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NOVEMBER 27, 1937
THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC L AYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
THRESH
—NEWS REVIEW OF THE CATHOLIC WORLD- - -
MEXICO AGAIN BANS
TEACHING CHRISTIAN
CREATION CONCEPT
Press Meeting Host
Catholic Students Picket
Communist Meeting in New
York—Holy Father Asks
Aid for Catholic U.
PRESIDENT CARDENAS of Mexico
warns the private schools of the
nation that they must comply strictly
with the requirement of “a national
and exact conception of the universe. ’
This rules out the Christian teaching
of the Creation of the world.
THE HOLY FATHER in a letter to
the Archbishos and Bishops of the
United States, recommends that in
the two years remaining before the
Golden Jubilee of the Catholic Uni
versity of America, plans be made to
give the claims of the University
“priority over all other appeals other
than those of established tradition
and of strict necessity. ’
MSGR. PETER WYNHOVEN,
editor of Catholic Action of the South.
New Orleans, has been appointed
general chairman of the committee
on arrangements for the Eighth Na
tional Eucharistic Congress to be
held in New Orleans October 17-20.
CATHOLIC STUDENTS numbering
250 picketed the New York State
Communist Party’s Mass meeting at
Madison Square Garden New York.
“Communism denies freedom 01
speech and of the press’, and The
Poorest American worker gets more
than the best paid Russian worker'
were two of the signs carried by the
students. Over 5,000 students wished
to picket the meeting, Put through
an arrangement of the police with
Father Ignatius Cox, S. J., of Ford-
ham, the number was limited to 250.
BISHOPS DEPLORE
EVILS OF DRINKING
Immoral Movies and Unclean
Shows Also Condemned
. (By N. C. W. C. News Service)
WASHINGTON. —Promiscuous and
unwise use of intoxicants, immoral
movies and unclean floor shows in
many drinking places were condemn
ed by the Bishops of the United States
in a statement issued at their annual
meeting held here. The Bishops call
ed upon all clean-minded people to
co-operate in their suppression. The
statement follows:
“The Bishops of the United States,
in annual meeting assembled, voice
their deep concern over the evils aris
ing from the all-too-prevalent. pro
miscuous and unwise use of intoxi
cating liquors. They feel that the dan
gers inherent to such intoxicants, un
der the present-day customs, critical
ly threaten our growing youth, par
ticularly girls. With the same fervor
with which they condemn immoral
and unclean movies the Bishops con
demn the suggestive, sensuous and
unclean floor shows connected with
many drinking places and urge all
clean-minded people to co-operate in
their suppression.
ARCHBISHOP MOONEY of Detroit
and Bishop McAuliffe of Hartford,
were elected members of the Board
of Trustees of the Catholic University;
William L. Galvin of Baltimore, was
elected to succeed the late Francis
P. Garvan. of New York.
TWO .NOTED .SCIENTISTS, Dr.
Thomas Hunt Morgan and Dr. Robert
Andrew Millikan, of the California
Institute of Technology, both Protear
tants, were honored by membership
in the Pontifical Academy of Science,
their appointments coming from the
Holy Father and the insignia being
conferred on them at exercises in Los
Angeles by Archbishop John J. Cant
well-
SCOUTING under Catholic direc
tion has increased 18 per cent in the
year ending June 30, the Rev. Edward
The Very Rev. John F. O’Hara, C.
S. C., President of Notre Dame Uni
versity, who will be host to the annual
pre-convention meeting of the execu
tive Board of the Catholic Press Asso
ciation of the United States at Notre
Dame beginning Saturday, November
27. To prepare the agenda for this
meeting at Notre Dame, a preliminary
session of the hoard will be held at the
Hotel Stevens, Chicago, on Friday, No
vember 26.
MISS AGNES FAHY, formerly of
Rome, Ga.. is president of the News
paper Guild of Newark, the national
organization of which repudiated ih a
referendum opposition to the Right
ists in S^ain, expressed by resolution
in national convention. All other
measures adopted by the national
convention were endorsed in the ref
erendum.
BISHOP KEYES presided at the de-
parture ceremony at Marist College
in Washington when the Rev Ronald
Dionne, S. M., ordained in 1935, left
for the Marist Missions in the South
Sea Islands. Father Dionne joins three
classmates ordained with him _ by
Bishop Thomas Wade. S- M., vicar-
apostolic of the North Solomon Is
lands.
REV. DR. COTTMANS, professor of
philosophy at Louvain, and known to
hundreds of Americans who were
students there, died late in October
on the day he was to resume classes
for the semester.
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY lim
JC „ ited its students in the graduate
Roberts Moore of New York, national sc hool to fifty this year, the Rev.
• .1 /-i Ii on A 1 1 T IT-. C T rlnon on -
director of the Catholic Committee on
Scouting, reported at the fourth an
nual meeting of the Conference of
Diocesan Scout Chaplains in Detroit.
ARCHBISHOP ? OONEY of Detroit
and Bishop Sheil of Chicago were the
principal speakers at the Scouting
conference; Scout chaplains from Bal
timore, Harrisburg, Hartford, Detroit,
Los Angeles, Leavenworth, Denver,
Providence, Boston, Erie, Peoria, Du
buque and Wheeling were among
those on the pro “ram.
JAMES HYNES, who was a mem
ber of the firm of Isaac' Pitman in his
youth and who later became a mem
ber of the board of the Pitman short
hand firm, is dead in London at 74.
Mr. Hynes, a Catholic and the author
of about 30 Pitman textbooks, was
described by the Pitman family in a
set of silver plate described to turn as
the sucessor of Isaac Pitman.
MONTREAL’S new St. Joseph's Or
atory on Mount Royal where Brother
Andre labored is rapidly assuming
shape: the dome is nearing comple
tion. The Basilica when completed
will seat 3,800 people-
Aloysius J. Hogan, S. J-, dean, an
nounces, one-third of the number ap
plying for admission. No student who
had not maintained the grade of B
through his college course was con
sidered for admission.
CANADA will have a National Eu
charistic Congress in Quebec, opening
June 30 with Pontifical Mass on the
famous Plains of Abraham.
NUMBER OF CARDINALS NOW 69
CARDINAL O’CONNELL paid an
unscheduled visit to the convention
of the National Catholic Alumni Fed
eration in Boston, and told the six
hundred delegates that ther is a cry
ing need in the world for educated
men and particularly Catholic edu
cated men.
THE MARYKNOLL FATHERS
have offered no reward for the re
lease of Father Gerard A. Donovan,
captured by bandits, the Congrega
tion of Propaganda some time ago ad
vising against the paying of ransom
when any missionary is captured for
the paying of ransom only whets the
appetites of the bandits and encour
ages other kidnapings.
WASHINGTON will be host to the
biennial convention of the National
Catholic Federation of Nurses De
cember 4 and 5, the sessions of which
will be held in the auditorium of the
National Catholic School of Social
Service.
DEERFIELD, Kansas, has a unique
church for its Mexican congregation
there, two Santa Fe Railroad passen
ger cars, set parallel, four feet apart.
Father George Spaeth, the pastor, and
members of the congregation remov
ing the walls and bridging the gap.
The result is a chapel which accom
modates 150 persons.
The naming of five new Cardinals by Pope Pius XI, at the Consis
tory, to be held on December 13, will raise the total in the Sacred
College of Cardinals to 69, one less than the maximum membership.
Archbishop Ermenegildo Pellegrinetti, Papal Nuncio to Jugoslavia
and the four pictured above are the new' members. Upper left,
Archbishop Pierre Gerlier, of Lyon; upper right. Archbishop Arthur
Hinsley, of Westminster; lower left, Archbishop Giuseppe Piz-
zardo. Secretary of the Sacred Congregation for Extraordinary
Ecclesiastical Affairs and Archbishop Adeodato G. Piazza, Patriarch
of Venice
SOCIAL JUSTICE, the weekly es
tablished by Father Coughlin, replied
to Archbishop Mooney when he sent
a communication for publication that
it “is not and never has been a Cath
olic publication." Social Justice de
clined to publish the Archbishop s
communication.
NEW YORK has a Catholic Maga
zine Center, sponsored by the Catho
lic Book Club, at 140 East 45th Street,
near Grand Central Station; the cen
ter was opened late in October nnd
visitors to the city are welcome to it-
REV. JOSEPH M. DOGNY. pastor at
Paulding, Miss., since 1925. died late in
October after a short illness. Father
Dogny was born in France 63 years
ago, was ordained at Rheims in 1901.
and came to the Diocese of Natchez.
Miss., in 1914.
CONFESSION was recommended to
Catholics by Dr. Carl G. Jung of Zu
rich in a Terry lecture at Yale Univer
sity. He regretted that he could not
give this advice to Protestants, but said
that with them dogma and ritual "have
become so pale and faint that they
have lost their efficiency to a high de
gree. There is also, as a rule, no confes
sion, and the parsons share in the com
mon dislike of psychological problems
and also, unfortuniately, in psycholog
ical ignorance."
THE WICHITA DIOCESE observed
the golden jubilee of its founding late
in October, ten Bishops attending the
ceremonies, at which the Most Rev.
Augustus J. Sehwertner, D. D.. Bishop
of Wichita, presided.
LEFT'S “DEMOCRACY"
IN SPAIN SUSPECTED
BY NEW YORK TIMES
MSGR. NICHOLAS FRANCHE. for
62 years a priest of the Diocese of
Cleveland, died at the Convent of Vil
la Maria, Pa., where he had been chap
lain for 56 years; the convent is at
tached to the Diocese of Cleveland.
Monsignor Franche, then was the dean
of the clergy of the Diocese, was born
at Dounoux, France, 86 years ago and
came to this country as a seminarian
in 1874.
JAMES
President,
students,
NOTRE DAME University started
construction of a memorial field
house to the memory of Knute
Rockne November 5. The structure
will cost 8550.000; the memorial fund
plus interest totals 8150,000 and the
university has appropriated 8200,000,
leaving 8200,000 yet to be paid.
$1,000 Offered byC. P.A. as
Theses Competition Prizes
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
AUGUSTA, Ga. — T h e Literary
Awards Foundation of the Catholic
Press Association offers for the best
theses on subjects in the field of the
Catholic Press in the United States.
The prizes will be in the amounts of
8300, 8250, 8200, 8150 and $100, respec
tively.
All theses entered in the contest
must be submitted to the Literary
Awards Foundation through • the
Chairman at 814-817 Southern Finance
Building, here, on or before December
31. 1938. They must be prepared in
partial fulfillment of the require
ments for a graduate degree, must be
acecpted as such by the universities to
which they are submitted, and must be
accompanied by evidence of such ac
ceptance.
The theses may be studies of the
Catholic Press of the United States, or
of a section, state, diocese or city of
the United States, or some other study
which in the opinion of the Literary
Awards Foundation Committee of the
Catholic Press Association comes
within the field of the Catholic Press.
The decisions of the Literary Awards
Foundation Committed shall be final in
all questions in conection with the
competition.
The contest is sponsored by the Cath
olic Press Association of the United
States, of which Vincent dePaul Fitz
patrick. Managing Editor of The Cath
olic Review of Baltimore, is president.
The members of the Literary Awards
Foundation Committee are: the Rev.
James M. Gillis. C. S. P.. Editor of The
Catholic World, Patrick Scanlan,
Managing Editor of The'Brooklyn Tab
let. and Richard Reid, Editor of The
Bulletin of the Catholic Laymen's As
sociation of Georgia, chainnau.
ROOSEVELT. son of the
addressed 25,000 Catholic
representing 82 colleges,
academies and high schools, at a Cath
olic Youth Organization rally at Loy
ola University, Chicago. Bishop Ber
nard J. Sheil of Chicago introduced
him. Later he visited Cardinal Mun
delein.
REV. WILLIAM J. DUANE, S. J.,
formerly president of Fordham Uni
versity, observed his golden jubilee as
a Jesuit at St. Francis Xavier Church.
New York. Cardinal Hayes delivering
the sermon.
MSGR. WM. KANE, dean of the
Youngstown, O.. district of the Dio
cese of Cleveland, noted radio speaker
and formerly Diocesan superintendent
of schools, is dead at the age of 62.
Monsignor Kane succeeded Archbish
op Mooney as pastor in Youngstown
when Archbishop Mooney- went to
Rome as spiritual director of the North
American College.
MISS KATHERINE B R E G Y has
been elected president of the Catholic
Poetry Society for a two-year term
starting January 1. Miss Bregy, who is
a resident of Philadelphia, was for
merly vice-president, John Gilland
Brunini is executive secretary. Miss
Bregy, widely known poet and essay
ist, has honorary doctorates from
D'Youville and Holy Cross colleges and
is an Officer d’Academie and Officer
de L’Instruction Publique of France.
MSGR. PATRICK C. GAVAN, rec
tor of the Shrine of the Sacred Heart
in Washington, and a native of Lanca
shire, England, died here early in No
vember at 66. Monsignor Gavan. a
former president of the Alumni Asso
ciation of the North American College
in Rome, was at the Conclave as as
sistant to Cardinal Gibbons in 1903 af
ter the death of Pope Leo XIII when
Cardinal Gibbons was the first Amer
ican to participate in the election of a
Pope.
HERMAN HERDER, head of the
famed international book firm, and
printer to the Holy Apostolic See, is
dead at Freiburg, Germany, at 73. His
grandfather, a scholarly publisher,
founded the firm in 1801. There are
branches of the firm in St. Louis, Lon
don, Rome, Vienna, Barcelona and To
kyo.
SAN DOMINGO is sending four
planes on a good will tour of the West
ern Hemisphere in aid of the Colum*
bus monument, which is to be a light
house. The planes will visit every
country in North and South America,
and Miami, Washington, New York
and Boston in this country.
(Editorial in the New York Times)
The Loyalist Government is fight
ing with its back to the wall against
Spanish fascism, and no doubt it feels
a deep and a natural gratitude for
the assistance it has received front
Russia. Something more than grati
tude, however, set the tone of Sun
day's celebration in Madrid. Seizing
upon the coincidence between the
first anniversary of the beginning of
the siege of that city and the twen
tieth anniversary of the Russian rev
olution. the Loyalist Government
hung the streets with crossed Loyal
ist and Soviet flags, and honored Le
nin and Stalin along with its own he
roes. According to our correspondent
in Madrid, the celebration was essen
tially of a double character; an occa
sion not only for rejoicing on behait
of Madrid, but for paying "homage to
the Soviet Union". It becomes increas
ingly difficult, in the face of evidence
of this kind, to regard the struggle
in Spain as a contest between liber
alism on one side and reaction on the
other; for "homage" to Russia is not
the creed of liberalism.
DR. JAMES H. KIDDER, dean oT
the Fordham University College oi
Pharmacy, has been named a Fellov/
of the American College of Sur
geons.
Brazil Denies Its Reaction
to Communism Is Fascism
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
NEW YORK.—Denial that the new
Constitution of hsi country is fascist
and the declaration that “the new
regime is a logical movement against
Communist tactics, which, corrupt
ed certain Brazilian elements, weak
or ambitions," are highlights of a
statement by President Getulio Var
gas of Brazil in The New York
Times.
“Brazil has been threatened con
stantly from outside and from with
in." President Vargas says- “The
Comintern (CoAmunist Internation
al) made it a cardinal point to take
root in Brazil, using all means and
working its nefarious propaganda
through unpatriotic politicians.
“As Brazil has national political
parties, following a well-defined plan,
subterranean Communistic propa
ganda gained headway. Owing to this
state of things, exceptional measures
had to be taken.
“The 1934 Constitution offered great
facilities for Communistic propagan
da. A new Constitution was imper
ative, especially to centralize the go—
ernment’s functions, as the only way
to combat the insidious campaign
financed by the Comintern. Other
nations could perhaps have solved
the case differently. However, with
in the Brazilian environment, Brazil
solved it this way.”
President Vargas expresses the
conviction that “under the new Con
stitution a great step was taken to
avoid friction by restraining the al
most autocratic power held by some
states of the Federation, whose gov
ernors maintained a monopoly in
state politics, defying the central
government, bringing chaos to po
litical stability and harming the na
tion’s economy." As a result of this
situation, he adds, “Communism
gained ground by working under
ground.”