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Vol. 45, No. 84
SAVANNAH, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, MARCH 4, 1965
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NOMINATING BISHOPS
America’s New
Cardinal Named
To Curia Group
VATICAN CITY (NC) — Pope
Paul VI named Lawrence Car
dinal Shehan of Baltimore a
member of the Consistorial Con
gregation, the Roman curia body
which provides for the erection
of new dioceses and the nomi
nation of bishops.
The Pope also confirmed him
• a cardinal member of the
etariat for Promoting Chris-
Unity, to which he had be
longed since the fall of 1963. He
is chairman of the U.S. bishops’
Commission for Ecumenical Af
fairs.
The list of the appointments
of the 27 new cardinals was re
leased by the Vatican press of
fice within hours after the Feb.
25 public consistory at which
they received the insignia of
their new office.
John Cardinal Heenan of West
minster, head of the English
Catholic hierarchy, was also
named to the Consistorial Con
gregation and to the unity secre
tariat, of which he has been
serving as vice president.
The Consistorial Congregation,
which is headed by the Pope
himself as prefect, now has 28
ca r d i n a 1 members, including
three other Americans — Fran
cis Cardinal Spellman of New
York, James Francis Cardinal
McIntyre of Los Angeles, and
Joseph Cardinal Ritter of St.
Louis.
The three Eastern patriarchs
who became cardinals — Mel-
kite-rite Patriarch Maximos IV
Saigh of Antioch; Maronite-rite
Patriarch Paul Pierre Meouchi
erf Antioch, and Coptic-rite Patri-
arch Stephanos I Sidarouss of
Alexandria — were all confirm
ed as cardinal members of the
Congregation for the Oriental
Church, as was Josyf Cardinal
Slipyi, Ukrainian-rite Archbishop
of Lvor, who has been living in
Rome since his release from de
tention in the Soviet Union two
years ago. All four had been
named to the Congregation for
• Oriental Church in 1963, be
ing the first non - cardinal
members of that body.
Pope Paul also named the
four new Eastern-rite cardinals
members of the Pontifical Com
mission for Editing the Eastern
Code of Canon Law.
The only other nomination to
a body other than one of the
Roman congregations was that
of Cesare Cardinal Zerba, for
mer secretary of the Congrega
tion of the Sacraments, who was
appointed to the Tribunal of the
Apostolic Signature, Church high
court.
Other nominations to the Vati
can congregations were:
Congregation for the Oriental
Church — Thomas Cardinal Co-
oray, O.M.I., of Colombo, Cey
lon.
Congregation of the Sacra
ments — Josef Cardinal Beran
of Prague; Joseph Cardinal Mar
tin of Rouen, France; Leon Car
dinal Duval of Algiers; Franjo
Cardinal Seper of Zagreb, Yugo
slavia; Cardinal Zerba; Giovan
ni Cardinal Colombo of Milan:
and Angel Cardinal Herrera of
Malaga, Spain.
Congregation of Rites — Car
dinal Martin; Cardinal McCann;
Ermenegildo Cardinal Florit of
Florence; Jean Cardinal Villot
of Lyons, France; Enrico Car
dinal Dante, former secretary of
the rites congregation; and Car
dinal Bevilacqua.
Congregation of the Council—
Lorenz Cardinal Jaeger of Pad-
erborn, Germany; Cardinal Be
ran; Maurice Cardinal Roy of
Quebec; Cardinal Seper; Agnelo
Cardinal Rossi of Sao Paulo,
Brazil; William Cardinal Con
way of Armagh, Ireland; Fede
rico Cardinal Callori di Vignale
of the Roman Curia; and Jo
seph Cardinal Cardijn, chaplain
general of the international
Young Christian Workers move
ment.
Congregation of Religious —
Paul Cardinal Zoungrana, W.F.,
of Ouagadougou, Upper Volta;
Cardinal Rossi; Cardinal Herre
ra; Cardinal Callori.
25 YEARS A PRIEST
Father Brennan
To Mark Jubilee
The Reverend Robert Bren
nan, pastor of Sacred Heart
Church, Warner Robins, will
celebrate the 25th anniversary
of his ordination to the Sacred
Priesthood on Sunday, March
7th.
Father will be celebrant of a
Mass of Thanksgiving at Sacred
Heart Church at 5:30 P.M. A
reception in his honor will be
held from 4 until 5:30 P.M. in
the Church Social Hall.
His Excellency the Most Rev
erend Thomas J. McDonough
will preside at the Mass honor
ing Father Brennan.
A native of Savannah, Father
i^the son of the late Mr. and
James F. Brennan 1 . He was
oroained at the North American
College in Rome in March, 1940
by the late Most Reverend
Ralph H. Hayes, then rector of
the College, in the Chapel of
Our Lady of Humility.
He celebrated his first Mass
at the tomb of St. Peter the
Apostle, in St. Peter’s Basilica,
and was granted an audience by
His Holiness Pope Pius XII. His
first Solemn High Mass was of
fered at the Cathedral of St.
John the Baptist in Savannah.
Prior to his assignment to
' Warner Robins, Father served
as assistant at the Cathedral of
St. John the Baptist, Savannah;
Immaculate Conception in At
lanta; St. Joseph in Athens. He
was pastor at St. Peter’s in La-
Grange; St. Joseph’s, Athens
and Immaculate Cone e p t i o n
Church, Dublin.
Since his appointment as pas
tor at Sacred Heart, Father
Brennan has supervised the con
struction of a school addition in
1960 and construction of a new
church in 1962.
BROTHERS—Pope Paul VI concelebrated Mass (Feb. 25) at Consistory with 26 new Cardinals whom he invested with
symbols cf their office. One of the new Cardinals, Angel Cardinal Herrara y Oria of Malaga, received the symbols, ac
cording to ancient practice, frem the head of the Spanish state, Generalissimo Francisco Franco. (NC Photos)
PACEM IN TERRIS MEETING
International Speakers Rule Out
Any Obituary For United Nations
Rev. Robert Brennan
NEW YORK (NC)—As the un
happy 19th session of the Unit
ed Nations General Assembly
adjourned, a common refrain a-
mong commentators and news
casters was the possible or im
minent demise of the UN.
But a succession of speakers
at the international Pacem in
Terris convocation here (Feb.
17-20) definitely ruled out the
writing of its obituary.
From the message of Pope
Paul VI and the keynote of U.S.
Vice President Hubert Hum
phrey to the final formal ad
dress of UN Secretary General
U Thant, the United Nations or
ganization was the subject of
criticism and recommendation,
but also of hope and belief in
the possibility of strengthening
it as an instrument to achieve
a rule of law and keep the
peace.
The convocation, sponsored by
the Center for the Study of Dem
ocratic Institutions, brought to-
g e t h e r prominent statesmen,
scientists and thinkers of vari
ous religious and ideological per
suasions to consider the practi
cal applications of Pope John’s
encyclical.
“Particularly during the pres
ent grave international crisis,”
said Pope Paul in his special
message, “it is necessary to in
voke higher principles of the
moral order and to recall the
collective responsibility of all
nations for the preservation of
friendly relationships and the
avoidance of armed conflict,
which in our day would have
incalculable and frightful results
for all mankind.
“Increasingly more important,
then, is the irreplaceable mis
sion of the United Nations in
promoting mediation of disputes
and restoration of peace, and
we pray in the words of our
venerated predecessor, Pope
John XXIII, in his encyclical
Pacem in Terris that soon “ev
ery human being may find in
this organization an effective
safeguard of his personal rights,’
and we add, every nation a
forum in which right and reason
may replace force and might as
principles of justice and peace.”
The message of Pacem in Ter
ris is “clear and loud”, UN Gen
eral Assembly president Alex
Quaison-Sackey, from Ghana,
told the opening session, which
was held in the General Assem
bly hall.
“Pope John showed us the
way and it is up to us, the hum
ble servants of anguished hu
manity, to find the ways and
means to proceed even further.”
Noting that the UN is “pass
ing through a stormy crisis re
garding its constitutional struc
ture which threatens its future,”
Quaison-Sackey said:
“We are working ceaselessly
to solve it . . . The United Na
tions reflects the hopes and real
ities, the needs and aspirations,
of the modern world. What start
ed as an ideal has become so
concrete a part of our interna
tional relations that the mere
idea of living in a society with
out the United Nations is incon
ceivable to me . . .
“Perhaps what we need in
this moment of uncertainty is a
powerful reminder of the testa
ment left to posterity by a man
of greatness and saintliness. Per
haps the lofty inspiration of the
good Pope John XXIII will make
us realize the value of true, un
divided cooperation to make this
• world a better place for all.”
Lord Caradon, British Minis
ter of State who headed the
British delegation to the UN
General Assembly, was particu
larly critical of those sectors of
the world press which spoke of
the “defeat and death” of the
United Nations instead of rally-
inb to its support. He said it
was encouraging and significant
that by a vote of 97 to 2 the
General Assembly had decided
to set aside all other work and
concentrate on settling the dis
pute over its peacekeeping func
tions. He said he believes a
stronger UN will emerge from
the crisis.
The importance of public .op
inion was also stressed by UN
Secretary General U Thant.
“Governments, however well
and sincerely they may cooper
ate in the United Nations, can
not by themselves face the great
and shifting problems of our
age in isolation,’’ he said. “The
peoples they represent must give
life and reality to the aims and
ideals of the Charter, toward
which we strive . . . The revo
lution in communications of all
kinds has made a well-informed!
world public opinion technically
possible for the first time in his
tory.”
U Thant recalled the harmony
between the principles set forth
in Pacem in Terris and by the
Holy See, the objectives of the
UN charter, and the importance
attached to the UN’s role in the
modern world, as expressed by
Pope Paul when he received the
UN secretary general in private
audience.
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Luci Admitted
WASHINGTON (NC)—President Johnson proudly told 40 high
school students visiting the White House that his daughter Luci has
been admitted to the School of Nursing at Georgetown University.
The President told the students, all here to compete for science
scholarships: “My daughter Luci is very interested in science —
not political science, either. She has just been admitted to George
town, to enter the nursing school there.
Honor Actress
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (NC)—Actress Irene Dunne will be honored
by Bellarmine College here May 13 at a dinner when she will be
presented with the Bellarmine Medal. She is the first woman nam
ed for the award, which was established in 1955 to honor a person
“on the national or international scene” who exemplifies “in a noble
manner the virtues of justice, charity and temperateness.”
S. AMERICA
Border Peace
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (NC) — Pope Paul VI has con
gratulated Argentina and Chile on the 60th anniversary of the peace
they swore at the foot of the heroic “Christ of the Andes that
watches over their mountainous border area. Among those who
heard his message read beneath the statue were Antonio Cardinal
Caggiano of Buenos Aires, Raul Cardinal Silva Henriquez of Santia
go, Chile, and delegations from both countries led by the respective
foreign ministers. The Church promoted the ceremony to ease bor
der tensions between the countries.
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Lenten Gifts Of
School Children
Will Help Needy
U Thant stressed that the
charter must be adapted to the
historical changes since it was
drafted. Noting that the char
ter was geared to the threat of
potential n a z i resurgence, he
pointed to the changing align
ments in the past 20 years and
the growth in UN membership,
as elements in determining the
roles of the Security Council and
the General Assembly in keeping
the peace.
Sir Muhammad Zafrullah Khan,
of Pakistan, a member of the
International Court of Justice
and a past president of the UN
General Assembly, said the UN
charter does make provision for
“peaceful change, thus seeking
to meet the growing needs of
dynamic human society.”
He recommended that UN
peacekeeping operations not on
ly prevent a bad situation from
becoming worse, but that they
“serve as an aid to vigorous ef
forts” toward settling the dis
pute involved.
He called attention to other
methods for settling disputes
mentioned in the charter, such
as “enquiry, conciliation, media
tion, arbitration and judicial de
termination,” and noted that
there is no specialized fact-find
ing center at the United Na
tions. He concluded by welcom
ing the invitation to dialogue in
the cause of peace expressed by
Pope Paul VI in Ecclesiam
Suam.
Luis Quintanilla, chairman of
the Council of the Organization
of American States and the In-
teramerican Peace Commission,
as well as a former Mexican
delegate to the UN, also called
for a reconsideration of the na
ture and functions of the UN to
enable it to “fulfill its vital his
torical mission.’’
The enlargement of the Secur
ity Council, ensuring some form
of popular as well as political
representation in the General
Assembly, improvement in the
voting procedures for making
decisions, and enforcement of
the decisions of the Internation
al Court of Justice were among
elements he listed as essential
to strengthening the UN as keep
er of the peace.
Vice President Humphrey ex
pressed strong U.S. support for
the UN. He said Pope John
“like his predecessors recogniz
ed that a secure peace depends
on a stable world community.”
There was general agreement
among speakers and panelists
that the UN “can be redeemed”
by cooperation among nations in
scientific research, by assistance
to developing nations, and by
looking beyond immediate crisis
to- areas of agreement.
NEW YORK (NC)—Pope Paul
VI appealed to this nation’s five
million youngsters in Catholic
schools to help him “in caring
for the needy brothers and sis
ters of the whole human fami
ly.”
“Your little sacrifices during
this Lenten season can accom
plish much spiritual good for
you, and at the same time they
will assure bodily good to our
needy children in other lands.
Therefore make these sacrifices
generously,’’ the Pope counseled
the children.
The occasion was the annual
Ash Wednesday (March 3) ad
dress by the Pope to the U.S.
Catholic school children, touch
ing off the youngsters’ Lenten
campaign for the Bishops’ Re
lief Fund appeal. The address
was carried by the major radio
networks — ABC, CBS, NBC
and Mutual — into classrooms
and homes.
In recent years the Lenten
sacrifices of American scho,ol
children have totaled $1 million
annually. Coupled with the year
ly $5 million Laetare Sunday
(March 28) collection taken up
in parish churches throughout
the country, the proceeds con
stitute the major support for
Catholic Relief Service — Na
tional Catholic Welfare Confer
ence, agency maintained by
U.S. Catholics for relief of the
needy overseas. As a result of
last year’s successful campaign,
CRS-NCWC was enabled to aid
more than 40 million needy per
sons in 73 countries of the
world.
The Pontiff’s message said:
Dear School Children of the
United States of America,
This is the Holy Father speak
ing to you from Rome.
How very good that your Fa
ther in Christ can again share
a few thoughts with you, his
(Children in the United States.
You know that we visited
your well-blessed land on two
occasions, the last being only a
few short years ago ... We
rejoice that your country and
your parents, in particular, have
been able to provide you with
so many good things.
However, dear boys and girls,
your Holy Father has also visit
ed other places which are not
nearly so rich and fortunate.
Only recently we returned from
an unforgettable visit to India,
and we saw many children who
had very few of the things
which you possess . . .
These are but a few of the
thousands and millions of boys
and girls who are cold, sick
and hungry. Can you imagine
how worried your mothers and
fathers would be if you went to
bed hungry every night, if you
did not have warm clothing dur
ing the bitter cold of winter, if
you were seriously sick and
there was no doctor or medicine
to cure you? . . .
As our children in Christ, we
ask you once again to come to
our help in caring for the needy
brothers and sisters of the
whole human family. You know
that Our Lord Jesus Christ also
asks the same of you . . .
How can you help us?
Your little sacrifices during
this Lenten season can accom
plish much spiritual good! for
you, and at the same time they
will assure bodily good to our
needy children in other lands.
Therefore make these sacrifices
generously. Then .offer the cost
of this sacrifice by contributing
to the joint offering being gath
ered by your classroom and
school between now and Easter
Sund'ay.
Lent is also a time for special
prayers, and we ask you to re
member your poor brothers and
sisters in your prayers. Beg Al
mighty God to bless them and
to give all of them His richest
graces.
SIR ROGER CASEMENT
Hero Of Ireland
Is Home At Last
DUBLIN (NC)—The remains
of Sir Roger Casement, the Irish
hero who dreaded the thought
of being buried in England,
were reinterred in Glasnevin
cemetery here following a So
lemn Requiem Mass in Dublin’s
pro-cathedral (March 1).
IN ROME POST — Father
John F. McCarthy, 34, of
Butte, Mont., has been named
by Pope Paul VI an official
of the Vatican’s Congrega
tion for the Oriental Church.
In his new post he succeeds
Msgr. Raymond P. Etteldorf
of Dubuque, Iowa, now sec
retary of the Pontifical Work
of the Propagation of the
Faith. (NC Photos)
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Casement’s body was return
ed to Ireland six days earlier
from London where he had been
executed in 1916 for plotting a-
gainst Britain during World War
I. For a quarter-century his re
mains lay in an unmarked pris
on grave, although he begged
when ascending the scaffold to
have his body returned to the
Ireland he loved.
For five days in Dublin a
continuous stream of mourners
filed by his coffin as it lay in
Sacred Heart military church.
Soldiers kept watch in the
church to guard against .out
bursts of political feeling which
still runs high in this country.
A procession through the
streets of Dublin carried Case
ment’s body to the pro-cathe
dral on the day before the Re
quiem Mass.
Casement was knighted by the
British in 1911 for his exposures
of the unhumanitarian treat
ment accorded plantation work
ers in the Congo and South A-
merica.
Only five years later he
sought German aid for the Irish
nationalists during World War I.
Caught by the British, he was
taken to London, fried and
hanged. The trial stirred strong
feelings in the United States
where many were pro-Irish.
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