The Los Angeles Loyolan, Volume 40, Issue 4 - October 15, 1962

Vatican CowacSI Opens oyolnn Vol. 40 — No. 4 LOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF LOS ANGELES October 15, 1962 Blood Bank Comes To Loyola Campus Loyola’s Blood Drive will be held on Oct. 22 between the hours of 10:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m. in Student Center 106. The merit of this drive lies in the obvious good sense of pro¬ viding for insurance against the future. The blood obtained from this drive will serve as a quota established with the Red Cross from which all students, faculty, and alumni members and their relatives can draw should the unfortu¬ nate, but nevertheless possible, occasion arrive thus neces¬ sitating a transfusion of blood. This blood, in whatever amounts required, will be given — — - г — - — - - — free of charge by the Red Cross, in contrast to the normal stipula¬ tion of $25 a pint. What puts this request for /blood on such an ur¬ gent scale is the fact that the University quota has not been reached for. the past couple of years and the Red Cross has de¬ clared itself faced with the decis¬ ion of either carrying our complete quota of blood or else providing no free blood whatsoever for Loy- olans. Pint Per Person , What the “Loyola Blood Drive,” under the leadership of the Crim¬ son Circle, is asking is that every student give one pint of blood. The after-effects from such a donation correspond with the same effects derived from an afternoon of mild exercise. Any doctor will verify this. The donation will take up ap¬ proximately 20 minutes of your valuable time, from the signing- up, two days ahead of time, to completion of the snack provided by the lovely Red Cross nurses reportedly recruited from some beauty pageant held in Long (Continued on Page S') Att-General Mosk ^ . 4 Presents New Views Stanley Mosk, Democratic candidate for re-election and incumbent California Attorney General, arrived on the Loy¬ ola campus last Tuesday. Attorney General Mosk’s visit was part of a scheduled tour of California. Mr. Mosk was accom¬ panied by a Mr. Felixson, Democratic candidate for Congress and by a Mr. Hare, Democratic candidate for Assembly. Mr. Mosk and the other Demo- ^ ~ cratic politicians spoke to a crowd of students in St. Robert's Audi¬ torium. Mosk first spoke on the functions of the California Attor¬ ney General's Office and then opened the floor to questions from the audience. In reply to one ques¬ tion Mosk replied that. he consider¬ ed Dr. Fred Schwartz and his Anti-Communism Crusade as “An¬ ti-Communism for Profit.” Tight Schedule Mosk's speaking time was cut short by a tight campaign schedule and he left, leaving the floor to Mr. Felixson, Democrat running for election against incumbent A1 Bell, and Mr. Hare, Democrat run¬ ning against incumbent Assembly- man Charlie Chapel. Mr. Felixson gave a brief vitu- perous speech against the so-called “irresponsible actions” of the in¬ cumbent A1 Bell and then recom¬ mended that U.S. leaders should trust the Soviet peoples in a dis¬ armament agreement. He failed to (Continued on Page 3) BISHOPS CALLED TO ROME FOR REFORM DISCUSSION . With the opening in Rome, last Thursday, of the Second Vatican Council, the stage is set for what may be on one of the most decisive steps in the history of the Catholic Church. The Second Vatican Council, that is the second ecumenical council to be actually held at the Vatican, is the 21st in the series of councils that have been important points in Church history. The word “ecumenical” indicates both the international character of this body, and al- so its origin: the first general couneil was held in Nicaea in 325, and Was intended ^s a convocation of all the bishops of the “oecu- mens,” or entire Graeco-Roman world at the time. Called by the emperor Constantine, this council set the style for the following seven meetings, the last of which was the Council of Constantinople held in 869. These eight councils were mainly of an Kastern char¬ acter, since few Western bishops attended, and were devoted to set¬ tling matters of doctrine, as well as regulating ecclesiastical discip- line. After the schism of 1054, the councils of the Western Church were held at times in the Lateran Palace at Rome, at Lyons and Vienne in France, at Constance and Basel in Germany, at Ferrara and Florence in Italy. The impor¬ tant Council of Trent lasted inter¬ mittently from 1545 to 1563 and dealt principally with the doctrinal difficulties arising from the Pro¬ testant Reformation. Its successor, and the last ecumenical council to be held up to the present, was the First V atican Council, called by Pope Pius IX in 1869-70. Unification Thus the current council fol¬ lows in a long tradition in which the Church has called together her bishops to discuss, to clarify and to reach a united position on problems provoked by various his¬ torical circumstances. Although it is a truly democratic body, the council cannot be thought of in terms of a sort of Congress, since canon law lays down no strict procedure for an ecumeni cal council, other than that it must be convoked by the Roman Pon¬ tiff. The council does not exist by divine right, nor does it arise from the organic constitution of the Church as instituted by Christ; in¬ stead, it is of human and apostolic origin. Its original predecessor was the meeting of the disciples to select a apostle who would be Judas' successor. At the “pre-ecumenical” Council of Jerusalem, the apostles determined the Church's supra-na¬ tional character. Throughout his¬ tory, therefore, Church councils have been (more or less) at free¬ dom to decide their own rules and working order. Basic Plan The basic plan of the present council follows the lines set by the First Vatican Council, for which a commission of cardinal s was charged with the general direction of procedure and aided by five subsidiary commissions devoted to specific topics such as dogma, dis¬ cipline, and religious orders. The number of commissions for the present council was set at ten, With two additional secretariats. In June, I960, they set to work to assemble and sift through 8,972 suggestions concerning the subject matter to be dealt with by the council. These suggestions from all the governing bishops, Catholic universities and theological facili¬ ties eventuated in the summer of 1959 in the first organizational step. The idea for the council arose in an unusual way when Pope John got the inspiration for it during a visit to St; Paul's Basilica outside Rome in December of 1958. By January 25, 1959 he made the for¬ mal announcement. Work on it immediately got underway. After clearing the first and second steps, concerning organization and sug¬ gestions, the schema (agenda) was finalized this summer, and the date for the opening meeting set for October 11. After a break in December, during which bishops will return to their dioceses for several months, the council will probably reconvene at about Eas¬ ter time. Primary Concern Reconciliation with Protestant and Eastern churchs will not be a primary concern of the council, (despite widespread ideas to that effect) . Instead, emphasis will be on a vital three Rs — renewal, re¬ form, and re-in vigoration. Rather (Continued on Page 3) Campus Mag Makes Debut The first copy of El Playano, the campus literary magazine, will appear the third week of Oct¬ ober. The articles, 9 m all, will come from widely diversified sources, ranging from Sterling Santley's award winning poem to the controversial “Opus to a Fix” by Bill McLaughlin. Also included will be the Forest Lawn Campus Award paper by Dennis Watson, and Editor Pete Carton's “I was a Tennage Philos¬ opher”. Pete intends to produce a magazine with the widest^ cov¬ erage available and has already received ah article from a math major and from an anonymous source who preferred to let his paper filter through the English Dept. But no matter how it comes, by air mail, carrier pigeon or pinned to the chapel door, articles are always welcomed for the 4 Playano's expected this year. REQUIESCAT IN PACE The Loyolan staff extends its condolences to Sophomore Mike Ross in the recent death of his mother.