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PAGE 8 GEORGIA BULLETIN THURSDAY, JANUARY 21, 1966 $ Archbishop’s Notebook Guide-lines, Inc. THE YEAR is only three weeks old, and the Archdiocese is busy about many things; the Religious Unity services in eight Atlanta Churches — the clearing of issues in the Julian Bond question — the planning of the Congress for the Laity, that for the Sisters, and the Archdiocesan Synod. Coming up are the Liturgy Confe rence at Charlotte and the Latin American week. Lest these events be mistaken for merely surface changes, it may be well to look deeper. Take the Synod (with the two Con gresses). Just what is their direction? To indicate the route the Church is taking in northern Georgia, let’s look at these guidelines. * (In St. Paul’s usage, these might be called “DE ECCLESIA ATLANTENSIS”, or "Concerning the Church at Atlanta’’ since these points are all found in various documents of Vatican II). 1. The parish should be inbred with a missionary spirit reach ing out to all who live in its boundaries. In this, all the priests, religious and laity have their role. (Experiment:-—Mass in pri vate homes.) 2. The bishop should visit the whole diocese, presiding at pontifical services and directing the apostolate. He should know his priests and people as far as possible. By means of deans, other priests, and (he should not hesitate to ask for) one or more auxiliary bishops, he must get all the help he needs. (New term; Episcopal vicars with specific areas of authority.) *** • BROTHERS AND FRIENDS 3. The relation of priest and bishop should be that of brothers and friends. Both should join in regular dialogue, in conference where experts are invited to speak, and in a spirit of proper respect, obedience and fraternity. (Example: A senate of priests, a presbytery, is to aid the bishop by representing all the priests.) 4. The laity is seen in two roles the ordinary one (a) in which the Church becomes present in hum an society through the lives of laymen as witnesses and living instruments; and the extraordinary function; (b) certain laymen receive from those in authority by which they cooperate with priest and bishop, (e.g.: -—laymen as lectors, as St. Vincent de Paul workers, as editors, teachers and specialists in definite commissions.) ¥¥¥ • CHANNELS OF AUTHORITY 5. The Church must set up channels by which laymen can ex press their needs and desires, opinions and criticism. This supposes competence on their part, and a confidence on the part of the bishop and priests. It should always be done in truth, cour age, prudence, and with reverence and charity toward those who represent Christ in their Sacred office. (Experiment:--the Lay Congress of 1966.) 6. There is a special voice within man’s universal call to holiness for husbands and wives, fathers and mothers. "Faithful love”, the Council calls it, "sustaining each other in grace all their lives”. They see their children as God’s gift; they love each other in the Christian mystery of love, following Christ by the sacrifices and joys of their vocation and by their love. (E.g.: re-learning the meaning of marriage.) 7. PASTORS and assistants are joined, not only in the unity of their priesthood, but in the cooperative manner in which they build up the pastoral mission of the parish. Religious who serve parishes and institutions of the archdiocese belong to this unity of diocesan priests (now being studied for the Synod: concern of the homes, the poor, the sick, the children, the workers, the think ers and the unknown). 8. New methods of pastoral work are to be tried out, tested and used or improved. (Experiment:—social research, identifi cation of the Church with the poor, the pooling of personnel and funds.) 9. Teachers (and indeed all who work in nursing, social ser vice or missions) are called to a "beautiful and very important” vocation. Since they represent the parents, the Church and the ci vil community, this calls for careful preparation and especially for "a continuing readiness to renew and to adapt”. (Example;— Sisters' Synod of 1966; greater role for laity in these vocations.) 10. IN ADDITION TO Catholic Schools, theChurchmust be pre sent in other schools of whatever academic level.The Declara tion on Christian Education calls for the "moral and religious education of all her children”, just as the new definition of Ca tholic education is "for all Catholic students wherever they are”. (Instance:—enlargement of our Department of Education to include the CCD, Newman Apostolate and Adult Education as well as Ca tholic schools.) 11. The voice of the Church must be heard in the world. As Paul VI has said; "The Church has something to say.” It speaks of the things of God—the mystery of Salvation and the sacraments. But it must also judge and speak out on "the things of man”—his freedom, the family, human society with its laws, professions, la bor and leisure* the arts and sciences, poverty and affluence. Problems of justice — economic, racial and international — have their place in the pulpit. (Implementation:—careful, thorough, courageous speech In our homilies, our instructions, our journals and our conversation.) 12. Basically what is the aim of it all? To scatter a jargon of new terms, "Encounter, Kerygmatic, witness and communal”? Hardly. To produce a generation knee-jerk Catholics whose re flexes are dulled by a vigil-light, but get excited at (he term, Bible-vigil? Is there supposed to be a virtue in calling Mass a "banquet” and the Rosary a "superstition”? LET NOT these thoughts give comfort to the Resistors. The Church is calling for a change, but it must be a change of minds and hearts. The purpose of the guide-lines 1-12 is to deepen our faith by returning more and more to the Word of God. Our religion is more Bible-oriented, more Gospel-conscious, more Christian today than it was a generation ago. Thus far we owe most of this to a few popes and bishops, a few priests and theologians, —and the Holy Spirit. NOW IT IS time for all to goto work—on our religion; respond ing to the graces, the insights and the spiritual stimuli that God sends. That’s where the Guide-lines point. That’s where the ac tion is. N.B. Liturgy and Religious Unity are not included here because directives in them are well-known in the Archdiocese. They must be included, however, as part of the basic substance of the reform and renewal. POPE PAUL visited patients at Rome University’s children’s clinic on the feast of Epiph any (Jan. 6). The Holy Father brought gifts for the children, many of whom were in the last stages of terminal cancer and other diseases. As the ambulatory patients gathered with him around the Christmas crib, Pope Paul spoke affectingly of the value of innocent suffering on the part of these children as a means of the world’s salvation. POPE’S ANALYSIS SAYS Traditional Church Dogma Got Council Confirmation VATICAN CITY (NC)~In a detailed analysis of the ecu menical council’s lasting ef fects, Pope Paul VI said its teachings have brought about no liberation or break from the Church's traditional dogmas, but rether their confirmation and development. The council opens many new horizons for biblical, theolo gical and humanistic studies, he said, "and offers an invi tation to investigate religious sciences and render them more profound. But it does not de prive Christian thought of its speculative rigor nor does it permit, the arbitrariness, un certainty, servility and deso lation which marks so many forms of modern religious thought deprived of the assis tance of the Church’s teach ing authority.” The Pope was speaking at his weekly general audience the day after the publication of his apostolic letter setting up six commissions to put the council’s documents into prac tical effect. SPEAKING OF these docu ments as the "council’s heri tage,” he described them as forming "a body of doctrines and laws which must give to the Church that renewal for which the council was promo ted. To know, study and apply these documents is the duty and fortune of the post-con ciliar period.” It would be wrong, he said, to think that the council “re presents a severance, break— or as some believe a libera tion—from the traditional teac hing of the Church. Those also would be wrong who would au thorize and promote facile con formity to the mentality of our times in its ephemeral and ne gative aspects rather than those which are certain and scienti fic, or who would allow each in dividual to attach the value and expression he thinks best to the truths of the Faith.” Although the council avoided infallible dogmatic definitions because of its pastoral character, he said, “neverthe less its teachings carry the weight of the supreme ordinary teaching authority. This ordi nary teaching authority, so evi dently authentic, must be re ceived docilely and Sincerely by all the faithful in accordance with the intentions of the coun cil regarding the nature and purpose of each of the docu ments.” “WE MUST enter into the spirit of these basic principles of Church teaching and develop in our souls trust in the guid ance of the Church along sure paths of faith and Christian life. If good Catholics so con duct themselves—good sons of the Church, and particularly scholars, theologians, teach ers, those who spread the word of God and those who are stu dents and who do research in the field of authentic doctrine which springs from the Gospel and is professed by the Church —then it is to be hoped that faith, together with Christian life and the life of society; will achieve a great restora tion, one which derives precise* ly from saving truth. For indeed the ’spirit of the council’ is the spirit of truth” (John 16, 13); The council’s teachings do not in themselves constitute “an organic and complete system of Catholic doctrine,” the Pope said, "That is much wider); as everyone knows, and is not questioned or substantially m<H dified by the council. On the contrary, the council illustra tes, defends and develops it With extremely authoritative explanations, full of wisdom;, vigor and confidence. "It is this doctrinal aspect of the council which we must consider first of all. . .We must not sever the teachings of the council from the doc- THE MARRIAGE of Miss Mary VirginiaO’Briendaughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Ernest O’Brien to Gregory Loyd Lyons son of Mr. and Mrs. William Gregory Lyons of Marietta was solemnized Saturday; December 18, with a Nuptial Mass at Our Lady of the Assumption Church with the Rev. Phillip J. Me* Ardle, S.M. as celebrant. The bride, given in marriage by her father, was exquisitely lovely in a three-piece suit of white woolen knit and silk with embroidered lace fringe and. tiny pearl buttons. On her head she wore a silk lace Madonna- style seballena and carried an old fashioned nosegay of orchids and carnations. The Maid of Honor was the groom’s sister. Miss Lennis Lyons, who was attired in a soft pink woolen suit. With this she wore a pink velvet bow on her head and carried a nosegay of pink carnations. Mr. Lyons served as his son’s Card Burner Pleads Guilty NEW YORK (NC)—James E, Wilson, 21-year-old member of the Catholic Worker move ment, pleaded guilty in Fe deral court here (Jan. 11) to wilfully burning his draft card at a Union Square rally Nov. 6. He faces a maximum penalty of five years in_prison and a fine of $10,000. Sentencing was set for Fteb. 25. trinal heritage of the Church, but on the contrary discern how they find their place there, how they are consistent with it and how they give it witness, growth, explanation and appli cation. "THEN, EVEN the doctrinal or normative ‘novelties’ of the council appear in their proper proportion and do not create objections to the faithfulness of the Church to its teaching func tion, but rather acquire that true significance which makes it shine with a superior light. "May the council help the faithful, therefore, whether they be teachers or disciples, to overcome those states of mind — of negation, indif ference, doubt, subjectivism and the like—which are con trary to the purity and strength of the faith. The council Is a great act of Church teaching, and those who adhere to coun- cil thereby recognize and honor the teaching authority of the Church. This was the first idea which inspired Pope John XXIII .to convene the council.” best man. A younger brother, William, was altar boy. Following the ceremony, the newlyweds left on a wedding trip to Miami Beach. The bride’s outfit was a woolen suit of mint green with silk overblouse and black accessories. With this she used an orchid from her hose- gay- After January 3, the young couple will reside at 255 Third Ave. E., Cullman, Ala. where the groom is completing his studies at St. Bernard College. Mrs. Lyons will be on the faculty of Sacred Heart Grammar School. New President For Loyola U. NEW ORLEANS (NC)—Fath er Homer R, Jolley, S.J., has been named president of Loyola University, succeeding Father Andrew C. Smith, S.J., presi dent since 1961. The announcement was made (Jan. 13) following a joint meeting of the university’s board of regents and board of directors. Father Jolley, a member of the Loyola faculty for 15 years and vice president for develop ment since 1964, becomes the 12th president of the Jesuit institution, the largest Catholic university in the South. DECEMBER CEREMONY O’Brien-Lyons Nuptials Are Solemnized Here Letters To The Editor TO THE EDITOR: In your editorial on the Julian Bond matter, you stated that some members of the House of Representatives had injected the race issue into the contro versy. I believe if you will re view the events of those days carefully, you will find it was not any member of the House of Representatives that Injected the race issue but rather Martin Luther King, James Forman and John Lewis who sought to make a race question out of it, pro bably in the hope that they might find some strength and support in the civil rights movement for their unpopular anti-Viet nam position. Fortunately they would appear to have been un successful in their attempt. While I agreed with most of your editorial, 1 did think the record should be made straight on this point in fairness to the members of the House of Rep resentatives. MICHAEL J. EGAN JR. ATLANTA, GA. TO THE EDITOR: THE LATEST edition of’The Bulletin" is most disconcert ing, especially since there are so many young adults among' your readers. If you find Mr, Bond’s support of the SNNC’s advice to young men to refuse to be drafted imprudent— how can you feel he should be in the Legislature helping to make laws we are expected to follow? Mr. Bond said; "I admire the draft card burners' courage— especially since he faces a five year prison term fordoing so.” I do not feel our country is so demoralized that we can not be represented in the government by men who are loyal and true leaders—white or black. The NAACP and other Negro leaders are his worst critics so there is no racial problem here. We are a retired Army family, and at many stations some of my favorite doctors were Negroes so I cannot be accused of in tolerance on the racial issue. It is such editorials as yours that cause unrest and revolt, and disrespect for authority among our young people in col leges and universities. And per— haps many of our young priests have been misled—as in last week’s paper I read of so many having to be transferred to foreign countries fo r becoming too involved in the racial pro blems. Let's keep our Catholic paper out of politics please. And above all, let us not champion a cause so near treason. And if it has become necessary, why not teach a little more patriotism, and point out some of the numerous advantages of living in this country; and the fact (corney as it may seem) that "United we stand, divided we fall.’’ We can never attain peace as long as the Communists know that even some lawmakers ad vocate draft laws defiance. The issue at stake is being misinterpreted. Anyone has the right to criticize the Admin istration and should, if he is against their policies. But no legislator or anyone in authority anywhere should advise young people to break laws. MRS. M.A. ORY ATLANTA, GEORGIA Mission Help Volunteers MARYKNOLL, N.Y. (NC)~ Summer vacation 1966 will find hundreds of American college students working in parts of Latin America and the United States as voluntary mission helpers. Similarly, many graduating college students and others will take up voluntary and paid po sitions in a wide range of lay apostolic organizations, ser- vlng, in some cases, upwards to two and three years in the service of others abroad and at home. Their jobs will range from work on construction sites to census taking, teaching, home visiting and* nursing, food and clothes distribution, instruction of Christian Doctrine and speech therapy. An extensive listing of major summer volunteer. programs for collegians in 1966, and con tinuing lay apostolic organiza tions for professionals is of fered in the brochure, "World Campus Survey,” available from the Maryknoll Fathers here. TO THE EDITOR Reference is made to your lead editorial "Legislative Folly”. I take issue with your statement that Julian Bond’s sympathy for draft card burners and admiration for those who have the courage to bum their draft cards is not subversive. Mr. Bond undoubtedly has a strong influence over hundreds of young admirers from his own district as well as thousands throughout the country and he has treated this responsible po sition with indifference. Had our Georgia Legislature permitted Mr. Bond’s seating, it would lend support to his ir responsible subversive sug gestion. It is not our desire to have any publication in our home that condones this sinful action. Please cancel our subscription to the Georgia Bulletin. THOMAS B. BARKER ATLANTA TO THE EDITOR Please remove my name from the mailing list at once. In my opinion the Bulletin has always leaned toward the coloredsideof everything. The editorial about Julian Bond done it. I don’t want the mailman, or any one who may come to my home to think that I belong to the NAACP., CORE, S.N.C.C. etc. A person may get that im pression if they knew I received your paper. Any one who ad mires a draft card burner isn’t fit to live in our country, much less be a lawmaker. ROBERTA ME ADO WC RO FT ATLANTA t bsn SW-SBW- 4 ' 1 sffi SAVE ' JOHNSON TIRE SERVICE INC. 1517 ROSWELL ST. 427-539 MARIETTA GEORGIA TO THE EDITOR: "Two men looked out from prison bars One saw the mud; the other saw the stars.” The woman writing Msgr. Conway in the Question Box on page 5 of the Jan. 13 Issue who thinks "rhythm is foolish, "wants to be sure she does not become pregnant until she is ready” and thinks "toomany children can ruin a marriage” might be compared to the man who saw the mud. And Mrs. Carota, mother of 17, on page 10 might be compared to the one who saw the stars. Two women stood at their kitchen sink One thought be grudgingly of all the work she had to do that day And in her pregnant state, felt P.U. The poor thing needs more than con- traceptives-she needs a dif ferent viewl The other thanked God and used the time to pray and glanc- ing through her window saw a lovely little blue jay. "Oh, thought she with a joyful heart, "perhaps the child I’m carrying Might serve God someday in a special way.” With family planning all the rage it was good to see an "un planned” one appearing with Pope Paul on your page. (MRS. HARRY GERNAZ IAN) ATLANTA, GA For Information Writet BrotherDonold Hanxol, CSC 104 Holy Cross School 4950 Dauphine Street New Orleans. La. 7<JT17 ; ■ INDIA: ONLY BEGINNING THE HOLY FATHER'S MISSION AID TO THE ORIENTAL CHURCH What's new in India this week? In towns and hamlets off the beaten path courageous priests and Sisters are eating only ounces of rice each SEE day in order to share their food with starving HOW children. Lepers in Sheratallay get immediate THESE relief from the Dapsone tablets (only $8.50 for PEOPLE 10,000 tablets) we are able to send because you LOVE read this column. Indians in their ’teens, pre- ONE paring to be priests and Sisters, study hard for ANOTHER! the day when they too can help the poor. .. . What lies ahead in the next few weeks and months? Here's a sampling of what we hope to do: WHERE □ “An investment in knowledge pays the best STUDENTS interest,” Benjamin Franklin said. The Carmelite WILL Fathers in Calicut, with more than 1,000 stu : TALK dents in their care, are shaping India’s future. WITH “But what is an education without God?”, Father GOD Superior asks. The chapel they need at St. Joseph’s College will cost only $7,500 (the cost of the materials) since the priests and the stu dents will do the work themselves. They need cash, however, to purchase the materials. Help all you can? Name the chapel for your favorite saint, in memory of your loved ones, if you build it all by yourself. Just write to us today. EVERY □ “Help a man put a roof over the heads of his FAMILY wife and children, and you give him dignity and NEEDS purpose," writes Archbishop Joseph Parecattil. A In the Ernakulam area, where thousands are ROOF homeless, the Archbishop asks help to build 4,000 homes. The basjc materials will cost only $200 for each. The family will build it under proper supervision, and they’ll own it "no strings attached.’’—If your home is warm and com fortable, thank God by helping a family that is poor? A □ For only $12.50 a month ($150 a year, $300 SISTER for the entire two-year course) you can enable OF a poor girl in India to become a Sister. She will YOUR write to you, pray for you and yours each day. OWN Write to us. A MAKING Our legal title is: Catholic Near East Welfare A Association. Bequests to the Holy Father will WILL? be used for the poor where needed most. Dear enclosed please find $_ Monsignor Ryan: FOR , Please return coupon name. with your street. offering CITY. .ZIP CODE- THE CATHOLIC NEAR EAST WELFARE ASSOCIATION NEAR 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