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SERVING 88 SOUTH - GEORGIA COUNTIES
The Southern Cross
DIOCESE OF SAVANNAH NEWSPAPER
Vol. 53 No.29
Thursday, August 24,1972
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REHEARSAL FOR OLYMPIC OPENER -- Children play with will be part of the opening of the Olympics August 26. Some
wire strands as they line up in formation at Munich (Germany) 3,200 children will be involved in the program. (NC Photo)
Olympic Stadium during a rehearsal of a salute to youth which
ANTI-POVERTY GRANT
Savannah Project Gets $11,900
(From NC News Service)
A grant of $11,900 has been awarded
to the Employment Center of Savannah
for job placement of unemployed poor
people, by the Campaign for Human
Development (CHD), the U.S. bishops’
anti-poverty program. The grant was one
of 19 totalling $512,480 announced last
Monday by Bishop Francis J. Mugavero
of Brooklyn, chairman of the Catholic
Bishops’ Committee on Human
Development.
Earlier this month other grants
were awarded totalling $1,004,450.
The Employment Center of Savannah
was developed at the city’s St. Anthony’s
parish under the direction of Father
William Dowling, Diocesan Co-ordinator
of the Social Apostolate and pastor of St.
Anthony’s.
Staffed entirely by volunteers, the
Employment Center provides counseling
for the unemployed poor. A list of job
opportunities is available and prospective
applicants are counseled on how to apply
for the jobs.
Part of the CHD grant will be used to
hire a full-time office director.
The 19 grants announced this week are
Public Reception
A public reception honoring bishop-elect Andrew J. McDonald will be held
the night of September 5th, 1972 in Savannah at the Alee Temple on Skidaway
Road. According to Father J. Kevin Boland, general chairman, “I’m sure there
are many more people who will want to share this wonderful day with Bishop
McDonald than will be able to attend the Ordination rites which will take place
on the morning of the 5th at the Cathedral. I cordially invite them to come out
to the reception. It is open to the public and begins at 8 p.m. on September
5th.”
Savannah’s mayor and many civic dignitaries are expected to be in
attendance.
Brief remarks will be delivered by Mr. Frank Rossiter on behalf of the men of
the diocese and by Mrs. Jack Hall, President of the Diocesan Council of Catholic
Women, on behalf of the women of the diocese.
After other brief remarks by Bishop Gerard L. Frey, Bishop Albert Fletcher,
whom Bishop McDonald succeeds at Little Rock, Arkansas, and Bishop
McDonald there will be a receiving line composed of Bishop McDonald and
members of his family. Refreshments will be served.
Toastmaster for the reception will be Mr. Thomas Coleman, Jr.
spread across a wide range of geographical
locations, ethnic groupings and project
goals. Two are organizations in Virginia,
two each to New York and Arizona and
one each to Kansas, California, Kentucky,
Illinois, South Carolina, Michigan,
Minnesota, New Jersey, Oregon, Texas,
Mississippi, North Carolina and Georgia.
In its first two years, CHD has
distributed over $6.2 million to fund 284
self-help projects. Additional grants are
made by individual dioceses across the
country. The dioceses keep 25 percent of
the money collected locally to fund local
projects, and 75 percent is given to the
national office.
INSIDE STORY
Marriage Discipline
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Genetic Revolution
Pg. 5
Readers Reply
Pg. 7
DCCW Notes
Pg. 8
CHANCELLOR, 2 PASTORS
Bishop Announces New
Pastoral Assignments
In official appointments announced today by Bishop Gerard L. Frey, Father J. Kevin Boland, Rector of
Savannah’s Cathedral of St. John the Baptist and Chancellor of the diocese, has been named to succeed
bishop-elect Andrew J. McDonald as pastor of Blessed Sacrament parish, Savannah. (The bishop-elect will be
installed as bishop of Little Rock, Arkansas, September 7th.)
In addition, Father Boland becomes the Vicar General of the diocese, a post also held by bishop-elect
McDonald, and for the next three years Dean of the Savannah Deanery. Replacing Father Boland as Chancellor
will be Father Gerard A. Murphy who has been serving as Vice-chancellor.
The new Rector of the Cathedral will
be Monsignor Daniel J. Bourke,
Comptroller of the Savannah diocese. The
appointments of all three men are
effective September 15.
In other appointments, Father Frank
Nelson, Vice-officialis of the Marriage
Tribunal of the diocese will become
Officialis and Father John Cuddy, pastor
of St. James parish, Savannah, has been
appointed Chairman of the Diocesan
Ecumenism Commission. These
appointments are effective immediately.
Since his ordination in 1959, Father
Boland has held numerous diocesan and
parochial posts.
He has been an assistant pastor at St.
Mary’s-on-the-Hill parish, Augusta and at
the Cathedral and served as pastor of St.
Michael’s, Savannah Beach from April,
1967 until June 1968.
He has been.a professor at St. John
Vianney Minor Seminary, Episcopal
Master of Ceremonies and secretary to
Savannah’s former bishop Thomas J.
McDonough (now Archbishop of
Louisville). Father Boland became
Vice-chancellor in 1965 and Chancellor in
1968.
Boland
Bourke
Murphy
HEADLINE
HOPSCOTCH
Heart Transplant Dies
In addition, he has served on the
Board of Diocesan Consultors, the
diocesan Personnel Committee and the
Priests’ Senate, and is a former diocesan
Director of vocations to the priesthood.
He is a native of Monkstown, County
Cork, Ireland and was educated and
ordained in Ireland.
Monsignor Bourke is well known
around the State of Georgia, having
served parishes in Savannah, Albany,
Douglas, Atlanta and Augusta since his
ordination.
A native Irishman, Monsignor Bourke
was born in Birr, Offaly, Ireland in 1909.
After receiving his education in Birr and
Dublin, he was ordained at All Hallows
seminary, Dublin, in 1934.
His first pastorate was at Blessed
Sacrament in Savannah, where he served
from 1941 to 1945. After twelve years as
pastor of St. Teresa’s, Albany between
1945 and 1957, Monsignor Bourke went
to Augusta as pastor of St.
Mary’s-on-the-Hill. In 1970 he resigned
his duties in Augusta to become the
diocesan Vicar for Special Administrative
services. In 1971 he was appointed
Comptroller of the diocese.
He has also served as Diocesan
Director of Family Life, Promoter of
Justice, Vicar of the Augusta Deanery, a
member of the Board of Diocesan
Consultors and of the diocesan
Liturgical Commission. He was named a
Domestic Prelate in 1959 and a
Prothonotary Apostolic in 1966.
Father Murphy, ordained in 1968, was
born in Dublin, Ireland, receiving his
elementary, high school and seminary
training in Ireland.
He was assistant pastor of St.
Mary’s-on-the-Hill, Augusta from 1969 to
1971, and associate rector of the
Cathedral since 1971. As Chancellor,
Father Murphy has been relieved of
duties as associate rector, but will remain
in residence at the Cathedral.
TORONTO, Ont. (NC) - Father Edward T. “Ted” Madigan, who lived for more
than two years with the heart of a 14-year-old girl, died of heart failure in St. Michael’s
Hospital, Toronto, Aug. 16. The heart belonged to Marlene James of Lindsay, Ont.,
who died after a car accident. The teenager had donated her eyes to an eye bank and
her parents said Father Madigan should have her heart. Father Madigan had decided to
undergo the transplant operation in December, 1969 after having suffered two severe
heart attacks.
Reject Bias Charge
BALTIMORE (NC) - Officials of the three Catholic hospitals in Baltimore have
objected to a city Community Relations Commission report that asserts the
institutions have not hired or promoted enough members of minority groups. The
officials are Dr. John Collins Harvey, executive vice president and medical director of
Good Samaritan Hospital; Rosemary Bushman, personnel director of Bon Secours
Hospital; and Sister Mary Thomas, administrator of Mercy Hospital. The three, in
interviews published in The Catholic Review of Baltimore, were responding to the
report’s charge that “the degree and the level of minority involvement particularly of
blacks, in the Roman Catholic hospitals is . . .almost nonexistent as to meaningful
level.” Dr. Harvey said Good Samaritan Hospital “since its inception has pursued a
vigorous program of equal opportunity.”
Berrigan Protests
HARRISBURG, Pa. (NC) - Father Daniel Berrigan began a vigil and fast to protest
the 19-week delay in sentencing of his brother on charges of smuggling letters out of
prison. Father Berrigan and another brother, Jerome, camped on the steps of the
federal building where a jury found Father Philip Berrigan guilty of illegally smuggling
letters out of Lewisburg, Pa., Federal Prison in 1970. “It is our belief that our brother
is being held hostage to the Nixon war administration,” Father Berrigan said. “He is
being held hostage because I am free and speaking out against the war.”
Aid To Philippines
New York, Aug. 17 -- Catholic Relief Services, the overseas aid and development
agency of American Catholics, is donating $30,000 for relief and rehabilitation of
thousands of survivors of last month’s devastating floods in the Philippine Islands.
Also, Bishop Edward E. Swanstrom, the agency’s executive director, announced that
Catholic Relief Services was airlifting this week 8,000 pounds of medicines from New
York to the stricken area, flown on donated cargo space by Pan American Airways.
Another 200 tons of clothing and other relief supplies are being dispatched by ship,
Bishop Swanstrom stated. Catholic Relief Services, which maintains an ongoing aid
program throughout the Philippines, has been providing aid to victims of the floods
since the heavy rains began in early July.
School Tax Credits
In associate pastoral appointments,
Father Patrick McCarthy has been named
associate pastor of St. Teresa’s parish,
Albany and Father Ronald Madden has
been appointed associate pastor of Sacred
Heart parish, Savannah.
The Rev. Brendan Breen will assume
the duties of Assistant Pastor of Blessed
Sacrament parish, Savannah on Sept
ember 1.
WASHINGTON (NC) — Three Nixon administration officials opened House Ways
and Means Committee hearings on tax credits with endorsements of legislation
granting $200 credits against individual income tax for tuition paid to nonpublic
elementary or secondary schools. The three officials testifying on the bill were
Secretary of Treasury George P. Shultz, Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare
Elliott L. Richardson, and Caspar W. Weinberger, director of the Office of
Management and Budget. “We believe that the existing system of nonpublic schools,
which educates a tenth of our children, is a vital asset,” Shultz said. “The nonpublic
system provides a diversity which is healthy. It provides, in many instances, a proving
ground for innovation and experimentation which is of great benefit to public
education and the public generally.”