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PAGE 2 GEORGIA BULLETIN THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1964
MESSAGE TO U.S.
Pope Urges Children
To Aid World Needy
NEW YORK (NC) —Pope
Paul VI urged the nation's
5,500,000 students in Catholic
schools "to make, in the spirit
of Lent, your little sacrifices
to bring aid and comfort to those
in distress" throughout the
world.
The exhortation came in the
traditional Ash Wednesday
(Feb. 12) message of the Pope
inaugurating the school child
ren’s phase of the 18th annual
U. S. Bishops' Relief Fund Ap
peal. The Pope's message was
broadcast by the nation’s major
radio networks.
POPE PAUL reminded the
American Catholic elementary’
and high school students that
they "enjoy a standard of liv
ing unknown before in history.’*
He added: "But, this is not
the case with all children every
where."
"The Pope worries about the
PRIEST-MISSIOISER
little ones who go to bed at
night hungry, or who have not
sufficient clothes to protect
them against the bitter cold of
the winter or the heat of the
tropical sun, or who have no
parents, or no homes at all,
or still worse, who have no
country to call their own," the
Pontiff said. "The Holy
Father’s heart is further bur
dened with concern for those
children who have recently suf
fered from disasters, for ex
ample, floods, earthquakes,
hurricanes and wars."
The Bishops’ Relief Fund is
the chief financial support of
Catholic Relief Services—Na
tional Catholic Welfare Confer
ence, overseas aid agency of
U. S. Catholics. The general
campaign for the 1964 fund ap
peal will be conducted nation
wide from March 1 to 8, cul
minating with the customary
Laetare Sunday collection on
Negro Bishop Urged
For U.S. Hierarchy
DETROIT (RNS) —The hier
archy of the Roman Catholic
Church in the U.S. should have
a Negro bishop to Improve its
image in racial matters, an
American Negro missionary
priest said here.
Father John N. LaBauve, a
member of the Society of the
Divine Word, said the fact that
the Catholic Church has Negro
bishops in Africa "means noth
ing for the American Church."
THERE should be at least
one Negro bishop in . this
country, he said, because
"These days when images are
being set, this would be another
sign that the Catholic Church
is sincere in carrying out her
doctrine on integration."
Father LaBauve suggested
that the first step could be ap
pointment of a Negro auxiliary
in the North when one of its
dioceses requires an assistant
as bishop.
"I would hesitate to suggest
that he be put in the South,"
the priest added. "I would
viUjOiitaa
not want to see him exposed
to occasional indignities,"
FATHER LaBauve addressed
a breakfast meeting of the De
troit Catholic Interracial Coun
cil which is seeking signatures
on a pledge to practice racial
equality in the buying and sell
ing of homes.
He said he expects the rate
of Negro conversions to double
in about ten years from the
present 11,000 a year once the
Church's liturgical reforms are
put into practice. He observed
that one of the reforms — the
saying of parts of the Mass in
English — would be popular
with Negroes.
"The pagenatry of the Mass
has not been a barrier to the
Negro," he said, "but Latin
is definitely a barrier."
Father LaBauve, who was
reared in Abbeyville, La., and
served as a parish priest in
Mound Bayou, Miss., is one of
about 150 Negro priests in the
U.S.
Although no Negro bishops
are serving in this country,
the Church has a number of
Negro prelates overseas and
cardinal. He is Laurian Card -
nal Rugambwa, Bishop of
Bukoba, Tanganyika.
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March 8. The campaign goal
is $5 million. In recent years
the students in Catholic schools
have raised $1 million annually
for the fund through sacrifices
and contributions during Lent.
The campaign last year en
abled CRS — NCWC, world’s
largest private voluntary relief
agency, to maintain a program
valued at $176 million which
provided food, clothing, medi
cines and other relief materials
to some 40 million persons in
more than 70 countries. CRS—
NCWC aid is dispensed solely
on the basis of need and with
out regard to race religion or
color.
Pope Paul in his message
paid tribute to the farflung pro
gram maintained by the
Bishops' through the generosity
of American Catholics. The text
of the Pope’s message follows:
My dear Catholic school
children of the United States of
America:
Each year on Ash Wednes
day, the Holy Father has taken
the occasion to address you
on the radio. We, as your new
Holy Father, have this pleas
ure for the first time. It is
a source of joy and happiness
for us to be able to speak to
you in your own homes and
schools, or wherever you are
gathered to listen. That our
voice can reach you directly
is a result of the progress
of science, and one marvels at
the most recent advances of
modern technology which have
brought so many benefits to
mankind.
In this regard, the children
of today and particularly you,
who live in the United States
of America, have many extra
ordinary advantages, per
mitting you not only to have
all that is . necessary to feed
you and to clothe you properly,
but also to enjoy a standard
of living unknow before in his
tory.
BUT, THIS is not the case
wit h all children everywhere.
And the Holy Father, who is the
common Father of all, takes
special interest in those less
fortunate children who are un
dergoing many sufferings. The
•Pope worries about the little
ones who go to bed at night
hungry, or who have not suf
ficient clothes to protect them
against the bitter cold of the
winter or the heat of a tropi
cal sun, or who may have no
parents, or no homes at all,
or worse still, who may have
no country to call their own.
The Holy Father’s heart is
further burdened with con
cern for those children who
have recently suffered from
disasters, for example, floods,
earthquakes, hurricanes, and
wars.
However, we are greatly
comforted knowing that your
own beloved bishops have their
own organization. Catholic Re
lief Services, through which
they give assistance to these
needy children. But, this worthy
program of worldwide relief is
very expensive, and the bishops
need the whole - hearted
cooperation of their generous
Catholic people in order to
continue this noble work.
Therefore, we encourage you,
dear Catholic school children,
to make, in the spirit of Lent,
your little sacrifices to bring
aid and comfort to those in
distress. You have been very
generous in past years, so that
much good has been ac
complished, and we urge you
once again to help your bishops
to aid these poor children of
the world.
MOST OF you will be able
to make some little contribut
ion, even at the cost of over
coming your desire to buy
something for yourselves that
you may or may not really
need. Some of you will not find
it possible to make any of
fering. But, certainly all of you
can join work of your bishops
in assisting the less fortunate
children of the world.
Confident that you will be ever
mindful of your little friends
everywhere, we invoke upon
you, your good parents, your
priests, the religious Sisters
and your teachers and abun
dance of heavenly blessings and
in pledge thereof, we lovingly
impart our paternal apostolic
benediction.
MISSIONERS TOLD
FR. JAMES L. HARRISON congratulates St. Pius X’s six finalists in the nationwide Scholastic
Merit Competition. They are. left to right, Peter Majewski, Charlene Cherry, Sue Chappell, Fr.
Harrison, John Oliver, Christy Murphy, Paul Myers. There were 29 finalists in the entire state.
OLYMPIC WINNER
McDermott Won Medal
On Borrowed Ice Skates
ESSEXVILLE, Mich. (NC)—
From now on, it is anticipated,
anxious crowds will be queue
ing up to get a trimming in the
third chair of Bunny’s Barber
Shop in nearby Bay City. That’s
where Terry McDermott pre
sides.
Essexville and Bay City com
bined to give Richard Terrance
McDermott, winner of the
Olympic gold medal in the 500-
meter ice skating dash in record
time, a thunderous welcome
home (Feb. 11), Crowds cheer
ed as he rode triumphantly in
AUTHOR STATES
a motorcade to a civic recep
tion after his arrival at the
airport from Innsbruck, Au
stria,site of the winter Olym
pic games.
UNTIL THE 23-year-old bar
ber borrowed a pair of skates
and bested Yevgeny Grishin,
heavily favored Soviet champ,
in the speed skating competi
tion, this town’s only previous
claim to fame was its cement
output and, in earlier days,
fish and ice for nearby Sagi
naw.
Young McDermott whizzed
Hitler Wanted
End To Church
MUENSTER, Germany (NC)
— ‘ 'I would simply march into
the Vatican and lug out the whole
gang, and then I would say:
’Sorry, I made a mistakel’ But
then we’d be rid of theml’’
This remark was made by
Adolf Hitler, nazi dictator, ac
cording to a book by Henry Pic
ker, He says the remark is
based on stenographic notes
made by himself while he was
present at meals in the war
time headquarters of the "Fue
hrer" during ; the years: 1941
and 1942. The book, "Hitler’s
Tischgespraeche im Fuehrerh-
auptquarder" (Gitler’s Table
Talk at the Fuehrer’s Head
quarters), was written by Pic
ker and Heinrich Heim, and
published in Stuttgart.
Hitler’s remark was made in
reference to Benito Mussolini,
the late "Duce" of Italy, whom
Hitler blamed for having made
what he thought were much too
ample concessions to the Holy
See in the Lateran treaties.
The author of the book al
so reports a statement by Hit
ler proclaiming the "impend
ing collapse of the Church,"
although it might take one to
200 years.
"I am not interested in arti
cles of faith’’, Hitler said, "but
I won’t tolerate any interfer
ence of those sky pilots, for the
state must be absolute boss,
and this organized deceit must
be hit hard.
"It ought to be possible," he
added cynically, "to arrange for
only dumbbells to stand on pul
pits, and only old women to lis
ten to them because all these
men of the cloth are a curse,"
Hitler also said, according to
Picker, that if the government
were to cut off its subsidies to
the churches, "bishops and
clergy would all cringe and beg
for help, , . As for myself,
once I am buried I would not
want to have any popists ar
ound within a ten-foot pole dis
tance."
"Echo der Zeit," Catholic
weekly here, in reviewing the
book points out that one of Hit
ler’s remarks it reports, con
stitutes an answer to the char
ges leveled at the late Pope Pius
XII by Rolf Hochhuth in con
nection with the nazi persecut
ion of the Jewish people.
Hitler said: "If anywhere in
this country there were a
mutiny, I would have all the
opposition leaders, including
those who belong to political
Catholicism, dragged out of
their homes, arrested and exe
cuted on the spot"
Hitler, says the paper, in his
hatred of the Jews also meant
to destroy Christianity, and in
Christianity, Jewry, "Jewish
Chrlstinaity" was the phrase he
frequently used indicating that
both Jews and Christians were
the objects of his venom.
EXCHANGED “GOOD WISHES”—At N.C.W.C. headquar
ters in Washington, two well-known Catholic journalists ex
change good wishes and review the progress of the Catholic
press in the Americas. Frank A. Hall, K.C.S.G. (left), of
Washington, retires March 1 after serving for 40 years with
the staff of N.C.W.C. News Service. He was its director
since 1934 and also headed the press department of the Na
tional Catholic Welfare Conference. Msgr. James L Tucek
(right), priest of the Diocese of Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas,
who has been chief of the Rome bureau of NCWC News
Service since 1956.
Long Road Ahead
In Latin America
into worldfame Feb. 4 when he
not only bested the Russian
champ, but clipped one-tenth of
a second off Grishin's world
record. McDermott skated the
500 meters in 40.1 seconds. He
brought the U.S. its first gold
medal in the winter games.
MCDERMOTT CAME home
a week earlier than expected.
He had considered going to
Norway for the world speed
skating championships, but de
cided he’d better get back to
barbering and paying for his
house here.
His wife is the former Vir
ginia Vermeesch. They were
schoolmates at St. John’s High
School here where McDermott
played halfback on the football
team. They were married last
September.
"I KNELT DOWN and tried
to say the Rosary when I heard
Terry had won the Olympic
medal," Mrs. McDermott said,
"but I only got to say half of
it. There were too many phone
calls. It was a long time before
I could finish the Rosary."
McDermott doesn’t smoke,
seldom drinks, is "quiet but
determined," his wife said. He
keeps in physical condition by
early morning and evening runs
around the neighborhood. He of
ten runs the three miles to Bay
City and the third chair in
Bunny's Barber Shop, which
got its name from the owner,
Harvey (Bunny) Herbert, now
retired, who is McDermott’s
uncle.
THE OLYMPIC champ also
played baseball in his high
school days, but showed more
interest in ice hockey. From
there he went on the carve a
name for himself as a speek
skater.
His wife said she doesn’t
skate, doesn’t want to, but add
ed: "I’d like to raise a family
of skaters. This is really some
thing to remember. It will be
something wonderful to tell our
children."
McDERMOTT IS the youngest
in a family of six sisters and a
brother . His father, Joseph
McDermott, retired recently
as membership secretary of the
East Michigan Tourist Asso
ciation.
The champ is a parishioner
of St. John’s church here. His
pastor, Father Gerald H. Hiet-
pas, O. Praem., said he’s sure
"Terry will remain the real
modest type he always has
been." He added: "It’s evident
that Terry has lots of courage
and ambition."
MESSAGES OF congratula
tions have piled up for McDer
mott. One from President John
son said "Your matchless skill
and competitive daring have won
you a warm and lasting place
in the hearts of your country
men." Another from Gov.
George Romney said: "It took
a Michigan man to crack the ice
for the United States."
And before the went to take
part in the welcome home for
the champ, Mrs. Joseph McDer
mott and three of her daughters
assisted at 8 a.m. Mass in St.
John's church "for Terry."
LIMA, Peru (NC)— The Cat
holic Church in Peru and most
of Latin America will need help
from abroad for the next 40
to 70 years, Archbishop Romolo
Carboni, Papal Nuncio to Peru
told delegates to the first
PAVLA convention held here
for lay missioners 'working in
Peru, Bolivia and Chile.
Thirty delegates convened in
nearby Chaclacaya (Jan. 25-30)
to review their first three
years’ lay missionary activit
ies. Present at the convention
was David O’Shea, national se
cretary of the Papal Volunteers
for Latin America headquar
tered in Chicago. The lay volun
teers also held their annual re
treat with Father Richard
Clifford, Maryknoll priest from
Splkane, Wash,, as retreat
master.
ARCHBISHOP CARBONI
backed up his estimate of fut
ure missionary needs in Latin
America by saying:
"This help from abroad must
come in the form of priests,
Religious and lay apostles, be
cause this help must come from
the Church as a whole in the
entire world, to the Church as
a whole in Latin America."
THE PAPAL NUNCIO told the
delegates that regardless of
how numerous they will be
come, their numbers will al
ways be small in relation to
the task. "There will always be
more, many more sick, hungry
and ignorant people than you
can take care of, ’’ he said.
Archbishop Carboni remind
ed the lay volunteers that their
presence in Latin America is
concrete proof that the Church
in Latin America with all its
resources and that the effort
will be a total one.
"IT WAS A JOY for me to
welcome to Peru almost three
years ago the first Papal Volun
teers. The Papal Volunteer
program in Latin America has
been of great help not only to
the people of the countries
where the missioners who
are working out their salvat
ion in a spirit of generous de
dication, which inevitably deep
ens their own spiritual life,"
the Papal Nuncio said.
He conferred with O’Shea of
the PAVLA national office, re
lative to the need of a lay mis-
sioner center in Lima to faci-
liaison between Peru and
U. S. lay sending groups.
LOOKING BACK upon three
years of lay missioner work
in Peru, the Papal Nuncio cit
ed instances where adaptat
ion to climate and altitude, hea
lth problems, understanding
the Latin mentality and limit
ed funds have created pro
blems, but he added:
"I believe the greatest weak
ness in the lay missioner pro
gram is the lack of a central
authority and a central office
here in Peru."
CARDINAL CUSHING
Nothing Narrow
About Calvary
BOSTON (NC) — "Nobody is
going to tell me that Christ
died on Calvary for a select
group,” Richard Cardinal
Cushing of Boston told 200
Episcopalian ministers here.
Cardinal Cushing, speaking at
a luncheon of the Massachusetts
Clerical Association in historic
Trinity church (Feb. 3),
praised the Protestant clergy
for their scholarship and good
will and called for a broaden
ing of ecumenical ties.
HE PREDICTED that a single
authorized version of the Bible
will eventually replace the vari
ous Catholic and Protestant
editions now in use.
While Catholics have been
urged to read the Bible more,
he told the Protestant clergy
men, "your people now know the
Bible far better than ours".
He predicted that the Church
will make various changes in
an ecumenical spirit, but ex
pressed doubt that changes in
the regulations on mixed
marriages will be among them.
"There was a time," he said,
"when I thought that my
Church’s marriage laws vis-
a - vis non - Catholic partners
would be mitigated."
BUT NOW, he added, "al
though I do not like them, I
cannot promise they will be
changed." He said some of the
Church’s marriage laws are
"great obstacles to Christian
unity."
Cardinal Cushing, speaking
of his experiences at the Second
Vatican Council, said the Pro
testant observers knew more
about what was going on than
he did. "They had Latin inter
preters and I never heard a
Latin lecture in my life until
I entered the first session,"
he said.
After his talk to the mini
sters, Cardinal Cushing was
taken on a tour of Trinity church
by its rector, the Rev. Theodore
Parker Ferris, with whom he
knelt for several minutes of
prayer.
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