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DECEMBER 21,* 1937 THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN'S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
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—NEWS REVIEW OF THE CATHOLIC WORLD—
JERRY J. O’CONNELL, Congress
man from Montana, who has endorsed
the Leftists in Spain, has not been in
good standing as a Catholic for some
time; he has been divorced and mar
ried again outside the Church.
Extension Society Bids Bishop McGuinness
Godspeed as He Resigns His Post There
REV. MILES D. KILEY, pastor of
St. Ann’s Churcfc, Gloucester, and
brother of Bishop Moses E. Kiley of
Trento, is dead at the age of 73.
Father Kiley was born in Margane,
Nova Scotia.
REV. P. J. SOCK, who was gradu
ated in dentistry from the University
of Pittsburgh in 1926, has been ap
pointed by Bishop Boyle chaplain to
the Catholic students at the University !
and at Carnegie Tech. Father Rock,
who was ordained in June, served
overseas in the World War.
AN ANGLICAN Community of ,
nuns, the Mother Superior and eight
Sisters at Vancouver, B. C., who en
tered the Church recently, has been
canonically established as a Catholic
religious community by the Archbish
op of Vancouver. The Anglican com
munity was established in 1922.
ST. LEO High School and Austin
High, Catholic and public high school
football champions in Chicago, met
Thanksgiving Day before 110,000 peo
ple, the largest crowd ever attending a
prep school game. St. Leo’s was de
feated 26 to 0.
NOTRE DAME sent two more mis
sionaries to the Decca Diocese in Ben
gal in December, Brother Andrew
Steffes and Brother Osmund Mittcos-
be.
BROTHER ELZEAR STEPHEN, for
merly president of Manhattan College, |
New York. Christian Brothers Col-
lege, St. Louis and Christian Brothers j
College, Memphis, died in St. Louis (
early in December, Archbishop Glen-
non presided at the funeral services for
Brother Elzear, who was born John
Kelly in Newfoundland.
HARRISBURG Diocese reports 27
new Boy Scout troops in a year, Fath
er Lawrence F. Schott, Diocesan chap
lain, reported at the second annual
dinner meeting of the Diocesan coun-
eil.
SISTER MARY of the Catechist Sis
ters of St. Anne, bitten by a cobra in
tier sleep, died a few hours later at
Bezwada, India.
THE SOVIET PRESS was ordered
to ignore the reference to the men
ace of communism in the encyclical
of Pope Pius XI.
BISHOP FRANCIS C. KELLEY of
Oklahoma City, gave a series of five
lectures at the University of Notre
Dame, starting December 13. Count
ess Clara Longworth de Chambrun
lectured on “The Romance of Shapes-
neare's Sonnets” and “The Poaching
Incident” December 5 and 6. The
Countess is a sister of the late Con
gressman Nicholas Longworth, speak
er of the House of Representatives-
PAULINE JARICOT, foundress of
the Society for the Propagation of the
Faith, who died in Lyons, France, 75
years ago, was honored on the anni
versary of her death by the unveiling
of a plaque at St. Louis Cathedral,
New Orleans, in the Diocese which
first received aid from the society.
Archbishop Rummell presided and the
Very Rev. Michael Larkin, S.M., presi
dent of Notre Dame Seminary, offici
ated at the Solemn High Mass.
CAMPION ACADEMY in Wisconsin
has dedicated a memorial library to
Joyce Kilmer, a warm friend of the
famed Jesuit school; Kilmer delivered
the commencement address there in
1917, getting leave from the army for
the occasion. His son, Christopher Kil
mer. and his daughter, Sister Michael,
O.S.B., were among those at the dedi
cation exercises..
BISHOP SCHULER, S.J., of El Paso,
announces a plan for a statue of Christ
the King atop Sierra de Cristo Rey
Mountain near El Paso, to replace a
provisional cross now there in fulfill
ment of the promise of nearby parish-
oners.
BROTHER EDMUND, president of
Mt. St. Joseph's High School, Balti
more, has been named provincial of
the Xaverian Brothers in the United
States. Brother Edmund is a native
of Manchester, N. H.
THE JESUITS have 241 members
serving in the Philippines, the annual
catalogue reveals, including two Bish
ops, the Most Rev. James T. G. Hayes,
S. J.. Bishop of Cagayan, and the Most
Rev. Luis del Rosario, S. J., Bishop of
Zamboanga. 105 priests, 96 scholastics
and 38 Brothers. There are now 80
Filipino Jesuits.
REV. E. C. VEILLARD, pastor at
Sulphur, La., has been named super
ior and director of the LaSalette Fath
ers’ International College at Rome;
Father Veillard is a member of the La
Salette Fathers.
The officials of the Catholic Church Extension Soc iety photographed in Chicago just before Bishop-elect
Eugene J. McGuinness tendered his resignation as vice president and general secretatry at the annual meet
ing on November 22. Top row, left to right: Rev. Thomas J. Reed, secretary to the president; Hugh J. Blakele.w
director of advertising; the Rev. Richard R. St. John, d rector of the Order of Martha; John A. Kauffman, busi
ness manager; tlie Rev. Joseph B. Lux, director of cir culation; David P. O'Brien, Chicago district manager.
Bottom row. left to right: Charles C. Kerwin, vice presi dent and treasurer of the Society; Bishop-elect Mc
Guinness vice president and general secretary; Most Rev. William D. O’Brien, president of the Society; Simon
A. Baldus, managing editor; Joseph D. Daly, vice president and general counsel. Courtesy of the New World,
Official Organ of the Archdiocese of Chicago.
authorities. Both are in the Broad
way area-
REV. ALFRED OATES, S. J., who
resigned as president of Xavier High
School, New York, in October because
of ill health, is dead at 50. Father
Oates was a native of New York and
was graduated at Fordham University.
THE ORTHODOX BISHOP Makar
ius Desnitsky was shot by a radical
at Swerdlowsk in the Ural, Russia,
and died three days later. The assas
sin said that the Bishop was engaged
in subversive acts against the Soviet
government. The official of the Athe
ist League is supplying legal counsel
for the murderer.
.. ST. MARK’S Parish for colored
Catholics in New York recently ob
served the silver jubilee of its estab
lishment. The Rev. Michael Mulvoy,
C. S. Sp., is pastor.
EIGHT’ DECADES by Agnes Rep-
B lier is the December choice, of the
Catholic Book of the Month Club.
A BENEDICTINE Brother. Brother
Nicholas Frederick Kopp of St. Vin
cent's Archabbey, died from injuries
sustained in an automobile accident
near the Abbey in Pennsylvania, and
three other Benedictines, Father Bald
win Ambros, Brother Bernard Lew-
itzke and Brother Vincent Thiede,
were injured.
THE ACTIVE members of the
American Catholic Philosophical So
ciety will meet in their thirteenth an
nual convention in New York Decem
ber 29 and 30 under the patronage
of Cardinal Hayes. The association
will meet jointly with the Eastern
Division of the American Philosophi
cal Association.
HON. ALFRED E. SMITH was hon-
ered at St. Peter's Church. Pleasant-
ville, N. J.. when a statue of St.
Thomas More erected as a memorial
to Governor Smith, a benefactor of
the parish church, was unveiled and
blessed. Governor Smith was intro
duced by Governor Hoffman of New
Jersey as “the greatest apostle of
tolerance in the nation today” and
“the first Citizen-at-Large of the
United States "
HON. MAURY MAVERICK. Texas
Congressman, was one of the 16 hon
or students of St. Mary's University
for the first half of the fall term.
Congressman Maverick has been
studying economics and government
at St. Mary's during the recent Con
gressional recess.
Bishop McGuinness Honored
by Extension Society as He
Resigns to Go to Raleigh
BROTHER ALFRED, 30-year-old
dean of the School of Science, has
been elected to membership in Sigma
Xi, national science academy. Broth
er Alfred received his Doctorate of
Philosophy at the University of
Southern California last spring with
a straight “A” average.
THE SOCIETY for the Propagation
of the Faith is making its annual ap
peal during December for lepers. Cath
olic missionaries are caring for 25,000
lepers in 107 asylums.
THE INTERNATIONAL Eucharistic
Congress in Budapest for 1938 will
Open May 24 and close May 31. accord
ing to a program which has been re
ceived by the Bishops of the United
States.
A DETROIT storekeeper has been
Convicted of selling obscene literature
and faces a fine of $500. A number of
Catholic and Protestant organizations
were interested in the test case, tried
foefpre a jury, with the city prosecu
tor handling the case.
WINDSOR, Ontario, has a new $200,-
000 wing to the Hotel Dieu Hospital,
directed by the Sisters of St. Joseph.
Bishop J. T. Kidd of London offici
ated at the laying of the corner
stone.
TWO BURLESQUE theatres have
closed in New York because of poor
business the operators blame re
strictions imposed on them by city
ARCHBISHOP HANNA, retired or
dinary of San Francisco, was the
celebrant of the Thanksgiving Mass
at the Church of Santa Susanna in
Rome, the Rev. Thomas L. O’Neill,
C. S- P., rector, read President Roose
velt's Thanksgiving proclamation and
the Rev. Dr. Allen J. Babcock, vice
rector of the North American Col
lege, delivered the sermon.
MINNEAPOLIS has renamed Thir
ty-eighth Avenue to Dowling Avenue
in honor of the late Archbishop Aus
tin Dowling of St- Paul.
THE DOMINICAN Master General,
the Most Rev. Martin S. Gillet, O- P.,
now visiting the Dominican missions
in the Ohient, will visit the Friars
of the American Province early in
1938. stopping at San Francisco, New
Orleans and New York.
ARGENTINA has a new Bishopric,
that of Resistencia, the tenth erected
since 1933. It lias a population of
709.000.
SOUTH BEND’S Mayor, George W.
Freyermuth, was the first to sign
a pledge in the campaign against
salacious literature in the campaign
being waged in that city. Our Sun
day Visitor reprints a letter to a
South Bend druggist from the pub
lisher of a popular mazagine in
which the publisher verifies the
statement of a magazine agency that
his publication could not be secured
without taking also a supply of the
salacious literature.
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
CHICAGO.—Formal acceptance' of
the resignation of the Most Rev. Eu
gene J. McGuinness, Bishop-elect of
Raleigh, from offices in the Catholic
Church Extension Society as a re
sult of his elevation to the Hierarchy
was announced at the annual meet
ing of the Catholic Church Extension
Society here. Bishop McGuinness re
signed from the position of vice-
president and general manager of the
Extension Society and as field secre
tary of the Board of Catholic Mis
sions.
At the annual election of officers
Cardinal Mundelein was chosen
Chancellor and the Most Rev. Samuel
A. Stritch, Archbishop of Milwaukee,
Vice-Chancellor. .
Cardinal Mundelein presided over
the meeting which was attended by a
large number of the American Hier
archy. This meeting marked the
twenty-second time that His Emi
nence presided at this event. For the
Most Rev. William D. O’Brien, Aux
iliary Bishop of Chicago, it complet
ed his thirtieth year of work with the
Extension Society. The report shows
that the Extension Society is engaged
in assisting missionary dioceses in
this country chiefly in the West,
South and Southeast. During the last
thirty-two years, through the help of
the Extension Society, more than 5,-
000 chapels have been built. The So
ciety also assists poor priests in these
mission districts, with the approval of
the local Ordinary.
The Society moreover assists stu
dents for the Missionary Priesthood
with semi-annual grants made for
this purpose to the missionary Bish
ops. Extension also acts as an agent
for the distribution of Mass Inten
tions to needy missionary priests.
In the report of the President for
the last fiscal year of the Society,
from October 1, 1936 to September 30,
1937, it was announced that Exten
sion was able to distribute nearly
three-quarters of a million dollars
for the various needs of the home
missions. In detail the President an
nounced that with the help of Exten
sion Society mission chapels costing
from $3,000 to $5,000 were built, or
other religious buildings provided, or
repairs made in the following 21
States, Puerto Rico and the Canal
Zone: Louisiana. Texas, Oregon,
Idaho, South Carolina, Wyoming, Col
orado. Indiana, Montana, Arkansas,
Michigan, Florida, California, Mis-
sisippi, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Ne
vada, Utah, New Mexico, Arizona
and Kansas.
The subsidies for students for the
Missionary Priesthood amounted to
$150,000. The Society forwarded $150,-
000 in Mass Intentions to the Mission
ary Bishops for distribution among
their needy clergy. Since its founda
tion, the Society has spent $1,000,000
to educate young men for the mis
sionary priesthood.
The officers and Board of Gover
nors presented a resolution of Con
gratulation to Bishop-elect McGuin
ness, who had been the First Vice-
President and General Secretary for
13 years and who had been associat
ed with the Society for 18 years. The
resolution expressed the congratula
tions of the members of the Society
on the elevation of Bishop McGuin
ness to be the second Bishop of Ral
eigh.
Other officers elected were: First
Officer of the Society, Bishop
O’Brien, who is now in the second
year of his third term of five years
as President. He was appointed to
this office by HiS Holiness Pope Pius
XI; Rev. Joseph B. Lux, Circulation
Director of Extension Magazine;
Joseph D. Daly, General Counsel,
and Charles C. Kerwin, treasurer,
were elected Vice-Presidents; the
Rev. Richard R. St. John, General
Secretary, and the Rev. Thomas J.
Reed, Secretary to the President.
Bishops from the Southeast present
included Bishop Walsh of Charles
ton. Bishop O'Hara of Savannah-At-
lanta, Bishop Barry of St. Augustine,
Bishop Toolen of Mobile, Bishop Ge-
row of Natchez.
HOLY FATHER LAUDS
HOLY CROSS ORDER
BROTHER JOHN WALDRON. S.M.,
provincial inspector of the St. Louis
Province of the Society of Mary from
1908 to 1924 and one of the founders
of the Catholic Educational Associa
tion is dead in Kirkwood, Mo., at 72.
Brother Waldron was a member of the
board which built the major Kenrick
Seminary at St. Louis.
ABBOT MARTIN VETH, of St. Ben
edict’s Abbey, Atchison, Kansas, who
said his first Mass 28 years ago on an
altar next to that on which Father Ig
natius Staub, O.S.B.. said his first
Mass, at the famed Einsiedeln Abbey,
recently visited the Abbey, and he and
Father Ignatius, the latter now Abbot,
again said Masses simutlaneously at
the same altars.
THE SALESIANS will observe the
golden jubilee of their arrival in Eng
land this month.
GIOVANNI PAPINI, author of The
Life of Christ”, has accepted an invi
tation to address one of the meetings
at the Thirty-fourth International Eu
charistic Congress in Budapest, Hun
gary.
DR. CHARLES DU BOS. eminent
French author, has arrived at Notre
Dame University from Paris to join
the faculty in the department of liter
ature* Dr. Du Bos is the grandson of
the first French envoy to the United
States to hold the rank of ambassa
dor.
TOBACCO ROAD, Erskine Cald
well’s play supposed to depict condi
tions in .the South, has been barred
from New Orleans after protest of
Monsignor Peter M. H. Wynhoven, ed
itor of Catholic Action of the South, to
the mayor of the city in the name of
Archbishop Rummel. The play was
barred from Chicago some time ago
after Monsignor Wynhoven asked
Mayor Kelly to see it and judge it for
himself. Monsignor Wynhoven says
he knows too many Southern share
croppers personally to allow him to
accept the obscene portrayal of them
as authentic.
Congregation Commended
For Work Especially at
University of Notre Dame
VATICAN CITY.—Congratulations
upon a fruitful apostolate extending
over 100 years are extended to the
Congregation of Holy Cross in a let
ter which His Eminence Eugenio
Cardinal Pacelli, Papal Secretary of
State, has written in the name of His
Holiness Pope Pius XI.
The letter, commemorating the first
centennial of the Congregation of
Holy Cross, lands its activities
throughout the century and at the
present time. It praises especially
the Congregation’s activities at No
tre Dame, Ind., and at Montreal,
Canada.
The Very Rev. James W. Dona
hue, C.S.C., Superior General of . the
Congregation of Holy Cross, and
members of the Supreme Council
were received by his Holiness Pope
Pius XI at a general audience on Sat
urday.
REV. JOHN N. CORDOVA, S.J..
of El Paso, the first native of New
Mexico to become a Jesuit novice, re
cently observed the 60th anniversary
of his membership in the Society ofg
Jesus. He was acquainted with Kit
Carson and the other principal char
acters in Willa Cather’s "Death Comes
to teh Archbishop”.
MERCY HOSPITAL* in Chicago be
came the University Hospital of Loy
ola University’s Medical School
through arrangements completed in
November.
BISHOP GABRIEL BREYANT. O.
M. I., Vicar-Apostolic of Mackenzie in
the Arctic region of Canada, arrived
at Newark airport recently in the
plane he uses to cover his vicariate of
600.000 square miles. The Bishop does
not pilot the plane himself.
FORDHAM UNIVERSITY an
nounces tire inauguration of a Work
ers’ School, to teach principles and
practices of sound trade unionism fol
lowing true Christian principles and
ideals. Members of the faculty include
the Rev. Ignatius Cox, S.J., professor
of ethics at Fordham, the Rev. Dr.
John P. Boland, chairman of the State
Labor Relations Board and others; of
ficials of labor unions are co-operat
ing. John C. Cort, Harvard, ’35, of the
staff of the Catholic Worker, is regis-