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F'AGL 8 GEORGIA BULLETIN THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1963
AKOIBISHUP PAUL J. 11 ALL LN AN is assisted by (left) Very
Kc . V incent l'. Brennan, S.M., Principal of Marist High, and
(ri iit) Fr. Philip Dagneau, S.M., also of Marist, at the dedica
tion of Marist*•> new chapel.
POPE PAUL
No Compromise
With Marxists
FOR COUNCIL fathers
Intellectual Freedom
Poses Crucial Question
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1
which We also adopt with plea
sure as ar. expression erf the
charily which wishes to give
testimony to the timelessness
of the ecclesiastical ministry
and therefore to us modern
vitality.'*'
Pope Paul stated that "pas
toral" is another word which
the council has adopted as its
own.
He remarked that this word
can also be misunderstood as an
emphasis on the active "to the
detriment of the interior life
and cormempiation which should
have first place in our evalu
ation of religious things."
THE POPE then pointed out
that pastoral solicitude has not
.’hanged the Church’s mind
about communism,
Ha added that it would also
be wrong to see in the Ch
urch’s emphasis on pastoral
activity "a rivalry with theo
logical speculations.” He said
that the latter "retains its
dignity and its excellence even
if the impelling needs oi ec
clesiastical life demand that
sacred teaching not remain
purely speculative, but be con-
Mr. F. Usher
A Requiem Mass was offered
Tuesday, Sept. 10, at St. Paul
of the Cross, for Mr. Florence
Usher of 124 Sewanee Ave., NW,
Atlanta. Fr. Dennis Walsh said
the Mass, which was followed
by interment in Lincoln Ceme
tery.
Mr. Usher is survived by his
wife, Mrs. Lillian P. Usher;
his mother, Mrs. Katie Usher,
Clarks ton; three brothers,
San., William and Robert, all
of Atlanta; and one sister,
Mrs. Beatrice Clarke, Clark-
ston.
sidered and cultivated in the
complete framework of the
Christian economy.”
Pope Paul said that the aud
ience for bishops and priests
gave him an opportunity to ex
press his high esteem for pas
tors. He stated:
"WE OURSELF have been
a pastor, first in a diocese.,
and now on this Chair of Pe
ter to which We are called by
Christ to feed the flocks of
His Church.” He continued:
"We must encourage the pas
tors of souls—the bishops and
especially the pastors, and all
others dedicated to pastoral
cares—because We know under
what conditions they labor to
day. The spiritual state of the
world today presents enormous
difficulties, some of which were
unknown until yesterday.
"WE KNOW what apprehen
sions weigh so often on the
heart of a bishop, what suffer
ings often afflict him, not only
because of the poverty of means
even now so great and morti
fying, but because of the deaf
ness of those who should hear
his words, because of the dif
fidence which surrounds and
isolates him, and because of the
indifference and lack of respect
which disturb his ministry and
paralyze him.
”We know how many pastors
and assistant pastors exercise
the care of souls in vast and
populated areas where the num
ber, mentality and the demands
of the inhabitants force them to
unceasing and tiring labors. We
also know many priests must
exercise their ministry in the
hidden little towns, with out
companionship, without help and
without the comforts that would
result from them."
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should be the arbiters In each
instance, a totally different sit
uation is created. For then the
decision will not be scientific
—that Is, made in the form of
a hypothesis subject to veri
fication—but authoritarian.
Here then, one thinks, is what
Swiss-born Father Hans Kueng,
one of the official theologians
of the Vatican council, has in
mind as the area of freedom in
the Church. Perhaps the best
way to approach his reasoning is
to note that he recommends that
.there, ought not to be one theo
logy but several, even many.
This is not a new Idea. In the
heyday of their glory the medie
val universities knew at least
four wholly orthodox forms of
theological inquiry: The tradi
tional one, rooted in Augustin-
ian thinking; that of St. Tho
mas; that of the Franciscans,
exemplified by such masters as
Duns Scorns and St. Bonaven-
ture; and the more mystical,
and therefore more eclectic,
theology of the Benedictines.
Even if it be true that of
these the Thomistic teaching
Is the most satisfactory, there
can be no doubt that the others
have been productive of pro
found wisdom to this very day.
The meaning of the phrase "se
veral theologies" is therefore
clear. The usefulness of hypo
thesis is recognized, not (to re
peat) in so far as revealed
dogma is concerned, but in the
whole realm of Inference.
A GOOD example of what hap
pens when this concept is adop
ted may be seen in Cardinal
Newman's theory of the de
velopment of Christian doc-
REBUILDING
Twenty-five years ago today
St. Mary’s Hospital was offi
cially opened by the Missionary
Sisters of the Most Sacred Heart
of Jesus for service to the com
munity of Athens and the sur
rounding counties. Official
ceremonies in recognition of its
twenty-five year history were
planned by the hospital to coin
cide with formal ground break
ing for the new Hospital this
week.
The Hospital was dedicated
on July 10, 1938 with the late
Archbishop Gerald P. O’Hara
presiding. At the request of
civic and medical groups, Arch
bishop (then bishop)O’Hara was
instrumental in obtaining the
services of the Missionary Sis
ters for the operation of the
hospital. On July 11, 1938, St.
Mary’s Hospital admitted the
first patient, Mrs. George A.
Keeler. The first patient to
undergo surgery was Barbara
("Babs”) Hubert, daughter of
Dalton, Ga. - St. Joseph's Al
tar Society held its first meet
ing of the fall season recently
at the Parish Hall on South
Thornton Avenue.
The meeting was opened with
a prayer by Father Simon Glasl,
pastor of St. Joseph’s.
FATHER GLASL spoke to
the group regarding plans and
preparations necessary for the
annual Forty Hours Devotions to
be held at St. Joseph’s Church
from Sunday, Sept. 15, through
Tuesday, Sept. 17.
The devotional period will
commence with Mass on Sun
day at 8 a.m„ followed by Bene
diction of the Blessed Sacra
ment and a procession of the
children of the church.
MASS ON Monday evening,
Sept. 16, will be said at 6 p.m,
Pius X Meeting
St. Plus X Home and School
Association will hold its first
monthly meeting Sunday, Sep
tember 15, at 3:00 p.m. In the
school cafeteria. New officers
of the association will be in
troduced to the faculty and pa
rents of the student body.
trine. This was once considered
venturesome. But although to
day few would probably agree
with Newman's exposition in
every respect, the central fact
of development is well estab
lished.
We come therewith to the im
portant question of caveats con
cerning what the faithful may or
may not read. No one quarrels
with the general principle that
books professedly obscene are
forbidden to practicing Chris
tians. They are in a quite ele
mentary sense occasions of sin.
But certainly any candid stu
dent of the Index of Forbidden
Books must conclude that the
net which the examiners have
spread takes in a quantity of
strange fish. Critics point out,
for example, that Victor Hugo’s
"Les Miserables” was forbid
den because the priest in the
story, who permitted his guest
to run off with the candlesticks,
was deemed too humanitarian
(the action may as a matter of
fact have concealed somebody’s
ire with St. Vincent de Paul).
Or again Flaubert’s "Madame
Bovary,” the sternest moral
dissertation ever written for
girls with romantic ideas about
life, was denounced for immo
rality.
THE CRITICS therefore feel
that although not all of the In
dex is similarly questionable, it
is high time that the Fathers
took a good look at it and also
at the principle which under
lies it. Evidently, however,
some means must neverthe
less be found for guarding
against basic deviations in the
presentation of dogma.
Dr. Marion A. Hubert, now Mrs.
John H. Coram. During the Sil
ver Anniversary celebration,
St. Mary’s expects to receive
patient number 100,000.
THE EXISTING front wing of
the hospital was a vacant 45-
bed hospital when the Mis
sionary Sisters arrived. It was
built in 1918 by Drs. Fulli-
love and Procter, who had
found the first St. Mary's Hos
pital in 1906. Dr. Procter died
accidentally in 1924 and in 1935
the hospital was closed after
the death of Dr. Fullilove, Since
the Missionary Sisters began
operation of the hospital, two
additional wings were added in
1941 and 1947 bringing the hos
pital to its present capacity of
100 beds. Plans for future ex
pansion were inaugurated in
1956, when all of the loans to
purchase the hospital and its
additions were fully paid. The
Missionary' Sisters have ob
tained since then more loans
The closing of the special de
votional period will be at 6 p.m.
on Tuesday, Sept. 17, at which
time Mass will be said, followed
by a singing of the Litany of the
Saints, and a procession of the
children.
Parents of children of St. Jo
seph’s parish are requested to
bring the youngsters to a re
hearsal for the processions on
Saturday, Sept. 14, at 10 a.m.
Members of the Altar Society
will be on hand to give instruc
tions.
THE PASTOR also announced
that Catechism Classes would
resume in October. All child
ren of school age should at
tend these special classes which
are held once a week during the
school year.
Beginning in October there
will be two regularly scheduled
Sunday Masses, at 7 a.m. and
11 a.m. It was decided that
the monthly coffee hours would
be discontinued at this time.
Plans were made to hold the
first of monthly parish dinners
on Sunday, Sept. 29, beginning
at 5 p.m. The dinners will be
held In the Parish Hall and will
be sponsored by the Altar So
ciety.
Pope John XXIII placed the
council's discussions in the
framework of ecumenical think
ing. The quest for Christian uni
ty necessarily implies great
stress on freedom. The task is
twofold-first, to discover in
what measure - Catholics and
Protestants jointly cherish a
common dogmatic faith; second,
to find out if in the realm of
inference a reconciliation of
views is possible.
Since preparation for this
effort is farthest advanced in
Northern Europe, the Fathers
representing that part of the
world have naturally been in
the forefront of ecumenism.
Such thinking focuses on three
topics of the greatest signifi
cance: Scripture, the authority
which derives from Tradition,
and the liturgy.
OF THE Three the first,
namely the study and explica
tion of Holy Writ, is that in
which the modern university
has been most directly involv
ed, and which therefore pre
sents the greatest challenge.
If the council grants to Catho
lic Scripture scholars greater
freedom in this area, a memo
rable step will have been taken
toward bringing historical
scholarship and the teaching
authority of the Church closer
together.
There is much more. We can
only pray that under the gui
dance of the Holy Spirit the de
liberations of the Fathers will
proceed in a manner which
makes the life and the mission
of the Church ever more ra
diant, so that mankind will be
drawn closer to Him who is
the way, the truth and the life.
from various sources amount
ing to about one million dol
lars. This will be combined
with funds from campaign con
tributions and a Hill-Burton
grant for construction of the
new 135 bed hospital.
OTHER MILESTONES in the
past years of progress were ap
proval by the American College
of Surgeons in 1940, permis
sion to conduct intern training
granted in 1950 by the Ameri
can Medical Association, and
full accreditation in 1954 by the
Joint Commission on Accredi
tation of Hospitals. St. Mary’s
was one of the few hospitals
of its size to achieve accredi
tation when the Joint Commis
sion was formed in 1952. The
Staff of Sisters at St. Mary’s
has grown from six in those
early days to sixteen.
Mother M, Wilfrida, former
Administrator of St. Mary’s
Hospital, who has been asso
ciated with the hospital in many
previous assignments, last July
noted the achievements of medi
cal care over the last half cen
tury and the development of fa
cilities for patient care taking
place in Athens. “We have come
a long way,” she said, "when
you think back, but we have not
come nearly as far as we are
going." Hospital records from
the days of Drs. Fullilove and
Procter recall that the first
ambulance was a covered milk
wagon equipped only with a cot.
It would often take half a day
to transport a patient to the
hospital as each doctor had to
hitch his horse to the wagon.
OF THE original hospital
board, Mr. Frank Postero, Mr.
T. J. Camarata, and Mr. R. V.
Watterson are still active on
the Hospital’s Lay Advisory
Board. The Advisory Board
functions to provide the hospi
tal with ideas and technical ad
vice and as laison with the com
munity served by the hospital.
Some of the physicians fa
miliar to the community send
ing St. Mary’s its first pa
tients in those pioneer days
are: Drs. Guy O. Whelchel,
John A. Hunnicut, Marion A.
Hubert, Herschei B. Harris,
John A. Simpson, Harry E.
Talmadge, Sam M. Talmadge,
Alexander B, Russell, William
T. Randolph, William L. Green,
Lloyd L. Whitley, Loree Flo
rence and Clarke H. Bryant.
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THE BELLE OF LOUISVILLE moves through one of the locks on the Ohio River while several
hundred nuns watch with interest. Many of the Sisters teach and for some of them it was
the first time they had seen in action a subject they must frequently describe in history
classes. The Ohio River played a large and important role in the economic development
of the city of Louisville, Ky. Much commercial traffic still moves up and down the river
"between Pittsburgh and Cairo, Ill., where the Ohio meets the Mississippi.
New Officers Elected, Activities
Planned, At Our Lady, Carrollton
The initial meeting of the Al
tar Society of the Church of Our
Lady in Carrollton under its new
slate of officers was held on
Thursday, September 5 in the
Parish Hall, with the president,
Mrs. Raymond Harrell, pre
siding.
household items helps the poor
of the community’ and provides
funds for church furnishings.
Anyone having items to be
donated should write or call the
president, Mrs. Raymond Har
rell, Carrollton (telephone Te
rrace 2-7177) who will arrange
to have them picked up.
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Service
Preceding the meeting. Mass
was offered by the pastor and
spiritual director, Rev. Richard
B. Morrow, and breakfast was
served. Father Morrow con
tinued his talks on "Jewish
Customs at the Time of Christ”.
His theme on Tuesday was con
cerned with the foods of this
period and he stressed the fact
that it was unthinkable for any
meal to be eaten without prayer
before and after. Meals were
frugal and bread was an essen
tial and basic food. . . .thepoor
ate bread made of barley, the
rich used wheat. Olive oil was
another staple, butter was un
known; goats’ milk was used by
all.
ONLY THE very rich ate eggs
and meat; pork and hare were
forbidden. Locusts were a com
mon food and were served in
a variety of ways; fish, either
fresh or salted, was another
common item on the "bill
of fare". Vegetables were plen
tiful, beans and lentils mostly,
also cucumbers, onions, let
tuce, chicory, artichokes. As
for fruits, and nuts, there were
melons, figs, grapes, pomgra-
ntes, walnuts, almonds, pista
chios, dates and blackberries.
Mrs. Harrell announced her
officers and committeewomen
as follows: Mrs. Hubert Chan
dler, secretary; Mrs. Ray
mond Gordon, treasurer; Mrs.
Cary Maddox, parliamentarian;
Mrs. Gibson LaFoy and Mrs.
Vincent Cashen, publicity; Mrs.
Carl Moran and Mrs. Louis
Benchina, hospitality; Mrs.
Paul Williams and Mrs. Rymond
Harrell, Fall Nearly New Sale;
Mrs. Jack Coker and Mrs. Ow
en Malloy, Spring Nearly New
Sale; Mrs. Peter Cappelli Mrs.
Jerry Amrhein; Mrs. Bill Ard-
uini, telephone; Mrs. Char
les Frost, Nuns’ Lunches.
SEPTEMBER 15 Annual Pic
nic of Our Lady-St. Bernadette
Parishes at 2 p.m. church gro
unds, Center Point Rd.
OCTOBER 3, 4, 5 Fall Near
ly New Sale of Church of Our
Lady in Carrollton. This sale
of "nearly new” clothes and
Coaches Speak
To Holy Name
A much larger group than
usual received Holy Communion
under the Holy Name banner at
the Shrine of the Immaculate
Conception, Sunday, September
8th. They later attended the
breakfast meeting held imme
diately after Mass in the So
cial Hall.
For the first Holy Name Sun
day of the fall season, designat
ed as "Father and Son Sun
day,” a program in keeping with
the season was given. Guests of
honor were the head football
coaches from the three Catho
lic High Schools, Mr. Don Shea
of Marist; Mr, George Maloof
of St. Pius X High; and Mr.
Bill Daprano from St. Josepn
High School, Assistant Coach
Mr. Tom McDevitt from St.
Joseph High was also present.
Each coach gave a short talk
on the football prospects at his
school. They also spoke on the
scholastic opportunities offered
at a Catholic High School and
the many scholarships that have
been granted to their students.
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India: The Little Flower Needs Help
One day Zelie Marie Guerin was walking across a bridge in
Alencon. a town in France. She passed a man whose appearance
struck her. An interior voire said
to her: This is he whom l have pre
pared for you. She discreetly in
quired his name and found it was
Louis Martin. They met and mar
ried and she became the mother of
the child who was to become the
age’s most fabulous saint—Therese
of Lisieux, the Little Flower. Later
with her children grow’n up, Zelie
thought of retiring into solitude,
possibly a convent but something
said to her; Blossom where God has
placed you . . . Her daughter, The
rese, now a Carmelite, was dreaming of being a missionary but
she was destined to remain a cloistered nun . . . Today, Saint
Therese is the patroness of the missions and undoubtedly is
watching over her fellow’ Carmelites in St. Anne’s Convent in
KOTTAKUPURAM in Southern India . . . Sister Teresa, their
superior, writes appealingly to us: 300 families live in our vil
lage. The condition of the people is pitiful. The 000 children
have no school. We teach them catechism but we ourselves
have no chapel . . . Six girls wish to join them but the Sisters
have to say their prayers in a narrow hallway. They badly
need $3,000 for a chapel. Their Archbishop warmly seconds
their appeal. Maybe the Little Flower has helped you? Any
Amount sent to these devoted Sisters will be appreciated.
Please send it now.
ME A MISSIONARY
Perhaps like St. Therese you once had a desire of being a
missionary. Som how it wasn’t God’s plan for you. By adopt
ing a Sister or a seminarian and paying the yi'
cost of their education, you can be doing r ’~
missionary work. We have many names like
SR. MARY JOSEPH or SR. MARGARET
KURUVILLA or ANTONY THF.C KF.PALA-
KAL or SEBASTIAN THEKKANKTII. The
cost: $150 a year for two years for a Sister’s
training: $100 a year for six years for a sem
inarian.
“The world is charged with the grandeur of God!,’’ a poet
has written. Every day, 15,000 priests in the 18 countries in our
care offer up their Masses in thanks for that grandeur and for
traces to come. Your MASS STIPENDS help them meet their
daily needs. Please remember them when you are having
Masses said.
OLD SAINT PETER’S CHURCH
This venerable building on Barclay Street
in downtown New York was once the only
church in all of New York State and much of
New Jersey. Father Ferdinand Steimncyer
and 23 parishioners founded it. Today it is
the mother church of over 1,600 parishes
and 13 dioceses . . . The MEMORIAL
CHURCH you build in a mission land may
once be in such honor. Can you think of a better way of win
ning God’s grace for your loved one. You can:
Provide a chapel: $2,000 to $6,000 or furnishings: 51,000
Mass Kit.... .5100 Statue . $30 Stations .. ,. $25
Vestments .... 50 Chalice 40 Year’s candles 20
Monstrance .. 40 Ciborium 40 Sanctuary Bell. 5
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