Supplement to the Denver Catholic Register ASS'^’TS AMERICA APPROACHES FULL MATURITY National National Section Section Pontiff Lauds U.S. at Rite THE REGISTER (Name Registered in the U- S. Patent Office) Of Venerable Mother Seton MEMSER OF AUDIT bURIAU OF CIRCULATIONS m is Paptr li CoBntetad with NCWC Washington News Htidouarters by Its Own Leased Wire, Has Its Own Vatican City.—In the ceremony proclaiming Special Servtet, Heilfloui News semee. Mission Services, Religious News Ptiotoi ina NCWC Picture Service Mother Elizabeth Seton a “ Venerable Servant of 'And What of This Man?' Thursday, December 24, 1959 God,” Pope John XXIII praised the United States and declared that the country has “passed its time of development and approaches full maturity in --------------------------------------------- nationil tnd internttional t e n - ice.” (The title Venerible does Consistory ‘Display not allow public cultns. but is a great advance toward canoni- ation.) The proclamation was a major step in the beatification cause of the convert from Protestant-< Of Church’s Vitality’ ism who founded the SUten of| 7 Charity in the U.S. and may be­ come its first native-born saint. 7 Cardinals Get Red Hat Glorioui Coy For U.S. Cotholics In Televised Ceremony Cardinal Spellman of New York, who attended the cere­ Vatican Cify.—The public consistory at which seven of the new Cardi­ mony, called the occasion “a nals received the great Red Hat was heralded by John XXIII as “a magnifi­ glorious day for the Catholics, of the U.S." With him were the cent display of the Church’s vitality.” two new Prineea of the Church When Pope John was carried into St. Peter’s Basilica, the crowd was from the U.S., Cardinals Alois- silent, in deference to his oft-repeated wishes. The attendance at the cere­ ius Muench and Albert Meyer, mony was rather light, possibly • and Cardinal Amleto G. Cicog- because of television coverage. nani, former Apostolic Dele­ At the throne in front of the gate to the U.S. About 1,500 Altar of tbe Chair, the Pope U.S. Bishops, priests, nuns, sem­ received tbe obedience of the CAUSE OPENED inarians. and laymen crowded Sacred College of Cardinals. into the Vatican’s Clementine Thirty-three of the old Cardi­ Mother Cornelia Con­ Hall to witness the event. nelly, American-born foun­ nals were present in addition to The ceremony began as Mon- seven of the eight new. dress of the Sisters of the Holy signor Enrico Dante, pro-secre­ Childhood, a teaching order, is tary of the Sacred Congregation Oxonom, Lovol shown above as she appeared of Rites, read two decrees, Couses Requested two years before her deaUi m one for Capuchin Brother Jer- Prior to tbe Red Hat cere­ 1878. cmy of Willaehia (Romania) mony. Consistorial A dvocates Bom in Philadelphia in 1808, and the other for Mother Seton. gave formal speeches requesting she spent most of her religious After tbe reading of the de­ that the Sacred Congregation of life in England, where she is crees, Vincentian Father Lu­ Rites consider the causes for buried at the provincial house of igi Bisoglio, postulator of beatification of Cardinal Giu­ her society in Mayfield, Sussex. Mother Seton’s cause, thanked seppe Benedetto Duamet, O.S.B., Tbe first formal step In her tbe Pope for approving the Sicilian-bom son of Belgian par­ beatification cause, a diocesan decree and noted that Mother ents who was known for his Iribunal, bat been opened in Seton was a figure “in the charity; French-bom Francois tbe Diocese of Southwark. true spirit of the Catholic de Montmorency Laval, Canada's Church in America.’’ first Bishop; and Antoine Fred RECEIVE RED HAT FROM POPE Catholic Layman Pope Extolls eric Ozanam. founder of the So­ Virtues of Condidates 'DO THOU FOLLOW ME ciety of St Vincent de Paul The two new American Princes of the Church, Car­ The Pope then addressed Held Up as Example In the Gospel (John xri, 19-241 for the the one "whom Jesus loved.” that Peter asked New Cardinals dinals Aloisius J. Muench, 70 (left), and Albert G. Meyer, those assembled, extolling tbe Jesus: "Lord, and what of this manT” Jesus, Pledge Loyolty 56 (right), are shown at the North American College in Rome, London' — Foreign Secretary "two treasures that are found Feast of St. John the Apostle, observed Sunday. Dec. 27. it is recounted that Jesus, however, did not satisfy Peter's curiosity con­ While the addresses concern shortly after the ceremony of their elevation to the Cardinalate Selwyn Lloyd paid tribute in the near the crib of the Infant by Pope John XXIH. House of Common^ to the ex­ speaking to Peter, prophesied his martyrdom cerning John’s destiny. He was to "remain until ing tbe three men were in prog­ Jesus, simplicity and charity, I come." Cardinal Muench. who until recently was Papal Nuncio to ample given by F. G. Moorhouse, the same two virtues that we with the words: "And another will gird thee, ress. the new Cardinals were the Catholic fathenof a British and lead thee where thou wouldst not.” Then Every person may ask himself this question: escorted into the Pope's pres­ Germany, ia the second American Cardinal called to serve in find in these two venerable ser­ the Roman Curia. Cardinal Samuel Stritch of Chicago was Army officer slain in Egypt vants of God.” He said to Peter: “ Follow Me.” "And what of this man?” u d know that tbe ence. When waiting in the side answer ia that he must be prepared for Jesus stricken and died in Rome in May of 1858 before he was able to The late Lt Anthony Moor- Both of these virtues, he said, Peter, turning around, saw John following chapel they had pledged tbeir them. It ia significant of tbe bond between these when He arrives to judge the individual soul loyalty to tbe Pontiff. Then, take up bis duties as Pro-Prefect of the Sacred Congregation for house w u captured by Egyptian are needed by the modem the PropagaUon of the Faith. commandos in the Anglo-French world, "dissatisfied because of two disciples, the Prince of the Apostles and at death. coming before the Pope one by one. they made three genuflec­ intervention in the Suet Canal every manner of compUcatioD tions, kissed bis right foot, arose, zone in 1856. He was found and confusion, but above all and embraced him. dead, after he had been torUired. feverish with egoism, which is Pope Raps False Means In a typical geetnre o! gen­ When Cairo decided to resume a contradiction of tbe tranquil Curbs on Obscenity Face D ifficulty tleness, Pope John raised his relations with Great Britain, ex­ and fruitful life and of human foot high for the more elderly tremists announced a "Moor- and Christian fraternity.” of the new Cardinals so that Of Population Control house Museum" for propaganda Following Supreme Court's Ruling The Pope underlined charity they would not have to bend purposes. as the dominant virtue in the sc far. Then he leaned over Vatican City. — Pope John of earthly goods; the barriers of British officei's were to re­ B y Jo hn 4. Oily, Jr. Supreme Court released a book­ pure food and drug legislation life of Mother Seton, "who knew and helped them np from tbe XXIII has warned about the use selfishness snd self-interest roust taliate with an exhibit dealing store owner who had been demands that the seller be re­ no other measure than the per­ L',8 Angeles. — Hundreds of floor. of "erroneous doctrines" to be broken; the most suitable with tbe Egyptian defeat by convicted of possessing an ob­ sponsible for the purity of all fect imitation of Him who out cities will find it more difficult The new Princes of the meet the “serious calamity of means that will favor less de- Israeli forces when .Mr. Moor­ scene book in his store. his wares, there is a constitu­ of love for us became man and to convict sellers of obscene Church esme before the Pope in hunger.” Among these doctrines teloped nations must be studied; house sent a telegram asking tbe tional barrier — freedom of died on the cross." books. City Attorney Roger Three reasons were pointed the following order: Cardinal he named “pernicious and fatal and an effort must be made to plan be abandoned to prevent speech and of the press—to Recalling bis meetings with Amebergh gave this pessimis­ to: 1) The prosecution failed to Gustavo Testa, former Apostolic methods to limit offspring." draw from tbe earth itself tbe asking tbis of booksellers, it further bitterness and hatred American Bishops at tbe cente­ tic view after he argued and show that the seller knew the Nuncio to Switzerland; Cardinal The Pope made his remarks still hidden and incalculable re­ was held. between nations. Tbe project nary ceremonies of the North lost an obscenity case before book was obscene — the key Aloisius Muench, former Bishop after creating tbe new Cardi­ sources it can offer for the wel­ was canceled. American College in Rome, tbe the U.S. Supreme Court. point to the court; 2) public Justice William J. Brennan, of Fargo, N. Dak., and Apostolic nals. Among "reasons for sor­ fare of all peoples.” Holy Father said that “ it was One High Court Justice des­ access to books might ^ re­ Jr., presented the majority Nuncio to Germany; Cardinal row” in the year since tbe con­ Among the joys enumerated in the fervent unison witnessed cribed the book as "repulsive." stricted if a dealer had to know opinion, in which seven other Albert Meyer, Archbishop of sistory of 1 8 ^ he cited the fact by the Pope were the sight of Two Bills to Legalize >in the very spontaneous and Mr.