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ISSUED SEMI-MONTHLY
NewYork Mourns
C.F. Murphy and
•Signora Duse
Thousands of Mourners At
tend Services for Noted
Political Leader and Great
est of Modern Tragediennes
(By N. C. W. C. News Service.
New York—Obsequies for two
noted characters were held in Catho
lic churches in New York this week
•—Eleanora Duse, greatest of modern
tragediennes and Charles F. Murphy,
for twenty-two years ruler of 'lam-
many Hall.
They ruled in widely differing
I realms, and their spheres never
f touched. Yet they had a common
1 ground. Each was an exemplar of
that broad catholicity that expands
the word Catholic to its basic mean
ing— Universal. Each was loved by
hundreds of thousands of every
worldly degree, race and belief. No
i New V ork political leader ever had
I the affection of so many and such
F varied thousands as had Murphy.
As tor Duse, the Italian nation took
charge of her funeral and sent a
■^prince as its emissary, the chief
[ of the cabinet of the United States
| paid America’s tribute, and bare-
L headed and shawled peddlers mourn-
■ ed for her.
F There were no eulogies for either.
Friends felt, in each case, the simple
outpouring of those who loved tnem
was sufficient.
Tammany Leader’s Funeral.
Mr. Murphy’s funeral was held
Monday in St. Patrick’s Cathedral,
where a few hours later the newly
made Cardinal, who had cabled
ahead his heartfelt sorrow, was to
be welcomed home. Six thousand
attended the Requiem High Mass,
[ and 1 000 special police were unable
to clear the other thousands mass
ed before the Cathedral. Firemen
were called to help. Father Bernard
F. Mcfjuade, acting rector, met the
funeral cortege at the doors after it
< had traversed 35 blocks deeply lined
, with friends of the dead man. and
If Bishop John J. Dunn, Auxiliary
f Bishop of New York, was the cele-
■ brant of the Mass.
■ Among the honorary pallbearers
| were two governors, the Mayor of
r New York a Un lrd States Senator
t and the Mayor of Jersey City. Thir-
1 ty-five members 'of Congress and as
many judges attended the funeral.
|/Yet beyond a doubt it was from
"*the masses of the city the most im
pressive tribute to Mr. Murphy came.
It came not in recognition of his
power, hut in wholesouled gratitude
for his universal kindliness and help
It was simple dwellers of the city
who recalled succor in pressing
* times, young professional men who
remembered it was “Charlie” Mur
phy who had given them their
“chance,” poor to whom the com
pelling memory of “food to the hun
gry” returned. Mr. Murphy was a
silent man, and went far to avoid
(Continued on Page 9)
PLEA FOR WORLD PEACE
ISSUED BY N. C. W. C/S
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
President Coolidge’s Sug
gestion of Another Limita
tion of Armanent Confer
ence Endorsed.
(By N. C. W. C. News Service.)
Washington—The Administra
tive Committee of the National
Catholic Welfare Conference,
consisting of The Most Rev. Ed
ward J. Hanna. Archbishop of
San Francisco, chairman: the
Most Rev. Austin Dowling,
Archbishop of St. Paul; the Rt.
Rev. Louis S. Walsh, Bishop of
Portland; the, Rt. Rev. Peter
Muldoon, Bishop of Rockford;
the Rt. Rev. Edmond F. Gibbons,
Bishop of Albany; and the Rt.
Rev. Philip R. McDeyitt, Bishop
of Harrisburg—Bishop Schrembs
of Cleveland not attending—aft
er a meeting held to consider
the work and problems of the
various departments of the Con
ference, issued the following
statement on World Peace:
“The heartening evidences of a
more extended and abiding peace
among nations who have long been
at enmity are a source of joy and
hope to every follower of the Prince
of Peace. To us also, as Americans,
it is a further source of congratula
tions that, without in any way im
pairing our sovereignty as a nation
or violating the traditions that have
so long guided us> we have played
an effective and even a leading part
in this work of enduring peace.
We cannot but feel that the one
great source of inspiration of this
truly Christian work among men has
been the^ leadership of the Holy Fa
ther, who by his unbounded charity
to the needy of all nations has
shown good-will to ail, and mani
fested himself as the father of that
good-will which should rale our con
duct nationally and internationally.
We should, individually and
through organizations, earnestly
study to preserve the peace of the
world. Our thoughts, our aims,
should be in the path of peace.
Peace should be our goal. In our
dealings with other nations we
should refuse from the very outset
to falter in justice or to give of
fense. We have as a nation ottr own
destiny: We have our own soul
to keep. We need not unfairly dis
criminate against particular peoples
and we should exhaust every channel
of conference and discussion with
other nations on any matter in dis
pute.
President Coolidge’s recent sugges
tion of another Limitation of Arma
ment Conference is a step towards a
more permanent peace. For the goal
of all our national strivings and di
plomacy should be a reasonable set
tlement of international disputes by
friendly discussion lather than by
a resort to arms. Under the Provi
dence of God, our Country must take
the leading place in many fields of
world activity. Charity as well as
justice to all; ill-feeling and dis
courtesy to none will keep us as a
nation in the way of righteousness.”
Msgr. Budkiewicz Executed Naked
By Mongolian Father Walsh Says
^ (By N. C. W. C. News Service)
New York.—In an address which
made before the Catholic Con-
League, Fr. Edmund A. Walsh,
fsjv^kclor ol Papal Belief in Russia.
details of the execution of
^^Isgr. Budkiewicz not heretofore
published. He said:
“After his unjust trial was over,
Msgr. Budkiewicz asked to be al
lowed to see a priest before his
death. A priest connected witli the
1 Papal mission sat up all night in
I liis rooms in Moscow hoping that
a call would come to him from the
Bolsheviks to attend the condemned
man during his last moments. But
no such call came. In the mean-
I time the martyr had been stripped
naked, dragged from his cell along
a long, dark corridor, and then
I suddenly thrust into a room blaz-
I ing with electric light. Before his
dazzled eyes could take in anything,
he was shot through the hack of
I the head by a Mongolian execution-
b er so that the bullet, penetrating
' through his face, made his features
unrecognizable. His body was then
spirited away, and no one save a
Bolshevik or two knows where it
cs.”
Father Walsh told another pa-
etic story of how, in his wander-
gs to bring aid to the scattered
atholics in Russia he came to a
where he had heard a Catho-
riest still survived. Finding
the rectory, he was shown into a
room where on a bed lay the broken
body of a man, the Catholic priest
of the village. He had been cast
into prison by the Bolsheviks, for
no other reason than that he was
a Catholic priest, and there tor
tured until, no longer able to per
form his priestly functions, he was
allowed to return to his home.
Broken, paralyzed, there seemed no
life in h's body save in the eyes
which gazed fixedly at Father
Walsh. In vain did the director of
Hie Papal Relief Mission endeavor
to make the unfortunate man real
ize who he was. The priest could
not understand him. Only when
Father Walsh made the sign of the
cross over him did a smile for a
brief moment flick over the tor
tured face as the pri-st realized
that at last a brother priest had
come to his aid.'
Father Walsh explained many of
the anti-Christian methods of* the
Soviet Government which was reso
lutely doing its utmost to stamp
out Christianity in Russia. But
this, said Father Walsh, would he
a difficult thing to do, as ev:n
in the midst of persecution for their
religious beliefs the Russian people
still flocked to their churches, and
a year ago Easter he had himself
seen in Moscow’ the crowds which
poured into them to do honor to
their Risen Lord.
N.Y. WELCOMES CARDINAL HAYES
Mass Procession
Is Allegory of
Church of Ages
Over Twelve Hundred in Im
pressive March—Still a
Priest of the Archdiocese
Cardinal Reminds Hearers.
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
New York, April 39.—In impres
sive contrast to the great simple
outpouring of New York Monday to
welcome hack His Eminence, Pat
rick, Cardinal Hayes as an Ameri
can and New Yorker, was the color
of the ceremony by which this
morning he was greeted as priest,
archbishop and Cardinal of the
Church of Centuries.
A great dash of» royal color, such
as New York has seldom, if ever
before witnessed, wound its way in
stately procession around the cathe
dral, the violet and purple of the
Hierarchy, the white lace and black
cassocks of priests and the gold,
blue, green and lavender of tiny
pages finding fitting climax in the
sweeping scarlet vestments of the
Cardinal himself. As His Eminence
entered the vast edifice his coming
was announced by a blare of trum
pets. When he reached his throne
the Pontifical Mass was begun. At
its conclusion representatives of
the clergy of the archdiocese, the
iaity and the military chaplains
pledged their loyalty and love.
Still a Priest of New York
Then His Eminence, for the mo
ment obvious of the presence of
ambassadors governors, the mayor
of the city and its judges, massed
near him, said w’ith a note of en
treaty in his voice:
“1 beg of you, do not forget
that I am still a priest of the Arch
diocese of New York. I have said
before and I say it now—that I
hope the clergy of New York will
not forbid me to walk t in the ranks
with them.”
Addressing the great assemblage
in the church, he said:
“I just wish to express h$>w filled
my soul is at this hour with the
welcome you have given me. You
have given glory to God in this
hour of glory. And now I ask Al
mighty God to bless us all—our
city, our empire, state, our nation,
our president, our congress, our
executive departments and our
judiciary. Bless us all .and may
that blessing abide forever and
ever.”
By an actual count, 1,209 persons
walked in the great procession
which wended its W’ay through
Fiftieth Street from the back of the
cathedral to its front portals w’here
massed thousands were held back
by a detail of 1,000 police. It was
an allegory of the church itself.
Venerable bearded Franciscans in
rough brown habit followed by
pages with gay-hued doublet and
erm'ne cloak; bare-foot monks
paced slowly in the ranks w’ith
bishops in flowing royal raiment.
Youthful altar boys passed, clad in
their cassocks and white surplices
to he succeeded by the deans of
Catholic Universtiy in their doctor’s
robes.
The procession formed just before
10 o’clock, and it was almost eleven
before it had filed into the packed
church. Behind the crucifier, in six
groups, .walked 232 clerical students
of the archdiocese, of Cathedral
College and St. Joseph’s Theological
Seminary, with the faculties of the
schools and the Very Rev. Francis
C. Campbell, S. T. L., and the Rt.
Rev. Msgr. Janies T. McEntyre,
S. T. B., their presidents.
Next, in the place of honor, came
80 stalwart men in the uniform of
the United States armed forces—the
Catholic chaplains of the Army and
Navy, dear to the heart of the Car-
d nal, who is their chief. The in
signia of nine of the most gallant
of the overseas divisions of the
war were counted on the shoulders
of those on one side of the proces
sion alone, and on many breasts
gleamed medals presented by 7 a
grateful country for devotion and
heroism in battle. With these
inarched the Vicars-General of His
Envnence, the Chaplain-Bishop.
The visiting clergy, priests, bish
ops and archbishops, followed. Here
were priestly garb, the verying hab
its of the religious orders, the flam
ing colors of the monsignori and
the bishops, against the more
sombre university colors and the
severe tone of the discalced re
ligious. With the bishops walked
attendant priests.
Senator David I. Walsh
Says Service to Church
Outweighs Contributions.
Senator David I. Walsh of
Massachusetts, addressing the
members of a Holy Name So
ciety in Washington, said:
“There is only one thing which
a person can leave bshind him
in this life, after death has call
ed him, and that is what he has
given. How much have you
Holy Name men given to your
Church? How much have you
given to help in the erection of
an edifice that will contain our
Savior in His tabernacle home?
How much have you given to
tbuild schools to afford our
Cahtolic children a proper edu
cation? How much have you
helped your pastor in his trials?
“Remember that money is not
everything. Service is more val
uable than dollars. The man
who takes an interest in the ac
tivities of his parish, who at
tends regularly the parish meet
ings and the meetings of the
Holy Name Society is doing
more for his Church than a man
who gives money but fails to
give service.
“After you are dead and gone,
the schools and churches you
have helped to build, the in
spiration which you have given
to the various church activities
by ycur regular attendance at
meetings and by your advice will
continue to carry on for you the
work which death prevents you
yourself from doing.”
Patriotic Note
Permeates His
Banquet Speech
Cardinal at Catholic Club
Reception Utters Prayerful
Appeal That Land He Loves
Will Maintain Right Spirit.
By N. C. W. C. News Service
New York—Before 1,540 laymen,
including distinguished non-Catho-
lics, at the great reception tendered
him tonight by the Catholic Club
at the Waldorf-Astoria, Cardinal
Hayes said:
“You are here tonight to pay tri
bute to a Cardinal-Shepherd. There
have been Cardinal - Statesmen,
there have been Cardinal-Scholars,
there have been Cardinal-Scientists.
But I am here tonight only as a Car
dinal-Shepherd. ’
Cardinal Hayes’ address was a fer
vent, prayerful expression of confi
dence in the future of the native
land he loves. The great tribute to
him he waved aside. He was but rn
humble shepherd. The honor shown
him was important only as an indi
cation of the soundness of America,
—that pettiness, meanness, intoler
ance, has no part in the great soul
of the country. That soul, he de
clared, must be broad and loving,
and he was certain it was, fundamen
tally.
“Let no one fear,” he declared,
amid cheers, “that the making of the
Archbishop of New York a Cardinal
has made him less an American.”
“One thing comes to me at this
hour,” he continued, “I feel that Am
erica will always be right. America
is bound to grow and prosper, she is
bound to broaden, she is bound to
fulfill a mission that Divine Provi
dence has set for her—she is bound
to do it, when men like you will
come and pay tribute to a shepherd.
“Today, talking in the great cath
edral, in that distinguished pres
ence, when I saw the Governor of
the State, the Mayor of the City, rep
resentatives of the Army and Navy,
of the Judiciary, and Members of
Congress, I took occasion to refer
to democracy. How I do resent the
idea that democracy is a leveler.
We understand, generally, democracy
is something that does not create
class distinction. That is true. But
democracy is not a leveler. Demo
cracy, as we understand it in this
country, is something that lifts men
up and in the process of lifting up,
some are bound to go higher than
others. One of the things that gives
me courage and hope for our beloved
land is that when like myself
from amongst you—a ‘litttle old New
Yorker,’ if you will, who still is a
Tittle old New Yorker,’ who hopes
to continue to be one and to die
one—when one like myself ,s lifted
up among you, the hands that would
tear me down from the elevation of
sublime dignity I occupy—they
would not he American hands.
“And as long as America pays tri
bute to every citizen according to
his merits, in right and justice,
(Continued on page 11.)
First Message of Cardinal Hayes
To Catholic Laity of America
Following in His Eminence Cardinal Hayes’ message to the
Catholic laity of America, conveyed through N. C. W. C. News Ser
vice in the first private interview he granted after his return from
Rome:
“My feeling is this ahout the Catholic laity: If the Catholic
laity of Amer.ca will only continue to reverence and obey the au
thority vested in the Church of Cod by none other than Christ
Himself, which authority is exercised by the Vicar of Christ, and
the Hierarchy throughout the world, there can be no question that
the sound principles essential for stability of every department
of human life will be brought out in their own lives and not only
serve as an example to others but he in itself a contribution to th
the general welfare of our country in the safeguarding of our
Amer'can institutions.
“Surely the world realizes after its experience of the last few
years that the safety of society and the progress of mankind
have little Guarantee if based on the merely human. It seems to
me very urgent and imperative that there must he an awaken
ing among citizens of all beliefs and opinions to the eternal fact
that God must rule His own world.
“All men must get hack to God. Religion is essential. A strong
practical Catholic iaity not only professing but living their faith
certainly will be a leaven which must make for the best inter
ests of our country.”
Concerning tolerance, His Eminence said:
“American institutions cannot thrive nor endure if intolerance
gets a hold on the country. Any ourbreak against the Catholic
Church is more an American problem than a Catholic one. The
Catholic Church has contended against intolerance from the begin
ning and expects to do so till the end of time. Intolerance is a
germ that destroys what is most sacred and best in American
institutions.”