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Archbishop Says CaunciTs
First Session Not Fruitful
But i Got Show On The Road
WINNIPEG, Man., (NC)—The
first session of the Second Vat
ican Council does not seem
fruitful in practical results but
emphasizes that the Church is
“very much alive as an organ
ic body,” Archbishop George
C. Flahiff, C.S.B., of Winni
peg, said here.
The prelate said the new look
of the Church is in contrast
with the juridical concept
which has been prevailing since
the Council of Trent, 1545 to
1563. He told a Serra Club
dinner “this created a great
Catholic Women
Will Hold Race
Conference
WASHINGTON, (NC)—A min
iature version of the successful
Conference on Religion and
Race held in Chicago in January
will be featured in the National
Council of Catholic Women’s
leadership training institutes
this year.
Mrs. Joseph McCarthy,
NCCW president, said final
plans are being drafted for the
series of six, three-day insti
tutes, theme of which will be
“Challenges: 1963”.
The instututes will be held in
Hershey, Pa., March 23 to 25;
French Lick, Ind., March 29 to
31; Miami, Fla., April 4 to 6;
Highland Park, Ill., September
12 to 14; Lincoln, Neb., Sep
tember 18 to 20, and Oakland,
Calif., September 26 to 28.
Based on the Chicago con
ference proceedings, the second
day program of each institute
will be titled''Challenge of Jus
tice and Love.” The main topic
of discussion will be the chal
lenge of race relations in such
fields as education, employ
ment and housing. Several Chi
cago leaders and participants
have been invited to join in the
session, Mrs. McCarthy said.
Held biannually since 1951,
the NCCW leadership training
institutes are open to leaders
of Catholic organizations. Eli
gible are officers and com
mittee chairmen of national,
diocesan, deanery, and parish
organizations, and officer s-
elect of these groups.
impression on the council ob
servers.”
“The Catholic Church is not
a monolity, but the living Body
of Christ, healthy, perhaps
more so than at other periods
of historv, but truly a living and
growing organism,” Arch
bishop Flahiff said.
But Catholics may have a
great deal to learn from the
Protestant churches, which
have preserved freedom of
speech and liberty of action,
the prelate declared.
The principal accomplish
ment at the council’s first ses
sion was to “get the show on
the road,” the Archbishop said,
and to work out an effective but
not too cumbersome procedure
which would respect the right
of expression for the 2,600
bishops in attendance.
He reviewed briefly the five
major topics discussed at the
first session—liturgy, Revela
tion, the apostolate of the com
munications media, unity with
the Eastern Orthodox Church
and the nature of the Church.
“From the Oriental com
munion,” he said, “we have
gained a fuller sense of the
mystical experience of pray
er as a means of union with
God. “It was also most im
pressive to meet the bishops
from the emerging nations of
Asia and Africa.
“The first session of the
cobrfqjl manifested clearly that
the Latin Church is not the
whole Church, nor is the West
ern Church and its ritual the
only one the counts,” he said.
“Contact with all the bish
ops of the world,” he contin
ued, “gave us a seiifee of the
corporate responsibility of the
body of bishops to the Church
for the whole world and in
stilled in us a sympathetic un
derstanding of the problems
met by the Church in other
countries of the world.”
Archbishop Flahiff stressed
the role of the observers at
the council who were given the
privilege of looking at the
Church’s action ?in present day
society, to realize that the coun
cil had not been convoked to
define new dogmas but rather
to e^amipe the conscience of
the Church in the light of her
divine mission.
House Will Hear
More On Schools
WASHINGTON, (NC) — The
House Education Committee
will divide into three subcom
mittees for hearing on Presi
dent Kennedy’s omnibus bill for
aid to education.
The decision reportedly was
made in a closer meeting of
the committee (Feb. 28) in or
der to get more detailed tes
timony on each of the 24 pro
grams in the President’s big
proposal.
The action confirms an infor
mal understanding with wit
nesses who already have testi
fied, most of whom told the
committee they expected to re
turn with more specific analy
ses.
The past three weeks of hear
ings were designed chiefly to
receive opinion on whether the
bill should be kept in its pres
ent form or separated into sev
eral measures.,,It will be kept
INDIA: HARVEST IN MARCH
THE FLOODED RICE FIELDS of southern India have been
drained. The tall-standing heads with their close-packed seeds
- ♦ /v are gathered in . . . After threshing,
the S ra ^ ns » still encased in their
. brown hulls, are called paddy. Each
year at this time the nineteen sister*
from ST. JOSEPH’S HOME FOR THE.
ABANDONED appear for the harvest
at ARPPOOKKARA, in the diocese
of CHANGANACHERRY . . . They
come to beg paddy for some 150
orphans, aged, handicapped and ill
under their care. Whatever they re
ceive now must last for the whole
year! . . . SISTER CARMELA tells us
sadly that many who seek admittance
at ST. JOSEPH’S must be turned away. She cannot meet mount
ing debts and lack of space makes the work doubly hard . . .
The Sisters have only one room for themselves; another small
corner for a chapel. They need a real chapel, a house for the
Sisters, as well as an infirmary where those coming in with
contagious diseases can be isolated ... A gift of $3,000 will
relieve the strain on these valiant women. Will you, for S
JOSEPH’S FEAST this month, help a house dedicated to
Tie Holy Father’s Mission Aid
fir the Oriental Church
SPRINGTIME IN GALILEE
“Because He was a man as well as He was Go
He loved His own goat-nibbled hills, His cru !
Jewish sod.
He bowed to Roman rule and dared none to
But oh the windflowers out of Naim,
We know He loved them well!” —Eileen Duggan
Right now those “hills of Galilee” where He so often walked
are ablaze with color—red, blue, white. The narcissus (“Rose
of Sharon”) shines in the sunlight . . . Whole hillsides are
covered with wild anemones (“Lily of the Field”) and with
pink flax, crowfoot, iris, broomrape and borage. And here, on
a day not long before the Crucifixion, Peter, in answer to Our
Lord’s question, uttered his immortal reply: “Thou are the
Christ!”
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“Egg money” traditionally goes to the farmer’s wife for her
use. Recently a woman wrote us that for years her egg money
was given for the education of a seminarian ... At times she
wondered if the sacrifice were worth while. Then came word
that the young man is now ordained . . . Childless themselves,
this good couple have been given great happiness by their
adopted priest-son.
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as ope bill.
Despite the committee's in
tention, the sessions continually
veered onto the question of in
cluding church-related and
other private elementary and
secondary schools in the bill.
At present, these schools are
out. Public schools, however,
would be given $1.5 billion in
four years for "selective and
urgent improvement.”
The absence of aid to pri
vate education undoubtedly will
be discussed more intensely
when subcommittee hearings
begin. Msgr. Frederick G.
Hochwalt, director of the educa
tion department of the National
Catholic Welfare Conference,
has told the committee he is:
prepared to return.
Noting in his recent testi
mony that witnesses were lim
ited to ten-minute statements,
the Monsignor said this was not
time for a “complete eval
uation of legislation "of such
importance to education and of
such serious implications to
millions of citizens.”
Salutes
Missioners
As Pioneers
MBALE, Uganda, (NC)--Ug-
anda’s Minister of Community
Development saluted Christian
missionaries for becoming
“pioneers” in the social de
velopment of the people just
as they have been in the field
of education.
Minister L. Kalule Ssettala
r as speaking here at the open
ing of the St. Austin’s Social
Center, a project of the Bro
thers of Mill Hill and wo
men of the Grail to serve as
a youth recreational and train
ing center for all races and
denominations.
Kalule Ssettala ; formally
opened the center follow
ing its blessing by Catholic
Bishop John Greif of Tororo.
Among the guests of hon
or were Anglican Bishop Ush
er Williams of Moale and Mrs.
Williams, and German Ambas
sador Wilfried Sarrazin. The
West German government con
tributed about a quarter of the
funds for the center, and Bish
op Greif raised the rest.
The Community Develop
ment Minister in his opening
address stressed the impor
tance of partnership between
the government and volun
tary agencies in the social
field.
“In the past,” he said, “the
development of Uganda in edu
cation has been a partnership
between the voluntary agencies
and government. We all
know the achievements and sac
rifices that have been made
by the Christian missionaries
and others in the development
of education in Uganda.
“Today we have this new
partnership that is the social
development of the people of
Uganda, and in this as in the
former, education, we see that
the voluntary agencies once
again have come out as pion
eers‘“by putting up institutions
like this one.”
SHADOW OF THE VALLEY—Jeremiah the stonecutter playing Satan (Roy Poole) is
vanquished by Johann the Carpenter playing Christ (Donald Madden) in a scene from
“Shadow of the Valley,” on LOOK UP AND LIVE, CBS-TV Network, Sundays, March
10, and 17, at 10:30-11 a.m. (EST), produced in co-operatlbn with the National Council
of Catholic Men. The three-act contemporary morality plafy, set in a Central European
mountain village, contains within it an updated mystery cycle: the whole symbolizing
the struggle between Faith and doubt in the modern world.
Of Depressed Area
Naples’ Cardinal Works
To Better Conditions
(The writer of this article,
a member of the Rome bureau
of the N.C.W.C. News Service,
is on a special fact-finding tour
of southern Italy to place in
clearer focus the challenges
facing the Church in that pov
erty-stricken area.
By James C. O’Neill
(N.C.W.C., NEWS SERVICE)
NAPLES, Italy — Like this
teeming port city’s famed vol
cano of Vesuvius, its archbish
op, Alfonso Cardinal Castaldo,
is both small and active.
The similarity, however,
ends there. Unlike the volcano,
the 72-year-old Prince of the
Church gives few signs of the
ferment within nor in his head
in the clouds.
Known to few outside Italy, the
Cardinal is a man absorbed in
the social demands of the pres
ent day. He has spent his life
trying to better the eponomic
plight of a depressed people,
to change not just the conditions
of today but the shape the con
ditions of the future. Approp
riately his motto is: “He shall
neither sleep nor rest.”
“I have built 12 institutes
to give poor children profes
sional training so that they
can look forward to more than
mere subsistence day by day,”
the Cardinal explained.
One of his closest associat
es, Auxiliary Bishop Salva
tore Sorrentino of Pozzuoli, a
See also headed by the Car
dinal, declared that “if the
Cardinal had the best of help
he would have built not just 12
institutions, butT20.”
Bishop Sorrentino, describ
ed his superior as “ardent”
and as a man “who has spe
cialized in social problems. His
mind is always active, always
turning things over.
“Yet, in talking to him you
are not aware of this turbulence.
Outwardly he is always serene,
calm, and never gives the im
pression of worry or concern.
Even when he cannot carry out
his ideas immediately, he re
mains composed and be
gins considering other ways to
accomplish what he wants.”
That the Cardinal has much
to accomplish is evident to any
one visiting Naples, a sprawl
ing waterfront city that is by
turns breathtakingly beautiful
and appallingly squalid. The
archdiocese has a population of
a million and a half people and
suffers from widespread pov
erty and unemployment.
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“I have been a Cardinal for
less than five years, but I have
been a bishop for almost 29
years and I know the problems
of my people,” the Cardinal
said.
Born at Casoria, not far from
Naples, on November 6, 1890,
Alfonso Castaldo was ordained
a priest in 1913, and was made
a Bishop in 1934. He was named
Bishop of Pazzuoli, another
suburb of Naples, which in those
days was not rriuch more than,
a large fishing village sur
rounded by truck farms.
Though he had literary learn
ings, and did several trans
lations of non-Italian classics,
the future Cardinal of Na
ples soon became interested in
the economic and social plight
of the people of the Campagnia
region, the gateway to Italy’s
backward South.
In 1950 he was made a Tit
ular Archbishop and coadjutor
to the Archbishop of Naples. Af
ter serving as coadjutor to two
cardinals, he was named Arch
bishop of Naples in February,
1958, and also Bishop once more
of Pozzuoli, a small diocese
to which he has shown himself
attached for decades. He was
named a cardinal in December
1958. *
Among his early efforts was
the construction of a poor house
and an orphanage in his home
town, Casoria. This institution
today houses 600 persons and
owes its existence to his per
sonal labors. The orphanage
offered asylum to abandoned
children of the poor in their
youngest years but was not
capable of providing more than
a rudimentary education togeth
er with food and a roof over
their heads.
His nomination as Bishop of
Pozzuoli opened another path
for the future Cardinal. At a
nearby town of Bagnoli, the
new Bishop founded a profes
sional training school for boys
which could take in the grad
uates of the first institution at
Casoria. Today the sfchool has
an enrollment of 315 and pro
vides professional training in
carpentry, mechanics and elec
trical repair work.
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Bishop Corson
God Using Pope
Says Methodist
JOHNSTOWN, Pa., (NC)--A
Methodist bishop evaluated the
Second Vatican Council as * 'the
most important and most out
standing world event in this
century.”
Bishop Fred Pierce Corson of
Philadelphia, president, of the
World Methodist Council, told
the Johnstown Catholic Forum
that His Holiness Pope John
XXIII ' ‘has the common touch,
an instinct for the right thing”
and is a realist.
“I can’t help but believe that
God is using him to bring men
and womep of all faiths to
recognize the primacy of God,
and to an organic expression of
faith that all of us have in
Christ, our Saviour,” Bishop
Corson, an observer at the
council, said.
The Methodist leader said
had he been asked five years
ago “if such a council could
take place and if Protestants
would serve as observers, I
would have said ‘We will never
see it in our day.’ ” He added
a belief that the council and its
observation T>y Orthodox and
Protestant representatives is
the work of the Holy Spirit.
“I think that on the merits
of its place in history, the
council i£ the most important
and most outstanding world
event in this century,” Bishop
Corson continued. “At no time
has there been a response by
the common man—regardless
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response to the council. The
common man recognizes that
the world problems basically
are spiritual and will not be
solved until we find a way
to God.”
SPIRITUAL
READING
EMPHASIZED
WARNER ROBINS, — Rev/
Fr. Robert Brennan pastor of
Sacred Heart Church, was guest
speaker at the February
meeting of The Sacred Heart
Ladies Guild.
Father gave an inspiring talk
on spiritual reading and' em
phasized the use of this prac
tice by the entire family during
the holy season of Lent.
Items of infant clothing were
collected for the Holy Fathers’
Storeroom to be distributed to
the needy. Used sheets were
also collected >to be used for
cancer dressings to be sent
to Our Lady of Perpetual Help
Cancer Home, Atlanta.
Guests attending from the Ca
tholic Women of the Chapel,
RAFB were Mrs. Havron, Pres.
Mrs. Hoey and Mrs. King. Re
freshments were served by
Mrs. R. Cushing and Mrs. R.
Pace.
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