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The Southern Cross
DIOCESE OF SAVANNAH NEWSPAPER
Vol. 56 No. 23
Thursday, June 5,1975
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TO PRESIDENT FORD
Pope Stresses Moral Aspect of World Problems
LIKE FATHER, LIKE DAUGHTER -- Although she misses a tap-in,
Jamie Niehaus imitates her father, Ray, in putting stance as they practice
on a range at Christmas Lake Village in Santa Claus, Ind. Maybe by
Father’s Day, June 15, the potential LPGA player might even be using a
straight club. (NC Photo by Father Joseph Ziliak)
BELMONT
Abbot McCaffrey Resigns
WASHINGTON (NC) - Pope Paul VI
has accepted the resignation of
Benedictine Abbot Edmund McCaffrey,
42, of Belmont Abbey in North
Carolina.
Announcement of the resignation was
made here by Archbishop Jean Jadot,
apostolic delegate in the United States.
While the designation of a new
abbot-Ordinary of Belmont Abbey is
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pending, Benedictine Father Peter N.
Stragand will serve as apostolic
administrator.
Abbot McCaffrey said he had
submitted his resignation for personal
reasons and will continue to serve as a
monk of Belmont Abbey.
In the United States Belmont Abbey
is a unique ecclesiastical jurisdiction,
technically known as an “abbata
nullius” and having a status equivalent
to that of a diocese. Its abbot is a
member of the National Conference of
Catholic Bishops. In addition to
Belmont Abbey itself, the jurisdiction
includes Belmont Abbey College, a
coeducational school with an
enrollment of about 700.
Abbot McCaffrey became the fourth
abbot of Belmont Abbey in March
1970. A native of Savannah, Ga., he
attended Belmont Abbey Preparatory
School and College. He entered the
Benedictines in 1952, was professed as a
Benedictine monk in 1953, and
ordained a priest in 1959.
Abbot McCaffrey holds a master’s
and a doctoral degree in political science
from the Catholic University of
America. Before becoming abbot, he
taught political science at Belmont
Abbey College and was chairman of its
political science department and social
science division. He also served as
director of formation and as subprior of
the abbey.
BY JOHN MUTHIG
VATICAN CITY (NC) - Pope Paul
VI told President Ford that his visit to
the Vatican emphasizes the importance
that he “attributes to the moral aspects
of the problems” he had been discussing
with European leaders on his trip.
The Pope said that he is aware of the
“problems of balance and imbalance” of
powers between nations and their blocs.
But, he warned, “a peaceful and
humane international order” must not
be based on power but “upon the
criterion of justice, upon respect and
understanding of the rights and needs of
others, and upon the spirit of generous
cooperation of the strongest with the
weakest, for their mutual advantage.”
President Ford was quoted as saying
that his visit to Pope Paul gives him
inspiration and that the two had “a
most beneficial discussion of many
problems in which we can work
together for the progress of peace.”
The President said that military
policies can be developed “that are best
aimed at maintaining peace.” He said
that the United States can continue its
efforts at both food-giving and
food-producing to those less fortunate.
“Be sure that, as I have told you, the
United States will do all possible to
promote progress, emphasis on and
dedication to peace.”
But, the President told the Pope,
“your spiritual and inspirational help is
what we need to do a better job.”
The Pope, who spoke in English, had
told Ford that he knew that the
President had been involved in
discussions of military import with
European and world leaders and that
those “difficult problems... at least
from the declared points of view of
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defense, cannot be ignored by those
responsible for public life.”
Pope Paul, however, said that the
President knew that from him he
“would hear only exhortations and
words of peace and of sincere and
generous collaboration for advantages of
all.”
“This is our mission. It constrains us
to strive to ensure that people never
forget the primacy of spiritual and
moral values, which direct social living
no less -- indeed more - than economic
and military interests and
preoccupations.”
Ford was told that the Pope is “glad
to be able to give the support of our
counsel and our humble collaboration
to the solving of the knots that mean so
much suffering and peril for peoples.”
The Pope’s formal talk was given
after his private conversations with the
President.
The President’s remarks were
extemporaneous.
The Pope and the President remained
closeted for 70 minutes in the Pope’s
library with U.S. Secretary of State
Henry Kissinger and Archbishop
Agostino Casaroli, secretary of the
Vatican’s Council for the Church’s
Public Affairs.
The Pope sat behind his desk with the
President directly opposite him. At the
Pope’s right sat Archbishop Casaroli,
and at his left sat his interpreter, Msgr.
Justin Kigali, an official of the papal
state secretariat from Los Angeles.
Kissinger sat at the President’s right. At
the President’s left was his own
interpreter.
At the formal exchange of
declarations after the private
discussions, President Ford gave the
Pope a sculpture by Gilroy Roberts
called The Great American Eagle. The
Pope exclaimed: “Ah, the eagle, symbol
of liberty.”
Pope Paul gave the President a book
on the artistic works of the
contemporary Italian sculptor Scorzelli,
who designed one of the doors of St.
Peter’s Basilica. He also gave him a
framed bas-relief by Scorzelli of St.
Peter’s Basilica as viewed from the Tiber
river and a series of medals of his
pontificate in gold, silver and bronze.
He remarked that he was continuing the
old humanistic custom of striking
commemorative medals.
Mrs. Ford and presidential envoy
Henry Cabot Lodge accompanied the
president to the Vatican. Mr. Ford wore
a dark blue suit and a blue and white
striped tie, while Mrs. Ford wore a blue
knee-length dress with a long black
mantilla.
The President’s party was escorted to
and from the papal apartments by a
group of gentlemen-in-waiting to the
Pope, including Daniel J. Donohue of
Los Angeles.
The President had arrived at 6 p.m.
by car from the residence of the Italian
premier, Aldo Moro.
Silver Jubilee Marked
Sister Theresa Mary Sumner, a Sister
of Mercy, celebrated her Silver Jubilee
at St. Mary’s Home on May 18.
Sister was a graduate of St. Vincent’s
Academy in 1950. In September of the
same year, she entered the Sisters of
Mercy at Mt. St. Agnes, Baltimore,
Maryland. She has done extensive study
in the field of Child Care and has spent
most of her twenty-five years serving
children at St. Mary’s Home, Savannah,
Georgia, and Villa Maria, Baltimore,
Maryland.
Rev. Patrick O’Brien celebrated the
Mass and delivered a most appropriate
homily on the religious life and what it
means to be a religious today. A buffet
followed the mass.
Sister’s brother and his wife, Mr. and
Mrs, Denis Sumner of Augusta, sister
and her husband, Mr. and Mrs. Robert
Middleton of Decatur; sister, Sister
Mary Graziana of St. Joseph’s Hospital,
Savannah; and long-time friends during
these past twenty-five years, Mr. and
Mrs. Ai in Seubott, of Baltimore,
Maryland and Sister M. Janet Seubott of
Salisbury, Maryland joined the Sisters of
Mercy of Savannah in celebrating
Sister’s Jubilee with the Sisters, staff
and children of St. Mary’s Home.
Governor Names Sr. Cornile
Governor George Busbee appointed
Sister Mary Comile Dulohery,
administrator of St. Joseph Hospital,
Inc., Savannah, to the Georgia Board of
Human Resources. She will replace
Doris Roberts of Savannah.
Sister Cornile received her elementary
education in Savannah and her
secondary education in Belmont, North
Carolina. She attended Mt. St. Agnes
College, Baltimore, Maryland, and
Catholic University of America,
Washington, D.C. She has been an
outstanding administrator in the
planning and construction of new
hospitals in Atlanta and Savannah and
active in Chamber of Commerce and
United Community Service civic
activities.
Sister Comile is a member of The
American College of Hospital
Administrators, The American Hospital
Association, The Georgia Hospital
Association, The Catholic Hospital
Association, The American Nurses
Association, and The National League
for Nursing.
Georgia Hospital Association
President Ewing S. Barnett,
administrator, Coweta General Hospital,
Newnan, Georgia; the Association’s
Board of Trustees; and N. Seldon
Brown, executive director of the
Association, were highly pleased over
the recognition provided the hospitals
of Georgia by Governor Busbee’s
announced appointment of Sister
Comile to the Georgia Board of Human
Resources.
In acclaiming Governor Busbee’s
appointment of Sister Comile, President
Barnett stated that Georgia hospitals as
a major health care provider can be
rightly proud of the wisdom and
knowledge which Sister Comile as an
oustanding administrator can bring
before the Board in its complex
deliberations regarding the organization
and delivery of health care for Georgia.
Heretofore the hospitals of Georgia
have not been represented on this
important State Board.
Nominate Mother Teresa
CALCUTTA (NC) - Mother Teresa of Calcutta, foundress of the Missionaries
of Charity who first won fame by her work among the poor in the slums of this
Indian city, has been nominated for the 1975 Nobel Peace Prize.
The 64-year-old nun, born to Albanian parents in what now is Yugoslavia,
came to India as a member of the Irish branch of the Institute of the Blessed
Virgin Mary, known as Loreto Sisters. She taught for several years at a
fashionable girl’s college in Calcutta. Then she obtained permission to work
among the dying and destitute on city streets, and started a new congregation,
the Missionaries of Charity for that work.
HONOR FOR MRS. MULHERIN -- Mrs. F.X.
Mulherin, of Augusta, has been elected to the “Second
Wind Hall of Fame.” The national society honors the
achievements of retired men and women. “Miss
Eulalia,” as she is known to her friends, is a member of
Augusta’s St. Mary’s-on-the-Hill parish. The widow of
Dr. Frank X. Mulherin, she is president of St. Mary’s
Altar Society and has been in charge of every phase of
work on the altar and in the church for 40 years, giving
voluntarily of her time. She prepares the altar and is
present for every confirmation, first communion,
wedding, and funeral. On February 10, 1961, she
received the papal medal “Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice”
from Pope John XXIII for her devoted service to the
church. Pictured with Mrs. Mulherin as they admire her
award are Mrs. Seaborn McGarity (left) and Mrs. J. Lee
Etheredge.