Bulletin (Monroe, Ga.) 1958-1962, July 26, 1958, Image 1

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Published By The Catholic Laymen's Ass'n Of Georgia DIOCESE OF SAVANNAH EDITION OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF THE DIOCESE OF SAVANNAH Serving Georgia's 88 Southern Counties Vol. 39, No. 4. MONROE, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, JULY 26, 1958 10c Per Copy — $3 a Year Pilgrims Visit Ireland And England History Brought To Life By Visit To Ancient Ruins This is the second of a series on the Savannah Diocesan Pil- grimayc to Lourdes. By Rl. Rev. T. James McNamara, V.F. It is 8:00 o’clock the night of Tuesday, April 22nd. Awaiting the Savannah Diocesan Lourdes Pilgrimage on the runway of Idlewild Airport, New York, is the giant Trans World Airliner with accommodations for 103 passengers. With only 23 passengers book ed for the crossing, our Pilgrim age members have the plane pretty much to Themselves. The skies are overcast and a misty cold rain is falling, but nothing can chill the radiant enthusiasm of the members of the Pilgrim age Party. A brief pause on the steps of the plane for a picture and then aboard. Soon New York is behind us, the broad Atlantic below us and Ireland ahead of us. We were not too long in flight when the clock showed an advance of five hours. Moved along by favorable tail winds and what seemed a quick ly rising sun the first of the many thrills of our Pilgrimage was experienced. There was Ire land with its. fascinating coat of variable green below us — a lovely countryside which seemed to spell a hundred thou sand welcomes. And indeed, the countryside’s spelling was so ac curate because we were no soon er on the runway of Shannon Airport than we heard our name called. There to greet us were priests of some of the Clare County parishes who had come to welcome us in their own name and in the name of our own Archbishop O’Hara. They were soon joined by Mr. Keyes, brother of Sister Mary Michael, Superior of St. Mary’s Home, Savannah. With the River Shan non, famed in song and story, on our left, we were soon on our way by motorcoach to Killarney and its lovely lakes and hos pitable International Hotel. The next morning we learned why the Irish can weep in their laughter and why their beauti ful and tuneful lyrics suggest tears as well as smiles. It all re flects the bright sunshine which floods Ireland and which, still shining, is so often moistened by a gentle falling rain. So it was with us the next morning when we left the International Hotel for Mass. No sooner had we stepped out into the bright sunshine than the rain, more soothingly than threatening, en veloped us. Filled with the beauty of the countryside which we had trav elled the day before from Shan non to Killarney, with a sort of Fire Damages Rectory AUGUSTA — Fire swept the second and third floors of Sac red Heart Rectory on the eve ning of Sunday, July 13th, Firemen from Engine Com panies 2, 3, 4, 6 and 9 responded to the fire. Through their ef forts the blaze was confined to the west section of the Rectory. Fire officials have placed the damage in excess of $8,000. The work of the firemen pre vented what could have been a disasterous fire because Sac red Heart School is next door to the rectory, and Sacred Heart Church is located on Greene Street, directly to the rear of the Rectory. The Jesuit Fathers, who staff Sacred Heart will have use of part of the large rectory which was built many years ago to house the faculty of Sacred Heart College which was op erated by the Jesuits. avaricious avidity we entered the Motorcoach for the trip to Dublin. The beauty of the day before was again in evidence but not as consistently, because the sequence of farms and old oastle ruins was not as sequen tial. Now we were passing through, from time to time, an ciently-established urban areas such as Cork and Waterford, all of which flooded our memory with reminiscences bolstered by ancestry and long ago instilled SAVANNAH — In a solemn ceremony held at Belmont Ab bey Cathedral in Belmont on Friday, July 11, Father Aug ustine W. Cunningham, O.S.B., made his final religious pro fession. Frater Augustine is the son of Mr, and Mrs. Bernard W. Cunningham of Savannah. Known to his friends in Savan nah as “Bill,” Frater Augustine was born in Louisville, Ken tucky. He attended Benedictine Military School in Savannah SAVANNAH •— The Saint James Parish Youth Club was host to a large group of teen agers of the other Savannah parishes at a dance held in Bar bee’s Pavilion on the Isle of Hope. Music was provided by two bands and records. Every parish youth club in Savannah was represented, and guests were present from two parishes in Augusta and Thomasville. The dance was arranged through the efforts of Alec Bar bee, proprietor of the Pavilion, and the Club officers. Charles Jurgenson is president of the St. James Youth Club. This event was the first of a series of interparochial events being planned for the Catholic youth BRUNSWICK — Religious Vacations Schools were conduct ed in Brunswick and Jesup for a three-week period during the month of June. The classes were Jesuits lame lew Pastor For Augusta Church AUGUSTA — The Rev. Peter F. O’Donnell, S.J., Pastor of Sacred Heart Church since 1953, has been transferred to St. Anne’s Church in West Palm Beach, Florida. Succeeding Father * O’Donnell is the Rev. John E. O’Donohoe, S.J., who served Sacred Heart here from 1934-46. He left Au gusta for a teaching position in Spring Hill College near Mobile. Father returns to Augusta from this post. The change was effective July 23rd. by the narration of the older Irish of the Cathedral Parish in the early days of our priesthood. Toward evening, and still on our way to Dublin, we stopped for a brief spell at the famous mon astic ruins of Glendalough. If stones could speak, here we would have heard the history of the greatness of ancient Ireland —of St. Kevin and others, whose piety and learning gained for Ireland the enviable description (Continued on Page Eight) and graduated from Belmont Abbey with the A.B. degree in 1957. He entered the Benedic tine Order and made his first profession in July, 1955. The profession of solemn vows is the final profession of the young monk. The Benedic tine ceremony is replete with symbolic meaning, and the som ber ritual reflects the young monk’s dying to the world in a ceremony akin to a Requiem, followed by the rising with Christ to a new life with all the joy and pomp of the liturgy. of Savannah by the parish youth clubs. Father Herbert Wellmeier is Diocesan Director of Youth. Father John D. Toomey is mod erator of the St. James Youth Club. Mrs. William R. Ruehr- wein, chairman of the DCCW Youth Committee, was in charge of the adult committee atttend- ing the dance. The following members of the St. James Youth Council were introduced during the intermis sion: Charles Jurgensen, pres ident; Julie Miller, vice presi dent; Judy Phillips, secretary; Frank Schwarz, treasurer; Jane Rourke, spiritual chairman; Nancy Cunningham, cultural; Patricia Prouty, social; and Bobby McBride, athletic chair man. taught by the Sisters of St. Jos eph and by the Misses Mary Stauss, Honey McGee, Dawn Macauley and Martha Mason, students from St. Rose’s Col lege in Albany, conducted by the Sisters of St. Joseph of Ca- rondelet. In Brunswick the classes were concluded with a dialogue Mass celebrated by the Rev. Joseph M. Kane, S.M. In Jesup a religious pageant was presented. The closing Mass was celebrated by Rev. Albert J. Hebert, S.M. Those receiving awards for perfect attendance were Carol Dugger, Helen George, Yvonne Lott, Lois Ann Owens, Shirley Bowen, Patricia O’Hara, Mary George, Charles George, Randy Bowen, Tommy Bowen, Patricia Grace, Diane Vigna, Angela Vigna, Chris Vigna, Cathy George, Allida Joyce, Glenda Yursich. In Brunswick the average at tendance was fifty students a day, while in Jesup there was an average of forty-five present daily. Savannahian Makes Final Religious Vows St. James Host Teenagers Attend Youth Club Dance Conduct Religious Vacation Schools At Brunswick, Jesup Do You Have A Vocation? Young men desirous of studying for Ihe Sacred Priesthood of the Diocese of Savannah are requested to contact their own pastors or the Chancery Office in Sav annah. Encyclical Warns Of 'Universal Extermination' Pontiff Urges Prayers For Persecuted Church SAYS JUST PEACE DOES NOT REIGN rt (Radio, N. C. W. C. News Service) ■ VATICAN CITY—Prayers for the persecuted Church were called for by His Holiness Pope Pius XII who reminded at the same time that only by a return to Christian precepts can men found a just society. The Pope also warned that the powerful weapons now at man’s disposal make possible “universal extermination.” SKETCH OF PROPOSED CHURCH—Shown here is the architect’s sketch of the church planned for the newly erected parish of Our Lady of Lourdes, South Columbus. Pastor of the parish is the Rev. William P. Dowling. Plans call for the church to have a seating capacity of 800. These warnings were contain ed in a new encyclical entitled “Meminisse Juvat” (Most Mind fully Recalling) from its two opening words. The encyclical urged Catho lics throughout the world under the leadership of their bishops to join in a novena of prayer before the feast of the Assump tion (Aug. 15) for the intention of the persecuted Church. It re- (Editorial. . . Even The Least Of His Brethren Webster defines the term “welfare” as used in certain contexts, such as Department of Public Welfare as “Exemp tion from evil or'calamity.” The spectacle, then, of the director of a county Department of Public Welfare actually advocating the infliction of evil or calamity upon mental unfortunates is an anomaly at once puzzling and sad. Puzzling because in some Alice-in-Wonderlandish way the common welfare is to be provided for by the mutilation of. selected innocent persons. Sad because a dollar value has been placed upon the human soul and human rights. We consider it a real and sarious misfortune that the executive director of the Welfare Department of one of the largest counties in Georgia has seen fit to place a maximum price tag on the welfare of those who, through no fault of their own, are considered mentally deficient. It is alleged that the cost of caring for such persons is too high. Therefore, these persons should be driven out of existence through “eugenic sterilization.” How much farther can one travel from the love and compassion of Christ? How deep can one bury the Ten Commandments? The commandment “Thou shalt not kill” withdraws from all jurisdiction over innocent life and forbids all notable muti lation of a morally innocent human being. Eugenic sterilization is a grave injury to a human person depriving him of a power as integral to human nature as the power of sight or speech. The State did not give these powers, and can no more remove them than it can amputate the hand of a pickpocket. The State can segregate a thief for a long or short period, but it has not the right to mutilate him. And the unfit are not even guilty of a crime by being unfit. The State exists to protect its innocent citizens, not to injure and mutilate them. The Machiavellian principle that “The end justifies the means” is an immoral principle. It is not lawful to do evil that some anticipated good may come. We wonder how the advocates of this disgusting and ne farious practice of eugenic sterilization will justify their stewardship before the Master. For their actions cry out with the terrible question of Cain, “Am I my brother’s keeper?” Will they stand on the right hand or the left hand of Our Divine Lord when he says sorrowfully to them, “As often as you did it to one of these, THE LEAST OF MY BRETHREN, you did it. unto me.”? Iraq, Newest Mideast Hot Spot, Rich In Biblical Lore BEIRUT, Lebanon, (NC) — Iraq, newest hot spot in the strife-torn Middle East where Arab nationalist army officers have ousted the pro-Western re gime of King Faisal II, has more than 200,000 Catholics and is the traditional scene of many bib lical events. Iraq, a former Turkish pro vince which gained independ ence following a period of Brit ish control after World War I, is a predominantly Moslem na tion of 5,200,000 people. The Catholic minority of 203,915 mainly belongs to the Canadian Rite. Members of the Rite, which uses Syrian as its liturgical language, are descendants of Nestorian heretics who returned to the Church. The Rite’s lead er, Patriarch Joseph VII Ghani- ma of Babylonia of the Chal deans, died earlier this month in Baghdad. Although less than five per cent of the population of oil- rich Iraq is Catholic, the nation has seven archdioceses, three di oceses and two independent missions. Baghdad alone is the headquarters for archdioceses of the Armenian, Chaldean, Syrian and Latin Rites. It is also the site of Al-Hikma University conducted by American Jesuits. The Jesuits from the New England province launched a $750,000 building program for the university last October with grants from the Catholic Near East Welfare Association, the Ford Foundation, the Gulben- kian Foundation and the Iraq Petroleum Company. The uni versity has so far been using the buildings of Baghdad College, the equivalent of an American High school, which has been op erated by the Jesuits for 27 years. The staff of the school and university today numbers 45, of whom 29 are priests. Slightly larger than Califor nia, Iraq contains the valleys of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers where an advanced civilization existed as early as 4,000 B. C. It became the center of the ancient Babylonian and Assyrian em pires, and centuries later be came for a time the chief city of the Moslem world. The Gar den of Eden and the Tower of Babel have their traditional sites here. CENSUS PLANS DON'T INCLUDE RELIGIOUS QUERY WASHINGTON, (NC) — The Census Bureau has announced the studies it plans to make be tween now and 1960, but no plans were disclosed for the stu dy of religious affliction. When the Bureau announced in Decembr, 1957, that it would not ask about religion in the 1960 population and housing census, it said that possibly such a question might be asked in later censuses or in a national sample. In February, 1958, the bureau released statistics from a sam ple survey of the civilian pop ulation in which it asked the question, “What is Your Re ligion?” The new statement announc ed the bureau will seek informa tion on business, manufacturing and mineral industries in Janu ary, 1959; on agriculture in the fall of 1959 and on population and housing in 1960. FORTY MILE TRIP—Mrs. Monroe Miller drove the Vigna children of Darien to the Vacation School at Brunswick for three weeks. The round trip totaled forty miles per day. Shown here are, left to right: Mrs. Miller, Chris, Angela and Diane Vigna. Confirm Appointment WASHINGTON, (NC) — The Senate has confirmed without opposition President Eisenhow er’s appointment of John A. McCone, Los Angeles business man, as a member of the Atomic Energy Commission. Mr. McCone, a Catholic lay man and a Knight of St. Greg ory since 1955, represented the President at the March, 1956, celebration of the 80th birthday and 17th anniversary of the cor onation of His Holiness Pope Pius XII. called that the popes have al ways exhorted the faithful to turn to Our Lady in times of danger when Christian peoples and the Church have been threatened. “At present, though the war like clash of peoples has calmed, a just peace does not however reign,” the Pope said. “Men have not been brought together in brotherly understanding. “Latent seeds of discord, in fact, insert themselves and from time to time threateningly erupt and hold minds in anxious tre pidation, so much so that the frightful weapons now discov ered by human genius are of such inhuman power that they can drag down and submerge in universal extermination not only the defeated, but also the victors and the whole of human ity.” Against this frightening back drop of the possible extermina tion of mankind, the Pope said: “We express the ardent wish that in every part of the earth Catholics, during the novena which usually precedes the feast of the Assumption of the august Mother of God into heaven, should rise up public prayers, particularly for the Church which ... in certain areas is vexed and afflicted.” The encyclical instructed all bishops to bend their efforts so that “with your exhortations and your example, the faithful entrusted to you may come to the altar of the Mother of God on the established days in as great a number and as prayer fully as possible.” It listed the following inten tions for the prayers urged by the Pope: that pastors who are kept from their flocks or who are impeded in the free exercise of their ministry may be rein stated as soon as possible; that the faithful, disturbed by de ceits, errors and discord, may attain complete concord and charity in the full light of truth; that all who are in the uncer tainty of doubt and who are weak may be strengthened by divine grace so that they may be ready and willing to suffer anything rather than break away from the Christian faith and Catholic unity; that individual dioceses may have their own le gitimate shepherd; that Chris tian law may be freely promul gated in all regions and among all classes; that youth in ele mentary and high schools, in workshops and fields may not be ensnared in the ideologies of materialism, atheism and hed onism; that the roads of truth may open everywhere and no one will place obstacles in its way, and that missionaries may return as soon as possible to their people. “May all faithful implore these things of the divine Mo ther,” the Pontiff added. “But let them not forget to ask for forgiveness for the same per secutors of the Christian re ligion in keeping with the im pulse of that charity for which the Apostle of the Gentiles did not hesitate to say ‘bless those who persecute you’.” Causes of the great dangers threatening the world, the (Continued on Page Eight)