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THURSDAY, JULY 29, 1965 GEORGIA BULLETIN PAGE 3
TODAY, TOMORROW, SATURDAY AT HILTON INN
Social Change And Christian Response Program
WEDNESDAY, JULY 28
6:00 p.m. Registration — Hilton Inn
7:30 p.m. Orientation for workgroup leaders
8:00 p.m. Social Hour
THURSDAY, JULY 29
9:00 a.m. Registration
9:30 a.m. The Changing South
Dr. Leslie Dunbar
Executive Director
Southern Regional Council
Panel —
Miss Jean Fairfax
National Representative for Southern Programs
American Friends Service Committee
Rt. Rev. Msgr. Edward W. O’Rourke
Executive Director
National Catholic Rural Life Conference
Rev. Andrew J. Young
Executive Director
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Representative
Office of Economic Opportunity
12:15 p.m. Luncheon Meeting — Keynote Address
The Church in Society
Most Reverend Paul J. Hallinan, D.D.
Archbishop of Atlanta
2:00 p.m. Workgroups — Session I
(Private discussion in small groups)
3:45 p.m. Clinics
(For professional groups as requested.
Private.)
5:15 p.m. Community Mass
6:00 p.m. Dinner on your own
THURSDAY, JULY 29 (Continued)
8:00 p.m. The Negro Movement
Mr. Rudolph Lombard
National Vice President
Congress of Racial Equality
Rev. C. T. Vivian
Director of Affiliates
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Rev. Andrew J. Young
Executive Director
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
10:00 p.m. Social Hour
FRIDAY, JULY 30
3:45 a.m. General session
9:00 a.m. Workgroups — Session II
11:00 a.m. Clinics
1:00 p.m. Luncheon Meeting
The Negro Apostolate: Several Viewpoints
Very Reverend Harold R. Perry, S.V.D.,
Chairman
Provincial, Divine Word Fathers
Very Reverend George F. O’Dea, S.S.J.
Superior General, Josephite Fathers
Very Reverend Bernadine Patterson, O.S.B.
Rector, St. Maur’s Priory
Mother Mary Regina Cunningham, R.S.M.
Mother General, Sisters of Mercy of the Union
A Pastor
A Layman
3:00 p.m. Workgroups — Session III
5:15 p.m. Community Mass -Bishop Russell
7: oo p.m. Dinner Meeting
Diocesan and Religious Involvement in Human
Relations
Most Reverend Coleman F. Carroll, D.D., J.C.D.
Bishop of Miami
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FRIDAY, JULY 30 (Continued)
8:00 p.m. Case history presentations of Church involvement
across the South
Presented by representatives of six dioceses
10:00 p.m. Social Hour
SATURDAY, JULY 31
9:30 a.m. Workgroups — Session IV
11:00 a.m. Community Mass -Bishop Reed
12 noon Luncheon Meeting
The Challenge Of Poverty In America
Mr. Hyman Bookbinder
Assistant Director
Office of Economic Opportunity
2:00 p.m. Summary session and recommendation from
workgroups
5:00 p.m-6:00 p.m.
Late checkout from motel
LITURGICAL SERVICES
The Conference schedule includes a Community Mass on
Thursday, Friday and Saturday.
Priests are requested to bring amices and albs.
Priests who wish to offer a private Mass may make ar
rangements at the registration desk.
MOTEL RESERVATION
Please make your own motel reservations on the enclosed
card.
Mail to: HILTON INN
Box 691
Atlanta, Georgia
Conference rates: $12.00 per day single
$15.00 per day double
The Hilton Inn is located across the highway from the
airport. Free Hilton Inn limousine available on lower level
drive at the airport.
Sees Hope For Accord On Christianity Role Of Mary
DAYTON, Ohio (NC)— Al
though Catholics and Protes
tants are in opposite camps on
the Blessed Virgin’s place in
Christian belief, they may
someday find agreement.
That is the opinion of Father
William^ J. Cole, S.M.,, of the
theology department at the Uni
versity of Dayton, an institution
conducted by the Society of
Mary!
The Marianist priest, a scho
lar in Mariology, said he be
lieves a “breakthrough” al
ready has been made on the
question of Mary, "at least on
the scholarly level.”
He acknowledged, however,
that the great majority of Pro
testants, including Protestan
tism’s most respected theolo
gians, “possess no real interest
in Mary ” at the present time.
FATHER Cole, a director of
the Mariological Society of A-
merica and associate editor
of Mary Today magazine, dis
cussed “Catholics, Protestants
and Mary” at a "Religion and
Life” program at the Univer
sity of Dayton.
He asked:
“Is it not strange that the
very woman whom God chose
. to be His mother should be the
source of the greatest difficulty
between Catholic and Pro
testants, who both acknowledge
her Son as their God and Sa
viour?
“Strange, yes, but it is an
indisputable fact that it is so.
Certainly most Protestants
would agree with the European
Calvinist theologian Max Thu-
rian, who claimed that ‘Catho
lic theology poses the most a-
gonizing problem for ecumim-
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Father Cole said that the in
fluential Protestant theologians
Paul Tillich and Reinhold Nie
buhr have also criticized Catho
lic teaching on Mary.
“TILLICH and Niebuhr are
leaders in a new movement
which might be called neo-Pro
testantism,” he said. “It tends
to interpret the ancient creed
symbolically and to rule out the
miraculous as unscientific and
to reject all but the religious
ly pragmatic in the Biblical re
velations.”
Their severe view of Mario
logy is not surprising, he con
tinued, since from their view
point the question of Mary’s di
vine motherhood does not exist.
For them Christ is not God,
but rather “God is revealed in
His Christ, ” he said.
But even more orthodox and
conservative Protestants, with
some exceptions, are not pre
pared to concede anything to
Mary, he declared.
The theologian said that, de
spite the adverse judgments of
leading Protestants, Pope John
XXIII in 1960 viewed the mo
dern development of “Mario
logy and Marian piety” as a
way to unity.
“What are we to say to Pope
John's optimistic statement?”
he asked.
IT WOULD be a mistake, he
said, to conclude that Protes
tant consideration of Mary is
completely and universally ne
gative.
He said recent Protestant
writing about Mary is far re-
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voved in tone and content “from
the sharp and bitter diatribes
of even a decade ago.” He noted
that Max Thurian, who descib-
ed Mariology as an tagoniz
ing problem,” has nevertheless
made a “positive contribution to
Mariological dialogue” through
his book ,‘5Mary, Mother of All |
Christians.”
Thurian’s interpretation of
the Gospel story of Mary and
St. John at the foot of the cross
“differs in on essential details
from the common Catholic exe
gesis and theological explana
tion,” according to FatherCole.
The Calvinist theologian, he
said, holds the traditional
Catholic position that Jesus on
Calvary commended Mary to
John and to all future believers
as their spiritual mother.
DISCUSSING Protestant in
terpretations of Scripture pas
sages relating to Mary, both in
the Old and New Testaments,
Father Cole fround scant evi
dence of Catholic - Protestant
accord on most points.
Protestants are especially
critical of the definition of the
dogma of the Assumption, he
said. They regard it as a “clear
cut and grievous example of
what happens in the life of the
Church when tradition gains the
upper hand over Scripture.”
But even this definition has
made a contribution toward
greater accord in the future be
tween Catholics and Protes
tants, he maintained.
“There is no doubt,” he
said, “that the definition of As
sumption has led Catholic au
thorities to investigate more
fully the relationship of Scrip
ture and tradition and the au
thority of the Church in de
fining truths...
“One result has been a re
markable evolution in the Ca
tholic theologians’ understand
ing of the relationship of Scrip
ture and tradition particularly
in relation to the dogma of the
Assumption.”
IMPORTANT from the point
of view of ecumenica relations,
Father Cole said, is the fact
that “leading Mariologists to
day affirm that the initial de
posit from which all revealed
truth on Our Lady is derived
is given us in the Bible.”
“This growing conception of
tradition—along with the., e-
merging Protestant consensus
that Scripture alone, in the tra
ditional sense, is inadequate-
leads us to believe that, even
though it was the cause of much
controversy, the defining of the
dogma of the Assumption has
actually helped ecumenism in
giving clarification to the issues
which divide Protestants from
their Catholic brothers and
forcing deeper study of the
source of revelation,” he de
clared.
Father Cole listed as “hope
ful signs” of eventual under
standing on the question of Mary
a shared Biblical approach, a
consideration of Mary’s media
tion, the ecumenical council’s
Constitution on the Church and
its chapter on the Blessed Vir
gin, the council’s Schema on Re
velation, and some evidence of
positive discussions on Mary by
Protestants and Catholics.
“THE FIRST steps on the
road to a common Scriptural
understanding of Our Lady have
been taken by Protestants and
their separated brothers,” he
said.
“The journey is expected to
be long and arduous, but it is
a Scriptural road that the bro-'
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thers in Christ will travel to
gether, under the guidance of
the Holy Spirit and with the ma
ternal protection of the ‘Mother
of Unity,’ who will in God’s
good time...bring together in
unity"'her children in Christ.
More Clergy Under
Social Security Law
WASHINGTON, D.C. (RNS)—
On the strength of a mow by
the Senate members of the
House-Senate Conference Com
mittee which reported its re
conciliation of the Medicare-
Social Security Bill, the legis
lation, if finally approved, would
make more ministers eligible
for coverage.
And under the Medicare sec
tion of the measure, expected
to clear Congress by the end
of July, a compromise was ef
fected concerning coverage in
Christian Science sanitoria.
There constituted the main
changes directly affecting the
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by Sister Joan Michael, stands in front of a multi-colored
textile illustrating the biblical passage. "I know all the
birds of the air. and whatever moves in the field is known
to me" IPs. 49:1 i. Both pieces are part of an exhibition by
the two Mount Mary (Milwaukee l College Sisters currently
on display in the Center for Religious Art in Chicago, spon
sored bv the Thomas More Association.
TEXAS BISHOPS—Bishop Adolph Marx i left I. former Aux
iliary of Corpus Christi. lias been named the first bishop of
the new Diocese of Brownsville. Bishop Thomas .1. Drury,
former bishop of San Angelo, has been named bishop of
Corpus Christi.
IN MICHIGAN COUNTY
Sterilization Program
Illegal Use of Funds
LANSING, Mich. (NC) Use
of public funds for a county
sterilization program was term
ed illegal here by State Att. Gen.
Frank J. Kelly.
In a letter to William L. Mc
Manus, prosecutor of St. Joseph
county, Kelly said: “Not only
is this program illegal but in
its coercive nature it is a shock
ing violation of the fundamental
principles of human dignity and
marital privacy.”
The program was enacted in
St. Joseph county by the county
board of supervisors. It allows
use of public funds for birth con
trol devices and sterilization o-
perations for welfare recipients
and those with “marginal in
come.”
nation’s religious interests.
THE BILL itself saw the cost
reduced from an approximate
amount of $7.5 billion asked
by the Senate to $6.46 billmn.
One major provision called for
a 7 per cent .increase in So
cial Security payments and be
nefits for the Old Order Amish
and other sects which ban in
surance in the belief that it
does not show trust in God.
Both the Senate and House ver
sions agreed before going to
conference.
The Senate reopened to April
15, 1966, the period during
which clergy who have been in
the ministry for at least two
years may file waiver certi
ficates electing Social Security
coverage.
BECAUSE of religious con
victions, many clergymen have
elected examptionfrom the pro
visions of Social Security, much
along the line of reasoning em
ployed by the Old Order Amish.
Under the original proposal,
the date for filing the waiver
certificates expired April 15
this year. This, in effect, re
news lapsed privileges. How
many clergymen are affected is
not known.
KELLEY said he could “find
no authority for the expenditure
of public funds for a steriliza
tion program” among powers de
legated by the state legislature.
The only legal authority for steri
lization, he added, is in a 1929
law permitting the operations for
certain mentally defective per
sons, but only after court pro
ceedings which are subject otthe
right of appeal.
The St. Joseph county plan re
quires written application by both
husband and wife on a “purely
voluntary basis” to obtain birth
control advice and information.
But Kelley asserted this does
not alter “the obvious fact that
in its lack of selectivity and in
the mandatory nature of the no
tice requirements, the program
Sailors Paint
Japan Church
MURORAN, Japan (NC)— Sai
lors aboard the U.S.S. Walke de
scended on this town but instead
of painting it red, they painted
its church white.
When the destroyer pulled into
port for a week, its crew asked
Father Donald C. Walsh, M.M.,
if there was any work they could
do.
It didn’t take the Bronx, N.Y.,
priest long to think of his most
pressing job, which the Navy men
accomplished with time enough to
spare to tackle the church’s tall
steeple as well.
has been cloaked in a mantel of
coercion.”
KELLEY noted the recent pas
sage by the state legislature of
two bills to providefamilyplann-
ing assistance for welfare reci
pients. Still awaiting signing by
Gov. George Romney, the bills
emphasize that welfare assis
tance does not depend on a re
quest or non-request for the ser
vices. They also forbid case
workers to attempt to persuade -
recipients to participate in the
program.
“Under the St. Joseph county
plan, however,” Kelley added,
“all welfare recipients would be
notified of these services, in
cluding sterilization, and the
county would guarantee the pay
ment for the devices and/or the
medical and hospital services for
sterilization.”
Father, Son Mass
Concelebration
NEW YORK (NC)—A father
and his son, both priests in
the Byzantine Rite, concele-
brated Mass (July 28) in the
Chapel of the Good Shepherd
in the Vatican Pavilion at the
New York World’s Fair,
Father Gregory Moneta, pas
tor of a Byzantine—rite parish
in Kingston, Pa„ and his son,
Father Robert Moneta, assis
tant chancellor of the Byzan
tine Rite Eparchy of Passiac,
N.J., offered the Mass.
Until 1928, priests in the
Eastern rites in the U, S. were
permitted to marry. Father
Gregory, ordained in 1924, also
has another son. Father Rob
ert was ordained in 1951.
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