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PAGE 8 GEORGIA BULLETIN THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1964
NAMED FOR POPE JOHN
52 Men Comprise Class
For Unusual Seminary
WESTON, Mass (N'C)— Fifty-
two men, 27 to 57 years of age,
walked slowly up to the receiv
ing line and bowed before Rich
ard Cardinal Cushing, archbis
hop of Boston,
Behind them they left pro
fessions in which they had al
ready achieved success-pro
fessions which they chose to
forsake to enter the service of
God,
THE FIRST class of semi
narians in Pope John National
Seminary for Delayed Voca
tions, the only one of its kind
in the western world, was thus
welcomed by the Boston pre
late.
The only other similar semi
nary in the world is the 100-
year-old Beda College in Rome,
established for the training of
former Anglican clergymen who
wish to study for the priesthood
of the Roman Catholic Church
in England, It also takes men
from all walks of life.
First came a man, 47 years
of age, who gave up his job as
superintendent of schools. Next
in line was a chemistry profes
sor, followed by a man who be
came a success as an executive
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pervisor — all followed in a
solemn procession to receive
the blessing and good wishes
of Cardinal Cushing as they be
gan careers which they hope
and pray will culminate in their
ordination as Catholic priests.
Noting the number of candi
dates with military background,
who in their later years of life
decided to enter the priest
hood, Cardinal Cushing com
mented, 'This is a new kind of
army on the march.’’
The Cardinal also took occa
sion to direct attention to the
national character of the unique
institution by saying that 400
men from nearly every state in
the union sought admittance.
Many were disappointed, he
stated, but admission to the
first class is necessarily limit
ed.
“IN A FEW years we will be
taking students from Australia,
Canada, Africa and, I hope,
South America," stated Car
dinal Cushing, He added that the
opening of the delayed voca
tions seminary fulfills a dream
he has had for years.
The Cardinal said he recog
nized the need for such a sem
inary in the United States after
he saw how successful thene in
Italy is,
"I named it after Pope John
XXIII because it was he who
first suggested that I estab
lish one here," explains the
Boston prelate.
Probably the best known of
the new seminarians is Walter
J. Flaherty, 37, who served
as secretary to Rep. John W,
McCormack of Boston, Speak
er of the House of Representa
tives, Flaherty, a World II vet
eran, resigned his $18,000-
a-year position to enroll,
ANOTHER member of the
first class is Robert E, Saun
ders, 49, who gave up his
$13,000-a-year position as su
perintendent of the public
schools in Farmington, Con
necticut.
Another "freshman" at the
FLOWERS
166 COURTLAND STREET, N E ,
Pope John Seminary is Rich
ard F. Gardiner, 47, a native
of Buffalo, New York, and a
World War II Air Force vete
ran. He served for sixteen years
with the American Airlines and
rose from pilot instructor to
upper managerial levels.
Cardinal Cushing chose as
rector of the seminary, Msgr.
George A. Schlichte, 42, a deco
rated World War II naval hero,
whose own religious vocation
was delayed because of wartime
service.
Msgr. Schlichte, a graduate
of the U,S. Naval Academy at
Annapolis, Md„ served on the
cruiser Philadelphia in the
Mediterranean and Atlantic, and
his ship was subjected to 70
enemy attacks,
THE SEMINARY leader was
awarded the Bronze Star for
bravery, and after the war en
tered the priesthood. In 1959 he
was ordained in Rome where
he became assistant vice rec
tor of the North American Col
lege, serving in that capacity
until 1961, He then returned to
Boston and became vice chan
cellor of the archdiocese.
Commenting on the first class
of seminarians, Msgr. Schlichte
says: 'They have a total dedi
cation to God and their charac
ter has been formed by the nec
essities of their various secular
professions.
‘They will not need the disci
pline which is a part of the es
tablished training of younger
men. But, it will mean a new
form of discipline as they ad
just themselves to the routine
of the seminary.
"We aim to instruct these
men in the basic teaching of
Christ and urge them to go out
and preach it,"
MSGR. SCHLICHTE was in
Rome during Holy Week this
year and says that in a personal
audience with Pope Paul, the
Pontiff expressed pleasure over
the enterprise of Cardinal
Cushing in establishing the
seminary in his archdiocese,
which is the second largest in
the United States.
"Pope Paul told me that Car
dinal Cushing’s new seminary
will write a new page in the his
tory of Catholicity in the United
States," the monsignor said.
The Seminary is located on a
24-acre tract in wooded, rolling
hills of Weston, a residential
community about seven miles
from Boston.
Buildings include structures
of an unusual pattern, including
a heart-shaped chapel of cast
stone, donated by members of
the Holy Name Societies of
the Boston archdiocese.
The campus includes a parish
church, which will afford sem
inarians opportunity for practi
cal experience in the liturgy,
preaching and teaching. The
seminary also has a library of
40,000 volumes.
TUmON has been set at
$1,200 , with some scholar
ships available. Cardinal Cush
ing has made an appeal for
scholarships for the.candidates
saying full burses will cost
$8000 and four-year scholar
ships will be $5000.
The Cardinal likes to talk
about the men who comprise the
first class. 'This is certainly
a very remarkable group", he
says. ’They are bringing a vast
amount of worldly experience to
the priesthood and, after four
years of spiritual and intellec
tual preparation, they will ex
ercise that priesthood in parish
assignments throughout the
land,
'The four years of training
which they face will be diffi
cult, but at least they will have
the consolation of knowing that
the program will be tailored to
their needs and capabilities,"
Cardinal Cushing concluded:
“l ask for prayers that their
courage may not fail."
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AT VATICAN TELEPHONE EXCHANGE—Pope Paul VI, shortly before leaving for
his summer home at Castelgandolfo, paid an informal visit to Vatican City's telephone
center. There the technical staff, clergy and laymen, explained in detail the workings of
the instruments. Shown to the Pope’s right are Count Enrico Galeazzi and Alberto
Cardinal di Jorio.
JUST-REVEALED SPEECH
Kennedy Believed Religion
Key To World’s Conflict
MILTON, Mass. (RNS)— A
hitherto unpublished speech by
the late President John F. Ken
nedy has revealed his belief
that religion is at the root
of world conflict, the “good’'
in the struggle between good
and evil.
The address, not previously
reported, was delivered Sept. 1,
1957, before the Columban
Fathers Seminary here. He was
then the junior Senator from
Massachusetts. The speech was
released here by Father Owen
McGrath on the 7th anniver
sary of its delivery.
HIS speech also showed ano
ther concern of the late Pre
sident, that Communists and
Western nations alike had turn
ed from faith in God.
“The Communists," he said,
“have substituted dialectical
materialism for faith in Fod
we on our part have too often
substituted cynicism, indiffer
ence and secularism."
HE HELD that factory out
put was not a sign of super
iority in the U. S. system:
“We forget the purpose of life
is the future and not the pre
sent."
It was not that the young
Sen. Kennedy was not newswor
thy when he delivered the
speech in 1957. He had told the
press that he was addressing a
religious gathering, involving
no political statements, one that
his office would not even pro
mote in a press release.
THE newsmen took him at his
word, and as a consequence the
only published news item was
a photograph of Mr. Kennedy
with the priests and laymen
involved in the seminary's an
nual Benefactors Day program.
He began his talk with a re
ference to the Columban Fath
ers' battle for the preserva
tion of "Christian civilization—
it was the reason for his pre
sence, he said— and then con
tinued:
“I SAY this not because I
believe Christianity is a wea
pon in the present world
struggle, but because I believe
religion Itself is at the root
of the struggle— not in the
terms of the physical organiza
tions of Christianity versus
those of atheism, but in terms
of 'the stem encounter 1 of which
Cardinal Newman so pro
phetically wrote,"
(Cardinal Newman’s "stern
encounter" concerned two liv
ing principles, one within and
one without religion, in total
contention.)
“Cardinal Newman spoke of
this conflict as yet to come.
Doubtless its climax is yet to
come, but in essence the con
flict has been going on for
2,000 years. The issues, the
slogans, the battle flags,
the battlefields and the persona
lities have been different. But
basically it has been the same
encounter of opposing princip
les, a struggle more compre
hensive, more deep-rooted and
even more violent than the poli
tical and military battles which
go on today.
“IT IS easy to envision the
struggle as being wholly phy
sical — of men and arms—
of stockpiles, strategic mate
rials and nuclear weapons—
or air bases and bombers, if
industrial potential and military
achievements.
“This is the material strug
gle, and the central problem
here is to be equal to the sac
rifices necessary for ultimate
survival and victory. But of
far deeper significance is ‘the
stern encounter’ the very nearly
silent struggle, with no din to
be heard in the streets of the
world, and with weapons far
more subtle and far more dam
aging than canons and shells.
"THE encounter of which I
speak makes no more noise
than the inner process od dis
integration which over a period
of several hundred years may
hollow from within some great
tree of the forest, until it is
left standing an empty shell,
the easy victim of a winter
gale.
“We can barely hear the
'stern encounter,’ and thus
too often we forget it. Our
minds, like the headlines of our
newspapers, are intent upon the
brutal, physical side of that
ominous war upon which we have
bestowed the strange epithet
'cold.'
“WE tend to forget the moral
and spiritual issues which in
here in the fateful encounter of
which the physical war is but
one manifestation. We tend
to forget those ideals of
faith and philosophical needs
which drive men more intens
ely than military and econo
mic objectives,
“This is not to say that we
have overlooked religion. Too
often we have utilized it as a
weapon, broadcast it as propa
ganda, shouted it as a battle
cry. But in'the stern encounter,
in the moral struggle, relig
ion is not simply a weapon—
it is the essence of the strug
gle itself. The Communist rul
ers do not fear the phraseology
of religion, or the ceremonies
and churches and denomina
tional organizations. On the
contrary, they leave no stone
unturned in seeking those as
pects of religion to their own
advantage and to use the trap
pings of religion in order to
cement the obedience of their
own people. What they fear is
the profound consequences of a
religion that is lived, not mere
ly acknowledged. They fear es
pecially man's response to sti
muli which are spiritual and
ethical, not merely material.
“A SOCIETY which seeks to
make the worship of the state
the ultimate objective of life
cannot permit a higher loyalty,
a faith in God, a belief in a re
ligion that elevates the indivi
dual acknowledges his true val
ue and teaches him devotion
and responsibility to something
beyond the here and the new.
The Communists fear Christi
anity more as a way of life
than as a weapon. In short, there
is room in a totalitarian sys
tem for churches — but there
is no room for God. The claim
of the state must be total and
no other loyalty, no other phi
losophy of life, can be tolerat
ed.
“AT FIRST glance it might
seem inevitable that in a
struggle where the issue is
the supremacy of the moral
order, we must be victorious.
That it is not inevitable is due
to the steady attrition in our
faith and belief, a disease from
which we in the West are suf
fering heavily. . .
“The Communists have subs
tituted dialectical materialism
for faith in God: we on our part
have too often substituted cyni
cism, indifference and secula
rism. We have too often permit
ted the Communists to choose
the ground for the struggle.
"WE cannot separate our
lives into compartments, either
as indivuduals or nations. We
cannot, on the one hand, run
with the tide, and on the other,
hold fast to our principles and
ideals."
“If our nation will recognize
the spiritual and moral element
of 'the stern encounter,' if it
will direct our policies to em
phasize this phase of the strug
gle, if we will refuse those
compromises which have cost
us so heavily— which have blur
red the nature of the encoun
ter between our enemies and
ourselves— then we shall find
our way easier, and our suc
cess more certain in this world
and our future assured in the
next."
POPE TO OFFICIATE
Concelebration
At Council Mass
VATICAN CITY (RNS)—To
provide “visible manifestation
of the unity of the Catholic
priesthood," Pope Paul VI will
open the third session of the
Second Vatican Council by con-
belebrating a Mass with 24
bishops representing the five
continents of the world,
Vatican officials said the
Pope’s decision "would con
firm that concelebration has
acquired definite form and has
come to in frequent prac
tice in the^iurch."
CONCELEBRATION has long
been a practice only in the Eas
tern Rites of the Church. It is
the celebration of Mass by sev
eral priests together, all con
secrating the same bread and
wine.
The service openng the Coun
cil session will take place.at the
Altar of the Confession in ot.
Peter's Basilica which, it was
stated, will be "appropriately
expanded for the occasion."
Concelebration is but another
of the liturgical reforms af
fecting the Latin Rite which
were endorsed by the Council
Fathers at the second session
and promulgated as the Consti
tution on the Liturgy by the
pontiff.
That Constitution recommend
ed the rite of concelebration on
occasions of special solemnity.
ACCORDING TO A Vatican
Radio broadcast numerous con-
celebrations of Mass have been
held throughout the world in re
cent weeks, and "they have
been useful in the testing of-
procedure and in confirming
its great practical and liturgical
benefits.
The significance of Pope
Paul’s decision to be the con-
celebrant of a Mass involving
25 prelates "escapes no one,"
said the broadcast, adding that
“it will represent a visible
manifestation of the unity of
the Catholic priesthood."
(At St. John's Benedictine
Abbey at Collegeville, Minn.,
concelebration of the Mass has
been held weekly as an experi
ment. In each case 20 priests
concelebrated the Mass.
(The Collegeville tests were
described at 1964 Liturgical
Week program in St. Louis by
Father Godfrey Diekmann, O.S.
B., editor of Worship magazine
and a pioneer in the liturgical
movement. He said concele
bration makes it possible to
manifest the unity of the priest
hood, the unity of sacrifice
and the unity of the worshiping
Church.")
No Abstinence
Set on Friday
CALCUTTA, India (RNS)—
Archbishop Albert V. D’Souza
of Calcutta has granted Ro
man Catholics in his arch
diocese a special dispensation
from the Church law of abstin
ence on Fridays until further
notice.
He said he was taking this
action in view of the “acute
food shortage" in the coun
try. The dispensation came a-
midst demonstrations in var
ious parts of the country spar
ked by the food scarcity and
rising prices.
The abstinence law forbids
Catholics to eat meat and soup,
gravy or sauces made from
meat on all Fridays and cer
tain other days of the year.
NO MASS FOR CONVERTS
EVER IMAGINE WHAT ITS LIKE NOT to have Mass on
Sunday? Or what it’s like NOT to have a priest when you dlc?»..
Hundreds of newly-baptized Catho
lics in PULIENKODE, INDIA. can,’t
hear Mass at all because the bamboo
shed, which was their church, is
now a heap of rubble. It collapsed in
fy> r? a rain storm and cannot be repaired
vP“ w ... The prospects for more conver
sions are bright, and BISHOP
ATHANSIUS. 55. asks our help. All
he needs for a permanent church,
made of stone, is $3,100 . , . The
A J people in PULIENKODE ca*y»ot
The Holy Fdtbtr'j At* gj Te money (they can hardly feed
for the Oriental Church their children)—but they wHl build
Lhc church with their own hands, free-of-charge. Can you help
them purchase the materials? ... The Church roof completed
will cost only $600, each wall only $350. It’s little enough to
pay for a house for God ... Pin your gift (even $1 will be a
Godsend) to this column, and mail it to us right now. You’ll be
helping converts in PULIENKODE to get to Mass on Sunday.
THE EASY WAY TO HELP REGULARLY? . . . Join a Mis
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You’ll know’, for sure, you’re helping someone unselfishly.
“The rotted floor gave way beneath a Sister, and she broke
her leg . . . It rains indoors as well as outdoors . . ^ There are
big holes in our floor which we have stuffed with scraps and
melted wax ... We really are afraid of what winter will
bring.’’—SISTER MARIE CLARE, Superior, describes living
conditions in her cloistered (Poor Clares) convent in NAZA
RETH . . . Can you do anything to help these heroic nuns?
They five their lives in prsyer for all of us.
SOMEONE’S PRAYING FOR YOU if you are a member of
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prayers of Pope Paul VI. Cardinal Spellman, and the thousands
of priests who look to us for help. When you join this Associa
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TWO JESUIT PRIESTS need help to open a Catholio Infor
mation Center in TIRUVALLA, INDIA, a bull’s eye of Commu<
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of converts and meetings with non*Cathollc clergy. The Jesuits
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