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PAGE 2 GEORGIA BULLETIN THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1963
Archbishop’s
Notebook
The whole point of this go-lightly fortnightly report is to
focus attention on the ferment of Catholic affairs in northern
Georgia. The Archbishop’s calendar is only a peg on which to
hang such events as dedications, ground-breakings, and spiri
tual" resurgence. Now, I will be in Rome for nearly three months,
and if the Notebook is to continue, the focus will have to be en
larged. So instead of a trip to Carrollton or Griffin, it’ll be the
daily trip to St. Peter’s Square. Instead of liturgical progress
in Athens, it will be liturgical soundings in Rome. Instead of
a church supper at McDonough, it will be fettucini and black coffee
at Giovani’s.
LN PREPARATION for the Second Session of the Vatican Coun
cil, each bishop has gone into training. This means studying the
advance schemata, pronouncing our Latin a little more distinctly,
checking passports, and eating a little more pasta each day, in
readiness for the long Roman orgy of spaghetti, ravioli, spu
me ni, etc. It is possible to get an American steak in Rome. It
is also possible to get grits and ham gravy in Chicago. It is just
a matter of waiting.
THIS PAST WEEK-end left some doubts as to how many arch
bishops we had. One Atlanta family disagreed heatedly when the
mother said she had heard me speak at the grand dinner of the
Council of Women 7:30. The teen-age son said that was impossi
ble- the archbishop was at the Pius X - Lovett game opening
the new Stadium at 8:80, the father of the house settled it when
he said he saw the black Oldsmobile headed north on the express
way at 8;00 p.m.
SUNDAY WAS busy, too. Some 60 official parish correspon
dents of The Georgia Bulletin met at the Cathedral Center for
a workshop. After a brief talk to these key people in our com
munication field, I joined with hundreds of our people, first at
the dedication of St. Jude’s Convent, where the Grey Nuns are
now living, and then at the dedication of Faculty Residence of the
new Marist School in Chamblee.
IN THE OLD days, when sisters left a mother-convent to es
tablish a new one, there was a departure service. Appropriate
prayers, leave-taking advice and even tears were part of it.
Usually, it meant departure for a new land or region with fears
of the unknown - bigotry, foreign customs, restless nations and
sometimes such impolite practices as cannibalism.
WELL, THE Grey Nuns had their departure service when they
left the security of Peachtree Road for the new country of Sandy
Springs. But there were no fears - the "natives” of suburban
St. Jude's were not only friendly, they built them a beautiful
convent. Even the tears were of the kind you see at graduations
and weddings. So everyone turned out to welcome them, and now
the Sisters of the daughter convent are "at home" in their new
convent.
BREATHES THERE hardly a Catholic in northern Georgia who
will not be touched by the progress now being launched by our
Council of Men and Women. The new officers of the Women’s
Council, with Mrs. Faust as president, introduced all our parish
groups into an afternoon of workshops last Saturday. Out of them
will come the ideas, plans, and projects to revitalize every
parish. The Men’s Council, headed by Mr. Ferd Buckley, is
working hard at their big ’^Operation Understanding" for Novem
ber 10.
SPEAKING OF operations, hospitals are no fun to enter
but who would prefer a morgue? You get a different view of it
all behind the scenes, and if Doctors Casey and Kildare had ac
companied me last week, they would revise those weekly TV
sessions. At St. Joseph’s board meeting, a group of distinguished
Atlantans again gave several hours of their time to the complex
ities oi a modern hospital. The Sisters gave their skills and mercy
not only to bodily and spiritual welfare of the patients, but even
to the problem of parking - for doctors, nurses, employees,
and visitors. Monday morning of this week I visited the site
of the New Holy Family Hospital rapidly reaching completion,
a tremendous project on Fairburn Road which will be a new
source of pride and help in our community. Tuesday, at Athens,
1 was called upon to do one of the few Episcopal jobs that call
for manual labor, I firmly grasped the shovel, squared with the
photographers, and sank the shovel in the new ground which will
be the site of St. Mary’s Hospital. Atlanta and Athens, 1 am sure,
thank God that our Catholic Sisters provide these fine hospitals.
Doctors Casey and Kildare, please notel
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AT DEDICATION of new convent at St. Jude the Apostle School, Atlanta, Archbishop Paul J. Halli-
nan is assisted by Fr. Alan M. Dillman, of Immaculate Heart of Mary Parish. At right are four
Grey Nuns of the Sacred Heart, who teach at St. Jude’s and will occupy the new convent.
FOR COUNCIL FATHERS
Intellectual Freedom
Poses Crucial Question
The following article outlines
the views of an internationally
known educator on the question
of intellectual freedom within
the Church—which is expected
to come up for deliberation af
ter the Second Vatican Council
reconvenes this September 29.
The author, a onetime manag
ing editor of the Commonweal,
served as president of Hunter
College in New York City from
1940 until his retirement in
1960. In 1950, while Germany
was still under military occu
pation, he took a two-year leave
of absence to accept President
Truman’s appointment to be
U. S. Commissioner for Bava
ria. On his retirement from
the presidency of Hunter he re
turned to his alma mater to
serve as assistant to the pre
sident of the University of No
tre Dame.
that finality is not attributed to
any hypothesis. Each and every
one must be and will be chal
lenged again and again, with
the result that many will be
superseded. Therefore a mea
sure of "relativity’’ is impli
cit in university procedure.
This is not a consequence of
accepting a doctrine of rela
tivity in principle, but rather of
a realization that the world of
reality is infinitely complex
while the powers of the human
mind are limited.
in Genesis was read literally,
some theologians contended that
the theory of evolution must be
false because the earth could
not be more than a few thou
sand years old. Today, although
many hypotheses which have de
veloped during the course of the
study of evolution have been
abandoned, the basic fact that
there has been life on the earth
for millions of years is indis
putable.
By George N. Shuster
(N. C. W. C. NEWS SERVICE)
As the council Fathers con
tinue their deliberations, no
question placed before them is
likely to be either more crucial
or difficult than this: To what
extent can freedom of research
and inquiry be reconciled with
obedience to the teaching autho
rity of the Church?
WHAT HAS been said has of
course not gone unnoticed by
the Church. Pope Pius XI in
particular had a very clear un
derstanding of the methodology
of modern scholarship and in
several statements of notable
scope and depth expressed the
conviction that there can be no
conflict between science and re
ligion, as the Church under
stands and defines religion.
ANY number of similar ex
amples could be cited. It is
therefore in the area of infe
rence that freedom of inquiry
seems absolutely necessary.
For otherwise the human mind,
confronting evidence which can
not be questioned, will be temp
ted to conclude that theology is
a discipline which, despite what
the popes have said, comes
again and again into conflict
with science.
In order to understand the
issues, one must first of all
see what the modern univer
sity, on which the lower schools
necessarily depend, is attemp
ting to do. Its scholars are try
ing to understand the whole of
reality, whether in the form of
nature or human nature.
For instance in the document
reconstituting the Pontifical
Academy of Sciences (Oct. 28,
1936), Pius XI reasoned that
the scholar is concerned with
the world of time while the de
posit of the Faith teaches what
transcends time. Since there is
so marked a disparity of scope
and concern, one cannot contra
dict the other.
The question before the ecu
menical council may according
ly be restated this way: To what
extent should the inferences
traditionally drawn from the
language in which dogma is en
shrined be equated with the
hypotheses of scholarly in
quiry?
THEY proceed by formulating
a number of guesses about it,
which are usually referred to as
hypotheses, and then by finding
out how well these are support
ed by the evidence.
Thus—to take a simple ex
ample—it was surmised that a
substance called cholesterol
might coat bloodvessels in such
a way that they would function
poorly, with the result thatheart
failure could ensue. When a
careful and extensive study of
the data seemed to support this
view, the results were publish
ed and many doctors now
recommend using peanut oil ra
ther than butter in the prepara
tion of foods.
Nevertheless there is a dif
ficulty, and it is a substantial
one. Many inferences are drawn
from the language in which dog
matic teaching is enshrined, and
these are colored by assump
tions which are altered as the
course of history proceeds.
Though the dogmas themselves
are not hypotheses subject to
revision, being of timeless truth
because the God from whom they
come is eternal, they are re
vealed to men who live in a
world of change.
If one argues that the equa
tion should be complete, as
does Augustin Cardinal Bea,
S.J., president of the Vatican
Secretariat for Promoting
Christian Unity, one is saying
in essence that the university
is one more to be placed in
which the inferences are test
ed. This means that the teach
ing authority of the Church will
prescribe great latitude, pro
vided of course always that the
deposit of the Faith remains
inviolate.
Thus so long as a timetable
of Creation seemingly outlined
ON THE other hand, if one
holds that theological authori
ties outside the university
CONTINUED ON PAGE 8
ALABAMA FIRST
Or, to take another example,
after studying the documents a
historian may conclude that in
adequate use of artillery was
the principal reason why the
great Confederate charge at
Gettysburg failed. Of course
both the evidence and the con
clusions derived from it may
be questioned in these and other
cases.
Parochial School
Is Degregated
HUNTSVILLE, Ala., (NC)—
A Catholic parochial school
here opened quietly on an in
tegrated basis even as tension
was mounting over the sche
duled desegregation of four lo
cal public schools.
priest said.
THAT tins incessant activity
of the modern university is of
central human importance is
obvious. Not only has it already
drastically changed the charac
ter of man’s life on the earth,
but it is still doing so and will
undoubtedly engender even
greater "revolutions.” Whe
ther any of us like it or not,
we are in many fundamental
ways compelled to live as the
university decides we should.
As a result respect for the con
fidence in the validity of uni
versity' research is one of the
basic characteristics of modem
culture.
Two days before Alabama
Gov. George C. Wallace rush
ed state troopers here in con
nection with the public school
integration (Sept. 5), St. Jo
seph’s Parochial School open
ed its doors with about a dozen
white students among its 130
pupils.
Desegregation of St. Joseph’s
School represented the first
known instance of racial inte
gration on the elementary level
in Alabama, where Gov. Wallace
has been carrying on a die hard
campaign to maintain public
school segregation in the face
of court orders directing in
tegration.
FATHER MARK Sturbenz, S.
D.S., pastor oi St. Joseph’s
Mission, said integration at the
previously all-Negro parochial
school was going "very quiet
ly and very smoothly" and had
occasioned "no trouble.”
But it is important to note
The "12 or 14” white pupils
are scattered throughout the
school’s eight grades and kin
dergarten, the Salvatorian
THREE FOLD TASK
World Council Cheered
By Our Unity Renewal
ROCHESTER, N. Y. (NC)—
Three important areas of con
cern commanded the major at
tention of delegates to the meet
ing of the Central Committee of
the World Council of Churches
here.
One hundred members of the
policy-making committee spent
eight days (Aug. 26 to Sept.
2) deliberating on relations with
Roman Catholics, Christian
witness and service, and the
impact of Christianity on the
world.
ment was pointed up by Dr. Lu
kas Vischer who declared: "If
a real renewal takes place in
the Roman Catholic Church, the
non-Roman Churches are bound
to be affected by it. They will
have to define their faith af
resh, and to reformulate it by
going back to its very roots
in a certain sense."
Another consequence of the
Vatican council, in the view of
the Central Committee roport,
was new and exciting possibil
ities of dialogue between the
Catholic Church and other Ch
ristian churches.
THE COMMITTEE is the
governing body of the council
between meetings of the gene
ral assembly. The council is
a world-wide organization of
209 Protestant, Anglican and
Orthodox churches, nine of
which were newly added at the
Rochester conference. Its pri
mary purpose is to advance the
cause of Christian Unity.
SUCH A REVIEW could have
far-reaching consequences for
the cause of Christian unity
since historical circumstances
which exist no longer played
such a large part in the for
mation of Reformation chur
ches.
SUCH A dialogue, delegates
inferred, would be on a more
official and larger scale than
the private and informal con
versations that have taken place
in the past. Dialogue between
official representatives of other
Christian churches and those
of the Catholic Church could
occur as one of the prelimin
ary steps to full Christian unity.
PASTOR’S GIFT
Parish Given Share
In Insurance Firm
Relations with Roman Catho
lics occupied a large amount
of the delegates’ attention. The
satisfaction of the committee
members at evidences of Catho
lic renewal brought about by the
Vatican council was heard on
all sides.
GRAND BLANC, Mich., (NC)
—Father Jojan H. Bush, pastor
of Holy Family parish here,
jumped the gun in celebration of
his 25th ordination anniversary
with a turnabout twist.
added purpose for the success
of the Wayne National Life In
surance Company oi Detroit,
founded earlier this year.
BISHOP S. U. Barbieri from
the Methodist Church in Argen
tina, for example, gave public
recognition to the improvement
of interchurch relations in South
America. His statement was all
the more notable since the same
Methodist bishop had in previ
ous meetings complained bit
terly about the religious situ
ation in Latin America.
He assigned his interest as
one of the 30 incorporaters
of a thriving insurance com
pany of the 450 families of his
parish, which he founded 17
years ago. Father Bush, who
will celebrate his silver jubilee
in 1964, cleared his plan with
Bishop Joseph H. Albers of
Lansing, then informed his par
ishioners of his gift by letters.
THE COMPANY is headed by
John J. (Joe) Collins, the pas
tor’s nephew. Collins in 1960
successfully managed the can-
paign of Gov. John B. Swains-
on of Michigan, then served two
years as chairman of the De
mocratic State Central Com
mittee.
The total financial interest
which the pastor gave his par
ishioners was not disclosed.
The committee received with
approval a policy report on
"Relations with the Roman Cat
holic Church." This reportwas
remarkable for its tone of opt
imism, its recognition of good
done by the Vatican council, and
its desire to advance dialogue on
a wider scale than ever before.
FATHER BUSH said his par
ishioners honored him on his
15th and 20th anniversaries, but
"this time 1 intended to re
verse the program, to give ins
tead of receive." He added:
"I know its’s an unusual thing
to do, but I felt it would be a
fitting way to observe my anni
versary."
STIMULATED BY the dra
matic ecumenical moves of the
late Pope John XXIII, by the
laudatory remarks of Karl Bar
th recorded in the "Ecumeni
cal Review," and by the det
ailed report of Dr. Lukas Vis
cher,. the council’s observer at
the Vatican council, the com
mittee report declared that it
"gives thanks to God for the
evidences which the first ses
sion (of the Vatican council)
has provided of longing for
renewal in the life of that (Cat
holic) Church and of profound
concern for all men."
The pastor said his plan was
like ‘"killing two birds with one
stone”—making a gift to his
parishioners and providing an
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FATHER STURBENZ said the
initiative for enrollment of the
white students in the parish
school came from their parents,
who had approached him on the
matter. He said he told the pa
rents that he had "no objec
tion whatever" to integrating
the school and accordingly the
white pupils were enrolled with
out incident.
He said the white children
come from families in both the
town of Huntsville and the ex
tensive Federal military in
stallations here.
Survey using a modified probability sample of over 8,000
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