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PAGE 2—The Southern Cross, January 2, 1964
Holy Land Visit—
(Continued from Page 1)
the Basilica of the Miracle of
the Loaves and Fishes.
After meeting Israeli Pre
sident Shneor Shazar at Megi-
ddo, a town near Nazareth, the
Pope will offer Mass in Naza
reth and then have lunch at
Mount Tabor. That day also he
will return to Jordanian Jeru
salem for several visits, and
later he will recieve officials
and special delegations at the
apostolic delegation.
On the Feast of the Epip
hany, Jan. 6, the Pope will
offer Mass in Bethlehem, ei
ther in the grotto below the
Basilica of the Nativity or in
the basilica itself. Art objects,
prepared by people of the
town, will be presented to
to Pope at a ceremony in front
of the Church of the Nativity
after the Mass.
The Pope will give a
NATIONAL HONOR—Jerry
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major talk there, then return
to Jerusalem, where he will
meet Patriarch Athenagoras I
and pray with him. He will then
go to Amman and leave from
there by plane for Rome, where
he is scheduled to arrive in the
late afternoon.
Plane—
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hours and 20 minutes, with the
Pope due to arrive at Amman
at 12:50 p.m., Jordan time.
The flight is a little over 1,600
miles.
The plane is newly acquired
and has been put through test
flights. Cocaptains for the trip
are Commandant Gian Mario
Zuccarini, 47, who has 11,000
flying hours, and Commandant
Sergio Mosetti, also 47, with
12,000 flying hours. The full
crew numbers 12, including 8
stewards.
On Jan. 6 the papal plane
will take off from Amman at
2:50 p.m., Jordan time, and is
scheduled to arrive at Rome’s
Ciampino Airport at 5;30 p.m.,
Rome time.
Alternate airports for the
Pope’s landing in the Mideast
are Damascus and Nicosia, Cy
prus. On the return flight Fi-
umicino has been designated as
an alternate landing place.
Archbishop Slipyi
VATICAN CITY (NC)—Uk
rainian Rite Archbishop Josyf
Slipyi of Lvov, who has re
sided in Rome since his re
lease by the Soviet Union a year
ago after 18 years of detention,
has been appointed a member
of the Sacred Congregation for
the Oriental Church by Pope
Paul VI.
St. Michael’s
Sodality Names
New Officers
SAVANNAH BEACH — The
Children of Mary, a sodality-
type organization, for the ele
mentary school children of St.
Michael’s held elections re
cently. Mary Ann Chandler was
elected President of the Sen
ior Division, Martina Edgerly,
vice president.
In the Junior division, Peggy
Price was voted in as
President, Betty Jane Hosti as
vice-president. Each member
received a booklet detailing a
way of life in imitation of
Mary and certain prayers and
duties to perform.
Unity Conference
LONDON (NC)—The British
Council of Churches announced
it will hold a conference on
church unity in the week next
September during which the
Second Vatican Council recon
venes. The council’s third ses
sion has been scheduled tenta
tively for Sept. 14 to Nov. 20.
Catholic observers are es-
pected to be invited to the meet
ing to be held at Nottingham
University and entitled “The
British Faith and the Order
Conference.”
The conference will be the
first major move toward Chris
tian unity in Britian in the 20th
century, except for recent dia
logues between Anglicans and
Methodists.
The Battle of Bloody Marsh,
in which the English defeated
the Spanish, was fought on St.
Simons Island in 1742. It was
a decisive factor in de
termining that Georgia (and
possibly all America) was to be
English rather than Spanish.
C. J. Woods
SAVANNAH — Funeral ser
vices for Clarence J. Woods
Sr. were conducted at the grave
side in Catholic Cemetery with
the Reverend Robert Teoli of
ficiating.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs.
Theresa M. Woods; a son, Clar
ence J. Woods Jr.; a daughter,
Mrs. Ellen Abhrams; two step
sons, T. Sgt. Richard Landolt,
with the U. S. Air Force in Ja
pan, and John E. Landolt of
Toledo, Ohio; five stepdaugh
ters,-Mrs. Mary Spohn of Tem
perance, Mich., Mrs. Thresa
Leu of Toledo, Ohio, Mrs. Eliz
abeth Sciamvia of Lindenhurst,
N. Y., Mrs. George Nelson of
Savannah and Mrs. Betty My
ers of Jacksonville, Fla.; sev
en grandchildren and one great
grandchild.
Obituaries
W. F. Ryan
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Funeral services for William
F. Ryan were conducted Decem
ber 24th at the Cathedral of St/
John the Baptist with the Rev
erend Lawrence A. Lucree of
ficiating. He was the son of Mrs.
Theresa O’Keefe Ryan and the
late John Chaplin.
Surviving besides his mother
are a brother, J. Patrick Ryan
of Pottsville, Pa.; five sisters,
Mrs. Samuel V. Fasola, Mrs.
Catherine R. Roy and Miss Mary
Agnes Ryan, all of Savannah,
and Mrs. R. E. Douglas Jr.
of Decatur; two neices, three
nephews, an uncle and an aunt.
Mrs. Rourke
SAVANNAH — Funeral ser
vices for Mrs. Mary Barry
Rourke were conducted De
cember 24th at St. James
Church. Mrs. Rourke was the
widow of John J. Rourke Sr.
Surviving are two sons, Pal
mer J. Rourke of Savannah and
Ambrose J. Rourke of Jackson
ville, Fla.; four grandchil
dren and a great grand-daugh
ter.
Mrs. Ward
AUGUSTA—Funeral servic
es for Mrs. Robert F. Ward
were conducted December 28th
at St. Mary’s On the Hill Church
with The Right Reverend Msgr.
Daniel J. Bourke officiating.
Survivors include two dau
ghters, Mrs. M. E. Barber,
Augusta, and Mrs. Henry J.
Bambach, New York City; mo
ther, Mrs. Jessie S. Reeves,
Augusta; three sisters, Mrs.
J. M. Williams, Mrs. J. H.
Price and Mrs. F. H. Ivey, all
of Augusta; two brothers, An
drew E. Reeves, Augusta, and
Harry B. Reeves, LaGrange,
Ga.; and seven grandchildren.
Mrs. Vaughan
AUGUSTA — Funeral ser
vices for Mrs. Mary Cather
ine O' Callahan Vaughan were
conducted December 31st at
Sacred Heart Church with the
Rev. Andrew Doris, O.S.B. of
ficiating.
Widow of Dr. P. J. Vaughn,
Mrs. Vaughn died December
28th following an extended ill
ness. She was the daughter of
the late Patrick O’Callahan and
Katie McNamara O’Callahan of
Ireland and had lived in Augusta -
all her life.
W. E. Yokum
SAVANNAH — Funeral ser
vices for Walter Edgar Yokum
were conducted December 31st
at Sacred Heart Church.
Survivors include his wife,
Mrs. Annie Wells Yokum; two
sons, Walter E. Yokum Jr. and
Fred S. Yokum; four sisters,
Mrs. Ada Wright, Mrs. Daisy
Yarley and Mrs. Edna McDon
ough, all of Savannah, and Mrs.
Harriet Folliard of Savannah
Beach; three grandchildren; two
great - grandchildren, and a
number of nieces and nephews.
STREET SCENE IN NAZARETH—This little town, where Our Lord grew to manhood,
is one of the places Pope Paul VI will visit on his pilgrimage to the Holy Land. Nazareth
is within the state of Israel. This narrow street, typical of most of the places the Holy
Father will visit, illustrates the difficulties that confront plans to follow the Pontiff’s
progress with mobile television cameras. (NC Photos)
Bolivian Miners
Not ‘Barbarians’
By Carlos Andrade
(N.C.W.C. News Service)
LA PAZ, Bolivia — A U.S.
priest has spoken up for the
Bolivian tin miners whose ac
tions in holding American
government officials as hos
tages led to a world picture of
them as lawless barbarians.
‘ ‘Nothing could be farther
from the truth,” declares Msgr.
Andrew A. Kennedy. “Every
thing depends on the way they
are treated and understood. In
their midst I never felt I was
among enemies. I understood
them; they understood me.
The phrase that fits the sup
posed dangerous miners best, in
the priest’s opinion, is “Over
grown children.”
Msgr. Kennedy made a me
diation trip from this capital to
the scene of the strife between
the miners and the government
in mid-December. The govern
ment, however, asked him to
cease his efforts on the grounds
that it was imprudent for a non-
Bolivian to intervene. Arch
bishop Abel Antezana of LaPaz
then entered the situation as an
intermediary and managed to
bring about a truce, along with
the release of the Americans
and other hostages.
The American missionary
priest has now told of his part
in the episode, which threaten
ed to grow into a civil war.
Msgr. Kennedy has been in Bo
livia since 1956. He resigned a
position as vice chancellor of
the St. Louis archdiocese to
come here. After working
among Bolivia’s miners, he is
now vicar general of the La
Paz archdiocese.
On the sixth day after the
miners kidnaped four Ameri
cans, a German, a Dutchman
and 13 Bolivians in an attempt
to win release of two of their
own men, Msgr. Kennedy left
here on his mediation trip. Stop
ping overnight in the provincial
capital of Oruro, he found gov
ernment officials divided about
the value of his efforts. How
ever, he received authoriza
tion to continue.
Meanwhile word of his jour
ney was carried by radio, and a
message was received from the
leftist Vice President Juan
Lechin, who was with the min
ers, that the priest would be
received “with open arms.”
Representatives of the miners,
hearing that he wanted to rent
a jeep for the final part of his
trip, insisted that he use one of
their own vehicles.
The priest was warned by
some at Oruro that he was
heading for trouble. A Red
Cross delegate who had been
with the miners predicted that
he would be used as another
hostage. But Msgr. Kennedy
instead told the miners’ union
leaders at Uroro: “I am deter
mined to go to the mines to show
the world how afraid I am of you
supposedly terrible miners.”
When he said that, the priest
recalls, “The union leaders al
most cried.”
Msgr. Kennedy went ahead to
Siglo Veinte, where the miners
were holding their captives.
When he entered the room where
40 leaders of the communist-
oriented union were meeting, all
rose and welcomed him. He
worked with the union leaders
i*i drafting a settlement to be
presented to the government.
Meanwhile he asked to seethe
wives and relatives of the two
miners held by the government,
to give them letters he was car
rying for them. The mother of
one of them, Federico Escobal,
was reputed to be particularly
inflamed by the situation and
difficult to approach.
When Mrs. Escobal was taken
to Msgr. Kennedy she showed
her anger. The priest, however,
held out his hands and embrac
ed her with the words, “Ma-
mita, how are you?” Her atti
tude changed immediately,
Msgr. Kennedy reports, and
soon he was in a cordial inter
view with the wives and chil
dren of the two imprisoned min
ers. The interview ended
with all kneeling to be blessed
by the priest.
The miners asked the
Monsignor to interview the hos
tages. As he left the buil
ding where they were kept, he
noticed that most of the vil
lagers held back from him. He
Teachers Urged
To Teach
About Religion
SAN FRANCISCO (NC)—A
statement encouraging Califor
nia public school teachers to
teach about religion will be con
sidered by the California Board
of Education.
Methodist Bishop General
Kennedy of Los Angeles was
chief author of the statement,
said Thomas W. Braden, board
president, who with William
Norris of Psadena, served on
the committee. Braden said
many teachers misinterpret the
U. S. Supreme Court decision
banning prayers in schools as
also banning teaching about
religion.
The statement, prepared at
the board’s request, said Chris
tian parents are protected by
law against attempts to destroy
or weaken their children’s faith
in their religion.
The statement said teachers
should be able to differentiate
between conducting a compul
sory worship service and teach
ing about religion.
The Rural Free Delivery pos
tal system of the United States
is the evolution of a plan pro
posed in Congress by a Geor
gian, Thomas E. Watson.
took the initiative and went
among them, shaking hands.
Soon, he reports, the people
crowded, around, anxious to lis
ten to him. Later the local ra
dio station, run by communists,
broadcast a friendly interview
with him.
At this point the government
decided to move 3,000 troops
against the miners. Msgr. Ken
nedy made a radio appeal
to President Victor Paz Esten-
essero to have this movement
stopped, but he was unsuccess
ful. He then left the mining town.
Meanwhile in La Paz Archbish
op Antezana began the media
tion efforts that led to the truce.
Msgr. Kennedy says of the
miners: “They are led by a
minority of disciplined com
munists, imposing themselves
through fear and exploiting so
cial injustice. The miners
themselves, however,) are not
communists.
“On my trip to the mines
everything I did was governed
by one idea, that the miners
are human beings and Chris
tians. As Christians we must
love one another. In their midst
I was thus not among enemies
but in an atmosphere of friend
ship. I understood them; they
understood me.”
Metropolitan Visits
Rome Monastery
ROME (NC) — The special
emissary of the Orthodox Pa
triarch of Constantinople to the
Pope, Metropolitan Athenagor
as of Thyatira, went to a Ca
tholic Byzantine Rite monas
tery near Rome to pray and to
visit.
The Orthodox Archbishop
motored a dozen miles south
east of Rome to visit the Ba-
silian monastery of St. Mary
of Grottaferra, founded 960
years ago, before the final split
between the Catholic and Ortho
dox Churches.
Metropolitan Athenagoras,
who was to leave Rome Dec.
31, was accompanied on the
trip by Father Pierre Duprey,
W. F., the Christian unity sec
retariat’s Undersecretary for
Orthodox Relations. Father Du
prey had escorted him to his
meeting with Pope Paul on Dec.
28. The Metropolitan was wel
comed to the monastery (Dec.
30) by the abbot, Archimand
rite Teodoro Minisci, and by
the entire community of Basil-
ian monks.
The visiting prelate went im
mediately to pray in the mon
astery’s historic church, which
is dedicated to the Madonna.
Following a long visit to the
church, he toured the monas
tery, showing particular in
terest in the manuscripts and
ancient documents in its li
brary.
At the conclusion of the visit,
the Metropolitan spoke cor
dially with novices and students
of the Basilian Order who are
receiving their training at the
monastery.
More Catholics
, NEW YORK (NC) — The Ca
tholic Church outdistanced Pro
testant denominations in gain
ing new members in the Uni
ted States during 1963, accord
ing to the National Coun
cil of Churches (Protestant).
Statistics compiled for the
council’s 1964 Yearbook of
American Churches fixed the
Catholic Church membership at
43,847,938, an increase of 2.3%
over the previous year.
The council reported 222
Protestant denominations with
64,929,941 members, an in
crease of 0.77%.
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