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vannah Diocesan Council of Ca
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and your staff the thanks of all
of us for the excellent coverage
of our Silver Jubilee held in
Savannah on April 10-12. The
articles both preceeding and
following the convention were
excellent.
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President Johnson
Asks Faiths To “Awaken
Conscience” Of Nation
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WASHINGTON -- President
Johnson called upon religious
leaders to "awaken the con
science" of the country in the
matter of civil rights.
The civil rights bill before
Congress "is going to pass if it
takes all summer," because
"justice and morality demand
it," he told 150 Catholic, Pro
testant and Jewish leaders he
received in the east room of
the White House (April 29).
But laws and government
"are, at best, coarse instru
ments for remolding social in
stitutions and illuminating the
dark places of the human
heart," he added.
"It is your job—as men of God
—to reawaken the conscience of
our beloved land, the United
States of America," he declar
ed.
"Inspire and challenge us to
put our principles into action,"
he asked them.
The President spoke after
Archbishop Patrick A. O’Boyle
of Washington, as the spokes
man for all present, had told
him of the Interreligious Con
vocation on Civil Rights held
here the night before. Some
7,000 persons overflowed the
gymnasium and a hall on the
campus of Georgetown Univer
sity to take part in the convo
cation.
Those gathered in the White
House were representatives of
the agencies that had sponsored
the convocation. Standing beside
Archbishop O’Boyle as he ad
dressed the President were Dr.
Eugene Carson Blake, chairman
of the Commission on Religion
and Race of the National Coun
cil of Churches; Rabbi Lewis A.
Weintraub, president of the
Washington Board of Rabbis;
Bishop B. Julian Smith, vice
chairman of the Commission on
Religion and Race of the Na
tional Council of Churches and
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Rabbi Uri Miller, president
of the Synagogue Council of Am
erica.
Archbishop Lawrence J. She-
han of Baltimore had been a
principal speaker at the con
vocation the night before, as a
representative of the Depart
ment of Social Action of the Na
tional Catholic Welfare Confer
ence. Bishop John J. Russell of
Richmond had taken part in the
convocation.
Among the 150 representa
tives at the White House were
Auxiliary Bishops Philip M.
Hannan of Washington and Er
nest L. Unterkoefler of Rich
mond, and Auxiliary Bishops-
elect William J. McDonald and
John S. Spence of Washington.
Also in the delegation were
Msgr. Francis T. Hurley, as
sistant general secretary of
N.C.W.C.; Msgr. George G.
Higgins and Father John F.
Cronin, S.S., of the N.C.W.C.
Department of Social Action;
representatives of the National
Councils of Catholic Men and
Women and of the Washington
Archdiocesan Councils of Men
and Women.
As the White House meeting
took place, senators who had at
tended the convocation took the
floor in the Capitol to laud the
inter-faith meeting as "mov
ing," "memorable" and "in
spiring."
Archbishop O’Boyle told
President Johnson that he want
ed to report to him "the feel
ings of all of us after our tre
mendous gathering last ev
ening."
"Thousands of American
citizens, representing all reli
gious faiths, assembled to tes
tify to one thought,” the Arch
bishop said. "This was our
common conviction that civil
rights deeply involve the mor
al and religious convictions of
our nation."
"Our convocation was not po
litical," Archbishop O’Boyle
emphasized. "We neither made
promises nor uttered threats to
any elected official. Our sole
concern was to insist that effec
tive civil rights legislation is
morally right. We appealed
to the conscience of our nation
and its legislators."
"There are times in history
when greatness is barely ade
quate," Archbishop O’Boyle
continued. "Men are asked al
most routinely to do what ear
lier might have seemed heroic.
So far as civil rights are con
cerned, we are in such a time.
At long last, our nation has
seen in full clarity the wrong
that it has done our Negro bro
thers. In conscience, we can do
no less than redress this wrong,
fully, completely, and without
equivocation.
"Such was the sense of our
convocation. We tell you this,
Mr. President, since you re
present all Americans. We know
that you agree fully with this
moral and religious view of our
racial crisis. Our prayers and
support will be with you as you
guide our Congress to an early
enactment of a law that pro
tects the God given rights of
man.”
Several times in his re
sponse, President Johnson re-
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ferred to the White House as
"your house,” and he said they
had met in "the first house of
the land,” and were willing to
answer the roll, and to stand up
and be counted for morality and
right.
The President said today "the
problem of racial wrongs and
racial hatreds is the central
moral problem of our re
public."
He said that from the time of
the Jewish prophets "men of
God have taught us that social’
problems are moral problems
on a huge scale," and that dur
ing the 19th century many of
them suffered for demanding
an end to the moral evil of sla
very.
"Today again hostility and
misunderstanding, and even
violence, awaits the man who
attempts to translate the mean
ing of God’s love into the ac
tions and thoughts of this
world," the President contin
ued.
"Today again the hope for
happiness of millions of Ne
gro Americans can be profound
ly affected by your efforts. And
today again religion has one of
those rare historical opportuni
ties to renew its own purpose,
to enhance the dignity of its
heritage.
"Our most immediate need
is to pass the civil rights bill
now before Congress.”
The President noted that 30
states, covering nearly two-
thirds of the nation’s population
already have public accommo
dations statutes and ordinances,
“and business establishments
in these states are still flour
ishing.”
"This bill is going to pass if
it takes all summer—it is go
ing to be signed and enacted in
to law—because morality and
justice demand it," the Presi
dent continued.
"But laws and government
are, at best, coarse instruments
for remolding social institu
tions or illuminating the dark
places of the human heart."
"They can deal only with the
broadest and most obvious
problems: guarding against se
gregation in schools but not
against the thousands of inci
dents of discrimination and ha
tred which give the lie to what
is learned in the schoolroom.
"They can call for the high
est standards of moral con
duct, but those standards are
only tortuously imposed on
community which does not ac
cept them. For laws do not cre
ate moral convictions—these
convictions must come from
within the people themselves.
"It is your job—as men of
God — to reawaken the con
science of our beloved land, the
United States of America.
"It is your job—as prophets
in our time—to direct the im
mense power of religion in
shaping the conduct and thoughts
of men toward their brothers in
a manner consistent with com
passion and love.
"Help us — in this hour — to
see and do what must be done
"Inspire us with renewed
faith.
"Stir our consciences.
"Strengthen our will.
"Inspire and challenge us to
put our principles into action
"For the future of our faith
is at stake.
"We are all brothers," the
President added. "Brothers to
gether, we must build this great
nation into a great family.’
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FIRST COMMUNION—His Excellency, The Most Rev.
Thomas J. McDonough is pictured with the First Com
munion group from St. Mary’s Home, Savannah. Reading
left to right, 1st row: Ann Still, Lucinda Taylor, Carmella
Cardina. 2nd Row: Frances Schuler, Agnes Schuler and
Sandra Bowers. — (Carroll Burke Photo)
VATICAN CITY (NC)—Pope
Paul VI has urged the faithful
to love the Church and the
papacy and cautioned them
against "almost passionately
looking for faults."
In his usual Wednesday
audience (April 29) in St.
Peters’s basilica, the Pope
stressed the comfort which the
presence of so many thousands
of Catholics from all over the
world gave him as head of
the Church. He said their
loyalty "is our joy, our hope
amid many apprehensions,
many needs and many sorrows
which as you may well believe
make our apostolic service so
grave."
Citing the example of St.
Catherine of Siena, whose feast
day was to be celebrated the
following day (April 30), the
Pope noted her love for pope
and Church.
"The Church and the papacy
can and must love one another.
St. Catherine teaches us this,
even if they (the Church and
the papacy) be veiled by
human infirmity. The Test
imony of faithfulness and charity
then will be greater, more in
telligent and more meritorious.
"This is perhaps the lesson,
which many moderns who yet
call themselves Catholics do
not understand well, intent as
they are and almost passion
ately looking for faults in the
Church and in the Roman Curia
(the Pope’s administrative
council), formulating critic
isms which are not always calm
and at times not objective,"
he said.
Blessed
Sacrament
Track Winner
The Blessed Sacrament track
team compiled a score of 73
points to win the first annual
Knights of Columbus Track and
Field Meet held recently in
Savannah.
Members of the team are:
Frank Aliotta, Tommy Fall,
Tommy Abernathy, Therese
Adams, Margaret Mary Carter,
Karen Sanders, Debbie Spring,
A1 Powers, Donald Walsh, Mi
chael Curran, Peter Cusick,
Carol Kenny, Susan Barry,
Paula DiNitto, Donna Pickney,
Barbara Tirone.
Dennis Counihan, Joe Shear-
ouse, Joe Joyce, Steve Bren
nan, Jack Garvin, Pat Harper,
Mike Dillion, Sevina Stevens,
Monica McGoldrick, Kay Ru-
benstein and Celeste Coleman.
The Pope recalled that
Jesus once said: "Blessed is
he who is not scandalized in
me," and the Pope added:
The history of the Church
makes us meditate on these
words..."
He said that "a son of the
Church who has a true under
standing of the Church and who
pays it the tribute of true
charity will find, as Christ
forecast, the source of beat
itude."
Educator Urges
Patience In
Race Problem
ST. LOUIS (NC) — A priest-
educator here counseled that
patience is imperative in the
race relations field by those
seeking "the only solutions that
are really workable — long-
range ones."
Father Paul C. Reinert, S.J.,
president of St. Louis Univer
sity, told the annual awards
dinner (April 28) of the St.
Louis Argus, Negro newspaper,
"If through unreasonable im
patience we hand over leader
ship to the extremists, then it
is inevitable that good peo
ple will be hurt and honest ef
forts will be frustrated."
Advocating adequate com
munication in a complex com
munity, Father Reinert said it is
"tragic that too often a group
operates in a vacuum of isola
tion from other groups in seek
ing solutions to community pro
blems.”
"I am convinced that if the
right persons are willing to sit
down, to talk and to listen to
each other, any social problem
is well on the way of solution,"
Father Reinert said.
Another problem to be solv
ed, he said, is the confusion of
issues when the mistake of
"over-simplification" is made.
He said this results from
seeing every urban social pro
blem as an aspect of the racial
situation." He added: "Solving
the race question will not auto
matically solve the problems
on our city’s economic struc
ture; it will not guarantee a
nacile solution to juvenile
delinquency."
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I realized the fullness of the
joy and peace of death. It was
perhaps because her life had
such a completeness and full
ness to it. Her life in this world
was a job, so why wouldn’t her
entrance into the next be the
same? She had seventeen long
months of invalidness to pre
pare herself and those who loved
her for her leave-taking. We
would mourn her sharp wit,
sense of humor, loyalty, con
cern and love for us. When her
daughter and I speak about this
new life of her mother we use
the only comparison we poor
mortals know. We compare it
with what we knew in this earth
of her mother’s loves. We en
vision her walking with all the
aplomb she did two years ago
when we took her into the posh
Cafe Plaza for her birthday din
ner. Mrs. O’Toole’s love for the
good things of this life remind
ed me of the as sage of Char
les Lamb who wrote; 1 ‘I am in
love with this green earth;the
face of town and country ... I
would set up my tabernacle here
. . . Any alteration of this earth
of mind, in diet or lodging,
puzzles and discomposes me
/ . . a new state of being stag
gers me. Sun and sky and breeze
, . . the greenness of fields and
the delicate juices of meals and
fishes and society and candle
light and fireside conversation,
and innocent vanities and jests
... do these things go cut with
life?" In all due reverence, we
feel that the good Lord made
sure all was in first-class or
der when Mrs. O’Toole arriv
ed. She loved this world and the
good things of it and the good
Lord wanted to be sure she
would appreciate with equal
fervor His world of no ending.
RECENTLY A WRITER ask
ed: "Will part of the joy of
heaven be a memory of the
pleasures of earth?" We know
the answer that in heaven we
possess God who is the Source
of all joy. Thus the good things
of her days in this world—a
cup of afternoon tea, a favorite
television program, talking with
her grandchildren on the tele
phone, weeping over a sad Ir
ish tune—all these are not lost
. . . they are multiplied by a
trillion in the joy she is now
experiencing. She might even
be saying . . . ' ‘And what kept
me so long?" We remember
fondly the things she so dearly
loved about life and which will
forever be associated with her.
She gave so much to all even in
her old age and illness, she had
a smile and a personal word for
all who passed her way. She had
an unusual appeal for the young.
Even the nurses who tended her
readily became attached to her.
We think of her in heaven in hu
man terms, too, as never grow
ing old, the slow step now in
step-dancing pace, the lovely
warm memories of her will nev
er grow cold. She left no dia
monds or furs nor stocks or
sureties but much more. She
leaves a son and a daughter
whose characters tower over
most in this gray-flannel world.
They have been endowed with
their mother’s strong char
acter, indominable spirit and
ability to love this good green
earth. She is with the God who
made all the things she loved—
and who made her in the begin
ning. May the soul of this noble
Irish mother and allmothers
rest in peace. May her memory
ever stay green. May her chil
dren and her children’s children
ever hold her in benediction.
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because Christ has picked her out to be His bride . . . Her
services are priceless because they are not for sale . . . She
asks nothing for herself. She asks only to be trained . . . We
have the names of 137 Sisters in INDIA who are asking to be
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the Saint was first ushered into the presence of the Pope. The
Pope recognized him immediately. He had dreamt that this
simple, holy, man would re-build the Church by flooding the
world with charity . . . Your “stringless gifts” do exactly this
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