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PAGE 2—The Southern Cross, May 14, 1964
U. S. Diocesan
Missions Booming
In S. America
NEW YORK (NC) — In La
Paz, Bolivia thousands of In
dians lined the road to greet
their “Bishop” last Septem
ber as he rode seated on an
episcopal throne that was moun
ted on a jeep and draped with
Indian blankets.
Observers said the warmth of
the welcome exceeded any in
their memory. The man on the
jeep was Joseph Cardinal Rit
ter of St. Louis.
This story is recalled in the
June issue of “Jesuit Mis
sions” as a demonstration of the
vigorous and popular support
won by United States diocesan
missions in Latin America.
To date, the article says,
more than 20 U. S. Sees have
“adopted” parishes or areas
in Latin America. About 175
American priests, ordained'
originally to serve within the
confines of their own dio
cese, are serving as missiona
ries among the poor, in the
slums, in urban and rural pa
rishes south of the border.
Many of the United States
dioceses are short of priests
themselves. But as Bishop Wal
ter W. Curtis of Bridgeport,
Conn., explained last year;
“The acceptance of a mission
post by an established diocese
puts into practice our essential
doctrine of the Church as the
Mystical Body of Christ. . .
* ‘Even though we are under
staffed ... in our diocese,
we are so tremendously better
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an
year round
off than many areas that we
must give, even with sacrifice
to ourselves.”
Diocesan missions previous
ly had been started in Ireland,
Spain and France. But these,
the magazine says, do not seem
to have had a direct effect on
the U. S. version. Since 1956
when Cardinal Ritter ‘ ‘adopt
ed” the La Paz mission, the
American missionary effort in
Latin America has been
booming. In many cases, lay
teachers engineers and medical
specialists have been working
with diocesan priests to estab
lish “complete” missions, it
says.
Besides the Archdiocese of
St. Louis, four other Ameri
can dioceses have missions in
Bolivia. These are the Dio
ceses of Kansas City, Mo.,
La Crosse, Wis., Buffalo and
Patterson, N. J. Three priests
staff the Paterson mission at
Caranavi, administering an
area roughly the size of the
whole state of New Jersey.
The Paterson diocese also
has a mission in Peru, along
with the Dioceses of Ogden-
burg, N. Y., Bridgeport, Conn.,
and Jefferson City, Mo. This
last diocese, with nine priests
serving two missions, has
a greater percentage of its
priests in Latin America
than any other American
diocese.
In Guatemala there are mis
sions run by priests from the
Dioceses of Spokane, Wash.,
New Ulm, Minn., Oklahoma
City-Tulsa, Belleville, Ill., and
Helena, Mont.
Chicago priests operate an
experimental parish serving
25,000 persons outside Panama
City. The Diocese of Grand Is
land, Neb., and Newark, N. J.
archdiocese are working in
Honduras where radio schools
and credit unions are helping to
relieve some of the poverty.
Vacationing priests from De-
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Earlier this month thirty-
three ladies of Hunter Air Force
Base were received into the
newly organized Sodality of Our
Lady of Loreto (subtitle) Our
Lady of the Air.
The Sodality was recently
connonically erected by His Ex
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Thomas J. McDonough, D.D.,
J.C.D., Bishop of the Diocese
of Savannah. It is also affiliat
ed with the Mother Sodality,
"Prima Primaria,” in Rome.
Led by the group’s Spiritual
Director, Reverend Arnold F.
Reuter, Catholic Chaplain at
Hunter, each sodalist received
the official sodality manual and
medal and dedicated herself to
Christ’s mother, Mary.
Officers invested during the
ceremony were: Mrs.LelandH.
Anderson, president; Mrs. John
J. Bufford, Vice - president;
Mrs. Michael C. Zinkovitch,
secretary; and Mrs. Surran L.
Ternamian, treasurer.
A breakfast-meeting follow
ed at the Hunter Air Force
Base Officers' Club. As part
of the program, a brief history
on Our Lady of Loreto was
presented by Mrs. Edmund B.
Anderson. Plans were also for
mulated to prepare spiritual
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The sodality meets on the
first Friday of every month
after 9 a.m. Mass in the Base
Chapel. All Catholic women of
Hunter's Chapel are invited.
Free nursery service is avail
able for those attending.
First Holy
Communion
At Hunter
This year at Hunter Field tra
ditional May Crowning cere
monies were held in conjunc
tion with First Holy Communion
exercises.
While the congregation re
newed its consecration to the
Blessed Mother, Miss Carolyn
Zimmerman, a CYO represen
tative, placed the crown upon
Mary. She was assisted by Ken
neth Vallier, a member of the
First Communion class.
The lovely backdrop and flo
ral arrangements that provided
the setting for the coronation
were the work of Mmes. Leland
H. Anderson, Francis M. Cana
van and Surran L. Ternamian.
Hymns were led by the
Sodality and Mrs. George
E. Jackson sang the solo.
The service was concluded
with Benediction by Reverend
Arnold F. Reuter, Catholic
Chaplain at Hunter Air Force
Base.
Statesboro
Catholic
Women’s Club
The Catholic Women’s Club
of St. Matthew’s Parish met
recently at the Parish Center in
Statesboro.
Mrs. Jack Savage appointed
Mrs. "Bud” Henry & Mrs.
George Hunt to the nominating
committee to pick officers for
next year. Mrs. Savage and Fa
ther Guppenberger will also
serve on this committee.
It was announced the club will
hold a church supper on May
27, at the Parish Center.
Mrs. Harry Sack & Mrs.
Albert Roesel attended the Dio
cesan Convention held at
Savannah on April 10th, 11 and
12th. They will give a report
on the convention at the May
meeting.
Reverend John Loftus, the
clubs spiritual advisor, announ
ced that “Summer Camp”'will
be held the first two weeks in
June.
After the business meeting,
Reverend August Guppenberger
showed slides taken of the Con
firmation class in January and
of other parish activities.
Refreshments were served by
Mrs. Joseph Robson and Mrs.
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1st row: Marie Dougherty, Karen Small, Elizabeth Kaehler,
Debbie Donegan. 2nd row: Kenneth Vallier, Nelson Pon-
thier, Robert Cole. 3rd row: Miss Carolyn Zimmerman
and the Rev. Arnold F. Reuter, Catholic Chaplain.
South African
Justice Assessed
CAPE TOWN (NC) — Arch
bishop Owen McCann of Cape
Town asserted here that while
South Africa is making great
strides towards social justice
in many spheres, its treatment
of the Negro worker remains
one of the “sores on the body
politic.”
He said in this connection
that when communists advocate
Christian ideas and demands for
rights, “this does not make
those ideas and demands com
munistic.”
Archbishop McCann was
preaching in St. Mary’s ca
thedral here on the feast of St.
Joseph the Worker (May 1).
He declared:
“In the sphere of housing,
great strides have been made
and full praise must be accord
ed the government and other
bodies responsible. Social and
health services are good, though
they can and no doubt will be
developed and improved yet
more. In the field of education,
much has been done. We must
give credit for these services.
The right of the human person
is being recognized.”
He went on to say, however:
“Yet there are still some
sores on the body politic. One
of these is the African (Negro)
migratory labor system, which
is looked upon as a permanent
feature of the economy of South
Africa. The recently passed
Bantu Laws Amendment Act
treats the Bantu as a labor unit,
not considering his personal
dignity and the rights flowing
from this dignity . . .
* ‘We know it is disastrous to
family life—that it induces in
stability of marriage, mal-edu-
cation of the offspring and de
linquency, and leads to immor
ality.”
Holding that the unskilled
worker as well as the skilled
one has a right to a living and
family wage, the prelate said
that in the Western countries
the wage of the unskilled worker
is three-quarters of that of the
skilled man. “Here the ratio
is one-third at the most,” he
said.
Where injustice is rife, the
Archbishop said, communism
has flourished as a political
creed because it takes ad
vantage of those suffering in
justice. He said that the Church
has condemned communism be
cause it is atheistic and because
it is unjust. In this light he said
also:
“The answer to communism
is the implementation of justice
according to Christian teach
ing .. .
“We must realize that com
munists sometimes espouse
thoroughly Christian ideas and
demands for rights, yet this
does not make those ideas and
demands communistic.
“Those who advocate Christ
ian standards cannot therefore
be labeled communist.”
ST. VINCENT CHORALE of Savannah is pictured as they
presented a concert for parents last Sunday.
Dignitaries At
U. Of Notre Dame
Library Dedication
NOTRE DAME, Ind. (NC) —
With a special message and
apostolic blessing from Pope
Paul VI, the Notre Dame Me
morial Library was dedicated
here in the presence of three
princes of the Church and presi
dents and delegates of 200 col
leges and universities.
Eugene Cardinal Tisserant,
Dean of the College of Cardi
nals, celebrated a Solemn Pon
tifical Mass in the morning and
delivered the papal message
during an afternoon academic
convocation. Both events took
place under sunlit skies in front
of the 13-story library. Form
ing a backdrop for the outdoor
ceremonies was the mammoth
library mural, “Word of Life,”
whose central figure is Christ
the Teacher.
Recalling his 1960 visit to No
tre Dame, Pope Paul said the
new library will “serve as a
valuable instrument in the pur
suit of truth and the defense
and development of faith.”
Catholic professors and stu
dents have the sacred duty “to
follow the Church’s authentic
magisterium in matters of faith
and morals, or in fields inti
mately connected with either of
these,” the Pope said. “Nor
will this prove to be a detri
ment to science or to freedom;
rather will it be a safeguard for
the supreme human and Chris
tian values, and exalt, the pres
tige of the Catholic universi
ties.”
Father Theodore M. Hes-
burgh, C.S.C., Notre Dame
president, conferred honorary
doctor of laws degrees on Car
dinal Tisserant, on Albert Car
dinal Meyer, Archbishop of Chi
cago, who preached at the Mass,
and on 23 others, including four
Catholic college presidents.
They were Father Edward B.
Bunn, S. J., Georgetown Uni
versity; Father Paul Reinert,
S. J., St. Louis University;
Msgr. James Shannon, College
of St. Thomas; and Mother Elea
nor O’Byrne, Manhattanville
College of the Sacred Heart
Joseph Cardinal Ritter,
Archbishop of St. Louis, who
previously received an honora
ry degree from Notre Dame,
blessed the $8 million library
at the close of the convocation.
Other prelates participating in
the dedication events included
Archbishop Paul C. Shulte of
Extremists Fight
Missioners
BEERSHEBA, Israel (NC)—
Banknotes overstamped “Drive
the dirty missionaries from
our land” have again appeared
in Israel.
This time they have shown up
in Beersheba, where the muni
cipal council recently gave per
mission for the building of a
Catholic church, observers be
lieve there may be a pro
test against the council decision
by extremist Orthodox Jews.
In February, similarly
stamped banknotes appeared in
Tel Aviv, Israel's capital. At
that time the weekly, Huo-
lam Hazeh, declared: “Re
ligious extremists are using
all means, lawful and unlawful,
against the missions.” Israeli
law forbids the defacing of bank
notes.
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Indianapolis; Bishop Leo A.
Pursley of Fort Wayne-South
Bend; Bishop George A.
Hammes of Superior, Wis.; and
Bishop John P. Treacy of La
Crosse, Wis.
President Grayson Kirk of
Columbia University, in the ma
jor convocation address, said
that “because the greatest days
of American higher education
still lie ahead, the greatest days
for America are also in the
future.”
He described as “shallow”
those * ‘who see in our contem
porary world only the portents
of despair, decay and doom.”
* ‘Change is not to be feared
but to be grasped and used, for
therein lies the only hope of our
progress,” he said.
Cardinal Meyer in his ser
mon said the university world
should be ‘ ‘an open community,
a common enterprise, in which
men of many fields and special- y
ties search honestly for truth
and confidently share their
views.”
“A uniform outlook is neither
looked for nor desired,” he
said. * ‘Men and their ways are
not the same. But men can dif
fer greatly in opinion and re
sults and be completely united
in their affections and goal.”
Cardinal Meyer urged
American universities to be
open-hearted toward their co
workers in other parts of the
world, lending men, money and
materials.
Chancellor Herman B. Wells
of Indiana University called for
a * ‘new national strategy for
higher education” in the dedi
cation banquet address. “This
will mean,” he said, “adjust
ments in curriculum, teaching
methods, faculty and student
outlook and total institutional
awareness of our new role in
influencing world affairs.”
He said the library, “with its
specialized staff, its collec
tions, and its buildings, is a
crucial ingredient in the new
strategy required of higher edu
cation to perform its proper
service to the nation in a revo
lutionary era.”
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