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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.