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APPEAL
of Atlanta
SERVING
GEORGIA’S
NORTHERN
COUNTIES
VOL. 2, NO. 45
ATLANTA, GEORGIA
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1964
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SAYS AGENCIES
Must Coordinate
War On Poverty
STATUE of St. Thomas
More, created by the Eng
lish Benedictine writer and
sculptor, Dom Hubert Van
Zeller, was presented to the
Thomas More Association of
Chicago, by an anonymous
donor on the 25th anniver
sary of the founding of the
association.
WASHINGTON (NC)—An ad
ministration official called here
for a "coordinated attack" on
poverty enlisting the coopera
tive efforts of Federal, state,
local and private agencies.
,# We must weave together in
dividual, governmental and pri
vate programs into a common
attack on the problems of pov
erty," said Philip H, Des Mar-
ais, deputy assistant secretary
for legislation in the Depart
ment of Health, Education and
Welfare.
‘THE individual programs
of government—Federal, state
and local—and of private or
ganizations, lose much of their
effectiveness precisely because
they are individual programs,
separately conceived and sep
arately administered," he add
ed.
Des Marais spoke (Nov. 13)
at a general session on the
subject "Do God's Charity"
during the 32nd national con
vention of the National Council
of Catholic Women. Some 5,000
persons attended the conven
tion, whose theme was "Vati
can Council II and You."
The new official called pov
erty a "paradox" in a time of
widespread national affluence
and noted that poverty as it
exists in the U.S, today is "hid
den" from many Americans.
"For the average American
family, with an income slightly
over $6,000, poverty is some
thing that happens to somebody
else—never seen, never felt,"
he said.
But the fact is, he added, that
one-fifth of all U.S. families to
day, including 11 million child
ren, get along on incomes of less
than $3,000 per year. And the
average income for 9 million
families in the poverty group
is $1,750 yearly—less than $35
DES Marais cited in particu
lar the Aid to Dependent Child
ren program, and said it now
numbers 4,178,000 mothers
with young children. They re
ceive public welfare payments
averaging $32 a month per child
or $135 a month per family.
"I ask the hundreds of moth
ers here present in this ball
room today," he said, "how
much food, clothing and shelter
could you buy for your family
with $135 cash income a
month?”
Outlining the war on poverty
program launched by the Eco
nomic Opportunity Act of 1964,
he noted that it includes a job
corps to tram young people at
residential centers for pro
ductive work; a non-residential
work-training program to help
youths stay in school; and a
work-study program to assist
needy college students.
IN addition, he said, the Ec
onomic Opportunity Act autho
rizes urban and rural com
munity action programs. An
"integral part" of these, he de
clared, will be providing "ser
vices for children in low income
families, such as pre-school
training, day care programs,
special health services, reme
dial reading and other non
curricula education programs,
to provide the extra help that
these young people in poor
neighborhoods need if they are
to keep up with regular school
programs."
DRAMATIC SUCCESS
Missions Basis Of Bishop
Sheen’s Speech To Council
BY FR. PLACID JORDAN, OSB
(N.C.W.C. News Service)
VATICAN CITY—You could
have heard a pin drop in St.
Peter’s when Bishop Fulton
Sheen rose to address the ecu
menical council on the sub
ject of the missions.
For days, the bishops of the
world had been awaiting the
views of the American whose
work for the missions has made
his name almost universally
known.
"FATHER Thomas O’Reilly
Day" proclaimed for this
Sunday will honor the memory
of the hero - priest (shown
here after a painting by Armin
Maier) who saved five chur
ches and the City Hail and
courthouse from being burned
by Gen. Sherman’s forces dur
ing the Battle of Atlanta 100
years ago. (See story, page 6)
SO when the Auxiliary Bish
op of New York who heads the
Society for the Propagation of
the Faith in the U.S. arose to
speak (Nov. 9), the other Fath
ers gave rapt attention. The
man who has been a popular
radio-TV speaker in his own
country made an impassioned
plea that the concept of mis
sionary activity be enlarged
to embrace not only terri
tories under the Congregation
for the Propagation of the
Faith, but also the poor through
out the world, especially in
Latin America.
Bishop Sheen used the micro
phone in the council section
where he had his seat. His voice
was perfectly modulated, rising
and falling in accordance with
the exigencies of his text. He
followed his custom of accom
panying his statements with
dramatic gestures. He spoke
slowly, using elegant Latin
which was perfectly under
standable even to those who
sometimes experience diffi
culty following American
speakers when they use the
council’s official language.
THE council Fathers had de
layed their usual coffee breaks
so as not to miss this famous
speaker. When he concluded,
the members of his audience
—one of a kind he had never
before faced—expressed their
appreciation by spontaneous
applause.
Bishop Sheen was the last
speaker scheduled to talk about
the missions. Immediately af
ter his address, it was decided
by an overwhelmiig vote to send
the curtailed missions schema
back to committee for a com
plete rewriting in the light of
the critical observations that
had been made on the council
floor.
THE keynote of Bishop
Sheen’s talk was when he ex
pressed full approval of Pope
Paul’s plea the previous week
that the mission schema be
polished and developed.
As the bishops filed out of the
meeting at noon, Bishop Sheen's
talk was the main topic of their
conversation. Said one promi
nent mission bishop: "This was
one of the council’s greatest
days, thanks to Fulton Sheen."
Editor Dies
RICHMOND, Va. (NC)~John
J. Daly, Sr., editor of the Catho
lic Virginian of Richmond and a
former president of the Catho
lic Press Association, died sud
denly (NoV. 5) at his home here.
He was 59.
A journalist for nearly 40
year$ Mr. Daly was editor of
the Richmond diocesan news
paper since it became a weekly
in 1946.
ON MISSIONS
Catholics from every corner of northern Georgia seemed headed
toward Atlanta during the Conference on Worship. 1 met groups
and old friends from LaGrange, Fort Oglethorpe, Milledgeville,
Griffin and a dozen other places.
It argues well for the future use of our proposed Catholic Center.
We vizualize it as a meeting-place for all, right in the center of
our central city, easily accessible. Work-rooms for our lay
organizations, a library and information center, a fine setting
for lectures and special programs will be available.
So y’all come. It’ll be ready just as soon as we have harnes
sed the planhers, the ideas, the builders and the money into one
team.
SOME FINE WRITING
Two of our young priests merited their masters' degrees
in Education this summer. The subjects they tackled as their
chief projects were most interesting: Fr. Daniel O’Connor, as
sistant secretary for education and principal of St. Joseph’s,
wrote on special phases of the progress of education in Georgia.
Fr. William Calhoun, faculty member at St. Joseph’s, linked
for comparison St. Thomas Aquinas’ principles of teaching,
and the contemporary "core curriculum." Wish works of this
kind could be published.
which is always more eloqu
ent in ecclesiastical Rome than
spoken words, this was intrep-
reted as an indication of his
acceptance of the doctrine of
the "collegiality" of the epis
copacy, which will probably
be proclaimed at the end of the
present session of the Council,
THE schema on the missions,
which the Council was about to
consider for the first time, re
ceived Pope Paul's endorse
ment even before the Fath
ers began discussing it. The
Pope said he was generally sat
isfied with it, though he real
ized it needed touching up in
spots, and he hoped that they
would approve it. Then, before
the regular discussions began,
but after a favorable introduc
tion of the schema by Peter Gre
gory Cardinal Agagianian, pre
fect of the Sacred Congrega
tion for th e Propagation of die
Faith, the Curial body respon
sible for Missions, His Holiness
blessed the assembled Fathers
and left the basilica.
A number of bishops were un
happy that the Holy Father saw
fit to express any opinion
of the schema,' especially a
favorable one, for they felt
that the Pope's advancing his
view of it might put the draft
beyond the range of criticism,
and they had been waiting for
weeks to tear Unto it as
woefully inadequate and unacce
ptable. But it did not happen.
The bishops spoke out.
WHAT did they think was
wrong with the schema? For
one thing, it was, they felt,
altogether too brief. Ori
ginally, it had been a full-scale
schema, then last spring at
the demand of the Council's
Coordinating Committee, ithad
been cut back to a series of
13 short propositions. The
missionary bishops and the sup
eriors of mission sending socie
ties of priests and missionary
orders frankly resented
this downgrading. They were
prepared to say so in the aula.
In addition, the propositions
themselves were written in a
flat humdrum sytle.
Instead of promising to fire
the Church with a vast new zeal
for the cause, which the miss-
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Archbishop’s
Notebook
ARRIVEDERCI, ROMA1
CARDINAL ASSERTS
Speech On Birth
‘Misunderstood’
HAPPY SIGHT—Imagine the joy of Mrs. Gaetano Rotolo (left) as her five sons, recently
restored to sight by cataract operations, are special guests of Pope Paul (Nov. 6) at the
Vatican. From left, they are Paulo, 15; Carmelo, 13; Calogero, 4, playing with Rosary;
Gioacchino, 11, and Guiseppe, 9.
BY JOHN COGLEY
VATICAN CITY (RNS)— The
day the Vatican Council took up
the question of missions, Nov.
6, Pope Paul made an unpre
cedented appearance in the
Council hall. He chose that par
ticular day, the Holy Father
said, to underscore his concern
for the missionary work of the
Church and provide fresh ways
to stimulate more zeal and gen
erosity for the missions, among
both clergy and laity.
The Pope, incidentally, sat
at a table with the presidents
of the Council as he spoke,
rather than on the pontifical
throne. In the sign-language
But it might be worded more accurately. "In Absentia, Roma".
This fall, unlike 1962 and 1963, I will n ot be on hand for the third
session. There are other names missing, some of our own vene
rable churchmen like Archbishops Hoban and Gannon, like Car
dinals McIntyre and Cushing, others on the painful list of exiles
like Mindszenty and Beran and the Chinese. My absence is much
more casual: my checkups are running into the last weeks of
the session. It would be foolish to hurry them.And there's always
1965.
Yet, it would be false to say that I do not miss Rome and the
resounding debates. Earlier this fall I reminded you that 1962
was a Session of uncertainty, as all of us groped for proced
ures, for the sense of this great body. Then, 1963 was a Session
of hope and promise, ending in disappointment. This has been
the Decisive Session. The fourth will probably be one of Resolu
tion.
I miss my fellow-bishops, especially our Americans who are
taking their place in this historic movement of the "Open
Church." But you came to know others well; the stalwart
Splbeck from behind the iron curtain; the hearty Conway, arch
bishop of Armagh; the genial, ever-helpful Grimshaw of Birm
ingham, and gentle Lercaro and dynamic Suenens. There are
many Doctors and Confessors under the great dome and some
martyrs, too.
Rome itself is fascinating this time of year-except when it
rains. The Tiber slides along. The hills and fountains are more
than musical pieces, the chatter of the open ristorantes is ever
lasting.
Rome in 1964 is not Rome of the Middle Ages or the Renais
sance. There are marked differences. But then, the Rome which is
the heart of so much Christianity is serving a new world today.
ALL ROADS LEAD. . .
VATICAN CITY (NC)—A car
dinal interrupted ecumenical
council discussion in an effort
to clarify a speech Jie had made
on marriage problems and to
deny that he had questioned au
thentic Church teaching in this
field.
Leo Cardinal Suenens of Ma-
lines-Brussels said that a
"misunderstanding in public
opinion" had led many to in
terpret his council talk of Oct.
29 as an affirmation that Church
teaching on birth control would
be changed.
A report on that talk by the
council press office described
the Belgian cardinal as assert
ing that there is reason to be
lieve that the Church’s tra
ditional outlook on marriage
problems has been too one
sided.
THE council press bulletin
paraphrased him as saying:
"Our insistence on the com
mand ‘to increase and multiply’
may have caused us to forget
that this is not the only text
in Sacred Scripture and that
another passage, stating that a
husband and wife ‘become two
in one flesh,’ is also contained
in Revelation and thus is equally
divine in origin.
"We still have much to learn.
No one can ever presume to
exhaust the inexhaustible riches
of Christ. We may well wonder
if our theology texts have gone
into every last detail and ex
hausted every possibility."
CARDINAL Suenens returned
to this subject in an aside to
a talk on mission problems. He
declared:
"May I be permitted on this
occasion to reply briefly to cer
tain reactions of public opinion
which interpreted my speech on
the ethics of marriage as if I
affirmed that the Church's doc
trine and discipline had been
changed.
"As regards doctrine, as was
clearly stated, there was ques
tion only of a study to be made
in this connection, not to re-
elaborate what has already been
authentically and definitively
proclaimed by the Church’s
teaching authority, but rather
in view of formulating a syn
thesis of all principles govern
ing this subject.
Schema Draft
Overhauling
Seen Needed
ARCHBISHOP OF ATLANTA
ETHIOPIAN KITE priests enter St. Peter’s (Nov. 6) to offer Mass when Pope Paul VI
(left) attended the Council discussion on the Missions.