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cese of Atlanta YOUR PRIZE-WINNING NEWSPAPER SERVING GEORGIA’S 71 NORTHERN COUNTIES ■ VOL. 3, NO. 1 ATLANTA, GEORGIA THURSDAY, JANUARY 7, 1965 $5.00 PER YEAR Expansion Program Announced Pastoral Letter Asks Sacrifices MY DEAR PEOPLE: The Archdiocese of Atlanta, in this brand new hopeful year of 1965, is launching its most vigorous program of expansion. In its planning, much has already been spoken; and before Easter, much more will still be said to make it possible. My letter to you, ac cordingly, will be brief. It asks for your understanding, your prayer, your sacrifice, Georgia's Catholics have always been quick to understand the Church's needs. Whether it was more priests and sisters, new churches and schools, new missions where there were few Catholics, support for those in need—each generation has grasped the point. Like her Founder, Jesus Christ, the role of the Church is to go about doing good. You have understood. But our Catholic people know well that without God, we can do nothing. So for more than a century, voices have been raised in praise, and gratitude to God, asking His help. In the quiet minutes of family devotion; in the personal prayer of the individual soul; at Sunday Masses and in the sacraments, you have unlocked the great wisdom of blending human effort with divine grace. In the present renewal of our worship, we are all finding new vitality and deeper meaning. You have prayed. And finally, with your understanding and prayer, I ask (as all my predecessors have asked) for your full and unselfish sup port. The objectives are not new* but they are tuned to our times, I*-And in our Archdiocese, we Can all count upon the same unstin ting spirit of sacrificial giving, of generous hearts willing to share their goods for the work of God. That is what this 1965 Expansion is all about. The Archdiocese is ready to meet its needs— specifically four of them. We plan a new Village for our dependent children i — modern, homelike and geared to give them the kind of lives j that will mike them good Christian citizens. We plan a Catholic I Center for Lay Action— to give pur 30 lay organizations a place to work, and our whole community a share in the Catholic Oecumenical future. We plan a Student Chapel and Newman Cen ter at the University of Georgia where already more than 800 Catholic young people from all over the archdiocese are en-‘ rolled. We plan a High School Development Fund to provide the property and plans we need for future high school growth. You will note that every one of these four projects will be in your interest whether you live in Atlanta or any other parish. Our dependent children, our college youth, our lay organiza tions come from every part of the archdiocese. The Catholic view is never narrow. All of us serve the Church at large; all of us share in God’s work. What is the building of a Village of homes for children who have no homes— but God’s own work? What is a Catholic Center for our people to work in, to offer to our community an image of the Catholic religion at work, to invite those of other faiths— what is this but God’s work? What are our plans for Catholic edu cation but obedience to Christ's mandate to teach? ? Confident that you want to share to the full in this holy par tnership with Our Lord, I ask upon each family, upon each in dividual Catholic His blessing, — that this Program and this Campaign will be for His greater glory and our own increase in faith, hope and love. Devotedly, your bishop under Christ A DPW R1QHOD ATI AWT A ARTIST'S conception of aerial view of proposed St. Joseph's Village. NCCM ACTION TYPICAL cottage for the proposed Village of St. Joseph. Catholic Hour TV Marriage Series Suddenly Dropped From Network • SEE EDITORIAL, PAGE 4 NEW YORK (RNS)—A four- part television series examin ing the Catholic Church’s teach ings on marriage and birth con trol, scheduled to begin Sunday, Jan. 3, was withdrawn upon the request of a number of Ameri ARCHBISHOP Hallinan shown explaining the expansion program projects. can bishops two days before the first program was to be tele cast. Produced by the National Council of Catholic Men, the program was to have been shown over four consecutive weeks on 100 NBC stations throughout the nation. The ‘‘Catholic Hour” series has an audience of 1,500,000 each Sunday. NO ANNOUNCEMENT of the cancellation was made before airtime. When the program be gan, an announcer stated: ‘The program originally scheduled for this period has been post poned in order to rerun the award-winning series on the Ecumenical Councils, ‘I Am With You.' Opposition by so-called con servative prelates was cited as the determining factor in with drawing the series. Three of the programs had been taped in ear ly December; the fourth, a panel discussion, was taped as the scheduled first program was being cancelled. Some bishops, it was said, pointed to Pope Paul's request that no further ‘‘pronounce ments" on the Church's posi tion on birth control be made until a special study ordered by the pontiff has been completed. The Pope’s statement was in terpreted as asking churchmen to avoid talk that would ques tion the Church’s traditional stance against artificial birth control. Philip Scharper, noted Cath olic layman, author and editor of Sheed & Ward, Catholic, was narrator of the programs. He said that the series constituted ‘‘a balanced, sane, non-parti san presentation of the birth control issue up to the present.” The programs were "really qt ite good,” he added. THE SERIES had been written by John Leo, an associate edi tor of The Commonweal, na tional Catholic weekly edited by laymen. Barret McGurn, longtime cor respondent in the Vatican, said in his coverage of the' story here that ‘‘the episode was an illustration of the tensions now Generous Aid BONN, Germany (NC)—This year’s Christmastime collec tion among German Catholics for seminaries in Latin Ameri ca has reached $10,000,000, an increase of 10 percent over last vear’s total. building yp among the 45 mil lion United States Catholics as the late Pope John XXIII’s ag- giornamento — updating — reaches this country,” “Reportedly,” said Mr. Mc Gurn in the Herald-Tribune, ‘‘the protest against the series came from Francis Cardinal Spellman's New York chancery office. . IT WAS also reported, he add ed, ‘‘the New York chancery office protested to Archbishop Patrick A, O’Boyle of Washing ton (chairman of the adminis trative board of the National Catholic Welfare .Conference) ... He passed the matter to Archbishop Leo Binz in St. Paul, Minnesota, chairman of the subdivision for laymen's organizations.” At this point, his report stat ed, Martin vVork, directorofthe National Council of Catholic Men, withdrew the series to prevent controversy. In New York, the archdioce san chancery office reported it had not known of the cance llation until apprised by news men. A spokesman noted that Cardinal Spellman was still at Guantanamo Bay, the U.S. base CONTINUED ON PAGE 8 Children’s Village, Lay Center Planned Plans for an Archdiocesan Expansion Program to encom pass buidling projects in the fields of child welfare, lay ac tion, Newman movement and a high school development fund, were announced today by Arch bishop Paul J. Hallinan. The projected plans call for an expenditure of more than two million dollars, but the mini mum aim of the 1965 Expan sion Campaign to raise funds for the program has been set at $1,750,000. THE PROGRAM includes construction of a Village of St. Joseph at a site in southwest Atlanta which will house boys and girls from broken families: a Catholic Center for Lay Ac tion which will be constructed in the downtown area on a site facing Ivy Street and a new Student Chapel and New man Center at the University of Georgia at Athens. The Expansion Program will also include allocation of funds for future high school develop ment in the southern part of Atlanta, and in future years oth er cities of the Archdiocese. In announcing the multi-pur pose Program, Archbishop Hallinan explained that the Ex pansion Program of 1965 will touch upon several means in which the Archdiocese has a vital interest. These include child welfare, lay leadership and education both on the coll egiate and high school levels. HE EXPLAINED that for some time it has been the hope- of the Archdiocese to provide a home for dependent children, both boys and girls, at a site within easy access of the exceptional medical, and educa tional facilities offeredby met ropolitan Atlanta. In its new site in southwest ern Atlanta, the Village of St. Joseph will enable the Archdio cese to bring together under its care the children of broken or helpless families. At the pre sent time, boys from such fam ilies are cared for at St. Jose ph’s Home in Washington. Since the Archdiocese has no simi lar facility for Girls it must place dependent girls in St. Mary’s Home for Girls in Sav annah. The opening of the new Village of St. Joseph will per mit the reuniting of families and place the youngsters close to Atlanta’s superior educational and child care facilities. The Sisters of St. Joseph will ad minister the new Village. THE SECOND project is the construction of a Catholic Cen ter for Lay Action on property adjoining Sacred Heart Church facing Ivy Street in downtown Atlanta. In recent years, the growth of lay activity and the position of Atlanta as the Metropolitan See of the southeast in the stru cture of the Roman Catho lic Church in America has accentuated the need for a "Center” in which lay organi zations might concentrate their effort and expand their pro grams. Focal point will be a Lecture Hall seating four hundred in perfect' accoustical surround- CONTEMUED ON PAGE 8 HUGHES SPALDING, Sr. Campaign Chairmen Hughes Spalding, Sr., of Atlanta North Georgia’s leading Catholic layman, has accepted the Honorary Chairmanship of the Archdiocesan Expansion Program Campaign, Arch bishop Hallinan announced this week. The, Archbishop also announ ced that G. Albert Lawton would be general Chairman and Mich ael J. Egan, Jr. would be As sistant General Chairman. CHAIRMEN of the special gifts committees are: Msgr. Joseph G. Cassidy, P. A., V.G., Pastor of Sacred Heart Parish, Milledgeville; Father John F. McDonough, Pastor of Christ the King Cathedral; Hughes Spalding, Jr.; Furman Smith; Alex Smith, and Rawson Hav- erty. It was also announced that a special gifts committee with 28 members is in the process of organization. These names will be announced at a future date. MICHAEL J. EGAN, Jr. G. ALBERT LAWTON