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PAGE 8-B—The Southern Cross, January 5, 1963
HERE
AND
THERE
MARY MARGARET BYRNE
has been made Ladies’ Editor
of the COLUMBUS (GA.) LED
GER ENQUIRER ... In com
petition with 5 other drill teams
. in Augusta, BENEDICTINE
MILITARY SCHOOL (Savannah)
captured the 1st place trophy.
Cadet Capt. EDWARDG. BURNS
is the commanding officer of
the winning drill team . . .
Christmas Midnight Mass was
celebrated in the Cathedral’s
lower Church, the Chapel of
Our Lady. Completion of the
main church is planned for
early this year ... A 50 yr.
career in banking was concluded
on Dec. 29,1962, when WALTER
B. MURPHY, vice pres, of the
Savannah Bank & Trust Com
pany, retired. Having started
as a messenger boy with the
now defunct Chatham Bank in
1912, Walter was, in 1954,
Grand Marshall of the St.
Patrick’s Day Parade in
Savannah. For 9 years he serv
ed as treasurer of the Savannah
Branch of the Catholic Lay
man’s Association of Georgia
. . . FRATER CLEMENT
(LOUIS) PORZIO, O.S.B., na
tive Savannahian and monk of
Belmont Abbey, N. C., has been
elevated to the rank of Deacon
and will be ordained to the
priesthood sometime this year.
He is the son of Mrs. Frances
Porpio and the late Louis Por-
zio. . . State Representative-
elect BART SHEA has been
assigned to the Committee on
Highways, Industry and Ports
. . . JOSEPH E. KELLY III
has been promoted to the post
of controller of the Savannah
Morning News and Evening
Press. Joe, a native Savan
nahian, attended Benedictine
Military School, and is a gra
duate of St. Bernard High School
and Junior College, Cullman,
Ala. . . Students at ST. VIN
CENT’S ACADEMY, Sav’h., will
hold their annual retreat Jan.
22-24. FR. KILLIAN Mc-
GOWAN, C.P., Superior of the
Monastery of North Palm
Beach, Florida, will be the
retreat master. Lectures,
Praise Baptists
For Stand
Against Play
COLUMBUS - St. Anne’s Holy
Name Society sent a letter of
commendation to the President
of Baylor University and to the
Waco Baptist Association, for
the forthright action taken in
closing the Eugene O’Neill pro
duction, “Long Days Journey
Into Night.’’
The protests which caused
the cancellation of the play
which involved the use of vul
gar and profane language was
initiated by the Baptist Minis
ters Association of Waco.
In a reply from President
Abner V. McCall, Baylor Uni
versity, it was pointed out that
some desagreed with his ac
tion. However, the majority of
letters he received, "and they
came from all faiths”, strongly
supported him in closing the
play.
meditations, devotiona and pri
vate consultations will com
prise the daily schedule. . .
MISS MARY LOU RYAN, a sen
ior student nurse at St.
Joseph’s Hospital, Sav’h., was
crowned “Miss St. Joseph” on
Dec. 20, 1962. She was chosen
by her fellow students on the
basis of personality, school spi
rit, scholastic standing, pro
fessional appearance, and
ability to get along with fellow
students . . .Savannah Attor
ney eugene McCracken is
scheduled to become an assist
ant solicitor general of the
Eastern Judicial Circuit. Mc
Cracken, a graduate of Benedic
tine Military School, Armstrong
College (Sav’h.), Mercer Uni
versity (Macon) and Lumpkin
Law School of the University
of Georgia. He received his
law degree from the latter
school in 1957 . . . ANDREW
J. RYAN, JR., Chatham County
solicitor general, has been
named Georgia Chairman for
National Brotherhood Week,
Feb. 17-24. The observance
is sponsored by the National
Conference of Christians and
Jews, of which Ryan is a board
member . . . BENEDICTINE’S
BAND has been invited to par
ticipate in Maudi Gras
festivities in New Orleans.
Fr. Lawrence A. Lucree
P. O. Box 180
Savannah, Ga.
ORTHODOX MONK SEES REUNION - Although the ma
jority of monks on Mt. Athos, Orthodox monastic strong
hold in Greece, are opposed to reunion between the Catho
lic and Orthodox churches, a few have favored it. Archi
mandrite Ilian (above), the Higoumen of the Russian monas
tery of Panteleimon, predicted that reunion will occur within
60 years. He added that: Without reunion we will wither away
before communism. (NC Photo)
U. S. S. R. Still Persecutes
Orthodox Church
NEW YORK, (NC) - About
2,000 churches, largely Russian
Orthodox, have been closed by
government officials in the Sov
iet Union in the past two years,
a private research group has
reported.
The Institute for the Study
of the USSR estimates that no
more than 10,000 churches are
open in the Soviet Union at
present.
This compares, it said, with
78,000 Orthodox churches alone
which dotted the Russian coun
tryside in 1916.
The institute, whose main
headquarters are in Munich,
Germany, said the persecution
of believers and their clergy is
dramatically illustrated in a
letter of protest sent to Pre
mier Nikita Khrushchev by wor
shippers of the famous
Pochayev Monastery in the
Western Ukrine.
A copy of the letter of protest
was obtained by the Synod of the
Russian Orthodox Church Out
side Russia, New York, and re
leased to the public.
The protest claims that So
viet secret police are persecu
ting the monastery’s monks,
physically assaulting pilgrims
and denying needed supplies to
the monastery. The number of
monks has been reduced from
140 in 1961 to 36 at present.
Monks, it said, are dragged
from the monastery, carried
away in automobiles, beaten up
and dropped hundreds of miles
away with a warning not to re
turn to Pochayev, the protest
says.
The help of the World Council
or of a United National agency
is requested to restore normal
cy to the life of the monks.
Institute sources here noted
that the 22nd Communist Party
Congress stressed “the neces
sity of re-education for those
who find themselves in the cap
tivity of anti-scientific re
ligious ideology.”
The Congress declared that
“the .religious point of view
must receive in our socialist
conditions the most decisive
rebuff. Attacks against it cannot
be weakened.”
SAVANNAH
RT. REV. MSGR. THOS. A. BRENNAN, Pastor
REV. EDWARD FRANK, Assistant
REV. GEORGE C. JAMES, Assistant
Congratulations
TO THE
FIRST EDITION OF
THE SOUTHERN CROSS
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PROVIDENCE, R. I., (NC) -
Bishop Russell J. McVinney of
Providence has lauded a study
commission's recommendation
that the state furnish science,
mathematics and foreign lan
guage textbooks to pupils in
parochial and other private
schools.
* ‘The decision of the Gover
nor's commission on the issue
of state aid for the purchase
of certain textbooks for child
ren attending other than govern
ment-sponsored schools seems
most fair and sensible,” the
Bishop said in a statement.
“It has been our plan from the
beginning,” he continued, “not
to initiate an ex parte dispute
but simply to present the case
for unbiased appraisal by the
citizenry of the state, confident
that our fellow citizens with
their sense of propriety and
fairness would see the validity
of the request.”
The Bishop added that the
commission’s findings seemed
to bear out this conviction.
“We are not looking for spe
cial treatment for our children,
but we feel that in this area
children in private and paroch
ial schools have every right to
this state aid,” the Bishop said
The commission's plan calls
for books to be furnished by the
state through local public school
committees which would have'
authority to approve the
volumes.
Msgr. Arthur T. Geoghegan,
superintendent of diocesan
schools, announced (Dec. 28)
that a special meeting of the
Catholic School Board would be
held to discuss the recommen
dations of the Governor’s Com
mission and what action should
be taken on them.
Other developments resulting
from the commission’s recent
recommendations are that
Rhode Island’s eight cities
would pay nearly three-fourths
of the cost of textbook aid re
quested for parochial and other
private school pupils.
Of the $115,291 figured by
Dr. William P. Robinson, act
ing state commissioner of edu
cation, as the price of provid
ing mathematics, science and
language texts to 46,113 non
public school pupils, $85,628
apparently would be charged to
the cities.
Twenty-eight of the 31 Rhode
Island towns would provide the
balance of $29,663. Three towns
have no nonpublic school en
rollment for the year 1962-63.
Since the state pays an average
of 30 per cent of local educa
tion costs, this means it would
pick up that average portion of
the total costs for non public
school texts -provided by cities
and towns. However, the state
aid percentage varies from
community to community ac
cording to a state equalization
law.
Meanwhile, the possibility
was raised that the children of
Rhode Island parents attending
nonpublic schools outside thei
district or even outside the stat
could apply for textbook aid i
the prescribed fields.
Sen. Irving J. Bilgor, secre
tary of the commission, sai<
•the commission felt that thf
parents of such children shoul
be entitled to apply for sucl
aid.
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Although the Catholic Schbo
Board’s brief suggested legis
lation to accomplish the aid
sought, the study commissior
did not incorporate any pro j
posed legislation in its report.
“We preferred not to give
any credence to the proposed
legislation” of the Catholii;
School board “because we were
not certain that it would meel
the constitutional test which was
referred to in the language o:
the commission's report,” sai$
Sen. Bilgor.
He added that the commis
sion’s members “are quite
pleased with the reception the
commission received from the
public at large during the hear
ings.” This reception, he said,
“proves that the religious tol
erance and temperament of th^
citizens of this state deserves
commendation.”
BEST WISHES
SAVANNAH
Best Wishes
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