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PRAY FOR CHRISTIAN UNITY the NORTHERN iocese of Atlanta COUNTIES SERVING GEORGE’S VOL. 1 NO. 36 ATLANTA, GEORGIA THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1963 $5.00 PER YEAR CATHOLIC MEN PROJECT ‘Operation Understanding’ Launching November 10 "Operation Understanding", an explanatory tour of each par ish in the Archdioscese of Atlanta, has been scheduled for Sunday, November 10, from 2:00 until 5:00 p.m.. As announced in the Archbishop’s pastoral letter on Christian Unity, the project will be sponsored by the Arch- diosesan Council of Catholic Men and conducted by the res pective parish men’s organ izations. The purpose of this joint effort, implicit in its title, is one of promoting better under standing among all persons of good will. In particular, Cat holic laymen will be given an unparralleled opportunity to promote the ultimate goal of Christian Unity by exhibiting knowledge of and enthusiasm for their own faith to their non- Catholic friends and neighbors. IN ACTUAL practice, visi tors will be conducted in small groups through each parish chu rch by tour guides, each of whom will offer a concise explanation of a perrtnent physical or lit urgical division of the church, including the Baptismal Font, Confessional, Stations of the Cross, displays of Vestments, LOU GORDON Missals, Bibles and religious articles, Sacred Vessels, the Sanctuary, Altar and Sacristy. If the parish school adjoins the church, it is to be included in the tour. DOCTOR BERRY Before leaving, visitors will be given an opportunity to meet the pastor and/or teaching sis ters, have refreshments, ask pertinent questions, and receive a souvenir program. Informa tive literature will be available for visitors if they so desire. No religious service will be held during the tour , and there will be no guest book to sign or formal "head count’’ made. Should Catholics be invited to similar projects (withoutrelig ious services) in non-Catholic churches, they will be free to accept if they so desire. OPERATION Understanding is a project of near limitless possibilities, since it involves the full employment of a vigo rous apostolate in a setting of knowledge, truth, beauty and ecumenical enthusiasm. Never theless past experience dictates that if the project is to be successful, a sincere personal effort must be made by each parishioner to invite and per sonally accompany his non-Cat holic friend or neighbor to the tour. Many interested and sin cerely friendly individuals will be understandably hesitant to enter unfamiliar surroundings without a familiar face to rea ssure them. No amount of pub lic publicity- and entreaty will be of avail without a personal invitation accompained by a smile and an offer of trans portation. Parishioners will be given personal invitation cards to distribute so that their neigh bors may be reminded of the time and place. The following acting commi ttee has been appointed by Fer dinand Buckley, acting pres ident, Atlanta Archdioscesan Council of Catholic Men, to dir ect Operation Understanding^. J. Norman Berry, St. Jude's Parish, General Chairman: Herbert G. Farnsworth, Cath edral of Christ The King, Co- Ordinator; and Lewis Gordon, Jr., Cathedral of Christ The King, Publicity Chairman. In addition, a general chairman named for each parish. These men and their pastors will soon meet with the Spirit ual Moderator of the Atlanta ACCM, the Rev. John Stapleton, pastor of St. Jude Parish in or der to discuss the nature and the final planning of this extremely important project. The meeting for the Atlanta area parishes has been set for September 13 at St. Jude’s school at 8:00 p.m.. Additional meetings will be held on September 24 at St. Mary’s sch ool in Rome, September 25 at St. Joseph’s school in Athens, and on September 26 at Sacred Heart School in Griffin. Following these meetings, addi tional plans and details of Pro ject Understanding will be published. HERB FARNSWORTH CROWDED CALENDER Council Will Need Third Session To Finish Work NOTRE DAME, lnd. (NC)— Joseph Cardinal Ritter said "we can expect more than one addi tional session” after the second phase of the Second Vatican Council concludes on December 4. "Procedural changes might make a big difference,” the Archbishop of St. Louis spe culated, "but 1 know- of none Westminster VATICAN CITY , (NC)— Archbishop John Heenanof Liv erpool has been named Arch bishop of Westminster, succee ding the late William Cardinal Godfrey who died in January. An articulate leader with a flair for the dramatic phrase, Archbishop Heenan lias been particularly active in the move ment toward Christian unity. His statements on education, iamily and the struggle against communism have also won wide attention. His audiences have included Hyde Park hecklers, and he has debated with H, G. that have been publicly announ ced. All die council Fathers are quite accustomed to the esta blished procedure; this should result in greater speed in the second session.” CARDINAL RITTER said that effects of the council should be felt in about 10 years. He said •he anticipates there will be "greater interest and accept- Archbishop Wells. THE PRELATE, 58, was born in London, ordained at 25 and- consecrated as Bishop of Leeds by Archbishop Godfrey in March, 1951, He became he ad of the Liverpool archdiocese in May, 195", succeeding Ar chbishop Godfrey there, at Liv erpool he was the spiritual le ader of about 500,000 Catholics; the Westminister archdiocese, which includes much of London, has about 450,000 Catholics. Recently Archbishop Heenan offered Catholics eight rules for fostering Christian unity. ance of responsibility on the part of the laity." "They will have come to a greater realization by that time—and this will be a direct result of the council—that they, in the words of Pope Pius XII, are the Church, that they are the people of God,” the Car dinal said. "It should be more evident than it has been that the advancement of the cause of the Church, its reputation and its contribution to society is largely Ln their hands.” IN THE sessions that lie ahead, Cardinal Ritter said he anticipates that the major sub ject will be the Chruch. "I expect that the importance of tills topic will bring about a great deal of discussion," Car dinal said. "Pope John, you will recall, in convoking the coun cil said he wanted the Church renewed and relevant to our times. I'm confident that the council will give a considerable portion of its time to defining the Church and clarifying the meaning of the Church as the people of God.” MISSIONARY SISTERS OF THE SACRED HEART, Clergy, and Friends are pictured prior to the ceremony which took place on Tuesday in Athens marking the start of construction on the new 135 bed hospital to replace the 25 year old St. Mary’s Hospital. THREE MILLION COST New St. Mary’s Hospital Ground Broken In Athens • SEE STORY ON PAGE 8 ATHENS — Groundbreaking ceremonies for the new St. Mary’s Hospital took place Tuesday on Baxter Street, one- half block from Alps Road. Sacred Heart of Jesus, and bank loans. Loans at current bank interest rates negotiated SOME OPPOSE by St. Mary’s Hospital accounts for about 40% of the total cost of the new hospital. Cardinals Uphold Test Ban Treaty The public was invited to attend the short program plan ned by the hospital. Those on hand to offer e their comments on the occasion were the Most Reverend Paul J. Hallinan., Ar chbishop of Atlanta; the Honor able Jack R. Wells, Mayor of Athens; Rivington H. Randolph, M. D., President of St. Mary’s Hospital Medical Staff; Mr. Wil liam A. Mathis, Chairman, Lay Advisory Board of St. Mary’s Hospital; Mr. Frank Wilson, President of the Georgia Hos pital Association and Adminis trator of Grady Memorial Hos pital in Atlanta; and Mr. J. R. Wilkinson, Architect. The new St. Mary's Hospital will be a modern, completely air-conditioned, 135-bed hospi tal, costing approximately $3, 000,000,00. It will be a total of six floors, requiring about 18 months to construct. The ground and first floors w ill house service departments supporting the four-floor, cen tral core of nursing units above. The plans have been developed for the ultimate in patient care and comfort, including piped- in oxygen, vacuum, compress ed air, and medical gasses; central patient television sys tem; nurse-call system; 10- bed intensive care unit for the seriously ill; three elevators and two dumbwaiters. There will have private toilet facili ties. The new hospital isbeingfin- anced by a Hill-Burton grant of $1,080,000.00, a campaign fund, donated salaries of the Missionary Sisters of the Most Brass Ring For Church Benefit CONEY ISLAND, N.Y.(NC)— It's a case of ride the merry- go-round and help the Church at popular Steeplechase Park here at Coney Island. The amusement park still carries out a custom established by the late George C. Tilyou. For the 65th year the Tilyou family con tributed a day’s gross receipts to Our Lady of Solace church in Brooklyn. NEW YORD, (NC)—Twelve leading Catholic, Protestant and Jewish churchmen endorsed the nuclear test ban treaty in a joint statement on the eve of the start of Senate debate on the treaty's ratification. Two Catholic Cardinals-Ri chard Cardinal Cushing, Arch bishop of Boston, and Joseph Cardinal Ritter, Archbishop of St. Louis—were among the 12 signers; of the statement, which called the test ban treaty a "first step along the road of peace.” HOWEVER, Catholic Bishop Albert L. Fletcher of Little Rock, Ark., was among the signers of another statement opposing ratification of the tre aty. The statement said all Ame ricans should follow the Senate debate on the treaty and "be aware of critical issues that are being discussed,” “We do not presume to ad vise on the technical and mili tary aspects of this proposed test ban treaty. However, along with maintaining the needs of our military defenses, the moral aspect of the issue should be given great weight," the religious leaders said. "CONTINUED nuclear test ing has consequences for life on earth that must be recog nized," they declared, adding: "It now seems reasonable to take this first step along the road of peace for the common good of the world,” In support of their position they cited statements by His Holiness Pope Paul VI, the late Pope John XXIII and the World Council of Churches. THE STATEMENT opposing the treaty, signed by Bishop Fletcher and others, was is sued by the National Commit tee Against the Treaty of Mos cow. Its chairman is L. Brent Bozell, an editor of the Na tional Review Magazine. The statement called on the Senate to reject the test ban treaty. It said the agreement's “crucial defect" is that it will "nourish in western public opinion a fraudulent confidence in the good will and peaceful intensions of the enemy.” "TO RATIFY this treaty would be to help determine the will of the West to survive,” the statement warned. The statement also assert ed that continued U.S. atmos pheric testing of nuclear wea pons is necessary for national security. Audience Wasn’t Cancelled The Associated Press re ported (Sept, 10) that an au dience with His Holiness Pope Paul VI for Archbishop Pierre Ngo dinh Thuc of Hue, brother of Vietnamese President Ngo dinh Diem, had been canceled. The Rome Bureau of the N.C.W.C. News Service report ed that the Archbishop’s name was not on the official list of those to be granted audiences on September 10. The bureau said that newsmen and photo graphers collected at the Vati can in the morning on a tip that Archbishop Thuc was due for an audience, but he failed to appear. POPE DECLARES Church Has Not Changed Attitude Toward Marxism CASTELGANDOLFO, Italy (NC)— His Holiness Pope Paul VI said here that the pas oral efforts of the Church to meet today's problems does not mean that the Church has changed its mind about communism. the Church “it indicates the re lation between the eternal values of Christian truth and their insertion in the dynamic reality of human life, so ex traordinarily changeable to day... Speaking to a group of Ita lian Bishops and priests who had just completed a week of study on "Pastoral Updating,” Pope Paul said: "LET NO ONE believe that this pastoral solicitude to which the Church gives so much atte ntion in its program today signi fies a change of judgment about the errors spread in our soci ety and already condemned by the Church, such as atheistic Marxism, for example.” The Pontiff said that "to seek to apply careful and healing remedies to a contagious and lethal disease does not mean that one changes his opinion about it. It means rather that he seeks to combat it not only theoretically but also practic ally. It means that he follows diagnosis with therapy, that he applies healing charity to doct rinal condemnation.” “IT IS a word which indica tes the relative and experimen tal aspect of the ministry of salvation, which has nothin more greatly at heart than to be efficacious and which sets how much its efficacy is con ditioned by the cultural, moral and social state of the soul:, to which it is directed.” The Pope described the word "updating” as demonstrating the Church’s concern for doirn away with outmoded practices, familiarizing itself with new forms, shortening the “neu tralizing distances’’between it self and souls, and acquiring a knowledge of “new human phe nomena.” IN ITS efforts toward updatin the Pope continued, the Church has the fullest confidence "in the perennial application an 1 productivity of the Gospel.” He went on: AT HIS special audience of the bishops and priests, who had come here from Orvieto where they held their study week, Pope Paul said that the theme of their studies has spec ial application to the ecumenical council. "Updating,” he said, is one of the council’s chief concerns. Noting that it is a word that Pope John inscribed in the pro gram of the council, Pope Paul said that when it is applied to "Updating is a word which may be mistaken for giving un due honor to capricious an l fleeting fads...But instead it assigns due importance to the rapid and inexorable passing of the phenomena in which we live our lives, and it seeks to con form to the celebrated recom mendation of the Apostle:'make the most of your time, because the days are evil’ (Ephes. 5, 16). "IT IS a word, therefore, CONTINUED ON PAGE 8 ARCHBISHOP PAUL J. HALLINAN is pictured as he turned the first shovel of earth marking die start of construction on Athens new Saint Marx ’s Hospital. (See stor; this page and page 8)