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PUBLISHED BY THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN'S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
“To Bring About
a Friendlier
Feeling Among
Georgians Irre
spective of Creed’’
Vol. 37, No.- 8.
MONROE, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1956.
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Catholic Schools Are
Ready To Be Judged
On Their Own Merits
NEW YORK (NC) — Catholic-
schools today are “the most flour
ishing and fastest growing educa
tional enterprise in the United
States,” ready to be judged on
their educational merits — with
due allowances for youthfulness.
So wrote Msgr. William E. Mc
Manus, assistant director of the
Department of Education of the
National Catholic Welfare Con
ference. in America, a national
Catholic weekly review.
.The educator pointed out the
great steps forward taken by
Catholic education in the last 15
or 20 years. He cited increased
awareness by parents of the value
of Catholic education and result
ant enrollment increases, and the
efforts by Catholic school systems
toward professional excellence.
But accompanying this growth
and increased stature, Catholic
education, like a teenage adoles
cent, has “a bad case of growing
pains, is self-conscious, is mis
understood and has a bright, if
uncertain future,” he wrote.
The growing pains come from
the ever-increasing enrollments.
Most parish grade schools can
handle all applicants, but there is
a critical shortage of high school
facilities, he said.
The Monslgnor included in his
article a spot survey of 26 dioce-
Mother Of
Bishop Hyland
Dies Thursday
As ihis issue of The Bulletin
goes to press, we receive
word of the death of Bishop
Hyland's mother in Philadel
phia. Mrs. Hyland will be bu
ried at St. Francis DeSales
Church Philadelphia on Tues
day, the 18th.
We wish to extend our sincere
sympathy to Bishop Hyland,
The staff of The Bulletin joins
with the Clergy and Faithful of
the Diocese in offering prayers
for the happy repose of his
mother's soul.
General Retreat
Schedule Given
By Retreat House
Moral Standards Governing
Medicine Are Found In Ten
Commandments Pope Says
Pius XII Talks To
Catholic Doctors
At Hague Meet
The First General Retreat for
women is scheduled for Sept. 28th
to Sept. 30th at Our Lady of
Springbank Retreat House, Kings-
tree, South Carolina. The First-
General Retreat for Men will be
the week end of Oct. 5 to 7. These
retreats are primarily for indi
viduals who cannot come with
groups.
Father Patrick Walsh, O.P., the
Director of the Retreat House
states that_there are many socie
ties and groups making tentative
plans. Father Gregory Einck,
Chaplain at Shaw Air Force Base
has announced that a full quota
of Thirty Air Force Personel will
make their Retreat at the Retreat
House from Oct. 28th to Qct. 30th.
For individuals or groups in
Georgia who wish to make a
closed retreat, they can write
directly to Father Patrick Walsh,
O.P. Arrangements can be made
to meet train or buses into Kings-
tree. Upon application, all in
formative will be sent.
His Excellency, Bishop John J.
Russell has granted Father Walsh
permission to lecture to any
Church or societies who are in
terested in their members in
making a closed retreat. Father
Walsh is willing to go anywhere
to explain the Retreat Movement
and all the details of planning
and making a closed retreat.
san school systems and the en
rollment situation in each this
year. All but one are operating at
capacity and most are forced to
turn away applicants, he said.
Msgr. McManus said that Cath
olic educators sometimes exhibit
a self-consciousness or hypersen
sitivity to criticism. He said this
is understandable today, “but one
may fondly hope for the day
when we can take our schools
and their rights for granted, as
sume without further proof that
they are an integral part of the
nation’s school system and laugh
off silly threats to suppress a
Catholic-school enterprise enroll
ing more than four million
pupils.”
As for Catholic education being
misunderstood, he said that it is
“a large question not easily
VATICAN CITY, (Radio, NC)—
Physicians should study the Ten
Commandments to find the moral
standards governing medical acti
vity, His Holiness Pope Pius XII
told the 7th International Con
gress of Catholic Doctors meeting
at The Hague.
In a radio address to the meet
ing in the Dutch capital, the Holy
Father emphasized that civil law
and morality are closely connect
ed and that the Christian Physi
cian must know and obey .the law
of God.
The theme of the congress was
“The Physician and the Law.”
Medical law, said His Holiness,
must not be allowed to counten
ance any action which is not in and
accord with moral law. It cannot,
for example, permit euthanasia
or abortion, for both are clearly
forbidden by the- law of God.
Even if laws permitting such ac
tions are passed by public authori
ties, the Christian physician must
realize that medical law has no
authority in such matters and
that he is not bound by it but by
the greater law of God.
The doctor is obliged, said the
Holy Father, to respect the med-
Insiallation November 8th
ATLANTA, GA.—His Excellency ihe Most Rev. Francis
E. Hyland, D.D. J.C.D. will be installed as First Bishop of
Atlanta on Thursday, November 8th.
The Most Rev. Amleto Giovanni Cicognani Apostolic Dele
gate will install Bishop Hyland in ceremonies at the Cathedral
of Christ the King. Among those present will be the Metropoli
tan of the Baltimore Province, the Most Reverend Francis P.
Keough, D.D., Archbishop of Baltimore.
Archbishop Gerald P. O'Hara, Bishop of Savannah, and
Apostolic Delegate to Great Britain, will preach the sermon
if it is possible for him to leave his London duties and make
the trip at that time.
answered,” but that it seems most
non-Catholics do not understand
Catholic schools because they do
not understand the Church.
500 Enrolled As School
Year Opens At Belmont
“They do not realize that the
dynamism in our flourishing insti
tutions is the theological reality
that is the Catholic Church,” he
wrote. The Church sets up its
own schools because it is “differ
ent from other churches, has a
unique teaching mission and tra
dition and hence logically must
have her own schools,” he said.
Msgr. McManus suggested that
the modern apologetic for Catholic
schools should “simply be an ex
planation of the Church and her
educational mission. Any person
who understands the Church sure
ly will understand our schools,
and this may be true even for
those who believe in neither.”
The future of Catholic educa
tion is bright, he said, but it is
made somewhat uncertain, by
questions arising from its sudden
growth. He cited issues such as
plans for employment of lay
teachers, whether the support of
schools will be borne by both
parents ana non-parents and
whether Sisters will be released
from parochial schools to engage
full time in religious instruction
of public school pupils.
BELMONT, N. C. — Belmont
Abbey College began its eigh
ty-first academic year on Friday,
September 14, according to the
Very Reverend Cutlibert E. Al
len, O.S.B., president of the col
lege. The figures of enrollment,
published by the Registrar’s Of
fice today, indicate an enroll
ment of approximately 500 stu
dents.
It is indicated that this year’s
enrollment, the largest in the his
tory of the college, is due in large
part to the discontinuance of the
Preparatory School department,
thus providing more dormitory ac
commodations and student facili
ties for the college students. The
registration figures announced
reflect only full time, regular
students. The announcement and
registration for special students,
the adult program and evening
classes will be made the week
following the opening of the reg
ular session.
In the breakdown of the regis
tration figures, Mr. Gorney an
nounced that nearly 300 students
about 200 from Gaston and
Mecklenburg Counties. The 200
from out of state are distributed
over 23 states and eight foreign
countries.
The academic year formally
opened on Thursday morning,
September 13, with a Solemn
Mass of Invocation in the Abbey
Cathedral on the campus at Bel
mont, followed by a student as
sembly at 11:00 o’clock in the
college auditorium. All classes
began on Friday morning, Sep
tember 14, at 8:45 a.m.
Fr. Fleming’s
Mother Dead
SAVANNAH. Ga. — Mrs. James
Fleming, mother of the Rev. Pat
rick Fleming, pastor of St. Antho
ny Savannah, died in County
Mayo Ireland.
Survivors in this country are
four .daughters, Sister Marie Mag
dalene, Dearborn, Mich.; Sister
Malachy, Adrian, Mich.; Miss
Mary Fleming and Mrs. Julia
are from North Carolina, withReady, Cleveland, Ohio.
icai moral code unconditionally in
all cases where its provisions are
clear and certain. In other cases
he is obliged to inform himself
about the laws of God carefully
and thoroughly, to pray for
knowledge and understanding,
to consult moralists where
necessary and possible, so that he
may make decisions with an en
lightened mind and a clear con
science in accord with the objec
tive norms given by God.
Distinguishing medical law
from the moral code, the Pope
said that “morality has as its goal "
the determination of the conscious
internal and external attitute of
man toward the great obligations
which are consequences of the
essential conditions of human
natui'e: obligations toward God
and religion, obligations in justice
toward one’s self and toward one’s
neighbor, which means toward in
dividuals, groups, and community
organizations, and obligations in
the almost unlimited realm of
material things.”
The Holy Father went on to say
that “morality imposes on the
conscience of every man, whether
he is a doctor or a soldier, a scho
lar or a man of action, the duty of
regulating his actions according
to his moral obligations.”
On the other hand, he pointed
out, medical law brings together
the standards which, in a political
community, concern the person
and activity of the doctor and can
be controlled and enforced by
public authority. These laws may
be formulated and promulgated
by public authority or merely
authorized or sanctioned by it.
The Holy Father said that the
physician is obliged to be a good
citizen and obey the laws made
by the political community for
the sake of the common peace
and security of the community as
a whole, and of the rights of its
individual members. Where med
ical law touches on moral law, it
is the Church who must clarify
any vagueness or correct any
misinterpretation of the moral
code. Moral law is above medical
law, said the Pope, for it “ex
presses the moral order willed by
God.”
The Pontiff also called for in
ternational cooperation to further
medical research along lines in
keeping with the teachings of the
Church, The Catholic physician,
he pointed out, does not have
any special medical knowledge
because he is a Catholic, but he
does have a point of view from
which to consider the problems
of his profession. Therefore he
should try to exert a positive
influence on his environment, es
pecially when he works in non-
Catholic surroundings.
The Holy Father concluded his
address by sending his Apostolic
Blessing to the doctors and to all
those who have benefitted med
ical science.