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THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
JANUARY 9, 1926.
INVESTITURE OF JUDGE
MEAGHER, NOVA SCOTIA
Noted Canadian Jurist, C. L.
A Member, Knight Com
mander of St. Gregory
Pope to Extend Jubilee Privileges
Holy Year Indulgences to Be Made Available to World
Roman Correspondent Says
Priest in China Describes
Captivity By Bandits
Halifax, N. S—Hon. Nicholas S.
Meagher, K. C. S'. G, retired judge
of the Supreme Court of Nova Sco
tia, was invested as Knight Com
mander of the Order of St. Gregory
the Great at St. Mary’s Cathedral
here December 20, Most Rev. Arch-
bishdp McCarthy officiating. At the
same time Hon. Emile Gaboury,
French consul at Halifax, was in
vested as a Knight of the Holy
Sepulchre. Archbishop McCarthy
was assisted by Very Rev. Father
Tressel of the Seminary and Father
MacDonald of the Cathedral staff.
Rev. Dr. Curran celebrated the sol
emn High Mass, with Rev. BasjJ.
Martin as deacon. Rev. Dennis Rob'i-
cheaud sub-deacon, and Rev. Father
Smith Master of ceremonies.
Rt. Rev. Monsignor Foley deliver
ed the sermon and paid a splendid,
tribute to Judge Meagher eulogiz
ing his exemplary life, his ser
vice as a jurist, and the ethical stan
dards he had upheld in his profes
sion of the law. He referred to him
as a loyal and uncompromising Ca
tholic who had edified the parish by
his ethics of life and habit of piety,
all of which were recognized by
Pope Pius XI in the honor conferr
ed on the distinguished Canadian
Catholic. Monsignor Foley also
pointed out the traits of mind and
heart that led the Patriarch of Je
rusalem to designate Mr. Gaboury
a Knight of the Holy Sepulchre.
The Halifax papers referred edi
torially to the honors conferred par
ticularly commending Judge Meagh
er, a life-long resident of Nova Sco
tia, for his outstanding services td
the province and country as well as
to his Church. Judge Meagher is an
uncle of Most Rev. Neil McNeil, D.
D., Archibishop of Toronto.
By MSGR. ENRICO PUCCI
(Rome Corerspondent N. C. W. C.
News Service.)
Rome,—According to the custom
of his predecessors at the conclu
sion of past Holy Years, Pope Pius
XI., as soon as the Holy Door closes
will publish a Bull extending the
Jubilee Indulgence to the whole
world. It is assumed that the ex
tension of the Indulgence will be
on the same conditions as those pre
scribed by Pope Leo XIII. at the
end of the last Holy Year. That
Pontiff decreed that all of the faith
ful, even those who had come to
Rome during the Holy Year might
obtain the spiritual favors of the
Jubilee by making prescribed visits
to churches in their localities under
conditions set forth in the Bull, and
by praying for intentions set out by
the Pope. Certain exemptions were
provided for religious leading a mon
astic life and for sailors, travelers,
prisoners and others.
to Rome. At Naples the ceremony
of the opening of the Holy Door
was reproduced in the Church of
St. Peter ad Aram.
The above account of the invest
ing of Judge Meagher will be inter
esting to the readers of The Bul
letin and members of the •Catholic
Laymen’s Association of Georgia,
for they will no doubt recall that
this noted jurist and Catholic has
himself been a member of the As
sociation for several years. Last
year The Bulletin office had the
honor of a visit from Judge Meagher
who, with Father MacDonald of No
va Scotia and Father McGrath of
Toronto, spent some time in Au
gusta. They rejoice with him on
his well-deserved honor, one he will
honor by bearing.
The extension of the Jubilee privi
leges to the whole world dates back
to Pope Alexander VI., who first
proclaimed it at the end of the
eighth Holy Year in 1500. Prior to
that time there had been only par
tial extensions. It was this same
Pope Alexander VI. who introduced
the ceremonies of the opening and
the closing of the Holy Door to
mark the beginning and the end of
the Holy Year.
The ninth Holy Year, celebrated
by Pope Clement VII. in 1525, two
years before the troops of the Con
stable of Bourbon sacked Rome, was
very unsuccessful as regards the
number of pilgrims attracted to the
Eternal City. It was only a few
years before the heresy of Luther
and was further handicapped by an
epidemic then raging in Rome which
made many persons fear to make
the pilgrimage. In 152(1 the Pope
extended the Jubilee privileges to
those who had been unable to come
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Extension of the Jubilee were
granted by Pope Julius III after the
Holy Year of 1550 to the Emperor
Charles V. and to the latter’s son
Phillip, as well as to members of
their court. At the instance of St.
Ignatius of Loyola an extension was
also granted to the army of Charles
V. then engaged, in alliance with
the Genoese, Pontifical, Florentine,
and Maltese galleys, in an expedi
tion agains the famous pirate Drag-
uto. Rais. Also at the instance of
St. Ignatius the Pope granted the
Jubilee indulgence to the peoples of
the East Indies, Brazil, the Congo
and other far-off countries then re
ceutly converted.
When Pope Gregory XIII. decided
to extend the Jubilee indulgences
after the Holy Year of 1575 the
condition of the Catholics in Eng
gland caused him to make some
very unusual provisions as applied
to them.
Pope Clement VIII. extended the
Jubilee to the entire world after
the Holy Year of 1600, and in 1626
it was extended to France by Pope
Urban VIII.
(By N. C. W. C. News Service.)
St. Louis.—The hardship of im
prisonment for a month by Chi
nese bandits are recounted in a
letter received here from the
Rev. Otto A. Rauschenbach, for
merly a St. Louis priest. Father
Rauschenbach tells how he and
Father O’Mclia, upon returning
to the island of Sancian after an
absence, were told that a bandit
chief had taken possession of
the other side of the island, and
how, when they went to negoti
ate with the chief, money was
demanded of them and they
were held as hostages.
Throughout their captivity,
the two priests were forced to
sleep in the same room with the
bandit chief and seven or eight
of his men, who smoked opium
incessantly. While held captive
they witnessed a two-day battle *
in which 150 bandits captured a
village which resisted them.
Finally, they escaped in the con
fusion of moving from one vil
lage to another, through a ruse
of looking for some books they
had buried. Passing over to the
other side of the island, they
were taken aboard a Chinese
gunboat and later were trans
ferred to the U. S. S. Sacra
mento, which had been sent to
their rescue.
ANGLICAN CLERGYMEN t
NOW CATHOLIC PRIESTS
Three Ordained in England in
December—Other Convert
Clergymen Preach.
Innocent X, extended the Jubilee
io the entire world after the four
teenth Holy Year of 1650, prescrib
ing that it could be gained by all
the faithful who visited four
churches in their home communities
fifteen times. From 1650 down to
the present time the practice of ex
tending the Jubilee to the entire
world has been followed by the
Popes at the conclusion of each suc
cessive Holy Year; by Clement X.,
after the Jubilee of 1675, by Clement
XI. after that of 1700, by Benedict
XIII. after 1725, by Pius VI. after
1775, by Leo XII after 1825, and
by Leo XIII at the conclusion of
the Holy Year of 1900.
Queen of Spain in England
Diocese of Natchez, Miss
Father Korstenbrock, Vener
able Greenville Priest, Dead
Cleveland Ursulines
Honored on Diamond Jubilee
of Coming to Diocese
Natchez.—Rt. Rev. D. O. Gcrow,
IX D., Bishop of Natchez, has ap
pointed Bev J. McNamara as episco
pal secretary.
The Holy Season kept our beloved
Bishop unusually busy as, in addi
tion to Catliedal duties, he has been
all over his extensive territory with
visitations and confirmations.
Water-Valley.— Rev. Father Fitz
patrick, recently appointed pastor
here, entertained Bishop Gerow Iasi
week, assisted by very loyal con
gregation.
Greenwood.—Bishop Gcrow con
firmed a large class here last week
and he congratulated the pastor and
flock on the fine enlarged and 4:en-
ovated church there.
Bassfield.—Fr. O’Sullivan celebrat
ed his silver sacerdotal jubilee and
was the recipient of warm felicita
tions.
Gulfport.—The Coast boom was of
great advantage to Rev. Fr Spong
ier in aiding the church and in en
abling him to plan the erection /of
a new all brick, modern convent and
school.
Greenville.— Father Korstenbrock
one of the olde’st diocesan priests,
who landed from Holland in 1883.
was buried here last week. A splen
did church of real architectural
beauty and a convent and school are
his monuments, and a life of exem
plary priesthood as well.
Vicksburg.—The popular first as
sistant F’ather McHale, has returned
here after a few months absence at
Bay St. Louis, where he went for
his health.
Clarltsdalc.—Mr. Jose Quinienos.
Mexican Vice-Consul of New Or
leans. called to thank Father Nelius
Downing in the name of the Mexi
can government for his efforts in
behalf of the thousands of Mexican
Cotton pickers in the famous Mis
sissippi Delta.
Master Joe Price Walton, 17,
head altar boy at the local Catho
lic church, and leading boy scout,
was awarded a special medal for
conspicuous bravery when at the
risk of his life he saved three boys
in a local swimming lake, last sum
mer. The medal was bestowed by
the Central Executive Body of the
Scouts Organization
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(By N. C. W. C. News Service.)
London—Three ex-Anglican cler
gymen were ordained priests here
this week, one of them, Rev. J. Dale
at the age of 75. Two of the ordina
tions were at the Oratory, with Car
dinal Bourne officiating, and the
other was at Downside Abbey by the
Bishop of Clifton.
The three new convert priests are:
The Rev. J. Dale, age 75, an A ngli-. lir J
Cleveland.—Polifical Mass in St.
John’s Cathedral was celebrated here
this morning by Rt. Rev. Joseph
Schrembs fior the Ursuline Sisters,
who held their diamond juhliee in
August.
Bishop Schrembe was in Europe at
the time of thte observance ond on
his return promised the Sisters that
he would offer pontifical Mass lor
them before the end of the year.
The congregation which numbered
about 1,000 Sisters, comprised not
only the Ursulines but representa
tions of the other teaching orders of
women in Cleveland. It was the
first time such a service was held in
the cathedral or in tlic diocese. The
Ursulines were the pioneers in the
work of religious education of the
youth in the diocese. They came
from France upon the invitation of
Bishop Amadeus Rappe 75 years ago.
The address for the occasion was
given by Msgr. Edward A. Pace of
Ithe Catholic Universitty of Wash
ington, who embodied a tribute to
the founder of the Ursuline Order
and to the work of the Ursulines in
the diocese as well as to the Sister
hoods in general.
(By N. C. W. C. News Service.)
London.—Spain’s Catholic Queen
attended Mass at the Carmelite
Church, Kensington, in the early
morning before she left London this
week for Madrid, and knelt at the
spot where she heard Mass on the
day she left her native country to
marry King Alfonso.
In the Lady chapel where the pri
vate Mass was said by the Prior, Fa
ther Ambrose Fatcher, the Queen
glanced as she entered at a memo
rial tablet which reads:
O, Mother of Mount Carmel
continue to spread your protec
ting mantle around the Queen of
Spain who kneeling at this
spot heard Mass
on the morning she left England
for her adopted country
(the Feast of the Ascension 1906)
This Tablet
is placed here by some of her
fellow worshippers in Grateful
Recognition of her Preservation
from Death on her. Wedding
Day, tlie 31st May, 1966.
The tablet recalls thte attempted
assassination of tthc Spanish king
and liis bride. Before her marriage
she was Princess Victoria Ena and
she was received into the Church
prior to her wedding.
The Prince of Wales, Princess Be
atrice and the Spanish Ambassador
went to the station to see her off
this week. The Queen’s visit to Eng
land was prolonged by the death of
Queen Alexandra, whose funeral she
attended.
can clergyman who has been living
more or less in retirement. His wife
died some years ago. F’or some time
he has been studying at St. Charles’s
House of Studies, Hatfield, an insti
tution which receives convert clergy
men after their reception when they
have thoughts of going on for the
priesthood.
The Rev. Ernest Edmund Kilburn,
formerly vicar of St. Saviour’s, Hox-
ton, and for two years during the
World War chaplain on a hospital
ship. He was received into the
Church in 1922 and in the following
year entered the novitate of the
Congregation of the Oratory. Car
dinal Bourne ordained Fathers Dale
and Kilburn.
Dom Fabian Pole, ordained at
Downside Abbey by the Bishop of
Clifton, is now a member of the
Benedictine community there. He
belonged to the Anglican community
of St. Andrew at Plaistow, and he is
the second member of that commun
ity to join the Benedictines at
Downside.
When Father Kilburn celebrated
his first Mass this week at the Ora
tory his server was the Rev. Antony
Holland who was formerly his curate
at Hoxton and who is now studying
for the priesthood. Later in the
day Mr. Holland himself received
the first two minor orders.
“A Penny a Visit”
A clergyman whose salary had not
been paid for several ' months, re
marks the Catholic News, told the
Irustecs that he must have his mon
ey as his family were suffering for
want of the necessaries-of life
“Money!” exclaimed one of the trus
tees, noted for his stinginess. “Do
you preach for money? I thought
you preached for the good of souls.
The minister replied: “So I do ,but
I cannot eat-souls. And if tl could
it would take a thousand such souls
as yours to make a meal.” About
one-fith of Catholic parishioners
are non-contributors to the support
of the church, says the Catholic
Citizen of Milwaukee, Wis. This
fact is a subject of consideration in
[lie different parishes throughout the
country; and no doubt the clergy
know more about it in a minute than
most of us in an hour. There arc
undoubtedly a class of young men
and women who believe salvation
should he free to the extent of per
mitting them to sit in other people’s
pews, and to belong to the church
at the rate of a penny a visit. Wc
do not think many of this kind of
youth or maiden ever read a Catho
lie paper so that it would be inef
fective to admonish them through
these columns. A certain parish
opinion should, without any censor
iousness or hardness, hold them in
view. The Catholic Church welcomes
the pious poor, but is ashamed of
the pious sponge. —The Catholic
Transcript, Hart forth.
At the Oratory on Sunday evening
another ex-Anglican clergyman, the
Rev. J. E. L. Woodruff, Cong. Orat.,
preached on the vitality and reality
of the true priesthood..
In the North of England, too, this
week, convert Anglican clergy have
been to Hie fore. Father Ronald
Knox, the convert son of a former
Anglican Bishop of Manchester made
an appeal at St. George’s Hall, Liv
erpool, on behalf of the Converts’
Aid Society which exists to give as
sistance to Anglicans who sacrifice
wordly position to follow their con
sciences.
Father Knox predicted that the
next ten or twenty years would see
something in the nature of a land
slide from High Anglicanism to the
Catholic Church.
He replied to his Anglican critics
who had told him that his itellectual
friends in the Catholic Church would
not satisfy him. His retort was,
“There is nothing in the Church of
England which approaches the posi
tion of a priest in the Catholic
Church.
“I can never be sufficiently grate
ful,” he said, “for the welcome given
to me by Catholics since my recep
tion.” ,
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CATHOLICS DO NOT BELIEVE
That the Pope is God.
That the Pope cannot do wrong.
That the Pope has temporal rights in America.
That the Pope can claim their political allegiance.
That the Pope can nullify laws, oaths, or contracts at will.
THEY DO NOT BELIEVE
That the marriages of Protestants are invalid.
That Protestant husbands and wives arc living in sin.
That the children of Protestants are illegitimate.
That contracts with Protestants may be broken.
That Protestants may be hated or persecuted.
That Protestants will all be damned.
THEY DO NOT BELIEVE
That public schools are an evil.
That they ought to be abolished or destroyed.
That they ought not to he supported by a common lax,
That education ought not to be universal and free.
That it ought not to be compulsory where necessary.
THEY DO NOT BELIEVE
That they can buy forgiveness of sin.
That they can purchase freedom from purgatory.
That they can get indulgence to commit sin.
That sin can be forgiven without repentence.
THEY DO NOT BELIEVE
That images may be worshipped.
That anybody or thing may be worshipped or adored “in the
heavens above, or the earth below, or the waters be
neath the earth,” but the One True God.
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