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81st K. C.
Supreme
Convention
MILWAUKEE, Wisconsin,—
The 81st International Supreme
Convention of the Knights of
Columbus will open here August
17.
Preceding the first business
session, August 20, solemn
Pontifical Mass will be cele
brated at the Milwaukee Audi
torium by Most Reverend Char
les P. Greco, Bishop of Alex
andria and Supreme Chaplain
of the Knights of Columbus.
Most Reverend William E. Cou
sins, Archbishop of Milwaukee,
will be in attendance. The ser
mon will be preached by Most
Reverend Albert R, Zuroweste,
Bishop of Belleville.
Annual reports of Supreme
Knight Luke E, Hart and the
other Supreme Officers will be
presented at the opening ses
sion. The society has a record
membership of 1,151,657 in
4,962 Councils in the United
States, Canada, Puerto Rico,
Mexico and the Philippines and
has insurance in force amount
ing to almost one and one-quar
ter billion dollars.
Speakers at the convention
dinner, August 20, will be Su
preme Knight Hart and Arch
bishop Cousins. There will be
an election, August 21, for 7
places on the 21-man board of
directors. The delegates will
act on resolutions at the
closing session. An over-all
attendance, delegates and visi
tors of about 5,000 is expected.
Pope John
Established
Peace Prize
VATICAN CITY, (NC)~Pope
John XXIII before his death es
tablished a peace prize bearing
his own name, to be- awarded
every three years.
He set up a foundation with
the $160,000 in prize money
which he received last May as
part of the Balzan Peace Prize,
and suggested that the new
■ "John XXIII International Peace
> Prize Foundation” would be
augmented by other grants. The
interest from the Balzan Peace
Prize alone would presumably
come to upwards of $20,000
every three years.
Pope John’s formal estab
lishment of the foundation was
made known (Aug. 12) in the
current issue of the Acta Apos-
tolicae Sedis, the official pub
lication of the Holy See. Pope
John issued instructions con
cerning the foundation in a let
ter he wrote in his own hand
on May 10, the day President
, Antonio Segni of Italy came to
f the Vatican for the first part of
the Triple ceremony surround
ing the presentation of the Bal
zan Peace Prize. The Pope told
the President the following day
he intended to use the $160,000
prize money to create "a per
petual fund in favor of peace.”
He had already outlined his
plans in the letter which is now
published. His goal, "initiatives
in favor of true peace and bro
therhood among men and na
tions.”
The John XXIII Peace Prize
the Pope said, would be both a
token of his appreciation for
the Balzan Prize and a sign of
his "ever fervent and trustful
desire that peace be establish
ed among men and nations with
coexistence in truth, justice
love and liberty.”
Pope John noted parentheti
cally that this last reference
was taken from his celebrated
peace encyclical Pacem in Ter
ris, which was dated the pre
vious April 11. The encyclical
bore the descriptive title: "On
establishing universal peace in
truth, justice, charity and li
berty.”
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SAVANNAH, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 15, 1963
In Christian Living
Leadership Camp At Villa Marie
SAVANNAH—The Sisters of
Mercy, Province of Baltimore,
are conducting for the third
consecutive summer a Leader
ship Camp in Christian Living,
August 13—21, at Camp Villa
Marie. This year’s program is
concerned with the theme,
‘ ‘Meeting Moral and Spiritual
Challenges in Today’s World.”
Forty students from the nursing
schools and high schools staffed
by the Sisters of Mercy are in
attendance.
Institutions represented in
clude: Mercy Hospital, Balti
more, Md.; St, Joseph Hospital,
Savannah, Ga.; St. Joseph Infir
mary, Atlanta, Ga.; Holy Tri
nity High School, Washington,
D. C.; Mercy High School, Bal
timore, Md.; Mercy High
School, Mobile, Ala.; Mount de
Sales High School, Macon, Ga.;
Pacelli High School, Columbus,
Ga.; St. Pius X High School,
Atlanta, Ga.; Pensacola Catho
lic High School, Pensacola, Fla.
The Reverend John Loftus of
the Glenmary Fathers, Glen
dale, Ohio, is chaplain. Other
staff members include: Sr. M.
Vera, RSM, and Sr. M. Judith,
RSM, Mount Saint Agnes Col
lege, Baltimore, Md.; Sr. M.
Agnese, RSM, Mercy High,
Baltimore, Md.; Sr. M. Venard,
RSM, Our Lady’s Day School,
Atlanta, Ga.; Sr. M. Loyola,
RSM, Mercy Hospital, Balti
more, Md.; Sr. M. Glaudene,
RSM, and Sr. M. Annunciata,
RSM, St. Vincent’s Academy,
Savannah, Ga,; Sr. M. Rosina,
RSM, Holy Trinity High School,
Washington, D, C.jSr.M. Sarto,
RSM and Sr. M. Fides, RSM,
Pensacola Catholic High School,
Pensacola, Fla.
The object of the week’s ses
sion is to afford student leaders
opportunity to learn techniques
of leadership as well as to gain
background information on cur
rent problems and trends. In
order to achieve this purpose
a number of prominent men and
women will address the group
and lead discussion sessions
The speakers and their topics
are: "Meeting Moral and Spi
ritual Challenges Today,” Rev
erend John Loftus; "TheMean-
ing of Womanliness,” Sr. M.
Vera, RSM; "Tool of Leader
ship: Parliamentary Law,”
Mrs. William C. Broderick,
past president of the Savannah
Deanery of the National Coun
cil of Catholic Women; "My
Role as Leader Today and To
morrow,” Dr. Karl C. Garri
son, Department of Education,
University of Georgia, Athens,
Ga.; "Use of Leisure in the
Modern World,” Reverend An
thony Zoghby, Director, Mobile
Theatre Guild, Mobile, Ala.;
"Leadership through Family
Life,” Mr. and Mrs. Edmund
Anderson, Mr. and Mrs. Ben
Ritzert, Savannah, Ga.; "Lead
ership Through Religious
Life,” The Right Reverend An
drew McDonald, Chancellor of
the Diocese of Savannah; "The
Christian in Political Life: the
Functioning of State Govern
ment,” Mr. Bart Shea of the
Georgia State Legislature; "In
vestigative Jurisdiction of the
FBI,” Mr. Charles G. Cusick,
Savannah Office of the Federal
Bureau of Investigation; "Defi
nition of Leadership,” Sr. M.
Rosina, RSM; "Art of Leading:
Prelate Predicts Eastern
Orthodox Church Will Have
Vatican Council Observers
WASHINGTON, (NC)—A leading prelate of the Syrian An
tiochian Orthodox Church predicted here that the Eastern
Orthodox Church will be represented among observers
at the second session of the Second Vatican Council which
opens September 29 in Vatican City.
Metropolitan Archbishop Antony Bashir, Archbishop of
the Syrian Antiochian Orthodox Archdiocese of New York
and All North America, said he would like to be sent by
his Church as an observer at the council.
Unity among Christian churches must start with the
Roman Catholic and the Orthodox Churches, Archbishop
Bashir said in an interview here. He added: “If Protes
tants are in from the beginning, then nothing will happen.
There are too many differences at present.”
Regarding the second session of the council, the Arch
bishop said: ”I think the Orthodox Church will send ob
servers to the coming session of the Second Vatican Coun
cil.” The Eastern Orthodox Churches were not repre
sented among observers at the council’s first session, but
two observers of the Russian Orthodox Church attended.
CONVENTION SPEAKER
More than 8,000 delegates
from the United States, Cana
da, Mexico and Puerto Rico
will attend the eighth quadren
nial Holy Name Society con
vention to be held in Buffalo,
N. Y., August 21 to 25. Among
the featured speakers are
three bishops. Bishop Walter
J. Curtis (above) of Bridge
port, Conn., will speak on
* ‘Training for Lay Leader
ship.”—(NC Photos)
Goals,” Sr. M. Venard, RSM:
"Art of Leading: Methods,
Sr. M. Sarto, RSM; "The Lead
ership Personality,” Sr. M.
Judith, RSM; and "Effective
Public Speaking,” Sr. M. An
nunciata, RSM.
Participants in the week's
program from the Diocese of
Savannah include Misses Patri
cia Schomburg and Toni Thomp
son, Columbus; Misses Teresa
Hinson, Nancy Jenkins, and
Reinee Johnson, Macon;Misses
Mary Ann Butler, Sharon
Forbes, Carol Horne, Berna
dette McDonough, Kay Kearney,
Mary Ellen Leonard, Mary Ann
Dembowski, Beverly Jean Jen
nings, Sherry O’Neil, and Jani-
na Mary Wysocki, Savannah,
Sees Similarity In School And Color Bias
‘Ecumenical Spirit’ In
Education Called For
By U. S. Congressman
Mobile Judge
Voids Tax On
Worship Items
MOBILE, Ala., (NC) —The
wall of separation between
church and state has two sides
including one that protects
churches from encroachments
by government, a Mobile judge
commented here in exempting
Alabama churches from use
taxes on articles used in re
ligious services.
Circuit Court Judge Joseph
M. Hocklander ruled in a case
involving St. Mary’s church
here, which protested a state
bill of $407.06 for use tax on
such articles as sacramental
wines, candles, vessels, mis
sals, prayer cards, sheet mu
sic and offering envelopes.
"Just as zealously as the
Supreme Court of the United
States has stricken even forms
of prayer in school as a form
of religious interference with
matters of state,” noted Judge
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DETROIT, (NC)— A U. S.
Congressman called here for an
ecumenism in education that
would benefit private as well as
public school children.
Rep. Hugh L. Carey of New
York, citing the ecumenical ap
proach of the late Pope John
XXIII, suggested at the conven
tion here of the Citizens for
Educational Freedom (CEF)
that * ‘the theme of ecumenism
in education” be promoted
during American Education
Week, November 10 to 16.
‘ ‘We need ecumenism in edu
cation,” Congressman Carey
said (Aug. 9), "so that as in
dividuals we can see our dif
ferences, minimize them and
rejoice in our unity in diver
sity.”
CEF seeks to promote fair
treatment for pupils in all
schools in the distribution of
tax funds for education.
A consistent supporter of
equal Federal aid for all school
children, Rep. Carey at the out
set of his speech drew a paral
lel between every tenth
American, the Negro, and the
child in every seventh school
not receiving public support.
He referred to the seventh
child in American education as
"one of seven million” who
"pays a price for the con-
sceince of his parents as the
tenth American does for the
color of his.”
"They both seek equality in
education and equality in op
portunity,” he continued. "The
Negro is a second class citi
zen under the archaic custom
of the segregated schools.
Every seventh child is a se
cond class citizen because he
pays the price of fiscal segre
gation for the exercise of free
dom of conscience.”
Rep. Carey asserted that "the
Federal government must re
spond to the needs of all the
children in the United States
as individual citizens without
difference of distinction.”
"The aim of Federal aid,”
he said, 4 ‘must be to adjust
imbalances and inequities which
are visited upon its citizens
from state to state or within
the states. It must not distri
bute funds in such a way that
it will sustain the structure of
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THE CHILDREN pictured above at a Geography class in a Catholic elementary school
are part of the "one in seven” American pupils who "pay a price for the conscience of
their parents,” according to U.S. Representative Hugh Carey of New York. The Con
gressman spoke at a Detroit convention of the Citizens for Educational Freedom, calling
for a "spirit of ecumenism” in U. S. education which would benefit pupils of parochial
as well as public schools.
U. S, Bishops Discuss Religious
ore
Ecumenical CounciVs 2nd Session
(N.C.W.C. NEWS SERVICE)
CHICAGO—The Bishops of
the United States, meeting here
for briefings before the second
session of the ecumenical coun
cil, generally felt that a council
statement on religious liberty
would be opportune.
A spokesman said the Bishops
among other items had discuss
ed the usefulness of a statement
by the council setting forth the
Lay Vacationers Visit Small Towns
“Come See Our Church”
SYLVANIA—During the past
two months, scores of Catholic
laymen and women from Illi
nois, Indiana, New York, Mas-
sachussetts, California and Ok
lahoma have been spending their
vacations in Screven, Jenkins,
Jefferson and Burke Counties,
Georgia.
Theirs were very special oc
casions. Instead of swimming,
boating, sightseeing and other
activities usually associated
with 4 ‘two weeks of care-free
living” prayer and apostolic
activity, as well as occasional
relaxation filled the time these
members of the Christian fam
ily Movement spent on the Geor
gia Missions under the direc
tion of Father John Garvey and
Father Francis Ellis, pastor
and assistant pastor res
pectively, of Sylvania’s Church
of Our Lady of the Assump
tion.
Aided by their 4 ‘lay vacation
er’s”, Father Garvey and El
lis have been visiting the com
munities in the four county
area of the parish displaying a
Trailer Chapel and seeking
to acquaint the people of many
small towns with the beliefs
and practices of the Catholic
Faith.
The chapel would be set up
in a particular area for two
or three days, and residents
invited to come and see it.
Laymen and women who ac
companied the priest would
spend part of each afternoon
visiting the homes in the area,
extending an invitation to
"come, see our Church”, and
availing themselves of an op
portunity to meet and chat with
residents.
These Christian Family
Movement volunteers brought
their children with them as well
as their own teen age baby sit
ters, to take care of the young
sters while their mothers and
fathers worked with the priests
and trailer chapel. As many as
thirteen laypeople plus pastor
and assistant have been on hand
at one time at the parish, making
the living quarters there their
base of operations. The priests
took up temporary residence at
a nearby motel.
The Christian Family Move
ment is a Catholic lay organi
zation with headquarters in Chi
cago, Illinois. Men and women
members, as part of their apos
tolic work volunteer their year
ly vacations to help priests in
areas of the United States where
the Catholic population is pro
portionately low, and since it is
a "family vacation” everyone,
from infants to teen-agers come
with mother and dad.
Father Garvey summed up the
purpose of this summer activ
ity as 4 ‘giving the people of the
four counties in our parish a
chance to see and meet their
Catholic neighbors and an op
portunity to see what the inside
of a Catholic Church looks like,
because our Trailer Chapel is
a church in miniature. There is
an interest in the Catholic
Church, even on the part of many
who have traditionally looked
upon it with suspicion, and their
was a very generous response to
the invitations extended by our
Christian Family Movement
missioners. And we priests
have found that this summer ac
tivity has enabled us to meet
friends whom we might not
otherwise have had occasion to
contact.
theological bases of religious
liberty.
There was agreement, the
spokesman said, that the key
point in a theology of religious
liberty is the necessity that the
individual’s acceptance of faith
be free and voluntary.
Attending the two-day meet
ing (August 6 and 7) at the
Conrad Hilton Hotel were 149
Bishops from all over the
country. They were meeting to
hear reports and discuss sche
mata that will be voted on during
the second session of the Vati
can council, which opens Sep
tember 29 in Rome.
Bishops who are members of
the various commissions of the
ecumenical council presented
reports to the meeting on the
streamlining of commission
schemata which have been re
vised since the council’s first
session ended early in Decem
ber.
The briefings dealt with such
subjects as the liturgy, the
missions, seminaries and
schools, and the office of the
episcopacy.
Attendance at the meeting was
"completely voluntary and un
official,” Archbishop Patrick
A. O’Boyle of Washington,
chairman of the Administrative
Board, National Catholic Wel
fare Conference, said in a state
ment.
"Our sole purpose was to
inform ourselves precisely on
the doctrinal issues which will
come up for debate when we re
turn to Rome in the fall,” he
said.
Archbishop O'Boyle added:
"We are convinced that this
preparation will enable us to
understand clearly the differ
ence in attitudes which will un
doubtedly be expressed by coun- "
cil Fathers who will address us.
"Each of us will then be in a
position to cast a vote in accor
dance with the personal convic
tions we have arrived at from
our own deep study of the issues
and our reaction to the opinions
of those who will speak to us.”
Meetings similar to the one
here have been or will be held
by bishops in many other coun
tries. The Bishops of Spain
are scheduled to meet in Sep
tember to prepare for the coun
cil. The bishops of 18 dioceses
in the Piedmont region of Italy
met recently to study reports
submitted by various commis
sions on topics relating to the
council.
In July, a group of experts
in theology, canon law, Scrip
ture and social action met at
Ottawa University to prepare
reports for the Canadian Bi
shops on major council topics.
Archbishop John J. Krol of
Philadelphia was chairman of
the U. S. Bishops' meeting here.
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Archbishop Of Hue
Gives Two Lectures
On May 8 Incident
CHRISTIAN FAMILY MOVEMENT VOLUNTEERS are pictured setting up trailer chapel
at Sardis, Georgia.
HUE, Vietnam, (Radio,NC)—
Archbishop Ngo dinh Thuc of
Hue, elder brother of Presi
dent Ngo dinh Diem, has given
two lectures in his see city "to
dispel misunderstandings be-
* tween non-Catholics and Catho
lics resulting from the events
of May 8 when eight persons
were killed in Hue.
The Archbishop said that an
onymous letters had blamed him
in connection with the tragedy.
In the first lecture (July 26),
he said that he had offered to
pay one million piastres ($13,-
605) to the victims’ families if
inquiry commissions repre
senting various religious found
the Catholic Church respon
sible.
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"If Catholic civil servants
were guilty of persecuting Bud
dhists as Buddhists, the Catho
lic Church would be responsi
ble only if persecutors had ac
ted in accordance with the
teachings of the Church and
orders of the Catholic hier
archy. This we challenge the
Buddhist Association to
prove.”
In the second lecture (Aug.
9), he said: "If today I must
raise my voice, it is not to
criticize my Buddhist brothers,
but only to defend my religion
against the unjustified attacks
by a small group belonging
to the Buddhist General As
sociation for fear that any non-
Catholic brothers will be led
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