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Published By The Catholic Laymen's Ass'n Of Georgia Vol. 39, No. 3 U. S. World's Fair Reflects Christian CARNEGIE GRANTEE Rev. Broiher James M. Kenny, S.J., (above) of Morristown, N. J., business manager of ihe service enterprises at New York's Ford- ham University, has been awarded a Carnegie Foundation grant to attend the 1958 Short Course in College Business Man agement. Awarded to one person in each state, the grant will place him at the University of Omaha this summer. (NC Pho tos) Requiem For Fatuer Reilley PHILADELPHIA — The Rev. James T. Reilley, S.M., native of Savannah, and former pastor of St. Francis Xavier Church, Brunswick, died in a Phila delphia hospital, June 27th. A native Georgian, Father Reilly was born in Savannah on January 18, 1889, and received his early education at the Con vent School of the Sisters of Mercy in his native city. He pursued his higher education under the direction of the Marist Fathers in Washington, D. C. Here, too* he prepared for the priesthood. On June 20, 1912, Father Reil ly was ordained by the Most Reverend John E. Gunn, S. M., Bishop of Natchez, Mississippi, and one of the predecessors of Father Reilly as Pastor of Sacred Heart Church, Atlanta, from 1898 to 1911. As a young priest, Father Reilly taught at Marist Semi nary, Washington, D. C., and at St. Mary’s, Van Buren, Maine. In 1920, he began his pastoral work by serving the English- speaking Catholics of Mexico City, Mexico, for four years. On his return to the States, he serv ed as Assistant Pastor in Bruns wick, Georgia, Algiers, Louisi ana, and Atlanta, Georgia. In 1932, Father Reilly became Pastor of St. Francis Xavier Church in Brunswick, Georgia. He then was named pastor at Sacred Heart Church, Atlanta. After serving as Pastor of Sacred Heart Church for six years, Father Reilly became pastor of St. Joseph’s Church, Buchannon, W. Va., and sub sequently assisted in churches in Richwood, W. Va., and Wheeling, W. Va. Since 1953, Father Reilly has been retired at St. Mary’s Manor, Penndel, Pa. Requiem For Sister Mary Ryan AUGUSTA — Funeral serv ices for Sister Mary Ryan were held June 24th at St. Mary’s- on-the-Hill Church, Rev. Daniel J. Bourke, V.F. officiating. A native of Brooklyn, N. Y., Sister Mary was the daughter of the late Michael T. Ryan and Ann L. Lynch of New York. She had been in Augusta four months. Sister Mary was received in religion in Atlanta in 1913 and the profession of faith in 1915. She taught school at Sacred Heart School in Atlanta, Savan nah,, Sharon, St. Joseph’s Home in Washington, Ga. and St. Jos- By Rt. Rev. Msgr. T. James McNamara This appraisal of the Woriel’s Fair was written by Monsignor McN anuira, Rector of the Ca thedral of St. John the Baptist. Monsignor visited the Brussells’ Fair following the Diocesan Pil grimage to Lourdes. We entered the Fair with a critical mind, for we had read in European editions of the American Press criticisms of the American Pavillion at the Fair. We felt a challenge, as Ameri cans travelling in Europe, to see for ourselves. What we saw was exhilirating, captivating and pleasing. Like a precious gem, the American Pavillion stood out, and its location spell ed out a symbolism for us. Certainly the design of the Pavillion is equisite and the design as executed beautiful to behold. To the seeing eye it was as well an engineering triumph. A vast expanse with no visible supports save the outer walls, the roof of the Pavilion took on an added beauty. The whole building and its exhibits seem ed to radiate liberty and free dom and the atmosphere of lei sure that dominated the Pa vilion both exteriorly and in teriorly seemed but to stress this liberty and freedom. Unlike the Soviet building, directly across from it, the American Pavilion had no idle display of heavy, ponderous ma chinery; but again to the seeing eye there were toy models in the American exhibits that suggest ed all the ponderous machines of the Russian exhibits and more. Whether done intention ally or not, the fact remains that a reflective comparison of the machinery aspects of the American and Soviet Pavilions suggest the wisdom of childlike qualities as stressed by Our Di vine Lord. Nothing of force and power was in evidence in or about the American Pavilion. Indeed, the polyglot tongue that struck the ear as one moved in and out among the tables of the outer rim of the Pavilion was so thoroughly American in that it suggested that unity enriched by differences which is the cha racteristic note of democracy in our Nation. All nationalities were enjoy ing the leisure of the American Pavilion and spelled out their differences was not only their speech but the foods they were munching as well. On the other hand, the lawn space of the So viet building across the way was loaded with ponderous machine ry and so crowded accordingly that leisure seemed foreign to the concept of the people whom the building represented. The contrast between the de signs of the two buildings and their respective exhibits illus trates dramatically the radical difference between our Ameri can Way of Life and the Russian concept of life; between life as lived in a democracy rooted in religious values and life as lived in a totalitarian State. This con trast is strikingly brought out when one reflects that there is no personality dominating the American Pavilion, no statues, colossal or otherwise, or heroes of the past or present. No sooner does one enter the Soviet Pavilion than he rea lizes that the Soviet concept of the Race of Men is a classless society wherein all will become proletariat and unity, enriched by valid differences, will be re duced by force into a sterile uniformity. Giant statues of a male and female worker greet one as one enters the Soviet Pavilion and these are so situ ated as to suggest pseudo ador ing angels to Lenin, the colos sal statue of whom dominates eph School in Brunswick. She is survived by a brother, Frank Ryan of Brooklyn and a nephew, Matthew Ryan, also of Brooklyn. DIOCESE OF SAVANNAH EDITION Serving Georgia's 88 Southern Counties MONROE, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, JULY 12, 1958 10c Per Copy — $3 a Year Papal Status for Missionaries An American congregation of priests and brothers, founded in Alabama in 1929,—the Missionary Servants of the Most Holy Trinity has been granted pontifical status according to a Decree of Praise issued by the Holy See. A Vincentian priest, the late Father Thomas A. Judge, (left) was founder of the congregation which labors in 17 archdioceses and dioceses of the United States and Puerto Rico. Father Thomas O’Keeffe, M.S.SS.T., (right) of Silver Spring; Md., is its Custodian General. (NC Photos) Archbishop At Cathedral Reopening Australia's Cardinal Received By Queen Exhibit Values the total scene of the Pavilion. To Father Daly, my companion, and to me it all seemed like a sort of idolatry and in reflect ing we were happy in the thought that our American Pa vilion was free of any sugges tion of the deification of our Nation’s leaders. If there was anything offens ive either on the facade or in the interior of the American Pavilion. Father Daly and I did not witness it. It is possible that we did not see all. There was so much to be seen and so much fatigue in seeing that it is pos sible we may have missed some thing. What we saw made us doubly proud that we were American citizens and native to the American soil. Even in the Art Exhibit, which we review ed lastly because it was so un impressive, we saw nothing of fensive to good taste. I must say in passing that we expressed re gret that it was there and then concluded that it too had its value in that it did point up the tolerance of our Native Land. Deliberate or otherwise the location of the American Pavil ion with one side facing Civitas Dei, the Church’s Exposition, (Continued on Page Six) Urge Caution Regarding Alleged Apparitions MADRID (NC) — Church au thorities have recommended the utmost reserve in regard to al leged apparitions of the Blessed Virgin to a group of children from the village of Jorcas in the province of Teruel in east ern Spain. Scattered reports concerning the alleged visions have appear ed here in the Catholic press. They give the following account of the events alleged to have oc curred: Eight children of the villiage of Jorcas claim to have had a series of apparitions of the Blessed Virgin, beginning on June 6, the day after the feast of Corpus Christi, and ending on June 20. Seven of the eight children made their First Com munion on Corpus Christi. They range in age from 7 to 16. LONDON, (NC) — His Em inence Norman Cardinal Gilroy, Archbishop uj. ^j Austral ia, was receive u y ner Majes ty Queen Elizaoetn il at Wind sor Castle. The Cardinal is here with 600 members of the Australian cen tennial year pilgrimage to Lourdes. Most of the pilgrims accompanied him to Windsor, and tne Queen spoke to many of them individually. Cardinal Gilroy’s visit to the British Isles includes trips to Scotland and to Ireland. A major facet of his schedule was the solemn reopening of St. George’s cathedral here, with the Cardinal presiding, on July 4. The cathedral, the only major church in the London area de stroyed during the World War II airraids, is the seat of the Dio cese of Southwark and one of three Catholic cathedrals in greater London, Bishop Cyril C. Cowderoy of Southwark offici ated at the reopening, and about three dozen other bishops, in cluding His Eminence John Cardinal D’Alton, Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of all Ire land and Archbishop Gerald P. O’Hara, Bishop of Sav annah, Ga., and Apostolic Dele gate to Great Britain, were present. The day after Cardinal Gil roy’s arrival here, he flew to Scotland to preside at the cen tenary of the arrival in Scot land of the Marist Brothers, in one of whose Australian schools he was educated. Welcoming the first cardinal to visit the land of John Knox for over 60 years, Scots Catho lics gave a tumultuous greeting to Cardinal Gilroy when he landed to the skirl of bagpipes at Renfrew airport. With the Cardinal at the Mar ist centenary dinner in Glasgow that night were Scotland’s two archbishops, the Most Revs. Donald Campbell of Glasgow and Gordon Gray of St. An drews and Edinburgh: five oth er, Scottish bishops, and Scots- born Brother Justinian, Assist ant Superior General of the Marists. Thousands of people crowded Glasgow’s Clyde Street to watch Cardinal Gilroy go in procession into St. Andrew’s Cathedral, the first member of the Sacred Col lege to pay an official visit to this 100-year-old church. Arch bishop Campbell celebrated the Marist centenary Mass and the Cardinal preached. Named At Macon Meeting Mrs. A. J. Schano Nominee For Board Of Directors MACON — Mrs. A. J. Schano, of Savannah, is the unanimous choice for nominee for the N.C.C.W. Board of Directors, from the Savannah Diocesan Council of Catholic Women. Mrs. Schano was appointed as nominee at the semi-annual luncheon and board meeting of the D.C.C.W., which was held on Wednesday, June 25, at the Moose Club in Macon. The elec tion of the N.C.C.W. Board of Directors will be held at the convention in St. Louis, Mo., in September. Mrs. Schano is a past presi dent of the Savannah-Atlanta Diocesan Council of Catholic Women, of the Savannah Dean ery C.C.W., and also of the Sac red Heart Home and School As sociation, and the Sacred Heart P.C.C.W. of Savannah. She has served as diocesan and deanery chairman of the Home and School Committee, and deanery chairman of the Organization and Development Committee. She is a member of the Savan nah United Community Service General Committee, past chair man of the Women’s Division of the U. C. S. Fund Drive, mem ber of the Women’s Division of the State Civil Defense Organi zation, and the Savannah Can cer Society. Mrs. Schano, the former Mar garet Irlbacher, attended St. MRS. A. J. SCHANO Augustine’s School, and is a graduate of Mt. Mercy Academy, in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. She is a graduate of Pittsburgh Hos pital School of Nursing, which is conducted by the Sisters of Charity. She was president of the Alumnae of the School of Nursing in 1929, and a member of the board of directors from the Sixth District of Pennsyl vania State Nurses Association, from 1930-1932. The nominee is the mother of four children, and the widow of the late A. J. Schano, who was Asst. Mgr. of the American Oil Co., in Savannah, at the time of his death, this past Decem ber. Mr. and Mrs. Schano came to Savannah in 1932, after their marriage in St. Raphael’s Church, in Pittsburgh. Mrs. Schano is thoroughly Catholic, intellectually and spi ritually, and is most capable in organizational work. Father John D. Toomey, Spi ritual Moderator of the D.C.C.W. announced that Miss Lucia Sgalbazzini, of Milan, Italy, an exchange student, would arrive in the States, on July 21, and shortly after come to Savannah, where she will reside with Dr. and Mrs. Jos. Pacifici, of 40 East Fiftieth Street. Miss Sgalbazzini is enrolled as a stu dent at St. Vincent’s Academy. Mrs. Katharine Huggins, of (Continued on Page Six) Jesuits Leave Macon Msgr. Sheehan Installed As Pastor Of St. Joseph's Hold Reception For New Pastor, Jesuit Fathers MACON — The Most Rev. Thomas J. McDonough, D.D. J.C.D., auxiliary bishop, presid ed at the installation ceremon ies of Rt. Rev. Monsignor Tho mas I. Sheehan as pastor of St. Joseph’s Church on Sunday, June 29th. Ceremonies transferring St. Joseph’s Parish administrator- ship from the Jesuits to Secular priests of the Diocese were held jointly with the installation cer emony. Bishop McDonough was celebrant at the 11 a. m. Mass at which the ceremonies took place. A letter from His Excellency The Most Rev. Gerald P. O’ Hara, D.D. J.U.D., Bishop of Savannah and Apostolic Dele gate to Great Britain addressed to the members of St. Joseph’s parish was read at the cere monies. Paying tribute to the Jesuit Fathers who have served the parish since 1887, His Excel lency wrote: ‘Great and profound as have been the affection and esteem that I have had for the Society of Jesus all my life, that affec- (Full text on Page 6) tion and esteem have been in tensified by the splendid spirit of cooperation that the Jesuit Fathers have shown in the pres ent circumstances. May the Good God richly reward them and the great Society of which they are members for what they have done for the Church and for souls in this part of the Dio- ese.’ Benediction of the Most Bless ed Sacrament was held at 5:30 p. m., at the church, and was followed by a reception given by Bishop McDonough in honor of both Monsignor Sheehan and the Fathers of the Society of Jesus. 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 at St. Tere 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. He served in this capacity for one year when in July of 1936, he was named as the first resident 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 Decat ur. It was during his administrat orship of this parish in Decatur that all the buildings were erect ed, and a short time ago Monsig nor 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 Rev. Monsig nor, last year. The Rev. Carmine Benanti, S.J., retiring pastor of St. Jos eph’s had served in the post for six years, and prior to that was stationed at Mobile, Ala., and New Orleans, La. The parish honored Father with an “Ap preciation Night” prior to his departure from Macon. Leaving Macon for other as signments are the Rev. Lester F.X. Guteri, S.J., and the Rev. Donald Barrilleaux, S.J. Replacing these priests as Monsignor Sheehan’s assistants are The Rev. Daniel Myszka, newly ordained, and a priest of the Diocese of Buffalo, now serv ing temporarily in the Diocese, and the Rev. Joseph L. Stranc, newly ordained. Father Stranc is a native of Philadelphia. RT. REV. MSGR. THOMAS I. SHEEHAN FAMILY HAS PRIMARY DUTY OF PROVIDING VOCATIONS (N.C.W.C. News Service) CHICAGO — The family has the primary responsibility of nurturing religious vocations to help the Church remodel the world according to Christ’s teachings, a Bishop declared here at the Serra International convention. Coadjutor Bishop Thomas J. McDonnell of Wheeling told some 2,500 Serrans at their 16th annual convention that thou sands of priests and Religious are needed to overcome the “terrific handicap” the Church faces “in preserving and reach ing all nations with the teach ings and commandments of Jesus Christ.” “If the world today is to be remodeled to the Christian way of thinking, doing and saying, the priesthood of Jesus Christ is needed,” the Bishop asserled. “The priest carries on the work of Christ in the person of Christ. He is Christ’s tool in rebuilding a fallen generation.” In citing the Church’s urgent need for vocations, Bishop Mc Donnell said that “thousands of priests, Brothers and Sisters are needed to assist overworked pastors, teachers and mission aries in America.” “Other thousands,” he con tinued, “are needed to replace Europe’s ruined dioceses and in- (Continued on Page Six) tor of the newly erected parish of Our Lady of Lourdes, Colum bus, is pictured with the parish’s First Communion Class. The lower photo was snapped during a Sunday School Class.