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SERVING 88 SOUTH GEORGIA COUNTIES
The Southern Cross
DIOCESE OF SAVANNAH NEWSPAPER
Vol.53 No. 45
Thursday, December 21,1972
Single Copy Price — 12 Cents
FAREWELL RECEPTION honoring Bishop Frey was
given by the three Macon Parishes, St. Peter Claver,
Holy Spirit and St. Joseph, December 6th in St.
Joseph’s Social Hall. Bishop Frey is shown talking with
young friends-left to right Drexall Holton, Jennifer
Carullo, Julia Carullo and Monroe Abram. (Drinnon
photo by Fred Matthews)
Christmas Mass to Be Telecast
Throughout Savannah Diocese
Pope Paul Vi’s Midnight Mass and
Christmas Message will be carried live
via satellite and in color throughout the
United States and Canada.
INSIDE STORY
Ordain Women?
Pg. 2
Bishop’s Letter
Pg. 4
'The Long Trailer’ .
Pg. 7
Pastoral Councils
Pg. 8
The Mass and Christmas message will
be carried on the following TV stations
in the Savannah diocese:
WJCL, channel 22, Savannah and
WCWB, channel 41, Macon at 6 p.m.
Christmas eve, December 24.
At 10 p.m. Christmas eve, it will be
seen on:
WJSP, channel 28, Columbus; WCES,
channel 20, Augusta; WABW, channel
14, Albany; WXGA, channel 8,
Waycross.
WDAN, channel 9, Pembroke;
WDCO, channel 15, Cochran; WACS,
channel 25, Dawson.
Pope Paul usually celebrates his
Christmas Midnight Mass in the Sistine
Chapel for an audience of prelates and
diplomats. This year he will offer the
Midnight Mass and deliver his Christmas
Message before workers at a big
construction site twenty-five miles
north of Rome. The construction site is
at the entrance of a new tunnel being
built near the town of Sant ’Oreste on a
new rail line between Rome and
Florence. During his nine years as
Pontiff, Pope Paul has twice left the
Vatican to say Christmas Eve Mass away
from Rome.
Arrangements for the live satellite
transmission of the Midnight Mass are
being made by Family Theater
Productions in cooperation with the
Spanish International Network in New
York. An independent network of some
one hundred and twenty five stations
has been formed nationwide to carry
the telecast into some 50,000,000
television homes. Family Theater has
also arranged to supply the telecast to
the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
which will transmit it throughout
Canada in both Englisn and French.
The ninety-minute color transmission
will be augmented by commentary and
translation by Reverend Agnellus
Andrew, an English Franciscan priest,
with vast experience in television
coverage of Vatican affairs.
Resignations Withdrawn
Priests and Religious teaching at
Pacelli High School, Columbus, have
withdrawn their resignations which were
to have been effective at the end of the
current school year, according to an
announcement by Father Robert
Mattingly, Pacelli Principal.
Withdrawal of the resignations came
after a meeting last Monday evening
(Dec. 18) at which the Pacelli School
Board agreed to the adoption of a new
Board Constitution, drawn up by a
special committee under the
chairmanship of Father Roy Cox, pastor
of St. Anne’s parish, Columbus, and a
member of the School Board.
Adoption of the new document
entails the resignation of the present
School Board and the election of a new
one “at the earliest practicable date,”
according to Father Mattingly. He
characterized the Monday night meeting
as “amicable” and said it ended “in a
spirit of Christian friendship.”
Two priests and four nuns had
submitted their resignations last month,
Father Mattingly said, “because of
difficulties presented by the terms of
the old Constitution of the Pacelli
School Board.” He cited a lack of
“built-in checks and balances” between
the rights and responsibilities of the
Board on the one hand and the faculty
on the other.
“The administrative and Board
functions were so interwoven that the
school was actually in conflict with
standards of the Southern Association
of Colleges and Secondary Schools,
under which Pacelli High School is
accredited,” the priest said.
The difficulties referred to by Father
Mattingly were brought to a head late
last month when the Pacelli School
Board refused a request by the priests
and Religious members of the faculty
concerning a scholarship fund for needy
and minority-group students.
They had asked that a portion of
Christmas Service
At the Cathedral
The Christmas season will open at the
Cathedral of St. John the Baptist with
Midnight Mass, a concelebrated Mass,
with Bishop Gerard L. Frey as the
principal celebrant. Concelebrants will
be Monsignor Daniel J. Bourke, Father
Patrick O’Brien, Father Gerard A.
Murphy and Father William P. Dowling.
The James B. Copps Memorial Choir
under the direction of Mrs. Joseph C.
Schreck, Organist, will sing the Mass.
During the Mass the following numbers
will be rendered:
“Silent Night” by Choir and
Congregation as the image of Infant is
brought into church and placed in the
crib; “Introit” for Midnight Mass; “Lord
Have Mercy” by Sister Elaine; “Glory to
God” from the Mass of St. Patrick.
Offertory Hymn, “0 Come All Ye
Faithful” by Choir and Congregation;
“Holy, Holy, Holy” by Goemanne.
At the Communion of the Mass: “0
Holy Night,” Soloist, Joseph L.
Conners; “O Babe Divine” (Tu Scendi
Dalle Stella), duet by Joseph L. Conners
and Patrick Campbell; “The First Noel”
by the Choir and Congregation.
Recessional: “Hark the Herald Angels
Sing!” by Choir and Congregation;
“Tollite Hostias” by the Choir.
Preceding the High Mass a
thirty-minute musical program will be
presented. It will include the following:
“Angels We Have Heard On High”
and “With Glory Lit the Midnight Air”
- Choir; “Ave Maria” - Euphonium
Soloist, Frank Barnes; “My Sheep Were
Grazing” - Choir; “There Is Room In
My Heart For Thee”, Soloist, Patrick
Campbell; “Joy To The World” - Choir.
The Midnight Mass at the Cathedral
will be the last public appearance of
Bishop Frey as Administrator of the
Diocese of Savannah. On Christmas Day
he will leave for New Orleans and on
January 8th he will be installed as
Bishop of Lafayette, Louisiana.
their “contributed services” be allocated
to support the scholarship fund for
1973-74 school year if the full $9,600
needed to fund the program was not
forthcoming from other sources.
According to the Pacelli Principal, the
difference between the salaries of priests
Father John F. Hurley, former pastor
of Holy Spirit Parish, Macon, died
Wednesday morning (Dec. 20) at St.
Joseph’s Hospital, Savannah, after an
extended illness. Father Hurley became
ill about one month after his
appointment to the Macon pastorate
last June and had been hospitalized
most of the time since then.
Present at his bedside when death
came was his sister Miss Noreen Hurley.
A formal reception of Father
Hurley’s remains was held at Blessed
Sacrament Church, Savannah, at 12
noon on Thursday, followed by a
special Wake Mass at 7 p.m. Bishop
Andrew J. McDonald, bishop of Little
Rock, Ark. and former pastor of Blessed
Sacrament parish, was the principal
celebrant. Priests of the diocese were
concelebrants.
A concelebrated Funeral Mass will be
held at 7 p.m. Friday evening at Blessed
Sacrament Church.
Principal concelebrant will be Bishop
Gerard L. Frey, former bishop of
Savannah. Bishop McDonald will deliver
the homily.
Immediately after the Funeral Mass,
the body will be returned to the Albert
Goette funeral home for transfer to
Ireland where Father Hurley’s body will
be buried.
When informed of Father Hurley’s
death, Bishop Frey issued this
statement.
“I am sure I speak not only for
myself, but for all the priests of the
diocese and especially for those who
knew Father Hurley best when I express
our deep sadness at his death. It is
especially sad, coming at this time of
the year, Christmas, and to a young
priest who had so very much to offer
the people of God in the Savannah
diocese. We send our heartfelt
condolences to FatherHurley’s parents,
and nuns serving on the faculty and the
higher salaries of lay faculty members
constitutes “contributed services.”
When the Board refused their request,
the priests and Sisters submitted their
resignations.
Father Hurley
brothers and sisters, relatives and
friends. May the Christmas Peace of
Christ be their strength and
consolation.”
Father Hurley was the son of Mr. &
Mrs. Patrick Hurley of Cork, City,
County Cork, Ireland and was thirty
years of age. He was ordained at the
Cathedral of the Assumption, Carlow,
Ireland, on June 8, 1968 and came to
Savannah in September of that year. His
first assignment was to the Pastoral
Training Program at New Orleans. He
completed the program in January,
1969 and was then appointed Assistant
Pastor of Blessed Sacrament parish,
Savannah. In 1971 he was named
Associate Pastor there and served in that
capacity until last June when he was
assigned as Pastor of Macon’s Holy
Spirit parish.
In addition to his sister Noreen,
Father Hurley is survived by his parents,
by a brother, Donal, another sister, Mrs.
Brendan Moran, and four nieces.
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Diocese Ruled Guilty
PHILADELPHIA (NC) - The Pennsylvania Labor Relations Board has ruled that the
archdiocese of Philadelphia and its archbishop, Cardinal John Krol, were guilty of
unfair labor practices in connection with a consent election to determine union
representation by archdiocesan elementary school lay teachers. The ruling invalidated
a June 13 election in which lay teachers in diocesan elementary schools voted 646 to
410 against representation by the Association of Catholic Teachers, an affiliate of the
American Federation of Teachers AFL—CIO. The board ordered a new election on the
grounds that Cardinal Krol unfairly influenced the June election by sending a letter to
the teachers that had “the effect of intimidating” them.
World Peace Day
WASHINGTON (NC) - The Division of Justice and Peace of the U.S. Catholic
Conference has prepared material to assist educational and liturgical programs devoted
to Pope Paul Vi’s “Peace is Possible” theme for the World Day of Peace, Jan. 1,1973.
The packet contains six sets of materials that include scripture texts, essays, homilies,
publications, guides to groups dealing with social problems, and bibliographies on
social issues.
School Prayer Bill
HARRISBURG, Pa. (NC) - Governor Milton J. Shapp has signed into law a bill
permitting silent meditation and prayer in public schools in Pennsylvania. The
legislation, passed by the 1972 session of the state General Assembly, amends the
Public School Code of 1949 to allow a public school teacher at the beginning of each
school day to conduct a “brief period of silent prayer or meditation.” The law also
states that the silent prayer period “is mot intended to be, and shall not be conducted,
as a religious service or exercise.” Instead, says the bill, the prayer period “shall be
considered as an opportunity for silent prayer or meditation on a religious theme by
those who are so disposed, or a moment of silent reflection on the anticipated activities
of the day.”
Fr. John Hurley Dead