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PAGE 8 GEORGIA BULLETIN THURSDAY, MAY 28, 1964 Three New Parishes Established (CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1) Ohio, and received his Docto rate from Gregorian Univer sity in Rome. He was ordained in 1953 and his assignments have been 5 years as Director of Brothers and Procurator at Glenmary Headquarters, Cin cinnati; 3 years as pastor of a newly established 5-county' parish in West Virginia. He is at present Director of Pastoral Center at Buck Creek, N.C., training center for newly or dained Glenmary priests. Father Mayhew was bom in New York and was ordained May, 1955. He holds a Bache lor of Arts degree from Mary- knoll Seminary (University of the State of New York), From June, 1955 to May, 1959 he was assistant at St. Thomas More, Decatur; May, 1959 to Oct., 1960, assistant at St. Anthony's, Atlanta; October, 1960 to Dec., 1960 Administra tor, St. Joseph’s, Athens; priest -in-charge at St. Anna’s, Mon roe, Dec., 1960, He was ad ministrator at St. Joseph's, Athens, Nov., 1961 to March, 1962; administrator at St. Pet er’s, LaGrange from March, 1962 to June, 1962, and pastor of St. Peter's, LaGrange from June, 1962 to the present. He was Director of Diocesan Youth Activities from March, 1956 to Jan., I960; a Member of the Archdiocesan Commission on Archbishop’s Statement “The establishment of three new parishes in our Archdiocese is a vital step in the renewal of our Faith. It is a sign not only of our growth in numbers; it is also a symbol of our growth in the incor poration of our people in the Body of Christ. A parish can become too large, lessening that bond of charity toward each other which Saint John tells us is the requisite for our love of God. Parish and Archdiocese must move together on Christ’s frontiers. "The census of 1963 sponsored by the archdiocesan Council of Catholic Men was used in preparing the new parochial lines. It is significant that the new Church of the Holy Spirit will be in the City of Atlanta; the Church of the Holy Cross in the suburbs, and Saint Mark's in Clarkesville, north Georgia. No part of Christ’s king dom can be overlooked as the Catholic Church offers her daily prayers and sacrifices to God through her Head, Our Lord. Holy Spirit and Holy Cross draw our attention and our love to the two great central mysteries. Saint Mark's reminds us of a man who wrote the concise account of Our Lord’s years on earth in that part of the Bible called his Gospel, All three names have pro found meaning, not just for all Catholics, but for all Christians, and indeed for all men. "Congratulations to the pastors who assume the responsibilities of the new parishes and our appreciation to Msgrs. Moylan, Cassidy and Regan for their help in planning the new boundaries." Sacred Liturgy in May, 1962, and Associate Editor of The Georgia Bulletin from MarcET 1964 to the present. In March, 1963, he was Director, Clergy Examinations and in Sept., 1963, Defensor Vin cull - Matrimonial Tribunal. Father Drohan is the son of Mrs. Frances Drohan and the late Patrick Drohan, Worces- SCOTTISH ARCHBISHOP Joint Version Of New Testament Is Approved ter, Mass., and the brother of Rev. James J. Drohan, S.J., Holy Cross College. A graduate of Holy Cross College and St. Mary's Seminary, Baltimore, Md., he was ordained in 1956 at St. Paul's Cathedral, Wor cester, Mass. In the invasion of Normandy he was a platoon- leader with the 19th Corps. He served as assistant at Christ the King Cathedral, St. John the Evangelist, Hapeville, and St. Thomas More, Decatur. He is Spiritual Director of the As sociation of Our Lady’s Day School for Exceptional Child ren and a member of the Met ropolitan Atlanta Council on Alcoholism. Father Freeman was born in Ecorse, Michigan and was or dained at Syracuse, New York in 1957. He holds a B.A. degree from St. Bernard's Major Semi nary, Rochester, N.Y. He has held positions as assistant at St. Anthony's, Atlanta from June, 1957 to Sept., 1957; as sistant at Christ the King from Sept., 1957 to March, 1959; assistant at St. Joseph's, Athens, March, 1959 to Sept., 1959 and has been pastor at Sacred Heart, Athens, from Sept., 1959 to the present. In May, 1962 he was a Member of the Archdiocesan Commission on Sacred Liturgy. Father Beltran was born in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., and ordain ed at the Cathedral of Christ the King, Atlanta. He holds a B.A. degree from St. Mary's Seminary, Baltimore and an S.T.B. degree from St. Mary's, Roland Park, Baltimore, Md. His positions include: assis tant, Immaculate Conception, Atlanta, June, 1955 to Oct., 1955; assistant, St. Thomas More, Decatur, Oct., 1955 to Sept., 1957; assistant, St. John the Evangelist, Hapeville, Sept., 1959; assistant 1957 to Nov, AN INVITATION The Archdiocese of Atlanta invites you to teach in our elementary schools beginn ing next September. We need qualified teachers in Atlanta and adjoining cities. If you are a Catholic man or woman with some teaching experience, hold a teacher’s certificate or possess a college degree and wish to contribute to the re ligious and educational training of the young Catholic boys and girls of Geor gia, please contact the EDUCATION OFFICE, 320 Courtland Street, N. E., Atlanta, Georgia 30303. Monsignor P. J. O’Connor, Secretary for Education, will be most happy to answer any ques tions with regard to the teaching re quirements in our Catholic Archdioce san School System. CONSECRATED Pontiff Praises Religious Vows EDINBURGH, Scotland (NC) —A New Testament that com bines Catholic and Protestant scholarship moved close to pub lication here this week with the issuance of the key approval by a Catholic Church authority. The Biblical work, a Catho lic edition of the American Protestant Revised Standard Version of the New Testament, was given a full immediate imprimatur by Archbishop Gor don J. Gray of St. Andrew's and Edinburgh, in whose dio cese the publishers, Thomas Nelson and Sons, are located. IT WAS also announced here that the Congregation of the Holy Office in Rome was given its approval in principle to an en tire Catholic Bible, including the Old and New Testaments, based on the Revised Standard Version. Work on the Old Tes tament segment is said to be well advanced, and this joint Catholic-Protestant effort will soon be ready for the presses. When it appears it will be the first English Bible transited straight from the Hebrew and Greek texts with Catholic ap proval. The Catholic Biblical As sociation of Britain, led by bibliographists Father Regi nald Fuller and Father Ber nard Orchard, O.S.B., started work on this project 11 years ago with the approval erf the late Bernard Cardinal Griffin, Archbishop of Westminster. It was shelved by his sudden death and a reserved attitude on the part of his successor, William Cardinal Godfrey. Renewed im petus was given to it by Pope John XXIIfs ecumenical trends and the arrival of Archbishop John C. Heenan at Westminster. Two Receive B.A. Degrees Two Atlantans received Bachelor of Arts degrees Monday from Manhattanvllle College of the Sacred Heart, Purchase, New York, at the college's 123rd commence ment. Miss Marta Elena Lawton, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. G, Albert Lawton, 3645 Nancy Creek Rd„ NW, was a classics major and was a member of the swimming team. She served as resident of the Foreign Stu dents Committee and participat ed in a special school program for the study of archaeology in Spain, Miss Van Spalding Schroder, daughter of Dr, and Mrs, J. Spalding Schroder, 2610 Rivers Rd.. majored in philosophy. A graduate'OF Northside High School, she was a member of the Class Council and the Catholic Action Courted, THE BRITISH Catholic schol ars received the full coopera tion of the American Protes tant Council holding the copy right to the Revised Standard Version. They characterized it as a textually pure translation and found very few changes necessary in preparing their Catholic edition. THE CHANGES they made were largely a matter of change in emphasis. The American Protestant authorities agreed to them, while asking that they be marked by footnotes as they ap peared in the text and also list ed at the back of the volume. The Protestant scholars also agreed on the difficult prob lem of rearranging the books BEVEP 1 v i.U-LS, Calif. (NC) —Three Cardinals have joined 2,000 other Catholics and Pro testant clergymen in a written protest against the treatment of Jews in the Soviet Union. In a "letter of conscience" circulated by the Anti-Defema- tion League of B’nai B'rith, the international Jewish service organization, Christian church leaders asked the Soviet Union to ease repressive measures against Jewish minorities, The letter was made public here (May 22) at a meeting of the league's national executive committee. The signers declar ed they were "profoundly dis turbed by authoritative reports of discriminatory and repres sive treatment of Jews in the Soviet Union," and stated that "the essential dignity and equality of all men is an ele mentary religious and moral principle." The letter appealed to Rus sian authorities to erase all vestiges of anti-Semitism, to permit the establishment of Jewish organizations, to allow free worship and the establish ment of cultural bonds with Jewish communities outside Russia, to permit pilgrimages to the Holy Land and to permit some Jews to join their fami lies in other lands. Finally, they asked for the end of a campaign making Jews "the scapegoat in the governmental campaign against economic crimes in the Soviet Union." THE LETTER was released by Hollywood producer Do re of the Apocrypha in a way suit able to Catholics. Archbishop Gray sought and received final confirmation from the Holy Office before is suing his imprimatur here. A condition to the publication of the Catholic edition is that it has a special introduction— which was already prepared by Father Fuller)—and the notes to the text. In issuing his approval, Arch bishop Gray told the British press: "We have felt the need for such an edition for some time. Apart from its tremen dous ecumenical significance it will provide a valuable basis for the dialogue between Cath olic and Protestant scholars," Schary, national president of the league, and Label Katz, inter national president of B'nai B’rith. Explaining the need for the letter, Katz said: "More and more in recent years, and es pecially in recent months, we have seen Soviet Jews denied the most elementary rights to practice their religious faith, to nurture their cultural tradi tions and to maintain their ethnic dignity. "Synagogues are being closed down, the production and dis tribution of essential religious articles are banned, and Soviet Jews are being entirely cut off from their co-religionists at home and abroad." Peace Research Priest Honored WASHINGTON (NC)—Father Edward A, Conway, S.J., direc tor of the Center for Peace Re search at Creighton University, Omaha, will be honored by the Catholic Association for In ternational Peace for his con tributions to world peace at a testimonial banquet here June 2. An organizer of the National Committee for Atomic Infor mation and a former inter national affairs editor of America magazine, Father Conway in 1962 was chosen by President Kennedy as one of 15 citizens making up the Gen eral Advisory Committee of the U, S, Arms Control and Dis armament Agency, ROME (NC)—Pope Paul VI has stressed to members of re ligious orders the importance he sees of having persons In today's world who are conse crated to the ideals of poverty groups, chastity and obedience. Speaking in' Latin to several groups of newly elected super iors of religious orders who have their generalates in Rome, and others, the Pontiff stressed that although conditions of life in general have changed and re ligious life has changed with them, "nevertheless that which emerges from the very nature of the 'evangelical counsels' maintains its full force and can not be in anyway diminished." POPE PAUL insisted on the necessity of obedience. "Autho rity must maintain itself in its exercise within the limits of charity and in respect for the human person," he comment ed. After describing chastity as a "precious gem," the Pope turned to the virtue of poverty and urged Religious to "love this virtue" and to content themselves with things which are strictly necessary’. The Pope, moveover, recom mended poverty to religious or ders themselves as well as to Individual Religious. On discipline, the Pontiff urged his listeners to abstain from passing too many regu lations. He urged them to keep only those absolutely neces sary, lest the very number of rules on the books make it difficult to observe them. "All this should show you with how much concern we consider and appreciate the life of the Religious and how much hope we place in your cooperation," the Pope said. ARCHBISHOP Paul J. Hallinan was a surprise visitor to the joint graduation exercises of St. Joseph and St. Pius X high schools, coming to the Fox Theatre ceremony from St. Joseph's Infirmary - ’ where he is convalescing from a recent illness. The Archbishop told the graduates that ht "...wanted to be with them on this first joint graduation." CARDINALS SIGN Clergymen Assail Russia on Jews FATHER FREEMAN St. Mary's, Rome, from Nov., 1959 to Jan., 1960; assistant, St. Anthony’s, Atlanta from Jan., 1960 to Oct., 1961; assistant, FATHER DROHAN Christ the King from Oct., 1961 to Jan., 1962 and assistant at SS. Peter and Paul, Decatur from Jan. 1962 to the present. FATHER BELTRAN In January, 1959 he was Sec retary’ of the Liturgy Commis sion and July, 1959, Chaplain, Knights of Columbus 4420. MSG R. PATRICK J. O'Connor, Archdiocesan Secretary for Education, presents Sarah Almon of St. Pius X with her diploma at the joint Pius X- St. Joseph high school graduation held at the Fox Theatre on Saturday, At left is seated Fr. Daniel J, O'Connor, principal of St. Joseph’s. In the center is Msgr. Alfred M. Watson, rector of St. Peter** Cathedral. Erie. Penna.. commence ment sneaker. THOMAS Brannon, Pius X sen ior, holds Athens Banner-Her ald T rophy award to. school*! publication, Golden Linaf, for general excellence. Institute Formed NEW YORK (NC)—Plans for establishment of the Father John LaFarge Institute for work in the ecumenical, interracial, international peace and com munity relations fields were disclosed here. The announcement was made by Father Thurston N. Davis, S.J., editor of America, Jesuit weekly review, at a news con ference luncheon in the St. Regis Hotel (May 26). He said the in stitute will be located in the new home of the magazine, America House, now being readied at 106 West 56th Street here. FATHER DAVIS said the in stitute will concentrate "our efforts with men of ail faith* on a continuing study of ecu menical. interracial, inter national peace and community relations problems." Father LaFarge, S.J., long time associate editor of Ameri ca, author, lecturer and cham pion of interracial Justice, died here last November at the age of 83. AMONG notables at the lunch eon were Sir Alec Guinness, actor; Rabbi Louis Finkelstein; Father Walter M. Ciszek. S.J., freed last October in an ex change after 23 years as a prizor.er in Soviet Russia; Dr. Reinhold Niebuhr, Protestant leader, and Roy Wilkins, Negro leader, AH will participate in the work of the institute. ETHIOPIA: A MUD-HUT CHURCH WHAT SERVES AS A CHURCH IN AMIA, ETHIOPIA, is not a church at all. It’s a tiny niud hut, with baked-mud walls <~>d tha'ched roof . . . Disgrace ful. isn’t it. that we don’t provide better for the Blessed Sacrament? ... The average man in AMIA earns, at best, $35 a year—less than 7? ’Or. a By themselves, our "* Catholics in AMIA can’t build a better church! . . . The Bishop in ETHIOPIA informs us that the hut is too small for Mass on Sunday morning. Besides, the old walls are Tb.Hol,F. l b.,’,M.n,onAul theateri ne to collapse . . Wh.t to do? Perhaps the readers of this for tbe OneMjl Church column will help us build a decent church. The $1 you might give is more than the laborer gets for a full week’s work in AMIA . . . The church (with Parish house attached) will cost altogether only S4.000. It would make a most fitting memorial for someone’s parents or loved ones... Won’t you do what you can to help us give God a decent house? U.S.A.: NATIVE SISTERS Following a Communion Breakfast talk in Schnectady, N. Y„ Rosary Society members spontaneously "passed the hat.’’ The total: $176 . . . The money will pay the expenses for more than a year of Sister Julie, an Arab girl in training to become a Rosary Sister in Jerusalem. Jordan. Sister Julie will write to the Rosary Society president to say thank you ... For as little as $3 a week <$150 per year. $300 for the entire two^ear course) you can "adopt” a Sister of your own . . • Write us for .informa tion. SYRIA: JOAN OF ARC An American priest who visited a Moslem village in the Hauran (a desert area in Syria) with Dr. Fanny Tornago reports she w»s “received like Joan of Arc” by the mothers who came running to show her their babies ... With four other lay apofetles from Europe. Dr. Tornago provides the only medical care avail*! a^e in some 25 viilares (population: 25,000) ... To provide electricity for her clinic in the village of Basselr (for lights, x-ray machine, etc.) Dr. Tornago needs a generator (co»t:i $2,000) . • • Will you help get her one? the HOLY LAND: HUNGER The typical American eats and drinks too much, according to the National Academy of Sciences. We’re told to restrict our- lelves to 2,900 calories per day (f° r a man), 2,100 calo r * es a woman) ... In the Holy Land, however, the UN diet for Palestine refugees provides onlv 1,500 calories per day per person ... The Holy Father helps to feed the hungry in the Holy Land—hungry children, in particular. Your $10 gift W ”1 feed a refugee family for a month. In thanks, we’ll send you an Olive Wood Rosary from Jerusalem! I\T»f A: OUR LFPF.RS I Leprosy victims are helning native Sisters to build a convent in Korea—proof that medicine can work miracles . . . Miracle* are haooen*nr mnn«h-hv-mnn*h in India, too. thanks to mem bers of our DAMIFN LEPFR CLUB. The dues are only $l-a- nvwth. a nraver a dav. The money and nravers are for the jj*«**"i care for leners in the DAMIFN INSTITUTE, In rsTcmTR, „ M(1 the GREEN GARDENS UFPF.R COLONY, In SHERT ALLAY .... Like to help? Dear Monsignor Ryan: Enclosed please find tor Name Street City Zone ... .State l&LUcar East Olissionsjatl FRANCIS CARDINAL SPELLMAN, President Msgr. Joseph T. tfoo. Hofl $*c’y «»ad ait coauoaaicotloas to: CATHOLIC NEAR EAST WELFARE ASSOCIATION HO Modi to* A vo. ct 42md St. Now York, N. Y. HRIT
