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PAGE 8 GEORGIA BULLETIN THURSDAY AUGUST 15, 1963 wines, candles, vessels, miss als, prayer cards, sheet music and offering envelopes. "JUST as zealously as the Supreme Court of the United States has stricken even forms of prayer in school as a form of religious interference with matters of state," noted Judge Hocklander, "so also, as I un derstand the cases, it has stri cken attempts by the state to exact a tax on the privilege of WASHINGTON (NC) —A poll conducted by Louis Harris for the Washington Post has dis closed feeling against a Catholic as President has diminished only slightly since President Kennedy took office in 1961. According to the poll, in 1960 on a nationwide basis 30 per cent of those who said they worried about a Catholic being President has eased to 26 per cent today. WAR AND PEACE IN THE LIVES OF THE POOR CLARES THE POOR CLARES, faithful daughters of peace-loving saints Francis and Clare, must wonder about their former convent on the Via l^anisperna in Rome. In the 1870 uprising, the Sisters were driven out at bayonet point ... In 1934. the same building, now the physics laboratory of a great university, was the scene of the first successful atom-splitting experiment. There Enrico Fermi and his six assistants, working in a fountain behind the former convent, discovered and patented the secret of slow fission—key to the atom Tbt Holy Pntbor's Mission Aid bomb! ... In POYYA, in the diocese jof ibt Orisnstl Church of TRICHUR, INDIA, the Clarists still pursue their work of peace in our nuclear age. They teach the children of some 150 poor families . . . The twenty nuns have plenty of work, but no place for adequate rest or religious services. A convent was begun, but of the total $8,500 needed for its completion, they have borrowed or scraped to gether only some $4,500 . . . With little hope of obtaining more from their poor families, they seek help from far-off America. Their Superior, SISTER BERNARDINA. asks for the remaining $4,000 needed ... St. Francis prayed, “Make me an instrument of Thy peace” . . . Your generosity will enable his followers to be just that; to set off, not nuclear chain reactions, but chain reactions of grace in India! ADMISSION t FIVE CENTS ‘‘Dear Father: Five little girls, ages 8 to 10, and one boy, age 4, put on a show in my garage. It was a rainy Saturday but despite this they did a very good job of it. Admission was 5c. for children and 10c. for adults. Had it been a clear day, I am sure they would have done better. Now they want to share part of it with you and I am enclosing one dollar for your missions. I think they would like it to go to children near their age.” — Mildred T. “Dear Mildred: Thanks. And thanks to the children. We shall certainly follow their wishes!” FACTS NOT MADE UP OUT OF WHOLE CLOTH CALICO is named after CALCUTTA in India; DAMASK after DAMASCUS in Syria; MUSLIN after MOSUL in Iraq; DIMITY after DAMIETTA in Egypt! Odd how many kinds of material have names from Near East and Middle East pi,aces . • • Vet many of the poor, aged, orphaned and the blind in these coun tries must be clothed by our 15,000 missionaries, priests, Sis ters and Brothers. Through their noble work, supported by you, these unfortunate ones receive not merely clothing for the body, but also the supernatural garment of grace! HOW YOU CAN HELP 1. Educate a seminarian, such as THEOPHANE M. PUTHU- KULANGARA and MATHEW JOHN THAYIL of Bangalore, India. Cost: $100 a year for six years. 2. Educate a Sister like SISTER BENNET and SISTER SI ENNA of the Carmelite Sisters of Kothamangalam, India. Cost. $150 a year for two years. (Payments for the support of a seminarian or a novice may be made in installments.) 3. Buy a FOOD PACKAGE for a PALESTINE REFUGEE FAMILY. Cost: $10. 4. Purchase a BLANKET for a BEDOUIN. Cost: $2. 5. ,Glve an undesignated or STRINGLESS GIFT to be used where the Holy Father feels the need is greatest. 6. Send a MASS STIPEND. 15,000 priests in the NEAR and MIDDLE EAST often have no other means of support each day jMl12ear fist Olissions FRANCIS CARDINAL SPILLMAN, President Mtfr. Jesepfc T. ty«a, Nett $e«'y Slid ell ee«ieieeie«HeM te: CATHOLIC NiAR IAST WELFARE ASSOCIATION 410 Uxington Avt, at 46th St. Now York 17, N. Y. ATLANTAN ATTENDS Sisters Of Mercy Hold Seminar At Savannah Academy, Savannah. The object of the week’s ses sion is to afford student lead ers opportunity to learn tech niques of leadership as well as to gain background information on current problems and trends. In order to achieve this purpose a number of prominent men and women will address the group and lead discussion sessions. Speakers topics include "Meet ing Moral and Spiritual Challen ges Today," Reverend John Loftus; «uid "Tool of Leader ship: Parliamentary Law," Mrs. William C. Broderick, past president of the Savannah Deanery of the National Coun cil of Catholic Women. Participants in the week’s program from the Diocese of Atlanta will include: Misses Patricia Crysler and Sandra Fredenburg of St. Joseph’s In firmary; and Misses Linda Den- non and Ann Kassinger of St. Pius X High School. JUDGE says Seperation Wall Has Two Sides MOBILE, Ala., (NC) — The wall of separation between church and state has two sides, including one that protects ch urches from encroachments by government, a Mobile judge commented here in exempting Alabama churches from use taxes on articles used in reli gious services. Circuit Court Judge Joseph M. Hocklander ruled in a case involving St. Mary’s church here, which protested a state bill of $407.06 for use tax on religious worship. "The wall of separation, much talked about, has two sides to it. Religion must not be aided by state legislation nor, in turn, may its practice be circumscribed by tax rest rictions which would tax the use of articles such as these direc tly and intimately connected with the worship service itself” Poll Results The Sisters of Mercy, Pro vince of Baltimore this week conduct for the third consecu tive summer a Leadership Camp in Christian Living, Au gust 13-21, at Camp Villa Ma rie, near Savannah-. This year's program will be concerned with the theme, "Meeting Moral and Spirutual Challenges in Today’s World." Forty students from the nursing schools and high schools staffed by the Sisters of Mercy will be In attendance. Institutions to be represent ed include: St. Pius X High School, Atlanta; Mercy Hospi tal, Baltimore, Md.; St. Joseph Hospital, Savannah, Ga.; St. Jo seph Infirmary, Atlanta, Ga.; Holy Trinity High School, Wash ington, D. C.; Mercy High School, Baltimore, Md.; Mercy- High School, Mobile, Ala.; Mount de Sales High School, Macon, Ga.; Pacelli High School, Columbus, Ga.; Pen sacola Catholic High School, Pensacola, Fla. Pope Paul VI has arrived for his summer stay at Castelgandolfo, £he papal residence in the cool Alban hills, 18 miles from the Vatican. Some 21 popes have spent their summers here. Photos show the exterior of the villa from the town square; one of the beautiful gardens there, and the pope’s private chapel, located near his bedroom. The Reverend John Loftus of the Glenmary Fathers, Glen dale, Ohio, is chaplain. Other staff members include: Sr. M. Venard, RSM, Our Lady’s Day School, Atlanta, Ga., and Sr. M. Claudene, RSM, and Sr. M. Annunciate, RSM, St. Vincent's Leroy’s Auto Service Tune Up - F ront End Alignment Automatic i raasmissior. 4011 P’tree Rd.Gg 7-1288 HIS FORMER ARCHDIOCESE Peachtree Hold Pharmacy Pick Up and Delivery Service CE 7-6406 4062 Peachtree Rd. Ailanu Pope Paul Speaks To People Of Milan MILAN, Italy, Aug. 10 (Ra dio, NC)—His Holliness Pope Paul VI in a special message to his old flock of the Archdiocese of Milan asserted that "our age is decisive." This Ad Worth 50< ON ALL TYPES Of ELECTRICAL REPAIRS AT Hob* t Hobby Shop BELMONT HILLS SHOPPING CENTER PHONE: 435-5122 R. S. SEELEY. MGR. OLD SARGE SURPLUS ARMY and civilian SURPLUS Wanting, Fishing, Camping Equipment (Buy, Trade, Sell Most Anything) Hwy. 23 - Next door to Pine Tree Plaza Doraville, Ga. 451-3377 CYO NEWS BY RAYMOND SMITH Members of the Archdiocesan Council of Catholic Youth will hold their annual fiesta Sunday, Sept. 1st. R will take place at Fritz-Orr Club located on Nancy Creek Rd., N. W. The fiesta will begin at 1:00 p.m. with swimming and free lunch and will conclude at 10:00 p.m. The day will include an athletic program followed by refreshments and dancing. Roy Cooper, top-rated disc jockey from WPLO radio stat ion, will be on hand to emcee the dance. Freddie Prince and the Paupers will provide the music. Records and albums will be given away, and a dance contest will highlight the evening. The price will be $1.50 per person. Chaperons will be provided. A soccer game will highlight the athletic program. Future freshman are obliged to come dressed in foreign costume. SUBSCRIBE TO THE GEORGIA BULLETIN *5.00 PER YEAR Mail to P. O. Box 11667 Nortlmde Station Atlanta 5, Georgia IN a me Address City State The letter, dated August 11, was in its content and by the Pope’s own description in the nature of a pastoral letter. As such—a papal pastoral to an in dividual diocese other than his own as Bishop of Rome—it was unique among pontifical docu ments. THE POPE began the letter by explaining how, as Arch bishop of Milan, he had estab lished the custom of writing a pastoral letter to his people on the occasion of the feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Vir gin Mary into Heaven, August 15. He had done this, he said, as a kind of pre-holiday greet ing, for August 15 traditionally marks the peak of the summer vacation season in Italy. The former Giovanni Car dinal Montini said of his an nual letter: "It was a comment on cer tain aspects and events of the day; it was an attempt to cre ate a common spirutual en counter in the pious and com forting thought of the Blessed Virgin Mary in heaven; it was in short a special statement of our pastoral dialogue, which was intended to assure you of Our vigilant concern and of Our blessing." THIS "dialogue" was inter rupted, the Pope remarked, by his election to the throne of Peter. But with the return of the feast of the Assumption, and since Milan is still with out an Ordinary, he said he wanted to preserve the tradi tion unbroken. He recalled gratefully that the Milanese had been good and ge nerous to him, and remarked that it was painful for him to leave that northern metropolis "where We fkoped to end Our days." For, lie said, "one does not work and pray and hope with other*-, without sinking the sen timental roots of his soul into the soil where his ministry takes place." Then he gave the main rea son for his message, saying: "Our greater regret in this sudden farewell Is in the thought of how much of Our ministry was left unfinished in Milan... Among the many things to which We have put Our hand, more was begun than was completed." Pope Paul remarked that his successor in the Milan arch diocese will certainly see where he left off and "he will act en tirely as the Lord inspires him." "BUT, he added, "It does not seem out of place to recall . . .a few thoughts which guided Our pastoral action." These motivating thoughts form the substance of the mes sage. It is in these that the import of the message goes bey ond Milan, as they reveal the mind of the former Archbishop of Milan who is now pontiff of the Universal Church. Some 3,000 members of migrant worker families come to the New Ulm, Minn., diocese each summer from Texas to work in. the sugar beet fields, earning a meager living, and often with poor housing conditions. Living in a world of their own, these Espino youngsters dance while others play in the farmyard in front of the shack in which the migrant family is housed. The migrant workers’ average annual in come is $819. The family size averages 6,5 persons. The Pope said: "We had the impression from the very beginning of Our min istry there (in Milan ) that the conditions of our society were leading the status of its relig ious life into a state. . .of dan— ger and crisis. . . "We could see the wealth of religious tradition threatened with decline and ruin. They were threatend not only externally hit also internally because of a change and a breakdown in the popular awareness of that sound religious mentality and of that traditional fidelity to the Chur ch which are the basis and sour ce of that wealth. The measure of Our convern was proporti onate to the worth of the spiri tual heritage of which We found Ourself the responsible admin istrator." THE POPE insisted that this OBITUARIES Mrs. Probasco A Requiem Mass was offered last Friday at St. Joseph’s Church, Marietta, for Mrs. Evelyn Austgen Probasco of 105 Hicks Drive, Marietta, who died August 7. Father Francis Ma rion Perry, S. M. officiated. Interment was in the Marietta National Cemetery. Survivors are her husband, Mr. Joseph A. Probasco, two daughters, Miss Darlene Pro basco, Miss Karen Probasco, all of Marietta; father, Mr. Mathias Austgen, Gary, Indiana; two sisters, Mrs. Irene Nos- ker, Calumet City, Illinois, Mrs. Mildred Willis, Gary, In diana: one brother, Mr. Ken neth Austgen, Griffet, Indiana, and severa 1 nieces and nep hews. King Moore A Requiem Mass was offer ed last Friday at Our Lady of Lourdes, Atlanta, for Mr. King Moore, who died at his resi dence, 574 S. Evelyn Place, N. W., on August 6. The Rosary was recited on Thursday evening at the Cox Brothers Chapel on Auburn Avenue. Interment was at South View Cemetery. Survivors include Mrs. Dora J. Moore; daughter, little Miss Donna Moore; Mrs. Daisy Broo kins, Mr. William Johnson, Sr., Mrs. Elizabeth Whitson and family, Mr. and Mrs. William Johnson, Jr., and family; nie ces, nephews, Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Thompson and family; Mr. and Mrs. Mark P. Brisco and family, Mr. Burt Harper, Mrs. Henry Jackson and son. is not a "priCimistic vision of the religious character of our age, but rather a realistic one," He reminded the Milanese of "several alarming appeals" which he had given with docum entary and analytical support. He recalled too that "Our conclusions were directed to ward reawakening consciences, encouraging efforts, recom mending undertakings, sugges ting projects, as if there was not time to lose and every one of good will should revive him self with renewed activity and militant courage because of a special need of salvation. "Our age is decisive. It calls for intensity of efforts It in vests us in a vocation of de fense and renewal. It demands the fidelity and the sacrifice of great moments. "Our priests have already felt this call for extraordinary pastoral dedication. They will do well to follow it. Our laity would do well to do the same. "OUR AGE deserves a pro found effort toward the inter ior life, toward thought and act ion, not only to protect the spi ritual treasure that traditon has handed down to us, but also to show its incomparable worth, its perennial vitality, its sur prising reality, its marvelous youth and its inexhaustible pro ductivity. "The Gospel, We have said before, is not old; it is eter nal. But today, it must be lived fully, with a new conscious ness of its originality and of its necessity, and with new ded ication." The Pope gave practical pas toral recommendations: "Preaching must be clear, true and vigorous. The people must be taught to participate in the liturgy; they must be taught to pray singing. Oir whole catechetical system must be strengthened and developed. Immigrants must be approach ed. There Is special need that people in the world of labor and the academic world know that they are loved by the Church and that they be drawn into new friendship with her." Cardinal Spellman Medalist INDIANAPOLLIS, Ind. (NC) —Francis Cardinal Spellman was the unanimous choice for the 1963 Distinguished Service Medal erf the American Legion. James E. Powers, legion nat ional commander, announced.