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DIOCESE OF SAVANNAH EDITION
Serving
Georgia's 88
Southern Counties
Published By The
Catholic Laymen's
Ass'n of Georgia
OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF THE DIOCESE OF SAVANNAH
Vol. 42, No. 22
SAVANNAH, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, MARCH 31, 1962
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Outline Program For Annual
Diocesan Council Convention
SAVANNAH — The Savannah Diocesan Council of
Catholic Women will hold its 23rd annual convention
at the Richmond Hotel, Augusta, on May 5th and
6th. The theme of this year’s convention will be “Mary,
Queen of the Lay Apostolate.”
MRS. ARTHUR L. ZEPF
NCCW President
Open House
For St. Patrick’s
New Rectory
AUGUSTA — On Sunday,
March 18th, the ladies of St.
Patrick’s Parish honored their
pastor, Rev. Ralph E. Seikel,
and Rev. John Crean, with a
silver tea and open-house at
the new rectory.
Mrs. Harry B. Arthur, presi
dent of the parish Council of
Catholic Women, was in
charge of arrangements for the
occasion.
Beautifully appointed re
freshment tables, using a green
and white color scheme, were
placed under a large canopy
on the rear lawn of the rec
tory.
Approximately two hundred
friends called during the af
ternoon.
St. Vincent
Alumnae Plan
Breakfast Apr. 8
SAVANNAH — St. Vincent’s
Alumnae Association held its
March meeting in the library
of the Academy and plans
were completed for the Annual
Communion Breakfast to be
held on Sunday, April 8th in
the cafeteria. His Excellency
Most Rev. Thomas J. McDon
ough will be the speaker.
Mrs. John Dillon, Mrs. Bart
Shea and Miss Joan Iiarty are
chairmen with Mrs. Charles
L. McKenzie, Jr. handling
decorations, and Mrs. J. E.
Corcoran, invitations. The
servers will be students at St.
Vincent’s whose mothers are
Alumnae' members.
All members of the Alum
nae Association are invited to
attend and are being contract
ed by representatives from
each class. Those who have not
already made reservations may
do so by contacting the presi
dent, Mrs. J. Arthur Kearney,
ADams 2-0383.
A proposed amendment to
the By-laws was submitted by
Mrs. Mary Entlemen, parlia
mentarian, and will be voted
on at the May meeting of the
Association.
The annual boat ride for the
Sisters of Mercy aboard the
“Visitor” will be held on May
19th and lunch will be served
at Mr. George Brown’s home
at Hilton Head.
Mrs. J. Arthur Kearney,
president, urged the members
to attend the annual meeting
of St. Mary’s Guild on the af
ternoon of April 8th at the
Home, and to participate in the
Diocesan Tour to be held the
same day.
Plans were discussed for the
Association’s annual Baby
Party and the party for the
graduates to be held in May
with Mrs. Essie Schreck as
chairman.
Other guests include Rt
Rev. Msgr. Andrew J. Mc
Donald, Chancellor of the Dio
cese and Rt. Rev. Msgr. T.
James McNamara, Rector of
the Cathedral, as well as the
past presidents of the Alum
nae Association.
Registration is scheduled
from 12 noon until 2 p. m.
in the lobby of the Richmond
Hotel, followed by a business
session at the King’s Inn, at
which time the reports of the
vcie presidents will be heard.
The Saturday afternoon work
shop will have as moderator,
Dr. Gabriel d’Amato, professor
of Psychology at the Medical
College of Georgia. In honor
of the ladies attending the con
vention, a tea will be held that
same afternoon at the home of
Mrs. Alfred Battey.
The banquet on Saturday
night will have as principal
speaker, Rev. George Hag-
maier, C.S.P., Associate Direc
tor of the Paulist Institute for
“Religion and Mental Health.”
Father Hagmaier will also
speak at the Saturday work
shop on “Emotions and Mar
riage.”
’ His Excellency Most Rev.
Thomas J. McDonough, Bishop
of Savannah, will be celebrant
of a mass offered at 8 a. m.
Sunday morning at St. Pat
rick’s.
Election of officers will be
held during a business session
beginning at 10:30 Sunday
morning in the Augusta Room
of the Richmond Hotel. Con
cluding the week-end activi
ties, a luncheon will be held on
Sunday, at which time the
speaker will be Mrs. Arthur
L. Zepf of Toledo, Ohio, pres
ident of the National Council
of Catholic Women.
Presiding over all sessions
will be Mrs. J. Edwin Mulli
gan, of Savannah, president.
Convention preparations are
under the supervision of Rt.
Rev. Msgr. John D. Toomey,
Spiritual Moderator with Mrs.
Frank X. Mulherin of Augusta,
General Chairman.
Committee chairmen for the
convention are: Registration,
Miss Della Kearney; Reserva
tion luncheon and banquet,
Mrs. Albert Rice; Decorations,
Mrs. J. Lee Etheredge, Jr.;
Hospitality, Miss Anna Rice;
Transportation and informa
tion, Mrs. Eugene Long; Pub
licity, Mrs. Ernest Dinkins;
Badges, Mrs. Edith Wilder,
Place Cards, Miss May Holli
man; Displays, Miss Frances
Casey; music, Mrs. Bright
McConnell; violinist, Mrs. Hugh
Kinchley. The pledge • to the
Flag will be under the direc
tion of Scout Troup 198 with
leader, Mrs. J. J. Brittingham.
According to Miss Della
Kearny, registration chairman,
“Hotel reservations should be
made directly with the Rich
mond Hotel, making mention
of the fact that you are a mem
ber of the DCCW.” Luncheon
tickets are $3.00 and banquet
tickets are $3.50 and reserva
tions should be made by May
2nd with Mrs. Albert Rice, 423
Kemp Drive. Augusta.
REV. GEORGE HAGMAIER
C.S.P., Banquet Speaker
POPE TO RAISE CARDINAL
DEACONS TO EPISCOPACY
(Radio, NCWC News Service)
VATICAN CITY — His Hol
iness Pope John XXIII an
nounced that he is raising all
12 cardinal deacons to the epis
copacy, and that he will conse
crate the 12 as bishops on Holy
Thursday.
He told the cardinals at the
secret consistory of March 19
that episcopal consecration be-
fittingly crowns the dignity
inherent in the rank of cardi
nal. The consistory at which
he spoke was the one in which
he formally appointed the 10
new cardinals — eight bishops
and two priests.
In his address, Pope John al
so voiced fears that bishops
from some parts of the world
will be prevented from taking
part in the coming ecumenical
cuoncil. Noting that the coun
cil is to be a universal meeting
devoted to cooperation and
peace, he asked, “How can one
imagine such a meeting of so
many personalities from re
gions where there still exist
the well-known conditions of
uneasiness and of restricted
activity?
“How is this possible, We re
peat, as bishops who because
of their apostolic mission, per
formed in great conscience and
with strong episcopal deter
mination, are still in prison or
in exile or prevented from ex
ercising their sacred minis
try?”
It was after lamenting the
restrictions “not only of Chris
tian freedom but even of ele
mentary human freedom to
which countless men and many
collective groups of the whole
world are subjected” that the
Pope revealed his decision to
make all cardinals bishops.
The decision does not affect
the essential structure of the
College of Cardinals, according
to Pope John. Thus the three
classes of cardinals remain.
But the Pope promised clarifi
cation of the first class of card
inals — the cardinal-bishops,
who are ordinaries of the sev
en “suburbicarian” Sees which
ring the Rome diocese itself.
The Pope last year abolish
ed the traditional right of the
senior cardinal priest of Rome
a member of the second class
of cardinals, for centuries con
sisting of archbishops or bish
ops—to opt to fill a vacant
suburbicarian See. He reserv
ed appointment of the card
inal-bishops to the Pope him
self.
Book Reviews 2
Question Box 4
Obituaries 2
Marriages 2
Doris Answers Youth 4
Presbyterian Leader
Visits Pope 3
Religion In Russia 5
SPACE AGE
'MYTH' PRAISED
BY JOHNSON
WASHINGTON (NC) —
Vice President Lyndon B.
Johnson praised a paro
chial school boy's pride in
U. S. space science, as evi
denced in a space-age
"myth" he wrote for
school.
The Vice President made
his comments in a letter to
Paul Petinato, 10, a fifth-
grader at Melrose Acade
my, Philadelphia.
Paul's teacher. Sister
Mary Ellen, sent his
"myth" to the Philadelphia
Bulletin, which reprinted
it. A friend of the Vice
President sent it to him/
The boy's tale told of the
first two Russians to reach
the moon and *how they
found there a sign saying:
"Two million miles to Cape
Canaveral." Vice President
Johnson's letter praised
Paul for the "confident,
quiet pride you show in
our space scientists."
Sees Little
Chance For
U. S. Aid
NOTRE DAME, Ind., (NC)—
A key figure on educational
matters in the House thinks
federal aid for church-related
schools has little chance of ap
proval largely because of big
otry and hostility.
This is the opinion of Rep-
Frank Thompson of New Jer
sey, chairman of the selected
subcommittee on education
and manager in the House last
year of President Kennedy’s
unsuccessful bid for Federal
grants for public schools and
their teachers.
Writing in Ave Maria maga
zine (March 24), Thompson de
plores the attitude of persons
who he said would rather have
no Federal aid for education
than see one cent go for church
schools.
But the legislator argues
that this attitude is similar to
the thinking of ohers who hold
that unless aid is provided for
religious schools there will be
no aid at all.
Thompson defended Presi
dent Kennedy for his stand
a g ai n s t aid to parochial
schools. The Chief Executive’s
position is not a matter of poli
tical expediency, he said. “His
oath bids him to refrain from
proposing and to refuse ap
proval of legislation that he
believes to be unconstitution
al.”
But Thompson said he disa
greed with the President’s in
terpretation of the constitu
tion. “I believe that a program
of loans might be fashioned
to square with the Constitu
tion,” he wrote.
‘It is true, of course,” he
said, “that as a matter of poli
tical reality a Federal program
of general school aid that in
cluded funds for religious
schools would have little
chance of getting through Con
gress.
“This would result in part
from the sincere constitutional
convictions of some legislators
they bear the same kind of
responsibility that the Presi
dent does—but it would un
doubtedly have to be attribut
ed in great measure to the
bigotry and hostility of those
people, unskilled in constitu
tional law, who would rather
see no Federal aid to education
than see one cent go for reli
gious education,” he went on.
“As much as I deplore this
attitude, it does seem to have
a perfect analogue in that at
titude which holds that un
less there is aid provided for
religious schools, there will be
no aid at all.”
Thompson’s comments are
made in his contribution to an
exchange of opinions on Fed
eral aid to public schools. The
negative was put forward by
Roger A Freeman of Clare
mont (Calif.) Men’s College.
Says School Aid
Issue Should Be
Settled Locally
WASHINGTON (NC) —
George Cabot Lodge, a candi
date for the Republican sena
torial nomination in Massachu
setts, said here the issue of
Federal aid to parochial
schools is one to be settled on
“the local level.”
Replying to questions on the
“Meet the Press” television
program, Lodge salso said “we
need a clarification by the
courts of this whole issue.”
Two candidates for the Dem
ocratic senatorial nomination—
Edward M. Kennedy, a young
er brother of President Ken
nedy, and Edward J. McCor
mack, Jr., newphew of House
Speaker John W. McCormack
—earlier had given their views
on the same issue.
Kennedy, interviewed a
week earlier on “Meet the
Press,” said he favors programs
to “aid the child,” regardless
of the school attended. He dis
tinguished between assistance
to students and assistance to
their schools.
McMormack, attorney gen
eral of Massachusetts, said tap
does not believe Federal aid
to parochial and other private
schools is unconstitutional. He
said he favors government aid
to private schools for non
religious instruction.
Ceremony In Atlanta's Cathedral of Christ the King
Apostolic Delegate Installs
Archbishop Paul J. Hallinan
METROPOLITAN OF NEW
PROVINCE OF ATLANTA
Birch Society Methods
Rapped By Archbishop
CHARLESTON, S. C., (NC)—The Most Reverend
Paul J. Hallinan of Atlanta has condemned the John
Birch Society for both its methods and its conclusions.
“The theories of Robert Welch (founder of the
Birch society) are at complete variance with the social
doctrines advanced by Leo XIII, Pius XII and John
XXIII,” said the prelate, who has served as Bishop of
Charleston for three years and five months. He was
enthroned as Archbishop of Atlanta on March 29.
SERVE GUESTS AT LITTLE SISTERS—His Excellency
the, Most Rev. Thomas J. McDonough serves guests of the
Little Sisters of the Poor, Savannah. On the Feast of St.
Joseph (March 19th) the Bishop and priests of the Savannah
area tender a dinner for the men and women of the Home.
‘All of us are against com
munism,” he said in a news
interview (March 15). “I would
not only condemn the methods
but also the conclusions of the
Birchers.
“The belief of Mr. Welch
that government is an evil
thing, a necessary evil, is com
pletely at variance with Cath
olic teachings,” the Archbish
op stated. “The extent of
government is a completely
different thing, however.”
In referring again to com
munism, he said that it “is
PRAY FOR OUR
PRIESTLY DEAD
REV. JOHN J. KIRBY
April 3, 1872
Oh God, Who didst give to
thy servants by their scarcdotal
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.
Passion Week
Novena At
Cathedral
SAVANNAH — The annual
Passion Week Novena at the
Cathedral of St. John the Bap
tist will take place from April
8th thru April 14th.
Preaching the Novena will
be the Rev. Thomas J. Tapp,
C.Ss.R.
A member of the Redemp-
torist Mission Board, Father
Tapp’s headquarters are at
New Smyrna Beach, Florida.
Services will be held each
evening at 8 p. m. in the upper
church at the Cathedral. Fa
ther will remain after the No
vena to serve as Cathedral
Holy Week preacher.
wrong because it is both anti-
God and anti-human.” He add
ed that “the basic Catholic
argument against communism
is that “it diminishes the dig
nity and personality of man.”
Archbishop Hallinan as
serted that the biggest evil
in American life today “is not
communism, but secularism.
ATLANTA — The spiritual leader of the Deep
South’s first archdiocese urged the congregation at his
enthronement to help him meet the Church’s special
challenges here, including racial justice.
He is Archbishop Paul A. Hallinan, former Bishop
of Charleston, S. C., who was enthroned (March 29) in
the Cathedral of Christ the King by Archbishop Egidio
Vagnozzi, Apostolic Delegate in the United States.
Archbishop Hallinan, who
will be 51 on April 8, heads a
See which was created as a
diocese in 1956 embracing 71
northern Georgia counties and
was raised to the status of
archdiocese in February of this
year. The Catholic population
is 32,381 in a total population
of 2,152,653, according to the
1961 Official Catholic Directory
for the Church in the United
States.
By virtue of his office, the
Ohio-born prelate also is the
first head of the Church’s new
ecclesiastical province of At
lanta, created from dioceses
which were formerly a part of
the Baltimore province.
Atlanta’s suffragan Sees are
dioceses in North Carolina (Ra
leigh), South Carolina
(Charleston), Florida (St. Au
gustine and Miami) and the
other half of Georgia (Savan
nah).
In his sermon at the televis
ed ceremony whose high paint
was the placing of the crozier,
the Bishop’s symbol of autho
rity, in a new prelate’s hand,
Archbishop Hallinan said that
at the heart of the event here
are the Catholics of Atlanta
whose efforts “have merited
this new honor and its corre
sponding new reponsibility.”
He then spoke of the “special
challenges” facing the Church
in the South. These include, he
said, “the dilemma confronted
in every diocese in the pro
vince: how to care for the
Catholic thousands in the ci
ties, how to reach the villages
and counties where the Church
is not known.”
Of race relations, the Arch
bishop said: “As St. Paul had
his daily pressing anxiety in
the care of the churches, so
does the Church today face the
daily task of putting into prac-
MOST REV. PAUL J.
HALLINAN, D.D.
tical effect her clear-cut teach
ing on racial justice.
“Neither in the North nor in
the South can she bear the
ugly blemish of prejudice and
fear. Small in numbers, but
great in loyalty, our Catholic
people are trying to reflect the
unity of Christ’s Mystical Body
as they move toward the re
ality of full racial justice —-
with prudence, with courage
and with determination.”
The new Archbishop, who
became a member of the Hier
archy when named to the
Charleston diocese in 1958, is
a former Newman Club chap
lain in Cleveland and a U. S.
Army chaplain in the pacific
during World War II.
He was ordained in 1937 fol
lowing graduation from Notre
Dame (Ind.) University and
studied for the priesthood at
St. Mary’s Seminary, Cleve
land. He holds a master of arts
degree in American history.
Camp Villa Marie
Opens Registration
SAVANNAH — It was an
nounced recently that Camp
Villa Marie has opened reg
istration for the summer ses
sions for the twenty-sixth
time. Father Coleman, the
camp director, has announced
that this summer’s staff pro
mises to be one of the best in
the history of the camp. “Since
the staff is the most important
part of any camp,” he said,
“we look forward to a most
successful season.
The camp staff is composed
of ten Sisters of Mercy of the
Baltimore Province, eight dio
cesan major seminarians who
have completed at least three
years of college and ten high
school girls who help the sis-
tres in the girls’ section of the
camp. This staff will include
many former counsellors as
well as a good group of pro
mising new faces. Father Cole
man emphasized the maturity
of the camp staff as being the
greatest single asset of the
program. Only in a religious
camp could such a staff be
assembled for a summer pro
gram.
The final phases of camp re
modeling which have stretch
ed over the past five year
period will be completed this
summer. New cabins have
been constructed for boys and
girls, and dining hall and cha
pel remodeled, the swimming
pool equipped with a modern
filtration system and numer
ous other improvements in the
recreation facilities have been
made during the past five
years.
The camp program is cer
tainly unsurpassed in planning
and execution. It is the result
of 25 years of experience in
catering to the needs of Geor
gia children. It includes boat
ing, Red Cross Swimming In
struction by certified instruc
tors, handicraft, campfires,
athletics, ir rifelry, and a host
of other camp activities. Days
spent at Villa Marie are often
the most memorable in a
child’s life.
Among the highlights of
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Mass For Bishop
Broadcast Behind
"Iron Curtain"
LONDON, (NS) — A spe
cial Mass for Archbishop
Josef Beran of Prague, held
a prisoner by communists in
Czechoslovakia, was tape-
recorded here and later
broadcast behind the Iron
Curtain.
The Mass, offered in a cha
pel of the Jesuits' Farm
Street church, marked the
11th anniversary of Arch
bishop Beran's imprison
ment.
The services were record
ed by Radio Free Europe and
flown to Munich, where the
recordings were broadcast
(March 13) especially for
listeners in Czechoslovakia.
Billy Graham's Tie
To Support Deficient
Child For A Month
CHARLOTTE, N. C. — Bil
ly Graham’s tie is going to sup
port a mentally deficient child
for more than a month.
Charlotte Observer column
ist Kays Gary urged the Bap
tist evangelist to donate one of
his ties to be used in a raffle
for Holy Angels Nursery, an
institution operated by the
Sisters of Mercy at nearby
Belmont, N. C.
Graham had been selected
as one of the 10 “best-tied”
men in America by the neck
tie industry.
Gary, a Protestant with a
great devotion to Holy Angels
Nursery, had his offer accept
ed. Graham donated a silk tie.
Gary told his readers he would
put the names of all who
would send a contribution into
a hat and pull out one name.
That person would get the
tie. Holy Angels would get
the contributions.
In less than a week more
thian $1C|9 poured fin. The
checks were, mostly, small.
The total amount climbed to
$135.
It costs about $125 each
month to support one of the
infants at Holy Angels.
The winner?
A Chester, S. C., woman,
Mrs, D. G. Austin.