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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!” In appreciation for the MASS STIPENDS and other gifts you send us, we would like to give you a small memento—a card with flowers from the Holy Land. Or we’ll gladly send one to the friend or relative in whose name your offering is made, if you wish. “EGG MONEY’’ “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. You also can help educate a seminarian or Sister in one of our mission lands. $2 a week for six years pays for a semina rian’s training. $3 a week for two years prepares a girl for religious life ... Or you can join a DOLLAR-A-MONTH CLUB; CHRYSOSTOM CLUB for seminarians MARY’S BANK for Sisters. Kindly remember us in your will. Official title: THE CATHOLIC NEAR EAST WELFARE ASSOCIATION DEAR MONSIGNOR RYAN: Enclosed please find for Name Street Zone City State 1^.12ear Kst Olisstonsj*} flANCIS CAKDtNAL SPELLMAN, Praildtnl Miff. Jwtpk T. Ry«i N«f1 Soc*F SmJ «N CMMMMlcariMH »•: CATHOLIC NEAR EAST WELFARE ASSOCIATION 480 Uxington Av*. of 46th St. N*w York 17, N. Y. 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. Please Patronize Our Advertisers “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. CHRYSLER PLYMOUTH IMPERIAL AVE. 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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 V 'jS<> Savannah ' ^Radiator Co. AUTO REPAIRS 315 West Bay Street Savannah, Ga. S avannah’s 3, ^ Four-MOST Restaurants Her •Pirates’ House • Harvest House • Our House • Triple XXX of religious affiliation—as the 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. 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