Priest's Opinion
Liturgy Changes
Highly Successful
Atlanta, Ga.—(NC)—A leading
xwnmentator on liturgical devel
►pments said the success of the
changes in the Mass has “far ex
:eeded anyone’s expectation.”
But, added Father Frederick R.
dcManus, there is one major prob
em. It is that the new norms and
•ubrics will be observed without
ull understanding of their pur
>ose.
“If there is a need at the mo
ment, it is the recurring responsi
jility of teaching and preparing
til the faithful for meaningful
celebration,” he said.
FATHER McMANUS, a Boston
priest, is executive secretary of the
U.S. Bishops’ Cbmmission for the
Liturgical Apostolate, Washington,
[D.C., and has played a key role in
Jesuit General
Says His Address
Exaggerated
(N.C.W.C. News Service)
VATICAN CITY — The Jesuit
general has admitted he “exagger
ated” in an ecumenical council
speech when he referred to an
atheist plot to control internation
al organizations and mass media.
Father Pedro Arrupe, S.J., in his
first council speech (Sept. 27)
since his election last summer as
general of the Society of Jesus,
gave a description of the “ex
tremely efficient” leadership
among militant atheists plotting to
overthrow the reign of God from
the minds of men.
In that speech he spoke of mod
ern society as ignoring God or try
ing to destroy the idea of God. He
spoke of the atheistic mentality
invading the Church “insidiously
influencing the minds of believ
ers—including priests and Reli
gious—with its hidden poison, and
producing its natural fruits in the
Church: naturalism, distrust and
rebellion.
“This new godless society oper
ates in an extremely efficient
njanner,” he continued. “It follows
a perfectly mapped out strategy. It
holds almost complete sway in in
ternational organizations, in finan
cial circles, in the field of mass
communications: press, cinema, ra
dio and television.”
Answering journalists’ questions
during a conference (Oct. 20) at
the council’s press office, he ad
mitted that the phrasing of that
passage from the speech was a
“faulty expression on my part and
perhaps exaggerated.”
He added that both he a. d the
Society of Jesus “want to work
with Hie communications media. It
is my duty to show gratitude for
Hie collaboration the press has
shown. You have a right to know
how the Jesuits feel regarding the
fundamental issues,” he said.
implementation of the liturgical
renewal in this country.
He summed up his impressions
of the reactions and problems re
sulting from the changes in an ar
ticle in the Georgia Bulletin, news
paper of the Atlanta archdiocese,
written as U.S. Catholics neared
the first anniversary of the big
liturgical changes and stood on
the brink of even more use of
English in the Mass.
CATHOLICS BEGAN wide
spread use of the vernacular on
Nov. 29, 1964. By mid-winter of
1966, it is expected preparations
will be complete for another ma
jor step, permitting virtually all
parts of the Mass recited aloud or
sung to be in English.
“Acceptance by the vast major
ity of the laity has been complete
and this even in parishes where
there has been little instruction or
where the introduction of reforms
has been largely mechanical,” he
wrote.
“The few surveys of popular
opinion agree on this point, al
though it is spiritual benefit and a
holier worship that are sought
rather than mere popularity of
change,” he said.
THERE ARE, he said, some in
dications that “a certain propor
See ‘Liturgy Changes’, page 4A
English Will Supplant Latin
In All Audible Parts of Mass
VATICAN CITY —(NC)— In
creased use of English in the lit
urgy, so that virtually all parts of
the Mass recited aloud or sung are
in the vernacular, has been decid
ed on by the bishops of the United
States and confirmed by the Holy
See.
Father Frederick R. McManus,
executive secretary of the U.S.
Bishops’ Commission for the Li
turgical Apostolate, announced that
the Holy See’s Commission for
Implementation of the Constitu
tion on the Liturgy approved the
American request in a. document
dated Oct. 15. It provides for the
use of English in the Collect,
Prayer over the Offerings, Preface,
the prayer for peace and deliver
ance from evil which concludes the
Lord’s Prayer, and the Postcom
munion. All the dialogue prayers
—the salutations and responses be
tween priest and people—are also
to be in English.
THE NEW CONCESSIONS for
the United States — which have
been in effect in Australia and
some other English-speaking coun
tries for months—were made by
the postconciliar liturgy commis
sion in behalf of the Pope.
They came in answer to deci
sions taken this past summer by
American bishops, who balloted by
mail and reached almost unani
mous agreement. The decrees were
sent to Rome Sept. 3 by Francis
Cardinal Spellman of New York,
the senior American cardinal.
Publishers of altar missals for
the U.S. will begin typesetting at
once for the official English-Latin
missal supplement. It is expected
that production of the supplements
for use by the celebrant at Mass
will take at least four months.
Only when the publication date is
determined will the conference of
bishops set an effective date, per
mitting the wider use of English in
the liturgy throughout the United
States, Father McManus said.
For new Mass prayers, the text
approved by the American bishops
is adapted from “The Daily Missal
of the Mystical Body,’’ known as
the Maryknoll Missal. There will
be no change in the provisional
translations of other parts already
in use, except that the dismissal,
“Go, the Mass is ended,” will be
replaced by “The Mass is ended.
Go in peace.”
Besides this greater use of the
vernacular at Mass, the new edi
tion of “the Roman Ritual” in
English, translated by Father Phil
ip Weller of Loyola University,
A GIFT OF GOD — At Holy Family Hospital, Karachi, West
Pakistan, a new little Pakistani citizen is admired by his
mother and Sister M. Martha Heiser, nurse-midwife, of the
Medical Mission Sisters (Philadelphia), who helped bring
him into the world. His parents named him appropriately
Khuda Baksh, which means “gift of God.”
Chicago, was officially approved.
This is for supplementary use in
case of sacramental rites not con
tained in the official U.S. ritual,
the “Collectio Rituum,” published
last year. Also approved were
translations of instructions to be
given by the bishop at the begin
ning of ordination services.
COMMENTING on these devel
opments, Archbishop John F.
Dearden of Detroit, chairman of
Bishops’ Commission for the Li
turgical Apostolate, said: “All
translations approved • are provi
sional. The policy thus far has
been to choose the best available
English translations from those al
ready in existence. The long-range
project of translation has been
turned over to the international
committee on English in liturgy,
headed by Archbishop Gordon
Gray of Edinburgh.’’
As soon as the date for publica
tion of the official missal supple
ment can be set, general permis
sion will be given to publishers to
use all approved translations in
books, booklets, and leaflets. In
order to protect the public and
publishers against too frequent
changes, the release of some texts
was withheld until additional ver
nacular concessions were ready,
according to Fattier McManus. It is
not known how long the prlesent
translations will remain in effect.
This depends upon the next stages
of the revision of the Roman litur
gy, now being prepared by bishops
and specialists from all parts of
the world, he said.
The gradual development in the
use of English at Mass represents
a second step taken by the Amer
ican bishops. At their meeting in
Rome in November, 1963, just be
fore issuance of the council’s Con
stitution on the Liturgy, the bish
ops agreed upon the most exten
sive possible use of English in the
Church’s public worship.
THE FIRST FORMAL step, vot
ed almost unanimously by the U.S.
conference of bishops in April
1964, became effective last Novem
ber. It permitted English for the
Biblical readings and for the
prayers of the Mass recited by
people, as well as for the sacra
ments, sacramentals, and funeral
services.
The second step, when it goes
into effect, will mean that the
United States has complete use of
vernacular language in liturgy, to
the extent permitted by the Pope
at the present time, Father Mc
Manus said.
Federal Pressure
On Klan Growing
By Russell Shaw
(N.C.W.C. News Service)
WASHINGTON — The heat is
on the Ku Klux Klan, and it prom
ises to get hotter in the months
ahead.
As a House Un-American Activi
ties subcommittee continued hear
ings on Klan structure, opera
tions and finances, Atty. Gen.
Nicholas Katzenbach confirmed
that the administration will seek
new legislation to crack down on
Klan violence, probably early in
the next session of Congress.
Katzenbach, replying to ques
tions after a National Press Club
talk (Oct. 21), said he envisions
legislation aimed at “particular
acts of violence unquestionably
traceable to members of the Klan
or the Klan ideology.”
(Among the possibilities men
tioned in speculation is a measure
making a civil rights killing a fed
eral offense. Efforts to secure con
victions in such cases have often
been hamstrung in state courts in
the South.)
Meanwhile the Un-American Ac
tivities subcommittee continued its
probe of the Klan despite the re
luctance of Klan leaders to answer
questions.
ROBERT M. SHELTON, Imperial
Wizard of the United Klans of
America, largest Klan group in the
country, repeatedly invoked the
first, fourth, fifth and fourteenth
amendments in refusing to give
information about his organiza
tion’s structure and finances. Oth
er Klan officials did the same.
Outside the hearing room, the
short, leathery-faced Imperial Wiz
ard from Tuscaloosa, Ala., spoke
of the investigation as an effort
to “curry political favor with a
group that has flouted the law all
over the country.” He was appar
ently referring to Negroes and the
civil rights movement.
The subcommittee introduced
evidence to show that Shelton and
other Klan officials had used Klan
money for their own purposes.
Shelton allegedly bought a car and
other items with Klan funds.
The hearings are expected to
run at least 13 weeks, which would
carry them beyond the start of the
second session of the 89th Con
gress next January. Some 200 wit
nesses are expected to be called.
After two days before the sub
committee — during which he dis
closed nothing except his name,
age (36) and birthplace (Tusca
loosa) —Shelton was excused until
Nov. 15.
Rep. Edwin E. Willis of Louisi
ana, chairman of the Un-American
Activities Committee and of the
special subcommittee, warned him
and other Klan leaders that they
might face contempt of Congress
charges for refusing to turn over
subpoenaed documents and rec
ords.
Willis also warned the Klan
against seeking to intimidate wit
nesses. Committee investigators
said their field work in the South
had been hampered to some ex
tent by fear of what might happen
to those who cooperated with
them.
KATZENBACH in his remarks
at the Press Club said there are
two reasons why the administra
tion has not yet introduced new
legislation for dealing with the
Klan.
First, he said, officials want to
see what information the current
hearings develop. Second, they are
waiting for the Supreme Court to
decide two pending cases testing
Justice Department authority to
act.
The answers to both questions
should be apparent by the next ses
sion of Congress, he said, and
“the legislation we send up will
reflect that wisdom."
In his prepared remarks the At
torney General said that, while the
administration sets a “high pre
mium” on voluntary compliance
with the 1965 Voting Rights Act,
it is prepared to enforce compli
ance where that is necessary.
In 10 weeks, he noted, the num
ber of Negroes registered to vote
in five southern states rose from
582,000 to 750,000 — an increase
of 30%.
Replying to a question about the
possibility of federal protection for
Negroes who seek to register, Kat
zenbach acknowledged that there
is a “general fear” of reprisals.
He insisted, however, that the
solution is regristration “in num
bers” rather than, sending in fed
eral law enforcement officers.
RECEIVES CARDINAL
Vatican City — (NC) — Pope
Paul VI received in audience (Oct.
22) James Francis Cardinal McIn
tyre of Los Angeles and Archbish
op Pericle Felici, secretary gener
al of the Ecumenical Council.