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ATLANTA, GEORGIA
i nUKMJA i, NOVEMBER 14, 1963
SERVING
GEORGIA'S
71 NORTHERN
of Atlanta
COUNTIES
LARGE TURNOUT
EPISCOPALIANS TOLD:
ST, THOMAS MOKE visitors on “Operation Understanding" day are shown the Stations of the
Cross by a member of the Archdiocesan Council of Catholic Men, A record number of people
attended the "open house" activities all over the Archdiocese.
He said he had heard "with
pleasure” the world’s reaction
to his decision regarding lay
representation.
’The discussions taking
place all the time in the Vati
can basilica about the laymen’s
role in the Church have let Us
realize how happy and appro
priate tills step was," the Pope
said, "We believe it might
possibly have future develop
ments."
"But," Bishop Swanstrom
added, “one cannot overempha
size its value to the poor in
such places as Latin America,
Africa and the Far East, where
the goods far exceed in value
the estimate we place upon
them in the United States."
The supplying of food, clo
thing and medicine to those
in greatest need was only a
basic starting point, Bishop
Swanstrom noted.
•A GEOMETRICAL FANTASY'—The new pariah church of St. Maurice de Duvemay, in
Montreal has been described as "a geometrical fantasv in concrete, glass and stone * The
pariah program matches the avant-garde style of its' church architecture The parish
Income comes solely from tithing and the Sunday offering. Eighty lavmen act as Mass
commentators and readers, singers. Mass servers and ushers. No fees are charged for
funerals, marriages, and baptisms, and gifts on such occasions are refused. Father Jean
Corn is pastor.
PRAY FOR
THE COUNCH,
Back Integration But Avoid
Making i Untenable ? Demands
TRENTON, N. J. (RNS)—A
statement on racial concerns by
the Protestant Episcopal Dio
cese of New Jersey urged cler
gy and church members to take
positive action for integration,
but cautioned against supporting
demands that are “not tenable."
As an example the statement
cited the recent Trenton March
for Jobs and Freedom whose or
ganizers had as one of their
demands that the State cCom-
STAR HERALD
missioner of Education elimi
nate all de facto segregation in
public schools by Sept. 1, 1964.
While New Jersey bans pub
lic school segregation by ac
tion of local school boards, the
statement pointed out, de facto
segregation does exist as the
result of housing discrimina
tion and other factors over
which these education boards
have no control.
’The solution to de facto
Jewish Honors To
Catholic Newspaper
PHILADELPHIA (RNS)—The
Catholic Star Herald, weekly of
the Camden, N. J., diocese, re
ceived the annual Human Rela
tions Award of the American
Jewish Committee's Philadel
phia chapter here.
Accepting the award was
Msgr. Salvatore J. Adamo, exe-
Gives Gift
VATICAN CITY (RNS)—Pope
Paul VI has sent a large but
undisclosed amount of money to
assist the "most urgent cases”
involved in the Japanese mining
and railroad disasters.
The Pontiff, through Amleto
Cardinal Cicognani, Vatican
Secretary of State, cabled the
Papal Nuncio in Japan to state
he was "deeply grieved" and
"shared in the mourning" of
victims' families.
In an audience with mem
bers of the Permanent Com
mittee of the Conference of
International Catholic Organi
zations, Pope Paul praised the
agencies’ work, especially in
the field of the lay apostolate.
The Vatican announced that
the Pope would visit St. Cle
ment’s Basilica in Rome on
Nov. 17 to attend a Solemn Pon
tifical Mass in the Byzantine
Rite.
cutive editor of the newspaper
which was cited for its "sym
pathetic and understanding re
porting of interreligious and in
terracial relations."
In a brief address, the priest
suggested that Catholics should
write to their bishops in Rome
to urge that the Second Vatican
Council adopt a proposed state
ment condemning anti-Semi
tism.
“I hope there will be 6,000,-
000 such letters," he said, "so
that each one will represent in
some small way a measure of
atonement for the Hitlerian
slaughter of 6,000,000 Jews in
Europe, For we all are our
brothers’ keepers."
Msgr. Adamo also said he
hoped the Ecumenical Council
will not only condemn "the sin
of anti-Semitism in strong dear
language, but will go on from
there to emphasize the many
beautiful elements of Jewish
tradition which still survive in
Catholic cermonies and
ideals.”
"How many people realize,”
he observed, "that in the most
solemn of our Catholic marri
age rituals the precious nuptial
blessing presents to the Catho
lic bride, as ideals of wifehood,
three great Jewish ladies;: Sa
rah, Rebecca and Rachel?”
segregation is the removal of
the factors that brought it into
being,” declared the statement
of the diocese’s Advisory Com
mittee on Racial Concerns.
"If gerry - manderlng a
school’s district to effect a par
ticular racial complexion in the
school is morally wrong, and we
submit it is, then it is morally
wrong to look at a school’s ra
cial complexion on the basis of
racial selectivity."
The committee said another
"untenable” demand of the
Trenton demonstration was that
which would have placed the
burden of proof of non-discri
mination on the government in
cases where civil rights groups
questioned employment prac
tices in projects financed by
public funds.
Citing the principle of "in
nocent until proven guilty," the
church committee said that
chaos" would result by the en
couragement of unsubstantiated
charges.
The statement called on all
diocesan parishes and missions
to make it clear that their''wor
ship, work and fellowship are
open to all persons, irrespec
tive of race, color or nation
ality.
An Historic
World Event
NEW YORK (NC)—The Ame
rican Jewish Committee said
the draft proposal before the
Second Vatican Council on pro
per attitudes toward Jews can
make the Church "a powerful
force for rooting out” attitudes
that have historically injured
Jews,
A.M. Sonnabend of Boston,
committee president, hailed
circulation of the proposal (Nov,
8) as an "historic event."
"By castigating attitudes and
beliefs that have perpetrated
hostility against jews genera
tion after generation, by com-
demning anti-Semitism in a
manner none can misunder
stand," Sonnabend said.
‘Understanding’
A Warm Success
i
In All Parishes
BOB ENGLISH, ASSUMPTION PARISH, shows visitors altar vessels as part of "Operation Under
standing" which took place throughout the Archdiocese last Sunday afternoon. Response to “op
eration," in which Catholics invited friends to guided tours of parish churches was overwhelming.
PAROCHIAL SCHOOLS
Alabama Prelate Sees
Integration Inevitable
MOBILE, Ala, (NC)—Arch
bishop Thomas J. Toolen said
here that the issue of integrat
ing Alabama Catholic schools
must be faced.
Archbishop Toolen, Bishop of
Mobile-Birmlngham, said that
despite the opposition of Ala
bama Gov. George Wallace and
others school integration can
not be halted.
The Archbishop, speaking at
the dedication of a $200,000
addition to Bishop Toolen High
School, noted that Catholic
schools in Pensacola, Fla. —
part of the Mobile-Birmingham
diocese—are already integrat
ed. Six Negro students are in
a previously all-white Catho-
‘The Laity’s
Hour’-Pope
VATICAN CITY (NC)--Pope
Paul, stating again that the pre
sent is "more than ever the
hour of the laity," received
a group representing the Con
ference of International Catho
lic Organizations.
He said the extension of the
lay apostolate on an interna
tional basis, fostered by Pius
XII and concretely represent
ed by the International Catho
lic Organizations, is "very
much in harmony with the evo
lution of society’s institutions
and its rhythms."
He said the task of the laity
"is to help the Church in her
work, to make up for the short
age of the clergy, to discover
modern paths along which
Christ’s message can be
spread.’’
‘Their part seemed to Us so
important," the Pope continu
ed, "that in this historic mo
ment when the Church, gathered
in council, is somehow examin
ing her conscience and is carry
ing on a wide examination of her
apostolic forces, We thought...
some qualified representatives
of the laity could and should
be associated with this great
reconsideration cf life and be
admitted to sit in the council.”
lie high school there and one
Negro student is in a former
ly all-white Catholic grade
school.
Archbishop Toolen did not in
dicate when other Catholic
schools of the diocese will be
integrated. He predicted, how-
RELIEF SERVICE
ever, that when integration
takes place the impact will be
small.
Stressing the importance of
Catholic education, he said it
is "essential that our schools
should be supported because
our children need the Catholic
foundation which they are given.
Enthusiastic reports from
parishes in the 71-countyNorth
Georgia Archdiocese area Indi
cate that Operation Understand
ing, conducted by Catholic lay
men on Sunday, November 10,
was an unqualified success.
Most frequently heard com
ment was "We could not have
handled any more.” Parish
chairmen reported a high de
gree of interest on the part of
visitors, most of whom needed
no encouragement to ask cogent
and intelligent questions on what
they saw and heard.
This latest project, spon
sored by the Archdiocesan
Council of Catholic Men, en
listed the support of all Catho
lic families, both in assisting
in staging the event and in pro
viding the principal avenue
through which the project was
brought to Protestant and Jews
in the Archdiocese, its purpose,
implicit in its title, was to fur
ther understanding among peo
ple of goodwill. Its effect was
two-fold - giving all Catholics
■in the Archdiocese an oppor
tunity to participate in an ag
gressive Apostolate, and, sec
ondly, exposing x to separated
• Christians a detailed look and
careful explanation of the ex
ternals of the Church. In both
U. S. Catholics Provide
Food To World Hungry
ROME (NC) — Almost 30
million people in the world had
sufficient food in 1963 because
of the distribution of surplus
food conducted through the re
lief organization of U.S. Ca
tholics.
This was only one of many
items reported to American
bishops meeting in Rome (Nov.
9) by Bishop Edward E. Swa
nstrom, executive director of
Catholic Relief Services —
National Catholic Welfare Con
ference.
Bishop Swanstrom reported
that in the 12 months ending
Sept. 30 of this year, the for
eign relief and resettlement
programs of Catholic Relief
Services had a value of $176,-
525,973.
Foodstuffs donated by the U.S.
government and distributed by
CRS as a gift of the American
people had a value of $104,-
606,654, he said. The govern
ment, he added, must be cre
dited with about $26,5 million
in ocean-freight payments.
Bishop Swanstrom emphasi
zed that CRS activities went
far beyond the distribution of
food. The 1962 Thanksgiving
clothing appeal, for example,
resulted in a series of ship
ments totaling 17.5 millions
pounds of clothing, blankets,
bedding an d shoes. He said
this item alone has a value
of $22 million.
"These programs are not on
ly helping to establish and stre-
nghten sound social welfare or
ganizations,’’ he said, "but are
stimulating and supporting the
development of a continually in
creasing number of self-help
projects for the social and ec
onomic betterment of large
numbers of people. Although
their emphasis is basically that
of welfare assistance, many of
the programs have served to
increase and strengthen edu
cation and health agencies, par
ticularly as regards elementary
schools, dispensaries, clinics,
and hospitals.
The report included accounts
of how the CRS was on the
scene with food, clothing, med
icines and cash in several dis
asters of the past year. These
included the earthquake in Sko
plje, Yugoslavia, the flood in
Longarone, Italy, and hurricane
"Flora" in the Carribean.
CRS has been rapidly wind
ing up its resettlement acti
vities on behalf of refugees,
Bishop Swanstrom reported.
But, even so, it assisted in
the past year in the immigra
tion and resettlement of
1,762 persons from Europe, the
Middle East, the Far East and
Latin America. In addition it
assisted in the resettlement of
almost 22,000 Cuban refugees.
But one of the most satis
fying elements of the entire
report, said Bishop Swanstrom,
was in the thought that, through
the generosity of the faithful
of the U.S.
areas the project proved emi
nently successful.
Commenting on the undertak
ing, Chairman Dr. Norman
Berry stated "One of the moA
gratifying aspects of the entire
project was the intere*t and co
operation expressed by Pro
testant ministers and Jewish
rabbis, many of whom partici
pated by visiting Churches near
them and seeing for themselves
the demonstration staged by
our laymen.” Dr. Berry and In ;
co-chairmen, Herb Farnsworth
and Lew Gordon, Jr., express
ed high praise for the interest
and the enthusiastic coopera
tion of individual parish chaii -
men and their lay associates,
and for the excellent prepara
tion evidenced in the presenta
tion.
ACCM President Ferdinand
Buckley indicated the grutin-
cation of the Council in the suc
cess of the project and stated
that future similar endeavors
of ACCM would give further op
portunity to all Catholics to
participate in the lay apostolus .
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‘Understanding
Outstanding
Operation Understanding, from
all reports received thus far,
was an outstanding event in all
parishes. To the individuals
who made it possible, the par
ish chairmen, publicity chair
men, tour guides and ushers,
and to all who participated by
inviting Protestant and Jewish
friends, go our sincere and
heartfelt thanks.
ARCHDIOCESAN COUNCIL
OF CATHOLIC MEN
Fdrdinand Buckley, Pres,
Dr, Norman Berry, Chairman
Herbert Farnsworth,
Coordinator
Lewis F. Gordon, Jr.
Publicity Chairman
Pope Rides
VATICAN CITY (NC)— Pope
Paul VI went for a ride for Hit-
first time (Not. 8) in the white
Lincoln Continental presented
to him in October by a group
of alumni of Notre Dame Uni
versity.