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ARCHBISHOP PAUL J. HALLINAN
Statement By
Bishop Frey
With the death of Atlanta’s Archbishop, Paul J.
Hallinan, all Americans, not only the Catholics of his
own Archdiocese and the Province of Atlanta, have
suffered loss.
His genuine and effective dedication to the work
of promoting understanding among people of
differing religious beliefs and racial backgrounds is
too well known to require recounting by me. His
openness to people and ideas made him a friend to
all.
Of course, it is the Church in America which will
feel his loss most keenly. Ours are stirring and
challenging times, requiring forceful and imaginative
leadership. Archbishop Hallinan was one who helped
to provide it. He was outspoken, but never without
Charity — unceasing in his quest for a renewed spirit
of love and service in the life of the Church in
America, but never fretful or impatient.
If the Liturgy, as a fount of Christian thought and
living, is more meaningful to our people today, it is
due in no small measure to Archbishop Hallinan and
his tireless efforts as chairman of the U.S. Bishops’
Committee on the Liturgical Apostolate. The
developing Liturgy in this country, for a long time to
come, will bear the stamp of his devotion to God and
the people redeemed by His Son.
We commend his soul to the mercy and love of the
Master he served so well and ask the Grace of
consolation for all those bereft by his death.
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HOPSCOTCH
DIOCESE
Senate Of Religious
Officers named to serve until September 1969, who were
elected at recent meeting of The Senate of Religious, are —
Mother David Marie, I.H.M., president; Sister M. Cornile,
R.S.M., vice-president; Sister M. Jude, R.S.M., secretary and
Brother Luke, F.M.S., treasurer. The next meeting of the Senate
will be held on May 11 at the Holiday Inn, Dublin.
C.Y.O. Convention
Overnight accomodations are being sought for out—of—town
delegates to the Catholic Youth Convention to be held in
Savannah April 20 — 21. Savannah families who are willing to
provide lodging are asked to inform their pastor or Father
William Simmons at Blessed Sacrament Parish. Featured speaker
at the meeting will be Father Clarence Rivers, noted expert on
Church music from Cincinatti.
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IN URBAN CENTERS
Welfare Freeze May Intensify Crisis
BY JOHN R. SULLIVAN
(NC News Service)
according to most experts in
the field, the most needed of
public welfare’s half-dozen
aid categories.
In 1967, as Congress was
considering a large hike in
Social Security benefits for
the elderly, widows and their
children—benefit increases
which all agreed were much
needed the House
suddenly attached to the bill
a measure which could very
well contribute to the urban
racial crisis in 1968.
This freeze, which goes
into effect on July 1, was
largely criticized as an
“anti—Negro” measure, an
expression of Congressional
white backlash in the wake of
1967’s big—city riots, and a
harsh reply to spokesmen of
the nation’s growing welfare
rights movement.
But the freeze, which is
going to either cost the states
large sums of money if they
are to keep the AFDC
payments at their present
level for all applicants, or will
cost the recipients money in
terms of decreased payments,
had its roots in a trend which
has been alarming legislators
and welfare administrators
for several years.
While voting to increase
benefits to Social Security
recipients, the House and
Senate voted to put a
“freeze” on federal welfare
payments under the Aid to
Families of* Dependent
Children (AFDC)
program the largest and,
That c riticism is
apparently accurate. The
measure was voted by a
House committee the day
after a group of welfare
mothers staged a
demonstration at the Capitol;
one Congressman labeled
them “a bunch of brood
mares.”
In the 10 years between
1951 and 1961 the number
of children receiving AFDC
aid rose 60% in terms of
absolute numbers, or from
3.2% of all children to 4%. In
the past seven years, the rate
of increase has been even
higher. In 1967, about 5% of
all children were receiving
AFDC payments.
The cost of this aid in the
FOR ARCHBISHOP HALLINAN
Province Bishops
To Concelebrate
At Requiem Mass
BY JOHN MARKWALTER
A Solemn Concelebrated
Mass of Requiem will be
offered for Archbishop Paul
J. Hallinan in Atlanta’s
Cathedral of Christ the King
on Monday April 1, at 1:00
p.m. The Atlanta archbishop
died early Wednesday
morning following a long
battle with infectious
hepatitis.
The Archbishop will be
buried in the Priests section
of Arlington Cemetery in
Atlanta. He is survived by one
brother, Arthur J. Hallinan of
Cleveland, Ohio.
Archbishop Hallinan was
widely known throughout the
nation for his work as Chair
man of the U. S. Bishops’
Liturgy Commission and for
his efforts in promoting racial
justice.
Bishop Joseph L.
Bernardin was named
administrator of the
Archdiocese at a meeting of
Archdiocesan Consultors held
on Wednesday.
The Archbishop never
feared to make his voice
heard on Church matters.
One of the first actions after
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Archbishop Luigi
Raimondi, Apostolic Delegate
in the United States, will be
the principal concelebrant.
He will be joined by the
Bishops and Abbots of the
Province of Atlanta;
Monsignor Joseph G. Cassidy,
senior priest of the
Archdiocese; two
represenatives of the
Diocesan Consultors and two
representatives of the Priests
Senate. Bishop Joseph L.
Bernardin, auxiliary bishop of
Atlanta, will deliver the
homily.
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The body will lie in state
at the Atlanta Cathedral from
noon Thursday until the time
of the funeral Mass on
Monday. A Mass for the
school children of the
Archbiocese will be held
Friday morning, March 29th
10:30 a.m. in the
Combined Meet
Set May 4 - 5
at
Cathedral.
An Ecumenical Service, at
which clergymen of other
Faiths will participate, is
scheduled for 8:00 P.M.
Friday at the Cathedral of
Christ the King. A Mass for
the Religious Orders of the
Archdiocese will be held on
Saturday morning at 10:30
Mrs. P. D. Joines,
President of the Savannah
Diocesan Council of Catholic
Women, has announced plans
for its 29th annual
Convention which will be
held May 4-5 at Holiday Inn
of Callaway Gardens, Pine
Mountain, Ga.
a.m.
The Office of the Dead
will be chanted by
Archdiocesan priests on
Sunday at 8:30 p.m. in the
Atlanta Cathedral.
Using the theme, “The
Family - Community of
Love”, it will be held jointly
with the 3rd annual
Convention of the Savannah
Diocesan Council of Catholic
Men and a meeting of
members of the Christian
Family Movement. This is a
“first” in the history of our
Diocese and should prove a
rewarding experience for the
men and women of the three
groups.
The Convention will open
with registration from noon
until 2 P.M. on Saturday,
May 4 followed by separate
business meetings of DCCW
and DCCM. Concurrent
workshops on Social Action
and Changing Family Patterns
have been arranged by DCCM
and CFM for 3-5 P.M. and the
banquet that evening will
leature Mr. and Mrs. Patrick
J. Crowley of Chicago,
leaders in the Christian
Family Movement, as
speakers. Mrs. Thomas F.
Palmer, National Director of
Province of Atlanta, will
bring greetings from NCCW at
the banquet.
The Sunday program
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same period doubled. In 1958
there were 729,385 families
receiving an average of $101
monthly under AFDC. By
November, 1967, there were
nearly 1.3 million families
receiving an average of $150.
trends have upset welfare
recipients themselves and
those who seek increased
welfare benefits for them.
those eligible under present
laws do not receive any help.
For example:
Y et during that same
period, the number of old-age
assistance recipients
decreased by some 400,000,
to slightly more than 2
million.
The numbers of new
welfare recipients and the
spiraling cost of aiding them
has upset many legislators.
Yet they see no end to the
trend.
—Although the average
payment to families more
than doubled between 1950
and 1967, cost—of—living
increases wiped out any
possible gains. In fact, the
one fairly stable welfare
statistic is that which
describes the amount by
which payments fall short of
providing simple
subsistence about 12%.
While these figures have
upset the officials who must
ask taxpayers for the money
to provide welfare, other
Although the number
of AFDC families receiving
aid nearly doubled between
1958 and 1967, it is
estimated that betweeen
one-third and one-half of
About 8 million people
receive welfare assistance of
some kind old age,
disablement, medical
assistance, aid to the blind,
general assistance, and AFDC.
Even if that number were half
what it should be—under the
present laws 16
million it would leave
untouched many more
millions of “The Other
America,” perhaps as many as
30 million people ineligible
for public aid, yet whose
income is low enough to put
them below the official
poverty level of about $3,300
for a family of four.
The National Advisory
Commission on Civil
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NO AGE BARRIERS - The young and the old of all races and beliefs share in the worldwide
program of Catholic Relief Services to provide medical and other assistance to the needy.(RNS
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CRS MAKES SHIPMENT
U.S.Food Donations Help
80,000 Vietnamese Needy
DANANG, Vietnam-An
emergency shipment of over
1.5 million pounds of U.S.
Government-donated food to
feed about 80,000 needy
people and refugees for the
next month is being sent
from this city to Vietnam’s
ancient capital of Hue.
into the camp areas.
U.S. Catholic Relief
Services (CRS), the overseas
aid agency of the U.S.
Catholics, joined with Caritas
(Catholic Charities
Organization) of the Danang
diocese to make the
shipment. The food supplies
of bulgar wheat, rolled oats,
corn meal, oil, powdered milk
and CSM, a new milk
substitute is worth
approximately $300,000.
For the local purchases,
CRS gave $1,000, and Caritas
gave $2,500 collected in the
Danang diocese following a
special appeal by Bishop
Peter Pham Ngoc Chi. The
collection was made during
the latter part of February
and the first week of March.
4.5 million pounds of U.S.
government-donated food to
the refugees and the needy of
the area. The approximate
value of the food is $2
million.
During the fighting in Hue
the CRS warehouse was
untouched and the Hue
Caritas was able to distribute
food to about 45,000 people
from stocks on hand.
Catholic Relief Services
has seven American
Sister-nurses stationed in Hue
assisting in hospitals in the
city. From its main office in
Saigon CRS sent 800 pounds
of assorted medicines and
700 blankets to Hue to be
administered and distributed
by the Sister-nurses in the
refugee centers in the city.
In addition, CRS and the
Danang Caritas have bought
locally 10 tons of salt and six
tons of nuoc mam (fish
sauce) for the needy in Hue
and another 10 tons of salt
for about 20,000
Montagnards - - Vietnamese
hilltribes-temporarily settled
in eight refugee camps in
Quang Tin and Quang Nghia
provinces. The salt for the
Montagnards will be air-lifted
Since the Viet Cong Tet
offensive Catholic Relief
Services, from its regional
office in Danang city, has
provided supplemental food
supplies to almost 500,000
people in the five civil
provinces of the First Corps
area. The provinces are in the
North of South Vietnam
immediately below the
Demilitarized zone.
In the first week of March
Matt D’Arcy arranged with
the Korean Marines for a
convoy of 25 trucks to take
food to 10,000 needy men,
women and children in Tra
Kieu, which was surrounded
by the Viet Cong.
Unfortunately, two of the
trucks were destroyed by
mines, killing one Korean
lieutenant and two drivers.
The regional CRS director
for the First Corps area is
Matt D’Arcy, an Australian.'
Since the Tet offensive he has
been able to distribute over
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The Catholic Relief
Services program for the
refugees and other needy
people is continuing unabated
all around the country.
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