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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 MARIETTA DAILY JOURNAL cuieUtAH */* Utf4f CALL: 428-1545 TO SUBSCRIBE Look For Oscar 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. • PRINTING • LITHOGRAPHING RYBEHT /Hwfai r COMPANY TRinity 350 FORREST ROAD. N. E. 5 4727 Strain/ Atlanta Sinci 1912 ATLANTA, GEORGIA MARIETTA (m(™& BOTTLING COMPANY 506 ROSWELL STREET MARIETTA, GEORGIA «o«l FAMOUS ALL-PURPOSE DRESSING DELICIOUS ON Salads-Meats-Seafood SOLD AT LEADING STORES' For Your 1963 Travel Flans PILGRIMAGES To Every Shrine In The World! The Shrine of your famite devtjtion is included somewhere in AIR FRANCE'S 1863 Pilgriniaips Booklet. Let us prove that you can realise this travel dream getfhoiiipUv and swiftly on AIR FRANCE JETS. AIR FRANC! Jfi WORLD S IARQUT wit FRANC! 1120 Conn. Ave. Waih 6. D C |Plts*l your free, lllu»tr»teil 1M3 Fit Krtmag« Bookl«t ai once. Name City. Zone. 3tate „ , 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. Tfc* TT* 1 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 Pre-Natal Care ATHENS — St. Mary’s Hos pital Auxiliary sponsors the first Expectant Parents Course this year at the Nurses’s Home on the corner of Hancock and Harris, on Wednesday, Jan. 30 at 7 p.m. The course is free and husbands are invited to at tend. For further information call Athens— Liberty 3-3611 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. We Need Our Advertisers Our Advertisers Need You Tell them you saw it in the Georgia Bulletin