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PAGE 8 GEORGIA BULLETIN THURSDAY. OCTOBER 29, 1964
CHARITY MOTHER GENERAL
Sister Says Nuns Must Be
Kind Little People - Plus’
1964-1965 CHOIR OFFICERS RECENTLY ELECTED AT ST. ANTHONY’S SCHOOL are pictured
above (below). From left to rightthey are : Pamela Ferguson, librarian, Mary Todd, Secretary,
Theresa Phillips, president, Danny Korb, president, Lee Fowler, Secretary, and Paul Poole,
librarian.
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fin, has embarked on what pro
mises to be the school’s most
successful football season since
it first entered a team in the
Public School Football League
several years back. To-date,
the school shows an overall
record of six victories without
a defeat - with each victory
showing double figures against
it’s opponent.
Mr. Chet Jones, the Sacred
Heart coach, indicated that the
fine record reflected the strong
defense of the team - strongest
in the the league; coupled with
a good running offense-making
it the best balanced team in the
league this year.
MR. JONES has coached the
boys at Sacred Heart for many
years - not only in football but
in basketball and baseball as
well. The many trophies and a-
wards on display in the school's
show case is indicative of it's
success in varied participating
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House of Representatives
for DeKalb County
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for
THE MAN
Native of Georgia, Age 37
Attorney at law
Education: B A. Degree, Morehouse College
M.A. Degree, Atlanta University
J D. Degree, Northwestern
University
College instructor of political science
4 years
C aims Aufhonzer, U. S. Social Security Ad
ministration
Married, Veteran of U. S. Army, and member
of Boptist Church
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athletic programs in Griffin, Ga.
On October 31, the team will
travel to Barahardt Circle, Og
lethorpe , Ga., to play against
a strong St. Gerard football
team in the first jparochial
school championship series. A
trophy will be awarded to the
winning team. An open invitation
is to everyone to witness this
first classic.
• Monthly discussion meet-
PAROCHIAL SCHOOL
CINCINNATI (NC)~ Nuns of
today must be more than “kind
little people," the head of one
of the nation’s largest sister
hoods declared here. "They
also must be professionally
able," she added.
Mother Mary Omer, Mother
General of the Sisters of Char
ity of Cincinnati, in an inter
view said present needs in the
Church call for nuns who have
"a solid foundation in theology,
Scripture, and liturgy on which
to build the necessary profes
sional competence."
THIS is because "Sisters be
long in the mainstream of the
Church’s renewal," she said.
New apostolates are opening
up for Sisters, as well as new
approaches to the tasks they
now are performing, said Moth
er Mary Omer, who also is
secretary-treasurer of the
Conference of Major Superiors
of Women.
IN THE near future she ex
pects to see Sisters more ac
tive at Newman Centers on
secular university campuses,
in discussion groups formed by
lay people, and in civic and com
munity enterprises.
“If sisters don’t move for-
word and become involved in
wider apostolates," she said,
"you’ll have to search in past
history to find them."
AMONG new developments
of her own community she cited;
Lay-Controlled
Board Elected
NORWAY, Mich. (NC) — A
unique venture in lay control
of Catholic education is getting
underway at St. Mary’s parish
here with the election (Oct. 25)
of a parish school board with a
lay majority.
Names of the five lay mem
bers of the seven-member
board are to be made public
Nov. 1, a week following the
secret ballo t voting by parish
ioners.
COMMENTING on the elec
tion, Msgr. O’Neil D’Amour,
pastor, said "it is time that
Catholic laymen begin to as
sume their proper places or
responsibility within the or
ganizational structure of the
Church."
Msgr. D’Amour is superin
tendent of schools in the Mar-
guette, Mich., diocese and for
seven years, until last May,
was associate secretary of the
National Catholic Educational
Association’s school superin
tendents' department.
BISHOP Thomas L. Noa of
Marquette approved establish
ment of lay-clergy boards of
education in each parish of the
diocese before leaving for the
third session of the ecumenical
council in Rome. So far, four
inter-parish and one intra-par
ish boards have been appointed.
Msgr. D’Amour said the idea
for electing the lay members
of his parish's board originated
when he called a meeting of men
of the parish. "I was planning
to appoint the lay members, but
the men felt the best method
would be to elect them and I
agree," he said.
THE pastor and the school
Joe Lapchick
To Retire
JAMAICA, N.Y. <^C) — Joe
Lapchick who ranks in the fore
front of all-time great college
basketball coaches, will retire
as mentor of St. John's Univer
sity team at the endofthe 1964-
65 season.
He will be succeeded by Lou
Carnesecca, his present assis
tant coach. The university, con
ducted by the Vincentian Fath
ers, explained that Lapchick
will reach the compolsory re
tirement age of 65 next April.
principal will also be members,
with one vote apiece,
‘The parish board of educa
tion will haye complete juris
diction over the operation of
our school—it won’t be just an
advisory board," Msgr.
D’Amour said.
For purposes of voting, the
15 candidates for the five lay
posts were divided into five
categories. There were three
former public school board
members in one category, three
businessmen in another, three
men with experience in finance,
three housewives, and three
other men of the parish. Write-
in votes were also permitted.
THE five lay members of the
board will serve for three-
year terms and will supervise
the planning and construction of
a new elementary school build
ing scheduled to open in the fall
of 1966, The school will serve
two other area parishes, and it
is anticipated that the board will
be enlarged to include repre
sentatives from them.
"It has been said that for the
Church this is the age of the
emerging laymen," Msgr.
D’Amour said in a letter
all parishioners.
to
"In times past in our coun
try because of historical cir
cumstances leadership within
the Catholic community was
placed in the hands of the cleiv
gy. Now circumstances have
changed. It is time that Cath
olic laymen begin to assume
their proper places of respon
sibility within the organization
al structure of the Church."
ings of Sisters from neighbor
ing parishes to talk about and
prepare for the Church’s pro
gram of renewal.
• Supervised programs of
study for underprivileged chil
dren lacking decent home fac
ilities for study.
• Visits by parish school tea
chers to homes of their pu
pils.
• Motherhouse Institutes on
such issues as sex education,
family problems, and race re
lations.
MOTHER Mary Omer fore
sees a fuller role for Sisters
THE COUNCIL
in parishes.
"They have a bigger job than
just teaching a class," she
said, pointing out that she ad
vises nuns they are mis
sioned to a parish, not just
a school.
SHE is convinced, too, that
deeper holiness is required of
today’s nun "because she must
meet greater needs."
"Her life must be expressive
of true, Christ-like grac
iousness, love, and giving,"
she said. "To be full, it must
be a complete giving of self
to others."
Fourth Session
Date Uncertain
BY FR. PLACID JORDAN, OSB
(N. C. W. C. NEWS SERVICE)
VATICAN CrTY — Now that
it’s official that the third ses
sion of the ecumenical council
will end Nov. 21, speculation be
gins to center on the fourth
session. When will it be call
ed? How long will itlast? Will it
really be the closing session or
will there be more to follow?
Clearly the decision rests
with Pope Paul, but to some ex
tent it will also depend on the
progress made during the in
terim period by the committees
entrusted with the difficult task
of rewriting draft proposals
discussed on the council floor
but not yet voted upon.
IN THIS regard a truly im
mense amount of work remains
to be done. The schemata on
divine revelation, the lay apos-
tolate and the Church in the
modern world are just three of
the many documents which must
be "brushed up" so as to be
come acceptable. This entails
detailed consideration of liter
ally thousands of amendments
offered in the course of de
bates.
As a matter of fact, doubts
are now expressed as to wheth
er the schema on the Church
can be brought to a final vote
this session. The ecumenism
schema may be the only one to
be formally proclaimed as a
decree at the end of this ses
sion, provided difficulties re
garding the annexed statements
on religious liberty and the
Jews can be ironed out.
AT ANY rate, it has now
been clearly established that the
majority of the council Fathers
insist on a thorough job being
done, that they will not be satis
fied with generalities and pious
phrases but desire to see tangi
ble results which the world at
large will recognize as such.
For the continued discussion
on the Church in the modern
world, about 300 speakers have
yet to speak, and more may
follow unless cloture is invok
ed. The great importance of this
schema is now evident, but it
is realized at the same time
that the numerous vital prob
lems it raises have not matured
to a point where- formal pro
nouncements are feasible.
THIS IS why further intense
study must precede the presen
tation of a new schema on this
subject in the next session, and
why the experts may not be
ready to submit their conclu
sions for at least another year
if they are to avoid a patchwork
declaration.
Those who with perfectly good
reasons of their own had hoDed
for an earlier end to the coun
cil point out that the prospect
of its duration until 1966 im
plies that a great many things
will remain suspended, making
it difficult for those concerned
with Vatican administration
during the interim period. Sour
ces here stress that the over
hauling of the Roman curia,
which the Holy Father deems of
particular importance if the re
forms desired by the council
are to be carried out, may be
left in abeyance. It is no secret
that preliminary steps toward
curial reorganization have al
ready been taken at the Pope’s
request, but their scope will
remain somewhat limited as
long as the council has not
concluded its labors.
HOWEVER, such delay is the
price that must be paid if the
council program is to be re
solved conclusively. It is now a
certainty that the world’s hier
archy is determined not to leave
a big job half done. As French
Jesuit Father Jean Danielou
said here at a press conference,
the world wants not only theo
logical subtleties; it wants ex
plicit answers to problems it
faces today, and the Church
must help find these answers
"to make the world more hu
man and to take its needs ser
iously."
1964 PEACE AWARD of the Catholic Association for Inter
national Peace is presented to Sargent Shriver (left) by
C.A.I.P. president William E. Moran Jr., dean of the George
town University School of Foreign Service, at annual con
ference held in Washington, D.C. Shriver was cited “for
furthering the Christian principles of justice and charity in
international life.”
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DIRECTOR LeRoy Collins of the Community Relations Serv
ice. which was established in the U. S. Department of Com
merce under the Civil Rights Act of 1964, tells NC news
man. John J. Daly Jr., how the former Governor of Florida
plans operation of his service in implementing civil rights.
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Fulton County Representative
(county wide race)
Running on the same platform
in all of Fulton County
A man who will take a stand.
On November 3 a two party choice will be yours.
Only your vote can make it a two party system
If you feel that honest, efficient government
is possible in Georgia; cast your vote for
SCOTT WAITERS, JR.
FULTON COUNTY REPRESENTATIVE