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...personal disagreements and political divisions. But they happen so rarely that, when a disagreement does become public, it makes news-somewhat the way a quarrel in a well-ordered family interests the neighbors. Among the more intriguing Catholic family disputes in recent times is the case of Monsignor Franz Jachym, who in the midst of his solemn consecration as Archbishop Coadjutor of Vienna (TIME, May 1) declared he felt himself unworthy of that office and hurried from the altar...
Last week it became apparent that behind Msgr. Jachym's decision lay a serious disagreement with his superior, Vienna's Theodore Cardinal Innitzer. Aging (74) Cardinal Innitzer believes that the church should live in peace with whatever temporal power happens to be in control. When the Nazis took Austria in 1938, Innitzer publicly urged Catholics to vote for them (an act for which he was sternly reprimanded by Pope Pius XI), and later Innitzer made it clear that he thought he and his church could get along with the Communists through conciliation and diplomacy. Young (40), vigorous Franz...
Last week Pope Pius personally examined the case, ordered Jachym's consecration to proceed. The Pope announced that he had overcome Jachym's personal apprehensions, ordered both Innitzer and Jachym to Rome. There, in the church of Santa Maria dell' Anima, Cardinal Innitzer intoned the solemn Mass and performed the ceremony of consecrating the new bishop. Msgr. Jachym, kneeling before the cardinal, was stern-faced as he made his responses. After the ceremony, leaning for the first time on his pastoral staff, Jachym walked firmly from the church, his hand lifted in blessing, his eyes downcast...
...choir sang Mozart's Coronation Mass. A papal letter appointing Jachym was read to begin the consecration ceremony. Seventeen ritual questions were asked. Monsignor Jachym answered firmly, "Credo-I believe," or "Volo-I am willing." As Cardinal Innitzer stood ready for the presentation of mitre, crozier and gloves, Monsignor Jachym broke into the ceremony with a dramatic announcement, first in Latin, then in German. "After meditating through the entire night," he proclaimed, "I do not feel able to undertake the bishop's office. You will, as priests, understand-I feel not worthy enough." Then, while his fellow clergymen...
...Jachym's action was not without precedent; other prospective bishops had refused office, including Saints Ambrose and Gregory.* But this did not stop Catholic Vienna from buzzing with speculation. Why did the chosen prelate feel "not worthy"? Some, including the Communist press, hinted that Monsignor Jachym was not completely in sympathy with the Vatican's militant antiCommunism. There was no confirmation of this gossip. Dr. Dorr reminded Viennese of Saints Ambrose and Gregory. "Only God knows what is in the soul of such a person in such an hour," said the rector...