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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 with an airlines company* TWO SALESMEN, alineotype operator, a postal clerk, two physicians, a personnel su- Presents SEXTETTE Featuring JUDY THflMAS OYNAMtC MtW *i*r;tNe. DUr.nvfRY SPANISH WEDDING VEILS Exquisite handmade with silk thread in large and queen sizes. Also hand embroidered opera shawls, mantillas, blouses etc. Imported from Spain in assorted designs and colors. Call or write: LOPEZ IMPORTERS Box 13954 St, K Atlanta, Ga, 237-7998, 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." Chaplain Named ROME (NC)— Father John M. Martin, C, S. P„ procura tor general of the Paulist Fath ers has been appointed chaplain delegate for U, S, armed forces in the Mediter ranean area. ATLANTA,GEORGIA 3030J SECOND PRINTING FIRST 10,000 SOLD OUT "How To Understand Changes In The Liturgy” BY ARCHBISHOP PAUL J. HALLINAN With a Foreword By Joseph Cardinal Ritter, Archbishop of St. Louis. The first concise guide for the laity. An invaluable aid for parochial groups. 25< per copy. Bulk orders of 100 or more 20{ Order now from: G.B. Publications, P.O. Box 11667,Northside Station, Atlanta, Ga. 30305. 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 sion Club. The dues are only $1 a month, a prayer a day . . Your money will be used for what you want—lepers (DAMIEN LEPER CLUB), orphans 'ORPHAN’S BREAD', future Sisters (MARY’S BANK), the aging (PALACE OF GOLD CLUB) . 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 this Association. You share every day in the Masses and prayers of Pope Paul VI. Cardinal Spellman, and the thousands of priests who look to us for help. When you join this Associa tion you help the Holy Father keep priests and Sisters hard at work in 18 mission countries. Why not enroll your family? The offering for Family Membership is only $5 for a year, $100 feu- life . . . Drop us a line right now. TWO JESUIT PRIESTS need help to open a Catholio Infor mation Center in TIRUVALLA, INDIA, a bull’s eye of Commu< nist agitation and unrest. They’ll use the center for instruction of converts and meetings with non*Cathollc clergy. The Jesuits need $825 to start . . . Can you spare $1, $5, 10? WHEN YOU MAKE A WILL. MENTION THE MISSIONS OUR LEGAL TITLE: CATHOLIC NEAR EAST WELFARE ASSOCIATION Dear Monsignor Ryan* Enclosed please find .... for ,. Name Address City . Zone .... State r*i < Rear'East (Oisslonsimi FRANCIS CARDINAL SFiUMAN, Fr«iidtnt Msgr. Jeaeph T. Ryw, Nat'l Saa'y Saad ait saaMaaaiaatfAk fat CATHOLIC NEAR EAST WELFARE ASSOCIATION Sit Madisaa Ava. at 42ad Sr. Mtw Yark, N. Y. 10017