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THURSDAY AUGUST 20, 1964
GEORGIA BULLETIN PAGE 3
NEW ORLEANS CONVENTION
Mississippi Bishop Urges
Racial Justice To K. Of C.
NEW ORLEANS (NC) — A
bishop from Mississippi told
the Knights of Columbus annual
convention that the race issue
presents Americans with the
challenge of making democracy
work here at home.
Auxiliary Bishop Joseph B.
Brunini of Natchez - Jackson,
Miss., said the presence of
Negroes in the U.S. is "a great
blessing for our country.”
"WE HAVE the privilege of
making democracy work right
here in our own immediate land
by embracing all children of God
as our brothers in Christ and as
our brothers in a great demo
cracy,” he said, adding:
”Only by making brotherhood
work here in America can we
sell brotherhood to the rest of
the world.”
BISHOP Brunini preached
(Aug. 18) at a Solemn Ponti
fical Mass opening the 82nd
annual K. of C. Supreme Coun
cil meeting attended by some
400 delegates and 2,000
visitors.
The bishop, whose diocese
has announced the start of racial
integration in the girst grades
of Catholic schools in Septem
ber, called it "symbolic” that
the 1964 Knights of Columbus
convention should be held in the
Deep South.
CATHOLIC lay people,
"members of the great uni
versal Church, with the clear
understanding of the universa.
brotherhood of man, should be
the leaders in breaking down
any walls of separation between
the peoples of the many races
that live within our borders,”
he said.
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be a Catholic layman today, to
be a Knight of Columbus today,
and not to realize our spiritual
opportunities would indeed be a
tragedy, a great setback for the
human race,” he said.
He quoted the recent charge
of Pope Paul VI to the laity:
"ALL OF us are responsible
for our times and for our bro
thers. The day is growing late.
Become convinced that it is
necessary to work today—im-
mediately that not an hour can
be lose!. . .Tomorrow could
be too late. Now is the hour of
the laity.”
He said also that Knights of
Columbus, as leaders among
Catholic laymen, should wel
come "the admonition” of Pope
John XXIII as stated in his en
cyclical Pacem in Terris;
"HE WHO possesses cer
tain rights has likewise the duty
to claim those rights as marks
of his dignity. . .all others have
the obligation to acknowledge
those rights and respect them.”
Bishop Brunini told Knights
attending the Mass at historic
St. Louis cathedral that it "is
strange that after 2,000 years
of Christianity the world has
not accepted” the "clear chal
lenge” of Christ.
"IT IS strange that after al
most 200 years of living under
the Constitution of the United
States and the Declaration of
Independence declaring that all
men are free and equal, we
still have to preach the Gospel
of brotherly love.
"The world will never learn.
"God give to the Knights of
Columbus the grace of accept
ing this simple lesson.”
POINTING to the dialogue be
gun between the Christian re
ligions of the world, Bishop
Brunini challenged the Knights
of Columbus to begin a dialogue
of their own --specifically with
the leaders of the Young Men’s
Christian Association and
"among the great Masonic
bodies of our country.”
"Truly the Knights of.
Columbus will find with these
'their nrethen much in their
common efforts to relieve
human suffering and distress,”
he declared.
"WITH HEART speaking to
heart,” he said, "the walls
which separate us can come
tumbling down.”
Pre-business sessions at the
annual convention got under way
(Aug. 15) with a series of social
events, including a "Mardi Gras
in August” parade through
downtown New Orleans and a
huge seafood dinner aboard a
Mississippi River sightseeing
boat.
GRAND Supreme Kinght John
W. McDevitt spoke at the states
dinner of the convention
(Aug. 18).
He deplored "what amounts to
a reasonable facsimile of war in
our own neighborhood streets
and even at our own doorsteps
—the savage and senseless acts
of violence and vandalism that
are committed by youngsters
of high school age and even
less.”
MCDEVITT, a veteran educa
tor, commenting on the causes
of delinquency, said* "sorry
substitutes for authority and
discipline are even given re
spected status in schools where
children of tender age are said
to be progressively educated.”
Parents of progressively
educated children, he said,
"live largely in a state of
bewilderment, groping for an
explanation of what happened to
their Johnnies and Susies,
"THE MINDS and attitudes
of the youngsters differ, signi
ficantly, from those who are
taught to respect authority and
who express their realization of
its weight and value, even in
their tenderestyears, when they
utter the impressive words—
’Sister Felicia says. . .’ or
’Brother Felix says . . .’ with
the solid implication that
Rome has spoken and the case
is closed.”
"Respect for authority,” Mc
Devitt said, "puts no halter on
the free movement of the open
mind in its exploration of the
limitless world of ideas.”
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ALTAR MODEL—The simple but dramatic setting for the public Masses of this year’s
Liturgical Week, to be held in Kiel Auditorium, St. Louis, Mo., Aug. 24 to 27, was de
signed by William Schickel of Loveland, Ohio (right). Mass will be offered facing the
people in the English-language ritual approved by the Bishops of the United States.
DROP STUDY
Franciscan Parley Backs
Anti-Injustice Programs
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (RNS) —
The Franciscan Educational
Conference closed here with an
endorsement of "our federal
government in its domestic and
foreign programs to alleviate
personal injustice" athomeand
abroad.
And it tabled, amid laughter
and a delegate’s comment that
it was "Imprudent, ” another
"minority report" resolution.
This one declared that there
is "an essential incompatibility
between Christian social
thought and (that of) Senator
Barry Goldwater," the Republi-
MISS. CATHOLIC SCHOOLS
Integration Set
This September
NATCHEZ, Miss, (NC) —
Bishop Richard 0, Gerow dis
closed that a program for racial
integration of Catholic schools
in Mississippi will be in
augurated in September,
In a letter read in all churches
(Aug. 9) throughout the Natchez-
Jackson diocese, Bishop Gerow
said "It is to be the policy of
the Catholic schools in the dio
cese to admit qualified Catholic
children to the first grade with
out respect to race."
THE BISHOP’S letter said the
program will be effective in
September and implerhentation
"of this decision wiL be handled
by each pastor" in consultation
with the Bishop.
There are 51 Catholic ele
mentary schools — 50 parochial
and one private — in the
Natchez - Jackson diocese.
Bishop Gerow called’ upon
the Catholic people of the dio
cese to * give witness to a true
Christian spirit by their ac
ceptance of and cooperation in
the implementation of this
policy,”
THE TEXT of the Bishop’s
letter follows:
"My dearly beloved brethren
in Jesus Christ,
"I write you regarding a
matter to which I have given
much though and prayer and
on which I have made a de
cision.
"Accordingly, it is to be
policy of the Catholic school*
in the diocese to admit quali
fied Catholic children to tfie
•first grade without respect to
race. This is effective, Septem
ber, 1964. Implementation of
this decision will be handled by
each pastor in consultation with
me,
"I call upon the Catholic
people of Mississippi to give
witness to a true Christian
spirit by their acceptance of
and cooperation in the imple
mentation of this policy.
"I rely upon your devotion
and ask for your prayers that
whatever adjustments ensue,
they may redound to the
greater honor and glory of God
and the strengthening of the
bond of charity which unites us
all in Christ."
can Presidential nominee,
"CAN WE bring this up again
next year?" one priest asked,
•provoking more smiles.
He later said the resolution
had been discussed by several
delegates to the conference, and
"if it had dealt with the Re
publican platform Instead of the
individual we might have gotten
It up for discussion."
The conference, which met
at Bellarmine College here,
also passed a resolution
commending "the United Na
tions and its affiliate organiza
tions in their efforts to im
plement the social principles
enunciated by the Holy Father’s
(Pope John XXIII) encyclicals,"
DELEGATES, largely teach
ers representing many re
ligious orders, heard discus
sions of such varied subjects
as private property, labor and
wages, and birth control.
One round-table discussion
concerned the Church’s re
sponsibility in soical questions,
FATHER Bertrand Scully,
O.F.M., Cap., of Hudson, N.H.,
told the group the laity should
TEACHER-OFFICIAL
be trained in "principles and
virtue" to act "in their neigh
borhoods, in the civic com
munity, in trades and profes
sions, in education, in politics,
in race relations, and in pro
motion of peace,"
THE GROUP, in discussing
guidance available for laymen,
said there was hardly any from
Catholic moralists for the
ethics of businessmen’s deal
ings.
"In the area of business
ethics we are not doing the Job,"
said one priest. Few Catholics
are writing on business ethics,
and modern - day Catholic
moralists at one conference
elsewhere felt such things were
not their concern, two others
complained.
"COMPETENCE in what is
going on (now) is important,"
another said, "For instance,
what is a bribe these days:
taking someone to dinner; buy
ing a man’s wife a fur coat?
These things are a matter of
convention, not based on eternal
law..
The conference discussed but
did not come to definite con
clusions on the topics covered.
Defends Malaysian
Mission Schools
NEW ABBOT — Rt. Rev.
Daniel Kucera, O.S.B., newly
elected abbot of St. Proco
pius Abbey, Lisle, III., will
be solemnly blessed in cere
monies to be held in St, Ray
mond Nonnatus cathedral,
Joliet, Ill., Aug. 19. Albert
Cardinal Meyer of Chicago
will officiate.
IPOH, Malaysia (NC) —
Charges that mission schools
are using government money
to spread Christianity in
Malaysia were denied here by
the non-Catholic president of
the National Union of Graduate
Teachers.
Teerath Ram told the union’s
annual convention that the ac
cusations are a result of in
sufficient or inaccurate know
ledge, He said the mission
schools are the backbone of
this southeast Asian nation's
education system, and urged
that they continue to receive
government subsidies,
CATHOLIC schools in
Malaysia are educating nearly
half the nation’s students,
If their parents want them to,
the students are given courses
in the Koran, the Moslem holy
book, Islam is Malaysia’s state
religion.
Ram told convention dele
gates that government-assisted
mission schools "have been and
still are the very backbone of
our educational structure, and
by virtue of their character and
traditions, they are specially
well equipped to produce the
men and women of the highest
caliber needed for the future
development of our country
and nation."
"IN MANY instances, they
are doing a far better Job of
training our future citizens than
schools which are wholly the
responsibility of government,"
All government - assisted
mission schools are directly
under the control of the ministry
of education, are subject to the
same rules and regulations as
fully assisted "former govern
ment schools" and are in no
way "lagging behind in the im
plementation of government
policy," Ram said,
IT IS imperative, he added,
"in our national interests to
continue aid to missions which
cost the government far'less
then schools financed wholly
from government funds,"
Quads Receive
SOCUELLAMOS, Sp»ln JJC--
Spain's only quadruplets—
Maris, Conchlts, Amelia and
Aurora Nieto Fernandez-
received their first Holy com
munion here on their eighth
birthday.
Mass Inspired
By Spirituals
WASHINGTON (NC) — A musi
cal setting for the Mass that
draws its inspiration in part
from Negro spirituals is win
ning acceptance in parishes
throughout the country.
Entitled "An American Mass
Program," it has been describ
ed by a reviewer for the trade
magazine Billboard as being
"like Gregorian chant touched
with the blues."
THE MUSIC is the work of
Father Clarence J. Rivers, 33,
a curate at St, Joseph’s church
in Cincinnati, Director of a
Cincinnati drama group, Jie was
here studying in the speech and
drama department at the Catho
lic University of America.
Father Rivers composed his
American Mass Program
originally for his own inspira
tion and enjoyment and later
used it to develop a program of
active participation in the Mass
at St. Joseph's parish.
DURING its first two years
of use, none of the music was
written down. Later, however,
it was transcribed, and last
year a recording of the setting
was issued.
The liturgical and scriptural
texts in Father Rivers'program
appear in English translation,
ALTHOUGH rooted in the
tradition of Negro spirituals,
the music does not borrow di
rectly any of their familiar
melodies. Rather, according to
Father Rivers, it "incorporates
their characteristic melodic
patterns and rhythmic life into
an original expression."
The melodies on the whole
are built on the five-note scale
common to spirituals. There
are some^ gentle rhythmic
syncopations and some "blue"
notes,
IN ADDITION, the typical
call-response delivery of the
spirituals has been adapted to
the liturgical responsorial
style. Most parts of the music
are developed as verses and
refrains to be sung alternate
ly by cantor and congregation.
The Mass program has been
used at the headquarters of the
Grail movement in Grailville,
Ohio, and is coming into in
creasing use in many parts of
the country, according to Fa
ther Rivers.
"SINCERELY, humbly, and
perhaps presumptuously," the
priest said, "I hope that this
music can be of some help in
bringing the liturgy of the
Church closer to the lives of
her people,"
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