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PAGE 8 GEORGIA BULLETIN THURSDAY, MARCH 5, 1964
THE CATHOLIC PRESS ■ 5
Changing Times Have Eradicated Old Image
This is the fifth of a series of 12 articles on
the Catholic Press written exclusively for the
GEORGIA BULLETIN by leading editors through
out the country. Monsignor Francis J.Lally is edi
tor of the Pilot, official organ of the archdiocese
of Boston and has long been involved in commu
nity projects in that city.
BY MSGR. FRANCIS J. LALLY
There are still a great many Catholics around
who have only the vaguest notions about their dio
cesan paper. Most Catholic papers are still in the
position where something published in their pages
becomes well known only when it is reprinted or
commented upon somewhere else. Perhaps not all
of the reason for this can be attributed to the
reader; in many cases it is a simple lack of ex
posure — too many people have never laid eyes
on the paper at all.
Today, across the United States, there are more
than a few superior Catholic papers and this is in
sharp conu\ st with the situation a decade or more
ago. What the editor, as well as the circulation
manager, is fighting is the old image that still
persists in the minds of most American Catholic
adults about their local paper. We should acknow
ledge that the old image had a firm basis in fact
when it was created, but with the changing times
few institutions in the Church in this country have
changed so radically as the press.
IN TIMES GONE by, the paper was very often a
house organ which carried official directives from
the bishop’s house, assorted parish and diocesan
club notices, and finally promotions, appointments
and obituaries of the clergy. The popular alterna
tive to this was a thoroughly pious paper, which
could be used instead of a prayer book, or a col
lection of sermons, or as a reader for small
children. Although not yet totally obsolete, this
sort of paper is fast becoming a collector’s item
and we may ask at this point what put it out of
business.
Above all others, one item can claim special
credit and that is the fact of religious relevance.
The Christian mind and the Christian conscience
have been struggling to interpret the changing
reality of contemporary life; it has become possi
ble no longer to live on the pious legacies of
earlier times when men are being challenged on
the most basic assumptions of the Christian life
itself. In simplest terms, the Catholic press has
been required to emphasize the emergence of the
Church into modern times.
WHAT NOW IS seen so clearly in the work of the
Council has been dimly visible for several de
cades and it has moved like a thread through the
news of these years. Many Catholic papers have
been sensitive to it and concerned with it, es
pecially as it has touched upon the issues which
have been immediate to the lives of their readers.
Nor has it been a hidden thing, this interest in the
Christian view of the temporal order. It has in fact
very often been identified and named, not always in
friendly terms. Most often those involved with it
have been called “liberals,” a worn-out term al
ready so full of conflicting meanings as to be itself
meaningless. If it meant anything that can be ex
pressed in a phrase, it meant the willingness to
see the issues as they appeared in a fresh way
and a wider view, without being convinced in ad
vance that the old answers were eternally true in
our contingent world.
The central question here has always been what
is surely the central concern in human life itself,
the question of freedom. In a Church where autho
rity has been placed by divine ordination to watch
over the revelation delivered to the saints and to
make it operable in each generation for the salva
tion of souls, it had been easy for time and events
to obscure the essential role of liberty in religion
and life. The mid-century has seen its reasser-
tlon, and nowhere with such eloquence or such
CARDINAL SAYS
Council Must Back Liberty
JERSEY CITY (NC)--With
out a statement from the Second
Vatican Council endorsing re
ligious liberty, the ecumenical
movement will “fall on its
face,” Richard Cardinal Cush- said.
ing of Boston said here.
“If there is no statement,
then we cannot be sonsidered
sincere,” Cardinal Cushing
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ber, will approve the declera-
tion. He spoke (Feb. 28) at St.
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Peter’s College, where he re
ceived the school's Petraen
Medal.
STRESSING the desirability
of religious unity, the Cardinal
commented that “the wall of
separation does not extend from
the earth to heaven.”
He emphasized, however,
that the reunion of Christians
is primarily “the work of God”
and said he does not look for
unity to come soon or easily.
HE SAID the ecumenical
council’s major function will be
pastoral, updating the Church
and making its methods more
effective in the modem world,
effective in the modem world.
passionate concern as in the words of good Pope
John and the Council he called for the renewal of
God’s Church.
IT IS NOT unfair to say that the Catholic press,
at least in many sensitive areas, sawthe signs of
the times early and interpreted them with some
courage. Long before they became matters of
Council discussion, the press in its news columns
and editorials had touched upon freedom of con
science, racial justice, human rights, the respon
sibility of the laymen, the role of public opinion
and a variety of related topics. In doing this the
press was only reflecting the ferment of Catholic
thought, especially in Europe but also at home,
which was putting into sharper contemporary focus
the ageless teaching of the Church and urging its
relevance to our present world.
Pope Paul, keeping luminously before the world.,
the providential vision of Pope John, has told us
that the work of the Council, and thus the work of
the Church itself at this time, is to put the Church
in contact with contemporary reality. In its way,
this is the essential apostolate of the press, for it
is the news media that alert men to the movements
of thought and action which surround them and
provide some kind of interpretation that empha
sizes their pertinence to more profound issues.
What it really means is that the great forces at
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work among men in present history — nuclear
war, world order, communism, emerging peoples,
hunger, population, race hatred, urban living un
employment, profits, the living wage, education,
leisure, the arts, religious division, the new gene
ration, space exploration, and so much more —
these facts of life must be seen in relation to the
soul of man and the meaning of life. They have a
religious dimension which must be made real and
existential or our understanding of them becomes
a distortion.
THE PRESS, religious or secular, cannot pro
vide answers to the multiple problems surrounding
all these issues, but in a special way the Catholic
press can point in directions where human reason
enlightened by grace may ultimately find some
answers. The revelation of God entrusted to the
Church is a living truth with a universal claim
upon men; the more it becomes involved in the
movements of human history, the more is it true
to itself and its mission. If the press brings the
word of the teaching Church into realistic contact
with the changing pattern of human life and thought,
it will provide that continued interaction out of
which the Providence of God will shape our future.
This is no mean or unimportant effort; but with so
many others, this is the work to which duty has
summoned the Catholic press.
THE ST. BERNARD College (Cullman, Ala.) team which parti
cipated in the National Association of College Unions’ Bowling
Tournament in Athens, included three Georgians. They are; Paul
E. Wojcik, Conyers, rear left; Joe Padula, Atlanta, front left;
and Greg Lyons, Marietta, front right. With them is Fr. Vic
tor Clark, OSB, athletic chairman at St. Bernard.
NE Deanery Clergy Meeting
The regular meeting for the
priests of the Northeast Dean
ery was held on Wed., February
27, at St. John Chrysostom
Melkite Church. Attending also
were one Orthodox priest of the
city, two Episcopal clergymen
and one Presbyterian. The
meeting began at 11:30 with Di
vine Byzantine Liturgy of the
Mass celebrated in the vernacu
lar by Father Haddad. The re
sponses of the mass were made
by all those who were in at
tendance. Before mass Father
Haddad asked all his guests to
join him in offering the Mass
for the speedy recovery of
Archbishop Hallinan.
Following mass a luncheon
was served in the church's rec-
After the luncheon the Rev.
I s. o. s. |
March 15 and March 22 are
the second Sabin Oral Sundays
in the Atlanta area. This time,
at immunization centers
throughout Fulton and Clayton
counties, Type III Sabin Oral
vac ine will be offered to every
one over six weeks of age. The
vaccine i s taken by mouth on a
lump of sugar, or by dropper in
the case of infants. It not only
provides Immunization against
polio, but also prevents anyone
from being a carrier of the
virus.
tory for all priests and guests.
Fathers gathered in the rec
tory's meeting room to hear
Father Haddad. In his address
Father Haddad welcomed first
his guests then he touched brief
ly on the question of unity, say
ing: “Many are the factors that
should be involved in our work
for unity. Among these factors
is the sanctity of our lives. Very
often those outside the Church
will not listen to our research,
our dialectics, our arguments;
but their moral sympathies will
be enkindled into pious envy by
seeing how much Christ is re
flected in our lives. The closer
we get to Clhrist in His Mysti
cal Body the closer we are with
one another.”
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ed registration and activities
fee of $30, making a total of
$170.
To this, the parish will add
$30, bringing the total for ope
rating expenses to $200.
AT THE same time, the par
ish also will pay $40 a year for
each high school student into a
common fund to be used for in
terest payment and reduction of
the outstanding total debt on
archdiocesan high schools of
$8,000,000.
The new schedule of high
school payments will go into ef
fect next September.
With the new program of sev-
«n years in Catholic grade
school, a program of three or
four weeks of summer vaca
tion religious instruction will
be given not only before child
ren enter the public school first
Papal Audience
VATICAN CITY (NC)~ The
community “must help indivi
duals develop their personality,
rendering them fitforthe rights
and duties their Creator has
given them,” Pope Paul VIsaid
here at an audience granted to
members of the Italian inter
parliamentary group meeting in
Rome for a study session.
grade but also before they en
ter the second grade in the par
ish school so they will be pre
pared for first Communion.
Underlying the problems of
the parish schools and archdio
cesan high schools are the rap
idly growing enrollment and the
difficulty of recruiting compe
tent teachers.
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India. It has a population of 1180 families, mostly Hindu and
Moslem. There :.ro .150 Catholic
families who have been trying for
y^i^s to build a chapel. They have
<0 walk up to six miles to get to
Mass. First they took up a culler-
v* tion and bought two acres of land.
Much later they were able to make
another collection from the sale of
their rice and fruit, getting together
—for them—the immense sum of
$2,500. Imagine this in a land where
$70 is a year’s earnings! Still their
efforts only resulted in a half-
finished chapel. They still need
S3,500 for materials to complete the building. They help with
their own labor but their Bishop writes us to say they have just
about exhausted their own resources. He begs us to appeal to
our readers so that the chapel may be completed. He believes
the village will eventually be the center of a large population
and the chapel will do a great amount of good. Will you help
him and the parishioners of KOORKANCHERY? A $1 or $5 or
$10 added to similar gifts of other readers will soon enable them
to finish the chapel. Need we add that the donors will long be
remembered at the chapel.
SISTER Miriam Joseph, S.
S.N.D. (see story on Page 2).
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association and its missionary work in the 18 Near East and
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