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6 GEORGIA BULLETIN, THURSDAY, AUGUST 22, 1968 QUESTION BOX By: MSGR. RAY T. BOSLER Q. There is a Baptist church we pass each Sunday on our way to Mass. I would so like for my husband, myself and our 11-year old twin sons to attend Sunday school and bible school there, if we can do it without committing sin. I have the impression that the Church has relaxed rules on attendance at Protestant Church services. I am not suggesting in any way that we take up membership in this Baptist Church, but attending there after Sunday Mass would give all of us another view of Our Lord. Is this permitted? Our priests visit other churches now and a Presbyterian minister has spoken twice in our Catholic Church. Why can’t we listen to them in their church? A. There have been changes. New directives since Vatican Council II permit Catholics to join with Protestants in services for church unity and to attend Protestant churches and take part in their services, short of receiving Communion, for weddings, funerals, civil observances or even occasionally out of friendship or for the sake of learning how they worship. I would think it would be all right to attend occasional lectures on religious subjects in Protestant churches or even a series of lessons on the bible, if you have reasons to believe that the lecturer is a biblical scholar. But, I do not see how you could attend a regular Sunday or bible school, for this would be a regular attendance at another church’s worship and would be the equivalent of membership. Why not encourage and help your pastor to organize a regular bible school at your own church? You are expressing a need that many Catholics feel. Maybe the day will come when the first part of the Mass, the service of the Word, will be reorganized so that it will afford some of the benefits of a bible school. Q. In a recent column a widow wrote asking how she could “start to live with God again” after 25 years of being out of the Church because of a civil marriage. You told her she “was living with Him now.” You said God never left her. How can this be? She committed a mortal sin by marrying out of the Church and mortal sin expels God from our soul. A. If God ever left us we would cease to be. He is the creator and sustainer of our lives. He is always present with us in many ways and He always loves us even when we reject his love. Furthermore, He is always there to offer us whatever help we need to love again.- A NUN JOINS a line of protest marchers, many carrying flowers, in a Chicago anti-war demonstration. The parade, in which 1,000 people took part, was originally called to commemorate the 23rd anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. It turned into an anti-war rally which ended peacefully. (RNS) 10 Clergymen Urge Amnesty For Draft, War Resisters The widow to whom you refer wrote that she never lost her love for God. She ran her home as any Catholic mother would, sending her children to Catholic schools and to the sacraments. Surely anyone who perseveres in her faith under such circumstances, and passes on that faith to her children, must have God helping her in a special way. God never deserts us no matter how grievously or willfully we disobey His laws. ^niunance in all iii h&utuL! 9If U& tonUlen, toe utAile U Sutter & Met ell an 1422 RHODES WAVERTY BLDG JAckson 5-.2086 WHKMt INSUKAfMC •• A MMINION NOT A IIDKIVI SACRED HEART CHURCH 335 Ivy St, N.E. Downtown Atlanta SUNDAY MASSES Midnight (Folk Mass) 7:30, 9, 10:30, Noon & 6 p.m. WEEKDAYS 7 a.m., 12:10 p.m., 5:30 p.m. (Except Saturday) Father John J. Mulioy Pastor NEW YORK (RNS) - Ten prominent clergymen, including seven United Methodist and Episcopal bishops, have requested “executive amnesty for American citizens who are convicted, imprisoned or have emigrated in resistance to , the Vietnam war.” The appeal was prepared and sponsored by Clergy and Laymen Concerned About Vietnam, which reported plans to carry the amnesty request to all political candidates, the Democratic national convention, and churches and synagogues. The appeal estimated that 700 young men have been imprisoned, “hundreds more” are awaiting sentencing, more than 5,000 have emigrated, and “unknown numbers” have gone underground in the United States in protest against the war. Signing the statement were United Methodist Bishops Charles F. Golden (San Francisco), John Wesley Lord (Washington), James S. Thomas (Iowa); and Episcopal Bishops John M. Burgess (Massachusetts), Harvey D. Butterfield (Vermont), Ned Cole (Central New York), and William J. Gordon (Alaska). Three members of Clergy Concerned’s Steering Committee joined the bishops. They are Father John B. Sheerin, C.S.P., editor of Catholic World; Dr. Robert McAfee Brown, United Presbyterian theologian at Stanford University; and Rabbi Balfour Brickner, director of inter-religious activities for the Union' of American Hebrew Congregations. Claiming that “what we have done in Vietnam cannot be dismissed or simply forgotten,” the statement urged that in addition to taking steps to “turn the Paris contacts into peace negotiations,” and ending the bombing of North Vietnam, “those at home who are vindicated morally” should be legally amnestied. “Amnesty would remove the scandal of political imprisonments in America. Amnesty would reflect a nation yet strong and flexible enough to acknowledge its error... “We therefore call on political leaders and candidates of all parties and on the convention of the Democratic Party to adopt a policy of executive amnesty for American citizens who are convicted, imprisoned or have emigrated in resistance to the Vietnam war. Honesty and a hope for national healing require nothing less.” The Rev. Richard Fernandez, national director of Clergy Concerned, explained that primary attention was being focused on the Democratic Party “because it is a Democratic Administration- which is chiefly responsible for the disastrous course we have followed in Vietnam.” He said plans are being made to bring the amnesty issue to platform hearings in Washington, and to the Party convention in Chicago. Included in preparation for the Chicago confrontation are establishment of a coffee house there -- named Amnesty I - a special worship service on Tuesday, Aug. 27, and leafleting of churches and synagogues in Chicago and 30 other cities across the country. Bishop Endorses Sen. McCarthy NEW YORK (NC) - Auxiliary Bishop John J. Dougherty of Newark has endorsed Sen. Eugene J. McCarthy for president. Bishop Dougherty is president of Seton Hall University, South Orange, N.J., and chairman of the U.S. Bishops’ Committee on World Justice and Peace. Holy Cross Brothers J TEACHING • BOYS’ HOMES j . MISSIONS • TRADES For Information, write: BROTHER DONALD, C.S.C. 4950 N. DAUPHINE ST. ! NEW ORLEANS, LA. 70117 Peacock’s - upholstery Antique Furniture " Sale & Repair “ 6048 New Peachtree Rd. Doraville, Ga. * Free pick up and delivery * Guaranteed satisfaction * Free estimate? * Financing available * Appointments day or night Dial 451-9942 Home 451-3443
