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Vol. 44, No. 38
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In Savannah
SAVANNAH, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, APRIL 2, 1964
Saturday, April 11th
Diocesan Vocation Day
A Diocesan Vocation Day will
be held April 11th, in Savannah,
for High School girls of the;
Diocese and 8th grade students
of Savannah.
Theme of the Day will be
“The Church at Work in our
Diocese.”
The Day will open with Sol
emn Pontificial Mass at the Ca
thedral of St. John the Baptist
with a continental breakfast be
ing served following Mass at St.
Vincent’s Academy.
His Excellency The Most
Reverend Thomas J. Mc
Donough will be the principal
speaker of the day. He will ad
dress the girls at a Vocation
Symposium scheduled for 11:15
a.m. at the Cotillion Room of the
Hotel DeSoto.
Topics to be covered at the
Symposium and those in charge
are as follows:
“The World Needs Christ
Desperately. Sisters bring Him
to our Diocese.” — Mother
Mary Virgilius, Missionary
Franciscans of the Immaculate
Conception.
‘ 'The body must be cared
for—Christ did this. There
fore, He calls many to be Sis
ter-nurses.”—Sister Mary Vi
vian, Sisters of St. Joseph.
“There are many special
needs in the Church for the care
of the aged and the underpri-
viliged. We need sisters to
carry out the corporal works of
mercy.” “Aged”—Mother Su
zanne, Little Sisters of the
Poor. “Underprivileged” —
Sister Ita, Franciscan Sisters of
the Atonement.
“We are engaged in a battle
of ideas. Education is so im
portant because it forms the
thinking of generations. Sis
ters in the teaching field have
a great apostolate today,” —
Mother Marie Elizabeth, Sis
ters of the Immaculate Heart
of Mary.
* 'There are tremendous so
cial problems to be met in to
day’s world; some Sisters de
vote their time and energy to
helping to solve these—a spe
cial vocation.” — Sister Mary
Magdalen, Glenmary Home
Mission Sisters.
Following lunch at 1 p.m.,
the girls will visit the booths
and Vocation displays being
sponsored by the various Reli
gious Orders.
A hospitality committee from
St. Vincent’s will provide tours
of the city for out-of-town
guests ending at St. Mary’s
Home.
‘Cosmic Importance’ Of
Easter Cited By Pontiff
By James C. O’Neill
(N.C.W.C. News Service)
VATICAN CITY -- Pope Paul
VI , addressing his Easter mes
sage to unbelievers as well as
believers, urged al 1 to ponder
the “cosmic importance” of
Christ’s Resurrection.
After celebrating outdoor
Mass in front of St. Peter’s
basilica before a crowd over
flowing the great piazza, Pope
Paul mounted the basilica’s high
central balcony to deliver his
impassioned appeal:
“Whatever be the position
which you who hear these words
have adopted regarding reli
gion, to all of you, from this
summit to which the Christian
Easter has raised us, we ex
tend the invitation to wel
come the message of light which
comes to the world through the
Resurrection of Christ.”
Christ’s Resurrection is “at
the same time a motive for be
lieving in Him and an object of
that very belief,” he said.
It is “the source of the mean
ing of the human drama, the
solution of the problem of evil,
the origin of a new form of life
to which we give the name
Christianity.”
The Pope begged those who
have no religion or who are
opposed to it to reexamine their
views.
“Perhaps some of you have
inexact or more repugnant con
cepts of religion,” he said.
“Perhaps your idea of faith is
erroneous — that it offends
intelligence, shackles pro
gress, or humiliates man,
bringing sadness to his life.”
Pope Paul went on to say:
“It is true that Christian life
is austere. It is no stranger to
pain and self-denial. It demands
penance and sacrifice. It ac
cepts the Cross and, when the
time comes, bravely goes out
to meet suffering and death. . .
“Why do we stress this as
pect of the paschal feast? Why
do we reduce life lived in ac
cordance with religious princi
ples to human happiness?
“It is easily understood. For
we wish all men to experience
the claims of Christianiy,
which is no other than what is
derived from the mystery of
Easter in its most genuine ex
pression — the complete solu
tion of the problems of man
kind.”
The Pope then directed his
Easter greetings especially to
those who are suffering, to those
who still hunger and thirst for
justice, to those who labor and
are weary. He also sent Easter
greetings to the young, and to
Christians in particular, “That
you may learn to relish
what you possess, that you may
give the world the testimony of
true happiness.”
He concluded by saying: ‘ 'And
while we extend our greetings
to Rome, to the Church, to our
brethren still separated from
us, to all believers in God, and
also to unbelievers or those
who no longer believe, we im
part to all mankind, to the
whole world, as a testimony of
truth and of life, our apostolic
blessing.”
Despite leaden skies and the
threat of rain — which later ma
terialized — the crowd present
at the conclusion of the Pope’s
address had perhaps doubled in
size from the 150,000 or so who
were there when he began cele
brating Mass.
When he was carried through
the bronze doors of the great
church, the throng cheered
wildly and the bands of the Pa
latine Guard and the Italian Ar
my struck up a papal march.
The Pontiff offered the Mass
facing the people at an altar set
up before the portico of St.
Peter's. His clear and mellow
Latin was carried throughout
the square by loudspeakers, and
the congregational responses
rose loud and firm from the
worshippers in the square.
The Pope, who earlier in the
day had offered Mass in the
parish church of the Roman
suburb of Settecamini, took
about 35 minutes for the Mass
in front of St. Peter’s. After
wards he proceeded inside the
basilica to make his way to the
balcony.
But his radio and television
schedules forced a delay of
about 25 minutes between the
end of the Mass and his appear-
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POPE PAUL VI GIVES HIS FIRST EASTER BLESSING — “Urbi et Orbi,” to the City
of Rome and to the world, the traditional Easter blessing is given by Pope Paul VI, wear
ing his triple-tiered crown, from the main balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica, on Easter
Sunday. This is a radio telephoto. (NC Photos)
25th DCCW Convention To
Be Held April 10, 11, 12
The twenty-fifth annual convention of the Savannah Diocesan
Council of Catholic Women will be held April 10, 11, and 12,
in Savannah.
Theme of this year’s con
vention is * * ‘Twenty-five Sil
ver Years of Service through
Mary.”
Headquarters for the con
vention will be the DeSoto Ho
tel.
A Civic Reception will be
held at the main ballroom of
the DeSoto Hotel, Friday even
ing, April 10. Monsignor John
C. Knott, Director of the Fam
ily Life Bureau of the National
Catholic Welfare Conference
will be the guest speaker.
A native of Connecticut, Mon
signor Knott was ordained in
1939. He has been engaged in
parish work as an assistant
and administrator and also has
served as a chaplain in the
United States Navy.
He has done graduate work
at the Catholic University of
America in the field of mar
riage and the family and has
worked extensively in the pro
motion of the Cana Conference
Movement in Connecticut.
Monsignor Knott was full time
director of the Marriage and
Family Apostolate of the Arch
diocese of Hartford for eleven
years. He is the author of nu
merous articles, among them
the weekly syndicated column,
“Everyman’s Family.”
Monsignor Knott has been the
director of the Family Life Bu
reau N.C.W.C. since 1961. He
was elevated to the rank of
Domestic Prelate with the title
of Right Reverend Monsignor,
in December, 1962.
The Cathedral of St. John the
Baptist will be the site of the
Convention Mass to be offered
by Bishop Thomas J. McDon-
ought on Saturday, April 11,
at 9 a.m. A continental break
fast will follow at the Cathe
dral Day School.
The business meeting of the
convention will follow in the
Gold Room of the Hotel Desoto
with Mrs. Joseph J. Dembow-
ski, president of the Savannah
Diocesan Council of Catholic,
Women, presiding. Monsignor
John D. Toomey is Spiritual
Director of D. C. C. W.
Following the business meet
ing a workshop “The Formula
for a Happy Family” will be
held. The moderator of the
panel will be Monsignor John
Knott.
The panel will consist of
three Catholic laymen. The
first is Mrs. Robert W. Bailey,
wife of Captain Robert W. Bai
ley, U.S.A.F., and the mother
of ten children. She is a native
of Iron Mountain, Michigan and
recieved her R.N. andB.S. from
the College of St. Scholastia,
Committees Named For
Altar Boy Awards
Bishop Thomas J. McDonough
announced today that the Rever
end William V. Coleman, rec
tor of Saint John’s Seminary in
Savannah, will serve as general
chairman for the annual Altar
boy award program to be held
at Saint John's Seminary on Ap
ril 19th.
Committee chairmen will in
clude the Reverend John
Cuddy, parents’ entertainment;
the Reverend Kevin Boland, In
vitations and Hospitality; the
Reverend Joseph L. Stranc, Ar
rangements ; the Right Reverend
Mon signor Andrew J. Mc
Donald, Liturgical Arrange
ments; The Reverend Francis
Donohue, Publicity.
Serving on the Food Service
Committee will be Mrs. Peter
Vasta, Mrs. Frank Balcom,
Mrs. Rena Barras, Mrs. Aaron
Bryant, Mrs. William Duncan
and Mrs. Eugene Mock.
In Charge of Registration will
be Mrs. Frank I. Barry and Mrs.
Anthony Purdy.
Father Cuddy will be assisted
in the parents’ entertainment
responsibilities by Mr. and
Mrs. Daniel Sheehan and Mr.
and Mrs. William Lain.
Father Stranc will be assis
ted by the Serra Club of Sa
vannah.
Assisting Father Boland on
the hospitality and invitation
committees will be Mr. and
Mrs. James Harte, Mr. and
Mrs. William T. Cannon and
Mr. and Mrs. William T. Gau-
dry.
Serving with Father Donohue
will be Mr. John E. Markwalter.
Committee meeting have al
ready been held for the
preparations for what promises
to be the largest presentation
of the Vianney award in its five
year history.
u. s.
Bishops
Meet
Bishop Thomas J. Mc
Donough is in attendance
(April 2nd and 3rd) at a
meeting of all Bishops of the
United States being held at
the Catholic University in
Washington, D. C.
The Bishops are consid
ering changes in the Litur
gy in reference to the intro
duction of vernacular into the
Mass, other Sacraments,
and Sacramentals.
The work toward introduc
tion of the vernacular into
the liturgy—the Church’s of
ficial worship—is being car
ried out under the new con
stitution on the liturgy' for
mally adopted Dec. 4 at the
second session of the Vati
can Council.
The Bishops’ Commis
sion on the Liturgical Apos
tolate has been selecting
English - language trans
lations, and have submitted
the versions it recommends
at this meeting.
Convention Participants
Duluth, Minnesota. Mrs. Bailey
is one of the couple leaders of
the Christian Family Move
ment.
Mr. Albion M. Gruber, Jr. is
the second panelist. He is a
native Savannahian and the fa
ther of six children. Mr. Gru
ber received his B.A. and M.A.
in Music from the University of
Alabama. He did post-graduate
work in French at Duke Univer
sity and the University of Iowa.
He is a teacher of French
at Savannah Country Day
School. Mr. Gruber is also
a composer of contemporary
music. He directs the James M.
Copps Memorial Choir at the
Cathedral of St. John the Bap
tist. He is also a Christian Fam
ily Movement leader.
The third panelist is Miss
Gloria Anne Miller, 17, a na
tive of Savannah. Gloria is the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jo
seph L. Miller and a Junior at
Saint Vincent’s Academy.
Mrs. Joseph McCarthy, Pre
sident of the National Council
of Catholic Women will be
honored at a reception and tea
to be held April 11, from 4
to 5 p.m. at Saint Mary’s Home.
Saturday evening the conven
tion banquet will be held in the
ballroom of the DeSoto Hotel
with Mrs. Joseph J. McCarthy
the main speaker.
Mrs. McCarthy received the
title of President of the Nation
al Council of Catholic Women
following her election at the
NCCW national convention, No
vember, 1962 This title came
to her after many years of ac
tive participation in a wide
variety of offices in organiza
tions, ranging from her parish
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. Emdius Mothers’ Club
and the Holy Cross Ladies So
dality.
She is associated with a num
ber of community organiza
tions. She has been a member
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, appointed
by the Mayor.
bishop McDonough
MSGR. KNOTT
mrs. McCarthy
MSGR. TOOMEY
Pope, President
Ask Increased Effort
In Poverty Fight
MRS. DEMBOWSKI
Pieta To Be
Packaged For
New York Trip
VATICAN CITY (NC) —Vati
can engineers have decided to go
ahead with the packaging of
Michaelangelo’s masterpiece,
the Pieta, for shipment to the
Vatican Pavilion at the New
York World’s Fair despite a
new controversy.
Engineer Francesco Vacchini
made the decision after Rome’s
daily II Messagero had urged
the Vatican to reconsider send
ing the statuary group from St.
Peter’s basilica to New York.
The newspaper made its plea
after learning that portions of
the Venus de Milo had been chip
ped off during a trip from Paris
to Tokyo.
II Messagero also said there
was a controversy between
Vatican technicians and mem
bers of the American committee
charged with transporting the
Pieta over the way it should be.
packaged. The plan adopted by
Vatican engineers called for
the statue to be placed in a trip
le container with wood shavings
placed between each container
to reduce possible damage from
shock or temperature change.
According to II Messagero, the
U. S. committee urged the sub
stitution of a plastic substance
for the wood shavings on the
grounds that it would provide
greater protection.
The Pieta will be shipped on
April 5th.
PRAY FOR OUR
PRIESTLY DEAD
REV. JOHN J. KIRBY
April 3, 1872
Oh Cod, IF ho didst give to
thy servants hy their sacredotal
office, a share in the priest
hood of the. Apostles, grant,
we implore, that they may
also he one of their company
forever in heaven. Through
Christ Our Lord, Amen.
ATLANTIC CITY, N. J. (NC)
—Pope Paul VI and President
Johnson both appealed to Ca
tholic educators here to in
crease their efforts to over
come ignorance, poverty and
disease.
The Pope, in a message sent
on his behalf to the 61st an
nual convention of the National
Catholic Educational Associa
tion, spoke of the Church’s
work to overcome poverty and
“other ills of our wounded na
ture” so that men can devote
themselves more completely to
“the all-important duty of car
ing for their souls.”
President Johnson, in his
greetings to the convention of
nearly 12,000 Catholic educa
tors, said that "the plagues of
our contemporary society” can
be madJ to yield through de
termination and persistence.
‘The Pontiff, in a message
sent by Amieto Cardinal Ci-
cognani, Papal Secretary of
State, was described as follow
ing with "deep interest the
dedicated efforts of those en
gaged in the noble work of
Catholic education.”
“T h e Catholic Church,
through the centuries, has en
deavored to diffuse the light
of education in order that ig
norance, poverty and disease
and the many other ills of our
wounded human nature might be
conquered, because in her wis
dom she knows that men who
are relieved of the anxieties
afflicting the body and the mind
can devote themselves the more
to the all important duty of car
ing for their souls,” said the
papal message.
President Johnson noted the
convention theme was "Cath
olic Education and National
Needs.”
He called this appropriate
because “more than ever be
fore in our nation's history, we
turn hopefully to all of our
educators, working harmon
iously, to assist in resolving
some of our most pressing
national needs.”
“We are faced today,” said
the President, “with a mod
ern counterpart of the Biblical
Four Horsemen of the Apoca
lypse.
“But the plagues of our con
temporary society—ignorance,
disease, poverty and unem
ployment—can be made to yield
like those of centuries ago if
we apply our knowledge of
science and arts with determi
nation and persistence.
“This is the major challenge
of our day. It will require the
best of our joint efforts.”
Clergy
Conference
A Clergy Conference for
all priests of the Diocese
will be held on Friday, April
10th, at the Hotel DeSoto
in Savannah.
Bishop Thomas J. Mc
Donough will preside at the
meeting which is scheduled
for 5:00 p.m.
Addressing the Clergy will
be the Right Reverend Mon
signor John C. Knott, Direc
tor of the Family Life Bu
reau of the National Catho
lic Welfare Conference.
Christian Humanism
Seen Imperiled
ATLANTIC CITY, N. J. (NC)
—The crisis in Catholic educa
tion is especially grave because
it raises the question of whether
Christian humanism can sur
vive without a system of
Catholic schools.
This was the approach taken
to the controversial issue of the
future of Catholic schools by Bi
shop John J. Dougherty in
the keynote address of the 61st
annual convention of the Na
tional Catholic Educational As
sociation.
The Auxiliary Bishop of New
ark, president of Seton Hall
University, South Orange, N.J.,
spoke (March 31) on the con
vention’s theme: “Catholic Ed
ucation and National Needs.”
He said the nation today needs
men who see human culture as a
value in its own right and wor
thy of pursuit for the good of
the individual and the good of
society.
This conviction is shared by
both secular humanists and
Christian humanists, he said,
but the latter have a wider view
of reality, one which sees human
culture as “consonant with
supernatural faith and moral
idealism.”
Secular humanism, he went
on, is widely prevalent in Am
erica’s colleges and universit
ies. “And there is reason to
believe that it dominates broad
areas of public elementary and
secondary education,” he add
ed.
Catholic schools must re
spond to this situation, he said,
adding: “It is the conviction of
this Catholic educator that the
national needs will best be ser
ved by the survival of a strong
Christian humanism.
The crisis in Catholic edu
cation, therefore, takes on a
peculiar gravity, for we
live with the question: ’Can
Christian humanism survive
without some system of Cath
olic education?’
“The answer must be sought
in the stuff of reality, not ’ in the
stuff that dreams are made
of.’ ”
Bishop Doughterty said that
the nation today needs men
* 'who remember that we owe our
free society to certain timeless
beliefs about the nature of man,
society and government and that
our contribution to the survival
of the free society is the ex
ercise of the 'disciplined vir
tues.’ ”
“America,” he said, “needs
men who are aroused by the dis
turbing evidence of mass re
treat from civic and social res
ponsibilities to lives of private
ease and indulgence, aroused
enough to face about and re
verse the trend . . .
“Do we, as Americans and
Catholics, hear the cry of our
country’s needs and burn to re
spond? Can our educational tra
dition help? Is it renowned for
its intellectual discipline, for
commitment to law and moral
standards, for the exercise of
rational restraint—these are
precisely the nation’s needs.”