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; DIOCESE OF SAVANNAH EDITION Serving Georgia's 88 Southern Counties L Published By The Catholic Laymen's Ass'n of Georgia OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF THE DIOCESE OF SAVANNAH Vol. 41, No. 16 5\ ^ MONROE, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, JANUARY 7, 1961 10c Per Copy — $3 a Year Says Council Won't Begin Before 1962 (N. C. W. C. NEWS SERVICE) WASHINGTON — The ecu menical council called by His Holiness Pope John XXIII probably will not begin be fore 1962, according to a U. S theologian taking part in its planning. “Much preliminary work still remains to be completed,” de clared Father Charles J. Cor coran, C.S.C., professor of dog matic theology at Holy Cross College here. Father Corcoran recently re turned from Rome, where he took part in consultations of the ecumenical council’s com mission for Religious. The commission considers matters involving religious communi ties. Preparations for the council are moving, ahead “efficiently and quietly,” the Holy Cross priest told the annual Univer sal Notre Dame Communion breakfast of the Washington- area Notre Dame University Club. Father Qorcoran said pro vision has been made for the expected interest of non-Cath- olic in the council by the es tablishment of a secretariate whose function is to maintain liaison with those outside the Church. Atlanta Requiem For Rev. C. R. Hageman, S.M. ATLANTA — Solemn pon tifical requiem mass was of- ■red this morning for the Rev. Gerard R. Hageman, S.M., assistant principal of Marist College. Father died last Sun day in Bedford, Ohio, where he was visiting for the holi days. His Excellency, The Most Rev. Francis E. Hyland, Bish op of Atlanta, was celebrant of the Requiem and gave the absolutions. Assistant priest was the Rt. Rev. Msgr. Jos eph G. Cassidy, P.A., Deacons of Honor were the Very Rev. Joseph W. Buckley, S.M., Pro vincial and the Very Rev. Charles J. Willis, S.M., Vice Provincial and Superior of the Atlanta Community; Deacon was the Rev. James L. Harri son; Sub Deacon, Rev. John Cotter. Preacher at the Mass aws the Rev. Vincent P. Brennan, S.M. The Holy Rosary was recited Friday evening in Sacred Heart Church. The Fourth De gree Knights of Columbus served as an honor guard un til 9 p. m. when they were relieved by the parents of Marist students who remained until midnight. Pallbearers were members of the lay faculty at Marist. The Office of the Dead was recited by the clergy this morning immediately prior to the mass. Born in Brooklyn, N. Y., Fa- REV. G. R. HAGEMAN, S.M. ther Hageman graduated from St. Francis College. He then entered the Society of Mary and began his studies for the priesthood in the Marist Col lege at Catholic University in Washington. After his ordination on June 8, 1941, he served as an in structor at the Marist prepara tory seminary, Penndel, Penn. In 1942, he came to Atlanta as a member of the staff of Mar ist College, a post he held un til 1957, when he was sent as a teacher to the newly opened Chanel High School. Bedford, Ohio. Returning to Atlanta in 1959, Father Hageman was ap pointed to the position of as sistant principal of Marist. Services At National Shrine, New York Cathedral Will Mark U.S. Unity Octave Observance Cardinal Wendel lies At 59 (Radio, NCWC News Service) MUNICH, Germany — Jos eph Cardinal Wendel, Arch bishop of Munich and Freising, died suddenly at his residence here on New Year’s eve. He was 59. Cardinal Wendel’s death re duces membership of the Sac red College of Cardinals to 81, not counting four cardinals- elect named on December 16. On the evening of his death the Cardinal presided at tra- dtiional St. Sylvester’s Day services at the Cathedral of Our Lady. Ten thousand Cath olics attended this year-end service. Shortly after return ing to his rooms from this service he collapsed and died. Death was attributed to a heart attack. The crowning achievement of Cardinal Wendel’s busy ca reer was the organization of the 1960 International Euchar istic Congress at Munich, July 31 to August 7, which drew a million pilgrims and a vio lent propaganda barrage from communist countries. His strenuous work in organizing the congress may have helped bring on his early death, ac cording to informed circles here. He took a personal part in all phases of organizing the congress. During the Eucharistic con gress Cardinal Wendel gave first Holy Communion to about 100 children between three and eight years of age who had been prepared for the sacrament by their par ents. The Cardinal was named Archbishop of Munich on Aug ust 9, 1952. Prior to this ap- J'iAui-gy and new diocesan pointment, he served as Bishop I regulations regarding church of Speyer from June of 1943. I music. ESTABLISH COMMISSIONS ON LITURGY AND SACRED MUSIC Msgr. Toamey, if. Donnelly Head Groups SAVANNAH, Jan. 5th—Two Savannah priests have been named to head new Diocesan commissions, it was announced today by the Most Rev. Tho mas J. McDonough, Bishop of Savannah. Rt. Rev. Msgr. John D. Tc-omey, S.T.L., pastor of St. James Church Savannah, has been appointed chairman of the Diocesan Liturgical Com mission. Other members of the commission are the Rt. Rev. Msgr. Daniel J. Bourke, V.F., pastor of St. Mary’s-on-the- Hill, Augusta; Rev. Marvin J. LeFrois, pastor of St. Teresa’s, Albany and Rev. James Cum mings, S.M., pastor of St. Fran cis Xavier Church, Brunswick. Appointed to head the Dio cesan Commission for Sacred Music is the Rev. Felix Don nelly, pastor of Nativity of Our Lord Church, Thunder bolt. Also on the Music Com mission are Rev. Arthur Welt- zer, pastor of St. Patrick’s Au gusta; Rev. George C. James, assistant pastor, at Blessed Sacrament, Savannah and Rev. John Fitzpatrick, assistant pas tor at St. Joseph’s, Macon. Both commissions were formed in response to a recent decree issued by the Holy See concerning the Rubrics of the ADDRESSES CLERGY ON LITURGY—The Rev. Walter Schmitz, noted authority on the Liturgy, addresses clergy conference held in Savannah to discuss recent decree of the Holy See affecting the Rubrics of the Mass and the Divie Office. This decree and Dio cesan regulations concerning church music led to forming of two new commissions for the Savannah Diocese. Shown here on the speaker’s platform are, 1. to r., Monsignor T. James McNamara, Vicar General, Father Schmitz, Bishop Thomas J. McDonough, Bishop of Sa vannah. (NCWC News Service) Services in the National Shrine of the Immaculate Con ception, Washington, D. C., and St. Patrick’s cathedral, New York, will highlight U. S. ob servance of the Chair of Unity Octave January 18 to 25. The octave, begun in 1908, is a Catholic prayer campaign for religious unity. Each of its eight days is dedicated to a different intention concerned with unity. The annual observance is promoted by the Society of the Atonement, whose convert founder, Father Paul James Francis, S.A., also began the Unity Octave. This year the society is urging prayer for the coming ecumenical council’s success in connection with the octave observance. Seven bishops will take part in the octave rights at the nat ional shrine in Washington. The schedule of services there is as follows: On January 18 (intention: “The Union of All Christians in the One True Faith and in the Church”) Archbishop Pat rick A. OBoyle of Washington will offer a Mass at which Father Angelus F. Delahunt, S.A., superior general of the Society of the Atonement, will preach. On January 19 (intention: “The Return of Separated Eastern Christians to Com munion with the Holy See”) Auxiliary Bishop Stephen J. Kocisko of the Byzantine Greek Rite Exarchate of Pitts burgh will preside and preach at a Mass. On January 20 (intention: “The -Reconciliation of Angli cans with the Holy See”) Aux iliary Bishop Joseph H. Hodges of Richmond, Va., will preside at a Mass. Father Gordon B. ORDO COMPILER Father David T. Thomas, a 34-year-old doctor of canon law and assistant to chancellor of the Archdiocese of St. Louis, is compiling the Ordo for some 52 dioceses in the U. S. this year. The new Ordo is a series of volumes telling in detail what rules to follow for saying the office and the Mass in line with the Holy Father’s new reforms of the breviary and missal, (NCJ Photos) Wadhams of St. Thomas Semi nary, Bloomfield, Conn., will preach. On January 21 (intention: “The Reconciliation of Euro pean Protestants with the Holy See”) Auxiliary Bishop Philip M. Hannan of Washington will preside at Mass. Father Gus tave Weigel, S.J., theology professor at Woodstock (Md.) College, will preach. On January 22 (intention: “That American Christians Be come One in Union with the Chair of Peter”) Bishop Han nan will again preside. Father Robert J. Slavin, O.P., presi dent of Providence (R. I.) Col lege, will preach. On January 23 (intention: “The Restoration of Lapsed Catholics to the Sacramental Life of the Church”) Msgr. John K. Cartwright, rector of St. Matthew’s cathedral, Wash ington, will preside and preach. On January 24 (intention: “That the Jewish People Come Into Their Inheritance in Jesus Christ”) Bishop Vincent S. (Continued on Page 8) MORAL ISSUES CITED IN NATIONWIDE STRIKE OF DELGIAN SOCIALISTS By Father Elie Vandenbussche, S.J. BRUSSELS (Radio, NC) — Moral and social issues have been raised in the violent anti government strike of socialis tic unions which brought this country’s economic life to a virtual standstill. Despite vehement socialist denials, many observers hold that the strike was called to overthrow the government of Social Christian (Catholic) Premier Gaston Eyskens. Os tensibly the strike was called to prevent passage of new au sterity laws designed to bring the nation’s expenditures into line with its income, sharply reduced by the loss of the col ony of the Congo. Many Belgians fear that the socialists seek to throttle dem ocratic government in Bel gium. Catholic moralists and so cial experts have called the strike unjustified and entirely disproportionate. Unions in the predominantly Catholic north of the country did not heed the strike call. Jozef Cardinal van Roey, Archbishop of Malines, brand ed the strike “illegal and un reasonable.” Catholic social experts have stated that the austerity bill before Parliament is justified by economic needs and that it divides the burdens of sac rifices equally among all classes. Socialist union leaders declared in calling the strike that the higher tax<y and re- PRAY FOR OUR (priestly DEAD REV. PATRICK HOOKE January 2, 1859 REV. JOSEPH REISERER January 5, 1880 REV. MICHAEL J. BYRNE January 8, 1922 O God, IF ho didst give to thy servants by their sacredotal office, a share in the priesthood of the Apostles, grant, we im plore, that they may also be one of their company forever in heaven. Through Christ Our Lord. Amen. Clarence Haverty Rites At Atlanta duced social benefits would put the heaviest burden on the working class. Premier Eyskens warned in a nationwide radio address that the very existence and function of our institutions are at stake.” He said his govern ment would never bow to vio lence, and he appealed to the strikers to return to work. Changes Became Effective January 1st Laity Can Still Use Present Missals (N.C.W.C. News Service) ST. LOUIS — Lay people still may use their present mis sals at Mass. This is a reminder from Fa ther David T. Thomas, a 34- year-old doctor of canon law who has been burning the midnight oil to compile new ordos for 52 U. S. dioceses, al most half of all U. S. Sees. The ordo is a book which lists the order of changeable parts of the Mass and prayers of the divine office through out the year. While there are some chang es in the Mass, there are no changes in its text, said Fa ther Thomas, assistant chan cellor of the St. Louis arch diocese who is compiling ordos for the B. Herder Publishing Company here. Father Thomas also said the changes, made public by the Vatican in August, 1960, are not the last Catholics can ex pect. “Undoubtedly there will be further help in refoi’m from the Ecumenical Council. All the changes are aimed at re storing the liturgy and getting away from formalism and rou tine,” he said. The first change Catholic lay people will notice is that the Feast of the Circumcusion on January 1 is no more. The day is now called the Octave of Christmas. But the Mass is the same. Other obvious changes, he said, are the omission of the Confiteor and attendant pray ers before the Communion. After the priest consumes the Precious Blood, he will put the chalice down, open the tabernacle door, turn to the people and say: “Ecce Agnus Dei . . .” i No confiteor by the altar boys. No absolution by the priest. “The reason,” Father Tho mas said, “is that the confiteor and the two following prayers of the priest already have been said once, at the beginning of the Mass. Deleting them at the Communion does away with unnecessary repetion.” Another change is in the tone of voice used by the cele brant. There used to be three tones, now there will be two: the inaudible and the loud. The third used to be a “middle tone,” audible, but quiet. Also, (during the year, lay people will notice fewer fa miliar feasts, Father Thomas said. There are two cycles of feasts: the “sanctoral,” con cerning the feasts of saints, and the “temporal,” concern ing the time of the year, such as lent or advent. All feasts are ranked by “class,” from 1 to 4. The one given the higher rank is ob served when two clash. When feasts from the two cycles fall on the same day it is called “occurence,” Father Thomas said. And the Ordo explains which one has prece dence. For example, the feast of the celebrated scholar St. Thomas Aquinas, Class III, occurs this year on a lenten weekday which now has a higher class ranking, Class II. Thus, thee Angelic Doctor gets only a commemoration during the Mass this year. Every diocese has a different Ordo, although those for sev eral dioceses are frequently combined in one volume. The feast of the dedication of a diocese’s cathedi’al, for example, is a Class I feast in that diocese, but in no other hap- See, unless the patron pens to be the same. Also, some feasts vary ac cording to locality. In two Missouri dioceses, for example, the feast of a local beata, Blessed Philippine Duchesne, is observed in November, al though it is not in other dio ceses. Another change daily Mass- goers will notice, Father Tho mas said, is the fewer number of daily Requiem Masses, that is, a Requiem Mass on a day other than the day of the fun eral or a specific anniversary of that day. The new regulations provide that a daily Mass for the Dead is a Class IV feast and can be said only on Class IV days, which are “ferial days,” when normally no Mass is scheduled other than the Mass of the previous Sunday. Under the old regulations, such Masses could be said on most days that are classified as Class III under the new reg ulations. Now the accent is on the Mass of the day. The ordo Father Thomas has been preparing comes in six different volurrves. ATLANTA — Requiem Mass was offered for Clarence Hav erty, businessman and out standing Catholic Layman on December 24th at the Cathe dral of Christ-the-Kmg. Rt. Rev. Msgr. Joseph Cas sidy, P.A., Rector of the Catne- dral was celebrant of the Mass. Absolutions were given by the Most Rev. Francis E. Hyland, D.D. J.C.D., Bishop of Atlanta. At the time of his death, Mr. Haverty was chairman Of the board of Haverty Furniture Companies, Inc., largest retail furniture organization in the South, and the fourth largest in sales in the United States. Mr. Haverty was a Privy Chamberlain of the Sword and Cape, having received this ap pointment in 1946 from tne late Pope Pius XII. Pope Jonn XXIII renewed this appoint ment in 1959. In 1956 Mr. Haverty was in vested a Master Knight of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta by Francis Cardinal Spellman in ceremonies which took place in St. Patrick’s Ca thedral, New York. Mr. Haverty was a son of James Joseph and Clara Ma lone Haverty, themselves long prominent in Atlanta life. In 1909 Mr. Haverty and his father reorganized the Haver ty Furniture Co., which had merged in 1889 with the Rhodes Furniture Co. The Knodes-Haverty Building, on Peachtree Street, is a remind er of that partnership. Mr. Haverty was president of the business from 1938 to 1955, when he became chair man of the board. He was a director, former president (1943), and chairman of the board (1944) of the National Furniture Association in 1945 he received its top award for outstanding contributions to the industry. During World War II, Mr. Haverty was chairman of a committee representing the national furniture industry in meetings with the Federal Re serve Board to set up credit controls among retail furni ture stores. At the same time, he was'at member of the board of trus tees of the American Retail Federation in Washington, and in 1945 served as chairman of these trustees. He was named a director of the Fulton National Bank when it was formed in 1910, serving until 1938. In 1939 he was elected chairman of the board and a member of the bank’s executive and finance committee. Last year he be came the first honorary chair man of the board of directors. His son, Rawson, was named a Fulton bank director this year. Clarence Haverty was a di- Bock Reviews 7 Editorial Comment 4 Marriage Notices 6 Obituaries 3 Question Box 4 Doris Answers Youth 5 CLARENCE HAVERTY rector and member of the executive committee of the Southern Bell Telephone & Telegraph Co. since 1943. He was a former member of the Atlanta City Council, past president of the Atlanta Ad Men’s Club, past vice presi dent of the Atlanta Retail Merchants Association, mem ber of the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce, trustee of the Atlanta Art Association, mem ber of the board of curators of the Atlanta Historical So ciety, and chairman of the ad visory board of St. Joseph’s Infirmary. Social membership was in the Capital City Club, the Piedmont Driving Club, Chi cago’s Lake Shore Club, and the Ponte Vedra Club of Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla. Surviving are his widow, the former Elizabeth Rawson of Atlanta; son, Rawson, presi dent of the Haverty chain; daughters, Mrs. Frank M. Rid ley, Jr., and Mrs. Alex W. Smith, Jr., all of Atlanta; sis ters, Miss Mary E. Haverty, Mrs. Russell Bellman and Mrs. Lon Grove, Atlanta; Mrs. J. C. McMichael, Miami, and Mrs. Frank S. McGaughey, Sr., Clearwater, and a brother, J. J. Haverty, Jr., Atlanta.