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MONROE, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, JULY 23, 1960
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SAINT VINCENT'S ACADEMY — This photo shows the progress which has been made
on the construction of the addition to St. Vincent’s Academy, Savannah. Plans call for com
pletion of the addition in time for fall classes.—(Staff Photo)
State School Report Hit
By Trinidad Archbishop
PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad,
(NC) The Catholic archbish
op here declared that "ihe Cath
olic Church will never assent"
to an-/ attempt to have the ed
ucation of children "complete
ly subjected" to ihe govern
ment.
Archbishop Patrick Fin bar
Ryan, O.P., of Port-of--Spain in
a pastoral letter took issue with
the report of a special educa
tion commission of the govern
ment of Trinidad and Tobago.
The general tenor of the com
mission’s report, he said, in
volves “a camouflaged claim to
exclusive control of education
by the state or government.”
Against this, Archbishop
Ryan reiterated the Catholic
teaching that it is parents who
have the primary responsibility
for the education of their chil
dren, and that it is the task of
the state to aid them.
Asserting the right of Cath
olics to their own schools, the
prelate quoted from Pius XI s
encyclical, Divini Illius Magis-
CITE MINOR
SEMINARIES AS
VOCATIONS KEY
WAPPINGERS FALLS, (NC)
—The American Franciscan So
ciety of Vocations said the
growing number of U. S. minor
seminaries is the chief factor in
the “richest increase in priestly
and Religious vocations in our
country’s history.”
In a statement at its meeting
here, the society reported a
“marked increase” of high
school age boys entering the
minor seminary. “This is due
to the wisdom and zeal of the
American Bishops, whose well-
planned diocesan vocation pro
grams each year acquaint so
many more boys . with the
priesthood,” the statement said.
The organization of vocations
directors from the Friars Minor,
the Capuchins, Third Order
Regular, and Friars of the
Atonement called the increase
in the number of minor semi
naries “providential.”
“It concretely reaffirms the
Church’s approval of the minor
seminary as the ideal environ
ment to test, cultivate and pre
serve youthful vocations,” it
said.
(In October, 1959, the Depart
ment of Seminaries of the Na
tional Catholic Educational As
sociation reported that 131 sem
inaries have been founded since
the end of World War II. The
number includes 18 minor dio
cesan seminaries and 32 minor
seminaries for religious orders.)
iri:
"Let it be loudly proclaimed
and generally understood that
when ihe Church demands
Catholic schools for her chil
dren, she is not raising a ques
tion of party politics but simply
performing a religious duly
rigidly imposed upon her, She
has no desire to divorce her
children from the national spi
rit and way of life. On the con
trary, she wishes to mould them
in accordance with it in the best
sense and in the way most ad
vantageous to the nation. For
every true Catholic, trained in
accordance with Catholic doc
trine, is by that very fact found
to be an excellent citizen, a sin
cere lover of his country, and
a loyal and obedient subject
under any legitimate form of
government."
In his conclusion, Archbishop
Ryan reminded the Catholics of
these islands that “heaven helps
those who help themselves.” To
this he added:
“Catholics are roughly one-
third of the population and in
clude representatives of every
section of our cosmopolitan
community. Their suffrage is no
small power.
“They must insist that the
State or government respect
and protect their inherent lib
erty to bring up their children
in accordance with the law of
God and His Church.”
The Archbishop ordered the
priests of his See to read and
explain the long message serial
ly on eight successive Sundays,
ending August 21.
Board Rejects
Pretests Against
New School Head
STAMFORD, Conn., (NC) —
Stomford’s Board of Education
has rejected a ministerial
league’s protest against the ap
pointment of Joseph J. Fran-
china, a Catholic, as superin
tendent of this city’s public
schools.
The Stamford-Darien Minis
ters' League, composed of 63
Protestant ministers and Jew
ish rabbis, urged that “ethnic
and religious” considerations
be taken into account in the
appointment and advancement
of teachers in Stamford’s pub
lic school system.
The league proposed that “ev
idence be given in the selection
of new teachers and their ad
vancement in line with a fair
and equal regard of the true
ethnic and religious character
of our city.”
The league also had opposed
the appointment of Mr. Fran-
cbina, who is of Italian ances
try, on the ground that he does
not have a doctor’s degree. A
doctorate is not listed as a re
quirement for the superintend
ent’s post.
The Board of Education stat
ed that the proposal made by
the ministers’ league is “oppos
ed to good moral and ethical
conduct” and also is “illegal
and retrogressive.”
The ministers' stand that se
lection of public school person
nel should be based on "ihe
same religious proportion" as
the "religious composition of
the community" was opposed by
the Citizens' School League and
the Stamford Education Associ
ation, an organization of teach
ers.
NO CONFLICT FOR CATHOLIC
SERVING GOD AND COUNTRY
CHARLESTON, S. C„ (NC) — The average Catholic has
no split personality with regard to his nation and his Church,
a bishop said here.
"This legend of divided Catholic loyalty has flourished
because the professional anti-Catholic has been building it for
a century . . . and because Catholics have not bothered to
refute it," said Bishop Paul J. Hallinan of Charleston.
The Bishop spoke on a (July 7) television broadcast spon
sored by the Charleston Diocesan Council of Catholic Men.
Speaking of the 1 country’s national political conventions,
Bishop Hallinan said that “no more than any Catholic bishop
am I interested in the candidate’s religion — only whether he
professes and practices it sincerely.”
“No more than any American am I concerned with a can
didate’s faith — only whether it helps him uphold the sacred
oath of office he must take,” he aded.
The Bishop declared that "ihe important point here is that
the American Catholic finds nothing in his religion that con
flicts with his duty as an American; nothing in the Constitu
tion or laws of this country that conflict with his duty as a
Catholic."
Reds Label
Belgians As
'Aggressors'
(N.C.W.C. News Service)
LEOPOLDVILLE, Congo —
The Prime Minister of the
Soviet Union has threatened
Russian intervention in Africa.
Premier Nikita Khrushchev,
commenting on the U. N. de
cision to send aid to the newly
formed Congo Republic, said
the United Nations has “done
a good thing” in sending a mis
sion to the strife-torn former
Belgian colony. At the same
time he denounced the arrival
of Belgian troops in the Congo
to help restore order as “ag
gression” and accused the west
ern powers in general of trying
to topple the three-week-old
Congo regime.
Khrushchev said that Pre
mier Lumumba had asked for
Russian aid and that the Soviets
stood ready to intervene in case
of “aggression” by the western
powers.
Last .Friday the Congo Pre
mier said that his country was
ready to “make a pact with the
devil himself” in order to re
store order to the newest of
African nations and to oust Bel
gian troops. Premier Lumumba
also forbade U. N. troops to
make contact with Belgian
troops whom ‘he charged with
“Massacring Congolese.”
In an ultimatum issued Mon
day, Congo Premier Patrice
Lumumba threatened to call
upon Soviet Russia for military
aid if Belgian troops are not
withdrawn from Congo territory.
The Congolese senate, however,
firmly rejected any idea of
Soviet interference.
Army spokesmen have said
their troops are there only to
safeguard the lives of Belgian
nationals and will remain as
long as necessary.
Soviet authorities have de
manded that U.S. Air Force per-
sonel helping in evacuation of
Americans and other whites be
withdrawn immediately.
The disorders began two
weeks ago, when some Congo
lese troops mutinied demanding
higher pay and the ouster of
their white officers. But white
civilians, both European and
American, have been their main
target of attack.
A number of nuns were among
the white women reportedly
raped by mutinous Congolese
soldiers during the reign of ter
ror they have spread through
out this newly independent na
tion.
Belgian troops were flown
here to help end the mutiny
and aid whites to escape the
country. Premier Patrice Lum
umba also asked the United Na
tions and the United States for
military aid.
Meanwhile Premier Moise
Tshumbe of Katanga, the Con
go’s richest province, announced
that it had seceeded from the
Congo. He said the government
of Premier Lumumba had tried
“to make us submit to the will
of communism.”
The Congo, which became in
dependent June 30, has more
Catholics than any other Afri
can country. Catholics number
4,865,813 in a total population
of 13,559,000.
The new nation, almost twice
the size of Alaska, has been
plagued by violence since the
beginning of 1959 and many
Catholic leaders here realized
that the Church would face se
rious problems with the coming
of independence.
Chief among the problems
facing the Church are racial
strife, tribal warfare, the
growth of native sects and com
munist infiltration.
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CATHOLIC CHURCH IN CONGO
Catholic missionaries are continuing their work, unmolested, and Church property has
Hot been destroyed, reports from Leopoldville, Congo indicate. Belgian troops were flown
Sn to help sad the mutiny of native troops. Pictured is the Cathedral of Our Lady of Fati
ma, at Leopoldville. (NC Photos)
CARDINAL FUMASONI BIONDI
DIES; SERVED AS DELEGATE
TO U. S. FROM 1922-1933
Mourned
(Radio,, N.C.W.C. News Service)
ROME •— His Eminence Pie
tro Cardinal Fumasoni Biondi,
head of the Church’s missionary
effort since 1933 and apostolic
delegate to the United States
for 10 years before that, has
died in a Rome hospital.
The health of the 87-year-old
prelate had been failing for
weeks.
His Holiness Pope John XXIII
had left the Vatican to visit the
weakening Cardinal only nine
days before his death.
The Cardinal’s death leaves
84 members in the College of
Cardinals, of whom 32 are Ital
ians.
Cardinal Fumasoni Biondi
had been a priest for 63 years
and an archbishop for 43 years.
He was born in Rome on Sep
tember 4, 1872, and was educat
ed for the priesthood at the
Roman Seminary. Before ordi
nation he served in the Italian
Army in accordance with Ital
ian law.
He was ordained on April 17,
1897 in the Basilica of St. John
Lateran in Rome. Before his or
dination he received the degree
of doctor of theology, and two
years after ordination he be
came a doctor of laws.
In 1904 he became an official
of the Congregation for the
Propagation of the Faith. At
that time the Church in the
United States was still under
the jurisdiction of the congrega
tion, and was technically a mis
sion territory. It remanied so for
six of his 12 years with the con
gregation.
In 1916 he was named apos
tolic delegate to India and ele
vated to the rank of archbishop,
with the titular See of Doclea.
Because World War II made
travel through the Middle East
difficult, he journeyed to India
around Africa, and visited mis
sions on that continent.
Archbishop Fumasoni Bion-
di’s three years as apostolic del
egate to India witnessed a mark
ed expansion of the Church’s in
fluence there. He transferred
the residence of the Apostolic
Delegate from Kandy, Ceylon,
to Bangalore, near Madras.
In 1919 he was made first
Apostolic Delegate to Japan. He
took with him one of the three
known relics of St. Francis
Xavier. It was enshrined in the
Cathedral of Nagasaki. (The
other two relics are in Goa and
in Rome.)
In December, 1922, he was
named apostolic delegate to the
United States. His duties
brought him to every state in
the Union. With the creation
of the Diocese of Reno, every
state in the Union came to have
a bishopric during his tenure.
Archbishop Fumasoni Bion-
di’s years in the U. S. were
marred by bitter anti-Catholic
outbursts, with the resurgence
of the Ku Klux Klan and big
otry provoked by the campaign
in 1928 of Alfred E. Smith, a
Catholic, for the presidency,
Grotesque charges of papal in
terference in American politics
were publicly aired. The Apos
tolic Delegate continued his du
ties patiently and without re
crimination, and thereby earn
ed admiration from observant
persons throughout the country.
Archbishop Fumasoni Biondi
took over the duties of aposto
lic delegate to Mexico when the
delegate there was forced by
government persecution to flee
the country. The modus vivendi
for the Church in Mexico was
worked out while he was Apos
tolic Delegate to Mexico.
As head of the Church’s
worldwide missions he was im
mediately beset by problems.
Outbreak of the Sino-Japanese
W'ar cut off many missioners
from their sources of supply and
counsel; Cardinal Fumasoni Bi
ondi devised means of com
municating with them. The in
ternational depression of the
early 1930s threatened to throt
tle contributions to the fund for
the Church’s mission effort;
Cardinal Fumasoni Biondi
found means of encouraging
generosity in the midst of such
hard times.
During his administration he
established more native mis
sions than any previous prefect.
In 1958, a pro-prefect of the
Congregation was appointed to
help Cardinal Fumasoni Biondi
in its direction. His health and
eyesight had been failing.
Cardinal Samuel Stritch,
Archbishop of Chicago, was ori
ginally appointed to the post,
but he died shortly after his ar
rival in Rome. He was succeed
ed by Cardinal Agagianian.
His Eminence Pietro Cardin
al Fumasoni Biondi, 87, head
of the Congregation of the
Propagation of the Faith,
has died in Rome. He served
as Apostolic Delegate to the
United States, from 1923 to
1933, before taking up his
post in Rome. (NC Photos)
U. S. Nun
Reported
Unharmed
ROCKPORT, Mass., (NC)—An
American nun, one of two U. S.
Catholic missionaries known to
have been in the Congo at the
outbreak of violence there, has
been reported “safe” in the
capital city of Leopoldville.
B. Robert Finn, a brother of
Mother Mary Finn, said he had
received word (July 13) from
the Brussels, Belgium, head
quarters of the Religious of the
Sacred Heart, that his sister is
unharmed.
Prior to the wave of terror
that swept over the infant Con
go Republic, Mother Finn was
stationed at a Catholic mission
school in Mbonsa-Mboma, about
60 miles from Leopoldville.
Mr. Finn said the cabled mes
sage he received from the Bel
gian headquarters of the Reli
gious of the Sacred Heart gave
no information about his sister
execpt that she is “safe in
Leopoldville.” Mother Margaret
Mary, a native of Ashtabula,
Ohio, joined the Religious of the
Sacred Heart in 1929 and went
to the Congo early in 1959.
The other U.S. Catholic mis
sionary know nto have been sta
tioned in the Congo is a Negro
Divine Word priest, Father
Richard Winters, S.V.D.. Father
Winters, 49, a native of Atlantic
City, N.J., has been in the Con
go since 1952 and was stationed
at a Catholic mission in Bagata,
Leopoldville province, in the
western part of the nation.
Father Winters was born in
Atlantic City, N. J., in 1911. He
was ordained to the priesthood
in 1941 and was assigned to the
Congo in 1952. He has been
there ever since, except for one
return visit on vacation to the
United States.
Father Winters has a brother
who is also a Divine Word
priest, Father Arthur Winters,
S.V.D., a member of the faculty
at the Divine Word seminary
in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi.
His mother is living in
Pleasantville, N. J. Two other
brothers also live in Pleasant
ville, two in Washington, D. C.,
and one in Newark.
Father Arthur said he receiv
ed a letter from his brother in
the Congo shortly before the
nation gained its independence
from Belgium on June 30. At
that time, Father Arthur said,
Father Richard indicated that
the situation “was a little
tense.”
Religious Vacation School
Conducted By Macon Parish
MACON — Sixty-three en- these smaller groups and more
thusiastic youngsters enjoyed individualized instruction made
the Religious Vacation School the religious vocation school
conducted for them at St. Jos- most interesting and profitable,
eph School in Macon from June The only complaint from both
6 through June 24. catechists and pupils was that
Through the generosity of six the days just were not long en-
lay catechists who assisted Sis- ough to do all the things they
ter Mary Julian, R.S.M., and wanted to do.
Sister Mary Helen, R.S.M., the The daily schedule of the re
children were divided into sev- ligious vacation school was as
en groups according to their follows:
own grade level. Naturally, 9:00-7:05 — Assembly, Pledge
——■ —' of Allegiance and to the Flag.
9:05-10:15 — Religious In-
mSsg/m struction.
■A l iiJL "La-BHMM 10:15-10:30 — Recess.
Book Reviews 3 10 ; 3 °- 10 ; 45 ~ R ^ ary ‘
10:45-11:10 — Visual Aids.
Calendar of Feasts 1 6 11:15-11:30 — Choir Practice.
„, , _ . 11:30-12:30 — Liturgical
Editorial Comment 4 Period.
Marriage Notices 3 During this last period vari
ous liturgical symbols were ex~
Obifuaries 2 plained and discussed, then
Youth Column 5 drawn by the children. Each
class also had a project which
Don't Forget to Read was worked on during this
2nd Installment of "The period.
Catholic in America" 2 Highlights of the religious va-
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