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PAGE-8 GEORGIA BULLETIN THURSDAY APRIL 4, 1963 ST. JOSEPH S Athens Parish Marks Jubilee BY OUR CORRESPONDENT Last Saturday St. Joseph's Parish, Athens, celebrated the 50th Anniversary of the dedi cation of its Church. The oldest Baptism records of the parish are dated 1873. The present Church was dedicated on March 30, 1913. High Mass was celebrated by Father Walter J. Donovan, pastor of Blessed Sacrement Church, Atlanta, who was pastor of St. Joseph's for 13 years. The sermon was deliv ered by Archbishop Hallinan. IN ATTENDANCE were Rt. Rev. Dorn Augustine Moore, Abbot of the Trappist Monast ery, Conyers, Georgia, Rt. Rev. Msgrs. Joseph G. Cassidy, V. G., Michael J. Regan, V. F., Hawk Wins Association 1st The Hawk, St. Joseph’s High School Newspaper, won the Columbia Scholastic Press As sociation Award—first place in Georgia, it has Just been aimounced. It is a first year publication. In addition, Mary Louise Ale xander and Catherine Magul.no, both of St. Joseph’s, won first place for their poster and essay at the Serra-sponsored vocation contest. AMERICANA T.V. SERVICE CALLS $3.00 DAY-NIGHT-SUNDAY 875—6080 Res. TR5-2840 804 N. Highland Ave. Atlanta, Ga, This Ad Worth 50< ON ALL TYPES OF ELECTRICAL REPAIRS AT Hoisa & Hobby Shop BELMONT HILLS SHOPPING CENTER PHONE: 435-5122 R. S. SEELEY, MGR. Patrick J. O’Conner, Revs. Harold J. Rainey, Michael Man ning, Joseph O'Shea, V. G., Harry Phillips, Daniel J. Me Cormick, John J. Cotter, Leo nard F. X. Mayhew, Dale Freeman, Christian Malone, 0, F. M., Leonard Spanjers, Cla rence J. Biggers, S. M., R. Donald Kieman, Jarleth Burke, J. Douglas Edwards, Daniel O’ Connor, and Vincent Conner, C, P. The Anniversary Mass was followed by a reception in the newly acquired Parish House. This historic home is in the process of restoration by the parishioners of St. Joseph's under the direction of the Build ing Chairmen of the Parish Council, Mr. Del Pankey and Mrs. Robert Kane. Built in 1830, the home was purchased by General Cobb in 1848, It had been vacant for many years and was reported to be one of the few haunted houses in Athens. The Historical Society, however, reports that the ghost Is “friendly". THE RECEPTION was the first time the house was open ed to the public. All the work of restoration, including painting, papering, paneling, and plumb ing was done by parishioners. The entrance hall was papered by a University professor and his wife, the bedroom was paint ed by a non-Catholic doctor, students at the Navy School and members of Fraternities, many of them non-Catholic, scraped paint from the walls and floors, a brick layer in the parish restored the fireplaces while a medical doctor laid tile in the meeting hall, ,»r. F.B.I. agent made cornices, and his wife made drapes. In everyway the new Parish House in Athens is deserving of its name. Site plans for the new pro perty, which completely sur rounds the parish Church and School, have been completed by Herbert C. Millkey, A. LA. When the new property has been paid for a new school and cafetorium will be built. St. Joseph's Anniversary celebrat ion reflected a parish with a glorius past and a future of great promise. Shamrock Knitting Mills Marietta, Georgia Phone: 428-9007 IGNATIUS HOUSE RETREATS Schedule for next three weeks April 4 - 7 Women April 18 - 21 Women No retreats during Holy Week Phone i35-0503 or Write 6700 Riverside Dr. N. W. Atlanta 5, Ga. SUBSCRIBE TO THE BULLETIN *5.00 PER YEAR Mail to: F. 0. Box 11667 INorthside Station Atlanta 5, Georgia Name Address City State. - Procession leading to St. Joseph's Church, Athens, is pictured above as it was leaving the Rectory to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the parish on March 30, 1963. Archbishop Paul J. Hallinan of Atlanta presided at the Rites. CARDINAL SPELLMAN ON IT Pope Names Commission To R evise Canon Law The Editor 18 when the student newspaper VATICAN CITY (NC)— Pope John XXIII has set up a com mission of 30 cardinals to rev ise the Code of Canon Law. Among the 30 are Francis Cardinal Spellman, Archbishop of New York, and Paul Car dinal Leger, Archbishop of Montreal. THE commission will carry out the third of three major projects announced by the Pope in the early months of his pontificate. On January 25, 1959, Pope John revealed his plans to hold a synod for the Rome diocese and an ecumeni cal council, and to update the canon law code. The Rome sy nod was held in January, 1960, and the Second Vatican Ecume nical Council, which opened last October, is still In progress. The Pope announced the esta blishment of the new commiss ion at a meeting (March 28) of the council's Coordinating Commission. PRESIDENT of the new canon law commission Is Pietro Ca rdinal Ciriaci, Prefect of the Sacred Congregation of the Co uncil. Msgr. Giacomo Violardo, Underscretary of the Sacred Apostolic Signature, high Ch urch court, is its secretary. The task of the new commiss ion will be to gather and pre pare material for a revision of the canon law code according to the directives of the ecumeni cal council. The revision will apply only to the code now in force in the Latin Rite. Eas tern Rite Catholics are governed by a separate code. The commission’s work will be the first major revision of canon law since the present code went into effect in 1918. CANON law is the body of laws and regulations formulated by the Church for the discip line of Its members. Its prin cipal sources are decrees issu ed by the popes, ecumenical, councils and Vatican congregat ions, and decisions of Church tribunals. Canon law grew up slowly over the centuries. Its beginnings go back to the very early days of the Church. In the first century the bishops of Rome governed the Church mainly through correspondence deciding on cases submitted to them and settling points of gene ral discipline, Many of these decisions acquired the force of law either at once or in the course of time. In addition, other bishops en acted for their own Sees such regulations as local conditions required. These regulations were not general, but some times they spread from diocese to diocese and ended by gain ing universal recognition and thus becoming part of the gener al canon law. The ecumenical councils, the first of which was held In Nicaea In what is now Turkey, not only defined points of doctrine with the approval of the popes, but also enacted numerous disciplinary laws for the whole Church. DESPITE many efforts to col lect and codify these laws, by the Middle Ages there was con siderable confusion about them. It was difficult to know which laws were genuine, which had been repealed and which were still In force. About 1140 an Italian monk, Gratian, compl ied a monumental work. He collected and tried to put in order all Church legislation which had accumalated up to his time. Although unofficial and resting entirely on his own au thority, "Gratian's Decree," as his book was called, was so useful that it soon super seded all earlier collections. The Council of Trent (1545- 1563) was a major landmark in canon law history. The disci plinary legislation it passed was promulgated in 1594 by Pope Pi us IV and constituted the pri mary source of canon law until the 1918 codification. By the beginning of the 20th century canon law was again in a state of confusion. At Rome Altar Society Meet The April meeting of St. Mar y's Altar Society, Rome, was held Monday at the Rectory. Mrs. Robert Brierly, vice-pre sident, presided in the absence of the president. The visiting committee re ported seventeen visits had been made to sick people and new comers to the parish. One box of altar supplies were sent by the altar society to missions during the past month. The nominating committee was appointed to bring in a slate of officers for the next year to be voted upon at the May meeting. The committee consists of Mrs. Don Damon, Mrs. Frank Briggs, and Mrs. Richard Baer. Mrs. Lee Bat tle, Sacristan, appointed her committees to care for the altar during April. Father McDonough announced that the memorial stained glass windows would be Installed in about four months. Society Elects Mary Howe Miss Mary Howe, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James J, Howe, 150 E. Wesley, Rd., N.E., At lanta was recently initiated into Delta Epsilon Sigma at Mary ville College of the Sacred He art, St. Louis. Delta Epsilon Sigma is a nat ional Catholic honor society, Miss Howe is a senior at the college. A sister, Miss Dorothy Howe, is a freshman at Mary ville. Cardinal Named VATICAN CITY (CN) Pope John XXIII has named Paul Em ile Cardinal Leger, S.S., Arch bishop of Montereal, a member of the Sacred Cons Is tor ial Con gregation which prepares mat ters for consistories, erects dioceses and chooses bishops. the First Vatican Council (1869- 1870) conditions had prevented the passing of disciplinary laws or consideration of the bishops’ request for codification of those already in force. BUT IN 1904 Pope St. Pius X announced his determination to have a complete and order ly codification of all existing Church laws, with obsolete and outdated ones eliminated and others brought into conformity with modern conditions. He appointed a commission of cardinals under his own ch airmanship on March 25, 1904 the world’s archbishops were asked to confer their suffragan bishops and within four months to send word as to which laws in their opinion needed amend ment. Every bishop was given the right to keep a representat ive in Rome to attend commiss ion meetings. When a tentative draft was drawn up, it was submitted to expert canon lawyers who acted as consultors to all bishops and religious superiors entitled to attend an ecumenical council. Their opinions were then stud ied by the commission. It is estimated that every canon in the code was discussed from 5 to 12 times before beingfinally adopted. THE CODE of Canon Law that resulted from these efforts was promulgated on May 27, 1917, by Pope Benedict XV and went into effect the following May 19. Since then numerous official Church documents which have the force of law have been is sued, necessitating the present effort of revision. BISHOP SAYS HERSHEY, Pa., (NC)—The Bishop of Wheeling, W. Va„ said here that unjust treatment of Negroes by Catholics is a matter for confession. Bishop Joseph H. Hodges, speaking to a leadership instit ute of the National Council of Catholic Women, said that rac ial discrimination deprives the Negro of honor due him as a human being. “UNLESS we are Just in our dealings with our neighbor, we can make no claim to love of God and love of neighbor," he said. “In the Old Testament we read: ‘Thou hast loved justice and hated iniquity; therefore thy God hath annointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy neighbors.' “God made Negroes human beings. In all justice, treat them as God does. Discriminat ion is a matter for confession." THE PRELATE defined racil discrimination as "the total restriction or rejection of a racial group without consider- To TO THE EDITOR; Please accept the thanks of the St. Cecelia Circle of Christ the King Parish for the very fine book supplement of the recent Georgia Bulletin. The article by Flannery O'Connor was discussed at our meeting and the movie reviews also received laudatory comment. We also wish to express the concurrence of the members of the Circle with Mrs. Schweer's comments about the local news of the Archdiocese in her re cent letter to you. We consi der this a most necessary func tion of our paper - and we en joy reading It. We hope that as you become closer acqua inted with the Archdiocese, you will find ways to obtain this news. We are anticipating its return. DOROTHY J. TRACY (MRS. JACK) CHAIRMAN OF ST. CECELIA CIRCLE ATLANTA TO THE EDITOR: My attention has been call ed to your "Reapings at Ran dom" column which deals with the NCWC News Service hand ling of the Catholic University controversy. I find no fault with an editor commenting forthright on various topics, including the NCWC News Service. But I should hope that the comments would show a respect for truth and accuracy. I object to your gross dis tortion of telephone remarks attributed to me in your col umn. There is the possibility that because it was a long distance call you had difficulty understanding me. But I cannot see how even a bad telephone connection could get my re marks so horribly twisted. Your colmn says; “The NC editor said he did not know what they could do, seeing as the public relations girl at Catholic U. was on vacation." I said no such thing. My remarks were these: I said I had assigned a man to check into the report that four priests were "banned" from speaking at the Catholic Uni versity. I said I did not know, at the moment, what he would come up with because he had not completed the investigation. I most definitely did not say that the absence of the Catholic University public relations offi- cial prevented us from handling the story. In fact, we provided a release on the controversy in her absence. For the record, there is also a serious wrenching of the truth in your assertion that "the NCWC News Service remained silent" on the Catholic Univer sity affair. You say the "banning" by the Catholic University of the four theologians “broke into the public forum” on January ation of the capacity or merit or concrete behavior of the in dividuals in that group." He said “segregation Is a sub-division of discrimination where there is physical separ ation or specific boundaries set nn »9 up# Bishop Hodges dlscussedfour basic rights due the Negro; the right of free association, the right to a decent living the right to a full education according to his capacity and the right to freedom of wor ship. He called It “sickening’’ that Negroes have been segregated in Catholic churches “and at times even discriminated against in the reception of the Sacraments." URGING the women to study and to act on the problem of racial discrimination, he said. "Catholic Action in the field of race relations has been too feeble in intensity and extensity. The Church has done much but not In proportion to its numbers and principles." printed a story dealing with it. However, this development was not brought to the attent ion of NC until Friday, Feb ruary 15, a delay for which the NC can hardly be blamed. We do not have a program of combing through the student publications of the hundreds of colleges and universities in this country because we judge this would be time consuming, highly expensive and generally unproductive of story leads. We depend for tips on college and university news of national interest principally on the col lege public relations officials, the local press, both Catholic and secular, our local repre sentative, and interested part ies. In this particular case, none of these traditional sources alerted us. We first found out about the “ban" on Friday, February 15, when we saw a story on the front page of the February 14 Issue of the Davenport diocesan paper. We went to work making investigations on the story im mediately, and had put together a release for the Catholic pap ers by late afternoon of the same day. Since we dose our service at 3:00 P.M., the release was too late to be Issued that afternoon. However, it was included in our service of the following day, Saturday, February 16. It should be pointed out, in addition, that no news agency or daily paper printed anything on the Catholic University affair before the NCWC News Service. Apparently, the "public forum" your column mentions was so restricted that none of these agencies or papers were aware of it before the NC News Service issued a release. In view of the circumstances, your charge that the NC News Service "remained silent" be trays itself as an ugly distort ion, either purposeful, or due to an Ignorance of the facts. If based on ignorance, it is scarely indicative of the thorough journalistic research that should precede responsible commentary in a syndicated column. Elmer Von Feldt News Editor N.C.W.C. News Service Washington 5, D. C. EDITOR'S NOTE: A reporter always runs the hazard of having even indirect quotes denied — all the more so when a telephone conversat ion is involved. We do not tap telephones and cannot produce a record of the conversation. We stand by our report. It is surely surprising that the major news service of the Catholic press should admit that It had to learn about a controversy on its own door step in Washington, D. C. from a diocesan weekly in Daven port, Iowa. Furthermore, it is also surprising that Mr. Von Feldt should suggest that be cause no other person or news agency had up to this time published a story about the Catholic U. controversy, then the NC also was excused.The Catholic press obviously ex pects its own news service to be first with a story about a major Catholic institution. On the question of accuracy, it should be made clear that the "release" referred to in paragraph 13 of Mr. Von Feldt's letter was only an "editorial information". It was not a news story; but merely a statement from the Vice-Rector of Catho lic University defending its position. There is no question that the ban on the four theo logians was common knowledge in Washington, D. C. Catholic circles, long before February 15. We presume the News Ser vice staff mixes in these circles. HOLY WEEK: A FRIEND DIES DEEPLY MOvING the other day was the funeral Mass of a man we bad known many years. The crowd in the church was impressive, causing onlookers to ex claim In amazement. . . . For he was one of those whose special gifts is making friends. Over 1,000 Mass cards had been left at the wake, and fifty persons gave up their day’s work to go to the graveside in a distant bor ough. One woman, turning away after ward, said sadly; “An era has ended. It’s remarkable how many people he brought, together . . . This week we mark the death of Christ and all around the earth Christians pause to pray and be thankful for being brought together in the Mystical Body of Christ. At the Last Supper, Christ said: “You are My friends” ... As His friends we help others to find Him—others like the leprosy victims in India. The Sisters of Mary Immaculate of SHERTALLAY, Green Gardens, care for them devotedly . . . But poverty pre vents many things, a chapel of their own, for example. Can you help us gather the $3,000 needed? Your special HOLY WEEK sacrifice can make new friends for Christ! MASS OFFERINGS MAY BE A MISSIONARY’S ONLY DAILY SUPPORT. PLEASE KEEP THEM COMING! Tht Holy Father^ Mission Aid fur tht Oriental Church FROM THE GARDEN STATE. Barbara writes: “Dear Monsignor: I am interested in adopt ing a seminarian. I cannot afford to pay the S600 at once but will be able to space it over two years, paying $20 a month ... I am 17, just graduated from high school. I have a steady permanent job.” You can adopt a seminarian for $100 a year, Barbara. To adopt a sister, $150 a year for two years is needed. But it takes six years to train a priest. We have names of many seminarians and novices: JOSEPH KEELATH and GEORGE PUTHUMANA of Manga lore, India . . . SISTER IVA and SISTER EUPHRASIA of the Sisters of St Catherine of Sienna in IRAQ, You may write to them through our office! YOUR EASTER BONNET— may have many ribbons on It, but a STRiNGLESS GIFT to us will speed help where It’s most needed! THE ANCIENTS COPIED NATURE. Egyptians decorated their pillars with lotus blossoms; the Greeks favored acanthus lssves . . . Solomon's temple featured strings of pomegranates and his crown was patterned after the blossom of this fruit . , Christ spoke in parables of the “lilies of the field” . , . For thoss sending in s donation for the missions, we'll mall a card of PRESSED FLOWERS from the Holy Land if requested , , . 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