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ISSUED SEMI-MONTHLY
FR. VAUGHAN, FAMOUS
ENGLISH JESUIT, DIES
IN SEVENTY-FIFTH YEAR
Had Brothers a Cardinal
Archbishop and Bishop and
Three Others Priests—His
Three Sisters Became Nuns.
London—Father Bernard Vaughan,
England’s foremost pulpit orator,
died at 8 o’clock this mornihg at
Jesuit College, Kochampton, in his
75th year, never- recovering from a
paralytic stroke received while vis
iting Viscount Fitzalan this sum
mer. All newspapers deplore his
death as the passing of a great
Christian gentleman and patriotic
Englishman.
Tlic death of Rev. Bernard Vaugh
an removed from the Catholic
church in England one of its most
popular figures and will be received
with regret in the United States,
where Father Vaughan was well
known. He visited here on a lec
ture lour in 1911 and 1912 and thou
sands who heard him remember him
well for his eloquence, his erudi
tion and his wit.
Father Vaughan is not less noted
as an author than as a preacher
and lecturer. Notable among his
written work's are “The Sins of So-
ciety,” “The Jesuit in Fact and Fic
tion,’’ “The Menace of the Empty
Cradle,” “Socialism from the Chris
tian Viewpoint” and “Society, Sin
and the Saviour.”
Father Vaughan was born at
Couj'l field, the twelfth of fourteen
children of Col. J. F. Vhughan and
Eliza Bolls, in 1847. Three broth
ers of Father Vaughan’s father be
came priests, one a Jesuit, one a
Redemptionist and the other Bishop
of Plymouth, and three sisters be-
cams nuns.
The next generation exceeded this
record, for of Father Vaughan's
eight brothers, six were ordained
and all his sisters entered convents.
His brothers included Archbishop
Roger Bede Vaughan of Sydney; Fa
ther Jerome, the first prior of_St.
Augustus, in Invernesshire; Father
Kenelrn, Bishop of John Vaughan;
ahfl Cardinal Vaughan, Archbishop
of Westminster.
The Vaughans of Courtfield, who
have always been Catlioloics, were
subjected to no end of persecution
on account of their faith, especially
in the sixteenth, seventeenth and
eighteenth centuries, and they have
always occupied a foremost place
among the Catholic aristocracy of
England, Courtfield, where Father
Vaughan was born, has been the
home of the family since 1562.
Father Vaughan was educated at
Stonyhurst, entered the novitiate in
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Hon. Alfred Smith, New
York’s Governor-Elect
Hon. Alfred Smith, one of the
leading Catholic laymen in America,
who was elected Governor of New
York Tuesday.
Archbishop of Tours Will
Baptize Every Fifth Baby
Born in His Archdiocese
Distinguished French Prelate
Makes Announcement to
Show His Esteem for Large
Families.
Paris.—At the recent Birth
rate Congress Msgr. Negre, Arch
bishop of Tours, made known to
Mhe delegates the decision taken
by him sometime ago to show
his esteem for large families. He
does them the honor of himself
baptising the fifth child. The
infant does not need to come
to the Cathedral. Busy and
overworked as he is, the zealous
prelate takes the time and the
trouble to go to the most remote
districts in his diocese to fulfill
his promise. In Touraine there
are now 93 children “baptized
by Monseigneur.” They receive
a special insignia, a little violet
cross, which they are proud to
« wear at religious ceremonies.
This touching and significant
custom may become general. Al
ready the bishops of Blois and
Amiens have declared their in
tention of borrowing it from
Tours.
THREE HUNDRED DELEGA TES A TTEND
MACON CONVENTION OF CATHOLIC
LA YMEN’S ASSOCIA TION OF GEORGIA
Georgia Laymen’s Work Surpasses
That of New York, Baltimore and
Boston, Archbishop Curley Says
Washington Audience Hears Prelate Commend Catholic
Laymen’s Association of Georgia for Its Efforts—He
Asserts Opposition to Church Is Based on Prejudice
Rather Than Viciousness and Urges Organization
(BY N. C. W. C. NEWS SERVICE.)
Washington, I). C.—‘ Opposition to
the Catholic Church is opposition
to a church that never has existed
and that never could exist under
the name Catholic. It has grown
out of ignorance of matters of faith”
declared the Most Rev. Michael J.
Curley, Archbishop of Baltimore,
who spoke on the work of the Na
tional Catholic Welfare Council, and
who devoted considerable attention
to the wave of hositilty to the
Church now evidenced in America.
The occasion was the first recep
tion given His Grace by the Wash
ington District Council of the Na
tional Council of Catholic Men and
the prelate took occasion to review
briefly the situation while made ac
cessary the formation of the Wel
fare Council and to emphasize its
substantial achievements in the few
years of its existence.
Tribute to Georgia Laymen.
Admiral William S. Benson, na
tional president of the National
Council of Catholic Men, addressed
the meeting, which was pesided over
by Thomas J. Donovan, president of
the District Council. In his . open
ing remarks, Archbishop Curley paid
his respects to Admiral Benson and
spoke of the high regard in which
he held him.
“As you know, the Admiral was
not born of the faith.” he said. “He
came up to us from the far away
state of Georgia. That is his native
state.
“I have lived near Georgia for 17
years, and the laymen of Georgia
with a diocese of 20,000 people or
so, the laymen and women of Geor
gia have done more for their lay
men's organization than the laity of
New York, Baltimore and Boston
combined. 1 am talking, as you un
derstand, from the standpoint of
proportion in numbers. I came up
from the state of Georgia last week,
and 1 know what they have done in
eradicating prejudice. They have
set an example for every other dio
cese in the country. Georgians are
honest. The American public, my
friends, the great mass of our popu
lation, of our 100,000,000 people, is
honest. They may be’ opposed to us,
they may be prejudiced, hilt as Am
ericans 1 like to believe, and 1 think
l am right, that their opposition is
not a vicious opposition. It is an
opposition that has grown out of
ignorance regarding the matters of
faith. Their opposition is to a church
that never existed and never could
exist under the name Catholic; and
if you and I were raised in the sur
roundings in which many of our
enemies of the faith have been rais
ed we might be much worse enemies
of the Catholic Church. There is
great work, therefore, to he done by
the priests and people in America,
who have received the gift of faith.
That is to place it before the pub
lic, to place it before Americans
who are anxious to know. There
is a groping after the supernatural.
There is no man who does not real
ize that his heart’s desires can never
be filled by the things of earth.
Reasons for Welfare Council
“Now, I think it would he a good
tiling to place before you briefly the
story of the Bishops’ meeting and
tlie works which the Bishops under
took. In 1918 (the golden jubilee
of the Ecclesiastical Head of tlie
Archdiocese of Baltimore) tlia Hier
archy of America came together to
do honor to their Chief. In plan
ning that event, a feeling was arous-
Bishop Keyes Compliments
Organization on Work it
Has Done to Allay Religious
Prejudice.
MEETING UNANIMOUSLY
. RE-ELECTS OFFICERS
Nearly Four Hundred Attend
Banquet at Hotel Dempsey.
Father Mattern Delivers
Convention Sermon.
His Holiness Bestows
Apostolic Blessing On
Laymen’s Association
His Holiness, Pope Pius XI.
lias cabled through Cardinal Gas-
parri, Papal Secretary of State,
His Apostolic Blessing to the
members of the Catholic Lay
men’s Association of Georgia and
their families. The cable follows:
Holy Father is greatly pleased
with the filial homage and de
votion of the Catholic Lay
men’s Association of Georgia,
and gladly bestows on its
members and their families His
Apostolic Blessing.
CARDINAL GASPARRI
Bishop Keyes, for the Laymen’s
Association cabled the following
message to His Holiness, through
his secretary of state:
The Catholic Laymen’s As
sociation of Georgia in annual
meeting most respectfully of
fers its filinl homage to His
Holiness, Plius XI. and begs
His Apostolic Benediction.
MICHAEL J. KEYES,
Bishop of Savannah.
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(By N. C. W. C. News Service) *
Macon, Ga.—Three hundred dele
gates, representing every Georgia
city and town in which there is a
Catholic congregation attended the.
seventh annual convention of the
Catholic Laymen’s Association of
Georgia in this city Sunday, Octo
ber 29, and heard Rt. Rev. Michael
1922 CONVENTION, CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
St. Joseph’s Church, Macon, Ga., October 29
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