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GEORGIA BULLETIN THURSDAY, MAY 23, 1963
Archdiocese of Atlanta
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Court Ruling
’VINTAGE YEAR ?... NOT IF I CAN HELP IT !'
WHEN IN ROME
JFK Will Visit Pope
The U. S. Supreme Court dec
ision of Monday which reversed
convictions of lunch counter sit-
in demonstrators in four southern
states has momentous impact in
all areas of racial strife. How
ever, we must not read into it
a mandate to indiscriminate tres
pass.
We here in the Archdiocese of
Atlanta are vitally interested in
this ruling, even though Georgia
was not directly involved in the
litigation. What the Court said
was that convictions “com
manded by the voice
of the state directing segregated
service” are illegal.
What is involved here is that
where a state or a city has laws
compelling businesses or indivi
duals to seperate the races for
services rendered, then it is
a violation of the Fourteenth Am
endment’s equal protection
clause.
Associate Justice Judge M.
Harlan, in a dissenting opinion,
pointed out that the right of a
private restaurateur to operate,
if he pleases, on a segregated
basis is left untouched by the
decision. This, the majority
opinion conceded.
In recent weeks, Atlanta has
seen attempts to desegregate
resturants and hotels through
Ascension
Today, The feast of the Ascen
sion, is one of the oldest in the
Church calendar. Sometimes
known as Holy Thursday it is one
of the most solemn festivals of
the Church ranking with those
of Christmas, Easter and Pente
cost. It is celebrated on the
fortieth day after Easter Sunday
in honor of the Ascension of
Christ into Heaven forty days
after His Ressurection. The
word “Ascension” means the
Ascension of Christ by His own'
power while “Assumption,” ap
plied to the taking of the Virgin
Mary into Heaven, means by an
outside power the power of
God.
St. Augustine says that in his
day the feast had been kept from
time immemorial and attributes
its origin to the Apostles. A long
series of sermons have been
written describing the grandeur
of this day by the Fathers of the
Church. The earliest reference
to it as a separate feast is by
Eusebius. Bishop of Nicomdeia
(341), It is mentioned in the
Bible in the Acts, written only
twenty-five years after Our
Lord’s Ascension:
“And when He has said these
things while they looked on,
He was raised up: and a cloud
received Him out of their
sight. ” Acts i: 9
A procession has always been
a characteristic feature of the
celebration. We have a descrip
tion in the fourth century rec
ord of the Pilgrimage of Silvaie
of the magnificent procession
which Our Lord Himself led to
Bethania on Mount Olive. In the
Middle Ages the Ascension of
Christ was symbolically repre
sented by raising a crucifix or a
statue of Christ aloft where it
disappeared through an opening
peaceful protests. Negroes have
tried sit-in demonstrations with
out much success. Indeed, the
owners of these restaurants have
invoked the same Constitional
guarantees of their rights as have
the Negroes. By and large, vio
lence has been avoided even
though the irritations have caused
distress to both sides.
It is for this reason that we
deplore the disturbance threats
reported to have taken place last
week-end in a restaurant owned
by a confirmed segregationist.
Conceding the owner’s right to
hold his views, one can only de
plore his harsh reaction. One
might further add that as this
restaurateur’s views were well-
known, it seemed silly for the
demonstrators at this stage, to
goad him with their actions.
Such persons cannot be con
verted by anything but prayerful
education. Atlanta has a reputa
tion of sensible, as well as swift,
integration in public life. The
days of segregated hotel s and
resturants are all but numbered
in our fine city. It will be speed
ed by the calm balm of reason
on both sides. The cancerous
sore of racial injustice is being
eliminated; but it must be done
peacefully, giving no excuse for
the extemists of either side to
intervene.
Thursday
in the roof of the Church. As the
image moved upwards the people
stood in their pews withupraised
hands singing and praying.
The great Paschal Candle,
symbolizing our Risen Lord,
shining in the splendor of His
Ressurrection is one of the most
striking and dramatic represen
tations of Christ through the
symbolism of the candle.
On this day the Paschal Candle
is extinguished in a solemn cere
mony, after having burned before
the altar at all High Masses for
forty days as a reminder to the
faithful of the risen Saviour,
BY FR. ROBERT W. HOVDA
Priest of the Pittsburg Oratory)
SUNDAY AFTER ASCENSION. The Easter
shouts of joy and triumph yield today to a more
sober note. For the time of the world (and of the
Church) we will not see Him face to face (En
trance Hymn). Our confidence for the time being
is part of our faith. And before our full partici
pation in His glory, we will know the persecution
mentioned in the Gospel and the difficult and chal
lenging witness which is the subject of the First
Reading.
But whatever we do and bear, we do and bear
in the Spirit and with the Spirit, sharing a com
mon life and commitment with all the other branch
es of the vine, never in isola
tion. That isolation of man
alienated from his Father and
his brothers is the real evil.
So our Communion Hymn as we
share the sacrament of our
solidarity as Christians has
us singing: “Not that you should
take them out of the world...
but rather that you shield them
from all that*ls evil."
MONDAY, MAY 27, ST. BEDE THE VENER
ABLE, CONFESSOR, DOCTOR. This Mass of a
great teacher in the Church announces as the
BY J.J. GILBERT
WASHINGTON, — Announcement that President
Kennedy will visit His Holiness Pope John XXIII
next month has revived interest here in pre
vious meetings between U. S. chief executives
and Roman pontiffs.
President Kennedy will become the third pre
sident of the U. S. to call upon a pope while
in office. One other president visited a pope
before entering the White House, and three
others visited pontiffs after their presidential
terms expired.
One incumbent president entertained at his
family home in this country a Roman cardinal
who later became pope.
WHETHER or not President Kennedy goes to the
Eternal City next month, it was said here that he
and Mrs. Kennedy plan a state visit to Italy in
1964, and that a call on the Pope would be paid at
that time.
If he visits the Pope, President Kennedy will
become only the third U.S. chief executive to do
so while in office. President Wilson visited Pope
Benedict XV on January 4, 1919, while en route
to the Paris Peace Conference after World War I.
President Eisenhower visited Pope John XXIII
on December 6, 1959. Earlier, in September
1945, while commander in Germany, Gen. Eisen
hower visited Pope Pius XIL
In March, 1878, shortly after leaving the White
House, U.S. Grant, with Mrs. Grant and their son
Jesse, were received by Pope Leo XIII.
Nearly a quarter of a century later, July 21,
1902, the same Pontiff received William Howard
Taft, with his wife and two children. Mr. Taft,
who was to enter the White House some seven
years later, was then chairman of a commission
sent by President Theodore Roosevelt to negotiate
with the Vatican on Philippine land claims.
LITURGICAL WEEK
refrain of its Entrance Hymn: “In medio Eccle-
siae” (“In the Assembly"). Not only do we see
here the Church as the assembly of God’s people,
covenanted community—instead of the Church as
a service station for individuals. But also we see
that this assembly is an assembly of seekers,
learners, inquirers, constantly growing from
their shared experience and in their understand
ing of God's Word, listening eagerly to the teach
ers God raises up in their midst.
TUESDAY, MAY 28 ST. AUGUSTINE, BISHOP,
CONFESSOR. “Carry neither purse, nor wallet,
nor sandals..." (Gospel). Both lessons today em
phasize the obligation of the preacher to speak a
Word which is as free as it can be of purely human
motives and purely human accretions.
Augustine was instructed by the Holy See not to
burden Britain with a full-grown Roman or
Mediterranean Christianity, but to plant the seed
of the Gospel in whatever naturally-good British
cultural soil he could find.
WEDNESDAY, MAY 29 ST. MARY MAGDALEN
OF PAZZU VIRGIN. In today's Eucharistic as
sembly we celebrate a saint whose vocation, like
that of all Religious, is to point beyond time to
’man’s ultimate goal and to the ultimate basis of his
value. And it is the vocation of the Christian
layman to point to God's love for man in the
HERBERT Hoover was received by popes, both
before and after serving as President. In 1920,
he called on Benedict XV, whom he had known
as Archbishop Achille Ratti, the Papal Nuncio
in Poland, in 1919. In March, 1946, and February,
1947, after leaving the White House, he was re
ceived by Pius XIL
Harry S. Truman and Mrs. Truman, on a tour
after his term in the White House, were received
by Pius XII in May, 1956. In June, 1951, while
Mr. Truman was President, his daughter Margaret
was received in private audience by Pius XII.
Theodore Roosevelt, on a world tour as ex-
President, had the American Ambassador to Italy
make arrangements for an audience with Pope
Pius X for April 5, 1910. It was planned for Mr.
Roosevelt to visit a Methodist church in Rome
immediately following his papal audience. At that
time, the Methodist group in Rome was hotly
critical of the Holy See, and Vatican authorities
asked the former President not to link the two
visits together. Displeased by this request, the ex-
President canceled the audience with the Pope.
IN NOVEMBER, 1936, shortly after his election
to a second term, President Franklin D. Roose
velt entertained at his home in Hyde Park, N.Y.,
Eugenio Cardinal Pacelli, then Papal Secretary of
State and later Pius XII.
Pope John XXIII, received Mrs. JohnF. Kennedy
in a private audience on March 11, 1962. This
marked the first time that the wife of an incum
bent president had been so honored. Mrs. Eisen
hower and her mother, Mrs. John S. Doud, were
received by Pius XII at Castelgandolfo in October,
1951, a year before the General was elected to
the presidency. Mrs. Woodrow Wilson was in
Rome on January 4, 1919, when President Wilson
was received by Benedict XV. She said later, in
her “Memoirs," that she had been asked to ac
company her husband to the Vatican, “but we
thought it better for him to go alone.”
here-and-now, to the fact that now, in the world,
is the “time of salvation.” Both vocations are
equally necessary for the Church’s life and for
its mission.
THURSDAY, MAY 30 MASS AS ON SUNDAY,
The Lord's Passover is completed. He has re
turned to the Father not only as eternal Son and
Word but as the second Adam, first-born of a
renewed and elevated human race, our bond of
promise and of hope. “I will not leave you
friendless" (Alleluia). Even His acceptance of our
human nature and His conquering of death in that
same nature did not exhaust His love for us. We
prepare to celebrate the coming of our Friend, the
Holy Spirit.
FRIDAY, MAY 31 BLESSED VIRGIN MARY,
OUR QUEEN. A feast of the Blessed Virgin dur
ing this Easter and Ascension time is more than
a tribute to her unique place in God’s plan of
salvation. It is also another affirmation of the
real humanity, the “flesh-and -blood” reality,
of the risen and ascended Lord, She is our bless
ed guarantee that the Body of Christ was no
phantom ami His human nature no dream.
SATURDAY, JUNE1, VIRGIL OF PENTECOST.
Today's Mass is a baptismal Mass, because after
the Easter Virgil tonight's vigil was in an ear
lier tradition the next most introduction into the
life of the Spirit.
TRAGIC SITUATION
Catholic Press
Fear - Alarm
BY GERARD E. SHERRY
The disillusionment of many Catholic Press
editors over the recent Miami convention has
been expressed in many forms over the past
two weeks. Father Thurston Davis, S.J., editor-
in-chief of America suggested that there was
something wrong with the whole business; and
Jack Deedy, editor of the Pittsburgh Catholic,
called for a re-evaluation of the idea of Cath
olic Press conventions. He made pointed obser
vations about the attendance of editors and their
staffs at meetings, comparing it with the support
of the southern end of the convention hotel bar.
Now, I’m all for
taking advantage of
a beach site to work
and play. But the
growing consesus is
that these convent
ions are becoming an
excuse to have a
free vacation at the
expense of the news
papers and maga
zines involved. While there might be a slight ex
aggeration in all this, the danger is there. If
we don’t watch out the annual evaluation might
well be confined to how few meetings we at
tended and how many rounds of golf we put in.
The wags will, no doubt, point out that it rained
for three of the four convention days. Alas, the
hardy addicts of "recreation at any cost” show
that even in the rain, first things come first.
OF COURSE, Father Davis put his finger on
the real problem at Miami: there was a hidden
air of tension. Great things were happening in
the Church and the Catholic Press appeared to
be paying only lip service to the swift currents
of reform and renewal.
The tension was due in part to the rumors
floating around that certain members of the hier
archy were most unhappy at the controversy
created in the Catholic Press over Catholic Uni
versity', the banning of Father Kueng from a public
lecture in Los Angeles, and the expression of
“Holy Liberty.” The word got around that we
were all to be “slapped on the wrists” for
alleged indiscretions, or imprudence, on many
issues.
IT DIDN’T end up like that; but one could
tell from w hat w as said to us that some in authority
were indeed unhappy with the trends of liberty.
There seemed to be an unholy fear that editors
could not be trusted—whether they were priest
or laymen. The main fear, as I gathered it,
was that the Catholic press was liable to get
the laity all worked up—as if this were a bad
thing. For years we have been told now apathetic
we all are. Now that we are arousing interest
in the things about us, some conjure up visions of a
laity seeking powers which they do not possess.
Anyone really close to the average laymen, can
dispel this notionwithout effort. The laity wantonly
to help— and not just at bingo parties, or in
the selling of chance books.
One subject at the Miami convention which
raised a few important hackles was the award
to The New Yorker for the best secular coverage
of the Vatican Council. I notice in this week's
papers that one of my fellow editors calls the
award “un-ethical” because we gave it to an
annonymous writer, Xavier Rynne. I suspect,
however, that the real opposition to The New
Yorker, comes from the fact that Rynne’s first
article (of October) strongly criticized the pro
cedures of the Council and was uncomplimentary
about certain members of the Roman Curia.
There might be something valid in this criticism.
However, the final article of December 29,
1962, was a masterpiece of reporting. It con
tained nothing that any objective person could
take as offensive. I have heard from several
of the bishops at the Council, that Rynne’s
account was most accurate.
WHAT IS not commonly known is that efforts
were made at Miami to tone down the importance
of the award. Quiet pressures were exerted to
have as little said about it as possible. In fact,
the committee involved was made to feel as if
it had committed a grave error of judgement.
There seemed to be something un-Catholic about
the whole business—as if wq should be ashamed
of making an honest judgement, arrived at un
animously. Indeed, it got so that even some of
the officials of the Catholic Press intimated they
wanted little identity with it.
I can never understand the need for fear in
such a situation. The one characteristic of the
Catholic Press which must never be lost is that
of courage. Fear of unpopularity is never an
excuse for Inaction. Some editors still don’t
realise that no matter what stand we take, there’ll
always be some one who objects— who wants to
make us an enemy, when we still wish to call
him friend. Some of us prefer to be all things
to all men—and our papers portray this happy
state of nothingness.
THESE ARE critical times for the Catholic
Press. The majority of us have captive audien
ces. But even the captives are asking questions
and seeking answers. They hear of the vitality
<rf Pope John and the deliberations of the Coun
cil. They want “in” on whatever the Council
Fathers decided for them. We cannot let them
down through fear of treading on the toes of
those who are scared to death that the “emer
ging layman” will become a reality.
Joy And Triumph Yield This Day
REAPINGS
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