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PAGE 2—The Southern Cross, February 27, 1964
Apartheid-
of God. People do differ in abil
ity, character, temperament,
and cultural background. But
such differences do not affect
their basic rights and their
moral equality.
In the judgment of the Ameri
can Bishops, compulsory seg
regation here does lead to dis
crimination and the violation of
the rights of the Negro. Segre
gation was tolerated for many
decades, in the hope that sep
arate development would lead
to cultural equality and an even
tual voluntary abolition of
enforced distinctions. It was
clear by 1958 that such a hope
was empty. Hence our Bishops
concluded that segregation,
by its very nature, was infring
ing on basic human rights of the
Negro.
The views of Archbishop
Whelan are similar to those
held by Americans who for
merly tried to justify segre
gation. He holds that, given the
wide cultural differences be
tween Negro and white in
South Africa, Negro rights will
best be protected by separate
development. He is making his
moral judgment on the basis of
conditions that are enormously
different from those in the Unit
ed States. Even in this judg
ment, he evokes disagreement
from his fellow archbishops.
It is not for us to enter into
this controversy. We must sim
ply restate the fact that, under
American conditions, our bish
ops have judged compulsory
segregation to be immoral. This
is an authoritative judgment and
it should help American Cath
olics in forming their con
sciences on the problem.
We do feel, however, that
Archbishop Whelan has mis
interpreted Pacem in Terris.
Pope John was speaking of the
rights of minorities to claim
separate treatment within a
state. He was not justifying the
imposition of such separation
against their will. On the con
trary, the entire encyclical is
a ringing declaration in favor
of giving basic human rights to
every person.
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Flordia’s Benedictine College
Saint Leo’s Students Are
From 21 States; 10 Nations
ST. LEO, FLORIDA — St.
Benedict, in the prologue of his
Rule which we follow as Bene
dictines, says: “We are, here-
fore, about to found a school of
the Lord’s service in which we
hope to introduce nothing harsh
or burdensome.”
Our college here at St. Leo,
steeped in this tradition, at
tempts to build upon the coun
sels of our founder. So we hope
that the student will not find
anything here harsh or burden
some. We like to think that
our proposals in both areas of
academic and student affairs
are minimum requirements of
good order that will enable the
student to grow and prosper.
The growth we hope for lies
not only in the area of the
student’s intellectual ability but
also in the area of this social
responsibility.
At this college of liberal arts
and sciences the core of inte
gration is centered about theo
logy and philosophy - for the
liberalization of the mind, the
broadening of horizons for
values of Christian living, and
for the principles upon which
specialization can be most
soundly built.
The college is one of the few
which stress the inherent dig
nity of human labor. It tries to
project this principle by a pro
gram of student service invol
ving participation in the opera
tion of the college. Following
the Benedictine family tradi
tion, students work on projects
of the Benedictine religious and
educational community and its
political society - the Town of
St. Leo.
The college is divided into
five divisions: Theology, philo-
Salute College
NEW ROCHELLE, N. Y. (NC)
—Six local B’nai B’rith chap
ters presented their annual
Brotherhood Award to the Col
lege of New Rochelle here in
gratitude for service by stu
dents at the Catholic girls’
school to residents cf the neigh
boring United Home for Aged
Hebrews.
The correctness of Archbish
op Whelan’s judgment of South
African conditions is to be judg
ed by his peers in that country.
His arguments must stand or
fall in that court. They certain
ly cannot be sustained by an
appeal to Pacem in Terris.
Recollection Day
Conducted By
Msgr. Mynaugh
WARNER ROBINS—The Sa
cred Heart Ladies Guild Spon
sored a Day of Recollection con
ducted by Rt. Rev. Msgr. Char
les B. Mynaugh of the Archdio
cese of Philadelphia on Feb.
18th at the Sacred Heart Church.
Msgr. Mynaugh is an archdio
cesan director of the Confra
ternity of Christian Doctrine,
spiritual director of Holy Name
in the Archdiocese and radio
and television chairman.
Ordained to the priesthood on
May 30th, 1942, he was elevated
to the rank of domestic prelate
by Pope John XXIII in 1959
and is now in residence in the
Cathedral of Saints Peter and
Paul in Philadelphia.
A large group of ladies at
tended this special day of pray
er and meditation.
sophy, and education; literature
and languages; art and music;
social sciences; and natural
science and mathematics. This
provides not only an adminis
trative structure to the college
but the basic four-year pro
gram of liberal arts is drawn
from these five divisions which
are based on a philosophic out
look of education.
When St. Leo College opened
its doors in 1959, there was a to
tal of forty full time freshmen,
two of them being women. As of
this writing there is a total of
361 registered, 283 men, 37
women, and 41 day students.
They come from 21 of the states
and 10 foreign countries.
Since St. Leo is dedicated to
the ideals of a small Catholic
college, it tries to stimulate
and preserve, in a sense, fami
ly relationships - close perso
nal association with those from
whom the student may draw
experience and wisdom in the
guidance of his life plans. As a
member of the college he is
free to seek consultation from
any member of the faculty or of
the monastic family.
Msgr. Toomey
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ferences, and at the blessing of
an Abbot. Concelebration may
also be permitted by Bishops
at Clergy Conferences.
Changes in Baptismal rites
may also be anticipated, he said.
“Baptism of adults, which pre
sently follows the same ritual
as Baptism for infants, will
consist of several ceremonies,
spaced over a period of time.
A revision in the ritual of Bap
tism for infants is also indicat
ed, but just what form those
changes will take is not known
at this time.”
Use of the vernacular (Eng
lish) will extend to all seven
Sacraments, including Penance,
in which the formula of absolu
tion pronounced by the priests
will more clearly express the
nature and effect of the Sacra
ment.
Matrimony, now administer
ed before the Nuptial Mass,
will be incorporated in the Mass
after the Gospel and the Nuptial
blessing, now given in Latin
will be given in English.
Monsignor Toomey also dis
cussed the future of Liturgical
Music. “Gregorian Chant will
be retained, of course, but not
to the exclusion of other forms
of musical expression, he said.
' ‘The adaptation of native mus
ic in mission lands, consonant
with liturgical norms, will be
encouraged. Polyphony, too, re
mains acceptable liturgical mu
sic, provided it is used in good
taste. The basic norm to be
followed in any musical form
is ‘Noble beauty rather than
sumptuous display’ is to be
emphasized.”
( ED. NOTE: Polyphony is £
specialized form of inter-weav
ing voice parts. Unlike Homo
phony, or ordinary three or
four-part music in which the
dominant melody is carried by
one part only with the other
parts simply providing harmon
ic accompaniment, in polypho
nic music all the parts - so
prano, alto, tenor and bass -
carry the melody in counter
point. It is somewhat similar
in form to the famous children’s
Round, “Frere Jacques.”)
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‘LIVING MEMORIAL’ FOR PRESIDENT KENNEDY—At ceremonies in the White House
President Lyndon B. Johnson receives a scroll, signed by some 6,000 students at Seton
Hall University, South Orange, N. J., pledging their loyalty, cooperation and prayers to
the President of the United States “as a living memorial to John Fitzgerald Kennedy”. It
is planned to extend the idea to other U. S. colleges. Left to right: President Johnson;
Msgr. Edward J. Fleining, executive vice president of Seton Hall, John McCarthy, Bridge
port, Conn., student council president and Gerard Clark, River Edge, N. J., pledge com
mittee chairman.—(NC Photos)
School Will Spread
Kennedy “Living Memorial”
WASHINGTON (NC)—A “liv
ing memorial” to President
Kennedy started in a Catholic
university will be spread to
Catholic and non-Catholic col
leges throughout the nation.
This was revealed here after
a pledge of loyalty, cooperation
and prayers, signed by some
6,000 students at Seton Hall Uni
versity, South Orange, N. J.,
had been presented to President
Johnson in a White House cere
mony.
President Johnson thanked
the students of Seton Hall and
said they had set “an example
that all the rest of us in the
country can follow.”
Msgr. Edward J. Fleming,
executive vice president of Se
ton Hall, said afterwards that it
will be sought to spread
the pledge program to all col
leges and universities in the
country, but that the mechanics
of the program have not yet been
worked out.
The pledge reads as folloWS:
“To the President of the
United States, as a living me
morial to John Fitzgerald
Kennedy, I pledge that I shall
freely accept the torch which
has been passed on to my gen
eration, that I shall replace
all hate with tolerance, all rash
ness with patience, all bigotry
with love, that I shall commit
myself to the full implications
of the brotherhood of man under
the fatherhood of God and there
by spread those ideals for which
John Fitzgerald Kennedy gave
his last full measure of
devotion.
“I therevore pledge you, Mr.
President, my loyalty, my co
operation and my prayer.”
The "living memorial” is
the idea of Msgr. Anthony Con
nell of the Seton Hall Divinity
School, and was started shortly
after President Kennedy’s as-
sasination.
The pledge was presented to
President Johnson by John Mc
Carthy of Bridgeport, Conn.,
president of the Seton Hall Uni
versity student council; Gerard
Clark of River Edge, N. J
chairman of the pledge
committee, and Gregory Fusco
of Orange, N. J., president of
the student council of Seton Hall
Preparatory School. Msgr..
Fleming accompanied the stu
dents to the White House. Rep.
Joseph George Minish of New
Jersey also was present.
‘It is very inspiring to me
to see students of this great
university dedicate themselves
in this meaningful way to the
memory of President Ken
nedy,” President Johnson said
in accepting the students’
pledge.
He said President Kennedy
"had a very special meaning to
the young and particularly the
young at heart”; that he "in
spired” them, "energized”
them, but "his real legacy to
our country was his persuasive
argument to the young people
of our country to enter the
field of politics and go-
erament,”
“He regarded politics as one
of the highest forms of human
endeavor and he considered
service to his country second
to none in the fulfillment of a
meaningful life and he served
his country in many ways,”
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“He scorned those who de
graded politics or through their
actions debased it. So I want
to thank you for this living me
morial to President Kennedy’s
memory this morning. I think
it sets an example that all the
rest of us in the country can
follow and it is certainly a firm
reminder that the great strength
of this country lies in the will
ingness of its citizens to bear
the burdens necessary to keep
our country strong.
"If I could have one wish ful
filled, it would be that in these
days of trial and tribulation and
turbulance in the world that we
could have a united America in
meeting the problems that we
face abroad and that here
at home we could close ranks
and stand shoulder to shoulder
in support of the tolerance and
the understanding and the prin
ciples of democracy which mean
so much to us.”
At Aquinas
National Honor
Society Induction
AUGUSTA — The Honorable
Judge Glenn Bertrand Hester
was the chief speaker at an as
sembly held recently in the Aq
uinas High School Gym. His
talk was directed primarily to
the members of the National
HONORABLE GLENN
BERTRAND HESTER
Honor Society who were being
inducted into the society that
day. His theme was the respon
sibility of leadership particu
larly among modem youth in the
world today.
The assembly was presided
over by Anne Joe, president of
the National Honor Society at
Aquinas. The Junior Choral
Group, under the direction of
Sister Anne Richard, C.S.J.
presented two selections.
The following students re
ceived membership cards in the
National Honor Society: Tho
mas Bailey, Bettye Cobb, Mary
Beth Egan, Ann Faughnan,
George Halpin, Kathy Hummel,
Lynn Jackson, Anne Joe, Peggy
Lavin, Leo O’Brien, Mary O’-
Dowd, Brian McCarthy, Jona
than Picciuolo, Angie Roberts
Teddie Samulski, and Beth
Sheehan, Seniors.
The following Juniors were
also admitted: Eileen Barmen,
Dana Berini, Danny Bowles,
Leanne Corda, Barbara Dewey,
Emile Hummel, Patricia Mc
Carthy, Janet Mulherin, Jean
nette Newton, Patricia Odum
and Gloria Russo. Sister Mary
Ellenita, C.S.J., is the faculty
advisor for the National Honor
Society at Aquinas High School.
Nonpublic School
Classroom Grants
Backed By AFL-CIO
MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (NC)—
The AFL-CIO will ask Congress
to give outright grants to non
public schools and thus break
the logjam over F ederal aid to
education legislation.
The AFL-CIO’s executive
council, the federation’s gov
erning body, said in a policy
statement the grants could be
used for Cic*.,_rooms in which
non-religious subjects would be
taught.
The statement marks the sec
ond consecutive year that the la
bor federation’s major unit has
supported assistance to paro
chial and other nonpublic
schools.
This year’s statement is
broader than the last one, call
ing for outright grants in con
trast to repayable loans for
classroom construction pro
posed in January, 1963.
The council recommented as
it did last year, than an exist
ing program of limited Federal
assistance to nonpublic schools
be expanded. The program is
operated under the 1958 Nation
al Defense Education Act and
provides 10-year loans to pri
vate schools to finance pur
chase of teaching equipment in
science, mathematics and mod
ern foreign languages. Public
schools get outright grants for
the same purpose.
The AFL-CIO noted a "stale
mate” over Federal aid legis
lation and said it urges that a
solution to this problem be
sought through expansion of
NDEA assistance.
"Such an expanded program
might well include more sub
jects than those presently cov
ered and grants for classroom
construction could be added to
the equipping of teaching facili
ties presently covered by the
act,” the council said.
AFL-CIO officials said that
the list of approved subjects
could be expanded from science,
mathematics and foreign lan
guages to include English, geo
graphy and history.
Last year the council, in
urging expansion of the NDEA
loans, commented that "no
American, whatever his reli
gious beliefs, can fail to realize
the extent to which nonpublic
schools carry a large share of
the burden of educating the
young.”
Supreme Knight-
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increasingly involved in mat
ters affecting alleged racial
discrimination in local Knights
of Columbus councils.
He told the New World, Chi
cago archdiocesan newspaper,
in November that he favored a
new look at membership pro
cedures in the wake of reports
of blackballing of Negro ap
plicants by some councils. He
said he favored a full air
ing of the society’s blackball
system at the August, 1964,
convention of the Supreme
Council.
Daring his tenure as supreme
knight, the Knights’ member
ship grew from 870,000 to
1,150,000 and the society’s in
surance in force increased from
$425 million to $1,150 billion.
Hart received numerous high
Catholic honors. In 1962, Pope
John XXIII made him a Knight
Commander with Star of the Or
der of Pius IX, an honor second
only to that of the Supreme Or
der of Christ, reserved for ru
lers and heads of state.
He was also a Knight Grand
Cross of the Order of St. Gre
gory the Great and a Private
Chamberlain of the Cape and
Sword.
He held honorary degrees
from St. Louis University, Pro
vidence (R.I.) College and De
Paul University, Chicago. In
1959, he received the Signum
Fidei Medal awarded by the La
Salle College Alumni Assoca-
tion, Philadelphia.
In 1962 he was awarded the
Cardinal Gibbons Medal pre
sented by the Alumni As
sociation of the Catholic Uni
versity of America, Wash
ington, D. C., for "distin
guished and meritorious ser
vice to the United States of
America, the Catholic Church
and the Catholic University of
America.”
Hart was a member of the or
ganization committee of the Na
tional Catholic War Council,
NEW K. OF C. HEAD—John
W. McDevitt, (above) for many
years a public school official in
Massachusetts, was elected
(February 22) Supreme Knight
of the Knights of Columbus. He
has been Deputy Supreme Knight
since 1959, and succeeds Luke
E. Hart, who died on February
19.
Baptism
Of Feria
TINGSING, Burma, A per
son can get just too liturgi
cal, concluded Father Law
rence McMahon, S.S.C., of
Chicago, Ill., as he was bap
tizing a group of infants here
recently. A parishioner
handed the Columban mis
sionary a slip of paper on
which was written the baby’s
name—Feria, taken from the
Church calendar for Decem
ber 14, the baby’s birthday.
Father McMahon explain
ed that feria means a day up
on which no saint is honored
and suggested Rita as a bet
ter name. “But although
I baptized her Rita,” said
the missionary, “I’m sure
she’ll always be Feria to her
parents.’ ”
1917 forerunner of the present
National Catholic Welfare Con
ference in Washington. He was
also a member and incorporator
of the executive committee
which formed the United Service
Organizations (USO) in 1940.
Hart was well known in the
insurance industry and among
the insurance commissioners of
the United States. In 1951, he
was elected president of the Na
tional Fraternal Congress,
which has a membership of 110.
fraternal societies represent
ing more than nine million
members.
Born near, Maloy, Iowa, Hart
moved to St. Louis as a young
man and began the practice of
law there. In 1905 he married
the former Catherine J. O’Con
nor who is now dead. Hart is
survived by two sons, Luke E.
an John P., both of St. Louis,
five grandchildren and two
brothers, Michael, of St. Lou
is, and Herbert, of New Ha
ven, operations manager for the
K. of C. headquarters.
In 1963 Hart led successful
efforts to settle a ten-month
strike by printers at the knightsN
headquarters. Office workers at
the headquarters also accept
ed in 1963 a new three-year
contract offered by the knights,
in contrast to a dispute which
turned into a three-month strike
by these workers in late 1959
and early 1960.
Req
uiem-
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son of the late James Henary
and Helen O’Neill Griffiths. He
was graduated from St. John’s
University, Brooklyn, before
going to Rome to make his stu
dies for the priesthood. He was
ordained in Rome March 12,
1927.
He filled various parish as
signments in the Brooklyn dio
cese until World War II when
he became Chancellor of the
Military Ordinariate in 1943.
During the war at the request
of the Apostolic Delegation in
Washington, he also served as a
special representative of a Va
tican service, dispensing infor
mation regarding prisoners of
war which came to the Vatican
from enemy countries.
He was named Titular Bishop
of Gaza to serve as auxiliary*
Bishop of New York in Novem
ber, 1949 and was consecrated
on Jan. 18, 1950 by Cardinal
Spellman in the same cathedral
where his funeral services were
held.
Poverty
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young adults,” the statement
added.
The NCWC department said
there are "nearly two million
farm families” and "thou
sands” of farmworkers who are
“among the poorest of Ameri
cans.” It called for economic
aid for those who remain in
farming and special training for
those who move to urban areas
to seek jobs in industry.
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