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'- 1·y1.. ._..,l,..·•1 L•.J..J NOV 12 'c& O'Neill Explaitis Mttrals tillS A:s .Controversy Rages CINCINNATI, omo, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1966 Ten Ceob 20~ Vol. Ll, No. 6 Seminaries Revise Approach; Gorman Examines New Era By BOB WILHELM, News Reporter man, not only because he lives Rt. Rev. 1\lsgr. John R. Gorman used insights gained a community life, or because it's put·poseful and reasonable, or while serving as Rector at St. Mal'y of the Lake Seminary dictated by- Charity, but because to bring alive the t·ecent Vatican Decree on Priestly Train· it is and must be a fit·m and ing, a.t the second Forum Series presentation in the Armory consistent personal conviction. ~onday, November 7. Clergy-laity encounters m u s t be seen as intet·personal rela­ -News (Kelley) Plwt~t ! - A noted lecturer on religious tionships. He learns to listen WILLIAM II. O'NEILL psychology, Monsignor Gorman to others and to be listened to, ••• Cl portrait of the artist as a young mat& is presently working toward his to realize his ideas of himself By PAT KELLEY, News Reporter Ph.D. degree in clinical psychol­ and his personality, to be re­ sponsible to others and for oth­ ''When I, along with several other local artists was ask<'d. ogy at Loyol-a University, Chi­ ers, to live effectively with his to submit sketches for a possible mural to be placed ill the eago, He spoke on "Vatican II peers. _People, not abstt·act rules, Musketeer Grill, my feelings were that it might be interest~ and the Priesthood," appi·opriate are his reason fot· accepting dis· to the audience, composed mostly cipline, ing to the Xavier Students to know something truly histor­ ot local. seminarians. ical about the life of the ultimate Musketeer, D'Artagnon.'* Monsignor Gorman character· Monsignot• Gorman chose to ized a modern seminarian as Now, permanently affixed to C!I.Uote directly from t11e Decree, the walls of the once somber played yet, Mr. O'Neill porlrars then extrapolate a n d explain "a man of changing times, and gl'iU are three of the six panels, the tlu·ee centers of D'Artagm1n's each statement. His basic point therefore a confused man." He's life, his personal life, the church. was the need fot· a modet·n sem­ &he subject of numerous studies, bringing into reality these words and the state. The fifth panel inarian to immerse himself in his written about, in effect, "pigeon­ of artist-teacher Mt·, William H. de!3icts the two Chateaux ill social environment, to relate to which the Musketeer spent most helped a n d stereotyped." He's O'Neill. those he will one day serve, as a of his time guarding political priest. As he po!med out, "The pragmatic, searching for a scale The remembrance committee prisoners and the final panel Church is nO\\' iavoived in the of values that makes sense to of the Senior Class of 1966 in portrays the death of D'Arlag. healthy process of looking at it­ him. He's interested in contem­ judging au sketches submitted nan. Throughout the mural ca1·e self, becoming relevant in the porary problems of tile world. kept a keen eye open for an idea is taken to portray the clothing modern world. This is a slow and and architecture of the period as His Is a &'eneration 'bat hasn't which would destroy the drab­ painful process, but a necessary truthfully as possible. •nd productive one." FORUM SPEAKER GORMAN known peace. He needs to be aC• ness of the Musketeer Grill. It tive: denied this, he's reactive. was in Mr. O'Neoill's ideas that Ma•. O'Neill seems to feel that New seminarian training Js • -~ , interprets Council decree most students lack the knowl· . S_l_)~e S".~l_l!~!.l~ns ar~-!lh$.:!!.!!~!}_1~~--- _th_~Y-..s.P_w._tl!fL.P..Qssib.l.li_ty __ oLtb~h· part of. this !)rocess. For e~ample, edge sufficient to distinguish th.e U. S. Bishops have already set increased empbasis on science old church, some for the new hopes blossoming. mural form of artwork from the up a commission to adapt their and humanism, in addition to . church, others try to harmonize painting form, with which they Accordin~ to JUr. O'Neill, as religious prog1·ams to the cui· ecclesiastical· stltdies. Like the · tbe old and the new. All are pro­ are most familiar, but if the,­ .tut·e ot ·the United States, in soon as Ute proper lichtlngo of did they would readily undea·· libel'al arts college student, the ITessfve, but few are radicals. 'tet·ms of the needs of the people, the pa:~els ba:s been acblevecl, Ute stand why the figua·es are sep• to be served, and the aspiring seminarian builds on a broad The priest's p r o b 1 e m is to intensity of Mr. O'Neill's oolors arated as they are. To portrall" priest's own needsi' "In the past, base. His rnajm·, instead of the strike a balance between his will be loosed from the walls, on a mural what the remem­ future priests had no gt·eat con• ta·aditional Philosophy, might spiritual outlook and his relation burstin&' forth into the room and brance com m i t t e e wanted­ to the world. The Council doesn't u t t e r I y destroyln~ the pitiful tact with the 'outside' world; now be English, Science, or Math, namely, the life h is tory ol now they will be tr11i:aed fh·st -to have all the answet·s, but with dubness of the grlll. Presently D'Ariagnan-would me an the In this way he attains knowl· understand theit• world, then to God's help, it will draw His &bough, we must all s u f f e r separation of each phase in the love it, then to serve it. Be­ edge of man, the world, and God. Church ever closet• to perfection, through the deg-radation of the Musketeer's life. Some studentil fore, the priest lived in a world This revamping of philosophical . murals by inferior natural llgbt­ have felt that the pictures lacked apart-a w o r 1 d to be feared,. training means the student gt·ap· iug. continuity as a result, and thi:ii · pt·ayed tor, but not lived in." pies with contemporary prob· In describing the developmettt made it too plain. If the artist attemJ•ted to draw the figm·ea This can no longer be tru~. lems, not just the qttestions and of his pictot·ial history of the life of D'Arlagnon, Mt·. O'Neill together as in a painting the Part of the changing spirit can answers of other people ft·om results would have been to put stated, "I have attempted to sep· be seen in the new apttt'O:ltb fo dirfct·ent ages and cultures. For the different Jives of D'Artagnao arate ~act ft•om fiction; delet· academies. Today's seminar:y stu" all on the same plain, in the example, he may study the phi· ing from the Dumas version (o! dent I e a r ll s theories, hut also same focus, and thus the entir-1! losoph)' of Man and a Biology the Three Musketeers), what is puts them ·In pt•actice tiarough panel would achieve nothing but course concurrently, synthesizing historically inaccurate and draw· practical p r o j e c t s: apostolic mass confusion far· beyond th·" work, dk>cnssion rroups, reb·eat the different points of view, ing from other sources, namely, comtn·ehension of the everyday work, adult education, etc. In "D'Artagnon, the Ultimate Mug­ Another big area the Council student, if not also of the a•·~ this way he "learns the defini· keteer," what is histo1·ically co1·~ student. tion of his own priestlaood." commented on was discipline. t'ect. The priest must be a disciplined Mt·. O'Neill hails from Por·t Anothet· recent change is an "I have tried to show in these studies D'Artagnon as a youth, Chesler, New York. He majored hls training in the King's Guatcl, in English at Fordham Univer­ sity, studied ad two years in and his evolvement as a Mus~ Italy at the Academy of Fin~ BULLETIN Week of Renewal keleer, in service of God and Ads and then recci\•ed a double Xavier University has re­ Country. Likewise, I have .in~ To Start Monday Masters in Fine Art Educution ceived a bequest of $585,-t33- eluded the deaths of Curdinal fmm Columbia University, Aflet· the reslduar1 estate of Mrs. Monday through Friday of Richelieu, and Athos, who both his schooling he was asked by Isabella M.