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Georgia's 88
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OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF THE DIOCESE OF SAVANNAH
Vol. 42, No. 14
SAVANNAH, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1961
10c Per Copy — $3 A Year
BISHOP OFFERS BENEDICTION—His Excellency the Most Rev. Thomas J. Mc
Donough was celebrant of Benediction of the Most Blessed Sacrament which opened the
sessions of the third annual C.Y.O. convention. Scene of the ceremony was Sacred Heart
Church. Following Benediction, the Bishop extended a formal welcome to those attend
ing the meeting.
Former
Prisoner Of
Reds Dies
VERONA, Italy (NC)—Fa
ther Tarcisio Martina, C.P.S.,
74, exiled Apostolic Prefect of
Yihsien, China, and survivor of
four years in a communist pri
son, died here.
Father Martina was born in
the Veneto region of Italy in
1887 into a family that gave
three priests and a Sister to
the Church. The Stigmatine
missioner went to China in
1925 and was named Apostolic
Prefect of Yihsien in 1936.
When the communists came
to power after World War II,
he was accused of collaborat
ing with the “imperialist pow
ers” and was sentenced to life
imprisonment. He was jailed
for four years. In November,
1955, he was released from pri
son through diplomatic inter
vention and expelled from
China.
PRAY FOR OUR
PRIESTLY DEAD
REV. RICHARD
JOHN O'BRIEN
December 12, 1894
REV. BERNARD J. DOYLE
December 14, 1879
REV. EUGENE V. O'NEILL
BOYD
December 17, 1916
RT. REV. MSGR.
JAMES GRAHAM
December 17, 1842
Oh God, Who didst give to
thy servants by their scaredotal
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.
»
Book Reviews 2
Backdrop 4
Obituaries 2
Marriages 3
Report on Latin America ___ 3
Doris Answers Youth 5
AWARD WINNERS
His Excellency the Most Rev. Thomas J. McDonough,
D.D., J.C.D., presented the following awards at the Com
munion Breakfast on Sunday, Nov. 26th:
Pro Deo et Juventute
Mrs. Betty Lee, Nativity parish, Savannah.
Miss Anna Louise McCormack, St. Teresa’s parish, Albany.
Miss Bea McCormack, St. Teresa’s parish, Albany.
Mrs. Albert Le Blanc, St. Mary’s parish, Augusta.
Eagle of the Cross Award
Barbara Hagman, St. James parish, Savannah.
Barry McElveen, St. James parish, Savannah.
Gloria Williams, St. Benedict’s parish, Savannah.
James Dembowski, Sacred Heart parish, Warner Robins.
J. Lee Etheredge III, St. Mary’s, Augusta.
Renee Etheredge, St. Mary’s, Augusta.
Adzhubei Used “Interview”
With President To Say Some
Things For Nikita Khrushchev
By J. J. Gilbert
WASHINGTON — When
Alexei Adzhubei “interviewed”
President Kennedy for com
munist Russia’s newspaper Iz-
vestia, he apparently seized an
opportunity to “get some
things said” on behalf of his
father-in-law, Nikita Khrush
chev.
Reading Adzhubei’s ques
tions, which often seemed like
argumentative statements, one
can see clearly that Soviet
Russia:
Intends to deny “exporting
revolution” while accusing the
United States of exporting
“counter-revolution.”
Wants to hear “sober voices
from the West affirming the
integrity of the borders” Sov
iet Russia has set up in eastern
Europe.
Considers not only Germany
but also Berlin as divided.
(Adzhubei told President Ken
nedy he was “unrealistic” to
speak of East Germany instead
of “the German Democratic
Republic,” and referred repeat
edly not to Berlin as a whole,
but to West Berlin, leaving the
implication that East Berlin is
already a part of “the German
Democratic Republic.”
And there were other points.
Many of Adzhubei’s “ques
tions” took the form of state
ments, one of them ran almost
10 inches in one-column type,
and were argumentative.
That’s how he got the ideas
over.
At one point, Adzhubei re-
Pope’s Christmas Message
To Be Delivered December 21
VATICAN CITY, (Radio, NC) — His Holiness Pope
John XXIII will deliver his traditional Christmas message
to the world over Vatican Radio on Thursday, Dec. 21
As in years past, the message will be carried by live
broadcast to many European nations and will be rebroad
cast afterwards in the major languages of the world.
Pope John will celebrate Christmas midnight Mass in
the Vatican’s Consistorial Hall. This ceremony will also
be broadcast by Vatican Radio.
sponded to one of President
Kennedy’s answers by saying:
“That is very interesting.
However, as a citizen of the
Soviet Union, as a member of
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Speaker Hits “Devotion To Occupational Success”
Third Annual Diocesan CYO
Meeting Held At Savannah
Two-Day Meeting Draws
Crowd Of Three Hundred
SAVANNAH—More than three hundred attended
the third annual C. Y, O. convention and heard talks
dealing with “devotion to occupational success” and
youth’s search for adult status.
Delivering the kenyote ad
dress was Mr. Joseph J. Hut
ton of Savannah. Mr. Hutton
told the youth that “Everyone
likes to be successful, however,
we measure success by the
amount of money a man has
or the power he exerts. We
make wealth and prestige a
goal.
“But reasonable people must
have a more certain goal than
material success to inspire
them to practice charity, just
ice, honesty and other virtures
that don’t always produce ma
terial success and sometimes
seem to prevent it.”
Mr. Hutton also struck out
at destructive criticism of au
thority. “This destructive criti
cism ... is one of the most
dangerous forms of pride, be
cause it masquerades as a vir
tue. I am afraid it has become
so entrenched in our way of
life that our generation is un
willing to conquer it. If your
generation .fails to see the evil
in this practice, I believe our
form of government will fail
too.”
Bishop Thomas J. McDon
ough presided at the conven
tion communion breakfast held
Sunday morning at the Bene
dictine Armory. Rt. Rev. Msgr.
Herman J. Deimel, V.F., pastor
of St. Anne’s, Columbus, was
featured speaker at the break
fast.
Msgr. Deimel used Christ’s
words, “I must be about my
Father’s business” to illustrate
the adolescent’s desire to as
sume adult responsibility. He
told his audience that Jesus’
restlessness was curbed by
obedience to authority. “He
was subject to them.”
Msgr. said it is not true to
say there are no idols for teen
agers to follow. Christ can fire
the imagination—steel the will.
“We cannot afford to be dis
couraged from virtue by the
bad that surrounds us, espe
cially evil companionship,”
Msgr. said.
Newly elected officers of
the Diocesan Council of Cath
olic Youth are:
President, Tony Price, Sac
red Heart, Savannah; vice-
president, Patricia Spikes, St.
Anthony, Savannah; secretary,
Carl Lockwood, St. Joseph,
Augusta; treasurer, Hickory
Shepis, St. Joseph, Macon.
Honorary chairmen are Gin
ger Parker, St. Francis, Bruns
wick; Charles De Vane, St.
John, Valdosta; Ruby Goodine,
St. Benedict, Savannah; Gene
Long, St. Mary’s, Augusta.
Presenting Career talks were
Liz Conners, Barbara Hagman,
Angela Herbert, Helen Lee,
Paul Herndon, Jeanette Jenk
ins, John Lloyd, Michael Peck,
Lynn Ratigan, Aosaiyn Roesel,
Janette Vogel and Carole
Woods.
Winners in the Career Talks
were:
First place — Lynn Ratig-
nan, Sacred Heart, Savannah.
Her topic was politics. Second
place winner, Rosalyn Roesel
of St. Mattnews, Statesboro
ciiose the Gienmary Home Mis-
sioners for her topic. Jeanette
Jenkins of St. Benedicts, Sav-
annan, third place winner, dis
cussed a “Career In Atomics.”
In the poster exhibit contest,
first place was awarded to Na
tivity parish, Thunderbolt.
Second piace went to St. Fran
cis Xavier, Brunswick while
Cathedral of Savannah and St.
Matthews, Statesboro, tied for
third honors.
ALSO DENOUNCES LAZINESS
CAPITALISM, COMMUNISM
BOTH HIT BY ARCHBISHOP
By Faiher Vincent T. Mallon, M.M.
(N.C.W.C. NEWS SERVICE)
LIMA, Peru — Priests of the Lima archdiocese have launched a hard-hitting se
ries of sermons on social problems ranging from the need for land reform and for
organization of workers into unions, to the evils of prostitution.
Archbishop Juan Randazuri,
O.F.M., of Lima has prepared
detailed outlines for 23 ser
mons. He told his priests to
deliver the sermons at Sunday
Masses during the coming five
months.
The sermons pull no punch
es. In speaking of capitalism,
the Archbishop’s outline states
that it is the economic system
“opposite to that of commun
ism.” Capitalism, he says, is a
doctrine “as far removed from
Christianity as communism it
self.”
“The Church condemns cap
italism,” he declares, “and also
the miserable situation to
which it has led innumerable
workers.”
Capitalism is defined by the
sermon outline as economic
liberalism. Capitalism is al
ways “naturalistic and is only
concerned with the goods of
this life.” While capitalism pro
claims liberty as a desirable
human value, “it forgets that
external liberty ought to sub
mit itself to justice and truth,”
the outline says.
In speaking of the causes of
the social problem, the Arch
bishop warns that the poor are
inclined to place all the blame
for their plight on the wealthy.
But it must be recognized, he
says, that a contributing cause
of their plight can be their
own laziness which causes
them to “avoid constructive
and productive efforts and
wait for solutions which pro
mise the distribution of the
goods of others.”
The document also castigates
the lack of social morality. It
strikes out at the practice of
giving employment on the bas
is of friendship and self-inter
est, rather than on the basis of
mei’it. This abuse is particular
ly dangerous, it says, in gov
ernment jobs.
Two sermons are devoted to
the errors of communism. A
third treats of the right to pri
vate property. In speaking of
a just salary, the Archbishop
says that it is “false to say
that all (the profit) in produc
tion is owed to the workers.
Capital is a most important el
ement, which is risked in ev
ery enterprise.”
There ought, however, to be
a proportionate participation
of the workers in the profits of
the enterprise and in the gen
eral planning of the business,
“according to the nature and
the circumstances of each
company.”
In speaking of the upper
classes, the sermon outline
stresses that those who have
received more from society and
have more means at their dis
posal “have the grave human
SAINT VINCENT'S CHORALE—Musical selections were presented during the Youth
Convention by St. Vincent’s Chorale under the direction of Mrs. Joseph Schreck.
ON FEAST OF IMMACULATE CONCEPTION
SEMINARY CHOIR SINGS AT CATHEDRAL
SAVANNAH — Highlighting
the Solemn Pontifical Mass at
the Cathedral of St. John the
Baptist on the evening' of De
cember 8 was the choir group
of the School of PhilosopJiy of
the Missionary Servants of the
Most Holy Trinity. The choir
is composed of religious bro
thers from many different
parts of the country.
Represented in its numbers
are young men from New Jer
sey, New York, Pennsylvania,
Michigan, Massachusetts, Iowa,
Illinois, Ohio, Mississippi, Flo
rida and even Puerto Rico. Al
though these young men are
from such divergent geograph
ical locations, they are united
in a common aim: to become
priests and to bring the sav
ing message of Christ to those
who do not know its redempt
ive value and its assurance of
peace.
The choir came to Savannah
from Holy Trinity, Alabama,
where is located the seminary
and novitiate at which the
members of the choir matricu
late for studies and spiritual
formation.
Gregorian Chant, Sacred
Polyphony and the music of
modern composers share in the
repertoire of the choir. Under
the direction of Father Domi
nic Cangemi, M.S.Ss.T., Ph.D.,
the choir came to Savannah at
the invitation of his Excellen
cy, the Most Reverend Thomas
J. McDonough, Bishop of the
Diocese of Savannah.
The Mass at which the choir
sang was the final service at
the Cathedral, of the Feast of
the Immaculate Conception,
which Catholics throughout the
world commemorate on De
cember 8, and is observed as a
Holyday of Obligation.
Bishop McDonough was the
celebrant of the Solemn Pon
tifical Mass, assisted by the
priests of the greater Chatham
County area. The officers of
the Mass were: Assistant
Priest, the Rt. Rev. Monsignor
T. James McNamara, V.G.,P.A.,
Rector of the Cathedral and
Vicar General of the Diocese;
Deacons at the Throne, the
Reverend William Coleman,
Rector of the Diocesan Semi
nary and the Reverend John
Cuddy, Vice Rector of the
Seminary; Deacon of the Mass,
the Reverend Herbert J. Well-
meier, Assistant Rector of the
Cathedral; Subdeacon of the
Mass, the Reverend Joseph
Stranc, member of the Semi
nary Faculty; Master of Cere
monies, the Rt. Rev. Msgr. An
drew J. McDonald, J.C.D.,
S.T.L.; Assistant Master, the
Reverend Kevin Boland, 2nd
Assistant Rector of the Cathe
dral. Serving as Altar Boys in
the sanctuary were students
from St. John Vianney Minor
Seminary, Grimball’s Point.
Citing the patriotic theme of
the special Mass, Msgr. McNa
mara declared, “Never in the
history of our Nation has there
been such a need as at present
for a religious revival on the
part of the citizenry of our
country. More and more the
forces within the nation which
are inimical to the religious
content of our nation’s Democ
racy are becoming increasing
ly vocal and more openly hos
tile. Developments around the
world are dramatic proof that
the human personality is de
stroyed and its claim to lib
erty and freedom denied when
a government goes atheistic.
Not nuclear force but clear
thinking alone will save the
great heritage of liberty and
freedom, which is the just
claim of all true Americans.”
and Christian responsibility to
administer them well.” Those
who have government posi
tions must remember that they
are not working for their own
personal gain, but for that of
society.
When the Archbishop treats
of workers’ associations he in
sists categorically that the
“worker needs some instru
ment of power to demand his
rights when they are unjustly
denied to him . . . For this
workers must be organized.”
He says that strikes cam be
justified, but only if the fol
lowing conditions are fulfilled:
“There is no simpler way to
obtain the benefits sought; t.tiat
the benefits sought be just and
not disoriented; and that the
evils foreseen in the strike be
not greater than the expected
benefits.”
Among the social reforms
needed in Peru, the Archbish--
op of Lima lists the following:
breaking up large land hold
ings and distributing them to
the landless; abolition of ab
sentee landlordism; improve
ment in housing; raising the
standard of living in the rural
areas; improvement of condi
tions in prisons.
An entire sermon is devoted
to the socalled “Indian Prob
lem.” In general, the “social
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SING AT SAVANNAH CATHEDRAL—Pictured above is the choir of Seminarians of
St. Joseph Seminary, Holy Trinity, Alabama, which sang at the Solemn Pontifical High
Mass offered at the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist on December 8th. Celebrant of the
Mass was His Excellency the Most Rev. Thomas J. McDonough, Bishop of Savannah. The
seminarians are Philosophers studying for the Society of Missionary Servants of the Most
IJoly Trinity. Choir Director is Rev. Dominic Comgemi, M.S.Ss.T.