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Church in Southeastern Europe
Hurt by War Says Count Apponyi
Veteran Hungarian Statesman in Interview Near Washing-
ington Reveals Conditions in States Formerly In
cluded in Kingdom of Hungary.
Mrs. Calvin Coolidge
Gives Autographed Etch
ing to Catholic Bazaar.
MRS. CALVIN COOLIDGE.
Washingon,—Mrs. Calvin Collidge,
Wife of the Chief Executive, has gra
ciously sent to the Sodality Union
Bazaar an autographed (autograph
ed by Grace Coolidge) pen etching
of the White House.
The Sodality Union represents the
thirty local churches of Washington
where the Sodality of the Blessed
Virgin is established. The Annual
Bazaar is held for the purpose of
raising funds to help poor Churches
and poor priests to carry on their
work. Several thousand dollars are
raised each year by the local Union
and distribution is made at month
ly meetings.
DR. SLATTERY RESIGNS
HIS N. C, C. M., OFFICE
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
Washington.—The resignation of
Dr. Michael J. Slattery as Executive
Secretary of the National Council of
Catholic Men was accepted by the
Executive staff of that organization
at a meeting held here. E. J. O’Con
nor, of Washington, was appointed
Acting Executive Secretary. Dr. Slat
tery has been Executive Secretary
of the Men’s Council since its or
ganization in 1920. Prior to that
time he was Executive Secretary of
the National Catholic War Council
which later became the National
Catholic Welfare Council.
FATHER BRISLAN
West Palm Beach Pastor
Was Jesuit For Fifty-seven.
Years and Native Geor
gian—End Is Sudden.
Special to The Bulletin.
West Palm Beach, Fla.—Rev. John
Darcy Brislan, S. J., a member of
the Society of Jesus for fifty-seven,
years, a former rector of St. Stanis
laus College; Macon, and the Jesuit
College of New Orleans, under
whose direction most of the Jesuit
Fathers in the Soulli Province wero
trained, and for the past ten years
or more pastor of St. Ann’s Church
in this city, died suddenly Wednes
day afternoon, November 21, at 5:15,
from a stroke of apoplexy. Death
was totally unexpected.
Father Brislan was a native of
Georgia, having been horn and rear
ed in Augusta. He is survived by
two sisters, Mrs. Dan F. O’Connor of
Augusta and Mrs. Kate Revelle of
Charleston. He was at least a yearly
visitor to his old home, his most re
cent trip there being a few months
ago. He was active up to the time
of his death, and his seventy-five
years of life, fifty-seven of it in re
ligion, rested easily upon him.
The Augusta Chronicle of Novem
ber 22, carried the following account
of Father Brislan’s life:
Father Brislan was horn in Au
gusta November 10, 1848, and attend^
ed St. Patrick’s School in the city,
finishing at Spring Hill College, Mo
bile. Feeling a desire to become
priest, he entered the Society o?.j
Jesus October 6, 18GG, and hence had:
been a Jesuit fifty-seven years at the
time of his death. He was sent to 1
France, spending seven years there,
in study, then returning as a profes
sor at his Alma Mater, Spring Hill
College, later going to the Jesuit
College at New Orleans in a similar
capacity.
The next four years lie spent in
France studying theology, and on
the completion of his course lie was
named vice-president of Spring Hill
later going to the Jesuit College at
New Orleans as secretary.
In 1887, 'when the Jesuits opened
the novitatc at Macon as the first
novitiate of the Southern province.
Father Brislan was chosen rector
and master of novices, which posi
tion he held for twelve years. He
then became president of the Jesuit
College in New Orleans. During his
administration the handsome build-
(Continued on page three.)
Non-Religious School Not Plan of
Forefathers Says University Head
IRISH FREE STATE MAY
REDEEM LOAN BONDS
Repayment of Dail Eireann
Loan Provided By Bill
Which is Now Being Draft-
By J. H. COX
(Dublin Correspondent N. C. W. C.
News Service.)
Dublin—A large. section of the
American public will be interested
to learn that the Irish free "state
government is drafting a bill to au
thorize the redemption of the Dail
Eireann Loan Bonds, with payment
of the interest due on them.
This step is being taken because
of the strong and definite expres
sions of Irish public opinion on the
point.
Amount of the Loans.
The bonds were used in Ireland
and in America during the Anglo-
Irish struggle. It was at that time
treason for tin Irish citizen to sub
scribe to them. There were two is
sues. The following amounts were
subscribed:
First Loan.
Ireland $1,850,000
America 2,500,000
Second Loan.
Ireland $175,000
America 3,100,000
The total sum realized was over
seven and a half million dollars.
The fight for national freedom was
at its height when Michael Collins,
then minister of finance “on the
run,’’ made the sensational an
nouncement that the Irish govern
ment “had a sufficient gold re
serve.”
From this it was correctly inferred
that Sinn Fein had the necessary re
sources to continue its gigantic task.
A large amount of the funds rais
ed in America was banked there in
the names of trustees nominated by
the First and Second Dails, and in
cluded Mr. de Valera and the Most
Rev. Dr. Fogarty. At present these
funds in America are the subject
of legal proceedings.
Peojde who invested in the loans
will learn with satisfaction that the
Irish government has duplicates of
all the bonds issued, because during
the Black-and-Tan regime the ma
jority of holders <if bonds in this
country destroyed them. The reason
was obvious, as the possession of
such a script rendered the holder
liable to arrest and imprisonment.
Many Churchmen Subscribers.
During the latter stages of the
struggle, shortly before the Truce of
July, 1921, the British secret service
came into possession of the dupli
cates during a raid in Dublin. It
was a sensational find in more
ways than one, for when the then
Dublin Castle authorities came to
By N. C. W. C. NEWS SERVICE
London.—Predicting that by 1950
one-third of England would be Cath
olic, Dr. Hugh Pope, of the Domini
can Order urged the Catholics *of
Lancashire to put further stimulus
into the conversion movement. The
learned Dominican was speaking at
Bolton city, at a meeting under the
auspices of the Forward Movement
of the Catholic Truth Society. All
over England, he said, the number
of conversions was going up by
-leaps and bounds each year.
At a crowded mass meeting, held
during the same congress, Father
Pius Carolan of the Passionist order
aroused the greatest enthusiasm in
an address on “Retrospect and Pros
pect.”
Declaring that the soul of England
was a palimpsest—a manuscript on
which Catholicism was written and
the Protestantism that was written
over* it was fading fast, the Passion
ist Father said that the faint per
fume of a broken vase was still
clinging to England’s soul.
“I believe,” Father Carolan said,
“that as the tendency of the best
continental thought is coming back
to the church so it is in England.
I believe that the church will grow
ause it is philosophically true,
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
Washington—The Catholic Church
has suffered a serious set-hack, or
to quote literally, “a catastrophe” in
Southeastern Europe as a result of
the World War and the subsequent
peace treaties, according to Count
Albert Apponyi, veteran Hungarian
parliamentary leader. Count Ap
ponyi discussed the religious and
educational situation in Southeast
ern Eurpoe in an exclusive inter
view accorded the N. C. W. C. News
Service. The Count, pressed for
time in Washington and being com
pelled to leave for Baltimore to fill
speaking engagements there, invit
ed a representative of the News Ser
vice to accompany him so that the
requested interview could take place
on the train.
Telling of what he describes as
the “dissection of Hungary” under
the terms of the Treaty, of the Tria
non, Count Apponyi declared that
from an educational and material
standpoint the Church has lost
heavily by the new conditions pre
vailing in the territory formerly
included in the Kingdom of Hun
gary.
“All three of the nations to which
portions of the former Hungary
were allotted are hostile or, at least,
not inclined to be friendly to Ca
tholicity,” he said. “Czecho-Slova-
RED CROSS ENDORSED
BY CARDINAL O’CONNELL
Boston.—The metropolitan chap
ter of the American Red Cross en
rolled an enthusiastic member today
when William, Cardinal O’Connell,
sent his annual contribution and
was placed on the rolls for the
coming year.
Cardinal O’ConnelTs letter to
Chairman A. C. Ratshesky, of the
citizen’s committee, was as follows:
“Dear Mr. Ratshesky: I am en
closing herewith my contribution to
the seventh annual roll call of the
American Red Cross, which has my
hearty endorsement.
“The good work which the Ameri
can Red Cross is doing merits a
generous co-operation, which I am
sure will not be wanting.
“Very sincerely yours,
“William, Cardinal O’Connell,
“Archbishop Boston.”
historically true, theologically true
and that truth can win in England
as it did in pagan Rome.
“I believe it too for a purely su
pernatural reason that I have kept
to the last. This is a time when
movements are ruled and guided by
personalities: thus they had Lenin
in Russia, Mussolini in Italy, Msgr.
Seipel, the great priest who saved
Austria, and, of course, Mr. Lloyd
George, who ruled the world and
several other places for a time. Be
fore I came here I knelt by the body
of one of the greatest men that ever
walked this land, the Venerable
Dominic of the Mother of God, Pas-
sionist; his name, please God, will
one day be Saint Dominic.”
“I believe,” concluded Father Car-
olan, “England will be converted be
cause St. Paul of the Cross believed
it. I believe England will he convert
ed because Dominic believed it, lived
for it, died for it. I believe if we
make him leader of the forward
movement by a grand dedication of
our energies to his cause and a uni
versal invocation of his zeal; if we
pray daily and passionately for his
canonization, England’s attention to
the faith will be focused as it could
be in no other way. Forward, then,
under Dominic for the conversion
of England.”
kia, as everyone knows, is openly
hostile, while the two Orthodox
states, Roumania and Jugo-Slavia,
are certainly not friendly. In the
territories which have been trans
ferred to the new states, many Ca
tholic institutions of learning have
been closed on one pretext or an
other, usually for very trifling rea
sons, and nothing has been done to
provide an adequate substitute.”
The Count went on to * describe
how, under the former regime, there
was no State Church in Hungary, all
Christian denominations having
been, since the reform in 1849, ac
corded equality so far as the civil
government was concerned. This, he
explained, did not mean a “separa
tion” of Church and State in the
American interpretation of the
term. It meant that the government
did not display favoritism toward
any one church. The government
aided financially in the mainten
ance of religious schools of all de
nominations and guaranteed pay
ment of a certain minimum salary
to the ministers of all recognized
creeds in cases where such aid was
necessary. Thus he sajd, the abo
lition of the State Church of Hun
gary did not mean a severance of
relations, but merely a step in the
CHAPLAINS OF LEGION
DENOUNCE KU KLUXERS
Cincinnati, Ohio.—While the reso
lution aimed at the Ku KIux K!an
adopted by the national convention
of the American Legion in San
Francisco did not mention this or
ganization this was not true of a
resolution which was unanimously
adopted by the Chaplains’ Organiza
tion of the American Legion at
which were prqsent nine Protestant
and five Catholic chaplains, accord
ing to Rev. William T. O’Connor,
past national chaplain, who has just
returned home from the trip to the
coast.
Father O’Connor said that the
gratifying feature of this resolution
was that it was brought in and
pushed by the Protestant chaplains.
Atlanta’s Oldest Church
Jubilee December 12
Special to The Bulletin.
Atlanta, Ga.—Immaculate Con
ception Church, in Atlanta's first
Catholic parish, has practically
completed plans for its golden
jubilee, which will be observed
December 12, and the most im
pressive observation in the Cath
olic history of Atlanta is antici
pated on that day. The jubilee
ceremonies and festivities will be
attended by perhaps the largest
gathering of priests that Atlanta
has ever entertained, and the
laity in other cities in this sec
tion will be also present in large
numbers, as well as the Catho
lics of Atlanta. Rev. Emmet Walsh
has left nothing undone to make
the jubilee the memorable one it
deserves to be. He has had most
effective support in the under
taking from his parishoners and
his assistant. Rev. J. J. Bessemer.
The dedication of the new St.
Anthony’s Church, of which Rev.
0. N. Jackson is pastor, is an
other coming event of the great
est importance in Atlanta. Fa
ther Jackson and his parifhoners
have erected in the West End
one of the finest churches in the
Southeast and it is practically
ready for the dedication.
By N. C. W. C. NEWS SERVICE
New York.—“School and Society,”
a weekly publication of the Science
Press devoted to the discussion of
educational subjects, contains the
inaugural address of Dr. Cloyd H.
Marvin, president of the University
of Arizona. In discussing the pol
icy of the university in regard to
various matters, President Marvin
has this to say concerning religion:
“The toleration of all religions
is perhaps one of the greatest
achievements in our form of govern
ment. Under our constitution no
man or woman is to be deprived of
the full exercise of his or her re
ligious choice and because of this
principle it is evident that religious
instruction of a sectarian nature
cannot he given in this university.
“Some people assume that it is
inevitable that state universities
shall become godless institutions be
cause there seems to be no direct
religious instruction and no instruc
tion or work in the teaching of
morals or ethics. Undoubtedly char
acter is primary and is the aim of
all education and no education can
serve well in a democracy which
fails to develop strong, dependable
character. The assumption that it is
not within the province of a uni
versity to give religious instruction
or teaching in morals or in ethics is
erroneous.
“President Suzzallo (University of
Washington) points out that ‘a re
ligion of a very vital type prevails
in, state universities. The represen
tatives of organized religions are
close at hand. The breadth of view,
the cosmopolitan spirit, the grip of
real work to be done, the appeal of
world-wide interests arc there. Nar
rowness and bigotry, excessive in
dividualism and morbid self-intor-
spection are swept away in the main
current of a life whose interests ere
as broad as mankind.’
“Our forefathers certainly had no
intention of creating a godless, ir
religious, or even non-religious edu
cation system. If all religious and
moral instruction were to be taken
from the university, many of our
leaders would go out into the state
without having had any opportunity
of receiving instruction about their
duty to God or man, or about the re
ligious and ethical histories of the
human race. I believe that ignorance
on such subjects is greater now than
it was a generation ago.”
(Continued on page 10)
England to Be One-Third Catholic
In Generation Dominican Predicts
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