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PAGE 6—The Southern Cross, March 16, 1963
Some of the nation’s most
prominent manufacturing exe
cutives will be in Savannah as of
April 6, while on the 1963 Red
Carpet Tour of Georgia
Working on a committee headed
by former major, W. LEE
MINGLEDORFF, JR., will be
KIRK SUTLIVE, Personal Rela
tions executive of the Savannah
Union Bag Camp and Paper
Corporation. . . .FR. HERBERT
WELLMEIER (Cathedral
Sav’h.) will be the preacher at
a Solemn High Mass to be held
on March 21, at Sacred Heart
Church, Savannah. The celebra
tion is an annual event at the
local Benedictine Priory in tri
bute to St. Benedict. . . .FR.
GEORGE JAMES (Blessed Sa
crament, Sav’h.) was the guest
speaker at the (Chatham) Coun
ty Exchange Club’s dinner held
on Tuesday, the 12th. . . .
JOHN M. BRENNAN, president
of the 151-year-old Hibernian
Society of Savannah, gave a talk
on the life of the patron saint
of Ireland, at a meeting of city’s
Exchangites. . .Among three
young men who will compete
for the honor of representing
the Optimists of Savannah Beach
in the district oratorical com
petition at Jekyll Island will
be TERRENCE SEYDEN. Ter
rence, who spoke at the Beach
organization’s meeting on
March 14, is the son of MR.
AND MRS. ARNOLD SEYDEN
. . . .The Annual Meeting of the
St. Mary* s Home Guild will be
held this Sunday at 4 o’clock
at their Home on East Victory
Drive, Sav’h. All are invited
to attend. A tea will follow the
meeting... .Savannah’s
W. S. A. V.-TV and Radio Sta
tion recently paid special
tribute to THOMAS J. (MICK
EY) DOOLEY, who died on
March 7. Mickey, co-marshal
of the 1961 St. Patrick’s Day
Parade and retired Chatham
County police sergeant, will
long be remembered by all who
had the good fortune of his
acquaintance. . . .JOSEPH V.
RYAN, JR., a Savannah junior
at Georgia Southern College,
was recently elected secretary
of the International Language
Association, a newly formed
organization on the GSC cam
pus. Majoring in English, Joe
is the son of MR. AND MRS.
J. V. RYAN. . . .ANDREW J.
RYAN, JR. Sollicitor General
of Chatham County, addressed
the Sacred Heart (Sav’h.) Holy
Name Society on the subject of
“Brotherhood,” at a meeting
following the 8 o’clock Mass on
last Sunday. . . .Brownie, In
termediate, and Senior Girl
Scout Troops, sponsored by the
Cathedral parish, marked Girl
Scout Sunday by attending the
9 o’clock Mass on last Sunday,
at the Cathedral. Girl Scout
leaders are MRS. JOSEPH WIN
DERS and MRS. OWEN
PORTER, Intermediates j MRS.
GAY PAUL and MRS. JOSEPH
MULLER, Seniors; and MRS.
MICHAEL GANNAM, Brownies
. . . .JULIUS T. DRAKE, mem
ber of Blessed Sacrament par
ish, Savannah, has been award
ed a special Thirty-five years
Scouts award. He previously
received the Silver Beaver
Award. . . .HENRY S. BROWN
has been appointed Plant Ac
countant at the Monroe,Michi-
gan plant of the Union Bag-
Camp Corporation. For the past
seventeen years he has been
employed at the Savannah plant
and for the past three years has
been assistant to the Savannah
Comptroller. He is married to
the former MARY JANE
FAHEY. . . .Anyone for a
“Fifty-Mile-Hike”?
Send future news items to
Fr. Lawrence A. Lucree
P. O. Box 180,
Savannah, Ga.
Ad Altare
Dei Awards
At Macon
MACON — Shelton Sharpe,
Chris Sheridan and Packie Mc-
Goldrick III have been present
ed the Ad Altare Dei Award
by Monsignor Thomas I. Shee
han at St. Joseph’s Church.
The award is recognition the
Church gives to the scout for
advancement in spiritual as
pects of the Scout program.
The boys are members of
Troop 10. Shelton and Chris are
in the 8th grade and Packie in
the 7th grade at St. Joseph’s
School.
Preparations Set
For Award Program
Preparations for the award
program for the altar boys of
the diocese have entered their
final stages. The various com
mittees have begun final pre
paration for housing and enter
taining visiting boys and their
parents.
The program will take place
on March 23rd and 24th at
Saint John’s Seminary, Savan
nah. It will open with regis
tration of the candidates for
the awards and their parents
between three and five on the
twenty third and will close with
an outdoor Mass celebrated by
Bishop McDonough on the fol
lowing morning. The awards
will be presented at that time.
The afternoon of the 24th an
openhouse will be held at the
seminar for all the people of the
diocese. The new wing of the
seminary will be dedicated at
the time. The dedication cere
monies are set for 4:00 p.m.
On St. Patrick’s Day
Special TV Program
For Savannah, Macon
HOLLYWOOD, Calif.—Leif
Erickson and Jeanne Cagney
will be seen as the King and
Queen of Ireland in Family
Theater’s special St. Patrick
Day film, TRIAL AT TARA.
Richard Hale will appear as
Patrick, the intrepid Irish
Crusader.
The unique background for the
story is Ireland in the 5th Cen
tury, before Christianity had
been brought to the Emerald
Isles. The people of Ireland
followed the pagan beliefs of the
Druids. Each year the High
King of Ireland proclaimed that
WSAV-TV Savannah will show
the film at 3:30 p.m. with
WMAZ-TV scheduling the pro
gram for 12:30 p.m., on Sunday
March 17th.
all fires in the land must be
extinguished the day before the
pagan celebration of the First
Fire of Spring. No flame could
be kindled until the following
day when the High King would
light the ceremonial fire. The
date for the First Fire of Spring
coincided with Holy Saturday,
so the undaunted Patrick lighted
the Christian Paschal Fire in
observance of the occasion. The
High King was outraged by this
defiance and sent his soldiers
to capture the intruder. Patrick
was taken to Tara Castle to
stand trial. His courage before
the outraged King won many
of the court to Christianity.
“Legion Of
Mary” Talk
At St. James
SAVANNAH—The St. James
Parish Council of Catholic Wo
men’s meeting was held Monday
evening March 4th in the
meeting room of the new school.
Guest speaker for the evening
was Rev. E. Perto Fiero, who
gave an interesting and infor
mative talk on the “Legion of
Mary,” explaining it’s aims
and purposes. This was follow
ed by a question and answer
discussion.
Rt. Rev. Msgr. John D. Toom-
ey, Spiritual Moderator pre
sented Mrs. Edmond B. An
derson, newly appointed Na
tional Vice Chairman for the
Committee on Family and Par
ent Education with the National
Council of Catholic Women.
Msgr. Toomey announced St.
James Parish would conduct
their annaul “Mission” com
mencing March 24th through
March 31st during which re
ligious articles would go on
sale, this sponsored by the Spir
itual Development Committee.
SISTER MARY CORNILE, R.S.M. outlines history of St.
Joseph’s Hospital, Savannah in talk before St. Michael’s
Home and School Association at Savannag Beach.
Tybee Group
Hears Sr.
Comile
SAVANNAH BEACH — Saint
Michael’s Home and School As
sociation held its March meeting
at Saint Michael’s School. Mrs.
Duane Hatch, president, pre
sided.
The speaker of the evening
was Sister MaryCornileR.S.M.
Her topic was the past, the
present and the future of Saint
Joseph's hospitals Sister’s talk
brought out many delightful and
interesting facts about the be
ginning of the hospital.
Sister Cornile was accom
panied by Sister Mary Conrad,
Communion
Breakfast At
Sacred Heart
SAVANNAH—Solicitor Gen
eral Andrew J. Ryan was guest
speaker at a Communion break
fast of the Sacred Heart Holy
Name Society held Sunday,
March 10th. Thirty members
were in attendance with Anthony
Gannam, president of the So
ciety presiding.
The men heard a report on
the recent Open House held at
Sacred Heart from the Rev.
Luke Bain, O.S.B.
A nominating Committee
composed of Joseph A. Logan,
Chairman, Arthur W. Fogarty
and P. Eloy Stapelton was ap
pointed and will present a slate
of proposed officers at the May
meeting.
As the Second Sunday of Ap
ril, regular Holy Name Sunday,
is Easter Sunday, no April
meeting will be held.
who showed slides of the hos
pital from its beginning until
the present day.
In the beginning the sisters
worked under many hardships
and much of its support was
brought about by the sisters
themselves who went out and
begged. It is Sister’s wish that
in the near future a new Saint
Joseph’s hospital will be avail
able for all who wish their
services.
Says Court Will
End All Religion
In Public Life
WATERVILLE, Maine,
(NC)—Future decisions by the
U. S. Supreme Court will
remove all expressions of a
religious element from the pub
lic and official scene, Msgr.
Francis J. Lally, editor of the
Pilot of Boston, predicted here.
Delivering the keynote ad
dress at the opening of a two-
day religious convocation at
Colby College, Msgr. Lally told
the assembly ‘‘A long series of
Supreme Court decisions have
made many, perhaps the majo
rity of Americans, anxious
about the place of religion in
the public life of America.”
The editor of the Boston arch
diocese’s newspaper stressed
that ' ‘we cannot have sectarian
practice officially part of pub
lic life, but we should be able
to discover a viable moral con
sensus which would be shared
by the vast majority of our
citizens.”
This would include, he said,
“a reverence for God, a belief
in the dignity of man, and the
primacy of spiritual values.”
Msgr. Lally added that “this
would be consistent with the
long-standing American tradi
tion and at the same time would
be without sectarian particular
ity.”
JOSEPH M. McDONOUGH, Grand Marshal of Savannah’s 1963 St. Patrick’s Day Par
ade is invested with the sash emblematic of his office by Mr. Nicholas Stafford, last year’s
Marshal. Looking on at extreme left is Dan Keane, chairman of the parade committee, and
at extreme left, John N. Grotty, one of Mr. McDonough’s aides.
Pope Reported Willing
To Receive Red Premier
VATICAN CITY, (NC)—His
Holiness Pope John XXIII has
said he is willing to receive
Soviet Premier Nikita Khrush
chev if he visits Rome, it has
been reliably reported here.
According to information giv
en to the N. C. W. C. News
Service by a reliable source,
the Pope expressed his willing
ness during the private audi
ence he granted to Premier
Khrushchev’s son-in-law, Al
exei Adzhubei, editor of the
Moscow daily Izvestia.
The informant said he had
learned from a contact close to
Adzhubei that Pope John gave
the Soviet newsman a sealed
message for the Premier at the
audience. It was also reported
that Premier Khrushchev may
visit Rome at the end of June
at the invitation of the Italian
government. Former Italian
President Giovanni Cronchi ac
cept ad an invitation to visit
the Soviet Union in 1961.
It has been learned that the
Pontoff’s message to Premier
Khrushchev was written in Rus
sian and that it expressed the
Pope’s thanks to the Soviet
leader for the latter’s letter
Pontifical Requiem For
Harrisburg Auxiliary
HARRISBURG, Pa.—Pontifi
cal requiem Mass for Auxil
iary Bishop Lawrence F. Sch-
Irish Program At
Cathedral Home
And School
SAVANNAH—Sure and be-
gora, an Irish program was en
joyed by the Cathedral home and
school association on March
8th. in the school cafetorium.
The third grade under the
guidance of Sister Delores Ma
rie staged a contest for the
loveliest shamrock. A leper-
chaum got into the act and there
were pink and blue shamrocks
all over the place. After a few
donneybrooks and some good-
natured Irish ribbing, the day
was saved by Timmy O’Shea and
a bright green shamrock. The
colleens danced Irish jigs and
everyone joined in to sing Erin
go Brah with an encore of St.
Patrick’s day in Savannah.
Mr. Tom Walsh, program di
rector, introduced Mr. Joseph
Michael McDonough, grand
marshall of the St. Patrick’s
Day parade. He spoke on the
financial importance of the pa
rade committee and how the
parade has expanded over the
years until now the bands come
from as far as 500 miles.
“There are also six naval units,
a mine sweeper and destroyer
escort. In former years, it
started at old St. Patrick’s
church now gone, on west Broad
and Liberty. It was a parade
on horseback, and there were
lots of watering places along
the way for the horses,” he
said. Financial support has al
ways been a staggering job for
the parade committee, he added.
Modern Library
Is Important,
Parents Told
SAVANNAH—Father Bren
dan Dooley, O. S. B., guest
speaker at the Sacred Heart
Home and School Association,
spoke of the importance of a
modern, up-to-date library for
all institutions of learning. This
was in conjunction with the
Book Fair held Sunday, March
10 at Benedictine Armory for
the benefit of the Sacred Heart
School library.
Cub Master Fred Schunemann
related the history of Pack 815
and made the suggestion that the
Home and School Association
sponsor the Pack.
John Markwalter, managing
editor of the Southern Cross,
spoke briefly on the operation
of the paper and how read
ers can help with the ad
vertising.
Sister Margaret Eugenia’s
seventh grade had the most
parents in attendance.
ott, 55, of Harrisburg, was of
fered Friday, March 15, in St.
Patrick’s Cathedral here by
Bishop George L. Leech of Har
risburg. Burial was in Holy
Cross Cemetery here.
Bishop Schott died March 11
in Geisinger Memorial Hos
pital, Danville, Pa., after a long
illness from a blood disease.
Bishop Schott was a native of
Philadelphis, an alumnus of St.
Vincent’s College and St. Vin
cent’s Seminary, Latrobe, Pa.
He was ordained June 15, 1935
and was consecrated May 1,
1956 as Titualr Bishop of Elu-
za to serve as Auxiliary Bishop
of Harrisburg. He was active in
the Laymen’s Retreat Move
ment.—(NCWC News Service)
National Group
Named By CDA
To Fight Smut
WASHINGTON, (NC)—A new
national committee called * ‘Wo
men for Decency” has been
formed by the Catholic Daugh
ters of America.
CDA Supreme Regent Mar
garet J. Buckley of suburban
Chevy Chase, Md., said the-
object of the committee will be
to combat obscene literature
and to “clean up” magazine
stands and book racks through
out the. country.
Mrs. Lucille Kennedy of Ta
coma, Wash., who has been in
CDA work for 25 years, was
named chairman of the com
mittee and Mrs. M. Teresa Sny
der of Baltimore vice chair
man.
State regents in 44 states and
in Puerto Rico will appoint local
committees to work with the
national group in the campaign.
The CDA now has a member
ship of 215,000 women.
of congratulations on the award
ing of the 1963 Balzan Peace
Prize to the Pope.
Leaving the audience with
the Pope, Adzhubei appeared
deeply moved and his wife,
Rada, who had accompanied
him, had tears in her eyes.
The Soviet editor was also
accompanied during his 15-
minute visit (March 7) with
Pope John by a Russian priest,
Father Alexander Kulik, who
served as interpreter for Rus
sian Orthodox observers at the
first session of the ecumenical
council.
Physician Warns
Against Kansas
Abortion Bill
KANSAS CITY, Kan., (NC)—
A physician has charged that a
bill to relax the state’s abortion
laws would open the way for
“abortion mills” in Kansas.
Dr. Ralph J. Rettenmaier,
chief pathologist at Providence
Hospital here and coroner for
Wyandotte County, also said
“there is never any medical
indication for therapeutic abor
tion.”
Rettenmaier commented on a
bill in the Kansas Senate. The
legislation would permit de
struction of an unborn child
would be born with "grave”
defects, that the pregnancy
came about because of rape or
incest.
Rettenmaier said that the
mental and physical challenges
in the “physiological process of
birth are no more strenuous
than the physiological pro
cesses encountered everyday.”
He charged that the terms
“rape and incest” are added
“to arouse public sentiment for
such bills.”
The law would also charge
physicians with a “severe re
sponsibility” because “he is
being charged with a prognos
tication that he cannot possibly
make.”
To Mark
Feast Of
St. Joseph
SAVANNAH—What St. Pat
rick is to the Sons of Erin,
St. Joseph is to the Sons of
Italy. Each year the members
of the Savannah Italian Club
gather together to pay homage
to Him who God chose as head
of the Holy Family, their Patron
Saint. This year the festivities
will be held on Sunday March
17th.
The theme this year, as each
year, is family activity. The
members and their families
will attend Mass and receive
Holy Communion at the 9:30
o’clock Mass at St. Michael’s
Church, Savannah Beach. At
5 o’clock in the afternoon, they
will gathe r at the club grounds
for, first, a dedication of the
family and at the Grotto,
and then enjoy a family ban
quet, Italian style, of course.
This is the biggest day of
the year for members of the
Savannah Italian Club, and this
year promises to be the best
one yet.
Lay Missioners’
Work Called
“Giant Stride”
OMAHA, Neb., (NC)—The lay
missionary movement is proof
that the Church is “alive, rele
vant and up-to-date,” the co
director of the Latin Amer
ica Bureau, National Catholic
Welfare Conference, said here.
Msgr. William J, Quinn of
Chicago made the remard at a
departure ceremony for two
lay missionaries headed for
assignments in Chile.
During the ceremony Arch
bishop Gerald T. Bergan of
Omaha presented mission cros
ses to Dorothy Conry, Omaha,
and Dr. John Keenan, St. Paul,
Minn.
In his talk Msgr. Quinn de
scribed the lay missionary
movement as “a giant stride
forward.”
“This work is important for
layment not just because others
will be benefited or the cause
of the Church advanced,” he
said. “It is necessary for the
lay people themselves in seek
ing perfection.”
Archbishop Bergan said he
hopes some day to establish a
parish in Latin America staff
ed by Omaha priests assisted
by lay volunteers from the arch
diocese.
Stressing the need for prompt
aid to the Church in Latin- Am
erica, he commented that “if
we lose the Church there, we
lose one-third of the world’s
Catholics.”
Archbishop Bergan said he
was reminded of a bishop at a
session of the ecumenical coun
cil who, rising after other
speakers had referred to the
“glorious Church” and the
conquering Church,” declar
ed:
"This is not true. It is the
suffering, the impoverished, the
dying Church unless we supply
it with the Blood of our living
Lord.”
Father Weigle Declines
Offer To Speak At C. U.
WASHINGTON, (NC)—Father
Gustave Weigel, S. J., ofWook-
stock (Md.) College said a pre
vious speaking engagement pre
vented him from accepting an
invitation to give the com
mencement address at the Ca
tholic University of America
graduation exercises here June
9.
Father Weigel was one of four
priests refused clearance to
address C. U. students during
a Lenten lecture series because
the four hold definite views on
issues being debated at the Sec
ond Vatican Council. Father
Weigel had been invited to give
the commencement address by
Msgr. William J. McDonald,
university rector. The Jesuit
told the rector he had accept
ed an invitation to speak at Al
fred (N. Y.) University on the
same day.
March is a great month in the
calendar of saints, for mid-
March presents three great pat
rons in a five-day span. The
trio of saints fits into the idea
of vocation month so well. St.
Patrick (March 17) is the illus
trious apostle of Ireland, a
giant in God’s priestly corps
who spread the faith around
the globe. St. Joseph (March
19) is the silent man of the
gospels, and while no priest
himself, as guardian and foster-
father of the Great High Priest,
rates a position as a patron of
vocations. The third man is St.
Benedict (March 21), the father
of monasticism, to whom we
Christians are all greatly in
debted for the movement he
began which contributed much
to the growth and preservation
of early Christian sanctity and
culture.
Some time ago, I took a vocal
survey on teenager’s ideas
about vocations to the priest
hood. Needless to say, they re
flected many of the pet attitudes
of their parents. Many of their
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objections to eighth grade boys
going to the seminary were
mere echoes of what I’ve heard
from older folks. Let’s exam
ine their arguments and attempt
a solution.
Some say that at age 14 a
boy is too young to know if he
wants to be a priest. The ans
wer to this is that no final
decision is made until eleven
or twelve years later. The boy
simply senses the stirrings of a
budding vocation and wants to
nurture its growth in the proper
climate and setting.
Others maintain the boy ought
to wait until he’s eighteen, more J
mature. Perhaps the most valid
answer to this objection is to
reply that God does indeed call
some at age 18, and some at
28 and some few at 58, after
they have reared grandchild
ren. But those who are invited
by his gentle persuasions of
grace at 14, ought to answer
at 14. God did not wait until
they were 18 to call therri.
Jesus did not tell the rich
young man or any of his apos
tles to come and follow Him'
in a year or two, He expected
no delay or stalling. Even in
those days, he gave his “semi
narians” an opportunity to quit
their vocation, when they found
the Eucharist hard to under
stand.
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SACRED HEART
SCHOOL, Savannah sponsored a book fair last Sunday as part of a
school library buildup. Patrons bought books offered for
library.
sale and donated them to the
Still others have said that if
God is really calling a boy to
the priesthood, that young lad
will ultimately be ordained de
spite all obstacles thrown in
his path. I’m afraid this is utter
nonsense. A vocation can be
lost, without question. History
has proven this repeatedly.
There are sufficient unhappy
married men, who, to their
dying day, wonder if they
weren’t called by God to the.
priesthood, and regret never
having gone to the seminary
to find out conclusively.
Finally, for space permits
only one more opinion, some ob
ject that the young boy who goes
to the seminary right from
grade school never knew what
life is about, never sees how the
other side lives, doesn’t know if
he likes girls and marriage.
This one sounds so very logical.
Yet, almost everyday some
where in this world there is a
young boy leaving the seminary
who must have had some vague-
idea about girls, because he
said to his spiritual director, “I
think God is calling me to head
a family, not to be a priest.”
No one prevents his leaving,
no one fears he will be far
behind his contemporaries in
pursuit of romance.
The people who raise this
last objection most often have
not hesitated to push their sixth-
grader onto the social merry-
go-round for which the child had
not inclination nor maturity, but
they insist the boy has no idea
of a vocation.
CYO members, please re
member to pray for vocations,
and for God to enlighten you in
your choice of a state of life.
Please pray, too, for the
success of the Sisters’ Vocation
Day, March 25th in Savannah.
Father Herbert Welmeier
P. O. Box 2227,
Savannah, Ga.
