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Published by the
Catholic Lay
men’s Association
of Georgia.
“To Bring About
a Friendlier
Feeling Among
Neighbors Irre
spective of Creed”
VOL. XVIII. No. 11
AUGUSTA: GEORGIA, NOVEMBER 27, 1937
ISSUED MONTHLY—52.00 A YEAR
Need of Untied Action Stressed at Columbus
Bulletins
MSGR. DUANE HUNT was conse
crated Bishop of Salt Lake in the Ca
thedral of that city, Archbishop Mit-
ty, of San Francisco, being consecra-
tor and Bishop Armstrong, of Sacra
mento. and B'shop Gorman, of Reno,
co-con-1 r ;iors. The sermon was de
livered by Bishop James E. Kearney,
Bishop of Rocnester. Bishop Hunt’s
predecessor at Salt Lake.
BISHOP HUNT is a convert, becom
ing a Catholic in 1912 when attending
the University of Chicago; Father H.
M. Shea, pastor of St. Matthew's
Church, Chicago, who received him
into the Church, witnessed the conse
cration ceremony. Bishop Hunt is the
12th convert to become a Bishop in
the United States.
BISHOP KEARNEY was installed
at Rochester November 11 in the pres
ence of two of his predecessors in the
See. the Most Rev. Thomas F. Hickey,
D.D.. retired Bishop of Rochester, and
Titular Archbishop of Viminacium,
@nd the .'Tost Rev Edward Mooney,
D.D.. Archbishop of Detroit. Bishop
Stephen J. Donahue, New York Aux
iliary. officiated. Governor Herbert
H. Lehman led the state officials at
tending the ceremony.
82 Bishops Attend Annual
Meeting of U. S. Hierarchy
BALTIMORE'S Cathedral of the As
sumption of the nation's first See,
where more members of the Ameri
can Hierarchy have been consecrated
than in any other, has been raised to
the dignity of a Minor Basilica by the
Holy Father. Cardinal Pacelli. Papal
Secretary of State, advises Archbishop
Curley, of Baltimore.
REV. JAMES M. GILLIS. C.S.P.,
editor of The Catholic World, is giv
ing the current Catholic Hour series
each Sunday .evening at 6, Eastern
Standard Time, over the National
Broader, ting System, under the aus
pices of. tlie National Council of Cath
olic Men.
..MSGR. A. J. PASCHANG, of the
Maryknoll Fathers will be consecrat
ed Titular Bishop of Sasima for the
Vicariate of Kongmoon, China. No
vember 30, at the Maryknoll Chapel
at Stanley, Hong Kong. Bishop -Pas-
chang is a native of Martinsville, Mo.
TWO AMERICAN Jesuits will be
among the 28 Jesuits to be ordained
at Patna, India, for the missions there,
the Rev. Paul C. Joehl, S.J., of God
frey, 111., and the Rev. Vincent W
McGlhichy, S.J., of Ashland, Ky.
ANTI-SEMITISM should be oppos
ed by Catholics as a Christian duty,
the Catholic Association for Interna
tional Peace declares in a statement
issued at Washington by the National
Attitudes Committee of the Associa
tion.
NOTRE DAME announces the es
tablishment of the John C. Doarn
Scholarship by his mother, Mrs. A. J.
Doarn. of Omaha, in memory of her
Sou who died last year; he was a var
sity tackle on the 1927 football team
and was graduated in law two years
later.
Cardinal-Designate
Archbishop Mooney Again
Chairman—All Bishops of
Southeast Present
Archbishop Ermenegildo Pellegrin
etti. Papal Nuncio to Jugoslavia, one
of the five prelates designated by the
Holy Father for membership in the
Sacred College of Cardinals, has two
sisters in the United States, Mrs. Giu
seppe Bonuccelli, of Washington, D.
C.. and Mrs. Georgiana D’Allesandro,
of Nevada. The Cardinal-designate
also has nieces and nephews in Wash
ington and Nevada, and grand-nieces
and nephews in Connecticut. Another
brother, the Rev. Gaetano Pellegrin-
etto, died four years ago.
HOLY FATHER SENDS
APOSTOLIC BLESSING
TO C. L, A. MEMBERS
WASHINGTON. — Those members
of the Hierarchy who are to consti
tute the Administrative Board of the
National Catholic Welfare Conference
for the coming year were elected at
the General Meeting of the Bishops
held at the Catholic University of
America here last week. The elec
tion took place on the second day of
the General Meeting, which this year
for the first time extended over a
three-day period.
There is one change in the member
ship of the N. C. W. C. Administrative
Board this year. The Most Rev. Hugh
C. Boyle, Bishop of Pittsburgh, re
turns to membership on the Board af
ter an absence of one year. Bishop
Boyle previously served eight consec-
iftive years as ; member, but retired
in November, 1936 under the rule lim
iting the number of consecutive one-
year terms a Bishop may serve. The
Most Rev. John F Noll, Bishop of
Fort Wayne, retired from the Board
this year under the same rule.
The Bishops of the Southeast, in
cluding Bishop Hafey, who has just
gone from Raleigh to Scranton. Bish
op Walsh, Bishop O'Hara and Bishop
Barry, were present at the annual
meeting.
Following the General Meeting of
the Bishops, the members of the new
ly-elected Administrative Board met
at the N. C. W. C. headquarters and
organized.
The Most Rev. Edward Mooney,
Archbishop of Detroit, was again
elected chairman of the Administra
tive Board. Olher officers re-elected
are: the Most Rev. John B. Peterson,
Bishop of Manchester, vice-chairman;
the Most Rev. Edwin V O'Hara, Bish
op Of Great Falls, Mont., secretary;
the Most Rev. Francis C. Kelley,
Bishop of Oklahoma City and Tulsa,
treasurer.
SUBVERSIVE FORCES
AT WORK IN NATION,
CONVENTION IS TOLD
Bishop O’Hara, Victor Rid-
der, Benedict Eider Address
Notable Gathering
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
COLUMBUS, Ga—The necessity of
a united front of all liberty-loving,
religious-minded citizens of the
United States, Catholic 'and non-
Catholic, against the forces seeking
to undermine American institutions
was the keynote of the twenty-second
annual convention of the Catholic
Laymen's Association of Georgia
held here Monday. Three hundred
delegates and members from every
section of the state attended.
The Most Rev. Gerald P. O'Hara,
Bishop of Savannah-Atlanta, officiat
ed at the convention Mass and de
livered the closing address of the pro
gram. Bishop O'Hara presented to
the convention a cablegram from His
Eminence Eugenio Cardinal Pacelli,
Papal Secretary of State, conveying
the blessing of the Holy Father to the
Association and its officers and mem
bers, and a telegram of greeting,
felicitation and blessing from His Ex
cellency the Most Rev. Amleto
Giovanni Cicognani. Apostolic Dele
gate to the United States.
C. L. A. President
Replying to a cablegram of loyalty
and affection which the Most Rev.
Gerald P. O’Hara, D. D., Bishop of
Savannah-Atlanta, sent to the Holy
Father through His Eminence, Cardi
nal Pacelli, Papal Secretary of State,
in the name., of the Catholic Lay
men's Association of Georgia, Cardi
nal Pacelli cabled Bishop O’Hara:
“The Holy Father most cordially
grants the Apostolic Blessing that
was requested for the officers and
members of the Catholic Laymen’s
Association, and sends best wishes for
their convention. Bishop O’Hara
presented the Holy Father’s message
at the afternoon session of the con
vention.
Red Pamphlets Admit Soviet
Aid to the Spanish Leftists
In assigning members of the Board
to various Episcopal Chairmanships,
two changes were made. The Most
Rev. Joseph F. Rummel, Archbishop
of New Orleans, who last year was
Episcopal Chairman ot the Legal De
partment, was assigned to the Episco
pal Chairmanship of the Department
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HOLY SEE STATEMENT
ON FATHER COUGHLIN
The principal lay speaker was Vic
tor F. Ridder, noted New York pub
lisher and social welfare leader, who
emphasized the warning he said Ca
tholics and all citizens should read
in the indications of subversive
activities in the nation. After de
scribing the efforts of Communists as
he observed them while he was Ad
ministrator of the WPA in New York,
a narration he said he himself would
have believed fantastic a few years
ago, he deplored tne complacency of
the American people in the face of
the dangers such activities constitute.
This attitude- he asserted, is due to
the reluctance of Americans to do
anything which might be construed
in any way as interference with the
rights of minorities. The time has
come, he asserted, when the nation
must consider the rights of the over
whelming majority which radical
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ALFRED M BATTEY
MEETING RE-ELECTS
PRESIDENT BATTEY
J. J. Haverty, K.S.G., Again
First Vice-President, Fi
nance Committee Chairman
Archbishop Mooney’s Re
marks Called “Just, Time
ly”, Papal Delegate Says
APOSTOLIC DELEGATE
EXTENDS GREETINGS
AND FELICITATIONS
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
NEW YORK. — Pamphlets avail
able. and readily obtainable, at the
Workers" Library Bookshop here not
pnly admit but openly boast of the
part Soviet Russia has played and is
playing in furtherance of the Leftist
cause in the present struggle in
Spain.
'■The Spanish Revolution,” a
pamphlet by M. Ercoli, a member of
the Executive Committee of the
Communist International, says: “We
are faced in Spain with a situation
Which, in the fire of revolutionary
Struggle, supplies proof of the his
torical correctness of the political
fine mapped out by the Seventh
World Congress of the Comthunist
international.”
Another is the “Verbatim Reportof
the Negotiations between the Second
and Third Internationals on the
Questions of Supporting the Heroic
Struggle of the Spanish Workers.”
A foreword says it is the conversa
tion at a meeting between represen
tatives of the Communist Interna
tional and the Labor and Socialist
International “for immediate joint
action ... to organize the fight to
prevent the Leroux Government be
ing aided by other capitalist coun
tries.”
A pamphlet by Harry Garines en
titled "How the Soviet Union Helps
Spain,” contains such expressions as
“The Soviet Union is the undenied
leader of the hosts fighting every
where for Spanish democracy and
freedom,” “The Soviet Union inspires
united action of all world labor and
anti-fascists against the Spanish reb
el butchers and the Fascist instiga
tors,” “The Soviet Union leads the
way.” and the Soviet Union “is sur
passing itself in Spain.”
G. Dimitroff’s pamphlet “Spain
and the People's Front” says “the
most important, immediate tasks”
before the world proletariat are: “To
exert every effort to help the Span
ish people to crush the Fascist reb
els; Not to allow the People's Front
in France to be discredited or dis
rupted; To hasten by every means
the establishment of a world Peo
ple’s Front of struggle against Fas
cism and war.”
Some of these pamphlets, while
have received arms from sympathe
tic foreign countries, spend equal ef
fort in asserting .that Soviet Russia
has not supplied’*the Leftist forces
with arms.
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
WASHINGTON. — His Excellency
the Most Rev. Amleto Giovanni Cic-
ogani, Apostolic Delegate to the
United States, in a statement issued
here, made known the reply of
the Holy See to inquiries it has re
ceived relative to the Rev. Charles
E. Coughlin of the Detroit Archdio
cese. In the statement, the Holy See
declares it regards as “just and time
ly” the corrections which the Most
Rev. Edward Mooney, Archbishop of
Detroit, made in reference to Father
Coughlin's remarks.
Following is the text of the state
ment:
“I am instructed to make the fol
lowing statement:
“ ‘In answer to messages received
by the Holy See from individuals
and groups interested in the activi
ties of the Rev. Charles E. Coughlin
of the Archdiocese of Detroit, the
Holy See replies as follows: “The
Holy See regards as just and timely
the corrections which the Arch
bishop of Detroit made in reference
to the remarks of Father Coughlin
published on October 5. Every
Bishop has not only the right but
the duty to supervise Catholic teach
ing in his diocese. Any priest who
feels aggrieved by the action of his
Bishop in the exercise of such super
vision has the right of orderly re
course to the Holy See, but in loy
alty to the Church, he also has the
duty of using his influence to keep
devoting considerable space to charg- .
ing that the Rightist forces in Spain* the matter from being made the oc-
1 _ “ J _ — f . .-ll, !.. r Miiklin orfitoliiMV o*i,l Intie
casion of public agitation and thus
possibly creating confusion in the
minds of many Catholics.” ’
“A G. CICOGNANI.
“Apostolic Delegate.”
His Excellency, Archbishop Amleto
Giovanni Cicognani. Apostolic Dele
gate to the United States, in a cable
gram to His Excellency, Bishop
O'Hara, sent his greetings and felicita
tions to the Laymen's Association
convention at Columbus. His Ex
cellency said:
“Kindly convey my cordial greet
ings to the Catholic Laymen's Asso
ciation of Georgia assembled in an
nual convention. I regard their splen
did ' achievements of the past for
Holy Church as an augary for the
future and I pray that God may con
tinue to bless them and heir work.”
Alfred M. Batey, of Augusta, was
re-elected president of the Catholic
Laymen’s Association of Georgia at
the Columbia convention; Mr. Battey -
is the association's fifth president,
succeeding the late Capt. P. H. Rice,
K. C. S. G.. four years ago. The
previous presidents were A. J. Long,
of Macon. Col. Jack J. Spalding K.
S. G., K. M„ of Atlanta nd Thomas
F. Walsh, of Savannah.
James J. Haverty, K. S. G., was
elected first vice-president and chair
man of the finance committee; John
B. McCallum. Atlanta, recording sec
retary; Miss Cecile C. Ferry, Augusta,
financial secretary; Thomas F. Walsh,
Savannah, treasurer, and Alvin M
McAuliffe auditor. The post of
publicity director was changed to
executive secretary, one in which
Richard Reid, of Augusta, continues.
The members of the publicity com
mittee are Richard Reid, Augusta,
chairman: C. A. McCarthy. Savannah;
Evelyn Harris, Atlanta; Mrs. Joseph
E. Kelly, Savannah: Miss Kate Mur
phy, Atlanta; R. H. Oasson, Macon and
John M. Harrison Atlanta. Mr. Cas-
son succeeds. E. A Sheridan, Macon,
who at one time was chairman of the
committee. Mr. Sheridan, one of the
founders of the association, request
ed retirement from the committee,
with assurances of undiminished in
terest and assistance as a member.
State vice-presidents from the va
rious communities were elected as
follows: Athens. Dr T. H. McHatton,
Mrs. Loretta Costa; Albany. • R. E.
McCormack. Miss Mary Brosnan;
Atlanta, Col. Jack J. Spalding. K. S.
G., K. M„ Miss Ida Ryan; Augusta,
E. J. O'Connor, Miss Anna Rice;
Brunswick, .John B Touhey, Mrs. J.
C. Stiles; Fitzgerald. F. J. Brennan,
Miss Clara Deimel; Macon, M. J. Cal
laghan, Mrs E. A. Sheridan; Milledge-
ville, R. W. Hatcher. Mrs. J. A.
Horne; Rome, B. S Fahy. Mrs. George
Horton; Washington. George Poche,
Mrs. F. W. Gilbert.
U. S. Bishops Deplore Nazis
Persecution of Christianity
WASHINGTON.—The “satanic re
sourcefulness” and the “incredible ex
cesses' ’of the leaders of modern pa
ganism in Germany have outraged
“the sense of all religious minded
men and women throughout the
world." the Bishops of the United
States declare in a letter addressed to
the German Hierarchy.
chy was made-public in connection
with the annual General Meeting of
the Bishops of the United States, held
here last week with 82 members of
the Hierarchy in attendance. It
pledges “unceasing prayers” for the
German Bishops and their persecuted
people in this their “hour of sorrow
and trial.” It tells the Gerfnan prel-
Calling the religious persecution in j ates that the American Bishops “wish
Germany an attempt “to destroy the j to bear witness to our solidarity with
very work of the Redemption of all
men by Jesus Christ," the American
Bishops commend their German
brethren for the encouragement and
support the latter have given their
heroic people. "The Church of Amer
ica. the Catholic world, and all who
believe are with them and with you,”
the letter asserts.
The letter of the American Hierar-
you” and to “assure you of our gen
uine sympathy, our sincere admira
tion and our Seep affection.”
The letter is signed by His Emi
nence Dennis Cardinal Dougherty,
Archbishop of Philadelphia, who pre»
sided at the General Meeting of the
Bishops, and by the Most Rev. Emmet
M. Walsh. Bishop of Charleston,
retary of the meeting.