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ARCHDIOCESE OF ATLANTA SERVING GEORGIA’S 71 NORTHERN COUNTIES
RINGS AUGUST
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Despite An Increase In Tuition
Enrollment Up As Schools Open
VOL. 5 NO. 34
ATLANTA, GEORGIA
THURSDAY, AUGUST 24, 1967
FATHER MORRIS SAYS
Freedom For Experimentation
Important Now To Education
By MARY LACKIE
The future of religious educa
tion depends upon a great free
dom to experiment, said Father
Michael A. Morris, director of
religious education.
"The prophets of the Old
Testament were never hamper
ed," Father Morris said, "God
always gave them the freedom to
make use of their own personal
attitudes and talents to put the
message across to the peo
ple.”
In the field of religious edu
cation, the priest believes,
" People must be given the free
dom to experiment—not with
Christianity or Catholicism it
self, but with new forms and
molds. The old forms are no
longer attractive to people."
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We have to take intcconsid-
eration that in this archdiocese
we have an unique situation,"
said Father Morris. "Thereis
a large urban center, satellite
centers like Athens and Rome,
and vast rural areas."
To meet the needs of the sit
uation, Father Morris plans to
upgrade teaching methods, ap
plying "all the modern scien
ces — psychology, sociology,
urbanology - together with good
catechetics.”
Religious education plans this
year will involve an assessment
of present programs, the priest
said. "I don’t think we should
plunge into programs without a
thorough assessment."
Five official schools of re
ligion in metropolitan area of
Atlanta will have a full-time
religious supervisor. The nuns
in charge of the programs spent
the summer completing studies
for master’s degrees in re-
FATHER MORRIS
ligious education or doing ad
vanced study in related fields
of adolescent psychology and
sociology, Father Morris said.
They attended Fordham, Loyo
la, Marquette and Catholic U.,
and will train laymen who will
work in the programs.
"The layman is the backbone
of the whole process,” said
Father Morris. "Trained by the
sisters, the layman’s activity in
AT ANNUAL MEETING
Fraternal Chief
To Address KC
Harold J. Lamboley, presi
dent of The National Fraternal
Congress, will- address the 31st
Annual State Convention of the
Georgia Fraternal Congress to
be hfeld at the Regency Hotel on
Sept. 9.
Georgia State president, Wil
liam T. Jordan stated this will
be the first time the State Con
vention has had a National Pres 1 *
ident in attendance. The Fra
ternal Congress is an associa
tion of fraternal organizations
in the insurance field.
President Lamboley was
elected head of the national
group in 1966. He is also Su
preme Advocate of the Knights
of Columbus, one of the member
organizations of the Congress.
The morning business session
will start at 10 a.m. in the York
Room. The Banquet begins at 7
p.m. in the York-Stuart-Tudor
Rooms.
Lamboley was born Sept. 2,
1905 in Burlington, Ill., and
moved to Monroe, Wis., at an
early age.
He was graduated from the
University of Wisconsin Law
School in 1929 and began prac
tice of law in Monroe that year.
In 1934, at the age. of 28, he was
appointed county judge of Green
County, becoming one of the
youngest judges in the history
of Wisconsin.
Lamboley resumed general
practice of law in 1938, but re
turned to the county court bench
in 1943, where he served until
his resignation in 1954 to devote
his full time to the duties of su
preme advocate of the Knights
of Columbus in New Haven,
Conn. He serves as the chief
legal officer for the society.
Lamboley is past president of
the Board of Juvenile Court
Judges of Wisconsin, was ap
pointed to Ithe Advisory Com
mittee of the State Department
of Public Welfare in 1952, and
subsequently named to the Gov
ernor’s Commission on Human
Rights.
A member of K. ia|C. Council
1471 in Monroe, Wis., Lamboley
served as advocate, lecturer,
financial secretary and grand
knight of the council before he
was elected state advocate of the
K. of C.\ in Wisconsin in 1946,
an office to which he was re
elected unanimously in 1947,
1948, and 1949. He was chosen
state deputy in 1950 and served
until 1952. In 1953 he was
elected to the office of supreme
advocate of the Catholic fra
ternal association. He is a
member of the Amerccan, Wis
consin, and Connecticut Bar As
sociations.
Lamboley was elected to the
board of directors of the Na
tional Fraternal Congress of
America in 1963. Hewas elect
ed vice president of the asso
ciation in 1965 and president in
1966. Also in 1966 he was nam
ed a Knight of St. Gregory the
Great by Pope Paul VI for out
standing Catholic work.
HAROLD LAMBOLEY
the program will bring a new
awareness of their mission as
prophets and give them fhe self-
assurance to take advantage of
their Christian maturity.”
Father Morris stressed the
importance of parental involve
ment. "Parents should exer
cise their, primary duty in the
Christian education of their
children, "If parents look at
it only as an hour a week spent
by their childrenin a class; then
the program is not going to work
in any case. Then we get the
parents involved, we are getting
into adult education, and there
is no way to separate the prop
er formation Of the child from
adult education."
The curriculum in the par
ish schools of religion will al
ways vary somewhat to suit the
needs of the parish.
"The only curriculum we have
now is an experimental one,”
the priest said. "There is no ■
official textbook this year, but
we are not teaching 'a text- ■
book', we areteachingChrist,”
With the aid of parish direc
tors and the sisters, Father
Morris said, "We will work out
a curriculum during the coming
year, but the programs will be
fluid for awhile."
"This is what I mean by free
dom—” said Father Morris,
"The purpose of this program
is to utilize the talents of the
catechists; to get across to the
child what all priests have
learned in their theology cour
ses—that God is the greatest
good, the greatest desire. He
is an ideal that all people and
even teenagers should enjoy.
Our job is to make the idea of
friendship with God attractive."
"I think we have put enough
time and effort into educating
children to know about God—
when they end up not really
knowing God at all," Father
Morris said.
"This first year is goingtobe
interesting,” the priest said,
"People involved in the pro
grams are going to have to take
tile knocks for awhile—they will
have to take criticism. ' The
ideal is for every parish in the
archdiocese to have a full-time
religious supervisor—whether
a lay theologian or a sister.”
This year, other parishes of
the archdiocese will continue
with whatever programs they
have had in the past, Father
Morris said, "And we will bend
over backwards to help than up
grade their programs.”
The five parishes with full
time religious supervisors are
Holy Cross, St. Thomas More,
Christ the King, St. Thomas the
Apostle, Smyrna, and St.
Joseph's parish, Athens.
"In these areas," Father
Morris said, "We will be able
to do a really solid, scientific
experimentation. We will, use
a variety of textbooks, depend
ing upon the needs of the parish
and the talents of the particular
catechist,” he said.
"Though religious formation
will result only from a ground
swell of public opinion and sup
port on the local level— con
cerned people working togeth
er to give of themselves, their
time and talents. Until this
happens, other things of lesser
importance will always take
precedence in the minds of
those whose interest and sup
port would make the differen
ce,” said the priest.
"Everything we do — the
church building we build, the
schools, the liturgy — should
contribute to Christian, Cath
olic commitment of persons.
Perhaps we often become psy
chologically tied down by the
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BUDGET matters get consid
eration from Father O’Connor
as he prepares to begin the
school year.
Schools in the Archdiocese
of Atlanta will hold their first
day of classes Monday, Aug. 28,
and will operate at peak enroll
ment despite a tuition increase,
Father Daniel J. O’Connor, sec
retary for education, said.
St. Joseph’s in Athens, will
not begin classes on Aug. 28.
Father O’Connor said the school
will open one week later to coin
cide with the opening of public
schools in Clarke County
and will close a week
later. Marist will open Aug.
28 and DYouville, will open on
Aug. 29. Both are private
schools.
Father O’Connor said, "Al
most all schools in the archdio
cese have raised their tuition
since last year. Despite this,
they will operate at peak capac
ity." He said exact enrollment
figures will not be available
until later.
"Tuition was raised to pro
vide better salaries for teach
ers," the school official said.
"The two archdiocesan high
schools raised tuition to $200 a
year for the first child.” Fath
er O’Connor said the increase
was necessary to close the pay
gap between parochial and pub
lic school teachers. He said
there is Still a $1,200 difference
in salaries for first-year teach
ers.
This year’s education budget
of $534,000 will be the largest
in history, Father O’Connor
reported. "The total education
budget includes schools, the
new Office of Religious Educa
tion, Newman work and the De
partment of Caholic education.
"This year wewillputa great
deal of money into Newman
work, which is included in the
education budget for the first
time. In the past it was paid
for by other funds. We will
also spend $10,000 this year on
Our Lady’s E&y School for ex
ceptional children instead of
$1,000."
Since last year, two schools
in the archdiocese have been
closed. Drexel High School,
which had 156 Negropupils, has
been leased to the City of At
lanta for use as a 550-pupil
elementary school.
Father O'Connor said that
most of the pupils who attended
Drexel will attend St. Joseph
and St. Pius X high schools.
He said discussions are un
der way with Central Presby
terian Church in downtown At
lanta to rent three rooms for
Our Lady's Day School.
"Eighty of the Drexel pupils
will attend St. Joseph and 40
will go to St. Pius,” the priest
said. "This is the first year
that the student body at St. Pius
will be integrated." Father
O’Connor added that the faculty
at the school has been inte
grated for several years.
The superintendent said most
of the pupils at Immaculate
Conception grade school which
was closed and sold under the
Georgia Plaza development
plan have been accepted at oth
er grade schools.
Father O'Connor said his an
nual report for the past school
year showed that 8,395 pupils
attended Catholic schools last
year, 108 more than the pre
vious year.
"This increase is opposed to
the national trend which saw a
5.6 per cent decrease through
out the country," he comment
ed.
The enrollment by grades
last year in catechetical work
was pre-school, 399; first, 546;
second, 515; third, 469; fourth,
413; fifth, 348; sixth, 431; sev
enth, 271; eighth, 267; ninth,
282; tenth, 253; eleventh, 215;
twelfth, 177.
The school enrollment by
grades was kindergarten, 419;
first, 868; second, 812; third,
816; fourth, 799; fifth, 754;
sixth, 763; seventh, 735; eighth,
657; ninth, 510; tenth, 462;
eleventh, 408; twelfth, 373.
Education Stories
On Bulletin
Page 6
School starts Monday, Aug.
28, in the Archdiocese of At
lanta. See Page 6 of this
week's The Georgia Bulletin
for Archbishop Hallinan’s
message to the teachers, the
school calendar and related
stories.
5 Pastors Get New Assignments
Five major pastoral changes
were announced in the archdio
cese this week by Archbishop
Paul J. Halllnan.
OFFICIAL
The following pastoral as-,
signments, which become ef
fective Sept. 9, follow:
—Msgr. Michael Manning,
pastor Sts. Peter and Paul, to
pastor of St. Thomas More,
--Father Joseph Ware, pas
tor Sacred Heart, to pastor of
Sts. Peter and Paul.
--Father John Mulroy, pas
tor, St. Joseph’s, Athens, to
pastor of Sacred Heart.
—Father M. Jarlath Burke,
pastor, Church of Our Lady,
Carrollton, to pastor of St.
Joseph's, Athens.
—Father J. Douglas Ed
wards, assistant, St. Jude’s, to
pastor of Church of Our Lady,
• Carrollton.
Msgr. Manning, pastor of Sts.
Peter and Paul, will replace
Msgr. Patrick J. O’Connor, who
retired. The veteran priest was
ved as pastor of Sts. Peter and
Paul since 1959.
Father Ware, a priest since
1948, has served as an assis
tant at St. Thomas More, at St.
John’s inHapeville. Hehasbeen
MULROY
EDWARDS
BURKE
MANNING
WARE
invested as a domestic prelate
last February, shortly after
the close of the Archdiocesan
Synod. He was chairman of the
archdiocese’s first Synod.
A native of Ireland, Msgr.
Manning came to Georgia in
1936 after graduating from All
Hallows College. He has ser-
pastor of Sacred Heart Church
in Milledgeville, Holy Spirit
and Sacred Heart. He has ser
ved as a consultor, as a pro-
synodal judge of the Matrimon
ial Tribunal and as a member
of the Commission on Develop
ment. Father Ware has a bach
elor of Sacred Theology from
St. Mary’s Seminary, Balti
more.
Father Mulroy, new pastor of
Sacred Heart, was ordained in
1955. He has served as direc
tor of the Cana Conference,
director of the Catholic Infor
mation Society of Atlanta and
as chairman of the *“ Unity
Commission of which he is still
a member.
Before becomingadministra-
tor at Athens, he was an assis
tant at the Cathedral of Christ
the King and pastor of St.
Peter’s Church in LaGrange.
Ordained in l961,FatherEd-
wards has served as an assis
tant at the cathedral, at St.
Anthony’s, at St. Mary's, Rome,
at Our Lady of the Assumption,
at Sacred Heart, Milledgeville,
and at St. Jude’s.
A native of Athens, he at
tended St. Bernard College,
Cullman, Ala., and St. Mary’s
Seminary, Baltimore.
Archbishop Again Supports
6 Negotiation Now 9 Drive
EPISCOPAL Bishop James A. Pike waves his arms to emphasize
a point as he addresses a rally at Atlanta's Ebenezer Baptist
church where the 10th annual meeting of the Southern Christian
Leadership Conference was held. Former head of the Episcopal
California diocese, Bishop Pike is now associated with the Cen
ter for the Study of Democratic Institutions in Santa Barbara,
Calif. In his talk to the civil rights organization, he endorsed a
massive campaign of non-violent civil disobedience as an alter
native to race riots. The campaign had been announced by Dr.
Martin Luther King, Jr., head of the SCLC. (RNS PHOTO)
Jazz Accompanies Cousins’ Baptism
LONDON (RNS)—Hymns were
sung to the accompaniment of
jazz music when two baby girl
cousins Were baptized in the
500-year-old Anglican parish
church of Groton, in the east
England county of Suffolk.
The music was played by a
local jazz trio, who also greet
ed guests arriving for the ser
vice with their version of the
popular tune, "Thank Heaven
for Little Girls.”
Archbishop Paul J. Hallinan
says he does not know if his
support of the "Negotiation
Now I” campaign to end the war
in Vietnam reflects the thinking
of people in the archdiocese.
In reply to a newsman's ques
tion, the archbishop said, "I
know from my mail that I am
not speaking for about a dozen
people in the archdiocese. I
cannot say that I do not speak
for most Catholics.
"What I am saying as an
archbishop is an opinion that
flows from my position as the
spiritual leader of the archdio
cese. It is drawn from the posi-
tion of the Church and from the
statements and writings of the
popes."
Archbishop Hallinan and
three other American bishops
held press conferences last
week in different parts of the
country to outline their support
of the campaign. The others
were Bishop Victor J. Reed of
Oklahoma City-Tulsa; Auxil
iary Bishop James P, Shannon
of Minneapolis-St. Paul and
Auxiliary Bishop John J. Dough
erty of Newark, president of
Seton Hall University.
The bishops asked the United
States to halt bombing of North
Vietnam and to take further
initiatives to bring about nego
tiations among all parties in the
conflict. The campaigns seeks
one million signatures to pre
sent to President Johnson.
The archbishop said he was
supporting "Negotiation Now I”
because it is a "bringing to
gether of support that has not
been tried.” He said he did not
think backers of "Negotiation
Now I” advocate immediate U.S.
withdrawal from Vietnam and "I
do not think that at any time
we can accuse the President
of insincerity or equivocation."
The four prelates had signed
the "Negotiation Now!” peti
tion several weeks ago.
The statement
bishops follows:
of the four
When he visited the United
Nations and repeatedly since
then, Pope Paul VI has voiced
his fervent hopes for "peace...
War no more!”
Again this week, the neW and
perilous escalation of the war
in Vietnam seems to take us
another step away from this
hope and down the path which
could lead to confrontation with
Communist China and World
War III.
of the growing magnitude of
this tragic conflict. To begin
to translate Pope Paul’s plea
from a hope to a reality, we have
joined in support of the national
campaign for Negotiation Nowl
calling for a new national con
sensus around a bold and dra
matic program which adopted
offers a chance to bring an end
to the killing in Vietnam.
We call on the United States
to stop bombing Viet Nam.
We call further upon our gov
ernment to name a time and
place where our negotiators will
appear ready to negotiate with
official representatives of all
parties concerned, including the
National Liberation Front.
We call on North Vietnam and
the National Liberation Front
to respond affirmatively and ask
South Vietnam to respect and
join in these steps.
We must speak today because (CONTINUED ON PAGE 2)
ARCHBISHOP Hallinan meets press on war Issues.