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I "4 t PAGE 6-C—The Southern Cross, January 5, 1963 THE CHURCH IN 1962 January In his State of the Union message to Congress Pre sident Kennedy repeated his belief that “across -the- board” Fed eral aid to pri vate schools is unconstitutional. House Speak er John W. McCormack said he believes U. S. loans to private schools are valid but he would vote for a bill of aid to public schools only. Controversies raged in 11 states over whether private school students are en titled to rides in tax-paid public school buses. Cardinal Spellman returned to New York from his 11th con secutive Christmas visit to U. S. troops overseas in Germany and France. Philadelphia’s Arch bishop John J. Krol said in an address that migration is a “National inalienable right.” More than 20 missionary priests and nuns were slain by rampaging troops in the Congo, and 17 Religious were arrest ed, tortured and imprisoned in an anti-religious outbreak in Czechoslovakia. Bishop Char les H. Helmsing of Springfield- Cape Girardeau, Mo., was ap pointed Bishop of Kansas City- St. Joseph, Mo. Death came to Father Thomas A. Steiner, C. S= C. f 84, former U. S. pro vincial of Holy Cross Fathers at Notre Dame, Ind.; Fritz Kre- isler, 86, world famed violinist, a convert, in New York; and Ivan Mestrovic, 78, famed sculptor, also at Notre Dame. The worldwide Chair of Unity Octave was observed January 18-25. Msgr. William J. Quinn of Chicago was named co-direc tor of the N. C. W. C. Latin America Bureau. Archbishop Joseph Kiwanuka of Rubaga, Uganda, said in Cincinnati that in East Africa Mohammedanism is a “more menacing” problem than communism. Father Louis A. Dion, A.A., former chaplain to Catholics in Moscow, said that persecution will destroy religion in Russia within 50 years. Other January headlines: Claim Of Church Freedom In Russia Denied By Russian Or thodox Bishops . . . Premier Castro Automatically Excom municated For Impeding Work Of Cuban Clerics, Prelate States . . . Protestant, Jewish Groups Join Catholics In Study of Papal Social Encyclicals . .. Anglicans In England Praying For Canonization Of 40 Martyrs Who Gave Lives For Faith Dur ing Reformation . . . Nuncio Offers Mass, Consoles Sur vivors Of Avalanche That Wiped Out Villages In Peru . . . February Pope John named 10 new cardinals, bringing member ship in the College of Cardi nals to an all-time high of 87 in a month when three cardi nals died: Gaetano Cardinal Ci- cognani, 80, Prefect of the Sa cred Congregation of Rites; Teodosio Cardinal de Gouveia, 72, Archbishop of Lourenco Marques, Mozambique; and Aloisius Cardinal Muench, 72, first U. S. member of the Va tican administrative staff. The Pope also established the Atlanta, Ga., province with Bishop Paul A. Hallinan of Charleston, S. C., as first Arch bishop of Atlanta; named Bishop Joseph T. McGucken of Sacra mento, as Archbishop of San Francisco; created the new Dio ceses of Oakland, Stockton and Santa Rosa, Calif., with Aux iliary Bishop Floyd L. Begin of Cleveland, Auxiliary Bishop Hugh A. Donohoe of San Fran cisco, and Msgr. Leo T. Maher of San Francisco, respectively, as the first bishops. The Pope scheduled October 11 as the opening date of the Second Va tican Council; and issued an Apostolic Constitution recon firming Latin as the Church’s official language, forbidding any effort to surplant it. Auxiliary Archbishop William D. O’Brien of Chicago, Catholic Church Ex tension Society president since 1925, died in San Pierre, Ind. In a Catholic Press Month statement, Bishop Albert R. Zuroweste of Belleville, Ill,, N. C. W. C. Press Depart ment episcopal chairman, said 1961 was the greatest year for the Catholic press’ in the U. S. A three-judge Federal court held Bible reading in Pennsyl vania public schools unconstitu tional. The U. S. Supreme Court refused to review an Alaska Supreme Court ruling barring tax-paid bus rides for paro chial school pupils. In a message to Congress, Presi dent Kennedy again requested a program of U. S. aid for public schools only, and in New York Cardinal Spellman said such a program would mean the “eventual end” of parochial schools. Father John LaFarge, S.J., chaplain, and George K. Hunton, executive secretary, retired from their posts in the New York Catholic Interracial Council. Auxiliary Bishop Er nest L. Unterkoeffler of Rich mond, Va., was consecrated. The Rev. Anselm Coppersmith, O. S.B., was installed as fourth Abbot of Conception (Mo.) Abbey. Throughout the nation, prayers were offered as Marine Lt. Col. John H. Glenn orbited the earth three times in a space capsule. Other February headlines: U. S. Catholics Donate 16 Mil lion Pounds Of Relief For World Needy In 1961 Clothing Drive . . . Philippine President Consecrates Nation To Christ . . . 97,887 Negro Pu pils Attended U. S. Catholic Schools In 1961, Report States. March New Orleans’ Archbishop Jo seph F. Rummel announced that all Catholic schools in his arch diocese would be integrated ra cially in September. Neighbor ing Bishops Maurice Schexnay- der of Lafayette, La., and Rob ert E. Tfacy of Baton Rouge said the^'fiad’rio immediate in tegration plans but added “it will have to come.” Pope John announced that all members of the Sacred College of Cardinals will be bishops and scheduled consecreation of 12 cardinal- deacons for Holy Thursday, April 18. Archbishop Paul J. Hallinan of Atlanta, Ga., was enthroned; Bishop James J. Byrne of Boise, Idaho, was named Archbishop of Dubuque; and Auxiliary Bishop Charles A. Salatka of Grand Rapids, Mich., was conse crated. Former President Harry S. Truman said he op posed U. S. aid to private schools but still favors U. S.- Vatican diplomatic ties. Mrs. John F. Kennedy, U. S. First Lady, en route to India, was received by Pope John during a Rome stop-off. U. S. Catholic school students’ Lenten phase of the 1962 Bishops’ Relief Fund Appeal opened with the tradi tional message from Pope John. Father Frederick J. Stevenson, Philadelphia educator, was named N. C. W. C. Youth De partment director. The Pope received in audience Rt. Rev. Archibald C. Craig, Scotland’s Presbyterian church leader. A joint letter of 38 Central American Bishops reported “with deep sadness” their entire area is infected with communism. A nationwide pro gram to find foster homes for thousands of Cuban refugee children was launched by Miami, Fla., Catholic Chari ties and the U. S. Government. Pope John established a na tional hierarchy for Korea, raising 11 vicariates to arch dioceses and dioceses. Other March headlines: French Prelates Condemn Vio lence Connected With Cease fire In Algeria War. . . Pope Pledges To Send Michelangelo’s Pieta Statue To 1964 New York (jreetinc^S and d^edt Id/tjfi ed FROM SACRED HEART PARISH SAVANNAH World’s Fair. .. Polish Bishops Renew Demand For Investiga tion of Illegal State Actions Against Church. April Arch bishop Rummel ex- c o m m uni cat e d three New Orleans s e g r e g a- tionist leaders -- Mrs. B. J. Galliot, Jr., Jackson G. Ri- cau and Lean- der H. Perez, Sr. -- for trying to block his order for racial integration of the archdiocese’s Catholic schools. In his Easter message Pope John said Christ's Resur rection inspires the Church’s missionary effort and its “courageous defense of the principles on which the edifice of human dignity and Christian civilization is founded. The National Shrine of the Im maculate Conception in Wash ington announced a five - year program to add 30 chapels, in stall 56 tower bells, a chancel and a great organ. Coadjutor Archbishop John P. Cody of New Orleans was elected president general at the 59th annual Na tional Catholic Education As sociation convention, which drew 10,000 educators to De troit. Death claimed: Bishop Joseph M. Gilmore, 69, of Hel ena, Mont., in San Francisco. Enthroned were: Archbishop Joseph T. McGucken of San Francisco; Bishop Charles H. Helmsing of Kansas City- St. Joseph, Mo.; Bishop Leo T. Maher of Santa Rosa, Calif., after his consecration in San Francisco; and Bishop Floyd L. Begin of Oakland, Calif. Pope John decreed that henceforth the six cardinal-bishops will serve at the central administrative of fices of the Vatican without or dinary jurisdiction over the an cient suburbicarian dioceses which ring Rome. Auxiliary Bishop Alden J. Bell of Los Angeles was named Bishop of Sacramento, Calif., and Msgr. Ignatius J. Strecker, Chancellor of the Wichita, Kan., diocese, was named Bishop of Spring- field - Cape Girardeau, Mo. Melkite Rite Archbishop John Bassoul, 41, of Homs, Syria, was consecrated in Boston. Bishop William G. Connare of Greensburg, Pa., was named episcopal chairman of the Ca tholic Committee on Scouting. A psychiatrist, Dr. Francis J. Braceland of Hartford, Conn., was named for the 1962 Lae- tare Medal of the University of Notre Dame. Other April headlines: Geor gia High Court Voids Movie Censorship System . . . Red Leader Admits Anti-Church Campaign Unsuccessful in Communist Ruled Lithuania ... Pope Consecrates 12 Cardinal Deacons As Bishops On Holy Thursday . . . Resettlement Throughout U. S. Of 35,000 Refugees Now In Miami 1962 Aim Of National Catholic Re settlement Council. May Martin de Porres, 17th- century Negro Dominican Brother of Li ma, Peru, was declared a saint. The 1962 Official Catho lic Directory reported 42,- 876,665 U. S. Catholics, a year’s increase of 771,765. At his 60th ordination jubilee Archbishop Joseph F. Rummel, 85, re linquished administration of the New Orleans archdiocese to Archbishop John P. Cody. The 52nd annual Catholic Press As- ciation convention in Boston elected Floyd Anderson, Regis ter managing editor as presi dent. Archbishop James J. Byrne of Dubuque and Bishop Alden J. Bell of Sacramento, Calif., were entrhoned. Father Sylvester W. Treinen, Mandan, S.D., pastor, was named Bishop of Boise, Idaho; Msgr. Warren L. Boudreaux, New Iberia, La., pastor Auxiliary Bishop of La fayette, La., and Father Tho mas A. Murphy, Baltimore, Auxiliary Bishop of Baltimore. Speaking at Helena, Mont., Msgr. John Tracy Ellis of the Catholic University of Ameri ca warned of an anticlerical sentiment among the U. S. laity. Father Bernard R. Hubbard, S.J., 73, famed “glacier priest” died at Santa Clara (Calif.) Uni versity. New cathedrals were dedicated to St. Joseph at La crosse, Wis., and Hartford, Conn. The Pulitzer Prize for fiction went to Edwin O’Connor of Boston for his book “The Edge of Sadness.” The Sacred Congregation of Seminaries and Universities reported the U. S. and Canada as being the only nations with the desired ratio of one priest for every 1,000 laity. The Long Island Catholic, Rockville Cen ter, N. Y., diocesan weekly, had a circulation of 208,000 with its first issue. Catholic Relief Services — NCWC urged Congress for legislation to ad mit at least 10,000 Chinese to the U. S. from refugee-swollen Hong Kong. Msgr. Joseph A. Aughney, Omaha, Neb., was named for the 1962 Father Charles H. McKenna Award of the National Office of the Holy Name Society. Other May headlines: Msgr. Joseph B. Lux Named Catholic Church Extension Society President . . . Bishop Edward Swanstrom, CRS-NCWC Head, Decorated by Vietnam Presi dent . . . Rule Barring Private School Pupils From Oklahoma Public School Auxiliary Class es Upset. June The U. S. Supreme Court ig nited widespread controversy by ruling: that a prayer com posed by the New York Board of Regents and recited in the state’s public schools was un constitutional, and that obscene matter may not be banned from U. S. mails unless guilty of “patent offensiveness.” The Wisconsin Supreme Court de clared invalid a law providing limited transportation of pri vate school students on tax- paid buses. The Florida Su preme Court upheld the prac tice of Bible reading and reci tation of the Lord’s Prayer in the state's public schools. Pope John and France’s Bish ops made new appeals for peace in Algeria. Dominican Repub lic’s Bishops warned that the nation was in “very serious danger” of falling under Red rule. Archbishop Paul J. Halli nan announced that Catholic schools in the Atlanta , Ga., archdiocese will be integrated racially in September. CRS- NCWC Latin America Bureau, said in Cuernavaca, Mexico, i the Holy See will channel $50 million to aid the Church in La tin America in the next five years. Pope John named: Msgr. Francis Reh, Yonkers, N.Y., Bishop of Charleston, S. C.; Msgr. Vincent J. Baldwin, Vicar General, Aux iliary Bishop of Rockville Centre, N. Y.; Msgr. Gerald V. McDevitt, sec retary, Apostolic Delegation, Washington, Auxiliary Bishop of Philadelphia, and Msgr. Jo seph Green, Vice Chancellor, Auxiliary Bishop of Lansing, Mich. Bishop Ignatius J. Streck er of Springfield - Cape Girar deau, Mp., was enthroned in Springfield. Father Thomas Hartman, O. S. B., was elected Coadjutor Abbot of St. Bene dict’s Abbey, Atchison, Kan. Archbishop John J. Krol scof fed at reports ofU. S. anticleri calism in speaking to the 20th Serra International convention in Philadelphia. Mrs. Marie Costello, Chicago, was re elected president of the National Council of Catholic Nurses. Fa ther Francis J. Matthews, St. Louis, was elected president of the Catholic Broadcasters’ Association. Other June headlines: Guide lines For Adult Themes Con tained In New TV Code Survey Shows One Of Every 8 Persons In England, Wales Is A Catholic . . . Four Capuchin Friars Acquitted in Extortion Plot Trail in Sicily . . . Fr. Walter Burghardt, S. J., Voted Cardinal Spellman Theology Award . . . Cardinal Cushing Among Group Formed To Ran som Cuban Invasion Captives. July U. S. governors’ meeting in Hershey, Pa., opposed the U.S. (Continued on Next Page) Best Wishes To The Southern Cross Our New Diocesan Weekly Newspaper From Saint Joseph’s Church A ugusta