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INTO the warehouse with the freezer.
DON'T DROP the dryer on the boxwood hedge.
SEAN RELAXES on a stack of mattresses in the warehouse.
SEAN loading the mirror on the truck creates op art.
(Editor's Note: Georgia Bul
letin Staff Writer Mary Lackie
spent the day recently with a
collection crew of the St. Vin
cent de Paul Society. What fol
lows is an account of that day’s
activities.)
By MARY LACKIE
She was standing near the
door to the paneled amusement
room. “Perhaps a pool table
isn’t quite the right thing to be
donating to a religious organi
zation,” she said.
“Thank you ma’am. We can
load it on the truck.”
The St. Vincent de Paul So
ciety takes just about anything
it can load on the truck, includ
ing reporters. We left the store
at 444 Edgewood Ave. one
morning last week. The truck
bounced over the mud road
through the back lot and headed
for the expressway. Charlie
(Beau) Bridges was driving-, and
Sean Flanagan was reading the
clipboard with the lists of ad
dresses and information.
handle. The door handle is]
off—we put it inside the freez-l
er. Now be careful, don’t let!
it drip on the carpet.”
“Pick up freezer,”
Sean.
said
The freezer was in the kit
chen. “Be careful, now, it’s
dripping. There’s nothing the
matter with it—just the door
ARCHDIOCESE OF ATLANTA SERVING GEORGIA’S 71 NORTHERN COUNTIES
VOL. 5, NO. 9
ATLANTA, GEORGIA
SEX
Education Not Adequate,
Priest Tells Women Here
Most children are not re
ceiving adequate sex education
at home or elsewhere in face
of a vast exposure to sex in
daily life, Father James F.
Scherer, executive secretary of
Catholic Social Services, says.
“We cannot afford the lux
ury of a lengthy debate on
whether or not our children
need sex education,” the priest
told the Northwest Deanery of
the Archdiocesan Council of
Catholic Women. “It is time
we do something constructive.”
The priest said, “Manypar-
ents are ill-prepared to pre
sent the objective, poised atti
tude to sex which is so impor
tant for a child’s mature de
velopment. Even interested
parents soon reach the limit of
their capacity to help their
children, and false pride often
keeps them from admitting that
their knowledge of sex is lim
ited.”
Father Scherer said many
parents consider sex education
a very touchy and dangerous
undertaking and seem to look
for some magic key or myster
ious solution. “Others regard
sex education asprimarily ver
bal, as a question-answer ses
sion between child and parents.
They feel the child should take
the initiative by asking ques
tions.
‘‘Still others are disturbed by
the frank, scientific explanation
of human sexuality given in the
school setting. The fact stands,
however, that no matter what
one's interest or opinion is, the
real danger lies in leaving youth
exposed to only one kind of
teaching about sex~the kind
they pick up on their own. ini
tiative.”
Father Scherer said, “Since
all Catholic homes do not func
tion adequately in sex educa
tion, I personally feel, and there
are many who agree, that the
responsibility rests in the
family, the Church and the
school.
‘Thank you, ma’am,’
Sean.
said!
The freezer was loaded on|
the dolly and rattled down the!
walk past the Camellia bushes.!
“I’m ashamed tohaveyousee|
this room in such, a rness,"
said the woman at the next stop.
“We’re right in the middle of
remodelling - painters, wall-*
paper hangers, decorators. All
my friends told me I would go
out of my mind remodelling, and
they were so right. There’s
nothing worse.” The maid
handed her a cup of hot coffee.
, “Thank you, ma'am," said
Sean. He and Beau carried the
dryer up the 19 steps and came
back for trunks and curtains
and boxes of books.
THURSDAY, MARCH 2, 1967
“All must play a vital role
in order to achieve the total
effect--helping our children to
develop into mature, Christian
sexual human beings. If any
area denies its responsibility
or shirks, its duty the total ef
fort will never be reached."
The priest said there are
many persons from certain
backgrounds who feel sex is
evil, that the sexual parts of the
body are dirty, and that even
physical attraction is a snare of
the devil that God just tolerates.
’To many of our youth, because
of the over-emphasis on the
sixth and ninth commandments,
sex is identified with sin, with
a consequent fear, a guilt and
unhappiness.”
“Our teen-agers live in a
sexualized age surrounded on
all sides by the symbol of sex,”
Father Scherer said. “Adver
tising uses sex to sell every
thing from candy to coffins.
(CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO)
LENT’S spirit is molded into this photograph of Brian McHale
as the Christ The King Seventh grader says the stations of the
cross in the Cathedral.
i
Council Sets Discussion On Equality
extend invitations to fellow
parishioners. "It is only
through free and generous
participation that this council
St. Martin s Council on Hu
man Relations will meet Sun
day at Sacred Heart Church
to discuss the present state-
and future course of racial
equality in the Archdiocese
of Atlanta.
President David W. Martin
said Archbishop Hallinan will
take part in an open discus
sion at the breakfast follow
ing Mass at 10:30 a.m.
Martin urged members to
can make any real contribu
tions to the solution of pro
blems in human relations
within our Church,” the pre
sident said.
Martin said persons interes
ted in an interracial dialogue
should get in toUch with Dr.
Joseph A. Wilber. 387 Brent
wood Dr., NE, Phone 233-
3166.
’They are lovely priscilla
curtains,’’ the woman said.
‘They just need to be washed
and ironed.”
‘Thank you ma’am,” said
Sean.
At the next stop in Northwest
Atlanta Sean and Beau stood
looking at a pull-down ladder
to the attic. ‘There’s a nice
chest up there,” the woman
said, “It does need painting, but
it has good wood in it." The
men went up to look at the chest.
Sean picked it up, balancing on
the boards between the insula
tion. ‘‘Ohhh,” he said,, ‘lift
up a little there, Beau, I think
this end landed on my foot."
The bed was in the basement.
"Don’t forget that," the wo
man said. “I don’t know where
the slats are, and you might
have to fix the headboard. It’s
split. I guess the wood just
dried Out."
‘Thank you, ma’am."
The reporter was hungry.
“Isn’t it time to eat? Isn't it
cold in the truck I Aren't you
freezing?*’
"Women," said Sean. The
drivers don’t stop for lunch.
They go to the warehouse to
unload appliances. A station
wagon is parked in the loading
zone. The name on the brief-.
(CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO)
DIACONATE
Pope Says Plans Started
For Restoring Custom
By JAMES C. O’NEILL
VATICAN CITY (NC)—Plans to restore the permanent dia-
conate in the Western Church are well under way, it was reveal
ed in an unexpected papal audience when Pope Paul VI received
20 members of the Commission for the Diaconate.
The audience was a surprise
because no announcement of the
existence of such a commission
had been made prior to a news
release of the audience. It
was learned reliably that the
nomination of the member^ and
their summoning to Rome oc
curred only in recent weeks.
Although it was an active per
manent order in the early Latin
or Western Church, in the pas-,
sage of time the diaconate be
came more of a form or step
toward the priesthood, and fin
ally was no longer allowed as
a permanent order.
Howeve.r, the Pope in his ad
dress to The commission-dis—
closed that a numbdr of studies J
on the subject of the restora
tion of a permanent diaconate
had already been carried out at
his own instructions. More
over, various national bishops’
conferences following the end of
the Second Vatican Council have
set up committees to study the
matter . For instance, such a
body had been set up by the bish
ops in the U.S. Among the com
mission's members meeting in
Rome was one member of the
U.S. group, Bishop Ernest L.
Unterkoefler of Charleston,
S.C.
The council's Dogmatic Con
stitution on the Church had pro
vided for the restoration- of a
permanent diaconate at some
future time. The office of dea
con is an order which stops
short of the. priesthood. A
Deacon can confer Baptism
solemnly, give Holy Commun
ion, assist at and bless mar
riages in the name of the
Church, bring the Viaticum Jo
the dying, officiate at funerals
and preach and carry out other
functions usually reserved to
priests.
The council left the door open
Transferred
BISHOP Thomas J. McDonough
of Savannah has been named
archbishop-elect of the Arch
diocese of Louisville, Ky., re
placing Archbishop John A.
Floersh, who resigned. Bishop
McDonough has been bishop of
Savannah since March, 1960.
The date of his departure to
Louisville or the name of his
successor was not known at
presstime.
for the restoration of the per
manent diaconate depending on
the decision of the competent
territorial body of bishops with
the approval of the Pope. It
was also provided that:
“With the consent of the
Roman Pontiff this diaconate
will be able to be conferred
upon men of more mature age,
even upon those living in the
married state. It may also be
conferred upon suitable young
men. For them, however, the
law of Celibacy must remain
-intact.”
The need for the diaconate
has been most felt in mission
ary countries and areas where
there is an acute priest short
age.
The new commission, which
was presented to the Pope at the
audience by its president, Arch
bishop Pericle Felici, reflected
an international membership.
Among its members were bish
ops from the Philippines,
Ghana, Madagascar, Ivory
Coast, Germany, Australia,
Italy, Brazil, Spain, Canada,
Chile, U.S., France, Mexico',
England and Argentina.
The Pope began by noting that
he had called the commission
into being and to Rome because
he wanted to have its members’
views and “to inform each one
of you of the conclusions reach
ed in the studies undertaken at
our instruction on this subject
and to examine together with
you the question in its entirety
so that it can be finally happily
accomplished,’
Councils, Boards Begin Work On ‘Sharing Of Authority’
Members of the two archdio
cesan councils and five boards
are in the process of holding
their first meeting to consider
their roles and by-laws.
The first meetings have been
held at the home of Archbishop
Hallinan to discuss the func
tions of each of the boards or
councils, and for members to
become acquainted with each
other.
John Ferguson, chairman of
the Board of Social Services,
had this to say after the board's
initial meeting last Friday:
“Our dpty is to understand the
social problems that exist and
utilize the Catholic organiza
tions that can fix these prob
lems,
“We should utilize nonsec
tarian organizations-- not dup
licate them—to provide social
services to the Catholic com
munity on problems with a re
ligious connotation. However,
we shouldn't limit our services
just to Catholics.'.’ ,
Archbishop Hallinan said the
boards and councils are a new
type of archdiocesan govern
ment, ’The concept is called
the shared exercise of author
ity which maintains the au
thority of the Church and intro
duces a truly consultative pro
cess in which bishops do not act
without knowledge of the
groups.”
The Board of Social Services
includes the Village of St. Jos
eph, Catholic Family Services,
the Department of Resettle
ment, and the St. Vincent de
Paul Society.
Father James F, Scherer,
executive secretary of Catholic
Social Services and priest-sec
retary to the board, said, “We
will review the needs and ser
vices. As we grow we’ll need
additional services, and will
work with the existing public
and private agencies.
The Archdiocesan Board of
Education, at its Tuesday meet
ing, was told that it will have to
make great decisions onCatho-
lic education in the coming
years,
“The education process is
filled with financial and philo
sophic problems,” said Father
Daniel J. O’Connor, secretary
for education and priest -se
cretary of the board. :
“It will be our job to work
with policy while administra
tion is the job of principals.
The line can be touchy be
cause there is no sure-fire
plan of everybody staying on
his side of the line,” the edu
cator said.
He pointed out that the Synod
recommended that every school
be accredited by 1972 and also
mentioned the difficulty of ob
taining nuns to teach.
Archbishop Hallinan said the
general plan was to give top-
rate schooling without bank
rupting Catholic families.
Sam McQuaid, board chair
man, said the board “must keep
its eye on education. It’s easy
to get off on budgets, location
of lunchrooms etc.” He called
a meeting of the board for Sa
turday morning at St. Joseph’s
High School to begin work on a
constitution.
States Studying
Abortion Reform
MISS Katherine Bolling, John J. O’Connor, Archbishop Paul J. Hallinan and John A. Ferguson,
chairman of the Board of Social Services,, study a report on the Village of St. Joseph at the board s
organizational meeting.
WASHINGTON (NC)—Nobody
knows the real figure, but the
well-educated guess is that
more than a million—One in
five—pregnancies in the United
States end with abortion every
year.
The vast majority are illegal.
Many are performed furtively
in motel rooms or apartments
and often end in death. Others
—and recent studies indicate
their number is increasing—
are performed in hospitals with
the cooperation and advice of
the medical staff, who quietly
“stretch” or ignore the local
law.
The result among the medical
profession has been revolu
tionary. Where once the abor
tionist was an object of scorn
and outrage—the Hippocratic
oath condemns his trade—he is
now at least tolerated and, in
some circles, even lionized.
But the judgment of their
peers notwithstanding, the
present law in every state of
the Union makes most abortion
ists criminals, subject to fine,
imprisonment and loss of li
cense.
But a growing number of state
legislatures are considering
changing that. From' Califor
nia to New York, from Minne
sota to Florida, at least a score
of states have seen abortion
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Hallinan To Appear
Before House Group
Archbishop Hallinan is sche
duled to appear before the House
Judiciary Committee today
(Thursday) in opposition to li
beralization of Georgia's laws
on abortion and sterilization.
An editorial on page 4 of to
day’s paper, written by the
archbishop, opposes efforts to
liberalize the laws.