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SAVANNAH, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, APRIL 15, 1965
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Pontifical Rites
Mark Burial Of
Cardinal Meyer
CHICAGO (NC)— Pontifical
Requiem Mass for Albert Car
dinal Meyer of Chicago, the re
served scholar who become head
of the nation’s largest catholic
diocese and a leader at the e-
cumenical council, was offered
(April 13) in Holy Name Cathe
dral.
Cardinal Meyer, 62, died quiet-
l^^pril 9) in Mercy Hospital,
he had remained for six
weeks after undergoing surgery
Feb. 25 for a brain tumor. He
had been in a general decline
for nearly a week, and two days
before his death lapsed into a
coma, from which he did not
awake.
Celebrant of the Requiem Mass
was Auxiliary Bishop Cletus F.
O’Donnell of Chicago, vicar gen
eral of the archdiocese and a
personal friend of the cardinal.,
The eulogy was delivered by
Archbishop William E. Cousins
of Milwaukee. Cardinal Meyer
was born in Milwaukee and ser
ved as archbishop there before
coming to Chicago.
Burial followed in the cemetery
of St. Mary of the Lake Semi-
nary in Mundelein, Ill.
The funeral arrangements
were according to wishes ex
pressed by Cardinal Meyer be
fore his operation.
Hundreds of dignitaries of
church and state crowded to the
cathedral for the Requiem Mass.
On hand were four of the five
living U. S. cardinals--Francis
Cardinal Spellman of New York,
James Cardinal McIntyre of Los
Angeles, Joseph Cardinal Ritter
of St. Louis, and Lawrence Car
dinal Shehan of Baltimore—as
well as Paul Emile Cardinal
Leger of Montreal. Unable to
attend was Richard Cardinal
Cushing of Boston, who is re
covering from recent major in
testinal surgery.
^^•chbishop Egidio Vagnozzi,
Apostolic Delegate to the United
States, also was present.
Tributes and messages of con
dolence poured in from many
sources, religious and secular,
Catholic and non-Catholic. Pope
Paul VI cabled a message ex
pressing his grief, as did Am-
leto Cardinal Cicognani, Papal
Secretary of State. The Pope
praised Cardinal Meyer’e “in
spiring leadership” and “out
standing zeal.”
Cardinal Meyer’s body lay in
state in the cathedral for the
better part of three days before
the Requiem Mass. Thousands
of sorrowing Chicagoans from
all walks of life came during that
time to pay their last respects
to him.
Cardinal Meyer had received
the Last Rites of the Church
and Holy Communion two weeks
before he died.
Chicago was plunged into deep
mourning by the cardinal’s death,
just two days before Palm Sun
day and the start of Holy Week.
Children in parochial schools
said prayers for the repose of
his soul. Black bunting draped
all Catholic churches.
The archdiocesan board of con-
suitors met to select an admini
strator for the two-county arch
diocese which, with more than
2.3 million Catholics, is the lar
gest in the U. S. and is topped
in size by only a dozen others
in the world.
Bishop O’Donnell, 47, was
elected to the post of admini
strator and will serve until Pope
Paul names a new archbishop.
Archbishop Cousins described
the cardinal in his eulogy as “a
churchman in the best and
broadest sense of the word” for
whom his episcopal motto, “Thy
kingdom come,” served as ‘‘the
inspiration for a way of life.”
“He introduced administrative
innovations, hoping they would
make the Church of Chicago more
efficient in its operation, but he
recognized that parishes, pas
tors, people must be primary
beneficiaries. In all things he
was the conscientious church
man, striving to make God’s
kingdom come, to make it real
and vital in the hearts and lives
of men.”
HEADLINE
HOPSCOTCH
NATION
Jesuits Kill Lincoln?
EUROPE
Chapel iron Curtain
BERNKASTEL-KUES, Germany — Ecumenism took a step back
ward in this small Rhineland village when Catholics and Protestants
complained about mutual interference in a hospital chapel they both
made use of. The town council decided to build a wall down the
middle of the room, dividing the chapel in half.
Good Friday Stations
LONDON -- With dramatic tableaux setting the scenes, John
Cardinal Heenan of Westminster led Stations of the Cross on Good
Friday in Trafalgar Square in the heart of this city. A 45-minute
coverage of the devotions was televised by the British Broad
casting Corporation.
COLUMBUS DEANERY MEETING — Pictured at the Spring- meeting- of the Co
lumbus Deanery Council of Catholic Women are (1. to r.) Bishop Thomas J. Mc
Donough; Mrs. L. H. Campbell of Macon, new president of Columbus Deanery;
Mrs. Henry F. Gallman of Columbus, outgoing president and Monsignor Herman
J. Diemel, spiritual Moderator. (Columbus Ledger-Enquirer Photo)
WITH USE OF ENGLISH
Bishop McDonough Sees
Renaissance In Church
Some 200 Catholic women rep
resenting parishes in 12 Georgia
cities heard the Most Rev. Thom
as J. McDonough, Bishop of Sa
vannah, discuss the changes with
in the church brought about by
the Second Vatican Council at
a luncheon meeting Sunday, April
11, in the auditorium of Our
Lady of Lourdes School, Colum
bus.
The occasion was the spring
meeting of the Columbus Deanery
of the Council of Catholic Wo
men, held at Our Lady of
Lourdes Church.
Bishop McDonough, who along
with other American bishops at
tended sessions of the council
in Rome, described himself as
conservative by nature but one
who nonetheless found the chan
ges “wonderful. We are on the
threshold of a renaissance in
our church,” he said. “We have
opened the doors and removed
barriers, one of the greatest
of which was language.”
Referring to the use of Eng
lish in the Mass, the bishop said
that Our Lady of Lourdes parish
in Columbus has served as an
“exemplar” for the diocese in
putting the changes in the lit
urgy into use. Our Lady
of Lourdes with the Rev, Wil
liam Dowling as pastor, was one
of the first churches in the Sa
vannah Diocese to celebrate the
Mass in English, and one of the
first to use the“diologue” Mass,
in which the congregation par
ticipates.
Bishop McDonough said that
the Savannah diocese is ahead
of most areas of this country
in effecting the liturgical chan
ges proposed by the council.
The bishop also paid tribute
to the memory of Albert Car
dinal Meyer, Archbishop of Chi
cago, who died Friday. He re
ferred to the cardinal as an
“outstanding light” of the church
and recalled the prominent part
the cardinal played in the Second
Vatican Council.
During the business meeting,
Mrs. L.H. Campbell of Macon
was installed as new president
of the Columbus Deanery, suc
ceeding Mrs. Henry F. Gallman
of Columbus. Other new officers
are Mrs. A.T. Czganiewicz of
Albany, vice president, and Mrs.
J. T. Webb of Macon, treasurer.
Mrs. Philip J. Seyfried of Val
dosta remains as recording sec
retary.
ON OBSCENITY RACKET
Famed Chaplain
Fights New War
CHICAGO Did the Jesuits kill Abraham Lincoln? In a word,
no, but a man named W. H. Burr thought so and published a pamph
let to that effect in 1893. Entitled “The Murder of Abraham Lincoln
Planned and Executed by Jesuit Priests,” itisnow worth $12.50. The
pamphlet is one of a number of items in a 1,700-volume Lincoln
library donated to DePaul University here by the family of the late
Otto Eisenschiml, Chicago chemist, inventor and historian.
Most Translated Book
UNITED NATIONS, N Y. — The Bible is still the world’s most-
translated and most-read book. According to the “Index Transla-
tionum,” published annually by the UN’s Educational, Scientific
and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), there were 180 new trans
lations of the Bible in 1963. This includes fragments of the Bible
^«i as “Biblia.”
FIRST KACHIN PRIEST
Father Paul Zinghtung Grawng
is the first priest to be or
dained from among the Kachin
tribe of northern Burma. Priests
of the missionary Society of St.
Columban have worked for many
years in what is now the dio
cese of Myitkina, where Bishop
John J Howe, S.S.C., is the
Ordinary. (NC Photos)
WASHINGTON (NC) — A vete
ran soldier-priest flashed the
V-for-vanquish sign here, mus
tering parents to the front lines
for all-our war against printed
smut.
Msgr. (Maj. Gen.) Patrick J.
Ryan, retired chief of U.S. Army
chaplains, said the $500-million -
a-year obscenity racket is a
“vicious, vile, venemous and
vast” operation which “preys
upon this nation’s most cherish
ed product--youth.”
Speaking at the annual family
Communion breakfast at St.
John’s College High School here
(April 11), Msgr. Ryan outlined
battle plans for waging the fight.
He urged parents to: check care
fully and report to postal autho
rities all obscene literature re
ceived by their teenage sons and
daughters through the mails; co
operate with other religious,
civic and neighborhood groups in
pinpointing community outlets of
the “cesspool publications”;
support law enforcement agen
cies in efforts to combat the evil
in the courts,
Msgr. Ryan said that such
crime fighters as FBI Director
J. Edgar Hoover, leading psy
chiatrists and medical organi
zations are in agreement that
much of the violent crime in
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CHALLENGE FAILS
1.3 Billion School
Aid Bill Signed By
President Johnson
this country, particularly mur
der and rape, can be traced to
pornography.
“A vigilant community interest
that insures a clean neighborhood
is one of the most effective means
to fight this evil which is known
to double every five years,” the
soldier-priest asserted.
The principal means of opera
tion of the smut merchants is
mailing lists which are com
piled, innocently in most cases,
and purchased by the obscentiy
racketeers, the monsignor said.
He said there have been cases
where girls have gone into the
convent and boys into the semi
nar only to be bombarded with
printed obscentiy as a result of
getting their names on a mail
ing list through mail-order pur
chases of clothes, household ar
ticles and other legitimate mer
chandise. He recommended ef
forts be made to keep such mail
ing lists out of the hands of the
filth purveyors.
Msgr. Ryan gave this grim
reminder: “In the history of
the world there have been 19
civilizations. Sixteen of these
crumbled and disappeared as a
result of decay from within and
the root of that decay was the
evil with which we are concerned
today—licentiousness. ”
WASHINGTON (NC)—The U.S.
government now stands on the
brink of launching a vast pro
gram pioneering in Federal re
cognition of the educational needs
of both public and private school
pupils.
By a vote of 73 to 18, the
Senate (April 9) added its en
dorsement to House approval on
March 26 of President Johnson’s
$1.3 billion proposal.
The President hailed passage
of the measure. He predicted
that it would prove to be “just
the beginning, the first giant
stride toward full educational
opportunity for all of our school
children.”
The Chief Executive signed
(April 11) the bill into law at
the one-room school in Johnson
City, Tex., where he began his
own education. His first teacher,
Kate Deadrick Loney, sat beside
him.
Mr. Johnson explained the Sun
day signing of the bill, saying:
“I do not wish to delay by a
single day the program to streng
then this nation’s elementary and
secondary schools.”
He then expressed his “devout
hope” that his own “sense of
urgency” will be sharedbyCom-
missioner of Education Francis
Keppel and other education of
ficers of the federal government
charged with implementing the
program.
The bill sped through the Se
nate, as it had through the House,
propelled by urgent appeals of
the leadership that Congress
capitalize on the wide consensus
of support for the legislation.
Sen. Wayne Morse of Oregon,
chairman of the Senate education
subcommittee and the bill’s floor
manager, repeatedly charac
terized it as experimental in its
approaches and appealed that it
be given a year’s trail run.
Much of the Senate discussion
centered on the inclusion of paro
chial and other private school
pupils. Morse and the bill’s other
supporters argued that the aid
contemplated in the legislation is
aimed at pupils, not church-re
lated schools, a constitutionally
permissible course.
A major Senate challenge was
an amendment by Sen. Sam J.
Ervin of North Carolina. Ervin
proposed that the bill include a
provision authorizing an early
automatic Federal court chal
lenge by a taxpayer of the bill’s
inclusion of parochial pupils.
The Ervin proposal was de
feated 53 to 32 in the face of
appeals by Morse and Republican
Sen. Jacob Javits of New York,
who said the constitutional issue
is being approached in other
ways, notably a court case in
Maryland, and that the benefits
of the Johnson bill should not be
delayed, which would be the case
if it were held up by a court
challenge.
The measure’s three main pro
visions are;
1) One billion dollars to pub
lic school districts under a for
mula based chiefly on the num
ber of children in school who
come from families earning less
than $2,000 a year. The grant
would cover half of the cost of
education for each eligible pupil.
Parochial and other private
school pupils in the same low
income bracket would benefit by
extension to them by local pub
lic school districts of shared
services or facilities. Public
school districts are required to
take these children into account
when making their plans to aid
needy students.
2) About $100 million would
be provided to buy textbooks for
pupils, materials and volumes
for school libraries and some
instructional equipment. All
would be owned by a public
agency, such as the local school
district or library, but they could
be lent to children attending non
public schools.
3) Another $100 million would
be used to establish educational
centers to benefit both public
and private school pupils with
cultural enrichment programs
and other special services. Pub
lic agencies would operate these
centers, but the legislation re
quires that private school edu
cators and others from outside
the public schools take part in
the planning for them.
The American Jewish Con
gress immediately announced it
plans a court test of the con
stitutionality of the new Federal
aid to education program.
The congress is a militant sup
porter of unqualified separation
between church and state. Its
special counsel, Leo Pfeffer, is
directing the legal assault by
the Horace Mann League and
other public school officials
against grants by the Maryland
Legislature to four church-re
lated colleges.
ONLY 220 PRIESTS
No Freedom For
Church In Cuba
FRANZISKUS CARDINAL
KOENIG, Archbishop of Vienna,
whom Pope Paul VI has named
to head tne new Secretariat for
Non-Believers, the third such
body established by the Holy See
to achieve closer ties with those
outside the Catholic Church.
(NC Photos)
SAN DIEGO, Calif. (NC) —The
former rector of a Cuban Catho
lic university said here that re
ligious freedom is a myth in Cu
ba today.
“Religious instruction publicly
is forbidden,’ said Father John
J. Kelly, O S.A. “Catholic
churches serve as warehouses
and militia barracks. Priests
live under the constant threat of
prison or expulsion, and services
are permitted under most limited
conditions.”
' Father Kelly was rector of the
University of Villanueva in Hava
na from the time it was founded
in 1946 by American Augustinians
as Cuba’s first private univer
sity. The university was taken
over by the government of Fi
del Castro in May, 1961.
The priest said in an inter
view that the Church in Cuba
has been “muzzled” by repres
sive laws and forced deporta
tion of about 80% of the clergy
and almost all nuns and Brothers.
At present, he said, Cuba has
220 priests to serve seven mil
lion nominal Catholics scattered
over an area larger than Pennsyl
vania. They are “permitted to
function inside their churches,”
he added, “only as long as noth
ing is said or done contrary to
the oppression of human rights
by Castro’s Red regime.”
Reviewing the progressive op
pression of the Church in Cuba,
Father Kelly said Villanueva Uni
versity, as a center of Catholic
intellectual life, was a prime
target from the beginning.
He said the 1961 seizure of
the university culminated a “war
of attrition” that extended over
more than two years. He noted
that the government even took
over the university chapel, which
is now being used as a store
house.
When other measures against
the Church failed, Father Kelly
continued, the Castro regime in
1961 resorted to the forced de
portation of foreign priests.
“Castro’s communists are
subtle and sly,” he commented.
“They want no heroes and no
martyrs among the clergy or
Religious.
The tactic was to make it
illegal for the foreigners, to
be in Cuba. When this legal
force did not work, then physical,
brute force was used to bodily
expel even Cuban priests and
Religious, such as Auxiliary Bis
hop Eduardo Boza Masvidal of
Havana, who were all accused
of counter-revolutionary activi
ties.”
“Catholics are much moved
by the histories of the perse
cutions of the early Church,”
Father Kelly remarked. “It is
greatly to be hoped that they
begin to realize that the present
persecution of the Church in
Cuba and in all communist coun
tries has been and is more wide
spread and intensive by far than
the persecution of the early
Church.”