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ARCHDIOCESE OF ATLANTA
SERVING GEORGIA’S 71 NORTHERN COUNTIES
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Vol 8 No. 15
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BY HARRY MURPHY
Members of the present
Pastoral Council envision the
new 55-member council,
which holds its first meeting
Saturday, “as a means of
bringing the views of the laity
throughout the Archdiocese
to the attention of the
Archbishop... (and) of
informing the laity of the
actions being taken or being
contemplated by the
Archbishop and by the duly
created Archdiocesan
councils, boards and
commissions.”
In a proposal for
restructuring the council, the
current council members
conceded that they are
incapable of the ‘'consultative
assistance” to which the
Archbishop and the people
are entitled.
“This is not just because
the membership of the
present council has shrunk
(from 9 to 4),” they said.
“More importantly, we
believe that the current
structure itself is inadequate
and incomplete.”
The present four members
are Chairman Thomas
Kratzer, James W. Callison,
Herbert G. Farnsworth and
Msgr. Michael Manning.
Father Paul F. Kelley is
priest-secretary. Illness, death
and resignations took the
other members.
I wish the council well in
its endeavors, having
consistently advocated that
priests, religious and laity get
a larger piece of the action of
decision-making in the
Church.
There is one theme woven
throughout the proposed
restructuring, however, which
could keep the council from
becoming the important body
that it should be.
‘‘We envision advance
circulation of reports by the
Archdiocesan boards and
commissions to members of
the expanded Pastoral
Council, and advance
preparation and circulation of
an agenda (with parish or
other individual desires for
agenda items to be presented
to the appropriate
Archdiocesan board, or
council for consideration and
submission to the Pastoral
Council for its agenda) and
with the advance agenda and
Arch diocesan board and
council reports to be checked
before publication and
distribution by the
priest-secretaries with the
Archbishop for possible
improprieties,” the present
council members wrote in
their proposal.
“ ... the reports would be
prepared sufficiently in
advance for perusal by the
Archbishop before
distribution so that in the
rare event that an item was
included which should not be
discussed in public, the item
could be deleted.
. “The reports would then
be circulated, again in
advance of the council
meeting, to the elected
representatives of each parish,
and to the various chairmen
of the boards and
commissions, for study
before the meeting.”
The key words are
“possible improprieties” and
“rare event.”
The restructuring proposal,
however, has a potential
safeguard against too much
stifling:
“All new matters would
have to be cleared in an
appropriate manner through
one of the Archdiocesan
boards or commissions, or
through a rules committee set
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BY JOHN A. GREAVES
NC NEWS SERVICE
LONDON — Protagonists of legalized abortion, which was introduced into Britain
just two years ago, now admit that it is getting out of hand.
In the face of adverse public reaction to the abortion law’s unsavory practical
results, abortion lobbyists have asked the government to impose tighter controls in
obvious concern over the growing disapproval.
David Steel, Liberal
member of Parliament who
sponsored the controversial
abortion act in its battle
through Parliament, is in the
pro-abortionist group that has
issued a report reviewing the
operation of the act by
private clinics and has urged
the government to tighten
regulations and check abuses.
Leading members of the
medical profession,
politicians and others have
engaged in a persistent
campaign of protest against
the operation of the abortion
law. The press has publicized
massive fortunes being
accumulated by unscrupulous
operators of private abortion
clinics in London’s West End.
They seek clients at airports
among women from abroad
seeking safe and secret
abortions and arriving as part
of expensive package trips to
London organized here and
overseas.
The protesters claim such
activities are giving Britian a
bad name.
Belittling statements
regarding illegitimate children
were made by the
government minister
responsible for social services
when he praised the results of
the abortion act. These
aroused Norman St. John
Stevas, Catholic parliament
member who led the Catholic
campaign against the act.
Richard Crossman, the
minister, said that but for the
abortion legislation “20,000
illegitimate children would be
alive today with all the
consequences of that.”
Stevas called for the
minister’s resignation.
“Even in today’s society,”
he told a public meeting,
“one should care for and help
illegitimate children.... not
eliminate them.”
He added that the
minister’s enthusiasm would
have a harmful effect, on
millions of illegitimate
persons whom he should be
trying to help.
Nastiness surrounding the
abortion legislation reached a
new high when Mrs. Renee
Short, a , Laborite in the
House of Commons and
abortionist campaigner,
boasted also that “but for the
abortion act there would be
another 20,000 illegitimate
unwanted babies born this
year.”
Stevas said that Crossman’s
remarks could mean only that
the government regards an
unmarried pregnant woman
as sufficient ground for
abortion under the act, which
he said is contrary to the will
of Parliament as laid down in
the act.
“What has happened to the
Christian principles which
were part of the Foundation
on which the Labor
government was built?” he
asked. “The problems of
illegitimacy should be met by
social and legal reforms and''
not by an attempted short
cut by way of an abortion.
Mr. Crossman has shown a .
callousness which totally
unfits him to be in charge of
the social services of this
country and he should be
relieved of his position by the
prime minister.”
Crossman told ; Commons
in an official reply a few
weeks ago that 54,013
notified legal operations for
abortion . took place in
England and Wales in 1969..
Of these 33,150 occured in
public hospitals under the
free national health service
and 20,863 in approved
private hospitals. One private
clinic in London carried out
5,130 such operations.
The report on the act said,
that some doctors are
operating on a scale and at a
rate suggesting that “high
profit may form a stronger
motivation than medical
care.” “We are gravely 1
concerned that women are
receiving less than optional
treatment,” it said. “We
would call attention to the
fact that blatant overcharging
may be evidence of lack of '
good faith - required in
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WITH MONK
4 Hippie,
NEWS BRIEFS
Spiritual Poverty Fight
WASHINGTON (NC) — Cardinal John Krol of Philadelphia,
second Roman Catholic prelate to conduct a White House
worship service, declared in a sermon that the nation’s
anti-poverty efforts must be directed toward spiritual as well as
material poverty. Attending the (April 5) morning service in the
White House’s East Room were President and Mrs. Richard
Nixon plus some 350 other guests including former President
and Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson, former Chief Justice and Mrs. Earl
Warren and David and Julie Eisenhower. Reminding that neither
money-like bread alone-nor instant cures can solve the nation’s
ills, Cardinal Krol said that “religion and morality must be
allowed to penetrate the lives of our people and our society.”
“Government,” he added, “cannot exist without God.”
Group Elects Layman
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BOSTON (NC) — James W. Wieland of Bridgeport, Conn., is
the first layman elected president of the Catholic Theology
Society, founded 16 years ago. Wieland is assistant professor of
religious studies at Sacred Heart College, Bridgeport. Other
officers chosen are Sister Francis Regis, College of Notre Dame
of Maryland, Baltimore, vice president; Sister Ann Otis, Cardinal
Cushing College, Brookline, Mass., secretary, and Brother
Stephen Sullivan, F.S.C., Manhattan College, New York,
treasurer.
Joint Church
TORONTO, Ont. (NC)-Catholic and Presbyterian officials
have announced plans here for construction of a new church to
be used for worship by both groups. The church is part of a
massive new apartment complex being built in North York,
Ontario. The cooperative building project is the first of its kind
in the metropolitarTToronto area.
Blasts Race Policies
ATLANTA (NC) — Charles Morgan, Jr., civil rights lawyer
and southern director of the American Civil Liberties Union,
blasted racial policies growing out of White House decisions as a
“new paternalism” seeking “to reimpose old racial patterns on
the nation.” Morgan added that recent political developments
provided respectability for “an all-out and undisguised attack on
desegregation.” Writing in South Today, a monthly published
by the Southern Regional Council, the lawyer commented:
“The enemy is no longer the racism of the statehouse. The
opponents are now those who occupy the White House and in
tragic comedy enter a field of politics in which they, too, are
destined to lose if simply because they lack the hatred required
to effect a successful Southern strategy. To white Southern
segregationists they will soon seem but ‘an effete corps of
impudent snobs.” Morgan described those liberals who now
justify a slowdown in efforts toward school integration as “new
paternalists” who are replacing old-fashioned paternalists in
seeking to determine the future of Negroes.
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BY CAROL CORNELIUS
“The Hippie Priest,” “The
Bearded Priest,” “Greg, the
Monk,” or “Father Greg
Santos” -- it really doesn’t
matter to the Trappist who
lives in the hip community,
attends Georgia .State
University,
and
works
with
runaway
parents.
teens
and
their
Fr. Santos
born
John
Francis Santos in Honolulu
41 years ago, left St. Patrick’s
(diocesan) Seminary in San
Francisco in 1950 at age 21
to enter our Lady of the 1
Holy Trinity Abbey, a
quonset hut in Huntsville,
Utah.
After making solemn vows,
he was ordained on May 23,
1959. Six months later he left
for Rome and the Anglican
University, where he earned a
License in Sacred Theology
(STL). He returned to the
Utah desert where he
taught--in Latin-Dogmatic
Theology tjo Trappist
seminarians
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