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1 V » 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. Best Wishes To The Southern Cross ********* Strickland’s Superette Savannah Beach 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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