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a Friendlier
Feeling Among
Neighbors Irre
spective of Creed”
MONROE, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, APRIL 2, 1955.
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PAPAL KNIGHT
William H. Mitchell of Macon is shown as he was invested as
a Knight of St. Gregory at ceremonies at Macon, March 27th. Pic
tured above are, left to right. Rev. Charles; Canavan, S. M. A., St.
Peter Claver Church, Macon; The Most Rev. Francis E. Hyland,
D. D., J. C. D., Auxiliary Bishop of Savannah-Atlanta; Rev. Car
mine Benanti, S. J., pastor St. Joseph’s, Macon; Mr. Mitchell.—
(Macon News Photo).
Argentina Bishops Voice Rigid
Opposition To Peron Attempts
To Limit Church In Education
Vol. XXXV, No. 22.
Notre Dame
Has Book
On Wheels
ATLANTA, Ga. — The Mobile
Notre Dame Book Shop is on the
move again. This last week they
were in Athens on Wednesday,
March 30, and in Elberton that
night for the dedication of the
new chapel there.
What is this Notre Dame Mobile
Unit? It is a station wagon pack
ed with religious articles, books,
missals, prayer books, pictures,
statues, etc. from the large stock
of the Notre Dame Book Shop in
Atlanta. To allow out-of town
customers to see and select what
they need and want in religious
goods, the Notre Dame Book Shop
is willing to . travel to various
parishes throughout the state
with this mobile unit to provide
a large assortment for selection.
The Notre Dame Book Shop
located at 181 Peachtree Street
(opposite Davison’s) in Atlanta
is a non-profit volunteer organi
zation. Its purpose is to spread
the Faith in Georgia by making
available a large selection of
Catholic books and religious goods
to the people of Georgia, Catholics
and non-Catholics. It is a center
of distribution for these goods.
In its seven years of existance
it has gradually built up a stock
of merchandise equal to the larg
er Catholic religious shops else
where in the country. It also has
a free lending library with well
over a thousand volumes of pri
marily Catholic titles.
The merchandise which the
Book Shop stocks : includes all
price ranges from very inexpen
sive items to the top quality reli
gious goods. It also includes in
its stock a large assortment of re
ligious goods for children includ
ing the best in Catholic books
for children.
If you are interested in see
ing what the Notre Dame Book
Shop has to offer, then contact
the Notre Dame Book Shop at
181 Peachtree Street, Atlanta,
Georgia, and make arrangements
for the Mobile Unit to come to
your town to your parish.
Annual Mission
At Cathedral
SAVANNAH, Ga—The Rev.
Rodney Kissinger S. J. of the
Southern. Jesuit Mission Board
will conduct this years annual
Passion Week Mission at the
Cathedral of St. John the Baptist.
Father Kissinger is a graduate
of Loyola University of the South,
New Orleans, La. Following his
reception into the church and his
graduation from the University,
Father Kissinger studied four
years at St. Charles’ College,
Gfand Coteau, La., three years
of philosophy at Spring Hill Col
lege Mobile, Ala., and after four
years of theology at St. Mary’s
College, was ordained to the
priesthood. At present Father
Kissinger is engaged in preach
ing missions of reparation.
Brother Ambrose/
Father Of Eight/
Makes Trappist Vows
CONYERS. Ga.—Sixty-six-year
old Leo H. Dehner pronounced
his solemn vows as a Trappist
monk at the Abbey of Our Lady
of the Holy Ghost, in effect sev
ering his worldly ties with his
eight children, but in making his
lifetime promises as Brother Am
brose, O.C.S.O., he became closer
to all of them—especially the five
who are themselves Religious.
On hand for Brother Ambrose's
solemn profession, it was reported
were a number of his 22 grand
children and his three priest-sons.
One of those sons is Father M.
Philip Dehner, Q.C.S.O., also a
monk of the Abbey of Our Lady
of the Holy Ghost. Father Philip,
37, entered the Trappist monaste
ry after three and a half years’
army service in the Persian Gulf
Command in World War II.
The oldest son is 40-year-old
Father Eugene Dehner, O.S.B.,
professor of biology at St. Bene
dict’s College, Atchison, Kan.,
who attended the ceremony with
Father Lambert Dehner, O.S.B.,
also of St. Benedict’s College, who
is Brother Ambrose’s third child.
A former football coach at Mexico
City’s Polytechnic Institute, Fath
er Lambert has become known as
“the Knute Rockne of Mexican
football.”
The fifth of the Dehner chil
dren, 35-year-old Leo, a taxider
mist, made elaborate plans to
bring his wife and six children all
the way from their home in Cody,
Wyo., for his father’s profession.
Two members of the family
who are in the religious life were
unable to be present. They are
Sister Ada, the youngest daugh
ter, who is in a cloistered Car
melite convent in Hsinchu, For-
| mosa, and Frater Raymond Deh
ner, O.C.S.O., 23, and the baby
of the family, who is studying
for the priesthood at the Trappist
monastery of Our Lady of Guada
lupe, now in Lafaytte, Ore.
The other two Dehner children
are Mrs. Mary Katherine Mc-
Nassar, the oldest daughter, who
lives in Portland, Ore., and has
11 children herself, and Bernard
Dehner, 34, of Fort Madison, la.,
the father of five.
(N.C.W.C. NEWS SERVICE)
BUENOS AIRES — New pro
nouncements by the Bishops of
Argentina have underscored their
inflexible opposition to any at
tempt by the Peron government
to limit or restrict the Church’s
rights in the field of education.
This rigid stand was clearly re
flected in memoranda the Bishops
sent to President Juan D. Peron
and to Education Minister Ar
mando Mendez San Martin, and
In a Lenten pastoral letter order
ed to be read in all the Catholic
churches of the country.
Negotiations have been report
ed under way between His Emin
ence Santiago Luis Cardinal Co-
pello, Archbishop of Buenos Aires,
and President Peron, with a view
to bringing about a truce in the
Church-state conflict that erupt
ed last November. Whether of not
such an agreement is being dis
cussed, one thing is certain: the
first condition for an understand
ing must be a full recognition by
the government of the Church’s
right freely to, carry on its teach
ing work.
In their memorandum to Presi
dent Peron, the Bishops minced
no words in denouncing the dis
criminatory measures adopted
against Catholic schools, and in
proclaiming their unalterable op
position to any effort to establish
a state monopoly in education.
“The restriction imposed during
these last three months,” the
Bishops declared, “attack funda
mental rights which are accorded
by the national constitution and
which we feel it is our duty to de
fend. The first right attacked is
that of the family, since the con
stitution itself . . . declares that
education and instruction corres
pond to the family, and to private
and public institutions which col
laborate with the family . . .
“The meaning of this text is
clear: whatever laws or decrees
may establish is admissible only
as collaboration with, never a
diminution of, much less a nega
tion of, the right of the family.,
New conditions already imposed
and others announced by official
bodies mean, in effect, the closing
of many (Catholic) educational
institutions toward which the Ar
gentine family has traditionally
shown a justified preference.”
The Bishops declared that some
1,000 Catholic schools, with a total
enrollment of 300,000 students,
had been established by the
Church in Argentina under the
protection of the constitution.
However, they said, “it is evident
that the present tendency of legis
lation ... is carrying us toward
the monopolistic (public) school
which we can in no wise accept,
because it menaces the freedom of
education and the rights of fhe
Church and the family, and con
duces toward a system of educa
tion which, in fact, denies legiti
mate human rights.”
The Bishops concluded their
note to General Peron by urging
him to suspend all measures al
ready enacted or now being con
templated against the Church’s
educational establishments. They
called for the rescinding of de
crees issued last December whicli
resulted iq many teachers in
Catholic mission schools being
discharged or transferred to pub
lic schools.
In their memorandum to the
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FATHER OF EIGHT, TAKES TRAPPIST VOWS AT 66
Mr. Leo H. Dehner, 66, formerly a cigar manufacturer of Burlington, la., and a widower took
his solemn vows as a Trappist monk at the Abbey of Our Lady of the Holy Ghost, Conyers, Ga. He
is father of eight children, four of whom have entered religious life. Mrs. Leo H. Dehner, Catholic
Mother of the Year in 1943, died in 1947. This family group picture was taken in 1942. Left to right:
(back row) Thomas, (now in the Trappist Order); Agnes (now Sister Ada of the Eucharist, Car
melite); Fr. Lambert, O. S. B., of St. Benedict’s College, Atchison, Kans.; Fr. Eugene, O. S. B„ pro
fessor at St. Benedict’s College, Atchison, Kans.; Leo, Jr., and Bernard J. of Fort Madison, la.,
father, of five; (front row) Raymond, Mr. and Mrs. Dehner; Mary Katherine, (now Mrs. John Mc-
Nassar, of Portland. Oregon) mother of eleven children.—(NC Photos).