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CONFRATERNITY OF THE LAITY
$140,000 Goal For Diocesan Drive
Canvas Of Homes Set
For Sunday Oct. 17th
A goal of $140,000.00 has been set for the 1971 Bishop’s Confraternity of the Laity Campaign. This annual
campaign for diocesan funds will open Sunday, October 10, when a letter from Bishop Gerard L. Frey will be read
at all Masses throughout the Diocese of Savannah.
The drive seeks a cash donation from every wage earner in the Diocese, instead of long-range pledges. This year
individual minimum contributions of $30 are being sought. On Sunday, October 17, workers will make
house-to-house calls of parishoners soliciting contributions.
In his campaign letter
Bishop Frey underscores the
fact that a successful drive is
essential for the continued
growth of the Church
throughout the Diocese.
Making reference to the
diocesan budget, which was
printed last month in The
Southern Cross, Bishop Frey
observes: “You will
understand from the budget
report that over one-third of
the diocesan income comes
from outside the Diocese. We
can never be sufficiently
thankful to the Extension
Society, the Board of Negro
and Indian Missions, and the
American Board of Catholic
Missions for the aid they have
given us year after year and
which we pray they will
continue to give us. We are
now called upon to do our
part for the spread of the
Church in South Georgia.”
Bishop Frey asks support
for the individual parish “in
helping it reach and, if
possible to exceed its quota.”
He asks those who can afford
it to give more, writing, “I am
confident that the generous
people of the Diocese will rise
magnificently to the
challenge and through their
contributions manifest their
gratitude to God, thus
ensuring the success of the
drive and the continued
growth of God’s kingdom in
our midst.”
Pastors will request
parishioners to remain at
home on October 17 during
the hours when volunteers
will call. Those who cannot
be contacted on October 17
will be revisited on October
24.
To emphasize the spiritual
purposes of the diocesan
works to be aided by the
drive, Bishop Frey has
suggested that volunteers seek
the blessing of God, through
prayer, before they call at the
homes of prospects.
A breakdown of the
diocesan projects earmarked
for funds realized from this
year’s drive is contained in a
brochure to be distributed
throughout the diocese on
Sunday October 10th.
$21,700.00 will be used
for the Education of
Seminarians for the Diocese,
while $15,000.00 will be
utilized for Post Ordination
Studies.
St. Mary’s Home, in
Savannah, will receive
$18,100.00. The Home cares
for dependent children of the
Diocese. $5,000.00 will be
used for the upkeep of Camp
Villa Marie which provides
religious training and
recreational facilities for
children during the summer.
$15,200.00 will go in to
subsidies to mission parishes,
primarily for automobile
expenses and augmentation
of clergy salaries in parishes
too small to support
themselves without outside
assistance. Another
$15,900.00 is earmarked for
new buildings in mission
parishes.
The Southern Cross will
receive $15,100.00 from the
fund to augment its 1971-72
budget. $14,000.00 will be
used for the Diocesan Priests’
Retirement Fund;
$10,000.00 for Christian
Education and $10,000.00
for the maintenance of
Diocesan property.
BISHOP GERARD L. FREY
Asks Drire Support
October 10, 1971
My Dear People:
I am once again appealing to you with confidence on behalf of the annual Bishop’s Confraternity Drive. A
successful drive is essential for the continued growth of the Church throughout the Diocese of Savannah, a fact
readily appreciated by those who have studied the annual budget of the Diocese which was published in THE
SOUTHERN CROSS at the beginning of September.
You will understand from the budget report that over one-third of the diocesan income comes from outside the
Diocese. We can never be sufficiently thankful to the Extension Society, the Board of Negro and Indian Missions,
and the American Board of Catholic Missions for the aid they have given us year after year and which we pray they
will continue to give us. We are now called upon to do our part for the spread of the Church in South Georgia.
Through your generosity the Church has enjoyed steady growth during the past year. Two young men were
ordained for the Diocese in June. Two more will, please God, be ordained next June. Twenty-four seminarians are
at present studying for the Diocese. THE SOUTHERN CROSS won first prize in the nation for general excellence
at the recent Catholic Press Convention for newspapers with a circulation of up to 17,000. The Christian Education
program has been expanded and strengthened both for young people and adults. The Church continues to spread in
the mission areas. The Parish of Lakeland in South Georgia was re-established two years ago and today a second
church in the parish is being dedicated at Nashville, Georgia, in honor of Our Lady. All this has been made possible
through your help, and please God, with your help the growth will continue.
Please support your parish in helping it reach and, if possible, to exceed its quota. Each wage earner is requested
to contribute at least thirty dollars. Those who can afford to give more should do so. Indeed, this is necessary if the
drive is to be a success. Judging from past experience, I am confident that the generous people of the Diocese will
rise magnificently to the challenge and through their contributions manifest their gratitude to God, thus ensuring
the success of the drive and the continued growth of God’s Kingdom in our midst.
Thanking you for your never failing generosity, I remain,
Sincerely in Our Divine Saviour,
Gerard L. Frey
BISHOP OF SAVANNAH
SAINT MARY’S CHURCH, NASHVILLE
Nashville Dedication, Oct. 10th
Saint Mary’s Church, Nashville, will be dedicated by Bishop
Gerard L. Frey, of Savannah, on Sunday, October 10th.
The new building, with a seating capacity of 100 persons, will
be blessed during Mass which will begin at 12 noon. Bishop Frey
will be the principal celebrant of a concelebrated Mass. He will
be joined by Msgr. Daniel J. Bourke and Fr. John Kenneally,
with Msgr. Bourke delivering the dedication address.
Located south of the Berrien County Hospital, on McPherson
Street, the new church was built through the generosity of Mr.
John McDonald of Augusta, on land donated by Dr. Y.F.
Carter.
Fr. Cyril Gabbett is pastor of St. Mary’s.
AT SYNOD OPENING
Pope Warns Of Crisis Of Faith
VATICAN CITY (NC) -
In the splendor of
Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel,
Pope Paul VI opened the
1971 world Synod of Bishops
with a stern warning to the
assembled prelates to resist
the dangerous pressure of
doubtful opinions about the
faith.
In a 1,700-word address
during a concelebrated Mass,
with newly arrived Hungarian
Cardinal Jozsef Mindszenty
the center of attention by his
side, the Pontiff blamed both
Catholicism’s and the world’s
current troubles on a crisis of
faith.
“It is no hasty diagnosis of
the difficulties afflicting the
Church’s life and of the sad
spiritual condition of society
to see their first and principal
cause in a crisis of faith that
takes various forms but is
really one,” he said in his
Latin talk.
He encouraged the 210
delegates from many nations
to seek the aid of the Holy
Spirit “with faith and with
prayer,” as they deliberate on
the twin synodal topics of the
priesthood and world justice.
Quoting St. Paul’s letter to
quarrelsome early Christians
of almost 2,000 years ago at
Philippi in Asia Minor, Pope
Paul urged unselfishness and
avoidance of rivalry or
conceit.
“We would thus apply to
ourselves the words of the
apostle,” he said. The
ceremony was telecast around
Western Europe on the
Eurovision network.
A dramatic moment came
early in the speech when
Pope Paul introduced one of
his five concelebrants of the
Mass, Cardinal Mindszenty,
who only two days earlier
had reluctantly ended nearly
22 years of prison and
political asylum in Hungary
at the Pope’s behest.
“Let us offer the illustrious
exiled pastor our unanimous,
reverent and cordial
welcome,” the Pope declared
with emotion. The Sistine
Chapel echoed with
instantaneous applause at his
words. At the end of the
Mass, the 74-year-old Pope
assisted the 79-year-old
cardinal down the aisle,
holding his hand.
In his homily, the Pope
listed six different
‘‘dangerous” and
“penetrating” pressures
which he said could assail the
synodal proceedings.
“Permit us,” said Pope
Paul, “to call to your
attention a particular danger
which can assail our synodal
meeting and which in various
ways, whether honest or
treacherous, can disturb our
serenity of judgment and
even, perhaps, our freedom of
deliberation.
“This danger consists of
perssure - the pressure of
opinions which are in
doubtful conformity with the
teachings of the faith; the
pressure of tendencies which
seem unconcerned with
traditions which are
authoritative and which now
form part of the vocation of
the Church.”
(Continued on page 2)
INSIDE STORY
Americans At Synod Pg. 3
'Know Your Faith’ Pg. 5
Mercy Sisters Meet Pg. 7
Noah The Boa Pg. 8
HEADLINE
HOPSCOTCH
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Bishop On Attica Probe
NEW YORK (NC) — A Catholic Bishop has been asked to
serve on a committee investigating the Attica state prison riots,
in which 41 persons were killed. Bishop Edwin B. Broderick of
Albany was one of nine persons named by a panel of five state
judges to conduct a citizens’ investigation. None of the panel
members had any relationship to the incidents at Attica.
Ask Synod Consider Women
WASHINGTON (NC) - The National Council of Catholic
Women (NCCW) has asked that the Synod of Bishops seriously
consider the possibility of letting women into both the
diaconate and the priesthood. Sally Cunneen, head of NCCW’s
task force on women in the liturgy and author of the
much-discussed 1968 book “Sex: Female, Religion: Catholic,”
sent letters to the American synod delegates in Rome asking
them to raise the question of women in holy orders. “It would
be most appropriate when the Church itself is reconsidering its
whole idea of ministry to inaugurate through the synod a
serious study of the question of women in orders,” she wrote.