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BULLETIN
ARCHDIOCESE OF ATLANTA
SERVING GEORGIA’S 71
NORTHERN COUNTIES!
VOL. 5, NO. 5
ATLANTA,GEORGIA
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1967;
EDUCATION
Community Must Shoulder Load,
Institute For Teachers Told
"Catholic education in the
United States has reached a cri
tical point in history and if it
is t6 continue, it is necessary
that major decisions be made
by the Catholic community,"
said Msgr. O’Neil C.D’Armour
The continuance of the Ca
tholic educational system rests
on conviction, not on sociolo
gical reports, Msgr. Joseph
A. Koury told a large audience
in his address to the Teachers’
Institute at St. Joseph High
School.
Msgr. Koury, superintendent
of schools for the Diocese of
Natchez-Jackson, Miss, spoke
on the subject, "American Ca
tholic Education as Reflected
in the Greeley-Rossi Report
and Other Research.’’
He outlined the main issues
of the Greeley-Rossi report,
which the monisgnor said, was
represented in both the Catho
lic and secular press as giving
the impression that "if parents
are regular, practicing Ca-
LENT
Archbishop Paul J. Hallinan
said in a letter that Catholics
should understand the need for
penanct during Lent, but it is
now their decision on what form
of penance is most suited to
them.
In a letter to be read in all
parishes Sunday, the arqhbishop
said:
As you know, the obligation
of Friday abstinence has been
modified for the Catholics of the
United States. While re-af
firming the necessity of pen
ance, the Bishops at their an
nual meeting recognize that the
"forms and seasons of penance
vary from time to time and
from people to people.*’ Be
cause of changing circumstan
ce* they felt that Friday ab~
in his keynote address to the an
nual Teachers’ Institute at St.
Joseph High School.
Msgr. D’Arm our outlined the
history of the Catholic school
system last Friday in this coun-
tholics, why send them to Ca
tholic schools?’’ The press, he
said, "implied that the study of
religion in Catholic schools was
unimportant and conveyed this
idea to the readers.”
What were the issues raised
by the Greeley-Rossi report
that caused the misunderstand
ing and controversy?
Did Catholic schools affect
the attitudes and social back
ground of the students as adults?
Did Catholic schools "set
the students aside” from stu
dents in public schools, caus
ing a divisive influence?
What is the role of the Ca
tholic schools in preparing stu
dents for successful careers?
stinence frequently is not the
most effective means of prac
ticing penance.
The Church gives the follow
ing guide-lines for the Lenten
season. They supersede the
archdiocesan letter of Novem
ber 30, 1966.
(1) On Ash Wednesday (Feb
ruary 8) and Good Friday
(March 24), no meat may be
eaten. Fasting should be obser
ved on these two days as fol
lows: the quantity of the two
(2) smaller meals should not
exceed the quantity of the main
iheal.
The faithful may dispense them
selves from this regulation if
there is a reason for doing so:
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try and emphasized the need
for Catholic boards of education
and the functions of such organi
zations in the areas of policy
making and administration of
the schools.
A crucial decision is that
Do Catholic parents want to
contribute to the continuance of
Catholic schools in America?
Msgr. Koury replied to the
first question: "We can say that
those adults trained in Catholic
schools are much better in
formed on Catholic doctrine;
they concede more authority to
the Church, and as adults, they
participate more actively in
the religious organizations of
their parish.”. He added, "As
the press neglected to point out,
the students from Catholic
schools showed much less pre
judice than those who attended
public schools—a statistic not
revealed in the press, but in
cluded in the report."
Catholic schools are not di
visive, Msgr. Koury concluded
from his evaluation of the re
port. "Attendance at a Catholic
school has a culminative ef
fect,” he said, "68 per cent of
the Catholics in this country
attend mass every Sunday; with
nihe years in a Catholic school,
the ratio increases to 96 per
cent. There are children from
Catholic homes whogotoCatho-
lic and elementary schools and
emerge as good, practicing Ca
tholics no matter what the pa
rents’ religious training was.”
As Father McNamara stated in
the Notre Dame report, "the
ratio between this high degree of •
belief and practice are due to
Catholic school training.
Msgr. Koury added, "The great
problem today is convincing the
public that Catholic schools are
not divisive.”
Third, Catholic students do
better than students who attend
public \ schools, said Msgr.
Koury evaluating the results
of the Greeley-Rossi report.
"The Catholic students are
'over-achievers; they are with
1 peer-group* and seem to do
better than Catholic students
who do not attend Catholic
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which concerns itself with the
"structure pattern*’ in ’ Catho
lic education, a structure pat
tern which must include the
whole Catholic community, he
said. The board concept must
be established within a cohe
rent structure pattern or it
will do great harm. Restruc4
turing will involve a transfer
of authority, and the process
will be either revolutionary or
evolutionary, he said. "A re
volutionary transfer of autho
rity would be a traumatic'af
fair,” he emphasized. If the
process is evolutionary in na
ture, the extent and quality of
the Catholic schooling "will
open to the students the full
and complete world of Chris
tian faith.”
"It is upon the historical
origin of the Catholic school
system that critics today base
their arguments for the phas
ing out of the system,” said
Msgr. D’Arm our. "The con
tention is that the circum
stances that caused our forefa
thers to create the Catholic
school no longer exist.”
The Catholic school system
came into being "not because
of any sophisticated philoso-
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Manning
Will Be
Invested
MSGR. MANNING
Msgr. Michael Manning is
to be invested as a domestic
prelate by Archbishop Paul J.
Hallinan Monday, Feb. 6, at
7;30 p.m. at Sts. Peter and
Paul Church. The investiture
will be followed by a concele-
brated Mass.
The principal concelebrant
will be Archbishop Hallinan,
assisted by Bishop Joseph L.
Bemardin, Msgr. Joseph Cas
sidy, Father John O’Shea, Fa
ther Michael McKeever, Father
John McDonough, Father John
Stapleton and Msgr. Manning.
Father MqDonough will preach
the homily.
After Mass a reception will
be held in the cafetorium for
parishioners and friends of the
monsignor.
Msgr. Manning, who was pre
sident of the Synod, was born
in Dingle, County Kerry, Ire
land, in 1?12. He attended the
St. Brendan Minor Seminary in
Kilarny, went to All Hallows
College where he was ordained
in June, 1936. He came to Geor
gia in September, 1936, andwas
assigned to the Diocese of Sa
vannah.
DISCUSSING one of the school books on display at the Teachers’ Institute are, from left, Fr. John
C otter, Msgr. O’Neil C. D’Arm our and Fr. Daniel J. O’Connor.
KOURY:
‘Conviction, Not Sociology’
Where Schools’ Future Rests
Need For Penance Is Cited
In Archbishop’s Letter
VOTE
Ballot Casting Interrupts Mass
To Fill Synod-Established Posts
Masses in churches in the
archdiocfese came to a brief
halt Sunday for an unusual rea
son—parishioners took time to
vote for nominees to serve on
two councils and five boards
established by the Synod.
At press time, returns from
about half of the parishes in the
archdiocese showed that 7,887
persons voted in the election.
The names of the nominees
will be submitted to Archbishop
Paul J. Hallinan who will name
a board of noninvolved priests
and laymen to help him select
persons to serve on the coun
cils and boards. The final lists
will be announced in about two
weeks.
"This popular election of lay
men by laymen can revolution
ize the programming of the
Archdiocese of Atlanta,*’ the
archbishop said. "Form fol
lows function in architecture,
but in the structure of the
Church the functions are more
likely to follow the form. It
is to have a form suited to 1967
that the Synod directed these
changes.
"As the years go on, each
parish will get to know out
standing members of their par
ishes, and the election of can
didates will become easier.
This year, there will probably
be many candidates and the
choice of laymen for service to
seven councils and boards will
be difficult.
"To aid in this, it is planned
to make the final choices from
the winning candidates. Aboard
of noninvolved priests and lay
men will assist me in the se
lection,” Archbishop Hallinan
said.
The two councils laymen will
serve on are pastoral and ad
ministrative. The Pastoral
Council is designed to insure the
renewal programs of Vatican II.
The Administrative Council will
coordinate review andreporton
all budgets and major financial
moves.
The boards are development,
lay organizations, communica
tions, education and social ser
vice. Members of the De
velopment Board will plan lorig-
and short-range expansion pro
grams; the Board of Communi
cations will be to publish the
Bulletin and maintain an office
of information; the Board of
Education will supervise educa
tion at all levels; the Board of
Social Services will supervise
all welfare activities; the Board
of Lay Organizations
The councils and boards will
consist of three elected lay
men, a nun and two laymen
selected by the archbishop.The
priests and nuns will be elected
by their Senates. The boards
of education and social services
will have a membership of 12 in
the same proportion.
Chairmen of the organiza
tions will be a laymen. A non
voting priest to serve as sec
retary to the boards and coun
cils will be appointed by the
archbishop.
Two nuns from each convent
will meet Sunday, Feb. 5 at 3
p.m. at the Cathedral Center to
discuss appointments.
MRS. ROY Shakelford and Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Young vote for
nominees to archdiocesan boards and councils at Most Blessed
Sacrament parish. In the second row is Arthur Gray.
CONTROL
Grip Of Laymen Becomes Tighter
On The Reins Of 3 Universities
FROM PRESS SERVICE REPORTS
The grip of laymen’s hands
on the reins of Catholic univer
sities has become firmer at the
University of Detroit, Notre
Dame and University of Port
land in Oregon.
In Detroit, the university
president said that total own
ership and control of the school
will be given to a new board of
trustees, half of whose mem
bers will be laymen and. half
Jesuit priests.
After a week-long Provincial
Chapter meeting atNotre Dame,
the Holy Cross fathers over
whelmingly endorsed plans in
which laymen will share with the
religious order the legal re
sponsibility and authority to
operate Notre Dame and the
University of Portland.
Father MalcolmCarron, S.J.,
said at the Detroit meeting the
new 16-member board will re
place the university’s present
seven-member Jesuit board in
about two months. The change
is part of a general revision of
the university's charter which
will soon be submitted for ap
proval- to the State of Michigan,
The university received its
charter from the state.
The most significant change
in the new board of trustees,
Father Carron stressed, is that
its Jesuit members will all
come from outside the uni
versity. Jesuit members will
be chosen from other Jesuit
universities and agencies inthe
United States and Canada, he
said.
Father Carron also announ
ced that the university’s pro
gram in Jewish studies is being
expanded to include public, lec
tures and other activities. The
program is directed by Dr.
Shlomo Marenof, Dean of the
Jewish College of Detroit.
Father Carron described this
move as part of a "continuing
policy of an ecumenical univer
sity with a commitment to ur
ban involvement.”
. Father Howard J. Kenna, C.S.
provincial superior, an
nounced at the Notre Dame
meeting that the chapter meet
ing approved separate and
somewhat different plans for
Notre Dame and Portland.
The president of Notre Dame,
he said, will continue to be a
Holy Cross priest nominated by
the provincial superior but ap
pointed by the predominantely
lay board of trustees.
"Our community’s aim,”
Father Kenna said, "is to give
continuity and stability of pur
pose and to ensure the contin
ued existence of an institution
that is truly Catholic.*’
Father Kenna said the pro
vincial charter voted 38 to 4 to
approve the Notre Dame plan.
It provides that the six pres
ent legal trustees of Notre
Dame, all Holy Cross priests,
would elect six members of the
present board of lay trustees
to serve with them in a new
basic governing group called
"The Fellows of the Univer
sity.”
The 12 Fellows then would
elect themselves and other
members of the present lay
board to a single board of trus
tees which would function simi
larly to the boards of other
leading U.S. universities, ac
cording to Father Kenna.
The chapter voted 41 to 1 to
adopt the Portland plan which
provides for enlarging the
school’s governing board of five
Holy Cross priests to a body of
40 members of whom only five
must be priests. To this newly-
enlarged governing body, the. to
tal assets of the university are
entrusted "in fee simple*’ un
der a trust agreement which
provides that there shall always
be at the university an integral
Catholic theological and pasto
ral program.
Father Theodore M. Hes-
burgh, C. S. C., Notre Dame
president since 1952, termed
the move "completely in ac
cord with the ongoing develop
ment of the university." He
said the plan could be imple
mented as early as May 5 of
this year when the university's
present board of lay trustees,
an advisory group, is schedul
ed to meet on the campus.
SLUMS
Blue Heaven Is
No Peachtree
The names of some areas in
Atlanta — Blue Heaven, Cab
bage Town, Lightning, Sum-
merhill — are as colorful as
the famous Peachtree, but the
city is not proud of them.
These are the names of some
of Atlanta’s worst slums and
20 Atlantans, including Arch
bishop Paul J. Hallinan, have
been charged with finding an
swers to the festering problems
in the areas.
"We must do more than just
study. . .we’ve got to halt the
frustrations of those who have
complaints," said IrvingKaler,
chairman.
"I think implementation of a
program is our role and we
should cite agencies who fail,”
the Rev. Sam Williams, pastor
of Friendship Baptist Church
said. "I want to see if the white
poor and Negro poor have dif
ferent problems.”
“I don’t think the status of
the commission should be sub
servient. It’s important we
work; for them (city officials)
but with the people of Atlanta,*’
Archbishop Hallinan said.
Miss Helen Bullard, chair
man of the program committee,
read the report which proposed
immediate action for the fol
lowing areas: Blue Heaven,
Cabbage Town, Mechanicsville,
Summerhill, Vine City, Light
ning, Scott’s Crossing. Other
areas—Pittsburgh, South At
lanta, Plunkettown, People’s
Town—were immediately pro
posed.
These were some of the com
ments as Mayor Ivan Allen’s
newly created commission of
white and Negro members as
sessed its role irt the future of
Atlanta. They discussed a pro
gram to try and relieve the suf
fering of many persons.
be held Feb. 16 at City Hall at
7:30 p.m. A second meeting
with agencies will be held Feb.
23 and meetings of three-man
teams from the commission will
be held later in the neighbor
hoods.
"In one visit to one neighbor
hood, you’ll hear enough to keep
us busy for five years,” said
T. M, Alexander Sr.
Other meetings will be held
with agencies dealing with com
munity problems, education,
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Miss Bullard said one of the
first recommendations to the
mayor and Board of Aldermen
would deal with furnishing and
standardizing services in the
areas with all the other areas
of the city. She said the inform
mation should be obtained by
holding open hearings to which
the public, neighborhood or
ganizations and interested indi
viduals be invited.
The first public hearing will
ARCHBISHOP Paul J. Hallinan listens as a member of the Com
munity Relations Commission discusses a point. At the head of
the table is Irving Kaler, chairman.