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PRAY FOR
CONCLAVE
SERVING GEORGIA’S 71 NORTHERN COUNTIES
of Atlanta
All
Any decision of our Supreme Court on the inter
relationship of religion to our American society
calls for both restraint and clarity on the part of
our religious leaders. Since public order depends
upon our acceptance of the Court’s decision on
a law until the law itself has been properly
changed, we can hardly counsel the contrary’.
Restraint is a difficult virtue for most men,
but we must surely accept the Court’s authority
and integrity, and we must admit the subject’s
complexity.
Clarity, however, does not violate this
restraint. If the McCollum, Engel, and Torcaso
judgments establish the pattern in which these
new decisions are rooted, those Americans who
believe strongly in the religious education of their
children must speak up clearly and continually.
Both parts of the First Amendment bear personal,
as well as judical, attention.
FIRST, this amendment forbids any "Establish
ment of religion.” Most Protestants, Catholics,
and Jews are in total agreement here. But theirs
are not the only religions. If the elimination of
all mention of God is the ultimate solution to
be offered by the Court, is not this practically
"the establishment” of another religion, that
of Secular Humanism? This cult, more impress
ive, in its implications than in its doctrines,
has been listed by name in the Court’s de
cision, Torcaso V. Watkins, 1961, as among the
religions "which do not teach what generally
is considered a belief in the existence of God.”
To teach the spiritual values and moral impera
tives of Secular Humanism in our public schools
is surely as much a violation of the First Amend
ment as to teach Transubstantiation, Private-
Interpretation or the Torah.
Secondly, the amendment forbids any inter
ference in the liberty of Americans in respect
to the free exercise of their religion. Again,
Protestants, Catholics, and Jews uphold this im
portant liberty. There are those among them who
want their children to be taught religious values,
not only at home and church, but in the school
itself. This is increasingly true as the school
continues to assume a major, almost an en
grossing, role in the whole educational process.
They regard the tax-structure by which they sup
port a school system judicially secularized, as
an unjust infringement of this liberty.
THE OUTCOME of these two developments is
in dubious conformity with the two provisions of
the First Amendment. To enshrine Secular Hu
manism as a quasi-established religion, or to
price out of the market the religious liberty of
those who seek religious educaton for their
children is to do violence to the interest and
longstanding interpretation of this treasured
amendment. The latest decisions of the Court
intensify,, but do not clarify, the issue of our
religious pluralism.
What is most needed now is enough American
inventiveness to raise our present program of
competent public education to a more equitable
system, rationally and mutually agreed upon - a
system worthy of a nation "under God”, with
room for children whose parents want religious
education as well as for those whose parents do
not.
OFFICIAL
My dear people:
Right in the heart of our archdiocese, we are blessed with a
place called, "The Ignatius House”, known now to hundreds of
Atlantans as the center of retreats for the laity. May I ask you
to bring this unique Catholic facility more and more into your
thinking and your planning:
A retreat is a period of time during which a person puts his
life into the Christian forcus. He does so by prayer, meditation,
the Sacraments, and especially by well-placed spiritual direction.
This direction is provided at the Ignatius House by experienced
priests.
Why does the twentieth-century American need to make such
a retreat? Because the opportunities for living a balanced,
motivated life - "with the peace of Christ rejoicing in your
hearts" as St. Paul put it, - were never greater. At the same
time, the tensions, conflicts, distractions have become more
pressing.
A retreat is not an escape from life. It is not even chiefly
meant to be a refreshing contrast to the daily round, although
it is often that. It is, first of all, an entrance into the full life •
lived in Christ, with free time enough to order our own lives as
God wants.
A retreat is not for dreamers or spiritual idlers, or people
who treat holiness like a hobby. It is for realistic practical,
busy people. It is for the business man, the professional man,
the working man. It is for active homemakers, wives and mothers.
It is for single persons in a very special way. It is for young
people. It is for everyone who, stubbornly but intermittently,
daily but with many lapses, is trying to be a Saint.
The Jesuit Fathers of Ignatius House are performing a rare
and valued service for our people. Few have offered the Church
a more effective manner of sef-examination than the founder
of the Jesuits, St. Ignatius Loyola. And few are as experienced
to lead us to goodness as his sons.
I urge you to use the Retreat House and to support it. Our
final Judgment, our Lord tells us, will be made in accord with
our opportunities. It would be foolish for us to miss this grace.
It is wise to use what God has given us.
May God bless all of you in an official manner, those who
listen to God in the Psalm, "Be still, and know that I am your
God.” There is no greater knowledge.
Sincerely yours in Christ,
Paul J. Hallinan
Archbishop of Atlanta
GIFT TO POPE JOHN
Golden Stole Back
In United States
VATICAN CITY (NC)--A gol
den stole, the deathbed gift of
Pope John XXIII to the U. S.
Bishops, will be delivered to
the National Shrine of the Im
maculate Conception in Wash
ington D. C.
The stole was a gift to Pope
John from Francis Cardinal
Spellman, Archbishop of New
York, on the Pope's 80th birth
day. He wore it on the opening
day of the ecumenical council.
ON JUNE 11 the stole was
returned to Cardinal Spellman
with an accompanying letter
from Amleto Cardinal Cicog-
nani, Pope John’s Secretary of
State. The letter said:
"It is with great personal
pleasure that 1 comply with the
request of Msgr. Loris Capovil-
la, private secretary of the late
Holy Father Pope John XXIII,
in transmitting the enclosed
beautiful stole which the Pon
tiff wore at the opening of the
historic Second Vatican Ecu
menical Council on October 11,
1962. This precious pontifical
vestment was given to me on
the day of the Holy Father's
death.
"Msgr. Capovilla has asked
that this treasured stole be
given to the National Shrine of
the Immaculate Conception in
Washington, D. C., as a token of
the late Holy Father’s esteem
and affection for the hierarchy,
clergy, Religious and faithful
of the United States.”
THE FIVE U. S. cardinals are shown in Vatican City before
the opening, June 19, of the 79th Conclave to elect a new pope, the
successor to the late Pope John XXIII. Left to right: There
Eminences Albert Cardinal Meyer, Archbishop of Chicago; Ric
hard Cardinal Cushing, Archbishop of Boston; Francis Cardinal
Spellman, Archbishop of New York; Joseph Cardinal Ritter,
Archbishop of St. Louis; and James Francis Cardinal McIntyre,
Archbishop of Los Angeles.
ATLANTA CLERGYMAN PRESENT
50,000 At Last Requiem For Pope
VATICAN CITY, (NC)—"Fare-
well, Holy Father, farewell for
ever.”
These words of the Holy See’s
chosen eulogist echoed in St.
Peter’s basilica at a final
solemn funeral Mass for the be
loved Pope John XXIII.
And they echoed in the hearts
and minds of those present: the
cardinals of the Holy Roman
Church, bishops and priests,
Christians of many denomin
ations and representatives of
most of the world’s nations.
ABOUT 50,000 persons crow
ded into the transepts of the
great basilica. The nave w'as
still occupied by rows of seats
for Pope John’s great project-
now suspended with his death—
the Second Vatican Council.
Other thousands were outside
the church in St. Peter’s squ
are.
At that same moment, half
a mile away, hundreds of other
friends of Pope John heard
another requiem Mass for him.
They were the inmates of Re
gina Coeli Prison. Neither they
nor the world had forgotten his
visit to the prison the day af
ter Christmas, 1958, It was a
visit that told the world that a
new and distinctive personality
had arrived on the scene.
Only the hundred or so can
dles on a symbolic three-tiered
catafalque were lighted as the
great basilica began to fill with
people. Even while the repre
sentatives of state entered, the
church was still immersed in
gloom.
BUT bright lights wept onfor
arrival of the cardinals at 10:00
a.m. when the ceremony began.
Seventy-two of them entered
two-by-two each attended by a
prelate. They filed silently into
rows of chairs on either side
of the catafalque, which stood
between the Altar of the Con
fession beneath the dome and
the Altar of the Chair at the
far end of the church.
Behind the cardinals were
representatives of 85 nations.
The first to arrive were U. S
Vice President Lyndon B. John
son and the other members of
the U. S. delegation: James
A. Farley of New York, former
postmaster general; Dr. Ben
jamin E. Mays, of Atlanta, Ga.,
a Baptist clergyman who is pre
sident of Atlanta's Morehouse
College; and George N. Shuster,
assistant to the president of
Notre Dame University and for
merly president of Hunter Col
lege in New York.
Among the others present
were: West German Foreign
Minister Gerhard Schroeder;
260-264
Pontificate Number
Still Not Certain
VATICAN CITY, (NC)—Will the
new pontiff be the 260th-or even
the 264th pope?
The answer is: nobody is
sure.
The current issue of the of
ficial Vatican yearbook, the An-
nuario Pontificio, listed 259
popes, including John XXIII.
It no longer, however, numbers
the popes as it did until the
1946 edition , when it listed
Pope John’s predecessor, Pius
XII, as the 262nd pontiff. At
that time, the yearbook listed
two early popes as Cletus and
Anacletus. Since then it has been
discovered that these names ap
plied to one person. Also a
number of popes included in the
1946 list are now considered
to have been antipopes,
IN A note explaining the drop
ping of its practice of number
ing the popes, the yearbook
stated that there are difficul
ties and uncertainties in list
ing the 1,900-year line of suc
cession of the pontiffs.
The conductor of the investi
gation which resulted in there-
vised listing was the late Msgr.
Angelo Mercati, perfect of the
Vatican archives, who empha
sized that his findings did not
contradict the Church's tea
ching of an uninterrupted line
of popes. He also noted that
the list of popes which had been
in use for some 200 years had
never been regarded as abso
lutely accurate.
HE EXPLAINED that the list
used by the Vatican yearbook
had previously been based on
the series of portraits of the
pontiffs in the Roman basilica
of St. Paul's Outside-the-Walls.
Prince Albert of Belgium and
that country’s vice Premier and
Foreign Minister Paul-Henri
Spaak; Canada's Vice Premier
Lionel Chevrier; France's For-
iegn Minister Maurice Couve
de Murville; England’s Earl of
Perth; Ireland’s Prime Mini
ster Sean F, Lamass and For
eign Minister Frank Aiken; It
aly’s Prime Minister Amintore
Fanfani and Vice Premier At-
tilio Piccioni; Liberia’s James
Anderson, President of the Sen
ate; and the Netherlands Fore
ign Minister Joseph M.A.H.
Luns.
When the cardinals had taken
their places, the Vatican’s
Julian Choir, standing on the
steps of the papal altar, in
toned "Requiem.” Observers
noted that it was the first time
in recent memory that the choir
stationed itself on the papal
altar.
THE Mass was offered at
the Altar of the Chair by Eu
gene Cardinal Tisserant, Dean
of the Sacred College of car
dinals. His vestments and those
of his ministers were • black,
heavily brocaded in gold. Black
velvet covered all the tribunes
in the basilica.
At the end of the Mass, Msgr.
Giuseppe Del Ton, the Vatican’s
Secretary of Latin Letters,
delivered his eulogy'. He spoke
his round Latin phrases quick
ly, almost breathlessly, thr
oughout the 20-minute eulogy
of the late Pope.
"But the gift that shone for
th in him with singular attrac-
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CONCLA VE OPENS
Doors Sealed
For Vote As
World Waits
VATICAN CITY, (NC)—
Fourscore churchmen charged
with electing a new Bishop of
Rome last night (June 19) calm
ly sealed themselves off and au
tomatically created an air of
tension and expectation in the
world they left behind.
The conclave to select the
successor to Pope John XXIII
began beneath Michelangelo’s
massive painting of the Last
Judgment in the Sistine Chapel.
THE last major public func
tion of the cardinals previous
to the conclave was their par
ticipation in a Mass invoking the
guidance of the Holy Spirit. It
was offered yesterday morn
ing by Eugene Cardinal Tisse
rant, Dean of the Sacred Col
lege of Cardinals, at the res
plendent Altar of the Chair in
the apse of St. Peter’s basilica.
At the mass, the papal electors
were given a formal reminder
of the solemnity and weight of
the duty they were about to un
dertake. This was the tradition
al sermon to the cardinals given
by the Pontifical Secretary of
Briefs to Princes —the pa
pacy’s official translator of La
tin documents.
The sermon by the current
holder of the post, Msgr. Am
leto Tondini, was reminiscent
of the 1958 charge given by his
predecessor, now Antonio Car
dinal Bacci. The then Msgr.
Bacci told the men who were to
elect Angelo Roncalli the new
pope that their duty was to
choose a man who would be able
to penetrate the minds of men of
all social levels with the light
and goodness of Christ, a man
of great strength of mind and
ardent charity w ho would reflect
in his life the words of Christ,
"I am the Good Shepherd.”
FOLLOWING the Mass, the
cardinals went their separate
ways, making their own per
sonal last-minute preparations
for the conclave. They and their
conclave assistants assembled
at the Vatican on Wednesday at
4:30. At 5 p.m., they were to
gether in the Pauline Chapel in
the Apostolic Palace. After a
brief prayer, they formed a
procession to enter the Sistine
Chapel, which is separated from
the Pauline by the Sala Regia,
the so-called Hall of the Seven
Doors.
The master of ceremonies,
who carried the papal proces
sional cross, was followed by
the cardinals in order of prece
dence. The cross was preceded
by five conclave assistants and
five cantors who chanted the
hymn "Come, Holy Spirit, Cre
ator."
When the procession arrived
in the Sistine chapel, Eugene
Cardinal Tisserant, Dean of the
College of Cardinals, recited
the prayer to the Holy Spirit
"0 God, who, by the light of the
Holy Spirit didst instruct the
hearts of the faithful...”
When he finished, Archbis
hop Enrico Dante, Prefect of
Papal Masters of Ceremonies,
gave the "extra omnes,” or
dering all but cardinals to leave
the chapel.
‘THANK GOD FOR POPE'
Methodist Leader
Eulogizes Pontiff
NEW YORK (RNS) — Dr.
Harold A. Bosley, prominent
Methodist minister, devoted his
sermon in Christ church here to
paying tribute to Pope John
XXIII for bringing the cause of
unity "to the forefront of all
Christians.”
He cited the late pontiff as a
"great man, a great Roman Ca
tholic leader and a great Chris
tian leader."
IN lauding the Pope, Dr. Bos
ley observed, he was one
"among a multitude of Protes
tant Christians all over the
world who are saying, 'Thank
God for Pope John.’ ”
"As a believer in unity and
one who has worked for it for
many years and will continue to
do so as long as 1 live,” the
minister continued, "I thank
God for Pope John's strong
leadership toward this end.
"It was he who insisted that
other bodies of the church be
referred to as 'separated bre
thren' and he refused to let
anyone use the word ’heretic’
when referring to us.”
Dr. Bosley also praised the
Pope’s "leadership in relating
the Christian faith to the social,
economic and political rights of
all men.”
"MORE pointedly than any
previous Pope,” he stated,
"John sharpened up a possible-
doctrine of freedom.