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the Archdiocese of Atlanta PEACE ON EARTH GEO BULLET SERVING GEORGIA'S 71 NORTHERN COUNTIES a a <1* cS co • u O cS cj O • r-t M lA • O n p ^ ttt 4> • e • o o '-< *4* : j < VOL. 1 NO. 20 ATLANTA, GEORGIA THURSDAY, MAY 23, 1963 55.00 PER YEAR OF ORDINATION 3 Priests To Mark Their Anniversaries Three priests of the Archdio cese of Atlanta will celebrate anniversaries this week-end. Monsignor Joseph G. Cassidy, V. G., P. A. Pastor of Christ the King Cathedral, and James E. King, Pastor of St. Anthony’s Church, Atlanta, will mark 40 years in the Priesthood. Monsi gnor Patrick J. O’Connor, Pas tor of St. Thomas More Ch urch, Decatur, will mark his 30th anniversary as a priest. A Mass of Thanksgiving will be held at each of the churches by the Jubilarians with later receptions at which parish ioners are invited. MONSIGNOR Cassidy was born in Flushing, Long Island, New York, on December 30, 1897. He received his seminary training at St. Joseph’s Semi nary, Dunwoodie, N.Y. Orda ined to the priesthood at St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York, on May 26, 1923, he was ap pointed assistant at the Cathed ral of St. John the Baptist, Savannah, and served there un til 1925, when he came as assi stant at the Shrine of the Imma culate Conception, Atlanta. In 1929 he was appointed Pastor of St. Mary’s, Rome, and in 1936, Pastor of Blessed Sac rament in Savannah. He was then assigned to Mission Trai ler work. Monsignor Cassidy also ser ved as Pastor at Sacred Heart,* Millegeville, St. Augustine, Thomasville, and St. Theresa in Albany before being named Pas tor of Christ the King Cathed ral in 1945. In 1957 , he was named a consultor of the then diocese of Atlanta. When it was eleva ted to an archdiocese, he was renamed to the consultor’s board. He was appointed a vi car general of the archdiocese in 1962. Msgr. Cassidy was elevated to the rank of Papal Chamber- lain by Pope Pius XII on Jan- urary 8, 1942, with the title of Very Reverend Monsignor. He became Right Reverend Monsi gnor on June 18, 1946, when he was raised to the rank of Domestic Prelate. Pope Pius XII further honored Msgr. Cas sidy on February 4, 1937, when he named him to the select ranks of Protonotary Apolostic. MONSIGNOR KING was born in Troy, N. Y., May 1, 1893. He received his seminary trai ning at St. Bernard, Rochester, Our Lady of the Angels, and St. Bonaventure, Olean, N, Y. Ord ained in Albany, N. Y. on May 26, 1923, he was appointed as assistant to the Savannah Cat hedral, In 1925, he was named administrator of St. Anthony's, Atlanta. From 1926 to 1937, he ser ved at Athens, and for the next two years at Valdosta, In 1939, he wenttoMilledgeville, and two years later to Albany and then for two years at Athens. From 1943 to 1946, he served at War ner Robbins, and then in 1952, was appointed Pastor of St. Ant hony’s. Monsignor King was named a diocesan consultor in 1957, and renamed to the archdioccsan board in May, 1962. He was elevated to the rank of domes tic prelate by Pope John XXIII on April 19, 1960, with the title of Right Reverend Monsignor. MONSIGNOR O’Connor was born In Savannah, Georgia, son of P. J. and Winifred Maher O'Connor. He attended the Cat hedral School and Benedictine MSGR. O’CONNOR Military Academy. In 1920 he entered Catholic University of America and graduated from there in 1924. He was Vale dictorian of his class. In 1928 he entered St. Mary’s Semin ary, Baltimore, Maryland and VATICAN CITY (NC) -- His Holiness Pope John XXIII was expected to withdraw from all but the most pressing demands of his office so that he could go on a spiritual retreat in preparation for the feast of Pen tecost. There was no official announ cement of the Pope's plans. But Vatican authorities said (May 21) that Pope John would go on retreat within a few days. WORD of his pending with drawal followed rumors to the effect that he had had a new attack of illness. But no auth oritative comment about the Pope’s health was available. The week before the feast of the Ascension, however, he had canceled for two days (May 17 and 18) all private audiences and regularly scheduled confer ences with cardinals and other high officials of the Church’s central administrative staff. The Pope's planned retreat w ould not only allow him a per iod of special prayer, but would was ordained to the Sacred Priesthood by the Most Rever end Michael J. Keyes on May 25, 1933 in the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist, Savannah, Georgia. Monsignor O’Connor has ser ved in various capacities: as Assistant at St. Anthony’s Ch urch, West End, Atlanta; at St. Mary’s on The Hill in Augusta, Georgia; and in 1936 he became a permanent member of the School of Sacred Theology, Assistant Professor of Homi letics, Professor in The Prea chers’ Institute where he taught for some twenty three summer sessions assisting the Very Re verend Dr. Ignatius Smith, O. P. He was the Dean of Men at Catholic University, the Dir ector of the Catholic University Alumni Association, Procura tor of The Catholic Sisters Col lege; and in 1950 he was ap pointed by the Cardinals, Arch bishops and members of the Board of Trustees as the Fou rth Director of the National Shrine of The Immaculate Con ception in Washington, D. C. It was during his tenure of office as Director of The Nat ional Shrine that the Drive for some fourteen million dollars was begun and completed. In 1950 Father O’Connor was ele vated to the rank of Right Rev erend Monsignor by the late Pope Pius XII. WHEN THE Diocese of At lanta was formally established, Monsignor O’Connor became the Pastor of The Diocesan Shrine of The Immaculate Con ception. In 1958 Monsignor was appointed the Pastor of St. Tho mas More Church in Decatur, Georgia. For many years Monsignor has been the Director of the Mission Apostolate for Georgia and during his tenure of office in his capacity many young men have been persuaded to come to Georgia to serve as Priests in this section of the Lord’s Vinevard. Monsignor is a member of the Board of Consultors of the Archdiocese, and Chairman of the Archdio- ceaan Commission on Religious Vocations. also free him from the burden of audiences and routine busi ness. HIS retreat was to coincide with the pre-Pentecost novena to the Holy Spirit to implore Christian unity, scheduled for the Blessed Sacrament chapel of St. Peter’s basilica. The novena, a revival of the nine days of supplication for unity recommended by Leo XIII, was to begin on Ascension Thurs day and end on the Vigil of Pentecost. It was organized by Bishop Pietro Canisio van Lierde, the Pope’s Vicar General for Vati can City. Name Protector VATICAN CITY, May ^(Ra dio, NC)—Ildebrando Cardinal Antoniutti of the Vatican ad ministrative staff has been named cardinal protector of the Sister Adorers of the Most Precious Blood of London, Ont. RECURRTNC ILLNESS Concern Shown For Pope John HARLAN DISSENTS ARCHBISHOP Paul J. Hallinan, Metropolitan of the Atlanta Province, shown with other bishops of the Province at a meeting held this week in Atlanta. Left to Right: Bishop Francis F. Reh of Charleston, S.C.; Archbishop Hallinan; Bishop Thomas J. McDonough, of Savannah; Archbishop Joseph P. Hurley, Bishop of St. Augustine, Fla.; Bishop Coleman F. Carroll of Miami, and Bishop Vincent S. Waters of Raleigh, N.C. ^ Court Reverses ‘Sit-In’ Convictions In South WASHINGTON -NC—The U. S. Supreme Court has reversed the convictions of lunch counter sit-in demonstrators in four southern states and held that convictions “commanded.. .by the voice of the state directing segregated service” cannot stand. Conceding, as it his before, that private segregation lies beyond the reach of the 14th Amendment's equal protection clause, the court nevertheless found that the lunch counter sit-in cases—from South Caro lina, Louisiana, Alabama and North Carolina—all involved a state policy of segregation. THE COURT made this find ing even in one case, from New Orleans, where there was no specific law requiring segre gation of eating facilities. It held that statements by the mayor and police chief showed that segregation was a city policy, although there was no law to compel it. The court’s majority opin ions in the several cases were written by Chief Justice Earl Warren. Associate Justice John M. Harlan concerred in the re sult of the South Carolina sit- in case but dissented in the other cases. Associate Justice William O. Douglas wrote a separate concurring opinion in the Louisiana case. Four of the cases involved the conviction of students—all Negroes except for one white— for violation of various cri minal trespass laws by “sitting in’’ at lunch counters in dime stores and department stores. The fifth case involved the con viction of two Negro minis ters—the Revs. F.L. Shuttles- worth and C. Billups—for al legedly encouraging students to engage in a sit-in demonstra tion in Birmingham, Ala. SOUTHERN cities involved besides Birmingham and New Orleans were Greenville, S.C., and Durham, N.C. At the same time it decided the sit-in cases, the court re versed the conviction of six Negroes who had been found guilty of a breach of the peace for playing basketball in a pub lic park in Savannah, Ga. The key sit-in opinions were those in the Greenville and New Orleans cases. Incardinate Fr. Michael McKeever Father Michael McKeever, pastor of Our Lady of Lourdes Church, Atlanta, has been ln- cardlnated (been received into) in the Archdiocese of Atlanta, the Chancery Office announces. Father McKeever, a member of the African Mission Society, was appointed Pastor of St. Peter Claver Church, Macon, in 1943. In 1945, he became Pas tor of Our Lady of Lourdes. The Archdiocese of Atlanta recently purchased the land and property of Our Lady of Lourdes from the African Mission Society, and the parishes no longer under their care. Arch bishop Paul J. Hallinan incar- dinated Father McKeever into the archdiocese and re-appoint ed him pastor of the parish. Chief Justice Warren’s opin ion in the Greenville case stressed the existence of a city ordinance requiring sepa ration of the races in restau rants. The effect of the ordinance, he said, was to take the segre gation issue out of the hands of private restaurant owners and reserve the decision to the city Itself. He dismissed the argument that the segregation in this case was actually the private policy of the dime store in volved, saying: “WHEN A state agency pass es a law compelling persons to discriminate against other per sons because of race, and the State's criminal processes are employed in a way which en forces the discrimination man dated by that law, such a pal pable violation of the 14th Amendment cannot be saved by attempting to separate the men tal urges of the discrimina tors.” The Chief Justice’s opinion in the New Orleans case took specific note of the fact that no state or city law requires ra cial segregation of restaurant facilities. He held, however, that this case is “governed by the same principles” that apply in the Greenville sit-in case. Specifically, he called atten tion to statements by the mayor and police chief opposing sit-in demonstrations which were is sued shortly before the demon stration involved. Chief Justice Warren com mented: “AS WE interpret the New Orleans city officials' state ments, they here determined that the city would not permit Negroes to seek desegregated service in restaurants. Con sequently, the city must be treated exactly as if it had an CONTINUED ON PAGE 8 TWO NEW PRIESTS Priesthood Ordinations On Saturday Two seminarians of the Arch diocese of Atlanta will be or dained next Saturday (May 25) by Archbishop Paul J. Hallinan in the Cathedral of Christ the King at 10 a.m. They are Rev. Mr. Matthews W. Kemp and Rev. Mr. William E. Calhoun. Both have Just fin ished their studies at St. Mary’s Seminary, Roland Park, Balti more. Rev. Mr. Calhoun is a native of Carrollton, Georgia. His par ents, Mr. and Mrs. Fred D. Calhoun live at 135 Griffin St., Atlanta. He will offer his first Solemn Mass at Our Lady of Lourdes Church, Atlanta next Sunday, the day after his ordi nation, at 11 a.m. Rev. Mr. Kemp is a native of Washington, D.C., but attend ed Glenwood School and Druid Hills School in Decatur, be fore his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Matthew W. Kemp, moved to Clinton, Connecticut, He will offer his first Solemn Mass at St. Mary of the Visitation Church, Clinton on Pentecost Sunday, June 2, at 11 a.m. Ministers at Rev. Mr. Cal houn's first Mass are: Assis tant Priest, Rev. Michael Mc Keever, Pastor, Our Lady of Lourdes; Deacon, Rev. Dennis Walsh, C.P., Pastor, St. Paul of the Cross, Atlanta; Sub- Deacon, Rev. Eusebius J. Bel tran, Vice-Officialis, Christ the King Cathedral; Sermon, Rev. Dale Freeman, Pastor, Sacred Heart Church, Athens. The Commentator will be fellow- Ordinand, Matthew W. Kemp. Music will be provided by the Drexel High School Choral Group under the direction of Graham W. Jackson. Minor ministers will be the students of the parish. Rev. Mr. Calhoun will also officiate at Solemn Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament at 4:30 p.m. the same day, A Reception will follow Im mediately in Our Lady of Lour des school auditorium. Ministers at the First Mass of Rev. Mr. Kemp will be: Assistant Priest, Rev. Walter J. Keenan, Pastor; Deacon, Rev. Joseph F. Ware, Pastor, Sacred Heart Church, Milledgeville; Sub-Deacon, Rev. M. Coleman Palmer (Newly Ordained): Ser mon, Very Rev, James A. Lau- bacher, S.S., St. Mary’s Semi nary, Baltimore; Commentator, Rev. Francis Igo, Assistant Pastor, St. Michael’s Church, Hartford, Conn. Master of Ceremonies Mr. Charles Sag- lio, Clinton. Rev. Mr. Calhoun age 30, REV. W. CALHOUN REV. M. KEMP was educated at Booker T. Washington High School and Morehouse College, Atlanta. He became a convert to the Church in 1945 and was confirmed that year at Wiesbaden, Germany, while serving in the U.S. Air Force. He later entered St. Philip Neri Latin School for Delayed Vocations at Haver hill, Mass., graduating from there in 1957, The same year he entered St. Mary's Seminary and has earned a Bachelor's in Philosophy, a Bachelor’s in Sacred Theology and a Licenti ate in Sacred Theology (equiva lent to a Master’s degree). Rev. Mr. Kemp, age 24, was educated in schools in Wash ington, D.C., Virginia, Decatur and Clinton, Conn. He attended St. Thomas Seminary, Bloom field, Conn., before entering St. Mary’s Seminary, Baltimore. He has earned a Bachelor’s in Philosophy, a Bachelor’s in Theology, and a Master’s De gree In Education at Loyola Col lege, Baltimore. PENTECOST SUNDAY Youth Adoration Day WASHINGTON (NC)—Five million Catholic young people throughout the nation are ex pected to participate in the seventh annual National Youth Adoration Day observance June 2, Pentecost Sunday. Msgr. Frederick J. Steven son, director of the Youth De partment, National Catholic Welfare Conference, said the youths are being asked to re member a special intention of the observance and “to pray that the Divine Spirit assist and guide the Fathers of the ecu menical council in that the light and strength of the Gospel may ever more widely influence hu man society.” THE observance is sponsored by the National Catholic Youth Organization Federation, which is affiliated with the NCWC department. They young people are expected to assist at Mass, receive Holy Communion and spend some time privately be fore the Blessed Sacrament during the observance.