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Official Newspaper For The Diocese Of Savannah Vol. 37, No. 18 Official Newspaper For The Diocese Of Atlanta Savannah Auxiliary Bishop to Arrive Feb. 20 81 sf BIRTHDAY On hand to congratulate German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer (right) is Msgr. Alois Eckert, President of German Caritas, on occasion of the Chancellor's 81st birthday. Archbishop Aloysius J. Muench, Papal Nuncio to Germany, and Bishop of Fargo, N. D., also conveyed to Mr. Adenauer the best wishes of the diplomatic corps in Bonn, West German capital. (NC Photos) Catholic Weekly Printed In Georgia The Pacificator Served Catholics Of South During War Between States PRESENTATION CEREMONY TO BE HELD AT CATHEDRAL AT 5 P. M. Vicar General From Egypt At Savannah Beach SAVANNAH—Monsignor Ber nard Gingras, Vicar. General of Alexandria, Egypt has taken re fugee in the Diocese of Savannah until trouble in Egypt abates so that he may return to his duties. Msgr. Gingras, native of Cana da, who has served for the past six years as Vicar to the Patriarch of Alexandria, at the time of the Suez Canal disturbance happened to be in Port Said, preaching a mission. He was given his choice of a concentration camp or leav ing the country. Monsignor is now residing at St. Michael’s Church, Savannah Beach. (By Edward A. Egan) (Written for NCWC News Service) Virtually no publicity has been given the fact that during the War Between the States Catholics in the Confederacy launched their oven paper to keep informed on Catholic affairs. New details of this venture, discovered on the eve of Catholic Press Month, are nar rated in this article. It is also of interest that the centennial of the tear will be observed soon. At the time of the rise of the Confederate States of America, in 1861, Catholics residing in the seceded states were without their own religious press. It took them only three and one-half years, however, to rec ognize the importance of, and the vital need for, a Catholic press. Out of this realization came the establishment of The Pacifi cator, “A Journal Dedicated to the Interests of the Catholic Church in the Confederate States.” A four-page weekly, it was launched by Patrick Walsh and L. T. Blome, two Augusta, Ga., Catholics of high and wide repute as journalists, who v/ere its pub lishers and editors. The former was later United States Senator from Georgia and Mayor of Au gusta. The latter served for 30 years as clerk of the City Coun cil of Augusta. Some sources have reported that Father Abram J. Ryan, poet- priest of the Confederacy, was editor, and even founder, of The Pacificator. During the life of the newspaper, however, the author of “The Conquered Banner” and other famous and well-known poems, was engaged in. priestly labors in the Dioceses of Chicago and Nashville and had no associ ation with the Catholic weekly. On the editorial page of the first issue, which appeared Octo ber 8, 1864, was printed the pros pectus of The Pacificator. It said: “In the . . . young nation, we found our Church without a rep resentative organ, without the means of communication between bishops, the pastors, and the peo ple, while our brethren of several Protestant denominations were giving a generous support to a number of journals of their re spective persuasions. “To supply this want—to give to the Catholic ecclesiastics of the South an organ for promulgation of their religious documents—to furnish Catholic readers with a pure Catholic literature and in telligence from the Catholic Church in other parts of the world—to remove those unfound ed prejudices and unjust assump tions against the Church of Rome, which exist in the minds of so many outside her jurisdiction— and, above all, to aid, by every honorable means that lay in our power, in restoring to our Con federacy an early, honorable, and lasting peace . . . “As to our political views . . . we are conscientiously bound to give our support to the cause of Southern Independence.” Unlike its successor, the Banner of the South, whioh Father Ryan actually edited in Augusta, The Pacificator was not printed on the presses of the Augusta Chronicle and Sentinel. It was set up in, and run off by, the printing establish ment of “J. T. Paterson & Co., Job and Newspaper Printers and Lithographers . , . Augusta, Ga.” A Scotsman by birth, and a dental surgeon by profession, James T. Paterson reached Au gusta by way of Boston. Fonder of printer’s ink than a dentist's instruments, he lithographed con federate postage and treasury notes, and printed maps, music, and books, during the Civil War, in Richmond, Va., Columbia, S. C., and Augusta. Across the top of its front page, under its subtitle, The Pacificator exhibited a fitting motto: “Mitte gladium tuum in vaginame et Deus Pacis erit tecum (Put up thy sword into its sheath and the God of Peace will be with thee).” Ac cording to the editors. Pope Pius IX had used it in a statement to some “Federal citizens” who had applied to him for a photograph. Measuring about 11V2 by 17 inches, the Catholic weekly was of tabloid size, comparing closely with The Bulletin, in Augusta, currently published by the Cath olic Laymen’s Association of Georgia. At the outset, the subscription rate was high on account of the war. It was $15 per year and $5 for three months. Eventually, it dropped to $4 per year and $2.50 for six months. Just how large the circulation of The Pacificator was, is un known!. Its contemporaries re ported, however, that it was “rrfeeting with success” and that it had “an extended circulation throughout the South.” While its subscribers were predominantly Catholic, it received encouraging support from persons of other re ligious affiliations. The contents of the journal were generally very much like those of any Catholic weekly of our times. Articles of a special and general nature. Catholic in telligence, editorials, news, poet ry and ads filled its columns, of which there were four on each page. Apologetics, to be sure, had its day when evoked by state ments in other religious publica tions, notably those issued by Baptist sources. Dedicated to an early, honor able, and lasting peace for the Confederacy as was The Pacifi cator, its editorial pronounce ments were dominated by that hopeful note. Whether they wrote of “War,” “Peace,” "Republican ism,” “The Moral Results of the (Continued on Page 2) SAVANNAH — The Most Rev. Thomas J. McDonough, newly ap pointed Auxiliary-Bishop of Sav annah, will arrive to take up his new duties Wednesday, February 20th. The Bishop will be greeted by the school children of the city, at 11 a.m. A luncheon for the Clergy of the diocese, honoring Bishop McDonough, will follow. Presentation ceremonies will take place during a Solemn Pon- tificial Mass to be celebrated at the Cathedral at 5 p.m. Wednes day, Feb. 20th. A formal reception for Bishop McDonough will be held at the Hotel Desoto on Thursday evening February 21st. The Holy Father, Pope Pius XII, has appointed Bishop Mc Donough as Auxiliary to Arch bishop Gerald P. O’Hara with the cannonical and liturgical rights and functions of a resi dential bishop, it has been pointed out. Thus fully delegated to ad minister the Savannah Diocese, he will wear the mozetta (an episcopal cape) and will be en titled to preside at ceremonies from the episcopal throne. Archbishop O’Hara, who since 1954 has been serving as Apos tolic Delegate to Great Britain, Start Seminary Fund holds this diplomatic post in addition to being Bishop of Sav annah. Bishop McDonough succeeds Bishop Francis E. Hyland as Sav annah’s Auxiliary-bishop. Bishop Hyland served as auxiliary-bishop bishop McDonough from 1949 until the summer of 1956 when the Holy See divided the diocese of Savannah-Atlanta. Bishop Hyland, at that time, was named First 'Bishop of the new Atlanta Diocese. BISHOP TENDERED DINNER BY ATLAHTA SERRft CLUB ATLANTA — The Piedmont Driving Club was the scene of a dinner given by the Serra Club of Meti’opolitan Atlanta in honor of His Excellency, the Most Rev. Francis E. Hyland D. D., J.C.D. Bishop of Atlanta, on Thursday night, January 24th. The occassion was the presentation of a check to enable His Excellency to be gin the Seminary Student Fund for the newly created Diocese of Atlanta. Presentation of the check was made by Mr. Larry La Bonte of the John Sexton Co., who is the club’s president. The evening began with a re ception for Bishop Hyland at which time Bishop Hyland receiv ed the members and their wives. This was followed by a formal dinner. Seated at the head table were His Excellency, the Rev. R. Donald Kiernan, club chaplain, Mr. and Mrs. Larry La Bonte, the Vice Pres, and his wife, Mr. and Mrs. Bill Beckley; the secretary and his wife, Mr. and Mrs. Damon J. Swann; the treasurer and his wife, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Mc Laughlin. Seated with the members of the club were the Rt. Rev. Msgr. P. J. O’Connor, Pastor of the Diocesan Shrine of the Immaculate Con ception; Rt. Rev. Msgr. Edward J. Dodwell Ph.D., J.C.D., Chaplain of the Perpetual Help Home in Atlanta; Very Rev. Msgr. Corneli us L. Maloney Ph.D., Supt., of Schools for the Diocese of Atlan ta; the Very Rev. James Boyce, Chancellor of the Diocese; the Rev. Michael J. Regan J.C.D., Officialis of the Diocese; Rev. Thomas I. Sheehan, Pastor of St. Thomas More Church in Decatur; Rev. William Haddad, Pastor of St. John’s Melkite Church; Rev. Michael McKeever S.M.A., Pastor of Our Lady of Lourdes Church in Atlanta; Rev. Emmanuel Train- or C. P., Pastor of St. Paul of the Cross Church in Atlanta and the Rev. John D. Stapleton who rep resented the Rt. Rev. Msgr. Jos eph E. Movlan P. A., Vicar Cen- eral of the Diocese, the Very Rev. Provincial of the Marist Fathers, the Rev. Robert Ripp, S.M. Pastor of Sacred Heart Church; and the Very Rev. Val Becker S.M., Superior of the local Marest Com munity. The Serra Club is an organiza tion of Catholic Business men or ganized to intensify the desire for promoting, safeguarding and as sisting ecclesiastical vocations, to (Continued on Page 2) REQUIEM FOR ANTHONY TEOLI SAVANNAH, Ga. — Funeral services for Anthony Teoli were held Friday, January 18th, at Brooklyn, N.Y. Mr. Teoli, is the father of Rev. Robert J. Teoli, assistant pastor of Blessed Sacrament Church here. Father Teoli was with his father at the time of his death.