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THURSDAY, JULY 29, 1965 GEORGIA BULLETIN PAGE 3 TODAY, TOMORROW, SATURDAY AT HILTON INN Social Change And Christian Response Program WEDNESDAY, JULY 28 6:00 p.m. Registration — Hilton Inn 7:30 p.m. Orientation for workgroup leaders 8:00 p.m. Social Hour THURSDAY, JULY 29 9:00 a.m. Registration 9:30 a.m. The Changing South Dr. Leslie Dunbar Executive Director Southern Regional Council Panel — Miss Jean Fairfax National Representative for Southern Programs American Friends Service Committee Rt. Rev. Msgr. Edward W. O’Rourke Executive Director National Catholic Rural Life Conference Rev. Andrew J. Young Executive Director Southern Christian Leadership Conference Representative Office of Economic Opportunity 12:15 p.m. Luncheon Meeting — Keynote Address The Church in Society Most Reverend Paul J. Hallinan, D.D. Archbishop of Atlanta 2:00 p.m. Workgroups — Session I (Private discussion in small groups) 3:45 p.m. Clinics (For professional groups as requested. Private.) 5:15 p.m. Community Mass 6:00 p.m. Dinner on your own THURSDAY, JULY 29 (Continued) 8:00 p.m. The Negro Movement Mr. Rudolph Lombard National Vice President Congress of Racial Equality Rev. C. T. Vivian Director of Affiliates Southern Christian Leadership Conference Rev. Andrew J. Young Executive Director Southern Christian Leadership Conference 10:00 p.m. Social Hour FRIDAY, JULY 30 3:45 a.m. General session 9:00 a.m. Workgroups — Session II 11:00 a.m. Clinics 1:00 p.m. Luncheon Meeting The Negro Apostolate: Several Viewpoints Very Reverend Harold R. Perry, S.V.D., Chairman Provincial, Divine Word Fathers Very Reverend George F. O’Dea, S.S.J. Superior General, Josephite Fathers Very Reverend Bernadine Patterson, O.S.B. Rector, St. Maur’s Priory Mother Mary Regina Cunningham, R.S.M. Mother General, Sisters of Mercy of the Union A Pastor A Layman 3:00 p.m. Workgroups — Session III 5:15 p.m. Community Mass -Bishop Russell 7: oo p.m. Dinner Meeting Diocesan and Religious Involvement in Human Relations Most Reverend Coleman F. Carroll, D.D., J.C.D. Bishop of Miami 4 BREAKTHROUGH 9 FRIDAY, JULY 30 (Continued) 8:00 p.m. Case history presentations of Church involvement across the South Presented by representatives of six dioceses 10:00 p.m. Social Hour SATURDAY, JULY 31 9:30 a.m. Workgroups — Session IV 11:00 a.m. Community Mass -Bishop Reed 12 noon Luncheon Meeting The Challenge Of Poverty In America Mr. Hyman Bookbinder Assistant Director Office of Economic Opportunity 2:00 p.m. Summary session and recommendation from workgroups 5:00 p.m-6:00 p.m. Late checkout from motel LITURGICAL SERVICES The Conference schedule includes a Community Mass on Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Priests are requested to bring amices and albs. Priests who wish to offer a private Mass may make ar rangements at the registration desk. MOTEL RESERVATION Please make your own motel reservations on the enclosed card. Mail to: HILTON INN Box 691 Atlanta, Georgia Conference rates: $12.00 per day single $15.00 per day double The Hilton Inn is located across the highway from the airport. Free Hilton Inn limousine available on lower level drive at the airport. Sees Hope For Accord On Christianity Role Of Mary DAYTON, Ohio (NC)— Al though Catholics and Protes tants are in opposite camps on the Blessed Virgin’s place in Christian belief, they may someday find agreement. That is the opinion of Father William^ J. Cole, S.M.,, of the theology department at the Uni versity of Dayton, an institution conducted by the Society of Mary! The Marianist priest, a scho lar in Mariology, said he be lieves a “breakthrough” al ready has been made on the question of Mary, "at least on the scholarly level.” He acknowledged, however, that the great majority of Pro testants, including Protestan tism’s most respected theolo gians, “possess no real interest in Mary ” at the present time. FATHER Cole, a director of the Mariological Society of A- merica and associate editor of Mary Today magazine, dis cussed “Catholics, Protestants and Mary” at a "Religion and Life” program at the Univer sity of Dayton. He asked: “Is it not strange that the very woman whom God chose . to be His mother should be the source of the greatest difficulty between Catholic and Pro testants, who both acknowledge her Son as their God and Sa viour? “Strange, yes, but it is an indisputable fact that it is so. Certainly most Protestants would agree with the European Calvinist theologian Max Thu- rian, who claimed that ‘Catho lic theology poses the most a- gonizing problem for ecumim- Cal,thOUght*’ -.-r.'lrV' irt? >> Father Cole said that the in fluential Protestant theologians Paul Tillich and Reinhold Nie buhr have also criticized Catho lic teaching on Mary. “TILLICH and Niebuhr are leaders in a new movement which might be called neo-Pro testantism,” he said. “It tends to interpret the ancient creed symbolically and to rule out the miraculous as unscientific and to reject all but the religious ly pragmatic in the Biblical re velations.” Their severe view of Mario logy is not surprising, he con tinued, since from their view point the question of Mary’s di vine motherhood does not exist. For them Christ is not God, but rather “God is revealed in His Christ, ” he said. But even more orthodox and conservative Protestants, with some exceptions, are not pre pared to concede anything to Mary, he declared. The theologian said that, de spite the adverse judgments of leading Protestants, Pope John XXIII in 1960 viewed the mo dern development of “Mario logy and Marian piety” as a way to unity. “What are we to say to Pope John's optimistic statement?” he asked. IT WOULD be a mistake, he said, to conclude that Protes tant consideration of Mary is completely and universally ne gative. He said recent Protestant writing about Mary is far re- Serving Atlanta Since 1912 l • PRINTING COMPANY' 5SO FORREST ROAD. N. t., ATLANTA, GEORGIA • TRinity 5-4727 voved in tone and content “from the sharp and bitter diatribes of even a decade ago.” He noted that Max Thurian, who descib- ed Mariology as an tagoniz ing problem,” has nevertheless made a “positive contribution to Mariological dialogue” through his book ,‘5Mary, Mother of All | Christians.” Thurian’s interpretation of the Gospel story of Mary and St. John at the foot of the cross “differs in on essential details from the common Catholic exe gesis and theological explana tion,” according to FatherCole. The Calvinist theologian, he said, holds the traditional Catholic position that Jesus on Calvary commended Mary to John and to all future believers as their spiritual mother. DISCUSSING Protestant in terpretations of Scripture pas sages relating to Mary, both in the Old and New Testaments, Father Cole fround scant evi dence of Catholic - Protestant accord on most points. Protestants are especially critical of the definition of the dogma of the Assumption, he said. They regard it as a “clear cut and grievous example of what happens in the life of the Church when tradition gains the upper hand over Scripture.” But even this definition has made a contribution toward greater accord in the future be tween Catholics and Protes tants, he maintained. “There is no doubt,” he said, “that the definition of As sumption has led Catholic au thorities to investigate more fully the relationship of Scrip ture and tradition and the au thority of the Church in de fining truths... “One result has been a re markable evolution in the Ca tholic theologians’ understand ing of the relationship of Scrip ture and tradition particularly in relation to the dogma of the Assumption.” IMPORTANT from the point of view of ecumenica relations, Father Cole said, is the fact that “leading Mariologists to day affirm that the initial de posit from which all revealed truth on Our Lady is derived is given us in the Bible.” “This growing conception of tradition—along with the., e- merging Protestant consensus that Scripture alone, in the tra ditional sense, is inadequate- leads us to believe that, even though it was the cause of much controversy, the defining of the dogma of the Assumption has actually helped ecumenism in giving clarification to the issues which divide Protestants from their Catholic brothers and forcing deeper study of the source of revelation,” he de clared. Father Cole listed as “hope ful signs” of eventual under standing on the question of Mary a shared Biblical approach, a consideration of Mary’s media tion, the ecumenical council’s Constitution on the Church and its chapter on the Blessed Vir gin, the council’s Schema on Re velation, and some evidence of positive discussions on Mary by Protestants and Catholics. “THE FIRST steps on the road to a common Scriptural understanding of Our Lady have been taken by Protestants and their separated brothers,” he said. “The journey is expected to be long and arduous, but it is a Scriptural road that the bro-' MEDICARE BILL thers in Christ will travel to gether, under the guidance of the Holy Spirit and with the ma ternal protection of the ‘Mother of Unity,’ who will in God’s good time...bring together in unity"'her children in Christ. More Clergy Under Social Security Law WASHINGTON, D.C. (RNS)— On the strength of a mow by the Senate members of the House-Senate Conference Com mittee which reported its re conciliation of the Medicare- Social Security Bill, the legis lation, if finally approved, would make more ministers eligible for coverage. And under the Medicare sec tion of the measure, expected to clear Congress by the end of July, a compromise was ef fected concerning coverage in Christian Science sanitoria. There constituted the main changes directly affecting the S<£ (}untiK ’PxedetUd h-LWt l ENTERTAINMENT BL< oaVing worn/Km PRESENTING! * e 1C UIIIC For Your Afternoon’s Cocktail Hours Enjoyment i ir THE J,MMY ESTES TRI ° Qf Reduced Beverage Prices and Free Hors D'Oeuvres 11 A r\Aim 760 WEST PEACHTREE—875*425? MADMEN c - • ATLANTA S MOST EXCITING LOUNGE-760 WEST PEACHTREE—875-4251 OI K LADY OF THK PIKIKICATION. a ceramic sculpture by Sister Joan Michael, stands in front of a multi-colored textile illustrating the biblical passage. "I know all the birds of the air. and whatever moves in the field is known to me" IPs. 49:1 i. Both pieces are part of an exhibition by the two Mount Mary (Milwaukee l College Sisters currently on display in the Center for Religious Art in Chicago, spon sored bv the Thomas More Association. TEXAS BISHOPS—Bishop Adolph Marx i left I. former Aux iliary of Corpus Christi. lias been named the first bishop of the new Diocese of Brownsville. Bishop Thomas .1. Drury, former bishop of San Angelo, has been named bishop of Corpus Christi. IN MICHIGAN COUNTY Sterilization Program Illegal Use of Funds LANSING, Mich. (NC) Use of public funds for a county sterilization program was term ed illegal here by State Att. Gen. Frank J. Kelly. In a letter to William L. Mc Manus, prosecutor of St. Joseph county, Kelly said: “Not only is this program illegal but in its coercive nature it is a shock ing violation of the fundamental principles of human dignity and marital privacy.” The program was enacted in St. Joseph county by the county board of supervisors. It allows use of public funds for birth con trol devices and sterilization o- perations for welfare recipients and those with “marginal in come.” nation’s religious interests. THE BILL itself saw the cost reduced from an approximate amount of $7.5 billion asked by the Senate to $6.46 billmn. One major provision called for a 7 per cent .increase in So cial Security payments and be nefits for the Old Order Amish and other sects which ban in surance in the belief that it does not show trust in God. Both the Senate and House ver sions agreed before going to conference. The Senate reopened to April 15, 1966, the period during which clergy who have been in the ministry for at least two years may file waiver certi ficates electing Social Security coverage. BECAUSE of religious con victions, many clergymen have elected examptionfrom the pro visions of Social Security, much along the line of reasoning em ployed by the Old Order Amish. Under the original proposal, the date for filing the waiver certificates expired April 15 this year. This, in effect, re news lapsed privileges. How many clergymen are affected is not known. KELLEY said he could “find no authority for the expenditure of public funds for a steriliza tion program” among powers de legated by the state legislature. The only legal authority for steri lization, he added, is in a 1929 law permitting the operations for certain mentally defective per sons, but only after court pro ceedings which are subject otthe right of appeal. The St. Joseph county plan re quires written application by both husband and wife on a “purely voluntary basis” to obtain birth control advice and information. But Kelley asserted this does not alter “the obvious fact that in its lack of selectivity and in the mandatory nature of the no tice requirements, the program Sailors Paint Japan Church MURORAN, Japan (NC)— Sai lors aboard the U.S.S. Walke de scended on this town but instead of painting it red, they painted its church white. When the destroyer pulled into port for a week, its crew asked Father Donald C. Walsh, M.M., if there was any work they could do. It didn’t take the Bronx, N.Y., priest long to think of his most pressing job, which the Navy men accomplished with time enough to spare to tackle the church’s tall steeple as well. has been cloaked in a mantel of coercion.” KELLEY noted the recent pas sage by the state legislature of two bills to providefamilyplann- ing assistance for welfare reci pients. Still awaiting signing by Gov. George Romney, the bills emphasize that welfare assis tance does not depend on a re quest or non-request for the ser vices. They also forbid case workers to attempt to persuade - recipients to participate in the program. “Under the St. Joseph county plan, however,” Kelley added, “all welfare recipients would be notified of these services, in cluding sterilization, and the county would guarantee the pay ment for the devices and/or the medical and hospital services for sterilization.” Father, Son Mass Concelebration NEW YORK (NC)—A father and his son, both priests in the Byzantine Rite, concele- brated Mass (July 28) in the Chapel of the Good Shepherd in the Vatican Pavilion at the New York World’s Fair, Father Gregory Moneta, pas tor of a Byzantine—rite parish in Kingston, Pa„ and his son, Father Robert Moneta, assis tant chancellor of the Byzan tine Rite Eparchy of Passiac, N.J., offered the Mass. 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