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i 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 RANGE BUT TRU ittle-Known Facts for Catholics E By M. J. MURRAY OvrrKM. nn kcwc. 22*3==' ,J n- Ns® Pope Stephen ii 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 . - ^>rrr<J 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. I (Sty Bulletin | 416 8TH ST., AUGUSTA, GA. Published fortnightly by the Catholic Laymen’s Association* of Georgia, Inc., with the Approbation of the Most Reverend Arch bishop-Bishop of Savannah, The Most Reverend Bishop of Atlanta and the Right Reverend Abbot Ordinary of Belmont. Subscription price $3.00 per year. Second class mail privileges authorized at Monroe, Georgia. Send notice of change of address to P. O. Box 320, Monroe, Georgia; REV. FRANCIS J. DONOHUE REV. R. DONALD KIERNAN Editor Savannah Edition Editor Atlanta Edition ; JOHN MARKWALTER Managing Editor Vol. 39 Saturday, November 1, 1958 Ncj, 11 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