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!-• t. DlL..h in v ;:. u JOSEPH BREIG Some We Head About And so we enter Advent, and go again on the road to Bethle hem. There are any number of people to whom this means no thing; to whom Jesus Christ means nothing; to whom life, therefore, means nothing. Some we read about in the newspapers. Some we see as they drift aimlessly past, or scurry along in pursuit of val ues which turn out to be spuri ous. Some we know; some are acquaintances; some even are beloved friends whose hands we hold across a gulf, to whom we speak but are not understood. Here is one — or here was one. He piled money on money; power on power; possession on possession, fie had sycophants to truckle to him, hangers-on to flatter him. Reporters sought interviews; worldly honors were heaped up. And he took a gun and killed himself. HERE IS ANOTHER. She has the beauty of face and body that lies about the empty, self-seek ing soul of her. She labors at gaity, she clutches at pleasure, and she is unhappy. She does not know why. But her flitting from man to man betrays her. She wants love but for love there must be more than flesh. Here is still another. He is immensely talented; he is bril liant; his mind flashes like lightning. But he is ill, or at least is convinced he is ill. He does not realize that his sick ness is the disease of meaning lessness. He is addicted to atten tion; he wants all and gives no thing. And he is miserable. Sfill another — this one a social leader, with a rich hus band, a magnificent home, well- bred children, and days filled with Things to Do. The trouble is that the Things to Do are not worth doing — because she does not do them for God. They leave her, not unhappy, but simply not happy, because they give her no hold on permanence. Her treasures have a way of vanish ing. ANOTHER — A CLOD. Not that he was born to be a clod; not that he is devoid of ability. But nothing really interests him; his life is a passing of time away until he dies. No trumpets sum mon him to loyalty and achieve ment. He sees the pointlessness of what the world offers; but he will hear no other offer. He does not seek; he does not knock. He exists. One more—and this is per haps the most numerous. He de clines to trouble himself. He knows he ought to go upward and forward but maybe his business might suffer — or his social acceptance. Or there is a sin he cherishes. He does not know that the bonds holding him are threads that can be broken with one strong effoi't. Anyhow, he does not like effort. He likes being pillowed. I think, too, there are those who attribute to God their own lack of generosity. God, we might say is a scandal to them. And certainly it is true that if God were not God, the good news of Bethlehem would be too much for credence. But it is beyond the goodness of the All-Good to make Himself one of us, to walk and talk with us, to be crucified for us. HE DID DO SO. Because His goodness and love and mercy are unbounded, He came all the way to us short of cancelling our free will. That, He would not do because without freedom there can be no merit, no man liness, no love. We face this fearsome truth—we can decline to receive Christ; we can close our minds and hearts, and wall ourselves away from joy. What is agonizing about all this is that the things which keep us from Christ have no substance. They are mere bogies. The experience of countless mil lions will testify that Christ was stating the simple facts when He said, “My yoke is sweet, My burden light.” I do. not mean that He will not let coming to Him cost something. He will let it cost what it is best for us that it should cost; He desires to lift us as high as we will go. But into the heart that turns to Him, He pours graces to hold it sure and firm; and with each step taken with Him, joy increases. The mirth of Christians, and the sadness of pagans, are observ able facts. Bethlehem is the house of laughter as well as the house of eternal bread. Unless Christmas is spiritual as well as material, its soul is lost, and with the soul, the re joicing. In some sense we must hear the angels singing before there is any real point in going to the Crib. Theology For The Layman the nature (Frank Sheed) A man with an idea in his head and love in his heart is one man, not three men. God, knowing and loving, is one God —even though the Idea pro duced by His knowledge is a person, and the inward ut terance of His love is a per son; for as we have seen, the Idea remains within the mind that thinks it, the Lovingness within that loves. This is the answer to the question with which we began our study of the doctrine of the Trinity. This is. what God’s life consists of: the infinite inter flow of knowing and loving among three, who are one God. Theology has formulated the doctrine as “three Persons in one Nature.” As a formula it is a masterpiece, one of the might iest products of the grace-aided intellect. But while it remains a formula there is not much light or nourishment in it: there are plenty of Christians for whom “three Natures in one Person” would have just 'as much, or just as little, meaning. Even so slight a study of the Processions as we have been making should have lifted us out of that low state. The Church has far more to teach us about the doctrine than I have set down in these columns —more light, more of that dark ness which comes of light too bright for us. But we have be gun to see meaning in the terms. We must try to bring them together in our minds, and con template them not as a lot of bits and pieces — person, nature, procession, generation, spira- tion; but as they have their place in the totality of the reve lation God has given us of Him self. The mind must live with the idea of the infinite spirit- spaceless, timeless — uttering His self-knowledge in a Son, Fa ther and Son uttering their mu- (Continued on Page 5) How Do You Rate on Facts of Faith AJ (By Brian Cronin) 1 The crown worn by the Pope on important occasions is called the: (a) Mitre? (b) Biretta? (c) Tiara? (d) Camauro? 2. St. Anne is the patron saint of: (a) Nurses? (b) Mothers? (c) Housewives? (d) Brides? 3. Before bowing his head in death, Christ’s last words from the Cross were: (a) “Father forgive them for they know not what they do.”? (b) “Father, into Thy hands I com mend my spirit.”? (c) “My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken Me.”? 4. The Vatican list of forbidden books is termed: (a) The In dex? (b) The Yellow Book? (c) “L’Osservatore Romano”? (d) The Imprimatur? 5. In royal protocol, a Cardinal ranks equally with a: (a) Duke? (b) Knight? (c) Prince? (d) Count? 6. The Regina Coeli is said in placq of the Angelus during: (a) Easter? (b) Holy Year? (c) Lent? (d) Advent? 7. The large gold or silver cup used as a container for the Sacred Hosts distributed at Communion is called the: (a) Chalice? (b) Ciborium? (c) Paten? (d) P^x? 8. The national shrine of the Blessed Virgin Mary is in: (a) New York? (b) Boston? (c) Maryland? (d) Washington? Give yourself 10 marks for each correct answer below. Rating: 80-Excellent; 70-Very Good; 60-Good; 50-Fair ANSWERS: 1 (c); 2 (d); 3 (b); 4 (a); 5 (c); 6 (a); 7 (b); 8 (d) is There An Abatement Of Religious Prejudice? THE BACKDROP SHARING OUR TREASURE A Convert Wins Seven Others By REV. JOHN A. O'BRIEN, Ph. D. ^ (University of Notre Dame) - ~ Question Box Jottings... (By BARBARA C. JENCKS) fDavid Q. Liotak) Q. I know that the Holy Fa ther is the head of the Church and lakes precedence over all bishops, and that by his office he is empowered to act as Christ's Vicar. But I can't re member ever seeing a general description of the pope’s pow ers. Could you print a brief out line of these powers? A. As successor of St. Peter, the Roman Pontiff enjoys not only a primacy of. fionor. but | byf ; divine right possesses su preme and full jurisdiction throughout the Church as re gards all matters of faith, mo rals, Church discipline and gov ernment. Supreme, because the pope has neither a superior nor any peers in this world, but is re sponsible to God alone. All car dinals, bishops, priests and the faithful everywhere are subject to him, regardless of whether they are taken individually or collectively. He can modify, change or abrogate any purely ecclesiastical law, no matter what its source. Full, because the Holy Father’s jurisdiction comprises all and every power (i.e., legislative, judical, execu tive, etc.) necessary for the at tainment of the end for which the Church was founded. THE SUPREME PLENITUDE of papal jurisdiction can be de scribed further as 1) universal, 2) independent, 3) exclusive, 4) episcopal, 5) ordinary and 6) immediate. By ‘“universal” is meant that the pope’s jurisdiction as de fined above knows no territori al limits. “Independent” means that the pope exercises his pre rogatives without respect for any other human beings, and that he cannot possibly be lim ited in the exercise of his pow ers. No power on earth can de pose a pope. The papal jurisdiction is also exclusive. Some prerogatives he cannot possibly delegate, i.e., that of infallibility, or an act of universal jurisdiction. (Continued on Page 5) • GIVE THANKS: “Teach me, Lord, to live this prayer, that I may thank thee everyday for everything. I do at times give thanks for what seems good: for health, success: for love and gain; for all that pleas es self. And yet how thought less — blind — to thank Thee not for what is truly good: for pain, unkindness, censure^ blame; for every hurt that comes? from person, peace or work. By these keen instruments would- nst Thou, Divine Physician, re move the harmful growth of self, to give new life; Thine own true life, and peace abundant ly. But I am blind — see not Thy loving hand; then in resist ing suffer more and spoil Thy work. Had I accepted all with gratitude I might long have been a saint and happy. A grate ful heart cannot be otherwise. Forgive, then, Lord, my blind ness and my squandered life. And give me grace, this day, to see Thy chastening hand in all my hurts — nor blame they in struments; the grave to take each purifying cross, and then— give THANKS with all my heart.” * * * • STRANGE how when we grow older and when we have suffered only then do we begin to develop what is called the re laxed grasp. It is not so import ant anymore that we are right or that we be understood. We do not cling quite so hard. We even lose our capacity to hate and we do not even want to hurt when we have been badly bruised. Strangest of all, we be gin to rejoice at the adversities. We see in them a succession of waves which bring us closer to God. This is the strange thing about the Christian. We suffer and we do not scream that the pain be removed. We do not hurt any less but we are given a grace to bear the burdens of suffering and sorrow. It is the crosses in life that make us bearable. On this Thanksgiving Day, it will be the adversities, the stones in my roadway, which will be the source of much of my gratitude. It is these agonizing disappointments and hurts and sorrows which have taken me apart from the madding crowd and made me quiet. Amid my sobs, I was giv en a comfort which surpasseth a!i r ,and, which make me know fhe'tJuth lhat there is peace and sweetness in the cross. Without the cross, most of us would nev er make it. • GOD TAKES drastic means to bring most of us to our knees. It is only amidst adversity sometimes that we see with the right vision. Sometimes I am fearful lest all the pain of living and loving might be removed and that my gaze might for a moment be distracted from the tpue goal. Ask those who were in the war and in danger of death if they did not hold to a set of first values? Ask those who are in hospitals, what is the most important -to them? Ask those whose loved ones have been near death’s door what is most important? All seek God through petition that they and their loved ones might survive. How many return to say thank you? We storm the heavens for favors. In the clay and puniness of our humanity, we forget to say thank you. The next step is when a sorrow or disappointment can sting us with agony and yet we can cry out with gratitude to God for sending us this adversity know ing that it is the making of us. Physically we cannot exist on the diet of our choice, sweets, and fruits. Spiritually we cannot survive in our own way at all costs. • AND SO this Thanksgiving while pouring out my thanks to God for the recovery of my mo ther, a work in which I can cre ate and contribute to the greater honor and glory of God, citizen- “You shall be witnesses unto me,” said Jesus to His disciples, “in Jerusalem, and all Judea and Samaria, and even to the uttermost part of the earth.” It was by bearing witness to Christ and His teach ings that the disciples were j able to spread the Faith. It was because Joan Eagan? bore witness ? that she start ed a chain re action which has already led eight persons into the fold. “When I was teaching at the North High School in Minne apolis,” said Mrs. Alberta Knox Noble of Boise, Idaho, “I met Joan Eagan, a Catholic teacher at Franklin Junior High. Joan lived the Faith and was an in spiration to all of us. I could see what a powerful influence in her life was her religion. “I am descended from a long line of Protestant ministers and attended many Protestant churches, but none of them sat isfied me. They disagreed in their teachings, leaving me con fused as to what I was to be lieve. Though baptized a Meth odist, I was attending the Epis copal church, which the minis- t e r described as midway be tween the Catholic Church and the Protestant sects. “My uncertainty and confus ion were in sharp contrast to the certainty and security of Joan Eagan who knew what to believe and why. She explained the Catholic Faith to . me and brought me to Mass with her. When my interest deepened, she got me in touch with Father John J. O’Sullivan of the Incar nation parish, who also taught at St. Paul’s Seminary. “He gave me a thorough course of instructions. The cre dentials of the historic Mother Church of Christendom were ir resistible. Especially appealing was the beautiful doctrine of the Real Presence so clearly pre ship in America and most of all membership in the Church founded by Christ, friends who share my ideals and goals and urge me ever forward on the Royal Road — I shall also thank God for the tears, the bruises, the plans and dreams which have crumpled, the friends who have disappointed, the falls, the times I’ve misjudged or contri- dicted, the physical pain and especially the spiritual pain. All these show me more than all the world’s applause and com mendation and good things that I am made for God. Most of all this Thanksgiving, I would thank God that He did not leave us orphaned and that each morning c a n be thanksgiving for me because of this. The most important thing is that I begin my day on my knees at Mass thanking God for the things He has given me which have made me happy and those things which He has sent which have made me sad . . . those things He has given and those He has withdrawn. DEO GRATIAS! sented in the sixth chapter of St. John. With Joan as my spon sor, I was baptized on Holy Thursday in 1941 — one of the happiest days in my life. “Unknown to me, my 13-year- old daughter Antoinette contact ed Father O’Sullivan, received instructions, and was baptized in time to receive Holy Commun ion with me the following Christmas. “My father, Charles Wesley Knox, a 33rd degree Mason, had often argued with me about the Catholic Faith. I invited him to examine it and not form his judgment on hearsay. He did so, and the more deeply he studied it, the more he became convinc ed to its truth. He was received into the Church by Father Louis Forrey in Minneapolis in October 1951, and became a de vout Catholic. “Hearing of the Crusade for Souls which Bishop Buddy launches each year with such success throughout the San Di ego diocese, I wrote to him about my brother John and his family, who were living in La Mesa. The Bishop kindly alert ed Father Dennis Barry, the pastor of St. Martin’s Church there. “Grateful for the tip, Father Barry lost no time in getting in touch with John. He invited John and his wife Dorothy to the Information Class, held two nights a week in most of the parishes in the diocese. Father explained that they need not commit themselves in advance. ‘Just listen to the evidence,’ he said, ‘and make your own de cision.’ “It was an ideal arrangement. John and Dorothy felt at ease, knowing they could drop out at any time. But Christ’s truths gripped them, as they grip every open mind, and carried convic tion to them. “At the end of the course John and Dorothy, along with the other members of the class, were received into the Church. Their four children were bap tized later. Thus did Joan Eagan start a chain reaction which has already brought eight persons into Christ’s true Church.” Catholic gains in the recent election have again focused at tention on the question whether there has been an abatement of religious intolerance in the Unit ed States. As a matter of fact, Catholic candidates did rather well. More Catho lics ran for governorships and seats in the United States Senate than ever be fore, particu larly in the Middle and Far West where Catholics seldom are elected to high office. The number of Catholic governors and United States Senators was increased. Governors were elected in 33 states. Of the 66 candidates, Re publican and Democratic, who contested for these offices, nine were Catholics. And of the nine, seven were successful. On the day the election was held, five states had Catholic governors — Massachusetts Washington, Maine, Rhode Is land and Colorado. The gover nors of Massachusetts and Colo rado were re-elected. Governors Edmund S. Muskie, of Maine, did not seek re-election, but ran successfully for the United States Senate. Governor Dennis J. Roberts, a democrat, was de feated in Rhode Island by a Republican who also was a Catholic. CATHOLIC ELECTED Four other states —- Califor- By JOHN C. O’BRIEN nia, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wy oming — elected Catholic gov ernors, bringing the total up from five to seven, a net gain of two. More significant, however, than the gain in numbers was the fact that two of the states which elected Catholic gover nors — California and Pennsyl vania — did so for the first time. Maine broke away from its traditional preference for Yankee candidates as recently as 1954 when it first elected Governor Muskie. And Colorado put a Catholic in the Executive Mansion for the first time when it elected Governor S. R. L. Mc- Nichols in 1956. Of the 68 candidates for the United States Senate, 15 were Catholics. Also one of the two Senatorial candidates in the new state of Alaska, which will hold its election later this month, is a Catholic. Ten of the 15 whose fate was decided at the recent election were victorious, and the proba bility is that Territorial Gover nor Michael A. Stepovich will be elected to the Senate in Alaska. Six of the Catholic Senatorial candidates were incumbents. Of these, two — William A. Purtell, a Republican, of Connecticut, and Frank A. Barrett, of Wy oming — were defeated, but Connecticut elected a Demo cratic Catholic. A CATHOLIC PRESIDENT? Four other Catholic Senators were elected from the states of Maine, Michigan, Minnesota and Indiana. These gains will bring the number of Catholics in the Senate up from ten to 13—14 if Stepovich is a victor in Alaska. Three of the five new Catholic Senators were elected in states in which a Catholic previously had been given little chance ot success. Senator-elect Eugene J. McCarthy is, in fact, the first Catholic to be sent to the Senate by the state of Minnesota, and a veteran observer cannot remem ber when, until this year, a Catholic had won a Senatorial race in Maine or Indiana — the latter once a stronghold of the Ku Klux Klan. Two Catholic candidates for governor and five for United States Senator were defeated. But in none of these contests was there any evidence that re ligious intolerance played a de cisive part in the defeats. Whis pering campaigns were waged against two or three of the suc cessful Catholic candidates, but religion was not in issue in most of the contests where Catholic candidates were involved. It would be easy, therefore, to leap to the conclusion that, since religious intolerance seems to have been absent in the recent election, this is an auspicious time for a Catholic to run for President. But the conclusion would rest upon a shaky pre mise, for it has been established in the past that non-Catholics who will vote for a Catholic for governor or for the Senate balk when they face the prospect of a Catholic in the White House. Two U. S. Archbishops, Apostolic Delegate Among Prelates Named To Sacred College By Pope John Services For Mrs. Julia Hogan AUGUSTA — Funeral serv ices for Mrs. Julia Newstead Hogan, were held November 7th at St. Mary’s-on-the-Hill Church Rev. Daniel J. Bourke officiat- Mrs. Hogan, a prominent member of Augusta’s Catholic community, had many friends among the young people of the city. Her husband was in the cotton business here and for a number of years was associated with Barrett and Co. Survivors are two daughters, Mrs. Norman I Boatwright, pres ident of the Savannah Diocesan Council of Catholic Women, and Mrs. LeGarde S. Doughty, both of Augusta; eleven grandchil dren and twenty-two great grandchildren. (Radio, N.C.W.C. News Service) VATICAN CITY — His Holi ness Pope John XXIII has de cided to name 23 prelates to the Sacred College of Cardinals, in creasing the strength of the sen ate of the Church from 70 to 75 for the first time in nearly 400 years. Those selected include two of the most prominent churchmen in the United States — Arch bishops Richard J. Cushing of Boston and John F. O’Hara, C.S.C., of Philadelphia. In addition, His Excellency Archbishop Amleto Giovanni Cicognani, who has just marked his 25th anniversary as Apostol ic Delegate to the United States, is among those who will be giv en the Red Hat. The consistory at which the 13 Italian and 10 non-Italian prelates are to be raised to the cardinalitial dignity is scheduled for December 15. It will be the first such consistory in nearly five years. Among the best known of the men who are to be named card inals are Archbishop Giovanni Battista Montini of Milan and Msgr. Domenico Tardini, who as veteran collaborators of t. Pope ; Pius XII in the Vatican Secre tariat of State both declined the Red Hat offered them by Pope Pius in 1952. In revealing that he was nam ing Msgr. Tardini to the Sacred College, Pope John also made him Secretary of State. One of the first acts of his pontificate had been to name Msgr. Tar dini Pro-Secretary of State. The Pope’s decision breaks precedent by going beyond the Code of Canon Law on two points. Canon Law 231 notes that there are 70 members of the Sacred College in all, and Pope John will now bring the total to 75. Canon 232 bars the appointment of any man related in the first or second degree of kindred to any living cardinal. Archbishop Cicognani’s elder brother, His Eminence Gaetano Cardinal Cicognani, Prefect of the Sacred Congregation of Rites, was elevated to the col lege in 1953. Mexico will receive a cardinal for the first time. He is 69-year- old Archbishop Jose Baribi y Rivera of Guadalajara. The list of those to be cre ated cardinals is composed of 12 heads of Sees, five prelates in the diplomatic service of the Holy See, and six members of the Roman Curia. Among the new cardinals will be Msgr. Alberto di Jorio, who was secretary of the conclave that elected Pope John to the Throne of Peter. The Pope re newed an old tradition at the close of the conclave by placing his own cardinal’s skull cap on Msgr. di Jorio, thus indicating that he would be made a card inal. The prelates to be created cardinals, in order of their an nouncement, are: Archbishop Giovanni Battista Montini of Milan. Archbishop Giovanni Urbani, Patriarch of Venice. Archbishop Paolo Giobbe, In ternuncio to Holland. Archbishop Giuseppe Fietta, Nuncio to Italy. Archbishop Fernando Cento, Nuncio to Portugal. Archbishop Carlo Chiarlo, Nuncio at disposition of the Secretary of State. Archbishop Amleto Giovanni Cigognani, Apostolic Delegate to U. S. Archbishop Jose Garibi y Riv era of Guadalajara, Mexico. Archbishop Antonio Maria Barbieri, O.F.M., Cap., of Monte video, Uruguay. Archbishop William Godfrey of Westminster. Archbishop Carlo Confalonie- ri, Secretary of the Sacred Con gregation of Seminaries and Un iversities. Archbishop Richard J. Cush ing of Boston. Archbishop Alfonso Castaldo of Naples. Archbishop Paul Marie Rich- aud of Broadeaux, France. Archbishop John F. O’Hara, C.S.C., of Philadelphia. Archbishop Jose Bueno y Monreal of Seville, Spain. Archbishop Franziskus Koenig of Vienna, Austria. Bishop Julius Doepfner of Berlin, Germany. Msgr. Domenico Tardini, Vat ican Secretary of State. Msgr. Alberto di Jorio, re gent of the Secretariat of the Sacred College of Cardinals. Msgr. Francesco Bracci, sec retary of the Sacred Congrega tion of Sacramental Discipline. Msgr. Francesco Roberti, sec retary of the Sacred Congrega tion of the Council. Msgr. Andre Jullien of the Sacred Roman Rota. Thus Italy gets 13 new cardi nals, raising its total to 29. France and the United States get two more cardinals each, making a total of four American cardinals and eight for the “el dest daughter of the Church.” Anita Yarborough Services At Augusta AUGUSTA — Funeral serv ices for Miss Anita Katherine Yarborough were held Novem ber 17 at St. Mary’s-on-the-Hill Church, Rev. Daniel J. Bourke officiating. Survivors are two sisters, Mrs. James R. Candolfo of Richmond, Va. and Miss Edythe Yarborough of Augusta, and a number of nieces and nephews. SERVICES FOR LOUIS CAFIERO SAVANNAH — Funeral serv ices for Louis P. Cafiero were held November 10th at the Ca thedral of St. John the Baptist. Survivors are his wife, Mrs. Elizabeth McCall Cafiero; his mother, Mrs. E. Cafiero; a bro ther, J. S. Cafiero; a sister, Mrs. John E. Thompson; and several nieces and nephews. ©lie luUrtttt 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 29, 1958 No. 13 ASSOCIATION OFFICERS FOR 1958-1959 GEORGE GINGELL, Columbus 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 Executive Secretary MISS CECILE FERRY, Augusta Financial Secretary