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PACE 6 GEORGIA BULLETIN. THURSDAY. JANUARY 24,1963
FATHER PEYTON
Rosary Crusade
Planning Young
People’s Rally
CLEVELAND (NC) —Father
Patrick Peyton, G. S. C., with
characteristic energy, is deep
in plans to add a Children's
Crusade to his Family Rosary
Crusade and to expand the over
-all program.
He has entered the new phase
because of worldwide needs—
particularly in Latin America—
and because of a suggestion
made to him by Pope John
XXIIL
HE revealed in an interview
here that in a recent papal
audience Pope John blessed the
crusade and asked him to
“reach out to the young who
are the world's future."
The Holy Cross priest has
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plunged into his "children’s
crusade" plans by making fly
ing trips to consult with mo
thers superior and provincials
in various eastern andmidwes-
tern cities to help him to ap
proach children through Catho
lic schools.
He also appealed to bishops
in several eastern states and
reported that before he got as
far west as Cleveland, he had
been promised pulpits for 52
Sundays for financial appeals in
the coming year.
IN ADDITION to his appeals
to heads of teaching congrega
tions, Father Peyton plans to:
Create five teams (one
priest and one Brother each)
to take leadership of crusades
in Africa, Asia, and Central
and South America, in order to
insure perpetuation of the Ro
sary crusade when he no long
er can carry on.
Ask bishops to recognize
the Rosary crusades as a mis
sionary enterprise, entitled to
send speakers to Sunday Mas
ses in parishes to appeal for
financial support.
Concentrate in Latin Ame
rica, the area most crucial for
the future of mankind.
And finally pray that the
ecumenical council will restore
the office of married lay dea
cons to feed the "spiritual hun
ger" in Latin America and
similar places.
As an example of what he be
lieves can be accomplished,
Father Peyton pointed to Recife
University in Recife, north
east Brazil.
BEFORE the Rosary Cru
sade reached Recife, he said
the university's student govern
ing body was made up of 11
communists and 2 Christians.
An election soon after the cru
sade changed that to 12 Chris
tians and one communist.
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FATHER (Chaplain) John J. O'Neill, a priest of the St. Paul
archdiocese, baptizes Fireman Donald M. Ausen of St. Paul
aboard the U.S.S. Forrestal, navy supercarrier.
OBSERVER SAYS
Council Exceeds
Protestant Hope
For Solutions
PARIS (NC)~The prior of
a French Protestant monastery
said that the Second Vatican
Council has "exceeded our
hopes" in meeting the problems
of today’s world.
Pastor Roger Schutz, prior
and founder of the Protestant
monastery at Taize, who was
a guest of the Secretariat for
Promoting Christian Unity', at
the council, made the point in
an interview. He praised the
"courage" of His Holiness Pope
John XXIII in inviting non-Ca-
tholics to the council.
THE PROTESTANT monk had
special praise for the bishops
of Latin America.
his Church...into the intimacy
of the Catholic family."
ASKED what attitude among
believers would most respond
to the spirit of the council, he
said: "The living charity of
Christ: that (charity) which
animated the council Fathers.
So many bishops showed a con
stant concern for establishing
relations with those whose ideas
differed from their own."
Pastor Schutz said that it
was "beyond question" that the
ecumenical movement was en
riched by the council.
"The council aroused among
non-Catholic Christians of the
THE RECENT confirmation class at St. Bernadette, Ceder-
town. Not In the picture, but part of the class, was Mrs. Wil
liam Jenkins. Msgr. Joseph E. Moylan, V.G., P.A. was the
Confirming Prelate. The pastor is Rev. Richard Morrow.
THEOLOGIAN SAYS
Unbalanced Picture
Of Church Obstacle
U.S. IMAGE
Couple Welcomes
Foreign Students
CHICAGO (NC)—The image
of the U.S. as a friendly nation
is being enlarged here by a
couple with seven children.
school year," explained Mrs.
Drish. "Others have come in
between and stayed for shorter
periods of time."
Pastor Schutz noted that when
he was leaving for Rome he be
lieved that "nothing practical
would result from the council
for the contemporary world.”
But he explained that what
he saw at the council was an
"episcopate attentive to all the
needs of today's world and rea
dy to respond to them."
"Let us take the example
of Latin America," he said,
"that agricultural continent
where indescribable misery
reigns.”
“THE ONLY ones on that
continent who take seriously the
need for applying agrarian re
form are the bishops and the
priests," he said. "This year,
some of them gave church lands
to set up farming cooperatives.
..The council comes to the aid
of such an effort."
(The Taize community last
year gave $1,200 to Bishop Man
uel Larrain Errazuriz of Tal-
ca, Chile, for a farmers’ co
operative at Los Silos de Pir-
que, a farm that the Talca di
ocese gave to 17 families who
formerly cultivated the land
under lease.)
Pastor Schutz said that, in
the invitation of non-Cathohc
observers to the council, he
saw the "courage of Pope John
XXIII who brought strangers to
TO AID POOR
CLEVELAND, (NC) Mrs.
Joseph Ellis, a Negro convert,
has donated to poor parishes
here and southern missions
$2,553 raised by operations of
a salvage store she conducts in
a poor neighborhood here.
Besides turning over to cha
rity all profits from the store,
Mrs. Ellis also passes on to
parish priests the names and
addresses of visitors to the
store who express an interest
in the stock of Catholic litera
ture she keeps on hand there.
Mr. and Mrs. John W. Drish
of suburban Evanston have
opened the doors of their home
to eight students from Europe
and Latin America.
"That is, eight of the students
stayed with us for at least a
Austell Altar
Group Meet
AUSTELL The Altar and
Rosary Society of Saint John
Vianney held their regular mon
thly meeting on Wednesday eve
ning, January 16, in the Church
at Austell.
Mrs. Robert Cowan, recent
ly elected President, presided.
The opening prayers were said
by Father Leo Turgeon, S. M.
Included in the reports of the
various Committees was a de
tailed financial statement for
the year 1962 by the Treasu
rer, Mrs. Glen Rutherford.
After the meeting refresh
ments were served and the
drawing for the WHITE ELE
PHANT was held. Mrs. T.
J. Price was the winner and
in addition to the prize, she
received a check In the amount
of the WHITE ELEPHANT pro
ceeds which is to be sent to
the Missions.
THE CURRENT student, the
eighth, living with the Drish
family is Rene Rodriguez of
Sucre, Bolivia. Of the others
who stayed at the Drish home
for a school year, one was from
Cuba, two from Germany and
one eachfrom Austria, Panama,
Chile and Guatemala. They all
came here under the Interna
tional High School Student Pro
gram of the National Catholic
Welfare Conference.
Rodriguez, who attends St.
George High School in Evan
ston, said he Is very impressed
by the beauty, progress and the
modern highways in the U. S.
ASKED what he considers to
be the major difference between
student life in the U.S. and in
Bolivia, he said: "At home we
have a much harder schedule.
Classes begin at 8 a.m. and con
tinue until noon. We go home for
lunch and then return for clas
ses from 2 to 5:30 p.m."
He also commented that in
Bolivia "everyone is interested
in learning languages besides
Spanish," but in this country
"people seem to be satisfied
with one language.”
Rodriguez is scheduled to re
turn to Bolivia in July. When he
does, Mrs. Drish said she and
the rest of the family will be
ready to welcome student No. 9
for a year's stay.
QUESTION BOX
What Do Priests Do
Continued from Page 5
There are the parish record books; baptisms,
confirmations first communions, deaths - andfar
from least, the parish census book, always chang
ing. And those books suppose time for baptizing,
for preparing classes for Holy Communion and
Confirmation, and for funerals — to say nothing
of visiting the sick and giving the last sacra
ments. Calls for these purposes may come at any
hour - but of course the assistant takes them!
But I know some parishes which have large hos
pitals within their borders. Calls come most every
night.
We seem to be getting Into the higher brackets.
I know some pastors who spend 8 hours a day with
a hammer and saw, with trowel and ruler, or
with hoe and rake and mower.
There are such things as parish visitations
and census calls. I would judge that you have not
had a priest call on you recently, but really
many of them do spend hours each day pound
ing the pavements, ringing door bells, and lis
tening to problems. The Information they take
back to the rectoryhelps to complete the parish
list - used for many purposes: subscriptions to
the diocesan paper, Sunday envelopes, bazaar tic
kets, committees, and various parish activities.
In many parishes organizations alone are a full
time job: study clubs, PTA, CFM, CYO, and the
rest of the alphabet - with some meeting every
night. Besides there are civic affairs, invoca
tions, lectures. And some priests even spend a
few hours preparing Sunday's sermon.
Nearly always there Is an Inquiry class, or an
instruction group. Very often there are many hours
of private Instructions - sometimes for converts
- sometimes in preparation for marriage. Every
week, if not every day, there are marital prob
lems: squabbles, non-support, divorce, infidelity,
drunkenness. There are nearly always a few
marriage cases on the docket: witnesses to be
interviewed, unwelcome visits to be made to unin
viting addresses.
Then there are interviews in the parish office
or parlor: scruples, personality proolems, hopes
or fears of a vocation, choice of a college, search
for a job, Masses requested, consolation needed,
and sometimes just a friendly visit.
There are probably not many screwballs like
myself who use every moment available from pa
rish routine for marriage cases, or for pound
ing the typewriter - after inevitable hours of
study, which often show little result. But there are
plenty who can beat me at golf - merely because
they have more practice.
Television - instrument of paradise for the
moron - claims its victims among the clergy.
And some have hobbies: photography, telecom
munications, or maybe even chess or bridge. One
of my friends spends 16 hours a day in an art
studio - but then he isn’t a pastor.
We might as well face it, dear friend, the age
of automation has overtaken the clergy' too. That
friendly parlor visit dates youl Some parts of the
country haven’t known them since McKinley. Oth
ers quit with Hoover. Today you get on that old
electronic treadmill and you run like Hell, hop
ing by some miracle to end up in Heaven.
Peace be to youl
whole world a great hope."
he said. "It awoke among them
an ecumenical consciousness
which had been dormant. The
council liberated forces and
promoted a creatve dynamism
even among Protestants.
Speaking of his own part at
the council, Pastor Schutz said:
"At Rome, we wanted first
of all to be a presence of pray
er, and to help accomplish the
special vocation of the Taize
community which is to w ork for
the "unity of all in one Church."
"WE WERE overcome with
the kindness of so many
bishops," he noted, remarking
that he is especially attached to
the bishops of Latin America.
"These contacts grew all
through the session," he added.
"We often said to one another
that we were reaping in joy what
others had sown in tears,"
he said.
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rius High
Debaters
St. Plus X’s debating team
won the initial debate in its re
gion play-offs against Winder-
Barrow on Jan. 11. The state
debate topic was the one which
the teams tried to settle: "The
United States should promote
a Common Market in the Wes
tern Hemisphere."
James Polk and Rosemary
Hines were the members of the
negative team. John Millkey and
Judith Lynn Taylor were the af
firmative team members. This
contest was the first which St.
Pius had ever entered. The team
was formed only a month ago.
The debatetook place at Emory.
January 9 was the date of the
region finals. St. Pius faced
Hart County at the University
of Georgia. Pius’ affirmative
team tied the Hart County ne
gative debators. However, the
Pius negative team lost to its
opponent. According to the to
tal number of judges' points,
Hart County won the contest.
ST. PAUL, Minn.-The "un
balanced picture of authority"
in the Catholic Church has been
a major obstacle to discussion
of Christian unity', a Catholic
theologian told 400 Protestant
ministers here.
Father David A. Dillon, pro
fessor of dogmatic theology at
St. Seminary, said the "out of
focus" picture of authority is
the result of "unfinished bus
iness" of the First Vatican
Council • Father Dillon ad
dressed the 31st annual Min
nesota State Pastors’ Con
ference (Jan. 16).
"THE VERY fact of having
a definite statement regarding
the position and authority' of the
Pope, while having nothing about
the position and authority of the
bishops in the Church has re
sulted in a picture of authority
slightly out of focus," he
declared.
He said the First Vatican
Council had on its agenda
"material that considered the
whole scope of the teaching
power and authority within the
Church," of which the authority
of the Bishop of Rome was the
first item discussed.
With the seizure of Rome by
Garibaldi’s troops in 1870,
Father Dillon said, "the mem
bers of the council dispersed
without finishing the business."
THE EFFECT of this un
finished business, he said, "has
been to a great extent res
ponsible for shaping the system
of governing in the Catholic Ch
urch of modern times."
"It has encouraged the
practice of referring decisions
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more and more to the office
of the Pope," he contiuned.
"And, since one man cannot
attend to all details, it has re
sulted in a vast centralization
by putting a great amount of
decision-making power, even in
local affairs, in the hand of the
members of the Curia the Vati
can central administrative
body."
Father Dillon said an im
portant task before the Second
Vatican Council will be "to
set forth the doctrine on the
episcopal office."
"WHATEVER statement the
council makes," he said, "is
bound to have an effect not
only within Roman Catholicism
but on other Christian bodies"
as well.
"It takes no deep study of
Christianity today," he stated,
"to realize that the unbalanced
picture of authority in the Cat
holic Church that has prevailed
since 1870 has been one of the
chief obstacles to any dis
cussion of one Church under
Christ.
"This holds true not merely
for Protestant churches, but
even more for the bishops of
the Eastern churches, them
selves successors of the
Apostles."
FATHER Dillon told the Pro
testant pastors that the pas
toral tone set by the council’s
first session is its most signi
ficant feature for Christianity.
"There is no question now,"
he said, "that the Second Vati
can has made it clear that it
will pass judgement on, not
merely approve, the work of
the preparatory commissions.
"IT HAS further asserted its
determination not to deal with
specific doctrinal definitions,
but rather to proclaim the Cat
holic teaching in such a way
that it will be more meaning
ful to Catholics of our time,
more understandable to Chris-
ians who are not Catholics, and
even more inviting to those out
side Christianity," he added.
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