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r PAGE 2 GEORGIA BULLETIN THURSDAY, JULY 9, 1964 EDUCATION- MORAL PERSUASION Civil Rights Law Poses New Challenge for The Churches BY RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE When President Johnson* in an address to a joint session of Congress last December, called one of "our most immediate tasks” was finally accomplish ed on Independence Day when he signed the Civil Rights Act designed to lift the^century- long burden of racial discrimi nation from the shoulders of millions of American Negro citizens. Religious leaders — Pro testant, Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox and Jewish— are meanwhile being confront ed by a challenge to help com bat through education and moral persuasion — and, if neces- ary, through courageous in volvement. at local levels — the racial intolerance that has made democracy a dead letter in many sectors of American society. THIS WEEK, the National Council of Churches set a not able example by announcing steps in increased support of civil rights volunteers in Miss issippi, where some of the dark est headlines in the tragic story of racial bigotry have, been ..Terence 0 Brien 4/ KNOWS LIFE INSURANCE Suite 715 270 Pchtr.Bldg. N.W. Alt, Ga. Home BU 4-1191 Office 688-2600 Southland Life written. SPANISH WEDDING VEILS Exquisite handmade with silk thread, imported directly from Spain. Also mantillas. Assorted designs, sizes and colors. Call or write: LOPEZ IMPORTERS Tel. 237-7998 Box 13954 St. K Atlanta, Ga. Churchmen in overwhelming numbers have hailed the legi slation. But their rejoicing has been tempered by a general feeling of shame that more than a year was necessary to enact laws that should, in the words of one commentator, “not have been necessary were all of us both patriotic and religious,” In the book, “The Social Work of the Churches,” published in 1930, Dr. F. Ernest Johnson, a former consultant for the National Council of Churches, noted that before 1929 very few pronouncements on race relations were made by the Pro testant Churches — actually only six in the period 1908-1929. Among American Catholics, much the same situation pre vailed. This was confirmed by Richard Cardinal Cushing, Archbishop of Boston, in pay ing tribute to the late Father John LaFarge, S. J„ pioneer of the Catholic Interracial movement which actually did not emerge until 1934. Before that, the cardinal said, the .Church had been "dragging its heels” on,, the race question. And from Father Philip S. Hurley, S.J., Father LaFarge’s ! successor as chaplain of the i Catholic Interracial Council of j New York, came this recent 'comment: "The fact remains | that up to now the secular and | not the religious institutions 'have been in the vanguard of the struggle to vindicate in the practical order the rights of the Negro.*’ THIS MAY justly be chal lenged, however, as too sweep ing a verdict by those who point to the many forthright state- Oifia niait MOTOR HOTEL • FREE PARKING • TV & AIR CONDITIONING • RESTAURANT • ICE A BEVERAGE STATIONS • COFFEE MAKER, EACH ROOM C. O. Hulfy, Manager American Express Credit Cards Accepted CONE AT LUCKIE ST. A Good Address in Atlanta Vrreinf Atlanta Sine* 1912 • PRINTING CO/MTPA/EK * uthoo.aph.no SSO FORREST ROAD, N. i., ATLANTA, GEORGIA « Ttinity 5-4727 OFFICIAL CATHOLIC DIRECTORY ARCHDIOCESE OF ATLANTA t964 PRICE St.00 Your Nofflt Address.... ments and resolutions by Pro testant, Catholic and Jewish organizations especially in the past several years denouncing racial injustice, and the lead taken by many local religious bodies in the struggle against segregation practices waged in many areas of the South in re cent years. On top of all this was the strong clergy representation in the historic March on Washing ton for Jobs and Freedom last August, and the momentous National Conference on Re ligion and Race at Chicago the previous January. Sixty-eight Protestant, Catholic, Orthodox and Jewish groups took part in this gathering at which plans for interreligious pro jects to combat discrimination in ten "target cities” around the country were announced. However tardy or not the Churches may have been in facing up to the country’s greatest domestic evil, it is generally acknowledged that it was the united support of all denominations that helped to break the logjam on the civil rights legislation. The Churches kept the moral as pects of the question constant ly before the nation and in the end these considerations weighed in bringing the bill to a Senate vote, THE CHURCHES were quick to make their voices heard after President Johnson last April received 150 Catholic, Pro testant and Jewish leaders at the White House and called upon them to "awaken the con science” of the nation in the matter of civil rights. "In spire and challenge us to put our principles into action,” he urged. The President took this occasion also to indicate that the work of the Churches would not end with the enactment of civil rights legislation. Laws and government, he said, "are at best coarse instruments for remolding social insitutions and illuminating the dark places of the human heart. It is your job — as men of God — to reawaken the conscience of our beloved land," City.. Si old, ,. THE LATE President Kennedy, the real father of the civil rights bill, had himself emphasized that the problem "must be solved in the homes of every American in every (community across our country,*’ As action on the bill reached its final stage this week, the same admonition was J echoed by many religious leaders. In Washington, Msgr. George G, Higgins, director of the Social Action Department of the National Catholic Welfare Con ference, said "we realize, . . that this new law is not the final answer to the problem of racial injustice. . .and that, in practice, it will be of little avail unless the great mass of Americtui people are prepared to go beyond the letter of the law and to help create an atmosphere of mutual under standing and racial brotherhood in their neighborhoods and communities. Said Rabbi Uri Miller, president of the Synagogue Council of America: ‘The task of the religious community is to translate into a renewed re ligious conscience the legal provisions of the civil rights bill. We must, through edu cation and religious inspiration, change men*s hearts to cor respond with the law.*’ PRESIDING Bishop Arthur Lichtenberger of the Protestant Episcopal Church, also stres sed that ‘legislation alone can not change attitudes, much less change customs molded by many generations,*’ But he added that ' law does influence the way in which men and women treat one another*’ and "Just relation ships do provide a social cli mate in which attitudes change," Dr. Lewis Webster Jones, president of the National Con ference of Christians and Jews, saw in the new law "a witness that Americans, morally arous ed, can form a more perfect society," He said it was pro- vidlng "a hope that men will S TRANGE BUT TRU £ Little-Known Fact, for Catholics £ By M. J. MURRAY Copyright, 1M4. N.C.W.C. N*w« Service WELL-KNOWN HERE Glenmary Fathers Sponsor Seminar be persuaded that what has be come legally right has ever been morally Just." An optimistic note was sound ed, too, by Greek Orthodox Archbishop Lakovos of New York, who called July 4, 1964, "a most significant milestone in our history and in the history of mankind.*’ "A rekindled spirit reflect ing the beauty of the Spirit of 1776 is brightening the horizon of the world with the refresh ing hope that Justice andequality for all men, regardless of race, coior and creed, shall fill the hearts of all men,*’ he said. SENIOR Bishop Rauben H. Mueller of the Evangelical United Brethren Church and president of the National Coun cil of Churches also hailed the new law as "one of the great milestones of our time,*’ But at the same time he agreed with Dr. Eugene Carson Blake, stated clerk of the United Pres byterian Church’s General As sembly and chairman of the NCC’s Commission on Re ligion and Race, that it also constituted a new and dramatic challenge that the Churches must meet. ‘The nation’s churches and synagogues,*’ Dr. Blake said, * cannot afford to rest on any laurels they might have won up to now in the battle for justice, equality and freedom. Their leaders, but more important, their members, must continue to press for the enforcement of the Civil Rights Bill." "We have," he added, "the influence to bring about these necessary changes in our way of life in both the North and South." This was the note sounded, too, by Arthur Wright, director of the Catholic Interracial Council of New York, who said: ‘The degree of commitment of re ligious memberships, in dividual priests, rabbis and ministers to interracial justice is still to be demonstrated." EVEN AS the nation’s attent ion was being focused on the White House ceremony which saw President Johnson sign the law implementing the Emanci pation Proclamation of 101 years ago, the NCC's Commiss ion on Religion and Race was setting itself more squarely behind the student civil rights workers in Mississippi, where a search was still going on for the two New York white students and the Negro student from Meridian Miss., feared to have met foul play at the hands of racist elements. The commission announced It had decided to Increase the recruitment of "minister - counselors” to accompany civil rights volunteers | in the state this summer. It said Pro testant, Catholic and Jewish clergymen will be asked to volunteer for this dangerous task of staying with each group of student workers*' sponsored by the Council of Federated Organizations, the civil rights groups supervising activities in the state. In addition, the commission said, it would en list additional lawyers to pro vide legal assistance to the students, especially in danger ous places. LATER, the commission is sued a statement saying it con sidered "the violent opposition to the establishment of human Justice and freedom for all citi zens in Mississippi to be one of the gravest problems facing the ntlon." Earlier, Presidential adviser Allen W, EXilles had met with religious leaders of both races in Jackson, Miss., to discuss problems of law enforcement. The clergymen included two Negro Baptist ministers and a group of Catholic priests head ed by Bishop Richard 0. Gerow of the Natchez-Jackson diocese, who has (defied' segregationist agitators by instructing his clergy that no person be turned <ftoay from Catholic churches because of color. [ Slackened ey cmolzsmoke through TUC CENTURIES, THE MADONNA Of ElNSIEDCLN IS THE MOST IMPORTANT Marian shrink in Switzerland. T'» ^ J s ? WENAEUS, WHO DUD C.203 A. D was -rue first great theological WRITE A OF THE WEST AND SUCCESS FULLY COM GATED THE ERRORS OF ■ i GNOSTICISM, lD * | — /TT *£ THt^ScKGROOHD ■ Jl£ TH/S UNIQUE l/f.™ CENTURY CLOCK STANDS IN THE NORTH TRANSEPT 1 Of WELLS CATHEDRAL,ENGLAND. IT IS AN ASTRONOMICAL AS WELL AS A MECHANICAL TIMEPIECE, SHOWS THE HOURS ON A 24- HOUR DIAL, THE MINUTES, DAYS OF THE MONTH AND PHASES OF THE MOON. . - iHlffl The Catholic Herald-Citizen, organ of the Milwaukee arch diocese, has warned that "one would be childishly naive to ex pect that the enactment of the civil rights law will change minds and hearts," It said “the racist will continue his dia bolically inspired contempt and hatred for those with darker skin,*’ and "others will insist that no law can make them love harboring their racial pre judices, giving the lie to the name of Christian.” HOWEVER, The Tablet, -weekly newspaper of the Brooklyn, N. Y. diocese, said that, although there will be op position, "we find heart in the legal dictum that law breeds a climate of compliance.’ That progress may be slow con stitutes no argument against progress as such. Where civil STILL QUALIFYING rights is the argument, more is accomplished with law than without it.” The National Catholic Con ference for Interracial Justice -- founded in 1959 — declared that in passing the crucial civil rights legislation, Congress has "recognized the concern which all of our American society must have for the higher law which is that of God’s." It said this concern was amply demon strated by "the action of thou sands of religious leaders — lay and clerical — in efforts to support passage of the bill." GLENDALE, Ohio (NC) — Delegates of some 25 organiza tions sponsoring or employing lay volunteers in U.S. mission work took steps here toward mutual cooperation and help. About 50 representatives of the organizations met (June 28- 30) at the Glenmary Home Mis- sloners* seminary here for a "mission seminar.** After discussion of recruit ing, screening, field super vision, clergy-lay relations, publicity and finances, they formed a seven—member com mittee to "begin a rudimentary central cleaming house for in formation and coordination of the home mission effort." Father Joseph O'Donnell of Glenmary was named chairman of the committee. Other mem bers are Msgr. Edward W. O'Rourke, executive director of the National Catholic Rural Life Conference; Father John J. Sullivan, director of Exten sion Lay Volunteers; Sister Mary Anne of the Glenmary Sis ters; Marilyn Riehle of Glen mary Lay Volunteers; Kenneth Farrell of Christian Family Movement Volunteers; and Father William McMahon of the Rockford, Ill. diocese, also as sociated with the Christian Family Movement. OTHER organizations repre sented were the Grail, the Bet ter World Movement, Catholic Student’s Mission Crusade, Catholic Lay Mission Corps, Catholic College Stars Seeking Olympic Berths Madonna House, Jesuit Mis sions of Alaska, Legion of Mary, Serra International; Pax Christi (Greenwood, Miss.), Charitas (New Orleans), Trinitarian Volunteers, Glen mary "Span" Volunteers, Mei> cy Sisters Volunteers, Francis can Lay Volunteers, Missouri Volunteers, Glenmary Sisters Lay Volunteers, the Holy Cross and Josephlte Fathers, and Kap pa Gamma Pi. Archbishop Karl J. Alter of Cincinnati opened the seminar with an address on the general principles of the lay apostolate. Noting that the Second Vati can Council may adopt a state ment on the subject, he pre dicted that nothing basic will be changed by it. “THE LAY apostolate is as old as the Church itself," he de- calred. "All who are baptized have an equal responsibility to work for the extension of Christ’s kingdom on earth, according to their state of life.** He cited the need for "screen ing** candidates for lay mission post and providing them with formation. A lay volunteer, he said, ought to be "a normal person with more than aver*- age intelligence and knowledge of the Faith, and with zeal for bringing the Faith to others." THE GLENMARY Home Mis sioned sponsored the seminar as an event in their year-long observance of the 25th anni versary of their founding by the • late Father W. Howard Bishop. Glenmary is a society of secu lar priests and Brothers dedi cated to work in the American mission field—particularly the "no-priest land" of the na tion’s priestless counties. BY ED GRANT (N.C.W.C, News Service) NEW YORK — Veteran stars Harold Connolly and Jerry Siebert of California and Ira Davis of Philadelphia quali fied for the 1964 American Olympic team in (July 3 and 4) trials at Randalls Island Stadium here. Connolly, the Boston Col lege alumnus who won the 1956 Olympic hammer throw title confirmed his return to top form as he tossed the 16- pound iron ball 225 feet 4 inches to outclass the field, Just as he had done last week in the national A. A. U, Championship at New Bruns wick, N.J, NOW A teacher in Pasadena, Calif., Connolly most likely will be Joined in the Olympics by his wife, Olga, who won the 1956 women’s discus title for Czechoslovakia, then competed for the United States at Rome in 1960. Olga will attempt to qualify next month in the national AAU women’s cham pionships. Siebert, University of Cali fornia graduate student, made his second Olympic team as he won the 800 meters in 1:47.2, fastest time in the world this year. The speedster from back this season after "retiring in 1963. FOR DAVIS, LaSalle College graduate., this will be the third Olympiad, He first qualified in 1956 as a 19-year old college sophomore and placed fourth in the triple jump at Rome, In the trials here he led the field with a mark of 52 feet, 10 3/4 inches. Only the winners here auto matically qualified for the Olympic team and even they will have to prove their condition at a Los Angeles meet in September, The next five place- winners in each event will be at Los Angeles to battle for the other two places on the squad. AMONG those who qualified for the Los Angeles meet was Tommy Farrell of St. John's U„ Jamaica, N, Y., National Collegiate Athletic Association 800 - meter champion, who placed fourth to Siebert in the 800 meters at 1:47.5, the fast est time of his career, A junior at St. John's in the last school year, Farrell was graduated from Archbishop Molloy High School, Brooklyn, and lives in Forest Hills. L.L A neighbor of Farrell and former high school rival, Bill Boyle of Notre Dame, also placed fourth in his event, the 400 meters. Boyle, a graduate of Chaminade High School and resident of North Merrick, L.I., threatened for the lead until the last 50 yards. VILLANOVA saw three of its former stars qualify. Vic Zwolak, a graduate, placed fourth in the 3,000 - meter steeplechase at 8:47.8, and Paul Drayton and Don Webster ran third and fifth in the 200 meter dash. But Wildcat alumnus Pat Webster ran third and fifth in Traynor was shut out in the steeplechase and sophomore Earl Horner ran seventh in the 200-meter dash. Another disappointed athlete was John Uelses of LaSalle, first man ever to clear 16 feet in the pole vault. Uelses failed to make 15 feet 9 inches in this meet and didn't come close to qualifying. John’s college rival, Rolando Cruz of Vil anova, didn't have to qualify here as he will compete for Puerto Rico in Tokyo. 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