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to meet at
a new look at the requirement that all
not marry. Scholars are expected
Pope Names 4 Americans Cardinal- Story Page 6
Priest-Author Sees Celibacy End
NEW YORK (RNS)~A Roman
Catholic priest, writing in a na
tional secular magazine, has
urged his Church to alter its
teachings on birth control and
divorce, and to change its atti
tude on its school system and
the rules it sets for religious
orders of nuns. He also pre
dicted that priests will one day
marry and raise families.
Author of the article is Fa
ther James J. Kavanaugh. Ap
pearing in the June 13 issue
of Look, , it has been adapted
from Father Kavanaugh's book
In discussing birth control
in his article for Look, Father
Kavanaugh wrote:
''One day history will re
cord the madness of my Church
and amend the rules made by
monks and celibates. Mean
while, the weak and ignorant
listen to the archaic arguments
that support our views of birth
control. They do not even sense
the irony of our law.”'
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% Dwyer Questions Celibacy Story %
RENO, Nev. (NC)--The
archbishop of Portland,.
X; Ore. has. questioned the
X prudence of those who re-
leased a poll of his priests
| regarding celibacy. The
fi news story, carried by pa-
j:|: pers across the country,
;{;• .stated that "the survey had
the approval of Archbishop
jjj; Robert J. Dwyer.”
Archbishop Dwyer com-
mented on the story in an
X* interview with the Nevada
Register, He. was in Reno
to attend the installation
;$ of his successor to the See
'•X in Nevada, Bishop Joseph
Green.
£• "It is true,” he said,
js “that I was asked if it
■:j; would hot be a good idea
to find put the minds of
•:j: the priests regarding the
>:• welfare of those unfortun-
;X ate men who have found it
•:j: too difficult to live up to
their vows,
•jf" “We "alT know tliat this :
is a serious problem and
1 am certainly not in any
| way unsympathetic with the
situation. I therefore gave
>j; my approval for the poll to
be taken of our diocesan
>•: priests, but it was clearly
ARCHBISHOP,DWYER „
understood, that this was to
be a *house secret,’ a kind X
of guideline to aid in our . x
private discussions. Itwas
very clearly understood
that the results were not X;
to be made publice.” ;X
Ft. Haring Talks
Scheduled June 9
“A Modern Priest Looks at His
Outdated Church,” which will
be published June 20 by Tri
dent Press, a division of Simon
& Schuster, Inc.
According to Look magazine,
Father Kavanaugh, a parish
priest in Michigan, was given
a leave of absence dispensing
him from all normal priestly
duties.. He. now serves as a
counselor at the Human Re
courses Institute in La Jolla,
Calif.
In Lansing, MiCh., the office
of Information for the Roman
. ‘‘Father James J. Kavanaugh.
was ordained a priest for the
Diocese of Lansing june 5,
1954. After serving as assis
tant pastor in several parishes
in the diocese, he was given
permission to engage in ad-
. vanced studies in July 1963. He
completed these in June 1966.
“On June 6, 1966, he was
asked by his bishop to take an
assignment in the diocese and
VOL. 5 NO. 23 ATLANTA, GEORGIA THURSDAY, JUNE 1, 1967
eventually reunion with sepa
rated Christians.
On another religious front,
the Redemptorist priest has
voiced his opinion against ef
forts to liberalize abortion
laws, especially in California.
Referring to the California
movement, he said if therapeu
tic abortion is legalized, there
are enough doctors who will
justify abortion for almost any
reason, “All doors will be
open,” he said.
Father Haring is perhaps best
known for his lectures on Vati
can II. He has said he believes
one reason a great inter-faith
council will be held, is that,
contrary to what traditionalists
believe, Vatican II “is still
going on” in the various com
missions on liturgy, communi
cations and seminaries.
He said experts from various
parts of the world will continue
to meet to implement the for
ward impetus of the council
which is better than to let the
council end with several proc
lamations, then wait for priests
and people to get around to
reading them.
SAVANNAH
GETS BISHOP
Msgr. Gerard L. Frey, 53,
of the Archdiocese of New Or
leans, has been named the new
bishop of Savannah. He suc
ceeds Archbishop Thomas J.
McDonough, now of Louisville.
The monslgnor’s appointment
was announced in Washington
by Archbishop EgidioVagnozzi,
apostolic delegate.
Msgr. Frey has been pastor
of the Church of St. Francis
de Sales In Huma, La., and has
been active in theConfraternlty
of Christian Doctrine.
Craddock Family Of Nine
Will Help Test 6 Shelter 9
Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Craddock, their
seven children, and their maid, Mrs. Mary
Thomas are among 750 people who will
spend July 16-18 in a fallout shelter as
part of a University of Georgia civil de
fense project. The Craddocks are mem
bers of Christ The King Parish.
“I think it will be kind of an adventure,”
said Daniel Craddock, 14. “Our whole
family got in the car one day and drove to
Smyrna. We couldn’t stand it in the car.
So I wonder how we are going to stand it
in a fallout shelter together for a whole
weekend.”
“We are interested' in the shelterees’
problems and performance under fallout
shelter conditions,” said James Fough-
ner, research associate for the program.
Researchers have selected “a represen
tative group based on 1967 U.S. census
statistics: occupation, education, race and
sex,” Fpughner said. The majority of
shelterees will be family units, he said.
‘Books’ Program Challenging Students
\/l ADV T APVTC ^ S
By MARY LACKIE
Workers in a program to challenge students to get the
maximum from what they read are mapping plans to
get more parochial students involved in itbythe time the
school year resumes next fall.
The project, called The Junior Great Books Program
has drawn interest and active participation from many
throughout the archdiocese.
“Six parochial schools in the Atlanta area offer junior
great books programs for fifth through eighth grade stu
dents, now,” said Sister Marie William, C.S.J., of Bless
ed Sacrament school and liaison chairman for great
books programs in the parochial schools. “Next year
there will be sets of books available for third and fourth
grades,” she said.
“Beginning next fall, SaCred Heart School in Griffin,
and St. Joseph’s school in Athens will offer the pro
gram,” the nun said. “Butalack of leaders is responsi
ble for the fact that participation in the program is limit
ed.”
"People may hesitate to take the training course be
cause they feel it is 'too intellectual’ ” said Mrs.
George Wren, volunteer coordinator for the great books
program. Sister Marie William agreed, and added,” I
took the course, and found the training program stim
ulating. I haven’t met anyone who hasn’t benefited
from it.”
The aim of the junior great books program is ‘“to’
develop ability to read thoroughly, to think systematically,
to listen intensively, and to express oneself effectively,”
said Mrs. Wren.
Mrs. Alex Smith, Mrs. James F. Armstrong, and Mrs.
Walter H. Zillessen, Jr. discussed their experiences as
leaders of groups at Christ the King:
Mrs. Zillessen: You are shocked to see how regi
mented the children are in their thinking.. At first, they
were tuning each other out~and treated us as teachers.
They could not understand that this was not a classroom
situation.”
Mrs. Smith: Now the attitude has changed from ’what
do you want us to say?' The children have learned to
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Confession
Is Adopted
PORTLAND, Ore. (RNS)—-
Climaxing eight years of study
and debate, the United Presby
terian Church approved by a
standing vote, estimated at 4 to
1, the Confession of 1967.
The Confession—with its
strong social emphasis—is the
first major change in the
Church’s statement of faith in
300 years.
Father Bernard Haring,
C.SS.R., one of the most promi
nent theologians in the Catholic
Church, will hold a clergy con
ference here on the role of
priests.
The confer
ence, begin
ning at 10 a.m.
Friday, June 9,
has as a gen
eral topic,
“The Role of
the Priest To
day,” with
special em
phasis on the
role of the con- HARING
fessor and preacher of Chris
tian morality.
The conference will be held
at the new Holy Spirit Parish
Center, 4449 Northside Drive,
NW. Father Haring will also
give a public lecture that even
ing at 8 p.m. at the Cathedral
Center.
Father Haring, 55, has specu
lated in lectures that one event
which can be expected in Vati
can II’s aftermath is a “great
council” of all Christian chur
ches with the goal of unity.
The German theologian has
said that when Pope John XXIII
called the ecumenical council,
he saw it in the larger and
deeper context of somethingthat
would evolve into dialogue and
The soldier, left, is a U. S. Marine, exhausted,
but safe for the. moment in the refuge of a church
in An Hoa, South Vietnam, after heavy fighting.
Below, another soldier, Sister Mary Denise of the
Sisters of St, Joseph is shown with youngsters in
Detroit’s lower east side where she fights her
personal war on poverty. The Marine was among
those who lived through heavy mortar attack from
a North Vietnamese force. The church he rests
in was used by he and his comrades as a hospital
and morgue. Sister Mary Denise conducts her war
through the Joseph Scudier Opportunity Center.
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“Participants involve people within a 75
mile range of Athens. The oldest partici
pant is 80; the youngest is sixmonths.”
said Foughner.
Amy Craddock is seven months old.
“She crawls around a lot,” said Daniel.
“I have never been in a fallout shelter
before,” said his sister, Christine, age
CRADDOCK'S BREAKFAST
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Reception For Sr. Josephine
A public reception honor
ing Sister Mary Josephine
O.P., one of the nuns who
helped open Our Lady of
Perpetual Help Cancer
Home, will be held Sunday
from 2 to 4 p.m. at the home,
760 Washington St., SW.
The reception s. ill honor
Sister Josephine, who is re
tiring as superior, and will
welcome Sister Marie Cor
dis O.P., the new superior.
Sister Josephine will be
transferred. Mother Eliza
beth, mother- general of the
order, will attend the recep
tion.
Sister Josephine came to
the home when it was opened
in February, 1939, and since
that time more than 8,000
patients have been cared for.-
She and Sister Mary Loretta
O.P. are the two sisters from
the original group that open
ed the home to serve persons
with incurable cancer. .
Sister Josephine entered
the Servants of Relief for
the Incurably Cancerous
Poor 30 years ago Friday at
the motherhouse, Rosary
Hill at Hawthorne, N.Y. She
became superior at the home
in March, 1961 and served
two three-year terms.
BULLETIN
ARCHDIOCESE OF ATLANTA SERVING GEORGIA’S 71 NORTHERN COUNTIES
Catholic Diocese of Lansing
issued the following statement
for Bishop Alexander M. Za-
leski:
refused. Shortly after; he left
the diocese against the wishes
of the bishop and has not re
turned."
2 Soldiers, Two Wars