PRAY FOR
CHRISTIAN
UNITY
VOL. 1 NO. 30
diocese of Atlanta
SERVING GEORGIA'S 71 NORTHERN COUNTIES
ATLANTA, GEORGIA
THURSDAY, AUGUST 1, 1963
AT A special audience at the Vatican on July 21, Pope Paul
VI received two Japanese Buddhist monks to whom he presented
papal coronation medals. Shown with him are Bakuo Seki (center)
head of a sect of Zen Buddhists and an unidentified monk, believed
to be his secretary.
PHIL. AUXILIARY
Coadjutor Named
For San Diego
WASHINGTON, JULY31(NC)
—His Holiness Pope Paul VI
has made the following appoint
ments in the hierarchy of the
United States:
Auxiliary Bishop Francis J.
Furey of Philadelphia becomes
Coadjutor Bishop with right of
succession to Bishop Charles F.
Buddy of San Diego.
Msgr. Jerome J. Hastrich,
Vicar General of the diocese of
Madison, becomes Titular Bis
hop of Gurza and Auxiliary to
Bishop William P. O’Connor of
Madison, Wis.
Born in Summit Hill, Pa.,
in 1905, Bishop Furey attended
St. Charles Borromeo Semin
ary in Overbrook, Pa., and the
Pontifical Roman Seminary. He
was ordained in Rome on March
15, 1930, and took doctorates
in philosophy and theology
there. He was ordained at St.
Francis Seminary on Feburary
9, 1941, by Auxiliary Bishop
William Griffin of LaCrosse.
He made post-ordination stud
ies at the Catholic University
of America here, specializing in
the work of the Cortfraternity
POPE PRAYS
of Christian Doctrine.
His Holiness Pope Paul VI
also has divided the Exarchate
of Pittsburgh into two juris
dictions which will have % the
status of eparchies immediate
ly subject to the Holy See.
One eparchy is located in Pit
tsburgh, while the other is in
Passaic, N. J.
Bishop Nicholas Elko is ele
vated to the status of Eparch
of Pittsburgh. Bishop Stephen
Kocisko becomes Eparch of
Passaic.
These actions of the Pope
wrer announced here by the
Apostolic Delegation.
To form the Eparch of Pas
saic the following territories
are detached from the present
Exarchate of Plttsubrgh:
Maine, New Hampshire, Ver
mont, Massachusetts, Rhode Is
land, Connecticut, New York,
New Jersey, Delaware, District
of Columbia, Maryland, Virgi
nia, North Carolina, South Car
olina, Georgia and Florida.
Aid To Victims Of
Skoplje Disaster
VATICAN CITY, (NC)-Hls
Holiness Pope Paul VI prayed
for the victims of the Skoplje
earthquake when he recited the
Angelus during his Sunday noon
appearance.
An estimated 20,000 stood in
St. Peter’s square when the
Pope made his customary Sun
day appearance (July 28) at the
library window on the second
floor of the Apostolic Palace.
The Pope asked those in the
square to recite the Angelus
with him for the victims of the
earthquake.
Meanwhile, In New York a
sum of $1,000 was sent to its
Trieste office by Catholic Relief
Services as soon as news was
received of the earthquake that
devasted the city of Skoplje in
Yugoslavia.
The money was earmarked
for the purchase of medicines
to be shipped Immediately to the
disaster zone. (CRS, official re
lief agency of American Catho
lics, organized a large aid pro
gram in Yugoslavia after World
War II, but in 1947 it was for
ced by the Tito government to
quit its operations there.)
Subsequently, after being ad
vised by its Trieste office, of
an urgent need for antibiotics,
vaccines, water purifying tab
lets and other preventative
medicines, CRS contributed
another $4,000,
The medical supplies, ac
cording to information from
Trieste, would be distributed by
a hastily-organized Catholic
committee in Skoplje working in
cooperation with the Red Cross.
CRS has announced it was
flying 600,000 vitamin capsules
to Yugoslavia.
UNIVERSITIES SET
National Survey
Set For Parish
PRIEST TELLS CONGRESSMEN
U.S. Church
Nears Total
Grade Schools
CHICAGO, (NC)—Two major
universities have begun an 18-
month nationwide survey to
measure how parochial school
education affects the lives of
Catholic adults.
The study, launched on Au
gust 1, is being made by the
National Opinion Research Cen
ter of the University of Chicago
in cooperation with the Univer
sity of Notre Dame.
FATHER ANDREW M. Gree
ley, a Chicago sociologist who
is a member of the research
center staff, is directing the
study. It is being financed by
a $ 136,000 grant from the Car
negie Corporation.
integration or lack of integra
tion into the larger community.
PLANS ARE to interview
about 2,000 Catholic families
and 500 non-Catholic families.
The latter will be included, said
the university, to measure whe
ther the differences between
the two groups of Catholics are
greater or lesser than differen
ces between Catholics and those
of other faiths.
The study also will contrast
Catholics who have sent their
children to public schools with
those whose children attend pa
rochial schools. This is intend
ed to determine the meaning
of parochial schools to parents,
the university said.
UNITY GATHERING
Integration
WASHINGTON (NC) — The
Catholic Church in the U. S.
has achieved almost a total pat
tern of integration, a priest
told a House judiciary subcom
mittee.
Father John F. Cronin, S. S.,
in response to a question from
the subcommittee’s chairman,
Rep. Emanuel Celler of New
York, said: "Our pattern is al
most total integration, except
for scattered areas in Alabama,
northern Louisiana and Miss
issippi."
THE ASSISTANT director of
the Social Action Department,
National Catholic Welfare Con
ference, was one of three
clergymen who presented a joint
statement to the subcommittee
in behalf of three major agen
cies of the Catholic, Protest
ant and Orthodox, and Jewish
faiths.
The statement backed the ad
ministration’s civil rights pro
gram and said that churches and
synagogues are united in their
determination to bring about eq
ual opportunity for all people in
this country regardless of race.
Rep. Celler asked shortly af
ter Dr. Blake began reading his
statement if discrimination
exists in Baptist, Presbyterian,
Methodist and Episcopalian
congregations in the South.
Archbishop Paul J. Hallinan is pictured presenting a Diploma
to nurse Mary Nearney at the graduation exercises of St.
Joseph’s Infirmary.
The University of Chicago
said the study is designed pri
marily to compare Catholics
who attended public schools with
Catholics who attended paro
chial schools.
It is attempting to learn,
said the university, what dif
ferences qxist between the two
groups with respect to reli
gious practices, occupational
achievement, attitudes toward
work and education, attitudes
and opinions on representative
non-religious public issues and
‘FIRST STEP’
Father Greeley, who has
written and spokenwidelyonthe
Church and contemporary so
ciety, said the survey will test
the assumption that there is
"a special moral and value
flavor” in parochial education
which gives its graduates "the
proper orientation to life."
The University of Chicago
said a committee of Catholics
and non-Catholics will work on
the survey with Father Greeley
and Peter H. Rossi, director of
the research center.
Vatican Daily Hails
Nuclear Test Accord
VATICAN CITY, (NC)-'nie
Vatican City daily has hailed the
initialing of the agreement to
ban nuclear testing in Moscow
as a first step on the road to
universal peace and brother
hood.
The agreement was initialed
— a first step toward full rati
fication — by the United States,
the Soviet Union and Great Bri
tain on July 25.
L’OSSERVATORE Romano
recalled in an editorial (July
26) the recent prayer of His
Holiness Pope Paul VI that
"men may really be brothers
and that Christians may be the
first to Invoke the gift of peace
from God.” It added:
"The Moscow agreement
constitutes a first step along
this road.
’’This road alone, which is
neither easy nor short, opens
before the leaders of nations.
Only this is in harmony with the
profound and universal aspira
tions of human beings.”,
Retreat
On August 12th at 4:00 p.m.
an undetermined number of
Christian Ministers will gather
at Ignatius House, the Jesuit
Retreat House, for two and a
half days of meditations and
discussions on matters Per
taining to Christian Unity. In
1959 Pope John XXIII gave a
great impetus to Christian Unity
in calling the Ecumenical Coun
cil. Shortly after calling the
Council he set up the Secre
tariat on Christian Unity with
Augustin Cardinal Bea as its
head. Since then the dialogue
between Catholic priests and
Protestant ministers has taken
on new life. With the Council
Pope John called for "an open
ing of the Church,” "a going
out” to our separated brethren.
One of the ways in which this
is done is to invite Christian
ministers to assemble in a re
treat house for meditation and
discussion on matters pertain
ing to Christian Unity. This has
been done in Covington, Ken
tucky; Faulkner, Maryland; and
Albany, New York. Now it is
being done in Atlanta, Georgia.
IN THE PAST five months
there have been three dialogue
A NUN of the Franciscan Mission of the Divine Motherhood order, drives a tractor in a wheat
field at Godaiming, England. It is one of the many necessary jobs done by the nuns on the 100-
acre farm surrounding their training school for mis sionary nurses. The farm supplies food enough
for all the order’s members and patients in their nursing home, and some left over ot be sold at
market.
For Protestant
Set For
meetings at which individual
ministers and priests of var
ious denominations were pre
sent. These meetings lasted an
hour or more and covered mat
ters pertaining to the doctrines
Novices Help
Lutheran Monk
OXFORD , MICH., (NC)—A
fire that drove the only Lu
theran monk in the U.S. from
his retreat house near here
gave members of a Catholic
monastery an opportunity to
show their ecumenical spirit.
Rev. Arthur Kreinheder was
welcomed at the monastery of
St. Benedict of Montefano, a
novitiate for Catholic students
for the priesthood.
Atlanta
in which we agree and a few
in which we disagree.
In the middle of June, Father
John L. Hein, S. J., Director
of Ignatius. House, who had
participated in the dialogues,
sent invitations to almost 400
Protestant ministers. The in
vitation is to spend two and one
half days in meditation with
five discussion periods on mat
ters ecumenical. The response
has been gratifying. Although
many who responded could not
attend, a sincere interest has
been expressed in this type
of work.
Father Harold L. Cooper,
S. J„ Professor of Philosophy
at Loyola University of New
Orleans, will give the retreat
meditations. Father John L.
Hein, S. J. will act as chair
man of the discussions.
Last Thoughts
On Georgia
The following art excerpt* from a letter written by Phinlzy
Spalding from London, England, on Thursday, July 18, 1963, to
his partnta, Mr. and Mrs. Hughes Spalding, in Atlanta, Georgia,
concerning death of Archbishop O’Hara.
'W» h»« • fruitful convention with Kelher Canon who told u. the hiahop'a
Uat hour., Than wtt no pom at ait toward the end, only a gradual w»ih»nlni, Hut
tha moat (mating thing about hla la»t day. 1 will relate below.
"He had hit aavar* heart attaab on a Friday and waa da a pa rata ty III, but rallied
nightly ieturday, In fact, he called hie aecretary to hi a tide and began, ot all
things, to dictate a letter to me welcoming the three of ua to thgland, and raying
that though he waa not well enough to entertain ue hlmeelf he hoped we would
come to the delegation where we would be euitably entertained, Alee, he waa
anaioue leet we not receive our Moaart ticket*, and rather Careen had to acaure him
that he would tea that we got them,
"He aleo aaked, I preeume in the projected letter, that he be remembered to the
two of you. Kather Careen eald the letter wae never typed up beeauee It waa in bite
and anatchaa, and that at any rate he wae never itrong enough to etgn It,
"ihortly after hie dictation, I gather, he euffered a relapee and never regained
conetioueneae, So, aa rather Careen eald, the Blehop'e leet real thoughte were of
Ocorgta and qeergiana which, Caraon aald, waa only appropriate bacauae he loved
Georgia above all placed he had been.
"1 aleo met the Blehop'e brother, Edward O’Hara, at the Delegation, Ha turned out
to be a hlg, hearty, pleaeant and exceedingly eaey to talk to. He remembered father
well, and repeated Careen e remark that the niehop'e favorite .pot wae Georgia,
"Aleo, one of the firet thinge Mr. O'Hara eald to me wae that he had received a
touching cable of eympathy from Ralph McGill,
"l know all of thie ie terribly ead for both of you, but 1 am certain you wanted to
know about it, rather Caraon aleo requeetrd that people at home be told that the
Biehop e loot thoughte were with Qeergia and Atlanta,"
DR. BLAKE replied: "All
of us share in the discrimina
tion. . . About 15 per cent
(of the congregations) are dese
gregated on Sunday morning.”
He also said: "We come here
not lecturing Congress, but con
fessing that none have done the
job we ought to do.”
Dr. Blake said that in the past
six months the effort for ra
cial justice has moved "from
passive resolutions to action,”
and that whites, instead of Ne
groes only, are taking action to
combat discrimination.
SEN. COTTON asked Father
Cronin how he would distingu
ish whether a facility is public
or private.
"I do feel that when a per
son offers facilities for public
used, this becomes a matter of
public life," Father Cronin
said.
He also said that "once a
facility is open to the public
the government has the right to
insist that it be open to all of
the public without discriminat
ion.”
Sen, Philip A, Hart of Michi
gan said; "Father Cronin, 1
will send to Gov. Wallace of
Alabama a printed copy of your
testimony with my compli
ments.”
After Rabbi Blank read the
joint statement to the Senate
subcommittee, Sen. Joseph S.
Clark of Pennsylvania, the ch
airman, said: "This united front
is bound to have an Important
impact on the thinking of the
subcommittee! and, I hope, on
Congress.”
He also said that "Themoral
issue of the (racial) problem
needs to be stressed.”
Clergy Urges
Ban On Bomb
CHICAGO (NC) — U. S. Senate
ratification of the nuclear test
ban treaty was urged in a state
ment issued by Chicago relig
ious leaders.
Signers of the statement in
cluded Msgr. Daniel M. Cant
well, chaplain for the Catholic
Council on Working Life and for
adult education centers and
Father Gerard S. Grant, S. J.
of Loyola University here.
"This treaty, as President
Kennedy has pointed out, may
signal an historic point in the
cold war," the statement said.
