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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 Will Visit Pope VATICAN CITY, (NC)—West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer- plans to visit His Holiness Pope Paul VI, pro bably In mid-September, Vati can sources have confirmed. id Curtin Now Fetrtwring For 27th DYNAMIC WEEK BOBBY LONERO QUINTET ■■ ■ PLUS —ii ALLEN COUAY DUO FROM 5.00 TO 700 PM. DANCE AT THE SANS SOUCI 750 WEST P7REE TR. 5-4251 Where Insurance is a Profession, Not a Sideline SUTTER & McLELLAN JA 5-2086 SUBSCRIBE TO THE GEORGIA BULLETIN *5.00 PER YEAR Mail to P. O. Box 11667 Northside Station Atlanta 5, Georgia IN a me Addresg City State C T - J Li RANGE BUT TRU Littl.-K nown Facts For Catholic By M. J. MURRAY ;E 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 i V A* \ rfC.***** i\ 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. records over two de- smtrc *** **** ' ‘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. BVBFBT • HINTING * UTHOOIAMING C0\MY jtlleelf Sift 350 FORREST ROAD. N. E. 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> Stud ell NiMMlMtlNi te: CATHOLIC NEAR EAST WELFARI ASSOCIATION 480 Uxington Av«. at 44th St. Ntw Yorh 17, N. Y.