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VOL 1. HO. 17 ATLANTA, GEORGIA THURSDAY, MAY 2, 1963 $5,00 PER YEAR
CATHOLIC STATISTICS
Almost Million
More Catholics
Than Last Year
Following his lecture to more than 3,000 persons at Georgetown University, Washington, Father
Hans Kueng, S.J., met with a group of non-Catholic clergymen from the Washington area. From
the left are: the Rev. Wayne R. Woods, president of the Ministerial Association, National Capital
Area; the Rt. Rev. Angus Dun, retired Episcopal Bishop of Washington; Father Kueng; and the Rt.
Rev. William F. Creighton, Episcopal Bishop of Washington.
FATHER HANS KUENG SJ.
Asks Intellectual Freedom
For All Within Church
Vatican Liturgy
Commission Sets
Its Schema Goal
EXCLUSIVE TO THE GEORGIA BULLETIN
ARCADIA CARDINAL LARRAONA is shown on his way to a meet
ing of the Liturgical Commission of the Second Vatican Council
presently meeting in Rome. Archbishop Paul J. Hallinan is the
American member of this Commission. He is also in attendance.
NEW YORK (RNS) — A re
cord number of Catholics in the
United States—43,851,538——
was reported by the 1963 Offi
cial Catholic Directory, issued
by P. J. Kenedy & Sons here.
The figure as of January 1,
represents an increase of 969,
372 over 1962.
Included in the 1963 total are
all families of the defense forc
es in this country and over
seas and the diplomatic and
other services abroad. The
nearly 44 million American Ca
tholics compare with 30,425,
015 in 1953—or a gain of 44.1
per cent over the decade.
A BREAKDOWN of the total
shows that 18,669,040 Catholics
are in the 28 U.S. archdioceses
and 25,182,498 in the 120 dio
ceses. The 28 archdioceses re
port a growth of 150,875 and the
120 dioceses, 818, 497.
Seven archdioceses have a
Catholic population of more than
one million. They are; Chicago,
2,292,900; Boston, 1,733,620;
New York, 1,704,350; Newark,
1,512,311; Los Angeles, 1,477,
408; Detroit, 1,429,670; and
Philadelphia, 1,263,625. Last
Year there were eight arch
dioceses with over a million,
but San Francisco was divided
along with the Sacramento dio
cese to form the dioceses of
Oakland, Santa Rosa and Stock-
ton.
CONTINUING as the largest
diocese is Brooklyn with 1,503,
628 Catholics. Other dioceses
with more than 500,000 are
Pittsburgh, 906,928; Buffalo,
887,928; Cleveland, 834,367;
Rockville Center (N.Y.), 735,
165; Trenton, 538,130; and Pro
vidence, 525,274.
Gains in Catholic member
ship are reported by 119 Sees.
Among them are Chicago, 130,
520; New Orleans, 65,929; Los
Angeles, 55,930; Tucson, 55,
309; New York, 52,950; Rock
ville Centre, 40,668; Miami,
37, 097; Boston, 35,482; and
Detroit, 33,324.
The directory lists 237 mem
bers of the American hierar
chy—and increase of three.
There are 5 cardinals, 31 ar
chbishops and 201 bishops.
COLLEGE PRESIDENT
Very Rev. Brian Egan O.S.B.
Father Brian is coming to At
lanta to speak at the Communion
Luncheon to be held at the
Cherokee Club on May 6th. Tills
luncheon will be preceded by
Holy Mass and Communion at
the Cathedral of Christ the King
at 11 AM. All the ladies of the
Archdiocese are cordially in
vited to attend both the Mass
and the luncheon where they
will hear Father Egan. Further
information may be secured and
reservations made through
Mrs. Norman Boswell at CE-
7-1127.
ORDAINED priests number
56,540, a record and an in
crease of 959 over the pre
vious year. These include 34,
465 diocesan or secular priests,
and 22,075 clergy of religious
orders. There are 1,742 priests
listed for the first time in the
directory.
Professed religious person
nel Include 11,968 brothers and
177,154 nuns—representing in
creases of 466 and 3,803 res
pectively.
Catholic parishes number 17,
298, a gain of 145. Of these
16,790 have resident pastors
and 508 do not. Also listed are
4,631 missions, 1,483 stations
and 12, 157 chapels—an in
crease of 690 places where
Mass is celebrated regularly,
a record 14,185 educational
institutions are reported in the
directory, including 170 es
tablished in 1962. There are
107 diocesan seminaries, 454
religious order seminaries, no
vitiates and scholasticates, 282
colleges and universities, 1,537
diocesan and parish high
schools, 895 private high
schools, 10,322 parish elemen
tary schools, and 454 private
elementary schools. In addition
there are 134 protective in
stitutions with 15,449 youths in
attendance.
FULL-TIME teachers in
creased by by 7,530 to a re
cord total of 183,336, com
prising 11,749 priests, 1,105
scholastics, 5,462 brothers,
102,343 sisters and 62,677 lay
men and women.
Among new educational in
stitutions established last year
were nine diocesan and seven
religious order seminaries.
The 107 diocesan seminaries
report a 25,247 enrollment, an
increase of 1,585. The 454 no
vitiates and scholasticates have
22,327 students or 330 fewer-
indicating a total of 47,574 can
didates for the priesthood.
Catholic colleges and univer
sities—numbering 282—enroll
357,764 students, a gain of 21,
160 and reflecting a ten-year
upward trend.
The number of full-time
pupils in the 2,432 Catholic
high schools total 1,004,927, an
Increase of 59,142. In the 10,
776 elementary schools there
are 4,609,029 children—241,
953 more than in the previous
year.
IN ADDITION, 4,029,224 Ca
tholic public elementary and
high school children received
religious instructions, indica
ting a year's increase of
279,702 pupils, either under re
leased time, in religious vaca
tion schools or other classes.
These totals, along with the
full-time students in Catholic
educational institutions, bring
to 10,063,967 the number of
American youths in all grades
under Catholic instruction.
For the tenth year in a row,
converts entering the Catholic
Church exceeded 125,000. The
125,670 converts, however, re
present the lowest annual num
ber over the past decade dur
ing which time 1,362,835 con
versions were reported. The
1962 directory reported 128,
430 converts.
INFANT baptisms last year
— 1,322,283—represent a de
crease of 30,088 for the year.
Catholic marriages decreased
by 8,192 to 311,655.
WASHINGTON ,D.C. (RNS)—
More than 2,000 persons in
cluding prominent Protestant
and Jewish leaders, jammed a
Georgetown University audi
torium here to hear Father Hans
Kueng, famed theologian from
Germany, call for sweeping Ro
man Catholic Church reforms
in ecclesiastical administration
to promote intellectual freedom
for clergy and laity.
As he has done throughout his
speaking tour of the U.S., the
Swiss-born priest, a consultant
to the Second Vatican Council,
said the Catholic Church should
abolish its Index of Forbidden
Books, end pre-censorship of
religious books by theologians,
and prohibit what Father Kueng
called "inquisitorial pract
ices" in which priests can be
condemned without facing their
accusers.
THE SPEAKER was interr
upted many times by applause.
The gathering included the en
tire Jesuit community at Ge
orgetown University and many
seminarians from houses of
study in the Washington area.
Father Kueng was accorded a
prolonged standing ovation at
the end of his 75 minute lect
ure.
New Maths
Workshop
Father John Leahy, Superin
tendent of Catholic Schools, sent
the Arithmetic Committee,
formed of elementary school
teachers, to an all-day work
shop at Emory University last
Saturday, April 27. This work
shop, co-sponsored by Emory
University, Atlanta and Science
Research Associates, Inc., Chi
cago was on the new approach
to mathematics and attracted
over four hundred educators,
including teachers and admini
strators from Georgia and
near-by states.
Miss Mulcahy, Arithmetic
Consultant for the Silver-Bur-
dett Company, will also con
duct a "new" math workshop
May 15, 16, 17 and 18 for the
Arithmetic Committee and
those teachers in the pilot
schools where the "new" math
will be taught in certain classes
during this coming September.
Two Protestant Episcopal
prelates sat immediately behind
Father Kueng as he made his
address. They were Bishop Wil
liam F. Creighton of Washing
ton and Retired Bishop Angus
Dun.
The Rev. Wayne R. Woods,
president of Augustana Lut
heran church here and president
of the Washington Ministerial
Association, also sat on the
platform, as did Dr. Frederick
Brown Harris, retired Metho
dist minister who is Chaplain of
the U.S. Senate.
Father Kueng said that to
allow freedom in the Catholic
Church would not destroy loy
alty to it but increase the de
votion of both priests and laity.
Freedom cannot be simply the
"whims of the individual" but
must be expressed only within
an established order, lest chaos
result, Father Kueng warned.
On the other hand, thebe can
not be order within the Church
without true freedom, he asser
ted.
DESTRUCTION of freedom
within the Church breeds fear,
he declared, charging that "fear
is the bane of the modern Ch
urch, a fear in which everyone
fears everybody else."
He described it as stultifying
Biblical research and theolog
ical scholarship and leading to
"irresponsibility which mas
querades as dutiful respect for
authority."
ON SPEAKERS BAN
WASHINGTON, D.C.— (RNS
—The board of trustees of the
Catholic University of America
with four American cardinals
attending adopted a resolution
here upholding the rector,
Msgr. William J. McDonald, in
the controversy over the bann
ing of four Catholic theologians
from a proposed list of Len
ten speakers.
While upholding the action of
the university administration
The Catholic Church needs to
engage in sober stock-taking,
Father Kueng said, adding:
"This is much easier today than
it would have been six months
ago because the Vatican Coun
cil has itself adopted the at
titude of freedom."
"This Council was certainly
not the meeting of a totalita
rian party congress," he said,
as the audience applauded.
Father Kueng pointed to the
fact that Pope John XXIII has
made himself the champion of
this new trend toward freedom
and said it was possible that
the Council has opened a whole
new era of freedom within the
Church.
"IF THE Catholic Church st
ands for freedom and indicates
her respect for the conscience
of the individual, she will be
listened to much more readily
and gladly when she seeks men's
salvation by teaching the truth,"
he declared.
In calling for freedom of
speech, Father Kueng said too
many Catholics say in public
"only what they think is oppo-
ortune — in other words, what
they believe will be pleasing to
those who are in charge."
He recalled the teaching of
St. Thomas Aquinas that it is
always necessary to stand up
courageously for the truth, "and
that means even to ecclesiast
ical superiors."
in the controversy, however,
the trustees set up a specific
procedure for clearing future
speakers suggested for the
campus forum.
Trustees said Msgr. Mc
Donald and the vice rector,
Msgr. Joseph S. McAllister, had
acted withing their "authority
and responsibility" in passing
upon the list of proposed
speakers.
Rome — The schema on
the sacred liturgy will prove to
be "a bond of unity for all
Christians, a practical instru
ment of the pastoral aposto-
late, and an attractive means
by which, under the sweet in
fluence of the Holy Spirit, we
may draw closer to our sep
arated brethren." These are the
views of the Cardinal-President
of the Liturgical Commission,
Arcadio Cardinal Larraona, as
the three-week work session of
the commission began its work
here April 23.
Archbishop Paul J. Hallinan,
American member of the Lit
urgical commission, in a visit
to the cardinal on his arrival
in Rome last week asked him
to sum up the progress being
made, and especially the react
ion of Pope John XXIII to the
liturgical work of the council
fathers during the first session
of the Vatican Council, October
11 To December 8, 1962.
"THE Holy Father is very
pleased with the manner in
which the Liturgical Commiss
ion has been functioning," said
Cardinal Larraona. "The unity
of the vote on the first chapter
was most impressive Pope
John is content that the dis
cussions on the liturgy are going
to produce that pastoral rene
wal that he desires so much."
The Cardinal added that the
Pope is satisfied that, with the
Commission, the Congregation
of Rites is serving as an in
strument for implementing the
recommendations made by the
fathers of the Council.
When he was asked about the
physical conditions of the Pope
a matter of grave concern to
the entire world, the president
of the Liturgical Commission
said that in an audience which
he had with him the week be
fore, Pope John was in excell
ent health, "vigorous and opt
imistic."
Everyone in Rome, he added,
is encouraged by the reports
and many indications that the
Pope is growing stronger each
day. This conclusion, added the
Atlanta archbishop, is borne
out by the variety of his re
cent appearances,— the Good
Friday liturgy in St. Peters,
a Sunday appearance in the
courtyard of San Damaso where
he regaled a large group of
young people with stories about
Pope Leo XIII and Pope St.
Pius X, his enjoyment of a sym
phony concert in the Vatican,
his pleasant exchange with the
composer, Khatachurian, and
his wife, and his coming visit
with President Giovanni Gro-
nchi in the Quirinal, the palace
of the Popes which was taken
over by the Italian government
in 1870.
"There is a real climate of
optimism in Rome, — in the
midst of a gorgeous Italian sp
ring and an exciting 17-party
national election, — and much
of it is due to the pervasive
spirit of the beloved pontiff,"
said Archbishop Hallinan.
WHAT is of greatest signi
ficance to the liturgists asse
mbled her now, said the arch
bishop, is that the enthusiasm
of the Council Fathers in their
almost unanimous approval of
the first chapter of the schema
has been a source Of encoura
gement to the Pope. In his desire
for the agglonrnamento of the
Church, the Holy Father sees
in the luturgical movement one
of the chief instruments of
this renewal.
In answers to questions put
by the American archbishop,
Cardinal Larraona summed up
his own confidence in the Lit
urgical Commission's work:
Q - You spoke, Your Emin
ence, of the schema as a "vin-
culm unitatis," a bond of unity.
Would you care to add to that
phrase?
A - The schema as present
ed has proved to be a great
bond of unity, and in no way
a source of disagreement or
division. It will be, I am sure,
Memorial Day
WASHINGTON, (NC) — Presi
dent Kennedy has asked that the
nation unite in a moment of
prayer at 11 a.m. on Memorial
Day, May 30, for lasting peace.
In a proclamation, Mr. Ken
nedy asked the nation to "in
voke God’s blessing on those
who have died in defense of our
country and pray for a world
of freedom with peace and jus
tice."
an instrument of the apostolate,
and of the great pastoral work
of the Church. Further, I am
confident that it will be, under
the sweet designs of the Holy
Spirit, a means by which we
will all draw nearer to those
brethren now separated from
us. We expect from the schema,
— and we are going to work
hard to obtain, - a unity of
criteria which will be valid for
all people.
Q - Do you think that the
remaining chapters will be ap
proved as wholeheartedly as the
first chapter was?
A - The vote on the first
chapter has already produced a
greater unanimity And enthus
iasm within the Commission it
self. I think we may expect nc
less enthusiasm in the coming
votes of the council fathers*
Since they will now see the fru
its of these principles applied
to particulars, their spontan
eous discussion will be most
useful. I have great confidence
in this. There will be no spi
rit of narrow-mindedness since
what we are considering now is
but the pastoral application of
what we have already agreed
upon
CONTINUED ON PAGE 8
A Dallas, Tex., banker and industrialist, Mr. Frank Heller, was
elected president of the National Council of Catholic Men at its
biennial convention in Atlantic City, N.J. Active in Dallas civic
and Catholic organizations for the past 20 years, Heller is a vice
president and former president of the Dallas-Ft. Worth Diocesan
Council of Catholic Men. He succeeds William F. Johnson of
Pompton Lakes, N.J. John F. Donnelly of Grand Rapids, Mich.,
was elected vice president, and Nunzio A. Giambalvo of Chicago
was elected secretary-treasurer.
Catholic University
Rector Is Upheld