Newspaper Page Text
n
ij
Of*c
t.
i ■
j i
* t
i 0
n
* a
il.(;
Ip
' if,
y :
!
[
Msgr. Toomey—
(Continued from Page 1)
the Cathedral of Christ the
King, Atlanta, on June 7,
1941.
He served as Assistant
Rector of the Cathedral and
as Pastor of Sacred Heart,
Milledgeville until 1956 when
he was named pastor of St.
James, Savannah. He
supervised the construction
of the Church, school and
convent of St. James. On
June 15, 1968 he was
transferred to Macon where
he served as pastor of St.
Joseph’s Church at the time
of his death.
Msgr. Toomey has held
many and varied Diocesan
posts during his more than a
quarter of a century of
service to the Catholics of the
Savannah Diocese. Posts he
held are as follows:
Diocesan Consultor from
November 1956 until his
death. He was named
Spiritual Moderator of the
D.C.C.W. and Director of the
Legion of Decency in 1946;
Named to the Administrative
Council in Nov., 1957; Parish
Priest Consultor, March 1957;
Vicar for Religious, August
1959; Chairman Liturgical
Commission, Dec. 1960;
Diocesan Coordinator for the
Social Apostolate, Sept.
1967.
He was named a Domestic
Prelate with the title of Right
Reverend Monsignor by the
late Pope John XXIII in
November of 1960.
Monsignor is survived by a
sister, Mrs. M. W. Ussery of
Greenwood, S.C., two nieces
and a number of cousins.
Youth Play Santa
Under the combined leadership of Ceil O’Connor, President
of the CYO, Saint James Parish and Renee Ramagosa, President
of Saint Frances Cabrini Parish, fifty-five children were bussed
by Mr. Kelly of Saint James Parish from various parts of the city
to Whitfield Avenue on December 21st and enjoyed an
afternoon of fun, food, and visit from Santa himself. The entire
O’Connor family reinforced the very energetic CYO
committees. The Christmas party was a great success because of
the love and joy that yras shared. The teenage hosts, their priest
advisors, and their parents in their spirit of generosity and
service were well worthy of the commendations of Paul to Titus
in the next day’s liturgy: “Brethren: This is how men should
regard us: as servants of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of
God. The first requirement of a steward is that he prove
trustworthy.”
HONORED - On Sunday December 14th, at the 11:00 a.m.
parish assembly for Eucharistic worship, Mrs. Eileen Stiles was
publicly recognized for her contributions to Our Lady of
Lourdes Parish Church, Columbus, and the Diocese of
Savannah. Mrs. Stiles, wife of Major Howard Stiles, came to
Columbus in 1965 to fulfill a military assignment at Ft.
Benning, Ga. but now must move away to fulfill another
assignment. Mr. Quentin Fagan, Chairman of Our Lady of
Lourdes Parish Council, read a resolution passed by the Parish
Council to honor Mrs. Stiles. The resolution is as follows: “The
parish family of Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church,
Columbus, Georgia, wishes to express its sincere gratitude to
Eileen Stiles for having made its parish life more beautiful and
more meaningful. Mrs. Stiles contributed with unfaltering zeal
and fidelity through many activites including Our Lady of
Lourdes School, parish liturgical functions, parish social affairs,
and the Council of Catholic Women on a Parish, Deanery, and
Diocesan level. We wish her God-speed and look forward to that
day when we can once again claim her as one of our very own.”
The Rev. George C. James, Pastor, then presented Mrs. Stiles
with a certificate and Crucifix as a token of appreciation. On
Tuesday evening, December 16th, the Parish Council of Catholic
Women honored Mrs. Stiles at a Farewell dinner.
MASON
INC.
AD 2-4192
18-20 W. BRYAN ST.
Don Auld’s
PRESCRIPTION SHOP
Since 19SS
Pick up * Delivery
23*4781
191# Abercorn
Savannah
•Printing
•Office Supplies
•Office Furniture
•Ditto Duplicating
Machines -and Supplies
SAVANNAH
SANDWICH SHOP
9 Hughes Avenue. Phone
35 4-16 39. “Catering For
Parties — Weddings —
Receptions.” Assorted
Sandwiches.
Jk Eight offices
near where you live, worH or shop
* Full Service
for all your banking
Hi Person-to-Person
helpfulness you can count on
SAVANNAH BANK
S. TRUST COMPANY
MAIN OFFICE: BULL and BRYAN • BULL and DUFFY • W BROAD and HARRIS
TRAFFIC CIRCLE • CROSSROADS SHOPPING CENTER • MEDICAL ARTS SHOPPING CENTER
ABERCORN and BRYAN • ABERCORN and STEPHENSON MEMBER FDIC
SAVANNAH PAROCHIAL CHAMPIONS — The football team McBride, Father John Cuddy, Dennis McBride and Father
of St. James School, Savannah, 1969 K. of C. Parochial League Patrick Shinnick. (Photo by Bob Ward)
Champions are pictured with Father Michael Delea, James
Pope Paul Prods Mayor Of Rome
Over Condition Of Slum Areas
VATICAN CITY (NC)~
Pope Paul VI has been
striving to awaken
consciences, both personal
and public, to the
“monstrous problem” of
Rome’s shantytowns.
His Christmas visit to a
slum on Rome’s desolate east
side prompted him to fire off
a telegram to Rome’s Mayor
Cielio Darida, urging him or
mobilize “all forces sincerely
sensitive to the lamentable
problem of the slumd-
wellers.”
The mayor’s prompt reply
so heartened Pope Paul that
he held it in his hand like a
trophy at his regular blessing
of the crowds in St. Peter’s
Square the following Sunday
(Dec. 28).
.1 ut • .a.
! What *Mayor Darida had
said was that despite Rome’s
“well known financial
difficulties”--the city coffers
are just about empty-he and
his city council have done all
in their power to find
adequate housing for the
city’s slumdwellers.
He cited a public housing
program and city-sponsored
attempts to find decent
privately owned housing at
low cost. But he said the city
itself is not in a position to
solve the problem, and had
called upon the national
government for help.
The national government,
Mayor Darida said, had
responded favorably and was
submitting its proposals to
parliament at its next sitting.
Pope Paul, referring to this
reply as a “postive message,”
told crowds in St. Peter’s
square that “social welfare,
progressive and official,
cannot exonerate anyone
from doing something, even
with limited means and in an
incomplete way, when the
needs uncovered are still so
grave and urgent.”
The following day Mayor
Darida came with his council
to the Vatican for traditional
year-end greetings to the
Pope. Pope Paul seized the
occasion to recall their
exchange of messages, and
asked: “Will they not perhaps
reawaken efficacious
sentiments of -social
solidarity, of new resolutions,
of unbending courage, of
administrative skill for the
solution of the monstrous
problem of giving shelter,
schools, church, work and
breath to the influx of the
poor.”
He also noted that Rome
was about to celebrate the
first centenary of restoration
as the capital of a reunited
Italy. Italy was united under
the House of Savoy at the
expense of papal lands,
among others, and of the
capital of a reunited Italy.
Italy was united under the
House of Savoy at the
expense of papal lands,
among others, and of the
capital of the papal
territories, Rome.
Pope Paul, many of whose
predecessors had ruled Rome
as temporal sovereign, said he
hopes the “illustrious
occasion” of the restoration
of Rome as capital of Italy
will have its most significant
effect in bringing the basics
of life to Rome’s
slumdwellers.
About 40,000 families,
most of them immigrants
from the economically
underdeveloped south of
Italy, live in rude shelters that
have risen along the tattered
edges of Rome since World
War II. Most of these
“barracks,” as Romans call
them, lack running water or
sure protection against the
elements.
Pope—
(Continued from Page 1)
their contradictory vices.
Man, making himself a giant
without a spiritual, Christian
animation, callapses under his
own weight. He lacks the
moral strength which makes
him really a man. He lacks
the capacity to judge the
hierarchy of values. He lacks
the transcendental reasons
which give lasting motivation
and support to his virtues.”
At the midnight Mass for
diplomats, Pope Paul
remarked that, despite “the
light of thought, of science,”
modern man seems to be
“walking in the dark.”
He described this as “the
darkness of doubt, which
seems to surround everything
like deep night.”
The Pope addressed the
diplomats as “representatives
of a power that is absolute in
its own order.”
Driving early the next
morning to Mass at St.
Agapito parish in the
Prenestino slum section of
Rome, Pope Paul seemed to
The socialist newspaper
Avanti welcomed Pope Paul’s
efforts on behalf of Rome’s
slumdwellers, but asserted
that Rome’s economic life is
groaning beneath the
oppressive weight “of some
few special interests” that
draw their strength from ties
“to certain well known
Vatican circles.”
be traversing a deserted city.
For his arrival there were
only several hundred persons
waiting at the chapel to greet
him.
In his Christmas homily to
the slumdwellers, Pope Paul
said: “For the Lord, there
was no place in pleasant
houses.” He described Christ
as “a slumdweller.”
The Pope distributed
Communion and later shook
hands with parishioners,
whose numbers had grown
during the course of the Mass.
One person out of eight in
the parish is reckoned as a
Mass-goer. One family out of
three lives in what Italians
call “a barracks,” which
means a hastily erected
shelter dating back usually to
World War II and lacking
running water or even full
protection from wind, rain
and cold.
When Mass was over, Pope
Paul visited a new widow who
has been left with five young
children. He gave her the
equivalent of about $500 and
some Christmas sweets for
the children.
PRESENTS FOR ‘ADOPTED’ FAMILIES - Savannah’s St.
James Home and School Association, under the active direction
of Mrs. Edgar Filson, President Elect, conducted a successful
program which made Christmas a little happier for some and
more meaningful for others. Provided with names by Sister
Catherine Moore of the Savannah Social Apostolate, the
Association delivered furniture, food, clothing. Christmas trees
and toys to deserving area families, both white and black as well
as Catholic and non-Catholic. The store of goods which filled
three buses, two station wagons and a truck were collected by
all grades at St. James School. An interesting feature of the
program included the assignment to each grade of a family. The
generous response to the “adopted” families had the full
cooperation and endorsement of Mother David Marie Principal
and all members of the faculty. Pictured above are members of
the faculty. Home & School Assoc, and students of St. James
with collected presents for “adopted” families. (Pollack & Daly
Photo)
PAGE 7 The Southern Cross, January 1, 1970
SAVANNAH
Basketball
League Set
The basketball section of
the Knights of Columbus
Parochial School League in
Savannah will begin play this
weekend. The announcement
was make jointly by Karl A.
Holme n, President of the
league and Rogers
Templeton, league
commissioner.
There will be seven teams
in both the boys section and
the girls section of the league-
this year with one team in
each section playing two
games each weekend. Games
will be played on Saturday
and Sunday each weekend
and the league will alternate
among the gyms at St. Pius,
Blessed Sacrament and Sacred
Heart.
Ten weekends playing on
Saturday and Sunday
afternoon and the eleventh
weekend the final games of
the regular season are
scheduled on Saturday only.
Sunday, March 15 being open
with no games scheduled. A
tournament will follow the
regular season being
tentatively scheduled the
weekend of March 20 - 21 -
22 with the tournament
championships being decided
on Palm Sunday afternoon,
March 22.
Games scheduled the first
weekend of play are as
follows:
Time
1:00 P.M. (Boys)
2:00 P.M. (Girls)
SATURDAY
St. Pius Gym
Blessed Sacrament - St. Mary
Blessed Sacrament - St. Mary
3:00 P.M. (Boys)
St. Michael - Cathedral
4:00 P.M. (Girls)
St. Michael - Cathedral
SUNDAY, JANUARY 4, 1970
Time St. Pius Gym
1:00 P.M. (Boys) St. James - Nativity
2:00 P.M. (Girls) St. James - Nativity
3:00 P.M. (Boys) Sacred Heart - St. Mary
4:00 P.M. (Girls) Sacred Heart - St. Mary
Readers
Reply
Editor:
Regarding the story that I
read on the life of Jesus, I am
very much surprised at you
people. In the statement you
made, “HE ms turned over
to HIS enemies and went
through the mockery of a
trial. “HE might have been
their enemy, but, they were
not His enemies. Do you see
what I mean? Someone can
come along and slander or
defame our GOD. So please,
take another look at that
statement.
Norman James Seldomridge
Savannah
Atlantic
'jgANK
AND TUl>T COMPANY
HlMiit Menu IIMI T itiviMK Ciiriumi
27 Bull on the Square
:&fnsv
BRADLEY LOCK
& KEY SHOP
Knives — Scissors
Barber Clippers
Yale Keys — Safes Opened
Keys Fitted — Gunsmith
AD 2-2147 Night EL 4-1047
24 E. State Savannah, Ga.
P.S. HE knew that these
people would do this. So why
would you say they were HIS
enemies?
SOUTHERN
VENETIAN
r— BLIND CORP
L- REPAIRS - REFINISHING
LAUNDRY
Paulsen & 69th EL 5-6675
Maxwell Sh Hotel &
House SV Restaurant
COFFEE Blend
Good To The L-jrcVOrop
BELFORD CO.
316 W. Congress AD 3-1171
BARGAIN SPOT
Savannah’s Leading Fabric
Center. Dress, Drapery, Slip
Cover and Upholstery Fabrics.
38 Barnard SL (Downtown).
Phone 234-2428. Louis J.
Oppenheim.
Savannah, Ga.
REBUILT MOTORS
AUTOMATIC
TRANSMISSIONS
NO MONEY DOWN
Central Motors
GARAGE MACHINE
SHOP
410-510 W. 31St.
236-5707 Savannah
LA VISTA
RESTAURANT
NO
BEER
• STEAKS
• CHICKEN
CATFISH & HUSH PUPPIES
ALL YOU CAN EAT
AND OTHER SEAFOODS
ORDERS TO TAKE HOM[
OPEN 12 NOON . ClOSE 9 30 P.M.
CLOSED ALL DAY MONDAY
745-4675
3040 VincviJle Avc. At Vista Circle
WHITAKER AT HUNTINGDON
Robert T. Henderion • Lindsey P. Henderson,
Hrndrrson $ros.
Funeral Home
'Georgia'! Oldest
Funeral Home"
Phone 232-8139
.-I
pcpqfl
Savannah
Uneeda Glass Co.
PLATE GLASS
FURNITURE TOPS
MIRRORS,
AUTO GLASS INSTALLED)
l'HONE FA 7-3285
1439 -6th AVE. COI.|JMBUH
Langford & Lynch
For Eye Care
See Your Eye Physician
For Eye Glasses See
OPTICIANS
704 Abercorn Street
Ph. 232-8888 Savannah, Ga.
*2r «>^i
w > up* wiv* up* up* up* UT* UT* O,
the nationally famoutty
# Jiratra'
J|j. RESTAURANT • LOUNGE
GIFT SHOP X.
*o AMPLE FREF parking C
& SAVANNAH &
fj 4a -sir- 4a 4i|V-
vj}* Up* Up* Up* up* sjp* Up*
Stephens Tire
Company
Distributors for U.S. Royal
Tires Recapping — Front End
and Brake Service — Batteries
GEO. W. STEPHENS
PHONE 234-5144
LIBERTY &
MONTGOMERY STREETS
Everything for the
Sick Room
Hospital Beds - Wheel Chairs
-Invalid, Walkers - Patient
Lifters. Many other Sickroom
needs..
Prescriptions called For
and Delivered
WACHTELS
Physician Supply Co.
Paul H. Ewaldsen
408 Bull St. - AD 6-427