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Pope Paul’s
Work Progressing On Benedictine
The Southern Cross, August 29, 1963—PAGE 5
Summer Schedule
Almost As Heavy
As At Vatican
By Luciano Casimirri
(N.C.W.C NEWS SERVICE)
CASTELGANDOLFO, Italy,
(NC)—At 6 a. m. the alarm clock
rings in the bedroom of
His Holiness Pope Paul VI. The
Pope has hadfour, perhaps five,
hours of rest. Although he is
officially in residence at his
summer home here, he rises
for a workday just as long and
almost as crowded as at the
Vatican.
First, he goes to the prayer-
bench that stands near his bed.
He prays briefly, then gets
ready for Mass. By 7 he is
at the altar of his chapel. His
Mass is attended by his two
secretaries, Fathers Pasquale
Macchi and Father Bruno Bossi.
Immediately afterwards, he as
sists at Masses offered by his
secretaries. Then, with the two
priests, he recites the first
part of the breviary.
At 8:45 he breakfasts, still
with his two secretaries. The
breakfast is the usual conti
nental type, bread and coffee
liberally diluted with milk. At
breakfast the Pope glances
through the morning news
papers and exchanges com
ments on the news with his two
companions.
At 9 Pope Paul is in his
private office and at work. Us-
ally his meetings with officials
of Church and State are
arranged to begin at 10 and end
1 in the afternoon, which is
|[ds lunchtime. But his schedule
is not inflexible and never has
been. He lets each audience take
as much time as the person he
is seeing and the matter he is
discussing seem to require. As
result, the Pope’s lunch is
often delayed, sometimes un-
il 2 p. m.
Pope Paul lunches with
his two secretaries over the
usual Italian meal: soup or
some “pasta” such as spaghet-
i, meat or fish with side dishes
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of vegetables or salad and fruit.
Then he takes his afternoon
rest of an hour or an hour and
a half. At 4 he is up again and
takes a cup of coffee with his
secretaries. This is the time
he reserves to read the Vatican
City daily newspaper, L’Osser-
vatore Romano. Then he and his
secretaries go to chapel to
recite the breviary hours of
Terce, Sext, None and Vespers.
Usually, atCastelgandolfo, he
takes a walk in the gardens with
his two secretaries. Sometimes
he is joined by Dr. Emilio Bono-
melli, director of the pontifical
villas, who is a personal friend.
After the walk, the Pope sits
in some quiet corner of the gar
dens and reads. Often he reads
an article of particular interest
to him from some specialized
review.
Then, after about an hour, he
returns to his study to work
until about 6:30, when he has
a light dinner. He watches the
evening news on television,
which he otherwise does not look
at. Recently, however, he was
persuaded to watch a television
showing of the old American
movie, “Going My Way.”
After dinner and the evening
newscast, Pope Paul recites
the Rosary with his secretaries
as they walk on the terrace of
the papal summer residence.
Then he returns to his study
where he works at correspon
dence and speeches while the
phonograph plays symphonic
music.
At 11 he is once more in the
chapel with his secretaries to
recite the last hour of the
breviary, Compline. After re
maining in the chapel alone for
private prayer, he returns again
to his study where he works
until 1 or 2 in the morning.
Then to bed, with the clock set
for 6 a. m. just as it was when
he was Msgr. Montini, the of
ficial of the Papal Secretariat
of State, or Cardinal Montini,
Archbishop of Milan.
Gives Okay
To New Law
‘ Mich., (NC) —
Attorney General
LANSING,
Michigan’s
has given his stamp of appro
val to a new state law which
requires school districts ope
rating school buses to trans
port nonpublic school pupils.
Frank J. Kelley said that
tax-paid bus rides for chil
dren in parochial andotherpri-
vate schools are a public wel
fare benefit, not related to re
ligious purposes.
He said that such bus rides
have been found constitutional
by the U. S. Supreme Court.
He added that it is “clear”
that the high court also holds
that public welfare benefits can
not be denied a person because
of his religion. To do so, he
said, would violate the Federal
Constitution’s First Amend
ment.
Work is progressing on the new Benedictine Military School in Savannah. Upper photo
shows workmen working on the Gymnasium. Lower photo shows Cafetorium.
Year Ahead Of Schedule
Charleston Area Catholic
Schools To Be Integrated
CHARLESTON, S. C., (NC)—
Integration of Catholic schools
in the Charleston area will take
place at the end of August, a
year ahead of schedule, Bishop
Franois F. Reh has announced.
The Bishop of Charleston said
in a statement (Aug. 23) that the
date was advanced from Sep
tember, 1964, in a view of a re
cent Federal district court or
der calling for desegregation of
public school district 20 in
Charleston.
Bishop Reh said that “be
cause of the new circumstan
ces which will now exist in
Charleston as a result of the
court decision, attention had to
be given to the proviso” of a
1961 pastoral letter of the dio
cese that stated: “Catholic pu
pils, regardless of color, will be
admitted to Catholic schools as
soon as this can be done with
safety to the children of the
schools. Certainly, this will be
done not later than the public
schools are open to all pupils.”
“It was agreed,” the Bishop
continued, * ‘that the date of im
plementation would have to be
advanced from September, 1964
to September, 1963, for Catho
lic schools of greater Charles
ton.
* ‘Accordingly, the admission
policy of the Catholic schools in
the Charleston area is now as
follows: Greater Charleston is
divided into 10 territorial par
ishes. While the churches of
these territorial parishes have
been open to all, regardless of
color, there are two other par
ishes which primarily serve the
Negro Catholics of the area.”
“As of September, 1963, Ca-
Federal Aid Still Top Issue
(Continued from Page 3)
vide for transportation of non
public school children out of
special funds, other than those
allocated to public schools.
When the House Judiciary Com
mittee killed this bill, a spon
taneous movement developed
among Catholic parents to en
roll their children in the public
schools.
This movement was in no way
sponsored by the Church, but
represented the reaction of Ca
tholics as taxpaying citizens.
The effect on public school au
thorities was shocking, as in
most districts classroom space
and funds to take care of the
new enrollments were lacking.
The initial impetus of the move
ment seems to have abated and
no one will predict the eventual
outcome.
A resolution proposing a con
stitutional amendment to permit
taxpaid bus rides for parochial
school pupils was subsequently
introduced, but was killed in the
House Constitutional Amend
ments Committee by a vote of
six to five.
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The United States Supreme
Obituaries
Charles F.
Powers, Sr.
SAVANNAH — Funeral ser
vices for Mr. Powers were
held August 23rd at Blessed
Sacrament Church, with the
Rev. Edward R. Frank officiat
ing.
He served five times as fore
man of the Chatham County
Grand Jury in the 1950’s and was
a member of the City Pension
Board and the Chatham County
Board of Registrars until he
resigned in 1957.
He was a past president of
the Catholic Community Cen
ter, Savannah Golf Club, and
the Kiwanis Club, and in 1957
was .named grand marshal of
the annual St. Patrick’s Day
parade.
A native of Savannah, he was
said to be the oldest living cap
tain of a football team in the
area, having been the captain
of the Savannah High School
team in 1899-1900.
He was a member of Bles
sed Sacrament Church, a mem
ber of the Knights of Columbus,
the Hibernian Society, the Ogle
thorpe Club, and the Savannah
Lodge NOi 183 of the Elks.
Surviving are six sons, Ri
chard J. Rowers, Eugene P.
Powers and Robert F. Powers,
all of Savannah, Charles
F. Powers, Jr., of Raliegh,
N. C., Lt. Col. John J. Powers
of Fort Stewart and Maj.
Terence A. Powers, of Nor
folk, Va.; three daughter, Mrs.
Arnold J. Seyden of Savannah
Beach, Sister M. Felicitas,
R.S.M., of Macon and Mrs. Eu
gene D. Entelmann of Savannah;
23 grandchildren and two
great-grandchildren.
Mrs. Joseph S.
Dawicek
SAVANNAH—Funeral serv
ices for Mrs. Mary Sheehan
Dawicek were held August 27th
at the Cathedral of St. John the
Baptist.
Survivors include her hus
band, Joseph S. Dawicek of
Winter Park, Fla.,- three sis
ters, Mrs. John J. Foran Sr.,
Mrs. Fenn Peck, and Mrs. J.
Vaughn Armand, all of Savan
nah, John T. Sheehan of Savan
nah Beach, and several nieces
and nephews.
Court, in 1929, held in Cochran
v. Louisiana State Board of
Education, 281 U. S. 370, S.
Ct. 335, that a Louisiana sta
tute authorizing the furnishing
of textbooks to parochial school
pupils did not constitute use of
state funds for a private pur
pose. Subsequently pupils of
parochial schools participated
in textbook programs in Mis
sissippi, New Mexico and Ore
gon. However, the Oregon Su
preme Court has declared the
statute of that state invalid in
Dickman v. School District, 366
P. 2d 533.
Although the statute authori
zed free textbooks for pupils
of schools rated as “standard,”
which classification included
qualified schools in both public
and nonpublic categories, the
Court held extension of such
benefits to pupils of denomina
tional schools, even though qua
lified as “standard,” violated a
state constitutional provision
prohibiting use of public funds
“for the benefit of any religious
or theological institution.”
It also disagreed with the
views of the Supreme Court of
the United States expressed in
the Cochran case (as well as
in the later case of Everson v.
Board of Education, 330 U. S. L
67 S. Ct. 711, where it upheld
the constitutionality of a New
Jersey statute authorizing
transportation of pupils attend
ing parochial schools)that as
sistance furnished to pupils of
parochial schools was to the
child itself, rather than the
school. An attempt was made to
appeal to the Supreme Court of
the United States, but the latter
declined to accept jurisdiction,
Carlson v. Dickman, 83 S. Ct.
41.
Rhode Island has enacted a
statute under which the State
will furnish free textbooks on
a loan basis to pupils of paro
chial and other nonpublic
schools in such subjects as
science, mathematics and mod
ern languages. It is not known
if this statute will be attacked
in the courts.
SHARED TIME
While there have been no
spectacular developments, in
terest in the shared time ap
proach appears to be increas
ing. This is a plan under which
students enrolled in a parochial
school may attend additional
classes in nearby public
schools.
The ideal arrangement would
be one in which the student
takes his religious and religi
ously oriented, subjects in a
parochial school and such sub
jects as mathematics, science,
or languages in a public school.
At the present time it is utilized
principally to enable parochial
school pupils to take courses
in vocational subjects and
others requiring extensive la
boratory equipment.
In Bay City, Michigan, Catho
lic high school students were
enrolled for trigonometry,
drafting, vocational subjects,
languages and homemaking in a
public high school.
In an Iowa town, the public
high school chemistry class is
open to Catholic high school
pupils. Shared time in manual
training has been available for
many years in some districts of
Pennsylvania and has been suc
cessfully introduced in some
Missouri districts.
Thus far shared time has not
been involved in litigation. A
prosecuting attorney in Hamil
ton, Ohio, ruled in July 1962
that there were no constitu
tional or legal objections
against a school district ad
mitting parochial school pupils
to its classes in manual train
ing, industrial arts and domes
tic science.
It has been discussed exten
sively in both Catholic and pub
lic educational circles. In the
discussion of federal aid it was
mentioned that Senator Ribicoff
has suggested Federal assis
tance and some other members
of Congress appear^sympathe-
tic. Its potentialities in actual
operation have not yet been ex
plored. j.
Whether it is a solution, or a
partial solution, on the issue
of public assistance for paro
chial education, has not been as
certained. Quoting from Mon
signor C. O’Neil D’Amour of the
National Catholic Educational
Association: “It is a compro
mise of our concept of total
education, but a compromise we
are willing to make.”
For Notre Dame
Sound And Light
Pageant Marks
800 th Year
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churches,
By Martial Massiani
PARIS, (NC)—A stirring pa
geant of “Sound and Light” is
reviving the 800-year history
of Notre Dame cathedral here
every evening this summer.
Paris is marking the eighth
centenary of its famous cathe
dral, started in 1163 by Bishop
Maurice de Sully of Paris on
the lie de la Cite, small island
in the Seine where the Parisians
their first Christian
and, before that,
their first pagan altars.
Presiding over the centenary
committee are Maurice Cardi
nal Feltin, Archbishop of Paris;
newly-elected Mayor Jean Au-
burtin of Paris; and former
French Ambassador to the Holy
See, Wladimir d'Ormesson.
Liturgical ceremonies set for
June 16 to 23 were called off
when Pope John XXIII died, but
the “Sound and Light”
pageant lights up Notre Dame’s
glories from 9:00 to 11:00 p.m.
through September 8. During the
evenings, 272 colored spotlights
play on the cathedral’s gar
goyles, towers, pillars, statues,
flying buttresses and stained
glass windows. A burst of fire
works closes each night’s show.
A commentary during the pa
geant, broadcast over loud
speakers, recalls highlights of
the history Notre Dame has
known.
Pope Alexander III laid the
cornerstone for the cathedral
during a month’s stay in Paris
in 1163. A papal legate conse
crated the main altar in 1182
and the towers were finally
finished in 1235.
In 1239, the Crown of Thorns
was deposited in the cathedral
by St. Louis IX, King of France,
who then built the Sainte-Cha-
pelle, also on the lie de la
Cite, to house the relic.
The first States-General or
Parliament of France assem
bled at Notre Dame on April
10, 1302. Henry VI, King of
England, was crowned King of
France there on November 17,
1431.
The cathedral was desecra
ted during the French Revo
lution at the end of the 18th
century. Many precious objects
were taken from Notre Dame’s
treasuty and sent to the mint
to be melted down. In October,
1793, the Paris Commune or
dered statues of kings on the
cathedral porch destroyed. On
November 7, Notre Dame was
dedicated to the worship of the
atheistic goddess of Reason.
Catholic worship was re
stored on April 18, 1802, and
Napoleon was crowned Emperor
of the French there on De
cember 2, 1804.
Thqp French author Victor
Hugo aroused strong public sen
timent for the cathedral by his
novel, “Notre Dame de Paris,”
and in 1844 the government
decided to restore it. The re
stored cathedral was dedicated
on May 31, 1864.
The church has had the title
of a minor basilica since Feb
ruary 27, 1805.
tholic Negro elementary stu
dents who belong to these two
speical parishes have a choice
of attending either the school
which is operated by these par
ishes or the school of the ter
ritorial parish in which they
reside.”
The two “speical parishes”
referred to , St. Peter’s and
Our Lady of Mercy, are at
tended primarily by Negro Ca
tholics. The parishes operate
Immaculate Conception school,
which has 407 Negro children,
202 of them Catholics. These
children now may attend either
Immaculate Conception Ele
mentary School or the school
of the territorial parish in which
they reside.
There are nine schools for the
10 territorial parishes, includ
ing Immaculate Conception, and
they have had a total enrollment
of 3,200 students.
Jottings
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any or every form of suffering
or trouble with which it is
brought in contact. . .It does not
cut up the creatures of God into
departments, pitying and feeling
for some, but pitiless towards
others. It is universal. It has
only to see what is pitiful to
feel pity. The person endowed
with this virtue is one who al
ways and everywhere displays
it. It is a personal characteris
tic, making the whole man
throughout his being sensitive,
gentle, easily moved to com
passion, whether to friend or
foe, to man or beast. The whole
character of man is merciful
. . .This is a very different
thing from the suprious forms
of mercy that are so common
around us.
The best selling “Noah’s
Ark” book of drawings and
prayers of animals on the Ark
is another example of material
available for those interested in
the
the celestial approach to
animal kingdom.
St. Thomas Aquinas express
ed this doctrine: “It is God’s
custom to be concerned about
all creatures, from the largest
to the smallest animals. By the
same token we must care for
all creatures, regardless of
what they may be, in order that
we may make use of them ac
cording to the divine intent, and
in such a way that, on the day
of the Last Judgment, they
should not attest to our wicked
ness.” (De moribus divinis,
Chapt. on “De cur a Dei de
creaturis.”)
Rt. Rev. Msgr. LeRoy E.
McWilliams, president, Na
tional Catholic Society for Ani
mal Welfare, which has a
monthly publication reminds:
“The first book of the Bible
tells us that God created the
animals and the birds. Hence,
they have the same Father’as
we do.”
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SAVANNAH, GEORGIA
India: “A Good Abode for fiur Jesus”
THE POOR CLARES of Our Lady of Lourdes Convent, in
the village of CHERPU in Southern India, have written: “A
k . £Jfo good number of lay peoole coine
if > (h. here to attend Holy Mass. They have
f f ‘ o to s * ant * i” the roa d to hear Mass
• *• We** desire greatly to bnild a
fUn chape?, a eood abode for our Jesus.
£ JHL ° But we cannot expect much from
d mSEr 4j§f|lf| ^ our neighborhood for our people
C" igP^ *** are very poor and the others are
+ fWU + mostly Hindus . . . We need $3,000
xjfrW f° r a c ^ a Pel.” Their Bishop adds a
pIIf note of approval and recommenda-
ppr tion . . . These heroic Sisters are
** devoting their lives to India’s people
in the full spirit of their wonderful
The Holy Father > Mission Aid f oun( j erSj St. Francis of Assisi and
for the Oriental Church St. Clare. Mavbe you would like to
help th^m, a little or a lot . . . Any
donation will be appreciated and the Sisters and their people
will pray for you as long as the chapel lasts. India is a country
where the message of Christ is known to relatively few—less
than two per cent of the population! . . . Yet it is a deeply
religious country, drawn to God. With your generous help, it
will one day be truly Christ’s abode!
CAN OLDER FOLKS BE IDEALISTS? We think so, even
though today’s emphasis is on youth. God bless the latter for
their generosity in the Peace Corps, Papal Volunteers and other
idealistic causes! Of course we cannot forget that wonderful
young man, the Apostle John, yet he was but one in a band of
a dozen! The older ones were just as dedicated.
SOME WAYS FOR OLDER OR YOUNGER APOSTLES
OF TODAY TO HELP:
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Educate a Sister like SR. MARIA ABRAHAM or SR. SARAH
OOMMEN for two years. Cost: $150 a year.
Help to educate a seminarian such as PAUL NARIPPARA or
GEORGE NIRAVATH. Cost: $100 a year for six years.
Give a STRINGLESS GIFT. It will be used where the
Father thinks the need is greatest.
Holy
BUILD A CHAPEL or SCHOOL. Cost: $2,000 to $6,000. What
a wonderful MEMORIAL for a loved one!
Send MASS STIPENDS. Often a priest’s only daily support
in- the NEAR and MIDDLE EAST.
Give a FOOD PACKAGE to a needy PALESTINE REFUGEE
FAMILY. It will help them for a month. Cost: $10. A
BLANKET for them costs only $2.
Join one of our MISSION CLUBS, helping orphans, the
aged, the training of seminarians and Sisters, lepers, sup
plying articles for chapels. Donation: SI a month whenever
you can send it!
Make any gift in the name of a friend or relative if you wish.
We’ll gladly notify them of yGur thoughtfulness.
KINDLY REMEMBER US IN YOUR WILL. OUR LEGAL
TITLE: CATHOLIC NEAR EAST WELFARE ASSOCIATION.
Membership in our society is $1 a year for a single person; $5
for a family. $20 for a permanent single membership: $100 for
a permanent family membership.
AND IN RETURN
If you are a member of the CATHOLIC NEAR EAST WEL
FARE ASSOCIATION, you share in the Masses offered by His
Holiness, Pope Paul VI. in the Masses of our President, Cardinal
Spellman, and in the Masses of all the Bishops and priests en
gaged in this work. 15,000 Masses each year are offered for the
living and the dead, and every morning a priest offers Mass in
St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome for deceased members!
fMlJlearGstOlissionsjMi
FRANCIS CARDINAL SPELLMAN, Preside
Msgr. Joseph T. tyoa, Not’l Sec*y
Send ad commonlcatioas to:
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480 Lexington Ave. at 46th St. New York 17, N. Y.