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YOUR
PRIZE-WINNING
NEWSPAPER
VOL i NO. 25
ATLANTA, GEORGIA
THURSDAY, JUNE 25, 1964
$5.00 PER.YEAR
SERVING GEORGIA'S 71 NORTHERN COUNTIES
of Atlanta
OF ST. PETER
POPE DISCLOSES
Pontiff
Cites
Church Study
To Play
Joseph’s
facilities in the area. Co-chair
men are Father Daniel McCor
mick of Immaculate Heart of
Mary parish, Atlanta, and Mr,
M.K, Pentacost,
Each year this group selects
a different children's charity
as the recipient of the pro
ceeds of the game. This year
the proceeds will go to Saint
Joseph’s Home for Boys, soon
to be known as the Villiage of
Saint Joseph, a community for
boys and girls to be established
here in Atlanta.
Underway On
Birth Control
Pope Paul, concluding his
comments on his own pontifi
cate, referred to current
“formidable problems," and
singled out one: “The problem
everybody is talking about—
that is, of so-called birth con
trol; that is to say of popula
tion growth on the one hand and
of family morality on the other."
Pope Paul continued:
“It is an extremely serious
problem. It touches the source
of human life. It touches senti
ments and concerns which are
closest to the experience of
man and woman. It is an extrem
ely complex and delicate prob
lem.
“The Church recognizes its
manifold aspects, that is to say
the multiple spheres of compe
tence. Among these, that of the
spouses is certainly preeminent
—their liberty, their con
science, their love and their
duty.
“But the Church must also
affirm her part, that is, God's
law, which she interprets,
teaches, promotes and defends.
And the Church will have to
proclaim this law of God in the
light of scientific, social and
psychological truths which in
recent times have had new and
very extensive study and docu
mentation.
VATICAN CITY (NC) — Pope
Paul VI, discussing the role of
St. Peter in the Church at his
weekly general audience, de
clared that “where Peter is,
and with him the Church, there
is Christ,"
Pope Paul told thousands of
pilgrims and visitors in St.
Peter's basilica 0 une 17) that
“the question comas easily to
the mind of everyone: who is
Peter?”
“THE answer seems easy—
he was a Disciple, the first
called an Apostle, with the other
11," the Pope said. ’The
answer becomes complicated
when one remembers the
images and metaphors which
the Lord used to make us un
derstand what this chosen one
of His was to be and to be
come."
The Pope contrasted the
nature of a rock, to which Christ
likened St. Peter, with the
character of Peter himself.
What does it mean," he asked,
“when applied to a man simple
and sensitive, we might say
voluble and weak? A stone is
hard, it is strong and stable.
"A word about the Village is in order. Months of planning,
by our Department of Welfare, our lay advisory board at St.
Joseph’s, architects and social work specialists have created
a dream that must soon be a reality. We have about 50 boys
(age 6 -14) in the present, old Home up at Washington, Ga.
Although the townspeople there have always been most coopera
tive, there are many advantages to an Atlanta location: medical,
educational and social. It is also planned to reunite families by
bringing back our dependent girls (about 25) from Savannah. Ac
cordingly, an attractive and practical Village — with cottages
for groups of eight to ten — has been planned.
'This is the beginning of a series of well-planned centers
for those in, need: dependent children, the aged, other groups
suffering from the inequalities of today's society. It was planned
to announce the full plan for the Village, and the details, late
this year.
‘Two events, — one bad, one good, — changed the timing of
the announcement. Last January, after the building of the Village
had been approved by the Fulton Co. Planning Commission and
State Dept, of Family and Child Service, our application for a
special use permit was approved by the Zoning Commission but
it was suddenly denied bv the Board of Aldermen. This required
getting a new site. But the other event — the benefit Fourth of
July Ball - game is good news.
U.S. DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE, adopted on
July 4th, 1776, is commemorated in this stained glass win
dow' in Queen of Peace Church, North Arlington, N. J.
“It will benecessary to look
carefully and squarely at this
theoretical as well as practical
development of the question.
It is lasting, it is the basic of
the edifice and it supports all
of it. . .and the edifice is called
the Church: ‘On this rock I
shall build My Church.’ ”
POPE PAUL singled out two
other symbols chosen by Christ
to illustrate the role of St.
Peter, the keys and the fisher
man’s net. He said these sym
bols chosen by Christ are “full
of profound significance."
’The keys, for instance, that
is to say power, were given to
Peter alone among all the
Apostles to signify a fullness of
faculties which are exercised
not only on earth but even in
heaven," he said.
As for the net, the activity
of fishing “assumes the im
mense and majestic signi
ficance of the historical and
universal mission entrusted to
that simple fisherman of the
Lake of Genesareth," he de
clared.
THE POPE said all these
images, “typical of Biblical and
particularly of the evangelical
language, contain great and pre
cise significance.
NOT TO BE outdone by eighth graders and high school seniors,
the Kindergarten Class of St. Mary’s, Rome held their own grad
uation, at which they were presented with promotion certificates
to the first grade by the pastor, Fr. John F. McDonough. The
graduates are: Avis Anderson, Beth Birdsong, Ann Briggs,
CHARITY BASEBALL GAME
Hollywood Stars
Holy Spirit
Mass Center
Church of the Holy Spirit services will be
conducted at Pace Academy, 966 West Paces
Ferry Rd., NW, beginning Sunday, June 28.
Masses will be celebrated at 7:30, 9:00 and
11:00 a.m. Fr. John F. McDonough is the
pastor.
Holy Spirit is one of the three new parish
es recently formed in the Archdiocese. Its
boundaries are as follows: on the west;
Chattahoochee River. On the north; River-
view Rd. to Northside to Crest Valley to
Powers Ferry to Mount Paran to Roswell
Rd. On the east; Roswell to West Wieuca
to Powers Ferry to Tuxedo to Blackland to
Northside to Southern Railroad tracks. On
the south; Southern Railroad tracks to Ma
rietta Rd. to the Chattahoochee River.
A MARRIED PRIEST AND HIS FAMILY—Father Olav Rordftm Bonnevie, 57, a former
minister of the Lutheran State Church, is shown with his wife and daughter in Copen
hagen, where he is a curate at St. Therese’s Catholic parish. A Lutheran pastor for 12
\t\us, he became a Catholic in 1945, and his wife and daughter followed him into the
chinch two years later. With papal permission he began studies for the priesthood in
1953 and was ordained seven years later. Although he is the only one in Denmark, there
are now about 12 former Lutheran ministers who are married priests in Germany.
"It is a pleasure now to thank all those who ate putting it
across, public-minded citizens, the radio and television media,
and especially Fr. Daniel McCormick who has been the in
spiration of much of the community spirit promoting the event.
May it help some more boys and girls who have less of life’s
good things to know that Atlanta and the Archdiocese are really
concerned."
Carol Carter, Denise Donovan, Kathy Floyd, William Holliday,
Leslie Johnson, Bambl Lawson, Mark Liang, J. Dan McHugh,
Roberta Munchak, Rita Patten, Christopher Smith, Dixie Smith
and Paul DeLascia.
Other graduation pictures, pages 6 and 7.
Atlanta
Village
PRIOR TO the game the teams
will be seen on the WSB TV
parade which will begin at 3 p.m.
and will include singer Eddy
Arnold and stage and screen
star Victory Jory. In addition,
there will be a pre-game show in
the ball park and a fireworks
display will follow the game.
Grandstand seats will sell
for $5 and box seats will go
for $25. Purchasers of box
seats will be invited to attend
the reception for the Hollywood
visitors. Tickets can be ob
tained by writing Children's
Charities, Inc., Atlanta 1,
Georgia, or by calling TR 3-
6933.
VATICAN CITY (NC)—Pope
Paul VI revealed that the Church
is in the process of a major re-
evaluation of the question of
birth control and said that for
the present, at least, the pro
nouncements on the question by
Pope Pius XII must be consid
ered valid and binding for all
Catholics.
Pope Paul spoke out (June 23)
with the apparent intention of
ending the current controversy
over the possible legitimacy
for using certain recently dis
covered hormone pills which
can prevent conception. He did
not refer explicitly to the
“pill." But he said that the
Church is being aided by “many
eminent scholars” in an inten
sive study of the question, and
that its findings will be reveal
ed as soon as possible. Pending
a further pronouncement, he
said, nobody is to “take it upon
himself to speak in terms dif
ferent from the norms" laid
down by Pius XIL
PAUL VI'S statement came in
the course of a 5,000-word dis
course before a group of cardi
nals on the eve of the feast of
St. John Baptist, his baptismal
patron. He took the occasion to
review the first year of his
pontificate.
In the course of his talk he
also revealed that the Catholic
Church is returning to the Or
thodox Church of Greece relics
of St. Andrew the Apostle which
were looted by Latin Crusaders
during the sack of Constanti
nople in 1204.
The Pope spoke warmly of
his meeting last January with
Ecumenical Patriarch Athena-
goras I of Constantinople spiri
tual leader of the Orthodox world.
He also referred to the forth
coming third session of the ecu
menical council, and the inter
national Eucharistic congress
to be held in India next fall.
And he talked about world peace.
But the bombshell of his dis
course was the reference to the
birth control controversy and
his promise to reveal the find
ings of the current investigation
as quickly as possible. For the
time being, at least, he demand
ed adherence to the findings of
Pius XII, whom he had served as
a collaborator for many years.
Pope Pius XH's detailed pro
nouncements on birth control
reaffirmed the Church’s con
demnation of active interfer
ence with the procreative pur
pose of the marital act. He al
so reiterated the illegality of
direct sterilization—any delib
erate attempt, either as an end
or a means, to make procrea
tion impossible.
Pius XII did not, however,
condemn every act that would
bring about sterilization as an
undesired effect, such as the
surgical removal of diseased
ovaries.
SHORTLY before he died in
1958, Pope Pius dealt with mor
al problems connected with pills
that prevent ovulation. He de
scribed this effect as “tempo
rary sterility.” This is a judg
ment which medical and moral
specialists have been closely
examining and disputing.
Pius stated that the woman
who takes such a pill as a nec
essary remedy for an unhealthy
uterus or organism, rather than
to prevent conception, “pro
vokes indirect sterilization,
which is permitted according to
the general principles govern
ing acts with a double effect."
This traditional distinction of
the “double effect" refers to
acts using legitimate means
and having a licit goal, but
which could have a secondary
result which would in itself be
illicit.
VIP’s To Aid St.
Atlanta will meet Hollywood
this July 4 in a charity ball
game to benefit the Children’s
Village of St. Joseph, which is
to be built in the metropolitan
area. The game will be played
in Ponce de Leon Ball Park
and will start at 7 p.m.
THE "HOLLYWOOD All-
stars" will include Pat Boone,
Hugh O’Brien, Peter Browne,
Jack Palance, Philip Crosby,
Nick Adams, Michael Callan,
Harvey Limbeck and Richard
Conte.
derson. Local radio and tele
vision personalities will also
go to bat for Atlanta. Senator
Herman Talmadge will throw
the first ball.
THE CELEBRITIES Base
ball Game is an annual Atlanta
event and is sponsored by Chil
dren's Charities, Inc., an or
ganization representing the
mass communications industry
of Greater Atlanta, which in
cludes all newspapers, maga
zines and radio and television
The "Atlanta VIP's" mana
ged by Bill McKechnie, presi
dent and general manager of
the Atlanta Crackers, will field
a team made up of Mayor Ivan
Allen, Police Chief Herbert
Jenkins, Congressman Charles
Weltner, Ray Moore, State Se
nator Charlie Brown, State Rep.
Jack Etheridge, Dr. Pierce
Harris and strongman Paul An
Archbishop 9 s
Statement
"Our Catholic people have more than an entertainment in
vestment when they buy their tickets for the Fourth of July
Ball-game, They are investing, along with others of our com
munity, in projects that are works of mercy to care for the
needy. Half of the proceeds goes, as fitting, to certain actors’
charities. The other half goes to the Village of St, Joseph,
Special Role