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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- CONTINUED ON PAGE 8 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.