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Archdiocese of Atlanta mi i mm C Jl mrm CATHOLIC PRESS MONTH gill: VOL 1, NO. 9 SERVING GEORGIA’S 71 NORTHERN COUNTIES ATLANTA, GEORGIA THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1963 $5.00 PER YEAR My dear People: Official There can he no progress for society, unless there is a deep ening love of God and neighbor in the individual soul. But this is impossible without discipline, and this depends upon our growth in self-denial and penance. That is the meaning of Lent. There are both internal and external laws for this Holy Season. If we pray more, meditate a little each day, read and study the resources of our faith, - our inner life, the life of the soul, will be enriched. Daily Mass and frequent Holy Communion will bolster the grace that is in us. It should be possible with our early Masses, and noon and evening Masses, for many of our people to attend frequently. Out of all this, life can become more virtuous: our love for God and our fellow-man should grow and flourish. The external laws are contained in the Lenten Regulations. I ask your careful observance of them. Asking God to make use of this time of Lent to test and prove us, to bless and help us, to raise up and sanctify us, I remain Sincerely yours in Christ, Most Reverend Paul J. Hallinan Archbishop of Atlanta OOOOO LliNTON REGULATIONS - as modified for use in the United States. Lent begins on Ash Wednesday, February 27th, and ends at the midnight between Holy Saturday, April 13th, and Easter Sunday, April 14th. LAW OF ABSTINENCE: 1. Ash Wednesday, February 27th, is a day of complete ab stinence: i.e., every baptized Catholic who has reached his seventh birthday is not permitted to eat meat, or soup or gravy made from meat. All Fridays of the year are like wise days of complete abstinence. 2. There will be one day of partial abstinence during Lent: - 1 mber Wednesday, March 6th. Accordingly, everyone who has reached his seventh birthday, is permitted the use of meat only once - at the principal meal. LAW OF FAST: 1. This obligation binds everyone who has reached his twenty- first birthday, and has not yet reached his fifty-ninth birth day. Those so obligated are permitted only one full meal at which meat may be served. Further, meat may be taken only at the principal meal of the day. 2. In addition to themain meal, two minor, meatless meals are permitted - sufficient to maintain strength, but together in quantity, they may not equal another full meal. 3. bating between meals is forbidden. However, liquid nourish ment may be taken at any time without prejudice to the Lenten Regulations. Liquids include milk, fruit juices, coffee, tea (oven with cream and sugar), alcoholic beverages, etc. 4. All weekdays of Lent are days of fast. There is no obliga to fast on Sundays. A SCENE that was repeated Wednesday in Catholic churches throught the world. Picture shows ashes being distributed to children at Immaculate Heart of Mary Parish. Left to right—Barry Wall, Tim Brown, Mary- LynnWinfru, Vernon Dasch, Jenifer Lee, Mary Wimbish and Father Daniel McCormick. IF CONSTITUTIONAL AFL-CIO Supports Federal Aid To Non-Public Schools MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (NC)~ The AFL-CIO executive council has urged that any program of Federal aid to education give non-public schools "as much as sistance as is constitutionally possible." The labor council, in a state ment adopted here on Presi dent Kennedy's aid to educa tion program, said the program "needs to be strengthened” as it applies to non-public grade and high schools. "NO American, w hatever his religious beliefs, can fail to realize the extent to w hich non public schools carry a large share of the burden of educat ing the young," the statement said. "These non-public schools face many of the same crises confronting the public schools. We believe that non-public ele mentary' and secondary schools should receive as much assis tance as is constitutionally pos sible.” tional Defense Education Act loans to assist in procuring equipment for teaching science, mathematics and foreign lan guages. The constitutionality of this program is by now well established. "WE URGE a considerable expansion of this program. At the present time the NDEA loans are available only for equip ment; we propose that they be made available also for the construction of classrooms to be used for the prescribed sub jects. "We also urge that the teach ing of English and social stu dies be added to the present list of subjects for which NDEA loans are premitted.” The council’s statement was generally favorable to the ad ministration’s Federal educa tion aid program. However, it pointed to "one major dis agreement” — its belief that the administration is asking "less than half as much money as would be required" for ne cessary improvements in Ame rican education. IN LINE with this, the AFL- CIO unit urged Congress to ap propriate double the amount of money requested by President Kennedy. It has been estimated that the administration program would cost some $5 billion over three or four years. BELIEVED POSSIBLE 6th Century Saints' Remains Found ? When health, or the ability to work would be seriously affected, through the observance of these regulations, then the law ceas es to oblige. In doubt about tin obligation to fast, kindly consult your pastor or confessor. N. B. A dispensation is hereby granted from the law of fast for Saturday, March 16 :h, in honor of Saint Patrick, and for Tuesday, March 19th, the feast of Saint Joseph. The AFL-CIO council went on to spell out ways in which Federal aid to non public schools could be increased. It said: "Private non-public schools are presently eligible for Na- SUBIACO, Italy (NC)--A lead casket believed to contain re mains of the bodies of SS. Bene dict and Scholastica, 6th cen tury monastics, has been found in the monastery church of St. Scholastica here. CENSUS planners at Christ the King Parish from left to right—W .E.Applegarth, C.A. Simmons, lay chairman, E.S. Kelly, J.W. Wilson and Msgr. J.G. Cassidy, V.G., pastor. The six-sided casket was found under the main altar of the Lutherans Say ‘No’ To Women FRANKFURT, Germany (NC) —The Lutheran Bishop of Ham burg opposed moves to permit ordination of women as pastors Bishop D. Witte said in a commentary in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung that the Christian Church had not had women ministers in 1900 years of history. He said also: "If the Protestants expect the Catholic Church to refrain from enunciating dogmas which might widen the cleft between the churches, then on the other hand they ought likewise to take care themselves not to set up possible hindrances on the road to unity such as the admission of women to holy orders.” church during restoration work. It weighs about four pounds and bears the inscription: "Ex oss. SS. Bened. et Schol.,” which means: from the bones of SS. Benedict and Scholastica. THE BENEDICTINE monks of the monastery knew that there were important relics under the main altar, but they did not know exactly what they were. It is known that several centuries ago relics of the body of St. Benedict were sent from Monte Cassino—where he founded a monastery about 529,—to a number of Benedictine shrines including Subiaco. Verification of the contents of the casket awaits authorization from the Sacred Congregation of Rites. St. Benedict founded 12 mon asteries while he was at Subia co which is about 32 miles east of Rome. About 529, he retired to Monte Cassino where he or ganized a large monastic settle ment. St. Scholastica, his sis ter, is believed to have been abbess of a monastery she founded about five miles south of Monte Cassino.She is said: to have met her brother once a year for long discussions on the spiritual life. Lay Volunteers Ready To Take Census Sunday Everything is A-OKAY on the Archdiocesan Census launch pad. Some five thousand lay men and w omen volunteers have re ceived their final instructions for their contact Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Northern Geor gia. IN ATLANTA the census will begin at 2:00 P.M. and close at 6:00 o’clock. In these four con centrated hours of home calls, the census takers will uncover an accurate estimate of the strength of Catholic Northern Georgia. THE purpose of the census is: • To give a more accurate basis for future develop ment of the Archdiocese. • To find all .unknown Catho lics within the Archdio cesan area. • To provide a more accurate estimate of the spiritual status of the Archdiocese. Co-Chairmen of the census are Father Harold J. Rainey, Chancellor, and Father John D. Stapleton, Pastor of St. Jude Church and Archdiocesan Di rector of the Council of Catho lic Men. This is the first major project of the recently estab lished A.C.C.M. LAY members of the commit tee who are assisting the co- chairman are; Publicity— Lewis Gordon: Research— Al bert Lawton; Processing—Paul Smith; Special Problems—Herb Farnsworth. Additional staff members are: Leo Zuber, Dr. Norman Berry, and Jack Spald ing. Results of the census will be complied through IBM proced ures and the figures announced on its completion. Inasmuch as the census is a community project, Archbishop Paul J. Hallinan has expressed his appreciation for the cooper ation from Protestant and Jew ish groups, as well as civic organizations. The Archbishop said in a statement: "WE HAVE been gladdened by the response of the whole community to the announcement of a Catholic census. Protestant ministers and Jewish rabbis have replied most cordially to the request that they announce the census. Public officials and news media have shown their appreciation that the census, far from being just a Catholic project, will have meaning for the entire population. Census Contest How many Catholics do you think there are in the Archdiocese of Atlanta? We will all know in a few days. Because of the interest in the Archdiocesan census, we are inviting our readers to enter a con test with the winner giving the nearest figure to the actual census results. Here are the rules: WRITE on a 4£ post card the number of Catholics you think are in the Archdiocese of Atlanta. Mail it to The Georgia Bulletin office no later than midnight, Monday, March 4. Don’t forget to put your name and address on the card. First prize-$100.00 Savings Bond; Second prize - $50.00 Savings Bond;Thrid prize - $25.00 Savings Bond. All subscribers are eligible, except employees of The Georgia Bulletin, and the clerical and lay members of the Archdiocesan executive committee for the census. "More than five thousand Catholic census-takers will be on the move Sunday afternoon. This is a remarkable feat in itself, a real demonstration of Catholic lay cooperation. Our people recognize that this is more than a head-count; it is a community undertaking whose purpose is to assess our pre sent spiritual and social re sources, and to aid in planning new parishes, churches, schools, and institutions of wel fare in Northern Georgia. Hard ly a county in this area will remain unaffected by the cen sus. Out of the IBM cards will come facts and figures that will help in conjunction with other religious bodies, build a stronger Georgia, - strong in its loyalty to God and love to neighbor.” Says Council Turning Point BLOOMFIELD, N.J., Feb. 26 (NC)—A non-Catholic observer at the Second Vatican Council said the council "may be one of the turning points in his tory.” The Rev. Dr. James Hast ings Nicholas, history profes sor at Princeton Theological Seminary, spoke here prior to an interfaith panel discussion about the council at Westmin ster Presbyterian church. He told an overflow audience the council’s principal task was of a pastoral nature. The pre sence of non-Catholic obser vers, he asserted, "very sig nificantly changed the tone of the council.” He said that be cause of the placement of the observers in the council hall, "no bishop could make a speech without looking directly at the observers." THIS full-length figure of Mother Elizabeth Seton in stained glass has been placed in one of three new chapels in the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, Washington, just prior to her beatification in Rome, March 17.