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VOL. 1 NO. 34 ATLANTA, GEORGIA THURSDAY, AUGUST 29, 1963 $5.00 PER YEAR rchdiocese of Atlanta GEORGIA'S NORTHERN COUNTIES A RELIGION AND READING workshop was held this week (Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday) at St. Pius X High School for the benefit of teachers in the Catholic schools of the Archdiocese. Pictured here are, left to right, Sister Mary Severine, C. S, J„ Superintendent, Archdiocese of Atlanta; Sister Mary Jerome, 0, S, F, , Community Superintendent, Diocese of Pittsburgh; Sister Mary Frederick. 0. S, F„ Religion Committee, Our Life With God Series. AHEAD OF SCHEDULE Charleston’s C atholic Schools Are Integrating DY GERARD E. SHERRY FROM THAILAND comes this unique statue of Our Lady re flecting the Thai culture. In the Diocese of Ratburi, Salesian Bishop Peter M, Carretto, S, D.B., has been able to establish Mother and Child Clinics, aid ed by grants from the Madonna- Plan of the U. S. National Coun cil of Catholic Women and Ca tholic Relief Services of the Na tional Catholic Welfare Confer ence. Unless present day students grow up in Christ, social ac tion, liturgical change, and ecu menism will only be half met, Archbishop Paui J. Hallinan told the Archdiocesan Elemen tary School Teachers’ Work shop on Monday. 'Hie Workshop, which was held at Saint Pius X High School, drew religious and la> teach ers from all over the diocese. It also had guest speakers who are experts in various phases of education. EXTRACTS from the Arch bishop’s keynote talk follow; "The task of the teacher of religion is prior to, and fun damental to, the whole renewal Chaplain Named NEW YORK, Aug. 22 (NC) —Msgr. (Rear Adm.) George A. Rosso, former Chief of Navy Chaplains, has been named pas tor oi the Church of St. Thomas of Canterbury, Cornwall-on- Hudson. Msgr. Rosso retired June 30 after 25 years as a Navy chaplain. From 1958 until his retirement he was chief of chap- la mu. WASHINGTON, (NC) —Equal employment opportunity is the "Master key” to the nation’s race problem, the Social Action Department of the National Cat holic Welfare Conference says. The Social Action Depart ment’s 1963 Labor Day state ment says the "ultimate suc cess” of racial justice efforts largely depends on implement ing "a universal policy of equal employment opportunity for Negro workers in every in dustry and trade.” "THE EFFECTIVE exercise of many of the Negro's other basic human rights will depend . . .on whether or not he is given an equal opportunity to develop his native skills and tal ents and to secure gainful and suitable employment on his own merits and without regard to the in liturgy, the ecumenical movement, and the entire pro gram of Christian social action. Unless this new generation of students, who are your present charge, grow up in Christ, the liturgical changes will be only external novelties; ecumenism will be only a gesture of good will; and our social action will be based on nothing but natural expediency. "Second, the revitalization of religion-teaching is not just a matter of method. It Is a mat ter of meaning. New techniques and textbooks come and go in the trade; it is the depth that counts. The terms - man, re ligion, God, faith, grace, Christ, —must be grasped as some thing more than concepts. They must, in the mind of the child and older student, denote reali ty. Our classroom exchanges over the fact of the incarnation, the fact of salvation and grace, must be exercised in existential living, not just in memorized conceptualization. "FINALLY the key to success ful religion-teaching is Christ, the Head of the Body of which we are the members, the cen ter of all Christian life. The source is the Bible, the evan- gelium, the good news, the mes sage and fact of salvation.** color of his skin,” the state ment says. The Social Action Depart ment, whose director is Msgr. George G. Higgins, calls on trade unions, employers and government to take immediate action to guarantee equal job opportunities for Negroes and other minorities. WHILE RECENTmonthshave seen "limited steps” in this area, it says, labor, manage ment and government have so far "hardly scratched the sur face of the total problem.” "Much more can and should be done. . .to protect the basic rights not only of the Negroes, but of Mexican Americans, Pue rto Ricans, American Indians, people of Asian background, and the members of other minority groups who, in varying degrees, are the victims of prejudice and discrimination,” the state ment declares. The NCWCdepartmentmakes these recommendations on eq ual employment opportunity: —TRADE UNIONS. While there are no longer any unions which "a number of key unions” in practice exclude Negroes by making it "extremely diffi cult, if not impossible, for them to qualify for membership.” While calling on union lea ders to take steps to remedy these conditions, the Social Act ion Department at the same time stresses the need for rank-and -file efforts on behalf of racial justice. It also reminds Negro workers that they can help re medy abuses "by playing an increasingly active role in the trade union movement.” —EMPLOYERS. The state ment declares that "Christian moral teaching requires every employer to maintain and en force nondiscriminatory poli cies in hiring, upgrading and discharge.” The statement says employ ers "are in a position to do more than almost any other se gment of the American popula tion to promote the cause of interracial justice.” —GOVERNMENT. The So cial Action Department says there is "urgent need” for a permanent Federal Fair Em ployment Practices Committee with wide jurisdiction and the power to enforce sanctions. It also recommends the establish ment of similar state commit tees. CHARLESTON, S.C. (NC)— Integration of Catholic schools in the Charleston area will take place at the end of August, a year ahead of schedule, Bishop Francis F. Reh has announced. The Bishop of Charleston said in a statement (Aug. 23) that the date was advanced from September, 1964, in view of a recent Federal district court order calling for desegregation of public school district 20 in Charleston. BISHOP Reh said that "be cause of the new circumstances which will now exist in Char leston as a result of the court decision, attention had to be given to the proviso” of a 1961 pastoral letter of the dio cese that stated: "Catholic pu pils, regardless of color, will be admitted to Catholic schools as soon as this can be done with safety to the children and the schools. Certainly, this will be done not later than the pub lic schools are open to all pu pils.” "Accordingly, the admission policy of the Catholic schools in the Charleston area is now as follows: Greater Charles ton is divided into 10 terri torial parishes. While the chur ches of these territorial pari shes have been open to all, regardless of color, there are two other parishes which pri marily serve the Negro Cath olics of the area.” "AS OF September, 1963, Ca tholic Negro elementary stu dents who belong to these two special parishes have a choice of attending either the school which is operated by these pa rishes or the school of the ter ritorial parish in which they reside.” The two "special parishes” referred to, St. Peter’s and Our Lady of Mercy, are attend ed primarily by Negro Ca tholics. The parishes operated Immaculate Conception school, which has 407 Negro children, 202 of them Catholics. These children now may attend either Immaculate Conception Ele mentary School or the school of the territorial parish in which they reside. There are nine schools for the 10 territorial parishes, in cluding Immaculate Conception, and they have had a total en rollment of 3,200 students. "NEGRO Catholic elemen tary students who desire to at tend the school of the terri torial parish in which they re side are to make their inten tions known through their pas tors,” Bishop Reh said. "This must be done in time for re gistration, which is scheduled in all parochial schools August 29 and 30.” In regard to high school in tegration, Bishop Reh said "...because Bishop England High School ( a local central high school) is not only filled to capacity but cannot even accommodate even a number of students who have already ap plied, it will be impossible, un fortunately, to accept Catholic Negro high school students un til September, 1964.” Bishop Reh has also request ed that prayers for racial peace be recited in the Charleston diocese at Masses on Sundays and holy days. He asked that the Divine Praises be said after the Gospel until further notice, and that the prayers be pre ceded each time by this an nouncement: "Let us pray for racial peace based on justice and love for all men.” SCHOOL integration will also go into effect this September in all Catholic schools of the Diocese of Savannah, Ga. An nouncement of this was made in June by Bishop Thomas J. McDonough of Savannah. The past July, Bishop Robert Emmett Tracy of Baton Rouge, La., said that four Catholic high schools in the diocese would be integrated in September, 1964, as the "initial step” toward desegregation of all Catholic in stitutions in the diocese. DAYTON, Ohio (NC)—Arch bishop Karl J. Alter of Cincin nati urged here that Catholics make clear their dedication to religious liberty as a step to ward improving relations among churches in the U. S. Citing non-Catholic suspi cions of Catholic intentions on the score of religious liberty, Archbishop Alter said it is "important that we eliminate this particular obstacle to bet ter relations between oursel ves and others in this pluralis tic society'.” THE Archbishop spoke at a luncheon during the seventh an nual convention of the National Catholic Social Action Confer ence, held at the University of Dayton. Some 300 delegates "Hoodlum Priest’ Requiem Mass ST. LOUIS (NC)—A Requiem Mass was offered here for Fa ther Charles Dismas Clark, S. J., known national^ for his re habilitation work with ex-con victs. The 62-year-old Jesuit priest, subject of a movie* called "The Hoodlum Priest,” died of a heart attack last week at St. Mar>’s Hospital after a three-week illness. HE SOUGHT medical care Jie day following the execution (July 28) of Sammy Tucker, convicted of murder, in whose behalf he had interceded. As sociates at Dismas House said Father Clark was exhausted from his efforts to get a stay of execution for Tucker. WASHINGTON, D. C. -Yes terday's March on Washington has its roots deep in our cul ture and tradition. Its historic development can be traced to the men who stood on the field of Runnymede and whose Magna Charta established forever our right to petition. This Indeed was the salient point for the almost 150,000 persons of all races, colors, and creeds who marched nine blocks from the Washington Monument to the Lincoln Me morial, in order that steps be taken to redress old grievances and to help resolve an American crisis. ATLANTA was represented by several hundred persons, including Dr. Martin Luther King, a leader of the March and president of the Southern Lea dership Conference, and Dr. Be jamin E. Mays, president of Morehouse College. It was estimated that some 2,000 Georgians were in the parade. Catholics were prominent among the many religious groups participating in the Mar ch, including two archbishops, five bishops, and several hun- dre d priests, nuns, seminar ians, and other Religious. THERE WAS no inter-faith rivalry as banners carried by whites and Negroes proclaimed "Catholics, Jews, and Protest- from throughout the country attended. Archbishop Alter noted the presence on the convention pro gram of the Church-State issue and commended the NCSAC for its interest in the subject. He described the Church- State problem as a "source of fear which leads to dissension in our pluralistic society.” SPECIFICALLY, he said, non-Catholics are afraid that a Catholic majority would use the power of government to "restrict the liberty of other groups” to practice their re ligion. In considering the Church- State issue, he said, there must be a clear recognition that in the American system government is a "limited government.” One of the "distinctive cha racteristics” of the American system is "a denial of compe tence to the government in the field of religion,” he said. ARCHBISHOP Alter said there is need for a "clear dis tinction” between society and the State, and a recognition that "society's rights and du ties and government’s rights and duties” are not the same. He cited pronouncements by the late Pope Pius XII and Pope John XXIII as sanction for a Catholic doctrine of re ligious freedom. The basis of this doctrine, he said, is that "religious freedom (is) inhe rent in the individual.” A workshop session on Church and State was held la ter during the convention. ants March for Freedom from Hate and Prejudice.” The religious overtones through the March were further emphasized when the culmi nation rally at the Lincoln Me morial started with an invoca tion by Archbishop Patrick A. Boyle of Washington, and end ed with a benediction by Dr. Mays. COINCIDENTALLY, the fe asts of two African Saints were observed by the Church yester day. These were St. Augustine of Hippo, and St. Moses the Black, a co-worker of St. Be nedict. Special Masses were scheduled at the six major ch urches in downtown Washington to cater to the vast in) lux of visitors to the Nation’sCaptial. Officials here pulled out all the stops to accommodate and facilitate the peaceful intents of the marchers. There were no disorders, even though a member of the American Nazi Party was arrested while a - tempting to create one. In au dition, Lincoln Rockwell, leader of the American Nazi Party, carried out his vow to appear on the scene with a group of followers. Police surveillance prevented any counter rally. MATTHEW AHMANN, exec utive director of the National Catholic Conference for Interr acial Justice, was one of the main speakers at the Lincoln Memorial Rally. He told the vast throng that "The wind of the racial revolution has finally bent the reed of the conscie nce of our people.” He added: "Never before has) the direction we must take been so clear, yet many bend be fore the w inds of justice in con fusion. The balance yet lies in the silent and fearful American. It is he who sees the direction of the future dimly before his conscience; who must act if a wholesome, integrated commu nity for White and Negro Amer icans is to be built without vio lence and without rending this country’s spirit. "WE ARE gathered, too, to dedicate ourselves to build ing a people, a nation, a world which is free of the sin of dis crimination based on color, race, creed, or national origin; a world of the sonsof Godwhu h in all aspects will be a world dedicated to justice and to bonds fraternal.” In his invocation, Archbishop O’Boyle implored; "Bless this nation and all its people. May the warmth of "lour love replace the coldness that springs from prejudice and bit terness. Send in our midst the Holy Spirit to open the eves of all to the great trudi that all men are equal m Your sight. Let us understand that simple justice demands that the rights of all be honored by every man. We ask a special blessing for those men and women who have- been leaders in the struggle for justice and harmony among the races. As Moses of old, they have gone before their people to a land of promise. Let that promise quickly become a rea lity, so that the ideals of free dom. blessed alike by our re ligious faith and our heritage of Democracy will prevail in our land.” MR. AND MRS. A. D. GlY of St. Anthorn ’s Parish, Atlanta, recently held a reunion which was attended by 41 members of their family. Mr. and Mrs. Guv (cneter, second row) were joined bv their sons and daughters, Andrew J. and Charles F. Gu\ oi Adnata. Edward F. Cu\ of Belvedere, S. C., Sister M. Juliene, Omaha, Nebr., Mrs. Dennis Sieber, Havre de Grace, Md., Mr. Joseph F. Guy, Tampa. In addi tion there were 5 iji-laws and 27 grandchildren. Sister M. Julienne is an Ursuline and teaches at Blesses Sacrament School, Omaha. ARCHBISHOP TO TEACHERS Students Must Grow In Christ MUST CONVINCE OTHERS Catholics Support Religious SERVING NC.WC STATEMENT ALSO PRIESTS, NUNS PRAY FOR CHRISTIAN UNITY Bishops Join D.C. March Job Equality Is Vital Need