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PAGE 4 GEORGIA BULLETIN THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1964 the Archdiocese of Atlanta GEORGIA BULLETIN SERVING GEORGIA'S 71 NORTHFtki COUNTIES Official Organ of the Archidocese of Atlanta Published Every Week at the Decatur DeKalb News PUBLISHER- Archbishop Paul J. Hallinan MANAGING EDITOR Gerard E. Sherry CONSULTING EDITOR Rev, R. Donald Kternan **#ss * sS ASSOCIATE EDITOR Rev. Leonard F. X. May hew Member of the Catholic Press Association 2699 Peachtree N. E. and Subscriber to N. C. W. C. News Service P. O. Box 11667 Telephone 231-1281 Norths ide Station Atlanta 5, Ga. Second Class Permit at Altanta, Ga. U. S. A. $5.00 Canada $5.00 Foriegn $6.50 Worship Meet The upcoming Conference on Worship, which will run from October 22 through 25, is one of the most important undertakings ever planned in the archdiocese. The Council of Catholic Men now adds this splendid liturgical pro gram to its record of annual pro jects, which includes the archdio cesan census and Operation Un derstanding, The example set by these zea lous Catholic men is one of ser vice, Instead of confining their efforts to themselves, they are conscious of every member of the archdiocese. Evexy Catholic - priest, laity, man, woman, young adult - is being given the oppor tunity to learn by instruction and experience the full meaning of the liturgical renewal. The underlying concern of the Conference on Worship is with the reason for the various meas ures of liturgical renewal and re form. It is quite impossible to ac cept these steps in the proper spirit without an understanding of the mind of the Church and the "why” which lies behind them. Each of the four days will bring outstanding authorities to speak to those who attend the Confer ence. These speakers - Father Gerard Sloyan, Msgr. Daniel Tarrant, Mr. John Mannion, Mrs, Dr. King’s Occasionally, something almost too right and appropriate to be expected actually takes place. When it does, it inspires a re action very akin to awe. This is how we were affected by the news that Dr. Martin Luther King has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. With humility we wish to add our congratulations to the compliments which will come to Dr. King from all over the world. It is an irony that a man who has stood inthe midst of such intense conflict should so char acteristically be a manof peace. This is what makes the Nobel Peace Prize award so appro priate, It would not have been so dramatic for Dr, King to receive an award for contributing to free dom and equality. The honor he now will receive, for promoting peace, focuses our attention on what is truly the deeper and more essential arena of his work. The real violence inherent in Discussing The debate by the Council Fath ers on the future status of the laity within the Church has brought forth quite a number of surprises. One has been the read iness of many of the Council Fathers to stand up and be count ed in defense of Lay rights while the draft text has been stressing mainly the duties. We are especially proud of the interventions by AmericanBis- hops in defense of the Laity. Car dinal Ritter, Archbishop of St. Louis, raised his voice early in the debate and called for a com plete revision of the text. He said it was, "Too clerical” and "patronizing”. He was joined by another American, Auxiliary Mary Perkins Ryan - willexplain the reasons why the Vatican Council decided that renewal in liturgy was necessary and the measures that are being taken. One of the most important means of learning is through ex perience. The principle of‘learn ing by doing’ is valid for all of us. Each day of the Conference, then, there will be a Mass cele brated in the latin-english rite, to be introduced everywhere on November 29. These Masses will make use of the fullest kind of active participation onthe part of all present. On Sunday, Octo ber 25, a Sung Mass by an inter parish choir as well as the entire congregation will expose most of us for the first time to the beauty of the use of English in the liturgy. The schedule of the events of the Conference is printed in this newspaper. Every concerned and informed Catholic owes it to him self to attend all, or as many as possible, of the programs. The experience that will be gained in this way will make unnecessary an explanation about the necessi ty of the liturgical program being undertaken by the Church and our archdiocese. The most meaning ful sign of our appreciation to the Council of Catholic Men will be a full attendance at each of the Conference exercises. Peace Prize America’s racial revolution is not the morally justified civil protests carried out by the op pressed Negro; it is not even the heinous murders, burnings, bombings used by some of their enemies to halt their efforts. The underlying violence is in the moral sphere, built into the ac ceptance of injustice, segregation and discrimination by American society. The outward conflict - as terrible as it has sometimes be come - is symptomatic, symbolic of the moral disorder and lack of peace eating away at our society. By selflessly devoting himself to justice, by accepting the suf fering and pain that has come to him, by urging on all Americans only the basic mandates of Chris tian morality, Dr. King has con tributed to peace. He has fought disorder and moral violence. Without justice and love, there can be no peace. The Nobel Peace Prize is honored more by Dr. King than he is by it. The Laity Bishop Stephen Leven of San Antonio, who called the draft text, "timid and hesitant.” It seems a pity that even at this late stage some feel that the laity are not yet ripe for consultation as to the best way in which to achieve their divine dignity and eternal destiny. Yet, it is obvious from the utterances of Pope Paul VI that he feels that the Laity have a right to be consulted on matters of import within the Church. The Liturgical Reform approved by the Council Fathers and promulgated by the Pope, has laid to rest the fallacy that the Sanctuary Rail separates the laity from the rest of the Church, More Updating GEORGIA PINES Fastest Mace In The East BY REV. R. DONALD KIERNAN One of the “official duties’* of the Sheriff of Clarke County (Athens) is to lead the academic procession at graduation exercises of the Uni versity of Georgia. It is a colorful Pageant, with the professors in their academic robes and the students about to receive their degrees displaying the various colors of their studies, all being led by the sheriff carrying a mace. This practice dates back to the day when unfriendly Indians would upset the pro cession as it moved from one side of the campus to the other through woods. The presence of the sheriff with his firearms discouraged the intruders. THE PRACTICE has been perpetuated through all these years and the sheriff's presence is part of the academic ritual right to this day. I sat in Sanford Stadium last Saturday and read the program prior to the Georgia-Clemson game. Thousands of people crowded the stadium and the new buildings around the stadium give the stadium a sort of cavernous effect. The thought passed through my mind, as I heard the cheerleaders trying to whip up enthusiasm and school spirit if our educational institu tions had not grown too big and would we not be better off starting more schools in the dif ferent sections of the state. VINCE DOOLEY’S Bulldogs played a spectacu lar game over the favored Tigers of Clemson. A s the game went on I thought too of another member of Saint Joseph’s parish who did a spec tacular job with the Bulldogs years ago. Now retired, Harry Mehre, is a favorite dinner speaker around the Atlanta scene. One of the favorite stories which Harry tells is the oc casion when Georgia whipped one of the Ivy League teams and the president of the University was so jubiliant that he put his arms around Harry and told him that he had a job foi life. **My only regret’*, Harry says now, “is that I didn’t get it in writing!” Sitting in the stands were two of the Costa brothers. Native Athenians, they helped finance the team in its infancy and when the stadium was originally built they helped with the financing. I dare say that a Georgia team ha never played a game, in all these years since football began at Rutgers', that a Costa has not been in attendance. ALL THE old grads remember Monsignor Jim King and his support of the Bulldogs. Years back when the Monsignor served as pastor of Saint Joseph's he kept “his eye’* on boys like Nick Azar, and became a sort of chaplain to the foot ball squad. The most memorable event which I recall in Sanford Stadium though, was a graduation exercise at which the junior senator from Mas sachusetts gave the graduationn speech. He had just finished a book named Profiles in Cour-* age and he himself was a rising figure on the American political scene. As I sat in the south stands and listened to John F. Kennedy speak there was an Atlanta executive sitting directly in back of me. This executive had just finished a term as president of a national organiza tion. I overheard him say to his companion, “keep your eye on Kennedy, that boy is going places 1’* AS GEORGIA’S score mounted the crowds began to leave the stadium. (It reminded me of those people who leave Mass at the last Gospel!) While the crowd pushed and shoved I returned my thoughts to the Sheriff and wondered if his presence isn't still needed today just to protect the spectators. HONG KONG Your World And Mine BY GARY MacEOlN Hong-Kong. .... Not even San Francisco’s Golden Gate or Istanbul's Golden Horn is more spectacular than the harbor of Hong Kong. Day and night the scene is one of incomparable natural grandeur and manmade magnificence. On either side the mountains rise majestically, the roads, factories ^id skyscrapers of the twin cities of Victoria and Kowloon climbing ever higher to wards the peaks. The harbor itself, today the most active point of contact between Red China and the free world, is the primary reason for the galloping expansion. Here ride at anchor ships of every flag and nation. Clustered around them are sampans and junks, each a floating home and floating truck. From the holds of the ships pours the merchandise of the West. Into them gc the artificial flowers, Christmas decorations, toys and ready- to-wear clothing which Hong Kong produces in endless quantities, as well as the jade, ivory, gold, laces, brocades and other wares which China here exchanges for the manu factures it desperately needs. FIFTEEN YEARS ago, when the Red Chinese completed the conquest of the mainland, Hong Kong was already densely populated, nearly two million people living on 400 square miles of largely mountainous territory. The population has since doubled to almost 10,000 persons per square mile, as compared with a density of 49 per square mile in the United States. Five years ago, a million refugees were still unassimilated. Squatters on rooftops alone were estimated at 200,000 , Nobody knew how many more had gone to swell the floating population on unsanitary, unsound and overcrowded house boats in the bays and the harbors of Hong Kong’s 75 islands. There seemed no hope of employing them. They were kept alive by emergency feed ing programs in which Catholic Relief Services and other American voluntary agencies played a magnificent part. Subsequent progress is little less than mira culous. The unquenchable energy and drive of the Chinese is even more evident here than in Singapore. Private industrial construction and government-sponsored lowcost housing have gone hand in hand. Substantial shortages of labor have developed in the clothing and other industries. Wages are low and life is dear, but mostly every one can make enough to survive, THE NEW apartment buildings are severely practical, of a spartan simplicity that would hardly appeal to Americans. One walks up the first seven flights to catch an elevator running from there to the fourteenth floor. Each living init has a 10-foot front and a depth varying between 10 and 18 feet according to family - size. Each floor is served by communal show ers, toilets and laundry areas. Sea water in the toilets serves to conserve the precious fresh water, some of which is piped from Communist CONTINUED ON PAGE 5 ADL SURVEY Are Catholics Anti-Semitic? BY GERARD E. SHERRY Nothing irritates a writer more than to be sitting on a confidential report to find that someone has been all but breaking the confidence. This was my situation the past couple of weeks in rela tion to a program of research on American Anti-Semitism sponsored by the Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith. A couple of weeks ago, a confidential report on preliminary findings, especially in relation to the charge of Dei- cide and Anti-Jewish prejudice among Catholics, was leak ed in Rome and sev eral of us bright journalists were “scooped” for our honesty. The study was done at the survey research cen ter of the University of California and consisted of Christian Church members randomly elected from the membership rolls of Protestant groups and Catholic Parishes in the Archdiocese of San Fran cisco. In all 2,326 Protestants and 545 Roman Catholics filled out lengthy questionnaires during the spring and summer of 1963. An analysis of personal interviews conducted with a random sam ple of persons who failed to return the question naire indicated that our data was representative of the church member population in this area. I’D RATHER quote sections of the report ver batim than try to digest it for it is too import ant to distort.. Here then are sections which shoul&prove of great interest: “The decision to study the possible conse quences of church teachings on anti-Semitism stemmed from the growing dialogue among both clergy and laity over this issue. In particular, Christian churchmen have been troubled by the possible unintended effect the crucifixion story may have onthe attitudes of many church mem bers towards Jews. Many have felt that ambi guous handling of the role 'the ancient Jews in the death of Jesus many leave sincere Christ ians with the impression that the Jews alone bear the guilt of the crucifixion. Despite this concern, no one really knows whether, or to what extent, such a process goes on today. Basi cally , the general problem breaks down into three related questions: “1. Do modern Christians typically blame the historic Jew for the crucifixion? “2. Do these historic images get trans lated into an image of the modern Jew as guilty of the “crimes’* of his ancestors? “3. Supposing the first two answers are “yes,” do-negative religious images of the Jews predispose persons to accept negative secular stereotypes of the Jew? “In the study, efforts are made to answer these questions. A synopsis of the most signi ficant data provides a fairly clear picture. “To begin with, the project tried to deter mine whether, and to what extent, present- day Catholics recognize and acknowledge the mutual Judeo-Christian heritage of the Old Testament. Some of the key findings were: 75% identified the Jews as God’s Chosen People in Old Testament times, and 11% thought the Christians were the Chosen People in the Old Testament. 15% thought of Moses, David and Solomon as Christians, and 72% thought of them as Jews. 61% thought of Peter, Paul, and the Apostles as Christians, and 19% thought of them as Jews. 47% thought of Judas as a Jew, 28% as a Christian. “Generally speaking, the majority of Catho lics acknowledge their mutual roots with Judaism, although there is a modest tendency to Christianize the Old Testament. However, as can readily be seen, the shadowy figure of Judas resists Christianization and he is likely to be remembered as a Jew. “Moving on, the project next considered ima ges of the role of the ancient Jews in the cru cifixion. The findings were very definite; 79% believed Pontius Pilate wanted to spare Jesus from the cross, and only 7% believ ed Pilate did not want to spare Jesus. 46% not only believed Pilate wanted to spare Jesus but that he failed to do so “because a group of powerful Jews wanted Jesus dead”. 61% named the Jews as the group “most responsible for crucifying Christ,” and 22% fixed the responsibility on the Romans. “From this data we must conclude that the three major elements in the traditional inter pretation of the crucifixion, the beliefs which have caused so much concern recently, re main the predominant view among present-day Roman Catholic parishioners. “Similarly, these respondents were inclined to attribute evil motives to the Jews for re jecting Jesus as the Messiah: 42% agreed the Jews “were deceived by wicked priests who feared Christ.’* 39% agreed that the Jews rejected Jesus be cause **They couldn’t accept a Messiah who came from humble beginnings.” 16% agreed the Jews rejected Jesus because they “were sinful and had turned against God.” CONTINUED ON PAGE 5 REAPINGS AT RANDOM
