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VOL. 3, NO. 29
ATLANTA, GEORGIA
THURSDAY, JULY 22, 1965
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‘CORDIAL OBEDIENCE 5
Two Irish Priests Coming
For Service in Archdiocese
Two priests from Ireland will
be coming this Summer to serve
in the Atlanta Archdiocese.
They are Rev. Richard A. Kier-
an from Asheville, County
Louth, and Rev. Thomas Kenny
of Easkey, County Sligo, Ire
land.
Father Kieran, son of Mrs.
Joan S. Kieran and the late Law
rence T. Kieran, is the fourth in
a family of eight. He attended
Glenstal Abbey School in County
Limerick. For the last seven
years he has been studying in
St. Patrick’s College, Maynooth
(the National Seminary of Ire
land). After obtaining aBache-;
lor of Science and a Bachelor
of Divinity Degree, he was or
dained in St. Patrick’s College
on June 20 of this year by Most
Reverend John Charles Mc-
Quaid, Archbishop of Dublin. He
celebrated his first Mass in his
Erect New
Texas See
WASHINGTON (NC) — Pope
Paul VI has created the new dio
cese of Brownsville, in the State
of Texas, and has made the fol
lowing appointments:
Bishop Adolph Marx, form
er Auxiliary of Co’rpus Christi,
has been named the first bishop
of the new Brownsville dio
cese.
Bishop Thomas J. Drury,
former bishop of San Angelo,
has been named bishop of Cor
pus Christi.
These actions of the Holy
Father were announced here by
Archbishop Egidio Vagnozzi,
apostolic delegate in the Unit
ed States.
TO t'Ol'VMlj PRESIDEN
CY Lawrence Cardinal She-
han of Baltimore has been
named by Pope Paul VI to
the 12-member Council of
the Presidency. The vacancy
was created by the death of
the late Albert Cardinal
Meyer of Chicago.
REV. RICHARD A. KIERAN
Rgy. THOMAS KENNY
home parish of Callon on June
21.
FATHER KIERAN is twenty-
five years old. His brother John
is studying at All Hallows Col
lege with the intention of fol
lowing his brother to Atlanta.
FATHER KENNEY is the son
of Mr, and Mrs. Patrick J.
Kenny of Easkey, County Sligo.
He was awarded a scholarship
to St. Muredachs College, Coun
ty Mayo, in 1953, graduating
from there in 1958.
He then entered the Semi
nary of All Hallows College,
Dublin, and attended lectures'
at University. College, Dublin,
where he received a Bachelor of
Arts Degree in 1961. After
completing his theological stud
ies at All Hallows.he was or
dained by Most Reverend Donal
Herlihy, Bishop of Ferns, on
June 20, 1965. His first Mass
was offered at St. James Church
in Easkey on June 21.
Monsignor Patrick J. O’Con
nor, pastor of St. Thomas More
and Archdiocesan Director «of
Vocations, goes to Ireland each
year to seek seminarians and
boys in high school who are will
ing to be ordained for service
in the Archdiocese as priests.
The Archdiocese then finances
their schooling in Ireland. Af
ter ordination they come to At
lanta. Last year Ireland train
ed approximately four hundred
priests, three hundred of which
were, sent to all parts of the
world. Many of these priests
come to the southern dioceses
of the United States where the
need is great.
Official
Archbishop Paul J. Hallinan announces the appointment—effec
tive July 31, 1965—of the following priests recently ordained in
Ireland.
Rev. Richard A. Kieran, Assistant, Immaculate Heart of Maty,
Atlanta,
Rev. Thomas Kenny, Assistant, the Cathedral of Christ the King.
The following changes for the Marist Fathers in Atlanta are an
nounced by the Chancery Office and the Washington Province of
the Society of Mary:
The following priests are assigned to the staff of Marist School:
Ralph Vedros, S. M. (principal); Rev. Valentine Becker, S.M,
(treasurer); Rev. Joseph Caffery, S.M.; Rev. John Hanf, S.M.; Rev.
Eugene Hughes, S.M.; Rev. Edward MacLeod, S.M.
The following scholastics are assigned to the staff of Marist
School: Mr. John Baker, S.M.; Mr. Bruce Brown, S.M.; Mr.
Thomas Collins, S.M.; Mr., Stephen Schaefle, S.M.; Mr. Charles
Urich, S. M.
The following priests presently at Marist School have been as-
assigned out of the archdiocese: R ev . Andrew McCormack, S.M.;
Rev. James Hartnett, S.M.; Rev. Fortune Frenoy, S.M.; Rev.
Mariano Rizzuto, S.M. ; Rev. John Weiglein, S.M,; Rev. Raymond
Healy, S.M.
‘DISCRIMINA TION’
House Scores Persecutions
WASHINGTON ( NC ) —The
House of Representatives has a-
dopted a resolution condemning
religious persecution by the go
vernments of the Soviet Union
and the East European satellite
countries.
The House resolution said
there is "abundant evidence” of
persecution "in varying de
Church Still Persecuted In China
Hong Kong (NC)—"Awful
accusations and terrible humi
liations’’ are still being inflict
ed upon many Chinese priests
faithful to the Church, accord
ing. to inform ation received here
from a Catholic layman in Red
China.
In a letter delivered to re
latives here— also Catholics-
he wrote of the Chinese Com
munist party’s continuing per
secution of priests who refused
to be associated with the "pa
triotic church.” Regarding
himself and his family, he
added:
"It has been a long long time
since I or any of my family
have been to confession."
“WE HAVE SEEN AND ADMIRED!” wrote Pope Paul VI on the margin of this Mariner
IV picture of Mars (July 16). This first close-up photo of Mars was transmitted to earth
from a distance of 134 million miles.
5 BISHOPS TO ATTEND
Southern Catholics 9 Meet
Set On Human Relations
grees" of "elements” of the
Christian, Jewish and Moslem
populations in these countries.
It said the persecution has
been in such forms as "confis
catory taxation and closing of
religious institutions, deliber
ate suppression of religious
education, interference with re
ligious and related cultural
practices, denial of regular
contacts between religious bo
dies in their countries with
similar bodies in other parts
of the world, and through per
sistent discrimination against
persons professing and prac
ticing their religions.”
ATLANTA—Archbishop Paul
J. Hallinan will keynote a three
day conference on human rela
tions for Southern Catholic
leaders July 29 (1 p.m.) at the
Hilton Inn here.
Archbishop Hallinan’s topic,
‘The Church in Society,*’ will
be addressed to clerical and
lay delegates from 25 dioceses
in the South and Southwest in
vited to send representatives to
the conference. The meeting is
co-sponsored by the Archdio
cese of Atlanta and the Nation
al Catholic Conference for In
terracial Justice.
ENTITLED “Social Change
and Christian Response," the
conference will discuss the
changing South, the Negro
movement, several viewpoints
on the Negro apostolate, and
diocesan involvement in human
relations.
Bishop Coleman F. Carroll
of Miami, will discuss dioce
san and religious involvement
in human relations, Friday, July
30 at the 6 p.m. dinner meet
ing. Bishop Carroll *:as the
first chairman of the Dade
County Commission on Human
Relations.
Dr. Leslie Dunbar, executive
director of the Southern Region
al Council, will address the
conference on ‘The Changing
South.”
DR. DUNBAR’S address will
be followed by comments from
a panel of specialists who have
observed the changing scene.
They are: Miss Jean Fairfax,
national representative for Sou
thern programs, American
Friends Service Committee; Rt.
Rev. Msgr. Edward W.
O’Rourke, executive director,
National Catholic Rural Life
Conference; Rev. Andrew J.
Young, executive director, Sou
thern Christian Leadership
Conference.
Dr, Odenwald Dies
WASHINGTON (NC) — Re
quiem Mass for Dr. Robert P.
Odenwald, 66, psychiatrist, au
thor and lecturer, was offered
(July 20) in the Shrine of the
Blessed Sacrament here. Dr.
Odenwald died (July 18) of lung
cancer.
Clerical and lay delegates
from 25 dioceses in 15 states
of the South and Southwest have
been invited to the conference,
co-sponsored by the. Archdio
cese of Atlanta and the Na
tional Catholic Conference for
Interracial Justice.
Mr. Hyman Bookbinder, as
sistant director of the Office of
Economic Opportunity, will
speak on the development of
human resources and its rela
tionship to human rights in
his address, ‘The Challenge of
Poverty in America," at the
noon luncheon Saturday, July
31.
THE ST. MARTIN’S Council
on Human Relations of the Arch
diocese of Atlanta is serving as
host for the meeting. Mrs.
George Gunning is chairman of
the local arrangements com
mittee.
The Social Action Depart
ment, National Catholic Wel
fare Conference, serves as
consultant.
MOTHER FRANCIS BE SALES
Visitation Nuns’
Superior Dies
Archbishop Paul J. Hallinan
officiated at a solemn requiem
Mass for Mother Francis de
Sales Cassidy held on Tuesday,
July 20, at St. Thomas More
Church, Decatur.
The founder and head of the
Monastery of the Sisters of the
Visitation, Mother Cassidy,
died Sunday in the monastery,
1820 Ponce de Leon Avenue,
NE.
Bom Margaret Cassidy in
Macon, Georgia, on February
15, 1892, she is the daughter
of Joseph and Mary Ann (Camp
bell) Cassidy. Mother Francis
de Sales entered the Visitation
Monastery in Washington , D.C.,
on August 14, 1912. She became
Pontiff Asks
More Respect
For Authority
• See also REAPINGS, page 4
VATICAN CITY (RNS)—Pope
Paul VI, at his midweek gener
al audience, warned that “a
state of mind hostile to the prin
ciple of authority is today very
widely spread not only in tem
poral society, but also in va
rious spheres of Catholic life
itself.”
Devoting his talk to the con
cept of the Church’s authority,
the pontiff urged the faithful to
understand and accept this au
thority "in its original and es
sential meaning and value,” and
to render it due obedience.
Unfortunately, he said, *‘o-
bedience, which is the cordial
and practical recognition of au
thority, is continually being
called into question as some
thing contrary to the develop
ment of the human person, un
worthy of free, mature and adult
human beings, engendering
weak and passive spirits and
perpetuating in Triodern™tinies"’'
criteria of social relations that
are outmoded.”
THE POPE said there are
even those who “think it praise
worthy to face the risk of what
they deem a liberating disobe
dience, and that it is fair play
to confront authority with their
accomplished actions.”
He noted an increase of "in
genious persons who, perhaps
without saying so, deceive
themselves into thinking that
they can be sufficiently good,
if not excellent Catholics, by ar
rogating to themselves an ab
solute autonomy of thought and
action, withdrawing from every
form of positive relationship
(involving) subordination..(and)
collaboration with those in po
sitions of responsibility and
leadership.”
Pope Paul said it was hard
to form an exact concept of
M. FRANCIS de SALES
a professed nun on February
24, 1914.
SHE WAS one of the Sister
Founders of the Toledo, Ohio,
monastery, in June, 1915. She
served for 15 years as Mistress ’
of Novices in Toledo; and then
became the Superior for three
years.
She came to Atlanta in June,
1954, as Mother Foundress of
the monastery here with ten
other sisters. She had been
superior of the Atlanta monas
tery for eight years.
Mother Francis de Sales cel
ebrated her Golden Jubilee as a
professed nun on February 24,
1964.
MOTHER Francis de Sales is
survived by Mr. and Mrs, James
A. Cassidy and family; Mr. and
Mrs. Gerald Cassidy, Mr. and
Mrs. Francis Murray, Dr. and
Mrs. Thomas Gilday, Mr. and
Mrs. Julius Loh, a sister, all
from Washington, D,C.;Mr. and
Mrs. James Collins and their
daughters, Mrs. Nelson Jas-
lam, Mrs, Edward Leonard,
Sister Mary Edward, R.S.M.,
Savannah, Georgia; Mr. Francis
Cassidy, Miss Aloysia Cassidy
and Mrs . J. V. Sheridan with
nieces and nephews,/ Macon,
Georgia; Mr. and Mrs. Val
Sheridan, Sister Mary Valen
tina, R.S.M.; Mr. and Mrs.
Richard Sheridan, Mr. Donald
Sheridan and Mrs, Whaland and
her daughter Sister Mary Repa-
rata, R.S.M., Baltimore, Mary
land.
authority, particularly of ec
clesiastical authority, because
"experience and history offered
illustrations of it that have not
always been faithful or happy.
He said he would define autho
rity, then, as a service of cha
rity and salvation.
"It is,” he explained, "a
service for the benefit of fel
low human beings, but not one
that is subject to them. It is
a service entrusted by Christ
not with a servile instrument
but with the mark of command,
the keys, that is the power of
the Kingdom of Heaven, and a
service responsible only before
God.”
EMPHASIZING that the
Church’s authority is pastoral,
the Pope said that "although
destined to make mankind into
a single flock, it-is not intend
ed to level and make all uni
form, since the Church’s unity
is uniformity only in faith and
1 charity.” *
In a final exhortation to the
Catholic faithful, Pope Paul
said: “Have compassion and un
derstanding for the priest’s of
fice as teacher and pastor in
the Church of God. Do not let
obedience and collaboration be
■wanting. May it make you rather
readier to rejoice in the ex
pansion of God’s Kingdom and
make you sharers in His gifts
and merits.”
Columbia Editor
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (NC)--
Knights of Columbus Supreme
Knight John W. McDevitt has
announced the appointment of
Elmer Von Feldt, news editor
of the N.C.W.C. News Service
in Washington, as editor of
Columbia magazine to succeed
John Donahue upon his retire
ment at the end of this year.
THE NEW LITURGY at Holy Family Hospital. Dacca,
East Pakistani finds both Sisters and hospital staff practic
ing the Mass in Bengali, the local language. Sister M. Angela
Sullivan of the Medical Mission Sisters. Philadelphia., su
perior-at the hospital, plays the tambura S a tall, stringed