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DIOCESE OF ATLANTA
SERVING GEORGIA’S 71 NORTHERN COUNTIES
VOL. 6, NO. 41
ATLANTA, GEORGIA
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1968
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Final Report Given On Campaign
A final report of the Arehdiocesan Expansion Campaign shows
that $1,689,663 was collected on a minimum pledge of $1, 750,000.
The final report, released by
the chancery this week, said a
preliminary report was issued last
June, but the final accounting is
now being published after an
audit for the 1967-68 fiscal year.
The three-year fund drive
which began in May 1965 had a
minimum goal of $,750,000 for
three specific projects. Two of
these projects are now in
operation, the Village of Saint
Joseph in southwest Atlanta and
the Newaan Center and Spalding
Chapel at the University of
Georgia in Athens. Land was
purchased in downtown Atlanta
for the Catholic Center and plans
are now being studied on this
project. It is hoped that the
center will be completed in 1969.
The final report on the fund
drive is as follows:
RECEIPTS:
Pledges $1,689,663.
Bequest 318,000.
Due to Archdiocese 140,071.
(loan)
Total $2,147,734.
EXPENDITURES:
Village of Saint Joseph 1,336,688.
Newman Center & Chapel 390,875.
Catholic Center 285,458.
Operational Expenses 125,044.
Cash on Hand 9,669.
Total $2,147,734.
The statement said, “While
the original budgets for the
Newman Complex and the
Village were lower, construction
costs escalated before final plans
were made. However, in
completing these two facilities
the people of the Archdiocese
have provided needed programs
for our young and growing
community. The Chapel and
Center in Athens gives a
constructive program in religious
education to young people
attending our largest University
from throughout the whole
Archdiocese. The Village has
provided an up to date program
for our dependent children, one
which is tackling the problems of
treating the products of broken
homes. Since the beginning of
this century, the Church in
Georgia has pioneered in this
great work in Saint Joseph’s
Home in Washington, Georgia.
“Archbishop Donnellan has
expressed his gratitude for the
sacrificial generosity of all our
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Expansion Campaign, he said,
stands as a memorial to the
concern of our young, growing
Church in North Georgia for the
needs of the total community.”
Denies Report
VATICAN CITY (NC)-The
Vatican press office said that
there is no truth to the rumor
that Pope Paul VI is preparing
a new encyclical at this
moment.
The press office also denied
that such a document would
deal with the Church’s
magisterium (teaching
authority).
However, it can be pointed
out that many documents are
in various stages of preparation
at all times of the year and
that it is possible that in the
future a new encyclical will be
issued.
JOE BROGAN, president of the St. Jude’s Men’s Club, welcomes Former Gov. Carl Sanders to the
parish while Mrs. Ferdinand Buckley, co-chairman of the Legislative-Human Relations Committee,
looks on. The committee invited Sanders to speak on changes in the South and Georgia.
Sanders Says At St. Jude’s
The South has been down
the road of regional separatism
in the past and all it lead to
was alienation in the social and
economic fields, former Gov.
Carl Sanders told an audience
at St. Jude’s parish Sunday
night.
Sanders said, “The South
and Georgia are at a criticial
juncture. One road leads to
regional separatism—we’ve
been down it before—while the
other road, the one I like to
talk about, leads us to the
mainstream.”
The former governor told
members of the St. Jude’s
Legislative-Human Relations
Commission that the South
and the state face three major
challenges. “We must attain
full economic equality with
the rest of the nation. We must
A Lutheran-Roman Catholic
dialogue will be held at Ignatius
House, 6700 Riverside Dr., from
Thursday, Oct. 24, to Saturday,
Oct. 26.
A steering committee to
complete plans on the dialogue
has been at work since spring of
1967, said an announcement
signed by Harvey L. Huntley,
president of the Southeastern
Synod, Lutheran Church in
America, and Father Matthew
Kemp, priest-secretary of the
Archdiocesan Ecumenical
increase our efforts so that
every segment of society
shares in the progress. We must
revitalize our politics,
modernize our machinery and
our state constitution.
“We have had more than
our share of demagogues.
Many of them knew better but
they pandered to the ideas of
uninformed voters. We must
not vote for those who want
to retreat to the past.”
Tracing the history of the
South, Sanders said it was
known for its cohesiveness. “It
has been reflected in our
politics and in the terms ‘Solid
South and ‘Southern Bloc.’
“The popular image of the
serene life and magnolia trees
existed in only a limited
sense-if at all-and certainly
Commission. A maximum of 70
persons will attend.
The theme of the dialogue is
“The Church and Scriptures: A
Problem of Authority.”
Speakers will be Father Harry
J. McSorley C.S.P. of St. Paul’s
College, Washington D.C.; the
Rev. Joseph Sittler, professor of
systematic theology at the
University of Chicago; and Father
Anselm Atkins O.C.S.O., of the
Monastery of the Holy Spirit at
Conyers.
ceased to be after the Civil
War.
“The region was set aside
by poverty and an
undiversified economy. The
talented men and women left
the South for their education
and jobs and left the area in a
serious economic rut. A
cash-crop agriculture and an
unskilled labor force resulted
in the institutions being
controlled by an elite group.”
Sanders told his audience
the pattern had to be changed
for meaningful progress. “We
have to acknowledge that it
has been slow and agonizing.
We have been pulled into the
modern era despite vigorous
efforts to remain in the past.”
Sanders said the most
important element in progress
is improving education. “Free
people are those who have had
the benefit of education.” He
said his administration spent
$2 billion for education and
established a network of
vocational-technical schools to
provide a skilled labor force.
The former governor also
pointed out that competition
for industry has caused the
state’s communities to take a
look at their educational
systems, their water resources,
their sewer systems and at
their socio-economic posture.
“Industry cannot grow in
an atmosphere of turmoil. We
have turned that corner to
some extent. Georgia and the
South have come a long way in
a short period of time, but
we’ve got a long way to go.”
Lutheran-Catholic Talks
Set At Ignatius House
Pope Replies To Message
From Atlanta Archbishop
Your Excellency,
The Holy Father has graciously charged me to express His
gratitude for the message of loyalty and support addressed to
Him on the occasion of the publication of His Encyclical
Letter “Humanae Vitae”
Such ready acceptance of the teaching of Christ’s Vicar on
earth is a sign of the lively faith which animates the heart of a
true Christian, and cannot fail to console Him upon Whom lies
the heavy burden of guiding the whole Church and confirming
His brothers in the faith.
His Holiness therefore greatly appreciates this token of
fidelity, and bids me give assurance that He prayerfully
bestows upon Your Excellency and upon the entire
Archdiocese of Atlanta, in pledge of the heavenly reward of a
living faith, His special Apostolic Blessing.
With the assurance of my high esteem and consideration, 1
remain
Sincerely yours in Christ.
A.G. Card. Cicogani
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