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2 THE GEORGIA BULLETIN, THURSDAY, JULY 27, 1967
‘MUST SHIFT GEARS’
15 Newark, N.J. Priests
Studying City Problems
NEWARK (NC)—The Church
in Newark must “shift gears,
change the speed and direction”
of its approach to the, people of
the city.
That was the opinion of 15
N ewark priests when they emerg
ed from a meeting during the
rioting — at Queen of Angels
' rectory in the heart of Newark's
looted, shot-up Central Ward.
I The opinion had not changed
by the end of the week, after the
city's priests had held more
meetings—at least two with
Archbishop Thomas A. Boland.
Alt were concerned with "the
things the Church should do to
correct present conditions in the
inner city," said Msgr. Thomas
A. Carey, pastor of Queen of
I Angels.
I "We don't really think we have
been significant enough, or re
levant enough,” said Msgr. Ca
rey. "We talk to a certain
group of people, and there is a
large segment we don’t reach at
all. They are people in trouble.
■: "They don’t speak the same
language as we do. We have to
:learn the language. We have to
;do something about their pro-
"blems. We can’t ignore them.
We have to be significant in their
lives.’’
A plan to alleviate the most
immediate problem—the hunger,
of people who can’t find a gro
cery store open for business or
are afraid to leave their homes—
was formulated atSunday’s meet
ing.
Five Newark pastors divided
up a list of suburban parishes
from which they would solicit
financial donations or foodstuffs
to be distributed in the low-rent
housing projects of St. Bridget
and Queen of Angels parishes.
(Priests and laymen from St.
Bridget’s had been distributing
milk, bread and canned goods re
ceived, unsolicited from subur
ban parishes, at Scudder homes
housing project since Saturday).
But the group spent most of
its time discussing the need for
change in the parish as of the
city and the opening of new areas
of the Church’s involvement.
Among the points in which the
group concurred were:
—That the personnel of inner-
city parishes should be priests
who feel an apostolate to all the
people living there, and to the
special work involved.
—That some relocation of the
Church’s effort—for example
the sale of little-used Church
property and the reinvestment
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—That a study recently under
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health, welfare, employment, in
come, and Church involvement
in the city ought to be a contin
uing, professionally staffed pro
ject, which would feed informa
tion to the parishes and keep
abreast of developments which
might indicate the need to shift
Church efforts.
Maddox Appoints
Father Kiernan
To Anti-Crime Panel
Father R. Donald Kiernan,
consulting editor of the Georgia
Bulletin, has been named by
Gov. Lester G. Maddox to serve
on a blue-ribbon commission to
fight crime in Georgia.
Father Kiernan, pastor of St.
Anthony's parish, is chaplain of
the Georgia Association of Po
lice Chiefs and associate chap
lain of the International Asso
ciation of Police Chiefs.
Others named to the 31-mem
ber panel, including the gover
nor, were the state school sup
erintendent, state corrections
director, judges, law school
professors, state legislators
and city and council" officials.
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"But there are still dioceses
in this country where a priest
is up for grabs if he speaks
against the war.
"Peter Riga still cannot
speak freely on the war. Many
dioceses will permit a man
coming in from the outside to
speak on the question to avoid
national publicity, but as far as
local men speaking 6ut on the
question—that’s a different
thing."
Father Berrigan also said
that'’America fias lost its re
volutionary tradition. “The
law is becoming a sacrosanct
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just laws as long as middle-
class America is protected.
The draft law is one of these
laws,but since it favors the mid
dle class it remains silent."
At the anti-war meeting, Dr.
Brown said U.S. churches and
synagogues may have waited too
long to speak out against U.S.
policy in Vietnam.
"Perhaps we could have
averted the deaths of thousands
of Americans and hundreds of
thousands of Asiatics," he said.
Dr,. Broyra said America’s
religious community must play
, a, rql£, in mgiqta'iijing, the right
to dissent. "We must be willing
to die for that right before we
surrender it to a war in which
we do not believe.
"If there is a conflict between
what man calls on us to do and
what God demands of us, we
must obey God."
The well-known theologian
said the religious community
must not only uphold the right
of dissent, "it must be a prac
titioner of dissent.’’ He said
the American remain silent as
the German churches in the Na
zi era.
He said it will be hard for
churches and synagogues to
condone and encourage illegal
acts, but ‘‘if you believe what
we’re doing in South Vietnam
is wrong, then you cannot re
main silent.
Dr. Brown said it is not
enough f6r religious leaders
to counsel students to refuse
induction, which would result
in five years imprisonment.
He said they must also "coun
sel, aid, and abet" students
in refusing induction. By doing
this, he said, religious leaders
also would be subject to possible
imprisonment.
Rabbi Feinberg, who visited
North Vietnam and talked with
Ho Chi Minh, said, "Many peo
ple are beginning to suspect
that those who are shaping our
policy in Vietnam are interested
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Archbishop Urges
i Negotiation Now’
Archbishop Paul J. Hallinan
of Atlanta has signed a petition
"Negotiation Nowl" asking
the United States to end the
bombing of North Vietnam and
take steps toward a truce.
Archbishop Hallinan was the
third American Roman Catho
lic prelate to sign the petition.
Earlier, Bishop Victor J. Reed
of Oklahoma City-Tulsa and
Auxiliary Bishop John J. Dough
erty of Newark, president of
Seton Hall University, agreed to
be listed. among the drive’s
sponsors.
The petition has three major
points:
1) It seeks support of a call
by U Thant to bring about ne
gotiations among all parties to
the conflict, leading to a politi
cal settlement of the war.
2) It asks the United States
to take the first step and end
bombing of North Vietnam with
out conditions. It asks the U.S.
government to take further ini
tiatives leading to a standstill
truce.
3) It asks South Vietnam to re
spect and join in these steps.
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Among other sponsors of the
statement are Dr. Martin Luth
er King Jr., Theologian Rein
hold Niebuhr, Episcopal Bishop
George Barrett of Rochester,
N.Y., William L. Shirer, author
of "The Rise and Fall of the
Third Reich," and Norman
Cousins, editor of Saturday Re
in negotiation, but are domina
ted by military minds,
"Aside from the destruction
of human life and property and
the leveling of villages, one of
the results of U. S. bombing
in North Vietnam has been to
stiffen resistance," he said.
The rabbi said there were
■many avenues to peace open
which must be pursued, along
with a rejection of military
victory.
In his talk, Father Berrigan
said that 72 per cent of the U.S.
tax dollar goes.for war.. "Our
foreign policy is a creation of
economic and military power.”
He declared that America is
a radically sick society and
any talk of reforming it without
revolution was nonsense. He
said revolution will come be
cause a welfare-warfare state
cannot continue to exist un
challenged.
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Friends Service Committee and
the Emory Christian Movement.
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