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GEORGIA BULLETIN THURSDAY, MAY 30, 1963
REMARKABLE GROWTH
Archdiocese Census
Count Shows 43,342
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through expansion of our pre
sent Catholic school struc
ture."
Catholics are moving into At
lanta in good numbers, but not
all remain. Replying to the
question about the length of
time lived in the Archdiocese,
one-half answered "five years
or more." About 8.6% answer
ed, "three to five years", and
17.2% answered "one to three
years." Nearly one-quarter, 24
7%, stated that they moved here
within a year or less time.
As pointed out, this means about
8,000 Catholics are new resi
dents.
THE ANSWERS to the ques
tion, "Do you expect to live in
the Archdiocese in 1964?" in
dicated that S6% of those visit
ed expect to remain. While
about 10% were uncertain, 4%
expect to move before 1964,
The Archdiocese is notably
"young". Nearly 70% are thirty
years or younger. At the pro
ductive peak, 25 - 50, there
are about 16,480 or 38% of the
Catholic population. This ratio
compares roughly with number
of wage earners, 36.7%.
Approximately 1500 Catho
lics are 65 or over, all but
250 in the greater Atlanta area.
AS ANNOUNCED at the time
of the census, the spiritual
data of the census - attendance
at Mass and the Sacraments,
marital status-will not be made
public, but will be turned over
to the pastors for follow-up.
The other data - age and popu
lation trends will be analyzed
by the staff of seven laymen
who assisted Fathers Harold
Rainey and John Stapleton in the
census.
"The census has been the
healthiest kind of spiritual In
ventory, the Archibishop stat
ed, "and as we have noted
frequently, it had two splen
did by products - the en
thusiastic working together of
so many Catholic parish teams
of laymen, giving the Church a
large responsible involved laity
for future undertakings; and the
generous cooperation of so
many Protestants and Jewish
clergymen who announced the
census in their churches and
synagogues, and laity who wel
comed our censustakers on
their rounds.
"Although the figures re
veal a healthy growth of Ca
tholics due to population moves,
family increase and conver
sions, the most remarkabke fact
about the census is the rela
tively small number of Ca
tholics not already noted on the
parish records. This is a real
tribute to the diligence and de
votion of our priests."
FR. RAYMOND BEANE
Three Maryknoll Sisters, shown taking their positions in a studio workshop, are students
in a television production course at the New York University School of Radio-TV. Sister
Gregory’ Marie on Camera No, 1, Sister Maiy Francis Louise on camera No. 2, and Sister
Agnes Dannette.
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KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (RNS)—
Announcement was made here
that three religious-affiliated
hospitals will be racially de
segregated.
Presbyterian, Baptist and St.
Mary's (Roman Catholic) Hos
pitals will begin admitting Ne
gro patients as soon as a date
is worked out. Hospitals have
been a major target of Integra
tion groups in this southern city.
MEANTIME, the Associated
Council for Full Citizenship, a
Negro group, hailed the forma
tion of a 25-member committee
on desegretation set up by Ma
yor John Duncan,
The council, headed by the
Rev. Robert James, pastor of
the Mount Zion Baptist church,
said it was "gratified that
Knoxville leaders are making
one of the greatest steps for
ward of any citizens in the
South to solve the most dif
ficult problem of according Ne
groes full citizenship."
THE Council has been among
groups pressing for an end to
segregation in public facilities
here. The Mayor’s committee is
slated to get cooperation on in
tegration from private business
leaders as well as directors of
public instititions.
Praise for Knoxville's chan
ging racial pattern came from
the Rev. James F. Reese,
pastor to students at Knoxville
College, a Southern Presbyter
ian school for Negroes.
"It looks like we're going to
have to have an All-American
city," he said. Knoxville was
recently given an All-American
City Award.
DIRECTOR SAYS
WASHINGTON—NC— "The
race problem in the U.S. is
entering a period of deep cri
sis," according to reports given
at a meeting in New York of
representatives of three major
faiths.
This evaluation was given by
Father John F. Cronin, S.S.,
who represented the Social Ac
tion Department, National Ca
tholic Welfare Conference, at
the meeting. It was attended by
delegates from most of the 67
organizations that sponsored
the National Conference on Re
ligion and Race, held In Chi
cago the past Jaunuary.
AT THE meeting, the appoint
ment of Dr. Galen R. Weaver
of New York as executive
secretary of the National Con
ference on Religion and Race
(NCRR) was confirmed. The;
NCRR also organized a con
tinuation committee as a policy
making body and set up four
commissions to assist the con
ference's work for racial jus
tice on the local level.
The purpose of the meeting
in New York, Father Cronin
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SAN FRANCISCO -(NC)—The
national director of the Catho
lic Council of Civil Liberties
charged here that U.S. Catho
lics have failed to do their
share to aid racial justice and
civil and religious liberty.
Thomas Francis Ritt said the
Catholic community "for the
most part is making massive
contributions to a deadening
conformity where dissent and
defiance are looked upon with
suspicion and distrust."
In the area of race Ritt, said
in a talk (May 24) at St. Mary's
College, even now "there are
many dioceses of this nation
where a chapter of the Catholic
Interracial Council is not per
mitted, and there are countless
dioceses which have not or
ganized to cope with the prob
lems, preferring, apparently, to
preserve the status quo of
'Illy white’ parishes."
"HERE is the greatest moral
cancer of our age, reeking with
injustice, crying to heaven for
solution—but Catholic partici
pation is sadly lacking except in
isolated instances," he said.
"Where are our Catholic
‘freedom riders’, where is the
Catholic participation in resist
ing the vicious animals of Bir
mingham turned loose to tear
the flesh of American citizens
who demand only their rights 7**
he asked.
Ritt said the Catholic Council
on Civil Liberties seeks to steer
Siglers Named
The Archdiocesan School Office
has asked Sister Mary Timothy,
G.N.S.H. and Sister Anne Le-
titia, C.S.J. to represent the
Archdiocese at the Southeastern
Elementary Workshop to be
conducted in Mobile, Alabama
from July 11 to August 2nd.
This workshop under the super
vision of Monsignor Edwin
Stuardi will work on the re
vision of the Teachers' Guides
for Grades One Through Four.
a middle course between extre
mists of both right and left.
Of the members of the far
right wing, he said they have
"turned their backs on the free
doms guaranteed to all Ameri
cans" and "are on the road to
a totalitarian state."
AS FOR extremists of the
left, he said they have made
their influence felt in "abso
lutist" theories of freedom of
speech, in efforts to secularize
public schools, In attacks on
"the very existence" of paro
chial schools, in attacks on
chial schools and in opposing
"the very rights of religion
itself."
"All of this—from the left
and the right—gives potent rea
son for the existence of the
Catholic- Council on Civil Li
berties," he said.
explained, was to review the
progress made against racial
discrimination since the inter-
faith conference in Chicago and
to map plans for future action.
"We were immensely heart
ened by field reports indicating
that more than 3Q cities have
organized local programs for
interreligious, interracial ac
tion," Father Cronin said. "But
we were also deeply disturbed
by indications that religious
groups are facing a 'now or
never' situation. If we do not
move into the field rapidly and
intelliegently, there is great
danger that racial tensions will
breed increasing extremism on
both sides.
"THE patience of the Negro
is wearing thin," he continued
"What is just he wants im
mediately, not in some vague
future time. He wants full ac
ceptance of his human rights
and his human dignity."
Father Cronin said that "or
ganized religion in America ac
cepts these goals as just," and
"it is now our task to aid in
their achievement."
The NCRR has the support
of the three groups that con
vened the meeting in Chicago:
the N.C.W.C. Social Action De
partment, the National Council
of Churches' Department of Ra
cial and Cultural Relations, and
the Social Action Commission
of the Synagogue Council of
America. At the meeting in New
York a budget of $67,000 for
one year was adopted. The three
sponsoring groups and the 67
participating groups of the con
ference in Chicago will assist
in raising the funds.
THE commissions named to
spur NCRR work on the local
level will deal with the Role
of Church and Synagogue to
Other Community Forces, the
Inner Life of the Church and
Synagogue, and the Church and
Synagogue as Institutions in the
Community.
J. Irwin Miller of Colum
bus, Ind., president of the Na
tional Council of Churches, was
named chairman of the NCRR
continuation committee. There
will be four committee vice
chairman; Rabbi Seymour J.
Cohen of the Synagogue Council
of America; Dr. Benjamin E.
Mays, president of Morehouse
College, Atlanta, Ga.; and a
Franciscan Has
Silver Jubilee
Catholic and an Orthodox re
presentative to be named later.
Other committee .officers are
Bishop B, Julian Smith of Chi
cago, head of the Christian Me
thodist Episocpal Church's first
episcopal district, treasurer;
and Margaret Mealey, executive
director of the National Coun
cil of Catholic Women, secre
tary.
RABBI Irving Brank of Tea-
neck, N.J., is chairman of the
steering committee of the
NCRR. He and the continua
tion committee officers will
constitute an executive commit
tee, together with representa
tives of the convening agen
cies for the NCRR meeting in
Chicago and several members-
at-large.
The three representatives
are: Father Cronin, assistant
director of the N.C.W.C. So
cial Action Department; Dr. J.
Oscar Lee, executive director,
National Council of Churches
Department of Racial and Cul
tural Relations; and Rabbi Phi
lip Hiat, executive vice pre
sident of the Synagogue Council
of America.
Members-at-large include
Martin Work, executive direc
tor of the National Council of
Catholic Men; Mrs. Edith Macy,
National Urban League; Arnold
Aronson, National Community
Relations Advisory Council; and
Odile Sweeney, National Board
of the YWCA. Two additional
members are to be appointed.
Manhattanville
Elects Atlantans
Ann Spalding, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Hughes Spalding, Jr.
of 499 Johnson Ferry Road,
N. W., Atlanta, has been elected
class member of the National
Student Association as well as
to the class council for the
1963-64 school year at recent
elections held at Manhattan
ville College of the Sacred Heart
Purchase, N. Y.
Another Atlantan, Elena Law-
ton, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
G. Albert Lawton, 3645 Nancy
Creek Road, N. W., has been
elected member of the Senior
Class Council for the 1963-64
school at the same college.
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spent the winter on the New
York - San Juan, Panama run.
After which he was assigned
as Base Chaplain to the Marine
Corps Base at Camp Lejeune
North Carolina.
From Camp Lejeune he went
to Yokasuka, Japan as Base
Chaplain for another eighteen
months and then was released
from active duty. Upon
returning to the Franciscan
Province from the Navy, the
Chaplain was assigned as
Assistant Pastor of Our Lady's
Chapel, New Bedford, Mass. He
was then directed after eight
months to the position of
Assistant Pastor at the Shrine
of the Immaculate Conception,
Atlanta, Georgia, where he
served until February' 1960,
when he became the Catholic
Chaplain to the Atlanta Federal
Penitentiary.
Fr. Beane is also currently
a Lcdr. in the Naval Reserve
and is Chaplain, with appro
priate duty, to the U. S. Navy
and Marine Corps Reserve
Training Center, Fifth Street,
on the Georgia Tech Campus.
Father Raymond a. Beane,
O. F. M., Catholic chaplain at
Atlanta Federal Penitentiary,
will celebrate the 25th anni
versary- of his ordination on
Sunday (June 2) at the Shrine
of The Immaculate Conception.
A Solemn Mass of Thanksgiving
will take place at this time.
Kill Auto Ban
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (NC)-
The California Senate transpor
tation committee has killed a
measure that would have ban
ned automobile sales on Sunday
in 35 California cities.
There will be a public reception
before the Mass in the parish
hall from 2:00 P. M. to 4:00
P. M.
The Deacon of the Mass will
be Father Leonard Kelly,
O. F. M., Pastor of the Shrine
and the sub-deacon, Father
Rayner Dray, O. F. M„ Pastor
of St. Mary's Church in
Americus, Georgia. The Jubilee
Sermon will be preached by Rev.
Valentine Long, O. F. M., of
Father Beane’s home town of
Cumberland, Maryland, who
also delivered the sermon at
Father Beane’s First Solemn
Mass 25 years ago. Father
Linus Tigne, O. F. M., assistant
at the Shrine, will be Master
of Ceremonies, and the minor
offices of the Mass will be
served by Father Rene May
nard, 0. F. M., Father Marion
Shuk, O. F. M., and Father
Felix McGrath, O. F. M., all
stationed at the Shrine of the
Immuaculate Conception.
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BULLDOZERS shown clearing away a tract on the campus of St. Pius X High School in preparation
for the erection of an athletic field and stadium.
INDIA: A CHAPEL FOR THE KING OF HEARTS
In the early days of America, the English King was toasted
"under the rose.” Some Tory-minded Americans continued to
do so even after the Revolution. The
month of June reminds us of roses
and the King of Kings for this is the
month of Christ’s Sacred Heart. An
-j——— ^ ever-widening devotion to It has come
C* EC I /W S down the years ,ike son,e B r and
1 1 triumphal march. In the 13th Cen
tury, St. Gertrude the Great heralded
it. St. Margaret Mary and Blessed
Claude de la Colombiere introduced
the consecration. Pope Pius IX dedi
cated the Church to the Sacred Heart.
Leo XIII consecrated the world to It.
Finally, Pope Pius XI in 1925 insti
tuted the Feast of Christ the King, a day when one may conse
crate one's own life to the King of Hearts ... In India in the
archdiocese of Changanacherry, seven Sisters of the Sacred
Heart are trying bravely to extend this kingdom with few re
sources. They teach the children. They have only a small
house, built with borrowed funds. There is no place for tho
Blessed Sacrament, no quiet place for prayer. They ask our
generous help and the Archbishop adds his plea. $3,000 will
build them a suitable convent and chapel. Will you help? This
would make a lovely gift to set before a King—especially In this
month of roses and the Sacred Heart.
Tbt Holy Ftiixrt Miam Aid
for the Onmial Chunk
Little Boy kneels at the foot of the bed
Droops on the little hands little gold head.
Hush : Hush ! Whisper who dares!
Christopher Robin is saying his prayers.
Goo bless Mummy. I know that’s right.
Wasn't it fun in the bath tonight?
The cold’s so cold, and the hot’s so hut.
Oh! God bless Daddy — I quite forgot.
A. A. Milne
Heavens to Betsy, that would be a forgetting Indeed, particu
larly with FATHER’S DAY coming on Sunday, June 16, only
two weeks from now. Why not sit down right this minute and
think out a religious gift to give him. Below are some sugges
tions. We ll send him a beautiful FATHER’S DAY GIFT CARD
with an enclosure of Holy Land flowers.
A MASS FOR HIS INTENTION. The Mass is
forever. Said In time, It’s value Is for Eternity.
What better way to remember Dad.
A $10 FOOD PACKAGE to help a needy PAL
ESTINE REFUGEE FAMILY. It will last them a
month. They are truly the forgotten people.
A $2 BLANKET FOR A BEDOUIN. It’s cold at
night in that land.
A STRINGLESS GIFT. To be placed where most needed. Wa
have many demands.
A MISSION CHAPEL GIFT. A memorial that will go on
giving. We suggest:
MASS KIT
. *10C
VESTMENTS ...
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CHALICE
.. 40
CIBORIUM . ...
40
CRUCIFIX
.. 2*
CENSER
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MONSTRANCE .
40
STATUE
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TABERNACLE ..
2S
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LINENS
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WILL YOU ADOPT a seminarian or novice? We have tha
names of many needy ones who wish to become priests and
Sisters. Boys such as NOEL YACOUB HANNOUNA and
GUISEPPE SAMOUN AL-QAHWACI of Baghdad. Iraq and girls
such as SISTER BERTILLA and SISTER DOMINA of the Sis
ters of the Destitute, Alwaye, India.
Dear Monsignor:
1 enclose I . of the *300 it takes to train a Sister
or * of the *600 needed for the six year’s edu
cation of a aemlnarian. I will send * monthly
or * once a year. I will pray for him or her
KINDLY REMEMBER US IN YOUR WILL. OUR TITLE*
THE CATHOLIC NEAR EAST WELFARE ASSOCIATION.
C&HearSstfllissions^i
• FRANCIS CARDINAL SPELLMAN, President
Ms«r. Jowpk T. Rpaa, Nodi U*'y
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