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I t 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.