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Serving Georgia's 88 Southern Counties DIOCESE OF SAVANNAH EDITION OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF THE DIOCESE OF SAVANNAH Vol. 43, No. 13 Published By The Catholic Laymen's Ass'n of Georgia SAVANNAH, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1962 10c Per Copy — $3 A Year A. 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. 1 INDEX MARRIAGES . .5 COUNCIL COVERAGE . . . .2 EDITORIALS . .4 DORIS ANSWERS YOUTH.. . .4 OBITUARIES • C LEGION OF DECENCY. . . .7 BOOK REVIEWS 7 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