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VOL. 2, NO. 49
ATLANTA, GEORGIA
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1964
$5.00 PER YEAR
diocese of Atlanta
SERVING GEORGIA’S 71 NORTHERN COUNTIES
FROM PIUS X
MSGR. KING RESIGNS
New Pastors
Appointed By
Archbishop
The Reverend James L. Har
rison, Principal of St. Pius X
High School, Atlanta, has been
transferred to the Pastorate of
St. Michael's Gainesville.
This was announced this week
by Archbishop Paul J. Hallinan
who also named Rev. John J.
Cotter, Assistant Principal of
St. Pius X High School, to be
acting principal.
Father Harrison succeeds the
Rev. R. Donald Kiernan who
has been appointed Pastor of
St. Anthony's (West End) At
lanta.
lence. Father Harrison has done
this so well that the spirit of
Pius X is known throughout the
south. Repeated awards in jour
nalism and debating, spirited
progress in a sound athletic
program climaxed now in a fine
new statium these are the
obvious signs of success. But
where Father Harrison has ad
ded his own special impetus to
in the center of education— a
splendid faculty, constant
evaluation, accreditation, new
methods and the happy harvest
of graduates winning scholar
ships at our finest colleges
and universities.
MONSIGNOR KING
FATHER KIERNAN
FATHER HARRISON
FATHER COTTER
THREE-HOUR PROCESSION
Flags, Torches Greet Pope’s Return
Monsignor James E. King has
resigned from the pastorate of
St. Anthony’s (West End) At
lanta, for reasons of health and
has been appointed Pastor Eme
ritus.
priest. You have sought only
Christ’s Kingdom, not your own
welfare.
From Bombay Eucharistic Congress
Archbishop Hallinan, in ex
pressing the esteem of the
Archdiocese for Father Harri
son’s excellent record as first
principal of Pisu X High School
said:
“It is no easy task to launch
a new school, to give it ident-
tiy and suture in the educa
tional community, to guide the
lives of young men and women
to intellectual and moral excel-
“Father Cotter, alreadyavi-
tal part of the Pius X tradit
ion, is nownamedas acting pr
incipal. To Father Harrisonfor
an outstanding record and his
new pastoral assignment, and to
Father Cotter for a promising
future, our heartiest good wish
es.”
BY FATHER JOHN P.
DONNELLY
(N, C. W. C. News Service)
parishes through which he pass
ed.
ROME — The Eternal City
decked its monuments in flood
lights and flags and its streets
with burning torches to wel
come its missionary bishop
back from India.
Catholics Fear
Losing Identity
Father Harrison’s appoint
ment as pastor at Gnesville
is effective December 15th.
However, he will continue his
duties as principal of Pius X
until December 22nd.
LONDON (NC) — Catholics
feel they are losing their iden
tity if their manners of prayer
and worship become more like
the Anglicans, Father Gregory
Baum, O.S.A., told the London
Newman Circle.
The Canadian priest, a mem
ber of the Secretariat for Pro
moting Christian Unity and lec
turer at St. Michael’s College
in Toronto, said it ig j nevitable
that “as renewal continues in
Christian churches there will
be far less differences among
us. ”
Father Harrison was born in
Atlanta and was educated at
the Catholic University of Am
erica, Washington, D. C. and
at the Pontifical Gregorian Un-
iversityin Rome, Italy. He has
studied at the University of
Georgia in Athens. He was or
dained in Rome, in 1955 and
has served in the Archdioce-
sinct 1956. Since 1958,
Thousands of citizens heeded
the call of their mayor and turn
ed out in force along the high
ways and city streets through
which the papal caravan inched
from Fiumicino airport through
downtown Rome and into St.
Peter’s Square.
WHEN the procession arrived
at the Garibaldi Bridge leading
into the heart of downtown
Rome, it was greeted by Mayor
Amerigo Petrucci and other
municipal officials, an escort of
city police and another crowd
spreading through the back
streets of the Trastevere sec
tion of Rome.
ian Television as the Pope ac
cepted a final homage from
Italy’s official greeting party,
which had met him at the air
port and escorted him home.
its
profound religious spirit,
character of noble reserve and
distinction and its moral values.
This was announced this week
by Archbishop Paul J. Hallinan
who rev ?aled that he had named
Father R. Donald Kiernan Pas
tor of St. Michael’s, Gainsville
(Hall County) to succeed Mon
signor King as pastor of St.
Anthony’s. Father Kiernan is
also consulting editor of the
Georgia Bulletin.
“The title of Pastor Emeri
tus is an honored one. It speaks
of our merited gratitude for
the past, and your merited free
dom from pastoral responsi
bilities for the future becausw
of reasons of health. Yet it gua
rantees for us your presence
as a friend to all our people,
an example to younger priests
and a counsellor for bishops.
se
POPE Paul VI arrived 16
minutes ahead of schedule on a
non-stop Alitalia jet flight. He
spoke to the crowd at the air
port about his India visit, say
ing that “It took place in the
irradiating light which eman
ates from the Eucharistic mys
tery.
Across the bridge, the Pope’s
caravan entered the congested
center of the city, stopping
again along the way to greet the
faithful of the downtown par
ishes and the afternoon Christ
mas shoppers. Workers watch
ed from office buildings or went
into the streets to shout their
greetings.
THESE were Premier Aldo
Moro, Foreign Affairs Minister
Giuseppe Saragat and Transport
Minister Angelo Jervolino. Also
in the party was Vice Presi
dent Pietro Nenni, leader of the
Italian Socialist party, who
_ though he had not kissed the
Pope’s ring in greeting him at
airport with the others, had
shaken hands and chatted af
fably with him.
“OUR heart beats in unison
with the heart of an entire peo
ple, sharing in its aspirations
CONTINUED ON PAGE 8
In a letter to Monsignor King,
Archbishop Hallinan wrote:
“Your entire pastorate, both
on the missions and in the city
has been that of a dedicated
“Father Kiernan opens anew
chapter in his priesthood al
ready generously expended
in the important parishes of La-
Grange and Gainesville. Our
congratulations to him upon this
new assignment as pastor of
St. Anthony’s.’’
Father
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During his airport talk the
Pope told the Romans about his
Eastern hosts and the "unfor
gettable emotions of our pil
grimage to Indian soil. . .
In Fast Change
he has been principal of St.
Pius X Catholic High School.
During the period of the Eng
lish Reformation, said Father
Baum, Catholics believed they
were rejecting their own Faith
if they prayed with Anglicans.
But he said this attitude "has
no doctrinal foundation,”
Father Cotter, also a native
of Atlanta, was educated at
St. Bernard Seminary in Ala
bama, at St. Mary’s Seminary,
Baltimore, and at Belmont Ab
bey in North Carolina. He was
ordained at the Cathedral of
Christ the King in 1960 and
was assigned to Our Lady of
the Assumption, here in At
lanta, until 1962, when he be
came a member of the facul
ty at St. Pius X High School.
"It was a meeting which has
extended itself to all the im
mense expanse of India, and be
yond to all the regions of the
mysterious and distant East,
to its wise and patient, humble
and generous civilizations and
yet outstretched toward the con
quest of progress and of the
social order."
Again crossing the winding
Tiber River, the procession ar
rived at Via Della Conciliazone,
the street leading to St. Peter’s
Square. Boy Scouts and mem
bers of other youth groups lined
the broad avenue, lighting the
Pope’s way with flaming torches
in the early darkness.
Christendom’s largest church
was ablaze in floodlights and the
eerie arc lights set up by Ital-
‘The brief days of our stay
at Bombay, the open door to In
dia, and the innumerable and
stimulating conversations we
had with authorities and various
strata of that population, partic
ularly with the beloved sons of
the Catholic Church, have given
us the occasion to come to know
that nation from closer quar
ters. We have been able to ap
preciate its treasures of art
and culture, its testimonies of
VATICAN CITY (NC)—Pub-
lishing an official interpreta
tion of Pope Paul Vi’s recent
relaxation of the Eucharistic
fast, the Vatican City news
paper 1 , L’Osservatore Romano,
declared that it went into effect
immediately after its announce
ment and that it includes alco
holic beverages as well as food
and liquids.
ments gave permission for
evening Masses, and reduced
fasting regulations for receiv
ing Communion at such Masses
from the previous midnight to
three hours prior to Mass for
solid foods and alcohol, and one
hour for liquids. Water was
made completely exempt from
the law.
Monsignor King is a native
of Troy, New York and re
ceived his education at St. Ber
nard’s in Rochester, New York,
and St. Bonaventure in Olean,
New York. He was ordained in
1923 by Bishop Gibbons and
has served in Savannah, Athens,
Valdosta, Milledgeville, Albany
and Atlanta. He has been pas
tor of St. Anthony’s since 1952,
prior to whic h he was pastor
of Sacred Heart, Warner Ro
bins.
FOR ATLANTA
Along all the freeway and the
highways between airport and
city the Pope’s open-topped
Mercedes stopped so he could
greet priests and faithful of the
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Jerry Hardy Will
Be Ordained In
The Pope made the announce
ment of the change during the
closing ceremonies of the ecu
menical council’s third session
(Nov. 21) . The new regulations
reduce the fast before Com
munion from three hours to one
hour for both priests and faith
ful.
**No objection is made to the
moderate use of alcoholic bev
erages," L’Osservatore Ro
mano stated, "since in many
countries they are part of the
meal or are a matter of nor
mal hospitality.
Rome Basilica
THE newspaper said (Dec. 3)
that the immediate effective
ness of the law was a depart
ure from the usual custom of
allowing a time lapse between
the announcement of a new law
and its effective date.
The Rev. Mr. Jerry Hardy
will be ordained to the priest
hood for the Archdiocese of At
lanta in St. Peter’s Basilica,
Rome, on December 16.
The Vatican City daily did not
cite the source of the official in
terpretation, but it came from
the Congregation of the Holy
Office, according to the Vatican
press office.
"On the other hand," the
newspaper continued, “the
Church expects from her sons
wise temperance and modera
tion which must always accom
pany true devotion to the Eu
charist. The reminder is all the
more necessary regarding al
cohol since Christian common
sense teaches us that the mind
must not be troubled, spiritual
dispositions must not be dim
inished, which are necessary
for a reverential contact with
Christ in the Eucharist."
Father Kiernan was bprn in
Taunton, Massachusetts, and
was educated at Mt. St. M iry’s
Maryland, Providence College,
Providence, R. I. and at Cath
olic University of America. He
was ordained in Boston in 1949
by Cardinal Cushing. Since his
first Georgia assignment to the
Cathedral at Savannah in 1949,
he has served in Atlanta, La-
Grange, Monroe andCedartown.
He has been pastor of St.
Michael’s, Gainesville, since
1959. Father Kiernan is Consul
ting Editor of the Georgia Bul
letin.
Ask Training
NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J.(NC)
— Some 200 New Jersey relig
ious leaders have urged that
courses in human relations be
required in training programs
for public and private school
teachers.
Bishop Francis Reh, Rector
of the North American College
in Rome will perform the cere
mony in which 62 young men will
be ordained priests fordioceses
all over the United States,
THE i\ constituted Archdiocesan Religious l'nit\ Commission met last week at Christ the King
Auditorium. Shown above are, seated and left to right: Mrs. George Gunning, Mr. Anthony Nemitz,
Fr. John D. Stapleton, Mrs. Gerard E, Sherry, Fr. John J. Mulrox, Standing, Mr. Carl R. Sova,
Dr. Mario Goglia, Fr. John L. Hem, S. J., Fr. Noel Burtenshaw, Fr. William '
of the Commission not pictured are; Rt. Rev. Dorn Augustine Moore, 0. S. C.
Kiernan, Fr. Patrick Connell, Fr. Raymond A. Beane, O. F. M.
Sam Phillips McKenzie, Dr. Reese Coleman, Mr. Furman Smith.
MR. HARDY, son of Mr. and
Mrs. J, E. Hardy of St, John
the Evangelist Parish, Hape-
ville, has been studying in Rome
at the North American College
since September of 1961. Form
erly of Augusta, he was graduat
ed from Marist College High
School m Atlanta in 1957. He
then attended Belmont Abbey
College, Belmont, N.C., before
entering St, Bernard Seminary,
Expressing the pastoral con
cern of Pope Paul, L’Osserva
tore Romano said the decision
was made "following a period
of cautious experimentation
during the past decade after the
promulgation of the (papal de
crees), the apostolic constitu
tion, Christus Dominus, on Jan.
6, 1953, and the motu proprio,
Sacra Communio, on March 19,
1957."
THE FIRST of these docu-
Bob Hope Will
Entertain Tots
REV. MR. JERRY HARDY
Calhoun. Members
O., Fr. R. Donald
Fr. Dennis Walsh, C. P„ Judge
Present in Rome for the or
dination , Mr, Hardy’s par
ents and 15 other Atlantans, in
cluding Rev. M. Anthony Mor
ris, Assistant Pastor, Assump
tion Parish.
THEY are part of a large
group of Americans in Rome for
these ordinations.
Mr, Hardy will complete his
studies in June of 1965, andther.
return to Atlanta for assign
ment in the Archdiocese,
LOS ANGELES (NC)~ Bob
(On the Road) Hope will keep a
Christmas date close to home
this year—one he missed last
season. He will be master of
ceremonies Dec. 13 at James
Francis Cardinal McIntyre’s
Christmas party for children
in the Beverly Hilton Hotel.
MKN OF PCACK—Pope Paul VI and Indian President
Sai vepallLRadhakrishnan. a philosopher-author before tak
ing public office, exchange greetings, t Dec. 4i at the Presi
dent's home in Bombay. The Pontiff gave the President the
Order of the Golden Spur, highest award of the Holy See to
a head of state. President Radhakrishnan, remarking that
he had devoted his whole life to peace, which the Pope repre
sented, gave the Holy Father a 10-volume set of his writings.
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