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Official
Newspaper For
The Diocese Of
Savannah
Vol. 37, No. 24,
PUBLISHED BY THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN'S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
MONROE, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, APRIL 27, 1957.
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Pope's Easter Message
oriel Must Build Hope
n Risen Christ As Well
s Scientific Advantages
Bishop Invests
Vilsgr. Sheehan
DECATUR — The Most Rev.
Francis E. Hyland,' D.D. J.C.D.,
Bishop of Atlanta presided as the
MSGR. SHEEHAN
Rt. Rev. Thomas I. Sheehan was
invested in the robes of a Mon
signor. The ceremony took place
April 24th at St, Thomas More
church, here.
Monsignor Sheehan was honor
ed last month by his Holiness
Pope Pius XII who raised him to
the rank of Domestic Prelate with
the title of Rt. Rev. Monsignor.
. Father Sheehan, who is a na
tive of Savannah, graduated from
the Benedictine Military School,
and after attending St. Charles
College, Catonsville, Md., com
pleted his study for the priest
hood at St. Joseph’s Seminary,
Yonkers, N. Y: He was ordained
at the Cathedral in Savannah on
May 9, 1930, by the Most Rev.
MACON, Ga.,— Large dele
gations from the 11 Knights of
Columbus Councils of Georgia
are expected here when Macon
Council No. 925 plays host to the
annual state convention May 18-
19.
General convention Chairman
Johnny Deep said extensive plan
ning is under way for the state
meeting in Macon.
Registration for convention
delegates will begin at 11 a. m. on
Saturday, May 18 at Hotel Demp
sey, with the K. of C. business
sessions opening at 2 p. m. that
day at the K. of C. Hail on New
Street in Macon.
Special entertainment and a tea
is being planned that afternoon
for wives of convention delegates
and a buffet supper, social hour
and dance will begin at 7 p. m.
Saturday, May 18 at Baconsfield
Clubhouse in Macon.
State Deputy Nick Camerio
of Macon will greet delegates at
the supper pfrogram a^id Val
Sheridan, also of Macon, will be
toastmaster.
The Rev. Carmine Benanti, S. J.,
Villa Marie
Will Not Operate
During 1957
SAVANNAH — The Most Rev.
Thomas- J. McDonough has an
nounced that Camp Villa Marie
will not operate during the sum
mer of 1957.
Bishop McDonough states that
it is planned to have the camp
in operation again by 1958, but
that repairs are necessary that re
quire an outlay of money not
presently available, and repairs
that time would not permit in
time for the 1957 sessions.
Atlanta Diocese
Speliing Champ
Second In Region
HAPEVILLE—Gk February 27,
Eileer. Fitzgerald from St. John
the Evangelist School in Hape-
ville won the inter-parochial
spelling bee for the Diocese of
Atlanta. In March, this 'same
young lady won the spelling bee
for Fulton County held at Hoke
Smith High School.
On April 3, she came in second
in the Fifth Regional contest held
at Decatur High School.
Michael J. Keyes, Bishop of Sav
annah.
He has served at various times
as assistant at the Savannah Ca
thedral, and at St. Teresa’s, Al
bany. He served as pastor of St.
Joseph’s Church, and director of
St. Joseph’s Home in Washing
ton and was appointed pastor of
St. Augustine’s Church Thomas-
ville in 1936. Before being ap
pointed pastor of the newly es
tablished parish at Port Went
worth, Father Sheehan served as
pastor of St. Patrick’s, Savannah.
pastor of St. Joseph’s Church, will
give the invocation.
Sunday, May 19, a special Con
vention Mass is scheduled for
9 a.m. at St. Joseph’s. Business
sessions will follow at 10:30 a.m.
at the K. of C. Hall with the con
vention closing with a luncheon
for delegates and their wives at
1:30 p. m. at the same place.
Also on Sunday, a meeting of
all grand knights of the state
councils will be held to discuss
mutual problems and means of
promoting K. of C. work and pro
grams throughout the state.
Mike Deep is convention com-
mitee secretary. On the comittee
in charge of registration are Mrs.
Nick Camerio, chairman: Mrs. N.
J. Pascullis, Mrs. R. J. Hinson,
Mrs. Roslyn Burnett, Mrs. Mae
Griffin, Mrs. Genieve O’Malley,
Mrs. Nell Kennington, Mrs.
Francis Cassidy, Mrs. John Greene
and Mrs. Jo Millicki.
Other committeemen for the
convention are Arthur Griffith
chairman; foods committee, John
Cassidy, chairman, and R. H.
Casson; refre shments, Jack Gug-
'(Radio, NCWC News Service)
VATICAN CITY — Scientific,
technological, and electronic ad
vances can bring peace and hope
to the world only if they are
joined with an acceptance of the
Risen Christ and His message,
His Holiness Pope Pius XII said
in his Easter message.
The world is still living in a
night of anguish, the Pope said,
but it is a night of preparation
for the dawn. Already a faint
glimmer of dawn appears in the
East, announcing the coming of
the earth’s resurrection to a day
of glory and peace.
But, he said, “it is essential to
remove the stone from the tomb
in which men desired to bury
truth and goodness. A new resur
rection of Jesus is necessary, a
true resurrection which admits
no more the lordship of death ...”
“In individuals, Christ must de
stroy the night of mortal sin with
the dawn of grace regained.
“In families, the night of indif
ference and coolness must give
way to the sun of love.
“In workshop, in cities, in na
tions, in lands of misunderstand
ing and hatred, the night must
grow bright as the day ... and
strife will cease and there will be
peace.”
lieri, chairman; and Phillip
Powell; publicity, George Landry,
chairman, and Lane Williams.
“Easter is here,” said the Pon
tiff as he greeted the thousands
come to hear him. “It is the day
the Lord has ,made for our exal
tation and our joy.”
In words of poetic eloquence
which, he said, were “some
thoughts aroused in Our heart as
We meditated,” the Pope painted
a picture of the first Easter morn
ing, the Passion which preceded
it, and the meaning of the Resur
rection that was its climax.
Making the keynote of his talk
the Paschal hymn, “Haec dies
quam fecit Dominus (This is the
day the Lord hath made)”, the
Pontiff demonstrated that what
he was about to say was the mes
sage the Church had carried in
her liturgy for centuries.
“After the invitation to rejoice,
addressed to the heavenly choirs
of angels, to earth, to our Mother
the Church, and to all nations,
the attention of the liturgical
hymn is fixed on the night which
preceded Our Lord’s Resurrec
tion.
“True night; a night of suffer
ing, anguish and darkness; and
yet a night of blessing.”
The Sovereign Pontiff describ
ed a stormy night, when all na
ture seems overthrown and de
void of hope. The traveler stum
bles without stars to guide him
and fears he is lost.
But after a night of terror, he
said, dawn forces back the storm,
“a shudder passes through the
earth. Life is restored.”
The Pope said there is hope
the night which has descended
upon the world and pressed men
down in like manner, will soon
see its dawn.
“Men of every nation and con
tinent have been forced to live
confused and anxious in a topsy
turvy world . . . Error, common
in well nigh countless forms, has
made slaves of the intellects of
men . . . Individuals, classes and
peoples persist in remaining di
vided and consequently without
social intercourse. And when they
do know each other, they hate
each other; . they plot against,
struggle with, and destroy one
another.”
Even this night, however, shows
clear signs of a dawn that will
come, continued the Pope. In the
world, under Providence, meth
ods for a fuller and freer devel
opment of life are about to be
multiplied. The discoveries of
science, technical development,
and organization are about to put
such a life at the disposal of men,
“Nuclear energy, has infact al
ready opened a new age,” con
tinued the Holy Father. “Elec
tronics and mechanics are in the
process of changing the world of
production and labor Through
automation . . . Means of trans
port link in a single network one
point of the earth to another . . ,
Agriculture, by means of nuclear
chemistry, multiplies the possi
bility of feeding the human race
. . . while biological research
daily wins ground in the battle
against the most terrible diseases.
“And yet, all this is still night.
Night indeed full of groaning and
hope, but night. Night which
could also, even unexpectedly, be
come engulfed in storm.”
The Pope said that many are
coming to know and to admit
that this night of the world was
brought on because Christ was
arrested, because men wished to
exclude Him from the family,
cultural, and social life; because
“people have risen up against
Him; because He has been cruci
fied and rendered voiceless and
motionless.”
NEW K. OF C. COUNCIL OFFICERS—Newly elected officers of the Father Thomas O’Reilly
Council No. 4358 were installed at a recent meeting. They are, reading left to right, top row:
W. T. Jordan, Jr., District Deputy; J. F. Padula, Inside Guard; A. W. Staley, Recorder; L. N. C.
Fisher, Advocate; G. Pert, Outside Guard. Left to right, bottom row: Geo. Waring, Financial
Secretary; S. L. Vick, Deputy Grand Knight; Rt. Reverend Thomas Sheehan, Chaplain; R. O.
Bradley, Grand Knight; J. W. Maloog, Lecturer; J. O. Nixon, Warden; C. J. Scherer, Chancellor;
H. T. Brockman, Trustee; G. L. Cloutier, Outside Guard; D. J. Farr, Treasurer F. J. Stokes, Trus
tee.
Macon Will Be Scene Of
Georgia K. Of C. Meeting
(By George LandryS