Seton Hall University eRepository @ Seton Hall The aC tholic Advocate Archives and Special Collections 12-24-1959 The Advocate - Dec. 24, 1959 Catholic Church Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarship.shu.edu/catholic-advocate Part of the Catholic Studies Commons, and the Missions and World Christianity Commons Recommended Citation Catholic Church, "The Advocate - Dec. 24, 1959" (1959). The Catholic Advocate. 76. https://scholarship.shu.edu/catholic-advocate/76 Mother Seton ‘Venerable,’ Her Virtues Galled Heroic VATICAN CITV - Mother Christian practiced virtues to a He noted that Mother Seton Seton’* life the Come’ in the Lord’s Prayer presents world heroic degree. That finding had 10,000 heirs spiritual ip the It was In with an example of the “tri- the for the these encounters, paved way public Sisters of Charity and said that too, he of said, that "we were umph charity," Pope John proclamation ceremony. they carry on the same sort of reminded of the noble XXIII said here as he presided When and Msgr. Dante finished charity as their founder in the •t characteristic of Eliza- ceremonies at which Mbther the figure reading proclamations at service of God and of souls. beth Seton who had Seton was proclaimed venera- we already the latter ceremony. Rev. Lui- Brother Jeremy’s life empha- heard hailed ble. ... as the first gi Bisoglio, sizes C.M., postulator of simplicity, he declared, flower of of North The proclamation was a ma- sancUty Mother Seton’s cause, stood be- i adding that the virtues of sim- jor step in the beatification America.” fore the Pope to thank him for plicity and charity “are need- cause of the American nun, a approving the action. He also ed by the modern .world, dis- MOTHER SETON was born convert who founded the Sis- Elizabeth spoke on behalf of the Capu- satisfied because of every man- Ann Bayley in New ters of Charity in the U.S. and chins present for Brother Jer- ner of complication and confu- York City in 1774. A devout may become the nation's first emy’s cause. sion, but above all feverish Episcopalian, she married Wil- native-born saint. liam with egoism which is a con- Seton when she was 20 Pope John interlaced his eul- RESPONDING, the Pontiff old. tradiction of the tranquil and years ogy of Mother Seton with said that simplicity and char- fruitful life and of human and After his death in 1803 she praise for the ity are the virtues to be found U.S., declaring Christian fraternity." was left with five children. that the has in Mother Seton and country “passed Brother She became a Catholic in 1805 Its time of and Jeremy. DURING HIS John development talk, Pope and four years later founded the he approaches full maturity in na- Charity, said, was the again referred to his recent American Congregation of the tional and international dominant virtue In Mother cel- serv- Se- participation in centennial Sisters of Charity. She died in ice." ton’s life. “When the burning ebrations at the North Ameri- 1821. dart of penetrated her can in Rome. THE charity College He called Although the cause for her PROCLAMATION cere heart more deeply,” he said, his visit there one of the beatification was started be- mony was held in the Vatican's “then she knew no other meas- “greatest comforts” of the cur- fore Clementine World War I, it was held Hall. Among those ure than the perfect imitation rent year. because attending up of the war and was were Cardinal Spell- of Him who out of of love for us He spoke the Bishops he not introduced until man, Cardinal officially Muench, Apos- became man and died on the met during the celebrations, 1940. In December. 1958, at the tolic Nuncio to Germany, and Cross." of meeting priests who were first public consistory of Car- Cardinal Meyer of Chicago. trained there, and of the “se- dinals he called. Pope John Msgr. Enrico Dante, pro-sec- rene Joy of the young students" gave formal consent to the retary of the Sacred Congrega- at the college. proceedings for her beatifica- tion of Rites, read the decree Early Copy “They,” he said, “have open- tion. entitling Mother Seton to be Because ed our heart with the most sin- Capuchin Brother Jeremy ol called venerable. A similar de- of the New Year’s cere admiration for holiday, the issue of The Advo- what is Wallachia was born in what is DECLARED VENERABLE: cree concerning Brother Jer- The heroic virtues of Mother Elizabeth Ann Scten (1774-1821) were cate for done in America for the honor now Rumania on 29, 1556. proclaimed in Dec. 31 will go to July a emy of Wallarhia, an Italian formal decree read in the Hall 1959. and service of the Lord in the He went to to Vatican's Consistorial on Dec. 18, The American-born convert press one day early. Copy for Naples, Italy, and foun- Capuchin, was also read. dress of the Sisters of in the States thaf issue must be in The Ad- Holy Church and present a join the Capuchin Order. The Charity United may now be called “Venerable.” The show Earlier, a general pictures the assembly hnrizon of the most of on vocate office no later than beautiful first steps in his beatification statue Mother Seton the of St. Joseph’s College, and of of the Congregation of Rites—- campus Emmitsburg, Md., a section the nearby 3 hopes for the triumph of the cause were taken two p.m. Monday, Dec. 2*. years Sisters’ where she was the with Pope John presiding—had graveyard originally buried behind large tree at the The is now reign of a living right. body entombed declared Christ, expres- after hjs death on Mar. 5, 1626. in the little that Mother Seton had sion chapel (above), built in 1846. Her nephew, also a convert. James Roosevelt of the ‘Thy Kingdom His cause was not taken up Archbishop Bayley of Baltimore, who was the first of and who in again until 1952. Bishop Newark, died 1877, was entombed there at his request. New Cardinals Assigned, To Confer Pontifical Given Titular Churches Decorations On Laity ROME America’s two new Cardinals took possession causes were those of, Cardinal On Jan. 7 at 8 p.m. at Sacred Heart Cathedral, Archbishop of their titularchurches here after receiving their red hats DuSmet, 0.5.8., of Catania, who Thqpias A. Boland will confer on the laity recently honored The Advocate from John XXIII at final died in 1894; Bishop Francois de by Pope John XXIII the pontifical decoration symbolic of the Official Pope the consistory in a series Publication of the Archdiocese of Newark, N. J., and Diocese •( Paterson, N. J. Montmorency Laval, first distinction received by each The Papal honors, an at which they became Cardinals. Bishop person. of Canada; and Rev, Antoine nounced by Archbishop Boland last month, are as follows: VOL. 8, NO. 52 Cardinal former and THURSDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1959 PRICE: TEN CENTS Muench, Bishop of Fargo, N.D., Frederic Ozanam. founder of the Knight Commander of St. Gregory the Great (Civil Class): Nuncio Apostolic to Germany, Society of St. Vincent de Paul, Dr. Luke A. Mulligan. ' took possession of San Bernardo The tame day they received who (lied in 1853. Knights of St. Gregory the Great (Civil Class): Floyd E. •lie Roman ruin Terme, a con- their red hats, the new Cardinals Anderson, Hugh X. Connell, Francis J. Cunningham, George C. verted HAVING Church Cannot Be to Christian use. PLEDGED their were named to various congre loy- D'Annunzio, Dr. John J. Flanagan, William J. Griffin, William Destroyed, At almost the same time in gallons which administer the af- alty to the Pope in the side T. Henderson, Dr. Maximilian F. Hubach Jr., Dr. Edward P. J. another the part of the city, Cardinal faint of the Church. chapel, new Cardinals ap- Kearney, John R. Kennedy, Frank V. Mcßride, Joseph A. of took his each Meyer Chicago possession proached throne, to Mcßride, J. Nevins Mcßride, and Frank W. Young. John at Audience CARDINAL MUENCH was Pope of make Says Santa Cecilia, one of Rome's three genuflections, kiss Recipients of the Cross Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice: Edith oldest named a member of the Sacred his foot VATICAN CITY sanctuaries. Built over the right and arise to em- Callaghan, Mrs. John A. Jule - Those who pcan Community on the uk of Congregation for Conlin, Margaret Finn, Flannclly, year ago. They were hero to home of Extraordinary brace the Pontiff. to the early Christian In a typical Marie A. Fournier, Mr*. Harry A. Hanson, Mary A. McCarthy, attempt destroy the Church the year* being added to the Ule mako their "ad limina" Ecclesiastical Affairs, the Con- deceive visit*, martyr for whom it is named, gesture of gentleness, the Pope Mary E. Catherine M. themselves in thinking and received a gift hit- McDonough, McGann, Eleanor McGlynn. fcpan, of reporting on conditions la their gregation of Rites, and the Con- raised that it the church is administered by his foot higher for the Mrs. Thomas F. McHugh, Marcia M. Meehan, Mrs. Leo V. can be destroyed, the jtorical volume* front the See city Sees. gregation of Religious. Cistercians. more- elderly of the new Cardi- Norton, Mary C. O'Neill, Mrs. John J. Anna M. Russo. Holy Father told a general audi of his native Bergamo Diocese. UK The Reilly, winter It was reported ' Congregation for Ex- nals ence and then leaned over to Genevieve J. San Mrs. James A. here.