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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 Peachtree Road Pharmacy Pick Up and Delivery Service 1 Call CE 7-6466 4062 Peachtree Rd. Atlanta THE ECUMENICAL coun cil’s second session adjourned last fall without taking final ac tion on a proposed declaration on religious liberty. Cardinal Cushing said he be lieves the council’s third sess ion, which will open in Septem ber, will approve the declera- tion. He spoke (Feb. 28) at St. BOB WILLIAMS SHOES WE GIVE YOU FREE OUR MOST VALUABLE ASSET—A PERFECT FIT YOU can FEEL! Sizes to fit babies to infants $5.99 - $7.99 Moccasin! ... America's fiui boby sho*- BOB WILLIAMS SHOES, INC. Bok William, LENOX SQUARE Peachtree Rd. Front CE 7- 7539 AND THE NEW STORE AT W. PACES FERRY SHOPPING CENTER at Expressway (in Gretchen's Children’s Shop) 233-7347 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 PAROCHIAL SCHOOLS 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.” 1964 PILGRIMAGE SHRINES of EUROPE From July 21 to August 11, Sponsored By The Georgia Bulletin Killarney • Dublin • Aylesford • Paris Versailles • Lisieux • Lourdes • Rome Assisi * Lisbon • Fatima All-Inclusive Rate *897.00 RATE INCLUDES: Air transportation Jet Economy Service on group fare, comfortable hotels, twin-bedded rooms with bath, all meals, sightseeing as specified in the itinerary, meetings, transfers, and entrance fees. Rev. John J. Mulroy Pastor St. Joseph’s Athens, Georgia (Spiritual Director) FOR RESERVATIONS WRITE TO: CATHOLIC TRAVEL OFFICE DUPONT CIRCLE BUILDING WASHINGTON 6, D.C. Travel By MUTMUM AIRLINES © IRISH. nmRnmn mins nRime us First Grade Dropped By Cincinnati COGGINS SHOE STORE SHOES FOR THE FAMILY 46 W. PARK SQ. MARIETTA, GEORGIA PHONE 428-6811 CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 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. C & S REALTY COMPANY "Specialists in Commercial and Industrial Real Estate” Suite 200 Henry Grady Bldg. Atlanta 3, Ga. Warehouses, Stores, Mfg* Plants, Acreage, Shopping Center Dev., Subdivision Dev., Industrial Dev., Insurance 524-2052 MIKE & STEVE SERTICH KOORKANCIIElYY is a village in Trichur diocese in southern 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). ndia: Vim?. We Hope To Complete A Chapel Tbt Holy Fstbtr’s Mission Aid {or tbt Oritntal Church THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF THREE Christ taught for three years. He lived hidden for thirty years—ten times three. He died at the age of thirty three. Is this a subtle honoring of the Trinity? . . . When you help out association and its missionary work in the 18 Near East and Middle East countries assigned to It by the Holy Father, you are aiding in the conversion of those multitudes who don’t possess the indwelling of the three Divine Persons. WAYS TO HELP □ TAKE OUT A MEMBERSHIP in our association. The cost is little. $1 a year for a single person. 55 for a family. □ SEND A FOOD PACKAGE to a needy PALESTINE REF ^ UGEE FAMILY The cost: $10. We’ll send yon an OLIVE SEED ROSARY blessed in the Holy Land. □ HELP WITH MEDICAL NEEDS. $75 provides a complete MEDICAL MISSION KIT. For $5, $10. $20, $25 you can pro vide DRUGS. SPLINTS, INNOCULATIONS. □ PROVIDE MISSION SCHOOL SUPPLIES. A BLACK BOARD costs $1.50. A DESK costs $4. For $5 you can give BOOKS. CATECHISMS or SCHOOL SUPPLIES. NOTE: If you wish to five an EASTER GIFT for someone, we’ll send them one of our LOVELY EASTER GIFT CARDS. It will Include pressed flowers from the Holy Land. THE NEW MATHEMATICS Material things have three dimensions. In a play, an idea is repeated three times so that the audience won’t miss It. Six and nine are multiples of three. All other numbers up to nine add up to a multiple of three. Very mysterious . . . But there is nothing mysterious when you add the figures of a STRINGLESS GIFT. This multiplies the good results in the missions and strengthens the Holy Father's hand. LASTLY when you are enjoying the eternal company of the B’.essed Trinity, how wonderful to know you have remembered God in your will . . . Please remember us, THE CATHOLIC NEAR EAST WELFARE ASSOCIATION. Your good work will go on and on. Dear Monsignor Ryan: Enclosed please find.. Name Street City ..for. Zone State I*l12ear East Qlis$ion$j*i FRANCIS CARDINAL SPILLMAN, Preside* Uayr. Jetepfc T. Ryee. M«P1 Wy M e* >• ItoUm t*: CATHOLIC NEAR EAST WELFARE ASSOCIATION 480 Uxington Avo. at 46th St. Now York 17, N. V* — MBMOI