Texas Gulf Coast Catholic (Corpus Christi, Tex.), Vol. 9, No. 19, Ed. 1 Friday, September 14, 1973 Page: 1 of 6
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From the Bishop's Desk...
In hie weekly General Audience listed for
August 29th, our Holy Father, Pope Paul VI
spoke out clearly and courageously about the
inity and the indivisibility of the Church. In
referring to a type of disintegration which is
fresentiy affecting the Church, the Pope
8ays, that in itself, it is not openly divided. But
be goes on to say that there are those today
who promote forms of association which are
the opposite of true communion. Since they
seek to be separated from the ecclesia)
family, these same Individuals are the ones
who are creating the discomfort, and, at
times, the interior torment of dissent and the
irreconcilable wills so noticeable today. The
Holy Father states that this situation fills his
heart with “loving grief.”
The Pontiff goes on to say that within the
ecdesial sphere there are those who claim a
modern, a popular, and an original style.
They have adopted a spirit of contestation
that is both barefaced and Irresponsible.
Their approach is negative and as such leads
to judgments that are often rash about the
Church's defects. Further, this negative spirit
gives rise to a facile instinct towards
distinguishing oneself from the community,
and towards selfishly preferring one's own
grotf). It also refused solidarity with the
apostolate of striving for the Kingdom of God.
Next in line, the Holy Father condemned
what some indlvidualsclaim today, namely, a
distinction between the institutional and the
charismatic Church; or, in another sense,
between the Church of Jesus Christ and that
of the People guided by the Holy Spirit; or,
again, the distinction between the one, holy,
catholic and apostolic Church and the church
conceived according to one's own personal
views or even according to one's own sub-
jective spiritual tastes, “This,” the Holy
Father says, “derives from the shallow
preference many today are wont to give to a
so-called charismatic church as compared
with tbe traditional, institutional Church.”
He points out that the negative con-
sequences of this thinking are mainly two:
disobedience, and pluralism beyond its
legitimate limits.
Having denied the substantia] distinction
between the institutional Church and the
presumed purely charismatic church, the
Holy Father then declares what has always
been taught and believed, namely, that Christ
founded His CHURCH upon Peter, and upon
the Apostles. Complete and perfect in Its
conception, Jesus founded only one Church
and no other. To this Church He sent the Holy
Spirit in order that this institutional Church
may continue to live through the animation of
the Holy Spirit.
Concluding his discourse, tbe Pontiff
declared that we must restore the true "sense
of tbe Church,” which answers to the divine
purpose for wbich it was founded and which
enjoys an interior unity, a strong vitality and
a wholesome joy.
Extraordinary Meeting of Jesuit
Lawmaking Body Called
ROME (NC)-The superior general of the
So defy of Jesus has announced an ex-
traordinary meeting of the society’s highest
governing body and ody lawmaking body, a
general congregation.
Father Pedro Arrupe cited "very difficult
matters pertaining to the good of the whole
society” as tbe reason for convoking the
Jesuit General to
Resign Called
'Speculation*
ROME (NC)-A press report that the
superior general of the Jesuits, Father Pedro
Arrupe, has determined to Offer hia
resignation has been dismissed by one <A the
general’s top aides.
"The statement is entirely withc-ut foun-
dation,”' said Father Louis Laurtrdeau,
secretary general of the Society of Jesus.
"Father Arrupe has never made any
declaration on this point whatsoever.”
Father Laurendeau said that speculation on
the resignation of prominent Church officials
“is common and perhaps Inevitable,” adding
that various newspapers bad speculated in a
vague way that Father Arrupe might resign.
general congregation, the 32nd since the
establishment of the Jesuits in 1540. Or-
dinarily a general congregation is convoked
only upon the death of a superior general to
elect his successor. This is the seventh to be
convoked for extraordinary reasons.
The approximately 240 members of the
general congregation, most of them elected In
various regions of the 30,000-member Jesuit
order, will begin their deliberation Dec. l,
1V74.
Although the agenda of the general
congregation will be determined largely on
{ropoaals to be made by assemblies within
the order's provinces. Father Arrupe singled
out two topics that require attention: the
practice of poverty and what he called “union
of hearts”.
The problem of religious poverty In the
Jesuits centers around the life-style both of
individual Jesuits and of Jesuit communities
and the sharing of material means among
different houses and regions of the Society of
Jesus.
TTie problem of unity centers around dif-
ferences of opinion over changes ushered In
or occasioned by the Second Vatican Council.
The last general congregation of the Jesuits
concluded in 1966.
Pope Speaks in Defense of
Life Says Cardinal Wright
LONDON, Canada l NC)-There are days
when 1 think the only one in the world
speaking to defense of life’ Is the Holy
Father,” American Cardinal John Wright
said in a lecture here on ’“The Substance of
Things to be Hoped for."
Cardinal Wright, wbo Is prefect of the
Vatican Congregation for the Clergy, in a
public lecture in St. Peter’s Basilica here said
that Pope Paul VI will be famous in history
for his defaise of life in every form and for hia
emphasis on the teaching of faith, not as a
philosophy, but as a form of life.
History and human nature play a large role
in man’s ability to hope in the future, the
cardinal said.
Human natire, he said, is “a ground of hope
because the God of creation, who established
the natural law in our hearts, is tbe same God
of the Incarnation wbo established faith and
love in us.*’
He said that faith, hope and love, together
with service, are linked strongly together.
“You can’t love unless there Is hope at the end
of the dark tunnel. Hope is founded on faith,”
be said.
“U Is significant that the Christmas Eve
message transmitted fay the U S. astronauts
several years ago was not a sociological
report or reflection oo a mathematical for-
mula but tbe reading from Genesis,
proclaiming tbe goodness of God and creation
made in His Image.” the cardinal saJd.
Oneof the most significant advances made
to hope based on faith, he said, was the
publication of tbe General Catechetical
Directory, which provides guidelines for
teaching, imfootnoted faith, which is a great
aep forward to producing new frontiers of
hope.”
T C Conference Confronts
Family and Youth Issues
Pressing issues affecting family and youth
wfU be the areas of concern for the 1073
General Assembly of the Texas Catholic
Conference. Tbe annual meeting will be held
September 24-26, in tbe historic DriskOl Hotel
In Austin, Texas, according to an an-
nowcement made by Mr, FUemoo Vela,
Brownsville attorney and president of the
General Assembly of the Texas Catholic
Conference.
Among the featured speakers are Mr.
Callan Graham, former Executive Director
of tbe Texas Catholic Conference; Mrs.
Malcolm Mu bum, prominent Republican
woman and vice-chairman of the Con-
stitutional Revisions) Commission; and Miss
Mary Jane Camps, San Antonio youth leader,
presently attending Princeton University.
Among other speakers scheduled are
several from the United States Catholic
Conference to Washington, D.C.
The Texas Catholic Conference is a
federation of the eleven Catholic dioceses in
the State of Texas. It was brought into
existence in 1963 and expanded in 1969 to
include virtually every organized element of
Catholic Church life. This occurred when the
bishops announced that they “sensed a need
for the involvement and assistance of a still
greater and a more representative number of
the faithful in carrying out the mission of tbe
Church.’’
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CATHOLIC
Vol, IX No. IB
Official Newspaper of the Diocese of Corpus Christi
Friday September 14, 1973
! Diocesan Encuentro
Opens at C.C.M.S. Tonight
Bishop Thomas J. Drury will open the first
Diocesan Encuentro de Pastoral at Corpus
Christi Minor Seminary at 8 p.m. tonight.
After Father Raymond Pena gives so. In-
troduction explaining the Encuentro
and its purpose, Bishop Drury will in-
troduce Bishop Patrick F. Flores of San
Antonio, who will give the keynote address.
Preparations for the Encuentro, which will
last until Sunday noon, were completed last
week. Bishop Drury has asked that each
parish to the Diocese send three represen-
tatives to this very important meeting.
Directors of Diocesan departments look to the
Encuentro to provide the key to future
pastoral plans and the carrying out of Christ’s
mission in the Diocese.
Father Pena said that tbe Encuentro would
be a bi lingual confemce in which par-
ticipants would be free to speak in English or
in Spanish. “We want to hear from aU the
people In the Diocese and we hope that
they will feel free to express their thoughts to
either language,” he said.
Besides Bishop Flores who is the only
Mexican American Bishop in the American
Heirarchy, other participants In the En-
cueatro from out of the Diocese are Sister
Celia Ann Cavazos, Superior General of the
Missionary Catechists of Divine Providence;
Sister Lucinda Gonzalez, Father Emil
Wesse!sky and Sister Trinidad Quintero, both
from the Office of Communications in the
Archdiocese of San Antonio, Father Edmundo
Rodriguez, S.J., Pastor of Our Lady of
Guadalupe Parish to San Antonio Father
Robert Rehkemper, director of the per-
manent deacon program, in the Diocese of
Dallas and Reverend Mr. Manuel Betancourt,
permanent deacon from Houston.
Persons from the Diocese of Corpus Christi
participating to the Encuentro will be Father
Robert Freeman, Sister Nancy Johnson,
Father Lawrence White, Father Mark
Chamberlin, Mr. John Foley, Father Richard
Shirley, Msgr. William T. Thompson, Sister
Camelia Herlihy, Sister Agnes Marie
Tengler, and Sister Mary Helen Sosa.
Hans for this Diocesan Encuentro were
begun early last May when Bishop Drury
appointed the diocesan Encuentro Planning
committee. This committee held meetings in
San Diego and Benavides throughout the
summer in order to plan all the details for the
Conference. Members of the Planning
Committee are Eli da Guerrero, Laredo;
Norma M. Rodriguez, Laredo; Ruby L,
Smith, Laredo; Rafael M. Garcia, Laredo;
Ted Villarreal, Corpus Christi; Richard
Alaniz Corpus Christi; Father Eplfanlo
Rodriguez, San Diego; Father VJncent
Patrizi, Corpus Christi; Roberto 0. Gonzalez,
Jr., Laredo; Father Domingo De Llano,
Woodsbcro; Edmundo B. Garcia, San Diego;
John W. Herrera, Corpus Christi; Maria
Eslela Canales, Benavides; Sister Gloria
Rodriguez, Corpus Christi; Sister Mary Helen
Sosa, Corpus Christi; Father Federico
Catechetical Sunday
WASHINGTON (NC)-The purpose of
Catechetical Sunday “is to call attention to
the Importance of catechetical work to the
parish, the diocese and the Church at large,”
said Father Charles McDonald, director of
the National Center of Religious Education-
Coo fraternity of Christian Doctrine.
“Each year, Catechetical Sunday
highlights something different,” Father
McDonald told NC News. This year the focus
of the Sunday Is on the U S. Catholic bishops’
pastoral message on religious education “To
Teach as Jesus Did,” he said, “because It was
issued within the past year and is the
strongest statement of the bishops in regard
to religious education."
The booklei his office has prepared for
Catechetical Sunday contains something for
the whole parish in its section on a Sunday
homily and suggested prayer of the faithful,
he said.
11160, responding to sections of the bishops'
pastoral, the booklet's suggestions for ob-
servance of the Sunday emphasize three
categories of people, father McDonald said.
The booklet's section on “A Method of
Initiating an Adult Religious Education
Program for the Year,” Father McDonald
stated, is a response to the pastoral's section
saying that "formal programs of adult
education at the parish and diocesan levels
deserve adequate attention and support,
Garcia, Laredo; and Sister M. Evelyn
Morales, Corpus Christi.
Father Pena emphasized that although
each parish had been asked to send at least
three participants, all sessions of the En-
cuentro would be open to the public. He said
that he hoped all persons who are interested
in bringing Christ into our world would take
the opportunity to participate to the En-
cuentro and to contribute their thoughts to the
overall effort of drafting our Diocese’s
Pastoral Plan.
including professional staffing and realistic
funding. Adult education should also have a
recognized place in the structure of Church-
sponsored education at all levels, pariah,
diocesan and national.”
The booklet’s section on "Meeting with
Parents to Regard to Religious Education,"
he 5£Id, is a response to the pastoral’s
statement that “without forgetting, then, that
parents are “the first to communicate the
faith to their children and to educate them
...the Christian community must make a
generous effort today to help them fulfill their
duty.”
The booklet’s section on “A Ceremony for
Commissioning Parish Religious Education
Personnel,” he said, is a response to the
pastoral's statement that “the effectiveness
of voluntary service in religious education
programs requires that we give recognition
and moral support to the volunteers engaged
in this work, but, more than that, it should
provide adequately financed opportunities for
their professional preparation and in-service
training.”
“In the present context,” Father McDonald
said, the observance of “Catechetical Sun-
day” is aimed at the total effort in the parish,
the way the parish carries out its catechetical
mission,” Including the parish school and
religious Instruction for public school
students.
Importance of
Catechetics Stressed
DESCRIBES INTERNMENTCAMP
NEW YORK—Bishop Thomas J. Drury holds an
internee-decorated handkerchief which he smuggled out of
Long Kesh internment camp in Northern Ireland, at a New
York news conference in which he described the conditions at
the prison camp as “deplorable.” The 65-year-okl Irish born
prelate said, however, that he found tbe spirit of some 80
Catholic internees, with whom he was permitted to talk, as
“surprisingly good.”
Bishop Drury, who was on a visit to County Sligo, Ireland,
where He was born, said he look advantage of an opportunity
to pay a visit to Long Kesh offered him by a Northern Ireland
member of the British Parliament. He said he went, not to
"snoop” or “investigate,” but simply “as a priest,” per-
forming one of tbe evangelical “corporal works of mercy.”
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