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PRAY FOR CHRISTIAN UNITY SERVING GEORGIA'S NORTHERN COUNTIES diocese of Atlanta VOL. 1 NO. 32 ATLANTA, GEORGIA THURSDAY AUGUST 15, 1963 $5.00 PER YEAR CONFERENCE TOLD Parent-Teacher Cooperation Is Education ‘Must’ GEOGE N. Shuster, (above) prominent Catholic educator and author, will be presented with the 1963 Cardinal New man Award during the 48th annual convention of the New man Apostolate at Lafayette, La., August 26 to 31. Dr. Shus ter, w ho is assistant to the pre sident of Notre Dame Univer sity, was president of Hunter College, New York City, from 1939 to 1960. VATICAN CITY, (NC)--His Holiness Pope Paul VI said ina letter to Catholic teachers meeting in London that parent- teacher cooperation "has come to be of vital importance in the world of today.” The Pope said that the dis cussion of the 250 teachers meeting at the fifth triennial congress of the World Union of Catholic Teachers will be guided by the Church’s teach ing on the "prior natural right of the family in the education of children and the Church’s rights in the field of educa tion.” FIVE PER-CENT FLOOR Tax Rule Opposed By Churches, Out WASHINGTON, Aug. 13(NC)- The Kennedy adminstration has left out of its revised tax-cut program a five per cent "floor” on itemized deductions to which religious groups strongly ob jected. The five per cent rule, con tained in the administration’s original tax proposals of last January, was not in the revamp ed tax plan given Congress by Secretary of Treasury Douglas Dillion. Thanks Pope SAIGON (NC) —Venerable Thic tinh Khiet, aged president of the General Buddhist Asso ciation, chief agency inthepre- sf.it agitation, cabled (Aug. 10) His Holiness Pope Paul VI thanking him for reportedly making representations in be half of Buddhists in Vietnam. He asserted that the Buddhist movement here is "purely rel igious.” CATHOLIC Charities of the Chicago archdiocese was one of the organizations that vigor ously objected to the five per cent limit on itemized deduc tions, stating that incentives for giving would be removed by its adoption. In a detailed report issued last April, the Catholic agency stated that the five per cent limit would drive some fami lies "from itemizing deductions to the use of the standard de ductions and Put them in a vacuum area empty of any tax incentives to strengthen their desire to'help meet the finan cial needs of their church.” Catholic Charities also said there seemed "to be logical reason for including contribu tions in any five per cent ’floor’”; and if "legislativeen couragement of charitable giv ing” were cut back, "further whittling could occur in the future” by raising the "floor” to a higher percentage. A LARGE eight b\ twelve foot oil painting of Our Lady of the Ecumenical Council is enshrined in this modernistic outdoor altar of the monaster) grounds of the Marian Fathers in Stock- bridge, Mass. The artist was Father John Szantyr, a young Marian priest. Prayers for peace, the pope and the e<xnwt- cal council will be offered up at service: here during Mnrian Week, August 18 to 25. This year marks the tenth annlversan ot the Marian Week observan e. THE LETTER, dated July 27, was addressed to Bishop George A. Beck A. A., of Salford, chair man of the Catholic Education Council of England and Wales. The congress opened August 13. "We have been informed,” the Pope wrote, "that the World Union of Catholic Teachers is shortly to hold its fifth congress in London, and We would re quest you, Venerable Brother, to convery to the assembled delegates die expression of Our paternal greetings and encour agement. "The congress is to consider the theme : ’Cooperation be tween Catholic teachers and pa rents w ith a view to education al planning.’ This is a subject which has come to be of vital importance in the world of to day, because of the growing ex tent of educational planning. Its discussion, therefore, is par ticularly timely, and We feel confident that very fruitful and far-reaching results will follow from its study by representa tives of the World Union of Ca tholic Teachers, with their competence, experience and well known fidelity to the Church. "IN THEIR discussion of this important subject, the delegates to the congress w ill be guided by the Church's teaching, as set out clearly in the encyclicals and pronouncements of Our ve nerated predecessors, regard ing the prior natural right of the family in the education of children and the Church’s rights in the field of education. "We fervently beseech the Holy Spirit to enlighten and di rect the deliberations of the congress and make them pro ductive of copious spiritual fruits, in pledge of which We cordially impart to you, Vene rable Brother, and to all those taking part in the meetings in London, Our special apostolic blessing.” Community Respects Ruling CHICAGO (NC)—The author of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision against Bible reading and prayer in public schools predicted here the ruling will be respected by "most com munities.” Associate Justice Tom C. Clark said that if some places do not "respect the opinion,” further challenges to the re ligious practices'will possibly reach the high court. Answering questions put to him by other participants on the program, Clark said he got fewer than 300 letters after his opinion in the latest prayer case. A year ago, he said, after the court’s decision against re citation of a 22-word nonsec tarian prayer in New York public schools, he received more than 3,000 letters. In the meantime, the United Press International reported that a nationw ide survey it con ducted showed that many U.S. puiilc schools will continue Bi ble reading SPECIAL LETTER Pope Pleads '“Better Day 5 In Hungary ATLANTA Council 660 Knights of Columbus is awarded State Membership Championship Award. J. J. Zwicknagel, right, past state deputy, presents Supreme Council Award to William T. Jordan, Jr., center, as membership chairman, and George A. Andrews, Grand Knight of Council 660 extends congratulations. STATE MEETING ‘Study Encyclicals’ Advises Archbishop With Knights Archbishop Paul J. Hallinan urged the State leaders of the Knights of Columbus to have their various Councils study "the two dramatic Papal Ency clicals, Mater Et Magistra and Pacem In Terris.” The state-wide conference took place last week-end at the Knights of Columbus Center on Buford Highway. The Archbishop also told the Knights that such a study could be continued with emphasis on the proper rights and duties of the laity, "as the Council deliberates and decides the questions involved.” An extract of the archbishop’s talk follows: "The history of the Knights of Columbus has been a con stant effort to fill two great needs - that of the individual Catholic layman for fraternal companionship and example, and that of the Church for a body of such Catholic men, alert and alive to the chang ing issues of human society. In the last decades of the 19th century, when there were thou sands of fraternal societies forming in the United States, the Knights of Columbus offer ed our men an ideal, a rally- ing-point, a center of goodwill. "Many other Catholic frater nal organizations were born, flourished, withered and died. Most of them passed from the scene because they did not rise to the second great need the Church’s need for a staunch, thoroughly Catholic laity. The Knights, in a day of anti Ca tholic bigotry, cleared the air, bringing a true and real image of what it means to be a Ca tholic. This was a tremendous service not only to the Chruch but to the nation. Then the Knights answered the challenge of wider knowledge about the Church - the program of ad vertisements and mail-service w as launched. Again the organi zation proved its essential Ca tholic worth. "What will be the role of the Knights in the new chapter of Catholic Chruch history we are just opening? The home-work for this must be done now. It is enough now simply to reply to those who question the Church, either in bigotry as in the 1920’s, or in honest in quiry as in the more recent years. Nothing will suffice to day but a full Catholic life, a reflection of Our Lord’s. "The Knights must write the specifications of this new role themselves. Our age calls for Catholic men, to be witnesses of the universality of the Chruch. This could begin with each Council examining the twe dramatic papal encyclicals, Mater Et Magistra and Pacem in Terris. It could continue with close study of the proper rights and duties of the laity as the Vatican Council deli berates and decides the ques tions involved. Out of all this could come the convictions ne cessary for the great aggoir- namento, the bringing-up-to- date that must go on in every sector of Catholic life. "I am confident that the Knights in Georgia will set a pattern for the other states, by their honest examination of the two needs today - today’s Catholic must be not only a good companion; he must be a good witness to Christ. And today’s Church must not only reach out to our own; it must speak out, in the words and lives of its members, to the whole human society.” BUDAPEST (NC)—Pope Paul VI has voiced the prayer that the long-wracked Chruch of Hungary will soon see the light of a "a better day.” The Pope issued a special message to the Bishops of Hun gary and their people shortly after his coronation. The let ter, dated July 3, has now been made public by the Hungarian Hierarchy. IN IT, Pope Paul told the Bishops he was anxious to be able to welcome them to the second session of the Second Vatican Council at the end of September, and that he was looking forward to "hopeful news .. .about the Catholic Church in Hungary.” The Pope’s message was dat ed at about the time that De puty Premier Gyula Kallai an nounced here that the Hungar ian government would no lon ger block the appointment by the Holy See of bishops to fill the vacant Sees in this coun try. Of Hungary’s 13 Sees, se ven have long been either va cant or had an Ordinary who was barred from exercising his office. In his message, Pope Paul extended his wishes for both the spiritual well-being and the material progress of the Hun garian people. He said he cher ishes happy memories of Hun Priestly Recipe NEW ORLEANS (NC)— What should a priest be? The question was asked of 100 sixth, seventh and eight grade boys. One of them came up with this recipe: One part kindness; 1 part generosity; 1 part humor; 5 parts holiness; 1 part sterness; 1 part intelligence; 2 parts understanding 1 part patience. "Sprinkle lightly with mistakes and add a dash of good sport smanship. Let simmer from eight to 12 years in a moderately strict seminary,” the recipe ended. The boys were among three groups of 100 each who spent a week at St. Joseph ’s Seminary, St. Benedict, La., sampling the life of a seminarian, in a program sponsored by the Archdiocese of New Orleans. MSGR. ALFRED Bottizer, program director in Trieste, Italy for Catholic Welfare Conference, supervises the packaging of 300 camp cots and foam rubber mattresses purchased by CRS for the earthquake victims in Skoplje, Yugoslavia. He also released 1,500 bales of clothing from the CRS warehouse in Trieste for their use. gary from his visit of 25 years ago, when he accompanied the future Pope Pius XII—then Eu genio Cardinal Pacelli, Secre tary of State to Pius Xi and the Papal Legate—to the in ternational Eucharistic Con gress in Budapest in 1938. THE POPE’S message began by extending his greetings and blessing to the Bishops and "beloved sons of the Hungarian nation." Then it said: Since the inscrutable will‘of God has called Us to the lea dership of the unified Christian family, there constantly rises in Our soul the pleasant re collection of your outstanding nation which impels Us to spe cial benevolence. And although We have simi larly taken to Our heart all nations of the world, and it is Our mission to care in like manner for the home which has been redeemed by Christ’s blood, it is right for Us to turn Our affection in particu lar to the Hungarian Bishops and Catholics. For We are out standing creations of its liter ature and art, the pleasant man ners and courtly demeanor of its people, which We remem ber from the time when We accompanied the Cardinal-Le gate Eugenio Pacelli. AT THAT time, with ex tensive participation of the peo ple and with imposing brilli ance, the International Euchar istic Congress was held in the Hungarian capital. The virtues and achieve ments, as well as the acti vity of Catholic Hungary arc not at all unknown to Us, and We have no doubt that the "test of your faith will be found more valuable than that of transi tory gold...for your praise, fame and honor.” We beg God to let shine for you the dawn of a better day than what you have had up to now. MAY hopeful news reach Us about the Catholic Church in Hungary, and it is Our earnest wish to be able to embrace your prelates upon the occasion of the second session of the Se cond Vatican Council. While We are supporting Our desires with diligent prayer, We wish you and your coun try all that is good and for tunate following as you do in strengthened Christian peace with sure steps the path of virtue. May your earthly pros perity increase satisfactorily. In conclusion, receive singly and together Our apostolic bles sings as a sign and guaranty of heavenly gifts. Given at the See of Peter, July 3, 1963, in the first year of Our papacy. In Triplicate CORNWALL, Ont. (NC) — It was anniversary day in trip licate for the Houde family here. Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Houde not ed their 50th wedding anniver sary, assisted by 13 living chil dren. Two of the children, Fat her Emilien Houde of Martin- town, Ont., and Sister Marie Ambroise of the Missionary Franciscans, celebrated the 25th anniversary of their entry into religious life. /