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• ♦ 'ctidiocese of Atlanta GEARED TO THE NEWS SERVING GEORGIA'S 71 NORTHERN COUNTIES VOL. 2 - No. IT ATLANTA, GEORG IA THURSDAY. APRIL 23. 190-4 $5.00 PERiYEAR Archbishop’s Notebook WHERE THE BOYS (AND GIRLS) ARE1 Although my visitor's schedule is still limited to priests, two imaginative high schol freshman girls crashed the sound barrier this week and paid me a visit. How they evaded my “security guard" is still something of a mystery. 1 think it was Just another instance of that spirit of adventure that hits boys and girls as the school year draws to a close. The heady climax of graduations, dances, awards and even exams and grades gives these last weeks a special flavor, It is a good thing. It sheds a significance of dignity upon the vital experience of school days. It points up that even the excitement must be contained in a sense of discipline and responsibility. And it is a reminder to those who rely almost exclusively on the prowess of the mind or the strength and beauty of the body. There is a deeply social nature in our lives. Drawing it out in a Christian manner must run parallel to the cultivation of the intellect and body. May-June happens to be the climax of this process. On the other hand, perhaps m Y tw0 freshman visitors were simply playing “Treasure Hunt", and were told to collect “a look at the Archbishopl" HOSPITALS ARE FOR READING TOO. Readers who have had a rough day at the office or hectic hours over a hot kitchen floor may be jealous of someone who has had sixteen weeks to catch up on his favorite reading. But besides the Georgia Bulletin (which gets top priority), the local papers and a batch of magazines, I have ranged far and wide— from Celestine Sibley's delightful “ 'Peachtree U.S.A.’, an af fectionate portrait of Atlanta", and the Marsh's "Athens, Georgia’s Columned City" to a good detective story, **The Man Who Came in out of the Cold" and Frank Wallace’ nostalgic "Knute Rockne" (nostalgic because my own college years at Notre Dame coincided with his last great seasons). Since my work on the new Liturgy Commission continues—at a distance—I have read all 1 could find in this field. To our Catholic people I recommend three good introductions to the changes and renewal ahead. Two are American products; the third, the translation of a distinguished Frenchman: Diekmann: Come, Let us Worship McManus: The Revival of the Liturgy Bouyer: Life and the Liturgy For a change of pace, I enjoyed "A Man for All Seasons," the mature and successful play about Thomas More; Milton Eisenhower’s ‘The Wine is Bitter," on the agonizing relations of Latin America with the United States: "The Education of a Physician" from Johns Hopkins University; and a good anatomy book on (you guessed it) the liverl I was surprised to find a book basically as sound on Catholic Life as Saint Peter's Basilica narrowed down to the title, "Are Catholic Schools the Answer? ” by Mary Perkins Ryan. I think the publisher wanted a title that would sell books, and overlooked the more profound chapters. Along with schools, I have read a great deal in our two most sensitive areas—what about the Christian position on sex in married life?, and what about the application of Christian teaching on racial justice and understanding? Still, the three 1 will remember and go back to, not only as a Bishop but as a Christian in this new era, would be Bea's: The Unity of Christians Callahan’s: The Mind of the Catholic Layman and Rahner's: The Christian Commitment For the informed lay Catholic, these indicate the resources and guidelines, the challenges and difficulties. Those -who are at home with the ideas of these three authors are ready for the rigors of the years ahead. (Some people are 1 name-droppers"; others are "book-title droppers". Others, I suppose, just enjoy reading and talking about It.) COMMENT BY AN ORDERLY . One of our orderlies is studying to be a minister. At first, I found it a little strange when he would tell me at 6:30 a.m. that he was there "to prepare me for the Eucharist." The orderly’s work was to make sure the room was “picked up" before the arrival of the Catholic Chaplain with Holy Com munion about 7:10, Then I began to think how appropriate the future preacher's words were. Isn’t this the precise meaning of the renewal in the Church today—the link of liturgy and life, of sacraments and duties, of grace and old human nature? Isn't every move of a Catholic "to prepare for the Eucharist? '* Although not of our faith, this young man's respect for the presence of God should provide some congregation with a fine pastor. Archbishop of Atlanta RETRACTS ENDORSEMENT Cardinal Flays John Birchers For Extremism A 9-FOOT HEAD OF CHRIST will form part of the mam moth mural on the facade of the new Notre Dame Memorial Library at Notre Dame, Ind. Designed by Millard Sheets, of Claremont, Calif., the granite mural, extending eleven stories above the library’s entrance measures 132 by 65 feet. It will be unveiled on May 7. BOSTON (NC)—Richard Car dinal Cushing has retracted in vehement fashion his endorse ment of the extreme right John Birch Society, asserting he pre ferred death to membership in it. "I would prefer imprison ment and death under a slave state than membership in an or ganization which has branded a martyred President of the Unit ed States a communist," the Archbishop of Boston said (April 20) in a radio address here. "IF THE statement was made that I endorsed the John Birch Society then I want to retract it. Since 1960 the John Birch Society has gone to extremes I OF ORDINATION Father Dennis Walsh, C.P. To Mark Silver Jubilee Starting tomorrow St. Paul of the Cross Parish, Atlanta, will begin a ten-day celebra tion of the Silver Anniversary of the pastor, Fr. Dennis Walsh, C.P. The official parish Jubilee Mass will be celebrated at 6 p.m., Sunday, May 3. This will be a Solemn High Mass, sung by a 75 voice choir composed of members of the Parish Adult Choir, St. Paul of the Cross School Choir and Drexel High School Glee Club. Mr. David Sellers, Sister Mary and Mr. Graham Jackson will direct. After the Mass there will be an evening of entertainment with a surprise program. THE celebration will begin with a teenage dance tomor row night, from 8 until 11:30 p.m. for the C.C.D. and Drexel High students. On Saturday night the adult dance, starting at 9, will feature the Austel Allen band. On Monday there will be a ST. THOMAS MORE FR. DENNIS WALSH, C.P. children’s anniversary Mass at 10:30 with music by the church choir. An anniversary dinner, at 12 noon, will have Fr. Dennis as guest of honor, with the priests, sisters and teachers joining the children in a Special Jubilee menu prepared by the school cafeteria staff. This will be followed by a Variety Show at 1:00 p.m. House Of Commons Won’t Honor Saint LONDON (NC) — The British government refused in the House of Commons to honor one of Parliament's greatest figures, St. Thomas More, Lord Chancellor of England, who was canonized 21 years ago as the "Martyr of the Papacy." Government Minister Selwyn Lloyd, himself a successor to St. Thomas as Chancellor of the Exchequer, rejected a request tohonortheLord Chancellor and was tried there and sentenced to death. HUGH DELARGY, a Catholic member of the opposition Labor party, asked Lloyd to appoint a committee to consider the mat ter. Lloyd, who has the title of Lord Privy Seal and is re sponsible for royal palaces in cluding Westminster Hall, re fused. "Will you give your reason for this disappointing answer?*' Delargy asked. "Do you not agree that the name of More is more intimately associated with the Hall of Westminster than that of any other person, since More presided there as Lord Chancellor and stood there as prisoner to hear his own death sentence and before that served as Mr. Speaker's (a reference to Lloyd as Lord Privy Seal) illustrious pre decessor?" LLOYD APPEARED un moved, "I am not aware of any widespread desire for this," he said. "There have been a great many trials in West minster Hall. Advisors Meet The Advisory Council to the Secretary for Education of the Archdiocese will hold a meet ing at St. Joseph High School on April 25. The meeting will start at 10 a.m. ON TUESDAY, the Feast of St. Paul of the Cross, the clergy of the Archdiocese will be th6 guests of Fr. Dennis at a Jubi lee Dinner at 6 p.m. in the cafeteria, prepared and ser ved by members of the Altar and Rosary Society. Entertain ment will follow. On Thursday the Sisters will honor Fr. Den nis at a 6 p.m. dinner. Fr. Dennis’ ordination took place in Buffalo, N.Y., on April 28, 1939 the feast of St. Paul of the Cross, founder of the Con gregation of the Passion, of which he is a member. A na tive of Dunmore, Pa. and the son of John E. and Sarah Hi- gins Walsh, Fr. Dennis had received his education in the Dunmore public schools and at Passionist Preparatory Col lege, Dunkirk, N.Y. He enter ed the Passionist Novitiate, West Springfield, Mass, and pronounced his vows August 15th, 1932. Further studies took place in the Order's monastery houses of study in Baltimore, Dunkirk and Boston. SINCE HIS ordination Fr Dennis has served throughout the Northeast - i n New York. Maryland, New Jersey and in Massachusetts (where he was Rector of St. Gabriel’s Mon astery in Boston,) In 1959 Fr. Dennis was in stalled by Bishop Hyland as second pastor of St. Paul of the Cross. An active member of the Atlanta community, he is a member of the St. Mar tin's Human Relation Council; Council of Christians and Jews; Board of Directors of the Geor gia Council of Human Relations; and the Mayor's Committee on Racial Justice. FR. DENNIS'S parents are now deceased. His brother, Robert J. Walsh, lives in Clarks Green, Pa. and is active in busi ness in nearby Scranton. He has two sisters, both nuns. Sister Marie Dolores is a member of the Good Shepherd Sisters and is assistant superior of the Lourdesmont (Clarks Summit. Pa.) School for Delinquent Girls. Sister St. Dennis, of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, is assistant director of Sl Jo seph's Maternity Hospital, Scranton, Pa. could never endorse," the Car dinal said. The Cardinal had requested the radio time on Station WNAC here. He explained that a radio program which originated (April 19) over Station WOR in New York had been carried in the Boston area and had men tioned his endorsement in 1960 of Robert Welch of suburban Belmont, Mass., the founder of the society. In 1960, the Cardinal recall ed, he wrote a letter to C. M. Crawford, Los Angeles, a so ciety member. The Cardinal said in the letter that he .re garded Welch as "a good Bap tist" and added there was "no more dedicated anti-commu nist in the United States than Robert Welch." In the letter, the Cardinal said, he regarded the Birch society as a force against communism in this country. HE SAID he had learned that his letter was being exploited by the society. He added that in recent months he had consider ed retracting it publicly in view of the "extremes" to which the society had gone. His attitude was changed when articles approved by the society characterized Presidents Franklin Delano Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy as commu nists, the Cardinal said. Cardinal Cushing said, “I was never a member of this society." He said when he learned of the New York radio broadcast, he decided the time had come to retract his en dorsement. "IN VIEW of the extreme statements and articles print ed or approved by this society in recent years, I could not in conscience endorse this organi zation nor would I be affiliat ed with it in any way," the Cardinal said. "Furthermore, I do not con sider this society as an effec tive way of confronting the in ternational conspiracy of athe istic communism," he added. He said that he now retract ed fully the letter he had writ ten to Crawford and never want ed it used again in the society's exploitations. The Cardinal de clared: "I never want my name to be referred to it in any way." He said repudiation of his let ter was "long overdue" and now he wanted the society never to use the letter again. The New York radio program was the Long John Nebel show. Two members of the Birch so ciety were on the show—Scott Stanley, Jr., editor of the so ciety publication, "American Opinion," and Thomas Davis, an attorney and a society organiz er. Nebel asked the two whether there was any religious en dorsement for the organization and Davis in reply mentioned the endorsement by Cardinal Cushing. Name Cardinals VATICAN CITY 0C)— Pope Paul VI named (April 15) Gre gorio Cardinal Agaglanian, Pre fect of the Sacred Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith, and Efrem Cardinal Fornl and William Cardinal Heard, both of the Roman Curia, as members of the Sacred Congregation of Rites. MAKING PLANS for Sunday's Vocations Day Rally, to be held at St. Pius X, are, left to right, ACCY board members Raymond Smith, John Euart and Carol Craig. CYO■ SERRA Vocation Pageant Set This Sunday Seventh, eight grade and high school students and their par ents and friends have been in vited to a Vocations Day Rally to be held on the grounds of St. Pius X High School on Sunday, April 26, at 7:30 p.m. The program, announced by Msgr. Patrick J. O'Connor, Archdiocesan Director for Vo cations, is in the form of a pageant depicting the history of the Catholic Church in North Georgia. Written by Sister Madeline, RSM, of Immaculate Concept ion School, with music selected by and under the direction of Sister Barbara, RSM, o f St. Pius X High School, the pag eant introduces each religious order and community in the Archdiocese of Atlanta. Students from several of the Catholic high schools here, garbed in the correct habits, will represent the various re ligious bodies. The color guard CINCINNATI CLOSINGS will be fromMarist. Narrators will be Alfred Platt of St. Thomas More, a student at • Marist, and Irving Pifer of SS Peter and Paul, a student at St. Joseph High School. MSGR JOSEPH E. MOYLAN, P.A..V.G. will preside as re presentative of Archbishop Hallinan. The Archdiocesan Nuns Choir, composed of two representatives of each relig ious community, will sing, con cluding the program with the Magnificat. In addition, musical selections wil 1 be offered by a singing group composed of re presentatives of all the Arch diocesan Catholic high schools. A total of over 300 persons will participate. The Rally, an annual event, is co-sponsored this year by the CYO, the Tenth Man Club and the Serra Club of Metro politan Atlanta. Serra member G.T. Deckbar of Immaculate Heart Parish, is general chair man. Parochial School Cut Ups City Cost CINCINNATI (NC) — Cincin nati public schools will spend an extra $623,125 next year to enroll 3,000 of the pupils to be turned away from paro chial school first grades in September. About 60% of the ^,000 can be absorbed into existing fa cilities, a school official said, but for the other 40% it will be necessary to build tempo rary classrooms, remodel some plants and rent space. A total of about 10,000 chil dren will be turned away from Cincinnati archdiocesan parish first grades. The archdiocese announced March 5 it is clos ing this grade in an effort to overcome rising costs and teacher shortages. Public schools in other areas of the Cincinnati archdiocese will absorb the additional 7,000 children. GEORGE REDFERN, assis tant superintendent of Cincin nati public schools, said 30 pu blic schools will need larger teaching staffs. He said 62 teachers in addition to the "nor mal turnover" of 30 first grade teachers will be sought. Redfern said 25 teachers now in the system have volunteered to teach first grade. He said another 25 who are new to the system will accept first grade posts and it is expected another 25 will be obtained through ad ditional applications. TO COMPLETE the list of teachers required, he said it is planned to retrain former teachers in special summer classes and recruit from the substitute list. WHEN THE Cincinnati arch diocese announced its grade dropping, it also said Sister-’ teachers will receive bigger minimum salaries, the number of pupils in a classroom will be set at 40, lay teachers will be assured of an annual raise of $100, high school tuition will go up to $200 a year and each parish will be assessed $30 of this cost for each pupil from within the parish boun daries. Appoint Rector NEW YORK (NC)--Msgr. Edwin B. Broderick, who has been sec retary to Francis Cardinal Spellman of New York, has been appointed rector of St. Joseph's Seminary, Yonkers, N. Y.