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VOL. 6, NO. 34
ATLANTA, GEORGIA
THURSDAY, AUGUST 29, 1969
A rckdiocesan Schools To Open Sept. 3
Parochial schools in the
Archdiocese of Atlanta will open
Tuesday, Sept. 3, with smaller
enrollments, Father Daniel J.
O’Connor, secretary for Catholic
Education, has announced.
He said the expfected
enrollment in parish elementary
schools will be slightly lower than
last year’s total. “This is due to
the dropping of grades in some
schools, closing of Our Lady’s
Day School, and the continued
reduction of class size in schools
preparing to meet standards for
accreditation,. Last year
enrollment dropped by about
700 pupils because of these
reasons and a sharp rise in tuition
at most parish schools,” he said.
However, seven parishes will have
full-time education directors for
their schools of religion.
The first day of school will
end at noon! All other days of
the Erst week will be full days
except in some schools where
first graders will attend for a half
day. (See full report on Page 3).
Father O’Connor said that St.
Pius X High School and St.
Joseph High School will operate
at capacity enrollment. “For the
first time in many years, schools
have had little difficulty finding
lay teachers to fill all vacancies.
Higher salaries are partially
responsible for this.”
The school official said there
have been several major changes
in the educational set-up in the
archdiocese. Sister Mary
Madeline, RSM,’ is the new
director of elementary education,
and will be responsible for
education on the elementary level
in the archdiocese.
Miss Joan Raulerson, former
librarian at St. Joseph High
School, was employed by the
Department of Catholic
Education to serve as librarian
consultant for the archdiocese.
She will assist schools in the
archdiocese in their libraries and
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POPE PAUL Holds an Indian hat in his right hand as he greets thousands of Latin American
peasants at the village of San Jose de Mosquers, 18 miles west of Bogota. The hat was given the
Pope as he rode into the village in a jeep. A huge portrait of the pontiff is held aloft by a group of
peasants. (RNS)
Perry Homes Anchor Post
By MARY LACK1E
Two nuns left this week for
Africa and India, but the work
they began with their Perry
Homes neighbors will continue.
In February two Medical
Missionary Sisters, Sister Pauline
Downing and Sister Joan Barina,
moved into a small apartment
near the Perry Homes housing
project. They worked full-time at
Holy Family Hospital and spent
their free time getting to know
the neighbors.
Although there are more than
10,000 people living in the
project and in nearby homes,
there are no doctors in the area.
Sister Pauline said, “There seems
to be a great need for medical
care with so many working
mothers here, and so many older
people on welfare. They can’t
afford to take a day off from
work to go down to Grady.”
Two years ago a program for
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AT THE free clinic in the Perry Homes Housing project, Dr. James D.
Hammond, Jr. and Sister Pauline examine the head injuries of a child
who was hurt while his mother was at work.
IN BOGOTA TALKS
Pope Stresses
Non-Violence,
Social Justice
VATICAN CITY (NC) - Pope Paul VI pledged the Church
to a fight for social justice and against the extreme abyss
between the rich and poor classes of Latin America.
This was a constant theme of his major speeches during his
three-day visit (Aug. 22-24), to the 39th International
' Eucharistic Congress in Colombia, one of the Latin American
countries in which economic imbalances are the major social
problem of the day. But at the same time a secondary
theme—rejection of the use of violence and revolution—was
sounded by him time and time again.
The Pope’s trip to Bogota, the high mountain capital of
Colombia, was the first visit of a Pope to Latin America. And
with a flair for the dramatic which Pope Paul frequently has
shown in the past, he opened it by kneeling to kiss the ground
on his arrival at Bogota’s El Dorado airport (Aug. 22). In doing
so he emulated the gesture made by Christopher Columbus
when he first set foot upon the new continent.
Drama was not confined to his airport arrival. Not long
after, the Pope was almost mobbed on his arrival at the
cathedral and shortly after inside the building he seemed in
danger of being all but smothered by the crowds.
Even when he went to San Jose outside of Bogota to be
with hundreds of thousands of campesinos, the
poverty-stricken land workers of Latin America, he again ran a
close risk of ‘ being overwhelmed by the delighted faithful and
frantic newsmen and photographers.
Despite his 71 years, his frail constitution and a gruelling
schedule of ceremonies and meetings, the Pope, while
appearing sometimes tired came through in good condition.
On the day he flew back to Rome the Vatican press
spokesman, Msgr. Fausto Vallainc, said, “The Pope’s condition
is excellent.”
Close aides of the Pope said they were very satisfied with
the entire trip despite some obvious exceptions.
The Pope’s schedule took him to and from the huge
Congress area frequently. Often he took part in extra congress
events, such as the meeting with the campesinos (Aug. 23) and
a morning Mass in a parish church in south Bogota (Aug. 24).
On the evening of the first day of the visit the Pope
officiated at the ordinations of Latin American priests and
deacons including several who were married.
The next day (Aug. 23) found him making an early
morning call at the presidential palace. To President Carlos
Lleras Restrepo he gave a silver madonna, and the President
presented him a pectoral cross made of Colombian gold set
with an emerald.
Diplomatic courtesies over, the Pope flew by helicopter to
an experimental farm station outside Bogota to talk with the
poor farm workers who had come from all parts of Latin
America. The spectacle was filled with color, laughter and
enormous enthusiasm. As the Pope rode standing up in a
special jeep-like farm machine for more than a mile and a half,
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