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Chatham County Ministers
To Hear Bishop McDonough
SAVANNAH - The Most Rev.
Thomas J. McDonough, Bishop
of Savannah will address Savan
nah area ministers at the Feb
ruary meeting of the Chatham
County Ministerial Association
on “The Ecumenical Council.”
His talk is in response to
an invitation issued through the
Rev. Francis X. Walter, vicar
of Holy Apostles Episcopal
Church in Savannah, and Pres
ident of the Ministerial As
sociation’s observance of
Brotherhood Month.
Through the Hunter Air Force
Base Chaplains, an invitation
to the luncheon and meeting has
been extended to another local
clergy organization, the Sa
vannah Protestant Ministerial
Association. The Rev. Curtis
E. Derrick, pastor of the Lu
theran Church of the Ascension
in Savannah is president of the
latter organization.
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SAVANNAH
SAVANNAH, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, JANUARY
Bishop McDonough Speaker
Savannah Deanery Luncheon
Attracts Large Crowd
Charge Leveled At Top U. S. Education Experts
American College System
Is Hampering Education
SAINT SIMONS ISLAND -
A large and enthusiastic crowd
gathered (Jan. 13) to hear Bish
op Thomas J. McDonough .give
a first-hand account of his ex
periences at the Second Vati
can Council. His Excellency
was the featured speaker at the
mid-winter meeting of the Sa
vannah Deanery Council of
Catholic Women.
More than two hundred at
tended the luncheon, which fol
lowed a Dialogue Mass cele
brated by the Bishop at St.
William’s Church.
His Excellency told of the
Help Stamp
Out Smut
CHICAGO, (NC) — Here’s
what a priest and two boys
have done in a war against ob
scenity.
Two men were arrested and
500 copies of 36 allegedly ob
scene magazines were seized
in a raid on a cigar store, made
possible by cooperation of the
priest and two of his high school
pupils.
Charges of selling obscene
literature were placed against
Irvin Graf, 53, owner of the
store, and his clerk, Peter
Peterson, 66. An earlier charge
of violating an anti-obscenity
law, entered against Graf last
May and continued 16 times,
still is pending.
The two pupils of Father
Francis Lawlor at St. Rita High
School obtained photos through
use of a hidden camera of the
magazine display in the store
during Christmas vacation, po
lice said. The photos were used
in obtaining a warrant for the
raid from Judge Daniel Ryan in
Jury Court. Father Lawlor,said
the photos were taken after
the store was discovered to have
supplied smutty magazines to
other pupils.
Bond for Graf and Peterson
was set at $1,000 each for ap
pearance in Rackets Court.
beauty of the opening Mass of
the Council and of “the Pope’s
kindness to everyone and his
desire to unite all Christen
dom.” The Bishop also de
scribed possible changes in the
Liturgy and some of the ses
sions attended and speeches
given at the gathering of the
world’s Bishops.
Following his address, Bish
op McDonough visited each table
and greeted all in attendance
personally.
Monsignor John D. Toomey,
Spiritual Moderator of the Dio
cesan Council, expressed his
delight at the success of the
meeting, pointing out that “it
is one of the largest ever held
in this Diocese.” He also em
phasized the service rendered
area Catholics by the Deanery
Washington.”
Mrs. Joseph J. Dembowski,
Diocesan president, reported on
her attendance at the National
Convention. “I am sure that all
returned home inspired to work
on the community level in an
Apostolic manner to make the
NCCW an essential part of the
family, parish and Diocesan
life,” she told the gathering.
Mrs. Eugene J. Fitzpatrick,
Deanery president, presided at
the meeting at which Miss Mary
Parker of Brunswick gave the
address of welcome with the
response being given by Mrs.
J. Edwin Mulligan, Past Presi
dent of the Diocesan Council,
of Savannah.
Special guests introduced by
Mrs. Fitzpatrick were: Rt. Rev.
Msgr. Andtew J. McDonald,
AT SAVANNAH DEANERY MEETING - Left to right
Mrs. Julia Boatwright, Province Director, Mrs. Joseph
Dembowski, Diocesan President, Mrs. Cecelia Fitzpatrick,
RT. REV. MSGR. O’NEIL
C. D’AMOUR
“OPEN HOUSE”
TO HEAP
NCEA OFFICIALI
AUGUSTA - The Right Reve
rend Monsignor O’Neil C.
D’Amour, Associate Secretary,
Department of School Superin
tendents of the National Catholic
Educational Association will
address a public meeting a St.
Mary’s on-the-Hill School, Au
gusta, Tuesday, Jan. 29 at 8 P.M.
Monsignor D’Amour’s talk,
“Freedom and Education in
America” will highlight a pro
gram sponsored by the Augusta
Deanery Council of Catholic
Women.
According to Monsignor Dan
iel J. Bourke, St. Mary’s pastor
and Council moderator, invita
tions have been sent to civic
officials and the meeting will
be open to the general pub
lic.
Monsignor D’Amour, a native
of Rapid River, Michigan has
been associate secretary of the
NCEA since 1957, after serv
ing, first as assistant super
intendent and then superinten
dent of Catholic schools in the
Diocese of Marquette, Wiscon
sin from 1950.
An alumnus of the Theologi
cal College of the Catholic Uni
versity of America, Monsignor
D’Amour was ordained for the
Diocese of Marquette on
December 7th, 1943 and serv
ed as a parish curate for five
years before being appointed to
his school posts.
He is also a graduate of St
Norbert’s College in West De
Pere, Wisconsin, where he took
his Bachelor’s degree. He
earned his Master’s degree
from the Graduate »Sch*;ol of
Arts and Sciences of the Catho
lic University of America, and
last year was awarded an hon
orary Doctor of Laws degree
by St. Norbert’s.
Monsignor D'Amour’s talk is
part of an “Open House” pro
gram to acquaint the public with
the aims, curriculum and phy
sical facilities of St. Mary’s
school.
I’hose attending will be
welcomed by the school faculty,
who will show them through the
school and answer questions.
Mrs. Alexander B. Barrett,
Deanery Chairman for Family
and Parent Education heads the
arrangements committee and
hospitality and entertainment
are under the direction of Mrs
Graham F. Deriso. Miss Pau
line Peuffier, Deanery Council
President,, will preside.
Savannah Deanery President
Augusta Deanery President.
Council in sponsoring such a
gathering at which Catholics
could hear a report on the Vati
can Council from their Bishop.
He closed his remarks by urg
ing everyone present to attend
the Diocesan Convention in Col
umbus May 11th and 12th.
Mrs. Norman I. Boatwright,
member of the National Board
of Directors was present at the
luncheon and said that she was
"enthusiastically looking for
ward to attending (week of Jan.
21) her first Board meeting in
and Miss Pauline Peuffier,
Chancellor of the Diocese; Rev.
Timothy Flaherty, O.S.B., Sa
cred Heart Church, Savannah;
Rev. Edward Kelly, S.M., Way-
cross; Rev. Paul Burkort, S.
M., St. Francis Xavier, Bruns
wick; Rev. Andrew Walls, S.M
Brunswick; Rev. Matthew Fas-
chan, S.M., Brunswick; Mrs.
Norman I. Boatwright, National
Director NCCW; Mrs. Joseph
Dembowski, president DCCW;
Mrs. Pauline Peuffier, Presi
dent, Augusta Deanery Coun
cil.
Council Work Goes On
Interim Commission
Has First Meeting
VATICAN CITY, (Radio, NC)
- The coordinating commission
set up by His Holiness Pope
John XXIII to keep the ecumen
ical council’s interim work
running smoothly and produc
tively has held its first meeting.
The meeting (Jan. 21) marked
the beginning of the interim
work of revising and compres
sing projects to be brought be-
for the council when it recon
venes September 8.
A communique of the coun
cil press office said with this
meeting "the counciliar work,
which took a moment of rest for
the national holidays, picks up
its full rhythm again, although
in a method and form different
from the period of October-De-
cember, 1962.”
Decisions taken by the meet
ing will be communicated to the
10 council commissioners and
the Secretariat for Promoting
Christian Unity which are
carrying on their work during
the nine month interim, it was
reported.
Announcement of the co
ordinating commission’s crea
tion was made December 6,
two days before the council’s
first session closed.
Francis Cardinal Spellman,
Archbishop of New York,
is among the six Cardin
als forming the commission
under the presidency of
Amleto Cardinal Cicognani Sec
retary of State. The com
mission’s secretariat is made
up of the council’s secretary
general, Archbishop Pericle
Felici, and the five council un
dersecretaries, one of whom
is Archbishop John J. Krol of
Philadelphia.
Interfaith Day Proposed
WASHINGTON, (NC) - Rep
Leonard Farbstein of New York
has introduced a resolution to
designate the fourth Sunday in
September each year as "In
terfaith Day” and to authorize
the President to issue an an
nual proclamation calling on
the nation to observe the day
by appropriate ceremonies. The
measure (H.j.^ Res. 121) was
referred to the House Judici
ary Committee.
PRAY FOR OUR
PRIESTLY DEAD
RT. REV. MSGR. JAMES A.
KANE
January 29, 1939
Oh God, Who didst give to
thy servants by their sacredotaf
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.
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. - The
president of St. Louis Univer
sity chided some of the nation's
top education experts for stick
ing blindly to an educational
system which, by ignoring God,
seriously limits what students
can learn.
Father Paul C. Reinert, S. J.,
made his charge (Jan. 16) in a
policy statement on the place of
religion in education, before
some 800 delegates at the As
sociation of American Colleges’
49th annual meeting here. The
Association represents some
800 universities and colleges,
including church - related
schools.
Father Reinert entitled his
views "The Theistic Position in
the Search for Truth.” His re
marks were couched carefully
in terminology used by secular
ists in education. He said many
educators are seeking to limit
man’s knowledge, rather than
add to it. They are doing this,
he said, by following in the
footsteps of the 17th century
French philosopher-mathema
tician Rene Descartes.
Father Reinert said everyone
agrees universities exist to
communicate and advance the
truth. But followers of Descar
tes are trying to limit what can
be taught in colleges solely to
scientific facts - “observable
evidence” which is the most
prevelant method in use today
the Jesuit educator said.
Such an attitude seriously lim
its a man’-s ability to learn,
Father Reinert said, because it
limits his manner of knowing.
By contrast to such limitations,
the Christian scholar actually
can add to man’s knowledge of
truth, Father Reinert said.
“Christian theism adds anew
manner of knowing in which man
knows on the basis of authority
alone,” he said. "But much
more is really true, because
in the knowledge of God man
is immeasurably broadened in
himself. He comes to know
through the Judaeo-Christian
revelation the greatness inher
ent in being a man, precisely
because through that revelation
hi* knows the greatness of his
ultimate destiny.”
The priest told the delegates
that every advance in know
ledge was of value and signifi
cance to Christian humanism.
"Each advance in knowledge
whether scientific, technolo-
tical aesthetic, philosophical,
economic, represents both an
actualization of man’s poten
tiality and a broadening of the
vision of his destiny,” he ex
plained.
The Jesuit issued a warning
against educators who would
be dogmatic in their attitudes
by limiting education solely to
factual evidence.
“The constantly increasing
complexity of knowledge brings
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MEET AT RELIGION, RACE CONFERENCE - Albert Cardinal Meyer (second from
right), Archbishop of Chicago, greets representatives of the three major faiths during
the National Conference of Religion and Race held in Chicago. Cardinal Meyer, one
of the hosts for the conference, delivered a major speech to the conference assembly.
Shown with the Cardinal are: (from left to right) Archbishop William E. Cousins of
Milwaukee, episcopal chairman of the Social Action Department, NCWC; J.
Irwin Miller, president of the National Council of Churches; and Rabbi Julius Mark,
president of the Synagogue Council of America. - (NC Photos)
Salutes Slain Togo Leader
“Rest In Peace And
Adieu ? Dear Friend
Cardinal
Godfrey
Succumbs
WESTMINISTER, England—
(NC) -William Cardinal God
frey, Archbishop of Westmini
ster, died here (J an. 22) follow
ing a heart attack. He was 73.
Death of the head of Bri
tain's senior Catholic Arch
bishopric reduces the number
of Cardinals to 84.
Cardinal Godfrey entered the
hospital a fortnight ago with
an undisclosed illness. Later
he left the hospital and re
turned to his residence. He
suffered a slight heart attack
on January 19th and received
the last rites.
His condition was reported
slightly improved at first, but
took a turn for the worse prior
to his death.
Cardinal Godfrey was named
Archbishop of Westminister,
successor to the last Catholic
Archbishop of Canterbury,
December of 1956. Two years
later, Pope John named him a
Cardinal.
A native of Liverpool, Car
dinal Godfrey was ordained in
1916. Following a career as a
seminary professor in England
and Rome, he was named the
first Apostolic Delegate to
Great Britain in 1938.
In November of 1953, Pope
Pius XII appointed him Arch
bishop of Liverpool, the post
he held when he was named
Archbishop of Westminister.
Parents To
Be Honored
The third annual Vianney A1
tar Boy Awards will take on
a new dimension this year with
a program for parents of the
boys who receive the awards.
On the twenty third and twen
ty fourth of March Bishop Mc
Donough will present awards to
the outstanding altar boys of
the diocese at Saint John’s
Seminary in Savannah. Invita
tions to the two day program
will be sent not only to the boys
themselves but also to their
parents.
A special program has been
planned for the parents and will
be held at the seminary. It
will consist of a buffet supper
Saturday night followed by talks
by Bishop McDonough and Fa
ther Coleman, the rector of the
seminary, and a slide program
presented by the local Serra
Club.
Parents will be present the
following morning at an out
door Mass celebrated by Bish
op McDonough at the seminary
when their sons will receive the
annual Vianney Award.
Bishop McDonough said," We
have long realized that in honor
ing our outstanding altar boys
we are in reality honoring the
mothers and fathers who have
been the inspiration to these
youngsters.
“Without the example and the
deep faith of their parents few
boys would be worthy of the
title, ‘Outstanding Altar Boy’.
This year we hope to do honor
to the boys and their parents
who together make a team whose
faith is the real moving force
of the diocese.”
' TOTONOU, Dahomay, (NC)
—Sylvanus Olympio, President
of Togo, who was assassinated
in his capital of Lome (Jan.13)
was buried near the Togo bor
der following a Catholic funeral
attended by the heads of the
Hierarchies of Togo and Da
homey and the whole Cabinet
of Dahomey.
Archbishop Robert Dosseh of
Lome gave the main eulogy at
the (Jan. 15) rites, which con
cluded with burial in the big
Dahomeyan cemetery in the
frontier town of Agoue.
Those present included Arch
bishop Bemardin Gantin of
Cotonou, President Hubert
Maga of Dahomey and his Cab
inet, and Savi de Tove, Speak
er of the Togolese National
Assembly.
Prior to the burial, Presi
dent Maga told the congrega
tion of about 2,000:
"After the touching words
spoken by Monsignor the Arch
bishop of Togo, it would not
be fitting for me to tear your
hearts any further. I have come
merely to bow down before this
tomb in the name of the people of
Dahomey and the other Afri
can heads of state and also
to express my sympathy with
the Olympio family. Rest in
peace and adieu, my dear
friend.”
(In Lome afterwards, the
military junta which assassi
nated Olympio and overthrew
his government issued a state
ment saying in part that “its
actions were inspired by no
philosophic or religious ideo
logies.” The statement, issued
(Jan. 18) in the junta’s name
by its first secretary, Lt. Koffi
Kongo, said thai the junta was
withdrawing from active poli
tics “but just the same will
have the right to observe gen
eral business.”
(Three days earlier, Kongo
issued a statement saying that
the Prime Minister-designate,
Nicolas Grunitsky, had been
consulting national leaders
prior to forming a new govern
ment. It said that "Mr. Grun
itsky did not fail to contact
the religious leaders of Togo,
beginning with Monsignor Dos
seh, Archbishop of Lome.”
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Khrushchev Replaces Mary
Dominican Academy
Now Cuban A rsenal
MIAMI, (NC) - The American
Dominican Academy, Havana, is
being used as an arsenal, ac
cording to a letter secretly sent
to a Dominican nun here by a
former pupil.
The pupil, a former school
teacher who writes of being
unable to get shoes and standing
in line for poor quality food,
said that the interior of the
school is "crowded with wea
pons.”
The young woman, whose
identity was withheld, also said
that during May the communists
removed a life-sized statue of
Our Lady of Fatima from an
outdoor niche at the school.
"Khrushchev’s bust was put
in her place,” she wrote, "but
now he is gone too.”
The former pupil of the Do
minican Sisters of St. Catherine
de Ricci wrote that she is out
of work because she quit her
teaching job a year and a half
ago.
“This has made me lose a
new pair of shoes as they will
only be given to students and
workers through schools and
unions. The rest of the persons
are considered parasites and
worms with no right to wear
shoes. I am one or the other
or both,” she said.
She wrote that she sees many
mutual friends of herself and
the nun to whom she wrote the
letter, most of them standing
in the lines for food.
"Believe it or not, we are
getting fat because if you don't
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10 Target
Cities In
Project
CHICAGO, (NC) - Local un
its to back recommendations
made by the National Confer
ence on Religion and Race will
be set up in 10 "target cities,”
according to a report of the
conference’s follow-up com
mittee.
The units will be organized
across interfaith lines to deal
with problems of racial injus
tice, A. Harold Murray of New
York, a member of the com
mittee, reported to 650 dele
gates on the final day (Jan.
17) of the conference. Mur
ray is community affairs direc
tor of field services for the
American Jewish Committee.
He said the target cities are
Chicago, Detroit, St. Louis,
Seattle, San Francisco, New
Orleans, Atlanta, Pittsburgh,
San Antonio and Oakland, Calif.
He stated that New York,
Boston and Washington, D.C.,
will be included in a later pro
ject, and added that New York
was not chosen immediately be
cause it has "special complex
race problems” that would not
suit a pilot project.
Murray said it is hoped that
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INDEX
HERE AND THERE 6
EDITORIALS 4
JOTTINGS 5
OBITUARIES 5
CHURCH AND POLITICS 6
CONFIRMATION - The Most Reverend Thomas J. Mc
Donough administers the Sacrament of Confirmation to Mr.
Albert Merritt, custodian of the Savannah Chancery, at
Mr. Merritt’s home. Employed at the Chancery
for the past seven years, Mr. Merritt was felled
by a serious illness recently, and has been con
fined to bed. Priest at right is Rev. William V. Coleman
Rector of St. John Vianney Seminary.
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