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PAGE 8 GEORGIA BULLETIN THURSDAY, AUGUST 29, 1963
NO VACATION
St. Pius X Faculty
At Summer Schools
A good percentage of the fa
culty at St. Pius X High School
has spent anything but a rest
ful summer. Spread out over the
country in institutions of higher
learning, the teachers have been
pursuing a variety of intensive
courses or have themselves
been engaged in teaching.
Father John Cotter, assist
ant Principal, completed a
course in secondary school a<W
ministration at the University
of Georgia.
Sister Marie Joan, SND, and
Sister Bernard Marie SND,
studied at Trinity College,
Washington, D. C. They took
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By M. J. MURRAY
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PAROCHIAL SCHOOLS
Copyrtfht, IMS, N.C.W.C. N«w* I.rvic,
courses in Sacred Scripture and
linguistics. Sister Marie Char
les, SND, served on the staff
of the Summer School for Ca
tholic Action at Hendersonville,
North Carolina, and later con
ducted a Summer Review School
in Baltimore.
At Catholic University,
Washington, D. C„ Sister Tho
mas Margaret, CSJ, took ex
tensive courses in journalism;
Sister Mary Susan, GNSH, con
tinued her work toward a 'mas
ter's degree in sociology; and
Sister Mary Lucia, RMS, fol
lowed advanced courses in ma
thematics.
Sister Sarlta Clare, CSJ, has
spent her summer teaching a
class in freshman English at
Fontbonne College, St. Louis.
Sister Luis Martin, CSJ, studied
English literature at Marquette
University, Milwaukee. Sister
Mary de Sales, CSJ, attended
a conference on English at Mar
quette University and a work
shop for year book advisors at
the University of Minnesota.
Sister Mary Elaine, GNSH,
participated in the Institute on
Freedom ami Communism, held
at St. Louis University.
At Georgia State College,
Mrs. Margaret Wltalis has been
taking courses in history and
mathematics; and Mrs. Rosa
Dismer, courses in English li-
tsrature.
Also here at home, at Ogle-
thrope University, Mrs. Mary
Jane Olllnger studied mathe
matics; and Mrs. Suzanne Kohn,
economics and history of the
English Isnguage.
Miss Dana Howe began her
work this summer ts an In
structor for the U.S, govern-
ment in Stuttgart, Germany.
Mr. George Maloof conducted
classes algebra at St. Plus High
School.
Opening Delayed
BELMONT. N.C., (NC)—Bel-
mont Abbey College will delay
the opening of its 87th year by
one week, until September 9,
because of unexpected delays in
construction of a dining hall
and dormitory.
TVit* 17™ century jrsuiT House at
SlLLCRY, NEAR QUC&EC IS BELIEVED TO
BE THE OLDEST IN CANADA
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Enrollments Are
Leveling Off
WASHINGTON, (NC) —Cat
holic elementary and secondary
schools are expected to enroll
about 5,565,000 pupils next
month, another high mark in
an unbroken series of enrol-
bing die number
seeking admission.
of children
lment
cades.
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‘ELIMINATE QUOTAS 9
THE CROWNING
OF A STATUE OF THE
BLESSED VIRGIN
IS A RITE THAT MAY
BE CARRICO OUT ONLY
BY SPECIAL PERMISSION
or the Bishop.
Groups Back Change
In Immigration Law
WASHINGTON, (NC)—Seve
nty-two religious and other
groups concerned with im
migration have backed Presi
dent Kennedy's proposal to end
the national origins quota sys
tem In immigration law.
"Wb strongly endorse the his
toric step you have taken,” the
national and local groups wrote
(Aug. 7) to President Kennedy.
Elimination of the present quota
system is the chief part of the
President's recommendations
for changes in immigration
laws.
TOE MESSAGE to the Presi
dent was disclosed (Aug. 20)
by Sen. Philip A. Hart of Mic
higan on the Senate floor. Hart
is Senate sponsor of a bill con
taining th e President's pro
posals.
Five Catholic trganizations
signed the brief statement. They
are; the Department of Immig
ration and Catholic Relief Ser
vices, both sections of the Nat
ional Catholic Welfare Confere
nce; the National Conference
of Catholic Charities and the
National Catholic Rural Life
Conference.
"WE ARE greatly encouraged
and wish to express our appre
ciation for the outstanding lea
dership you are giving in thia
major field of human rights,**
the statement said.
PRESIDENT Kennedy has
proposed that this system be
phased out over a five-year pe
riod. He said it is "without
basis in either logic or reason.”
In its pice, a "pool” of the
same number of quotas would
be established. They would be
distributed by the president
with the advice of a seven-
member board on the basis of
skills, family relationships and
priority of registration. '
But indications are that
growth in elementary schools,
the pacesetters since World
War II, is slowing down and
levelling off.
HIGH SCHOOLS, However,
continue expansion at a rapid
pace.
Their enrollment went over the
million mark for the first time
in 1962.
By the end of the past school
year, U. S. Catholic education,
including colleges and univer
sities, had undergone an enrol
lment growth since 1942 of 127.
4 per cent.
In 1963, elementary schools
will enroll an estimated 4,515,
000 pupils, roughly 30,620 more
than last year, and high schools
will Increase to about 1,050,
000, an estimated 40,870 over
1962.
THESE ARE highlights taken
from an estimate of the 1963
enrollment and an actual count
of 1962 figures made by the
Department of Education of the
National Catholic Welfare Con
ference here.
By far the largest private sc
hool system in the world, U.S.
Catholic schools have in recent
years faced problems inabsor-
TH1S HAS been largely due
to a shortage of teaching Sis
ters and the increasing diffi
culty of Catholic parishes in
financing salaries of lay tea
chers and construction of ad
ditional school facilities.
This strain has shown in dis
cussion by Catholic educators of
the merits of dropping some
grades and in decisions by two
Sees, the St. Louis archdiocese
anf the Rochester, N, Y., dio
cese, to stop temporarily cons
truction of new schools or ad
ditions to old ones.
TOE PRESSURE is reflect
ed in the NCWC department's
figure which show only about a
one per cent enrollment incre
ase in elementary schools last
year in sharp contrast to in
creases of as high as three or
four per cent in some prev
ious years.
In addition, the number of te
aching Sisters, traditionally the
backbone of Catholic elemen
tary schooling, decreased in nu
mber last year while the number
of lay teachers continued to
shoot up as It has for several
years.
The expanding role of lay
teachers is shown in figures for
the 20-year span, 1942 to 1962.
While religious teachers incre
ased by 43.3 per cent during
that time, lay teachers rose
from a total of 13,389 or 67,
535, a gain of 400 per cent.
NOTRE DAME OFFIGAL
New Clergy-Lay Relations
Necessary, Educator Says
NOTRE DAME, Ind. (NC)—
The relationship between priest
and Catholic laymen by the end
of this century "will necessar
ily be quite different from what
it is now," George N. Shuster
told 300 chaplains of the Chris
tian Family Movement meeting
here.
The assistant to the presi
dent of Notre Dame University
predicted that by then half the
Catholic families of the U.S.
will be the result of unions in
which at least one parent will
have had a college education.
To provide clerical leadership
for a much better educated Ca
tholic laity, Shuster proposed
"a formation movement for the
secular clergy."
"IS IT too bold to advocate
that in the not too far distant
future something like one-tenth
of all diocesan priests be en-
MEANING OF CHRISTIAN’
Pope John Gave
New Awareness
abled and indeed encouraged to
acquire doctorates in a variety
of academic subjects?" he ask
ed.
Shuster said he considered
some such action essential "if
our traditional relationship be
tween priest and parish is to
be conserved, and if the trend,
already so evident in not a
few urban areas, toward mak
ing the priest a dispenser of
the sacraments in assembly
line fashion and a collector
of ecclesiastical revenue is to
be halted."
The former president of Hun
ter College in New York said
he has a great deal of respect
for the lay apostolate. "But
just as I so not believe that
college students can be well
educated unless their profes
sors know how to educate, so
also I do not believe that the
apostolate will ever amount to
a great deal unless there are
priests who can lead It," he
said.
STRESSING that the times re
quire civic and cultural cooper
ation with others, Shuster said
"higher liberal education for
priests can uncover the poten
tial relationship between theo
logy and the other interests
and pursuits of society.
"We often wonder why it is
that the social teachings of the
Church even now receive so
little attention," he continued.
"I believe that the major rea
son is quite simple. One has to
know a little about social In
stitutions and trends before one
can reconcile any kind of tea
ching with them. The plain facts
are that not only have Catholics
in the United States neglected
the social sciences in the gen
eral education of the laity, but
that priests normally come out
of seminaries knowing nothing
whatever of them."
IN APPROACHING the pro
blem of race relations, for
example, nothing is gained if
individuals propel themselves
into the turbulent stream, Shus
ter said. "What is called for
is careful and well-trained
group approaches to the heart
of the matter.”
The solution to the social pro
blems facing America "cannot
result from Catholic endeavors
alone," he stated. "Nor from
non-Catholic efforts alone.
SAN ANTONIO, Tex. — The
late Pope John XXIII gave to
the Church a new awareness of
what it means to be a Christ
ian, Coadjutor Bishop John L.
Morkovsky said here.
He did so by his personal
outlook and by calling the Se
cond Vatican Council, the
Apostolic Administrator of the
Galveston-Houston diocese said
at the convention banquet of the
Catholic Central Union of
America and the National Cath
olic Women's Union.
"WE HAVE had an idea of the
Church as a society of middle-
class white people, nice peo
ple, with some others outside
it,” Bishop Morkovsky said,
"but we have had no real awa
reness of the place of people
in the Church. Christ did not
shed His blood for the 20 out
of 100 people who are Catho
lics. He did not withhold 80
per cent of Hil bloddfrorn those
who are not Catholics."
Declaring that,, Christians
had failed to see this aspect
of Christ's Incarnation, Bishop
Morkovsky added; "To see Ch
rist in every human being Is to
be Christian. Through Pope
John and the ecumenical coun
cil we are now becoming aware
of this fact.”
"We have to learn a whole
new language of dialogue,” Bis
hop Morkovsky said. "We have
talked in a monologue because
we have been smug in our closed
society. We are so smug, so
convinced that we representCh-
rist in the world that themove-
ment of unity is all one way.
Let us try to be worthy, to
open our eyes, to become aware
of what it means to be foolo-
wers of Christ, to promote the
interests of Christ in the
world that the movement of
unity is all one way. Let us
try to be worthy, to open our
eyes, to become aware of what
it means to be followers of
Christ, to promote the interests
of Christ in the world."
MSGR. PAUL J. Ehllnger,
pastor of St. Joseph's church
here and spiritual adviser of
the host societies at the con
vention, said "the comfortable
Christian wants to be felf alone
with a sentimental Christ
ianity,”
7F NO ONE COMPLAINS 9
Lord’s Prayer Okay
In N.J. Schools
TRENTON, N.J., (NC)—The
Lord’s Prayer can still be re
cited in New Jersey schools—
if no one complains.
This interpretation is being
given to the announcement here
by Assistant State Education
Commissioner Eric Groezinger
that the education department
will not act against school
boards permitting the practice
unless a complaint is made.
THE education department,
Groezinger said, has no de
finitive policy on schools that
defy last June's U.S. Supreme
Court decision on prayer and
Bible reading in public schools.
No attempt will be made to for
ce schools to comply, although
the department has Issued a rul
ing that New Jersey statutes
fall under the court decision.
New Jersey law had required
Bible reading and permitted
the Lord's Prayer at the start
of each school day.
Gorezinger made the depart
ment’s views known after being
questioned about possible action
against districts failing to heed
the department ruling. By law,
the department has the power
to withhold state aid from
schools not abiding by its di
rectives.
MEANWHILE, two more
school districts have acted on
the prayer question. In New
Providence, the school board
voted to substitute patriotic
songs and 30 seconds of silence
in the opening exercises. The
Greater Egg Harbor regional
high school board voted to omit
any reference to prayer in its
directive on opening exercises,
thus leaving the question up to
each individual teacher.
ARCHBISHOP PALL J, HALLINAN and Father Leonard
Spanjers, Pastor of St. Luke's Church, Dahlonega, shown with
a group of parishioners after the Archbishop had celebrated
the first Mass in the former Presbyterian Church building
now completely renovated for use as the Catholic Parish Church.
DAHLONEGA
Archbishop Offers
Mass In New Church
On Sunday, August 18, Arch
bishop Paul J. Hallinan visited
Dahlonega to offer the first
Mass in the recently renovat
ed, former Presbyterian Ch
urch n'ow St. Luke's parish
Church.
In his sermon, the Archbishop
emphasized that the Catholic
Church is not a building or an
organization like any social gat
hering, but each Catholic is
himself the Church. Each Cath
olic carries the Church into his
daily activities whether at
home, work, school, or recre
ation.
After Mass the Archbishop
greeted the people individually,
and inspected the progress
being made on the construct
ion financed by the Georgia Mis
sion collections which made it
possible to purchase the old
Church. The new building will
include a rectory, parish hall,
and Newman Student Center for
North Georgia College.
The Archbishop was assisted
by Rev. August Guppenberger
at St. Luke’s, The Mass com
mentary and dialogue parts
were lead by Rev. Leonard
Spanjers, pastor.
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ATI ANTA. GEORGIA
lndia:“AGood Abode for Our Jesus”
THE POOR CLARES of Our Lady of I.ourdcs Convent, in
the village of CHERPU in Southern India, have written: “A
itood number of lay peoule come
here to attend lloly Mass. They have
to stand in the road to hear Mass
. . . Wc desire greatly to build a
rhapef, a good abode for our Jesus.
Rut we cannot expect much from
our neighborhood for our people
are very poor and the others are
mostly Hindus ... We need S3.000
for a chapel.” Their Bishop adds a
note of approval and recommenda-
tion . . . These heroic Sisters are
** _ devoting their lives to India’s people
Jbt Holy Father's Mission Aul of . the ‘ r wonderful
. , . . , founders, St. franeis of Assisi and
for the OruntM Church St Clare. Mavbe you would like to
help th-m, a little or a lot . . . Any
donation will be appreciated and the Sisters and their people
will pray for you as long as the chapel lasts. India is a country
where the message of Christ is known to relatively few—less
than two per cent of the population! . . . Yet it is a deeply
religious country, drawn to God. With your generous help, it
will one day be truly Christ’s abode! P>
CAN OLDER FOLKS BE IDEALISTS? Wc think so, even
though today's emphasis is on youth. God bless the latter for
their generosity in the Peace Corps, Papal Volunteers and other
idealistic causes! Of course wc cannot forget that wonderful
young man, the Apostle John, yet he was but one in a band of
a dozen! The older ones were just as dedicated.
SOME WAYS FOR OLDER OR YOUNGER APOSTLES
OF TODAY TO HELP;
□ Educate a Sister like SR. MARIA ABRAHAM or SR. SARAH
OOMMEN for two years. Cost: S150 a year
□ Help to educate a seminarian such as PAUL NARIPPARA or
GEORGE NIRAVATH. Cost: $100 a year for six years.
□ Give a STRINGLESS GIFT. It will be used where the Holy
Father thinks the need is greatest.
□ BUILD A CHAPEL or SCHOOL. Cost: $2,000 to $6,000. What
a wonderful MEMORIAL for a loved one!
□ Send MASS STIPENDS. Often a priest's only dally support
in the NEAR and MIDDLE EAST
□ Give a FOOD PACKAGE to a needy PALESTINE REFUGEE
FAMILY. It will help them for a month. Cost: $10. A
BLANKET for them costs only $2.
□ Join one of our MISSION CLUBS, helping orphans, the
aged, the training of seminarians and Sisters, lepers, sup
plying articles for chapels. Donation: SI a month whenever
you can send it!
□ Make any gift in the name of a friend or relative if you wish.
We’ll gladly notify them of your thoughtfulness.
KINDLY REMEMBER US IN' YOUR WILL, OUR LEGAL
TITLE: CATHOLIC NEAR EAST WELFARE ASSOCIATION.
Membership in our society is $1 a year for a single person; $5
for a family. S20 for a permanent single membership; $100 lor
a permanent family membership.
AND IN RETURN
, a f e a m *niber of the CATHOLIC NEAR EAST WEL
FARE ASSOCIATION, you share in the Masses offered by His
Holiness, Pop? Paul VI. in the Masses of our President. Cardinal
Spellman, and in the Masses of all the Bishops and priests en
gaged in this w ork. 15 000 Masses each year are offered for the
living and the dead, and every morning a priest offers Mass in
St. Peter's Basilica in Rome for deceased members!
lMi12s2ar last Glissfesj-
FRANCIS CARDINAL SPILLMAN, Present
Mujr Joitpb T. ty«a. N«»’| S*c>
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