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I V. 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- Camp Villa Marie SAVANNAH, GEORGIA The Ideal Catholic Camp BOYS AND GIRLS — SIX TO SEVENTEEN BOATING — SWIMMING — RED CROSS SWIMMING INSTRUCTIONS — ALL SPORTS — AIR RIFLERY — ARTS AND CRAFTS — DRAMATICS MOVIES — CAMP FIRES SISTERS — SEMINARIANS — MATURE STAFF — RESIDENT PRIEST DIRECTORS —ALL NEW FAqLIT/ES — DISCOUNTS TO FAMILY GROUPS All Inclusive Fee SoO per Week One, two or three week registrations accepted. THtyEE EXCITING WEEKS July 21-27 (Visit of the King of Siam) July 28-Aug. 3 (Water Pageant Week) Aug. 4-10 (Kangaroo Court) FOR INFORMATION WRITE: FATHER COLEMAN, P. O. BOX 2227, SAVANNAH, GA. SPACE IS LIMITED - REGISTER NOW! 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. 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