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4 i The Southern Cross DIOCESE OF SAVANNAH NEWSPAPER Vol. 56 No. 3 Thursday, January 16,1975 Single Copy Price — 15 Cents Area Priests’ Councils to Meet Jan. 20 MEETING THE PRESIDENT - In an ecumenical setting, Archbishop William Baum of Washington, D. C., chats with President and Mrs. Gerald Ford after the First Family attended services at St. John’s Episcopal Church near the White House Jan. 1 2. The archbishop was a special guest of the Rev. John Harper (left) of St. John’s. (NC Photo) Diocese to Host Holy Year Tour A two-week Holy Year ’75 Group Inclusive Tour centering on a visit to Rome and also including travel to France and Dublin is being jointly sponsored by the Diocese of Savannah and the Archdiocese of Atlanta. The flight is scheduled to leave May 25 from Savannah. > This special program, arranged by Thomas Cook, the worldwide travel service, and Faith Tours, a leader in religious travel, covers round-trip jet transportation, double occupancy in a twin-bedded room with bath at a first-class hotel, and continental breakfasts and dinner. The package price is $1,268 and includes a complete program of sight-seei lg with the services of English-speaking local guides, drives via motor coach, admission fees to places scheduled on the itinerary, tips to airport and hotel porters on arrival and departure for two pieces of luggage. A Pilgrim’s Vademecum (handbook, card, badge and map) along with INSIDE STORY Editorial Pg. 2 Catholic Response Pg. 3 Book Review Pg. 6 Know Your Faith Pg. 7 discount coupons, insurance coverage, a tour membership certificate and wallet for documents will be provided each participant upon full payment of the tour prior to departure. The tours of Rome will take visitors to the Basilica of St. Mary, the Church of St. Peter in Chains, location of Michelangelo’s celebrated statue of Moses; and the “Mother of all Churches,” St. John Lateran. There will also be a trip to Quo Vadis Church, the Catacombs of St. Calixtus, and St. Paul Outside-The-Walls. In addition, time is set aside for a tour to the Piazza Venezia and the Roman Forum, as well POPE TELLS LAITY as to the Colosseum and Pantheon. A high-point will be the visit to the Basilica of St. Peter in the Vatican. On the morning of the Papal Audience, transfers will be provided between the hotel and place of ceremony. There will also be leisure time to explore the “Eternal City” or to select from several optional tours that are also offered. For further information on the tours or to make reservations, contact Monsignor Daniel J. Bourke, P.O. Box 8789, Savannah 31402 or your local travel agent. ‘Spread the Gospel’ VATICAN CITY (NC) - Today’s lay Christian should be an evangelizer, in close communion not only with the Holy Spirit and with the hierarchy but with contemporary society, Pope Paul VI told a group of Italian Catholics Jan. 11. The Pope spoke about the lay vocation in an address to the national council of Italy’s Catholic Action movement. Regarding the Christian’s life in the world, the Pope said: “It is necessary to know persons and the currents of opinion, the groups in society and the true state of affairs, we do not mean so much a theoretical awareness of these things but an awareness coming from life experiences. “The apostle wants to be the ferment in society, but everyone knows that the yeast can only do its job if it stays united to the mass.” He added: “The Church asks you to assume your responsibility in the modem AVorld by keeping your identity, but also by being readily available to the social, political, cultural and economic life of your fellow citizens.” The Pope then spoke of diverse charisms or gifts given by the Spirit to build up the Church. “To Peter and to the college of Bishops united with Him, has been given the charism of authentic teaching of the word of God, and the principle of unity. But the Spirit, as He wills, gives to the faithful gifts or special charisms, given for the well-being of men and the building up of the Church.” The bishops’ charisms, the Pope said, “pertain essentially to the tasks of ‘sanctifying,’ ‘teaching,’ and ‘ruling’ the people of God on the way,” while the charisms of the laity are given so that the “divine message, received from God through the pastors, will be incarnated into and spread through our daily, temporal life.” Both must work together if the Church is to succeed in its mission, he said. Officials of two national organizations working exclusively to serve the needs of priests and priests’ councils will address the 8th Annual Provincial Meeting of the Atlanta Province Federation of Priests’ Councils meeting in Charleston, S.C., January 20-22. Msgr. Colin A. MacDonald of the Bishops’ Committee on Priestly Life and Ministry of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops (NCCB) and Fr. Reid Mayo of the National Federation of Priests’ Councils (NFPC) will both report to priests of the province on the activities of tieir respective organizations. Msgr. MacDonald has been Executive Director of the NCCB’s Priestly Life and Ministry Committee since its organization as an Ad Hoc Committee in 1972. He stayed on in his position when the Ad Hoc Committee received full status as an NCCB committee two years ago. Msgr. MacDonald works out of his Washington office where he directs the on-going work of the various sub-committees of his organization. He will report on the areas in which the sub-committees are working and the progress being made. He will be available for most of the Provincial Meeting for informal discussions with the priests. Before accepting his Washington position Msgri MacDonald was a pastor in his home diocese of Manchester, N.H. Msgr. MacDonald’s address is scheduled for Wednesday, January 22 at 9:30 . A.M. * i t. Reid Mayo assumed the presidency of the NFPC in February of 1973. Prior to that time he was a director of religious education for the Diocese of Burlington, Vt. As the chief executive officer of the NFPC Fr. Mayo directs an organization composed of councils of priests in 45 of the continental United States. He is one of twelve priests selected by the NCCB’s Committee on Priestly Life and Ministry to be an advisor to that office. He will report to the Provincial Meeting specifically on the projects presently being undertaken by the NFPC and other developing trends among priests groups throughout the country. He will speak to the Provincial Meeting at 11:00 A.M. on Tuesday, January 21. The central theme of the Provincial Meeting this year is “The Priest Today - What Are the Expectations of the Church?” Addressing the principal theme will be Bishop Walter Sullivan of the Diocese of Richmond; Rev. Robert Kinast of the Archdiocese of Atlanta; Rev. Seely Beggiani of the Catholic- University of America and a panel composed of Sr. Shirley Levesque of Columbia, S.C., Mrs. Nancy West of Charlotte, N.C. and Mr. Thomas Mosley of Greenville, S.C. '-The meeting will be held at the Francis Marion Hotel in downtown Charleston and will begin on Monday evening, January 20 and conclude at noon on January 22. The meeting is open to all priests of the Atlanta Province and not just to elected delegates from priests’ councils. Additional information can be obtained from Rev. George M. Kloster, 900 Faculty St., Boone, N.C. 28607. Bishop Walter F. Sullivan -- will address the Provincial Meeting on the topic, “The Priest Today - A Bishop’s View.” Bishop Sullivan is the Bishop of the Diocese of Richmond, Virginia and serves on several committees of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops’ among them the Committees on Canon Law and Priestly Formation. He is active in civic projects in the Richmond area and recently served on a legislatives study commission on capital punishment for the State of Virginia. He became Bishop of Richmond in 1974 after having served as Auxiliary Bishop since 1970. Rev. Seely Biggiani - is a member of the faculty of the Catholic University of America in the Department of Religion and Religious Education. He is the rector of Our Lady of Lebanon Seminary in Washington and has written for several professional journals. He will address the Provincial Meeting on the topic “The Priesthood - A Look Forward.” Sr. Shirley Levesque, O.P. - is a Dominican sister of the Adrian, Michigan Motherhouse. Sister is presently on the staff of the office of Religious Education for the Diocese of Charleston. She will be a part of a panel examining the priesthood today from a non-pnestly perspective. Mrs. Nancy West - is a native of Charlotte, N.C., where she still resides. She is a graduate of UNC-Greensboro and has written articles and poems for several magazines. She is active in many civic and eligious organizations. Fr. Seely Beggiani Bishop Sullivan Mrs. Nancy West Sr. Shirley Levesque lilt': HEADLINE la W HOPSCOTCH Pope on New Year VATICAN CITY (NC) -- Christians must adopt an “authentic Christian mentality” that can critically judge the factors shaping public opinion today. Pope Paul VI told a general audience Jan. 8. Pope Paul said that adopting this Christian mentality is the “first reform, the most personal, the most important and the most difficult” a Christian must make during the 1975 Holy Year. The Pope told the audience, which included a large number of students from several U.S. universities and colleges: “We must ask ourselves and our consciences, do I think like a Christian? Does my mentality derive from the truth Christ taught us?” The Pope warned against letting a “personal mentality take command over our thoughts, judgments and actions.” He said: “Everyone today says: ‘In my opinion,’ and finds in this personal opinion justification for his every action.” NLRB Relents WASHINGTON (NC) -- Responding to widespread opposition by the U.S. labor movement, including some Catholic teachers’ unions, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has dropped its proposal to discontinue dealing with labor disputes involving private schools. Priests Donate $20,000 CHICAGO (NC) - Priests in Chicago have pledged more than $20,000 of their own salaries to help feed “the world’s hungriest people.” The action was initiated at a meeting of the coordinating board of the Association of Chicago Priests (ACP). The money will go to missionaries in hunger-stricken areas, primarily in Bangladesh. The ACP is an independent association formed by about one-fourth of the priests in the Chicago archdiocese. Jesuits Rebuked ROME (NC) - The head of the Jesuit order has rebuked some Jesuits for spreading false gossip, especially in Rome, regarding alleged opposition between himself on the one hand and Pope Paul VI and officials of the Church’s central administration on the other. Father Pedro Arrupe, superior general of the Society of Jesus, also criticized very conservative Jesuit groups whose actions, he said, would if continued “render the government of the Society impossible. Bishop Lauds Women MEMPHIS (NC) - Women have been “the Church’s readiest participants” in implementing the Second Vatican Council, Bishop Carroll T. Dozier of Memphis said in a pastoral letter on women in Church and society. “In thf^simplest terms,” he said, “it must be said that Jesus and the Gospel can hardly appear as the ultimate good if that same Good News continues its discriminatory interpretation and implementation in the Church.”