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U.S. Melkite Catholic Head
Visits Atlanta This Week
PAGE 3—The Georgia Bulletin, February 19,1981
1956-1981
Solid Silver
St. Pius
BY MSGR. NOEL BURTENSHAW
Most Reverend
Joseph Tawil,
Archbishop of the
100,000 member
Melkite Catholic
Diocese in the United
States, is visiting
Atlanta this week for a
meeting of his
diocese’s pastoral
council at St. John
Chrysostom Melkite
Catholic Church.
Appointed to head
the Melkite Catholics
in America in 1969 by
Pope Paul VI.
Archbishop Tawil will
also be making his
annual pastoral visit to
Atlanta’s Melkite
church, one of only
three in the South. On
Sunday, he will
celebrate a Pontifical
Byzantine Divine
L iturgy which other
priests of his diocese
will concelebrate with
him. The liturgy will
be sung in Arabic,
Greek and English at
11:30 a.m. at St.
John’s on Ponce De
Leon Avenue.
Melkite Catholics in
Melkite Catholic Archbishop Joseph Tawil.
America are primarily
of Lebanese and
Syrian descent. The
Melkite Rite is one of
many rites in the
Catholic Church, the
most prevalent in
Western countries
being the Roman or
Latin Rite. St. John
Chrysostom Melkite
Catholic Church was
dedicated in 1957 by
then Atlanta Catholic
Bishop Francis Hyland
after renovation of the
former Ponce De Leon
Avenue mansion of
Coca-Cola magnate
Asa G. Candler.
Archmandrite
(Monsignor) William
Haddad is the pastor.
Archbishop Tawil
was consecrated a
bishop in 1959 and
named Patriarchal
Vicar in Damascus,
Syria where he was
born. His residence
now is in West
Newton, Massachusetts
which is the seat of the
Melkite Cath olic
Diocese in the United
States.
The cadets of Marist
were a well known
landmark down on Ivy
Street, around Sacred
Heart Church, when the
Diocese of Atlanta
began. But who will
• remember that Atlanta
• sported two girls’ high
• schools in 1956?
J One of these
• academies for young
• ladies thrived in the
• august basement of the
• Cathedral of Christ the
^ King. With a stern eye
• for discipline, the Grey
Nuns of the Sacred Heart
operated this high-level,
below-ground four-year
preparatory school. A
similar institution for the
gentle sex was in full
swing beside Marist on
the Sacred Heart
property. The Sisters of
St. Joseph of Corondolet
had command of this
venerable institution.
But the new Diocese
brought with it the
concept of a new high
school, co-ed and
centrally located.
Celeste Murphy smiles
when she thinks of that
“centrally located”
concept. “They kept
saying it would be at a
location central to all the
parishes,” remembers
Celeste. “Then they put
Pope Warns Dutch Bishops
VATICAN CITY (NC) ~ Pope John Paul II firmly
warned the Dutch bishops to carry through their year-old
special synod resolutions, regardless of difficulties they
may face.
In a letter to the Dutch bishops the pope said that
carrying out the resolutions is “a fundamental condition,
an objective basis which cannot be prescinded from, for
the building of communion both within the church in the
Netherlands and in the relations of your local community
with the universal community of the Catholic Church.”
“The present difficulties, some of which are certainly
very serious, cannot intimidate us. We cannot back off in
the face of them,” the pope said.
The Dutch-language letter was dated Feb. 2 and made
public by the Vatican Feb. 11 in the original and in Italian
translation.
The pontiff expressed sympathy over “various
difficulties of the psychological and structural order that
stand in the way Of a careful and coherent realization of
the synodal conclusions.”
The synod was an effort by the bishops to restore
unity and discipline in the badly divided Dutch church.
Reports from the Netherlands have indicated that the
synod resolutions, which called for an end to numerous
unauthorized experiments and a restoration of
hierarchical authority in all areas of Dutch church life,
were not received favorably by many Dutch Catholics.
The pope declared that ecumenical activity, long one
of Dutch Catholicism’s most outstanding characteristics,
“demands, in fact, that each of the churches grow in
fidelity to its traditions in the fields of doctrine, discipline
and pastoral life, purification and self-renewal.”
He also stressed the distinction between priestly
ministry and lay activity in the church and the need “to
create the institutes for the specific formation of the
Catholic priesthood, as understood in the Second Vatican
Council, in which young vocations can find clear points of
reference” for their priestly formation.
Confusion of the roles of priests and laymen and the
closing of traditional seminaries in most Dutch dioceses
were among the issues underlying the 1980 Dutch synod.
Pope John Paul said that “the attention owed to the
apostolate of the laity certainly cannot be diminished,”
but he also said that Vatican II “indicated the most
precise areas and the proper forms according to which it
must take place.”
He quoted from the Dutch synod, saying, “You were
unanimous ‘in professing the essential distinction between
the ministerial or sacramental priesthood and the common
priesthood of the baptized, and in wanting to take care of
the practical consequences that follow from it.’”
“I am certain,” the pope said, “that there will be a new
fervor of Catholic life if every care and attention is made
in promoting the apostolate of the laity in the areas that
belong to it and according to the forms that are proper to
it without allowing this to become, almost imperceptibly,
confused with the apostolate proper to the clergy.”
it at the north - most end
of the new expressway.”
The expressway in
question was the new
Interstate 85 and it
ended, going north, at
Clairmont Road in 1958.
Celeste, who began her
high school career as the
new Diocese was born,
remembers some wag
saying that the new
school was really being
located on the outskirts
of Chattanooga!
The new coeducat
ional Diocesan High
School, named for a
patron of the new
Diocese, St. Pius X,
opened in 1958. And as
the new was born the old
died. Both girls’ schools
closed.
“They said co-ed”
remembers Celeste “but
we had a class of 80 girls
and only 20 boys. It was
most disappointing - for
the girls. And those
awful gold-colored skirts.
I didn’t feel too good
about the new school.
But the facility was
brand new and
beautiful.”
“Father Harrison was
principal and it was my
first time to have a man
as superior. That was
strange. The other priest
I remember teaching us
was Father Abi-Nader,
the little Maronite. He
was a doll but couldn’t
speak much English. He
looked like Groucho
Marx - cigar and all.
Sister Kathleen Marie
was assistant principal.
We loved her very
much.”
In that first year at St.
Pius, does Celeste
remember any of her
classmates? “Oh yes.
There was Jake Bollmer,
a nice guy - on the
rotund side. Of course
he’s Father Jake now.
Sister Kathleen Purser,
principal of Immaculate
Heart of Mary school was
in the class. She was sort
of quiet. Anita
Willoughby who works in
the School of Religion at
Assumption parish was in
that class too.”
Another faculty
member well
remembered by Celeste
and all St. Pius grads was
George Maloof. George
had coached football at
Marist but came as head
man in the new school.
“He had no field and no
gym,” says Celeste “but
he had winning teams.
The boys and ‘us girls’
respected the coach.”
On that first year of
the new school’s
existence, the
Junior-Senior dance was
held at Atlanta’s most
respected hotel, the
Dinkier Plaza. And when
graduation rolled around,
the first graduates
received diplomas in
grand style down at the
Tower Theatre on
Peachtree near the Fox.
The first years of St. Pius
existence were a struggle
but a memorable success.
Celeste married Bart
Murphy in 1962. They
have nine children and
the first three are now
students in St. Pius.
Celeste is very happy to
see them there.
“It’s a fine school”
says the old grad. “They
have the stadium and the
gym now too. But
looking back I’m so glad
we had the chapel. It was
small - much too small
for our needs - but even
as kids, we were all so
glad it was there. I’d like
to see it returned, if
that’s ever possible.”
Like so many of her
generation, Celeste
Murphy was a part of the
old and the new. As the
new Diocese was born in
1956, she was part of a
beginning institution, St.
Pius X High School,
which thrives as a part of
the Church of Atlanta
today.
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