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PUBLISHED BY THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN'S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
“To Bring About
a Friendlier
Feeling Among
Neighbors Irre
spective of Creed”
Vol. XXXVI, No.' 7.
MONROE, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1955.
10c Per Copy — $3 a Year
Argentines Are
Apprehensive Of
Church’s Future
(N.C.W.C. News Service)
BUENOS AIRES — Argentina’s
Catholics stand in apprehensive
uncertainty as to what future poli
cies the government intends to
follow regarding the Church.
On the one hand, the Peronists
Party’s supreme council has cal
led an end of the “truce” be
tween the Church and the coun
try’s ruling party that has been
in effect since the June 16 re
bellion. Minister of Interior and
Justice Oscar Albrieu has de
clared that the government
plans to renew its all-out cam
paign against the Church.
In the same breath, however,
he stated that President Juan
Peren’s “pacification” policy —
designed to end the tension be
tween Peron and his political op
ponents and Catholics — would
remain in force.
Meanwhile the Argentine Sen
ate passed a bill empowering the
President to put off until May,
1956, the election of a constitu
tional assembly to vote on se
paration of Church and State.
Postponement of the election,
originally scheduled to toe held
before November 23, had earlier
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Preaches At Pax Romans Mass
Archbishop Gerald P. O’Hara Bishop of Savannah-Atlanta, and
Apostolic Delegate to Great Britain, delivers the sermon at a
Solemn Pontifical Mass held in St. Barnabas Cathedral, Notting
ham, England, in connection with the 23rd World Congress of Pax
Romana. Bishop George Andrew Beck of Brentwood, Eng., was the
celebrant. A message to the Congress from Pope Pius XII was read
at the Mass.—(Religious News Service Photo).
THE CCD Alii OTHER PARISH ORGANIZATIONS
ARCHBISHOP PARTICIPATES
IN ANNIVERSARY CEREMONY
The Ninth Regional Congress
of the Confraternity of Christian
Doctrine will meet jointly with
the 40th Annual Convention of
the Catholic Laymen’s Associa
tion. The Congress with its em
phasis on the Lay Apostolate con
stitutes a program that meets
ideally' the objectives of the Cath
olic Laymen’s Association. This
article is one of. a series.
(By REV. FRANCIS DONOHUE)
Th*. 40th annual convention of
the Catholic Laymen’s Associa
tion of Georgia and the ninth
regional congress of the Confra
ternity of Christian Doctrine is
now only seven weeks away. Ev
ery Pastor in the diocese has
been asked to send two lay del
egates. And Registrations are be
ginning to' come into the dio
cesan office of the CCD. But per
haps now would be a very good
time to remind readers that at
tendance at the joint convention
and congress is not limited to two
delegates from each parish. An
invitation is also extended to ev
ery Priest and Religious, and to
every Layman and Laywoman in
the diocese. So, clip out the regis
tration blank which you will find
elsewhere in this Bulletin. Fill
it out, and send it in. The time
is growing short, and since vari
ous materials and publications
must be ordered for each regis
trant, it is necessary that regis
tration blanks be sent in as soon
as possible.
In past articles we have ap
pealed to the Catholic Laymen’s
Association of Georgia to lead
the way in establishing a vital
and vigorous CCD in our Diocese.
And lest the emphasis on the
Laymen’s Association be taken
to constitute an exclusion of oth
er existing Catholic Societies, let
it be said that a like invitation is
extended to all Catholic Organi
zations. Every Society is invited,
as a group, or through certain
designated members, to particip
ate in the Confraternity Program.
The CCD is comprised of both
men and women, including young
people beyond high school years.
Its function is to provide religi
ous education outside the Cath
olic School system. It does not
enter the fields of social action,
civic welfare, athletics, recrea
tion, vocational guidance, legis
lation or organized charity, direct
ly, but under the guidance of the
parish priest, this organization
undertakes to instruct individu
als in Catholic Doctrine, so that
they may bring a knowledge of
Christian principles to each of
these fields.
In this way the influence of
true Christian Doctrine, True
Christian principles will be felt on
every moral, social, and civic
question in the community. And
it is this influence that can
change the world. That is why the
Holy Father has called the Con
fraternity a choice of Catholic
Action, in which all can parti
cipate.
Every Catholic organization
seeks, in some way to help to
change the world,, to make it
Christ-like. And so the Confrater
nity earnestly invites the co
operation of all men’s women’s
and young people’s societies 1 in
carrying out a unified program
which will provide a fuller
knowledge of the Faith among
themselves, and the strongest
possible motivation for continued
activity in the societies to which
they belong, a uniform program
of religious instruction for our
children whom we cannot reach
through the parochial school sys
tem.
Societies already engaged in re
ligious activities are by no means
asked to cease or in any way cur
tail their work; rather, they are
urged to unite with the Confrater
nity and to intensify their efforts
in extending, under the guidance
of a priest, a concerted parish ac
tivity. Programs in operation are
complemetned, co-ordinated and
extended. If there are already in
existence societies engaged in
promoting religious discussion
clubs, why start a new society to
do the same thing? If there are
societies engaged in bringing to
non-Catholics a true knowledge
of the Church and her teachings;
if there are already societies car
rying out a program of religious
education for our Public School
Children, groups of Home,Visit
ors, keeping census files up to
date, then obviously there is no
need for ‘rival’ societies of the
same nature. So the Confraternity
seeks to enlist the co-operation of
all existing societies in the parish.
Their efforts are channeled and
co-ordinated by the uniform CCD
program so that each society can
profitably contribute to a perma
nent, fundamentally religious ed
ucation program to develop an ar
my of lay Apostles with the
knowledge and will to change the
world.
Is such a program workable?
The answer is to be found in the
fact that such a program has
worked and is working in other
dioceses and parishes. In a cer
tain diocese, the Council of Cath-
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(N.C.W.C. News Service)
LONDON,—Men from Europe’s
Church of Silence sang sad Sla
vonic colloquies in a drab little
London church to honor the un
dying faith of the Catholic Uk
raine, lost momentarily behind
the Iron Curtain.
They met—exiles, refugees, and
visitors from North America and
Europe—at the Ukrainians’ own
Church of St. Theodore of Can
terbury on Saffron Hill for the
beautifully majestic Byzantine
Rite Mass marking the 10th cen
tenary of their country’s con
version to Christianity.
Among them were Ukrainians
from the United States, Canada,
France, Germany and other lands,
all attending the' international
Pax Romana Congress at Not
tingham.
Welcoming them at the Mass,
celebrated by Bishop Maxim
Hermaniuk, C.SS.R., Coadjutor to
the Exarch for the Ukrainians of
Manitoba, Canada, was Arch
bishop Gerald P. O’Hara, Bishop
of Savannah-Atlanta and Apos
tolic Delegate to Great Britain.
He read a message of blessing
from His Holiness Pope Pius XII.
“Your country has had a glori
ous history in the past 1,000
years, but still more glorious are
the present years of persecution,”
the Apostolic Delegate told them.
“May God hasten the day when
your people will be able to live
in freedom and the Church to
carry on its work in freedom.”
The American prelate, who
represented the Pope among the
Byzantine Rite Catholics of Ru
mania after World War II until
his expulsion in 1950, spoke of
“the glorious stand of the Church
in the Ukraine” when the com
munists seized control. He re
called that the Catholics there
fought and died for the Faith,
“reliving the ages of the mar
tyrs.”
Archbishop O’Hara was receiv
ed at the church doors by Arch
bishop Ivan Bucko, Apostolic Vis
itor to the Ukrainian Catholics in
Western Europe. Archbishop Buc
ko read an address in Latin ex
pressing the “immense devotion”
of the Ukrainian Catholics to the
Holy See. Coadjutor Archbishop
Edward Myers of Westminster
was present as representative of
His Eminence. Bernard Cardinal
Griffin at the beautiful liturgy of
St. John Chrysostom celebrated
by six priests. The Ukrainian con
gregation sang long responses and
colloquies during the two-hour
service.
About 20,000 Ukrainian Cath
olics now live in Britain. They
and their priests are poor, living
in working-class downtown areas
of the big industrial cities," most
ly around London’s Saffron Hill.
Obnova, organization of Uk
rainian Catholic graduates and
students in Britain, held a three-
day congress here to discuss the
problems of the Ukrainian
Church. Among those who took
part were members of the Bye
lorussian Catholic University
Union, allies in exile They had
just held a summer school of their
own.
HOLY FATHER RECEIVES MONSIGNOR—The Right Rev.
Msgr. John C. Kirk, newly appointed pastor of the Shrine of the
Immaculate Conception, Atlanta, was received in private audience
by Pope Pius XII. This picture was taken at the reception in the
papal apartment at the Pope’s summer residence at Castel Gan-
dolfo. Monsignor Kirk will retain his title and office as delegate
of the Sacred Oriental Congregation for the Rumanian faithful
outside of Rumania, a-post he has held for the past four years —
(PONTIFICIA FOTOGRAFIA, courtesy Savannah Evening Press).