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PRAY FOR CHRISTIAN UNITY diocese of Atlanta SERVING GEORGIA’S 71 NORTHERN COUNTIES VOL. 1 NO. 35 DAILY MASS, to which his devout mother often took him, •owed the seeds of the future holiness of young John Neu mann in his native village of Prachatitz, in Bohemia. She also let him accompany her on her many errands of charity among the poor. The artist has portrayed the scene here. The youngster decided to come to the "wilds of America” and be a missionery. Ordained a Redemptorist priest in 1836 in New York at the age of 25, he bacame, in 1852 the fourth Bishop of Philadelphia. His beatification ceremony is scheduled for October 13. IN CONVENTION Family Life Expert To Address ACCW Monsignor John C. Knott, di rector of the Family Life Bur eau of the National Catholic Welfare Conference, will be the guest speaker at the Seventh Annual Meeting of the Arch diocesan Council of Catholic Women to be held at the Din kier Plaza Hotel on Saturday, Sept. 7. ▼ j ■ Msgr. Knott will speak on “Woman’s Greatest Challenge- m Herself”, in which he will dis cuss the Christian nature of women. THE DIRECTOR of the Fam ily Life Bureau since October of 1961, Msgr. Knott was ele vated to the rank of Domes tic Prelate with the title, Right Reverend Monsignor, in De cember of 1962. MONSIGNOR KNOTT A native of Connecticut, he was ordained in 1939. He was engaged in parish work, as as sistant and administrator and served as a U. S. Navy chap lain. He did graduate work at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D. C. in the field of marriage and the family. ON A WUYM CARD. This copyrighted illustration of Pope Paul VI, by artist Paul Sullivan, appear* on a pray er card included in a kit of material* to promote the 13th annual observance of National Catholic Youth Week, October 27 to Novem ber 3, 1963. The theme for the week is "The Young Catholic in the Lay Apoato- late.” Msgr. Knott worked exten sively in the promotion of the Cana Conference movement in Connecticut for 14 years and was full-time director of the Marriage and Family Aposto- late of the Archdiocese of Hart ford for 11 years. He is the author of numerous articles, among them the weekly syndi cated column, "Everyman’s Family”. His speech will be the featured event of the con vention dinner at 6 pjn. PRECEEDING convention activities include the celebra tion of a dialogue mass by Arch bishop Paul J. Hallinan at Sa cred Heart Church at 11 a.m. Installation of AOCW officers will follow with Mrs. Edward P. Faust assuming the duties of president. WITH "Priest and Layman— Inseparable Partners” as the central theme of the day’s ac tivities, the program has been arranged under the general chairmanship of Mrs. Lewis Chapman. It will include 1:00 p.m. registration at the Dink ier Plaza Hotel, committee workshops beginning at 2:00 p.m. , and the business meet ing which opens at 4:00 p.m. Dinner will be served from 6:00 p.m. until 8:00 p.m. Spiritual Moderator for the Archdiocesan Council is Rev. Michael Manning, Pastor, St. Peter and Paul Church, De catur. ATLANTA, GEORGIA THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1963 $5.00 PER YEAR NEWMAN CONVENTION • SEE ALSO PAGE 2 LAFAYETTE, La (NC) — More than 800 students, chap lains, faculty, staff and alumni, participated in sessions hereof the 48th national convention of the Newman Club Federation, which concluded August 31. Host club was the University of Southwestern Louisiana with convention meetings held at the Lafayette Municipal Auditorium and on the USL campus. The sessions convened August 26. JOHN MENG, president of Hunter College, New York, set the pace with his keynote ad dress on the convention theme, “Newman Apostolate, Incarnat ion in the University.” “A dynamic Newman aposto late demands from each one of us full and integral participat ion in the life of the univer sity,” Meng emphasized. "Too often, I fear, the so-called New man apostolate in our univer sities has little effect beyond the closed circle of those who are already members of the Mystical Body of Christ. “Too often we seem to feel that Newmanism consists ex clusively in erecting barriers of defense against attacks upon our Faith,” he added. "Too of ten are we concerned simply with saving what we have and give little heed to sharing this gift with others. An apostolate which confines itself to the preservation of the Faith and ingores the propagation of the Faith is an apostolate in name only.” MANY VOLUNTEERS thy Dyer, Ypsilanti, Mich., NCE national president, and John Bernard, Lafayette, convention chairman. Talks at the August 27 ses sions continued the considera tion of the convention theme. Auxiliary Bishop Warren L. Boudreaux of Lafayette stress ed: “Christ was born once, but He wills to be bom again, in the hearts of men. He died once, but that death is renewed daily on our altars. It is your duty and mine to be missionaries of His coming, to be witnesses to the furthermost parts of the earth.” "WHEREVER you go, what ever you do, whatever you wear, whatever you think, you are the Church,” the bishop told the delegates. James Oliver, dean of the USL graduateschool, discussing the incarnation of the apostolate in the university, reminded: ’’The university, in its quest for knowledge, must allow and even encourage and stimulate studies related to the existence of God and to an understanding of His nature. “In addition to studying about the existence of God, the uni versity must be concerned about the existence of man,” he con tinued. BACK TO SCHOOL for children of Archdiocese resulted in Sister Mary Edmund, of St. Thomas More, Decatur, Parochial School getting to know Cathy Duprie and Sherry Pirhalla. Dynamic Apostles Needed For Full University Life U.S. Church Responding To Latin America Tasks “WELL - INFORMED Catho lics secure in their faith, need have no fear of ideas at variance with their own. They should welcome the opportunity to enter fully into all phases of the intellectual life oi the university. This indeed they must do as living instruments of the Incarnation,” Meng de clared. Bishop Maurice Schexnayder of Lafayette, host for the con vention, in welcoming the dele gates, quoted from die recent coronation address of His Holi ness Pope Paul VI— “We sal ute our sons in Christ, among whom We wish to mention esp ecially the bold and generous young people, in whom rests sure hope for a better future.” “The priest, Religious, lay leader must, whether he likes it or not,” Bishop Schednayder continued, “fulfill in the world the role of a prophet. Not the prophet who foretells the future, but one who speaks for God, is the mouthpiece of God. “How vast and ready for the harvest are the fields in which it is your privilege to live and how challenging— the campus of the secular college or univ ersity, ” he said. Bishop Schexnayder, who spent 17 years as a Newman chaplain at Louisiana State Uni versity, Baton Rouge, challen ged his listeners to prepare themselves for their role. “PROVIDENCE AND GRACE never die .. On these you must depend. Keep your eyes on high and fear nothing, be loyal to the truth, Christ's truth,” he ad vised. Also on the opening program were: Lafayette Mayor J. Ray burn Bertrand: T. J. Arce- neaux, dean of the USL Coll ege of Agriculture, represent ing university officials; Timo DAVENPORT, Iowa — The Catholic Church in the Uni ted States will have Sbme 5,000 priests, Brothers and nuns plus more that 1,000 volunteers from the laitv working in the miss ion fields of Latin America be fore the close of the 1960’s. This estimate came from Father John J. Considine, M. M., director of the Latin Ameri ca Bureau, National Catholic Welfare Conference, in an ad dress (Aug. 21) at the annual Study Week of the Apostolate sponsored by the Davenport dio cese. • SEE ALSO PAGE 7 Archbishop Paul J. Hallinan will bless the new convent at St. Jude the Apostle Parish, Atlanta, on Sunday, September 8, at 3:00 P.M. Following the ceremony, there will be an open house until 6:00 P.M. A recep tion for the parishioners will be held in the school cafeteria. The Convent will house mem bers of the Grey Nuns of the Sacred Heart whose staff St. Jude’s Parochial School. Su perior is Sister Francis Mau- rine, G.N.S.H. Other members of the Order on the teaching staff are: Sister Gabriel Marie, FATHER Considine’s topic was "North America’s Res ponse to Latin America’s Needs." He said the Church in Canada now has some 1,500 priests, Brothers, nuns and lay volunteers working in Latin America. "It has assumed responsib ility for two special projects, the national major seminary at Tegucigalpa, Honduras, and the minor seminary in the Diocese of Marilia In Brazil,” the NCWC official continued. "Its public pledges in financial assistance for 1962 surpassed $2,500,000, to which should be added from nise, G.N.S.H. Sr. Brigid Ann G. N. S. H. DESIGNED by Albert Ossow- ski Ordwav, A.LA., the build ing consists of a chapel-altar and tabernacle of marble in me mory of the late Father James P. Boyce (a gift of his mother) the former Chancellor of the Archdiocese and Pastor of St. Joseph’s in Athens. There are also eleven bedrooms, Com munity' Room, guest bedroom, guest dining room, two parlors, and a refectory. The building is of weathered side of stone mountain granite and wood shin gles. three to four million dollars more which have followed the Canadian personnel into the field.” DETAILING the U. S. effort, Father Considine said: “By present prospects the Church in the United States will supply approximately 5,000 priests, America during the 1960s. “In addition, the Papal Volun teers for Latin America will represent a body of apostolic short-term lay workers in Lat in America who by the end of the current decade will have totaled over a thousand volunteers,” he continued. Father Considine estimated that Catholic sources in the U. S. are sending in excess of $10 million a year into Latin Ameri ca. “THE GREAT bulk of this goes toward the personal sup port and apostolate of the Unit ed States personnel in the field,” he said. CONTINUED ON PAGE 8 OH, NO! LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (NC)— “Oh, no” was the reaction of Msgr. James E. O’Connell, rec tor of St. John’s Home Missions Seminary here, when he select ed the winning ticket in a draw ing for $100 during the annual two-day reunion of the semi nary’s alumni association. The winning ticketcarriedhis name. ARCHBISHOP TO OFFICIATE St. Jude Convent Dedication Sunday G.N.S.H., and Sister Marie De- HELP LS’ Pope Makes Direct Plea For Laymen FRASCATI, Italy, (NC)— “Come help us now !” His Ho liness Pope Paul VI said in a direct appeal to the laity of the world to enter actively into the work of the Church. The Pontiff's strong and sim ple appeal was made in his Ser mon during Mass at the cathe dral of Frascati on Sunday. THIS ALSO — the Mass and sermon — began to appear as something new in the modern pontificates. It was the third successive Sunday thatthePope had left his summer residence at Castelgandolfo to go to a nearby church in the hill coun try south of Rome to celebrate the Eucharist and deliver a ser mon after the Gospel, just as Catholic pastors everywhere were doing. The Pope himself had made this apparently developing pat tern something to watch, for he had made the three sermons of the three Sundays vehicles for important pronouncements: Au gust 18, was an appeal to the Eastern Christian Churches for reunion; August 25, a general appeal for a stronger living Faith; September 1, an invita tion to the laity to go to work in the apostolate “today — imme diately.” THE OCCASION of the Pope’s visit was a solemn ceremony to venerate the remains of St. Vincent Pallotti — who a cen tury and a half ago had offered his first Mass, at Frascati, and who was canonized by Pope John last January. Pope Paul hailed the newly sainted founder of the Society of Catholic Apostolate as “a pio neer in his discovery of the lai ty’s capacity for good,” and he said that Pallotti had given a lesson to the Church to enable it to “foresee and prepare for this hour when the Catholic lai ty has come of age.” THE LAYMAN, said the Pope, “is now one of the major hopes of the Church.” Recalling how Father Pallotti had worked in the aftermath of the French Re volution, Paul VI remarked: “The motives for the social transformation wrought by the French Revolution, though clo thed in laicism and protest against the Church, were, how ever, deeply Christian. “The ideals of liberty, equa lity and fraternity are altogeth er Christian, just as are today’s deep social aspirations for jus tice and freedom. “ALL OF US are responsible for our times and for our bro thers. Responsibility is a tre mendous word which only the saints with their intuitive opti mism conceived with energetic force. St. Vincent Pallotti was a pioneer of that perception.” Then, phrasing his words in a direct and universal appeal, the Pope said to lay people: “The day is growing late. Become convinced that it is necessary to work today — immediately, that not an hour can be lost! The needs are im mense and most urgent. “COME AND help us to tell the world where is truth and where is error — this world which is so distracted and al most overcome by centrifugal movements. There is need to go to work today, immediateh. To morrow could be too late. Now is the hour of the laity... “It is now that the lay peo pie must knowledgeably join the hierarchy in carrying the cross on the road of salvation and im merse themselves with the hierarchy in the diffusion of grace. The laity, awakened by modern culture, already feels this vocation.” In the course of his sermon, the Pope also said: “THE FIRST responsibilities belong naturally to the priest. But St. Vincent Pallotti saw that the layman himself could be come an active element, thus anticipating by a century the modern forms of the lay apos tolate. This truth is not yet re cognized sufficiently. “The layman should arrive at a knowledge of this fact, which is true not only by reason of the need for lengthening the arms of the priest, which do not reach everywhere and are not suffi cient for all his labors. It is true also because of something deeper and more essential: by CONTINUED ON PAGE 8 \\H.\T MAY well be a uni que representation of St. Joseph the Worker, is this statue of the saint in the lobb\ of St. Joseph Parochial School in Mishawaka, St. Joseph County, Indiana. Sculptured in Italian white mar ble from a plan formulated b;. the pastor, Msgr. Curt A. Suelzer, its most noticeable break with tradition is his youthful appearance.