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Dear Editor:
There have been some fine
TV programs on Sunday morn
ings usually presenting an emi
nent non-Catholic authority on
the Bible in a series covering
some aspects of the Old or
New Testaments.
. I have watched these pro
grams, critically, for about a
year and can honestly say that
they have given me a better
understanding and appreciation
of the Bible than 16 years of
Catholic schooling. This is not
surprising perhaps, consider
ing the traditional apologetic
approach to Scripture used in
Catholic schools. However, I
think some changes in our Re
ligion courses should be con
templated, pedagogical and
otherwise. We no doubt can
learn something from the suc
cessful Sunday and Bible
Schools operated by our Pro
testant friends.
A move in this direction
should help us appreciate the
Bible more and it might help us
understand our “separated bre
thren” a little better, too. In
the meantime I’m going to keep
watching TV.
Very Truly Yours,
Thomas A. Nelligan
Savannah
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mathematical procedure for
fixing the date with precision
remained somewhat in doubt
for a while longer. (Easter is,
after all, a lunar calendar date,
and the lunar calendar offers
several computation difficul
ties.)
THE IRISH, for instance,
were divided on the date as late
as the year 661, when the monks
of Ripon, including St. Cuthbert,
were banished from their home
by royal decree because they
insisted on retaining the "old
Irish” method of computation
instead of adopting the “new
Roman” manner.
i THE MATTER came to a head
when it appeared certain that
if a solution was not arrived at
by the year 665, King Oswy (of
Northumbria) would be festively
celebrating Easter on the very
day his wife, Queen Eanfled,
would be marking Palm Sun
day—each was taught contra
dictory rules for marking the
feast.
THE IRISH confusion was sol
ved during the Lent of 664 at
the historic Synod of Whitby,
which—if anyone is tempted to
doubt its importance—has been
described by a modern scholar
as “one of the great turning-
'' points in the history of the
race.”
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Bishop Neumann
Beatification Set
For Oct. 13
By Carl A. Balcerak
(N.C.W.C. NEWS SERVICE)
Venerable John Nepomucene
Neumann, who will be beatified
on October 13, was a zealous
missionary, educator, builder
of churches and spiritual ser
vant of immigrants.
Yet though he accomplished
much in many fields, the Bo
hemian-bom prelate, was truly
"a hero apart from grand un
dertakings,” in the words of
Pope Benedict XV, who declar
ed him Venerable in 1921.
The man who was to become
the fourth Bishop of Philadel
phia disliked any fanfare, and
his humility, often misunder
stood, was like a cloak cover
ing his achievements.
As a pioneer missionary, Fa
ther Neumann spread the Faith
throughout various regions of
Pennsylvania, Delaware, New
York, Maryland and Virginia
from 1840 to i860.
In the educational field, he
established the first unified
system of Catholic schools
under a diocesan board, intro
duced nuns and Brothers into
the Philadelphia diocese as
teachers, and wrote a cate
chism and Bible history for the
faithful.
As an administrator, Bishop
Neumann helped construct 80
churches in the Philadelphia
diocese, conducted visitation
tours in pioneer settlements and
held three diocesan synods. The
Bishop also organized the first
diocesan schedule of the Forty
Hours’ Devotion in America.
Able to converse in 10 lan
guages, he eschewed the soli
tude desired by scholars for
the apostolate of action. His fa
cility in languages became an
effective tool in embedding the
Faith firmly into many Euro
pean immigrants to the U. S.
Father Neumann worked
among Germans in the region of
Niagara Falls, set up the
first national parish for Ita
lians (St. Mary Magdalene de
Pazzi) in the U.S. in 1853 in
South- Philadelphia, and even
learned Gaelic so that he could
hear confessions of the Irish
who settled in a mountanious
region of Pennsylvania.
In Trevorton, Pa., one day
in 1856, an elderly lady went
into the confessional where Bis
hop Neumann was sitting and be
gan with the Gaelic words:
"Beannaigh me. . .”
When she left the church,
then was a broad smile on her
face and she exclaimed to neigh
bors: “Moladh go deo la Dia.
Easpog Eireannach ata’gainni
are deire” (Praise be the good
God, it’s an Irish bishop we have
at last!)
John Neumann, the third of
six children, was born in Pra-
chatitz, Bohemia, on March 28,
1811. After studying for the
priesthood at Budweis and Pra
gue, he came to the U. S. and
was ordained on June 26, 1846,
by Bishop John Dubois in New
York.
A week after his ordina
tion, he was named pastor of an
area in Western New York as
large as his native land. He:
worked four years as a pioneer
missionary along the Niagara
frontier and the Buffalo area,
where he ministered to hun
dreds of immigrants.
In 1840, Father Neumann be
gan his novitiate as a Redemp-
torist. On January 16, 1842,
he made his profession of vows
in Baltimore. He became even
more of a traveler then, going
out among the settlements of
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Two years later theRedemp-
torists made him superior of
their parish in Pittsburgh. In
1847 Father Neumann was nam
ed superior of all Redempto-
rists working in the U. S. Al
though the superior, he always
chose for himself the most self-
effacing tasks while on mission
assignments, leading in recita
tion of the Rosary rather than
giving the principal sermon, and
spending many hours daily in
the confessional.
On February 1, 1852, Pope
Pius IX named him Bishop of
Philadelphia. The See entrust-
d to the 41-year-old prelate
covered 30,000 square miles.
It was made up of the present
Diocese of Trenton, N. J., a
portion of Altoona-Johnstown,
Pa., and Camden, N. J., dio
ceses, all of Harrisburg, Pa.,
Scranton, Pa., and Wilmington,
Del., dioceses, plus the present
Archdiocese of Philadelphia.
Bishop Neumann, who was
consecrated on March 28, 1852,
could never quite get used to his
new office. Disliking pomp and
ceremony, he was reluctant to
attend social teas and banquets
and to wear the fashionable
clerical clothes he was given.
In his first sermon as head
of the diocese, Bishop Neumann
strongly urged that all Catholic
children attend Catholic
schools. About six weeks after
his consecration, he assembled
a group of clergy and laymen
to discuss plans for setting up
parish schools throughout the
Philadelphia diocese. A week
later the group adopted a plan
for establishment of a central
board of education in the
diocese.
This singal contribution of
Bishop Neumann’s was made
a subject of canon law by the
Third Plenary Council of Bal
timore 30 years after the
Bishop’s death.
Public schools soon found
their enrollment decreasing, as
one Catholic school after ano
ther went up in the Philadelphia
diocese. To provide teachers
for the growing number of stu
dents, Bishop Neumann brought
into the diocese Christian Bro
thers, Sisters of Notre Dame de
Namur, Sisters of the Immacu
late Heart of Mary, and Sisters
of the Holy Cross. In April, 1855
he founded an American Con
gregation of the Sisters of
the Third Order of St. Francis,
whose motherhouse now is lo
cated in Glen Riddle, Pa.
In 1853 Bishop Neumann
launched the first diocesan cy
cle of Forty Hours’ Devotion
in American.
The Bishop asked the Holy
See to divide the Philadelphia
diocese, hoping that he would be
given a small area in the coal
regions among the hard work
ing immigrants. The Holy See,
instead of dismembering the
diocese, gave him a coadju
tor, Bishop James F. Wood.
On January 5, 1860, Bishop
Neumann, while walking at 13th
and Vine Streets in Philadel
phia, fell to his knees sud
denly and died shortly after
wards. He was 49.
When Pope Benedict XV de
clared him Venerable in 1921,
he said that if some persons
could not "picture him to them
selves as a hero apart from
grand undertakings, We hasten
to say that wonderful results
can spring from simple deeds,
provided these are performed
as perfectly as possible and with
unremitting constancy.”
He also said: "Venerable
Neumann’s activity was indeed
admirable, not so much for the
good he effected in the fleeting
hour of the present, as for that 1
which assured the benefit for
future ages.”
In February, 1963, the Vati
can’s Sacred Congregation of
Rites certified as authentic two
miracles attributed to the in
tercession of Bishop Neumann
as a necessary step toward his
beatification.
There were the cure of J.
Kent Lenahan of suburban Phil
adelphia, who suffered a frac
tured skull and multiple inter
nal injuries in an automobile
accident in 1949, and the cure
of Eva Benassi Pantani of Sas-
suolo, Italy, of acute peritoni
tis in 1922.
Bishop Neumann is the third
U. S. Citizen, and the first male
one, to be beatified.
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BISHOP NEUMANN INTERCEDED—In this painting the
artist has portrayed the scene at the hospital bedside of
teenager J. Kent Lenahan who was crushed in an auto
mobile accident on July 8, 1949. Suffering from a frac
tured skull and multiple internal injuries, the physicians
regarded his case as hopeless. Members of his family and
friends made a novena to Bishop John N. Neumann, to
intercede for his recovery, and a relic of the bishop was
touched to his body. In a matter of hours his condition
improved and within a month he was discharged from the
hospital in normal health. He is now married, the father
of a family and lives in Villanova, Pa. His case was one of
two miraculous cures formally accepted in the cause of
Bishop Neumann’s beatification, which is scheduled for
October 13. —(NC Photos)
LITTLE EVA’S MIRACULOUS CURE—The Ven. John
Nepomucene Neumann, C.SS.R., Bishop of Philadelphia
from 1852 to 1860 will be beatified by Pope Paul VI on
Sunday, October 13. The first of the two miraculous
cures formally accepted (February 1963) in his beatifi
cation cause took place 40 years ago. In this painting the
artist depicts the scene, May, 1923, at a boarding school
for girls conducted by the Third Order of St. Francis in
the Italian town of Sassuolo. The local doctor, Dr. Bar-
banti, held out no hope for the recovery of little Eva
Benassi; suffering from tubercular peritonitas. Sister Eliza
beth and her community of nuns, and the classmates of the
11-year-old girl prayed for a cure through Bishop Neu
mann’s intercession. All pain and nausea suddenly vanished.
Little Eva is now Mrs. Pietro Pentani, the mother of two
children.—(NC Photos)
passport certificate, dated Oc
tober 13, 1854, was recently
discovered in the National Ar
chives in Washington, D. C.
The U. S. citizens already
beatified are St. Francis Xa
vier Cabrini, a naturalized ci
tizen beatified in 1938 and ca
nonized as a saint in 1946,
and native-born Mother Eliza
beth Seton, foundress of the
Sisters of Charity of the U.S.,
who was beatified on March 17,
1963.
Pacelli Teacher Wins
Freedom Award
COLUMBUS —The chairman
of Pacelli High School’s math
department has received na
tional recognition from the
Freedoms Foundation at Valley
Forge, Pa. for furthering the
cause of responsible citizen
ship, patriotism and a greater
understanding of the American
way of life.
Maj. (Ret.) Robert Lagen
recieved the 1962 Valley Forge
Classroom Teachers Medal.
In all, the Freedoms Founda
tion honored 332 American
classroom teachers. Their sel
ection was made by a distin
guished independent awards
jury composed of state supreme
court justices and national
heads of patriotic, veterans and
service club organizations.
Nominations are submitted
by the general public.
Dr. Kenneth D. Wells, presi
dent of Freedoms Foundation at
Valley Forge, announced the
recipients and in so doing, Dr.
Wells said:
“We feel extreme pride in
these select classroom teach
ers chosen for their personal
dedication and individual con
tribution to the preservation of
freedom through teaching our
youth the facts and faith of
the ideals of the American Cre
do.
"No single group outside the
home has a more awesome re
sponsibility for instilling in our
boys and girls the resolute, re
sponsible and reverent patri
otism which will equip them to
meet the challenges the future
is sure to hold. Tyranny and the
government - overmen scheme
cannot long face courageous
people, well educated and pa
triotically motivated, no mat
ter what banner it carries.”
A native of Dubuque, Iowa,
Lagen served in the Army from
1940 until 1957, and was station
ed at Fort Benning in 1942 and
again in 1955. He was supply
officer for The Infantry School
when he retired because of phy
sical disability in November
1957.
During World War II, Lagen
served in the British Isles and
Germany. He was stationed on
Okinawa during the Korean War.
Upon retirement, he attended
Auburn University. He enroll
ed in January 1958, and receiv
ed a BS degree with a double
major in math and science in
two and a half years. He has
taught since 1960 at Pacelli,
where his wife, Dorothy,
teaches English and Latin.
Lagen is a member of the ex
ecutive board of the March of
Dimes and is a member of the
North Columbus Optimist Club,
the Knights of Columbus and the
Retired Officers Association,
The Lagens have two chil
dren, Patricia Ann, a junior at
Auburn, and Robert Lagen Jr.,
a senior at Pacelli.
Receive Tito
Coldly
MEXICO CITY (NC)—Yugo
slav communist dictator Tito,
on a state visit here, was re
ceived coldly by a number of
newspapers and leaders who
reflect wide popular opinion in
Mexico.
The tone of Catholic comment
was set by Carlos Garcinava,
Catholic Action president, who
said that the necessary hospi
tality could not come ' ‘from the
heart” of Mexicans because
they will not forget the perse
cution of their fellow Catholics
in Yugoslavia.
A spokesman for the Young
Christian Workers pointed to
the deprivation of liberty in Yu
goslavia not only for Catholic
workers but for all members
of the free labor movement.
The Catholic weekly Mundo Me-
jor headlined its story on the
event: “Visit of Yugoslav Ty
rant Tito Offends Mexico.”
The Southern Cross, October 10, 1963—PAGE 5
Counsel To Republicans On
House Education Committee
Defends U.S. School Loans
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (NC)—
The constitutionality of Federal
loans which offer limited assis
tance to parochial and other pri
vate schools has been support
ed by the minority counsel of
the House Education Commit
tee.
Charles W. Radcliffe, legal
adviser to Republicans on the
committee and former legisla
tive officer in the U. S. Office
of Educaton, presents his ar
gument in the current (summer)
issue of the Harvard Educa
tional Review.
Radcliffe discusses one sec
tion of the 1958 National Defense
Education Act. This provides
for 10-year, interest-bearing
Federal loans to help purchase
instructional equipment, other
than textbooks, in science, ma
thematics and modern foreign
languages. Public schools get
outright grants for the same
purpose.
The attorney defends these
loans as a proper function of
government in the interest of
national defense. He says ben
efit which may derive to relig
ion is only incidental.
Referring to decisions of the
U. S. Supreme Court, Radcliffe
says the test drawn from these
rulings and applied to the loan
program should be this:
"Was it the primary pur-
ose and effect of the legisla
tion to aid a parochial school,
per se, or was it to accom
plish a broad and legitimate
public purpose in which the
aid to the schools is a neces
sary incident?”
Arguing that the inten
tion clearly was to accomplish
a public purpose, Radcliffe
compares this favorably to tax-
paid bus rides and tax-paid
textbooks in secular subjects
for parochial pupils, both prac
tices upheld by the Supreme
Court.
"The equipment purchased
with the loan funds does not
add more teachers or more
classrooms or more pupils to
the parochial schools,” Rad
cliffe said.
“It does not effect any ele
ment of religious instruction
in any course. It simply im
proves the quality of instruc
tion in mathematics, science
and languages. The pupils who
already attend parochial
school s are better prepared in
these subjects of such critical
importance to the nation. This
was the intent of Congress,”
Msgr. Cardinale
Is Successor
To Archbishop
VATICAN CITY, (NC) —
Msgr. Igino Cardinale, who
spent most of his youth in the
U.S., has been named Apostolic
Delegate in Great Britain.
At the time of his nomina
tion Msgr. Cardinale was chief
of protocol of the Papal Secre
tariat of State. In his new post
he succeeds Archbishop Gerald
O’Hara, former bishop of Sa
vannah who died July 15.
i Msgr. Cardinale was born
October 14, 1916, in Fondi,
Italy. His father had come back
to Italy from Boston with his
family when Italy entered World
War I and was serving as a cal
vary officer at the time of the
future papal diplomat’s birth
With the end of the war, the
Cardinale family returned to
Boston, and Igino Cardinale
completed his high school stud
ies at St. Agnes Academy there.
When the family returned
again to Italy, Igino entered the
seminary of Gaeta and by the
time of his ordination in 1941
he had studied in the seminary
of Salerno and the major sem
inary in Rome as well as with
the theology faculty of St. Lui
gi of Posillipo.
He entered the Pontifical Ec
clesiastical Academy, where
diplomats of the Holy See are
trained. He received a degree
in law and the academy’s di
ploma “maxima cum laude” in
1945.
After a year’s service with
the papal secretariat, he
was assigned to the apostolic
delegation for Egypt, Palestine,
Transjordan, Arabia and Cyp
rus. During his service there,
diplomatic relations were es
tablished between the Holy See
and Egypt.
The delegation was immersed
also in work among the refuges
in the Middle East. For several
months Msgr. Cardinale was
charge d’ affairs of the inter
nunciature in Cairo. He return
ed to Rome in 1952 because of
illness and became private sec
retary to the Papal Substitute
Secretary of State.
he wrote.
In a brief comment on Rad
cliffe’s article in the Review,
Dunbar Holmes, a member of
the Massachusetts bar, main
tains that the test Radcliffe put
forward to measure constitu
tionality is a "new and novel
concept.”
Holmes says he cannot find
the test contained in Supreme
Court decisions and expresses
his belief it violates the First
Amendment.
Radcliffe’s article was in re
sponse to one in the summer,
1962, issue of the Review by
George R. LaNoue who terms
the loan program unconstitu
tional. LaNoue’s study has re
ceived wide distribution through
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INDIA: A GIFT FIT FOR A
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Sister Loyola, Superior of the Sacred Heart Convent in KAN-
AYAANKAVAYAL in southern India writes: This village is a
mountainous place. We walk five
miles from the main road through a
forest, across rope bridges, high hills
and steep valleys to reach the 300
families who earn their living' by
cultivating the land . . . Our Arch-
O"* SoBr ^ bishop sent us here to teach the chil
dren catechism and to run the prim
ary school. We live in a small house
without a chapel. The people are
so poor they are unable to build us
one or improve our building . . .
The Holy Father’s Mission Aid sister’s plea is warmly seconded by
lor the Oriental Church the Archbishop of CIIANGANA-
CHLPvRY who laments the fact he is unable to aid them more
because of the extent and poverty of his mission field ... In
this pie asant month of October when many consecrate themselves
to the S'acred Heart on the Feast of Christ the King, it would
certainly be a gift fit for a King if donations, large or small
came in to make up the §4,000 these courageous and hard-work
ing Sisters need. Your sacrifice will make their work more
hopeful and' you can be assured you will be long remembered
in their prayers and those of the children and people they have
in their care.
STRINGLESS GIFTS ENABLE US TO HELP THE HOLY
FATHER WHERE HE THINKS THE NEED IS GREATEST
VFJVF.WAWE JOHN NEUMANN
This holy last-eentury leader of the Philadelphia archdiocese
will be beatified on Oct. 13 by Pope Paul VI. His great love
and work was among children. He often taught them catechism
personally and he founded the diocesan system of Catholic
schools in this country ... A membership in our association wil’
enable future Bishop Neumanns in the 18 NEAR and MIDDLE
EAST countries (Iran, Iraq, Palestine, India, Egypt, etc.) to
bring Christ’s spirit and words to the children (and grownups*
of these countries .• . . Membership is so inexpensive, only $1 a
year for a single person; $5 for a family. Perpetual membership
is $20 for a single person: $100 for a family. You share in the
prayers and Massbs of the Holy Father and the 15,000 priests
in these missionary countries.
MAUREEN K. WRITES: Enclosed are ten dollars I received
for my First Communion. I would like to send it to a needy
child in the missions. OUR REPLY: Maureen, your kind sacri
fice will go to help a PALESTINE REFUGEE child living in a
camp in the Near East. We help them with schooling (§25 a
term); food (a package costs §10) and warm blankets (§2). We
also run a school for the BLIND CHILDREN OF GAZA.
NEXT MONTH WE REMEMBER THE HOLY SOULS. OUR
PRIESTS ARE THANKFUL FOR MASS STIPENDS.
INSTANT ANGELUS
The Cure d’Ars had the answer for dark dreams. He said the
Angelus on awakening, turning dark thoughts into white ones
of apostolic action. Tomorrow morning, you can resolve to edu
cate a seminarian or Sister like ANTONY PLAKKAL or SR.
ROSALIND. $2 a week or $100 a year for six years educates a
seminarian while $3 a week or $150 a year for 2 years prepares
a Sister for her lifetime of apostolic work. What a wonderful
prospect for a small sacrifice of 27 or 40 cents a day! We have
the names of so many who need help.
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