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Catholic Laymen's
Ass’x Of Georgia
The Savannah Bulletin
OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF T HE DIOCESE OF SAVANNAH
Vol. 38, No. 18.
MONROE, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, JANUARY 4, 1958.
10c Per Copy — S3 a Year
CELEBRATE FIFTH ANNIVERSARY—Five year pins were awarded 45 employes and staff
members of St. Joseph’s Hospital, Augusta. The awards were made during fifth anniversary
celebrations held December 29th. Sister Mary Louise, second from left, hospital administrator,
pins one of the awards on Mrs. Edith Toole, R. N„ staff nurse, as Sister Rose Margaret, busi
ness manager; Mrs. Betty Coleman, director of nurses, and Aubin Mura, right, purchasing agent,
look on. All have been with the institution since it opened in 1952.—(Morgan Fitz photo).
Dies December 24th
Bishop Offers Requiem
For Rev. John Morris
SAVANNAH — Pontifical re
quiem mass for the Rev. John A.
Morris rector of Nativity of Our
Lord Church, Thunderbolt, was
offered Decern-
her 27 th by the
Most Reverend
Thomas J. Mc
Donough, Aux
iliary Bishop.
Father Morris
died December
24th at St. Jo
seph’s Hospital
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| honor guard throughout the eve-
: ning. At 8 p. m. the priests of the
diocese chanted the Office
of the Dead, with the Most Rev.
; Thomas J. McDonough, presiding,
j Thunderbolt Mayor Russell B.
j Pead expressed “my sorrow to
; the people of Thunderbolt and
I Savannah at the passing of Father
j Morris. He was one of our lead-
j ing citizens and his loss will be
felt deeply by each of us.”
Father Morris initiated the
blessing of the fleet at Thunder
bolt in 1948 and instituted the
ness. Fr. Morris
The body was taken to Nativity
Church, Thunderbolt, where a
half-brother of the deceased, the j
Rev. Francis Tracy, Philadelphia.!
offered a requiem mass Thursday, j
December, 26.
The body was then taken to the
Cathedral of St. John the Baptist j
where the Fourth Degree of the j
Knights of Columbus acted as |
first field mass on the Wilming
ton River bluff.
Under his leadership the Na
tivity church and its grammar
school were built. He held one of
the highest degrees of canon
law in the state and was head
of the Diocese’s marriage court
at the time of his death.
Burial was in the family plot
in Philadelphia.
Bulletin Launches 1958
With Separate Edition
For Diocese Of Savannah
NATIVITY
TABLEAUX
AT MACON
MACON — A Tableaux of the
Nativity was presented by child
ren of St: Joseph’s School at the
December meeting of the Home
and School Association.
The tableaux included The An
nunciation, The Nativity, Angles
Appear to the Shepherds, and
The Coming of the Kings.
Scripture narrators were John
McFarlane and Arnold Punaro.
Mary Ann Kitchens appeared as
the Blessed Mother, and John
Lackey as St. Joseph.
Angels were Marcia Penland,
Gloria Union. Ann McCook, Phyl
lis Sheridan and Gay Strafach.
Shepherds were Richard Fuller,
Richard Cowan. Edgar Hatcher,
Charles McCook and Philip Wood-
all. Nick Menden. James Kemper
and Ernie Genone were the three
kings.
A choir composed of sixth and
seventh grade pupils sang the
Christmas songs.
At a brief business session pre
ceding the Christmas program,
the Home and School Association
voted to buy $825 worth of play
ground equipment.
Next meeting is scheduled Jan
uary 8.
REV. FRANCIS J. DONOHUE
BAPTIZE SIX
FROM FAMILY
AT MAOON
MACON — Six members of
one family were baptised here at
St. Joseph’s Church.
The six members of the Sharpe
one family were baptized here at
ter Guterl, S.J., on December
22nd, included Mr. and Mrs.
Shelton E. Sharpe, Jr., Shelton
III, and Martha, Mary and Marie,
triplets.
December "2nd was also the
12th .wedding anniversary of the
Sharpes.
SAVANNAH — The Bulletin
is pleased to usher in 1958 with
the first issue of The Savannah
Bulletin.
In this first edition, His Ex
cellency, The Most Rev. Thomas
J. McDonough, Auxiliary-Bishop,
is happy to announce the ap
pointment of the Rev. Francis J.
Donohue as Editor. Also making
its debut this week is the Atlan
ta Bulletin with the Rev. R.
Donald Kiernan as Editor.
These two editions will con
tinue the long service of The
Bulletin to the Catholics of the
State of Georgia. Due to the sep
aration of the state by the Holy
Father, and the distinct division
of the Diocese of Savannah and
the. Diocese of Atlanta, it has
been deemed that the interest
of both would be better served
by separate editions of the paper.
Father Donohue accepts the
new assignment in addition to
his duties as Administrator of
Our Lady of Lourdes Church,
Port Wentworth.
John Mark waiter. Editor of
The Bulletin since 1953 assumes
the post of Managing Editor for
both editions, with The Catholic
Laymen’s Association of Georgia
continuing as the publishing
agent.
Many changes now are on the
planning board to make The
Savannah Bulletin, your Dioces
an newspaper, a more interest
ing and newsy paper. Watch for
these changes in coming issues.
More Cat-holies Imprisoned, Forced
Indoctrination Extended os Chinese
Reds Step Up Anti-Church Campaign
By Faiher Morgan Viltengl, M.M. |
(Radio, NCWC News Service) |
HONG KONG, — Red China’s!
current drive against the Church :
continues to spread to new areas
SavannahProgram
Presents “Juggler
Of Notre Dame”
SAVANNAH — On Sunday.;
December 22nd. the Savannah j
Catholic Program, which is spon- |
sored by the Cathedral of St. j
John the Baptist, and the Savan- j
nah Council of the Knights of j
Columbus, No. 631, presented a!
Christmas skit — “The Juggler;
of Notre Dame.” The program!
was heard over radio station j
WTOC and was presented by the j
Blessed Sacrament School Choir, j
under the direction of the Sisters
of Mercy.
The skit was centered around
“Barnaby”, a poor juggler and
tumbler, who becomes despond- j
ent over the fact that he has no
gift to offer Our Lady for Christ
mas . . . until an idea strikes him.
He is lead to believe that he will
master his many intricate twirls
for Her, if he can just practice for
twenty minutes each day. When
he is discovered performing in
the chapel. Our Lady herself I
breaks the spell of the astonished
monks.
Narrators for Act I were Janet
Joyce and Leonard Ledlie; Act
II, Kathleen Power's; Act III, An
gela Maggioni. Barnaby, the Jug
gler, was portrayed by Albert
Lodge, and the Monk by John
Oetgen.
During the program, the Bless
ed Sacrament School Choir was
heard singing Christmas carols,
which included “Silent Night,”
“Angels We Have Heard On
High.” “O Come All Ye Faithful”
and “The First Noel.”
of that country.
Communist press and radio an
nouncements as well as personal
messages received here disclose
continued mass indoctrination ef
forts and the arrest of more Cath
olics.
According to the latest reports,
indoctrination courses are now
being forced on Catholics in Man
churia, Shantung and Szechwan
provinces as well as other parts
of China.
Word has also reached here of
the arrests of two priests in Pe
king, a Sister and three Catholic
laymen in Tientsin and two Cath
olic students in Shanghai.
Radio Peking has reported that
Catholics in Szechwan have clos
ed a 50-day meeting in the pro
vincial capital of Chengtu. The
broadcast said that the meeting
passed resolutions condemning
the anti-communist views of
“rightist’ ’Catholics.
It added that the meeting dis
cussed such subjects as the “so
cialist, independent and autono
mous path of Catholicism in Chi
na and the election of bishops.”
According to Radio Peking, the
Chengtu meeting passed a resolu
tion calling on all of Szechwan’s;
Catholics “to unite and patriotic
ally ostracize rightist elements,
to formulate their own patriotic
and socialist ideology, to take
part in championing the cause
of socialism and to safeguard
world peace.”
The provincial meeting recalls
the so-called national congress
of Chinese Catholics held last
summer in Peking at which the
“Patriotic Association of Chinese
Catholics” was set up under Red
pressure. Aim of the association
is to force China’s Catholics to
break relations with the Holy
See and organize a “national
Church.”
Meanwhile, according to re-
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