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CONVENTION PANELISTS discuss topics. (1. to r.) Miss Michelle Robertson, Mr. and Mrs. Dan
O’Leary, Msgr. Andrew J. McDonald, Dr. Edgar Filson and moderator Fr. John Cuddy (standing).
(Photo by Bob Ward)
APRIL 19-20
Committees Announced
For Diocesan Convention
The 30th Annual
Convention of the Savannah
Diocesan Council of Catholic
Women will be hosted this
year bv the Savannah
Deanery Council *oi Catnolic
Women and will be held at
the DeSoto Hilton Hotel in
Savannah on April 19-20.
President of the host council
is Mrs. William P. Schneider.
This year’s Convention
will be held jointly with the
4th Annual Convention of
the Savannah Diocesan
Council of Catholic Men and
the annual meeting of the
Christian Family Movement
of this diocese. Mrs. H. F.
Gall man of Columbus is
DCCW President; Mr. George
Gingell, also of Columbus, is
DCCM President; and Dr. and
Louis Castillian of Savannah
are leader couple of the CFM.
Mrs. Schneider is also
General Chairman of the
Convention, and she will be
assisted by Co-Chairman Mrs.
L. Gordon Whelan, Jr., of
Savannah, and the following
local committees:
Registration: Mrs.
Anthony Purdy, Chairman;
Mrs. Jack Fulton, Mrs. J. C.
Mathews, Mrs. James Head,
Mrs. George Ebberwein, Mrs.
Carl Gailbert, Mrs. Harry
Haslam, Miss Evelyn Daniels,
Mrs. Morris Russell, Mrs.
Alice Horgan, Mrs. Mary
Runyon, Mrs. Walter
Crawford, Mrs. James Harte.
Banquet and Brunch
Reservations: Mrs. Ira E.
Smith, Chairman; Mrs. Henry
Kennedy, Miss Regina
Lytegen, Mrs. Helen
Mulherin, Mrs. B. J. Taylor,
Mrs. John Gallagher.
Convention Souvenirs:
Mrs. J. Harry Persse,
Chairman; Miss Winifred
Cleveland, Mrs. James
Cleveland, Mrs. M. B.
Cosgrove, Mrs. William
DeCastro, Mrs. Victor Polero,
HEADLINE
HOPSCOTCH
DIOCESE
Priests’ Senate
The Priests’ Senate will meet on Thursday, April 24, at 10:30
a.m. at the Holiday Inn at Dublin. Priests wishing to make
proposals should communicate with one of the Senators by
April 14th.
EUROPE
No More March 17?
DUBLIN (NC) — The weather, with constant rain and biting
cold, was so bad St. Patrick’s Day that Prime Minister John
Lynch said at a luncheon following the traditional parade, that
representations should be made to Rome to change the date of
feast of St. Patrick from March 17 to April 17, or May 17.
Others, including businessmen and politicians concerned with
the tourist trade, have expressed support for this suggestion.
Soviets Blast Church
BONN, Germany (NC) — The Church in communist
countries plays a “determining role” in the “conspiracy of the
imperialist enemies,” a Soviet Union publication has charged. In
a new anti-religious blast, Sovetskaya Rossiya, the organ of the
central committee of the Soviet Union Communist party and
the country’s Council of Ministers, said that by concentrated
efforts for the “liberation of the Church” and a systematic
promotion of tourist traffic to socialist countries the Church is
attempting subversion. Such efforts, the publication said, must
be met with “revolutionary vigilance” and with fierce resistance.
NATION
Silent Reflection
SRPINGFIELD, Ill. (NC) - A bill permitting a period of
“silent reflection” in Illinois public schools passed the state
House by a 125 to 32 vote. A smUiar measure passed earlier by
the Senate called for a period of “silent prayer” but the House
changed the wording to “reflection.” The Senate is expected to
concur in the House measure.
Mrs. Marion C. Ham, Mrs.
Ben Brown, Mrs. Eugene
Brickner, Mrs. John Newton.
Decorations: Mrs. J. Mark
Schroder, Sr., Chairman; Mrs.
Warren Cetti, Mrs. F. R.
MacCauley, Mrs. J. W.
Herndon, Mrs. Thomas Fultz,
Jr., Mrs. F. M. Goodson, Jr.,
Mrs. J. O’Leary, Mrs. Charles
McKenzie, Mrs. Carroll W.
Sieber, Mrs. Stanley
Dombkowski.
Hospitality: Mrs. E. G.
Ciucevich, Chairman; Mrs.
Bruce Remler, Mrs. James
Anderson, Jr., Mrs. Earl
Miller, Mrs. Fred Foster, Mrs.
Charlie Slee, Mrs. Lula
Mungin, Mrs. Thomas
McLaughlin.
Door Prizes: Mrs. L. H.
Bazemore, Chairman; Mrs.
Jack Sheppard, Mrs. Eugene
Fitzpatrick, Mrs. James
Dunegan, Mrs. William J.
Sullivan.
Transportation: Mrs.
James Flynn, Chairman; Miss
Kathryn Flowers, Mrs.
Eugene Walker, Miss Eleanor
Collini, Mrs. R. McDonald
Laird.
Display of Religious
Articles: Mrs. Joseph Burke,
Chairman; Mrs. John D.
Stapleton, Mrs. Anthony
Dean, Miss Mary Ray, Mrs.
Kenneth Hiltz, Mrs. Morris
Cox, Mrs. A. K. Gannam, Sr.
Publicity: Mrs. William C.
Broderick, Local Chairman;
Mrs. Eugene V. Smith,
Diocesan Chairman.
Local Committee
Chairmen for the DCCM
Convention have been
announced by Mr. Gingell.
They are: Convention
Chairman, Mr. Thomas
McLaughlin; Hospitality, Dr.
Prince Jackson; Registration,
Mr. John Kelleher.
Chairman for the Saturday
afternoon panel which will be
attended by the combined
groups is Mrs. J. Harry Persee
of Savannah. Father John
Cuddy, Pastor of Savannah’s
St. James Church, will be the
moderator of the panel,
which will have as its theme
“The Value of Life”.
Panelists and their topics are:
Mr. and Mrs. Dan O’Leary,
“Family Life, Old Age and
Euthanasia”; Dr. Edgar
Filson, “Abortion and Birth
Control”; Miss Michelle
Robertson, “The Positive
Contribution of Teenagers”;
and Msgr. Andrew J.
McDonald, “The Value of
Existence vs. Non-Existence”.
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TO PRA Y FOR PEACE M NIGERIA
Pope Paul Will Journey
To Africa Next Summer
VATICAN CITY (NC) — Pope Paul VI has announced he will visit Kampala,
Uganda, in July to pray for peace for the Nigerian peoples who have been
“tormented by the sorrowful events” of a civil war.
The Pope’s visit to Africa would mark the first time that any Pontiff has set foot
on the African continent.
He made the
announcement at the end of a
St. Joseph’s day Mass he
celebrated in St. Peter’s. The
several thousand pilgrims who
were present broke into
resounding applause and
cheers upon hearing the
Pope’s words.
“In our heart we shall bear
the spiritual and civil defstiny
of all Africa,” Pope Paul said.
He said he was concerned for
“the peace of the peoples of
Africa, especially of Nigeria,
whom we know and love so
well, who are so tormented
by the sorrowful events in
their land.”
He said he will also meet
with African bishops who will
be in session in Uganda at
that time.
A year before his election
as Pontiff, Pope Paul had
visited Nigeria in 1962.
Since becoming Pope, he
has made six trips outside of
Italy. These include trips to
the Middle East and India in
1964, the United Nations in
New York in 1966, Portugal
and Turkey in 1967 and
Colombia in 1968.
With his visit to Africa the
only continent the Pope will
not yet have visited will be
Australia. Pope Paul VI is by
far the most traveled Pope in
history. His trip by air to
Kampala will be more than
6,200 miles round-trip.
Jazz Masses In Rome OK,
But Drummers Are Out
VATICAN CITY (NC) — The next time American
jazz artist Mary Lou Williams performs her jazz Mass
in Rome, it will be without her drummer.
In fact, any drummer who plans to accompany
jazz groups in any of Rome’s churches had better
pack up his snares, traps and drumsticks and look
elsewhere.
The matter came up at a press conference where
Angelo Cardinal Dell’Acqua, vicar general for Rome,
was asked why the jazz Mass for the slain civil rights
leader, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., was canceled in
February.
Cardinal Dell’Acqua revealed that it was on his
orders that the jazz Mass at the Pontifical Latin
American College was canceled and turned into a
recital at the end of the regular Mass.
The cardinal explained that it had been his policy
to “compromise” by allowing jazz Masses in Rome so
long as they did not include a drummer. The Williams
group had a bongo drummer.
INSIDE STORY
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CYO Convention
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NEW RECTORY UNDER CONSTRUCTION: The Glenmary
Building Crew, Bro. Ralph Riehle and Bro. Larry Jochim, along
with the parishioners of HOLY TRINITY Church, Swainsboro
are in the process of building a four-room apartment rectory.
The building is scheduled for completion by June 15th.
Of his six previous trips,
the longest was his visit to
Bogota, Colombia, in which
he traveled mory than 11,000
miles round-trip.
The following is the full
text of the announcement he
made at the Mass: “We wish
finally to announce to you
this news, concerning which
much curiosity has been
aroused, much speculation
made and great expectation
nourished. The news is this:
“We have been repeatedly
and pressingly invited by
many bishops and the faithful
to make a visit to Africa,
particularly to Uganda, where
the new sanctuary is being
busily constructed, and where
an altar has been raised to the
honor of the African martyrs
whom we have had the
blessed fortune to canonize.
“It is the general desire
that the ceremony of
consecration of that altar be
presided over by us,
celebrating together with the
African bishops, in the
presence of that faithful
people, whose touching
response to the Christian
vocation is well known.
“We have, then, accepted
this invitation. On this
occasion also, our voyage
will be rapid, and it will
take place, please God, during
the second half of the coming
month of July. We shall visit
Kampala, the capital city of
Uganda, with the goodwill of
the civil authorities, and with
the yearned-for opportunity
of meeting many bishops of
the African continent,
already intending to hold a
meeting there.
“In our heart we shall bear
the spiritual and civil destiny
of all Africa in our prayers
and in the concern of our
minds the peace of the
peoples of Africa, especially
of Nigeria, whom we know
and love so well, who are so
tormented by the sorrowful
events in their land.
“Help us, then, beloved
sons and daughters, with your
good wishes and pray with us,
so that our journey may bear
fruitful gifts of faith, of
peace, of true well-being for
all that land, which already,
from afar, we now greet and
bless.”
Pope Paul is no stranger to
Africa. From July 19 to Aug.
10, 1962, as Cardinal
Montini, he toured central
and south Africa.
He used many means of
transportation to reach his
destinations, and on one
occasion this meant traveling
by canoe down the Niger
River.
When he returned to
Rome, he spent more than
two hours in conference with
Pope John, briefing the
Pontiff on what he had seen.
He later told the people of
his Milan archdiocese: “We
saw how faith is lived there
seriously, being the very
center of life.”
GOOD FRIDAY — Pope Paul venerates the Cross during Good
Friday observance at the Basilica of St. John Lateran last year.
(NC Photos)
BEGINS MAR. 30
Cathedral Lists
Holy Week Rites
Holy Week ceremonies
begin at the Cathedral of St.
John the Baptist in Savannah
with the blessing of Palms at
9:45 a.m. Sunday, March 30,
followed by a High Mass
celebrated by the Rector,
Very Rev. Lawrence A.
Lucree. Music will be
provided by the Cathedral
Men’s Choir.
Tenebrae services will be
held on Wednesday evening
and Friday evening at 7:00
p.m., with music again being
provided by the Men’s Choir.
Bishop Gerard L. Frey will
be principal celebrant at a
concelebrated Mass of the
Holy Chrism, to be offered at
10:00 a.m. He will also
preside at the Mass of the
Last Supper at 8:00 p.m.
Good Friday will be
observed with the Liturgical
Action at 12:00 noon, and
the Stations of the Cross at
3:00 p.m. Bishop Frey will
lead the afternoon devotions.
The E a ster Celebration
will begin at 11:00 p.m.
Saturday, April 6 with the
Easter Vigil service. It will be
followed by a Solemn
Pontifical Mass, with Bishop
Frey as principal
concelebrant, at 12:00
midnight. Music for the Vigil
service and Mass will be
provided by the St. Vincent’s
Academy Chorale under the
direction of Mr. Joseph E.
Schreck.
Twelve priests will
concelebrate the Mass of the
Holy Chrism with Bishop
Frey on Holy Thursday. They
are the Rt. Rev. Msgr.
Andrew J. McDonald, Rev.
John Mulvey, S.M.A., Rev.
Robert J. Teoli, Rev. Walter
DiFrancesco, Rev. Terrence
Kernan, Rev. Francis J.
Donohue, Rev. Joseph
Otterbein, Rev. Stephen
Connolly, Rev. William
Dowling, Rev. Ralph E.
Seikel, Rev. William Coleman,
Rev. Aelred Beck, O.S.B.
In addition, fourteen other
priests will serve as Deacons
and Subdeacons. They are
Rev. James Costigan, Rev.
Gerard Murphy, Rev. Patrick
Mahon, Rev. Michael Delea,
Rev. Brendand Timmins, Rev.
Donal Keohane, Rev. William
Leagy - Deacons. Rev. John
Hurley, Rev. Robert
Mattingly, Rev. Fred Nijem,
Rev. Frank Patterson, Rev.
Leo Wetzel, O.M.I., Rev.
Joseph Costello, S.M., Rev.
Thomas McCarthy, will serve
as subdeacons.
Narrator for the Mass of
the Holy Chrism will be Rev.
John Cuddy. Fathers Kevin
Boland and Lawrence Lucree
will act as Masters of Sacred
Ceremonies. Father John
Fitzpatrick will be Director
of Music.
PRONOUNCES VOWS -
Sister Andrew Marie of the
Holy Spirit, the former Miss
Veronica Thomas, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. S. J. Thomas
of Savannah, pronounced her
vows in the Carmelite Sisters
for the Aged and Infirm
March 19. Sister Andrew
Marie wa^ a member of
Nativity of Our Lord Church
and attended St. Vincent’s
Academy. She made her vows
at St. Teresa’s Motherhouse,
Avila on the Hudson,
Germantown, New York.