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PRAY FOR POPE JOHN’S RECOVERY diocese of Atlanta mir’" 1 SERVING GEORGIA'S 71 NORTHERN COUNT ES VOL. i NO. ?1 ATLANTA, GEORGIA THURSDAY, MAY 30, 1963 $5.00 PER YEAR LITTLE IMPROVEMENT Pope John XXIII Grave Illness Gives Concern POSTE VATICAN E LI60 10ANNES XXIU P M* PVCIS RAIZANUNO PR\f?U0 OKNAIUS A* MCMLXIU ‘H *OM» A NEW stamp has been issued by the Vatican post office to commemorate the awarding of the Balzan Peace Prize to His Holiness Pope John XX111. The Stamp, which is issued in 15 and 160 lire denominations, pre sents a formal portrait of the pontiff in this throne chair. CENTURY AGO VATICAN CITY—NC—Pope John XXIII, weakened by inter nal bleeding allied with an ab normal growth in his stomach, voiced hope that prayers said in his behalf would include the in tention that if he died, his death would win blessings for the ecumenical council and for the cause of world peace. The existence of the stomach growth was made public by the Vatican (May 28) in a bulletin published in L'Osservators Ro mano, the daily new spaper here. It said Pope John had been suf fering from the ailment for ‘‘about a year." THE STATEMENT identified the trouble as "gastric hetero- plasia." This is defined medi cally as "the replacement of normal cells by abnormal tis sue" or as "malpositionof nor mal cells." (According to a spokesman at the National Cancer Insti tute in Bethesda, Maryland, het- eroplasia is a term which is not used in American medicine and "evidently describes a con ditions for which we would use some other term." He said it could indicate cancer, but also could be used as a general term for any abnormal growth, malignant or benign.) The bulletin revealing the existence of the growth said that Pope John had listened to Mass offered in the room next to his bedroom Tuesday morn ing (May 28) and that he had received Holy Communion. Priest Scientists Pioneered WASHINGTON (NC)— Catho lic institutions of learning here in the Capital had some pion eers in "far out" scientific re search even a century ago. This has been recalled to mind by two recent events-the start of daylight saving time and the earth orbiting of Astronaut Gordon Cooper. Supporting a bill he had in- troudced to "establish daylight saving time uniformly through out the United States during the months of June, July and August of each year," Sen. A. Willis Robertson drew attention to the achievements of a fellow Vir ginian. He spoke of Matthew Fonta ine Maury, whose studies of ‘Far Out 9 winds and currents cut one month off the sailing time ar ound Cape Good Hope, was one of the founders of the Naval Observatory here, and has been called the "founder of the mod ern science of oceanography.** Maury, it develops, received an M.A. degree from George town University, the Jesuit- conducted institution here, in 1845. He became widely known as an oceanographer and hyd- rographer as an officer in the U. S. Navy, but resigned his commission in 1861 to join the Confederate Navy, in which he became a commodore. He was sent to England and obtained CONTINUED ON PAGE 6 The 81-year-old Pope had hemmorhaged critically during the night of May 24-25, and Va tican sources indicated that he had had further attacks of in ternal bleeding. But the bulletin of May 28 said that the hemor rhaging had been reduced. It said also that it was "compen sated for by the treatment pre scribed** —indicating that he had been receiving blood trans fusions. Three physicians were with the Pope from 10 a.m. until noon on Tuesday. They are Dr. Antonio Gasbarrini, his per sonal physician, who had been summoned from his home in Bologna several days earlier; Dr. Pietro Mazzoni of Rome, w ho had remained near the papal apartment for almost a week; and Dr. Peitro Valdoni, a lead ing Italian surgeon. AMLETO Cardinal Cicogna- ni, who as the Pope’s Secre tary of State is his closest collaborator, conferred with the Pontiff both before and after the doctors’ visit. It was to him that Pope John said that prayers in his behalf should include the intentions of the ecumencial council, and the peace of mankind. FR, RA YMOND BEANE Franciscan Has Silver Jubilee Fr. Beane was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania bu,t was raised i n Cumberland, Maryland, where he attended La Salle High School ( taucht by the Christian Brothers. After high school Fr. Beane entered St. Bonaventure University in Western New York State, where in 1934 he received his Bacca laureate of Arts with majors in Education and Philosophy. After a year in the Novitiate of the Franciscan Order the Chaplain began his studies of Theology at Holy Name College in Washington, D. C., and was Ordained a priest Oct. 9, 1935 The summers of 36-37 and 38 were spent at St. Bonaventure University where the Master Degree in Arts was received. After Ordination the Chaplain served as Professor of Music at Siena College, Loudonville, New York, and was head of the Department, as well as Associate Professor of Religion and Philosophy. During the summer of 1943, the Chaplain was commissioned Lt. (jg), Chaplain’s Corp., U. S. N. R. For three years he served in the United States Navy* in the South Pacific, and California until 1946. He was discharged from active duty and returned to Siena College to serve as FR. BEANE O.F.M. Professor of Music and Religion, where he was head of both Departments. Here he sought to propogate eccle siastical and secular knowledge until 1952 when he re-entered the Armed Services on active duty as a Naval Chaplain. He served for almost two years with the Military Sea Transport Service in the Atlantic. First on the New York- Bremerhaven run, then after a summer at Thule, Greenland.’he CONTINUED ON PAGE 8 The bulletin published by L* Osservatore Romano referred to both (he Cardinal’s and the doctors* visits. It said: "Today, Tuesday, the Holy Father heard Mass celebrated in a study adjoining his bed room and recieved Holy Com munion, as is done when the Holy Father cannot celebrate Mass himself. At 8 a.m. he received Amleto Giovanni Cardinal Ci- cognani, his Secretary of State, who was with him for almost half an hour in normal audience. **THE POPE’S day was spent in rest and in humble and serene recollection in con formity with the will of God. "Those attending him noted and edifying effusion of peace and of trust which radiates from the august person, desirous of the closest union with God and of offering every sacrifice for the Church and for all his children. While the Pope was gravely ill, hope remained alive that his strong heart and constitu tion would see him through the critical effects of his hem orrhaging. The Pope's physicians had said earlier in the week that the Pope's health was showing improvement. TOE REVEREND William E. Calhoun and the Reverend MatthewS. Kemp shown walking down * uu! 6 P S °i the Kin 8 Cathedral after their ordination to the priesthood last Saturday. Archbishop Paul J. Hallinan officiated. See other pictures on page 3. IN MEMPHIS Court Rejects Gradualism In Integrating Facilities REMARKABLE GROWTH Archdiocese Census Count Shows 43,342 WASHINGTON-NC—The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected gradualism in the desegrega tion of parks and other public recreational facilities and held that the norm of "all deliberate speed" does not ordinarily ap ply to them. The court, in an opinion by Justice Arthur Goldgerg (May 27), unanimously served notice on the city of Memphis, Tenn., to Integrate its public recreat ional facilities at once. IN PASSING, it also cautioned public officials against exces sive delay in public school de- segreagtion. The Memphis case was be gun in May, 1960, by Negroes seeking a court order directing immediate desegregation of city recreation parks and called for complete desegregation by OFFICIAL The serious illness of Pope John has saddened the world. Pastors are requested to ask the prayers of their people (especially the children,)for his speedy recovery. The imperata "Pro Papa*’ is to be said in accordance with the Rubrics until further notice. Reversing lower court rul ings upholding Memphis’ time table for gradual integration, the Supreme Court commented: "SINCE the city has com pletely failed to demonstrate any compelling or convincing reason requiring further delay in implementing the constitu tional proscription of segre gation of publicly owned or ope rated recreational faculties, there is no cause whatsoever to depart from the generally operative and here clearly con trolling principle that consti*- tutional rights are to be prompt ly vindicated." Justice Goldberg denied that the norm of "all deliberate speed,” set forth by the court in a 1955 school desegrega tion ruling, applied here. He said.desegregation of re creational- facilities lacks the "uniquely attendant problems’* of school desegregation, which may justify some delay. A city would face an "extremely heavy" burden of proof to justi fy delay in desegregating re creational facilities, and Mem phis failed to give such proof, he said. THE opinion also contained a warning from public officials contemplating making school de segregation a long drawn-out process. Nqping the elapse of eight years since the "all deli berate speed" decision, it said: "Given the extended time which has elapsed, it is far from clear that the mandate of the second Brown decision re quiring that desegregation pro ceed with "all deliberate speed' would today be fully satisfied by types of plans or programs for desegregation of public edu cational facilities which eight years ago might have been deemed sufficient. "Brown never contemplated that the concept of 'deliberate speed; would countenence in definite delay in elimination of racial barriers in schools, let alone other public faculties not involving the same physical problems or comparable con ditions." The publication of the re sults of the recent Catholic census of the Archdiocese of Atlanta shows a total of 43,342 Catholics in the 71 counties of nothern Georgia which com prise the new ecclesiastical area. Of these, 36,168 (or 83.4% are in the metropolitan area of Atlanta, and the remaining 7,174 (or 16.6%) in the thirty parishes and missions outside the city. The new statistics represent the careful compilation of facts and figures collected by nearly 6,000 volunteers on two Sun days (March 5 and 12), col lated with the U. S. decennial census tracts and official Arch diocese School Board records. The mechanical tabulation and correlation of the 27 items of information were completed by the Service Bureau Corpo ration., a subsidiary of I.B.M. MOST striking conclusions are: • In six years, since the Diocese of Atlanta was established in 1956, the Roman Catholics have in- creased from 23,695 to 43,342 - an increase of 82.9%. • About one-fourth of those replying (about 10,000) have lived in the Arch diocese only one year. Approximately 88.7% of the replies were from Catholics, which means that more than 8,000 Catholics entered the Archdiocese since March 1962. • 72.6% of the Catholic children, age 7 - 13, in metropolitan Atlanta are enrolled in Catholic ele mentary schools. THE school figures are of special interest, according to the co-chairman of the census, Fathers John Stapleton and Har old Rainey. In the metropoli tan area, there are about 7485 Catholic children between 7 and 13. Of these, 5435 are in thir teen Catholic elementary sch ools, an average of 72.6%. In the high school bracket (14 - 18) there are 4003 Catholic youths, of whom 1389 are in the three archdiocesan and two Catholic private schools, an average of 34.6%. Except for Marist School, the four Catholic high schools have been established since 1956, during Bishop Hyland's administration of the diocese. Outside greater Atlanta, five parochial schools serve 565 Catholic elementary pupils in Athens, Rome, Griffin, Fort Oglethorpe, and Washington. This figure is 36.5% (or 1547) of the total Catholic children identified in the census in the counties outside Atlanta. The total number of pupils in Catholic schools in the Arch diocese is approximately 8,000 Of these, 567 are not Catholic. "THESE schools figures are a measure of the loyal and generous support of Georgia Catholics for a Christian edu cation," said Archbishop Paul J. Hallinan this week. "While they compare most favorably with the national Catholic en rollment and even the large dioceses in the north and west, they leave us no room for com placency. In Atlanta, there are still 2,000 grade school children and more than 2600 of high school age, as well as nearly 1,000 grade school children out side Atlanta not enrolled in Ca tholic schools. They, too, must have the opportunity of a re li gious education, either by step ping up a graded program of confraternity instruction out side the public school, or CONTINUED ON PAGE 8 Pray For Pope PHILADELPHIA (NC)—Meth odist Bishop Fred Pierce Co rson has urged Methodists to offer special prayers for His Holiness Pope John XXIII. Bi shop Corson, president of the World Methodist Council, said Pope John had asked him to ask all Methodists to pray for him when the Bishop attended the first session of the ecum enical council as an observer. Msgr. Cassidy" is the greeting of these two youngsters from Christ *Ms «dlM«on. Wh ‘ Ch heW ' receptionhonorln 8 their pastor on the fortieth anniversary