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9 November 1915 - 13 February 2004 ii Special supplement to The Southern Cross, november 4-10, 2015 HURLEY 100 The three crosses of Denis Hurley working with the International Jesuit Father Gerald O’Collins, in whether the time for Archbishop Commission for English in the an open letter to English-speaking Hurley’s hope has not arrived? The legacies of Archbishop Liturgy (ICEL), of which he had bishops ( The Tablet , March 7, 2015), Denis Hurley are many, but chaired for 16 years. The cross em - suggests that the “sacral style” we The pectoral cross they can be summed up in bossed on the liturgical stole sym - now use would be alien to Jesus hat must it have been for bolises for me the painful himself, who taught us to pray sim - WDenis Hurley to wear this cer - the image on the cover of experience of which Kearney ply and intimately. Archbishop emonial episcopal cross from the age his biography, argues writes. Hurley would agree. of 31 years? The vocation of a bishop The work of ICEL, which was Fr O’Collins muses that phrases brings its own participation in the Redemptorist FATHeR nearly completed in 1998, was sup - in the Lord’s prayer would probably cross of Christ. LARRy KAuFMAnn . pressed. This was not simply for have been rendered as “graciously However, the legacy of Arch - liturgical and theological reasons. grant, we pray, that you would give bishop Hurley which I want to high - N 1987 I served as a co-lecturer An ideological struggle had been us our daily bread”, or “may thy light in this regard is the cross he during the theological winter taking place in the Church for a will, we pray, O Lord, be done carried in relation to Vatican II’s Ischool with Elizabeth Johnson, a while. through your prevenient grace.” teaching on the college of bishops. world-renowned theologian and au - The curia wanted to recentralise The stripping away of the origi - It has been suggested that the de - thor of many books, the most recent power after Vatican II had called for nal work of ICEL was for Arch - nial of the cardinal’s red hat to Hur - of which is Ask the Beasts: Darwin greater collegiality among the bish - bishop Hurley a cross that he bore ley was linked to his reservations and the God of Love . ops in the exercise of apostolic au - graciously and with immense char - about Humanae Vitae and to his thority. ity. I confess that the new transla - At the Durban session, after views on a celibate clergy, among Countless people today can tes - Beth’s lecture on a feminist perspec - Archbishop Hurley’s greatest joy tion of the Mass continues to be a other things. at Vatican II was to see collegiality burden for me as a celebrant, partic - tify to the strength and encourage - tive on Christology, Archbishop However, as Kearney carefully ment that Hurley gave them during Denis Hurley got up immediately, accepted for the Scriptural truth it ularly the convoluted prefaces. But points out in his book, the problem represents. The cross he bore was to I am equally conscious that I have a the apartheid years, made all the came to the podium, and, striking was not simply these questions. It more authentic by their knowledge his breast, declared: “We men must see this eroded, if not systematically long way to go in emulating Arch - was, rather, the fact that Archbishop dismantled. bishop Hurley’s humility and even that he himself was often persecuted beat our breasts for the way we have Hurley believed that papal refusal to and hounded by the regime. treated women in the Church and Vatican II had given bishops’ humour in bearing with the follies have them even debated among conferences the responsibility for of our very human Church. This is what I experienced per - in society.” And he promptly went bishops was a denial of the principle sonally when Hurley drove up to over and embraced Beth. translating texts. ICEL was jointly A final point on Archbishop Hur - of collegiality. formed by the English-speaking ley and the liturgy, but this time a meet me at Cedara and take me with Archbishop Hurley and Beth be - In 1985, at a gathering of the him in his car to my parish at came fast friends; they kept up a bishops’ conferences to carry out different issue. During Vatican II, Catholic Theological Society of this mandate. However, when the Archbishop Hurley made an inter - Mpophomeni near Howick, so that I correspondence and met a few times South Africa in Durban, Archbishop would not have to be alone to face in the US. When Archbishop Hur - Congregation for Divine Worship vention, inspired as he was by Fr Hurley delivered a paper critical of was established, members of the Teilhard de Chardin, hoping to see a hippos and casspirs full of security ley died, Beth Johnson commented: the new Code of Canon Law—for curia set about taking back the au - “Solemnity of Creation” included in police while conducting the funeral “It was just good to know he was the simple reason, he argued, that it thority over translations given to the new Roman calendar. of four slain parishioners. around.” had failed the principle of collegial - the bishops and centralising it once His proposal was rejected. But it Putting on his mitre in the sac - Referring to her book on the ity of Vatican II. more. The result is the present Eng - was prophetic, and I wonder, after risty before the funeral Archbishop communion of saints, Friends of God Archbishop Hurley carried the lish language “tower of Babel”. Pope Francis’ encyclical Laudato Si’ , Hurley said to me: “I think we and Prophets , my reply to Beth was: cross of a Vatican II bishop frustrated should give these people the dignity “He still is around! His legacy will by the diminishment of the princi - of the mitre, don’t you?” inspire us for decades to come.” ple of collegiality. The cross of Jesus manifested it - Contemplating Denis Hurley’s Denis Hurley in books But perhaps his sufferings have self in the life of Denis Hurley in legacy, I am inspired by the photo - become redemptive. How Arch - many ways. I have alluded to only HE following books by or about Archbishop Denis Hurley are still graph on the cover of Paddy Kear - bishop Hurley would have risen to three instances where it was ney’s biography of the archbishop, available: T the occasion in the debates taking painfully real for him. But as Chris - Denis E Hurley : Facing the Crisis: Selected Texts of Archbishop D.E. Hurley Guardian of the Light . The photo cap - tians we celebrate the triumph of the (edited by Philippe Denis OP). 1997. Cluster Publications: Pietermaritzburg. place at last month’s synod of bish - tures Archbishop Hurley—now ma - Cross. We confess our faith in the Denis E Hurley: Vatican II: Keeping the Dream Alive . 2005. Cluster Pub - ops on marriage and the family! ture in years—deep in prayer. glory of the Risen Christ. lications. How he would have sung an “Al - But notice three images of the Cross and Resurrection. This is Denis E Hurley: Memories: The Memoirs of Archbishop Denis E Hurley leluia” to Pope Francis for promot - cross in the photo: a cross embossed the heart of the kerygma , the mystery OMI (edited by Paddy Kearney). 2006. Cluster Publications. ing open and honest dialogue! on the stole; the pectoral cross; the of faith we proclaim in the liturgy Anthony M Gamley (ed): Denis Hurley: A Portrait by Friends . 2001. Clus - huge wooden cross he is carrying. Cross on the shoulder immediately after the consecration. ter Publications. It is the Paschal mystery of Christ The cross on the stole Paddy Kearney: Guardian of the Light: Denis Hurley: Renewing the Church, enis Hurley carried, with people, into which we are all baptised. n his biography, Kearney refers to Opposing Apartheid . 2009, Continuum: New York and London. Dtheir suffering under apartheid. That he lived this mystery so pro - Archbishop Hurley’s “painful ex - Paddy Kearney: Denis Hurley: Truth to Power. 2012. University of The image here is of Archbishop I foundly is, for me, Denis Hurley’s perience” during his final term of KwaZulu-Natal Press, Pietermaritzburg. Hurley as a Simon of Cyrene, help - ing Christ to carry his cross. greatest legacy.

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By STuART GRAHAM “If we want top-class education, the money must come from somewhere.” OUTH Africa’s corporates, which hold Another worry is that the rural poor will be R6894 billion in bank deposits, could in - elbowed out of the way by the demands of the Svest a small portion of their money in the vociferous students. country’s struggling students, a senior re - “There is no shortage of demand for gov - searcher for the Catholic Parliamentary Liai - ernment money. Homeless people need hous - son Office has said. ings. Clinics in rural areas need money for This would contribute to relieving the bur - healthcare. The list of needs is very long,” Mr den of the state as it tries to respond to the Pothier noted. #feesmustfall campaign. “Securing zero percent for 2016 is a tempo - A mere one percent of the amount held by rary touch. Unless there is an important struc - corporates in banks, calculated by Stanlib, tural shift away from the way universities and could be used to develop young South students are funded, we are storing up prob - Africans who would automatically contribute lems for two years down the line,” Mr Pothier to the economy, said Mike Pothier. warned. “We are told that the corporates are not in - Pope Francis celebrates the eucharist during the closing Mass of the Synod of Bishops on the vesting for a variety of reasons, from lack of family in St Peter’s basilica. Among the concelebrants was Cardinal Wilfrid napier of Durban confidence in the economy to political uncer - ussell Davies, director of the Rural Access (left). In a message addressed to Cardinal napier, Pope Francis gave thanks for the life of tainty. But surely they could invest in people. Rto Education Programme (REAP), an asso - Archbishop Denis Hurley and bestowed an apostolic blessing on the centre named after the Even if they took one percent of that money, ciate body of the Southern African Catholic late archbishop. (Photo: Paul Haring/CnS) they could make a substantial difference,” he Bishops’ Conference’s, agreed that there are said. numerous equally urgent demands on the “While the government is accused of mas - public purse. sive corruption and spending money in the “The current fiscal limitations make com - Pope blesses Hurley Centre wrong areas, corporates have a massive oppor - pletely fee-free education impossible for all fi - nancially needy students in the tunity to invest money in areas where society STAFF RePORTeR can benefit.” short-to-medium term,” he said. OPE Francis has given thanks for the life Student protested across South Africa in Oc - “The national economy is in decline, the of Archbishop Denis Hurley and has given tober against a rise in tuition fees at universities. majority of adults are still not in a financial his apostolic blessings to the Denis Hurley When their protest arrived at the Union Build - position to pay income tax, many universities P ings, President Jacob Zuma relented to their de - are in serious financial difficulty and there are Centre in Durban, which will be formally mands, saying fees would not rise next year. numerous equally valid and urgent demands opened and blessed on November 9, the 100th Economists immediately questioned where on the public purse—from housing, to health anniversary of the late archbishop’s birth. the money to pay for the fees would come to quality schooling.” The pope addressed his message to Cardinal from, but Mr Pothier said the widely quoted While higher education is vitally impor - Wilfrid Napier, archbishop of Durban. shortfall of R2 billion is relatively small. tant, the scale of its resourcing must be held “I extend prayerful best wishes to you and “What if corporate South Africa said we in balance with competing national needs, he to [Durban’s Auxiliary] Bishop Barry Wood, the will match what NSFAS [the National Student said. clergy, consecrated men and women, and lay Financial Aid Scheme] is doing? We will fund “We also recognise that tuition fee in - faithful of the archdiocese of Durban as you students every year and they can pay us back creases cannot be dissociated from cuts in gov - celebrate the centenary of the birth of the late through work. It would be a massive vote in ernment subsidies to institutions.” Archbishop Denis Eugene Hurley,” Pope Fran - The late Archbishop Hurley with a previous the country’s future,” Mr Pothier said. The Jesuit Institute in a statement said that cis wrote. pope, St John Paul II. “Many companies do have programmes in the NSFAS bursary scheme is “completely in - “I join you in giving thanks to Almighty Catholic community but broader society as place, but this is an emergency situation that adequate”, noting that it excludes those who God for the many blessings which he be - well,” Pope Francis wrote. goes beyond corporate social responsibility.” are not “poor enough” to qualify but often do stowed upon the archdiocese and all of South “I was pleased to learn that the Denis Hur - not meet the criteria to secure student loans. Africa through Archbishop Hurley’s years of ley Centre will offer educational, healthcare hile students and their parents had cel - “To deny the problem of financial exclu - episcopal ministry, in particular through his ef - and social outreach opportunities, especially Webrated a victory on the “zero percent” sions is a grave injustice to the many who forts to combat discrimination and to defend to the poor and homeless. By serving those fee hike, it may be troubling news for academ - have struggled through the material and intel - human dignity.” most in need, the centre will honour the ics and staff at university. lectual poverty of an imprudent school system Archbishop Hurley headed the vicariate and legacy of the late archbishop and his devoted “Money has to be found to keep universi - and yet prevailed sufficiently to get into then archdiocese of Durban from 1946 to service in the name of the Gospel. ties going. The staff has a right to an annual higher education,” the institute said. 1992. He was first the world’s youngest bishop, “I offer the assurance of my prayers for all increase. Journals and high tech increase in The Jesuit Institute said it was encouraged at the age of just 31, and then the youngest those involved in the work of the centre and price next year due to the rand weakening. “that many students have rallied across racial archbishop, at 35. for all who will benefit from its outreach, and Support programmes for underprivileged stu - lines” in the protests. “Their commitment to “As you mark this centenary, it is fitting willingly impart my apostolic blessing as a dents will also add another level of cost,” Mr challenging injustice peacefully is cause for that you dedicate a new centre in Archbishop pledge of peace and strength in the Lord Pothier noted. great hope for the future of our country.” Hurley’s name for the good not only of the Jesus,” the pope wrote. 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The women receive coun - especially by the youth, was en - the present generation makes use selling and assistance until they couraging. Home Affairs officials said most of of abortion. A baby is inconven - can be reunited with their fami - By MAnDLA ZIBI This year’s walk was led by the problems experienced by refugees ient and expensive. Sadly, ego is lies or care for themselves and Bishop Barry Wood and Fr Mas - HE United Nations High Com - and asylum seekers were due to corrup - replacing God as the main pivot their babies. simo Biancalani, director of Right mission for Refugees (UNHCR) in tion and ignorance. of life nowadays,” Ms Fairon said. Right to Live provides educa - to Live. TSouth Africa has called on govern - “A lot of our officials still cannot dis - “Bishop Wood used Bl Bene - tion, assistance and care for ment hospitals, clinics and other public tinguish between the categories of legal The event started with adora - dict Daswa as an example of abused and pregnant women, as services to stop discriminating against foreigners in South Africa; for example tion at Holy Trinity Church, someone who stood for and lived well as help to those with Aids legal foreigners. the differences between asylum seekers Musgrave, followed by the his life believing that life is sacred and children who suffer from or This came out of a joint community and other kinds of refugees,” Mpho Ty - 2,5km-long Walk for Life proces - and precious. Standing up for life are affected by Aids. workshop on refugees and asylum seek - obeka of Home Affairs explained. sion to St Anthony’s church in is difficult and doing so cost It also offers information ers organised by the city of Tshwane “We call on all aggrieved foreign na - Centenary Street where a Mass of Benedict Daswa his life. We must about the sanctity of life and the and the Department of Home Affairs in tionals to approach us so that we can reparation was celebrated to ask take courage from his example,” evils of abortion, and protest Olievenhoutbosch, near Pretoria. deal with their problems once and for for God’s mercy for the great sin she said. through legitimate channels. “Legal foreign nationals in South all. This is one of the purposes of these of abortion. The bishop reminded the con - “So help is available enabling Africa have virtually the same rights as “The walk was well attended, gregation that the battle against mothers to make life-affirming all citizens, except the right to vote. community engagements. We want to educate both the community and for - especially by the youth who gave the evil of abortion was not easy choices rather than having to live This is what the constitution of the Re - a strong message that life is sa - but the effort to combat the cul - with the consequences of abor - public of South Africa says,” UNHCR eign nationals about issues pertaining to migration, asylum and refugees.” cred to the students milling ture of death was necessary. tion,” Ms Fairon said. representative Bianca Robertson said at around the campus that was Ms Fairon said the Right to The Right To Life campaign can the event. Mr Tyobeka invited all asylum seek - n ers at the meeting to channel their con - passed on the way,” said Jackie Live campaign strongly believes be contacted at 031 201 1288. The “In fact, it is illegal for a hospital, for Fairon of Right to Live, adding that if pregnant women are to be Mater Homes’ emergency helpline example, to refuse emergency service cerns through the Catholic action that “the positive response re - discouraged from having abor - for women in difficulties is 079 491 even to an illegal foreigner,’’ she said. movement Xaveri’s Martin Mande ceived by young onlookers was tions, an alternative should be of - 8093. Organised under the banner of “We ([email protected] ) which would make Are All Different. We Are All Equal”, it easier for Home Affairs to process the event was aimed at healing rela - them. Meanwhile, the UNHCR said it was fi - tions between the community and for - Shown are three gener - nalising the round-table report on this eign nationals following a spate of ations of pupils of Bres - violent incidents in Tshwane and other year’s xenophobic incidents. The round- cia House School in parts of the country earlier this year. table discussions involved multiple Bryanston, Johannes - The workshop saw plenty of dia - stakeholders including the South African burg. logue between concerned foreign na - Police Services, government institutions, Delia van den Handel tionals and Home Affairs officials on a civil society, religious entities, academic (née Plath) started at number of issues, including the alleged groups and individuals. Brescia House in Grade demanding of bribes by Home Affairs “We are now consulting all the 1 in 1966, the first year officials, renewal of papers, and gener - stakeholders for their final input before of Brescia opening its ally being treated “like animals”. we release the report to affected com - doors. Delia’s daughter, “My papers are almost torn and il - munities, very soon,” said the Kim Heger, also went legible now because every time I go for UNHCR’s Ms Robertson. “We have on to attend Brescia renewal, Home Affairs tells me to keep been criticised for isolating ourselves in and matriculated in the same papers,” said Ciroko Edjo Mu - air-conditioned offices away from the 1998. Her daughter, gabe, a refugee from the Democratic very places burning with xenophobic Jade Heger, is currently Republic of Congo. Mr Mugabe says violence. With this report, we are going in Grade 1 at the he is an SA Qualifications Authority-ac - back to the community, to inform school, making it three credited geologist, but is still struggling them of our findings and recommen - generations of “Bres - to find work. dations and to get direct feedback.” cians” in the family. next year, Brescia House School will be celebrating its 50th ju - bilee. All past Brescia girls who are not cur - rently on the alumni mailing list are asked to contact the school at hauchterlonie@ brescia.co.za J&P fights

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By MATHIBeLA SeBOTHOMA participated in other African coun - Africans. He emphasised that prob - cetera. Money had to be borrowed tries: “Since the democratic transi - lems in Sudan, Southern Sudan, the to address those issues.” ORMER President Thabo Mbeki tion in 1994, the SACBC has received Democratic Republic of Congo, Zim - In the same vein, he said that has said that he used to enjoy numerous requests for assistance in babwe and Lesotho are too complex while he praises President Jacob Fworking with the Catholic the area of conflict management. to be resolved by outsiders. Zuma for yielding to the #feesmust - Church in many African coun - “South Africa owes a huge debt to “We must always clearly under - fall campaign, it must be questioned tries—and hopes the Thabo Mbeki its African neighbours for the sup - stand the context, details, sources where the funding for the students Foundation will work with the port they gave during the dark days and drivers of the conflicts that are and universities will come from. Southern African Catholic Bishops’ of apartheid. South Africans did not taking place,” Mr Mbeki said. Mr Mbeki admitted that South Conference (SACBC) for peace in Africa. stand alone; the world stood with He said African conflicts “need a Africa has many problems but said Mr Mbeki was addressing the them and not least their African national dialogue led by victims”. that “we need an open national di - congregation in Pretoria’s Sacred neighbours who received, sheltered, He said the West is wrong in con - alogue about our challenges, so that Heart cathedral at the 10th anniver - educated and helped train thousands cluding that problems in the conti - together as South Africans we can sary celebration of the foundation of young South Africans to return nent are a result of religion or say: this is the way forward”. of the Denis Hurley Peace Institute home and take up the fight.” tribalism. This dialogue, he said, is already (DHPI), a body within the SACBC. He noted that this solidarity He advised the Catholic Church taking place. “There is no way that The institute is a peace-builder in came “at enormous cost to their that “as outsiders we must not come you can visit a neighbourhood in Africa and internationally, uphold - own countries”. The bishops there - with prescriptions as colonial mas - South Africa that people are not ing the social teaching that peace is fore felt the need to repay that debt ters did. We must empower the vic - talking about the state of our na - much more than the absence of war. by responding as best they could to Former President Thabo Mbeki ad - tims to address their own problems”. tion. Men, women, young, old, Among other prominent guests the requests they received. dresses the congregation at the In a dialogue, Mr Mbeki was urban, rural, black, white—even in were Rev Barney Pityana, former “The lot fell on the Justice & Peace 10th anniversary of the Denis Hur - challenged by Fr Mokesh Morar shebeens—are talking.” rector of the University of South Department of the SACBC to actually ley Peace Institute. (Photo: Mathi - about the GEAR (Growth, Employ - Bishop Phalana said citizens Africa and black consciousness ac - go to those countries and support bela Sebothoma) ment and Redistribution) economic must emulate the late Archbishop tivist, the ambassadors of Canada, them in whichever way they could. policy which was set up under the Denis Hurley “who spoke uncom - France, Norway and Uganda, as well The outcome was that J&P was In his address, Mr Mbeki said former president’s watch. fortable truths”. as Bishops Kevin Dowling of spending much of its time out of the that the “DHPI has got a continuing Defending the policy, Mr Mbeki Bishop Dowling noted the im - Rustenburg and Victor Phalana of country and its work in South Africa challenge to remain engaged with said: “GEAR was a direct outcome of portance of solidarity. “Without sol - Klerksdorp. was suffering,” Fr Khumalo said. the rest of the continent”. the Reconstruction and Develop - idarity, no country has a future. The Fr Danisa Khumalo, director of This led to the founding of the He said African problems cannot ment Programme. There was a need Church must not return to the cosi - the DHPI, explained why the SACBC DHPI ten years ago. be solved by colonial masters but by to build clinics, roads, schools, et ness of the sanctuary.” Rosary rally success inspires

STAFF RePORTeR have at their disposal—the Holy Rosary—and with a tender confi - HE organisers of the Rosary dence in the Holy Mother of God, Crusade for Africa have tallied they earnestly beseeched Our Lady Tthe reports from the October through prayer and song to hasten event around South Africa, and to our aid.” found their expectations surpassed. He said the rallies “surpassed all The Rosary Crusade is an initia - expectations, both in number and at - tive of “South Africa Needs Our tendees, thanks to the fervour of the Lady”, which in turn is a campaign faithful and support and encourage - of Family Action South Africa, ment from many of the clergy”. which describes itself as a civic as - The initiative is now looking to sociation of Catholic inspiration. build on this promising start. The organisers initially hoped “We hope to broaden this dra - that a hundred groups would take matically and ‘force’ the hand of to public places to pray the rosary. Our Lady through our love, devo - On the day, more than 250 groups tion and unflinching fidelity to the participated, said Bernard Tuffin of one Holy Catholic and Apostolic Family Action South Africa. Church,” Mr Tuffin said. “Scores of Catholics took to The devotion is anchored in the street corners, parks, beachfronts spirituality of St Louis Marie and other venues to implore Our Grignon de Montfort. Durbanville parish in Cape Town had 78 parishioners and friends, with their parish priest Fr Michael van Heer - Lady’s intercession on our troubled The campaign is based on similar den and curate Fr Godfrey Solomons, taking part in the Rosary Crusade for Africa. About 250 groups from land,” he said. “Brandishing the events in other countries, notably around South Africa prayed the rosary in public. most powerful weapon Catholics the United States. The Southern Cross, november 4 to november 10, 2015 INTERNATIONAL 4 Pope: Synod had Synod report: What it said By CInDy WOODen difficult moments HILE not specifically men - tioning the controversial By CInDy WOODen Wproposal of a path toward full reconciliation and Communion HE first task of the Catholic for the divorced and civilly remar - Church “is not to hand down ried, members of the Synod of Bish - condemnations or anathemas, T ops on the family handed Pope but to proclaim the mercy of God”, Francis a report emphasising an ob - Pope Francis told members of the ligation to recognise that not all Synod of Bishops on the Family. Catholics in such a situation bear the At the end of the synod’s final same amount of blame. working session, Pope Francis was The 94-paragraph report ap - honest about the differences of proved on the last working day of opinion present among synod par - ticipants and about the tone of their the three-week synod, highlighted discussions sometimes exceeding the role of pastors in helping couples the bounds of charity. But he understand Church teaching, grow framed all those differences as an in faith and take responsibility for opportunity for learning. sharing the Gospel. It also empha - “In the course of this synod, the sised how “pastoral accompani - different opinions that were ex - ment” involves discerning, on a case-by-case basis, the moral culpa - Pope Francis celebrates the closing Mass of the Synod of Bishops on the pressed freely—and, unfortunately, Pope Francis holds his crosier as sometimes with methods that were bility of people not fully living up to Family in St Peter’s basilica at the Vatican. (Photo: Paul Haring/CnS) he celebrates the closing Mass of the Catholic ideal. not completely charitable—cer - the Synod of Bishops on the Fam - tainly led to a rich and lively dia - Austrian Cardinal Christoph ties; the family as a sanctuary pro - civilly remarried Catholics. ily in St Peter’s basilica at the Vati - Schönborn of Vienna told reporters logue,” the pope said. can. (Photo: Paul Haring/CnS) tecting the sacredness of human life Those who have remarried with - The synod, he said, was a time of that the synod’s final report proposes from conception to natural death; out an annulment of their sacramen - trying “to broaden horizons in importance of the family based on priests help divorced and remarried and the particular strain on family tal marriage must be welcomed and order to overcome every hermeneu - the lifelong marriage of one man couples undergoing conversion and life caused by poverty and by migra - included in the parish community in tic of conspiracy or closed-minded - and one woman, he said, knowing repentance so that they recognise tion. every way possible, the report said. ness so as to defend and spread the that it should not be afraid to shake whether or not they are worthy to re - The position of women in the “They are baptised, they are brothers freedom of the children of God “anesthetised consciences or to ceive the Eucharist. synod also came up at a press brief - and sisters, the Holy Spirit gives [and] to transmit the beauty of dirty its hands animatedly and Pope Francis said at the beginning ing a few hours before the synod’s them gifts and charisms for the good Christian newness, which some - frankly discussing the family”. of the synod that Church doctrine full voting members—all men— of all”. times is covered by the rust of a lan - “The experience of the synod,” on the meaning of marriage as a life - began the process of approving the Quoting from Pope John Paul’s guage that is archaic or simply the pope said, “has made us under - long bond between one man and report. Br Herve Janson, superior of 1981 exhortation on the family, the incomprehensible”. stand better that the true defenders one woman open to having children the Little Brothers of Jesus, was asked report insists that pastors, “for the The synod sessions, the pope of doctrine are not those who de - was not up for debate. The final re - how, as a person who is not or - sake of truth”, are called to careful said, were designed to have people fend its letter, but its spirit; not port strongly affirmed that teaching dained, he could vote at a synod and discernment when assisting and speak openly about the needs of ideas, but people; not formulas, but as God’s plan for humanity, as a why the superior of a women’s order counselling people who are divorced families and to face them “without the free gift of God’s love and for - blessing for the Church and a benefit could not. and remarried. They must distin - fear and without hiding our heads giveness. to society. “It’s a question I raised as well and guish, for instance, between those in the sand”. “This is in no way to detract While affirming God’s love for I wondered whether or not I should who “have been unjustly aban - The gathering, he said, was a from the importance of formulas, homosexual persons and the obliga - accept,” particularly because both re - doned, and those who through their time “to witness to all that the laws and divine commandments, tion to respect their dignity, the re - ligious brothers and religious sisters own grave fault have destroyed a Gospel remains for the Church the but rather to exalt the greatness of port also insisted same-sex unions have consecrated their lives to the canonically valid marriage”, in the living source of eternal newness the true God, who does not treat us could not be recognised as marriages Lord, he said. words of Pope John Paul II. against those who want to ‘indoc - according to our merits or even ac - and denounced as “totally unaccept - While the report makes no ex - trinate’ it into dead stones to hurl at cording to our works, but solely ac - able” governments or international atican spokesman Fr Federico plicit mention of absolution and the each other”. cording to the boundless generosity organisations making recognition of VLombardi SJ told reporters that return to Communion, it seems to Without mentioning specific dif - of his mercy”. “‘marriage’ between persons of the several bishops mentioned specifi - leave some possibility for such a so - ferences, such as deeply varied cul - Without acting as if every form same sex” a condition for financial cally a need to improve the draft lution by quoting the Catechism of tural approaches to homosexuality, of modern family life was equally assistance. text’s references to “the relationship the Catholic Church’s affirmation Pope Francis said synod members valid, but also without “demonising The report also spoke specifically between conscience and the moral that “imputability and responsibility learned that “what seems normal others”, he said, the synod wanted of: the changing role of women in law”. for an action can be diminished or for a bishop on one continent can “to embrace fully and courageously families; the Church and society; sin - The text refers to conscience in even nullified” because of different seem strange—almost a scandal—to the goodness and mercy of God gle people and their contributions to sections dealing with procreation conditions. Just as the degree of guilt a bishop from another”. who surpasses our human calcula - the family and the Church; the and with marital situations the will differ, the report said, “also the The synod tried to find better tions and wants nothing other than heroic witness of parents who love Church considers irregular, particu - consequences of the acts are not nec - ways to convince the world of the that ‘all would be saved’”.—CNS and care for children with disabili - larly the situation of divorced and essarily the same in all cases”.—CNS Synod members disagree on Communion for remarried

By ROBeRT DunCAn & “yes or no” to Communion for the divorced and civilly remarried, but a CInDy WOODen call to careful discernment, recognis - USTRALIAN Cardinal George ing that the amount of blame differ - Pell said the final report of the ent people bear for a broken Pilgrimage to the Holy Land ASynod of Bishops on the Fam - marriage and the different situations And Medjugorje ily did not create an opening for the which led them to remarry vary divorced and civilly remarried to re - widely. Therefore, the consequences Led by Fr. Stanislaw Jogodzinski ceive Communion. 21 September – 07 October 2016 in terms of absolution and Com - But other synod members took a munion vary as well, he said. R 36 995.00 incl. Airport taxes different view and acknowledged In response to such interpreta - that the paragraph in question was tions of the final report, Cardinal Pell being read differently. said that “the discernment that is en - Pilgrimage to Fatima, Santiago de “The text has certainly been sig - couraged in paragraph 85 in these Compostela, Lourdes and Paris nificantly misunderstood,” said Car - particular matters has to be based on dinal Pell, prefect of the Vatican Led by Fr. Robert Mphiwe the full teaching of Pope John Paul 10 – 20 May 2016 Secretariat for the Economy. “There is no reference in para - II” and the teaching of the Church R 29 995.00 Incl. Airport taxes graph 85 or anywhere in the docu - in general. ment to Communion for the Cardinal Pell said the document’s Jubilee of Mercy divorced and civilly remarried; that mention of the “internal forum”, which involves the primacy of one’s Pilgrimage for Priests and Deacons is fundamental,” he said. But other synod members said the conscience before God in determin - 27 May – 06 June 2016 text represented an opening to dis - ing if access to the sacraments is pos - R 25 995.00 incl. Airport taxes cernment, on a case-by-case basis, of sible, “cannot be used to deny Limited Space Available the possibility of eventual absolution objective truth”. and Communion for some divorced Asked why the document does and civilly remarried Catholics. not clearly say that the door is closed Pilgrimage to Guadelupe Mexico Cardinal Reinhard Marx, presi - to Communion for the divorced and Led by Fr. Dominic Griego dent of the German bishops’ confer - civilly remarried, Cardinal Pell 03 – 12 October 2016 ence, told reporters the final report replied: “I think that is a good ques - R 32 995.00 incl. Airport taxes marked “a real step forward” in the tion, [and] the ban on Communion pastoral care of the divorced and for civilly remarried Catholics, he civilly remarried. said, “is implicit, really present in the Pilgrimage to Rome, Assisi Cardinal André Vingt-Trois of document, but not spelled out as Medjugorje Paris said the document is firm in much as some of the fathers would Led by Fr. Joseph Matsau saying “there can be no general rule like”. that applies equally” to all the di - “We don’t want to be in the situ - 18 September – 29 September 2016 vorced and remarried without con - ation of some of the other Christian R 26 995.00 incl. Airport taxes sidering their personal situations. churches where one or two issues Austrian Cardinal Christoph were fought about publicly for years Tel: 012 342 0179/Fax: 086 676 9715 Schönborn of Vienna told reporters and years and years,” Cardinal Pell [email protected] the final report was not a blanket said. —CNS INTERNATIONAL The Southern Cross, november 4 to november 10, 2015 5 Bishops’ climate change plea

By CInDy WOODen HE presidents of bishops’ con - ferences of North America, TAsia, Africa, Latin America, Oceania and Europe have signed an appeal for government leaders to reach a “fair, legally binding and truly transformational climate agreement” at a summit in Paris. Indian Cardinal Oswald Gracias of Mumbai, president of the Federa - tion of Asian Bishops’ Conferences, signed the appeal at the beginning of a joint news conference at the Vatican. Migrants walk along at sunset after crossing into Hungary from the border The appeal, Cardinal Gracias with Serbia near Roszke. About 10 0 000 migrants, many of them from said, was a response to Pope Francis’ Syria and other conflict zones in the Middle east, have taken the Balkan letter on the environment and an route into europe this year. (Photo: Bernadett Szabo, Reuters/ CnS) expression of “the anxiety of all the A little boy walks with an umbrella during a shower in Bambari, Central people, all the Churches all over the African Republic. The world’s bishops have appealed for people to be world” regarding how, “unless we placed above profits in climate change decisions. (Photo: Goran Tomase - are careful and prudent, we are vic, Reuters/CnS) heading for disaster”. Myth debunked: Religion The appeal is addressed to nego - moral dimensions of climate water and to land, are particularly tiators preparing for the UN Climate change”, to recognise that the cli - mindful of vulnerable communities Change Conference in Paris on No - mate and the atmosphere are com - and are specific in commitments to does not cause global wars vember 30 to December 11. The mon goods belonging to all, to set a finance mitigation efforts. bishops called for “courageous and strong limit on global temperature The appeal said that most people imaginative political leadership” increase, and to promote new mod - —whether or not they believe in By MARK PATTISOn tribalism”. “Yemen is a clear exam - ple,” he said. “Tribalism is a strong and for legal frameworks that els of development and lifestyles God—recognise the planet as “a ELIGION , which has been problem when you talk about ‘ji - “clearly establish boundaries and that are “climate compatible”. shared inheritance, who(se) fruits blamed for being behind hadism’.” And “when you look at ensure the protection of the ecosys - The appeal calls for decisions are meant to benefit everyone. For Rmuch of the violence in Saudi Arabia, you see it’s informed tem”. that place people above profits, that believers, this becomes a question of today’s world, might be a scapegoat, by tribal culture,” he added. The bishops also asked govern - involve the poor in decision-mak - fidelity to the creator, since God cre - according to one Georgetown Uni - Fr Christiansen acknowledged ments to recognise the “ethical and ing, that protect people’s access to ated the world for everyone”.—CNS versity scholar. that some violence can be attrib - “The role of religion needs to uted to religion. Some of the con - clearly be determined,” said Jesuit flicts in the Middle East, he said, are Father Drew Christiansen, a scholar “Sunni-Shiite religious conflicts for Prisoner, street-sweeper cardinal dies at 91 at Georgetown’s Berkley Centre for leadership of the Muslim world”. low inmates. Religion, Peace & World Affairs, By CInDy WOODen Jesuit Father Leo Lefebure, an - When he was discovered, he was where the symposium was held. other Berkley Centre scholar, said it LOVAK Cardinal Jan Chryzos - put into isolation, which he said, Based on his eight years serving was easy to make religion a scape - tom Korec, the retired bishop of “was the most terrible punishment. as the director of international jus - Nitra who was secretly ordained goat. “If we get rid of one scapegoat, S Yet necessity is the mother of inven - tice and peace office for the US a priest and bishop and spent more the goal is, we have to find an - tion, so I followed a very detailed bishops, plus 14 years of Vatican other,” he said. “Jesus came to undo than a dozen years in a communist and intense daily programme [of work in international affairs, Fr the scapegoat mechanism. But we prison, died on October 25 at the spiritual exercises]”. Christiansen said things are not al - used Jesus to scapegoat the Jews.” age of 91. ways what they seem to be. The lack of communication or In a condolence message Pope With the Prague Spring of 1968, The conflict in the former Yu - dialogue can be injurious when Francis said Cardinal Korec was a a period of liberalisation, he was re - goslavia is one example. “Serbians reading the foundational texts of “fearless witness of the Gospel and a leased from prison. Although in identified with Orthodoxy as their any one faith. “If Christians think strong defender of the Christian poor health, he found work first as a cause,” he said, but all ethnic they know who Jews were from the faith and human rights”. street sweeper, then as a labourer in groups in the nation were testing Bible, Muslims think they know the After the communists came to Cardinal Jan Chryzostom Korec a tar factory. He was able to “retire” freedom’s waters after 50 years Christians and Jews from reading power in Czechoslovakia, the au - in 1984. under communist control. the Quran,” Fr Lefebure said. thorities began arresting bishops, de - a year later. In 1990, with the fall of commu - Even in protracted conflicts like If one were to read the sacred porting priests and closing churches. For nine years, he worked in a nism and the full re-establishment that between Israel and Palestine, texts of the others’ faiths, he added, The survival of the Church was en - factory full-time, secretly celebrating of the hierarchy, Pope John Paul II “ethnology and nationalism is the “we would realise it should be a trusted in part to a handful of people Mass and ministering to Catholics. named him bishop of Nitra, the dio - issue”, Fr Christiansen asserted. friendly competition on who like the then-26-year-old Jan Korec, Arrested and sentenced to prison cese in which he was born on Janu - Another factor in violence is should be more virtuous to each who was ordained a Jesuit priest in in 1960, he continued to celebrate ary 22, 1924. He was named a what the Jesuit called “religious other”.—CNS secret in 1950 and a bishop less than Mass and would minister to his fel - cardinal in 1991.—CNS

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his role in the Second Vatican Coun - cil. After making sure that he was Editor: Günther Simmermacher Deo gratias for Archbishop Hurley comfortable on his bed, I left the S the South African Church pre - of RENEW in the archdiocese. room deeply humbled not only by Apares to honour the late Arch - He was certainly called to a the prominent figure that he was but The great Denis Hurley bishop Denis Hurley OMI, who prophetic role both in the Church also by the great simplicity of just an - would have turned 100 on Novem - and in South Africa, a role etched on other brother in the community, en - URING the dark days of Catholics! ber 9, I reminisce on my experience our timeline by faith, justice, discern - joying no extra privileges, living his with His Grace, recalling his “larger ment, dignity, freedom and peace. apartheid, a group of bish - It is therefore puzzling that in vow of poverty with such freedom. than life” presence. As a young Oblate I had the priv - Dops met with President PW the general discourse of Christian It was just over a year later, now Botha in a bid to present their opposition to apartheid, the name I was always impressed by his ilege to stay in community with deep love for the local Church, par - Archbishop Hurley during my sem - living in Namibia, that I was to hear concerns to the government. At Denis Hurley often is ignored of his passing away. I bowed my one point, Mr Botha presumed when it should be right at the top, ticularly in his interaction with the inary break, after he had retired to head in silence in the chapel that that Cardinal Owen McCann of alongside those of Tutu and Bey - poor and marginalised in Durban’s Sabon House in Durban. I have day with the words “ Deo gratias ” in Cape Town was a missionary ers Naudé. melting-pot of cultures, often taking heartwarming memories of my in - bishop, telling him that if he did Archbishop Hurley never to the streets on foot to be close to teraction with him at prayer and gratitude to God for the life of Arch - not like South Africa’s system, he sought public acclaim, and yet the people who made an ordinary mealtimes each day, assisting a by bishop Denis Eugene Hurley OMI. could leave. should there not be a monument living as traders in the inner city. now rather frail Hurley. He became He was a true prince of the Archbishop Denis Hurley of to the great archbishop in a In future years, by which time I somewhat frustrated at times with Church who lived the essence of the Durban pointed out that all bish - prominent location in the city of too had discerned a vocation for the his debilitating health, lack of mo - Gospel taken from the prophecy of ops in the delegation were born in Durban? religious life with the Oblates, I was bility and slurred speech, on one Isaiah: “The spirit of the Lord is on South Africa—unlike the architect Within the Church Archbishop to learn more about him through occasion asking me to mount a cru - me, for he has anointed me to bring of apartheid, HF Verwoerd. He Hurley was not uncontroversial. my personal reading and research. cifix above his bed for him. the good news to the afflicted. He then continued to explain, calmly Apart from his political engage - I had written a number of chap - I was indeed struck by his simple has sent me to proclaim liberty to and with logical precision, the ment, which some resented, he ters on Denis Hurley, using as the room which comprised just a bed, captives, sight to the blind, to let the Catholic Church’s position. also acquired a reputation for cover photo a powerful, animated desk and chair, notepad and recorder oppressed go free” (Luke 4:18). This anecdote is characteristic holding progressive positions. His picture of him preaching as arch - on the desk which he was using to Santo Subito! of some of Archbishop Hurley’s dismay at elements of Pope Paul bishop with clenched fist, at what I put together his much-anticipated Charles DJ Vezasie, attributes: his engagement for jus - VI’s 1968 encyclical Humanae think could have been the launch memoirs with particular reference to Johannesburg tice, his courage in speaking truth Vitae won him both admiration to power, his searing intellect, his and opprobrium. capacity to elucidate complex is - His outspoken critique of Hu - cludes what God has forgiven and Surely the Catholic, divorced sues, and even his quick wit. manae Vitae is often cited as the The divorced face healed is at odds with God’s mercy. and clinging desperately to a sem - Archbishop Hurley, who was reason why he never received the This lack of charity which excludes blance of religion, should be treated born 100 years ago on November cardinal’s red hat, an honour he lack of charity remarried Catholics further divides with the same, if not more, sympa - 9, had many other admirable at - doubtless merited. This might, AM a divorced Catholic who has families—whereas God desires to thy as those who have given up tributes: a profoundly spiritual however, go back to the late Iremarried and who has a deep in - heal what was once broken. hope of a religious, Christian bless - faith which never ceased to look 1950s, when Archbishop Hurley terest in whether I can receive Com - I pray that the Holy Spirit guides ing on the new union, and resorted for truths, his passion for the “defied” the wishes of the apos - munion. Pope Francis to bring back home to the civil procedure? Church and the liturgy, his empa - tolic delegate—the representative What hurts me from those who the many Catholics who feel ex - Another situation that occurs is thy for the weak and the margin - of the Holy See—by issuing a are threatened by changes is the in - cluded and alienated by the present that of the Catholic who has given alised, and so on. strong statement criticising the tention that we remain invisible on legalism. up the practice of his/her religion There is no exaggeration in apartheid regime. the margins. Peter Sadie , Johannesburg and marries in another Church, of saying that Archbishop Hurley Now there are many who What is the intention behind perhaps, the spouse’s choice. was the towering figure of the would like the archdiocese of Dur - blocking the many divorced Is this Catholic automatically cut South African Catholic Church in ban to initiate a sainthood cause Catholics from receiving Jesus in off from the sacraments, and what the Eucharist? Why shouldn’t we the second half of the 20th cen - for Denis Hurley. The decision as MREaFErR rtoi taheg aretic lqe “uHoewr nieews vi - would be the procedure, if, after play leadership roles in our tury, one who earned the admira - to whether or not such an idea sions of family challenge the years of a happy marriage, remain - parishes? Is it to punish us for our I tion of Catholics around the has merit and broad support re - Church” by Fr Joseph Falkiner OP ing married to the non-Catholic failure? Is it to ensure we are not world, not least for his distin - sides with Cardinal Wilfrid Napier (September 30). partner, yet wishes to return to perceived as role-models by our guished contribution to the Sec - or his successors as archbishop of I read the article with joy as I feel “Mother” Church? ond Vatican Council. Durban. children? The God I believe in is a Carmen Smith , Somerset West lot more compassionate and a lot that Fr Falkiner has presented such Even outside the Catholic It would not diminish the a wise and balanced view. Church, Archbishop Hurley was memory of Archbishop Hurley less petty when it comes to whom he chooses to be evangelisers of his Almost all the situations he pres - seen by many as a giant, to the ex - should he not become the subject ents have occurred to many of us, tent that Anglican Archbishop of a sainthood cause. But his Good News. Tabernacle call When I experienced the rejec - and we pray for merciful solutions. AINT ALPHONSUS , founder of Desmond Tutu testified that he legacy would be devalued if we One situation which Fr Falkiner the Redemptorists, wrote his first and other anti-apartheid clerics were to forget his prophetic wit - tion from my partner in divorce, I S never felt abandoned by God. I re - mentioned is that of divorced and devotional work, Visits to the Blessed “stood on his shoulders”. ness, one that called us to love “civilly” remarried Catholics and Sacrament and the Blessed Virgin Archbishop Hurley’s support God, to bring justice to God’s peo - ceived him in Communion regu - larly and because of his constant their possible return to the recep - Mary , for novices. All our religious encouraged Catholic schools to ple on earth, and to accompany tion of the sacraments. houses therefore take pride in hav - smash racial segregation in their them on the pilgrim journey love I have slowly healed. I thank God for the second I stress the word “civilly” remar - ing a house oratory where the institutions as far back as the through life with love and com - ried, as I have yet to find a mention Blessed Sacrament may be visited. 1970s; Archbishop Hurley risked passion. chance many of us have been of the divorced Catholic who has At this particular house in Re - prosecution for revealing the Happily, this prophetic witness blessed with to love and be loved, been married by a sympathetic treat, Cape Town, our tabernacle crimes of Namibia’s Koevoet oper - is now finding expression in the which leads us to remarry (often minister of another Christian (or has always been the same one we atives; he fought against the in - commendable centre named after without annulments). other) religion. use in the parish for the altar of re - flux control laws which tore Archbishop Hurley next to Dur - When as Catholics we say we be - families apart; he led countless ban’s Emmanuel cathedral, the lieve in the forgiveness of sins, it pose: a makeshift wooden one. We are appealing to any religious protest marches, many of which church in which he spent the last means we choose to let go of the Opinions expressed in The Southern started at Emmanuel cathedral; he years of his active ministry as a bitterness of past hurts that would Cross , especially in Letters to the editor, community, parish or individual was a key force in the founding of parish priest. otherwise imprison us. There is a do not necessarily reflect the views of the who might have a modest-sized tab - mystery to what brings us together editor or staff of the newspaper, or of the ernacle we might buy, to please let the anti-apartheid newspaper New And so, a hundred years after Catholic hierarchy. The letters page in par - Nation by the Southern African his birth, the spirit of Archbishop in marriage and I know few who ticular is a forum in which readers may ex - me know, so that we may continue Catholic Bishops’ Conference; Denis Hurley lives on. May this have decided to end their marriages change opinions on matters of debate. this consoling practical devotion of and so on. giant of the Church be remem - lightly. The pain of divorce has put Letters must not be understood to neces - the Church, and be in solidarity sarily reflect the teachings, disciplines or with our good benefactors. His home was fire-bombed and bered and God thanked for his life me in touch with many others on policies of the Church accurately. I can be contacted at seancssr@ his life was under perennial in Masses throughout Southern the margins of our Church who Letters can be sent to PO Box 2372, threat—even, it is said, from some Africa this weekend. seek God’s mercy. Cape Town 8000 or [email protected] gmail.com However, a Church which ex - or faxed to 021 465-3850 Fr Sean Collins CSsR , Cape Town

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Go to www.scross.co.za/subscribe Contact Gail at 076 35 2 3809 or 021 55 1 3923 [email protected] Or e-mail [email protected] or or telephone 021-465-5007 PERSPECTIVES The Southern Cross, november 4 to november 10, 2015 7 One South African family Sarah-Leah Pimentel Michael Shackleton S I write, students throughout the The reality is that our economy is con - country are protesting against fees tracting. The seven fat years—to use bib - The Mustard Seeds Open Door Ahikes. Emotional scenes are playing lical imagery—are now a distant memory themselves out, resulting in clashes be - and we have found ourselves in the midst The Southern Cross , you are probably for - tween students and police. of a long lean season. Everywhere the call tunate enough to be part of a small por - The recent ANC national general con - is for higher wages, more money allocated tion of the population that is less affected Rules for women gress again called for economic transfor - to infrastructure and services. by the real dramas playing out around us. mation and re-emphasised that a small Yet, money is becoming harder and The Holy Father calls us to leave our minority continues to control the coun - harder to come by. There will come a comfort zones and go to the margins in the sanctuary? try’s wealth. point where the middle class cannot be where the majority of God’s people are I believe there are norms in place to regulate This is no doubt a response to in - taxed further and the poor masses cannot suffering. Perhaps it is a call to use our having women in the sanctuary during liturgi - creased popular discontent over access to live on the meagre income they’re able to many skills to uplift those who live in dire cal rites. If so, what regulations are there—be - basic goods and services, evidenced by scrape together. Already salary increases poverty by participating in empowerment cause where I sit there appear to be none in numerous localised protests that are be - are not keeping pace with inflation. programmes, the transfer of skills, or sim - practice? coming perturbingly more violent. ply to listen with an empathic ear to the J Quinlan One morning, the radio told me that his situation is not unique to South struggles of the people we come into con - Africa. We need only read Pope Fran - OU know from reading the Old and New more and more families are taking out T tact with on daily. Testaments that God chose only men to be credit to purchase basic household goods cis’ address to the United Nations to note This requires much more than dishing that this is a global phenomenon: Yhis priests and ministers in rites of divine because they have run out of money for out money or food aid. Enabling people “Economic and social exclusion is a worship. groceries by the third week of the month. to escape extreme poverty requires time God instructed Moses to appoint Aaron and The poor rains mean that five provinces complete denial of human fraternity and and patience as we invite them to be ac - a grave offence against human rights and his sons to be his priests, and so the Levitical are facing water restrictions—and this will tive protagonists in their own emancipa - priesthood was born (Exodus 28). The twelve almost certainly affect crops, further driv - the environment. The poorest are those tion and, as Pope Francis put it at the UN, who suffer most from such offences, for apostles chosen individually by Jesus to become ing up food costs. “dignified agents in their own destiny.” his missionaries and ministerial priests were all The weakening rand means that we’ll three serious reasons: they are cast off by Perhaps some readers have an influen - society, forced to live off what is discarded male. have to pay a lot more for imports, rang - tial voice in the world of politics and eco - and suffer unjustly from the abuse of the The rites of the Church are traditionally the ing from petrol to clothes and electronics. nomics. This position comes with a great environment. They are part of today’s preserve of men. For a long time the ministries of The crime statistics released a few responsibility that requires moral con - widespread and quietly growing ‘culture acolyte (altar server) and reader, among others, weeks ago revealed that overall crime rose science and fearlessness to speak out in of waste’.” were undertaken by men in training for the alarmingly over the last year. defence of equitable distribution of the priesthood. They were ordained as minor clerics In citing these seemingly disparate This is a dismal outlook but it forces us to ask: What is our response as Church? country’s resources. because they were on the road to major orders. events, I’m not judging them or their pro - We’re called to not turn a blind eye to The combination of faith and ethics Yet in practice laymen with no desire for priest - tagonists, but rather to show that they are the anger we see around us and to resist can give rise to solutions that empower hood had been altar servers for years, and also signposts of the state of our South African the temptation to retreat into the bubbles the poor without punishing individual sometimes did the non-gospel readings. family. of our comfort zones. If you are reading enterprise. This requires immense Pope Paul VI in 1973 recognised this. In his I have no doubt that we will continue courage, but Pope Francis exhorts us to apostolic letter Ministeria quaedam , he abolished to see more demonstrations of discontent. “generous solidarity” and the “return of the minor orders and gave lay people greater free - It is human reaction to lash out at the first economics and finance to an ethical ap - dom to serve in the sanctuary, especially to read available scapegoat, such as government proach which favours human beings” the non-gospel texts, to serve at Mass and to dis - corruption, mismanagement, multina - (Evangelii Gaudium ). tribute Holy Communion in church or to the tionals (and individuals) with large profit Herein lies the seeds of hope in what housebound and sick. margins, or universities that appear to be appears to be a bleak landscape of moral However, he added that “in accordance with taking more than their fair share. In many and physical poverty: We have not the ancient tradition of the Church, institution cases, the criticism that these groups have reached the tipping point. The South to the ministries of reader and acolyte is reserved faced is justified. African family can still emerge victorious to men”. However, these events point to some - from the battles that it is facing. This The apostolic letter reaffirmed the Church’s thing far deeper. Someone this week told turnaround requires men and women understanding that laymen were extraordinary me that the many protests are an attempt with moral strength to proclaim a mes - ministers in the sanctuary and out. The ordinary by our still young democracy to find its sage that counters the rhetoric that cur - and proper ministers remained only the bishop, voice. But what is this voice really saying? rently surrounds us. priest and deacon. People are frustrated. People want Above all, it requires us to see each Then came a surprise. The newly promulgated more. They want dignified living condi - South African as a brother or sister in revised Code of Canon Law of 1983 directed that tions. They want employment. They want Christ and strive in whatever way we can “lay people can receive a temporary assignment Students protest against university fees to the role of lector in liturgical actions. Likewise, education for their children. They are outside parliament in Cape Town. (Photo: to promote greater solidarity and unity looking for hope and not finding it. within the South African family. all lay people can exercise the roles of commen - Mphuthumi ntabeni) tator, cantor or other such, in accordance with the law” (c 230.2). The canon did not refer to men only, and so in 1994 the Church officially let women into the ranks of these ministries. In response to your question, the Congrega - Threats we are facing Emmanuel Ngara tion for Divine Worship said that bishops were Christian Leadership free to decide if there was a need for female altar N this column I intend to explain the should always read the signs of the times servers; that they must promote groups of altar rationale for having a series that fo - and stand ready to defend the Gospel boys and vocations to the priesthood; they must Icuses on preparing strong leaders for message of Christ. I would argue that if give reasons for letting females serve at the altar; the Church of tomorrow. we correctly read the signs of the times, people away from traditional churches this service is not a right but a temporary assign - Is there a need for the Church to be we should be able to detect at least three that focus on spiritual issues. ment. overly concerned about the issue of developments that are a serious potential There is a need for the Church to pre - In practice in the Western Church and in our preparing people to defend the Christian threat to the Church: pare leaders who can defend the faith of own territory, women in the sanctuary and in faith? Does the Church not do this in the • First, the rise of secularism and re - our fathers and mothers against these de - other positions of service, present no problem to normal way in which it has done over the lated developments. velopments. The threat of secularism is the faithful. The regulations of 1994 and similar last 2 000 years? What is so special about In this regard, some countries that such that young people need to be very others since, allow for the bishops to be sensitive the 21st century that someone should be were traditionally Christian, especially in strong to practise their faith against the to local and cultural conditions and to act accord - suggesting that we need to develop peo - Europe, may now need to be converted power of peer pressure. ingly. ple who could “defend” the Christian back to Christianity. Africa now needs to Islamisation requires of us Christians faith? send missionaries to these countries. n Send your queries to Open Door, Box 2372, Cape Town, that we have enough faith to see the dif - 8000 ; or e-mail: [email protected] ; or fax (021) It is necessary to begin by pointing out However, because of globalisation and ference between Jesus and any human 46 5 3850 . Anonymity can be preserved by arrangement, but that in every era the Christian faith faces modern information technology, we prophet. questions must be signed, and may be edited for clarity. Only certain challenges that demand that the should not be surprised if secularism be - Furthermore, the Christian way of published questions will be answered. true faith be proclaimed and defended. comes a threat to the African Church. spreading and defending the faith is dif - For example, in the first few centuries • The threat of Islamisation of the ferent from the methods used by extrem - of the Church’s life, there was serious per - world. Extremist groups in Islam, such as ist Islamic groups. The followers of Christ secution of believers by the Roman au - Boko Haram and ISIS, are seeking to es - should be people of peace, and our de - thorities, and Christians had to defend tablish Islamic states in the Middle East, fence of the faith should be based prima - the faith by laying down their lives as Africa and elsewhere. Furthermore, wars rily on the principle of Christians being martyrs. During the 15th and 16th cen - in places like Syria and Yemen, and insta - peacemakers who convince others not by turies there were practices that gave rise bility in North Africa, are encouraging force, but by the validity of what they be - to the Protestant Reformation and the the mass movement of populations from lieve and the way they conduct them - Church was never to be the same again. those countries to countries that were tra - selves in everyday life. In our time we may feel that all is well, ditionally Christian. Countering the commercialised forms particularly we who are based in South - • The “commercialisation” of the of Christianity requires of us to go be - ern Africa where practising the Christian Christian faith. Popular movements are yond the promise of material benefits to faith may appear not to be facing any rising up, promising people wealth and being truly evangelised, developing in threat. good health. Using “miracles”, the lead - spirituality and closeness to God, and the However, as witnesses of Christ we ers of these prosperity cults are luring desire to serve humanity.

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Nothing the centre, takes the late would make him happier. Archbishop Denis Hurley with archbishop on an imaginary Upstairs, on the first floor, we Paddy Kearney, who wrote this arti - tour of the centre. visit the large double-volume hall cle, in 1999. and stop at the portraits of Ma - hatma Gandhi and Albert Luthuli, EVERAL people have asked Hurley Centre is developing. two great promoters of peace in This too gets a nod from the me what I think Denis Hurley KwaZulu-Natal, in whose honour archbishop who always believed would feel about having a S this hall has been named. Both that his great vision of the centre named in his honour. are leaders whom he greatly ad - Church as a “Community Serving One can only speculate about mires. Humanity” defined that commu - this, but my guess is that his first Also on this floor he is de - nity in the broadest possible reaction would be one of embar - lighted to visit St Augustine’s terms. rassment: he didn’t make efforts to Café, which brings back nostalgic His concern about unemploy - promote his own image. However, memories of St Augustine’s School ment and increasing economic in - if he was taken on a tour of the The Denis Hurley Centre, which will be officially blessed on november 9, which stood on this very site equality are his major fears for the Denis Hurley Centre he might with emmanuel cathedral at its side and the mosque behind it. In this ar - when he was a curate here in the new South Africa and he chal - warm to the idea. So let’s set out ticle, Paddy Kearney imagines taking Archbishop Hurley on a tour of the early 1940s and where he taught lenges us with great concern to on an imaginary tour with him... centre—and believes the late archbishop would be pleased with what catechism. make them our top priority. First we would come to what is he’d see. Bricks and air vents saved from On the next floor there are known as “Cathedral Mall”, the the old parish centre, which meeting rooms and the arch - space between the cathedral and those who come there to have uated on this ground floor, is housed the school, have been bishop has no difficulty in under - the Denis Hurley Centre, which that “fullness of life”. surely very close to his heart, be - used to make the coffee bar standing why—remembering the we would like to rename “Hope In the foyer of the centre, he cause it was he who began to assist counter and he glances with inter - many organisations in the cathe - Square” or “Unity Square”. immediately sees the life-size refugees while parish priest of the est at the long list of those linked dral parish and the great need for The city has undertaken to bronze statue of himself in full cathedral in his “retirement” years with St Augustine’s School who spaces where religious education completely refurbish this area. episcopal robes. All his embarrass - from 1992 to 2002. He is aston - helped pay for the construction of can be conducted on Sundays. The archbishop is keen to know ment returns about the very idea ished to learn that the RPC has the café—some of his family Here too he is thrilled to see what will happen to the informal of a statue of himself given such helped more than 1 0 000 newly-ar - members among them. “Sewing for Africa”, teaching a traders, as it was his idea that they prominence, until we draw his at - rived refugees since those days. Further reminders of the old useful skill to many people. should use the mall to make a liv - tention to what he’s holding out At the Usizo L’wethu-Afrisun school are the handrails made ing—he’s greatly relieved to know to all who come to this building: Clinic, also on this floor, he finds from the staircase rails of the old nd so we come to the top floor that there will still be space for 20 the decrees of Vatican II that he a waiting room bursting at the parish centre; these can be seen Aof the Denis Hurley Centre, traders and that they will have promoted from the end of the seams with all who have come for on each floor of the central designed to be a meditative space, new, specially designed stalls. Council until the day of his death medical help, now more than atrium, from which his statue can with its “Prayer Room” open to That really excites him. nearly 40 years later. 2 000 a month. be seen from every floor. people of all faiths for reflection He also understands why the He is also delighted to find that A mobile clinic reaches out to When he hears that, embar - and prayer. new stalls will be portable so that all around his statue people are people living in parks and on the rassment returns, so we won’t He hardly needs to hear our ex - they can be removed when the sitting, waiting to be helped. This streets, including whoonga-users dwell on the fact that he is central planation that in the same way as whole area is used for major com - is the social outreach floor of the at the Dalton hostel for migrant to all that happens in this build - people of all faiths are served on munity and inter-faith events. centre, with a refugee office, workers—indeed the clinic’s ef - ing! the other floors of the building, so We come to the foundation clinic and feeding scheme. forts are like that “field hospital” Next to the café he sees a com - this space is available to all, and is stone laid on February 13, 2014, Of course he asks who made which Pope Francis suggests as puter room where 18 people are not decorated or equipped for any the tenth anniversary of his the statue, and is highly amused— the role of the whole Church. attending a course in computer one faith. death. He is happy to see the text, and moved—to discover it was a basics, a collaboration between Right outside this prayer space “I have come that they may have great-grandson of Paul Kruger, the e pass on to look at the well- the World Changers’ Academy— is a therapeutic garden in honour life, life in all its fullness”. He late Reg Stroh! Wequipped kitchen where just one of many mutually bene - of Archbishop Hurley’s close col- hopes the centre will help all Refugee Pastoral Care (RPC), sit - meals are being prepared for ficial partnerships the Denis Continued overleaf HURLEY 100 The Southern Cross, november 4 to november 10, 2015 9 lasting peace or stability in such an unequal society. His hope would arise from what he has seen in this brief tour and from our assurance that a fully-fledged employment pro - gramme is to have pride of place in the centre, with some flashes of what is to come on a much greater scale, through the com - puter school, sewing classes and life-skills already being offered to the unemployed and homeless. He tells us that his hope is greatly increased by the growing inter-faith collaboration that he has seen on this visit. Our final words to him are: “Dear Archbishop, pray for us at the throne of God as we seek to live out your legacy—to be a com - munity serving humanity and to Dancers from the Suriya-Langa Dance Company at the opening of the give the poorest and most vulner - centre’s Gandhi-Luthuli Peace Hall in July this year. (Photo: Helene able an opportunity to have that Grung—Light.Capture.Create) abundant life that Christ has laborator over many years, Mgr eyes the increasing economic in - promised.” Paul Nadal. equality of South Africa, thought n Paddy Kearney is the author of a A second hall, the same size as to be the worst in the world. comprehensive biography of Arch - the Gandhi-Luthuli Peace Hall but It was this that made him call bishop Denis Hurley, Guardian of Baby Denis Hurley on the lap of his mother Theresa, with father Denis and sub-divisible into three separate for a powerful global interfaith the Light . The former director of the sister eileen. Denis Jr was baptised by Fr John Colgan, a future Southern rooms, is named in honour of movement to eradicate poverty Diakonia Council of Churches Cross editor. Archbishop Hurley’s successor, and establish economic justice. worked with the archbishop for Cardinal Wilfrid Napier. He realised that there can be no many years. From one of these three rooms there is a splendid view of the Baby Denis ‘just popped out’ golden domes of the Juma ARLY in October 1915, Theresa train to Cape Town. mosque, the cathedral’s closest Hurley travelled to Cape Town After a month with her sister-in- neighbour. Archbishop Hurley Eto prepare for her second birth: law she was admitted to a nursing was known to have prayed quietly that of the future archbishop of home in Woodstock where the in this mosque when he was Durban, Denis Eugene Hurley. birth of her first son took place. parish priest at the cathedral, and She would later tell her daughter The dirt track to Simon’s Town Cardinal Napier has spoken at Fri - Eileen that she had never felt better was notoriously bumpy and may day prayers in that same mosque. than in that pregnancy. have led to what Theresa regarded Hurley is deeply moved to hear Theresa and her husband Denis as a remarkably smooth delivery, that interfaith relations continue came from Skibbereen in southern the easiest of her four confine - to develop in this extraordinary Ireland. They were adventurous ments. neighbourhood. Like his friend, Fr people. Before their marriage Denis “He came so easy; he just popped Hans Küng, he strongly believes had been in the Royal Navy and his out. He cried at the right moment; that “there can be no peace in the Theresa had learned to be a seam - breathed at the right moment; world, without peace among reli - stress in the United States. They sucked at the right moment—he gions”. both came from families which had was just a perfect baby,” she would It’s time to let the archbishop some history of resisting the Eng - recall. leave after his brief visit. He goes lish oppression of the Irish. The birth took place at 15:30 on away, delighted by what he has Now they were living in South November 9, 1915, a Tuesday. seen—yet with a blend of concern Africa where Denis worked as a The baby weighed 3,855kg. He and hope. lighthouse keeper. was named Denis, after his father His great concern, as was the Denis’ sister Lizzie lived in Cape and grandfather, and Eugene, after case while he was stationed in this Town and that’s where Theresa the oldest surviving uncle on his parish for the last ten years of his went for the last month of her con - mother’s side, the O’Sullivans. pastoral ministry, was the ocean finement, that October 1915. Fr John Colgan—later an editor of poverty that surrounded and Cardinal Wilfrid napier of Durban blesses the statue of Archbishop Hur - A Cape cart pulled by mules took of The Southern Cross —baptised still surrounds the cathedral and her from Cape Point to Simon’s Denis on November 21, 1915 at St which constantly kept before his ley in the centre’s foyer. The archbishop probably would be amused and moved to know that the statue was made by a grandson of Paul Kruger. Town. From there she caught the Mary’s cathedral, Cape Town.

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or our group of pilgrims, the Fpresence of the saints in the Italy has a wealth and varia - churches was a primary attraction. tion of churches that satisfy Visiting the various saints’ birth - places, tombs, memorials and the spiritual, artistic and his - places of activity served as a vivid il - torical senses. GünTHeR lustration that these were real peo - SIMMeRMACHeR explains. ple with real lives. Even if they lived more than a thousand years ago, as Ss Benedict MONG the many great joys and Scholastica did, their chal - of travelling in Italy, for lenges—temptation and sin, strug - Athose of faith or none, is to gle and dejection—were in essence visit the abundance of churches the same as ours, and they fol - that can take your breath away, lowed the same Christ and the sometimes literally so. served the same God as we do. Participants in the Saints of Italy Visiting the saints gave us a con - pilgrimage in September had the crete connection with our ances - opportunity to see many of them, tors in faith. This connection in Rome, Assisi, Cascia, Norcia, The baldachin by Bernini and gold-covered ceiling in The church of St Alphonsus of Liguori in Rome, the through the centuries was beauti - Siena, Florence, Padua, Venice, Rome’s basilica of St Mary Major. (All photos: Günther Redemptorist order’s mother church which holds the fully revealed as we sat in the crypt Sotto il Monte and Milan. Simmermacher) original icon of Our Lady of Perpetual Help. of the basilica of St Benedict in And because the pilgrims were Norcia. conscious of being on a spiritual The crypt is the ground level of journey, they never experienced the original basilica dedicated to the common syndrome suffered by the founder of the Benedictine many visitors to Italy: that of being order. It was built on the place “churched out”. where St Benedict and his twin St Indeed, towards the end of our Scholastica were born in 480 AD; journey in Padua some pilgrims the floor paving is said to date back were disappointed when our very when all this was the house of their capable guide passed by a church wealthy parents. which was quite lovely but other - As we sat at the spot where St wise of no particular historic sig - Benedict was born, we suddenly nificance. To them, a random heard the monks of the order he church trumped the great Palazzo founded singing their Gregorian della Ragione. chant from the adjacent The guide was right to pass by monastery. We remained still for a the church, for there were many few minutes as the ancient hymns other things to see in Padua and of modern monks wafted across we had to complete our tour of the the basilica. It was a moment that city in time for Mass. But our pil - connected us with 1500 years of The death of St Francis in a fresco by the 13th-century Pilgrims in the crypt of St Benedict basilica, the birth - grims were also right: in a church, Church history. artist Giotto in Florence’s Santa Croce basilica. place of Ss Benedict and Scholastica in norcia. no matter how insignificant, we Later I discovered that the Bene - encounter the living Christ. dictine monks of Norcia had To my mind, Italy’s churches famous icon of Our Lady. in the house of God, in whose Paintings, stained glass win - topped the US Billboard classical can’t really get boring because they And so it is with churches presence we are unworthy of being dows and sculptures would tell music charts this year with their offer such a marvellous variation in throughout Italy: they have their but who invites us in regardless. stories for which the faithful CD Benedicta . So we also got a gratis architecture and art, and in spiritu - own individual history, character But that was not the only reason needed no words. Often the priest performance by chart-toppers. ality and history. and spirituality. Some will speak to Europe’s great churches were built would use these artworks to ex - In Italy churches belong to daily Take the basilica of St Mary the pilgrim, or the tourist, in ways to impress: their size and wealth plain a catechetical point, but to a life. It is not unusual for an Italian Major in Rome. To describe it as others won’t—but when they do were meant to demonstrate tem - visually literate audience, the mes - Catholic to pop into the local opulent is to understate its speak, they do so in profound poral and ecclesiastical power. sages usually were clear. church after work to say a prayer, grandeur. The flamboyant ceiling is ways. The secular world still does So while we today admire the or maybe to visit a favourite saint. made of gold which was brought to that: when parliaments, court genius of Giotto’s magnificent and South African Catholics don’t Europe by Christopher Columbus f course, some churches can buildings, train stations, business influential frescoes of scenes from have that kind of relationship with and presented by Ferdinand and Is - Odistract from what they are towers or even shopping malls are the life of St Francis in the saint’s their local church, which most abella of Spain to the notorious supposed to communicate, namely built to colossal scale, it communi - basilica in Assisi, for most of the visit just once a week for Mass. Pope Alexander VI. the Good News of Christ. These cates power. Who are we to take people who preceded us over the Often it isn’t possible to just pop The basilica has magnificent art, distractions can be highly subjec - on such titans that can build struc - past 700 years in viewing them, in; due to security concerns, many famous relics and a history so rich tive, and they can turn on details. tures of these proportions? they served as a biographical churches are locked up during the that tour guides must be selective For example, one might be And that is the feeling one comic book. week, unless there are events or about what they choose to point overwhelmed by the scale and ex - might well have in St Peter’s basil - And the faithful required no perpetual adoration taking place. out to their groups. travagance of St Peter’s basilica. ica. It does not immediately in - sermon when they saw reliefs of Pilgrimages—to Italy, the Holy Just around the corner from St Some of the papal tombs and spire prayer, at least not when it is the Last Judgment on church fa - Land or other destinations—build Mary Major is the 19th-century monuments don’t convey a fully- filled with crowds of roaming peo - cades to understand the message up and strengthen our faith be - church of St Alphonsus Liguori, the formed sense of humility. ple. But even then, one can find of gleeful devils marching off mis - cause they serve as a kind of re - mother church of the Redemptorist Indeed, they were not supposed moments of prayer there: in front erable chained sinners—poor and treat. Part of that is the order, which houses the original to. They were intended to commu - of Michelangelo’s Pietà perhaps, or rich alike—to eternal hell as an - relationship the pilgrims build icon of Our Lady of Perpetual Help. nicate the power of the papacy, in the Adoration chapel which few gelic saved individuals stood to the with churches—the houses where This is a much more sober which until Italy’s unification in tourists enter. other side, all presided over by a we visit God. church. 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33rd Sunday: November 15 Readings: Daniel 12:1-3, Psalm 16:5, 8-11, Hebrews 10:11-14, 18, Mark 13:24-32 Reflect on the end-time Nicholas King SJ HE liturgical year, and with it the aca - demic year in this country, is now rushing The psalm for next Sunday likewise shows for next Sunday, as Jesus gives his disciples a Sunday Reflections Tto its end, and so the readings for next confidence in God’s power, addresses the glimpse of what the end-time is going to be Sunday invite us to contemplate what the end Maker of the Universe as “my portion and my like, presumably so that they will not be will be like. What do these readings invite us cup”, and says: “I placed the Lord before me afraid: “In those days, after that tribulation, you see these things happening, be aware that to say to ourselves in this “end-time”? always; since [the Lord] is at my right hand, I the sun is going to be darkened, and the it is near at the gates”. In the first reading , the prophet is reflect - shall not be moved.” moon will not give her light, the stars shall Then comes an indicator that it will be ing on the destruction of the Jerusalem tem - And God can cope even with Death: “For be falling from heaven, and the powers shall soon: “This generation will not pass away, I ple in 167BC, but insisting that God is still in you will not abandon my soul to Sheol; you be shaken in the heavens.” am telling you, before all these things hap - charge: “Michael shall stand up, the great will not hand over your beloved to see the pit; Then, however, we are offered grounds for pen.” Clearly we are meant to think here, not prince, who stands over the children of your you will show me the path of life.” hope: “They shall see the Son of Man coming of the final ending, but of the destruction of people.” That kind of confidence is there also in the in clouds, with much power and glory.” Jerusalem that took place within a generation “Michael”, of course, means “Who is Like second reading for next Sunday, as the author And this figure has a comforting mission: of Jesus’ death. to God?”, and so we can feel that God is at of the Letter to the Hebrews continues his “He is going to send his messengers and Then he reminds us of an important truth: work even in this terrible disaster: “Your peo - meditation on “Jesus —the Real Thing”, com - gather his chosen ones from the four winds, “The heavens and the earth will pass away, ple shall escape, all those who are found writ - paring Jesus with the High Priest; unlike those from the end of the earth to the end of but my words shall not pass away.” And when ten in the book.” others, Jesus “offered a single sacrifice for heaven.” you consider that Jesus’ words are still ut - We get an early hint of the developing Jew - ever, and sat down at the right hand of God”. And in case that might not seem utterly tered, day after day, through all that has hap - ish belief in life after death: “Many of those If that is true, then there is nothing to convincing, Jesus tells a parable about the fig- pened in the last two thousand years, you will who sleep in the earth’s dust shall arise, these worry about, as this great theologian imag - tree (that great biblical symbol of Israel’s pros - recognise the truth of this. to live for ever…and the learned shall shine ines God saying: “Their sins and their perity), and how we read the signs of its But God is in charge, and so Jesus reminds brightly in the firmament.” breaches of the Law I shall not remember any producing leaves as a sign: “You know that us: “About that day or hour, nobody knows, No matter how terrible the things that more.” God is in charge, even when every - summer is near.” neither the angels in heaven nor the Son, but have happened, the prophet is certain that thing seems to be falling apart. In just the same way, we are not to be over - only the Father.” God is in charge at the end-time. That is the message of the gospel reading whelmed by signs of the end-time, but “when End-time or not, God is in charge. Love, indeed, is ‘the eye’ Southern Crossword #679 HERE is no such a thing as pure ob - No. There are clearly degrees of objec - jectivity, a view that is free of all bias. tivity, even if no one can claim absolute TYet that’s the claim often made by objectivity. To admit that even the strictest Fr Ron non-religious, secular thinkers in debates empirical scientific research will always Rolheiser OMI about values and public policy. contain a degree of subjectivity is not to They argue that their views, unlike put science on the same level as supersti - Final Reflection those who admit that their views are tion or even of faith. grounded in religious principles, are objec - Empirical science and rational thought tive and free from bias. Their underlying must be given their due. It is medical doc - assumption is that a purely rational argu - tors, not faith-healers, who cure physical more deeply befriend each other. ment, a view in effect from nowhere, is ob - diseases. Likewise, the scientific theory of More important, however, than having jective in a way that religious arguments, evolution and the fundamentalist religious a proper apologetic about the place of faith based upon someone’s faith and religious belief that our world was made in seven and religion inside public policy is an un - perspective, can never be, as if there was days are not to be given an equal claim. derstanding of this for our own health and such a thing as a purely objective starting Much as religious thinkers are some - happiness. We need to understand how point. There isn’t. times irritated by the absolutist claims of subjectivity colours everything—not so We all have a bias. The late ecumenical some secularists, science and critical ra - much so that we might eventually con - theologian Langdon Gilkey used to put tional thinking must be given their due. vince secularists that religious perspectives this in a gentle, more palatable way: We are important in any discussion, but so don’t have a bias, he said, but rather a “pre- ut religious thinking must also be given that we can more deliberately choose the ontology”, a subjective stance from which Bits due, especially in our debates about right pre-ontology so as to see the world we look at reality. And that stance includes values and politics. Religious opinion also through better eyes and make better judg - both the place where we stand, outside, needs to be respected, not least with the ments on the world. ACROSS DOWN when we look into any reality, as well as more-explicit acknowledgement that secular The 12th century mystic Hugo of St Vic - 1. Kind of alliance that’s 1. Get up from some surprise the software through which we perceive reasoning too operates out of a certain faith, tor, gives us, I believe, the right pre-ontology been desecrated (6) (6) and reason as we look at anything. as well as by the acknowledgement that, like out of which to operate: “Love is the eye!” 4. He has roughly taking 2. It indicates man’s lack of He’s right. There’s no view from its scientific and philosophical counterparts, For Hugo, we see most accurately when ways (6) moral strength (5,8) nowhere, no view that’s unbiased, and no religious thinking also brings invaluable and our eyesight works through the lens of love 9. Letters for counting by 3. Jargon (5) view that’s purely objective. Everyone has needed perspectives to any debate. and altruism, just as we see most inaccu - Vatican accountants? (5,8) 5. Protective clothing taken as a bias. The religious person and the secular A lot of the world’s knowledge is con - rately when our eyesight is coloured by 10. The referee may do it at a whole (7) person simply stand at different subjective tained within science and philosophy, but suspicion and self-interest. And this isn’t farewell party (4,3) 6. Bangs a drum to go back to places and process things through different most of the world’s wisdom is contained in an abstract idea. Experience tells us this. 11. Parsonage conceals a spiritual exercise (5,1,7) subjective, mental software. its religious and faith perspectives. Just as we When we look at someone in love, be - crime (5) 7. Reaching a higher level (6) 12. It may be struck for Does this mean then that all views are cannot live on religion alone, we also can - yond of course those periods when love is 8. Neckwear in trumps?(5) overly-obsessed with romantic attraction, papal decoration (5) 13. So Laura causes stimula - equally subjective and that everything is not live on science and philosophy alone. 14. Saint of Assisi (5) tion (7) relative? Can we not then distinguish be - Wisdom needs knowledge and knowledge we see straight. We then see the other as he 18. Where to find a Japan - 15. Firm for keeping horses tween science and superstition? needs wisdom. Science and religion need to or she really is, with full recognition of his ese church (5) (6) or her virtues and faults. That’s as accurate 19. Peter brought her back 16. How to degrade yourself as we will ever see. to life (Ac 9) (7) (5) Conversely, when we see someone 21. How you personally in - 17. Parish lottery (6) through the eyes of suspicion or self-inter - voke divine favour? (5,8) 20. Kind of offering at ancient est, our vision is clouded and there’s not as 22. Without any difficulty (6) altar (5) fair a perception. 23. Representation of a saint (6) Jesus says as much with the first words Solutions on page 11 that comes out of his mouth in the synop - tic gospels. In his very first remarks, he in - vites us, in one word, to see the world as it

d really is. His first word? “ Metanoia ”.

a This is a Greek word that is generally CHURCH CHUCKLE

r translated in English Bibles, as “repent”, HE child was a typical four-year-old girl —cute, inquisitive, bright as a new penny. n but it literally means “to enter a different, T higher mind”. And that connotation is When she expressed difficulty in grasping the o highlighted when we contrast it to another concept of marriage, her father decided to pull out

C Greek word which we already know: “para - his wedding photo album, thinking visual images noia”. Metanoia is the opposite of paranoia. would help. When we look at the world through the One page after another, he pointed out the bride eyes of paranoia, we are not seeing arriving at the church, the entrance, the wedding straight. Conversely, when we look at the ceremony, the recessional, the reception, and so on. world through eyes of metanoia , we are see - “Now do you understand?” he asked. ing straight, religiously and scientifically. “I think so,” the little girl said. “Is that when Love, indeed, is the eye. Mommy came to work for us?”

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Alan Paton Mgr Paul nadal Archbishop nxumalo Sr Margaret Kelly Beyers naudé Thora Perez Frank Chikane Brenda Gourley Fr eric Boulle Nine voices speak about Denis E Hurley

Alan Paton Archbishop Jabulani prayer, Mass and breakfast. because it was too dangerous, that and difference were almost alien (Author) Nxumalo OMI His fellow bishops seemed not he would tell all the mothers in concepts in South Africa. enis Hurley was not born in a (Archbishop of Bloemfontein) to have got up early enough when South Africa that you are thinking His own firm and clearly articu - he put forward controversial issues about them. He loved those people lighthouse as some people ver the years there were priests lated stance against apartheid was D about sanctions, about boycotts and he loved all of us, and he imagine. His father was the light - who asked what Archbishop unwavering, and in the fray of re - O and about various other cam - wasn’t afraid to show it. house keeper at Cape Point, the Hurley knew about pastoral work, gional conflict in KwaZulu-Natal paigns. These were presented with guardian of the light that warns because he had never been a parish over decades, he played an impor - such gravitas and conviction that it Rev Frank Chikane tant role in defusing polarised pol - the sailors of dangers and guides priest or a missionary, either in (Anti-apartheid cleric) them away from destruction. town or in a rural area. The irony took great bravery to lock horns itics. This was often at personal risk Now the son did not follow in was that he was a great pastoral in - with him. rchbishop Hurley was like a gift to himself and we will probably his father’s footsteps. But he be - novator despite this lack of experi - We used to thank God that he Ato us. He was not a rabble- never know just how often and came a lighthouse keeper too; the ence. was on our side as we knew we rouser but a person who took on a how many risks he took. He did guardian of the light that warns of His promotion of new parish would have lost out many times if cause and stayed with it. You could not talk of these things. dangers and saves us from destruc - and diocesan structures after the he had been leading the opposi - rely on him for lots of love, lots of tion. Second Vatican Council, especially tion! passion, lots of empathy and un - Fr Eric Boulle OMI derstanding when he dealt with The lighthouse has become a the diocesan synod and Diocesan Rev Beyers Naudé (Durban’s vicar-general, 1962-72) symbol of light and hope and our victims of apartheid. Pastoral Council, and his promo - (Anti-apartheid cleric) here was Lazarus, lifeless, archbishop has been doing this tion of lay ministries, gave lay peo - And he didn’t impose himself Tbound from head to foot, en - work of warning and guiding for ple a taste for involvement. am convinced that when the his - on you, he didn’t think he knew tombed. And Jesus said to the dis - the greater part of his life. The pastoral fervour that exists Itory of the South African Church everything and tell you what to ciples: “Untie him. Let him go in the archdiocese of Durban was of this period is written, the true do. He would listen and under - free.” stand and even if he didn’t under - Mgr Paul Nadal triggered in his time. [As a result], meaning and significance of the For centuries, the majority of stand fully, he would trust you in (Durban’s vicar-general 1983–92) it is a diocese that expects progress contribution which Denis Hurley people in South Africa were bound made will be revealed and lead a sense and be with you in your n talking about prayer in his own all the time. by unjust laws, which left them vir - many to thank God for who he was struggle. Ilife, Archbishop Hurley recalled Denis Hurley excelled in leading tually dead, entombed in their how in seminary days they were the diocese in the very thing he is and what he did. He was a light for us, helping some of us not to be full of hatred. townships and reserves. But there trained to regard at least half-an- accused of not having had. was a voice crying out on every hour’s meditation as the absolutely Thora Perez In an apartheid setting it was diffi - Sr Margaret Kelly OP (Formerly SACBC Laity Commission) cult not to be full of hatred if you possible occasion, to those who necessary beginning of each day. were responsible: “Take the stone That habit, instilled in early days, (Secretary of SACBC Justice & hen we lay members went to were black. It was difficult not to Peace Commission in the 1980s) international meetings, Arch - be bitter. That’s where people like away that entombs the people.” To remained with him. W the people themselves Archbishop As an early riser, the first half bishop Hurley always made sure Archbishop Hurley were a witness he bishops of the Catholic bish - Hurley encouragingly beckoned: hour of each day, before the cele - ops’ conference might have had that we were comfortable, that we among us which enabled us to go T “Come out! Get out of your bration of the Eucharist, was given their reservations about the rather were involved in all that was hap - beyond the racist paradigm. tombs.” And to the government to prayer. Without it the arch - radical proposals of the Justice & pening, that we were present at all Brenda Gourley bishop claimed he could not exist Peace Commission, but they faced the meetings arranged for us. and other relevant bodies, he ex - or survive. His prayer life consisted a formidable champion in Arch - He would encourage us to (Former vice-chancellor of the claimed: “Untie them. Let them go of both meditation and the daily bishop Hurley. “speak from your hearts. Tell them University of Natal) free.” office of psalms and scripture read - He would be up at the crack of exactly what is happening, tell hroughout his life of service, Thanks be to God, Archbishop ings. This office, which the arch - dawn, perform several physical and them exactly what you feel”. TArchbishop Hurley managed to Hurley lived long enough to have bishop often prayed in Latin, was a spiritual exercises, and read up doc - And he told the exiles whom we be a vessel so big-hearted that he seen this happen in his lifetime. source which he found very rich uments for the day before joining met and who had fled from South could encompass great diversity at n The first part of voices on Hurley and deep in spiritual content. the other bishops for morning Africa without telling their parents a time when, as we know, diversity ran in the issue of October 21 .

On the 100th Missionary anniversary of Oblates the birth of of Mary Immaculate Archbishop ‘We are men who hope that the life of Jesus may be seen in us, who live in an apostolic community who reach out to those people that need us most, who have a special devotion to Mary Immaculate’ Denis Hurley OMI We honour our fellow Oblate St Joseph’s gives Archbishop Denis Hurley thanks for his on his centenary inspiring life, pastoral vision, commitment to social justice and his support Following the footsteps of our founder St Eugene de for the Institute. Mazenod, we dedicate ourselves to the poor and the most abandoned and help them discover their dignity St Joseph’s is home to the as God’s children. Having the community of apostles Denis E. Hurley Library with Jesus as our model, we come together in apostolic communities of priests and brothers, united by the officially opened by the vows of poverty, chastity, obedience and perseverance. Archbishop on Contact the Vocation Director Fr Sibusiso M. Dlamini, OMI, P.O. Box 100464, Scottsville, 3209, 7 March 1995 Tel: +27 82 098 4583 iv Special supplement to The Southern Cross, november 4-10, 2015 HURLEY 100 A TIMELINE OF THE LIFE OF DENIS HURLEY

Born in Cape Town 1915 9 november Matriculated at St Charles’ 1931 College, Pietermaritzburg

Oblate novitiate, Cahermoyle, Ireland 1932 1939 Curate at emmanuel Cathedral 1940-43 Ordained priest in Rome named Vicar- Superior of St Joseph’s Apostolic of natal Oblate Scholasticate, with the rank of Pietermaritzburg 1944 Bishop (ordained 12 December 1946 March 19, 1947) 1951 11 January Appointed Archbishop of Durban President of Southern African Catholic 1952-61 Bishops’ Conference

Attended Vatican II, elected Member of Commission 1962-65 for Priestly Formation and Christian education President of the SA Institute 1965-66 of Race Relations 1968 Convened first Catholic Diocesan Synod in South Africa Member of Congregation 1969-74 for Divine Worship 1974 Attended Synod of Bishops (and again 1977, 1980, 1985) elected Chairmann of inter - 1975 1976 Founded Diakonia national Commission on Council of Churches english in the Liturgy (ICeL) President of Southern African Catholic Bishops’ Conference 1981-87 1984 9 October Charged with an offence under SA law for making “false statements” concerning Koevoet atrocities in namibia (acquitted in February 1985) Brought Supreme Court application which 1985 1986 led to first court-ordered release of detainees Honorary membership Golden Jubilee of 1989 Black Sash 1992 Priestly Ordination Retires as Archbishop of Durban. Appointed Parish Priest, Chancellor of the emmanuel Cathedral university of natal 1993-98 1997 Golden Jubilee of episcopal Ordination

1999 Diamond Jubilee of Priestly Ordination Retired as parish priest of emmanuel Cathedral 2002

13 February Civic Memorial Buried in the Lady Chapel Died of cardiac Service, of emmanuel Cathedral, arrest at Sabon Durban City after Requiem Mass at House, Durban Hall Absa Stadium, Durban 2004 27 February 28 February

The SSoouutthheerrnnCCrroossss Throughout his long life Denis E Hurley had a close relationship with The Southern Cross , starting with his membership in Mgr Kolbe’s “Children’s Corner” in the 1920s, to his anonymous reports from the Second Vatican Council in the ’60s, to his serialised memoirs of Vatican II in 2001, to his final published article, a sparkling Christmas guest editorial only two months before his death. We thank God for the life of this great Servant in the Vineyard of the Lord, and invoke his intercession for the intentions of The Southern Cross and its readers.