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PAGE 5—The Georgia Bulletin, August 7,1980
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MSGR. O’CONNOR speaks with Archbishop
Paul J. Hallinan after his appointment as
Secretary for Education in 1964.
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Atlanta. Two years later
le became pastor at St.
Phomas More, and served
n a number of
irchdiocesan posts
Irawing upon his
(articular expertise in the
ields of education and
ocations.
Between 1958 and his
etirement, he was director
>f the Mission Apostolate
or Georgia, secretary of
•ducation for the
\rchdiocese of Atlanta,
md Episcopal Vicar for
Vocations for Savannah
and Atlanta.
Born January 23, 1902,
the son of P. J. and
Winifred Maher O’Connor,
Msgr. O’Connor attended
the Cathedral School and
Benedictine Military
Academy in Savannah. He
was ordained to the
priesthood in Savannah in
1933, following study at
St. Mary’s Seminary in
Baltimore. After
ordination he served as
assistant pastor at Saint
Anthony’s in Atlanta and
Saint Mary’s on the Hill in
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Prayer Never “Out”
jurisdiction bill, has been
languishing in the House
courts subcommittee.
Its refusal to act
prompted Rep. Philip
Crane (R-Ill.) to circulate a
discharge petition to bring
the bill directly to the
floor for a vote. By late
July an aide said Crane
had about 180 of the 218
signatures needed to
extract the bill from
committee.
Crane, on the second
day of the hearings,
disagreed with the Justice
Department’s conclusion
that the measure would be
unconstitutional.
AFTER RETIRING as pastor of
St. Thomas More Church in Decatur,
Msgr. O’Connor went to Freeport in
the Bahamas to help one of his
former students on Mission work.
Here he is photographed with some
of the parishioners he served.
Augusta.
Archbishop Thomas A.
Donnellan of Atlanta said
that Msgr. O’Connor’s
death “deprives us of the
presence, the counsel, and
the living example of an
outstanding priest. We
Clergy—
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they pointed out
difficulties involved.
“I think it’s a good
idea,” said Auxiliary
Bishop Walter Schoenherr
of Detroit, who was
archdiocesan delegate for
the clergy from 1968 to
1977. “After all, we are a
world church. But in light
of the human implications
involved, I think it would
be difficult to
implement.”
Bishop Schoenherr
pointed out that most
priests in the United States
have adjusted to an urban
metropolis and have roots
there. He also noted that
the proportion of priests
to Catholics has
diminished in the United
States. “About 10 years
ago, for instance, Detroit
had one priest for every
500 families. Today that’s
more like one priest for
every 1,500 families.”
He added: “We have an
arch diocesan mission in
Recife, Brazil, and nobody
is interested in going there.
We have only one priest
down there and we could
definitely use more.”
Bishop Schoenherr said
the bishops have
considered the idea of
redistribution of the clergy
in the past. “The bishops
understand the need for
redistribution,” he said,
“but are reluctant to let
priests go. They see too
much work in their own
dioceses. If Detroit were
asked to send 10 percent
of its priests to the
missions, we’d be in a
tough position since we’re
pared to the bone now.”
An editorial in the July
25 issue of The Catholic
Standard and Times,
Philadelphia archdiocesan
newspaper noted problems
in implementing a program
of clergy sharing:
“First, there can be no
permanent solution to a
clergy shortage in any
particular area without the
development of a local
clergy, individuals from
the local community who
are aware of the needs of
the local community and
who have a love for and an
understanding of the local
community. Other
measures are merely
stopgap efforts, but they
are nevertheless necessary
and can be extremely
effective . ..
“Second, great care
must be taken to prepare
clergy who will be going to
different areas - and
especially to different
countries. The efforts of
American clergy and
Religious who went to
Latin America in the
1960s after a dramatic
appeal by Pope John
XXIII had mixed success
because many priests and
sisters lacked the cultural
and linguistic preparation
for the work they were
called upon to do.”
An editorial in The
Catholic Voice, Oakland,
Calif., diocesan newspaper,
by Dan Morris,
editor-in-chief, said that
the ratio of one priest to
833 Catholics in North
America “is no great
shakes.” “It seems we are
simply talking about
spreading thin human
SOUTHERN GROWTH■
The Province Of Mobile
WASHINGTON (NC)
- The new ecclesiastical
province of Mobile,
comprised of dioceses in
the states of Alabama
and Mississippi, has been
established by Pope John
Paul II.
Msgr. Oscar H.
Lipscomb, 48,
administrator of the
Mobile Diocese, has been
appointed the first
archbishop of Mobile and
metropolitan of the new
province. The
announcement was made
by Archbishop Jean
Jadot, apostolic delegate
in the United States.
An ecclesiastical
province is the largest
territorial division of the
Latin Church and is an
administrative district
comprising several
dioceses. Alabama and
Mississippi previously
had been in the Province
of New Orleans.
B esides Mobile,
dioceses in the new
province are Birming
ham, in Alabama, and
Biloxi and Jackson, in
Mississippi.
The creation of a new
province shows that
recognition is being given
by the Vatican to the
new Catholic growth in
the South. This
recognition really began
in 1962 when the See of
Atlanta was raised to the
status of an archdiocese.
Further recognition was
given to the traditionally
Protestant Bible belt in
1968 when the Province
of Miami was established.
Florida had been part of
the Atlanta Province.
Now this break off
from the Province of
New Orleans is another
sign that the Church is
awakening across the
Southeast. Mobile
becomes an archdiocese
with Monsignor
Lipscomb as head of the
new province.
Named chancellor of
Mobile in 1966, Msgr.
Lipscomb was elected
the U.S. bishops’
advisory council.
He was assistant
pastor of St. Mary’s
parish, Mobile, from
1959 to 1965 and pastor
of St. Patrick’s parish,
Mobile, from 1966 to
1971. He taught at
McGill Institute in
Mobile in 1959-60 and in
1961-62 and lectured at
Spring Hill College in
Mobile from 1971-72.
Bom in Mobile Sept.
21, 1931, Archbishop
-designate Lipscomb
stu died at McGill
Institute, St. Bernard
College in Cullman, Ala.
and at the North
American College and
the Gregorian University
in Rome. He was
ordained in Rome
1956.
m
Archbishop-Designate
Lipscomb
administrator of the
diocese March 27, 1980,
following the
appointment of Bishop
John L. May as
archbishop of St. Louis.
Archbishop-designate
Lipscomb has served as
president of the Mobile
diocesan Senate of
Priests since 1978 and
has been a member of
He earned a doctorate
in history in post-ordin
ation studies at The
Catholic University of
America and has written
and lectured in the field
of church history. He is a
former president of the
Alabama Historical
Association.
Archbishop Philip M.
Hannan of New Orleans
congratulated the new
archbishop and the new
province of Mobile,
saying “we pledge our
constant prayers for
God’s abundant blessings
on him and upon the
people of God of the
archdiocese and
province.”
resources more thinly,’
said.
he
He suggested
considering such questions
as these:
- “Can - or should -
we look to the
Permanent Diaconate
to eventually take up the
slack?
- “Should the official
discussion of the Roman
Rite’s discipline on
priestly celibacy be
resumed? That is, is it time
to re-open the book on a
married clergy, as the
Indonesian bishops asked
recently?”
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mourn his going from us,
but we rejoice at his
entering into the new life
for which Christ has freed
him by His victory over
death.”
“Many of our priests
trace some part of their
priestly vocation to the
influence, the
encouragement and the
practical help of Msgr.
O’Connor,’’ the
archbishop’s statement
said.
“Many of our parishes
trace their growth and
development to his
untiring efforts to present
to our fellow Catholics
throughout the country
the needs of the
missionary Church of
Georgia. Many of our
people owe their growth in
faith, their courage in
adversity, their tranquility
under pressure to his wise
counsel, his
intergrity,
unswerving
his truly
Christlike charity.”
“The Church of Atlanta
has been enriched by his
priesthood. May it
continue to flourish in the
memory of his life and the
imitation of his example.”
A Mass of the
Resurrection was
celebrated at St. Thomas
More Church Monday.
Archbishop Donnellan was
principal celebrant.
Concelebrants included
Bishop Ernest L.
Unterkoeffler, of
Charleston, S. C., Bishop
Alfred M. Watson of Erie,
Pa., Msgr. Gene Bilski of
the National Shrine of the
Immaculate Conception
and 150 priests from
throughout Georgia and
the southeastern United
States.
The Mass was attended
by approximately 600
people. Burial followed at
Arlington Memorial Park
in Atlanta.
WASHINGTON (NC) -
Two days of hearings
before a House Judiciary
subcommittee July 29-30
produced near unanimous
agreement that the
Supreme Court never has
struck down voluntary
public school prayer.
Beyond that, there was
little agreement on a
controversial proposal to
prohibit all federal courts,
including the Supreme
Court, from ruling on any
future cases involving
voluntary school prayer.
The Justice Department
held out the possibility of
a presidential veto because
the measure, proposed by
Sen. Jesse Helms (R-N.C.),
might be constitutionally
suspect, they said.
And leaders of mainline
Protestant and Jewish
organizations said they
feared that even
“voluntary” school
prayers might be imposed
on school students.
But other religious
leaders, primarily
evangelicals but also some
Catholic and Jewish
representatives, said prayer
should be returned to
public schools because a
tide of godlessness and
secular humanism is
sweeping the country.
“I believe that after
God had so greatly blessed
this nation, the virtual
rejection of the Lord from
the public schools . . . was
especially affronting to
God, and He began
immediately to judge and
chasten us both for what
the action was and for
what it symbolized about
the spiritual direction of
our country,” said the
Rev. William R. Bright,
president of the Campus
Crusade for Christ.
The proposal, passed by
the Senate last year as an
amendment to a separate
Supreme Court
“This committee, this
Congress, should not sit
comfortably back and let
an executive branch
memorandum tell us we
should quietly ignore our
consitutional powers,”
said Crane, citing the
clause of the Constitution
giving Congress the power
to make exceptions to
court jurisdiction.
The day before,
Assistant Attorney
General John M. Harmon
said the Justice
Department probably
would urge President
Carter to veto the
measure. He said that
while Congress can limit
the jurisdiction of the
courts in many areas, the
Constitution’s “supremacy
clause” forbids Congress
from limiting the courts
on constitutional issues
such as freedom of
religion.
Other opponents of the
legislation worried aloud
that its passage would set a
precedent for Congress to
overturn other
constitutional rights by
denying court jurisdiction
without going through the
normal process for
amending the Constitution
itself.
Knights Of Columbus
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immigrant families. His
idea was an immediate
success. The Knights of
Columbus was formed.
Turning the concept of
an insurance company into
a vibrant Christian
Apostolate has been the
success story of the
Knights. With charity, and
in the name of Christ, they
reach out in many ways to
the needy. “Like any
insurance company,” says
Elmer Von Feldt, Editor
of “Columbia,” “we invest
our funds, but we also use
those monies for good,
needy Catholic causes.”
His words are indeed very
true.
Many dioceses, like the
growing, building Church
of Atlanta, benefit from
the generosity of the
Knights. Loans to build
parishes and institutions
are made to the bishops
over long terms at
unusually low interest
rates. “Our prayers go up
every day,” says Atlanta
Comptroller Joe Estafen,
“for the goodness of the
K. of C. to us.” Other
dioceses in the missionary
South tell the same story.
Without a lot of headlines,
the Knights share their
success with the Church
which gave them birth.
In 1979 not only were
loans made to churches in
need, but outright
donations amounted to
$26 million. “But we are
most proud,” says
Supreme Knight Virgil C.
Dechant, “of the service in
hours donated by our
members to community
needs.” It is an enviable
record as you find youth,
handicapped and
orphanages served by the
willing hands of the
membership.
According to the
Knights of Columbus, the
most important work of
the fraternity today is the
apostolate to strengthen
family life. They do it in
every way possible. They
sponsor family retreats,
athletic activities for the
family and constantly they
preach that “We are our
brother’s keeper, so reach
out to families in need.”
The Pro-Life movement
is ever in the mind and
work of the K. of C. Last
year $50,000 was donated
to the U.S. bishops to aid
their war on the
destruction of unborn life.
And the bishops have
found ready hands at all
times as the Knights make
the message known that
life is sacred.
Two years from now*
the Knights of Columbus
will celebrate 100 years of
service to the infant
American Church. They
have come a long way,
couragously bringing the
message of Christ to their
fellow citizens in word and
action, since that Assistant
Pastor, Michael McGivney,
breathed life into their
bones. Looking at the
record and their selfless
efforts over the years,
Pope John Paul paid them
their highest compliment.
“You are not merely a
society,” said the Pope
as he visited the U.S.
“Your generous and
gigantic brotherhood is
truly a Spiritual Nation.”
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