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PAGE 2 GEORGIA BULLETIN THURSDAY, JULY 18, 1963
While the administration of an archdiocese is baaed on canon
law rather than civil, there are many things in common with the
American form of government. There are, besides the archbis
hop, an executive, a legislative and a judicial branch. The execu
tive department consists of the two vicar-generals, the chancel
lor, and the heads of departments, and commissions. The day-to-
day progress of the Church is in their hands, - everything from
a letter on fast and abstinence to a new approach to religious
vocations. The judicial department is headed by the officialis,
with a- vice -officialis and proper officials of the court. Actual
ly all of the work of this branch deals with the bond of marriage,
although it has competence in other judicial areas, too.
It is the third branch that is particularly interesting. Accord
ing to the Canon Law of the Church, the bishop is assisted in his
legislative role by the Synod and the Board of Consultors. The
Synod is an assembly of all the priests with the bishop, held at
stated intervals; after ample'preparation the statues of the dio
cese are studied, improved or clarified, deleted or expanded.
There will undoubtedly be an archdiocesan Synod in Atlanta as
soon as the Vatican Council decrees have been promulgated by
the Holy See. It has been a number of years since a Synod was
held.
The Consultors, who meet four times each year with the arch
bishop, are eight priests chosen for their experience, practical
judgment and devotion to the good of the Church. Their work is
consultative, that is, the archbishop relies on them for advice,
recommendations, and criticism. In certain defined areas, he may
not act until he has obtained their judgment. Their role is ex
tremely important in that they not only represent to him the
thinking of priests and laity, but once a course of action has been
decided upon, they represent the archbishop to the clergy and
laity since they are officials of the archdiocese.
We held one June meeting of Consultors at Sacred Heart Rec
tory instead of the Cathedral so that we could discuss more prac
tically the coming plans for 1964. These Involved a number of
decisions on the property recently purchased from the Marist
Fathers. As a sample of the business transacted, the agenda
read; Junior Clergy examinations, Insurance program, The Geor
gia Bulletin, census results, deanery visitation, St. Joseph's
Home in Washington, Georgia, fund raising, need of a Catholic
Center to house all the offices of the archdiocese as well as to
serve as a nucleus for our lay organizations.
The responsibility shared with the archbishop is very great
for these eminent priests. Our lay people know them as zealous
pastors; an archbishop knows diem, beyond that, as men deeply
concerned with the good of the entire Church in northern Georgia.
A bishop must consult many laymen in the course of archdiocesan
bu siness. Other laymen advise in matters of racial justice, Chris
tian unity, public relations, and other areas. Our religious,
both priests and sisters, are frequently asked for their advice.
All of this must be balanced and judged. To strike the right ba
lance, an archbishop meets regularly with his consultors, dis
cusses every important matter frankly and fully, -and together,
they decide the course die archdiocese will take.
This week it is a pleasure to meet with a splendid group, the
St. Martin’s Guild, an interracial organization which has sup
plied many lay societies with a panel for their meetings. There
is no substitute for first-hand knowledge, and your parish can
easily obtain it through the Guild. Next Sunday, I will offer Mass
at the Ignatius House, where Father Hein, S. J. provides an oppor
tunity for everyone in the archdiocese to learn more about the
lay retreat movement. Thursday, July 25, will be a proud day for
the graduates of St. Joseph’s Nursing School; as each diploma
is presented, it will be a proud day for the archdiocese, too,
because it will mark another year in the long and generous his
tory of this vital Atlanta Institution. Friday, July 26, a group of
Catholic, Protestant, and Jewish clergymen will meet to for
mulate plans for Atlanta's first Conference on Religion and Race.
Incidentally, I want to thank all those who wrote, with sug
gestions, questions and commendation, in regard to the recent
pastoral letter on Christian Unity. It’s easy to write letters.
What is particularly a blessing is when so many take the time to
answer one. God bless you all I.
9.
Paul J. Hallinan
Archbishop of Atlanta
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For Agreement On Prayer
FORTY CLERGYMEN of different denominations attended the second annual Retreat for Christian
Clergymen held at the Jesuit retreat house at Faulkner, Md. Bishop William G. Connare of Greens-
burg, Pa., was retreat master. He is shown there with Rev. C. Leslie Glenn, who for 20 years
was pastor of St. John’s Episcopal Church, Lafayette Square, Washington, D. C., known as the
“Church of the Presidents.” (NC Photos)
EPISCOPAL RECTOR
A Retreat Is ‘Resting
So We Can Go Forward’
The author of the following
report is a distinguished Epi
scopal clergyman who for
nearly 20 years served as the
rector of St. John's Episco
pal on Lafayette Square in
Washington, known as “the
church of presidents” because
it is close to the White House
and many of the country's pre
sidents have worshiped there.
He details his personal reac
tions to the increasingly popu
lar phenomenon, the ecumeni
cal retreat conducted for non-
Catholic clergymen at Catholic
retreat houses.
By The Rev. C. Leslie Glenn
WASHINGTON, (NC)—Ye
ars ago an old professor declin
ed my invitation to attend a
parish retreat because he said
retreat was not the word for
him; at his time of life he had
to go forward with every re
maining hour. But a religious
retreat, paradoxically, is rest
ing just so we can go forward.
In attending a retreat you
can’t lose. At the very least,
upon arrival, you can go to
your room, close the door, lie
on the bed and go to sleep,
and be sure of two or three
days’ rest.
OF course, you could do this
in a hotel or hospital, or on a
boat trip, but the atmosphere
in a retreat house is different.
Those who think the spirit of
a place is imaginary will have
their first misgiving on a re
treat. In addition to rest, they
can read, exercise and think.
And finally, God might speak
to them, the ultimate good in
life.
This last is the great prize,
but even those who don't be
lieve it happens, or could hap
pen to them, can surely get
the lowest prize, which is a
little peace in an overbusy life.
A retreat delivers from the
disquietude of this world.
The physical setting of Loy-
ola-on-Potomac is perfect. It
is a magnificent site command
ing a wide view of the river,
with spacious grounds , com
pletely isolated. When you go
‘HAPPY SUCCESS’
to your room and close the
door, you don’t have to come
out except to eat or take a
shower. Somehow this is deep
psychological wisdom for a
‘DOESN’T BELONG 9
world that is too much within
us. You don't get away from it
all with the usual four men in
a room in double-decker cots.
The key to rest is isolation.
Clergymen Attack
Night Club Hymns
ATLANTIC CITY, N. J. (RNS)
— Negro clergymen of this sea
shore resort launched an attack
on singing of Gospel hymns in a
night club.
Their criticism came after
LeBistro, a dimly-lit and high-
priced club, booked the Willa
Moultre Gospel Singers, a group
of young Negro girls, whose
songs include such Gospel
hymns as "Roll, Jordon, Roll.”
THE Rev. Matthew E. Neil of
Union Baptist Temple said,
"There is a place for Gospel
songs and 1 don't think it is a
night club. The way the Negro
spiritual is being used is the
tragedy of the age.”
Said the Rev. Henry A. Hil—
drebrand of St. James AME
church: "Gospel songs and Gos
pel singers as night club en
tertainment is both a sacrilege
and a mockery of one of the
instruments of worship.”
He added that persons who
used them as a means of amuse
ment, especially througy the
medium of commercial enter
tainment, are doubtless those
who neither know nor appre
ciate "the blood and toil and
sweat and tears” that gave birth
to the Negro spirituals.
The Rev. LO.S. Cole of Sec
ond Baptist church said, “So-
called Gospel singing in night
clubs and other places of enter
tainment adds to the ever in
creasing list of the Insults and
indications of disrespect that is
constantly hurled at the Protes
tant religion.”
SAID Rev. Cyrus W. Derrick-
son of Hamilton Memorial Me
thodist church: “It shouldn’t be
a hundred times so. Religion is
not a commercial thing — it
doesn’t belong in a nightclub.’
But the Willa Moultre Sing
ers were equally adamant in the
belief that they are not in any
way degrading any segment of
religion.
Miss Moultre said, “You
should go into the hedges and
highways to compel all sinners
to come unto Christ." She said
her group believe it is proper
to appear in a night club as a
means of bringing Gospel sing
ing to the people, many of whom
"may not go to church.”
WASHINGTON, D. C. (RNS)—
A call to 47 members of the
House of Representatives who
have introduced proposed am
endment was issued here by
Rep. Frank J. Becker (R.-N.Y.).
Mr. Becker said he would try
to get the members to agree
on common language in order
that the discharge petition which
he has filed in the House may
secure sufficient signatures to
bring the resolution to the floor
for a vote.
THE New York congressman
has introduced a petition which
would discharge die House Jud
iciary Committee from further
consideration of House Joint
Resolution 9 which is his own
measure.
Mr. Becker has proposed that
an amendment be submitted to
the states to provide that "pray
ers may be offered in the course
of any program in any public
school or any other public place
in the United States.”
It does not say anything about
Bible reading in the schools.
Other versions submitted by
Congressmen would limit the
permission to "non-sectarian
prayers.” But some members
have objected that this language
might eliminate the Lord’s
prayer.
MR. Becker said that if the
47 sponsors of the various pro
posals could agree on a common
resolution and would sign the
discharge petition — which
needs the signature of 218 mem
bers to become effective — he
would be willing to propose an
amendment to the resolution
on the floor, striking out his
wording and substituting what
ever language was commonly
agreed upon.
This would eliminate argu
ment over which of the 47
resolutions — embodying more
than a dozen difficult versions
— is the best, Mr. Becker said.
Normally, it is the function
of the Judiciary Committee to
perform this function but the
purpose of the discharge petit
ion is to shortcircuit the com
mittee headed by Rep. Eman
uel Celler (D.-N.Y.). who op
poses efforts to amend in any
way the separation of Church
and State provided by the First
Amendment.
NON-DENOMINA TIONAL
Bible Selections
For School Use
Pope Paul Praises
The United Nations
VATICAN CITY (RNS) —
Pope Paul VI paid glowing tri
bute to the United Nations as
"the fruit of a civilization to
which the Catholic religion, with
its driving center in the Holy
See, gave the vital principles.”
The Pontiff’s statement was
made after a 30-minute private
audience with U. N. Secretary
General U Thant, who was in
Italy on an official visit.
Pope Paul told Mr. Thant,
a Buddhist, that he prayed God
to grant “true prosperity” to
the United Nations and to give
"happy success to its activit
ies.”
He lauded “the fundamental
program of the U. N„ espec
ially in regard to the elimina
tion of war, to the assistance of
developing peoples and of those
in need of defense and promot
ion, to the lawful liberties of
individuals and social groups,
and to the safeguarding of the
rights and dignity of the human
person.”
The Pope added that the Ch
urch "holds a very high con
ception” of the U. N., regard
ing it as "the steadily develop
ing and improving form of the
balanced and unified life of all
humanity in its historical and
earthly order.”
NEW YORK (RNS) — A new
anthology of the Bible for use in
public school literature, history
and social studies courses has
been prepared under the joint
editorship of a Roman Catholic
priest, Protestant educator and
rabbi.
Publication of the anthology is
planned during the coming year,
it was announced here by the
New York publishing firm, Har
per & Row.
Called “Bible Selections for
General Education,” the source
book presents information on
the major religious traditions
of the nation through essays,
maps and charts. Selections
from various translations of the
Bible in English illustrate de
velopment of the English lan
guage and the growth of Bibli
cal scholarship.
USE of the anthology in
schools as well as for indivi
dual reading was noted, in view
of the U. S. Supreme Court rul
ing which pointed out that the
Bible and information about re
ligion may be incorporated in
public school courses even
though devotional practices
have been barred.
Editors of the volume are
Father Walter M. Abbott, S.
J., feature editor of the Ca
tholic weekly, "America,” and
founder of the publication, “New
Testament Abstracts; ” Rabbi
Arthur Gilbert of Temple Aids
Israel, Sag Harbor, L. L, staff
consultant to the Religious
Freedom and Public Affairs
Project of the National Con
ference of Christians and Jews;
and Dr. Rolfe Lanier Hunt, as
sociate director of the depart
ment of church and public school
relations of the National Coun
cil of Churches.
Dr. Hunt, a Methodist lay
man, formerly was an editor in
the U. S. Office of Education
and has been a public school
superintendent.
“A knowledge of people,
places and ideas contained in
the Bible, and an awareness of
the different Interpretations is
part of the required information
of civilized people,” the edi
tors stated.
They said radical differen
ces of belief have not been ob
scured but that an attempt has
been made to explain these dif
ferences.
K of C
DECATUR
AUXILIARY
The July meeting of the Kni
ghts of Columbus, Auxiliary
Father Thomas O’Reilly Coun
cil 4358, was held at the home
of Mrs. J. ZwieknageL Mrs.
T. Wejcik and Mrs. Paul Kel
ley were Co-hostesses.
One of the main Projects the
Auxiliary has is helping the
children at the boys home in
Washington, Georgia. The group
was privileged to have two of
the Sisters associated with the
home as guests. Sister Grace
Marie and Sister Alice gave
a most informative and enjoy-
history of the home for boys.
Mr. Becker complained that
although he first introduced his
resolution June 26. 1962, after
the Supreme Court invalidated
the so-called Regents’ Prayer
in the public schools of New
York anc re-introduced it on the
opening day of the new 88th
Congress, Jan. 9, 1963, the
Judiciary Committee has re
fused to call public hearings.
He said he is convinced Chair
man Celler will keep all the
resolutions "bottled up” until
the end of the session unless
members force the committee’s
hand by signing the discharge
petition.
In a personal letter to every
member of the House, Mr. Bec
ker said, “Some members have
informed me that they never
have signed discharge petitions.
"NEITHER have I in more
than ten years in the House.
All discharge petitions now be
fore the House and previously
considered have dealt with mat
erial things and material bene-
Newmanites
In Louisiana
LAFAYETTE, La. (NC)— A
college president and a maga
zine editor will be among fea
tured speakers at the National
Newman Club Federation Con
vention here August 26 to 31.
Theme of the weeklong con
vention will be "Newman Apos-
tolate, Incarnation in the Uni
versity.” John Meng, president
of Hunter College, New York,
will be keynote speaker at the
opening session August 26.
James 0' Gara, editor of Com
monweal magazine, will be
principal speaker at the con
cluding banquet August 31. Con
vention sessions will be held
at the Lafayette Municipal Au
ditorium.
Other speakers will include
Bishop Maurice Schexnayder
and Auxiliary Bishop Warren
L. Boudreaux of Lafayette; Ja
mes Oliver, dean of the gra
duate school at the University
of Southwestern Louisiana in
Lafayette; and Judge Edmund
Reggie, Crowley, La.
fits. This one deals only with
the spiritual.”
“The urgency of this matter
leaves me no alternative,” he
said, "if we are to prevent the
advocates of a godless society
to accomplish in the United
States that which the Commun
ists have accomplished in Soviet
Russia. I cannot sit idly by and
permit this to happen.”
"This matter of trying to pre
serve the spiritual traditions
of our nation supersedes any and
all other material considerat
ions, other-wise I would not
have taken this step,” he told
his colleagues.
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