Catholic Archdiocese of Atlanta
Vol. 25 No. 20
Thursday, May 14, 1987
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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,
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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
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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
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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.
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