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Pope Says Church And Men “Should Meet Each Other”
Church’s “Importance For The Salvation
Of Mankind” Stressed In First Encyclical
Vol. 45, No. 6
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SAVANNAH, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 13, 1964
HEADS SCHOOL—Mary M.
Redmond, specialist in psy
chiatric nursing, has been
named acting dean of the
Catholic University of Am
erica School of Nursing in
Washington, D. C. A native
of Minnesota, Miss Redmond
has received two degrees
from St. Louis University,
which gave her its Alumni
Merit Award last year. She
is an advisor to the Nation
al Institute of Mental Health.
(NC Photos)
Pope Says No Room
For Selfish Capitalism
CASTELGANDOLFO, Italy,
(NC)—Pope Paul VI told a group
of Italian businessmen here that
"there is no longer room in our
times for a 'capitalism' which is
selfish and pursued as an end
in itself."
The Pope spoke (Aug. 4) at an
audience granted to leaders of
the Chamber of Commerce of
Pistoia province.
He said that it is always a no
table service to promote and
develop the economy. "But it
is more honorable and praise
worthy today ... to improve the
sectors experiencing a Crisis
and to aim above all at averting
the painful phenomenon of un
employment," he added.
"Those who speak of capital
ism—as so many do—with the
concepts which defined it in the
last century show they have been
left behind by the reality of
things," the Pope said.
Smiling, he continued: "At
times we wonder whether we,
that is to say the social doc-
DIOCESE
Columbus Church
COLUMBUS — Blessing of the newly renovated Holy Family
Church here will be highlighted by a Solemn Pontifical Mass
at 5:00 p.m. Thursday, August 20th. His Excellency, The Most
Rev. Thomas J. McDonough, Bishop of Savannah, will be cele
brant. The Rev. Arthur Weltzer is pastor.
NATION
Banker Heads Abbey
DUBUQUE, Iowa (NC) — The Rt. Rev. Matthias Kerndt,
O.C.S.O., 50, was blessed solemnly as abbot of the Trappist
New Mellary Monastery near here by Archbishop James J.
Byrne of Dubuque. The (Aug. 10) ceremony in the monastery
church was private with only the Trappist community in at
tendance. Abbot Kerndt, a Navy veteran of World War II and
former banker in his native Lansing, Iowa, succeeds Abbot
Philip O’Connor, O.C.S.O., who retired. The new abbot has
served for some time as interim superior of the monastery
since the retirement of Abbot O’Connor.
Inter-Faith Prayer
BURLINGTON, Vt. (NC) — Bishop Robert F. Joyce of Bur
lington has given Vermont Catholics permission to join in prayers
with Protestants and Jews "at any time outside of their actual
liturgical services." J. Gerald Case, information secretary for
the diocesan ecumenical commission, said if Vermont Catholics
"wish to pray with non-Catholics in public places, or perhaps
to share in some devotional group meeting, there is no objection
save it cannot be sharing in the actual church service of the
non-Catholic."
EUROPE
Bible's Words On Mary
MUNICH, Germany (NC) — If Catholics are to convey their
teaching on Mary to others they should emphasize Scripture
sources, Augustin Cardinal Bea, S.J., writes in a preface to
a new volume of a Marian encyclopedia. Cardinal Bea, presi
dent of the Vatican Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity,
also points out that the Vatican Council’s inclusion of a draft
proposal on Mary as a part of a draft proposal on the Church
is beneficial to the cause of Christian unity. The advantage, he
indicates, is that "without too many words the central position
of the Blessed Virgin can be shown in Christ’s scheme of sal
vation, and at the same time also her entire subordination to
Him as the. only mediator.”
AFRICA
U. S. Catholic Aid
DAR ES SALAAM, Tanganyika (NC) — Nearly 10,000 tons
of food, clothes, medicines and other supplies worth approxi
mately $1.5 million were sent to Tanganyika by Catholic Re
lief Services-National Catholic Welfare Conference between
April, 1962 and June, 1964, it was disclosed by statistics re
leased here.
Vernacular In Congo
LEOPOLDVILLE, The Congo (NC) — Wider use of local
languages in the Mass and in the administration of sacraments
was decided by the bishops of The Congo as first implementa
tions of the ecumenical council's Constitution on the Liturgy,
it was announced here. In any kind of Mass, whether read or
sung, all Bible readings may now be said by the priest directly
in the local language by using texts already approved.
trines of the Church, can give
rise to difficulties. The answer
is easy. If by difficulty we mean
selflessness and a spirit of sac
rifice, there is certainly no
lack of these, because this doc
trine demands reforms in which
consideration of the advantage
for the complete good of man
prevails over economic consid
erations.
"Nevertheless, it must al
ways be borne in mind that the
Church, mother and teacher,
understands supremely well
what is required to proceed with
wisdom and, if necessary, grad
ually. Also its activity even pro
vides valuable collaboration be
cause it always aims at the en
tire social order, respect for
the person, principles of har
mony between individuals and
groups. And its works are also
of real usefulness since, op
erating from these premises,
it provides for the achievement
of the final aim—the economic
and social welfare of the whole
community."
Albany CYO
Group Visits
Saint Jude’s
A group of 37 Albany junior
and senior ALSAC (Aiding Leu
kemia-Stricken American Chil
dren) chapter members, and 5
Pelham members recently
journeyed to Memphis, Ten
nessee, for the primary pur
pose of visiting St. Jude’s Hos
pital.
This $2,000,000 research
hospital, dedicated to finding
the cure for catastrophic dis
eases in children, was con
structed through the efforts of
Danny Thomas and his St. Jude
Hospital Foundation as a "liv
ing shrine" in honor of St. Jude
Thaddeus, patron saint of the
helpless.
Included among those who
traveled to Memphis was a
large number of parishioners
and CYO members of St. Ter
esa’s Parish in Albany.
One of these figures played a
leading role during the trip, and
that was the one of Albany AL-
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“Ecclesiam Suam” Also
Denounces Communism
By James C. O’Neill
(N.C.W.C. News Service)
CASTELGANDOLFO, Italy—The unique role of the Church as
God’s means of saving all mankind and the importance of man’s
recognition of this role formed the core of the first encyclical
of Pope Paul Vi’s reign.
The encyclical, called Ec-
clesiam Suam from the open
ing Latin words of the almost
15,000-word document, was re
leased to the world on Aug. 10
but was dated Aug. 6, the feast
of the Transfiguration of Christ.
Pope Paul summed up the aim
of his first encyclical very early
in the document when he wrote:
"We propose to ourself in this
encyclical the task of showing
more clearly to all men the
Church’s importance for the
salvation of mankind and her
heartfelt desire that the Church
and mankind should meet each
other and should come to know
and love each other."
In addition to a detailed study
of the nature of the Church as
God’s means of saving man
kind, the encyclical also con
tained a denunciation of atheism
that called it "the most serious
problem of our time." More
over, the Pope explicitly renew
ed his predecessors' con
demnation of "ideological
Complete Text
The Southern Cross will
publish the complete text
of the Encyclical Letter
Ecclesiam Suam in install
ment form starting in next
week’s issue.
systems which deny God and
oppress the Church, systems
which are often identified with
economic, social and political
regimes, among which atheis-
Altar Boy’s Wish
Creates Church
THORNTON, Calif. (NC)—
Because 11-year-old Richard
Ramos wanted to be an altar
boy, this farming town in Cal
ifornia’s San Joaquin Valley
will soon have its own mis
sion church.
Richard, the son of Mrs. Ber-
nabe Ramos, couldn’t be an al
tar boy because, like all the oth
er Catholics here, he had to ride
15 miles to the nearest parish
for Mass every Sunday.
Then one day he saw Gov.
Edmund Brown on television and
he had an idea. He wrote and
asked the governor, why can’t
there be Mass in Thornton?
The governor explained in reply
that the establishment of
churches and the arrangement
for Masses rested in the
hands of the bishop.
' So Richard wrote next to
Bishop Hugh A. Donohoe, who
had just been appointed to the
newly created diocese of Stock-
ton. The bishop had someone
look into Thornton’s needs, and
this spring he assigned a priest
to say Mass there on Sundays.
The people of Thornton were
so proud of having a priest once
a week that one of them donated
three acres of land to build
a mission church. An architect
volunteered to draw up plans for
the building.
As for Richard, whether
there’s a church or not, he’s
already Thornton’s first altar
boy.
tic communism is the chief."
The document hailed the ec
umenical movements toward
unity to be found among Chris
tian churches today but made it
clear that the primacy of the
pope cannot be sacrificed.
Noting that many non-Catholic
Christians regarded the pri
macy of the pope as a "stumb
ling-block” and maintain that if
it were abandoned the reunion
of churches would be easier,
Pope Paul declared:
"We beg the separated breth
ren to consider the inconsisten
cy of this position, not only in
that, without the pope, the Ca
tholic Church would no longer
be Catholic, but also because,
without the supreme, effica
cious and decisive pastoral of
fice of Peter, the unity of the
Church of Christ would utterly
collapse.”
The encyclical is divided into
three main parts with a short
introduction.
The first part deals with the
need for the Church to be more
aware of its divine nature and
its role in the salvation of man
kind.
The second part deals with
the need for renewal and re
form within the Church so that
it can continue to carry out its
mission more effectively.
The final part deals with
the relation of the Church to
all mankind and with "the world
in which it exists and labors.”
"The Church has something
to say. The Church has a mes
sage to deliver," the Pope said.
The Pope made it clear that
he did not intend his encyclical
to interfere with the work of
the Second Vatican Council. He
said that the council’s work
"should not be disturbed by this
simple conversational letter of
ours. Rather it is to be com
mended and encouraged."
The Pope also said his letter
was not intended to be a sol
emn and strictly doctrinal doc-
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SIGNS FIRST ENCYCLICAL— Pope Paul VI is seen affixing his signature to the Ency
clical Letter Ecclesiam Suam (His Church), the first such document of his pontificate.
The ceremony took place in the papal summer villa at Castelgandolfo. — (NC Photos)
Req
uiem
For Bishop’s
Brother
Frank A. McDonough,
General Superintendent of
Drexel Corporation, died
Sunday after a long illness in
Philadelphia. He was the
brother of the Most Rever
end Thomas J. McDonough,
Bishop of the Diocese of Sa
vannah, the Right Reverend
Monsignor Martin J. McDon
ough, Reverend William F.
McDonough of Philadelphia
and Mr. James McDonough of
Los Angeles, California.
Funeral services were
held at 10:00 a.m. Wednesday
at St. Dorothy’s Catholic
Church, Drexel Hill, Phila
delphia.
He is survived by his wife
Marie, three sons: Francis,
John and James McDonough,
and a daughter, Miss Mi
chelle McDonough.
Fulfills Promise Of Pope John
Pope Makes Pilgrimage
To Orvieto Cathedral
ORVIETO, Italy (NC) — Pope
Paul VI has fulfilled a promise
made by his predecessor Pope
John XXIII and has come to this
shrine city on pilgrimage.
He came seven centuries
after Pope Urban IV in this
very city decreed that the Feast
of Corpus Christi be observed
throughout the Catholic Church.
He venerated the miraculous
corporal, still stained with
Archbishop Hallinan
Opposes Nomination Of
Catholics As Vote Bait
ATLANTA, Ga. (NC) — Poli
tical parties are "sowing the
seeds of a very dangerous prac
tice" if they nominate Catholics
to get Catholic votes, Archbi
shop Paul J. Hallinan of Atlanta
declared here.
The Archbishop said "the
point was made four years ago.
Many Americans, including
Protestants, voted for Kennedy
as a definite stand against the
exclusion of a Catholic."
But the present feeling of
most Catholics, the Archbishop
added, is that "the issue should
be put to rest now. Most Ca
tholics would resent the as
sumption that they should vote
for a Catholic because they are
Catholics."
Archbishop Hallinan said
while he could not speak for
Catholics as a whole he hoped
that they would in every case
vote for the best man. He said
Standing on the sidewalks of St. Jude’s Hospital with the city of Memphis looming in the
background, Albany and Pelham ALSAC’ers prepare to shower many welcome gifts upon
the children of St. Jude’s. Adults featured in the photo are from left to right on the front
he knew of no priest during
the 1960 presidential campaign
who endorsed from the pulpit
any political candidate or party.
He said while it is a policy of
the Church to abstain from such
endorsement, a distinction
might be made in a political
situation which involved moral
issues.
“The Catholic Church, as
every other moral voice of
America, must speak of such
issues as the concentration of
power, the war against pover
ty, extremism and discrimina
tion," the Archbishop declared,
' ‘not because they are political
issues but because they are
moral issues."
Archbishop Hallinan assert
ed that he resents politics
which degrade religion and get
back to the 17th and 18th cen
tury practices where a man’s
religion was determined by his
kingdom. The Archbishop said
political parties and candidates
will be wasting their time
through attempts to gain Catho
lic votes with religion of the
ticket.
The Archbishop expressed
his views in an interview pub
lished in the Atlanta Constitu
tion, daily newspaper here.
One Man
Retreat House
OXFORD, Mich. (NC) — The
Rev. Arthur Kreinheder, a lone
Evangelical Lutheran monk who
lives the rule of St. Benedict
and conducts a laymen’s retreat
house here, said a new St. Au
gustine Retreat House will be
built here.
The old building was destroy
ed by fire 13 months ago while
the monk was visiting with
priests at nearby St. Benedict’s
monastery.
The Lutheran monk, who is
active in the Catholic -
Evangelical Lutheran ecumeni
cal movement, said the new
$35,000 house will have a cha
pel and quarters for eight re-
treatants who may join his or
der.
with blood that streamed from a
Host broken during a Mass se
ven centuries ago, which
prompted Pope Urban to ex
tend the feast to the entire
Church.
. The corporal, a piece of
linen on which the Host is
placed, is housed in the Orvieto
cathedral. The miraculous
event connected with it happen
ed in the nearby town of Bol-
sean. A priest who doubted the
real presence of Christ in the
form of bread was celebrating
Mass. When he broke the Host
during his Mass it dripped blood
on the corporal. The corporal
was moved from Bolsean to the
cathedral, where it is exhibited
only rarely.
This most modern of Popes,
chose a helicopter to travel
from his summer villa at Cas-
talgandolfo, 15 miles south
east of Rome, to the shrine city,
60 miles northeast of Rome,
a 50-minute journey.
Although the ancient fortress
city of Orvieto had been a place
of refuge for popes fleeing the
turbulence of medieval Rome
and had even been a place of
residence for many, the last
pope to visit it was Pius IX
in 1857.
The Pope’s decision to travel
by helicopter gave him a dip
lomatic means to turning down
a flood of invitations from the
communities along his travel
route. A Vatican official said,
however, that the Pope’s affi
nity for modern things also en
tered into his decision to take
the helicopter.
Orvieto, perched on a rocky
crag, provides a risky landing
place even for a helicopter.
The Pope’s advisors chose to
have him debark from the craft
at the foot of the city’s spec
tacular cliffs and take the steep
road the rest of the way. The
return journey at night was
made completely by road.
Bishop Virginio Dondeo of
Orvieto greeted the Pope on
his arrival near the imposing
cliffs. The Pope then drove to
the town itself by a winding
road clinging to the side of the
cliffs.
Bishop Dondeo is the succes
sor of the bishop to whom Pope
John made his promise to visit
Orvieto. He did not live to ful
fill his promise, but Pope Paul
fulfilled it for him.
A cheering throng crowded
the vast piazza in front of the
cathedral for the pope’s arri
val. The time he chose for the
arrival, about 5 p.m., was re-
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