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APOSTOLIC DELEGATE VISITS WAR PRISONERS—Archbishop Amleto Giovanni Cicognani, Apostolic
Delegate to the United States, and Bishop William L. Adrian, of Nashville, visit the German prisoners of
war at Camp Crossville.Tenn., where Army chaplains and local clergy care for the religious needs of the
men.—-(N. C. W. C.)
Knights of Columbus Confer
Fourth Degree at Raleigh
Prominent Members of K. of C. From the Carolinas and
Georgia Attend Impressive Ceremonial; Father Wil
fred Parsons Is Speaker at Banquet Following Inita-
tion; Abbot Vincent and Other Prelates Among At
tending Clergy
Religious Groups Set
Forth Minimum Needs
for Just World Peace
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
WASHINGTON.—The minimum
requirements of a peace which
Christians can indorse as being
fair to all men are set forth in
“A Statement of a Just Peace,”
made public here by the Depart
ment of Social Action of the Na
tional Catholic Welfare Confer
ence.
It is an identical statement giv
ing seven basic principles of peace
signed by Catholic Archbishops,
Bishops, priests and laymen, by
prominent rabbis and laymen of
the Jewish faith, and by prominent
leaders, clerical and lay, of the
Protestant communions. Each
group has prefaced the statement
with a special introduction of its
own.
This is said to be the first time
in the history of the United States
that Catholics, Protestants and
Jews have issued ah identical
statement on basic principles of
a world peace.
Announcement of “A Statement
on a Just Peace” has come simul
taneously from the N. C. W. C.
Department of Social action, the
Federal Council of the Churches
of Christ in America and the
Synagogue Council of America.
President Tells Newsmen
Allies Will Make Every
Effort to Spare Rome
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
WASHINGTON. It is the policy
of the Allies to make every effort
to prevent damage to Rome and
the Vatican, President Roosevelt
told reporters at a news confer
ence here. The advance of our
armies toward Rome is of course
continuing the president said, but
whether or not the Nazis will
wreck havoc in Rome as they are
reported to have done in Naples
is, he continued, strictly the re
sponsibility of the Germans.
Pointing out that he had seen
dispatches declaring that the next
line of defense of the Nazis would
probably be on a parallel passing
through Rome, the President re
marked that this was doubtful and
that probably even General Eisen
hower did not know where the
Germans would choose to make
their stand. He admitted how
ever, the possibility that the Nazis
might attempt to make Rome a
battleground.
The president emphasized his
hope that Rome would be freed
of the Naxis without damage to
historic edifices, especially the
Vatican, but that whatever damage
might possibly be done must be
laid strictly at the door of the
Germans.
Remarking that some persons
had referred to the Allied ad
vance as a crusade, Mr. Roosevelt
said that it does have some such
elements. He described the Allied
push as a move to free Rome, the
Vatican, and the Pope, and to save
them from destruction.
U. S. DIPLOMAT RECEIVED
IN AUDIENCE BY POPE
(Radio, N. C.,W. C. News
Service)
VATICAN CITY, Oct. 14.—
Harold Tittmann, United States
Charge des Affaires at the Vat
ican, was received in private
audience by His Holiness Pope
Pius XII this (Thursday) morn
ing.
Interviewed afterward, Mr.
Tittmann made a brief state
ment in which he said he had
found the Holy Father well and
serene.
YMGA Executive Says
Religion First Among
Catholic War Prisoners
By N. C. \V. C. News Service
NEW YORK—Religion is the
main factor in maintaining the
morale of Catholic prisoners of
war interned in enemy camps, Dr.
Tracy Strong, executive secretary
of the World Committee of Y. M.
C. A. Association and head of its
war prisoners activities, declared
here on his return from a trip
abroad.
“Religion plays a great part in
the lives and actions of the Cath
olic soldiers,” he said. “With the
Catholics—and I have observed
thousands of Polish, French and
Italian prisoners, and nationals of
other countries who became vic
tims of war as it swept across the
European scene—their religion is
their first source of refuge and
last resort.”
Asked why the influence of re
ligion seemed greater on Catholic
prisoners than on those of other
denominations, the YMCA execu
tive said he thought it was because
the Catholic Church “had succeed
ed in its efforts to make belief in
God and man’s responsibility to
the Creator a real, living force in
the lives of the people.”
“Their faith is a real part of
their being, the prime factor in
their philosophy of life,” he said,
speaking of Polish. .French and
Italian prisoners. “It* has become
interwoven into the warp and woof
of their existence. From birth to
death, the Church is ever at their
side, guiding them toward salva
tion.”
Belief that American prisoners
of war are well treated by their
German captors was expressed by
Dr. Strong, although he had not
visited any , camps where they are
interned. Basing this opinion on
his personal acquaintance with
many of the higher officers in com
mand of jperman internment and
prison centers, he said “they know
what it means to be a prisoner
and their experience in the last
World War, I believe, motivate
them in an endeaovr to see that
the terms of the Geneva agree
ment are adhered to.”
POPE PIUS XII received in
audience, on October 9, Baron
Ernest von Weiszaecker, German
ambassador to the Holy See. The
day before. His Holiness received
the Secretary of the Spanish Em
bassy,
Apostolic Delegate
Visits War Prisoners
at Camp Butner, N. G.
.. (By N. C. W. C. News Service). .
CAMP BUTNER, N. C — On a
visit to the prisoner of war camp,
here, His Excellency the Most Rev.
Amleto Giovanni Cicognani, Apos
tolic Delegate to the United States,
celebrated Mass for a large num
ber of the Italians interned.
As a gift from His Holiness Pope
Pius XII, three radios were donat
ed to the camp for the use of the
prisoners. In addition to the radios,
the prisoners also were given a
variety of games.
Following celebration of the
Mass, Archbishop Cicognani ad
ministered the Sacrament of Con
firmation to a large class of Am
erican soldiers stationed here,
many of whom are converts to the
Catholic faith.
Archbishop Cicognani was ac
companied on his visit by his secre
tary. the Very Rev. Msgr. Joseph
M. McShea, and by the Rt. Rev.
Msgr. Dennis A. Lynch, Chancellor
of the Diocese of Raleigh.
Archbishop Cicognani was re
ceived by General Parker, com
mander of the “Lightning” Divi
sion at division headquarters, the
Apostolic Delegate and the gen
eral being introduced by Lt. Wil
liam Nealy, chaplain of the 311th
Infantry, who was His Excellen
cy’s escort while he was at Camp
Butner.
His Excellency, the Apostolic
Delegate, was assisted in admin
istering the Sacrament of Con
firmation at the 12th Replacement
Depot, by Chaplain R. J. Dwyer,
309th Infantry; Chaplain Arthur
Reckinger, 310th Infantry, Chap
lain Robert Leugers, artillery, and
Chaplain Nealy.
FORMER FORT BENNING
PARATR00P CHAPLAIN
SAYS MASS IN NAPLES
(By N. C. W. C. News~5ervice)
BALTIMORE, —Lieut. Edwin J.
Kozak, a priest of the Order of
Minor Conventuals and a native of
this city, who has been mentioned
in recent dispatches from Naples,
is the first Catholic priest to be
come a qualified parachutist and
served with U. S. paratroopers in
the. invasion of Sicily. He was stat
ioned at St. Stanislaus’ Church.
Shamokin, Pa., before he entered
the chaplain corps and he had nine
jumps to his credit at Fort Ben-
ning, Ga., before he was sent over
seas.
Recent dispatches mentioned
that Father Kozak was the cele
brant of a Mass in the cathedral at
Naples, which was attended by
more than 700 American soldiers.
At an earlier Mass, which was cele
brated by the Most Rev. Giuseppe
De Nicola, Auxiliary Bishop of
Naples, which His Eminence Ales-
sio Cardinal Ascalesi presided,
and which Lieut. Gen. Mark W.
Clark, commander of the American
Fifth Army, with other high rank
ing officers attended.
RALEIGH, N. C —With impres
sive and inspiring ceremony, the
Bishop McGuinness Assembly,
Fourth Degree, Knights of Co
lumbus. conferred the fourth de
gree of that great fraternity of
Catholic men upon a class of
eighty-five candidates, from North
Carolina, South Carolina and
Georgia, at the Sir Walter Hotel
on October 17.
The initiation and banquet were
honored by the presence of the
Right Rev. Vincent G. Taylor,
O. S. B.. D. D., Abbot-Ordinary of
Belmont, and a number of other
prelates and priests, among whom
were the Right Rev. Msgr. Arthur
R. Freeman, P. A., Vicar General
of the Diocese of Raleigh, Char
lotte; the Right Rev. Msgr. Dennis
J. Lynch, Chancellor of the Dio
cese of Raleigh: the Rt. Rev.
Msgr. William O’Brien, Durham;
the Very Rev. Msgr. J. Lennox,
Federal, Raleigh; the Rev. Maurice
McDonnell. O. S. B., Charlotte; the
Rev. James H. King. Henderson; the
Rev. Herbert A. Harkins, Southern
Pines; the Rev. Hugh A. Dolan,
Greensboro; the Rev. J. Jerome
Hickey, Raleigh; the Rev. Joseph
A. Sands, Raleigh; the Rev. Thom
as Williams, Kinston; the Rev. An
drew V. Graves, S. J., Hot Springs;
the Rev. James Hudson, S. P. M„
Monroe; the Rev. Lawrence New
man, Goldsboro; the Rev. John S.
Dillon, O. P., Raleigh; the Rev.
Cletus Helfrich, Salisbury; the
Rev. John A. Brown, Pinehurst;
the Rev. Michael J. Begley, Win
ston-Salem, and Chaplain Arthur
J. Heamer.
Prominent members of the
Knights of Columbus who took
part in the exemplification were
Maurice J. McAuliffe, former
State Deputy of Maryland: Thomas
Canty, Savannah, State Deputy of
Georgia; Dennis Dunn, Charlotte;
State Deputy of North Carolina;
Joseph Goodyear, State Deputy of
Virginia; Captain John Sonier,
Past State Deputy of Louisiana;
Anthony Redmond. Asheville, Past
State Deputy of North Carolina;
Lieutenant R. Habenicht Casson,
U. S. N. R., of Macon. Past State
Deputy of Georgia; Colonel Wil
liam S. Pritchard, former Master
of the Fourth Degree,- Alabama;
Thomas Carlin, Past Master of the
District of Columbia Fourth De
gree Assembly; William T. Walsh,
Master of the Fourth Degx-ee. De
Soto' Province, for the Carolinas
and Georgia, Savannah; John P.
Cummings, Faithful Navigator,
Raleigh. N. C., Harold Jones, Past
Faithful Navigator. Washington,
D. C., and John Brislan, Camp
Mackail, N. C.
Following the ceremonial, a
banquet was held at the Sir Walter
Hotel, at which the Rev. Wilfred
Parsons, S. J., professor of po
litical economy at the Catholic
University of America, delivered
a masterful address.
Father Parsons, who spoke of
“Catholic Contribution to Ameri
ca,” was presented by Francis J.
Heazel, K. S. G., of Asheville,
former member of the Supreme
Board of Directors and former
Supreme Treasurer of the Knights
of Columbus.
Every Knights of Columbus
council in North Carolina was rep
resented in the class of eighty-five
upon whom the fourth degree was
conferred, there were four candi
dates from Macon. Georgia, three
irom Petersburg, Virginia, and one
from Charleston, South Carolina.
THE NEW CATHOLIC Student
Center for the State University
of Iowa will be served by the
Benedictine Fathers. Besides be
ing a recreational center for the
students and a residence for the
Benedictine Fathers, the new stu
dent center will have its own
chapel dedicated to St. Thomas
More^"
Speaks at K. of C.
Banquet in Raleigh
FATHER PARSONS
The Rev. Wilfred Parsons, S. J.,
S. T. D., Lift.' D., professor of
political economy at the Catholic
University of America, Washing
ton. D. C., distinguished educator,
author and lecturer, who delivered
an address at the banquet held at
the Sir Walter Hotel, Raleigh, N.
C.. following the exemplification
of the Fourth Degree by the
Knights of Columbus.
Bulletins
ACCEPTING THE RESIGNA
TION of the Most Rev. Francis
J. Haas, recently appointed Bishop
of Grand Rapids, as chairman of
the Committee of Fair Employ
ment Practices, President Roose
velt praised the work of the
Bishop-Eclect and expressed his
personal regret over his depar
ture.
In a letter to Monsignor Haas,
the President said: “I am not sur
prised that His Holiness Pope Pius
XII has called you to this high
position. In all the.'posts of re
sponsibility in which you have
served your Government, you have
shown a humanity and skill which
both Church and Country greatly
need in these difficult days.
BELIEF THAT the person of
His Holiness Pope Pius XII is
safe in the present crisis was ex
pressed by Myron C. Taylor, Presi
dent Roosevelt’s personal envoy
to the Holy See-
Following a visit to President
Roosevelt at the White House,
newspaper men asked Mr. Taylor
if he had any fears for the Holy
Father’s safety. “No,” Mr. Taylor
replied. “I can’t imagine even a
German interfering with the
Pope.”
THE MEXICAN SENATE lias
tabled the bill of the Socialist
Bloc from the State of Yucatan
proposing amendment of the Fed
eral Constitution so as to make
marriage obligatory for ministers
of any religious denomination.
I
OCTOBER SELECTION of the
Catholic Book Club is “Gilbert
Keith Chesterton", by Maisie
Ward (Mrs. Frank Sheed) who was
guest speaker at the annual con
vention of the Catholic Laymen’s
Association of Georgia held in
Rome in 1941.
IN THE CURRENT National
War Fund Campaign for S125.O90,-
000, the National Catholic Com
munity Service, member agency
of the USO, will share in S61.227.-
000 which has been ear-marked
for USO services. -