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Catholic Archdiocese of Atlanta Vol. 25 No. 20 Thursday, May 14, 1987 Si2.00 Per Year # BY RITA McINERNEY “We gather today to celebrate the astonishing reality that the God of supernovas and galaxies, the God of majesty and immensity bends down to meet his people in a place like this cathedral,” Cardinal Joseph Bernardin said in his homily during the Mass celebrating the 50th anniversary of the parish of Christ the King on Monday evening, May 4. “But we also attempt to expand our minds, our spirits, our lives around the even more remarkable reality that God dwells within us as individuals and among us as a com munity. As beautiful as stone and stained glass, wood and metal, weavings and artistry are, even more beautiful are the living temples of flesh and blood, sinew and spirit, Full Text Of Homily, Page 5 memory and imagination,” he told the attentive worship pers filling the cathedral. In addition to the estimated 700 people in the church, 60 watched the televised Mass in the Hyland Center. This long-awaited Mass was shadowed by concern for the health of Archbishop Thomas A. Donnellan, pastor since 1969, who was hospitalized with a small stroke suffered Fri day, May 1. There was joy and sadness to this special occasion which gathered the priests and lay people of God together to celebrate. For some of the priests, memories were of events and people binding them to a parish they once serv- < ed. For many of the congregation, it was remembrance of o baptisms, marriages and funerals, the milestones of life measured out in days and decades and recorded in parish registers. A former pastor at the Cathedral, Cardinal Bernardin of the archdiocese of Chicago, celebrated the Liturgy with Cardinal Johannes Willebrands, of The Netherlands and Rome, and Bishop Raymond W. Lessard, of the diocese of Savannah, as concelebrants. The Right Rev. Frank K. Allan, bishop-coadjutor of the Episcopal Cathedral of St. Philip, was on the altar for the Mass. Msgr. John F. McDonough, vicar general of the arch diocese and administrator of Christ the King, and Father (Continued on page 6) Archbishop Released From Intensive Care Archbishop Thomas Donnellan continued to improve this week in his recovery from a small stroke suffered May 1. He was moved from the intensive care unit at St. Joseph’s Hospital to a room last Thursday, May 7, and continues to be in stable condition. His attending physician said Monday that he is making “satisfactory progress,” according to Nancy Wood, hospital spokeswoman. While the archbishop is hospitalized, Monsignor John McDonough, vicar general of the archdiocese, is overseeing the daily work of the archdiocese. Along with Monsignor Donald Kiernan, pastor of All Saints parish in Dunwoody, he is confirming children in parishes. The retired auxiliary bishop of Raleigh, North Carolina, Bishop George E. Lynch, will come to Atlanta on Saturday, May 16, and Saturday, May 23, to ordain 51 permanent deacons who have finished three years of study and preparation for ministry and who will serve in parishes throughout the archdiocese. REUNION — Cardinal Joseph Bernardin and Bill Sullivan, long active at the Cathedral of Christ the King, share a happy reunion outside Emory Affiliation Dominicans Form Theology Center BY THEA JARVIS The Catholic presence in Atlanta and the southeast has been renewed and expanded with the recent establishment of the Aquinas Center of Theology at Emory University. The center, founded under the auspices of the Southern Province of the Dominican Order, will open offices near the Emory campus this summer. It is the only venture of its kind in the southeastern United States. “We want to bring the Roman Catholic tradition into the broad context of the southeast,” said center director Father Bob (Continued on page 8) the Cathedral the night of the 50th anniversary celebration. Dioceses Plan Marian Year BY AGOSTINO BONO VATICAN CITY (NC) — The main responsibility for developing spiritual and educational programs for the com ing Marian year belongs to local dioceses and national hierarchies, said the head of the Vatican’s Marian year committee. These include designating local churches and shrines as places of pilgrimage and centers for special liturgical ser vices at which people can receive plenary indulgences. The norms for the Marian year were outlined at a May 8 Vatican press conference by Italian Cardinal Luigi Dadaglio, president of the Central Committee for the Marian Year. A plenary indulgence is a church-granted full remission of temporal punishment for sins forgiven in confession. Last Jan. 1 Pope John Paul II announced the Marian year and said it would begin June 7, Pentecost Sunday, and end Aug. 15, 1988, the feast of Mary’s assumption into heaven. “The local churches will be principally responsible for bringing forward what the pope indicated,” said Cardinal Dadaglio. (Continued on page 7)
