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*1 SERVING GEORGIA’S 71 NORTHERN COUNTIES *t$s n' s ° Vol. 8 No. 13 THURSDAY, MARCH 26,1970 — Dear BY HARRY MURPHY The reorganized Archdiocesan Pastoral Council will hold its first meeting April 11 in the St. Joseph High School Auditorium, thus giving shared responsibility another chance in North Georgia. The former eight-member council, created under the late Archbishop Paul J. Hallinan, foundered for one reason or another and itself recommended the formation of the broader-based group of some 55. The forthcoming session will be for organizing: electing officers and considering the type of structure the new venture will have. Chairman Tom Kratzer said the third of three meetings with smaller groups of the incoming members was held Wednesday. “We’re hopeful the new group can take over and really get this thing going,” he said. There has been a renewed interest all over the country in pastoral councils and other forms of shared responsibility such as boards of education and financial councils. Last week, the first National Conference on Pastoral Councils was held at Dayton, Ohio’s Bergamo Center. “The goal of a pastoral council is to enable people of a diocese to learn to think and work together as the people of God,” Archbishop Paul F. Leibold of Cincinnati said in the keynote address. He told the 150 delegates that pastoral councils are needed because no channel upward exists for bishops to hear the authentic voice of the laity. Channels downward are obscure, he added, and consequently the Church suffers a “massive and acute” communications problem. He said that diocesan councils need a base of parish councils which abound in ‘‘the enthusiasm, understanding, interest, trust and respect of pastor and people.” The good archbishop thereby outlined what should be one of the first tasks of the new Atlanta pastoral council: to see that a council exists in each parish. And to lessen some fears of pastoral and parish councils, he outlined some of the things they are not: “The councils are not lay trusteeism, they are not the laity taking over the Church, they are not the giving of power to a few demagogues, and they are not designed to harass religious and clerical administrators.” The councils came out of Vatican II, he added, and “I believe they are the work of the Holy Spirit.” The Bergamo conference heard the results of a survey which should point out to the Atlanta Council some pitfalls. It showed a low involvement of women and young people in pastoral councils around the country. Father William J. Rademacher of St. John’s University at Collegeville, Minn., said, “Lay women through baptism share equally with laymen in the priesthood of Christ.” He also decried the absence of young adults on the councils and noted that a large percentage of our population is under 20 years (continued on Page 8) APRIL 16-18 Atlanta Province Worship Congress Program Complete The program for the Congress on Worship to be held in Atlanta April 16-18 has been announced by the Congress publicity chairman. Representatives from dioceses comprising the Province of Atlanta are expected to number some four thousand. Dioceses represented will be Atlanta, Savannah, Charleston, and Raleigh. The Congress will open with a Professional session on Architecture and Arts, conducted by noted church architect, Robert Rambusch at 2 p.m. April 16. The opening plenary session will be held at 8 p.m. the same day under the chairmanship of Bishop Gerard L. Frey and Father J. Paul Byron and will include a multi-media presentation on the theme “Reconciliation.” The morning session at 9:30 a.m. April 17 will feature an address by Father Eugene C. Kennedy of the Maryknoll. Father Ken nedy is a psychologist- teacher and much published author. He will review the Village Appeals For Aid Sunday The shrill voice of the telephone rings out. A distraught mother, tense with emotion, pours out a story of family discord. Financial worries, separation, truancy, despair, ill-health: all have produced a situation with which she can no longer cope. “Will you help my child?” Our Lord directed us, “Ask, and it shall be given you; seek and you shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you.” In this glorious time of renewal, isn’t it wonderful that there is a Village of St. Joseph which can respond with love and professional skill to this plea? This haven, founded close to a hundred years ago in Washington, Georgia, has been a part- of the Atlanta community almost three years now. It has expanded the original work of custodial care alone to a comprehensive approach toward complete social and psychological health for the boys and girls as well as for their families. The professionalism so evident in the total care of these children is becoming well-known throughout those groups who minister to emotionally disturbed youngsters. Nowhere are these talents more obvious than in the school, now available to some day students as well as to the residents of the Village. Here, patient, dedicated, and creative teachers bring educationally delayed but intelligent young minds back into the mainstream of normal school life, while love and social rehabilitation return their spirits to bright - eyed acceptance and hope. Many of Jesus’ miracles were concerned with making whole the sick and the tormented. With the Holy Spirit very much in evidence at the Village, this work continues here today. But it takes more than dedicated works; it takes money to pay for the professional skills and the equipment necessary for this task. At this time of joy in the Christian world, will you share your happiness? Will you answer the call for help? Will you open the door of the future for our children? John Rhodes Haverty, M.D. President, Board of Trustees Village of St. Joseph relationship between the liturgy and the community. His talk will be followed by responses on CATHECHE- TICS by Miss Christiane Brusselman, a professional catechist from Belgium; LITURGY by Father Clement McNaspy, liturgy expert and associate editor of the Jesuit magazine “America;” ECUMENISM by Dr. Ted Runyon, and SOCIAL ACTION by Dr. Benjamin Mays. Congress delegates will take part in various workshops scheduled for 2 p.m. April 17. Evening sessions that day will take place at 8 p.m. and 10 p.m. with the 10 o’clock session being “An Experience in Community.” The Congress on Worship will close at noon on April 18 with a celebration of the Eucharist, following a 9:30 a.m. session at which Mr. Rambusch will exlore “The Environment in Which We Worship” and Father McNaspy will conduct a presentation of “Music in Celebration.’’ Registrations for the meeting, are beginning to stack up, according to Mrs. Dotsie Holmes, Atlanta Archdiocesan council of Catholic women representative. The women of ACCW have taken up the task of registering Congress participants and also assigning hotel accommodations, when such are requested. Over four thousand persons from the three state area, Georgia, North Carolina, and South Carolina are expected to participate. Further information may be obtained by contacting the Congress at 404/237-5093 or by writing to P.O. Box 52532, Atlanta, Georgia 30305. COLUMBUS, OHIO - Four of Ohio’s six Catholic dioceses have joined the Ohio Council of Churches. At a news conference announcing the ecumenical step are, from left: the Rev. Carlton Weber, executive director of the Council; Bishop Francis Kearns, United Methodist Church, and president, Ohio Council of Churches; and Bishop Clarence E. Elwell, Bishop of Columbus. (NC Photo) $5 per year j apt \g£ j Cedartown Cutie Busses Bernard Buttercups Fran Kelly, daughter of Mrs. Lillian A. Kelley of Cedartown, Ga. pays a smiling hello to the first buttercups to arrive on the NEWS BRIEFS Pope Invokes St. Joseph VATICAN CITY (NC) —St. Joseph must today be invoked more than ever as protector of the Church which is now “tormented, threatened, suspected and rejected,” Pope Paul VI said (March 19) on the feast of St. Joseph. The mesage was given from his widow overlooking St. Peter’s Square. The Pope said that St. Joseph must be asked to continue benefiting “the mission of the Church which is the mystical body of Christ” just as he watched over Christ during the Saviour’s infancy. B.C. Efforts Rapped LOS ANGELES (NC) — Evangelist Dr. Billy Graham told a TV audience here that government involvement in birth control efforts had neglected “spiritual guidance” and urged that the government stay out of birth control programs. The prominent Protestant preacher added that the government had no place in the bedroom, which he called the proper preserve of a man, his wife and God. Dr. Graham also said that birth control and sex education programs supported by other governments had deprived man-woman relationships of their human aspects. Moynihan On Violence WASHINGTON (NC) — Daniel Patrick Moynihan, counselor to President Richard M. Nixon, criticized the rise of violence in America and a growing demand for instant social perfection. Moynihan said that he was disturbed “at what seemed to be a trend that, if society is not going to become perfect quickly, it had better be destroyed quickly.” Speaking to delegates to a conference of Lie National Jewish Welfare Board here, Moynihan pointed out that the youngsters killed in an explosion in New York’s Greenwich Village were making bombs “not to blow up buildings, but to blow up people.” He urged that young people work to elect Congressmen rather than seek violent means to change society. St. Bernard College Campus near Cullman, Ala. She is a senior majoring in education. Archbishop Gives Easter Message Let us proclaim the Mystery of Faith. Christ has died; Christ is risen; Christ will come again. The most important event of Holy Week is its culmination on Easter Sunday. The Resurrection of our Lord and Saviour confirms and sets the seal on the promise of loving remembrance that is Holy Thursday, and the sacrifice of the Crucified Christ that is Good Friday. When we are assailed by our own fears and doubts it is well, to recall the first Easter, and the misgivings and failures of those who were closest to the Redeemer. They could not comprehend all they saw and heard, even when they saw and heard the Son of God, but the fact of the Resurrection confirmed their faith as it confirms ours. “God so loved the world that He sent His only begotten Son, and the Son so loved us that He gave Himself for our salvation.” The Christian knows that the work of redemption by Christ is the fulfillment of the mystery of salvation prefigured in th6 Exodus. God has spoken to man, revealing to those who believe in Jesus Christ the eternal message of our risen life. We pass through a time of trial, but, like Christ, we will rise newborn after death. To us it is given to spread the life of the Risen Christ in the world through the mystery of our human love. The resurrection must be a purposeful and individual spiritual experience. In giving witness to Christ and the life He has given us, where we find no love, we put love. The pattern is a simple one and as clear as these words of Christ: “If you love me, you will keep my commandments. “By this shall all men know that you are my disciples, that you love one another.” + Thomas A. Donnellan Archbishop of Atlanta