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THURSDAY, JULY 29, 1965
GEORGIA BULLETIN PAGE 8
FOR FEDERAL CRIMES
Justice Dept. For
No Death Penalty
WASHINGTON (NC) — The
Department of Justice favors'
the abolition of the death pen
alty, for Federal crimes..
The department took this po
sition for the first time in a
letter to Rep. John L. Mc-Mil-
lan of South Carolina, fchairman
of the House Committee on the
District of Columbia, who had
requested its views on a pend
ing bill to abolish the death
penalty for first degree mur
der in the District of Colum
bia.
Under current Federal law,
the capital crimes include trea
son, kidnaping, murder on a go
vernment reservation, and
murder of a Federal law en
forcement officer,
THE SENATE has just ap
proved a bill to make assas
sination of a president or vice-
president a Federal crime. The
House had passed asimilarbill.
U.S. Deputy Atty, Gen. Ram
sey Clark, stated in the letter
to McMillan: "We favor the
abolition- of the . death penalty.
Modern penology, with its cor-
Theater Church
rectional and . rehabilitation
skills affords far greater bene
fits to society -tha«~the death
penalty, which is inconsistent
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with its goals.
a mojLi-
"This nation is too great in
its resources and too good in
its purposes to engage in the
light of present understanding
in the deliberate' taking of bu
rn an life, as either a punish
ment or a deterrent tb domes
tic Crime.’’
THIS POSITION places the
justice Department in conflict
with the opinions of many of
the nation’s law enforcement
leaders, including J. Edgar
Hoover, director of the Federal
Bureau of Investigation, who de
clined. to commeht on the de
partment’s .'standi'
Clark said that life impr’i-
sonment, .: without release,
should be the punishment for
■convicts, imprisoned for fe
lonies, who attack- law' officers
or prison guar® .-- cases in
which many opponents of the
death penalty say it should be
retained.
Abolition the death penal
ty for Federal crimes would re
quire an act of. Congress, while
Archbishop's
Notebook
Involved -- How Far?
On a dozen fronts, Christians and Jews are carrying the mes
sage of the Gospel or the Torah into streets, meetings, newspap
ers, neighborhood and urban boards. Watching them, some good
folks are scandalized — "they should stay in the pulpits’’...Others
are enheartened to see the Church more relevant to modern life.
There is no one Catholic answer to this involvement. If we be
gin with Our Lord, we find ourselves involved in casting money —
changers out of the Temple. . We are blessed when we suffer per
secution for justice* sake. We are commissioned to enkindle the
fire that Christ cast on the earth.
But we lack Our Lord’s perception and His humility. Our
motives are not as pure as His, Moreover, He is Wisdom incar
nate, the Son of God become man. So we start out with good in
tentions only to find that often the road leads us far from-heaven.
What are some of today’s religious leaders saying about this
new engagement of the Church (her laity, her ministers) in the
world?
Reverend John Harmon, Episcopalian, says this:
"The Church’s central function is to live
within the world, not outside of it. Yet an
imperialism can develop:-pedag6gic (the
Church alone has, or should have, the an
swer to every issue); programmatic (the
Church has a programmatic way of respond
ing to such issues).’’
Father Robert Reicher, Catholic, states:
"Problems arise , for me, when the
clergyman states he is speaking in the
name of the Church Or if he uses die
Church to obtain institutional or struc
tural reforms in society.’’
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Girl Scouts
At Idaho
Roundup
Seven Catholic girls were
among the Atlanta contingent
attending the Girl Scout Senior
Roundup at Farragut in the Bit
terroot Mountain Range of Id
aho.
There were Cathy Hare of
D’Youville Academy; Joan Ma
her and Susan Reilman of St.
Joseph’s High School’ and Lau
ra Carr, Helaine Walsh, Patri
cia Errigo and Molly Lawrence
from St. Pius X High School.
One of the highlights for
Catholic Scouts was Sunday
Mass in a large outdoor am
phitheater. About 3,500 scouts
and adults participated in the
Mass services.. Among them:
were non-Catholics interested
in the Catholic form of worship.
Three resident, chaplains--
Catholic, Protestant, and Je
wish—were among the adult
staff to serve the religious
needs of the girls.
GIRL SCOUT Roundup is a
two-week encampment held
every three years for girls
15-17 years of age and is de
signed to provide a true a ad
venture in living and learning
, for, girls . of different races,
national origins and creeds.
Each state and 45 foreign coun
tries are represented among the
9,000 scouts and 2,000 adults.
KENNEBUNKPORT, Maine
(NC)—A former summer thea
ter here was converted into a
parish church and dedicated to
St, Martha . Bishop Daniel J.
Feeney of Portland officiated
at the dedication. The building
formerly was the Arundel Opera
Theatre.
MORE WHOLESOME
for state crimes, acts of state
legislatures would be neces
sary. Twelve states currently
prohibit capital punishment.
THERE HAS been a steady
decrease in the number of ex
ecutions in the United States
each year: In 1935 the total \#as
199, and last year only 15.
Might Be Better
Working Mothers
WASHINGTON (NC) — Wo
men who work may be better
mothers than those who devote
all their time to their children,
a priest-marriage counselor
said here.
Father George Hagmeier, C,
S.P., told a Trinity College
seminar that sociologists are
suggesting that fulltime moth
erhood has contributed to un-
aggressive, immature children
because the mothers use their
children as an antidote to their
own boredom.
“Getting the mother out of the
house is as important as getting
her back in," he said. “Var
iety of activities is more whole
some for a mother as well as
for any other human being, and
a working mother is more able
to ‘listen with her total per
son’ when she returns to the
home each day."
# Father Hagmeier said the
"feminist revolution’’ is wan-
jJNPREPARED’
ing because: "Once we have
the laws and have given women
the right to vote, own property,
etc., everyone has a tendency
to sit back and do nothing, as
seems to be happening in the
civil rights movement now.’’
Another speaker at the sem
inar, Charles Maes, a Duquesne
University psychologist, said
the problem of the single wo
man in today’s society is aggra
vated by excessive stress on the
fulfillment of desire.
"The child is shaped by ef
fective forces which curtail its
freedom and make its life
purely egoistic,’’ he said. ‘The
child’s life is a life of satis
faction and of avoiding pain."
Teachers of young adults, he
said, "should be rigorous in
our response, helping them to
move from egoistic molds, to
see that pursuit of happiness is
superior to fulfillment of de
sire,”
Liturgy Change Was
Too Quick
NELSON, B.C. (NC)—Chan
ges in the liturgy may have
come too quickly for people to
absorb them, a specialist in
liturgy suggested at a press
conference here.
“I think we oversold the idea
of the unchanging Church,’’said
Father Godfrey Diekmann, O, S.
B., editor of Worship magazine
and professor of theology at St.
J ohn’s University, Collegeville,
Minn., who was named for the
annual Cardinal Spellman Award
as the outstanding theologian of
the year.
The result,: he said, was that
“people were not prepared” for
For People
such changes as the use of the
vernacular and the celebration
of Mass with ‘the priest facing
the congregatipn, This un
preparedness, he said, caused
some of the initial objections
to the changes.
IN MANY ways, Father Diek
mann said, the new presentation
of the Mass is a “disservice,”
since people were too accus
tomed with the Latin Mass to
change easily to the vernacular,
“It’s a matter of involve
ment,” he said, adding that
the changes were made so the
Mass would be a more personal
celebration for worshippers.
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Rabbi Richard Hirsch sees “a danger that the
heady exhilaration of demonstrations may
cause us to forget the slow, arduous task
of improving human relations.”
Father George Higgins, NCWC, counts two good
reasons for being "selective” about the
causes worthy of organized, visible support
from religious bodies. One, "the more
often we demonstrate, the less impact each
occasion will have on public attitudes;” two
"churchmen must be sure they have the facts,
and that a clear-cut moral issue is involved
rather than an honest difference of opinion.”
It would be foolish to give neutral place to issues that call up the
very justice of God’s society. Racial discrimination, economic
suffocation, destruction of marriage and family life are clearly
moralissues - and there is a Catholic solution.
But it would be equally foolish to carry moral judgment to
every single provocation or to every technical solution. This
particular racial demonstration, this conflict between manage
ment and labor, that national tradition of married life - these are
not always clearly judged. Both sides must be humble and fair-
minded.
In between is a twilight area where the answers are not clear at
all. Free speech must be balanced over against filthy literature.
Is fluoridation of water an emotional hysteria or a scheme to
poison American people? Vietnam has no easy solution - does
the clergy know the facts, and does he realize his responsibility
as proportionate to the President’s?
In inviting your letters, I suggest that these comments be con
sidered:
(1) should the laity rather than the clergy
provide "the presence df the Church”
in these temporal conflicts?
(2) do we need to update Pope Pius XI’s norm:
the Church should speak on moral prin
ciples but not on technical details?
Please write me your opinions on the questions: Should the
Church become involved in temporal crises? Involved how far?
What’s That Again?
The headling was definite but startling:-
ATLANTA CATHOLICS HAVE THEIR
OWN CHURCH FOR FIRST TIME
Somehow it didn’t look right for our Apostolate among the
Peachtree’s. There’s been a church here since 1837, a dozen
parishes since the 1930’s, and a Cathedral since 1937. How’s that
again - Atlanta gets its own church.
Right city, wrong state. The headline, story andphotographs
were from Atlanta, Texas.
Best wishes, and may God bless this new parish out ihmong: the
cactus. They may not have the Braves, or Coke or Lockheed,
Buy any town in Texas called Atlanta must be in the best of two
possible worldsl
The parish is probably sitting on top of an oil well. Tithing,
anyone?
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SUICIDE HIGH
Great Demands Take
Toll Among Teenage
READING, Ohio (NC)~A psy
chiatrist warned here that in
creasing numbers of emotion
ally disturbed youngsters will
"test the emotional maturity"
of nuns who meet them.
Dr. Frank J. Ayd of Balti
more, first American layman
to teach at Rome’s Gregorian
University, spoke (July 21) to
nuns and novices of the Sisters
of Notre Dame de Namur at
their provincial headquarters,
Mount, Notre Dame Convent
here.
‘‘None of you will escape the
challenge of having to work with
people who have mental and
emotional and behavioral prob
lems,” he said, “You must
recognize these people, and at.
the same time you must recog
nize your own limitations,”
DR. AYD told the Sisters
“we have in the United States
a growing problem of emotional
and behavioral disturbances
among our adolescents.”
Signs of the problem, he said,
include the "increasing num
ber of dropouts in high school
and college," and that "more
adolescents than ever are com
ing to psychiatry clinics for
help.”
Admissions to psychiatric
hospitals show a “great jump”
Given Post
BALTIMORE (NC)--Father
Louis J. Lulli, S.A.C., has been
elected provincial superior of
the Immaculate Conception
(Eastern ) province of the Pal-
lotine Fathers with head
quarters here. He succeeds Fa
ther G.J. Carcich, S.A.C., who
was elected vicar provincial.
among adolescents, and figures
for 1963 showed that in their
age group the third leading
cause of death was suicide, he
said.
One of the factors in the
growing number of disturbed
youngsters, according to Dr.
Ayd, is that fact that "great
demands are placed on young
people.”
“EVEROBYDY’S got to
achieve,” he said, “Every
body’s got to be at the top of his
class. The first grader’s moth
er has a neurosis about the
youngster getting into college,
and by the time he gets into
high school the youngster’s got
a neurosis of his own.”
Most of the disturbed young
people can be helped, the psy
chiatrist said, if they get prop
er diet and rest and “if they
set realistic goals for them
selves.”
Too many, he added, have
goals that “they can only
achieve by shifting into high
gear and staying there.”
“It’s a measure of our' ma
turity if we exercise the
virtues of prudence and tem
perance,” Dr, Ayd said. He
defined the mature person as
“one who over a period of
years has gradually reconcil
ed his will with the divine
will."
MATURITY is achieved, he
indicated, by "having the hu
mility and honesty to say, This
is me—-I can do this, I can’t do
that—by living in accordance
with the talents God has given
us. One becomes mature when
one becomes humble enough to
tell the truth about oneself.*’
ABOVE: Archbishop Paul J.
Hallinan assited by Father Noel
Burtenshaw, presents Sister
Carmen Gannon, R.X.M., with
her missionary cross at the
Mission Eteparture Ceremony
held last Thursday. LEFT: Sis
ter Carmen is pictured leaving
the chapel with her mother,’
Mrs. Honora Gannon after the
ceremony. Sister will leave for
work in a lepersarium in Ma-
haica, British Guina, August
1.
Scranton Nuns
Peru Mission
SCRANTON, Pa. (NC)—The first
foreign mission of the Sisters,
Servants of the Immaculate He art
of Mary has opened ih Lima,
Peru. Four nuns who will staff
the mission school left here from
Marywood, the congregation’s
motherhouse. They are: Sisters
M. Romona, New York, Super
ior; M. Anysia, Michael Marie,
both of Pittsburgh, and Sister M.
Joel Marie, State College, Pa.
THE HOLY FATHER'S MISSION AID TO THE ORIENTAL CHURCH
A
CHAPEL
AND
SCHOOL
WITHIN
THE
NEXT
FEW
MONTHS
WHO
SAYS
TEENAGERS
ARE
SELFISH?
TO
JOHN
WHO
IS
FIVE
IS
THE
HOLY
FATHER
IN
YOUR
WILL?
From Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Archbishop Asrate
Mariam pleads for help at once to keep the
faith intact in Wolkitte, a crucial mission-center
100 miles to the south. Wolkitte is the point of
contact for five native priests who care for 5,000
scattered Catholics in the “bush.” The Muslim
influence is becoming so strong, these priests
report, there will be no Catholics left in Wolkitte
unless we put a chapel and school there within
the next few months. Will you do something to
help these priests right now? Name the chapel
(cost, only $2,900) or the school (cost, only
$3,000) for your favorite saint, in your loved
ones’ memory, if you build it all by yourself.
A three-room house for a full-time priest can be
built for only $750. Send at least as much as
you can at once ($100, $75, $50, $25, $10, $5,
$3, $1) to keep the faith alive. The Archbishop
can save Wolkitte if you help.
-Nr
United Nations Secretary U Thant looks forward
to the day when, as part of their education,
young people will spend one or two years work
ing for the poor at home or overseas. Even now,
some teen-agers send us a share of their
"spending-money” once a month. We use it
wherever they suggest.
Nr
Dear John,
Because it’s your birthday your Grand
ma and Grandpa sent me $10- to feed
hungry refugee boys and girls. Happy
Birthday! I’m sending you, as a keepsake,
an Olive Wood Rosary from the Holy Land.
—Msgr. Ryan
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Our legal title is Catholic Near East Welfare
Association. Our mission priests will offer
promptly the Masses you request, build
churches, schools, convents, clinics, under the
Holy Father’s direction. Bequests to be used
“where needed most" take care of mission
emergencies.
Dear enclosed please find $
Monsignor Ryan:
for
Please name
return coupon
with your street ,: ■„ ..—_
offering
city 1 state zip code
THE CATHOLIC NEAR EAST WELFARE ASSOCIATION
|Q
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