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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 IN AUGUSTA . . ./ MEMORIALS S.R. KELLY & SON, INC. PA 2-6972 T / AND SAVE $1.00 elevision Hospital TV Radio Hi-Fi Satisfaction Guaranteed 2127 Germain Drive Savannah, Georgia 355-6685 Irvine Henderson <y . Funeral Home PH. AD. 2-7181 Irvine C. Henderson Irvine C. Henderson, Jr. James E. Henderson, III 121 W. Hall St. SAVANNAH 0. In Savannah ... y OGLETHORPE MARBLE & GRANITE CO. East Broad at Waldburg St. TERMITES SWARMING? 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. TEXTBOOKS 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 built — f T1 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 (Continued from Page 4) 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.” y■ C > * O/radialtd Vi ta min-D ^ JLnmtt&s. 0 Over 40 Years of Dependable Courteous Service 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: □ □ □ □ □ □ □ □ 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: CATHOLIC NEAR EAST WELFARE ASSOCIATION 480 Lexington Ave. at 46th St. New York 17, N. Y.