Newspaper Page Text
Member of the National
Catholic Welfare Con*
ference News Service.
Hutlttw
Official Organ of the Catholic Laymens As sociationsfGeorgia
“TO BRING ABOUT A FRIENDLIER. FEEUNG AMONG GEORGIANS, IRRESPECTIVE OF CREED”
The Only Catholic
Newspaper Betw een Bal
timore and New' Orleans
TEN CENTS A COPY.
VOL. VII, No. 3.
AUGUSTA, GA., FEBRUARY 6, 1926.
ISSUED SEMI-MONTHLY
.$‘2.00 A YEAR
I
!L
WORLD MOURNS HEROIC CARDINAL MERCIER
Leaders of Three Religious
Groups Praise Great Pre
late Over Paulist Radio
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
New York—Representatives of the
three great religious groups of the
Occidental nations together with the
chief executive of the world's largest
city participated in a memorial pro
gram here January 26 in honor of
the late Cardinal Mercier. The pro
gram was broadcast from the Bail-
list Fathers' radio station WLWL
Acre and the speakers were: tlie Rt
Rev. William T. Manning, Bishop o,
Ihe Episcopal Diocese of New York;
Uahlii Stephen S. Wise; the Rt. Rev
John .1. Dunn, Bishop Auxiliary of
the 'Catholic Archdiocese of New
York and Mayor Walker. At the
same time this program was being
brodacast from tlie Paulist station
another station, WOR, at Newark,
N. J. was also honoring the Belgian
Cardinal with sj memorial program
on which the chief speaker was li f
ro.u de Cartier dc Marchienne, Bel
gian Ambassador to the United Stat
es.
Bishop Manning, speaking from
the Paulist station, declared that the
name of Cardinal Mercier will nev
er hp forgotten, saying in part:
“He stood revealed as a Christian
whose faith nothing on this earth
could shake, a true chief Shepherd
rising all for ills flock in their hour
of .need a patriot whose voice nr,
power could silence, a true soldier
of flic Cross who stood not for
peace at any price, but for right
eousness at any cost hearing his
witness ,or right ancj justice, let the
consequences to himself he what
they might. Cardinal Mercier's great
soul was filled with longing for
Christian Unity and in this,sacred
cause he labored to the last. Bel
gium has good reason to he proud
of him. We join with her i.n mour
ning his loss and in thanksgiving
for his life and example.”
Rabbi Wise declared that the
world “called Mercier great” be
cause “in all his ways and works lie
led Godward." The Rabbi said: “If
Americans tonight of all churches
and races unite i'll reverent homage
to the memory of Cardinal Mercier,
it is because in his lifetime, his spir
itual genius had transcended crcdal
boundaries and racial frontiers and
national harriers. He no more be
longed solely r to his own commun
ion and See that did Phillips Brooks
to the Anglican diocese of Massachu
setts or Emil Hirsch to Israel and
Chicago Temple Sinai. History will
cherish Mercier's memory as the
statesnian-proplict. Not that he was
technically a master of the i.ntrica
cies and complexities of the inter
national affairs, but, out of tlie deeps
of his spiritual nature, he saw the
right and dared to proclam it.”
Praising Cardinal Mercier as
“model priest,” Bishop Dunn said:
“He gave a splendid example to
the world of that which the world
has great need to see—a simple
childlike faith, united to rare men
tal gifts and to profound scholar
ship.
“It is a cause of rejoicing then
when on an occasion such as the
present, the attention of humanity
is fixed intently, irrevocably upon
a man whose penetrating intellect,
studious life and world-die, long
experience a r e matters of common
knowledge. Who had a keener mind,
a riper culture, a wiser range of ob
servation who had more contacts
with the world of man .than this
priestly scholar, this warior-bisliop
(Continued on page 3)
February Is Catholic Press Month
Bishop McDevittAsfysBishopsAid
Rt. Rev Philip R. McDcvitt, Bishop of Harrisburg and Chairman
of the Department of Press, Publicity aud Literature,of the National
Catholic Welfare Conference, has sent the following letter to all Ihe
Bishops of the country calling to their attention that the month of
February will he Catholic Press Month, and requesting instructions
to the priests of their dioceses to speak to their people from the
pulpit about the Catholic Press during the month:
RT. REV. AND DEAR BISHOP:
May I take the liberty of calling
to your attention the following
resolution which was adopted by the
National Catholic Welfare Confer
ence, at the meeting in Washington,
September, 11)2.'!:
That the Sunday immediately
preceding the Feast of St. Francis
dc Sales, proclaimed by the Holy
Father Patron of the Catholic Press
and Publicity throughout the world,
be accepted and approved as Press
Sunday in every Catholic Church in
the United States of America.”
A request from you to the priests
of your Diocese to speak to their
people upon the Catholic Press on
Sunday, 24 January, or on the Sun
days in February, will both increase
the circulation and strengthen the
influence of our v.aUiolio publica
tions.
There lias never been a time in
the history of the United States
when a loyal Catholic Press was
more needed Ilian at present—A
Press that will give due considera
tion to moral and spiritual matters
of moment. The need is the greater
because the secular press is becom
ing more and more commercialized.
This tendency of modern journalism
is not in the United States alone.
Mr. Hilaire Belloc recently charged
the English Press with commercial
ism and an incompeteuey to deal
with spiritual tilings and refused to
waste his time writing for it.
In Belgium, at a Congress of the
Catholic Press, the Right Reverend
Bishop Legraivc, who represented
Cardinal Mercier and brought the
greetings of His Eminence, deliver-
.cd an address in which he said:
“The Bishop’s first task is to
teach. He cannot, however, fulfill
that task unaided; lie needs colla
borators. Journalists, writers are
among his collaborators by virtue
of their profession. That is saying
enough as to the veneration we owe
those champions of tlie good cause.
But the edited and printed paper
needs yet to he disseminated. To
that end every possible assistance is
required. That assistance must
come in the first Instance from our
young men and -women They do
much in Belgium at present for the
propagation of good literature; they
could do still more. The well-to-do
have also a great duty to i>erform
in this regard.
America. The News Service is in
ternational in character and per
forms the same function for the
Catholic papers that the Associated
Press performs for t lie secular
press.
Its value is recognized hv experi
enced journalists. A recent tribute
to its efficiency was paid liy Dr.
Victor Kicnbock, leader of the Aus
trian Delegation. to the Interparlia
mentary Union at Washington dur
ing the past summer. On his re
turn to Vienna, in a letter to Dr.
Frederic Funder, editor of the
“Reichspost,” the most influential
Catholic paper in Europe, Dr. Kein-
bock wrote:
Death Comes Peacefully
“That the Catholic Press may
hold among all the good w-orks the
place to which it is entitled, we njay
well pray that all Catholics realize
fully its importance. French Catho
lics, for having been remiss therein,
saw their churches abandoned and
fall to ruin, their religious com
munities expelled, their schools clos
ed. Similar catastrophes await us
if we do not support the Catholic
Press.”
The Church in the United States,
lest she suffer from the enemies
who misrepresent her, calumniate
and slander her in secular publica
tions, must have cue defense and
support of a strong Catholic Press.
Such a Press is made possible by
(lie News Service of Ihe National
Catholic Welfare Conference, which
lias been established by the Bishops
and the Catholic publishers of
“What T saw and heard there (in
America) makes an imposing pic
ture of clear-sighted and purposeful
organization Above all, the work
of the Press Department deserves
imitation in Europe. In the Euro
pean countries we nave nothing like
the news sheet sent out by that
News Sen-ice. Even the meritorious
‘Kipa’ (Iiatholischer International
Presse Agehtur) which is one of ttie
most (important organs of the
ecclesiastical news service for the
European Catholic Press, does not
come up to the work of the Ameri
can Catholics in regard to expendi-
ency and far-sightedness ill organi
zation. It can he well imagined the
immense importance it must lie for
the promotion of the Catholic Press,
if week after week, such a mass of
splendid information, compiled and
edited as it is by experts, is placed
at the disposal of the Catholic pap
ers. And what immense spiritual
value is represented by llie fact that
important items of news can lie
published simultaneously in fifty or
more papers, and that defense of
Catholic rights in the schools and
the warding off of aspirations inimi
cal to Christian morals can be con
ducted with uniformity. Therein I
see a multiplication of the energies
of the Catholic people.”
But the success of a Catholic pap
er depends in a large measure upon
the Catholic reading public. The
generous support and the personal
interest of Catholics in promoting
the circulation ana advertising of
Catholic papers will provide the re
venue to make more successful the
already efficient papers and to
strengthen those that are not alto
gether satisfactory. Catholics can
make no better investment of their
money and interest than in the
building up of the Catholic Press.
When Bishop Legraive said to the
Belgium Congress that “catastrophes
await us if wo do not support the
Catholic Press,” lie was merely re
peating in different words the
warning of Pope Pius IX, “In vain
will you found missions and lmild
schools, if you arc not able to wield
the offensive and defensive weapons
of a loyal Catholic Press.”
Feeling assured that Your Lord
ship will cooperate in tlic making
of Press Month and Press Sunday
successful, I remain,
Sincerely vonrs in Christ.
PHILIP B. McDEVITT,
■* Bishop of Harrisburg.
Chairman, Department of Press,
Publicity and Literature.
The afternoon of January 2,1, Car
dinal Mercier died at 3 o’clock and
the passing of tlie great churchman
was announced by the tolling of
bells throughout the land.
He died peacefully, with eyes fixed
upon tlic Crucifix and surrounded
by his family.
Half an hour before the end. the
Cardinal’s mind, which had been
extraordinarily clear and keen, be*
gan to fail. Breathing became dif
ficult and at exactly 3 o’clock his
head fell forward slightly as he ex
pired.
s.
OF SALT LAKE
English Pilgrimage to Chicago
By George Barnard
(London Correspondent N. C. W. C.
News Service.)
London—British Catholics are al
ready 'showing an interest in the
Chicago Eucharistic Congress, and it
is certain that, despite the long jour
ney, there will lie a fair representa
tion from this side for the great
events planned in tlic mid-west me
tropolis.
It is known that Cardinal Bourne
has been invited by. Cardinal Mun
delein to join the distinguished par
ty of members of the Sacred College
who will travel from Europe. No
official announcement lias yet been
made concerning His Eminence’s
participation, but it is thought prob
able tiiat the Ordinal Archbishop
of Westminster will go. He visited
Montreal for the Congress sonic
years ago.
The Catholic Association, which for
year’s has been the leading organizer
of pilgrimages in this country lias
completed arrangements for the trip
to Chicago. Reservations have been
made on a boat of the White Star
Line, voyaging to New York. The
itinerary as arranged, includes a
couple of days in New York, a stay
at Niagara, • visits to Quebec and
Montreal .and a week’s stay in Chi
cago. The price quoted for the
round trip, including fares, hotels
and all incidentals, is roughly 51700.
Independently of the Catholic As
sociation, which will he responsible
for what may lie regarded as the
“national party,” the steamship com
panies and Ihe C. P. R. have put
out literature to create interest in
the journey to Chicago.
Distinguished Western Pre
late, Native of Illinois, Was
Priest of Vincentian Order
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
Los Angeles.—Solemn funeral ser
vices for the lit. Rev. Joseph S.
Glass, C. M., Bishop .of Salt Lake,
were held January 29 in the Church
of St. Vincent de Paul, the church
in charge of his fellow members of
the Congregation of the Mission.
The Bishop died here in St. Vin
cent's Hospital.
After Mass at Salt Lake the body
of the late Bishop will he taken back
to Los Angeles for burial in the
cemetery of the Congreation of the
Mission
Secretary Kellogg Cables
Tribute to Late Cardinal
(By N. C. W C. News Service.)
Washington.—When the news
of the death of Cardinal Merci-
cr, Primate of Belgium, reached
Washington, Secretary of State
Kellogg immediately dispatched
a message to Ambassador Phil
lips at Brussels, reading as fol
lows:
“Please convey to the Govern
ment of His Majesty, King Al
bert, an expression of the pro
found sorrow with which the
President nnd the people of the
United States have learned that
the soul of a great man has
passed on. The indomitable
courage of Cardinal Mercier in
his unfailing championship of
the best interests of humanity
has truly made the world better
for his presence.”
The Rt. Rev. Joseph Sarsficld
Glass. C. M„ was horn at Bushnell,
111., Man'll 13. 1874.
He was graduated from St. Vin
cent’s College in 1889 and joined
the Congregation of the Mission,
after which he was sent to St Mary's
Seminary, Barrens, Pcrryvi.lv, Mo.,
for his theological studies, and was
ordained August 15, 1897. He went
lo Rome where lie studied at tlie
Pontifical College of St. Thomas de
Urlie, and was graduated from that
institution in 1899, witli the degree
of Doctor of Divinity.
Returning to the United States he
became Professor of Dogmatic Theo
logy at St. Mary’s Seminary and re
mained there until 1901. From 1901
until 1911 he was President of St.
(Continued on page 10)
HALS F
IN FUNERAL PROCESSION
U. S. Army Captain Places
Wreath on Coffin Legion—•
400,000 On Line of March
Brussels, Jan. 2S—Cardinal Mercier
passed through his beloved Belgian
Capital for Ihe last time today.
But the Brussels which (lie soul
of Mercier saw from on high today
was quite a different city from that
which he had frequently seen thr
ough human eyes. It was no nevy
tiling for him to lie welcomed at his
country’s Capital by King, Princes,
high dignitaries of the Church and
immense throngs of people. But
it was new to have the King, the
ecclesiastics, and the people stand
ing in uncanny silence as the Car
dinal passed. On tile Cardinal’s pre
vious visits to Brussels during and
since tlie World War lie had been
received with acclaim by thousands.
Todu'- tlic. same thousands were si
lent. human acclaim would have been
out of place for llie e.vcs and tars of
him to whom they paid homage were
closed forever. So they stood in
■tearful, prayerful silence while the
great Cardinal passed.
As vhc special train from Malincs
drew into tlic Midi Station a group
of 1,000 persons met it. Most of
them were persons who are distin
guished in this world, come to do
homage to one whose greatness rest
ed upon his spiritual strength and
courage.
King Albert was the first to salute
the body. Then came the Crown
Prince Leopold, lieir to tlic throne,
which the Cardinal, perhaps more
than any other one man. preserved
irom destruction. The next to pay
liis respect to tlic dead Cardinal was
Marshal Foch of France, Generalis
simo of tile Allied Armies in the
World War and a devout and hum
ble member of the Church of which
the Cardinal was such a distinguish
ed soil.
Then _ followed two of Cardinal
Mercier's fellow members of the
Sacred College of Cardinals: come
from two world capitals which the
heroism of Belgiums saved from in
vasion in 19k 1 ; Cardinal Bourne,
Archbishop of Westminster and
Cardinal Dubois, Archbishop of Par
is Tlic Archbishops and Bishops
from all ihe countries of Europe
numbered several hundred.
As the cortege formed and moved
out of the station an American in
tlic uniform 0 f a Captain of the
Aviation Corps stepped forward, sa
luted smartly and laid a wreath on
the coffin in the name of the Am
erican Legion. It was the only
wreath that was placed on the cot,
fin.
Thousands of troops were formed
in tlic big open square in front of
the station and airmen dropped flo-
W'crs in the path of llie procession
from low-flying airplanes, prom the
station to tnc Church of St. Gudule,
a distance of several miles, an un
broken mass of people lined the
streets. Every house of business
was closed, all street car traffic was
stopped and hardly a carriage or
automobile moved in the Belgian
Capital while the procession was in
progress. More Hum 400.000 per
sons watched tile procession and 10,-
000 troops assisted by the eilire po
lice force of BrusselsWorked heroic-
all; to keep the line of march op
en.
As the austere black hearse reach
ed the tomb of Belgium’s unknown
(Continued on Page 3)
Congress Altars to Go to Missions
(By N. C. W. G. News Service.)
Chicago.—A plan has been devised
here whereby the Eucharistic Con
gress at Chicago June 20-24 may con
tinue its influence in tangible form
down through many years. That in
fluence will fittingly lake the form
of a constantly repeated tribute to
the Eucharistic Lord, and its seat
will he the church’s frontiers, the
missions.
With thousands of priests flock
ing to Chicago for the Congress and
a million Communions in one day
planned, hundreds of extra altars;
with vestments and sacred vessels,
must he provided-! It has now been
determined that when the Congress
closes, all these requisites for the
great Eucharistic ceremony, the
Mass, shall he given I o' the mission
there to carry on Ihe spirit of, tl
Congress itself.
Early this week the Rt. Rev. E.
Holian. Bishop Auxiliary of C.liicat
and Honorary President of the Coi
gress, had completed the conseer
tion of more than 701) altar stone
When he has fluished his task, I
will have consecrated 1.000. In ea<
will have been placed the requisi
sacred relics. Chicago’s 335 pa
jslies, its schools, convents, college
academies, orphanges and other i
stitutions already have probab
1,500 altars. When the Congre
preparation;!' arc complete, the
will be some 2 500 altars.
As a part of the plan, at Mundeli
on the outskirts of Chicago, 1
altars will lie set up.