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VOL. 1 NO. 49
ATLANTA, GEORGIA
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1963
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PHIS XII MEMORIAL —
This 12-foot bronze statue of
Pope Pius XII will be un
veiled in St. Peter’s Basilica,
Rome, early next year. It is
the work of Milanese sculp
tor Francesco Messina who
has been working on it for
three years.
FAMED PRIEST SEES
Informed Public
Opinion Lacking
SOUTH ORANGE, N. J.
(RNS) — Father George Dom
inique Pire, 0. P., Belgian-
born priest who won the Nobel
Peace Prize in 1958, called
re for the creation of a public
opinion supporting “the will to
love in a world free of racism,
hunger and war."
The priest, who is famed for
extensive aid to refugees, spoke
at Seton Hall University, a Ro
man Catholic institution. The
school had awarded him an hon
orary doctorate of humane let
ters.
“CREATE implies that this
public opinion does not yet
exist, " Father Pire said, “This
opinion is not yet conscious and
it accepts blindly all that the
mass media propose,*’
Establishing this new public
opinion, he continued, places a
great responsibility on people
of influence — professors, in
tellectuals, journalists and pa
rents.
Referring to the current civil
rights crisis in the U. S, , the
priest called for an elimination
of racism in all of its forms.
"May your country find as
soon as possible the definite
solution that will create the ab
solute respect of the Neg^pes
without requiring them to imit
ate the white, implying white
superiority, which is not the tr
uth," he declared,
FATHER Pire expressed an
optimistic view about problems
in the contemporary world,
“It is the era of the cold war,
of the death of John F. Kennedy,
of racism,” he said. “But you
all know as I do the argument
of the optimist and the pessi
mist, the pessimist saying:
This glass is half empty,' and
the optimist replying, 'No, it
is already half full,**
Now, Father Pire said, the
pessimists say: “We are wit
nessing the pains and the ago
nies which precede the end of a
civilization.'
'The optimists — I among
them — answer: 'no, these are
the pains of childbirth,"
BESIDES racism, the noted
priest also urged an end to hun
ger in the world and war.
Episcopal Invitation
# As a follow-up to the archdiocesan Council of Catholic Men's
“Operation Understanding" the Episcopal Churchmen of the Ca
thedral of St. Philip, 2744 Peachtree Road, N. E., invite Catho
lics in Atlanta to participate with their laymen in a guided tour
of the Episcopal Cathedral on Sunday (December 15) from 2:00
to 5:00 p.m.
Father Pire, who won the Fr
ench War Medal for his work
as chaplain to Resistance figh
ters during World War II, re
ceived the Seton Hall degree
from Mstr. James A. Hughes,
vicar general of the Newark, N.
J„ archdiocese.
The ceremonies marked the
priest’s first public appear
ance in this country.
On that afternoon, the Episcopal laymen will conduct small
groups of visitors through the various buildings, answering any
inquiries on the subject. No services will be conducted during
this period of visiting.
Robert G. Ross, President of Episcopal Churchmen, and Canon
Henry A. Cinser, their advisor, said in a statement: “Many of
our group enjoyed so much the opportunity that was afforded us
when we had theoccasion to visit you, that we sincerely hope that
you will bring this reciprocal invitation to the attention of your
people,"
OF NASHVILLE
Endorses
Action For
Democracy
Archbishop Paul J. Hallinan
has endorsed the “Action for
Democracy" program re
cently launched here. His Text
follows:
Bishop Durick
Now Coadjutor
"On behalf of the Catholic
Archdiocese of Atlanta, I he
artily endorse the program,
“Action for Democracy" which
has been proposed by two hun
dred citizens of Atlanta in or
der to end the segregation and
discrimination in our midst.
WASHINGTON (NC) — Pope
Paul VI has named Bishop Jo
seph A. Durick to be Coadjutor
with right of succession to Bis
hop William L. Adrian of Nash
ville. Bishop Durick has been
serving as Auxiliary to Arch
bishop Thomas J. Toolen, Bis
hop of Mobile-Birmingham.
The appointment was announ
ced here by Archbishop Egidio
Vagnozzi, Apostolic Delegate
in the United States.
WITH HIS new appointment
Bishop Durick returns to his
native state, having been born
in Dayton, Tenn., Oct. 13,1914.
He was director of the Catho
lic Information Center in Birm
ingham, Ala., whenhewas nam
ed Titular Bishop of Cerbali
and Auxiliary to Archbishop
Toolen in 1955. He had com
pleted almost 15 years in the
priesthood at that time, and had
spent most of his sacerdotal ca
reer in mission work.
Preaching at BishopDurick’s
consecration, Auxiliary Bishop
Fulton J. Sheen of New York ob
served: “It is a beautiful thing
when the Church will choose a
Bishop from a trailer and put
him on a throne."
BISHOP Durick attended St.
Bernard Minor Seminary, St.
Bernard, Ala.: St. Mary’s Se
minary, Baltimore, and Propa
ganda College in Rome. He was
ordained in the chapel of Propa
ganda College on May 23, 1940,
by Pietro Cardinal Fumasoni-
Biondi, then Prefect of the Sac
red Congregation for die Propa
gation of the Faith and a for
mer Apostolic Delegate in the
United States.
He served as an assistant
pastor of the North Alabama
Missions from 1940 to 1943
director of the North Alabama
Missions and Administrator of
St. John's Church, Birmingham,
from 1943 to 1948; pastor of St.
Margaret’s church, Birming
ham, from 1948, and director
of the Catholic Information Cen
ter, from 1943, until his eleva
tion to the hierarchy.
Bishop Durick was conse
crated in St. Paul’s Co-Ca-
thedral, Birmingham, on March
24, 1955.
"With the open policy of our
Catholic schools and hospitals
already established, I am confi
dent that our Catholic laity, as
well as our priests and sis
ters, are ready to coope
rate with all citizens in this
vital effort.
“The immediate adoption of
the program will ensure Atlan
ta’s place among those Ameri
can cities which are leading the
way to full justice.
“May God bless both those
who have prepared "Action for
Democracy", and those who are
ready now to carry it to its
effective conclusion.
‘Maryknoller’
MARYKNOLL, N. Y. (RNS)
Roman Catholic Maryknoll
sisters here have an affectio
nate place in their hearts for a
petite Protestant Episcopal nun
who studied with them. Sister
Elizabeth, the first Episcopa
lian nun to study with the Ca
tholic order, had been taking
classes here in anthropology
and linguistics.
ARCHBISHOP PAUL J. HALLINAN being greeted on his return from attending the Vatican Council in
Rome, by Monsignor Joseph G. Cassidy, V. G., P. A.
PRESIDENTIAL award
Highest Civilian Medal
For Pope John
VATICAN RADIO
Pope’s Visit
To Holy Land
‘Ecumenical’
WASHINGTON (NC)— The
Presidential Medal of Free
dom, the highest civilian honor
the President can bestow in pe
acetime, was conferred posthu
mously on Pope John XXIII in a
White House ceremony.
In an unheralded action, Pre
sident Lyndon B, Johnson hon
ored the late Pontiff as “a man
of simple origins, of simple
faith, or simple charity," He
said that in his exalted office
“he was still the simple pas
tor," and that he “profoundly
respected the dignity of man."
THE CITATION spoke of
Pope John as a “dedicated ser
vant of God" who had a great
influence for peace.
Created by President Harry
S. Truman in 1945, and redes
igned by President John F. Ken
nedy, the Medal of Freedom is
awarded for a meritorious con
tribution to (1) the security or
national interests of the Uni
ted States, or (2) world peace,
or (3) cultural or other signi
ficant public or private endeav
ors. ’
PRESIDENT JOHNSON con
ferred the medal on 30 persons
selected by President Kennedy,
and then announced a posthum
ous award of the decoration for
President Kennedy himself. He
lauded him as a soldier, scho
lar, statesman, defender of
freedom, pioneer for peace, au
thor of hope—combining cour
age with reason, and combating
hate with compassion, he led the
land he loved toward new front
iers of opportunity for all men
and peace for all time,"
"Beloved in a life of selfl
ess service," the citation con
tinued, “sourned by all in a de
ath of senseless crime, the en-
ergy, faith and devotion which
he brought to his extraordinar
ily successful though tragically
brief endeavors will hereafter
'light the country and all who
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serve it— and the glow from
that fire can truly light the wor
ld."
THE CLOSING quotations are
from President Kennedy’s in
augural address in January,
1961.
Then President Johnson said;
"I also have determined to
confer the Presidential Medal
of Freedom posthumously on
another noble man whose death
(CONTINUED ON PAGE 12)
JFK Memorial
PHILADELPHIA (NC) - An
interfaith service in memory
of the late President Kennedy
will be held Dec. 22 at the Lin
coln Memorial in Washing
ton, D. C.
Announcement of the memo
rial service was made here
during the General Assembly of
the National Council of Churc
hes by Methodist Bishop John
Wesley Lord of Washington.
ROME — Vatican Radio has
described the “ecumenical as
pects'* of Pope Paul Vi's im
minent Pilgrimage to Jerus
alem as having "Extraordinary
importance."
The Vatican Radio commen
tary on the journey filled in
a void of facts which had fol
lowed announcment of the dates
of the visit-- Jan. 4 to 6,
Italy's newspapers were filled
with detailed speculation. But no
official itinerary or other fac
ts had been rleased by the Va
tican, which was still prepar
ing the program of the papal
pilgrimage.
THE VATICANwas also main
taining complete reserve in re
gards to the proposal byOrtho-
dox Patriarch Athenagoras I of
Constantinople that top lead
ers of the Christian world join
the Pope in a meeting of pra
yer in the Holy City. But the
Secretariat for Promoting
Christian Unity's Undersecre
tary for Orthodox Relation-
Father Piere Duprey, W. F.,
flew from Rome to Istanbul Dec.
9 to give Patriarch Athenago
ras “fuller details" of the Po
pe’s proposed Journey.
No announcement was made
here concerning Father
Duprey's flight. But reliable so
urces said that the ;rupose of
the priest's visit was a cour
tesy one aimed only at supply
ing the Patriarch with informa
tion about the papal trip. It was
not to be construed as a visit
to set up a “summit meeting"
between the two churchmen, ac
cording to these sources.
COMPLETE arrangements for
the Pope’s journey to the Holy
Land were in the hands of the
papal Secretariat of State. The
secretariat released no immed
iate details concerning the pil
grimage.
But officials of Alitalia, It
aly’s national airline, repor
ted that they would ready a
DC-8 Jet to leave Rome on the
morning of Jan. 4 and land at
Amman, Jordan, two hours la
ter, They said the plane will
be equipped with a portable al
tar. According to these offici
als, the Pope will drive by car
from the Amman airport to the
Jordanian sector of Jerusalem,
where he is to have quarters at
the residence of the Apostolic
Delegate in Jordan.
ALITALIA officials expect
ed that Pope Paul would conc
lude his visit by driving thro
ugh the Mandelbaum Gate in
to Israeli Jerusalem on Jan.
6 and would leave Israel by pl
ane that afternoon after visit
ing holy places in Israel.
It was understood that the go
vernments of Syria and Leban
on made it known that they
would like to have the Pope vi
sit their countries during his
visit to the Middle East. But
no comment was avllable at the
Vatican.
IN THE meantime, chartered
plane flights from Rome, Lon
don, Paris and Beirut were be
ing arranged to fly hundreds of
newsmen to the Holy Land. The
Vatican City daily newspaper,
L’Osservatore Romano, re
mained silent about the journey
after the terese announcement
in its Dec. 7 edition—appear
ing in the evening of Dec. 6—
giving the dates.
But Vatican Radio on Dec. 10
gave a long commentary stres
sing the ecumenical significan
ce of the pilgrimage. It said:
“JERUSALEM is the symbol of
the one and undivided Church,
although the divisions among
Christians manifest themselves
painfully in the Holy City its
elf. (But) the feeling of a com
mon bond, of a common love
which gathers everyone around
Christ reveals itself. . .in the
very fact that the places hal
lowed by the Lord are at pre
sent the common property of
Catholics, of Greek Orthodox,
and of Armenian Orthodox.
Archbishop
Reception
A public reception honoring
Archbishop Paul J. Hallinan
on his return fron the Second
Session of the Vatican Council
will be held Sunday evening
(December 15) at 8:00 p.m. in
the auditorium of Cathedral of
Christ the King.
All the faithful of the Arch
diocese are invited to attend the
reception and to bring their
friends. The archbishop will
speak on "Vatican Council —
the Middle of the Journey",
The reception will follow the
Archbishop's talk, and will be
presided over by Monsignor
Joseph G. Cassidy, V.G., P.A.,
who will introduce the Arch
bishop. Choral arrangements
will be bystudentpof D'Youville
Academy.
LEBANESE PAPERS
Stand On Jews
Given To Arabs
BEIRUT, Lebanon (NC ) —
Lebanese papers have publish
ed a letter from Patriarch Ma-
ximos IV Saigh, of Antioch,
explaining to Arabs the coun
cil's deliberations in a state
ment dealing with relations of
the Church and Jews.
The Patriarch addressed the
letter to all Arabs “to correct
erroneous interpretations and
to allay anxieties felt in the
Arab countries when it was
learned that the ecumenical
council might examine cer
tain texts regarding Jewish re-
lieion."
THE PATRIARCH said that
“the Jewish question should be
regarded under a twofold as
pect: the spiritual-religious and
the civil-political. But when
the Church speaks of Jewry
she does so in the purely spi
ritual-religious plane.
“The ecumenical council has
declared repeatedly that it is
not its task to intervene in ci
vil and religious matters. The
document in question makes no
reference whatever to the pre
sent political situation between
Arab states and State of Israel
which so far has not been re
cognized by the Vatican."
Actually it is inexact to say
the Vatican has not recogniz
ed the State of Israel. The
Vatican does not have diplo
matic relations with Israel
but that does not imply nonre
cognition. The Vatican does not
have diplomatic relations with
the U. S. A, either.
LOCAL CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL football coaches met wife Immaculate Conception Shrine
Holy Name on Sunday. Here, left to right, front row, are Don Shea, Marlst; Holy Name pre
sident Eddie Gasperlni; Fr. Leonard Kelly. Back row, George Maloof, St. Pius X: Bill
Daprano St. Joseph; Tom McDevitt, St, Joseph,
