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Vol, 45, No. 43
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SATURDAY
First Columbus
Ordination Rite
At Holy Family
The Rev. William F. Simmons
will be ordained to the priest
hood, Saturday, May 8 at Holy
Family Church, Columbus. Fath
er Simmons will receive the
Sacrament of Holy Orders from
the Most. Rev. Thomas J. Mc
Donough at ceremonies begin
ning at 9:00 A.M.
(The son of Mr. & Mrs. Wil
liam F. Simmons Sr., of St.
Anne’s parish, Columbus, Fath
er Simmons attended grammar
school at Holy Family school
and after finishing high school
at St. Bernard’s Cullman, Ala.,
began his studies for the priest
hood in 1957.
After attending St. Bernard’s
Seminary and St. John’s Semi
nary, Little Rock, Ark., he fin
ished his theological studies at
St. Mary’s Seminary, Baltimore,
Md.
Father Simmons’ ordination
will mark two “firsts” in the
Diocese of Savannah. It will be
the first time that Sacred Orders
have ever been conferred in Co-
lumous. It will also be the first
time in this diocese that priests
other than those ordained at the
Mass will concelebrate it with
the ordaining prelate.
At the ceremonies on Satur
day, priests of the Columbus
area, taking part in the ordi
nation will be arrayed in Mass
vestments and will join with the
newly ordained priest and Bish
op McDonough in offering the
same Mass.
In addition to being concele-
brants, participating clergy will
also join in the impressive rite
of the “laying on of hands.”
After the Bishop bestows the
powers of the priesthood by im
posing his hands upon the head
of the candidate for Holy Orders,
the prelates and priests present
will do the same. Then together,
Bishop and clergy raise their
right hands, holding them ex
tended over the candidate in
silent supplication to the Holy
Spirit to take possession of the
new priest.
Concelebrants with Bishop Mc
Donough and Father Simmons will
be the Rt. Rev. Herman J. Deimel,
pastor of St. Anne’s ; Father
Arthur A. Weltzer, pastor of
Holy Family; Father William P.
Dowling, pastor of Our Lady of
'Lourdes; Father Ignatius Behr,
S.D.S., pastor of St. Benedict’s
Mission; Father George James,
Moderator of Pacelli High
School; Father Walter L. di Fran
cesco, assistant pastor of holy
Family; Father Timothy Ryan,
assistant pastor of St. Anne’s;
Father Austin Martin, S.D.S,
assistant pastor of St. Benedict’s
Mission; Very Rev. William V.
Coleman, Vice-chancellor of Sa
vannah; Father Joseph Stranc,
instructor at St. John Vianney
Minor Seminary, Savannah.
Master of Ceremonies will be
Rt. Rev. Msgr. Andrew J.
McDonald, Chancellor.
Father Simmons will offer his
first Solemn Mass at St. Anne’s
Church, Sunday, May 9.
Officers for the Mass will be;
Rt. Rev. Msgr. Herman J. Dei
mel-Archpriest; Rev. Thomas
Duffy - Deacon; Rev. Walter di
Francesco - Subdeacon; Rev.
Timothy Ryan - Master of Cere
monies. Monsignor Diemel will
also be preacher for the Mass.
Father Simmons’ ordination is
the first to take place in the
Diocese since 1960.
NATION
'Outstanding Citizen'
MEETING OF BISHOPS — Bishops of the Province are pictured at a recent meet
ing in Atlanta. Pictured above (1. to r.) Bishop Charles B. McLaughlin, Auxiliary
Bishop of Raleigh; Bishop Coleman Carroll of Miami; Archbishop Paul J. Hal
lman of Atlanta; Bishop Thomas J. McDonough of Savannah and Bishop Ernest
L. Unterkoefler of Charleston.
DOMINICAN REBELLION
Nuncio Emerges As Major
Figure In Peace Efforts
MIAMI, Fla. (NC)—Bishop Coleman F. Carroll of Miami has
been named Dade County’s Outstanding Citizen of 1964 for his
contributions to the county’s progress in race relations. The cita
tion, by Sholem Lodge No. 1024 of B’nai B’rith and the Dade Fed
eral Savings and Loan Association, noted his chairmanship of the
Dade County Community Relations Board.
WASHINGTON (NC) —Who is
the papal nuncio in the Domini
can Republic and how has he
Emerged as a major figure in
peace efforts in that strife-torn
nation?
Archbishop Emmanuelle
Clarizio, a top Vatican diplo
matic trouble-shooter, is dean of
the diplomatic corps in Santo
Domingo and has led the Church
in fast-paced support of progres
sive social movements since he
arrived in 1961.
Some insight into the prob
lems and plans of the 54-year-
old, Italian-born nuncio and the
Church in the Dominican Repub
lic were given in an interview
here by Father James Clark,
assistant to the director of the
Latin American Bureau of the Na
tional Catholic Welfare Con
ference.
Father Clark, a priest of the
Fall River, Mass., diocese, has
just returned from three months
in the Dominican Republic where
he served as press information
officer for the recent Internation
al Marian and Mariological Con
gresses there.
“The efforts of the nuncio to
effect a cease-fire,” said Father
Clark, “continue a tradition of
Church effort to preserve peace
in the country.”
The late dictator, Rafael Tru
jillo, who was assassinated in
May, 1961, left the country “a
heritage of division” which
makes “cooperative effort come
hard,” said Father Clark.
In addition, he continued, the
country “lacks normal peace
keeping mechanisms.”
He explained; “There is no
supreme court or congress and
government strength depends on
changeable military approval.
There is no labor movement of
consequence and the press sees
its role as one of continual criti
cizing of government policies.”
This leaves a “vacuum,” he
said, and “the Church attains
exaggerated importance as the
principal stabilizing influence.”
The nuncio threw the Church’s
institutions firmly behind pro
grams he thought would stabilize
the country during the transition
from dictatorship to constitution
al government.
“The Church sought to con
tinue the social services needed
by the nation, such as orphanages,
homes for the aged, hospitals,
schools and parish centers,”
Father Clark said.
His leadership of the Church,
said Father C lark, has been based
on cooperation with government,
but refusal to be controlled by
it.
“He has led with great pru
dence,” Father Clark said.
“Some accused him of being
pro-Bosch; yet from Puerto Rico
on Feb. 5, exiled president Bosch
charged that the Church was sup
porting the government ofDonald
Reid Cabral, Bosch’s successor.
“Thus the Church was cooper
ating with various governments,
yet remaining apart from asso
ciation with any particular re
gime. This delicate political road
has confused even the poli
ticians.”
CASTRO LINK SEEN
Priest Charges
VATICAN
Pope Receives Lodge
VATICAN CITY (NC)—Henry Cabot Lodge, former U.S. ambas
sador to Vietnam and now President Lyndon Johnson’s trouble
Shooter in Asia, was received (May 3) in private audience by Pope
Paul VI. Lodge had been in Rome since May 1 consulting with
Italian government officials. No details of the audience were
Immediately available.
EUROPE
St. Paul's Ship
|VALLETTA, Malta (NC)—English and Maltese divers have started
learch for the wreckage of the Roman ship that brought St. Paul to
the island of Malta in 60 A.D. Site of the search is St. Paul’s Bay at
the northeast of the island where the ship was wrecked according to
tradition. A Roman anchor was recovered from the bay a few years
ago and is believed to be a clue to the exact spot of the wreck.
FAR EAST
Wheelchair Priest
BAGUILO, Philippines (NC)--A California man, confined to a
wheelchair after an attack of polio in 1957, is being ordained a
priest in the Society of Jesus here on May 9. Father Robert Ronald,
32, is being ordained by Bishop William Brasseur, C.I.C.M., of
Baguilo. Many members of the young priest’s family flew here
from San Francisco to attend the ceremony.
Red Leadership
CONGO EDUCATOR—Father
Luces Viaene, superintendent
of schools in the prefecture
aspostolic of Doruma, near the
Sudan border, where all mission-
naries have been expelled by the
rebels. The government forces
are now putting down the rebel
lion.
MIAMI, Fla. (NC)—A Jesuit
educator caught in Santo Domin
go during the Dominican fight
ing said after his return here
that the rebellion is definitely
“communist in character.”
Father Jesus Nuevo, S.J., prin
cipal of Jesuit Prepatory School
here, had gone to Santo Domingo
for an educational meeting.
“The communist agitators took
immediate advantage of the situa
tion when the so-called consti
tutionalist rebellion began and
seized the opportunity to create
chaos and to take the upper-
hand,” said the priest who was
stationed in Cuba but expelled
by the Castro regime several
years ago.
(Father Nuevo was interviewed
two days before President John
son went on nationwide television
(May 2) to charge that “commu
nist conspirators” had seized
control of the rebellion and that
the United States would not tole
rate another Red government in
this hemisphere.)
Father Nuevo had no doubt
that a link existed between Fi
del Castro in Havana and the
rebellious troops and civilians
in Santo Domingo. He said the
radio controlled by the troops
fighting the rebels had report
ed that telephone calls had been
intercepted between the rebels
and Havana.
The Jesuit said casualties in
the fighting were high. Hospitals
in the capital city, he said, were
crowded with wounded and the
students at the Jesuit Seminary
of Santo Tomas had volunteered
as hospital aides.
DURING MONTH OF MA Y
Pope’s Encyclical
Seeks Increase In
Prayers For Peace
VATICAN CITY (NC)—Pope
Paul VI has issued an encyclical
letter calling for increased
prayers to Mary during the month
of May for the Church and for
world peace because “the pre
sent hour is especially grave.”
The Pope’s encyclical letter,
Mense Maio (The Month of May),
was issued April 30, and though
it included the success of the
ecumenical council among the
intentions to be prayed for, the
letter devoted more than 80% of
its text to peace.
The second encyclical of Pope
Paul’s reign opens by noting
that May is marked by special
devotion to Mary by Catholics
and that it is to Mary that Ca
tholics have turned “whenever
the needs of the Church demand
ed it or whenever danger hovered
menacingly over the world. . .
When we look at the present needs
of the Church or at the state of
peace in the world, we have com -
pelling reasons for believing that
the present hour is especially
grave; that it makes a call for
united prayer from the whole
Christian people more than ever
a matter of urgency.”
Nowhere in his letter did Pope
Paul specify what areas of un
rest he was referring to. In
stead he chose to speak generally
of the world picture and to pro
test against breaches of the peace
whereever they are to be found.
He wrote;
“Today, as if no lesson had
been learned from the tragic
experiences of the two conflicts
which shed blood in the first
half of our century, we have the
dreadful spectacle in certain
parts of the world of antagonism
on the increase between peoples,
and see repeated the dangerous
phenomenon of recourse to arms
instead of to negotiation to settle
disputes of the opposing parties.
This means that the populations
of entire nations are subjected to
unspeakable sufferings caused by
agitation, guerrilla warfare, acts
of war, ever growing in extent
and intensity, which could at
any moment produce the spark
for a terrible fresh conflict.”
“In view of these grave dangers
to international life, and con
scious of our duty as supreme
pastor, we judge it necessary to
make known our anxieties and
our fear that the disputes will
become so embittered as to de
generate into a bloody war. We
beg all who hold responsibility
in public life not to remain deaf
to the unanimous desire of man-
IMMIGRATION HEAD—John E.
McCarthy has been appointed di
rector of the Immigration De
partment, N.C.W.C. Until now
assistant director of the depart
ment, Mr. McCarthy is a native
of New York City and a former
USO club director.
kind which wants peace. We ask
that they do all in their power
to preserve the peace that is
threatened and continue at all
times to foster and encourage
conversations and negotiations
at all levels,” the Pontiff de
clared.
The Pope appealed to the
world’s leaders “not to remain
deaf to the unanimous desire of
mankind which wants peace.” In
defense of man’s dignity and
Christian civilization, he de
clared that “we cannot fail to
condemn acts of guerrilla war
fare and of terrorism, the
practice of holding hostages and
of taking reprisals against un
armed civilians.”
After stressing the grave state
of the world, Pope Paul under
lined the fact that peace “is not
merely of our own making. It is
also, and particularly, a gift from
God.” Mankind will enjoy peace
(, w) or finally Reserve to re
ceive it from Almighty God,”
he said.
“Therefore,” he declared, “we
will do our utmost to obtain this
incomparable blessing by prayer,
praying indeed with constancy and
watchfulness, as the Church has
always prayed from her earliest
days, and in a special way call
ing on the intercession and pro
tection of the Virgin Mary who is
Queen of Peace.”
The Pope left it up to the
RED VICTIM
By Patrick Riley
(N.C.W.C. News Service)
ZAGREB, Yugoslavia--Most
people who come to pray in Za
greb’s Cathedral of St. Stephen
walk past all the pews of the
long nave and past the main
altar to kneel before the can
dlelit death mask of Aloijzije
Cardinal Stepinac.
Just beneath, in the cathedral
crypt, the body of Cardinal Stepi
nac lies with the bodies of his
predecessors in the See of Za
greb. He is there by grace of
Yugoslavia’s communist regime,
which originally had announced
he would be buried at the village
of Krasic where he was born and
where he died in 1960, still in
detention after his release from
prison.
Although Cardinal Stepinac was
61 at the time of his death, his
face is strangely boyish in the
stark white deathmask. The can
dlelight, playing over the curved
lips, seems at times to give them
movement.
The shrine—for such it has
become—seems never to be un
attended. Someone is always
praying there. Some bring
candles, some bring flowers. In
the early spring, the floor over
the tomb was covered with lil
ies, daffodils and hyacinths. In
front of the flowers people have
placed their petitions, some
written on paper and others in
cised in marble. There are also
votive tablets thanking the car-
world’s bishops to inform Catho
lics of his desire for May pray
ers and to provide for whatever
special prayers are to be offered
in individual dioceses. But he
recommended in particular the
Rosary, ‘ ‘the prayer so dear to
Our Lady and so highly recom
mended by supreme Pontiffs.”
In referring to the need to
pray also for the ecumenical
council, the Pope said: “This
momentous event confronts the
Church with the immense prob
lem of how to renew herself in
accordance with the needs of the
times. On its outcome will de
pend for a long time to come
the future of the Spouse of Christ
and the destiny of innumerable
souls. It is God’s great time in
the life of the Church and in
world history.”
The Pope’s letter said prayers
are needed for completing the
fourth and last council session
and for U ry implemen
tation of the council’s decisions.
He added:
“To obtain God’s light and
blessings on this great volume
of work ahead of us, we place
our confidence in her whom we
had the joy of proclaiming Mother
of the Church at the last ses
sion. From the beginning of the
council she has been unstinting
in her loving help and will cer
tainly not fail to continue her
assistance to the final stage of
the work.”
dinal for favors received.
Not all who come to kneel
and pray are peasants, though
the characteristic shawls and
sheepskin vests are always in
evidence. Many of the women
who come are young and smart
ly Pressed, with shiny high-heel
ed pumps and Italian-style coats.
Fewer men come, as seems to
be the case with most shrines.
Until people began making their
way to Cardinal Stepinac’s tomb,
Zagreb’s most popular shrine
was the tiny chapel built under
the Stone Gate (as it is known)
of Zagreb’s old high city. The
center of attraction there is a
fire-streaked painting of the Ma
donna and Child which was re
garded as miraculous because
it escaped a destructive fire.
For centuries the citizens of
Zagreb invoked the Madonna of
the Stone Gate when threatened
by Turkish invaders, and they
rendered thanks to that same
Madonna when delivered from
some threat.
.To this day people passing
through the Stone Gate—it is
part of a public street--will kneel
or light a candle. Wooden pews
line either side of the street,
and votive plaques are fixed to
the pillars of the arch.
A tiny religious—goods store
is tucked into one wall.
The shrine of the Stone Gate
is traditionally favored by stu
dents, especially at exam time.
Cardinal’s Tomb
Becomes Shrine