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PAGE 4—THE BULLETIN, Nhvember'l; 1958
JOSEPH BREIG
Despite The Huge
Maybe by the time this is
published, Capt. Kuo Chin will
have caught up on some of his
lost sleep. And maybe not. May
be he will still be forcing his
bloodshot eyes to_ stay open
while he am
putates shat
tered limbs or
sews gaping
wounds which
are among the
communist
peace offense
ive’s newest
con tributions
to humanity. > . . . •
Capt. Chin, 32, is chief surg
eon in the underground clinic on
Quemoy Island. It. is unier-
-ground. because Quemoy’s hos
pital was hit 12 times by Chi
nese communist shells, despite
the huge cross painted on its
toot After the- twelfth explo
sion,, Capt,. Chin, his four asso
ciate doctors, and the nurses and
patients said goodbye to the face
of the earth for the time being.
THE COMMUNIST bombard
ment—as much as 1,000 shells
an hour—had been going on for
five weeks when reporter
Charles Smith of United Press
International talked with Capt.
Chin of Quemoy — or rather
.under Quemoy. “We need help,”
said Capt. Chm simply. “There
is no rest for us. We keep busy
with the wounded and we get
little sleep.”
- > '
“We need help.” Reading
Smith’s news dispatch, I thought
■ty-ryly ijbqtij; tjie fact that more
moral indignation has been ex
pressed in American newspapers
over the baseball dominance of
the New York Yankees than
over the shelling of Quemoy.
We are getting accustomed to
international criminality; we
have_ come to expect it — and
this is one of the worst things
that communism has done to our
souls.
IF QUEMOY had been a com
munist outpost, and if the bom
bardments had come from the
West, communists and their fel
low-travellers would have filled
the press with anguished breast
beating about aggression and
•*. fascist bestiality, and with out
cries for UN intervention. Com
munist and pro - communist
- hearts would have bled all over
the place.
The two chief devils in the
communist hell are the devil
who perverts communists, and
the devil who wearies decent
peaple.f
The first devil is the demon
of communist hypocrisy, which
by moving men to pose, for bad
motives, as agitators for appar
ently good ends, makes a deadly
vice out of the noble virtue of
anger against injustice. It causes
people to pretend to fight on the
side of the angels while doing
the work of Satan, because the
truth is not in them.
THE SECOND DEVIL is the
one who tempts men of good
will to grow tiredly used to cru
elty, oppression, torture and
murder because the communists
have heaped crime upon crime
• in a* towering stinking moun
tain. But the operations of this
demon go even farther than
Thunderous Ovation
Greets New Pontiff
(Continued from Page.l)
was greeted by a deafening roar
from the faithful, A strong fulb
voice, the sound' of a vigorous
leader, came from the new Pon
tiff as literally millions through
out the world heard his voice
for the first time.
After imparting his first
Apostolic Blessing, “Urbi et
Orbi” (To the City and to the
World), he remained on the
balcony only briefly to receive
and ovation, then disappeared
behipd ,.jthe.' white* *' curtains':'
Pope John has selected Tues
day,‘November 4th as the day of
his coronation. The ceremonies
will begin at 8:30 a. m. Rome
time and 2:30 a. m. Eastern
Standard Time. “ j: . _ . .'
Moments before the white
smoke had appeared above the
Sistine Chapel the votes of the
Cardinals had been counted in
side the conclave, A vote of
two-thirds of the Cardinals pre
sent plus one, a total of 35, was
necessary to a choice. The extra
vote is required traditionally in*"
order to have a two-thirds ma
jority, even if a cardinal should
vote for himself.
When the cardinals’ tally
showed that Cardinal Roncalli
has been elected, His Eminence
Eugene Cardinal TiSserarft, In
his role as Dean of the Sacred
College of Cardinals, -went to
stand before the throne of Card
inal Roncalli and asked him,
“Do you accept the election.” -
Cardinal Roncalli answered,
“I do accept it.”
At the moment each of the
other Qardinals pulled a cord at
the side of his throne which
dropped tfie canopy above the
throne. Only the canopy over
the throne of the new Pope re
mained up. Thus the first recog
nition of his sovereignty.- was
given.
Cardinal Tisserant then asked
him, “What name do you choose
for yourself?”
. -And the newly elected Pope
answered, “John the Twenty-
Third.”
After the new Pontiff had an
nounced his acceptance of the
election and had given his
choice of name, he went to the
altar of the Sistine Chapel and
knelt in prayer. While he was
praying, the, white. papal gar
ments were ^brought forward.
Msgr. Albertd df Jofidf secre
tary of the conclave, approach
ed and, kneeling, offered the
new Pope the white skullcap.
The Pope then retired to the
sacristy of the' Sistiiie Chapel
and exchanged his cardinal’s
robes for the white papal cas
sock.
Thus attired, he returned to
the altar and seated himself on
the throne awaiting him there.
He imparted his first papal
blessing to his fellow Cardinals
of a few moments before, his
electors. Then, one by one, the
Cardinals came forward to sig
nify their obedience, kneeling
before him and kissing his
hands.
This done, the Master of
Ceremonies put the Fisherman’s
Ring on the Pope’s finger, and
the Cardinals came forward
again to profess their obedience
a second time.
Pope John XXIII has served
the Church for more than half
a' century as author, teacher,
diplomat, administrator, mis-
sibfiary and pastor. Even after
he was named Patriarch of Ven
ice in 1953 he continued to rep
resent the Holy See on missions
abrfead, and indicated that he
hoped to find time to pursue his
scholarly and literary efforts.
In March of this year the new
Pontiff—as Cardinal Roncalli—
consecrated the new under
ground basilica of St. Pius X
at Lourdes in one of the cere
monies marking the 100th anni
versary of the apparitions of the
Blessed Virgin at the shrine in
France.
Climaxing a life of service to
the Church as a professor and a
member of the Vatican mission
ary and diplomatic corps, Ange
lo! Roncalli was created a Card
inal of the Church on January
12, 1953, and three days later
was named Patriarch of Venice.
Even after his evaluation to
the See of Venice, Cardinal Ron
calli continued to represent the
papacy. His presence as Papal
Legate highlighted the Marian
Year congress held in Beirut,
Lebanon^ in October, 1954, when
he consecrated Lebanon to Our
Lady.
Pope John was born Novem
ber 25, 1881, at Sottoil Monte in
the Diocese of Bergamo. At the
age of 11 he began his studies at
the Episcopal Seminary at Ber
gamo. In 1900, he began his the
ological studies at the Cerasola
College in Rome where he re
ceived a laureate in theology in
1904. He was ordained August
10, 1904, in the Church of Santa
Maria in Monte Santo.
From 1905 until 1914, he was
private secretary to Bishop Rad-
ini-Tedeschi of Bergamo. In ad
dition he was professor of
church history, apologetics, and
later patrology at his alma ma
ter, the Bergamo seminary.
During World War I, he was
first a sergeant with the Medical
Corps of the Italian army and
after a year he became chaplain
at military hospitals. In addition
he helped to provide spiritual
comforts to the Civil Defense
Corps.
After the war he organized
the first “Student’s House” in
Italy at Bergamo. This institu
tion provided free assistance to
the children of the middle class
Si
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DIED WITHIN THREE DAYS OF
HIS ELECTION, MARCH 7.52..
yIs HE WAS NEVER. CONSECRATED
some Historians did not include
Him in their list of popes,
BUT HE IS NOW ACCEPTED MS
A VALID PONTIFF. ,
OF
Each monk in Parkminster.
CARTHUSIAN MONASTERY, ENGLAND,
HAS HIS OWN FOUR-ROOMED HOUSE
AND SMALL GARDEN WHERE MOST
HIS LIFE IS SPENT IN SOLITUDE .
Tie Pope was formerly
elected. by popular vote
of the Roman people
— U/ie. Ca.rcLnjzLs
represent tkis
tradition. to cLu/
Huts much, ns ttieii-
dujnity is attached,
to Carious churches,
IK toome . -
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Jottings..
(By BARBARA C. JENCKS)
Cross
that.
The communists have manag
ed to make public outcries
against great wrongs seem al
most indecent. They have made
goodness look foolish because
they have constantly worn the
mask of goodness to disguise
vicious wickedness.
We are rather like children in
an evil neighborhood where vile
men and women prate the Gos
pel while killing, maiming, rob
bing and lying. Communist
propaganda has seized the very
language of justice and love of
fellowmen, and perverted it into
a litany of fiends.
WE FEEL VAGUELY embar
rassed about trying to find
words with which to condemn
Marxist crimes. The Marxists
have made the words seem al
most like insults to God. They
have achieved the ultimate in
cynical sin—they have made it
appear that every wrong com
mitted by communists is virtu
ous and noble, and every resist
ance to such wrong is wicked.
Nevertheless, we must not let
these people turn demonry into
godliness, and godliness into de
monry. We must refuse them
success in this total blasphemy
which would make God Himself
seem diabolical. We must reject
the weary temptation to surren
der the very foundations of
righteousness.
The blood spilled on Quemoy.
the tendons torn and the bones
smashed on Quemoy, cry out to
us that right remains right and
wrong wrong. “We need help,”
said Capt. Chin. He spoke for all
mankind.
attending public schools.
He also was instrumental in
the establishment of the first
school of religion at the Berga
mo Teacher’s College, of the cul
tural conferences in the Univer
sity of Bergamo, and of the
foundation of the first circle of
young women in the ci^y and
diocese.
In 1920, he gave a main ad
dress at the Eucharistic Con
gress at Bergamo, speaking on
“The Eucharist and the Madon
na.”
The following year he was
named president of the Italian
Society for Propagation of the
Faith. He centralized the region
al centers of the society. A new
constitution of the national
council of the society was an
other of his accomplishments
while there. During this time he
did considerable traveling, vis
iting important centers of the
society in Italy, France, Belgi
um, and Holland.
He was named Apostolic Vis
itor to Bulgaria in 1925. On
March 19 of that year he was
consecrated Archbishop of Are-
opolis. He continued as Apos
tolic Delegate to that country.
In 1935 Archbishop Roncalli
was transferred to the Titular
Archbishopric of Mesembria and
was named Apostolic Delegate
to Turkey and Greece. He was
also appointed Apostolic Admin
istrator of the Latin Vicariate
Apostolic of Constantinople. He
remained there during the years
of World War II.
Near the end of World War II,
in December 1944, Archbishop
Roncalli was named Apostolic
Nuncio to France. During the
immediate postwar years, Arch
bishop Roncalli’s abilities as a
diplomat won him the respect
of the most diverse political par
ties and the nation as a whole.
After he was named a cardinal,
he received his red biretta from
French President Vincent Auri-
ol, continuing a tradition of four
centuries.
His writings include two his
torical studies about the Berga
mo Seminary — one of its estab
lishment and the second on the
Apostolic Visitation by St.
Charles Borromeo. He has also
written monographs on Cesare
Cardinal Baronio and Bishop
Radini-Tedischi.
In 1956 Cardinal Roncalli is
sued a pastoral letter warning
the clergy and faithful of the
Venice patriarchat against the
so-called “opening to the left,”
a term used to describe closer
collaboration between Catholic
oriented political parties and
communist and allied parties.
He criticized as erroneous the
attitude of Catholics who, in the
political field, desire complete
freedom from episcopal authori
ty, saying:
“With regard to Catholics this
constitutes a serious mistake
and a flagrant violation of Cath
olic discipline. The mistake is
that of practically sharing the
Marxist ideology which is the
negation of Christianity. The vi-
e BY THE TIME this column
is printed perhaps the shouts of
“Vive II Papa” will echo again
throughout the Eternal City as
the 262nd successor of Saint
Peter is named. It is not often
that we have the opportunity to
salute the secular press for often
we are in disagreement with
them on the treatment of their
news, their values and standards,
However, it would be hard to
overlook the magnificent task
accomplished in covering both
the illness and death of the Holy
Father. The esteem in which the
Pontiff was held by those of all
faiths was reflected in two-inch
headlines such as: POPE OF
PEACE DIES; in stirring edi
torial tributes, in dozens of re
search articles and features; in
long lists of accomplishments
and quotations from his encyc
licals. It was a magnificent tri
bute and the press of the na
tion deserves our gratitude for
their reverence, accuracy, ap
preciation and completeness of
coverage. Let us hope the same
dignity and accuracy prevails in
their copy as the papal election
begins.
• ONE NEWSPAPER stated
that not since the darkest or
finest hours of World War II
had the press of America so ral
lied around a single news story.
To me, there appeared but one
glaring exception to the uni
versal headline treatment. That
olation of discipline lies in op
enly disobeying the living
Church.”
A year later when the Italian
Socialist party held its conven
tion in Venice, the Cardinal
urged Catholics to give delegates
a friendly reception but. warn
ed anti-clerical socialists that “a
modern economic and social sys
tem cannot be solidly built on
a foundation which is not that of
was found in the nation’s lead
ing news magazine which rele
gated the world’s number-one
news story to the religion sec
tion. This is the same magazine
which named Khrushchev, man
of the year and delegated page
after page to the listing of his
“accomplishments.” Per haps,
however, they await instead to
headline with cover story honors
the election of the new pope.
• JOURNALISM has been a
favorite topic of the Holy Fa
ther. His interest in the field
no doubt comes from the fact
that his grandfather founded the
“L’Osservatore Romano.” In an
address to U. S. Newsmen sev
eral years ago, he urged them to
avoid the sensational and use
truth only. “Calumny and scan
dal are quick footed,” he said.
“A whisper harmless perhaps
though unwarranted is blown
up to a one-inch headline and
what a havoc it can wreak in
family life, in the lives of in
dividuals and nations,” he cau
tioned. Showing himself adept
in journalism jargon, he said:
“a scoop is not worth the deep
sense of shame that would come
to the one guilty of such con
duct.” The Holy Father who had
so often spoken to newsmen and
been so interested in their pro
fession must have been espe
cially pleased at the way the
press responded in honoring him
in death.
Christ.”
On Easter, 1957, he issued a
pastoral repeating his warning
against cooperation with the
leftist parties.
Later in the year he was
awarded the Grand Cross of
Merit by the German govern
ment for his activities on behalf
of German prisoners of war
while he was Apostolic Nuncio
to France.
THE PAPAL TRIPLE CROWN—This is a picture of the
actual tiara with which the new pope will be crowned on the
balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica. Though there are several copies
of the papal triple crown, there is only one authentic one.—(NC
Photos.
Com m u n rst 7 Revis ion i sts
THE BACKDROP
It would be gross folly to ex
aggerate the discontent within
the ranks of the communists
over the rigid teachings of Marx
and Lenin to which the leaders
of the Soviet Union returned af
ter a brief flir
tation with co
existence.
Yet, critici- y
sm of ortho- ~
dox commun
ism within the
party through
out the world
has been ex- " ~
tensive enough to attract the
notice of one of the party’s the
oreticians. Writing' in the offi
cial magazine, Communist, B.
Ponomarev, chief of the Un
specified Section of the party
Central Committee, admits that
“revisionism” is active in every
communist organization.
Not only in the Soviet Union
do the heretics exist, but among
communists in the United
States, Canada, Brazil, Great
Britain, Italy, Japan, Poland,
Rumania, Bulgaria, Hungary,
East Germany and even in Red
China.
RED HERESY
Revisionism is the term by
which the hard-core communists
describe any deviation from the
party line as laid down current
ly in Moscow. It is popular
chiefly among the intellectuals,
Ponomarev points out, and for
this reason is it considered ex
tremely dangerous.
Revisionists deny the historic
al necessity of the proletarian
revolution and the proletarian
dictatorship. They speak of the
possibility of a peaceful trans-
By JOHN C. O’BRIEN
formation of capitalism into so
cialism. They maintain that
every country has the right to
pursue its own path to socialism,
a thesis proclaimed by Nikita
Khrushchev himself as recently
as 1956.
The revisionists also deny —
and from the standpoint of Mos
cow this is the rankest, of the
heresies — that communists in
other countries need not bow
the knee to the Soviet Union and
accept dictation from the Krem
lin. For upholding this view
Marshal Tito is being roundly
denounced by both Moscow and
Peiping.
In the view of the ruling
clique in Moscow the most es
sential component of proletarian
internationalism is solidarity
with the Soviet Union. The de
fense of the Soviet Union is con
sidered by hard-core commun
ists as of the most vital interest
to the working class and to all
working people in the capitalist
countries.
An orthodox communist must
believe that capitalism can
bring nothing but suffering,
hunger and dire poverty to the
mass of the people and that it
inevitably leads to crises and
unemployment. Another article
of communist faith is that the
“imperialistic” camp under the
leadership of the United States
is the potential source of war
danger while the Soviet Union
is the leader of the forces work
ing for peace.
NUMBER SMALL
But these are assumptions
which revisionists within the
party challenge. Intellectuals —
as Ponomarey tells us they are
—they refuse to swallow the
party line propaganda. They
prefer to believe what they see
beyond the Iron curtain with
their own eyes.
Well aware of the well-being
that capitalism has brought to
the people of the United States,
the revisionists scoff at the
claims of the hard-core com
munists that capitalism carries
within it seeds of its own de
struction. They distinguish be
tween the capitalism which ex
isted at the turn of the century
and the “people’s” capitalism
which exists today, with the
ownership of capital widely qis-
persed among millions of stock
holders.
w-
to
The revisionists, too, dqny
that the capitalist countries ire
threatening the peace of the
world. They know and admit
that the tensions which keep the
world on edge derive from the
“imperialistic policy of Soviet
communism, the dream of ex
tending communism all over he
world which motivates e v ejr y
turn of Moscow foreign polijey.
The revisionists today are ^ei
ther numerous enough nor pen
erful enough to be a threat
the Soviet leaders. But it rriay
well turn out, a^ Allen Dulles,
head of the Central Intelligence
Agency has so often predicted,
that as education spreads among
the communist peoples, as the
number of intellectuals increas
es, the hard-core communists
will find it increasingly difficult
to force acceptance of orthodox
communism, which rests, as the,
communists who have leanjed
to do their own thinking knew,
upon false assumptions.
SHARING OUR TREASURE
How Richard Won His Sweetheart
By REV. JOHN A. O'BRIEN, Ph. D.
(University of Notre Dame).
Is your steady “date” a non-
Catholic? If so, have you dis
cussed the matter of religion
with her? If not, you are play
ing fair neither with yourself
nor your sweetheart. Religion is
not a mere su-!
perficial ex
ternal thing!
like a suit of j
clothes that
can be put on |
or off. It goes ]
to t h e center j
of your life!
and profound- ||
ly affects a marriage — for weal
or for woe.
If you tell your sweetheart
how much your Catholic relig
ion means to you, explain it to
her, give her pamphlets and
books on it, and bring her to a
priest for instruction, you will
with God’s grace convert a mix
ed courtship into a Catholic
marriage. That this can be done
is shown by the experience of
Richard Eschmann, 133 Lyon
Place, Lynbrook, New York.
“There was a time,” said Mrs.
Kathryn Eschmann, “when I
simply could not understand
why a person would want to
change religions. When I was
14, my sister Elizabeth, four
years older, became a Catholic.
Though the family was not too
pleased, they did not object.
They felt Betty had the right to
follow her own conscience.
“I was the only one who ob
jected. Though Betty tried to
explain, I simply would not
listen. I had been going to the
Presbyterian church in St. Al
bans, singing in the choir, and
taking part in other church ac
tivities. But as I grew a little
older, I felt something was miss
ing.
“I attended Mass occasionally
with Betty but I did not know
what it was all about. I think
it would be a wonderful help if
Catholics would explain before
hand the essentials of the Mass.
They don’t seem to realize how
strange the ceremonies are to
outsiders.
“At 18 I began to date Richard
Eschmann, a devout Catholic,
who was only too glad to ex
plain the Church. He encou
raged me to bring my questions
to him and he would try to an
swer them. He brought me to
Mass and helped me to under
stand it. I also began to read a
number of Catholic books.
“Realizing that I was now rea
dy for systematic instruction,
Richard brought me to St. Cath
erine of Sienna Church. Father
Edward W. Jolley, who had in
structed Betty so thoroughly,
now did the same fine job on
me. Difficulties about confession
and the veneration of the Virgin
Mary faded away in the light of
his clear, logical explanations.
“But the thing that really
‘sold’ me on the Catholic Church
was the fact that it was founded
by Christ 15 centuries before
any Protestant denomination
saw the light of day, plus the
fact that Pope Pius XII was the
latest in the line of St. Peter’s
successors. Father Jolley receiv
ed me into the Church at Easter
1955. I was the happiest girl in
the world that day, and the hap
piness has remained ever since.
“I’m married to the young
man who was the first one real
ly to help me understand the
Catholic religion. God has bless
ed us with a little girl, Margaret
Louise. If our second baby is a
boy, we’ll name him Edward af
ter the grand priest who in
structed both Betty and me.
“My earnest prayer now is
for the conversion of the rest of
my family, that they may share
the happiness I’ve found in
God’s true Church.I pray too that
some day, by God’s grace, the
whole world will be converted
to Catholicism, thus giving
mankind the only chance for
real peace and happiness on this
earth.”
NEW PRESIDENT
FOR N. C. C. W.
(N.C.W.C. News Service):
ST. LOUIS — Mrs. Mark. A.
Theissen, 51, of Covington, Ken
tucky, was elected president of
the National Council of Catholic
Women at the organizatiqn’s
29th annual convention.
Announcement of the election
was made by Mrs. Robert j H.
Mahoney of Hartford, Conn., the
retiring president, at the ban
quet closing the convention.:
Mrs. Theissen, who represepts
the province of Louisville,
which includes Kentucky and
Tennessee, was graduated frpm
the Academy of the S a c rje d
Heart in Cincinnati, and from
the University of Cincinnati.
She has served as president of
the Covington Diocesan Council
of Catholic Women and has bqen
active in the Community Chest,
Red Cross, United Service Qr-
ganizations and other civic and
welfare groups.
Other officers elected by the
delegates, who represent nine
million women in some 12,000
Catholic organizations affiliated
with the NCCW are:
Mrs. Arthur Dornback, Minn
eapolis, first vice president; Mrs.
Harry Seitz, Detroit, second vice
president; Mrs. Robert Alego,
Fresno, California, third vice
president; Miss Anne Culkin,
Scranton, Pa., secretary; l^Irs.
Edgar T. Adams, Muncie, Kan
sas, treasurer; and Mrs. Erijest
P. Tibbitts, Montclair, N. 1 J.,
member-at-large.
Sometimes it costs to get ’rid
of the things you get for no
thing.
There’s something about win
ning money that makes many
people lose everything worth
having.
Willing workers, like clocks,
A pessimist greatly fears his pass the time quickly by keeping
worst fears won’t be realized, their hands busy.
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ASSOCIATION OFFICERS FOR 1957-1958
GEORGE GINGELL, Columbus President
E. M. HEAGARTY, Waycross Honorary Vice-President
MRS. DAN HARRIS, Macon _ Vice-President
TOM GRIFFIN, Atlanta Vice-President
NICK CAMERIO, Macon Secretary
JOHN T. BUCKLEY, Augusta Treasurer
ALVIN M. McAULIFFE, Augusta Auditor
JOHN MARKWALTER, Augusta 1 Executive Secretary
MISS CECILE FERRY, Augusta Financial Secretary