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Serving Georgia's 88 Southern Counties Vol. 41,' No. 4 DIOCESE OF SAVANNAH EDITION OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF THE DIOCESE OF SAVANNAH MONROE, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, JULY 23, 1960 Published By The Catholic Laymen's Ass'n of Georgia 10c Per Copy — $3 a Year Russia Threatens Intervention Sn Congo Revolt : •r- i ■saLa * v» *Kv ♦**V* *;<;v v*v ■, f + » ♦ * \\V wl* >%v v*v v*v ***♦.. *4*4*4* v«v * VtT : • V* fc £ & & vM* mmm av; y * IV ♦AV - v,® : vu* 4 & s. * ■*■*,>: L J t 4 SU * * * ♦ A..;,-, v*v |i|f |;'S V+V v+v * y i * * * i . ** ♦ *• ■t * -4- A V * A ’ \ * 4 * *.:* .4 >■ 4 i , w * ill ■¥^4 4- J * * 4*4-4 AV* * *t . * * % 4 * t 4 4 4 4 ***** * + * * : + t ■ i t * * * ♦ :% % :* 4*44 . * 4 t 4,4 4 4 m m v,V AV. vi ’ % i s ^ -V * s F * * * » ■ . + « * * * ’ L* J * * * * t * f, s . • sTj* * v*\ 4 * * \ i * * ? H * 4 4 % i * t k * * * 4 * 4 & tV i r t , i it $ f f 4 * £ ^ 4 * * 4 V 4 * VA* f t 5: •v,\ * rv : VV f W; * * * k w : w * ,n i;i va* v,v v»v AV* X , .X| jiMif' i ■ ' *" \Y'T!V r 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. (Continued on Page 6) 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- (Continued on Page 6)