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Vol. 43, No. 13
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SAVANNAH, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1962
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CANONIZATIONS SET FOR TWO PRIESTS, BROTHER - Two priests and a Capuchin
Brother who entered religious life in the last century will be canonized Sunday,
December 9 in St. Peter’s Basilica. Blessed Peter Eymard, (left) a Frehchman who
founded the congregation of Priests of the Blessed Sacrament, lived from 1811 to 1868
and was beatified in 1925. Blessed Antonio Pucci (center), an Italian Servite priest, lived
from 1819 until 1892 and was beatified in 1952. Blessed Francesco Maria Croese, an
Italian Capuchin Brother, lived from 1804 until 1866 and was beatified in 1929.
- (NC Photos)
PUBLIC PRAISE FOR “COURAGE” OF DEFENDANTS BLASTED
Canonizations
Set For Dec. 9
VATICAN CITY, (Radio NC)
Two Italian men and a
Frenchman who entered the re
ligious life in the last cen
tury will be canonized together
on Sunday, December 9.
The three are Blessed Fran
cesco Maria Croese, Capuchin
Brother who lived from 1804
until 1866 and was beatified in
1929; Blessed Peter Eymard,
founder of the congregation of
Priests of the Blessed Sacra
ment, who lived from 1811 to
1868 and was beatified in 1925
and Blessed Antonio Pucci, Ser
vite priest who lived from 1819
until 1892 and was beatified in
1952.
The impending canonizations
were announced (November
12) at the 17th general con
gregation of the ecumenical
council by Archbishop Per-
icle Felici, council secretary
general.
The three Religious were
earlier reported to be sched
uled for canonization by His
Holiness Pope John XXIII on
December 8, the feast of the
Immaculate Conception.
Dispensation
Granted Day After
Thanksgiving
In accord with a faculty
recently granted by the Holy
See, His Excellency Bishop
McDonough grants a dispen
sation from the law of ab
stinence on the day after
Thanksgiving, Friday, No
vember 23rd.
PRAY FOR OUR
PRIESTLY DEAD
RT. REV. MSGR.
HARRY F. F. CLARK
Nov. 27, 1935
REV. WILLIAM MCCARTHY
Nov. 27, 1930
REV. GREGORY DUGGAN
Dec. 3, 1870
rev. john McCarthy
Dec. 3, 1920
Oh God, Who didst give to
thy servants by their sttcredotal
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.
BUILD TWO STAGE ROCKET
Seminarians To Fire
"Roaring Robert"
SAVANNAH - After almost
a year of busy preparation, the
Senior Class at Saint John’s
Seminary has nearly completed
work on a two stage solid fuel
rocket -named “Roaring Rob
ert.’’ Under the guidance of the
Professor of Physics, Father
Joseph Stranc, “Roaring Rob
ert’’ was designed to test sev
eral aspects of predetermined
rocket flight, as well as the
effect such a flight has upon
certain living creatures.
The bullet shaped projectile
stands about five feet three
inches in height and is orange
and white in color. Both the
first and the second stage
engines are powered by a highly
effective mixture of zinc and
sulphur, which is cast into the
rocket body over a week before
take-off, using alcohol as a
solvent. At the time of launch
ing however, the alcohol is al
ready evaporated, the result
of which is a substance re
sembling dry cement. It is hoped
that the first stage will produce
over eight hundred pounds of
thrust and the second stage
less than half that amount.
Should this tremendous power
be attained, “Roaring Robert,”
driven skyward with a combined
thrust of about a half a ton,
could reach an altitude of six
miles or beyond.
Aboard "Roaring Robert”
will be two tropical fish. These
carefully selected passengers,
after enduring the tremendous
“G” force to take-off, tempo
rary weightlessness, and abrupt
changes in temperature, will be
recovered by a parachute
housed a few inches below the
long, slim nose cone.
The launching date has not yet
been definitely selected. How
ever, the Seminarians have been
pushing work on the project
hoping all will be ready by
December 8. At the present
time, it seems possible that the
Army reservation at Fort Stew
art will be used as the launching
site.
"Roaring Robert” was de
signed by Michael Wassil, Ron
ald Pachence and Joseph Rau.
Gene Mahon and Ernie Knesel
jointly designed and constructed
the launching pad, while Mark
Regan applied fuel ratios. The
remote control electrical firing
system was planned by Nick
Minden. Andy Klimack is asso
ciate designer and photo
grapher.
National Council of Catholic Women
Mrs. Norman I. Boatwright
Named To Board Of Directors
DETROIT - Mrs. Norman I
Boatwright, of Augusta, was
elected to the Board of Direc
tors of the National Council of
Catholic Women at its Thirty-
first Biennial Convention, here.
Mrs. Boatwright will be the first
director from the newly organ
ized province of Atlanta which
includes the Archdiocese of At
lanta and the following dioceses
of the Southeast: Raleigh, Char
leston, Savannah, St. Augustine,
and Miami.
Mrs. Boatwright, the former
Julia Newstead Hogan, of Nor
folk, Va., has been a resident
of Augusta since 1916. She is
an honor graduate of St.Mary’s
Academy, past president of the
Mt. St. Joseph Mothers’ Club,
Boys’ Catholic High School Mo
thers’ Club, St. Mary's Parish
Council of Catholic Women, the
Augusta Deanery Council of
Catholic Women and also past
president of the Savannah Dio-
MRS. NORMAN I.
BOATWRIGHT
cesan Council of Catholic Wo
men which comprises all of
Georgia’s eighty-eight southern
counties.
Mrs. Boatwright represented
the diocese of Savannah-Atlan-
ta, in 1956, at the Regional Con
ference on Family Life of the
National Catholic Welfare Con
ference, in Washington, D. C.
and also at the Regional Con
ference of the Confraternity
of Christian Doctrine in 1955,
in Savannah.
She has been active in civic
as well as religious organiza
tions and has served on the USO
Board of Directors and on the
Board of the Augusta Area Tu
berculosis Association.
The National Council of Ca
tholic Women is a federation of
Catholic Women’s Organiza
tions in the United States and
has a membership of approx
imately nine million women.
Law Of God Is
Forgotten In Baby
Killing Acquittals
Belgian Prelates Uphold
Sanctity Of Life But
Voice Pity For Parents
BRUSSELS, (Radio,NC)-The
Bishops of Belgium, while ex
pressing pity for the Liege
parents of the infant who was
killed because of her deformity,
declared that no one “has a
right to put an end to a life on
assuming that it necessarily
will be an unhappy life.”
In a joint declaration they
drafted in Rome but released
here, the Bishops said:
“We fully understand the suf
fering of the parents, for whom
the expected happy event
became a sorrowful trial, and
we feel profound pity for them.
We do not intend in any way
to pass judgment on the con
science of the protagonists in
the painful drama which follow
ed. But whatever the extenuating
circumstances may be which
were invoked in their favor, we
are duty bound to recall the
principles of natural and Chris
tian morals.”
Invoking the commandment
“Thou shalt not kill,” the Bi
shops said, “neither the indi
vidual nor society has the right
to make a direct attempt against
the life of an innocent person.”
The Bishops cited the words
of Piux XII when he said:
“There is no man, no authority,
no medical, eugenic, social,
economic or moral reason that
may be appealed to and which
HOLY FATHER MEETS
WITH U. S. BISHOPS
VATICAN CITY - His Holi
ness, Pope John XXIII spoke
warmly of the Catholic Church
in the United States last Satur
day night and said that he wished
he could - visit it. The occasion
was an audience with the Ameri
can Bishops who are attending
the Second Vatican Council.
Responding to the address
of Cardinal Spellman who cor
dially invited him to visit the
United States, he told of his
many associations with Ameri
can churchmen and laymen and
said he wished he could go, “but
that isn't possible.”
He singled out for praise the
work of the Confraternity of
Christian Doctrine in the Unit
ed States and urged that this
vital work be firmly establish
ed in every parish.
He told of his own exper
ience in writing the boox ST.
CHARLES BORROMEO that he
realized how far reaching were
the Saint’s efforts to teach the
Gospel by catechists.
The American Schools were
included in his praise especially
colleges and universities where
men and women “are taught to
think, to have a distinct cul
ture of their own, and to bring
their influence to bear on the
community around them”.
"In receiving you Bishops of
the United States we are receiv
ing all priests and people of
your great nation. Especially
dear to my heart is the solid
arity first between your people
and your priests, and then be
tween your priests and you,
their Bishop”.
More than 200 American
Bishops attended the audience
in the Clementine Hall in the Va
tican at 6 p.m. on Saturday, No
vember 17th. Archbishop John
Cody of New Orleans was in
vited by His Holiness to trans
late his words which were spok
en in Italian to the Bishops.
Pope John closed his pre-writ-
ten words with jovial remarks
adding that he didn’t want to
offend “your modesties” by
calling attention to the great
work of the Church in America
but, “it is all true”. He fre
quently interupted his prepared
text to interject sidlights that
suddenly came to him. His good
health and spirits and his con
fidence in the work of the Coun
cil were very evident.
represents a valid juridicial
argument to dispose directly
and deliberately of the life of
an innocent person.”
Then on their own the Belgian
churchmen said that “divine
law protects the small creature
. . .in the same way it protects
the adult who is not in
possession of his mental facul
ties or is affected by incurable
disease. Any exception to this
law opens up the way to arbi
trary decisions and to the
most grave abuses, which the
human conscience has always
reproved and represents,
therefore, a grave threat to
soceity.
“It is the duty of Christians
to disapprove of and condemn
any form of euthanasia. They
will thus show how much they
appreciate the value which
human suffering can have and
the value they attach to the
nobility of spirit of those who
surround with loving affection
creatures who have been the
least favored by nature.”
PHYSICIAN
TO BE TRIED
BY PEERS
LIEGE, Belgium, (NC) - The
physicians’ guild of Liege
province will decide whether to
take action against the doctor
who prescribed the barbiturates
which killed the thalidomide-
deformed infant daughter of
Jean and Suzanne Vandeput, it
was revealed here.
The family physician, Dr.
Jacques Casters, was acquitted
of murder charges by the Liege
civil court along with the four,
other defendants on November
10.
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COURT ASKED TO
BAN PUBLIC NURSES
NORFOLK, Va., (NC) - Eu
gene W. Sawyer of Norfolk has
asked a circuit court to bar
assignment of public nurses to
parochial schools.
Sawyer maintains that as
signing public nurses to church
schools violates Church-State
separation.
Nuncio Assures UNESCO Of Church Support
PARIS, (NC) - The Holy See
strongly supports the United
Nations Educational, Scientific
and Cultural Organization in the
pursuit of its aims, the Apos
tolic Nuncio to France has said.
Archbishop Paolo Bertoli of
fered a Mass (Nov. 9) in St.
Francis Xavier church here on
the occasion of the opening of
UNESCO’S 12th biennial gener
al conference.
Attending the Mass were
Rene Maheu, acting director
general of UNESCO, a number
of high officials and chiefs and
members of conference dele
gations.
Archbishop Bertoli headed
the Holy See’s delegation to the
conference. Other members of
the delegation are: Msgr. An
gelo Pedroni, the Holy See’s
permanent observer at UNES
CO; Father Maurice Queginer,
Superior General of the Paris
Foreigh Mission Society; Fa
ther Russo, and Jean Larnaud,
ecclesiastical advisor and sec
retary general, respectively, of
the International Catholic Co
ordinating Center for UNESCO;
and Professor Georgen of the
University of Bonn.
“The contribution of educa
tion, science and culture to
peace is more than ever a
pressing duty,” the Archbishop
said in his sermon at the Mass.
“After 18 years of existence,
UNESCO understands the mean
ing of this better.
“The Church brings all its
support. . .to the pursuit of
these high objectives. She shows
it by her presence,. . .at your
secretariat, and it pleases me
to recall that Pope John XXIII
was the first, while he was
Apostolic Nuncio in Paris, to
represent the Holy See at your
organization.”
By J. J. Gilbert
WASHINGTON - The Deca
logue is totally straightforward
about it: “Thou shalt not kill.”
It doesn’t leave any loopholes.
But in Liege, Belgium, a
young mother and four other
defendants have been found not
guilty in the murder of a week-
old baby who was born with
cruel deformations caused by
the drug known as thalidomide.
There was no denial by the
mother and the other defen
dants that they had killed the
infant with an overdose of bar-
titurates.
It was only 16 years since
the close of the Nuremberg
Trials, when the enormity of
the nazi program for slaughter
ing the feeble, the malformed,
and those deemed inferior,
came upon the public conscious
ness with unspeakable re
vulsion. The circumstances in
Liege differ; the principles are
the same.
Vatican Radio asked:
“Who assumed—and by what
right--that the child, could she
only have spoken, would have
asked to die? She was innocent.
Responsibility for her deformi
ties rested, if at all, with her
mother, and with society, not
with her. But what right did
society, the real culprit, acquit
the mother, thus ratifying the
death sentence on the creature
who alone was innocent?”
Under Belgian law, the Liege
defendants if found guilty would
have had to receive a sentence
of at least three years in prison.
There is no provision for sus
pending sentence following con
viction.
Father Michel Riquet, S. J.,
e of France’s eminent theo
logians and a veteran of a nazi
concentration camp, said he had
hoped for “the most lenient
mercy” for the accused. But
he said (Nov. 12) in his column
in the Paris daily, Le Figaro:
“What would seem dangerous
and intolerable is not that this
mother and doctor who had just
spent those dreadful days were
today free and at peace, but that
their act should be praised as
an example of courage and mo
rality. For this would consti
tute a disavowal—even ridi
cule—of the heroism and daily
self-sacrifice of those thou
sands of parents who would not
for all the world allow their
minds to entertain the thought
of doing away with the deformed
child or the idiot on whom they
have for years lavished deserv
ing tenderness.”
A corollary to Father Ri
quet’s point is that there is an
imperative duty for men to come
to the . aid of their brothers
in need, to help them obey
God’s law.
The thousands of babies af
flicted by this new scourge of
science in Europe need help and
love. So do their parents.
Researchers, surgeons and
physicians alike have an obliga
tion to pursue every opportunity
for these children to live a full
life.
Society has many positive ob
ligations toward its handicapped
members. But above all, it
needs to remember the pro
nouncement made jointly by the
Bishops of Belgium after the
Liege trail:
“Neither the individual nor
society has the right to make a
direct attempt against the life
of an innocent person.”
SAYS CLASSROOM
PRAYERS ILLEGAL
DETROIT, (NC) - Two attor
neys for the Board of Educa
tion in suburban Bloomfield
Hills have stated that the prac
tice of permitting classroom
prayers is illegal.
Supt, Eugene L. Johnson said
that the school board may wait
for later rulings on classroom