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DECEMBER 21,* 1937 THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN'S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA FIVE —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-