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75th Anniversary For St. Anthony’s
BY MICHAEL MOTES
It was “old home week” at St.
Anthony’s parish in West End as the
crowds assembled for a three-day
celebration to mark the 75th
anniversary of the founding of the
historic West End Church.
A special guest returning for the
celebration was the immediate past
pastor of St. Anthony’s, Bishop
Eusebius J. Beltran of Tulsa, who served
as pastor from 1972 until his
appointment as Bishop last April.
Weeks of preparation went into the
three-day event. The Church was freshly
painted in anticipation of the arrival of
the hundreds of guests, former
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Way Down Yonder
NEW ORLEANS - They come to
New Orleans to see the Dome. And it’s
something to see. Sitting like a volcanic
mountain out near the Ponchartrain
Expressway, it perches itself like an
erupting city block of white concrete.
The Superdome reaches skyward 27
stories. Its capacity is unknown. 81,000
screaming fans jam the plush blue seats
for the Super Bowl, but legions of
transient conventioneers defy this
number every week of the year. With
34,000 square feet
from one wall to
another, it
becomes the most
perfect meeting
room in the world.
But that’s not
New Orleans. Not
by the stretch of
anyone’s imaginat
ion. New Orleans is
distinctively
Southern, reeking
with the final vestiges of the Spanish
and French invaders. It is stilling Dixie
humidity, magnolias supreme on narrow
streets, South Rampart Street, jazz
funerals and the last home of the niekle
telephone call.
It is a sleepy city, alive and awake
every minute of the day. The famous
are tangible, visible and longingly sought
out. You can see Pete Fountain lovingly
carress his classic clarinet and the King
of Jazz, A1 Hirt, echoes the same
unquestionable skills bred into his huge
frame 60 years ago by masters of his art.
Comparing as they go, their legacy of
sound is constantly rebom for a waiting
world.
New Orleans is a walking
wonderland. The terribly inquisitive will
start in the hiddenly famous' “Irish
Channel.” North of the French Quarter,
it was here that the foreign, non-French
community with distinctive Irish names,
requartered. Like their compatriots to
the New World, they came to build
buildings and sought each other in a
companionable community. Today they
are no more.
You walk south to the uniquely
famous French Quarter. You may feel
that before you lies the boistrous
entertainment Mecca of Dixie, but the
surprise is rewarding. The sounds of
New Orleans are reserved for the
narrow, club-jammed Bourbon Street.
Once the home of classical, supremely
original jazz and blues, you find the
deterioration verging on the disgusting.
The black and white masters who
coaxed the sound alive Would today
have terminated the birth of these blues
by aborting without question.
Your goal is Jackson Square. It sits
as the throne seat of the French
Quarter. There you find the beautiful
Cathedral of St. Louis. It claims the
rightful, rich title of the oldest
Cathedral in the United States.
Destroyed twice by natural disasters, it
rose up proudly each time on the same
spot to reclaim its regal position. There
it reigns, watching over the ever-present
charm of the French Market, the
antique treasures of tiny streets and the
flowing Mississippi, as it just keeps
rolling along.
New Orleans means the fabulous
feast of good food. Be it Antoine’s for
the expanded budget or the delightful
and equally exquisite Cafe du Monde
for the expanding waist line, the cuisine
is constantly perfect. For under one
dollar the tempting delicacies of the
Cafe can be savored with
never-to-be-forgotten moments in taste.
Food, not jazz, is King in this city of
year-round seasonal enjoyment.
Late at night as you wander wearily
home, tinkling pianos can be heard
rolling through the humid air. A tired,
smokey voice lullabys in a listful solo.
The first few bars leave you thoughtful.
“Do you know how it seems, to miss
New Orleans?”
Maybe not just now, but when the
aching time of separation comes ~ you
will.
parishioners and well-wishers helping to
mark the auspicious occasion.
Festivities officially began Sunday,
June 11, with an Open House hosted by
Father John Adamsld, pastor. June 12
was “Memory Night” with parishioners
sharing their reflections on the long
history of St. Anthony’s and exhibiting
old photographs and memorabilia. A
concelebrated Mass on June 13 and a
reception brought the anniversary
events to a close.
For a glimpse into the history of St.
Anthony’s, we are indebted to Sister
Carol Patron, principal of St. Anthony’s
School, who compiled a special souvenir
booklet outlining the past 75 years. The
old photographs accompanying this
article were reproduced from the ST.
ANTHONY’S CATHOLIC NEWS
special edition marking the golden
anniversary of the parish in 1953 and
are used through the courtesy of Van
Buren Colley.
Sister Carol’s history takes us back
to 1903:
On Sunday, September 20, 1903,
St. Anthony’s Parish was dedicated at a
solemn Mass celebrated by the Right
Reverend Benjamin Keily, D. D., Bishop
of Savannah. He was assisted by Father
O. N. Jackson, pastor of the new parish,
and Father John Gunn, S. M., pastor of
Sacred Heart Church.
In 1903, St. Anthony’s
congregation consisted of a total of
about 20 families. The West End area
was originally a part of the Immaculate
Conception Church, and it was largely
through the efforts of Mrs. Joel
Chandler Harris and her Catholic Ladies
Aid Society of West End that the parish
came to be. Father 0. N. Jackson
responded to the ladies’ plea to establish
a Church in West End, and
recommended to the Bishop both the
formation of and a name for the new
parish. Thus the first Mass in the parish
came to be celebrated on the Feast of
St. Anthony, June 13, 1903, in the
home of Mr. and Mrs. George W. Corley
at 742 Lawton St., S. W.
By 1911 the new parish had grown
so much that ground was broken for the
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THE FIRST MASS at St. Anthony’s was services. Quite a change from the structure pictured
celebrated in this chapel on September 20, 1903, below,
marking the official beginning of regular Church
Catholic Archdiocese of Atlanta
Vol. 16 No. 24
Thursday, June 22,1978
$5 Per Year
CAPACITY CROWDS ATTENDED the A special guest was former pastor Bishop Eusebius
concelebrated Mass marking the end of a three-day Beltran of Tulsa,
anniversary celebration at St. Anthony’s in West End.
rTHE CATHOLIC
... The G-Man
BY MICHAEL MOTES
It’s hard for Jim Dunn to
remember exactly what prompted
him to become an FBI Agent, but he
has no trouble recalling on a
partically hour-by-hour basis the
most dramatic event in his
24-year-old career with the Federal
Bureau of Investigation.
A native of Dorchester,
Massachusetts, James J. Dunn, Jr.
was attending Boston College during
the late forties and early fifties,
undecided about a career.
“I read a story in our college
newspaper about one of the
professors who had been an FBI
Agent,” he recalls. “This whetted my
couriosity and I arranged a meeting
with him. I think I was in my junior
year - about 1950. The more I talked
with the professor, the more
interested I became in the Bureau.”
Following his graduation from
Boston College in 1951, Dunn spent
three years in the Marine Corps,
attaining the rank of Lieutenant.
Upon his discharge, he pursued the
career he had discussed with the
college professor and in June, 1954,
he was appointed a Special Agent of
the FBI.
Dunn’s career has taken him on
assignments throughout the United
States, beginning in San Francisco.
He served in the Washington, D. C.
Field Office until March 1958, when
he was assigned as a supervisor at FBI
Headquarters in Washington.
In December, 1965, he was
designated to perform duties in the
Inspection Division, and, following a
period of service in the Intelligence
Division, he was assigned as Assistant
Special Agent in Charge of the Salt
Lake City, Utah, Office in January
1970. Additional assignments took
him to Baltimore, back to
Washington, Columbia, S. C., and
most recently to Atlanta, where he
became Special Agent in Charge in
July, 1975.
His “most dramatic assignment”
occurred in Atlanta on October 20,
1977, when he received word that a
hijacked airplane was en route to
Atlanta.
“Ironically, I was on my way to
Hartsfield International Airport
when word came over the Bureau
radio that a hijacked plane was
heading to Atlanta,” he said.
“We headed immediately for our
downtown office to get all of the
data together and to assign the
various agents to duties both at the
airport and in the office. There were
about 75 Atlanta Agents involved in
the case.” Assignments made, Dunn
went to the airport.
The flight, which originated in
Grand Island, Nebraska, had been
taken over by a gunman shortly after
take off. The hijacker allowed the
pilot to land in Kansas City, where
some passengers were released. He
then ordered the pilot to Atlanta,
holding more than a dozen
passengers, plus the crew, as
hostages.
“It was a long day,” Agent Dunn
remembers. “I spent 12 hours at the
airport in charge of the overall
control and command post. We were
in contact to negotiate with the
hijacker and the drama was intense.”
The day ended with the hijacker
committing suicide aboard the plane,
but Agent Dunn spent several more
hours with press conferences for
local media and answering questions
from newspaper and broadcast
representatives from throughout the
country.
A little more than two months
later the agent was again called to
Hartsfield International.
“It was early Christmas morning,
about 8 I believe. I got a telephone
call and was told, ‘Mr. Dunn, you
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Eucharistic Devotion
Stressed By Pope Paul
VATICAN CITY (NC) -- Pope Paul VI appealed to U.S. bishops visiting him to
revitalize devotion to the Eucharist.
Leading Catholics “to the fullness of the paschal mystery” and the celebration of
the eueharistic sacrifice are priorities in the ministry of bishops and priests, the pope
told 20 bishops from the Middle Atlantic states, the South and the Midwest whom he
received in audience June 15.
“The Second Vatican Council,” the Pope said, “has reminded all priests that the
main source of thier pastoral love is to be found in the eueharistic sacrifice.” The
council teaches further, he added, that the ministry of priests is directed toward and
perfected in the eueharistic sacrifice, which is their chief duty.
The council reminded Catholics “that because the Eucharist contains Christ
himself it therefore contains ‘the church’s entire spiritual wealth,” the pope said.
Recalling his 1965 encyclical on the Eucharist, “Mysterium Fidei” (“The Mystery
of the Faith”), Pope Paul noted his restatement of the church’s teaching that the real
presence of Christ in the Eucharist “is presence in the fullest sence: because it is a
substantial presence by which the whole and complete Christ, God and man, is
present.”
Therefore, he added, the church gives to the sacrament of the Eucharist the form
of worship that may be given to God alone.
In a talk to the pope as leader of the U.S. group, Cardinal John Carberry of St.
Louis referred to Pope Paul’s more famous encyclical, “Humanae Vitae” (“On Human
Life”), issued in 1968, which restated the church’s opposition to artificial birth
control.
“We know only too well the anguish, the anxiety and the sufferings which were
yours in reaching the courageous conclusions which you did,” Cardinal Carberry said.
He said the encyclical showed the pope’s “foresight, as you pointed out that one evil
would follow upon another from the practice of contraception, such as sterilization,
abortion and euthanasia.”
For Catholics, the pope said in his talk, the Eucharist is “the summit of their
Christian lives, not in the sense that their other activities are not important, but in the
sense that, for their full effectiveness, these activities must be united with Christ’s
saving action and be associated with his redemptive sacrifice.”
The Eucharist is “the source and summit of all evangelization,” the pope said,
adding: “All the pastoral endeavors of our ministry are incomplete until the people
that we are called to serve are led to full and active participation in Lie Eucharist.
Every initiative we undertake in the Gospel must find fulfillment in the Eucharist.”
Stressing the “theocentric” (God-centered) nature of the Catholic liturgy, Pope
Paul stressed that the authorization of lay persons to be extraordinary ministers of the
Eucharist “remains an extraordinary ministry.”
The pope continued: “To give the Eucharist to God’s people remains in general
therefore an honored pastoral function. Extraordinary ministers are envisioned by the
instruction ‘Immensae Caritatis’ where there is a genuine lack of ministers, and under
these conditions fulfill a providential role.”
The Euchaiist is the center of the church’s unity, the pope said. “No Christian
community can be built up without the Eucharist. In the Eucharist the faithful
experience their oneness as God’s people united in Christ: in his truth and in his love.”
The pope recalled that at the canonization last year of St. John Neumann, fourth
bishop of Philadelphia, he had cited the saint’s stress on the Eucharist and the Forty
Hours Devotion.
Eucharistic worship, the pope said, “leads to that social love by which we place
the common good before the good of the individual. We make the interests of the
community, of the parish, of the entire church our own, and extend our charity to the
whole world because we know that everywhere there are members of Christ.”
The pope concluded: “The Eucharist is our source of hope because it is our pledge
of life. Jesus himself has said: “I am the bread of life ... If anyone eats this bread he
shall live forever’ (John 6:48, 51). Amid all the problems of the modern world let us
remain constant in this hope. Our optimism is based, not on an unrealistic denial of
the immense and manifest difficulties and opposition that beset the kingdom of God,
but in a realization that, in the Eucharist, the paschal mystery of the Lord Jesus is
forever operative, and victorious.”
The bishops meeting with Pope Paul came from regions four and nine of the
National Conference of Catholic Bishops. Two other U.S. regional groupings met with
the pope earlier (April 20 and May 26), and four more groups are to meet with him
before the end of the year: Sept. 21, Oct. 5, Oct. 19, and Nov. 9.