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UNITY OCTAVE JANUARY 18-25 Archdiocese of Atlanta VOL 1, NO. 3 ATLANTA, GEORGIA THRUSDAY, JANUARY 17, 1963 $5.00 PER YEAR ROMAN LEADERS - --* IN CHICAGO • See Also Page 3 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 Interviewed by the Rome weekly, Vita, Father Domenico Grasso, S. J., a professor at outdated custom, another does just as brutally by private a- greement and the curtain of si lence.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. Businessmen Help Defray Clergy Make Plea To End