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PAGE 2—The Southern Cross, March 26, .1964
Father Cuddy
Blessed Sacrament
Parents Addressed
- By Superintendent
* At the March meeting of the
j Blessed Sacrament Home and
School Association Rev. John
Cuddy, Superintendent of Dio-
cesan Schools, addressed the
gathering and reviewed the past,
the present and the future of
the diocese in regard to staf
fing our Parochial schools.
Only a few short years ago
the Nuns were available and pa
rents expected that each of their
children would receive their
education through the Grade
Schools at the hands of these de
voted sisters. Father Cuddy
said, “At the present time the
position has changed in that
qualified lay teachers are being
sought in greater numbers to
staff the Parochial Schools, and
the parents have adjusted them
selves to the fact that their
child will be under the tutelage
of Sisters little more than
half of the school time.
“The future poses a very se
rious problem in that there
will have to be a great in
crease in the vocations from
within the diocese to properly
staff the parochial schools of
the future, and at the same time
the greater response of the qua
lified lay persons to teach in
9 our schools.
I “Secondly, the financial pro-
I blem that has been always borne
* by the Catholic parents is be-
I coming increasingly severe be
ll cause with the employment of
I larger numbers of lay teachers
the salaries must be met, and
|
I whereas these dedicated people
accept these teaching assign
ments at a personal sacrifice,
far less than they could earn in
the Public School system, they
are still a severe burden to the
Catholic parent.” Father Cuddy
was hopeful that increased
vocations from within the dio-
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growth problems.
The Annual Book Fair was
held and many interesting and
instructive books were on dis
play which parents were asked
to purchase in the name of their
child. These books are to be
placed in the school library for
the use of the school children.
The much coveted Attendance
Prize was won by Sr. Mary
Gilbert’s Seventh Grade.
Convention—
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to the NCCW Board of Direc
tors.
A native of San Francisco,
Mrs. McCarthy has held such
offices as president of the San
Francisco Archdiocesan Coun
cil of Catholic Women, the
County Council, the Parent-
Teachers groups of the Arch
diocese of San Francisco, the
St. Emydius Mothers’ Club
and the Holy Cross Ladies So
dality.
She is associated withanum-
ber of community organiza
tions. She has been a mem
ber of President Eisenhower’s
Committee for Safety and Gov
ernor Knight’s Committee for
Safety; a Board Member and
, third vice-president of the San
Francisco Women’s City Club;
treasurer of the Northern Ca
lifornia Catholic Library As
sociation; and a member of the
Citizen’s Committee, appoint
ed by the Mayor.
To Address
Catholic Press
NEW YORK (NC) — R. Sar
gent Shriver, director of the
Peace Corps and coordinator of
the President’s “war onpover-
ty,” will give the principal
address at the Catholic Press
Association’s 54th annual nat
ional convention in Pittsburgh
in May.
Shriver will speak Thursday,
May 28, at the main banquet
climaxing the four-day conven
tion in the Penn-Sheraton Ho
tel, it was announced by James
A. Doyle, CPA executive sec
retary.
More than 500 delegates
are expected.
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Blue And Gold
Cub Scout Banquet
MR. DON MOFFATT and Mr. Edward Abernathy are
seen awarding den chief pins to scouts: Steve Kelleher,
Steve Spring, Terence Hennessy, Gary Scott and John
Crawford.
MONSIGNOR ANDREW J. MCDONALD is pictured with
one of the Blessed Sacrament Cub Scout dens at the annual
Blue and Gold Banquet. Others in the picture are; Mrs.
Ellen Coburn, Gary Scott and cubs, Randy Coburn, Paul
Aimar, Billy Green and Robert Russell.
Urges Effort To
Better i Human Product 9
LATROBE, Pa. (NC) — A
Negro educator called here for
research to discover “techni
ques for making man more
honest, true, Christian and
democratic.’'
“If we can experiment and
spend millions in an effort to
make men hate, to teach them
how to destroy, surely we ought
to be equally concerned with re
search designed to improve the
human product,” said Benjamin
E. Mays, president of More
house College in Atlanta, Ga.
Mays spoke (March 18) at an
honors convocation at St. Vin
cent College here. He received
an honorary doctor of educa
tion degree from the Benedic
tine School.
Stressing that “if we can
not make men better, nothing
else matters,” Mays said the
aim in education “should not be*
to develop experts in physics,
but. . . to develop a good
man who is an expert in phy
sics. . . In religion the aim
should not be to develop elo
quent preachers, but good men
who are eloquent preachers.”
He noted the prevalence of
prejudice in society and said
that even the churches “make
few demands” in this matter.
“The man who hates mem
bers of other races and plots
to keep them down, can be a
deacon, a preacher or an
elder,” he commented.
ST. CLARE’S CYO as their religious and athletic pro
gram for the month of March helped on Danny Thomas’
teen-ager’s drive to collect funds for St. Jude’s Hospital to
aid children stricken with leukemia to Mrs. Anderson,
associated with the drive, Helen Morris is handing the $25
that the girls collected!while Pearlie Fields and Doloris
Williams look on.
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Pope John’s
Diaries Released
VATICAN CITY (NC)—The
late Pope John XXIII has re
vealed in his private writings
that when he first expressed his
idea to summon an ecumenical
council “the first person to be
surprised by this proposal of
mine was myself.”
Excerpts from the recently
published “Diary of a Soul,”
made up of spiritual notes the
Pontiff kept throughout his life,
have been reprinted in Osser-
vatore Romano, the semi
official Vatican newspaper and
other Italian journals.
After his election as Pope in
1958, the former Angelo Cardi
nal Roncalli put down his
throughs on the event and listed
two great graces granted to one
“who has little esteem for him
self, but who receives good in
spirations and implements
them with humility and trust.”
“First—to accept with sim
plicity the honor and burden of
the pontificate, with the joy of
being able to say that nothing,
really nothing, was done to
bring it about; on the contrary,
with grieving and conscious
concern on my part not to at
tract attention to my person. ..
“Second grace—to make cer
tain ideas which are not com
plex, but rather most simple,
yet of great importance and re
sponsibility in the face of the
future, to make these ideas ap
pear to me as simple, easily
implemented and with imme
diate success.”
Such an idea was summoning
the Vatican council. The pope
wrote: “The first to be surpris
ed by this proposal of mine was
myself, without anyone having
suggested it to me. And to think
that everything afterward
seemed to me so natural. . .”
The late Pope’s desire for
Christian unity was forming
before he came to the throne
of Peter. The diary proves this
in one entry written in 1903
when King Edward VII of Eng
land visited Pope Leo XIII in
the Vatican.
Young Roncalli, then a semi
narian in Rome, noted that the
King, “though a Protestant, has
done something really good here
in Rome. Rising above certain
tendentious desires of Italian
and foreign anti-clericalism,
he, at the height of his great
ness, was not ashamed—on the
contrary he considered it an
honor—to visit and to bow be
fore another man, a poor per
secuted old man, but whom he
recognized as greater than him
self, before the Pope, the Vicar
of Christ.”
Roncalli called the visit “a
sign of the times that after a
stormy night there should be a
new light rising from the Vati
can, a slow but vital and real
return of the nations to the arms
of the common Father. . .who
has been waiting for them a long
time. . .”
Pope John’s diary, which will
appear soon in many languages,
traces his spiritual life from
his years in the seminary until
one year before his death in
1963. It was assembled and edit
ed by Msgr. Loris Capovilla,
his former secretary.
On July 9, 1961, the Pope
told Msgr. Capovilla that he
could publish the diary, but only
after his death.
“My soul is in these pages,”
he said.
Msgr. Capovilla recalls in the
preface to the book that the
POPE JOHN XXIII
Pope, leafing through the pages
of the diary, said:
“I was a good boy, innocent,
a little timid. I wanted to love
God at all costs and I didn’t
think of anything but being a
priest. . .And meanwhile I
struggled against an enemy in
myself, the love of myself. . .1
took everything seriously and
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FIRST COMMUNION—Adrian Lee and Vicky Branch
pose after receiving their First Communion at Saint Clare’s
Albany. Parents are enlisted to help prepare their child
ren for First Communion. The Sisters of the Precious
Blood, from St. Teresa’s Convent, work with the children
each Sunday. When a child is found to be ready, they are
allowed to receive their First Communion. As a result of
this method of preparation, there are several First Com
munion Sundays, each year, at St. Clare’s.
Cardinal Deplores ‘Social Sins’
SEVILLE (NC)—Jose Cardi
nal Bueno y Monreal of Seville,
has declared that the “social
sins” of Spanish Catholics
cause scandal among non-Ca-
tholic groups and injure the
cause of Christian unity.
Writing in a pastoral letter,
the'Spanish prelate said his
country “is known throughout
the world as a Catholic nation.”
Nevertheless, he added, “our
social sins, which are in con
trast to the Faith we profess,
have a special tinge of scandal
that non-Catholic Christians
can denounce.”
He did not specify the “so
cial sins,” but apparently he
was referring to questions of
social justice rather than gov
ernmental restrictions against
Protestant minorities. The re
strictions have been eased in
recent years.
The Cardinal did note, how
ever, that non-Catholic groups
have not been "an apprecia
ble social fact” in Spain, and
this has made the Spanish peo
ple “too insensible to the prob
lems of ecumenism.”
“Charity and justice de
mand of us faithful respect to
ward the moral uprightness of
those who pursue in good faith
the dictates of their conscienc
es,” he wrote.
In his pastoral letter, entitled
“the Movement for Christian
Unity in the Church of Christ,”
Cardinal Bureno y Monreal said
Spain should have a “special
interest” in any such move
ment.
“If our social life distin
guished itself by its Christian
virtues as much as it stands
out by its profession of faith
and its actions of worship, Spain
as a Catholic nation would be d
beacon that would draw many
brethren to the Faith that in
spires our life,” he said.
The Cardinal said the final
aim of ecumenism “can only be’
the discovery of this unity on
the part of the brethren that
lost it,” but added that this
does not mean that Catholics
have nothing to do but sit around
and wait for reunion. “A true
Christian cannot remain pas
sive in the face of the drama
of separation,” he said.
“It is necessary to recognize
that we have not lived this great
tragedy of separation among
Christians with the acute sen
sitivity we should have—that
is to say, with the care which
Jesus displayed for us at the
Last Supper.”
The Cardinal predicted that 1 '
contacts between Spanish Cath
olics and those of other beliefs
“will increase greatly in the fu
ture.” _
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