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THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA 5 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 Fish and Oysters WHOLESALE 209-211 Bay Street, West. 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„ EST. M. J. DO\ LE Savannah, Ga. 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