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PAGE 4 GEORGIA BULLETIN THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1964
TWO EXTREMES
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'Archdiocese of Atlanta
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Congratulations
Congratulations are in order
to the priests, religious, and
people of the Archdiocese for
the outstanding participation in
last week-ends Conference on
W or ship.
The aim of the Conference was
to stimulate awareness through
out the Archdiocese of the litur
gical renewal now taking place
within the Church. It was a major
step in preparation for the intro
duction of English into the Mass
on the first Sunday of Advent,
November 29.
In one of the greatest mani
festations of faith, Catholics of
Atlanta filled the Cathedral to
overflow on each of the days when
English was introduced into the
Mass. In addition, there was real
participation in the liturgy from
the congregation as well as the
ministers of the Mass. The peo
ple of God showed their essential
unity at the most unifying of all
ceremonies, the Eucharistic ban
quet.
The Archdiocesan Council of
Catholic Men, under whose au
spices the Conference was plann
ed and carried out, deserve a
special mention for its obvious
success.
xere were too many in-
o. xduals important to the suc
cess of the Worship Conference
for them all to be named, but a
debt of gratitute is well in order.
There is one final thought. The
Conference on Worship was but
a beginning. As the new Liturgi
cal Constitution so aptly de
scribes it: the liturgy is the
source and summit of the
Church's activity. All other
works are to prepare us to par
take actively in the Paschal My
stery of Christ in the worship of
God and the sanctification of our
selves. Further, it enables us to
express our unity in holiness--
our transformation into Christ.
United Appeal
The United Appeal is progress-
I /. ing within the community at this
i and. the response from our
citizens has been most generous
--although much more effort is
needed if the goal is to be
achieved.
Such an appeal often strikes
the average person as an annual
routine,distasteful yet necessary
if one is to avoid further taxation
and a multiplicity of smaller fund
drives. Alas, in this lies the root
of a false concept of giving.
The United Appeal provides fi
nancial aid and services for a
variety of interfaith and secular
groups. The poor and the needy,
the aged and the young, the drop
out and the mentally retarded, the
delinquent and the bored, all are
the concern of the religious
groups and others who are aided
by the United Appeal.
The response therefore to this
community effort must be an ex
pression of the community con-
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2. Tide of publication;
THE GEORGIA BULLETIN
3. Frequency of issue; Weekly, every Thursday
4. Location of known office of publication; 2699 Peachtree Road, N, E.
Atlanta (Fulton County) Georgia, 30305
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ers; 2699 Peachtree Road, N. E„ Atlanta, Georgia
6. Names and addreasea of publisher and managing editor, Publisher-
Archbtahop Paul J. Hallman, Atlanta, Georgia, Managing Editor-Ger-
ard E. Sherry, Atlanta, Georgia
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JO, Average preceding
12 me
Single issue
nearest date
A, Total No copies 10,100
primed press run)
9920
B, Paid Circulation
1. To term subscriber*
by mail, carrier del
ivery, or by other .
neana 9,409
9,303
2. Sales through agents,
news Jelears, or
new* dealers, or
other* tec 200
14S
C. Free distribution (in
cluding samples) by
Mnil, carrier delivery,
or by other means 300
300
D. Total No. of copies
distributed (Sum of
lines Bl, B2, sad C) 9,909 9,74*
1 certify that the statements made by me above are correct and complete.
Gerard E, Sherry
Managing Editor
science, a manifestation of deep
concern for the travail of others
and the desire to'be of service
in the easing of community prob
lems.
The greatest act of citizen
ship is always that which in
volves no self interest; that which
sees in each member of the com
munity the image and likeness of
God; that which will enhance the
dignity of the human person when
ever it is threatened either
through spiritual or material de
ficiencies. We are therefore
better citizens in giving to the
United Appeal, for in giving we
are also serving.
Knighted
GEORGIA PINES
Great Religious Experience
BY REV. R. DONALD KIERNAN
The past week is proof conclusive of the dedi
cation and spirit of the Archdiocesan Council
of Catholic Men. Three years ago when the Coun
cil was founded, it undertook a momumental task
of ''counting noses" of our people in the 71
north Georgia counties which make up the Arch
diocese of Atlanta. Briefings, consultations and
instructions were necessary to accomplish this
task. With a great spirit, which has persever
ed to the present day, men all over the Arch
diocese successfully completed the first census of
this kind ever taken in Georgia.
The following year, pursuing
an "open door" policy, the
Council instructed men in all
of our parishes and missions
in the symbolic meaning be
hind our church appointments.
On a given Sunday, everyone
was invited to visit our chur
ches and they were welcomed
by our men with an explana
tion of the confessional, baptis
mal font, etc. No longer can we be consider
ed as being behind the "stained glass curtain!"
BUT THIS year, I think, was the most impor
tant of all the Council’s projects because
it centered around the very core of Catholic wor
ship, i. e. the Mass. Radio, newspapers and TV
gave excellent coverage of the historical event
which took place at our Cathedral. Undoubted
ly, it was the first Mass said in English that
was ever televised. The coordination of ef
forts which accomplished this success is an ex
cellent tribute to the truly great "Georgia spirit"
which has characterized the laity of our state
for well over a century.
To recount the series of events, the excellent
and distinguishedspeakers, the superb program
ming, would only be repititious to the great maj
ority of our people, who underwent a truly great
religious experience.
I THINK what was especially gratifying was
to set the response reflected onthefacesof ihose
who participated. The usual -enthusiasm of high
school students on being give: a "free day"
was soon turned into genuine interest when they
realized that the assembly had a definite, ser
ious purpose.
People from the small parishes in the country
were awed at the size of the large city parish
es. The gathering of people from all over for this
one purpose gave to all a real feeling of unity.
WERE THERE any complaints? I don’t think so.
The nearest thing to a sour note was that the
"country people" (myself, included) couldn't
quite get used to Atlanta's traffic problem.
Now, what did Atlanta's first Liturgical Con-
L rence accomplish? I think that its real worth
will be discovered on November 29, the first
Sunday of Advent. Those who attended will be
able to go back to their parishes, impart the
knowledge they received. November 29 will not
mean curiosity at seeing Mass said differently,
but rather this first Sunday will be what it was
designed to be - our first experience in in
timately participating in worship service wt un
derstand.
VITAL RELIGION
Your World And Mine
BY GARY MacEOIN
What, I am constantly asked, struck me most
as I circled the globe? My answer amazes my
self each time I formulate it. For nothing so
impressed and surprised me as the overriding
and universal importance of religion in world
affairs. I do not just mean the transcenden
tal meaning in theological terms for each man
of his relations with his Creator, but the prac
tical impact of religious belief and attitude on the
actions and commitments of men and nations.
We in the West make our international judg
ments and conduct our international relations
on the pretence that religion is irrelevant.
It is a stupid and costly error.
The postwar rapprochement
of Catholics and Protestants in
Western Europe, encouraged by
common wartime suffering, is
important not only for its pro
mise of a still distant reunion of
Christians. It is a basic ele
ment in the program of Euro
pean unification. Without it,
the economic community of the
Common Market could hardly
have been formed. As it progresses, it
will permit absorption of the extremists at the
extremes, Spaniards to the south, English to the
west, Scandinavians to the north.
AS FRANCE and Germany regain strength,
old divisive influences threaten the new friend
ships. We in America are making laudable ef
forts, military, economic and political, to retain
the progress towards unity Europe. I am convin
ced, however, that our contribution will become
far more effective as we promote the movement
for Christian unity, starting right at home.
Similarly, the embrac- of pope and patriarch
is important for us not only as Christians but
as citizens of the world’s most powerful na
tion. Orthodoxy, long ignored as a quaint sur
vival, is proving not only to contain unsuspect
ed internal dynamism but to occupy vital strategic
positions in today’s geopolitics.
THUS, Orthodoxy is by far the most important
religion in the Soviet empire. Not only is its
voice not stilled internally, but it is heard across
the Curtain. The dialogue with the outside conduct
ed by Russian Orthodox observers at the Council
and representatives at Pan-Orthodox confer
ences, as well as through other contacts with
Orthodox Churches abroad, unsatisfactory though
it may be in many ways, is one of the most im
portant non-official exchanges between the two
worlds.
We may suspect the motives of some and must
evaluate the intent of ambiguous declarations.
But we can hardly doubt the persistent real
ity of religion in the Soviet Union. Or if we do,
it is only because of our ignorance of the frantic
re-examination of conscience going on among
Russia’s top leaders over the failure of their every
tactic and technique, persecution, toleration,
coaxing, cajoling, persuading, ignoring. They
themselves have assembled the main elements
in the 17,000 - word report of Leonid Fio-
CONTLNUED ON PAGE 5
Wanderer To
The Ramparts
BY GERARD E. SHERRY
One of the most deplorable things about this
election campaign has been the widespread dis
semination of hate literature, especially by so-
called Right Wing extremist groups. The mater
ial that some of them have produced on President
Johnson, for instance, shows a disgusting lack
of ethical conduct and is as subversive to the
best interests of this nation as is the propaganda
emanating from the
Communist Party.
We have seen very
little similar mat
erial coming from
the so-called Libe
ral Wing of our
political society, but
we have recently
come across some
thing which almost
borders on it and it comes from an alleged
Catholic magazine of culture. Ramparts, a perio
dical published by Catholic laymen in Cali
fornia, has stepped beyond the bounds of culture
and decency in portraying Senator Goldwater,
the Republican candidate for President. It likens
him both to a Hitler and a snake— it says
many other deplorable things also defaming the
Senator.
I THINK that one should be able to disa
gree with another, even firmly, without stoop
ing to gutter tactics. The laymen responsible
for the production of this issue of Ramparts
have a lot to answer for. I think it is bad journa
lism and certainly not in the best tradition of the
Catholic Press Associations to which Ramparts
has the privilege of belonging.
REAPINGS
AT
RANDOM
Last year, when I was in Rome covering the
Council, one of the bishops complained that the
Liberal Wing of the Church had an obsession
on liberty, to such a degree as to go beyond the
bounds of decency. It is true that some liberals
are demanding so much liberty as to give the
impression that they have no use for the valued
norms or procedures within the Church. In much
of the criticism of Ramparts for its attack on
Goldwater , it has been falsely suggested that
it is a Liberal Catholic magazine. Alas, if this
issue is to be taken as an example, its editors
do not represent the true Ca holic Liberal. They
have acted as extremists and are no better
than the extremists of the Catholic ultra- Right.
This new type of so-called "Liberal" does not
belong to the "New Breed" of up and coming
young educated Catholics. This phony type of
liberal is usually an overeducated, frustra
ted Catholic who delights in sniping at Church
men and the Catholic Press. It is wrong to label
such people as in the tradition of genuine Cath
olic liberalism.
■*'' 'SOT I- think the most dfSgraceTul part of the
Rimpartissufe is its bitter attack on James
Francis Cardinal McIntyre, Archbishop of Los
Angeles. It was an unforgivable piece of writ
ing and is more reminiscent of yellow journa
lism than Catholic culture. Some of us have
suffered from the abuses of certain Catholic
leaders in Southern California. There is justi
fication for disagreeing with some of the views
and positions of Catholic leaders in the Los
Angeles area—but at no time can we ever stoop
to public mockery of our priests and bishops.
‘Touch not my annointed ones" is an admoni
tion which should never be necessary to repeat
in Catholic circles. To suggest that the editors
of Ramparts were exercising holy liberty would
be a mockery of the spirit of Aggiornamento
to justify it on the ground that injustice has been
committed in some areas of Catholic life by
Conservative Bishops is to show a complete
lack of faith and a repudiation of the prime vir
tue Chanty. No Catholic who sports a liberal
tie can defend such extremism of thought or
action. There are those among us who appear
to have run amok and seem to act more like
pirates than apostles. Tragically, they have
the gall to still claim to belong to Catholic
Journalism.
OF COURSE, the ultra-Conservative Wing
within the Church also has its magazines which
espouse extremism under the guise of Catho
licism. One has only to take the recent issues
of The vVanderer, a weekly newspaper publish
ed in St. Paul, Minnesota, run by laymen. It
is not an official Catholic newspaper although
it is a member of the Catholic Press Associa
tion, We often wonder how it ever got in, for
it is almost 100^ political in content, plugg
ing an extreme Right Wing view. It has
accepting advertising for political hate propaganda
of the most dubious form, and has the gall to
suggest that this is good and charitable. During
the past few weeks priests all over the country
have been receiving free copies ofThe Wanderer,
mostly unsolicited. The reaction of most of the
priests that I have talked to, both Conservative
and Liberal, has been one of disquiet that such
material could be printed under the protection of
a Catholic label.
It is my opinion that the recent issue of Ram
parts, and most of the issues ofThe Wanderer,
do not represent the main stream of Catholic
thought or action; neither do they represent the
healthy dissenting viewpoint that should be
encouraged within the Church, It is regrettable
that such a paper as The Wanderer can claim
the support of any thoughtful biship t P r i est or
layman. It is also deplorable that Ramparts
magazine should still be able to claim to be an
expression of Catholic liberalism.