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Pope John XXIII
“Sons Of Church
Are More United
Than Ever”
VATICAN CITY, (NC)—His
Holiness Pope John XXIII said
at his first general audience of
May that the sons of the Church
throughout the world are more
united than ever.
While thousands of Italian
communists took part in a May
Day demonstration across town-
in front of St. John Lateran
basilica, Pope John told thou
sands gathered in St. Peter’s
basilica here (May 1) that the
world recognizes that the
“Church is at the service of
mankind.”
Among those present were:
Archbishop Paul J. Hallinan of
Atlanta, Ga.; Bishop Charles
P. Greco of Alexandria, La.;
Walter Lippman
Favors Aid To
Private Schools
NEW YROK, (NC)—Walter
Lippman says he rates the cri
sis facing American education
serious enough to warrant in
clusion of parochial schools in
Federal aid to education.
The nationally syndicated
columnist said (May 1) during
his fourth annual television ap-
perance (CBS-TV’s "CBS Re
ports’’) that it was “not be
yond the wit of man’’ to resolve
the religious issue in Federal
aid for church-related schools.
and Bishop Jospi Arneric of
Sibernik, Yugoslavia.
The Pope said that while the
Church’s sons differ in degrees
of civilization and social or
ganization, “they feel thay are
required by the sacred hier-|
archy to give a testimony of
faithfulness to the heritage of
Divine Revelation and of a 1000-
year-old precious pastoral ex
perience which gives rise to
readiness to use methods and
language required by the times
and rightly demanded by im
mense masses of the whole
world’s people.”
Noting that May 1 is celebrat
ed in many parts of the world
as Labor Day, and that the
Church has dedicated it to St.
Joseph the Worker, the Pope
said: “The Church, as in the
days of the Apostles, is still
the mother and teacher of truth,
justice, freedom and peace.
“Christian social teaching,
derived from the Gospel of Je
sus and proclaimed. . .by the
Church’s teaching authority,
applies “in the domain of pub
lic life, in the,balance and con
tribution of different forces of
production, in the distribution of
wealth and in the harmonious
composition of relations for
social peace.”
The Pope also urged those
present to pray to the Blessed
Virgin in May for the success
of the ecumenical council.
ESSAY WINNERS—Three students of St. John’s School, Valdosta, were among five
winners in an essay contest sponsored by the U.D.C. of Lowndes County. Center of pic
ture, Susan Eanes, seventh grade, second from right Jon Fink, sixth grade, far right,
David Retterbush, fifth grade.
Ordained In South Vietnam
16 Refugees From Red-Ruled
North Among 20 New Priests
By Father Patrick O’Connor
Society Of St. Columban
SAIGON, VIETNAM, (NC)—
Sixteen young men who came as
refugees from north Vietnam
nearly nine years ago were
among the 20 ordained to the
priesthood here on April 23.
They had entered preparatory
seminaries in the north as boys,
when the communist-led Viet-
minh were waging the eight-
year war against French Union
forces. Seminary life was not
always tranquil then. Some
times mortar fire thudded in the
distance and machineguns chat
tered, while the boys tried to
study Latin grammar.
A ceasefire came with the
Geneva agreements of July,
1954, but the north was handed
over to the communists.
Already the bishops foresaw
that under communist rule these
young students would have lit
tle hope of reaching the priest
hood. So, in the summer of
1954, ahead of the mass flight
of refugees, junior seminarians
were evacuated to the south.
“I came south with the others
from the Hanoi‘little seminary’
in July, 1954,’’ said newly or
dained Father Joseph Nguyen
van Khan, a native of Langson,
near the Chinese border.
"About a month later, my fath
er and mother and three sis
ters came, with most of my
vellage. An American ship
brought them.”
He is an only son, but his
parents, though facing the hard
ships of a new life as refugees,
did not take him from the semi
nary. They and their neighbors
made a village for themselves
in Phuoc-Ly, about 25 miles
from Saigon. They built a church
and set about making a living
by fishing and farming.
They were some of the more
than 600,000 Catholics who fled
from the north for freedom
to practice their Faith and to
save their children’s faith.
Father Joseph’s parents
finished their long pilgrimage
before his ordination. His fat-
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her died in 1958, and his mother
the year after.
His sisters and his refugee
friends from the old home vil-
iage were in the crowded cathe
dral to see him ordained. On
Good Shepherd Sunday, April
28, he celebrated his first High
Mass in their church in Phuoc-
Ly.
Other newly ordained priests
celebrated Mass likewise that
day in churches filled with their
fellow refugees. These Catho
lics from the oldTonkin, north
ern Vietnam, have usually stay
ed together, forming villages
around churches built by them
selves and dedicated to the
same patrons that their beloved
parish churches had in the
north.
On the ordination morning
a whole chapter of the modern
Catholic history of Vietnam lay
unfolded in the rose-red, twin-
spired cathedral here.
The ordaining prelate was
Ar-hbishop Paul Nguyen van
Bihn of Saigon, the first Viet
namese to hold that post.
Four of the newly ordained were
born in the south, which has its
own glorious history of faith
and martyrdom. The others
were born in Hanoi, Phat-Diem,
Bui-Chu, Thai-Binh, Langson,
Vinh and Hunghoa. These are
great names from Vietnam’s
Catholic past, more than three
centuries of missons and mar
tyrs. They are great names to
day, when hidden heroes and
heroines keep the faith in those
places under the yellow-starred
red flag of the Vietnamese com
munists.
The congregation that filled
the cathedral was a cross sec
tion of Vietnamese Catholics.
There were trim, well-groomed
city folk and bronzed farmers
from the rice fields, black-
gowned notables and catechists,
slim, thin priests and sandall
ed little Sisters. Greyhaired
northerners with wispy beards,
knelt with their grandchildren
who had never known the north.
Many of the refugees in the
church had risked death by
communist bullets or drown
ing in 1954-55 to escape to the
south.
There were only a few
foreigners in the congregation,
but they, too, represented part
of Catholic history in Vietnam
The priest of the Paris Foreign
Missions who had formerly
taught in the Saigon seminary,
the white-bearded Dominican
who had taught seminarians in
Nam-Dinh in the north, the
Belgian priest who had taught
in the “little seminary’’ of
Bui-Chu: these had sown some
of the seeds that were bearing
fruit this bright April day.
After the ordination the sunlit
scene outside the cathedral was
like that of an Easter morning
in a Catholic city. Around each
newly ordained priest gathered
a happy, awed crowd of rela
tives and friends. One young
priest, a native of Bui-Chu in
the north, was photographed
with about 65 persons, Bui-Chu
Catholics and their children
College Subsidies
CINCINNATI, (NC)—Arch
bishop Karl J. Alter said here
that only government subsidies
can save the nation’s private
colleges.
The Archbishop of Cincinn
ati spoke at the dedication (May
1) of the new eight-building
campus of the College of Mount
St. Joseph, completed at a cost
of more than $11,000,000.
The Southern Cross, May 11, 1963—PAGE 3
Says Dialogue Should Help
Christians Focus Attention
On Real Causes Of Division
SAN FRANCISCO, (NC)—'A
Protestant scholar said here
that one of the main jobs of
interreligious dialogue is to
help Christians begin “dis
agreeing about the right
things.”
Dr. Robert McAffee Brown, a
Presbyterian theologian and a
professor at Stanford Univer
sity, said “breaking through the
stereotypes and the misunder
standings” will enable Catho
lics and Protestants to get down
to the issues that really divide
them.
* 'Disagreeing about the right
things is what will begin our
work in following the will of
Christ: that all His children be
one,” Dr. Brown said.
Dr. Brown, an observer at the
first session of the Second Vati
can Council, made his com
ments at a press conference
with two Catholic leaders in the
ecumenical movement—Father
Gustave Weigel, S. J., of Wood-
stock (Md.) College and Father
Thomas Stransky, C.S.P., an
American on the staff of the
Vatican’s Secretariat for Pro
moting Christian Unity.
The three men were here to
speak at the fourth National
Conference on Doctrine and Ec
umenism.
Father Weigel cautioned Ca
tholics against misunderstand
ing the true aims and methods
of the ecumenical movement.
He noted that Protestants
have been working in the area
of religious unity since 1910, but
Catholics are by comparison
“Johnny - come - latelys” in
these matters. He warned that
Catholics, with more good will
than experience, could make
some serious mistakes in ecu
menical matters.
The Jesuit theologian distin
guished two different kinds of
religious unity—organic, in
which all Christians would be
long to the same church under
the same head; and cooperative,
in which Christians would work
together in common causes.
While much progress has
been made toward cooperative
unity among Christians, he said,
“as for organic unity, that Is
up to God.”
Dr. Brown cited the cause of
racial justice as one in which
there is room for Catholic-
Protestant cooperation. He said
the national Conference on Re
ligion and Race, held last Jan
uary in Chicage, was a major
step forward in this field.
FATHER W. P. DOWLING with members of Little Apostles Club, Our Lady of Lourdes,
Columbus, for whom he conducted a Retreat on Saturday, May 4. Back row: Pam Clark,
Karl Helgerson, Mike Regnier, Father Dowling, Mark Ross, Joe Saurbier, Debbie Wourms,
2nd row: Sylvia Hammond, Carol Chandler, Judy Thomas, Billy Cantrell, Mary Ludwig,
Maureen Martin, Rosa Lewis, front row: Stephanie Mahan, Eva Demond, Dorothy Cott,
Leonard Eichoff, Mike Thompson, Susan Reardon, Maryann Sherman.
Officers
Named At
St. James ?
SAVANNAH—The April
meeting of the St. James Home
and School Association was
“Newcomers Night” for mem
bers who have recently moved
to Savannah and St. James Par
ish. They were introduced and
interviewed by Monsignor John
D. Toomey and received a warm
welcome from the association.
Progress on the landscaping
of the church and school grounds
was reviewed by the Beautifi
cation Committee with much
improvement noted.
A Science Reading Associa
tion Laboratory for the second
grade was authorized and ad
ditional books for the school
library were purchased.
The nominating committee
selected the following mem
bers as officers for the coming
year; President-elect, Mrs.
Daniel Willoughby, Vice-Presi
dent, Mrs. Harry L. Elmore;
Secretary, Mrs. Paul Helmly,
Jr.; Treasurer, Mrs. Michael
F. Brennan. Installation of new
officers will be held at the May
meeting.
Mrs. Edmund Anderson was
commended on her recent elec
tion as President of the Savan
nah Deanery Council of Catho
lic Women at the Spring meet
ing at Savannah Beach.
Macon
PCCW
Meets
MACON—The monthly meet
ing of St. Joseph's Council of
Catholic Women was held at
St. Joseph’s School on Sunday
April 21st, with approximately
125 in attendance.
Monsignor Thomas I. Sheehan
gave a talk welcoming the mem
bers and explained the purpose
of the National Council of Catho
lic Women. He gave as a slogan
“Time to Change” and said we
must realize that we must take
a more active part in Catholic
life showing a love of God and
love of neighborn.
Mrs. Joseph Dembowski,
Diocesan Council President
also spoke.
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