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Maher Hails C ty' s Unity Of Purpose cctcd By 1,300; Installation As Bi hop Due Today

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VOL LV NO 40 Published Weekly By The Diocese of Son Diego, California $4 Yearly San Di e9o Prepares to Welcome THURSDAY OCTOBER 2 1969 Ente red As Second Clon Motter at the Post Office of San Diego under the Act of Morch 3, 1879

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Installation Rit:es Slated In Cathedral A warm we come from religious, government, civic and mili ry leaders awaits Most Rev . Leo T. Maher of Santa Ros hen he arrives here tomorrow afternoon, Friday, to become Bishop of the Diocese of San Diego. His Excellency will land at Lindbergh Field aboard a Pacific Southwest Airlines plane at 2:40 p.m. and be greeted by chancery officials and many other represen- tatives. He will be accompanied by a group ofclergy and laity from the Santa Rosa diocese. Bishop Maher's formal installation as the third Ordinary of the 33-year-old San Diego diocese will take place the next day, Saturday , followed by a concelebrated Mass starting at 11 a.m. in St. Joseph's Cathedral. 1,000 Expected in Cathedral More than 1,000 persons from all walks of life are ex- pected to crowd the cathedral for the rites, with admis• sion restricted only to ticket holders and special guests. The rites also will be viewed over closed circuit tele• vision by an audience in the hall next to the cathedral. The installing prelate and principal concelebrant of the Mass will be Archbishop Luigi Raimondi, Apostolic Delegate in the United States, who will arrive here on Friday. Presiding at the Mass will be James Francis Cardinal McIntyre, Archbishop of Los Angeles. The San Diego diocese, with some 400,000 Catholics, is a Suffragan See of the Los Angeles Province and comprises the four counties of San Diego, San Bernardino, Riverside and Imperial in Southern California . To Be Honored at Luncheon Following the Mass, Bishop Maher will receive his first public recognition as the new Bishop of San Diego when he is honored at a luncheon in the International Room of El Cortez Hotel. Here, also, admission will be only by tickets to accommodate the guests from various fields attending the function . More than 1,000 persons are expected, in- cluding contingents from the diocese's four counties. Archbishop Raimondi and Bishop Maher will be joined at the altar by Auxiliary Bishop John R . Quinn of San Diego, who is seiving as administrator for the diocese, and Arch- bishop Francis J. Furey of San Antonio, Bishop Maher's predecessor in San Diego. Other Concelebrants Named Other concelebrants will be Archbishop Joseph McGucken of San Francisco, Coadjutor Archbishop Timothy Manning of Los Angeles, retired Archbishop Robert E. Lucey of San Antonio, whom Archbishop Furey succeeded, Father Raymond Maher, pastor of Blessed Sacrament Church in San Rafael and Bishop Maher's brother, and Father Thomas F . Meagher, representing the San Diego Diocesan Senate of Priests. Also concelebrating the Mass will be the members of the San Diego iocesan Board of Consultors. They are Msgrs. John J, Bradley, Donald F. Doxie, Peter Lynch, John F. Purcell, Daniel J. Ryan, and Fathers Edward Creighton, I. Brent Eagen, Rudolph Galindo, Donald Kulleck, Peter

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THE SOUTHERN CROSS, THURSDAY, OCfOBER 2, 1969 ---- San Diego To Welcome New Bishop (Cont111uedfrompage 1) Mimnagh and Thomas Moloney. The installation ceremonies will tak place on the feastday of St. Francis of Assisi, founder of the Franciscan order, and will mark the 200th anniversary o the first M ss in Californ!a. This Mass was offered in an Diego by Father Jumpero Serra , famed Franciscan missionary, on July 2, 1769, two weeks before he founded his first mission in Alta California . . The 90-minute cathedral rites will be t KOGO-TV, Channel 10, for viewing tlie Sunday, at 6 p .m. Civic dignitaries at the installation will include Mayor Frank urran, DeGraff Austin, chairman, San Diego County Board of Supervisors ; Episcopal Canon Paul G. Satrang, president, San Diego County Council of Churches· Rev. Melvin H. Harter , executive director of the in~ terdenominational church council, and Dr. Robert H. Mayo, mo?erator of the San Diego Presbytery, United Presbyterian Church . Military Figures to Attend Among military figures will be Vice Adm . Bernard F. Roeder , who retired Tuesday as commander of the F irst Fleet; Maj. Gen Lowell E . English, who also retired Tuesd~y as com~anding officer of the Marine Corp Recruit Depot ; MaJ . Gen . Donn J . Robertson , commanding ge_n~ral of Camp Pendleton Marine Base, and Capt. Wilham J. Walsh, senior Catholic chaplain in the 11th Naval District, who will represent Rear Adm . James W. Kelly, Navy chief of chaplains in Washington, D.C. Many other bishops and priests will be at the installation ceremonies. These will include retired Bishop Dermot O'Flanagan of Juneau , Alaska, who now resides in San Die~~- Bis~op Joseph L. Federal of Salt Lake City, Auxiliary_B1sh?ps William J . McDonald, ,Mark J . Hurley and Merlm Guilfoyle of San Francisco, Auxiliary Bishops Joseph P . Dougherty and John J . Ward of Los Angeles, and Msgr. Donnell A. Walsh, chancellor of the San Francisco archdiocese. Priests from Other Dioceses Al~o Msgr_s. George Schirle of Napa, C.J. Bradley of Encmo, Dems Falvey of Camarillo, Patrick Roche of Los Angeles, and Fathers Robert F . Hayburn of San Francisco. Gerard Fahey of Garberville and Francis Singleton of Fres Among clergy coming here from the Santa Rosa diocese for the rites are Msgrs. Walter Tappe, Santa Rosa vicar general , John Brenkle, chancellor ; James Gaffey Cor· neliu Higgins and Gerald Cox. ' uns at t~e. install_ation will include Sister Mary M. Cl_all'e,. Domm1can prioress of Santa Catalina School for Girls m Monterey. On his arrival at the airport Bishop Maher is expected to speak briefly in acknowledgement of the welcome from the religious and other leaders and from representative diocesan groups, including the Bishop's Boys Choir. To Meet Diocesan Consultors He then will be taken to the Bishop's residence at 2021 S~nset Blvd. for a short rest before meeting with the Diocesan Board of Consultors in El Cortez Hotel later in the afternoon . Bishop Maher will offer his first Mass as the new Or- di ry of an Diego at 9: 15 a.m. Sunday in Our Lady of Guadalupe Church, 1770 Kearney Avenue. Later in the day h~ will celebrate another Mass at the University of San Diego College for Women for the Si ters. Ordained in 1943, Bishop Maher has headed the Santa Rosa diocese since it was carved from the San Francisco archdiocese in 1962. He was appointed a bishop February 21 , 1962, and consecrated April 5 in St. Mary 's Cathedral.

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ment - w1ll be a celebrallon at unced Monday as part of the 20th AnniversarJ University of San Diego. The Mo t Rev. Leo T. Maher, bishop of the Catholic Diocese, San D1rgo. will e a prmclpal concelebrant at a Pontifical )1a at noon l\Io 1day. Th c arc the two aJor events honoring the signing of the U versity charier 20 ye11rs ago. The mass will be t noon fol-

lowed by a luncheon where the new bishop will meet the USO faculty. The expansion program calls for little in the way of capital expenditure and buildings. SIX-YEAR PL,\~ ''The ix year plan enables the campus community to set new goals and present them to the community" J\lichael J ·ewman. d1rcct_pr of development and public relations said "Funds needed are expected to come from private girts and govern- ment ,ources." The six·)ear plan m ludes $3.3 million for the chool of law. Part of this will be an expansion of the law building to hold more students, a larger library, a stu• dent house and a court center. Programs for th" under- graduate and graduate div1Sions will total $13.7 million. Student aid, scholarships and faculty de- velopment are keys to this pro• gram. STUDE, 'T HOUSL"G Other increases are expected to be in student housing, cur riculum. a university center and graduate program development. Also to be added at L'SD under the plan are: an institute for special ethnic studies and envi- ronmental studies; an ecume• nical center. center for the study of communicative dis- orders and an educational re- search center. The expansion plan primarily ,sets goals through 1975. Among other duties, Bishop ~aher is chancellor of the uni- versity and chairman of its board of trustee . The university was started by the first bishop of the diocese of San Diego, the Most Rev. Charles F. Buddy. First to open a c_F-nter on the hilltop campus was the Reh• gious Order of the Sacred Hear(. The San Diego College fo r Worn• en's class of i954 was the first to graduate. - --------

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P oposed ho Maher d eace I and I am honored to add my plea to his (Mr. Nixon's) so that all men might enjoy the promise of peace. Our goal as only If

can be eccompllsh everyone "becomes a peace- maker .,..1th his neighbor," the I ,Rev. Leo T. Maher', bishop of the an Diego Roman Catholic In a me age i sued to sup- port P_re ident Nixon's call for a Nallonal Day of Prayer for peace, set for Oct. 22, Bishop d,oce sa :I yesterday.

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reign of Jesus Christ, Pnnce of Peace, realized in our day. He came to share His life with all mankind and teach a way of life of peace. "The inner peace of mind shared peace of Justice and charity cannot exist one without the other. World peace can not be achieved unless each man in- dividuaily becomes a peace• maker with his neighbor. ''Let us pray and strive for peace. Let us pra~ often the Lord's Prayer shared by so many throughout the world of different faiths and cultures. "And as we pray to be forgi- ven just as we forgive, let us strive for peace through deeds of kindness to the oppressed, justice to the wronged, shar- ing with the poor, affection to the sick and forgotten. Let us have love for all men no mat- ter the cost to ourselves." and heart and the

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u..~ Clinic s1·ated ~f In liturgical It 64! Music At USD The Rev. Eugene Lindusky, chairman of the llllJSic depart- ment at Crosier Seminary, On mia, Minn ., will conduct a liturgical music clinic Oct. 18-19 in De Sales Hall, University of San Drego. Father Lindusky, former pres- ident ,of the National Catholic Music Educators Association, will concentrate on aiding music teachers of the San Diego Ro- man Catholic Diocese parochial schools at the first day's ses- sion. emphasize music for Catholic choir direc- tors, organists, instrumentalists and singers during the second day's session. Both sessions will start at 2:30 p.m. The sponsor will be the San Diego Diocesan Music Commission. Instruct10n will

Black Educator Will Meet· black educators will (Community Opportunit , Pro. education and the local com- meet at the University of San grams In Education) are as- munily and the kinds of Diego Oct. 18, to form a cha- sisting in organizating the changes needed in education. ter of the California Associa- group. The group will attempt to tion for African-American Ed- . . · 1 bla k d ucation. The orgamzation meeting mvo ve c e ucators, mem- Wille Moore or USD, area will begin at 10 a.m. and will bers of t!1e community and said the formation of the be held in the U D College )',foore said. representative t? CAAAE, for Men. Registration for the · said the formation of the . SAN DIEGO San Diego Geraldine Rirkman of COPE black professionals In local area

chapter will enable Informed conference will begin at 9 a.m. educators to work on student Development of a commun- and community problems. ications network l<'ads the Eleanor Evans of the San agenda. Other items 10 be Diego School District and discussed are the role of the

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