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Official
Newspaper For
The D iocese Of
Savannah - Atlanta
Vol. 37, No. 4.
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PUBLISHED BY THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN'S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
“To Bring About
a Friendlier
Feeling Among
Georgians Irre
spective of Creed”
MONROE, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, JULY 21, 1956.
10c Per Copy — $3 a Year
Defense Department Acts
Commanders Directed To
Shelves Of Objectionable
Clear PX
Literature
A HAPPY MOTHER—Mrs. Anna Clifford, 80, of San Fran
cisco, talks on the phone to her son, in Hong Kong. He is Rev.
John W. Clifford, a priest released by the Red Chinese after three
years of captivity. With her are six of seven children of Harry F.
Clifford, Jr., brother of the priest. The portrait is of the priest.—
(NC Photos).
WASHINGTON, (NC)—A sweeping directive has been issued to all branches of the
Armed Forces to rid the shelves of post exchanges and service libraries of objectionable
reading matter.
“Continuing action” has been called for on the part of all responsible persons to see
that books and periodicals offered through military and quasi-military sources “reflect the
standards of decency and morality which characterize our military forces.”
This flat and direct action was; jectionable reading matter 'was
obviously prompted by the wave being sold to armed services per-
‘Wolves In Sheep’s Slothing’
Are Teaching Only ‘Scientific
Materialism/ Archbishop Says
BRIGHTON, England, (NC)—Too many eminent medical
school professors are “wolves in sheep’s clothing” teaching
their pupils “nothing but scientific materialism,” Archbishop
Gerald P. O’Hara, Bishop of Savannah-Atlanta and Apostolic
Delegate to Great Britain, stated here.
He made this statement in a
sermon in St.- Joseph's chui'ch,
In his audience at a special Mass
were numerous members of the
Guild of St. Luke and SS. Cos-
mas and Damian, the Catholic
physicians’ organization. They
were attending the annual con
ference of the British Medical
Association.
Quoting a sentence from the
day’s Gospel on the parable of
the ravenous wolves, the prelate
said: “We know that in some
medical schools and in renowned
universities world-famous pro
fessors of medicine and surgery
are wolves in sheep’s clothing,
for they are trying to insinuate
into young medical students
ideas that are at complete vari
ance with the Divine Law.
“Blasphemy ip the law of med
icine, in the law of healing, is
now being taught in many
schools. A doctor’s vocation is
to save life, never to indulge in
what is popularly known as
mercy killing, for the command
ment remains, ‘Thou shall not
kill.’
“There can never be a con
flict between science and faith.
Authentic science has God as its
author. Always keep bright in
your minds and in your hearts
the sacred truths.”
About 70 well-known men and
women doctors in their academ
ic gowns walked in procession* to
the church.
Archbishop O’Hara said that,
speaking not as an Archbishop
nor as an American but as an
qrdinary Catholic priest, he
wished to pay tribute to the
many doctors of Britain who up
hold the standards and the laws
of Christ in the field to which
they have dedicated their lives.
The order came from the office
of Secretary of Defense Charles
E. Wilson, and was signed by the
Assistant Secretary for Manpower,
Personnel and-,Reserve, Carter L.
Burgess. It was directed to the
Assistant Secretaries of the Army,
the Navy and the Air Force hav
ing to do with personnel matters.
of protests that swept into Wash
ington from all parts of the coun
try after the N.C.W.C. News Ser
vice printed a dispatch from its
Far East correspondent, Father
Patrick O’Connor, S.S.C. Father
O’Connor charged that highly ob-
ARCHBISHOP
PARTICIPATES
IN PILGRIMAGE
LAUNCESTON, Cornwall, Eng
land — Archbishop Gerald
P. O’Hara, Bishop of Sayannah-
Atlanta and Apostolic Delegate
to Great Britain, attended for the
first time the annual pilgrimage
in honor of Blessed Cuthbert
Mayne, a martyr of tim Refor
mation.
Thousands of pilgrims from the
region walked, singing hymns,
through the streets of this little
Cornish town, site of the Blessed
Cuthbert national sanctuary.
They, were following the route
taken by Cuthbert nearly 400
years ago as he was dragged
through the streets to execution
in the market place.
Archbishop O’Hara preached
to the pilgrims on the green below
the castle ruins where the Mar
tyr was imprisoned. In his win
dowless dungeon so bright a light
Forced To Labor
In ‘Living Hell’
BONN, Germany (NC) —
Nearly 1,000 priests and Protes
tant ministers are interned in
concentration camp at Schwado-
nitz, Chechoslovakia, that is a
living hell,” according to a re
turnee who has reported his ex
perience to the Saarbruecker
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was seen during the night before
his death that other prisoners
cried out to ask what was hap
pening. The Apostolic Delegate
blessed the crowd with the Mar
tyr’s major relic, the top of his
skull.
It bears the hole of the pike on
which it was stuck for public
show after his death. It was car
ried in pocession on a flower
decked litter borne by four
priests.
Earlier, Archbishop O’Hara had
been given a civic reception by
the town’s first Catholic mayor,
W. G. Mooney.
First Decatur
Mass Offered By
Father Harrison
DECATUR, Ga. — The Rev
erend James Lawrence Harrison
celebrated his first mass in his
home parish, here, Saturday,
July, 14th.
Father Harrison was ordained
last December 17th at the North
American College, on Rome’s
Janiculum Hill. Father Harrison
was one of twenty-eight Amer
icans who received the Sacra
ment of Holy Orders, conferred
by His Excellency the Most Rev.
Martin J. O’Connor, D.D., Rec
tor of the College. Father has
just returned to Georgia after
finishing his Rome studies.
Father Harrison is the son of
Mr. and Mrs. James L. Harrison
of St. Thomas More Parish.
sonnel in post exchanges in Japan
and Korea.
“From time to time,” the direc
tive from Assistant Secretary
Burgess said, “criticism is leveled
at the Armed Forces for making
available to their personnel books
and magazines of questionable
morality and standards of decen
cy. At present, the situation in the
Far East is receiving particular
notice from certain segments of
the press and members of Con
gress.
‘The policy of the Department
of Defense has long been that
commanders at every echelon wili
develop to the highest degree
the conditions and influences
calculated to promote the health,
morals, and spiritual welfare of
the personnel under their com
mand.
“The traditional responsibility
of command is of special impor
tance in dealing with young, in
experienced personnel stationed
outside the. United States where
the normal influences of Ameri
can society and home community
are lacking.
“Recreational reading material
at our overseas bases is largely
restricted to that which is offered
for sale in our post exchanges
and supplied in unit libraries and
day rooms. Lack of command
guidance in the choice of publi
cations to be made available
could result in “loading” the
shelves with poor quality maga
zines, which contribute nothing
to the objective, of the develop
ment of high moral standards.
"It is requested that you take
continuing action through the ap
propriate agency of your depart
ment to insure that the books and
periodicals offered to Service per
sonnel, through "military and
quasimilitary sources, reflect tl\e
standards of decency and moral
ity, which characterize our mili
tary forces.”
The directive’s call for com
manding officers to exercise pro
per supervision over the material
that goes onto post exchange and
library shelves recalls that Father
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ORDAINED FORTY-FIVE YEARS—The Rev. Andrew A. Walls, S. M., is show at a Recep
tion marking his ordination to the priesthood. Shown with Father Walls are, left, the Rev. Charles
Duke and the Rev. Philip Hasson, S. M. Father Walls was ordained June 22, 1911 at Catholic
University, Washington. Father has been pastor of St. Joseph’s Marietta since 1952.—(Photo by
Joe McTyre).
RETREAT AT
VILLA MARIE
The Annual retreat for men
of the Diocese will be held at
Villa Marie from Friday eve
ning August 3rd to Sunday
August 5th.
Retreatmaster this year will
be the Rev. Donald Faron
C.Cs.R. Reservations may be
made by contacting E. A.
Brennan, 309 East 53rd St.,
Savannah.