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THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
olcs Honor New Pope as Man
Well as of Tact
of Courage as
is Bravery in Face of Advancing Bolsheviki, When He In
sisted in Remaining in Warsaw When Officials and Dip
lomats Left Endeared Him to the People.
Warsaw—Pope Pius XI is known
to Eastern Europeans not only as a
consummate diplomatist and a great
and generous churchman hut also
as a man of unshrinking courage
and unquestionable justice.
This knowledge of the new Su
preme Pontiff the people of East
ern Europe gained during the period
of more than three years he se ed
as Delegate Apostolic and Nuncio to
Poland, which was for part of that
"time in the hands of the Teutonic
Allies, and for the remainder of his
official sojourn a battleground of
factions.
It was in April, 1918, lif.it Doctor
Ratti was taken from his beloved
books and manuscripts in the Vati
can and sent as the representative
of Pope Benedict XV to Poland. The
war was then at its height, Ger
many and Austria were at the zenith
at their military successes. Russia
was tottering to complete collapse,
the ink on the Treaty of Brest-
Litovsk was hardly dry. Poland
was held by the German-Austrian
troops. Prince Leopold of Bavaria
was governor of Poland and General
Beseler was commander of the ar
my of occupation.
SOON GAINED GOOD WILL
A Council of Regency was es
tablished at Warsaw with Arch
bishop Kakowski, now Cardinal,
Prince Lubomirski and Baron Os-
l.ovski as its directing members.
This Council was by no means pop
ular among the Poles, who regard
ed it js an instrument of German
domination. Monsignor Ratti, as the
Apostolic Delegate, had the mission
of an ecclesiastical visitor. His
jurisdiction was confined wholly to
spiritual and religious affairs. In
ibis he found himself greatly han
dicapped; but he accomplished much
nevertheless. Notwithstanding his
Italian nationality, he succeeded in
gaining the good will of all parties
ami in removing much of the pop
ular diffidence.
The Holy Sec then extended Mon-
Signor Ratti’s work to the whole of
t’ne occupied Russian territory. His
first care here was to establish a
regular ecclesiastical regime in those
immense regions where all was dis
organization as a direct consequence
of the war and where, moreover,
the Catholic Church’s jurisdiction
had never been entirely free from
the interference of the Russian gov
ernment. Dr. Ratti provided for the
re-establishment of the numerous
sees which had been suppressed by
the former Czar’s government.
In spite of the revolutions and
counter-revolutions which disturbed
the former territory of Russia, Dr.
Ratti created an organization such
as never existed under the Czar-
its regime. He was particularly
successful in rehabilitating and re
organizing sees Illicit had been
crushed in former years. In No
vember, 1918, the armistice was
signed, Austro-Gerrnan power
crumbled, arid Poland regained her
national independence. A Regency
Was inaugurated under Marshal Pil-
sudskj. a constitutional assembly
was summoned and Dr. Ratti, as the
Pope’s Envoy, was the first to greet
the new independent Polish state.
Immediately there arose new and
grave questions affecting the title
and tenure of the property* held by
the Catholic church. The Poles had
learned under Russian tutelage to
Clamor for the partition of The great
estates which in part comprised all
|he bishops, and acting partly on
their advice, declared that he was-
not opposed to a division of this
property is, it was to be undertaken
with the understanding of the eccles
iastical rf horitics and without det
riment to the religious and spirit
ual interests of the people.
| SETTLED LAND QUESTION
8 Dr. Ratti was indefatigable in his
efforts to settle this question, and as
part of his program to that end,
constituted an episcopal commission
to study a technical solution. ' This
jsteommission of the bishops was af-
vtci wards recognized liy the new Pol-
jfish government from which Dr. Ratti
Obtained a promise that the land
{question would not he settled with
out reference to the position which
the church was to hold under the
Incw Polish state. By his efforts he
succeeded in having two clauses vot-
ano inserted in the Polish consti-
of these was a pro-
£. M v ‘ S&Jv church held
fu the new Polish
state; the second was a stipulation
that any measures respecting the
Catholic church wer<^ to he taken in
accord with Rome. This work was
so satisfactory to Pope Benedict that
it was decided to re-establish the an
cient Nunciature in Warsaw. Mon
signor Ratti was appointed to the
post and shortly afterwards (in July
1919) was promoted to the titular
archiepiscopal see of Lepanto.
In the fine old cathedral of War
saw, on October 28, 1919, Dr. Ratit
was consecrated Archbishop by Car
dinal Kakowski. The consecration
took place in the presence of the en
tire Polish Episcopate and of a large
number of the new constituent as
sembly. It was the first time that a
Papal Nuncio had been raised to the
dignity of Archbishop in the country
to which he was accredited and show
ed the great advance which the for
mer Vatican librarion had made in
the esteem and confidence of Pope
Benedict.
When the question of the plebis
cite in Upper Silesia came to the
fore, Archbishop Ratti was especially
appointed the Ecclesiastical High
Commissioner at the request of the
Republic of Poland, Germany and
the Inter-Allied Commission. He
exerted all his power and influence
to calm the parties to the contro
versy and this endeavor at times ex
posed him to all kinds of hitter crit
icism and attacks from both camps.
Eventually, however, his impartiality
and sound judgment were. recog
nized.
FREED MANY PRISONERS
During Monsignor Ratti’s more
than three years in Poland lie de
voted himself to the solution of
numerous problems, to works of in
ternational charity and relief, and
the liberation of prisoners from the
Bolshevists. In these labors he was
strikingly successful. Among those
whose release lie obtained from Rus
sian prisons were the Bishop of
Minsk and the Archbishop of Mo-
liileff.
Poles, both Catholic and non-Coth-
olic, Jews and Gentiles, hold the
memory of Archbishop Ratti— now
(he Sovereign Pontiff—in affection
ate regard. They recall the magni
ficent work done by him as Papal
Nuncio during the painful,.periad of
suffering and hunger following' the
war. The little children of Eastern
Europe are especially Unfailing in
their gratitude for this generous dis
penser of bread and milk. For Mon
signor Ratti distributed some three
million Italian lire to the poor and
the starving of Poland in the months
immediately after the war. This
money was provided by Pope Bene
dict.
Monsignor Ratti’s bravery was in
all respects equal to his genuis and
his generosity. When the Bolshevik
hordes came in a great drive towards
Warsaw in 1920 and the officials of
the Polish Government and the rep
resentatives of other states left the
city, seemingly to its fate, Monsign
or Ratti stayed at his post and re
fused to hear the entreaties of the
Polish military authorities that he
retire to safety. His answer was:
“My place is herewith the people;
my duty is here. I shall not leave.
I may he of help.”
Executive Secretary of N. C.
C. W. Compliments Them
for Work for Cardinal’s
Memorial.
SAVANNAH KNIGHTS
Prepare for Minstrel Show
for Charity Fund.
Savannah, Ga.—The Savannah
Council, No. 631, Knights of Colum
bus, is making extensive prepara
tions for the staging of a minstrel
show at the Savannah Theatre, April
2L,and 25, with a matinee the after
noon of April 24. The minstrel,
which is for the benefit of the
charity fund, will he directed by
Robert F. Riley, leader of the Alee
Patrol of the Sliriners. The best
talent in the city has been secured,
not only from the Knights of Colum
bus, hut from other fraternal organ
izations, including the Sliriners,
members of which have volunteered
their services.
The men in charge of the min
strel arrangements arc: General
Chairman, J. McCollough; director,
Capt. Robert F. Riley; assistant di
rector, O’Neal F. Kenny; chairman
of program committee, John J. Fo
garty , chairman of ticket committee,
J. B.JpkDonald; chairman of pub
licity fJSniittee, Elmon A. Curtis.
Savannah Ga.—Mrs. E. H. Howkins
of this city, Diocesan Representative
for Georgia on the Archdiosecan
Cardinal Gibbons Memorial Commit
tee, lias receive i a letter from M^ss
Agnes G. Began, executive secretary
of the National Council of Catholic
Women, Washington, D. C., highly
complimenting the activity of the
Catholic women of Georgia in the
movement.
The memorial will be in the form
of a National Catholic Service
School, a project very dear to the
late Cardinal. It has the hearty en
dorsement of the Hierarchy of the
United States, and Mrs. ins is
forwarding contributions from Geor
gia. Thus far, thQ Georgia contri
butions have been: Savannah, $250;
Atlanta, §175; Augusta, §100; Macon,
§50. Only §125 additional is needed
to complete the Georgia quota.
The letter from Miss Regan to
Mrs. Howkins follows:
Mrs. E. H. Howkins,
211 blast Charlton street,
Savannah, Ga.
Dear Mrs. Howkins:
I think you Georgia women are
just wonderful. You farther
ahead on your quota of the subscrip
tion to the Archdioccsan Memorial
to Cardinal Gibbons than any other
part of the archdiocese. Mrs. Ben-
ziger forwarded it to me with the
opening sentencj: “‘Three cheers for
Georgia.”
Thanking you for your wonderful
cooperaA-n and wishing you every
success in your work, I am
• Sincerely yours,
AGNES G. REGAN,
Executive, Secretary, National Coun
cil of Catholic Women.
CIVIL WAR NURSE DEAD.”” -
Boston, March 11.—The death here
this week of Sister Elizabeth of the
Sisters of Charity removed one of
the few remaining religious who
served as nurses on the battlefields
of file Civil war.
Born in Ireland, Miss Anna Brynes
came to the United States when a
young girl, and joined the order
when 20 years old. She was sent
immediately to the front and served
in the army hospitals and in the
fields. Sister Elizabeth had been
stationed at the St. Vinvcnt’s Or
phan Asylum for 15 years. She was
in her 78th year.
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