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Vol. 42, No. 23 SAVANNAH, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, APRIL 14, 1962 Published By The Catholic Laymen's Ass'n of Georgia 10c Per Copy — $3 A Year BISHOP THOMAS J. McDONOUGH WITH COLUMBUS DEANERY OFFICERS Vice President Mrs. Henry Gallman (1.). Columbus; President Mrs. L. E. Mock. Albany. Photo by Eleanore Petran BISHOP MCDONOUGH ADDRESSES COLUMBUS DEANERY "All Children Should Benefit Equally Front Any Federal Aid” COLUMBUS - Members of the Columbus Deanery Council of Catholic Women heard a plea for Federal aid to education by the Most Rev. Thomas J. McDonough, Bishop of Savannah, at St. Anne's School in Columbus. During the business session of the luncheon meeting, Mrs. L. E. Mock of Albany was re elected president, Mrs. Henry Gallman of St. Anne's parish, Columbus, was elected vice- president. The new recording secretary is Mrs. Richard G. Cowan of Macon, and Mrs. Phil Farkas of Albany was re elected treasurer. “ All A m erican child ren, whether they attend public, private, parochial or other de nominational schools, should benefit equally from any Fed eral aid to education,” Bishop McDonough said. “The most recent aid bill defeated in Con gress was 'discriminatory and exclusive’ because it excluded all but public schools from re ceiving Federal aid,” he main tained. The Bishop pointed out that Federal aid to non - public schools has never been declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court. Until such time as an adverse decision is handed down, any group has the right to fight for inclusion. If the Supreme Court rules such aid unconstitutional, Catholics, as good Americans, will accept the decision, the Bishop said. Bishop McDonough reminded that the British government, de spite the fact that the Church of England is the established re ligion, aids Catholic schools. He spoke briefly on the role of the Church in education and said that Franciscans had established s c h o o 1 s in St. Augustine, Florida as early as 1565. St. Vincent’s school in Savannah was established in 1845. Bishop McDonough also asked prayers for the coming Ecumenical Council which Pope John XXIII will convene in Rome on Oct. 11. He will attend as one of 2,800 Catholic bishops from all over the world. The Bishop will also visit Ireland in May and June as part of a program to recruit priests for the Sa vannah diocese. In his final remarks, the Bis hop asked that the women respond to any appeal he might have to make in the future in behalf of the Church’s stand on Federal aid to education. The Bishop also asked that Catholic women miorm themselves on issues, such as Federal aid to education, so that they can interpret Catholic interests to other citizens. Mrs. Mock presided over the meeting, which was attended by Catholic women from parishes in the Columbus Deanery. Towns represented included Al bany, Americus, Warner Rob- OBITUARIES 2 LEGION OF DECENCY 3 BACKDROP 4 QUESTION BOX 5 MARRIAGES 2 SPECIAL SUPPLEMENT PROVINCE OF ATLANTA ins, Macon, Bainbridge, Ala- paha, Dudley, Fort Valley, Moultrie. Perrv. Thomasville and Valdosta. Rt. Rev. Msgr. John D. Toomey, Savannah Dio cesan spiritual advisor for the NCCW, was also present for the meeting. Mrs. John B. Byrne of Holy Family parish, Colum bus welcomed the visitors, and Mrs. E. L. Buch of Macon re sponded for them. Msgr. Herman J. Diemel, pastor of St. Anne’s of Colum bus, installed the new officers. Mrs. Warren Purks and Mrs. Leo Leonard were chairmen of the event. Serving on the hos pitality committee were Mrs. Purks, Mrs. Robert Connor, Mrs. Noll Van Cleave, Mrs. J. Fred Glass, Mrs. Sanford Ash er and Mrs. Henry Gallman. Mrs. William Fortson, Mrs. Thomas Turner and Mrs. J. W. Connolly served on the trans portation committee. Reds Stifle Men’s Final Cries To Christ PANAMA, (NC) — Cuba’s Red masters are gagging the men they send to the execution wall, two Cuban refugees re port. Jose and Roberto Puente Blanco said all men sent be fore firing squads are gagged to keep them from shouting “Long live Christ the King!” or ‘‘Long live free Cuba!” The refugees said they had been jailed after last April’s unsuccessful invasion of Cuba but were released through the intervention of a Panamanian politician friendly to Cuban Premier Fidel Castro. They were leaders of the anti-Castro student underground in Cuba. Meanwhile, Havana Radio said a chaplain in the invading forces had confessed at the trial of 1,179 captured invaders that the invasion was planned by the United States. Gen. Penaat To Address Augusta Holy Name Men AUGUSTA - Brigadier General Edward F. Penaat, Command ing General at Fort Gordon, will address the Holy Nme Society of St. Mary’s-on-the-Hill on Sunday, April 15th. The General will be the featured speaker at a Communion breakfast to be held following the 8 a.m. Mass. A graduate of Hastings Col lege of Law, University of Calif ornia, where he received his LL.B. Degree in 1929, General Penaat is also a graduate of the Command and General Staff College (1947), the Armed Forces Staff College (1949) and national War College, (1953). Immediately prior to his as signment as Commanding Gen eral of Fort Gordon, General Penaat was Provost Marshal, Headquarters United States Army, Europe (Heidelberg, Germany), where he had been stationed since January 1957. In his capacity as Provost Mar shal, Headquarters USAREUR, General Penaat was active in promoting close cooperation between the European - based United States Army Military Police and European Police Agencies. General Penaat was born in St. Louis, Missouri, July 10, 1908. He attended Soldan High School there for three years. Moving to San Francisco, Calif ornia, in 1923, he was graduated from Lowell High School, San Francisco. Commissioned a second lieu tenant in the Reserve Corps in June 1931, he entered active service in January, 1941, as a Captain (Reserve) of the Judge Advocate General’s Depart ment. Prior to Pearl Harbor, with the activation of the Corps of Military Police, he was named Provost Marshal, San Francisco Port of Embarkation. Later he became Provost Mar shal of Headquarters, South Pa cific Base Command in New Caledonia, and still later with Headquarters, Army Service BRIG. GEN. EDWARD F. PENAAT Command-Olympic in the Phil ippines and in Japan. In August, 1950, General Penaat activated and command ed the Military Police Replace ment Training Center at Fort Gordon, Georgia, where both military police and air police were trained. He served as assistant commandant of the P r o vo st Marshal General’s School at Fort Gordon from June 1951 to July 1952. In 1953 (upon his graduation from the National War College) General Penaat was assigned as Maryland's Highest Court Rules Favorably DRIVE TO SECULARIZE U. S. PUBLIC SCHOOLS CONTINUES Prayer In R L Schools Challenged PROVIDENCE, R.I., (NC)— Recitation of a prayer in pub lic schools here violates both U. S. and state constitutions, the Rhode Island Civil Liber ties Union has charged. The union’s Church-State committee voiced its opposition in a letter to James L. Hanley, superintendent of schools. The committee is headed by the Rev. Canon John Crocker, Jr., Epis copal chaplain to students in the Providence area. The prayer—a prayer of St. Francis—was distributed for use in her school by Marie G. Mallory, principal of the Joslin Street School. Hanley said he would refer the Civil Liberties Union’s communica tion to the school committee. Whether or not the prayer is sectarian, it aids religion in general, which is “precise ly what the Constitution pro hibits governmentally-spon- sored activities from doing,” the Union argued. It quoted from the state constitution’s declaration that no one shall be compelled to support any re ligious worship “except in ful fillment of his own voluntary contract.” (The U. S. Supreme Court presently has under advisement a case from New York involv ing a challenge to the consti tutionality of reciting a prayer in public schools there.) Canonization For Blessed Martin de Porres VATICAN CITY, (Radio, NC) Twenty-nine cardinals gave their approval in a consistory here to the canonization of Blessed Martin de Porres, 17th century mulatto Dominican Brother who lived in Lima, Peru. Among the cardinals who at tended the secret consistory (April 5) along with His Holi ness Pope John XXIII was Juan Cardinal Landazuri Ricketts, O.F.M., Archbishop of Lima, who was raised to the Sacred College on March 19. Formal preliminary cere monies connected with Blessed Martin’s canonization were concluded at a semipublic con sistory on April 12, at which Pope John heard the opinion of bishops from the environs of Rome on the cause. The actual canonization is expected to take place on May 6. PRAY FOR OUR PRIESTLY DEAD REV. CHAS. W. VOGEL April 26. 1935 VERY REV. MSGR. JAMES J. GRADY April 26, 1955 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. A men Provost Marshal of the Eighth United States Army in Korea. After that he served as De puty Provost Marshal, Head quarters Army Forces, Far East, in Japan. Upon return ing to the United States after completion of that tour of duty, he served for about eight months (October 1955 to June 1956) as Assistant Chief, Security Division, Office Chief of Staff Intelligence, and for about seven months as Deputy The Provost Marshal General, in Washing ton, D. C. General Penaat is married to the former Helen Grace Watts, of San Francisco. He is the son of William H. and Catherine E. (Brennan) Penaat. VOCATION WEEK Viewing the Vocation Exhibits at Nativity School are, upper photo: Dian Gregg and Donna Boykin—lower photo: Michael Aliffi and Joseph Kelley. "VOCATION WEEK” AT THUNDERBOLT THUNDERBOLT—The last week in March was celebrat ed as “Vocation Week” at Nativity of Our Lord School, Savannah. A display in the front hall of the school con sisted of posters, dolls dress ed in religious habits, and literature — all informative of the priesthood and the way of life in the different orders or congregations that work among the people of Savannah. Reverend Francis J. Donohue, pastor of Our Lady of Lourdes Church at Port Wentworth, took pic tures of the exhibit. On Monday Mother Suz anne de St. Thomas of the Little Sisters of the Poor showed the girls a movie de picting the training and life of a Little Sister, and this was enjoyed very much. (The Sisters of Mercy who teach at Nativity School were pleasantly surprised when Mother Suzanne said that she is a direct descendant of Mo ther Mary Catherine McAu- ley, beloved foundress of the Sisters of Mercy. Mother Suzanne’s great grandfather, James McAuley, was the bro ther of the foundress. On Wednesday Reverend Felix Donnelly, pastor of Na tivity of Our Lord Church conducted a day of recollec tion for the students of the fifth through the eighth grades. His talks were lively and interesting, and the boys and girls made use of their opportunity to ask Father many questions. During the course of the week the following Sisters visited the school and told the children about their com munities: Sister Mary Thad- deus of the Missionary Fran ciscan Sisters, Sister Mary Paulita of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet, Sister Maureen Dennis of the Sis ters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, and Sister Mary Claudent of the Religious Sisters of Mercy. From these activities of the week perhaps the seeds of priestly and religious voca tions were sown or nourished for future priests and Sisters who will be working for the Church in the Diocese of Savannah and elsewhere in God’s world. STUDY WEEK LUANDA, Angola-Archbishop Moises Alves de Pinho, C. S. Sp., of Luanda presided at the opening session of a study week here dealing with the problems of primary education in this Portuguese west A frican territory. Announce Diocesan Winners SAVANNAH — The Sav annah Diocesan Council of Catholic Women announce the winners in the eighteenth annual essay contest. Group I — Wilhelmina F. Perrin, Immaculate Conception School, Augusta; Group II — Carolyn Jean Leverette, St. Peter Claver School, Macon, and Group II — Hugh Long, St. Mary’s School, Augusta. The topic was “Can I Win Friends for God and His Church?” The contest was open to any Catholic Student or any non-catholic students attending Catholic schools in the diocese. The participants were grouped into three divisions according to grade placement and length of essay. Awards consisting of a ten dollar check and a religious prize were presented to each win ning contestant. The essays were first judg ed locally, then on the dean ery level and finally on the diocesan level. Prayer Opponents Attack Practice In Three States ANNAPOLIS, Md„ (NC) — A new challenge to religious exercises in public schools ap peared headed for the U. S. Supreme Court in the wake of a 4-3 ruling in their favor by the Maryland Court of Appeals. Maryland’s highest court held (April 6) that Bible reading and/ or recitation of the Lord’s Prayer in Baltimore public schools do not violate the U. S. Constitution. “As we see it,” Judge Wil liam R. Horney said in the maj ority opinion, “neither the First Amendment nor the Fourteenth Amendment was intended to sti fle all rapport between religion and government.” Attorney Leonard J. Ker- pelman said he would appeal the decision to the U. S. Supreme Court. That court now has under advisement a case from New York involving a challenge to the constitutionality of reciting a non-sectarian prayer in New York public schools. Mr. Kerpelman represents Mrs. Madalyn Murray and her son, William J. Murray, III, a ninth-grade student in a Baltimore public school. The Murrays say they are atheists and maintain that the religious exercises violate the constitu tional provisions regarding Church - State relations and equal protection under the law. The religious exercises are carried out under a Baltimore Board of Education ruling. The ruling was adopted in 1908 and amended in 1960 to provide that any student may be excused from the exercises upon written request of his parent or guardian. Young Murray is ex cused. The dispute began in October, 1960, when Mrs. Murray with drew William from a Baltimore junior high school in protest against the religious exercises. She later returned him to class when school authorities agreed to excuse him from the exercises. In December, 1960, she began court action against the exercises. The judges in the majority in the Court of Appeals were Judge Horney, Hall Hammond, Charles C. Marbury, and Lester L. Barrett, who had been as signed from the Baltimore County Circuit Court. Judge Barrett sat in place of Judge C. Ferdinand Sybert, former Maryland attorney general, whose office had given an opin ion in the case. Dissenting were Chief Judge Frederick C. Brune and Judges William L. Henderson and Sted- man Prescott. Judge Horney in his majority opinion put special emphasis on the fact that there is no com pulsion for a student to take part in the religious exercises. He said the amount of school time and of public funds involved are negligible and that the ex ercises are in the same cate gory as prayers in the Legis lature, Congress, and at public meetings and conventions. “For these reasons, and par ticularly because the appel lant-student in this case was not compelled to participate... we hold that the opening ex ercises do not violate the re ligious clauses (of the Con stitution)”, he said. Judge Horney noted that the U. S. Supreme Court had in recent years remanded to Penn sylvania courts a case involving religious exercises in public schools, after the law governing the exercises was amended to make participation non-com pulsory. Commenting on this, he said: “It seems to us that the re mand of this case at least in dicated that the use of coercion or the lack of it may be the controlling factor in deciding whether or not a constitutional right has been denied.” He noted that a lower court in Pennsylvania recently ruled on remand that the practices are unconstitutional even under the new arrangement. But, he add ed, “we do not find the decision on remand persuasive and de cline to follow it.”