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DIOCESE OF SAVANNAH EDITION Serving Georgia's 88 Southern Counties OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF THE DIOCESE OF SAVANNAH Published By The Cat-holic Laymen's Ass'n of Georgia Vol. 41, No. 23 SAVANNAH, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, APRIL 15, 1961 10c Per Copy — $3 A Year NEW SHRINE OF OUR LADY OF THE SNOWS A model of the new and unusual outdoor Shrine of Our Lady of the Snows, Belleville, Ill., shows the traditional canopy of ciborium over the high altar sweeping upward in the form of a three-dimensional “M” for Mary, the shrine’s patroness. Beneath the spire and set within a chalice will be a figure of Our Lady of the Snows, sculpted by William Severson of Clayton, Mo. The shrine, administered by the Oblate Fathers of Mary Im maculate, will be completed in August. The high altar will be centered in an amphi theater seating 20,000 persons. (NC Photos) Rabbi Appeals For Parochial School Aid CHICAGO (NC) — An ap peal to the American public to support the request for Gov ernment aid to parochial schools of all levels was made here by a Jewish Rabbi. Rabbi Solomon Rabinowitz told the men’s club of the Con gregation Beth Jacob in sub urban Scottsdale: “When we support integration in public schools, we are actually moti vated by a moral conviction. We are against a segregated educational system by which colored children are considered second class students. If col ored parents want their chil dren to mingle with whites, the American Government senses its moral obligation to support their wish. “Why, then,” the Rabbi ask ed, “does the same American Government deny its support to parents who want their chil dren to mingle with their great spiritual heritage? How can the great American communi ty say to millions of children who study in parochial schools: ‘Because you are in doctrinated with faith in God, we will not support even your secular instruction?’ Didn’t we select in 1960 a God-indoctri nated man in the White House?” Rabbi Rabinowitz suggested that the American nation "give up its discrimination against God-loving parents and chil dren. The only ones who ben efit from denying government aid to religious schools are the leftists. “Let us all — including Con gressmen and judges — realize that the synagogue and the church can and will make bet ter American citizens and a better American state,” he de clared. National Library Week m April 16-22,1961 Reading enriches the mind, satisfies the spirit, increases knowledge, stirs the imagi nation. During National Li brary Week — and through out the year — use and support your library! Build your own home library. "For a fuller, richer life-Read!" Silver Tea At Savannah SAVANNAH — Blessed Sac rament parish will hold its annual Silver Tea on Sunday, April 23rd at the Convent on Victory Drive. Afternoon hours will be from 4 to 5:30 p. m. Evening hours from 7 to 9 p. m. Rt. Rev. Msgr. Thomas A. Brennan, pastor, has named Mrs. Thomas J. Mahoney to serve as general chairman. All parish organizations will par ticipate. THEME: "THAT ALL MAY BE ONE' Rev. Placid Jordan To Address Convention ALBANY — This city will be host to the annual conven tion of the Diocesan Council of Catholic Women April 15 and 16. Registration begins at noon Saturday, April 15th, at Ra dium Springs Casino, the first general session beginning at 2:30 p. m. Theme of this year’s conven tion is “That All May Be One,” with the meeting’s annu al workshop scheduled for 3:30 p. m., Saturday. Workshop chairman is Mrs. R. E. Stradt- man of Savannah. During Sat urday afternoon there will be a coffee get-together sponsored by the Albany Council. On Saturday evening the annual banquet will be held at Radium Springs, starting at 7:30 p. m. Speaker will be the Rev. Placid Jordan, O.S.B., distinguished foreign corre spondent, author and lecturer. As a foreign correspondent Father Placid has explored many countries of the world; but more importantly, as a thinker he has explored the minds and hearts of the great philosophers and theologians. Born of German Lutheran par ents, he studied at Frankfort University, and later, while en gaged in research for his Ph.D. at Jena, he was to have his first taste of Catholic the ology and philosophy, to be followed by a period of intens ive study and endless discus sions. Finally, while vacationing at the famed Benedictine mona stery, Beuron, one of the monks said simply: “After all, my friend, you’ve got to jump into the water if you want to learn to swim.” This was the final nudge across the thresh old, and he was received into the Church on Good Friday, 1924. He was ordained on the Feast of the Immaculate Con ception in 1951, and on the third anniversary of his ordi nation, Father Jordan climax ed his spiritual journey with his profession as a member of the Benedictine Order in the chapter room of the Abbey at Beuron. Delegates will attend Mass at St. Teresa’s Church at 8:30 a. m. on Sunday, and following the Mass in the school audi torium a continental breakfast will be served with the compli ments of St. Teresa’s Altar So ciety and the Knights of Col umbus. There will be a Sunday morning meeting of delegates at 10:30 in the school auditori um, and the luncheon meeting will start at 1 p. m. at Radium Casino. Luncheon speaker will be Rt. Rev. Msgr. Daniel J. Bourke, V.F., pastor of St. Mary’s on-the-hill, Augusta. Msgr. Bourke returns to speak in a city where he served for many years as pastor of St. Teresa parish. Monsignor Bourke has chosen “Family Life and Vocations” as the subject of his address. Mrs. J. E. Mulligan, Thun derbolt, president of the Dio cesan Council, will preside at the general sessions. Spiritual moderator of the Diocesan Council is the Rt. Rev. Msgr. John D. Toomey, pastor of St. James Church, Savannah. Mrs. J. R. Pinkston of Al bany is convention chairman. Serving with Mr. Pinkston as co-chairmen are Mrs. L. E. Mock and Mrs. R. E. McCor mack, Sr. New Violence Strikes Church In Congo's Maniema District (N.C.W.C. News Service) LEOPOLDVILLE, The Con go — Violence against mission aries has erupted again in southern Kivu province, which is occupied by Lumubist troops and terrorized by roving bands of armed civilians. It reached a new peak in the middle of March, when 30 mis sionaries in the town of Kasan- go were hauled to the en campment of a Moslem Lu- mumbist band where they were slapped repeatedly and smeared with charcoal and flour. They were saved from execution by the intervention of an official of the provincial capital of Kivu, who paid a ransom for them. This crisis came (March 14-15) a month after mission aries in southern Kivu — a C.Y.0. Centennial Cotillion (By Mrs. Elaine Syme) MACON — Through the ma gic of imagination, enthusiasm and hard work, the CYO mem bers of St. Joseph Church in Macon will enjoy a personal glimpse into an elegant period of Southern history. On Friday evening, April 14th, CYO members and their guests will attend the Centen nial Cotillion, everyone wear ing costumes of the period. From the moment of their arrival, they will find the en tire social hall of St. Joseph Church has been transfored into an ante-bellum mansion. A canopy, leading from the street to the entrance, will strike the first not of elegance and formality. The foyer, lighted by a chandelier and an tique lamps, will be furnished with antique chairs, table and mirror, to carry out the atmo sphere of a lovely home. The ballroom will be ablaze with the light of three large chandeliers, hanging baskets of flowers and ivy will decorate the walls, a profusion of flo wers and magnolia leaves will be used throughout the room and palms will border the areas to be used for the buffet table and the orchestra. A beautifully appointed buf fet table laden with sandwich es, cakes and bowls of punch will be located on one side of the ballroom. On the other side, the orchestra under the direction of Robert Huelle- meier will provide music for dancing. The stage at the far end of the ballroom will be converted into a large veranda with white columns and porch rail ings; porch rockers from which to enjoy a view of the coun tryside (a backdrop beautifully painted by a group of CYO members) will add to the at mosphere. Committee chairmen, mem bers and many volunteers have been planning and working for two months to complete the transformation, all of the dec orations including the chande liers, having been made by them. Father John J. Fitzpatrick, moderator, comments that the Centennial Cotillion is the most anxiously-awaited event ever sponsored by the CYO of Macon. It will be an evening to remember. region known as the Maniema — were brought to Kasongo and imprisoned, beaten and humiliated. Nuns were among them. During the month following this first peak of violence the missioners were subjected to threats from armed bands, and to repeated visits from police commissioners (real or impos tors). Some were hauled before people’s tribunals and treated as common thieves or liars. Illiterate Moslems calling themselves police commission ers held guns on diocesan au thorities at Kindu and forced them to empty the diocesan strong-box. They took all the diocesan reserves, amounting to about $5,000. As in other parts of the Con go, roving groups of armed civilians loyal to the ultrana tionalist ideas of the late Pre mier Patrice Lumumba have (Continued on Page 8) Bishop Thomas J. McDonough To Preside Rev. Placid Jordan. O.S.B. Banquet Speaker Mrs. J. E. Mulligan Diocesan President Msgr. John D. Toomey Spiritual Moderator SISTER MARY CLARE, R.S.M. MARKS GOLDEN JUBILEE MACON — On March 25, at Mt. de Sales, Macon, Sister Mary Clare Daly, R.S.M., cele brated privately the fiftieth anniversary of her profession. Rt. Rev. Msgr. Thomas I. Sheehan pastor of St. Joseph Church, Macon, offered a low Mass in the Convent chapel where fifty years before, Sis ter Mary Clare had been the first to pronounce her vows. On Saturday, April 8, Rt. Rev. Msgr. Thomas A. Brennan, pastor of Blessed Sacrament Church, Savannah, offered the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass which inaugurated the formal celebration of Sister’s golden jubilee. For the past fifty years Sis ter Mary Clare has labored in Georgia, teaching instrumental and choral music at Mt. de GLIMPSE INTO SOUTHERN HISTORY — St. Joseph’s Catholic Youth Organiza tion will sponsor a Centennial Cotillion this Friday evening. Posing in dress of 1861 are: Cathy Sheridan, Hickory Schipis, Nancy Jenkins, Dickie Lamb and Phyllis Sheridan.-— (Drinnon Photo) Sales and at St. Joseph School, Macon, and at St. Jospeh School, Columbus, Georgia. For many years Sister also taught religious vacation school at Albany and other Georgia missions. Msgr. Daniel J. Bourke Luncheon Speaker St. John’s Student Wins Spelling Bee VALDOSTA — Andy Ash ley, 13, a seventh grade stu dent at St. John’s School out- spelled 59 competitors to win the Lowndes County Spelling Bee. The local competition was sponsored by the Atlanta Newspapers Inc. and as part the Atlanta Journal spelling bee. Young Ashley, the son of Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Ashley, 1102 Dellwood Dr. will now represent the county in the district spelldown at Waycross, April 17. Adoration Day WASHINGTON (NC) — An estimated five million U. S. Catholic youngsters will kneel before the Blessed Sacrament on Youth Adoration Day, May 21, according to Msgr. Joseph E. Schieder, director of the Youth Department, National Catholic Welfare Conference. Parenthood Most Demanding, Challenging Of All Careers CINCINNATI (NC) — Par enthood is “the most challeng ing career, and the most de manding,” a theologian told several hundred mothers here. It can be lived successfully “only if you understand that it is a vocation, a call by God,” Father John J. Wenzel, S.J., director of Xavier University’s family life institute, asserted. It is the responsibility of parents to prepare their chil dren “to be citizens of two worlds — the secular world and the heavenly,” the priest, who is head of the university’s theology department, told the Federation of Catholic Parent- Teacher Associations. Some of the essential ingre dients in shaping a child’s per sonality for the dual citizen ship are “ a sense of discipline, a sense of obedience and a sense of control,” Father Wen zel said. All these can be I Editorial Comment Book Reviews Backdrop 4 Obituaries 2 View From the Rectory 4 Pope's Easter Message 2 Doris Answers Youth taught “most effectively” by the parents and “if these les sons are not learned at home, it is an idle dream to suppose they will be acquired any where else,” he said. A child must be taught re sponsibility from his earliest days, the theologian said. He added: “A person doesn’t sud denly acquire a sense of re sponsibility at age 18 or 20 or 24.” Some parents are unreal istic in teaching responsibility, he continued. It must “be taught gradually, over and over, taking into account the child’s age and capacity, and the responsibility must be in creased gradually as awareness and capacity increase,” he de tailed. “A child also needs a sense of direction,” Father Wenzel said. “He must know the mean ing of life as a prelude to the fuller, eternal life with God in heaven. This assumes that you, yourselves, have a proper sense of values and understand what are the things that pos sess true meaning. There is only too much evidence that there is among Catholics too much concern for material things, out of all proportion to their value.” The final essential ingredi ent, Father Wenzel said, in shaping a child’s personality is “a sense of God.” He explain ed: “This means more than just a knowledge about God. The child must understand that God is a vital reality in his life, the beginning and the end of all his actions.”