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Newspaper Page TextARCHDIOCESE PLANNING Archbishop Meets The Lay Census Workers Some five hundred members from Atlanta area parishes at tended a meeting at Christ the King Cathedral auditorium on Sunday. They heard from Ar chbishop Hallinan and other cle rical, and lay leaders, on plans for the forthcoming Archdioce san Census to be taken on Sun day March 3, from 2:00 to 6:00 p. m. The meeting was chaired by Lewis Gordon, lay leader who is responsible for census pub licity OTHER meetings were also held this week in Rome, cove ring that parish, and those of Fort Oglethorpe, Dalton, and Cedartown; Athens, covering that parish, and those of Gaines ville and LaGrange. Archbishop Hallinan was ac companied by the Co-Chairmen of the Census, Father Harold J. Rainey, Chancellor, and Fa ther John D. Stapleton, Pastor of St. Jude Church, Atlanta, at these meetings. In addition, lay leaders appointed by the Archbishop to the Census Com mittee, acted as chairmen. Lay members of the com mittee who are assisting the co- chairmen are: Publicity— Lewis Gordon; Research-— Albert Lawton; Processing— Paul Smith; Special Problems —Herb Farnsworth. Additional staff members are; LeoZuber, Dr. Norman Berry, and Jack Spalding. FR. STAPLETON ...Co-Chairman NELSON-RIVES REALTY. INC. 3895a Otatrmont Road CHAMBLKE. GEORGIA Formerly Sml-Nel Realty Co., Inc. Howard C. Nelson. President Ernett M. Rlvea, Secretary-Trea*. AMERICANA T.V. SERVICE CALLS $3.00 DA Y -NIGHT-SL N DA Y 875—6080 Res. TR5-2840 804 N. Highland Ave. Atlanta, Ga. LEW GORDON ...Lay Leader ARCHBISHOP Hallinan sum med up the purpose of the census as: To give a more accurate basis for future development of the Archdiocese. To find all unknown Catho lics within the Archdiocesan area. To provide a more accu rate estimate of the spirf tual status of the Archdiocese Father Rainey explained the mechanics of the Census, point ing out the importance of full answers on the special ques tionnaire being prepared for the Census-takers. He disclosed that the results would be tab ulated through an IBM pro cedural system. Father Stapleton, Archdioce san Moderator of The Council of Catholic Men, stressed the importance of an adequate num ber of lay volunteers to do the Census taking. The original fi gure of 3,000 had been upped to 5,000. These lay volunteers would include both men and wo men. He also stressed the necessity of follow-ups where information could not be obtain ed at first call. At each meeting, Archbishop Hallinan said he found one nota ble characteristic about the Laity of the Archdiocese of At lanta— their spirit of generosi ty and service in the works of the Church. He congratulated all on the initial enthusiasm and said it bespoke of a success ful census. The Archbishop cautioned, however, against accepting the census project as a purely ma terial undertaking. He empha sized its spiritual aspects and noted that it could succeed on ly if its planning and execu tion was accompanied by con stant prayer and deep spiri tual fervor. FATHER RAINEY ...Co-Chairman Dear Editor TO THE EDITOR Your comments on the decay of parental responsibility in the moral education of their chil dren, printed in the January 24th issue, are apt and timely. Too often, in both parochial and pub lic school systems, the school is expected to furnish part-time parents, professionally trained to remedy the defects inevita bly attendant, it seems, upon natural parenth^^ This problem is especially acute in the parochial system, however, and for a unique rea son. The teaching of the Church, based upon a very simple con clusion from the fourth com mandment, holds that parents have a serious obligation to pro vide for the moral education of their children. However, the immediate conclusion from this obvious precept, reflected In the policies of most dioceses, as well as in many a sermon, is that this precept must be fulfilled by enrollment in a Ca tholic school. Here all se cularist, materialist, atheist ideology and the consequent corruption of moral life, will be avoided. Not that this is a substitute for the good exam ple of the Catholic home, but It is an absolutely necessary ingredient in the obligation fal ling on each parent. Such heavy emphasis upon this aspect of parental respon sibility must be held at least partly responsible for the sit— For Your 1963 Travel Flans PH.©fS IMAGiS To Every Shrine In The World! The Shrine of your favorite devotion is included somewhere in AIR FRANCE'S 1963 Pilgrimage Booklet. Let us prove that you can realize this travel dream economical!v and ewtftly on AIR FRANCE! JETS. AIR FRANCI llio Conn. Avt, Waah 6 PC |Ptea*e svr.J your lift, MuatratcJ l$t53 r.l- > griraag* B kletatonet. Xamt AiUmi THE WORLD'S LARGEST AIRLINE; J City Zon*, Slate uation you so rightly deplore. The attitude among parents, themselves none too strong morally or theologically, that Sister can do a better job, is an altogether intelligible psy chological reaction to this com mon Interpretation of the parent's duty. Emphasis upon the responsibility of parents, even in the choice of a school, parochial, or public, to which they are to send their children, must replace the present pre occupation, which is fulfilling the law of the Church, as in terpreted so rigorously in our pulpits. It is quite reasonable to Imagine, but scandalous to the bulk of our Catholic peo ple, that parents who give their children a strong Christian ed ucation at home, may be moral ly obliged to send them to a superior public school, to in sure their correct intellectual development. Such a possibility, to con clude, points not to rebellion on the part of parents so inclined, but, indeed, to as gravely re sponsible an interpretation of their role as is conceivable. ROBERT J. MULVANEY Atlanta 7, Ga. TO THE EDITOR: What right has the editor of The Georgia Bulletin to tell us what type of Catholic we should be? I was under the impression that the only infallible person in the Church is the Pope. What authority has the editor of any Catholic newspaper to tell me (or anyone else) what we should (or anyone else) what we should be doing? I do not like this editor’s smug cant. It was a better newspaper when there were no editorials. If you do not change your policy, you had better send back the unexpired portion of my subscription. DISGRUNTLED READER Atlanta 5, Ga. EDITOR’S NOTE: We do not normally publish anonymous letters. In this case, we stretch the point in order that we can refer all our read ers to the lead editorial on page 4. PRESIDENT Kennedy hosts members of the board of directors of the National Council of Catholic Women who met recently in Washington. Among those shown with the President at the White House reception are Mrs. Joseph McCarthy (right), President of the NCCW, and Mrs. Edward C. Moynihan, former president of the Washington Archdiocesan Council of Catholic Women and member of the NCCW board. SCHEDULE OF FORTY HOURS 1963 ATLANTA Cathedral of Christ the King Our Lady of Perpetual Help Free Cancer Home Saint Anthony Our Lady of Lourdes Sacred Heart Saint Joseph’s - Marietta Saint Paul of the Cross Monastery of the*Visitation Saint Joseph’s Infirmary Saints Peter and Paul Saint Thomas More Saint Jude Our Lady of the Assumption Saint John the Evangelist Immaculate Heart of Mary Immaculate Conception ATHENS Sacred Heart Saint Mary's Hospital Saint Joseph AUSTELL Saint John Vianney CARROLLTON Our Lady of Perpetual Help CARTERSVILLE Saint Francis CEDARTOWN Saint Bernadette CLAYTON Saint Helena CONYERS Saint Pius X DAHLONEGA Saint Luke DALTON Saint Joseph ELBERTON Saint Mary FORT OGLETHORPE Saint Gerard GAINESVILLE Saint Michael GRIFFIN Sacred Heart HARTWELL Sacred Heart JACKSON Saint Mary LA GRANGE Saint Peter LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN Our Lady of the Mount MILLEDGEVILLE Sacred Heart MONROE Saint Anna NEWNAN Saint George ROME Saint Mary SHARON Purification SUMMERVILLE Saint Peter Chanel THOMASTON Saint John the Baptist TOCCOA Mother of Our Divine Saviour November 24-25-26 WASHINGTON Saint Joseph IN LATIN AMERICA February 3-4-5 February 10-11-12 February 17-18-19 February 24-25-26 March 17—18—19 March 24-25-26 June 2-3-4 June 16-17-18 September 22-23-24 October 3-4-5 October 6-7-8 October 20-21-22 - Hapeville October 27-28-29 November 3-4-5 December 8-9-10 March 10-11-12 August 25-26-27 October 13-14-15 June 23-24-25 November 10-11-12 July 28-29-30 March 3-4-5 July 21-22-23 August 4-5-6 August 18-19-20 July 7-8-9 July 14-15-16 September 15-16-17 September 1-2-3 December 1-2-3 June 30, July 1-2 September 8-9-10 May 5-6-7 August 11-12-13 May 26-27-28 June 9-10-11 May 19-20-21 November 17-18-19 May 5-6-7 May 12-13-14 April 28-29-30 September 29-30, October 1 March 31, April 1-2 GEORGIA BULLETIN, THURSDAY, JANUARY 31, 1963 PAGE 3 POPE TELLS PRESS World Sees Significance Of Ecumenical Council VATICAN CITY, (NC)—Pope John XXIII said he believes that the world at large under stands the Second Vatican Coun cil and its significance. He said he draws this con clusion from the length and depth of the coverage given it in the press. THE POPE stated in an ad dress to Catholic journalists: "The council had a vast re verberation through the world. You surely will have wondered about the meaning of such a lively and widespread interest which is being demonstrated fully now. “First of all we can quiet ly rule out the idea that the interest of the press was at tracted by the external elements of the ceremonies, customs and unusual rites—though all these things made an impact and were stirring. It is a matter of far more than this, thank God. “WE BELIEVE, therefore, that we can say the event of the council itself was under stood—its great reality as the shining representation of the Christian message in its full ness, in order to adapt it in a more efficacious form to the demands of our times." Pope John continued: "It becomes ever more evi dent that in reality we are in the face of a sincere and ge nerous effort to reconcile the just needs of the present times, without losing sight of the su preme aspirations of the human mind. Here in fact is the sa cred magisterium of the Church, Mother and Teacher, intent on making the living in terpretation of eternal wisdom flow again from the two Testa ments." THE POPE told the newmen that the role of the Catholic press differs from that of the secular press: “It is natural that to per form its task the Catholic press must express itself in a way substantially different from the methods which are imposed by transitory interests or by pure ly human cleverness, resist ing any inference that intensi fy polemics useful to no one and which are not a good ex ample of charity and do not serve the Catholic communi ty in general. THE POPE — who mentioned in an aside that as a young man he himself had had am bitions of becoming a journa list — went on to say “a few words about the press which does not draw its direct in spiration from sacred doctrine but which is nevertheless wide spread in Catholic countries." The responsibility of this press is great, he said, "be cause it ultimately represents before the vast world the men tality and customs of Catho lic circles." But the Pope said that it is “painful to re cord" that newspapers in Ca tholic countries do not always reflect Catholic thought. "BUT WE must say that you," he told the Catholic newsmen, “must testify through deeds Population Faster Than Priests BUENOS AIRES (NC) — The population of Latin America increased about five times as fast as the number of priests from 1800 to 1960. In 1960, there were 37,920 priests and 196,461,000 inhabit ants— one priest for every 4,750 inhabitants. In 1800, there were 20,000 priests and an esti mated population of 18,900,000 —one priest for every 945 in habitants. THESE figures are given by Father Antonio Donini, S.J., "Statistical Panorama of the Church in Argentine" published in the Argentine Ecclesiastical Review. Father Donini discloses that in 1960 Argentina had 4,784 priests —2,182 religious and 2,602 diocesan—giving a ratio of 4,355 inhabitants for every’ priest. He notes that in the same year Chile had 2,980 inhabitants to every’ priest; Ecuador had 3,180; Colombia had 3,490; Par aguay had 4,060 and Uruguary had 4,110. THE ARTICLE notes that in 1600, Latin America had 5,000 priests; in 1700, there were 10,000; and in 1800, the number of priests reached 20,000. In 1920 , when Latin America’s population was 89 million, there were 19,000 priests. In 1960, there were 37,920 priests for 196,461,000 inhabitants. Expansion also is necessary, he said, because 114 bishops in Latin America alone are "standing in line" waiting for the crusade. Puerto Rico and Hong Kong also are on the wait ing line. Fifty bishops in Africa are "begging for Family Rosary' Crusade movies" — 15 half- hour films dramatizing the mysteries of the Rosary. Currently, he said, 60 pro jectors manned by volunteers are moving through the Rio de Janeiro area, showing the mov ies to crowds outdoors and in prisons, hospitals and schools. Father Peyton said that de spite poverty in Latin America, there are areas where “the god of pleasure" is as great a dan ger as communism. and through an ever more w ide spread presence,that the press cooperates in the mission of the Church—not so much in the measure with which it welcomes and spreads news, though pub lishing good and encouraging religious news items — but even more, in that it is faith ful to sacred doctrine and draws inspiration from it to be able to form readers’ minds... 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