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WEEKLY NEWSPAPER
OF THE DIOCESE OF
SAVANNAH
SAVANNAH, GEORGIA. THURSDAY, JANUARY 23, 1964
Pope Paul Asks Public
Prayers Of Thanksgiving
VATICAN CITY (NC) —Pope
Paul VI has asked the world’s
bishops to sponsor public cere
monies of thanksgiving for his
Holy Land pilgrimage and its
“happy results" for Christian
unity efforts.
He also appealed to Catho
lic s to be as zealous in pray
ers for union as other Chris
tians, mentioning especially
participation in the Chair of
Unity Octave observed widely
Jan. 18 to 25.
Noting his brotherly encoun
ters in the Holy Land with
Orthodox Patriarch Athena-
goras I of Constantinople
(Istanbul), the Pope said he re
garded them as “first steps
of a complete union in the one
Church of Christ, even though
this is still far away.”
Union, he said, will depend on
sacrifices offered to God in a
spirit of faith and love.
In an exhoration of the
world’s bishops (Jan. 17), the
Pope reviewed his pilgrimage
and his meetings with Patri
arch Athenagoras. He said:
“With him we exchanged the
holy kiss which the disciples of
Christ give each other. To
gether we read again the sol
emn prayer which Christ made
to the Father before His pas
sion to ask for the unity of
his disciples and that the world
might believe.
“Together we recited the
‘Our Father’ in which we invoke
God as our Father and which
teaches us mutual forgiveness
for our trespasses.
“We like to regard these
events as the first steps of
a complete union in the one
Church of Christ, even though
this union is still far away."
The Pope spoke of his pil
grimage as the “sure begin
ning of new peaceful and shin
ing affirmations of the Kingdom
of God."
He said that it was within
the “designs of the merciful
providence of the Lord that,
. after 20 centuries, Peter, in
the person of this humble suc
cessor, was able to present the
Church to Christ in the same
land which saw her once as
small as a mustard seed and
now sees her as a gigantic
tree. .
The Pope said it is not yet
known when Providence will
bring to maturity of union the
seed planted long ago in this
land.
“It will," he said, “depend
on our sacrifices offered to
God in a spirit of faith and love
if we want the difficulties
which still impede our progress
to be smoothed out and if the
desired goal (of unity) can be
reached soon."
“We ardently desire," wrote
the Pontiff to the bishops, “that
the whole Church should asso
ciate itself in our thanksgiving
to God for the happy results
of our pilgrimage. . .
“For this purpose, we wish,
Venerable Brothers, that pub
lic thanksgiving and cere
monies of propitation take
place in every parish of your
dioceses.
“And more especially we
wish t o recommend the Octave
of prayers for the unity of
Christians. . . which yearly
brings together Christians of
every denomination in a single
effort of intercession for the
unity desired by Christ for all
those with the name of Christ
ian.”
Pope Paul said he had al
ways attached “great impor
tance " to this octave during
his life.
“Each year we have always
celebrated joyfully its end on
the day on which the Roman Li
turgy commemorates the con
version of St. Paul," he wrote.
Appealing to Catholics not to
neglect the octave he said:
'We know that innumerable
persons in the various Christ
ian denominations devote them
selves to this sublime cause
and that, in prayer and peni
tence, in Christian unity to
gether with us, raise to God
their humble and fervent inter
cession that God’s will be done.
“Let it not come to pass,
Venerable Brothers, that sons
of the Catholic Church, owing
to the fact that they already
possess the fullness of truth
as the gift of Divine Provi
dence, should show themsel
ves less zealous regarding so
holy a cause.
"On the contrary, may a holy
emulation inspire them together
with their non-Catholic bro
thers, and may it lead them to
show themselves all the more
generous in prayer and peni
tence since God has already
granted them the inestimable
gift of full participation in His
Church.
“Under guidance of the Holy
Shepherds, who showed all
during the ecumenical countil
how much they had at heart
the cause of the union, may the
prayer of the faithful become
more ardent than in the past,
asking for the realization of
the unity of Christians by means
of the grace of the Holy Ghost."
Attached to the Latin docu
ment was the following indul
gence:
“To parish priests through
out the world who promote un
dertakings which we have rec
ommended, we grant the facul
ty of imparting the papal bles
sing with plenary indulgence,
applicable to faithful who have
received the sacrament of Pe
nance and Holy Communion and
who have prayed for the inten
tions of the supreme pontiff."
Vlr. And Mrs. Walter Crawford
Savannah Couple
Honored By Pope
SAVANNAH—Our Holy Fa
ther, Pope Paul VI has confer
red upon Walter Crawford and
Mary Crawford the Papal Hon
or, "Pro Ecclesia et Ponti-
fice." The announcement of this
Honor was made by His Excel
lency, the Most Reverend
Thomas J. McDonough, Bishop
of the Diocese of Savannah.
The Papal Honor, "Pro Ec
clesia et Pontifice,” was insti
tuted by Pope Leo XIII and giv
en to persons for outstanding
achievement accomplished for
the Church and for the Holy
Father. This is one of the high
est honors accorded to laymen
by the Church. Bishop McDon
ough, in making the award to
Mr. and Mrs. Crawford, cited
especially their works of chari
ty over the years in behalf of
the poor, the orphaned, and the
neglected. The Crawfords emu
late in a high degree the chari
ty of St. Vincent de Paul who
gave assistance to those who
needed help. The words of holy
scripture may be well applied
to them, "As long as you did it
to one of these, my least bre-
thern, you did it to me."
Walter Crawford was born
in Screven County, Georgia in
May 1890 and Mary Miles
Crawford was born in Savannah,
Georgia. They were baptized in
the Cathedral of St. John the
Baptist and were married on
June 25, 1941. Walter Crawford
has worked for 20 years with the
St. Vincent de Paul Society and
Mary Crawford for 22 years
with the Ladies Aid Society.
Monsignor McNamara, Rec
tor of St. John the Baptist Ca
thedral, announced the award to
Catholic
Woman’s
Club
SAVANNAH—The January
Meeting of the Catholic Wo
man’s Club was held Tuesday
evening, January 14th, in the
Club Rooms, with Mrs. Rudolf
Heitmann, the President, pre
siding.
Mrs. Edmund Anderson, Na
tional Vice Chairman, Commit
tee on Family and Parent Edu
cation, N.C.C.W., was the guest
speaker. She was introduced by
Mrs. Stella Schneider, Program
Chairman. Mrs. Anderson gave
a communicative talk on the
approaching of the Lenten Sea
son and the Three Grades of
Catholics.
Mrs. J. L. Engel was wel
comed as a new member and the
membership prize was won by
Mrs. Vincent Sharp.
Mr. and Mrs. Crawford. The
Honor will be given to the
Crawfords at a later date when
Mr. Crawford is well enough to
receive it. The Papal Medals
and the documents have already
been received from the Holy
See.
Savannah
Deanery
Meeting
STATESBORO—A dialogue
Mass, celebrated by his Excel
lency, Bishop Thomas J. Mc
Donough, marked the opening
of the winter meeting of the
Savannah Deanery Council of
Catholic Women held at St.
Matthew’s Church.
The Dialogue was lead by
Moqsignor John D. Toomey,
Spiritual Moderator of the Dio
cesan Council, and the Mass
was followed by a luncheon and
business meeting, held at the
Parish Hall. The Meeting was
conducted by Mrs. Edmund An
derson, the President.
Mrs. John P. Savage, Presi
dent of St. Matthew’s Women’s
Club and Father Loftus, Pas
tor, extended a welcome to the
Deanery Council. The response
was given by Mrs. W. C. Brod
erick, of Savannah.
All Deanery Chairman re
ported activities of their com
mittees.
Bishop McDonough, who was
the featured speaker, was pre
sented by the President. He
delivered an absorbing account
of the Second Session of the 2nd
Vatican Ecumenical Council,
held recently in Rome, which
was followed by a lively ques
tion and answer period.
Seven priests and 17 parishes
and interparochial organiza
tions were represented at the
Meeting.
Pray For Our
Deceased Priests
RT. REV. MSGR.
JAMES A. KANE
Jan. 29, 1963
Oh Cod, Who didst give to
thy servants by their sacredotal
office, a share in the priest
hood of the Apostles, grant,
u'e implore, that they may
also be one of their company
forever in heaven. Through
Christ Our Lord, Amen.
Zanzibar Regime Has
Strong Red Influence
(N.C.W.C. News Service)
DAR ES SALAAM, Tanganyi
ka—The revolutionary regime
that overthrew independent
Zanzibar’s month-old govern
ment (Jan. 12) is strongly in
fluenced by communism, espec
ially by the Chinese Reds, ac
cording to well informed sour
ces here.
They point to the close com
munist ties of the new F oreign
and Defense Minister, Abdul
Rahman Mohammed; to the ar
rest of U.S. diplomats and
newsmen; to reports that Cuba
trained fighters took part in
the rebellion; to the new Red-
style name for their country
chosen by the revolutionary
leaders, the People’s Repub
lic of Zanzibar; to the violent
denunciation of the U.S. by new
President Abeid Karume; to the
almost immediate recognition
of the revolutionary regime by
the Soviet Union, East Germany
and other communist countries;
to the arrival in Zanzibar of a
correspondent of the New Chi
na News Agency only two days
before the coup; and to the fact
that even before the coup Zan
zibar was the center from which
much Red Chinese propaganda
was smuggled into the countries
of East Africa.
Missionaries here point out
that while a Red takeover would
be a blow to the Church in Zan
zibar, it would affect only a
relative handful of catholics.
Although Zanzibar was the cen
ter from which much of East
Africa was evangelized 100
years ago, the Church was never
able to make much headway in
Zanzibar itself, which is more
than 95% Moslem. The country
has only 2,500 Catholics in a
total population of about 300,000
There are fewer than 500 Pro
testants.
Once the center of an Arab
kingdom that controlled vast
areas on the African mainland,
Zanzibar became one of Afri-*
ca’s smallest independent coun
tries on Dec. 10, 1963, after
more than 70 years as a Bri
tish protectorate. It compris
es two islands—Zanzibar and
Pemba—less than 50 miles off
the Tanganyika coast with a
total area of about 1,000 square
miles, less than that of Rhode
Island.
It has a racially mixed popu
lation which includes 229,000
Africans, 47,000 Arabs, 18,000
Indians and 500 Europeans.
Most of the Catholics are Af
ricans from the mainland and
Goans from India.
When it achieved its freedom
in December, it became a con
stitutional monarchy under Sul
tan Seyyid Jamshid bin Abdul
lah, who has been exiled and
granted asylum by Tanganyi
ka. It was governed by Pre
mier Muhammed Shamte Ham-
adi who headed a coalition of the
Zanzibar Nationalist party and
the smaller Zanzibar and Pema
People’s party, both predomin
antly Arab groups. These two
parties have been banned by the
revolutionary regime, which
has proclaimed a republic.
In opposition was the Afro-
Shirazi party, now the larg
est but not necessarily the
dominant party in the new re
gime. The Afro-Shirazis won
a majority of the popular vote
in the election preceding inde
pendence but gained only 13
of the National Assembly’s 31
seats.
The Afro-Shirazi party is the
party of the Africans. The is
lands’ African population is di
vided into those who have long
been settled here and those who
are either recent immigrants
from the mainland or des
cendants of former slaves. Zan
zibar under its Arab sultans was
the world’s largest slave
market until the British took it
over. The name “Shirazi" has
been adopted by the first group
to distinguish itself from the
latter, since a part of the group
claims descent from immi
grants from Shiraz on the Per
sian Gulf, who according to tra
dition went to Zanzibar in the
ninth century. But most of those
who go by this name are vir
tually undistinguishable from
the other Africans and .probab
ly came from the mainland at
different times over a long
period.
Some observers here see the
Jan. 12 revolution as a conflict
between the relatively econom
ically advanced Arab popula
tion, which owns most of the na
tion’s land, and the Africans,
most of whom work as tenant
farmers on the clove and co
conut plantations, the islands’
economic mainstay.
Others fear that the commu
nists have taken advantage of the
long - standing African - Arab
antagonism to stage a coup and
give themselves a foothold in
East Africa. All news from Zan
zibar itself is subject to censor
ship.
The latter note that although
President Karume, head of the
Afro-Shirazi party and a for
mer labor leader, is not re
garded as a communist, he
bitterly criticized the U.S. when
he ordered that four American
newsmen be placed under house
arrest (Jan. 16). Karume per
sonally went to the Zanzibar
Hotel to order the arrest. He
accused them of entering Zan
zibar illegally. They were also
accused of filing distorted
news. When the U. S. consul,
Frederick Picard, went to the
hotel to protest against it,
Karume shouted at him that the
U.S. had interfered with “our
government" and complained
that the U.S. had not recognized
the revolutionary regime. Pi
card was then marched out of the
hotel by a guard holding a gun
at his back and taken to an un
known place. The only other U.S.
diplomat in Zanzibar was also
placed under house arrest. The
two embassy officials were re
leased the following day (Jan.
17) and Picard was flown here
in a plane provided by the Tan
ganyika government. Later the
newsmen were released and ex
pelled from the country.
President Karume, however,
is not regarded by many ob
servers as the top man in the
new regime. He is looked on as
a figurehead. The man to watch,
they say, is the Foreign and
Defense Minister, Abdul Rah
BISHOP THOMAS J. McDONOUGH dedicates new par
ish meeting hall at St. Benedict’s parish, Savannah. Cere
monies were preceded by Solemn Pontifical Benediction
with Bishop McDonough as celebrant; Rev. Denis Begley,
S.M.A., Deacon; Rev. Timothy O’Dwyer, S.M.A., Subdea
con; Rev. Kevin Boland, Master of ceremonies. Architect
for the new facility, erected by the McRae Construction
Co. of Savannah, was Ben P. Ritzert. One of the oldext par
ishes in Savannah, St. Benedict’s was founded in 1875.
man Mohammed, who is known
as Babu (Father).
As a basis for their fears
that Babu may lead the new
government toward commun
ism they cite his trips behind
the Iron Curtain in 1960 and
1963, when he visited Peking.
They note that in 1962 he ser
ved a prison term for sedition
because of articles appearing
in Zanews, a newspaper he
founded which was full of Red
Ghinese propaganda. Zanews
also set up a bookstore that op
enly sold Red literature even
prior to independence.
Babu — an Arab— was for
merly secretary of the Zanzi
bar Nationalist party. But he
resigned in June of last year,
saying that the party was re
actionary, not socialist enough
and had an anti-African
bias. While he held the secre
taryship he was accussed by
Karume of accepting commun
ist financial support.
After his resignation he an
nounced the formation of the
militantly leftist Umma (For
ward) party. Umma was ban
ned after independence. Babu
said the banning was the “fi
nal injustice" that brought on
the revolution. The party is now
a part of the revolutionary re
gime.
Babu is also a founder of the
Federation of Progressive
Trade Unions, a leftist group
staffed by officials trained in
Castro Cuba. It is in opposi
tion to the Zanzibar-Pemba
Federation of Labor, which has
also been infiltrated by pro
communists.
On the day of the coup, Babu
was here in Dar-es Salaam
Tanganyika’s capital, where
he was reportedly in close touch
with the Red Chinese and Cu
ban embassies.
However, on his return to
Zanaibar he said in an inter
view (Jan. 16) : “Of course
the government will be social
ist .. . but it will not neces
sarily follow the example of
Cuba." As he spoke he was
accompanied by four armed
men, one of whom said he had
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SECOND LECTURE—Mr. Joseph Hutton, prominent Savannah Catholic layman, will de
liver the second in a series of Lectures on “Reform and Reunion Among Christians."
Mr. Hutton’s topic will be “The Catholic Layman Today." The lecture will be given at
8 p.m. on Thursday, January 30th, at Cathedral School Auditorium. Mr. Hutton (center)
is pictured with Bishop Thomas J. McDonough, (right) and Rev. William Coleman, series
moderator (left). —(Photo by Carroll Burke)
Canal Administrators Seen
Neglecting Social Problems
WASHINGTON (NC)—The
head of Venezuela’s Christian
Democratic party said here that
the impression in Latin Ameri
ca is that U. S. officials at the
Panama Canal "are more con
cerned about showing a good
economic gain each year than
solving the social and econo
mic problems created by the
canal."
Rafael Caldera also made
these points in an interview
here:
— Panama’s national feelings
and pride, often irritated, have
a real basis for complaint in
that the Canal Zone cuts through
the heart of the country.
—There is discrimination in
the Canal Zone’s working condi
tions for Panamanians in rela
tion to U. S. personnel there.
—Panamanians resent what
they regard as a mentality of
colonialism among many U. S.
officials and personnel in the
Canal Zone. The zone is within
Panama, yet Panamanians feel
unwelcome in it.
Caldera said it would be no
solution for the United States
to build another canal else
where.
* ‘The human relations prob
lem would exist there as well,"
he said. "I am sure there is
much that Panamanian leaders
should do to improve conditions
in their country and correct
injustices. But it is a known
fact that most of the social and
economic, as well as moral,
problems come in great part
from the presence and cos
mopolitan influence of the ca
nal."
Caldera was COPEI (Chris
tian Democratic) candidate for
the Venezuelan presidency on
Dec. 1. He polled 23% of the
votes against President-elect
Raul Leoni's 32%.
The recent elections in his
country, he said, proved a "re
sounding defeat" for terrorists.
Castro-supported factions had
threatened to shoot anyone who
went out to vote. But the people
defied the terrorists, and gave a
55% majority to the coalition of
outgoing President Romulo Be
tancourt’s Democratic Action
party and COPEI.
Caldera said that "the re
cent elections mean that the
parties of the coalition are more
deeply committed, by this popu
lar mandate, to maintaining a
firm position against commu
nism and its demands.
‘ ‘It is better, in my opinion,
to face the dangers involved in
such firmness than to negotiate
now under threat and offer the
extremists a broader chance
for their conspiracy in the near
future," he said.
Caldera stressed that inter-
American relations are a mat
ter of primary and continuing
concern.
"People must become aware
of the fact that inter-American
relations are a key issue and
always will be. They must be
told that the Alliance for Pro
gress is not just an expedient
invention; it is instead part of
a vital answer to urgent needs
of hemispheric proportions,"
he said.
Asked about the striking gains
made recently by Christian
Democratic parties in Chile
and some other Latin American
countries, in addition to his own,
Caldera said the Christian De
mocrats are bringing new and
beneficial factors to inter-
American relations.
"They are engaged in bring
ing about the spiritual, political
and economic integration of
Latin America,” he said.
‘ ‘Without such integration, he
mispheric relations will con
tinue, as they are now, to be
based on fragmented agree
ments which are often contra
dictory.
’ ‘Christian democracy brings
to the masses a clear notion of
human solidarity, of the inter
national common good, of social
justice. Without these basic
concepts, selfishness becomes
the rule in international affairs.
"Christian democracy
strives in each country to bring
about profound changes in the
existing, unjust structures,
through peaceful revolution, in
order to fulfill the aspirations
of these peoples and establish
the foundations of social peace.
"Pope Pius XII had as his
motto: 'Peace is the work of
justice.’ . . .This is what Chris
tian democracy is achieving in
our countries. In this way it will
save Latin America from the
unjust grip of the existing power
groups, and it will save Latin
America from falling into com
munist dictatorship."
Sees Catholic-Orthodox
“Communion Of Love”
NEW YORK (NC)--The re
cent meetings between Pope
Paul VI and Greek Orthodox
Patriarch Athenagoras of Con
stantinople strengthened the
“communion of love" between
the Catholic and Orthodox
Churches.
This estimate was given by
Archbishop Iakovos of the Greek
Orthodox Archdiocese of North
and South America in a message
(Jan. 20) to all bishops, clergy
and faithful under his jurisdic
tion.
He said the words and ac
tions of Pope Paul and Patriarch
Athenagoras during their meet
ings Jan. 5 and 6 in the Holy
Land “bear witness to one
thing—the communion of love,
which is the necessary prere
quisite to any other communion
between the Churches."
He also called religious unity
"the unceasing and sincere
prayer of all the Orthodox."
Archbishop Iakovos was pre
sent in the Holy Land for the
historic meetings between the
Pope and the Patriarch. Upon
his return to this country he
told a press conference that
commissions would be set up to
study theological, liturgical and
other differences between Ca
tholics and Orthodox.
He also called the meetings
between the Pope and the Pa
triarch "a definite commit
ment for unity of the two church
es."
In his message to the clergy
and faithful of his archdiocese,
however, he noted that the “full
import" of the meetings "will
not be revealed until later"
and said no one can know at this
time what the two leaders said
to each other privately.
"I have, however, every rea
son to believe that their en
counter was a meeting in Christ
and an outpouring of spirit and
soul in the presence of Him who
'preached peace to you which
were afar, and to them that'
were nigh, ’ ’’ he said.
The Archbishop said "nei
ther formal discussions nor
compromises" took place dur-
trier tho