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THE WORLD OF TEILHARD
DE CHARDIN, edited by Rob
ert T. Francoeur, Helicon,
1961, 208 pp., $6.00.
Reviewed by Theodora Koob.
A very fine collection of much
of the recent critical thought
and comment on Father Teil
hard de Chardin has been put
together in this book. It is care
fully edited by Francoeur who
mentions that he feels “Teil
hard is first of all a prophet.”
i Whatever he is, (the reviewer
' remembers French bookstores
exhibiting placards asking: ‘Is
Teilhard de Chardin going to
hell?’) his influence upon scien
tifically minded people, as well
as upon the groping thinkers who
hope interminably to be able to
reconcile the spiritual and the
physical worlds, is being felt
and will undoubtedly continue
to be felt. He will be criti
cized, talked about, praised and
condemned.
This volume provides some
of all this, to begin with. It is,
handily, put together for people
who would like opinions rather
than individual commentary.
And it certainly bears out the
suggestion of Cardinal Koenig,
“Would it not be worthwhile
for groups to follow up the ba
sic ideas of Teilhard de Char
din and pursue the same line
of thought in other fields.
It is to be hoped than anoth
er such book as this will ap
pear in the future, indicating
that interest and research are
continuing. One has only to
read a partial listing of the ar
ticle writers collected in THE
WORLD OF TEILHARD DE
CHARDIN to recognize the im
pact; represented are George
B. Barbour, James L. Foy, John
LaFarge, Gustave Weigel, to
name a few. And in connection
with the names, it behooves us
to examine the fields they re
present, included are geolo
gists, geneticists, theologians,
psychologists, philosophers.
The interest in de Chardin
is growing and he “gives us to
think”, and not merely in one
language or one place, as the
variety among the writers in
cluded here indicates. This
would please him, since
his philosophy was all-inclus
ive in any sense. Perhaps time
will prove, through its contin
uance and continuity, that a
philosophy, a religion, as we
Catholics so like to believe,
will be universally acceptable.
It should be pointed out, of
course, that de.Chardin’s work
is a hypothesis, a theory;
appealing to many because it
surely tends toward the su
premacy of good over evil, de
manding deep cerebration from
most, it must yet be remember
ed as a proposition. However,
nearly everyone, pro or con,
is agreed that de Chardin has
some new, daring, even sweep
ing things to say.
PAGE 6-B—The Southern Cross, October 3, 1963
THE BENEDICTINES
(Continued from Page 1-B)
to earn the gratitude of future
ages. The great problem that
confronted the Church in the
period of transition of which
we write, was the problem of
how to Christianize and civilize
the barbarian hordes by which
the western half of the Empire
was completely overrun. In the
solving of this problem, the
Church enlisted the Benedic
tines, and in carrying forward
the work assigned them, the
sons of St. Benedict became,
to a very large extent, the
evangelizers, the civilizers and
the educators of Medieval
Europe.
N THE FOOTSTEPS OF FRANCIS
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etc.
f^RearSstflHsstonsjMi
FRANCIS CARDINAL SPELLMAN, President
Msgr. Joseph T. Ryan, Not'l Sec’y
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CATHOLIC NEAR EAST WELFARE ASSOCIATION
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Benedictine Marked Anniversary In 5 52
ASK MOST ANYONE in the streets of CAIRO, EGYPT, who
is the “orphan priest” and they will tell you without hesitation,
“Why, Father PoggTi, of course!”
For almost thirty years now, Fran
ciscan LEONE POGGI has been
father to hundreds of fatherless
boys . . . His is the only Catholie
2 orphanage for boys in all of EGYPT,
^ a Moslem land. He begs for them,
to obtain their material needs, but
he alone is able to give that feeling
of being wanted so important in
their young lives . . . On the FEAST
f , „ j OF ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI, let’s
The Holy Father s Misston Atd remem ber this heroic modern men-
for the Oriental Church dicant! Who knows, perhaps at
this very moment as you read this, Leone Poggi once more is
bending over a bundle of rags on a dirty back street, reaching
down protective arms to enclose another abandoned baby . . .
Won’t you help him?
UNFINISHED BUSINESS
Each night the orphan children of BETHLEHEM CONVENT,
Mukkattukara, in KERALA, INDIA, confidently say their
prayers and go to sleep feeling safe and secure. Sister tucks
them in and says “Good night”. . . If they waken feverish,
frightened, coughing— Sister will be there to help.
So silence falls and in that long silence SISTER EMMER-
THINA and her faithful nuns worry and pray. Worry that the
sagging, overcrowded old house is encouraging the spread of
more sickness among the youngsters; pray that the good people
of the United States will come to their aid . . . And always
they listen for that fretful cry that warns of trouble among
their sleeping charges. Sister doesn’t know yet that our story
about her recently brought help far short of the $4,000 needed
for a new house. And we centainly hate to tell her! . . . Can you
give something today to make up the difference?
“COME HELP US NOW!”
With this simple heartfelt plea our Holy Father spoke re
cently to the laity of the whole world, begging them to enter
into the work of the Church with greater dedication than ever
before! We are all, Pope Paul reminded us, responsible for our
brothers. And our brothers’ needs are so urgent! Tomorrow
may be too late:
□ —TO HELP Cyriac Manthuruthil become a priest or Sis-
Brice become a Sister by paying for their education.
($100 a year for 6 years for a seminarian; $150 for each
of 2 years for a Sister.)
□ —TO PREVENT crippling malnutrition in a PALESTINE
REFUGEE FAMILY by sending a $10 FOOD PACK
AGE. (In return you will receive a lovely ROSARY of
olive seeds from the HOLY LAND.)
□ —TO SAVE the physical or spiritual life of an unknown
brother in the NEAR EAST by sending a STRINGLESS
GIFT for any emergency use.
□ —TO ENABLE a MISSIONARY PRIEST to carry on an
other day’s work by sending him a MASS STIPEND.
D _TO REMEMBER the CATHOLIC NEAR EAST WEL
FARE ASSOCIATION in your will.
But it’s never, too late to become a member of the CATHOLIC
NEAR EAST WELFARE ASSOCIATION. Cost: $1 a year for
one; $5 for a family.
NOVEMBER, MONTH OF THE HOLY SOULS, is not far off.
Remember your dear ones in Masses!
Dear Monsignor:
Yes, I’m ready to help now! Here’s my contribution of
for
NAME
JUBILEE GRADUATION CLASS—Richard Reid, late Edi
tor of THE CATHOLIC NEWS and former editor of THE
BULLETIN, is pictured as he addressed the 1952 Class of
Benedictine Military School. Prelates are Bishop Francis
E. Hyland, then Auxiliary-Bishop and Abbot Vincent Taylor,
then abbot of Belmont.
Reprinted from THE BULLE
TIN issue of June 1952.
SAVANNAH — Former stu
dents of the Benedictine Mili
tary School, from the graduates
who entered the school in 1902,
to the members of the class of
1952, toasted their Alma Mater
at a colorful Golden Jubilee ban
quet held on June 3, at the Ho
tel De Soto, with the Most Rev
erend Francis E. Hyland, D.D.
J.C.D., Auxiliary Bishop; Fa
ther Bede Lightner, O. S. B.,
principal of Benedictine Mili
tary School and Solicitor Gen
eral Andrew J. Ryan, Jr., as
speakers.
Toastmaster William Oetgen
sounded the keynote for the ga
thering when he declared that
there is no business or pro
fession that has not benefited
JOTTINGS-
(Continued from Page 4-A)
model Will in its legacy of
Spiritual “goods”. In his re
cent autobiography H. F. Arm
strong wrote: “Remembrance
is intangible property . . . un
real estate which as one grows
older of all ones belongings is
the most valuable.” The Will of
Jack Kelly, Grace Kelly’s
father, was somewhat classic.
He wrote: “I will attempt to
write my own will in the hopes
that it will be understandable
and legal. . . I have written
this Will in a lighter vein be
cause I have always felt that
Wills were so dreary that they
might have been written by the
author of ‘Inner Sanctum’ . . .
In this document I can only give
you things, but if I had the
choice to give you worldly goods
or character, I would give you
character ...” The spirited
Irishman signed his Will in a
flourish in green ink.”
MY LAWYER in legal ter
minology made my modest list
ings sound grand and glorious.
Everyone should have a Will
made in bad health or not.
The little bric-a-brac of life,
a piece of jewelry, a piece of
family silver, a collection of
books, a piece of Irish beleek,
the pedimentia gathered in a
lifetime, were dignified with
words like bequeath and endow
as if they were million-dollar
stock holdings. It is strange
how when we come to put the
things of life on paper how fra
gile they seem. What have we to
show for a lifetime’s struggle?
Material accounting does not
begin to sum up a lifetime. I
leave no children. Children are
the best insurance for immor
tality. The best legacy to leave
the world. I would like to leave
a novel, a book, something tan
gible that would hold the ideals
in which I believed — and
which would inspire men who
would come after me. Per
haps there is still time. I leave
no sums to build a church or a
chapel in Ireland or for schol
arship funds. My last Will and
Testament recently signed
reads in conclusion: “I leave
nothing of tangible value but
much of intangible value:
F aith most of all, love of Ire
land, the sea, beauty of na
ture and in art and in liter
ature. Nothing which would
make an enviable legacy. My
greatest wish is that immortal
ity may come for me in re
membrance by those whose
lives have passed mine in this
little walk through life. ‘I beg
you do not forget me when the
phenomenon of death visits me:
for then I will have surely
died.’ ”
With school time here, the
Allstate Motor Club reminds
motorists that most traffic ac
cidents involving children occur
shortly after school.
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School.
Indicative of the “bond of
unity” of which Father Bede
spoke, was the placing of Bene
dictine class of 1902 and this
year’s graduating class side by
side in the center of the ban
quet hall. Father Bede called
that bond the “mark of a ca
det,” and attributed the school’s
greatness to the loyalty and af
fection existing between the
Benedictine Fathers and the
Benedictine cadets.
Mr. Ryan, who was a member
of the class that graduated in
1919, said that Protestants,
Jews and Catholics attended the
school where the Benedictine
Fathers taught that “love of
God” was the common ground
The Jubilee Graduation Class
at Benedictine (1952) was com
posed of Fifty members. They
were:
Maury N. Abbott, Jr., John
M. Anderson, Francis X. Bey-
tagh, Edward A. Brennan, Mar
tin S. Brody, Richard J. Canty,
Frank P. Ciucevich, William
B. Cunningham, Edward E. Doo-
lan, Henry W. Dotson, James
F. Dumond, Vincent J. Ferraro,
John J. Fitzpatrick, James A.
Fogarty, J. Raymond Frewer,
John W. Garmany, J. Glenn
Gibson, Jr., William M. Gru
ber, Francis E. Hart, Perry J.
Hernandez, Lawrence F. Horne, I
on which all could meet and
live together as human beings.
The Benedictines taught loyalty
to God first, Mr. Ryan added,
“and that’s what makes B. C.
men good citizens, good hus
bands and good fathers.”
Bishop Hyland said it was
impossible to estimate the great
contribution made by Benedic
tine School to Savannah’s civic
life during the past half-cen
tury.
Taking occasion to reply to
critics of the Catholic schools,
Bishop Hyland noted that the
Church is educating 4,000,000
of her children in this country
today with no help from public
funds. In these days of burden
some taxes, Bishop Hyland said
you would think the taxpayers
would be thankful that they did
Joseph P. Hobbs, Walter J. Jar
vis, Jr., James E. Kearney,
Eugene A. Kelly, Clarence R.
Logue, William R. Love, Law
rence A. Lucree, Donald J. Mc
Kenzie, Herbert A. McKenzie,
Anthony C. Mathews, Daniel A.
Murphy, Thomas J. Owen, John
A. Pelli, Stephen A. Powers,
Bruce J. Remler, Frank A.
Robinson, Francis E. Rudolph,
Christopher Russell, Simon
Grady Sapp, F. Layton Shep
pard, Ralph S. Sikes, Walter L.
Smith, Hy C. Sussman, Michael
E. Ware, Carlos R. Wells, David
J. Whelan, James B. Winn,
Aloysius Winters, Donald S.
Young.
not have to erect buildings and
pay teachers to instruct this
great number of children, and
warned that those who are trying
to do away with private schools
would not achieve unity but
only uniformity.
His Excellency declared that
a Catholic school is “as truly
fundamentally American as the
very origin of our country.”
From Ireland, came a letter
of congratulations to the Bene
dictine Fathers from Arch
bishop Gerald P. O’Hara who
is now serving as Papal Nuncio
in Dublin.
Captain Eddie Thomson,
Military Commandant at Bene-
dictine for many years was
given several rousing ovations.
One came after it was announc
ed that the class of 1902 had
voted to place a plaque in the
halls at Benedictine in his
honor.
Benedictine alumni from
every walk of life crowded into
the banquet hall for the Jubilee
fete to meet old classmates
and teachers and to reminisce
over the days of John Scott,
Colonel Jordan F. Brooks, and
other stalwarts of the Maroon
and White.
Distinguished guests, who
were presented by Father Ro
bert Brennan O. S. B., Prior
of the Benedictine community
in Savannah and rector of the
Benedictine School, included
the Right Reverend Vincent G.
Taylor, O. S. B., D. D., Ab
bot-Ordinary of Belmont;
Mayor Olin F. Fulmer of Sa
vannah; Judge James P. Hou
lihan, K. S. G.,; chairman of
the Chatham County Commis
sion and Foreman Hawes, pre
sident of the Armstrong Junior
College.
50 In 50
B.C. Principals
Father Bernard Haas, O.S.B.,
was the first principal of the
Benedictine Military School.
Following him were the Rev
erend Ambrose Gallagher,
O. S. B., Reverend Raphael
Arthur, O. S. B., Reverend
Maruice McDonnell, O. S. B.,
Reverend Stanislaus; Bethel,
O. S. B., Reverend Benedict
Rettger, O.S.B., Reverend
Gregory Eichenlaub, O. S. B.,
Reverend Paul R. Milde, O.S.B.,
Reverend Bede C. Lightner,
O. S. B. The present principal
is the Reverend Christopher
Johann, O. S. B.
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