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GEORGIA BULLETIN
THURSDAY, MAY 28, 1964
Three New Parishes Established
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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?
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