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Serving Georgia's 88 Southern Counties DIOCESE OF SAVANNAH EDITION Published By The Cat-holic Laymen's Ass'n of Georgia OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF THE DIOCESE OF SAVANNAH Vol. 42, No. 13 SAVANNAH, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1961 10c Per Copy — $3 A Year 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.” as*, m s im » 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 (Continued on Page 8) 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. (Review on Page 7) 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- (Continued on Page 8) 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.