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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 Georgians Irre spective of Creed’’ Vol. 37, No.- 8. MONROE, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1956. 10c Per Copy — $3 a Year 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.