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PAGE 8—The Southern Cross, October 18,1973
BY SR. M. CHARLENE, R.S.M.
BUS FORMERLY USED TO SHOW TOURISTS Savannah’s historical
sites now ferries parishioners of St. Benedict’s parish to Mass and other
parish functions.
ST. BENEDICT’S SAV.
Parish Bus Has Many Uses
By Rev. Fred Nijem
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Around The Diocese
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Obituaries
* Mrs. Alice Weltch Carpenter of Augusta, October 7th
* Mr. Earl Cecil Johnson of Savannah, October 7th
* Mayor Motie Wiggins of Albany, October 7th
* Mr. George Walter Parker of Savannah, October 10th
* Mrs. Sue Elizabeth Black of Statesboro, October 10th
Marriages
* Miss Andrea Joan Stuckart of Augusta, Ga., and Mr. Henry Welb Jr. of New
Orleans, La., October 13 in St. James Major Church, New Orleans.
*Miss Valerie Marie Hastings of Augusta, Ga., and Mr. David Finley Crockett of
Charlotte, N.C., October 13 in St. Mary’s on the Hill Church, Augusta.
Necrology
*Rt. Rev. Msgr. Joseph F. Croke, Oct. 19,1951
*Rt. Rev. Msgr. Louis F.X. Bazin, Oct. 21,1916
*Rt. Rev. Msgr. Thomas A. Brennan, Oct. 27,1963
Area Belmont Students
Two Catholic students from the Diocese of Savannah, have enrolled as new students
for the first semester at Belmont Abbey College, Belmont, North Carolina. They are
Rosalind D. Roy, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Gene Roy of 1600 Pearl Avenue,
Albany, a freshman at the Abbey and a graduate of Albany High School; and Gloria M.
Carr, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. O.B. Carr of 1511 Brogdon Court, Savannah, also a
freshman at the Abbey and a graduate of St. Vincent’s Academy in Savannah.
St. Mary’s-on-the-Hill Auxiliary
The Ladies Auxiliary of St. Mary’s-on-the-Hill parish, Augusta, held its October
meeting last week under the chairmanship of Mrs. A. Joseph Green. Guest speaker for
the meeting was Mr. Ron Bonitatibus, Resource and Research Co-ordinator for the
Augusta Deanery Social Apostolate. His topic was “Meals-on-Wheels,” a program
designed to assist senior citizens who are in need of at least one hot meal per day. Mrs.
Joe Kelley is the Deanery representative from St. Mary’s and the program has already
begun this service.
Dublin Catholic Women Meet
Immaculate Conception parish Council of Catholic Women met Oct. 3rd in the
parish hall. Present were twenty members and Father Raphael Toner S.T., pastor.
Highlighting the meeting was a color-slide presentation by Mr. Michael F. Harkins. Mr.
Harkins is a Social Studies Consultant for the Heart o£ Georgia School System and
recently returned from a two month tour of India. A social hour followed the meeting.
Human Life Seminar
A Human Life Seminar for the Southeast will be held at Augusta, November 3 and
4. The Augusta Chapter of Right to Life will sponsor the regional event, with
representatives coming from Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida and
Alabama. Scheduled speakers include Dr. John Willke, of Cincinnati, member of the
Board of National Right to Life, and Georgia State Senator Eugene Holley.
SENATE OF RELIGIOUS -- On Saturday, October 13th, the fall
meeting of the Diocesan Senate of Religious was held at Immaculate
Conception Parish Hall in Dublin. Pictured front row, left to right, Sister
M. of the Angels Burke, I.H.M.; Sr. Francis Catherine Schmitt, C.S.J.; Sr.
M. Brigid Buttimer, R.S.M.; Sr. Mercedes Sullivan, R.S.M.; Sr. Florence
Marie Young, S.B.S.; Sr. Mary Wabo, O.S.F.; Sr. Kevin O’Callaghan,
P.V.B.M.; Sr. M. Francita Zona, O.S.F. (Sec.). Second row, left to right,
Sr. Laura Ann Grady, C.S.J. (Pres.); Sr. M. Assunta Desposito, R.S.M.; Br.
Gilbert Barry, F.M.S. (Treas.); Sr. Grace Marie Dillard, R.S.M. (V. Pres.);
Sr. M. Rosalie O’Connor, O.S.F.; Sr. M. Bernard O’Riordan, O.S.U. Not
pictured: Sr. Rose Margaret Schweers, C.S.J., Sr. M. Loretta, and Sr. M.
Carmelita.
BISHOPS OF VIETNAM
Pleas Fell on Deaf Ears
The heart of religion is the disclosure
of a Mystery and the goal of religion
teachers is the evoking of such a
disclosure followed by commitment.
How best to achieve this goal? This
question is asked continually by all
responsible for the Religion program at
St. Vincent’s Academy. Therefore,
witness, integration of all aspects of a
Christian life, and individualized
instruction keynote the program.
Formal presentations -- with the use
of audio-visual aids when helpful - on
the Old Testament, Life and Teachings
of Jesus, the Church, Church History,
Sacraments, Virtues, Social Teachings of
the Church, World Religions, etc., form
one aspect. Small group meetings, which
help each member clarify and
personalize information, are another
aspect. Worship and ritual also aid
integration. Days of retreat and special
prayer are planned, small groups have
Masses and prayer services, and each
month members of one class plan a
special liturgy for the whole school
community. Seniors planned the Mass
of the Holy Spirit to express openness
to the Holy Spirit to guide our year, and
our desire to offer ourselves and all our
activities to God for His greater glory.
At the point in the celebration when the
Priest washed his hands, Sr. M. Jude,
representing the faculty, and the
officers of the Student Council and
senior class, representing all student
leaders, had their hands washed by the
priest. This action symbolized readying
themselves to serve. At the Offertory,
gifts symbolic of all phases of school life
were carried in procession and offered
to God by representatives of each class.
A senior narrator explained the ritual.
Sophomores are planning a special Mass
for October, and the Juniors will plan a
special Thanksgiving liturgy.
And finally, since all Christian love
seeks to serve, service is the other
integrating aspect of the program, Each
teacher works out service times and
opportunities with the students in her
Religion classes. Some services include:
tutoring in «the St. Benedict’s program
and Social Apostolate program; helping
with the Sunday Religion program for
Retarded Children; working with
children through the Chatham
Association for Retarded Children;
parish CCD programs; beautifying
family cemetery lots; nursery care
during Masses; Candy Stripers in
hospitals; and Red Cross work.
The “McAuley Club,” a social service
club named for the foundress of the
Sisters of Mercy, sponsors Christmas
and Easter parties for children in foster
homes, visits homes for the aged,
sponsors food, clothing, and toy
collection, and provides various other
services.
To stress Savannah’s oneness with the
whole Church, the Student Council
sponsors fasts for starving people in
other parts of the world, the
Thanksgiving clothing collection,
projects for the Human Development
Campaign, and other such activities.
Senior schedules allow even greater
individualized instruction. Seniors meet
in groups of 8 to 11 members, choose
their units, and work at their own pace
under the supervision of the teacher.
Units on the Old Testament and
Marriage are required. All other work is
by personal or group choice. Some of
the available units include: New
Testament; Jesus;; Holy Spirit; Our
Lady; the Saints; the Church; Church
History; Church in South Georgia;
Grace; Prayer; Liturgy; Sin; Death;
Heaven and Hell; Ministry; Moral
Development; Suffering and Evil; Papal
Encyclicals; Conscience; Freedom and
Authority; Dance as Prayer (Several
groups have learned a liturgical dance to
a Psalm of Praise, and some students
learned prayerful movements to a Psalm
Refrain); Poetry; Religious Vocations;
Life; Community; Justice; etc.
St. Vincent’s is uniquely blessed
through the generosity of the priests of
Savannah who celebrate the Eucharist
and Penance with us; through pur
priest-counselor, Fr. Patrick O’Brien;
through Fr. Fred Nijem who has worked
with us in our special programs for
parents; and through Mrs. Joseph
Schreck who adds a special dimension
by her hours of work with Church
Music.
There is a new sight in Savannah’s
eastside community these days and a
welcomed one it is. The new sight is the
Saint Benedict’s Bus. The bus was the
idea of some parishoners who saw the
need to aid those who were not able to
obtain transportation to attend Mass.
And so the St. Benedict’s maxi-bus
picks up ten to fifteen parishoners every
Sunday morning and brings them to the
10 o’clock Mass.
While transporting parishoners to
This column is a weekly feature
written by Seminarians studying for the
priesthood for the Diocese of Savannah,
and is intended to convey the
viewpoints of men who will one day be
Shepherds of Souls, on a variety of
subjects.
There has not been a period in the
history of the Church when we have
been without the question of the
relationship between religion and
politics.
The scriptures are one of the most
fundamental sources of Catholic
theology, and, when they address a
question in a fairly unambiguous way,
then we may be assured of some
guidance. We will first, then, look to the
Bible in our study.
Secondly, I think, we will look at
theological developments between the
time of the scriptures and the Council
of Trent. The positions adopted by the
Protestant reformers are very
illuminating and serve as a foil to a
better understanding of a Catholic
position.
The Lutheran separation of Churchi
and state is of considerable interest, for
many people who are good Catholics
today and who call also for the removal
of political and social references from
the subject matter considered
appropriate to the pulpit are more
Lutheran in their thinking than
Catholic.
Mass is the main function of the bus, it
has found many other uses in the parish.
It also used to take the CYO on trips, to
take persons to homes masses, and to
take children in the neighborhood on
field trips out of the area.
The bus was purchased from a local
dealer and it was previously owned and
operated by the Tours of Historic
Savannah Co. And so the bus that was
formerly used to show people buildings
and houses is now being used to bring
people to the House of God as we seek
to be formed into His People.
Next we will look at the
pronouncements of the teaching
authority of the Church as embodied in
the great social encyclicals of the Popes,
beginning in 1891 with Pope Leo XIII’s
RERUM NOVARUM (Of New Things).
We will see that the Church’s social
teachings were for many decades based
almost entirely, in fact if not in theory,
on the old natural law concept. We will
take some time “off the track” to look
closely, at that concept, with which I
have, to be frank, many problems.
More recent concilar and papal
documents have tended to shy away
from the old theory in favor of truths of
revelation, so we will look at these. In
particular the Second Vatican Council’s
Pastoral Constitution on the Church and
the Modern World (GAUDIAM ET
SPES) takes quite a different approach,
and one which I find much more
satisfactory. There has been some
back-sliding more recently, and we may
spend a paragraph or two looking at
some Roman documents which have
appealed to an older approach. The
effect of these documents has been
slight.
Well, this is an ambitious task, and, at
the outset, I must admit that I haven’t
any idea how many weeks we will take.
What we will be doing will be examining
honest-to-goodness theology, but we
will not have occasion to touch on any
of the dogmas of the Church.
So, however certain my own
prejudices make me sound, or however
well I seem to have supported a
conclusion, if you don’t like it, don’t
think you are excommunicated. If I
seem to pontificate, please feel free to
remind me that I am not infallible. You
will probaby realize it before I do.
I do want to make explicit a couple
of biases right off the bat so that they
will be more easily identified when they
rear their ugly heads.
(1) I said that I have a lot of
problems with the old natural law
theory which has for centuries been a
fundamental part of anyone’s
theological education. I hope that this
opinion, which I have reached after (and
not before) much study and thought,
will be substantiated by our reflections.
The natural law approach is,
nevertheless, very important, and we
will spend some time looking at it
before offering a critique.
(2) I believe that the gospel does
address itself to social and political
questions; however, I have just as many
problems with the advocates of the
“social gospel” as I do with the
Lutheran attitude that politics has no
place in Catholic pulpits. The late John
Courtney Murray spent a lifetime
proving that one could be a good, social
American and a Catholic at the same
time, and Dan Berrigan, his fellow
Jesuit, has proved that one can’t, just as
definitively. I have problems with both.
So, next week we will begin with
scripture. Whether you agree or
disagree, we hope you’ll write us a letter
and share your views.
VATICAN CITY (NC) - “In the
name of God, stop the war.”
That was the plea of Catholic bishops
of South Vietnam to “authorities of the
North and South” in a 1968 pastoral
letter.
The bishops’ pleas for peace began in
1964 and were renewed each year until
1972.
Federico Alessandrini, writing in the
Sept. 30 edition of the Vatican weekly,
L’Osservatore della Domenica, said that
“the Church in South Vietnam has been
and remains faithful to its rightful
mandate . . .testifying to God and for
fundamental human values.”
The bishops’s pastoral letters were
sent to Alessandrini by Archbishop Paul
Nguyen van Binh of Saigon, who said
they illustrate the work of the bishops
of South Vietnam in seeking peace.
The letters, the archbishop said, will
also “respond to the deceitful,
calumnious and iniquitous propaganda
disseminated in the world against the
Church.”
In their pastoral letter of Jan. 5,
1968, the bishops said:
“We appeal to the goodwill of
authorities of North and South to seek
together the means of restoring peace to
the country . . .
“There is a need to come together, to
gather round, to discuss in all
sincerity . . .”
The bishops declared in their letter of
Jan. 22, 1964, that the Catholic Church
“wished only to be a higher principle of
union and peace above and beyond any
political party.”
Alessandrini, the Vatican press
officer, writes a political column for the
Vatican weekly, but does so, he insists,
as a private person.
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FRENCH RELISH
4 quarts green tomatoes
6 lbs white cabbage
2 lbs onions
12 green peppers
12 red peppers
2 cups salt
2 gallons water
Coarsely chop the tomatoes, cabbage, onions. Make a brine with 2 cups of salt and 2
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STEWED TOMATOES
2 tablespoons butter
2 cloves garlic crushed (optional)
1 small onion thinly sliced
2 cans tomatoes
1 tablespoon sugar
1 teaspoon salt
pepper to taste
Melt butter, add onion and garlic. Cook until brown. Add everything else. Heat to
serving temperature. Makes 6 to 8 servings.
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