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VOL. VI. No. 4.
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Official Organ of the Catholic Laymens AssociationsfGeorgia,
“TO BRING ABOUT A FRIENDLIER FEELING AMONG GEORGIANS, IRRESPECTIVE OF CREED"
AUGUSTA, GA., FEBRUARY 28, 1925.
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PILGRIMS FROM MANY
LANDS FLOCK TO ROME
Pope Personally Presents
Medal to Each Pilgrim and
Makes Appropriate Talks.
Yale Divinity School Students
Addressed by Catholic Priest
Rev. Dr. John A. Ryan of Catholic University of America
Tells Candidates for Protestant Ministry Views
of Church’s Duties in Social Field.
BY MSGR. ENRICO PUCCI
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
Rome.—The number of Holy Year
pilgrims io Rome has increased to
such an extent that it lias been found
necessary to discontinue the custom
of allowing them to attend the
Mass celebrated for pilgrims by
the Pope in the Sala Concistorio.
During the month of January when
the number of pilgrims was small, as
was to he expected, all of those who
paid Holy Year visits to Rome were
accorded the privilege of attending
this Mass, but it has been found im
practicable. to continue this cus
tom.
However, ihe Pope will continue to
receive each pilgrimage in special
audience and to give personally to
each pilgrim a commemorative medal
of the Jubilee. His Holiness has
also established the custom of speak
ing a few words to each pilgrimage
in which he refers not only to the
general subject of the Jubilee but
also to subjects of especial interest
to tiie particular group he happens
to be addressing.
To the pilgrimage from the Ar
gentine Republic, for example he
said that the fact of their coming
from so distant a land rendered them
particularly dear to his heart and
that they should thank God because
they had had the privilege of being
in Rome for the ceremony of the
Opening of the Holy Door at the be
ginning of a Holy Year.
((By N. C. W. C. News Service,)
New Haven, Conn.,—Students of
the Yale Divinity school recently
heard the Rev. Dr. John A. Ryan,
Professor of Moral Theology at the
Catholic University of America, give
the Catholic view of the church’s
duties in the social field. The event
was unusual; it is not recalled that a
Catholic priest ever has addressed
a Yale Divinity school class before.
Dr. Ryan spoke at the invitation
of Prof. Jerome Davis, Professor of
Sociology at the school, his lecture
being one in a bi-weekly series on
social subjects.
Taking as his subject “What the
Catholic Church is Doing Along So
cial Lines,” the speaker pointed out
that social activities properly in
clude “all forms of action which deal
with social groups as such,” and
declared that the action of tile Cath
olic church ih all the proviuces of
this term is necessarily determined
by her end and mission.
“Her primary and essential work
is the sanctification and salvation
of the Individual,” he continued
“Therefore, she is interested in so
cial conditions, institutions and re
lations only insofar as. these affect
the individual.
“The pdsition of the church is,
accordingly, neither that of the ex
treme individualist nor that, of the
person who takes what might be
called the extreme social view of
the church’s functions. The church
does not accept the view that her
mission is merely to preach the
faith, to administer the sacraments,
and to discharge liturgical functions.
“On the other hand, the church is
not an organization for social re
form. He mission is to save souls,
not only by teaching them what to
believe and by administering the
sacraments, but also by leading them
along the way to right conduct.
She teaches and enforces all the
virtues included in those of .charity
and justice. And ,she maintains that
these two virtues bind men in all
the relations of life, social and in
dustrial as Well as domestic and
neighborly. Therefore, she is neces
sarily interested in all social in
stitutions, agcnsies and practices
(Continued on page 11.)
Alumni of Catholic Colleges Plan
General Association In New York
__ If Movement Succeeds There
When the Pope addressed the Ger
man pilgrimages he spoke in Ger
man and took occasion to express
his gratification at the thorough
going in .which the Germans have
perfected organization of a large
number of pilgrimages at various
times throughout the entire year.
Pilgrims from Turin .heard the
Pope recall some pilgrimages from
that city which he had witnessed
in the Holy Year of 1900 on which
occasions, he said, he had been very
much edified by the piety displayed.
'Ihe Pope told the Mexican pil
grims that in his youth, when study
ing Georgraphy an o' Ethnography, he
had been greatly impressed by ac
counts of the beauty of their country
and that he had read many hooks
on subject relating to Mexico
When the pilgrimage from Parma
was received, the Pope mentioned
that this group had been organized
by the Franciscan Tertiaries and
recalled that, as a member of that
order himself, he took great pleasure
in bestowing his blessing. He also
mentioned his frequent visits to
Parma before he became Pope and
told of having admired its treasures
of art, history, and religion.
MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY
And Marquette Journal
Radio Stations Combine.
(Ry N. C. W. C. News Service)
Milwaukee, Wis—In the future,
Radio Station WHAD of Marquette
University will b e known as the'
Marquette University - Milwaukee
Journal broadcasting station, ac
cording to announcement here. The
Journal and the university have
reached an agreement whereby both
will combine in broadcasting pro
grams of quality. The station now
is the most powerful in the city,
500 watts, and this can be raised
to 750 watts on short notice. WHAD
has recently been rebuilt and is
testing now. Regular ^-ograms will
start soon.
VISIT U. S. THIS
Heroic Prelate Reds Tried
Announces Intention in Let
ter to Captain McOullagh.
(By N. C. W. C. News Service.)
New York,—Archbishop Cieplak,
whose trial by the Russian Bolsh
evists aroused international indigna
tion two years ago, is coining to this
country some time during the year,
according to a letter received by Capt.
Francis McCullagh, and made public,
Capt. McCullagh; whose dispatches
printed in the London Daily Mail
and the New York Herald, exposing
the court procedure of the Russians
during the trial, are largely credited
with bringing about the abandoing
of the death and other penalties the
Russian authorities had determined
to inflict on the Archbishop and his
fellow priests, is a friend of the
Archbishop.
The letter from the Archbishop to
McCullagh follows:
“Since my beloved Polish people
in America have frequently invited
me to visit that country, I intend
to go there this year. I am very
glad that I shall have an opportun
ity of personally thanking at the
same time the noble hearted Amer
icans for their great charity toward
the persecuted Christians in Russia,
and especially for their cordial sym
pathy for us, Catholic priests, in that
unjust trial which you so ably de
scribed in your wonderful hook. I
cannot tell you the precise time of
my arrival in America, for Thave not
decided as yet.”
Capt. McCullagh has recently com
pleted a lecture tour he has been
making in the United States and will
leave shortly for South America.
Admiral Benson Urges Forcible
Action Against Stage Indecency
(By N. C. W. C. News Service.)
Washington, D. C.—Admiral W. S.
Benson, president of the National
Council of Catholic Men issued the
following statement today in connec
tion with the campaign for -clean
plays and clean motion pictures:
“The increasing indecency of the
American stage has become such a
serious problem that all the construc
tive elements, of our people are asked
to express themselves, and forcibly,
against these open, in many cases,
brazen assaults on public morality
on the part of conscienceless pro
ducers of plays.
“The National Council of Catholic
Men was repeatedly expressed its
opposition to every public manifesta
tion of indecency, whether in spoken
or written language, on the stage
or off the stage. We will continue
aggressively our national activity in
this regard and w’e will support every
effort of the public authorities in
enforcing the laws against indecency
in every or any form, spoken, print
ed or pictured.
“The existence of the law carries
with it the authority and duty to en
force it so that these offenses
against, public morals shall be ad-
quately punished.”
Efforts to Make It National
Will Be Undertaken.
(By N. C. W. C. News Service.)
New York,—For the first time in
the history of Catholic colleges in
this country an attempt will be made
to form a federation of Catholic Col
lege Alumni, under the name of ihe
Alumni Association of Catholic Col
leges. The plan has been launched
by the alumni association of the Col
lege of St. Francis Xavier of this
city. A conference of the represen
tatives of all Catholic Colleges whose
alumni have local units in this city
will be held at the Catholic club
of the City of New York, on Tuesday
evening, February 17. It has been
announced *5y the committee in
charge of the formation of the new
organization that almost every Cath
olic College in the country will be
represented at the conference.
According to the report made by
the committee there is at present no
organization in the United States,
which is composed of the Alumni
Association of Catholic Colleges for
men. For over ten years, however,
the Committee declares, there has ex
isted a Federation of Catholic Alum~
nae with departments of educations,
social service and literature that have
achieved really great results in up
holding the ideals of Catholic wom
anhood,
His. Eminence Patrick Cardinal
Mayes, in a letter addressed to Ed
ward S. Dore, chairman of the com
mittee of the Alumni Federation, has
given his hearty approval of the
project. He said in part:
“The project has my blessing and
every best wish. I feel that the ex
ample set by the Federation of Cath
olic Alumnae should be followed by
our college men.
“It is very wise, it seems to me, to
make a local beginning, which later
on may very wen he extended
throughout the city and then through
out the country.”
The new Federation the committee
announced, will not interfere with
the autonomous activity or the spec
ific aims and purposes of the vari
ous distinct alumni associations that
would be united in its membership,
hut it would attempt to capitalize
through corporate union the intellec
tual product of Catholic colleges and
unite the association and the gradu
ates thereof into a greater education
al and intellectual force than their
individual associations can achieve.
The committee reported that it was
considered inexpedient to attempt at
the outset the formation of such an
Alumni Federation on a national
.scale. It was determined to test
the feasibility of the work by at
tempting to organize the alumni
units in greater New York and from
that association spread throughout
the rest of the country. A New York
association, they declare, would test
out the capacity ot rr.c reprsentative
alumni associations to work together
and would furnish the nucleus out
of which the -national association
could be developed.
Bishop Hohan Chairman
of Eucharistic Congress
Chicago.—In furtherance of
his desire to make the archdio
cesan arrangements for the In
ternational Eucharistic congress
to be held in Chicago in June,
1926 as complete as possible,
Cardinal Mundelein, before his
departure for Rome, named as
honorary president of the con
gress committee, Rt. Rev. Ed
ward F. Hoban, Auxiliary Bish
op of Chicago, and administra
tor of the archdiocese during
the Cardinal’s absence.
COMMUNISTS ASSAULT
CSTHOLICSJ FRANCE
Two Killed and Many Injured
in Anti-Catholic Attack by
Reds at Marseilles.
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
Paris—By a vote of 350 to 200,
the Government obtained a post
ponement of an inierpellion con
cerning the rioting and killing at
Marseilles recently when Commun
ists attacked Catholics in an attempt
to break up a meeting of the new
Catholic party. The vote puts off
the interpellation until all others
on the agenda have been heard.
Discussion in the chamber was
heated, Deputy Blaisot demanding
that the Government submit to an
interpellation at once.
Catholic members of the Chamber,
roused to a high pitch by the out
rage, propose to press with all vigor
for an explanation of the Govern
ment’s position. They demand to
know if inadequate police protection
which permits killings and attacks
on their meetings is to be condoned,
and if free assemblage is to be in
terfered with.
Two persons were killed and near
ly a hundred, including three priests
were injured in the Communists’
attack on the Catholics at Marseil
les. The Communists advanced as
the Catholics were proceeding to
their meeting hall. They were sing
ing the “International” and carry
ing blackjacks, loaded canes and a
few revolvers. Some of the Cath
olics struck up the “Marseillaise” in
reply, and the clash ensuied. Catho
lics assert the police interposed no
real effort to stop the conflict.
ABBOT VINCENT TO BE
BLESSED MARCH 19
Archbishop Curley of Balti
more to Officiate at Bel
mont Abbey Ceremony.
Special to The Bulletin.
Belmont, N. C.—Most Rev. Mich
ael J. Curley, D. D., Archbishop of
Baltimore and Administrator of the
Diocese of Raleigh, N. C., will offi
ciate at the blessing of Rt. Rev.
Vincent Taylor, O. S. B., Abbot-
elect of Belmont, which will take
place on the Feast of St. Joseph,
March 19th. Abbot-elect Vincent
will be the second Abbot of Bel
mont, succeeding the late Rt. Rev.
Leo Ffaid, O. S. B.
The blessing of Abbot-elect Vin
cent will bring to Belmont one of
the most distinguished gatherings of
prelates and clergy the Old North
State has ever seen. Only once be
fore has an abbot been blessed in
this section, on Thanksgiving Day,
1885,. forty years ago, when Rt. Rev.
Bishop Northrop of Charleston offi
ciated when Bishop Haid was raised
to abhatial dignity, three years be-
for his consecration as titular bish
op of Messene and Vioftr-Apostolic
of North Carolina.
Abbot-elect Vincent returns now
to rule where he once was a school
boy. Born in Norfolk, Va., Sep
tember 19, 1877, he was educated
in the parochial schools of Norfolk
and at Belmont Abbey College. Af
ter his graduation of 1897, he en
tered the Benedictine Order and was
ordained May 24, 1902. Shortly af
terward he was assigned to St. Bene
dict’s parish, Greensboro, N. C., and
there his life as a priest has been
spent.
The people of Greensboro, Catho
lic and non-Catholic, knew him as
“Father Vincent,” and all respected,
admired and loved him. When his
election as Abbot was announced
August 20th, the papers of Greens
boro, while rejoicing in his new
honors, expressed their regret be
cause it meant that he was to leave
the city.
Belmont Abbey was created in
1885. In 1910 it was created an
abbey “nullius diocesis,” an abbey
independent of the Diocese in which
it is situated, a distinction it alone
enjoys of all the abbeys in the
United States. The diocesan terri
tory of the abbey consists Of Gas
tonia, Lincoln, Cleveland, Polk, Ru
therford, McDowell, Burke and Ca
tawba counties. Besides Belmont
Abbey and its seminary and col
lege, the Benedictine Fathers whom
Abbot-elect Vincent will head have
parishes in North Carolina at Win
ston-Salem, Charlotte, Greensboro
and Salisbury with their missions,
at Richmond in Virginia and Savan
nah in Georgia, and conduct Bene
dictine College, Richmond, Va, St.
Joseph’s Institute, Bristow, Va, and
Benedictine College, Savannah, Ga.
Archbishop Curley, who will offi
ciate at the blessing of Abbot-elect
Vincent, recently was named by
Pope Pius XI. administrator of the
newly erected Diocese of Raleigh,
N. C, which includes within its
limits all the state of North Caro
lina except the counties attached to
Belmont as its diocesan territory.
The bishop of the newly erected
diocese has not been named.
BIRTH CONTROL CLINIC BARRED
Chicago.—The Appellate Court
here has reversed an order of the
circuit court, directing Dr. H. N.
Bundesen. health commissioner, to
issue a license for the establish
ment of a birth-control clinic. In
effect, this decision of the appellate
court practically prohibits establish
ments of such a clinic here.
French Communists All Vote to
Suppress-Embassy to the Vatican
By M. MASSIANI
(Paris Correspondent, N. C. W.
C. News Service.)
Paris,—After a heated debate of
fifteen days, the French Chamber,
by a vote of 312 to 250 voted the bill
suppressing the appropriations for
the Embassy at the Vatican. If the
cessation of relations is to be de
finite, the Senate must, vote an iden r .
tical measure. Will it consent to
do so? Opinion is divided. In the
upper assembly, partisans and ad
versaries of the embassy form two
almost equal factions. It seems,
however, that there is a slight ma
jority in favor of the representation
of France in the Rome of the Papacy.
The discussion in the Senate will not
take place for five or six weeks. It
is stated that the suppression of the
Embassy will be opposed by former
Ambassador Jonnart, and by former
President Poincare, both of who are
members of the Senate.
In the Chamber, all the members
of the Right and of the Centre, the
former National Bloc, voted without
exception for the mainteannee of the
appropriation. M. Aristide Briand
detached forty votes from the left
by his intervention, the majority
from the moderate radical faction
presided over by former Minister
Loucheur.
Composition of Opposition Vote
The 312 deputies who voted the
suppression include all the radical so
cial socialists, all the radical so
cialists, all the socialists and all
the communists.