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Bishop’s Office
Diocese of Savannab
P. O. BOX 0700
Savannah, Gbohoia
01408
October, 1969
Over the years, the eumual appeal of the Bishop's Con
fraternity of the Laity has become an integral and vital part
of the program of the Diocese of Savannah. This can readily be
ascertained by studying the annual budget of the Diocese which
, was published in THE SOUTHERN CROSS at the end of August of this
year.
It should be noted that 32% of our eunnual income comes
to us from outside the Diocese. For this help, we are most grate
ful. The Catholics of the more populated areas of the United States
have certainly been conscious of our needs. Each year at this time,
the Diocese of Savannah requests its members to do its share. I am
confident that you will respond as generously as you have done in
the past.
During the past year, a new church was completed at Perry,
Georgia. Presently, there is under construction a new church at
Fitzgerald. Tentative plans call for a new chapel at Metter this
coming year. During the past year, we have seen our Adult Reli
gious Education Program grow much stronger. Christian education
for these not in Catholic schools has been more firmly established
in many areas of the Diocese. Our ability to be of assistance to
the poor, train young men for the priesthood, develop the Catholic
Press and many other diverse activities have been made possible
through your support of the Confraternity of the Laity.
Please support your parish in helping it to reach its quota
and, if possible, to exceed it. We need your prayers, we need your
contribution, and we need your active participation in bringing this
year's drive to a successful conclusion.
Thanking you for your past generous cooperation, I remain,
NEW ORDINARIES APPOINTED
Archbp. Toolen Resigns:
Two Dioceses For Ala.
WASHINGTON (NC) -
Pope Paul VI has accepted the
resignation of Archbishop
Thomas J. Toolen, 83, as
bishop of Mobile-Birmingham,
and has named him , to be
titular archbishop of
Glastonbury.
At the same time, the Pope
has divided the See so as to
form the two dioceses of
Mobile and Birmingham.
The Most Rev. John L.
May, until now auxiliary
bishop of Chicago, has been
named bishop of Mobile.
The Most Rev. Joseph G.
Vath, until now auxiliary
bishop of Mobile-Birmingham,
has been named bishop of
Birmingham.
Archbishop Toolen will act
as apostolic administrator
until the new Ordinaries take
possession of their Sees.
These actions of Pope Paul
were announced here by
Archbishop Luigi Raimondi,
Apostolic Delegate in the
United States.
The division of the diocese
of Mobile-Birmingham, which
has comprised the State of
Alabama, has been effected so
that the 67 counties involved
have been apportioned as
follows:
The diocese of Mobile: The
counties of Autauga, Baldwin,
Barbour, Bullock, Butler,
Choctaw, Clarke, Coffee,
Conecuh, Covington,
Crenshaw, Dale, Dallas,
Elmore, Escambia, Geneva,
Henry,
Houston,
Lee,
Lowndes,
Macon, Mobile,
Monroe,
Montgomery,
Pike,
Russell,
Wilcox.
Washington
and
The
diocese
o f
Birmingham: The Counties of
Bibb, Blunt, Calhoun,
Cnambers, Cherokee, Chiiton,
Clay, Celboume, Colbert,
Coosa, Cullman, DeKalb,
Etowah, Fayette, Franklin,
Greene, Hale, Jackson,
Jefferson, Lamar, Lauderdale,
Lawrence, Limestone,
Madison, Marengto, Marion,
Marshall, Morgan, Perry,
Pickins, Randolph, St. Clair,
Shelby, Sumter, Tallagega,
Tallapoosa, Tuscaloosa,
Walker and Winston.
The diocese of Mobile will
have a Catholic population of
45,541 in a general population
of 1,309,188 in 28 counties. It
embraces 22,969 square miles,
with 66 parishes and 23
missions; 74 diocesan and 83
Religious order priests; 35
seminarians; 33 elementary
schools with 8,678 pupils, and
4 secondary schools with
2,087 pupils.
The diocese of Birmingham
will have a Catholic
population of 39,828 in a
general population of
2,134,396 in 39 counties. It
embraces 28,091 square miles,
with 52 parishes and 25
missions; 60 diocesan and 95
Religious order priests; 37
seminarians; 27 elementary
schools with 6,110 pupils and
two secondary schools with
1,163 pupils.
Archbishop Toolen was
bom in Baltimore, Md., Feb.
22, 1886. He was ordained in
1910, and was director of the
work of the Society for the
Propagation of the Faith in the
archdiocese of Baltimore
when was named bishop of
Mobile on Feb. 28, 1927. He
was named an Assistant at the
Pontifical Throne by Pope
Pius XII in 1949; observed his
silver jubilee as a bishop in
1952, and his golden jubilee as
a priest in 1960.
Pope Pius XII gave him the
title of archbishop “ad
personam” in 1954.
In 1967, the University of
Alabama gave Archbishop
Toolen an honorary doctorate
of literature, the first Catholic
clergyman honored by the
institution. The same year he
marked his 40th anniversary as
bishop of Mobile.
Bishop May was bom at
Evanston, Ill., March 31,
1922, and was ordained a
priest of the archdiocese of
Chicago on May 3, 1947. He
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HEADLINE
HOPSCOTCH vt
DIOCESE
Augusta Breakfast
The annual Holy Name Breakfast for men and boys of
gusta’s St. Mary’s on-the-Hill parish will be held this Sunday
:t. 12) following the 8 a.m. Mass, which the men will attend,
jaker will be the Rev. Joseph Murphy, former pastor of North
gusta’s Our Lady of Peace Parish, and widely known
oughout the Augusta area. Father Murphy will speak on the
ime of “For God and Country.”
NATION
Priest Surveys
CHICAGO (NC) — Work is progressing satisfactorily on the
ociological and psychological surveys being launched in
:onnection with a comprehensive study of priestly life and
ninistry in the United States, according to Father Andrew M.
Ireeley of the National Opinion Research Center (NORC),
irogram director. The study was authorized by the National
Conference of Catholic Bishops (NCCB). Responsibility for the
tudy was given to the Bishops’ Committee on Pastoral Research
tnd Practices which is chaired by John Cardinal Krol of
’hiladelphia.
EUROPE
Synod Information
VIENNA, Austria (NC) - The Catholic faithful have aright to
be fully informed concerning the proceedings and discussions of
the Synod of Bishops to be held in Rome beginning Oct. 11,
Franziskus Cardinal Koenig of Vienna told Catholic journalists
here. At a meeting with the Association of Catholic Journalists,
Cardinal Koenig advocated daily press conferences at the synod
and said that spokesmen for the various language groups attending
the synod should be permitted to pass on information of interest
and significance to their respective peoples.
The Southern Cross
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All Systems Are 4 Go’
F or Synod Of Bishops
BY LOUIS PANARALE
VATICAN CITY (NC) — Workmen and technicians
have checked the handiwork of space-age conveniences
they installed deep in the papal palace for the Synod of
Bishops and all systems have been marked “go”.
Most of the innovations cannot be seen, such as
weather-proofing insulation, temperature controls,
special lighting and hundreds of miles of wiring for
clclosed-circuit television and Vatican Radio
broadcasts.
SPOKANE TO BIAFRA - The Inland Catholic Register, newspaper of the Spokane, Wash., diocese,
raised nearly $11,000 from July to Labor Day from among the paper’s 11,000 subscribers. Inspecting
the cargo of high protein baby food purchased with he eastern Washington contributors’
contributions are Msgr. Andrew P. Landi (left), and Rocco A. Sacci, Catholic Relief Services officials,
as the shipment went out of JFK airport, Sept. 26. (NC Photos)
AGAINST ERRQR
Theologians Asked To
‘Defend People Of God’
But it is all there--behind
specially constructed wall
panels, beneath the polished
tile floors and in elecronic
control centers outside the
storied halls, some of which
once served as wine and grain
storehouses for the Vatican.
The “Hall of Broken
Heads” is where the 146
bishops taking part in the
extraordinary synod will
convene beginning Oct. 11.
The hall carries this title
because it once was used to
store the broken pieces of
statuary belonging to the
Vatican.
The hall is about 100 feet
long and 40 feet wide. The
vaulted ceiling and walls are
made of light beige brick.
There is no art work in the hall
except for a bronze sculpture
depicting Pentecost mounted
on the wall behind the rostrum
where the three synod
presidents will be seated.
There is one glaring
obstruction in this hall which
otherwise could be described
as clean and simple. The
obstruction is made up of two
bulky five-foot square
columns. This has made it
necessary for the
leather-cushioned seats to be
arranged in a horse-shoe
pattern. Each pair of seats has
a microphone.
The technicians two years
ago had to take into account
that this hall and the other
rooms and chambers afforded
little natural light and fresh
air. To make up for these
inadequacies they have
installed comforts,
conveniences and necessities,
the likes of which have never
been seen in the Vatican’s
history.
There is the special asphalt
insulation which was applied
on the floors before the new
tiles were laid. The insulation
will protect the synod
members from the inevitable
dampness that fills such
ancient structures at this time
of the year.
Between the asphalt and
the tile there have been
installed “heating panels” that
contain tubings through which
fluids will flow to control the
room temperatures. Guided
*by highly sensitive
thermostats, the heating
system will adjust itself to the
slightest changes in the natural
air temperatures. But at the
same time, each hall or room
can have temperatures
adjusted manually. This can be
done at a special control
center or in the area itself.
There are air-conditioning
ducts to provide ventilation
for what would normally be an
unbearably stuffy
atmosphere. The stained glass
windows are too few, too high
and too small to do an
adequate ventilating job. The
installed ventilation-like the
heating system-is automated
and manually controlled.
The lighting is indirect,
coming from lamps in the
recesses of the windows and in
the floor boards. Like the
most intricate stage lights, the
intensity of the lamps can be
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BY PATRICK RILEY
VATICAN CITY (NC) -
Pope Paul VI opened the
inaugural meeting of the Holy
See’s International
Theological Commission with
an appeal to its 30 members to
“defend the people of God
from the numerous, excessive
and pressing errors that are
assailing the divine deposit of
truth.”
He declared that the
“authority and security” of
the Church’s teaching office,
or “magisterium,” derive from
Christ Himself and are
“essential for the government,
stability, peace and unity of
God’s Church.”
The Pope warned: “He who
refuses it or attacks it assails
the one true Church, and
therefore incurs a grave debt in
regard to the souls that have
the faith or are seeking it, and
is responsible before God’s
judgment.”
The theological
commission was set up at the
instance of the first Synod of
Bishops, which met in the
autumn of 1967, to be a
clearinghouse for theological
information and trends and to
act as a point of contact
between working theologians
and the Holy See. Among its
members are some of the
Catholic world’s most
celebrated experts in various
branches of ecclesiastical
science, such as the French
dogmatic theologians Father
Henri de Lubac and Yves
Congar, O.P., and the
Canadian philosopher Father
Bernard Lonergan.
American members are the
Jesuit dogmatic theologian
Father Walter Burghardt and
the Passionist scripture scholar
Father Barnabas Ahem.
Pope Paul, in launching this
three-day (Oct. 6-8) meeting,
was at pains to disown any
notion of theology as a
monolithic science admitting
of no diversity. He said he
“willingly” admits “the
development and variety of
theological sciences.”
There is no rivalry between
theological science and
ecclesiastical authority, he
asserted. Rather, theology and
the Church’s magisterium
both serve revealed truth by
bringing it “diverse but
converging support.”
His only caution was that
Catholic teaching always
preserve “the same intrinsic
truth.” Here he cited the
phrase of St. Vincent of Lerins
which has held the force of a
theological axiom for 15
centuries: “In one and the
same doctrine, one and the
same sense, one and the same
judgment.”
The Pope further protested
his “intention to recognize the
laws and exigencies that
belong to your studies, that is,
to respect that freedom of
expression of theological
science and of research called
for by its development.”
He said he wanted to scotch
any fear that membership in
the commission would so
“condition and restrict the
field of your studies as to
impede their lawful
investigations and logical
formulations.”
It was at this point that he
denied any rivalry between
“the two primacies, that of
science and that of authority,”
and asserted the undivided
primacy of revealed truth to
which theology and the
magisterium each brings its
own kind of support.
The Pope pointed to two
goals for the commission
besides that of defending the
people of God from he assaults
of error.
One was “finding in the
firmness of our faith the
mysterious secret of a
persuasive language for
ecumenical dialogue intended
to reestablish in the same faith
and in the same charity perfect
and happy communion with
the brothers still separated
from us.”
ST. MARYS CITY, Md. - A concelebrated Mass was offered here
(9/26) on St. Clement’s Island, where in 1634 Father Andrew
White, S.J., offered the first Mass in Maryland, as Lord Baltimore’s
colonists stepped ashore from the Ark and the Dove. Beneath the
massive cross, erected in 1934, Bishop John S. Spence, Auxiliary
of Washington, (with dark glasses) in seen offering Mass. He later
blessed the oyster fleet and pleasure craft, as 5,000 people
gathered for the annual event, (NC Photos)
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