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t 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.” Vol. 44, No. 6 10c Per Copy — $3 A Year III". I II 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 (Continued on Page 5) 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 (Continued on Page 2) 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. (Continued on Page 2) 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. ■ L , . ■, fU i "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 (Continued on Page 2)