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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. "To be a Catholic mHev »•« NELSON RIVES REALTY 3669 CLAIRMONT ROAD CHAMBLEE, GEORGIA RfeAL ESTATE, INSURANCE SALES, RENTALS RESIDENTIAL AND COMMERCIAL PROPERTY PHONE: 451-2323 C & S REALTY COMPANY "Specialists in Commercial and Industrial Real Estate” Suite 200 Henry Grady Bldg. Atlanta 3, Ga, Warehouses, Stores, Mfg, Plants, Acreage, Shopping Center Dev., Subdivision Dev,, Industrial Dev., Insurance 524-2052 MIKE & STEVE SERTICH ■i 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.” CARY SANDERS Television, Radios Stereos tir SALES AND SERVICE 3758 Roswell Rd., N.E. Phone 233-4275 Strpin/ Atlanta Sine• 1911 i • PRINTING coy»/P4/rr • LITHOGRAPHING 550 FORREST ROAD, N. E., ATLANTA, GEORGIA • TRinity 5-4727 GREETINGS Judge Eugene Gunby ORDINARY FULTON COUNTY Phono 522-6500 5MFo,«.»ko.n ( • Ah.nu IS Office Equipment Business Machines Sales-Service-Supplies BLYJ^BS PHONE 525-6417 PHONE 525-6417 172 WHITEHALL STREET, S.W. ATLANTA 3- OEOROIA MUSICAL SETTING 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," FRIIINIPSCTIONYCAU. 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