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Serving Georgia's 88 Southern Counties Vol. 43, No. 8 DIOCESE OF SAVANNAH EDITION OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF THE DIOCESE OF SAVANNAH SAVANNAH, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1962 Published By The Catholic Laymen's Ass'n of Georgia 10c Per Copy — $3 A Year INDEX Ground Breaking Ceremonies Mark New Term Seminary Begins Fourth Year With lians who died in the two Wars and in Korea. The Mayor of Bathurst, Al derman 0. Parnham, welcomed the Cardinal saying that his visit was appreciated, es pecially since it came when he, like Bishop John F. Norton of Bathurst, was busy preparing for the council. Alderman Parnham, a Metho dist lay preacher, said, "May blessings be upon this great conference and may there flow from it wonderful things for the world as a whole." The Cardinal expressed ap preciation for the interest in the council and said, "The ob ject of the council is not sim ply to promote the welfare of individual Catholics, but to make a contribution to the wel fare of the human family. "The Church exists for one purpose," he added, “to help members of the human family to arrive at their eternal des tination." "CAN I BE LIKE HIM?" might well be the unspoken question of Christopher Hoey, Ralph Dunn and Walter Eubanks, first year students at Savannah’s Minor Seminary, as they pray before likeness of school patron, St. John Vianney. "GOOD CITIZENS AND GOOD CHRISTIANS" ARCHBISHOP ISSUES CONGRATULATIONS ON SCHOOL INTREGRATION ATLANTA, (NC) - Archbishop Paul J. Hallinan has commended students, parents, teachers, priests and public officials for making possible the peaceful integration of Atlanta archdio cesan Catholic schools. With the start of the school year, 17 Negro students enter ed six Catholic schools in the archdiocese — four in the At lanta area, one in Marietta and one in Athens. Integration went off without incident. Archbishop Hallinan named the following schools as those which integrated: St. Joseph's and Marist High Schools and Immaculate Conception Ele mentary School, Atlanta; St. John the Evangelist School, Hapeville; Sr. Joseph’s School, Marietta, and St. Joseph's School, Athens. In the arch diocese are 18 elementary and five high schools. Archbishop Hallinan did not make public the names of the Negro students involved. He said the names "are not being publicized because they are at tending school not as Negroes but as American Catholic child ren." "The first purpose of our Catholic schools is a good edu cation. In this framework, all children, white and Negro, will win acceptance by hard work and good conduct," he said in a statement. Archbishop Hallinan added: "I want to congratulate these children and wish them well. I want also to commend all of our priests, teachers, parents and children. They have proved themselves good citizens and good Christians, good members of the mature, progressive community in which we live. "Our public officials have been wise and helpful. I wish every city in our beloved South had leadership of their caliber and dedication." Says Welfare Of Human Family Council Aim BATHURST, Australia, (NC) - Norman Cardinal Gilroy, Archbishop of Sydney, said here that the coming Vatican Council will contribute to the "welfare of the human family." The Cardinal spoke after he blessed a memorial stone marking restorations to the ca thedral and honoring Austra- MARRIAGES 3 LEGION OF DECENCY 7 EDITORIALS 4 DORIS ANSWERS YOUTH.. . . 4 OBITUARIES 3 BOOK REVIEWS 7 Receive Assignments PRAY FOR OUR PRIESTLY DEAD Enrollment Of Sixty-Eight Students SAVANNAH - On September 4th the first Senior Class in the three year history of Savannah’s Minor Seminary of St. John Vianney returned for the 1962-63 scholastic year. Also reporting on September 4th were the second and third year students. On September 5th the Fresh man arrived - twenty six of them - bringing the enrollment to 68, 19 more than registered at the beginning of the school year in 1961. The seminarians came from thirteen Georgia cities and five other states. Represented are Port Wentworth, Savannah, Savannah Beach, Thunderbolt, Macon, Augusta, Columbus, Al bany, Warner Robins, St. Mary’s, Cordele, Pelham and Valdosta, all Georgia cities, as well as Bangor, Maine; Law rence, Massachussets; Wash ington, D.C.; Talahasee, Flor ida; and Sumter, South Carolina.. Among the first ceremonial duties of the seminarians was participation in groundbreaking ceremonies for a large new seminary building. The ceremonies took place on September 8th, with His Excellency, the M ost Reverend Thomas J. McDonough, Bishop of Savannah officiating. The new structure will house two additional classrooms, ad ditional library facilities and dormitory space as well as a language laboratory and a large recreation hall. Ground space will be 9,000 square feet. Construction is under the dir ection of the W. J. TeastonCon struction Company of Savannah, and should be completed by Feb ruary 1, 1963, according to the Rev. William V. Coleman, Rec tor. The new project represents the fourth building or remodel ing program since the Semin ary was opened three years ago. "I am sure everyone in the Diocese has been praying ear nestly for vocations to the Sac red Priesthood, as Bishop Mc Donough has so often reques ted," said Father Coleman, "and God has certainly answer ed our prayers." "But we never envisaged such remarkable growth in so short a time, and I don't think any of us expected that we should have to begin construction on a new building only three short years after the Seminary was estab lished," he said. The assignment of two new members this year brings the Faculty total to twelve. Head of the Seminary is the Most Reverend Thomas J. Me Donough, President. The Very Reverend William V. Coleman is Seminary Rec tor and Instructor in Latin and Chemistry. The Rt. Rev. Msgr. Andrew J. McDonald, Diocesan Chan cellor, serves as Spiritual Dir ector. He is assisted in his duties by the Rev. Felix Don nelly, Pastor of the Church of American Will Be First Catholic Bishop Consecrated In Sweden Since Reformation STOCKHOLM, (NC) - The first consecration of a Catho lic bishop in Sweden since the Reformation will take place here on September 21 when an American priest is raised to the hierarchy. Father John E. Taylor, O.M.I., will be consecrated Bishop of Stockholm by Arch bishop Bruno Heim, Apostolic Delegate to Scandinavia. Cocon- secrators will be Bishop Johan nes Suhr. 0. S. B., of Copen hagen, and Auxiliary Bishop Fulton J. Sheen of New York. The consecration will take place in the Blue Hall of the Stockholm City Hall because the city’s procathedral is too small to hold those expected to attned the ceremony. A large number of foreign bishops are expect ed to be present. Bishop-elect Taylor, a native of East St. Louis, Ill., was named to his new post in July following the resignation of Danish - born Bishop Knut Ansgar Nelson. He had been su perior of the Scandinavian mis sion of the Oblates of Mary Immaculate since 1958. As such he headed the first Catholic mission sent to Greenland since the Middle Ages. As Bishop of Stockholm, Swe den’s only See, the American prelate will head the Church in this nation which has only 28,000 Catholics, the majority of them immigrants, in a total population of more than seven million. Bishop-elect Taylor made his first public appearance in Swe den since his appointment when he offered Mass (August 26) in Goteborg, Sweden’s second (Continued on Page 8) the Nativity of Our Lord, Thun derbolt, Ga. The Rev. John Cuddy; Dio cesan Superintendent of Schools is the Vice-Rector and teaches German and English. History and Religion are taught by the Rev. Joseph Stranc, who also serves as Seminary Procura tor. Sacred Music and Art Ap preciation are under the dir ection of the Rev. George James Assistant pastor at Blessed Sacrament Church, Savannah; and the Rev. E. Perot Fiero, Assistant pastor at St. James Church Savannah, respectively. Physical Education Instruc tors are the Rev. Robert Teoli, Pastor of St. Michael's Church, Savannah Beach; and the Rev. Herbert J. Wellmeir, Assistant rector of the Cathedral. The two newly assigned mem bers of the faculty are the Rev. Kevin Boland, Instructor in Mathmatics and Religion and Mr. Donald Heidt, Librarian. The Seminary kitchen staff, under the direction of Mrs. Martha Vasta, includes Mrs. Grace Petty and Mrs. Della Grant. Mrs. Elizabeth Purdy serves as secretary. Building, equipment and ground maintenance is under the direction of Mr. Joseph Puder. TO SERVE YEAR IN DIOCESE - Rev. George B. Yienst and His Excellency Bishop McDonough pore over a map of south Georgia where Father will serve as assistant to Rev. Thomas Payne, pastor of St. John the Evangelist, Valdosta. Fahter is on loan from the Diocese of Buffalo, N. Y. He was ordained March 17th and prior to his coming here, was Diocesan Chaplain of Boy Scouts. Jurist Denies Constitution Bars Religion In Schools Or Church School Aid NEW PRIEST FOR DIOCESE - Pictured above receiving Diocesan faculties from His Excellency Most Rev. Thomas J. McDouough is Father Timothy Ryan, newly ordained priest for the diocese. Father Ryan, one of ten sons, is a graduate of All Hallows Seminary, Dublin, Ireland. Born in Tipperary Town, County Tipperary, Father was ordained on June 17th by Most Rev. Dr. Thomas Houlihan, Bishop of Edoret, Africa. Father Ryan, who arrived in the diocese on September 1st has been assigned to St. Joseph’s Church, Fleming Heights where Father Nicholas Quinlan is pastor. (Carroll Burke Photo) Higher Education Aid Virtually Dead For This Session, Morse Declares WASHINGTON, (NC) - Fed eral aid to higher education legislation is virtually dead for this session of Congress, Sen. Wayne Morse of Oregon told an educators’ group here. The only possibility of resur recting it is if the House will drop its insistence on grants for private colleges and univ ersities and this in not likely to happen, Morse said. Morse is chairman of the Senate-House conference com mittee which has met several times since February in a fruit less effort to work out a com promise between the Senate and House higher education aid bills. He said he could see no point in calling further meetings without some new hope of agree ment. The House in January enacted a $1.5 billion bill providing for both loans and grants to col leges and universities, includ ing church-related ones, for building purposes. The Senate in February passed a $1.7 measure author izing loans only, except in the case of community junior col leges, which would get grants. The Senate bill also included a scholarship program, absent in the House measure. ' CHICAGO, (NC) - Chief Judge Charles S. Desmond of the New York Court of Appeals denied here that the Constitution bars religion from public schools or public aid to church schools. Desmond, addressing the an nual convention dinner of the National Federation of Catholic College Students, urged Catho lic collegians to * ‘meet the chal lenge of militant secularism." "You and I owe it to our country to meet and dispel and disprove the current extremist arguments of American secu larists who, though a minority, seem to be acquiring some sort of supposed right to set the tone for American institutions, es pecially the schools,” he de clared. Desmond spoke (Sept. 1) after receiving the NFCCS Arch bishop Noll Award. He questioned the soundness of the Supreme Court’s June 25 ruling against a prayer pre scribed for recitation in New York public schools by the State Board of Regents. He said that when the Found ing Fathers in the First Amend ment barred an "establishment of religion,” they had in mind a definite, categorical out lawing of a specific existing kind of institution, and no reason appears why it should now be accorded loose and expansive meanings." The New York jurist said he would not differ with any state, school board or school prin cipal who considers it "more prudent in our pluralist society" to eliminate religious practices from schools. "But I deny that our Con stitution or our tradition for bids them," he said. As for the idea that govern ment aid to church schools is "unAmerican or even uncon stitutional," he attributed this belief to "loose and unhistori- cal thinking or to a sudden de mand for radical change." He listed a number of in stances of government aid to church schools and other in stitutions, beginning with the first Congress in 1789 and con tinuing up to the present. Desmond urged Catholic col lege students to employ "the democratic weapon of reasoned argument from logic and justice and principle and history" in defense of * ‘the American tra ditions that will not die because they must not die." He said it is an "indisputable fact" that "belief and trust in a Creator has always been re garded as an integral and insep arable part of the fabric of our fundamental institutions and that belief in a Supreme Being is as essential and permanent a feature of the American gov ernmental system as is freedom of worship." Morse told representatives of the Clearing House on School Legislation, an organization of college and university groups, that House members have insis ted in conference that they will accept only the House-approved measure. The Senator said that com promise would be possible only if the House members would drop their demand for grants to private schools. The Senate would not accept the proposal for grants to pri vate schools because it would stir up the religious issue, he said. "You will see a filibuster like you have never seen before," Morse said. He also said enactment of a measure providing grants for church-related schools would produce a "Public blowup” over the religious issue that would embarrass the administration. REV. THOMAS O’REILLY Sept. 6, 1872 RT. REV. EDWARD 'BARRON, D.D. Sept. 12, 1854 REV. J. B. LANG LOIS Sept. 16, 1876 REV. CHARLES M. REICH Sept. 17, 1917 RT. REV. FRANCIS X. GARTLAND, D.D. First Bishop of Savannah Sept. 20, 1854 REV. PATRICK J. McCABE Sept. 21, 1881 Oh God, Who didst give to thy servants by their sacredotal office, a share in the priest hood of the Apostles, grant, we implore, that they may also be one of their company forever in heaven. Through Christ Our Lord, Amen. TO CONDUCT PRIESTS’ RETREAT - Rev. James Cum mings, S. M., former pastor of St. Francis Xavier Church, Brunswick, who will conduct retreat for priests of the Dio cese. The retreat held under the direction of Bishop Thomas J. McDonough, is scheduled at the General Oglethorpe Hotel from Sept ember 17 to 21st. GROUND BREAKING CEREMONIES AT St. John Vianney Minor Seminary. Bishop McDonough blesses site of new seminary building. He is assisted by Rt. Rev. Msgr. Andrew J. McDonald; Father James Stranc; Father John Cuddy. Seminarians are unidentified. (Carroll Burke Photo) mm