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NEWMAN CONVENTION FEBRUARY 5-7
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SAVANNAH, GEORGIA. THURSDAY. JANUARY 28. 1965
PRINCES OF CHURCH — Among the twenty-seven prelates newly named Cardi
nals by Pope Paul VI are: Upper row left to right, Archbishop Lawrence Shehan
of Baltimore; Archbishop John Heenan of Westminster, London, England; Arch-*
bishop Maurice Roy of Quebec, Canada. Lower row, left to right, Archbishop Paul
Zoungrana, W.F., of Ouagadougou, Upper Volta; Maronite Rite Patriarch Paul
Meouchi of Antioch; Archbishop Josef Reran of Prague, Czechoslovakia.
SENATE OF BISHOPS?
Speculation Caused By
Cardinals’ Appointment
ROME (NC)—Much specula
tion was stirred up here follow
ing Pope Paul Vi’s expansion of
the College of Cardinals to an
unprecedented 103 members and
his promise to enlarge it still
more at the end of the ecumen
ical council.
Aside from noting the increas
ed internationalization of the
college as a result of the new
« 3intments. speculators’ main
rest centered on whether or
the expansion was the Pope’s
first step toward the establish
ment of a consultative body of
the hierarchy representative of
the entire world.
This so-called “senate of bish
ops” was first mentioned at the
early session of the ecumenical
council. Pope Paul himself,
while always avoiding any such
term as “senate”, has twice de
clared himself to be in sym
pathy with the creation of such
a consultative body.
The Rome daily, Giornale d’-
Italia, suggested that the ecu
menical council had “asked for
an innovation beyond the Sacred
College itself, in which a great
er number of bishops would
take part and which would en
able the ‘senate of the Church’
(as the College of Cardinals is
traditionally described) to be
more effective in regard to the
new needs caused by the Catho
lic expansion of our times.”
Pope Paul himself gave no in
dication as to his intentions in
announcing the creation of 27
new princes of the Church. But
in his speeches closing both the
ecumenical council, Pope Paul
second and third sessions of the
ecumenical council. Pope Paul
expected in the future.
At the close of the second ses
sion of Dec. 4, 1963, the Pontiff
noted that the major workload
in carrying out the decisions of
the council will fall on the al-
ready established Pontifical
Commission for the Reform of
Canon Law. Then he added:
REPORT SA YS NO
Do U.S. Catholic
Schools Divide?
CHICAGO (NO—The National
Opinion Research Center said
here it found an “overwhelming
lack of evidence” to support
the theory that Catholic schools
are divisive.
In a report in the February-
March issue of the Critic maga
zine, three officials of the Uni
versity of Chicago’s center cit
ed a survey they made on the
effects of Catholic education.
Persons who went to Catholic
schools, they said, “were just
as likely to have Protestant
i iends in adulthood, to be in
toned in civic activities, to re-
let civil liberties, to be open-
minded, to be tolerant of others,
and to be, if anything, more up
wardly mobile.”
Reporting on responses to
statements related to public
policy or educational questions,
they said on only two was there
any evidence of a substantial
difference of opinion by prod
ucts of Catholic schools.
•The two items were state
ments that laws should change
with the times and that Catho
lics must support birth control
laws. Catholics with all-Catholic
school education replied more
negatively to the first and move
positively to the second state
ment than did other persons.
Authors of the report are Dr.
Peter Rossi, head of the re
search center: Father Andrew
Greeley, director of the study,
and Leonard J. Pinto, associate
director.
They concluded:
“Even though the measures
used in this study are not as
sophisticated as might be de
sired, the overwhelming lack of
evidence for the ‘divisiveness’
theory at least calls it into se
rious question.
“Indeed, the general similari
ty of Protestants and Catholics
and of the various Catholic sub
groups suggests that the atti
tudes we attempted to measure
are formed by general cultural
forces rather than the kind cf
school attended and that the
divisiveness that exists springs
rather from the influence of re
ligion itself than from religious
education.”
“In this work which will fol
low the council and collabora
tion of the episcopate, required
in a new way by the needs and
organic nature of the Church,
will be very precious to us. Nat
urally it will be a source of joy
to us to choose from among the
bishops of the world and from
the ranks of the religious or
ders, as was done for the prep
aratory commissions of the
council, distinguished and expert
brethren who. along with quali
fied members of the Sacred
College, will bring us their coun
sel and help to translate into
specific and fitting norms the
general decisions of the coun
cil.”
The Pope said that such con
sultation with the bishops will
be of use to the reorganized
Roman curia,
Several Vatican officials were
willing to speculate that the en
largement of the college will
contribute to the formation of
the “council of bishops", parti
cularly in view of the fact that
the new appointments include so
many heads of residential Sees.
While one official said he felt
that a separate organism apart
from the College of Cardinals
would be unwieldly. Several oth
ers said they believed that there
undoubtedly would be two sep
arate entites but with the car
dinals taking part in the con
sultative body, particularly car
dinals who are residential bish
ops.
record membership
Forty-Three Nations
Now Represented In
College Of Cardinals
VATICAN CITY (NC)-When
the new cardinals including Bal
timore’s Archbishop Lawrence J.
Shehan, named by Pope Paul
VI are raised to their new rank
at the consistory of Feb. 22 the
Sacred College will have a rec
ord 103 members from 43 coun
tries.
come from France and one from
Spain, which will be tied for
second place with seven each.
Besides the countries m e n-
tioned, one each of the new car
dinals comes from the U.S.,
Canada, Brazil, Germany, Bel
gium and Ireland.
a U.S. See to enter the College
of Cardinals.
Only American among the 27
new cardinals named by Pope
Paul VI his appointment brings
the number of U.S. cardinals
living at the same time to a
record total of six. The United
States has not been without a
cardinal since 1875.
Of the total of 18 U.S. cardi
nals, 16 were native-born and
two — Cardinal Farley of New
York and Cardinal Glennon of
St. Louis — were natives of
Ireland but became American
citizens.
In addition to these 18 who
occupied U.S. Sees at the time
of their nomination to the car-
dinalate, there were 15 other
prelates who served in the U-
nited States and later were e-
levated to the sacred purple.
Two of these headed American
Sees before their elevation, two
served as priests, seven were
representatives of the Holy See
here and four were staff mem
bers of the apostolic delegation
in Washington.
The American hierarchy was
in existence 86 years before one
of its number, Archbishop John
McCloskey of New York, was
elevated to the cardinalate, in
1875.
Archbishop Shehan is the sec
ond occupant of the premier
See of Baltimore elevated to
the college of cardinals. Ameri
ca’s second cardinal was Arch
bishop James Gibbons of Balti
more, who died in 1921 after
serving 35 years as a cardinal.
He was the first American car
dinal who participated in a pa
pal election, that of Pope St.
Pius X in 1903.
In order of procedures the new
cardinals are:
Patriarch S a i g h, Patriarch
Meouchi, Patriarch Sidarouss,
Archbishop SI i p y j, Archbishop
Jaeger, Archbishop Cooray,
Archbishop Beran, Archbishop
Roy, Archbishop Martin, Arch
bishop McCann, Archbishop Du
val, Archbishop Fl.orit, Arch
bishop Seper, Archbishop Hee
nan, Archbishop Villot, Arch
bishop Zoungrana, Archbishop
Shehan, Archbishop Dante, Arch
bishop Zerba,, Archbishop Rossi,
Archbishop Colombo, Archbish
op Conway, Bishop Herrera,
Msgr. Callori di Vignale, Msgr.
Cardijn, Msgr. Journet and Fa
ther Bevilacqua.
A number of nations will be
represented in the college for
the first time, including Ceylon
and three African states — ■ Up
per Volta, Algeria and the Re
public of South Africa. Switzer
land will have its first cardinal
in modern times.
Other nations not represented
in the present college that will
have a cardinal following the
consistory are England, Yugo
slavia, Czechoslovakia, Ukraine,
Syria, Lebanon and Egypt.
The 27 new cardinals come
from 21 countries, including six
from Italy, which will continue
to have the largest number of
members in the Sacred College
with 32. Two new members
Pope Paul has increased the
number of Eastern-rite cardi
nals from two to six. There are
now cardinals of the Armenian,
Syrian, Maronite, Melkite, Cop
tic and Ukrainian rites.
After Feb. 22 the new College
of Cardinals will have 66 mem
bers from Europe, 13 from La
tin America, nine each from
North America and Asia, five
from Africa and one from Aus
tralia.
Countries that will have more
than two cardinals are the fol
lowing (with the number of
present cardinals in parenthes
es): Italy 32 (26), France 7 (5),
Spain 7 (6), U.S. 6 (5), Germa
ny 4 (3), Brazil 4 (3), Canada 3
(2), Belgium 2 (1), Ireland 2
(1) , Portugal 2 (2), Argentina 2
(2) .
The 32 countries 'that will
have one cardinal each are:
the Netherlands, Austria, Po
land, Hungary, Scotland, Aus
tralia, Uruguay, Mexico, Ecua
dor, Venezuela, Colombia, Peru,
Chile, Tanzania Japan, Formo
sa, India, Philippines, Iraq, Ar
menia, Switzerland, Czechoslo
vakia, Yugoslavia, Ukraine,
England, Upper Volta, Algeria,
South Africa, Ceylon, Syria, Le
banon and Eygpt.
When Archbishop Shehan re
ceives the cardinal’s hat at the
Consistory of Feb. 22, he will
become the 18th incumbent of
NATIONALLY KNOWN SPEAKERS
Southeast Newman Club
Convention In Savannah
More than two hundred col
lege and university students are
expected to attend the 33rd an
nual convention of the Newman
Clubs of the Southeastern Pro
vince of the United States, to
be held in Savannah Feb. 5th
through 7th. Convention site is
the DeSoto Hotel.
More than a dozen schools in
Georgia, North and South Caro
lina and Florida will be repre
sented at the Savannah conven
tion, according to the Rev. Law
rence Lucree, chaplain of the
Newman Club of Armstrong Col
lege and host chaplain for the
convention.
dents and professional people).
Kirchner is presently the rep
resentative of Pax Romana to
the Economic and Social Coun
cil of the United Nations and
Director of International Affairs
of AID (Association for Interna
tional Development).
Affiliated with the National
Newman Club Federation, mem
ber clubs serve the religious,
moral and intellectual needs of
Catholic students in secular and
non-Catholic colleges and uni
versities and seek to promote
responsible' participation of Cath
olics in the academic and civic
community. National enrollment
in Newman Clubs is estimated
at more than 125,000.
E. J. Kirchner
Among nationally known
speakers who will address the
convention are Martin Work,
K.S.G., Executive Director of
the National Council of Catho
lic Men, Washington, D.C. and
lay expert at the second Ecu
menical Vatican Council, and
Edward Kirchner, former presi
dent of the Pax Romana (In
ternational organization of Cath
olic college and university stu-
Martin H. Work
Other prominent speakers in
clude Joe Petty, news analyst
for Savannah’s WSAV radio and
television stations and Dr. James
Gilbert, M.D., practicing p s y-
chiatrist of Columbia, S.C., di
rector of the interne training
program in clinical psychology
at South Carolina State Hospi
tal.
In addition to attending lec
tures and workshops, Newman-
ites will also have an opportuni
ty to compete for cash awards
in an easy contest sponsored
by Savannah Council 631, Knichts
of Columbus.
Subject of the contest is “Why
Every Catholic Student should
be an active member of the
Newman Club”. Deadline for
admission of entries is Feb. 1.
Entries should be sent to Mr.
Dan Baran, P.O. Box 631, Sa
vannah, Ga.
First prize is $75.00, second
prize, $50.00 and third prize,
$25.00.
Registration for the conven
tion will begin at 4:00 P.M., Fri
day, Feb. 5th in the DeSoto Ho
tel lobby.
CURTAIN DESCENDS—The late Sir Winston Churchill on
a postwar visit with Francis Cardinal Spellman of New
York. Sir Winston had come to New York from Westminster
College, Fulton, Mo., where, in a now historic speech, he had
said that “an iron curtain” had descended upon Europe from
the Baltic to the Adriatic, in a plea for international coop
eration to stem communism. (NC Photos)
JOINS IN MOURNING
Vatican Tribute
To Sir Winston
VATICAN CITY (NO - Sir
Winston Churchill was “the per
sonification of his country, even
of the world, in the relentless
battle for liberation from totali
tarianism,” the Pope’s Secreta
ry of State declared here.
Amleto Cardinal Cicognani, in
a special tribute the day after
England’s “grand old man”
died, hailed Churchill’s extra
ordinary vitality and versatili
ty.”
The cardinal’s statement, is
sued after Pope Paul VI had
sent a message of condolence to
Lady Churchill, was published
in the Vatican City daily, L’Os-
servatore Romano (Jan. 25).
The Cardinal said:
“Today Great Britain mourns
the death of her distinguished
son, a gre,at statesman and
leader, Sir Winston Churchill.
We join with the British people
in this hour of sadness.
“Sir Winston lived a long and
full life, and he dedicated it to
the service of his country and
his people. He was a man of ex
traordinary vitality and versa
tility — a soldier and an artist,
a man of letters, a moving ora
tor, an outstanding statesman
of unlimited energy, the leader
of a great power who guided
h i s country, accepting every
risk to gain the ultimate victory
—‘We shall go on to the end,
whatever the cost may be.”
“He became the personifica
tion of his country, and even
the world, in the relentless bat
tle for liberation from totali
tarianism. Who can forget the
sight of parliament, led by Sir
Winston, making its way to
Westminster Abbey at the end
of the war to offer humble and
reverential prayer of thanksgiv
ing to God!
“Announcing victory, Sir. Win
ston said, ‘God bless all of you.
This is your victory, the victory
of the cause of liberty in ev
ery nation.’
“The whole world mourns his
passing today because in him
all recognized fidelity and great
ness. We shall pray for his soul,
and we shall pray that the goals
for which he spent his life
would be achieved — peace
and justice for all men.”
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HEADLINE
HOPSCOTCH Ut
NATION
Lutheran K. of ۥ
PHILADELPHIA (NC) — A Lutheran pastor here has been
made an honorary knight of a local council of the Knights of Co
lumbus. Rev. Martin C. Wisznat, pastor of St. Paul’s Lutheran
church, Olney, Pa., was chosen as the first recipient of the honor
ary knighthood in the Msgr. F. J. Fitzpatrick Council. He was cited
by the council for his efforts on behalf of his own church which has
a membership of 3,000 and for his efforts on behalf of the communi
ty.
VATICAN
Pope's Condolences
VATICAN CITY (NO—Pope Paul VI sent the following telegram
to the widow of Sir Winston Churchill: “We express the sentiments
of our deep condolences on the death of your beloved husband Sir
Winston Churchill, a great statesman and indefatigable champion
of liberty, of independence and peace, and we give to you assur
ance of our prayers that God may comfort you and your family in
your sorrowful bereavement.”
ISSSSS9il Exit "His Excellency"
VIENNA (NC)—The Vienna monthly magazine The Clergyman
has asked for the abolition of the title “Excellency” for bishops
as a first step toward pastoral renewal.