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PAGE 6—THE BULLETIN, September 17, 1960 ~
Albany PCCW Names
Committee Chairmen
ALBANY — St. Teresa’s
Catholic W o m a n’s Council
held its first meeting Thurs
day evening Septmeber 1st at
the Parish Hall on Residence
Ave. Mrs. Paul Anderson, Jr.,
president presiding. The meet
ing was opened with a prayer
by Rev. Marvin LeFrois.
Plans for the coming year
were formulated, and commit
tees for the following projects
and their chairman were in
troduced.
They are: D.C.C.S. Conven
tion, Mrs. Pinkston; Catholic
Charities, Mrs. Hutnick; Civil
Defense, Mrs. Gober McCor
mick; Confraternity of Chris
tian Doctrine, Mrs. Cygano-
wicz; Family and Parent Edu
cation, Mrs. Kahler; Foreign
Relief, Helen Lindsey; Home
and School Association, Mrs.
Cantrell; Public Relations,
Mrs. Hughey; Youth, Miss Bea
McCormick, Miss Ann Louise
McCormick, Mrs. Kirksey; Li
braries and Literature, Mrs.
Fleming; Flowers for Altar,
Miss Kirksey; Old Church,
Phyllis Duke; Luncheon Chair
man, Mrs. Lewis and Mrs.
Bender; Parish Hall, Mrs.
Dougherty; First Friday Call
ing, Mrs. Sheed.
Volunteers for these projects
are needed, and those inter
ested are invited to contact the
respective chairman.
A chili dinner is planned
for September 29th to be held
in the school auditorium.
Misses Bea and Ann Louise
McCormick concluded the eve
ning with a talk and . the
showing of slides of their re
cent trip to Russia.
ANTI-CATHOLIC LITERATURE
(Continued from Page 1)
ligio-politico institution” and
pledged to “exercise our con-
stutional and moral rights” to
oppose Sen. Kennedy “in
whatever manner we deem
proper.”
3) In Covington, Ky., the
North Bend Baptist Associa
tion adopted a resolution op
posing the election of a Roman
Catholic as President. The as
sociation represents some 17,-
000 Baptists in 33 northern
Kentucky churches.
The resolution, which did
not not mention Sen. Kennedy
by name, said election of a
Catholic as President “would
enable him to appoint Roman
Catholics to any position in
government . . . thus gradually
undermining the areas of edu
cation, medicine and censor
ship, and domestic relations
which constitute our basic
American way of life.”
4) In Washington, D. C., an
Owensboro, Ky., Baptist min
ister apologized (Aug. 31)
when confronted with evi
dence that an anti-Catholic
statement he had circulated
was falsely attributed to Tho
mas Jefferson.
As reported by the Washing
ton Post and Times Herald,
the Rev. Jess Moody of the
First Baptist Church, Owens
boro, expressed “deep regret
and humility” on learning that
in the statement Jefferson was
not referring to Catholics at
all.
A letter from the Rev.
Moody published in several
southern Baptist publications
said that Jefferson’s famed
declaration of ^eternal hostili
ty against every form of tyran
ny over the mind of man” was
directed ,, against “the Boston
Catholic clergy.”
Actually, however, Jeffer
son did not refer to Catholics,
but specifically mentioned at
tempts by “Episcopalians and
Congregationalists” to create
an American state church.
The Rev. Moody said he had
“made the journalistic mistake
of quoting the quote without
checking it.” He said he would
send a retraction to every pub
lication which printed his orig
inal letter.
5) In Richmond, Va., a
Methodist editor said he would
not vote for a Catholic as
President unless the Pope gave
assurances that the individual
would be released from the
Church’s “absolute control”
over its members.
In an editorial appearing in
the September 1 issue of the
Virginia Methodist Advocate,
Dr. George S. Reamey describ
ed the Catholic Church as “not
only a religious dictatorship,
but also a political state.” The
Methodist Advocate has a cir
culation of about 23,000.
6) In Portsmouth, Va., a
Presbyterian minister appear
ing on a local television sta
tion said that “the Roman
Catholic Church is as great a
menace as communism.”
The statement was made by
the Rev. Dr. Stuart Merriam,
of the First Presbyterian
Church, Portsmouth.
7) In Springfield, Mo., the
general presbytery of the As
semblies of God unanimously
adopted a resolution (Sept. 2)
opposing election of a Catholic
as President. The Assemblies
of God, an evangelical sect,
claims some 500,000 members.
8) In New York, Vice Pres
ident Nixon and Sen. Kennedy
both issued statements endors
ing a declaration by the
American Jewish Congress
that the “divisive myth of bloc
voting” is endangering “the
American process of democrat
ic elections.”
OZARK “BIBLE BELT”
(Continued from Page 1)
noticeable here in Granby.
People refuse to accept Cath
olic literature. It is evident
that the anti-Kennedy propa
ganda has enlarged into anti-
Catholic propaganda.”
Among the printed litera
ture circulated here is a leaflet
entitled “The Catholic Militia.”
Its theme is that Catholics in
all branches of the armed
forces gradually working
themselves into positions of
importance, under the guid
ance of the Bishops. When a
Catholic is elected President,
the pamphlet predicts, these
military Catholics will make
the armed forces an organiza
tion of the U. S. hierarchy.
“In this way the Pope will
be the sole ruler of this coun
try,” the pamphlet warns, It
names Catholics in the armed
forces with executive positions.
Other warnings being cir
culated are that all public
schools will become Catholic
schools if a Catholic is elected
President, and that all non-
Catholics will be fotced to
choose between becoming
Catholics or being imprisoned.
Priests on mission assign
ments in this area this sum
mer reported it almost im
possible to counteract such
propaganda effectively.
“One can see that the peo
ple sincerely believe what they
are being told by their minis
ters,” one priest-missionary
said.
“Logical argument has little
effect, and even the psycho
logical appeals leave them
cold,” Father Miller added.
To the priests who have
been traveling through the
area giving missions for years,
the injection of politics into
the religious field was a new
development.
Father Edward Wilson, C.M.,
one priest touring the area,
said he had heard again the
question: “Isn’t it true that the
bishops will command all
Catholics to vote for Ken
nedy?”
Other frequently head state
ments, he said, are: “I won’t
vote for Kennedy, because if
he is elected he will have to
take orders from the Pope.”
“I’m a stanch Democrat, but
I can’t vote for Kennedy be
cause that would be a vote
for a foreign power to rule
this country.”
“Kennedy would have to
take orders from the priest in
confession.”
“Kennedy, as a Catholic, has
to give allegiance to a for
eign power, and that’s against
our democratic principles.”
Father Thomas Connolly,
C.M., another of the mission-
ers, noted that some of the
“same old bones were rattling
around again” that were used
during the A1 Smith campaign
of 1928. In that year New
York’s Gov. Smith, a Catholic,
was defeated in his bid for the
presidency.
Aids the Blind
A veteran of 23 years work
for the blind, Father Robert
J. Shea (above), pastor of
St. James parish, Rocky Hill,
Conn., is the new president
of the American Federation
of Catholic Workers for the
Blind. He is also director of
the Catholic Guild for the
Blind in the Archdiocese of
Hartford. (NC Photos)
Fail To Hot
On Sid To
Education
(N.C.W.C. News Service)
WASHINGTON — Congres
sional adjournment marked
the end of a major chapter in
the history of proposed legis
lation for Federal aid to edu
cation, including private, non
profit schools.
The 86th Congress did not
produce an aid bill, but it was
the first in which both cham
bers passed general measures
to assist public schools. The
difference between their ver
sions of aid were never recon
ciled.
The session was also the
first in which both Senate and
House dealt with proposals to
aid classroom construction of
Catholic and other private
schools by extending, long
term loans with interest.
However, these proposals
met defeat. The idea was vot
ed down on the Senate floor,
ruled out of order on the
House floor and defeated twice
in the House Education Com
mittee.
Observers rate the reasons
for defeat as many and com
plex. But they cite fear of a
major Church-State controver
sy in an election year, belief
that insufficient evidence of a
need for funds was presented
and concern that Federal funds
to private schools might be
used to perpetrate racial seg
regation in areas where public
school systems are abandoned.
SISTER SOCORRO MARIE
recently visited her father Mr.
Dan D. Strong of Blakely prior
to departing for her new mis
sion assignment to the Phili-
pines. The former Jessie
Strong, Sister graduated from
Maryknoll Normal College in
Manila and was assigned to
Balboa in the Panama Canal
Zone in 1943, where she taught
at the Maryknoll Sisters
School. Her new assignment
will take her to Manial, her
childhood home. The Mary
knoll Sisters founded in 1912,
has more than 1450 members
scattered over the globe.
Bless 1st' Braille
Copy Of Byzantine
Rite Liturgy
BING HAMPTON, N. Y.
(NC)—A 124-page Braille copy
of an English translation of the
Byzantine Divine Liturgy,
(Mass) has been blessed here.
The blessing of the book by
Father Alexander P. Mac^kov,
pastor of Holy Spirit Church,
marked the culmination of a
two-year project started by
Michael Supa, a blind parish
ioner.
Mr. Supa, an instructor in
the Voluntary Education De
partment of the IBN Corpora
tion, Endicott, N. Y., initiated
the project in 1958.
With the help of the Nation-
Braille Press in Boston, the
Byzantine liturgy was tran
scribed into Braille by Febru
ary, 1960.
It contains the full text of
an English translation copy
righted in 1956 by Father
Frederick Wilcock, S.J.
Mr. Supa plans to send the
original Braille copy to Bish
op Nicholas T. Elko of the
Byzantine Greek Rite Diocese
of Pittsburgh, after he has
made a copy for his own use.
The original copy will be
made available to the blind
and deaf-blind who want to
make copies for themselves.
NAMED DIRECTOR
CEDAR FALLS, Iowa, (NC)
— Msgr. Loras J. Watters, who
has been serving as spiritual
director at the North Ameri
can College in Rome, is the
new director of the American
Martyrs Retreat House here.
Msgr. Watters arrived in
Dubuque by plane from Rome
on August 29 to take over his
duties. He succeeds Father Da
vid R. Voels, who died in a
boating mishap in northern
Minnesota on August 26.
RECEIVE EAGLE SCOUT AWARDS — These two
scouts of St. Joseph’s Troop 10 received the Eagle Scout
Award at a recent Court of Honor. Receiving the award
were Arnold Punaro (left) and Ronnie Pachence (right).
—(Drinnon Photo)
Eagle Scout Award
For Macon Scouts
MACON — Arnold Punaro
and Ronnie Pachence were
made Eagle Scouts at a Court
of Honor held in the social
hall of Saint Joseph’s Church.
The ceremony was conducted
by Mr. Jim Puster, Jr., com
mittee chairman and institu
tional representative of the
Knights of Columbus and
Saint Joseph Home-School As
sociation, sponsoring organiza
tions.
Arnold Punaro is the son of
Mr. and Mrs. Angelo Punaro
of 854 Orange Terrace. He
started in scouting with Troop
10 in November, 1957 and has
progressed steadily through
the ranks becoming a Star
Scout in August 1959 and Life
Scout in November 1959. Ar
nold finished the 8th grade at
St. Joseph School in June,
1960 and is now attending St.
John Vianney, Minor Semi
nary, Savannah.
Ronnie Pachence is the son
of Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Pach
ence of 2492 Tredway Drive.
Ronnie started in Scouting in
October, 1957 with Troop 718,
Suitland, Maryland. He trans
ferred to. Troop 10, Macon, in
1958. He was made a Star
Scout in August 1959 and Life
Scout in April 1960. Ronnie
graduated from, St. Joseph
School in June 1959 and at
present is a student at St. John
Vianney, Minor . Seminary,
Savannah.
Additional merit badges and
awards were presented to the
following:
Thomas Cassidy, Steve Pus
ter, David Hofstadter, Kevin
Schocnat, Bill Cramer, Chris
Sheridan, Dennis Sweeney,
Tony Powell, Ronnie Coleman,
Tommy Jenkins, Steve Cramer,
Jimmy McCullen, Jim Cramer,
Bill Cramer, Billy Cain, Ar
nold Punaro and Ronnie Pach
ence.
Mr. L. Perch, Scoutmaster
of Troop 22, was presented a
gift by Troop 10 for assistance
given them at Camp Ben Haw
kins this summer.
Dr. E. L. Hofstadter is
Scoutmaster of Troop 10. Mr.
Jim Pister, Jr., and Mr. Nick
Camerio, Jr., are Assistant
Scoutmasters.
Following a year of training as lay missioners by the
Aid to International Development (AID) of Paterson, N. J.,
this family will live for two years in a South American mis
sion area. Mr. and Mrs. Sam Mondello, of Detroit, brief
their children (left to right) James, Judy and John, on places
they will be seeing soon.—(NC Photos).
Seven North American Prelates,
Priests Are Named To Vatican
Secretariat For Communications
(Radio, NCWC News Service)
VATICAN CITY, — Seven
North American prelates and
priests have been named to a
preparatory body for the com
ing ecumenical council.
Prelates from the U. S. ap
pointed consultors of the Sec
retariat for Communications
Media were Archbishop Wil
liam E. Cousins of Milwaukee,
chairman of the Bishops’ Com
mittee on the National Office
for Decent Literature; Bishop
James A. McNulty of Paterson,
N. J., chairman of the Bishop’s
Committee on Motion Pictures,
Radio and Television; Bishop
Albert R. Zuroweste of Belle
ville, 111., episcopal chairman
of the Press Department of the
National Catholic Welfare
Conference; and Msgr. Timo
thy J. Flynn, director of the
Bureau of Information of the
New York archdiocese.
Also members of the sec
retariat were Msgr. James I.
Tucek of the Dallas-Fort
Worth, Tex., diocese, chief of
the Rome bureau of the
N.C.W.C. News Service, and
Father G. Frederick Heinz-
mann, M.M., of Union City,
N. J., editor of the English-
language section of Fides, mis
sion news servicie in Rome.
Head of the secretariat is
Archbishop Martin J. O’Con
nor, president of the Pontifi
cal Commission for Motion
Pictures, Radio and Television
and rector of the North Ameri
can College in Rome.
Israel Asked
To Return
Church Land
TEL AVIV, Israel (NC)—His
Eminence Joseph Cardinal
Brings, Archbishop of Cologne,
as president of the German
Association for the Holy Land,
has asked the Israeli govern
ment to return the associa
tion’s property in Lower Gali
lee.
The land was taken over
temporarily by the government
for defense reasons 12 years
ago. It borders on a farm own
ed by the Benedictine’s Dorrni-
tion Abbey of Jerusalem. The
Abbey is headed by Abbot Leo
A. Rudloff, O.S.B., of Weston,
Vermont.
If the land is returned it will
be operated as a farm by the
Benedictines. The abbey may
also reopen the pilgrims’ hostel
which was located on the
property until the government
took it.
Bill For 4 Could Be $1,368
MINNESOTA FAMILY SPENDS $272
FOR 2 IN CATHOLIC GRADE SCHOOL
7low much does it cost an
average Catholic family to sup
port both the public school sys
tem and Catholic schoolsf How
much more expensive is it than
the cost their neighbors pays for
public schools alonef
Following is a report from
Minnesota on these questions.
It is one of a series of articles
from different sections of the
country.
(By James Gannon)
(N.C.W.C. NEWS SERVICE)
ST. PAUL — The George
Ballis family of suburban
Roseville is typical of a Min
nesota Catholic family sup
porting two types of schools.
The Ballises and their five
daughters, four of them of
school age, live in the $17,000
home in St. Rose of Lima
parish.
Two children attend a Cath
olic school; two others a pub
lic school. The total educational
bill during the 1959-60 fiscal
year came to $657 in property
and state income taxes for
public schools and in fees and
donations to Catholic schools.
This bill would have been
$385 if the family had support
ed only public schools. Cath
olic schooling cost them an ad
ditional $272, most of it spent
PONTIAC, Mich., (NC)—Fa
ther Erwin A. Juraschek, na
tional director of Convert
Makers of America, laid down
an 11-point “code for Catholic
convert makers” in his keynote
address to the CMOA annual
meeting.
He told (Sept. 4) CMOA
members to pledge a year of
their lives to “closer personal
union with Christ, in order to
unite others with Christ in the
apostolic movement” and bring
new converts to Christ and His
Church.
He commended the organi
zation on the report of 429
new members during the past
year, with an objective of one
convert a year for each mem
ber, “The tide is turning,” Fa
ther Juraschek said, “and your
apostolic work is beginning to
show big returns.”
Miss Thelma Strong of De
troit was named CMOA presi
dent and Mrs. Gertrude An
derson vice president. Mrs.
Donna Wall was re-elected
secretary; Alan Neville treas
urer. The meeting approved a
new office of coordinator for
CMOA.
In his code Father Juraschek
asked CMOA members to
pledge themselves:
1. To grow spiritually
through daily prayer, with a
morning offering of all one’s
acts for God, daily examina
tion of conscience and evening
prayers.
2. To attend Holy Mass and
receive communion at least one
weekday each week, in addi
tion to Sundays.
Barn Converted
Into Church
Closed By Reds
BERLIN, (Radio, NC) — An
old barn which was converted
into a Catholic church by the
volunteer labor of Catholic
and Protestant' workers has
been closed by the communist
regime in East Germany, it
was learned here.
The new church, which was
to have been blessed this Sep
tember, is located in Kollwitz,
near Magdeburg.
It was sealed by the regime
on grounds that a Catholic
church is not necessary there.
The parish consists of 800
Catholics coming from 10
nearby villages.
Prior to the renovation of
the barn, Sunday Mass was of
fered in the local Protestant
church, while weekday Masses
were said in an attic room.
Catholic and Protestant
workers donated 4,500 hours
of their spare time toward
converting the old barn into a
church.
Cliisrdi Lost
?25 Million
in Earthquakes
SANTIAGO, Chile, (NC) —
Church losses resulting from
the series of earthquakes and
tidal waves that ravaged Chile
earlier this year total $25 mil
lion, it has been announced.
The losses affect 10 Sees.
The Chilean Catholics chari
ties organization is waging a
campaign to raise funds for
the reconstruction of churches.
A special collection for re
building schools was taken in
Chilean churches (Aug. 27).
directly on their seven and 12-
year-old daughters.
The two older daughters,
aged 17 and 14, attended public
schools, but if they went to
a Catholic institution, the fam
ily’s expenses for Catholic
education would shoot up to
about $983 a year.
This would raise their total
educational bill to $1,368.
Mr. Ballis, a post office em
ployee, paid a $365, property
tax this year. Roughly 62 per
cent, about $226, went to sup
port Roseville public schools.
His state income tax amounted
to $159, all of which went to
support public education.
The $272 Mr. Ballis spent
on Catholic education included
tuition at St. Rose’s. It is. $40
per family, regardless of the
number of children attending
the school.
Bus fare for the two young
girls was $6.75 a month for
nine months — a total of
$60.75.
Other costs included $104
during the year to the parish
building fund, $24 a year to
the archdiocesan high school
building fund and $44 in uni
forms for the two girls in St.
Rose of Lima primary school.
3. To make Confession a reg
ular practice at least once a
month.
4. To recite the Rosary daily
for the conversion of souls.
5. To do spiritual reading
each day, especially the New
Testament of the Bible, in ad
dition to some serious reading
each week, especially the
Catholic Press, to learn the
mind of the Church on modern
problems.
6. To make a closed retreat
each year to assess spiritual
progress.
7. To offer a Holy Hour once
each month for conversions.
8. To pray daily for conver
sion of the world to Christ,
and especially for a particular
person.
9. To do a least one specific
act of charity each day.
10. To mirror Christ in one’s
daily conduct and in contacts
with others in order to win
others to Him.
11. To encourage the forma
tion of CMOA groups within
the different organizations of
Catholic Action.
“Adopt this as your code,”.
Father Juraschek said, “and
you will bring yourselves close
to Christ and promote His
Kingdom throughout the
world.”
Sees Separated
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shown that it would welcome
any collaboration which might
prove mutually acceptable
with Catholic theologians who
have by their writings con
tributed so much to unity dis
cussions.
“We now have an excellent
opportunity, if not a duty, to
provide that help as far as we
can,” he added.
“Perhaps they are not quite
ready to discuss such things
as authority and the validity
of orders. But there is now an
increasing tendency for the va
rious (church) bodies to form
local and national unions,” he
reported.
Father Leeming said that
while some argue that this
means a hardening of Protest
ant opposition to the Holy
See, in fact “they work togeth
er in these unions on a positive
study of the doctrine of the
Church by reference to the
primary sources of the New
Testament. This rethinking to
gether is opening their minds
to new ideas more especially
to universal notions and it is
this process which is bringing
them nearer to us. Progress is
slow but perceptible.”
Father Leeming, a leading
worker for the ecumenical
movement, said the non-Cath-
olic delegates of all denomina
tions from many parts of the
world had shown a very real
friendliness and readiness to
discuss the position with him.
A big difficulty at present is
the definition of terms that
means very different things to
Catholics and Protestants, he
reported. “But they are com
ing to understand our doctrine
more, and we are beginning to
grasp their idiom,” he added.
The two older Ballis girls
attended different public sec
ondary schools.
At one, a senior high school,
the only expense is an optional
$6 service fee and at the other,
a junior high school, the same
fee is $3. The fee entitles stu
dents to attend school activi
ties and receive incidentals
such as the school newspaper.
The Ballises say that the
additional expense of tuition
and other charges at Catholic
high schools, including trans
portation costs on private bus
es, keeps the older girls from
attending a Catholic school,
though the parents wish they
could attend.
“We have all we can do to
get them through Catholic
grade school,” Mr. Ballis said.
He said the younger children
probably will attend public
secondary schools also.
“We wish we could send
them through public grade
school and then a Catholic
high school, if only the high
schools were not so expensive,”
he said.
If the two girls did attend
Archbishop Murray Memorial
High School, for example, the
Ballis’ educational bill would
more than double.
Tuition would come to about
$400 for the two, uniforms to
about $100, books about $40
and bus transportation $171.
Added to the $272 already
being paid, this would jump
the Catholic education bill up
to $983 and raise the total
amount spent on education,
public and Catholic, to $1,368.
The other side of this story
belongs to St. Rose of Lima
grade school, which has seen
its enrollment jump from 300
in 1940 to 1,180 today.
A six-room building was put
up in 1940, a 12-room addition
was built in 1954 and eight
more classrooms and a library
were added in 1956.
During the 1958-59 fiscal
year, the school operated at a
cost of $60,400, according to
Msgr. James Ryan, pastor.
This came to a per-pupil ex
pense of about $51.
Taking the state department
of education’s estimate of a
cost of $287 per pupil in pub
lic schools, it would cost about
$337,660 for a public school the
size of St. Rose’s to operate
each year.
The $40 tuition charged for
the parish grade school, Msgr.
Ryan said, does not cover op
eration expenses. Last year,
the parish had to dip into its
general fund for $37,500 to
make up the difference be
tween what the school gets in
fees and weekly collections
and what it costs.
Salaries for 15 teaching Sis
ters came to $10,400 — $693
each. Salaries for the 10 lay
teachers were $3,000 each, a
total of $30,000.
But despite the low per-
pupil cost these low salaries
help maintain, the school
nevertheless represents a con
siderable financial burden to
the Ballis—- as ’ other Catholic
schools do to many thousands
of families across the nation.
Aids the Needy
Brother Mathias Barrett,
B.G.S. (above), founder of
the Little Brothers of the
Good Shepherd has opened
Camillus House in down
town Miami, Fla., to aid and
care for needy and unfortu
nate men. The community
which was established at Al
buquerque, N. M. in 1955
now numbers 25 members
who provide centers for
homeless men in Albuquer
que and New Orleans. In
Columbus, Ohio, they oper
ate the Brother Martin
Home for men suffering from
cerebral palsy or other seri
ous physical handicaps. (NG
Photos)
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SAVANNAH BANK & Trust Co.
Savannah, Georgia Member F. D. I. C.
Outlines 11-Point Program
For Success Before Annual
Meeting Of Convert Makers