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VOL. 3, NO. 16
ATLANTA, GEORGIA
THURSDAY, APRIL 22, 1965
$5.00 PER YEAR
SINCE 1948
POPE TELLS WORLD
Shared Time Plan
Proves Successful
In Michigan City
CHEBOYCAN, Mich. (RNS)
—Since 1948 pupils at Cheboy
gan Catholic high school have
been taking science, language
and vocational training classes
at the public high school here.
Only recently did they learn
that they have been doing quiet
happily for 17yearsisamodem
and controversial — elsewhere
— venture called shared time.
“WE NEVER called it any-
thing special,” said Father
Robert W. Heyer, superinten
dent of parochial schools. “Our
students just went across the
street to classes in the public
school."
“We didn’t know we were do
ing anything special until re
cently,” said public school
superintendent Paul C. Lemin,
a Lutheran. “We are not look
ing for publicity, but...meeting
the educational needs of the
children of Cheboygan regard
less of their religion or if they
are enrolled in a private
school.”
Both agreed that the main
reason shared time works is
because the community wants it
to work. Some 45 per cent of
Cheboygan's 5,800 residents
are Catholics.
MR. LEMIN freely admits that
no public school proposal could
pass in the town without Catho
lic support.
But he also states that pub
lic school students have first
priority in his institution. Clas
ses are opened to parochial
youngsters only after needs of
the public school students have
been satisfied. At the present
time, he said “quite a few”
Catholic students are refused
admission to classes because of
lack of facilities and teachers.
Catholic students are com
pletely integrated into the pub
lic school classes they attend.
“While in the public school, the
part-time student is under sole
jurisdiction of its principal,"
Mr. Lemin Said. Catholic pu-
Christia n 6 Optimism’
Resurrection Message
pils’ grades are sent to the
private school, but records are
also kept in the public school.
CATHOLIC High indicates on
its transcripts the subjects
taken in public schools. Half
of all Catholic High's graduates
have taken part of their cours
es in the public school. This
year 161 of 250 students take
subjects at the public school.
Students of the two schools of
ten attend each other's dances
and root for each other's teams.
But, to prevent tensions, games
between the schools are never
scheduled and they are careful
to play different opponents, thus
preventing unfavorable com
parisons.
Cheboygan considers both
schools its own and proves it
with an annual civic luncheon
honoring athletes of both
schools.
In addition to sharing classes,
C atholic students go to the coun
selor at the public school for
help in selecting careers and
choosing colleges.
Three Bishops
Are Named
WASHINGTON (NC) — Pope
Paul VI has made the following
appointments to the hierarchy
in the United States:
Msgr. Cyril J. Vogel, 60,
vicar general of the diocese of
Greensburg, in Pennsylvania,
has been named Bishop of Sa-
lina, Kans.
Msgr. Frank Gretem an, 57,
pastor of Holy Spirit church,
Carroll, Iowa, has been named
Titular Bishop of Vissalsa and
Auxiliary to Bishop Joseh Muel
ler of Sioux City.
Msgr. Edward A. McCarthy,
47, secretary to Archbishop
Karl J. Alter of Cincinnati,
has been named Titular Bishop
of Tamascani and Auxiliary to
Archbishop Alter.
The appointments were an
nounced here By Archbishop
Egidio Vagnozzi, Apostolic Del
egate in the U. S.
ON ‘AID’ CHALLENGE
'PEACE BE WITH YOU!’ - Pope Paul VI is seen as he delivered his Easter message from the
porch of St. Peter’s Basilica after celebrating Mass facing an estimated 100,000 people in
the square. The Pope called for peace saying: “May the day come on which the discords among
peoples will be resolved, not with the force of arms but rather in the light of reasonable negot
iations. And let every war and guerilla operation give way to constructive collaboration which
is mutual and fraternal.”
WHOLE CONTINENT
Protestantism Is Growing
Rapidly In Latin America
BOGOTA, COLOMBIA (NC)—
A Spanish priest has reported
here that the Church has lost
more people to Protestantism in
20th -century Latin America
than it did in Europe during
the Reformation,
Father Prudencio Damborie-
na, S.J., professor at the Xav-
erian University here, said a
three-month survey he made in
Rabbinical Assembly
Scores Jewish Haste
"FOR D I S TI NGtTSHED
ACHIEVEMENT” in the
field of journalism, Patrick
F. Scanlan, K.S.G., veteran
managing editor of “The
Tablet,” weekly newspaper
of the Brooklyn diocese, has
been named winner of Villa-
nova University's “St. Aug
ustine Award." Presentation
of the award will be made
May 1 in Philadelphia by
Villanova’s president, Very
Rev. John A. Klekotka, O.
S.A.
NEW YORK (RNS)—The Rab
binical Assembly, representing
about 800 Conservative rabbis,
took issue here with plans by
the American Jewish Cbngress
to test in the courts certain pro
visions of the federal aid to
educaton legislation.
In a statement, Rabbi Max J.
Routtenberg, president of the
Assembly, said it "deplored the
hasty and precipitous" an
nouncement by the Congress to
fight the measure, made “on
the very daythe President sign
ed it into law.*’
THIS announcement, Rabbi
Routtenberg said, “may have
left in the minds of many Ameri
cans” the impression that the
Congress’ "interpretation of
the principle of church-state
separation is shared by a sub
stantial segment of American
Jews.”
"The unseemly haste with
which some Jewish organiza
tions rush into print with press
releases on matters of deli
cate and complex public poli
cy,” the Assembly statement
continued, “is a painful ire-
minder ofthe desperate need for
a responsible representative
Jewish body capable of speaking
for the majority of American
Jews,
Bible Not Read
TUEBINGEN, Germany (NC)
—Sixty percent of the people
of West Germany have not read
the Bible in recent years, ac
cording to a poll taken by the
Wickert institute here.
all but three of the Latin Ameri
can nations (Brazil, Cuba, Haiti)
showed the amazing growth and
vitality of Protestant mission
ary activity in Latin America.
AFTER talking with bishops,
religious superiors, pastors,
and hundreds of priests through
out the continent, Father Dam-
boriena reported that the spread
of Protestantism is not limited
to any one part of Latin Ameri
ca. “In many nations the pre
ferred places for Protestant
activity are the suburbs of the
larger cities. These are far
less cared for by the Church
and consequently far more open
to external influence... But Pro
testantism is also penetrating
the hearts ofthe cities and mak
ing its influence felt in the well-
to-do neighborhoods of the con
tinent’s capitals.”
To show the rapid rate of Pro
testant growth, the priest not
ed that in 1914 there were only
100,000 Protestants in Latin
America. Their number grew
to 1.5 million by 1938 and in
1960 to 10 million. Annual in
crease, counting converts and
those born into Protestant
homes, is around 700,000.
PROTESTANTISM in Latin
America, Father Damboriena
said, iS diverse in its compo
sition and its procedures. The
majority of its missionaries
are North Americans. They be
long either to what he terms the
“historical churches”~that is
Methodist, Presbyterian, Bap
tist, Episcopalian, Lutheran—
or to one of the many “sects,"
that is Mormons, Jehovah’s
Witnesses and other evangelical
bodies.
The methods used by the
“churches” are quite different
from those used by the “sects,"
he said. Many of those sent by
the churches have abandoned the
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New Columnist
This week the Georgia Bulletin rounds out its new features
with the introduction of MOSAIC, a column on the Jewish-Catho-
lic dialogue by Leon Paul, a convert since 1934 and an expert
on Jews and Judaism. He is president of the Edith Stein Guild
which he founded in 1955.
In subsequent columns he will talk about Jewish converts;
how they are treated by their fellow Jews; by Catholics. How do
the Jewish people fit into the ecumenical movement? What about
Catholics and anti-Semitism? What is Zionism? All these ques
tion^ and much more will be answered in this new stimulating,
informative and provocative column. • See Page 7
VATICAN CITY (NC)—Pope
Paul VI, speaking on Easter
to all Catholics, all Christians
and all men of good will, said
that optimism is the message
of the Resurrection.
“Optimism will prevail,” the
Pope declared.
THE POPE also made what
was generally regarded as a
veiled appeal for an end to the
fighting in Vietnam. He said:
“May the day come on which
the discords among peoples will
be resolved, not with the force
of arms but rather in the light
of reasonable negotiations. And
let every war and guerrilla
operation give way to construc
tive collaboration which is mut
ual and fraternal.
"And may the day come on
which the prodigious energies
of progress will be employed to
satisfy the world’s hunger and
to educate future generations,
to bring remedies to the re
current ills of mankind.”
HIS 1,500-word speech, de
livered from a balcony over
looking a crowd of more than
100,000 people who had braved
rain to attend his Mass in St.
Peter’s square, brought the
mystery of the Resurrection to
bear on the problems of modern
man.
“Such a positive, optimistic
viewpoint, drawn from the mys
tery of the risen life, throws
into clear relief not only the
world outside man but the world
within him—his own heart and
soul,” the Pope said.
“There can be no doubt that
the heart of man, especially the
heart of contemporary man, is
reaching outfor life, for growth,
for fullness of knowledge and
possession, for the power to
will and to enjoy, for achieve
ment of happiness.”
BUT the Pope asserted that
man’s restless search for hap
piness “stirs up in his heart
feelings of desolation, distress,
fear, deeprooted pessimism and
uncertainty about the future.”
All these destroy foundations of
happiness the Pope said.
“The same could be said of
that characteristic feature of
our time, social coexistence, so
familiar in our world of change
and yet so difficult to main
tain, so insecure in its final
outcome whether for peace or
for war, for freedom or for
totalitarianism and slavery...
for the construction of a world
society in collaboration or for
the destruction of everything
that has been planted and built
up on the face of the earth.”
The Pope declared that the
spirit of Easter “raises up
out of this temporal city of man
the timeless city of God, in
this way giving life to our pre
sent ideals and striving toward
unity and universality, toward
freedom tempered by wisdom
and a concern for what is right
and good.”
HE cried out: “May the day
finally come when men will put
aside their false ideologies,
urged on by their need for
new wisdom or because they
have accepted this new wisdom
which reveals man’s true nature
as well as his true destiny.”
The Pope’s final expression
of longing was for an end to
political and religious persecu
tions and racial strife. He said:
“And let there no longer be
on this earth any of those de
liberately caused and useless
sufferings brought about by sys
tematic political and social op
pression, to racial strife, to
contempt and restriction of just
freedom of conscience and of
expression!
“THE thought of brothers
in the faith who even today in
so many countries are obstruct
ed and oppressed, puts on our
lips a special greeting for them:
Courage, beloved sons! Perse
vere In your loyalty and in your
fidelity. Nothing will be lost of
your suffering, which even today
is a stunning witness in be
lief of religious liberty and of
the spiritual unity of the Church
of Christ.”
For the Mass itself which
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Expansion
Thanksgiving
Men and women from all areas of the Archdiocese are expected
to assemble in Christ the King Cathedral this Sunday, April 25,
4 pm for the solemn closing ceremony of the active phase of the
Archdiocesan Expansion Campaign. The ceremony, which was an
nounced last week by Archbishop Hallinan, will be followed by a
victory report meeting and special program in Cathedral Center.
The religious ceremony is being planned by a committee of
priests, and will conclude with solemn benediction. At the victory
meeting, Regional Moderators will introduce pastors of parishes
in their region who will report the latest total figure in subscrip
tions. A special program, touching on highlights of the Expansion
Program, is being organized. An informal reception will follow in
the Cathedral Assembly room after the victory meeting.
• PLEDGE PAYMENT METHOD EXPLAINED
For the convenience of all those who made subscriptions to our
Expansion Campaign, payment reminder envelopes will be mailed
once a month - or quarterly or semi-annually as the donor indi
cated. It is planned that all such reminders arrive in the home of
the donor shortly before the first day of each month.
The reminder itself is a "self mail" type of envelope. The
person may detach the flap and enclose a check or money order
in the amount he designated as his regular payment unit. Perma
nent Campaign Headquarters address is printed on the envelopes,
and the payment may then be conveniently mailed to Central Head
quarters. The Campaign Headquarters address will continue to be
2699 Peachtree Rd„ N.E., P.O. Box 12047, Northside Station, At
lanta, Ga. 30305. The Central Campaign Headquarters telephone
will continue to be 261-5747.
The first payment reminder will be mailed to arrive in the home
on or about May 1st.
SENDS LETTER
Pope Hails New
Parish For U.N,
NEW YORK (NC)—Pope Paul
VI has expressed his pleasure
over establishment of Holy
Family parish here and the re
cent dedication of the $2.2 mil
lion “parish church of the
United Nations.”
The papal pleasure was out
lined in a letter to Francis
Cardinal Spellman of New York
from Amleto Cardinal Cigog-
Ordain Swedish
Franciscan
STOCKHOLM, Sweden (NC)—
Sweden’s first Franciscanfrlar
since the Reformation has been
ordained in Alverna, the Neth
erlands, and is scheduled to
come to the new Franciscan
mission at Linkoeping. Sweden.
He is Father Agostino, the
former Dr. Gosta Lundin, a psy
chiatrist, who entered the Cath
olic Church after being strick
en with polio while on a tourist
visit to Assisi, Italy. A spec
ial papal dispensation allow
ed him to be ordained in his
wheelchair. He offered prayers
in Swedish, Danish and Nor
wegian at his first Mass.
nani, Papal Secretary of State.
The letter said: ‘ 'He bids me to
send you his cordial congratula
tions on the completion of this
important project."
’THE UNITED Nations Or
ganization, according to its
statutes, is dedicated to the
peaceful harmony among na
tions, and it is only proper that
such a center as Holy Family
parish be established so that the
teachings of Our Lord could
have an influence in the delibe
rations of this august body,” the
letter said.
The Holy Father is confident
that the religious complex will
lead the representatives of the
nations of the earth to an aware
ness of man’s relationship to
God, of the mutual responsibil
ities of all nations, and the bas
ic value and dignity of the hu
man person, as they strive to
lay the foundations for world
peace. The towering spire will
serve to remind all who glance
at it that all men are children
of the one God, and His Holi
ness prays that this center will
spread the message of love and
understanding of the Gospel,”
Cicognani wrote.
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