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AUGUST 16, 1924.
THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
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"TWO WEEK CONFERENCE
FOR CATHOLIC NURSES
Studying Only Pagan Masters of
Latin Is Assailed By Scholars
Educators Assert Best Thought Expressed in Latin is
Found in Christian Writers—Latin, Not Esperanto,
Proper Universal Language Cardinal Logue Declares.
270 Sisters Attend Wiscon
sin Gathering—Nurses to
Be Sent to India.
(By N. C. W. C. News Service.)
Spring Bank, Wis.—The two weeks
program of hospital conferences
held here as a part of the ninth
annual meeting of the Catholic Hos
pital Association closed recently. In
all, 270 sisters representing Catholic
hospitals throughout the country,
" attended the various sessions.
Spiritual retreats for sisters and for
lay nurses, as well as a series of
lectures and discussions of subjects
connected with nursing and hospital
problems, were held during the
meeting. ’
A resolution was passed authoriz
ing the formation of an executive
committee, the duties of which are
to carry on the executive work of
the medical mission board. Paluel J.
Flagg, M. D., of New York City,
contiues as chairman of the medical
mission director of the propagation
of the faith ip Boston, and the Rev.
Frank A. Thill, national secretary-
treasurer of the Catholic Students’
Mission Crusade.
The chief work which has been
planned for the board is “To Link
Catholic Medical America with Ca
tholic Medical Missions.” This will
be done by carrying on an extensive
educational campaign throughout
the United States and Canada for
the purpose of placing a mission
jdeal before medical students, in
ternes, physicians and nurses. The
medical mission hoard also is au
thorizing the sending of a group of
nurses to the mission field in
Akyab, Bengal, India. These nurses
are now under the direction and
supervision of the Rev. Michael Ma-
— this, C. S. C., who has made a care-
™*ful survey of the Bengglesc sections
of the Indian missions.
A Georgia
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
Dublin.—Problems of education
are engaging widespread public at
tention in Ireland. The cultivation
of the Irish language was discuss
ed by the Gaelic League at its an
nual meeting. That organization
does not consider that enough is
being done for the promotion of
the language.
F'our years hence, the teaching
of Irish becomes compulsory in the
secondary schools. Practically all
the Catholic schools and colleges
already have included Irish in their
curricula. The Protestant schools
and colleges had not taught Irish.
They now complain that it is a
hardship upon them to make the
teaching of the language compul
sory.
At the Maymooth Union, an im
portant aspect of the educational
question was discussed by the Rev.
Dr. Leen, C. S. Sp., of Blackrock
College, one of the leading second
ary schools in the country. His
main point was that the secondary
system of English and classical
study, in pursuing literary style at
the expense of ideas has sacrificed
the latter and failed to secure the
former. He pleaded for more at
tention to latin. He complained that
the Latin of the Christian authors
was neglected, if not actually ex
cluded. He said:
“The students in secondary-
schools read during their course no
other works than those of the pre-
Christian classic authors. The con
sequence is that from the age of
twelve till twenty-two their minds
are nurtured on paganism. These
writings necessarily exercise a pow
erful influence on the students’ in
tellectual and emotional habits.
“Our secondary system has pur
sued form for form’s sake. It aims
at developing the imagination and
ignoring the claims of the intellect.
Expression, not thought, is what it
rewards. This has a deplorable ef
fect on the mentality of the stu
dent. Truth as such—conformity of
expression with thought and
thought with reality—ceases to have
any value in his eyes.”
The best thought expressed in the
Latin language is to be found in
the Christian writers. Dr. Leen con
tended. Pagan- classics are not truly
representative of the Latin culture
which has formed and dominated
European civilization.
Cardinal Logue urged that the
teaching of Latin be made more
general. Esperanto would never
succed as a universal language, he
said. Lijjin, if taught to the youth
of the country, would do for them (
what it did for so many in the mid
dle ages, when it was a general me
dium for business, for politics and
for judgments in the courts of jus
tice.
F'or four years there had been no
general meeting of the Maymooth
union. This lapse has, however, in
no way diminished the prestige and
usefulness of the union. Today 800
nriests are members of this union
Since it was founded, nearly thirty-
years ago. Cardinal Logue has been
absent from only one of its meet
ings. No ecclesiastic in Ireland has
known Maymooth longer than His
Eminence.
Addressing the bishops and clergy
at this year’s meeting of the union
he said:
“I am nearly tired of this life,
but as long as Providence spares
me, I will always he deeply inter
ested in the destinies of Maymooth
and the destinies of the Irish
chiirch and of Ireland. The Irish
are a grand people to labor for.
Thev never forget God and they
never forget the church and the
faith that St. Patrick brought
them.”
£. J. O’Connor Is Named
New N.C.W.C. Secretary
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
Washington, D. C.—-Col. Walter
F. Martin, formerly of St. Louis,
has resigned as executive secre
tary of the National Council of
Catholic Men to enter the com
mercial field, it has been an
nounced by headquarters of the
N. C. C. M., here. Colonel Mar
tin will represent several insur
ance companies in New York.
Edward J. O’Connor, who has
been with the N. C. C. M. since
its. organization and has been
assistant secretary, will sncceed
Colonel Martin as executive sec
retary, it was announced at the
same time. Mr. O’Connor also
is a native of St. Louis.
Irish Religious Body
Observes Golden Jubilee at
Dublin.
Dublin.—The Golden Jubilee of the
establishment of the Archconfrater-
ity of the Sacred Heart at Phibsboro
on the North Side of Dublin, was
celebrated recently with elaborate
ceremonies. The Archbishop of
Dublin and prominent Catholics
from all parts of the Irish Capital
took part.
The Archconfraternity w-as first
established as a confraternity in
1874 by a member of the Vincentian
Order in connection with the Vin
centian Church at Phibsboro. It
was raised to the dignity of an. Arch
confraternity by Pope Leo XIII and
granted the privilege of affiliating
other confraternities. The archcon-
fraternity now numbers 4 000 mem
bers and it has 600 other affiliated
organizations in Ireland, England,
and Scotland.
OLD AGE NO HANDICAP
IN SERVING THE CHURCH
German Priest-Philosopher
Retires at Eighty-Seven Af.
ter Teaching Sixty Years.
By Rev. Dr. Wilhelm, Baron von
Capitaine
(Cologne Correspondent, N. C. W. C.
_ News Service.)
Cologne.—A remarkable annivers
ary was observed in Germany this
year when the eighty-seventh birth
day of Dr. Constantin Gutbertlet,
priest-professor at Fulda, was cele
brated. Dr. Gutberlet has just re
signed his professorship because of
his great age.
In the Catholic Church, age has
never been an obstacle to appoint
ments and honors, and recently there
have been plenty of instances of
pastors, deans, and even bishops
and popes, who have passed eighty
years and still discharge heavy -and
responsible duties. In civil life, Eng
land for a long time has pensioned
off its officials at sixty-five, and
recently that Plan has been adopted
in Germany, but even in ecclesias
tical life, it is seldom a professor
is found discharging his duties at
eighty-seven.
Dr. Gutberlet was born in 1887 at
Geismer, that ancient city where
St. Boniface cut down the sacred
oak of the god Donar. He has writ
ten a long series of books and ar
ticles, exegetical, theological and
philosophical, some of which have
become standard texts in scientific
and philosophical circles.
He has been a professor at Fulda
for sixty years, and for many years
has been canon at the Fulda Cathed
ral. Essentially modest and pious,
he did not desire any festivities on
the occasion of his anniversary, and
even declined the ovation the stud
ent, who know bim as “The grand
old man,” planned for him.
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PERU’S AMBASSADOR TO
VATICAN DIES AT 91
He Served Also As Minister
to Spain and France—Out
standing Figure Sixty Years
(By N. G. W. C. News Service.)
San Sebastian—One of the best
known figures in the diplomatic ser
vice has passed away with the death
here of His Excellency Don Juan
Mariano de Goycneche Gamie, Count
of Guaqui, Marquis of Villafuerte.
Duke of Gamica and Grandee of
Spain of the First Cass, who for
more than a quarter of a century
has been the diplomatic represen
tative of Peru at the Holy See.
Born in Peru in 1883 of a family
belonging to ancient Basque nobili
ty established in Peru ever since
the days of the Spanish domination.
Ambassador de Goycneche entered
the diplomatic service at an early
age, his first assignment being to
the Peruvian Legation at Madrid.
A man of remarkable intelligence
and exceptional ability he made
rapid strides and was soon appointed
Minister Plenipotentiary to France.
In 1870 he was entrusted with the
delicate task of negotiating the
treaty of peace with Spain after the
war of 1866 anji was so successful
that he was able to sign in Madrid
the Hispano-Peruvian treaty of
peace re-establishing amicab'e rela
tion between the two countries, on
terms eminently satisfactory to both
Spain and Peru. Following this
achievement he was appointed Min
ister i' Snam.
At the time of the war between
Peiu and Chile, de Goyeneche was
again transferred to Paris and in
1895 he was appointed Minister
Plenipotentiary to the Holy See a
post which he occupied for 25 years
winning the warmest affection and
esteem of the Pontiffs Led XIII,
Pius X and Benedict XV.
When in 1919, the Peruvian Lega
tion was raised to the rank of an
embassy, de Goyeneche was made
the first ambassador and presented
his letters of credence in February,
1920. Unfortunately, failing health
forced him to seek an extended
leave, immediately after his appoint
ment, the affairs of the embassy
being administered during his ab
sence by the Charge d’Affaires ad
interim, Don Riccardo Roy Boza,
Marquis of Giles, who is also a rep
resentative of ancient Spanish no
bility established for several cen
turies in Peru and a diplomat of
high order.
STOP SUNDAY NEWSPAPER
WORK.
Paris—One step more has been
taken toward the establishment of
the Sunday day of rest for the
newspaper world. The government
has decided that the Journal Offi
cial will cease to appear on Monday
from now on. The paper will not
have to be made up on Sunday, and
all the information formerly carri
ed in the Monday issue will appear
"hereafter on Tuesday.
ENGLAND AROUSED BY
COMMUNIST SCHOOLS
They Teach Immority Arch
bishop of Canterbury De
clares in Statement.
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
London.—The menace of the Com
munist Sunday School, already
pointed out by the N. C. W. C. News
Service, has at last moved England
to action. In the House of Lords
this week was read, for the second
time, Ihe Seditious and Blasphemous
Teaching to Children bill, which
seeks to “prevent the perversion of
the minds of children under 16
years of age by seditious and blas
phemous teaching or literature.”
It is not likely that the bill will
become law, as its sponsors well
know. It is a private measure,
which will be read once more, for
the third time, in the Lords, and
will then be shelved for lack of
Government facilities to give it at
tention in the Commons. Such hills
serve their purpose as “demonstra
tions.”
Those who spoke in support of
the bill were alive to the danger
of communism as it is taught to
the young, unchecked, up and down
the country.
The Archbishop of Canterbury as
serted that communist teaching was
on the increase. Some of the teach
ing in the proletarian schools was
not only anti-Christian, but vicious
and immo’ral. He had in his pos
session some publications contain
ing matter so vile as to be unquot
able, including the teaching of free
love in the widest and most animal
sense. This was more perilous than
any attack on the Christian relig
ion.
The Archbishop thought that
many parents who allowed their
children to attend such schools
were totally ignorant as to the
teaching imparted.
The Duke of Atholl charged that
the existing machinery for stamp
ing out the schools was not doing
its work. The canker was growing,
and nothing had been done by the
authorities to check it, he said.
NEW YORK REDEMPTIONS
Falls Dead of Heart Disease In
Street.
New York.—Returning to his rec
tory Tuesday after visiting his fa
ther, a patient in St. Vincent’s Hos
pital, this city, th eRev. Joseph A.
McGuirk, Redcmptionist priest, as
sistant pastor of the Church of Our
Lady of Perpetual Help at Fifth
Avenue and Fifty-ninth street
Brooklyn, fell dead of heart disease.
Father McGuirk was born April
14, 1876, in this city, and was or
dained June 16tli, 1903, completing
his seminarj course at the Redemp-
torist Seminary at Ilchester, Md.
Solemn requiem Mass was celebrat
ed Friday morning at the church of
Our l^idy of Perpetual Help. Burial
was in a private vault in this city.
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GEORGIA RETREATS
A retreat for laymen will be held at Sacred Heart College,
Augusta, from Thursday evening, August 21, to Sunday morning,
August 24. A retreat for women will be held from the follow
ing Tuesday evening, August 26, to Friday morning, August 29,
at Mount de Sales Academy, Macon. Very Rev. John M. Mc
Creary, S. J., president of Immaculate Conception College, New
Orleans, a native cf Macon, will be retreatmaster. There is no
stated fee for the expenses of the retreat; each rctreatant may
make a private voluntary contribution. Aplications for the
men’s retreat should be sent to the Catholic Laymen’s Associa
tion of Georgia, 1409 Lamar Building, Augusta,, and for the
women's retreat to the Sisters of Mercy, Mount de Sales Academy,
Macon, NOT LATER THAN AUGUST 15.
The following application blank may be used:
Please make reservations for me at the retreat for
to be held at August to
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