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THURSDAY, MAY 23, 1963
GEORGIA BULLETIN
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NORTH AMERICAN COLLEGE
House On Humility Street
For American Scholarship
ROME -NC— The "House on
Humility Street" is a proud
outpost of American scholar
ship in Rome.
Though Americans enter its
sober doorway by the thousands
every year, few realize how
much this institution contri
butes to the life of the Church
In the United States. In fact
most visitors think of the build
ing only in terms of the North
American College audience of
fice, which has been set up to
assist American Catholics in
obtaining places at papal aud
iences.
IMPORTANT as this service
is, it is still only a secondary'
activity of the institution. Its
primary function is to be a
residence of American priests
doing graduate work at the great
ecclesiastical universities of
Rome.
The full name of the institu
tion is the Casa Santa Maria
dell ’Umilta. It takes its name
from the Via dell 'Umilta (Hu
mility Street) a small back-
street near the famous fountain
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of Trevi on which the North
American College was located
from 1839 to 1953,
When the undergraduate
seminarians were moved to the
new andmore spacious quarters
on the Janiculum Hill in 1953,
the old college was transformed
into a house for graduate stud
ies.
The recent appointment of
Msgr. Lawrence M. DeFalcoof
Dallas, Tex. as the new Bishop
of Amarillo points up anew the
role of the graduate house in
American Catholic affairs.
Bishop-elect De Falco is its
10th graduate to be named to
the American hierarchy.
BECAUSE the priests staying
at the house have taken advanc
ed specialized courses in canon
law, theology, Scripture and
Church history, its graduates
are to be found in responsible
diocesan posts as professors in
the seminaries, officials of the
matrimonial courts and special
advisers to the bishops.
Before the Casa Santa Maria
became exclusively the pre
serve of graduate students in
1953, a smaller building on the
Janiculum Hill, called Casa San
Giovanni, housed American
priests doing graduate work in
Rome. This house was opened
in 1933 and was located on the
grounds of what today is the
new North American College.
It closed in 1940 and did not
reopen until 1946 because of
the war.
Between the years 1933-1940
and 1946-1953, a total of 129
students passed theough Casa
San Giuseppe. In the 10 years
that the Casa Santa Maria has
been in operation a total of 279
graduate students have been
enrolled. Together, the grad
uate houses of the North Ameri
can College number 408 alumni
from 74 archdioceses and dio
ceses in the U.S.
AMONG ITS distinguished
graduates are Archbishop John
F. Dearden of Detroit and Arch
bishop John J. Krol of Phila
delphia.
From the outside, the Casa
Santa Maria looks little differ-
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em from the other downtown
buildings surrounding it, In
side, it is an oasis of tran
quility in the heart of a noisy,
bustling city,
This year 73 men live within
the casa's walls. Next year the
number is expected to swell to
80 which will put a strain on
its facilities.
The majority of graduate stu
dents are provided with a bed
room and a sitting room-study,
most of which overlook one of
the two Interior courtyards.
Among the casa's accomoda
tions is a specialized library,
a commons room complete with
television, a pingpong room and
pleasant rooftop terraces where
the priests stroll as they recite
their breviary in good weather.
The chapel of the casa is the
magnificent 17th-century
church of Santa Maria dell'Um
ilta, rich with inlaid marble
and valuable paintings. In addi
tion to the altars in the church,
the residents of the casa have
32 other altars in oratories so
that all may celebrate Mass
daily.
THE CASA was set up by the
American Bishops and is under
the direction of the Episcopal
Committee for the North
American College and shares
the same Rector, Archbishop
Martin J. O'Connor.
Overseeing the casa's day-
by-day problems is its super
ior, Msgr. Joseph L. Zryd, who
came to Rome in 1960 to be
its spiritual director. He is
assisted by the vice superior.
Father Charles P. Essman, and
the spiritual director, Msgr.
John Fleming. Msgr. Zyrd and
Father Essman also man the
audience office.
The casa is open 11 months
out of the year, closing only in
August to permit houseclean
ing. The daily schedule of the
institution is set to match the
requirements of students doing
graduate work at the Gregorian,
Lateran and Angelicum Univer
sities and the Pontificial Bibli
cal Institute.
Most residents of the casa
stay two to three years. Some
of these come directly to the
graduate house from the North
American College. Many
others, however, have complet
ed their seminary work in the
United States and have worked
in parishes before being select
ed to go on to higher studies
in Rome.
The result is that the men of
the casa are a cross section of
the country from which they
come. A variety of backgrounds,
pastoral experience and age
levels contribute to making the
House on Humility Street one
of the very interesting institu
tions in Rome, What they have
in common—their priesthood,
their brains and their nation
ality—makes the institution of
great importance for the future
development of the Church in the
United States.
Birth Control Not
State Concern
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ECONOMIC OPPRESSIONS
Cardinal Scores
Cruel Segregation
ST. LOUIS (NC) — Joseph
Cardinal Ritter charged here
that "the weapons of segre
gation, discrimination and ec
onomic oppression can be every
bit as cruel as gas chambers
and concentration camps."
Dismissing the doctrine of
racial superiority as "insane,"
the Archbishop of St. Louis ur
ged citizens to unite in a "holy
discontent" at instances of race
prejudice.
"WE CAN never rest content
so long as injustice remains,"
Cardinal Ritter told the St.
Louis Conference on Religion
and Race, held here (May 19).
The Cardinal said racism is
being practiced in St. Louis as
in other parts of the country.
He praticularly singled out
housing discrimination for con
demnation and said it is esti
mated that 70 per cent of all
Negro homes in St. Louis are
in "blighted" areas.
"Surely it is a grave injust
ice and discrimination when one
segment of our population in
this area is forced because of
economic conditions to live in
substandard dwellings, or even
more so when that segment is
denied freedom of housing be
cause of public sentiment and
by the manipulation of unscru
pulous and greedy realtors,"
he said.
OUTLINING the approach of
the Church to such problems as
racial discrimination, he com
mented:
"The Church is not and should
not be a power bloc, capable of
forcing compliance with direct
ives of its leadership.
"Rather, it is for the Ch
urch to enunciate principles and
their application to modern pro
blems clearly and without equi
vocation, leaving it to men of the
Church as free citizens to de
vise the most effective means
of applying them to concrete
situations."
TRINTON, N,J„ May 20 (NC)
—Birth control programi area
legitimate area for state con
cern, Gov, Richard J, Hughes
of New Jersey emphasised here,
Thw Governor expanded on
views expressed at a press
conference last month in a let
ter (May 17) to the Rev. Waiter
J, Maier of the Planned Parent
hood Association of the Mercer
County area.
"IT WOULD be unwise for
the state to adopt as definitive
policy one of the many con
flicting views (on birth control)
and thereby offend a substantial
segment of the citizenry," the
Governor said.
He was replying to a letter
from the Rev. Maier who had
expressed concern over the
Governor’s press conference
remarks. The Governor at that
time was asked to comment
on the possibility of having state
welfare agencies distribute
birth control information to
welfare recipients as a means
of cutting down on the number
of illegitimate children.
He said then that "one solu
tion (to the problem) would be
to execute her (the unwed mo
ther). Another solution would
be to sterilize her. Another
would be to teach her birth
control. 1 put those three in
the same category as far as
the morality is concerned."
THE REV. Maier called that
statement "unfortunate" be
cause "virtually all Protes
tant and Jewish religious groups
have sanctioned the use of birth
control."
In
said
his reply, Gov. Hughes
"the dispensation of
FOR CONSIDERATION
Council Projects
Mailed To Bishops
VATICAN CITY (NC) —
Twelve revised projects have
been mailed out to the Fathers
of the Second Vatican Council
the council press office said.
The press office said (May
15) that His Holiness Pope John
XXIII examined the 12 projects
"personally and with great at
tention" before they were sent
out.
THE 12 projects represent
almost three-quarters of the
work to be submitted to the
council Fathers for the next
council session which starts
September 8.
'Hie press office also re
ported that members and ex
perts of the Secretariat for
Promoting Christian Unity were
meeting in Rome (May 13 to
18) at the palace of the Knights
of the Holy Sepulcher.
THE FULL staff of both the
Theological Commission and
the Lay Apostolate Commission
was meeting (May 15 to 20) to
examine jointly the study and
elaboration of a new project
on the presence of the Church
In the world of today," the press
office said,
Tha N.C.W.C, News Service AdviSOrV
is told that a total of 17 pro- ^
Council
was tom tnat a total of 17 pro
jects will be submitted. It was
previously estimated that 20
consolidated projects would be
considered at the second ses
sion. No correction of the titles
of projects to be presented has
been released yet.
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MORALITY INVOLVED
‘Crass Ingnorance’ Seen
In Attitudes To Animals
WASHINGTON (NC)—"Crass
ignorance" still prevails about
the proper relationship between
men and animals, the president
of the National Catholic Society
for Animal Welfare said here.
Msgr. LeRoy E. McWilliams
of North Arlington, N.Y., made
the charge in an address to
the fourth annual meeting of the
animal welfare society.
"Because animals have no
rights," Msgr. McWilliams
said, "the conclusion is drawn
that we may do anything with
them.
"THIS attitude is clearly seen
in inhumane slaughtering, the
horrors of fur trapping, cruel
blood sports and fiendish ex
periments."
Although animals "may have
no rights," he said, "we have
duties to God in regard to
them."
He exphasized that animals
are "creatures of God, and the
great touchstone now and always
will be the answer to the ques
tion: Are we treating animals
as God would have us treat
them?"
AN ABUSE in this area, he
stated, is experimentation on
living animals by high school
students.
FROM LEFT to right, Mrs. Robert S. Nardiello, secretary;
Mrs. L. P. Humann, treasurer; Mrs. M. S. Rummel, vice pre
sident; and Mrs. Daniel D. Bradach, president, the new slate
of officers for 1963-64 were installed it the May meeftng of St.
Jude's Altar Society, Sandy Springs, Ga., by Mrs. Jack Mc
Dowell, retiring vice president. The retiring president, Mrs.
John P. O'Donnell presided at the meeting.
general contraceptive informa
tion and materials" should be
left to voluntary agencies, not
the state, because some citi
zens find it offensive,
He said he does not pass
judgment on those who teach or
practice the use of contracep- *
tives, "This is a matter of
individual conscience and re
ligious freedom and it is not
the function of the state to in
terfere in this area of private
life," he declared.
The fact that birth control
is offensive to many should be
taken into consideration by the
state, he said. "In the area of
public policy, the requirements
of civic harmony would suggest
an accommodation which pro
tects. ..the conscience of its
citizens of different convic
tions," he stated.
Gov. Hughes said he rejects
contraception and sterilization
as instruments of public policy
in meeting the welfare problem.
NEW HORIZONS
Father Peter Rebello, Er.
Cam., a member of the only
community of CamaUlolesc
monks in the Western hem
isphere, has interrupted his
life as a hermit to raise funds
for a new chapel, additional
cells and a new kitchen. The
Camaldolese hermitage in
the Santa Lucia Mountains
at Big Sur, Calif., has al
ready expanded beyond capa
city. Father Rebello, a na
tive of India who was a Jes
uit for 25 years, is one of 31
hermits at Big Sur who ad
here to one of the most rig
orous rules of any religious
community in the Church.
Vatican Radio
Hails Cooper
VATICAN CITY (RNS) — Va
tican Radio hailed the achieve
ment of U.S. astronaut Major
L. Gordon Cooper, Jr., as open
ing "new horizons for mankind.
"The horizons of the future
are always vaster than the one
we visibly aimed at," it said,
"Columbus sailed for India and
discovered America. It is con
ceivable that something similar
will result from the latest space
explorations."
THE STATION said that "for
this reason, the whole world
follows every space trip with
the kennest interest."
It noted that while Major
Cooper was whirling through
space, Pope John XXIII "af
firmed for the second time his
interest in this field, as well as
his blessing and prayers for its
success."
"This,” the station commented,
"reveals his attention and con
cern for the progress of science
and the contribution that Christ-
To Ordinations
Members of the Tenth Man
Club will attend the Ordination
of the two Seminarians to the
Sacred Priesthood which will
take place on Saturday, May
25. These men will be joined
by those who are to attend The
Latin School, and they will have
a special place deilgnated for
them In the Cathedral for the
Ceremony of Ordination.
ianity can offer to all
roads that are opened."
new
"But," it added, "higher still
are the efforts of those who
seek to raise the thoughts and
lives of men through the teach
ing of the Gospel. We remain
at our own post, His Holiness
has said, and our task trans
cends all the heights, speeds
and triumphs science can a-
chleve, in the firm intent to
bring man to God and to pene
trate the social life with the
word of the Gospel."
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At an Organizational Lunch-
• on-Meeting held at St. Thomas
More Parish an Advisory Coun
cil of Nuns was formed. This
Council will work in conjunc
tion with The Archdiocesan
Commission on Religious Voca
tions.
Several Committees will be
appointed from the nominees
presented by the respective
Communities and a program for
the future will be formulated
shortly. The members of the
Advisory Council nominated by
their respective Communities
are:
Sister Ann Bernadette, Grey
Nuns of the Sacred Heart; Sis
ter Mary Francois, Sisters of
The Blessed Sacrament; Sister
Mary David, O.P., Sisters of
St. Dominic; Sister Ernestine,
Sisters of St. Joseph of Baden,
Pennsylvania; Sister M. Mag-
dala, Sisters of St. Joseph of
Carondelet of St. Louis; Sister
Marguerite Marie, C.R.S.M.,
Sisters of Mercy; Sister Mary
Venard, R.S.M., Sisters of Mer
cy of the Union; Sister Marie
Joan, S.N.D., Sisters of Notre
Dame de Namur; Sister Miriam
Joseph, S.S.N.D., School Sisters
of Notre Dame; Sister M. Do-
mitllla, M.S.C., Missionary
Sisters of the Most Sacred Heart
of Jesus; Sister Maria Laetltia,
L.H.M., Sisters, Servants of the
Immaculate Heart of Mary; Sla
ter Mary Kevin, S.C.M.M., Sla-
iety of Catholic Medical Mia-
aionarlea.
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