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f PAGE 8 GEORGIA BULLETIN THURSDAY, JANUARY 27, 1966 IN SPAIN Dominican Head Favors Cathoiic-Marxist Dialogue MADRID (NC)— Hie master general of the Dom inican F a- thers told a national television audience in Spain that this coun try must open itself to new lines of thought in the modern world, including even a dialogue be tween Catholics and Marxists. It is estimated that several million persons watched the televised interview with Spa nish-born Father Anieeto Fer nandez, O.P., Among other things, he said persons in power have an Obligation to enforce the ecumenical council’s decla ration on religious liberty, and he said Dominican theologians must base their work on Scrip tural sources as well as St. Thomas Aquinas. Questioned by newsmen, Fa ther Fernandez stated that Spain in recent years has kept it self apart from events in other nations. “Spain,” he said, must keep prepared if it wishes to preserve its faith. And in order to preserve it (Spain) must open itself. “IT IS. NECESSARY that we make ourselves, congenial, more understanding and chari table toward all mankind. We must not be intransigent-in any thing. There are many questions which can be freely discussed.” Questioned about a possible Christian-Marxist dialogue, an idea that has been attacked by some Church authorities in Rome, Father Fernandez said such contacts are made diffi cult by the basic anti-Christian nature of communism. “Nevertheless,” he added, “collaboration should never be excluded. w “IF WE COULD agree to help each other to lift the status of the people, why not do so? This could be a means of en tering into a friendship and dialogue with them, and thus a means for them to under stand the truth of the Chris tian religion.” While the incompatibility of Christianity and Marxism is obvious, Father Fernandez said that fact does not make them enemies. “We can remain very firm in our faith and in our beliefs and treat the com- English Help SANTA CLARA, CALIF. (NC) An intensive six week program will be conducted by the Uni versity of Santa Clara’s Eng lish department this summer to help solve a sticky problem: only one-half of the high school teachers of English in Northern California hold degrees in the subject. ATLANTA lOWERS Safest, Newest, Finest U,3 BEDROOMS Roof Garden, Swim Pool, Cobana, Putting Green, Safe Because It's Flameless. Total Elec. Carpeting—-Soundproof PHONE: 875-8666 Convenient To Christ The King fc Sacred Heart Parishes munists with great charity to see whether we might under stand one another and make them see the truth,” he said; “Why should we not talk to each other? We are all men. There are undoubtedly many communists with good inten tions who want the very poor to find a better standard of living. In this we can agree.” The Dominican leader, who has been described in'the past as a conservative - minded churchman, even supported the idea of priest-workers within his religious order. The priest- worker experiment was under a cloud of Church suspicion for several years, but it was rein- Stituted last year in France by the bishops of that country. “I belieye they represent a means to achieve contact with Marxist workers,” he said. “What the Church needs today is to put itself in contact with and communicate with the wor kers.” Father Fernandez said the decrees of the ecumenical coun cil, such as the one on reli gious freedom, “bind all Chris tians, and consequently bind all Christians who are in power to . their fullest extent. “PARTICULARLY in regard to religious freedom, Spain must accept all that it stated in the council decree.” However, he added that the freedom to think and worship as one pleases does not free a person from the obligation of seeking the truth. And even in the area of worship he said the state has the right to en force certain restrictions necessary for good public or der. Father Fernandez praised the assistance that members of the Dominican order gave to the ecumenical council in the field of philosophy ahd theology. “It was a question of expounding theological and philosophical doctrine not simply in a scho lastic and professional sense, but in a popular, biblical sense,” he said, "for such was the lan guage of Jesus Christ.” Father Fernandez was in Spain to dedicate a Dominican theology school in Santander. The school has been made a university and is affiliated with the Pontifical University of St. Thomas in Rome. INTER-RELIGIOUS COMMITTEE AGAINST POVERTY — Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey met with representatives of a new committee to rally religious support in the national war against poverty (Jan. 18). Left to right: Louis Stern, New' York, past president, Council of Jew’ish Federations and Welfare Funds; Archbishop Robert E. Lucey, San Antonio; the Rev. Dr. Eugene Carson Blake, Philadelphia, stated clerk of the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A.; the Rev. Dr. Norman Baugher, Elgin, Ill., gen eral secretary of the Church of the Brethren general brotherhood board; Rabbi Seymour Cohen, president of the Synagogue Council of America, and Bishop Raymond J. Gallagher , of Lafayette, Ind. Letters To The Editor TO THE EDITOR: THERE IS a great need in these days to return to the old paths when discrimination was a good word and properly used. Also, there is a need of the virtue of consistency. Many are very discriminating as to the type house they live in, the car they drive, the clothes they wear, the food they eat and that they allow their children to eat, but pay little attention to the material they read. We need to be just as concerned about what the .mind is fed on as we are the body. Just as bad food Any Suggestions? HERE IS your chance to get your thoughts and suggestions in cluded in the efforts of the Lay Congress for presentation to the 1966-Archdiocesan Synod. Whatever your suggestions, whether in the fields of administration, education, or future plans and expansion include them in the form here, or on an additional sheet of paper and mail to Herbert G. Farnsworth, 176 Bolling Road, N.E., Atlanta, Ga. 30305. I would like these suggestions to be discussed by the Lay Com mittees of the Lay Congress to be held in the Spring of 1966: Name: _ Parish: Address: ‘LANGUAGE OF WORSHIP’ Latin Is Decreed For Seminarians mm VATICAN CITY (NC)-—The Congregation of Seminaries and Universities has issued guide lines for the liturgical training of future priests, including the provision that Latin is to be the language of their public wor ship. The document, entitled Na- tivitate Domini and sent to all the world's bishops, states that Latin is the language of the Church and should be known by every seminarian. It cau tions against using the verna cular to such an extent that Latin is excluded, stating that the Church, while granting the use of the vernacular, does not ACTION DANCING THE "ACTION NOTE- ABLES"' NO ADMISSION • NO MINIMUM • NO COVER • REDUCED PRICES .2581 PIEDMONT RD.wN.E. • 231-3115 • AMPLE FREE PARKING Ambassador Custom Stereo Fine Stereo Furniture-Name Brand Components-Expert In stallation b Diamond Needles 3239 Peachtree Road At Piedmont Phone CE 3-2911 Atlanta N can poison the body, so can bad reading material poison the mind. It is a proven fact that much of the delinquency today is due to the filthy, trashy reading material that youth can obtain so easily from almost every news stand, even in the grocery and drug stores. PARENTS, TEACHERS, civic leaders, ministers and all others need to awaken to the danger of producing a genera tion whose minds are so cor rupted by allowing the distri bution of pomograhpic read ing material, that society is down graded and moral decay sets in that will bring ruina tion. Already we are seeing this to too large a degree among the youth and older people as well. The eye-gate is the main ac cess to the mind and memory, and pornographic material is so written and illustrated as to make lasting impressions on the mind of the reader. This ma terial is so rotten that even the postal authorities have set up stringent regulations against is, and every citizen should co operate with them. Pornography is of such a na ture that it is often peddled as dope and very often by the dope peddlers themselves. Just as dope addicts the user, so does pornography and leads to a continual decay and destruc tion of character and body. The Wesleyan Evangelical Mini sterial Alliance, composed of twenty - two ministers repre senting six denominations in the Greater Atlanta Area, protest the sale and distribution of such, and call upon the parents and civic and religious leaders to use their influence every way they can to abolish the traffic. E.W. DEAN, PRESIDENT WESLEYAN EVANGELICAL MINISTERIAL ALLIANCE LAUNDRY & CLEANING VILLAGE 674 ASHBY ST., S.W. . 2619 LAWRENCEVILLE HWY. 735-9426 PLENTY OF FREE PARKING SPACE 443-9027 wish clerics to igpore the study of Latin. The instruction notes that the liturgy makes use of the arts, especially poetry and music, and has formed great teacher in the course of centuries. REGARDING music it gives first place to the use of tra ditional Gregorian chant. It re commends music chosen from the large treasury of classic polyphony as well as modern compositions. It calls for the formation of ascholacantorum, a specially trained choir for Gregorian chant, and demands a minimum of one hour instruc tion in the liturgy , each week for four years. The document has been drawn up in light of the Constitution on the Liturgy. It is composed of an introduction and four chap ters, plus an appendix. The first chapter deals with, the practical means of inculca ting liturgical acts in the life of the seminary. The second chapter covers the resources which superiors and spiritual directors must know in order to train future priests. THE THIRD chapter discus- sess practical initiation inpas toral liturgy. Lastly, the docu ment outlines a program of studying the liturgy in the light of theology. whether Negroes in this district were really free to vote against Mr. Bond without fear of intimi dation from the more militant elements of the Negro commun ity. I am assuming, and I think somewhat reasonably so, that the managing editor of the BUL LETIN, Mr. Gerard E. Sherry, either wrote or directly approv ed the editorial in question. Now, no one can, dispute the right of Mr. Sherry to present a reasoned argument explaining his position on Mr. Bond. But why was it not developed in its proper setting, the personal opinion column entitled “Reap ings at Random?” Why was this obviously controversial stand taken on the editorial page? I suggest that Mr. Sherry knew quite well the interpreta tion which would be placed by the secular press on statements in the editorial column of the * ‘official’ ’ local Catholic news paper, and that it was precisely because he realized his com ments would be widely inter preted as reflecting “official” Catholic thought that he pre sented his viewpoint in the man ner that he did. Finally, I must confess that I find it hard to understand how the Archbishop, with his exten sive experience in such mat ters, could have been so sur prised at the general impres sion which was created, assum ing, of course, that he was aware of the contents of the edi torial prior to its publication. LEO E. REICHERT, JR. DECATUR, GA. TO THE EOrrOR IN THE January 13 issue of THE BULLETIN, the editorial page carried an article entitled “Legislative Folly” in which it was argued that a * ‘bleak day for Democracy” had occured the previous Monday when the Georgia legislators had refused to seat Mr, Julian Bond because of his controversial support of the SNCC statement violently attacking U.S. policy in Viet Nam, and encouraging draft- card burning and other unlaw ful acts to avoid service in the armed forces. Shortly there after, Atlanta newspapers car ried articles with lead head lines proclaiming that "Catho lics” supported Mr. Bond’s right to be seated as a repre sentative of the 136th district. As a result, the Archbishop felt it necessary to point out pub licly that, although he himself agreed with the position outlin ed in the BULLET IN, this did not represent "official” Catholic thinking on the matter. There are a number of cate gorical assumptions contained in this editorial which are, 1 submit, open to some debate. As, for example, whether Mr, Bond would have been elected by the 136th district had he made his views known publi- cally prior to the election and, preach a strictly limited area of defense? And ihe whole piece was less than competent, for it espoused the cause of some callow youth who seemed to think he had a right to speak for the Univer sity without any faculty super vision. The Catholic institutions did exactly right in refusing to give him lectern space. But the fact that a Methodist univer sity permitted itself to be a sounding board for him does not speak highly of their ecu menical efforts for peace a- mong churches. Even the fact that a priest on his side pub- lically called the administrative head-priest a liar does not en hance the persuasive value of the charges. All this only proves that you ought to do your fellow-Catho- lics a favor by circulating cop ies of the Archbishop’s quali fications for a responsible cri tic. And you might check your own news by the same yard stick. MYRTLE PIHLMAN POPE ATLANTA TO THE EDITOR: WHOEVER set the type for the article on St. John’s University should have first consulted the Archbishop’s column. His plea for responsible lay criticism of the clergy specified that such criticism should be competent, truthful, courageous, prudent, reverent, and charitable. A news report can hardly be regarded as competent if it fails to take into account facts that would vitiate its own-argu ment. It is not courageous if it fails to face the fact that noth ing short of courage will enable a writer to defend the politi cal right nowadays. It said noth ing at all about the subversive elements (now rampant on most college campuses) which are seeking to wipe out every vestige of religion, and against which the wisest of administra tions are helpless without the aid of the churches.' It is not prudent of the edi tor to have more regard for his right to spread anti-Catholic sentiment in a Catholic news paper than he has for the sur vival of the Church—or does he imagine that the gates of Hell will not prevail against the wa vering members of the Church who read his persuasive doc trine? (But of course he has plenty of company in the Catho lic press everywhere!) The scurrilous remarks quoted about Irish Catholicism, as though this were an evil thing, are certainly not reverent, or even charitable of whatever ex traordinary failings may have been ascribed to the Irish. 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Our news on this subject comes mainly from the news service of the National Catholic Welfare Con ference, an agency of the American Bishops. -W TO THE EDITOR: At the risk of beating a sub ject to death I would like to an swer Mrs. Gemazian’s letter (Jan. 21, Georgia Bulletin) in which she implied that the wo man who questioned Msgr. Con way about Birth Control needed only to get a new "view” to solve her problems. Mrs. Ger- nazian makes this sound as easy as flipping a switch. Were this true, I doubt thatMilledge- ville would be so crowded. Per haps one day all Catholics will be charitable enough to admit that while some couples cam adequately rear large families, others cannot, and leave the de cision to the individual couple. They are the ones who will ans wer to God for their actions. - Mrs. Gernazian obviously has a talent for writing - perhaps a paragraph or two by her on the meaning of the Indian proverb about not judging another till you’ve walked for a time in his moccasins, might be forthcom ing in a future issue of the Georgia Bulletin. MRS. W.P. STALLWORTH TUCKER, GEORGIA. Bridge Party Set Feb. 15 THE LADIES of the Immacu late Conception Altar Society will have a bridge luncheon on Tuesday, February 15, from 10:30 to 3 in the church social hall. Table and door prizes. Donation $1.25. For reservations or infor mation please call Mrs. Jent- zen, PL 3-0043 or Mrs. Gra ham, 241-3836. WE YOUR MAIL THE HOLY FATHER'S MISSION AID TO THE ORIENTAL CHURCH Do you read purs? Our mail, that is. . . . If so, you’ll receive within-the next few days (if you haven’t received it already) our invitation to help the Holy Father help the helpless in 18 emerging countries. We are asking our friends to renew their membership (and to enroll their families) in this Association. Look for the invi tation. We hope you’ll write promptly to say Yes. . . . Since we ard the Holy Father’s official mission-aid, we are sending you his photograph with a list of the beriefits he grants to members. We ask you, in particular, to pray for priests and Sisters overseas. . . . What will your mem bership do? It will feed starving children, buy medicines for lepers, teach deaf-mutes and the blind, in the Holy Father’s name. Why not enroll now the people you know need prayers?... Just in case our invitation does not reach you, the membership offering for one year is only $2 per person, $10 for a family. The offering for per petual membership is $25 per person, $100 for a family. You may enroll your deceased as well, of course Write to us promptly to say Yes, That’s the mail we like to read. WELCOME TO NEW FRIENDS AND OLD BUILD A PARISH SAVE A HOLY LAND CHURCH DIG A WELL FUTURE PRIESTS AND SISTERS "USE WHERE NEEDED” Wonder what dollars can do in our 18 coun tries? Here are some suggestions: □ $10,000 will build a complete “parish plant” (church, school, convent, rectory) in India this year. Name it for your favorite saint, in memory of your loved ones.- □ $5,200 will preserve for generations to come the beautiful parish church now crumbling in Mojeidel, Lebanon. The village is near Sidon, where Our Lord visited, you’ll recall. Save this church in the Holy Land? □ $2,750 will dig a well for Bishop Haile-Mariam Cashai and his J 33 students for the priesthood in Adigrat, Ethioi ia. Boys use lots of water. □ $600 ($8.50 a month for six years) will train a poor boy for the priesthood overseas. $300 ($12.50 a month for two years) will train a native Sister. They will write to you. □ Your Stringless Gift ($1,000, $500, $75, $50, $10, $5, $1) equips the Holy Father for mission emergencies. Dear enclosed please find $. Monsignor Ryan: Please name_ return coupon with your street. offering CITY. .STATE. .ZIP CODE. THE CATHOLIC NEAR EAST WELFARE ASSOCIATION 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