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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 (Continued On Page 2) 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 (Continued On Page 2) 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, (Continued On Page 8)
