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PAGE 8 GEORGIA BULLETIN THURSDAY FEBRUARY 4, 1965
INTERVIEW WITH THE EDITOR
Archbishop Emphasizes Expansion Campaign Purposes
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components of Atlanta University. And around the
Archdiocese, there are at least a dozen smaller col
leges.
Athens is a name revered for learning and culture
Since the time of Pericles. But in Athens, Georgia, our
own university is a great center in its own right. It is
growing and it is achieving an academic excellence that
will serve well both scholarship and the community.
Up there are more than 800 Catholic young men and
woriien from all over the state and other parts of the
United States. Many of them come from Atlanta and the
cities of our own Archdiocese. By 1970 the number will
probably be 2,000. The University provides the wide
gamut of academic knowledge, learning and culture, the
great tool of research and scholarship, the glory of
asking questions, and opening minds to find answers.
The Catholic structure On the campus has pastoral
responsibilities — Mass and the Sacraments, our
whole spiritual heritage. But it also has an intellec
tual task, incorporating into the general education the
knowledge of God and the things of God.
In the Bishop John Lancaster Spalding Chapel, which
will be a fine gem of liturgy and architecture, the
pastoral work will be centered. The Newman Cen
ter, — a library, classrooms, and a lounge will uh-
dertake the intellectual task. It is a thrilling prospect!
people are ready to scale their own contributions, not
to what others give, but to what the Church needs. The
minimum goal was set at $1,750,000 to allow elbow
room for optimism. We hope it will grow to $2,000,000.
Q. Apart from the usual pledges to be given by individual
families you have singled out for special mention, Memorials,
which the people can subscribe to. What is the purpose of this?
Q. In one of the previous questions we talked about the em
barrassment of money. Some people in the Archdiocese are
asking why you have set a goal of $1,750,000 when you say the
Archdiocese needs $2,000,000?
A. I am confident that the Campaign will meet our
needs of $2,000,000 beyond our goal of $1,750,000. Our
people understand the projects. They know that these
are imperatives for the whole Archdiocese and they
know that these are capital construction projects; they
are not operational, nor are they basic parish units.
They call for ' ‘gifts-in-sacrifice’', contributions be
yond the ordinary. Many of our early gifts have set
high sights --$50,000, $30,000, $25,000. And the whole
mood of the parishes seems to bear out that all of our
A. One of the most heartening signs is the request
for memorials. It is a revered Christian tradition, of
honorable intent and of family gratitude. In our Cam
paign, there are all kinds of memorial gifts, of every
size and amount. And already, our eople are asking
that iri sharing the cost and scope of these projects,
family names, beloved deceased friends and others be
remembered. We think this is a very heartfelt feeling.
It will be an honor to associate these names with our
vast undertaking.
Q. There has been talk over the past couple of years of
another pressing need — that of a new central location for
Archdiocesan offices. I suppose this is a "special interest"
question but what are your views on this matter?
INTER FATTH cooperation shown here left to right: Very Rev. John F. McDonough, Rector of Cathe
dral of Christ the King; Rev. Canon Henry A. Zinser and Dean Alfred Hardman of the Episcopal
Cathedral of St. Philip; and Dr. Monroe F. Swilley, pastor of Second Ponce de Leon Baptist Church.
Their congregations will hold a joint collection for Atlanta’s Heart Fund Drive. See story below.
CATHOLIC-EPISCOPALIAN-BAPTIST
Inter-Faith Cooperation
For Local Heart
An exercise in civic as well
as ecumenical cooperation will
take place on Sunday (Feb. 7)
when three neighbors hold a
spetial collection with their
families for the Heart Fund.
The neighbors, the congrega
tions of St. Philip's Episcopal
Cathedral, the Second Ponce de
Leon Baptist Church, and the
Cathedral of Christ the King,
are all within one block of each
other. In each church, a special
collection Will be taken up at all
the services and given to At
lanta's Heart Fund Drive, of
which the annual gift giving is
currently underway.
THE COOPERATIVE effort
was suggested informally a lit
tle over a month ago, and was
discussed with the leaders of
each of the congregations, the
Very Reverend Dean Alfred
Hardeman, Dr. Monroe F. Swil-
ley, Jr., pastor of the Second
Ponce de Leon Baptist Church,
and the Very Reverend John F,
McDonough, Rector of Christ
the King Cathedral.
Fund
Several worthy charities were
considered, but the local Heart
Fund Drive was selected since
it psychologically at least, was
found to be closer to the aims
and purposes of the project.
Furthermore, the closer to the
Furthermore, the close proxi
mity of the annual Heart Fund
Drive made it an ideal cause to
Support on the date chosen, the
first Sunday in February.
This unique inter-faith co
operation is one of the many
steps being taken by various
religious leaders to further the
spirit of concern of the chur
ches in community affairs. It
has received the enthusiastic
approval of Archbishop Halli-
nan and the other religious
leaders involved.
Members of the Cathedral
Parish of Christ the King have
been urged by their priests to
give generous support to this
collective project which not
only furthers the spirit of bro
therhood among the three con
gregations but also assists a
worthy cause of the Atlanta
Community.
Pope Names
New Bishop
WASHINGTON (NC) — Pope
Paul VI has named the Most
Rev. George J. Biskup to be
Bishop of Des Moines. To the
present Bishop Biskup has been
Auxiliary to Archbishop James
J. Byrne of Dubuque.
The appointment was announ
ced here by Archbishop Egidio
Vagnozzi, Apostolic Delegate
, in the United States.
BISHOP Biskup, 52, succeeds
to a see left vacant by the death
of Bishop Edward C. Daly, O.P.,
who was killed in an airplane
accident at the Rome, Italy,
airport on November 23, 1964,
just after the close of the third
session of the Second Vatican
Council.
CIVIC BANQUET
Whites, Negroes Join
Salute
BY GERARD E. SHERRY
(N.C.W.C. News Service)
ATLANTA, Ga.—Martin Lu
ther King, Jr., great-grandson
of a slave, realized part of his
American dream here when
citizens of the new South honor
ed him at a civic banquet cele
brating his receipt of the 1964
Nobel Peace Prize.
Crowning the evening activ
ities (Jan. 27), the sellout au
dience qf 1,500 Negroes and
whites joined hands to sing the
anthem of the civil rights cause,
“We Shall Overcome.’*
NOTHING like it had been
seen anywhere else in the Deep
South—religious and civic lead
ers honoring a Negro citizen
who has done more than anvf
one else to break the patterri
of a segregated society ana
arouse the conscience of tfe£
white power structure.
To be sure, the accolades
were not unanimous. While the'
City of Atlanta was represented
in the person of Mayor Ivan
Allen, Jr., no one but the au
dience represented the State of
Georgia. Though the city of At
lanta presented Dr. King with
a handsome scrolled citation,
the state government ignored
the proceedings.
ABSENT TOO, were many
leaders of the business com
munity-even though among the
ranks were men and women
who had done much to make
Atlanta a southern showcase of
racial harmony. They were said
to expressing a protest a-
gainst Dr. King's appearance
on the picket line during a
recent strike at the Scripto
Company plant. .However, three
top officials of Scripto, includ
ing James Carmichael, chair
man of the Board did attend
the banquet.
Also missing were the lead
ers of white Protestartt
churches in the city to whom
Dr. King made a special ap
peal for friendship and coop
eration.
In mitigation of their absence;
however^ the secretart if tge
Georgia Council' of Churches
was one of those who made
public tribute to Dr. King at
the banquet. The four major
sponsors of the civic event
were Archbishop Paul J. Hall-
inan of Atlanta, Rabbi Jacob
Rothschild of the Atlanta Tem
ple, Ralph McGill, publisher of
the Atlanta Constitution, and Dr.
Benjamin I. Mayes, president
of Morehouse College.
Dr. King set the tone of the
evening in asserting that his na
tive southland was "challenged
to rise from the sins of dark
yesterday. to the positive
achievements of a bright to
morrow.’*
"A SIGNIFICANT role in this
transition,’* he said, ”is as
signed to the people of good
will of the white South. Unfor
tunately in the past the lead
ership of the white South has
by and large been in the hands
of • close-minded extremists.’*
However, Dr. King expressed
confidence that the extremists
"do not speak for the South.
They speak only for a willful
and vocal minority.’*
To Dr.
"There are in the white South
millions of people of good will
whose voices are yet unheard,
whose course is yet unclear
and whose courageous acts are
yet unseen. These persons are
often silent because of fear-
fear of social, political and
economic reprisals.
“In the name of God, in the
interest of human dignity, and
for the cause of democracy,
these millions are called upon
to grid their courage, to speak
out, to offer leadership that is
needed,” he said. K people of
good will of the white South fail
to act now, Dr. King warned,
history will record that the
greatest crime of this era was
"not the vitrolic words and the
violent action of the bad
people, but the appalling silence
and indifference of the good
people.”
"Our generation will have to
repent not only for the words
and acts of the children of dark
ness but also for the fears and
apathy of the children of light, ”
he said.
PERHAPS THE greatest ap
plause for Dr. King came when
he made an impassioned plea
to the White South to stand up
for justice.
“I make a plea to the white
churches to Remove the yoke
of segregation from its own
body,” he said. "Unfortunately
most of the major denomina
tions still practice segregation
in local churches, hospitals,
schools and other church insti
tutions. It is appalling that the
most segregated hour of
Christian America is 11 o’clock
on Sunday morning—the same
hour when many are standing
to sing ‘In Christ There Is
No East Or West.’
"Equally appalling is the fact
that the most segregated school
’ of the week is the Sunday school.
It will be one of the tragedies
of history if a future Gibbon
is able to say that, at the height
of the 20th century, the church
proved to be one of the greatest
bulwarks of segregated power.”
Dr. King reemphasized his
belief in nonviolence as “the
most potent protest weapon a-
vailable to oppressed people”
in their struggle for freedom
and justice.
"The method of nonviolent
resistance is effective in that
it has a way of disarming the
opponent, it exposes his moral
defenses, it weakens his mo
rale, and at the same time it
works on his conscience it also
makes it possible for the in
dividual to struggle to secure
moral ends through moral
means,” he said.
"THIS IS where nonviolence
breaks with communism and any
other method which contends
thet the end justifies the
means,” Dr. King said. "In a
real sense, the means represent
the ideal in the making and the
end in process. So in the long
run destructive means cannot
bring about a constructive end
because the end is preexistent
in the means.”
The civil rights leader called
nonviolent resistance "a ere-
King
ative force through which men
can channelize their discon
tent.”
“It does not require that they
abandon their discontent,” he
noted. "Discontent is sound and
healthy. Nonviolence saves it
from degenerating into morbid
bitterness and hatred. Hate is
always tragic. It is as injurious
to the hater as it is to die
hated. It distorts the person
ality and scars the soul.
"Psychiatrists are telling us
now that many of the inner
conflicts and strange things that
happen to the subconscious are
rooted in hate. So they are now
saying ‘love or perish.’ This
is the beauty of nonviolence:
it says you can struggle with
out hating; you can fight with
out violence.”
"IT IS MY great hope,” Dr.
King said, "that as the Negro
plunges deeper in the quest for
freedom, he will plunge even
deeper into the philosophy of
nonviolence. As a race we must
work unrelentingly for first-
class citizenship, but we must
never use second-class me
thods to gain it.
“We must never succumb to
the temptation of using violence
in the struggle, for if this
happens unborn generations will
be the recipients of a long and
desolate night of bitterness, and
our chief legacy to the future
will be an endless reign Of
meaningless chaos.”
Dr. King concluded with a
moving passage in which he
observed that he had reached
perhaps the mountain or a-
chievement in his activity with
receipt of the Nobel Peace Prize
but he said, "I must return to
the valley.”
“A valley filled with mis
guided, blood-thirsty mobs,”
he said, "but a valley filled at
the same time with little Negro
boys and girls who grow up
with ominous clouds of inferi
ority formed in their little men
tal skies. A valley filled with
millions of people who because
of economic deprivation and
social isolation have lost hope
and see life as a long and des
olate corridor with no exit sign.
“I must return to the valley—
a valley filled with literally
thousands of Negroes in Ala
bama and Mississippi who are
brutalized, intimidated and
sometimes killed when they
seek to register and vote. I
must return to the valley all
over the South and in the big
cities of the North—a valley
filled with millions of our white
and Negro brothers who are
smothering in an airtight case
of poverty in the midst of an
affluent society.”
To Be Enthroned
COLUMBUS, Ohio (NC) —
Bishop John J. Carberry, will
be enthroned here as the sev
enth bishop of Columbus on
March 25. Bishop Carberry
who has served in the Layfay-
ette , lnd„ diocese since 1956,
was named Jan. 20 by Pope Paul
VI to head the Columbus See,
succeeding Bishop G. Ishen-
mann, now coadjutor bishop of
Cleveland.
A. There is no question that our Administration set
up needs modernization. As it is now, the Chancery,
Gribunal and Georgia Bulletin are housed in the base
ment of the Cathedral. (They are very considerate
landlords I) The Departments of Education and Welfare
are in two different places. It is inconvenient and in
efficient.
Yet the great decision is always a question of prior
ity. With dependent children in need, are the office
and desk of the Archbishop really more important?
With education projects like the Chapel and Center at
the University at Athens in the balance, can we argue
for central convenience? The scope of our Center for
Lay Action is so new and vital that one hesitates to put
even administrative offices ahead.
First things first. Someday we will have the proper
Archdiocesan offices. Now we are planning a tempor
ary move that will bring us together, increase effi
ciency and put the administration in a better setting.
But for now, it’s children in need, youth in college,
high school pupils of the future, and laymen in the re
newal. These must come first. Then will come other
things.
Q. Archbishop, could you give us a brief sum-up of the Ex
pansion Campaign?
A. The 1965 Expansion Campaign is planned to sup
port the Expansion Program. It is an imaginative
thrust into the future of the Church. Every time
that Georgian Catholics have perceived the Church’s
needs, they have responded. Sometimes this has called
for raw bravery; sometimes for wide understanding.
Always, in a growing Church, it has called for a re
sponse in financial support.
The great difference in this Campaign is that the
projects will serve us all. It is God’s work. We must
all share in the cost.
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FR. JOSEPH: WORKER’S PRIEST
COMMUNISTS IN SOUTH INDIA WOULD LIKE TO GET KID
OE FATHER JOSEPH CHAKIAK. Because he is the worker's
priest, Communism has an uphill
fight in the factory town of Eloon
. . . 20,000 workers, half of them
Catholics, put in long hours for
less than $1 a day. Families have
eight and ten children, the cost of
living g n es up and up, and the
Communists make false promises
. . . Father Joseph fights vigor
ously for social'justice. Does he
worry about the outcome? “David
The Holy Father's Mission Aid . , . ■ ,, , , ■
* had only one small stone when he
lor the Oriental Church . . .
- went out to fight Goliath,” he says
. . . For the church and parish cen
ter Father Joseph needs, Archbishop Parecattil, 53, asks our
readers’ help. “The workers stand in the rain when Father
Joseph offers Mass,” he reports. “If we can build a parish
center and a church, we can guarantee for generations to come
the extraordinary work Father Joseph, is doing.” . . . The church
will cost only $2,900—the parish center, $3,600. Will you put a.
stone in Father Joseph’s sling? . . . Name the church (or the
parish center) in honor of your favorite saint (St. Joseph the
Worker?), in memory of your loved ones, if you build it all by
yourself. Send at least a smaller gift—$100, $50, $10,' $5, $2.
You’ll be helping Father Joseph fight for the poor Christ loves.
FEBRUARY FOLLOW-THROUGH
□ BRIGHTEN BIRTHDAYS AND ANNIVERSARIES (your own
as well, of course) by enrolling your friends and relatives
(and their families) in this Association. They’ll benefit in
the Masses and sacrifices of our priests and Sisters, and
you’ll be helping bring souls to Christ. Membership dues
are only $l-a-year for an individual ($20 for life', $5-a-year
for a Family ($100 for life) . . . Ask us to send the person
you enroll a gift card with the certificate.
□ FEED A FAMILY FOR A MONTH. It costs only $10. We’ll
send you an Olive Wood Rosary from the Holy Land.
□ LET THE HOLY FATHER DECIDE. He’ll use your “no
strings attached,” stringless gift (in any amount) where
it’s needed most.
□ CATHOLIC BOOK WEEK begins Feb. 21. $5 will make one
more Catholic book available to Pontifical Mission Library
users in Jerusalem.
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