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Communion
And The Mass
The Reverend Lawrence Lu-
cree, Assistant at the Cathedral
of St. John the Baptist, Sa
vannah, is one of six priests
participating in a Lenten Lec
ture series being conducted in
Churches of the Savannah area.
The following remarks are
from Father Lucree’s sermon:
“We believe, like every other
Catholic, that the Mass repre
sents Calvary in our midst.
We also believe that the first
Mass ever celebrated was the
LAST SUPPER. The Mass then,
is that instrument whereby we
are transported back to the hill
of Calvary and back to the room
where the LAST SUPPER took
place.
**. . .what God does for us
through Christ through the Mass
should make us a grateful peo
ple, grateful as a people and
grateful as an individual.
Father says that many of us
do not seem grateful for the
gift of the Mass or at least
“don’t think to thank God af
terward.”
“. . . At every Mass Al
mighty God gives us new and
added things. And these new and
added graces and blessings
come to us, for the most part,
at the Communion of the Mass.
When Jesus comes into your
heart at Communion time there
are only a few minutes remain
ing in the Mass, but yet Jesus
will be with you physically for
about fifteen minutes. Here is a
grand opportunity for thanking
Christ personally for all that he
is doing for you.
“When I was stationed in Co
lumbus, there was a sign which
hung in the sacristy and it al-
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ways served as a reminder to
the priest to offer his Masses
with added devotion. It read,
“Priest of God, say this Mass
as though it were your FIRST
MASS, as though it were your
ONLY MASS, as though it were
your LAST MASS.” I now put
those same thoughts before you.
Keep framed in your mind those
thoughts.
“How grateful the priest is
who, on the day of his first
Mass, immediately afterwards
rushes to some secluded spot
to thank God for all that He
has done for him. The young
priest’s heart is so full of
gratitude that he becomes
oblivious to the fact that there
are crowds waiting out in the
Church to receive his first
blessing.
“And then, if this Mass to
day, were your only and last
Mass here on earth, would you
leave the Church immediately
after its conclusion? I don’t
think so. Your sense of grati
tude would be so great that you,
like the newly ordained priest,
would seek to hide yourself
from the others and from the
cares of the world as long as
possible. May I suggest then that
you form the habit of spending
some time afterward thanking
God for all he has done for you.
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(NC)—A graduate training pro
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be offered here this summer at
a John Carroll University insti
tute.
The program, geared pri
marily for high school and col
lege social science teachers,
will be offered June 16 to
July 20 in cooperation with the
American Bar Association and
the Ohio Junior Chamber of
Commerce.
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Pope Defends Pius XII
By James C. O’Neill
(N.C.W.C. News Service)
VATICAN CITY—Pope‘Paul
VI rejected accusations of cow
ardice and selfishness against
Pope Pius XII and declared that
anyone supporting such charges
would violate truth and
justice.”
Addressing 34 assembled
cardinals and a thousand guests
attending the unveiling ceremo
nies of a statue of Pius XII in
St. Peter’s, Pope Paul stated
flatly; “To remember him is a
pious act; to be grateful to
him is justice.”
Paul Vi’s defense of his pre
decessor came at the end of a
1,000-word speech for the ded
ication of the new statue. The
image was presented to the ba
silica by the cardinals who were
created during the nearly 20-
year reign of the onetime
Eugenio Cardinal Pacelli.
The ceremony took place on
March 12, the 25th anniversary
of the coronation of Pius XII.
Among the prelates present
were the two surviving Ameri
cans Pope Pius raised to the
Sacred College of Cardinals—
Francis Cardinal Spellman of
New York and James Francis
Cardinal McIntyre of Los An
geles.
The 15-foot bronze statue
stands in the chapel of Blessed
Innocent XI, the second chapel
from the entrance on the right
side of the basilica. It is less
than 100 feet from the chapel
of the Pieta.
The statue of Pius is the work
of Italian sculptor Francesco
Messina. Rather modern in spi
rit, it depicts the wartime pope
in a standing position, wearing
a graceful cope and miter. The
head is turned slightly toward
the front of the chapel, while an
expressive hand with long,
graceful fingers is raised close
to the chest in a gesture of
blessing.
At the dedication rite, Pope
Paul sat on a small throne be
fore the chapel’s altar. He said
the statue will be cause for
those who pass to pause and
reflect on the Pope who was
Pius XII. Then Pope Paul, who'
as Msgr. Giovanni Battista
Montini was one of Pius
XII’s closest associates through
his assignment to the Papal
Secretariat of State, referred
indirectly to the German play,
“The Deputy.” The drama, be
ing presented in New York and
several European cities, im
plies that Pius XII shares in the
guilt for the nazi murder of six
million Jews because he did not
publicly condemn this genocide.
Pope Paul said that at this
time of “criticism and even
unjust and ungrateful clamors
of blame and accusation” ag
ainst Pope Pius, to pause be
fore the dramatic statue of
him “will serve to arouse In
the soul two principal, natur
al and dutiful acts: remem
brance and recognition.”
Asking rhetorically what the
memory of his predecessor
should be, Pope Paul continued
by pointing to Pius: “A priest
ly life, pure, pious, austere, in-
dutrious, often full of suffer
ing — all channeled toward
study, prayer and service of
the Church.”
Paul VI recalled the late
Pope’s 43 encyclicals, his se
veral hundred apostolic consti
tutions—including the declara
tion of the dogma of the bodily
assumption of Mary into heav
en. He said in this connection
that the “doctrinal work of Pius
XII greatly enriches the cultur
al patrimony of the Church.”
Turning to what the world
should recognize and be grate
ful for in Pope Pius, the pre
sent Pope cited his prede
cessor’s successful efforts to
save Rome from wartime de
struction. “If Rome did not
suffer worse ruin than that in
flicted on some of the city
outskirts, it is mainly due to
this Pope. This cannot, must
not, be forgotten.”
It was at this point that Paul
Pope chose to answer, with
out naming names, those cri
tics who maintain that Pius XII
failed for selfish motives or
cowardice to speak out against
nazi atrocities. Pope Paul said
that the defense of Rome was
not “the only merit which pub
lic gratitude must attribute to
the wise and courageous work
of Pius XII. Insofar as permit
ted by circumstances, which he
assessed with intense and con
scientious reflection, he used
his voice and his activity to
proclaim the rights of justice,
to defend the weak, to give suc
cor to the suffering, to prevent
greater evils and to smooth the
path of peace,” Pope Paul said.
“If innumerable and immeas
urable evils befell mankind,
one cannot impute this to cow
ardice, lack of interest and to
selfishness on the part of the
Pope. Anyone who maintained
this would violate truth and
justice.”
Jewish Group
Backs Education
Aid Bills
ALBANY, N. Y. (NC)—The
National Association of Hebrew
Day School Parent-Teacher As
sociation has endorsed two bills
to provide state aid for pupils
in church-related and other pri
vate schools.
The organization represents
54,000 students in more than
300 Jewish schools throughout
the country.
The organization expressed
strong support for a bill to pro
vide annual grants to students
in high schools which charge
tuition and another to loan text
books in mathematics, science
and foreign languages to stu
dents in nongovernment high
schools.
Both measures are being
backed vigorously by Citizens
for Educational Freedom, an
association of parents of chil
dren in parochial and other pri
vate schools. It is conducting a
statewide letter-writing cam
paign.
Opposition to the proposals
comes chiefly from the Ameri
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cently sent 200 members here
from New York to protest, and
the New York Civil Liberties
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His voice almost harsh with
suppressed emotion, Pope Paul
went on to say:
“If the results of the studies,
the efforts, the prayers, and
of the humanitarian and peace
seeking activities of Pius XII
were not equal to his desires and
to the needs of others, he did
not fail to make his own the
drama of iniquity, of sor
row, and of blood of the world
torn by war and obsessed by
the fury of totalitarianism and
of oppression.”
Pope Paul, who as Archbish
op of Milan spoke out in de
fense of Pope Pius last spring,
and who on leaving the Israeli
sector of Jerusalem last Jan.
5 lauded the record of the late
Pontiff, again recalled the war
time efforts of Pius XII. Pope
Pius, he declared, “was emin
ently the Pope of peace, of the
rights of the human person, of
the orderly and brotherly or
ganization of peoples and of
social classes ... To remem
ber him is a pious act; to be
grateful to him is justice.”
The Southern Cross, March 19, 1964—PAGE 3
Open Occupancy” Builder
Cites “No Ill Effects”
(By Rhea Felknor
(N.C.W.C. News Service)
CLAYTON, Mo.—With only a
handful of exceptions, the
sprawling 400 - square - mile
area surrounding St. Louis and
containing half the population of
the metropolitan area hasn’t
given a Negro a chance to buy
or build a home since World War
I.
One exception is the Vatterott
Housing Development in north
St Louis County, opened last
year on an “open occupancy”
basis.
Its promoter, long active in
Catholic interracial work and a
member of the St. Louis Arch
diocesan Commission on Human
Rights, is Charles F. Vatterott,
a St. Louis home builder.
A decade ago he had opened
an all-Negro subdivision in the
northern part of the country
—still the only one of its kind
in the area. But last year, Vat
terott launched an ' ‘open occu
pancy” suburban community.
To his surprise, it took
months for the first Negro fami
ly to move into the area.
* ‘Everyone who came to
the subdivision was told that we
were opening it up on an open oc
cupancy basis,” Vatterott ex
plained. * ‘The only restrictions
we had were that they had to be
‘good people.’ ”
What has been the result, af
ter a year of selling houses on
an open occupancy basis?
“We’ve had no ill ef
fects whatsoever,” Vatterott
said. “Property values have not
declined in the least.”
Asked about reports that
many bankers refuse to lend
money to Negroes who want to
buy homes, Vatterott said a ma
jor difficulty in the past had been
the type of housing they wanted
to buy.
“Look at the situation in St.
Louis, where 70% of the Negroes
have been living in blighted
areas,” he said. “Purely aside
from the racial issue, a blight
ed area is an undesirable risk
for most bankers.”
Also, he said, there had been
“concentrated effort among
bankers to avoid Negro paper
because of poor pay” in the
past.
New regulations against ra
cial discrimination in Federally
financed housing should help
correct the problem—provided
they are enforced, Vatterott
said.
“I think a very different
situation will prevail as the Ne
gro gets into areas of good pro
perty in good neighborhoods,”
he added. * ‘As Negroes move out
of the ghetto into other areas,
the stigma will gradually leave.
It hasn't always been the Negrc
that has caused mortgage
bankers to hesitate, it’s been
the property.”
According to a St. Louis Ur
ban League official, there are
communities in St. Louis County
where children have never seen
Missioners’ Ouster—
(Continued From Page 1)
have been burned by govern
ment troops who believed their
people were supplying the
rebels with food.
The Catholic Church has been
the chief victim of this sec
tional conflict, which the gov
ernment has accused the Church
of fomenting. When the F ebru-
ary expulsion order was an
nounced, Interior Minister Mo-
hamed Ahmed Irwa said he
“had proof and documents that
some foreign priests have in the
past and still have close re
sponsibility for the unrest in the
south. They are working for the
disunity of the Sudanese
nation.”
Similar excuses have been
offered from the beginning for
government measures against
the Church: Last November,
Bishop Ireneus Dud, a Sudanese
and Apostolic Vicar of Wau,
declared that these measures
amounted to "de facto perse
cution.”
The first major step against
the Church was taken on Feb.
13, 1956, when the government
announced its intention of na
tionalizing the mission school.
Going back on earlier official
statements that mission schools
would continue to receive gov
ernment aid, the regime said
they would all be incorporated
into a national education pro
gram aimed at national unity.
At the same time the gov
ernment banned the opening of
new religious schools in the
South for three years, a ban
that in effect has been contin
ued to the present. This has
added to an earlier policy of
denying reentry permits to mis
sioners who had left the coun
try for vacations or medical
treatment.
During 1959 and 1960, res
trictive measures were taken
against missionaries as ex
pulsions continued. By early
1960, 20 Catholic missioners
had been ousted. According to
the new restrictions, mis
sioners were not allowed to
leave their stations without per
mission of a district commis
sioner, who often lived hun
dreds of miles away. Permis
sion was rarely given to priests
to visit even the gravely ill.
No new religious building was
allowed.
The heaviest blow fell in
1962 when the Missionary So
cieties Act was decreed. The
act virtually banned all mis
sionary activity.
It provided that "no mission
ary society nor any member
thereof shall do any mission
ary act in the Sudan” without
a license granted by the Coun
cil of Ministers and renewable
yearly.
It also banned "any social
activities” (by missioners) ex
cept within the limits and in
the manner laid down from time
to time by regulations made
under Section 10.” This section
placed under government con
trol the following matters:
—Formation of clubs and or
ganization of social activities.
—Appeals for and collection
of money.
—Famine and flood relief and
similar charitable objectives.
—Publication of pamphlets
or books.
—Holding of land by mis
sionary societies.
Late in 1962 a government
official said the regime would
use force if necessary to stamp
out Christianity in the south.
The assistant director for edu
cation in the region declared
that “we are ready to slaugh
ter three -fourths of the popu
lation of the south in order to
have the remaining quarter sub
ject to us.”
In 1963, expulsions were
stepped up sharply—at least
100 were deported during the
year—and the Missionary So
cieties Act was used to make
life as difficult as possible for
missioners allowed to remain.
The government issued an in
struction clarifying the act’s
provisions which resulted in ru
lings that prohibited missioners
from engaging in agriculture,
even from growing vegetables
for their own tables. It also
banned repairs or improve
ments in mission stations. It
declared:
“Missionaries may not carry
out any activity which has to do
with teaching, medicine, agri
culture, commerce or indus
try or which consists in the
publication of any journal,
pamphlet, books, records or
radio broadcasts, or the pro
jection of any film or film slid
es without first having received
approval in writing by a com
petent official of the Ministry
of the Interior.”
Thus by the time they were
ordered out of the country, mis
sioners had been restricted to
virtual inactivity.
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a Negro. Vatterott said he feels
an obligation as a Catholic and
an American to help create
home ownership opportunities
for citizens regardless of race,
color and creed.
Noting that the St. Louis City
Board of Aldermen recently
passed a fair housing act, he
said such laws are necessary.
“They are needed simply
because the rights of many of
our people to rent or buy ac
cording to their means are
denied,” he said. “Fairhousing
laws are necessary tools to open
housing for Negroes and other
minority groups.”
Vatterott said fair housing
laws “will not transform the
community overnight, but bit by
bit they will enable the present
ly encircled citizens to climb
to a plateau of higher hope and
greater motivation.”
Tell About Persecution—
(Continued From Page 1)
there was no other source of
supply of these fruits. It was
the same with mills for grain.”
The Bishop spoke of the trial
of two Verona Fathers, Fath
ers Salvatore Mazzitelli and
Bruno Lonf ernini, who had been
giving medicines to sick na
tives.
He said the judge called a phy
sician to court, showed him a
bottle of penicllin, and asked
him if it was poisonous. The
physician replied it was if giv
en in large enough doses. The
judge then fined the two mis
sioners for distributing poisons
and practicing medicine with
out a license.
Bishop Mazzoldi’s vicar
general, Father Augusto Gual-
andi then spoke to the judge
privately. He asked him what
he would have done if his own
child had been sick and needed
medicines. The judge replied:
“I am not the wolf I I am not
the wolf! All Baldo made me do
this.” Ali Baldo is the Gover
nor of Juba.
Bishop Mazzoldi said the
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fourth heavy blow against the
missioners was the Missionary
Societies Act of 1962 which
“put the Church under the cab
inet in Khartoum.”
Final blow, the virtual crop
de grace, was the expulsion of
all missioners, the Bishop con
cluded.
Father Gualandi said that
whenever missioners com
plained to the government that
local authorities or police were
violating their legal rights, “the
game of pretending to inves
tigate would begin.” He de
scribed the government’s tact
ics over the past eight years as
“attrition and flank attack ra
ther than frontal assault.” He
said the government wanted to
postpone a headon collission.
“They waited till now for
that.”
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