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1 IN The Southern Cross, January 5, 1963—PAGE 7-C (Cont’d from Previous Page) Supreme Court’s anti-prayer decision and urged a constitu tional amendment to permit re citation of prayer in public schools. The 1962-63 Catholic Press Association Directory reported U.S. Catholic news papers at an all-time circula tion high of 5,305,212. Anthony J. Celebrezze, former Mayor of Cleveland, took office as U.S. Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, the 17th Catholic to hold a presidential cabinet post. Consecrated were: Bishop Sylvester W. Treinen of Boise, Idaho, in Bismark, N.D.; Aux iliary Bishops Thomas A. Mur phy of Baltimore, Warren L. Boudreaux of Lafayette, La., and Vincent J. Bladwin of Rock ville Centre, N. Y., and Bishop William E. Kupfer of Taichung, Formosa, in Maryknoll, N.Y Appointed were: Msgr. Ray mond G. Hunthausen, president of Carroll College, Helena, Mont., as Bishop of Helena, and Father Jose Esau Robles, Montezuma (N.M.) Seminary al umnus, Bishop of Tulancingo, Mexico. Death claimed: Gio vanni Cardinal Panico, 67, of the Vatican administrative staff, in Tricase, Italy; Acacio Cardinal Coussa, 65, Sacred Congregation for the Oriental Church secretary, in Rome; and Archbishop Edmond J. Fitz- Maurice, 81, retired Bishop of Wilmington, Del., in Wilming- ^ ton, Bishop Francis E. Reh of Charleston, S.C., was enthron ed. Father Aniceto F. Alon so, O.P., 67, a Spaniard, was elected Master General of the Dominicans in Rome and Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, C. S. Sp., of Tulle, France, was installed as Superior General of the Holy Ghost Fathers in Chev- illy, France. Pope John made the church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, Conewago Township, Pa., a minor basilica. Catho lic leaders hailed settlement of the doctors’ strike against a medicare plan in Saskatchewan, Canada. Canada’s 1961 census 'showed a population of 8,532, 479 Catholics. Other July events: Germany’s Catholic Press Rebounds From S upression, Doubles Pre- Hitler Strength • . . C R S - NCWC Tops U.S. Voluntary Agencies In 1961 Relief Ef fort . . . Dem ocracy Be comes ‘Cari cature’ When It Bans Prayers In Nation’s Public Schools, Car dinal Spellman Says . . . Mexi co’s Bishops Warn Against Red Threat. August The U.S. Hierarchy’s 1962 statement called the nation’s Christians, Catholics and non- Catholics, to a prayer cam paign for success of the Sec ond Vatican Council. Maronite S. AND THE WORLD Rite Patri arch Paul Pet er Meouchi of Antioch and All the East was received by President Kennedy at the White House during a U.S. VISIT. The N.C.W.C. Education Depart ment estimated 5,917,000 stu dents will be enrolled in U.S. Catholic Schools and colleges in 1962-63 term. Cardinal Cushing asked the Knights of Columbus 80th con vention in Boston to donate one million dollars as a loan fund to Church needs in Latin Am erica. A survey showed there are 983 Negro members of 109 communities of U.S. nuns. Msgr. John E. Kelly resigned as director of the N.C.W.C. Infor mation Bureau. Msgr. (Maj. Gen,) Terence P. Finnegan, Chief of Air Force Chaplains, was decor ated with Distinguished Service Medal as he retired after 25 years of military service. Con secrated were: Bishop Raymond G. Hunthausen of Helena, Mont.; Auxiliary Bishops Gerald V. McDevitt of Pittsburgh and Mi chael J. Green of Lansing, Mich. A meeting between Archbishop Emanuel Clarizio, papal envoy, and Gov. Luis Munoz Marin in San Juan stressed closer Puerto Rican Church-State ties. Joseph Cardinal Frigs, Arch bishop of Cologne, Germany, opened an inquiry which may lead to eventual sainthood for Carmelite nun Edith Stein, Jew ish convert who died in a World War II concentration camp gas chamber. Cardinal Spellman warned the Order of Eagles convention in Pittsburgh that the U.S. faces “Twin evils” posed by attempts to take God out of public school and to take children out of private schools. Other August headlines: CRS- NCWC Says It will Try to Con tinue Aid To Haiti Because Of 'Desperate Need’ . . . Educa tion Board Rules Prayer Prac tice Will Continue in National Capital’s Public Schools . . . Management Institute Urges More Top-Level Meetings for Church, Calls Cuba ‘Red Flag Warning’ to Catholics . . . Ka- tholikentag, German Catholic Convention, Closes with 200,000 Present In Hanover. September Therese Neu mann, 64, stig- matic for 36 years, died in K onners- reuth, Ger many. Arch bishop Patrick A. O’Boyle at W ashing- ton’s 10th an nual Labor Day Mass urged organized labor to take the lead in combating rac ial bias throughout the nation. With only minor disturbances Catholic schools were integra ted in New Orleans and Atlan ta, Ga. Pope John elevated the Vicariate of Alaska to the Dio cese of Fairbanks with Bishop Francis D. Gleeson, S.J., as the first head. The Pope rec eived in audience Vice Presi dent Lyndon B. Johnson. Archbishop James P. Davis of San Juan lifted an order for bidding Catholics in Puerto Ri co from supporting the Popular Democratic party of Gov. Luis Munoz Marin. Pope John made public the resume of regula tions, governing the Second Va tican Council. Catholic Relief Services — NCWC rushed re lief supplies to earthquake — stricken Iran and typhoon-rav aged Hong Kong. Most Rev. John E. Taylor, O.M.I., of East St. Louis, Ill., became the first Catholic bishop consecrated in Sweden since the Reformation at rites in Stockholm. Death claimed: Archbishop Giacomo Testa, 53, president of the Va tican’s diplomatic school, in Cenate Sotto, Itlay; Mary C. Duffy, former Supreme Regent for 27 years of the Catholic Daughters of America, in South Orange, N.J.; Auxiliary Bishop Thomas F. Maloney, 59, of Providence, R. I.; and Msgr. John M. Fraser, 85, founder of Canada’s Scarboro Foreign Mission Society, in Osaka, Ja pan. Benjamin Muse, Manas sas, Va., foe of school racial segregation, and Eugene T. Reed, Amityville, N.Y., lead er in the NAACP, were named for the 1962 James J. Hoey Awards for Interracial Justice. Other September headlines: Archbishop O'Boyle Condemns Virginia Hospital Program Which Sterilized 50 Mothers in 2 Years . . . San Francisco’s Cathedral Gutted In $2,500,000 Fire . . . CRS - NCWC Re settles 60% of 42,000 Cuban Refugees In U.S. October Pope John opened the Second Vatican Council with 2,600pre- lates, 49 from Red-ruled na tions, in attendance. The open ing procession drew more than 100,000 to St. Peter’s Square. President Kennedy in a mess age to the Pope expressed hope that the council would promote world peace. Earlier, Pope John traveled 400 miles by railroad to pray at shrines in Loreto and Assisi for the council’s success. Buffalo’s Bishop Jo seph A. Burke, 76, died at the council. Washington’s Archbishop O’ Boyle was elected chairman of the N.C.W.C. administrative COMPLIMENTS OF SAINT BENEDICT’S CHURCH SAVANNAH Greetings And All Best Wishes To The Southern Cross From The Ursulines Our Lady of Lourdes Convent Torch Hill Road Columbus board at the U.S. Bishops’ meet ing in Rome. Pope John made a special radio appeal to avert the “horrors of war” in the crisis caused by disclosure of Soviet missiles and jet bombers in Cuba. The U.S. Supreme Court refused to consider the following cases; one in Oregon which held that the loan of state-paid textbooks to private schools violates the state con stitution, and one in Kentucky which sought to block an agree ment under which nuns operate a hospital built mainly with public funds. A bomb blast out side the residence of Cardinal Spellman in New York caused no injuries and little damage. The 87th Congress ended its second session without approv ing any major U.S. aid-to- schools legialation. HEW Sec retary Celebrezze said U.S. aid to church-run grade and high schools in unconstitutional but said he favors such aid to private colleges. Father John P. Donnelly, editor of the In land Register, Spokane, Wash., was named director of the N.C. W.C. Information Bureau. AFL- CIO president George Meany was given 1962 award of Cath olic Association for Interna tional Peace. Father William Murphy, C.SS.R., Omaha-born, was named bishop of the new Diocese of Juazeiro in Brazil. Other October headlines: Protestants In Chile Grow From 240,000 to 620,000 In 10 Years . . . Buffalo Diocese Survey Shows Half Of Catholic High School Graduates Prefer Sec ular Colleges . . . Extension Society To Recruit 500 Lay Volunteers To Serve U.S. Home Missions In 1963 . . . Council Fathers Calls For Peace, So cial Justice In Message To Hu manity . . . Prosecutor Says Wave of Smut Peddling, Por nography Tied To Nationwide Crime Syndicate. November Pope John, after observing his 81st birthday and the four- the anniversary of his coro nation, was forced to bed with gastric disturbances which caused anemia. The Pope or dered St. Joseph’s name in cluded in the Canon of the Mass beginning December 8. He pushed a button in the Vat ican library starting a pile driving operation in New York for construction of the Vatican pavilion at the 1963-64 World’s Fair. The second Vatican Coun cil voted to adjourn its first session December 8 and to open its second September 8, 1963. The Holy See granted the U.S. Bishops the faculty for five years of allowing meat to be eaten on Friday after Thanks giving Day. A survey showed 558,221,000 Catholics constitute 18.2 per cent of the world population. Death claimed: Archbishop John J. Swint, 82, Bishop of Wheel ing, Virginia; Father Raymond A. McGowan, 70, pioneer in N.C.W.C. work and former di rector of its Social Action De partment, Kansas City, Mo.; Mary Barron, “first lady of the Catholic press,” who ser ved the N.C.W.C. News Ser vice 40 years, in Washington; and U.S. Sen. Dennis Chavez, 74, of New Mexice, in Washing ton. MSGR. Clarence E. Elwell, educator, was named Auxiliary Bishop of Cleveland; Msgr. John J. Dougherty, president of Se- ton Hall U., South Orange, N.J., and Msgr. Joseph A. Costello, Newark archdiocese vice chan cellor, were named Auxiliary Bishops of Newark. Auxiliary Bishop Jude Frost, O.F.M., 46, of Belem, Brazil, was conse crated in Chicago. The 13th annual CRS-NCWC Thanks giving Clothing Collection was held nationwide. Bishop Paul Robert of Les Gonaives.and three priests who opposed voodooism were ex pelled from Haiti, making a to tal of 3 bishops and 9 priests banished from Haiti since 1959. K. of C. Supreme Knight Luke E. Hart was honored with the Cardinal Gibbobs Medal by Cat- olic University of America alumni of Mount St. Mary’s College, Emmitsburg, Me. Mrs. Joseph McCarthy, San Fran cisco, was elected president of the National Council of Catho lic Women, Dr. Edward Hayes, Monrovia, Calif., was named Catholic Doctor of the Year, by the National Federation of Catholic Physicians Guilds. Other November headlines: Ontario Bishops Ask Equal Treatment For Catholic Educa tion Remains of Mother Se- ton Identified As Step Toward Beatification....India’s Bishops Ask Catholics To Back Govern ment In Undeclared War With Red China....Vatican Radio Says Killing Of Deformed Child Can not Be Justified.... Bishop’s Committee Asks Legislation To Bring Classification Of Movies. December Pope John canonized three saints who lived in the 19th century: Peter Julian Eymard, a Frenchman who founded the Blessed Sacrament Fathers; and two Italians, Francis Cro- ese of Camporosso, a Capuchin and Anthony Pucci, a Servite. In adjourning the Second Vati can Council’s first session, the Pope set Christmas 1963 as the target date for the council’s close. As more missioners were expelled from Moslem- ruled Sudan, the government in dicated it will use armed for ce to stamp out Christianity. Notre Dame University fresh man Peter R. Kesling was named “Out- standing Catholic Youth of the Year.” C a rdinal Spellman left on his 12th con secutive Christmas visit to U.S. troops overseas. He will stop in Alaska, Japan, Formosa, the Phillipines, South Vietnam, Thailand, Pakistan and Germany. TV star Jane Wyatt was presented with the Poverall Medal of the College of Steubenville, Ohio. The New York State Court of Appeals refused to reinstate three Cath olic students of St. John’s Uni versity, Jamaica, N.Y. who were dismissed for participa ting in a civil marriage cere mony. Auxiliary Bishop Clar ence E. Elwell of Cleveland was consecrated. NCWC annual reports showed a commitment by the Catholic Church in the U.S. to spirit ual and social welfare on the national and international levels. Father Virgil C. Blum, S.J., Marquette University po litical scientist, ch|jfged that the National Education-Associa tion stands ready to crush any proposal for U. S. aid, to pri vate schools. Israel’s High Court ruled that Carmelite Fa ther Daniel, 40, is not entitled to Israeli citizenship simply because he is a Polish-born Jew. Bishop Leo A. Pursley of Fort Wayne-South Bend, head of the National Office for De cent Literature, charged that a booklet by U. S. Supreme Court Justice William O. Doug las, challenging efforts to ban publications which arouse sexual desire, was “shocking” and would "encourage smut peddlers.” Other December headlines: Girl Dying Of Leukemia 10 Years Ago, Well Today; Case May Speed Beatification of Mo ther Seton . . . Tanganyika Cardinal Offers Mass As Nation Becomes Republic . . . CAIP Leader Lauds African Leaders As Controversy Boils Over Senator’s Criticisms . . . Afri ca Bishops Set Up Continent wide Assembly At Vatican Council. BEST WISHES TO Oh South ern c. rod 6 from MISSIONARY FRANCISCAN SISTERS SAVANNAH Best Wishes To The Southern Cross Saint James Church Savannah