Newspaper Page Text
Jottings...
(Continued from Page 4)
My loneliness, I offer especially in union with His in the
tabernacles all over the world where He is alone. I chain
my little crosses to His great Cross on Calvary. You see,
this is how I spend my day.”
One of the most moving articles I have read recently
was by a prisoner on Alcatraz and of his conversion. He
wrote: “As a convict, I like to think of myself as a com
panion of Christ crucified. He alone gives meaninng to my
suffering. When the going gets rough, I hear Him say:
‘Behold, I have chosen you to suffer with Me as a compan
ion. For you the hill slants more, the cross is of a heavier
weight. Loneliness will be with you always, but take heart.
I walk in its shadow. And when you seem to suffer most,
remember that we are truly companions.’ ”
Thomas Merton says that tribulation detaches us from
the things that are really valueless, because their attraction
cannot stand up under light and all satisfactions that are
meaningless appear as such when we are filled with tribula
tion. Therefore, we should be grateful for it.
Suffering more than anything else brings us to our
knees and makes us closer and more at one with Christ as
the patient and the convict both so eloquently attest. It is
in our sorrows, sickness, pain, heartache, loneliness and
disappointments that we see with clearest vision.
My moments of greatest sufferings have been my most
profitable moments. As I have cried out in pain, I have soon
learned to know that the pain was the disguise of love and
that only by pain would I learn the many lessons I need
know . . . “the arms of our cross have been Thy arms.”
Each of us has a millionaire’s inheritance in the coin
of suffering. Suffering is not held to the sick and imprisoned
and the lonely, each of us knows our particular brand of suf
fering and when our life is over may we have suffered more
than we have sinned. When we have learned not to resent
it or flee from it when we have passed the hardest test.
The “Fiat” of the prisoner and the patient is of everlasting
value, of far more importance than the parole or cure.
“The Cross, I cannot escape it ...” I will not even try
for my cross is my salvation!
HIGGINS SHOE STORE, Inc.
"Always A Step Ahead"
ROME, GEORGIA
We Are Truly a Family Shoe Store
Featuring Quality, Style and Fit!
HAMILTON
PHARMACY
1425 N. BROAD ST. — Phone 5821
706 AVE. C — Phone 2-2461
"Yours For Service"
ROME, GA.
HARVEY - GIVEN
COMPANY
Established 1886
Real Estate Sales & Mortgage Loans
Property Management
SIXTH AVENUE BUILDING — ROME, GEORGIA
Mortgage Loan Correspondent for the
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company
Fr. O'Brien
(Continued from Page 4)
disciples of all nations, baptiz
ing them in the name of the
Father, and of the Son, and of
the Holy Spirit, teaching them
to observe all that I have com
manded you; and behold, I am
with you all days, even unto
the consummation of the
world’ (Matt. 28: 18-20).
“Here was the answer to
the question, ‘Did Christ found
a particular Church?,’ for
which we had been searching
for years. These words are the
most important in all Scrip
ture for every truth seeker.
They go to the very heart of
the matter. They are confirm
ed by Christ’s words to Peter:
‘Thou art Peter and upon this
rock I will build my Church,
and the gates of hell shall not
prevail against it’ (Matt. 16:18).
“What more could anyone
ask? To believe Christ, one
must believe that He founded
the Catholic Church and cloth
ed her with His authority to
teach. He assured her that
through Peter and his succes
sors, He would protect her
from error despite the human
frailty of her officers and
members. To nourish our souls
with sanctifying grace He in
stituted the seven sacraments
to be administered by His
priests.
“During that superb course
of instruction, we studied “The
Faith of Millions,” “Father
Smith Instructs Jackson” and
“Understanding the Catholic
Faith.” Upon its completion
my mother, two sisters and I
were received into Christ’s
true Church and father enter
ed four years later. To spread
the Faith my two sisters join
ed the Sisters of St. Francis
while I’ve addressed 30 Catho
lic groups to spur them to
share their precious treasure
with others.”
Question
Box
(Continued from Page 4)
ons and tools, it would logic
ally follow that it had attain
ed a human phychic level.
FINALLY, as to whether
man “was sired by an earlier
species similar to man in every
respect except size of brain
and tooth and form of jaw,”
the problem is one of termi
nology again. What does it
mean? If it implies that the
father and pregenitor of man
was other than a human being
(i.e. that the first man was the
son of an animal, generated as
a human being in the proper
sense by the animal), then it
is untenable. For whereas the
evolutionary hypothesis is ap
plicable to the question of hu
man origins, its investigations
cannot possibly overturn other
facts certain from sciences
other than paleonthology and
anthropology. And among
these other facts are those of
the special creation of man
and his essential (not accident
al) superiority over animals
by reason of his spiritual soul,
which is immediately created
by God.
Aim to do good in this life—
it’ll help miss fire in the next.
JUHAN'S CLEANERS
Expert - Personalized Service
Given to Every Garment Coming
> Into Our Plant
112 N. Main St. PO. 1-4404
College Park, Ga.
THE NATIONAL
CITY BANK OF
ROME GEORGIA
Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
First Copy Of Holy
See's 1962 Yearbook
Presented To Pontiff
THE BULLETIN, January 20, 1962-PAGE 5
RANSOM
FLORAL COMPANY
FIVE FOURTH AVENUE
VATICAN CITY, (Radio,
NC) — The first copy of the
1962 yearbook of the Holy See
was presented to His Holiness
Pope John XXIII by Arch
bishop Angelo DelFAcqua,
Substitute for Ordinary Af
fairs of the Papal Secretariat
of State.
For the first time in 36 years
the yearbook — the 1962 An-
nuario Pontificio — lists the
Equestrian Order of the
Knights of the Holy Sepulcher,
although it is not strictly a
pontifical order.
It was listed in yearbooks
from 1913 to 1926, after which
it was eliminated because it
was decided that it did not
merit inclusion with papal or
ders. The decision to return it
to the listing — although the
yearbook separates it from
other papal orders — was bas
ed on three reasons. In the
past the pope used to be the
order’s grand master and even
today the post is always held
by a cardinal. The order’s con
ferral of degrees is certified
by the Apostolic Chancery.
The order’s constitution was
approved by an apostolic brief.
The new yearbook has 1,826
pages, 84 more than last year.
To avoid the difficulties en
countered last year when a
cardinal died just before pub
lication, the pages of the sec
tion covering the Pope and the
cardinals are numbered sepa
rately. The death of Joseph
Cardinal Wendel of Munich,
Germany, on December 31,
1960, delayed publication of
the 1961 yearbook while all
pages were renumbered. Un
der the new system only the
pages in the separate section
would have to be renumbered
in case of unforseen events.
Statistics for the year, com
pared with 1960 and 1961, are
the following:
1960 1961 1962
Cardinals 79 85 80
Residential and Titular Patriarchates 15 15 16
Residential Metropolitan Sees L 328 335 345
Residential Archiepiscopal Sees 42 41 46
Residential Episcopal Sees 1,334 1,368 1,370
Ocupied Titular Sees 882 882 972
Prelatures and Abbeys Nullius 86 88 98
Apostolic Administrations 11 10 10
Oriental Rite Prelates with Ordinary
Personal and Territorial Jurisdiction 16 18 17
Vicariates Apostolic L 178 158 139
Prefectures Apostolic - 120 123 107
Missions and Independent Districts 6 6 6
PHONE 3606
ROME, GEORGIA
Dlie ^t)och
^Approved t^eitaurant
ROME, GEORGIA
ROME PAINT &
WALLPAPER COMPANY
Gilman Paints and Varnishes
Oil, Glass, Wallpaper
12-14 THIRD AVENUE ROME, GEORGIA
Miller Bros. Co.
Fashion Specialists
246-248 BROAD ROME, GEORGIA
GREETS NEW AFRICAN AMBASSADOR—His Holiness Pope John XXIII points
out the African nation of Senegal on a huge globe in his Vatican apartments during a
special audience in which the Pontiff received Senegal Ambassador Louis Le Gros. The
first minister from the newly independent nation to the Holy See presented his creden
tials to the Pope a few days before and called on the Pontiff to express his New Year’s
wishes.—(NC Photos).
Northwest Georgia's Finest and
Most Complete Department Store!
MANY CATHOLIC HONORS
FOR JOHN W. HcCORMACX,
NEW SPEAKER OF HOUSE
WASHINGTON (NC) — A
World War I veteran wielded
the gavel as the new boss,
bringing the second session of
the 87th Congress in the House
of Representatives to order.
Gray - haired, bespectacled
lawmaker John W. McCor
mack, new Speaker of the
House, had come a long way
since he embarked upon the
practice of law in Boston in
1913. On hand to share his lat
est triumph was his No. 1 fan
— the former M .Harriett
Joyce, whom he married in
1920.
McCormack, who turned 70
on December 21, was elected
Speaker (Jan. 9) at a caucus
of the Democratic party mem
bership of the House to suc
ceed the late Sam Rayburn of
Texas. Since 1947 McCormack
had served under Rayburn as
the Democrats’ No. 2 man in
the House.
And as Speaker of the House
McCormack is now second in
line of succession to the Pres
idency under a law approved
by Congress in July, 1947,
which changed the old line of
succession. He follows the Vice
President in succession.
The Boston native embarked
on an uninterrupted career in
politics in 1920 when he was
elected a member of the Mass
achusetts House. He advanced
to the Massachusetts Senate in
1923 and was its Democratic
leader in 1925 and 1926. He
came to the U. S. House in De
cember, 1927, and has been re
elected ever since to serve his
state’s 12th District, which in
cludes Suffolk County and 10
wards in Boston.
Many honors have been
heaped over the years upon
the longtime power in the
House. He holds honorary doc
torates of law from 11 univer
sities and colleges, including
seven Catholic institutions —
Holy Cross in Worcester,
Mass., Boston College, Villano-
va, Providence, Stonehil in
North Easton, Mass., George
town and the Catholic Uni
versity of America.
He was decorated by Pope
Pius XII as a Knight Com
mander of the Order of St.
Gregory the Great. He is a
Master Knight of the Sov
ereign Military Order of Mal
ta and among other Catholic
awards hold the Peace Medal
of the Third Order of St. Fran
cis and the Bellarmine Medal
of Bellarmine College, Louis
ville, Ky. A Knight of Colum
bus, McCormack also has re
ceived honors from several
foreign governments.
Red Cross
Stymied In
Cuba Efforts
GENEVA, Switzerland (NC)
—The International Red Cross
has stated that it has been
thwarted in its attempt to
comply with a petition re
questing aid for political pris
oners in Cuba.
The petition was drawn up
by the Committee for the De
fense of Cuban Political Pris
oners, headed by ousted Aux
iliary Bishop Eduardo Boza
Masvidal of Havana, who is
now in Bogota, Colombia.
The Committee had asked
the Red Cross to assure that
provisions such as food, cloth
ing and medicines be deliver
ed to the prisoners. The peti
tion also said that the pris
oners in Cuba were terrorized
by their jailers and limited in
the number of visitors they
could have.
The Red Cross said its at
tempts to aid political prison
er sin Cuba had been turned
down repeatedly since the
summer of 1959 by the regime
of Premier Fidel Castro.
SMITH - EVANS
LUMBER COMPANY
Wholesale Forest Products
Wolmanized Pressure-Treated Lumber
P. O. Box 81 Old Lindale Rd.
ROME, GEORGIA
ROGERS
(onstniction Company
general Contractors
4 East Fourth Street P. 0. Box 882
Rome, Georgia
