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JANUARY-FEBRUARY 1959

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January-February 1959
Vol. 28 No. 1

Official monthly bulletin of the Holy Ghost
Fathers of the Province of the United
States. Founded in November, 1933, by
Father C. J. Plunkett, C.S.Sp. Published
for private circulation. Address: 1615
Manchester Lane, N. W., Washington 11,
D. C, U. S. A.

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3 Provincial's Message

4 Official

6 Congratulations

7 Before — After

8 News Roundup

9 Retreats

10 Rev. Stephen J. Bryan

12 In Diebus lllis

15 Thoughts on "Cor Unum — "

SICK LIST

Please pray for the speedy
recovery of:

Father Ed Clifford
Father Joseph Kirkbride
Father Edward Wilson
Father of Father Prueher
Mother of Father Jas. Sullivan
Mother of Father Rosso

THE COVER

During Father Liberniann's
life photography was still in its
infancy. It was the time of the
daguerro-type pictures. Approx-
imately a half hour exposure
was needed to produce a photo-
graph. Even the most patient
man would be hard put not to
make any slight movement dur-
ing such a long time.

It would have been especially
hard for a man suflfering from
nervous disorders like Liber-
mann to keep his features
natural-looking for the duration
of the exposure. Nevertheless,
the daguerro-type of Father Lib-
ermnan was proclaimed the
most closely resembling portrait
by those who had personally
known him. The reproduction
printed here is the result of the
work of a photographer who has
spent many hours in correcting
the deficiencies of the daguerro-
type. It is now the official photo-
graph of our "Second Founder."

Rev. Henry Koren, C.S.Sp.

Provindal^s Message

My dear Confreres:

The widespread concern expressed over our vocation crisis con-
stitutes an encouraging ray of hope in an otherwise dismal picture.
Your many letters on the subject contained evidence of the serious
thinking that has been going on. In the next few months the ideas
you presented will be collated, sifted and, insofar as it is possible,
put into effect.

All of us are agreed that anything so charismatic as a vocation
must rest first and foremost on a solid spiritual foundation. To that
end, insistent prayer is a primary requirement. However, here as in
all other areas of the divine economy, the supernatural builds on
the natural.

On that level, the process of attracting recruits reduces itself
to a question of pure public relations. You cannot "sell" what you
don't subscribe to or enthusiastically believe in. Worse still, you
cannot "sell" what doesn't exist, no matter how eloquently you in>
vest your imaginary product with attractive features.

Now, what am I getting at?

Just this: isn't it symptomatic of something gone awry when
the young men we encounter in our work consistently go off to the
diocese and to other religious orders?

One can only hark back to the basic tenets of public relations:
1) have we realy something to sell and 2) do we believe in it whole-
heartedly?

Our "product" is a religious society that has (or should have)
evoked a powerful sense of loyalty in us.

But, do we have a real "product" if we live like seculars, think
like seculars, and act like seculars? Are we enthusiastic salesmen if
(as I suspect from the many untouched volumes I have seen) we
aren't even interested enough to read our own history?

Each and every one of us has a lot of soul-searching to da.
Lent would be a good time for it.

Fraternally yours,

VERNON F. GALLAGHER, Provincial

OFFieiiL

Appointments effective January 15, 1959:

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Father James J. Beagan from St. Joseph's Church,' Conway,
Arkansas, to St. Joseph's, Bay City, Michigan.

Father Edward C. Beriault from St. John's, Tuscaloosa, Ala., to
Visitation Academy, De Sales Heights, Parkersburg, West Virginia,
as Chaplain.

Father Albert J. Bullion from St. Mary's Seminary, NorWalk, to
St. Joseph's, Conway, Arkansas, as assistant pastor.

Father Joseph J. Cassidy from Holy Spirit Mission, Bakersfield,
California, to St. John's, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, as pastor.

Father Herbert Farrell from Holy Ghost Retreat House, New
Canaan, Conn., to St. Mary's Seminary, Ferndale.

Father James Flynn from St. Peter Clover, Philadelphia, Pa., to
Notre Dame, Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin.

Father John F. Kelly from St. Peter Clover, Philadelphia, Pa., to
St. Emma's Military Academy, Rock Castle, Vo.

Father William J. Keown from Visitation Academy, Parkers-
burg, West Virginia, to St. Benedict's, Pittsburgh, Pa., as pastor.

Father James D. Manning from Catholic Mission, Moshi, Tan-
ganyika, East Africa, to St. Joseph's, Hartsville, S. C, as pastor.

Father John R. Muka from St. Benedict's, Pittsburgh, Pa., to St.
Peter Clover, Philadelphia, Pa., as. pastor.

Father J. A. Murnaghan from Our Lady of Prompt Succor, Mon-
sura. La., to Our Lady of Sorrows, Moreauville, La., as pastor.

Father Joseph B. Murphy from St. John, Tuscon, Arizona, to
Holy Spirit Mission, Bakersfield, California.

Father James F. McCaffrey from St. Anthony, Portsmouth, R. I.,
to Holy Ghost Retreat House, New Cancan, Conn., as assistant.

Father John J. McHugh from Holy Ghost Retreat House, New
Canaan, Conn., to St. Christopher's, Tiverton, R. I.

Father Joseph A. Paga, Aeque Principaliter St. Christopher's,
Bunkie, La., and Our Lady of Prompt Succor, Mansura, La. Resi-
dence: Monsura.

Father James B. Parent from St. Joseph's, Bay City, Michigan,
to St. Anthony, Portsmouth, R. I. ,

Father George C. Reardon from Our Lady of Sorrows, Moreau-
ville, La., to Our Lady of Guadalupe, Bakersfield, Calif., as pastor.

Father John S. Rondeau from St. Joseph's, Hartsville, S. C, to
St. Anthony's, Natchitoches, La., as pastor.

Father Francis P. Trotter from Our Lady of Guadalupe, Bakers-
field, Calif., to St. Joseph's, Bay City, Michigan.

ORDO CHANGES

In virtue of a MODIFIED IN-
DULT of June 25, 1958, the
following Proper Offices and
Masses will no longer be pre-
scribed in our Ordo: April 3, St.
Benedict a S. Philadelpho; May
31, B.V.M. Mediatrix of All
Graces; July 3, All the Supreme
Pontiffs; Nov. 13, St. Stanislaus,
(which is to be kept only in the
Novitiate houses).

DEGREES RECEIVED:

Father Charles Read, M.Ed.,
from Duquesne, January, 1959.

Father Edward Hogan, Ph.D.,
in Psychology, Fordham, Janu-
ary, 1959.

CHANGE OF ADDRESS

Padres Del Espiritu Santo,
Box 3753, San Jose Branch,
Rio Pedras,
Puerto Rico

St. Augustine's Rectory,
1736 E. Apache Street,
Tulsa 10, Oklahoma

Zone number for St. Daniel's,
Shreveport, is 10.

Our Lady of Victories Rectory,
124 So. Lloyd Street,
Salisbury, N. C.

St. Edward's Rectory,
175 Frere Street. Box 515,
New Iberia, La.

DEPARTURE

January 24 — From Idlewild,
N. Y., to Nairobi, East Africa via
Europe: Fr. Edward Bernacki.

IN YOUR CHARITY

Mother of Father Henry Brown,
C.S.Sp.

Father of Father Harold Mc-
Neil.

MEETING

The Provincial Committee on
Studies will meet at Duquesne
Friday, March 27, at 9:30 A. M.

BACK COVER: Scholastic, professors, guests at Rural Ufe Conference, Ferndale, 1945. Irv
front row is Archbishop O'Brien of Hartford; also Msgr. Ligutti. Frs. Jos.
Otto, first American to die in Kilimaniaro, is next to Fr. Quinlan, second
row (sixth from right).

CONGRATULATIONS

Brother Hyacinth Rosmary-
nowski who celebrated his 55th
anniversary on February 2nd.
Our thanks for his help at Corn-
wells all these years.

Father Ed Hogan upon the
completion of his work for a
doctorate at Fordhani.

Father Vince Deer for being
named to the National Council
of the Professional Photogra-
phers of America for a two-year
term.

To all the confreres who
have worked for the new gym
at Ann Arbor. It was a real
team effort.

Father Dan Conklin for the
"new look" on the cemetery at
Ferndale.

Father Con Chronis, belated-
ly, upon the Catholic Directory
of East and West Africa which
he edited.

Father Frank Chiaramontc
whose knowledge of the sign
language makes it possible for
him to teacli Religion in the
California School for the Deaf.

Father John Strmiska com-
pleting a new gyni and parish
hall in Tulsa.

Father Joe Noppinger for his
capal)lc ufhninistration of Moshi
these days.

Brother Pat Staunton on his
great assistance in Puerto Rico.

Father Henry Werheim for
his work with The Flame, Corn-
well's student paper.

Father Joe Duchene on the
many difficult jobs successfully
completed at Duquesne.

Father Gus Reitan for 16
years representing us with honor
in the Holy Childhood work.

Father John O'Brien for the
teaching job he does at Ports-
mouth Priory for Benedictine
seminarians and his devotion to
sick calls in emergencies.

Father Francis J. Smith on
the building program in Opel-
ousas still going strong.

Fathers Schrier and Lemmens
who will celebrate their 25th
anniversary April 8. Ad multos
annos.

Father Dick Wersing for the
Cana conference he gave to
Army people and local residents
near Fort Hood, Texas. 165 peo-
ple attended.

Father Ed Figaro on the
splendid talk at Church Unity
Day in Harlem. The Fathers at
St. Mark's and Father Figaro
joined with the local clergy in
an outstanding demonstration of
Faith.

Father Leonard Bushinski on
his Lenten talks in Bridgeport
Cathedral.

BEFORE

AFTER

WE see many group photos
but seldom do we have a
shot of the last minute hustle
just before the formal photo is
taken. The above picture was
taken long long ago as is evi-
dent from the grass in front of
the group. Further evidence of
the antiquity can be easily as-
certained from a close look at
those in the photo.

Among the distinguished con-
freres we could identify were:
Fathers Stanton, Lucziewicz,
Murphy, Kmiecinski, Lachow-
sky, Collins, Riley, Quinlan,

Van de Putte, McGuigan, Janc-
zuk, Sonnefeld . . . how many
do you know?

We hope you enjoy seeing
these old photos from time to
time. We print them for auld
lang syne and the sake of cor
unum . . . never to embarrass
or poke fun at individuals. The
photo of Father Brannigan on
another page in this issue is one
we know he will enjoy as will
his many friends. If you have
photos we can use, please send
them in.

ECONOMICS

"... I forgot to speak about pants in my letter ... I don't
see any difficulty in adopting such an article of clothing. You
tell me that is our "costume" but the Rule does not determine
our costume. Our costume in general is the clerical kind and
the one that is best suited to the place where we work. I see
from your letter that you are "econome" and not "procurator."
I have remarked for a long time that you are econom(ical), for
you no longer show any compassion for our poor confreres in
the novitiate; you give them NOTHING . . ." Father Libermann.

Some of the confreres in River-
side found that the famed Cali-
fornia smog can be mighty
rough . . . Father Bill Mullen was
arch-priest as a summer parish-
ioner offered his first Mass at
Little Compton, R. I. . . , the con-
freres gave Father Ed Bernacki a
farewell dinner at Immaculate
Heart Rectory, Pitt., before he
left for Africa . . . Bish Mangan
will also be going back soon.
Two lay people who were going
to give their services to the work
in Moshi had to cancel out be-
cause of illness at home. They
are both teachers and were go-
ing to Umbwe school.

Jim White, Jr., claims the
eight-day candles burn nine
days in Sanford . . . His parish-
ioners reversed the proceedings
recently . . . they went on vaca-
tion and left the pastor at home
. . . Joe McGinley had a success-
ful card party at St. Joseph s

House . . . Jim Burke spent a
few weeks in Mercy Hospital,
Pittsburgh, and is recuperating
at home very nicely . . . John P.
Gallagher received a warm wel-
come at Duquesne after a long
spell at Mercy Hospital . . .
Clem Roach is trying a fund-
raising firm to obtain the where-
withal for a new school in
Millvale.

The men in Puerto Rico re-
corded some significant gains . .
there were 8502 pupils in Cath-
olic schools in 1947. Now there
are 28,987. Over 7,000 Baptisms
in 1958 . . . The Holy Week lit-
urgy has been introduced, but
many of the old customs lin-
ger on.

A cavalcade of buses from
Alexandria under the direction
of Frank Stacker invaded Lake
Charles for the annual home-
coming basketball game. Father
Landy's boys sent them home
smarting from a two-point loss
. . . Father Holmes visited the
Southern parishes . . . Father Tim
Murphy reports 250 Confirma-
tions in Lafayete.

A new gym almost ready at
Ann Arbor and another in Tulsa.
Now all we need is one at Fern-
dale . . . both gyms are a result
of much hard work. The floor
from University of Michigan was
given to us and will be used pro
tern until funds for a permanent
floor can be raised.

The annual parish dance of
St. Mark's was another grand
success. Held as usual in the
Rennie ballroom, it was a tribute
to the men in Harlem . . . Fern-
dale had Arnold Lunn as a
speaker recently . . . much work
is being done on a new photo
lab there.

Father Tony Walsh reports no
debt in St. Daniel's, Shreveport,
although acquiring new property
for church development . . . most
of his funds are raised with his
"poetry" . . . World Missions and
Bishop Sheen asked Father Koren
for an article on the Congrega-
tion. Look for it . . . Shield maga-
zine for January has given the
Province a plug ... A nice time
was had by all as Father Thiefels
celebrated his 40th anniversary
in Detroit . . . On February 2nd
Father Lundregan was the guest
of honor at Richmond, Mich.,
where the men of the Detroit
area gathered ... At Duquesne
a number of vistors here for the
Council meeting joined us in
honoring Libermann . . . Arty
Woehrel is now working in the
Education office at Moshi with
Steve Lasko . . . Dutchy Trotter
III is pastor at Kishimundu . . .
A thief broke into Moshi mission
at Xmas and got the Fathers'
clothes. He was captured and
the clothing retrieved. Fr. Joseph
Kilasara is now at the Senior
Seminary and Francis Mketa re-
placed him at Kirua. Fathers
Greff and LeClair are the only

American priests now on the
Rombo side of the mountain.

Retreats

Brothers:

Ferndale-March 13-19
Rev. H. J. Farrell, C.S.Sp.,

Preacher.
Fathers:

Ferndale— June 8-12.
Duquesne— June 15-19.
Grand Coteau —

Oct. 26-30.
Pineville-Nov. 9-13.

Rev. Michael Mulvoy,

C.S.Sp., Preacher.

Please advise the Su-
perior of the Community in
which you plan to make
your Retreat well in ad-
vance of the designated
date.

COMMUNITY AT FERNDAIE-DEC. 1958
Front Row: Fathers Meenan, McGlynn,
Murray, Superior, Connors, Knight. Back
Row: Fathers Bullion, E. Bushinski, Zabo-
rowski, L. Bushinski, Hurney, Conklin,
Charles Trotter was absent when the
photo was taken.

Rev. Stephen J. Bryan
1879-1958

FATHER Stephen Bryan was
not a profane man, a vulgar,
nor a reckless man. He was a
reverent man, an exact man, a
vehement man. For that reason
he did not say: No exit. He said:
Not an authorized egress. He
did not say: Damn the torpe-
does, full speed ahead. He said:
Hew close to the line, let the
chips fall where they may. Hew
close to the line. It was reflected
in the gait of his walk and the
manner of his talk. He did all
things exactly, vehemently. They
were favorite words of his.

His whole life was spent in
the class room. Perhaps because
of this there grew up about him
the legend that he was such an
outstanding Latin and Greek
scholar. The greatest! We have a
failing of confusing longevity
and experience. Father Bryan
was wont to remark: we can do
the same thing wrong, or in a
mediocre way, or without in-
creasing our understanding, over
a long period of years. As re-
gards the legend, a confrere,
very close to Father Bryan dur-
ing his last years on Cornwells,

Father Stephen J. Bryan

jokingly but accurately, I be-
lieve, explained it. He used to
taunt Father Bryan: We make
you look good, we know so little.
Father Bryan was no special-
ist, in the narrow sense. Dr. Pat
Cronin, with whom he was as-
sociated for many years at Du-
quesne, once remarked that a
university could be built around
this man. True, there are few
subjects he did not turn a hand
to at one time or another. But
al)ove all he was an 'uni-versa'
man. An oriented, integrated
man, we say. He made his own
all those dimensions of the hu-
man personality which when
isolated one from another seem
mutually incompatible. With
ease and zest his interest radi-
ated to a wide circumference:
tlie classics, Migne's Patrology,

Bret Harte, The Saturday Eve-
ning Post, to all sports. And, ve-
hemently. Yet without loss of
sense of value.

Pietas was no mere academic
term to Father Bryan. It was
firmly rooted in his nature; loy-
alty to the memory of his par-
ents, his relatives, the land of
his birth, the Congregation, his
teachers, his superiors. It is this
I believe, that made the center
of his life so firm and true. How-
ever, he was not the unrecon-
structed humanist. He was the
fusion of Vergil and St. Paul.
Grace did but follow the lines
along which nature tended to
run. Aptly, to illustrate this was
the legend he recalled about St.
Paul's short sojourn at Puteoli:

When to VergiVs tomb they

brought him.
Tender pity and grief wrought

him.
To exclaim with pious tears:
What a saint I might have

crowned thee,
Had I only living found thee.
Poet, first and without peer.

No one who knew Father
Bryan can picture him other-
wise than a man essentially hu-
man. How he loved the whimsi-
cal. To strangers he was stiffly
courteous, reserved but hospita-
ble. He was most at ease among
his confreres and relatives. But.
most endearing of all was his
undisguised admiration for sim-
plicity, modesty, industry.

Stephen Joseph Bryan was
born on February 3, 1879, in the
district of Fullagh, union of
Skibbereen, county of Cork, Ire-
land. He attended National
School, Lisheen, from 1885 to
1892, Blackrock College from
1892-1898 and received the
Bachelor of Arts degree from
the Royal University of Ireland
in 1902.

He attended Duquesne Uni-
versity 1903-1904, made his pro-
fession at Cornwells Heights on
August 15, 1905, studied at Che-
villv 1905-1906, at the Univer-
sity" of Fribourg 1906-1908. He
was ordained to the subdiacon-
ate at Chevilly in June, 1908 to
the diaconate in October and to
the priesthood on October 28,
1908. Apostolic Consecration fol-
lowed on July 11, 1909.

Father Bryan's first appoint-
ment was to St. Mary's College,
Trinidad, in 1909. While there
he made his perpetual vows in
June, 1914.

In 1922, Father Bryan went to
Duquesne University where he
served until 1936. During these
years, he finished his studies for
the doctorate in classical lan-
guage and was awarded the de-
gree of doctor of philosophy
from the University of Pitts-
burgh in 1935. At Duquesne he
was professor, dean of the Col-
lege of Arts and Sciences, and
dean of the Graduate School.

In 1936, Father Bryan went to

Ferndale as professor of moral
theology. In 1939 he was trans-
ferred to Cornwells Heights
where he taught Latin and
Greek until 1956. He then re-
tired to the novitiate where he
resided until his death.

On the morning of July 18,
1958, Father Bryan was found
dead in his bed at the novitiate
in Ridgefield. Funeral services
were conducted at Ferndale on
July 22. Celehrant of the Sol-
emn Requiem Mass was Father
David Ray, his nephew; Rev.
Joseph Lonergan, of Pittsburgh,
Pa., was deacon and Father Wil-
liam Holmes, subdeacon.

More than fifty priests were
in attendance. Among those
present were their Excellencies,
Bishop Richard H. Ackerman,
C.S.Sp., auxiliary bishop of San
Diego, Calif., and Waller W.
Curtis, S.T.D., auxiliary bishop
of Newark, N. J., Rt. Rev. Msgr.
William Connare, of Pittsburgh,
Pa., Very Rev. Msgr. John Mc-
Laughlin of Bridgeport; Very
Rev. Vernon F. Gallagher, pro-
vincial, and Very Rev. Robert
Eberhardt, principal superior of
the district of Puerto Rico.

Bishop Ackerman preached
the eulogy and interment fol-
lowed in the Ferndale cemeterv.

LOYAL EGREGE MEMBERS

THE Province has not many
egrege members. Two of our
brothers in the priesthood who
have been received as associates
are particularly worthy of men-
tion. We refer to Msgrs. Paul
C>aiiipb<'ll ami Joseph A. Nelson.
Hotb have sttulied under the
direction ol oiir confreres at
l)ii(|ii<'.^ne. Their support and
tbeir affection for the Congre-
gation has been demonstrated
on many occasions. Mngr. Nelson
if- Vicar for R<'ligious in the
Ar< •h<lio<«'!-e of .\ew York.

Msgr. Campbell is at present
Administrator of the Diocese of
Pittsburgh having been chosen
by the Diocesan consultors fol-
lowing Archbishop Dearden's
transfer to Detroit. In the Feb-
ruary is*ue of Homiletic the
Pittsburgh priest has written a
lengtby article on the S[>iritans,
Father Koren's history of the
Congregation. In his article,
Msgr. Campbell's regard for the
Holy Ghost Fathers is very
much in evidence.

IN DIEBUS ILLIS

Twenty-Five Years Ago

ON March 8th Rev. Francis
McGlynn, John P. Stanton,
Anthony Lechner and Stanislaus
Zaborowski celebrated the 10th
anniversary of their Ordination
. . . the fire at St. Joachim's, De-
troit, in Feb. caused $150,000
damage . . .-the sacristy was the
only part of the church not com-
pletely destroyed . . . On March
15th, Mr. Joseph B. Hackett, Mr.
Martin J. Hayden and Mr. Jo-
seph E. Landy pronounced their
Perpetual Vows at Ferndale . . .
Father F. X. Williams was to con-
duct the Holy Week ceremonies
at St. Anne's Church, Wildwood.
Father Diamond reported receiv-
ing an encouraging letter from
ex-champion lightheavyweight
Tommy Loughran . . . Father
Lawrence E. Farrell, pastor emer-
itus of Our Lady of the Blessed
Sacrament Church in Philadel-
phia, died March 14. Father
Hehir read the committal service
at Cornwells March 20 . . . Fath-
er Kingston has established a
Five Year Plan as a means of
raising funds for his mission in
Puerto Rico ... he is endeavor-
ing to have 1,000 persons con-
tribute one dollar a year for five
years, at the end of which time
he hopes to have sufficient
money to build a chapel.

Fifteen Years Ago

CaTHER William O'Neill re-
ports from Camp LeJeune,
N. C, that he is the first Catholic
chaplain to be officially assigned
to the colored Marines . . . Father
Joseph Murphy, with the famous
8th Air Force, mentions the large
number of men receiving the
Sacraments before a raid over
enemy territory, many of whom
died in action . . . The first mem-
ber of the Wapare tribe to be
ordained a priest was Father
Andrea Kivari. He was ordained
by Bishop Byrne in the new
seminary at Kibosho. Father
Marron delivered the sermon at
his first Mass. Father F. X. O'Reil-
ley writes from Gore, Kiliman-
jaro: "Receive a grateful man's
thanks . . . We have 32 schools
closed since Hitler started losing
patience" . . . Father Francis
Cooney, Opelousas, has the larg-
est school in the diocese . . . 720
pupils.

Ten Years Ago

/^^ROUND was broken for new
^^churches at Sacred Heart,
Grayson, Okla., an out mission
of Okmulgee and St, John's, Tus-
con . . . Rev. Edward J. Kelly
was ordained at Ferndale March
12th. First Tonsure recipients
March 10th: Messrs. Chronis, Fig-
aro, LeClair, Seichepine Wehr-
heim. Ostiariate and Lectorote:

Messrs. Casey, Coffey, Cunning-
ham, Evanstock, Hillman, Hogan,
J. Kelly, Sharkey. The Subdiacon-
ate: Gerard Bouthiliette, Cro-
cenzi, Crowley, Durning, De-
Dominicis, Jepson, Wright and
E. Kelly . . . Father Joseph Quin-
lan sailed for France last month
to take up his new duties as
councillor general ... 25 new
converts were baptized on St.
Patrick's Day in St. Mark's, New
York City . . . Father Sheridan's
tenets on Sportsmanship were
printed: "Treat visiting teams as
guests. Don't ask them to re-
feree; our whistles are dirty and
they might get germs. Don't ask
them to keep score . . . they might
want to watch the game. Don't
ask them to keep time— they
might not have a watch and
then you would embarrass them.
Sportsmanship . . . that's what
counts."

Five Years Ago

FATHER Martin J. Hoyden died
in Philadelphia of a heart at-
tack . . . the first American
Brothers reported on their trip to
Kilimanjaro . . . Brothers Martin
and Francis ... a new stone
crucifix was erected in the ceme-
tery at Ferndole through the
kindness of Father Thiefels . . .
Father Vernon Gallagher was
honored by the Junior Chamber
of Commerce as Pittsburgh's Man
of the Year . . . the cornerstone
for Assumption Hall, girls' dorm
at Duquesne, was blessed by
Most Rev. Coleman F. Carroll . . .
Father Lavery was promoted to
major . . . Frank Kichak was or-
dained March 26th by Bishop
Joseph Whelan, C.S.Sp., bishop
of Owerri.

R*cogmze Frt. C. Trotter, Ray, Sweeney, White, WaUh, Kanda, Pixley, Muka,
Dougherty, Lawritts, C. Hogan???

THOUGHTS ON XOR UNUM"

by Rev. William E. O'Donnell
C.S.Sp.

FOR over two and a half cen-
turies the Holy Ghost Fath-
ers and brothers have done mag-
nificent work for God, for the
Church and for the honor of
the Congregation to which they
were privileged to belong.

The United States is great be-
cause we have learned to unite
many divergent categories of
men to form one voluntary, co-
hesive whole for the benefit of
all right-minded individuals, for
the strengthening of the nation
and even for the good of the
civilized world. This result could
not have been obtained were not
the structure of government
based on permanent, fundamen-
tal, right principles.

Our Congregation, by its very
nature, demands the unity of
many in the work of our official
ends. We need to be of one
heart and one mind. That our
ends are good we can be sure
for they all have the approba-
tion of the Church.

All wish for the spiritual wel-
fare of each individual. The first
motive in joining the Congrega-
tion was, and is, the sanctifica-
tion of each member's soul. In
this the individual himself is
allowed to be selfish. But all, in
the single-minded charity of

Christ, must desire the sanctifi-
cation of each. The general aim
of the Congregation has to be
the care of souls that come our
way.

Mere there is great diversity.
We are international. We have
confided to us many different
kinds of work, in many different
languages, having different out-
looks. Yet to each member be-
longs the motto: COR UNUM
ET ANIMA UNA.

The work allotted to each
comes by obedience. The doing
of that particular work to the
best of one's ability becomes the
here-and-now necessity of the
faithful man of God.

"In union there is strength".
We do have a great source
of union in our community
prayers. We can be strengthened
by knowing that others, not in
our particular field, are praying
for us and are interested in what
we are doing.

The beautiful doctrine of the
"Communion of Saints" has for
us a particular and practical
meaning. In the fourth chapter
of the Acts of the Apostles we
are told, "Now the multitude of
the believers were of one heart
and one soul."

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March-April 1959
Vol. 28 No. 2

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19 Provincial's Message

20 OfFicial

21 Congratulations

22 Avis Du Mois

23 15 Years Ago; 10 Years Ago

24 News Roundup

26 Father Edward M. Smith

28 Father Joseph Wuest

30 Analysis of Report on Vocation
Sources

31 Vocation Sources

Sick List

Father James Bradley

Father James Burke

Father Anthony Walsh

Father Joseph Keown

Father Edward ClifFord

Father Edward Wilson
Mother of Fathers Duffy

Father of Fathers Moroney

THE COVER

T N March the four scholastics
pictured received the Diacon-
ate and Suhdiaconate at Fern-
dale. Rev, Mr. William Joyce and
Rev. Mr. Leonard Tuozzolo are
in the front and Rev. Mr. Fran-
cis Hanley and Rev. Mr. Robert
McNally are in the rear as they
march from the altar.

These four deacons will be
ordained June 4th at Ferndale
by Most Rev. Lawrence Shchan,
D.D., of Bridgeport. Confreres
are cordially invited to attend
the ceremonies.

Please notify Ferndale if you
plan to attend the ceremonies.
The annual Consecration Day
and open house at Ferndale will
be on June 14. The confreres at
Ferndale assure you of a cordial
welcome.

Provincials Message

My dear Confreres:

Sn an endeavor to stimulate vocations by every means at our
disposal, measures have been taken to open Cornvt^ells to extern
students. The Generalate has approved the plan on condition
that the spiritual, academic, and financial implications be care-
fully studied out and reported on in acceptable fashion.

With characteristic directness. Father FitzGerald divided his
community into three committees and set them to the tripartite task.
The resultant report was sent to Paris and vy^e received permission
to proceed.

Day-students will be accepted by Cornwells next September.
By that time, in anticipation of the move to Bethel in 1960, all
collegians from Cornwells will have moved on to Ridgefield.
Obviously, therefore, space will not constitute a problem. Adjust-
ments involving the library and a new physics laboratory will, how-
ever, require immediate attention. So will future developments.

The venture is not without sobering implications. That is why
we earnestly solicit your prayers for its success and for the success
of all our vocation efforts during this particular month.

While we are on the subject, I should like to express to the com-
munities of Ferndale, Cornwells, Rhode island and Duquesne my
sincerest thanks for their outstanding work in the field of recruitment.

Fraternally yours,

VERNON F. GALLAGHER, C.S.Sp., Provincial

OFFICIAL

r^ONFRERES consecrated in 1949 and 1950. unless
excused by Father Provincial, will spend the month
of July at Ferndale for retreat, recollection and con-
ferences concerning the apostolate.

_ ._1.9

OFFICIAL

Reception of Orders, Ferndale, Arrivals
March 4 and March 5: Bishop

Lawrence Shehan of Bridgeport, April 6th— Father Richard J.

celebrant. LeClair at Logan airport, Boston

Subdiaconate and Diaconate- °" '^°''°" Airline from Nairobi,

Kenya Colony.

Rev. Mr. Francis Hanley, Wil-
mington, Del.

Rev. Mr. William Joyce, Cam-
bridge, Mass. Departures

Rev. Mr. Robert McNally, Wall-

lingford. Conn. February 28th — Father James

Rev. Mr. Leonard Tuozzolo, Mangan from Idlewild on S.A.S.

Woodside, N. Y. Airlines to Nairobi.

Minor Orders— April 3rd — Father Herbert
Messrs: Robert Allen, Stam- Prueher from Brooklyn on Robin
ford. Conn.; Joseph Cooke, Phil- Line ship to Mombasa via Cape-
adelphia; Roger DufFey, Pitts- town
burgh; Philip Evonstock, Bridge-
port; Charles Giambrone, Bridge- April 1 8th-Father Constantine
port; Thomas Tunney, Ambridge, Chronis to Africa.
Penna.

First Tonsure-
Messrs: George Soberick, Coal- In Your Charity

dole. Pa.; John Weber, Wash-
ington, Pa. Mother of Father Thos. Dolan

Father of Father John Walsh,

Calendar of Moshi

June 4-Ordination at Ferndale Father of Father Francis Schillo

June 7— Graduation at Duquesne Henry Rossenbach, brother of
June 14— Apostolic Consecration Father Rossenbach

CONGRATULATIONS

FATHER Charles Connors,
upon his appointment as
Censor LiI)roruni in the Diocese
of Bridgeport.

Father Ed Wolfe for the work
done as Holy Childhood Director
in the Dioceses of San Juan and
Ponce, Puerto Rico. $75,000
raised in the last few years.

Father Joe Kletzel for the
Knights of Columhus work he
does in the city of Pittshurgh.

Father Anton Morgenroth for
the tremendous success of his
pupils at Umhwe Secondary
School. Surpassed all other
schools in Tanganyika in the
government exams.

Father Con Conan for organ-
izing and conducting the inter-
esting discussions on Catechetics.
the Dialogue Mass, etr., in Singa
Chini in March.

Father Quinlan celehrating
his tenth year at the Mother
House where he has been of
considerable help to us.

Father Van Kaam completing
a year at Brandeis University
in Boston and bringing much
credit to the Congregation.

Father Frank Duffy for his
National Guard and Juvenile
Court work in Pittsburgh.

Father John Joyner for the
splendid work he has done with
the choir and among the stu-
dents at Duquesne.

Father Herbert Farrell on the
vocation work he has been do-

ing around the Eastern states.

Father Thiefels for the con-
stant demonstration of cor unum
in the Detroit area.

Fathers McNeil and Leonard
on the new churches they've
built in the South.

Father Joseph Jaworski for
the triJjute paid him by the
people of Pittsburgh.

Father Joseph Callahan as he
nears the 55th anniversary of his
ordination — June 26th.

Father Bob Graves in Puerto
Rico for his articles and news
of Puerto Rico.

Father Jim Mangan on his re-
turn to Kilema.

Father Ken Milford and To-
sello Giangiacomo for the new
churches they've built in Puerto
Rico.

Father Bill Keown for his
contributions to the Missions
via a mission box in the church.

Father Andre Krieger, "Ka-
feffe", on his 55th anniversary
on Kilimanjaro.

Father Dinny Durning for the
great work among the WaSonjo
people out in Loliondo.

The confreres in Africa who
pooled their resources to help
Loliondo.

Father Dinny Morley for his
many acts of kindness to the
missions in need.

Father Joe Cassidy on the am-
bitious program he is undertak-
ing in Tuscaloosa.

AVIS DU MOIS

Bulletin March-April, 1959
THE 250th ANNIVERSARY

My dear Confreres:

On October 2 of this year we
shall celebrate the two-hundred-
and-fiftieth anniversary of the
death of our Venerated Founder,
Father Claude Poullart des
Places, who died in Paris on
October 2, 1709.

That date is an important one
for us, for all the members of
our Congregation unhesitatingly
admit that they are the sons of
the Society of the Holy Ghost.
This, however, in no way goes
counter to the primordial work
of its reanimation which was ac-
complislied through the instru-
mentality of Venerable Father
Francis Lil)ermann. For by fus-
ing liis Society but recently
founded as the Society of the
Holy Heart of Mary, witl) the
more ancient and almost expir-
ing Society of the Holy Ghost,
he breathed new life in the
latter, bringing to it ardent,
generous and resolute young
iMcmliers.

That fusion was evidently in
line with God's designs, and
Divine Providence led to that
result with patient steadfastness
as the following facts clearly
sbow.

In 1830 Fatlicr Berlin wlio
liad gallirn-*! iwcnfv voung men

around him in the Association
of the Holy Heart of Mary, ex-
pressed the wish of joining the
Spiritans with his small group in
order to save their Institute
which was on the point of ex-
piring through lack of members.
That plan did not materialize
Ijecause Father Bertin accepted
the offer of the Superior of the
Eudists of joining that Society
which was in the process of res-
toration at Rennes. Ten years
passed by. It was then that
Father Libermann, director of
the Novitiate of the same Eu-
dists, in circumstances well
known to us, left Rennes to
found the Society of the Holy
Heart of Mary. And the latter,
after a series of events where
God's Finger is in perfect evi-
dence, was incorporated in the
Congregation of the Holy Ghost.
It follows that this year we in-
tend to celebrate with greater
solemnity than usual the anni-
versary of the death of our
Founder. First of all we shall
be eager to nourish our interior
life with the exalted spiritual
doctrine which stands revealed
in the few documents relating
to our Founder that have been
preserved for us. Next we shall

study the history of the founda-
tion and development of the
Congregation of the Holy Ghosl
which was created by him and
of which we are the children.
That is why at this moment, in
Paris, one of our Fathers is ap-
plying himself to research in the
archives of religious institutes
as well as in the libraries of the
State, for the purpose of obtain-
ing conclusive, accurate and de-
tailed information regarding the
origins of our religous famly
and the first confreres whom
our Venerated Founder gathered
around himself to help him in
its early development.

By going back to the first
years of our Congregation we are
merely obeying the wise direc-
tives of the Sovereign Pontiffs.
For these have always urged re-
ligious to reanimate themselves
tlirougli the sj)irit of their foun-

der and live by the spiritual
heritage which a special design
of Divine Providence had com-
mitted to them. This return to
the cradle of our origin will
draw down special graces upon
us. These will help us to be
more earnest and persevering in
the pursuit of our own sanctifi-
cation and by that fact will
make us more faithful to the
duties of our state of life.

Ever more generous and fer-
vent religious of the Holv Ghos^
and the Holy Heart of Mary,
after the pattern of our Ven-
erated Founder! This is my
daily prayer to God for every
member of our Congregation
and it will be particularly my
prayer during this anniversary
year.

Francis GrifFin, C.S.Sp.
Superior General.

filteen ^ea^s Qcc ten yjea^s Clc

(1944)

Sixteen ordinandi were to be
ordained in June: Messrs. Flaher-
ty, Moroz, Hurney, Shanahan,
Puhl, Gartskiewicz, Meenan, Mc-
Ginn, Mroz, L. Trotter, Woehrel,
McGinley, PergI, Burkhart and
Varga . . . Father Joseph Loner-
gan was starting a new mission
at Olivier, La. . . . Father Ray
was promoted to captain while
serving in Italy . . . Father Wat-
kins was sent to Abyssinia.

(1949)

Appointments— Father V. Cro-
nin, Chippewa Falls, pro tem;
James Bradley, Tuscon; F. X.
O'Reilley, Tiverton; Eckert, Chip-
pewa Falls . . . Father Brannigan
gave a Lenten course in River-
side, Calif. . . . Father Collins
was in Georgetown Hospital a
few weeks . . . the Gledhill prop-
erty was acquired . . . Bishop
Byrne came to visit Ferndale . . .
the opening of Father DufFy's
window indicated to Cornwells
that Spring had officially begun.

Tleivs Kcun^up —

HE churches at Plaisance and
^ Lake Charles, built by Fathers
Leonard and McNeil, were
blessed recently . . . Tony Walsh
was forced to rest at a hospital
in Shreveport as was Father Mc-
Glynn in Stamford . . . Frank
Crocker has a supply of tickets
for the fund-raising drive for
Ann Arbor . . . The Knights of
Equity in Pittsburgh are raffling
a Cadillac to help the Bethel
project . . . Remo Bonifazi is
due home in June after complet-
ing a course of studies at the
University of London . . . Vince
Donovan and Artie Woeh'-el act-
ed as guides for two Pittsburgh
tourists visiting Nairobi and
were successful in locating a few
lions . . . Fathers Lauritis and
Deer gave lectures at Ferndale
on writing and photography . . .
Dick Ricketts, former Duquesne
star and now with Rochester in
the International League, spoke
to the students of St. James
School in Alexandria . . . John
Muka has a large class under
instructions at St. Peter Clavers
. . . Dick LeClair arrived from
Nairobi April 6th, his home ad-
dress: Monponsett St., Monpon-
set, Mass. . . . Father Provinciaf
end Father Griffin engaging in a
Rural Life Movement at Kellmont
. . . any mbege planted? Some
birthdays coming up in May:
Eberhardt, GrifFin, Lasko, Nebel,

Church in Africa built bv Fathpr Anthony
Bacher, C.S.Sp., of McKees Rocks, Pa.

Jerry Walsh, Mangan, Mulvoy,
Connolly, Brannigan and Bill
Murray among them . . . Father
O'Donnell gave the Brothers' Re-
treat in March so Father Van de
Putte substituted at the piano on
St. Patrick's night ... a few
plugs for "my home town,
Ghent" were noticed in the pro-
gram . . . Father Farrell has been
conducting a series of retreats
and lectures for prospective vo-
cations from Rhode Island to
Pittsburgh . . . the men in Detroit
gave Connie Chronis a sendoff
before he sailed April 8th . . .
the community room at Ferndale
has been done over and awaits
the comments of oncoming re-
treatants . . . One of the largest
groups of confreres ever assem-
bled here honored Father Pete
Gross at Emsworth on his 25th.
Congratulations to Vince Kmie-
cinski and Joe Healey who
"managed" the affair . . . the
new dormitory at Rock Castle
was dedicated April 16th . . .
The mother of Fathers Frank and

Joe DufFy is very ill; the father
of Fathers Joe and Gene Mo-
roney is also in critical condition
. . . we ask your prayers for
them. Chuck Connors is Censor
Librorum in the Diocese of
Bridgeport ... 59 children made
their First Communion at St.
James, Alexandria, the largest
class yet . . . Lake Charles
youngsters were guests of St.
James High this month and
joined in the Teen-Town festivi-
ties . . . Duquesne baseball team
had 23 hits as they opened the
season with a 25-6 win over
Thiel.

Bishop Greco made his Can-
onical Visitation at Natchitoches
and confirmed fifty-nine this

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month . . . Tony Frommholz was
out of action with an injured
foot for two weeks . . . Mr. J. Her-
man Friedman donated his Conn
organ to St. Anthony's parish
in Natchitoches where John Ron-
deau is pastor . . . Father Zabor-
owski has been extremely help-
ful in lining up Paraclete sub-
scribers . . . our sincere thanks
to him and others who have
been helping the cause . . . Luke
Huber is campaigning for Para-
clete in his parish . . . Our Lady
of Guadelupe parish. Bakers-
field, with 125, heads the list of
our parishes receiving Paraclete
in bulk orders . . . only eleven
of our parishes order Paraclete
. . . how about the rest of you?

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Among those pictured here are Fathers Strmiska, Skibinski, Goebel, Hehir, Luczie-
wicz, Phelan, Henry McDermott, McMenemy, Brannigan, McGuigan, Killeen, ColKns,
Park, Quintan, Roach, and Lachowsky . . . know the others?

FATHER EDWARD M. SMITH
1904-1958

SOME obituaries are over-
statements. Others are the
under-statements of the year. It
usually depends on the person
who wrote the account and how
well he knew the deceased con-
frere. Also what did the writer
have in mind? Did he intend to
magnify the qualifications or —
sad to relate — underestimate
the character of the deceased.
At his twenty-fifth sacerdotal
anniversary. Father Edward
Smith received the foUowinii
telegram. Quote: "Best regards
on this your big day. You over
came obstacles on the way,
many of which were man made."
End quote. Little did Fath<M
Smith know at that time thai
he liad only three months to
live.

Syd ( as we nicknamed Ed
Smith at the novitiate) came
to us from the Redemptorists.
He was born and reared in a
Redcmptorist parish in Phila-
delphia and as a young man en-
tered the Redemptorist House
of Studies at Northeast, Penna.
Believe it or not — Ed Smith had
a speech impediment and was
dismissed by them because of
this. Determined to become a
priest, he applied the same year
at Cornwells. After all, Ed didn'l
have that iinderslung an<l f»roini-

nent jaw for nothing!

During his novitiate year he
was placed in the care of a
speech-expert in New York City
who quickly helped the aspiring
young novice to overcome his
iiandicap. Those younger mem-
bers of the Spiritan fold would
hardly believe that Syd stut-
tered and stammered over his
reading in the refectory at the
novitiate. In later years he was
so facile and glib — never lost
a word. Perhaps this was the

biggest obstruction he had to
overcome in his short career.
Father Phclan received him into
the Congregation of the Holy
Ghost at Ridgefield on August
14, 1925.

CD was one of the leaders of
his class. He could quote the
page, and even the section of
the page in Shultze's Latin
Grammar where certain rules of
syntax could be found. His
progress in the Scholasticate was
swift and sure but he was not
to be ordained with his class. He
was sent to Duquesne to prefect
for two years. His ordination to
the Priesthood was deferred to
June 24, 19,33.

His first appointment was to
Cornwells as an instructor. After
four years he advanced to the
Faculty at Ferndale. For a year
he helped at St. Basil's College
in Stamford, Conn.

In 1940 Father Smith was as-
signed to Duquesne where he
taught for ten years. In 1950
with no pastoral experience he
was appointed pastor of a run-
down parish in Emsworth, Pa.
This was probably the greatest
challenge Father Smith had to
meet since his novitiate days.
What he accomplished at Sacred
Heart, Emsworth, Pa., must
rank with the outstanding at-
tainments in the Province.

His end came suddenly.
Father Ed felt a headache which
grew worse. Rushed to the hos-

pital it was discovered that he
was suffering with a cerebral
hemmorhage. He was dead the
next day. His death was very
similar to that of Father Bill
Holt, his cousin — sudden!

Father smith was an un-
usual character. "A marvelous
community man," as Father
James Riley, of happy memory,
spoke of him. Many were the
humorous and amusing anec-
dotes and tall stories Father Ed
Smith used to relate in the com-
munity room just to pep up the
conversation. There was nothing
small or picayunish about him.
Some who knew him in a cur-
sory manner only might speak
of him as a charlatan. Don't be-
lieve it ! Even though he was
Dean of Music at Duquesne and
Irad never composed a fugue, or
for that matter even a simple
elementary scale exercise for be-
ginners in music. Father Smitli
always accepted what obedience
ordered. It was not strange that
he was so successful.

Could we refer to Father Ed
Smith as a bit of a poseur — for
want of le mot juste? Yes in the
good sense of the word. I like to
think of him as a poseur at the
throne of the Eternal High
Priest who with an indulgent
and benign glance welcomed
Father Smith with the accolade:
"Well done, good and faithful
servant."

FATHER JOSEPH WUEST
1869-1958

A FEW (lays before his death,
Fatlier Joseph Wuest made
his way painfully to the sacristy
for the noonday Mass at St.
Mary's in Detroit, Mich. Every
shuffling step was a cross. We
scolded him kindly for the suf-
fering he was causing himself.

But Father Wuest only joked
about it. He had a delightful,
innocent sense of humor to his
last days. He had grown old
gracefully. His child-like soul
had gained the "prize so honor-
able as old age; and it is won
by innocence of life." (Proverbs
16:31).

Father Wuest was a simple
man of innocent life. He had
few hobbies and even these
"leaned to virtue's side." He
gave no time to anything that
was not employed to the service
of God. His purpose in life was
singular and single — to love God
perfectly by serving Him per-
fectly.

Strictness seems to go with in-
nocence, simplicity and single-
ness of purpose and to this
Father Wuest was no exception.
In tlie last months of his life he
scrui)led about it to the point of
discussing it with his superioi
"I've been thinking of tbc old
days and I'm afraid that there
were times when I was too strict
with my assistants."

His superior met this scruple
with Wuestian directness: "Was
this strictness the result of
meanness of principle?"

"Oh, no. NO! I certainly did
not do it to be mean. I am sure
it was the right thing to do."

The spread of the Faith and
its preservation were Father
Wuest's principal preoccupation.
He hunted souls everywhere, <;s-
pecially abandoned souls and
God's will was clear to him,
nothing could halt him. Priests
and laity soon discovered this — ■
even bishops!

The colored people of Detroit
found in him a powerful cham-
pion. He founded the first
church in Detroit for them. He
founded the Kolping Society
for young German immigrants
and many a Detroiter owes his
Faith as well as his material
prosperity to Father Wuest. He
started St. Mary's Commercial
High School to help equip
youngsters for adult life and its
Alumnae Association has be-
come a {)owerful help in the life
and growth of St. Mary's parish.
Until four years ago Father
Wuest heard confessions daily
even though ill health had com-
pelled him to retire as pastor in
the 30's. He celebrated the 60th
anniversary of his ordination in

1956 and in the same year was
honored by the West German
government for his long service
to his countrymen.

In working for others. Father
Wuest never neglected his own
soul.. For him labor was prayer
and fidelity to pastoral duties
increased his personal holiness.
He climbed the golden ladder to
God methodically and unsensa-
tionally by careful discharge of
the detailed, petty, menial and
time-consuming tasks of the
shepherd of souls. As he had
lived, so he died — a truly child-
like soul beloved bv men and
God.

Joseph wuest was bom in

Thalheim, Nassau, Germany, on
July 7, 1869. He made his pri-
mary and secondary studies at
Thalheim and his collesiate

studies at Mesnieres from 1888
to 1892. At Langonnet and Che-
villy (1892-961. Father Wuest
completed his philosophical and
theological studies. He made his
profession at Grigon on August
15, 1897, and his perpetual vows
at Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin,
on July 21, 1903.

Fatlier Wuest received the
subdiaconate at Chevilly on
February 29 and the diaconate
in July of 1896. He was ordained
at Grignon on September 17.
1896 and made his apostolic
consecration at Grignon on Au-
gust 15, 1897. His first appoint-
ment was lo Knechtsteden as
professor from 1897 to 1899.

Tn 1899 Father Wuest came to
the United States as assistant
))astor at St. Mary's, Sharpsburg,
Pa. From 1902 to 1907 lie served
as chaplain of the hospital and
bead of the missionary work at
Notre Dame parish.

In 1907, he was made pastor
of St. Mary's, Detroit, Mich., and
immediately began work with
the immigrant German families.
Here he established the Kolping
Society, St. Elizabeth's Society
and St. Joseph's Society. In 1911
he turned to the work of the
Negro population of Detroit.

Father Wuest began holdins
services for the Negroes in St.
Mary's School and three years
later purchased a building at
Eliot and Beaubien Streets and
had it converted into a church.
That building still functions as
the St. Peter Claver community

OQ..

center oi' the League of Catholic Solemn Requiem Mass was
Women and still bears the name celebrated at St. Mary's on July
Father Wuest gave it. The par- 21, 1958 by Very Rev. Vernon F.
ish near this site is now Sacred Gallagher, provincial, and abso-
Heart. lution was given by Most Rev,
111 health compelled Father Alexander M. Zalewski, auxili-
W uest to retire as pastor in 1929 ary bishop of Detroit. Father
and except for a year's residence Henry Thiefels preached the
at St. Joachim's, Detroit, he re- eulogy. Interment was in the
mained at St. Mary's until his community plot in Mount El-
death on July 17, 1958. liott Cemetery, Detroit. R. I. P.

ANALYSIS OF REPORT ON
VOCATION SOURCES

In 1946-47 the dioceses from which most scholastics came were
Philadelphia (52), Pittsburgh ( 33 » , Hartford (20).

This year Pittsburgh (29), Detroit (27), Philadelphia (16)
and Saginaw (11) lead. Connecticut ( 3 dioceses ) has 9 representa-
tives this year.

In 1946-47 twenty-eight dioceses were represented in our scho-
lastic line-up. Now forty-one dioceses, including London, Ontario
(3), have boys in our seminaries. Nineteen of these dioceses are
dioceses where we have houses or parishes.

There has been a notal)le decline in the numljers coming from
Boston, Hartford and Philadelphia. In 1946-47 there was a total of
83 from tliese places; now only 27 are from there. On the other
hand, Detroit and Saginaw, with a total of 9 in 1946-47, now have
a t«»tal of 38, due probably to the opening of Ann Arbor.

Fight Southern dioceses are found on the present list whereas
in the past one, Little Rock, ( Lachowsky family) was listed. It is
interesting to note that we have 16 from Philadelphia when we
know from other sources that this year 267 boys from there entered
the Brothers or began studies from the priesthood last year.

VOCATION SOURCES (1958-59)

Tota

Diocese

Ferndale

Albany

Alexandria

Atlanta

Boston _

Bridgeport

Bi-ooklyn

Bnffalo

Camden

Charleston

Chicago

Cincinnati

Des Moines

Detroit

Grand Rapids

Hartford

La Crosse

Lafayette, La.

Little Rock

]Mar(jiictte

Milwaukee

Newark ..^ ..-

New York

New Orleans

Norwicli

I'hiladelphpia

Pitt>^l>iirgh

Providence

Rochester _

Saginaw

St. Augustine -

St. Paul

Savannah

Sioux City

Springfield, Mass.

Syracuse

Tucson

Washington

Wilmington

Worcester

Youngstown

London, Canada

TOTALS 157

Ridgsfield

Cornwel's Ann Arbor
1
1

3
1

1 3

1
1

3 23

1 1

1
1

2
3
1

15 3

1 9

3
55

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BULLETIN OF THE PROVINCE

THE UNITED STATES

December 1959 Vol. 28 No, ^3

PROVINCIAL'S MESSAGE

My dear Confreres,

I shall have to take full responsibility for the un-
fortunate delay in publishing this issue of Our P_r_o vj,nc e .
When Father Lord transferred his editorial offices to
Washington last June, he offered to take OP as well. At
that time I assured him that I would be able to handle it
personally from now on. Just released from my respon-
sibilities at Duquesne University, I had visions of abund-
ant free-time for such activities. Since my optimism
was based more on naivet^ than on fact, publication of
op lapsed perforce until now. Your patient understand-
ing has been appreciated.

It is too early to project a definite format or a
policy regarding content in future numbers. This
present issue assumes the nature of a newsletter. Some
of the items may appear too ephemeral in character to
be included with serious notes, but I have learned in
my visits through various parts of the Province that the
brethren of the diaspora are interested even in such
things as another confrere's arthritis or his game of
golf. Naturally, that interest will be all the better
served if you will provide the material in your cor-
respondence. Every scrap of information will be
gratefully received.

With an earnest and prayerful wish for many
blessings at Christmas and throughout the New Year,
I remain

Fraternally yours in Sp. Sto. ,

Vernon F. Gallagher, C.S.Sp.
. Provincial

OFFICIAL
Effective August 1, 1959

Moshi

Father Raymond M. Buchler
Father John M. Joyner
Father John F. O'Grady

Puerto Rico

Father Daniel J. McGarry
Father Edward J. Caron

Pastoral Year

The following youncj Fathers, who made their Apostolic Consecration,
June 14, 1959, have been assigned to Duquesne University Community
to complete their 5th year of Theology:

Father Joseph L. Deniger

Father Joseph F.

, Timassy

Father Edward M. Hayes

Father James P.

Tout

Father Adrian T.Hebert

Father David L.

Smith

Father William J.Jackson

Father Joseph F. Lipke

Rome

Father Thomas J. Miller

Father Raymond

E. Bruck

Effective August 20, 1959

Alexandria, St. James

Father Joseph T.Hanichek, Pastor

Ann Arbor

Father John M.

Schreier

Charleston, St. Peter
Father William R. Humey

Charleston, Our Lady of Mercy
Father Eugene E. Moroney

Chippewa Falls, Notre Dame
Father Raymond J. Casey

Comwells

Father John E. Baney
Father Salvatore J, Federici
Father Patrick L. McNally

OFFICIAL
Effective August 20, 1959

Dayton, St. John

Father Paul J. Lippert, Pastor

Detroit, St. Mary's

Father Martin M. Kirschbautn
Father James J. Sheridan

Ferndale

Father Francis A. Chiaramonte
Father Francis X. Malinowski
Father Robert N. Roach

Hot Springs, St. Gabriel
Father Edward J. Beriault

Lake Charles, Sacred Heart
Father John J. Murray

Marksville, Holy Ghost

Father Edward J. Caron (Temporary)

Morrilton, Sacred Heart
Father Anthony F. Lachowsky

New York, St. Mark
Father Charles T. Behl
Father J. M. Joyner (Temporary)

Opelousas, Holy Ghost
Father Francis M. Philben

Parkersburg, DeSales
Father John F. Kelly

Pittsburgh, Duquesne University
Father Leonard A. Bushinski
Father Frederick J. Clark
Father Charles J. Fenner
Father Joseph A. Healy
Father William F. Hogan
Father Henry J. Lemmens

OFFICIAL
Effective August 20, 1959

Pittsburgh, Provincialate-Kellmont

Father Regis C. Guthrie, First Assistant

Father Frederick C. Lachowsky, Provincial Procurator & Secretary-
Pittsburgh, St. Mary's

Father Andrew A. O'Rovirke, Assistant

Ridgef ield

Father Joseph A. Harman, Socius to Novice Master

Riverside, Notre Dame
Father John T. Donohoe
Father Robert F. McGinn
Father Henry J. Planinsek

Rock Castle, St. Emma's

Father William J. Holmes, Superior-Director (Pastor, St. Edward's)
Father John A. Bums
Father James T.Kilbride
Father Alfred Monteil

Tucson, St. John
Father Joseph A. Behr
Father Peter F. Covas

Tulsa, St. Monica

Father Joseph A. McGoldrick

Washington, B.C. Our Lady of Victory

Father Charles Connors, Superior-Director

Father Thomas J. Clynes, Promotion Director

Father Norman G. Hannahs, Assistant Vocation Director

Father Norman F. Lord, Editor "Paraclete"

Father Stanley J. Trahan, Assistant Director-Bursar

Effective August 31, 1959

North Tiverton, Stafford Road
Father Francis J. FitzGerald, Pastor

OFFICIAL
Effective November 9, 1959

Detroit, St„ Joachim

Father Michael J. Brannlgan, Assistant

Ferndale

Father William P. Murray

Marksville, Holy Ghost
Father William Blass, Pastor

New York, St. Mark

Father James J. White, Jr. , Assistant

Returned Permanently to Europe

Father Herbert J. Farrell — to Ireland
Brother Fiolrad Poensgen — to Germany

OUR DEAD

F ather Edward Clifford ('42) — at New York on July 24, 1959;
after suffering from cancer for fifteen months.

F ather Dennis Morley {'32) — at Moshi on June 22, 1959;
suddenly of a heart attack.

Requiescent in pace.

OUR SICK

Bishop Byrne suffered a heart attack while he was temporarily replacing
the Bishop of Cashel. He is responding to rest and therapy
at Rockwell College.

Father Kirkbride had another siege this summer but, though still a bit
crippled by arthritis and somewhat emaciated, he is proving
why "there will always be an England".

Father Anthony Walsh is recovering from a heart attack. He lost a good
deal of weight during his illness.

Father William Murray sustained a series of "small" heart attacks
which weakened him so much that he had to return to
Femdale to rest there.

Father FitzGerald was stricken by a massive stomach hemorrhage in the
midst of his parish's first organizational meeting. He is
slowly emerging from the critical list at Fatima Hospital,
Providence, Rhode Island.

Father Francis P. Smith is recovering from a bad case o" colitis.

Reports from the hospital have him greatly improved now.

Father Knicfht looks and feels fine. Maybe the Good Lord will preserve
him for us for many years.

Father Dwyer's old ulcer and anaemia are now receiving complete
therapy and hs is fast returning to health.

Father Deer blacked out this summer and thereby received a cardiac
warning. If he reduces his heavy work-load reasonably,
all will be well.

Father James Bradley suffered a very serious heart attack last spring
but his recuperation proceeded satisfactorily.

Father O'Brien's injured knee acted up again. He may have to bear
with the pain and inconvenience for the rest of his life.

OUR SICK

Father JaworsM suffers so much from high blood pressure and general
debility that he is confined for the most part to his room.

Father Ftecktenwald has been hospitalized by a sharp and unidentified
abdominal pain.

Father Lucey is recovering nicely from siirgery. His gall bladder was
removed.

Father Wilson is still following a prothrombin-coagulation routine to
prevent further heart attacks.

Father Federici is hospitalized for the second time in a few weeks with
what was originally diagnosed as a kidney infection and diabetes.
The high fever is back.

Father Rondeau was engaged in a do-it-yourself paint job when the
ladder let go. He's now recovering from a broken foot and a
gash that required six stitches under the chin.

Father Schuster has returned to fairly normal activity after Ms coronary.
No more carrying steel beams in one hand, however.

Father Marshall's back condition necessitated surgical removal of a

spinal disc.

Father Burke will be able to return to Africa as soon as his sinus of the
spine is cleared up. Because of repeated surgery, it has taken
the wound a long time to heal.

Father KIchak suffered a whip- lash neck injury while driving. He was
put in traction at Divine Providence Hospital, Pittsburgh.

Father D'Ostillo sustained tendon injuries while showing the

Junior Scholastics at Ann Arbor how football should be played.

OUR SICK

Father William Maqmre is under the doctor's care at Eugenia Hospital
in Philadelphia.

Father Eckert was stricken by a heart attack and will be immobilized
for some time.

In your charity, please pray that all these may enjoy a speedy recovery.

RELATIVES WHO DIED RECENTLY

Bishop Ackerman's aunt Fr. Connor's father

Fr. Rossenbach's brother Fr. McNeil's father & brother

Fr. T. Murphy's brother Fr. McCraley's brother

Fr. Huber's sister Fr. Figaro's father

Fr. Diehl's mother Fr. J. Murray's brother

Fr. Prueher's father Fr. Brown's mother

Fr. Delaney's sister Fr. O'Grady's father
The mother of Frs. Joseph and Francis Duffy

As special benefactors of the Congregation they deserve our prayers.

SILVER JUBILEES

Congratulations to Fathers Gross, Joseph Hackett, Hanichek,
Lemmens, Landy, Manning, and Schreier on a quarter-century of
devoted service to God and His Church.

THE SPIRITAN SERIES

With characteristic thoroughness and energy,
Father Koren has brought out the third volume of
this division of Dug uesne _Studi,e s . Timed to appear
just when we were celebrating our Founder's two
hundred and fiftieth anniversary, this new work.
The Spiritual Writings of Father Claude Poullart des Places,, brings
to light the regrettably meager documents that are
available. Sufficient interest has been aroused by
this publication and by the anniversary observances
to inspire people outside the Congregation to ask how
they may help advance Father des Places' cause to-
ward canonization. A Franciscan monastery in
New Jersey is requesting prayer-cards to this end.
Nemo prophets . . .

Reviews and newspapers all over the world have
been heaping unstinted praise on the splendid books of
this series. Cardinal Cushing was so impressed by
one of them that he ordered a hundred copies for his
friends. It would be a sad reflection on our spirit if
outsiders had to lead the way in promoting the
C ongr egation.

THE SPIRITAN SERIES

A practical suggestion: why not offer copies
of these works to priests, nuns, and others to whom
you customarily give Christmas gifts in line with
your work? There is a special Christmas offer:

The Spiritans. list price $6.50

A Light to the Gentiles, list price .... $4.75
Spiritual Writings, list price ........ $5.75

All three volumes for $12.00; any two volumes for
$8.00; single volumes, 20% discount; five or more
(same or different titles), 40% discount. If pay-
ment accompanies orders, books can be mailed
anywhere in the USA with your gift card enclosed.
Address orders directly to:

Christmas Offer, Department of Publications

Duquesne University

Pittsburgh 19, Pennsylvania

A QUESTIONNAIRE

1. Do you wear a cassock in the house and in the
church ?

2. Do you wear the Roman collar?

3. Do you make your meditation every day?

4. Thanksgiving after Mass?

5. Do you make the evening visit to the
Blessed Sacrament?

6. How often do you go to Confession?

7. Do you study every day?

8. Dogmatic and Moral Theology?

9. Liturgy, ritual and ceremonial?

These are questions from a diocesan visitation
form and they are asked of secular priests. It is
sometimes unduly emphasized that our Rules and
Constitutions do not bind under pain of sin. Does
Canon Law? That is where these items are pre-
scribed.

NEWS NOTES

Father Connors. Provincial Director of Development, has assembled an
Advisory Council to help promote our interests. It is made up of
professional figures from the fields of advertising and communica-
tions.

Father Holmes. Director of Rock Castle, is now sporting a Brigadier
General's stars.

Father Cun-an. "USA Chaplain, may soon get a six months' administra-
tive leave to return to community life for that period.

Father Frederick, pastpr of Carencro, would like very much to build
a new school for his people. If anybody knows an angel. . .

Father Paga. pastor of Mansura, has the same idea and the same
problem.

Father Dellert. pastor of Conway, dedicated a beautiful new gymnasium
last summer.

Father Anthony Hackett. one of the last of the Southern Pioneers, has
compiled a historical sketch of the early foundations in the
South. It will be valuable source material in years to come.

Father Timothy Muruhy. chairman of the Louisiana Committee for the
Founder's Anniversary Observance, did a superb job and then had
to miss the event because of his brother's death. The other
committee members, especially Father Moran, carried things
out beautifully in his absence.

Father Callahan, pastor of Isle Brevelle, has a new project. He is
building a swimming pool. Though intended for the young
people of the parish, one suspects it will also serve the still
vigorous pastor on hot summer days.

Father Collins, pastor of St. Mark, had a number of distinguished
visitors during the past few months, chief among -whom was
Father Grienenberger, District Superior of Haiti and President
of St. Martial College there. Because Father Grienenberger
has been exiled by the current Haitian government, his presence
in the St. Mark rectory attracted swarms of reporters and
photographers.

NEWS NOTES

Father Smith, pastor of Opelousas, now has a complete parish plant
with a splendid new school, both grade and high.

Father Strmiska. pastor of St. Augustine , Tulsa, did something
positive about juvenile delinquency. He built and dedicated a
fine new yoTith center there.

Father O'Rourke. assistant pastor of St. Mary, Sharpsburg, was
called back to Rock Castle for a day so that the U. S. Army
could specially honor him for the work he had done as
Commandant at St. Emma Academy.

Father Read, of Duquesne University, learned how popular his religion
classes are when the students gave him an ovation as he crossed
the stage at Commencement to receive his Master's diploma.

Father Morozi, assistant pastor of St. Stanislaus, Pittsburgh, has

welded ihe local producemen into a highly active Catholic group.
Their Christmas crib annually attracts widespread notice.

Father L. Bushinski, of Duquesne University, took an extensive

study-trip through the Holy Land and other parts of the Near East
last summer. His travelogue will be appearing in Paraclete.

Father KmiecinsM. pastor of Emsworth, has organized a wonderful
unit of the Confraternity of Christian Doctrine in his parish.

Brothers Baldomir and Matthew, of Rock Cattle, attended the NCWC
Brothers' Conference in Washington. They represented us
most ably.

Father Joseph Hackett. pastor of Our Lady of the Blessed Sacrament,
Shreveport, attracted favorable notice by his quick thinking
when a fire broke out in his school. He simply walked in and
quietly (with a wink of the eye) suggested that Sister call a
fire-drill.

Father Zehler. pastor of Tarentum, revived the practice of having
dyed saw-dust carpets for the Corpus Christi procession. His
parishioners are most enthusiastic about the idea.

NEWS NOTES

Father Haley, pastor of St. Mary Magdalen, Tuscaloosa, is delving into
the study of psychology since assuming the chaplaincy at the
State Mental Hospital along with the mission at Reform, Alabama.

Father Coffey. Assistant Director of Vocations, has two h;indred
candidates lined up for vocation workshops at Ann Arbor.

Father Walsh, Superior at Ann Arbor, saw the new gym through con-
struction and got a lot for his money. The University of Michigan
contributed a maple basketball floor. He and other Fathers in
the Community are organizing a Spiritan Seminary Guild to bring
support to the institution.

Father Mulvoy. Newman Club Chaplain at Alabama, is beginning con-
struction on a much-needed Student Center.

Father Dolan, pastor of Hemdon, is bracing himself for a major

development in his parish now that the new airport is coming in.

Father William Marley. of Rock Castle, has been publishing some nice
historical vignettes dealing with various figures and aspects of
the Congregation. Ite omnes et facite similiter.

Father Noppinger. Vicar General of Moshi, is winning general acclaim
for the way he has managed the diocese in the interregnum.

Father Pergl, assistant pastor of Lake Charles, has turned out to be
quite an electronics engineer.

Father Pobleschek, chaplain at Cambridge Springs, did some energetic
fimd-raising among the guests at San Rosario at the time of the
Pentecost Appeal. Incidentally, nearly everybody is to be con-
gratulated on that.

Father David Ray, pastor of Arlington, does an extraordinary job on his
parish ATlsitation. He keeps very close to his people.

Father Schllcht. of Duquesne University, scored another enormous

success with his Annual Folk Festival — a potent deterrent against
Communism among nationality groups.

NEWS NCTTES

Father Francis Mull in. pastor of Hemet, does something that might well
be emiiated. Instead of the usual novenas, etc. , he conducts
weekly devotions to the Holy Ghost in his church.

Father Stocker. assistant pastor of Alexandria, is still doing yeoman
work with the group in Detroit that supports Ann Arbor. The new
gym there is a permanent testimonial to their interest and
generosity.

Moshl. As we go to press, there is no news on a successor to
Bishop Byrne.

Puerto Rico. Father Eberhardt and his men did a magnificent job on the
Pentecost Appeal.

Femdale. The scholastics have overcome their fear of printer's ink.
It is good to see the younger generation growing articulate.

Ridqefield. Two novices have left since the beginning of the year. The
class now numbers thirty-two. It must be remembered, though,
that this is inflation. The figure represents three classes.

Comwells. After some attrition, there are forty-three junior

scholastics left. Of the original seventeen extern students, all
are still there.

Ann Arbor. This house has lost none of the fifty-one junior scholastics
who reported in September.

Richmond. At the Brothers' Novitiate there are eight postulants.
Classes are admitted in January arid August.

Bethel. Scheduled to open next September, Immaculate Heart Seminary
here is still under construction. The present novices who have
not finished their college course (baccalaureate) will be its first
occupants.

Recollection. Seven young Fathers, between six and ten years ordained,
returned to Femdale last July for the month of recollection pre-
scribed by the Constitutions. (The 1950 General Chapter reduced
the requirement from six months to one. ) Under an able
retreat-master like Father van de F>utte and a lecture-staff that
included Fathers Knight, Farrell, and McCaffrey, the four weeks'
withdrawal from active ministry proved pleasant and profitable to
the participants.

OUR PROVINCE

BULLETIN OF THE PROVINCE

THE UNITED STATES

March 1960

Vol. 29 No. 1

PROVINCIAL'S MESSAGE

My dear Confreres,

After a year's study and research. Father Clynes now feels
ready to embark on a long-range fund-raising program for the Province.
Of necessity it will be modest and tentative, but it could grow with the
years into a source of substantial help that would enable us to realize
such far-off visions as a gym for Femdale, a faculty house for
Comwells, or a novitiate in the West.

It can do so only if it has "family endorsement". That is
axiomatic in fund-raising circles. You can't sell next door what the
folks at home don't want.

As members of a provincial family, we are all involved in this
venture . It is in our power to vote for that gym and that novitiate or to
relegate them permanently to the house of broken dreams.

Father Cl3mes is writing to you individually to ask for the
addresses of your relatives and friends. From pastors he will seek
lists of parishioners.

Though I doubt very much if any of us would be prompted to
reject the request out of selfish meanness or callous indifference to
the Congregation's welfare, certain misgivings may arise on
apparently justifiable grounds. Pastors may fear that Washington
will make inroads on much-needed parochial income; others may
hesitate to exploit friendships.

Such uneasiness is best allayed by facing the simple fact that,
no matter what we do, people are going to give a certain amount to
charity each year. What they give will not be subtracted from church
contributions any more than from the liquor budget. For the rest,
personal friends — if they are really friends — would actually prefer to
direct their donations our way. They can't, however, unless we make
it possible for them to do so by presenting our case to them. Hence
the need for addresses.

Father Clynes has given his word not to embarrass us by un-
dignified and insistent begging. Like all of us, he knows that it would
be short-sighted to offend potential benefactors by cheap and tawdry
mendicancy. Have no fear; we shall be gentle and genteel.

Dig up that Christmas list, won't you please ?

Fraternally yours in Sp. Sto. ,
Vernon F. Gallagher, C.S.Sp.
Provincial Superior

OFFICIAL

Appointme nt s :

His Excellency, The Most Rev. Joseph Kilasara, C.S.Sp.
Bishop of Moshi

Very Rev. Joseph G. Noppinger, Principal Superior
District of Kilimanjaro

Father Edward G. Marley, Assistant Pastor and Bursar
St. Mark the Evangelist, New York
August 20, 1959 (omitted in last issue)

Father Joseph F. McDonough, Assistant Pastor

Holy Ghost, Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, February 3, 1960

Father Anton Morgenroth, graduate studies, Columbia University
with residence at St. Mark the Evangelist, New York

Father Gerhard Grams, Assistant Pastor and Bursar
St. Theresa, North Tiverton, February 23, 1960

Father Joseph R. Kletzel, Superior of Immaculate Heart Seminary
Bethel Park, Pa. , March 8, 1960 (Director to be appointed later)

Ordinations at Ferndale, March 9 and 10 by

The Most Rev. Lawrence J. Sheehan, D.D., Bishop of Bridgeport:

To diaconate and subdiaconate:
Rev. Mr. Robert Allen
Rev. Mr. Charles Giambrone
Rev. Mr. Philip Evanstock
Rev. Mr. Joseph Cooke
Rev. Mr. Thomas Tunney
Rev. Mr. Roger Duffy

To minor orders:

Mr. John Weber

To first tonsure:

Mr. Joseph Seiter
Mr. Vincent Stegman
Mr. Louis Perrault

Perpetual Vows at Ferndale, March 8, 1960
Mr. Joseph Cooke

OFFICIAL

Annual Retreats:

Brothers: Femdale, March 13-19, 1960

Retreat Master, Father Joseph F. Rengers

Fathers:

Femdale, June 6-10, 1960
Duquesne, June 13-17, 1960

Retreat Master, Father E. J. van Croonenburg

Month of Recollection at Ferndale, July 1- July 30, 1960

Participants:
Fathers:

Norman Lord
Joseph Taminey
William Crowley
Edward Bushinski
Charles Coffey
Matthew Evanstock
Edward Hogan
Daniel Murphy
Egbert Figaro
Henry Wehrheim
Francis MalinowsM
James Burke
Joseph Duchene
Albert McKnlght
Joseph Healy
Francis Kichak
Joseph McDonough
Charles Read

Changes of Address:

Washington, Our Lady of Victory- -the Post Office Box 8668 has
been eliminated from the address and should not be used.

Rock Castle, St. Emma — new address is:

St. Emma Military Academy, Powhatan, Virginia

VOCATIONS

Four young Fathers will make their Consecration to the Apostolate
this year. Six scholastics will be ordained to the priesthood. There is
one in Second Theology and three have just received First Tonsure.

DUEING THE NEXT FOUR YEARS, THEREFORE, WE CAN
EXPECT A MAXIlVnjM OF FOURTEEN YOUNG MEN OUT OF
FERKDALE--AN AVERAGE OF 3. 5 PER YEARI

Meanwhile, Africa clamors for more and more missionaries to
meet the current crises of that turbulent continent; Puerto Rico begs
for additional men to build on the foundations our pioneers have laid so
well; the Negro missions at home could forge ahead much faster with
additional priests; parishes in the North are in some instances woe-
fully undermanned; and schools that would bring us vocations cannot
be staffed.

Illness and death will take their toll during the fateful and arid
period to come. Femdale's output can hardly be expected to do much
more than replace those who fall by the way. Four years hence we
could be smaller in numbers than we are now.

It is time for prayer.

All members of the Province are hereby directed to say the
Memorare daily from here on, at a time and place to be specified by
the superior of each community and residence.

May God and His Blessed Mother help us.

OUR DEAD

Father Deer, who passed away in his sleep on January 7, 1960

Father Charles Behl's father
Father James Bradley's mother
Father John Moran's father
Father Frank Schillo's father
Father Edmund Supple's mother

In the charity of your prayers please remember them.

Brother Gangolf s Jubilee

On the Feast of St. Joseph Brother Gangolf celebrated the
sixtieth anniversary of his profession. The event was marked by a
Solemn High Mass of Thanksgiving. Father Provincial celebrated
the Mass, spoke on behalf of the Province in congratulating Brother
and thanking him for the inspiring example he has set for us all.

A special observance of the anniversary will be held after
Easter in Brother Gangolf s own community at Comwells.

AD MULTOS ANNOS.

NEWS NOTES

Bishop Ackerman will be one of the co-consecrators of Bishop-elect
William G. Connare, new Ordinary of the Greensburg Diocese
and seventh alumnus of Duquesne to be elevated to the episcopacy.

The Structural Latin Course developed by Doctor Sweet of the

University of Michigan and put into application by Father Harmon
at Piidgefield seems to be succeeding. It is geared to practical
reading demands. The novices are now able to handle three
hundred questions and answers in Latin per class period.

Ann Arbor football continues to take its toll on the faculty.
Father John Gaughan now has his arm in a cast.

Fifty new extern candidates had applied for admission to Comwells
even before the attractive half-page ad appeared in the
Philadelphia Catholic Standard on March 17 .

The new faculty house and parochial residence at Riverside is a
splendid structure. Father Kirby deserves great credit for
getting a lot of building at a bargain.

The Government has approved Duquesne 's African Institute for a
grant-in-aid. It looks like some of the scholastics will be
studying Swahili this summer and getting paid for it.

With the approval of the Board of Trustees, Father Holmes
(General Holmes) is embarking on an extensive renovation
program at Rock Castle.

NEWS NOTES

Father Taminey gives catechetical instructions in sign language to the
children of the California School for the Deaf. Father Chiaramonte,
who began this ministry when he was at Riverside, is now teaching
the technique to interested scholastics at Femdale.

Father Schlicht underwent surgery at Mercy Hospital in Pittsburgh and
is now recuperating nicely.

Father Joseph Rengers preached the Brothers' retreat at Femdale.
Both retreatants and retreatmaster found it an inspiring
experience.

Father FitzGerald, founder of St, Theresa parish, North Tiverton,
Rhode Island blessed his new hall on March 13 . Twelve feet away
from Massachusetts (where bingo is illegal) this facility would
appear to have certain possibilities. Father Kerry Keane pur-
chased the property last year. Incidentally, Father FitzGerald' s
improving health bears witness to your kind prayers. Keep them
coming.

Father Anthony Bacher returned from Africa last month. Pictures
of the church he is finishing at Mawella show a structure of
cathedral-like proportions. He collected most of the funds for
it and personally directed the work of construction.

The doctor recommended a few months' experience with a warm
climate before Father James Burke returns to Africa. Con-
sequently, he has been temporarily assigned to St. Monica,
New Orleans.

Father Coffey has mailed out vocation information kits to six hundred
schools. This, along with the week-end retreat work that he and
Father Hannahs have engaged in, should produce some results
next September.

Father Collins will represent Duquesne at the inauguration of
Seton Hall's new presidents

Father De Dominicis' health has been threatened by disturbing
symptoms. Your prayers for him are solicited.

NEWS NOTES

Femdale was re-accredited by Connecticut's State Department of
Public Instruction for another ten-year period. The report was
highly commendatory. They thought the student-teacher ratio
was phenomenal. So do we I

Father Eckert sustained a heart attack and, since this was the year
for his regular vacation at home, he is now recuperating bliss-
fully in the Schwartzwald.

Father John Kelly came up from a bad fall with two broken vertebrae.
He is still hospitalized in Parkersburg, West Virginia.

Father John Janczuk graciously made available the extra space in his
school for storage of altars and pews for the Bethel chapel.
These furnishings were donated by St. Raphael's in Pittsburgh.

Father Knight conducted the annual retreat in Puerto Rico and came
home looking more hale and hearty than ever.

Father Schoming has joined the stomach ulcer club.

Father Alphonse Loogman, Professor of Swahili at Duquesne, has
been confined to the hospital with a slight paralysis of the leg
and arm which is, we trust, the temporary effect of an anti-flu
shot.

NEW BISHOP OF MOSHI

The Apostolic Delegation for East and West Africa announced in
Nairobi on Monday, February 1, 1960 that the Holy Father,
Pope John XXm had nominated The Most Rev. Joseph Kilasara, C.S. Sp.
Bishop of the diocese of Moshi.

Bishop-elect Kilasara was bom in 1916, the first of ten children.
His sister is a Nun in the Congregation of Our Lady of Kilimanjaro.
There are four teachers in his family.

His early schooling was done in Kilema Mission and later in
St. James Minor Seminary.

He attended the Central School at Singa Chini, receiving his
leaving certificate in 1931 and his Grade I teacher's certificate in 1932.

He began his philosophical and theological studies at
Oiir Lady of the Angels' Seminary, Kibosho in 1935, and was
ordained to the priesthood on March 4, 1944.

His first appoiatment was to Kilema Mission on February 2, 1945.

In 1952 he came to the United States to enter the Novitiate at
Ridgefield, and made his religious profession on October 10, 1953.

He was then sent to Rome for further studies in Canon Law at the
Gregorian University.

He returned to Tanganyika in August, 1955 and was appointed to
Rombo Mission. In November of the same year he was named
rector of Kirua Mission, which post he held until 1959.

In January, 1959 he became Professor of Canon Law at the
Major Seminary, Kibosho.

The prayers and good wishes of the Province go with
Bishop Kilasara as he begins his new task.

Vincent de Paul Deer, C.S.Sp.

Father Vincent de Paul Deer, C.S.Sp. , died peacefully in his
sleep some time during the early morning of January 7, 1960. It
was apparent that he had been saying the Rosary; he had just begun
the Third Glorious Mystery.

Father Deer was bom in Annunciation Parish on the old
North Side of Pittsburgh. He finished Duquesne University Prep
School in 1924 and immediately went to ComweUs Heights. Gifted
in science and language, he completed two years of coUege work
in one year, went on to the Novitiate, and then to Femdale where
he was ordained in 1931. His first assignment sent him to the
missions in Africa where he eventually became Superintendent of
Schools. In 1938 he came back to the States for a rest; the follow-
ing year he returned to Africa and remained there until 1946 when
he was reassigned to Duquesne University. He taught Philosophy
and Photography here until the time of his death.

To his confreres and peers. Father Deer was many things.
He was a deep thinker, serious, penetrating, logical, and

analytic. He was a man of strong convictions. He was outspoken.
He was a firm believer in realism. He detested sham, pretense,
affectation and devious dealings. He was a problem solver rather
than a problem seeker. He was orderly, exact and just in his per-
sonal, professional and educational relationships. He was a man
who was organized; he tried to bring organization and clarity of
thinking to his students. He lived for his work in the Congregation.
He died as he tried to finish an extra recitation of the Rosary.

There was another side to Father Deer which few of his confreres
ever saw. The children of St. Paul's Orphanage saw this side. More
than two dozen of them are wearing overshoes he got for them one
Christmas. He visited them regularly, took their photographs, told
them African tales, and gave them courage, attention and affection.
The little wards of the county Juvenile Court saw this side too, for
dozens of times he visited them at Sleepy Hollow in South Park, and
at the detention home . On many a summer evening he drove to
Sleepy Hollow, rigged up his slide projector on the battery of his car,
and showed slides on Africa and slides of them. He found homes for
more than a half dozen. The children on the Bluff around Duquesne
saw this side of Father Deer for he tutored many of them. He would
place the child in a comfortable seat at his desk in the outer office,
with paper, pencil and book. He would lay out the work for the child,
then return to his own tasks in the laboratory, conversing with the
child over the intercom system. The little boys he took swimming
each summer saw this side of Father Deer. They learned how to
swim at the pool in North Park. On the trip there and back, they
learned how to live, how to think, how to figure things out, and how
to get along with their families and with other children. On the
return trip, he would stop at a half-way station for ice cream.

Father Deer is buried in the Holy Ghost Fathers' community
section of the cemetery in Sharpsburg, just outside the city he
loved, and to whose thousands of people he gave and showed so
much. His work- record is a challenge to those of us who remain
to carry on the commission: "Go and teach".

Francis R. Duffy, C.S.Sp.

An African's Comment on The Spiritans

Catholic Mission

Arusha, Box 109

Tanganyika Territory

B.E.A.

June 19, 1959

Dear Father,

We here in Africa must be excused for our late recording of
appreciation of an event of monumental importance to the Province.
We refer to the publication of "The Spiritans". The publication of
this important work is by now old news to the members of the
Province at home. But to us here in Africa, due to lack of proper
communications, distance, and a host of other reasons,
"The Spiritans" is a recent and exciting experience. It is only
lately that sufficient copies of "The Spiritans" reached Africa —
sufficient, that is, for a large number of us to read it. So it is only
in these latter days, so long after publication, that we "Africans"
find ourselves reading it avidly, discussing it earnestly, and
profiting from it immensely.

With understandable pride we read of the chapter of history
written by the Holy Ghost Fathers in the African missions, so bold
and brilliant as to merit Pope Pius XII's reference to us as "one
of the great missionary Congregations". And with interest as
quick as life itself, we studied Father Libermann's ideas on
mission theory, ideas which would certainly rank him well ahead
not only of his own time, but also of ours, as a teacher of
missiology.

(1) It appears certain from "The Spiritans" that Fathers des Places
and Libermann were imbued with the same spirit.
Father Libermann wrote in 1848: "The societies have the same
purpose and work along the same lines. " (p. 97) That spirit,
bom in des Places and brought to perfection in Libermann, had
been formed in an unmistakable mould by the time of the latter's
death. The purpose of the Congregation and its course, from
its inception until Libermann's death, was unchangeably set.
And that purpose is written big in one word — MISSIONS. All
this appears evident to us from a serious reading of the facts
marshalled in so scholarly a fashion in "The Spiritans".

(2) That is why we discovered, if not with alarm at least with sincere
puzzlement, alongside the presentation of these facts and inter-
woven, the constant insinuation of the author's opinion that there
was another purpose, if not clearly primary, at least a challenge
to the primary — that of education. It was at this point that the
hidden meaning of the attractive duster, or cover-jacket of the
book, became clear: the primary position of the scholar's cap,
the missionary symbol in second place, and the priest's biretta,
alas, in the most lowly place.

(3) From the time of des Places the abiding interest of every
Superior General was the priestly vocation. And almost from
the beginning, the aspect of the priestly vocation whi^h
interested each of them was that of the missionary to such an
extent that almost all the members were engaged either in
training missionaries, or in missionary work themselves.
Education; yes. But to what extent and in what direction? The
original intent of des Places was to educate priests for
abandoned works and the missions. As time went on, many of
these very priests became Spiritans gradually and naturally
the process came then to be the Holy Ghost Fathers training
aspirants to their own Congregation for these same abandoned
works and the missions. Already under the fourth Superior
General the Congregation itself undertook to staff a specific
missionary territory. Already by the time of the seventh
Superior General there was a plan for the 9va.ngelization of all
Africa and for incorporating all the priests of the French Colonies
into the Congregation. But whatever the historical fact at what-
ever given time, the spirit and direction was always towards

the missions.

(4) From the beginning until the death of Libermann there was no
other tjrpe of educational work, except the senior seminary and
seminary-college of Meaux and a seminary at Verdun. But it

is nowhere evident that these works were considered the primary
work of the Congregation. Rather does the opposite seem true.
The work, such as the campaign against the Jansenists, always
seemed to have a temporary and emergency nature about it.
And as for the seminary- colleges of this period, the precise
information about these institutions is so sketchily presented by
the author, that no valid conclusion can be drawn from them.

(5) So it seems to us that in the period of the history of the
Congregation from the beginning up until the time of Libermann,
the main missionary purpose of the Congregation overshadows

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anything else. And if during that period we find other works
existent, such as seminaries or seminary-colleges or other
works "in the Homeland", they seem clearly to be either on
the one hand the evident reproductive apparatus of a missionary
Congregation, or on the other hand clearly subservient and
second place to the main missionary tenor of the Congregation.

(6) And so while we heap unbounded and unstinted praise on the
author of "The Spiritans", for his momentous and important
garnering of historical facts, we take exception to what seems
to be his forced interpretation of these facts. It appears that
the author had a "thesis", and allowed this to vitiate the
objectivity of his history. We do not think the author un-
earthed "another large field of activity" or "plans which
hitherto have been almost completely neglected". We think
rather that by certain stresses, arbitrary interpretations,
and subtle non-sequiturs he is trying to prove a point — that
education is at least as equally important in our Congregation
as missionary activity.

(7) "We have stressed this question. . .to avoid any mis-
apprehension about Spiritan aims and purposes. A religious
society can expect the blessings of God only when it knows
and follows the intentions of its founder. ..." (p. 132) With
this we agree; with the author's conclusions as to the
intentions of the founder, we do not.

(8) The flourishing Provinces of Ireland, Holland and Portugal
owe their strength today to their tremendous missionary
output and mission-slanted modus agendi. It would appear
that only in this way must the American Province too be a
worthy, contributing, active member of "one of the great
missionary Congregations".

(9) We find excuse for our criticism in the following words of
the book: "No doubt, more than one modem Spiritan will ask
how all this can be reconciled with the general purpose of
caring for the most abandoned souls. As far as we know,
Father Libermann himself has not offered any explanation",
(pp. 124-5) Nor has Father Keren, we think.

Sincerely,

E, Kelly, C.S.Sp.

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Father Henry Koren's Reply

Dear E^ditor:

I am grateful for the opportunity to reply to Father Kelly.

Let me begin by thanking him for the many nice things he says
about THE SPIRIT ANS. It is always very gratifying to hear that
one's opus is not merely adorning a dusty shelf but "avidly read,
earnestly discussed and immensely profited from. "

No one, of course will dispute a reader's valid right to
disagree with an author, to challenge his statements, and to differ
in the interpretation of facts. In this respect I have no quarrel
with Father Kelly. On the other hand, his letter fails to convince
me his interpretation is correct. Let me reply to the main points
one by one. (For the sake of easy reference I have asked O. P. to
number the passages of his letter. )

(1) The purpose of the Congregation, says Father Kelly, as
determined by Father des Places and Father Libermann, "is
written big in one word- -MISSIONS. " I beg to differ: that
purpose is written big in our Rule (Ch. H, no. 1): ". . .to
educate members. . .prepared (not just willing) to preach the
Gospel. . . EVERYWHERE" to the poor and infidels, or, as we
usually abbreviate it, to care for the most abandoned works.

If reading THE SPIRTTANS convinces Father Kelly that this
care was, at least historically speaking, simply identified
with missions, I suggest that he read also those sections of
that book which deal with the glorious achievements of the
Congregation in social works, education, and pastoral care
in nonmissionary lands.

(2) Re the jacket which roused Father Kelly's ire because it
assigned the primary position, he says, to the scholar's cap,
the second to the missionary's helmet, and the lowliest place,
alas, to the priest's biretta, I always thought that the center
was the place of honor — where the helmet is- -followed by
right of center, and then only left of center where the scholar's
cap is situated. If I am not mistaken, left of center is the
place assigned to the goats on judgment day. (Now the
wearer of scholar's caps wiU be on my neckl ) Joking aside,
the symbols indicate three overlapping areas in which the
Congregation has labored: education, missions and pastoral

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work in the broad sense. The position assigned to these symbols
was inspired by artistic considerations: the black symbols to the
sides and the white in the center, so as to arrive at a kind of
symmetry. The arrangement was made by a commercial artist
who had no ulterior motives.

(3) Father Kelly then proceeds to set forth his own "unbiased" inter-
pretation of our histo-ry, marshalling an apparent array of facts.
Let us devote some attention to his arguments. Almost from the
very beginning, he says, the Superior Generals were interested
in training their students for the missions, and he goes on to
insinuate that missions were practically the only thing they cared
for. I grant that they were most interested in training missionaries
if this term is to refer to the "Missionaries of the Holy Ghost",
as the Congregation of St. Louis de Montfort was then called. In
the eighteenth century this Congregation received almost two
thirds of its aspirants from us. But these priests were diocesan
missionaries and not the kind Father Kelly has in mind. I grant
also that in the eighteenth century the Congregation was happy to
foster vocations for the foreign missions. Beyond this, however,
I cannot agree.

In 1772, Father Becquet wrote that the seminary had "eight
hundred priests at work in France, China and the colonies. " In
that year he had not yet accepted the Guiana and Senegal missions;
in Acadia the last survivor had died; there were perhaps five in
the Miquelon Islands, at most a dozen in Canada, and a handful
in China. How many exactly is not easy to determine, but I
doubt that the number there surpassed a dozen. The China
mission was closed to foreigners and had entered into a period
of alarming decay. The situation was so desperate that the
Holy See permitted even the ordination of natives who simply
memorized the Latin Mass without understanding a syllable of
what they were saying. So let us not think about the China
Mission in terms of contemporary members.

By this calculation we arrive at a total figure of about thirty
missionaries. Thirty out of 800 is less than 4%. What were the
others doing? They labored in France, as Father des Places'
biographer puts it, "in the poorest and most abandoned places"
and he goes on naming these places: "being exiled in the remote
countryside. , . .buried in the caverns of a hospital, teaching in
a college, lecturing in a seminary. ..." (Spiritual Writings of
Fr. des Places, p. 289). Father Kelly's interpretation

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disregards 96% of the membership when it concludes that "almost
all members were engaged either in training missionaries or in
missionary work themselves. "

Next, he states that the educational process "gradually and
naturally came to be the training of aspirants to the Congregation"
rather than secular priests. I beg to differ: there was no ques-
tion of a natural and gradual process. The change resulted from
a dictatorial decree formulated by Father Leguay which did not
survive his disastrous generalate (cf. The Spiritans, p. 62).

Father Kelly continues by pointing out that already the fourth
Superior General accepted a specific mission territory. He
actually accepted three. So what? St. Ignatius personally
accepted missions for his Jesuits. Does this allow us to con-
clude that therefore the Society should be interested only in
missions? (Incidentally, they were uppermost in St. Ignatius'
mind and among the Jesuits there is a debate similar to ours 1 )

By the time of the seventh Superior General, says Father Kelly,
there was a plan for the evangelization of all Africa. That is a
big name for a casual remark made by Father Fourdinier. In
retrospect, this remark is interesting for us, but we can hardly
attribute to it the historical importance conferred upon it by
Father Kelly.

He then concludes his interpretation by saying: "Whatever the
historical fact at whatever given time, the spirit and direction
was always toward the missions. " I doubt if he meant to make
such a sweeping statement involving thousands of people and
three centuries of history. It would be hard to reconcile that
statement with the following historical data:

a. Less than 10% of Holy Ghost Seminary trainees in the
eighteenth century went to the missions.

b. Diocesan seminaries were accepted in Verdun, Meaux
and in Corsica (ibid. , p. 61).

c. Libermann desired to train German clergy (ibid. , p. 127);
to undertake social works (ibid. , pp. 126 f . ); to staff

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the interdiocesan seminary of Cincinnati (ibid. , p. 124);
to accept the chaplaincies of the Navy requiring thirty
men when his whole potential was only fifty (ibid. , p. 127);
to have diocesan missionaries (ibid., p. 128).

d. Father Libermann made a clear-cut distinction between
priests joining the Congregation for the missions and
those joining for the homeland (ibid., pp. 130 ff.).

e. Schwindenhammer founded seventeen colleges, five large
social works (ibid., pp. 187 f.). Emonet added nine
colleges and eight social works (ibid., p. 219). Many

of these did not train aspirants to the Congregation.

(4) Regarding the seminaries operated by the Congregation before
Libermann, Father Kelly says that these works were not con-
sidered the primary works of the Congregation. Let him have
a look at the old Rule, as it was before Leguay. It literally
stated that the purpose was "clericos educare" (ibid., p. 123).
What more can one ask?

Next, he thinks the information regarding these seminaries is
so sketchily presented that no valid conclusion can be drawn
from it. It is hard to please Father Kelly. He first accuses
me of paying so much attention to non- missionary activities
that I twist our history into an unnatural pattern, and then that
I speak too sketchily of them. As anyone knows, the history
of educational institutions makes for dull reading, and the
educators themselves share in this lack of glamour. Sufficient
historical research would have enabled me to add the names of
the professors, syllabi, building programs, and required text
books. The result would have been a few dull pages which, 1
fear, would still have left Father Kelly unconviTiced.

(5) "From the beginning up till the time of Libermann the main
missionary purpose overshadows anything else" insists my
critic. The preceding remarks clearly show that this
assertion cannot be substantiated. I believe, however, that
I myself am to blame here, for The Spiritans devotes con-
siderably more pages to missionary work than to anything
else. I did not realize that some readers would simply
dismiss the sections referring to other types of work.

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Father Kelly, however, seems to insinuate here that from
Libermann's time on the missionary purpose no longer over-
shadows everything else. This is a curious twist, for one
would have expected just the opposite. Perhaps Father Kelly
does not mean until the time of Libermann but until his death.
I presume that he does not want to accuse Father Libermann
personally, and will proceed, therefore, on the assumption
that he really meant his death. That would mean Libermann's
successors were involved in deviating from the original
purpose. Yet we see Father Schwindenhammer and his
contemporaries seriously inquire into the Venerable 's inten-
tions and only then set the course to be followed. Must we
assume that they callously disregarded these intentions ?

Before Libermann, Father Kelly continues, seminaries and
colleges were merely the "reproductive apparatus of a
missionary congregation" or at least "subservient" to the
missions. Since, as we have shown, the pre-Libermann
congregation was not essentially missionary, but dedicated
to the education of criests for difficult works anjnvhere, this
statement fails to stand up to scrutiny. I am willing, however,
to concede that it holds true for the period of 1814-1848, the
most dismal period in our history.

(6) The author, says Father Kelly, has "a thesis" to defend and
this vitiates his objectivity; to overstresses, interprets
arbitrarily, uses subtle non-sequiturs etc. If Father Kelly
disregards the explicitly stated purpose of the Congregation,
dismisses policy statements from Father Libermann, dis-
cards our educational endeavors, disclaims our social work
tradition, and then discerns that we are purely and simply
missionary, is it not he who has a thesis to defend?

Let me add that the purpose of THE SPIRITANS was to
present the history of the Congregation and not what policies
its Superiors ought to follow. So far as I am concerned, they
could decide to concentrate the entire resources of the
Congregation on Latin America, on Russia, on education or
on Africa without having to change one iota in the formulation
of our purpose. Our purpose is to take charge of whatever
is most urgent anywhere in the world. There are dozens of
Orders which have similar expressions of purpose. It
becomes a matter of determining concretely what here and

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now is most urgent, considering all circiunstances. In the book
I described what, concretely speaMng, has been the role of the
Congregation in the course of history and found it to be a mixture
of direct and indirect apostolate for the most abandoned souls.
This mixture has continued with greater or lesser emphasis on
either one or the other type of apostolate throughout our history
according as the changing situation seemed to demand. What it
will be in the future is not my business, but I am willing to trust
the Superiors because history shows that, broadly speaking,
they have faithfully adhered to the intentions of our founders.

Finally, Father Kelly opposes here education and missionary
activity. This again is a curious kind of contrast. Since
missionaries carry out Christ's command to "Go and teach, "
I always thought that education was an important part of their
work. Moreover, reading Father Libermann's missionary
doctrine, I find that he devotes considerable attention to a
masterplan of education.

Presumably, therefore. Father Kelly means education in the
homeland or outside the missions. However, if the missionaries
are supposed to be education- minded in proportion to the level
of civilization reached by their charges, how is this mentality
going to be created unless the home bases be education- minded ?
And how is this mentality going to exist at home if we speak
disparagingly of anything but work in the bush ? The time is
past when all one needed was good will and a degree of ordinary
common sense. 1 believe that even in Father Kelly's mission
territory a little knowledge of psychology and sociology, in
addition to a dose of missiology, would come in handy at times.

(7) I am glad to see that my opponent agrees with me that the
intentions and policies of our founders have to be respected.
As to what these intentions and policies were, I suggest that
he read pp. 119-133 of THE SPIRTTANS, where he will find
that Father Libermann wanted non- missionary works and what
policies he laid down regarding their personnel.

(8) Father Kelly insists and points to the flourishing condition of
the provinces of Ireland, Portugal and Holland which, he says.

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is due to the fact that they are mission- minded. If I had been
writing the non-sequitur thesis Father Kelly attributes to me, I
would have referred to the smallness of the provinces of Belgium,
England and Switzerland which have only missions. The fact
that I did not do so, should have given him food for thought. As
to the examples he himself offers, with respect to Ireland he is
on danger-ground, for he is speaking about a province operating
some of the best colleges in the country. Would he say that these
colleges contributed nothing to the flourishing conditions of that
province ? A study of the Nigeria missions would probably con-
vince him that the astonishing successes reached there have
been notably influenced by the fact that the Irish Spiritans are
so education-minded. As to Portugal, its condition before the
revolution of 1910, when it had many colleges and social works,
was even more flourishing than it is today. And in Holland the
trend today is downward for purely missionary congregations
but upward for mixed orders.

I do not agree, moreover, that the American Province is not a
"worthy, contributing, active member" of a mission- minded
congregation. It has 50 men in Tanganyika, 27 in Puerto Rico
and 75 others in colored missions out of a total of 340 priests,
which gives it a percentage of 44.7% in missionary work.

(9) Father Kelly's parting shot implies that our history as it
actually i_s does not find justification in the intentions of our
founders. This is a very grave accusation flung into the face
of the men who guided that history as Superior Generals. It
assumes that either they deliberately disregarded these in-
tentions or were not intelligent enough to discover them.

Yours in the Holy Ghost,

Henry J. Koren, C.S.Sp.

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