Iona College - ICANN Yearbook (New Rochelle, NY)

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HIS HOLINESS, POPE PIUS XII In llic Molv Year of Jubilee which be has proclaimed, the men of Iona respectfully offer ibis account of ibcir academic, athletic, religious and social campus life to tbe Vicar of Christ. As young Catholic Americans we see our nation engulfed in a tide of secularism. I lie so-called doctrine of separation of church and state threatens to create a godless state with effects no less devastating than would occur through the advent of atheistic communism. YVc know that foremost in the ranks of those who stand to oppose the rise of this insidious doctrine is our Supreme Pontiff, to whom we must look for leadership and guidance in the pitcher! battle which must ensue when militant secularism will threaten the very existence of Catholicism in America.

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DEDICATION TO IIIS HOLINESS, POPE PIUS XII- SUPREME RULER OP THE CATHOLIC WORLD-VALIANT CHAMPION OF ETERNAL TRUTH-DEFENDER OF THE RIGHTS OF MAN-THE RALLY- ING POINT OF THE FORCES OF DECENCY AND JUSTICE. Vri. nl.ilmn of Hull Iloly Yrvir to Hit Hulinrtt I jr ft lo rifilil: Monufiux ('a I Ion. Miwtlro ill Comoro; Montignor I oraldo: Mumigiior C Umrt, M.iWrr ( «rmiJun Mml Rc». AI| hon r Curinci (lu-hltnQ I hr Hull . Hr It a titular SiW.oji ami $n rotary of the ('onnrrgntiim of Klin lli llnl i.• •• I’na XII. Mi nt i;fMif Dnntr, I'rrfrrt of ( rrrmonlrt, MniKifnin Vrntni: Monu(inn iiuili Kmn

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Over six hundred and fifty years after the first Jubilee. His Holiness Pope Pius XII has proclaimed the twenty-fifth such cele- bration with the Hull Jubiheum Maxi- mum . In all. over three million pilgrims have visited Rome, including thousands of Ameri- cans. Millions more who were unable to make the pilgrimage witnessed many of the ceremonies through television, radio and motion pictures. No other Holy Year has been so widely acclaimed. Christmas Eve. with its cundclighl ceremony and un- walling of the Holy Doors of the four Major Basilicas, marked the beginning of the Jubilee. I he Holy Father himself presided at the ceremony at St. Peter's while Cardinal-delegates represented him at the other Basilicas. I he splendor and grandeur of this solemn liturgy is index rihahlc. I he ceremony of o| ening and «losing of the I Inly Door dales back to the eighth Holy Year in 1300. Its pageantry is not mere ostentation hut symbolizes the expulsion of Adam and Eve from the Garden of Paradise and the reconcilution of sinners. The spes ial purpose of this twenty-fifth Holy car is to summon all the faithful not only to expiate their faults and amend their lives but also to acquire virtue and holiness. If mankind would only realize the Moral. Spiritual and Social meaning of the Bull Jubiheum Maximum ', the pence that all men seek could be achieved and the many problems of these troublesome days would culminate in a happy solution.