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Vol. 47, No. 20
SAVANNAH, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1966
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Right Reverend Monsignor
Daniel J. Bourke, P.A., V.F.
PROTHONOTARY
Pontiff Honors
Msgr. Bourke
Right Reverend Monsignor
Daniel J. Bdurke, pastor of
St. Mary’s on-the-Hill,
Augusta, and Vicar Forane of
the Augusta Deanery, has re
ceived additional honors from
the Holy See.
Bishop Thomas J. Mc
Donough announced early this
week that Monsignor Bourke
has been named a Prothonotary
Apostolic by by His Holiness
Pope Paul VI. In making the
announcement Bishop Mc
Donough said that both
Monsignor Bourke and the
Diocese have been “signally
honored.”
The Diocese of Savannah
now has two priests who are
prothonotaries apostolic.
Right Reverend Monsignor T.
James McNamara, rector of
the Cathedral in Savannah, was
so honored in March of 1959.
One of the privileges of a
prothonotary apostolic is the
right to pontificate on certain
occasions, that is he wears a
miter and ceremonial ring,
and uses a faldstood(a special
chair from which he presides
at Pontifical Rites.)
A native of Birr, Co. Offaly,
Ireland, the son of Dennis D.
and Mary Bourke, he com
pleted his primary and
secondary schooling under the
Presentation Brother’s in Birr
and Dublin. Monsignor at
tended All Hallows Seminary
Confirmation
Schedule
His Excellency the Most Reverend Thomas J McDo
nough will administer the Sacrament of Confirmation at
four parishes during the next week. In each case he will
confirm during an Evening Mass.
On Saturday November 26th, Bishop McDonough will
confer the Sacrament at 7 P.M at the Warner Robins Air
Base. He will also celebrate the 9:30 A M. Mass at the
Chapel on Sunday, November 27th. That evening the
Sacrament will be conferred at St. Joseph’s, Macon at
5 P.M.
On Monday, November 28th, Bishop McDonough will
confirm at 6 P.M. at St. Peter Claver’sMacon. The fol
lowing day, November 29th, Confirmation will be ad
ministered at 6 P.M. at St. Mary’s on-the-Hill, Au
gusta; The Bishop will confirm at the Savannah Cathe
dral on Thursday, December 1st, at 6 P M.
ABSTINENCE, PEACE, RACE, POVERTY
Bishops Issue Major Statements:
Action Packed Conference Ends
By Burke Walsh
WASHINGTON (NC)—More than 200 members of the American
hierarchy — cardinals, archbishops and bishops — in an action-packed, five-
day meeting here altered the laws of fast and abstinence for U.S. Catholics,
and greatly restructured their own conference and tneir secretariat. The con
ference ended last Friday ('Nov. 18).
in Dublin, and was ordained
there on June 24, 1934 by the
late Bishop O’Brien of Kerry.
His first assignment in the
Diocese of Savannah was at
at Blessed Sacrament Chruch,
Savannah, as assistant pastor.
In 1936 he was named assistant
at St. Teresa’s Albany and in
October of 1937 he was ap
pointed assistant at St. Paul’s
Douglas. He served as assis
tant at Immaculate Conception,
Atlanta, from June to Sept
ember of 1939, at which time
he was appointed assistant at
the Cathedral in Savannah.
In December of 1940, Mon
signor Bourke was named
Administrator of St. Mary’s
on-the-Hill, Augusta. From
1941 until April 1945, he was
administrator and Pastor of
Blessed Sacrament in Savan
nah. In April 1945, he was
named pastor of St. Teresa’s,
Albany, where he served until
March of 1957 when he was ap
pointed pastor of St. Mary’s
on-the-Hill, Augusta.
Monsignor Bourke was
named a Domestic Prelate with
the title of Right Reverend
Monsignor on March 20, 1959.
He is a member of the Dio
cesan Board of Consultors;
Director of Family Life in
the Savannah Diocese; Pro
motor of Justice, member of
the Diocesan Liturgical Com
mission.
At the end, they announced
that matters referred to com-
*hiittees at the historic meeting
here were of such great im
portance that it will be neces
sary for the bishops to hold an
extraordinary plenary meeting
in Chicago the week of April
10.
In a pastoral statement on
“Penitential Observance for
the Liturgical Year,” the
bishops ended the law of ab
stinence from meat on Friday,
except for the Fridays of Lent.
In a statement on peace,they
said “it is reasonable to argue
that our presence in Vietnam
is justified,” and that “while
we can conscientiously sup
port the position of our country
in the present circumstances,
it is the duly of everyone to
seach for other alter
natives.”
In a statement on race re
lations and poverty, the
bishops said most of the causes
of poverty are connected with
discrimination, and called for
a “concerted attack” against
poverty “on many fronts.”
In still another statement,
concerning the government and
birth control, the bishops
called for “a clear and un
qualified separation ofwelfare
assistance from birth control
considerations.”
With regard to fast and ab
stinence, the bishops:
...Terminated for Fridays,
except those in Lent, the tradi
tional law of abstinence from
meat as binding under pain of
sin. At the same time, they
gave “first place to abstinence
from flesh meat” among the
works of voluntary self-denial
and personal penance “which
we especially commend to our
people for future observance of
F riday.”
...Said “the obligation both
to fast and abstain from meat...
still binds on Ash Wednesday
and Good Friday.”
...Preserved “the tradition
of abstinence from meat on all
Fridays of Lent.”
...Strongly recommended
participation in daily Mass on
“all other week days of Lent.”
...Pointed out that vigils and
Ember Days, “as most now
know, no longer oblige to fast
and abstinence.”
...Said, “we impose no fast
before any feastday,” but sug
gested that the devout will want
to prepare for feastdays by
Bishops’
Statements
The statement of the
Nctnoimil Cuiiici ence i>if
Catholic B i s h ops on
Peace is carried in full
on page three.
The Southern Cross
will publish the full
texts of the statements
on Penance and Ab
stinence, Race Rela
tions and Poverty and
Government and Birth
Control in next week’s
issue.
“self-denial, penitential
prayer and fasting.”
“We emphasize,” the
bishops said “that our
people are henceforth free
from canonical requirement
or obligation under pain of
sin in what pertains to Friday
abstinence, except as noted
above for Lent. We stress
this so that no scrupulosity will
enter into examinations of con
science, confessions or per
sonal decisions on this point.
“Perhaps we should warn
those who decide to keep the
Friday abstinence for reasons
• of personal piety and special
love that they must not pass
judgment on those who elect
to substitute other penitential
observances. Friday, please
God, will acquire among us
other forms of penitential wit-
ness which may become as
much a part of the devout way
of life in the future as Friday
abstinence from meat.”
The change in rules becomes
effective Nov. 27, the first
Sunday in Advent.
The bishops changed the
name of their episcopal con
ference to the National Con
ference of Catholic Bishops.
They established their
secretariat as a distinct en
tity with the name of U. S.
Catholic Conference, Inc.
It was emphasized that
the NCCB will be purely spirit
ual in character, and that the
secretariat will be a civil en
tity. Both the conference and
the secretariat had been known
as the National Catholic Wel
fare Conference since 1923.
Archbishop John F. Dearden
of Detroit was picked to be
the first elected president of
the U. S. episcopal conference,
and Archbishop John J. Krol
of Philadelphia to be the first
elected vice president.
(cont’d on page 2)
BISHOPS MEETING — Approximately two hundred members of the Hier
archy of the United States' met last week in Washington. The Bishops com
pletely reorganized the Administrative Board of the National Catholic Wel
fare Conference, changing its name to The National Council of Catholic Bish
ops. The week-long meeting was perhaps one of the most historic in the an
nals of the American Hierarchy. Pictured above Bishop Thomas J. McDon
ough (C) talks with Archbishop James P. Davis (R) of Sante Fe and Bishop
Joseph L. Federal of Salt Lake City. (NC Photo)
ENGLISH IN CANON
U.S. Hierarchy Asks For
More Liturgical Changes
INSIDE STORY
Continuous Changes
Newman Meeting
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WASHINGTON, D. C. (RNS)
—The American Catholic
Bishops, voting at a ratio of
three-to-one in favor, have
authorized sending to the Con
cilium in Rome a list of 13
requests for changes in the
liturgy.
principal requests would
allow reading of the Canon of
the Mass in English and the
privilege of conducting certain
“controlled” experimenta
tions with the rite of the Mass.
The bishops were not certain
whether requests of similar
magnitude have been made by
DAILY PRESS BRIEFING was held during the an
nual meeting of the National Conference of Catho
lic Bishops. (Nov. 14-18) in Washington, D.C.
Chaired hr Archbishop Philip M. Hannan of New
Orleans, the daily meetings provided background
and question periods on latest information on the
progress of the bishops' meeting. First press brief
ing (Nov. 14), was attended by nearly 100 media
representatives, including CBS TV, ABC radio,
Group W, Voice of America, and newsmen of daily
papers, as well as Associated Press and United
Press International. (NC Photos)
any other national conferences
of bishops since VaticanU gave
its approval for changes in
liturgy, but Archbishop Paul J.
Hallinan of Atlanta hailed the
vote as “indicative, and we
hope, contagious” of the desire
for changes in the U.S.
Archbishop Hallinan said the
requests approved — six of
them emerging from con
ference deliberations during
the week, and the other seven
previously, but unofficially,
agreed upon earlier —“arein
keeping with the practice pre
scribed by the Concilium.”
“But ever more signifi
cant perhaps,” he added, “is
that they open doors for the
priests and laymen who have
asked their bishops for
changes in keeping with the
nature of the liturgy as the
public worship of God and the
intelligent participation of our
people.”
In authorizing the Bishops*
Commission on the Liturgical
Apostolate to seek the Con
cilium’s permission, should
that permission be granted,
any experimentation in the
liturgy would be “in specific
and controlled communities”
and always would require the
consent of the local bishop.
In the request dealing speci
fically for permission to ex
periment with the rite of the
Mass, the Commission on the
Liturgical Apostolate would be
empowered to study requests
for such experimentation if:
(1) The requests are presented
by individual bishops; (2)
Specific and detailed proposals
are presented; (3) The re
quests and the specifics are
then presented to the National
Conference of Catholic Bish
ops; (4) and finally, the NCCB
submits them to the Concilium.
At no time could the bishops
give approval to proposed
changes until Rome had given
approval. Any such endorse
ment would be certified by the
Concilium to each of the 261
American bishops.
Besides requesting that per
mission be given to recite the
Canon of the Mass in the ver
nacular, the bishops also asked
to be permitted use of a supple
mentary series of Bible
readings apart from those now
used in Epistles and Gospels.
They also asked that they be
permitted to read, in the
supplementary weekly lection
ary only, from the following
translations of the Bible: Con
fraternity of Christian Doc
trine, Douai-Rheims-Chal-
loner, Knox, Revised Stan
dard Version (Catholic edi
tion), and the newly-published
Jerusalem Bible.
In the case of the supple
mentary series of Bible read
ings, the choice would be up
to the celebrant priest “in
accordance with the judg
ment of the individual
bishops.”
As in the case of concelebra
tion, the Bishops’ Conference
asked that recitation of the
entire Eucharistic Canon be
permitted in a loud voice or,
if so desired, in the chant.