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Volume LI September 2, 1962 Number 18
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Spirit of Charity Called
Primary Need in Missions
NOTRE DAME, Ind. — (NC) —
An African who 30 years ago was a
superstitious pagan and who next
October will sit with the Fathers
of the Church at the Second Vati
can Council drew an ovation from
‘more than 4,000 high school, col
lege, and seminary students here.
Bishop Peter Dery of the dio
cese of Wa in Ghana, West Africa,
told the delegates to the 20th na
tional convention of the Catholic
Students Mission Crusade:
“Before I was baptized in 1932
at the age of 14 I was a pagan
without any knowledge of reading
•and writing, and was being intro
duced to sorcery and ancestor wor
ship.”
IN THE audience was the priest
who baptized him 30 years ago, Fa
ther Remegius F. McCoy, W.F., a
• Besides a 35% increase in
educational staff in the Sixties,
the NEA asks for a 125% addi
tional increase in salaries for
teachers who got a 23% in
crease last year. (Textile work
ers got 3%.)
—NEA Report
member of the White Fathers who
worked 27 years in Africa — 23 or
them in Ghana.
Msgr. Edward A. Freking, exec
utive chairman of the CSMC na
tional board, described Bishop
Dery as “a marvelous example of
the successful work of the
Church’s missionaries.”
Bishop Dery said that “for all
their superstitions, witchcraft, and
sorcery, the Africans are basically
a monotheistic and a religious peo
ple.”
“EACH TRIBE,” he said, “has
a special, distinctive name for
God.” In his own Dagati tribe deep
in the Ghana bush, that name is
“king God,” he said.
Moreover, when Africans enter
the Church, “they make good Cath
olics and are faithful to their call
ing,” he stated.
What is most needed in the mis
sions, according to Bishop Dery, is
a spirit of charity. More than his
educational and medical establish
ments, or his cooperatives and
credit unions, the missionary’s
charity is the chief factor in his
success, he said.
“THE UNSOPHISTICATED pa
gan is immediately moved by a
charity which is not fictitious,” he
continued.
In his diocese of Wa, out of a
total population of about 300,000
people, there are 40,000 Catholics
and 16,000 catechumens, as well as
six native priests and 70 native sis
ters. “Charity brought this about,”
said Bishop Dery.
He deplored the ' widespread
practice of “talking about commu
nism as if it were the only evil,”
observing that “we are always ask
ed about communism in Ghana.”
“OF COURSE it is a serious evil,”
he said, “but a more serious one is
materialism. Our chief task is to
understand the correct use of the
things of this world and to work
with charity to bring this under
standing to our brothers in Christ.
Otherwise, the pagans of Africa
will become materialists, and it
will be virtually impossible to con
vert them.”
Msgr. Freking underscored Bish
op Dery’s concern, and warned
that “you don’t solve the problem
of communism by simply denounc
ing it in class.”
Students must become “aposto
lic-minded,” he said, and avoid the
danger of “whipping communism
as an excuse for our own failures.”
“Once materialism gets a grip on
people,” he said, “you can’t win.
You can convert enemies who have
strong convictions, but you can’t
make a dent in those who are
completely indifferent to God and
religion.”
AT NORTH AMERICAN LITURGICAL WEEK — Liturgical Movement leaders gathered in
formally during sessions of the 23rd North American Liturgical Week held in Seattle, August
20-23. It was the largest such liturgical Week in the history of the movement. Pictured (left
to right) are Bishop Charles A. Buswell of Pueblo, Col., a member of the Liturgical Confer
ence board of directors; John B. Mannion, executive secretary of the Liturgical Conference,
Washington; Mary Perkins Ryan, member of the board of directors and national vice-chair
man of the spiritual development committee of the National Council of Catholic Women; and
Father Frederick R. McManus of the Catholic University, Washington, president of the Liturgi
cal conference. (NC Photos)
Catholic Students Cop
Charlotte J.A. Awards
CHARLOTTE — Four Catholics
have been numbered among the
seven high school students chosen
by the Charlotte Junior Achieve
ment Board to participate in a busi
ness conference at Indiana Univer
sity in Bloomington. The Junior
Achievers were selected for out
standing work during their recent
business year. The seven represent
the hundreds of students who, dur
ing the school year set up com
panies, sell stock, manufacture
products, sell their wares, and then
dissolve their corporations, split
ing up any dividends. Joe Maher, a
student at Belmon Abbey, was
chosen the outstanding Junior
Achiever of the year. Also honored
were Freddy Garges of Charlotte
Catholic High School, and Janie
Maher and Ginger Clark, of Our
Lady of Mercy High School. Miss
Maher also won the title of Miss
Charlotte Junior Achiever, and will
compete in Bloomington for the na
tional title.
Mrs. Fostter R. Renwick
OFFICIAL
The following appointments
approved by the Most Reverend
Bishop, are announced by the
Diocesan Chancery:
Colum Dillon, O.F.M., Pastor,
St. Anthony of Padua, Ashe
ville.
Jude Smith, O.F.M., Ass’t.,
St. Benedict the Moor, Winston
Salem.
Kevin A. Farrell, O.F.M.,
Ass’t., St. Pius X, Statesville.
Effective, Sept. 5th
James E. McSweeney
Chancellor
' MOUNTAIN SCHOOL high in the Blue Ridge at Hendersonville was dedicated August 17. The
new Immaculata parish school, costing $100,000, is already half paid for. Father Howard Lane,
pastor, assisted Bishop Vincent S. Waters at the formal dedication. September classes which
will meet in the modern, well equipped facility, will run slightly over 150 students.
180 Lay Apostles Now
Tackle U.S. Home Field
OKLAHOMA CITY — Extension
Lay Volunteers from 59 U.S. dio
ceses covering 31 states met here
last week at Saint Francis de Sales
Seminary for an intensive orien
tation program prior to receiving
their mission assignments to some
65 parishes and institutions
throughout the southern and south
western United States.
The Rt. Rev. Msgr. Joseph B.
Lux, President of the Catholic
Church Extension Society, gave the
keynote address. “The Extension
Society has been in existence for
over 50 years,” he said, “but noth
ing we have done so far rivals
this new work which we have un
dertaken. Nothing has captured the
imagination of American Catholics
more than the challenge to offer
themselves and their talents as lay
missionaries to their own country.”
During the five-day program that
followed, trained experts gave the
Volunteers courses in catechetics,
missiology, adult education and so
cial work. Also included in the
program was a day of recollection.
The proceedings closed with a
blessing by the Most Reverend Vic
tor J. Reed, Bishop of Oklahoma
City and Tulsa.
Founded as recently as 1960, the
extension Lay Volunteer program
has grown from 15 to over 180
members. During 1962-1963, the
Volunteers will be working in 65
parishes and institutions in Louisi
ana, Texas, Missouri, Wyoming,
Nebraska, Kansas, Arkansas, Okla
homa, Colorado and New Mexico.
The Volunteers will fill posts as
teachers, nurses, catechists, admin
istrative secretaries, Newman Club
organizers and orphanage person
nel.
At the request of the local bish
op, Extension Lay Volunteers are
assigned to those home missions
where there is a real need for their
services and where local personnel
is not available to fill that need.
The Extension Lay Volunteer
program is directed by the Rever
end John J. Sullivan and sponsored
by the Catholic Church Extension
Society, 1307 South Wabash Ave
nue, Chicago 5, Illinois. Father
Sullivan said last week that re
quests for Volunteers still far ex
ceeds the number going into the
field this year. He also said that
interested young men and women,
single as well as married couples,
may request further information
without obligation through his Ex
tension Lay Volunteer office in
Chicago.
Lutheran Says Council
Challenges Protestants
COPENHAGEN, Denmark —
(NC) — The coming ecumenical
council is a challenge to all Prot
estants to clarify their positions on
the matters the council will deal
with.
This was stated in an interview
given to the Copenhagen daily,
Information by Kristn-Ejnar Skyds
gaard, one of the two men recent
yl appointed by the Lutheran
World Federation as observers at
the council. Skydsgaard, a profes
sor at Copenhagen University, is
director of the federation’s Com
mission on Inter-Confessional Re
search here.
The council, Skydsgaard said,
places Protestants in a new situa
tion in many ways. He continued:
“I know, that some Protestants
say the Vatican council does not
concern us, but is an internal af
fair for the Roman Church and of
no importance to others. I think
that is wrong. We used to speak of
‘the other Church,’ when we
thought of the Catholic or any
other church, as of something
alien to us, something kept at a
distance or considered a goal for
missionary activity. We must now
acknowledge that they are our
neighbors — perhaps neighbors of
a difficult kind — but we cannot
do without them.”
Asked whether he thinks the
council might result in a new
orientation of the Catholic Church,
Skydsgaard replied:
“There are great contrasts inside
the Roman Catholic Church of to
• There will be 1 school staff
member for every 20 public
school pupils in North Carolina
by 1970, if NEA plans germin
ate. At present the figure is one
for 26.
—NEA Report
day. We find some very conserva
tive groups that concentrate on
preserving the Church as it is and
look with suspicion on anything
new and seemingly dangerous. But
there are other groups that actual
ly have quite another mentality.
They are open-minded in a remark
able way and possess a pioneer
spirit that is surprising and gives
rise to hope. I think there is rea
son to take this contrast very seri
See Lutheran, page 7A