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VOL. 7 NO. 4 ATLANTA, GEORGIA THURSDAY, JANUARY 23,1969 r S
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Archdiocesan
Charities And Development Fund
Parish Chairman
Cathedral of Christ the King Mr. Emil J. Docekal
Church of the Holy Spirit Mr. J. W. McKenzie
Church of Saint Jude Mr. Eddie Gasperine
Immaculate Heart of Mary Church Mr. J. William Kingery
Most Blessed Sacrament Church . . : Mr. Dale LaLonde
Our Lady of Lourdes Mr. Jessie Smith
Our Lady of the Assumption Mr. Dan Kauffmarr
Mr. Fred Walters, Co-Chairman
Sacred Heart Church Mr. John E. Hartken
Saint Anhony’s Church Mr. Edgar Schukraft
Saint Paul of the Cross Mr. Benjamin Gibson
Saint John Vianney Church, Austel Mr. Harry Doucet
Church of the Hofy Cross, Chamblee Mr. William E. Moran
Norcross .. Mr. Andrew Herwig, Vice Chairman
Lawrenceville Mr. Richard Johnson^ Vice Chairman
Saints Peter and Paul Church, Decatur . . Mt. Fred Mohr
Saint Thomas More Church, Decatur . . .Mr. Daniel George Montroy
, Mr. Edward Beckham, Co-Chairman
Saint John the Evangelist Church, Hapeville . . . Mr. Lawrence Cudsik
Mr. William Miller
Mr. George B. Alker
Saint Philip Benizi Church, Jonesboro Mr. Lee Roach
Saint Joseph’s Church, Marietta Mr. Conrad Wayne
Mr. Huey Hammond
Saint Thomas the Apostle, Smyrna Mr. Don Levesque
Saint Joseph’s Church, Athens Mr. John Kimbel
Church of Our Lady, Carrollton Mr. Tom Shaheen
Mr. Bill Fullilove
Saint Mark’s Church, Clarkesville .Mr. John Thompson
Saint Luke’s Church, Dahlonega Dr. Marcus Gewinner
Saint Joseph’s Church, Dalton Mr. Robert J. Dodd
Saint Gerard’s Church, Fort Oglethorpe Mr. George Neale
Saint Michael’s Church, Gainesville Mr. Richard Moser
Sacred Heart Church, Griffin Mr. James Hedderman
Saint Peter’s Church, LaGrange Mr. Jack Croston
Saint Mary’s Church, Rome Mr. Leo Davis
Mother of Our Divine Saviour, Toccoa Mr. William Knowles
Saint Joseph’s Church, Washington Mr. George Rodriquez
Archbishop To Meet With Chairmen
Chairmen Named
For March 9th Drive
Each parish in the Archdiocese this week named its’ chairman for
the Archdiocesan Charities and Development Fund Drive to take
place on Sunday, March 9. Assisting the pastor, each chariman will
organize teams of workers in the parish so that every wage earner can
be contacted on that one day. The Drive is being organized to net
$225,000.00 needed to continue the programs in education, social
services and to assist the missionary activity in the Archdiocese.
On Sunday, March 9, each
wage earner throughout the
Archdiocese will be requested to
donate a minimum of $25.00.
The parish chairman will take
charge of the organization so as
to insure that every family is
contacted in their homes on that
day. Information concerning the
programs and projects of the
Drive will already have been
mailed to each home.
Priest Participate
In Unity Services
Father John D. Stapleton gave
the sermon in a Service of Prayer
for Christian Unity in the
Cathedral of Saint Philip on
Sunday, January 19. The service
was presided over by the Right
Reverend Randolph Claiborne,
Episcopal Bishop of North
Georgia. Other churches
participating were the Second
Ponce de Leon Baptist Church
and the Covenant Presbyterian
Church. Representatives of each
congregation took part in the
procession.
In his sermon, Father Stapleton
stressed that Christians should
look positively and hopefully at
the many sacred things they hold
in common, especially the Holy
Scriptures.
This Fall
Thanks
Dear Friends of the
Village of St. Joseph,
All of us here at the
Village of St. Joseph want to
thank you for your
generosity to us as shown in
the Christmas Collections of
the various Parishes. The list
was published in the “Georgia
Bulletin” last week.
As many of you may
know, for the past ninety-five
years it has been the tradition
of the Archdiocese that all
monies from the Christmas
and Easter collections were
used to take care of the needs
of our children. It is these
two collections which furnish
the larger part of our
operating expense and we are
very dependent on them to
enable us to continue to serve
our children.
The Village is a visible
proof of your love and
concern for children.
Gratefully yours,
Sister John Frances,
Administrator
Speaks In Florida
Unity ‘Already A Fact’
Says Dr. Billy Graham
ORLANDO, Fla.—Dr. Billy
Graham, here as featured speaker
for the Florida Baptist
Evangalism convention, said in an
interview that in his opion
Christian unity is already a fact.
“We are,” he said, “united in
Christ. As my friend Archbishop
(Igino) Cardinale, apostolic
delegate to Great Britain, told
me, ‘we are united in love.’
“We are also,” he said “united
in hope. All we are not united in
is in the expression of Faith.”
In Dr. Graham’s opinion “we
need a sense of unity but also a
diversity.” He said that St. Paul
in his writings to the 12 churches
did not urge the formation of one
great church. Different forms of
worship, he stated, will always be
preferred by different groups of
people.
To a question on the
elimination of prayer and Bible
reading in the public schools, Dr.
Graham replied that Americas
public education system had
“reduced man to nothing but
mind and body.” He said he
hopes for reversal of this
decision. Regarding a reversal, he
said of Mrs. Madalyn Murray
O’Hair: “Don’t underestimate her.
When she got prayer outlawed in
schools, she did it with a small
minority, but she did it.”
Dr. Graham said that he has
great symphathy for the young
protestors whom he called the
harvest of the complete
secularization of the schools, “We
have sown to the wind,”he said
“and are reaping a whirlwind.”
The commission of spiritual
teaching in schools, he stated, has
left unanswered “the big question
of the kids-what is my purpose
here? The yippies and hippies
won’t admit it but unconsciously
they are searching for God.”
American young people, in
Dr. Graham’s opinion, like a lot
of intellectuals , have been
shaken by the space explorations.
“When they see how small earth
really is, they then start to
wondering about their own
intellect.”
ARCHBISHOP DONNELLAN
“Working Together ... We Can ...
In a letter read at every Mass
last Sunday, Archbishop
Donnellan said: “Working
together as we have in the past,
we can extend our assistance to
every avenue of need in our
Archdiocese through the
Archdiocesan Charities and
Development Fund’”
The success of every project
of this kind depends on the
forceful effort given to it by the
men of the parish and in
particular by their leader, the
parish chairman. AH priests and
parish chairmen will be meeting
with Archbishop Donnellan the
last week in January to further
study the Drive.
Papal Primacy Will
Be Main Synod Topic
Special Mass
For Exceptional
Father James Scherer, chaplain
of St. Joseph’s VUlage, secretary
of Catholic Social Services and
priest-psychologist, will offer a
special Mass at St. Anthony’s
Church on Saturday, February 1,
at 10 a.m., for all exceptional
persons, their families and
friends.
This celebration individualized
of the Eucharist followed by.a
Communion breakfast is the
continuation of the work of Our
Lady’s Association for
Exceptional Children in helping
the spiritual growth of our special
people.
A writer in L'Osservatore
Romano has stated that a main
concern of next autum’s Synod
of Bishops will be to avoid
“diminishing” the primacy of the
Pope.
Another concern, according to
Father Gino Concetti, will be
how to avoid the formation of
‘‘churches of national
dimensions.”
Father Concetti, a Franciscan
whose articles appear frequently
in the Vatican City Daily, said the
coming synod will examine ways
of guaranteeing “mutual
cooperation and permanent
"communion” between national
bishops conferences and the Holy
See.
Basically, he said, this is a
matter of applying the decisions
of Vatican Council II.
“in the application of these
norms, it will be necessary to
consider first of all the autnority
of the Supreme Pontiff,” he said.
“Secondly, it will be necessary to
outline the shape of the authority
of the bishops’ conferences with
relation to the authority of the
Supreme Pontiff as well as to the
authority of the individual
bishop, whom the council does
not hesitate to define as the vicar
of Christ in his diocese.
“It is clear that one of the
main concerns will.be that of not
diminishing the primacy which
Christ has entrusted to Peter and
his successors in the ecclesial
community. To this will be added
another of no less gravity and
importance, which is not entirely
without grounds even in our
times when there is so much talk
of ecdmenism and of a planetary
sense of life. It is that the
attributions of the bishops’
conferences should not be such as
to break the bond of hierarchical
communion and that of the
union of the Church, giving
pretexts for marked
particularistic accentuations and
for the formation of churches of
national' dimensions, even though
not separate and juridically
autonomous.”
March 9th.......“Working Together
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