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PAGE 4 the GEORGIA BULLETIN THURSDAY, MAY 23, 1963 Archdiocese of Atlanta GEORGIA BULLETIN SERVING GEORGIAS 71 NORTHERN COUNTIES Official Organ of the Archdiocese of Atlanta Published Every Week at the Decatur Dekalb News PUBLISHER - Archbishop Paul J. Hallinan MANAGING EDITOR Gerard E. Sherry CONSULTING EDITOR Rev. R. Donald Kiernan ADVERTISING DIRECTOR Sue Spence Member of the Catholic Press Association and Subscriber to N.C.W.C. News Service Telephone 231-1281 j U.S.A. $5.00 Canada $5.50 Foreign $6.50 Second Class Permit at Decatur, Georgia 2699 Peachtree N.E. P.O. Box 11667 Northside Station Atlanta 5, Ga. ^^^and f <jU> 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 AT RANDOM