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f f PAGE 4—The Southern Cross, September 19, 1963 Farewell And Welcome Father John Crean is dead. He spent the last several years of his life in semi-re tirement because of ill health, and outside the city of Augusta he was probably not well known, except to his brother priests. But his death is a tragic loss for all of us. The death of a priest is always tragic. Not because a man has died, but because there is removed from our midst one who was taken from among men and * ‘ordained for men in the things that appertain to God, that he might offer gifts and sacrifices for sin”—one who was called by Christ to share in His eternal Priesthood and to be a co worker with Him in bringing God to men and men to God. Father Crean’s death means that the Dio cese and the world is poorer. For, there is one less priest to stand at the Altar of God and, in the Name and place of Jesus Christ, to offer to the Eternal Father the Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity of the Redeemer on behalf of sinful mankind, helping to continue until the end of time the Sacrifice of Calvary and the intercessory office of the Second Person of the Blessed Trinity. There is one less priest to bring to souls the saving Grace of Baptism and to minds and hearts, the precepts and teachings of Divine Revelation. There is one less priest to nuture souls with the Body of Christ in Holy Communion, to heal them from the wounds of sin in the Sacred Tribunal of Penance, and to help them on their way to God with the forgiving and strengthening Graces of Extreme Untion. But, if to lose such a one is tragic, to gain a priest is joy, and to gain four, a great blessing, indeed. On the same day that God called Father Crean to Himself, three young priests arrived in Savannah from Ireland and a fourth was on his way. For the next two years they will exercise their priestly functions in the Dio cese of Savannah, filling the void left by the death of another—and continuing the wonder fully generous tradition which brought Father Crean and so many other priestly sons of Ireland to labor in this part of Christ’s vine yard, so far from home and loved ones. We bid Father Crean a prayerful farewell, secure in the Faith that if we remain close to Christ we shall surely‘see him again, and share with him in the eternal happiness of Heaven. And we welcome with gratitude Fathers Cotter, Keane, O’Brien and Murphy assuring them and their generous families across the sea of prayerful best wishes for fruitful ser vice in Christ’s Church in the Diocese of Savannah. Senate Paper Says Reds Will Try To Flood’ U.S. Campuses With Speakers By J. J. Gilbert WASHINGTON, — Commu nists in the United States are about to make an intensive ef fort to attract the attention, and allegiance, of young people. This is the warning of the U. S. Senate Internal Security Subcommittee, which advises that ‘‘the Communist party plans to flood American Col lege campuses with speakers this fall in an effort to revive its national youth organiza tions.” The Subcommittee issues its warning in the form of a mono graph, whose author it de scribes as having been in the Communist movement for four years, but who broke with it in 1950. The monograph quotes from a letter which it says “has been sent out by Arnold Johnson, a member of the National Com mittee of the Communist Par ty, to all editors of college newspapers and student coun cils.” It says “Johnson sign ed the letter as director of the Lecture and Information Bureau, Communist Party, U. S. A.” “May we request you to in vite representatives of the Communist party to speak at forums of the student body of your school in the 1963-64 col lege year, whither in the form of lecturers, participants in symposia, or in debates. Du ring the past year, Communist spokesmen addressed more than 30 colleges and univer sities which (appearances) were attended by approximately 75,000 students and townspeo ple.” The monograph quotes J. Ed gar Hoover, Director of the Federal Bureau of Investiga tion, as having reported that “from late October 1961 to May 1962, leaders of the Commu nist Party, U. S. A., made 48 speeches before groups of college students all across the nation.” It is said in connection with the monograph that the Com munist youth movement in the U. S. “ceased to exist in the wave of disillusionment caused by Khrushchev’s 1957 speech denouncing Stalin.” But, it is pointed out, “the desire of the Communists to organize American young people has not subsided. As the older mem bers of the Communist party die off or go to prison, new ca dres are needed to fill the ranks.” And so, it is said, “in the coming year, communist ac tivists will appear on the na tion’s campuses giving lec tures.” It is warned that some “will appear as open members of the Communist party,” but others will appear as repre sentatives of other committees and groups. Example For Teen-Agers-St. Maria Goretti Jottings “How great is the error of those who consider virginity as the effect of ingorance and ingenuous of little souls without passion, without ardor, without experience and therefore ac cord it only a smile of pity.” Pius XII on occasion of ca nonization of Maria Goretti. TWO family magazines gear ed to the college age student feature articles in their current issues on the college student’s attitude toward sex. “Lady Chatterly Goes to College” and “Has Chastity a Chance at Col lege” were the articles’ titles. While plaids and stripes are in vogue, it would seem that vir ginity was out of vogue if we were guided by these two arti cles. Sex is part of the package for the football weekend we are told and also that most girls are embarrassed to admit they are virgins. In a recent issue of the “Journal of the National Association of Women Deans and Counsellors,” a featured article stated that “Sexual in tercourse before marriage is increasing on college campus es.” Sarah Gibson Blanding, former Vassar president, made front-page headlines all over the nation last year when she stated that standards of behav ior expected of Vassar students include. . ."avoidance of pre marital sex relationships.” Her critics were loud and legion. In the interem two name col leges in the Vassar league have done everything but condone such action in their liberal checkout privileges and permits for visiting in men’s dormi tories. When I suggested to one college educator that she con gratulate Dr. Blanding for her (By Barbara C. Jencks) stand in this matter, the ans wer was why should she be commended for upholding the Ten Commandments,^only what was to be expected. NOT TOO LONG ago, this newspaper featured a story of the increased number of unwed mothers. A supervisor of Ca tholic Charities was quoted as saying: “More and more nice kids from good Catholic fami lies are coming to this agency in pregnant conditions.” It was found that many Catholic youngsters, products of Catho lic schools, were among the victims. One doctor recently told me that “this is indeed a sex diseased age.” For too long sex has been taboo, presented as a negative subject, some thing forbidden, wrong, against the Sixth or Ninth Command ment. The mystery, sanctity and beauty of sex in its proper setting was never stressed. The following came to me in part of a recent letter: “I think I told you that 3 girls with whom Joan went through high school had babies after 6 months of mar riage. Joan was completely shaken, cried herself to sleep after the news about the third girl who was very close to her. She said to Robert (her bro ther): ‘Aren’t there any good boys left?’ to which Robert said, 'Well, there’s me and Jimmie and John (her other brothers) but I don’t know how many others.’ It’s true about the Murphy boys, and a sad commentary about the rest of the male population.” This let ter over simplifies but is indi cated of the times. SEX IS presented attractively in all its distorted and forbidden forms. We fail in bringing to youth the beauty and strength of sex as God intended it to be. Youth today are heroic who deny these occasions of sin. The temptations come in all forms: magazines, newspapers, television, movies, advertise ments,- music! Sex is used to “sell” everything from chew ing gum to tractors. The posi tive element in chastity has not been stressed enough, it seems to me. No better thought on the subject have I found than this quotation from Pope Pius XII when he canonized a teen-age saint whose example today is so needed: * * * “How can he who has sur rendered without a struggle imagine what strength it re quires to dominate without a moment’s weakness, the secret stirrings and urgings of the senses and of the heart which adolescence has awakened in our fallen nature? To resist, without a single compromise the thousand little curiosities which impel one to see, to lis ten, to taste, to feel and thus approach the lips to the intoxi cating cup and inhale the deadly perfume of the flower of evil. Our beata was a strong soul. She knew and understood, and this is precisely why she pre ferred to die. She was not merely an innocent ingenue in stinctively frightened by the shadow of sin. She was not sustained by a natural feeling of modesty. No. Though still young she already gave signs of the intensity and depth of her love for her Divine Redeemer.” 10k 'f', . RENEWAL OF CHURCH The Scandal In England It Seems to Me JOSEPH BREIG The truly religious—and truly human—reaction to events such as the recent vice scan dal in England is to pray for those unfortunately involved. And the prayers must not be in any sense p atronizing, or touched with the faintest trace of superior ity or smug ness or com- p 1 a c ency. They should be prayers filled with the love of God and of fellow human beings whom God created as His images, whom He loves, and for whom He died. Not even the famous state ment, “There, but for the grace of God, go I,” is good enough. It is not humble enough. It im plies that the person who says it feels that the person in the gutter is more of a sinner than he. Such a judgment could be made only by God, Who alone knows all that is involved in our lives. THE BETTER, the perfect at titude is that of St. Paul, who said that he chastized his body and brought it into subjection lest, having preached toothers, he himself fall. Even when he was driven, in defense, to seem to boast of his Jewishness, of his sufferings and sacrifices, and of his supernatural visions, Paul’s humility shone through every word; his writing stammered with the bottomless embarrass ment of the profoundly humble man. All our progress is made through humility. Someone has said that the great scientific discoveries are made because somebody sat down humbly, like a child, before the facts of na ture, acceping them as they are, accepting without ques tion the conclusions that came from the study of them. WE USED TO look down upon the town drunk, spurn or avoid him, or at best josh him and perhaps now and then read him a lecture. But at last some body had the humility to see that there was something about him —something in his physical or psychological makeup, or both —which made it impossible for him to drink rationally. And so, out of humility, Alcoholics Ano nymous was born; and who can estimate the good, it has done and will do, the tears it will dry and has dried, the wisdom it has taught us about helping and not condemning the other chap? It was so, too, with the men tally disturbed, and retarded; with the leper; with any unfor tunate you care to name. Out of humility came the studies which have taught us what we know about mental disorders, anden- You Can Be Mistake Proof Cod’s World “Recently, in company with a priest friend, I was on my way to attend an important meeting in a distant parish. My friend was driving the car and soon he had me worried as to whether we would make the meeting at all. “We turn right here,” I said, and he proceeded to turn left. “We’re going north,” I in sisted, “and we’re headed south.” It was an overcast day, but I had confi dence in my sense of direction. “Now just relax,” my friend soothed me. “We’ll get there.” Strangely enough, after one or two more (I wasn’t sure) wrong turnings, we did arrive well on time. “You should have had more trust in me and enjoyed the scenery,” my friend chid ed, jokingly. When did I ever lead you astray?” This little incident illustrates rather well a frequent occur rence in our relationship with God. In the lives of most of us there must be many times when, if we could catch His voice, we would hear God say, “Whydon’t (By Leo J. Trese) you have more trust in Me? Why don’t you relax and enjoy life more? When did I ever lead you astray?” It is strange that there should be so much doubt and uneasi ness in our lives when the re cipe for peace of mind is so simple. If we try always and to the best of our ability to do God’s will as we see it, we cannot ever be wrong. Conse quently we can move through life with much greater confidence and serenity. The formula is as simple as that. So often it happens that, fac ed with an important decision, we find ourselves anxious lest we decide wrongly. Then, after the decision is made, we con tinue to worry for fear that we may have made a mistaken choice. Yet, if our decisions all are made on the basis of, “What under these conditions, would God probably want me to do?” how can we ever go astray? “Yes, that sounds easy,” you may reply. “The trouble is that I cannot always be sure that I have discerned God’s will cor rectly. Suppose that I have tried to figure out what God would want me to do, but I guess wrong? This is what worries me,” The answer is that there cannot be a wrong choice as long as that choice has been made in accordance with God’s will, insofar as you can detect His will. Let us assume that you are faced with an important decis ion: to marry this man (or wo man) or not; to enter the con vent (or seminary) or not; to accept this new job and move your family to another city, or not; to place your mother in a home for the aged, or not. You pray earnestly for the guid ance of the Holy Spirit. You seek competent advice if that seems called for. You weigh the ad vantages and disadvantages, not only for yourself but also for others involved. You honestly try to eliminate purely selfish motives from your assessment of the situation. You truly do try to look at the matter from God’s point of view. Then you make your decision. Now, if you have done all this, then your decision will be the right one even though, from a human point of view, it after wards seems that you were mis taken in your choice. This is the beauty of acting in accordance with God’s will: even when you are wrong you will be' right. (Continued on Page 5) Relief Unit TAIPEI, Formosa, (NC) — The U. S. Catholic relief agen cy here opened its storehouses to the victims of typhoon Glo ria, which smashed across nor thern Formosa, leaving hun dreds dead and 30,000 or more homeless. Catholic Relief Services— CYO To Hear Hoover National Catholic Welfare Con ference ordered all powdered milk—about 400,000 pounds— at its port warehouse distribu ted to the seven worst-hit coun ties. The agency also converted all flour stored in the city into bread, 12,000 pounds in all. Father Francis O’Neill, M. M., directing this work, re ceived an SOS from one stric ken county with 15,000 people in dire need. All flour, wheat and oil earmarked for routine distribution was sidetracked for this emergency. The worst floods in the his tory of Taipei inundated this city. Thousands of families, in cluding Americans living here, were made homeless. St. Chris topher’s church, which has a largely American congregation, was flooded, with mud covering the altar. NEW YORK, (NC) - FBI Di rector J. Edgar Hoover will be a featured speaker at the National Catholic Youth Organi zation convention here, No vember 14 to 17. Hoover will receive the CYO’s 1963 “Pro Deo et Ju- ventute” (For God and Youth) Award at the convention’s ban quet on November 16. He will then address delegates. Francis J. Darigan, a junior at Providence (R. I.) College and president of the National CYO—Teenage Section, will de liver the keynote address onNo- vember 14. More than 7,000 teenagers and young adults are expected at the gathering. Other major speakers will be Msgr. George A. Kelly, director of the Family Life Bureau, Archdiocese of New York, and Msgr. Terrence J. Cooke, chancellor of the archdiocese and past associate youth di rector of the See. U. S. Bishops To Help Press abled us to be of assistance in stead of standing aside, if not in pride and superiority, then at least in bewilderment and fear. Once we gave the leper a bell to ring so that we could avoid him; now we love him and arrest his disease. IT HAS BEEN so with tuber culosis, with polio, with small pox, with scarlet fever; humility and love of fellowmen have worked wonders of healing and prevention where mistaken love of self left the problems un solved and left fellowmen suf fering. There are civilizations on earth today where a person can die unhelped in the street because he becomes the respon sibility of whomever goes to his assistance. But love of God and fellowmen, and humility, cause us to seek out others to assist them. In the area of sex, wfehaveas yet not done much. We have not succeeded in seeing clearly the sacredness of sex. Not seeing the vision, we have not commu nicated it to the young. In this the books have failed; the poets and dramatists have failed; the movies and TV have failed, but we need not go on failing; not if we learn to see in such prob lems as that of England’s scan dal a summons to prayerful, humble seeking of ways to con quer this physical- psycho logical problem as we have conquered so many others. ROME, (NC) — The U. S. Bishops are reviving the brief ing sessions which assisted American newsmen, covering the first session of the Second Vatican Council. The U. S. Bishops’ Press Panel, which will provide clar ification and background mater ial on the subject matter dis cussed by the council fathers, will function again attheNCCS- USO club at Via della Concilia- zione 2, near St. Peter’s Square. Sixty-three workshops, de bates and panel discussions will be packed into the four days. They will deal with politics, social justice, public morality, communism, the ecumenical movement, racial segregation the lay apostolate and juvenile delinquency. H Convention headquarters will be the New York Hilton Hotel. Kilmer’s Tree Bishop Ill In Red Jail HONG KONG, (NC)— A for mer Belgian cabinet minister was quoted here as saying that Chinese communist officials informed him that Bishop James E. Walsh, M. M., is ill. Bishop Walsh, Maryland- born Maryknoll missioner, was imprisioned in Shanghai in 1958. The communist regime announ ced in March of 1960 that he had been sentenced to a 20- year jail term for * ‘espionage.” He is now 72. NEW BRUNSWICK, N. J., (NC) - A stately white oak credited with inspiring Joyce Kilmer, World War I hero- poet, to write his famous poem, “Trees,” is no more. Dying of old age—it is be lieved to have been nearly 300 years old—the Kilmer Oak was taken down (Sept. 18) piece by ‘ 4 piece. The tree could not be felled or chopped down because of its tremendous crown. It had a branch spread of 108 feet and near-perfect symmetry. On Anti-Smut WASHINGTON, (NC) - A Ne braska congressman has pro tested opposition voiced by a committee of the New York City Bar Association to an anti obscenity bill he is sponsoring. Red-Murdered Priest Found ROME, (Radio, NC) — The grave of a French missioner kidnapped two years ago by Lao tian Reds has been found, it was reported to the mother- house of the Oblates of Mary Immaculate here. The body of Father Louis Leroy, O.M.I., was identified by fragments of his cassorkand by his height. Europeans are generally much taller than Laotians. Rep. Glen Cunningham of Ne braska said he does not believe the stand taken by the bar asso ciation’ s Committee on the Bill of Rights represents the po sition either of most members of the New York gr'oup or of lawyers throughout the country generally. The bar association com mittee, in reply to an inquiry from the House of Representa tives postal operations subcom mittee, had called the bill spon sored by Cunningham “dan gerous experimentation.” QUESTION BOX (By David Q. Liptak) Q. At the time of death, the soul is judged by God imme diately. Why then is the soul judged again on the last day? What is the difference between the particular and the general judgments? A. The dogmas of the parti cular and general judgments are of faith. One’s particular judg ment occurs immediately after death. The general judgment will follow the resurrection of all men in the body. THAT MAN SHOULD be judged at the moment of death is reasonable. Unlike human ar biters, God in his infinite wis dom requires no time in order to make a decision; he sees and understands the condition of a soul simply by willing to do so. FROM WHAT has been re vealed, moreover, it is not logi cal to think that man should be kept waiting for hours, or years, or even centuries, before he is judged for the way he has spent his life. After death man’s fate is sealed one way or another for all eternity; he cannot possibly affect his destiny one iota. SPECIFICALLY, one’s parti cular judgment consists in vividly realizing (1) one’s true state of soul, formed by the sum total of the free acts he per formed during life; (2) the right ness and inevitableness of one’s destiny; and (3) the presence of the Divine Judge to whom one is accountable—which is to say that the particular judgment is not so much a receiving of a (Continued on Page 5) The Southern Cross P. O. BOX 180. SAVANNAH. GA. Vol. 44 Thursday, September 19. 1963 No. 11 Published weekly except the last week in July and the last week in December by The Southern Cross, Inc. Subscription price $3.00 per year. Second class mail privileges authorized at Monroe, Ga. Send notice of change of address to P. O. Box 180, Savannah, Ga. Most Rev. Thomas J. McDonough, D.D.J.C.D., President Rev. Francis J. Donohue, Editor John Markwalter, Managing Editor Rev. Lawrence Lucree, Rev. John Fitzpatrick, Associate Editors