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ATLANTA, GEORGIA
THURSDAY, AUGUST 27, 1964
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ARCHBISHOP HAUMAN:
All Must Join In
Liturgy Renewal
ST, LOUIS (NC)—One of the
two American members of the
Vatican liturgy commission as
serted here that ail members of
the Church must Join in the res
toration of the liturgy if the
current renewal is really to
succeed.
Archbishop Paul J, Hallinan
of Atlanta, speaking at a Lit
urgical Week session (Aug, 27),
said the new role of the laity is
"to speak up, to sing out, to
volunteer, to help, to instruct."
"IF THE liturgy is to be re
stored," he said, "if man is
to be sanctified and God prais
ed, if we are to become truly
'one in holiness,' then it must
be done by the whole Church,
not only by the bishops, priests
and leaders among the faithful."
"It will either be accom
plished by the gradual Joining
in of all God's people, the eager
and the apathetic, the anxious
and the confident, the favor
able and the hostile, or it will
not be done rightly at all," he
said.
THE ATLANTA prelate call
ed on Religious to see their
parish churches rather than
IN CAPITOL
their chapels as the focal point
of their prayer life. He said:
"A special responsibility for
Sisters and Brothers is to rea
lize that after the diocese, the
parish is the true liturgical en
tity, The ‘sense of community'
which is so vital is nourished
primarily not in the faculty
house, nor the school, nor the
convent chapel, but in the par
ish church. There need be no
revolution here, nor a breaking
up of traditional Images or
chapel altars. All that is need
ed is a due sense of propor
tion, The liturgy in the parish
church is more than Just in
a central location. It is the or
dinary source of the Church's
power. It is the ordinary cli
max of the Church’s efforts,"
ARCHBISHOP Hallinan ack
nowledged that there is "some
resistance to the new changes,"
While declarirtg that "zeal for
the liturgy is a sign of the pro
vidential disposition of God in
our time," he called for special
tact: "We also need tact and
courtesy and kindness and per
suasion, and all these are the
ways of charity ...Those who
love the liturgy must be a real
elite, and its foremost mark
should be deep humility."
EUGENE PATTERSON
ACCW Convention
I To Hear Editor
Hif A*
THIRD SESSION of Vatican Council II will open on Monday, Sept. 14. Pope Paul VI is seen in prayer at closing session
of last year’s second session of the Council.
MRQME
Name Bishop Reh
Rector Of College
Kennedy Library
On Display Here
A traveling exhibit of perso
nal papers and memorabilia of
the late President John F. Ken
nedy, including the handwritten
draft of his famed Inaugural
Address, his rocking chair and
similar objects, will be in
Atlanta at the State Capitol,
starting Sept. 4.
The exhibit will be open to
the public without charge. It
will continue for three days.
THE EXHIBIT, sponsored by
the John F. Kennedy Library,
will Include 70 photographs
and many of the historic docu
ments and personal papers as
sociated with the Kennedy Ad
ministration. Among the latter
will be the President's notes on
the Cuban missile crisis, the
test ban treaty discussions, ci
vil rights and many speeches.
Also included will be actual
notes President Kennedy scrib
bled on dinner menus, enve
lopes, and other scraps of
paper. One invitation list drawn
up when he was serving in the
Senate, shows his handwritten
addition of the name "Jackie
Bouvier" to the guest list.
THE KENNEDY Library will
be built along the Charles River
in Boston, on a site chosen by
the President last fall and don
ated by Harvard University.
The Library will be built by
contributions from the Ameri
can people, at a cost of
$10,000,000 and then turned
over to the federal government,
which by law operates all Pre
sidential Libraries, Including
those of Presidents Roosevelt,
Truman and Eisenhower.
THE TOURING exhibit will
visit a total of 22 other cit
ies from coast to coast, con
cluding in San Francisco on Oct
ober 18.
In the meantime, work is
going forward on the various
aspects of the Library, accord
ing to Eugene Black, former
president of the World Bank
and chairman of the Board of
Trustees of the Library.
ONE component of the Lib
rary will be anoral history sec
tion, containing tape recorded
Interviews with approximately
400 national and world leaders,
concerning events in which they
and President Kennedy par
ticipated. About 340 of the in-
con’t on page 8
VATICAN CITY (N(J>~Arch
bishop Martin J. O’Connor has
resigned as 11th rector of the
North American College and
will be replaced by Bishop
Francis F. Reh of Charleston,
S. C.
At his own request Archbis
hop O'Connor gave up the pqgt
he held for almost 18 years. He
explained that pressure of work
in connection with several posi
tions he holds in the Vatican
administrative offices has made
it impossible for him to give
sufficient attention to his duties
as rector.
HE WILL remain in Rome as
president of the Pontifical Com
mission for the Communica
tions Media which he founded
in 1948 at the request of Pope
Pius XII, First called the Pon
tifical Commission for Relig
Pus ^
PRESIDENT Kennedy's own hand-written notes on his famed inau
gural address - "Ask not what your country can do for you; ask
what you can do for your country" - reproduced here, will be
on display at the State Capitol in Atlanta for three days, starting
Sept, 14 a* part of the traveling exhibit of the John F. Kennedy
Library,
ious and Didactic Films, it was
revamped' in 1955 to include
radio and television. In Feb
ruary' 1959 Pope John XXIII
mad^ it a permanent office at
tached to the Papal Secretariat
of Stae,
Archbishop O'Connor was al
so president of the ecumeni
cal council’s communications
media secretariat which pre
pared the decree on the media
of social communications ap
proved by the council Fathers
and promulgated by Pope Paul
VI on December 3, 1963. Arch
bishop O'Connor holds these
other Curia offices: He is a con-
suitor on the Congregation for
the Propagation of the Faith;
consultor on the Congregation
of Seminaries and Universities;
vice president of the council’s*
commission fortheLayAposto-
late and Communications Me
dia; and president of the coun
cil’s committee for press re
lations, the governing body for
the council press office.
IN A letter to Archbishop
O’Connor, Giuseppe Cardinal
Pizzardo, prefect of the Con
gregation of Seminaries and
Universities, praised his work
as college rector and said he
leaves "a house which you your
self have made to rise from its
foundations and on behalf of
which you have lavished such
youthful energies,"
"Your sorrow is also ours
because under your prudent and
energetic direction the Ponti
fical American College has
grown into one of the finest
schools of this beloved city,"
he added.
Born in Scranton, Pa„ in
1900, he was ordained in 1924
and consecrated Auxiliary Bis
hop of Scranton in 1943. His
appointment to the North
American College came in 1946.
The pressure of other work
forced him to ask for a pro
tector last year and Msgr.
James F. Chambers, vice rec
tor, was named 'to that post.
Bishop Reh, a 53-year-old
native of New York City, has
been the Ordinary of Charles
ton since June 1962. He was
ordained in 1935 after studies
at the North American College,
He served as vice rector of
the institution from 1954 to
1958, He was rector of St.
Joseph’s Seminary in Yonkers,
N.Y., from 1958 to 1962, when
he was named bishop of Char
leston,
Archbishop's
Statement On
Bishop Reh
"The prayers and good wishes of the Province of Atlanta go
with Bishop Francis Reh of Charleston as he enters a new period
of service for the Church, His appointment as Rector of the North
American College in Rome brings him back to one of the most
Important teaching posts in the Catholic world. In addition to
the seminary duties, he isinmanyways "our man in Rome", rep
resenting the church to visiting Americans,
"Our province will miss his spirited leadership in Charleston. In
two years, he has continued the strong missionary drive, opening
new parishes, building churches and chapels, speaking up on is
sues of the day. He integrated the Catholic schools in Charleston
last fall, and plans are ready to widen this to the entire state
next month. He has been a vigorous leader, an articulate spokes
man."
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ARCHBISHOP OF ATLANTA
DEMONSTRATES CHANGES
Atlanta Constitution editor
Eugene Patterson will be the
featured speaker at the eighth
annual Convention of the Atlanta
Archdiocesan Council of Cath
olic Women. Set for Saturday,
Sept. 5, the Convention will
take place at the Dinkler-Plaza
Hotel and will be under the
leadership of the group’s pres
ident, Mrs. Edward P. Faust,
Jr.
THE ALL-DAY session will
begin with a Pontifical Mass
incorporating the recent lit
urgical changes. Archbishop
Paul J. Hallinan will be the
celebrant at 10:30 a.m. at Sac
red Heart Church, Atlanta. Reg
istration will follow at 11:30
a.m. in the lobby of the Dink
ier Plaza.
SPEAKER at the 12;30 lunch
eon will be Miss Peg Roach, of
the NCCW, Washington, D.C.
In the afternoon there will be'
five workshops, beginning at
2:30 and covering the following
areas: Organization and De
velopment, Spiritual Develop
ment, Family Education, Com
munity Action and World Re
sponsibility. Each of the work
shops will fit into the Conven
tion's central theme, "Unity
Through Understanding." A
brief business meeting will take
place at 4:30.
A social hour at 5:30 will be
followed by dinner at 6:30, at
which Mr. Patterson will be in*
troduced by the managing edi
tor of the Georgia Bulletin
Gerard E. Sherry.
The editor of tne Consti
tution is a native of Adel, Gg.
A veteran reporter and editor,
he had a long career, here and
abroad, w^lth the United Press,
covering many of the major
stories of the time. He return
ed to Georgia in 1956 to join
the Atlanta Journal. He was
named editor of the Constitu
tion in 1960 upon Ralph McGill’s
promotion to publisher.
MR. PATTERSON is a mem
ber of the American Society of
Newspaper Editors and past
chairman of its special com
mittee on space; an appointee
of President Elsenhower's Civ
il War Centennial Advisory
Committee; vice - chairman
designate of the United States
Liturgical Week Launched
With First English Mass
ST. LOUIS — The annual Lit
urgical Week got under way here
with major stress on the 20th
century Catholic’s mandate for
responsible involvement, not
only in the public worship of-
the Church, but also~in co
operation with men of all faiths
and non— in efforts to solve
"the problems and perplexities
of this world."
Serving as both the foundation
and keynote for the Week was
the opening Mass offered at 5
p.m, (Aug. 24) in massive Kiel
Auditorium, This Eucharist was
in effect a preview demonstrat
ing the broad potential offered
by the constitution on the litur
gy enacted by the ecumenical
council, and the American Bis
hops' decrees for putting it into
effect, which are to become
general throughout the country
next Nov. 29,
ENGLISH was used for all of
those prayers and Scripture
readings which the Bishops have
decided will be in the vernacu
lar, Most of the Service of the
Word was in English—not only
the unchanging parts such as
the Kyrie, Gloria and Creed,
but also the Introlt, Epistle,
Gradual and Gospel, In the Eu
charistic Liturgy, the Offer
tory Anthem and Sanctus, and
Lord’s Prayer and most of the
rest of the Communion Service
were all ln'Engllsh.-
Father Frederick R, McMan
us, Catholic University of
America canon law professor
and liturgical expert of the ecu
menical council was celebrant.
He offered Mass facing the peo
ple, at a large but starkly sim
ple altar table. It was he who
preached the homily on the lit
urgy of the day, the feast of the
Apostle Bartholomew, and he
who led the restored "Prayer of
the Faithful," a brief litany of
Intercessions especially for the
Church’s bishops, priests and
people, all Christians, the Jew
ish people, government lead
ers, and those involved in the
cause of Justice, including civil
rights.
FOR THE congregation, 11,000
strong, there was total involve
ment. The congregational pray
ers resounded through the hall
whether they were English or
Latin. Frequent song filled the
auditorium. In addition to en
trance and recessional humns,
there was a song for the offer
tory procession, when a group
representing the congregation
marched up the main aisle bear
ing to the celebrant wholewheat
hosts, wine and water for the
Eucharistic meal.
During the Communion, when
the celebrant and a score of
priests and deacons fanned
through the auditorium to bring
Communion to the people, con
gregation and choir joined in
two Communion songs. One, in
the style of a Negro spiritual,
was sung by its composer, Fath
er Clarence J. Rivers of Cin
cinnati, as cantor. The people
sang the refrain: "God is love,
and he who abides in love abides
in God, and God in him,"
The mass was filmed and
tape-recorded to serve as a
con't on page 8
EUGENE PATTERSON
Civil Rights Commission; past
president of the Atlanta chap
ter of Sigma Delta Chi; past
state chairman of the Asso
ciated Press; a member of the
Board of Directors of the At
lanta Chamber of Commerce,
and a former member of the
Council of Atlanta’s Lutheran
Church of the Redeemer.
All Catholic women of the
Archdiocese and their husbands
are invited to the Social Hour at
5:30, as well as the dinner at
6:30, both at the Dinkier Plaza,
Reservations can be made by
contacting the parish represen
tatives of the ACCW,
Change K.
Of G Vote
NEW ORLEANS (RNS)—After
Sept, 1, more than one-third
of Knights of Columbus pre
sent at a local council meet
ing must cast negative votes
to deny membership to an ap
plicant.
This is the result of changes
made in the membership re
quirements at the 82nd 'annual
meeting of the K of C Supreme
Council here,
THE resolution, passed un
animously, does away with the
long-standing policy under
which as few as five negative
votes could deny membership
to an applicant.
This policy had brought cri
ticism, since it was charged
by many that the five-vote
"blackmail" method had been
used to discriminate against
Negroes.
EARLIER in the meeting,
Grand Knight John S, McDevitt
had urged relaxation of the
membership policies. He ask
ed that "charity and justice"
be the only factors used in
■electing candidates for mem
bership.
Ten state councils had sub
mitted resolutions asking that
the membership law be revised.
ANOTHER resolution urged
that <KofCi councils join in
a fight against sale of pub-
con’t on page 8
Wig Is Uniform
Of The Day
MEXICO CITY (NC)-- Sl«-
ter Mary Concepta, O.P., has
been walking around the st
reets of Mexico City in the
height of fashion, wearing a
high-style wig.
The reason is that Mexico’s
anti-clerical laws forbid the
wearing of clerical garb in
public. Sister Concepta, tran
sferred here on short notice
from the School of the Made-
leln in Berkeley, Calif* had
cut her hair short for summer
comfort under her veil, and
it was not long enough to be
styled.