The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1962-10-05

Bishop Clarence 1ssenmann Thursday will become the first Bishop of
Columbus to attend al Ecumenical Council = but at least four other
priests who were at one time associated with the diocese have participated
in an earlier council.
THE FOUR, all of whom had served in the Columbus diocese as
young priests. were bishops of other sees 1t the time of thesTirst Vatican
Council a century ago.
Among them was one of the two prelates to vote against papal intal-
hb1ity at that meeting.
They we're: Bishop Edward Fitzgerald of Little Rock, Ark, who,
along with an Italian, cast a nay vote; Bishop Louis de Goesbriand, of
Burlington, VT; Archbishop Joseph Alemany of San Francisco; and
Archbishop John Baptist Lamy of Santa Fe.
THE BISHOP of Columbus in 1868, Sylvester Rosecrans, did not at
tend the council.
$50 great was Bishop Rosecrans) attachment to home, so wrapped
was he in the labor of his diocese, SO interested in the work of building
this cathedral, that he suppianly asked the Holy See to permit him to
remain at home, considering himself too humble and too unimportant to
funeral.
He continued, The Holy See granted his prayer and allowed him
amongst a few other bishops, to remain at home to take charge of his own
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Don't compare the ecumenical council with a session of Congress.
That is the advice of Father Gustave Weigel, 81, who believes
the Second Vatican Council vii. act more like the Supreme Court
FATHER WEIGEL, theology professor at Woodstock Nd) Col
lege, has explained that Congress can create new legislation.
"But the Supreme Court makes no new legislation = at least in
theory. They are supposed to speak in terms of the original constr
tuition"
Similarly, the council of bishops will meet to solve the crisis in
the light of the Gospel of Jesus Christ"
According to FIR. weigel council Fathers will not come as delegates
elected by their dioceses or provinces. "By the Sacrament of Orders and
by their conservation to the bishopric they represent the Church and
its people"
FATHER WEIGEI, who will take an active part in the work of
the council as a translator for delegateobservers of other churches,
predicts that there will be three principal types OF men among the
council Fathers. They are:
1. Those who want to keep things very much as they were when
they themselves were young. Their reactions to proposed changes will
be negative.
2 The drastic progressives, who want to formulate old doctrines
in new ways, recognize the demands of a puralstic society, develop
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The voice of an ecumenical council is, the voice of the bishops OF
the world together with that of the pope.
Just as the utterances of Pope John XIII have given an indca-
ton of the character of the coming Second Vatican Council, something
of the council can also be known from the statements of the worlds bish-
ops. For an ecumenical council is the assembly of the pope and bishops
legislating together for the universal Church.
300 pastoral letters written by bishops in dioceses throughout the world.
One of the most frequently mentioned topics was the role of the
episcopacy. .~.@ .t@seas- ~ %-
ARCHBISHOP Andreas Rohracher of Sazburg, Austria, made the
point that the Church should not be thought of as an absolute monarchy,
because its life is based on the episcopal concept. He added:
THE pope is not over the Church and over the bishops as a
Caesar, but a a brother among brothers, as Peter. He is undoubtedly
ticpates in the responsibility of the entire Church"
Richard Cardinal Cushing, Archbishop of Boston, in his pastoral
letter of March Is, 1862, anticipated the same question as a part of the
agenda of the coming council.
THE SECOND Vatican Council" he said, will take up the un-
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