Bulletin (Monroe, Ga.) 1958-1962, May 17, 1958, Image 1
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DIOCESE OF SAVANNAH EDITION
Published By The
Catholic Laymen's
Ass'n Of Georgia
OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF THE DIOCESE OF SAVANNAH
Serving
Georgia's 88
Southern Counties
Vol. 38, No. 25.
MONROE, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, MAY 17, 1958
10c Per Copy — $3 a Year
Our Seminary Collection
The Pastor leans over the pulpit and looks directly down at
them. “Certainly, the joy that fills the hearts of his good parents
this morning, Our Lord's heartfelt ‘Thank you’ for their generosity
in offering a son to God’s Holy Priesthood, seems to them pay
ment enough for all the sacrifices entailed in offering that gift.”
And the happiest mother and father in the world say softly, to
themselves, “Oh, yes!”
The sublime dignity of the Priesthood is not given to many
men, and no man takes it to himself, but “He who is called as
Aaron was called.” Not many are the men and women who can
gaze at the consecrated hands which hold the Blessed Eucharist
before their eyes at Holy Communion and be awed at the thought,
“This is my son.”
Every morning of his life the Priest-will remember at Mass
and in his prayers, his parents who brought him to the altar of
God. But he will remember others, also—the Priests, the Sisters,
the friends who helped and encouraged him. And the countless
host of others who brought him to the supreme happiness of his
First Mass—the countless and unknown generous men and women
who made it possilbe for him to become a priest. Eight costly
years of college and Theological studies were necessary to produce
this new Priest.
This is an education that the average Priest’s family could not
possibly afford. That is why a Priest is so very conscious of debt
when he prays for his family, relatives, friends and BENEFAC
TORS. He knows that, saving the sacrifice of his family, the
prayers and encouragement of his friends, only the generosity of
his fellow Catholics has made it possible for him to stand at the
Altar of God and offer “gifts and sacrifices” for them. YOU are
the BENEFACTORS remembered every day in the Masses and
prayers of every Priest of the Diocese. YOU, whose generosity and
sacrifice make possible the Diocesan Seminary Collection, are
parents in spirit of the Priests we have and the Priests who are
to come.
Presidential Congratulations
Historic First For Valdosta Parish
George C. James To Be
Ordained At St. John's
bishop McDonough
ORDAINING PRELATE
At ceremonies in the Departmental Auditorium in Wash
ington, President Dwight D. Eisenhower congratulates George
Kesler, winner of the tenth annual national essay contest for
secondary schools sponsored by the President’s Committee on
Employment of the Physically Handicapped. A student at Aquin
as High School, Augusta, he was awarded the top prize of $1,000.
(NC Photos)
Georgia K. Of C. Convene
At Savannah On Saturday
SAVANNAH—More than 250
persons are expected here Sat
urday and Sunday, May 17-13,
for the Georgia State conven
tion of the Knights of Columbus.
Speakers at the convention
banquet on May 17 at the K. of
C. Hall will be the Most Rev.
Thomas J. McDonough, auxili
ary bishop of the Diocese of
Savannah; and Charles J. Du-
cey, director of the service de
partment of the Supreme
Council of the K. of C.
Registration for the conven
tion will be held at the K. of C.
from 10 a. m. to 2 p. m. on Sat
urday, May 17. The convention
will convene at 2:30 p. m.
Vstus J. Ryan is general
chairman of the convention.
Committee chairmen from the
auxiliary working with him in
clude Mrs. Robert F. Ryan, reg
istration; Mrs. Edwin Mulligan,
luncheon; Mrs. James Nueslien,
Sunday coffee hour; Mrs. E. G.
Butler, house committee; and
Mrs. V. J. Ryan, hospitality.
Ducey, who will represent
the Supreme Council at the
state convention, is a native of
Olean, N. Y. He received his
bachelor of arts degree from St.
Bonaventure University and his
master of arts degree from No
tre Dame University.
He joined the Knights while
at Notre Dame. He served two
terms as president of the
K. of C. Council in New
Haven. Ducey is a former
campaign chairman and presi
dent of the New Haven Com
munity Chest and a past presi
dent of Travelers Aid Society
of New Haven.
Ducey was awarded the
Charles Carroll of Carrollton
Medal in 1951 by John Barry
Genera] Assembly f o r church
and community activities.
RETREATS AT
MT. DE SALFS
MACON — Two Retreats
will be held at Ml, De Sales
Academy for women of the
Diocese.
The first retreat will begin
on Friday evening, July 25th,
ending Sunday, July 27th. A
mid-week retreat will begin
Tuesday evening July 23,
ending the morning of Aug
ust 1st.
Reservations may be se
cured by contacting the Sis
ters of Mercy, Mt. De Sales
Academy, Macon, Ga.
STATE OFFICES FOR
TWO AUCUSTA NUNS
ITALIAN ELECTIONS UNLIKELY
TO BRING POLITICAL CHANCES
The author oj the following
article is a former editor of 11
Quotidiano, Rome Catholic Ac
tion daily, and now a member of
the staff of L'Osservatore Roma
no, Vatican City newspaper.
By Federico Alessandrini
(N.C.W.C. News Service)
ROME, — The new Parlia
ment to be elected by Italy’s
voters on May 25 will probably
differ little from the outgoing
one.
The Catholic-oriented Chris
tian Democrats are likely to re
main the largest party in Par
liament, but unlikely to win an
absolute majority of its 596
seats.
The extreme leftist parties are
expected to retain their present
strength 218 seats — with possi
ble communist losses being off
set by leftwing Socialist gains.
The extreme right is facing
losses, although the Liberal par
ty, a conservative group, will
probably pick up a few extra
seats.
That is the outlook based on
conditions in the closing weeks
of a bitter campaign marked
by a resurgent anticlericalism.
But it would be hazardous to
try to predict precisely the elec
tion’s final outcome, since last-
minute events can have a major
bearing on the results.
The Parliament to be chosen
later this month will be the na
tion’s third in the past ten years.
In 1948 the country’s voters
gave an absolute majority of
seats in the lower house — the
Chamber of Deputies — to the
Christian Democrats, who also
won a near majority in the Sen
ate.
Under their party leader, the
late Premier Alcide De Gasperi,
they followed a middle-of-the-
road policy and worked to
strengthen Italian democracy.
In 1953 balloting the Christian
Democrats dropped about two
million votes and lost their ab
solute majority in the Cham
ber in an election marked by
small leftist and large rightist
gains. Most of Italy’s govern
ments since then have been co
alitions which have included
small center parties with the
Christian Democrats at their
head.
This year the Christian Demo
crats face not only continued
leftist opposition, but also hos
tility from rightist and center
parties.
On the left, the Communist
party is still strong, as was
shown by Red gains in the re
cent shop steward elections at
the big Fiat automobile works
in Turin.. The Socialist party,
anti-communist in many Euro
pean countries, has maintained
a “unity of action” pact with
the Reds in Italy. Together the
two leftist groups have been
able to rely on the fairly con
stant support of about a third of
Italy’s electorate since the end
of the war.
Both leftist parties are trying
to lure Catholic votes away
from the Christian Democrats
by claiming that the ideological
differences which separate them
from Catholics are not an ob
stacle to cooperation in practical
matters. They ( also assert that
only the left can bring about
needed social reforms.
At the same time they have
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AUGUSTA — Two Sisters of
the staff of St. Joseph’s Hospital
here have been elected to state
offices in their respective fields.
Sister Mary Martin, C.S.J.,
has been named secretary-
treasurer of the Georgia Society
of X-Ray Technicians and Sister
Andrew Josephine, C.S.J., is
president-elect of the Georgia
Society of Medical Technolo
gists.
Sister Mary Martin won the
L. P. Holmes Memorial Trophy
when it was awarded for the
first time this year. Dr. Holmes,
Augusta’s first radiologist, was
on the faculty of the Medical
College of Georgia for 34 years.
Sister Mary Martin, a former
Holmes’ jmpil, won the citation
and a cup for her work in “sol-
arization”—The copying of X-
Ray negatives by use of the
light of the sun.
Sister Andrew Josephine
heads the staff of laboratory
technicians at St. Joseph’s and
was in charge of a training
school for technologists for sev
eral years. She holds a degree
in science from Fontbonne Col
lege in St. Louis University and
served her internship in the
Henry W. Grady Memorial Hos
pital in Atlanta. She is also a
member of the American Socie
ty of Clinical Pathologists.
VALDOSTA — The Rev.
George C. James will be or
dained May 24th in the Church
of Saint John the Evangelist,
Valdosta, by the Most Rev.
Thomas J. McDonough, Auxil
iary Bishop of Savannah. The
Ordination will represent an
historic event for the Valdosta
Parish. Father James will be the
first native of Valdosta ever
ordained to the Priesthood and
the ceremonies will mark the
first time that the Sacrament
of Holy Orders has been con
ferred in this South Georgia
City.
Father James is the son of
Mr. and Mrs. Edward B. James
of 901 Lakeland Avenue. Prior
to leaving for Saint Bernard’s
Minor Seminary, at Cullman,
Alabama, Father James attended
St. John’s Parochial School and
Valdosta High School, where
he was very active in all school
activities. Upon completion of
studies at St. Bernard’s, Father
James matriculated to St. Mary
Major Seminary, Paca Street, in
Baltimore, Md., where he re
ceived a Batchelor of Arts De
gree in 1954. He pursued his
Theological studies at St. Mary’s
Seminary University, Roland
Park, Md., finishing early this
month.
The newly-ordained Priest
will offer his First Solemn Mass
on Pentecost Sunday, May 25th
at 5:00 P. M. in the Church of
St. John the Evangelist, Val
dosta. Officers for the Mass will
be:
Preacher — His Excellency,
Most Rev. Thomas J. Mc
Donough; Assistant Priest —•
Rev. Thomas A. Payne, pastor
of St. John’s; Deacon — Rev.
Marvin J. LeFrois, Pastor of
St. Teresa's Church, Albany, Ga;
Sub-Deacon — Rev. Daniel Mc
Cormack, Master of Ceremon
ies — Rev. John F. X. Fallon,
Assistant at Holy Family
Church, Columbus, Ga.
Father James will confer his
first Priestly Blessing at a
reception to be held in the eve
ning of May 24th, from 6:30 to
9:30 at the Valdosta Garden
Center, North Patterson Street.
REV. GEORGE C. JAMES
The reception will be tendered
by the Ladies Club of St. John
the Evangelist.
FIRST COMMUNION—First Communicants at the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist, Savannah, are pictured with the Most
Rev. Thomas J, McDonough, Auxiliary Bishop, and their pastor, the Rt. Rev. Msgr. T. James McNamara, V.F., Rector of the
Cathedral.
Msgr. Sheehan
Transferred To
Savannah See
ATLANTA — A long and de
voted service to the Diocese will
be culminated on June 15th,
when tha Rt. Rev. Msgr. Thomas
I. Sheehan, Pastor of St. Tho
mas More Church in Decatur
resignes to become affiliated
with the Diocese of Savannah.
Monsignor Sheehan was or
dained in the Cathedral of St.
John the Baptist, Savannah, on
May 29, 1930. He served at the
Cathedral until September of
that year when he was assign
ed as an Assistant to St. There
sa’s Church in Albany and to
serve on the southwest Georgia
missions.
In July of 1935, he was named
as Manager of St. Joseph’s
Home in Washington, Georgia.
He served in this capacity for
one year when in July of 1936,
Hold Cana
Conference
SAVANNAH — Fifty - four
married couples attended a
Cana Conference held at Sav
annah on Sunday, April 27th.
Rev. Walter Meifi, assistant at
St. Mary’s Church, Greenville,
S. C. addressed the couples in
the auditorium of St. Vincent's
Academy. The conference was
sponsored by the Savannah
Council 631, Knights of Colum
bus and was arranged by Mr.
Flem G. Cliett, Grand Knight,
Mr. John Buttimer and Mr.
Paul Henpessey. Young ladies
from St. Vincent’s Academy
volunteered as “baby-sitters,”
facilitating the attendance of
mothers and fathers.
The Conference closed with
Benediction of the Blessed Sac
rament in the Chapel of Our
Lady at the Cathedral, at 5:30.
Rev. R. P. Levell
Dies May 6th
In Mississippi
AUGUSTA—Father Raymond
Patrick Levell, S.J., former as
sistant pastor at Sacred Heart
Church in Augusta died May 6
at Jesuit Headquarters in Pass
Christian, Miss.
Funeral services were held at
Spring Hill College in Mobile,
Ala.
Father Levell was born in
Fall River, Mass., the son of
Raymond Edward Levell and
Mary Shea Levell.
He attended Holy Cross Col
lege in Worcester, Mass., and en
tered the Jesuit Order in 1922.
He was ordained to the priest
hood in 1937.
Father Levell was engaged in
parish and educational work in-
Louisiana, Alabama, Florida
and Georgia, and served in Au
gusta from 1943 to 1945 and
from early 1957 to March of this
year. Recently, he served at St.
Joseph’s Church in Macon.
MSGR. SHEEHAN
he was named as the first resi
dent Pastor of St. Augustine’s
Church in Thomasville.
Father Sheehan returned to
Savannah in January of 1940 as
the first Pastor of Our Lady of
Lourdes Church, Port Went
worth. In February of 1945, he
was named as the Pastor of St.
Thomas More Church in De
catur.
It was during his Administra
torship of this Parish in Decatur
that all the buildings were
erected, and a short time ago
Monsignor Sheehan announced
to the people of this parish that
the entire debt on the parish
had been paid.
For outstanding work as a
priest on the missions and as an
administrator of a large parish,
His Holiness, Pope Pius XII,
elevated Father Sheehan to the
rank of Domestic Prelate with
the title of Right Reverend
Monsignor, last year.
Bishop Protests
Seizure Of
Children’s Home
BERLIN, (Radio, NC) — Bish
op Julius Doepfner of Berlin has
protested against the commun
ist seizure of a . Catholic chil
dren’s home in Stralsund, East
Germany.
The school was closed, by Red
authorities, and teaching per
mits were taken away from the
Sisters who staffed it. The Reds
charged that the educational
system of the institution was
not “socialistic.”
The Mayor of Stralsund, a
city on the Baltic coast of Ger
many 125 miles north of here,
and delegates of the local mu
nicipal council went in person to
the Saint Joseph home. They
forced all children present to
board a bus which then took
them to a communist home.
Parents were not even asked
for their consent. A telegram of
protest by Bishop Doepfner has
so far been ignored.
The incident is an indication
of the resurgence of fanticism
among the rulers of the Soviet
zone, who are determined to
eliminate all traces of religion
in public life.
It took place at about the
same time the Bishops of the
Soviet zone issued a joint pas
toral letter charging the East
German government with pur
suing a “recklessly atheistic
course.” and calling on all Cath
olics to resist communist at
tempts to suppress religion.
Hew Executive Committee For
I). N. Refugee Fund Set Up;
Holy See One Of 24 Members
UNITED NATIONS, N. Y.
(NC) — The Economic and
Social Council has established
a new executive committe of the
program of the United Nations
Refugee Fund, naming the
Holy See one of its 24 members.
The new committee was
established in accordance with
a request from last year’s
General Assembly to the Eco
nomic and Social Council. Its
purpose is to determine general
policies under which the U. N.
High Commissioner for Refugees
plans, develops and administers
programs, to review the funds
made available to him and the
programs proposed or carried
out.
The Holy See is one of three
states which are not members
of the U. N. to be elected to the
executive committee, the others
being the Federal Republic of
Germany and Switzerland. The
rest of the committee is com
posed of Australia, Austria,
Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Colom
bia, Denmark, France, Greece,
Iran, Israel, Italy, the Nether
lands, Norway, Sweden, Tunisia,
Turkey, the United Kingdom,
the United States, Venezuela
and Yugoslavia.
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