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Theologian Asserts Council Ha^
Opened New Era By Giving
Bishops Feeling Of Oneness
PARIS, (NC) - The Church’s
bishops coming together in the
Second Vatican Council have
realized in the fullness of their
assembly "the solidarity and
world responsibility of the epi
scopate," according to a lead
ing French theologian.
Father Yves Congar, O.P.,
said that through the council:
"The episcopate found itself.
It saw itself. It became aware
of itself."
The Dominical priest, who
served both as a consultor to
the council’s preparatory
theological commission as a
council "expert", said that this
is an "irreversible" thing in
the life of the Church and has
"incalculable importance."
Father Congar, writing on the
council in the fortnightly review
Informations Catholiques Inter
nationales (Jan. 1), said that
the council put an end to "the
trivial image of the bishop in
his bishopric, merely at the
head of a diocese dealing with
day to day problems which are
sometimes paltry.”
What the Council Fathers
have already achieved is the
feeling of being one body. Ac
cording to the theologian. He
called it the "spirit of the
council,” and said it is inclose
harmony with that of His Holi
ness Pope John XXIII.
He continued:
"This is a spirit of freedom
and liberty, free of all servi
lity and of all consideration of
personal interest. It is a spirit
of service to men, freed of any
overlording attitude and expec
tation of privilege. . .It is an
evangelic and apostolic spirit,
a spirit of respect and love for
people, and anxious to uphold
their liberty and their dignity.
It is even a spirit of open
heartedness toward others, re
lieved of any .spirit of theolo
gical or clerical triumph. It is,
moreover, an intense attentive
ness to what God, Who speaks
through these happenings, is
asking of His Church today...”
Solemn Requiem For
Rev, Louis Mulry 9 S J
AUGUSTA - Solem Reguiem
for the Rev. Louis J. Mulry,
S.J., was held Wednesday morn
ing at 10 a.m. at Sacred Heart
Church. Celebrant of the Mass
was Rt. Rev. Msgr. Vincent
de Paul Mulry, brother of the
deceased priest.
Present in the sanctuary was
The Most Rev. Thomas J. Mc-
Bishops To Speak
To Protestant Group
CLEVELAND, (NC) - Cleve
land’s two Auxiliary Bishops
will address Protestant groups
here January 22.
Bishop John F. Whealon will
give a "Report from the Vatican
Council" before an interfaith
group at John Carroll Univer
sity. The meeting is sponsored
jointly by the Leunis Pro
fessional Sodality and the
Cleveland Area Church (Pro
testant) Federation.
Bishop Clarence E. Elwell
will speak on religion in public
education before a meeting of
the Cleveland Ministerial Asso
ciation,
Mrs. Darin
Pinkston Tompkins
ALBANY - Funeral services
for Mrs. Darin Pinkston Tom
pkins were held December 16th
at St. Teresa’s Church.
Survivors include a son, Ed
gar Tompkins, Albany; two sis
ters, Miss Mattie Pinkston, Al
bany; Mrs. J. B. Charles, Tam
pa, Fla.; a brother, J. Ray
Pinkston of Albany; grandson,
Edgar Tompkins, Jr.
Joseph Rau
ALBANY - Funeral services
for Joseph Rau were held at
St. Teresa’s Church January
5th, Father Marvin J. LeFrois
officiating.
Survivors include his wife,
the former Mary Agnes Straub,
of Newport, Ky.; a daughter,
Sister Miriam Theresa, Colum
bia, Pa.; a son, Joseph R.
Rau, Jr., senior at St. John’s
Seminary in Savannah; a sister,
Mrs. L. Eugene Mock, Albany;
and a number of nieces and
nephews.
Horace L. Price
SAVANNAH - Funeral serv
ices for Horace L. Price were
held at Sacred Church, January
2nd.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs
Helen Deegan Price; three dau
ghters, Mrs. Joan Wiegand,
Clearwater, Fla.; Mrs. Mau-
reene Hobbs, College Park and
Miss Patricia Price, Savannah;
son, James W. Price, Savan
nah Beach; a sister, Mrs. Mil
dred Parker, Cherry Point,
N. C.; four grandchildren; an
uncle and an aunt.
Mrs. Margaret Potter
SAVANNAH - Funeral serv
ices for Mrs. Margaret Zaleski
Potter were held January 7th
at the Blessed, Sacrament
Church.
She is survived by three
daughters, Mrs. James L. Cog
gins» Savannah; Mrs. Karol
Smith, Riverdale, N. J.; Mrs
Thomas McCool, Orlando, Fla.
a son, William S. Potter, Col
umbus; three sisters, Mrs
Mary Simmons, Mrs. Rose
Beaudry and Mrs. Ann Leary,
all of Holyoke, Mass.; 15grand
children and one great-grand
child.
Donough, D.D. J.C.C., Bishop
of Savannah. Bishop McDonough
imparted the absolution.
Resident chaplain at St. Jo
seph’s Hospital since 1953, Fa
ther Mulry was a native of New
York. Father was born Feb.
6, 1892. He was one of 13
children; nine boys and four
girls.
He was the son of Maurice
Mulry and Mary Elizabeth Gal
lagher. In his early days he at
tended St. Joseph’s Academy
and Zavier High School in New
York.
His father was president of
the Immigrants Industrial Sav
ings Bank, and also headed the
Superior Council of the Society
of St. Vincent de Paul. He had
such an influence on his large
family that three of his sons be
came priests and one of the
girls entered a convent. He be
came a legend throughout the
nation as a friend of the poor.
Fr. Mulry began his eccles
iastical studies in 1908 at St.
Stanislaus College in Macon,
da. He was 16 years old at the
time, and was ordained priest
on June 28, 1923. He took his
A.B. and M. A. degrees at Wood-
stock College, Maryland.
He served the Catholic
Church in a number of assign
ments including athletic di
rector at Loyola University of
New Orleans, student counselor
and president of Jesuit High
School in New Orleans, and
student counselor at Spring
Hill College in Mobile, Ala
Fr. Mulry was pastor of Im
maculate Conception Church in
New Orleans from 1941-50; and
pastor of Sacred Heart Church
of Tampa, Fla., from 1950-53.
Since then he had been resi
dent chaplain at St. Joseph’s
and celebrated his 50th anniver
sary as a member of the Jesuit
Order in 1958.
BACKS BUS RIDES - Three
selected frames from a film
strip entitled "Freeway to
Education" illustrate the sto
ry of a Catholic family denied
school bus transportation de
spite the fact that the parents
pay taxes like other citizens.
The filmstrip was produced
by the Catechetical Guild Ed
ucational Society in St. Paul,
Minn., and depicts the plight
of parochail school children
in 32 states who are not allow
ed to ride on tax supported
school buses. - (NC Photos)
COUNCIL STAMP
MADRID, (NC) - A new one
peseta postage stamp conmem
orating the ecumenical council
has gone on sale in Spain
Anti-Christian Campaign
Continues In The Sudan
The Southern Cross, January 12, 1963—PAGE 3
NAIROBI, Kenya, — Four
missionary priests expelled
from the Sudan have reached
here with reports of continuing
anti-Christian persecution in
that neighboring African nation.
Fathers E. Sloan, E. Dowds,
P. Kok and A. Myer--all mem
bers of the Mill Hill Fathers—
were met on their arrival in
Nairobi by Archbishop Guido
Del Mestri, Apostolic Delegate
to East Africa.
They reported that a fifth
missioner, Father Hurst, also
of the Mill Hill Fathers, has
received an expulsion notice.
Earlier, they said, Father Hurst
had been confined to his mission
for three months for driving a
man 40 miles to the hospital
in his car.
The four priests said that
since the Sudan’s Moslem-dom
inated government stepped
up its campaign against the
Church about two months age,
36 priests and 19 sisters and
brothers have been ousted.
They reported that two mis
sions in the Malakal Apostolic
prefecture have had to be clo
sed for lack of priests. Only
seven priests remain to mini
ster to the prefecture’s 6,500
Catholics, they said. They add
ed that eight American Presby
terian missionaries had also
been ousted from Malakal.
The aim of the Sudanese gov
ernment’s antimissionary ef
forts is to make the southern
part of that country a Moslem
area li|te the north. The gov
ernment is controlled by Mos
lems from the Arabic-speaking
north, which has about two-
thirds of the country’s approx
imately 12 million people. The
south, peopled mainly by pagan
Negro and Nilotic tribes, has
about 600,000 Christians, more
than half of whom are Catho
lics.
The anti-Christian campaign
in the south was launched short
ly after the Sudan won its inde
pendence in 1956. A year later
all mission schools in the south
were nationalized. Mission
aries were expelled and no new
ones were allowed to enter the
country to take their place. In
1962 the Missionary Societies
Act was decreed, placing se
vere restrictions on mission
activity, including a provision
that no person under the age
of 18 may be baptized, even
with his parents’ consent. The
intensified drive against the
missions came as the new law
went into effect late last year.
The four Mill Hill Fathers
said on their arrival here that
they had received six weeks’
notice of their expulsion. The
Of
Pope Speaks
Devotion
To Holy Name
(Radio, N.C.W.C. NEWS
SERVICE)
VATICAN CITY, (NC) - His
Holiness Pope John XXIII spoke
to the 2,000 persons at his first
general audience of 1963 of his
devotion to the "most beauti
ful and sweet" Name of Jesus.
Pope John also said he hopes
that St. Bernardino of Siena,
15th century Franciscan apostle
of that devotion, can soon be
named a Doctor of the Church
Looking vigorous and full of
life, the Pope spoke (Jan. 2)
for almost half an hour at the
audience in the Vatican’s Cle
mentine Hall and said of the New
Year; "Let us hope that we can
travel well through this year
that is starting. It is long. It
consists of 365 days. But the
grace of God helps us all."
Among those present were
U. S. Ambassador to Ghana
William Mahoney and his family
U. S. Ambassador to Panama
Joseph S. Farland, and New
York Sen. Jacob K. Javits and
his wife.
Pope John said in his talk
that he hopes to have the Name
of the Saviour on his lips when
he dies.
India Bishop
Operates
Button Factory
CLEVELAND, (NC) - A bi
shop from India disclosed here
that he has an unusual weapon
for fighting social evils--abut
ton factory, supervised by nuns
Bishop Anthony Padiyara of
Ootacamund in south India, said
99.9 per cent of 38,000 Catho
lics in his 3,000-square mile
diocese belong to the lowest of
India’s castes.
Without the factory, which
employs 50 Christian girls
many of the girls would have
to work for rich, non-Christian
families who do not value chas
tity very highly, he said.
"Before independence, Bri
tish families living in the region
cared for many of the .low caste
Harijans," the Bishop con
tinued. "One British family
might employ three or four In
dian families. The problem was
created when the British left.
The Harijans were left without
homes or a place to stay."
letter, informing them of their
ouster, they reported, stated
that they had to leave the coun
try "for the fulfillment of the
object for which you were al
lowed to enter the Sudan."They
added that they had been unable
to obtain an official explanation
of that statement.
Among the incidents in
the anti-Church campaign re
ported by the ousted missioners
was the case of a priest jail
ed for two days for baptizing
"illegally".
Another priest, they said,
was fined for driving his motor
bike across a mission school-
yard. Because the mission
schools have been nationa
lized, the priest was convicted
of "trespassing".
A third priest, they report
ed, was fined for "interfering"
with a government official when
he told children to play else
where after their Moslem re
ligious instructor—not an of
ficial government teacher—had
sent them to play on the grounds
of the mission school.
Writer Says Tax Support
Of Church-Related Schools
Does Not Abuse Constitution
NOTRE DAME, Ind., (NC) -
A University of Notre Dame fac
ulty member maintains that
government support of church-
related schools does not violate
the principle of separation of
Church and State "since the
state acts for the family, not
only for the Church, and does
not itself espouse any religious
doctrine."
Herbert L. Johnston, asso
ciate professor of philosophy at
Notre Dame University, con
tends that "to refuse this help
is to deny to the parents who
wish it the public assistance in
education to which they have a
right as citizens."
Johnston expresses his views
in a new book, "A Philosophy
of Education." Designed for use
at either the graduate or under
graduate level, the book is the
latest in "Catholic Series in
Education” published by Mc
Graw-Hill, New York. - —
“Parents have the primary
obligation to educate their chil
dren and hence the primary
right to choose the means of
doing so.” Johnston insists.
"The state, like the Church, is
in the field of school education
primarily to help the family and
is the educational agent of the
family. Parents who wish in
struction in sacred doctrine for
their children should have the
help of the state in this as in
other forms of education."
While the family is the first
educating agency and while it
has educational rights that no
other agency has given it or may
take away, its rights are not
unlimited, Johnson observes.
Parents have a right to educate
their children, "not to fail to do
so, and to educate them in truth
and goodness, not in false
hood and vice,” he writes.
"This is why," Johnston con
tinues, "the state quite reason
able imposes a minimum
school-leaving age, insists that
certain intellectual standards
be met in the schools, and, in
extreme causes, takes children
away from parents who are ser-
ously neglecting their upbring
ing. This is why the Church
quite reasonable insists that
parents use every available
means for their children’s ed
ucation in religious doctrine
and practice, though her sanc
tions are of a different charac
ter from those of the state.
The Notre Dame philosopher
claims that the state has the
duty to maintain, "on the same
basis on which it maintains pub
lic schools for those who wish
them, religiously affiliated
schools for those who wish
CARE FOR REFUGEES
MIAMI, Fla., (NC) - Spanish
speaking Catholics in the Dio
cese of Miami, who include
some 80,000 Cuban refugees,
are cared for spiritually by 75
priests, 32 nuns, 22 Brothers
and four laymen.
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them."
He answers the standard ob
jection that church - related
schools are divisive and un
democratic. They are certainly
divisive, but so also are exist
ing differences in color, ethnic
origin, in political affiliations,
in economic interests, in so
cial standing and in a hundred
other things," he writes.
REV. OSCAR BURNETT, O.S.B. is pictured giving his first blessing on the occasion
of his first Solemn Mass December 25, 1962 at Sacred Heart Church, Savannah. He is
assisted by the Very Rev. Bede Lightner, O.S.B., Prior of Sacred Heart Priory, Savan
nah. Father Burnett was ordained on December 23rd for the Monastery of Our Lady, Help
of Christians, Belmont, N. C. - (Caroll Burke Photo)
OPENS CUBAN BRIGADE REVIEW - Father Ismael de
Lugo, O.F.M., Cap., gives the invocation in Miami’sOrange
Bowl prior to President Kennedy's review of the Cuban
"Bay of Pigs" brigade recently rescued from Castro jails.
At right is Manuel Artime, civil leader of the brigade that
failed in its attempt to invade Cuba two years ago. - (NC
Photos)
Invasion Brigade Chaplain
Urges Thousands Of Refugees
To Pray For Freedom In Cuba
HIALEAH, Fla., (NC) - A-
priest imprisoned for 20 months
by the Castro regime urged
thousands of Cuban refugees
here to pray to the Blessed
Mother to deliver Cuba from
communist control.
Father Ismael de Lugo,
O.F.M. Cap., one of four priests
who served as chaplains with
the Bay of Pigs invasion bri
gade in April, 1961, said the
Blessed Virgin "will not aband
on the country of which she is
heavenly patroness."
The Capuchin priest preach
ed at a Pontifical Mass offered
(Jan. 6) at the Hialeah race
track by Bishop Coleman F.
Carroll of Miami. A statue of
the Blessed Mother under the
title of Our Lady of Cobre,
smuggled out of Cuba about a
year ago, stood in a place of
honor near the outdoor altar
erected at the track.
The Mass was requested by
the Cuban refugees in thanks
giving for blessings received,
including the recent reunion
of the invasion brigade prison
ers with their families.
Father Lugo told the refu
gees that in asking the Blessed
Virgin to protect them they
"must cooperate with a Chris
tian, moral and worthy life to
merit that protection."
"It is fair that you implore
her assistance," he stated,
"that you present your sor
rows to her, that you pray she
grant you peace and liberty, and
that you will be able to live in
a free, Christian and democra
tic Cuba.
"But do not collaborate with
disunion, do not live in exile
as a pagan and do not forget
that as you grieve for those
who are suffering communist
tyranny, it is not proper to lead
a frivolous life."
Father Lugo urged the refu
gees to request—"with the
same faith with which we mem
bers of the brigade requested
our liberty in prison”—that
the Blessed Virgin "intercede
with her Divine Son and grant
us the liberty of Cuba."
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