MARK CONVERSION — More than 10,000 persons turned out
at the outdoor Mercy of God Shrine at Stockbridge, Mass., to
hear Richard Cardinal Cushing, Archbishop of Boston, speak
during novena devotions marking the 1,000 anniversary of the
conversion of Poland to Christianity. Behind the Cardinal is
the unusual painting of Our Lady of the Ecumenical Council,
executed by Father John Szantyr, M.I.C. The shrine is located
on the grounds of the Marian Fathers Monastery._
$100,000 edifice
Hendersonville School
Dedicated Last Friday
HENDERSONVILLE — The new
modern Catholic school at Sixth
and Buncombe Street was official
ly dedicated last Friday evening
by Bishop Vincent S. Waters of
dhe Diocese of Raleigh.
The six-classroom tapestry brick
building will be staffed by six
teachers when it opens for 150
students Friday, August 31. Five
Sisters of Christian Education of
Asheville, and one lay teacher
comprise the faculty for Immacu
lata Elementary and Junior High
School.
The new educational facility, ac
cording to Fr. Howard V. Lane,
pastor of Immaculate Conception
Catholic Parish, cost $100,000, half
of which sum has already been
paid off. The new school is
equipped with a well-filled library,
reading laboratory and modern
mathematics teaching equipment.
Latin, French, and Spanish will be
taught, along with Religion, and
all other disciplines required by
the State for the public schools.
Sixteen pupils made up the en:
tire student body at Immaculate
School when it was founded in
1926. Three Sisters of Christian
Education, Mother A. Masse, B.
Burke, and E. Sharpe made up the
first group of teachers when the
school opened in the present rec
tory of the parish. In November of
1930 the school was moved to a
site on Oakland Street. In 1949
the present pastor, Father Lane,
purchased the Allwarden Estate,
which since then had been used for
classroom space.
At the 7:00 p.m. dedication last
Friday evening Mother Sharpe, one
of the original 1926 faculty, was
present.
bishops annual statement
America's Contribution
To Council Underlined
WASHINGTON — (NC) — The
U.S. Catholic Bishops have appeal
ed to the nation’s Christians —
Catholics and others alike — to
pray for them and for other par
ticipants in the Second Vatican
Council.
They asked the 42 million U.S.
Catholics to join in novenas of
prayer and penance which they re
quested in all parishes, schools and
religious houses.
Non-Catholic Christians were
asked to beseech the Holy Spirit
for guidance at the ecumenical
council which opens in Rome on
October 11.
The appeal for prayer came in
the hierarchy’s 1962 annual state
ment entitled, “Statement on the
Ecumenical Council.”
It explained the nature of the
Church, the background and pur
pose of the coming council, the
role of the Bishops of the United
States in the council and the duty
of Catholics to deepen their spirit
of charity toward their separated
brethren.
On their role, the Bishops said
they will not go to the council
empty-handed, but rather with
“rich experience” to share, chiefly
the advantage to the Church from
living and growing “in an atmos
phere of religious and political
freedom.”
The statement was released here
by the administrative board of the
SEE inside pages of Our
Sunday Visitor, today’s issue,
for complete text of the
American Bishop’s Statement
on the Ecumenical Council.
National Catholic Welfare Confer
ence. Ordinarily, the hierarchy’s
annual statement is issued in No
vember at the conclusion of the
Bishop’s meeting here. This year,
the Bishops will meet in Rome that
month during the council.
In this renewal of the Church’s
life, the statement emphasized the
Bishops of the United States will
hope to make specific contribu
tions. But to conceive of the Bish
ops as “mere delegates” of the
American Church is to misunder
stand, they warned.
“An ecumenical counci' is a sol
emn meeting, whose members are
divinely constituted to bear wit
ness to the contents of Divine Rev
elation, the Deposit of Faith and
to enact disciplinary regulations
for the Universal Church,” they
said.
However, the prelates said, Bish
ops do bring to the council the
benefit of their own experiences.
Hence, the Americans will bear
See Council, page 7A
More Clergy-Laity Teamwork
Called Objective of Layman
BOSTON — (NC) — The chang
ing role of the layman in the
Church means more clergy-laity
collaboration, not less, the head
of the Knights of Columbus said
here.
Supreme Knight Luke E. Hart
told the 80th international conven
tion of the Knights of Columbus:
“THERE IS NO implication that
the layman’s response to new op
portunities and obligations entails
some sort of separation from the
guidance of our priests and bish
ops, or from their counsel in tem
poral affairs.
“What the layman is being
asked to do is to take his part in
the work of the Church which ex
tends beyond the sanctuary and
into the market place.
“THE SHEPHERD, in short, is
saying to the sheep: Gentlemen,
there is much to be done — more
than I can handle by myself. Go
out and do some of it for me.”
Hart, speaking at the conven
tion banquet (Aug. 21), said the
principles of the K. of C. “have
worn well through the 80 years of
our history.”
Earlier the convention received
messages of greeting from Presi
dent Kennedy and from Amleto
Cardinal Cicognani, papal secre
tary of state.
Ladies Retreat
Scheduled By CDA
At Sacred Heart
Labor Day retreat for all women
of North Carolina, an annual pro
ject of the Catholic Daughters, will
be held again this year at Sacred
Heart Junior College and Acad
emy, Belmont, N.C. Dates are
Saturday, September 1 through
Noon September 3. All ladies will
be welcomed at Supper, 6:00 p.m.
September 1. Father Robert F.
Shea, of Monroe, will be retreat
master, and this promises to be
one of the most interesting re
treats ever held at this time of
year. Expenses, complete, are
$11.50 for a double room; $12.50
for a private room. This fee in
cludes all meals while the ladies
are at Sacred Heart. For those who
may require them, there are rooms
available on the first floor; please
so specify when writing for reser
vations. Registration will begin at
3:00 p.m. on Saturday. Retreatants
are asked to be on hand early and
avoid the rush.
Room reservations should be
made immediately to: Sister M.
Christine, Sacred Heart Junior Col
lege, Belmont, N.C.
THE PRESIDENT, who is a
Fourth Degree K. of C. member,
said:
“Your founders undertook an
extraordinarily ambitious program
devoted to the principles of chari
ty, unity, fraternity and patriotism.
Even the fondest dreams of those
far-sighted men led by Father
Michael J. McGivney (founder of
the Knights of Columbus) have
been exceeded many times by the
diligence of succeeding generations
of Knights of Columbus.
“The abundant help you have
Priest Brothers
Meet In Rome
For Anniversary
KILL DEVIL HILLS — Father
Peter M. Denges, pastor of Holy
Redeemer Church, Kill Devil Hills,
North Carolina, and his brother,
Monsignor Joseph F. Denges, pas
tor of St. Stephen’s Church, Wash
ington, D. C., will celebrate their
35th Sacerdotal Anniversary with
their brother, Father Q. Benedict
Denges, C.SS.R., rector of St. Al
phonsus Church, Rome, Italy, who
is observing his 34th Sacerdotal
Anniversary. The Denges brothers
will leave New York on the SS
Constitution for Naples, Italy, on
September 5, stopping off at Ma
deria, Casablanca, Algeria, Gi
braltar, Palma, Genoa and Cannes.
While in the Eternal City they will
be guests of the Superior General
of the Redemptorist Fathers, as
their brother, Father Benedict, is
the secretary of this religious con
gregation.
The Denges brothers will sail
from Naples, Italy, to New York
in October on the SS Cristoforo
Colombo.
Father Dominic D. Quinn, O.M.I.,
of St. Patrick’s Church, Fayette
ville, North Carolina, will be act
ing pastor of Holy Redeemer
Church, Kill Devil Hills, North
Carolina, while Father Peter M.
Denges is on his vacation in Eur
ope.
Father Peter M. Denges and Fa
ther Joseph F. Denges were or
dained by Archbishop Michael Jo
seph Curley in the Baltimore Ca
thedral on June 16, 1927 while
their brother, Father Q. Benedict
Denges was ordained by Patrick
Cardinal Hayes in the Redemptor
ist Church of Esopus, New York,
on June 24, 1928.
Mrs. Abia Glynn of Manteo,
North Carolina, plans to hold a re
ception for the Denges brothers on
their return in October.
so generously provided your fel
low members and their families
in time of illness and other mis
fortunes, the promotion of intelli
gent leadership of high school age
boys through your scholarship and
Columbian Squires programs, your
educational programs — all are
testimony to the vision of your
founders.”
1Will-Power
Christian
Cautioned
ST. LOUIS — (NC) — A priest
warned here against being a “will
power Christian” who depends too
much on himself and not enough
on God.
Father Adrian Van Kaam,
C.S.Sp., called this a “high-minded
approach to sanctity.”
Father Van Kaam, a psycholo
gist at Duquesne University, Pitts
burgh, made his comments in In
sight, a new quarterly magazine of
religion and mental health pub
lished here.
HE CAUTIONED that the hu
man will does not work in isolation
and a man cannot manipulate him
self as he would a lifeless object.
A spirituality based solely on
will power, he said, “may become
pious self-deceit or lead to a mor
bid compulsive existence.”
At the other extreme, he noted,
is a lack of will which “may in
cline man to experience himself as
driven by society or by his body
chemistry and unconscious inclina
tions.”
/ OFFICIAL
The following appointments,
approved by the Most Reverend
Bishop, are announced by the
Diocesan Chancery: ?
Father Norman Lambert,
S.S.E., is appointed Pastor of St.
Elizabeth’s Church, Elizabeth
City, effective August 16.
Father John Barry of the
Glenmary Home Missioners is
appointed Pastor of St. Francis
Church, Franklin, effective Au
gust 20.
Father Aloysius Bedel, S.M.,
is appointed Chaplain of Char
lotte Catholic High School.
Father Francis Campbell,
O.M.I., is appointed Pastor of
St. Patrick’s Church, Fayette
ville, effective September 1.
James E. McSweeney
Chancellor