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UNITY OCTAVE
JANUARY 18-25
Archdiocese of Atlanta
VOL 1, NO. 3
ATLANTA, GEORGIA
THRUSDAY, JANUARY 17, 1963
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Archbishop Paul J. Hallinan
issued a statement marking the
opening Monday of the National
Conference on Religion and
Race in Chicago, in which he
said that it must move forward
from the area of resolution to
realism.
The Archbishop, a partici
pant in the Conference which
ends today said:
"This Conference on Religion
and Race is significant not only
because it links these two fa
cets into one objective - Jus
tice. That is its most obvious
value, but it is important for
two other reasons which may
not be as evident.
"FIRST, it ' is national in
scope, and we hope that this
will not be missed in either
the North or the South. The
plague of racial injustice is
not contained within geographi
cal limits. It is not a regional
issue. It is a national issue,
and a national disgrace. The
findings of this Conference will
be drawn from the experience
of Chicago and Washington as
much as from Oxford and Al
bany. What one section does
brutally by antiquated law and
MEN FROM MARS
ROME (NC) ~ The posslbi-
lity of the discovery of other
inhabited plantes besides Earth
would not affect the Christian
teachings of Revelation, a not
ed Jesuit theologian said here.
Interviewed by the Rome
weekly, Vita, Father Domenico
Grasso, S. J., a professor at
outdated custom, another does
just as brutally by private a-
greement and the curtain of si
lence. Freedom is a human
right and a moral condition.
When it is diminished any place,
it is reduced everywhere. This
lesson pf history seems to be
the Pontifical Gregorian Uni
versity, was asked whether the
teachings of Revelation would
apply to national beings other
than Earth men, if there are
any.
"NO, AT least not direct
ly,” he replied. "The order of
Providence under which we live
is dominated by two fundamen
tal events: original sin and the
Redemption.
Space Age Doesn’t
Affect Our Doctrine
Council Bill
All Prejudice
"The sin of Adam through
which all sinned, becoming ene
mies of God, is offset by the
Redemption of Jesus Christ
through his Death and Resur
rection by which all were re
conciled with God and readmit
ted to His friendship. The so
lidarity of all men in sin and
redemption is founded on the
common bond of human nature
itself.
FATHER Grasso said he does
not expect that the space age
will hold any extraordinary con
sequences for theology, "since
the Christian derives the funda
mental knowledge of God, and
man from the fonts of Revela
tion.”
Conceding that space disco
veries may throw more light
on the attributes of God, es
pecially on His immensity and
wisdom, Father Grasso said:
"The knowledge of other inha
bited worlds will lead only to
the conclusion that the creative
activity of God was not limited
to a single inhabited world and
to a single order of Provi
dence.”
ARCHBISHOP Paul J. Hallinan shown with leaders of the Archdiocesan Committee directing the census to be taken on March 3. Left
to right top — Louis Gordon, Dr. Norman Berry, Albert Lawson, Jack Spalding, Leo Zuber. Left to right bottom - Very Rev. Harold
J. Rainey, Chancellor, Paul Smith, Rev. John P. Stapleton, Pastor St. Jude Church, and Herb Farnsworth.
ARCHBISHOP HALLINAN
Realism Not Resolution Need
In Reducing Racial Tensions
CHICAGO (NC) — A cardi
nal, a rabbi and a leading Pro
testant layman called here for
coordinated efforts by the three
major religious faiths toeradi-
cate racial prejudice in this
country.
Albert Cardinal Meyer, Rab
bi Julius Mark and J. Irwin
Miller told delegates to the
National Conference on Reli
gion and Race that religion must
be in the forefront of the battle
against racial discrimination.
ALL THREE spoke at an
evening session on the opening
day (Jan. 14) of the conference,
the first national meeting to be
convened by the major faith
groups in the U.S. More than
600 voting delegates participat
ed in the sessions, and some
500 persons from the Chicago
area attended as observers.
Cardinal Meyer, Archbishop
of Chicago, called the race is
sue the "nation’s unfinished
business,” and said that "our
whole future as a nation and as
a religious people may be de
termined by what we do about
the race problem in the next
few years.”
asserted that "this nation can
not continue to preach to the
whole world...the brotherhood
of man and equal opportunity"
while at the same time deny
ing these things "wherever it
is convenient and pleasing to
the majority to do so.”
Cardinal Meyer warned first
of "mistaken or misguided at
tempts” to deal with such is
sues as racial discrimination.
DECLARING that "the great
work” of the conference is to
lay the foundation for "last
ing benefits,” he added that
this requires "the cooperation
of the different racial groups
quite as well as of the dif
ferent faiths.”
HISTORY WAS made last week-end when Ronald Thornton (2nd Rt.) played in the starting five of
St. Joseph's High basketball team against St. Pius at Sacrtd Heart Gym. A capacity crowd, includ
ing Archbishop Paul J. Hallinan, was on hand for Thornton's debut.
VATICAN CITY (NC) — A
group of Roman businessmen
and bankers have given His Ho
liness Pope John XXIII about
$130,000 to help defray the ex
penses of needy bishops coming
to Rome for the ecumenical
council.
And the Pope in express
ing his thanks said that the
work the council has done thus
far is barely "a sample” of what
is to come.
Press Aids
Inter-Faith
Relations
NEW YORK (NC)—Although
each expressed his own reser
vations, four panelists repre
senting the three major reli
gions agreed here that the tone
of interfaith relations, as re
flected in the religious press,
improved noticeably during
1962.
A Protestant editor, a rabbi
and two Catholic editors dis
cussed "The Religious Press
and Interfaith Tensions” at a
panel (Jan. 10) sponsored by
the Catholic Institute of the
Press, an organization of Ca
tholics here in communications.
ALL AGREED that the ecu
menical council had opened new
vistas of interfaith cooperation.
Wayne Cow an, editor of the Pro
testant magazine, Christianity
and Crisis, declared: "We
can't help but be impressed by
the Interested coverage given
to Vatican II in many Protes
tant journals.
"As most of us are aware,
times are changing: we have
begun to talk to one another and
have even, on occasion, shown
a newly discovered willingness
to listen. There have been ob
vious efforts to be charitable to
one another, to write for one
another, to reprint material
from one another’s pages and
generally to acquaint our read
ers with new and different
views.”
THE CHECK for 81 million
lire was presented to the Bis
hop of Rome at an audience (Jan.
12) for members of the dioce
san commission for spiritual
preparation for the council.
Representatives of Rome’s fi
nancial, managerial and work
ing people were present along
with Archbisoph Ettore Cunial,
vice-regent of the Rome vica
riate. He is president ot the
commission, which has rallied
the citizens of Rome to support
the council both spiritually and
financially.
At the same time, the Pope
received other gifts, including
a gold bell from the Chamber
of Commerce, Industry and Ag
riculture. The bell bears an
image of the Good Shepherd and
a Christian monogram, sup
ported by the figures of two
angels.
REPRESENTATIVES of the
workers of Rome gave the Pope
a chalice and a gold pen and ink-
stand.
Pope John said the presents
had been given "in the light of
the Epiphany” and "with the
same good dispositions of those
first pilgrims to Bethlehem.”
OF THE ecumenical council,
he said that future generations
will look back with admira
tion at the work being done by
the council Fathers on "what
is really fundamental in life.”
Meanwhile, the Italian As
sociation for Cultural Rela
tions with the Soviet Union an
nounced that it has sent the
Pope an engraving by Soviet ar
tist Anatoli Borodin. The asso
ciation said the purpose of the
gift was to show appreciation
for Pope John as a "fatherly,
energetic champion of peace
among peoples.”
Convention Set
MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (NC)
—The 56th annual convention
of the National Association of
Catholic Publishers and Deal
ers in Church Goods will be
held January 24 to 26 at the
Hotel Deauville here.
IN JERUSALEM
one of the most difficult for
mankind to learn.
"Second, this Conference
brings together (to use two
medical terms) both the gene
ral practitioner and the re
search specialist. Too often in
the past, the exposure of our
racial sores has been left to
the scholar, the social statis
tician and the publicist. While
they have helped to highlight
the injustices, they have lacked
one basic qualification - re
sponsibility for public decision.
To truly form the national con
science, we need not only the
theologian, but the pastor; not
only the teacher, but the super
intendent of schools; not only
the political scientist, but the
politician.
IF THIS conference can fuse
right ideas with right actions -
if we can move from the area
of the proclamation to that of
pragmatic testing, from the
reading of resolutions to that
of religious and racial realism,
the nation and humanity will
gain. In our social responsibi
lity as well as in our respon
sibility to God, we are re
minded that not all who say
"Lord, Lord” shall enter into
the Kingdom of Heaven, but
only those who do the will
of the Father. His will is Jus
tice.”
FATHER Joseph Connors, S.V.
D,, professor of homiletics at
the Society of the Divine Word
seminary, Techny, 111., was
elected president of the Catho
lic Homiletic Society during
the organization's annual meet
ing in Cleveland. He succeeds
Msgr. John J. Cassells of Im
maculate Conception seminary,
Darlington, N. J.
Police Protect Christian
Institutions From Mobs
Jerusalem, Israel (NC) —
Police have been put on guard
duty outside all Christian insti
tutions in Israeli Jerusalem in
the wake of demonstrations in
which windows of a Protestant
school were broken and Ca
tholic nuns were spat at.
The demonstrations were at
tributed to a group of young
Orthodlx Jewish fanatics. The
Protestant school were the win
dows were broken is a Fin
nish missionary school. The
demonstrators p rotested
Christian proselytism of Jews,
charging that the Finnish school
has young non-Christian Jews
among its pupils.
THREE Sisters of Charity
who were walking in the vici
nity with their pupils at the
time were spat at and jeered
by some of the demonstrators.
The demonstrations were
Dropout Meet
A community conference on
dropouts — social dynamite —
will be held at the Hotel Bilt-
more, Atlanta, tomorrow start
ing at 9:30 a.m.
The conference is sponsored
by the Atlanta branch of the
American Association of Uni
versity Women, which states
that the problem of dropouts is
a serious and growing danger
effecting every area of our so
ciety and economy.
viewed here as a sign of the
heady effect among a segment
of Israel's Orthodox Jewish
minority of their "victory” in
the December 6 ruling by the
Israeli Supreme Court that a
Carmelite priest is not entitled
to Israeli citizenship simply be
cause he was born a Jew. Many
Orthodox Jews who have oppos
ed Christian missionary work
all along viewed tye court de
cision as bringing the "mis
sion” question to a head.
Hamodia, daily paper which
holds to Orthodox religious con
victions, said (Jan. 6). in com
menting on the demonstrations
that Christian missionary acti
vities should be prohibited by
law without fear of Gentile re
action.
Unity Octave
Rabbi Mark, president of the
Synagogue Council of America,
said the conference is an effort
"to impress the entire Ameri
can people with the urgent ne
cessity of translating into daily
practice the noble concepts of
human equality” proclaimed by
religion.
MILLER, president of the
National Council of Churches,
BERT M. WALZ, executive sec
retary of the Madison, Wis.,
Diocesan Union oi the Holy
Name, will receive this year’s
Vercelli Medal, annual award
of the National Holy Name So
ciety.
PRAYER
The following prayer was decreed by Pope Benedict XV for
daily recitation during the octave;
Antiphon: That they all may be one, as Thou, Father, in
Me, and I in Thee; that they also may be one in Us; that the
world may believe that Thou hast sent Me (St. John xvii, 21).
V. I say unto thee thou art Peter:
R. And upon this rock I will build My Church.
O Lord Jesus Christ, who said unto Thine Apostles; Peace
I leave with you, My peace I give unto you: regard not our sins,
but the faith of Thy Church, and grant unto her that peace and
unity which are agreeable to Thy will. Who livest and reignest
God forever and ever. Amen.
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