, taking the same curricu* lum as the ordinary seminarian. Sister Mary ^Graiia-isjio ordinary first-year student.'She brings a wealth of background by virtue of her own previous studies and experience. She is' a linguist with TI-TESV: from Nazareth Collegejmd an M,A.' from Middlebury College in rtferinojit — an; honor French, major in both institu- tions'! She aisoiS fluent in Latin, and Spanish and has an extraordinary knowledge of linguistics, having pur- sued a number of summer and in- service courses:, studied Spanish arid Arabic -at Georgetown University/in Washington; ehriched her khowliedge WFJim ofctftl&hestfr'' aM u '\BiVie«-^0b ; - lege in, Jlew;^Hampshire; hasrtrsiveled abroad both privately and as a chape- rQhe#uaent; Visited the si* \Sisters •iff.' ; : ;lifer|y.v'/at |>:th> - Goiig|egati6ri*s 'fhjKefltt^misslo^imBid^tbblE 's%Me-\lntr>6- 4^ct(^.'^Jrifc ; !l^ H iteh^e^^ Srifcil&gkn • 41bni ! ^h $ae1r courses previously '^4n^d4$^ aji r..--4*fcVffi: -....i.'.v'As m <\\t - has been a member of the Sisters of Mercy Chapter and was the Congrega- tion's representative to ther Diocese's Liturgical Commission. Sbie adso, is ? the congregation's represeaitaldve to the National Federation o?f the Sis- ters of Mercy. Finally, Sister Mary Gratia was one of=eight Sisters of Mercy wlio experi- mented, last summer in a six-week \house - of prayer\ as that group's liturgist. Why would a woman witht this back- ground begin a seemingly new kind of education after all these-years? AcGording-to lister- Maviy Gratia this will be' merely 'a continuation of a secondary aspect of her training. She has had extensive studies is thejology, scripture and liturgy—some formal and. much by workshop aimd reading and this prograni at v St. -Bersnard's will organize the already knowra, and fill in the gaps of the tfnkaiowm. • \Any' religious .,cohrmuttity today could us> ( a r 'gobditneologlaraas a con- sultaiit,**. lister 1 Gratia explained, \and thire is a need-iai any diocese of .& theologian with a knowledge of languages, to .serve, tfie minority groups; r thHS .is especja31y aieedled in Rjcah^ster'/by the Spaniili'S'iieaklng Calh&itcsr- since bnly^tvi'o^priests are really ]^|ofi^)ttt in that language.\ '1' The r^eiyn'iw'botri-tfteaomlhifr tratiM^hdf'tstldehts iok Sister's tores-\ .enee^?;pinps!^.haa fcwei .most, faV(jraBte1.^i|proliipg*jta ; ^he-seminary's. ' \ '-\7 1 andtalkjov^lproblei ,v- -fiX- '• 77 ^ Mary Gratia. The rector, Father Jo- seph. Brenhan, laughingly,, Silter.;^:^th^Ji%,,. ^estess, ER m^k GRATIA •• t • iin a man's world more seriously respohded that Sister's studying th§f^ waiS'eltirlching for bot|i the students sind SjMer Mary ..Gratia. to, but„, „ Acceptance of separate sections of the 80-page document had been voted at NCCB meetings in 1967, 1968 and April of this year. The bishops' vote this week marks their final approval of the total program which now goes to the Vatican Congregation for Cath- olic Education. There are about 380 Catholic semi- naries in the United Statefrenrollintg approximately 35,000 students. Formation for priestly service, it says, \must continually look to the needs of both the Church and of the worldT and must not proceed in\ isola- tion from either,\ The Program of Priestly Formation endorses celibacy for priests and says that \the seminarian who finds him- self unable to sustain celibate chastity can see an indication that he should serve God's people In another way.\ \The priest's celibacy will be clear- ly pastoral, involving a gift at the heart of his identity, offered to the enterprise of the Lord saving His .people. Where study reveals that because —-of size, unsatisfactory facilities, in- adequate faculty or financing, semi- naries are unable to maintain suit- able programs, amalgamation of facilities was recommended. ' / The document stresses the need in priestly formation of \stimulating in- teraction\ between pastoral training and theological education. Among the activities it recommends is a field education program coordi- nated with the seminary's academic program. The field education pro- gram, it says, \aims to provide to the candidate for the pastoral minis- try an opportunity for personal in- volvement in and practical exercise of the apostolate\ in such areas as \ catechetics, Catholic charities, hospi- tals, community organizations, agen- cies for the handicapped and other — fields^— _ • - • \' The document also recommends that candidates .for the priesthood who have been ordained as - deacons be 1 given a \deacon internship'',,dur> ing which they wotild be assigned t»~ \ pastaisai wdwlor •a l, y^..or'mol*'b)fe 1 . V - *i fore requ< *T, ,* i- A: **if \*>• • h
