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SERVING GEORGIA’S 71 NORTHERN COUNTIES of Atlanta YOUR PRIZE-WINNING NEWSPAPER V0L.3, No. 33 ATLANTA, GEORGIA THURSDAY, AUGUST 19, 1965 $5.00 PER YEAR Thw convent and school of St. John the Evangelist Parish, Hapeville, will be dedicated this Sunday, August 22, at 4 p.m. Archbishop Paul J. Hallinan will officiate. IN CATHOLICISM Liturgist Predicts ‘Crisis’ KANSAS CITY, Mo. (NC>— A Belgian-born liturgist main tained here that a "crisis of faith’* is beginning in Catholi cism and it should get worse before ending. Father Boniface Luykx, O. Praem., said that “the crisis is general because we are asked to change from basing our Christianity on devotions and SKINDIVER - MOUNTAIN EER—Brother S. Lawrence, F.S.C., chairman of the biol ogy department at Saint Mary’s College, Moraga, Calif., has an $84,000 grant from the government to study wind-borne pesticide residues in California moun tains. In his work, he back packs full skindiving equip ment to elevations of 13,000 feet and more. obligations to being People of God." The Norbertine Father, a familia r figure at scholarly conference in this country since 1951, has been stationed in the Congo since 1958. There he is establishing a monastery for his order, teaching at Lovanium University, Leopoldville, and assisting the work of the Cen ter for. Pastoral Liturgy for the Congo. "You Americans," Father Luykx said in an interview, "must accept the fact that the crisis is just beginning and you must not accept easy answers.” WHAT IS needed he said, is "a new spirit." "We have to go back to the spirit of the beatitudes, become human beings, find a sense of community in a religious way,” he said. "Formation for all is what must be achieved and America, I believe, is behind several years in preparing people for their new roles. This is not an accusation. I only want to stress the problem as it seems very evident,” he said. "CHRISTA1N life is at stake in this crisis we have,” Father Luykx said. The priest spent five days here lecturing on the liturgy at Rockhurst College’s institution on "Formation for Christian Worship.” "The Constitution on the Church tells us what we have to become. It gives the deep reality, the theology of the re newal. It shows the people of God sharing as a whole in the priestly and prophetic work of Christ, the place of religious people. You have no idea of how far these charisms can go... “Too many people have never been formed to this spirit of openness to God and to each ot her in the spiritual life. So we have the crisis and much pain. Education for all and the experience of good worship must come quickly, but I believe the crisis will get worse before it gets better,” he said. Call New Paper Delmarva Dialog WILMINGTON, Del. (NC)— The Delmarva Dialog has been selected as the name for the Wilmington diocese’s week ly newspaper which will make its debut on Sept. 3 with John A. O’Connor as editor. Offices of the new publication are at 506 West Tenth Street, Wil- m ington. Wilmington’s Bishop Michael W. Hyle said the Dialog will begin as a 12-page paper, print ed in offset, and an inaugural circulation of some 30,000 among Catholic families in the diocese which encompasses the entire Delaware-Maryland - Virginia (Delmarva) peninsula. O’Connor formerly was associ ate editor to the Monitor, San Francisco archdiocesan news paper. BISHOP, SUPREME KNIGHT Knight Convention Told To Meet New Modern Conditions BALTIMORE (NC)—Calls to change and renewal were put sharply before the Knights of Columbus national convention here both by a Church spokes man and by the Knights’ own leader. Bishop Michael W. Hyle of Wilmington, Del., quoting the Vatican council's decree on e- cumenism, appealed to the members of the fraternal order to "get prudently involved with movements or activities that will promote the welfare of your fellow men, spiritually and ma terially, even though they are not originated in the Church.” Supreme Knight John W. Mc- Devitt told the convention "the hour is at hand to note the ab sence of our wives and friends; from non-degree ceremonials. He also urged a revamping of the Knights’ entire ceremonial procedure. REFERRING to membership conditions, McDevitt said: "the matter of race or nationality, of profession and personality, cannot enter into the matter of membership in the Order which is based strictly upon the law of the order that members are solicited from practicing Catholics and naturally we must assume that our members are sufficiently Informed to act in accord with the social doctrines of the Church.” McDevitt continued: "We realize our responsibility in the form of the proper attitudes regarding the ^brotherhood, of man. The Christian who says *Our Father’ must also say'my brothers.’” Both speakers referred to the current increase in confusion and questioning criticism of Church policies and teachings. BISHOP HYLE said: ’Fear ful and terrifying as these oc casional storms of controversy and criticism may be, they do serve to test our faith and to clear the atmosphere. Even though all men may not admit it, the lines of divine truth are more clearly delineated, and errors become more evident. The spirit of faith is streng thened and becomes more ac tive as a force in the daily lives of men.” "Thus as we listen to the mul titude of opinions which are be ing expressed in these days with regard to the life and activity of the Church, we must not al low ourselves to become dis turbed or confused," he declar ed. He advised that "the troth is not always found in those which are the loudest or more popular,” and said that in time the Church will accept the cor rect approaches. McDevitt hit hard at what he called “a serious scandal in the Church, when the accepted norms of the natural law and the traditional teaching role of the bishops become the target of destructive appraisal by those who protest they are loyal children of the Church.” HE SAID ' there had been "some written and spoken cri ticisms” about the K. of C. response to developments stir- ed by the Vatican council. “One would think from read ing of listening to some of these unenlightened critics that we were back in the Middle Ages where there was tension bet ween clergy and laymen instead of 'livingi in a modern world where truly the Knights of Co lumbus record since 1882 has been one of devoted loyalty to the Church at every level of its organization,” he assert ed. He then affirmed that the K. of C. leadership is ready to developthe Knights’coming pro grams "in a manner complete ly consistent with the desires of the hierarchy and the clergy.” of other societies are challeng ing the Knights’ programs. Then he suggested a wider participa tion of wives, families and friends in these programs and a modernized ritual. Bishop Hyle spoke ttoi die Knights at a convention Mass at Baltimore’s Cathedral of Mary Our Queen. He broached his appeal for widened inter ests by K. of C. members in the following terms; "With their organization and their professed ideals of chari ty, unity andfratemity, it seems to me that the Knights of Co lumbus could be a mighty force in implementing the work and responsibility of the laity in the life of the Church and in pro moting ecumenical activities.” Pastor Almost Forced To Evacuate Church In Riots LOS ANGELES, Calif. (NC)-- The pastor of a church in the middle of the riottorn, devastated watts district of Los Angeles was packed and ready to evacuate when a fire that threatened his church "miracu lously stopped advancing.” Father Valerian O’ Leary, O.F.M. Cap. said the fire w*s only a block from St. Law rence of Brindisi Church, with a gas station in between it and the church, when it stopped. "We had the Blessed Sacra- AT VATICAN COUNCIL See Trouble Over Jewish Statement SANTA CRUZ, Calif, (NC)— Vatican council approval of the declaration on the Jews will in jure the Church in the Near and Middle East, according to an educator just returned from there. This is the view of Brother John Samaha, S.M„ whoisatthe Marianist novitiate here after spending two years in Lebanon as a teacher. thodox alike have no doctrinal disagreement with the teaching contained in the Jewish section of the schema on non-Christain religious,” Brother Samaha said. "Yet,” he continued, "while there are may implications that would never trouble the mind of a Westerner, they are highly significant and even explosive to the people of the Arab East,” ment, the vestments and our personal belongings all packed and we were ready to leave. We had an okay from His Emin ence James Francis Cardianl McIntyre of Los Angeles. "The fire department coul dn’t get to the fire and it was coming in our direction. We were scared. But then it mir aculously stopped advancing and we stayed all night”. DESPITE the widespread da mage in the 98% Negro area- estimates ranged as high as $100 million—Father O'Leary said his church, two short bloc ks from the center of the con flict, was not damaged, "ex cept for a bulletin board out front that someone threw a rock at." Even after the riot was larg ely broken up, Father O'Leary said many rioters were still near the church,' stopping cars going by. ”if they didn’t stop, they’d fire a volley of shots at them. They were shooting all night. That’s all we heard.” SOME reports indicated that many of the rioters were from outside the area and come to the riot to cause trouble. ’’These were not our people, not our own people at all,” Father O'Leary said. youngsters “trying to let off steam” joined in the volence for “excitement and thrills. It was different,” he added. f'jLj In a statement on the riots, Cardinal McIntyre said: "I am grieved that the splen did spirit and high moral in tegrity of the Negro bople in our beloved city of Los Angeles is being besmirched by the happenings of recent days. "THE UPRISING has seem ingly been without presentation of grievances for adjudication and settlement. Hence the up rising is an instigated revolt against the rights of neighbor and the preservation of law and order. "The responsibility for the depredation has not been de clared. Hence there is no re cognized authority for negotia tion and settlement. "I urge our devoted Catholic people to protest and discre dit the prevalent depredation and to use. their influence so that seemingly unjustified demonstrations may cease. Progress is obtained only through the medium of law and order and respectful recogni tion of the rights of others.” He predicted in an interview "a great deal of disturbance” and said that "the Church has already experienced some taste of the obstacles that would be thrown in her path,” a reference to newspaper attacks and de monstrations against Catholics at the end of the third council session. Brother Samaha felt that in the tense Near East, where Arabs and Israelis stand poised to fight, both sides would mis use the council statement which is intended to stress that Jews as a people cannot be held re sponsible for the death of Christ nor should they be regarded as a rejected, cursed or deicide people. 'The Eastern rite hierarchy and the laity, Catholic and Or- Xavier U. Head NEW ORLEANS (NC)—SL.er M. Maris Stella, director of the division of education of Xavier University here, has been named to succeed Sister M. Josephina as president of the university. He held that the Catholic hier archy there "does not think it opportune at this time to pro mote such a teaching.*’ As for his prediction of trouble should the statement be adopted, the Marianist Brother commented: "A rash of per secution and intolerance toward Catholicism would certainly break out in many countries, es pecially those that are pre dominantly Moslem and ve hemently anti-Isreal. “Secondly, and perhaps more important in the political or widest sense of acceptance by the people of the world, the schema, though a religious do cument, would be interpreted politically by Israel and Zionist sympathizers.” Such a use, he said, “would grieve very seriously” the 13 nations of the League of Arab Nations. *Tt would definitely make the work of the Church more difficult in those areas. The Church would lose a great deal of sympathy and tolerance, and perhaps even freedom,” he said. HE COMPARED the renewal of the Church, in adapting a basically sound constitution to new circumstance, to the Knights; plans to revise their essentially sound constitutions to changing' needs. He noted that many distractions by attrac tive recreations and the calls This chapel of St. Augustine will be dedicated Sunday, (August 22) at 10 a.m. Archbishop Paul J. Hallinan will officiate. An old home was rebuilt by the parishioners to serve the needs of the families in the area. LOS ANGELES WATTS AREA SEIZING AN OPPORTUNITY—This youngster did not make it inside the audience hall at the papal summer resi dence in Castel Gandolfo, but he broke from the barriers and shook hands with Pope Paul VI as he was leaving in his automobile. An attendant seeks to restore the youth to the sidelines, but not until the Holy Father has greeted him warmly.
