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I Vol. 44, No. 5 10c Per Copy — $3 A Year ■ SAVANNAH. GEORGIA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 8, 1963 Msgr. Await To Conduct Villa Marie Retreat For Men Aug. 23-25 SAVANNAH—The Very Rev. Msgr. William J. Await will be the Retreatmaster at the annual Retreat for Men to be held at Camp Villa Marie August 23rd to 25th. The retreat is open to adults and high school students and will open on Friday evening at 8 p.m. and will close Sunday at 3:00 p.m. Monsignor Await, a native of Baltimore attended All Saints School of that city and High School at St. Charles, Canton- ville, Md. He persued his Col lege studies at St. Charles Col lege and St. Mary’s, Paca Street, Baltimore. He attended St. Mary’s Seminary, Roland Park. He received his A.B. at St. Mary’s, Paca St.; His S.T.L. at St. Mary’s Roland Park, and J.C.B. at the Catholic University, Washington, D. C. The Most Rev. John M. Mc Namara ordained Msgr. Await in Baltimore on June 12, 1947. 1961 until 1962. At the present time he is pastor of St. Joseph’s, Washington. Monsig nor is Executive Director, Ca tholic Youth Organization, Archdiocese of Washington and Spiritual Director of Merrick’s Boys Club. For additional information or reservations on the retreat con tact any of the following: Rt. Rev. Msgr. Andrew J. McDonald, AD 4-0601 or write P. O. Box 2227, Savannah. Mr. John Kelleher, AD 6- 0708 or write 526 E. 46th St., Savannah. Mr. James Daly, AD 4-3511 or write 737 E. 37th St., Savan nah. Mr. C. J. Dulohery, EL 5- 8928 or write 422 E. 37th St., MONSIGNOR WILLIAM AWALT Savannah. He was assistant at St. Mat thew’s Cathedral, Washington, from 1947 until 1961; pastor of St. Peter’s, Olney, Md. from Mr. Walter Rozenbeck, AD 2-6413 or write 3 Palm Ave nue, Savannah. Registration fee is $5.00. In Ceylon Buddhist Extremists Push Probe Of Catholic Action COLOMBO, Ceylon (NC) — Ceylon’s government, prodded by Buddhist extremists and left ists, has decided to appoint a three-man commission to investigate the Catholic Action organization of this southeast Asian island nation. The government’s decision (Aug. 2) is the most recent extremist victory in the bitter campaign waged against the Church here in recent years. Spearheaded by fanatical Budd hists, the drive has been fos tered and exploited by the Com munist party and other Marx ist-oriented groups, which have strong influence on the govern ment of Premier SirimavoBan- daranaike. The Reds have no posts in the cabinet, but in the July, 1960, elections the government party—the Great Ceylon Free dom Party (SLFP)— had a no contest pact with the Commu nists and the Trotskyists. The SLFP made a similar pact in last December’s municipal election here. Moderate leaders of the coun try’ s Buddhist majority have remained aloof from the anit- Church campaign. In reply to the government’s new action, Archbishop Thomas Cooray, O.M.I, of Colombo has issued a statement denouncing the machinations of the "new ideology — materialistic and K. C. Names Bishop’s Committee AUGUSTA—Bernard S. Dun- stan, State Deputy Knights of Columbus has named a Bishop’s Liaison Committee. Named to the committee for the Savannah Diocese are Pius Masciocchi of Augusta; Flem Cliet and Hugh Grady of Sav annah; Gerald Gardner of Brunswick; N. H. Nadicksberne of Warner Robins. The group held their first meeting with Bhisop Thomas J. McDonough last week. Also present at the meeting were Right Rev. Msgr. Andrew J. McDonald, Chancellor of the Diocese of Savannah, and State Chaplain of the Knights of Col umbus and Joe Bresnahan of Augusta. atheistic—which strives to cause division and make the cit izens themselves fight a fra tricidal battle.’’ The Archbishop said Ceylon ese Catholics “have nothing to fear from the commission if it is impartial.’’ But he added: “Let Catho lics beware. Let them be on their guard against insidious activities against their faith.’’ Appointment of the commi- sion to investigate Catholic Ac tion was called for at a series of rallies organized by extre mist Buddhist groups in July. The groups used accusations that the Vietnamese government of Catholic President Ngo dinh Diem is persecuting Buddhists in his country to step up their anti-Catholic campaign there. Some 50,000 members of Buddhist organizations mar ched through Colombo’s streets to protest against events in Vietnam and the activities of Ceylon’s Catholics which, they alleged, aim at destroying the Buddhist religion and culture here. That rally and others in Naw- alapittya and Panadura called for the naming of the inves tigating commission. L. H. Mettananda, veteran anti-Catholic campaigner and leader of the Bauddha Jatika Balavegaya (Buddhist Action) repeated his old charges that Ceylon’s Catholic Action has infiltrated government and business circles and plans to destroy the morality, spirit uality and national conscious ness of the Buddhist majority. The same accusations were made in a 175-page attack pub lished by Bauddha Jatika Ba lavegaya which recently was given front page coverage in the national press. Buddhists account for about two-thirds of Ceylon’s more than 10 million people. Catho licism, introduced here by-the Portuguese 450 years ago, has about 800,000 adherents. About a fifth of the people are Hindus and more than 500,000 are Mos lems. Mettananda claimed at the rally here that Catholic Action had deliberatley sabotaged gov ernment properties and used in sidious methods to convert Buddhists. He accused Catho lics of luring young Buddhist men and women by organizing parties where much liquor is served. He asserted that un less the government acted quickly, Ceylon would become another Vietnam where Budd hists are persecuted. The same line was followed at another rally under the auspices of the extremist Am- balanagoda Bhikku Sangamaya, at which Ronnie de Mel, for mer director of Ceylon Radio, said that the imperialist policy of the U. S. had been carried out so well in Vietnam that it was able to foist a Catho lic president on a nation where, he asserted, 85 per cent of the people are Buddhists. The same thing could happen overnight in Ceylon through Catholic Ac tion, he added, if Buddhists do not wake up. By American On Scene U. S. Ministers’ Vietnam Charges Called Unjust SAIGON, Vietnam, (NC) — Charges that the Vietnamese government denies religious freedom and is undemocratic and unstable, made by the U. S. Ministers’ Vietnam Committee, were described here as "gross misrepresentations, t a n t a- mount to unjust and inflama- tory propaganda that can only benefit the cause of commun ism.’’ This countercharge was made in an open letter by an Ameri can working for a private re search organization. Harold F. Erickson of Sutter Creek, Calif., wrote in reply to an advertisement of the com mittee. He said that the advertise ment showed "an appalling lack of factual evidence, an incre dible naivete and an irrespon sible disregard of the conse quences of lending the names of eminent Protestant and Budd hist ministers and Jewish rab bis to this spurious and ill advised ‘cause’. ” The full-page advertisement, which appeared in the New York Times (June 27), was featured by a photograph of the Budd hist monk, Quang Due, publicly burning himself to death to protest what he called religious persecution of Buddhists by the Vietnamese government of Pre sident Ngo dinh Diem, a Ca tholic. Captioned "We Too Protest’’ the advertistment said "Ameri can clergymen of various faiths” protested against four things: "1. Our country’s military aid to those who denied him (the monk) religious freedom. "2. The immoral spraying of parts of South Vietnam with crop-destroying chemicals and the herding of many of its people into concentration camps called ‘strategic hamlets.’ "3. The loss of American lives and billions of dollars to bolster a regime universally regarded as unjust, undemocra tic and unstable. "4. The fiction that this is ‘fighting for freedom.’ ” The protest was signed by a dozen clergymen. Among them were Anglican, Baptist, Lu theran, Methodist, and Unitar ian ministers, including An glican Bishop James A. Pike of California; the Rev. Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick, Mini ster Emeritus of the Riverside (Continued on Page 2) AFRICAN CARDINAL AT KNIGHTS CONVENTION— Laurian Cardinal Rugambwa, of Bukoba, Tanganyika, first negro cardinal, is shown upon his arrival, August 3, in Indianapolis, Indiana, for the 48th annual convention of the Knights of St. Peter Claver. With him are his secretary, Father Deogratios (left) and Father Harold Perry, S.V.D., national chaplain of the Knights of St. Peter Claver and rector of St . Augustine’s Mission Seminary, Bay St. Louis, Miss.—(NC Photos) At World Council Conference Vatican Observer Says Church Entered Ecumenical Mainstream PRAY FOR OUR PRIESTLY DEAD REV. JOSEPH F. SHEA August 10, 1886 Oh Cod, tVho didst give to thy servants by their sacredotal office, a share in the priest hood of the Apostles, grant, we implore, that they may also be one of their company forever in heaven. Through Christ Our Lord, Amen. QUEBEC, (NC)— The Catho lic Church entered the main stream of the ecumenical move ment during a recent World Council of Churches meeting in Montreal, according to a priest-observer at the meet ing. The Church made a ‘‘deci sive entry. . .by word and deed” into the fourth world conference of the World Council’s Faith and Order Commission, July 12 to 26 in Montreal, said Father Bernard Lambert, O.P. Father Lambert, of Cour- ville, Que., was one of five official Catholic observers at tending the Faith and Order meeting on behalf of the Vati can’s Secretariat for Promo ting Christian unity. The Roman Catholic Church is not a member of the World Council of Churches, which is composed of 201 Protestant, Anglican, Orthodox and Old Ca tholic denominations. However, increased Catholic interest and sympathy toward the World Council was apparent during the Montreal meeting. Father Lambert, in an arti cle in the Quebec newspaper, L’Action, said the Catholic ob servers "were not just atten tive and silent. Their coopera tion was sought.” The Dominican priest said the Montreal meeting was par ticularly characterized by the participation of the Orthodox Churches and the Roman Ca tholic Church. "Previously, the ecumenical movement was mainly Anglican and Protestant,” he said. "At Montreal, the universalizing of the ecumenical dialogue was clearly seen, and the estab lishment of a better balance, thanks again to the clear and active presence of the Ortho dox and also of Catholics.” Father Lambert cautioned against "illusions” that would minimize "the depth of the di visions that separate us.” Nevertheless, he said, the Montreal meeting took place in an atmosphere of "impressive good will.” The participants did not abandon their own con scientious beliefs, but they did avoid "polemics” and showed a desire to understand the po- PRESIDENT MEETS PRESIDENT—U. S. President John F. Kennedy greeted members of the Girls’ Nation gathered for their annual meeting in Washington. Pictured in the rose garden of the White House, he is shown chatting with Kathleen Ann Vorhies, newly elected president of Girls’ Nation. She is a student at St. Anthony’s High School, Wailuki, Maui, Hawaii.—(NC Photos) sitions of others, he said. He said the meeting had re sulted in "a deepening and en larging of understanding of our Christianity and a more for mal opening to other tra ditions.” "The conference was not just a pure and simple repetition of the past under another form,” he said. "Overfive years, over a decade, there has been pro gress in the sense of a deeper insight into the profound truth of Christianity and a more ar ticulate exchange of the truths possessed by the various tra ditions.” Orthodox Prelate Says Churches Treading Road To Unity CHICAGO, (NC) — Christian Churches are traveling the road to unity, the Greek Orthodox Primate of North and South America asserted here. Archbishop Iakovos, who is a ranking official of the World Council of Churches, expressed hope during an interview here that the Greek Orthodox Church will send official observers to the second session of the se cond Vatican Council which will be convened by His Holiness Pope Paul VI in Vatican City on September 29. "A meeting on whether offi cial observers of the Ecumeni cal Patriarchate will go to the Vatican Council will be held late this month,” Archbishop Iakovos said. "It depends on the tone of the invitation from the Vatican.” There were no official ob servers from the Ecumenical cal Patriarch Athenagoras I of Constantinople at the first ses sion of the council, but the Russian Orthodox Church was represented among the observers. "There is a new image of unity in Christendom today,” said the bearded, 52-year-old Orthodox leader, who is a U. S. citizen. He was guest of honor at a reception tendered by lead ers of Chicago’s Greek com munity in a Lake Shore Drive hotel. Antagonism which have been prevalent since the Reforma tion are vanishing and "Christ ians the world over are find ing a common ground,” the Archbishop said. He estimated it may take "years, even de cades” before there is a re union of all Christendom. "The ecumenical movement is moving forward at a steady pace,” Archbishop Iakovos said, "and it cannot be halted or rerouted. In the end, the ecu menical movement will en compass the whole life of the church in a way which shall warm the hearts of all who believe in a church univer sal.” He stressed that there is a need for deeper theological dis cussions across confessional lines. He said "we have hope fully passed through the state of ecumenical romance and that our theologians would do well to cross their respective con fessional lines free from pre judice, armed with an open mind and soul. We have many things to learn one from ano ther.” Among the recent motivating forces quickening the ecumeni cal movement, the Archbishop pointed out, are the Second Vatican Council, the World Council of Churches assembly in New Delhi, India, and the recent fourth World Confer ence on Faith and Order held ,in Montreal, Quebec. He said another important meeting affecting church unity will be held August 26 to Sep tember 2 by the leaders of the World Council of Churches in Rochester, N. Y. Pope Paul Goes To Summer Villa VATICAN CITY, (Radio, NC) —His Holiness Pope Paul VI left Vatican City (Aug. 5) and went by car to his summer residence at Castelgandolfo. The Pope left the Vatican at 5:30 p.m. (Aug. 5) and arrived at the hilltop village in the Alban Hills about 20 miles south of Rome at 6:00. He went im mediately to a balcony of the residence which overlooks the village square to bless the townspeople for the first time since his election to the pontif icate. Pope Paul spent the last night before the opening of the con clave which elected him at Cas telgandolfo as a guest of Dr. Emilio Bonomelli, director of the papal villa in Castelgandol fo.