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GEORGIA BULLETIN, THURSDAY, JANUARY 17, 1963 PAGE 3 LORETO Ancient Houses Rosary LORETO, Italy—The clang of stamping presses, the click of stringing machines and the whirling scream of steel cutting steel characterize the pious and prosperous factory of "Ditta Nicola Brancondi,” which claims the title of the world’s largest producer of rosaries. Chances are that if you have a rosary brought to you from Italy, it was made in this quiet shrine city not far from Venice on the Adriatic. And even if your rosary was brought in Am erica, it is quite possible It was made in Loreto, since the factory supplies 60 per cent of all rosaries imported in the United States. THE FACTORY was founded by Nicola Brancondi in 1860. Though it still bears the founder’s name, the present boss is one of His decendents, 38-year-old Luigi Fanini. The energetic and enterprising Fanini has transformed the factory from a quiet family bus iness into a big-scale organi zation which turns out more than 10 million rosaries and nine million medals a year. The two-story, white-walled building stands at the base of the ancient stone walls above which rises the soaring basilica which enshrines the Holy House of Loreto, believed to have been the house of Mary at Nazareth. NOTWITHSTANDING the an tique setting, the Brancondi factory is a thoroughly modern and technically complicated operation. Row on row of punch presses and stamping machines thunderously turn out thousands of rosaries an hour. "We employ 35Cf people in the factory the year round and have another 1,400 at work in their homes,” Fanini says proudly. The home workers are mostly women who pick up the com ponent parts which go into making rosaries and take them home to string them together. "We have always encouraged work at home since it does not take the mother out of the house,” he explained. BY NO means, however, does Fanini limit himself to hand work. On the second floor of the factory there is a locked room to which only a few people have access. Behind the locks are 60 specially designed machines that automatically stitch beads together in series of 10. The machines, which look something like old fashioned coffee grinders, were designed by Brancondi engineers and are guarded from knowing eyes lest the principle of their operation become public. One is almost hypnotized watching the machines rythmically churning out hundreds of beads an hour. NOR IS automation limited only to bead-stringing mac hines. Brancondi has designed dies which can turn out complete rosaries in one press. Another innovation introduced by the factory is the production of small plastic rosaries—five to a sheet—which can be stripped from the surrounding plastic with a flick of the hand. These are designed for inexpensive rosary supplies to schools and various organizations. Fanini has entered the plastic field vigorously and is also responsible for the "glow-in- the-dark” variety of rosary. ”It’s the American market that buys the great bulk of them,” he notes. Despite the jump in the factory’s plastic production, it still also turns out millions of more expensive and beautiful rosaries. Oddly, one of the Iron Curtain countries makes a big profit on Catholic devotion. The bulk of the glass and crystal beads used in the better grade of rosaries come from Czecho slovakia. ”WE GET some from Au stria,” Fanini said, "but the best beads are produced by the Czechs.” Among other machines de signed by Brancondi engineers are a number which can pro duce exquisite tiny crucifixes and medals, perfect in every de tail and expression. A large Shrine Largest Factory sculptor’s model of a medal is mounted on a machine. The surface of the model is scanned by an electric eye little by little. As the eye moves, another section of the machine cuts a die, proportionally smaller, re producing every single detail of the model. From this die thousands of medals can be re produced. While Loreto is the site of the factory, few people know they have rosaries from that city. For example, Brancondi, which supplies a great segment of the religious art stores in Rome, stamps these rosaries with the word "Roma” since the purchasers want souveniers of the Eternal City. The factory sells primarily to wholesalers who import rosaries in all parts of the world where there is a demand. AS FANINI tells of his factory, its development and its innovations, he refers proudly to its "American style.” When he lingers over the sorrow in the Madonna’s eyes, his words are warm and almost loving. Perhaps Fanini and his factory are best summed up in the sign above his office door—‘’Riflettete” —the It alian and slightly softer version of IBM’s famous motto— THINK! EDITOR STRESSES v;y :o\/; r-..,. cc:saL J, 4 . ... t £>.!3LD ARCHITECT’S RENDERING OF KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS HOME PROGRESS ...A Job well done Knights of Columbus Open New Buford Hyway Home Atlanta Council 660 Knights of Columbus have opened a Catholic Center located at 2620 Buford Highway, which is U. S. Highway 23, between Lenox Road and North Druid Hills Road in Northside Atlanta. The grounds and the new structure, designed by Albert O. Ordway, Atlanta architect, are valued at $125,000. The Catholicism Petains To Whole Of Life ROCKFORD, Ill. (NC)—"To get the idea that Catholicism pertains only to individual and family morality and has noth ing to say about social morality is to lose the true vision of Catholicism," Father Louis J. Twomey, S.J., editor of Social Order said here. Speaking before a meeting of the Catholic Employers and Managers Association, the Je suit added: "WE HAVE been turning out from our schools and seminar ies people irreproachable in their personal lives, but who go off in all directions when they enter the social, political and economic order, as though we nad nothing to offer society.” "Christ’s doctrine applies to . the whoje of life^whetheronthe individual or social level,” he went on, "and Catholics, whe ther they be priests, nuns, or laity, if they understand the so cial doctrines of the Church, they must labor to bring Christ into the institutional framework of society.” The priest from St. Louis, long active with numerous so cial action groups, addressed some 50 members of the em ployers and managers group, who have banded together to apply the social teachings of the Church to modern busi ness situations. tree - studded acreage of the grounds lies upon a beautiful knoll overlooking the North east Expressway and Lenox Road, and to the rear of the property flows famous Peach tree Creek. It is significant that the struc ture was started and completed in the 60th anniversary year of the Council. Chartered in 1902, the history and activities of 660 have entwined the history and activities of other Catholic or ganizations. It is from this fact that the idea of service to other Catholic organizations^arose. MEMBER Knights of the Council, for example, partici pated in the formation of other organizations such as the Christopher Toastmasters and The Serra Club of Metropoli tan Atlanta, and these organiza tions, without their own facili ties, conduct their meetings in various locations about the city. To .these and other organiza tions the facilities of the new Knights of Columbus Catholic center can be made available. The ballroom of the new cen- Pope’s Message WASHINGTON, Jan. 11 (NC) — The 1962 Christmas message of His Holiness Pope John XXIII has been published in pamphlet form. Copies are available at 25 cents a copy or $17.50 per 100 copies from the Publications Office, National Catholic Wel fare Conference. 1312 Mass. Ave. N.W., Washington 5, D.C. ter will be available for large meetings, dances, banquets, and large luncheon meetings. A stage is part of this facility and the dance floor is beautifully inlaid hardwood. The ballroom can accomodate up to 300 cou ples for dances, and upwards from this number for meetings and banquets. There are smal ler meeting rooms and two lounges. Right off the ballroom is a prayer room - an oratory - and in the future plans there will be a Blessed Mother Grot to on the grounds. Future plans, too, include a swimming pool. Last fall, as part of Colum bus Day activities, Msgr. Mic hael J. Regan, chaplain of the Council, blessed the grounds and the rising structure in de dication to the purposes of the new home and center. It has been under the gui dance of Grand Knight George A. Andrews, that the new home came into existence. A job well clone has been that of Knight Leo Coletti, as building chair man, and his aides, Knights William M. Sherwood and James J. Cronin. It is a case of a job beginning, however, for William T. Jordan, Jr., past State De puty, who is the improvement chairman, charged with the fur nishing and landscaping of the grounds of the home. Jordan’s aides will be John M. Lengyel and B. Franklin Clark. An open house program is being planned and an announ cement will be made at a later date. CARDINAL BE A SAYS: Council Gets Project Voicing Belief In Conscience Freedom ROME (NC)—The Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity will submit to the next session of the ecumenical council a document which would proclaim the Catholic Church’s belief in freedom of conscience and wor ship, Augustin Cardinal Bea re vealed here. Cardinal Bea, president of the secretariat, said the docu ment will uphold every man’s right to follow the dictates of his conscience and his right to worship as he chooses with out interference by the state. THE CARDINAL was addres sing the eighth annual "Agape (lovefeast ) of Brotherhood” sponsored by Rome’s Pro Deo University (Jan. 13). He pre sided over the banquet, which brought together more than 500 persons from 21 faiths and 69 nations. Among the guests were not only adherents of various Christian denominations, but also Jews and Moslems—in cluding professors from uni versities in Tel Aviv and Cairo —and Buddhists and Taoists. In his talk, Cardinal Bea characterized the wars of re ligion of past centuries as "an other error of the misunder stood love of truth.” During them, he said "men tried to impose by fc ce and in the name of truth certain convic tions on other men, forgetting the no-less fundamental value of the love of truth—man’s freedom, that is, This free dom means man’s right to dis pose freely of his own destiny according to his own conscien ce.” IT WAS after reading to the guests a telegram extending greetings from His Holiness Pope John XXIII that Cardinal Bea spoke on this theme—"the love of truth, practiced in cha rity—the road to harmony among individuals and groups.” The German-born Scripture scholar declared: NEW YORK, (NC) — A chal lenge to laymen and a report on the Vatican Council will be heard on the radio "Catholic Hour” this month. On Sunday, Father Raymond T. Bosler, editor of the Cri terion, of Indianapolis, will speak on lay responsibility, particularly in racial justice. "One should always under stand another man's point of view. This means putting one self in his place and seeing things from the position from which he sees them. One should also realize that reality has a thousand different aspects, a thousand different facets, whereas the individual, even when very gifted and intelli gent, sees only one or a few. "LOVE of truth cautions us to bear in mind the limita tions of our knowledge and al so to recognize the aspect of truth which others see... We should recognize it wherever we come across it.” Concerning the problems of On January 27 Father Gregory Bau, L.S.A., of St. Michael’s College, Toronto, will discuss the Vatican council and the structure of the Church. The "Catholic Hour” is pro duced by the National Council of Catholic Men in coopera tion with the National Broad casting Company. It is heard Sundays at 2:30 p.m., E.S.T. expressing truth, Cardinal Bea stated that the Catholic Church has always been "rather con servative when It is a matter of formulas for expressing her doctrinal heritage.” Then he said; "Yet when the Holy Father inaugurated the ecumenical council he explained the neces sity of proclaiming to the mod ern world the truth, of which the Church is the custodian, in a new language— that is, the language of men today, the only one they understand. "PRESERVING faithfully the purity of doctrine, it can be ex pressed therefore through oth er and different concepts, ac cording to the mentality and language of men.” The Cardinal concluded by referring to the recent Christ mas message in which Pope John spoke of man’s thirsting for peace. "Today,” he said, "we are also aware that peace does not depend on legislators of nations alone, but on large sections of peoples themsel ves. This peace must be built therefore with love— through the practice of love in charity. To achieve this harmony, we must seek the help, strength and light of God.” Catholic Hour Radio IN RACE BIAS Dialogue with Catholics Can Assist Protestants CHICAGO (NC)—Fellowship with Catholics can help Prote stants in the fight for in terracial justice, a Protestant church historian said here at the National Conference on Re ligion and Race. Dr. Franklin H. Littell, pro fessor of church history at Chicago Theological Seminary, said "one of the chief argu ments for the Protestant-Cat holic dialogue” is to count eract an American nativism that "has allied with the white sup remacists.” "THE CATHOLIC com munion is plainly a universal church,” he asserted, "and fellowship with Catholics— which has gained such great impetus under the leadership of Pope John XXIII—can help Protestants to avoid sinking back into racial and tribal re ligion.” Dr. Littell spoke on the second day (Jan. 15) of the conference, the first national meeting to be convened by all major faith groups in the U.S. He first assailed the belief that the early days of this country, when Protestants were in the majority, were "the good old days.” "CONTRARY to the re actionary legend of the nativists,” he continued, "the generation of the ‘Founding Fathers' was not the heyday of religion and simple virtue— from which high level degene rate sons and daughters have been steadily falling away. "The legend is a white Pro testant construct, and it is heart and core of the vicious assault of the radical right upon our present national leadership...” Declaring that "the old America of white, rural and Protestant dominance is dying, Dr. Littell added: "The choice before the Protestant churches is clear: Either they can accept the logic of a voluntaryistic and pluralistic situation... or they can end up as embittered and negative minorities which the course of history has passed by.” IN THE sphere of interracial justice, he said "the type of Protestantism which has its chief strength in those areas mosr threatened by violence needs the attention to law and objective justice which is one of the strengths of Catholi cism.” ‘The large churches of the Deep South,” he pointed out, "stand in the tradition of radical Protestantism, which had a powerful sense of fellowship within the congregation; for the affairs of the world, the Old Testament once sufficed as a guide to righteousness and justice.” HE STATED, however, that “with the abandonment of pro phetic teaching, the softening of theology and confession of faith, the Old Testament too was scuttled.” "The style of the community of grace was generalized,” he continued, "until at last we have a society without law and with no understanding that right is right though the heavens fall. "The governor of a Southern state asks the Infantile ques tion: How can a law be enforced if we don’t like it? As though justice and righteousness in the social order were conditional upon the subjective sentiments of the ill-disciplined and diso bedient. "THE OLD Testament was Cardinal Speaks At Harvard RICHARD Cardinal Cushing, Archbishop of Boston, disclos ed last month that he had invit ed Cardinal Bea to visit this archdiocese. Cardinal Cushing also disclosed that Cardinal Bea had been invited to address an ecumencial meeting spon sored by Harvard University’s divinity school. Cardinal Cushing also said Cardinal Bea may speak at Bos ton University, which is affiliat ed with the Methodist church, and may go on a "stumping tour” for Christian unity in several Eastern states with Cardinal Cushing. the radical Protestant alter native to the tradition of the natural law. Without either, a society descends into anarchy. The strengthening of the Pro testant - Catholic dialogue should bring to the fore the fact that the foundation of law is abiding, although men and nations may rise and fall.” "For my part,” Dr. Littell concluded, "I am thankful that we have a President of the United States who believes that law is law.” A RABBI addressing one of the conference’s four forums declared (Jan. 15) that religion must involve itself in the public arena in which voluntary and secular organizations and the government function. But in so doing it should never allow itself to be used solely CLASSIFICATIONS for the purpose of promoting a good image of this country, said Rabbi Morris Adler of Congregation Shaarey Zedek iri Detroit. "Religion,” he stated, "should welcome the support of every secular group whose motivations are sincere and whose social goals coincide with its own... But even as religion enters into such a partnership, it should not relinquish its role as a critic, since in perspective and purpose it ranges far bey ond the immediate goals. "For religion, the achieve ment of racial justice is not an element in a foreign policy, a factor making for a good image abroad; or the fulfillment of the Implications of a pol itical system or doctrine, nor yet the price for domestic tran quility." Legion Of Decency Rates U.S. Movies NEW YORK ( NC)— The Nat ional Legion of Decency in 1962 put most of the American films it reviewed in one of its three "A” classifications. One hundred and fifty-three of the 187 U.S. movies reviewed were placed in the "A” group, according to a statistical sum mary of the legion’s work. The summary is part of a legion booklet listing films reviewed from October, 1961, to October, 1962. THE LEGION rated 66 dom estic films, or 35.30 per cent of the U.S. films reviewed, as in Class A-ll. Fifty-one domestic films, or 27.27 per cent, were rated as Class A-l, morally unobjectionable for general pat ronage. Thirty-six or 19.25 per St. Paul Parish The Altar and Rosary Socie ty of St. Paul of the Cross Church sponsored its first an nual New Year’s Eve Party in the Church’s School auditorium. Fifteen minutes before the midnight hour, the members and guests left the auditorium and went next door to the calm and serenity and sanctity of the Church. The Priests of St. Paul of the Cross, with Fath ers Banks and Christian cele brating and serving at the al tar, held solemn Benediction of Th e Most Blessed Sacra ment for all present. cent, were rated Class A—111, morally unobjectionable for ad ults. Twenty - seven American films, or 14.44 per cent, were placed in Class B, morally ob jectionable in part for all. No American films were condemn ed in 1962, but seven were plac ed in separate classifications. 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