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OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF THE DIOCESE OF SAVANNAH
Vol. 42, No. 13
SAVANNAH, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1961
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OVERFLOW CROWD WITNESSES
DEDICATION AT LOUISVILLE
BENEFACTORS WITH BISHOP—Pictured at dedica
tion ceremonies at Louisville, Nov. 12th, are Mr. Herman J.
Heidrich, a Knight of Malta and a Knight of the Holy
Sepulchre; Bishop McDonough; Mrs. Herman J. Heidrich, a
Lady , of the Holy Sepulchre.
Abbot Augustine
Speaker At Albany
LOUISVILLE— V i s i to r s
from Florida, Alabama, and
Ohio, as well as neighbors
from Augusta and nearby
counties, joined in the dedi
cation ceremonies at Saint
Joan of Arc Church in Louis
ville. His Excellency, Bishop
McDonough, presided at the
ceremonies and offered the
first Mass in the newly-dedi
cated church.
Members of the clergy,
whose presence added to the
solemnity of the occasion, were
Rt. Rev. Msgr. T. James Mc
Namara, Vicar General of the
Diocese, Rt. Rev. Msgr. Daniel
J. Bourke, Dean of the Au
gusta Deanery, Rt. Rev. Msgr.
Andrew J. McDonald, Chan
cellor, and Rt. Rev. Msgr.
John D. Toomey, who deliv
ered the sermon at the Dedi
cation Mass.
Also present among the vis
iting clergy were Very Rev.
Clement F. Borchers, Superior
of the Glenmary Fathers and
Very Rev. Brian Egan, O. S.
B., President of Saint Bern-
rad’s College. Expected for
the Dedication, but delayed in
his arrival until later in the
day, was Right Rev. Bede
Luibel, O. S. B., Abbot of
Saint Bernard’s Abbey in Ala
bama.
In his adress, Monsignor
Toomey told of the wonders
and blessings which come to
a community with the erec
tion of a new Catholic church.
He made special reference to
the faithfulness of the Jeffer
son County Catholics, whose
Pastor he was for thirteen
years.
Bishop McDonough, in his
address after the Mass, ex
pressed his gratitude to Al
mighty God and his apprecia
tion to the generous benefac
tors of the church, Mr. and
Mrs. Herman J. Heidrich. The
Heidrichs were attired in the
robes which are symbolic of
the Papal honors which they
have received.
The congregation participat
ed in the dialogue Mass, dur
ing which special music was
presented by the Senior girls
of Aquinas High School. Au
gusta Council Fourth Degree
Knights of Columbus formed
an impressive guard of hon
or.
Book Reviews 7
Backdrop 4
Obituaries 3
Marriages 6
Report From Ecuador 3
Doris Answers Youth 4
Savannahian
Heads Legion
Commission
SAVANNAH—Mr. Chris E.
Hernandez, prominent Savan
nahian has been notified by
the National Commander of
the American Legion of his ap
pointment to the chair of the
powerful National Advisory
Members of the National Pub
lications Commission. Mr. Her
nandez is the first Georgian
to be named to the post.
The National Publications
Commission is publisher of the
Americain Legion Magazine,
with a circulation of 3,000,000.
In his capacity as Chairman,
Mr. Hernandez will travel to
the National Convention of the
American Legion, to be held
in Las Vegas.
ALBANY— The Rt. Rev.
Augustine Moore, Abbot of the
Trappist Monastery at Con
yers, was the guest speaker at
the annual Communion Break
fast for the Holy Name Soci
ety of St. Teresa’s Parish on
Sunday morning, November
12th.
The Communion Breakfast
followed the Holy Name Mass,
at which a ceremony was held
for the enrollment of new
Holy Name Society members.
The pastor, the Rev. Marvin
J. LeFrois, spoke at the Mass
and conducted the ceremony
of enrollment. The Mass was
offered by Father Benedict La
Rocque, O. C. S. O., who ac
companied the Abbot on his
visit to Albany.
The principal address was
given by Father Abbot Aug
ustine. He improssed upon the
men the importance and the
eternity of the supernatural
life, pointing out that a Com
munion Breakfast should be an
occasion of joy, for the men,
by receiving Holy Commun
ion, made an investment for
eternity. In connection with
this, he showed how the threat
of nuclear warfare, far from
throwing us into despair,
should present us with a chal
lenge to deepen our supernat
ural life.
Mr. Jack Brundage, presi
dent of the Holy Name Soci
ety, presided as toastmaster at
the Communion Breakfast. He
first introduced the following
guests: The Rev. Christian Le
Frois, O. S. B., brother of the
pastor, now assigned to Rob
ins Air Force Base at Warn
er Robins, Georgia; the Rev.
Eugene Krygier, assistant pas
tor of St. Teresa’s; the Rev.
Benedict La Rocque, O. C. S.
O.; the Honorable Asa D. Kel
ley, mayor of Albany; Mr. Gil
Barrett, a county commission
er; Mr. Pat Field, head coach
of the Albany High School
football team.
Pat Field said a few words
and answered questions about
the football season and then
introduced the boys of the par
ish on the team: Tom Rhodes
and his father, Franklin
Rhodes; Richard Wuller and
his father, Francis Wuller; and
Doug Gotsch and his father,
Gus Gotsgh.
Recognition was given to
the officers of the parish Holy
Name Society and to the large
group of Holy Name men
from Turner Air Force Base.
II. S. Aid
Is Helping
Yugoslavia
WASHINGTON (NC)—Some
U. S. aid given communist
Yugoslavia is being used to
spread that country’s political
beliefs among neutral nations,
a report prepared for the Sen
ate said.
The 387-page document was
prepared for the Senate inter
nal security subcommittee by
Charles Zalar, a former Yugo
slav diplomat now on the staff
of the Library of Congress.
Entitled “Yugoslav Com
munism, a Critical Study,” the
report said that since World
War II, Yugoslavia has been
given between $200 and $300
million a year, representing
nearly 50 per cent of its bud
get.
In recent years, the report
alleged, Yugoslavia has begun
a foreign aid campaign of its
own, distributing economic
aid and credits of well over
$100 million since 1959 to neu
tral nations such as India and
Ghana.
The report was not formally
endorsed by the subcommit
tee. A statement accompanying
it said the subcommittee re
leased the document “primari
ly because of the remarkable
light it throws on the Yugoslav
communist movement.”
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I PRAY FOR OURt
PRIESTLY DEAD
HT. REV. MSGR.
HARRY F. CLARK
November 27, 1935
rev. wm. McCarthy
November 27, 1930
REV. GREGORY DUGGAN
December 3, 1870
rev. jon McCarthy
December 3, 1920
Oh God, Who didst give to
thy servants by their scare dotal
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.
SOVEREIGN PONTIFF EXPRESSES
SINCERE THANKS DEVOTED MESSAGE
FELICITATIONS PRAYERS OCCASION ANNI
VERSARIES. CORDIALLY IMPARTS YOUR
EXCELLENCY CLERGY RELIGIOUS FAITHFUL
DIOCESE SAVANNAH PATERNAL APOSTOLIC
BLESSING.
CARDINAL CICOGNANI
bishop McDonough,
SAVANNAH, GEORGIA
VATICAN CITY
NOVEMBER 10, 1961
CATHOLIC BISHOPS OF UNITED STATES
Warn Of Moral Decline, Ask
Renewal Of Responsibility
Secularism, “Cult Of Image,”
Godless Education Blamed
For Current Social Ills
(NCWC News Service)
WASHINGTON — The U. S. Catholic Bishops have
warned of a national moral decline “unique” in the
country’s history and have called on Americans to re
new their sense of personal, social and international
responsibility.
The Bishops said in their
1961 annual statement that,
“above all, the Christian today
must have a profound sense of
mission, which will cause him
to bear witness to his religious
faith and his moral convictions
as the early Christians did, by
deed and affirmation — even
by death.”
“Such was St. Paul’s pro
gram of action; such, too, was
St. Augustine’s,” they said.
“Like Paul, we face a world
largely paganized. Like Au
gustine, we see the encroach
ment of barbarism. Like both,
we must be dauntless in pro
claiming Christ.”
This determination, they
said, must extend beyond na
tional borders, inspired as ''ex
pressions of our highest prin
ciples: love of God and love
of neighbor.”
Assistance should include,
REV. MYRON
BATEMAN, M.S.Ss.T.
Receives
Mission
Crucifix
DUBLIN — At recent cere
monies at Immaculate Concep
tion Church, the Very Rev.
Gerald P. Fredericks, Custodi
an General of the Missionary
Servants of the Most Holy Tri
nity, blessed and conferred
upon Father Myron Bateman,
MS.SS.T., his Mission Crucifix.
In a short talk following the
ceremony, Father Fredericks
explained that the confer
ring of the Mission Crucifix
represented Father Bate
man’s “diploma” and climaxed
12 years of preparation for the
missionary priesthood.
Assistant pastor of Immacu
late Conception parish, Father
Bateman has been stationed
here since September of 1960.
A native of North Carolina, he
is the son of Mr. and Mrs.
Leamon D. Bateman of Ho-
bucken, North Carolina.
Father attended public
schools in Hobucken before en
tering St. Joseph’s Seminary at
Holy Trinity, Ala. In addition
to studi.es at Holy Trinity, Fa
ther Bateman studied at Fa
ther Judge Seminary, Brack-
ney, Pennsylvania, and Holy
Trinity Mission Seminary,
Winchester, Virginia.
He was ordained May 26th,
1960 at the Seminary in Win
chester by the Most Rev. John
J. Russell, formerly Bishop of
Charleston, S. C., and now
Bishop of Richmond, Virginia.
they continued, opening “our
hearts and our homes to those
who come to our shores; to
make room for them in our
schools and universities; even
to send our own sons to their
lands to assist them.”
The Bishops also appealed to
Americans to exercise charity
and justice in their approach
to the problem of racial justice
and “other issues which divide
us.”
The statement, entitled “Un
changing Duty in a Changing
World” and released during
the Bishops’ annual meeting
here, hit out at numerous
causes of the current moral
decline. It specified:
—A false “scientism” that
“denies God and makes sport
of the moral law.”
—The mass communications
media which have propagated
a “pernicious cult of the ‘im
age’ ” — the idea that “whe
ther a thing is true is less im
portant than the impression it
creates.”
—Popular education which
by excluding religion has
turned out “great numbers of
young people almost complete
ly devoid of religious belief
and moral guidance.”
—Secularism which seeks
“the banishment of God from
public and private life and the
enthronement of human nature
in His place.”
The Bishops stressed, how
ever, the nation’s great poten
tial if it returns to its tradi
tional moral heritage.
“Because we have so often
faltered in our course and be
cause the communist nations
have profited by our mistakes
. . . we must not be discourag
ed, imagining that our hour of
opportunity has passed,” they
said.
“It has not passed. The hour
of greatest opportunity is
striking now, as the forces of
freedom and of tyranny gird
for a decision. America’s
strength, bestowed by Divine
Providence, has been given for
this hour — that freedom may
not fail.”
And, they added, the unique
ness of this moral decline con
sists in the fact that men to
day are questioning the very
bases of morality itself.
“For the first time in histo
ry, they find themselves with
out a moral law to break,” the
Bishops commented.
The statement noted that
modern atheism is likewise
“something quite new” in his
tory. “Now not only do many
act and live as if there were
no God to whom they are re
sponsible; a steadily increas
ing number — some individu
als of great influence — pro
claim the nonexistence of God
to be a scientifically establish
ed fact,” the Bishops said.
“The consequences of such
an attitude are inescapable,”
they continued. “If there is no
God, then the old morality bas
ed on God is not valid.”
The Bishops pointed out that
science and scientists recognize
their limitation in the area of
religion.
“But many who have taken
science as their creed and their
cult do not share the humility
of the scientist,” they said.
“With invincible self-assurance
and with an air of unchalleng
ed authority, they teach a
scientism that denies God and
makes sport of the moral law.”
Turning to the influence of
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AT ANNUAL BISHOPS' MEETING—Bishop Thomas J. McDonough is shown speak
ing with Auxiliary Bishop Francis J. Furey of Philadelphia (center) and Auxiliary Bishop
Jeremiah F. Minihan of Boston.—(NC Photo).
Education Dept. Works
To Explain Schools
The Department of Educa
tion reports that its “great
est challenge” during the past
year was the need to explain
Catholic education “to what
is both a new and old audi
ence.”
Coadjutor Archbishop Law
rence J. Shehan of Baltimore,
episcopal chairman of the de
partment, said in the report
that most of the interest in
Catholic schools could be trac
ed to the debate on the prob
lems of Federal aid to schools.
“Our old audience seems to
be seeing us in a new light
at this time; the new audience
seems to be seeing us for the
first time and appears surpris
ed to find us here at all on
the educational scene,” he
wrote.
The Archbishop said this fo
cus on Catholic schools makes
public relations an important
aspect of the work of superin
tendents and school principals.
On the elementary school
level, he noted, “a growing
awareness of the importance
of community relations is evi
dent. Friendly and cooperative
professional contracts between
public and parochial school
staffs in neighborhood schools
are becoming more frequent.”
Despite such progress, the
Archbishop wrote that never
theless from the reaction of
the press and people to the
Federal aid controversy it has
become evident that there is
a lack of communication on
Catholic Press
Circulation
Over 27 Million
The Catholic press in the
United States reached its high
est circulation last year, and
the N. C. W. C. News Service
went to publications in more
countries than ever before,
the Press Department report
noted.
Circulation of U. S. Cathol
ic newspapers and magazines
increased 1,6628,320 to a total
of 27,560,781 and the News
Service served publications in
65 lands, Bishop Albert R.
Zuroweste of Belleville, Ill.,
episcopal chairman of the
Press Department, reported.
the part of Catholic education
with the public.”
His report also appealed to
Catholic schools and school
systems to take a more active
part in the growing education
al television movement. “It is
clear now to qualified educa
tional observers that televis
ion can be a permanent part
of education,” he said.
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Danger Seen On
“Pity” Creating
Paternalism
PETROPOLIS, Brazil(NC)—
Unless aid programs for un
derdeveloped regions are car
ried out in close cooperation
with local people who know
the needs of their areas, the
result can be “a new kind of
pate rnalism propelled by
pity,” the International Young
Christian Workers’ represen
tative to the United Nations
said here.
Caroline Pezzulo of Brook
lyn, N. Y., told the YCW
world congress here that there
has been a general awakening
in North America to the re
sponsibility of the economic
ally developed lands to help
alleviate the miseries of their
brothers throughout the world.
This has resulted, she said, in
“a barrage of programs” de-
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Warns Of
Misdirected
Anti-Communism
The NCWC Social Action
Department believes that vari
ous U. S. anti-communist or
ganizations which stress the
danger of domestic subversion
may unwittingly be aiding the
communist cause.
Archbishop William E. Cous
ins of Milwaukee, episcopal
chairman of the department,
wrote in its annual report that
such organizations divert at
tention from critical commun
ist gains in Asia, Africa and
Latin America.
These groups, he also said,
divide and confuse Americans.
He noted that a department
study showed that they not
only overstressed the danger
of domestic Reds, but also of
ten consider as communist
those views and positions
which most Americans consid
er as legitimate, if controvert
ed, political attitudes.
K. C. Degree
To Be Heid
SAVANNAH— Exemplifica
tion of the First Degree,
Knights of Columbus will be
held at the Business Meeting
of Savannah Council, Wednes
day evening, November 29th,
accordnig to Grank Knight,
Eugene P. Powers.
More than 15 members will
be initiated into the Council at
this time, said Mr. Powers.
St. Mary's
Home Guild
Meeting Nov. 26
SAVANNAH— The
semi-annual meeting of
the Si. Mary's Home
Guild will be held on
Sunday, November 26th
at 4:00 p. m. at the Home.
The children of the home
will present a program
for those in attendance.
His Excellency, The
Most Reverend Thomas
J. McDonocgh will be
present and pronounce
Benediction.
All friends of the Home
are invited to attend.