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PAGE .7 — The Georgia Bulletin, January 7, 1971
Mass Attendance
|^Decreasing, Poll
By Gallup Says
PRINCETON, N.J. (NC )
— Catholic churchgoing
continues to decline,
according to a Gallup Poll
showing that 60 percent of
adult Catholics now attend
Mass each week as compared
to 71 percent in 1964.
The fall-off during the
six-year period is attributed
to youth - largely among
young adults in their 20s,
pollsters reported.
The Catholic attendance
rate last year, according to
the poll, was about 63
percent each week.
Protestant attendance this
year is about the same as
recorded last year - 38
I percent compared to 37
^ percent, with the rate since
1964 holding fairly steady.
Little change has been
seen in religious services
attendance by Jews, who
have an average weekly rate
of 17 percent this year.
The 1970 poll reveals that
42 percent of adults of all
faiths attended church in a
typical week. This closely
parallels rates recorded in
Canada and exceeds the rates
of the Netherlands, Greece,
Australia, Britain, and
Uruguay.
Ch. 5 Television
Program Treats
Family Finances
“WITH THIS RING” after
the late movie on Sunday
WAG A—TV (5) currently
f treats an important family
topic. Family finances will be
the topic continuing for six
weeks. Guest expert for the
six telecasts is Fred W.
Waddell, Research Director of
Credit Counseling Services
Inc. Waddell, though a
relatively young man, has an
impressive background. He is
a former professor at
Connecticut State College, is
a “counselor of counselors”
and is an author of articles on
Family Finance.
Father Raymond R.
Schlinkert says of the series,
“90% of people seeking
divorce mention finances
as a difficulty; 50% allege
it as the chief difficulty.
Obviously the use of and
| the attitude toward the
i use of money is of great
interest to every family. I
hope that this well
informed and very
interesting guest will be of
help to all those who view
“WITH THIS RING.”
Some of the topics to be
discussed on this series are
“Poor Money Handling,”
“Outline of Family Debts,”
“Family Budget Leaks,”
“Installment Buying,”
“Families and Savings” and
Your Child and Money.”
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Monsignor Stapleton
Heads St Bernardl Ass’n.
Monsignor John D.
Stapleton, rector of the
Cathedral of Christ the King
was recently elected president
of the Saint Bernard
Seminary Alumni Association
at their reunion in Rochester,
New York. Approximately
500 priests attended the
reunion.
Monsignor Stapleton, a
native of Savannah, was
ordained May 14, 1953 in the
Cathedral of St. John The
Baptist, Savannah. He was
educated at Georgetown
University and St. Bernard’s
Seminary, Rochester.
A number of Georgia
priests received their
seminary education at St.
Bernard’s Seminary.
The alumni reunion
marked the 86th birthday of
former Bishop James E.
Kearney.
Monsignor Stapleton was
the first pastor and founder
of St. Jude’s Parish in Sandy
Springs, Atlanta. He is the
son of Mrs. Catherine S.
Stapleton of Blessed
Sacrament Parish, Savannah,
and the late John D.
Stapleton.
In accepting this honor,
Monsignor Stapleton stated
“This is a great honor to me
personally, but also to all of
our Georgia priests living and
dead who received their
education at St. Bernard’s.
There has always been a close
bond uniting the Diocese of
Savannah - the Archdiocese
of Atlanta, and the Diocese
of Rochester. The first bishop
of Rochester, Bishop Bernard
McQuade visited Savannah
frequently, being a close
personal friend of Bishop
Benjamin Keiley.”
Pope To Bishops
(Continued from Page 1)
extremely difficult task but
he said that it was one of a
contemporary bishop’s most
necessary jobs. He added:
“In the clash of conflicting
ideas, the greatest generosity
runs the risk of going
hand-in-hand with the most
questionable statements.
“ ‘Even from your own
ranks,’ as in the time of St.
Paul, ‘there will be men
coming forward with a
travesty of the truth on their
lips to induce the disciples to
follow them,’ ” the Pope
quoted from the Acts of the
Apostles.
“Those who speak in this
way are often convinced of
doing so in the name of God,
deluding themselves about
the spirit that animates
them. ”
Calling on the bishops not
to choose silence in the face
of criticism--some of which,
the Pope admitted, may be
well-founded--Pope Paul
commented “this is not the
time to ask ourselves, as some
would have us do, whether it
is really useful, opportune
and necessary to speak;
rather, it is the time for us to
take the means to make
ourselves heard.”
Bishop Is
Drug Case
Bondsman
SPOKANE, Washington
(NC) — Two youths arrested
on drug charges cried when
told that Spokane Bishop B.J.
Topel had put up $2,000 of
his own money to bail them
out for the holiday season.
In jail since Dec. 7, John
Bell and Gerald Bretthauer,
couldn’t believe that someone
they didn’t know would care
enough to assure their release
from jail. Moreover, they
found it unbelievable that a
man of an institution - part
of the establishment -- would
be concerned about them.
Bishop Topel met with
Bell, 23 of Clarkston,
Washington, and Bretthauer,
22 of Lewiston, Idaho, for
several hours after their
release shortly before
Christmas. The two had been
arrested with nearly 20 others
for allegedly selling drugs.
Most had been released on
bond, but Bell and Bretthauer
were unable to raise the
needed $1,000 each.
Although the bishop
didn’t know the men, he
decided to help them after an
appeal was made to him by
the Freed Peoples Market, a
youth group formed to
provide an alternative to drug
use. Bell and Bretthauer had
been working with the
market several weeks before
their arrest for drug sales they
allegedly made before joining
the anti-drug group.
The bishop’s action, he
said, was based upon Christ’s
words: “When I was in
prison, You visited me.”
Bishop Topel said “this is the
way for me at this
Christmas-time to find Christ
in prison.
“And so the real reason I
donated the bail money is
because I feel this is what
Christ wants me to do.”
When the youths appear in
court for a hearing, the
bishop’s bail money will be
returned in full.
Until then, Bell and
Bretthauer said they would
work to free other youths
THE MOST REV. BERNARD J. TOPEL, bishop of Spokane,
confirmed he was the anonymous donor who provided cash for
bail to secure release of two men from jail. (NC PHOTO)
confined in the Nez Perce
County jail. Their efforts and
the bishop’s involvement are
said to have moved others to
offer assistance. The Young
Women’s Christian
Association has been holding
rummage sales to raise bond
money.
A group of Lewiston
businessmen offered to assist
the market in a search for an
adequate building in which to
develop a multi-purpose
drop-in center for youths.
Bishop Topel, a fonner
mathematics professor at
Carroll College, Helena,
Mont., commented after
posting bond money that the
bail system “can be very
unjust.”
Under the present system,
he said, “people who have the
resources can get out and
those who don’t can’t. It’s a
very serious inequity.”
The bishop said he was in
no position to judge guilt or
innocence, “but I do have a
most serious responsibility to
show Christ’s love and
compassion for those in
need.”
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