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rights and consequent new
found obligations. She saw it as
a means of helping men to arrive
at well founded judgements con
cerning’* the great moral and
social problems accompanying
historic changes in nations and
throughout the world — by ex
amining them, not only in the
light of their political and eco
nomic implications, but, most
importantly, in the light of the
Faith. 1 ’
Father Donohue credited the
Catholic Press with bringing
the Catholic “out of his 'Jesus
and I* concept of his religion.”
' ‘It has helped, or, rather, is
helping him to see the Church,
not simply as a devinely found
ed organization filled with mil
lions of individuals, demanding
nothing more than a simple
'Credo’ — I believe — from
each individual for full and
fruitful membership,” he said.
If the average Catholic, he
said, is now beginning to see
the Church as the Mystical Body
of Christ, “Christ living and
breathing — teaching directing
and sanctifying in today’s world,
it is to a very great extent
because of the Catholic Press.
If he now begins to see himself
as a member of that body, as
the hands and feet are mem
bers of the human body — if he
now begins to see his fellow man
as a member of that body, join
ed to himself by the Grace of
God and the Charity of Christ
which informs the body and
gives it life and vibrancy — if
he now begins to see Peace,
Justice and Right Order can
prevail in the world only if he
and his neighbor work together
for the common good of the
Body, under Christ, its head, it
will be due in no small part to
the Catholic Press.”
In a question period follow
ing Father Donohue's lecture,
he was asked, “Why doesn’t the
Southern Cross take an editorial
stand on controversial local is-
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Savannah Churches, hospitals,
charitable institutions and
schools?”
Said Father Donohue, “We
have not taken a stand on this
particular issue because there
seemed to be complete apathy
on the part of Savannah Catho
lics when it was announced that
the city was going to deprive
those institutions of their long
standing water tax exemption.
“Early last year,” he said,
“we ran two editorials on leg
islation which removed private
colleges from the provisions
of the Georgia Sales and use
tax and left private elementary
and high schools, the vast ma
jority of which are Catholic
schools, as the only educational
institutions in the State of Geor
gia required to pay a tax on the
purchase and use of all pro
perty,
“We were assured by one
Chatham County legislator, in a
telephone conversation that he
would look into the matter. Sev
eral days later four legislators
appeared on Savannah television
and, in response to questions
concerning our editorial char
ges, each of them declared that
they would most certainly not
vote for any discriminatory
legislation.
‘ ‘A few days later one of our
readers found out — from the
League of Women Voters — that
the legislation in question had
already been passed prior to the
appearance of the legislators on
local television. Apparently,
they could not have been less
interested in anything we had to
say. Perhaps this was because
our readers were apparently
uninterested in the matter. We
received correspondence from
only one reader, who also con
tacted all six members of Chat
ham County’s delegation. He
received acknowledgements
from only two of them.
' ‘There is no point in being a
voice crying in the wilderness,
but if we receive some indica
tion that an editorial stand on
these and similar local issues
will be endorsed as the voice of
the Catholic people of the Dio
cese of Savannah, we will be
most happy to speak out.”
EXCHANGED “GOOD WISHES”—At N.C.W.C. headquar
ters in Washington, two well-known Catholic journalists ex
change good wishes and review the progress of the Catholic
press in the Americas. Frank A. Hall, K.C.S.G. (left), of
Washington, retires March 1 after serving for 40 years with
the staff of N.C.W.C. News Service. He was its director
since 1934 and also headed the press department of the Na
tional Catholic Welfare Conference. Msgr. James I. Tucek
(right), priest of the Diocese of Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas,
who has been chief of the Rome bureau of NCWC News
Service since 1956, is returning to Dallas where he will serve
as director of the diocesan press office and as director of
the Men’s Catholic Action Group. (NC Photos)
NDIA: FOR HELPING BABIES
The superior of St. Joseph’s Convent in the town of MAN-
JAPRA writes about the orphans in her care. The 36 Sisters
live in a modest house with an or
phanage for the children . , . The
budding is 12 years old and the
Sisters are unable to find room for
the lmny homeless babies entrust-
C* Knr ^ cd to them. Every corner has been
H^ W used but still more babies are
brought to them . . . The daily in
come of the Sisters enables them
only to meet the food bills. The
superior of this convent in southern
A .. India in ERNAKULAM diocese
The Holy Father s Mtsston Aid jf our readers will help her to
tor the Oriental Church . the extent of §2.000 to make a new-
home for these babies . . . We are sure there are enough read
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the problem. Please send your help now!
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will take plenty of will power . . . Maybe you’ve found that out
already. Our suggestion? Give to the missions and get back
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not send them what you used to spend on cigarettes—in a day,
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the Palestine Refugees during Lent, we
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STATIONS OF THE CROSS
Lent for many is a time for making the Stations of the Cross.
Recently, in a very dramatic manner, Our Holy Father made
the Way of the Cross in the Holy Land itself . . . There he
could see for himself the work of our missionaries. This year
think of them! The Holy Father’s visit gave them needed en
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Pamphlet
Tells Story
Of Conversion
(Reprinted from The Tho-
masville Times).
THOMASVILLE—A pamphlet
entitled "On a Limb at Nine
ty" tells the story ofMrs.O.M.
Hopkins conversion to Ca-
tholocism at the age of 90years.
The booklet has appeared in
Thomasville and is being distri
buted on a national and interna
tional basis by a non-profit lay
organization which published
the story.
Copies of the pamphlet may be
found on the magazine rack at St.
Augustine’s Catholic Church.
Mrs. Hopkins tells of her life
as a young girl in Beulah Com
munity and her arrival in Tho
masville as a bride of 16 and
her welcome into an "ardent
Presbyterian" family her af
filiation with that church over a
good many years.
THE ACCOUNT as told to her
daughter, Mrs. John Hashagen,
relates memories of a trip
to Europe, the conversion of
her daughter, her stay at Trin
ity Academy in Ocala, Fla., and
the ten years o f study which
preceded her baptism by Father
Peter C. Sheridan O.F.M. on
April 4, 1953.
In her story, Mrs. Hopkins
wrote, "I did ask God’s Will to
permit me to see these pages
completed” . . . and she did,
though she died on October 8,
1959 before final publication of
the pamphlet.
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ENTERTAIN WIVES OF SAVANNAH K.C.--Pictured at the reception for wives of mem
bers of the Savannah K. of C. Council (left to right) are: Mrs. Robert F. Ryan, Mrs. John
Buckley, Mrs. John V. Graves, Mrs. Peter Schuster, Mrs. Philip Roach, Sr., Mrs.
Harry Butler, Mrs. Laurence M. Dunn, Catherine Dunn.
Recalls Catholic
Press Milestones
By Bill Ring
(N.C.W.C. News Service)
WASHINGTON (NC)-- Along
memory lane a Stan Musial
cherishes the thrill of his first
grand-slam homer, a Douglas
MacArthur, his first military
triumph, an Albert Schweitzer,
his initial medical victory, but
with Frank A. Hall, director
emeritus of the N.C.W.C. Press
Department, it’s different.
From 40 years of sweat and
toil in Catholic press ranks,
Hall has a wealth of personal
and professional nostalgias. But
when pressed for his recollec
tion of some outstanding exper
iences in his years as director
of the N.C.W.C. News Service,
Hall will reminisce something
like this:
“Well, there was the time
when NC brought over by cable
the text of a papal encyclical
for the first time in history.
It involved some risks, a bit of
drama, even a little whimsy.
' ‘I remember it well because
that was the time when a copy
boy in the New York headquar
ters of the Associated Press
was asked about the situation
and replied: ‘It’s something Ca
tholic — something about the
Pope getting married.”
The encyclical involved was
Casti Conubii, dealing with
Christian marriage, by Pope
Pius XI.
“I think it was one of the
boldest feats of the Catholic
press of years ago,” Hall re
called. “It had a notable and
far-reaching effect, and estab
lished a record in the news
field.”
It happened in January, 1931,
the veteran Catholic journalist
recalled. He remembered:
“There never had been a full
text of a papal encyclical, how
ever important, cabled to Am
erica. The general press didn't
bother. They covered such doc
uments with sparse little stor
ies.”
When NC, then in its infancy,
got word about the important
issues on Christian marriage
the encyclical would cover, it
quickly decided to bring the full
text to the U.S. by cable, Hall
related.
“Our information was that the
document would run 20,000
words and would cost 9 cents a
word,” Hall said. “Our servic
es didn’t have that kind of mon
ey, and besides the country was
then in the grip of the Depres
sion. If we had assessed the
cost to our subscribing papers
at that time there would have
been heart failures among Ca
tholic editors from coast to
coast.”
Hall recalled that some one
came up with the idea of sell
ing the text to the nation’s lead
ing daily papers. A selected
number of "the big fellows”-
were canvassed but there wasn’t
a single taker at $100 per, he
said.
‘ ‘That was not fatal because
we were going to bring over the
text in any case,” Hall contin
ued. “But it was mystifying.
Surely one or two should have
taken the document. Then we
found out. These papers were
big and many were members of
the AP. What had happened was
that some were impressed and
promptly asked AP why it was
not bringing over the text. AP
then decided to do so.
"We scratched our he ads and.
came up with another idea,” he
related. “I remember when the
late Father John Burke, C.S.P.,
first general secretary of
NCWC, called the AP and said
in effect: Our service has deter
mined to bring the text by ca
ble. If the AP is going to do like
wise, why bring over the same
text twice, merely enriching the
cable company? Why not colla
borate? The AP readily ag
reed.”
The collaboration went fur
ther, Hall related. NC staffers
went to New York where desks
were arranged for them in the
AP headquarters. Burke Walsh
NC assistant director, was in
charge, and detailed the copy
boy incident.
“Walsh told it this way:
Someone in the AP office no
ticed the unusual set-up for our
people, flagged down a copy boy
and asked about it. The copy
boy replied: ‘It’s something Ca
tholic — something about the
Pope getting married,’ ” Hall
related.
That one experience persuad
ed the general press that such
documents were big news, Hall
asserted.
“They have never forgotten
it,” he reminisced. “When two
other great encyclicals of Pius
XI—Quadragesimo Anno (on so
cial reconstruction) and Non
Abbiamo Bisogno (on Catholic
Action)—became available, the
same collaboration was used
between the AP and our serv
ice. Furthermore, the United
Press followed suit by carrying
a full text by cable. Since that
early experience the general
press has paid increasing at
tention to Vatican encyclicals
and like documents.”
Well, that’s like Frank Hall,
He has a memory storehouse
filled with personal experienc
es of the four popes he has known
—Pius XI, Pius XII, John XXIII
and Paul VI; of the early days
of men like Bishop Fulton J.
Sheen and Father Patrick Pey
ton , C.S.C., before they gain
ed gigantic statures in the
Church today; of the thousand
and one services he rendered
advancing careers of an indivi
dual Catholic journalist or
newspaper. Ask him about them
—and he remembers long
forgotten milestones in the an
nals of the Catholic press.
He sums it up this way:“The
big things should have been re
ported in oar press and mostly
were: the others—well, there’s
the matter of discretion.”
Like the time when war’s
fortunes put NC in the favor
ed position of having the only
correspondent of the world’s
free nations operating in the
Rome area. When Mussolini
joined forces with Hitler in
World War II, the general news
services were left without staffs
in Rome. At the time the NC
correspondent at the Vatican
was the late Msgr. Walter Car-
roll, brother of Bishop Cole
man Carroll of Miami, Fla.,
and the late Bishop Howard J.
Carroll of Altoona-Johnstown,
Pa.
“He was a natural-born
newspaperman,” Hall said. ‘ 'He
took on the chore for us des
pite his other important duties
at the Vatican. He lived and he
worked in the State of Vatican
City.
' ‘All of a sudden all the pow
erful U.S. general news servic
es became startlingly dependent
on the Catholic press service
for texts, documents and the
other tremendously important
papal expressions which had
such an effect on world
opinion,” he continued.
“The general press made
makeshift arrangements like
monitoring in London things
from Vatican Radio, but the ac
tual texts of what the Holy Fa
ther had to. say were available
only from NC,” Hall related.
“We continued our collabora
tion with the AP which, of
course, was gratified. Shortly
the United Press and Interna
tional News Service were feel
ing the pinch and came to NC
UNIQUE RECORD—Father
Hugh E. Dunn, S.J. (above),
president of John Carroll
University, Cleveland, Ohio,
reports that for the 18th con
secutive year the university
had finished “in the black.”
The year 1963 closed with a
modest surplus of $2,603 and
an operating income of $3,«
233,146. (NC Photos)
Saint Vincent’s
Alumnae Ass’n
Plans Activities
SAVANNAH—The members
of the St, Vincent’s Alumnae
Association enjoyed a hambur
ger fry at their February meet
ing with Miss Clara McDonough,
Mrs. Lawrence Patterson and
Mrs. James Forbes serving
as hostesses.
Mrs. Charles L. McKenzie,
Jr. announced that the Annual
Communion Breakfast would be
held on Sunday, March 15th.
April 25th in the date selected
for the annual Boat Ride, at
which all of the Sisters of
Mercy in the city will be guests
of members of the Alumnae
Association.
The annual Children’s Party,
which gives the members an
opportunity to display their
children to their friends and to
the Nuns will be held on Satur
day, May 2nd, in the courtyard
of the Academy.
Mrs. William C. Broderick
urged all the ladies to listen to
the Catholic Hour on Sunday,
February 16th. The speaker
will be Mrs. Roy C. Gillikan of
Our Lady of Lourdes Parish
under the sponsorship of the
Savannah Deanery Council of
Catholic Women.
The door prizes were receiv
ed by Mrs. J. E. Corcoran and
Miss Anne Powers.
The Southern Cross, February 13, 1964—PAGE 3
Group Hears Chaplain
THOMASVILLE — A retired
chaplain of the United States
Navy spoke of his visit to the
Holy Land at the January meet
ing of St. Augustine’s Council of
Catholic Women.
Much interest was expressed
in the subject chosen by the
Father Gervase C. McMillen,
O. F. M., due particularly to the
recent traditional-breaking pil
grimage there by Pope Paul.
Father McMillen recounted
his personal experiences from
the time his ship, the U. S. S.
Albany, put into Beirut, Leban
on. He told of his journeys to
the Biblical towns of Tyre and
Sid on and ultimately of his flight
Reception
For Savannah
K. Of C. Wives
SAVANNAH—A reception for
all wives of Savannah Council
#631, Knights of Columbus
members, was held by the
Knights auxiliary on last Sunday
at the home of the president,
Mrs. Laurence M. Dunn. Guests
were invited to call from three-
thirty until five-thirty in the af
ternoon.
The Hospitality committee,
under the direction of Mrs.
Frank' Williams and Mrs. Tito
Pedicini, provided refresh
ments. They were assisted by
the officers: Mrs. Dunn, presi
dent; Mrs. E. P. Daly, vice-
president; Mrs. Phillip Roach,
secretary and Mrs. Peter Shus
ter, treasurer. They were also
with requests for assistance,
he continued.
“There was the possibility
that AP would balk at cutting
in its competitors, but when
the situation was made clear,
to the great credit of AP, it said
to go ahead and work with the
other two services too,” Hall
remembered.
"It’s a literal fact that the
democracies throughout the
world at that time depended
upon the agency of the U.S. Ca-
tholid press for those tremen
dously important papal docu
ments and texts,” the veter
an journalist emphasized.
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RESTRICTED TO the Jorda
nian section of the Holy Land by
passport regulations, he said he
was nevertheless able to visit
most of the important shrines of
Christendom, including Bethle
hem and Calvary, the Garden of
Gethsemane and the Mount of
the Ascension.
His talk was followed by a
question and answer period.
Mrs. Frank Hunter, presi
dent, conducted the business
session at which committee
chairmen reported on activi
ties, reporting were Mrs. J. H.
Rowley, Mrs. J. T. Riley, Mrs.
W. G. Cherry, Mrs. James A.
Thomas and Mrs. George Her
ring.
The Reverend Neal O’Brien,
O.F.M., assistant pastor, de
livered the closing prayer,
which was followed by a social
hour with Mrs. Riley and Mrs.
Thomas as hostesses.
assisted by Mrs. Joseph Shee
han and Mrs. Eugene Butler.
Decorations were the work of
Mrs. Desmond V. O’Driscoll.
The charitable project of the
Auxiliary for the year has been
Gentlehaven, home for severly
retarded children. A check for
$150.00 was 'given toMrs. Saxon
in November to be used for lun
ches for the children. The Aux
iliary has been sponsoring
a concession of the K. ofC. Hall
on Monday and Tuesday even
ings with the profits going to this
project.
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