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G. ALBERT LAWTON NCCJ Award Dear Reader BY HARRY MURPHY “In my view, if you can’t have amicable and good faith race relations, then it’s time to give up,” says an Atlanta Catholic who will receive the National Brotherhood Award of the National Conference of Christians and Jews (NCCJ) here March 19. The human race faces too many other problems to get bogged down in bad human relations, contend G. Albert Lawton, the native New Englander who will be presented-the award by the Need’s Georgia region in ceremonies at the Regency Hyatt House. He doesn’t advocate, however, a “hands off’ policy on brotherhood. “Criticism, if handled properly, is not necessarily destructive and harmful,” he explains. Lawton, who has adopted Atlanta as his home for the past 11 years, is chairman of the Archdiocesan Finance Committee and makes his living in financial and insurance circles. It’s heartening for such a person to feel that brotherhood is so important. The NCCJ says the award is for “his unusual service to the .. .Conference .. .and for his contributions to civic, religious and educational endeavors.” He was a member of the now defunct St. Martin’s Council, a Catholic interracial group. A member of Holy Spirit Parish, he’s married and the father of three children. Lawton is a director of the Atlanta Symphony Guild and St. Joseph’s Infirmary, an NCCJ National board member, trustee, and co-chairman of the Georgia Region. The event’s principal speaker will be Mrs. George Romney, wife of the U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. She is national chairman of Need’s commitment for 1970, “Brotherhood Begins with Respect,” and has been a leader in the conference’s program of “Rearing Children of Good Will.” NCCJ President Sterling W. Brown will present the award to Lawton at the dinner, which is a major fund-raising event for the organization. The NCCJ is a civic organization dedicated to the national ideal of building “one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.” A high honor by an outstanding organization for a deserving Catholic, enough to make an members of the Church in North Georgia proud. Priest Ordained For Here Joseph Anthony Sanches was ordained a priest March 7 for the service of the Church in the Archdiocese of Atlanta. Archbishop Thomas A. Donnellan celebrated the ordination ceremony at the Church of the 'Guardian Angel, the parish church of the Sanches family, in Allendale, New Jersey. Rev. Eugene A. Walsh, S. S., rector of the Theological College of Catholic University where Father Sanches is completing his studies, presented Father Sanches for ordination. Rev. Joseph C. Stockhammer, Pastor of the parish, - assisted the Archbishop. Father Jerry E. Hardy served as master of ceremonies. Father Sanches, a thirty-year-old native of New York City, entered the Archdiocese as a student in August, 1963. He completed his college studies at St. Charles College, Catonsville, Maryland and St. Mary’s College, Baltimore, Maryland. After graduation from St. Mary’s, Father Sanches entered Theological College at Catholic University of America. While at Theological College, where he will remain until the end of the year, Father Sanches distinguished himself with outstanding academic achievement. In addition he was also instrumental in the design and development of the College’s Pastoral Training Program. His contribution in this latter area has been so significant that the faculty of the College requested that he be allowed to remain an extra year at the institution to complete the development of the Program. Archbishop Donnellan granted the request and Father Sanches will begin his ministry in Atlanta after the year is completed. In his homily at Ordination, Archbishop Donnellan quoted from St. Paul’s letter to the Philipans and went on to comment on Paul’s message: “Today, your ordination day, through me, your Bishop, God has spoken the Creative Word that makes (Continued on Page 2) K s «V s i Sj s i 1 » PARISHONERS HEAD FOR BASEMENT It’s Where The Action Is NOTRE DAME BOOKSTORE Sr. Mary Schweers Tends Church Basement Bustles BY LEONARD TEEL “I had determined that I was not going to cry at the wall.. .because why shouldn’t I stand before that wall rejoicing for God?” The man talking about his night time visits to the sacred “Wailing Wall”- in Jerusalem was an Atlanta rabbi with a mustache and a frequent smile. His listeners were not Jewish, but Catholics gathered on a Sunday morning after Mass in the new Religious Education Center beneath Sacred Heart Church, 335 Ivy St. NE. Rabbi Sydney K. Mossman’s talk about “Man’s Struggle with God” was one of the various activities which the parish sponsors in the Center which until recently was a basement where old pews were stored. “You see,” explains Sister Anne Russell, the director and one of the life forces in the Center, “everything that happens in the parish happens down here, except for the liturgy. “It gives people someplace to be, which is important for the community ...” She recently told parishioners in a mailing: “You don’t have to be Irish to come to the Pot Luck Supper (March 14), just an alive member of Sacred Heart Parish.” On the March calendar of events Sister Anne stroked a large “Join Us” and listed all the events, including sewing for the poor and the return of Rabbi Mossman for the Passover Meal on March 25. As conceived by the pastor, Rev. John Mulroy, the Center is intended to be a place for action in the inner city. Convinced that many persons are idle because they have no opportunites for action, Rev. Mulroy got rid of the unused pews and had the basement renovated at a cost of about $40,000, which has been paid. On a recent tour, he demonstrated the degree of planning that went into the center. Showing off the robe room, he pointed out that the short closets were for the children’s choir gowns. The kitchen is adequate for meals and the coffeemaker is tapped regularly for after - Mass gatherings. Two pink and white piggy banks are set on the coffee table for anyone who wants to contribute. On the recent Sunday morning, Rabbi Mossman arrived early. Upstairs in the church the visiting Methodist choir from across the street was still singing. Sister Anne greeted the rabbi. Coffee was on the table. To one side of the Center, behind sliding glass panels, Sister Placide Regan and Sister Mary Bernard Schweers were tending the Notre Dame Bookstore which is open every day. Next to the bookshop in another glass partitioned office, two men and two women counted the Sunday donations to the Archdiocesan Charities Drive. After the second Mass, they had gone $24 over their quota of $9,000. (Eventually they counted up $11,040.50.) The chairman of the parish drive, Royce Mitchell, said the office in the Center was an improvement over the room in the rectory where he used to count the money. And, he said, “You don’t have to answer the door and the telephone.” Next to them was Sister Anne’s office where she writes the calendars with her set of broad-stroked markers of many colors. “Here I am,” said Rabbi Mossman as the talk began, “addressing you immediately after a divine service. You have just come from your own search for God.” In his own search, he said, he went to the “Wailing Wall” ~ the ruins of the old temple -- sometimes at midnight or 12:30 in the morning when the place was quiet. “I wanted to stand in front of that wall and just talk to him-not always seriously.” He smiled. “I said, ‘With me, God, you’ve got to have a sense of humor.’” “Man’s struggle,” he said in conclusion, “is man’s struggle to attain faith. Faith, as we shall talk about next week, is something that has to be renewed every morning.” 88 I NEWS BRIEFS Ask Reinstatement SEATTLE (NC) — A priests’ board of inquiry, investigating the suspension of a seminarian disciplined for recruiting go-go dancers for a prison performance, has recommended that the student be reinstated immediately. James Pattenaude, the suspended seminarian, expressed surprise at the board’s decision. He is a second-year theology student at St. Thomas the Apostle Seminary in nearby Kenmore. Archbishop Thomas A. Connolly, who disciplined the seminarian, said he would comment on the board’s report after he has read it. The prelate had not issued any statement as of March 10. Seek Open N.C.C.B. Meeting ST. LOUIS, Mo. (NC) — The religion writers of the nation’s general press have called upon the U.S. Catholic bishops to open to reporters the business sessions at their semiannual meetings. Religion Newswriters Association (RNA) voted unanimously at its annual meeting here (March 8) to ask the bishops to “open all plenary business sessions to accredited reporters” when the National Conference of Catholic Bishops (NCCB) meets in April in San Francisco-as well as at future meetings. The RNA membership of about 100 includes fulltime religion writers on the reporting staffs of daily newspapers, wire services, and national weeklies and news magazines. Priest, Nun Lose Parent The father of a priest and the mother of a nun stationed in the Atlanta Archdiocese have died suddenly. Charles Henry Herbert, father of Rev. Leo P. Herbert, assistant pastor of St. Anthony’s Parish, died in an accident in Ireland March 8. Father Herbert has returned to Ireland for the funeral. Mrs. Alice Cauley, mother of Sister Rosemary Cauley, G.N.S.H., who is in charge of religious education at the Cathedral, died while visiting her daughter here. Mrs. Cauley’s remains have been taken to her home in Buffalo, N.Y. Atheist President? Mayhe Next Century IOWA CITY, Iowa (NC)~ Could an atheist be elected president of the United States? Not today, observed Prof. James McCue, a Catholic lay theologian who is a member of the University of Iowa’s School of Religion. McCue maintained that despite the American principle that church and state should be kept separate, he said that in practice the United States has had an “established religion.” And in some ways, he noted, religion has been stronger here than in some European and Latin American countries usually thought of in that connection. The professor pointed out that in those countries, atheistic communists commonly run for public office and are elected. But he added that serious American candidates-for city council or the White House-are quick to cite their religious affiliation. McCue said that in spite of the stong religious consensus that has marked U.S. History up to the present, he believes “revolutions” happening in many phases of American, life have made disenchanted with the country’s religious as well as political institutions. McCue predicted that as the 21st century approaches, the need to be even “vaguely religious” will decline as a requirement of being “American.” Stress Need To Communicate At NFPC Meet SAN DIEGO Calif. (NC) Three chief speakers at the third annual National Federation of Priests’ Council’s meeting here stressed need for establishment of real communication between bishops and priests if the present tensions within the Church are ever to be alleviated. Bishop Alexander Carter, of t Saulte Ste. Marie, Ont., former president of the Canadian Catholic Conference, the keynote speaker, declared “my own conviction is that the real priority should be given personal communication.” Father Joseph Fichter, Harvard University sociologist, said “the most important answer to the current problems that comes out of our research surveys centers around the concept of communication, collegiality and co-responsibility.” Father Patrick O’Malley of Chicago, retiring NFPC president, said his group had been in the forefront of “opening up communications between every segment of the Church, and outside the Church, as well. We must study the art of communication, use what the sciences teach us, be the sounding board of those voices which cannot be heard.” Bishop Carter said: “I have seen hard-boiled professional journalists, radio and TV experts change a whole attitude in the space of an hour when they confront a real-life bishop or a panel of bishops who are willing to meet them on their own ground, answer their questions simply and honestly without evasion-in a word just be themselves.” “One of the great causes for a breakdown in many places in bishop - priests* relationships is the almost total lack of knowledge of one another. I say this with all sincerity acknowledging that very often, though not always, it has been the fault of us who are bishops. Properly understood, there is a great truth in one of G.K. Chesterton’s typical remarks: ‘It is not familiarity that breeds contempt, it is unfamiliarity.’ Be that as it may, I welcome this opportunity to compare notes with you.” The bishop told the members of the federation, “we have much to leam by mutually comparing our experiences, achievements and failures in various experiments designed to put into practice the promise that Vatican II offered to the Church and to an interested world.” ^$250,000^ $242,500 March 1,1970 Feb. 27,1970 97% 1 Feb. 20,1970 V ft eg Cu 09 O Feb. 13,1970 .S3 ’o & Feb.6,1970 1 Charities Drive Thermometer Fund Drive Inches Toward Goal This week the Chancery reports that 97 percent of the Charities Drive had been collected from the parishes throughout the Archdiocese. The amount on hand is $242,500. In one week since Drive Sunday, the amount has grown by 3%. It is expected that before the end of this week, the total amount will have come from the parishes. The over-all goal for the Archdiocese this year was $250,000. Archbishop Donnellan has urged those tyho have not yet participated to do so through their parishes this week so that the Charities Drive for 1970 can be completed. The Archbishop again expressed his gratitude to all who worked so hard during this annual one day cash drive.