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Vol. 50 No. 12
SERVING 88 SOUTH - GEORGIA COUNTIES
The Southern Cross
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TERRENCE “Teddy” Brady, Grand Marshal of Savannah's
1969 St. Patrick’s Day Parade greets Rt. Rev. Msgr. T. James
McNamara, Rector Emeritus of the Cathedral of St. John the
Baptist On Cathedral steps as parade gets underway, March
17th. Looking on are J. Emmet Moylan Jr., Marshal’s Aide (1.)
and Bishop Gerard L. Frey. Monsignor John D. Toomey, pastor
of Macon’s St. Joseph’s Church, is partially hidden by Mr.
Brady. (Staff Photo by Bob Ward)
Attention
DCCM-DCCW
CFM Units
This year marks the second Joint Convention of
the Savannah Diocesan Councils of Catholic Men and
Women and the annual meeting of the Christian
Family Movement which will take place at the
DeSoto Hilton Hotel in Savannah on April 19-20.
The DeSoto Hilton Hotel is located in the
downtown section of Savannah and is the site of
many conventions. The management requests that all
room reservations be made at least two weeks in
advance, placing the deadline for the DCCW-DCCM
Convention reservations at April 5 at the latest. For
your convenience in making your hotel reservations, a
form is provided on page 8. Mail it directly to the
DeSoto Hilton. There is no need to include a deposit
unless you plan to arrive later than the 6 P.M.
check-in deadline. Check-out time is 1 P.M. Sunday.
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A form is also printed on page 8 for banquet and
brunch reservations for DCCW members, and banquet
reservations for DCCM and CFM members. DCCM
and CFM will hold their own breakfast meetings on
Sunday morning, so reservations for those events
should be made with the reservations chairmen of
those groups.
All reservations for the banquet and brunch should
be made no later than Wednesday, April 16, to Mrs.
Ira E. Smith, 1524 East 37th St., Savannah, Ga.
31404, phone 232-4911, so that a guaranteed number
may be given the hotel. All members of the three
participating organizations are asked to comply with
this request. Cost of the banquet alone is $7.00;
brunch alone is $5,00; registration fee alone is $3.00.
However, a combination rate for banquet, brunch and
registration for DCCW members is $12.50. No
advance deposit is required.
Three special two-hour sightseeing tours are
planned for Saturday morning, April 19, at 10:30
A.M. You may choose from these three tours which
include a bus tour of points of interest around
Savannah, $2.00; a boat tour of the Savannah harbor,
$1.50; and a motorized “train” tour, $2.00. There
must be a guaranteed number for these tours, so it is
requested that you make your reservation for the
tour of your choice as soon as possible with Mrs.
James Flynn, 13 East 62nd St., Savannah, Ga. 31405,
or phone 354-3762.
INSIDE STORY
Susan DeGange
Pg. 2
Church’s Mission
Pg. 3
Black Priests
Pg. 6
John XXIII Fraternity..
Pg. 7
COLUMBUS HIGH SCHOOL
Pacelli Parents
Take Action To
Prevent Closing
Two weeks ago, the Rev. Ralph E. Seikel, Superintendent of Savannah Diocesan
Schools, told parents of Pacelli High School students in Columbus that due to the
impending withdrawal of the Religious Sisters of Mercy from the school faculty, and
the seemingly insurmountable financial problem involved in hiring lay teachers to
replace the Sisters, the school would probably be unable to continue in operation
beyond the present school year.
BISHOP GERARD L. FREY is shown here as he blessed congregation in new St. John the
Evangelist Church, Valdosta, at Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament. Devotion brought to a close
a dedication program March 9th, which began with Confirmations in the morning, a barbecue on
the church grounds in the early afternoon and the dedication ceremony at 3:00 p.m. Rev. Thomas
H. Payne is pastor.
AVOIDS ARMS RACE
Nixon’s ABM Decision
Bishops’ View Similar
“The parents listened
attentively,” said Father
Seikel in an interview with
THE SOUTHERN CROSS
last Tuesday (March 18),
“but it has become apparent
that they were not prepared
to accept too readily the
conclusion that the school
must close. They love their
school, see great value in it,
and they weren’t going to call
it quits without a fight.”
Father Seikel said a
committee of parents has
since planned a two-pronged
attack on the school’s
problems. Phase one was
aimed at solving the problem
of finding two lay teachers to
replace ''the Sisters in
September and the means of
paying them.
The committee of parents
approached the boards of the
city’s Catholic parishes,
asking each to determine the
amount of money it would be
willing to budget for Pacelli
High School for the 1969-70
school year.
St. Anne’s parish will
budget $15,000 for Pacelli
next year, with Holy Family
budgeting $11,000, Our Lady
of Lourdes, $6,200 and St.
Benedict’s Mission, $1,200.
The parents then drew up
a budget for the school,
allowing for the increased
MIAMI (NC) — Miami
teenagers, led by a group of
Catholic Youth Organization
members, representing
various faiths and schools, are
calling on all young people to
“stand up and be counted” in
a peaceful protest against
“filth, obscenity and
corruption in any area, but
specifically in the
entertainment field.”
Entertainment
personalities who have
accepted invitations to
participate in a rally include
Jackie Gleason, Anita Bryant,
Roslyn Kind, the Rhodes
Brothers and the Impact of
Brass.
The movement, which has
support from prominent
citizens and civic groups,
began following a show at
Miami’s Dinner Key
auditorium by a
contemporary “acid-rock”
group, the Doors, which
received $25,000 for a
performance in which they
shouted obscenities over the
microphone and disrobed
while on stage.
Teenagers, many of whom
paid $6 to attend the show,
say they are tired of being
expense for the two extra lay
teachers and two Sisters of
St. Francis from Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania. They arrived at
a budget of $100,000.
The parents then voted to
raise school tuition to a point
which would substantially
increase income without
placing the school’s services
out of the financial reach of
the vast majority of parents.
Tuition costs next year
will jump from $250 to $300
where a family enrolls one
student, and from $250 to
$350 to families which enroll
two or more students at
Pacelli.
Tuition for non-Catholic
students will be increased
from $450 to $540 per year.
A concerted drive will be
mounted to raise the school’s
enrollment from the present
158 students to
approximately 240 or 250
next year.
The parents of each
student were then polled to
determine how many would
continue to send their
children to Pacelli next year.
Once the projected
enrollment was established,
and the parish subsidies
determined, the parents
found themselves $16,000
short of meeting their own
IN MIAMI
“exploited,” and intend to
take a stand to show Miami
and the rest of the world how
many teens really think about
the situation.
Mike Levesque, 17,
spokesman for the group
planning the “Miami Teens
for Decency” rally March 23,
declared:
“I would call upon all
teenagers to stand up and be
budget.
They immediately set
about the task of seeking
outside donations and, within
a period of days, raised the
required $16,000 in cash.
“This completed phase
one, and insured the
continuation of Pacelli next
year,” said Father Seikel.
The Diocesan
Superintendent said work on
phase two has already begun.
Plans are being laid, he said,
“whereby the cooperation of
the civic and business leaders
of Columbus will be sought.”
This phase, he said, will
take a longer time to
complete, “but considering
the e n t husiasm and
determination the parents
displayed during phase one,
there’s no reason to believe
that phase two will not be
just as successful.
“I am delighted beyond
words,” he continued, “by
this deep interest in
continued Catholic education
on a secondary level on the
part of the people of
Columbus. I hope that
parents with children in other
schools faced with difficulties
similar to those facing Pacelli
will be encouraged to similar
efforts to solve them.”
counted if they feel like I do.
We will act as teenagers who
love their parents and
brothers and sisters, and who
take out the garbage at home
instead of creating some.
“It makes my blood boil
to think of how teenagers are
being exploited today in
e very t h i ng--in sex, in
clothing, on TV, on the
radio,” Levesque said.
WASHINGTON (NC) -
President Nixon’s decision on
the antiballistic missile
system showed evidence of a
determination to avoid any
escalation of the nuclear arms
race condemned by the
Second Vatican Council and a
recent pastoral of the U.S.
bishops.
But the President stopped
short of scrapping the ABM
system entirely, which the
American bishops had
suggested might be a step
towards de-escalating the arms
race, and which he was
explicitly requested to do
recently by the American
PAX Association, a Catholic
lay organization whose
chairman is Gordon Zahn.
“It is the responsibility of
the President of the United
States above all other
responsibilities to think first
of the security of the United
States,” Mr. Nixon said at a
news conference (March 14),
at which he announced his
plan for a modified Sentinel
system. “I believe that this
system is the best step that
we can take to provide for
that security.”
President Nixon called for
a substantial modification of
the Sentinel program adopted
by the previous
administration. He asked for
a “safeguard’’ system
consisting, initially, of two
sites designed to protect
Minuteman missile wings in
North Dakota and Montana.
This, the President said,
would serve as a credible
deterrent against a first strike
by an enemy yet without
being considered by them as a
provocative step.
President Nixon said he
had ruled out a “heavy” or
“thick’’ system on the
grounds that this “would be
provocative to the Soviet
Union and might escalate an
arms race.” He said,
moreover, that even the most
advanced “thick” system was
not truly feasible and would
fail to protect millions of
lives in the case of attack.
“The only way that I have
concluded that we can save
lives-which is the primary
purpose of our defense
system--is to prevent war,”
President Nixon stated.
The President said the
modified system he favored
was “deterrent” only and
“can in no way . . . delay the
progress which I hope will
continue to be made toward
arms talks ...”
The American hierarchy,
in a collective pastoral issued
Nov. 15, 1968, reiterated the
Second Vatican Council’s
stated position on the arms
race: “Therefore, we declare
once again: the arms race is
an utterly treacherous trap
for humanity ... it is much
to be feared that if this race
persists, it will eventually
spawn all the lethal ruin
whose path it is now making
ready.”
The American bishops
asserted that the U.S.
decision to build even a
“thin” antiballistic missile
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NCCW Commission
Chairmen Named
WASHINGTON (NC) — New chairmen have been
named for the International Affairs Commission and
the Organization Services Commission of the National
Council of Catholic Women.
Margaret M. Bedurd, sociology professor at the
College of New Rochelle, New York, has been named
national chairman of the international affairs group,
succeeding Mrs. Edgar Boedeker of St. Louis.
Mrs. Robert Florian, Organization Services
Commission chairman of the Chicago Archdiocesan
Council of Catholic Women, has been named
chairman of the national body, succeeding Mrs. Louis
Sweteriitsch of Coraopolis, Pa.
HEADLINE /■*
HOPSCOTCH
DIOCESE
Augusta Confirmation
Bishop Gerard L. Frey will confer the Sacrament of
Confirmation to adults of the Richmond Deanery at St. Mary’s
on-the-Hill Church on Tuesday, March 25th, at 7:30 p.m.
NATION
Bishops’ Meeting
WASHINGTON (NC) — A schedule of news briefings has
been prepared for the April 15 to 17 meeting of the U.S.
Bishops in Houston, Tex. Each day there will be an open session
at 9:30 a.ra, with a bishop talking on a specific topic, followed
by a question and answer session. At noon a news briefing will
be given by Auxiliary Bishop James P. Shannon of St. Paul and
Minneapolis, and at 5 p.m. a panel of bishops will discuss the
events of the day’s meeting and answer questions.
Help For Alcoholics
MINNEAPOLIS (NC) — A drive to raise $25,000 is being
conducted by the Calix Society, a Catholic organization for the
spiritual development of alcoholics. The organization is seeking
funds to provide a full-time salaried secretary and for extension
work of the society, which now is established in the U.S. and
four other countries.
VATICAN
Society Lacks Means
VATICAN CITY (NC) — Workers of the world watch society
grow richer in goods, but not in the means fona just distribution
of those goods, the Papal Secretary of State has asserted.
Writing to the Christian Associations of Italian Workers (CAIW).
Amleto Cardinal Cicognani said: “The worker, who in the final
analysis is the principal and indispensable executor of progress,
sees growing about him a richer and even opulent society that
lacks sufficient arrangements for a more equitable distribution
of goods among all its members.” Human values “are often
suffocated by exclusively material preoccupations, by greed for
political and economic power.”
C.Y.O. Protests Against
Obscenity, Corruption