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THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN'S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
JANUARY 9, 1926.
POPE SENDS HONORS TO
BAY STATE CATHOLICS
Pastors Become Monsignori
and Laymen Knights of St.
Gregory Bishop Announces
(By N. C. W. C. News Service.)
Springfield, Mass.—Six thousand
persons, many of them non-Catholics
poured forth from all parts of the
Diocese of Springfield to give a re
markable welcome to Bishop Thomas
M. O’Leary upon his return to his
See city after his visit to Rome.
Forty-five hundred filled every seat
in the auditorium at the formal re
ception, and thousands were turned
away.
Bishop O'Leary, visibly touched by
the tribute, told in an eloquent ad
dress of the Holy Father’s pleasure
at his report of the diocese’s prog,
ress, warmly commended the laity
for its loyalty, recounted the honors
the Pope had conferred upon priests
and laymen in the diocese, and con
ferred the Papal Blessing which he
had been specially privileged to im
part, He also announced that the
diocese’s Holy Year gift to the Pon
tiff was $50,000 and told how the
Holy Father was impressed when it
was presented and how he himself
was astonished at the intimate
knowledge the Pope had of the dio
cese.
Justice James B. Carroll of Spring-
field, who -was made a Knight of St.
Gregory at the request of the bishop
made the address of welcome.
Knighthood in the same Order was
conferred upon I)r. Michael'F. Fallon
of Worcester. Six priests were made
monsignors. They are Father Ber
nard S Conaty of Pittsfield. Father
John F. Conlin of Chicopee, Father
M. A. Desorchers of Webster, Father
John F. Sheehan of Ware, Father
John F. Fagan of Holyoke and Father
John P. Phelan of Whitinsville.
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South Carolina and Its Missions
Article by Bev, W. A. Tobin in Extension Vividly De
scribes Life of Missionary Priest in the Southeast
(By REV. W. A. TOBIN.)
The area of the State of South
Carolina is almost equal to that of
Ireland, and is nearly three times as
great as that of Belgium. Its pop
ulation, however, is only, roughly,
one and three-quarter millious. Over
eight hundred thousand of its inhab
itants are colored.
The Directory for 1925 lists the
number of Catholics in South Caro
lina as ten thousand. Included in
that estimate are members of the
white and colored races. There is
about one negro Catholic to every
twenty white ones in the state.
South Carolina, like Gaul, may be
divided into three parts. The lower,
or tide-water section, with the city
of Charleston as its center, contains
more than two-thirds of all the
Catholics in the state. The middle
section has for its hub Columbia, a
progressive city of 40,000 people,
where there are two 'Catholic par
ishes. hi the upper, or Piedmont
section, there are four Catholic par
ishes. Here five priests minister to
the spiritual needs of their scatter
ed flocks, and find it necessary to
traverse many counties in doing so.
All the priests in South Carolina,
with the possible exception of those
in the cities of Charleston and Colum
bia, may be ranked as missionaries.
By that I mean they attend outlying
missions and stations, say Mass "and
adm.nister the Sacraments in pri
vate houses and public buildings
when they strike towns and places
where there is no Catholic church
preach in the open air if occasion
calls, and, in general, face all man
ner of inconveniences. They must
also he ready for ait the emergencies
consequent upon pioneer conditions
m districts where established or
ganization is out of the question.
„ fhc Lfo of the missionary in
South Carolina, like that of man ev-
evrywhere, has its ups and downs,
its hUl s and its hollows, its fair
spots and its foul. The members of
his beloved Church are few in num
ber. According to the “Old Doctor,”
r ather Jeremiah O Connell, who
wrote the interesting volume: “Cath
olicity in the Carolinas and Georgia,’
there were ten thousand Catholics in
the Palmutto State in 1878 and
here are only ten thousand now. In
o ” a century the population of
south Carolina has grown apprecia
bly,. but ■Catholicity has lagged far
behind. Outside Charleston citj r
there are no high schools for boys
or girls, there is no college, there is
no hospital, there is no orphanage to
take care of the bereaved child,
there is not a single colored parish.
iP,? spiritual anil material way,
Catholicism makes a wonderful
showing i.u more favored portions of
0 pr country; but she looms
pitifully small, and puts up a very
poor front in South Carolina. Thes«
things naturally distress the heart
of the zealous priest. He wonders
when is the transformation going to
come; when j s the tide going to
turn; when will the mustard tree
stretch forth its tender branches.
fhat is the dark side; but there is
a bright one. too. The non-Catliolic
people of the state are, on the
whole, friendly. They don’t throw
bouquets at you, and they don’t lie
awake at night thinking up schemes
to promote your happiness; but dur
ing my stay of twelve years in the
Diocese of Charleston, nobody has
ever insulted me openly and delib
erately hurt my feelings because I
, ,?>■ old en Ku Klux
hlan flourished like a green bay tree
m houth Carolina; but the modern
counterfeit of Simmons, Evans, et al
has been received with down-trod
den thumbs. Education, sadly neg
lected since Sherman marched to the
sea, is looking up, and tine school-
houses are being erected. Industries
are beginning to he diversified and
to thrive; the soils is being more in
telligently cultivated; King Cotton
has no longer a complete inonopoy
m field and factory; the dark days
ot the sixties are being gradually
forgotten, as hope and a spirit of
peace and contentment begin to
In .« word, South Carolina,
together with the South in general,
is at last coming into its own. The
stage is at length set for the forward
march of Catholicism.
T am naturally familiar with con
ditions that daily confront me per
sonally, and may be considered typ
ical.
The parish at Rock Hill is com
posed, at present of four counties.
Unce upon a time two or three
more counties were added for good
measure, but, as occasion offered,
they have been detached, and turned
over to the care of other pastors.
I he following statistics will prove
interesting:
County. Population. Catholics
X° rk , 50,5.% 55
Chester 33,389 15
ancaster „„ 28 628 1
Fairfield 27,159 1C
The names of the three counties
heading the list were borrowed from
the well-known districts similarly
christened in Pennsylvania. The
Irish emigrants who trekked South
ward in the last few decades of the
eighteenth century to take posses
sion of lands lately vacated by the
discomfitted Indians, seem lo have
kept a warm spot in their hearts for
their temporary homes in the state
of William Penn. The first census
of the United States was taken iii
1790; and the returns for the York
and Chester districts show so many
heads of families bearing purely
Irish names that one might natur
ally expect to find north-central
South Carolina a stronghold of Cath
olicity at the present time. Thus
twenty different families named
Kelly are enumerated; nineteen
named Murphy; thirteen of the name
of Riley; ten Dunns and Higgins:
nine Duggins and O’Neills; eight
Connors and Hogans; seven Caseys
and Regans; six Powers; five Mc-
Martys, McMahons, McGraws. Mc
Connells, Kearns, Nolands, Malones,
McBrides, and Walshes—to mention
but a few.
Specimens of these names, and
others like them, still abound in
South Carolina; hut—tell it not in
Gath!—they are “left-footers” all,
and know nothing of the priceless
heritage of Irish Faith. There are
Methodist, Baptist and Presbyterian
preachers of my acquaintancme re
joicing in names like Corbett, Flana
gan, Dulin, Kelly, Donohue, Irving
Cobh lias treated of the “Lost Tribes
of Irish in the South” with a de
lightful humor that is characteristic
of him, hut at bottom the subject is
a painful one.
How are the Sundays and week
days of a priest in South Carolina
spent? I am no Samuel Pepsy, and
don’t keep a diary; hut, quoting only
a few of the salient items from mem
ory, here are some happenings of a
recent week-end:
Saturday: Went down town at
Mass-for breakfast.—Talked in the
hotel lobby to a bunch of buddies
(mostly Protestant,—Glanced over
“The State;” a daily nuewspaper pub
lished in our central city of Colum
bia. “The State” is a mine of local
national and international news,
even the baseball scores being set
out in great detail—Noticed that the
Knights of Columbus from all the
Councils in South Carolina (four of
them) were to stage a big rally in
Columbia on the morrow, and initi
ate seventy-eight candidates. Hurrah
ights!—Came home and
for the Knig!
watched the negro boy from the lo
cal colored church sweep and dust
the little Church of Saint Anne,
lending a hand when necessary; and
while the. music of the mower, cut
ting the grass in the lawn outside,
rang in my ears, I pulled down a
book on Catholic apologetics to
brush up for my Sunday’s sermon,
euphemistically scheduled in the Sat
urday edition of the Rock Hill Her
ald as: “The Tolerance of Catholi
cism.”
I turned to the pages suecinctlv
explaining why Catholics do not at
tend Protestant services, and why
“one religion is not.as good as an
other.’ Of course, Catholics do not
claim that Heaven is for them only;
but the Mass, and the Seven Sacra
ments, and the Church built on Pe
ter, and the Prayers of Mary, and the
saints should send many a Catholic
into Paradise! This good father knew
his business when he pinned such ex
cellent sections on: “The Spanish In
quisition;” “The Massacre of Saint
Bartholomew’s Day;” “The Galileo
Case;’ “Bloody Mary;” “The Sylla
bus of Pope Pius.”
Having rehearsed mv matter for
one sermon, I then started a review
of my second one: “That the Cath
olic Church is not in politics.” I
think if the average non-Catholic
American of fair-mind (and he is le
gion) could be convinced that the
Pope is not thinking of transferring
his headquarters from Rome to
Washington, glances less distrustful
would be thrown our way. The Bi
ble is a very popular book 4n the
South; and if one is expecting to
have many non-Catholics in one’s
audience—many a time in Rock Hill
there are more Protestants than
Catholics present, because the State
Normgl College for Women Teachers
is located here—it is well to have
“The Good Book” at one’s finger
tips; for, being a two-edged sword,
it cuts into the hearts of believer and
unbeliever alike. I, therefore, spent
a half hour memorizing texts, pack
ed up my little black grip as the sun
was setting, and boarded the train
for Chester town, eighteen miles
away.
(To be continued).
The use of images in the church
dates from the very earliest times.
The church no doubt was cautious in
her use of images, both because the
use of them in the midst of a heath
en population might easily be mis
understood. and also because the
images might be seen and profaned
by the heathen persecutors. It is,
as Hefele and De Rossi maintain;
for this latter reason that the Coun
cil oF Elvira, in 306, forbade the
placing of “pictures in the churches,
lest what is worshipped and adored
should be painted on the walls,”
Tennessean Among Twelve
Priests Ordained at Rome
(By N. C. W. C, News Service.)
Rome. — Twelve American
priests, students in the North
American College here, were or
dained December 19 in the Bas
ilica of St. John Lateran.) Car
dinal Pompilj was the ordaining
prelate.
Those ordained at this cere
mony are: The Rev. Joseph Lux,
of Joliet; the Rev. Peter Cam
eron, of Chicago; the Rev. Jules
Daigle, of Lafayette; the Rev.
George Flannagan, of Nashville;
the Rev. Francis Keegan, of Bos
ton; the Rev. Howard Stepston,
of San Francisco; the Rev. Chas.
Falk, of Los Angeles; the Rev.
Daniel Markham, of Albany; the
Rev. James Culleton, of Fresno;
the Rev. Eugene Lorenz, of r Du
buque; the Rev. James Hebblen,
of Toledo, and thte Rev. Vincent
Naes, of St. Louis.
Detroit’s New Cathedral to
Surpass New York’s In Size
(By N. C. W. C. News Service.)
Detroit.—Plans just announced
here for Detroit’s new cathedral irf-
dicate that it is to be one of the
largest and most beautiful basilicas
in the world. It will seat 3,500.
considerably more than St. Patrick’s
in New York, and will he 480 feet
long including the Lady Chapel.
The new design calls for the Goth
ic type of architecture, and, in ac
cordance wilh that ancient style,
there will be two majestic towers
rising to a height of 325 feet. In
width the building, including the
nave and side aisles, is to be 120
feet, wth the transcepts 180. The
nave s to be 50 feet in the clear, and
will rise to a height of 112 feet. The
Continental type of the Gothic tra
dition will be followed, with the tow
ers on the afeade and the great
fleehe at the junction of the nave
and transept. A singular element
will be the projection of tlie nave
beyond the line of towers.
z The smallest Catholic church in
the world is on the old Palo Alto
plantation in Lohisiana. The chapel
is large enough for a small altar and
standing room for the priest cele
brating Mass. The congregation oc
cupies benches outside of the chapel.
DIVORCES INCREASE BY
NEARLY HALF IN DECADE
Marriages Greater Only By
One-Fifth in Same Period
N.C.C.W. Executive Says
(By N. C. W, C. News Service.)
New Yprk—An increase of 49 per
cent in divorced persons in a decade,
with an increase of only 20 per cent
in married persons, was held up as
a solemn warning against the di
vorce evil, in a radio address here
over the Paulist station WLWL by
Miss Agnes G. Regan, Executive Sec
retary of the National Council of
Catholic Women. Miss Regan’s ad
dress was given at the regular N.
C. W. C. Study Club hour. 1
“We have ‘repeaters’ in the divorce
courts as well as in the police j
courts,” the speaker reminded her
hearers. “Homes are broken, chil- ;
dren, scattered, ideals are weakened,
divorces multiply. Laws permit di
vorce because of incompatibility of
temper, or merely ‘because husbands
and wives agreed to separate. Some
states permit divorce for the slight- i
est reason! We pride ourselves that j
we are the leading nation : of the
world, yet our divorces outnumber |
those of any nation!
“Only the Catholic Church lias
been steadfast in the stand against
divorce. Easy marriage an'd easy di
vorce—against both the Catholic
church is adameut. . . . The Cath
olic church realizes and preserved
the sacredness of marriage as it was
taught by Christ.”
Miss Regan traced the alarming
divorce situation todav directly to
tile decay of the family. Declaring
that outside the religious life the
happiest, most contented men and
women are the “liome-hodics,” Miss
Regan decried the pursuit of false
“success” and the blatant assertion
of the “right of self-expression""
with no restraints.
At the last Supper, Christ explain
ed by the institution of the Euchar
ist that mysterious eating His flesh
and drinking His blood which He
had announced a year before in the
synagogue of Capharuaum. He cele
brated with the chosen twelve the
paschal rite. This rite was a sacri
fice commemorative of Israel’s re
demption; it was. indeed, the one
commemorative sacrifice of the Old
Law.
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