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ARCHDIOCESE OF ATLANTA
SERVING GEORGIA S 71
NORTHERN COUNTIES
VOL. 5, NO. 35
^ ATLANTA, GEORGIA
THURSDAY, AUGUST 31, 1967.
ARCHBISHOP SA YS
Newman Chaplains, Students
Need To Reach The Radical
DEKALB, Ill,—Archbishop
Paul J. Hallinan said Thursday
that the Newman chaplain and
student need to reach the radi
cal and share his agony.
"What 1 am pleading for, in
an audience already well-tuned
in by your own experience is
that we take the radicals side,
espouse it and defend it,” he
told the National Newman Con
gress at Northern Illinois Uni
versity.
“Share with them, not their
hatred, but their agony when
they find teamed up in American
life: righteousness and racial
hate, affluence and starvation,
national honor in war but little
national honesty in peace, the
status quo and the aggioma-
mento. There is something rad
ically sick about a nationwhose
lawmakers, faced with rats and
ill-fed and ill-housed people,
vote for the rats.”
The archbishop said priests
need more tender compassion.
“We must not, as the guides of
their spirit, the pastor of their
souls, condemn this impatience
and rebellion. Rather, we must
meet it with an honest heart
and Share it with a Christ-like
mercy.
“We must walk with the Cath
olic as we try to rouse him from
his shell where he sleeps with
a manual of Thomistic hand-
me-downs on the shelf. We
must find the essentials of his
mind and heart. . . to send the
student out into the world, both
now and later, aware, of New-
nan’s point: *You cannot learn
to converse until you have the
world to converse with.
“These are heady ideas, and
the best Newman religious
leaders have tested them long
ago. The danger exists that we
will send out intellectuals with
out roots, social workers with
out heart and Catholics who are
only faintly Christian."
The archbishop said young
people have experienced enough
materialism to make them sen
sitive of their isolation before
they entered the university.
“The student enrolls, and
finds, not Mark Hopkins ready
for dialogue at the other end
of the log, nor Newman’s uni
versity where the professor's
were *the living voice, the
breathing form, the expressive
countenance.' No, he finds that
the university communicates
through the clatter of the com
puter. So he goes back to his
room, and begins' to emulate
the pin-ups of our contemporary
success-men: Henry Ford for
money, Hugh Hefner for kicks,
and a Hollywood song-and-
dance man headed for the white
House.
“We may avoid the young
radicals' weird shapes, but we
can hardly shut out of our con
sciousness their disgust, their
frustration, their revolt.”
Archbishop Hallinan said the
overwhelming need is more
dedicated men and women—
priets, sisters, brothers and
laymen in every sector of the
work.
“I propose then that you ask
the United States bishops,
through your own episcopal mo
derator, to take three steps:
1) To urgently request the
great religious orders to assign
men with academic competence
to this mission on a four-or
Mrs. Kilch, Paul Shields
Will Address ACCW Meet
PAUL SHIELDS
Mrs. Marcus Kilch of Youngs
town, Ohio, and Paul Shields of
Atlanta will be the speakers for
the 11th annual convention of
the Archdiocesan Council of
Catholic Women Sept. 16 at the
Marriott Motor Hotel.
Mrs. Kilch, immediate past
president of the National Coun
cil of Catholic Womenand Wom
en In Community Service, has
been named Churchwoman of
the Year by Religious Heritage
of America.
Shields, news director of
WAGA-TV in Atlanta, is an
award-winning television news
man. He is also chairman of
the Archdiocesan Board of
Communications and was key
noter at the Young Adults Con
gress.
Mrs. Kilch will speak at the
11:45 a.m. luncheon which will
be in the ballroom center.
Shields will speak at the dinner
in ballroom north at 7 p.m.
Mrs. Kilch has conducted a
weekly television program on
Catholic literature for the past
MRS. KILCH
six years as well as review
ing books for various publica
tions and organizations. She
is a member of the Governor’s
Committee for Safety Educa
tion in Ohio, serves on the Ma
honing County Mental Health
Board and is a member of the
Catholic Broadcasters of
America. Mrs. Kilch has ser
ved as secretary of the Ohio
Citizens for Educational Free
dom and as chairman of the
Community Education Program
for Mental Health.
Shields, a member of Christ
the King parish, has won the
Sgima Delta Chi award for one
of his “Dialogue" programs,
an interview with Ralph McGill,
publisher of the Atlanta Consti
tution.
He has also received an As
sociated Press award for a
documentary on water pollution.
Shields also wrote, produced
and narrated a documentary on
the life of Margaret Mitchell,
author of “Gone With the
Wind.” He is a graduate of
Loyola College in Baltimore.
five-year basis;
2) To begin study of the fea
sibility of a Newman ordinariate
for priests (both diocesan and
religious) who choose this apos-
tolate; and
3) , To consider the Newman
ministry as a good reason for
the establishment of a perman
ent lay diaconate in the United
States.”
“Next, that in future plan
ning, ecumenical centers get
top priority in new construction,
and every effort be made inex-
istant situations to be ecumen
ically open-minded and open-
ended. This applies especially
to liturgical and social wel
fare programming.
''And finally, in keeping with
Vatican II’s push toward rea
sonable retirement, I suggest
that we return the movement
back to authentic students and
to chaplains whose renewal vi
sion is 20-20.”
The archbishops said if chap
lains want to involve students,
they must get involved. "We
have some fine assets: the
times, the call of the council,
the emerging curiosity about
the true role of the prophetic,
witnessing Church, our own long
experience in practical ecume
nism and improvised liturgy.
“Perhaps your insistence on
true academic freedom could be
your most-needed contribution.
Urge the freedom to teach, to
hold, to dissent in season and
out. Newman was only repeat
ing the ancient practice of the
Church, the noble search for
truth that we saw in the vigor
ous controversies of the high
Middle Ages, when he fought for
freedom in The Idea of a Uni
versity:' *Unless the scholar is
at liberty to investigate on the
bases, and according to the pe-
cularities of his science, he
cannot investigate at all.'
MASS OF THE FUTURE—Father Thomas E. Ambrogi, S.J.,
professor of ecumenics at Woodstock (Md.) College, demonstrat
ed one possible form for "A Mass
Liturgical Week in Kansas City.
of the future” at the 27th
(RNS Photo)
Struggle In The liturgy
THESE three women have become known as the “Plainclothes Nuns.” Actually they are Sisters
Mary Rita, Damian and Elizabeth, Blue Nuns who have joined St. Thomas the Apostle parish,
Smyrna. See Story on Page 8,
NCC Board
To Meet
In Atlanta
The General Board of the Na
tional Council of Churches will
meet in Atlanta Sept. 14-15 to
set policy and discuss world
hunger, the churches’ role in
the Middle East crisis and po
tentially explosive issues in in
ternational affairs.
Also on the agenda for the 250
board members is a much-de
layed policy statement on
* ‘withholding consumer patron
age to secure justice "--the mo
ral propriety of consumer boy
cotts.
The statement has been de
bated at several board meet
ings for the past two years, but
each time was tabled for re
consideration and rewriting by a
special committee.
The Rev. Alford Carleton,
chairman of the NCC Division
of Overseas Ministries, will
deliver a report on world hun
ger and on church work during
the Middle East war, and the
Rev. Tracey K. Jones, Jr„
chairman of the AdvisoryCom-
mittee on Peace, will report
on international affairs.
Dr. Arthurs. Flemming, pre
sident of the University of Ore
gon and NCC president, will
preside over the two-day meet
ing of representatives from the
34 communions which consti
tute the National Council of
Churches.
Going
By FATHER HENRY GRACZ
"There’s a deadly struggle
going on in the Roman Catholic
Church right now,” said Rev.
John Thomas at a meeting pre
liminary to the 28th National
Liturgical Conference.
This struggle was all to evi
dent as the meeting progressed
last week in Kansas City. The
theme, "Experiments in Com
munity”, pointed to the reason
for this struggle: there is a
tragic lack of community on
numerous levels. Dr. Robert
McAllister, speaking on the
“Psychology of Community”
noted that "we scan the photo
graphs of death on the front
pages of our newspapers, and
hurry on to the comic page be
cause we are concerned with the
death of one of Rex Morgan’s
patients. Rats take over human
housing in our ghettos, and we
are amused by the phantasy
problems of Snoopy and the Red
Baron.”
But the liturgists who had
gathered were not content to live .
in their incense-filled towers
and tear apart others. They saw
that our worship of ten lacks the
spirit that binds people togeth
er, and the blame for the lack
has to be shared.
Father Robert Hovda said that
a priest “whose nervousness
or nervous mannerisms betray
a lack of assurance and confi
dence cannot serve the assem
bly well. Whatever weakness we
may feel, the time of celebra
tion is not the time to make our
weakness the burden of the com
munity. Christians have a right
to look for strength in the person
who exercises the office of
presidency. No longer 'magical
persons’, we are servants now
who must earn attention and re
spect and cooperation.”
Those planning the week saw
that now was the hour to try to
build and establish a sense
of unity. Realizing that over
11,000 attended the-week, they
did accomplish a monumental
task. They opened with a "HAP
PENING” of music choral, folk
and electronic; with films de
picting Dachau, Selma, sin and
innocence on eight movie
screens.
To some it seemed contrived,
but it did bring about an effec
tive beginning to that sought aft
er unity. But the unity finally
came about in a direction that
few expected.
In the past the conference
drew extremists from both ran
ges of conviction: those who
wanted to be 'hold-the-line
Latinists' and those who wanted
to sack any element of tradi
tion. Those in attendance felt
strongly that they were in the
mainstream. As Archbishop
Hallinan said: “The time to
recover the past must go on, the
true restoration of our full lit-r
urgical heritage. But parallel
to it, the church should listen to
and speak to contemporary man
in the accents of a new creative
spontane.”
There was a unanimous an
xiety that we still have to begin
On In The Church
When members of the Bishops’
Committee on the Liturgy ap
peared in a panel before the
members of the conference, the
sustained and continuous ap
plause of thousands voiced ap
proval to the bishops' sugges
tion that there be not only cen-
★ ★★
Archbishop Calls For
Creativity In Liturgy
Archbishop Paul J. Hallinan
told the Liturgical Conference
at Kansas City last week that
"it is time to create in the
liturgy” before unrest withers
into alienation.
The text of the archbishop's
statement follows:
“It is time to create in the
liturgy. The time to recover
the past must go on, the true
restoration of our full liturgi-
c al heritage must continue. But
parallel to it, the Church should
listen to and speak to contem
porary man in the accents of a
new, creative open spontaneity.
"Let us together, priests,
laity and bishops move up to the
present, this time to create. It
cannot be deferred for 20years,
or 10 or 5 or 1. It must begin
at once, or the unrest will wi
ther into alienation.
“No competent liturgist
wants to desacralize the ways
and words of our worship. Nei
ther can he isolate it from life.
There are no officially sacred
words or rites. The danger
today is that the conscious ac
tion of the community will be
absorbed or even crushed by the
heavy secularity of current life.
' Liturgy leaders, especially
bishops, cannot spend time curb
ing and repressing. Although
sometimes authority is neces
sary, our role of leading is far
more vital.
"We must listen. Unless we
hear the anonymous sounds of
today’s unrest, the hopes, the
frustrations, the anger of our
society, we will not have the
authentic voice of the world,
or the Church in our ears. We
must be tuned to 1967, not to
323 A.D.
“We must move, increasing
our sensitivity to the urgency
of new words and actions, new
moods and approaches. Then,
we must move through those
ready and willing to share this
urgency withus—youngpriests,
religious and laity, Newman and
other university personnel, high
school students. Diocesan
commissions must reflect not
just the bishop; they must re
flect the people in the pews, in
the market place and the United
N ations.
"Finally, we must lead. It
is our task to take the initia
tive, to open up our priests
and people the rich opportun-
(CONTINUED ON PAGE3)
MELKITE RITE Archbishop George Hakim of Galilee, Nazareth
and Akka, addressing the Congress on the Theology of the Re
newal of the Church in Toronto, hailed the Second Vatican Coun
cil for the ' renewed recognition given pluralism within the
Church.” The Israeli prelate, who often acts as a spokesman
for his nation’s Arab community, has scheduled a number of
activities during his visit to North America. NBC's Frontiers
of Faith program will telecast an interview with Archbishop
Hakim, filmed in Jerusalem, on Sunday, iSept. 10. See other
ters for experimentation and
study throughout the country,
but that bishops be empowered
to allow experimentation in
their own dioceses.
Inevitably, there will be those
who return from a conference
and will ring the death knell
for the event because a demon
stration was not effective, or
because they felt a particular-
discussion was poorly handled.
But this year, the conference
was a strongvoicerepresenting
all areas of our country, a voice
which spoke with the bishops as
sembled, a voice which was
eager for continued renewal, a
voice which prayed in manners
traditional and contemporary
that it would be effective and be
heard.
(Ed. Note: Father Gracz is
priest-secretary of the Arch
diocesan Liturgy Commission.
Chairman Lou Erbs and Sister
Louis Mary R.S.M., a member,
attended the conference along
with Archbishop Hallinan).
★ ★★
When Is A
Parish Not
A Parish?
KANSAS CITY, Mo.—When is
a parish not a parish?
In Oklahoma, a parish is
not a parish when it is the
John XXIII Community, a group
of Christians experimenting
with a new form of community
under the direction of Bishop
Victor J. Reed of Oklahoma
City-Tulsa.
Made up initially of Cath
olics who petitioned Bishop
, Reed to allow them to work in
a new kind of community, the
group now includes about 100
families, both Catholic and non-
Catholic. Members of the group
described their activities at a
discussion session of the 27th
annual Liturgical Week here.
With the bishops’ permission
to go ahead, the group developed
its program. Community lead
ers decided that they would
build no church or school; that
they would administer the com
munity through an elected
board; that money collected be
yond expenses would be for
charitable works.
Once the program was out-
I lined, the group moved ahead
I to make it a reality. They
secured the services of Father
William Nerin, a diocesan
priest who specializes in
marriage counseling.
Father Nerin says the com
munity's Mass on Sundays cele
brates the Eucharist in different
homes on weekdays and leads
the group in other activities*
He receives a salary of $500 a
month, out of which he pays for
his food and apartment. His
automobile, telephone expenses
and office rentals are paid by
the community.
The worship Father Nerin
presides over on Sundays is
AM D*rr ON