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Vol. 15 No. 13
Catholic Archdiocese of Atlanta
Thursday, March 31,1977
$5 Per Year.
Hallman
Back then, it was even harder to get a
job. And a summer job was almost out
of the question. The young Paul
Hallinan went back to Cleveland from
Notre Dame, a student hunting for
work. It was the early thirties. A gruff
old Editor took him on, suspiciously,
and against his better judgement.
His first assignment was coverage of a
wedding. Who wanted to cover a
wedding when such dangerous missions
were waiting to be scooped? These were
the days of Cagney, Capone and
Murder, Inc. But, the job was a wedding
and he needed the job.
The brash Mr. Hallinan submitted his
report. Well-written, the Editor thought.
But how come he didn’t mention what
the bride wore. How come the groom’s
tuxedo, shirt and shoes were vividly and
picturesquely described. Well, in
response he had to admit he thought he
would give it a different angle. Good
huh? So what did the Editor think?
Well, he thought Mr. Hallinan was
different, his writing was different, his
thoughts were different, so different in
fact that he needed a different job. He
was fired.
But the word stuck. He would always
be that kind of innovater. Charging into
the South he determined things could
be different and the Church should lead
in that important difference. When he
arrived from Charleston to Atlanta in
1962, the forbidden term was school
integration. Politicians were brandishing
their famous “Never” and the man in
the street believed it all to be a dream.
It would be no mere dream for the
new Archbishop. It would be a reality.
When asked if he intended to integrate
the Catholic School System he replied,
“the partnership is already formed,
black and white will open the gates of
the New South arm in arm.” The
struggle was obstinate but the vision was
accurate. Through those gates they
came in his time.
The pot boiled. On occasions it
seemed it would boil over. The
heartache of the community was
obvious. They were camped and divided
on issues of rights that no one should
deny, but many did. It took leadership,
patient and persuasive leadership, to
calm waters again and again. Atlanta
had it. The right blend emerged. They
were a motley bunch but honest and
determined and communicative.
There was McGill, the never say die
newspaper man. Allen, the Mayor. He
survived his own prejudices. There was
Rothschild, they blew up his temple.
Mays, the temperate forceful educator.
King, charismatic in every way and
Hallinan, the Irish cherub with a vision
that was prophetic. Together they were
a dynamic force, not perfect, but
definitely dynamic. The community,
looking back owes them, each one as a
leader and all of them as a tough team.
We had him for six years and they
were his kind of years. In the arena of
Church and State they were exciting,
changing times. He was always so glad
to be alive and so glad to be a part of
that scene.
We are a week late with our
remembrance. He died on March 27,
nine years ago. But that’s okay, he
would have figured it as a different
touch anyway.
Inside This Issue:
- Holy Week Reflection by
Father Kinast
- The Second Monastery
- Youth Paged
THE CHAPEL AT IGNATIUS HOUSE was blessed by the late
Archbishop Paul Hallinan.
Holy Week At Cathedral
Palm Sunday:
Solemn Blessing of the Palms, 11 a.m.
Holy Thursday:
Liturgy of the Blessing of the Holy Oils, 11 a.m.
Evening Mass of the Lord’s Supper
Good Friday:
Meditation on the Seven Last Words, 12 noon to 3 p.m.
Stations of the Cross, 3 p.m.
Liturgy of Good Friday, 7 p.m.
Holy Saturday :
The Easter Vigil, 8 p.m.
Easter Day:
Solemn Liturgy of Easter, 11 a.m.
Archbishop Thomas A. Donnellan will celebrate or preside at each of these
Holy Week Ceremonies in the Cathedral of Christ the King.
IGNATIUS HOUSE
Fr. Schroder Comes ‘Home’
BY MICHAEL MOTES
“It suddenly occurred to me that the
path I was walking as I contemplated
the retreat program was the same path I
had walked over 35 years ago when I
decided to enter the priesthood. It was a
good feeling to be home.”
Father John Schroder, SJ, is, indeed,
at home; not only to his native Atlanta,
where he was bom in 1919, but to his
family’s former estate of “Riverland,”
now the location of Ignatius House
(Manresa of Atlanta) Inc., 6700
Riverside Drive, NW.
The Jesuit returned to Atlanta in
February following a career as a
missionary of the Society of Jesus that
has taken him from his early assignment
in Augusta to work with Indians in
Mexico and Puerto Rico, to Canada,
back to the United States and Wounded
Knee, South Dakota, and for the last
two years as a priest in the mountains of
Tennessee, where he ministered the
spiritual needs of the Church in six rural
counties.
“I’ve more or less lived the life of a
hermit since coming to Ignatius House,”
Father Schroder says. “I have spent day
and night preparing the retreat program
that we offer here. Now that I have the
job somewhat under control, I want to
let everyone know that we are here and
tell them what we offer. I don’t think
that very many of the Catholics in the
archdiocese know about us and our
retreats.”
Father Schroder describes his “new”
retreat program as “a combination of
the writings and teachings of Sigmund
Freud, Saint Ignatius and Saint John.”
Since February, he has conducted
three retreats and is extremely pleased
that each weekend has averaged 39
persons. Father Schroder’s “neighbor,
across the river,” Father John Mulroy,
pastor of Holy Family in East Marietta,
has been extremely helpful, the Jesuit
says. Father Mulroy invited Father
Schroder to tell Holy Family
parishioners about the retreat program
and the first three retreats have been
attended primarily by the Cobb County
Catholics.
“We’re off to a good start,” Father
Schroder says, “and now we must let
everyone know about our programs.”
A series of Spring Retreats has
already been set up. The next is a Holy
Week Retreat set for April 7 (Holy
Thursday) through Easter Sunday, April
10. The weekend of April 21-24
Ignatius House will host a group of
retreatants from Augusta, to be
followed May 20-22 by an Atlanta Area
Spring Retreat.
A typical Retreat Weekend begins
with dinner at 6:30 p.m. Friday evening
and ends with noon lunch on Sunday.
Cautioning that one must actually
experience a retreat to fully understand
it, Father Schroder briefly outlined
what a weekend at Ignatius House
involves:
“A retreat is a time to withdraw
from ordinary occupations, a break in
routine, a stopping, a place and time for
stillness, listening and learning,” he said.
“We guide and counsel the retreatants in
a series of lectures and conferences
according to the Spiritual Exercises of
Saint Ignatius of Loyola, written in the
16th Century and now up-dated in
contemporary language.
“Saint Ignatius offers a series of
meditations in which the retreatant
examines God’s plan for him in the light
of the Gospels and seeks to grow in the
knowledge and love of Jesus Christ to
become a more Christ-like person.
“The Spiritual Exercises help a
person to find himself - to accept
himself - to love himself - and even to
love others. The impact over the
centuries of Ignatian Retreats has been
tremendous.”
One of the themes that Father
Schroder has borrowed from Freud and
incorporated into his retreat program is
that an individual must learn to forgive
himself, “because Christ has already
forgiven us.”
Each retreatant at Ignatius House
takes part in eight 30-minute
discussions, based on talks Father
Schroder has prepared. The retreat talks
begin with the Prologue to the Gospel
of Saint John, in which it is explained
that God made us and we are His.
“When we get to the second talk,
centered around the Baptism of John,
the main player enters our stage,”
Father Schroder says. “We’re into real
drama. We’ve had our prologue and now
the central figure enters. The figure, of
course, is Christ. Next, the mystery of
the spirit is revealed to Nicodemus and
through this, our retreatants meet
Christ, they become a Christ-like
person.”
Following talks offer other themes
on which to meditate, including charity,
which is demonstrated in the feeding of
the multitudes.
“We ask ourselves, what are we doing
about feeding those around us,” Father
Schroder said. Talks continue through
the Last Supper, the Passion and finally
with Christ’s appearance to Thomas.
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“IT SUDDENLY OCCURRED TO ME that the path I was walking . . .
was the same path I had walked over 35 years ago when I decided to -liter
the priesthood.” The grounds at Ignatius House, overlooking the
Chattahoochee River, are familiar territory to Father Schroder.
OVER 5,000 ATTEND
Archbishop Sheen In Savannah
BY JOHN E. MARKWALTER
“We have become so carnal minded,
today, one wonders if we will not go
into rapid decline as other civilizations
did which became carnal,” Archbishop
Fulton J. Sheen told an audience of
over 5,000 in Savannah’s Civic Arena
Friday, March 18.
The archbishop was in Savannah at
the invitation of the Hibernian Society
and addressed their annual banquet on
March 17, St. Patrick’s Day. At the
urging of Savannah’s Bishop Raymond
W. Lessard, the prelate stayed over to
address gatherings of the diocese’s
youth, priests and Religious and to give
a public address.
In his Civic Arena appearance, the
archbishop, widely known for his radio
and TV series, used a neck microphone
which allowed him the mobility of the
stage as he held his audience on the edge
of their seats.
His talk dealt with the three kinds of
love as described by the three Greek
words - Eros, Philia and Agape.
The first Greek word for love was
Eros, he said. “Eros was the little god
who used to go around with arrows
shooting them into the earth to make it
fertile.”
“Eros,” the archbishop described as
“any kind of good human love.
Friendship for example. The natural
love of husband and wife. It is not
something that pushes us toward
another. It is something that attracts us,
as the love of beauty, the love of art,
the love of poetry, the love of science.”
“Along came Freud and everything
changed,” the archbishop said. “Now
you never hear of Eros, but you hear of
the erotic. Freud changed Eros into sex,
and love in America today is pretty
much identified with sex. This is a
degeneration of what love really is. The
result is that we have a tremendous
amount of pornography.
“What is pornography? Pornography
is an abstract interest in something
which has lost its concrete God-given
principle . . .
“Sex, instead of being used for the
God-given purpose, is today moving to
the mind, so that advertising takes it
over. It’s not anything that deepens the
love of husband and wife.
“And one wonders if it does not
foretell a sudden collapse of our
country from the natural point of
view ... we have become so carnal
minded, and So quickly, that one
wonders if we will not go into rapid
decline as every other civilization did
which became carnal.'
“You put a frog, for example, in a
caldron of water with the water
temperature that is best suited for the
life of that frog. Then
raise the temperature of the water the
slightest bit every day, until eventually
it boils. If you watch the frog you can
never tell when the frog struggled
against death. The increase of the
temperature was so gradual that the frog
succumbed without giving any evidence
of death.
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ARCHBISHOP SHEEN addressing more than 5,000 who turned out to
hear him at Savannah’s Civic Center Arena. (Photo by Bob Morris
courtesy The Savannah Morning News)