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PAGE 2 GEORGIA BULLETIN THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1964
COUNCIL TIDBITS
PAUL SMITH,
PRESIDENT
LEW GORDON, JR.,
VICE PRESIDENT
MILLARD C. NORRIS,
SECRETARY
JAMES CALL ISON,
TREASURER
ARCIIDIOCESAN GROUP
Council Of Men
Elects Officers
The Archdiocesan Council of
Catholic Men, sponsor of last
week’s highly successful Wor
ship Conference, has announced
the election of officers for the
coming year. The election took
place at the Council Board
meeting on Saturday afternoon.
The new president is Paul
Smith of SS. Peter and Paul
Parish, where he is chairman
of the Fund Drive and program
chairman of the Holy Name So*
ciety. He also belongs to the
Serra Club of Metropolitan At
lanta ami has served on the
Archbishop's Lay Advisory
Priest’s Chorale
To JFK Library
ROME, (NC)—An eight-part
choral version of a prayer for
the late U.S, President John F,
Kennedy, composed by Father
Stanislao de Prosperis of Pal
estrina, Italy, has been for
warded for the proposed Ken
nedy Memorial Library in Bos
ton by the American embassy
here.
The composition was first
performed in Rome at a memor
ial service for President Ken
nedy in the church over the an
cient Mamertine prison on Dec,
18, 1963.
Women Attend
BIRMINGHAM, England (NC)
—A small number of women
attended the annual general
meeting of the Society of St.
Vincent de Paul here. The soci
ety’s general council in Paris
decreed last year that women’s
and men’s groups should no
longer function as separate ent
ities.
Anglicans Help
DORKING, England (NC) —
A fund raising drive by
the White Sisters for a novi
tiate here is being supported by
neighboring Anglican clergy
men.
Committee on Census. A grad
uate of Notre Dame University,
he is Governor of the Notre
Dame Fund for the state of
Georgia, and is a member of
the board of the U.S.O, Mr.
Smith is president of Southern
Oxygen Supply Co., is married
and has four children,
VICE PRESIDENT Lew Gor
don, Jr., of Holy Spirit, is ac
tive in Holy Name and is sec
retary of the Atlanta Serra Club.
He is a member of the Lay Ad
visory Board of Holy Family
Hospital and has served on the
Archbishop's Lay Advisory
Committee on Census and as
publicity chairman of “Opera
tion Understanding.'* A grad
uate of Emory, where he re
ceived A.B, and LL.B,degrees,
he is an account executive with
Bearden, Thompson, Frankel,
Inc. advertising agency. He is
married and has three child
ren.
Millard C. Norris, the new
secretary, is a member of Sac
red Heart Parish, where he is
treasurer and past president of
Holy Name. A Knight of Colum
bus, Third Degree, he is active
in the Confraternity of Chris
tian Doctrine, Mr. Norris is
president of Norris & Co., At
lanta mechanical contractors,
is married and has three child
ren,
TREASURER James Callison
is president of the Council of
Men of Blessed Sacrament Par
ish. A Knight of Columbus,
Third. Degree, he is on the
Board of Trustees of the Met
ropolitan Atlanta Serra Club and
served as parish chairman for
the Archdiocesan Census and
for “Operation Understand
ing.” Mr. Callison is an at
torney for Delta Air Lines and
holds A.B, and J.D. degrees
from the University of Michi
gan. He is a member of the
Georgia and American Bar As
sociations, is married and has
daughter.
VOTE FOR - RE-ELECT
RALPH
McClelland
Fulton County
Representative
A RECORD -
NOT A
PROMISE
PROVEN
EXPERIENCED
DEDICATED
GENERAL ELECTION - NOV. 3rd.
FULTON COUNTY NEEDS
THIS MAN
‘Big Eye,’ Limericks, Motor
Scooters Add Session Zip
BY FR. PLACID JORDAN
(N.C.W.C. News Service)
VATICAN CITY—The bis
hops of the world here for the
ecumenical council can never
be certain that Pope Paul VI
is not looking at them.
Thanks to TV equipment re
cently installed at strategic
points in St. Peter’s basilica,
the Pope can “spot” by remote
control nearly every move they
in connection with the introduc
tion of a “new look" in the
interior decorations of the ap-
partments where the Pope re
ceives important visitors.
There was a radio setup there
before which enabled him to lis
ten in on council debates
whenever he wanted. Now there
is TV also.
THERE is one council Fath
er who is apt at composing
limericks when he gets tired
of listening to speeches of the
bishops. Here is his latest pro
duct:
Cardinal Cushing of Bos
ton avows He fre dom to
all men allows.
Though he’s no Latin
scholar,
He knows how to holler.
At the Council he brought
down the house.
As a matter of fact, the Bos
ton cardinal spoke a perfect
Latin when he took so vigo
rous a stand in regard to both
religious liberty and the
Church’s duty to do justice to
the Jewish people. The “house"
gave him enthusiastic applause.
WHEN Patrick Keegan, pre
sident of the World Movement
of Christian Workers and coun
cil auditor, was about to be
come the first laymen to ad
dress the council, he was shown
by Msgr. Achille Lupi of the
council secretariat to a bench
covered with ceremonial green
cloth next to the statue of St.
Peter where the patriarchs are
seated. Waiting for his turn, he
seemed a bit uncomfortable on
that stiff board, so Arch
bishop John J. Krol of Phila
delphia, one of the five coun
cil undersecretaries, walked
over to him to put him at
ease with small talk conversa
tion. Pat, of course, was in
wonderful shape and his ad
dress was received enthusias
tically. Some cardinals patted
him on the shoulder, others con
gratulated him, shaking hands.
“Then,” said Pat, “I went
right over to the coffee shop.
I did crave a smoke, you know,
once the excitement w as over.”
At a forum held in connec
tion with the council debate on
the lay apostolate, Martin Work,
also a council auditor and exe
cutive director of the National
Council of Catholic Men in
Washington, was asked how
many laymen he thought were
really interested in the lay apo
stolate.
“I'm afraid,” he replied,
“many of them just wanted to
be left alone!”
THANKS to the council, the
photographic industry must be
booming. One of the major
Rome firms taking pictures at
the council has turned out some
50,000 photographs since its
opening. Add the production of a
dozen or so other firms in this
field, and the work of the ama
teurs, and you will conclude
that a regular marathon of pho
tography is in progress here in
Rome, sparked by the council.
NO LESS an incentive comes
from the council to the office
equipment manufacturers. How
many typewriters and mimeo
graph machines are in opera
tion in connection with it, no
one would hazard to guess.
Thousands of them, no doubt.
They turn out in a nearby end
less stream— reports, docu
mentaries, listings of all des
criptions—and provide tons of
waste paper after the copy is
persued by the council Fathers,
the council staff, the press and
numerous related agencies.
“To think,” remarked a
stenographer who was slaving
away at the products of the talk
ative males, “that so much
nice, clean white paper is being
spoiled by so much black ink!”
THERE are marathons in
council attendance, too. Arch
bishop Martin J. O’Connor,
Pennsylvania-born prelate who
is president of the council press
committee, noted the other day
that so far he has attended 64
plenary meetings of the coun
cil’s preparatory commission
and over 100 general coun
cil meetings. In addition, of
course, innumerable committee
meetings.
Hard to beat, isn't it?
TWO priests can be seen ped
aling through Rome’s furious
traffic every morning, headed
for St. Peter’s. They are
Father Antoine Wenger, ed
itor of the Paris Catholic news
paper, La Croix, and Father
Rene Laurent in, who is a
council expert consultant but
also writes for the Paris dai
ly, Figaro.
“The bike,” they explain to
astounded onlookers, “is the
fastest means of communica
tion in this traffic-jammed
town.”
The statement might be chal
lenged by Father John P. Don
nelly of the Spokane, Wash.,
diocese, a staff correspondent
of N. C. W. C. News Service
in Rome, for he proudly owns
a Vespa, a motor scooter of
Italian make, which no doubt
gets him places much faster
than the best French bikes.
Those Chinese- Language
council bulletins, which are so
intriguingly exotic that every
body looks at them even though
nobody seems able to read them,
are written longhand by a Chin
ese priest here in Rome, then
airmailed to the Catholic Cen
ter in Hong Kong. From there
they are distributed all over
eastern and southeastern Asia,
many to the United States and
other countries in the Western
Hemisphere where Chinese na
tional reside.
THE nine council Fathers
from Hungary, seven of them
bishops, had to pay from their
own pockets for their trip from
Budapest to Rome, which about
exhausted their funds. No help
was forthcoming from their
communist government, so now
they are the guests of the Holy
See for their stay in the Et
ernal City.
SOME of the French Cana
dian council experts and theo
logical advisors have beautiful
names. Here are some samples:
“Lafortune” (Good luck), “San-
schagrin” (without worry),
“Bellefleur” (beautiful flow
er). Suppose you met Msgr.
Good Luck, wouldn’t that be a
real inspiration.
SOME 150 to 200 guests, both
women and men, are admitted
to the council Masses preced
ing the actual meetings. A good
many of these would like to re
ceive Holy Communion, but this
would cut down even further on
the time available for debates.
So it was ruled that only men
and women council auditors may
receive, with no intent of dis
crimination because they re
present all the laity on these
occasions.
AN ever-growing number of
priests now can be seen on the
streets of Rome wearing what
they call in these parts “the
clergyman,” whichmeanscoats
and pants after the American gs
and English fashion. The cas
socks still predominate, but
slowly Italian dioceses are
expected to follow the prece
dent established by the Trent
diocese and discard them.
“I like you better wearing the
’clergyman,” said a street
car conductor to a visiting Am
erican priest.
There can be no doubt that
the Italian people gene
rally agree with him.
Scenes from Conference on Worship
Pope Paul
Meditates
On India
VATICAN CITY (NC)—Pope
Paul VI has expressed the hope
that his forthcoming visit to
India to attend the Internation
al Eucharistic Congress in
Bombay will not draw attention
away from Christ in the Eu
charist, the very center of the
congress.
“We would prefer that our
unusual journey will result in
honor for Him alone,” the
Pope told those attending his
weekly general audience.
HE said his trip to India
“should stimulate the souls of
those who attend, and of those
who follow the Eucharistic
Congress from a distance, to
concentrate all the more on the
mystery of the Eucharist and the
sacrificial presence of Christ.”
The Pope opened the audience
by pointing out that his listen
ers “see in us the head of the
Catholic Church, the visible
head.”
THEN he asked: “But who is
the true head of the Church?
St. Paul tells us clearly: It
is Jesus Christ. He is the su
preme head of the whole
Church, which is His Mystical
Body.
THE Pope said the answer
“is an easy one and you all
know it: The true and supreme
head of the Church, the only
source of its salvation, is Christ
the Lord.”
THERE are those who carry
on propaganda campaigns of
their own on the streets lead
ing to the council hall by hand
ing out leaflets to passers-by.
The other day an Italian priest
walked up and down Via della
Conciliazione distributing fold
ers that recommended a book of
his on Mariology which blunt
ly urged readers not to pay any
attention to relevant speeches of
the Council Fathers. The side
walk author claimed true know
ledge about' the Blessed Virgin
for himself only, poor fellow.
CIVIL RIGHTS PROGRAM
New ‘Peacemaker’ Counting
On Assistance Of Churches
BY JOHN J. DALY, JR.
(N.C.W.C. News Service
WASHINGTON—The head oi
the new federal agency charg
ed with a peacemaking role
in racial disputes is counting
heavily on the active support
of religious bodies.
LeRoy Collins, director of the
Community Relations Service,
said support of his agency’s
purpose is being sought from a
host of private groups and in
dividuals—“ and none is more
needed than the religious bod
ies.”
COLLINS is convinced that
efforts to adopt the civil rights
act, under which his office
was established, would have
failed without the united support
of religious groups.
“I hope now these groups
will not rest on their well-earn
ed laurels,” he said. “I hope
they will undertake an even
mighter program to help bring
about compliance and we stand
ready to work with them.”
IT IS the task of the former
Governor of Florida to direct
a conciliation service that will
try to untangle disputes assign
ed to it by federal courts. It
will also offer help to commun
ities where problems about
discrimination exist, although
they may not hav> vched eith
er the courts or me streets.
Collins, who le^r a prestig
ious and highly paid podPfcs pre
sident of the National Associa
tion of Broadcasters to answer
President Johnson’s calltodir-
ect the new office, also will
marshal federal effor s to
create a climate of voluntary
compliance with the civil rights
act and its principles.
IN AN interview in his office
in the Commerce Department
building, Collins said he sees
churches and their members
acting as “bridges” for com
munications in efforts to re
solve racial discrimination dis
putes.
To encourage this role, he has
made major addresses in re
cent weeks to the Conference
on Christian Social Concerns
of the Methodist Church and to
a session of the general conven
tion of the Episcopal Church,
of which he is a member, in St.
Louis.
STRESSING the part churches
can play in getting people to
accept “the basic truth that
racial discrimination in all its
forms has no basis of support
scientifically, legally or mor
ally,’’ Collins said in his ad
dress to the Methodists:
“Everything about the teach
ings of Christ contradicts rac
ial bigotry and its mani
fest acts of discriminatory pra
ctice. No amount of camouflag
ing our conscience is going
to change that.”
IN THE interview, he spoke
of the broad support given by
Catholic leaders to the civil
rights act, adding that the
Church can be “a leading in
fluence in the compliance pro
gram not only through its
advice, but because it can show
the way through it school sys
tems.”
The soft-spoken southerner,
who at one point interrupted
himself, commenting, “There I
go again, I don’t mean to preach
at you,” insisted that compli
ance with the rights law has
been far greater than anyone
expected.
“I CALL it massive comp
liance,” he said, “There has
been no widespread disrespect.
There i s not a major city
in the country where there has
not been a major effort to com
ply.”
There are serious problems,
Collins was quick to add. He
cited deep South areas where
the situation is extremely tense,
chiefly because law enforce
ment is poor.
COLLINS, forbidden by law to
say where his concilitation ser
vice is active, said “we have
tried to explain to some of these
places it is necessary to have
a law-abiding environment.
“Outrageous acts of lawless
ness must be stopped. People
must realize that without a cli
mate of impartial and reason
able law enforcement, the per
sonal and social welfare of
everyone is in jeopardy.”
ADMITTEDLY he said, much
compliance with the act’s pro
visions has been given grudg
ingly and his service hopes
to change this.
“We would hope to develop
an atmosphere in which, broad
ly speaking, the elimination of
discrimination is a great-chal
lenge to the moral citizen and
the patriotic citizen and gives
them a sense of pride that
they are part of a movement
to extend each American an
equal opportunity,” he said.
COLLINS, known nationally
since his chairmanship of the
dramatic 1960 Democratic con
vention in Los Angeles, said
his agency’s programs will
appeal primarily on the grounds
of morality, patriotism and ec
onomics.
“We would se^k to make of
civil rights the most import
ant moral issue of our time,”
he said.
“In the category of patrio
tism,” he added, “we would
hope to show that cultural plu
ralism is one of the country's
greatest strengths if it is bas
ed on common national loyal
ties and mutual respect for in
dividuals, without regard to
race, religion or national or
igin.”
THE HOUSEWIFE IN INDIA COOKS OUTDOORS, over an
open fire.on a sheet of iron which rests on clay supports. She
senes one meal (gruel and a slice
or two of bread), usually at noon.
Her nn<*-rnom "house” ts made of
mud or bamboo- She has no elec
v*-**- runtime w'ater. or Indoor
f* 4 ^ . . . Our elrls in India
ar*. tomorrow's mothers. Tomor
row's India rests in women’s hands
. . . That’s why FATHER EPHREM.
a Carmelite, asks help to build a
school in POONJAR. “Our girls
... . ... must learn to read and write, how
Tb« Holy Tttbtr j Mnjwn Aid to |j ee p c i ean> how ( 0 car© for
ior tbt On*nul Chmch children, if they arc to be good
mothers.** he says. "Christian mothers can change the face
of India." . . . Sisters are ready to teach these girls. If FATHER
EPHREM can proride the classrooms. The classrooms (six are
needed) will cost only $585 each. The chapel for the Sisters
(they’ll live in the school) will cost only $1,150. Altogether.
FATHER EPHREM needs $4,660 . . . Will you make some
sacrifice to help? You may. If you wish, give the chapel
($1,150) or a classroom ($585) all by yourself (dedicate It to your
f -*v«rite saint) In memory of a loved one. Just write to us . . .
Please send something ($1, $3, $5, $10). Help give tomor
row’s mothers a decent life.
INDIA: TOMORROW’S MOTHERS
PULPIT HINT—If Christ were preaching today. His sermons
would be up-to-date. He might say: “I was hungry, and you
fed a familv of refugees.’’ . . . There are thousands of hungry
PALESTINE REFUGEE families in the Holy Land. The Holy
Father asks us to feed as many as we can . . . Like to help?
We can FEED A FAMILY for only $10 a month.
MISSIONARIES ARE FOREIGN AGENTS?—Premier Khrush
chev urges underdeveloped countries to expel priests and Sis
ters. They are “agents of imperialism.” he says . . . The Church
is interested in souls, not politics. Khrushchev wants priests
and Sisters expelled because the work they do uproots Commu
nism ... It costs only $1 a day to support a missionary priest
or Sister. Why not “adopt” one for a day ($1), a week ($7), a
month ($30). a year ($365)?
MEDICINES FOR LEPERS—Lepers in Africa will receive
tons of medicines, thanks to druggists in Canada . . . Like to
help lepers in INDIA? Clip $1 to this column, send it to us,
and ask to join our DAMIEN LEPER CLUB. The monthly
dues are only $1.
WONDER WHERE TO HELP?—The needs are so many, it's
hard sometimes to decide just where your help is needed most.
Why not let the Holy Father decide? Mark your gift “String
less.” and send it to us. It will take care of some emergency-
NOVEMBER: THE SOULS IN PURGATORY—Our mission
ary priests will be pleased to offer Mass for your deceased.
Simply send us your intentions . . . Ask us about GREGORIAN
MASSES (Mass each day for 30 days without interruption). By
using our ‘‘Suspense Cards” you can arrange now to have
GREGORIAN MASSES offered for you after death. We‘11 be
pleased to send further information.
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