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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 10c Per Copy — $3 A Year 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 (Continude on Page 6) 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.