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VOL. XIX. No. l.
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, JANUARY 29, 1938
Bishop Gannon Issues Press Month Message
Bulletins
MSGR. FULTON SHEEN is giving
the current Catholic Hour series
sponsored by the National Council of
Catholic Men over the NBC network
each Sunday evening from 6 to 6:30,
Eastern Standard Time.
FRANK H. SPEARMAN, famed
novelist, and Laetarc Medalist of the
University of Notre Dame for 1935,
died at Hollywood, Cat, early in
January at 78. A native of Buffalo,
Mr. Spearman published his first nov
el, “The Nerve of Foley”, in 1900.
Many of his books were made into
motion pictures.
JAPAN'S first native Archbishop,
Msgr. Peter Tatsuo Doi, Archbishop-
elect of Tokyo, will be consecrated
there February 5. Born on Christmas
Day in 1892, he was educated at Sen
dai and Rome, ordained in Japan, and
served as secretary of the Apostolic
Delegation there.
GENERAL LUDENDORFF, one of
the outstanding German military
leaders of the World War, and in re
cent years best known for his anti-
Catliolic and anti-Jewish campaign,
died late in December in a Catholic
hospital near Munich, attended by
Catholic nuns.
FATHER COUGHLIN in resinning
his radio broadcasts the first Sunday
of the year stated that he was return
ing to the air under the same condi
tions prevailing when he withdrew,
that he accepted wholeheartedly the
declaration of the Holy See through
the Apostolic Delegate, and that he
deeply regretted the intemperate lan
guage of many of the protests occa
sioned by his withdrawal from the
air and “the unjust accusations made
in them against Church authority.”
THE CATHOLIC PRESS Associa
tion will meet in New Orleans May
5-7, President Vincent de Paul Fitz
patrick, managing editor of the Cath
olic Review of Baltimore, announces.
ADMIRAL WILLIAM STORY, the
only English Admiral in Canada, died
in Montreal last week at 79. Two of
his daughters are religious, one in a
convent in Montreal and the other in
Halifax.
HON. JOHN MILTON, the newly-
appointed United States Senator from
New Jersey, is a member of St. Aloy-
sius Parish, Jersey City.
ST. CHARLES BORROMEO Sem
inary near Philadelphia was damaged
to the extent of ?25,000 by fire in the
old refectory building last week.
EIGHT SHIPS of seven lines will
carry American pilgrims to the Thir
ty-fourth International Eucharistic
Congress at Budapest in May. The
Very Rev. Joseph E. Moylan, V. F.,
rector of the Co-Cathedral of Christ
the King, Atlanta, is diocesan director
for Georgia.
Archbishop Curley Praises
Work of Laity of Georgia
His Excellency at Annual Banquet of Retreatants in
Washington, D. C., Pays Tribute to Laymen’s As-
ciation’s Labors to Mitigate Bigotry
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
WASHINGTON. — The Catholic
Press is an aid to meditation, which
is “a primary requisite in the inter
ior life of a Catholic layman,” Rich
ard Reid, Editor of The Bulletin of
the Catholic Laymen’s Association of
Georgia, declared here January 18,
addressing the ninth annual banquet
of the Washington Section of the
League for Laymen’s Retreats, at the
Mayflower Hotel.
Enumerating several aids to in
terior recollection, Mr. Reid said “the
streams of splendid Catholic books
coming from the press, our Catholic
magazines and last but foremost ouv
diocesan newspapers” are “an un
failing source of subjects for medi
tation and application of the fruits
of th’ meditation to our daily lives. ’
The Most Rev. Michael J. Curley,
Archbishop of Baltimore, in whose
honor these annual mid-winter din
ners are given, said he wanted to take
the occasion to pay tribute to the
Catholic Laymen’s Association of
Georgia. Directing the attention of
the 600 men present to the success
the Association has had “in clearing
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Chinese Priest Slain, Others
Scattered, Bishop Is Advised
CLASHES IN MEXICO
BRING EIGHT DEATHS
Many Wounded in Recent
Radical Disturbances There
MEXICO CITY. — A clash between
the Confederation of Mexican Work
ers (C. T. M.) and the older and more
conservative Regional Confederation
of Mexican Labor (C. R. O. M.) re
sulted in the killing of six workers
at Orizaba and of two at Jalapa, and
the wounding of many in both of
these Vera Cruz cities. So serious
is the situation that President Laz-
aro Cardenas has gone in person to
Orizaba to take charge of the inves
tigation.
Upon his arrival at Orizaba, Pres
ident Cardenas publicly deplored the
fact that the accord which the inter
ests of the workers demand has not
been restored. He said it would be
impossible to say who are the re
sponsible parties until the authori
ties have completed their investiga
tions. He appealed to the workers
to remain calm and to avoid futile
agitations and struggles, and assured
them that the government is deter
mined to prevent further fighting
between labor organizations.
At a conference held in the city
hall, the C. R. O. M. and the C. T.
M. accused one another of being re
sponsible for the state of affairs at
Orizaba. After a prolonged discus-
sien, President Cardenas intervened,
declaring that the workers them
selves are responsible because of
the attitude they have assumed.
Bishop Yu-Pin in Washing
ton Deplores Japanese
Actions -— Denies Chinese
Are Communistic
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
WASHINGTON.—A native Chi
nese Bishop visiting in this country
has ben advised by cablegram that
one of his 17 priests has been killed
in the present struggle in that coun
try, and that the remaining 16 priests
have been scattered and that there is
no news of them.
The Bishop is the Most Rev. Paul
Yu-Pin, Vicar Apostolic of Nanking,
who also has been advised by cable
gram that his Cathedral is safe but
that “other churches are wrecked.”
The Bishop does not know whether
this means that just some, or all oth
er churches in his Vicariate have
been destroyed.
Holy Father Again Deplores
Nazi Persecution of Church
(Radio, N. C. W. C. News Service)
VATICAN CITY.—In one of the
most vigorous statements he has
made to date relative to the con
dition of the Church in Germany—
a statement which he termed one “of
protest, very high protest,” His Hol
iness Pope Pius XI assailed the Nazi
regime, definitely charging persecu
tion of religion in. the Reich.
The statement was made when the
Pontiff responded to the Christmas
greeting extended to him by the
Sacred College of Cardinals. The
address of the Cardinals was deliv
ered by His Eminence Granito Car
dinal di Belmonte, Dean of the
Sacred College, in the presence of
the Papal Court. Twenty-nine Car
dinals were present.
First expressing his thanks to the
Cardinals, the Pope with emphasis
said he wished to speak out “before
the whole world” with regard to
Nazi Germany and in “plain words.”
He then made the vigorous assertion
that persecution exists, and with
equal vigor denied the Church has
“played politics” in Germany.
A semi-official Vatican statement
on the Holy Father’s words was
given out, as follows:
“After thanking the Cardinals for
their good wishes, the Holy Father
said he wished to add two precise
words of fact and principle.
“The word of fact consisted of af
firming that real religious persecu
tion exists in Germany and declar
ing that one wished he might say
otherwise.
“The word of principle consisted
in denying the accusation made
against the Chur ch that it is not do
ing its religious duties, but is play
ing politics.
“Agairst this accusation the Pope
protested solemnly, reaffirming that
the Church in all its activities does
not play politics, but promotes re
legion.
“The Pope illustrated all this by
referring both to accusations made
before Pilato against Jesus Himself,
and replies the Redeemer made to
those accusations.
With regard to persecution, the
Holy Father said:
“We shall not hesitate to give the
true name to things in Germany',
where there has been in existence
for some time religious persecution.
This persecution has been denied.
But we know there is persecution,
and persecution which has hardly
ever been so frightful and grave.
“In Germany there is real, actual
religious persecution desipte efforts
to present a contrary impresison.”
With regard to charges of the
Church interferring in politics, he
said:
“We solemnly protest against
charges that the Church practices
politics. The Church does not prae-
This information was revealed by
Bishop Yu-Pin in an interview at the
Catholic University of America here.
He has departed on an itinerary that
will take him across the United
States and back, and into Canada,
before he sails on February 23 for
Europe.
Firmly denying any intention to
mix in political matters, but “speak
ing solely in the name of justice, of
. truth and of morality,” Bishop Yu-
Pin said he must protest against the
immoralities that have accompanied
the conquest of some of the cities of
China. He is reliably informed, he
said, that the Japanese troops have
slaughtered innocent young Chinese
on the pretext that they were sol
diers, plundered homes, brutally at
tacked Chinese women, and com
mitted other depredations. “Such
flagrant immorality will be punish
ed,” he said.
Asserting that it is very clear
what the outcome of the present
struggle in China will be. Bishop Yu-
Pin said the invasion of his country
was a great mistake on the part of
the Japanese and that it will lead to
the ruin of Japan. China is neither
Communist nor Pro-Communist, and
if the Japanese say they are fighting
Communism they have no reason for
fighting the Chinese, the Bishop de
clared. The Japanese are exhausting
themselves in the invasion of China
and “will suffer from their weak
ness tomorrow,” he said. Exhausting
themselves, he added, the Japanese
will leave themselves prey to their
enemies abroad.
Even if Japan should succeed in
conquering all of China, a process
that will take at least two years, it
would require a force of at least 7,-
000,000 soldiers to police China, the
Bishop said. In every village there
would be hundreds of Chinese ready
to rise to free their country.
African Missionary
Yellow Fever Victim
(Special Correspondence, N. C. W.
C. News Agency)
DUBYIN. — The Society for Afri
can Missions has sustained another
loss among its young missionary
priests in the death of the Rev.
Eamonn Murphy from yellow fever.
(This is the Society laboring among
the colored people in the Diocese of
Savannah-Atlanta, — Editor. The
Bulletin).
Bishop of Owensboro
The Most Rev. Francis R. Cotton,
Bishop-elect of Owensboro, Ky.. for
merly chancellor of the Diocese of
Louisville.
Bishop of Camden
The Most Rev. Bartholomew J.
Eustace, Bishop-elect of Camden, N.
J., formerly professor of St. Joseph’s
Seminary, Yonkers, N. Y.
BISHOPS ARE NAMED
FOR NEW DIOCESES
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
WASHINGTON, D. C.—The Rev.
Bartholomew J. Eustace, rector of
the Church of the Blessed Sacrament,
New Rochelle, N. Y., has been ap
pointed Bishop of the newly created
Diocese of Camden by His Holiness,
Pope Pius XI, according to an an
nouncement made here by His Ex
cellency, the Most Rev. Amleto Gio-
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EMPHASIZES SERVICE
OF CATHOLIC PRESS
IN RECENT MONTHS
Chairman of N. C. W. C.
Press Department Com
mends Editors and Urges
Support of Catholic Press
BY THE MOST REV- JOHN MARK
GANNON,
(Episcopal Chairman, Press Depart
ment, National Catholic Welfare Con
ference)
A year ago, my message to you took
the form of a sharp cry of alarm:—
that a strange wolf had entered the
fold of America.
‘European Communism,” my mes
sage rang, “has seeped into American
soil, threatens a war against Amer
ican Government and against Chris
tianity. We must organize, encour
age and strengthen our Catholic
Press. The Catholic Press, support
ed zealously in the Catholic pulpit,
forms the most powerful weapon at
the disposal of the Church.”
During the year just closed, what a
wealth of information has been ac
cumulated on this evil of Commun
ism! What a flood-light has been
turned on the economic and social
condition of the nation! What an un
remitting and pitiless exposure of the
perverted hearts, false principles and
dishonorable practices of those who
would subvert American Democracy
and destroy Christianity!
To this picture, no single agent has
contributed more intelligently or
more courageously than the editors
and publishers of the Catholic Press.
They have perfected their Christian
thesis beyond all question of doubt.
They have developed a form of Apol
ogetics not found in any other field
of the newspaper and magazine
world. They have analyzed its com
ponent parts, reduced to ridicule its
Utopian promises, and exposed its
dishonorable and unscrupulous pro
paganda to the American public.
Amid vast changes in current
events, American democracy was
threatened by an imported false phi
losophy; a philosophy which, in prac
tice, would kill that same freedom
of the press which gave it issue.
Never in the history of the Catholic-
Press have its editors and publish
ers accepted a challenge more spon
taneously. Never have they risen to
so high a level of journalistic abil
ity, patriotic watchfulness and un
compromising fidelity to our Amer
ican heritage of Christian liberty.
I extend to these gentlemen of the
Catholic Press, my warm congratu
lations and blessing- I am proud to
be chairman of such a group.
Let us examine some outstanding
achievements of the past year:
In the Spanish struggle, the Leftist
wing threw on the pages of history
a red blot never to be effaced. Con-
posed of Communists and Anarchists,
it brought war and chaos to its own
people, and seeking to enlist our
American sympathy, it spun a web
of propaganda across our country,
ensnaring public opinion with a dis
torted and inaccurate view of the
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Bishop Schrembs in Tribute
to Late Newton D. Baker
(By N. C. W. C. Nows Service)
CLEVELAND.—Tribute was paid to
the late Newton D. Baker, former
Secretary of War, who died on
Christmas Day, by the Most Rev.
Joseph Schrembs, Bishop of Cleve
land, as “a man of high principles,
of a very noble character, a man
true to his friends, a man who at all
times stood for the things he believed
were right.”
“During the World War,” said the
Bishop, “I was constantly in close
touch with him while I served on the
National Catholic War Council, and I
learned to know his magnificent
character at that time. He made it
his duty to see that the mothers of
the boys who went to war should feel
satisfied that their boys were being
looked after.”
This is not the first tribute paid
Mr. Baker by Bishop Schrembs, the
prelate having lauded him on sev
eral other occasions as an outstanding
statesman and as friendly and co
operative wherever the interests of
the Chinch were concerned.
It is also recalled that Mr. Baker
was most friendly with the late Rt,
Rev. Msgr. John J. Burke, C. S. P-.
during the War when Monsignor
Burke was General Secretary of the
National Catholic War Council. Mr.
Baker paid the following tribute to
Monsignor Burke on the death of the
latter:
“In the intimacy which the World
War gave to those who were working
together at its tasks, I came to know,
honor and love Monsignor John J.
Burke. Our friendship has lasted
until his_ lamented death. In every
relationship of life he was devoted
and distinguished as a scholar, citi
zen and priest.”
It is further recalled that it was
through Mr. Baker s rulings on wel
fare work among the soldiers that
Catholic groups engaged in such ac
tivity during the war were able to
enjoy their necessary share in the
funds secured for welfare add.