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PAGE 2 GEORGIA BULLETIN THURSDAY, MARCH 12, 1964 RELIGIOUS COMMUNITIES Church 6 Special Forces 9 Spread All Over World The following article on the work of the Church’s religious communities for men has been prepared by the Baltimore pro vincial of the Pallotine Fathers who is chairman of the Vocation Committee of the Conference of Major Superiors of men.) BY GUIDO J. CARCICH, S.A.C. (N. C. W. C. NEWSSERVICE) Through the night of Nov. 25, 1963, in the light of the Eternal Flame at the newly dug grave of the late President Kennedy, one tribute seemed to stand out—the green beret of a member of the Army Special Forces. It was left by a man who had sworntc defend liberty and jus tice with his life if required. He is one of a small, select group especially trained to carry out his duty under the most unusual as well as the most arduous cir cumstances, SO IT IS with the religious communities within the Church. Each order is actually a select group of men chosen by Al mighty God to serve Him in a very special way and not in frequently under the most ardu ous circumstances. The Special Forces’ soldier is known by his green beret. So too are the members of the "Special Forces of the Church” known by their distinctive garb: • The Benedictine in his black scapular and cowl. • The Franciscan in his coarse and simple brown robe and sandals, • The Dominican inhisblack and white. • The Oblate of Mary Imma culate with his crucifix. • The Jesuit with his simple black cassock. • The Christian Brother with his collar resembling the Tab lets of the Law. in»*iction^aul;231-3040 IT IS difficult to pinpoint the exact time when Almighty God called the first member of his Special Forces to service. In the very early days, certainly the solitary .hermit serving God in reparation and self denial and good example could be consid ered a member of the Special Forces. As the Church and the world grew, the Divine Plan worked to bring more men, who are to day among the Saints of God, to establish new branches of the Special Forces to carry the Word of God and the love of God to his people in all the corners of the earth. In the early years of the sixth century, when Rome was the center of the world’s art and learning and lust, a young noble man, Benedict, was sent by his parents to Rome to be educated. BENEDICT spent only a short time in Rome before he realiz ed that the ways of pleasure are not necessarily the ways of God and that selfish pleasure brings the image and likeness of God to the very gates of hell. He fled from Rome and lived in the hills as a hermit. His holy life attracted many others. As his following became great er, he found it necessary to set down in writing specific rules for the government of men who live together in the honor and service of Almighty God. From this rule, which is today the basic guideline along which many of the rules of the dif ferent religious communities are patterned, came the Order of Saint Benedict. In the thirteenth century, ano ther rich man's son was invit ed by Almighty God to become a special kind of servant. He was asked particularly to re pair the House of God and he did it through poverty. THE MAN, of course, was St. Francis of Assisi—the Singing Pauper. From this man came the Franciscan Fathers and Broth ers who have and are laboring in all parts of the world. In the rotunda of the great capitol at Washington, D.C., among the likenesses of the men who have made this country great there is one statue of a Catholic priest • a Franciscan Father, Juni- pero Serra. He traveled the length of California bringing God, knowledge and a better life. Devotions In Honor Of St. Anthony AT ST. ANTHONY’S CHURCH EACH TUESDAY MORNING AT 11:30 Attend Mass or Mail Petitions To Monsignor J.E. King 928 Gordon St. S.W. Atlanta 30310. <Whte/i p(ac OYSTERS fils SHRIMP STONE CRAB CLAWS LOBSTER In Buckhead 233-4125 AN INVESTMENT IN YOUR SON’S FUTURE KOC'il m CT.OSS IN NEW ORLEANS, LA. A Leading Preparatory School for Boys, conducted by the Holy Cross Brothers. Grades 7-12, both Boarding and Day. ► Character Training and Christian Doctrine ► College Preparatory Courses ► Supervised Study Periods ► Training in the Fine Arts ► Complete Athletic Facilities For information write: Dir, of Admissions, HOLY CROSS SCHOOL lex 44, 4f50 Dauphin* St -New Orleans, La.70117 In 1962, there were 421,609 priests in th e world. Of this number, 138,017 were mem bers of a religious community. In this same year, the world population of religious Brothers reached 51,294. The Official Catholic Directory placed the number of religious priests in the, United States in 1963 at 22,075, In the same year there were 11,968 religious Brothers here. Where are they and what are they doing? They are working in this country in many instances in parishes, side by side with the diocesan priests. Perhaps the religious clergy are best known for their work in the field of education. FOR FROM these men have come some of our greatest col leges and universities—Notre Dame, Holy Cross, Georgetown, Fordham and others. They serve also as writers and edi tors and publishers. Still others serve as chaplains in the armed forces, schools, convents and prisons. And they dispense the love of God in homes, hospi tals and shelters across the land. As Junipero Serra came from Spain to bring God and his love to the New World so now are re ligious priests and brothers go ing out from the New World to the rest of the world. Today U.S. religious priests and Brothers serve the Church in 70 countries. And for this work of God, many suffer and some die. At least one bishop, who is also a priest of a re ligious community, languishes today in a prison cell in Red China. He is Bishop James E. Walsh, M.M. BUT THE work goes on. More priests and more Brothers are leaving the United States. The present need is particularly great in Latin America. This land, which saw the first foun dation of the Church in the New World and which gave this New World its first saints, is today receiving the greatest amount of assistance. During 1963, 188 religious priests and 63 Brothers left the Unites States to serve the Church in Latin America. Dur ing the past year, every country in Latin America, with the ex ception of El Salvador and Cuba, received either priests or Bro thers or both from the United States. Making the largest single contribution to Latin America is the Maryknoll community with 252 priests and 29 Brothers in Guatemala, El Salvador, Mexi co, Bolivia, Chile and Peru. IN ADDITION, priests and Brothers of 13 different Bene dictine abbeys are active in 11 different countries. One such abbey, Saint John’s of College- ville, Minn., has sent 21 priests and 11 Brothers to Mexico and Puerto Rico. Among the other orders par ticularly active aretheMarian- ists who have 19 priests and 59 Brothers in Mexico, Peru and Puerto Rico. The Marian- ist Fathers will soon open a novitiate in Lima, Peru, while the Viatorian Fathers are hard at work in the training of na tive leachers at their newly es tablished Colegio San Viator in Colombia. The Holy Cross Fathers are actively promoting the Family Rosary Crusade in Brazil, Chile and other Latin American coun tries. In Caracas, Venezuela, a Paulist Father is studying the possibilities and opportunities for their special apostolate— convert work and Newman Clubs. These are a few of the activi ties of some of the many bran ches of Christ’s Special Forces in the Church Militant. They are engaged in constant warfare in all parts of the world against those things which af fect God's people most severe ly—hunger, disease, ignorance, poverty and filth. The challenge is hard and of ten devastating. To those who accept it, it permits them to taste in a very special way for all the days of their life both the sacrifice of Calvary and the .glory of Easter. NO CO-EXISTENCE VATICAN CITY (NC) — Pope Paul VI has expanded to 42 members including the new Commission for the Sacred Liturgy charged with carrying out the longrange reforms ordered by the ecumenical council. President of the commission is Giacomo Cardinal Lercaro of Bologna, Italy, who was a mem ber of the ecumenical council's Commission for the Liturgy. The commission’s first meet ing was scheduled for March 11. THE COMMISSION is com posed of 10 cardinals, 28 bis hops and four other prelates, 19 of whom served on the council’s 26-member liturgical commis sion. Twenty-six countries on all continents are represented on the new commission. In cluded are nine Italians. There are three members each from France, Germany and Spain, and the U.S. has two members. American members are Joseph Cardinal Ritter of St. Louis and Archbishop Paul J. Hallinan of Atlanta, a council commission member. Also on the new commission is Bishop Joseph A. Martin of Nicolet, Que., another council com mission member. In announcing the appoint- REASONS WHY ments, the Vatican City daily L’Osservatore Romano com mented: “TO THIS commission, in addition to the task of prepar ing general liturgical reform on the basis of the norms contain ed in the (ecumenical council’s) constitution on the Sacred Liturgy, there is also entrust ed the task of seeing to the ap plication of the constitution... in the letter and spirit of the council which approved it." The paper added that "by the competence of all its mem bers," the new commission" is in the best position to carry out its task with depth of study and with great experience." Creation of the commission was announced on Jan. 28 along with three of its members: Cardinal Lercaro; Arcadio Cardinal Larraona, Prefect of the Sacred Congregation of Rites and president of the coun cil liturgical commission: and Paolo Cardinal Giobbe of the Roman curia and vice president of the council commission. Father Annibale Bugnini, C.M., a consultor of the Congregtion of Rites liturgy section and a council expert, was appointed secretary of the new commiss ion. U.S. Won’t Send Protest On Jews WASHINGTON — The govern ment of the United States, as a matter of policy, refrains from protesting officially to Moscow over the persecution of Jews ih the Soviet Union. To do so, it is felt, would only worsen the plight of Jews in Russia. This is an interesting re velation at this time, when the highly controversial stage play "The Deputy" has been brought to this country. The play seeks to put Pope Pius XII in an un favorable light by indicating that he did not protest as much as he might have over the per secution of Jews in Germany under Hitler. Authorities on the subject have replied that if the late Pontiff had done any more than he did, he would only have spread and deepened the suffer ings of the Jews in Germany at the hands of the nazis. SEN. KENNETH B. Keating of New Uork revealed on the floor of the U.S. Senate that he had received from the State Department a memorandum on the "Situation of the Jews in the Soviet Union." He introduced the document into the Con gressional Record. The memorandum says that Jews, along with others, suf fer under antireligious laws that have been in force since the establishment of the Soviet regime in Russia in 1918. Cit ing some particulars, it adds that, in the case of the Jews, these pressures "prevent the normal maintenance and de velopment of their religious, social and cultural life." "Regarding possible re medial action on behalf of Soviet Jews by the United States government through di plomatic channels," the State ment representations to the Soviet government would not be in the best interests of Soviet Jews. These representations could in fact antagonize the Soviet government to the detri ment of Soviet Jews. "IN THE past, the Soviet government has often accused Soviet Jews of susceptibility to subversive foreign influences and of being agents of foreign states, most particularly of the United States and Israel. It would hardly be to the interest of Soviet Jews for the United States to take actions which would seem to lend credence to this charge. Formal actions by the U. S. government or its official representatives could have this unfortunate re sult and also lose in effective ness Vatican Warns Against Catholic-Red Meetings HER BEATIFICATION cause opens the preliminary work of collecting all writings of Mother Mary Katharine Drexel, (above) foundress of the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament for Indians and Colored People (Cornwell Heights, Pa.) has been initiated in the cause of her beatification. Father Francis J. Litz, C.SS.R., of St. Peter’s Church, Philadelphia, has been named vice postulator. The Philadelphia-born Religious died on March 2, 1955, in her 96th year. UTURGICAL CHANGE Archbishop For New Commission VATICAN CITY (NC) — L’ Osservatore Romano has warn ed Italian Catholics to beware of playing into communist hands by taking part in Catholic- communist meetings. The Vatican City daily's edi torial (March 4) was occasion ed by an international confe rence of young people and stu dents held a week earlier in Florence on the problems of peace, disarmament and nat ional independence. The leftist- oriented meeting was attended by Catholic layman. L’OSSERVATORE Romano- said that such meetings aim at putting communism and the Church on the same level in Italian life and that communist newspapers, such as Rome's Unita, exploit the meetings for propaganda purposes. As a re sult, the editorial said, it is the duty of Catholics "not to off er, even in the fervor of char ity, pretexts and equivocal situations for the dangerous game being played by the com munists." It noted that Mayor LaPira in opening the meeting ad dressed "a noble appeal" to communists governments "to remove the stumbling block of atheism." It said that such an appeal is not enough to bring ab out the possibility of coexist ence between the Church and communism, and added: "For Catholicism and communism to be compatible, communism would have to cease being com munism." The Vatican City newspaper added: "The repeated appeals of the Italian Bishops for the unity of Catholics in the political field- re-echoed by us many times— is based on the threat which communism poses to the Chri stian future of our people. . . Because of this, the desired meeting between Catholicism and communism is not thinka ble, because the consequences would then be most grave for religious and civil liber ties." THE EDITORIAL was obv iously aimed at Mayor La Pira, whose devout piety, on the one Requiem For Editor ST. LOUIS (NC) — Solemn Pontifical Requiem Mass for Msgr. J. Daniel Moore, 42, editor since 1957. of the St. Louis Review, archdiocesan newspaper, was offered here in St. Louis cathedral (March7) by Joseph Cardinal Ritter, Archbishop of St. Louis. "He had everything but good health," Cardinal Ritter said in tribute to the priest who died (March 3) of a kidney ailment which resulted from a 20- year bout with diabetes. He had been hospitalized since early February. Msgr. Moore, a native of St. Louis, was ordained to the priesthood in 1948. In addition to his work as editor of the newspaper, Msgr. Moore was a leader in the interfaith and the human rights movements here, and was founding director of the Catholic Information Cen ter in downtown St. Louis. He is survived by a brother and two sisters. ‘Hogwash’ ALBANY, N. Y. (RNS) — A Jewish legislator charged here on the floor of the New York State Assembly that the play "The Dequty" is "Hogwash" which "right-thinking men and women. . . will not buy." Assemblyman Robert J. - Feinberg, a Republican from Plattsburgh, drew applause from his colleagues with his charge that the drama's treat ment of the late Pope Pius XII is "Out-and-out blasp hemy." MR. FEINBERG, who re presents predominantly Roman Catholic Clinton County, As serted that the play’s claim that the Pope should have spoken out publicly against Nazi atrocities is a "baseless suggestion that . . .(the pontiff). . .was res ponsible for the unspeakable carnage. . . visited by the Nazi hordes upon six million Jews." hand, and whose efforts to find a middle way between Catholi cism and communism by persu ading communists to abandon atheistic materialism on the other hand have earned him the description; "the little red fish in the holy water font." The day the editorial appear ed, Mayor La Pira released the text of a message addressed to Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev which deplored re cent articles in the Moscow paper, Pravda, calling for an intensified antireligious camp aign. La Pira told the Premier that the Pravada articles had "pro duced in the Florentine people, in those of Italy and certainly in the people of the entire world a real shock and a painful im pression." LA PIRA attributed such thinking to the Stalinist regime and expressed his immense concern for the "sorrowful and negative effects which this new mounting of the antireligious offensive will certainly produce in Florence, in Italy and in in ternational relations, espec ially among the peoples of the Third World (Africa and Asia.) "I have always had great es teem for you. Therefore, for the good of the Soviet people and in the name of brotherly peace and the brotherly unity of peoples, permit me to say to you with great sincerity: Remove this corpse of atheism from the Russian earth as you removed the corpse of Stalin. It is a corpse which poisons the air. The soviet people can not stand its stench." ON THE SAME day, Vatican Radio paraphrased passages from Pravda on the stepped- up antireligion campaign, in cluding the following one: "Communism, ever since its inception, has had to smooth cut, adapt and correct many theoretical ideas and many pra ctical attitudes under the pres sure of reality and history. Its attitude toward the true value of the spirit, and religious faith in particular, remains un changed. Communism does not regard atheism as a secondary aspect, as an accessory ele ment, but as a necessary prin ciple and essential element of its ideology, which is Marxist materialism." 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