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Volume L January 7, 1962 Number 36
RALEIGH, N. C.
P. O. Box 9503
Cardinal Santos Delivers
naugural Invocation
[By FATHER PATRICK
J. O’CONNOR
Society of St. Columban
(Radio N.C.W.C. News Service)
MANILA — Rufino Cardinal
Santos delivered the invocation
at the inauguration here of presi
dent Diosdado Macapagal and
rVice President Emmanuel Pelaez.
The Archbishop of Manila
prayed that the Philippines’ new
president might “find his firm
foundation on thy word, ‘unless
the Lord build the house, they
labor in vain who build it.’ ”
Cardinal Santos asked God to
“bless also our neighboring na
tions.”
President Macapagal departed
from the prepared text of his in
augural address to say: “The
Structure of this young republic
rests not only upon material
i foundations but even more so
upon spiritual foundations.”
He received enthusiastic ap
Pope Sympathizes
With Germans
In Reds' Zone
BONN — (NC) — His Holiness
Pope John XXIII has voiced his
sympathy for East German Chris
tians under the yoke of a com
munist regime. He also praised the
Catholics of West Germany for
driving for better social legisla
ion.
In a message addressed to the
German Bishops, Pope John said
he is ever aware of the difficulties
under which part of the German
nation is living.
UWe see matenalism gaining
ound, infecting legitimate social
^organizations and diverting not a
Ifew people from religious activity,
[at the same time that atheism and
[other false doctrines are being fos
tered,” the Pope said.
But he said that despite the pre
sent situation in East Germany,
the Catholics there are clinging to
their faith through suffering and
adversity. The clergy continue to
carry out their duties there under
difficult circumstances, he said,
and minister to the faithful en
trusted to them with “astute care
fulness and active zeal, selflessly
and adapting to the needs of the
situation at hand.”
' Pope John praised the Ger
man Bishops, saying they are in
the “forefront of struggle.” He
voiced regret that those stationed
in East Germany were unable to
attend the Bishops’ meeting in
Fulda, West Germany, and noted
that bishops in the West for years
have been barred from visiting the
eastern parts of their dioceses in
the communist zone.
In the second part of his mes
sage, the Pontiff praised the en
deavors of German Catholics con
cerning new social legislation,
changes in the divorce law, and
the struggle for abolition of Sun
day work. He also lauded their
fund-drives to fight against hunger
and sickness in the world.
'plause when he said: “Our first
mission is the solution of the
problem of corruption.”
FURTHER aims, he declared,
are national self sufficiency in the
staple foods rice and com, crea
tion of conditions to provide in
come for those who now have
none and more for those whose
earnings are inadequate, and a
socioeconomic program of “return
to free private enterprise . . . with
the least government interfer
ence” while government takes re
sponsibility for social welfare ac
tion.
President Macapagal described
himself as “a poor man who
sprang from the humblest origin
and who has not attained a state
.of riches.” A democracy that
could bring such a man to the
highest office in the nation has
thereby “displayed its splendor,”
he said.
The 51-year-old leader decisive
ly defeated the incumbent presi
dent, Carlos P. Garcia, in Novem
ber’s national elections.
The crowd’s reaction to the
new President’s speech indicated
that he has aroused high hopes
in a population painfully consci
ous of what he called “the wide
gap between the poor man and
the man of wealth.”
In foreign relations “we will
vigorously discharge our part in
the struggle against communism,”
President Macapagal declared.
THE PAPAL Nuncio to ’the
See Delivers Invocation, Page 7A
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PONTIFF MEETS WITH BAPTIST LEADER — Dr. J. H. Jackson (left), president of the Na
tional Baptist Convention in the United States, converses with His Holiness Pope John XXIII
during an audience in the Vatican. Leader of the second largest convention of American Bap
tists, the parent convention of Negro Baptists which numbers over five million, Dr. Jackson’s
visit followed by less than two months the visit of Brooks Hays, former president of the
Southern Baptist Convention. (NC Photos)
Benedictine Abbots
At Installation
In Washington
WASHINGTON — (NC) —
Archbishop Patrick A. O’Boyle of
Washington presided at the instal
lation of Father Alban Boutltwood,
O.S.B., as the first abbot of the
new St. Anselm’s Benedictine Ab
bey here. ,
Fourteen abbots were in the
congregation witnessing the cere
mony at the National Shrine of
the Immaculate Conception. It was
the first time that the solemn bles
sing and installation of a Benedic
tine abbot was held in Washington,
the installation were Abbot Wul
the installation were Abbot Wul
stan Knowles, O.S.B., three times
abbot of Fort Augustus Abbey in
Scotland, the motherhouse of St.
Anselm’s abbey, and Abbot Celes
tine Haworth, O.S.B., present head
of Fort Augustus Abbey.
St. Anselm’s, formerly a priory,
was elevated to the status of an ab
bey on October 23, 1961, by His
Holiness Pope John XXIII.
Unity...One Faith, One Lord,
One Baptism
THIS POSTER, whose theme “Unity . . . One Faith, One Lord,
One Baptism” stresses the reunion of all Christians in a single
flock under Christ, signifies the Chair of Unity Octave, Janu
ary 18 to 25. During this period of eight days, special prayers
will be offered for the unity of all men in one Church.
Bishop Schedules CCD
Meetings For January
RALEIGH — Bishop Vincent S.
Waters has called for a series of
meetings on the Confraternity of
Christian Doctrine for the month
of January. Most meetings will be
held at Price Auditorium at Naz
areth in Raleigh.
Priests of the Diocese of Raleigh
are called upon to attend a cleri
cal conference devoted to the sub
ject ,of_ the Confraternity on Fri
>day, ‘January 19, carrying on from
10:00 a.m. until 4:00 p.m. Out of
state priests who will conduct the
CCD workshop for the clergy are:
Msgr. George Lavasseur, Lafay
ette, Louisiana; Fathers William
Greenspun, C.S.P., Washington,
D.C.; Robert Walsh, Richmond Vir
ginia; and Medrick J. Roberts,
Worcester, Massachusetts.
On the same Friday, Sisters
from throughout the Raleigh Dio
cese will join the clerical meeting
during the 1:00 to 4:00 p.m. ses
sions. Bishop Waters has asked
Msgr. Edward Gilbert, School
Superintendent, to dismiss school
classes at noon on Friday to en
able sisters from the various
schools to attend the CCD work
shop.
Lay members of the various pa
rish Confraternity boards are ask
ed by Bishop Waters to attend
Saturday meetings at Raleigh
and Statesville. On January 20,
Saturday, parish CCD executive
boards from the Coast to Route
220 will meet at Price Auditor
ium, Nazareth, for sessions from
10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. On the„
Disband Catholic
Union For National
DAR ES SALAAM, Tanganyika
—(NC)—Members of the Tangan
yika African Catholic Teachers’
Union voted at its seventh annual
convention here to dissolve the or
ganization.
Members will join a new nation
al nonsectarian teachers’ associa
tion which is being set up in this
African country which became in
dependent on December 9.
Father Joseph Sipendi, educa
tion general secretary of the Tan
ganyika Episcopal Conference, told
the convention that the country’s
Bishops have no objections to
teachers’ joining the new national
union. He said that he will encour
age them to do so.
following Saturday, January 27,
parish executive boards from west
of Route 220 are requested to«
gather at Pius X Auditorium,
Statesville.
Parish CCD executive boards
will be trained at the workshop
by a diocesan board from Worces
ter, Massachusetts, “a flying
squadron of working, training lay
people” according to Bishop
Waters’ letter of invitation to
North Carolina parish boards.
The Confraternity of Christian
Doctrine is one of two official or
ganizations which the Holy See
desires that the Ordinary estab
lish in every parish. The other so
ciety is the Confraternity of the
Blessed Sacrament.
CCD parish boards are com
posed of the chairman of the .six
committees which make up the of
ficial roster of the organization.
These committees are called ac
cording to their specialized func
tions: Teachers, Fishers, Helpers,
Apostles of Good Will, Parent
Educators, and Discussion Clubs.
Through the work of the whole
parish Confraternity the apostolic
work of the pastor is shared by
and with the laity who through
CCD training are "equipped person
ally to take over the official mis
sion of the Church of Christ, en
trusted through the Bishop to his
clergy and to the religious and lay
associations engaged in teaching,
nursing and other services to
Christ’s Bride, the Church.
Raleigh Diocesan Director of the
CCD Fr. Richard Allen has re
quested all pastors to send in lists
of names designating the various
parish CCD board members who
will attend the Saturday meetings
at Raleigh and Statesville on Jan
uary 20 and 27 respectively.
Tithing Cr Support
The entire Our Sunday Visi
tor issue today takes up thor
oughly the question of ways and
means for Catholics to live up
to their obligation to support
Christ’s Church financially.
Please read especially the lead
article “Try Me, saith the Lord,”
by Fr. Joseph Jennings; also
“Love and Faith-Motives for
tithing” by Fr. David Sullivan
(p. 4, OSV).