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Catholic Lay
men’s Association
of Georgia.
“To Bring About
a Friendlier
Feeling Among
Neighbors Irre
spective of Creed
VOL. XVIII. No. 10
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, OCTOBER 30, 1937
ISSUED MONTHLY—$2.00 A YEAR
Bishop Hafey Transferred to Scranton—
Msgr. McGuinness Succeeds Bishop Hafey
Bulletins
THE RHEIMS CATHEDRAL, badly
damaged by bombardment during the
World War, is restored largely through
the generosity of John D. Rockefeller,
Jr. From 1180 to 1824 the Kings of
France were crowned there.
MSGR. JOSEPH F. RYAN was con
secrated Bishop of Hamilton, Ont., Oc
tober 23, Archbishop John T. McNally
of Halifax officiating
Vatican Vigorously Denies
Supporting Japanese Aims
in Current Crisis in China
-Newspaper Reports Saying' That the Holy See Is Taking
Sides Are Branded as “Complete Invention”
DR. MICHAEL BROWNE, formerly
professor of moral theology at May-
nooth, has been consecrated Bishop of
Galway and Kilmacduagh in Ireland.
Bishop Browne is 42.
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT was a
guest of Cardinal Mundelein in Chica
go on the President’s return from his
tour of the West. It was said to be
the first time in the history of the na
tion that a President called on a Car
dinal at his residence.'
THE HOLY FATHER has sent 50,-
001) Italian lire to Shanghai to be used
for relief purposes there. Some of the
Catholic institutions there have suffer
ed severely in the Japanese bombard
ment.
REV. WILFRID PARSONS, S. J., of
Georgetown University, formerly edi
tor of America, is the current speaker
over the Catholic Hour of the Nation
al Broadcasting Co., sponsored by the
National Council of Catholic Men. The
program is broadcast at 6:00 p. m. each
Sunday night, Eastern Standard Time.
MISS PATRICIA MAGUIRE, the
Chicago girl who slept two years after
affliction by some strange malady, died
early in October. The funeral was held
with a Requiem Mass from Ascension
Church, Oak Park. 111.
ARCHBISHOP MOONEY of Detroit,
expressed his disapproval of Father
Coughlin’s reference to President
Roosevelt’s appointment of Justice
Black as “personal stupidity.” While
priests have a right to disagree with
the President, Archbishop Mooney
said, respect for authority and their
own sacred calling should impose on
them a “fine sense of restraint in the
language they use.”
FATHER COUGHLIN after the pub
licly expressed disapproval of his or
dinary, Archbishop Mooney, announc
ed that he would cancel his contract
for a series of national broadcasts
which were scheduled to start Octo
ber 31. Archbishop Mooney states that
this is an independent decision on the
part of Father Coughlin, and that he
did not even mention to the Archbish
op any thought of cancelling the
broadcasts.
XAVIER UNIVERSITY, the Catholic
university for Negroes at New Orleans,
dedicated a $163,000 library in October,
Archbishop Rummel of New Orleans
officiating.
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
Both at the Holy See itself, and
through its representative, in the
United States, the Vatican denied
promptly, with the utmost vigor, and
in the most categorical terms, a
widespread report that it had taken
sides with Japan in the present con
flict in China.
The report had stated that the Holy
See had sent instructions to Bishops
and missionaries in China directing
them to favor Japan, as a means of
combatting Communism. The Vati
can declares the supposed instruc
tions to be a complete fabrication,
issued for the purpose of deception.
(Radio. N. C. W. C. News Service)
VATICAN CITY. — The w h o 1 e
group of assertions published in the
secular press concerning supposed
instructions sent out by the Vatican
favoring Japan in the present Far
East conflict, is completely false and
is denied officially and emphatically
by Vatican authorities. This in
cludes the quotations from an alleged
document the Vatican was said to
have dispatched to its representa
tives in the Far East.
The thought of the Vatican on
Communism and war is well known,
and has been expressed through Pa
pal documents and discourses. The
Holy See considers Communism and
Communistic propaganda as the
gravest menace not only to religion
but also to all civilization.
At the same time, however, the
Holy See reproves war—all wars—as
was stated recently in Osservatore
Romano, in comment on President
Roosevelt’s neutrality statement,
showing his declaration against war
to conform to Vatican principles and
views.
As far as the Missions are con
cerned ,the instructions which the
Holy See has constantly given,, and
which have been confirmed and en
dorsed especially under the present
Pontificate, are that missionaries are
to remain absolutely out of and be
yond any political activity; that they
refuse to be made instruments of
foreign interests or plans; and that
they dedicate themselves entirely to
their Apostolic activities for the
spiritual, moral and also the mater
ial welfare of the peoples entrusted
to their care.
Osservatore Romano, commenting
upon these false reports of an agree
ment between the Vatican and Japan
says:
“Despite their falsity, the tenden-
Bishops in Argentina Bar
Politics in Catholic Action
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
BUENOS AIRES.—In an instruc
tion address to Argentine Catholic
Action in general, and more specifi
cally to the youth organization, the
Permanent Commission of the Ar
gentine Episcopacy emphasizes that
Catholics engaged in political or eco
nomic activities must make it clear
that they are acting as individuals
and must not compromise the sacred
principles and interests of the
Church.
This instruction and the text of the
letter of His Eminence Eugenio Car
dinal Pacelli, Papal Secretary of
State, addressed to the Chilean Epis
copacy in June, 1934, are printed in
full in the Boletin Oficial de la Ac-
cion Catolica Argentina. The _ in
struction of the Argentine Episco
pacy quotes at length from the Pa
pal Secretary’s letter to the Chilean
prelates which deals with the prob
lem of “orienting principally the
youths of Catholic Action regarding
nationalist doctrines and their rela
tions to nationalist parties.”
After citing the right of Catholics
as citizens to become members of po
litical parties, so long as these groups
have tenets in keeping with the doc
trine of the Church and are respect
ful of the rights of the Church, the
instruction emphasizes that Catholic
Action, as an organization, must
never “give the impression of being
chained to parties or any political
group, because its work is participa
tion in the hierarchical apostolate of
the Church.”
For this reason, it is pointed out,
the “Associations of the Youth of
Catholic Action must not be affil
iated as such with political parties
and its directors-must not be, at any
time, directors of political parties,
groups or assemblies.”
It is further ordered that members
of Argentine Catholic Action must
not wear the badge of their organi
zation at meetings and assemblies of
a political character nor wear Cath
olic Action and political badges sim
ultaneously. Ordinarily, and out
side of such meetings, they will
wear only the badge of their Catho
lic Action organization. It is also
ordered that at political meetings,
or in anything of this nature, mem
bers of Catholic Action must refrain
from the use of the cry of Catholic
Action, “Viva Cristo Rey,” in order
to avoid any confusion of Catholic
Action with politics.
STATEMENT OF THE
APOSTOLIC DELEGATE
WASHINGTON. — The Apos
tolic Delegate to the United
. States, His Excellency the Most
| Rev. Anileto Giovanni Cico-
gnani, in a statement issued an
official denial of the report that
the Holy See had given instruc
tions to the Bishops and mis
sionaries in China to aid the
Japanese cause.
The official statement follows:
“I have been instructed by the
Under-Secretary of State of the
Vatican, Archbishop Pizzardo, to |
request The Associated Press to I
issue a complete denial of its !
release of October 14 on the at- 1
titude of the Vatican in the !
present Kino-Japanese conflict, t
“I am further instructed to say I
that the Holy See did not issue T
the alleged instructions, that I
they were conceived by some I
irresponsible source with tlie|
manifest p- rpose of deceiving I
the American public on the Vat- I
ican's policy of strict neutral- I
I ity.” ■ !
o o
ciousness of these news reports is
clearly evident to those who know
the principles inspiring the activities
of the Holy See. The Holy See itself,
fearing the harm this false news can
produce, especially for the Catholic
Missions in China , has hastened to
see that all these reports are denied,
declaring that everything they con
tain does not come from Vatican au
thorities but is completely invented
and false and openly mendencioUs.”
CATHOLIC HOSPITALS
IN CHINA BOMBED
Monastery Also Suffers—
Fatalities Reported
-No
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
OSSINING. N. Y—’While it is re
ported that Mercy Hospital in Shang
hai, in care of the Maryknoll Sisters,
has been damaged by bombs, a cable
gram from the Sisters, bringing as
surance ot their safety and well-being
has just been received at the Mother-
house of the Foreign Mission Sisters
of St. Dominic. Maryknoll, N. Y.
The women's section of Mercy Hos
pital, which is exclusively for mental
cases, is staffed by eight Maryknoll
Sisters. They are: Sisters Mary de Lel-
lis McKenna, of Lexington, Ky.; Mary
Antoinette Geist, Pittsburgh; Mary
Augusta Hock. Meadville, Pa.; Her
man Joseph Stitz, Salem, Ore.; Kath
leen Marie Shea, Dorchester. Mass.;
Miriam Agnes Tibesar, Quincy, 111.;
Mary Ignatia McNally, Dover, N. H..
and Agnes Regina Rafferty, Camden,
W. Va The shelling and bombing has
intensified the suffering of the pa
tients. All letter communication with
the Sisters has been interrupted.
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
HONG KONG.—In the recent bomb
ing raids in South China, the town
of Chiulin was one of the objectives.
Thus, Japanese planes were within
sight of the Maryknoll Mission in the
city of Kongmoon, two miles distant,
the principal station of the Vicariate,
and the residence of Bishop-elect
Adolph J. Paschang, of Martinsburg.
Mo.
Besides the church ana rectory, the
mission compound contains a semi
nary for Chinese priests, the Mary
knoll Sisters’ Convent, and a novitiate
for native Sisters. There is no instance
of disturbance in any other Mary
knoll field, and mission work pro
ceeds normally with no indication
that it will be interrupted.
Elevated
MONSIGNOR McGUNNESS
EXTENSION SOCIETY
OFFICIAL APPOINTED
BISHOP OF RALEIGH
Bishop-Elect Is Native of
Pennsylvania — His Three
Sisters St. Joseph Nuns
CAROLINA ORDINARY
IS NAMED COADJUTOR
AND ADMINISTRATOR
Promotion to See With Cath
olic Population of 325,000
Recognition oT Bishop’s Dis
tinguished Record
(By N. C. W. News Service)
WASHINGTON-Due to the illness
of the Most Rev. Thomas C. O’Reilly,
Bishop ot Scranton, the Most Rev.
Joseph Hafey. Bishop of Raleigh, has
been appointed Titular Bishop of
Appia and Co-adjutor Bishop - of
Scranton with faculities of Apostolic
Administrator, it is announced in
word received at the Apostolic Dele
gation here from Vatican City.
Bishop O’Reilly for months has
been seriouslv ill. He is the third
Ordinary to govern the See of Scran
ton. He was Rector of the Cathedral
of St. John the Evangelist at Cleve
land at the time he was named
Bishop of Scranton on.December 19.
1927. His Eminence Dennis Cardinal
Dougherty, Archbishop of Phila
delphia, officiated at Bishop O’Reilly’s
solemn consecration in the Cleveland
Cathedral on February 16. 1928, and
also at his formal installation in the
See of Scranton on March 8, 1928.
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
WASHINGTON. — The Rh Rev.
Msgr. Eugene J. McGuinness? First
Vice-President and General Secretary
of the Catholic Church Extension So
ciety, has been appointed Bishop of
Raleigh, North Carolina, it is announc
ed in word received here from Vati
can City.
Bishop-elect McGuinness. who be
comes the second Ordinary of the Dio
cese of Raleigh, succeeds to a See left
vacant by the transfer of the Most Rev.
William Hafey, first Bishop of Raleigh,
to the Diocese of Scranton as Coadju
tor to the Most Rev. Thomas C. O’Reil
ly.
The Bishop-elect of Raleigh was
born at Hallertown, Pa., on September
6, 1889, the son of Daniel and Mary
(Flood) McGuinness. He attended
Holy Infancy School in Bethlehem,
(Continued on Page Seven)
Bishop Hafey is the first Ordinary
to govern the Diocese of Raleigh. The
territory embraced by the See was
established as the Vicariate Apostolic
of North Carolina by' Pope Pius IX
on March 3. 1868, and was established
as the Diocese of Raleigh by Pope
Pius XI on December 22, 1924. Bishop
Hafey was named the first Ordinary
of the new diocese in April, 1925. He
was Chancellor of the Archdiocese
of Baltimore at the time of his eleva
tion to the Episcopacy'. The Most
Rev. Michael J. Curley, Archbishop
of Baltimore, officiated at his solemn
consecration in the Baltimore Cathe
dral on June 24, 1925. He was in
stalled in the Diocese of Raleigh on
July 1. 1925. v
Bishop Hafey was born at Spring-
field. Mass., on March 19, 1888. A
few years later his family moved to
Chicopee, Mass. He attended Holy
Cross College, from which he was
graduated in 1909. After a Year in
the Law School of Georgetown Uni
versity here, he decided to study for
the priesthood. He was ordained in
the Baltimore Cathedral on June 16.
1914.
Bishop Hafey’s first assignment fol
lowing his ordination was as Assistant
Pastor at St. Joseph’s Church. Balti
more. where he remained until 1919,
when he was transferred to the Cathe-
(Continued on Page Seven)
Honor to God, Nation Scout
Ideal, Says Mrs. Macaulay
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
SAVANNAH, Ga.—A highlight of
the twenty-fifth annual convention
of Girl Scouts here, was the speech of
Mrs. William J. Babington Macau
lay, chairman of the board of direc
tors, who addresed the opening ses
sion.
Mrs. Macaulay, the former Mrs.
Nichals F. Brady, Latare Medalist
in 1934, has for many years been
prominently connected with Girl
Scouts. Quoting St. Augustine who
spoke of that ‘‘beauty which is ever
ancient, ever new,” Mrs. Macaulay
said:
“Real things, real standards, never
change. And yet somehow there is
ever a newness about them, a de
lightful unfolding of unsuspected
values, of hitherto unrecognized vir
tues. Because it is real, what we
love and revere, no matter how aged
and accustomed, is always young.
“The original standards of Girl
Scouting remain unchanged because
they were built solidly upon real
values. Yet each of the 25 years
which have passed since they were
established has endowed them with
some aparent new richness of qual
ity, inherent in them from the start,
but the ripening of which only the
years could make visible.
“Twenty-five years ago, Juliette
Low, the founder of Girl Scouting
in America, asked wherein the ideal
girlhood lay, and found the answer
in the aims which she set before that
first small group of Girl Scouts.
They were honor to God and to one’s
country, purity, honesty, usefulness,
and a wholesome outdoor life. These
must inevitably lead to happiness
and ultimate fine citizenship. They
are the real standards of Girl Scout
ing, and they will never change.
But the era which made them the
cornerstone has given place to a se
ries of varying eras, and each of
these has of necessity lent its own
color to those standards, never af
fecting their essence, but altering the
program by which they have been
made articulate".
MRS. RUSSELL BELLMAN
WELCOMES CONVENTION
Mrs. Russell Bellman, of Atlanta,
the former Miss Katherine Haverty of
that city, regional chairman for the
Girl Scouts in the Southeast and a
member of the national executive com
mittee, delivered the address of wel
come to the convention, at which Mrs.
Herbert Hoover, president. Mrs. Mac
aulay came from Rome for tire meet
ing.