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THURSDAY, JANUARY 21, 1966 GEORGIA BULLETIN PAGE 3
‘MAINLY IN THE NORTH 9
Groups’ Stress On Rights
Shifting To Metro Areas
EMPHASIS in the civil rights struggle, while
still directed in large measure at the South, has
been shifting to other parts of the country--
mainly metropolitan areas of the North. In this
transition, churchmen and church groups have
been prominent in outlining and starting pro
grams aimed at solving the racial injustice pro
blem nationally. As Congress reconvenes, they
will be closely watching measures — to a high
degree appropriations bills, with Vietnam expen
ditures growing -- related to implementation of
both the anti-poverty and civil rights laws new
on the books.
Probably the most ambitious of the strategy
plans aimed at discrimination in the big cities
is a massive $41.6 billion-a-year national econo
mic program drawn up by a 32-member Steer
ing Committee of Negro and white civic and re
ligious leaders in New York.
Called “Metropolitan Development for Equal
Opportunity,’’ the proposal is actually a policy
statement by the New York pre-White House
Conference on Civil Rights. It will be presented
in Washington, D.C., at the White House Con
ference on Civil Rights scheduled for late this
Spring. The plan calls for using public and pri
vate resources for an attack on inadequate jobs,
housing and education available to Negroes and
deprived minorities.
IN A SENSE, the plan represents both the hopes
and fears of all civil rights leaders concerning
the future of the equal justice movement. Dr.
Eugene Carson Blake, United Presbyterian lea
der prominent in the rights struggle, made this
clear as the plan was announced recently. “This
is more serious than any outcome in Vietnam,”
he said, “It is more important than getting a
man on the moon... We must mobilize people
to see that this is the most important long-
range problem facing the United States, its
society, its culture, its future. Unless we take
ths problem seriously, we are just kidding
ourselves.”
Keeping alive concern for civil rights, in the
hearts and minds of individual citizens, has been
widely recognized as the key to achievement of
any equal justice goals. As stated by Gov. William
W. Scranton of Pennsylvania as he received the
1965 human relations award of the National
Conference of Christians and Jews, the time has
come for a new emphasis on “personal commit
ment” toward solving problems of discrimina
tion.
Though the rights drive has gained much
ground, the governor said, the “scene shifts
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strong enough to force us to love one another.
This is between each of us and our common God,
and in it, it seems to me, we face man’s oldest
and most familiar enemy..fear -- fear of our
selves and fear of each other.”
SINCE THE "mass demonstration” period
of the civil rights movement, a time highlight
ed by large-scale interreligious cooperation, joint
approaches by religious groups to problems of
discrimination and segregation have continued a-
cross the country. This has been particularly
evident in the expansion of the civil rights drive
to metropolitan areas in the North.
In Detroit, Protestant and Jewish groups agreed
to join the city’s Catholics in the maintenance
of a joint office on race relations. The new
interreligious venture will have a full time di
rector and will be the successor to the pioneer
ing “Project Equality” of the Detroit arch
diocese. That project, which has been parallel
ed in many other Catholic diocese, requires all
suppliers and contractors dealing with the arch
diocese or any of its churches or institutions
to affirm fair employment policies.
Nineteen Catholic and Protestant clergymen in
a large racially-changing section of Northeastern
Buffalo, N.Y., for the past nine months have
been working together with increasing closeness
and effectiveness. Triggered by the movement of
Negroes into previously all-white neighborhoods,
the organization has sponsored a series of well-
attended neighborhood forums on open housing.
Clergymen believe that the discussions have not
only promoted more information and understand
ing, but have provided a “safety valve” by bring
ing fears and resentments into the open instead
Of letting them build to the explosion point.
AMONG OTHER metropolitan efforts, the Chi
cago Conference on Religion and Race issued
100,000 copies of a leaflet on equal housing which
calls on home owners to insist that any real
estate contract for the sale of their property
carry a non-discrimination clause. Protestants,
Catholics and Jews in Boston plan a Conference
on Religion and Race which will give first atten
tion to the city’s tense school segregation pro
blems. In Syracuse, N.Y., Catholic, Episcopal and
Methodist bishops joined in a statement ur-ging
the backing of a city school district plan that
provides bus transportation to relieve racial im
balance.
A strong race aspect is involved in one of the
pieces of legislation expected to occupy much
time of the new Congress — home rule for the
District of Columbia. Home rule for the nation’s
capital — where at least half of the approxi
mately 815,000 citizens are Negroes — has had
the active support of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.;
the D.C. Coalition of Conscience, a group of about
40 church, civic and civil rights organizations
in the city, and such outstanding local clergy
men as Dean Francis Sayre of Washington Cathe
dral (Episcopal).
Dean Sayre has deplored Congressional rule
of Washington, saying the city’s interests are
subordinated to the interests of a small band of
biisihessmen and their coterie of friends on Ca
pitol Hill. Rep. JohnL.McMillan(D.-S.C.,)chair
man of the House District Committee, recently
renewed his opposition to home rule, claiming
there are a number of "Comunist sympathizers”
behind the measure. He commented:
“Don’t get me wrong — there's a lot of good
and well-meaning people in it (the home rule
drive), but a lot Of people would just like to take
the nation's capital over. Some of these are known
to be Communist sympathizers.”
AMONG THE churchmen who have called at
tention to the “new stage” in the civil rights mo
vement is Dr. Benjamin F. Payton, 32-year-old
Negro Baptist clergyman who succeeded Dr. Ro
bert W. Spike as director of the National Coun
cil of Churches CommissiononReligion and Race.
A sociologist who has been acitve in many anti
poverty and racial and scarcity in an affluent
society” and pledged that the NCC commission
will continue “to take the initiative in setting
priorities — both moral and technical -- for
the resolution of America’s dilemma.”
The commission director, who assumed his
post at the first of the year, also discussed the
"increasingly close cooperation” between Negro
and white church bodies and predicted an in
crease in this trend, even to the point of merger
in some cases. He pointed out that the move of
Negroes^ into white communities also' should. be
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Dr. Spike, now heading a new University of
Chicago Divinity School program to train minis
ters for social involvement, also has stressed
the need for new attacks on "the more subtle
and pervasive forms” of discrimination. “The
changes that need to take place,” he said, “in
volve both white and black. White and black people
must work at some of these tasks together, and
I think some separately, but when separately,
it must not just be the Negro community that is
expected to shape up to some implied standard
of achievement, falsely imagined to exist already
in the white community.”
Within the churches, the “real meaning” of
the civil rights effort and the role of religion
in the movement has been under continuing dis
cussion. One such examination was at Victoria,
Tex., last Fall, where a Protestant pastor, Ca
tholic priest and a rabbi took part in a panel'
presentation at the state convention of the NAACP.
The Rev. Mac N. Turnage, a Presbyterian, cited
the deep anxieties in many people spurred by the
civil rights movement. For Christians, he said,
this can have a healthy effect, stimulating those
“who have grown too comfortable, to re-examine
their positions and regain their sense of mission
which was the motivating force of the church in
the early days."
“THE CIVIL rights movement has re-awakened
the church,” the pastor continued. “It may re
store democracy to America and Christianity to
the church.”
In this regard, it appears today that if the
Churches “came late” to the racial justice
drive — as many concede — they have come to
stay.
Bishop Shannon
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PHILADELPHIA (NC)— Bis
hop James P. Shannon, presi
dent of the College of St. Thom
as, St. Paul, Minn., was named
chairman of the Association of
American Colleges at the orga
nization’s annual convention
here.
The 44-year-old educator is
the first bishop to head the as
sociation of 848 public and pri
vate liberal arts colleges. Four
priests, all presidents of Cath
olic colleges, have held the post
in the past, however.
Bishop Shannon was appoint
ed president of St, Thomas in
1956 and has been a member of
the board of directors of the As
sociation of American Colleges
since 1963. He is the 55th
head of the association and re
places Rosemary Park, presi
dent of Barnard College.
MR. AND MRS. Paul Train a, who will speak at the Liturgy Con
gress, with their family.
IN CHARLOTTE, NX.
To Take Liturgy
Congress Roles
UNIVERSITY CRITICIZED
St. John Administration
Hit By Students, Teachers
SEVEN representatives of the
archdiocese of Atlanta will take
roles in the program of the Li
turgy Congress - Southeastern
U.S. to take place January 27-
29 in Charlotte, N.C. In addi
tion to Archbishop Hallinan, an
Abbot, three priests and a hus
band and wife will play princi
pal roles in the undertaking.
Archbishop Hallinan will be
the principal celebrant of the
Mass at noon On Saturday. Along
with the archbishop, the other
bishops and abbots of the south
east will concelebrate the clos
ing Mass of the Congress. Like
the other events of the program,
this Mass will take place on
Ovens Auditorium, which seats
twenty-five hundred persons.
Archbishop Hallinan will preach
the homily at the Mass. Since
his will be the final words of
the conference, it was con
sidered appropriate that his
homily should relate the litur
gical life of the Christian people
to their apostolate in the world.
One of the concelebrants at this
same Mass will be Dom Au
gustine Moore, O.C.S.O., Abbot
of the Monastery of the Holy
Spirit, Conyers, Ga.
Father Ellis DePriest, S.M.,
pastor of St. Joseph’s Church
in Marietta will be a speaker
on,, a panel Friday afternoon, |
January ^28. The Friday after
noon session will examine and
discuss the important relation
ship of liturgy and music. Fa
ther DePriest’s experience as
a professor of liturgy and a mu
sician, as well as his pastoral
work, equip him well to carry
out this assignment. The Friday
panel discussion will aim at the
maximum participation on the
part of those in attendance in
order to make this amostprac-
tical experience for the priests
and laity, especially those who
work with choirs, organists and
song-leaders.
The same approach of maxi
mum audience participation will
be followed in the Saturday
morning session on Liturgy and
the teaching of religion. This
panel discussion will explore
the many aspects of religious
educaton, for children as well
as adults, insofar as they are
related to the liturgy. Mr. and
Mrs. Paul Trains of Immacu
late Heart of Mary parish will
take part in this panel. Their
approach will be the relation
ship between the liturgy and
religious training of children
JERUSALEM, Israel (NC)--
Israeli President Zalman Sha-
zar praised the work of the
Vatican council in his yearly
message of greeting to the
Christian communities of his
nation.
“Out of this assemblage rep
resenting more than half of
modem Christendom,’’ he said,
“came the moral courage to
bridge long-existent breaches,
to heal ancient ills, to seek
new human relationships with
other faiths, both Christian and
non-Charistian.”
Melkite - rite Archbishop
Georges Hakim of Acre re
sponded for the group of 16
Christian leaders who visited
President Shazar at his official
residence. He said “it now
devolves upon us to begin the
work of implementing our deci
sions with respect both to our
Christian brethren and our Jew
ish and Moslem brethren.”
in the home. Also included in
this panel are two nuns and an
other layman.
Another participant in the
Charlotte program is Father
Leonard F.X. Mayhew, pastor
of Holy Cross parish, who has
served as the secretary of the
Liturgy Congress. Father May
hew will be the celebrant of the
Bible Service following the
opening session and keynote
address on Thursday evening.
The theme of the Bible Service
will be "The Covenant — God’s
Way with Man.” The Friday
evening program will also close
with a Bible Service, celebrated
by Father Eugene Walsh, of St.
Mary’s Seminary, Baltimore,
Md. Father Walsh will preach
on an ecumenical theme, “Unity
— Our Fidelity To God’s
Word.”
Father Conald Foust, assis
tant pastor Of Sacred Heart
parish, willgive one of themain
addresses of the Congress on a
theological theme important for
the understanding of the liturgy.
Father Fbust’s subject will be
“The Sacramental Priest-Life
of the People of God.” The aim
of Father Foust’s address will
be to trace the priestly charac
ter of all Christian people in
their participation in the Sacra
ments, especially the Holy Eu-
t char 1st.
WASHINGTON — A U. S.
Supreme Court decision against
racial segregation in a Macon,
Ga., park touched off an argu
ment among its members about
the ruling's implications for
church - related schools and
other private institutions.
Justice William 0. Douglas,
who wrote the court’s majority
opinion, said there was nothing
in the ruling to challenge the
denominational character of
church-related education.
But Justice John M. Harlan,
in a dissent in which Justice
Potter Stewart jointed, said the
decision “at least in logic, jeo
pardizes the existence of de-
PRESIDENT. SHAZAR said of
the Vatican council activities:
“Indeed, after intense spirit
ual struggle it was resolved to
call for the uprooting of old ac
cusations drenched with inno
cent blood and to lay new roads
leading to mankind’s libera
tion from the diseases of hat
red and narrowness of spirit.’’
He continued: “During recent
years significant assemblies in
other churches, too, have call
ed for battle against the relig
ious persecution and racial hat
red which once again poison hu
man life in many parts of the
globe.
“The Jewish people, one of
the chief victims of such savage
incitement, is particularly sen
sitive to the great educational
value of all these humane en
deavors. It is our hope that
their enlightened intentions will
most speedily be translated into
the practical language of good
deeds.”
WASHINGTON (NC)_Stu-
dents and professors from St.
John’s University strongly cri-
ticizied its administration at a
rally at American University,
a Methodist institution here.
Tom Riley, a junior at the
Vincentian Fathers’ institution
in Jamaica, N.Y., and chairman
of a group called Students Unit
ed for Academic Freedom,
charged that he has been “vic
timized in many ways” by the
administration.
Riley said the university re
fused to allow political organi
zations on the Jamaica and
Brooklyn campuses, until stu
dents were permitted this year
to form chapters of the Young
Democrats, the Young Republi
cans and Young Americans for
Freedom. But requests to form
a chapter of the Congress of
Racial Equality (CORE) are still
being turned down, he said.
VATICAN CrTY—Archbishop
Michael Ramsey ofCanterbury,
Primate of All England and
leader of the worldwide Angli
can Communion, will visit Pope
Paul VI on March 23.
Archbishop Ramsey will come
to Vatican City in his capacity
as head of the Lambeth Con
ference of Anglican bishops.
Archbishop Ramsey’s prede
cessor in the Canterbury See,
the late Archbishop Geoffrey
Fisher, visited Pope John XXIII
here in 1960. It was the first
meeting between a primate of
nominationally restricted
schools while making of every
college entrance rejection
letter a potential 14th Amend
ment question.”
The case involves a park
in Macon, Ga., left to the city
in 1911 by the late U.S. Sen.
Augustus 0. Bacon. His will
provided that the park be used
for white people only.
The city kept the park se
gregated for a number of years
but eventually let Negroes use
it, on the grounds that the park
was a public facility which it
could not constitutionally ma
nage on a segregated basis.
Thereupon members of the
park’s board of managers (pro
vided for in the will) brought
suit asking that the city be re
moved as trustee and new trus
tees be named. Several Negroes
entered the case as intervenors,
and eventually the city resigned
as trustee. The Supreme Court
of Georgia accepted the resig
nation and appointed new trus
tees.
Archbishop
To Preach
In Miami
BOYNTON BEACH, Fla. (NC)
—Archbishop Egidio VagnozzJ,
Apostolic Delegate in the United
States, will formally dedicate a
major seminary in the Miami
diocese, first in the southeast,
on Jan. 25.
Bishop Coleman F, Carroll of
Miami will offer a Solemn Pon
tifical Mass at the chapel of the
new St. Vincent de Paul Semi
nary and Archbishop Paul J.
Hallinan of Atlanta will preach.
The nine-building complex
opened in 1963 under the di
rection of the Vincentian Fath
ers. It accepts candidates for
the priesthood from dioceses in
the southeastern United States
and in the Caribbean area.
STUDENT publications "con
sistently and constantly” are
censored, he said, adding that
items eliminated have included
ads for No - Doz, a non -
prescription stimulant.
Riley said an article in the
honors’ program newsletter
that was critical of the admini
stration was “personally yank
ed and rewritten” by an ad
ministration official. It was
changed from criticism to
praise, he alleged.
James Shields, an assistant
professor of English, said the
university is trying “to crush
all dissent.” Many professors,
he added, have told their
classes that they are still teach
ing only because the university
forced them to be threatening
“prompt and appropriate ac
tion” against strike supporters.
SHIELDS said he thinks the
university’s current troubles
England and a pope since the
Reformation.
THE VATICAN Secretariat
for Promoting Christian Unity
said in announcing the arch
bishop’s visit that last Novem
ber he had "expressed his de
sire to visit the Holy Father.”
According to the secretariat,
the following will accompany the
Anglican prelate:
Former Bishop Ralph Dean of
Cariboo, B.C., now executive
officer of the Anglican Com
munion residing in London.
: 'p fft i
Bishop J, R. H. Moorman of
Ripon, England, an observer at
the ecumenical council.
CANON JOHN Satterthwaite,
general secretary of the Church
of England council on foreign
relations.
The Rev. J. N. D, Kelly, prin
cipal of St. Edmund’s Hall, Ox
ford, and chairman of the arch
bishop’s commission on Roman
Catholic relations in England
and Wales.
The Rev. John Andrew, the
archbishop’s domestic chaplain.
CANON JOHN Findlow, who
has been serving as the arch
bishop’s representative at the
Vatican.
Archbishop Ramsey and his
party are expected to arrive in
Rome on March 22 and leave the
day following his audience with
the Pope.
are “the dying gasp of 19th-
century Irish Catholicism” in
America.
Dr. William McBrien, former
associate professor of English
and director of the undergrad
uate Honors Program, said the
only reason he could see for his
firing was his support of a stu
dent who “wears his hair long.”
He said the student is “one of
the top two or three honors
students.”
Dr. McBrien accused the ad
ministration of having a “ma-
chanistic” view of education.
“WE’VE PATTERNED our
selves after the corporation,”
he said, "and I think we’ve let
the analogy take over too
much.”
The rally was held in Ameri
can University’s Spiritual Life
Center at the invitation of the
university’s student body presi-
dnet, Gary Walker.
Members of the St. John’s de
legation said they had sought to
hold the event at Trinity Coll
ege here, a liberal arts college
for women operated by the Sis
ters of Notre Dame de Namur,
but permission was denied.
At Trinity, a spokesman said
the college had been contacted
by telephone by a representa
tive of the St. John’s delega
tion. It was first understood the
.delegationwanted a facility in
which to hold a conference with
Congressmen and their assis
tants. But then it became clear
a rally to seek student support
for the St. John's strikers was
intended and permission was
denied.
“TRINITY believes whole
heartedly in exposing contro
versial issues on campus, but
only when the facts can be de
termined and both sides are
fairly represented,” a college
spokesman said in explanation
of the denial.
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