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PAGE 10 GEORGIA BULLETIN THURSDAY, APRIL 15, 1965
lCHBISHOP announces
Ballot Set For
New Consultors
Rotation of membership on
the Archdiocesan Board of Con
sultors, and a new "consulta
tive ballot’' method of making
fthe selection were unanimously
/approved by the present board
j^at its April 7th meeting. "The
g new system,” said Archbishop
Hallinan, "will insure a wider
selection and a more democra
tic procedure, but more signi
ficantly, it will involve every
L archdiocesan priest, directly or
f,indirectly, in the progress of the
r Church in Northern Georgia.”
Consultors form a board
s of advisers for the Ordinary,
| ’■'chosen for their outstanding
priestly traits. Consultation
0 with them is required by canon
law in certain matters, but in
all major concerns, the bishop
I t ]informs them of the state of
T the archdiocese, seeks advice
I u and criticism, and draws upon
t ]their wisdom and experience.
' s ACCORDING to law (Acts of
the Apostolic See, 1931) priests
I oof religious . congregations do
vnot serve because the same rule
capplies to consultors that gov-
| herns the cathedral chapter of
Papal Volume
ip
U yATICAN errY (NC)—The
a first volume of the discourses
tof Pope Paul VI, covering the
n period from June 21 to Dec.
J a 31, 1963, has been published by
|g the Vatican Polyglot Press.
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canons in Europe. Professed
religions are bound by "title”
to their respective communi
ties rather than to the local
Ordinary.
The two Vicars-gene-
ral, Msgr. Joseph Moylan and
Msgr. Joseph Cassidy, are not
consultors proper, but ex
officio they may discuss and
vote at regular meetings. The
remaining four members are
Msgr. Patrick J. O’Connor,
Father Michael Manning, Fath
er John McDonough and Fath
er Joseph Ware.
TO SELECT the two new
members (who will serve a
three-year term), a new method
of "consultative ballot” will be
introduced. Each archdiocesan
priest will receive a ballot to
express his choice. Only pas
tors, however, may be chosen.
The final selection will be made
by the Archbishop after due con
sideration of the priests’ ballot.
Noting that the Apostles bal
loted in the election of Matth
ias (Acts of the Apostles,
ch. 1), Archbishop Hallinan sta
ted that the move was made
"to bring to the Church even
greater interest, and involve
ment in its administration. In
terms of the Kingdom of Christ,
"administration" can mean
only what the Scriptures define
as "stewardship and apostle-
ship.”
IN RUINS OF ROME’S COLOSSEUM, this simple cross
commemorates Christianity’s early martyrs. According to
tradition, many martyrs died here for the faith, beginning
with St. Ignatius of Antioch (c. 110).
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‘Catholic World’
Marks Centenary
NEW YORK (RNS)—The Ca
tholic World, published here by
the Paulist Fathers, is mark
ing its centenary with its A-
pril issue—the first Catholic
monthly periodical in the U.S.
to be issued constinously for
100 years.
It was founded in 1865 by
Father ISAAC T. Hecker, C.S.
P., who seven years earlier
started the Paulist Fathers.
Officially known as the Mission-
Be a Good Samaritan in Selma!
If you are interested in supporting the cause of racial justice in Selma send A
contribution to Good Samaritan Hospital in Selma, Alabama.
It was at Good Samaritan that more than 75 Negro men, women and children
injured March 7th in Selma’s civil rights crisis received medical attention. Thirteen
were admitted as patients. The hospital received a commendation from President Lyn»
don Johnson for this action.
It was to Good Samaritan that His Emminence, Cardinal Spellman of New York
gave $10,000 as a memorial to the late Rev. James Reeb, Unitarian minister who died
after being beaten in Selma.
It was Good Samaritan that extended the hand of friendship and a smile of web
come to hundreds of priests, Sisters, ministers and rabbis who came to give witness in
Selma last month. It was at Good Samaritan where many of them found a warm meal
and a place to sleep.
Since 1943 Good Samaritan Hospital has given away more than one million dollars
worth of medical and surgical services to the Negro sick-poor.
Life is not easy for the Edmundite Fathers who beg money for the hospital and
the Sisters of St. Joseph who supervise it. Theirs is an apostolate of the highest call
ing. It demands courage, patience, love and a deep faith in God.
You can be a part of their life of ministering to the spiritual and physical needs
of the Negro in the Black Belt area of Alabama. Your contribution will help pay
off the hospital’s $350,000.00 debt. It will help lower the anticipated 1965 operating
deficit of $100,000.00
Your contribution will help keep the spirit of the Good Samaritan alive in Selma
for all the world to see!
Please attach your donation to this coupon and |
mail to:
GOOD SAMARITAN HOSPITAL
Selma, Ala.
Name_
.State.
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Good Samaritan Hospital
are tax deductible.
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ary Society of St. Paul the
Apostle, the order is dedicated
to the wide use of modern mass
communication media in its a-
postolate.
THE magazine’s 88-page an
niversary issue is devoted to
a series of articles by noted
religious and laity dealing with
the Church’s "aggiornamento,”
the Vatican Council and the
Christian unity movement. The
issue also features an anniver
sary editorial by Father John
B. Sheerini C.S.P., editor of
The Catholic World.
In connection with the centen
nial magazine will sponsor an
Ecumenican Conference on Re-
'ligious Liberty here on May
8. The publication explained that
the conference’s purpose is to
"discover ways and means of
preserving religious liberty in
areas of Catholic-Protestant
tension: birth control, parochial
education, mixed marriages.”
Father Sheerin will be one of
the speakers at this meet ng.
Others include Dr. John C.
Bennett, noted Protestant theo
logian and president of Union
Theological Seminary here;
William B. Ball, general coun
sel for the Pennsylvania Ca
tholic Welfare Committee; and
Prof. Paul G. Kauper of the U-
university of Michigan Law
School, a Protestant lay leader.
AMONG contributors to the
April issue and their articles
were: Father Joseph H. Fichter,
S. J., who in the Fall becomes
Charles Chauncey Stillm an pro
fessor of Catholic theological
studies at Harvard Uniyersity,
"The Open Parish in the Open
Society; ' Father Thomas F.
Stransky, C.S.P., Ameririn
staff member of the Vatii m
Secretariat for Promoting
Christian Unity, "Ecumenical
Ennui?” and Father Bernard
Haring, C.SS.R., a leading Ca
tholic theologian at Rome’s Ac-
cademia Alfonsiana, "The Ca
tholic Church in Modern Ameri
ca.”
Also John Cogley, noted Ca
tholic writer and staff member
of the Center for the Study of
Democratic Institutions, Santa
Barbara, Cal., "The Laity To
day and Tomorrow;” Sister'
Mary Luke, superior general
of the Sisters of Loretto in
Kentucky and auditor at Vati
can II, "The Council and Sis
ters’ Renewal;" and Dr. George
N. Shuster, assistant to the pre
sident of Notre Dame Univer
sity, "Catholic Education Once
More.”
Faith, Shmaith
BERNKASTEL-KUES, Ger
many (NC)--Ecumenism took a
step backward in this small
Rhineland village when Catho
lics and Protestants complain
ed about mutual interference
in a hospital interfaith chapel
they both made use of. The
town council decided to build a
wall down the middle of the
room, dividing the chapel in
half.
Archbishop’s
Notebook
• WHO SAID THAT?
The death of Our Lord on the Cross led to His Resurrection
on Easter, and released a million human thoughts about life,
God’s Church, sin and holiness. Here are briefs from seven
sources, -- one from the 4th and the 16th and two from the 19th
centuries. Two are Italian, one German, one English, and two
are from Georgia. One is universal.
As you read them this week try to match these thoughts with
those who might have expressed them.
• ABOUT PRIESTS (Holy Thursday)
"Because the human race today is joining more and more into
a civic, economic and social unity, it is the more necessary
that priests, by combined effort and aid, wipe out every kind of
separateness, so that the whole hum an race may be brought into the
unity of the family of God.”
OrMr
• ABOUT THE CROSS (Good Friday)
Our of the woods my Master went,
And he was well content.
Out of the wood my Master came,
Content with death and shame.
When Death and Shame would woo Him last,
From under the trees they drew him last:
‘Twas on a tree they slew Him — last
When out of the woods He came.
• ABOUT THE MESSAGE (Vigil, of Easter)
*
"The Christian message is not a prophecy of condemnation.
It calls to penance in order to call to salvation. It is not bitter;
it is not ill-tempered; it is not discourteous; it is not ironic;
it is not pessimistic.
"It is generous. It is strong and joyful. It is full of vigor and
m ajesty,
“Indeed it raises the Cross: suffering, sacrifice, death, but to
bring comfort, redemption, life.”
• ABOUT CROSSING OVER (Easter Sunday, the Pasch)
"Now since you are celebrating the Holy Pasch, you should
know, brothers, what the Pasch is. It is the crossing-over. For
it was on this day that the children of Israel crossed over out of
Egypt, and the Son of God crossed over from this world to His
Father.
"What gain is it to celebrate the Pasch unless you imitate
Him whom you worship; that is, unless you cross over from
Egypt, that is, the darkness of evil going to the light of virtue,
and from the love of this world to the love of your heavenly
home?”
• ABOUT DECENCY AND HOLINESS (Easter Monday)
"If it is true that a sinner may become a saint, it is at
least as true that an innocent person, who has never fallen into
gross sin, notwithstanding need not be a saint. . . There are a
multitude of persons who go through life in a safe, uninteresting
mediocrity.
"They have never been exposed to temptation. . . they have
never attempted great things for the glory of God. . . they have
never been thrown upon the world. . . and in a certain sense
they are innocent and upright. And when their life is ended
people cannot help speaking well of them, as harmless, decent,
correct persons, whom it is impossible to blame, impossible
to regret.
"Yet, after all, how different their lives are from that des
cribed in St. Paul’s Epistles I All the peculiarity of a Chri
stian consists in his preferring God and neighbor to self.
"While (the mediocre) dream life away, others who started
with them, first being overtaken by pride or passion, fall into
sin and lose their way; and then are shocked and terrified, and
manage to regain it, and run forward impetuously and pass them
by; and the last shall become the first, and the first last.”
• ABOUT THE UNITY OF THE CHURCH (Easter Tuesday)
"If the foundation, that is, if faith in Christ be overthrown
by wicked teachers, no peace or concord can remain in the Church,
either in doctrine or life. And when once the concord of the
Church is broken, there is no measure nor end of that evil;
for the authors of schisms, dissenting among themselves, do
teach, one that this work, one that another work is necessary
to righteousness.”
• ABOUT EASE OF MIND (Easter Wednesday)
Lucette cried: "Jesus grew up and raised the dead, and the world
shouted, 'Leave the dead lie. The dead are dead and can stay
that way. What do we want with the dead alive?’
"Oh you people!” she shouted, "they nailed Him to a cross and
ran a spear through His side and then they said *Now we can have
some peace, now we can ease our minds I”
THEY SAID IT
1. Fathers of 2nd Vatican Council (1964)
2. Sidney Lanier, Georgia (19th Century)
3. Pope Paul VI (1964)
4. St. Ambrose (4th Century)
5. Cardinal Newman (19th Century)
6. Martin Luther (16th Century)
7. Flannery O’Connor, Georgia (1955)
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ARCHBISHOP OF ATLANTA
R.T. Hopkins
Co.
544 Means St. N.W.
521-1650
Atlanta, Ga
NEW COMMISSION
Fr. Rainey Heads
Missions Program
A new steering group on Mis
sion Extension was named by
Archbishop Paul J. Hallinan
at the Spring consultors' meet
ing. To be headed by Rev. Hare
old J. Rainey, Chancellor of the
Archdiocese, the new Commis
sion will coordinate all mis
sion sources and guide the de
velopment of new Catholic cen
ters in the 71 counties of Nor
thern Georgia.
Fr. Rainey said:
"With the increasing popula
tion of the entire 71 counties of
North Georgia which comprise
the Archdiocese, if becomes
evident daily that concerted ef
forts are needed to reach all
people - Catholic and non-Cath-
olic-in the rural areas of the
Archdiocese. This is truly
missionary work. It might sur
prise us to realize that the
population of Tanganyika is 16%
Catholic; the Congo is 33% Cath
olic; New Guinea is 14% Cath
olic. Our own Archdiocese does
not fare quite so well. Only
about 2% of our total population
would be members of our Holy
Faith.
"These statistics highlight
the necessity of a well organiz
ed program of concerted ef
fort in locating Catholics in
these mission areas so that
adequate care can be given to
them spiritually. At the same
time, emphasis must be placed
on the important work of ex
tending His Kingdom to those
- not of our Faith. This is a
most important task. It in
cludes the acquisition of prop
erty for future Chapels, pro
vision of funds for construction
and maintenance of them, as
well as the means of supporting
the work of our missionary
apostles in the rural counties
of the Archdiocese. * The fields
are ripe for the harvest’’.These
words are just as true today as
FR. HAROLD J. RAINEY
they were in the time of Our'
Lord. That "His Kingdom
come" is the purpose and scope
of the new Commission on Mis
sion Extension. Other members
of the Commission will be an
nounced by Archbishop Hallinan
in the near future.”
Did The Jesuits
Murder Lincoln?
CHICAGO (NC)—Did the Jes
uits kill Abraham Lincoln?
In a word, no, but a man
named W. H. Burr thought so
and published a pamphlet to
that effect in 1893. Entitled
'The Murder of Abraham Lin
coln Planned and Executed by
Jesuit Priests,” it is now worth
$12.50.
The pamphlet is one of a
number of items in a 1,700-
volume Lincoln library donat
ed to DePaul University here
by the family of the late Otto
Eisenschiml, Chicago chemist,
inventor and historian.
GOOD
FRIDAY:
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DEATH BY
HUNGER
THE HOLY FATHER'S MISSION AID TO THE ORIENTAL CHURCH
This morning in Trichur, India, the authorities
found the bony carcass of a blind man. He died
of starvation last night.... Christ is on the cross
again in 1965? He shares the headaches, the
stomach pains, the exhaustion that throbs in
hungry people overseas. . . . Pregnant women
are anemic. Three children out of four go hungry
all the time. Pope Paul asks well-fed Americans
to share with them our milk, wheat and eggs.
. . . How can you share conveniently? For only
$10 you can feed a Palestine refugee family
(an entire family) for a month! For $120 you
can feed a family for a year! For $300 you can
feed, clothe, house, and train a refugee boy in
Nazareth to be self-supporting for life!... Invest
in the people Christ died for? Your gift at Easter
gives nourishment, energy, and hope to hungry
human beings. The Holy Father needs your help.
Do all you can to help him help others become
self-sufficient right now. Your heart will share in
Easter’s joy!
IN THE
GAZA STRIP
A
TWO-YEAR-OLD
WHIMPERS
IN ITS
SLEEP.
ITS STOMACH
IS EMPTY.
SIX
NEW
IDEAS
FOR
EASTER
Dear
Monsignor Ryan:
Please
return coupon
with your
offering
□ SOMETHING SPECIAL FOR DINNER?
For $10 a month ($120 a year) you can feed a
hungry family. In thanks, we’ll send you an Olive-
Wood Rosary from the Holy Land.
□ SOMETHING NEW TO WEAR?
$7.50 will buy a new habit for a missionary
Sister. $5 will buy her a pair of shoes.
□ GUESTS INVITED?
The priest-to-be or Sister you “adopt” is like a
member of your family. We have the names of
hundreds of poor boys and girls who want to
become priests and Sisters. The oneyou “adopt”
will write to you. You need pay only the basic
expenses: $100 a year (for six years) for a semi
narian; $150 a year (for two years) for a Sister.
Write to us now, and we’ll send you the seminar
ian’s or Sister’s name promptly.
□ FIRST AID FOR THE SICK?
$75 will put a medical kit in the hands of a mis
sionary overseas. $12 a year ($1 a month) will
make you a member of our Damien Leper Club
for lepers in southern India.
□ MASS IN THANKSGIVING FOR
A HAPPY EASTER?
Our missionary priests receive no salary. They’ll
offer immediately the Masses you request. The
offering you make keeps them in food and
clothing.
□ LET THE HOLY FATHER DECIDE?
The gift you send "no strings attached” enables
the Holy Father to help where help is needed
most.
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.STATE.
-ZIP CODE.
THE CATHOLIC NEAR EAST WELFARE ASSOCIATION
NEAR EAST
MISSIONS
FRANCIS CARDINAL SPELLMAN, President
MSGR. JOSEPH T. RYAN, National Secretary
Write: Catholic Near East Welfare Assoc.
330 Madison Avenue • New York, N.Y. 10017
Telephone: 212/YUkon 6-5840