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GEARED TO THE NEWS diocese of Atlanta GEORGIA'S SERVING NORTHERN COUNTIES VOL 2 NO 19 ATLANTA, GEORGIA THURSDAY, MAY 14. 1964 $5.00 PERtYEAR RECITING OFFICE Liturgy Renewal Takes Next Step This Pentecost PRESIDENT LYNDON JOHNSON addresses the crowd in Roosevelt Square, Gainesville, during his recent visit to the mountain city. SEE STORY, PAGE 8 ACCEPTABLE TO CHURCH Family Planning ‘Pill’ Near, Cardinal Declares Holy See Confirms Liturgical Reform For United States Pentecost Sunday has been chosen for the next step in the liturgical renewal of the Arch diocese of Atlanta. Following the new rite for the laity’s Com munion (“Corpus Christi. . . Amen”), the priests of the Archidocese who request it may be permitted to recite their daily Divine Office in English. At the same time, Arch bishop Paul J. Hallinan call ed upon the laity to learn more about this public prayer of the Church. "From early Christian timA," he said "the Office has been so constructed that the entire course of the day and night is made holy by the prais es of God. In a monastery (like our Trapplst Abbey) and among religious orders (like those serving our Archdiocese), the communal nature of this prayer is more obvious— it is chant ed. "But the office (contained in the book called the Breviary) is never a private matter. Dioce san priests reciting it alone and . without chant are joined Just aa closely to Christ and His Church in the work of praise and intercession. As the new Constitution has it, 'it is truly the very prayer which Christ Himself, together with His Body, addresses to the Father,' The Church in her present renewal is eager to include the laity in this public prayer, the Archbishop said. The old form of Parish Vespers (now almost obsolete) should be restored if possible. The revived "Bible Anglicans Join BIRMINGHAM, England (NC) For the first time in the 45 years since the observance started, Anglicans joined Cath olics in the procession of the relics of St. Chad through the streets of Birmingham, To India VATICAN CITY (NC)—Pope Paul VI has named Gregorio Cardinal Agagianian, Prefect of the Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith, papal legate to the International Eu charistic Congress to be held in Bombay from Nov. 23 to Dec. 6. The appointment of Cardi nal Agagianian—one of four papal legates named on May 9—immediately touched off speculation regarding a possi ble papal decision not to go to India, as has been rumored ever since his January trip to the Holy Land, A VATICAN official said that the naming of a papal le gate to the congress was ac cording to normal Holy See protocol. The Cardinal will represent the Pope at the con gress, he said, but his pres ence does not necessarily mean that Pope Paul will not attend himself for part of the week-long event, Other legates named were Manuel Cardinal Goncalves Cerejeira of Lisbon to the National Marian Congress in Braga, Portugal, from June 3 vigil" will, on appropriate days, offer the laity, in psalms and lessons, a key to the treasur es of the Scriptures. The grow ing practice of reciting the short Compline of the Office as a night - prayer by the faith ful is encouraged. "The laity, too," the new Liturgical Constitution con tinues, "are encouraged to re cite the Divine Office, either with the priests, or among themselves, or even indivi dually." Abbreviated and con venient forms of the Office drawn up after its pattern are now readily available. The basic reason for dispen sing priests from the use of Latin in the Office is their own spiritual good. Although each priest, through his semin ary training and experience, is familiar with the usq of Latin for the practical purposes of official communications, the- oligical references, and litur gical activities, the Archbishop pointed out that most persons pray more fruitfully in their mother-tongue. Now the priest has his choice, although he is urged not to ex clude Latin completely," Arch bishop Hallinan said in a letter aent to all diocesan clergy. "The Latin language, in accor dance with the centuries - old tradition of the Latin rite, is to be retained," according to the new regulations, but the Or dinary may authorize the ver nacular in individual cases. The dispensations for priests of the Archdiocese be comes effective Sunday, May 17. It was the Feast of Pentecost when the Jews, gathered in Jerusalem from all over the diaspora, marvelled on hearing the Apostles: "How have we heard each his own language in which he was born?" Congress to 7; Juan Cardinal Landazurl Ricketts, O.F.M., of Lima to the National Eucharistic Con gress in Leon, Spain, from July 5 to 12; and Paolo Cardi nal Marella of the Roman curia to the eighth centenary of Notre Dame cathedral in Paris from May 27 to 31. BOSTON (NC)—Science is very close to perfecting a "pill" which may be used for family planning with the approval of the Church, Leo Cardinal Suenens said here. Cardinal Suenens, Archbis hop of Mallnes-Brussels, Bel gium, told reporters at a press conference that the Church can not be expected to change her doctrine on birth control. "But this unchanging doctrine must be applied to a new situation," he added. AT PRESENT, he noted, pop ulation Increase threatens to become a major problem, and at the same time medical re search is coming very close to finding a pill which will make it very easy for married cou ples to plan their families with out violating the teachings of the Church. Asked about the controversial article on the "pill" written and published in his diocese by Father Louis Janssens, Cardi nal Suenens said that he has given the priest "liberty of re search in order to clarify the problem," (Father Janssens, a profes sor of moral theology at the Catholic University of Lou vain, suggested that the new progesterone steroids—drugs which suppress ovulation and thus make conception impossi ble-may be moral means of birth regulation, Thisviewcon- tradicts the opinions of most Catholic moral theologians who have written on the subject. Father Janssens’ article came under fire from a number of prominent U.S. moralists.) CARDINAL Suenens, com menting on the issue, said there are "really two questions in volved," "One is medical, the other moral," he said. "Medically, the question is whether the pill in question is a direct steri lizing agent or whether it mere ly regularizes natural func tions, so that a woman will know, three or four days in advance, when she is able to conceive a child. The moral answer de pends on the medical answer. Naturally, we cannot accept di rect sterilization, but I am told that a pill will be available very soon that avoids this." IN OTHER statements at his press conference, Cardinal Suenens declared that: —The Vatican council will probably have a fourth ses sion. "If we are to end after only three sessions, we will have to work very fast," he said, "We have now arranged things to make it go much more quickly, but I think there will be a fourth session." —Statements on freedom of conscience and on the relations of Catholics and Jews will prob ably be approved by the council in the form of separate decla rations, rather than as part of the schema on ecumenism. —Experiments have been made in the use of a simultan eous translation system simi lar to that of the United Na tions for the council. It was found, however, that to use such a system texts of the addresses to be given would have to be prepared five days in advance. Since this would deprive speak ers of the opportunity to com ment on the latest develop ments, it has been decided not to use such a system, —Reaction to his book ’The Nun in the World" has been so widespread and so stimulating that he is planning another book dealing with this reaction, to be entitled "Dialogue on the Nun in the World." IN A PUBLIC address, Cardi nal Suenens said that the central problem of the Church today is to "bring our Christian people to pass from a state of passi vity to a state of action," 'The problem is of capital importance," he said. "One need do no more than compare two figures to realize the fact: the number of Christiana, the number of non-Christians, A half-billion compared with two- and-a-half billion. How will we succeed in having each Chris tian bring the message of life to four others?" IN SPITE of widespread dis cussion of the layapostolate,he said , "it must be admitted that the number of Catholics who take part in an organized apos- tolate is pitifully small," "All who love God must try to make others love Him too," he said, "All who love their neighbor must try to share their greatest treasure, the Faith. That is elementary charity." THE CATHOLIC who goes to Mass and the sacraments regu larly and avoids breaking the commandments may be failing in his "duty of apostleship," Cardinal Suenens warned. In a talk to 5,000 nuns at Boston College, the Cardinal suggested that many of their rules are no longer suitable to modern needs. Both their life and their religious habit should show that they are women con secrated to God but also women of our times, he said. He also suggested that they should make their ideas and wishes known to the council. "IT IS NOT normal that men should be solving women's problems," he said, advising them to "knock nicely at the doors of Rome, but persist in knocking until you are heard," He also said that Individual nuns "should be able to speak out in their own communities about what they believe are the needs of those religious groups." VIETNAM SENTENCE SAIGON, Vietnam (NC)—Ngo dinh Can, brother of Archbis hop Ngo dinh Thuc of Hue and the late President Nfo dinh Diem, was attended by three Vietnamese priests before his execution by firing squad in side Chi Hoa prison here late in the afternoon of May 9. Before the execution he re ceived all the last sacraments, including anointing, given be cause of his illness. On the morning of May 8 he also re ceived Holy Communion dur- 900 Years SIEGBURG, Germany (NC)— Ceremonies marking the 900th anniversary of the founding of the Benedictine abbey here in cluded a pontifical Maas offer ed by the Apostolic Nuncio to Germany. With the approval of the Holy See of the liturgical decrees enacted by the American bis hops last month the next-to-last step was taken this week to bring the English language to the Mass and Sacraments. The confirmation of the U.S. decrees signed by James Cardi nal Lercaro, president of the Liturgy commission, was re ceived through Francis Cardi nal Spellman of New York, and sent on to all American bishops Monday (May 11). The bishops of the United States voted, almost unani mously, on April 2 to take full advantage of the vernacular, according to the Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy issued by the Second Vatican Council last December. The preparatory work on the American decrees was carried out by the U.S. Commission on the Liturgical Apostolate, and a group of specialists. Chairman of this commission is Archbishop John F, Dearden, of Detroit and the members are Archbishop Paul J. Hallinan, Bishops Victor Reed, Vincent Waters, John Dougherty and William Connare, Publication of the altar Mis sal and the Ritual (for the Sac raments) will now proceed, and it is hoped that the new books wil be ready for use by the first Sunday of Advent this year. The actual date will be set by the American bishops when they meet for their annual meeting which will be held again this year in Rome. The English vernacular will be incorporated into the Mass texts as follows: in the Liturgy of the Word — Introit. kyrle, Gloria, Epistle, Gradual, Gos pel, Credo, and Offertory Anti phon; in the Liturgy of the Eu charist, only the fcanctus-Bene- dictus, Pater Noster, Agnus Dei and the Domine, non sum Dignus. The Communion anti phon at the end of Mass; all those "dialogue" parts in which the people participate, and the new "Oration of the People" will also be in English. The Collect and Post-communion remain in Latin. The entire rite of all Sacraments will be in English, ing a Mass celebrated in his prison cell, THE THREE priests, one of whom was a Vietnamese army chaplain, accompanied him to the place of execution. He told the priests he forgave all his enemies. The execution was delayed about half an hour while prison officials awaited the arrival of a delegation from Hue, where former police official, Phan guang Dong, was.executed at noon on May 9. He, also a Catholic, was likewise intend ed by a priest who accompan ied him to the place of execu tion. These were the first death sentences carried out in South Vietnam since 1956, "Although the increased use of English will be the most dra matic step in the liturgical re newal," said Archbishop Hall inan, ‘There is a much deeper aspect to it, and a much more complex task ahead of us. The vernacular is only a means to an end, — full understanding and participation. CINCINNATI (NC)—Pope John XXII's encyclical Mater et Magistra has "tremendous rel evance" to the American scene, an authority on constitutional law declared here. Father William J. Kenealy, S.J., of the Boston College law school, said the philosophy of Pope John "is the philosophy to which our nation, by its most solemn covenants, is dedicat ed.” HE WAS principal speaker at presentation of the first Mater et Magistra Award by the Col lege of Mount St. Joseph. Arch bishop Karl j. Alter of Cin cinnati made the presentation to Jane M, Hoey, New York Catholic sociologist, author, and former government offi cial. Father Kenealy said the theme of the encyclical is "the con cept of forward progress, the exhortation to grow in wisdom and in grace, the plea to ad vance in social justice and char ity, and to do so by realistic measures addressed to the hard-nosed problems of pres- end-day society, based upon all available data of contemporary knowledte and practical exper ience," MATER ET Magistra, he said, "goes well beyond the enuncia tion of the fundamental princi ples of the natural law. It follows its own exhortation by applying those principles to many prac- week’s news is that the Ameri can bishops have acted quickly and wholeheartedly to bring the full liturgy to our people. Lit urgy is now understood to be the real life of the Church, not a hobby or a special interest of certain individuals. Our task now is to inspire and lead our laity to an active and fruitful collaboration in divine wor ship." tical issues in contemporary society." Father Kenealy said "the fact that Pope John went out of his way to praise the International Labor Organization and the Food and Agriculture Organi zation, two United Nations agen cies, is extraordinarily signi ficant, particularly in view of the fact that so many Ameri cans, Catholics included, have been sniping at the U. N. and all its subordinate agencies for many years, ON THE question of giving help to underdeveloped nations, he added, "you will find no sneering words about 'giveaway programs' in Mater et Magis tra. You will find words re flecting the charity of Jesus Christ." As for private property, he noted that Pope John stressed the fundamental right to ac quire, own, use, and dispose of it, "subject to the social ob ligations of private property owners." Snow Award WASHINGTON (NC)—C. P? Snow, British author, scientist and civil servant, received the diamond jubilee medal of the Catholic University of Ameri ca in a ceremony here and lec tured at the university, which is marking its 75th anniver sary (May 11). AT PSYCHIATRISTS' CONVENTION—At the natlc meeting of the American Psychiatric Association, held Los Angeles doctors and chaplains discussed the role of ligton in the profession. Pictured are Rabbi Meyer G( man (left), conferring with Dr. Jack Ewalt, of the Harv Medical School and president of the Association, and Fat Francis P. Rowley, S.J., of Poughkeepsie, N. Y„ outgo president of the Association of Mental Hospital Chapla CAUSES SPECULATION Pope Names Legate Priests Accompany Executed Official 'The significance of this Benediction The following benediction was given by Monsignor Joseph G. Cassidy, P. A., V. G., at the Georgia Legislators Breakfast for President Johnson at the Dinkler-Plaza Hotel on May 8. “Our Heavely Father, who Lovestthose who are interested in the poor and un fortunate of humanity, bless in a special manner the noble President of these United States, Surround his life with Thy Divine Counsel that in Thy hands he will always be a fit instrument for improving the physical conditions of our less fortunate citizens. Aid him in his humane interests; guide him in his deliberations; continue to inspire him in his work that nowand forever his name will be blessed. We ask these blessings in the name of Thy Beloved Son through the power of the Holy Spirit. Amen," MATER ET MAGISTRA Encyclical Seen Relevant To U.S.