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i i WiS Goal Is Church In Each Of 88 Counties Q& One-Fourth Of Funds For Mission Churches rJJC' Vol. 44, No. 14 10c Per Copy — $3 A Year SAVANNA H—Approxi mately one fourth of the pro ceeds of the 1963 Bishop’s Con fraternity of the Laity drive for funds for diocesan projects has been designated for use in construction of Mission church es and meeting halls in rural areas. Typical of the Catholic churches rising throughout the mission areas of this far-flung diocese comprised of Georgia’s 88 southern counties is St. Ber nadette’s in Millen, dedicated three years ago, and pictured elsewhere on this page. Through the annual Confra ternity of the Laity drive, the Diocese of Savannah hopes to be able to erect a Catholic church in every one of the 88 counties. The establishment of military installations in several areas SAVANNAH, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1963 Archbishop Beran, Four Czech Bishops Released By Reds SAINT BERNADETTE’S CHURCH, MILLEN—One of the Mission Churches made possible through contributions to the Confraternity of the Laity. Goal of this years Confrater nity of the Laity Drive is $140,000. Ecumenical Council Supporters Of Collegiality Of Bishops, Permanent Diaconate Speak As Second Week Opens VATICAN CITY, (NC) —The second week of the second ses sion of the ecumenical council began with speakers-who favor a permanent diaconate and the concept of the collegiality of the bishops. The first to speak at the general meeting (Oct. 7) was Giuseppe Cardinal Siri, Arch bishop of Genoa, Italy. He was also one of the most signifi cant speakers because his posi tion in favor of the doctrine of the collegiality of bishops was regarded as a sign that the Italian episcopate is not as op posed to this part of the schema “On the Nature of the Church” as had been generally assumed. The collegiality of the bishops means that they as a whole, in union with the pope, can act with supreme authority. It means that in addition to the jurisdiction which a bishop ex ercises in his own diocese, he has a responsibility as a mem ber of the collectivity of bi shops in the life of the total Church. According to Cardinal Siri this concept of collegiality, which he maintained is clear from the practice of past councils and in their interpre tation of various Scriptural texts, would be an effective con tribution to solidarity, mutual union, charity and reciprocal assistance among bishops. He put down any fears that the doctrine of the collegia lity of the bishops would les sen in any way the primacy of the pope. Instead, he said, col legiality emphasizes the pri macy, since there can be no genuine collegiality among bis hops except in union with the Roman Pontiff. He praised the schema for its clear expres sion of these notions. Paul Cardinal Leger, Arch bishop of Montreal, followed Cardinal Siri. He stressed the favorable attitude toward the schema which, he said, is “of exceptional importance.” He also debunked any fears of weakening the doctrine of the primacy of the pope, saying that "a clear knowledge of the body shows the importance of the head.” He added the suggestion that the idea of the “ministry” of the bishops should be empha sized. In relation to this he U. S. CARDINALS AT VATICAN COUNCIL II—Pictured in St. Peter’s Square as they emerged from a session of the reopened Vatican Council II are the five Cardinals of the United States. Left to right: Cardinal Ritter of St. Louis, McIntyre of Los Angeles, Spellman of New York, Cushing of Boston and Meyer of Chicago.—(NC Photos) said that bishops should endea vor to avoid manifestations of “medieval splendor” which, he declared, are out of place to day when stress is being given to the spiritual aspects of the Church’s mission. Franziskus Cardinal Koenig, Archbishop of Vienna, speak ing next, pointed out that the notion of the college of Bishops governing the Church in union with the Roman Pontiff is not new. He said it has foundations in tradition, in theology, in the present practice of the Eastern Rites and in Canon 218 of the Code of Canon Law, which treats of the supreme juris diction of the episcopate in an ecumenical council. According to this last ref erence, the law provides that a council must be convoked and presided over by the pope or his legate and that its decrees must have his approval. But once the pronouncements and decisions of the council are promulgated, their authority is not papal alone but is conciliar, that is, by the authority of the bishops together with the pope. The fourth speaker, Julius Cardinal Doepfner, Archbishop (Continued On Page 3) Prayer For The Suecess Of The Eeumenieal Council May the Divine Spirit deign to answer in a most comfort ing manner this prayer which rises daily to Him from every corner of the earth. Renew your wonders in our time, O Divine Spirit, as though with another Pentecost and grant that Thy Holy Church, by uniting in a single-hearted and mounting prayer, together with Mary the Mother of Jesus, and the Shep herding St. Peter, may intensify the reign of the Divine Sa vior, the reign of truth and justice, the reign of love and peace. Amen. Novena Services At Port Wentworth of south Georgia and the intro duction of light and heavy in dustry in sections heretofore almost exclusively rural and agricultural have brought Ca tholics into virtually every area of the Diocese. Many still have to travel comparatively great distances to attend Mass on Sun days and Holydays and to pro-’ vide religious education for their children. In many places Mass is still offered in private homes, hotels or Civic Centers. Before leaving for Rome and the second session of the Vati can Council, His Excellency, The Most Reverend Thomas J. McDonough, commenting on the goals of the 1963 drive said, “The Church is the Mystical Body of Christ. It is Christ, living, breathing, teaching and sanctifying in the world today. And as Christ had care for His sheep and sought out those who were lost while He walked the earth, so today, in His Mystical Body, He is the Good Shepherd, caring for His own and seeking out those who have strayed from the fold. “It is a source of great con solation to me that Our Lord does this in our Diocese through our dedicated Catholic laity whose dedication to andlovefor Christ and His Church is enabl ing us to bring the consolation of the Mass, the Sacraments and the preaching of the Word of God to every corner of south Georgia. “At the Council, the Bishops of the Church are striving for her renewal, inwardly and out wardly, so that the whole world may see her as Christ intended her to be, without spot or wrinkle, and may be drawn to her as to Christ, Himself. “But, surely, the people of the Diocese of Savannah, whose zeal and spirit of sacrifice has made possible the extension of the Church of Christ into so many areas of the Diocese, are doing no less than the Bishops of the Church in bringing Christ to men and men to Christ.’ PT. WENTWORTH—A sol emn Rosary Novena in honor of the Blessed Virgin Mary, being held this week at Our Lady of Lourdes Church, Port Went worth, will be capped with the solemn dedication of the parish to the Immaculate Heart of Mary at closing ceremonies next Sunday evening, October 13th, at 7:30 p.m. The novena is being conducted by the Rev. John T. Carrigan, O.P. Assistant Director of the Dominican Mission Band with headquarters at Our Lady of Springbank retreat house, Kingstree, South Carolina. Father Carrigan has recent ly returned from a tour to Marian Shrines in France, Belgium and Portugal. He visit ed Lourdes in Frances, Fatima in Portugal, and Beauraing and Banneux, both in Belgium. “Lourdes and Fatima are, of course, well known throughout the Catholic world,” said Fa ther Carrigan, * 'and devotion to both these shrines is wide spread and worldwide. “But, while Beauraing and Banneux are little known, at least here in the United States, they should be of great interest, particularly to married people. For, at both these shrines Our Blessed Mother appeared to six children—five at Beauraing and one at Banneux—in 1932 and 1933. All of those children are, of course, grown now, and all are happily married. This would certainly seem to indicate the great esteem in which the Mo ther of Our Lord holds the holy Sacrament of Matrimony. * ‘The apparitions at both Beauraing and Banneux have been subjected to exhaustive investigation by ecclesiastical authorities and both shrines have the unqualified approba tion of the Holy See.” Commenting on the dedica tion of the people of Our Lady of Lourdes parish to the Im maculate Heart of Mary, Fa ther Carrigan said, “At Fa tima, Mary expressed the desire that the entire world be consecrated to her Immaculate Heart, and those taking part in our closing ceremonies on Sunday night will not only be publicly showing their devotion to her, but their obedience to her wishes, which are, after all, the wishes of Our Blessed Lord, Himself.” REV. JOHNT. CARRIGAN,O.P VATICAN CITY (NC)—Arch bishop Josef Beran of Prague was released after 14 years of arrest under the communists, along with four other bishops of Czechoslovakia, the Vatican press office announced (Oct. 3) Almost simultaneously with the Vatican announcement came a similar announcement from the communist government of Czechoslovakia. The chief dif ference between the two com muniques was that the Red re gime referred to “the ex-Arch- bishop Josef Beran,” while the Vatican called him “Msgr. Jo sef Beran, Archbishop of Prague.” Communist police in Prague arrested Archbishop Beran on June 19, 1949, on day after he had publicly vowed he would “never conclude an agreement that injures the rights of the Church and of its bishops.” Detained at first in his official residence in Prague, he was later moved from place to place in an effort to keep his whereabouts unknown. Neither the Vatican commun ique nor the Czechoslovak one gave any indication of why the five bishops had been releas ed. But observers here took the fact that the communiques were virtually simultaneous to mean that some agreement had been reached between the Holy See and the government of Czechoslovakia. Despite an initial report that the prelates were already in Rome when their release was revealed, there was no word in either communique as to where they were staying or whether they would be leaving Czechoslovakia shortly. (In Vienna, it was reported that a Czechoslovak govern ment official acknowledged that Archbishop Beran did not sign a loyalty pledge to the regime before his release. (The official, Dr. Josef Hru- sa, head of the religious af fairs office, was quoted as say- ARCHBISHOP BERAN ing that the prelate was now a completely free man with the same rights as any other Czech oslovak citizen, and that it was now up to him to seek state permission to leave the coun try if he wished to attend the Vatican council.) The communist communique specified that Archbishop Ber an and Bishop Karel Skoupy of Brno had been “freed today (October 3) from internment.” It said on the other hand that Bishops Jan Vojtassak of Spis, former Auxiliary Bishop Stani slav Zela of Olomouc, and Bi shop Ladislav Hlad—who was consecrated secretly in 1950 and whose assignment has not been revealed—were all “freed at the same time thanks to an amnesty granted by the Presi dent of the Republic (Antonin Novotny). The release of the five bish ops came just 12 days after a shakeup in the communist ap paratus in Czechoslovakia which resulted in the ouster of Premier Viliam Siroky and six other cabinet ministers. Archbisbop Beran, now 75, has been Archbishop of Prague since 1946. His arrest by the communist regime in 1949 came four years after he had been liberated by the U.S. Army— along with the other prisoners from nazi Germany’s infamous concentration camp at Dachau. He had been a nazi prisoner' for three years. Bishop Skoupy of Brno, in Moravia, is 76. He was arrest ed in 1953. Bishop Vojtassek of Spis, in Slovakia, is now 85. He was arrested in September of 1950 and sentenced to 24 years in prison. Bishop Zela, 70, was also arrested in September, 1950, when he was Auxiliary Bishop of Olomouc, Moravia. He re ceived a 25-year prison sen tence. Bishop Ladislav Hlad was convicted of “performing in secret the functions of a bi shop” in March of 1960. He was sentenced to a nine-year jail term. The Prague news paper Svobodne Slovo stated at the time that he had been consecrated a bishop in se cret without the required gov ernment permit. The Annuario Pontificio, the official Vatican directory, car ried the name of Bishop Hlad simply as titular Bishop of Cediae, with none of the usual personal statistics and without listing his nationality or assing- ment. The release of Archbishop Beran and the four bishops follows by two months the an nouncement by the Czechoslo vak regime that it had releas ed three other Catholic bishops. They were listed as Bishops Josef Hlouch of Bedejovice; Ste phan Trochta, S.D.B., of Lito- merice, and Karel Otcenasek, Apostolic Administrator of the Diocese of Hradec Kralove. Founded In 1953 Book Shop To Mark Anniversary SAVANNAH—Notre Dame Book Shop, Savannah’s Catholic Information Center, will cele brate its tenth anniversary on October 11, and is taking this opportunity to acquaint new comers to Savannah with its existence and its services. It is housed in an attractive cot tage-type building on the north east corner of Liberty and Lin coln Streets, just one block north of the Cathedral Rectory. Its neighbor on the southwest is the handsome new St. Vin cent’s Academy. To look at the Notre Dame Book Shop today in its large modern building which was de signed and built especially to meet its needs, it is hard to visualize its very modest be ginning. It all started back in 1953 when the Savannah Deanery Council of Catholic Women de cided to do something about the* need for a Catholic Book Shop, lending library and information center in Savannah. With the backing of the Most Rev. Fran cis E. Hyland, Auxiliary of the Diocese of Savannah and Rt. Rev. Msgr. T. James Mc Namara, Spiritual Director of the Deanery, a group of mem bers of the Council negotiated for the rental of a small vacant shop in the basement of the Catholic Community Center and searched the attic of the center for furniture and books which could be used in the Shop. Next, second-hand showcases and a cash register were procured from kind donors and the group went to work to put the show cases and furniture in usable condition. Next there descended on the scene several ladies from At lanta who several years before had launched a similar project there. They brought with them the initial stock which the Shop would need and gave the ‘ ‘green horns” in Savannah the benefit of their experience. Soon all was in readiness and on October 11th, the Feast of the Maternity of Our Lady, The Notre Dame Book Shop, dedicated to Our Lady of Good Counsel, held open house. Grateful Savannahians, who had long felt the need for a Catholic Center where religious articles, Missals and books could be secured, took the Shop to their hearts. Increased pa tronage called for expansion and in May, 1956 the Book Shop moved from its original site at 5 West Liberty St. across the street to a larger shop at 18 West Liberty. Later greater expansion was needed and the Bookshop moved into its present quarters which were dedicated on February 5,1961. Coinciden tally, the Shop still carries a Liberty Street address, though its present one is east instead of west. The Notre Dame Book Shop is a non-profit organization and profit is used for increased in ventory and for the operation of the lending library. In its ten years of operation, it has been staffed by volunteer work ers to whose loyalty and devo tion its successful operation is due. The present director and assistant director, both volun teers, as well as the shop se cretary, who is the only non volunteer, have been associated with its operation from the be ginning as have some of the original workers who are still serving the Shop. These unsel fish ladies have contributed thousands of hours of service. New volunteers are solicited and those of our readers who are interested are invited to call the Book Shop. Assisting in the operation is the Board of Directors, the Board members being selected for the service they can render the Shop. It consists of a Catho lic business man and business woman, banker, accountant, lawyer, homemaker, the Shop’s directors and secretary, the Grand Knight of the Savannah Council #631 Knights of Columbus and the president of the Savannah Deanery Council of Catholic Women. This asso ciation is an affiliate of the Savannah Deanery Council of Catholic Women. In addition to the religious articles and other merchandise offered, the lending and refer ence library, one of the most important aspects of the Shop is its function as a Catholic In formation Center. Through its books, pamphlets and refer ence material, information on any phase of Catholicism can be secured and a priest is on duty for consultation Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 4 to 5 p.m. Another service is the keeping of an up-to-date Le gion of Decency of movies. A cordial invitation is extend ed to all to visit the Book Shop and take advantage of the shop ping pleasure it will afford you. It is open from 10 a.m. to 5p.m. Monday through Saturday. NOTRE DAME BOOK SHOP