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Newspaper Page TextPAGE 8 GEORGIA BULLETIN THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1963 IN BIRMINGHAM Local, National Churches, Leaders, Condemn Bombing CONTINUED FROM PAGE I art not—but if there arc, I plead that they will pluck hat red out of their hearts and remember that all men are cre ated equal, all arc redeemed by the Precious Blood of Christ,” Archbishop Toolen said. "THOUGH their color may be different than that of the white man, their souls may he much whiter and much purer than those seeking to destroy them,” he said. He directed that the Divine Praise >, recites after Masses in the Mobile-Birmingham dio- tcc.se, be offer "for a return of peace and sanity.” IN BIRMINGHAM, Auxiliary Bishop Joseph A. Dunck at tended the mass funeral for the four dead Negro girls, along with other community religious leader . He also issued a statement deploring “the undermining of respect for the cue process of law which has gone on in in creasingly dramatic fashion in our community in these last few weeks.” THIS PROCESS, he said, "has finally brought on the eruption of santanic hoodlum ism which has claimed the lives of four innocent children and injured scores of others." NELSON RIVES REALTY INC. 3669 CLAIRMONT ROAD CHAMBLEE, GEORGIA REAL ESTATE, INSURANCE, SALES, RENTALS. residential and COMMERCIAL PROPERTY PHONE: 451-2323 “Let us prayerfully ask God’s pardon for whatever guilt be ours in this present callous dis regard for life and law and re ligion,” Bishop Durick said. CHURCHES throughout Bir mingham tolled their bells daily a: noon in the week following the tragedy as a sing of mourn ing and penitence. Many people stopped on the streets to pray as the bells rang. Elsewhere, there were these reactions to the tragedy from Catholic sources: • Archbishop Patrick A, 0’- Bo^ie of Washington, in a mess age to Negro integrationist lea der Martin Luther King, expressed "heartfelt sympathy and prayers.” "May God console and strengthen you and your be reaved people," Archbishop O’ Boyle said. His message was dispatched while he was at sea en route to Rome for the Vati can Council. • The National Catholic Con ference for Interracial Justice Chicago, sent messages of con dolence to the families of the four dead girls and to the Rev. John H. Cross, pastor of the bombed church. "We feel that your children have been martyrs in the cause of justice and surely must en joy a special place in God’s favor,” the conference’s mes sage to the parents said. The NCCIJ al ,o began an effort in cooperation with its 40member interracial councils to collect funds for the families. In a separate message to President Kennedy the confer ence urged him to provide "ade- IGNATIUS HOUSE RETREATS Schedule fo next six weeks September 19-22 Men September 26-29 Women October 3-6 Men October 10-13 Women October 17-20 Men October 24-27 Women Phone 255-0503 or Write 6"’00 Riverside Dr. N.W. Atlanta 5, Ga. tffefy Km$ FAMOUS ALL-PURPOSE DRESSING DELICIOUS ON Salads-Meats-Seafood SOLD AT LEADING STORES' SUBSCRIBE TO THE GEORGIA BULLETIN *5.00 PER YEAR Mail to P. O. Box 11667 N o r t h s i d e Station Atlanta 5. Georgia Add res a City State quate protection to insure phy sical safety of Negro citizens in Birmingham.” "Continuing violence such as thses unsolved bombing shows the need for added power for the Attorney General to act against violations of civil rights," the message said. • The Catholic Interracial Council of New York called on the interfaith National Confer ence on Religion and Race to coordinate "a nationwide ch urch protest over the bomb ings.” "The churches of this coun try must lead the Federal gov ernment and the entire nation In reaching the hearts and con sciences of not only racial agi tators, but the indifferent, the apathetic and the noncommit- ted," the interracial council said. FOR CENTENNIAL Redemptorists Plan Pilgrimage THEY HAVE HOMES NOW. These Chinese orphans faced bleak futures until some American Catholic families an swered their pleas for homes. They are some of 10 children brought from Hong Kong in recent days by the Catholic Committee for Refugecs-National Catholic Welfare Confer ence. There are hundreds of children—orphans and aband oned refugees—who are being sheltered in Catholic institu tions throughout the Orient. CARDINAL STATES Management Cannot See Man As Technical Tool NEW YORK, (NC)--Persons in managerial positions must not look upon man as a tool for technical progress but should show concern for his moral and intellectual welfare, a cardinal from Italy said here at the 13th International Mana gement Congress. "He who manages must not consider himself solely as the author or comptroller of a tech nical progress but as a leader and insplrer of men," said Giuseppe Cardinal Siri, Arch bishop of Genoa. He spoke on "Management and the Spiritual Needs of Man" at a plenary session of the congress. "THE FIRST spiritual need of man in the face of modern enterprise,” the Cardinal said, "is that of entering into it as much as possible as ‘man’ and to remain in it with a pers pective of gradual development, not to be merely a generator of physical energy but to ex press himself intellectually and morally in management." Cardinal Siri said that "the sole preoccupation for techni cal progress and for an ensur ing output Is not satisfactory and, in the long run, not just." He added that only "preoccupa tion for man’s total progress is satisfactory." THE CARDINAL stated that "the policy of the universal use of man’s talents" is a two- way street between "those who manage and those who are in a subordinate position." "It implies a declared wish to improve relations,” he con tinued, "or at least in large organizations to lift them out of inertia, confusion or to clear away factors from which spring mutual misunderstandings. It Bomb Blasts Shatter Peace In Birmingham CONTINUED FROM PAGE I violently, the same prayerful question must surely have been in the hearts and on the lips of many good people of Bir mingham—Birmingham, a city that is truly beautiful; Birming ham, whose history merited it the title "the magic city”; Bir mingham, a name that now epi tomizes for many people throu ghout the world violence and brutality', a city whose people now know real fear. MY SINCERE prayer as I walked away, and the prayer of many others like myself who were born here and love Bir mingham, was that the time would not be long before our city will once again be known for Its beauty, for its tranquil, peaceful way of life and its charity to all, rather than for events such as happened this overcast and tragic Sunday morning. implies a policy of promotion which gives to each the oppor tunity to develop his natural qualities and acquired ability and avails itself of them. "These conditions aid in creating in management a ’hu man' enviornment that lessens distances and strengthens social peace." "THE MANAGEMENT po licies capable of creating such an environment," Cardinal Siri stressed, "Cannot be made possible without a moral doc trine, in fact without a theo logy of labor.. .which will give a total picture of man.” He said that "management must have the courage to affirm that the economy is at the ser vice of man and not otherwise, and that this is essentially a service.” "It must have courage to af firm," he concluded, "that pro duction is not justified in itself but only in the measure in which it places m an—free from a m ore material servitude—in a condi tion to attend to all his duties The Redemptorist Fathers in the United States and in other parts of the world are spon soring pilgrimages to Rome in 1966 to commemorate the cen tennial and jubilee celebration of the restoring of the Mira culous picture of Our Mother of Perpetual Help to the Church of St. Alphonsus. The ancient, treasured pic ture painted by an unknown art ist was venerated for three cen turies after Columbus disco vered America in the Church of St. Mathew in Rome. Then, when Napoleon’s Army destroyed the church, the picture was hidden away for many years, until it was returned for veneration in 1866, to the new Church of St. Alphonsus built on the spot of St. Mathew’s. THEN it was that Our Lady was determined to make her Perpetual Help known all over the world."Most Rev. Father Superior General of the Re demptorist Order, stated: "After due consultation, it has been decided that the year 1966 will be the Jubilee year. This celebration will cover the entire calendar year from January to December, 1966." This "dream trip or journey of fulfillment" can be made possible for people of even limited means by a very attrac tive and practical savings plan, whereby setting aside $5.00 per week for three years, you can make your dream come true. When a person opens a savings account, he or she will receive a beautiful souvenir kit with a faithful reproduction of the original Perpetual help im age. Included in the kit will be a gold embossed savings acc ount book, and a supply of post age paid envelopes. It contains the official membership certi ficate and will be a living test imony to one's "Journey of Ful fillment." THE SAVINGS account will pay a current dividend of 41/2 VISITS HOLY PLACES Russian Metropolitan Makes Call On Pope VATICAN CITY ,(NC)_-Me- tropolitan Nikodim of Minsk, head of the Russian Orthodix Church's external Church af fairs department, paid a visit to His Holiness Pope Paul VI and placed flowers at the tomb of Pope John XXIII The private was described by the Vatican Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity as ”a visit of courtesy." Metropo litan Nikodim was accompanied on his 25-minute visit by two Catholic prelates who have been his guests in Mosocow—Bishop Francois Charriere of Lau sanne, Geneva and Fribourg, and Msgr. Jan. G. M. Wille- brands, secretary of the Chris tian Unity secretariat. METROPOLITAN Nikodim, who is a member of the Holy Synod of the Patriarchate of Moscow, came to Rome en route home from the meeting in Roc hester, N. Y., of the Central Committee of the World Coun cil of Churches, of which he is a member. URGE AMENDMENT School Prayer Is Backed By Legion MIAMI BEACH, Fla., (NC)~ The 45th national American Legion convention here voted unanimously to urge Con gress to initiate a constitutio nal amendment to permit Bible reading and prayers in public schools. The proposal was advanced in one of more than 100 reso lutions endorsed by the Legion naires and grew out of recom mendations made by the organi zation’s Americanism commis- ion and by legion posts throug hout the country. LEGIONNARIES suggested the following wording for such an amendment: "Nothing cont ained in this Constitution shall be construed to prohibit the aut hority administering any school, school system, or edu cational institution supported in whole or in part from any public funds from providing for the voluntary participation by the students thereof in the rea ding of passages from the Bible or in regularly scheduled per iods of non - sectarian pray er." Other resolutions adopted re affirmed the legion’s policy of equal rights of all citizens; op posed sale in this country of any goods produced in commun ist-dominated countries and ur ged business leaders to boycott such merchandise, and renewed the legion's request that Congress conduct a full-scale investigation into the past and present activities of the Ameri can Civil Liberties Union. THE CONVENTION condem - ned Joint Amerlcan-Yugosla- vian produced movies because of communist propaganda. It protested establishment of chapters of the U. S. National Students Association in any tax- supported school because "such chapters would leave the door ajar for the dissemination of communist propaganda.” A report by the committee on national security calling for the U. S. to take the offensive in the cold war was adopted over whelmingly by the thousands of members present. The Legion called for a strengthening of both military and civilian stands against communist efforts to in filtrate and penetrate the free world. The unity secretariat’s com munique concerning the Rus sian Orthodox prelate said after noting his meeting with Pope Paul: "He visited the (Rome) Church of St. Clement, where he prayed at the tomb of St. Cyril, Apostle of the Slavs. He placed a bouquet of flowers on the tomb of Pope John XXIII (in the crypt of St. Peter’s basilica) where he sang a short prayer for the deal (litlya). He also visited other Roman sanc tuaries." THE METROPOLITAN'S vi sit to the Pope marked the se cond time that Pope Paul has received a Russian Orthodox bishop. The Pope held an audi ence last July 1 for non-Ca- tholic religious leaders who re presented their churches at his coronation rites the previous day. Among the group—whose members were received in the Pope’s private library and in troduced by Msgr. Wille- brands—was Bishop Vladimir Komarov. Bishop Vladimir re presents the Moscow patriar chate at the Geneva headquar ters of the World Council of Churches, and was one of the patriarchate'* two official dele- agte observers at the firstses- s ion of the Second Vatican Coun cil. BISHOP Charriere, who ac companied Metropolitan Niko dim to the papal audience, went to Moscow last July as the re presentative of the Holy See at the celebrations markang the 50th anniversary of the conse cration of Patriarch Alexei of Moscow, head of the Russian Orthodox Church. Msgr. Willebrands made a special trip to Moscow on Sep tember 27, 1962, to convey in formation concerning the Vati can Council to authorities of the Russian Church. It was liter his six-day visit, almost on the eve of the council's open ing, that the Moscow patriar chate announced it was sending delegate observers. per cent per annum. If at any time circumstances require that you must cancel, plans to make the "journey money" will be refunded, plus the amount of dividends accrued. The highlights of each tour will be an audience with the Holy Father and days of prayer before the miraculous picture. The centennial tours in-dude, either a 14 day tour of a thirty day or fiftythree day tour. Over 3,000 parishes in the L.S. conduct the Perpetual Help this Madonna is the most pop ular Madonna in the world. For further information con tact the Redemptorist Fathers, Sacred Heart Church, Griffin, 3eorgia. /A CONGRESS ON VISIT. Father James F. Finley, C.S.P., Vicar General of the Paulist Fathers, lias left for a visit to two over seas Paulist foundations: Blessed Sacrament church in Johannesburg, South Africa, and Santa Susanna, the Am erican Church in Rome. He will also visit Paulist chap lains with the U. S. armed forces and Paulists studying la Europe. Mental Illness Fight Bolstered By Bill WASHINGTON, (NC)—The House has passed a bill to en list public and private agen cies in a new administration- backed program to combat men tal illness and retardation. By a vote of 335 to 18, the House approved a three-year, $238 million program which will help finance community mental health centers, build research centers and expand existing programs which train teachers of mentally retarded children. THE MAJOR part of the bill is a $115 million proposal to switch treatment of mentally ill from traditional state insti tutions to new community cen ters. The Federal money would be given to states which could use it to pay up to two-thirds of the cost of centers operated by public or private agencies. Public and private institu tions would be eligible for Fed eral grants in the bill's propo sal to spend $70 million to help build research -centers and facilities to care for the men tally retarded. ALL ACCREDITED training programs for teachers of men tally retarded, deaf and other handicapped children could par ticipate in the bill’s clause pro viding expenditure of $47 mil lion in expansion of such ef forts. An additional $6 million would be set aside for demon stration projects related to edu cation of the handicapped. Syria: Rich in Biblical Memories SYRIA IS A COUNTRY rich with memories of SI. Paul. St. Barnabas and St. MarV. They preached at ANTIOCH, the cen- Iff from which so many of the liturgies have developed . . . At MACHTA-AZAR a village of 300 persons, the 150 Melkite Catholics are trying to repair their church damaged badly by winter rains. Mostly farmers, extremely poor, can give only their hand labor . . . The cash needed—SI.600—is beyond their means. Many nun-Catholies attend services in this, the only ...church in the area . . . They have Til Hoi, Fstitr, Muiton A,J lpp , al „ | us rhis wou | d . for tbf Oriental Chur.h line way to further the spirit of fel lowship just as the Ecumenical Council re-opens . . . Any amount will be welcomed and you will have their prayers. But soon, please, before winter comes again! THOSE STRINGLESS GIFTS A BIG PART of our job is seeing that your donations lor special projects are forwarded immediately to their destination! But the space of this column permits pub lication of only a few such appeals . . Many other sto. *s just as urgent must remain un told. Tha why your “undesignated” dona tions mean so much . . , They bring help where it is most needed. How long has it been since you sent one of those precious STRINGLESS GIFTS? "READIV WHY ami REFl GEES** DID YOU KNOW that our diocesan school system was founded by JOHN NEUMANN, fourth Bishop of Philadelphia, back in the 1850’s when the United States was still mission territory? This holy prelate will be beatified next month by Pope Paul VI ... In many parts of the world, however, a Catholic education is not so easy to obtain. No school bells will be ringing for the REFUGEE CHILDREN in PALESTINE unless wo provide their tuition costs . . . $25 pays for a school term for one child. Won’t you help? SOMETHING FOiTyCH ! SEPTEMBER brings most of us a new season, new interests, new demands! But the need for food has no season ... It is always there, imperative, un relenting! A FOOD PACKAGE for an Arab refugee family still costs only $10, will stave off hunger for one month . . And as a thank- you to each donor, we will send a lovely ROSARY' made of OLIVE SEEDS, a keepsake from the HOLY LAND! TO HEED HIS CALL . . . A Church official in Rome has stated there are 130,000 more priests needed. But in our mission lands are many young semi narians anxious to help fill the ranks, and many young women wishing to become nuns . . . Only they cannot pay for the neces sary education and training. Shall PHILIP and GEORGE ever be priests? Or can SR. ANNA JOSEPH and SR. MARY THOMAS be Sisters? Not unless you adopt them! The cost: $100 a year for the seminarian’s six years; 8150 a year for two years for a Sister. It can be paid in instalments. HAVE WE FORGOTTEN SOMETHING? Please rem*n"h*r in vnur wil'. Our Legal Title: THE THOLIC NEAR EAST WELFARE ASSOCIATION. AND our la.Uinf puests welcome your MASS OFFER INGS Kindly remember them when you wish Mass offered for your intention! f£i*Rear Gst (HissionsiMi FRANCIS CARDINAL SF1LLMAN, Preiident Miff. Joiapk T. Ryea. Mat’l Sec’y food all cewauMlcatieas to: CATHOLIC NEAR EAST WELFARE ASSOCIATION 480 Uxington Av«. o« 46th St. Ntw York 17, N. Y.