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Vol. 11 No. 7 Form 3579 to 202 East Sixth Street, Waynesboro, Georgia 30830
Thursday, February 15,1973
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PART OF THE ENTHUSIASTIC CROWD who
heard Archbishop Donnellan, Father Jerry Hardy and
Co-Chairman Ernest Boyce kick off the annual
Charities Drive with a series of meetings last week
throughout the Archdiocese.
(PHOTO BY JAMES BROWN)
Deanery Meetings Boost Drive
Parish drive chairmen and priests
from across the Archdiocese met last
week to polish up preparations for the
1973 Archdiocesan Charities Drive.
With the Special Gifts Phase already in
progress, these meetings served to boost
preparations and to give the month-long
effort second wind.
The drive itself is set for Sunday,
March 4, and will seek a
budget-balancing $275,000 goal.
Attendance at the Drive Deanery
Meetings was high and spirited. Wallace
Winborne, Chairman of the
Archdiocesan Finance Council,
reminded the priests and laymen that
pride in past successes in the drive
should serve to spur them on in their
efforts for this year. “I think our people
are proud of what they have been able
to accomplish through this drive,” he
said.
At the South Deanery meeting held
at Saint John the Evangelist parish,
Ernest Boyce, Drive Co-Chairman, urged
the priests and lay-chairmen to meet the
1973 challenge with the same
enthusiastic effort that had
characterized the four previous
successful drives.
A one-day cash effort, the drive funds
programs and projects which are already
in operation.
Archbishop Thomas A. Donnellan,
speaking at each of the Deanery
meetings, thanked the lay-workers for
their assistance in this vital project.
“These meetings are good for us,” he
said, “because they reawaken our
enthusiasm for what we know to be a
good cause. And while the ultimate
responsibility for the Church here is
mine, it is so only ultimately. Your
generous assistance is invaluable,” he
observed.
NEW PECTORAL CROSS - America’s newest black
bishop, Bishop Joseph L. Howze of Natchez-Jackson,
Miss., has been given this pectoral cross by the
National Office for Black Catholics. It features a black
dove on one side and a quotation from Isaiah on the
other. (NC Photo)
Late Archbishop Hallinan
Compared to Thomas More
CLEVELAND, Ohio (NC) -- Archbishop Joseph L. Bemardin of Cincinnati has compared the late Archbishop
Paul J. Hallinan of Atlanta to St. Thomas More because both men shared the qualities of faith and courage.
Archbishop Bernardin, who was Archbishop Hallinan’s auxiliary at Atlanta and his chancellor in the Charleston,
S.C., diocese, said Archbishop Hallinan’s faith enabled him to “see the long view of things” and thus grasp the true-
meaning of the renewal initiated by Vatican II.
The former general secretary of the
U.S. Catholic Conference also said
Archbishop Hallinan’s courage enabled
him “to implement, in the practical
order, the moral imperatives which
flowed from his faith.”
The Cincinnati prelate made his
remarks at the dedication ceremony of
the Archbishop Hallinan Center of the
Newman Campus Minsitry at Case
Western University, here. Archbishop
Hallinan, who died in 1968, had been a
priest of the Cleveland diocese and was
director of the Newman apostolate here
for 11 years.
Archbishop Bernardin opened his
address by praising the play, “A Man for
All Seasons,” by Robert Bolt, which is
about St. Thomas More, martyred for
maintaining his Catholicism during the
Protestant Reformation in England.
“Like Thomas More, as portrayed in
‘A Man for All Seasons,’ the archbishop
was blessed with two gifts which
re-inforced each other: a deep faith and
great personal courage,” Archbishop
Bemardin said.
He later added:
“It was this faith that enabled him to
see the long view of things instead of
becoming bogged down with the
frustrations, the uncertainties, and the
fears of the moment. He had a better
grasp of the currents which lay beneath
the externals of the renewal in the
Church started by Vatican II and of the
significance of those currents for the
direction in which that renewal should
go than most of us at that time and
better than many even now.”
Speaking of Archbishop Hallinan’s
gift of courage, Archbishop Bemardin
said:
“It was this quality that made it
possible for him to implement, in the
practical order, the moral imperatives
which flowed from his faith. He was
ever sensitive to the feelings of the
people with whom he dealt, whether
they were for or against the particular
position for which he stood.”'
In a related development, the
Liturgical Press of Collegeville, Minn,
has produced a 228-page volume, DAYS
OF HOPE AND PROMISE, a
compilation of 32 major addresses,
sermons and pastoral letters of
Archbishop Hallinan. The work has
been in the process of editing for the
past two years by Monsignor Vincent A.
Yzermans under the direction of
Archbishop Bemardin. A memoir
authored by Archbishop Bemardin and
a tribute authored by Monsigned John
Tracy Ellis, provide introductory
material to the volume.
In his preface, Monsignor Yzermans
explains that “the selection was drawn
from eight areas of interest that seemed
to have held special importance for the
archbishop in the last decade of his
life.” These areas include liturgy,
education, the peace movement, racial
justice, the Church and Christian
formation and leadership. In his memoir
Archbishop Bernardin states, “At the
time of his funeral I stated that there
might be some who thought the
archbishop was ahead of his time. I said
then, and I am even more convinced
now, that his genius was that he saw
that time was running out.”
ARCHBISHOP HALLINAN
Pectoral Cross Features Black Dove
JACKSON, Miss. (NC) - When Bishop Joseph L. Howze, the new
auxiliary bishop of Natchez-Jackson, Miss., was ordained a bishop here, he
received an unusual pectoral cross.
The new bishop is the third black bishop in the history of the United
States. The pectoral cross, a gift from the National Office of Black
Catholics (NOBC), featured a black dove on the front and an inscription
from Isaiah on the back.
The black dove, also described as
“Spirit” and “Soul Image,” represents
the “biblical idea of the Spirit of God as
the source of soul, of life, of strength, of
movement and dynamic expressiveness,
of unity and love and of freedom,” said
Father Clarence J. Rivers of Cincinnati,
head of the NOBC Department of
Culture and Worship, which
commissioned the cross.
“This is a particularly relevant
theological idea to the whole black
Catholic movement within the Church,”
Father Rivers added. The black dove
design was first used on the cover of
Father Rivers’ Brotherhood of Man
Mass.
The Cincinnati priest was also music
director and choir leader for the
ordination ceremonies of Bishop
Howze. The pectoral cross was
presented to Bishop Howze during the
offertory procession by Brother Joseph
Davis, head of the NOBC.
In a private ceremony the NOBC
gave a similar cross to Auxiliary Bishop
Harold Perry of New Orleans, the
nation’s other black bishop.
Metal for the crosses was an
aluminum-zinc alloy like that used in
the printing industry. It was described
by the NOBC as “not precious in terms
of rarity, cost or tradition” but rather
“extremely valuable in terms of
service.”
On the back was a text from Isaiah:
“The Lord has breathed soul into me;
He has sent me to bring good news to
the poor, to mend broken hearts, to
proclaim freedom for the enslaved, to
seek deliverance for the oppressed.
Wooden boxes to contain the crosses
were made of American black walnut
and three African woods - bubinga,
mahogany and zebra.
Father Rivers said the cases,
constructed of a variety of woods, are a
“symbol of the kind of unity into which
Afro-American Catholics are called
through the National Office for Black
Catholics” and of “the office of a
bishop, through whose leadership the
Church functions as one body with
many different members.”
Bishop Howze has taken as his motto,
“The Unity of God’s People.”
Acknowledging that as a black he may
experience “certain problems,” he told
newsmen his mission was “bringing
unity to all God’s people.”
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