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8 GEORGIA BULLETIN, THURSDAY, MAY 11, 1967
Dutch Innovation
Concern Of Pope
VATICAN CITY (RNS) —
Pope Paul VI, addressing a
group of Dutch pilgrims, re
ferred once again to his con
cern over rapid innovations re-
Suit Tests
Parochial
School Aid
NEW YORK (RNS)—A suit
which questions the constitu
tionality of federal aid to paro
chial schools has passed a ma
jor bar on its way to a possi
ble U.S. Supreme Court show
down.
Federal District Judge Mar
vin Frankel denied a motion
presented to the Justice De
partment which called for dis
missal of the test case on the
grounds that the seven New York
plaintiffs lacked standing to use.
The seven plaintiffs who ini
tiated the suit in the federal
court are:
Frank Abrams, treasurer,
and C. IrvingDwork, secretary,
both of the American Jewish
Congress; Mrs. Helen L. But-
tenweiser, board member, New
York Civil Liberties Union;
Mrs. Florence Flast, president,
and Mrs. Helen D. Henkin, vice
president, both of the United
Parents Associations; Mrs.
Florine Levin, executive direc
tor, National Congress o f Par
ents and Teachers’ New York
City District; and Albert Shan-
ker, president, United Federa
tion of Teachers.
The suit charges that Title
I and II of the Federal Ele
mentary and Secondary Educa
tion Act of 1965, under which
funds have been provided for
educational services, textbooks
and materials in sectarian
schools, violate the church-
state separation guarantee of
the First Amendment either in
their implementation or on their
face.
Government attorneys argued
that taxpayers were barred
from suing the government be
cause their individual contri
butions in the form of taxes were
too small to givethem standing.
They cited a 1923 U.S. Supreme
Court decision in which the
principle of de minimis non cu
rat lex (the law does not con
cern itself with trifles) was
used.
portedly taking place in the Ne
therlands Catholic Church,
“Your dear country is con
stantly on our mind,” he said,
“We are aware of your re
ligious vitality, of the problems
that this is suggesting, and of the
difficulties through which it is
passing.
“But we trust that the loy
alty of our Dutch children will
prevail over tendencies or pain
ful experiences which could dis
turb the minds of the faithful
in these recent times,”
The pontiff expressed hope
for a “generous and wise ap
plication" of the decrees pro
mulgated by the Second Vati
can Council “to secure a pro
found and fruitful spiritual re
newal,"
Citing a quote from St. Pe
ter to Christ — “Lord to whom
shall we go, Thou hast the
words of eternal life," the Pope
continued:
’There you have the model
Of what a Christian soul must
think and say in times of dis
order and disturbance. Such a
•soul Can see himself surround
ed on all sides by misunder
standings and hesitation, but
he does not on that account
lose his trust,
“Like the compass which
guides the mariner on the high
seas and of itself finds its di
rection and constantly points
towards the north, so the soul
which believes turns towards
Him Who has the words of eter
nal life and says to Him with
unvacillating faith, To whom
shall we go?’ ”
The Pope then urged the pil
grims to “have trust in Christ
and in a Church which through
out the centuries has ever is
sued undamaged from the most
violent of storms and continues
to distribute its inexhaustible
treasures to all who ask for
them.*’
In the past, the Pope has ex
pressed concern over “certain
ill-advised and erroneous opin
ions" in some sectors of the
Church in Holland which, he
warned, “have obscured the
purity of the Catholic faith on
some points and troubled the
firmness and serenity of many
believing Catholics."
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Lines newspaper works on a schedule for next year's edition
with co-associate editor, Fran Kassinger. Gundry will work
with Robert Piede while Miss Kassinger will be working with
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Denies He
Said Pill
In Offing
ROME (RNS)--Father Thom
as Stransky, C.S.P,, a member
of Carding Bea’s Secretariat
for Promoting Christian Unity,
said here that he has made no
“prediction” that the Roman
Catholic Church will eventually
“approve a pill" for contra
ceptive purposes.
His statement came in the
wake of reactions to reports on
a, video taped interview which
was broadcast nationwide on a
special program, ‘The Pill,*’
prepared by the staff of NBC’s
‘Today*’ show.
Father Stransky stressed that
he had told the “Today" inter
viewer that there was agrowing
consensus among Catholics in
favor of using a pill to regulate
the menstrual cycle and control
ovulation in women.
It was incorrect, he said,
for newsmen to interpret his
words as predicting that the
Church would soon approve use
of the pill for direct contra
ceptive purposes.
His statement on the pill was
an expression of personal opin
ion, he said, and was not in
tended to go beyond positions
already established in docu
ments of the Second Vatican
Council and the encyclical On
the Development of Peoples.
Radio news reports on the
interview, broadcast in various
parts of - the U.S., interpreted
Father Stransky’s statement as
a prediction that the Vatican
Letters To The Editor
DAMIAN Whitaker, senior at
St. Joseph’s High School, has
been accepted by the United
States Naval Academy, Anna
polis, Maryland. He receive^
the appointment after meeting
the high academic and physical
requirements of the Academy.
Damian, a member of* the
school’s National Honor Soci
ety,, has been active in numer
ous extra-curricular activities
throughout his four years a®
St. Joseph’s. He is a graduate!
of St. Anthony’s grade school.'
EDITOR:
«
My heart and my hand goes
out to Mrs. Geiser who is so
desirous of having good reli-
tious training for her children.
Here is a mother who has a real
concern for the spiritual forma
tion of her children. To have the
proper appreciation of religious
education is truely commenda
tory, these days when there is
so much emphasis on physical
fitness, on getting high grades
in biology and science in order
to get in to this or that secular
college. Too many parents are
comparing public 'high schools
to Catholic’ high schools in just
that why, when nothing is more
important than religious train
ing.
Unfortunately, schools are
expensive to build and to main
tain, classrooms are overcrow
ded and there has to be some
kind of a limit as to how many
children to have in one class
room. Furthermore, there are
simply not enough Priests and
Nuns available to teach. But
please believe that Holy Mother
Church is doing her very best
to provide all children with re
ligious education and with quali
fied teachers.
CCD Teachers, like myself,
are not professors of Theology,
I hold no college degree, al
though I think that some others
do and that some of these men
and women have been teachers
before’ they were parents. The
most important thing is not how
Honor Students
At St. Joseph’s
Receive Awards
Cynthia Samra, a student at
St. Joseph High School, has re
ceived the Honor Plaque for
maintaining the highest scho
lastic average of 4.0 for the
1966-67 school year.
She received the plaque from
Father Paul Kelley, principal,
at an Honors Banquet. Paul
Shields, news director of
WAGA-TV, was the speaker.
would approve contraceptive
pills.
Newspaper reporting on the
interview was generally more
accurate though some accounts
could be misinterpreted through
hasty reading.
The New York Daily News,
for example, headlined its re
port “Priest Sees OK for
Pills." Its story attributed to
Father Stransky an opinion
"that the final church statement 1
on birth control may not rule '
out all pills.” His views were !
then made clear in two para
graphs of direct quotation.
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Father Kelley also presented
first honors to Helen Alexander,
Marie Daniell, JoanGipe, Linda
Hall, Anna Lee', Patricia
Richardi for maintaining a 3.6
average.
Receiving second honor
awards for Having an average
of 3.1 or above were Cecilia
Alexander, Judy Anderson,
Sherida Austin, Ben Almond,
Charles Bickerstaff, Ann Ben
nett, Gary Brookshire, Silvia
Burgin, Jane Clarke, Betty
Daniell, Jacqueline Dagley,
Aileeh Darby, Connie Daugh
erty, Mark Daugherty, Judy
De Pasquale, Susan Gerlich, Sue
Ellen Gregg, Milton Jones,
Colleen Lancaster,
Kathleen Leary, Frank Lee,
Leslie Lozano, Tom Lozano,
Marselle Maloof, Georgia Ann
Monnerat, Michelle Murphy,
Joseph Najjar, Tom Price,
Robert Reilman, Rodney Ray,
Ed Roberts, Claude Shirley,
Judy Sutherland, Tom Suther
land, Lillian Sutor, William
Troschak, Cathy Werner, Peggy
Werner.
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many pages in a book the child
can ’ remember and recite by
heart, but rather, how much
does the child understand, “with
how much heart” does the child
love God, Holy Mother the
Church and his fellow men.
The CCD teacher has spenr
many hours, even years
learning about*her religion; not
for credits, not for honors, not
for money, but out of love for
God, for love of knowledge about
God and finally to share what we
have learned with- others. Of
course the CCD teacher relies
Confidently on the help and gui
dance of the Holy Spirit, and
continuous religious instruc
tions for CCD teacher s are
available in some or most par
ishes. We learn from priests
who have the necessary educa
tion, a tremendous amount of
knowledge and wisdom, surely
we must absorb enough of the
knowledge to teach little chil
dren. I would like to ask Mrs.
Geiser to pray much for vo
cations and please be patient
with CCD teachers, who give so
much of themselves and of their
time, away from their own fam
ilies in order to teach your
children: to know, to love and to
live their religion.
MRS. ELIZABETH PAVLIDIS
Atlanta
EDITOR:
I would like to make a reply
to Mrs. F.J. Geiser concerning
the Atlanta C.C.D. program.
Being a mother of four pre
school children and also a
leader of C.C.D. here is my
side.
The archbishop in accordance
with Vatican II made an appeal
to C.C.D. parents to please take
one of many courses offered
throughout the year to qualify
to teach C.C.D. classes.
Six mothers went from our
. parish to the second C.C.D,
course offered and all of us
have our children in Catholic
schools - but felt the need
was great. We didn’t see any
one present from our parish
who have their children in the
C.C.D. program. Over one-half
of our faculty teaching this year
have children in Catholic
schools.
MRS. S.W. ALLEN
Atlanta
EDITOR:
We, at Our Lady of Lourdes
School, have been expecting ap
plication from students now at
tending Immaculate Conception
School but none have applied.
Yet two weeks ago in a letter
to the editor, the implication
was made that many had been
refused admittance to our
school.
Although it is true that we
are currently operating at ca
pacity, students from Immacu
late Conception parish will not
be refused. '
SISTER M. FRANCOIS
Our Lady of Lourdes School
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The letter written by the
"mother of public school
children" can readily be under
stood, but there are two points
I would like to bring out. First
of all, these teachers are train
ed in this particular field. They
spent many hours getting a
certificate, under the direction
of priests and nuns. They are
sharing with us their love for
the Church.
Secondly, no matter who
teaches religion, a child cannot
learn in four hours a month
what a parochial child learns
in nine or ten hours a month.
The comparison could be made
to that of serving a well pre
pared meal and that of standing
in a sandwich line. The CCD
teachers are not to blame for
the number of hours that differ.
I feel the program could be
presented in a more effective
manner. Such as, on Sunday,
have the 8:30 a.m. Mass, es
pecially for these children. Let
it be called their Mass, offered
for them and their families.
Not that it is not already. Just
let it be stressed.
The priests homily should be
directed to these children on a
level that they can understand.
The parents who are truly
sincere will see to it that their
children attend this Mass. After
Mass has been offered, let all
go over to the school for thirty
minutes of discussion or further
instruction. Then, and this is
important also, there could be
a social period for serving
coffee, hot chocolate and donuts
to all. The parents can take
turns serving.
It seems, that this adds a
personal touch, an interested
touch, that brings to life the
love of Christ. It doesn’t seem
to sterile and just duty bound
doctrine. To me it would add
love and this is what makes us
really grow spirtually. Holy
Mother Church loves these
children, too. Her methods of
CCD teaching will be more
effective with the prayers and
help of parents, not criticism
alone.
GLORIA SZABO
Atlanta
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