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SERVING 88 SOUTH - GEORGIA COUNTIES
NEWSPAPER DIOCESE OF SAVANNAH
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Vol. 47, No. 7
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TO BE SOLD AUG. 21
Home Missions
Beneficiaries
Of ‘Extension’
Bishop Thomas J. Mc
Donough has announced that
Sunday, August 21st will be de
dicated to the home missions
and that, in order to further
the cause of the home mis
sions, EXTENSION Magazine
will be sold throughout the
diocese on that day.
In a letter addressed to the
people of the Diocese of Sa
vannah, and read at last Sun
day’s Masses, Bishop Mc
Donough wrote that “this is
one appeal that deserves our
greatest support. He pointed
out that “The Catholic Church
Extension Society has been the
one organization which has
contributed generously to the
building up of the Mission
Churches in the Diocese of Sa
vannah. Without their finan
cial assistance much of the
work would not have been ac
complished.”
He said that “as evidence
of such benevolence the Cath
olic Church Extension Society,
over the years, has contri
buted $290,946.89 to the Dio
cese of Savannah.”
The Bishop emphasized that
it was through the medium of
the Extension Magazine that
donations are obtained from
the Society. “Many times we
have made appeals in the mag
azine and in every instance a
charitable reader has re
sponded,” He said.
Extension Society is the of
ficial Church organization for
helping aU missionary dio
ceses throughout the United
States and its territories and
dependencies. The major pro
ject of the organization is the
dispensing of funds, raised
through EXTENSION Maga
zine, for depressed and mis
sionary areas-assistance that
has run into the tens of mil
lions of dollars.
This year Extension is ex
pected to build about 100
mission churches t o serve
Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, Ne
groes, Indians, migratory
workers, residents of Appal
achia and others. The Soc
iety has helped build more
than 7,000 churches and cha
pels in its 60 years’ exist
ence.
Hundreds of seminarians
will depend on Extension this
year for all or part of their
seminary expenses - future
priests to serve in the no
priest areas of the United
States, such as North Caro
lina which is less than 1 per
cent Catholic (Tanganyika is
16 per cent Catholic); Georgia,
1.75 per cent Catholic ( the
C ongo is 33 per cent Catholic);
Tennessee, 2 per cent Catho
lic (Ghana is 8.1 per cent
Catholic); Oklahoma, 4 per
cent Catholic (New Guinea is
14 per cent Catholic).
Emergency aid is also given
after such catastrophes as the
Alaskan earthquake, a Louis
iana hurricane, or a Minneso
ta flood - clothes and blank
ets, liturgical furnishings.
Extension supplies these
where needed.
The Society also operates
one of the nation’s largest lay
mission programs - the Ex
tension Volunteers. Hundreds
of Volunteers are working full
time in the United States mis
sions for a year or longer,
most of them college grad
uates.
In the five years since the
program began, well over
1,000 Volunteers have been ac
cepted as teachers, nurses,
social workers, catechists and
Newman center coordinators
at secular universities. As
signments range from Appal
achia west to Provo, Utah and
south to Kiln, Mississippi.
One of the main instruments
through which the Society
raises funds is EXTENSION
Magazine with a circulation of
more than 300,000. This
general family magazine re
ceived top awards from The
Catholic Press Association
this year for excellent cover
age of Vatican CouncilII, civil
rights and color cover.
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HEADLINE
HOPSCOTCH
Named Administrator
WASHINGTON (NC)—Pope Paul VI has appointed Bishop
Joseph B. Brunini to be apostolic administrator of the Natchez-
Jackson diocese, which comprises the state of Mississippi.
Bishop Brunini has been auxiliary bishop to the Most Rev.
Richard O. Gerow, bishop of Natchez-Jackson, since November,
1956. The appointment was announced here by Archbishop
Egidio Vagnozzi, Apostolic Delegate in the United States.
EUROPE
Berlin Wall
BERLIN (NC)—Over 500 members of the international Pax
Christi movement came to West Berlin to pray for peace on
the fifth anniversary of the construction of the Berlin wall.
The Pax Christi members from France, Holland, Spain, Ger
many, Switzerland, and Great Britain, met for Mass at the
church of Maria Regina Martyrum, a memorial to victims of
nazism.
Superior General
PADERBORN, Germany (NC)—Sister M. Augustilde Giesen
of Jersey City has been elected the first American superior
general of the Sisters of Christian Charity. Sister Augustilde,
former provincial of the province headquartered at Mendham,
N.J., was director of the province’s junior sisters attending
Marillac Sisters’ Formation College at the time of her elec
tion.
AN APPLE FOR THE TEACHER? — Temptation was too great for Jimmy.
Maybe teacher will get the next one. Registration is scheduled for schools
of the Diocese of Savannah on Monday, August 29th. Classes will begin Au
gust 30th. This issue of The Southern Cross contains a special Catholic
School Section. (NC Photo)
WORKSHOPS SET
State K. of C. Officials
Will Meet In Savannah
The semi-annual meeting of
Grand Knights, District Depu
ties, and State Officers of the
Georgia State Council, Knights
of Columbus, will be held in
Savannah on Sunday, August
28, at the home of Savannah
Council #631 commencing at
noontime it was announced by
Daniel J. Keane, State Deputy.
ing session.
Moderators and Panelists
are as follows:
K. of C. Membership
and Insurance
Moderator, Karl A. Holman
of Savannah; panelists, James
L. Stedman, Past State Deputy
Catholic Advertising
and Newman Apostalate
Moderator Thomas J. Mc-
honey, Jr. of Savannah; Panel
ists, Reverend Paul M. Burk
hart of Brunswick, Charles
C. Chesser, Past State Deputy
from Augusta, Joseph J. Dem-
bowski of Warner Robins and
John Garrett of Brunwick.
HEALTHY FAMILY LIFE ANTIDOTE
Authority Crisis
Called Threat To
Church and
CLEVELAND (NC)—A car
dinal cautioned here that
Church and State alike today
are threatened in this coun
try with a major crisis—
the crisis of authority.
New York’s Francis Car
dinal Spellman, addressing the
Fraternal Order of Eagles
convention dinner here, pre
scribed an antidote to over
come the conflict—a strong,
healthy family life.
“The basic unit of both
Church and nation is the
family, and it is here —
within the family — that the
principle of authority is either
nurtured or damaged,” Car
dinal Spellman declared.
“There can be no strong
authority within the Church
or the nation unless it is
found first in the home. For
there authority is respected
or rejected; it is loved or it
is lost. A Church is as good
as the family life of its mem
bers. A nation is as strong as
the community of its homes,”
the Cardinal said.
The Cardinal described the
“crisis of authority” as the
tensions and conflicts that
have arisen “between those
who rule and those who are
ruled, between those who teach
and those who are taught, be
tween those who lead and those
who are led.” He said the
Church has its own “crisis of
authority.”
* ‘The harmonious mating of
these counterparts is being
seriously threatened, and
sooner or later there must
come an understanding or
there will be divorce. Sooner
or later we shall find either
that the old institutions have
been renewed and reformed,
or that they have been demo
lished, leaving future genera
tions nothing on which to build.
This latter alternative would
spell disaster,” the Cardinal
said.
the gigantic strides made by
man in recent years, he added.
“Therefore, within the
Church,” he said, “there has
been a revolution. It has been
peaceful and orderly revolu
tion, but it deserves the
name of revolution.”
“But change is one thing,”
he continued. “The effort to
annihilate the past is some
thing else. Whenever a revo
lution occurs there are al
ways some who consider it
an invitation to change nearly
everything; to challenge too
much; to destroy what is vital
and necessary along with that
which has outlived its time.”
“This is change for the
sake of change, and while
the voices which clamor for
it are a small minority, they
are loud and they disturb the
peace of the revolution. They
attack authority recklessly,
because authority stands for
order, for direction, for keep
ing our best traditions,” the
Cardinal said.
Cardinal Spellman said he
favors “fair and open” criti
cism, but questioned “ser
iously that any good can come
from some of the harsh and
carping criticisms that have
been made, from the outright
resentment and ridicule of
those in authority.”
“I am convinced this does
harm. Not to those in au
thority; it does harm to the
cause of healthy progress. It
confuses people and misleads
them. It endangers false ideals
and illusory prospects.
Cardinal Spellman said the
“same rebellion against au
thority disturbs our national
State
life.” He acknowledged there
is “room for discussion of
issues and the taking of strong
stands.”
He singled out the conflict
in Vietnam as one example
where many distinguished
Americans are violently op
posed, but he reminded also
that no one “is pleased it
started and wants it to con
tinue.”
“To hope for a solution and
to plead with our government
to find it is every man’s
right and every man’s duty,”
Cardinal Spellman said. “But
to picket and jeer the Presi
dent of the United States and
castigate him as a warmong
er is no man’s right. I have
been appalled to see scorn
and ridicule heaped upon the
man elected as the leader of
oiir nation, first of all because
he is the leader of our nation,
and secondly because no
President could be more
patient and persevering in the
pursuit of peace.”
The Cardinal said repeat
edly “our government has
sought negotiations at the
peace table,” but the efforts
have been in vain “because
our enemies want not trea
ties but surrender.”
“Authority which is not ser
vice becomes a tyranny, but
in a happy home it is never
tryanny because it is linked
with love. Good parents love
their children as their own
flesh and blood. They seek
only the best for them. They
want to develop them into ma
ture men and women able to
shoulder life’s burdens and
enjoy its opportunities for
happiness.”
FACULTY MEMBER
Second Sister
This meeting of officials of
the fifteen K. of C. Councils in
Georgia will take the form of
workshops outlining the pro
grams for this fraternal year,
panels will be conducted
covering the subjects of Mem
bership, Insurance, Pornog
raphy, Catholic Advertising
and Newman Apostalate Work.
His Excellency, the Most
Reverend Thomas J. Mc
Donough, Bishop of Savannah,
will be the principal speaker
and will address the conclud
from Charleston,S.C.;George
L. Gettier, K, ofC. Regional
Insurance Supervisor of Char
lotte, N.C.
Pornography
Moderator, Eugene N. Mc
Cracken of Savannah; Panel
ists, Andrew J. Ryan, Jr.,,
Solictor General of Chatham
County, Anthony K. Gannam,
Jr., of Savannah, Gerald B.
Gardner, Jr. Past State Deputy
of Brunswick, Gerald Mettler
of Warner Robins, Georgia.
The purpose of the meet
ing said Keane “is to indoc
trinate the Knights of Geor
gia to these programs and
motivate them to accomplish
great good for our Order and
Holy Mother Church.
A preliminary meeting of
the Board of Directors of the
Georgia State Council will be
held Saturday evening, August
27, at the home of Holy Fam
ily Council #5588 commencing
at 7:30 p.m.
The crisis “permeates life
of every level,” “rocks the
foundations of every tradi
tion we know, and it leaves
most of us uneasy and deeply
concerned,” Cardinal Spell
man said.
Much of the “revolution”
within the Church has resulted
from the changes effective
as a result of the Second
Vatican Council, the Cardinal
asserted. The changes were
necessary to keep pace with
Savannah K.C. Meeting Participants
At St. John’s
The Very Reverend William
V. Coleman, Rector of Saint
John Vianney Minor Seminary,
has announced the appointment
of a second Nun to the faculty
of Savannah’s Minor Semi
nary.
Sister Joseph Mary,
R. S. M. will teach Biology
and will assume her duties
when the school opens next
month. Sister Mary Car
mine O. S. F. was named to
the faculty earlier this Sum
mer.
In announcing the appoint
ment Father Coleman said,
“We feel very fortunate at
Saint John’s to have the ser
vices of a second Religious
Sister on our faculty.”
“Not only will Sister’s pre
sence allow us to enlarge our
curriculum,” he said, “but
will present an added opportu
nity for growth in understand
ing for our students. We wel
come her and hope that she and
sister Mary Carmine will add
a whole new dimension to
Saint John’s.”
\lso a faculty member at
Saint Vincent’s Academy,
Savannah, Sister Joseph Mary
has taught at Mercy High
School and Mount Saint Agnes
in Baltimore and at Holy
Trinity High School in Wash
ington, D. C.
During the summer months
the seminary has completely
equipped a Biology Lab.
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