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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1966,
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! VOL. 4, NO. 38
ATLANTA, GEORGIA
diocese of Atlanta
GEORGIA'S
NORTHERN
COUNTIES
SERVING
Negro Baptists oppose
civil disobedience. See
Page 5.
Young Adults Congress To Vote On Role Of Church
JAMES ALTWIES
President
One hundred delegates and
alternates to the Young Adults
Congress meet thjs weekend
at the American Motor Hotel
to discuss and vote on propo
sals concerning the future of
the Church in the Archdio
cese of Atlanta.
The resolutions committee of
the congress has approved re
solutions that deal with the pa
rish and community life, spiri
tual life, the church on the
college campus, education, in
terfaith action, communications
and has called for the convo
cation of a congress within a
year.
The Young Adults Congress
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Delegates, Alternates Meet Saturday, Sunday
the congress will reconvene at
follows the Lay Congress and
Sister’s Congress which were
held earlier in the year. The
work of all three congresses
will culminate in the meeting
of the Synod of Priests in No
vember.
Keynote speaker for the con
gress will be Paul Shields,
award-winning news director
of WAGA-TV. Shields, a mem
ber of the Cathedral of Christ
the King, will speak on "The
Young Adult in the Spirit of
Vatican II." The television
newsman has won the Sigma
Delta Chi award for one of his
"Dialogue” programs, an in
terview with Ralph McGill, pu
blisher of The Atlanta Consti
tution and winner of the Pulitzer
Prize.
He also wrote, produced and
narrated a documentary on the
life of Atlanta’s Margaret Mit
chell, author of ‘‘GoneWithThe
Wind.” In 1965, Shields re
ceived an Associated Press
award for his documentary on
water pollution, "Currents of
Contamination.”
| The first meeting of theCon-
;gress will be an informal re-
'ception Friday at 8 p.m. at the
•motel to enable delegates and
alternates to meet each other.
I Registration and the execu
tion of all preliminaries will
'begin Saturday at 8 a.m. The
[opening prayer of the congress
twill be given by Father Paul
•Kelley, priest-consultant, and
["Shields will deliver his keynote
fadress at 10 a.m.
After the keynote address,
1 p.m. the congress will con
sider reports of the organiza
tion and resolution committee.
Delegates, alternates and
guests will reassemble in the
grand ballroom at 7:30 p.m.for
a banquet and dance. Arch
bishop Hallinan will be the
featured speaker at the banquet.
After the dinner and speech,
young adults and guests will
dance to the music of the Cae
sars, a five-piece band.
The congress will come to
order Sunday at 10 a.m. to
complete remaining business
and will then adjourn with a
concelebrated folk mass?.-
Officers of the congress are
James Altwies, president; Lyn
da Schladenhauffeh, vice pre
sident; Faith Mitchell, secre
tary; Jim Wallace, treasurer.
Leaders of the resolutions
committee are Alan Johes and
Kay Blair, cochairmen; Eliza
beth Williams, secretary. Mrs.
Mary Rauton and Frank Mc-
Brearity served as advisers
to the resolutions committee.
PAUL SHIELDS
• • • Keynoter
Senator Seeks Aid
A Helping Hand
Needed In Congo
Sen. Gaston Diorm of the
Congo has zig-zagged across
the United States seeking help
for the Congolese Church in
its hour of need.
Diomii a physician by pro-
SEN. DIOMI
fession, has talked to anyon
who would listen to his appeal
for help. But he has done more
than ask for help, he has given
it in his native country. As an
immediate goal he hopes to get
some support for a diocesan
girls’ school in Kinshasa which
he founded and turned over to
the diocese and an order of
Congolese nuns.
"The school needs more
room and classes,” he said.
’The students are now sleep
ing in old chicken coops and we
want to build them a proper dor-
mintory.”
week, visited with Archbishop
Paul J. Hallinan and discussed
the purpose of his mission with
Father Noel C. Burtenshaw,
Chancellor, at lunch, The sena-
to, who speaks French, was ac
companied by Kenneth Adams
oi the State Department Who
served as his interpreter. While
here he was a guest in the
home of Mr. and Mrs. John.
Olsen, members of Immaculate
Heart of Mary parish, and tour
ed the Communicable Disease
Center.
The senator also toured
Vine City and upper-class Ne
gro neighborhoods. He visited
Drexel High School.
*T would like to see Ameri
cans and Congolese help each
other in more than just a con
ventional governmental way,”
he said. ”1 would like to see
private Americans-business-
men, clergy, any Christian of
good will—try for a more per
sonal contact with us, for bet
ter understanding, for that help
ing hand in our hour of need.”
The senator said the Con
golese would appreciate adop
tion by Americans at all Tevels.
“For instance, an order of
native Catholic nuns could
greatly benefit from adoption
by an American order of nuns.
Or an American diocese could
adopt a Congolese diocese.
These projects are worth think-
Anglican Bishop John Phillips of Portsmouth kisses his daughter, Judith Ann, following her
marriage in the Catholic Church of the Sacred Heart in Fareham, England. Judith Ann was married
to Timothy Melhuish, a Catholic businessman. Also shown with them is the bride’s mother, Mrs.
Phillips. The marriage made British ecclesiastical history since it was followed by a service Of
blessing conducted by Bishop Phillips in the nearby Portsmouth Cathedral. It marked the first
time that a Catholic had been permitted to. take part in such a ceremony. Dr. Phillips, robed
in brilliant purple cassock, gave his daughter away in the Catholic church, but did not take part
in the wedding ceremony. (RNS Photo)
Pope Appeals
Say Rosary For Peace
He stopped in Atlanta last (CONTINUED ON PAGE 2)
Archbishop Hallinan Urges
VATICAN CITY (NC)—Pope
Paul VI has appealed to the
world’s Catholics to say the
Rosary during the month of
October for the establishment
of true peace, the halting of
war and the removal of atti
tudes which tend to foster war.
End ‘Second-Class Citizenship’
For Catholics In Public Schools
Archbishop Paul J. Hallinan
has called for and end of “se
cond-class citizenship” of the
public school student in the
Catholic religious education
system in a speech at the 12th
National and 5th Inter-Ameri
can Congress of the Confrater
nity of Christian Doctrine.
Illness kept the archbishop
from attending the parley last
week at Pittsburgh, but his
speech was read to delegates
by Father A.M. Morris.
In his paper, Archbishop Hal
linan said, “We bishops are at
a formidable point of decision.
We must give equal billing to
all channels of religious edu
cation — equal concern, tea
cher-quality, facilities and op
portunities to the pupil, wher
ever he is found.”
He said, “Child and youth
must be instructed and formed
in the parochial school, the
school of religion, or any oth
er facet of confraternity educa
tion. A proportionate budget is
essential. Although allowingfor
the existing physical plant, the
building must be seen as ser
ving not just the pupils of the
parish school, but those in pub
lic schools, young adults and
the general public.
“The ’second-class citizen
ship’ of the public school stu
dent,” he said, “must be re
placed by the 'special affection
and faithfulness’ the Council
calls for. One Obvious start is
a diocesan secretary for educa
tion responsible for all reli
gious instruction and formation.
Another step is the professional
training of catechists. A third
is a paid fulltime director for
the parish school of religion.”
Archbishop Hallinan said,
“There are a hundred little
ways we must explore to keep
these pupils from becoming the
Oliver Twists of education. The
same First Communion Day
should know no distinctions; pu
blic school boys should serve
at the altar, girls at other work;
picnics and outings can be ar
ranged on days when all can
attend.”
The archbishop quoted Bis
hop Joseph L. Bemardin to
the effect that in religious edu
cation as well as race "se
parate, but equal treatment”
is over. “Sacramentally, so
cially and recreationally, they
are a single body of boys and
girls, and we welcome. them
all as one.”
He told the delegates that
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In a 1,500-word encyclical
letter dated Sept. 15 and made
public Sept. 19, the Pope also
called, on the world’s bishops
to hold special observances
on Oct. 4, the anniversary of
his flying trip to New York
to appeal for peace before the
United Nations in 1965. He ask
ed that the day be dedicated as
a world day' of grayer for peace.
He added that he would par
ticipate in such an observance
in St. Peter’s ^basilica and said
the observance would be “a
special ceremony of supplica
tion in honor of the Virgin Mo
ther of God, the protector of
Christians and our intercessor
for peace.”
Noting that Catholics pray
the Rosary during October,
Pope Paul said: “This year we
call upon all the children of
the Church to perform these
special exercises of devotion
to the same most Blessed Vir
gin.”
In grave tones he immediate
ly spelled out the reasons which
had led him to make this appeal:
“For we are threatened by
a more extensive andmoredis-
astrous calamity that endangers
the human family, even as a
bloody and difficult war is rag
ing particularly in the areas of
East Asia. So we are urged to
continue working even more
intensely to the extent of our
powers for peace.”"
But the Pope did not limit
his reasons for the prayer
crusade only to the war in East
Asia. Instead he listed a num-
of other things that contributed
to the outbreak of war and un
rest. He said:
“Similarly the souls of men
are deeply disturbed by things
which all know are taking place
in other parts of the world.
For instance, there are the
increasing race for nuclear
weapons, the unscrupulous ef
forts for the expansion of one’s
nation, the excessive glorifica
tion of one’s race, the obsession
for revolution, the segregations
enforced on citizens, the ini
quitous plotting, the murder
of the innocent. All of these
are potential material for the
greatest possible tragedy.”
Linking his efforts with those
of past popes, Pope Paul stated
he felt he had a "special task,
namely that we labor with pa
tient arid persevering effort for
the preservation and streng
thening of the peace.” He re
called his flight to appear be
fore the U.N. and his other ef
forts “to ward off from men
the monstrous catastrophe
which was about to overwhelm
them.
"Now again, therefore, we
lift up our voice ’with a pierc
ing cry and with tears' (He
brews 5, 7), very earnestly
beseeching those who have
charge of the public welfare to
strive with every means avail
able to prevent the further
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Results To Be Studied
New Rite For Funerals
Slated In Archdiocese
The Archdiocese of Atlanta has joined St. Louis in an impor
tant experiment on the new rite for funerals, it was announced
this week by Cardinal Lercaro and the Liturgical Consilium in
Rome. Of some 50 dioceses chosen throughout the/world, St.
Louis and Atlanta were selected because Cardinal Joseph Ritter
and Archbishop Paul J. Hallinan are on the post-conciliar litur
gical body, • —
The changes which will be
effective here in all 32 parishes
from mid-October until Janu
ary, stress the new pastoral
approach to death as an en
trance to new life instead of
a temporal, sad separation.
They are based on Artlice 81
of the new liturgical constitu
tion:
“The rite for the burial of
the dead should evidence more -
clearly ^.the paschal character
of Christian death...”
Preparations for the funeral
changes will be the subject of
all sermons on one of the Sun
days in October, and in the
Georgia Bulletin. A detailed
questionnaire will be sent to
each pastor in January to eva
luate the results.
Although the sequence, Dies
Irae (Day of Wrath), will be
optional, it is urged that it be
omitted because it conveys “an
unduly fearsomeconcept of dea
th, according to instructions for
the experiment.
The principal changes and
practices may be summed up
as follows:
(1) A much wider and more
appropriate choice of
Spritual 1 e s s o n and
psalm. This includes more
flexible arrangements
since 16 readings and 16
psalms will now be avail-,
able. A "warm and living
love” for the Word of God
is thus fostered.
(2) The division of the rite
into three "stations”: at
the funeral parlor or home
(farewell); at -the church
(the Eucharist); and at the
cemetery (final commital,
the entrance to union with
the Risen Christ).
(3) A high degree of parti
cipation, e.g. vernacular
texts, invocations in li-
tany-form, offertory pro
cession and wider recep
tion of the Holy Eucharist.
(4) Inclusion of family,
friends and other present
in the message of Chris
tian faith (in the Paschal
Mystery) and hope (in the
eternal life of the blessed).
Priests are .to "greet those
p r es ent sympathetically”,
those who mourn”, and
"stengthen the hope of those
present and foster their faith
in the paschal mystery,’ ’ (In
struction on New Rite). Our
priests have a long tradition
of personal, sympathetic con
cern for the bereaved faith
ful. They might encourage
Christians not to say to their
d e a d, "Farewell” but
“Farewell in the Lord!”
(5) A possible use of the
color, white, instead of
black—this to be determined
by the Archdiocesan Litur-^
gical Commission. The op
tional use of Alleluia in the
Introit and Gradual (encou-
, raged) and Dies Irae (dis
couraged).
Booklets with the new rite
are now being prepared by Bis
hop Joseph L. Bernardin, and
Father Leonard F.X. Mayhew,
chairman of the Liturgical
Commission. As soon as these
Cardinal To Speak
, Christian unity and the im
portance of the ministry will
be the two major themes of
Ministers Week at Emory Uni
versity this coming January.
Leo Josef CardinalSuenens
Roman Catholic archbishop of
Malines, Brussels, will be a
featured speaker and the Ecu-
menical Institute held in con
nection with Ministers Week,
Jan. 16-20, 1967.
Dean William R. Cannon said
that Archbishop Paul J.
Hallinan, of Atlanta, and Bis
hop Fred P. Corson, resident
bishop of the Philadelphia area
of The Methodist Church, will
also take part in the Ecumen
ical Institute. A thousand mi
nisters from the Southeast us
ually attend Ministers Week.
Bishop Everett W. Palmer,
resident bishop of the Seattle
area and chairman of the De
partment of Ministerial Edu-
have been distributed, the chan
ges will be effective, Archbishop
Hallinan stated.
"Although the changes Seem
to involve details,” the arch
bishop, continued, -"they. are at
the very heart of the renewal.
If adopted by the universal
Church, they will exemplify why
revision of the liturgy is the
basis of the conciliar renewal.
We are privileged to share with
St. Louis in this first authentic
experiment in the liturgical re
form.”
Kung To Open
Lecture Tour
NEWTON, Mass. (RNS)—Fa
ther Hans Kung, an interna
tionally prominent Roman Ca
tholic ecumenist, will begin a
U.S. lecture tour ’ at Boston
College, a Jesuit university
here, on Oct. 24-
Father Kung, a member of
the theological faculty at the
University of Tuebingen, Ger
many, is the author of “The
Council, Reform and Reunion”’
On his current tour. Father
Kung will speak at the Pacific
Theological School, Stanford,
Northerwestern, Michigan and
Fordham Universities and the
University of Hawaii.
cation of the Methodist Board
of Education, will deliver a se
ries of lectures on “Renewal
of the Church through the Mi
nistry.” An address by Bishop
Palmer will open the sessions
at 8 p.m. Monday, Jan. ^.Car
dinal Suenens will speak the
following evening.
Dr. E. Clinton Gardner of the
Candler School of Theology will
lead the Ecumenical Institute.
Seminars during the week.
Other features will include
the beginning of an annual Alu
mni Lecture, an ecumenical
service of worship, a convoca
tion where honorary degrees
will be awarded, the dedication
of Trimble Hall, and the dedi
cation of the Sam D. Cherry
Memorial Room in Bishops
Hall. Honorary degrees will be
presented at a final convocation
Friday at 11:30 a.m. at which
Emory's president, Dr. Sanford
S. Atwood, will preside. Frank-
line Clark Fry will speak.
Emory Will Stress
Unity At Institute