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Newspaper Page TextVol. 44, No. 10 10c Per Copy — $3 A Year SAVANNAH, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1963 Spiritual Sons Labor In Dublin First Step Taken Toward Possible Canonization Of American-Born Priest WASHINGTON, (NC)—The first step has been taken here toward the possible canoniza tion of an American-born priest who founded two religious com munities and a lay apostolic organization. An ecclesiastical court has been established to investigate the life and writings of F ather Thomas A. Judge, C. M., who died here November 23, 1933. Persons who knew Father Judge will testify before this group in the months ahead. Father Judge, a Vincentian priest, was founder of a com munity of priests and Brothers (the Missionary Servants of the Most Holy Trinity), a communi ty of nuns (the Missionary Ser vants of the Most Blessed Tri nity), and a lay organization (the Missionary Cenacle Apos- Lv tolate). The men’s community num bers 238 members staffing 93 missions in the United States / and Puerto Rico. Its headquar ters are in nearby Silver Spring, - Md. The women’s community has 522 members in 24 dioceses in the U. S. and in Puerto Rico. Its headquarters are in Phila delphia. The Missionary Cenacle Apostolate has some 2,000 members, chiefly in areas where the Trinity priests, Bro thers and nuns have their reli gious houses. The ecclesiastical court es tablished here is headed by Archbishop Patrick A. O’Boyle of Washington and includes sev- ' en priest-jurists and thepostu- lator of Father Judge’s cause, Father David O’Connor, M.S. SS.T. The seven priest-jurists are from sevel religious communi ties. All hold degrees in canon law and teach in seminaries near the Catholic University of America here. Father Judge is the first American-born priest to have FATHER JUDGE his beatification cause consid ered. The results of the local court’s investigation will be evaluated by the Vatican’s Sac red Congregation of Rites. Un der Church law, there must be proof of two miracles obtained through Father Judge’s inter cession for beatification and two more miracles for canoniza tion. The entire process of eval uation is expected to take many years. Thomas Augustine Judge was born in South Boston, Mass., August 23, 1868, the son of Irish immigrants. He helped his mother support the family of six children following his fa ther’s death in 1887. At the age of 21 he entered St. Vincent’s Seminary, Ger mantown, Pa. He was ordained a Vincentian priest in 1899. At the time of his ordination he was suffering from a serious case of tuberculosis and was expected to die soon. But he recovered and lived another 35 years. Between 1903 and 1915 Fa ther Judge was a member of Vincentian mission bands sta tioned at Germantown and at Springfield, Mass. He was ac tive in many parts of the eas tern U. S. as a preacher, con fessor and spiritual director. In 1909, as assistant pastor at St. John the Baptist church, Brooklyn, N. Y., he formed the nucleus of his lay apostolate group, which engaged in spiri tual and corporal works of mer cy, especially among immi grants. In 1915 Father Judge became superior of the Vincentians’ mission at Opelika, Ala. Unable to obtain nuns to start a school there, he brought in members of his lay apostolate group. It was from among them that the two religious communities ‘were formed, with their first head quarters at Holy Trinity, Ala. Father Judge was given per mission by his superiors in 1920 to devote his full time to development of the new groups he had founded. Under his direction, their work spread to many parts of the eastern and southern U. S. and to Puerto Rico. Father Judge himself was known for his warm friendli ness and his devotion to the spiritual life. Following his death here in 1933 Father Judge was buried at Holy Sepulchre Cemetery, Phil adelphia. The Holy See in 1958 granted pontifical status to the communities he founded. In the Diocese of Savannah three priests of the Missionary Servants of the Most Holy Tri nity, familiarly called Trinity Missioners, serve at Immacu late Conception Church, Dublin, and in thirteen neighboring counties of central Georgia. The life and works of Father Judge are reflected in the par ticular aim of the congregation: the preservation of the Faith through apostolic activity, com panioning of youth, and infusing a missionary spirit into the laity. Council Session In ’64? MUENSTER, Germany, (Ra dio, NC)—The ecumenical council will last at least through a third session in 1964, Bishop Joseph Hoeffner of Muenster told a press.conference here. The Bishop said that at the second council session opening September 29 the Fathers’ main points of discussion will be the liturgy, the sources of Revela tion and the nature of the Church. Since they will discuss these matters very thoroughly, Bishop Hoeffner said, the Fa thers will not have time to make necessary decisions on other council subjects. Therefore, the council will continue into 1964, he concluded. He spoke of the reunification of Christianity and said Chris tians must not forget that their divisions were caused by human failures but cannot be ended by human efforts alone. God’s grace is also needed, he stated. The Bishop commented on the meeting of German-speaking Bishops from Germany, Austria and Switzerland on council pro blems in Fulda at the end of August. He said that these Bi shops hope for a practical pas toral orientation of council de cisions. Bishop Hoeffner also said the German Bishops will work for a (Continued on Page 6) Savannah Catholic Club Newly Formed SAVANNAH—To promote closer Catholic social relation ships, the Savannah Catholic Club began its official operation on August 8, at the Cathedral Community Center with the election of its officers for the coming year. With the Constitution ratified by The Most Reverend Thomas J. MacDonough, D. D., Bishop of Savannah, on August 2, 1963, the Savannah Catholic Club elected Mr. Francis Cannarel- la president, Mr. Stanley Szy- manski vice-president, Miss Katherine Saunders secretary, and Miss Sandra Fikes treasu rer. The socials committee has elected Mr. Kirby Winters chairman while The Reverend Lawrence Lucree has accepted the position of moderator. Although the active member ship of thirty has more than tripled since the organization’s founding in May, 1963, the club is constantly seeking new mem bers, according to the presi dent. While membership is open to all Savannah area single Ca tholics and Catechumens who are out of high school, all appli cations are subject to the ap proval of the Executive Board of the organization. Meetings are held on the first and third Thursdays of each month at the Cathedral Com munity Center, 319 Abercom Street, at 8 p.m. Socials are held at the will of the majority of the membership, and a varie ty of affairs are planned for the coming year. Anyone inter ested in membership should contact one of the officers, the socials chairman, or the moderator. Marxism Still Condemned Pope Refutes Charge Church Going ‘Soft’ On Communism CASTE LG ANDO LFO, Italy, —His Holiness Pope Paul VI said here that the pastoral ef forts of the Church to meet to day’s problems does not mean that the Church has changed its mind about communism. Speaking to a group of Ital ian Bishops and priests who had just completed a week of study on "Pastoral Updating,” Pope Paul said: * ‘Let no one believe that this pastoral solicitude to which the Church gives so much attention in its program today signifies a change of judgment about the errors spread in our society and already condemned by the Church, such as atheistic Marx ism, for example.” The Pontiff said that * ‘to seek to apply careful and healing re medies to a contagious and le thal disease does not mean that one changes his opinion about it. It means rather that he seeks to combat it not only theoretically but also practical ly. It means that he follows di agnosis with therapy, that he applies healing charity to doc trinal condemnation.” At his special audience for the bishops and priests, who had come here from Orvieto where they held their study week, Pope Paul said that the theme of their studies has special ap plication to the ecumenical council. "Updating,” he said, is one of the council’s cheif concerns. Noting that it is a word that Pope J ohn inscribed in the pro gram of the council, Pope Paul said that when it is applied to the Church "it indicates the re lation between the eternal val ues of Christian truth and their insertion in the dynamic reality of human life, so extra ordinarily changeable today ... "It is a word which indicates the relative and experimental aspect of the ministry of sal vation, which has nothing more greatly at heart than to be efficacious and which sees how much of efficacy is conditioned by the cultural, moral and so cial state of the souls to which it is directed.” The Pope described the word "updating” as demonstrating the Church’s concern for doing away with outmoded practices, familiarizing itself with new forms, shortening the * ‘neutral izing distances” between itself and souls, and acquiring a know ledge of "new human phen omena.” In its efforts toward updating, the Pope continued, the Church has the fullest confidence "in the perennial application and productivity of the Gospel.” He went on: * ‘Updating is a word which may be mistaken for giving un due honor to capricious and fleeting fads . . . But instead it assigns due importance to the rapid and inexorable passing of the phenomena in which we live our lives, and it seeks to con form to the celebrated recom mendation of the Apostle:‘Make the most of your time, because the days are evil’ (Ephes. 5,16). "It is a word, therefore, which We also adopt with pleas ure as an expression of the charity which wishes to give testimony to the timelessness of the ecclesiastical ministry and therefore to its modern vi tality.” ’ Pope Paul stated that * ‘pas- (Continued on Page 5) SEMINARY REGISTRATION—Registration for freshmen at St. John Vianney Minor Seminary was held last Wednes day. Mrs. Betty Purdy (foreground) is pictured as she reg istered John Thimothy McDonough (3rd from left). John’s parents Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. McDonough of Sacred Heart parish, Savannah, are pictured to their son’s left. To the right of the photo Father William Coleman, Seminary Rec tor, is shown talking to newly registered Steve Cannon (4th from left), Mrs. William T. Cannon and Jimmy Over- street, Seminary Junior from Blessed sacrament parish, Savannah. The Cannons are members of Blessed Sacrament parish, Savannah.—(Ward Photo) For Latin America Social Action U. S. Companies Receive Praise SAN JUAN, Peru (NC) — “American businessmen have received too little credit for the outstanding work in social ac tion that they are performing in Peru and other Latin American countries,” Bishop Joseph M. Marling, C.PP.S., of Jefferson City, Mo., said here. Bishop Marling came to San Juan for the dedication of the Church of St. John the Baptist. Its pastor is Father William Savage, one of nine priests from the Jefferson City diocese lent to Peru to help relieve its cri tical shortage of priests. The church was built with the help of the Marcona Mining Corp., an American firm, and the Catholics of San Juan. The company paid half of the cost and the people the other half. The presence of the Jefferson City priests in this important PRAY FOR OUR PRIESTLY DEAD REV. J. B. LANG LOIS Sept. 16, 1876 REV. CHARLES M. REICH Sept. 17, 1917 Oh Cod, Who 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. mining center is part of an over all effort of the Church in Peru to provide improved spiritual attention in the country’s key industrial and productive areas. Until quite recently many of Peru’s booming industries were practically abandoned from the religious point of view. But within the last two years the Missioners of St. James the Apostle founded by Richard Cardinal Cushing, Archbishop of Boston, have moved into the city of Talara in Peru’s oil territory, and the priests of the Society of the Precious Blood from Dayton, Ohio, have staffed the town of La Oroya, the country’s most important mining center, controlled by Cerro de Pasco Corp. Jesuits from the Chicago Province are ministering to workers and supervisors in the vast copper mine of Toquepala. Within a few weeks the Eastern Province of the Holy Cross Fa thers will begin work on the sugar plantation of Cartavio, owned by Grace and Co. The social action program of the Marcona Mining Corp. is typical of efforts being made by most American firms in Peru to improve the lot of the work ers on every level. In many cases the companies did not take social action seriously un til about 10 years ago, and old er workers still recall old grievances. But Marcona has been inbus iness here only 10 years and is steadily improving the condi- SAVANNAH CATHOLIC CLUB— Bishop Thomas J. Mc Donough is pictured with members of the newly formed Savannah Catholic Club at their September meeting. Officers are seated: Miss Katherine Saunders, secretary and Miss Sandra Fikes treasurer. Officers standing:Francis Cannarella, president and Stanley Szymanski vice-president. —(Ward Photo). tion of the 10,000 workers and their families who live near the mine. The company runs schools educating 1,750 students. It has donated a small high school to the Diocese of lea, which is directed by a Peruvian priest. The company contributes $600 a month to the support of this school. A 60-bed hospital, with a staff of 11 doctors and 55 other per sonnel, handles 9,000 out patient calls a month and takes care of virtually all the medi cal and maternity needs of the entire population without charg es. Including health, welfare and educational benefits, the Mar cona Corp. will contribute close to one million dollars this year to Peruvian institutions. Bishop Marling stated at the church dedication ceremony that “while there is always room for improvement in any human endeavor, it is not just or fair to level a continuous stream of criticism at Ameri can investors in Latin America for their mistreatment of the workers.” Pointing to the hundreds of substantial brick and cinder- block houses constructed for the workers by the company, the Bishop added: “These houses are immeas- ureably better than homes these workers lived in in their moun tain villages. The mining com pany is building more and larg er houses every year and they certainly merit sincere praise for their effort.” Although he has only 120 diocesan priests in his diocese, Bishop Marling plans to send 13 to Peru within a three year per iod. Nine have already arrived. Bishop Alberto Dettman, O. P., of lea celebrated the Mass to mark the dedication of the new parish. Fifteen Ameri can priests, including Mission ers of the Society of St. James the 1 Apostle, and Maryknoll Fa thers attended the ceremony. More Hungarians Going To Council BUDAPEST, (Radio, NC)— Bishop EndreHamvas of Csanad told a meeting of the Hungarian Bishops’ Conference here (Sept 4) that the Church in Hungary will be represented at the ecu menical council’s second ses sion by a larger delegation than it was at the first session. Bi shop Hamvas, who is acting chairman of the conference, said the names of Hungarian participants will be announced later. New Orleans Schools Open Peacefully NEW ORLEANS, La., (NC)— Catholic schools of the Arch diocese of New Orleans began their second year of integrat ed classes September 3 without disturbances. Msgr. Henry C. Bezou, arch diocesan superintendent of schools, said he did not know how many Negroes were in the schools since the office does not keep records on the race of pupils. There were two trouble spots when schools opened last year. One was at Our Lady of Good Harbor school at Buras, 60 miles below New Orleans. The other was at Our Lady of Prompt Succor school in Westwego, ac ross the Mississippi riverfrom New Orleans. The Buras school was dam aged August 26 by a fire and explosion. Archbishop John P. Cody, Apostolic Administrator of New Orleans, has ordered the school closed. Last year it opened with integrated classes, but after a few days no students showed up. The school was boy cotted the entire year. At Westwego, school enroll ment last year dropped from nearly 800 students to about 250 when two Negro children attend ed classes. The enrollment there this September is up to about 600, including one ad ditional Negro child. Mass At Seminary Bishop McDonough was the celebrant of a Mass this morning officially marking the opening of the academic year at St. John Vianney Minor Seminary. Approx imately sixty boys are en rolled this year.