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VOL. 7 NO. 5
ATLANTA, GEORGIA
THURSDAY, JANUARY 30, 1969
Parish Chairmen Meet
“All Systems On Go”-
As Drive Gets Underway
Theme Of Red Mass
WASHINGTON-A government is rightly evaluated in terms of the
justice it secures for all its citizens-especially the poor and helpless,
Archbishop Thomas A. Donnellan of Atlanta said here.
“U.S. society is being judged throughout the world, he added, on
the degree of justice being granted to all, even to those outside our
country.
Guidelines to be followed by
all parishes were discussed and
agreed upon by all. In connection
with the Drive, it was agreed that
a Special Gift’s Phase should
growing measure during recent begin throughout the
years. In these situations of Archdiocese in two weeks, the
confusion and complexity it is pastors and their chairmen agreed
the courts that are expected to that a special committee in each
resolve the conflicts and bring parish be set up to handle this,
peace to the warring parties.
Father Noel C. Burtenshaw, Chancellor of the Archdiocese, explained
the details of the Archdiocesan Charities and Development Fund
Drive to Parish Chairmen who gathered at St. Mary’s School in Rome,
representing the Northwest Deanery.
On Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday of this Week, the priests of
the Archdiocese, along with their parish chairmen, gathered in their
respective Deaneries to discuss the upcoming Archdiocesan
Charities;Development Fund Drive with Archbishop Donnellan. On
Monday evening, the meeting took place in Rome, Georgia, with the
Northwest Dean, Father Joseph Beltran, acting as host. Tuesday
evening, the meeting was at Immaculate Heart of Mary with
Northeast Dean, Monsignor Michael Regan hosting and Wednesday
evening all met at Saint John the Evangelist parish with South Dean
Father John O’Shea. The needs of the Archdiocese were carefully
outlined, and the parish goals were discussed.
Archbishop Donnellan Archbishop assured each meeting
addressing the groups, stated that that the money was a need this
the growth in North Georgia year to support the programs of
since the founding of the Diocese charity in the Archdiocese,
in 1956 was truly amazing. This
growth process was an on-going At each meeting also,
thing. It continues today and explanations of the Archdiocesan
forces us to plan for the future. Budget for the fiscal year
In order to provide the vital
services, programs and projects
needed in the Church, every
diocese was turning to this type
of appeal each year. This, said the
1968-69 were given by Fathers
Jerry Hardy, John Stapleton and
Noel Burtenshaw. Father
Burtenshaw, Chancellor /of the
Archdiocese, noted that the
Archbishop Donnellan
Justice, Human Rights
Archbishop, was our first attempt normal parish assessments for this
in Atlanta and success was fiscal year had all been lowered
assured based on the enthusiasm but expenditures for all
and cooperation of the priests Archdiocesan projects had
and chairmen present. The increased. The one day Fund
~ • 1 ~ Drive was therefore the key to
the continuance of good
programs in Social Service,
Education, Vocations, the Home
Missions, Inner City,
Resettlement Fund for our
priests.
Requiem. For
Bishop Hyland
An anniversary Requiem will
be held at the Cathedral of Christ
the King on Friday, January 31st
for the Most Rev. Francis E.
Hyland D.D., J.C.D. First Bishop
of the Diocese of Atlanta.
The Rev. John D. Stapleton,
Rector of the Cathedral, will
offer the Mass commemorating
the first anniversary of the death
of Bishop Hyland.
Appointed National
Jamboree Chaplain
Father John Kieran of St.
Jude’s Parish has been appointed
Chaplain of this year’s National
Jamboree for Region Six, Boy
Scouts of America. This
appointment was announced by
Mr. William Condon, Executive
Secretary of the National
Catholic—Committee on Boy
Scouting.
Archbishop Donnellan
preached at the annual Red Mass
for lawyers in St. Matthew’s
cathedral here (Jan. 26). He said
a good government
“acknowledges the. rights of its
citizens and helps to secure what
is their right. A society in which
men were permitted and helped
to seek their rights would seem to
be on its way to the attainment
of peace; yet, we find associated
with the pursuit of these rights
struggle, bitterness, violence and
death.
“One reason for this is that
certain citizens deny to others, in
theory as well as in fact, the
rights they claim for themselves,”
he continued. “They may even
do this in good faith as often as
bad.
“But,” he added, “there is
another and probably more
frequent and more common
cause for this, and that is the fact
that the rights of individuals and
of groups are so often in conflict
with the rights of other
individuals and groups, or even
the rights of society itself.
Moralists have long been
conscious of such a conflict in
moral conduct.”
Patrick Cardinal O.Boyle of
Washington presided at the Mass
which marks the opening of the
court year.
Chief Justice and Mrs. Earl
Warren attended the Mass, along
with other judges, cabinet
members, senators, congressmen
and members of the diplomatic
corps.
Archbishop Donnellan said: “It
is to the courts that men turn
when conflicts of this nature
arise-all men, particularly the
poor and helpless, for the law has
always been regarded as their
lawful protector. They turn to
the courts with confidence, sure
that the courts will kno\y what
their rights are and will protect
them and help them to pursue
and attain them.”
The archbishop observed that
the conflict over human rights “is
a matter'to which pur courts have
had to address themselves in ever
Cardinal Suenens
BRUSSELS-Leo Cardinal Suenens of Brussels said that he does not Mr. Condon is presently in
see any danger of schism in the Church, because the primacy of the Atlanta, meeting with
Pope was not questioned at the Second Vatican Council nor has it , Catholic Scouters and priests of
been since the council. the Archdiocese.
In an interview in the Brussels daily, Le Soir, the 64-year-old
cardinal said that the central point of the council was to place papal
primacy “at the heart and at the center of the episcopal collegiality
that Vatican II stressed.
“It is a problem of balance," he
went on, “between two
complementary aspects, to be
simultaneously respected.” He
added that, if this balance is not
being found, it is because “the
conciliar texts and, even more,
and means to be followed in the
daily exercise of that primacy.”
The cardinal then recalled two
tendencies in the Church:
centralizing tendency, which, he
said fears “any concession to
the spirit of the council are not pluralism as a risk of anarchy,”
being embodied sufficiently in an( f the decentralizing tendency,
the daily life of the Church. “that of the conciliar majoity,”
“Everyone agrees in which prefers laws forming a kind
admitting the necessary visible of framwork instead of “detailed
unity of the Church, a unity that, legal prescriptions” and which
at the highest level, the papal intends “to bring into play at all
primacy guarantees. But there is a levels the principle of
difference concerning the ways subsidiarity.
As Jamboree Chaplain Father
Kieran will be responsible for the
spiritual needs of all Catholic
Scouts attending from the four
southeastern coast States, and
-Scouts from the Canal Zone.
The Jamboree is scheduled for
July 16th, at Farragut State Park,
Idaho.
Mr. Condon stated that 50,000
scouts are expected to attend,
with the principal Catholic
exercise being a Mass offered by
the Most Rev. William G.
Connare D.D., Episcopal
Moderator for Boy Scouting.
In Catholic Church
No Danger Of Schism
Father John Kieran
Scout Chaplain