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of Atlanta YOUR PRIZE-WINNING NEWSPAPER SERVING GEORGIA’S 71 NORTHERN COUNTIES VOL. 2, NO. 4.6« ATLANTA, GEORGIA THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1964 $5.00 PER YEAR Archbishop’s Notebook IN GRATITUDE FOR OLDER PRIESTS The chief reason for the deepChristian commitment of our Geor gia Catholics is the work of a band of priests, some diocesan, some of religious orders, over the past forty years. These men came as other-Christs to Atlanta, to Rome, to Athens, to the mis sions on our north and those to the south. They offered Mass, they baptized babies, they witnessed marriages and funerals, theylist- ened. to thousands of confessions, journeyed to sick-calls, visited hospitals, preached and taught and counselled Christ's way. On Nov. 29, these priests will be among thousands of other ' old er priests" who will use the new liturgical forms, the English language, and the new positons and gestures. It will not be easy for them, any more than their lay contemporaries. But no diocese in the country, I am convinced, has been so well served, in matters liturgical, by its senior clergy, than ours. They are not complain ing about the changes or getting off worn-out comments about "hoping to be allowed to die in the same Church in which I was baptized." They are explaining it all to the people, and because they are good and loyal priests, our people are learning fast and participating well. &&& IN PRAISE OF YOUNGER PRIESTS The priests ordained in recent years bring fresh gifts to our Archdiocese. Their training has been more in tune with biblical, theological, liturgical and ecumenical developments. Now they are learning, the hard way, what no Seminary can give - the pastoral usage of all this in care for our people. The ideal parish team is actually becoming the norm rather than a dream. The younger men using their own skills and parti cular insights in a well-knit apostolate under the direction of a pastor whose experience, wisdom and judgment are established, - that is the perfect parish unit of administration. Our young priests are splendidly taking their role in the great aggiornamento. A BASEBALL AND A TELEGRAM I recall that as a kid, Iwasa failure as a ball-player, but manag ed to play left-field because of my persistance and the fact that I owned the baseball. But when the big game came with the Court- land St, Tigers, I was laid low by pleurisy (in 1924) and had to eat my heart out by myself. We won and my team-mates brought me the battered baseball all autographed. They were all too kind to sug gest that they had won because I wasn't playing. A cablegram from Rome this week reminded me affectionately of my old baseball. Signed by Cardinal Spellman, it read: ‘The Car dinals, Archbishops and Bishops at their annual meeting at the North American College in Rome send cordial greetings and best wishes." I know they had plenty on the agenda, but they knew how anxious I was to hear from diem. I hadn't been in a hospital for forty years. But when you are, and you're missing a ball-game or an Ecumenical Council, a word from the team-mates can be a real treasure. jO-jO-x!- ANOTHER FIRST - THE NEW TRANSLATIONS One unexpected feature of the Nov. 29 renewal will be a new translation of the Epistles and Gospels, Since Catholics sometimes treat the Bible like Fundamentalists, a word of explanation might be helpful. The OldTestament, by and for Jews, was Hebrew. Our Lord him self spoke Aramaic, The Evangelists and Apostles wrote their accounts in Greek. There was no official Latin version until St. Jerome issued the Vulgate * n the late 4th century. In the English-speaking world, Protestant Bibles generally follow the great Authorized (King James) Version - with subsequent re visions; the Revised Version, the American Standard Version, the Revised Standard Version, and the New American Standard Bible. Now the first new translation is appearing under the title, ‘The New English Bible." Catholics meanwhile have followed the Douay-Rheims Version of the 17th century, which Bishop Challoner revised in the mid-18th century. In 1941, the U.S. Confraternity of Christian Doctrine started a new revision. After the encouragement of Plus XII in 1943 to use original sources, the Catholic scholars, authorized by American bishops, began a completely new task,' the New Con fraternity translation." It will be the Epistles and Gospels of this translation that Cath olics will be hearing for the first time Nov. 29. Two characteristics of the new translation are the dropping of Thee and Thou, and the use of contractions, e.g. The chief priests say to the temple police who had been sent to seize Jesus, "Don't tell us that you have been fooled too." What is desired is clear understanding. What is used to get this is accurate use of originals, in correct American English. In short, style, ancient usage, a sense of awe, incomprehensible words must make way for - truth. (/Lu& ^ MEMORIAL BELL commemorating the two Johns- President John F. Kennedy and Pope John XXIII a gift of a group of Italo-Americans. will hang in the tower of the shrine of St. Gabriel of the Sorrowful Mother, located at Isola in the Abruzzi region of Italy. De tail at right depicts the Pope and President sowing seeds of Justice and Peace upon the earth. CHRISTIAN EDUCATION DRAFT U.S. Cardinals Urge State Aid To Religious Schools VATICAN CITY (NC)— Fran cis Cardinal Spellman of New York has called on the ecumen ical council to declare that since it is the function of the state to facilitate civil freedoms, "justice and equity demand that a due measure of public aid be available to parents in support of the schools they sel ect for their children." The cardinal was the first of five Fathers to take the floor when the council’s 124thmeet ing turned its attention (Nov. 17) to a declaration on Chri stian education. HE WAS joined by Joseph Cardinal Ritter of St. Louis, Archbishop John P. Cody of New Orleans and by two French bishops. Cardinal Ritter rejoiced that the declaration was not limited only to Catholic schools, since “most of the Catholic children and students in the world are in state schools and must be, in fact, the object of the solicitude of the Church, the family and especially the te achers in these schools for their religious education." CXiring the day’s session, chapter containing the key con cept of the collegiality of the bishops, was passed in its final form by a large majority. When passage was announced, the news was greeted with warm applause. Two other chapters of the schema on the Church were also approved with great ma jorities. This left only three re maining chapters of the docu ment to be voted on Nov. 18 before it was ready for promul gation at a plenary public meet ing on Nov. 21. AT THE Nov. 17 meeting the new text of the declaration on religious liberty was distribut ed. It was announced that voting was to begin on it on Nov. 19. The Fathers, moreover, voted to accept the propositions on se nt inaries and gave overwhelm ing approval to the first three propositions in separate votes. Although discussion on the seminary propositions had been closed at the end of the pre vious day’s meeting, three Fathers took the floor in the first part of the Nov. 17 meet ing to speak in the name of BISHOP DECREES Children’s Masses Out In Pittsburgh ARCHBISHOP OF ATLANTA TIARA which Pope Paul VI has given to charity, shown at his coronation, June 30. 1963 the only time the Holy Father used it. • See page 3, PITTSBURGH (NC) -- Child ren's Masses on Sundays and Holy Days, traditional and com pulsory in some parishes, will be discontinued at the end of the current school year in the Pittsburgh diocese, Bishop John J, Wright has decreed. In a pastoral letter written from Rome in connection with the Nov, 29 liturgical changes, Bishop Wright said; "If it be true that the family that prays together stays together, surely every effort should be made to encourage families which can conveniently do so to pray to gether at Mass," HE ADDED: ’Those families which, because of their gene rous and praiseworthy num bers, cannot attend Mass as a unit should certainly have the deserved consolation and .. strength that comes from each parent attending Mass accom panied by some of the child ren." The bishop’s pastoral said *we shall.,.follow the binding requirement that all public low Masses be participated Masses in which all present are invited to take their full and proper part." The pastoral also established "an offering of five dollars ($5) ...for a public participated low Mass, this stipend to be retain ed by the celebrant." AT THE same time the letter asked that "all organists hence forth be put on a mutually agreeable fair salary basis," "In those places where or ganists already receive a fixed salary,” it said, "it was the mind of the (Diocesan) Consul- tors that an equitable adjust ment be made in the payment of the organists in order to take care of the fact that the need for and demands on par ish organists will necessarily increase as the liturgical re newal produces its full effect in parish life." ARCHBISHOP Lawrence J. Shehan of Baltimore, new’ chairman of the N.C.W.C. Press Department, was chosen by his fellow’ Bishops for membership on the N.C. W.C. administrative board at last w'eek’s meeting of the U, S. bishops. • See page 2. MONUMENTAL TASKS AHEAD Further Session Seen As Urgent Necessity 70 or more Fathers. Two of them said they wanted positive consideration of the celibacy of the clergy and that it must not be looked on as a “sort of ad mission ticket" to Holy Orders. The opening Mass, celebrat ed by Latin-rite Patriarch Al berto Gori, O.F.M., of Jerusa lem, was offered for all the sick and particularly for sick bis hops. The Gospel was enthron ed by Abbot Anselmo Tranfa- glia, O.S.B., head of the inde pendent abbey of Monte Verg- ine, Italy. CARDINAL Spellman told the assembly that the "direct inten tion of the schema is to affirm the rights of children and their CONTINUED ON PAGE 8 BY JOHN COGLEY VATICAN CITY (RNS)—Rome is a lovely place to visit, but even bishops — or most of them anyway — would not want to live there. Nothing, then, but an urgent sense of duty is behind their decision to carry Vatican .II on to a fourth session, and even a fifth, if necessary. Last year, there was hope, generally shared by the Fath ers, that the third session, now coming to a close, would be the last. Aside from the bishops' desire to get back to their dio ceses, there were pressing fi nancial reasons to wind it up. The Council has been an expen sive undertaking. The Vatican picks up the cost of travel and living for the mis sionary bishops who come from great distances to attend the sessions — and that adds up. The sheer household expenses connected with such a meeting run high; holding commission meetings between sessions re quires another large outlay of money, AT THE beginning, no one had counted on such a big expendi ture, Pope John himself, ac cording to Archbishop John Carmel Heenan of Westminster, England, thought that the Coun cil could be wound up by Christ mastime, 1962, a few months af ter its opening session. Few of the bishops expected it to run beyond two sessions. There was general agreement, conse quently, on a big push to make the present session the last. The managers of the Council should certainly get an "A" for effort. The third session began at a breathless pace and has maintained a rigid schedule. Only once in the 10 weeks of the session were the Fathers given a break from the gruel ling labors necessary to keep the Council moving along. Ir- relevancies and detours from the subject under consideration in the aula of St, Peter's were sternly handled no matter how eminent the offender. Still, the effort was not suc cessful. The end of the Council is still not in sight. The least successful of all speed -up de vices was the attempt to cut back a number of important schemata to a series of "prop ositions." Among the drafts so reduced were those on the mis sions, the priesthood, religious, and seminaries. For a certain number of Fathers, each of these topics is of monumental significance, and the decision to deal with them with less than full solemnity given other sub jects was resented. The result was that not one of the cut back schemata was universally welcomed. All of them have to be largely re-written and will come back for consideration at the next session. Had they been left as they were, full schema ta, time might actually have been saved. For the hours spent criticizing them in their abbre viated versions, much of it used to denounce the cut-back, was as great as would have been used up for discussions of the origi nal drafts. THE IDEA when the abbrevia tions were made was that there would be no general discussions of the "propositions." They would simply be submitted to the Fathers for a yes or no vote. But this brought on immediate dissatisfaction. The missionary bishops, for example, would have none of it, nor would those prelates — like Cardinal Suen- ens and Cardinal Leger — who are concerned about the quality of seminary training. Early during this session, then, Archbishop Pericle Fe- lici, general secretary of the Council, announced that "brief" discussions would be allowed. At first this was thought to be merely a concession that two speakers, one pro and one con, would be permitted for each set of propositions. But the Fathers did not sit still for this, either. So the result was that the sche- mata-become-propositions re ceived practically as lengthy at tention as they would have got ten had they been left in their original state. The cut-backs turned out to be largely unsatisfactory. In al most every case, the "relator" introducing an abbreviated draft explained that all that was left of his commission’s work was the bare bones and stated that the rounded document originally prepared for the Fathers was better than the material he now had to place before them. The "bare bones," in several cases, New Bishop Is Named WASHINGTON (NC) -- Pope Paul VI has named Msgr, Jo seph F, Donnelly of New Haven, Conn., to be Titular Bishop of Nabala and Auxiliary to Arch bishop Henry J. O'Brien of Hartford. The appointment was announ ced here by Archbishop Egidio Vagnozzi, Apostolic Delegate in the United States. Bishop-elect Donnelly 55, is pastor of St. John the Baptist church, New Haven, a past pres ident of the National Catholic Cemetery Conference, and a member and official of nume rous Catholic and civic agen cies. INTERNATIONAL amounted to flat, uninspiring declarations about the matter under study plus a few retreat- master spiritual exhortations. Time and time again, they were brushed aside as "platitides," "sermons," and banalities, as the bishops particularly con cerned demanded that the Coun cil dig deeper. SO rr WAS with the proposi tions on the missions, which, despite the specific approval they received from Pope Paul, spoken in the aula itself, were rejected by the Fathers. This rejection of course was particu larly painful, since the bishops were loathe to oppose openly what had already been given the Holy Father’s personal appro val. To go against the Pope’s express wish that they give the propositions their approval was unheard of. Their boldness, in fact, shocked many of the more traditional-minded prelates in Rome. It is rumored, also, that the Holy Father was openly displeased. . .But the Council Fathers who voted again't the Pope's wish were persuaded that the supreme pontiff had been badly advised in making any such statement. More important, they were convinced that the missions were not receiving the atten tion they should have been given in the Council. It is a sign of the bishops' new sense of re sponsibility that they did not CONTINUED ON PAGE 8 Official The faithful are reminded that Archbishop Paul J. Hall- inan has granted a dispensa tion from the law of abstin ence on Friday, Nov, 27, the day after Thaksgiving. Meat may be eaten on Friday, Nov. 27. Pacem In Terris Peace Study Set CHICAGO (NC) —"This won't be a meeting to propose uni versal disarmament; this will be a conference at which we'll try to find the answers to how peace can be achieved." In these words, Robert M. Hutchins, former chancellor of the University of Chicago and now president of the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, Santa Barbara, Calif., explained the aims of his group’s forthcoming meeting to study one of Pope John XX- III's encyclicals, PLANNED for Feb. 18 to 20 1965, in New York City, the meeting will be based on the late Pope’s encyclical "Pacem in Terris" (Peace on Earth). Representatives of nations a- round the world, including in ternationally known figures— even communists—have been invited to attend. Hutchins said the gathering will parallel the late Pope's encyclical by; "STATING those principles by which men of all faiths and philosophies profess to live, and asking the questions they know must be answered if the world is to have a chance of survi val. "Peace is the most basic issue of our time." At a luncheon meeting in the Tavern Club, the group's aims were spelled out for invited guests. W, Clement Stone, Chicago philanthropist and insurance executive, said he shared the .group’s principles, but asked; "WHAT are we going to do with those countries that don’t go along with our theories of disarmament—those who would like us to disarm so they can extend their own power? You just don’t disarm and let some one else beat you up." Hutchins answered that "one of the purposes of the coming convocation is to find an answ er to just the question you've posed." Another speaker at the lunc heon, Supreme Court Justice William O, Douglas, agreed in an interview that v> unilateral disarmament is nonsense." Deny U.S. Trip VATICAN CITY (NC) — Re ports by some news agencies that Pope Paul VI is planning to visit the United States are without foundation, according to Vatican officials.