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PAGE 8—THE BULLETIN, July 22, 1961
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Ireland on May 28th specific
ally for the purpose of obtain
ing preists and seminarians
who will dedicate their lives
to the priestly ministry in this
diocese.
Arriving in Cork on May
29th, Bishop McDonough con
firmed more than 300 children
at the Church of Saints Peter
and Paul the next day, and
spoke on the need for priests,
“particularly in our 72 ‘priest
less’ counties.”
Bishop McDonough told a
very large congregation,
“When his Lordship, Bishop
Lucey, visited the United
States he came to Georgia and
witnessed at first hand our
critical need for priests. He
has spoken to you about the
need for priests in Georgia.
Bishop Lucey invited me to
come to Cork and suggested
that I make known my needs
to you people and to your
young men; to set before you
a challenge of doing real mis
sionary work in Savannah, ei
ther on a permanent or tem
porary basis. I cannot promise
you very much outside of the
fact that you will have to work
hard, but it will be God’s work
and I know it will be most re
warding.”
Bishop McDonough also re
minded his listeners that “the
Irish have a great history in
Georgia. Irish names predom
inate the land and many of
our towns have Irish names.
But the Faith has not quick
ened the population,” he said,
“because when most of the
Irishmen settled in Georgia
there were no priests, there
were no churches to take care
of their spiritual needs. Even
though these staunch Irish pi
oneers kept the Faith, their
children did not persevere,
because again, without the
priest there is no church and
without the church there is no
Sacrifice of the Mass.”
Bishop McDonough also
spoke at the huge Corpus
Christi procession in Cork on
June 4th. In addition to Sem
inaries and colleges, the Sav
annah prelate also visited the
famous Rosary Churches;
Downpatrick, traditionally the
site of St. Patrick’s death; and
Dublin. He was also Bishop
Luecy’s representative at sev
eral Liturgical festivals and
receptions.
He also met relatives at
Swinford, where he lived for
2Vz years, as a boy and where
he made his First Holy Com
munion.
Returning in mid-June, Bish
op McDonough was high in
praise of Cork’s Bishop, The
Most Rev. Cornelius Lu-
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cey. “He is one of the
friends and benefactors
diocese has,” he said.
Bishop Lucey, himself, has
appealed to his people in ef
forts to procure priests for
Savannah. At Confirmation
rites in Cork, the week before
Bishop McDonough’s arrival in
Ireland, he had pointed out
Georgia, as a place where the
need for priests is very great.
“There is great need the
world over for more priests
. . . for parish work, as dis
tinct from priests for the
cloister. Hence the call every
where for more pastoral
priests.”
“One place I know very
much in need of priests is
Savannah in the U. S. A. I
would like any boy thinking
of the priesthood to think of
Savannah . . . Those most suit
able for this truly missionary
work are boys finishing their
secondary education and pre
paring to go as priests for
Christ ‘where the harvest is
indeed great but the laborers
are few’ . . . The work to be
done in Georgia, is hard work,
and Georgia is far from Cork.
But it is Christ’s own work.
Bishop Lucey pointed out
that there are “two Cork con
vents” already in Georgia,
and “if many go they will not
lose the Cork atmosphere or
the Cork accent altogether.
“Indeed,” he said, “it is a
good thing for those from the
same place in Ireland to go to
the same place abroad. They
will be a help and a comfort
to each other all their days,
and meeting often, they will
never be really lonely.”
Said Bishop McDonough,
“Certainly the success of this
visit to Ireland was due in
large part to Bishop Lucey be
cause of his tremendous in
terest in the work of the
Church in our Diocese, and
his active efforts to interest
his priests and people in our
needs.”
Bishop McDonough also ex
pressed “my deepest thanks
and appreciation for the many
personal kindnesses Bishop
Lucey showed me while I was
in Ireland, a guest in his
house.”
WON'T STRETCH
Keeping a budget today is
an orderly way people have
found of living beyond their
means.
SOME OF HUGE THRONG attending Corpus Christi celebration in Cork, Ireland.
40,000 men and boys took part in procession. Thousands of women and small children
line processional route. Bishop McDonough was principal speaker, at invitation of Bishop
Lucey, of Cork.
Sacred Heart Program
On WRBL-TV, Columbus
COLUMBUS — According
to Reverend James J. Mc-
Quade, S.J., guest on Sunday,
July 23rd, at Sacred Heart
Program over WRBL-TV at 10
a. m., faith means living Chris
tian lives in conformity with
God’s laws.
“Faith is the acceptance of
God’s word,” he says, “We ac
cept it and we act according
ly. Jesus told us how to live.
And He did more than just
tell us. He showed us. He liv
ed a complete and perfect hu
man life from its beginning
to the end. Some accept His
word for it and follow His ex
ample in their lives. Some
don’t. The difference is Faith.”
Father McQuade then ex
plains that many things in life
are left to the experts to de
cide and rule on, from facts
they know which the average
person does not know. Doc
tors, lawyers, even golf pro’s
can make that person happier
by giving him directions
which he accepts because of
his faith in them as experts.
So it is, says Father McQuade,
with God’s word.
“Along with life comes a set
of directions from the One who
created life. These directions
are ail the truths that he re
vealed to us. It is the most
logical thing in the world to
put the pieces of our lives to
gether according to His direc
tions. And when we do, life
will go along just as He meant
it to go along — by and large,
happy.”
ENCYCLICAL
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ed, a creation of men; beings
conscious, free and intended
by nature to work in a re
sponsible way even if in their
so acting they are obliged to
recognize and respect laws of
economic development and so
cial progress and cannot es
cape from all the pressures of
their environment.
“Hence, we consider that so
cialization can and ought to
be realized in such a way as
to draw from it the advantag
es contained therein and to re
move or restrain the negative
aspects. . .
“So long as socialization
confines its activity within the
limits of the moral order,
along the lines indicated, it
does not, of its nature, entail
serious dangers of restriction
to the detriment of individual
human beings; rather, it helps
to promote in them the ex
pression and development of
truly personal characteristics;
it produces, too, an organic
reconstruction of society,
which Our predecessor Pius
XI in the encyclical Quadra-
gesimo Anno put forward and
defended as the indispensable
prerequisite for the satisfying
of the demands of social just
ice.”
The Pontiff asserted that
“remuneration for work, just
as it cannot be left entirely to
the law of the market, . .
neither can it be fixed arbi
trarily; it must rather be de
termined according to justice
and equity.”
Pope John hailed the issu
ing of Rerum No varum as
major historic document enun
ciating the Church’s social
teaching. He said it was an ac-
countries and those still in the
process of development, he
tion “not without hazard.”
He said some believed “that
the Churqh, face to face with
the socidl question, should
confine herself to preaching
resignation to the poor and to
exhorting the rich to gene
rosity.” But, said Pope John,
Leo XIII did not hesitate to
proclaim and defend the rights
of the worker.”
Pope John noted that Rerum
Novarum clearly set down
that work cannot be treated
as a commodity, that the State
cannot keep aloof from the
economic world, and that
workers have a right to orga
nize. The encyclical noted that
40 years after Rerum Nova-
rum, Pius XI issued his encyc
lical, Quadragesimo Anno, be
cause doubts had arisen con
cerning private property, the
wage system and the attitude
of Catholics toward a type of
moderate socialism.
Pope John said Pius XI “em
phasizes that the opposition
between communism and
Christianity is fundamental
and makes it clear that Catho
lics are in no way permitted
to be supporters of moderate
socialism because its supreme
objective is the welfare of so
ciety, and because it either
proposes a form of social struc
ture that aims solely at pro
duction, thus causing grave
loss to human liberty, or be
cause it lacks every principle
of true social authority.”
In 1941, Pius XII again am
plified the Church’s social
teaching, affirming that “work
is at one and the same time
a duty and right of every hu
man being.”
Speaking of relations be
tween economically advanced
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said this is probably “the most
difficult problem of the mod
ern world.”
He stated: “The solidarity
which binds all men and
makes them members of the
same family imposes on poli
tical communities enjoying
abundance of material goods
(the obligation) not to remain
indifferent to those political
communities whose citizens
suffer from poverty, misery
and hunger, and who lack
even the elementary rights of
the human person.”
The Pope noted there are
countries which produce con
sumer goods, especially farm
products in excess, while in
other countries large segments
of the population suffer from
misery and hunger: “Justice
and humanity demand that the
former come to the aid of the
latter. To destroy or to squan
der goods that other people
need in order to live is to of
fend against justice and hu
manity.”
He added that destruction of
surplus goods cannot be ex
cused on the grounds of eco
nomic harm to a certain part
of the population.
Emeregency aid, he said, “is
not enough to eliminate or to
reduce the causes which in not
a few political communities
MADISON, Wis., (NC)
The State Assembly has pass
ed and sent to the Senate a
bill to authorize tax-paid bus
rides for private school stu
dents.
The measure, passed (July
6) by a vote of 61-29, would
leave it to the option of local
school boards whether to pro
vide such transportation.
School boards providing
transportation would receive
annual state aid amounting to
$24 for each private school pu
pil transported five miles or
less and $36 for each transport
ed more than five miles.
According to the office of
the state superintendent of
public instruction, some 200,-
000 students in Wisconsin
would be eligible for transpor
tation under the bill. If all
school boards voted to provide
transportation, the cost would
be $1,575,000 per year, it was
estimated.
DENVER, Colo. (NC) — An
official of the Peace Corps said
here the organization has been
relying on the help of religious
and other private groups and
will continue to do so in the
future. *
Robert Terry, a special as
sistant to the Peace Corps’ re
cruitment director, predicted
that “the demand for person
nel and skills in the Peace
Corps will greatly exceed the
supply, so that all advice and
cooperation that can be given
by agencies already with over
seas experience will be wel
comed.”
“At present the Peace Corps
staff is filled with people of
all denominations,” he said. “It
is precisely the religious and
other private overseas groups
that can teach us from their
experience and mistakes.”
Terry stressed that the
Peace Corps will be primarily
a “clearing house.”
“It is not starting new pro
jects. It is supplementing those
already going on,” he said.
“To that end it has estab
lished contact with the Nation
al Catholic Welfare Confer
ence and Catholic and other
missionary organizations for
its guidance on what projects
will be most suitable,” he add
ed.
Terry said that of $40 mil
lion requested from Congress
for the Peace Corps, $26 mil
lion is slated for “already go
ing projects” of private over
seas agencies or universities.
He commented that “the
Church-State issue has been
dragged into the Peace Corps
project, as was to be ex
pected.”
“The corps asks no questions
about religion, nor does it
make assignments on the basis
of religion,” he said.
“It does not subsidize prose
lytizing work. Of course there
will be disputes about where
proselytizing ends and Peace
Corps work begins. They have
to be settled as best they can.
Meanwhile, we are drawing on
the help of missionary groups
that have been doing Peace
Corps work for centuries.”
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bring about a permanent state
of want, misery and hunger.”
Instead, what is needed is
scientific, technical and finan
cial cooperation on the part of
the more developed nations.
At the same time, however,
the Pope warned against re
peating the errors of the past.
“The economically developed
political communities when
lending their help must recog
nize and respect the individu
ality (of the nations helped)
and overcome the temptations
to impose themselves by
means of these works upon the
community in the course of ec
onomic development.”
An even “bigger tempta
tion” for advanced countries,
the Pope said, “is that of pro
fiting from their technical and
financial cooperation so as to
influence the political situa
tion of less developed . coun
tries with a view to bring
about plans of world domina
tion.
“If this takes place, it must
be explicitly declared that it
would be a new form of colo
nialism, which, however cle
verly disguised, would not for
all that be less blameworthy
than that from which many
people have escaped, and
which would influence nega
tively their international rela
tions, constituting a menace
and danger to world peace.”
Pope John next turned his
attention to the so-called pop
ulation explosion. Noting that
with modern progress the ex
cessive births over deaths is
steadily increasing and that it
is claimed that the standard of
living may possibly be reduced
in the underdeveloped nations,
the Pope said: “There are
those who would have re
course i to drastic measures of
birth control or prevention.”
“The real solution to the
problem is not to be found in
expedients that offend the
moral order established by
God and which injure the very
origin of human life, but in a
renewed scientific and techni
cal effort on the part of man
to deepen and extend his do
minion over nature. The pro
gress of science and technolo
gy, already realized, opens up
in this direction limitless ho
rizons.”
The vicar of Christ then
spoke of the threats posed to
mankind by modern weapons.
“The root of such inability
is not to be sought in scientif
ic, technical or economic rea
sons, but in the absence of mu
tual trust.
The Pope traced this lack of
trust to the fact that not all
men recognize the moral or
der — “an order which is
transcendent, universal, abso
lute, equal and binding on
all.” He said they, therefore,
“fail to meet and understand
each other fully and openly
in the light of one and the
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tion and respect of the moral
order.” This can only be es
tablished he said, in the recog
nition of the existence of God
In the final section of the
encyclical, Pope John labeled
as “the most fundamental
modern error” that of consid
ering the religious demands of
the human soul “an expression
of feeling or of fantasy” which
should be “eliminated as an
anachronism and an obstacle
to human progress.”
The Roman pontiff warned
however, that Catholics must
be on their guard to preserve
an active awareness “of
hierarchy of values as they
carry on their temporal affairs
and seek their immediate
ends.”
Pope John made a general
plea for the observance of
Sunday as a day of rest. De
ploring laxity in this matter,
he said: “In the name of God
and for the material and spi
ritual interests of men, We call
upon all, public authorities
employers and workers, to ob
serve the precepts of God and
His Church, and We remind
same law of justic.e admitted
and adhered to by all.”
The Pope then declared:
“Mutual trust among men and
nations cannot begin nor in
crease except by the recogni-
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Church.” In some instances Castro militia
men have desecrated Churches, breaking
into tabernacles and scattering the Blessed
Sacrament on the floor. Asked how Cath
olic men could do such a thing, the priest
said “they are afraid not to obey even such
orders, lest they be denounced as ‘enemies
of the revolution’.”
Asked if there were any grounds for
Castro’s charges that American business in
terests exploited the Cuban people, Father
D. answered quickly and emphatically, “No.
Absolutely not. People who worked for
American companies were the best paid
people in Cuba. Now, under Castro, many
of them must work one day a week with
out any pay at all.”
Father D. also declared that although
there might be anti-American feeling in
other Latin-American countries, that he had
never encountered it in Cuba. “So Castro
is trying very hard to teach ‘Anti-Ameri
canism’ to the Cuban people.”
Father D. said there are many hundreds
of Russian and Red Chinese “technicians”
in Cuba, “but they are trained military
men.” Many of the Russians are in uni
form, he said.
Castro’s censorship is so strict that
there is no way to get Catholic literature
into the Country. “However,” said Father
D., “Monsignor Ismael Teste, nationally
known in Cuba for his television program,
is trying to raise money in the United
States to support a radio station in Miami,
which will enlist the efforts of many exiled
Cuban radio and television people to broad
cast both religious and secular programs to
the Cuban people. And Monsignor Teste is
held in great respect all over Cuba.”
Referring to the ill-starred invasion at
tempt of a few months ago, Father D. said
the Cuban people were bitterly disappoint
ed at its failure, and that there can be no
doubt that the planned liberation was de
liberately sabotaged. A new, well planned,
supported and executed invasion is neces
sary, he said, adding “m-ui pronto.”
“It Cuba is to be free, there must be
radio and television programs from this
country to restore the morale of the few
rebels still hiding out in the mountains,,
and to rekindle the hopes of the captive
Cuban people. But that alone will not be
enough. Castro’s rule is heavy and becom
ing heavier every day and liberation will
come only with an armed invasion which is
not doomed even before it embarks,” he
said.
Although he has not been back to his
native Italy for eight years, Father D. ex
pressed the hope that he will be able to
return to a free Cuba soon.
Label 'All - Christian
Meeting Red Maneuver
By Msgr. James I. Tucek
(Radio N.C.W.C. News Service)
VATICAN CITY—The Vati
can City daily newspaper has
branded last month’s All-
Christian Peace Meeting in
Prague a communist maneuver
to divide Christians.
The editorial in L’Osserva-
tore Romano (July 12) was
signed by assistant editor
Federico Alessandrini. It was
described by the Vatican press
office as “authoritative,” which
generally means that its sub
stantial elements originated
with the Secretariat of State.
The Vatican City daily re
ported that some 700 delegates,
all non-Catholic Christians, at
tended the conference. They
came, it said, from Czechoslo
vakia, East and West Germany,
Russia, Hungary, Rumania,
France, Switzerland, Japan
and Africa. There were also
about 40 delegates from the
United States.
Taking its cue from Metro
politan Nicodemus of Moscow,
said L’Osservatore, the confer
ence degenerated into a public
attack against the Catholic
Church. The charges leveled
against the Church were sum
marized in the final resolution
of the conference, which L’Os
servatore quoted from the July
4 issue of the Paris newspaper
Le Monde:
"An imporiani number of
our Christian brothers of the
Roman Church who, like
ourselves, aspire to peace
and strive to remove the ca
tastrophes of the cold war
and open war, are bound
down by conflicts of con
science which the practical
attitudes of many of their
ecclesiastical heads have im
posed upon them.
"The administrative circles
of the 'Vatican' Church en
courage the spirit of the cold
war. While stating this we
must not cease to pray for
our Catholic brothers. May
God protect them in His love
and lead them to recognize
His will and to obey also the
commandment of love and of
peace . .
Another resolution condemn
ed “racial discrimination and
every form of colonialism” and
demanded the destruction of
thermonuclear weapons.
Alessandrini commented that
each one of his grave respon
sibilities before God and so
ciety.”
The Pope stressed that Cath
olics must work and live in
the world. “We should not cre
ate an artificial opposition be
tween the perfection of one’s
own being and one’s personal
active presence in the world
New Polish Riots
BERLIN — Government in
terference with church build
ing has again led to rioting in
communist-ruled Poland, ac
cording to reports reaching
here.
it is saddening to see persons
calling themselves Christian
taking sides with the commun
ist courts which are gradually
oppressing not only Christiani
ty but human dignity.
“Only a few weeks ago the
attorney general of Budapest
spoke in the same manner (as
the Prague conference) at the
trial of priests who were faith
ful to their vocations,” he said.
Bid To Include
Nigeria In
Moslem Bloc Hit
LAGOS, Nigeria—(NC—The
press of Nigeria’s two major
southern provinces has been
universally critical of a pro
posal to make this west Afri
can nation part of a “Com
monwealth of Moslem Na
tions.”
The proposal was made in
Pakistan by Alhaji Sir Ahma
du Bello, Premier of Nigeria’s
northern region, where a little
over half of Nigeria’s 35 mil
lion people live, and where
Moslems outnumber Christians
and members of other religions
by better than two to one.
The newspapers of both the
eastern and western regions—
where most of the country’s
five million Protestants and
nearly two million Catholics
live — asserted that even
though Moslems have a plu
rality, Nigeria is not a Moslem
country. The country has about
15 million Moslems and 10 mil
lion pagans. The southern pa
pers said that southern Ni
geria’s Christians and members
of the various “African reli
gions” would never agree to
Nigeria’s joining a “Moslem
commonwealth.”
M’ARTHUR-
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the general were priests
At Columbia, Pa.
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ALBANY — Miss Mary Ag
nes Rau, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Joseph L. Rau of St. Te
resa’s Parish, was received as a
ing
and Sisters from the United
States, China, Germany and
Ireland. A public luncheon
honoring MacArthur was held
in the auditorium of St. Paul’s
College, conducted by the So
ciety of the Divine Word. The
priests attending included
Father Bernard Donaghy, S.V.
D., of Boston.
MacArihur, riding in an open
jeep in his motorcade, caught
sight of Sisters of Mercy from
Cork, Ireland, gathered at a
window of their flag-decorated
academy. He waved his ac
knowledgements.
The general visited the house
of the Price family where he
stayed after landing in 1944
and narrowly escaped when a
bomb hit the room next to his
office. This house was the pro
visional capital of the Philip
pines Commonwealth from Oc-
ing, October 20, 1944.
Mrs. Simeona Kalingas Price,
aged 86, and members of her
family of 11 welcomed him
back. Framed papal blessings
on the walls and large statues
of the Sacred Heart and Our
Lady showed the character of
this home.
In the welcoming crowd on
the wharf when the general
and his party arrived on Presi
dent Garcia’s yacht was Fath
er Louis Paulsen, S.V.D., who
was here for MacArthur’s land
ing, Dctober 20, 1944.
A majestic white statue of
Our Lord with open heart and
outstretched hands looked
down from a green hilltop on
the brilliant sunlit arrival
scene.
The last visit before leaving
was to Red Beach where Am
erican troops landed in 1944.
Leyte, still desperately short
of priests and religious instruc
tion, was the site of the first
Mass in the Philippines, cele
brated in 1521 on Limasawa
Islet.
SR. MIRIAM
THERESE
Novice into the Community of
Sisters Adorers of the Most
Precious Blood, Columbia,
Pennsylvania, on July 1st. She their families.
is known in religion as Sister
Miriam Therese. Prior to her
acceptance of the veil, she was
a Postulant for a year.
Following completion of her
elementary education, Sister
Miriam Therese graduated
from St. Teresa’s School, Al
bany, Georgia. After leaving
Albany, Sister pursued her
high school studies at St. Jos
eph’s Academy, Columbia, Pa.
Those attending the recep
tion ceremonies from Albany
were the following: Rev. Mar
vin J. LeFrois, pastor of St.
Teresa’s Church; Mrs. Joseph
L. Rau, Joseph L. Rau, Jr., and
Mrs. Lawrence Mock, Jr. Miss
Rosemary Ryan and Barbara
Anne Ryan from Cincinnati,
Ohio.
Following the ceremony the
Sister Adorers of the Most
Precious Blood entertained at
a luncheon for the Novices and
FIRST COMMUNION