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SAVANNAH BREAKFAST
Bishop Speaks
To Young A dults
Bishop Thomas J. McDonough
was the speaker at a Communion
Breakfast, held last Sunday
morning by the Savannah Catho
lic Club. His Excellency was
also the celebrant of the 8 A. M.
ijMass, at the Cathedral, where
the group received communion.
The bishop praised the club,
established under his direction
for the work they had done re
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novating the interior of the club
rooms, located across the
street from the Cathedral. He
also expressed his interest in
enlarging the membership of the
Club, a city-wide organization
for young Catholic adults of the
area.
Membership is open to all
single Catholic adults between
the ages of eighteen and thirty-
five. The Reverend Sean O’
Rourke, is Spiritual Moderator.
Regular meetings are held on
the first and third Thursdays of
the month.
Father Rourke describes the
purpose of the club as being
primarily social, and this is
emphasized by the sponsoring of
many social activities for this
age group.
The club is planning a picnic
for Sunday, May 23rd at the
parish hall of St. Michael’s
Church, Savannah Beach. Each
person is expected to bring his
own lunch with refreshments
being supplied by the club. An
invitation has been extended to
all Catholic young adults to take
part in the picnic, which is sche
duled to begin at 2 p. m.
Officers of the organization
are Robert Ferraro, president;
Theresa Casey, treasurer; Ann
Cetti, vice-president and Michael
Carter, secretary.
Young Catholic Adults desiring
additional information on the Club
are asked to contact any of the
officers or Father O’Rourke at
the Cathedral.
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MEMBERS OF the Savannah Catholic Club pose
with Bishop Thomas J. McDonough and the Rev.
Sean O’Rourke at Communion Breakfast held last
Sunday morning. Front row, (1. to r.) Michael Car
ter, Theresa Casey, Bishop McDonough and Father
Sean O’Rourke. Back row, (1. to r.) Dale Furman,
Joyce Perkins, Bernie Taylor, Carolyn Perkins,
Butch Scott, Kay Saunders, Gloria Casey, Zona Glac-
kin, Kathleen Killorin, Margie Schneider, Ed Hitch
and Ann Harper. (Staff photo by Bob Ward)
FR. SHEERIN
Expert Says That Momentum Of
Protestant Ecumenism Has Slowed
By Father Vincent A. Yzermans
(N.C.W.C News Service)
NEW YORK—There has been
a pause in the momentum of the
ecumencial movement among
Protestants, a Catholic editor
said here.
The explanation, suggested
Father John Sheerin, C.S.P., is
"a meditative pause to clarify
goals and gather up strength
rather than a faltering step
caused by lack of interest.”
The Paulist priest, editor of
the century-old Catholic World,
a monthly magazine published
here, spoke (May 18) at the first
Catholic Communications Semi
nar, jointly sponsored by the
Bureau of Information, National
Catholic Welfare Conference, and
the Catholic Broadcasters Asso
ciation.
Father Sheerin, who was di
rector of the U.S. Bishops’press
panel at the second session of the
Vatican Council and who has
served as Catholic observer at
numerous Protestant gatherings,
told his audience:
“We Catholics have to re
member that the Protestants have
borne the burden of the day and
the heat in the work for Christian
unity and they may be a bit
fatigued, but they are simply
waiting for their ‘second wind’
and for the final results of the
Second Vatican Council.”
He added that Protestants also
“seem to be going through a
painful process of soul-searching
that has been occasioned by the
Second Vatican Council.”
Catholic ecumenism is making
progress, but it would be a kind
of triumphalism to see Protestant
ecumenists as suffering from in
security or confusion or lack
of courage. My guess is that the
seeming pause in Protestant ef
forts is due to a realization of
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their need of self-renewal, of a
closer scrutiny of their doc
trines, especially their concept
of the Church,” he said.
Father Sheerin was one of five
Catholic experts who discussed
current religious issues with
more than 200 representatives of
the religious and general press.
William Moran, dean of the
school of foreign service at
Georgetown, University, discus
sed two factors concerning re
ligious liberty.
The first, he said, requires
that the public authority provide
the legal framework in which
religious freedom may, without
constraint, be exercised. The
second, he continued, “requires
that man in society not alone
protect his own right to exer
cise religious freedom, but ac
cept fully and consciously the
right of other men, thinking dif
ferently , to exercise others.”
Moran, president of the Catho
lic Association for International
Peace, quoted Voltaire’s dictum:
“I detest what you say, but I
would defend with my life your
right to say it. ”
He concluded: “It seems to
me that this is what we must
demand, not just of Christians,
not just of westerners, but of
the world if there is to be reli
gious freedom. We have a long
way to go.”
The Vatican Council state
ment concerning relations with
the Jews was discussed by Fath
er Edward Duff, S.J., professor
of political science, Holy Cross
College, Worcester, Mass.
“That unremitting effort to
bury or at least weaken the dec
laration is continuing,” he said,
“...it is as well-known as are the
enemies of the declaration; the
political leaders of the Arab
states and certain retrograde
theologians.”
He said the politicians make
the mistake of identifying na
tionalism and religion in their
own thinking and the theologians
think the declaration is changing
the sense of Gospel narrative.
“The council,” he continued,
“is determined to correct the
aberrations of a bad but distres
singly influential theology which,
assigning a collective guilt to
the Jewish people, occasioned
anti-Semitism through the cen
turies.”
He added that there will be
need “of continuing vigilance on
the part of American Catholic
bishops to see to it that an
exclusively religious document
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The Southern Cross, May 20, 1965—PAGE 3|
MEXICAN
Proposal To Close
Schools Is Rejected
does not become sacrificed or
perverted to political objec
tives.”
Maurice Hartmann, speaking
of the Catholic Church and the
war on poverty, stated that “the
involvement of the Catholic
Church in fighting poverty is
universal--in time, place and
persons.” Hartmann is director
of programs of the National
Catholic Community Service,
Washington, D.C.
*
“The objectives and principles
of the war on poverty,” he said,
“coincide with the teachings of
the Church. Catholics, clergy and
lay, have donated countless hours
to promotion and implementation
of the law. Their efforts are
sparked by a conviction that help
ing the poor to break the chains
of poverty is both a pleasing
obligation and a great virtue.”
Msgr. John B. McDowell, su
perintendent of schools for the
Diocese of Pittsburgh, in discus
sing the recently passed aid to
education bill stressed the
prominent role of laymen in the
affairs of the Church.
Now that the bill has become
a law of the land, there remain
the elements of cooperation and
understanding on the part of lay
men to implement the law suc
cessfully, he said.
Msgr. McDowell stated that
“...one of the greatest accom
plishments of the present bill...
is that it is...general in every
sense of the word...the bill a-
voids the sticky State-Church
issue and establishes the prin
ciple of aid to the child rather
than aid to the institution.”
Barring any constitutional ob
stacle, the direction and intent
of federal aid has been estab
lished and one can be optimis
tic about the survival of the non
public school, he said.
Mexico City (NC)—Mexico’s
ruling Institutional Revolutionary
Party (PRI) has turned a deaf
ear to a proposal made by one
of its younger members that all
Catholic schools in this country
be closed.
The suggestion was put for
ward in a resolution by Maximo
Gamiz Parralos, a delegate at
the PRI youth congress, who
stated that it was “preferable
for children to go without schools
than to receive a twisted edu
cation.” He said the presence
of the school violates Mexico’s
nominally anticlearical constitu
tion.
The proposal was treated with
scorn by much of the Mexican
press. Despite some press re
ports to the contrary, the youth
congress did not vote on the
resolution. It was not discussed,
at the national PRI convention
the following week.
The independent daily news
paper Ovaciones said in a front
page editorial that it is absurd
to talk of closing Catholic schools
at a time when the country is
struggling to teach nine million
citizens to read.
Those opposing parochial
schools, said the newspaper,
“give no sign of realizing the
serious deficiencies from which
the country is suffering in edu
cating everyone who requires it,
and on the contrary say ‘it does
not matter’ if the 60% ofthe chil
dren receiving instruction in
Catholic elementary schools‘re
main illiterate.’
“As long as the government
remains unable to meet the pro
vision of ... the constitution to
give free instruction to every
Mexican who needs it, it is for
ced by circumstances to allow
private institutions like the
Catholic ones being attacked to
educate the children.”
The magazine Or den stated
editorially that everyone knows,
“and public authorities are the
first among them, that private
education conforms to the norms
set down by the Ministry of Pub
lic Education, and it is contri
buting in the area of elementary
education alone to 60% of the
solution of the problem of edu
cation.”
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