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1 Vol. 43, No. 18 10c Per Copy — $3 A Year 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 (Continued on Page 6) 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.” (Continued on Page 2) .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- (Continued on Page 6) 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 (Continued on Page 2) 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 (Continued on Page 2) 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- continued on Page 2) 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. MAILING ADDRESS