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SAVANNAH, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 16, 1964
Msgr. T. James McNamara
Twenty-Fifth Anniversary
As Rector Of Cathedral
SAVANNAH — The Rt. Rev.
Msgr. T. James McNamara,
P.A., V.G., will be honored at
a reception marking his 25th
anniversary as Rector of the
Cathedral of St. John the Bap
tist, on Sunday, Jan. 19th from
3:30 to 5:30 p.m.
On Sunday morning he will
celebrate a Solemn Pontifical
Mass at 10:00 a.m. His Ex
cellency, the Most Rev. Thom
as J. McDonough, Bishop of Sa
vannah will preside in the Sanc
tuary.
The reception, sponsored by
the Home and School Associa
tion of Cathedral Day School will
be held in the school cafetor-
ium.
The well known Savannah
Prelate was named to his post
as Cathedral Rector on Jan. 11,
1939 by the late Archbishop,
Gerald P. O'Hara.
A native of Cathedral parish,
Monsignor McNamara was born
Feb. 5, 1899 in the old sec
tion of Savannah, the son of Mar
garet Sullivan McNamara and
the late Patrick J. McNamara.
He received his elementary
education in a grade school uni
que in the history of Savannah
and, perhaps, in the nation. For,
he attended “Cathedral
School”, which was, when he
entered it in 1906, one of Sa
vannah’s Public Schools.
After graduating from Bene-
MSGR. McNAMARA
dictine Military School, he be
gan preliminary studies for the
Preisthood at St. Charles Col
lege, Catonsville, Md., and was
ordained from St. Bernard’s Se
minary, Rochester, N. Y., with
a Bachelor’s degree in Philoso
phy, June 14th, 1924.
As a young priest, his first
assignment was as Assistant
Rector at the Cathedral, a post
he occupied from 1924 to 1932,
when he was named Administra
tor of the Middle Georgia Mis
sions, with headquarters at Sa
cred Heart Church, Milledge-
ville.
He reamined on the Missions
until appointed Rector at the Ca
thedral. Shortly after receiv
ing this appointment, he was
named a Domestic Prelate with
the title of Rt. Rev. Monsignor
by the late Pope Pius XI. The
late Pontiff, Pope Pius XII rais
ed him to the dignity of Prot
onotary Apostolic.
Since assuming the duties of
Rector at Savannah’s Cathedral,
he established the basement of
the structure into a lower
church, dedicated to the Bless
ed Virgin, Mary and known as
the Cathedral Chapel of our
Lady, at a cost exceeding $400,-
000.00; built the present Ca
thedral School and established
an attractive parking lot for
Cathedral church-goers.
Under his administration the
Cathedral has recently com
pleted a repairs and renovation
program costing more than
$400,000.00 .
In addition to his duties as
Cathedral Rector, he is Dioce
san Director of the Apostleship
of Prayer, Catholic Committee
of the South, and the Priests’
Eucharistic League.
Always active in civic and
welfare associations, he is Dio
cesan Moderator of the United
Service Organizations and its
affiliate, the National Catholic
Community Service. He is pres
ently serving as a member of
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American Commission On
Liturgical Use Of English
Makes Progress Report
PHILADELPHIA (NC ) —
“Important progress” in choo
sing English-language liturgy
translations for use in official
Catholic worship in the United
States was made at a meeting
here of the Bishops’ Commis
sion on the Liturgical Apos-
tolate.
This was announced by Arch
bishop John F. Dearden of De
troit, chairman of the commis
sion, following its one-day
meeting (Jan. 8).
The commission plans fur
ther work toward selecting
English-language translations.
The versions it recommends
will be submitted to all the
Bishops of the country for their
study and approval at a general
meeting expected in the early
spring.
The work toward introduction
of the vernacular into the li
turgy — the Church’s official
worship—is being carried out
under the new constitution on
the liturgy formally adopted
Mission At
Thomasville
THOM AS VILL E —St. Augus
tine’s Church will hold a par
ish mission beginning at 7:30
p.m. Jan. 19 and continuing
daily through Jan. 24.
Mission services for adults
and high school students will
include instruction at morn
ing masses at 7 and 9 a.m.
Evening services will consist
of sermon, instruction, rosary
and benediction.
Special services will be con
ducted for grade school children
from 4 - 4:30 p.in., Jan. 20, 21
and 22.
The mission will be conducted
by the Reverend Neal Boyle, a
Franciscan missionary and
member of the Franciscan
Mission Band, a group of 21
priests who travel from Maine
to Florida preaching missions
in various parish churches. He
will conduct similar missions in
Tifton, Bainbridge, Moultrie
and Americus after the one in
Thomasville.
Dec. 4. at the second session
of the Vatican council. The
U.S. Bishops said in a joint
statement before leaving
Rome that they would make full
use of the vernacular conces
sions granted in this document.
The liturgy constitution will
go into effect Feb. 16. After
Pope Paul VI issues directives
on its implementation, the Bi
shops’ liturgy commission
hopes to submit sample trans
lations to all the U. S. Bishops
in preparation for their planned
general meeting.
Following approval of the of
ficial translations, a spokes
man said, a date will be set
for vernacular concessions to
go into effect. The date will
depend on the time needed
to prepare, print and distri
bute liturgical books.
Among those attending the
commission meeting here was a
representative of bishops of the
English-speaking area of Cana
da, Archbishop Michael C. O’
Neill of Regina.
Commission members pres
ent besides Archbishop Dearden
were Bishop Vincent S. Waters
of Raleigh, N. C., Bishop Vic
tor J. Reed of Oklahoma City-
Tulsa, and Auxiliary Bishop
James H. Griffiths ofNewYork,
commission secretary.
Also participating were Bi
shop William G. Connare of
Greensburg, Pa., and Auxili
ary Bishop John J. Dougherty
of Newark, N.J., president of
Seton Hall University.
The commission on the Li
turgical Apostolate was estab-
Attention
C.Y.O.
Moderators!
The attention of CYO mod
erators is called to this
week’s Youthscope column
on page 6.
In this column Father Her
bert J. Wellmier, Diocesan
Youth Director, gives addi
tional details of the Albany
Convention.
lished by The U. S. Bishops
in 1958. Such groups are rec
ommended in the ecumenical
council’s liturgy constitution as
a means of promoting pastoral
and liturgical action in each
country or region.
An entire section of the li
turgy constitution is devoted
to the “promotion of liturgical
instruction and active partici
pation” which is called “the
aim to be considered before all
else” in liturgical renewal.
Chile May Elect Red
Government This Year
(N.C.W.C. News Service)
HUNTINGTON, Ind.—The world’s only freely elected com
munist government may come to power this year in Chile, a
journalist and student of Latin American affairs warns.
Father Albert J. Nevins,
M. M., writing in the Jan. 19
Our Sunday Visitor, national
Catholic newspaper, says there
is “a real possibility” that a
communist-controlled coalition
will win the Chilean elections
scheduled for Sept. 4.
Father Nevins says that if
the communist-socialist Popu
lar Action Front (FRAP) comes
to power in Chile, it will em
bark on a program that includes
a pro-Soviet foreign policy and
expropriation of foreign hold
ings. The U. S. -owned Ana
conda and Kennecott copper
companies control 90% of
Chile’s copper mining. &
Father Nevins Is editor of
Maryknoll magazine and a past
president of the Catholic Press
Association. In 1961 he receiv
ed Columbia University’s Maria
Moor Cabot Prize for promoting
inter-American friendship.
In his discussion of FRAP
prospects in the upcoming elec
tions, he points out that in 1958
the coalition received 350,000
votes and missed winning the
presidency by only 33,500. In
1961 congressional elections
the coalition total rose to more
than 400,000, and in municipal
elections last April the coalition
polled 689,000 votes.
The FRAP presidential can
didate is Salvador Allende,
leader of the Socialist par
ty. Father Nevins says Allende
has “visited and heaped praise
on the Soviet Union, Red China
and Cuba.’ ’
Raul Cardinal Silva Hen-
riquez has stated that the com
munists have 1,500 fulltime or-
Priests 9
Fast Rule
Revised
VATICAN CITY (NC>
Sacred Congregation of the Holy
Office has revised its ruling
that priests planning to cele
brate Mass must calculate the
period of the Eucharistic fast
from the beginning of the Mass.
A new decision now permits
the period to be calculated in
reference to the moment of the
priest’s Communion.
The decision was contained
in a Holy Office decree dated
Jan. 10. Until the decree, under
the provisions of the apostolic
constitution Christus Dominus
of 1953 and the motu proprio
Sacram Communionem of 1957,
priests had to calculate the
three-hour abstention from or
dinary food and alcoholic drinks
and the one hour abstention
from nonalcoholic drinks from
the beginning of Mass.
According to Canon 247 of the
Code of Canon Law, the Holy
Office exclusively is competent
in all matters that relate to the
Eucharistic fast for priests.
ganizers in Chile and are spend
ing heavily for propaganda, and
that the Chilean Commu
nist party is second only to that
of Cuba in Latin America.
Father Nevins says that if the
Catholic parties in Chile could
unite they would be able to re
pulse the threat from the left.
But because of dissension be
tween Catholics of the right and
the center, “no observers see
this as a possibility,’’ he says.
Describing the Church’s res
ponse to the crisis, henotes that
in the fall of 1961 the Chilean
Bishops announced that the 13,-
200 acres of land belonging to
the Church would be divided
and sold to rural families with
payment spread over 20 years.
The program of land distribu
tion is proceeding “steadily,”
he says.
Other Catholic programs
have been developed to meet
such problems as poor housing,
low wages, unemployment, il
literacy and malnutrition, he
reports, and a Christian trade
union movement is being form
ed to recapture control of la
bor from the communists.
Father Nevins says the
Church's efforts have borne
fruit recently in declining Red
influence among university stu
dents.
He attributes this develop
ment largely to the influence of
the Chilean Christian Democra
tic party, which under the lead
ership of Eduardo Frei captur
ed 23% of the vote total in the
1963 municipal elections. This
made it the largest single party
in Chile, although the commun
ist-socialist coalition had 29%
of the vote.
Weighing the prospects of the
communist - run coalition in the
1964 voting against the recent
progress by the Christian Dem
ocrats, and the Church, Father
Nevine concludes:
"The September election will
. r. mark either Chile’s last free
i Trie (’election or the beginning of a
new era for the Church.”
DIOCESAN LECTURE SERIES—Bishop Thomas J. McDonough is pictured with the
speakers in the lecture series “Reform and Reunion Among Christians” to be presented
on six consecutive Thursdays beginning January 23rd. Pictured left to right; Rev. Francis
J. Donohue; Rev. John J. Cuddy; Msgr. Andrew J. McDonald; Bishop McDonough; Mr.
Joseph Hutton; Msgr. John D. Toomey and Rev. William V. Coleman, moderator for the
series.—(Carroll Burke Photo)
Series Starts January 23rd
Bishop To Give
First Lecture
SAVANNAH—The Most Rev
erend Thomas J. McDonough
will give the first lecture in a
series of six lectures on “Re
form and Reunion Among Chris
tians.”
His Excellency will speak at
8:00 p.m. on Thursday, January
23rd, at the Cathedral School
Auditorium. The Bishop has
BISHOP MCDONOUGH
Panama
Bishop Appeals For
Prudence In Crisis
PANAMA CITY (NC)—Auxil
iary Bishop Mark G. McGrath
of Panama City has called for
"prudence and balance” follow
ing the violence here in which
23 persons were killed and
more than 400 wounded.
The Bishop spoke the day
before he celebrated a Mass
(Ja.i. 13) in the cathedral here
for Panamanians slain in the
clashes touched off by rioting
(Jan. 9) between students over
the flying of the American and
Panamanian flags.
President Roberto F. Chiari
of Panama led some 5,000 peo-
Papal Journey To
U. S. Seen Possible
By James C. O’Neill
(N.C.W.C. News Service)
VATICAN CITY—“None of us
will be surprised in Pope Paul
goes to India next November and
even files to the United States.”
The speaker was a member
of the party which accompanied
the Pope on his epic pilgrim
age to the Holy Land. Still
showing signs of wear and wear
iness, the Vatican monsignor
who preferred not to be named,
sat in the damask-lined waiting
room of the Secretariat of State,
staidly quiet after the tumult
which had surrounded the
Pope’s every step on his three-
day trip.
“The Pope has already ex
pressed how pleased he was by
the trip,” the priest said. “At
his Wednesday general audience
(Jan. 8) he was particularly
enthusiastic about the time in
the Holy Land. Throughout the
trip he was constantly moved
by what he saw and by the wel
come given him both in Jor
dan and Israel. We all were
tremendously Impressed.”
After the journey, the car
dinals, bishops and priests who
accompanied the Pope told the
story of their trip to their
assistants and friends through
out the Vatican. As individual
stories were recounted, it was
apparent ■ that everyone on the
pilgrimage was immensely im
pressed and greatly surprised
by the success of the adventure
and by the reaction it caused
throughout the world.
Amleto Cardinal Cicognani,
Papal Secretary of State, told
visitors that he believes it was
only “divine help that permit
ted the Pope to complete the
entire trip which was beyond
human energy.” Cardinal Ci
cognani said that one of the
moments of the trip which im
pressed him most was when he,
Pope Paul, and Armenian Rite
Patriarch Ignace Pierre XVI
Batanian of Cilicia took part
in a symbolic ceremony in the
Church of the Nativity in Beth
lehem on the feast of the Epip
hany. The Pope presented to the
basilica gold in the form of
the Golden Rose—an ornament
which is an age-old sign of
special papal favor. Cardinal
Cicognani presented frankin
cense, and the Armenian Pa
triarch presented myhrr.
Others told of how Cardinal
Cicognani was rescued from the
crush of humanity on the Via
Dolorosa, the path Christ trod
to His Crucifixion, when the
Pope endeavored to make the
Stations of the Cross on his
way to the Basilica of the Holy
Sepulcher.
Father Pierre Duprey, W. F.,
an old Jerusalem hand who is
now an undersecretary of the
Secretariat for Promoting
Christina Unity, had ducked into
a curio store along the way
whose owner he happened to
know. The narrow street was
absolutely jammed with peo
ple. Father Duprey reached out
and grabbed Archbishop Angelo
Dell’Acqua by the arm as he
was passing, and the Papal Un
dersecretary of State gladly
took refuge in the shop. Then
as Cardinal Cicognani was
being pressed past the place,
Archbishop Dell’Acqua mana
ged to rescue him too.
The other two cardinals who
accompanied the Pope also had
difficulties. Gustavo Cardinal
Testa, secretary of the Congre
gation for the Oriental Church,
never reached the basilica. Eu
gene Cardinal Tisserant, Dean
of the College of Cardinals,
reached it only to have the
massive wooden doors close in
his face after the Pope's en
trance. He was later able to
enter, however.
Back in Rome, Cardinal Tis
serant showed visitors at his
offices at the Vatican Library
a pair of shoes that he had
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pie in an orderly funeral pro
cession here, which lasted four
hours.
Bishop McGrath had stated
earlier: “A group of irrespon
sible people in the Canal Zone,
trampling over Panamanian
rights and violating the orders
of their own authorities, have
unleashed a catachlysm of viol
ence, bringing death to some
and wounding others.”
President Johnson, President
Chiari and the Organization of
American states moved fast to
lessen tension created by the
incident. The U.S. holds the
Canal Zone in perpetuity under
a 1903 treaty. Panama has de
manded an end to the treaty.
The situation eased when in
ter-American peacemakers ag
reed (Jan. 13) on a five-man
mixed commission to restore
peace in the area and to main
tain contact between the Pan
amanian and the U. S. govern
ments. The U.S., Panama and
the OAS are represented on the
commission.
The violence flared when U.S.
students at Balboa High School
insisted that the U.S. flag be
flown alone at the school.
In 1960, former President
Eisenhower ordered that the
Panamanian flag be flown along
with the U. S. flag in the zone
to show that Panama has titu
lar soveriegnty in the zone al
though the U.S. has the right
to use the zone in perpetuity.
The government had put out an
order stating that in the case
of schools which did not have
two flagpoles, no flags were to
be flown at all. But despite this,
American high school students
ran up the American flag. On
Jan. 9 some Panamanian stu
dents invaded the zone and tried
to hoist their flag at Balboa
High School. Scuffles follow
ed between the Panamanian and
American students. Canal Zone
police tried to breakup the dis
orders and move the Panaman
ian students from the Canal
Zone. The rioting started later
after the Panamanian students
charged that their nation’s flag
had been violated.
When the situation became
more serious, the U. S. Army
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Pope Thanks
Airlines For
Safe Flight
VATICAN CITY (NC) —
Pope Paul VI has thanked
personnel of Alitalia In
ternational Airlines for his
safe flight to and from the
Holy Land.
He referred in a telegram
to the “diligent care and ad
mirable dedication given to
insure the perfect success of
our flight” and extended his
thanks to the airline’s presi
dent, Count Nicolo Caran-
dini, to the pilots and to all
other personnel.
In other telegrams he
thanked Italian Premier Aldo
Moro for the honor guard and
security services provided
by the Italian government,
and Mayor Glauco della Por
ta for the rousing welcome he
received on his return to
Rome.
In a telegram sent to the
Apostolic Delegate in Jeru
salem, Archbishop Lino Za-
nini, the Pope expressed
thanks for the “laborious
preparations” made for his
trip and the “kind help”
given during it. He also spoke
with gratitude of the warm
reception he had received
in the Holy Land.
Archbishop
Transferred;
Bishops Named
WASHINGTON (NC)—His Ho
liness Pope Paul VI has made
the following appointments, re
leased Wednesday morning by
the Apostolic Delegate:
Archbishop John P. Davis of
San Juan, Puerto Rico, has been
named Archbishop of Sante Fe,
New Mexico.
Father Charles B. McLaugh
lin, pastor of St. Leo Church,
Winston-Salem, N. C., is nam
ed Titular Bishop of Risinium
and Auxiliary of Raleigh.
Monsignor Daniel E. Shee
han, Chancellor of the Arch
diocese of Omaha, has been
named Titular Bishop of Cap-
sus and Auxiliary of Omaha.
Cardinal Jullien
Dead At 81
VATICAN CITY (NC) — A
pontifical funeral Mass was of
fered in St. Peter’s basilica
for Andre Cardinal Jullien,
French-born member of the
Roman Curia who died Jan. 11
at the age of 81.
chosen as his topic, "The Sec
ond Vatican Council—Reform
and Reunion.”
Speakers for the other five
lectures will be Mr. Joseph
Hutton; Rev. Francis J. Dono
hue; Rev. John Cuddy; Rt. Rev.
Msgr. John D. Toomey; and the
Rt. Rev. Msgr. Andrew J. Mc
Donald.
This series, to be presented
on six consecutive Thursdays
and portraying the spirit of the
Catholic Church in the modern
world, is open to the public.
Unity Movement
Benefits By
Pope’s Trip
ROME (NC)—A spokesman
for the ecumenical countil’s
Secretariat for Promoting
Christian Unity said that Pope
Paul Vi’s pilgrimage to the
Holy Land was a success for
the ecumenical movement “be
yond all expectations.”
“We are greatly pleased,”
said the official, who chose not
to be identified, “It was more
than we had hoped for.” The
spokesman termed as es
pecially gratifying the warmth
and evident good will of Ecu
menical Patriarch Athenagoras
I of Constantinople and the great
courtesy of the other patriarchs
and bishops not in union with
the Holy See.
The spokesman noted that the
Pope twice referred speci
fically to his meeting with the
Ecumenical Patriarch in the
first hours of his return to
Rome—once on landing at the
airport and then again when he
appeared at the window of his
Vatican apartment to bless the
thousands gathered in St. Pe
ter’s square below to welcome
him home.
It was disclosed that the Pope
has already given instructions
to various Roman congregations
and other offices such as the
unity secretariat to draw up
studies and reports looking to
ward further ecumenical ef
forts. No definite plan has yet
been worked up, but the various
bodies are at work preparing
material for the Pope.
It was emphasized that for all
the enthusiasm felt in ecumeni
cal circles, it is well to avoid
being over-optimistic. The se
cretariat spokesman said that
the exchange of visits between
Pope Paul and Patriarch Athen-
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Pray For
Deceased
Our
Priests
REV. HENRY SCHLENKE
Jan. 23, 1928
Oh God, fVho didst give to
thy servants by their sacredotal
office, a share in the Priest
hood of the Apostles, grant,
we implore, that they may
also be one of their company
forever in heaven. Through
Christ Our Lord, Amen.