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Official Newspaper For The Diocese Of Savannah - Atlanta 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 (Continued on Page Eight) 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- (Continued on Page Thirteen) (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).