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YOUR PRIZE-WINNING NEWSPAPER of Atlanta SERVING GEORGIA’S 71 NORTHERN COUNTIES VOL 2 NO. 36 ATLANTA, GEORGIA <c ■ ■ ' T THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1964 $5.00 PER YEAR BY ARCHBISHOP 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.