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Vol. 40, No. 11
MONROE, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1959
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| VATICAN MASS
-Will MARK
ANNIVERSARY
; VATICAN CITY, (Radio,
NC) — His Eminence Gio
vanni Cardinal Moniini,
Archnishop ol Milan and the
1 iirst cardinal created by His
! Holiness Pope John XXIH,
] wul ceiebraie Mass as pari
or the Vatican's otticiai ob
servation of ihe first annt-
! versary of Pope John's cortio-
' nation.
1 The solemn observance —
i called a "papal chapel" be-
cause it involves the mil
* participation of ihe papal
1 court — wul be held m Si.
■ Peter's basilica on November
! 4.
; The anniversary Mass ot
< the coronalion ot a Pope is
i traditionally celebrated by
the lust cardinal he created.
1 Cardinal Moniini was iirst of
' the ZJ carainais named by
! Pope John on Hecemoer la
lasi year.
The Holy Father specifical
ly expressed his wish ihat
Cardinal Moniini otter the
Mass when he received him
1 m audience recently.
Cardinal Moniini told the
Pope that ne was iorn between
his desire to be with his
laithiul of Milan on lhai
date, which is me least ot
Si. Charles Eorromeo, patron
of ihe archdiocese, and his
wish to be in Rome for the
papal chapel. His doubi was
senled by ihe Pope who said
to him: "This year come to
Home. In other years I shall
leave you free."
Csliliiibiis
Deanery Meets
At Amerieus
AMERICUS — St. Mary’s
Church of Amerieus was host to
the Fall Meeting of the Colum
bus Deanery Council of Catho
lic Women on October 14. Those
present participated in a Dialog
Mass offered by the Rt. Rev.
Msgr. Herman Deimel.
A luncheon was given at the
Amerieus County Club, follow
ed by the meeting which was
opened with an invocation to
Our Lady of Good Counsel by
His Excellency, Bishop Thomas
J. McDonough, Auxiliary Bish
op of the Diocese of Savannah.
Mrs. Joseph 'J. Dembowski,
Vice-President, Warner Robins,
presided. Mrs. Joseph Peffer-
man, Amerieus, welcomed the
members and Mrs. John Barry,
Macon, gave the response. Fif
teen members of the clergy
were present, and Mrs. Norman
I. Boatwright, Augusta, Presi
dent of the Savannah Diocesan
Council of Catholic Women, also
attended.
The acting Secretary called
the roll of all affiliated organi
zations. Committee . chairmen
present explained the purpose
of each committee and reported
on their plans for the year.
The Very Rev. John D.
Toomey, Spiritual Director, re
minded the group that their
special project is to help with
the expenses of St. Mary’s
Home. He suggested that each
Parish Council sponsor some
project at least once a year for
the support of St. Mary’s Home.
The Rev. Marvin J. LcFrois,
Pastor of St. Teresa’s Church,
Albany, guest speaker, stated
that as a demonstration of the
Divine Savior’s great love, the
Blessed Mother appeared in re
cent years in three apparitions
— at La Soilette, Lourdes and
at Fatima, and in each instance,
devotion to the Rosary was
stressed. Father LeFrois urged
that Catholics try to appreciate
their Faith, and to evaluate the
various practices, to say the
Rosary with devotion, which
will give them a definite link
with Mary and will eventually
carry them to Heaven.
His Excellency, Bishop Tho
mas . J. McDonough, addressed
the group and spoke enthusiasti-
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AMERICUS DEDICATION—Bishop Thomas J. McDonough
is pictured addressing those gathered for the blessing of the new
Priests’ Rectory, Amerieus.
DEDICATE HEN
DESDEKE AT
AMERICUS — The new resi
dence for the Priests of St.
Mary’s parish was solemnly
blessed Wednesday afternoon,
October 14, by His Excellency,
the Most Reverend Thomas J.
McDonough, D. D., J. C. D.,
Auxiliary Bishop of the Diocese.
The new building provides
quarters for six resident priests
with an additional bedroom for
visiting clergy. A large portion
of the new structure houses a
chapel with a seating capacity
of about twenty persons. The
chapel will be open to the pub
lic and will be used for week
day Masses. A community room,
two parlors, a dining room and
kitchen accommodations com
prise the remainder of the
building.
At present the Amerieus
Friary provides a central resi
dence for Franciscan priests
serving not only the local
churches of St. Mary’s and St.
Jerome’s, but also the churches
of St. Clare’s, Albany, St.
Theresa’s, Cordele, and St.
Michael’s, Montezuma.
The new Friary is the first
of several buildings planned for
the Amerieus parish. A financial
campaign is presently under
way to raise funds for construe-
PRIESTS’
AMERICUS
tion of a Catechetical school on
the site of the old Friary. A
convent for teaching Sisters and
a new Church edifice are also
in the planning stage. The
Catechetical school will provide
space for the teaching Religion
to children attending public
school.
Pastor of St. Mary’s is the
Rev. Henry L. Madden, O. F. M.
Attending the dedication were
two former pastors of the
Church, the Rev. Godfrey
Weitekamp, O. F. M., presently
stationed in New York City,
and the Rev. Thomas Albert,
O. F. M., of Thomasville Geor
gia. Father Godfrey, the first
Franciscan pastor of St. Mary’s,
delivered the sermon at the
ceremonies.
Also attending were the Rt.
Rev. Msgr. Andrew J. McDon
ald, Chancellor of the Diocese;
The Rev. Donald Hoag, O. F. M.,
of St. Francis Monastery, New
York City, representing the
Provincial of Holy Name Prov
ince, to which the local Friary
pertains; and the Rev. Athana
sius Mclnerney, O. F. M. direc
tor of the Franciscan Mission
ary Union which supplied the
funds to construct the new
building.
IRISH PRELATE
VISITS DIOCESE
MOST REVEREND
CORNELIUS LUCEY
SAVANNAH — A twinkle in
his eye, a hearty laugh which
comes easily, the lilting brogue
which every Corkman knows,.
an amazing knowledge of Irish
history, and above all, a very
great love for Christ and His
Church — all these things cha
racterize a genial visitor to the
Savannah diocese. He is the
Most Reverend Cornelius Lu-
cey, Bishop of Cork and of
Ross.
In the Southland of the Unit
ed States for the first time,
Bishop Lucey is visiting con
gregations of the Presentation
Sisters from Cork teaching in
the United States. These sisters
staff Sacred Heart School in
Warner Robins. Bishop Lucey’s
Diocese of Cork claims the hon
or of “birthplace” of their com
munity.
“It seems only right that
these sisters should be teaching
here in the South,” says the
Irish prelate. “After all, their
first patron, who was admini
strator of the Cathedral in Cork
at the time of their foundation
there, later became the famous
first Bishop of Charleston,
South Carolina, Bishop John
England. He was also patron
of the Ursuline Sisters who,
please God, will also soon come
from Cork to Savannah.”
Bishop Lucey’s knowledge of
Irish history stems from his
association with the seminary at
Maynooth, where he was a pro
fessor until 1950, when he was
named coadjutor to the late
Bishop Daniel Cohalan, former
Bishop of Cork. Consecrated at
Maynooth in 1951, Bishop Lu
cey succeeded Bishop Cohalan
in 1952.
The Society of African Mis
sions, whose priests staff sev
eral parishes in this Diocese,
maintains its motherhouse at
Black Rock, just a mile or so
from Cork, and many of these
priests in our diocese studied
there.
A successor to St. Finbar,
founder and first Bishop of
Cork, Bishop Lucey also counts
among his illustrious predeces
sors Blessed Boetius McEgan
who was hanged for the faith
during Cromwell’s persecution
in the mid-seventh century.
Questioned about relations
between Catholics in Ireland,
who number about 95 percent
of the population, and the vari
ous Protestant and Jewish bod
ies, Bishop Lucey said, “Our re
lations with Protestants, Jews,
“Follow Up”
To Close
Fund Drive
SAVANNAH — “Follow-up”
visits by teams of workers on
Sunday, October 25th and
throughout the week will bring
to a close the first annual
Funds Drive of the Bishop’s
Confraternity of the Laity.
Funds realized will be used for
Diocesan Projects outlined in a
brochure distributed throughout
the Diocese earlier in the
month.
First returns, made on Mon
day, October 19 th, indicated
that many people had suc
cumbed to beautiful weather
and gone out for the day be
fore workers could call upon
them. Bishop McDonough ex
pressed confidence that the
“follow-up” visits would bring
the drive to a successful close.
“Goals” varied with the par
ishes and figures on the per
centage of realization were not
available at press time. In the
next edition of The Bulletin
Goals and Contributions (by
parishes) will be published.
Chinese Bishop
Dies In Jail
ROME, (NC) — Bishop Peter
Wang Mu-to of Suanhwa has
died in jail in communist China,
it was reported here.
Fides, mission news agency
under the Sacred Congregation
for the Propagation of the
Faith, said that the date of the
55-year-old prelate’s death is
unknown, but that it has learn
ed from travelers from Peking
that there is “no doubt” about
his death.
Fides said Bishop Wang “dis
appeared without trace some
time ago.” It said that “the
heroic pastor gave his life for
his flock and he was obviously
a martyr for his fidelity to the
Holy See.”
Bishop Wang was ordained a
priest in 1929 and consecrated
Bishop of Suanhwa — suffra
gan See of Peking, in Hopeh
province — on March 7, 1948.
Fides also reported that “no
thing is known of the fate” of
Archbishop Joseph Chou Chi-
shih, C.M., of Nanchang. It said
however, that there are indica
tions that the 67-year-old Vin
centian Archbishop is being
held “in confinement ... in
a small place under a stairway.”
Fides said the communists
had suggested that Archbishop
Chou could become “Pope of
China,” and that he countered
that by remaining faithful to
the Church he could hope to
become Pope of the whole
world.
The agency said that when
the Archbishop was freed after
five years in prison, he was “as
resolute as before,” and that the
so-called Patriotic Association
of Chinese Catholics “removed
him as an unworthy bishop and
replaced him by a person ‘elect
ed’ by the communists.”
and all non-Catholics are most
happy ones. After all, President
Douglas Hyde was a Protestant.
The former Lord Mayor of Dub
lin was a Jew and the last
Mayor of Cork was a Protes
tant. We are ppoud of our de
mocracy. Although the Catholic
Church is officially recognized
as the “Church of the Majori
ty,” no restrictions are placed
on the religious activities of
non-Catholics. They are free to
practice their religion in pub
lic as well as private. As a mat
ter of fact non-Catholics as well
as Catholics maintain their own
schools, all of which are built
with the government paying at
least two-thirds of the cost. The
maintenance of the schools,
once they are built, is the re
sponsibility of the religious
body under whose patronage
they operate, whether Catholic
Protestant or Jewish.”
Did he think that the reli-
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Men Throughout Diocese
Honor Christ The King
SAVANNAH RALLY—Benedictine military cadets are pictured as they marched into the
Cathedral as part of the Diocesan observance of the Feast of Christ the King. On the steps are
the Rt. Rev. Msgr. Thomas A. Brennan; Rt. Rev. Msgr. T. James McNamara, P.A.; The Most
Rev. Cornelius Lucey of Cork, Ireland, who is visiting this country and The Most Rev. Thomas J.
McDonough, Auxiliary Bishop of Savannah.—(News-Press Photo).
dhrisluS ‘XJincit - f\eg.nal
Yearly, in Communist Capitals throughout the world,
troops march, tanks roll, guns thunder, planes streak through
the skies commemorating the “October Revolution” which
started Communism on its march toward world domination,
a march which was to impose upon millions of people a
tyranny immeasurably worse than any their forebears had
ever known.
Now, more than forty years after the October Revolu
tion, International Communism has succeeded in dividing
the world into two armed camps and the word “Security”
which used to connote contentment and lack of fear for the
future Has come to mean, almost exclusively, the sum total
of measures taken to insure the country from foreign ag
gression.
But, in reality, Communism is only a very old vice, as
old as the angels—Pride. It is the Pride of men who refuse
to acknowledge any reality other than that which is apparent
to the senses. Thus, Communism denies the existence of God,
Divine Grace, Heaven and Hell, and all true morality. It is
the familiar face of Apostasy, which seeks Heaven upon
earth, which worships Man as God, and acknowledges as
the final end for which man exists the earth and its con
tents.
The rise of Communism, then, is only another battle in
a war as old as time—the war between proud men and God,
between the world and the spirit, between the visible world
of fallen nature and the invisible world of Supernatural
Grace.
We are committed to this battle, and tq the proposition
that Christ, the Son of God, is the true King of the Universe,
not Man, and that the final end of man is Happiness in
Heaven, not the inky blackness of his earthy grave.
On the Feast of Christ the King, we join with fel
low Catholics throughout the world in demonstrating our
Loyalty to our King. In Holy Hours, Processions and other
special Services we pledge again to fight for our King, by
our prayers, penances, frequent reception of the Sacraments,
and by leading Christ-like lives that will help to draw other
hearts to the heart of Christ, our King—that will help to
hasten the day when all men will confess “Christus Vincit-
Christus Regnat, Christ Conquers-Christ Reigns.”
Regional CCD Congress
CCD LAY OFFICIAL SAYS
CHURCH CALL TO LAYMEN
LOUDER THAN EVER BEFORE
Rallies,
Devotions
Mark Day
SAVANNAH — Special pray
ers and Holy Hours marked the
Diocesan observance of the
Feast of Christ the King, Octo
ber 25th. Rosary processions
and special devotions were held
in all churches of the Diocese.
Inter - parochial “Rallies”
brought men from all the par
ishes of Augusta and Savan
nah to St. Mary’s-on-the-Hill,
and Cathedral, respectively.
The rallies began with Rosary
and procession to the Church,
hymns, Holy Hour prayers, ser
mons and Benediction.
The Most Rev. Thomas J. Mc
Donough, auxiliary Bishop of
Savannah, led the recitation of
the Rosary at Savannah. Tak
ing part in the Cathedral ob
servance were the Cadets and
band from Benedictine Military
Academy, units from seven of
Chatham County’s ten church
es, and the Fourth Degree
Knights of Columbus.
The Very Rev. Bede Lightner,
O. S.B., principal of Benedictine
Military Academy and Superior
of the Benedictine Community
in Savannah, was the speaker.
“Peace is one of the greatest of
God’s gifts,” he said, “whether
it be concord among nations,
harmony in the home or peace
of mind in the individual. But,
as we must for all things that
are good, we must pay a price
for peace, and the price is love
for Christ, Trust in His good
ness and Obedience to His Will.
“If there is to be peace in the
home, then the minds of fa
ther, mother and children must
be one with the mind of Christ.
If there is to be peace among
nations, then the immutable
laws of Justice and Right laid
down by Christ must be the
basis of negotiations directed
toward that end.”
The services came to an end
with Solemn ’'Pontifical Bene
diction of the Blessed Sacra
ment. Celebrant was the Rt.
Rev. Msgr. T. James McNamara,
P. A., rector of the Cathedral.
Present on the Sanctuary was
Bishop Cornelius Lucey, Bishop
of Cork, Ireland, who is visit
ing in this country, and who
came to Savannah on Friday.
Details of interparochial ob
servances in Augusta were not
available at press time on Mon
day.
The Holy Hours were urged
by Bishop McDonough in a let
ter to pastors issued earlier this
month. He recalled that Pope
Pius XI had dedicated his first
Encyclical to Christ the King,
declaring that “Society will at
last receive the great blessing of
real liberty, well ordered dis
cipline, and peace and harmony,
once men recognize both in
public and private life that
Christ is King.”
“During this month of Oc
tober, which is dedicated to the
Holy Rosary,” said the Bishop,
“We beg Mary, the Immaculate
Mother of God, to bring to each
of us a greater awareness of
Christ as our King.”
Former Anglican
Clergyman, Family
Join Catholic Church
OAKVILLE, Calif., (NC) —
A former Anglican clergyman
who was recently received into
the Church with his wife and
three sons has expressed the
hope that Anglicans generally
may some day “know the Ca
tholic truth in its fullness in
union with the Holy See.”
MIAMI BEACH, (NC) — The
Church’s call to the laymen for
help in carrying out its mission
today is louder and more per
sistent than ever before, a lay
official of the Confraternity of
Christian Doctrine said.
L. Russ Biven of Wilmington,
N. C., national chairman of the
lay committee of the CCD told
the 11th regional congress of
the CCD:
“All the modern popes have
agreed that the Church needs
the cooperation of the laity if
it is to do its job of ‘bringing
Christ to all men,’ effectively
in the world today.”
“Clergy today are no longer
in sufficient number, no longer
shepherds in the old sense of
the word, because the flock
wanders where the clergy can
not always enter,” he said.
Mr. Biven said much has al
ready been done by laymen to
aid the Church. He cited a num
ber of specialized movements of
Catholic action, such as lay
catechists trained by CCD
groups.
“The confraternity is just get
ting going in the United States,”
he said. “Its potential is tre-
Truman To
Address
Youth Meet
WASHINGTON, (NC) — For
mer President Harry S. Truman
will address the fifth biennial
convention of the National
Council of Catholic Youth,
Diocesan Section, to be held in
Kansas City, Mo., November
12 to 15.
He is also to be chairman at
a panel session to be held in the
Truman Library at Independ
ence, Mo., it was announced
here by Msgr. Joseph E. Schied-
er, director of the national
council.
As many as 25,000 Catholic
young people from all over die
country are expected to attend
the convention. Its theme will
be: “Personal Sanctity — Mod
ern Challenge.”
The youth convention will be
preceded on November 11 by
the first biennial convention of
the National Conference of Ca
tholic in Youth Serving Agen
cies.
One thousand clergy and lay
men interested in youth work
are expected to attend this
meeting.
The keynote address will be
given by Father Aloysius H.
Seheller, S. J., dean of the
School of Social Service, St.
Louis University. Joseph Pren-
dergast, executive director of
the National Redreation Asso
ciation, will also address the
opening session.
In addition to former Presi
dent Truman, other previously
announced speakers at the
youth convention include: John
J. Hearne, Irish Ambassador to
the United States; Gov. James
Blair of Missouri, and Father
(Col.) William J. Clasby of the
office of the Chief of Air Force
Chaplains.
mendous, but the realization of
that potential depends upon
our work today.”
“If great things are being
done today, many more wonder
ful things will be done tomor
row, both by ourselves and by
those apostles who come after
us,” he said.
Bishop Coleman F. Carroll of
Miami was host to the congress.