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ATLANTA, GEORGIA
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1964
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Archdiocese of Atlanta
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BULLETIN
SERVING GEORGIA'S 71 NORTHERN COUNTIES
CHANGES
IN RELATION TO JEWS
New Pastor Set
For Cathedral
A TOl* LEADER in athletics, this first grader at Transfig
uration school. Cleveland, does the "Bunny Hop." in a wide
ly used system of physical education devised by Seton Hall
educator Victor J. DiFillppo. Originally to be used in Catho
lic schools, with emphasis on elementary school children’s
needs, the system has helped more than a million children in
public as well as parochial schools.
of Christ the King Cathedral,
Archbishop Paul J. Hallinan
announced this week.
Succeeding Father McDonough
as Pastor of Holy Spirit Parish
will be the Rev. Joseph F. Ware,
Pastor of Sacred Heart Church,
Milledgeville.
These changes resulted from
the resignation of Msgr. Joseph
G. Cassidy, P.A.V.G., as Rec
tor of the Cathedral. He suc
ceeds Father Ware as Pas
tor at Milledgeville. A re
ception for Msgr. Cassidy will
be held this evening (October
1) at the Cathedral Auditorium
when Parishioners and friends
are invited to a farewell get
together.
All changes are effective Oc
tober 10, 1964.
Father McDonough was born
in South Boston, Mass, and was
ordained at Holy Cross Cathe
dral, Boston, by Richard Car
dinal Cushing, May, 1941. He
was assistant at St. Zepheryn,
Cochituate, Mass., from June,
1941 to Sept., 1941; assistant
at St. Joseph’s, Ipswich, Mass.,
Sept. 1941 to Sept. 1944; U.S.
Army captain at Ft. McClellan,
Ala., from Oct., 1944 to Nov.,
1946; assistant at Christ the
King Cathedral, Atlanta, Jan.
1947 to Sept., 1956. From
Sept., 1956 to June, 1959 he
was pastor of St. Peter’s.
LaGrange; from June, 1959 to
June, 1964, pastor of St Mary’s,
Rome. In May, 1962 he was
appointed Archdiocesan Couns-
ultor and, in June, 1964, Vicar
Forane (Dean) of the North
west Deanery.
Father Ware was bom in Sav
annah, Ga, received his train
ing at St. Mary's Seminary,
Baltimore, Md., and was orda
ined, May, 1948, at the Cath
edral of St. John the Baptist,
Savannah, by Bishop Emmet
M. Walsh of Charleston, S.
C. From May, 1948 to Aug.,
1950, he was assistant at the
Cathedral in Savannah. From
Aug. 1950 to June, 1955 he
was assistant at St. Thomas
More, Decatur, and from
June, 1955 to 1 June, 1956
was assistant at St. John the
Evangelist, Hapeville. In June,
1956 he was made pastor of
Sacred Heart, Milledgeville. He
is an Archdiocesan Counsultor,
a Pro-Synodal Judge of the
Matrimonial Tribunal and a
member of the Commission on
Development.
present text says deicide must
not be attributed to the Jews
of modem times. The earlier
text favored by Bishop Leven
states that the crime cannot
be attributed ot the Jewish
people as a whole of all times.
Archbishop O'Boyle took the
floor to speak as a council
Father from the country which
has the largest Jewish popula
tion of any nation in the world.
While supporting the declara
tion, he made a number of
recommendations aimed a
clarifying and strengthening the
document.
HE STATED that the text
should be ecumenical in spirit
and that it should be intelli
gible to the Jews. It must be
precise, accurate and inspired
by wisdom and charity, he
said. He added that is direct
ed to an ecumenical end and
consequently, without hiding any
facts, it should avoid giving
offense without cause.
As it stands, he said, the do
cument does not comply with
this norm. As an example he
cited the passage in which is
expressed the concept of the ul
timate joining together of Jews
and Christians. This, he said,
immediately brings to the minds
of many Jews the memories of
past persecutions, forced
conversions and forced rejec
tion of their faith. This raises
the prospect of prosyletism in
Jewish minds, he said.
Archbishop O'Boyle stated
that certainly conversion is an
object of the Church, but that
this aim should be stated in a
sober manner and in a way
that does not offend. There
should be no hint of pressure
or other means that would dis
rupt fruitful dialogue between
the Church and the Jewish
people.
MOREOVER, he said, the text
seems to be lacking in truth
and charity in its partial abso
lution of the Jews of modem
times of deicide. It does not
mention the innocence of the
Jews at the time of Christ,
he said.
Archbishop Heenan warned
that the original text on de
icide. It does not mention the
innocence of the Jews at the
time of Christ, he said.
Archbishop Heenan warn
ed that the original text on
deicide was clear and public
ly known, and that to tempor-
zie or water it down would be
a great mistake. “I humbly
plead that this declaration of
ours shall openly proclaim that
the Jewish people as such are
no t guilty of the death of our
Lord." he said.
Knights Stage
Boys’ Weekend
Council #660 will dedicate the
coming weekend to the boys of
St. Joseph’s Home, Washington
with an outing for them on Satur
day, which will cover major po
ints of interest and entertain
ment in the Atlanta area.
On Sunday Archbishop Hal
linan will offer Mass which
will be followed by the Com
munion Breakfast at the Coun
cil’s club rooms at 2620 Bu
ford Highway, Atlanta NE. High
light of the breakfast will be
the presentation, to the Arch
bishop, of the proceeds of the
Pete Fountain concert recent
ly sponsored by Council. This
fund is to be used for the pro
jected Children’s village which
will ultimately house the boys
of St. Joseph’s.
Official
The following appointments are announced:
Monsignor Joseph G. Cassidy, P.A.V.G. from Pastor of Christ
the King Cathedral, Atlanta to, Pastor, Sacred Heart of Jesus
Church, Milledgeville.
Rev. John F. McDonough, Pastor, Holy Spirit Church, Atlanta
to Pastor Christ the King Cathedral.
Rev. Joseph F. Ware, Pastor, Sacred Heart of Jesus Church,
Milledgeville to Pastor, Holy Spirit Church, Atlanta.
The above appointments are effective October 10, 1964.
Rev. John F. McDonough,
Pastor of Holy Spirit Parish,
Atlanta, has been named Pastor
FATHER JOHN McDONOUGH
FATHER JOSEPH F. WARE
ECUMENICAL TOKEN—Precious relic of St. Andrew from
the treasury of the Vatican, encased in new golden reliquary,
is being returned to custody of the Orthodox Church in the
city of Patras, Greece, as a gesture of friendship suggested
by Pope Paul VI. Representatives of the Ecumenical Patri
arch Athenagoras of Istanbul gathered in the Pauline chapel
with Archbishop Enrico Dante, papal master of ceremonies
(center in white surplice), are: (left to righti Archiman
drite Andrew Scrima and Archimandrite Panteleimon Rodo-
poulos, while at right is Bishop Jan Willebrands, secretary
of the Vatican’s Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity.
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ARCHBISHOP HALLINAN last Sunday dedicated the new Chapel of the Holy Trinity at St. Joseph’s
Infirmary. The chapel, an outstanding example of contemporary Catholic art and architecture
was created through the generosity of the late Esmond Brady and was dedicated to the memory
of his mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Burke Brady.
IN HONOR OF MRS. BRADY
Archbishop Dedicates Holy
Trinity Chapel At Infirmary
Through the generosity of the
late Esmond Brady, the Chapel
of The Holy Trinity was dedi
cated in memory of his moth
er, Mrs. Elizabeth Burke
Brady, by Archbishop Paul J.
Hallinan, on Sunday, at
St. Joseph’s Infirmary.
Some of the finest examples
of Contemporary Catholic Art
and Architecture may be seen
in this chapel. The fluency of
plan with the compelling sense
of balance reflects the rever
ence and emotional content of
a little romanesque basilica.
Abreu and Robeson, Architects,
achieved this by the appro
priate selection of materials
and the close co-ordination of
design and the arts. The stone
walls of coquina stone, the
black Buckingham slate floor,
cut into elongated diamond
shapes contrasting with the
white ceiling and the use of
stained and leaded glass win
dows arranged in varying ab
stract designs establish the
overall mood while the light and
dark woods, combined with gold
leaf, contribute warmth and
richness.
THE altar table is made with
mens a and base of Rosso An
tic o di Chlavari marble in home
finish with front and sides of
inlaid wood. The altar {or
Mass facing the congregation
will be located directly be
hind the altar railing, which is
made of the same marble as the
altar of repose with bronze sup
ports which repeat the shape of
the bronze stanchions bearing
the Stations of the Cross.
Behind the Altar table is a
large Crucifix whose corpus is
carved from lindenwood and
nailed to an ashwood cross.
This Crucifix silhouettes
against a marble and Venetian
glass mosaic. In the mosaic
are visible the symbols of the
Msgr. Cassidy
Farewell Tonight
A farewell reception will be
held Tonight, Thursday, for
Msgr. Joseph G. Cassidy, P. A.,
V. r., who is leaving the
pastorate of Christ the King
Cathedral to become pastor of
Sacred Heart.of Jesus parish,
Milledgeville.
.. The ceremonies will begin, at
7;30 p.m, with Bendiction, of
fered by Archbishop Hallinan in
the Cathedral. After Bene
diction the guests will enter
the Gym at the E. Wesley St.
entrance to meet Msgr. Cas
sidy. Later, refreshments will
be served in the Assembly
Room downstairs.
All friends of the Monsignor
are invited to attend the Rece
ption.
four Evangelists, the triangle
of the Holy Trinity, twelve
stars representing the Apostles
and over a large symbolic
chalice a host and the dove of
the Holy Spirit.
THE mosaic reredos depicts
the vision where Ezekiel saw
four symbolic animals, which
from the earliest centuries have
been recognized as types of
the Four Evangelists.
St. Matthew is represented by
the animal with a human face
because his Gospel opens with
the human geneology of Jesus
and His humanity is stressed
throughout. The attribution of
the lion to St. Mark is be
cause he wrote of the royal dig
nity of Christ and began his
Gospel with an account of St.
John the Baptist, "The voice of
one crying in the wilderness."
An added reason was that St.
Mark was considered the his
torian of the Resurrection, of
which, among other things, the
lion is a symbol. St. Luke is
symbolically represented as an
Ox because at the beginning of
his Gospel he mentions the
Priesthood of Zachary and be
cause the ox was usually the
victim in the sacrifice of the
Old Law. It is to St. John
that we owe the most beauti
ful pages on the Divinity of the
Word made Flesh and it is for
CONTINUED ON PAGE 8
two-day debate on the historic
declaration on the Church’s re
lations with the Jewish pbople
closed (Sept. 29) at the coun
cil's 90th meeting with a major
ity of the day’s 21 speakers
favoring a strong positive
council statement.
At the same meeting, a pro
posal to allow young men to be
ordained deacons without an
obligation of celibacy failed
to gain the two-thirds majority
needed. In fact, for the first
time in the council’s history
the "no" votes of the Fath
ers were a majority. In this
case, only 839 Fathers vot
ed "yes," while 1,364 voted
"no."
HOWEVER, two other votes
on the diaconate were passed
by slender majorities. One ap
proved locating authority for the
introduction of the separate or
der of deacons in national con
ferences of bishops with the ap
proval of the Holy See. The
other approved conferring the
order of deacon on older mar
ried men.
Among the speakers on the
closing day of discussion of
Jewish declaration were
three Americans, one of whom
won applause when he declar
ed he was yielding his right to
speak because his points had
been adequately covered by
other speeches. He was Arch
bishop Lawrence J. Shehan of
Baltimore. The other Ameri
cans who spoke were Auxiliary
Bishop Stephen A. Leven of San
Antonio, Tex., and Archbishop
Patrick A. O’Boyle of Wash
ington.
With completion of the de
bate—unless some bishops se
cured the signatures of 70
of thei r colleagues so that
they could speak later on the
Jewish declaration— the next
schema on the council agenda
was scheduled to be the one on
Divine Revelation. This was to
be introduced Sept. 30.
BISHOP Leven .launched a
strong appeal for the insertion
of a clear statement that the
Jews should never be called
deicides or killers of God. He
said that perhaps this state
ment had been eliminated from
the present text on the basis
that, as a philosophical or theo
logical consideration, it is im
possible to kill God.
But he pointed out that what
the council is considering is
not a matter of words. Rather
it is a question of a sad rea
lity, he said. The Fathers must
make sure that the term "God-
killer" is never again used ag
ainst the Jews. Any silence on
this would be an offense aga
inst justice, he declared.
Bishop Leven said that he was
speaking in the name of almost
all U. S. bishops and propos
ed two textual changes in their
name.
The first was the clear re
pudiation of the charge of de
cide against the Jews. Secon
dly, he asked that the present
text be revised and called for a
return to the earlier text. The
Priest Champion
From Wheelchair
DUBLIN (NC)— A priest who
is a champion javelin thrower
—from a wheelcha ir—will be in
a team representing Ireland in
tne peragraplegic games at
Tokyo in November.
Three years ago, he won a gold
medal when he threw the javelin
51 feet in the "little Olympics"
games at Stoke Mandeville,
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