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THE CATHOLIC PRESS ~ 2 . i ■ _ Constant Improvement Is Goal Of Catholic Editor BY M. F. EVERETT From hand-set type and flat bed press to photo-set “cold type” and high-speed offset press with its amazing photo graphic reproduction...such has been the advance of the Catho lic press in the United States almost in my generation of ser vice in this field. Mechanical improvement is a convenient illustration of con tinued all-around advances by the Catholic press. These are seen in news coverage, editor ial content, photos, advertising, and circulation. Compared with Catholic newspapers of a few decades ago, today’s are vast ly better products of much greater service to the Church. IN AVERRING THAT the Catholic press has reached a certain maturity, one does not mean that it is self-satisfied, oblivious of shortcomings, or content with what excellence it has achieved. Quite the con trary, for maturity implies not only ability but awareness. A good editor always is trying to improve his paper and his ser vice to readers. We have many good Catholic editors today, and the call to service is greater than ever. Catholic papers in the United States date from 1789, the year our federal government was formed. There have been Cath olic editors, both clerical and lay, of distinction. But more of ten the Catholic paper in earlier days was one founded and pub lished by a Catholic, priest or layman, rather than one which This is the second of a series of 12 articles on the Catholic Press written exclusively for the GEORGIA BULLETIN by leading editors throughout the country. Mr. ,M. F. Everett is editor of the Clarion Herald, official newspaper of the Arch diocese of New Orleans. He has long been a prominent Catho lic lay editor. could be termed “the voice of the Church.” POVERTY WAS ONE reason that the Catholic press lagged. As the country developed, Bis hops and priests, all too few, faced a terrific task in minis tering to widely scattered flocks and in building churches and schools for the waves of immi grants. Defense of the Church often was a major reason for the exis tence of a Catholic paper. Cath olic immigrants were regarded with suspicion and hostility, the target of anti-Catholic bigotry. Apologetics was a major moti vation well into this century as one bishop hinted when he wryly described the Catholic press as designed “to puff pre lates and pummel Protestants.” Fortunately, this attitude has been abandoned generally for one of positive service. OF THE CATHOLIC papers established in the United States before 1840, only two exist to day. There was a spurt in the founding of papers from 1840 to 1850, a halt in the Civil War period, and a major jump from then to 1884, in which time 120 Catholic newspapers and 40 magazines were established. The third period of the U.S. Catholic press, from the Third Plenary Council of Baltimore in 1884 to the end of World War I in 1918, saw a number of Catholic journals started...55 from 1900 to 1920. THE “GOLDEN YEARS” of the U. S. Catholic press began about 1920. The old defensive policy gave way to a broader and more appealing news cov erage and a positive outlook. From individual ownership Catholic papers passed into dio cesan control. Many Bishops made a point of founding a Catholic paper to serve needs MILLARD EVERETT of the Church. The history of the Catholic press here might have been far different. A Paulist Father once told me that his order present ed plans for establishing a Cath olic daily paper to the Bishops at the Baltimore Council. They were not approved. Two at tempts by others to publish a Catholic daily in the English language failed. HAD A SUCCESSFUL Catho lic daily like The Christian Science Monitor been started years ago, it could have been of tremendous influence for the Church. It also might have ob viated problems that hamper the Catholic press today, such as inability to ob*ain a share in national advertising commen surate w ith its circulation and reader appeal because it is a “class publication.” Regional publications or a national magazine supplement for diocesan papers might hav^ served the same purposes but such proposals have never pas sed the taking stage. AH these would have had to provide some way for widely varying local needs. A CATHOLIC DAltA would have faced weighty problems, not the least being reader and financial support. Some 50 years ago The Christian Science Monitor appealed for $1 mil lion for a new publishing plant. Its readers subscribed $4 mil lion. It is doubtful that a Cath olic daily would have gained such zealous support in view of the burdens Catholics assumed in building the vast complex of churches, schools, and other in stitutions in America today. CONTINUED ON PA GE 8 CATHOLIC PRESS MONTH VOL 2 NO 7 SERVING GEORGIA’S 71 NORTHERN COUNTIES ATLANTA, GEORGIA THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1964 $5,00 PER YEAR Archdiocese of Atlanta SENATE NEXT House Approves Stiff Rights Bill FATHER MICHAEL MANNING, of the Church of SS. Peter and Paul, Atlanta, administers ashes at the altar rail on Ash Wednesday. The ancient rite was repeated in churches throughout the Archdiocese as the solemn Lenten season began yesterday. ACTUAL CELEBRATION VITAL Liturgical Participation Means Practice, WASHINGTON (NC) — The House of RepresentaUves pre sented the nation with an early Lincoln’s birthday gift-passage of th e biggest civil rights bill in history by an overwhelming vote of 290-130. The comprehensive measure, designed to obtain equal treat ment for all Americans in vot ing, jobs, education, public ac commodations, and, Federal assisted programs, now goes to the* Senate. It faces a hard fight there, including the like lihood of a southern filibuster. THE SENATE is not expect ed to begin debate on the bill before the end of February. The bill bars discrimination on grounds of religion and nat ional origin as well as race. Nuns Go Skiing VIENNA (RNS) -- Roman Catholic nuns will exchange their habits for skiing outfits to attend an eight-day skiing course, first ever held for nuns in Austria. The skiing instruc tion will be held at Mitterbach for Sisters who teach physical education. There will be special instruction for beginners and advanced skiers. It has been endorsed by many religious organizations and spokesmen. Last July 24 a joint state ment supporting it was submitt ed to congressional committees handling the legislation by the social action and racial action departments of the National Catholic Welfare Conference, the National Council of Churches and the Synagogue Council of America. HOUSE passage of the bill came just 13 months after the historic National Conference on Religion and Race, held in Jan uary, 1963 in Chicago. Attend ed by Catholics, Protestants and Jews, that meeting is credited with having mobilized religious support of the civil rights move ment to a degree never before realized. President Johnson hailed the bill's passage by the House as “an historic step forward for the cause of human dignity in America.” Leaders of civil rights organizations also prais ed the House action. But critics of the legisla tion voiced warnings that it opens the door to infringemen- CONTINUF.D ON PAGE 8 BY FATHER FREDERICK R. McManus (N. C. W. C. NEWSSERVICE) (The Following article is the eighth in a series on the broad reforms in the public worship of the Church which were enact ed by the ecumenical council. The author, an offical council expert, is a professor of canon law at the Catholic University of America and the immediate past president of the North American Liturgical Confer ence.) By Father Frederick R. McMa (N. C. W. C. News Service) Full participation in the Mass and the sacraments must be ex perienced both by congrega tions and by their members as individuals. Neither talking nor reading about the laity's part in Catholic worship is enough. The best theoretical preparation or the soundest instruction will not take the place of actual cele bration. That is why the Second Vati can Council, in its Constitution on the Liturgy, lists the parts of Catholic worship which the people should say or sing: “ac clamations, responses, psal mody, antiphons, and songs...” And the participation of the laity is supposed to be the primary aim, again according to the council, not only in the future “restoration” of the liturgy, but in its “promotion” here and now. THE IMMEDIACY of this promotion was stressed by Pope Paul VI on Jan. 25 in his document on putting the consti tution into effect and to work. But there are two apparent ob stacles: 1. The council decreed that all the official service books— missal, ritual, etc. —should be revised by experts “from var ious parts of the world.” But neither the council’s require ment that the work be done “as soon as possible ” nor Pope Paul’s quick announcement of establishment of a commission for the same purpose disguises the fact that this may be a long and complicated task. Fr. Kueng Dean TUEBINGEN, Germany (NC) —Father Hans Kueng, author and lecturer on the Second Vat ican Council, was chosen unan imously as dean of the theolo gical faculty at the University of Tuebingen for the current academic year. Father Kueng is director of the university’s ecumenical institute, and the author of ‘TheCouncil,Reform and Reunion.” Not Talk THIS IS THE source, in turn, of a temptation to postpone lit urgical participation in places where it has not yet been de veloped, to wait for the finished product of the liturgical re form. Such action or inaction is of course just the opposite of what the bishops decided almost unanimously. Speculation about future changes is profitable and nec essary, but the council’s im mediate concern is “to promote the liturgical instruction of the faithful, and also their active participation in the liturgy, both internally and externally.” 2. A second difficulty, really no more than a pretext for put ting off the action demanded by the council, is the prospect of using English in parts of the Mass and other services per haps within a few months or within a year. IN 1962, SIX months before the council opened, the rite of Baptism of adult converts was revised and the Holy See per mitted the mother tongues to be used for most of the prayers, leaving the whole question to translation to the bishops and without requiring that translat ions be examined in Rome. The same policy was adopted CONTINUED ON PAGE 8 JOHN KELLY of Troop 383, St. Paul of the Cross, Atlanta, re ceives Scouting’s Ad Altare Dei award from Msgr. Joseph G. Cassidy P. A. VG„ at the Cathedral of Christ the King in Atlanta, as Fr. James McGucken S. M., of Sacred Heart, left, and Fr. Christian Kuchenbrod, C. P„ St. Paul of the Cross, look on. Cere monies were part of Scout Sunday. ARCHBISHOP ANNOUNCES Expansion Program Postponed To 1965 The archdiocesan expansion program, originally scheduled to the launched a month ago, has been postponed until Janu ary 1965, Archbishop Paul J. Hallinan has announced. In a letter to be read in all the churches of the archdiocese on Sunday, Archbishop Hallinan states that the expansion pro gram was set for January 14. He says: "Now we find that it is neces sary to postpone it- First be cause considerably more plan ning is necessary before the four great projects are ready. Very intricate detail work mast precede the first steps. The “Village of St. Joseph” for our dependent children, for ex ample, got a real setback when it was turned down by the Aldermanic Council. (On Monday, January 20, At lanta’s Aldermanic Board turn ed down a request by the arch diocese for a special use per mit to erect a Children’s Vil lage on a 25 acre tractonFair- burn Road in Southwest Atlanta. The Board’s Zoning Committee had approved the project.) ’ *Second, although the priest- and-lay campaign committee is ready to go, the Archbishop is not. My sickness has tempor arily demobilized me, and all of us feel that we must work together.” Archbishop Hallinan said that ever since the establishment of the archdiocese in March, 1962, plans had been underway for certain new projects touch ing on every area —layleader- Pope Celebrates Pius XI Mass VATICAN CITY (RNS)— Pope Paul VI celebrated a Mass here at the tomb for Pope Pius XI on the 25th anniversary of the late pontiff's death. Attending the ceremony in a crypt of St. Peter’s Basilica were Carolo Cardinal Con- falonieri, secretary of the Sac red Consistorial Congrega tion; students of the Lombard ian Seminary; representatives of Italian Catholic Action; and many prelates, priests and re ligious. ship, education, welfare and ad ministration. In view of his illness, the Archbishop said: “We ask our people to take a year's grace for 1964, and be ready for January, 1965, when the archdiocese will launch our great Expansion VATICAN CITY (NC)— Pope Paul VI has named a former Anglican clergyman, a onetime British infantry lieutenant and an ex-rector of Rome’s Grego rian University as bishops. The former Anglican minis ter is Msgr. Gordon Wheeler, who has been named Coadju tor Bishop of Middlesbrough, England. Bishop James Scanlon of Motherwell, Scotland, who ser ved in the British Army in Program so needed and so time ly. ’There is a saying that 'whert God closes a door, He opens a window’. Be generous, be highhearted, make the sacri fices that will continue to help us to build the facilities we need for our great arch diocese,'' Africa, has been appointed Archbishop of Glasgow. Father Pablo Munos Vega, S. J. , rector of the Grego rian University until a few months ago, has been named Coadjutor Archbishop of Quito, Ecuador, his birthplace. Th e Pope has also named Bishop Geroge Andrew Beck, A. A., of Salford, head of the British Bishops’ educational activities, as Archbishop of Liverpool. CAROLYN FINNEY, Camp Fire Girl from St. Thomas More, Decatur, receives an award from Msgr. Joseph G. Cassidy, P.A., V.G., at Sunday’s ceremonies in Christ the King Cathedral honoring the youth of the Archdiocese. Boy and Girl Scouts and Camp Fire Girls took part. IN ENGLAND Pope Names Bishops