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45, No. 13
SAVANNAH, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1964
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NEWSPAPER DIOCESE OF SAVANNAH
Says Noted Editor
Christian Vocation
Keynote Is Service
Summary of Council Declaration
WASHINGTON (NC)—The will
of Christ and the needs of the
world today call Christians “out
of the cloister” and into a life
of service to the world, a Cath
olic editor said here.
Such a development is in line
with the concept of the Church
as a “servant” to the people of
God, declared Msgr. Francis J.
Lally, editor of the Pilot, news-
paper of the Boston Mass.,
archdiocese.
Pontiff
Writes To
Vietnam
IGON, Vietnam—Pope Paul
VI has expressed his fervent
wishes that the recent “fratrici-
dlal violence” in Vietnam may
be followed by “an earnest and
firm resolution for harmony and
peace.”
He sent this message in a let
ter dated Sept. 4 addressed to
Archbishop Paul Nguyen Van
Binh of Saigon.
“We have stayed closely unit
ed in thought and prayer with
the bishops, priests and people
of Vietnam while following the
distressing news of the events
that have recently disturbed
your country, causing bloodshed
and mourning among its citi
zens,” the Pope wrote.
“Now that calm has appar
ently returned — fop. which we
rejoice with you—our universal
ministry of charity impels us
to express fervent wishes and
an urgent appeal that this fra
tricidal violence may be finally
followed by an earnest and firm
Ihesolution for harmony and
peace, a resolution strong e-
nough to exclude any further
conflict and to ward off any
more grief by uniting the en
tire population in one desire to
restore order and to seek the
peaceful understanding that is
essential for the progress of the
country amid its present severe
trials.”
Msgr. Lally spoke (Sept. 28)
on “The Christian Concept of
Personal Service” at an educa
tors’ session during the 15th an
nual meeting of the U.S. mis
sion-sending societies.
More than 1,000 priests, Reli
gious and laymen active in mis
sion work attended the three-
day conference sponsored by
thje Mission Secretariat, a clear
inghouse of information and
services with headquarters here.
The Boston editor said the
Gospel story of the Good Shep
herd serving his flock in a spirit
of “mercy and compassion”
provides the model of Chrisian
service.
He said the Catholic Church
today is not seeking “power and
influence,” but rather is search
ing for ways by which “the
weak can be made strong and
the suffering comforted.”
Msgr. Lally said the Chris
tian’s initial “call to service”
comes in baptism in which he
becomes a part of the “servant-
Church.” All other sacraments
in the spiritual life, he declar
ed, can be related to the con
cept of service to God and the
world.
Earlier the same day, the
mission secretariat’s annual
Worldmission Award for distin
guished service to the missions
by a layman was bestowed on
Dr. William C. Caccamise, a
Rochester, N.Y., eye surgeon.
Dr. Caccamise, 41, has made
four trips to India since 1951 at
his own expense to give free
eye care to patients at Holy
Family Hospital in Kurji.
On his most recent trip earli
er this year, he treated more
than 4,500 out-patients and 700
in-patients and performed more
than 650 operations during a
three-month stint at the hospi
tal.
A graduate of the University
of Rochester Medical School, Dr.
Caccamise is on the staffs of
St. Mary’s and the Rochester
Medical School Hospitals. He is
married and has five children.
NATION
Religion Upholds Democracy
ST. PAUL, Minn. (NO—Democracy is “unfit for selfish men,”
Msgr. Richard T. Doherty, theology professor at the St. Paul Semi
nary here, told a Red Mass congregation of judges and lawyers.
“When morality has decayed in a people, that people is no longer
capable of self-government; it slowely but surely becomes a police
state,” Msgr. Doherty said (Sept. 27'. He cited quotations from the
Bible and the founding fathers of America to support his theme
that religion and morality is the concern of government.
EUROPE
Augustine’s Font
AFRICA
Catholic Mission Saved
LEOPOLDVILLE, The Congo (NO—The Catholic mission of
Boyange, 30 miles from the diocesan center of Lisala in the north
western part of the Congo, was liberated from the rebels by the
national Congolese army, the Catholic news agency, DIA, reported
here. The five Sisters of the Immaculate Heart, of Mary and the
Congolese parish priest who had been forced by the rebels to re
main in Boyange were brought to Lisala. DIA also reported that
in Bumba, 75 miles from Boyange, still under rebel control, the 24
Franciscan Missionary Sisters of Mary, some Congolese priests, and
the three Immaculate Heart missioners who were all forced by the
’ rebels to remain, are in good health.
Christians, Jews Trace
Faith To Common Roots
VATICAN CITY — The council press office has
issued a summary of the council’s draft declaration on
the Jews.
It is subdivided into three paragraphs: first, on
the common religious patrimony of Christians and
Jews; second on the universal fatherhood of God;
third, on the inadmissibility of any religious or racial
discrimination.
MONTH OF THE ROSARY—October is dedicated to the de
votion which the Blessed Mother revealed to St. Dominic
some seven hundred years ago. Mrs. Mary Cramer, 90, a
resident of Carroll Manor, Hyattsville, Md., is one of count
less thousands in the United States who say the Rosary
daily. (NC Photos)
Cardinal Bea In Athens
In regard to the Jews, t h e
summary said, the Church glad
ly recognizes that the begin
nings of its faith and of its elec
tion are rooted in the patriarchs
and the prophets. The Church
can never forget it is a continua
tion of that people with which
God established the old cove
nant and to which He entrusted
His revelation in the Old Testa
ment.
Nor does the Church forget
that Christ, according to the
flesh, was born of the Hebrew
people, as were His mother and
the Apostles, the foundation and
the columns of the Church, the
summary continued. The Church
recalls St. Paul’s words regard
ing the Hebrews, “who have the
adoption as sons and the glory
and the covenants” (Rom. 9, 4).
Meeting Seen Fostering
Orthodox-Catholic Ties
MILAN (NC)—Archeologists uncovered here a baptismal font
they believe to be the one at which St. Ambrose baptized St. Au
gustine in 387. The six-sided stone fofit is the latest and most im
portant result of three years of archeological excavations. It is set
in what remains of a black and white marble floor dating back to
the 4th century. The present excavations are just in the front erf
the famous Gothic cathedral of Milan. Knowledge of underground
ruins in this spot had been recorded since 1880 when preliminary
excavations were made.
Polish Reds Threaten
BERLIN (NC)—Poland’s communist government has declared 1
that Catholic Church leaders must show greater respect and loyalty
to the state if they hope to achieve an accord between Church and
state similar to the one reached in Hungary. It was reported here
that the official government newspaper Trybuna Ludu published a
hialf-page statement (Sept. 27) accusing the Church leaders of dis
ling laws and regulations and of using medieval means against
lievers.
ROME (NO—The meeting in
Athens between Archbishop
Chrysostomos, of Athens, Pri
mate of the Orthodox Church of
Greece, and Augustin Cardinal
Bea, president of the Vatican
Secretariat for Promoting Chris
tian Unity, was seen by observ
ers here as an important step
in creating closer ties between
the Catholic and Orthodox
Churches.
The two churchmen conferred
in Athens (Sept. 28) during
Cardinal Bea’s mission to re
turn the relic of St. Andrew to
its historic resting place in Pat
ras, Greece. The relic had been
taken to safety in Rome after
the Turks conquered Constan
tinople in 1453.
The 84-year-old Primate, the
guardian of eight million souls
of the Church of Greece, has
thus far been cool toward any
kind of rapprochement with
Rome. As opposed to Orthodox
Patriarch Athenagoras I in Con
stantinople (Istanbul), the Greek
Primate is not represented by
an observer at the ecumenical
council here.
The decision of Pope Paul VI
to return the relic of the Apos
tle Andrew to Patras came in
the wake of his meeting last
January with Patriarch Athena
goras in Jerusalem. The meet
ing created a climate of friend
ship between the two Churches,
separated by schism since 1054.
Although given a place of hon
or above all the Orthodox pa
triarchs. Patriarch Athenagoras
has actual jurisdiction over 65
million believers in Eastern
Europe, the Near East, the
United States, Australia and
New Zealand. The patriarchates
in the Soviet Union, Rumania,
Bulgaria and Yugoslavia include
another 65 million.
Archbishop Chrysostomos said
he would not take part in the
ceremonies at Patras, prefer
ring to have his own ceremo
nies after the papal delegation
left Greece. Despite his coolness
toward Rome, there was hope
here that the Greek prelate's
meeting with Cardnal Bea would
create new feelings of accord.
It was noted that although the
Holy Synod of the Church of
Greece has not taken part in
past pan-Orthodox conferences,
it will send representatives to
the meeting on the island of
Rhodes this November.
Catholic ties with the other
Orthodox Churches have been
closer. For the first time Patri
arch Athenagoras has been of
ficially represented by three
observers at. the ^^"menical
council’s third session here.
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Russian Orthodox observers have
been present at the council since
its first session.
Patriarch Athenagoras is
known to be greatly interested
in paving the way for negotia
tions with Rome. It is now con
sidered likely that a commis
sion will be established at the
Rhodes conference to represent
all the Orthodox Churches in
talks with a similar body which
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Solemn Requiem For
Savannah Renedictine
Father Peter A. Trizzino,
O.S.B., of Savannah’s Sacred
Heart Priory, died last Satur
day at St. Joseph’s Hospital aft
er a long illness. He was 62.
Born in New York, he attend
ed public schools there and was
graduated from Belmont Abbey
High School, Belmont, N.C.
In 1930, Father Peter received
his A.B. degaree from Belmont
Abbey College and entered the
Abbey Seminary, being ordain
ed in 1934.
Since his ordination and until
eight years ago, when he was
felled by illness, he taught at
Benedictine Military School in
Savannah, where he was an in
structor in Religion, Spanish
and Latin.
In addition to his teaching
duties, Father Peter pursued
graduate studies at the Catholic
University of America in Wash
ington, D.C. and the University
of Notre Dame, South Bend,
Ind.
Because of this heritage, it
went on. the council intends to
encourage and recommend mu
tual knowledge between Chris
tians and Jews which will be
deepened through theological re
search and in brotherly dialogue.
It condemns all injustices ever
committed anywhere against hu
man beings, particularly hatred
and persecutions against Jews,
the summary declared.
The summary added that it
should be remembered that the
gathering together of the Heb
rew people with the Church is
part of the Christian hope. Ac
cording to St. Paul (Rom 11,
25), the Church awaits with faith
and desire the approach of this
people into the fullness of the
people of God restored by
Christ.
Therefore, the summary said,
all must take care in teaching,
preaching and conversing not to
present the Hebrews as a re
jected people, and not to say or
do anything that might alienate
people from the Jews. All should
be careful, the summary con
tinued, not to attribute Christ’s
death to the Jews of our time.
The second part of the sum
mary declared that the truth
proclaimed in the Old Testament
that God is the Father of all
men was confirmed by Christ.
If we harbor hostility to other
men, we cannot invoke God as
the Father of all men. Whoever
expects God’s pardon must be
ready to pardon his neighbor,
and whoever does not love his
brother whom he sees cannot
boast of loving God who is in
visible.
ECUMENICAL TOKEN—Precious relic of St. Andrew, from
the treasury of the Vatican, encased in new golden reliquary,
is being returned to custody of the Orthodox Church in the
city of Patras, Greece, as a gesture of friendship suggested
by Pope Paul VI. Representatives of the Ecumenical Patri
arch Athenagoras of Istanbul gathered in the Pauline chapel
with Archbishop Enrico Dante, papal master of ceremonies
(center in white surplice), are: (left to right) Archiman
drite Andrew Scrima and Archimandrite Panteleimon Rodo-
poulos, while at right is Bishop Jan Willebrands, secretary
of the Vatican’s Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity.
(NC Photos)
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St. Andrew A Symbol
Of Christian Unity
by Patrick Riley
(N.C.W.C. News Service)
ROME — The Apostle Andrew
who entered history as the first
of the apostles to heed Christ’s
call has abruptly reentered it
as a symbol of Pope Paul’s
FATHER PETER, O.S.B.
He also served for some years
as assistant pastor at Sacred
Heart Church.
A Solemn Requiem Mass was
celebrated at Sacred Heart
Church on Monday with the
Very Rev. Bede Lightner, O.S.B.,
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In our spirit of love toward
our brothers, it continued, we
wish to consider with great re
spect the opinions and doctrines longing for Christian unity,
which, although differing from
ours in many respects, reflect a Pope Paul has returned the
ray of that light which illumi- precious relic of the head of St.
nates all men. Thus, we seek to Andrew to the Orthodox patri-
have an understanding also of arch in the Greek city of Pat-
the Moslems who adore one per- ras, where Andrew preached
sonal God, who rewards the the Gospel and died on a cross
acts of this life. The Moslems like his master Christ and his
with their Religious sense are blood brother, Peter. The head
had reposed in Rome for more
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Pope Paul Marks
67th Birthday
VATICAN CITY (NC)—Pope
Paul VI celebrated his 67th
birthday (Sept. 26 > without fan
fare or official ceremony.
The Vatican City daily, L’Os-
MASS IN ENGLISH—The Reverend Lawrence Lucree, assistant at the Cathedral
of St. John the Baptist, demonstrates Mass using the vernacular, facing the con
gregation at Liturgical Clinic for Sisters and Lay Teachers of Diocese he-d at
Blessed Sacrament School, Savannah, last Saturday. ( ■■ and Studios)
servatore Romano, pointed out
in a front page editorial that
the birthday was being celebrat
ed on the Pope’s part by acts
of ecumenism filled with chari
ty. The reference was to the de
parture that day of a delegation
returning the relic of St. An
drew to Patras, Greece.
With this “auspicious sign of
unity for the Christian world,”
the newspaper said, “. . . is
the policy of the pontificate of
Pope Paul confirmed, as it
emerged from the continuation
of the council, from the pil
grimage to the Holy Land, and
from many other undertakings
fostering dialogue with . the
world.”
Italy’s deputy head of state,
Leone’ Merzagora—acting on be
half of ailing President Antonio
Segni—sent Pope Paul a mes
sage “in the name of all Itali
ans” expressing good wishes for
personal prosperity and “the
hope that from the apostolic
work of Your Holiness may
spring ever-greater harvests of
spiritual elevation and of peace
among men of good will.”
Italian Premier Aldo M o r o
also sent greetings through the
Papal Secretary of State, Ain-
leto Cardinal Cicognani, in the
name of the Italian government.
The Pope’s gesture means a
real sacrifice for Catholics, as
Ernesto Cardinal Ruffini of Pal
ermo, Italy has admitted. But
Cardinal Ruffini hastened to
add that the hopes of reunion it
holds out “comfort us and make
us happy.”
When Pope Paul announced
his gift last June, Orthodox Pa
triarch Constantine of Patras
exclaimed “God be praised!”
Greek newspapers which had
been hostile toward the Holy
See were generous in their
thanks to the Holy See for its
magnanimity. The only discor
dant note was sounded by Or
thodox Patriarch Chrysostomos
of Athens who described the ges
ture as a “trap, cunningly held
out.”
When the relic arrived in
Rome after the fall of the By
zantine Empire, Pope Pius II
greeted it as a refugee that
would one day return to its own
soil. Pope Paul has kept that
promise. (
Just what happened to St. An
drew after he began. his mis
sionary journeys and after his
death is a tangled story that
historians still have ' not suc
ceeded in unravelling. ,But it is
believed he brought the Gospel
to Asia Minor, the Crimea, oth
er southern parts of modern
Russia, Thrace and Achaea in
the northern Peloponnesus. He
was crucified in the» Achaean
city of Patras, about 400 miles
west of Athens.
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The cross on wdiich, he died,
according to a rather late tra-
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PRAY FOR OUR
DECEASED
PRIESTS
REV. JOSEPH F. COLBERT
October 1903 ,
()/i 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
Out Lord, Amen.
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