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PAGE 2—The Southern Cross, March 8,1973
INDUCTION INTO THE NATIONAL JUNIOR
HONOR SOCIETY was held February 16 at Blessed
Sacrament School, Savannah. Students inducted
represent the top ten per-cent of the 7th and 8th
grades averaging B or better in all subjects. From left
to right, top row, are: John Howard, Anne Marie
O’Leary, Cynthia Costa, Tanya Ranta, Cheryl
Harrison, Cynthia Yokum, Mrs. Jerry Horne (Advisor),
Rev. J. Kevin Boland (Pastor), Sister M. Aurelia
(Principal), Anne Trees, Monica Trapani, May Howard
and Charlotte Young. Seated, left to right, are: Ann
Finocchiaro, Miriam Dingle, Billy Trees, Harry De
Lorme, Marc Friday, Shawn Doolan, Pat Lentz, Jeanne
Hoffman.
Pope Limits Papal Electors to 120
A Look at Northern Irish Violence
VATICAN CITY (NC) - Pope Paul
VI has limited the number of cardinals
who may elect his successor to 120 but
is considering adding to electors a
selected group of bishops and the
patriarchs of the Eastern-rite churches.
In the secret consistory that opened
the day-long ceremonies for the formal
installation of 30 new cardinals, Pope
Paul disclosed some of his future plans
for the conclave which will elect the
next pope and revealed the names of
two cardinals he has kept a secret since
his last consistory in 1969.
The main points of the papal speech
given to the older cardinals present in
Rome, included:
-A decree that the number of
cardinals entitled to participate in the
next papal election “will not exceed
120”;
-The exclusion of Eastern-rite
patriarchs from the honor of the
cardinalate;
-Consideration, however, of the
possibility of adding patriarchs to the
cardinal electors in the future;
-Consideration of the possibility of
linking the papal election more closely
to the Synod of Bishops by adding to
cardinal electors the members of the
council of the general secretariat of the
synod;
-Disclosure that in 1969 he had
chosen Czechoslovakian Bishop Stephen
Trochta of Litomerice and the late
Rumanian Bishop Julius Hossu of
Cluj-Gherla as cardinals, but had
reserved their names “in petto”
(meaning in secret) because of various
considerations.
With the revealing of the name of
Cardinal Trochta as a cardinal from the
time of the 1969 consistory, the total
number of members in the college of
cardinals now is 145, of whom 117 are
under the age of 80 and therefore
potential electors of the next Pope.
Cardinal Trochta will take his
seniority among the cardinals from the
date of the last consistory, April 28,
1969, and ahead of the 30 cardinals
installed in the March 5 ceremonies.
Pope Paul said he did not reveal
Cardinal Trochta’s name in 1969
because the late archbishop of Prague,
Cardinal Josef Beran, was near death
and, “even though living in exile” in
Rome still held the “title of the glorious
archdiocese of Prague.” Another reason,
the Pope explained, was that he had
never given up the “desire and hope of
the Holy See to pursue in the meantime
the effort begun years ago to normalize
the situation of the Church in the
Republic of Czechoslovakia . . . .”
The Pope’s disclosure came only days
after the Vatican and the Czech
communist regime had agreed on the
ordination of four new bishops to fill
long vacant dioceses.
Rumanian Bishop Julius Hossu died in
May, 1970. Pope Paul said he had not
disclosed his name because the bishop
had “pleaded with us not to carry out
our intention.” The Pope noted that the
Byzantine-rite Rumanian bishop had
won great merit “for his fidelity, daily
crosses and privations which had their
origin in his fidelity.”
The Pope did not specify why the
Rumanian prelate had “pleaded” not to
be made a cardinal but it would seem
that he feared that the honor might
increase hostility against the Church.
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Charge d’ Affairs
WASHINGTON (NC) - Msgr.
Francesco De Nittis has been named
charge d’ affairs at the Apostolic
Delegation here. The priest, 39, will be
in charge of the delegation’s business
until a replacement is named for
Cardinal Luigi Raimondi, the former
apostolic delegate installed in the
college of cardinals March 5.
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BY FATHER LEO E. MCFADDEN
LONDONDERRY, Northern Ireland
(NC) - A British soldier is shot dead in
the streets of Belfast.
A beer parlor, cleared of innocent
passersby, is devastated by a giant
gelegnite bomb.
A 10-year-old has his legs blown off
by a land mine planted in his own back
yard here - and mercifully dies.
Is this wanton murder and mindless
destruction - which is what the
headlines claim - or a justifiable war for
independence?
Claiming responsibility, more often
than not, for such acts of “warfare” is
the militant wing of the Provisional Irish
Republican Army, familiarly known as
the IRA Provos.
To find out if they are wanton
monsters or folk heroes before their
time, this reporter met with three active;
Provos, including a young, demure
mother in her 20s, on a placid afternoon
in this town the Catholics call by its
original name, Derry.
We met in a decidedly Catholic home,
typical of many a house in Ireland. The
Madonna Immaculate presided over the
mantlepiece; picture of two young men
in windblown cassocks and Roman
collars rested on a table.
Question: Are the IRA murderers?
Answer: British soldiers have illegally
occupied our country. They are fair
game to us and we to them. Even if they
kill us tonight, 10 years from now they
will have to kill our sons or we will kill
them in a just war.
Question: Are the IRA Provos waging
this just war against the Protestants of
Northern Ireland?
Answer: We are at war against the
British government and the British
army. However, should the Protestant
extremists force war on us, we will take
no prisoners.
Question: Recent press reports
indicate the Provos have enlisted foreign
professional killers, the mentally
unbalanced and men with criminal
records. How do you answer this
charge?
Answer: Every IRA Provo in Derry is
Irish-born, has undergone a period of
probation to judge mental stability and
has never committed a crime against
Ireland. Rather than being a gang of
brigands, we are the finest guerrilla
force in the world. Freedom fighters
from all over the world have come here
to study our tactics and our discipline.
Question: Why do you bomb private
business houses and expose the innocent
passerby to injury?
Senior Citizens’
Party March 16
Senior Citizens in the Savannah area,
here’s more news about your St.
Patrick’s Party scheduled for Friday,
March 16th in the Blessed Sacrament
gym.
Everything possible has been arranged
for your enjoyment by the Savannah
Deanery Council of Catholic Women.
Best of all, you bring nothing except
you very own selves!
Here’s the schedule of events:
7 P.M.-8 P.M. - Covered Dish Supper
provided by the member Councils.
8 P.M.-9 P.M. - An hour of great
entertainment featuring William J. (Big
Bill) Lieberman of Radio Station WBYG
as Master of Ceremonies. Singing groups
include “Tybee Lighthouse Barbershop
Quartet” which will also conduct a
“Sing-along;” the “Irreverend Rebels;”
and the “Reverend Shamrocks.”
Climaxing the show will be the Irish Jig
as only Father Cyril Gabbett can do it.
9 P.M.-11 P.M. - Dancing to the
music of Lil Smith and her Combo. This
music will be furnished by the Music
Performance Trust Fund through the
Cooperation of the Savannah
Federation of Musicians Local 447-704
AF of M.
Mrs. Eugene V. Smith, Deanery
President, is General Chairman of the
Party. Assisting her are the following:
Mrs. Louis C. Bergman and Mrs. James
Taylor, Supper; Mrs. Warren P. Cetti
and Mrs. William J. Lynch, Serving; Mrs.
Donald W. Frew and Mrs. Gordon
Whelan, Jr., Entertainment; Mrs. J.
Harry Persse and Mrs. Anthony B.
Purdy, Decorations; Mrs. William C.
Broderick, Publicity; and Mrs. J.T.
Coleman Jr., Transportation.
The public (62 and over) is invited
but reservations are necessary for the
supper. Those Senior Citizens who
have not yet made them should do so by
calling Mrs. William P. Schneider at
352-1758. Mrs. Coleman may be
contacted at 355-3679 if transportation
is needed.
Answer: We are out to bring Britain
to her knees, knowing that Britain must
pay all damages. Almost all the shops
we have hit are British owned.
As for injuring the innocent, we
planted and exploded 28 bombs in the
center of Derry in one week and did not
injure a single person. Despite the strict
security measures imposed by the
British occupiers, we can plant a bomb
wherever we please.
Question: Has the Catholic Church
condemned your tactics?
Answer: For 50 years the Catholic
bishops did not speak out against
discrimination, preferring to sit silently
in their palaces. There are a few priests
who condemn killing from the pulpit,
but almost always they are speaking of
the death of a British soldier, not the
assassination of an innocent Catholic.
This is not meant as an attack on the
Catholic Church but a statement of the
facts as we find them.
Question: You mention assassination.
Is it not true that your men have
kidnapped some persons and shot them
through the head? How do you justify
this?
Answer: We are at war against an
army of occupation and a police force
known for its brutality against
Catholics. We must also keep discipline
within our ranks and for that reason we
have established a full court procedure
of prosecution and defense. Certain
crimes are punishable by death, lesser
crimes carry the penalty of being
wounded in the leg as a reminder that
crime does not pay.
Question: Have you yourselves ever
executed a person?
Answer: One man thus far.
(Within a few days a Protestant
policeman from Derry was found in the
countryside, hooded, gaged and shot
dead through the head to become the
738th victim of violence in nearly four
years of strife in Northern Ireland.)
Although the IRA Provos
emphatically denied they ever
threatened either Catholic or Protestant
to cooperate with them, many Catholics
insist the IRA thrives on intimidation.
It is absolutely true that no person
The Peace Prayer of St. Francis of
Assisi was analyzed by Father Patrick
Adams, OFM, and recommended as a
guide to godly living to an audience of
approximately two hundred American
Legionnaires, auxiliares and guests at a
dinner meeting in Macon, on the
evening of February 27.
Joseph N. Neel, Jr., Post No. 3 and its
Auxiliary Unit offered their annual For
God and Country program participated
in also by a Protestant minister and a
Jewish scholar discoursing on “How to
Keep God in Our Daily Lives and
Work.” Now in its 19th year, this
program has been guided by committees
of laymen and laywomen under the
could ever call the police into a Catholic
neighborhood to prevent a crime.
This is so because the IRA admit they
would kill the police on sight.
Furthermore, whoever called the
police could never return to his home or
place of business as long as the IRA is
armed, which is to say for a long, long
time.
Father Anthony Mulvey, who was an
assistance pastor on the Bogside, the
Catholic ghetto, during the famous
rock-throwing war of August, 1969, and
who stopped a few rocks with the back
of his head, has disowned the IRA from
the pulpit.
“Sit-ins are better than shoot-outs,”
this greying, barrel-chested priest told
NC News in Derry. “The IRA will have
a lot to answer for when this is all
over.”
Father Mulvey insists that only 10
percent of the Catholics in the country
are in favor of what the IRA is doing.
Amid all this talk of violence, I could
not help thinking that the young
mother across the room from me should
really be home making bread, not
bombs.
I asked her why she was associated
with the Provos.
“I think the people of Ireland have
the right to decide what form of
government they want and all the
institutions we have in this country. I
believe the Provos have the only answer:
drive the British out and tear down the
border,” she said.
At the close of my interview with the
Provos, the lady of the house brought in
mugs of hot, creamy coffee and sweet
biscuits, a sure sign that this was a house
of hospitality.
What I did not know that Sunday
afternoon, and what was not mentioned
by the Provos, was that just up the road
some two hours earlier a small Catholic
boy stepped on a land mine in his own
back yard and blew himself out of this
world.
The IRA had planted this mine there
hoping to catch a British patrol, but did
not tell the family that death was in
their back yard.
chairmanships of post and unit
chaplains.
Post Commander Leo E. Reese
presided at the joint meeting of Post
and Auxiliary Unit following dinner
attended by about two hundred
members and guests. It was announced
that this was the first time in the almost
20 year history of the program that all
three speakers were Legionnaires, in
fact, members of Post No. 3, Father
Patrick’s membership application having
been presented and accepted at the
commencement of the meeting.
The dinner and program were
attended by many guests from
neighboring posts and units.
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in the Bronx, New York, involved a first for the institution. Episcopal
Bishop Paul Moore Jr. of New York, was the first Protestant bishop to
visit the hospital for cancer patients in its 74-year history. Before the
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