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PAGE 8 GEORGIA BULLETIN THURSDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1964
Archbishop’s
Notebook
• BUSINESS FORECAST - 1965
An odd thing to find in a bishop's columnl What about those
money-changers? What about the mammon of iniquity? The econo
mics of the Gospel is not always as evident as its theology, but one
financial point is very clear:
"Before you build something, be sure you have something to build
with,"
A bishop is a steward of the properties and funds of the Church.
He holds them in custody, — securing, preserving, augmenting,
expending, passing them on in trust to his successor. As the cus
todian of goods of God's people, he must seek wise counsel. Priest
and lay specialists, financial, land, and legal advisors are sought,
A bishop cannot lightly hold the trust his office places in his hands.
It occured to me that you might be interested in the business
consensus we make each year at this time. The Federal Reserve
Monthly Review Reports of the Chamber of Commerce and Census
Bureau, Atlanta Metro Planning Commission; industry and com
mercial journals, news magazines and daily newspapers — all
contribute to the consensus.
This survey helps to provide a base for our own expanding pro
gram, This will be announced soon. Meanwhile, take a look at these
economic prospects for 1965:
UUM Augustine Moore, O.C.S.O., abbot of the Trappist Monastery of the Holy Ghost, Conyers, is
shown at the moment of Consecration during the concelebrated Christmas midnight Mass. The other
monks of the community surround the altar.
PACEM IN TERRIS
• IN ATLANTA
'The metropolitan area is growing at the rate of a new person
every 15,9 minutes ... less than 20 years from now it will include
two million persons".
Convocation
On Encyclical
"Atlantans are steadily paying more and more for new homes —
$26,700 average in October, $2,600 over the national average for
the same month."
Drawing World Figures
"Department store sales alone are running 10% ahead of the 1963
level which in turn was up 10% from 1962."
• IN GEORGIA
"More Georgians are employed at higher wages than ever before
— nearly 1,200,000 are on non-farm payrolls, over 25,000 more
than last year at this time." (In Atlanta less than 2% is unemploy
ed as against 4 - 5% of national average.)
"Sales' Tax Intake shoots up, reflecting Rise in Economy."
'The latest progress report (of the Census Bureau) moves
Georgia from 19th to 16th place among the states in industrial
growth. Georgia was one of only 12 states to show increases in
excess of 50%.
"For the first time," a Georgia industrialist has commented,
"people are coming into the South to take jobs, instead of moving
away."
• THE SOUTH, 1954 - 1964
Southern states rose 18% in factory employment while the rest
of the U. S. went down 5%.
The South increased factory payrolls, 72%, the other states
only 40%.
The South increased bank deposits 77%, while the others rose
only 63%,
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• THE U. S. AT LARGE
With an 8,000,000 car year tucked under its belt, the auto lead
ers are guessing at 8,000,000, 8,100,000 or even 8,700,000 sales
for 1965.
Many merchants report customers are upgrading their purchas
es, demanding higher quality and willing to pay higher prices."
'The flow of cash income to American families and individuals
crossed the half-trillion dollar mark in November for the first
time," President Johnson announced December 19, 1964.
'The end of the year will see steel usage in the U. S. reach
a record for any year, at 87 million tons, and the prospects are
that it will be evenhighernextyear." (Steel Magazine, Dec. 1964).
The report watched most carefully is one privately circulated.
And its "Taking Sights on 1965" does not minimize the unemploy
ment hard core, nor the Wall Street nervousness. But it sorts out
the many guesses being made of the famed GNP — gross national
product, and puts a finger on $660 billion, nearly 6% above this
year.
• CONCLUSION
As the Archdiocese announces its program of building for 1965,
—* for example the Village of St. Joseph for our dependent child
ren, — what do these figures mean? They mean that those of us
who share in these good times must think about the futures of those
who don't. And an archdiocese, like a good boy scout must be
prepared:
"Which of you, wishing to build a tower,
does not sit down first and calculate
the outlays that are necessary, whether
he has the means to complete it?"
That is the reason for our surveys, our plans, our consensus.
Newman
NEW YORK O^C)—The Card.
Inal Newman Foundation of New
York announced a scholarship
offer which is out of routine.
The foundation, with offices
at Columbia University here, is
accepting applications for a
ARCHBISHOP OF ATLANTA
Scholarship
$2,000 graduate scholarship. It
is open to any Catholic in this
general area who expects to
teach at a secular university or
college and has been accepted
as a doctoral candidate at the
university where he is studying.
NEW YORK (NC>~The Vice
President of the United States
and other top national and in
ternational figures will take
part in a February convoca
tion here devoted to Pope John
XXril's monumental encyclical
on peace.
Participation of Hubert H.
Humphrey and the others was
announced by Robert M. Hutch
ins, president of the Center for
the Study of Democratic In
stitutions, which will sponsor
the convocation, Feb. 18-20.
TO BE held before an invited
audience of about 1,000 persons,
the convocation will discuss re
quirements for peace, using
Pope John's 1963 encyclical,
"Pacem in Terris" (Peace on
Earth), as the departure point.
The 20,000-word encyclical,
Pope John’s eighth and last, is a
sweeping appeal that all men of
good will work to secure peace
based on a strong world author
ity, cessation of the armaments
race, banning of nuclear wea
pons, the end of colonialism and
the elimination of racism and
other social injustices.
Hutchins said participants in
addition to Humphrey, will in
clude U.S. Chief Justice Earl
Warren; U. Thant, Secretary
General of the United Nations,
Ambassador AlexQuaison-Sac-
key, president of the UN General
Assembly; Willy Brandt, Mayor
of Berlin; Sir Muhammad Zaf-
rulla Khan of Pakistan, judge of
the International Court of Jus
tice; and Miss Barbara Ward
(Lady Jackson), British econo
mist.
A LETTER from President
Johnson praising the convoca
tion was released by Hutchins.
Mr. Johnson said he had "no
doubt that such discussion un
der private auspices of the
problem of peace will provide a
major contribution to the great
est single problem of our time."
‘The idea of assembling in
this country outstanding spirit
ual and intellectual leaders
should provide a welcome new
dimension to the discussion of
these fundamental problems,"
the Chief Executive wrote.
HE ALSO said that the sympo
sium can be an important event
in the International Coopera
tion Year which he proclaimed
on Oct. 2.
The President's letter was
sent to Justice William O. Doug
las of the Supreme Court who
is chairman of the center's
board of directors.
Hutchins said topics to be
considered at the convocation
were outlined at a three-day
planning conference held earl
ier this year at Wingspread,
the Johnson Foundation confer
ence center in Racine, Wls,
They include:
—How to obtain universal
acceptance of the idea of co
existence of .nations of differ
ing ideological and social sys
tems.
—How to achieve sufficient
flexibility so that all interna
tional conflicts can be settled
by negotiation, and how to devise
mechanisms for peaceful so
cial and political change.
—How to obtain recognition
of the urgent need for rapid
progress toward nuclear and
conventional disarmament.
—How to take actions and de
velop understanding to create
mutual trust among the nations.
—How to achieve the elimina
tion of racism in all countries.
—How to achieve internation
al cooperation in assisting the
developing countries in the in
terest of the prosperity of the
world, and how to make full use
of science and technology for
PROTESTANT WARNS
CANBERRA, Australia (NC)
—An American delegate-obser
ver at the ecumenical council
warned Australian Protestants
to be careful about their pre
conceived ideas of the Catho
lic Church.
Dr. William B. Blakemore,
Dean of Disciples Divinity
House, University of Chicago,
told an audience at Church of
Christ hall here that his own
preconceptions of the Catholic
Church had been dissipated by
his attendance at the council.
IT IS not true all Catholics
are alike, he said. Certain ma
jor beliefs are held in comm
on, but there is tremendous
variety, and every Catholic
stands out as a distinct per
son.
He described the council as a
process of self-discovery for
the 2,300 bishops of the
Catholic Church.
Dr. Blakemore said the
Catholic Church does not like
majorities. He noted that the
council sought unanimity in
VANCOUVER, B.C. PJC>-
Archbishop Martin M, Johnson
of Vancouver has announced
that clergy here will elect three
archdiocesan consultors, an of-
fice to which seniors priests
traditionally have been appoint
ed.
The archbishop's decision
means that the board of consul-
tors will be expanded to nine
members. The group meets
monthly.
THE prelate told priests of
the archdiocese his decision is
"an effort to implement col-
legiality" on the local level,
Coliegiality is the principle
stressed in the Vatican Coun
cil's Constitution on the Church
which emphasizes that the bis-
developing cooperation among
nations.
—How to encourage further
development of the United Na
tions so that its means and
structure may become equal to
the magnitude of its tasks.
IN A statement of purpose for
the convocation, Hutchins said
that ' pronouncement of the en
cyclical in 1963 produced dis
cussion and excited hopes
throughout the world.... Our in
tention is to revive the discus
sion by bringing together the
best minds to talk about the en
cyclical's possibilities for help
ing along those tendencies to
peace and cooperation among
men that are beginning to ap
pear."
its discussions and docu
ments which were worked thr
ough until almost complete
unanimity had been reached.
THIS is not totalitarian aut
hority or conformism, he said.
Rather it indicates that a deep
religious instinct does not live
in majorities, but by agree
ment.
The Catholic Church's pro
blems are the same as those
of other Churches, he said. The
true ecumenical spirit lies
in the realization that all
churches share each other’s
problems and each other's
dreams.
THE council is seeking a ren
ewal of the life of the Church
and there were many points
where this could be seen. Dr.
Blakemore added.
By bringing the bishops to
gether, the council has built
a new bond in the Church, he
said. It has given rise to much
self-criticism, but is a tremen
dous moral force within the
Church and the world as a whole.
hops share in the responsibility
of the pope to teach and govern
the Church.
After election, the three new
consultors will be formally ap
pointed by the archbishop to
conform to the requirement of
Church law.
Wedding Change
MUNICH, Germany (NC) —
The Church here has dropped
its opposition to Saturday wed
dings and will now permit them
on the same basis with other
weekdays. The new work pat
terns in both city and country in
postwar Bavaria have made Sat
urday weddings popular.
Avoid Preconceived
Image Of Catholics
VANCOUVER ARCHIDOCESE
Consultors Will Be
Elected To Office
DISPUTES CARDINAL
Los Angeles Priest Exiles
Self Over Racial Policies
LOS ANGELES (NC)— A 49-
year-old pastor granted a leave
of absence from the Los Ange
les archdiocese at his own re
quest told a farewell reception
here that he was leaving to
protest an order that he be sil
ent on racial matters.
Father John V. Coffield told
some 400 guests invited to the
reception (Dec. 27) by the
Catholic Human Relations
Council, an unofficial, militant
civil rights group, that he had
been sent on a five-month "en
forced vacation" last summer
and fall and then "ordered to
maintain a silence on racism."
THE CHANCERY office of the
Los Angeles archdiocese, in a
statement (Dec. 28) said that
no administrative discipline
had been imposed on Father
Coffield.
"He requested permission to
be absent from his parish and
the archdiocese, and this per
mission was granted upon his
petition. His departure from
this area was arranged through
regular processes." said the
chancery statement.
Alluding to a statement issu
ed at the farewell reception
held for Father Coffield, the
chancery commented:
"Portions of the statement
issued in his name, however,
demonstrate that those who con
centrate excessively on a par
ticular point, to the virtual
exclusion of all other factors,
will sometimes find that zeal
has produced an unbalanced ap
proach which defeats its own
purpose."
"CATHOLIC clergy and laity
are and always have been unit
ed in their support of racial
equality," the chancery state
ment said.
(Father Coffield went from
Los Angeles to Chicago and upon
his arrival there told newsmen
(Dec, 28) that he would make
no further comment about Los
Angeles without the permission
of Albert Cardinal Meyer,
Archbishop of Chicago.
(He said he expects to lodge
at the rectory of St. Carthage
church. This is a southside
Chicago parish serving a pre
dominantly Negro neighbor
hood.
(What position he will occupy
during his three-year leave of
absence was unclear. ButMsgr.
Francis W. Byrne, Chicago
chancellor, told newsmen he
had been advised that Father
Coffield has received per
mission from James Francis
Cardinal McIntyre of Los
Angles to study at the Univer
sity of Chicago.
(Msgr. Byrne said that as
long as Father Coffield retains
Cardinal McIntyre's permiss
ion to be absent from the Cali
fornia archdiocese, the Chi
cago archdiocese will receive
him under the ordinary circum
stances granted to a visiting
priest whose bishop had autho
rized his temporary residence
elsewhere.
(Msgr. Byrne said that a vis
iting priest must reside in a
parish rectory or a religious
institution. He explained that
Father Coffield met this re
quirement by getting permiss
ion to lodge at St. Carthage.
(Msgr. Byrne also said that
the permission given Father
Coffield to be absent had not
been revoked or altered in the
wake of the priest’s statements
in Los Angles.
(Father Coffield was reported
by friends to be planning to
combine his study with work
for the Inter-American Co
operative Institute, a small
Catholic organization which
supports training programs on
the management of coopera
tives and credit unions in
Latin America. Its headquar
ters are in Chicago.)
Father Coffield, pastor for
three years of Ascension par
ish here, told the private fare
well party that he was going
into "self-imposed exile" from
Los Angeles "as the strongest
protest I can make" because
"I was ordered to maintain a
silence on racism."
He said his departure was a
solution to an impasse between
himself and James Francis
Cardinal McIntyre of Los An
geles.
Father Coffield charged that
he was ordered out of the ar
chdiocese on June 22 and not
allowed back until Nov. 15 be
cause he spoke out against
Proposition 14 on the Novem
ber California ballot.
Proposition 14, which was
overwhelmingly approved by
voters, amended the state con
stitution to prohibit state agen
cies from interfering with an
individual's choice on whom he
will sell real property to. The
proposition, in effect, killed
Calif ironia laws prohibiting ra
cial discrimination in the sale
of houses.
Father Coffield said in a
statement that he was silent
during his time out of the
archdiocese. But he called this
wrong. "I should have fought
it openly,” he said.
Father Coffield said he "de
eply loves" the Church and
wants "to be obedient to her."
But he added:
"The clear law of obedience
is that we are not to obey when
we are certain that to do so
would be to sin, whether the
command be given by mother or
father, priest, bishop or car
dinal. We can sin by silence
as well as by action."
Pope Chosen Top Religion Figure
Council convened by his pre
decessor, Pope John XXIII, and
for his meeting with Orthodox
Patriarch Athenagoras during
the Holy Land trip.
NEW YORK flx’C)— Pope Paul
VI was selected as the 1964
newsmaker in the field of re
ligion in a poll compiled by the
Associated Press among edi
tors of its member newspapers
and TV stations. .
The Pope was selected as a
result of his precedent-shat
tering trips to the Holy Land
last January and to Bombay,
India, earlier this month; for
reopening the Second Vatican
The poll selected President
Johnson as the top newsmaker
of the year and Nikita Khrush
chev, ousted premier of the
Soviet Union, was chosen the
top newsmaker in foreign af
fairs.
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INDIA: POPE PAUL WEEPS
ONE SMALL BOY IN INDIA. HIS LIMBS SWOLLEN WITH
DISEASE. WILL NEVER FORGET the Holy Father’s pilgrim
age. The Holy Father looked af
him a long moment, his eyes well
ing with tears, and he bl«ssed him.
“» '"V" von.” the Pope whispered.
' f***r breaVast with 216 orphans
m =s 'he Ho*v Father was told by 13
ej- - V* •••"r-Md Tony Maseerems: “Manv
os have no fa'hers. Many of us
have no mothers. Some, like me
have no one in the world.” Thank
ing the Pope for his visit, the lad
_, . . .. apologized: “We cannot give you
T t Holy Father j Mutton Atd anything, because we have nothing."
lor the Ortental Church ... Do you wonder the Holy Father
weeps? He asks for a great world fund for orphans, deformed
infants, feeble old men. lepers, blind boys, refugees . . . Three-
fourths of the world is plagued by hunger. What we pay for one,
package of cigarettes (33c.) is a week’s wage In Kerala State
south India! What the average American family spends foi
soft drinks each month ($20) will feed two families of refugees
for a month! In India, our native priests and Sisters must
have hammers, saws, books, and cloth, to teach poor youngsters
how to support themselves . . . Will you help Father Mannanal
In Xeeloor, for instance? $2800 will make room for hundreds
more boys and girls in the little school he conducts—and $950
provides a chapel. Name the school and the chapel for your
favorite saint, in memory of your loved ones. Any gift ($25, $20,
$15, $10, $5, $2) will be a Godsend In the war oh suffering. With
the Pope it will say, “I love you.”
SIX NEW IDEAS FOR ’65
WHAT BECOMES OF THE FUN AND FROLIC New Year’s
eve? What you spend is gone the morning after . . . Month by
month in 1965, here’s what you can do:
□ TRAIN A NATIVE SISTER OVERSEAS. She’ll be your
personal representative to people who need help, and she’ll write
to you. Her training costs only SI2.50 a month. $150 a year,
$300 altogether.
□ TRAIN A NATIVE PRIEST. He wants to give his life
for others. For the next six years he needs $8.50 a month
<S100 a year. $600 altogether). Write to us.
□ FEED A FAMILY OF REFUGEES,
for a month!
$10 feeds a family
i_J ENROLL YOURSELF in one or more $l-a-mnnth clubs:
DAMIEN CLUB (helps lepers, BASILIANS (teiches children),
HOUSE OF GOLD (cares for the aging), MONICA GUILD
(repairs missions churches).
□ ENROLL A FRIEND a month, newborn infants, students,
the ill. in this Association. The offering is only $1 for a year,
S !0 for life. The spiritual benefits are rewarding!
_ STRINGLESS: Send A GIFT each month to the Holy
Father. He will use it where needed most.
Dear Monsignor Ryan:
Enclosed please find for
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Street
City
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FRANCIS CARDINAL SPELLMAN, ProsidonI
M»qr. Jotopk T. Ryan, Nat’l Soc’y
Seed all communication* to:
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