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SERVING GEORGIA’S 71 NORTHERN COUNTIES
VOU 4 NO. 28
ATLANTA, GEORGIA
THURSDAY, JULY 14, 1966
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Congress Of Young Adults
Set For Sept 24-25
| AN EPISCOPAL DIRECTIVE I
I CONVOKING I
| A Young Adults Congress |
1. By authority as Archbishop of the Archbiocese of Atlanta,
1 hereby convoke the First Congress of the Young Adults to be
held Sept. 24 and 25, 1966, as a part of the program of renewal
to culminate in the Archdiocesan Synod in November.
1 •**
2. The Young Adults Congress will consist of elected delegates
from each parish of the Archdiocese, representing the young
adults from age 18 to 30. The method of proportioning and elect
ing delegates will be announced by the Youth Committee.
3. The concept of the Young Adults Congress developed from
the Lay Congress of May 22-24, 1966. It was seen that the func
tions, talents and charisms of our young adults should be re
cognized and utilized within the Christian comir-' nity. Although
‘assisted by two priests and a Lay Congress committee in the role
of liaison, the voice of the Young Adult Congress is to be the
authentic voice of the young laity.
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4. It is hoped that all parishes, those presently with Young
Adult groups and those without, will be fully represented in
the September Congress.
5. This Young Adult Congress is convoked in the same spirit
of confidence evident in the Congresses of the Laity and Re
ligious. In many areas of Catholic responsibility these young
leaders can contribute their skills and advice, their criticisms
and suggestions to the Church itself, and to our entire com
munity. The formal recommendations approved by the Young
Adult Congress will be made part of the program submitted
by the Lay Congress to the first Archdiocesan Synod in November.
6. To this end, I ask that our young adults seek, in the memory
of theyoung St. John the Apostle and the saintly Pope John of
our times, that blend of the old and the new, of experience and
new insights that our world needs.May our Blessed Lady al
ways young and full-hearted in the love of her child, the God-
Man, be our inspiration.
Clergyman Urges Easing
Of Iowa Abortion Laws
IOWA CITY, Iowa (RNS) — Easing of Iowa abortion laws is
being urged here by the Rev. William M. Weir, pastor of the
Iowa City Unitarian Universalist Society.
Iowa law now forbids termination of a pregnancy unless the
mother's life is in jeopardy.
Weir and the social concerns council of his church will work
for abortion of a law by the 1967 Iowa legislature following guide
lines set by the American Law Institute.
He said he would confer with Iowa legislators to promote the
change. "I am concerned that so many persons are driven to
violate the law because it is so restrictive," he said. "1 am
even more concerned that approximately 8,000 women die each
year as a result of illegal abortion.
"Present laws drive large numbers of desperate women into
the hands of those from whom the law seeks to shield them —
namely the illegal abortionists."
Under the Law Institute proposal, abortion would be permitted
if: the physical or mental health of the mother would be im
paired by the birth of a child; if there is a strong indication
that the child would have a mental or phsycial defects; if the preg
nancy resulted from rape, incest or other felonious intercouse;
and if the prospective mother is under age 18.
An abortion, under this proposal, would have to be recommend
ed by two physicians, neither of whom would perform the opera
tion. *
Board Seeks Former Nazis
BERLIN (NC)—A 10-man in
quiry board named by the gov
ernment is seeking evidence
concerning those responsible
for killings of priests and min
isters during the nazi era.
The board has asked dioceses
and religious communities for
help. The investigation includes
killings in the countries which
were occupied by Germany, and
the board has already received
documentation from Poland
about several thousand Polish
priests who were murdered. In
the Dachau concentration alone,
857 out of the 1,748 Polish
priests imprisoned died orwere
killed.
The inquiry is focusingonof-
ficials of the old government
security headquarters in Berlin
who decreed the arrest of
priests and ministers, rather
than on concentration camp per
sonnel who actually perpetrated
the murders.
One member of the inquiry
board, pointing out the difficul
ty of establishing proof of intent
to kill in the case of the "writ
ing desk murders," said: "If
we catch 5 per cent of all who
took part, (the investigation)
will be a success."
THE ARCHBISHOP is pictured with a recent young adults gathering in the Cathedral Center
Spokesman Reports
Pope Will Give Long Study
Control Problem
Archbishop Paul J, Hallinan has announced that a Congress
of Young Adults will be convened in September so that the
"functions, talents and charisms of our young adluts can be
recognized and utilized within the Christian community."
Knights
To Install
Officers
The Knights of Columbus
Council 660 will install offi
cers July 20th at the coun
cil home at 2620 Buford High
way, NE.
The service, open to the pub
lic for the first time, will begin
with a Mass offered by Father
Thomas Gilroy S.M., council
chaplain.
The officers to be installed
are Joseph Ayers, grandknight;
Jerry Griffin, deputy grand
knight; James Weiss, chancel
lor; Paul Christian, warden;
Paul Sauerburger, treasurer;
James Hollison, advocate; Phil
Finnegan, trustee; Charles
Wood, Patrick Warner, inside
guard; Forrest Schweikert, out
side guard; Paul Kasper, out
side guard.
Racial Policy
Forces Nuns
To Move Home
CAPE TOWN, South Africa
(NC)--St. Joseph’s Home for
Chronic Invalid Children here
has to be moved because it is
located in a section now reser
ved for Negro Africans and the
Pallottine Missionary Sisters at
the home care for both white
and colored (mixed race) child
ren.
The new home, which will be
rebuilt in a "neutral" zone four
miles from its present location,
is scheduled for occupation ear
ly next year.
Serra President
To Speak July28
Jan Berbers of Uruguay, new
president of Serra Interna
tional, will speak July 28 to
members of the Atlanta Serra
Club.
The meeting will be held at
12:15 p.m. at bale’s Cellar.
To Birth
VATICAN CITY (RNS)—When
Pope Paul VI issues his final
decision on the birth control
problem ‘ ‘It is bound to be pru
dent and something deeply
thought out. It will appear sen-
sational only to people who have
not thought enough about the
problem."
This comment came from
Father Henry de Riedmatten,
O.P., secretary-general of the
papal Commission to Study the
Problems of Population, the
Family and Birth. He spoke
out shortly after the commis
sion had submitted to the Pope
a 500-page report of its con
clusions based upon long dis
cussions among clerical and
lay experts on the medical, so
ciological, historical and the
ological aspects of birth con
trol.
Father de Riedmatten was in
terviewed over Italian radio and
television networks after having
been received in private aud
ience by Pope Paul.
Making his first public state
ment since the papal commis
sion finished its work, the
Swiss-born Dominican, while
skirting the crucial question of
artificial contraception, said
the Catholic church "admits
birth control (in the sense of
family planning) for the good
reason that to bring children in
to the world is a moral act,
and to do a moral act means to
be responsible for what one
does."
"Birth control," he said,
"does not mean, ‘once and for
all, we shall have so many
children.’ It does not mean
there is an ideal number for a
family. It just means that cou
ples faced with the duties of
conception must act with a sense
of responsibility.*'
The priest said the theolog
ians had always been "at the
center of the papal commis
sion's work” and were its ex
pert advisers.
However, he added, great
weight had also been given to
the arguments of scientists. In
addition, the commission took
into account pressures on. it
from various governments, and
the United Nations and its Food
and Agriculture Organization
which provided useful material
based on research.
"Whatever the (final) ans
wer of the Church on the birth
control issue, one will not be
able to say it was not inform-
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The congress, set for Sept.
24-25 will consist of elect
ee delegates proportionate to
each parish as set by the Young
Adult Committee, composed of
persons between the ages of 18
and 30.
Two priests and a Lay Con
gress comnittee acting in the
role of liaison will assist the
Young Adult Congress in mak
ing its voice heard in the pro
gram of renewal in the arch
diocese. Culminating in the ar-
chdiocesan Synod in the fall,
Archbishop Hallinan said.
The congress follows convo
cation of the Lay Congress and
Religious Congress earlier this
year. The Lay Congress re
commended that the Congress of
Young Adults be held.
In the directive, the arch
bishop urged that ’ our young
adults seek, in the memory of
young St. John the Apostle and
the saintly Pope John of our
times, that blend of the old and
the news, of experience and new
insights that our world needs."
In a speech Sunday to young
adults the archbishop said,
"You are the spiritual descen
dants of the Catholics who help
ed Bishop John England govern
the diocese in the 1820s, of the
Georgia Laymen’s Association
which explained and defended
the Catholic Church in the
1920s. No nutter where you
were born, you are Georgian
now, the heirs of a Catholi
cism that is as much a part
of this state as the red clay
and Stone Mountain."
The archbishop said that
there are unfortunately some
persons who are unhappy in the
Catholic Church today. "I am
thinking not just of those who
really find it hard to change
with the Church, but of two other
minorities—those whose pride
makes it next-to-impossible to
change and those who change
and go through the new motions,
the new vernacular and the new
ecumenical associations but do
not take the time to find out why.
"These cannot be regarded as
a set of changes like those which
American manufacturers call to
sell more cars, stereos, detei>
gents and deodorants each sea
son," Archbishop Hallinan said.
’The changes in the liturgy,
ecumenism and in the church it
self are not to sell people. Your
TV programs will never be in
terrupted to near this claim:
Theological journals clearly
prove that those Catholics who
use our prayer cards have fe
wer mental cavities by half.
Now, we’re a one - missal
family. Or Since using Bleacho-
Preacho, our church is not just
white, not just super - duper
white-white. Our church is Cau
casian white.’ "
The archbishop added,
* 'Meanwhile, the world needs
you aid the Church needs you
to help build that bridge between
them,"
Felmer Cummins of Marietta
asked young adults to make a
total commitment to the apos-
tolage. "Who is a good pro
spect for the Confraternity of
Christian Doctrine program?
The man or woman with ini
tiative. To think, to try, to strike
toward the future, this is the
best test. The CCD is not a game
to be played at. It takes an
adult, young or old,, who knows
how to give of himself, wants
to give and knows why he wants
to.”
25 Bishops
Celebrate
Joint Mass
ALEXANDRIA, Ont. (CN)—A
Concelebrated Mass with 25
bishops as celebrants, first of
its kind in Canada, highlighted
a three-day triple-jubilee cele
bration here,
The ceremonies marked the
75th anniversary of establish
ment of the Alexandria diocese,
and the 50th anniversary as a
priest and 25th anniversary as
a bishop of Bishop Rosario
Brodeur of Alexandria. Arch
bishop Sergio Pignedoli, Apos
tolic Delegate in Canada, pre
sided at the Mass in St. Fin
nan’s church.
Christians Can’t Hide
De Paul Society Serves
Man, Archbishop Says
Archbishop Paul J. Hallinan
has told members of the St.
Vincent de Paul Society that the
society and the Church have
placed themselves at the ser
vice of man.
"If we put side by side the
Vincentian Manual and the
Council’s document on The
Church and the' World of
Today,’’ we find that we can
see our own City of Man in
a new way," the archbshop
told a meeting of the society’s
Particular Council at the Ca
thedral of Christ the King
Sunday.
’The Church has openly put
herself at the service of the
family of man. Christians who
are the Church can no longer
hide behind the pillars or the
pews or the pulpit. The world
wants to know Church of Christ,
what do you say of yourself?
Where are the works that show
your faith.’ ’’
Archbishop Hallinan said
members of the society' know
the layman’s role and have been
living it for 100 years. "Our
city is both one of man and of
God. God created and redeem
ed us, and looking upon us
He sees that there is good.
Man, too, can build for good,
but fallen nature makes this
difficult and the city of man
loses its humanity because it
does not follow God’s call,*' he
said.
He told members of the
society that they look upon in
dividual and man in community
with others. "You visit a home,
you look a: individual man. You
are aware of the danger of de
humanized culture when techni
cal or political considerations
take over. Your look at man in
community with others and you
thumb through the ‘Church and
World of Today’ to the chapter
on ecomonic and social justice.
"Man is defined not as the
perimeter but as the source,
center and purpose of all eco
nomic and social life. What of
those who fight reforms under
the guise of false liberty? Here
we think of the need of fair hous
ing practices. What of those who
reduce the rights of individuals
to the demands of the collec
tive state?"
The archbishop continued,
"And finally you look at man,
while on your rounds of visits,
as he tries to express himself
and act for himself in the com
munity. The document raises
the - question, of deciding on
government and choosing lea
ders as inherent rights of men.
Yet right in Georgia, the work
of helping Negroes to qualify
for voter registration is just
beginning."
* Needs lie all around us —
a place and a program for
alcoholics, a part in the com
munity program of mental
health and narcotics. We need
day centers for working mo
thers, tutorial programs, free
legal aid and a home for the
homeless," the archbishop said.
"Your own consciences, your
society’s ideals and the genero
sity of Georgia Catholics will
tell you what to do and how fast
to go."
.NO KIDDING! He's flying six goats to India. Father Jonas Thaliath. C.M.I.. of Banga
lore. India, has airfreighted six nanny goats from North Prairie, Wis., to Kerala state.
South India, where he hopes they and their progeny will become substantial milk pro
viders to fight famine. The Catholic Near East Welfare Association in New York helped
the Eastern Rite Carmelite, who counts on his goats to multiply to almost 5.000 in five
years. iNC Photos i
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