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VOL. IV. NO. 18
ATLANTA, GEORGIA
THURSDAY, MAY 5, 1966
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LA Y CONGRESS
Delegates Briefed
With New Reports
Revised reports from three
of the committees making plans
for the Lay Congress on May 20-
22 — the Administration, Edu
cation and Future Planning
committees — have been mail
ed to several hundred delegates
from all parishes in the Arch
diocese of Atlanta. In addition
a new report was circulated by
the Steering Committee.
James W. Callison, Presi
dent of the Congress, explain
ed that meetings should be
held in each parish to consi
der these reports to see if
parishes want to make addi
tional suggestions to the com
mittees on or before May 3.
The reports, as revised at sub
sequent meetings of the com
mittees, and other matters pro
perly brought before the floor
of the Congress, will be debat
ed and voted upon in the
Congress later in May.
The Steering Committee for
the Congress has also announ
ced plans for the Congress it
self. The meetings will begin
at the Biltmore Hotel in At
lanta at 7;30 p.m. on Friday
night, May 20. Parish delegates
and their alternates willbefor-
mally registered before that
time. The delegates or alterna
tes functioning for absent or
non-voting delegates will be
the voting members of the Con
gress, although all alternates
and ad hoc members will be
Vatican II
Workshop
A council workshop held by
a Jesuit priest from Ignatius
House at St. John the Evange
list, Hapeville met with great
success. About 300 adults at
tended. The discussions were
on the spirit and documents
of the Vatican Council on the
liturgy, ecumenism, and reli
gious liberty. Baby-sitting ser
vices were available in class
rooms of the school while pa
rents attended the workshop.
Archbishop's Office
2699 leachlree Road. N. R
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DEAR SISTERS IN CHRIST:
Your minds and your hearts are tuned to the dancing tempo of
twentieth century Catholicism as you meet today. After months
of preparation, the Congress of Sisters becomes your authentic
voice.
In the past you were often asked to speak, but the invitation
was casual. And yet you who have staffed our schools and our
hospitals are perhaps best qualified to give the insights and
the nuances that the Church’s far-flung program needed.
The new voice you now provide will not greatly alter your own
work. You do not really seek that. Children and youths will
continue to be taught; the sick, the suffering and the needy
will still need your ministry.
But what you say to us today will deeply affect the Church
itself. From the consecrated freedom in which you freely live,
you have drawn your own reflections and now make them avail
able to us all. From the Congress will come indispensable
guide-lines for the First Archdiocesan Synod, November 20-22,
1966. As you recommend definite plans, work with Synod Com
mittees, and attend the Synod as auditors, you will be stepping
out of your former role of silent spectator. In company with
dedicated priests and laymen you are the guides of God’s people.
For this we are all very grateful to you. May your womanly
wisdom and goodness, offered to Christ, return to this world
which needs so badly to be wise and to be good.
May God bless you always!
Sincerely yours in Christ,
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CATHEDRAL CENTER
able to debate. Provision is
being made for observers and
visitors, who will sit in sec
tions reserved for them.
The Steering group has also
established a Rules Committee.
Any proposal not included in
the three basic reports must
be submitted to the Rules Com
mittee, which will decide whe
ther it can be presented to the
floor of the Congress.
The Congress will continue
on Saturday with a banquet that
night. A final session will take
place on Sunday, May 22.
The Religious of the Archdio
cese are also preparing for a
Congress, to be held on May 1
and 2. When the Lay Congress
and the Congress of Religious
have completed their discussion
and have adopted final recom
mendations their proposals
will be passed to the Archdio
cesan Synod, which meets in the
Fall. The proposals of the laity
and the sisters for action by the
Synod will be studied over the
summer by priests’ commit
tees. None of the proposals are
final, of course, unless they are
adopted by the Synod.
Parishioners in all parts of
the Archdiocese are urged to
make suggestions to their pa
rish delegates either at sche
duled meetings or in letter
form.
In addition to matters pre
viously recommended, the Stee
ring Committee has proposed
that the Lay Congress esta
blish an Appraisal Committee
of twenty lay persons to be
elected from among the mem
bers of the Congress. Their
function will be to review the
work of the Lay Congress and
to attend the meetings of the
Synod. As proposed, the Ap
praisal Committee would be
empowered to call the Lay Con
gress into session again or to
convene a new Lay Congress
if this becomes necessary or
desirable and if Archbishop
Paul J. Hallinan concurs.
Huge Reception Planned
For Auxiliary On Friday
THE BISHOP ARRIVES: Auxiliary Bishop Joseph L. Bemardin is pictured as he arrived on Tues
day at the Atlanta Airport from Charleston.
FIRST CONGRESS
Sisters Apply Techniques
To Vital Problems
ARCHBISHOP OF ATLANTA
ARCHBISHOP Paul J. Halli
nan blazed the trail for thefull-
est possible implementation of
Vatican II in the lives of the
Sisters of his Archdiocese on
Sunday, May 1. In addressing
the Sisters at the official open
ing of the Congress at 2 p.m.,
at St. Joseph High School, he
called for "unity, diversity,
and creativity’* from the Con
gress body and encouraged the
Sister participants to "set a
pace for the entire Archdio
cese” in the preparation for
the Synod in the Fall.
After His Excellency’s speech,
Sr. Ann Richard, S.L., head of
the Theological Department of
Webster College in St. Louis,
addressed the group on the
topic of ’’The Role of the Sis
ter in the Archdiocese in the
Light of Vatican II”. She de
veloped the two basic elements
that the Council called for in
the renewal of religious life;
namely, a continuous return to
the sources of Christian life
and an adjustment of each com
munity to the changing condi
tions of the times.
Sister's address was follow
ed by a lively discussion per
iod in which she shared with the
group much of the knowledge
accrued from her rich exper
ience in the Vatican Council as
an observer, and since the
Council in her travels through
the United States speaking to
various communities.
A BIBLE SERVICE, relect-
lng the theme of apostleship,
fittingly closed the first day of
the Sisters’ Congress.
On Monday, May 2, the first
general voting session com
menced at 9 a.m. During this
session the schema of each of
the five preparatory commit
tees was presented to the group
for adoption, amendment, or
rejection. Following is a gen
eral summary of each commit
tee.
DEVELOPMENT
This committee proposed the
formation of a Council of Sis
ters which would deal with the
continuing development of the
Sister as a person, spiritually,
intellectually, culturally, phys
ically, socially. It strongly
recommended activities plan
ned for the sharing of ideas
among clergy, religious, and
laity, so as to insure growth
and development within the
Archdiocese of all God's people.
Further recommendations
spelled out how the Archdio
cese could exert its influence
to aid growth and development of
the Sisters through provisionof
workshops, lectures, etc.
LITURGY
Since theSistersfeel strongly
that as women of the Church,
striving to serve it in the best
way possible, they should as
sume an active role in the wor
ship of the parish community,
they recommended that a Litur
gical Committee be formed
within each parish, composed of
clergy, sisters, and laity, to
insure meaningful parish wor
ship. To this Liturgical Com-
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Atlanta Journal covered the Congress with Dwight Koss taking
pictures and Mrs. Billie Lovell reporting. Both are pictured as
they talk with Archbishop Hallinan.
Representatives of the Arch
diocese of Atlanta and the com
munity will greet newly arrived
Auxiliary Bishop Joseph L.
Bernardin at a public reception
Friday, May 6, at the Cathe
dral Center. Archbishop Paul
J. Hallinan has extended an in
vitation to all to meet Bishop
Bernardin.
The Lay Reception in the
Cathedral Center will begin at
8 p.m. on Friday Evening. Hie
program will open with musi
cal selections offered by the Glee
Club of Drexel High School.
Hervert G. Farnsworth will
be Master of Ceremonies for
the reception.
Words of Welcome will be
given on behalf of the Arch
diocesan Council of Catholic
Men by the vice president Lewis
Gordon who will act on behalf
of the President, Paul Smith.
Mrs. Harry D. Horsey Jr.,
President of the Archdiocesan
Council of Catholic Women will
speak for that group; and the
President of the Lay Congress,
Mr. James W. Callison will also
give words of welcome.
The Representative of the
students attending the Archdio
cesan high schools, Thomas T.
Nerney, will welcome Bishop 1
Bernardin on behalf of the stu
dents.
Archbishop Hallinan will pre
cede the honoree, Bishop Joseph
L. Bernardin.
Bishop Bemardin’s first of
ficial acts tin the Archdiocese
included a press conference
Wednesday morning and a Pon
tifical concelebrated Mass at
the Cathedral of Christ the
King Wednesday evening. Arch
bishop Paul J. Hallinan pre
sided at the Mass. The Consul-
tors of the Archdiocese con-
celebrated the Mass with Bishop
Bernardin, who was the prin-
Pope-
Gromyko
Meet
ROME (RNS)~The meeting of
Pope Paul VI With Soviet For
eign Minister Gromyko is re
garded as ’’historic’*-—but pre
liminary negotiations between
the Roman Catholic Church and
the Soviet Union’s Communist
regime began as early as 1922.
In 1922, when the Russian re
gime was ’’recognized’* by a
comparatively few countries—
and not by the U.S.—Archbis
hop Signore of Genoa and Arch
bishop Circhiano, head of the
r- Vatican congregation charged
with contacts with the Oriental
Churches, met with a Soviet
diplomat in Rome.
Tie Russian diplomat, after
consultation with superiors in
Moscow, rejected all three con
ditions for Vatican establish
ment of diplomatic relations
with the new regime in Russia.
It was reported here that in
February, 1945, with the.
European war fast moving to a
close, Pope Plus XIJ, using the
services of a special envoy of
President Roosevelt of the U.S.
approached Moscow with a plan
to permit the appointment of an
’’apostolic visitor”—one not
having diplomatic status—as
the unofficial representative of
the Vatican in Moscow. This,
it was said here, was reject
ed personally by Josef Stalin.
cipal celebrant.
Following the Mass of re-
ception, a welcoming banquet
attended by civic dignitaries
and the clergy of Atlanta and
Charleston was held. The Ho
norable Bob Richardson, Chief
of Staff to Governor Carl San
ders, extended the welcome of
the State of Georgia to Bishop
Bernardin. He represented Go
vernor Sanders, who was out
of the country. The Honorable
Ivan Allen, Jr., Mayor of At
lanta, welcomed the new Auxi
liary Bishop to the city.
FIRST PRESS CONFERENCE of the new Auxiliary Bishop, Jos
eph L. Bernardin, was given at the Cathedral Center on Wednes
day morning. Atlanta Journal’s Billie Lovell is shown talking
to the Bishop while Gordon Siefferman of WA1I-TV; Jack Scott
of WSB Radio and Vic Lambert of WAGA-TV look on.
AT CATHEDRAL
Matthew Robbins
To Be Ordained
THE REV. Mr. Matthew Rob
bins will be .ordained to the
Priesthood by the Most Rev.
Paul J. Hallinan, Archbishop
of Atlanta, at the Cathedral of
Christ the King on May the ele
venth at 10 a.m.
Born May 17, 1940 in Brook
lyn, the Rev. Mr. Robbins is
the son of Mrs. Blanche M.
Robbins and the late Mr. Rob
bins. The family lives now at
233 Second Street, Conemaugh,
Pennsylvania.
REVEREND Mr. Robbins re
ceived his elementary educa
tion at Assumption and Sacred
Heart Schools in Conemaugh,
Pa. He is a graduate of Bishop
McCort High School in Johns
town, Pa., and his college and
theological studies were done
at the Pontifical College Jose-
phinum in Worthington, Ohio.
As a seminarian he helped
out in 1964 at St. Mary’s Pa
rish in Rome, Ga., and in con
nection with the Archdiocesan
Deacon summer program he
was assigned to Sacred Heart
Church in Atlanta, and did coun
seling and visitation work at
St. Joseph’s Infirmary.
The First Solemn Mass
will be in the Church of the
Sacred Heart, Conemaugh, Pa.,
The pastor of the parish, Rev.
Francis E. Kelly, will be the
Archpriest. Other officers of
the mass will be the \fery
Rev. Harold Burkardt of Wor
thington, Ohio as Deacon; and
the Subdeacon will be the Rev.
James B. Picchiarini of Scott-
dale, Pa. The sermon will be
preached by the Rev. James
J. McWilliam S.J. of Worthing
ton, Ohio.
The day following his ordina
tion, on May 12th., Father Rob
bins will offer a Mass of
Thanksgiving in the chapel of
St. Joseph’s Infirmary.
Official
THE FOLLOWING changes have been an
nounced by Archbishop Hallinan and become
effective on Saturday, May 14, 1966:
Most Reverend Joseph L. Bernardin
to the Cathedral of Christ the King as
Rector;
Reverend John F, McDonough to Pastor
of Holy Spirit Parish;
Reverend Joseph F, Ware to Pastor of
Sacred Heart Parish;
Monsignor Joseph E, Moylan from Pas
tor of Sacred Heart Parish to Episcopal
Vicar for the Clergy of the Archdio
cese. Monsignor Moylan will reside at
Sacred Heart Parish.