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BULLETIN
ARCHDIOCESE OF ATLANTA SERVING GEORGIA’S 71 NORTHERN COUNTIES
VOL. 5 NO. 22 ' ATLANTA, GEORGIA THURSDAY, MAY 25, 1967
Faculty At Catholic U. Wins Reforms
WASHINGTON (NC)—The fa
culty of the Catholic University
of America has apparently won
its battle for a greater voice
in the operation of the school.
At the conclusion of a week
end meeting between members
of the university faculty and re
presentatives of the board of
trustees, it was announced that
three changes in academic pro
cedures advocated by the faculty
would be granted, pending the
endorsement of the full board
of trustees. The trustees pre
sent said they would recommend
that the changes be approved.
For faculty members it was a
victory in a struggle which
gained renewed impetus when
they succeeded in bringing about
the reinstatement of Father
Charles E. Curran to the school
of theology. The trustees had
voted to terminate Father Cur
ran's appointment to the uni
versity, but changed their minds
after a four-day general boycott
of the university by faculty and
students.
As soon as Father Curran
was reinstated, the entire full
time faculty voted to appoint
a committee to meet with Arch
bishop Patrick A. O’Boyle of
Washington, university chan
cellor, and trustee represen
tatives, to discuss "structural
changes.”
The faculty endorsed a state
ment calling the Father Curran
incident “symptomatic of a
complete deterioration of com
munication: a boycott is a dis
aster to a university, but the
reasons for the disaster still
remain.”
At the faculty-trustees meet
ing, the trustees agreed to re
commend these proposals:
—That representatives of the
faculty be permitted non-voting
participation at future board
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• • • • • The written news of the day, by its very nature informative,
becomes at the same time immediately confounding and confusing.
Facts, abundant as they flow, serve ^s mere indicators to what may
or may not be the truth, and it becomes difficult to make up one’s mind.
With pictures, one has no time to think about making a judgment or
exercising a prejudice—the mind and heart strike the lick privately,
quickly and if there was even the faintest wisp of truth in the photo
graph, the one looking at it knows »*•••
Fr. John Cotter Named
Secondary EducationHead
THE TWO faces above belong to men vocal on what they
believe is wrong in the world. Sen. Frank Church, left, (D.-Idaho)
tells newsmen that 16 of his fellow senators oppose Presi
dent Johnson's Vietnam policies while Dr. Timothy Leary,
advocate of "sacramental use" of mariajuana and LSD urges
an audience to, "turn on, drop out and tune in". Sen. Church
said the 16 senators hold that a negotiated peace is "the last
and only remaining alternative to a prolonged and intensified
war." He also made it plain to North Vietnam that they wouldn't
back a unilateral pullout of U.S. forces. Leary addressed 3;500
persons in New York in a program sponsored by Renewal
magazine, a publication of the Urban Renewal Society, Chicago.
The program was called—“An Evening With God”, and included
appearances by Dr. Harvey Cox, member of the Harvard Uni
versity Divinity School. (RNS PHOTOS)
September, 1960, after study
ing at St. Mary's Seminary in
Baltimore. He taught at St.
Pius X from September, 1962
to December 1964 and became
principal there in January 1965.
He will continue to be principal.
Father Cotter received his
masters degree in adminis
tration from the University of
Georgia.
Father O’Connor said the
duties of the director will be
to keep the Secretary of Edu
cation and the Archdiocesan
Board of Education informed
about the program of secon
dary education in archdiocesan
high schools, to draw up and
present the high school budgets
to the board each year, to eval
uate and improve the curri
culum continuously, and to help
coordinate the elementary and
secondary school programs.
At present Father Cotter is
a member of the Board of
Trustees at Oglethorpe College
and a member of the Arch
diocesan Board of Education.
Father John J. Cotter, prin
cipal of St. Pius X High School,
has been named Director of
Secondary Education for the
archdiocese, Father Daniel J.
O'Connor, Secretary for Edu
cation, announced this week.
The position was created in
the reorganization of the De
partment that grew out of the
Synod recommendations.
FATHER COTTER
Father Cotter, a native of
Atlanta, was ordained in
CLEVELAND PRIESTS
URGE SALARY BOOST
Bulletin Cited
By Press Group
The Georgia Bulletin was ci
ted three times by the awards
committee of the Catholic Press
Association last week at To
ronto, Canada.
In the general excellence cat
egory lor newspapers of 1-
18,000 circulation, the commit
tee said the Bulletin was a note
worthy publication. The com
mittee said, "The Bulletin, last
year’s winner, still boasts an
excellent editorial page and in
teresting news stories and ar
ticles. . ."
The archdiocesan newspaper
was listed as having an out
standing front page in the "best
front page category."
In the best single column
originating with the paper, the
committee said, "Chris Eckl’s
’The Bishop at Whistleville,
Ga.,"was an unusual treatment
of the visit of a bishop (Bishop
Bernardin) to a small mission
serving 40 people."
AKRON, Ohio (NC)--The 40-
member priests’ senate of the
Cleveland diocese has recom
mended a revamped salary
schedule for the more than 900
priests serving in the parishes
and institutions in the eight-
county diocese.
The recommendations were
forwarded to Bishop Clarence
G. Issenmann for his approval
since the senate acts only in an
advisory capacity rather than in
a legislative one.
It was recommended that as
sistant pastors, who make up the
bulk of the priests, receive a
salary of $225 a month for the
first five years of service and
a $10 a month increase for each
five years’ service.
A priest with 25 years service
could receive $ 275 a month un
der the new plan.
An assistant currently re
ceives a salary of $100 a month.
(Most parish priests in this dio
cese receive approximately
$100 additional income per
month through Mass stipends).
Pastors, directors of insti
tutions and organizations and
high school principals would
receive $350 a month under the
new plan. Pastors now get
$150 a month.
Graduate Story
On Page Seven
Saturday, at the F ox Theater
269 high school seniors from
the three Catholic high schools
in this area will be awarded
their degrees. On page seven of
The Georgia Bulletin you will
find the names of those grad
uates and a story about the com-
mencement exercises.
SISTER Perpetua Marie Sul
livan, O.P., daughter of Mrs.
Leo A. Sullivan, of Christ the
King Parish, has been nomi
nated by the director of
libraries, Dr. William A. Fitz
Gerald of Marquette University
as visiting librarian at
Memorial Library there for
July and August.
Caring Only For ‘My Diocese 9
Called Un-Christian By O’Meara
By MARY LACKIE
Msgr. Edward T. O’Meara,
national director of the Society
for the Propagation of the Faith,
said, "It is a very unchristian
concept of Christian life to
care just about my inner city,
my diocese.”
'The concept of universality
is something intrinsic to our
Christian faith," he, said, "and
you do not understand your
faith unless you understand this
dimension—the flow of charity
in the whole Church. We are a
part of this whole exchange."
Msgr. O’Meara came to At
lanta Monday to plug the so
ciety's work and the need to
enlarge the horizons of the
people of God during a two-day
meeting with 10 Southern di
rectors of the organization.
Father Noel C. Burtenshaw,
chancellor, is local director.
Less than two weeks ago,
Msgr. O'Meara met with Pope
Paul. In the Pope’s address to
40 directors of the society, he
pleaded, ' Go to our colleagues
and make the people of God
aware of the dire needs of peo
ple in the mission areas-of their
substandard living conditions,
illiteracy, deprivations of equa
lity and educational op
portunity.”
"He spoke of his mission to
Fatima,” the monsignor said,
"and with tears in his eyes,
the Pope reminded us that the
Church was striving to be the
servant of these people. ‘We
are one people of God.’ I was
so impressed with his obvious
concern with the world; with the
people in the world,” said the
monsignor, "and the urgency
with which he spoke to us. The
desire for peace was something
that possessed his total, entire
being.”
Recalling the Pope’s address,
the monsignor said,” it is the
mission areas of the world
where peace is in greatest jeo
pardy. The handicap of the
missions is their absolute po
verty. The whole mission world
needs funds."
Contributions to the society
are all spent during the year
they are collected and spent
entirely in the missions, the
monsignor said. Missions ran
ge from Alaska to Latin Ameri
ca; Asia to Africa. 'The so
ciety is not a relief organiza
tion,” he said, "it is the main
stay of the Church in existence
and the missions use the funds
to meet the needs of their
areas.'’
Not long ago the Archbishop
of Kampla, Uganda, visited the
society's office and met with
Msgr. O’Meara. "Hejustcame
to say thanks for the assistance
the Holy Father had sent him
from offerings of the society.
Without the funds, his church
couldn’t exist,” the monsignor
said. "His diocese was inau
gurating a program in the mis
sion stations to stop leprosy
in its first stages—to catch the
disease before it wrecks and
destroys lives—have you ever
visited the leprosorium?” the
monsignor asked, "I have.”
Contributions from America
provide 60-65 per cent of the
funds for the society, the mon
signor said, and 40 per cent
of the Mission Sunday offering
to the society is returned to the
mission areas of the United
States.
Speaking of the role of the
layman in the church, the mon-
signor noted that the St. Vin
cent de Paul Society and the
Legion of Mary were started
by lay men and women. The
Society for the Propagation of
the Faith was founded in the
1800’s by a woman. Originally
a French organization, it was
approved in 1822 by Pope Pius
VII.
"In 1922, one hundred years
later,” the monsignor said, "a
young Italian monsignor con-
Archbishop Paul J. Hailinan
said the Society for the Propa
gation of the Faith should con
sider changing its name to one
more theologically and bibli
cally accurate.
In an address Tuesday to a
meeting of the society’s 10
southern directors, the arch
bishop said, "I urge strongly
a change in its name. Since it
has done yeoman service, it is
time for retirement. The ten
dency for Church terms to out
live their usefulness (Sacred
Penitentiary, Extreme Unction,
the titles of Immaculate Con
ception and Assumption for our
Blessed Mother) has blurred
our preaching efforts.”
vinced Pope Pius XI that the
society should be brought to
Rome and become an organi
zation serving the whole
Church. That young monsig
nor later became Pope John
XXIII.”
Msgr. Edward T. O’Meara,
director of the society, was
present during the archbishop’s
remarks. He said he agreed
with them and may poll direc
tors on a change in name.
Archbishop Hailinan said,
"We continue to use a word-
propagation—that, at least in
the U.S. has an unpleasant,
almost an un-American tone.
Why don’t we adopt a name more
theologically and biblically ac
curate and more appealingly
modern?”
He told the directors the
whole concept of missions must
be widened. "You men (direc-
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MSGR. Edward T. O’Meara, national director of the Society for
the Propagation of the Faith, left, shares a laugh with Arch
bishop Paul J. Hailinan and Father Noel C. Burtenshaw, local
director.
Archbishop Suggests
Society Change Name