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Member of the National Catholic Welfare Coun cil News Service. TEN. CENTS A COPY. VOL. III. NO. 8. {jkt 'Quilttin Official Organ of the Catholic Laymens Association/Geoigia “TO BRING ABOUT A FRIENDLIER FEELING AMONG GEORGIANS, IRRESPECTIVE OF CREED" The Only Newspaper timore and N| AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, MAY 15, 1922. Catholics of Georgia Present Bishop Keiley With Token of Their Lasting Love for Him Beloved Prelate Receives Purse of Over $10,000—Ex presses His Appreciation for the Remembrance Through The Bulletin, and Says Final Word to His People, With and for Whon* He Has Labored for Thirty-Six Years. RIGHT REV. PATRICK BARRY, IS CONSECRA TED FIFTH BL OF THE DIOCESE OF ST. AUGUSt I avail myself of the most efficient means of reaching all the Catholics of the diocese to thank them for their generosity, and through The Bulletin, express my appre ciation and say a final word. It is now six and thirty years since I came, a stranger, to this state. I have only tt> recall and record a warm welcome and a hearty cooperation. No one realizes more than I how much more might and should have been done. There is nothing which I recall in all these years with "mor‘e-T?l£asure than the fact that I was able to do some thing to lHcrease the membership and assist in the splen did work of the "Catholic Laymen’s Association. Wherever my future days may be passed, I will al ways recall with pleasure my association with the splen did body of loyal Catholics, the Laymen’s Association. To them and to all the Catholics of Georgia I say from the depths of a grateful heart: May God bless you all. Affectionately, (Signed) Savannah, Ga. BEN]. J. KEILEY, May 8, 1922. Savannah, Ga.—Rt. Rev. Benjamin J. Keiley., I). I)., who recently re signed as Bishop of Savannah be cause of his failing sight, was pres ented with a purse of over $10,000 Sunday morning, May 7, as a token of the love and esteem in which he is held by the people of the Diocese, and of their gratitude for his long years of work and accomplishment in Georgia. The purse was raised through vol untary contributions of Catholics in the various parishes of the Diocese, and it was presented informally to Bishop Keiley at the Episcopal Resi dence. Michael A. O’Bryne of Sav annah, treasurer of the purse fund, was spokesman for the presentation committee, which Was composed of Mr. O’Bryne, I’. H. Rice K. C. S. G, president of the Catholic Laymen’s Association of Georgia, who direct ed the fund movement, Leo. A. Mor rissey, Grand Knight of the Savan nah Council Knights of Columbus, and T. F. Walsh, Jr., former state deputy of the Knight of Columbus. The presentation of the purse was a complete surprise to Bishop Keiley. He was visibly touched by the token of his people’s affection for him. He has labored in this state for thirty- six years, more than twenty of them as Bishop of Savannah, and there are few prelates anywhere who have earned as great and lasting place in the hearts of their people as he. Judge Hammond Terms VeaseyLaw “Un-American and Unnecessary” Richmond County Jurist Pays Respects to “Convent In spection” Statute After Grand Jury in Report Declares Inspection of Eleemosynary Institutions a Waste of Time, and Money. Augusta, Ga.—The Vcasy 'or “con vent inspection” law was labeled “un-American and unncseccary” by Judge Henry C. Hammond of the Superior Court of Richmond Coun ty, in which this city is located in his address to the grand jury May 8th. Judge Hammond’s remarks followed a report of the grand jury, into which was incorporated a para graph reading: “Your committee feels that it is a waste of valu able time on its citizens, acting as a grand jury, and also a waste of the county’s money, to make in spections of eleemosynary institu tions.” Judge Hammond did not ' refer to the Vcasy bill by name, hut left no doubt about the statute to which he referred. ■ TferTeport of the grand jury on the Catholic institutions of the county follow: “Sacred Heart Convent, St. Mary’s Convent, St. Joseph’s Convent— These three institutions are capably managed and doing excellent work. Inasmuch as they do not draw any financial assistance from the coun ty, we do not feel called upon to make any recommendations. “Franciscan Institution, Haines Institute and Paine Industrial In stitute (the two last are non- Catho lic institutions). These three in stitutions are doing a worthy work and receiving no county contribu tion. No recommendations.” METHODISTS RETURN KIAN’S PUBLIC GIFT Archbishop Curley more, Predecessor Officiates at Eleva His Former Chancel! MSGR. PACE DELIVI SERMON AT CEI Church Dignitaries fro Parts of Country Atte Bishop Barry First PL Appointed By Pope Pint RT. REV. PATRICK BARRY, D. D. New Bishop Served Twenty-Seven Years In Diocese He Now Heads Rt. Rev. Patrick Barry, D. D., Was Born in Ireland, Edu cated By the Jesuits at Mungret, and Came to Florida in 1895 : —Has Served as Chancellor, Vice-General and Administration at St. Augustine. Speacial to The Bulletin. Athens, Ga.—The. Board of Ste wards of the First Methodist Church of this city recently voted to return to' ■'the local branch of the Ku-Klux Klau a donation of ten dollars which was presented the pastor by three masked and robed members of the order while he was preaching a sermon. The stewards met after the affair, and passed the following resolutions: . • ^ “TheJJsftCijtt Si£WaffdT^of the "First Methodist Church, without calling into question the motives of the donors, feel that to accept the gift of ten dollars made by the Ku-Klux Klan would be to acquicse in an act calculated to disturb divine worship. They, therefore, feel constrained to return the do nation. (Signed) “THE BOARD OF STE WARDS OF THE FIRST METHO DIST CHURCH.” In discussing the affair, Dr. Wal ter Anthony, pastor of the church, declared the presentation was a cheap bid for publicity, and he de nounced the way in which public worship was interfered with in order to get the name of the Klan before the public. St. Augustine Fla.—Bishop Patrick Barry was born in West Clare, Tri- land. He entered Mungret _ Apos tolic College, Limerick, in 1887, there successfully completing his collegi ate work in the Royal University of Ireland. In 1890 young Barry en tered St. Patrick's College at Car- law for philosophy and theology, and was ordained priest in that an cient seminary on June 9, 1895. In mid-June of that year the young Irish priest.sailed for the new world and arrived in Jacksonville, Fla., on August 10, 1895, to com mence his twep_l y-seven years of serviej^v'.', CathoTie~'pt'rc5wj|' the Aaiui of sunshine and flowers. Father Barry served in Jackson vill and the missions in that vicin ity until 1903. When war clouds hovered and broke over the country and the United States entered into the war with Spain, Father Barry enlisted as a volunteer chaplain and served with General Fitzhugli Lee’s army corps, then stationed in Jack sonville, until the end of the war. During till’s critical period he show ed great devotion and self-sacrifice, attending the soldier victims of ty phoid and other diseases which pre vailed, " ministering to the body as well r.s to the soul. He worked diligently through the days of rc- consti notion in Jacksonville follow ing tin fire of 1901, another troub lous time of sorrow and that tri< (bci .nils their sirei. iu 1V93 *u, iiH Palatka, where he administered over the wide territory, which included DcLand, Eentcfprise Junction, Se ville, Crescent City and other stat ions in five counties. He had suc ceeded the late Father O’Brien as pastor of St. Monica’s church in Pal atka, and during his- administration over that parish he built a beautiful rectory, a new church in Crescent City, and made other notable im provements in the way of church ex tension work. When in 1913 the late Bishop Kenny established the new parish of South Jacksonville. Father Barry was called there. In the course of eight months the efficient priest had caused i/p-ha—constructed an attrac tive church, a rectory’ and "'jfivii}} hall in the field that was still young The improvements were paid for the end of four yours when in 1917 Father Barry was summoned to St. Augustine by' Bishop •xirley as the rector of the Cathedral and vicar general of the diocese. When Archbishop M. J. Curley left the ancient diocese of St. Augustine to assume his high office in Balti more, Bishop Barry became the ad ministrator of the diocese. On the morning of February 22nd an Asso ciated Press dispatch froni brought the news that the Aected Pope Pius XI had- Very Rev. Patrick B Continued on St. Augustine, Fla.—-Rt. Re rick Barry, I). I)., was cons the fifth bishop of the dio St. Augustine Wednesday, his predecessor, Most Rev. .T. Curley, archbishop of Balt and under whom he served as cellor of this diocese, acting sccrator. Rt. Rev. John J. ghan, D. I)., of Wilmington, and Rt. Rev. William Turner,; of Buffalo, N. Y., were co-co tors. Rt. Rev. Msgr. Edvv Pace, 1)1 D., of the Catholif versify, Washington, D. C., i cred the consecration sermon) which the place of the cpisco- in human society as an ageij^ upbuilding Its structure wf phasized. Bishop Barry, through his” (•ration, assumed ecclesiastical thority over one of the most toric diocese on the North Amt can continent, one which can t.f its history back to the beginn of the sixteenth century, wt) priests and missionaries who accompanied Ponce de Leon, 1 Soto and other Spanish explore planted the seed of Catholic in Florida. The consecration ceremonies attended by church dignitaries fr! all parts of the United States, aro« then), in addition to the consecr| ing prelates were Rt. Rev. Willis | T. Russell, I). I)., bishop of Charles ton; Rt. Rev. E. P. Allen, D. bishop of Mobile; Rt. Rev. J. H| Prud-Homme, bishop of Prince A1 f heft Canada; Rt. Rev. Mgr. E. Pace, of the Catholic University Washington, D. G.; Rt. Rev. Mgr. 1) A. Brady, vicar general of Mobile | Rt. Rev. Abbott Charles, O. S. B.. otf St. Leo; Rev. Mgr. P. Horan, oi i.i tic Rock, Ark.; Very Rev. Du ft D. D„ of Buffalo. N. Y.: Rev. Jam. H. Ryan. D. D., N. C. W. C., Wash ington, D. G.; Rev. S. Caron, Prince Albert, Canada; Rev. Father Ha fey? Baltimore; Very Rev. L. B. Pa.sto rclli, of Baltimore, Md.; Rev D. M McCarthy, of Savannah; Rev. Fathe Bernard, O. S. B., Savannah- Revjj F. A. Foley, Savannah; Rev. J. F Hendrich, Morristown, N. J.: P. Turner, Montgomery, Ala. R • J. J. McLaughlin, S. J., Miami . Rev Peter Marion, Hendersonville, \ Rev. J. J. Burke, N. C. J.V. C.. Was!-, ington, D. C.; Rev. T. Eaton, Mo bile, Ala., and the following priests] from the diocese of St. Augustine:, Rev. J. H. O’Keefe, of Ft. Myers Rev. J. J. O’Riordan and Rev. D. .)j O’Keefe, of St. Petersburg; Rev John Conoley, of Gainesville; Re? M. J. Farley, of Lakeland; Rev. P. White, of Key West; Rev. rick E. Nolan, 1). D., of Orlamf- j^W. J. Mullally, of Fernandin s Rev! | I.yden, C. M.; Rev. Father Farref S. J„ of Tampa; Rev. Father Tyre S. J., of Ybor City; Rev. F.atlfi Stritcli, S. J., of Tampa; Rev. J. Brodeur, of Pass-a-Grille; Rev. M.jj Gumbleton, S. J., of Jaeksonvil Rev. J. Henncssy, of Sanfoid: fj P. J. McGill, of St. Augustine; ft F. L. Linton, of St. Augustine; Rj R. Brennan, of Ocala; Rev. Willi Barry, of Jacksonville; Rev. Lyons, of Jacksonville; Rev. T. her, of Klkton; Rev. M. Mor of Halatka; Rejv^Ea*^^ of G