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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1964 GEORIGIA BULLETIN PAGE 5
NOT BLOCKBUSTING
Changing Neighborhoods
REV. LEONARD F. X. MAYHEW
The Emory- Druid Hills area of Atlanta is a
neighborhood of tree-shaded streets, manicured
lawns and substantial, sometimes even stately,
brick homes. The casual wanderer through these
streets receives a strong impression of good
taste mellowed, rather than scarred, by age.
The sprawling complex of the Emory University
campus sets a tone of quiet beauty for the sur
rounding neighborhoods. The University is the lar
gest employer, in one fashion
or another, of the people who
live in the section.
This neighborhood, formerly
one of the most fashionable in
the Atlanta area, is to be the
scene of a subtle and, at once,
morally potent, undertaking,
conceived by the Atlanta Coun
cil on Human Relations and its
young Acting-Executive Director, Robert Carey.
He explained the plan, some ten days ago, to
the St. Martin’s Human Relations Council of the
Archdiocese of Atlanta. An intelligent, soft-spoken
theological student, with a ready sense of humor
and a gift for under-statement, he hardly re
sembles the diehard, anticivil rights caricature
of the Yankee agent provocateur.
LIKE ALL major American cities, north and
south, Atlanta has almost completely confined
the areas where Negroes may live within cer
tain rigid boundaries. The variety of ways, for
mal and informal, legal and extra-legal, in
which this is accomplished are, in their own
depressing way, to be marvelled at. The ur
gent need for adequate, low-and middle-cost
housing for the burgeoning population of these
ghettoes is a problem of such proportion that
only government, federal and local, can possi
bly hope to cope with it, and that only by taking
immediate and drastic steps. This terrible shame
of American cities is clearly beyond the facili
ties and scope of a Council on Human Relations.
The front on which Mr. Carey and the Atlanta
Council are engaged is a moral one- a struggle
for the conscience and maturity of human beings
and their relationships with each other; what we
drily name “society.” Their aim is to introduce
into the experience of our city, as a model and a
moral stimulus, an “open” neighborhood which
willingly accepts the idea of an unrestricted
housing market. It bears no more resemblance
to “block-busting” than the dead leaves which
now burden our lawns bear to the dogwood-
scented spring when they were born.
SUCH A PLAN calls for a quiet beginning through
contacts with individuals who are aware of the
immaturity of artificial social restrictions and of
the deprivations suffered by those on both sides
of the barriers. These are then expanded into
neighborhood conversations concerned with the
present situation versus a free or open housing
policy. The consequences of both conditions
may be examined. If the situation is conducive
to honesty and personal involvement, the real
fears (as opposed to those commonly admitted)
that whites feel at the thought of Negro neigh
bors will come to the surface. Churches, schools,
banks, civic organizations and other institutions
which influence opinions will be asked for their
help, encouragement or, at least, non-hindrance.
The hoped-for fruition will come, when a neigh
borhood community makes it known that it is
willing to accept - and indeed, invites- those
who wish to share its life, without any artifi
cial restrictions. Such a plan may strike some
as vague or over-subtle. The fact is that it em
bodies several of the remedies for chronic
ills of American society. The lack of real com
munity, the divorce of moral values from actual
living, the terrible alienation of the white and Ne
gro in America with its consequent waste of
human talent and energy: these may find the beg
inning of their cure in the “open neighborhood”
and its new and fruitful relationships.
QUESTION BOX
Why Liturgy Changes?
BY MSGR. J. D. CONWAY
Q. Will you please explain why this change
of liturgy in our church is necessary. We are
getting mighty disturbed and confused how to
cope with it all If our parents and grandparents
who have died before us were able to get to
heaven with liturgy as it has been, why can’t
we?
A. Your parents or grandparents were able
to make their trips with a horse and buggy.
Why doiyoy ride jets? .
Your f parehts, or at least your grandparents,
received Holy Communion at Christmas, Eas
ter, and the feast of the Assu
mption. We hope they got to
heaven. But aren’t you aware
of greater graces through your
union with Jesus in His sacra
ment of love every Sunday, or
maybe every day?
My earliest memories of High
Mass center around the mean
ingless, and threateningly end
less, repetition of Latin words,
sung to cheap and gaudy music by a medio
cre choir, while the congregation sat in silent
boredom. Gregorian chant was fought with fero
city in those days. But who would think of
going back to those beloved monstrosities?
My earliest Communions were concerned
more with the integrity of my fast from mid
night than with the joy of union with my Savior.
My early priesthood was inhibited by avoiding a
single drop of water until after the last Mass-
which during war times was often the third
Mass at 1 p.m. What a headachel
with the priest. But we were still silent specta
tors, with no awareness of community action and
participation. Two features of the Mass im
pressed us; It was the Sacrifice of Christ on
Calvary, and He became truly present at the mo
ment of Consecration. The joys of a banquet
with Jesus and the fellowship of a feast togeth
er were quite obscured. We received our Sav
ior dying on the cross; we had little apprecia
tion of the triumph of His Resurrection— of
glorious union with each other in the love of our
common Father.
My pQ,iot,is..that the.liturgy has been chang
ing during the past 60 years, especially.
The earlier changes we now take for grant
ed; and all of them have given new meaning,
new spiritual joy, and increased intimacy to our
worship of God.
Review in your own mind the liturgical chan
ges of the past 20 years: evening Masses,
new fasting rules for Communion, the new cere
monies of Holy Week, English in many of the
Sacraments, mixed marriages in church rath
er than in a dreary rectory, increased parti
cipation of the people in the Mass, improved
music, greatly increased Communions, better
sermons in many places-andincreasing close
ness between priest and people.
The new changes to take place in the near
future- if we will be patient and cooperative in
them — will produce multiplied benefits which
we will enjoy and take for granted in a few years.
Changes are necessary because the Church is
alive, and growth is a feature of life. Changes
take place because the world changes, and we
must live and work out our sanctity in the chang
ing world, sanctifying it as we live in it.
When I went to college I had a m issal; 25
years earlier they had been forbidden things.
This taught me more about the Mass than I
had ever suspected before, but it still meant
that the priest was going his way in mumbled
Latin, and I was trying to follow him in hurried
English.
In the seminary the Mass became more mean
ingful when we were able to follow it in Latin
The changes are being made that the true
meaning of the Mass may become clear to us;
that we may hear Jesus speak to us, that we may
all join together with one another and with Jesus
in offering our prayers to the Father, that our
offering of sacrifice may be a clear and gene
rous giving in unison, that our sacrifice may
be more impressively through Christ, with Christ
and in Christ; and that our Communion may
be more strikingly a joyful supper of reunion
with Jesus and with each other.
ELECTION EXAMPLE
Your World And Mine
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 4
guide was an official of the Honest Ballot As
sociation, and they were fascinated to learn of the
existence of such a voluntary association with
membership open to all, and of its work to ensure
that every voter knows his rights and that
his vote will be recorded and counted. “If we
could only get our people to realize what they
can do for themselves,” one commented, as he
listened to the story of how public opinion has
been harnessed in the United States to eliminate
the election abuses that were rife as recently
as fifty years ago.
My discussions with this group stressedforme
once again something I had been observing during
my travels in Europe, Asia and Africa during
the past twelve months. Our recent election
was bitterly contested not only in the United
States but throughout the world. The polls show
ed a decisive majority on one side within the
country, but what is curious is that in the entire
outside world there was even more overwhelm
ing support for the same side.
THIS IS one of the most consistent elements
in the world picture of the United States. Those
who like us and those who dislike us, the rich and
the poor, the politically reactionary and the
politically progressive, all for their own reasons
viewed with dismay the growth of isolationist
feeling which they associated with the Goldwater
image.
“In our case it goes back to the Good Neigh
bor policy of Franklin D. Roosevelt,” one Latin
American told me. “He was the first to treat
us as equals. And John F. Kennedy moved for
ward from neighborliness to partnership in the
Alliance. Of course, we want to see a strong
United States, but strength in isolation is a con
tradiction in terms. We are in this together,”
“IF WE expressed ourselves in such partisan
terms about the Issues in your elections, you
would immediately accuse us of Interference in
your internal affairs,” I countered.
My friend smiled a trifle ruefully. '*You are
absolutely right,” he replied. “But you have to
remember that the w^ak have privileges denied
to the strong.” That morsel of philosophy is
perhaps worthy of reflection by the Republican
brains trust currently engaged on a post-mor
tem leading to a new program.
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DIOCESAN CLERGY concelebrate Mass with their Bishop, as will happen often under the new Constitution on the Liturgy.
Bishop Albert R. Zuroweste of Belleville, Ill., concelebrated Mass with 12 of his priests at a recent diocesan clergy liturgi
cal day, with special permission obtained in Rome from the Commission for Execution of the Liturgical Decree.
DE PAUL SPEAKER
Bulletin Classifieds
Calls Social Conscience
Weapon In Poverty War
231-1281
NEW YORK (NC) — Sound
economics alone will notwin the
war against poverty, a social
research expert said here, “and
the social conscience of
America must be awakened to
the realization that it is not
enough.”
Msgr. Paul Furfey, director
of the Bureau of Social Research
at the Catholic University of
American in Washington, ad
dressed the annual St. Vincent
de Paul Convocation at St.
John's University here.
MSGR. Furfey cited three
examples of what he called the
“tragic fact that the worst
crimes of history are com
mitted with the cooperation, or
at least with the passive ac
quiescence, of decent and re
spectable citizens’ - ;
—The slaughter of more than
five million Jews, not by spe
cially selected killers but by
‘‘a remarkable cross-section
of the German population.”
— American Negro slave
traffic, supported “not by ir
responsible sadists, but respec
table colonial gentlemen.”
—’The slaughter of the in
nocent at Hiroshima and Na
gasaki” which he compared to
the slaughter of the innocent at
Dachau or Buchenwald.
THESE examples, he said,
Archbishop Dies
GUATEMALA CrTY (NC)—
Archbishop Mariano Rossell y
Arellano of Guatemala has died
here at the age of 70. Archbis
hop Mario Casariego, who has
been acting as his coadjutor,
succeeds him as head of the
archdiocese.
Saints in Black and White
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3 ceremony 67
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point out “the sharp split be
tween individual conscience and
social conscience.”
Msgr. Furfey reviewed the
life of St. Vincent de Paul,
especially how he was convert
ed from a benefice - seeking
priest to an apostle of charity.
“From the time of the New
Deal there has been a con
sistent governmental policy of
social legislation designed to
cope with the common vicissi
tudes of life. However, many
of these good laws are tied
to employment,” the priest
said. He added that they “do
not meet the real problems of
the sub-proletariat. Social re
form has a tendency to by pass
the slums.”
MORE than anything else the
poor need understanding, Msgr.
Furfey said. “Not money, but
understanding, can break down
the psychological isolation
which segregates them,“hede
clared. The pogr are isolated
from sharing in our American
heritage because they are
grossly impoverished, they live
below the health-and-decency
level and belong to families
where the breadwinner is chro
nically unemployed, he said.
'Twentieth-century America
needs a St. Vincent, a leader
who can shake the average
American out of his com
placency and can teach him to
be concerned with his neigh
bor not as an economic ab
straction, but as a person, as
the object of a burning Chris
tian love,” Msgr. Furley stated.
ANSWER TO LAST WEEK’S PUZZLE, PAGE 7
ADVISOR — First military
chaplain assigned as an ad
visor to the Army Surgeon
General is Chaplain (Col.)
Joseph S. Chmielewski, a
priest of the Diocese of Tren
ton, N. J., and a chaplain
since early in World War II.
Msgr. Chmielewski will assist
chaplains on duty in Army
hospitals, promoting closer
liaison on behalf of patients'
spiritual and temporal needs.
God Love You
BY MOST REVEREND FULTON J. SHEEN
Have you ever thought of how many of us during the Christ
mas season worry about the presents we must buy for those
close to us or those who expect one from us and how few of
us ever think of giving just one present to someone too
poor, too helpless, too diseased, too far away from our lux
urious world, to expect anything? And yet, is it not in the giving
of the unexpected gift out of Christian charity that our Christ
mas becomes Christ-like? Numerous agencies provide ways
for the generous to give a n impersonal
present to “an unfortunate unknown’ but Our
Lord has provided in His Mystical Body one
very personal way - His Vicar on earth’s
mission fund, the Holy Father’s Society
for the Propagation of the Faith which aids
the needy of the entire world. We cannot
aid everyone with a gift, but we can aid him
who can help everyone. In no other form 'Of
charity does your money go directly’to the
Holy Father and so adequately aid his Mis
sions, as by an annuity taken out with The Society for the Pro
pagation of the Faith.
In considering an annuity, you might ask yourself the follow
ing questions. 1) am I giving it to an institution or a society
that already has much, or am I giving to the poor who
have nothing? 2) Am I limiting it to one of the religious soci
eties of the Church, many of whom help the Missions, or am
I aiding all of them by allowing the Holy Father to make
the distribution? 3) Am I giving it to someone who will invest
it on a long-term basis or am 1 giving it to one, namely
the Holy Father, who will allocate it the very year it is re
ceived to the hungry and needy people of the world? If you
answer the three questions in the affirmative, you will want
to know the many other advantages of an annuity with The
Society for the Propagation of the Faith.
What is an annuity? Why is it providing most adequately
for Our Lord’s poor when given to The Society for the Pro
pagation of the Faith? An annuity is not for people who have
extra money collecting dust. It is for those who have ade
quate money but need it in trust. An annuity given this Christ
mas is not merely an outright present, but a legal agreement
whereby in return for a cash gift you are provided with a
sure and fixed income for life. The amount of your income,
returned to you semi-annually, depends upon your age and the
amount you offer the Missions. Your gift benefits you here
and now by adding worry-free days to your life and income
tax savings to you now. By removing the annuity sum from
your will, you avoid all estate tax consequences later. Your
thoughtfulness now will provide for your spiritual as well as
your temporal welfare. You will share in the good work :,
Masses and other prayers of 300,000 missionaries of every
order and congregation. When God transfers you to heaven, your
annuity gift is transferred to the Holy Father who transfers
it to the poor of the world.
This Christmas when you are receiving Our Lord at Mass,
He will be commemorating His birthday by suffering with
two-thirds of the world who are tattered and starving. He
will be bearing the agonies of eleven million lepers who still
need treatment. A gift to those suffering in His Mystical
Body can bring far-reaching effets in your life, eternity and
world. But, most important, through an annuity contract with
the Holy Father's mission fund you invest in the greatest
business of the world— God’s business of saving mankind.
By taking out an annuity to the SPOF, you are not merely
giving to the starving. You are giving to Him, just as the Wise-
Men who came with gifts on that first Christmas.
If you wish to invest your hard-earned money securely tor
a guaranteed, worry-free income and gain spiritual benefits
this Christmas, write for our manual on annuities, giving
your date of birth. Our address is: Most Rev. Fulton J. Sheen,
366 Fifth Avenue, New York, N. Y. 10001. God Love You!
GOD LOVE YOU to E. H. for $50 "This is being sent as
an act of love for God, as an act of thanksgiving for His bless
ings and as an act of amendment for offending Him.” ... to
H, A. for $100 "My husband just bought me a fur jacket for
a Christmas gift. It made him very happy to buy it. It has been
my observation that women who wear fur jackets seldom gave
any donation. I do not wish to be one of those women. I plan
to put aside $1 each time I wear the jacket and to Send it for
charity as the amount reaches a worthwhile gift. To wear it
in comfort I feel I must share it with the poor who have no
warm coats.”
Cur out t|iis column, pin your sacrifice to it and mail it to Most
Reverend Fulton J. Sheen, National Director of The Society for the
Propagation of the Faith, 366 Faith Avenue, New York, New York
10001, or to your Diocesan Director, Rev. Harold J. Rainey, P. O.
Box 12047, Northside Station, Atlanta 5, Georgia.