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PAGE 4 GEORGIA. BULLETIN THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1964
the Atrchdiocest of Atlanta
GEORGIA BULLETIN
SfftVINO GCOKGIA'S 71 NOKTHMU COUNTIES
Official Organ of the Archidocese of Atlanta
Published Every Week at the Decatur DeKalb News
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The New Breed
It seems to be the fashion in
some American Catholic Circles
to constantly take to task the
so-called “new breed of angry
young men". Their outspoken,
and sometimes necessary criti
cism, has nettled some people in
high places.
Last weekend “the new breed"
again came in for a blast from a
fellow editor at a Pennsylvania
college convocation. Accordig to
the NCWC Isfews Service, the
speaker criticized young Catho
lics intellectuals of the LayApos-
tolate for being impatient with the
progress of the Vatican Council.
We would venture to suggest that
he has missed the whole point.
The “new breed" is delighted
with the progress being, made
even if it is impatient with the
procrastinations and the stub
born refusal of some to lay aside
outmoded methods in the inte
rests of Aggiornamento.
Impatience is not necessarily
a vice; neither do we think it is
virtuous to use so-called pru-
Urban
How relevant is the parish
church to today’s complex, prob
lem-ridden city life? Not very,
says Dr. Clifford C. Ham, Jr.,
in a report compiled for ACTION-
Housing of Pittsburgh on the role
of neighborhood churches in ur
ban renewal.
Dr. Ham, a former seminary
teacher who now instructs in ur
ban affairs at the University of
Pittsburgh, found the church as an
institution not yet awake to to
day’s changed urban environ
ment. It is not the leader it should
be, he concludes, in meeting the
problems created by technologi
cal change, expanding population,
urbanization and automation. The
Church must apply its teaching to
the broad social needs of cities as
AN ALTAR
BOY NAMED
"SPECK"
lf I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree . . . .”
dence merely to cloak our own
desires to shut up all except our
selves. There are some people
who seem genuinely afraid of
articulate Catholics, especially
young ones who shine intellec
tually. It is part and parcel of
the fallacy that only age pro
duces wisdom. Alas, this isn’t
necessarily so.
Contrary to the opinions ex
pressed by some Catholic lead
ers, most of the “new breed of
angry young men" within the
Church are not anti-authority,
anti-clerical or anti anything. A
small minority may well be found
wanting in prudence, humility
and charity, but then the vices
of pride - and arrogance are
found much more among their
elders. Maybe it is some of us
who are the real “angry men".
My observation of the “new
breed" is that they are in fact
“the.happy breed" who through
the reborn spirit of the Aggior
namento have become joyous and
proud on finally being recogniz
ed in their rightful role within
the Church.
Renewal
well as to the individual needs,
says Dr. Ham; it must, without
losing concern for the indivi
dual, see the necessity for vast
governmental structures and un
derstand its responsibility to en
courage and support such struc
tures.
When people by the thousands
are succumbing to mental ills
that result from modern living
tensions, it is not enough for
a congregation to pray for the
afflicted. The Church, both cler
gy and laity, from the parish
level up, must make its voice
heard in behalf of extensive men
tal health programs.
For instance - and the exam
ples are our own - aiding the
poor today must mean more than
sending out St. Vincent de Paul
men to a few needy families. It
must mean actively supporting
broad programs of assistance,
governmental or other, that are
imperative in an age when one
new machine can wipe out thou
sands of old jobs.
It is not defensible for a church
that preaches love of neighbor to
ignore neighborhood efforts to
secure decent housing, proper
education, employment, a stable
family life, for its residents. To
day, “love thy neighbor" means
assuming a role in such efforts.
The Church that does not will
become increasingly irrelevant
in the exploding metropolis.
Dr. Ham really is affirming a
truth that should be self-evident
by now, namely that Catholicism
means more than receiving the
Sacraments and supporting par
ish organizations. We find the
idea summed up well by the cap
tain of the sailing ship of an earl
ier age, who ordered his crew to
their knees when a storm threat
ened the boat. After leading the
men in a prayer, the captain
sprang to his feet. “All right!"
he cried. “Now let’s get up into
the rigging and get that prayer
answered.’
THE PITTSBURGH CATHOLIC
The Church Universal
GEORGIA PINES
Elephant Stomp
BY REV. R. DONALD KIERNAN
The effects of Hurricane Hilda were just beg
inning to be felt. An early morning drizzle
had wet the ground and the encouragement of
the weather man was not too promising. How
ever, It was not too discouraging for a MarLst
team to travel to Gainesville, in hopes of their
first victory of the year.
Sports writers in both Atlanta and Gaines
ville gave a 50/50 chance to both teams. Neith
er team had won a game yet this season. A vic
tory for either side would be an occasion of re
joicing.
GAINESVILLE'S assistant
coach, Keith Ochs, was a little
embarrassed each Sunday as he
walked into church. He said that
if his pastor would only attend
one game, possibly the home
team might win. I had forgot
ten his prophecy last Friday
night, and when I picked up the
sports page and saw that
Gainesville was playing host to
Marist, I decided to attend.
Little did I realize that Coach Och's forcast
would bring a 25-0 victory in favor of Gaines
ville’s Red Elephants. At any rate on Sunday
morning, I caught the coach going up to the choir
loft to sit. I suppose that he expected an “eccles
iastical condemnation’* for having sent the Marist
Fathers back to Atlanta in defeat.
IT WAS a real good game, though. Possibly
had the game lasted another half hour the fog
would have been so heavy that Marist might have
scored with a quarter back-sneak or some other
equally deceptive play impossible to analyze
in the heavy fog.
To many in Gainesville, I’m sure the sight
of more than one priest at a game must have
closely resembled the proverbial “solemn-
high sick call”. But the saddest ones at the game
were the concessionaires who could not under
stand why none of those sitting on the Marist
side were not buying hamburgers and hot dogs I
IT WAS a return visit for the J im Conrads,
formerly of Gainesville, and now living in Holy
Spirit parish. One of their sons is a Marist
cadet, Steve. The trip up to these hills was both
out of school spirit and nostalgia.
Chairman of Marist’s Athletic Association,
Bill Murphy, looked sad as the score piled
high against the Cadets. Penalties galore, but it
was impossible for the players to stop on the
slippery grass. At times, I even had fears for
the safety of the refrees.
SERRA Club member, Jimmy Hynes, was sitt
ing in the stands too. Someone told me that he
never misses a game. As a matter of fact the
presence of jso many., Serra Club members at the
game half-prompted me have a call meeting and
see if the chaplain's “appropriation’’ for the
next conventioncouid beincreased. After all, its
always easy to win a victory on the home-field!
Mike Sertich, the Atlanta Realtor (and Serra
Club member) was also in attendance. His fre
quent trips to the Coke stand were rivaled in
distance only by the playe i marking off pena
lties.
LAST YEAR, Atlanta surgeon, Doctor Bill Hop
kins, sat on the sidelines acting as team
physician. Dr. Bill was absent this year but his
good friend in Gainesville, Dr. Pep Brown, was
sitting on the Gainesville side waiting to perform
his skill should an unfortunate occasion arise.
All in all, folks, it was a terriffic game.
The score, I know, does not read that way but both
teams fought hard and played well. It was a real
source of pride to me to see the Marist boys, even
in defeat, playing sportsman-like football and act
ing as real gentlemen right up to the last sec
ond.
CHINA AND THE WORLD
Your World And Mine
BY GARY MacEOIN
Singapore is the meeting place of the cultures
of the East. Its teeming, bustling streets pre
sent the features, the dress, the languages,
the produce and the customs of Malays, In
dians and Pakistanis. But Singapore is above
all a Chinese city. The quaint inner harbor chock
full of sampans and house boats, the ubiqui
tous rickshaws, the endless rows of all-night
stall's jamming the thronged streets of the world’s
largest “Chinatown,** all these
constantly remind the visitor
that nearly three quarters of
the two million inhabitants are
•Chinese.
In Singapore, one begins to
sense what China means to
the world. As a people, the
^Chinese have incredible drive
and vitality. Whatever they do,
they do superbly, whether it is
handstitching a cut-price suit for a 24- hour
tourist or carving a set of jade chessmen. Both
sexes are equally industrious and versatile. Men
and women work side by side in the fields, in
construction, in stores and offices.
One child goes to an English-language school,
another to a Chinese, in order to increase the
family versatility. Even when Number One Son
assumes control of family affairs , the old
grandparents retain their dignity and titular
leadership.
Honesty is highly regarded. It is almost unknown
for servants to steal. A few years ago, the fish
eries department of Hong Kong installed motors
on credit in several hundred junks. “You will
never getpaid,” they were told. “The entire family
lives on board, and they will take off for Macao
or theCommunist mainland with the first catch.’*
Instead, they paid their instalments faithfully.
Only a single defaulter in the entire fleet.
Politically, Singapore is since September 1963
a state of the Federation erf Malaysia, along with
mainland Malaya became independent, including
protection and subsidization of Islam as the state
religion, and they dominate the government.
The Chinese and other non-Moslem peoples,
resent the situation, ami it has already caused
bloody rioting, an internal weakness the state
can ill afford while under pressure from power
ful neighboring Indonesia which gladly gob
ble it up.
AMONG THE natural virtues, family soli
darity takes pride of place. The family head
makes decisions for all, guided by the common
good. Each member will lend to the others with
an absolute assurance of repayment on time.
Uncles underwrite the education of newphews.
MOST OF THE CHINESE condemn the inter
nal violence. They are patient people, and they
know that their superior intelligence, education
ami energy are working for them. One already
CONTINUED ON PAGE 5
IN BRITAIN
Other Crucial
Elections
BY GERARD E. SHERRY
In the heat of our own national elections
we tend to forget that other elections in other
countries can also be crucial to the interests
of the United States. This could be said of next
week's elections in Great Britain where the ten-
year government of the Conservatives is being
challenged by a revitalized Labor Party and a
hopeful Liberal
Party. The strugg
le of these three ma
jor British politi
cal parties and its
outcome will be of
great significance
and import to the
rest of the world.
There are many
confusions in Brit
ish politics. The first is in relation to the poli
tical parties themselves. The Conservatives, La-
borites and Liberals have a different philoso
phy to their counterparts here in this country.
It would be good to quote from each of their spoke
smen as to the philosophies and issues involv
ed in next week's election.
FOR THE Conservatives, Harold Macmillan,
former Prime Minister, states: “What we see
ahead of us now is a new Britain sensibly
conserving all that is best in its traditions ani
values but radically uprooting all that bars
the path of progress. An efficient Britain, second
to none in the development of new industries and
in the modernizing of old ones. / go-ahead
Britain where earnings and savings are encoura
ged and enterprise and iniative receive their due
reward. A just Britain whose prosperity is
widely shared between all sectors of the com
munity and all parts of the country. A respon
sible Britain in which every family has a good
home and every child a full education
and private care and kindness supplement public
health and welfare. Above all a united Eritain
determined and able to maintain this progress
by the cooperation and a growing sense of com
radeship throughout the nation.”
The Labor Party is called “Socialist “but has
no relationship to the Doctrine of Marxism prac
ticed by the Continental Socialists. Indeed, to use
their own term, they call It “Evolutionary
Socialism”. In a Labor Party statement entitled
“Signposts For The Sixties”, it was stated:
“WE LIVE IN a scientific revolution. In the
sixteen years since the war ended, man’s know
ledge and his power over nature—to create and to
destroy—has grown more than in the previous
century. In such an epoch of revolutionary'
change, those who identify laissez-faire with
liberty are enemies, however urtwittiffg/'o^de-' 1 Iw *w
• * ^‘mocracy^the enlargement ‘6Prfrefc&fa Ln Whieft louIini
we all desire cannot be achieved by opposing
State intervention but only by assuring that
national resources are wisely allocated and com
munity services humanely planned. Indeed, the
three main ways of achieving this must be:
first to harness the forces released by science
in service of the community; second to plan and
supervise the balanced growth of the economy,
and thirdly to ensure that the ever increasing
wealth created by modern techniques of produc
tion is fairly shared.”
THE LIBERAL Party philosophy is said to be
based on resistance to arbitrary or capricious
power in any form. Actually they sound like as
if they have embraced a little of both the Right
and the Left in the political spectrum. In their
manifesto, “Partners in a new Britain”, the Li
berals declare, “Parliament and the Civil Ser
vice must be reformed and power must be decen
tralized from London to give the people a greater
say in the decisions which affect their lives.
Class barriers inherited from another age still
cripple our society causing bitterness and pre
venting people from leading full lives. Liber
alism alone, tied to no class, can break those
antiquated postures. It seeks to give the under-
privleged greater opportunities, to replace class
strife by partnership and to give all people the
chance to participate more fully in politics, in
running their local communities, in industry and
in their working lives. Once the British people
feel secure in such an atmosphere of social jus
tice and partnership new energies and zest will
be released both in our economy and in the
nation as a whole”.
There are several smaller parties represent
ed in the British parliament, but they are nor
mally merely dissident members of the regular
parties who go their own way on some issues.
Significantly no Communits have been elected
to the British Parliament since 1945.
Frankly, I sometime wonder what motive other
than dedication, moves the British member of
parliament to seek election. Unlike his American
counterpart, he gets only the equivalent of about
$3,000.00 a year for almost full time service.
He gets only occasional postal franking privi
leges, has no office or staff unless he wants to
pay for one out of his own pocket and, in some
cases, wins a seat, but finds there is none to sit
on in parliament—the place is old and grossly
overcrowded.
Despite this, the Mother of Parliaments will
go through its five year ritual of electing more
than 600 representatives of the British people.
They will continue to uphold the Magna Carta
no matter who gets the election. The Elections
are crucial only in that each party is taking a
different direction in the goal of improved de
mocracy at home and peace in the world.
REAPINGS
AT
RANDOM