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Drexel Catholic High School Which has 156 Negro pupils
ARCHDIOCESE OF ATLANTA SERVING GEORGIA’S 71 NORTHERN COUNTIES will be closed in June and its Students will be transferred to
other Catholic schools.
CLASSES will come to an end in June for Drexel.
because white students live
more closely to the two other
schools, and because Negro
students are drawn largely from
the adjoining area which has
a limited number of Catholic
families.
- “It cannot be denied that many
white Catholics have been re
luctant about sending their sons
and daughters to a school which
is almost totally Negro. This
simply indicates the scope of the
racial problem facing the
Church in the South. All but
one or two Catholic elementary
schools have beensuccessfully
integrated. St. Joseph's, and our
two private schools, Maristand
D’Youville, have integrated for
several years without in
cident," Archbishop Hallinan
stated.
All over the state, Georgia
schools are being phased out
or combined because it is im
possible to give the students of
a school with an enrollment less
than 200 a proper education, he
said.
The archdiocese has triedfor
five years to qualify Drexel.
“Father William Hoffman has
given the school splendid lea
dership; the sisters of St.
Joseph (Baden, Pa.) and sisters
of the Blessed Sacrament
plus excellent lay teachers con
stitute a good faculty.”
City. But the whole educational
picture is shifting rapidly. We
can simply promise that the best
religious education possible
will be available for all our
Catholic young men and wo
men," the archbishop added.
At a meeting Tuesday at Dre
xel, parents of the students
were invited to discuss the
change with archdiocesan school
officials. As an outgrowth of the
discussion, the archbishop an
nounced today that he is re
questing a representative group
of parents to meet with him
and members of the archdioce
san staff to work out details.
VOL. 5, NO. 12
ATLANTA, GEORGIA
THURSDAY, MARCH 23, 1967
It Was The Third Hour
"The proposed transfer of
Drexel’s students to other
Catholic schools was agreed
upon for two reasons," Arch
bishop Paul J. Hallinan said.
“First, it will provide edu
cational facilities impossible
now in a school whose top en
rollment has never exceeded
156 pupils. Second, it will end
the de facto segregation of
Drexel which has resulted from
its location in a predominantly
Negro neighborhood.”
The change has proposed this
shift: 1) admittance to a Catho
lic high school for all those be
coming seniors this June; 2)
other Drexel students will be
absorbed into St. Pius X and
St. Joseph’s high school. Every
effort will be made to accept
those students who become
sophomores or juniors this
June, the archbishop said.
Since Catholic schools were
integrated in June, 1962, the
enrollment of both Pius X and
St. Joseph’s has steadily in
creased. Drexel, which was
built in 1961 in a shifting popula
tion area has not grown, partly
SINGLE MYSTERY® 8 *®^^
| Easter Is The Feast Of Giving j
tegrated school society, we can
not in conscience ignore these
two factors.”
"We wish that we could es
tablish ' a new integrated high
school to serve equally the white
and Negro residential areas in
the South and Southwest of the
BULLETIN
DREXEL
Pupils To Be Transferred
When School Closes In June
The Color of Easter is white, but itis set in the natural green
of spring. The tone is a joyous Alleluia but there are still'
echoes of Friday’s lament. It is a day of joy but it moves us,
as all feasts move us, one day closer to our own death.
The layman and his family, a little weary of Easter com
mercials, are especially dressed for Easter, notably wife and
daughters. The daily newspapers can hardly be read these
days without being lured by the massive advertising. The lay
man is relieved to know that, if honest, there is nothing evil
in an ad. The evil is in us, in our lack of resistance, in our
failure to measure what we give those in need by what we buy
that we don’t need.
EASTER is the feast of giving. With Christ’s passion and
death, it forms the single mystery of our faith. On the night
before His death, John.saw what He was doing: “He still loved
those who were His own. . .He would give them the deepest
proof of his love.” Paul later said: “Christ died for us all...
when a man becomes a new creature in Christ, his old life has
disappeared.”
. When the layman comes to know and treasure his Bible
more, he will be better prepared for this God-giving. He
would see the trivial gifts that we give and contrast them
with the Easter gift. In his new reading, he would not be shock
ed by the words of theGermantheologiam Karl Rahner: "Christ
has poured out all over the world; He became, in His humanity,
what He had always been according to His dignity, the heart
of the world, the innermost center of creation.”
The resurrection of the dead body of Jesus, the coming alive
again of the Son of Man these are the essence of our faith.
They happened; the act occurred. History knew the happening,
the occurence. But the mystery still lives on, not as a sen
timental memory, nor an anniversary. Lifted out of our his
tory, it exists in a new way. . .under signs and symbols which
convey the reality of what Christ did long ago. Every Mass
recalls the passion, resurrection and ascension of Our Lord,
making present to us here and now the saving power of His
redeeming work.
"Dying he destroyed our death, and rising he restored life.”
Paul’s whole theme is dying and rising, a dialectic of human
crisis. Need we expect our lives to be different? To partake
of the Paschal Mystery, on Easter or any other day, is to par
take of Christ, the French liturgist Louis Bouyer has said.
BISHOP Bernardin, our priests and I humbly ask that you
become part of Easter, part of this mystery—-especially the
suffering and sick; especially fathers and mothers who are
facing a generation that is not easy to understand; especially
young people who in straining at leashes of the past often re
bel at the Word of God. His Church, the faith. And we address
ourselves particularly to all who are troubled as they find it
difficult to guard the faith that alone sustains the weak men
that we all are.
Those who nostalgically look back at a church whose not?
was immobility, whose language was obscure, whose altars
were ornaments are not on the right path. Those who care
lessly seek the new, without regard to the sacred tradition
that was so dear to the man they call their patron, Pope John
XXIII, will not find a refreshed, revitalized faith.
Easter, the central mystery, the event that completed our
redemption, has clear-cut lines for the living. Be humble.
Be just. Be generous. These are the lineaments, for every lay
man, of that supreme virtue of love.
May the Risen Christ raise us to be new men I A holy Pasch
to all of our homes!
ARCHBISHOP OF ATLANTA
Board Of Organizations
ToDevolop Questionnaire
EASTER is but the more solemn proclamation of what takes
place in daily Mass, just as the Vigil of Saturday night, with its
prophecies, paschal candle, the Exultet, is called by the Church
the “mother of all vigils.” The layman today, in our post-Vati
can age, must read and pray more. Now, reclaiming his role
in the People of G°d, he takes on greater responsibilities.
Now touched by the priesthood of all the faithful, he learns to
know better the priesthood of all the faithful, the priesthood
of those consecrated to serve.
If he does not understand what Easter is about, what the
Church with the apostles and deacons was established for,
what his own precise role is,! his prophetic voice will sound
only in a desert, and his whims or adventures may be mistaken
for a charism.
The meditation on Easter begins not with our preferences
and prejudices. It begins rather in the Preface of the Feast:
The Board of Lay Organiza
tions has decided to send ques
tionnaires to active laymen in
the archdiocese to find out what
lay organizations are doing in
the parishes.
The board, at its first meet
ing, Tuesday night also agreed
to ask representatives of var
ious organizations to appear be
fore it and tell members about
their purposes.
"The problem is to find out
what's going on in our lay or
ganizations and to see if we
can assist them,” said John J.
Cawley, chairman. “We want to
get every Catholic laymen in
volved in one of the organiza
tions."
The suggestion on the ques
tionnaire was made by James
Hedderman of Griffin.
Mrs. Foster A. Hotard of
Atlanta said, "The question
naire is a good idea. I really
feel we are too organized and
have too many meetings.”
Mrs. George Guhning said,
"We seem to be reaching for
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Holy Oils Thursday
Hallinan
Archbishop Hallinan will
solemnly bless the Sacred Oils
on Holy Thursday at the Cathe
dral of Christ the King to of
ficially open Holy Week in the
archdiocese.
The archbishop will be the
principal concelebrant at the
Mass of the blessing of the oils
at 10 a.m. Bishop Joseph L.
Bernardin will be the second
concelebrant and Msgr. Joseph
Cassidy will be the third con-
celebrant.
Other - concelebrants will be
Fathers Dale Freeman, Walter
Mattiato, Henry Gracz, Robert
McCrief, Clement Tackney,
Michael McKeever, R. Donald
Kiernan, Daniel McCormick,
Patrick Padden and Matthew
To Bless
Robbins. Father Frank Ruff
will be deacon; Father William
Calhoun, subdeacon; Fathers
Noel Burtenshaw and Eusebius
J. Beltran, masters.
The Holy Thursday liturgy at
the cathedral will also include
a 'concelebrated Mass at 5:30
p.m; by Bishop Bernardin and
priests of the cathedral. Per
sons who receive Holy Com
munion at the blessing of the
oils may also receive again at
the 5:30 p.m. or at the 7:30 p.m.
Mass.
The Liturgy of Good Friday
will be conducted by Archbishop
Hallinan at the cathedral at 5:30
p.m. and Stations of the Cross
will be a 7:30 p.m.
On Holy Saturday, the Easter
Vigil Service will be conducted
by Bishop Bernardin, followed
by a Mass at midnight. On
Easter Sunday, the bishop and
archbishop will concelebrate a
pontifical high Mass at 10 a.m.
Other Holy Week services
will be held in the various par
ishes in the archdiocese includ
ing at the Shrine of the Immacu
late Conception forpersonswho
work in downtown Atlanta.
Services at the Shrine include
Thursday—Mass at 12:10 p.m.,
Mass and procession at 8 p.m.;
Friday-—the Seven Last Words,
noon until 3 p.m., solemn litur
gical services at 3 p.m., Sta
tions of the Cross, sermon at
8 p.m.; Saturday—Easter Vigil
at 11 p.m., midnight Mass,
Confessions (Spanish and Eng
lish) 4-5, 7-8 p.m.; Sunday—
Masses at 7, 8, 9:15, 11:15,
12:15 p.m.
St. Joseph's in Athens will
hold an all-night vigil from
Thursday at 7 p.m. until Fri
day at 6 p.m. honoring the re
quest of Our Lord on the first
Holy Thursday: “Could you not
watch one hour with Me?”
Ecumenical Holy Week ser
vices will also be held at Lenox
square at noon Thursday and
Friday. Speakers on Thursday
include Rev. Edgar Padgett of
St. James Methodist and Fath
er Philip McArdle of Our Lady
of the Assumption. The Rev.
William Self of Wieuca Road
Baptist Church will speak Fri
day.
Peace Is Not Inertia,
Pope Tells Audience
But accreditation, graded
programs for exceptional stu
dents, library and the athletic
program depend not upon the
money supplied to the school
(it has a 30,000 dollar deficit),
but upon the size of enrollment,
the flexibility possible at Pius
X and St. Joseph’s.
“There can only be one mea
suring-rod in any school, Ca
tholic or public’J said the arch
bishop. "That is the best edu
cation available for each stu
dent. Our Negro parents are en
titled to know that this is the
test we apply, not a convenient
location, a one - race enroll
ment, the sentimentality and at
tachment to a familiar school.
If the archdiocese operates a
high school, it must guarantee
this high - quality education to
all. When this coincides with
the American ideal of an in-
Wilson
Award
Granted
DAVID P. WALLACE
David P. Wallace, a 1963
graduate of St. Pius X High
School, has been named a re
cipient of a 1967-1968 Woodrow
Wilson Fellowship for graduate
studies at the school of his
choice. Wallace, a senior at
Spring Hill College, Mobile,
Ala., is one of 1,400 Fellows
chosen from over 13,000 nomi
nees across the nation, accord
ing to the recent announcement
of Hugh Taylor, president of the
Woodrow Wilson National Fel
lowship Foundation. In graduate
school, where he will pursue a
course in English literature, he
will receive a stipend plus free
tuition and fees. There were
twenty-six Fellows selected
from the State of Georgia. At
Spring Hill, David has been
named to the 1966-1967 "Who’s
Who Among Students in Ameri
can Colleges and Universities"
and Alpha Sigma Nu, national
honorary academic fraternity
for Jesuit colleges.
David is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. J. J. Wallace of Decatur
and is a member of St. Thomas
More Parish.
VATICAN CITY (RNS)--Peace
was the theme of two sermons
given by Pope Paul VI on Palm
Sunday.
At a Mass wSrijch he celebrated
in St. Peter’s Basilica, he told
15,000 young people in the con
gregation that their generation
must become “loud and coura
geous promoters" of peace.
He stressed the same topic
in a sermon to the vast throng
which .gathered in St. Peter’s
Square at Noon to recite the
Angelus with him.
“Peace is not inertia,” he
said in the address from the
window of his study to the crowd
in St. Peter’s Square. "It is not
weakness. It is nothingvile. lt
is not egoism. It is not
pleasure,”
"Peace,” he said, "is
a virtue, the fruit of beauty and
love. And since it has been won
for so many countries through
the sacrifice of sO many young
lives, so it must be preserved
and lived in a complete dedi
cation of oneself to the good of
others.”
THE HAGUE (RNS)--Ninety
Roman Catholic priests have
left their clerical status to
marry in the Netherlands in the
last two years, a panel of Dutch
bishops announced at a press
conference.
The 1966 figure was 60, exact
ly twice as many as in 1965,
they said.
' Priests who left to marry in
1966 included 42 members of
religious orders and 18 of the
diocesan clergy.
The total number of Dutch
priests, including missionar
ies, is 14,910.
The bishops have already es
tablished a special agency to
help priests who are experien
cing problems because they
have left the clerical state.
In addition, they announced
the foundation of a special study
commission "to deal with this
problem in a scientific way.”
The commission will study
celibacy, they said, “within the
whole framework of the priestly
function.” Enquiries made so
Before the Mass in St.
Peter’s, Pope Paul blessed
palms in the Sistine Chapel and
distributed them to the 15 cardi
nals who attended the ceremony.
He entered the basilica by the
Royal Staircase followed by a
procession including some 1,
000 youths.
Pope Paul said that
Christ was proclaimed the
Messiah, “not in a way which
the political imagination and
triumphalism of a great part
of the people of that time expect
ed, but as a king in the order of
redemption—a king of peace.”
“Jesus is our peace if that
peace is order set up injustice,
and in wisdom,” he said; "if
that peace is the result of
community effort, not of
factions, quarrels, terror or
violence, but of collective senti
ments working together toward
the common good; if peace is
the food of freedom, of brother
hood and of love; if peace is the
generous and continuous effort
to achieve a reasonable and
enduring well-being accessible
to all; if peace among men is
far "lack a balanced and scien
tific basis,” the bishops said.
They said that approximately
1,400 expressions of opinion on
priestly celibacy had been sent
to special “post boxes” setup
for sampling Catholic opinion,
and of these 60 per cent favored
making celibacy optional.
But "this does not yet rep
resent a true outline of opinion
in this country,” they said.
’The matter demands serious
study by experts.”
The figures and statements
on celibacy were contained in a
document on “Pastoral Direc
tives for the Priestly Office,”
prepared through study by hun
dreds of experts and presenting
new ways of exercising the pas
toral function in present-day
conditions. It discussed essen
tial questions on' the life and
work of priests today, including
increased responsibility and
privacy for curates.
A second document present
ed by the bishops at the press
conference outlined the struc
ture of a "Pastoral Council”
designed to promote "true
a reflection of the peace of
conscience with God.”
' "You must remember that,
young people—remember it,”
Pope Paul said. "Only from
Christ, only from His teach
ings and from that mysterious
influx of true spiritual energy
which flows from Him and which
is called grace can we have
peace...
“It rests with youth—with
you—to proclaim the presence
and the message of Christ to the
people of our days. It rests with
you and your distinctive love
of liberty and of courage to
redeem this unsure and weary
period in history from the scep
ticism of past generations and
to take up the position ’ of
children of light and witnesses
to Christian truth...
“It rests with you, dearyoung
people, to announce the peace
of Christ in the world.
"Without youth and without
Christ, it is impossible to set
up an efficient peace in civil
society and in international re
lations. You can be the most
convinced and the most dynamic
heralds of peace.’
dialogue between the hierarchy
and the faithful.’ The council
has a unique character of its
own — the rules of canon law
governing provincial councils
cannot be applied to it.
The council’s statutes call for
several agencies:
The Plenary Session, con
sisting of the bishops' central
committee plus a council made
up of priests and laymen ap
pointed by the bishops and rep
resentatives chosen democrati
cally by the faithful, including
priests, religious and laity.
A central committee of the
above group, which will decide
on the subjects to be discussed.
Agencies for gathering infor
mation and opinions. These
will include study committees,
discussion groups, organiza
tions and unions and the "post
boxes ” maintained by the coun
cil. All of these sources will
contribute to the material put on
the agenda for discussion and
will serve the council in a con
sultative capacity.
Dutch Found Organization
To Study Priests’ Defections