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THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
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MlillP HIES
VOICES ESTIMATE
OF BIRTH CONTROL
New York Prelate, in Pas
toral Letter, Denounces
Movement as “Pagan Abo
mination.”
New York— Most Rev. Archbishop
Patrick J. Hayes of New York has
issued “in the name of the Babe
of Bethlehem” a pastoral letter warn
ing Catholics to avoid propaganda in
favor of birth control as they would
an evil spirit and denouncing the
pagan practice as “an unclean abom
ination.” In the same letter Arch
bishop Hayes denounced divorce and
condemned “the freer and more in
dulgent conduct, particularly among
the younger members of the female
sex.”
“The Christ Child did not stay His
own entrance into this mortal life
because His mother was poor, roof
less and without p.rpyision for the
morrow,” Archbishop Hayes wrote.
“He knew that the Heavenly Father
who cared for the lilies of the fields
and the bird^ of the air lov4d the
children of men more than these.
“Children troop down from Heav
en because God wills it. He alone
has the right to stay their coming,
while He blesses at will some homes
with many, others with but a few or
with none at all They come in the
one way ordained by His wisdom.
Woe to those who degrade, pervert
or do violence to the law of nature
as fixed by the eternal decree of
God Himself! Even though some lit
tle angel in the flesh, through the
moral or phyical deformity of par
ents, may appear to human eyes hid
eous, misshapen, a blot on civilized
society, we must not lose sight of
this Christian thought that under
and within such visible malformation
there lives an immortal soul to be
saved and glorified for all eternity
among the blessed in Heaven.
A Heinous Sin
“Heinous is the sin committed
against the creative act of God, who
through the marriage contract in
vites man and woman to cooperate
with Him in the propagation of the
human family. To take life after its
inception is a horrible crime; but to
prevent human life that the Creator
is about to bring into being is Sa
tanic. In the first instance, the
body is killed, while the soul lives
on; in the latter, not only the body
but an immortal soul is denied ex
istence in time and eternity. It has
been reserved to our day to see ad
vocated shamelessly the legalizing
of such a diabolical thing.
“In the nar.u of the Babe of Beth
lehem, whose law you Christian
fathers and mothers love and obey,
Stop your cars to that pagan philos
ophy, worthy of a Herod, which ig
noring revelation and even human
wisdom, sets itself above the law and
the prophets of the old and new dis
pensation, of which the Christ Child
is the beginning, the bond and the
end.
“Keep from the sanctuary of your
Christian homes, as you would an
evil spirit, the literature of this un
clean abomination. Sin not against
children, who, after all, are the nob
lest stimulus and protection to mar
ital affection, fidelity and contin-
ency.
“Another Christian lesson the
world needs to learn is God’s law
against divorce. Disastrous beyond
possibility of description to society
is the condition when Women measure
their lives, not by the number of
their offspring but by the number of
their husbands.”
NOTRE DAME ORGANIZES
Notre Dame, Ind.—Priests, broth
ers, professors and students who
have seen service abroad under the
stars and stripes have organized
Post 286, of the Veterans of the
Foreign Wars at the University of
Notre Dame. According to present
information it is the only university
post of the organization in the coun
try. Included among the officers are
the Rev. Matthew J. Walsh, G. S. C.,
who was with the 30th Infantry the
Rev. John C. McGinn, C. S. C.,' who
was with the 38th and 39th divisions
and the Rev. Charles L. O’Donnell,
C. S. C., who was with the I17th
Engineers and 32nd Infantry. Lewis
J. Murphy, of Linden, Ind., is post
commander.
Pope Benedict XV Dead
at Rome in Sixty-Eighth
Year of His Age
(Continued from Page 4.)
ciety, in which he declared that five
plagues, or wounds, were threaten
ing the death of civilization, name
ly, the denial of authority, hatred
between man and man, the frantic
pursuit of pleasure, aversion of
work, and neglect of the spiritual
end of mankind. For these evils,
the Holy Father continued, the only
remedy was the teaching of the
Gospel which alone could bring
order and the true redemption of
society.
INCREASED INFLUENCE
The tremendous work accomplish
ed by Pope Benedict XV in dealing
with the disorganization of society
and the cataeylsmic evils moral of
the day, has been recognized with
in the last year in something of its
true proportions. Article after ar
ticle has appeared in the most im
portant European and American re
views and magazines, for the most
part written by non-Catholic pub
licists, diplomats and students of
world affairs, all concurring in one
point, namely, that although when
the war broke out the influence of
the Catholic Church, in the world
of international political and social
affairs, seemed to be at its lowest
ebb, no phenomenon of the war or
of post-war conditions was mere
striking and more unmistakable
than the fact that the Holy See un
der the leadership of Benedict XV
had with amazing rapidity and pow
er become the most potent moral
factor in the world.
According tc one such commenta
tor, a writer in the “Fortnightly Re
view,” who is opposed to the po
litical influence of the Church: “The
prestige of the. Church had been
steadily declining (at the time of
the war) and now had become
worthless. And yet, by a strange
turn of the wheel the Vatican has
become more important in diplo
macy that it has ever been. It is
not only in France that this power
has suddenly recovered; through
out Europe, and even in Asia Minor
the Church has taken its place in
politics. ... In Central Europe
especially, in the new States and
the new-old States, the Vatican has
established its authority. Catholic
parties are in the ascendant. In
Italy, they hold the balance of
power and can make and unmake
Ministries. . . . What is true
of Italy is true of the majority of
European countries, in spite of So
cialist boasts and Socialist successes.
Everywhere Catholicism is better
organized and stronger as a poli
tical force than at any time during
the prsent generation.
“The Pope has Followed up these
tactical triumphs by an encyclical
letter in which he plainly puts him
self -at th head of a society or fam
ily of people to guarantee their own
independence and to defend law and
order in the world. He makes him
self the great exponent of the idea
of a league of nations, and although
he discusses it in the abstract and
perhaps without direct reference to
the existing league, he thereby puts
himself in the place of he ill-fated
President Wilson. He would have,
however, such a League founded on
Christianity—that is to say on Ca
tholicism—and in this case the effi
cacious contribuion of the Church
is promised. Is not he asks, the
Church in reality already the most
perfect type of a universal soci
ety?”
MINISTERS AT VATICAN
How closely the statesmen of the
world have watched this tremendu-
ous growth of Catholic influence
under Pope Benedict XV can be
official diplomatic relations with the
gauged hy the manner in which the
diplomatic representatives at the
Vatican have opened or re-assumed
Holy See. All the principal Euro
pean powers, including Russia, and
the more important of the South
American countries, now have am
bassadors or ministers at the Vati
can. In all, twenty-seven nations
of the world are represented there,
including Great Britain, which re
sumed relations broken off since the
time of Henry VIII, Fnnce, which
has returned to Rome after a most
bitter breaking away, and Protestant
Holland while semi-official relations
have been established between the
Vatican and China, Japan, Turkey,
and Lithuania. It is rumored also
that Japan will soon seek to be rep
resented at Rome, and even the
deepest breach that existed between
the Holy See and any nation, name
ly, he breach between the Vatican
and the Italian Government, shows
many signs of being bridged before
long.
An interesting circumstance in
connection with the growing impor
tance of the Holy See upon Pope
Benedict XV’ was the fact that in
January 1919 the Holy Father re
ceived at the Vatican the first Amer
ican President ever to call there,
when Woodrow Wilson, accompan
ied by Admiral Cary T. Grayson,
called at the Vatican and was re
ceived by the Holy Father.
But those wiio would attribute to
the diplomatic activity of Pope
Benedict XV the chief credit for the
enormous increase in the power of
the Church would of course, make
a grievous error, since all the dip
lomatic shrewdness and statesman
like qualities of the Holy Father
were fed from deeper springs than
the ambitions of temporal ar mater
ial policy. First of all, and before
all other things, he was the rep
resentative of Jesus Christ on
earth, and the increase of the flock
of Christ, and the proper care of
that flock, ana the safeguarding of
the souls of the people were the
animating principles of Benedict XV.
MAGAZINE HONORED
Publication of Jesuit College
Leads in Wisconsin.
Prairie du Chien, Wis.—In a com
petition in which more than twenty
colleges including the University of
Wisconsin, were represented, Cam
pion College of this city won first
prize in the magazine section for
the excellence of its institutional
publication, Campion.
This is the second time that Cam
pion College has taken first honors
in this competition, which is con
ducted under the auspices of the
Intercollegiate Press Association of
Wisconsin Colleges. The prize is
donated by the Medill McCormick
and the Pulitzer schools of Journal
ism. Judges from these schools and
from the schools of journalism of
Misscuri State University and Co
lumbia Universiy made the award.
The prize for the best college
newspaper in Wisconsin went to an
other Jesuit School—Marquette Uni
versity, Milwaukee.
815,151 BAPTISTS IN GEORGIA. ,
Atlanta, Ga.—There are 815,151
Baptists in Georgia at the present
time .according to a recently com
pleted survey by Rev. Dr. E. P. All
dredge, secretary of the survey, sta
tistics and information section of the
Southern Baptist Board. hTcre are
more Baptists'in Georgia than in
any other state in the territory of
the Southern Baptist convention.
NUNS ESCAPE FROM FIRE
New York—Fifty Sisters of Morey
at the Ursuline Novitiate at Van
Wyck Lake near Beacon, New York,
were endangered when fire swept the
building, entirely destroying it with
the loss estimated at $60,000. The
sisters escaped only with their cloth
ing. They spent the night at the
estate of Henry Morgenthau, Jr.
J. F. Sullivan
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SAVANNAH, GA.
HONOR FATHER TABB
Plan Library and Monument
.in Virginia in His Memory.
Richmond, Va.—Virginia plans to
pay honor to Father John Banister
T.- ’.b, the blind poet-priest of the
south by the institution of a chil
dren’s library in this city and the
erection of a memorial monument
over the poet’s grave in Hollywood
The John B. Tabb Memorial Asso
ciation has been chartered to carry
out the work which wili be on a
broad and non-sectarian basis. G.
Watson James, Jr., a non-Catholic is
president of the association and
other officers include John M. Mil
ler, Jr., vice president; Ruby G.
Dart, treasurer, and Gordon Blair,
secretary.
One of the sponsors of the move
ment is the Rev. Richard Blackburn
Washington, a great grand nephew ot
General George Washington and
great-grandson of John Washington
brother of the first president, who
was ordained at Mt. St. Mary’s Col
lege last year
Virginia has had no library for its
children but practical steps are al
ready being taken to supply one
through the efforts of the Tabb Me
morial Association. About five hun
dred volumes have already been col
lected and plans for housing thc-
library and placing it on a broad
and non-sectarian basis are now be
ing made. The state Library Board
will be asked for 1200 volumes and
it is planned to keep the library sup
plied with a stream of fresh litera
ture, and to employ a librarian and
secure the Bertic-s of a storyteller
for children. Similar libraries in
other cities and counties thi’oughout
the state arc also expected to be
formed.
“Our aim,” declares the president
of the association, “is to show the
world that Virginia, though she
never appreciated the genius of John
B. Tabb when he was alive, desires
now to memorialize her son who to
the literary world is known as one
of the greatest of native American
poets; a master of the quatrain form
of verse and a lyricist ranking with
Industry Wins Share
In Flourishing Business
Augusta, Ga.—A Christmas
present in the form of a half
interest in one of the most popu
lar and prosperous pharmacies in
this city was the fortune of John
A. Bresnahan, 22 years old. Mr.
Brcsnahan left St. Patrick’s
School when he was very young,
and entered the employ of the
Hansberger Pharmacy. His
father died in 1907. He won his
pharmacist diploma and mas
every detail of the business. M
Hansberger’s decision to give hi
young assistant an interest in yid
pharmacy was its consoquenco.
Shelley. Father Tabb, strange to
say, would perhaps never have been
known had not the liberal minded
literary men of the north-New Eng
land in particular, recognized his
genius. If he had been born in New
England, I venture to say everv
plnco he walked would have been
marked with “golden footsteps.” It
is to our shame that the man who
wrote that matchless poem ‘Evolu
tion” has been allowed by his native
state to lie unhonored.”
Father Cronin Administrator
Louisville, Ky.—Ve.v Rev. James
P. Cronin, whose appointment at
apostolic administrator of the Dio
cese of Louisville was announce;*
last week, has already assume!
charge of affairs. wRh which, as
vicar general and an adviser of the
Right Rev. Denis O’Donaghue, he
was alx-eady familiar The appoint-
.'m”t, of an administrator for the
diocese was -mde necessary by the
Bishops feeble lie 'H„
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