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Serving Georgia's 88 Southern Counties DIOCESE OF SAVANNAH EDITION Published By The Catholic Laymen's Ass'n of Georgia OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF THE DIOCESE OF SAVANNAH Vol. 40, No. MONROE, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, JULY 11, 1959 10c Per Copy — $3 a Year St. Thomas More St. Thomas More (above), was an outstanding English lawyer, and first layman to hold the office of Chancellor of Eng land. He declined to support King Henry VIII’s divorce and refused to sign the oath of supremacy of the King. He was i'm prisoned, and after 15 months was beheaded on Tower Hill, July 6, 1535. He was canonized in 1935 by Pope Pius XI. His feast day is celebrated throughout the Catholic world on July 6. (NC Photos) Prelate Scores Obstructing Of Religious Call PITTSBURGH, (NC) — What gives the Serra movement its special distinction is its devo tion to the cause of the diocesan priesthood, Archbishop John F. Dearden of Detroit declared at the 17th annual convention of Serra International here. He said that each convention serves as a sounding board for re-echoing this devotion. Archbishop Dearden scored any parental opposition to voca tions, and encouraged the Sei rans to promote the right ap praisal of the priesthood, for ‘ the priesthood is an extension in our time of Christ in His Church.” The Archbishop stressed two qualities which typify those who aspire to the priesthood: one, a special and devoted reverence for the Mass, and the other, a tender and filial love for the Blessed Mother. Special Prayers Offered For Meldrim Victims SAVANNAH—Special prayers for victims of the tragedy which occurred at Meldrim and their relatives were offered at ail Masses in the diocese on Sun day, July 5th. Archbishop Gerald P. O’Hara, Bishop of Savannah, and Apos tolic Delegate to Great Britain, cabled from London that “My heart goes out in deepest sym pathy to families of the victims.” Bishop Thomas J. McDonough, auxiliary-bishop, said that “ail of us were overcome with grief at the great loss of life ... To the bereaved, I have extended the sympathy and prayers of our priests and people. 1 was par ticularly happy to learn that many of our priests were on hand to offer consolation and encouragement to the victims.” The death toll has risen to 22 as the result of the derailment Sunday, June 28th, of several railroad cars containing butane gas from a freight train as it passed over a tressel near a bathing and recreation area of the Ogeechee River at Meldrim, Georgia which is located 20 miles northwest of here. The tank cars exploded, spreading flames across the wa ters of the bathing area and its shoreline, killing' many as they swam. FIRST SINCE 13th CENTURY ARCHBISHOP ^ CONFIRMS 14 j PRISONERS v LONDON, (NC) — Arch bishop Gerald P. O’Hara, Bish op of Savannah, and Apostolic Delegate to Great Britain, ad ministered the sacrament of Confirmation to 14 prisoners during a visit to Wormwood Scrubs, big London jail. The Archbishop was also cel ebrant of the Dialogue Mass in which the men participated, and he preached and gave Ben ediction. Final Report Meeting, July 15 LAUNCH GENERAL DIVISION OF SAVANNAH CAMPAIGN SAVANNAH — A very suc cessful first report meeting of Catholic Primate Of Canada Gives Degree To Anglican Primate QUEBEC, (NC) — Laval Uni versity’s honorary doctorate of letters was presented to the Anglican Primate of Canada by the Catholic Primate of Canada at' a convocation here. Recipient of the degree was the Most Rev. Philip Carring ton, who h a s been Anglican Bishop and Archbishop of Que bec for the past 24 years. The degree was presented to Archbishop Carrington by Archbishop Maurice Roy of Quebec in his capacity as chancellor of the historic uni versity. Archbishop Carrington deliv ered the commencement ad dress after receiving the degree. He cited the relations of the French and British races in Canada as being “a friendship like that which unites members of one family.” Two Retreats For Women At Mt. de Sales MACON — This year two retreats for Catholic Women will be held at Mt. de Sales Academy, Macon. The first will begin the evening of July 21st and end the morning of July 24th. The second will begin the evening of July 24th and end mid afternoon July 26th. Reservations may be made directly with the Sisters at Mt. de Sales. the Alumnae Division has giv en impetus to St. Vincent’s Academy Building Fund Drive which is being conducted by the Alumnae Association in an effort to raise tjhe $250,000 needed for a new school build ing. A final report meeting for this division is scheduled for July 15 at which it is expected that most of the 45 captains representing the various gradu ating classes will be able to announce 100% participation from members of their classes. The General Division of the campaign was launched on Thursday, July 9 when the key note address was given by Francis W. Kelley, the general chairman of the Division. Also on the program were Sister M. Bernardine, R.S.M., and Sister M. Michelle, R.S.M., the super ior and principal of St. Vin cent’s respectively, who stress ed the need for more facilities to keep pace with ever-increas ing enrollment and the general co-chairman, Mrs. John E. Por ter and Mrs. William C. Brod erick who gave the details of the campaign. The honorary chairmen of) this division are Sister M. Kiernan, R.S.M. and Sister M. Fidelis, R.S.M., and in addi tion to Mr. Kelley they will be assisted by the following: Jos eph J. Hutton and Frank H. Emerick, Team 1 (AAA); Mrs. Fred W. Williams and Miss Joan H. Harty, Team 2 (AA); Mrs. Eugene D. Entelman and Mrs. John E. Corcoran, Team 3 (A); Mrs. Barth E. Shea III, Team 4 (Professional); and Mrs. Mary L. McAfee and Miss Lucy Distefano, Team 5 (Friends of St. Vincent’s). In ad dition to the chairmen, each team will consist of six cap tains and thirty workers. Pope John's First Encyclical Appeals Directly To Separated Christians For Reunion With The Catholic Church DOCUMENT DEALS WITH TRUTH, UNITY AND PEACE Franciscan General Tours U. S. Maronite Patriarch Paul Pierre Meouchi of Antioch is shown at ceremonies in Rome as Pope John XXIII bestowed the pallium upon him. It was the first time since the 13th century that a pope personally conferred the pallium on a Maronite patriarch. Lebanese residents of Rome and Leba non’s Ambassador to the Holy See witnessed the cere monies. (NC Photos) KERALA CATHOLICS BURY 13 SLAIN BY RED POLICE; SHOWDOWN STILL TO COME (Radio, N.C.W.C. News Service) TRIVANDRUM, India — Catholics of Kerala paused to bury their dead, but remained undaunted in their decision to resist the communist-ruled new education law. Thirteen Catholics were slain by police who opened fire on unarmed crowds demonstrating against the regime in three Kerala towns. Only Catholics were killed, even though Hin du Nairs and Catholics are both leading the protests against the school law, and the three main opposition political parties unit ed in demonstrations seeking to force the Red government to resign. This led to charges f r o m Catholics and non-Catholics alike that the state government is trying to isolate the Catho lics for persecution and to make it appear that it is the Catholics who are creating the trouble. The highest death toll was in Ankamali, where police fired at Catholics who staged a dem onstration when one of their number picketing a commun ist-run liquor store was beaten and arrested by police. Four Catholics were killed instantly; three died later. Thousands of the faithful ga thered at the church and cem etery for the joint funeral of five of the dead. Syro-Malabar Rite Archbishop Joseph Pare- cattil offered the Requiem Mass. Another Ordinary of the same rite, Bishop Sebastian Vayalil of Palai, gave the ser mon. A message from Latin Rite Archbishop Joseph Attipetty of Verapoly, who is chairman of the Catholic Bishops’ Confer ence of Kerala, was read at the funeral. The other six Catholics slain lost their lives in suburbs of this state capital. Two were members of a group of Cath olic fishermen who were shot while picketing a government school in Puluvila. Four others died in a similar incident in Vetukad. As reports reached here to the effect that Indan Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru was preparing to visit India’s most Christian and most liter ate state to study the situation, members of the Catholic hier archy spoke out against the communists’ anti - Catholic charges. Auxiliary Bishop Peter Pere ira of Trivandrum declared that the Catholic Bishops “have nothing to do” with the at tempts to force the communist government out of office. “This is a political matter which concerns the general public and the state’s political parties,” he said. “The Bishops are concerned only with educa tion and the schools.” Denying . government charg es that crowds of demonstrators had been assembled by the toll ing of church bells as “utterly false and made up by the po lice,” Bishop Pereira said the government is trying to make it seem that “only the Catho lics oppose them.” The Bishop, who issued the statement after making a personal investiga- (Continued on Page 6) ST. VINCENT'S DRIVE—Miss Joan H. Harty and Mrs. Fred W. Williams, co-chairmen of the AA Section of the General Di vision which was launched on July 9 as part of the Building Fund Drive of St. Vincent’s Academy. (Radio, N.C.W.C. News Service) VATICAN CITY — His Holi ness Pope John XXIII in his first encyclical appealed di rectly to separated Christians to reunite with the Catholic Church and to pray for the suc cess of the coming ecumenical council. The 12,000-word document dealt with truth, unity and peace. In it the Pope also reaf firmed the papal condemnation of communism and warned that a war with nuclear weapons would be destructive to both the victor and the vanquished. Then encyclical, as is cus tomary, was addressed to the Catholic hierarchy, clergy and faithful, taut in the section deal ing specifically with unity the Pontiff spoke directly to Pro testants and to dissident churches of the East. In referring to the unity of the Catholic Church’s doctrine, government and religious prac tice, the Pope said: “May this wondrous mani festation of unity therefore, by which the unity of the Catholic Church stands forth for all to see, may these desires, these prayers by which she implores from God the same unity for all .move your mind end rouse it in a' salutary manner; We say your — for We are speak ing to those who are separated from the Apostolic See. Assuring separated Christians of his paternal love, the Pope einphasizzed the following: “Note, We beg of you, that when We lovingly invite you to the unity of the Church We are inviting you not to the home of a stranger, but to your own, to the Father’s house which be longs to all.” After stating that the success of the ecumenical council he plans to convoke depends more on prayers than on human ef fort, the Pope continued: “To take part in this prayer ful appeal to God, We invite most lovingly those also who — though they are not of this fold —yet reverently worship God and with good will strive to keep His commandments.” In the first section of the en cyclical letter, Pope John cited the ignorance of truth, the con tempt for truth and the delib erate effort at turning away from it as the “source and root of all evils which affect indi viduals, peoples and nations with a kind of poison. He said that “though we have the power to arrive at natural truths by the aid of the mind itself, this result — particular ly in what concerns religion and right conduct — is not obtained by all without difficulty, and often there remains some ad mixture of error.” Moreover, as supernatural truths cannot be attained by reason, he continued, “unless (it) is enlightened and incluenc- ed by divine powers ... so all are obliged to embrace the teaching of the Gospel, and if this is rejected the very foun dations of truth, goodness and civilization are endangered.” Therefore, the Pope added, the press has a special duty to stand by the truth. “In a special manner then,” he explained, “We are com pelled to exhort to a careful, ex act and prudent exposition of the truth those who by means of books, reviews and daily papers — so abundant at the present time — make such a great contribution to the teach ing and training of the minds of their fellow citizens, espe cially the young, into the mold ing of their opinions and the regulating of their habits. These same men are gravely bound in duty not to disseminate lies, Father Augustine Sepinski, O.F.M. (left), of Rome, Minis ter General of the Franciscan Order is visiting Franciscan establishments in the United States. He is pictured here in St. Louis with Archbishop Joseph E. Ritter (center) and Father Pius R. Barth, O.F.M., provincial of the Friars’ Chi- cago-St. Louis-Province. (NC Photos) CATHOLIC-OWNED KOREA DAILY AGAIN SHUT DOWN error, obscenity, but only truth —and in particular to publicize what leads not to vice but to good and virtuous practices.” Pointing out that in the fields of radio, motion pictures and television, men likewise have a responsibility to the truth and to fight evil, the Pope stated: “It is therefore necessary to confront evil and erroneous writings with what is right and sound. Against broadcasts, mo tion pictures and television shows which incite to error or attractions of vice, (there) must be projected those which up hold truth and. strive to pre serve wholesome morality.” “This kind of harmonious unity which is sought among peoples and nations, it is neces sary to promote more and more among classes of citizens. Un less this is achieved, mutual hatred and rivalries, as we have seen, can exist; these will re sult in disorderly assemblies, rioting, and sometimes even in murders, together with the dai- SEOUL, Korea (Radio, NC) — ly diminishing and endanger- Seoul’s Catholic-owned daily, ing of public and private re- Kyonghyang Shinmun, whose sources.” closing by the Korean govern- The Pontiff stated that as the ment in April brought on a head of the Universal Church storm of protests, has been shut he is in an exceptional position down again only seven hours af- to give counsel on peace io the f- r “ court order said it could world’s statesmen. resume publication. “We exhort to this harmony The Court of Appeals here and peace those, particularly, ruled that the newspaper, Ko- who hold the reins of govern- rea’s second largest, could re- ment in their hands,” he stated, open pending a decision on its “Because we have a position case by the country’s Supreme above interstate rivalries, and Court. embrace all nations with a like Then, after an emergency charity, and are influenced by two-hour cabinet meeting, the no earthly advantages, no mo- Korean government suspended tives of political domination, no Kyonghyang Shinmun’s publish- desires in this present life, we j n g license. The daily staff was are of the opinion that, when notified of the suspension while we speak on this serious ques- preparing what would have been tion, we can be judged and the paper’s first edition in near- listened to with fairness and ab- \y two months, sence of bias by all men no i n April the government had matter their race.” canceled the paper’s license. The The Holy Father also criti- Court of Appeals ruled that the cized those who are trying to pap er could reopen because the stir up unrest between social cancellation of a publishing li- classes and “trying to disturb cense without taking the step of human society.” He observed suspen ding the license is an ex- that at present many of the dis- cess i ve measure.” The govem- tinctive marks between classes ment has now suspen ded the li- have lessened because of pro- cense . gress in the labor field. Kyonghyang Shinmun, which He called attention, however, j s mana ged by the Seoul apos- to too many differences in ma- j- 0 i; c vicariate, was originally terial possessions . . . too many gj^ down by the government causes of enmity between vari- on charges that it was under - ous groups,” deplored the spec- mining democracy and the coun . ter of unemployment, and urged try , g security . The government government leaders to provide work. He exhorted “those who hold responsible positions in the various fields of human labor, and on whom the lot of the workers and sometimes their very life depends, not only that they take careful account of the wage the workers obtain by their labor in the recogni tion of their rights, but also that they really consider them as men, or rather, as brothers.” Lastly, in this sphere of ac tivity, he stressed the need for the unity of the family as a bas ic unit of society. He made this recommenda tion to the family: “Let the father of the family take the place of God among his children, and not only by his authority but by the upright example of his life also, stand also accused it of deviating from its “lofty religious position and the ideals of Catholicism.” In answering the government charges, Bishop Paul Ro, Apos tolic Vicar of Seoul, denied that the paper had deviated from Catholic ideals and said: “Animated by the spirit of Catholicism, the policy of the paper has been directed toward the betterment of the Korean people.” The Bishop also declared that it had not “confused religion with politics.” Regarding the new suspension order, a statement issued by the government information office said: “Respecting the view of the court, the government w i t h- draws its earlier order for can cellation of the publishing li- suspension an “excessive abuse of authority.” He declared that because of the daily’s “great merit . . . during 13 years of fighting com munism the paper should be given its license.” Pope Blesses Activities Of U. S. Catholic Press VATICAN CITY — His Holi ness Pope John XXIII called the Catholic press not only im portant but necessary to the Church as he bestowed “bounti ful blessings” on the Catholic press in the United States. The blessings were given to all members of the staff of the NCWC News Service, its Rome bureau and all members of the Catholic Press Association of the United States. The Pope granted his bless ings during an audience given to Frank A. Hall, Director of the N.C.W.C. News Service. The Holy Father was eager to be told about the various ac tivities of the National Catholic Welfare Conference and asked questions about it through his interpreter, Msgr. Oddone Tac- oli. “Ah, the Catholic press and what it does for the Church!” the Pontiff exclaimed. “It is a work that is not only important but necessary. Its activities in the U. S. are vast and vital. It works very hard, but I must say, ‘lavora, lavora, lavora’ (work, work, work), for the Church needs all the devoted things you do.” Re-elected clearly in the first place. Let cense and suspends the publica- the mother, however, rule firm- Lon of the paper, ly and agreeably over her off- Bishop Ro made no comment spring by gentleness and vir- on ’ he latest government move tue in the domestic setting; let and Kyonghyang Shinmun s her behave with indulgence and publisher, Han Changu, has said love towards her husband, and he is undecided as to what ac- along with him, let her careful ly instruct and train her family, the most precious gift given by God, to live an upright and re ligious life.” The Pope also attacked re ligious indifference as an atti- (Continued on Page 5) tion he will now take. Korea’s Catholic Vice Presi dent John M. Chang, one of the founders of Kyonghyang Shin mun and leader of the Demo cratic party which opposes the ruling Liberal party of Presi dent Syngman Rhee, called the Father Gabriel T. Stapleton. S.D.S, (above), of Lancaster, N. Y., is the first person to ba re-elected for a second term as President of the National Catholic Theatre Conference, in its 23-year history. Tha group will hold its 12th biennial convention at Notre Dame Uni versity, August 18-20. (NCJ Photos) ...—--j