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PAGE 6 GEORGIA BULLETIN THURSDAY. DECEMBER 3. 1964
GAINESVILLE
St. Michael’s Troop
Has Court Of Honor
Troop 13, Boy Scouts of
America, sponsored by Saint
Michael’s Church of Gaines
ville, held its Court of Honor
this week with Mr. Austin J.
Edmondson, presiding.
Scouts and their parents were
welcomed to the Court by Scouts
Mike Weidner and Mark Jiriko-
vec. The Invocation was given
by the pastor, Father Don Kier-
nan.
NEW Scouts, Robert Hiler
and Jerry Savage were welcom
ed and accepted to the Troop
by the retiring Scoutmaster,
Mr. Robert Hiler. The troop
committee was introduced by
Mr. Edmondson. The Commit
tee is made up of Mr. Robert
Filllngham, Chairman; Mr. Ed
Courtenay, Institutional Repre
sentative; Mr. Frank Falcan-
ero, Treasurer; members:
Mr. George Hoffman, Mr. Doug
las Shenkyr, and Mr. Edward
Quinn.
During the presentation cere-
mony Mr. Gordon Chalmers
acted as the narrator. Mr. Chal
mers is Assistant Scoutmaster
of the Troop.
Second Class Awards were
presented by Mr. George Hof
fman to Glen Bell, David Ken-
nerley and Manfred Ryan.
Rome College
Club Meeting
The newly organized Catholic
College Club of St. Mary's Pa
rish, Rome, attended evening
Mass and received Holy Com
munion as a group Sunday, Nov.
22, 1964. Following Mass, the
members held a dinner meeting
at the Holiday Inn with Father
Alvin Mathews, O.F.M. as the
guest speaker.
Father Mathews is the chap
lain of the Georgia Tech New
man Club. He spoke on "The
Individual Responsibilities of
Today’s Youth in Regard to the
Changing Liturgy”. He stressed
the creative responsibility of ‘
today’s youth to draw out the
potentials of man.
First Class Award was made
by Mr. Frank Falcanero to
Jimmy Cone.
PRESENTATION of Merit
Badges were made by Mr. Le
roy Jirikovec to Bobby Fillig-
ham, Jimmy Cone, Mike Weid
ner, Mark Jirikovec and Jack
Fillingham.
Attendance and Service
Awards presented by Mr. Dou
glas Shenkyr were given to Jack
Fillingham, Jimmy Cone, Glen
Bell, Mike Weidner, Mark Jir
ikovec and Manfred Ryan.
Mr. Ed Courtenay presented
the Star Award to Mark Jiri
kovec, Bobby and Jack Filling
ham.
CHAIRMAN of the Troop
Committee, Mr. Robert Filling
ham, presented the Life Award
to Mike Weidner.
After Retiring the Colors, re
freshments were served by
Mrs. Austin Edmondson,
RELIGIOUS ROOK
Irene Fennell, William Callahan
Wed At Immaculate Conception
Mrs, William T. Ellis an
nounces the marriage of her
daughter, Mrs. Irene Fennell
PLEDGE TO STAND
Court Dismisses
‘Under Cod’ Test
BY RUSSELL SHAW
(N.C.W.C, News Service)
WASHINGTON—Children in
public schools can go on pled
ging their allegiance to "one
nation under God,” as a result
of a new action by the U,S, Su
preme Court,
The high court dismissed
without comment (Nov. 23) a
challenge to the use of the
phrase “under God” in the flag
pledge recited by children in
New York public schools.
THE court thus in effect an
swered nagging questions about
how far it is prepared to go in
barring religious expressions
from public schools in the wake
of its 1962 and 1963 rulings
against prayer and Bible read
ing in the schools.
’There is of course nothing
in the decision reached here that
is inconsistent with the fact
that school children and others
are officially encouraged to ex
press love for our country by
reciting historical documents
such as the Declaration of In
dependence which contain ref
erences to the Deity orby sing
ing officially espoused anthems
which include the composer’s
professions of faith in a Su
preme Being, or with the fact
that there are many manifes
tations in our public life of be
lief in God,
“Such patriotic or ceremon
ial occasions bear no true re
semblance to the unquestioned
religious exercises that the
State of New York has sponsor
ed in this instance (the 22-
word prayer).”
to Mr, William R, Callahan Jr„
son of Mrs, April Bunts and Mr.
William R, Callahan Sr., Mrs.
Fennell is the daughter of the
late Mr. William T. Ellis.The
wedding took place at the Shrine
of the Immaculate Conception
Church Sept. 26. Father Euse
bius J. Beltran officiated.
Patricia Fennell, daughter of
the bride, was maid of honor.
Mr. J, Troy was best man. Mrs.
Doris Hamrick, sister of the
bride was matron of honor.
Wayne Graham, Joseph Ren-
shaw, and Danny Beshers were
ushers. A reception followed in
the church social hall.
Serving at the reception were
Louise Renshaw, Jackie
Samples, and Geraldine O’Neal.
Mrs. Betty Hulon kept the brides
book.
After a wedding trip to Wash
ington D.C. Mr. and Mrs. Cal
lahan will make their home in
Atlanta.
Nun Cites Revisions
For Catholic Texts
CHICAGO (RNS) — Religion
textbooks used in Roman Cat
holic schools are being revised
or rewritten in an effort to erase
negative images and distortions
relating to Protestants and
Jews, according to a nun who
conducted a study on textbook
bias.
“At least six publishing com
panies are changing their re
ligion texts in the spirit of the
ecumenical movement,” Sister
Rose Albert, O.P., chairman
of the Education Department at
Dominican College, Racine,
Wis., said in an interview.
THE SISTER, who conducted
her study at St. Louis Uni
versity from 1957 to 1961, said
the six publishers are Benzi-
ger Brothers, Chicago; St. Mary
College Press, Winona, Minn.;
Father Novak Fordham Press,
New York; Fides Publishers
Assn., Notre Dame, Ind.; Du
buque (Iowa) Priory Press; and
Pius XII Religion Center, Mon
roe, Mich.
Sister Rose Albert, here to
attend an interreligious con
ference on religious education,
said an editor of one of the
revised textbook series recent
ly told her;
“Some of the things we have
told Catholic children about
Protestants in the past are in
the realm of real fiction.”
The nun said some publishers
had asked Protestant ministers
to read and approve sections in
the new texts dealing with the
Reformation.
“AS A result,” she said,
“the Reformation is finally
ing treated with sensibility.
Sister Rose Albert stated that
the new texts “do not treat the
Jews as harshly” regarding the
crucifixion of Christ, and added
that most of the new texts were
revised or rewritten before the
SHOULD BE SCRAPPED
preliminary vote approving the
Jewish declaration at Vatican
II.
The Dominican nun, released
the initial findings of her re
port last May in New York.
Her general criterion was the
concept of “enthnocentrism,”
which she described as “the no
tion that we’re 100 per cent
right, brilliant and virtuous and
everybody else is 100 per cent
wrong, ignorant and wicked.”
TEXTBOOK references re
flecting this attitude were judg
ed negative. “Editors and teac
hers must take great care,”
she said, “to avoid statements
that would lead young students
to question the basic motiva
tions, sincerity and integrity of
their neighbors who are of other
religious denominations.
“Students must recognize
and appreciate that if by the
mercy of God,Catholics possess
ultimate truth, they must ne
vertheless bow their heads in
admission that many are with
out it who have searched hard
er, and shown a deeper devo
tion to the search than they
have.”
Sister Rose Albert urged
parents to examine their chil
dren’s texts and raise questions
at parent-teacher meetings if
they find the books are “de
ficient in the ecumenical
spirit.”
Schedule Change
There has been a change in
the assigned times for the ACCY
basketball league games.
The games will be played on
December 6th at Christ the King
gym. The firsrgame will begin
at 2:00 P.M. The second is at
3:00, the third is at 4:00, and
the last game is at 5;00.
Check last weeks Bulle
tin for the scheduled games.
The schedule will remain the
samel 1) 2;00 PM, 2) 3;00 PM
3) 4:00 PM, 4) 5;00 PM.
Immigration Law ‘Unsound
NCCW Convention Is Told
This was the third meeting
of the Rome Catholic Club un
der the guidance of Father
Rene Maynard. The club is com
posed of Berry College and
Shorter College students. The
members have been commended
for their remarkable attendance
at the meetings. The next meet
ing is scheduled for January
when Father Christian Malone,
chaplain of the University of
Georgia Newman club, will
speak on marriage. This meet
ing will be open to all inter
ested college students.
Novena Starts
At St. Thomas
A Novena in preparation for
the Feast of the Immaculate
Conception started Monday at
the Church of St. Thomas More,
Decatur. Tomorrow, the first
Friday of the month, Forty
Hours* Devotion will begin with
a Solemn High Mass at 9 a.m.
Devotions will close at the
6 p.m. Mass Sunday evening.
During the Novena Confessions
will be heard every day at 2:30
p.m. and before each Mass. To
day and Saturday, Confessions
will be haard at the usual hours.
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The answer appears to be
that the court has drawn a di
viding line between religious
exercises properly so-called-
-like prayer and Bible reading
-—and ceremonies in which re
ligion is present only by way of
allusion—as in the case of the
flag pledge. The former are
forbidden in public schools, the
latter permitted.
The challenge dismissed by
the Supreme Court was brought
before it in September by an
organization called the Free
thinkers of America.The Free
thinkers contended that the Con
stitution’s ban on an establish
ment of religion was violated
by having children in public
schools say the words 'binder
God” as part of the flag pledge.
THE case originated in 1956
in Port Richmond, N.Y. The
New York Court of Appeals,
highest in the state, last June
unanimously upheld lower court
rulings in favor of the prac
tice.
In appealing to the Supreme
Court, the Freethinkers argued
that the lower court rulings
were “inconsistent” with the
high court’s prayer decisions.
However, last month the At-
-toraeys General of 30 states
argued the contrary in a joint
amicus curiae (friend of the
court) brief filed with vOmottt
preme Court,
THEY quoted a section from
the Supreme Court’s 1962 de
cision which barred recitation
of a 22-word nonsectarian
prayer in New York public
schools. There the court said:
Si. Pius Senior
Acts In "Trial’
Jon Lorrain, senior at St.
Pius, is currently acting in
“The Trial.” The Academy
Theatre is now presenting this
play by Franz Kafka. Jon has
the role of the assistant bank
manager.
In addition to this, he will
also play the musical score for
each performance of “Peter
Pan.” This musical will be the
Academy’s Christmas Pre
sentation.
THE attorneys general also
cited a concurring opinion writ
ten in connection with the 1963
cases by Associate Justice Wil
liam J, Brennan.
Justice Brennan referred
specifically to the words “un
der God” in the flag pledge
and said they “may merely
recognize the historical fact
that our nation was believed to
have been founded ‘undeb God.*
Thus reciting the pledge may be
no more of a religious exercise
than the reading aloud of Lin
coln’s Gettysburg Address,
which contains an allusion to the
same historical fact,”
The words “under God "we re
added to the flag pledge by an
act of Congress passed in 1954
and signed into law by Presi
dent Eisenhower. They have
been targets in a number of
Church - State controversies
since then.
EARLIER this year Mrs,
Madalyn Murray, the contro
versial Baltimore atheist whose
suit to eliminate Bible reading
and recitation of the Lord’s
Prayer from Maryland public
schools was one of two cases
that let to the Supreme Court’s
1963 prayer decision, asked
the Baltimore school board to
drop the words from the flag
pledge in public schools there.
The board rejected her re
quest. Mrs. Murray said then
she would appeal “to the Su
preme Court if necessary,”
More recently, a dispute has
flared up in Hasbrouck Heights,
N.J., where town officials have
been flying pennants with the
motto “One Nation Under God”
on municipal flag poles beneath
the American flag.
JOHN L. Joseph of Hasbrouck
Heights protested the practice
on Church-State grounds. But
a Bergen City, N,J„ grand jury
held in mid-November that the
town was violating no state law
by flying the pennants, and a
U.S. attorney in Newark gaid
the practice represents “no
violation of Federal law,”
Use of the pennants has been
reported spreading in New Jer
sey and Connecticut in the wake
of the Hasbrouck Heights hassle.
WASHINGTON (NC)— The
theory behind present U. S. im
migration law is “unsound, illo
gical and un-American” and
should be scrapped, a Catholic
immigration official said here
at the 32nd national conven
tion of the National Council
of Catholic Women.
John E. McCarthy of the Na
tional Catholic Welfare Confer
ence” Immigration Depart
ment urged that Catholic wo
men work for passage of leg
islation to eliminate the national
origins quota system that now
controls U, S. immigration law.
MCCARTHY spoke (Nov. 14)
at one of several simultaneous
convention sessions on con
temporary social issues. More
than 5,000 persons attended
the NCCW convention, whose
theme was “Vatican Council
II—and You.”
McCarthy noted that under
the national origins system,
quota visas to come to the U.S.
are issued to foreign nationals
on the basis of the makeup
of the U. S. population in 1920
Under this arrangement, more
than half the visas go to Ire
land and Great Britain— and
more than three-fourths of
these go unused and cannot
be transferred.
The NCWC official said the
national origins system in ef
fect asks prospective immi
grants not “what can you do or
what can you contribute?” but
where did you come from?”,
“what is your ancestry?”,
“What is the color of your
skin?”
HE noted that legislation was
introduced in the last Congress
to phase out the national ori
gins system over five years and
replace it with a “first-come-
first-served” approach based
on national needs and the pre
servation of family unity.
However, he reminded the
Catholic women, “laws-. .. are
not enacted when there is
no demand for action. It isupto
you our Catholic leaders, to
sound the trumpets and raise
the clarion call.”
At another session Father
Frederick A. McGuire, C.M.,
executive secretary of the Mis
sion Secretariat, stressed the
universality of Christ’s mission
as the necessary foundation of
mission work.
“THE mission of the incar
nate God was notlimited to the
people of one geographical area
or of one limited era,” he said.
“It was a mission to mankind.
He did not suffer and die upon
a cross for one race or one
nation. And His mission is our
mission, for the Church is the
Mystical Body of Christ carry
ing on that work.”
Robert H. Mahoney, Hartford,
Conn., school superintendent
and husband of the late Mary
Hannan Mahoney, who was pre
sident of the National Council
of Catholic Women from 1956
to 1958, reported on the work
of Madonna Plan clincs m Tan
ganyika supported by the NCCW.
The Madonna Plan of foreign
medical aid was inaugurated
Local Ministers
Speak At Pius X
Two prominent Protestant
ministers recently spoke to the
students of St. Pius. Doctor
Paul Garber, professor of theo
logy at Agnes Scott College, and
Pastor Raymond Buck of the
Lutheran Church of the Ascen
sion spoke about the ecumeni
cal movement.
Doctor Garber talked about
the ecumenical movement
among the Protestants. He
pointed out that by concentrat
ing on the similarities of the
different denominations that a
closer cooperation and under
standing was the result.
Pastor Buck's topic was Chr
istian Commitment. He also po
inted out a few of the differ
ences between the Lutheran and
Catholic Religions. A ques
tion and answer period follow
ed his talk.
under Mrs. Mahoney’s leader
ship.
Mahoney, who visited Tan
ganyika in 1963, said the clin
ics focus their main effort
on pre-natal and post-natal
care. Infant mortality in Tan
ganyika is 30% and the life
expectancy is 38 years, he
noted.
HE said that on many occas
ions during his visit native wo
men expressed “prayerful
appreciation” for the food,
clothing and health services
provided by the NCCW.
“They plead that Ameri
cans in their charity may con
tinue to assist them in their
battle against poverty, hunger,
ignorance, and disease,” he
said.
Father James Clark, assis
tant director of the Latin
America Bureau, National
Catholic Welfare Conference,
urged that Catholic women be
come personally involved and
committed In programs of assi
stance to Latin America.
“LATIN Americans-—In fact,
all of the world’s peoples—ask
mainly that you become Invol
ved,” he said. “That you per
sonally make a commitment of
concern and interest for the
poor and struggling masses of
Latin America. Your personal
involvement is the first re
quirement for eventual signi
ficant aid to Latin America.”
Mrs. J. B. Everson, chairman
of the organization and develop
ment committee of the Mad
ison, Wis., Diocesan Council
of Catholic Women, called for
updating activities by Catholic
women's organizations in line
with the Church’s current
movement toward aggiorna-
mento.
Mrs. Everson said “bake
sales, parish suppers, baza
ars and card parties” should
be only a small part of the
program of a Catholic women’*
group, “Our biggest chal
lenge,” she said, “is to educate
ourselves in Christianity, so
we may better mold a Chris
tian public opinion.”
FATHER Barnabas Ahern, C.P., Louisville, Ky., received
the 1964 Cardinal Spellman Aw’ard from His Eminence in
Rome, where both the Cardinal and Father Ahern were at
tending the ecumenical council. The recipient of the award
for achievement in theological studies is made each year by
the Catholic Theological Society of America.
CHURCH vs. GROWERS
Mexican Labor
Battle Looms
WASHING (NC)—-A new battle
looms over the use of Mexican
nationals as seasonal farm la
borers in the United States, with
church groups on one side and
growers on the other.
“It is now becoming apparent
that the growers are determined
to continue to demand and get
the equivalent of a slave-labor
force,” charged Father James
L.Vizzard, S. J., director of the
Washington office, National Ca
tholic Rural Life Conference
He spoke (Nov. 17 ) to a Labor
Department conference here.
MEXICANS were imported by
the tens of thousands annually
for many years under Federal
law. But continuing protests a-
bout the program from Catholic
groups and others,^ such as the
National Council on Agricultu
ral Life and Labor, resulted last
year in the defeat in Congress
of legislation to extend the pro
gram beyond its Dec. 31 dead
line.
However, Father Vizzard
charged that plans are now un
der way to substitute another
U. S. law to authorize importa
tion of Mexicans. He said the
Labor Department has schedul
ed a series of hearings on the
matter.
Father Vizzard’s group, and
its allies, have charged that the
low-cost Mexican workers de
press American workers’ pay
and living conditions to the point
of poverty.
“When we succeeded in kill
ing the ‘bracero’ program,” he
said, “we thought that at last
American farm employers
would be forced to join the 20th
century economy.
“WE THOUGHT that finally
they would have to offer Amer
ican standards of wages and
working conditions in order to
get an adequate and dependable
American work force. But it is
now becoming apparent that the
growers are determined to con
tinue to demand and get the equi
valent of a slave-labor force.”
Growers, including those
which operate large farms in
which a big crop must be har
vested quickly, claim they can
not get Americans to do the ex
hausting work and that they can-
now afford to pay the wages
Americans demand.
St. Joseph,
D’Youville
Accredited
St. Joseph’s High School in
Atlanta has been accredited by
the Southern Association of
Schools and Colleges, it was
announced by Msgr. Patrick J.
O’Connor, Secretary for Edu
cation to the Archbishop.
Msgr. O’Connor also announ
ced that D’Youville Academy for
Girls had been accredited by the
same association. This means
that both schools will be list
ed among the accredited schools
of the nation.
Father Vizzard said that de
feat of the law to extend the im
portation program “seemed to
be one of our most important
victories, but is threatening to
turn to ashes In our mouths.”
Newmanites
Confer Here
Saturday, Nov. 21, the first
Newman Club Georgia Re
gional Leadership Conference
was held at St. Josephs' High
School. Fifty-three delegates
and chaplains representing nine
colleges: Agnes Scott; Albany
State; Emory; Ga. Southern;
Ga. State; Ga. Tech; North
Georgia; South Georgia; &Univ.
of Ga., attended the sessions.
Beginning at 9:30 a.m. Fr.
Chris Malone, province chapla
in from Univ. of Ga., gave
the keynote address, “Christi
anity in Transition”. The de
legates spent the rest or the
morning session in workshops
discussing therole of the laity
and the Church as influenced
by Vatican II, along with the
involvement of the Newman
group on the local campus.
The afternoon session be
gan with training programs for
the club officers with each of
fice getting separate emphasis.
The highlight of the afternoon
was the talk entitled “Your Role
Tomorrow” given to the dele
gates by J. Alton Baumgartner
of Zachrys in Atlanta. David
Ray, chairman of the Southeas
tern Province, discussed the
various province in a province
officers’ training period. Fr. T.
T. McNulty, Ga. Regional Cha
plain from Emory and Ga. State,
then spoke on our role as the'
“Emerging Layman”, Bob
Stimler, Ga. Regional Direc
tor, closed the conference with
a resume of the events of the
day. Asked to judge the suc
cess of the conference he ans
wered, “The results will only
become known in the months a-
head.
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