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Addresses Commission Pope John Encouraged By Council Welcome Vatican City — (NC) — The welcome given the coming Ecu menical Council by both Catholics and non-Catholics augurs well for its fruitfulness, His Holiness Pope John XXIII said as he addressed the opening meeting of the Coun cil’s central preparatory commis sion. Purpose of the 11-day (June 12 22) meeting is to discuss problems of calling the council and questions of procedure during the council it self. The meeting opened in the con sistorial hall of the Vatican with 31 cardinals, two patriarchs, 12 affehbishops and bishops, four gen erals of religious orders and 23 counselors of the commission. Among them were Archbishop Karl J. Alter of Cincinnati and Archbishop Martin J. O’Connor, rector of the North American Col lege in Rome. Addressing the group in Latin, 1 the Pope said: “OUR HEART is filled with still greater hope for the best out come of the coming council, seeing gathered here together in such great number and from every part of the world the distinguished rep resentatives of the Sacred College of Cardinals, of the episcopate and of the religious families. “Many people are looking for ward to the. council and it has been serenely and courteously received not only by our beloved sons but also by those outside the Church. All this is reason for tranquility and encouragement in continuing with the good work.” After reviewing briefly the work already accomplished, Pope John said: “We now must bless the See Pope John, page 7A HIT ONE OUT HERE! — Sister Mary Blaine of St. Wendelin’s in Pittsburgh set a target for the Pittsburgh Pirate hitters r» doting a game with the Philadelphia Phillies at Forbes Field. Sister Blaine was one of about 500 nuns who sat in the right field bleachers as guests of the Pirate'management. This nun went home happy too as the Pirates won 5-1. I Castro Regime Nationalizes All Private Schools in Cuba N.C.W.C. NEWS SERVICE Cuba’s socialist government has nationalized all education on the island. A decree of the council of min isters expropriated all schools “and the sum total of the proper ties, rights and stocks” of the schools. Only socialist-minded teachers, employees and directors may re main in the schools, says the de cree, since this is “a socialist rev olution.” The decree says that education is a function of the state. The decree put a varnish of le gality upon the seizure of Catho lic schools throughout Cuba. An exodus of religious teachers from Cuba began in the last days of April, after groups of militia had begun occupying their schools and confiscating their possessions. The expropriation was the crowning touch to a year-long campaign of harassment and vili fication of Catholic schools and Catholic teachers. Cuba has al most 350 Catholic educational in stitutions, with 75,000 pupils. The decree made the socialist regime absolute master in name as well as in fact of organized education in Cuba. It already held a tight rein on public schools, col leges and vocational schools. Its highly organized radio and tele vision campaign to erase illitera cy has become a vehicle for Marx College Girls Aid Classes In Religion NAZARETH — Sixty-three girls from eleven Catholic Colleges in the nation will staff 23 summer schools of religion within the di ocese of Raleigh this summer. Mission Helpers of the Sacred Heart conducted the orientation course for these young religion teachers at Nazareth during the past week. On the teacher-training staff were Sisters Gemma, Clare, Marcella, and Marie Therese. On Wednesday evening the col lege girls were given a glimpse of the North Carolina mission area with the showing of the film “The Tarheel Apostle,” the life story of missions from Fr. Price’s day to the present. Thursday and Friday were given over to a tight program of relig ious pedagogy, including visual aid workshops, and specialized tech niques for religion vacation schools. Under the direction of Bishop Vincent S. Waters, representations were made this winter to Catho lic colleges whose students might be interested in summer religious. work in North Carolina. Colleges which responded and are are par ticipating in the religious vacation school program are: Chestnut Hill, Pa., Cardinal Cushing, Brooklyn; Good Counsel, White Plains, N. Y.; Mt. Marty, Yankton, S. Dakota; New Rochelle, New York; Notre Dame of Maryland, Our Lady of the Elms, Chicopee, Salve Regina, Newport, St. Rose, Albany, St. Scholastica, Duluth, and Trinity College, Washington. Nine vacation schools of religion will be staffed entirely by local parishioners: Albemarle, Asheboro, Gastonia, Forest City, Chapel Hill, Farmville, Roanoke Rapids, and Swansboro. iNO exact count is avauaDie at present of the number of summer religious classes and schools which will be conducted by Sisters from nearby Catholic schools and par ish lay teachers. It is expected that another thirty such schools will be operating. Many religious communities stay on in North Carolina, before re turning to their motherhouses to summer classes, to provide one or two-week summer religion schools. ist ideas. The government had taken charge of Havana’s Catholic Uni versity of Villanueva in May. The decree expropriating all private schools says the ministry of education will determine “to which of the owners of educa tional centers an indemnity will be credited.” But an indemnity may be given only if “the activi ties cjfrried out in such centers (of education) by their owners and professors have not been turned against the interests ^of the Revolution of the Fatherland.” Another article of the decree makes it clear that Catholic Re ligious who owned schools could expect no indemnification. MASS IN VIENNA — Photographers and television camera men line the way as President Kennedy and his wife Jac queline leave St. Stephen’s Cathedral in Vienna after attend ing Sunday Mass offered by Franziskus Cardinal Koenig, Archbishop of Vienna. The President later concluded his pri vate talks with Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev. Belmont Abbey Ordains Two Benedictine Priests The Most Rev. Paul L. Hagarty, O.S.B., D.D., Bishop of the Baha ma Islands, will ordain two young Benedictines to the Holy priest hood in the Belmont Abbey Ca thedral, in Belmont, Sunday. June 11th. The Rev. Augustine W. Cun ningham, O.S.B., of Savannah, Georgia, and the Rev. Benedict R. McDermott, O.S.B., of Belford, New Jersey, both monks of Bel mont Abbey, are the young ordi nandi. Father Augustine, known to his Savannah friends as “Bill” was born in Louisville, Kentucky. His family took up residence in Savannah and he attended Bene dictine Military School and gradu ated from Belmont Abbey College, Students Banned From Selling Benefit Tickets ST. LOUIS —(NC)— From now on, moms and das and old grads must sell their own tickets to bene fits and other fund-raising activi ties, the St. Louis Archdiocesan Parish High School Board has de creed. The board invoked a ban against participation of high school stu dents in such affairs as mothers'’ and fathers’ club benefits and alumni association fund-raising campaigns. For years, the high school students have been the chief dispensers of tickets in these activities. earning his degree in 1957. He entered the Benedictine Or der in 1954 and made his religious profession of monastic vows in July 1955. He was solemnly professed in 1958. Father Augustine will celebrate his first Solemn Mass in the Sa cred Heart Church in Savannah on Sunday, June 18th. Father Benedict was born in Belford, and attended St. Ann’s Elementary School in Keansburg, New Jersey, the Red Bank Catho lic High School and Belmont Ab bey Preparatory School. He graduated from Belmont Ab bey College, earning the A.B. de gree in 1957. Entering the Benedictine Order at Belmont Abbey, he made his first religious profession in 1955 and was solemnly professed in 1958. Father Benedict will celebrate his first Solemn Mass in St. Mary’s Church in New Monmouth on Sun day, June 18th. FR. BENEDICT FR. AUGUSTINE McDermott cunningham
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