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SERVING GEORGIA’S 71 NORTHERN COUNTIES
VOL 1. NO. ?
ATLANTA, GEORGIA
FRIDAY. JANUARY 11, 1963
$5.00 PER YEAR
Lay Volunteers
To
Take
Census
connection with the census on
the following dates:
• January 11 — Cathedral of
Christ the King — 2:00 p.m.
Meeting of all Pastors.
Catholic Hour
Film Sequences
VATICAN CITY-NC- His
Holiness Pope John XXIII said
here that the work of rewriting
draft resolutions for the next
session of the ecumenical
council is moving swiftly but
quietly.
At an audience granted (Jan.
6) to Rome’s Mayor Glauco
Della Porta, the Pope also said
that he hopes the council’s se
cond session, scheduled to
open September 8, will be its
last.
Pope John said:
"THE WORK of preparing the
second and, if God wills it, the
last session continues at an ac
celerated rhythem, but almost
silently.
joyf i! attention of Rome and of
the world to the Basilica and
Apostolic Palace of the
Lateran."
He said he also hopes his
plan will “encourage in Rome
and everywhere in the modern
world the solution of many pas
toral problems arising from
modern times and revive those
well ordered activities which
are intended to represent the
Church to all people as it is
in the designs of its Divine
Founder, as the mother and tea
cher, the light of peoples."
• To give a more accurate
basis for future development of
the Archdiocese.
• To find all unknown Catho
lics within the Archdiocesan
area.
• To provide a more accurate
estimate of the spiritual status
of the Archdiocese.
The following Lay leaders
have been appointed to assist
the co-chairmen: Publicity —
Louis Gordon: Research —
Albert Lawton; Processing —
Paul Smith; Special Problems
— Herb Farnsworth. Three
PROFESSOR SAYS:
FR. STAPLETON
Federal
Schools
NOTRE DAME, Ind. (NC)~
A University of Notre Dame fa
culty member maintains that
government support of church-
related schools does not violate
the principle of separation of
Church and State "since the
state acts for the family, not
only for the Church, and does
not itself espouse any religious
doctrine."
Herbert L. Johnston, asso
ciate professor of philosophy at
Notre Dame University, con
tends that "to refuse this help
is to deny to the parents who
wish it the public assistance
in education to which they have
a right as citizens."
JOHNSTON expresses his
views in a new book, "A Phi
losophy of Education." Design
ed for use at either the grad
uate or undergraduate level,
the book is the latest in the
“Catholic Series in Education"
published by McGraw-Hill, New
York.
"Parents have the primary
obligation to educate their
children and hence the primary
right to choose the means of
doing so," Johnston insists.
"The state, like the Church,
is in the field of school educa
tion primarily to help the fami
ly and is tht; educational agent
Aid To Parochial
Is Constitutional
of the family. Parents who wish
instruction in sacred doctrine
for their children should have
the help of the state in this as
in other forms of education."
While the family is the first
educating agency and while it
has educational rights that no
other agency has given it or
may take away, its rights are
not unlimited, Johnston obser
ves. Parents have a right to
educate their children, "not
to fail to do so, and to educate
them In truth and goodness, not
NCCW Leaders
Meet Next Week
WASHINGTON (NC) — The 27
member board of directors of
the National Council of Catholic
Women will meet here from
January 21 to 25, Mrs. Joseph
McCarthy , NCCW president,
announced.
A series of six leadership
institutes to be held in the
spring and fall will be a major
item on the agenda. Annual re
ports will be presented from
NCCW national committee
chairmen, headquarters staff
members and the directors.
in falsehood and vice," he
writes.
"THIS IS why," Johnston con
tinues, “the state quite reason
ably imposes a minimum
school-leaving age, insists that
certain intellectual standards
be met in the schools, and, in
extreme cases, takes children
away from parents who are
seriously neglecting their up
bringing. This is why the Church
quite reasonably insists that
parents use every available
means for their children's edu
cation in religious doctrine and
practice, though her sanctions
are of a different character
from those of the state."
The Notre Dame philosopher
claims that the state has the du
ty to maintain, "on the same
basis on which it maintains
public schools for those who
wish them, religiously affili
ated schools for those who wish
them."
He answers the standard ob
jection that church-related
schools are divisive and un
democratic. They are certain
ly divisive, but so also are ex
isting differences in color, eth
nic origin, in political affilia
tions, in economic interests, in
social standing and in a hundred
other things", he writes.
• January 27 — St. Joseph’s
High School — 4:00 p.m. Atlan
ta Pastors with Lay Group
Chairman and Captains. Also
included in this meeting will be
delegations from Hapeville,
Marietta, and Decatur.
• January 28 — Similar
meeting in Rome to cover that
parish and those of Ft. Ogle
thorpe, Dalton, and Cedartown.
• January 29 — Meeting in
Athens to cover that parish,
Gainesville, Dahlonega, Toc-
coa, and Washington.
• January 30 — Meeting in
Griffin to cover that parish,
Milledgeville, and LaGrange.
Many dioceses throughout the
United States have been con
ducting censuses of the Catho
lic population. The lapsed and
indifferent have often been
brought back to the practice
of their faith.
Sargent Shriver
For Racial Meet
CHICAGO, (NC) — R. Sar
gent Shriver, Jr., director of
the Peace Corps, will be a
speaker at the National Con
ference on Religion and Race
to be held here January 14-17.
Shriver will speak on Jan
uary 15 at the conference ban
quet.
The conference is the first
national meeting to be convened
by all major faith groups in the
U.S. The National Catholic Con
ference for Interracial Justice
Is acting as secretariat for
the meeting.
NEW YORK, (NC)—Sequen
ces from four films, including
“Moby Dick" and "La Dolce
Vita," will be presented on the
“Catholic Hour" television
program January 13 at 1:30 p.
EST.
The program, “The Stages
of Man," is the second in a
series produced by the National
Council of Catholic Men in as
sociation with the National
Broadcasting Company.
ARCHBISHOP Paul J. Hallinan shown during his first visitation to Fort Oglethorpe. With him
are Father Lawrence Murphy, C.Ss.R., and (L to R) Miss Margaret McHugh and Mrs. Grant Wall.
Father William Lunch, S. J.,
author of “The Image Indus
tries,” wrote the series, en
titled “Art and the People."
POPE JOHN
Council’s Work
Swift But Silent
In Archdiocese
"We trust in the prayer* and
the active collaboration of the
laity, which has already been
shown in many ways and which
has been welcomed."
POPE John then referred to
his plan to 'centralize all
offices of the Rome vicariate,
which is responsible for
administering the Diocese of
Rome, in the Lateran Palace.
He said this step is “intended
to bring back the respectful and
FATHER Charles W. Dulet, S.
J., rector of the Jesuit commu
nity at the University of San
Francisco since 1958, has been
named president of the Univer
sity. He succeeds Father John
F.X. Connolly, S.J., who has
been named provincial of the
Jesuits’ California Province.
POPE JOHN XXIII, flanked by members of his household, listens as one of the Sistine Chapel choir
boys introduces hymns sung for the Pope on New Year’s Eve. Also present in Clementine Hall for
the choir’s concert were about 100 children, victims of polio, orphans from Villa Nazareth, and
crippled children from the Don Orione Institute.
ARCHIVIST ASSERTS
CLIMBING into a jeep provided for him by the U. S. Army,
Francis Cardinal Spellman, Archbishop of New York, prepares
to set out on another leg of his annual New Year’s tour of
the U. S. armed forces.
ATLANTA — A census of the
Catholic population in the Ar
chdiocese of Atlanta will be ta
ken by Lay volunteers on the
First Sunday in Lent, March 3,
between 2:00 and 6:00 p.m., it
was announced here by Arch
bishop Paul J. Hallinan.
The Archbishop also appoint
ed two co-chairmen for the cen
sus, The Very Rev. Harold J.
Rainey, Chancellor of the Ar
chdiocese, and The Rev. John
D. Stapleton, Pastor of St. Jude
Church, Atlanta, and Archdio
cesan Director of The National
Council of Catholic Men.
THE CENSUS will be the first
major project of the recently
established Arc hdioce-
san Council of Catholic Men.
The ACCW will coordinate the
w<yk of some three thousand
volunteer workers from the va
rious Archdiocesan societies
and groups.
Purposes of the census will
be:
Not Much Anti-Clericalism
Seen Among US Catholics
additional staff members were
also appointed: Leo Zuber, Dr.
Norman Berry and Jack Spald
ing.
ARCHBISHOP Hallinan will
attend Regional Meetings in
FR. RAINEY
The Catholic priest in the
city—where about 80 per cent
of American Catholics live—
has had to deal with a large
group for whom the small pa
rish supervision is almost an
impossibility. “The greatest
impact of this problem has
been the near-professionaliza-
tion of the priest. The ordinary
priest finds that his parishtasks
absorb all his time," he holds.
ST. BONAVENTURE, N. Y.
(NC) —Father Thomas T. Mc-
Avoy, C.S.C., University of No
tre Dame archivist, says there
has been little anticlericalism
in the Church in America.
Father McAvoy writes that
this is “because there has been
little mobile wealth to quarrel
about and even less political
power in the hands of the priests
to excite envy."
Despite the talk about cleri
cal “powerhouses" in some
very Catholic cities, “there are
no clergymen holding positions
of political power in this coun
try," the Notre Dame historian
maintains.
“Essentially, the Catholic
priest in America is a pastor of
souls whose chief functions are
the altar," he says.
Father McAvoy, author of a
forthcoming biography on the
late John Cardinal O'Hara, C.
S.C., Archbishop of Philadel
phia, describes "The American
Catholic Clergyman" In the
current issue of Cithara, a Saint
Bonaventure University publi
cation. He is an authority tin
the history of the Church in
the United States and served
for more than 20 years as head
of the Notre Dame history de
partment. '
THE American Catholic cler
gy have "a deep sense of full
priestly obligation to authority
which calls for and even sup-
IN HOSPITAL
69 YEARS
CLEVELAND (NC) -Sixty-
nine years ago Emil Fretter
went to St. Alexis Hospital here
for treatment of a leg injury.
He’s still there.
Fretter was 14 when he en
tered the hospital. He was a
patient for three years and took
a job in the hospital stables
when the leg heald
when the leg healed. Fretter,
now 83, is the hospital’s chief
engineer.
poses complete dedication to
priestly work," Father McAvoy
writes.
"The American respect for
authority does not have that ob
sequiousness of the feudal kind
that still exists in the Church in
some parts of Europe, but the
obedience is likely to be more
intelligent," he writes.
THE HISTORIAN contends
that the lack of criticism be
tween the clergy and laymen in
America "arises not from any
fear by the laymen but from the
lay supposition that the Ameri
can priest is totally devoted to
priestly functions, and laymen
do not care to criticize the
clergymen for clerical dedica
tion. If the American priest
exercised political power, there
would undoubtedly be more cri
ticism."
Urbanization and Improved
mass communications have had
an Important effect on the
American priest, Father Mc
Avoy points out.
"JUST the very effort to get
acquainted with the people in the
few blocks of a city parish is
tremendous," he writes.