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diocese of Atlanta
RELIGIOUS
VOCATIONS
MONTH
VOL 2 NO 10
ATLANTA, GEORGIA
THURSDAY, MARCH 5, 1964
$5.00 PER YEAR
WO FOREIGNERS’
FIFTY-TWO NURSES from St. Joseph's Infirmary School of
Nursing will participate in the capping ceremony at Sacred Heart
Church this Sunday.
52 NURSES
Cap Ceremonies
At St. Joseph’s
Fifty-two nurses from Saint
Joseph’s Infirmary School of
.Nursing will participate in the
Capping Ceremony at Sacred
Heart Church on Sunday, March
8 at 4 p.m.
Rev. Thomas J. Roshetko, S.
M., Pastor of Sacred Heart
Church will officiate during the
ceremony. Assisting Father
Roshetko will be Rev. JamesT.
Murray, S.M. and Rev. George
J. Meiluto, S.M. Father Mur
ray and Father Meiluto are
Chaplains at the Infirmary.
SISTER MARY Melanie, R.S.
M., Hospital Administrator, and
Sister M. Kristen, R.S.M., Di
rector of Nursing, will confer
the Caps to the students who
have successfully completed
their course in theory and prac
tice for the last six months.
These students will continue
their studies in the nursing
field and will perform nursing
procedures on the hospital units
until they have completed the
three year course of study re
quired to graduate from the
School of Nursing. Benediction
of the Most Blessed Sacrament
will follow the exercises.
\fter the ceremony a recep
tion in honor of the newly Cap
ped nurses will be held in the
hospital cafeteria. Families and
friends of the students are invit
ed,
MR. WILLIAM Whitehead,
will receive the SJl insignia,
ROBERT J, EVANS, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Robert J. Evans of 16
Berckman Lane, Rome, has
been named to Who's Who among
students in American universi
ties and colleges. He is a senior
in the School of Foreign Ser
vice at Georgetown University,
Washington, D, C.
Sudan Expels
All Christian
Missionaries
and the following will receive
their Caps: Misses Judity Bab
cock, Valdosta; Sally Ann Ba^
told, Fort Lauderdale, Florida;
Sharon Bearden, Bostwick;
Harriet Burke, College Park;
Bettejean Casey, Myrtle Beach,
S. C.; Maureen Conlon, Valdos
ta, Jeanne Cornwall, Atlanta;
Joanne Curwood, Venice, Flori
da; Sandra Daubenspeck, Fort
Pierce, Florida; Eunice Ann
Dorsett, Atlanta; MaryDrough-
ton, Decatur; Anne Duffy, At
lanta; Shirley Duke, Albany;
Maureen Evans, Dalton; Donna
Fern, Atlanta; Judith Ferraro,
Decatur; Mary Kay Fowler, Ma
rietta; Gayle Gajdostik, Albany;
Mary Louise Gensheimer, Sig
nal Mountain, Tennessee; Wan
da Godlewski, Decatur; Kay
Anne Gravitt, Calhoun; Gayle
Grevemberg, Savannah; Mar
cella Hadarits, Macon; Delores
Haney, Oxford; Viola Haverly,
El Paso, Texas; Linda Hopping,
Atlanta; Judity Kearney, Mor
row; Denise Kelly, Chevy
Chase, Maryland; Glenda Kurt-
nacher, Sarasota, Florida; Su
zanne Lawrence, Augusta; Jane
Maher, Chorlotte, North Caro
lina; Jo Ann Mathieu, Myrtle,
Beach, South Carolina; Patri
cia McOsker, Waycross; Emily
Mize, Silver Creek; Margaret
Nerney, Atlanta; Kathleen
O'Neill, Titusville, Florida;
Marion Powell, Augusta; Sarah
Lane Pryor, Atlanta; Patricia
Ralph, Marietta; Kathleen Reil
ly, Colbert; Eileen Schuler, Al
lentown, Pennsylvania; Frances
Shuba, East Point; Patricia Si-
neath, Albany; Donna Smith,
Sumter, South Carolina; Del
Teague, Cartersville; Gloria
Tidwell, Fairfax, Virginia; Ann
Wallmeyer, Hanover, Virginia
Constance Ward, Warner Rob
ins; Cathleen Watts, Decatur;
Elizabeth Whilden, Augusta;
Helen Worley, Marietta.
Fatima Cause
Prayer Asked
FATIMA, Portugal (NC)--An
appeal for prayers to advance
the sainthood cause of one of
the three witnesses of the ap
paritions of the Blessed Virgin
at Fatima was made here on the
44th anniversary of her death.
The appeal, made on behalf
of Jacinta Marto by Bishop Per
eira Venancio of Leiria at an
anniversary Mass at the basi
lica, was heard by three broth
ers who survive the apparition
witness. Jacinta Marto,
brother Francisco and
KHARTOUM, The Sudan (NC)
—The Moslem-dominated gov
ernment of the Sudan has cli
maxed its eight-year battle
against Christianity in the sou
thern part of this African coun
try by ordering the expulsion of
all remaining missioners
there.
The expulsion order followed
the arrests of several mission
aries and Sudanese priests on
charges of helping southern Su
danese rebels who are fighting
the northern-<ontrolled gov
ernment, claiming it follows a
policy of racial discrimina
tion, political subjection, relig
ious persecution and economic
exploitation.
SUDANESE Interior Minister
G. Mohamed Ahmed Irwa told
a press conference here that
the 300 remaining missioners
are to be ousted because of
their “abuse of Sudanese hos
pitality and interference in the
Sudan's affairs.”
To date the Sudan has expell
ed 163 missioners from the
south, including 113 Catholics.
Scheduled to follow them are
272 Catholics and 28 Protes
tants. The Interior Minister de
clared:
"The cabinet has decided to
deport all foreign clergymen
from the Sudan's southern pro
vinces. The Interior Ministry
will extend assistance to the
churches to enable them to car
ry out their religious task, in
cluding financial assistance and
training for Sudanese clergy
men.”
IN ADDITION to ousting mis
sioners, the government has al
so closed all 350 Catholic mis
sion schools and passed a law
in 1962 virtually making all
missionary activity illegal.
Last November, Bishop Ire-
neus Dud, Apostolic Vicar of
Wau, declared that there is ”de
facto persecution” of Chris-*
tianity in his Moslem-ruled
country.
The persecution began short
ly after the Sudan was given in
dependence by Great Britain in
1956. Since then the government
has been under the control of
northern Sudanese. The nor
therners, who number about
eight million, are of Arab ori
gin, speak Arabic and are Mos
lems. The four million sou
therners are Negroes, speak
African languages and are
mainly pagan, but include more
than 600,000 Christians, of
whom about 500,000 are Catho
lics. The government, saying it
seeks national unity, has tried
to impose Islam on the south.
SOUTHERN efforts against
Islamization have included an
unsuccessful mutiny by south
ern troops and a number of
student strikes. An estimated
80,000 to 100,000 southerners
have fled to neighboring coun
tries and formed an army of
liberation. Others have left
their villages to carry on guer
rilla warfare against the nor
thern troops stationed in the
south who account for at least
half of the nation's armed for
ces.
Recent reports say resis
tance to the government has
flared into full scale rebellion.
A major outbreak in mid-Jan
uary in Wau, Bishop Dud's See
city and provincial capital of
Bahr-el-Ghazal, took at least
200 lives. Southerners sus
pected of being in contact with
rebels in the countryside or
across the borders are being
shot without trial. Hundreds of
villages have been burned by
government troops who believ
ed their people were supplying
food to the rebels. Destroyed
in the burnings were Catholic
churches in Imeila and Loudo.
PAROCHIAL SCHOOLS
NASHVILLE COAJUTOR
Bishop Durick
Is Enthroned
cousin Lucia saw the
tions in 1917.
her
her
apparl-
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (NC)—
During the last three decades
the Church in Tennessee has
experienced “the era of ex
pansion,” the Most Rev. Joseph
A. Durick stressed here as he
was enthroned as Coadjutor
Bishop of Nashville.
Paying tribute to Bishop Wil
liam L. Adrian, spiritual head
of the diocese since 1936, Bis
hop Durick said that in the last
30 years more than 30 new par
ishes have been founded; some
15 mission churches and chap
els established; 30 new elemen
tary schools, five high schools
and two collebes, and a new
home for the aged have been
erected.
ARCHBISHOP John A. Floersh
of Louisville, Ky. f metropolitan
of the province which embraces
the Nashville See, officiated at
the (March 3) enthronement
rite. Bishop Adrian occupied a
throne in the sanctuary.
Auxiliary Bishop Fulton J.
Sheen of New York, national di
rector of the Society for the
Propagation of the Faith,
preached the sermon. Bishop
Durick offered the Solemn Pon
tifical Mass which followed the
enthronement.
TO BISHOP Adrian, the new
Coadjutor Bishop said: “I pre
sent myself today...in the spirit
of obedience — pledging my
loyalty and offering my assis
tance.” To the clergy and Re
ligious, Bishop Durick said: “I
offer to you..a willing heart.
At a dinner in Richland Coun
try Club after the enthronement
rite, the speakers included Gov.
Frank Clement of Tennessee,
Archbishop Thomas J. Toolenof
Mobile-Birmingham, Ala., and
Bishop Durick, who has served
as Auxiliary Bishop of Mobile-
Birmingham since 1955.
‘Call-A-Priest’
Stickers Sell
More than two millions
“S.O.S.” stickers that can be
placed by Catholics on their
automobile windows, request
ing the help of a priest in case
of an accident, have been pur
chased so far by Catholics in
West Germany.
Eleven other European coun
tries have adopted the custom.
“ANGEL OF DACHAU" HONORED—A laywomnn who
smuggled food and medicine to priest inmates of the Nazi
concentration camp at Dachau, Germany, has been honored
“for selfless service in the war years of 1944-45." At Bad
Waldsee, auxiliary Bishop Josef L. Buchkremer of Aachen
is shown with Miss Anna Warth. 59, following the cere
monies of presentation of the papal aw r ard “Cross Pro Ec-
clesia.”
First Grade
Dropped By
Cincinnati
An Editorial
* We have not seen the German play, The
Deputy, which opened in New York this past
week. We have all read such thorough de
scriptions and reviews, however, that we
feel that some fair comment is called for.
There is some general criticism of the
outcry by Catholics in relation to the play.
Alas, this results from the characterization
of the late Pope Pius XII as a sly, avari
cious politician who, according to the au
thor of the play, literally washes his hands,
Pilate-like, of responsibility towards Nazi
mass murder. The playwrite and audience
view a villain who makes a deliberate, un
principled choice.
We feel forced to protest. Despite the
name of Pope Pius XII given to the central
stage figure, we do not have here an histo
rical personage, and the characterization is
to our mind slanderous.
POPE PIUS XII did desire to save lives
and clearly felt protests would result in
greater persecution of Catholics and Jews.
Some six million Jews are said to have
been murdered by the Nazis. It should also
not be forgotten that some three thousand
priests, along with countless other Chris
tians,died as a result of Nazi tyranny. While
they do not come close to the number of Jews
killed, it is also worth pondering on.
Pope Pius XII clearly felt responsibility to
mankind; he sheltered and aided Jews
throughout the war. The Jews themselves
have attested to this at different times in
these intervening twenty years.
THE DEPUTY does not pretend to be
merely a play, but rather it is billed as
historical drama. Since its main character
is distorted beyond recognition, its greatest
impact is lost. Let us agree, there is a real
purpose to be served by theatre which for*
ces us to remember those ugly years ot per
secution, and the lack for so long of response
to the Nazi evil.
We must, all of us, be reminded of the
morality of our answer to the age-old ques
tion, “Am I my brother’s keeper?” But
the end does not justify the means; using the
late Pope Pius XII as the scapegoat for this
particular sin of mankind in this particular
era of history is wrong. Certainly, it can
contribute nothing to better understanding,
and will only lead to unnecessary tensions.
GERARD E. SHERRY
CINCINNATI (NC) — Parish
elementary schools of the Cin
cinnati archdiocese will drop
the first grade beginning next
September in an effort to solve
the problems of rising cost and
enrollment’.
The Cincinnati archdiocese is
the first U. S. See to drop the
first grade on an across-the-
board basis, though grades have
been dropped in individual Cath
olic schools in scattered areas
throughout the country.
THE ACTION follows a sharp
debate on the issue in Catholic
educational circles for the past
few years. In the debate some
prominent Catholic educators
said it would be disastrous if
any Catholic elementary grades
were dropped.
The Cincinnati archdiocesan
decision to drop the first grade
was announced (March 5) at a
press conference at which
members of the Administrative
Council and of the School Board
of the archdiocese were pres
ent. Archbishop Karl J. Alter,
of Cincinnati, emphasized that
the changes came w ith the una
nimous approval of the council
and the board.
IT WAS immediately stated
that summer vacation schools
of religion will be set up for
the approximately 10,000 child
ren who would have entered
parochial schools in the first
grade next fall.
Archdiocesan officials also
announced that under the new
program:
• Minimum salaries of relig
ious Sisters teaching in the
schools will go up from $1,000
to $1,500.
• Maximum number of pupils
in a classroom will be reduced
gradually from 50 to 40.
• Lay teachers w ill be assur
ed an annual increment of $100
and none will be dismissed be
cause of elimination of the first
grade.
• High school tuition will be
increased to $200 a year and a
parish assessment added to pay
for operating costs and for
liquidation of existing debts.
Although no lay teachers will
be dropped, school board offi
cials noted that there is an an
nual turnover of about 30
among lay teachers in the par -
chial schools. The reductic of
some 10,000 pupils from the
current elementary school en
rollment of more than 75,000
therefore will enable the
schools to reduce the lay teach
ing force by about 200 teachers,
with a saving of an estimated
$640,000 annually.
AT THE same time, the in
crease of Sisters' minimum
alaries to $1,500 will cost ap
proximately $500,000 a yar.
At the beginning of the school
term last fall, 149 of the arch
diocese’s 262 parishes were
operating parochial schools. Of
the 149 parish schools, 10 had
dropped the first grade on a
temporary basis.
School officials said that past
experience has shown that “vir
tually 100^ of the Catholic pu
pils attending public schools for
the first grade will enrole in
available parochial schools for
the rest of the grades.
THEY ALSO reported that
public school officials in the af
fected areas have been noti
fied of the decision to discon
tinue the first grade in parish
schools and are making plans to
accommodate th e increased
public school enrollment.
Boys and girls who would or
dinarily be going to first grade
next fall are requested to en
roll with their parish school
and take part in a vacation
school religious instruction
program this summer, though
they must enroll also with the
public school and receive first
grade instruction there.
In reducing the number of
needed classrooms by about
200, elimination of first grade-
will make it possible for schools
move toward a maximum of 40
pupils to a classroom, officials
noted, adding, adding that public
school public-teacher ratios
were “much lower.”
ALTHOUGH SALARY in
creases for lay teachers will
be made possible, the scale,
will remain considerably below
that of public schools, it was
reported.
To meet operating costs of
high schools of the archdio
cese, each student will be re
sponsible for an annual tuition
payment of $140 and a combin-
CONTINUI D ON PAGE 8
NEAL GOODFELLOW, president of Delta Employees* Fair
Share Plan, gives check for $2,400 to Sister M. Theophane,
Administrator of Holy Family Hospital as Robert F.Schoor, also
of Delta, looks on. See story on page 6.