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PAGE 8 GEORGIA BULLETIN THURSDAY, MAY 30, 1963 REMARKABLE GROWTH Archdiocese Census Count Shows 43,342 CONTINUED FROM PACE 1 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. PRIEST SOCIALOGIST Race Problem Entering Deepening Crisis Phase religious rnsmmms NELSON RIVES REALTY INC. 3669 CLAIRMONT ROAD CHAMBLEE, GEORGIA REAL ESTATE, INSURANCE, SALES, RENTALS, RESIDENTIAL AND COMMERCIAL PROPERTY PHONE: 451-2323 Knoxville Hospital Desegregation O.K. REMEMBER YOUR PATRONAGE OF THE GEORGIA BULLETIN ADVERTISERS MAKES THIS ARCHDIOCESAN NEWSPAPER POSSIBLE 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 HAMBURGERS 4893 Memorial Dr.,(N*ar)Stone Mountain Spatial To Bulletin Reader’s 10% DISCOUNT WITH THIS AD Catholics Fail Civil Liberties SUBSCRIBE TO THE GEORGIA BULLETIN $5.00 PER YEAR Mail to p. O. Box 11667 Northside Siation Atlanta 5, Georgia Name Address City Stat 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. CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 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. OiLtioit MOTOR HOTEL t TV A AIR CONDITIONING • FAMOUS MIAMI BUFFET • 1CK A BEVERAGE STATIONS • COFFEE MAKER, EACH ROOM L.UCKIL AT CONL :>I A Good Addicts in All.ml.i 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 ... T fso CHALICE .. 40 CIBORIUM . ... 40 CRUCIFIX .. 2* CENSER 21) ALTAR .. 73 MONSTRANCE . 40 STATUE . so TABERNACLE .. 2S BELL .. B LINENS 1* 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 %—4 ell «—Mu—leaWeae tot CATHOUC NIAR IASI WIIRARI ASSOCIATION 400 Uxlngton Av». ot 46th St. N*w York 17, N. Y.