Rites tor Catholics
Killed in Rioting
By Father Patrick O’Connor
Saigon, Vietnam — (NC) — A
poignant funeral for all six Catho
lics killed on Aug. 27 at the en
trance to army headquarters was
held Aug. 30 through miles of city
streets after a Solemn Requiem
Hass.
The Mass was celebrated in the
church attended by refugees from
North Vietnam in a working class
district. Praying crowds, had filled
the church and annexes on Aug.
28 and 29.
DELEGATIONS CAME from
other parishes, filling the church,
yard and streets for the funeral.
Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen,
Ton Hoan, Interior Minister Gen.
Lam Van Phat, both Catholics; a
group of officers representing the
armed forces headquarters, and a
Buddhist bonze attended.
The enormous throng, orderly
and reverent, carried the names
of their parishes in white letters
on black banners. A parish choir
chanted the Latin funeral prayers.
Sometimes the strains of beloved
Vietnamese hymns rose from the
slowly moving ranks.
VIETNAMESE soldiers and po
lice were stationed, but not ob
trusively along the route. Some of
the soldiers saluted as the six
hearses, each carrying a flag-cover
ed coffin and white-clad mourners,
passed. (White is the mourning
garb in Vietnam as in China.)
About 40 priests walked in the
procession, mostly refugee priests
from the north.
On each coffin was a framed
photograph of the dead person, the
youngest a girl of 16 and the oldest
a man of 38. One was a non-com
missioned officer in the armed
forces. A woman of 33 must have
been the mother of a family.
The crowds and the panoply did
not quell the grief of the mourning
families, still dazed by their sud
den loss.
Chapel Hill
School Plant
Welcomes Public
CHAPEL HILL — Sisters of
Notre Dame recently arrived at
St. Thomas More Parish here to
open the first four grades of the
new parochial school will welcome
visitors to the new school and con
vent on September 5, from 2:00 to
5:00 p.m. New St. Thomas More
School is located on Highway 15
& 501 west of Raleigh Highway No.
54. Fr. Francis J. Murphy is
pastbr; school principal is Sister
Jane Raphael.
Belmont Hosts 250
Young Xian Students
BELMONT — Over two-hundred
fifty Catholic high school boys and
girls, their Chaplains and modera
tors from the deep and middle
south gathered at Belmont Abbey,
North Carolina, three days last
week for the annual Study Week
of the Southern Region Young
Christian Students. Their purpose
was renew their spiritual and
apostolic fervor, exchange ideas,
compare techniques and map
strategy for their apostolate in
schools and parishes during the
Coming school year.
Their meetings and deliberations
centered around the altar where
they began each day with the Holy
Sacrifice of the Mass in which they
Participated fully with hymns,
dialogue, Offertory procession and
the reception of Holy Communion.
To make the Mass more meaning
ful the priest faced the delegates
during the celebration and a com
fflentator gave short explanations
from time to time.
In order to provide inspiration
»nd food for thought an outstand
ing group of speakers addressed
the students during the week. Fa
ther Richard Madden, O. C. D„ a
noted author and retreat-master for
young people, challenged the dele
gates to mold and pattern their
«ves on the life of Christ. He sug
gested that if they had not read
and meditated upon the four Gos
pels they were poor material for
their Y. C. S. group.
Rt. Rev. Msgr. Alexander O.
Sigur, Newman Club Chaplain at
S. I. L. in Louisiana, told the stu
dents how to relate their apostolic
lives to modern society in which
they live; a sense of responsibility
for the needs of others is as impor
tant as caring for one’s own per
sonal needs. The theme of outgoing
Christianity was reiterated by Fa
ther Donald Scales, O. S. B., in
structor in theology at Belmont
Abbey and Sacred Heart Junior
College, when he quoted the ser
mon of Cardinal Suenens at the
second session of the Vatican Coun
cil: “The purpose of the Christian
life is to know God and make Him
known; to love God and make Him
loved; to serve God and make Him
served,” , . ,
,T,he importance of knowledge for
members of Y.C.S. was emphasized
by Mr. George Herndl, instructor
in English at Belmont College. Mr.
Herndl told the delegates that they
should seek knowledge not merely
for the sake of becoming a good
doctor, lawyer or engineer but be
cause there is a value in true
knowledge itself.
A long-time chaplain of Y.C.S.
and the Chairman of the National
See Belmont, page 4A
pope pleads peace
Thru Mutual Trust
. . . Instead of Might
CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy— (NC) — In a plea for peace
among nations, Pope Paul VI denounced nationalistic pride,
presitige politics, the armaments race and social and economic
antagonisms as symptoms of a “regrowth of divisions and op
positions among peoples.”
The Pope called on all nations
to remember that “security rests
. on an effort toward mutual
understanding, on the generosity
of loyal mutual trust, on a spirit
df collaboration for common ad
vantage, and on aid, particularly
to developing countries” more than
on “the hypothesis of a lawful and
collective use of armed force.”
“In a word," he said, “it rests
on love.”
Speaking at his weekly general
audience, the Pope noted he was
departing from his “usual familiar
and spiritual colloquy” to discuss
“some serious thoughts . . . caused
by two stimulating motives.”
The first, he said, were the 50th
anniversary of World War I and
the 25th anniversary of World War
II. The second, he stated, were the
“acute disagreements, already
stained with blood and pregnant
with menacing omens, existing to
day among various countries.”
In a voice choked with emotion,
Pope Paul pleaded:
“Men of good will! Listen to our
humble voice, the voice of a broth
er and a father, evoking memories
of two fearful wars, not to project
empty and frightening phantoms
upon the world’s present stage,
but to extend to the depths of
men’s hearts an invitation to wise
and responsible reflection, an ex
hortation to place, above every
other interest and every other
value, that of human dignity and
fraternal concord, and a foretaste
of the joy and prosperity which
can never again be born of war
but only of peace in sincerity and
goodness.”
The Pontiff recalled his prede
cessor’s warnings before both world
wars. He said that at the time
of the first, Pope Benedict XV’s
voice, “although it resounded deep
ly in the hearts of people and won
tardy recognition from the minds
of thinkers and historians, yet had
only an . . . ineffective reception
on the part of the governors of
nations and the leaders of public
opinion.”
Regarding World War II, he
quoted the radio message of Aug.
24, 1939, isued by Pope Pius XII
eight days before war broke out.
In it he said: “Politics freed from
morals betrays the very ones who
wish it to be so emancipated. The
danger is imminent, but there is
still time. Nothing is lost by peace.
All can be lost by war. Let men
return to understanding one an
other. Let them start again to ne
gotiate.”
Pope Paul indicated that the
present situation may be similar
to the one preceding the outbreak
of the second war. He said: “The
diffidence which surrounded the
warning interventions of papal
teaching does not discourage us
from renewing our paternal ap
peal for peace whenever the mo
ment of history, and especially the
duty of our apostolic office, re
quire it.”
Pope Paul continued: .
“Peace is a supreme good for
humanity, living not in eternity
but in time. But it is a fragile good,
arising from mobile and complex
factors in which man’s free and re
sponsible will is in continual play.
Therefore, peace is never complete
ly stable and secure. It must at
every moment be rethought and
reconstituted.”
' Unfortunately Topical'
Pope Paul in Second Appeal
For Praver for World Peace
Castel Gandolfo, Italy — (NC)
—For the second time in less than
a week Pope Paul VI spoke of
peace to a crowd of thousands
gathering at his summer residence
to get his blessing.
The Pope said (Aug. 30) that
peace does not concern only poli
ticians — it concerns everyone.
“It is not only a political, but
above all a moral theme,” he de
clared.
“We must foster peace in two
ways. First is that of educating our
selves and of reforming our men
talities, of fashioning our minds
according to the desire, program
and purpose of peace. We must
be the sons of the Gospel which
outlines our program: ‘Blessed are
the peacemakers.’ That is to say,
we must give to our mode of think
ing, of living and of undertaking
social and international relations,
an evangelical orientation which is
brotherly, that is to say human,
or in other words open to many
solutions which are not those of
violence or of killing the brothers
with whom we do not agree.”
THE POPE said he spoke on
peace because it is a subject which
is “unfortunately topical.” He cited
countries suffering from “unrest
which is more than political —
which has turned into warfare, at
least guerrilla warfare, and ten
sions which remove precisely that
tranquility of order which is the
definition of peace.”
He discounted the charge that his
solution is pacifism, “which re
nounces defense when it is neces
sary and renounces the rights of
a people and the obligations which
a people or a constituted authority
Ten Young Ladies
Enter Apostolate
In North Carolina
RALEIGH — Ten girls will of
ficially dedicate themselves as
Mary Missioners to a year’s serv
ice in North Carolina Catholic mis
sions this Sunday. Bishop Vincent
S. Waters will preside at the Ra
leigh Cathedral Mandate ceremony
when these young ladies formally
offer themselves as lay missioners
to serve the diocese. Symbol of
their service is the Mary Mission
er medal which each will receive
from the Bishop before they are
assigned to the Mission houses at
Winston-Salem and Farmville.
Those to offer their services are:
impose for this defense.” Rather
his solution is to “orient one’s life
to that goodness and universal
charity which the Gospel brought
into the world . .
“WE MUST CONSIDER peace
not only as our own human work
but as it truly is, a gift of God.
Peace descends from heaven and
makes men good . . . and we obtain
it by praying,” the Pope said.
“Let us pray while we are in
time and always, because the good
of peace truly deserves this con
tinous vigilance of our invocation
. . . peace must always occupy a
place in our spiritual intentions
because it is a theme of such a
great importance for the life of
mankind, civilization, the Church
and the well being of all who live
in this world,” Pope Paul con
cluded.
Pamela Williams, High Point,
North Carolina; Cecilia Moelter,
Wabasse, Minn.; Brenda Falcone,
Dument, New Jersey; Mary Gasper
ini, Derby, Conn.; Marie Drebin
ske, Oakland, New Jersey; Kath
leen Przybylek, Eileen Finerty,
Barbara Harrison, Rosemary Pep
piti, Valerie Kowalski, all of
Wilmington, Delaware.
PROJECT MERCY — Brought together at Sacred Heart Junior College, Belmont, girls inter
ested in making firsthand contacts with sisters of various religious communities. Belmont
Mercy Sisters invited sisters from various religious communities within Raleigh Diocese to
carrv on a weekend dialogue with girls from North Carolina and other states. Participating,
besides Belmont Mercy Sisters, in the vocation workshop were the Religious of Christian
Education, Asheville; The Little Sisters of the Assumption, Charlotte; Sisters of the Most
Holy Trinity, Charlotte, and Franciscan Sisters from Waynesville.