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? 1 WRITERS AND READERS EDITED BY LEO J. ZUBER 2332 North Decatur Rd. Decatur. Georgia WHEREON TO STAND: WHAT CATHOLICS BELIEVE AND WHY, by John Brunini, Dell Publishing Co., Chapel Book, 1961, 351 pp., 50i Reveiwed by Theodora Koob. This book was originally written to explain the teach ing of the Catholic Church to such interested persons as knew little or nothing about it or who knew things which were mis conceptions or misrepresenta tions. It was conceived in the author’s mind as a ‘map’ con taining as much detail as pos sible but in no sense encompas sing the whole rich country of the Catholic faith. A masterly piece of writing, as far as it goes, covers very adequately, dynamically and clearly, with sound scholarship, the whole picture of Catholic thought from creation through the organiza tion of the hierarchy. It deals with human needs and search ings, with God’s gifts of grace and eternal life, with church organization and growth, with sacraments and command ments, with liturgy, saintliness, and sin. Whereon To Stand is a good book for Catholics to have at hand when questions are asked; it is also worth reading for what it can do to clarify the haze that settles down in middle life obscuring the sharper concep tions of the old catechism days. Certainly this handy little vol ume should be recommended to inquiring non-Catholics as a wholesome, sincere, thor ough introduction to the Catho lic faith. 1000 QUESTIONS AND AN SWERS ON CATHOLICISM, by Phillip O’ Reilly, Guild Press, an Angelus Book, 1960, 384 pp„ $1.25. A very popular book in its hardcover edition, 1000 Ques tions in its new revised paper back should prove to be even more practical, perhaps. It has a concise and quite detailed in dex for ready reference. It is a good, quick reference book for Otfia rttcuv anyone doing extra parish work among the fallen-away or the lax, excellent for those working with youth or leisure-time groups because of its logical organization and its answers in simple question-and-answer form. Felicitously, too, it answers all those to frequently asked questions about grounds for annulment and divorce, the marriage regulations, birth control, etc. But there is more than this, too, because 100 Questions gives a sharp yet comprehensive summation of what Catholic faith and Catholic practice is, and why, Could be recommended to teenagers who are put to it to defend their faith in discussion; particularly good to help young people reconcile science and religion. THIS IS THE FAITH, by Fran cis J. Ripley, Guild Press, an Angelus Book, 1960, 416 pp., 95£. The source of This Is The Faith was a series of lectures given in Liverpool to non-Ca- tholics. It is intended to be a booster to the Catholic lay mis sionary or parish worker. The reviewers wonders just how Stimulating the lecture audience may have been since this is a very thorough and decidedly scholarly treatise on the Ca tholic faith. A detailed Table of Contents presents the heart of the mat ter from the existence of God through faith and its sources to the commandments, the Holy Trinity, belief in Christ and re demption to the organization of the Church itself and its preist- hood and sacraments. Several excellent chapters are given to Catholic devotions and prayers, to the Reforma tion through Catholic eyes, and to Catholic social principles, so many of which are so often in the foreground these days. Ap pendices deal with church his tory and the principal heresies. MOTOR HO • TV ft AIR CONDITIONIN* • FAMOUS MIAMI BUFFET • ICE A BEVERAGE STATION* • COFFEE MAKER, EACH ROOM LUCKIE AT CONE ST. A Good Address in Atlanta Detailed and precise, the book is not altogether easy reading. It could be recommended to the anxious Catholic as well as to the serious inquiring non- Ca tholic. It does in some meas ure satisfy a long-time need for a more intellectual approach to the concepts of Catholicism and will be useful to those who wish to approach the Catholic altar with a desire to find out as much as possible, delving ply and thoroughly, without mincing matters. NEW & USED mcmillan motor co. 934 Fourth Ave. FA 2-5400 Columbus COLUMBUS aaiBiF* COUPON *4HBEBi*BEBBBEEEHEEIC0UP0N <*BPEF< ft m FuccVs 1041% Broadway 2 Capn naHU . T ■ RESTAURANT Dial FA 7-2935 SPECIAL OFFER FOR THE PRICE OF Not Good On Sats. Or Last Day Of Month B PIE BBBBIgglgBE BEE EEIIBEEEEIIEEE ■■■■■■■■*•»»>" 1 Complete EXIOAN DINNER $1.35 Also the Finest in ITALIAN FOODS Benson Paint & Contracting Co. ^ v /V' y V “The House Of Quality” COMMERCIAL RESIDENTIAL FA 3-4055 1238 MIDWAY DRIVE COLUMBUS, GA. A pology Demand R efused CHICAGO, (NC)—Time ma gazine refused a demand from Msgr. John Egan, director of the Archdiocesan Conserva tion Council of Chicago, for a retraction of a “slanderous” reference to the Catholic Church in its March 15 issue. In its March 22 issue the magazine prints Msgr. Egan’s demand in its letters-from- readers column, but adds the following editor’s note: “Time, realizing the heat of the contro versy, neither intended nor per petrated calumny or libel. It respects Msgr. Egan’s position, regrets his anger, and stands by its story.” Msgr. Egan particularly pro tested this statement in a Time cover story devoted to Chicago with emphasis on Mayor Richard J. Daley:' 'Daley’s pro grams remove Negroes from their ghettos, send them into white neighborhoods, send white residents fleeing, and leave Ca tholic parishhouses and church es bereft of their congrega tions—and contributions.’’ The article made reference to the widely publicized battle, led by Msgr. Egan and the late Samuel Cardinal Stritch, to force adequate relocation and housing provisions into the ur ban renewal plan for the Hyde Park-Kenwood neighborhood. In his protest, Msgr. Egan said “unresearched, undocu mented, and unfounded libel upon the Catholic Church in a magazine of national circula tion is a serious breach of press responsibility and, unless effectively corrected, strands as a reflection upon the integri ty of Time.” Plans Progressing For Tax-Paid St. Louis Correctional Services THE REV. RAYMOND BAIN, S.M.A., pastor of St. Ben edict’s, Savannah, was celebrant at Mass marking close of Forty Hours Devotions at St. Anthony’s Church, of Sa vannah. Pastor of St. Anthony's is the Rev. Dennis Beg ley, S.M.A. Legion Of Mary Savannah Curia Acies Ceremony SAVANNAH—The Savannah Curia of the Legion of Mary will meet Sunday, March 31st, at 3 p.m. in the Cathedral Day School. The annual Acies ceremony, a renewal of filian love for Mary, will be held at the Cathe dral of St. John the Baptist at 3:30 p.m. Sermon will be deliv ered by Rt. Rev. Msgr. Andrew J. McDonald, Chancellor of the Diocese. Rt. Rev. Msgr. Daniel J. Bourke, presently pastor of St. Mary’s on-the-Hill, Augusta, organized the Legion of Mary at the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist in 1939. Twenty-one parishes belong to the Savannah Curia. Rev. Felix Donnelly is Spiritual Director. The Acies is the great annual function of the Legion and all active and auxiliary members are encouraged to attend. In addition to the Curia in Savannah there are Legion of Mary Curiae in Augusta and Columbus. The Southern Cross, March 30, 1963—PAGE 5 Nonpublic Schools ST. LOUIS, (NC)—Prelimi nary tests have been completed to locate Catholic school child ren in St. Louis County who will receive taxpaid speech correct ional instruction beginning next fall. The classes will be provided in most private and parochial schools by ijhe tax-supported Special School District of St. Louis County. The Special School District was directed to provide the services—previously limited to public school students—in a February 18 decision by Mis souri Atty. Gen. Thomas F. Eagleton. Eagleton gave his decision in response to appeals by parents. A brief arguing that private and parochial school children were eligible for the Special School District’s services was submitted to him on behalf of Joseph A. Blume, president of the St. Louis federation of chap ters of Citizens for Educational Freedom. Under the program, speech and hearing correctionists from the staff of the Special School District will enter the private and parochial schools during regular school hours to admin ister the therapy classes twice each week. The setup is believed to be the first of its kind in American education. Previously, the Special School District had refused to provide the services for private and parochial school pupils, except for those programs for the more seriously retarded, in which children are withdrawn from their regular school and enrolled fulltime in the Special School District program. Dr. Morvin A. Wirtz, su perintendent of the Special School District, has been hold ing meetings with Msgr. James T. Curtin, St. Louis archdio cesan school superintendent, and Harold Leimer, assistent superintendent of the Lutheran Schools Western District office, to map plans for the ex panded program. The Catholic school enroll ment in St. Louis County is 47,200, while there are about 4,000 pupils in Lutheran schools. The two school sys tems together account for most private school pupils. When the program is imple mented here, all services of the Special School District will be available to all students, re gardless of the school they at tend. Nearly 200 Catholic pupils are now enrolled in the district’s fulltime program for the retarded. According to Msgr. Curtin, one possible stumbling block to the expanded program might be a shortage of personnel on the part of the Special School District. The district is now seeking passage by the state legisla ture of a bill which would give it additional funds by broaden ing its tax base. If the bill is not passed, Dr. Wirtz had indi cated that county voters might be asked to approve a tax in crease in the April elections. No Serra Stamp Of Peru’s “Red Triangle Catholic Leaders Claim End Of Communist Control (By John O. Leahigh, Jr.) PUNC), Peru, (NC)—Catholic labor leaders claim they have broken communist control over the impoverished farm workers here in southern Peru’s strate gic “Red Triangle’’ commu nism’ s main stronghold in this South American nation. Fulgencio Bareiro Rodas, a top Catholic union official, told me the Red bastion was breach ed after a long-range campaign climaxed by the successful convention of farm workers— campesinos—which ended here on March 10. On that day some 35,000 farmhands from Puno Department poured into this city of 24,000 to stage the lar gest mass demonstration of campesinos in Peruvian his tory. Bareiro, executive secretary of the Pacific sector of the Latin American Confederation of Christian Trade Unions, is a Paraguayan assigned to work with the Christian Labor Move ment of Peru, which organized the Puno convention. The con vention in turn established the Regional Federation of Southern Campesinos with 150,000mem bers. Bareiro explained to me the importance of breaking the Red Triangle. Its base, he noted, is an east-west line through the Andes mountains between the cities of Arequipa and Puno. Its apex is the capital of the ancient Incas, two-mile-high Cuzco, some 200 miles to the north. The Cuzco region, he pointed out, is the major center of communism in Peru. Puno, he added, is the necessary geo graphical link between Cuzco and the Red’s other main BACK FROM RED CUBA—Bishop Coleman F. Carroll of Miami is passed through the custom aget at Miami’s International Airport after his return flight from Havana where he attended the funeral of Manuel Cardinal Arteaga y Betancourt, Archbishop of Havana. The prelate, who spent nine and one-half hours in communist-controlled Cuba, learned that the last four priests imprisoned on the Isle of Pines in Cuba are scheduled for release soon and will leave for Spain. Behend Bishop Carroll is Msgr. Brian O. Walsh who accompanied the Bishop to Havana.—(NC Photos) Cuban Cardinal stronghold in Arequipa. It is impossible to travel between the two places without passing through Puno, which is also strategically important because of its location on the Bolivian frontier. Under their leader Hugo Blanco, the communists had such firm control of the cam pesinos of the Cuzco area that they could easily take the city by force, Bareiro stated. The area, he continued, is called the Sierra Maetre of Peru after the mountains of Cuba from which the forces of Fidel Cas tro emerged to take over that country. In case of civil war in Peru, Bareiro said, the Reds will now have to overcome the resis tance of the Christian- organized campesinos of the Puno region before they can establish supply and communi cations lines to mount a coordi nated attack from the Red Tri angle. He noted that communist in tellectuals, who are very strong in Puno, had been trying to win over the area’s campesinos as they did in Cuzco and Are quipa. (Continued from Page 4) ical evidence that many early Christians preferred to put off their baptism until adulthood or even old age. Father Joseph Jungmann mentions the fourth century custom of the so-called clinici—“people who waited to receive the Sacrament on their kline, their deathbed. This, many thought, entailed two ad vantages: Their life could be spent with less restrictions, and then before death they could be baptized and so (this was the second advantage) they would go to heaven in their baptismal in nocence” (The Early Liturgy; University of Notre Dame Press, 1959). St. Augustine, we know, was not baptized until his middle thirties; Constantine de cayed hip baptism .until he was at deaths door. DELAYING BAPTISM beyond the first J days of infancy was nonetheless condemned by the Church as an intolerable abuse fraught with fearful con sequences, as, for example, the possibility of sudden death with out baptism. YESTERDAY, then, as well as today, the mind of the Church is that the baptism of infants should take place as soon as possible following birth. Q. I have been trying to make the “nine First Fridays” but had to miss receiving Com munion last first Friday be cause I was traveling. Is it all right to take up where I left off, or must I begin all over again? A. The devotion of the nine first Fridays, which is based on a private revelation requires that Communion be received on nine consecutive Fridays. Hence it would seem than an in terruption in the novena would entail non-compliance with a (Continued from Page 1) monia about two weeks before his death. Bishop Coleman F. Carroll of Miami was among prelates attending the Requiem Mass. The Cardinal was buried (March 21) in the family mausoleum in Colon cemetery. At the time of the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba in April, 1961, the Cardinal took refuge at the Argentine embassy in Havana. He remained there un til Argentina severed diplo matic relations with Cuba early in 1962, then was transferred to the hospital. Cardinal Arteaga is the third cardinal ’’‘'-to die in 1963. His death reduces the College of Cardinals to 82 members. John Cardinal D’Alton, Primate of All Ireland, died on February 1 at age 80, and William Cardi nal Godfrey, Archbishop of Westminster, died on January 22 at age 73. Cardinal Arteaga, who visit ed the U. S. several times, often stressed “the urgent necessity for the union and mutual de fense” of the Americas. Before the Castro takeover of Cuba, the Cardinal had advocated re forms that would provide for religion courses in the coun try’s public schools. Florida’s Catholic College of Distinction For Young men and women WRITE \ t Director Of Admissions SAINT LEO COLLEGE SAINT LEO, FLA. Presently offering first two years Affiliated with the Catholic University of America Order of Saint Benedict of Florida principal condition of the de votion. At least all commen tators who comment on the query posed are agreed that one who interrupts the nine first Fridays, even though no fault of his own, should begin anew so that the nine are consecutive. WASHINGTON — The pro posal to issue a special U. S. postage stamp in 1963 to com memorate the 250th anniver sary of the birth of Father Junipero Serra, O. F. M., has been rejected. The Post Office department says its Citizen’s Stamp Ad visory Committee has voted against including a Serra stamp among the 15 commemoratives it will issue this year. —- Savannahj Radiator CoJ AUTO REPAIRS 315 West Bay Street Savannah, Ga. Are )fbu Enjoying SEA-FRESH Seafood ? Serve feiiLock FISH STICKS * Fresh-Lock Seafoods, produced by a new process exclusive with Gorton’s, retain natural juices and nutritive elements of fresh caught fish to bring you truly fresh flavor and goodness. tyieat 'JfatKe in -SUITS THE SOUTH’* % y Visit Our Stores In 1 Albany . Augusta . Columbus . Macon . 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