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Volume L March 4, 1962 Number 44
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Catholic Birch Members
Weaken Traditional Role
WASHINGTON —(NC)— Cath
olics who are members of the John
Birch Society tend to weaken the
thesis that Catholics as a whole are
firm supporters of the best ele
ments of American tradition, a
Priest-editor asserted here.
Father Thurston Davis, S.J., edi
tor of America, national Catholic
weekly review, told some 1,000
persons at a Communion breakfast
(Feb. 25) of the Washington Re
treat League that Catholic mem
bership in the John Birch Society
is beyond his understanding.
He urged them “to labor to dis
pel any lurking doubt that may
exist as to whether we Catholics
are firmly wedded to the best ele
ments in the American tradition.”
“WE ARE SO wedded, of
course,” he stressed. “We are so
bound. But some of our non-Cath
olic brethren have reason to doubt
us when a man like Robert Welch,
the non-Catholic founder of that
strange phenomenon — the John
Birch Society — can make the re
peated claims that 40 or even 50
per cent of his membership is
made up of Catholics.
“Just what we Catholics are do
ing in the John Birch Society —
and what Catholic priests are do
ing on the roster of its endorsers
or its inner council — surpasses
my understanding.”
Named Vicar General
ROME — (NC) — Cardinal
Designate Michael Browne, O.P.,
Master General of the Dominican
order, has appointed Father Este
ban Gomez, O.P., as Vicar General
of the order.
American Catholics, said Father
Davis, “have many important and
traditionally Catholic contributions
to make to the future of America,”
and a most important one is that
“we must assert and defend the
heritage of human reason.”
“This means,” he added, “that
we must conduct ourselves reason
ably in the democratic debate that
forms the lubricant of our Ameri
can system of political and social
life.”
Enrollment
Of Negroes
Sets Record
WASHINGTON — (NC) — A
total of 97,887 Negro pupils attend
ed Catholic mission and parish
schools in 1961, a five per cent in
crease over the enrollment in 1960,
it was disclosed in the 75th annual
report of the Commission for Cath
olic Missions Among the Colored
People and the Indians.
This total “is a new high mark,”
said the report, released here by
Father John B. rennelly, S.S., sec
retary of the commission.
The section of the report deal
ing with Indians states that last
year 9,048 Catholic Indian chil
dren from 175 missions attended
54 schools scattered over some 80
Indian reservations in 38 dioceses
and the Vicariate Apostolic of
Alaska.
The report says that thre are
349 Catholic schools in the U. S.
for Negro children, and these are
staffed by more than 2,000 Reli
gious and 600 lay teachers.
The report also gives the follow
ing statistics:
—There are now 664,230 Negro
Catholics in 63 U. S. Sees.
—Nine per cent of the converts
to the Church in this country in
1961 were Negroes (12,008).
—More Negro than white non
Catholic parents find openings for
their children in Catholic schools.
—Three out of every four Ne
gro missions and parishes have
their own schools.
—770 priests, attached to 507
missions, are engaged exclusively
in the apostolate to the Negroes.
See Enrollment, Page 7A
Pope Reconfirms Latin
As Official Language
VAliUAIN U11Y —— W1S
Holiness Pope John XXIII has is
sued a document reconfirming
Latin as the official language of
the Church and forbidding any ef
forts to supplant it.
Pope John said that Latin is “a
source of doctrinal clarity and cer
tainty” and can contribute to unity
and understanding among nations.
The Pope spoke in an apostolic
constitution, “Veterum Sapientia,”
(The Wisdom of the Ancients)
signed Feb. 22 in St. Peter’s basili
ca with great solemnity in the pres
ence of 41 cardinals, officials of
the Vatican’s administrative staff,
members of preparatory commis
sions for the coming ecumenical
council and the pastors of Rome.
The signing took place at the
Pope’s annual audience for lenten
preachers of Rome, which this year
was made a special occasion to
mark the approach of the Second
RENEWING ACQUAINTANCES — Former President Harry S.
Truman welcomes Msgr. Maurice Sheehy, former director of
Religious Education at the Catholic University of America, to
a reunion at the Mayflower Hotel, Washington. The reunion
was held by former associates of Mr. Truman when he served
tiJj£ President. Msgr. Sheehy, a former Navy chaplain who now
holds the rank of Rear Admiral in the Naval Reserve, is pas
tor of St. Pius X parish, Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Msgr. Sheehy
served at Catholic University during the Truman administra
tion.
Vatican Ecumenical Council, which
will open October 11.
After signing the document,
Pope John handed a copy of it to
Giuseppe Cardinal Pizzardo, Pre
fect of the Sacred Congregation
of Seminaries and Universities.
Printed copies were distributed
among the cardinals and top Vati
can officials.
The Pontiff then delivered his
address to the lenten preachers,
in which he discussed the new rul
ing.
The constitution provides:
—Bishops and superiors of re
ligious orders snould see to it that
in seminaries, where candidates
for the priesthood are prepared,
“all show themselves submissive
to the will of the Apostolic See
on this point and . . . scrupulously
follow these Our directives.”
—The same authorities should
see to it that within their juris
diction “none of their subjects,
moved by an inordinant desire for
novelty, write against the use of
Latin either in the teaching of the
sacred disciplines or in the sacred
rites of the liturgy, or, urged by
prejudice, lessen the directive
force of the wiil of the Apostolic
See in this matter or alter its
meaning.”
—No one should be admitted to
philosophical or theological studies
who does not know Latin perfectly.
—The teaching of Latin accord
ing to acceptable methods should
be revived in those seminaries
where it has become minimized by
the employment of methods used
in secular schools.
—The major sacred sciences
should be taught in Latin from
Latin textbooks.
—There should be instituted, un
der the authority of the Congre
gation of Seminaries and Universi
ties, an academy of Latin usage
composed of experts in Latin and
Greek from various nations.
—The study of Greek should not
be neglected, since it is important
for the perfection of Latin usage.
—A method for the teaching of
Latin should be developed under
the authority of the same congre
gation which, while it should never
be altered in substance, may be
adapted to local usages, but only
with the congregation’s permission.
raleigh diocese included
Pope John Establishes
Province of Atlanta
WASHINGTON — (NC) — Th#
following actions of His Holiness
Pope John XXIII were announced
here by Archbishop Egidio Vag
nozzi, Apostolic Delegate in the
United States:
. . . Establishment of the new ec
clesiastical Province of Atlanta.
. . . Elevation of the Diocese of
Atlanta to the rank of archdiocese.
... Creation of the new Dioceses
of Oakland, Stockton and Santa
Rosa in the State of California.
. . . Appointment of Bishop Jo
seph T. McGucken of Sacramento,
to be Archbishop of San Francisco.
. . . Appointment of Bishop Paul
A. Hallinan of Charleston, S.C., to
be the first Archbishop of Atlanta.
. . . Appointment of Auxiliary
Bishop Floyd L. Begin of Cleve
land to be the first Bishop of Oak
land.
. . . Appointment of Auxiliary
Bishop Hugh A. Donohoe of San
Francisco to be the first Bishop of
Stockton.
. . . Appointment of Msgr. Leo T.
Maher of San Francisco to be the
first Bishop of Santa Rosa.
A dozen archdioceses in Californ
ia and in southeastern United
States are affected directly or in
directly through the creation of
these new dioceses and the re
arrangement of provincial areas.
The newly established ecclesi
astical Province of Atlanta has At
lanta as the Metropolitan See and
the Dioceses of Charleston, Miami,
Raleigh, St. Augustine and Savan
nah as suffragans.
This division leaves the Province
of Baltimore with suffragans at
Richmond, Wheeling and Wilming
ton.
Atlanta is the capital of the
State -of Georgia and the gateway
to the South. In its rapidly grow
ing metropolitan area there are
now 1,014,349 inhabitants.
The Most Rev. Paul Hallinan,
first Archbishop of Atlanta, has
been Bishop of Charleston since
1958.
Archbishop-elect Hallinan was
director of the Intercollegiate
Newman Club of Cleveland at the
time he was named Bishop of
Charleston.
He was born in Painesville,
Ohio, April 8, 1911; took his Bach
elor of Arts degree at the Univer
sity of Notre Dame in 1932; made
See Pope Establishes, Page 7A
Prelate Notes
Catholic Growth
CHARLESTON, S. C. —(NO—
Archbishop-designate Paul J. Hal
linan of Atlanta, Ga., said here
the establishment of the new
ecclesiastical Province of Atlanta
“is recognition by the Holy See of
the new vitality of the Catholic
Church in the Carolinas, Georgia
and Florida,” where the Catholic
population more than trebled in
the last decade.
The Archbishop-designate who
has been Bishop of Charleston
since 1958 said that in the four
states the Church in the last dec
ade “has increased in spiritual
vigor, numbers and prestige.”
“Our lay people who numbered
only 200,000 ten years ago now
comprise a Catholic population of
638,000,” said the prelate who will
head the new province. “They
have worked closely with our
priests and Sisters, as the King
dom of Christ has extended its
boundaries into towns and coun
ties where the Church was un
known before.”
BISHOP’S RESIDENCE \
600 Bilyeu Street ^
Raleigh, North Carolina /
February 24, 1962 /)
My dear Brethren:
I have been notified under date of Wednesday, Febru
ary 21, that our Holy Father has detached the Diocese of
Raleigh from the ecclesiastical Province of Baltimore. We
are now attached to the new Province of Atlanta, as the
Metropolitan See, and the Most Reverend Paul J. Hallinan
has been appointed the new Archbishop of Atlanta.
As your Bishop, I am most happy to pledge our loyalty
and devotion to the Holy See through our new Archbishop
and to sincerely congratulate him on the new honors and
responsibilities given to him by our Holy Father. I know
that each priest, sister, brother, and member of the laity
will rejoice with me in this new jurisdiction in the Church
of God in the Southeast for the orderly progress of the
Church. You, with me, will rejoice with the Archbishop on
his appointment and look forward to the day when he will
pay us in the Diocese of Raleigh an official visitation.
Atlanta is one of our nearest neighbors. It is the largest
city in the Southeast, and one of the most progressive cities
in the South. We, of the Diocese of Raleigh, are happy to
belong to this new jurisdiction in the South and hope and
pray that God’s grace will make it grow and prosper in
faith and love and converts to His Holy Church. We hope
and pray that the new Archbishop will have a long and
prosperous reign and that through his instrumentality, God
will work many miracles of grace in our midst.
We ask that the priests, religious, and laity of the dio
cese keep this new Province in their prayers and Masses
and that great good will come from this progressive and
forward step made by our Holy Father in the interest of
our Southeastern Region.
Wishing each of you God’s choicest blessings and
happiness in our new Archdiocesan province, and with
greetings to all of our co-dioceses and members of the Mys
tical Body in this region, I remain
Sincerely yours in Christ,
Vincent S. Waters
Bishop of Raleigh