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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1964
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Holy Family
Hospital To
Be Dedicated
SIDE view of Holy Family Hospital, which is to dedicated this Sunday by Archbishop Hallinan.
ACTIVE PARTICIPATION
Record Number Enrolled
In U.S. Catholic Schools
WASHINGTON-NC- Catholic
elementary' and secondary
schools have enrolled about 5,
653,000 students this month,
according to a preliminary
estimate made here.
High schools, in contrast to
the situatiin of only a few years
ago, clearly are emerging as
pace-setters in percentage of
enrolment Increase, according
to an estimate released by the
Department of Education of the
National Catholic Welfare Con
ference.
Grade school expansion,
which has run as high as three
or four per cent in some past
school years, continues a de
celeration first noted sharply
three years ago.
Major factors in the slow
down in growth of elementary'
school numbers appear to be
grade-dropping, which will take
away 10,000 pupils in Cincinnati
alone this year; a continued
shortage of teaching Sisters be
cause they are being held back
until they finish all college
courses; new regulations in
several dioceses cutting down
average class size and the
financial strain facing parishes
from recent costly school ex
pansion and hiring of lay teach
ers.
Nevertheless, the estimated
1964 fall enrolments indicate
another high mark in an un
broken series of enrolment re
cords over the past two decades.
Elementary school enrolment
this year should be about 4,
600,000 in contrast to4,546,360
last year and high schools
should enroll about 1,053,000
in contrast to about 1,041,357
last year.
The NCWC department re
leased actual figures for the
1963-64 school year which
illustrate the rapid growth of
high schools.
Between the 1962 and the
1963 school years, the de-
Education Week
Nov. 8 to 14
WASHINGTON (NC)--Catho
lic Education Week will be ob
served across the nation Nov,
8-14, stressing in this year’s
program increased support and
understanding of Catholic
schools.
T wo posters, a guide to
suggested plans for the week and
seven daily theme articles are
available at $2 per kit from
the NCWC CXipartment of Edu
cation, 1312 Massachusetts
Ave„ N, W„ Washington, D, C,
20005,
partment said, secondary
school enrolment grew by 3.2%
while the elementary school en
rolment expanded by only 1.4%.
In the nine years between
1954 and 1963, chiefly because
of the recent spurt in high school
population while grade school
expansion slowed, the NCWC
department reports that while
COLLEGE STUDENTS
elementary school enrolment
grew 40.5% secondary school
student numbers went up 66.9%
In the past school year, there
were 10,775 Catholic elemen
tary schools in the United States
staffed by 115,468 teachers.
There were 2,487 secondary
schools across the country with
a faculty totaling 51,065 the
ncwc department said.
Archbishop Hallinan will de
dicate Holy Family Hospital this
Sunday at S p.m. Participa
nts in the ceremonies will
include clergy, religious and
laity and representatives of the
city of Atlanta and of Fulton
County.
Master of ceremonies will be
Judge Sam Phillips McKenzie,
chairman of the Lay Advisory
Board and Mayor Ivan Allen,
Jr, Mayor of Atlanta and Har
old F. McCart, Chairman of
the Fulton County Commission
ers, will give the addresses of
welcome.
THE MAIN address will be
given by Archbishop Hallinan,
with the response to be made
by Rev. Mother M. Benedict,
S. C. M, M., Provincial of the
American Province of the Med
ical Mission Sisters, who will
staff the hospital. This will be
followed by the erection of a pla-
cque, 'Commemorating; these
Not Reformers,
Being Reformed
• SEE ALSO STORIES ON PAGES 3 AND 5
MILWAUKEE-NC- An arch
bishop advised members of the
National Newman Apostolate
here that they are not reformers
but are being reformed.
Archbishop William E. Cou
sins of Milwaukee said college
students can help pioneer the
changes stemming from the Se
cond Vatican Council.
"But you must not think that
you can go to your pastor and
tell him ’This is the way we
are going to do things now.*
You should be patient and un
derstanding. You should tol
erate those who, in your opinion,
do not move fast enough in the
new direction. You should con
sider yourselves not crusaders
but part of a crusade," he
continued.
GERARD E. Sherry, man
aging editor of the Georgia
Bulletin, told delegates earlier
that whatever apostolic actions
they undertake should be direct
ed toward helping humanity and
not because they might advance
the Church’s cause.
What we do does not al-
ways have to have the Catho
lic label on it. If we provide
S t0 u the comm unity we
wiU help the Church. We should
go into things not with the idea
that this will ’help the Church’
but because it will serve hu
manity," Sherry said.
THE Atlanta, Ga., newsman
said Catholics are obliged to
support ecclesiastical authority
even when they may differ with
its use.
In this respect, he criticiz
ed members of Catholics Unit
ed for Racial Equality (CURE)
which picketed the chancery of
the Los Angeles archdiocese.
CURE has been protesting what
it alleges is James Francis
Cardinal McIntyre’s failure to
make a strong stand for racial
justice.
"THIS picketing is wrong be
cause it demeans authority,"
Sherry declared. "Public de
nunciation of authority is
wrong."
The editor said that people
in positions of authority should
listen to and consider views of
their subordinates. He told stu
dents the best climate for ac
ceptance of authority is not
created by "arrogance."
"But we should not be ne
gative. Authority often knows
more about a problem than we
do," Sherry said.
third session
XAVERIO RONCALLI, 81-
year-old brother of late Pope
John XXIII, still works in
fields near his home in Sot-
to il Monte, near Bergamo,
Italy. In background is the
new Missionary Seminary
John XXIII, which will open
its doors to young seminar
ians in October, 1964.
• SEE PAGE 8
Pope Asks Prayers
For Council Meet
VATICAN CITY (NC)—Pope
Paul VI has asked that Sunday,
Sept. 27, be set aside as a day
of worldwide prayer for the
success of Vatican Council II’s
third session. He also asked
that all who are able to do so
offer up the fast on September’s
three ember days (Sept. 23, 25
and 26).
The Pope revealed he chose
the feast of the Exaltation of
the Holy Cross (Sept. 14) as
the opening day of the ecumeni
cal council’s third session to
point to the cross as a source
of salvation and the source of
the council's hopes for success.
HE ALSO said he decided to
concelebrate the opening Mass
of the session with 24 council
Fathers to show the union of
hearts
cil.
and souls in the coun-
The Pope spoke through a
letter address to Eugene Cardi
nal Tisserant in his capacity
as the "first member of the
Council of the Presidency of
the Second Vatican Council."
Is Professed
Sister Ann Gerald, G. N. S. H.,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W.H.
Purser of Atlanta, an alumna
of St. Plus X high school and
a former member of Christ the
King Parish, has made her Pro
fession in the Grey Nuns of
the Sacred Heart. The cere
mony took place in St.
Ann Hall Auditorium in Phil
adelphia. Archbishop John J.
Krol presided.
who assisted in the reallzai
of the hospital plans, by re
freshments served by the Holy
Family Auxiliary, and by a tour
of the new building, guided by
members of the Lay Advisory
Board and by Auxiliary mem
bers.
The new hospital, the second
Catholic hospital in Atlanta (St.
Joseph’s Infirmary was the
first ), is situated at Fair-
burn and Sewell Roads, SW.
Begun in August, 1962, its
total coast has been set
at $2,500,000.
ACCORDING to Sister M.
TTteophane, Holy Family's Ad
ministrator, the hospital is or
ganized along the plan of pro
gressive patient care. There
are 16 beds for "intensive"
care- delivery, emergency,
etc. - all on one floor. There
are 68 beds for "intermedi
ate" care- pediatrics, mater
nity, etc., and there are 12
beds for "self-care"- patients
who are undergoing tests or
other medical treatment which
does not confine them to bed.
There are a total of 128 beds.
Dr. H, B. Stillerman has
been named chief of staff, which
will consist of 17 sisters and
45 doctors.
. •
FRONT view of the new hospital, which will have 128 beds when fully completed
AT COMING SESSION
Women To Attend Council
As Auditors, Pope Reveals
CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy—
Pope Paul VI revealed here that
representative Catholic women,
both Religious and lay, will be
present at the ecumenical coun
cil for the first time in the
course of the third session.
He said a small number of
women will assist at some gene
ral council sessions in the ca
pacity of auditors.
The made his announcement
to a group of Sisters for whom
he celebrated a special Mass
at his summer villa here on
Archbishop Won’t
Attend Council
Archbishop Paul J. Hallinan, recovering well from his
six months’ hospitalization, but still under doctor’s care, will
not attend the Third Session of the Vatican Council which opens
in Rome September 14. It is possible that he may go to
Rome for the closing days of the Session in November.
A limited work schedule permits several hours at the office
each day, and the carrying out of all administrative duties
and public appearances, but the doctors believe that the diet,
bed-rest and regular tests and check-ups can be carried out
more effectively at home than in Rome.
The Archbishop plans to write a series of news-articles
on the issues of this Session for The Georgia Bulletin and will
be in touch with other American, and European bishops on Coun
cil affairs. He will serve the American bishops as Secre
tary of the United States Liturgical Commission, and will
participate in the post-Conciliar Liturgy Consilium (with Car
dinal Ritter) in the revision of the rites of the Mass, the Sacra
ments and the Office. He will also continue to serve as a
member of the International Committee for a Common English
Text with representatives of other English-speaking nations.
the feast of the birthday of
Mary (Sept. 8).
"WE BELIEVE the day has
come," he told them, "to give
higher honor and more ef
ficiency to the religious life
of women, and that this can
be achieved by perfecting the
ties uniting it to that of the
whole Church."
He said this first-ever re
presentation of women in the
council will be "small—ob-
biously—but significant and al
most symbolic." The women
auditors are to be drawn from
among the Sisterhoods and from
Catholic women’s organi
zations.
A proposal to designate
women auditors was made by
Belgium’s Leo Cardinal Sue-
nens—one of the council’s four
moderators— at a general
session last October. Cardinal
Suenens, who suggested that
there should be women auditors
to complement the work of the
13 laymen present as auditors,
won the applause of the coun
cil Fathers for his proposal.
Pope Paul in his talk to the
nuns, after speaking of per
fecting the ties uniting the re
ligious life of women to that
of the whole Church, said:
"IN THAT regard we dis
close to you that we have ar
ranged that some qualified and
devout women may also attend
several solemn rites and se
veral general congregations of
the forthcoming third session
of the Second Vatican Ecumeni-
Pope Paul VI has dispensed Archbishop Hallinan from atten
dance at the Third Session according to a communication SCHOOL SPIRIT
received from the Papal Secretary of State, Amleto Cardinal
Gicognani. The letter, received August 28, reads:
cal Council as auditors. We
mean (representation) at those
congregations at which ques
tions of special interest to the
life of woman are being de
bated.
"In that way, we will have
present for the first time at
an ecumenical council some
small—obviously— but sig
nificant, and almost symbolic,
representation of women, first
of all of you religious women,
and then of the great Catholic
organizations of women, so
that woman may know how much
the Church honors her in the
dignity of her being and in her
human and Christian mission."
He said:
"To show the world that we
practice what we preach, we
should provide for an increase
in the number of lay auditors,
with representation on a broad
er International basis, the ad
mission of women among them,
since women constitute one-
half of the population of the
world, and representation like
wise from the other great con
gregations of Brothers and Sis
ters who contribute so signi
ficantly to the apostolic work
of the Church."
Salford Bishop
LONDAON (RNS— Coadjutor
Bishop Thomas Holland of Por
tsmouth, England, has been
named Bishop of Salford by Pope
Paul VI , He succeeds Arch
bishop George Andrew Beck,
who was transferred to the
Archdiocese of Liverpool in
February.
Your Excellency,
I acknowledge receipt of your letter of August 17th
with which you communicate that it will be impossible
for you to attend the Third Session of the II Vatican Ecu
menical Council due to the medical care to which Your
Excellency must subject yourself regularly.
It is consoling to learn that the worst is over, and I
can only agree with the doctors that you should remain un
der their watchful eyes until everything is quite in order.
Your anxiety to be present for the Third Session is un
derstandable, and so I hope that there is a marked change
in the restrictions due to rapid progress towards
a complete recovery.
The Holy Father has dispensed you from attendance at
this Session of the Council, and I will inform the Gene
ral Secretariat of this decision.
I promise you a constant remembrance in my prayers
and Masses for a quick and complete recovery. Prayerful
good wishes.
With kindest personal regards, I am
Sincerely yours in Christ
A. G. Cardinal Cicognani
Boy 6 Brave, Clean
( but) Reverent’
BERLIN (NC) —Pity poor
Oleg Rodionov, a 17-yeai>
old student at Moscow's pub
lic School No. 496. He be
lieves in God.
Oleg was his school's best
math student, its top literary
talent, the most popular boy
with his classmates, but the
school wouldn’t give him a
diploma. He believes in God.
Oleg got top grades in
atheistic studies. School of
ficials made a point of in
viting him to atheistic meet
ings on the eve of Russian
Orthodox holy days. It didn’t
make any difference. He still
believed in God.
When Oleg didn’t get a di
ploma, fellow students sent a
protesting delegation to the of
fice of Komsomolskaya Pravda,
the communist youth news-
ligion was no reason for him
being "unjustly treated."
The newspaper editors, it
was reported here, were ag
hast. TTiey said the student
protest was "an unbelievable
thing."
"Our tolerance should not
exclude our ideological in
compatibility with religion,"
said the newspaper. "The fact
that Oleg was a clever, kind
boy and a good comrade is no
reason for us to disregard his
being religious."
In all of this Oleg didn't
say anything, except that he
still believes in God.