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ARCHDIOCESE OF ATLANTA SERVING GEORGIA’S 71 NORTHERN COUNTIES
VOL. 5, NO. 19
ATLANTA, GEORGIA
THURSDAY, MAY 11, 1967
POPE Paul greets Adam West, star of Batman television ser- munications personalities who attended a special audience with
ies. West was one of many prominent entertainment and com- the pontiff. (RNS PHOTO)
Rome Opens Way For Local Language In Mass Canon
VATICAN CITY (NC)--The
Holy See, in a second instruc
tion implementing the Second
Vatican Council's Constitution
on the Liturgy, has opened the
door to the use of local lan
guages throughout the Canon of
the Mass and has simplified the
celebration of the Mass.
At the same time it empha
sized that only the Church it
self has the right to alter the
Liturgy in any way.
The instruction of the Con
gregation of Rites, signed first
of all by Giacomo Cardinal
Lercaro of Bologna, president
of the Consilium for the Im
plementation of the Constitu
tion on the Sacred Liturgy and
-a member of the Congregation
of Rites, and then by Arcadio
Cardinal Larraona, prefect of
the congregation, and Arch
bishop Ferdinando Antonelli,
secretary of the congregation,
was dated May 4 and is effec
tive June 29 of this year.
It grants "competent terri
torial authority" the power of
allowing the vernacular in the
Canon of Masses with partic
ipation of the people. The same
authority may allow the ver
nacular rite when the people
are present at ordination, and
at the choral recitation of the
Divine Office.
The instruction reduces the
number of genuflections by the
Mass celebrant. It also re
duces the number of times the
celebrant must bow, make the
Sign of the Cross and kiss the
altar.
The priest and people to
gether say the Domine Non Sum
Dignus before the Communion of
the priest, who then proceeds
immediately to the distribution
of Holy Communion. After
Communion it calls for a sil
ent pause or the singing of a
psalm or a hymn of praise.
The people are dismissed
from Mass immediately after
the Last Blessing instead of
before it.
The color violet may be used
in Requiem Masses. Episcopal
conferences may allow the use
of another liturgical color in
conformity with local mentali
ties.
The priest need not wear the
maniple.
Priests concelebrating Mass
should all wear the vestments
prescribed for individual cele
bration of the Mass, but, for
serious reason, suchasthelack
of enough vestments, all but the
principal celebrant may dis
pense with the chasuble. All
concelebrants, however, must
wear the alb and stole.
The first instruction was giv
en in autumn of 1964.
The new document said the
reforms ordered by the first
instruction produced "abundant
fruit/' It said that the world’s
bishops had reported an increa
sed and more active participa
tion in the liturgy—especially
at Mass—everywhere.
"With the aim of fostering
still more of this participation,
above all in the Mass, and to
render the sacred rites clear
er and more intelligible, other
suggestions have urged adap
tions which, presented to the
Consilium for the Implementa
tion ot the Constitution on the
Sacred Liturgy, were attentive
ly examined, and discussed by
that Consilium and by this Sa
cred Congregation (of Rites)."
From among those Sugges
tions were chosen some that
were considered “valid from
a pastoral point of view and not
in opposition with jthe lines of
the forthcoming definitive re
form."
Father Annibale Bugnini, C.
M., secretary of the Consilium,
told NC News Service that this
"definitive reform” is actually
"the reform now going on step
by step.” He said this reform
can be considered complete
"when the new liturgical texts
are published.”
The new document said the
changes required or allowed in
it "also serve to introduce pro
gressively the reform itself."
These changes "can be ac
tuated with simple rubrical ar
rangements” without altering
present liturgical books.
The instruction continued,
"but it seems also necessary
in the present circumstances
to recall that fundamental prin
ciple of the discipline of the
Church, openly reconfirmed al
so by the Constitution on the
Sacred Liturgy, which estab-
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LUCIA dos Santos, now a nun, is the sole survivor of three
shepherd children to whom Our Lady of Fatima appeared ina
field called Cova da Ira, near Fatima, in a village north of
Lisbon. Lucia was 10 when the apparitions began on May 13,
1917. She is now sixty and a member of the Carmelite order.
Here, in an old picture, Sister Maria Dolores is shown stand
ing before a statue of Our Lady carved according to her de
scription of the Virgin. (RNS PHOTO)
Msgr. Charles Rice
To Conduct Retreat
Msgr. Rice said his major
interests are housing for the
poor, improvement and deseg
regation of schools, interracial
justice in unions—the whole
general field of race and
poverty.
MSGR. RICE
United Nations and spoke to
250,000 persons.
He is pastor of Holy Rosary
Parish, Pittsburgh, Pa„ and
writes a column for the Pitts-
. burgh Catholic and articles for
national Catholic journals. He
is well-known as a speaker on
religious topics and public
affairs and has had a weekly
broadcast on Radio Station
WWSW, Pittsburgh, for 25
years.
Msgr. Rice has been active
in' the labor movement and
interracial matters since his
Orientation
Program Set
By St. Joe’s
St. Joseph’s High School fa
culty and student representa
tives will hold an orientation
program for new students and
their parents Saturday, May 13.
The program will begin at
10 a.m. and include a brief
orientation, explanation of the
academic program for the 1967-
68 term, extracurricular acti
vities, and a tour oLbuildings.
Refreshments will be served.
' Parents and youngsters in
terested in looking further into
this educational opportunity, as
well as students now registered,
are cordiallv invited to attend.
Msgr. Charles Owen Rice,
a veteran activist in the labor
and civil rights movements,
will give a retreat May 22-26
for priests of the Archdiocese
of Atlanta.
Father Eusebius J. Beltran,
secretary for priests, said the
retreat will be held at the Abbey
of Our Lady of the Holy Ghost
at Conyers.
Msgr. Rice accompanied Dr.
Martin Luther King and Dr.
Benjamin Spock on the Spring
Mobilization March to the
ordination in 1934. He defended
and supported unions during the
early days of the "New Deal,”
and picketed on several oc
casions. During World War II
he served as an OPA area
rent- director. He founded St.
Joseph’s House of Hospitality
and served as its director for
15 years.
He was elevated to the rank
of domestic prelate by Pope
Paul VI in 1964 and is a board
member of the Diocesan Com
mission of Catholic Charities
'and the Community Action
Section of the Pennsylvania
Catholic Welfare Conference.
ARCHBISHOP:
‘Deepen
Love Of
Worship’
Archbishop Hallinan has
urged all pastors in the arch
diocese to make full use of the
Liturgy and Unity Com
missions.
Lou Erbs is chairman of
the Liturgy Commission, with
Father Henry Gracz serving
as priest-secretary. Ferdinand
Buckley heads the Religious
Unity Commission and Father
Matthew Kemp is priest-sec
retary.
"Both commissions are now
the official representatives of
the archdiocese," the arch
bishop said. "As such they
exist to help all of our priests
and their parishes. Please
feel free to call on them at
any time with questions, sug
gestions, criticisms. They are
our reservoirs—serving to re
fresh and deepen our people’s
knowledge and love for the
progress of the Church.”
The archbishop said, "Al
though we have rapidly moved
ahead in the formal changes
these past two years, we must
increase our people’s under
standing — to deepen their
love of worship and to increase
their efforts to work toward
unity.
"Under the guidance of the
Liturgy Commission, our
parishes will avoid both the
extremes of apathy and resist
ance on the one hand, and the
unauthorized novelties on the
other,” Archbishop Hallinan
commented.
Chancellors
Plan Meet
On Ecumenism
Chancellors of the six dio
ceses in the Province of At
lanta will meet in Raleigh, N.C.
next Tuesday and Wednesday to
discuss what is being done in
ecumenism.
Bishop Joseph L. Bernardin,
Father Noel C. Burtenshaw,
chancellor, and Father Matthew
Kemp, priest-secretary of the
Archdiocesan Unity Commis
sion, will attend the meeting.
"We will discuss what is be
ing done in the field of ecu
menism in each dioceseandsee
if steps can be taken on a pro
vincial basis," Father Burten
shaw said.
Dioceses in the province are
Atlanta, Savannah, Miami, St.
Augustine, Raleigh and Char
leston.
A MOCK Court is held in Stockholm as the "International War Crimes Tribunal" meets upon the
call of British philosopher Bertrand RusselL Group in front row includes, left to right, Courtland
Cox, a field secretary for the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, a U.S. civil rights
organization; David Dellinger, editor of Liberation magazine; French existentialist philosopher
Jean-Paul Sartre; Vladimir Dedijer, Yugoslav writer; and Laurnet Schwartz, French mathematic
ian. The "tribunal,” called to study the situation in Vietnam, opened with a message from Lord
Russell, who did not attend. (RNS PHOTO)
Father DePriest Is Named
Rector At Marist
Father Ellis DePriest; S.M.,
pastor of St.Joseph parish,
Marietta, has been appointed
rector, Marist College, Wash
ington, D.C., where he was
once in the major seminary.
"Father DePriest has had
marked influence on our lives
The Rev. Mr. Anthony T.
Curran will be ordained a priest
of the Archdiocese of Atlanta
Saturday, May 20, at theCathe-
dral of Christ the King.
Archbishop Paul J. Hallinan
will ordain the Rev. Mr. Curran
at 10:30 a.m. Effective June 3,
the new priest will become
assistant to Msgr. P.J. O'
Connor at St. Thomas More
parish in Decatur.
The Rev. Mr. Curran, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Curran,
was born Jan. 24, 1942atSham-
okin, Pa., a city in the hard
-coal region of east-central
Pennsylvania. He attended St.
Joseph’s School in Sham okin and
after two years at Shamokin
Catholic High School, he entered
The Pontifical College Josephi-
num at Worthington, Ohio, as a
junior in the high school depart
ment.
He finished high school at the
Josephinum and entered the col
lege department from which he
graduated with a B.A. degree in
1963. At that time he entered the
theology department of the
school and will be graduated this
month.
Last summer, the Rev. Mr.
Curran served as a deacon at
St. Anthony’s parish.
at St. Joseph’s” said Howard
Duff, president of the Home
and School Association and a
member of the parish board of
education, "and he has brought
the Church to the people-not just
the people to the Church. We
have greatly appreciated his
patient guidance in helping
At the ordination, Jacob Bel-
Imer and Raymond Horan, both
who served in the archdiocese
last summer, will be ordained
to the diaconate. Both attend
St. Bernard’s Seminary in Ro
chester, N.Y.
Two others , David Patterson
of St. Mary’s, Baltimore and
Robert Klnast of the Pontifi
cal College Josephinum in Ohio,
will be ordained deacons in
June.
All four of the deacons will
be assigned to Atlanta this
summer.
ANTHONY T. CURRAN
College
laymen to assume more respon
sibility in church affairs.”
Born in Natchez, Miss., he
attended public schools in
Natchez and Alexandria, and
was professed in the Society
of Mary, Marist Fathers in
1947. After he completed his
studies at the Marist College
in 1953, he was ordained to the
priesthood.
From 1953 until 1962 he
served as professor of Sacred
Music and Liturgy at the college
in Washington and earned his
Master’s in Sacred Music. Then
he pursued his doctoral studies
in the field of liturgy on a
fellowship at Catholic Univer
sity in Washington. For a year
and a half he was a member
of the staff of theChild Guidance
Clinic at the University. Prior
to coming to St. Joseph’s, he
served as assistant pastor at
the Church of St. Pius X in
Bedford, Ohio.
As pastor of St. Joseph’s,
Father DePriest has initiated
many liturgical changes in the
mass and the church sanctuary,
masses in the home, built a new
convent, revitalized the church
choir and music, • expanded the
duties of the laymen’s organi
zations such as the parish
councils, and organized the
parish board of education and
other committees recommend
ed by the recent Synod.
Duff continued, "He has been
a leader in developing dialogue
with other denominations so that
there might be more knowledge,
understanding, and tolerance
among Christians in the
community.” He helped to
organize the Cobb County
Christian Dialogue, partici
pating on the panel at the first
meeting and planned joint
prayer meetings for closer
unity. He is a member of the
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Anthony T. Curran
Ordination May 20
Liturgy Changes
Are Welcomed
By Archbishop
Archbishop Paul J. Hallinah,
chairman of the U.S. bishops'
committee on the liturgy, wel
comed the changes in the lit
urgy approved in Rome includ
ing the vernacular in the canon.
The archbishop's statement
follows:
The strong sentiments of a
majority of'Arnerican priests'
and laymen are the background.
Overwhelming votes by the
American bishops are the in
struments which have bolster
ed the cause of the vernacular.
And this week the action of the
Holy See has answered the hopes
of a truly revitalized liturgy for
our American parishes.
The surprise announcement
granting permission for the
vernacular in the Canon of the
Mass, - was no surprise to the
teams of bishops, priests and
lay specialists who have been
working, on the liturgy. In No
vember 1966, the United States
hierarchy asked for this per
mission along with seven other
points. The others were grant
ed almost immediately. But the
Canon request was neither ap
proved nor disapproved. Cor
respondence which I had with
Cardinal Lercaro and other
Roman officials, as well as
Archbishop John F. Dearden’s
visit to Rome earlier this year,
indicated a general step for
ward was being considered. It
was clearly understood that the
initiative of the large American
hierarchy had spearheaded the
vernacular program.
With the Church moving so
steadily toward the liturgical
renewal, it is not surprising
that the emphasis of the new
' I fistriK tftttr i s 'wrtronc erred;-au
thorized actions rather than in
dividual innovations.
The Dutch bishops had sub
mitted a request with a Dutch
text, and the Carribean bishops
had acted as the Americans.
Although the French bishops
have been considering the move,
it is understood that no action
had been taken to get the per
mission.
Since October 1962 when the
Vatican Council began, the
American role in liturgy has
been dynamic. Among the ex
perts who prepared the draft
for the Council were Father
Frederick McManus of Catholic
University of America, and
Father Godfrey Diekmann of
Saint John’s University. Coun
cil Fathers from the United
States spoke on both sides of the
vernacular question, but as the
debate continued and prelimi
nary voting during the first and
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Dr. Wilber To R eceive
Brotherhood Medal
Dr. Joseph Wilber, member
of Holy Spirit parish, has been
named to receive an award
from the Atlanta chapter of the
National Conference of Chris
tian and Jews.
Dr. Wilber, also a member
of the St. Martin Council of
Human Relations, will be among
other prominent Atlantans, re
ceiving awards at a dinner May
23.
The awards recognize,
meritorious service in the
field of inter-group relations.”
They will be made during
the annual NCCJ Brotherhood
Awards Dinner at the Regency-
Hyatt House.
Dr. Wilber, Mayor Ivan Allen
and Abe Goldstein, president,
Prior Tire • Co., will receive
silver medallions. Each year
the NCCJ names a Protestant,
a Catholic and a Jew for the
honor.
The citation to Dr. Wilber
calls attention to his "untiring
efforts as a practitioner of the
healing arts, both in relation
ship to the individual ills of his
fellow men and the sickness of
our society which has de
bilitated our common life."
Dr. Benjamin E. Mays, presi
dent, Morehouse College will
receive the first Herman L.
Turner Human Relations Award
for "leadership in the field of
religion.”
G. Albert Lawton, member of
Holy Spirit Parish, is chairman
of the Brotherhood Awards
dinner. Lawton got the Brother
hood award in 1966. Archbishop
Paul J. Hallinan was honored
in 1965.
DR. JOSEPH WILBER