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GEORGIA BULLETIN, THURSDAY, MARCH 30, 1967
APRIL
1 ” The Atlanta Civic Ballet Apprentice Company will perform
at Christ the King Cathedral Center, on Saturday, April 1,
at 3 p.m. Tickets available after school March 20, 21 and
22 in front of the Cathedral Center and after Masses at
Holy Spirit parish. Tickets 60 cents. For tickets call,
. Mrs. Edward Carter, 355-6496 or Mrs. Tom Lyons, 231-
3479.
2 ^ What is the basis of the modern decree on ecumenism?
How has the Catholic Church demonstrated its serious
intention's about Christian unity? Father Lucius F.
Cervantes, S.J., professor of sociology at St. Louis
University, examines these and other questions on the
Sacred Heart Program, Sunday, April 2, at 7:30 a.m.,
station WAGA-TV, channel 5.
2 - A Silver Tea will be given to honor the Sisters of Mercy
on Sunday, April 2, from 3:00 to 5:00 p.m., at the cafe
teria of Our Lady of Assumption parish.
2 - The Cathedral Catholic Youth Organization (CYO) will
meet at Christ the King Church on Sunday, April 2, 8:30
Mass, followed by Conginental breakfast in Cathedral
Center. Guest speaker will be Representative Michael
J. Egan, member of the House of Representatives. ‘
2 - The Catholic Hour, produced by the National Council
of Catholic Men, will present Father Andrew M. Greeley
discussing, “American Catholicism in Post-Conciliar
Age” on Sunday, April 2, 6:35-7 a.m„ Station WSB-
Radio-750. .
3 - The Ladies Auxiliary of the Knights of Columbus Council
4358, will meet at the home of Mrs. Norman Fowler,
#2 Candler Drive. 'Co-hostesses will be Mrs. Frank
Shoemaker and Mrs. Paul Kelley. Bring Gold Bond cou-
pons.
6 - The Sacrament of Confirmation will, be conferred at
Queen of Angels. Mission Church, Thomson, on Thursday,
April 6 during 8 p.m. Mass.
6 - "The Sacrament of Confirmation will be conferred at St.
Joseph’s Church, Washington, on Thursday, April 6 during
5 p.m. Mass.
6 - First Friday Club luncheon-meeting will be held on
Thursday, April 6, 12:15 p.m., at the Henry Grady Hotel.
Guest speaker will be Eddie Glennon, Area Sales Direc
tor of the Atlanta Braves!'
7-8 - The annual retreat for Campfire Girls and Girl Scouts
will be held at Camp Timber Ridge on Friday, April 7
and Saturday, April 8. Any Catholic Campfire Girl or
Girl Scout in 7th grade or above, whether in a predo
minantly Catholic troop or not, is invited to register,
using the form printed in the Georgia Bulletin.
7 - The Sacrament of Confirmation will be conferred at St.
Mary's Mission Church, Elberton, on Friday, April 7,
during 8 p.m. Mass.
7-9 Marist Drama Club will present “A Cook for Mr General”
at the Kuhrt gymnasium, Maist Campus, on Friday,
April 7; Saturday, April 8, and Sunday April 9, at 8 p.m.
adults $1, chilren 50 cents.
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11-
- Most Blessed Sacrament's parish council of women will
hold its Sixth Annual Spring Soiree on Saturday, April
8, from"9 p.m., to 1 ’aim.-, in the cafetorium. Music by
Bob Axtell’s band. Admission, $7 per couple, includes
breakfast following Jhform^IbbW^efeeiYa-il
tions call, Mrs. Shulin, 344-8825.
The monthly meeting of the Immaculate Heart of Mary,
Altar and Rosary Society will be a bus trip to the “Ave
Marie Grotto” at Cullman, Alabama, on Tuesday, April
11, bus leaves at 8L30 a.m„ from Immaculate Heart of
Mary School yard. Returns at 5 p.m. For reservations
call, Sheilla Mallon, after 6 p.m„ 938-0019.
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14 - The Sacrament of Confirmation will be conferred at St.
Joseph’s Church, Athens, on Friday, April 14, during the
7 p.m. Mass.
15 - The Christian Family Movement of St. Thomas More, '
Decatur, will sponsor a parish Spring Dance on Saturday,
, April 15, from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m„ in the church audi
torium. Tony Lawrence’s band will furnish the music. ■:
Tickets, $3 per couple. For information call Dave Clem,' /
378-7831.
18 - The Sacrament of Confirmation will be conferred at St.
Gerard's Church, Fort Oglethorpe, (including members
of Our Lady of the Mount Mission, Lookout Mountain) on
Tuesday, April 18, during 7 p.m. Mass.
19 - The Seventh Annual Bridge-Luncheon Fashion Show
sponsored by Our Lady’s Association for Exceptional
Children, will be held Wednesday, April 19, 10 a.m.-2;30
p.m., in the Grand Ballroom of. the Marriott Motor Hotel.
Regular ticket donation is $5. Patron donation is $10.
A fashion show by Leon Froshin will be combined with
a showing of diamonds by Citizen's Jewelry. For infor
mation call, Mrs. John Oberg, 233-3525, Mrs. Herbert
Farnsworth, 237-2024, Mrs. Herbert Keilman, 636-8153
or Mrs. Lawrence Paine, 636-5290.
19 - The Sacrament of Confirmation will be conferred at St.
Joseph’s" Church, Dalton, (including members of St.
Francis Mission, Cartersville) on Wednesday, April 19,
during 7 p.m. Mass,
22- Immaculate Heart of Mary, Altar and Rosary Society will
hold its "Spring Card Party” on Saturday, April 22, at
8 p.m., in the cafetorium. Donation, $1.25. Public invit
ed. For reservations or information call, Stella Sawicki,
938-4677. Door prizes.
26 - The Sacrament of Confirmation will be conferred at St.
George's Church, Newnan, on Wednesday, April 26, during
7 p.m. Mass.
Vatican Allows Minister To Officiate
At Son’s Wedding In Catholic Church
MAY
• St. Thomas More Athletic Association is sponsoring its
annual "Spaghetti Dinner and Supper” on Saturday, May
6, from 1 to 8 p.m., at St. Thomas More parish cafe
teria. (Sauce prepared by Jerry D’Andrea) $1.25 for adults,
75 cents-children and $5 for families of six or more.
Take out orders available. Public invited.
OAKLAND, CALIF, (RNS) —
The Vatican, in a gesture un
precedented in recent ecumeni
cal history, has granted per
mission for a United Church
of Christ minister to officiate
at the wedding of his son to a
Catholic girl in St. Augustine's
Roman Catholic church here.
Father George Crespin, vice-
officialis of the Oakland Dio
cesan Marraige Tribunal, said,
"Permission of this type is ob
viously somewhat unusual. I
haven’t heard or read that it
has been granted in other places
although I would guess that it
has.”
Msgr. William W. Baum, exe
cutive director of the U.S. Ca
tholic Bishops’ Committee for
Ecumenical and Interreligious
Affairs in Washington, D.C.,
said he had never heard of this
dispensation being given any
where.
The marriage will be per
formed at an evening ceremony
on March 31 with the Rev.
Alden A. Read officiating for
his son, John, and Marie Im-
mekeppel of St. Callistus parish
in El Sobrante, Calif. Father
John Ritzius, C.S.P., director
of the Newman Center at the
University of California in Ber
keley, will be present in the
sanctuary.
John and Marie met while
students on the Berkeley cam
pus. They had planned to con
duct their wedding in the chapel
at the Newman Center but it is
not available because of re
pair work and the rites were
scheduled for neighboring St.
Augustine’s.
Last Summer John wrote tu
Bishop Floyd L. Begin, asking
permission for his father to be
given the opportunity to offi-
cate at his wedding. He told
the bishop of the deep sadness
in his family at his sister’s
marriage to a Catholic when
his father could not officiate.
Bishop Begin told him that
he was not able to grant such
permission but said that he
would refer the matter to the
Sacred Congregation for the
Doctrine of Faith at the Vati
can. .The official dispensation
was granted in Rome.
In his letter to the bishop,
which was subsequently for
warded to the Roman congre
gation, John explained his and
his financee’s "own personal
beliefs are so close that we
believe we have a firm foun
dation on which to build a mar
riage. We have already agreed
that the children will be raised
Catholic. We decided this after
much discussion and I did in
no way consent to this resent
fully.”
Present Canon Law states
that in order to contract a
valid marriage a Catholic must
be married before a Catholic
priest in the presence of ,two
witnesses.
Father Crespin explained:
"A marriage under these cir
cumstances presents no diffi
culties. It is the couple who
perform the marriage and who
bestow the Sacrament of Ma
trimony upon one another.
"The priest does not marry
them. He is merely an official
canonical witness. Under the
proper circumstances, there is
no reason why the Church can
not designate someone else as
the official canonical witness
as his happened in this case.”
"The recent permission for
Catholics under certain cir
cumstances to be married
validly in the Orthodox Church
is another example of this,
Father Crespin said. "It does
not seem likely that this ge
neral permission will be ex
tended to include Protestant
churches in the near future, but
perhaps there will be a bit more
leniencey shown in individual
cases.”
Read said he was "both sur
prised in the way this came
about and extremely pleased.”
"We haven’t yet reached the
place of unity, but this is a fine
step forward,” he said.
Father Crespin called the
granting of the dispensation
"ecouraging because it indi
cates a sensitivity forthefami-
ly as well as consideration for
the ecumenical problem involv
ed.”
"Since no explanation was gi
ven for this permission,” he
said, "it is difficult to ge
neralize from this case.
EVER FEEL LONELY?
When my friend Bill went into
the priesthood, I honestly felt
sorry for him, I thought: Can
a man devote his whole life to
God. . .be alone so much. . .
and still be happy? Well, I
didn’t realize he loved God...
enjoyed just being with Him.
Now I know. Father Bill is
never alone.
THE SERRA CLUB OF METROPOLITAN
ATLANTA
If you want to talk to a lay
man (in the privacy of your
own home) about a religious
vocation, ask any Serran.
Lew Gordon Jr.
873-2401
Louis Fink
588-7238
6 I 9 ve Got
A
Secret 9
CAMDEN, N.J. (RNS)--A
Presbyterian nyni.ster Jisre,
men playing "I’ve got a secret’’
with such matters as the "mes
sage of Fatima.”
In an article in the Catholic
Star Herald, Camden diocesan
weekly, the Rev. Paul H. Rut
gers, pastor of First United
Presbyterian church, Pitman,
N.J., criticized a newspaper
article which reported that
Alfredo Cardinal Ottaviani had
deplored all the guessing about
the "final” message of Fatima.
"We are informed,” Rutgers
wrote, “that the message is
safely locked in the secret Vati
can archives, and that someday
we will get to know what the
message is. In the meantime, we
are not to be badbovs. spending
our time speculating.”
"All this strikes me as rather
silly,” he said. "For one thing,
I have some strong reservations
about the hush-hush, secrecy
routine for the Christian
church. I can’t get too enthusi
astic about churchmen playing
*I’ve Got a Secret.'
However, Rutgers added, "if
they play, then for goodness
said don’t let them be surprised
when people start conjecturing,
organizing 'in the know' socie
ties, and so forth.”
The Presbyterian said he is
left with two strong impres
sions about such an episode.
’’One is that the major purpose
of keeping such things secret
in the church is precisely what
Cardinal Ottiavani deplores, it
keeps the interest up.”
"Human nature being what it
is, ” he continued, “there are
.few better devices to fire up ,
flagging or non-existent inter
est than the secrecy routine.”
Rutgers held that his second
impression is that the Cardi
nal Ottaviani incident has "a
gnostic air of superiority about
it, sort of alordly'I know some
thing you peasants don’t
know.’ "
"I know,” he commented,
''that keeping a little something
from the people is extremely
tempting, but I'd rather the
church not do it.”
CC
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