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a Friendlier
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spective of Creed
VOL. XVHI, No. 9
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, SEPTEMBER 25, 1937
ISSUED MONTHLY—?2.00 A YEAR
Bulletins
..CINCINNATI'S new Auxiliary Bis
hop. Msgr. George H. Rchring, will be
consecrated in Cincinnati October 7
by Archbishop McNicholas, assisted
by Bishop J. H. Albers of Lansing,
formerly Auxiliary, and Bishop Ur
ban Vehr of Denver, formerly of
Cincinnati.
MSGR. PIERRE GERLIER, famed
Bishop of Lourdes, has been named
Archbishop of Lyons, succeeding the
late Cardinal Maurin. Archbishop
Gerlier, who attained distinction as a
lawyer and who was elected national
president of La Jenucsse Catholique
Francaise at 27, renounced worldly
honors seven years later to start his
studies for the priesthood. He served
as an officer during the World War
and was captured by the Germans.
CARDINAL BISLETI, prefect of
the Sacred Congregation of Semin
aries and Universities, died recently
at the age of SI. He was made a do
mestic prelate by Pope Leo XIII in
1880 and a Cardinal in 1911 by Pope
Pius X.
REV. DR. MAURICE SHEEHY of
the faculty of the Catholic University
of America is giving the current
Catholic Hour services over the Na
tional Broadcasting network under
the auspices of the National Council
of Catholic Men.
LOUISIANA has included parochi
al school libraries in the distribution
of $259,000 worth of books distributed
to the schools of the state. Parochial
schools are included under the law
providing for free books and supplies
for school children.
BLESSED MARTIN PORRES' cen
tennial year was opened at Union
City with a solemn ceremony in the
chapel of the Dominican Sisters, Bis
hop Thomas J. Walsh presiding.
Blessed Martin, a Negro Dominican
lay brother, was beatified one hun
dred years ago and the cause of his
canonization is being promoted.
THE SEMINARY for Mexican
students for the priesthood provided
by the Bishops, priests and laity of
the United States at Montezuma, N-
M.. opened September 23 with 350
students. The Jesuit Fathers constit
ute the faculty. Archbishop R. A.
Gerken of Sante Fc presided at the
opening ceremonies.
BIRTH CONTROL discussions are
prohibited in radio broadcasts in
Canada, the federal governing body
of radio in the Dominion announces
in its most recent list of rules and re
gulations.
REV. PAUL SCHULTE, noted “Fly
ing priest” of the vast wastes of
Northern Canada, will be among the
speakers at the annual convention of
the National Council of Catholic Wo
men at Washington next week. Fath
er Schulte will fly to Washington,
the convention city, from Canada.
SIR ERIC DRUMMOND, British
Ambassador in Rome, who was re
ceived into the Church in 1903 when
he was twenty-seven, became the
Earl of Perth and three times a
Lord through the death of his half-
brother, the fifteenth Earl of Perth
recently. The new Earl of Perth -was
the first Secretary-General of the
League of Nations.
CARDINAL SEGURA y Saenz, who
has been Archbishop of Toledo and
Primate of Spain, who resigned his
See when he was expelled from Spain
by Leftist forces, has ben appointed
Archbishop of Seville. In 1932, when
the Republic was established Cardinal
Segura while commending the bene
fits that Spain had received from the
monarchy through the centuries, de
clared his firm allegiance to the Re
public.
Our Missionaries Not Asking
Government Defense inChina
In Remaining at Posts, They Voluntarily Assume Respon
sibility, Bishop James Walsh Says
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
WASHINGTON, D. C. — To State
Drpartment officials deluged with
appeals to extend protection to Amer
ican nationals in China and criticised
for not insisting more aggressively
upon the maintenance of their rights,
the statement of the Most Rev. James
E. Walsh, D.D., Superior General of
the Foreign Mission Society, has come
as a welcome relief.
“It is quite understood,” Bishop
Walsh said, “that a missionary’s work
is of a character which requires him
to waive the question of his personal
safety and to continue giving ser
vice to the people of his adoption. It
is therefore understood that mission
aries, in remaining, waive all ques
tions of protection from the American
Government.”
in that area. The terrific din created
by bursting shells, machine guns,
bombs and airplanes adds consider
ably to the Sisters’ difficulties, as
they only serve to aggravate the suf
ferings of the hospital’s patients, who
are all mental cases-
To keep clear of so savage a con
flict as that betwen China and Japan,
which involves directly many foreign
interests, is exceedingly difficult.
The National Catholic Welfare Con
ference, which is acting as a clearing
house for information concerning
Catholic priests and religious in the
strife—torn areas of China, has been
advised that the Maryknoll Sisters
staffing Mercy Hospital in a Shanghai
suburb will not evacuate the institu
tion despite the violence taking place
The N. C. W. C., also is advised that
the Marianist Brothers serving in
Hankow are all well and safe, and
that those Marianist Brothers staffing
the Catholic Mission School, Hung-
kialou, Tsinanfu, Shantung, have de
cided to remain at their posts al
though they have been advised by
the American Consulate to leave. The
motherhouse of these Marianist Bro
thers is at Dayton, O.
Concerning the Dominican Sisters
from Columbus, O., serving in the
mission at Kienning Fu, Fukien, the
Conference is informed that there is
no disturbance there as yet.
That the National Catholic Welfare
Conference would act as a clearing
house on information about Catholic
religious in China was announced by
the Rt. Rev. Msgr., Michael J. Ready,
General Secretary, following a con
ference with the State Department-
Such inquiries are to be addressed to
the General Secretary at the N. C. W.
C„ headquarters here, 1312 Massachu
setts Avenue, N. W.
China’s Catholic Missioners
Numerous in Fighting Zone
SOCIETY OF PRIESTS
FOR HOME MISSIONS
Father Howard Bishop of
Maryland Is Organizing It
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
CINCINNATI—The establishment of
a new society of priests—the Home
Mission Society—has been begun un
der the sponsorship of the Most Rev.
John T. McNicholas, O- P., Archbis
hop of Cincinnati.
The Rev. W. Howard Bishop, for
years pastor of St. Louis’ Church,
Clarksville, Md., and former Presi
dent of the Catholic Rural Life Con
ference, has obtained leave from his
Ordinary, the Most Rev. Michael J.
Curley, Archbishop of Baltimore, and
has come to this Archdiocese to lay
the groundwork for the new society.
Welcoming Father Bishop to this See,
Archbishop McNicholas has assigned
him temporarily to the pastorate of
St. Martin’s Church in the town of
St. Martin in historic Brown County-
The aim of the new society is to'
apply to the missionary problems of
the untouched areas of America the
same kind of study, preparation and
organized, concerted, persevering ef
fort that foreign missionary com
munities apply to the foreign field.
It would strive to do for America
what the Maryknollers, the Passion-
ists, the Jesuits, the Dominicans, the
Fathers of Holy Cross, the Divine
Word and St. Columban Fathers do
for China, Japan, India, Africa and
Oceania.
176 Priests, 123 Brothers,
557 Sisters in Vicariate of
Shanghai Alone
SHANGHAI, (N. C. W- C.—Fides)—
No casualities have been reported so
far among the Catholic missionaries
in and around Shanghai, the area;
now being strafed by Chinese and
Japanese bombers and heavy' artill
ery. Considerable anxiety is felt for
the priests, Brothers and Sisters, how
ever, in view of the fact that many of
the educational and charitable in
stitutions maintained by the Church
in Shanghai are located in Chinese
sections, outside the foreign conces
sions and international quarter.
The Vicariate of Shanghai, which
comprises a fair portion of Kiangsu
Province adjoining the metropolis,
has a personnel of 176 priests, 123
Brothers and 597 Sisters. Approxi
mately one third of these are Chinese,
while the others are of various_na-
tionalities, with some Americans,
Irish, Scots, Canadians and English,
The Vicariate has over 200 schools
and 30 institutions of charity.
In Shanghai proper the Jesuit Fa
thers conduct the Aurora University,
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RURAL LIFE GROUP
MEETS IN RICHMOND
Catechetical Groups Meet
in St. Louis October 9-12
, (By N. C. W. C. News Service)
ST. LOUIS. — The ninth floor of
the Coronado Hotel will be trans
formed into a episcopal community
“house” for the National catechetical
Congress of the Confraternity of
Christian Doctrine to be held here
October 9 to 12 under the patronage
of the Most Rev. John Glennon,
Archbishop of St. Louis. The entire
floor will be reserved for more than
two-score Archbishops and Bishops
•who will be here, from all parts of
fhe United States and Canada.
Interest in the Congress has devel
oped to such an extent, Bishop Win-
kelmann reports, that it has been
found necessary to transfer major
events from St. Louis Univeristy
Gymnasium, as originally scheduled,
to the large convention hall of the
Municipal Auditorium.
Speakers at the closing dinner of
the Catechetical Congress will be the
Most Rev. John J. Glennon, D. D.,
Archbishop of St. Louis, the Rt. Rev.
Msgr. Joseph M. Corrigan/ S. T. F.,
rector of the Catholic Univeristy of
America, and Richard Reid, editor
of The Bulletin of the Catholic Lay
men’s Association of Georgia
An auxiliary feature of the Con
gress, Bishop Winkelmann an
nounced, will be a meeting of the
Catholic Biblical Association of Am
erica, which will be held at the Cor
onado Hotel October 9 and 10. The
Most Rev. Edwin V. O’Hara, Bishop
of Great Falls, Chairman of the Con
fraternity’s Episcopal Committee,
also is head of the editorial board of
the Biblical Association.
Fifteenth Annual Convention
There Week of November 7
Domestic Prelate
NAZIS GIVE VATICAN
INCREASED CONCERN
BY RECENT ACTIONS
Official Denials Out of Har
mony With Evidence, Os-
servatore Romano Asserts
VERY REV. MICHAEL READY,
LL. D-, general secretary of the Na
tional Catholic Welfare Conference,
has been made a domestic prelate
with the rank and title of Rt. Rev.
Monsignor by the Holy Father. Mon
signor Ready is a native of Connecti
cut and is a priest of the Diocese of
Cleveland.
N.C.G.W. CONVENTION
IN WASHINGTON, D. C.
Many Members of Hierarchy
to Attend—Mrs. McCollum
of Florida on Program
WASHINGTON. — With His Excel
lency the Most Rev. Amleto Giovan
ni Cicognani, Apostolic Delegate to the
United States, and several members of
the Hierarchy participating, the an
nual national convention of the Na
tional Council of Catholic Women will
be held here September 25-29.
The Apostolic Delegate will ponti
ficate at Solemn Mass in the National
Shrine of thq Immaculate Conception
Sunday morning, September 26. The
sermon at the Mass will be preached
by the Most Rev. Edward Mooney,
Archbishop of Detroit and Chairman
of the Administrative Committee of
the National Catholic Welfare Confer
ence.
The Board of Directors of the Coun
cil will meet on September 23 and 24
in pre-convention gatherings. On
Saturday, September 25, the first gen
eral session of the convention will be
held in the Mayflower Hotel with Miss
Katherine R. Williams, president of
the National Council, presiding. Fol
lowing an address on “Our Common
Problems in the Field of Organization”,
by Mrs. Earl R. Reynolds, National
Chairman of the Committee on Or
ganization and Development, a discus
sion will be held, under the leader
ship of Mrs. J. W. McCollum, on the
following topics: “Problems in the Ur
ban Diocese”; “Problems in the Rural
Diocese”; “Problems in the Diocese
Which Combines Eoth’’; “Financing”;
“Deanery Organization”; “Qualifica
tions for Leadership”; “How to Get
Committees to Work”; “Developing a
Broader Community Interest Among
Catholic Women”; “Programming.”
(Radio, N. C. W. C. News Service)
VATICAN CITY— Osservatore Ro
mano rejoices that the Nazi Congress
at Nuremberg has ended without the
rupture between the State and
Church which various circles expect
ed, but does not conceal its preoccup
ation with conditions facing the
Church in the Reich.
Osservatore expresses particular
concern over:
The continuous campaign carried
on by the Nazi Press against the
Church and the rights guaranteed to
her by the Concordat.
Recent laws relating to religious in
struction which are contradictory of
the Concordat’s terms. By these new
laws it is sought to take religious
teaching out of the competent hands
of the priests and to exact that the
catechism be taught from the Nation
al Socialist point of view, which
means a denial of the fundamentals
of Christian Faith. •
The demonstration at the Nurem
berg Congress that neo-paganism
continues to spread and that repre
sentatives of the National Socialist
movement favor its penetration and
expansion without any regard for the
tactics used.
Osservatore says the Holy See had
received, in times past, assurance that
the attacks made upon the Church
by Alfred Rosenberg were a private
work for which the Reich assumed no
responsibility. But the paper says, of
ficial propaganda continues, the
Rosenberg ideology has become the
foundation of all courses for teach
ers dependent upon the State, Rosen
berg’s “The Myth of the Twentieth
Century” has been sealed up in the
cornerstone of the great Nuremberg
edifice, and a new official demon
stration of the anti-Christian move
ment was given at the Nuremberg
Congress itself when Rosemberg was
awarded the first national prize for
literature.
Calling to mind His Holiness Pope
Pius XI’s German Encyclical—“Mit
Brennender Sorge” (With Most Sol
icitous Concern)—Osservatore says
that for real peace between Church
and State it is necessary that there
be no union between the State and
those forces that are hostile to Christ
ianity. It adds that it is dangerous for
German cultural development that
this new and solemn recognition has
been given to the literary product of
Rosemberg.
Osservatore sees with grief that this
condition of affairs is far from the
real pacification greatly desired by
the Holy See in the interests of the
Germans themselves, and warns that
such propaganda can produce in Ger
many the same dreadful consequences
that have come about in other count
ries. In these other countries where
atrocious things happen, the paper
says, the anti-clerical press, sowing
hatred of Christianity, has brought
about the present frightful state of
affairs.
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
RICHMOND, Va.—The Rev. William
T. Mulloy, of Grafton, N. D„ and the
Rev. James A. Byrnes, of St. Paul,
Minn., president and executive secre
tary respectively of the National Cath
olic Rural Life Conference, were in
this city last week to supervise ar
rangements for the 15th annual con
vention of the organization to be held
here in the week of November 7.
“The Rural Life Conference,” said
Father Byrnes, “is an association of
Bishops, priests and laymen which ad
dresses itself to a solution of economic,
sociological, eductaional and religious
problems which perplex present-day
America. It attempts to gain respect
for the principles of Social Justice
enunciated in the great Papal Encycli
cals of modern times.
“The conference provides a national
forum for the discussion of material
and spiritual isues; it creates a litera
ture on rural life subjects; it em
phasizes the dignity, the honor, the
security of life in agriculture; it co
operates in all non-political efforts
to promote the best interests of the
nation’s farming population, to the
end that a balance be established
and maintained between life on the
farm and life in the industrial
centers.”
Press of the Nation Aroused
by the Case of Justice Black
(Bv N. C. W. C. News Service)
PITTSBURGH. — Associate Justice
Hugo Lafayette Black, of the United
States Supreme Court, is a member of
the Ku Klux Klan. it is charged in a
series of articles by Ray Sprigle, a
staff writer, which the Pittsburgh
Post-Gabette began publishing recent
ly. The articles are copyrighted by
the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and the
North American Newspaper Alliance,
Inc. Mr. Sprigle declares that his ar
ticles are based on records obtained
from the official files of the Alabama
Klan.
CHARGE AROUSES CAPITAL
The question whether Justice Black
shall take his seat on the bench cf the
United States Supreme Court has
passed out of the hands of the Presi
dent and the Senate, authorities here
assert. The President has appointed
him to the bench and the Senate has
confirmed him to that office. Only
impeachment, some voluntary action
on his part or a finding by the Su
preme Court sustaining constitutional
protests already launched against his
being seated can prevent Mr. Black
from taking his place on the Supreme
Court bench next month.
Having once confirmed a Supreme
Court nominee, authorities state, the
only way in which the Senate can re
move him from the bench is by im
peachment, which proceeding must be
gin in the House of Representatives.
The general conclusion is that Jus
tice Black will take his place on the
bench, that there is no way on the
venting him from taking it. Accord
ingly, it will be left to time to dispose
of the predicament. Justice Black
himself has indicated that he will have
no comment to make concerning his
alleged membership in the Klan un
til he returns to the United States.
The President will have nothing to
say until Justice Black has returned
and he has conferred with him, and
he may have nothing to say even then.
THE ST. PAUL PIONEER PRESS:
“That no man whose mental habits
are controlled by the bigotdy which
charcterizes the Ku Klux Klan toward
minority religious and racial groups
of this country is fitted temperamen
tally to perform the duties of the Su
preme Court in the dispassionate, un
prejudiced and open-minded manner
requisite to this great office.”
THE MILWAUKEE JOURNAL
deprecates the fact that there was not
a proper investigation of Justice
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