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k PACE 2 GEORGIA BULLETIN THURSDAY, MAY 9, 1963 AT CONVENTION Communists In South America Catholic Press Concern This Year AN ALTAR BOY NAMED "SPECK" PROTESTANT SCHOLAR MIAMI BEACH, Fla. - NC — The communist threat to nations of the Americas v»as the major chord struck at the 53rd annual Catholic Press Association convention. Convention delegates, meet ing in plush surroundings in Miami Beach, heard several speakers warn that against the Red menace a waiting game in a losing game. WHILE some speakers stres sed urgency of action, parti cularly in regard to Cuba, other cites the importance of inter-American cooperation based on friendship and under standing. The focus was on Latin America, but there was also an evaluation of press perfo - ance at the first session of the Second Vatican Council and a Leroy'* Auto Service Tune Up - Front End Alignment Automatic Transmission 4011 P*tree Rd. CE. 7-1288 Ifi 1888 FKSIINSMCTIO^CAU. Ci. 7-1*94 The all-new, all-transistorized [tore/co Dictating, Transcribing Machine featuring lifetime magnetic tape with automatic leading only $249.50 HYNES COMPANY l/a AHUIHAU $1 Ml I ^ H A 11 A N IA GEORGIA PWONf - SO 6 4 17 look toward the council's up coming session in September. The convention's chief speak er, Pedro Begran, said that Cuba is "an ideal center of operations for the subversion of Latin America, and the So viets intend to retain their hold on it. Calling for inter-American cooperation against commu nism in the Western hemis phere, the former Prime Mini ster of Peru said: "No action should be taken unilaterally by any of our nations that would assist the Russians in their drive to divide the American family." BELTRAN, publisher of La Prensa, a dally in Lima, Peru, also said members of the Ca tholic press can play a signifi cant role in promoting Inter- American unity. "You, as Ca tholic journalists, can create, in a manner far more effective than most, mutual understand ing," he said. "You, like no one else, should be able to bring our peoples together." An exiled Cuban journalist sounded a grimmer note by calling for "radical surgery" in regard to Cuba. Humberto Medrano, former director of the newspaper Prensa Libre in Havana, said he was not asking for "Military intervention by the U. S. in Cuba," but for "backing to liberate Cuba." "WE want the same (amount of) help to liberate Cuba as Castro has to enslave Cuba." Medrano said. Another Cuban in exile, Jose Ignacio Lasaga, said "the dan ger that all Latin America will follow the steps of the Cuban revolution in a few years is very high." "In that case, the fall of the United States would not be far away," said Lasaga, a former professor at Villanueva Uni versity in Havana. He stated that "the people of the U. S. represent the last hope of the free world, if it awakes be fore it is too late." A MORE sanguine note in re gard to nations of the Americas was struck by Father John J. Considine, M.M., director of the Latin America Bureau, Na tional Catholic Welfare Con ference. He said there is a Catholic resurgence in Latin America and it "will contri- IGNATIUS HOUSE RETREATS Schedule fo next six weeks May 16-19 Women May 23-26 Men May 30-June 2 Men June 2-7 Priests June 10-14 Priests June 20-23 Men Phone 255-0503 or Write 6700 Riverside Dr. N. W. Atlanta 5, Ga. Where Insurance is a Profession, Not a Sideline SUTTER Sc McLELLAN Mortgage Guarantee Bldg. JA 5-2086 bute just that small fraction of added strength to the anticom munist forces (there) as to frustrate the Reds in their plans for a continental takeover." He stated that when this cen tury ends, communist leaders will say: "If it weren’t for that Catholic comeback, we would have gotten our hands on the whole Latin American World." Msgr. William J. Quinn, co director of the Latin America Bureau, stressed the need for more knowledge by U. S. Ca tholics about Latin America, and particularly about the sit uation of the Church in that area. HE SAID an effort in this di rection will be one objective of the newly established Catholic Inter-American Cooperation Program (CICOP), which is sponsored by the Subcommittee for Latin America. It will en list the aid of Catholic organi zations in this effort, he said, and will hold an annual meet ing the first scheduled for Chi cago in January, 1964. Panalists at a general ses sion of the convention agreed that Catholic press coverage of Latin America leaves a lot to be desired. They called for more in-depth coverage and on-the- scene reporting. John J. Deedy, Jr., editor of the Pittsburgh Catholic, suggested that CPA regional conventions be held in different areas of Latin Ameri ca. The convention also heard two Protestant journalists give their reaction to the council. Dr. Harold E. Fey, editor of the Christian Century maga zine, said: "Working against effective press coverage was a historically entrenched tra dition of wariness concerning the press on the part of Vati can authorities. In operation at the beginning of Vatican II, this tradition did not preserve se crecy, and the council bene fited from leaks which soon became numerous." DR. FEY termed it "good news" that Vatican press au thorities are working to make conditions more favorable "for responsible reporting at the second session" of the council. Don Taft, religious editor of the Miami Herald, said there was a lack of realism in stor ies originating from the coun cil. Referring to the comment of a bishop that there were "no disagreements or factions" at the council, he said; "We may be regarded as a example of correctness and noble be havior." THE CPA lauded Pope John XXIII "for his outstanding con tribution in the field of world communications, and for his continued messages, particul arly his recent magnificent en cyclical Pacem In Terris, which aim to bring about a better understanding among all men of their International, national and individual responsibi lities.” It hailed the National Con ference on Religion and Race in Chicago last January and urged full support to follow-up activities throughout the coun try. It also praised Catholic efforts "to implement the teachings of the Church on ra cial justice so eloquently ex pounded" in the encyclical Pa cem in Terris. New members on the CPA board of directors are Msgr. Terrence P. McMahon, exe cutive editor of the Catholic Transcript of Hartford, Conn, (three-year term); Gorman Ho gan, managing editor of the Catholic Sentinel, Portland, Ore. (one year); and Father Donal O’ Mahony S. S. . C., editor of the Far East, St. Columbans, Neb. (three years). Reelected to the board were: Floyd Anderson, manager-edi tor of the Central California Register of Fresno (twoyears); William Holub, general mana ger of America magazine of New York (three years); and Father Albert Nevins, M.M., editor of Maryknoll magazine, Maryknoll, N. Y. (three years). Anderson was reelected pre sident. Msgr. Robert G. Peters, editor of the Peoria (Ill.) Re gister, was reelected vice pre sident. Holub was again chosen treasurer. At a meeting of the board of directors held im mediately following the close of the convention, Msgr. J. G. Hanley, editor of the Canadian Register of Kingston, Ont., was reappointed secretary, quoted him, but don't think many readers believed it.” Msgr. James Tlicek, direc tor of the N.C.W.C. News Ser vice Rome bureau, said there is a good chance at the coun cil's next session that one or more council Fathers, aided by experts, will explain daily to all journalists in the council press center the official corn- unique, making use of siL taneous translations. At a session on local news coverage, Father John J. Grant, associated editor of the Pilot, newspaper of the Boston arch diocese said that in some cas es news not considered "nice" should be printed. He said "society is made up of sin (and) selfishness and it is soil ed some of it by Catholics — ancTwe should be willing to tell this story." FATHER Leo F. McFadden associate editor of the Nevada Register, newspaper of the Reno diocese, said Catholic papers are overlooking many stories "because the viewpoint of the Catholic press today is ... not universal in Its reach, not broad enough in its scope, not penetrating enough in its compassion." Gorman Hogan, managing editor of the Catholic Sentinel, newspaper of the Portland In Oregon diocese, warned of the danger of a newspaper becom ing merely a journal of opinion. "Catholic editors," he said, "should take a long hard second look at their spineless paro chial bulletins— they junk the hard news of their own dio ceses." In resolutions adopted at the convention, the CPA urged par ticipation in a 10-year plan for information and education of American Catholics toward building greater inter-Ameri can understanding and friend ship. ANOTHER resolution pledged efforts to strengthen the public’s confidence in the Ca tholic press "as an Instrument of man's aspirations to full de velopment by the exercise of responsible freedom." Another resoluvon congratu lated the Diocese of Miami and Catholic Relief Services— National Catholic Welfare Con ference "for their unstinting and continuing efforts in be half of the Cuban victims of communist oppression” and commended all dioceses which "Have Joined in sharing the burden of resettlement and re habilitation" of Cuban refugees. “We want to thank you for blessing our tree house, Father.” MISSIONARY WORK Kin Of Atlantan Gets Doctor Award The Guild of St. Luke, a group of Greater Boston physicians, chose Sister M. Thomas More as the recipient of this year’s Laetare Award. She is the sister of Mrs. Arthur Q. Mathews of St. Anthony's Parish, Atlanta. The award, which is given to an outstanding doctor in North or South America, was given to Sister M. Thomas More for her work among the tubercular pa tients in Lima, Peru. SISTER Is a member of the Marist Missionary Sisters whose mother house in W al tham, Massachusetts. She re ceived her medical degree from Marquette University and in terned at New York’s Bellevue Hospital, the first nun ever to do so. She later studied at the leprosarium at Carville, Loui siana, and spent a year at the Mariest leprosarium in Jama ica, B.W.I. In the year 1961- 1962 under a fellowship grant, she earned her Master of Pub- Golden Jubilee WASHINGTON, May 3 (NC)— Father Francis J. Connell, C. SS.R., one of the country's top theologians, quietly marked 50 years in the priesthood by of fering a Mass of thanksgiving In the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception here. A native of Boston, he joined the Redemptorists in 1908 and was ordained to the priesthood in 1913. He has spent most of his priesthood teaching priests and seminarians. He was dean of the school of theology at the Catholic University' of America from 1949 to 1957, Dialogue Should Assist Differing On Right Issues SR. THOMAS MORE lie Health degree at Harvard University where she was pre sident of her class. Since last August she has been living in Mendocita, a slum area of Lima, where the Marist Sisters are working with its 12,000 poverty-stricken re sidents. Two other Marist Sis ters also working there, Sister Mary Frederick, R.N. and Sis ter M. Paul Gabriel. Gets Grant Sister Francis Maureen one of the eighth grade teachers at Christ the King School has been awarded a National Defense Educational Act grant to Rosary College, River Forest, Illinois for a six week summer lan guage institute for French. Sis ter was one of fifty participants selected throughout the U. S. for this grant. SAN FRANCISCO - NC—A Protestant scholar said here that one of the main jobs of interreligious dialogue is to help Christians begin "dis agreeing about the right things." Dr. Robert McAfee Brown, a Presyterian theologian and a professor at Stanford Univer sity, said "breaking through the stereotypes and the misunder standings" will enable Ca tholics and Protestants to get down to the issues that really divide them. "DISAGREEING about the right things is what will begin our work in following the will of Christ: that all His children be one," Dr. Brown said. Dr. Brown, an observer at the first session of the Second Vatican Council, made his com ments at a press conference with two Catholics leaders in the ecumenical movement—Fa ther Gustave Weigel, S.J., of Woodstock (Md.) College and Father Thomas Stransky, C. S. P., an American on the staff of the Vatican's Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity. The three men were here to speak at the fourth National Conference on Doctrine and Ecumenism. FATHER Weigel cautioned Catholics against misunder standing the true alms and methods of the ecumenical movement. He noted that Protestants have been working in the area of religious unity since 1910, but Catholics are by compari son "Johnny-come-latelys" in these matters. He warned that Catholics, with more good will than experience, could make some serious mistakes in ecu menical matters. The Jesuit theologian distin tinguished two different kinds of religious unity—organic, in which all Christians would be long to the same church under the same head; and cooperative in which Christians would work together in common causes. While much progress has been made toward cooperative unity among Christians, he said, "as for oragnic unity, that is up to God." DR. BROWN cited the cause of racial justice as one in which there is room for Catholic- Protestant cooperation. He said the national Conference on Re ligion and Race, held last Jan uary in Chicago, was a major step forward in this field. Father Strasky said His Holiness Pope John NX III voic ed "the spirit of cooperative unity among all men" in his recent peace encyclical Pacem in Terris )Peace on Earth). The encyclical was addressed to all men "of good will" and urged them to work for peace. The Paulist priest also call ed attention to the significance of the Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity. "For the first time in the history of separa tion in the Church," he pointed out, "the Vatican has set up a body to deal with the subject intelligent good will." IN AN address to the Con ference on Doctrine and Ecu menism, Father Stransky de clared that differing views of the nature of the Church are at the heart of the disagreement between Catholics and non- Catholics. He said the Church must give witness itself to its status as a divinely-established in stitution. "This is the reason," he explained, "why Pope John XXIII strongly feels that a sweeping renewal of the church is, at the present stage in the history of Christian divisions, a more realistic way to pro mote Christian unity than theo retical, inaffectual appeals to 'return' or smooth letters writ ten to the World Council of Churches." — * C & S REALTY COMPANY “Specialists in Commercial and Industrial Real Estate" Sulla 290 Henry Grady Bldg. Atlanta 3 Ga. Warehouses, Scores. Mfg. Plants, Acreage, Shopping Center Dev., Industrial Dev., Subdivision Dev., Insurance 524*2052 MIKE 8c STEVE SERTICH ON FAMILY Carrollton Pastor Addresses Group The dramatic contrast be tween the father's position In the ancient Hebrew times and today was vividly presented by Rev. Richard B. Morrow in his talk to the Altar Society of the Chutch of Our Lady, Carroll ton on Thursday. In the days when Jesus Christ walked this earth, the family home was known as “Our Fa ther's House". The father was addressed as "Master" or "Lord" by his wife, sons and daughters, and his decision was law. THE wife was considered a possession, even as the oxen and serfs, and gave total obed ience to her husband. As "queen" of the household, she wove the cloth and made the clothes, prepared the food, ground the meal, carried the water from the weU. She did not eat with the men but stood and served them at table. In Public and at the Temple, the women kept a distance back of the men, and were veiled. A wife could not seek a divorce, although her husband could go thf Jewish priest and secure a letter to divorce her. The wife would then be required to re turn to her parents with her dower property. Hie sons and daughters, like the wife, were regarded as minors and the property of the father. A son who cursed his father was condemned to death. WITH the coming of Christ ianity, and the increasing honor given to Mary, the Mother of Jesus Christ, women were National Grant D'Youville Academy junior, Pamela Parker, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James A. Parker of 412 Pinecrest Rd., N.E., is the recipient of a National Science Foundation grant for summer study in mathematics at Emory' University. She is one of fifteen students from Alabama, Florida, Georgia, South Caro lina, and Tennessee who will participate in the special pro gram from June 17 to July 19. Included in the program will be several field trips, includ ing one to a computer center. Basis for choice of the parti cipants was the College Board Scholastic Aptitude Test and the scholastic record of the candi date. Miss Parker is ai ;o the Academy candidate for the achievement awards granted by the National Council of Teach ers of English. gradually raised to the status of equal partners in the manage ment of the home and raising of the family, although subject to the final authority of the husband and always helping him to earn his eternal salvation. The father’s position in today's world as the absolute head of the family may be somewhat dimmed but that does not alter his status or his authority. Father Morrow's talk was given at the concluding meeting of the Altar Society for this term. A new slate of officers selected by the nominating com mittee was unanimously ap proved by the members. They were Introduced by the outgo ing president, Mrs. Peter Cap- pell i, as follows: Mrs. Ray mond Harrell as president; Mrs. Hubert Chandler as secre tary; Mrs. Ryamond Gordon as treasurer; Mrs. Cary Maddox as parliamentarian. In concluding her term of office as president of the Altar Society', Mrs. Cappelll was hos tess at a bountiful breakfast for the members. She thanked them for their support during the past year, and was, in turn, presented with a perpetual en rollment in the Purgatorial Society. REMEMBER MOTHER ON mas ns Maa 12 With Plants Or Flowers From OWENS FLOWER SHOP 1180 Atlanta Road Marietta, Ga. Phone 427-3714 Flowers Wired Anywhere *YV}ary.mount Coif eye IJoca J&alon, ZJiorlda * the FIRST CATHOLIC TWO-YEAR * the FIFTH COLLEGE conducted LIBERAL ARTj COLLEGE for by the RELIGIOUS OF THE Women in FLORIDA SACRED HEART OF WARY in the United States Opening September, 1963 MAILING ADDRESS: Box 370 W Boca Raton Florida MOVING 1 PLEASE NOTIFY US SEND US THIS NOTICE TODAY: THE GEORGIA BULLETIN P.O. BOX 11667-NORTHSIDE STATION ATLANTA 5, GEORGIA NEW ADDRESS: NAME ADDRESS CITY