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Newspaper Page TextPRAY FOR CHRISTIAN UNITY VOL. 1 NO. 27 Arcndiocese of Atlanta ATLANTA, GEORGIA THURSDAY, JULY 11, 1963 $5.00 PER YEAR OFFICIAL VATICAN CITY VIA MACKAY ARCHBISHOP HALLINAN 2699 PEACHTREE RD., ATLANTA HIS HOLINESS WARMLY THANKFUL PRAYERFUL CONGRA TULATIONS. BESTOWS YOUR EXCELLENCY AND THE ARCH DIOCESE PARTICULAR APOSTOLIC BLESSING. AMLETO CARDINAL CICOGNANI PAPAL SECRETARY OF STATE RACIAL DEMONSTRATION Arrest Priests In Baltimore BALTIMORE (NC)— Seven priests led some 175 parish ioners in the picket line as Catholics joined Protestants and Jews in a second massive protest against segregated faci lities at Gwynn Oak Amusement Park in suburban Woodlawn. In the picket line also were 50 members of the Catholic In terracial Council of Baltimore. They carried signs which read: "All Men Are Made in the Image of God,” "Must Christ Be Cru cified on 'Grim' Oak?** and "Can’t We Catholics Even Play Bingo Together?** ANOTHER sign read: "Cath olics Have Been All Too Slow.. ."—a quotation from the Lenten pastoral letter of Arch bishop Lawrence J. Shehan of Baltimore condemning segre gation and urging efforts to overcome it. A total of 101 persons were arrested in the (July 7) demon stration, which occurred just three days after a July 4 pro test in which 283 persons were arrested. Those arrested were charged with violating Mary land’s law against trespassing. While the pickets paraded for over an hour outside the park, Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) demonstrators in groups of 10 to 15 attempted to enter the park, had the tres pass law read to them and were arrested when they refused to leave. POLICE dogs were brought in by Baltimore County police to control the crowd of several thousand white persons who heckled the 400 demonstrators whenever an arrest was made. One white woman demonstrator, Allison Turaj of Washington, D. C., was injured by a hurled rock. But she refused treat ment, was arrested and taken to jail. Five of the seven priests who took part in the demonstration are Josephites. The priests who participated are: Father Joseph Connolly, a cochairman of the Baltimore Interfaith Committee for Human Rights and moderator of the Baltimore Catholic Interracial Council; Father Robert A. Reed, pastor of St. Gregory the Great ch urch Father Henry Offer, S. S. J„ pastor of St. Peter Claver parish, and his assis tant, Father William McKenna, S, S. J.: Father Henry Mal oney, S. S. J,, pastor of St. Francis Xavier parish, and his assistant, Father Walter Cer- bin, S. S, J,: and Father John Barnett, S. S. J„ pastor of St. Plus the Fifth parish. ALSO on the scene, but not a participant in the picketing, was Father Matthew O’Rourke, S. S. J„ consultor to the Sup erior General of the Josephite Fathers. Rev. Marion C. Bascom, pas tor of Douglass Memorial Ch urch in Baltimore, said (July 8) that another antisegregation demonstration on Gwynn Oak Park would take place on July 14. No priests were among some 20 clergymen arrested in the July 7 demonstration, but two were arrested in the July 4 protest: Father Connolly and Msgr. Austin Healey, pastor of St. Martin’s church and direc tor of the Baltimore, arch diocese’s Inner City program. Arrested with them were Bis hop Daniel Corrigan of the Nat ional Council of the Protestant Episcopal Churches, New York; Dr. Eugene Carson Blake, chief executive officer of the United Presbyterian Church, New York; and two other cochair men of Baltimore’s Interfaith Committee for Human Rights; Rev. John Middaugh, pastor of Brown Memorial Presbyterian church; and Rabbi Morris Lie- berman of the Baltimore He brew Congregation. AFTER their arrest, Father Connolly, Rev. Middaugh and Rabbi Lieberman issued the fol lowing joint statement: "On this Fourth of July, 1963 moved by a conviction of our faiths and by the spirit of our fore fathers, we have chosen to demonstrate at Gwynn Oak Park even at the risk of breaking the law. Central to our religious commitments is the common teaching of our faiths that human rights given of God are inali enable, take precedence over property and must be guaran teed by civil society. So moti vated we reluctantly agree to break the letter of the law in order to direct the attention of the faithful to the tragic gap between ideal and practice in our democracy a century after the Emancipation Proclamat ion." Catholic participation in the July 4 demonstration was spa rked by Father Connolly, who said this participation had the approval of Archbishop Shehan. Nine priests picketed on July 4 outside the entrance to the park which has long been a center of controversy because of its racial policy. Other priests taking part in the July 4 demonstration includ ed Msgr. William Kaller Dunn, Chaplain at Notre Dame College of Maryland; etc. and Father Matthew O'Rourke, S. S. J., consultor to the Superior Gen eral of the Josephite Fathers. TvtRYit* t'KlESTS OF THE Baltimore Archdiocese, along with clergymen of other faiths, were arrested in protest marches against the segregationist policies of a Baltimore amusement park. Father Joseph M. Connolly, of the Interfaith Committee on Human Rights (above left) is shown walking with other clergymen to a police patrol wagon. MOST of those arrested were released on bail, including the two priests. The 10 priests pic keted outside the entrance to the park, which has long been a cen ter of controversy because of its racial policy. For many years students at Catholic schools held an outing at the park toward the end of the school year. This practice was ended quietly over a year ago by the Baltimore Archdiocesan Department of Education. The Catholic Review, news paper of the Baltimore archdio cese, criticized the Knights of Columbus last year when the or- COLORADO PUEBLO, Colo., (NC)— Bishop Charles A. Buswell has granted permission for offer ing Nuptial Masses in the even ing under certain conditions. The permission is extended to all parishes of the diocese, subject to the discretion of the pastor. THE Bishop listed four other special conditions which must be met for evening Nuptials. 1) The Mass is to be per mitted for the good of a not able part of the faithful, and not simply for the convenience of individual families. 2) Evening wedding Masses ganlzatlon announced it would, hold its annual picnic at Gwynn Oak Park. FATHER Joseph Gallagher, consulting editor of the news paper, was among those taking part in the demonstration. He said he was among the group of demonstrators who went direct ly to the park. Another group met at a Methodist church in Baltimore before leaving for the park. The priest-editor said persons from Baltimore, Phila delphia, New York and Washing ton took part in the segregation protest. He said he tried to dis tribute copies of the pastoral letter on racial justice issued Nuptial are not to be permitted on Sundays or holy days of obli gation. 3) A commentator must be present to invite the partici pation of the faithful both for the marriage rite and for the Nuptial Mass. 4) The faithful must be en couraged to receive Holy Com munion at the evening Nuptial Mass. PUEBLO becomes the fourth diocese in this area to per mit evening Nuptial Masses. The others are: Dallas-Fort Worth, Tex.; Spring!ield-Cape Girardeau, Mo.; and Oklahoma Citv-Tulsa. by Archbishop Shehan on March 1, 1963. ’ Father Gallagher described the demonstration as "an inter faith, moral protest against this park, which is sort of a symbol of the remaining segregation in the Baltimore area in the sphere of public accommoda tions." He gave this further account of the demonstration: "THE police were extremely courteous to the demonstrators. The crowd was mostly hostile. Whenever the demonstrators were arrested, the crowd jeer ed and cheered. "While waiting at the park for the second group of demon strators to arrive, I distribut ed some copies of the Archbis hop’s pastoral. Some people refused to take them; others tore them up in my face and trampled on them. "1 heard one lady say: ‘I’m ashamed to be a Catholic.’ Someone told me that another lady said she wasn’t going to go to church next Sunday." Other priests taking part in the demonstration included Msgr. Kailer Dunn, chaplain at Notre Dame College of Mary land; Father Edmond Stroup of St. Vincent’s parish; Father Nicholas Helldorfer, C.SS.R.,of St. James parish; Father Henry Offer, S.S.J., pastor of St. Pe ter Claver parish; Father John G. Barnett, S.S.J., pastor of Pius the Fifth parish; and two other Josephites. Evening Masses Permitted FRATER EDWARD Markley, of Christ the King, Atlanta, meets with other monks of St. Bernard Abbey, Cullman, Ala. Left to right they are; Brother Mark Wrosham, Father Edward, Father Victor Clark and Father Stephen Crawford. ATLANTA SEMINARIAN AT CORONATION ‘Cheering Simply The Thing To Do!’ BY REV. MR. JEROME HARDY I was fortunate enough to be among a group of chanters who were to sing several parts of the Coronation Mass along with the Sistine Choir. There were about twenty of us from the. College, and for us this constituted a sort of "official” participating in the ceremony. During the Mass and the coronation ceremony af ter it, several of us were no more than 20 feet from the Pa pal throne, separated fromitby a single rank of the Swiss Guard in their bright orange and blue uniforms. From this vantage point, we were able to follow every detail of the magnificent panorama which unf olded before us. The news services and weekly magazines have already painted the ceremony in vivid detail. It would be repetitious to go into a description of the ceremony’s procedure: it would add noth ing to list the many note-worthy dignitaries present in the tiered banks of the diplomatic section. Instead of that, I want to talk about an element of the celebra tion which really impressed me—the tens of thousands of people who stood in the Square and their reaction to the crown ing of the Pope. Crowds in St. Peter’s Square are unique in all the world. They push and shove and mill around with an unpredictable congeni ality. They are alive to every move made by the principal they came to see. They are a consti tuent element of every St. Pe- SAN FRANCISCO, - July 8— Archbishop Joseph T. McGuc- ken of San Francisco told Se- rra Club members in conventi on here that every true Serran has spiritual characteristics "closely akin to the qualities of a good priest," Every trueSerranls fatherly, priestly and Eucharistic, the Archbishop said at a brunch (July 8) following a Pontifical Mass he offered in St. Ignat ius church. SOME 2,000 persons took part in the 21st annual convention (July 7-10( of Serra Internat ional, which is composed of 243 clubs whose members help foster vocations to the priest hood. ter’s ceremony, not merely "a cast of thousands’’ that hap pens to be around. At its peak, the Square can ’ hold in the neighborhood of 200,000 people. On the day of the Coronation, it was a sea of faces that ebbed and flowed and spill ed over into the Via della Con- clllazione, filling this broad avenue that runs from the banks of the Tiber to the edge of the Square. For more than 3 hours, they stood, answering the re sponses, singing the Credo, and uniting themselves with their new Holy Father in his Corona tion Mass. But the thing that struck me most was the realization that these people w ere, for the most' part, the same people who, only three weeks before, had stood in the same Square during the death vigil of another Pope, John XXIIL I had stood side by side with them during those four days of waiting, and I learned a lot about their devotion to the Pope. Then, they were silent, drawn faces with eyes fixed on the cor ner window of the Papal apart ment in the Vatican Palace. They were sons and daughters on watch at the bedside of their father, and their hearts were the hearts of those who knew they were losing him. They answer ed the periodic medical 4)uile- tins broadcast into the Square by Vatican Radio with an ever deeper silence. They could do nothing but share the ordeal by their presence. Now, it was different. As we stood in the Square, anyone that Serrans share in the priest hood by the Sacrament of Con firmation. "The ordained priests are expected to be mediators bet ween God and men,** he con tinued. "You, the Serrans, can be mediators between the Ch urch and the world. Your lay priesthood is rich and meaning ful because yours is an apos- tolate directly related to the ordained priesthood, to enhance its prestige, to support its work and to augment its ranks. •By virtue of your spiritual formation, your prayers will bring us priests who are holy and wise, priests who will give to God a great harvest of souls, Archbishop McGucken con cluded. could have sensed the joy and .festivity even without knowing what was taking place: the peo ple were generating it. They were watching again, but this time it was to catch a glimpse of their new Holy Father. When Pope Paul finally came into view after the Cardinals and prelates had made their entry, the crowd broke into spirited applause and cheering. The Pope responded with vigorous, animated waving and a wonderfully warm smile reminiscent of his predecessor. I still feel a little hesitant about cheering during a liturgical celebration, but on Coronation Day it was simply the most spontaneous and natural thing to do I There was a sense of pride and possessive security, a feel ing of family well-being that could not be denied voice. If anything, Pope Paul en couraged the crowd. There, up on the portable throne which was bearing him toward the Ba silica from the Square, he would lean far out of his seat to speak and wave and bless. His gestures and mannerisms were not those of Pope John; but it was clear that his heart was like John*s, a heart for the people. This triumphal entry set the tone for the remainder of the early evening celebration; the parts of the Mass sung by the people were charged with the same spirit. Nevertheless, the recessional actually surpassed these earlier manifestations. Then, as Pope Paul, wearing the splended new tiara given him by the people of Milan, began to move from the Square toward the Vatican Palace, the cry rose up, "Viva il Papal" "Viva il Papa!**—"Long live the Pope!”, With that the crowd surged toward the barricades along the processional route to get a glimpse of the newly- crowned Pontiff. When we saw this, three of us jumped into an open area near the diplo matic section, found ourselves only six feet from the portable throne, and walked along next to the Holy Father for a few moments until we were cut off by a barricade and the Swiss Guard. Then it was all over. The peo ple did not leave right away though; they waited there in the Square for the possibility of the Pope coming to his window once he was within his apartment. It was not mass hysteria that whipped these people into a frenzy; it was, I’m convinced, the manifestation of a deep re verential love for the Pope who as head of the universal Church is also the Bishop of Rome, their bishop! If at the death of Pope John one could note a feeling of personal loss and insecurity on the part of these people who kept vigil in the Square, it was only too clear on the day of Pope Paul’s coronation that their sadness had been completely displaced by the joyful realiza tion that once again the chair of Peter was filled, that once again "Habemus Papam", "We have a Pope"! Editor’s Note: The author, Jerome Hardy, is a student at the North American College and is the Archdiocese’ only semi narian now in Rome, He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Hardy of St. John the Evange list Parish, Hapevllle and was educated at St. John’s, at Ma- rist, and at St. Mary's Semi nary, Maryland, Mr. Hardy will be ordained in two years. "The member of a Serra Club isusuallya family man," Arch bishop McGucken said. "He is one who has learned that his professional reputation and his prestige in business is secon dary to his success in rais ing his family." He is also a spiritual leader in the home, exercising "manly initiative in family prayer and devotion," and courage in de fending his children "from the corrosive elements of the de- Christianlsed world," the Archbishop stated. "THE fatherliness of the Ser ran will protect the grace of the vocation when it honors his own home," he said," and this same fatherliness willextendfarbey ond his own backyard." Archbishop McGucken said St. Vincent de Paul Next Fridayis the feast of St. Vincent de Paul, patron of the St. Vincent de Paul Society, which works to assist the dis tressed in parishes throughout the country. It is easy, in this land of plenty, of car-owning, campar- atively well-dressed congrega- ations, to forget that there are always those among us who, even though they do not show it, have financial emergencies and difficulties. The St. Vincent de Paul Society has done a quietly magnificent job of assisting these fellow parishioners. They cannot continue to do so without your regular help. CONVENTION Serrans Reminded Of Priestly Role