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SAVANNAH, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, JANUARY 19, 1963
Law Dean Sees Federal Aid
To Public Schools Only
As Violation Of Constitution
CHICAGO, (NC) - A Catholic
law school dean argued here
that the Constitution's ban on an
established religion would be
violated by Federal aid to public
schools only.
Father Robert F. Drinan,
S.J., dean of the Boston College
law school, stressed that the
public schools' policy of silence
on religion amounts to “an of
ficial establishment of secular
values.’’
Hence, Father Drinan conclu
ded, “the granting of funds only
to the public school is a viola
tion of the establishment clause
of the Constitution because such
a policy endorses and prefers
one educational and philoso
phical orthodoxy over all
others.’’
“This is the very essence
of the Catholic case’’ for
Federal aid to nonpublic
schools, he said (Jan. 9) in an
address at a symposium on
Church-State problems spon
sored by the University of Chi
cago law school.
V The Jesuit educator empha
sized the “quasi-public” nature
of nonpublic schools but noted
that this fact has yet to be
specifically spelled out in U. S.
public policy or court decisions.
He pointed out that some six
million students—about 12 per
cent of the total U. S. school
enrollment — attend Catholic
schools and commented:
“Any program designed to
elevate the nation’s standards
of educational excellence which
ignores the 12 per cent of the
nation's school children en
rolled in nonpublic schools is
* neglecting in a serious manner
a significant element in the
populations.”
He outlined three “abso
lutes” with regard to religion
and education which he said
have emerged from recent U.S.
i Supreme Court rulings in
Church-State cases:
“1) The benefits of public
welfare legislation may not be
granted or denied to citizens
because of their religious faith
or their lack of it.
“2) If the state, in the pur
Bishop
To Honor
Altar Boys
The third annual Vianney
Awards will be given in Sa
vannah on March 23rd and
24th according to seminary
authorities.
Bishop Thomas J. McDon
ough will present the awards
to the outstanding altar boys
of the diocese in a colorful
ceremony at Saint John’s
Seminary.
The boys to receive this
award will be chosen by their
pastors on the basis of their
faithfulness to the altar and
their general conduct. Boys
from every corner of the dio
cese will travel to Savannah
where they will be guests of
the faculty and student body
of Saint John's Seminary for
a two day program.
Students will arrive in Sa
vannah on Saturday the twen
ty third and will be greeted
by the seminarians. Says the
very Rev. William V. Cole
man, Seminary Rector,
“That evening after a hearty
supper, all will be entertain
ed by a play and movie.”
The following morning an
outdoor Mass celebrated by
Bishop McDonough and the
presentation of the awards
will climax the big event.
All out of town altar boys
will spend the night at the
seminary.
suit of a legitimate public pur
pose, selects means to achieve
this purpose which have an in
cidental effect of assisting re
ligion, such means are not
thereby unconstitutional.
”3) No sectarian teaching or
religious practice may be con
stitutionally permitted on the
premises of a tax-supported
school -- even if student and
teacher participation is on a
truly voluntary basis.”
Referring to the group of rul
ings in which the court in 1961
upheld the constitutionality of
the Sunday sales laws of a num
ber of states, Father Drinan
said these decisions “made it
very clear that the require
ment of separation between
Church and State does not mean
that the State, in carrying out a
legitimate secular purpose,
must do so in a way which
gives no aid to religion.”
He said advocates of Fed
eral aid for Catholic schools
base their case on the principle
* 'that the State, in carrying
out its secular goals in the field
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PROTESTANT-CATHOLIC
DIALOGUE CAN HELP FIGHT
BIAS, RACE MEETING TOLD
(N.C.W.C. NEWS SERVICE)
CHICAGO - Fellowship with Catholics can help Protestants
in the fight for interracial justice, a Protestant church historian
said here at the National Conference on Religion and Race.
Dr. Franklin H. Littell, professor of church history at Chicago
Theological Seminary, said “one of the chief arguments for the
Protestant-Catholic dialogue” is to counteract an American
nativism that “has allied with the white supremacists.”
Asks Study
Include Private
Schools In N.J.
TRENTON, N. J., (NC) -
Gov. Richard J. Hughes said he
plans to appoint an impartial
board to study “all college re
sources, public and private,” in
New Jersey.
The governor disclosed the
plan (Jan. 8) in his annual
message to the Legislature.
Its particular feature was the
inclusion of private colleges
because a recent state-
sponsored study was limited to
public institutions.
Gov. Hughes made only brief
mention of the previous study,
known as the Strayer Report
and undertaken last year for the
state Department of Education.
That report urged the expendi
ture of $27 million for five
years on public higher educa
tion.
The Governor said the study
he proposed would “evaluate the
effectiveness (of public and pri
vate colleges) in imparting qua
lity education to an increasing
number of students.”
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.BUT AUSTERE WITH HIMSELF,
Blessed Vincent Pallotti
Charitable Towards Others
VATICAN CITY, (NC) —
Blessed Vincent Mary Pallotti,
to be canonized January 20, was
a popular Roman priest so
charitable that he often came
home barefoot after giving his
shoes to someone in need.
When Father Pallotti died in
1850, he left a living legacy —
the Society of the Cathode Apos-
tolate which he founded in 1835.
Today, the society, generally
known as the Pallottine Fathers,
has spread throughout the world
and numbers more than 2,200
members.
The new saint’s canonization
was approved at the same No
vember consistory as the three
saints canonized December 9.
But blessed Vincent’s canoni
zation was put off to a later
date because it was believed that
the crowd of Romans wanting
to see one of their own raised
to the altar would swamp the
December 9 ceremonies.
Canonized December 9 were:
Blessed Sacrament Fathers’
founder, St. Peter Julian Ey-
mard; Servite Father St. An
thony Pucci; and Capuchin Bro
ther, St. Francis Mary Croese.
Blessed Vincent was born in
Rome on April 21, 1798 — the
son of a prosperous grocer and
a devout Catholic mother. Even
in his early childhood, he show
ed extreme holiness. His prac
tice of penance was so severe
that his parents were afraid he
was going too far. However,
they were reassured when their
parish priest told them that he
saw exceptional spiritual quali
ties in their boy.
At the age of 16, Vincent de
cided to become a diocesan
priest. He was ordained on
May 16, 1820, at the age of 23.
He offered his first Mass in the
Gesu church in Frascati outside
of Rome. On July 25 of the
same year, he became a doctor
of theology and started to teach
theology in a Rome seminary.
The young priest showed signs
of becoming an outstanding the
ologian. But after teaching for
10 years, he resigned to devote
himself to parish work.
Father Pallotti was a familiar
Descendants
To Attend
Rites
LORETTO, Pa., (NC) - The
upcoming canonization of St.
Vincent Pallotti has special
meaning for three persons in
this area. They are related to
the new saint.
The three — Paul Sterbini
of Cresson, Pa., and his
sisters: Mrs. Paul Melanson of
Loretto and Mrs. Edward Mini
um of Johnstown, Pa., — said
they were planning to fly to
Rome January 18 to attend the
January 20 canonization cere
monies.
figure in the streets of Rome at
all hours of the day and night.
He spent long hours in the con
fessional, long hours in hos
pitals and at sickbeds, com-
BLESSED VINCENT
PALLOTTI
forting the ill and hearing the
confessions of the dying.
A story told of him says
that he once disguised himself
as a woman to visit the sickbed
of a dying man who kept a
loaded pistol under his pillow
to shoot any priest who might
come near.
Father Pallotti also worked
with Rome's tradesmen who
earned barely enough to live on
and worked under poor condi
tions. He helped the men to
organize and set up tradesmen’s
organizations. He started their
meetings with a short religious
service and then discussed with
the men their jobs and their
problems.
Through retreats and short
talks on the importance of their
work, he instilled in them great
er pride in their work. He also
persuaded shop owners to im
prove work conditions.
He started -classes for N tke
workers’ children and set up
a boarding house for orphan
girls who worked in shops and
factories. For children who had
to work, he organized night
schools.
By 1834, Father Vincent had
attracted to himself a number
of priests and laymen who ad
mired his pastoral concern and
wanted to imitate him in his
service to the poor, the sick
and the unfortunate. He look
ed beyond the needs of Rome
and saw that what was needed
was a permanent institution,
composed of priests as well as
laymen of every profession and
trade, to carry on the work of
the Catholic apostolate.
The following year, he re
ceived permission to form the
Society of the Catholic Apso-
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INDEX
HERE AND THERE 6
EDITORIALS 4
YOUTH SCOPE 5
OBITUARIES 5
ORTHODOX MONKS 6
“The Catholic communion is
plainly a universal church,”
he asserted, “and fellowship
with Catholics—which has
gained such great impetus under
the leadership of Pope John
XXIII—can help Protestants to
avoid sinking back into racial
and tribal religion.”
Dr. Littell spoke on the sec
ond day (Jan. 15) of the con
ference, the first national meet
ing to be convened by all major
faith groups in the U. S.
He first assailed the belief
that the early days of this
country, when Protestants were
in the majority, were ‘ ‘the good
old days.”
“Contrary to the reactionary
legend of the nativists,” he
continued, “the generation of
the 'Founding Fathers’ was not
the heyday of religion and sim
ple virtue—from which high
level degenerate sons and
daughters have been steadily
falling away.
“The legend is a white Pro
testant construct, and it is
heart and core of the vicious
assault of the radical right upon
our present national leadership
Declaring that “the old
America of white, rural and
Protestant dominance is dy
ing,” Dr. Littell added; “The
choice before the Protestant
churches is clear: Either they
can accept the logic of a vol
untaristic and pluralistic situa
tion. . .or they can end up as
embittered and negative mino
rities which the course of his
tory has passed by.”
In the sphere of interracial
justice, he said “the type of
Protestantism which has its
chief strength in those areas
most threatened by violence
needs the attention to law and
objective justice which is one
of the strengths of Catho
licism.”
' The large churches of the
Deep South,” he pointed out,
“stand in the tradition of radi
cal Protestantism, which had
a powerful sense of fellowship
within the congregation; for the
affairs of the world, the Old
Testament once sufficed as a
guide to righteousness and jus
tice.”
He stated, however, that
“with the abandonment of pro
phetic teaching. . .the softening
of theology and confession of
faith, the Old Testament too
was scuttled.”
* ‘The style of the community
of grace was generalized,” he
continued, “until at last we have
a society without law and with
no understanding that right is
right though the heavens fall.
“The governor of a Southern
state asks the infantile question:
How can a law be enforced if
we don't like it? As though jus
tice and righteousness in the
social order were conditional
upon the subjective sentiments
of the ill-disciplined and dis
obedient.
“The Old Testament was the
radical Protestant alternative
to the tradition of the natural
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All Graduate
Students
Pass Board
COLUMBUS - The Board of
Examiners of Nurses for Geor
gia has informed Sister Mary
Paula, director of the Saint
Francis School of Nursing that
all the graduate students who
took the State Board Exami
nation in October have passed.
The Class of 1962 was the
first class to graduate from St.
Francis School of Nursing which
opened in 1959.
Students taking the exam
ination were Dianne Dale Shoe
maker and Mary Ann James
Jeffers, West Point, Georgia;
Mabel Danner Heidt, Buford,
N.C.; Kay Kelly Lee, Phenix
City; Sara Ann Rosengraft,
Manchester, Ga.; Susan Mooar,
Patricia Mullane, Ellen Rush
Walton, Susan Updegraff Hersh
and Linda Warner Wichlei, all
of Columbus.
Sees Liturgy
Changes Shortly
After Council
NEWARK, N. J., (NC) -
Changes in the liturgy will go
into effect within a few months
of the closing of the Second Vati
can Council, Archbishop Tho
mas A. Boland of Newark pre
dicted here.
The prelate, who played a
leading role in the American
Hierarchy’s preparation for
council sessions, said that any
modifications made in the lit
urgy will not be “world-shak
ing.”
He strongly doubted the pos
sibility of “universalizing the
liturgy,” noting that* “the' in
dividual bishop has to adapt
his spiritual food to the pas
toral mentality of his flock.”
L’Osservatore Romano, Va
tican City daily newspaper, dis
closed in December that the
council Fathers have approved
use of local languages in the
liturgy and given national and
regional bishops’ conferences
the power to decide on the ver
nacular question. The vote is
subject to’the approval of His
Holiness Pope John XXIII.
Archbishop Boland, who is
marking his tenth year as
head of this archdiocese, was
elected by his fellow U. S. Bi
shops in Rome to be chairman
of 12 study commissions, on the
council.
These commissions, said the
prelate in an interview, pre
sented information to the bi
shops that was designed to be
"helpful, interesting and make
for better understanding of the
matters under consideration at
the council.”
CONFIRMATION FOR FIRST TIME AT HUNTER FIELD - The Most Rev. Thomas J.
McDonough, Bishop of Savannah, (center) visited the Hunter AFB chapel recently to con
firm 21 military dependents. This is the first time that the Sacrament of Confirmation-
has been held at Hunter. Taking part (left to right) were the Rev. E. Perot Fiero,
assistant at St. James Church; Rt. Rev. Msgr. Andrew McDonald, Chancellor of the
Diocese; Bishop McDonough; Rev. George Murtagh, Hunter AFB chaplain; and the Rev
erend Lawrence Lucree, assistant rector at the Cathedral. - (Air Force Photo)
MASS OF THANKSGIVING - Bishop Coleman F. Car-
roll of Miami approaches the large outdoor altar at Flo
rida’s Hialeah Park where he offered a Mass of Thanks
giving at the request of Miami’s Cuban colony. More
than 20,000 exiles crowded the grandstand (in the back
ground were 900 members of Cuban brigade 2506
seated in front rows.) The occasion marked the second
annual rededication of the Cuban exiles to Our Lady of
Cobre, patroness of Cuba. - (NC Photos)
Methodist Bishop
Praises Pope John
ATLANTIC CITY, N. J.,(NC)
- A Methodist bishop charac
terized His Holiness Pope John
XXIII as "the No. 1 public re
lations man for the church in
the world.”
Bishop Fred P. Corson of
Philadelphia, president of the
World Methodist Council,
speaking before the national
board of education of the Metho
dist church, (Jan. 8) in the
Traymore hotel, said: “There
is no doubt in my mind that the
Pope is the No. 1 public re
lations man for the church of
the world. Pope John is the
people’s Pope. He has the com
mon touch.”
“He’s very expressive, just
the kind you love to be with,”
Bishop Corson said as he de
tailed to 300 board members his
October audience with the
Pope.
“Whenever he wanted to say
something to me he would pat
me on the arm. And really, I
had all I could do to keep from
patting him back,” the Bishop
said.
Bishop Corson was one of the
three Methodist observers at
the Second Vatican Council. He
said he told the Pope that he
hoped the council’s atmosphere
of fellowship and exchange of
ideas with Protestants and
others would get down to the
diocesan level. The Pope said he
hoped so too, Bishop Corson
added.
“You have to understand the
personality of the Pope to
understand the ecumenical
council,” Bishop Corson said.
The Pope hopes that one result
of the council will be that it
eventually might lead to a closer
relationship between Catholics
and Protestants, the Bishop de
clared.
In an earlier address (Jan.
7) in Baltimore, Bishop Corson
attributed to Augustin Cardinal
Bea, S.J., “perhaps the most
significant statement I heard in
Rome,” He said the statement
was: “All those validly bap
tized in Christ, whether by a
priest or a minister, are ori
ginally bound to Christ in His
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ELECTED - Father Joseph
Connors, S.V.D., professor of
homiletics at the Society of
the Divine Word seminary,
Techny, Ill., was elected pre
sident of the Catholic Homi
letic Society during the or
ganization’s annual meeting in
Cleveland. He succeeds Msgr.
John J. Cassells of Imma
culate Conception seminary,
Darlington, N. J. Some 75
priests from the U. S. and
Canada attended the society’s
meeting which featured
preaching and teaching of
homiletics in seminaries. -
(NC Photos)
Reports Detail
Vandalism By
Church Looting,
U. N. Troops
BRUSSELS, - New details
have been reported here of the
looting of Church property and
vandalism by United Nations
Ethiopian troops in Katanga
province in the Congo.
Earlier, Archbishop Joseph
Cornelis, O.S.B., of Elizabeth-
ville, capital of Katanga, had
confirmed reports of looting and
violence by the Ethiopians of
the basis of reports he receiv
ed personally during his stay in
Brussels.
(In Katanga, Father Edouard
Kileshie, Vicar General of the
Elisabethville archdiocese,
protested to UN authorities
against "sacrilegious profani
ties” committed by the Ethio
pians “against the Holy Eu
charist.”)
The Ethiopian soldiers were
serving with forces which took
over the Katanga capital in the
UN drive to force that seces
sionist province to recognize
the authority of the Congo’s
central government in Leopold
ville.
Word received here from
missioners and other witnesses
reported that the following inci
dents took place during the
fighting in Elisabethville, which
lasted from December 29 to
January 1.
On December 29 Ethiopian
troops entered the priest’s
house in St. Augustine parish
in the Elisabethville district of
Karavia. They forced the priest
to open whatever was locked,
chased him out of the house,
stole what they wanted and then
drove off in the priest’s truck.
Later that night, St. Benedict
church in the Kenia district was
plundered.
Earlier in the day, Ethiopian
soldiers had entered the hospi
tal in Lubumbashi, the indus-
trail center of the city, and shot
two patients, wounding them
seriously. They also broke into
houses and took whatever they
thought valuable.
On December 31, Ethiopians
looted Our Lady’s church in
Lubumbashi and then a truck-
load of troops entered the Bene
dictine monastery there. They
emptied the linenroom and later
returned to fill another truck
with booty. When the superior
protested to the troops’ com
mander, he replied: “My sol
diers are children; there you
are.”
Meanwhile, other Ethiopians
looted the nearby seminarv.
They stole typewriters and lii
ens and threw whatever they
did not want out of the windows.
On New Year’s Day, Tuni
sian troops threatened a group
of Catholic youths. When stu
dents of St. Boniface’s second-
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PRAY FOR OUR
PRIESTLY DEAD
REV. HENRY SCHLENKE
Jan. 23, 1928
Oh God, Who didst give to
thy servants by their sacredotal
office, a share in the priest
hood of the Apostles, grant,
we implore, that they may
also be one of their company
forever in heaven. Through
Christ Our Lord, Amen.
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