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PAGE 2 GEORGIA BULLETIN THURSDAY, JUNE 18, 1964 WRITER DECLARES Pope Paul Perpetuating John’s Legacy To World At this time last year, the entire world — Christian and non-Christian, believers and unbelievers — was mourning the death of the immensely and universally beloved Pope John XXIII. Speculation was rife both over who would succeed him and whether the new Pope would perpetuate the great ecumeni cal legacy of his predecessor. In Catholic churches around the world last week — from majestic St, Peter’s Basilica in Rome to the humblest chapels in remote mission areas —- the extraordinary and still-felt im pact of Pope John’s compara tively brief but epoch-marking pontificate was reflected in the Memorial Masses offered on the first anniversary of his death. IN THE Italian Diocese of Bergamo where he was bom, 50,000 priests and faithful meanwhile had signed a petition for his beatification and event ual canonization. Other Italian dioceses were reported circu lating similar petitions. And it was even proposed that the Sec ond Vatican Council — the greatest single monument of his reign — canonize him by “acclamation” when it recon venes for its third session in September. Whether or not the Church, soon or late, raises Pope John to the supreme dignity of the altar, it is clear that he has already been canonized in the hearts not only of the Catholic faithful, but of men everywhere touched by his simple goodness and all- embracing human warmth. At the same time, it seems equally clear that Paul VI, al though contrasting greatly in his personal characteristics and strictly his own Pope, is hew ing closely to the spirit and example of the man whose man tle he has inherited. WHEN HE was elected Pope, John XXIIlwas already 76years old and many saw him as a "transitional Pope” — an im pression that was soon to be Peachtree Road Pharmacy PICK UP AND DELIVERY SERVICE I CALL CE 7-6466 4062 Peachtree Rd. 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THROUGH two great social encyclicals — Mater et Magis- tra and Pacem in Terris, which each found a worldwide re sponse probably unparalleled in the case of any papal document — the aged pontiff provided practical guidelines toward the establishment of a Just and rational social order in a world of far-reaching political and economic changes. Dead a year, Pope John is still present in the world in a two-fold way: through his suc cessor, Paul VI, and through the inspiration of his life and the atmosphere of intercreedal rapprochement that now in spires the guest for Christian unity. On the morrow of his prede cessor’s death, Pope Paul, the former Giovanni Battista Car dinal Montini, Archbishop of Milan, proclaimed that “the tomb of John XXIII will not be able to confine his heritage,” And in the first days of his pontificate, the new Pope set doubts at rest by announcing his intention to continue the Second Vatican Council, which, he said, had "opened new ave nues to the saving activity of the Catholic Church,” FROM POPE Paul have come many clear indications that he intends to give full reality to the dreams and aspirations of his predecessor of whom many had spoken as being, like John the Baptist, “a man sent from God,’ In various pronouncements and at audiences to Catholics and non-Catholics, Pope Paul has issued the same invitation to openness and dialogue, to doctrinal and pastoral chari ty. In him have been found al so the same insistence on con structive, positive work, the same desire to translate the message of the Gospel into a language modern people under stand. Pope Paul's determination to perpetuate the ecumenical flame lighted by his predeces sor was evidenced especially by his recent decision to set up a new Secretariat for Non- id. Terence 0 Brien „ KNOWS LIFE JS/ INSURANCE # Mk. Suite 715 270 Pchtr. Bldg. N. W.iAtl., Ga. Home BU 4-1191 Office 688-2600 SoutMandlife (SO INSURANCE COMPANY Horn* Ofttce ♦ Southland Ctntar • Dallas —* Office Equipment Business Machines Sales-Service-Supplies PHONE 525-6417 PHONE 525-6417 172 WHITEHALL STREET, S.W. ATLANTA 3, GEORGIA FRESH SEAFOOD lit fan*, tfa faat (2*ofa fan/ BUD AND TOM'S SEA FOOD 5441 PEACHTREE ROAD ItLEPHONE 457-9S90 CHAMBLEE, GA.. Christians wbich is expected not only to bring a new level of dialogue to Rome, but dispel among Catholics what Ameri ca, national Catholic weekly, called an "almost abysmal ig norance of non - Christian faiths.” WHEN HE announced the new secretariat, Pope Paul spoke of the need of a “catholicity” in which “every nationality is merged for the good of the world community, every form of ra cism is condemned, every form of totalitarianism Is revealed in its inhumanity,” In promulgating the Consti tution on the Sacred Liturgy ap proved at the close of the Vati can Council's second session, Pope Paul took the first major step in the aggiomamento, or bringing of the Church up to date which Pope John had en visioned as the Council’s pri mary goal. It fell to Pope Paul’s lot, too, to accomplish something that his predecessor had himself dreamed of, but was never des tined to undertake —the prece dent-shattering trip to the Holy Land. There he also became the first pontiff in over500years to meet Eastern Orthodoxy’s most exalted figure. His cordial en counter with Ecumenical Patri arch Athenagoras was ranked as one of the great ecumenical events of modern times and seen as a portent of a new and hap pier relationship between Rome and the Orthodox East. POPE JOHN was a man of initiative; and his successor is no less so. This week, Paul VI granted a relaxation of the Church's ban against crema tion under certain conditions. He has also made a change in the formula for the distribution of Holy Communion to permit the faithful to participate “more actively and fruitfully” in the Sacrament; simplified his title by changing the traditional formula, The Holiness of Our Lord, to that of the Holy Fath er; broadened the influence of the Eastern Rite hierarchies within the Sacred Congregation for the Oriental Cburch by nam ing 16 consultors to that body; and appointed a group of of ficial lay delegates to the Vati can Council’s second session — striking testimony to the impor tance he has attached to the role of the laity in the Church. Last July, he made a notable gesture toward the Russian Or thodox Church by approving the appointment of a bishop to attend celebrations in Moscow mark ing the jubilee of Patriarch Alexei, head of the Russian Church. It has been said of Pope Paul, son of a lawyer and a man of scholarly inclination, that he resembles Pope Pius XII (under whom he served closely for 25 years in the Vatican Secre tariat of State), and emulates Pope John —especially in seek ing to communicate with people, even though he might be hap piest alone aL day in a bood- filled studio. In Rome,at first a barrier of coolness surrounded Pope Paul when he succeeded the enor mously popular John XXIII. But in his many public appearances, his Lenten visits to the station- al churches, his excursions to hospitals and other institutions, including the Regina Coeli pris on, have since won for him the warm affection of the Romans. Many have been deeply impres sed by his humble, deeply sin cere manner. It is on his innate gentleness and understanding, combined with his wide experi ence and great administrative skill, that the Catholic Church depends for continued inspired and prudent leadership in its complex modem world. HOLY SEE PERMITS POPE AT PREDECESSOR'S TOMB. Early in the morning on the first anniversary (June 3) of the death of Pope John XXIII, Pope Paul VI went privately to the grottoes beneath St. Peter’s basilica to offer Mass at an altar near the tomb of his predecessor. Before leaving the grottoes, Pope Paul lit a large candle which had been sent there the day before, and kneeling before the tomb of Pope John recited the De Profundis. This picture shows the Holy Father at prayer that morning. The Pontiff also greeted relatives of Pope John. ON RACE QUESTION Los Angeles Priest Challenges Cardinal LOS ANGELES (RNS) — A 29-year-old parish priest an nounced here that he had writ ten to Pope Paul VI to ask the removal of James Francis Car dinal McIntyre as Archbishop of Los Angeles, Father William H. DuBay, as sistant at St. Albert the Great church in Compton, a suburb, charged in his unprecedented action that the prelate had "fail ed to exercise moral leader ship among the Catholics of this diocese on racial discrim ination.” THERE WAS no immediate comment from Cardinal Mc Intyre or archdiocesan officials. The priest made his announ cement at a news conference he called at the Los Angles Press Club. He said that his pastor, Father Martin D. Mc Govern, was unaware of his ac tion. The pastor is now in Ire land. FATHER DuBAY, who es timated that his parish congre gation is approximately 80 per cent Negro, told reporters that he had been "disciplined several times for speaking on the issue" of racial justice and was "threatened -a year ago with suspension from priestly duti r - if I continued to preach th... integration is a moral issue,” Responding to a question, he said he was prepared to lose his parish post as a result of his action. He held that his "in sult” to Cardinal Me Intryre was less than "the insult and injury suffered by the several hundred thousand Los Angeles Negroes at the hands of white Cathol ics whom the local church re fuses to instruct in their spec ific moral obligations.” AMONG THE charges the young priest made against a Prince of the Church were "gross malfeasance in office... and abuses of authority.” Segments of his 700-word let ter sent to Pope Paul follow. "CARDINAL McIntyre has perpetrated inexcusable abuses in two areas: he has failed to exercise moral leadership among the white Catholics of this diocese on racial dis crimination; and he has con ducted a vicious program of intimidation and repression against priests, seminarians and laity who have tried to reach the conscience of white Catho lics in his archdiocese,” (and) "has often protested that there is no racial problem in South ern California. . . "His action promoted the prolongation of Negro grie vances by falling to mobilize BRANAN & SCHMITZ REALTY CO. 4641 Roswell Rd. N. E. Atlanta, Georgia 255-7770 BUYING OR SELLING A HOUSE? contact Branan & Schmitz for qualified personal service! Specialists in AREAS I & II - Residential Sales - Acreage • Insurance - Leases the Catholic population against the social evils of segrega tion. Los Angeles is the third most segregated city in the United States. "IN ADDITION to simple in action, His Eminence has sev erely chastised priests for speaking out against segrega tion. His Eminence has refus ed to receive groups of respon sible Negro Catholic laymen concerning their just grievan ces. His Eminence has insist ed that the civil rights issue in California is a purely poli tical one, in which the Church has no right to interfere. "By using harsh reprimands, he has tried to prevent students of St. John’s Major Seminary at Camarillo from learning the Church’s social teachings in matters of local concern. "ALL OF us concerned with giving Negro congregations (such as St. Albert's) positive leadership in their yearning for full protection under the law, equal opportunities for educa tion, jobs and housing, cannot reconcile the clear teachings w < hrist and the Church with the restrictive and nullifying policies of the cardinal. "Our Caucasian congrega- tio. . , too, are not free to act in a Christian manner un less they are told not only general commitment to racial justice and for taking part in an informal conversation with John Howard Griffin, noted Catholic author and spokesman for the civil rights movement.” He held that one student was dismissed, another "recalled from receiving ordination to the subdiaconate,” one left the seminary for reasons of con science and others we*-* sent home "for vacation on proba tion.” THE LETTER to Pope Paul claimed that the cardinal "has contributed to the possibility of serious racial violence by de priving civil rights of respon sible Catholic and clerical lea dership necessary to encour age Chi 4 .i forms of non violent protest.” During his press conference, Father DuBay said he had difficulties shortly after his or dination in 1960. Assigned to Our Lady of Lourdes Church, Northridge, he was criticized, he claimed, by the cardinal’s office for listing in the church bulletin a compilation of Catho lic statements on race for gui dance of parishioners facing an influx of Negro students. "I WAS told,” he said, "not to say anything more on the race problem. I was moved in one month to La Canada.” While at the second parish, he said, he received an offer to go "on loan” as an African missionary. Father DuBay said the cardinal refused to grant the transfer because priests were badly needed in the Los Angeles archdiocese. He later was moved to his present post in Compton "where I could serve local Negroes rather than African Negroes.” NELSON RIVES REALTY 3<j69 CLAIRMONT ROAD CHAMBLEE, GEORGIA REAL ESTATE, INSURANCE SALES, RENTALS RESIDENTIAL AND COMMERCIAL PROPERTY PHONE: 451-2323 Saturday Masses For Sunday Duty HE SAID that he had been instructed by Msgr, Benjamin G, Hawkes, then secretary to the Cardinal, not to speak out on race while at the La Canada parish. “Msgr, Hawkes told me that race w. s no problem in Los Angeles, and that it was not a moral issue here,” he told reporters. Father DuBay said he then wrote a letter to the cardinal that asked for a “statement of policy,” SUMMONED to Cardinal Mc Intyre’s office, the priest said the prelate “denied all the questions I had put. He denied that there was a racial issue here and said it was not a moral issue. He said there were many other reasons for discrimin' ion besides race, “ ’After all, white parents have to protect their daughters,’ he told me,” ASKED WHAT good would come of his letter, Father Du Bay replied: "It will clear my conscience. If the cardinal wants to impose his views on us, let him do this openly. Now it is done in secret by secret policies secretly enforced.” On the day before Father DuBay's announcement, Cardi nal McIntyre also was critized by a Catholic lay editor, who charged him with failure to "speak out” on the racial is sue and against an initiative which seeks to abolish Cali fornia's fair housing law, EDWARD M, Keating, pulish- er of Ramparts, a magazine edited by Catholic laymen in suburban Menlo Park, claimed that priests were afraid to speak out on the issue, "I have been informed,” he said at a press conference, “there are a number of priests in this archdiocese thinking at this time of signing a public statement calling on the arch bishop to issue a statement promulgating the Church’s doctrine.” ’THE PROBLEM of racism is a moral and religious question,” he said, "It is clear ly a sin against one’s fellow man and against Almight God.” The summer issue of Ramparts contains an article by an unidentified priest who cited Cardinal McIntyre’s "re moteness” from racial pro blems. “Cardinal McIntyre can con tinue to say that there is no racial problem in his arch diocese,” the authorwrote, "An incredible statement. No one who is in touch, who reaus, who knows what is going on could make it with a straight face,” VATICAN CITY (NC)--The Holy See has granted permission for some dioceses to have Masses on Saturday afternoon or even ing which would satisfy the Sun day Mass requirement for the participating faithful. The permission, being grant ed to dioceses where the short age of priests or vacation or weekend schedules are deemed to warrant the exception, has been given by the Congregation of the Council. AUTHORITIES of the congre gation told the N.C.W.C. News Service that the faculty is not a blanket one. It is granted only to specific dioceses at the request of the local bishop. Spokesmen for the congregation said also that the permission is given only for a specified period of time, after which renewal must be sought, and the necessary conditions surround ing its original granting must still exist. The congregation’s rescript states that decisions regarding the time, place and choice of churches in which this faculty is to be exercised are to be decided in the prudent judg ment of the Ordinary. But such a Saturday Mass fulfilling the Sunday obligation cannot be celebrated before the first Vespers of the Sunday, which according to existing law must be recited sometime after noon on Saturday. VATICAN RADIO in com menting said that the faculty has already been granted to various dioceses in Italy, Switzerland and Argentina. Among the rea sons for the permission, it said, is that weekend traveling in winter and summer “makes observance of the Sunday Mass obligation very difficult.” It said also that the concession is designed to ameliorate difficul ties caused by scarcity of priests in some dioceses, inas much as priests are limited to offering three Masses on Sun days, and by being able to offer four Masses which would fulfil the Sunday obligation a greater number of people will be able to participate. Resettle Cubans MIAMI, Fla.(NC)—More than 45,000 Cuban refugees have been resettled by Catholic Re lief Services—National Catho lic Welfare Conference since January, 1961, according to the Cuban Refugee Center here. The center, operated by the De partment of Health, Education, and Welfare, released figures showing that in that period 116,359 refugees had registered with CRS—NCWC and 45,408 had been resettled by the agency. 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