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VOL 2 NO 17
ATLANTA, GEORGIA
THURSDAY, APRIL 30, 1964
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NEXT SEPTEMBER
NEW DIRECTORY
diocese of Atlanta
SERVING GEORGIA'S 71 NORTHERN COUNTIES
Prelate Orders
Integration In
Report Shows
Over Million
Alabama Schools
New Catholics
CADET Captain Christopher
Vance Arnold, the son of Mr.
and Mrs. Norman Arnold of
Roswell and a senior at the
Marlst School, has been award
ed a National Merit Scholarship
to attend the University of the
South at Sewanee, Tennessee.
MOBILE, Ala. (NC)--Arch
bishop Thomas Joseph Tollen
announced all Catholic high and
elementary schools in the Mo-
I bile-Birmingham diocese will
be integrated racially in Sep
tember.
"I know this will not meet
with the approval of many of our
people, but in justice and chari
ty, this must be done," the Bis
hop of Mobile-Birmingham said
Official
utr. > ATICAN PAVILION in the New York Worl
Fair, the famed Pieta of Michaelnngelo is enclosed in a hu
bullet-proof glass case surrounded by guards. The room
is exhibited in is in darkness except for blue spotlights g
taring around the statue with a soft white spotlight playl
directly upon it. Millions are expected to view this pricel
art treasure from the Vatican.
The Sacred Congregation of Rites has announced that His Holi
ness Pope Paul VI has authorized a change in the formula for the
distribution of Communion.
According to a decree of the Congregation dated April 25, the
prayer and the priest has traditionally said while distributing
Hosts: "Corpus Domini nostri Jesu Christi custodiat animam
tuam in vitam aeternam. Amen." ("May the Body of Our Lord
Jesus Christ preserve your soul to life everlasting. Amen."),
has been abolished.
In its place priests will now say only "Corpus Christi" and
the faithful will respond, "Amen" and then receive the Sacred
Host.
Another change adds to the Divine Praises, after the Invoca
tion: - "Blessed Be Jesus in the Most Holy Sacrament of the Al
tar," these words: - "Blessed Be The Holy Spirit, The Para
clete."
By order of the Most Reverend Archbishop, the new instructions
of the Sacred Congregation of Rites in relation to the reception of
Holy Communion will take effect in the Archdiocese of Atlanta
Sunday, May 3, 1964.
***
By virtue of a decree of the Sacred Congregation of the Coun
cil, dated April 17, the faithful of the Archdiocese are dis
pensed from the obligation of abstinence on Friday, May 1, the
feast of St. Joseph the Worker.
VERY REVEREND HAROLD J. RAINEY
CHANCELLOR
the
GEARED
TO THE
NEWS
all churches throughout the dio
cese.
"I ASK all of our people to
accept this decision as best for
God and country," the Archbis
hop added,
The diocese includes all of
Alabama and 10 counties in
northwest Florida. The two
Catholic high schools and eight
jjrade schools in the Florida
portion of the diocese were in
tegrated racially last Septem
ber.
In all, the diocese has 15
high schools and 86 elementary
schools with a total enrollment
of nearly 26,000 students, ac
cording to latest statistics.
IN THE letter to his people,
Archbishop Toolen said:
"After much prayer, consul
tation and advice, we have de
cided to Integrate all schools in
the diocese in September.
"I know this will not meet with
the approval of many of our peo
ple, but in Justice and charity,
this must be done.
"I ask all our people to accept
this decision as best for God and
country.No matter what personal
feelings are, the common good
of all must come first.
"IN THIS diocese we have
always tried to give our Negro
people everything that we have
given to our white people, es
pecially in the way of educa
tion.
'The procedure for admis
sion will be determined by the
pastors and by Rt. Rev. Msgr,
J. Edwin Staurdi, superinten
dent of schools.
''Again we ask all our people
to accept this regulation as best
for God and country."
‘WAS HOAXED’
VOCATION DAY Rally moves into action as Drexel High and St. Joseph High students provide
accompaniment and Marist gurad presents colors. On lectern at left Alfred Platt, Jr., Marist,
narrates events of Rally.
SUNDAY. MAY 3
Vatican Issues Change
In Communion Prayer
ROME (NC)—Individuals re
ceiving Communion from now
on are to take part personally
in the prayers during distribu
tion of the Eucharist, according
to a new decree of the Sacred
Congregation of Rites.
The decree, dated April 25,
abolishes the prayer the priest
traditionally has said while dis
tributing sacramental hosts:
"Corpus Domini nostri Jesu
Christi custodiat animam tuam
in vitam aeternam. Amen."
("May the Body of Our Lord
Jesus Christ preserve your soul
to life everlasting. Amen.")
PRINCESS IRENE
In its place the Congregation
words "Corpus Christi* ("Body
of Christ") and that each per
son will respond "Amen," and
then receive.
A SECOND decree of the
Congregation of Rites, bearing
the same date, provides for the
insertion in the Divine Praises,
recited mainly at the end of the
ceremony of Benediction, the
invocation 1 Blessed be the Holy
Spirit, the Paraclete." Ujed by
Christ in several instances in
the New Testament, the word
"Paraclete " comes from a
Greek word meaning one who
Rome Marriage Rites
Add To Controversy
VATICAN CITY (RNS)—Vati
can sources said here that Prin
cess Irene of Holland and Prince
Cardinal Eases
Birch Flaying
BOSTON — Richard Cardinal
Cushing eased his recent con
demnation of the John Birch
Society, dispatching to a soc
iety organizer "and your asso
ciates all good wishes and kind
regards" and granting per
mission for publication of his
new letter.
"Because of my own dedica
tion to the fight against the athe
istic communistic conspiracy, I
certainly do not want to do any
harm to fellow battlers in the
same cause," the Cardinal
stated.
THE CARDINAL’S new letter
came four days after he asset-
ed on a radio program here:
"I would prefer imprisonment
and death under a slave state
than membership in an organi
zation which has branded a
martyred President of the Unit
ed States a communist." In that
broadcast the Cardinal re
pudiated an endorsement he had
given the Birch Society in 1960
Cardinal Cushing’s new
letter was addressed to Thomas
J. Davis, Stamford, Conn., at
torney and society organizer.
Davis had participated in an
April 19 radio broadcast in New
York and mentioned the en
dorsement by Cardinal Cushing
when asked if there had been any
religious support of the society.
THE CARDINAL’S lbtter to
Davis said developments since
his radio statements "have
convinced me that I was mis
informed as to what had been
said on your own broadcast."
This referred to a message,
purported to be a "news in
quiry" which asked the Card
inal's comment on "state
ments" in the New York radio
program that he agreed with
Birchites "the late Presidents
Roosevelt and Kennedy were
communists." The message
was^ signed "Gretchen VanHus-
sen" — but further investiga
tion "failed to produce any
such person"— so the Cardinal
asked for Boston radio time to
reply.
The Birch Society endorse
ment ' was made in a letter
the Cardinal wrote in 1960
to C. M. Crawford, Los An
geles, in which he said of Ro
bert Welch, society founder, "I
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Carlos of Bourbon-Parma, a
pretender to the Spanish throne,
'were married April 29 at the
Borghese Chapel of the Basili
ca of Santa Maria Maggloe in
Rome.
Controversy in Rome and in
Holland attended the wedding
plans of the Dutch princess, a
convert to Catholicism, and the
Spanish prince whose claim to
the Spanish throne ranks behind
those of other pretenders.
Only a minor part of the con
troversy is due to the fact that
Princess Irene embraced Cath
olicism. The announcement of
her conversion from the royal
family’s Dutch Reformed
Church had caused some diffi
culty in her homeland. But it
was as nothing to the contro
versy which followed the Prin
cess’ announcement that she
would work actively to promote
Prince Carlos’ claim to the
Spanish throne.
The ceremony was car
ried out in Rome, these sour
ces added, largely because
Church officials do not wish to
add to the controversy attending
the ceremony.
POPE PAUL VI and his pre-
cedecessors, Pius XII and John
XXIII, have scrupulously avoid
ed any action which would in
dicate taking sides in the poli
tical maneuvers of pretenders
to the Spanish throne.
These observers foresaw
"reluctant but necessary papal
sanctioning" of the marriage
ceremony in Rome, plus action
that would give proof of the Holy
See’s "continued neutrality"
regarding candidates to the va
cant throne in Spain.
is called, an advocate.
The prayer is to be inserted
in the Divine Praises after the
invocation "Blessed be Jesus in
the Most Holy Sacrament of the
Altar."
A VATICAN press bulletin
said the Congregation’s decree
altering the formula for the
distribution of Communion was
authorized by Pope Paul in re
sponse to many requests. The
press bulletin noted that this
newly authorized formula was
in use in the Church in the 14th
century, and is still in use to
day in the Ambrosian Rite, a
Latin rite differing slightly
from the Roman and used main
ly in the Pope's former Arch
diocese of Milan.
The bulletin said inclusion of
the Holy Spirit in the Divine
Praises was also a result of
many requests, and it was not
ed that the Divine Praises had
been composed originally as a
prayer of reparation against
blasphemies.
NEW YORK (NC) — There now
*r*e 44,874,371 Catholics in the
50 United States, according to
the 1964 Official Catholic
Directory.
The total represents a year’s
increase of 1,026,433 and in
cludes all Catholics in the
armed forces at home and
abroad, in the diplomatic and
others services abroad. The
directory just issued by P. J.
Kenedy & Sons, New York
publisher, said the new total is
a 10 - year increase of
13,255,947, or 41.5%, over the
31,648,424 U. S. Catholics in
1954.
THERE are now 28 arch
dioceses in the United States,
with a Catholic population of
19,328,909, and 120 dioceses
with 25,545,462, including
2,000,000 Catholics reported by
the Military Ordinariate. The
28 archdioceses reported a
TRAINING PROGRAM
growth of 500,557 and the 120
dioceses 525,876.
The seven archdiocese with
Catholic populations in excess
of one million are Chicago,
2,317,700; New York, 1,782,-
630; Boston, 1,767, 274; Los
Angeles, 1,532, 411; Newark,
1,528,789; Detroit, 1,461,567,
and Philadelphia, 1,309,308.
Brooklyn continues as the
largest diocese with a Catho
lics population of 1,576,073.
Other dioceses with more than
500,000 are j Pittsburgy,
910,655; Buffalo, 897,203;
Cleveland, 853,148; Rockville
Centre, 770,112; Trenton, 576-
Centre, 770,112; Trenton, 576,-
983, and Providence, 532,692.
Five dioceses reported no
change in Catholic populations
and 18 reflected decreases.
ADVANCES were reported by
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Atlanta Club Host
To Serra District
The Serra Club of Metropoli
tan Atlanta will host the Dis
trict Meeting of Serra Inter
national on Saturday, May 2nd.,
Sam McQuade, local president
has announced.
Delegates from Chattanooga,
Nashville, Memphis and Little
Rock will meet with the Atlan
ta Club in a day-long training
program. Sessions will be held
at the Riveria Motel on Peach
tree Street,
Friday evening the delegates
will be registered and a hospi
tality room at the Riveria Mo
tel will be under the direction
of Mr. Ellis Maloof. On Satur
day morning the Delegates will
attend a low Mass at the Chapel
of Saint Joseph’s Infirmaryof-
fered by the club chaplain, Fath
er Donald Klernan.
The Rt. Rev, Msgr. Joseph
G. Cassidy P.A;, VicarGeneral
of the Archdiocese will give the
greetings of the Archbishop and
will preach the sermon. Morn
ing sessions* at the Motel will
be followed by a luncheon at
which the Rt. Rev. Msgr. P. J,
O’Connor, Archdiocesan Direc
tor of Vocations will be the guest
speaker.
Mr. Gerard Deckbar is chair
man of the day long training
program.
DENIES CUBA REPORT
Attorney Donovan
Says He Didn’t Say
NEW YORK (NC)-- Attorney
James B. Donovan declared
here that he never said pub
licly or privately that the
Catholic Church is not being
persecuted in Cuba.
"Any statement that I ever
made such an observation is a
complete falsehood," he de
clared.
"IT IS common knowledge
that a large number of priests
have been expelled from Cuba
and that the Church there is
not free to operate schools and
carry on other teaching pro
grams," he said.
Donovan said the statement to
which he takes exception
was attributed to him in reports
and comments in yie Catholic
press following a talk he gave
at the National Press Club in
Washington.
ON THAT occasion, Donovan
gave a talk on another topic.
At the end of his remarks he
was asked from the audience
whether or not Catholic church
es are closed in Cuba. Doqova-
van said that every Catholic
church he saw in Cuba remains
open, although hampered by a
scarcity of clergy.
Registration
A day of registration will be
held on Saturday, May 9, from 9
a.m. to 12 noon, at the Shrine of
the Immaculate Conception
School, Atlanta and at St. Thom
as More School, Decatur. This
registration is for children who
are to be entered into these
schools for the year 1964-1965
(September). Registrants should
be accompanied by Baptismal
certificates and proof of immu
nization.
MONSIGNOR Joseph E. Moylan, P.A., Vicar General of the
Archdiocese, addresses the young people present, calling them
to vocations on this, the Sixth Annual Vocational Rally of the
Archdiocese of Atlanta.