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SAVANNAH, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JULY 2, 1964
MOVIE - MAKING NUNS — Mother Emerentia, O.S.F., (left), St. Mary of the Eternal
School, Philadelphia, and Sister Mary Caroline, O.S.Fi, who teaches the 5th and 6th
grades of St. Michael’s School, Savannah Beach, are pictured just prior to leaving
the U. S. aboard the Japan Air Lines Jet Courier "Yoshino” for a three-month trip to
Australia and New Guinea. They plan to make a 16mm color film on their order’s ten
missions in these countries. The film will be used for vocational studies within their
schools in the U.S. While in Australia, Sister Mary Caroline will visit her sister, Sister
Mary Leocadia, O.S. F., whom she has not seen in nine years. The nuns will also visit
Egypt, Rome and Ireland before their return.—(Japan Air Lines Photo).
American Married Man
Ordained To Priesthood
At Anniversary Mass For Pope Paul
AU Men Of Good Will Urged
To Enter Into Council Spirit
POPE’S ANNIVERSARY MASS — Commemorating the first anniversary of Pope Paul
Vi’s coronation, Archbishop Egidio Vagnozzi, Apostolic Delegate to the United States
celebrated a Pontifical Mass in St. Matthew's Cathedral, in Washington, June 28. He is
shown leading the procession to the altar. The Speaker of the House of Representatives,
John McCormack and Mrs. McCormack, are shown in the first pew. Other congressmen,
diplomats and high government officials were among the capacity throng that filled the
church. — (NC Photos)
Pope Paul Consecrates
Bishops In St. Peter’s
By Father Placid Jordan,
O.S.B.
(N.C.W.C. News Service)
MAINZ, Germany — Ernest
Adam Beck, a married man who
is a former Lutheran minister
from Detroit, was ordained a
Catholic priest-in the seminary
chapel here (June 26).
Father Beck’s son Michael,
13, attended the conferring of
the sacrament by Bishop Her
mann Volk of Mainz. Father
Beck celebrated his first Mass
in the seminary chapel the fol
lowing day.
The first American in the
history of the Latin Rite Church
to be granted the privilege of
the priesthood and yet remain
in the married state, Father
Beck was to rejoin his wife in
Oklahoma City shortly. Mrs.
Beck, the former Dorothy Marie
Gollin of Teaneck, N. J., has
been living (at 1107 Lombardy
Road) in the Oklahoma capital
with their nine-year-old daugh
ter, Monica.
Father Beck is to wind up his
affairs in the U. S. before
bringing his family here when
he is assigned to priestly duties
in the Mainz diocese.
Present for the laying on of
ON HIS FIRST ANNIVER
SARY—Pop e Paul VI is car
ried on the gestatorial chair
in St. Peter’s Basilica on the
first anniversary of his elec
tion. He offered an early-mor
ning Mass (June 21) there for
a large group of pilgrims
from Milan, his former arch
diocese. Pilgrims from Wash
ington and New York and from
France and Spain were also
present. He urged them all to
pray for his "great mission’’
of searching for world peace.
—(NC Photos)
hands which made Father Beck
a priest, and for his first Mass
the next day, were two men
who had been instrumental in
paving the way to the priesthood
for the 39-year-old American:
Msgr. Martin B. Hellriegel of
St. Louis, and Msgr. Gerhard
Fittkau, a member of the faculty
of the diocesan seminary in
Essen.
Auxiliary Bishop Joseph
Reuss of Mainz and the whole
student body of the Mainz semi
nary also attended both rites.
Bishop Volk had originally
scheduled the ordination for
July 26. But he advanced the
Defends
Interest
In Council
(Related Story Page 3)
NEW YORK (NC) — The
president of the American Jew
ish Committee, Morris B.
Abram, has defended his or
ganization against charges by
Orthodox rabbis that it should
stay out of Catholic theological
discussions.
In particular, said Abram
(June 24), the AJC feels it has
a "primary objective’’ to per
suade Christian bodies to
change their teaching of Jews
as being "Christ killers." He
said the committee was willing
to work with officials of the
Vatican Council to achieve this
end.
Two days earlier, officers of
the (Orthodox) Rabbinical Coun
cil of America, meeting in
Fallsburgh, N. Y., derided Jew
ish laymen for involving them
selves in what were described
as purely Christian concerns.
Their criticism clearly pointed
to officials of the American
Jewish Commi ttee, a human re
lations group, who have met
with Augustin Cardinal Bea,
head of the Vatican Secretariat
for Christian Unity, and with
Pope Paul VI.
Abram said the AJC has not
entered into areas of Christian
theology, but has concerned
itself rather with the need for
good intergroup relations. He
said AJC studies, in the field
of Christian-Jewish relations
has had the support of Ortho
dox, Conservative and Reform
rabbis.
At the same time, Abram
denied that the AJC is a pure
ly "secular” organization. He
said Jews have never made dis
tinctions between "clerical"
and "lay" persons, but have re
garded all Jews as members of
the "kingdom of priests."
date without public notice so as
to forestall a mass inroad of
reporters. The intensive cover
age by the general press of the
April announcement that Pope
Paul VI had granted a dispen
sation to allow Beck to receive
Holy Orders indicated that the
ordination Mass itself might be
crowded by milling reporters.
Father Beck is the second
youngest of the six children
of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest John
Beck, who are both Lutherans.
The father was formerly with
the Burroughs Adding Machine
Co. in Detroit, and the children
all attended Lutheran parochial
schools in Detroit.
Father Beck attended Con
cordia College in Fort Wayne,
Ind., for three years and then
went for four years of study at
Concordia Seminary, Lutheran
Church-Missouri Synod divinity
school in St. Louis.
While still a seminarian,
Beck served for a time as vicar
of Grace Lutheran Church in
Teaneck, N. J, It was there that
he met his wife.
Ordained a minister in 1948,
he was appointed pastor of
Christ Lutheran Church in
Tulia, Tex. Pastor Beck and
Dorothy Gollin were married in
Tulia the following year. In 1950
they moved to North Bergen,
N. J., where he became pastor
of Holy Trinity Lutheran
Church.
During his seminary days,
Pastor Beck had met Msgr.
Martin Hellriegel, pastor of
Holy Cross parish in St. Louis
and a veteran leader of the Ca
tholic liturgical movement.
Through Msgr. Hellriegel he
became acquainted with various
aspects of Catholic life and
belief.
As a minister, Beck made
further studies of Catholic wor
ship and teaching, and eventual
ly decided he must give up his
ministry and enter the Catholic
Church. He and Mrs. Beck made
their profession of Faith before
Msgr. Hellriegel at the Easter
Vigil service of April 17, 1954.
Their son Michael was received
into the Catholic Church on Eas
ter Sunday. Monica, the daugh
ter, is a cradle Catholic.
Beck worked for two and a half
years with Catholic Relief Serv-
ices-National Catholic Welfare
Conference in St. Louis. Then in
1956 he was admitted as a pri
vate student at the Mainz semi
nary. It was in Mainz, under the
late Bishop Albert Stohr, that
the first married former
Lutheran minister, Rudolf
Goethe, was ordained a Latin
Rite priest.
WASHINGTON (NC) — All
men of good will, "regardless
of religious affiliation, were
urged here to “enter prayer
fully into the spirit" of Vati
can Council II.
Archbishop Patrick O’Boyle
of Washington told those attend
ing an anniversary Mass for
Pope Paul VI (June 28) that
“all of us can help in a thou
sand ways and in a spirit of
mutual contrition to breakdown
the tragic barriers of mis
understanding between re
ligious groups, and can begin to
sow the seeds of religious un
ity, looking forward hopefully
and prayerfully to that blessed
day when, in God’s good time,
there will be but one fold and
one shepherd.” .
So You Don’t
Have Any
Spare Time?
HAWTHORNE, N.J., (NC) —
Folks who claim they’re too
busy to engage in parish and
apostolic work should meet
Mr. and Mrs. WilliamMartone.
Martone and his wife have
nine children —they’re expect
ing the tenth. He's a member
of the Hawthorne Volunteer
Fire Company, Holy Name So
ciety, Knights of Columbus and
helps supervise CYO and Boy
Scout programs at St. Anthony's
parish here.
Mrs. Martone is active in
the Mothers Club, Rosary So
ciety, sings in the parish choir,
assists with the Cub Scouts and
Girls Scouts, serves as a CYO
adult advisor and has found
time for judo, dancing and pys-
chology courses.
Now they’ve taken on a new
task — founders and organizers
of the "Father Jim Club." The
club is designed to help Father
James Jannucci, formerly at St.
Anthony's but now in lea, Peru
at a mission maintained by the
Paterson diocese.
Mainly the club collects and
forwards money and religious
articles. The first religious
articles were 100 icons which
Father Jannucci took when he
left. They were made by Mr.
and Mrs. Martone.
WASHINGTON (NC) — The
child-centered society and fam
ily are today' ‘under unrelenting
and heavy attack in a contracep
tive civilization," Bishop John
J. Wright of Pittsburgh said
here.
Bishop Wright said the dif
ference between the Catholic
and the contraceptionist on the
issue of marriage and the fam
ily is "positive, ultimate, all
but total."
"It is a difference in ends.
It is a difference in the kind of
civilization that is indicated and
sought. It is the difference be
tween yes and no . . . The con
traceptionist s say ‘no’ to life;
the Christian says ‘yes’—and
therein lies all the difference,"
he declared.
Bishop Wright delivered the
keynote address (June 25) to the
20th national convention spon
sored by the Family Life Bur
eau of the National Catholic
Welfare Conference. Some 500
priests, Religious and laymen
active in family life work at
tended the meeting, whose
theme was "The Child:His Glo
ry and His Rights."
Bishop Wright told the con
vention that the concept of the
child-centered society and fam
ily originated with Christianity.
He said it can be * ‘pinpointed
when Jesus placed a child in the
midst of His Apostles and dis
ciples and said to those listen
ing to Him, ‘Whatsoever you do
these the least of My brethren,
you do unto Me.’ ”
The "attack” on the child’s
unique position, he said, today
takes "many different forms,
some subtle, some gross, some
direct, some oblique, some
highly specialized, some mere
ly as part of a general attack on
Christian values or a general
offensive for one or another pa
gan social philosophy, eugenic,
hedonist, materialistic, state
absolutism." He said the attack
appears in many popular media,
"most of these breathing . . .
The Mass, offered in St. Mat
thew’s cathedral by Archbishop
Egidio Vagnozzi, Apostolic De
legate in the United States,
marked the first anniversary of
Pope Paul’s coronation. It was
attended by members of the
government and of the diplo
matic corps.
Archbishop O’Boyle, in his
sermon, praised the Pope for
his achievements in changing
the image of papal primacy,
for making it clear that the
Church has no political ambi
tions and for giving direction
to the Vatican Council.
He said Pope Paul, follow
ing the lead of Pope John XXIII,
"has done much to correct,
if not eliminate completely,
some of the more grotesque
misconceptions, which, unhap
pily, have developed over the
centuries with regard to the es
sential meaning of papal pri
macy." The papacy has been
shown to be a "personification
of love."
Regarding the role of the
Church, Archbishop O’Boyle
said: "Pope Paul VI has gone
out of his way, both before and
since his accession to the pa
pacy, to make it abundantly
clear that the Church has no
desire for temporal influence
or prestige and no desire for
material advantage."
The Pope today, he continued,
addresses himself "to thefaith-
ful of the entire world, and in
deed to all men of good will,
regardless of their religious af
filiation.
"He calls upon all of us to
help the council achieve what
he regards as its four major
purposes: the self knowledge
or self awareness of the Church;
the reform of the Church;
Christian unity; the dialogue of
the Church with the modern
world."
The Archbishop said that all
persons, regardless of their
state in life or religious af
filiation, "can help to create
the new world order envisioned
by Pope Paul — a new order
in which . . . man may be free
to recognize each other as bro
thers."
We can do this by helping
the poor and the suffering and,
as Americans, by advancing
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the faint, sick, chill of the con
traceptive mentality."
Bishop Wright declared that
the family finds it’s "ultimate
reason for being in its respon
sibility to the child."
"I am aware of those who are
seeking to rewrite the concepts
of marriage so as to state its
VATICAN CITY (NC) — Pope
Paul VI himself consecrated
five bishops, including Bishop
Jan Willebrands of the Secre
tariat for Promoting Christian
Unity, in the presence of Ca
tholic leaders, well-wishers
from other Churches, and mem
bers of the diplomatic corps
at the Holy See.
He reminded them that ser
vice is “the very purpose" of
bishops, and that their glory is
the reflected light of God.
Along with the secretary of
the Christian unity body, the
Pope consecrated (June 28) a
papal diplomat, a Vatican Lat
inist, a man charged with the
task of preserving sacred art
in Italy, and a Scripture scho
lar entrusted with the revision
of the Latin Vulgate Bible.
They are: Archbishop Angelo
Palmas, newly appointed apos
tolic delegate for Vietnam and
Cambodia; Bishop Ernesto Ca-
magni, the Papal Secretariat of
State’s chancellor of apostolic
briefs; Bishop Giovanni Fallani,
president of the Central Ponti
fical Commission for Sacred
Art in Italy, and Bishop Pierre
Salmon, O.S.B., abbot of Rome’s
Abbey of St. Jerome for the
Revision and Emendation of
the Vulgate.
The Willebrands family char
tered a plane to come from the
Netherlands for the consecra
tion. Among the 30 passengers
were Bishop Willebrands’ 80-
year-old father, and sisters,
brothers, cousins, nieces, nep
hews and various in-laws.
About 200 guests milled
around the Foyer Unitas, a
Rome center promoting Chris
tian unity, at a reception for
Bishop Willebrands. Most
of the guests were members of
Rome’s Dutch colony, but there
were also two Orthodox laymen
PRAY FOR OUR
DECEASED
PRIESTS
REV JOSEPH R. SMITH
July 8, 1952
Oh God, Who didst give to
thy servants by their sacerdotal
office, a share in the priest
hood of the Apostles, grant, we
implore, that they may also
be one of their company for
ever in heaven. Through Christ
Our Lord, Amen.
from Lebanon, a monk from
the Protestant monastic com
munity in Taize, France, and
other non-Catholic friends.
St. Peter’s basilica was
the setting for the consecration
Mass. Co-consecrators with the
Pope were Archbishops Diego
Venini, the papal almoner, and
Ettore Cunial, vicegerent of
the Vicariate of Rome.
Pope Paul, after reminding
the newly consecrated bishops
that service is the essential
purpose of their consecration
and that a bishop should not
seek honor more than respon
sibility, proceeded to explain
what a bishop is.
"The fact remains," he said,
"that the bishop—even before
being a minister of worship,
pastor of the faithful, teacher
of the community—is a man
called and raised from among
other men, an elect, a chosen
one.
"The great majority of mod-'
ern theologians assure us, and
perhaps before long the vioce
of the ecumenical council will
confirm it, that according to
the widest and most ancient
tradition, episcopal ordination
has sacramental value . . .
"The rite we have just com
pleted is not, however, solemn
ly celebrated, a simple trans
mission of liturgical, didactic
and juridical powers. It is a
perfection conferred on the
soul of each man consecrated,
who before being a sanctifier of
others is himself sanctified.
"Indeed, we know that the
work of the Holy Spirit, in the
sacrament of Orders, does not
consist soley of conferring
grace on the one who receives
it, but also in impressing a
character which assimilates the
soul of the one who has been
consecrated to the priesthood
of Christ, at the highest degree,
in the true fullness for those
of the sacred order who are
raised to episcopal rank."
Archbishop Scores
Movie Ruling
CLEVELAND (NC)--Arch
bishop Edward F. Hoban, bish
op of Cleveland, has criticized
the U. S. Supreme Court’s lat
est ruling on obscenity and
said it makes "even more dif
ficult the task of protecting the
morals of the young."
The Supreme Court on June
22 reversed a ruling by the
Ohio Supreme Court which up
held the conviction and fining of
a Cleveland Theater manager
for showing a French movie
called "The Lovers."
Although six of the high
court’s nine justices favored
reversal, they disagreed sharp
ly on their reasons for doing
so and were unable to produce
a majority opinion on the case.
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THE 188th BIRTHDAY of San Francisco, California, was celebrated with a Mass and
civic ceremonies, June 27-29. The historic Mission San Francisco de Asis (Mission
Dolores) was the setting for the Mass offered by the pastor, Auxiliary Bishop Merlin J.
Guilfoyle. He is pictured showing some original baptismal records, dated 1776, to Pre
sidio Commander Col. Robert W. Clirehugh. Both the Mission and the Presidio joined
in the cermonies which commemorated the arrival of the first permanent colonists at
the site of Mission Dolores, led by Lieut. Jose Joaquin Moraga and Padre Francisco
Palou. — (NC Photos)
U.S. Bishop Says
‘‘Contraceptive
Civilization”
Threat To Child