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V M 4 « 4 1 # « 4 V 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 4 ARCHBISHOP OF ATLANTA Sybebt • MINTING • LITHOGRAPHING COMPANY Strptaf Atlanta S tat a JfJJ 550 FORREST ROAD, M |. ATLANTA. GEORGIA “PET.,you bell” PET For Convenient Home Delivery In Atlanta Call 636-8677 Where Insurance is a Profession, Not a Sideline SUTTER & McLELLAN JA 5-2086 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 Any Time — Anywhere Call a TAXI RADIO CABS DECATUR CO-OP CABS 310 Howard Ave. 24-Hour Service Passengers Insured Trios Anywhere DH. 7-3888 — DR. 7-1701 DECATUR. GA. The importance of this state- NORELCO DICTATING MACHINES BLU RAY WHITERRINT MACHINES PHOTORAPID COPIERS - HEYER DUPLICATORS MASTER ADDRESSERS - AMPTO PHOTOCOPY OLIVETTI ADDERS • REX-ROTARY MIMEO 172 WHITIHAll STREET, S. W. phone 5206417 ATLANTA 3, GEORGIA Survey* of THE GEORGIA BULLETIN families SHOWS WHY THIS NEWSPAPER IS A SALES PRODUCER ... 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 GEORGIA BULLETIN subscribers in the Atlanta Archdiocese. • i ^ I I I □ MORE MONEY TO SPEND Among Bulletin families 33% earn more thon $10,000 per year. Only 13% of The Georgia Bulletin reader* earn lest thon $3,000 annually. □ MORE PEOPLE PER HOUSEHOLD Average size of Bulletin families is 4.3 persons. 69% of The Georgia Bulletin families have children under 21 year* of age — an overage of 3.13 children in each of these homes. □ EDITORIAL VITALITY COMMANDS LONGER READING TIME 62.3% spend from 1 to 3 hours reading this newspaper each week. □ MORE SPENT FOR CLOTHING, SHOES Among The Georgia Bulletin families thot hove school-age children, the ma^rity spends more thon $75,00 each yeor for each child on clothes. They buy on average of 9 pairs of children s shoes annually. □ THEY OWN 12,000 AUTOMOBILES Approximately 9c % of The Georgia Bulletin families own one or more cars. The average is 1 4 — a total of over 12,000 cars. One-fourih own o 1961 or newer car. The majority are planning a motor car vocation within the next year. □ THEY SPEND $350,000 A WEEK FOR FOOD The average Georgia Bulletin family spends approximately $37,00 per week for food products or a total of over $350,000 weekly. □ THEY ARE LOYAL 56% of The Georgia Bulletin families readily acknowledge that they hove more confidence in the ads in The Bulletin thon in other medio.