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PAGE 4 GEORGIA BULLETIN THURSDAY, JANUARY 21, 1966
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Archdiocese of Atlanta
SERVING GEORGIA'S 71 NORTHERN COUNTIES
Official Organ of the Archdiocese of Atlanta
published Every Week at the Decatur DeKalb News
PUBLISHER- Archbishop Paul J. Hallinan
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.MANAGING EDITOR Gerard E. Sherry
CONSULTING EDITOR Rev. R. Donald Kiernan
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No Pretense
We are now in the midst of
the Week of Christian Unity,
which has been publicized in
The Georgia Bulletin and the
secular press. For the first time,
observance of the Week of Chris
tian Unity is being marked with a
serious effort to bring about
broad participation by religious
people of all Christian commun
ions. Each night during the Week,
which runs from January 18 to
25, a special Scripture and Pra
yer service for the intention of
Christian unity is being held in
a different Christian church in
Atlanta. Members of all these
churches are being urged by their
pastors to attend. Archbishop
Hallinan is one of the sponsors of
the Week and has urged Catholics
to take part.
The beauty of such an obser
vance as we are witnessing in
Atlanta lies in the spirit and mo
tivation that have brought it about.
What underlies the Week of
Christian Unity is not any super
ficial attitude of fellowship for its
own sake or a naive pretense that
real differences can easily be
erased. The actual motivation for
this precedent-setting event is
a profound conviction that unity
among Christians is a basic ele**-
ment of Christ's foundationofirhe
Church. As the Vatican Council
has admitted, the divisions among
Christians are due to faults on
all sides and to historical situa
tions which have long since dis
appeared. What remains is the
clear imperative of the Gospels
that the Lord wills oneness among
his followers.
It would be reassuring to be
able to see clearly how Chris
tian reunion will come about.
Unfortunately, there is no one
who can see the final resolution
of our disunity. The outcome
is quite literally a matter of
God's power and goodness not
being defined by our limited vi
sion. There can be no doubt that
the grace of Christian unity will
be conditioned on the sincere
prayer of all Christian people.
This is the reason for the Week
of Christian Unity prayer ser
vices. We go, not to create unity,
but to implore God to create it
among us.
The freedom and responsibility
imposed upon us by this major
step forward in the life of the
Church rests on our generation.
It is we who must make the ne
cessary adjustments, acquire
the requisite understanding, ab
sorb the needed openess toward
those from whom we are se
parated without losing our own
deep convictions. The prospect
may well appear to many of us
as a sizable task. This is no time
jfor" pettirifess of fear. What is
headed now are people of good
will in every church, people con
scious of their commitment to
the Lord's will for oneness among
his followers, people courage
ous enough to welcome the ma
jor demands that this commit
ment makes upon them.
‘Good’, ‘Bad’ Unions
Janus, the Roman gentleman
after whom this month is named,
was a god with two heads-one
looking forward and the other
backward. Recent news stories
seem to put the labor movement
in the same straits.
The forward looking union is
-of all people-those “terrible”
Teamsters. The Peck's Bad Boys
of the labor movement have al
ready built a stunning housing
center for the aging in Mill
Creek. Now the announcement
that Teamster officials are in
volved in the multi-million dollar
complex of hospital, nursing
home, housing and ancillary ser
vices in the Page-Hodiamont area
promises to be a solid anchor
that might check the downstream
drift of the whole West End.
Unfortunately, while the “bad”
unions are doing good, the
“good” unions insist upon per
petuating injustice and working
against the best interests of the
community. Not only do restric
tive union practices close the
doors of certain building trades
unions to Negroes and some
other minorities, now a number
of the AFL-CIO building trades
unions threaten work on the Gate
way Arch because an independent
plumbers union which does ad
mit Negroes has .been hired.
In effect, the Negro is told ‘ ‘You
can’t join our AFL-CIO union,
and we won't work with any other
union.” And then union officials
can be quoted as piously insist
ing that their decision “was not
motivated by any considerations
of race, color, or creed.”
The backward looking unions
had better become inward look
ing and examine their policies -
and their consciences. Is George
Meany too busy speaking about
ending racial discrimination in
unions to check into this farce?
Is Walter Reuther too busy lead
ing parades in Selma to demon
strate against injustice in his
own union? Has the federal gov
ernment expended so much time
and effort examining the real and
imagined misdeeds of the Team
sters that it allows the AFL-CIO
to be above the law?
We ask again as we have asked
before, is the magnificent arch
to be a monument to intolerance
and prejudice, or is it truly to
signify the new spirit of St.
Louis, offering to all its citizens
real equality of opportunity and
not only empty words?
ST. LOUIS REVIEW
Blueprint for Peace
GEORGIA PINES
Friend Comes Forth
BY FR. DONALD KIERNAN
THE FOLLOWING letter received from a
reader is a comment on last week’s article
entitled: NEEDED. . . .some friends. I print
it this week hoping that the reader will en
joy his comments as much as I did.
Dear Father Kiernan,
Needed-some friends.
Unless I am mistaken, this is the second com
ment you feel you have to make about inconside
rate litterbugs, some possibly your own parish
ioners, causing the rectory’s front lawn to look
like the backside of a grocery store. You are
upset and, although I have not been known for gi
ving enthusiastic support to every thought you
vent in your chronicle, this time I am truly
sympathetic..
Just to get my facts, straight, 1 called the
Atlanta Police, and was told that, indeed, it
is illegal to throw litter on the city streets. I
pressed the gendarme at the
other end to specify whether
or not he “could" give a tic
ket to a person he saw throw
ing trash on the street. His
answer was yes. He was ma
nifestly non-plussed that a
citizen would concern himself
with such trivia and gave the
impression that the last thing
he would care to do would be
to pounce like an avenging archangel on an ac
tive litterbug.
In making that phone call, I was thinking that
maybe one of your policemen friends could be
persuaded to hide in your driveway, catch a score
of those hitherto anonymous litterbugs and pre
sent them with a costly autograph. Make an ex
ample. After all, if they think enough of you to
make you their official,chaplain, they ought to be
prepared to do something for your peace of mind.
The point you develop in your epistle to the
miscreants indicates, alas, that you are far from
being purgatory-bent on punishment, or, if that
word pains you as too harsh, retributive justice.
It is reasonable to assume from your reference
to the lazy unemployed that you would not go along
with the judge who sentenced people caught tossing
beer cans on a highway to spend as much time
as necessary to pbllce-by hand-one mile of said
thoroughfare.
Technically, the City Sanitation-Department
might not even be required or expected to clean
up your private front lawn or mine. If they do
it in small rural towns, it probably comes under
the heading of gratuitous courtesy, along with
convict labor and county material and equipment,
but as the Highway Department afficionados
would say, this is another story.
Whether in village or city, the pastor is right
fully entitled to complain about the sanitary
state of the street but it seems to me that the
front yard belongs strictly to his domain, ter-
ritorially'lspeakirig ahd ho offensei
How can I or anyone else “attack” and, in the
long run, re-educate litterbugs? TTie habit is in
grained too deeply.
We may see the day when the litter law is en
forced much more often on the interstate high
ways than it has been, if only to gain standing
or status at the court of Lady Bird. But this is
hardly more than wishful thinking. For, if they
balk at prosecuting punks who throw projectiles
of all kinds from expressways bridges, how can
we hope that they will ever get really miffed at
otherwise decent citizens who make it a point
to ignore the municipal trash barrels?
How, then, can we keep our Pastor’s modest
expanse of grass free from trash? These days,
even at the parish level, our Great Society has
"projects” for everyone. The C.Y.O. makes it
their business to go and serenade the elderly.
The Girls-Scouts for all I know, may have adop
ted an orphanage in Lower Katanga. The St.
Vincent de Paul Society have erected in the rear
of the rectory a wooden structure of such colossal
proportions that, the other day, I was standing
right in front of it and could not see it. Our young
people are often urged-rightly-to make some sa
crifice, preferably at some personal inconveni
ence. If you appealed to our kids at St. Anthony’s,
even this European skeptic believes that some of
them would not consider it incompatible with their
immense dignity to devote afewminutes every day
to the beautification of the lawn.of our and theirs
popular curate. Girls too, not only boys. Exer
cise in humility. Jesus was nottoogoodfor wash
ing some of his contemporaries’s feet, was He?
Would I do it? Yes, I would, would not mind a
bit doing it, say Saturday morning. I may be the
least orthodox of your parishioners but that sort
of thing is right up my alley, not because I am
“nice” but because I am a maniac for order and
neatness.
CRISIS OF CONSCIENCE
A STRANGE CASE
Concerning
Fr. DePauw
BY GERARD E. SHERRY
THE STRANGE case of self-styled head of the
Catholic Traditionalist Movement in the United
States, Father Gommar A. DePauw, gets stranger
and stranger. From our various wire services,
I have been able
to compile a pre
face but the final
chapter is yet to
be told.
While a pro
fessor at Mount
St. Mary Semi
nary in Balti
more, he had cri
ticized liturgical reforms, charged that “pro-
gessive extremists” were trying to “Protes
tantize" the Catholic Church, and held that the
“English Mass’, accompanied by congregational
singing, was “no longer the sacrament of Cal
vary but a songfest with the overtones of a
hootenanny”.
Finally, he was directed by Cardinal Shehan,
his archbishop, to disassociate himself from the
movement. The prelate, a member of the Vatican
Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity, held
that the CTM was “contrary to the best interests
of the Church in this country”.
Father DePauw acceded to the cardinal’s di
rective and went briefly to New York to turn
over command of the organization to a "Father
X”, never officially identified. Although he was
no longer officially associated with the CTM,
he wrote frequently (largely letters to the editor)
on the subject, generally in response to criti
cism.
SINCE HIS transfer to Baltimore from Ghent,
Belgium, Father DePauw has twice asked trans
fer from the archdiocese — first to Yungchow,
China, and now to Tivoli in Italy.
REAPINGS
AT
RANDOM
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His application for “incardination” to the China
See was denied by the archdiocese of 4,000
Catholics — out of a population of 3.4 million —
is on the China mainland, controlled by the Mao
Communist regime. Its bishop is in exile. The
archdiocese said the “conditions for transfer”
were not proper. It is presumed that Father
DePauw sought assignment to the bishop in exile,
not to the diocese where he could not possibly
serve.
In July when Cardinal Shehan prepared to trans
fer him from the seminary to a large parish
in Baltimore, as assistant pastor, Father DePauw
asked to accompany Bishop Blaise Kurz, O.F.M.,
Prefect Apostolic of Yungchow, to the Vatican
Council as a guest expert, Cardinal Shehan gave
hjs permission. ^ 9lll I0 V.sil .uiw i*u
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In Rome, Father DePauw asked the cardinal
if he could transfer to the Diocese of Tivoli.
According to an archdiocesan statement, the
cardinal agreed; it added that the priest could
have leave to arrange a transfer to Tivoli “or
any other diocese”.
“IF UNSUCCESSFUL”, in transfer efforts, the
statement said, Father DePauw could serve as
a priest in a Baltimore parish on the condition
that he disassociate himself from the Catholic
Traditionalist Movement.
While in Rome for the Council, Father De
Pauw told newsmen, he took his case to Cardinal
Ottaviani.
“I fought back and I won”, he said. “Cardi
nal Ottaviani — not the Ottaviani the conserva
tive but the arbiter of theological orthodoxy —
told me there was nothing wrong in my posi
tion and encouraged me to go ahead”.
NEWSMEN were told that Cardinal Ottaviani
arranged the transfer to the Tivoli diocese which,
as part of the See headed by the Pope as Bis
hop of Rome, comes under the supervision of the
Holy See. Presumably, he would not have to work
in Tivoli — like a soldier on “detached ser
vice”, he would belong to Tivoli for administra
tive purposes while operating the Catholic Tra
ditionalist Movement out of New York head
quarters.
What is so strange about the whole business
is that in an interview given by the bishop of
Tivoli, the Italian Prelate said that Cardinal
Ottaviani’s action was taken with the recommen
dation of Francis Cardinal Spellman of New York.
And Father DePauw in a recent interview in New
York itimated that he had the approval of the New
York Archdiocese to direct the CTM from there.
Cardinal Spellman has emphatically denied (a)
recommending Father DePauw (b) giving him
permission to operate within his jurisdiction (c)
that he supports the Traditionalist movement.
Your World And Mine
BY GARY MACEOIN
"NO REAL CHANGE occured in the political
situation in Spain during 1965. Behind Franco,
we still have a vacuum. The Minister for Tourism
has done a magnificent whitewash job for external
consumption. Censorship and other authoritarian
laws have been relaxed on paper. But there has
been no
reality.”
improvement in the
Such is the devastating sum
ming-up just given me by a
priests who holds a top job
in Catholic publishing in Spain.
His conclusions are supported
by priests and laymen from
different social strata and work
backgrounds.
It is generally agreed that the economic sit
uation improved last year. While there was labor
unrest as in previous years, most of the workers
have reached a point where they are more in
terested in food than freedom. “Years of hard
ship have had their effect,” one preist told me.
“And the regime knows how to distract the masses
with radio, television, bull fights and football.”
UNIVERSITY students are currently the leaders
in the fight to liberalize the regime. Although
police pressure in 1965 was greater thanfor some
years, they were not intimidated. Even the risk
of expulsion from the univsersity, which means
the closing of all doors to a career, no longer
seems to frighten them.
A major current issue is the campaign for free
dom of association. Last month, 2,500 students
of Madrid University passed several resolutions
bearing on this subject. They described the pre
sent law, under which an official union controlled
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To further cloud the whole business, it is
reported that Bishop Faveri of Tivoli will not
accept Father DePauw. What is more, a spokes
man for Cardinal Shehan of Baltimore has stated
that the only way Father DePauw could get per
mission to transfer to another diocese was through
being accepted by another bishop and actually
working in the diocese to which he would be
lncardinated.
OBVIOUSLY, the original arrangement in Ti
voli would have been possible if Father De
Pauw had had any intention of staying in that
Italian diocese, doing parochial work or anything
else desired by that bishop. Alas, it appears
all too clear that the move was simply made
to give him a base outside of Tivoli to promote
the Traditionalist Movement in the United States
without interference from his former bishop. It
was not destined to work.
However, there are certain points about this
case which give cause for concern. Here is a
priest who is told by his bishop to cease and
desist doing something which his bishop disap-
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