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THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
JANUARY 9, 1926.
U. S. Heads Mission Contributors
Gave More Than Any Nation For Propagation of the Faith
Report For Fiscal Year Just Closed Shows
HONORS FOR LAYMEN OF
DETROIT HOLIDAY GIFTS
Pope Confers Medal Pro Ec-
clesia et Pontifice on Four
teen, Record Number.
(By N. C. W. C. News Service.)
Detroit.—The medal Pro Ecelesia
et Pontifice, conferred by the Holy
Father, was the gift Christmas
brought to fourteen laymen and two
women of the Detroit diocese. The
number is one of the largest to be
conferred in one diocese at one time.
Bishop Gallagher withheld an
nouncement of the honors so that
they might come as Christmas gifts.
Within the last seven years the
Diocese of Detroit has waged two
great campaigns to defend the right
of Catholics to have parochial
schools, has raised more than nine
million dollars for the education of
priests and built a great seminary,
has established 55 new parishes and
has built many churches and schools.
It was in recognition of the laity’s
support of these projects that the
Holy Father granted the honors at
Bishop Gallagher’s suggestion.
Those to receive the medal are
James F. Murphy, William P. Brad
ley, Bartholomew A. Seymour, Den
nis B. Hayes, Henry A. I. Andries,
William J. Kennedy, James F’itzger-
ald, Anthony Bodde. Joseph P. Gla
ser, Jeremiah J. O’Connor, Thomas
P. Phillips, Edward J Walker, An
thony J. Beck, Mrs. Alary Trombly,
and Mrs. Rosemary Trombly Roney
of Detroit, and Patrick H. Scully, of
Ann Arbor.
Missionary Hardships
Perhaps nothing strikes home
more forcibly than the appeal of the
missionary at Christmastide. The
National office of the Propagation
of the Faith is in receipt of many
pleas this week, all from men on the
firing line of our Faith. Of the
great number we select one just to
show the hardships that the Catho
lic missionary must endure It is
from Rt. Rev. Peter Rossillon, co
adjutor bishop of Vizpgapatam.
“I have the sorrow of seeing most
of our young priests dying one by
one, until ten have been stricken
by the fever. Why do they all suc
cumb? Because they are not strong
enough to resist the fever and they
are not strong enough because they
are undernourished. In fact our
missionaries are in a state of half-
starvation. They must live on 60
rupees monthly. How they pull
through on such a paltry sum is a
mystery to me. But the sad part is
that they are not pulling through..
They are dying off fast. Mass in
tentions from America would truly
be a life-saver in so many eases.”
American Catholics wishing to
help this unfortunate bishop may
send funds to the Director of the
Propagation of the Faith, if there is
one in your diocese. If not, money
may be sent to the National Office,
343 Lexington Avenue, N. Y. C.
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By Msgr. Enrico Pucd.
(Rome Correspondent, N. C. W. C.
News Service).
Rome.—According to the financial
report of the Pontificate Work of the
Propagation of the Faith for the
fiscal year 1924-25, the Catholics of
the United States contributed more
money for the support of foreign
missions during that period than
was distributed by the Propagation
of the Faith from the funds donat
ed from fifty-three nations. The re
port, which has just beeen made
public, shows that the Propagation
of the Faith received 44 316,446181
lire and distributed subsidies total
ing 40,069,363.42 lire. The United
States contributed 16,462,873.79 to
the funds of the Propagation of the
Faith and in addition, according to
the report, distributed 25,950,280.00
lire directly To the missions, making
a total of American contributions
for this purpose of 42,413,253.79 lire.
From the funds of the Propaga
tion of the Faith, missions in Amer
ican possessions received subsidies
amounting in all to 241,200 lire, dis
tributed as follows: Alaska, 40,000;
Palawan. 11500; Guam, 28 700; Ha
waii, 161,000. The central organi
zation here retains a fund of a mil
lion and a half lire for extraordi
nary subsidies, another million and
a half is allotted to traveling ex
penses, and there is a cash balance
on hand of 1,247,083.39 lire.
France was second to, though far
behind, the United States in the
amounts contributed by the various
nations to the Propagation of the
Colored Catholics Decide
On Program in Convention
. . (By N. C. W. C. News Service.) ..
Washington.—At the largest con
vention they have held, with every
one of their 38 affiliated organiza
tions represented, the Federated Col
ored Catholics of the United States
•adopted a definite program for the
advancement of the federation’s
work i,n the course of their two-
days’ sessions here this week. The
program centers about the Christian
education of colored youth.
At the opening High Mass the
spacious auditorium of St. Augus
tine's church was packed to the
doors, and the average attendance at
business sessions was 300.
Resolutions passed- as the conven
tion closed urged the encouragemen;
of colored youths to take up higher
education; took definite steps for a
program to support the Cardina
Gibbons Institute for the education
of colored youth, and after com
mending union and co-operation
among all Catholic laymen and en
dorsing the National Council of
Catholic Men and the National Coun
cil of Catholic Women, urged that
separate schools lay societies become
affiliated with the two councils.
Adoption of a broad set of pur
poses and attitudes toward problems
which face colored Catholics came
when the address of the Most Rev.
Michael J. Curley, Archbishop of
Baltimore, and spiritual director of
the federation, was followed 1 by a
motion that all its expressions of
principle he accepted by the conven-
lion. The motion was passed unani
mously.
Sanity of action, ardent work for
the Christian advancement of the
race as the true road to a solution
of the Negro problem, and refusal
to be sidetracked into debates and
protests over disabilities, was the
program urged by Archbishop Cur
ley.
Noted Chinese Admiral
Sends Daughter to American
Catholic College
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
Toledo—Miss Cecelia Hsu, duagh-
ter of a Chinese admiral has arrived
in Toledo to enter Mary Manse Col
lege, the women’s branch of St.
John’s College. She expects to re
main until she receives her A. B.
degree.
Miss Hsu’s father is Vice-Minister
of the Chinese Navy, and is known
in the United States, having visited
this country twice on official mis
sions. Miss Cecelia’s coming io To
ledo, however, is the outgrowth of a
meeting in China between her father
and Dr. Barry O’Toole, a Toledo
priest who has been in the Orient for
several months. When the admiral
expressed the intention of sending
his daughter to an Aemrican college,
Father O’Toole suggested Mary
Manse. Miss Hsu’s elder sister is a
Franciscan nun.
Miss Hsu has been attending n
Franciscan Sister’s school in Peking.
When she arrived Mother Mary Mar
garet, Dean of the College, took with
her to the station a French girl, in
the hope that if the new student
could not speak English she could
converse in French. To her aston
ishment, Miss Hsu spoke both Eng-
ish and French fluently.
Faith. The French contribution was
6,417,601.78 lire Holland gave 2,-
364,429.21 lire, Germany, Canada, It
aly, Spain, Belgium, Ireland and the
Argentine Republic, came next in
the order named, each of their con
tributions being between one and
two million lire. All other nations
on the list contributed sums of less
than one million lire. Some of the
smaller contributions were mtfde
from peoples themselves in need of
missionary aid dr the victims of re
ligious dissensions. The Islands of
Polynesia sent in 37,000 lire and
Mexico gave 750,000.
In Canada eight missions received
subsidies amounting in all to 718,-
500 lire, and in Mexico two missions
were given 18,975 lire between them.
The Maryknoll Missionaries were
given 86250 for their Kongmoou
Mission and 21,000 for traveling ex
penses.
During the period covered by the
report, there was a special donation
to the Pope of half million lire for
work in the Orient and a similar
sum was given to the Cardinal Pre
fect of the Congregation of the Pro
paganda for special missionary
needs. The report also mentions a
gift on one million lire to the For
eign Missions of Paris for the pur
pose of purchasing a home to re
ceive and aid Chinese students in
the French capital.
National Coinmitt s for the Pro
pagation of the Faitli ""-e set up in
Switzerland, Hungary, Columbia,
and Chile, and these countries now
have representatation iu the Su
preme Council.
The Christinas Holidays At
Belmont Abbey, N. Carolina
Special to The Bulletin.
Belmont, N. C.—Christmas was
marked by the celebration of Pon
tifical High Mass in the Cathedral
at midnight, the Rt. Rev. Abbot pon
tificating.
A similar ceremony was held at
the Feast of the Immaculate Con
ception.
Christmas atmosphere surrounded
Belmont long in advance of that
glad day. The offer of prizes for
the best decorated club room and
study hall spurred on tile boys in
foraging for evergreens, holly, bunt
ing and crepe. On December 22,
promptly at 3 o’clock, most of those
going home for the holidays piled
into a big yellow bus and left with
a ringing cheer for the school.
On December 21, the Piedmont
club held a smoker in the Refec
tory. Its holiday activity was a
drive for passive members. Teams
arranged by states are competing
in this effort to boost the club
roster. Returns are not in yet.’Er
nest Benchina, Dublin, Ga., was
the winner of the Checker Tour
nament of the Pine-Tree club.
Basketball began December 12
with a victory. Kannapolis, H. S.
was th victim, 24-14, The game got
away from the referee, becoming
furious as well as fast, hut ended
without mishap. Elliot and Kelly
accounted for most of the score. On
December 18 in a practice game
against Ranlo A. C. the five showed
top-season form, signals and floor-
work, winning 40 to 29. It will
hardly meet bigger men this year.
Thompson and Doris showed de
cided improvement. Kelly, Elliot,
Thompson, Doris and Owens all tal
lied, scoring 6. 7, 8, 9 and 10 points
respectively. Training table for the
squad has been arranged and will
continue throughout the season.
President Names Dr. Kerby
To Succeed Himself on
Washington Charities Board
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
Washington—President Coolidge’s
re-appointment of the Rev. Dr. W.
J. Kerby, Professor of Sociology at
he Catholic University of America,
to be a member, of the Board of
Charities of the District of Colum
bia, has been confirmed by the Sen
ate.
Dr. Kerby lias been a member of
the Board since 1920, when he was
appointed by the late President Wil
son. President Harding re-nomi
nated him to succeed himself and
President Coolidge has again honor
ed him with another re-apopintinent
The Board of Charities has juris
diction over penal, charitable, cor
rectional and similar institutions in
the District of Columbia, which re
ceive financial aid from the Federal
Government.
MINNEAPOLIS CHURCH.
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
Minneapolis—The Pro-Cathedral of
St. Mary here has been denominated
a minor basilica by Pope Pius XI, the
pastor, the Rev. James M. Rearden,
announced at .the Christmas services.
The beauty of its style of architec
ture won the admiration of the Pon
tiff, Father Reardea said.
Court Rules Poverty ¥ow
Allows Damages Recovery
By M. Massiani.
(Paris Correspondent, N. C. W.
C. News Service).
Paris.—“Because a life is g>v-
0 en to the unfortunate is no rea
son for considering that life is
without- value.”
With this terse comment, a
Saint Quentin civil tribunal, has
just placed a value of thirty
thousand francs on the curtail
ed activities of a Little Sister of
the Poor, despite her vow of per
petual poverty.
The pleading of the. case was
one of the most curious a French
court has ever heard. Sister
Marie, a religious of Saint Quen
tin venerated by thousands of
workers in that industrial city,
had consecrated he r life to the
service of the poor sick. About
a year ago, she was run down in
the streets by an automobile be
longing to a Senator. Her foot
was fractured, and after months
of treatment she remains in
firm.
The Senator asked the compa
ny which insured his car to in
demnify the victim. The com
pany agreed to pay the cost of
the medical treatment, but refus
ed to add an indemnity for Sis
ter Marie, contending that she
had taken a vow of poverty and
thus could not properly ask for
damages.
It was a rebuke to this con
tention that the court has grant
ed the substantial damages and
pronounced its dictum that a
life loses none of its value if
given to the poor.
PITTSBURGH PARISH
Makes Wonderful Financial
Showing
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
Pittsburg—The financial statement
of the Sacred Heart Church for the
year 1925 was distributed to the con
gregation on January 1, by the pas
tor, Rev. Thomas F. Goakley, D .1).
It shows that the total cash receipts
of_ the parish during the year were
$158,141.92. After paying all expenses
incident to the management of the
church, school, and the new church
that is in course of erection, there
remained $86359,29 to be applied
toward the reduction of the present
debt of the parish. This showing
was achieved without any special
drive for funds, the entire revenue
of the parish being derived form the
ordinary income through church col
lections.
The parish has in course of con
struction an entirely new parish
plant, on the finest ‘site in the city
of Pittsburgh, to cost some $2,000,-
OOo. and it wiil be occupied partially
during the early summer.
U. S. RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
TERCENTENARY PLANS
American Catholic Historical
Society Launches Move
ment For 1934 Observance
(By N. C. W. C. News Service.)
Philadelphia.—A movement to
complete the collection of materials
for a history of the Catholic church
in the United States in time for the
Tercentenary of Catholic Maryland,
in 1934, was launched at the annual
meeting here of the Amreica ’Catho
lic Historical Society.
The Rev. Dr. Peter Guilday of the
Catholic University, retiring presi
dent, made the proposal in his annu
al address, after recalling that the
golden jubilee of the Society wilL
fall at the same time as the Tcrccn-
ttnary. He pictured the project as
peculiarly one for the Society and as
on which would at once form an im
pressive jubilee monument and a
glorious contribution of the Society
to the greater anniversary. To car
ry it out he declared the Society
should be assured of-a $100,000 en
dowment fund from Catholic Ameri
ca and that its membership should
be recruited to 10,000. The Society
is one of the oldest and most dis
tinguished Catholic learned bodies
in America.
“Within less than ten years the
American Catholic Historical Socie
ty will reach its golden jubilee."
said Dr.""’Guilday. “This year, 1934,
coincides with what will undoubted
ly he the greatest national Catholic
jubilee since the discovery of the
anniversary of the founding of
Catholic Maryland and of the estab
lishment by Catholics of the princi
ple of religious freedom in Ameri
can political and social life.”
St. Thomas of Villanova on his
deathbed commanded that all the
money then in his possession (about
four thousand ducats) would be dis
tributed among the poor in all the
parishes of the city. Then he order
ed all liis goods to be given to the
rector of his college except the bed
upon which lie lay. As he was de
sirous of going out of the world
possessed of nothing he gave this
bed to a jailer for the use of pris
oners, but borrowed it until such
time as he should expire.
In the Prothesis, or early part of
the present Greek liturgy a small
knife, known as the Lance is used
to divide the Host from the holy
loaf. This action commemorates the
piercing of the Savior’s side. The
priest makes four cuts in the loaf
and stabs it more than once, ac
companying each action with texts
of Scripture such as “He was led
as a lamb to the slaughter.”
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