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Of THE DIOCESE OF
SAVANNAH
SAVANNAH, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, APRIL 6, 1963
W. Va. Bishop Cites Basic Negro Rights
Racial Discrimination
‘Matter For Confession’
HERSHEY, Pa., (NC)—The
Bishop of Wheeling, W. Va.,
said here that unjust treatment
of Negroes by Catholics is a
matter for confession.
Bishop Joseph H. Hodges,
speaking to a leadership insti
tute of the National Council of
Catholic Women, said that
racial discrimination deprives
the Negro of honor due him as
a human being.
The prelate defined racial
discrimination as “the total
restriction or rejection of a
racial group without considera
tion of the capacity or merit or
concrete behavior of the indivi
duals in that group.”
He said “segregation is a
sub-division of discrimination
where there is physical separa
tion or specific boundaries set
uo.”
“Unless we are just in our
dealings with our neighbor, we
can make no claim to love of
God and love of neighbor,” he
said.
“In the Old Testament we
read: ‘Thou hast loved justice
and hated iniquity; therefore thy
God hath annointed thee with the
oil of gladness above thy neigh
bors.’
“God made Negroes human
beings. In all justice, treat them
as God does. Discrimination is
a matter for confession.”
Bishop Hodges discussed four
basic rights due the Negro; the
right of free association, the
right to a decent living, the right
to a full education according to
his capacity and the right to
freedom of worship.
He called it ' ‘ sickening’ ’ that
Negroes have been segregated
in Catholic churches “and at
times even discriminated
against in the reception of the
Sacraments.”
Urging the women to study
and to act on the problem of
racial discrimination, he said,
* ‘Catholic Action in the field of
race relations has been too fee
ble in intensity and extensity.
The Church has done much but
not in proportion to its num
bers and principles.”
St. Joseph’s, Augusta
Hospital Has Beauty
Parlor For Patients
(From he Augusta Chroni
cal-Herald.)
The belief that women feel
better when they look better is
being put to a test at St. Jo
pitals in this country, Sister
Mary Louise said.
To make the services pos
sible to patients who cannot
be moved, are in traction have
The entire beauty unit must
be sterilized and operators don
caps, gowns and masks to go
into the maternity ward.
For ambulatory patients, a
HOSPITAL BEAUTY PROGRAM - Mrs. Georgia Newnan gets “the works.” Pictured
left to right: Sister Mary Louise, C. S. J., Hospital Administrator; Mrs. Betty Coleman,
R. N.; Mrs. Newman; Mrs. Bessie P. Conlon, Director of Beauty Program; Miss Glenda
Brannon.
had eye surgery, and other
medical problems, a “no
rinse” shampoo is used with
out lifting the patients head.
The dryer, which is attached
to the portable unit, operates
at 20 degrees less heat than
a salon dryer and is designed
to be adjustable to any position
in which the patients must re
main.
seph’s Hospital, which has just
recently been equipped with the
latest in hospital beauty accom
modation.
Sister Mary Louise, director
of St. Joseph’s, said a consul
tant for the Hospital Beauty
Program, Mrs. Florence E.
Dresser, of Dayton, Ohio, con
ducted special orientation clas
ses for the hospital personnel
and set up the beauty parlor
for the service last month.
For patients who are con
fined to their beds, a
portable beauty salon equipped
to render any beauty service
available is brought to the bed
side by a beautician technician.
All beauty treatments given pa
tients must be done by one of
these technicians who have had
special training in handling pa
tients who cannot be moved,
treating hair with high acidity
due to certain illnesses, and
in medical ethics and hospital
routines.
No service is given to pa
tients without written approval
from the physician, but the
techniques used have been ap
proved by the American Medi
cal Association and are in op
eration in over a thousand hos-
Holy Father Names 30 Cardinals
Appoints Commission To
Revise Laws Of Church
VATICAN CITY, (NC) - His Holiness Pope John XXIII
has set up a commission of 30 cardinals to revise the Code
of Canon Law.
in canon law history. The dis
ciplinary legislation it passed
was promulgated in 1594
by Pope Pius IV and constitu
ted the primary source of can
on law until the 1918 codifica
tion.
By the beginning of the 20th
century canon law was again in
a state of confusion. At the
First Vatican Council (1869-
1870) conditions had prevented
the passing of disciplinary laws
or consideration of the bish
op’s request for codification of
those already in force.
But in 1904 Pope St. Pius X
announced his determination to
have a complete and orderly co
dification of all existing Church
laws, with obsolete and outdat
ed ones eliminated and others
brought into conformity with
modern conditions.
He appointed a commission
of cardinals under his own
chairmanship. On March 25,
1904, the world’s archbishops
were asked to confer their suf
fragan bishops and within four
months to send word as to which
laws in their opinion needed
amendment. Every bishop was
given the right to keep a re
presentative in Rome to at
tend commission meetings.
When a tentative draft was
drawn up, it was submitted
to expert canon lawyers who
acted as consultors to all bish
ops and to religious superiors
entitled to attend an ecumeni
cal council. Their opinions were
then studied by the commission.
It is estimated that every canon
in the code was discussed from
5 to 12 times before being fin
ally adopted.
The Code of Canon Law that
resulted from these efforts was
promulgated on May 27, 1917,
by Pope Benedict XV and went
into effect the following May
19.
Since then numerous official
Churqh documents which have
the force of law have been is
sued, necessitating the present
effort of revision.
Members of the new com
mission named by Pope John
are the following:
Eugene Cardinal Tisserant,
Dean of the College of Car
dinals; Buiseppe Cardinal Piz-
zardo, Prefect of the Sa
cred Congregation of Sacra-
mantal Discipline; Almento
Cardinal Cicognani, Papal Sec
retary of State; AchilleCardin
al Lienart, Bishop of Lille,
France.
Giacomo Cardinal Copello,
fully equipped two dryer salon
has been opened in the hospital.
At present, St. Joseph’s is the
only Georgia hospital to be
equipped with them.
Mrs. Bessie P. Conlon is
director of the beauty program
for St. Joseph’s. The beauti-
cians-technicians are Miss
Glenda Brannon, Miss Lila
Huss, and Miss Martha Lutz
all of Augusta.
Among the 30 are Francis
Cardinal Spellman, Archbishop
of New York, and Paul Car
dinal Leger, Archbishop of
Montreal.
The commission will carry
out the third of three major
projects announced by the Pope
in the early months of his
pontificate. On January 25,
1959, Pope John revealed his
plans to hold a synod for the
Rome diocese and an ecumeni
cal council, and to update the
canon law code. The Rome synod
was held in January, 1960, and
the Second Vatican Council,
which opened last October, is
still in progress.
The Pope announced the es
tablishment of the new com
mission.
President of the new canon
law commission is Pietro Car
dinal Ciriaci, Prefect of the
Sacred Congregation of the
Council. Msgr. Giacomo Vio-
lardo, Undersecretary of the
Sacred Apostolic Signature,
high Church court, is its sec
retary.
The task of the new commis
sion will be to gather and pre
pare material for a revision
of the canon law code according
to the directives of the ecu
menical council. The revision
will apply only to the code now
in force in the Latin Rite. Eas
tern Rite Catholics are gover
ned by a separate code.
The commission’s work will
be the first major revision of
canon law since the present
code went into effect in 1918.
Canon law is the body of
laws and regulations formula
ted by the Church for the dis
cipline of its members. Its
principal sources are decrees
issued by the popes, ecumeni
cal councils and Vatican con
gregations, and decisions of
Church tribunals. Canon law
grew up slowly over the cen
turies.
Its beginnings go back to the
very early days of the Church.
In the first century the bishops
of Rome governed the Church
mainly through correspondence
deciding on cases submitted to
them and settling points of gen
eral discipline. Many of these
decisions acquired the force of
law either at once or in the
course of time.
In addition, other bishops en
acted for their own Sees such
regulations as local conditions
required. These regulations
were not general, but some
times they spread from diocese
to diocese and ended by gain
ing universal recognition and
thus becoming part of the gener
al canon law. The ecumenical
councils, the first of which was
held in Nicea in what is now
Turkey, not only defined points
of doctrine with the approval
of the popes, but also enacted
numerous disciplinary laws for
the whole Church.
Despite many efforts to col
lect and codify these laws, by
the Middle Ages there was con
siderable confusion about them.
It was difficult to know which
laws were genuine, which had
been repealed and which were
still in force. About 1140 an
Itlaian monk, Gratian, compil
ed a monumental work. He col
lected and tried to put in or
der all Church legislation which
had accumulated up to his time.
Although unofficial and resting
entirely on his own authority,
“Gratian’s Decree,” as his
book was called, was so useful
that it soon superseded all ear
lier collections.
The Council of Trent (1545-
1563) was a major landmark
LEGION OF MARY members conduct business meeting before spiritual exercises
connected with annual Acies ceremony at St. John the Baptist Cathedral, Savannah.
Savannah
Legion Of Mary
Acies Ceremony
SAVANNAH - The annual
Acies Ceremony of the Savan
nah Curia of the Legion of
Mary was held at 3:00 P. M.
Sunday, March 31st, at Savan
nah’ s historic Cathedral. Speak
er for the occasion was tne
Rt. Rev. Msgr. Andrew J. Mc
Donald, Chancellor of the Dio
cese of Savannah.
Represented at the exercises
were Praesidia (parish units)
from throughout the Savannah
Deanery.
After a business meeting con
ducted by Mr. Herbert DeRigo,
Curia President, in the cafe-
torium of Cathedral school, Le
gionaries adjourned to the Ca
thedral’s Chapel of Our Lady
to hear Monsignor McDonald
and to renew the Legionary
promise.
During the impressive re
newal ceremony, legionaries
approach the sanctuary, where
a Vexilum, standard or emblem
of the organization, is enthroned
upon a table.
Each member places his right
hand on the vesilum and repeats
the promise, “I am all thine,
my queen, my mother, and all
that I have is thine.”
The Legion of Mary is one
of the better known organiza
tions for Catholic Action in
many parts of the world. It’s
sole purpose is the preserva
tion and extension of the Catho
lic Faith, under the patronage
of the Blessed Virgin Mary,
whom members recognize as
their leader in an army dedi
cated to the extension of the
Kingdom of Christ.
In some communist-domina
ted countries, where activities
of the clergy have been severe
ly restricted or halted, the Le
gion of Mary is often the obly
effective counteragent against
Communist propaganda and in
doctrination, and has been pro
scribed as “subversive” by
most red governments.
Legionaries heard Monsignor
McDonald call for renewed
dedication to the spirit of Hum
ility and Obedience, “the hall
mark of Jesus Christ, and of
His Blessed Mother.
“Jesus prayed in the garden
of Gethsamani, ‘Nevertheless
Father, not as I will, but as
Thou wilt, ’ echoing the words
of His holy mother so many
years before, ‘be it done unto
me according to Thy Word’ ”.
“Both emptied themselves
and sought only the Will of God,
and both were obedient, even
unto death,” he said.
Ceremonies ended with Bene
diction of the Blessed Sac
rament, conducted by Monsig
nor McDonald.
Funds For Gymnatorium-Cafeteria
Successful Campaign
For Mount de Sales
MACON—Mount de Sales has
recently conducted a drive for
funds to construct a gymnator-
ium-cafeteria. This project,
approved and commended by the
Most Reverend Thomas J. Mc
Donough, realized a total of
$125,000.
Such success was due to the
cooperation of the parish pas
tors, Monsignor Thomas Shee
han and Reverend Robert Bren
nan, and the military chaplains,
Father Kastagar and Father
Mayer.
Coordinating the work of the
three areas—St. Joseph Parish,
Sacred Heart Parish, and the
Robins Air Base personnel—
were Mr. William Crawford,
Mr. Charles Lueckenhoff, and
Lt. Col Edward Quigley.
Approximately 110 men par
ticipated as workers. St. Jo
seph Parish team captains
were: Tom McGoldrick, Dr.
E. L. Hofstader, Jack Kemp
er, Dr. James Cassidy, Wil
liam Cassidy, Angelo Punaro,
Chris Sheridan, John Shaheen
III, Wayne Montgomery, Joe
McGoldrick, and Robert Young.
Team captains at Warner Rob
ins were: William Cole, Wal
ter Majcher, Bernard Colpitts,
Stephen Snyder, Charles Egolf,
Daniel Doyle, BernardSplichal,
S/M/Sgt. Everett Crockitt, Lt.
Col. Eugene Ecklund, and Craw
ford Hicks.
The gymnatorium-cafeteria
is an additional step in the
Mount de Sales Expansion Pro
gram begun in 1953 with the con
struction of Mercy Hall which
provided modern classroom fa
cilities for the young Catholic
women of Macon. Then in 1959
when Mount de Sales opened its
doors to the Catholic boys of
the city, St. Joseph Hall was
built to accommodate the in
creased enrollment. Now, wish
ing to provide facilities for
school lunches, athletic events,
and assemblies, the school is
undertaking the construction of
a building which can serve as a
Catholic Cultural Center in
Middle Georgia.
Although the minimum goal of
the drive, $100,000, was sur
passed, the construction cost
has been estimated at $200,-
000. Therefore, a follow-up
committee has been form
ed. Sister Mary Aurelia,
R.S.M., superior of Mount de
Sales, has announced that Mrs.
Frances Cassidy will act as
her secretary of this commit
tee comprised of thirty men.
The committee will keep the
needs of the school before the
eyes of the public. In addition
the committee members will
call on new parishioners to
solicit pledges to the building
program.
INDEX
MARRIAGES 5
EDITORIALS 4
JOTTINGS 5
YOUTHSCOPE 6
HERE AND THERE., 6
OBITUARIES 3
Need For Separate
Undersecretariats
Was Anticipated
VATICAN CITY, (Radio,
NC)—The decision of the Sec
retariat for Promoting Chris
tian Unity to set up separate
undersecretariats to deal with
Protestant and Orthodox affairs
was anticipated during the first
session of the Second Vatican
Council.
The new secretariats have
existed since January 1 of this
year, but the Christian unity
agency never announced their
creation. It was disclosed in a
French publication, Information
Catholique Internationales, this
month, and in the information
service of the World Council of
Churches in Geneva.
During the first session of the
council it was evident that there
was not enough personnel to
meet the demands placed on
the unity secretariat. It was al
so felt that by the creation of
two separate offices the needs
and requests of Protestants and
Orthodox would be dealt with
better and responsibility could
be distributed more effectively
among officials of the secre
tariat.
Msgr. Jean Francois Arrighi
has been named undersecretary
for Protestant affairs, and Fa
ther Pierre Duprey, W. F., is
the undersecretary in charge of
Orthodox relations.
Msgr. Arrighi was born at
Vico, on the French island of
Corsica, on May 1, 1918. He
graduated from the Sorbonne in
Paris and then entered the Se
minary of Paris at 25. At Rome
he assisted Father Charles
Boyer, S. J., of the Unitas
Center, which specializes in
ecumenical affairs. He has al
so given numerous conferences
on the ecumenical movement in
seminaries in Italy.
Father Duprey, a graduate of
the University of Athens, was a
professor of theology at the
Greek seminary in Jerusalem.
Because of his proficiency in
Greek and Arabic, he served
as the unity secretariat’s
interpreter for Eastern church
observers at the council’s first
session.
Palm Sunday
Telecast
April 7th
NEW YORK--"Way of the
Cross,” the award-winning
special program in color which
retraces the steps of Jesus as
He walked to His Crucifixion,
will be presented for the fourth
time on the NBC-TV Network
on PALM SUNDAY, APRIL 7
(2:30-3:30 p.m. EST).
Filmed in the Holy Land with
out the use of actors, the pro
gram is narrated by Alexander
Scourby, with Norman Rose as
the Biblical voice. It was pro
duced by Lou Hazam, and has an
original musical score compo
sed and conducted by Jacques
Belasco. NBC News correspon
dent Frank McGee introduces
the program.
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