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OCTOBER 1, 1955.
THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
THREE
New President—
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been escorted while jubilant
crowds cheered and waved flags.
Flying overhead was a military
plane bearing the revolutionary
insignia, a cross and the letter
V, meaning victory.
Text- Of Cardinal
Copello's Statement
BUENOS AIRES, (Radio,
NC) — The following is the
text of the message to the
country in which His Emin
ence Santiago Luis Cardinal
Copello, Archbishop of Bu
enos Aires, hailed the end of
the conflict in Argentina and
appealed for peace and “na
tional conciliation”:
Glory be to God, the fount
of all reason and justice. The
clash of arms has ceased with
its accompanying bloodshed.
Tranquillity has returned af
ter long days of torturing
anxiety and. the long , wished
for embrace of the brothers
locked in strife has come to
open a new chapter in the an
nals of our history.
Under the glorious folds of
the Argentine banner, the
sons of our fatherland have
just embraced each other, and
now all, with their eyes fixed
upon its great destinies, must
march united in a collective
effort to attain the happiness
of our people and the well
being of our fellow citizens.
In this gratifying hour of
national conciliation may on
ly sincere love and under
standing inspire our acts, and
may no low passions disturb
the joy which -now fills all
our hearts.
As men can do nothing
without the help of the Al
mighty, let the old canticle,
Sacred Heart, Save the Ar
gentine P e o p 1 e,” sound
through all the corners of our
land, and may the God of our
fathers accept the humble tes
timony of our deepest grati
tude for the return of peace
and harmony in our beloved
land. Te Deum Laudamus.
A tremendous ovation was ac
corded the Cardinal by the
crowd gathered in the Plaza de
Mayo facing the government
house when his presence at the
installation ceremony was an
nounced. At the end of the cere
mony the Cardinal and the new
President embraced while the
throng outside raised cries of
“Long Live Christ the King and
Catholic Argentina.”
President Lonardi’s subsequent
speech from the balcony of the
Casa Rosada was marked
throughout by a Catholic tone
and by many references to God,
“Who gave us all His help.”
“I am convinced,” he said,
“that although we are a small
country, we have performed a
great deed which shows that
God’s design gave us special aid.”
Declaring that justicialism —
another name for peronism—had
been a poor caricature of Just
ice, he said that instead the peo
ple of Argentina must seek a
harmonious combination of just
ice and love of fellow man.
“In the cultural order,” Pres-
dent Lonardi added, “our coun
try has been submitted to a
process of extreme violence,
which affects the religious con
science of its inhabitants. It shall
be my constant preoccupation to
maintain unalterable respect and
guarantee of the rights of the
Church and of the religious con
science of all, whatever their
creed. As regards the Catholic
Church, I shall be very happy
if Providence grants me the op-
Dr. Marecek
Appointed To
Belmont Staff
The appointment of Dr. Karel
Marecek as professor of econom
ics and head of the Department
of Business Administration has
been announced by the Very
Rev. Bernard L. Rosswog, O.S.B.,
vice president of Belmont Abbey
College.
Dr. Marecek was born in Mse-
no, Czechoslovakia in 1901. He
studied at the University of
Toulouse, receiving his Doctor
ate in Political Science from
Ecole de Hautes Etudes Socials
at Paris in 1926. He then trav
eled to the United States where
he studied at Swarthmore Col
lege and U.C.L.A. Completing
his studies in this country at
Georgetown University, he re
ceived his Ph. D. from the school
of Foreign Service in 1929. In
1931, the Charles University of
Prague awarded him a Doctorate
in Civil and Canon Law. In this
same year, he became editor of
the Prime Minister’s daily news
paper. He became Director of
the School of Political Science
and Journalism at the Charles
University in Prague in 1933,
wihch position he held until the
Nazis closed the University in
1939. He was appointed chief
Economic Adviser in 1936, hold
ing this position until 1939.
The total number of Catholics
in Africa and Asia is nearly 30,-
000,000 says the Review of the
Missionary Year made by Fides,
news service for the Vatican
Congregation of the Propagation
of the Faith, and issued in pre
paration for the forthcoming
Mission Sunday on October 23.
portunity to bring all misunder
standings to an end by entering
into a concordat (with the Holy
See).”
The President’s speech also
contained pledges to stop schools
becoming instruments of propa
ganda, to promote the welfare
of labor, to guarantee full con
stitutional rights, including free
dom of the press hnd assembly,
and to work for the solution of
the nation’s economic problems.
“Freedom of assembly and of
the press will be re-established
immediately,” the General said.
“For me there would be no sad
der spectacle than a uniform
press adulating my government
. . . You will search in vain to
find a demagogue in me, for you
will only encounter a father and
a brother.”
President Lonardi did not say
when he would call elections,
but assured that his provisional
administration would last only
as long as circumstances require.
Make Your
Reservation—
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ed forth from the roots of Chris
tian charity so well planted by
the pioneers of the Laymen’s
Association. These are the values
that challenge the Georgia Cath
olic layman and laywoman of
today and tomorrow. Will they
be sustained, not only sustained
but enlarged on? An effective
answer rests almost wholly with
the laity of the Church. Our
priesthood in Georgia, limited, as
it is, by numbers cannot make
an effective answer. Either the
laity will be at hand to extend
the work of the clergy or the
fruits of those early pioneers
will not be garnered.
But how to garner these fruits,
the laity might ask. Our Bishop
has given the answer in making
available to our Laymen’s As
sociation a formal presentation
of the program of the Confrater
nity of Christian Doctrine. The
Confraternity Program is essen
tially a layman’s program.
Through its seven main, fields
of operation it touches pretty
much the religious needs of all
segments, Catholic and non
Catholic. The Parent-Teacher
phase of the CCD Program as
sists parents in the religious in
struction of the pre-school child;
the Elementary school phase
with its program of religious in-
struction through Sunday
Schools, meets the need of the
child, who is not in a Catholic
School,^ the High School phase
with its emphasis on youth ac
tivities provides for the teen
agers; the College phase with its
pointing direction to Newman
Clubs in matters , of religious in
struction; for post-school age
groups, there is the CCD pro
gram of Discussion Clubs and
finally there is the non-Catholic
phase of CCD with its Apos-
tolate of Good-Will.
Sessions highlighting each of
these fields of operation will be
had at the Laymen’s Association
40th Annual Convention and all
this made possible by our Bish
op through the 9th Regional
Congress of the Confraternity
of Christian Doctrine. The time
to REGISTER for this grand
joint assemblage is NOW. At
the rectories of each of the par
ishes of the Diocese there is to
be had an ample supply of
REGISTRATION CARD. Also
in this issue of THE BULLETIN,
as well as in all issues of THE
BULLETIN since May, there is
to be found a REGISTRATION
BLANK. Act now and send in
your Registration so that ade
quate provision might be made
for your comfort during the
period of the joint Convention
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