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PAGE 8 GEORGIA BULLETIN THURSDAY AUGUST 20, 1964
DELEGATE SAYS
Pope Continues
Liberal Policy
EDMONTON, Alta. (NC) —
The new apostolic delegate to
Canada expressed confidence
Pope Paul VI will continue the
liberal work undertaken by the
late Pope John XXIII.
Archbishop Sergio Pingne-
doii expressed the opinion at a
press conference here in reply
to a question about t he pos
sibility that Pope Paul's first-
encyclical, Ecclesiam Suam,
reflected a return to the con
servatism in vogue at the Vati
can prior to the reign of Pope
John.
THE POPE’S representative
in Canada acknowledged that
he had not yet read carefully
and fully the text of the ency
clical, which was released Aug.
Siena College
LOUDONVILLE, N.Y. (NC)—
Father Brain F. EXiffy, O.F.M.,
has been appointed the fifth
president of 27-year-old Siena
College here. He succeeds Fa
ther Edmund F. Christy, O.F.-
M„ who served as president
nine years and has been trans
ferred to Holy Name College,
Washington, D.C, Father Duffy,
a native of New York, has been
dean of the Franciscan College
for the last six years.
10, but added he believed any
one who felt it signaled a change
from Pope John’s policy must
have misunderstood the spirit
of the encyclical.
"Pope Paul,"the archbishop
said, "has a mentality which
is very open in all things and
he has repeatedmany times that
he will continue the work star
ted by Pope John."
Archbishop Pignedoli was
here (Aug. 12) for a visit with
Archbishop Anthony Jordan, 0.
M. L, and retired Archbishop
John H, MacDonald of the De
monton archidiocese. The apo
stolic delegate has been spend
ing his first month in Canada
in a coast-to-coast trip on visits
to all Canadian archbishops.
THE POPE’S new represent
ative arrived in Canada July 21
to take over his new duties.
For the last four years he had
been apostolic delegate to the
Central West African States
with headquarters in Lagos,
Nigeria.
When he was asked about the
effect of the Catholic Church
on emerging African nations,
Archbishop Pignedoli replied;
"It is tremendous. Twelve new
dioceses were formed dur
ing the four vears I was there.
POPE PAUL VI receives gift of a canary and a gilt bird cage from townspeople of Orvi-
eto, Italy. The Holy Father presided at the 7th centenary of the institution of the feast
of Corpus Christ!.
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CUMBERLAND, Md. (NC)--
A brother* of Bishop James
Walsh, M.M., who is imprison
ed by Red Chinese, said here
the prelate is in fine physical
and mental healrh despite some
published reports to the con
trary.
William Walsh, a Cumber
land judge, said Bishop Walsh
writes in his monthly letter that
he Is well and his strong hand
writing and cheerfulness prove
the claim.
A MISUNDERSTANDING about
the missloner's condition may
have arisen, the Judge said, be
cause the bishop has been hous
ed by his Red Chinese jailers
In the hospital section of the
prison.
The 73-year-old Maryknoller
was sentenced in 1960 to a 20-
year term for "subversive ac
tivities.” The Jail sentence
followed years of harrassmmt.
In 1956, he was told he was
free to leave the country, but
he refused, saying he would not
desert the people he came to
serve.
Judge Walsh visited his broth
er in 1960 and since then has
corresponded with the prelate,
writing every other month, al
ternating with their sister,
Mary,
Pointing to the strong, virile
script in a recent letter from
the bishop, Judge Walsh corn-
mentioned in an interview:
"There’s no question as to whe
ther this is his handwriting...
and the way he has of express
ing himself is typical. There's
certainly no indication from his
handwriting that he is ill.”
THE BISHOP writes almost
exclusively about family affairs
avoiding any political referen
ces. "He remembers birth
days better than I do,” said the
Judge.
Bishop Walsh's mood has re
mained cheerful. In one letter,
Judge Walsh recalled, he joked
about his language capabilities,
calling his French "the worst
ever heard from the lips of
mortal man.”
Although Mary and Wil iam
are the only ones of the eight
Walsh brothers and sisters per
mitted to write to the bishop,
other family members sign
birthday and Christmas cards
which he receives.
In addition to the monthly let
ters, the bishop is permitted to
receive two packages a month
through the Red Cross, They
contain items such as toiletries
and cigarettes.
THE PRELATE asked for,
and was permitted to keep, about
a dozen books, including bio
graphy, poetry and nonfiction.
He is not permitted a breviary,
missal or rosary.
Judge Walsh said there is
nothing else, including letters,
that anyone should attempt to
send the bishop. ‘The best thing
that can be done for him is to
pray for him,” he said.
Four years ago this month the
Walsh brothers said goodbye at
a Chinese prison after their
first visit in 12 years.
The Judge recalled they met
three times, once for a half-
hour, twice for an hour. They
called each other James and
William, Just as they always
did. William could not call his
SUPREME KNIGHT
New Member Policy
Asked Of K. Of C.
NEW ORLEANS (NC)--Su
preme Knight John W. McDevitt
has asked the Knights of Col
umbus to use "charity and Jus
tice, and these factors alone"
in selecting candidates for
membership in the Catholic or
ganization.
His statement was issued at
the opening session of the 82nd
annual meeting of the K. of C.
supreme council (Aug. 18).
The supreme board of direc
tors, McDevitt said, "has re
peatedly pointed out that mem
bership shall be open to all
Catholic men regardless of
ethnic background or economic
status.
"WE HAVE before us the op
portunity to remove any sem-
charge which currently is held
against us," he declared,
McDevitt said the time has
come "when we can no longer
close our eyes to the fact that
the so-called blackball proce
dure is an outmoded admission
process which permits a defi
nite minority to act in such a
way that these criticisms are
justified."
Ten state councils have pro
posed to the national body that
the membership regulations be
modified. Under existing pro
cedures, an applicant can be re
fused membership In a local
council if five negative botes
are cast against him. These
procedures have been seen by
many as being discriminatory
against Negroes,
In his statement, McDevitt
told convention delegates: "We
should amend our rules govern
ing the process of member
ship selection and thereby re
move forever the opportunities
of prejudice that tend to di
lute our Judgment,"
AS WF.LL AS SEGNI
PENNSYLVANIA BISHOP
Answers Critics
Of Seminaries
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brother by title, bishop.
Judge Walsh said of their
parting: "When the last visit
was over and we said goodbye,
I was a little upset when my
brother walked out. I remem
ber that the window on one side
of the little room where we had
the interviews looked out into
the prison yard...
"I WENT over and pulled
aside the curtain.,,The lower
panes of the window we re paint
ed, but I managed, with the
help of a guard, to get the win
dow open.
*1 called to him and he heard
me. He turned toward the win
dow, we waved to each other, and
I said, 'So long, James,'Then
he and the guard disappeared In
the passageway and thatwasthe
last time I saw him.”
VILLANOVA, Pa. (NC) — A
bishop concluded here it "is a
deplorable lack of reality that
leads a critic to say that a gra
duate of seminary will have only
the barest acquaintances with
literature, psychology, socio
logy, economics, history and
political science.”
Bishop Joseph McShea of Al
lentown, Pa., asserted: "Until
contemporary electronics pro
duce a machine to pour forth
knowledge both infused and In
tuitive, I defy any man prepar
ing for the priesthood or any
specialized calling to acquire
the collateral proficiencies
demanded by the strident voice
of such criticism.”
BISHOP McShea preached the
sermon (Aug. 15) at the Sol
emn Pontifical Mass which
marked the’dedicatlon of the new
St. Mary's Hall, _collegiate
seminary of the Augustlnian
Fathers here.
Francis Cardinal Spellman of
New York presided and Arch
bishop Egldlo Vagnozzi, Apos
tolic Delegate in the United Sta
tes, offered the Mass.
BISHOP McShea said the true
joy of the occasion should spring
from "the continuation, impro
vement and intensification of
your training programs for
future priests” rather than
from $5 million expended In
stone, steel and marble Joined
with glass and wood in the
new building complex.
Since the first Augustlnian
novince was accepted at Vill-
anova in 1848, said Bishop
McShea, the work of the Augu-
stinian Fathers have spread to
nine archdiocese and twelve
dioceses In this country, and to
Cuba, Japan and Canada.
DURING the long years of
training, hundreds of seminar
ians have been sanctified in
truth, and sent into the world
to accomplish the Master's
mission. This has been done in
the spirit of those hallowed tra
ditions which the Church
has kept as her own. The dis
positions of the Council of
Trent, and the Code of Canon
Law, the Constitution of the
Augustlnian Order and its Ra
tio Studiorum are the rever
ed guidelines which have serv
ed and will serve in the future
for the training of religious cal
led to the sacred priesthood.
They cannot be cast aside light
ly.”
The bishop continued: "In our
own times, in the spirit of the
Ecumenical Council, the Catho
lic world seeks renewal and ac- •
commodatlon of the Church and
her works to the spirit and con
ditions of a contemporary
world. All of us feel In our
hearts the urge to respond to
the call of Pope John XXIII
and Our Holy Father Paul VI.
"BUT THERE are many too
who, by Implication at least,
would tell us that the practi
ces and disciplines of the past
are hopelessly outxnouded,” he
Pope Urges Prayers
For Ailing Red
CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy
(RNS)—Pope Paul VI called up
on the Italian faithful to pray
for President Antonio Segniand
Palmiro Togliatti, leader of the
Italian Communist Party, who
were gravely ill as the result
of strokes.
He asked prayers for die
President during a Mass he
celebrated In the parish church
of Castel Gandolfo, saying the
faithful should "intercede with
"the Madonna to assist from
Heaven such an amiable, dear
person and with him the entire
Italian people.”
LATER, in an appearance at
Child Treatment
SUPERIOR, Wis. (NC)—The
St. Joseph’s Residential Treat
ment Center for emotionally
disturbed children will be
blessed by Bishop George A,
Hammes of Superior, on Aug.
19. The home, formerly an or
phanage, will provide psychia
tric treatment for all children.
said.
"The charges are made that
seminary education deprives
the seminarian of meaning
ful contacts with the laity;
that he is not adequately school
ed in the disciplines of the mod
em world; that he is const
ricted by repressive standards
of obedience and respect for
authority; that he is deprived
of personal initiative. All this
is depicted as tragically dis
qualifying our priests of today
and tomorrow from effective
apostolate among the enlighten
ed laity of our times,” the bis
hop stated.
"WHEN WE are told,” said
the bishop, "that in many vi
tal respects seminary educa
tion is badly deficient, and that
whatever its other virtues, it is
an education ill-designed to
prepare a priest to cope with
the layman, certainly a
challenge has been thrown out to
us.”
This challenge, Bishop Mc
Shea said, comes "not infre-
qently in a spirit of hostile
criticism from voices which
on other occasions call voci
ferously for the picketing of
eminent prelates and the hy
percritical examination
of every act of ecclesiastical
authority. We accept the chall
enge. We can defend our semi
naries and institutes of cleri
cal formation."
NOTHING that Christ drew
His first apostles away from
the world for spiritual forma
tion before He sent them out to
teach. Bishop McShea said:
"Let no one dare to scoff at the
centuries old experience of
Mother Church which has dicta
ted programs of separation
from the world and worldly con
tacts inpreparatlonfor the mis
sion that awaits the priest
hood.”
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HOW TO HELP THE BLIND
BLIND YOUNGSTERS IN THE GAZA STRIP, some of them
only seven years old, can now read with their fingers, weave
baskets, raise chickens and rabbits,
thank' to the Pontifical Mission
Center ror the Blind. Someday.
God they will be able to supr
port themselves, marry, and have
P** 3 normal rhl'dren of (heir own . . .
^ In GAZA (a parched strip of deaeri
between EGYPT and ISRAEL) blind
ness was an Indelible curse until
two years ago, when our readers
helped build the Pontifical Mission
„ . . Center. Now everyone In GAZA
Toe Holy Father's Musion Aid knows that blind people can lead
for the Oriental Church useful, productive lives . . . We
thank God. and our readers, for the privilege of helping the
blind to see! . . . Blind youngsters in rags, holding their fathers
by the hend, came to the Center this week to ask admission in
the fall. Dozens more will come before September. How many
can we help? The Holy Father asks us to help as many as we
can . . . $300 will pay the overall cost of a blind boy’s training
for one year . .. $35 pays it for one month . .. $10 clothes a blind
youngster for one year . . . $1.25 a month gives him lunch rack
noontime. Won’t you do what you can? . . . Our Lord worked
miracles to give sight to the blind. Your help can work wonders!
the window of his summer res
idence, he repeated his call for
prayer for Mr. Segni and added,
without mentioning Mr. Togliat
ti by name:
"Another political personali
ty is in the same grave condi
tion. We will pray to the Ma
donna, Mother of pity and mer
cy, to assist him, too.”
Mr. Togliatti suffered a stroke
while on vacation in the Soviet
Union. He was reported to be in
"very serious” condition at a
Moscow hospital.
Observers here saiditmark-
ed the first time a pontiff had
called for prayers for a Com
munist leader.
In his sermon at the Mass,
Pope Paul also called for pray
er for world peace, saying:
"Look at the newspapers and
you see how we are always on
the eve of some fire which can
still bum our present world.”
MISSION MEMO
THE WORKING WOMAN cams about five cents a day in
INDIA. Her husband averages about $1.45 a week . . . Small
wonder, then, that the Holy Father asks ntrr help to build mis
sion churches, schools, clinics! . . . Whatever you give to the
Catholic Near East Welfare Association is used under the Holy
Father's direction in one of our 18 countries—and no gift is
too small. After all, in INDIA a nickel is a woman's full-day’g
pay!
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