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Buddhist Bonze Who Fled
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Intelligent Agressive
AUXILIARY BEGINS WORK—Pictured as the Auxiliary of St. Joseph’s Hospital,
Savannah, began its duties are left to right: Mrs. A. T. Fleming, Chairman Volun
teer Services; Mrs. Henry Dunn, Auxiliary President; Mrs. Ted E. Brown, Jr, Pub
licity Chairman and Mrs. Matthew J. Dwyar, Atlanta, Hospital Association Auxiliary
Representative.
Officers Installed
Auxiliary Begins Hospital Duties
The Southern Cross, September 19, 1963—PAGE 5
Name Grade Mothers
At Blessed Sacrament
By Father Patrick O’Connor
Society of St. Columban
SAIGON, Vietnam, (NC)—
Thich Tri Quang, the leading
Buddhist bonze who took refuge
in the American Embassy here
September 1, asked me once if
President Kennedy belonged to
the National Catholic Welfare
Conference.
I was interviewing him in
Tu Dam pagoda in Hue on May
31 to the accompaniment of
gongs and chanted prayers. He
scrutinized my card, studying
the words “Press Department
National Catholic Welfare Con
ference, Washington, D. C.”
He probably thought this might
be a Catholic association like
the associations of Buddhists,
who have no church.
“Does Kennedy belong to
this?” he asked, through an in
terpreter. I explained that
President Kennedy belonged in
no way to the National Catholic
Welfare Conference, nor did it
in any way belong to the U. S.
government.
(Continued from Page 4)
sentence but an actual confron
tation with the Divine Judge.
THE GENERAL JUDGMENT
or the last judgment will follow
the resurrection of the body,
when, in St. Thomas’ beautiful
phrase, “the work of the angels
is finished.” The resurrection
of the body, a truth also known
through revelation (e.g. “He
who raised Jesus Christ from
the dead will also bring life to
your mortal bodies:” Romans
VIII: 11; "But if there is no
resurrection of the dead,
neither has Christ risen”: I
Corinthians XV: 1-15), means
that all of man, and not only
his soul, is destined for eternal
life.
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He and three other bonzes
were then on a 48 hour fast
which they called a ‘ ‘hunger
strike.” He was reclining rest
lessly on a simple couch in a
little room behind the altar
of the pagoda and its large image
of Buddha. The three other
fasting bonzes sat on cushions
beside the image while Buddhist
boys of the Boy Scout organiza
tion were led in prayers facing
them. Outside in the pagoda
yard under five large Buddhist
flags hundreds of men, women
and youngsters were milling
around.
Tri Quang, aged 41, a native
of central Vietnam, is intelli
gent and aggressive. He had
proved himself an effective
speaker in haranguing crowds.
He is president of the Buddhist
Association of Central Vietnam,
a division of the General Budd
hist Association, the principal
agency in the recent agitation,
in which he was one of the ex
ecutive leaders. He knows some
English and more French. I put
WHY MUST THERE BE a gen
eral judgment? Why won’t the
particular judgment suffice?
THE ANSWER is that the gen
eral judgment will signal the
completion of God’s plan for the
human race, the ultimate vindi
cation of God’s mercy and jus
tice and the final triumph of
Christ the Redeemer.
AT THE general judgment,
all consciences will be open to
the gaze of all men, so that no
one can fail to recognize how
perfectly God has judged others
as well as oneself. And all will
be in absolute agreement as to
the righteousness of God’s deal
ings.
“TO PUT the fundamental
reason for the general judgment
in simple language,” wrote the
late Father Walter Farrell, "it'
would be enough to say that it
takes away from men for all
time any grounds for that com
forting activity we call grumb
ling; no sinner will make his
way back to hell mumbling ‘we
were robbed.’ ”
Obituaries
Miss Louise
Mitchelson
SAVANNAH—Funeral serv
ices for Miss Louise G. Mit
chelson were held at Blessed
Sacrament Church on Septem
ber 12th., Father Edward R.
Frank officiating.
Survivors include a sister,
Mrs. Emma M. Forester, and
several nieces and nephews.
my questions in French but he
did not reply directly to my
questions. His answers had to
come through a Vietnamese
interpreter.
Tri Quang admitted that at the
time of the May 8 clash in Hue
the province chief, who was also
mayor, the commanding general
of the corps area and govern
ment delegate for central Viet
nam, were all Buddhists.
In support of the Buddhist
case he asserted 80 per cent,
which he corrected immediate
ly to “the majority,” of govern
ment officials and military are
Buddhists.
He wanted me to pass judg
ment on the situation. I said I
was not there as a partisan of
either the government or the
Buddhists, that Catholics want
ed justice and freedom for peo
ple of all religions. I had come
to try to learn facts. He said
disapprovingly that my ques
tions showed that I had not
“grasped the truth.”
That afternoon, as I heard
later, he asked a young Ger
man doctor from the university
who was attending him to find
me and talk to me.
Tri Quang, though saffron
robed and fasting in the little
room opening off the pagoda
sanctuary, acted more like a
tense political campaign mana
ger than a Buddhist contempla
tive seeking Nirvana.
The interview was interrupt
ed several times by messengers
bringing written sheets for Tri
Quang to check and approve.
In Hue, as in Saigon, the pro
testing Buddhists’ output of mi
meographed circulars and other
propaganda material is large.
He was indignant when I asked
whether the communists had
tried to exploit the Buddhist
movement in Hue. He seemed to
resent the suggestion that it was
possible for the communists to
infiltrate Buddhist ranks. He
said he had taken measures to
keep people from being led as
tray by communists or by “gov
ernment distortions of the
truth.”
He was displeased also by
another question of mine: “Do
you think the government of
North Vietnam has been treating
Buddhists better than the gov
ernment of South Vietnam?”
“You know that the commun
ists have no consideration for
religion,” he answered. “Why
do you put these questions?”
According to a Vietnamese
Catholic who has known him for
some years, Tri Quang is anti
communist. So are three other
bonzes, two from the north and
one from the center, who are
now reportedly held for trial,
according to the same source.
About two weeks after my in
terview Tri Quang left Hue for
Saigon where the headquarters
of the Buddhist campaign was
established in Xa Loi pagoda.
Tri Quang was accompanied
by two fellow bonzes when they
dashed into the American Em
bassy Sunday evening (Sept. 1)
asking asylum. They are still
there, incommunicado.
Restrained From
Distributing Pamphlet
WILSON, N. C., (NC) - A
Baptist preacher and a member
of his church were ordered to
pay $1 and court costs here
for passing out a bogus Knights
of Columbus oath in the 1960
presidential campaign.
The two also were perma
nently restrained from distri
buting a pamphlet, “Will
America Vote Away Her Free
dom?” The bogus oath was
among anti-Catholic accu
sations made in the pamphlet.
God’s World—
(Continued from Page 4)
God will turn your appar
ent mistakes to His own good
purposes. In the long haul He
will not let you suffer because
you have tried to do His will.
With practice, this effort to
make God’s will the touchstone
of all that you do will become
in time a habitual state of mind.
Even in small decisions and
almost automatically the ques
tion will flash in your brain,
"What would God probably want
me to do?”
Being human, you still will
make your share of minor
"goofs.” You will turn at the
wrong corner, you will order
the wrong-size shirt, you will
pick the wrong horse at the
race track. These lesser er
rors are good for our humility.
They remind us of our human
fallibility—but they are not the
ones wjjjch destroy our peace
of mind.
SAVANNAH—The scene was
one of bright cherry colored
uniforms “flitting” around
Madonna Hall the morning of
September llth when the La
dies Auxiliary of St. Joseph's
Hospital, held their last meet
ing before starting into their
respective duties with gusto. As
this is the first time the Wo
men’s Auxiliary has operated in
the hospital everyone has been
looking forward to this historic
occasion with exuberance.
After the meeting was called
to order by Mrs. Henry Dunn,
Auxiliary President, Sister
Mary Cornile, R. S. M., Ad
ministrator, presented Mrs.
Matthew J. Dwyar of Atlanta,
who was attending as a rep
resentative of the Auxiliaries
of the Georgia Hospital Asso
ciation. Mrs. Dwyar, with a
beautiful and most impressive
oath, formally installed the fol
lowing officers:
SAN DIEGO, Calif., (NC)—
The Most Rev. Francis J. Fur-
ey, at his enthronement here as
the first Coadjutor Bishop of
San Diego, pledged “to use all
the enegies at my command for
the continued spiritual and tem
poral growth” of the abounding
diocese.
He said “if ever a Bishop
needed a helping hand” that
prelate is Bishop Charles F.
Buddy, first spiritual head of
the San Diego diocese. Since
1936 when Bishop Buddy was
appointed, the growth of the
diocese has been “phenome
nal,” Bishop Furey said.
James Francis Cardinal Mc
Intyre, Archbishop of Los Ange
les, officiated at the enthrone
ment in the Chapel of the Im-
maculata on the campus of the
University of San Diego.
Among the prelates present
were Archbishop John J. Krol
of Philadelphia, where Bishop
Furey served as Auxiliary Bi
shop since 1960, and Auxiliary
Bishop Gerald V. McDevitt of
Philadelphia.
Bishop Furey said when Bi
shop Buddy came here 26 years
ago as San Diego’s first spiri
tual head, there was a Catholic
population of some 80,000
CHICAGO, (NC)—The work
of the Church is "a common ob
ligation, a common responsibi
lity, a common challenge,” for
both priests and laymen, Al
bert Cardinal Meyer has
declared.
"The priest must carry the
laity, just as the laity must
carry the priest,” the Arch
bishop of Chicago said in a pas
toral letter shortly before his
departure (Sept. 12) for the sec
ond session of the Vatican coun
cil in Rome.
Cardinal Meyer said the “re
newal” sought by His Holiness
Pope Paul VI and the late Pope
John XXIII “must be based
on the pattern of the Gospel
itself.”
“It will not come from a
basis of regulations, or social
set-ups, or the favor of public
authority, or social pressures,
or mere organization—impor
tant as all these have shown
themselves to be, both in the
past and in the present,” he
said.
The Cardinal said the pattern
of the Gospel is "personal con
viction, the testimony of wit
ness.”
“Organizations,” he said,
Mrs. Henry Dunn (Eleanor),
President; Mrs. L. M. Freed
man (Claire), Vice President;
Mrs. Ted E. Brown, Jr. (Nora)
Corresponding Secretary; Mrs.
Thomas P. O’Brien (Anne),
Treasurer.
Mrs. T. David Fitzgerald,
recording secretary, was un
able to attend.
The minutes of the last meet
ing were read and a treasu
rer’s report given after which
Mrs. Arthur Fleming, Chair
man of Volunteer Services, in
troduced the chairman of the
following committees:
Placement, Mrs. Frank How-
den; Auxiliary Office, Mrs.
T. E. Brown, Jr.; Book Cart,
Mrs. James Houlihan; Doc
tor’s Library, Mrs. Peter Scar-
dino; Hospitality Cart, Mrs.
Nelson Haslem; Miscellaneous,
Mrs. T. F. Reilley; Snack
Shop, Mrs. John Lytjen.
served by 62 priests in 51
parishes and 53 missions, and
some 200 teaching nuns in the
four-county southern California
diocese.
"Today there are 400,000
Catholics in the same territory,
with 161 parishes, 33 missions,
19 stations and 74 chapels serv
ed by no fewer than 459
priests,” Bishop Furey said.
"The number of teaching Sis
ters has risen to 605, not to
mention the many other good
Sisters engaged in works of
prayer, charity and mercy.
There are 34 teaching Brothers
and several hundred devoted lay
teachers.”
The future spiritual needs
of the diocese, Bishop Furey
enumerated, are being cared
for with a student body of 161
in two diocesan seminaries,
plus an additional number of
seminarians preparing for the
priesthood at seminaries out
side the diocese.
“While these facts and
figures are impressive, they do
not tell the whole story,” Bishop
Furey said. “They do not, they
could not, describe the warmth
of personality, the Christ-like
zeal, the boundless energy of
"are not any better than the
men who compose them. Where
they can flourish they are of
immense help. But persecution
has shown that even when they
have been abolished by the ty
rant’s decree, the testimony of
the Christian witness, arising
from the convictions of a con
science dedicated to the living
God, is as strong as ever.”
Quoting Pope Paul’s recent
plea to laymen to “come and
help us. . .now is the hour of
the laity,” Cardinal Meyer con
tinued:
"We are being summoned to a
more articulate and more effec
tive showing forth of the spirit
of the Gospel in our daily lives
of work and play.
“At home, in our schools, in
our places of work and recrea
tion, in our community rela
tionships we have daily oppor
tunities to show forth our Faith,
to give strong example of our
spiritual commitment to the
fashioning of the modern world,
and, in the words of St. Paul,
‘to take up the armor of God,
that we may be able to resist
in the evil day, and stand in all
things perfect.’ ”
A very interesting orientation
on the ethics (do’s and don’t’s)
of the Auxilian was given by
Mrs. Freedman and to quote:
"When wearing uniform, please
do leave your false eye lashes
at home and if Mary Keeler is
in room 402 for an operation,
do let her have the pleasure
of telling it first hand at the
bridge club, after all she paid
for it.!! Unquote.
Emblems for sixty or more
hours of service were present
ed to Mrs. Margaret Johnson,
Mrs. Thelma Bergin, and Mrs.
Nelcy by Sister Cornile. These
wonderful ladies have been
doing volunteer work in the
hospital for a long period of
time, but the Auxiliary will only
recognize or credit sixty hours
at this time. This is to as
sure an equitable start by
everyone. Besides where, on the
uniform could you find room to
place all the service bars.
Bishop Buddy over the past 26
years. They make no mention
of the countless numbers of
those who have found their way
back to the Faith of their fa
thers. They do not tell the great
educational expansion in the
diocese, as evidenced especial
ly by the establishment of the
University of San Diego, with
its magnificent campus and
buildings, the growing glory of
which is this beautiful Chapel
of the Immaculata.”
It was for these reasons, Bi
shop Furey said, that His Holi
ness Pope Paul VI sent Bishop
Buddy a Coadjutor Bishop to
relieve him of some of his bur
dens and help administer the
affairs of the thriving diocese.
Bishop Furey noted “God’s
guiding hand” in some coinci
dences connected with his en
thronement. He said his en
thronement was in the Chapel of
the Immaculata and recalled
that he had served as president
of Immaculata (Pa.) Collegefor
women for 10 years.
He noted the day was the
feast of the Holy Name of Mary,
commemorating the victory of
the Christians over the Turkish
invaders on the outskirts of
Vienna in 1683 after the Chris
tian leader had prayed fervently
to Our Lady for victory. He
added: “The divine office today
contains part of a famous ser
mon by St. Bernard on Our La
dy. Many episcopal mottos are
phrases from that sermon,
among them my own: Ipsam
sequens, non devias (Following
her you will not go stray).”
Bishop Furey said poet Harry
W. Longfellow once wrote
Philadelphia “streets still
reecho the names of the trees
of the forest.” He added that in
California “our cities, towns
and counties still reecho. . .
the name of saints, especially
the name of the Queen of All
Saints.”
Bishop Furey was feted at a
luncheon in the Hotel del Coro
nado following the church cere
monies and at an evening recep
tion in the Alcala Bowl on the
university campus.
Bishop Furey, a native of
Summit Hill, Pa., was ordained
in 1930 in Rome and served in
the Philadelphia archdiocese
for 33 years. Before leaving
Philadelphia, he was honored
(Sept. 9) at a farewell testimon
ial. He offered a Solemn Ponti
fical Mass in SS. Peter and
Paul cathedral at which Bishop
McDevitt preached the sermon.
A luncheon in his honor in the
Bellevue-Stratford Hotel fol
lowed at which Bishop Furey
was presented with a special
scroll of a resolution passed by
the Philadelphia City Council
lauding his services to Phila
delphia.
SAyANNAH—The Blessed
Sacrament Home and School
Association held its first
meeting for the ’63-’64 season
on Wednesday, September llth,
in the School Auditorium.
The President, Mrs. Joseph
Byrnes, welcomed new and old
members and announced the
names of the Class mothers for
the respective classes, together
with the teachers’ names, which
are as follows:
First Grades, Sisters Martin
Marie and Mary Delilis—Mrs.
John Harmon and Mrs. William
Lloyd; Second Grades, Sister
Mary Kevin and Mrs. Camille
Ross—Mrs. Gregory Adams
and Mrs. George Servier; Third
Grades, Sister Mary Ita and
Mrs. Walton Frizelle—Mrs.
John Fogarty and Mrs. John
Spillane; Fourth Grades, Mrs.
Lucille Haar and Mrs. Grace
Women Name
SAVANNAH—The first Fall
meeting of the Catholic Wo
man’s Club was held Wednesday
evening, September 10th, in the
club rooms, with the newly elec
ted President, Mrs. Rudolf
Heitmann, presiding.
Mrs. Heitmann welcomed the
two news members who were
Mrs. Charles E. Williams and
Mrs. Joe Magee.
The following Standing com
mittees were appointed: Audit
ing Committee, Mrs. Joseph
Kelly, Entertainment, Mrs. Ira
E. Smith, Chairman, Mrs.
James S. Flynn, Miss Bridget
Fogarty, Mrs. Meta Blackburn
and Miss Regina Lytjen; House
Committee, Mrs. Guy Ingman,
Chairman, Mrs. H. A. Stamey
and Mrs. Bernard Taylor;
Membership Committee, Mrs.
Josephine Rollinson, Chairman,
Program Committee, Mrs.
W. P. Schneider, Chairman;
Publicity, Miss Margaret Mur-
den, Chairman; Sick Com
mittee, Mrs. E. L. Edwards,
Ray—Mrs. John Burke and Mrs.
Cliet Henry; Fifth Grades, Sis
ter Mary Amalia and Mrs. Eli
zabeth Brooks—Mrs. William
Powers and Mrs. Frank Fino-
cchiaro; Sixth Grades, Sister
Dennis Marie and Mrs. Anne
Roberts—Mrs. George Adams
and Mrs. Clarence Parker;
Seventh Grade, Sister Mary Gil
bert—Mrs. William Whalen;
Eighth Grade, Sister Mary Ed
wards—Mrs. Joseph Battle.
Rev. Edward Frank, Assis
tant Pastor of the Blessed
Sacrament Parish, outlined for
the members how Family Unity
is such an important factor to
the child. When this unity is
directed with the teachers, the
discipline, attitude, effort and
achievements of the child show
a rapid rate of development,
family unity being the ideal way
to help the child, the parents,
the teachers and the school.
Committees
Chairman; Social, Mrs. L. P.
Flanagan, Chairman, Miss
Margaret Murden, Mrs. F. B.
Elmore, Jr. and Mrs. Bernard
Taylor; Telephone Committee,
Mrs. Edna McDonough, Chair
man.
Special Committee: Foreign
Relief, Mrs. F. B. Elmore,Jr.
The Rev. Andrew Doris,
O.S.B., Chaplain for the Club,
gave a very informative talk on
the history of the Benedictine
Order.
Members were requested to
attend the meeting and buffet
luncheon of the Savannah Dean
ery Council of Catholic Women,
to be held September 26th, at
Hunter Air Force Base, and
to call Mrs. A. K. Gannam,
AD 3-3727 for reservations.
The Program Chairman,
Mrs. Schneiger, plans an inter
esting and varied program for
the year, which will cover re
ligious and civic matters.
Membership prize was won
by Mrs. Marie Bettencourt.
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SYRIA IS A COUNTRY rich with memories of St. Paul St.
Barnabas and St. Mark. They preached at ANTIOCH, the cen
ter from which so many of the
liturgies have developed . . . At
MACHTA-AZAR. a village of 300
persons, the 150 Melkite Catholics
are trying to repair their church
CJ I ^ damaged badly by winter rains.
^ ' Mostly farmers, extremely poor,
can give only their hand labor . . .
The cash needed—SI,600—is beyond
their means. Many non-Catholics
attend services in this, the only
t„ i P ■ a j church in the area . . . They have
The Holy Father j Minton Aid a pp ea j ed to us This wou , d b(l ,
ior the Oriental Church fine way to further the spirit of fel
lowship just as the Ecumenical Council re-opens . . . Any amount
will be welcomed and you will have their prayers. But soon,
please, before winter comes again!
THOSE STRINGLESS GIFTS
A BIG PART of our job is seeing that your donations for
special projects are forwarded immediately to their destination!
But the space of this column permits pub
lication of only a few such appeals . . . Many
other stories just as urgent must remain un
told. That’s why your “undesignated” dona
tions mean so much . . . They bring help
where it is most needed. How long has it
been since you sent one of those precious
STRINGLESS GIFTS?
‘“READIN,’ RITIN’ and REFUGEES”
DID YOU KNOW that our diocesan school system was founded
by JOHN NEUMANN, fourth Bishop of Philadelphia, back in
the 1850’s when the United States was still mission
territory? This holy prelate will be beatified next
month by Pope Paul VI ... In many parts of the
world, however, a Catholic education is not so easy
to obtain. No school bells will be ringing for the
REFUGEE CHILDREN in PALESTINE unless we
provide their tuition costs . . . $25 pays for a school
term for one child. Won’t you help?
SOMETHING FOR YOU!
SEPTEMBER brings most of us a new season, new interests,
new demands! But the need for food has no
season ... It is always there, imperative, un
relenting! A FOOD PACKAGE for an Arab
refugee family still costs only $10, will stave
off hunger for one month . . . And as a thank-
you to each donor, we will send a lovely
ROSARY’ made of OLIVE SEEDS, a keepsake
from the HOLY LAND!
TO HEED HIS CALL . . .
A Church official in Rome has stated there are 130,000 more
priests needed. But in our mission lands are many young semi
narians anxious to help fill the ranks, and many young women
wishing to become nuns . . . Only they cannot pay for the neces
sary education and training. Shall PHILIP and GEORGE ever
be priests? Or can SR. ANNA JOSEPH and SR. MARY
THOMAS be Sisters? Not unless you adopt them! The cost:
SlOO a year for the seminarian’s six years; $150 a year for two
years for a Sister. It can be paid in instalments.
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