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I PEACE ON EARTH diocese of Atlanta w? TT1IV Hi M in SERVING GEORGIA'S 71 NORTHERN COUNTIES 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