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DIOCESE OF SAVANNAH EDITION i **»**i<t*>a*!4*0p*0«* Serving Georgia's 88 Southern Counties Published By The Catholic Laymen's Ass'n of Georgia OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF THE DIOCESE OF SAVANNAH Vol. 41, No. 13 MONROE, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1960 10c Per Copy — $3 a Year Diocesan Y outh Gather For Annual Convention wmamm UNIVERSITY BUILDINGS BLESSED BY U. S. CARDINALS — The four Cardinals of the Catholic Church in the United States individually blessed four new buildings on the Catholic University of America campus during the annual Bishops’ Meeting in Washington, D. C. At left: His Eminence Richard Cardinal Cushing, Archbishop of Boston, uses towel and cement on the cornerstone of Conaty Hall; and at right, His Eminence Francis Cardinal Spellman, Archbishop of New York, blesses addition to Caldwell Hall where the bishops hold their annual meetings.—(NC Photos) U. S. Bishops Urge Return To Religion For Restoring Man's Sense Of Personal Responsibility (N.C.W.C. NEWS SERVICE) WASHINGTON — The United States is. suffering from a breakdown -in personal re sponsibility caused chiefly by a marked decline in religious convictions, the U. S. Catholic Bishops declared in their 1960 statement. The statement, issued at the conclusion of the Bishops’ an nual meeting here, said the decay of personal responsibil ity is evident in family life, industry, economic life in gen eral and in international af fairs. Personal responsibility is being sacrificed, the Bishops declared, by a tendency to delegate too much responsibil ity. to organizations. They said that the correction of the “basically moral evils” in the various spheres of life “and the restoration of a vig- orus sense of personal respon sibility belong primarily to the field of religion.” “The foremost signs of the decline of personal responsi bility are to be found in the family,” the Bishops stated “The failure of parents to ful fill their responsibilities, as re vealed in the frequency of divorce, desertion and broken homes, is a national disgrace. Any delinquency of parents may well be reflected in the delinquency of youth, which is now commonly considered . our greatest national domestic : problem.” The Bishops’ statement, en titled “Need for Personal Re sponsibility,” said that “equal ly conspicuous is the evidence of decline in the sense of re sponsibility within our indus trial organization and in our general economic life.” “At a time when so much depends upon the soundness of our economy and upon our ability to produce to meet the needs of a rapidly developing world, we have been faced with a frequent lack of truly responsible leadership, both on the part of management and labor,” the Bishops said. “Among the evident in stances of the breakdown of personal responsibility most deplorable have been the widespread cynical reaction to the recent revelation of dis honesty, waste and malfeas ance in industrial relations.” Personal responsibility and initiative have been charac teristics of this nation, the Bishops said, but “pressures are growing for a constantly greater reliance on the collec tivity rather than on the in dividual.” The tendency to delegate excessive responsibil ity to an organization is dis cernible in international af fairs, the Bishops said. Many citizens seem to feel that more adherence to the United Na tions absolves the nation from further responsibility in the international order, they add ed. “However varied the above mentioned evils, ranging from the single act of wrongdoing to the moral laxity of the mass mind, the root cause is the same—the rejection of per sonal responsibility,” the state ment said. “This is a moral evil, as are all the major ills that beset the present world. As such their cure is largely within the power of individual per sons. A godly society is the work of godly men. Even the most universal evil and the threatened mechanization of man can be made to yield be fore the just and determined (Continued on Page 6) Reception For Priests At Dublin DUBLIN — A reception honoring Rev. Gajetan Mc- Dyre and Rev. Myron Bate man of the Missionary Ser vants of the Most Holy Trin ity will be held Wednesday evening, November 30th, at the Catholic Center in Dublin, under the auspices of the Parish Council of Catholic Women. The two priests have recent ly taken over the pastoral du ties of the Immaculate Con ception Church here. Rev. Coleman. Nolan from Silver Springs, Maryland, will also be present, representing the Missionary Servant magazine. He is a former classmate of Rev. Cyril Draina, who served as temportry pastor of the church during the summer months. Open house will be held from eight to ten, with par ishioners, as well as guests from Sandersville and Wrights- ville, on hand to welcome the priests. ! CALENDAR OF EVENTS Friday, Nov. 25, 8-9 PM—Workshop for Adult Advisors. Saturday, Nov. 26, 10 AM-1 PM—Registration, Benedictine Armory. Registration fee $2.00. 1:30 PM—Benediction, Sacred Heart Church. Welcome Address by Bishop McDonough. 2 PM—Plenary Session B. C. Armory. (1) Selections by Pius X Glee Club. (2) Recreation Workshop by Mr. Kiernan | Stenson of Pittsburgh, Pa. 3-3:30 PM—Intermission Entertainment, Coke break. | (1) Folk Dances. (2) Choral Selections, Aquinas Glee Club. 3:30-4:30 PM—Workshop, Part 11. 4:30 PM—Balloting for Officers of Diocesan | Council. 8-12 AM—Semi-formal Dances. Pius X. Benedictine Armory. Sunday, Nov. 27, 9:15 AM—Mass and Holy Com munion, Cathedral’s Chapel of Our Lady. 10:30 xAM—Communion Breakfast Benedictine Armory. 300 EXPECTED AT SEE CITY MEETING SAVANNAH — More than three hundred delegates and members of Parish Catholic Youth Councils will gather in Savannah on Saturday, No vember 26th for the second annual convention of the Sav annah Diocesan Council of Catholic Youth, it was an nounced by the Rev. Herbert J. Wellmeier, Diocesan Youth Moderator. Each Council in the Diocese Further Cause Of Kateri Tekakwitha (Radio, NCWC News Service) i VATICAN CITY — The pre paratory work for the beatifi cation of Kateri Tekakwitha, 17th-century American Indian woman, might be completed within the next year. Authorities of the Sacred Congregation of Rites revealed that the beatification proced ure has been speeded up by beginning an examination of a second possible miracle said to have been granted through her intercession. If the miracle is approved, they said, it could take less than a year to clear tire way for declaring her “Blessed.” Approval of two miracles is required before the steps lead ing to beatification can be completed. One miracle per formed through the interces sion ol Kateri Tekakwitn was examined and approved sev eral years ago. Tekakwitha was born into the Mohawk tribe in 1656 in what is now Auriesville, N. Y. Her mother was a Christian Algonquin. When the child was aDout four, her parents died of smallpox, and she was adopted by a pagan uncle. Her first real contact with Christi anity came w n e n she was about 11, when three French missionaries on a peace mis sion for Quebec spent several days at her uncle’s lodge. She is said to have accepted Chris tianity then, and she lived the life of a Christian virgin de spite attempts to force her into marriage. She could not be baptized, however, until she was 18, when Jesuit Father Jacques de Lamberville arrived to take charge of a nearby mission. She was given the local form of the name Catherine. To her tribe, she became a foreigner, and she was threatened with death unless she returned to the cult of the tribal gods. She fled across the St. Law rence river to Caughnawaga, settlement of Iroquois Christ ian refugees in sothem Que bec. There she .took a vow of virginity, the first of her race to do so, In 1680, when she was 24 and in perfect health, she told her friends she would die during Holy Week. Her prediction came true. The Councils of Quebec and Baltimore in the 19th century petitioned her canonization. The beatification process was introduced at the Vatican in May, 1939, and the decree de claring her a “venerable serv ant of God” was issued on January 3, 1943. Kateri Tekakwitha is thus the first native of what is now the United States entitled to be called “Venerable.” Last Dec. 19—nearly 17 years later—Mother Elizabeth Seton became the second. His Holi ness Pope John XXIII made (Continued on Page 6) BUEFOH Book Reviews 2 Editorial Comment 4 Marriage Notices —5 Obituaries 5 Question Box ——4 Doris Answers Youth 5 Calendar of Feast Days —6 "Port Of Desire" Condemned By Decency Legion NEW YORK, (NC) — The National Legion of Decency has placed in its condemned class the movie “Port of De sire,” a Union production. “The negative elements of this film, the legion said, “are seriously offensive to traditional standards of morality and decency.” PRAY FOR OUR I PRIESTLY DEAD k i RT. REV. HARRY F. CLARK Nov. 27, 1935 REV. WILLIAM MCCARTHY Nov. 27, 1930 REV. GREGORY DUGGAN Dec. 3, 1370 rev. john McCarthy Dec. 3, 1920 O God, Who didst give to thy servants by their sacredotal office, a share in the priesthood of the Apostles, grant, we im plore, that they may also be one of their company forever in heaven. Through Christ Our Lord. Amen. Pope Opens New Phase Of Council (Radio, N.C.W.C. News Service) VATICAN CITY — His Holi ness Pope John XXIII in an official preface to the Second Vatican Council received some 500 members of the council’s preparatory commissions. The (Nov. 14) assembly rep resented the core of the Church’s authority and learn ing, gathered in the presence of the Supreme Pontiff to hear his instructions before beginning the immediate prep aration of the coming ecumen ical council. Pope John in his discourse asked the heads of churches not in communion with the Holy See to wait until com pletion of the council before making “contacts at a higher level.” At the same time, he invited them to “follow the work of the council in the light of truth.” Not for over 90 years had a similar body with similar purpose gathered under the dome of St. Peter’s basilica. The Pope in his address — de livered in Italian — set down certain limitations on the council’s work and gave gen- (Continued on Page 6) sylvania. An entertainment break will feature choral selections by the Glee Clubs of St. Pius X High School, Savannah, and Aquinas High School, Augus ta. Members of Our Lady of Lourdes Council, Port Went- Worth, will present a musical pantomime. Balloting for Diocesan of ficers will begin later in the afternoon. Only delegates may vote. Other members as well as moderators and adult advis ors have no active part in the elections. Outgoing officers are Miss Julie Miller, St. James Parish, Savannah, president; Miss Geraldine Bowie, Sacred Heart Parish, Warner Robins, vice president; Miss Rosemary Brennan, Holy Family Parish, Columbus, secretary; and Matt McCoy, St. Teresa’s Parish, Albany, treasurer. The day’s activities will close with semi-formal dances at St. Pius X High School Au- Rev. William T. Larkin, S.T.D. will send two of its members as official delegates, but many more members, together with their Priest-moderators and adult advisors are expected to attend. A pre-convention workshop for adult advisors will be held on Friday evening from 8 to 9 p. rn. Activities will get underway at 10 a. m. Saturday morning with registration of delegates at the Benedictine Military School Armory, v/here con vention sessions will be held. Conventioneers will be offi cially welcomed by His Excel lency, the Most Rev. Thomas J. McDonough, Bishop of Sav annah, following Benediction of the Most Blessed Sacrament at 1:30 Saturday afternoon. At the Plenary Session of Saturday afternoon, Mr. Kier- man Stenson of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, will conduct a Recreation Workshop. Mr. Stenson, a graduate of Du- nquesne University in Pitts burgh, received his Ph.D. in so cial work from the University of Pittsburgh. He is Director of Kingsley House, a settlement house for underprivileged youth at East Liberty, Penn- Rev. Herbert J. Wellmeier ditorium and the Benedictine Armory. The Convention’s principal address will be delivered by the Rev. V/illiam Thomas Lar kin, S.T.D., pastor of Christ the King Church, Jacksonville, Florida. He will speak at a Communion Breakfast follow ing the closing Mass on Sun day morning. Father Larkin is a native of Mount Morris, N. Y. and an alumnus of St. Bernard’s Sem inary, Rochester, N. Y. He re ceived his Doctorate in Sac red Theology following post graduate studies at the Angel- icum College in Rome in 1949. Press Comments See Religion Factor in Election 'LILY OF MOHAWK' (N.C.W.C. NEWS SERVICE) Religion played a part in the election of Sen. John F. Kennedy as President, accord ing to most political analysts. But there was disagreement on how big that part was. Columnists and editorialists generally felt that Sen. Ken nedy’s Catholicism both won and lost votes for him. Many estimated that by and large it was more help than handicap. They said it was only by carrying the big indus trial states of the northeast and east, where there are heavy concentrations of Cath olics, that Sen. Kennedy was able to win the election. Most observers also agreed that while the President elect’s religion cost him some states, the anti-Catholic pro test vote of vast proportions which some had feared failed to materialize. Beyond attempting to esti mate the influence of religion on the results, the commenta tors said the election had bro ken down the tradition that a Catholic cannot be elected President. The Catholic press especially hailed the outcome as a defeat for bigotry. Here is a rundown of some of the press comment on the “religious issue” in the elec tions. Time magazine said Sen. Kennedy’s religion “was cer tainly a factor in his favor in the big cities, where Catholics are most heavily concentrated, though the Catholic vote was not so monolithic as the Ken- nedys had, hoped . . . “At the same time, an anti- Catholic vote may well have been decisive against Kennedy in such states as Kentucky, Tennessee, Oklahoma and Ore- PROTESTANTS’ FEAR OF CATMUeS CUTUKES JERSEY CITY, N. J. (NC) — A Protestant theologian said the Protestants’ top fear is that Catholics will abolish religious freedom should they ever be come a majority in the United States. Robert McAffee Brown of Union Theological Seminary in an “American Tri-Faith Di alogue” at St. Peter’s College here, said it is this image of the Church, held by non-Cath- olics that Catholics must work to destroy. Most Protestants, he said, rightly or wrong) y feel that Catholics are in favor of reli gious freedom only when they are in the minority. Also speaking at the meet ing were Will Herberg of Drew University, Madison, a Jewish leader, and Father Gustave Weigel, S.J., of Wood stock (Md.) College. Mr. Herberg said the role of the Jew in the Catholic Protestant dialogue is to stim ulate while maintaining a de tached position. Father Weigel outlined ad vances in inter-faith relation ships, but stressed that at the moment a truly ecumenical di alogue between Catholics and Protestants is not possible. He emphasized the need for both Protestants and Catholics to know and understand the posi- gon. But in many Protestant areas — Both North and South — Kennedy’s Catholicism seems not to have worked against him.” Newsweek magazine said the President-elect’s religion “on balance, evidently re dounded to his advantage.” While it hurt him in such states as Tennessee, Kentucky, Oklahoma, Indiana and Iowa, the magazine said, “these loss es had been much more than offset by victories in New York, Pennsylvania, and Mas sachusetts.” “In these, and in other northern states, Kentucky’s Catholicism had been a de cided asset, not only because it won him many Catholic votes but also because the anti - Catholic propaganda it inspired won him the sym pathy of liberal Protestants and Jews,” Newsweek said. Both Newsweek and the As sociated Press prepared sum rnaries which showed that Vice President Nixon won in such states — with Catholic populations of more than 20 per cent — as New Hampshire, Wisconsin, Vermont, Maine, North Dakota, Arizona and Ohio. On the other hand, Sen ay ai r- iy it, of le l- r- is ie g u Kennedy won a number of states, most of them in the South, with extremely small Catholic populations. New York Times writer John Wickleim stated that “a strong, silent ‘Protestant vote’ cut into Sen. John F. Ken nedy’s margin of victory — (but) was offset by a more strategically placed ‘Catholic vote’ which aided the Senator in large states he needed to win.” He added: “Although it could not be proved statistical ly, election returns suggested that there were more Protes tant votes against Sen. Ken nedy because has was a Cath olic than Catholic votes for him for the same reason . . . “But Catholic voters have greater influence on the elec toral result than Protestants. This is because they are con centrated in the populous states, often in the cities any Democrat needs to offset ‘downstate, Republican (and predominantly Prate s .t ant) votes.” Syndicated columnist David Lawrence claimed that a shift to the Kennedy camp — indi cated in pre-election polls —• of five million Catholics who (Continued on Page 6)