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VOL. VII, No. 7.
AUGUSTA, GA., APRIL 3, 1926.
Bishop Schrembs is Only Speaker
at Meeting V .W.C. A. Sponsored
‘The Contribution' of theiCatholic Church to Civilisa
tion” Subject of Bishop of Cleveland, Who Traces Pro
found Influence of Church in Various Directions
(By N. G. \V. C. News Service)
Cleveland— Bishop Joseph
Schrembs was Ibe speaker at the
second of a scries of talks under
the auspices of the Young Women’s
Christian Association here March 8
The general theme for the several
speakers who will include repre
sentatives of Judaism and of sev
eral Protestant bodies is “Compa
rative Religion.” An address will
he given each week until April 12.
The Bishop asked the audience
that tilled the hall to consider his
talk with an open mind, lie also
explained that up to the time of the
so-called Reformation, Christianity
and Catholicity were synonymous
terms. He said that he did not feel
it necessary to offer the credentials
of the Church as being the one foum-
ded hv Jesus Christ.
The Bishop's theme was “The Con
tribution of the Catholic Church to
Civilization.”
In a little more than an hour Bi
shop Schrembs reviewed the history
of the Church from its foundation
to the present time. He quoted the
late William E. Gladstone’s tribute
that “for fifteen hundred years the
Catholic Church had marched at the
head of civilization” and that “the
moral and intellectual forces of the
world were the result of her teach
ing and influence.” The Bishop out
lined the experiences the Church had
undergone in the early centuries in
dealing with the pagan world and
later in its ministration to various
nations. “As paganism crumbled Chr
istianity grew.” he said.
He paid tribute to the monastic
orders for preserving the literature
.that was compiled into the Bible
and explained the lives of the
monks, lives of “study, prayer and
labor.”
Some of the outstanding points
in the Bishop’s talk were his ex
position of the teaching of the
Church in raising the condition of
woman from’ that “of a mere chat
tel. a creature to satisfy the whims
of man” to “a position of dignity,
honor and equality.”
He declared that the canon law
of the church was the foundation of
international law. The Encyclical
of Pope Leo XIII on Labor was de
clared to he a masterpiece in as
serting the rights of labor. The
Church, lie said, had safeguarded the
life of the child by condemn^
abortion, infanticide and like, crimes
as she today condemns the same
trend toward what is commonly call
ed “britli control.” lie declared that
only in Hie practice of virtue in
lh s home can a family hope to be
happy and prosperous and said that
“a uatiou is virtuous and progres
sive only as its individual families
are virtuous and progressive.”
Tlie Church has never made liei
pulpits the place from which poli
tical propaganda is spoken, the. Bi
shop declared.
He referred to the great universi-
sities of Europe' and said that prac
tically all of them were Catholic in
origin.
Even to tlic drama, the Bishop
said, the Church had lent her in-
(Continued on page 3) *
Cardinal Mercier’s Vicar-General
Is His Successor i4s Archbishop
DEATH CLAIMS THOMAS
W. LOTLESS, LONG ILL
Brilliant Georgia Editor, Foe
of Intolerance Became
Catholic Before He Died
(Bv N. C. W. C. News Service)
Augusta, Ga.—Thomas Wesley Loy-
less, eminent Southern editor and
foe of inlollercniee coluntarily asked
that he be baptized a Catholic a
few weeks before lie died in his
daughter's home in Philadelphia
March 21. Therein lie followed the ex
ample of another distinguished Geor
gia journalist. Joel Chandler Har
ris.
Funeral services for Mr. Loyless
were held March 21, at SI. Joseph’s
Church, Maeoti. Father Thomas .1
Madden, S. J„ officiated, assisted
by the clergy of the city, and lead
ing Georgia newspapermen and Fed
eral and State officials attended.
It may tmthfiilly lie said that the
conversion to tile Catholic faith of
this distinguished man was due to
the anti-Catholic wave in Georgia.
Mr. Loyless was born in a Methodist
family and was reared a Methodist;
He became what was conceded to he
the most brilliant editor in Geor
gia and was one of tlie last of the
great Southern editors of the Grady
and Watterson school. Thus it was
that when bigotry raised its head in
the State lie fearlessly threw the fun
power of his skillful pen against it.
In refuting charges against Catho
lics lie acquainted himself with the
Catholic position, and the knowledge
he gained in this way led him
eventually to embrace the Catholic
faith.
Mr. Loyless was horn in DaWson,
Ga, in 1871. His opportunities for
education were limited by the death
of liis parents while he was very
young; a few terms in the communi
ty school comprised his only formal
education. After a brilliant career
as a reporter and editorial writer on
Dawsou, Macon and Atlanta papers,
he became almost the immediate suc
cessor of United States Senator Pat
rick Walsh as editor of The Augusta
Chronicle.
For several years a Georgia poli
tical agitator hud been attempting
to build up political strength in
the State by attempting to set class
against 'class, and particularly Pro
testants agaipst Catholics. Although
Catholics constituted only one-halt
of one per cent of the population of
the State and llieir defense from
the slanders heaped upon them was
at best a very unprofitable under
taking, Mr. Loyiess devoted liis bril
liant, trenchant, fearless pen to ex
posing tlie malicious and utterly
baseless Character of the attacks be
ing made upon them. He allowed
no consideration, financial, social
or political to swerve him from his
tight for truth and justice, and lie
bad the consolation of seeing his
efforts for tolerance bear abundant
fruit before he died.
After fifteen years, as editor of
Tlie Chronicle at Augusta, lie lie-
fame editor of The Enquirer-Sun at
Columbus, retiring two years later
to devoir liis time to business enter
prises in which lie was interested.
His last newspaper work was con
ducting a “free lance” column in
The Macon Telegraph in which lie
(By X. C. W. C. News Service)
Mexico City.—There has been no
lessening of activity on the part of
the Mexican government in the cam
paign to close all religious schools.
'The work of the ministry ot the
interior is continuing unabated, and
the confidential agents of this de
partment arc actively making a cen
sus of all institutions which have
not yet. been closed and are inves
tigating closelv the movements of
all foreign priests, even those who
are not exercising their ministry and
who*liave sougiit shelter in private
homes, it is reported that an act
ive search is to he made tor all
foreign priests until not a singlfc one
remains in Mexico.
How closely the various’governors
are being watched is revealed by a
telegram received by Enrique Co-
Umga, governor of tlie state of Gu
anajuato. advising him that reports
of confidential agents have brought
to the attention of the secretary of
the interior that many Catholic
schools and convents remain open in
various parts of the stale, contrary
to the special instructions issued by
the president and the secretary of
the interior. According to the re-
By REV. J. VAN der HEYDEN,
(Louvain Correspondent, N. C. W. C.
News Service).
Louvain—Dispatches from Rome
announce the appointment by the
Pope of Msgr. Ernest J. Van Roey,
vicar-general of tlie archdiocese of
Malines, as arcll-bishop of that See
in succession to the late Cardinal
Mercier. The news was received
with general satisfaction by both
clergy and laity.
Monsignor Van Roey is in the
prime of life, having been born in
Vorsselaers, in tile Province of Ant
werp, on January 13, 1874. He was
ordained on September J8, 1887, and
on July 20, 1908, tlie University of
Louvain conferred on liis tlie degree
of Master of Theology.
While the Abbe Van Roey was pre
paring for the Magislerium of Theo
logy one of his professors was tak
en vSlck and the pupil became the
teacher. He filled the place so well
that lie was definitely appointed to
the chair that same year, 1901.
As professors, liis residence was
ports, these establishments arc lo
cated in Irapuato, Celaya. Salamanca,
Pueblo Nuevo, Penjaluo, San Miguel
Allcndc, San Francisco del Rincon
and other towns. The telegrams
also complained that the reports in
dicated that pilgrimages, which come
under tlie head of “public manifes
tations of religion” arc still being
held and also that the people gather
in large numbers at certain con
vents for spiritual exercises.
It is reported that 202 foreign
priests already have been expelled
from the country, and while gov
ernment agents .arc endeavoring to
locate all those who still remain
even private citizens are being call
ed upon to act as informers. In
Vera Cruz an official notice lias
been sent out declaring lliat any
person living near a church i.n which
a foreign priest is exercising liis
ministry or near a school in which
religion is being •taught, and who
does not report same to the authori
ties becomes subject to a legal pen
alty. Mayors have been informed
by the governor of tlie state that
they will lie held responsible for
any failure to close convents and
religious schools.
at tlie America* College from 1902
to 1907. There, lie had occasion to
meet numerous Airiericans—Bishops,
priests and laymen—visiting the in
stitution, and to come in contact
with American and European stu
dents now scattered throughout the
dioceses in ihe United States from
the Atlantic to tlie Pacific. They
wall rejoice at his elevation to the
most exalted acclesiastical office in
Belgium, and recall with delight the
luminous, methodical and pointed
lectures on dogmatic and moral sub
jects they attended in that scvcrc-
looking lecture hail of the Rue de
Namur, which the American Com
mission for Relief of Belgium ap
propriated to itself during the
War, to store the flour it daily dis
tributed to the hungry population.
Msgr Van Joey is above all else
a theologian; and il was for his re
markable theological lore that Car
dinal Mercier chose him September
30, 1907, to he his assistant in the
administration of the Archdiocese
as vicar-general. Report liad it long
ago that upon the visits lie made to
Rome with his last lamented chjgf,
lie so impressed the Roman c.rcieai-
astieal circles by liis deep and ex
tensive knowledge of the Sacred Sci
ences exhibited with extreme mod
esty, that they singled him out long
ago for eventual promotion.
Although Monsignor Van Roey’s
name lias never been mentionel offi
cially ill connection with the “Ma-
lincs Conversations,” he was pres
ent at all of them and acted as
Cardinal Mercier’s chief adviser.
With him in his lamented patron’s
place at the head of the archdiocese,
these far-famed “Conversations”are
very likely to lie continued.
Monsignor Van llocy lias ever
been known as a man of a most re
tiring disposition, as a quiet, silent
worker, accomplishing great tilings
yet seeking to efface himself al ev
ery turn, as a man of few, very few
words but of words that count, each
one being pregnant with meaning.
It is not necessary to listen to him
long to realize lliat he is a shining
light of knowledge and a pillar of
truth.
Having lien connected with Cardi-
nal'Mercier in the administration of
the arch diocese fo eighteen years
and having enjoyed tlie fullest con
fidence and intimate friendship of
liis distinguished predecessor for all
those years, lie is best qualified for
the responsible task of governing a
flock of some 2,500,000 souls. They
hail him with the more love and re
spect for their shepherd because he
stood so near to him they mourn as
tlie greatest patriot and churchmen
'Belgium ever produced.
(Continued on page 10)
Mexican Citizens Required By Law
to Inform on Non-Native Priests
Mexican Schismatic Mass
Has Attendance of One
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
(Mexico City.—Don Jose Joaquin
Peres, aged renegade priest and
“Patriarch and Primate” of the
“Mexican Orthodox Catholic and
Apostolic Church,” celebrated
“Mass” Sunday. March 7, at 10
o’clock in his Cathedral of Cor
pus Christi—before a congrega
tion of one.
Two adult servers assisted “Pa
triarch” Peres. An organist tried
hopelessly to attract passers-by. .
A woman sat at the rear sell
ing the schismatic weekly. A
curious tourist stood for a few
moments at the church door. But
the congregation itself was one
lone man sitting in the rear pew
at the extreme left.
MINISTER AND WIPE IN
IOWA BEGDMEGATHOLICS
Protestant Episcopal Bishop
Pays Tribute to Clergyman
Who Announces Step.
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
Burlington, Iowa.—The Rev. Her
bert W. Butler, rector of Christ
Episcopal Church here, lias resigned
that call and with liis wife, Mrs.
Helen Butler, entered Ihe Roman
Catholic chinch. The converts were
received into Ihe church by the
Rev. Thomas F. Galligati, of St.
Pauls church, who also gave them
holy communion.
Mr. Butler's conversion has caus
ed a profound sensatiou throughout
out of the city; little else lias been
talked about since it became known.
His former pulpit lias been filled
only temporarily and tlie Rt. Rev.
T. N. Morrison, bishop of the Prot
estant Episcopal church in Iowa,
when told of the-couvcrsiou is re
ported as saying:
“Dr. Butler is a very, very fine
man ami 1 have no criticism to of
fer tlie Roman Catholic. In this he
is undoubtedly following his eon-
science and his convictions. If he
lias come to the point where lie
feels he must enter the Catholic
church, no one should censure him
for exerting the courage of his con
victions. Personally. I wish Dr.
Butler Cod-speed and success in
whatever lie undertakes He leaves
our church with good will and best
wishes.”
But the great courage that was
required of Mr. Butler in embracing
the true religion can he better re
alized by understanding that lie is
40 years of age with a wife and
mother to support, is at present
without employment and could
save nothing from liis salary of
$2,500 a year as rector of Christ
church. Mr. Butler is extremely
anxious to locale in some private
business at once, lie is well fitted
for dramatic, social or literary work
including that of librarian, lie came
to Burlington in 1921 from Council
Bluffs. Iowa,
ISSUED SEMI-MONTHLY
$2.00 A YEAR
NEUII EDUCATION BILL IS
INTRODUCED IN SENATE
Archbishop Dowling Terms
Measure of Senator Phipps
“Statesmanlike”
(By N. G. W. C. News Service)
St. Paul, Minn.—The Phipps Edu
cation Bill introduced in the Senate
a[ Washington Thursday is termed
a “forward-looking statesmanlike”
measure, in a statement issued here
by the Most Rev. Austin Dowling,
I). I), Archbishop of St. Paul, who
is Chairman of the Department of
Education of the National Catholic
Welfare Conference.
The new measure, sponsored by
Senator Phipps of Colorado, Chair
man of the joint Congregational
sub-committee which lias just com
pleted hearings on the Curtis-Rced
Education Bill and Chairman of the
Senator Committee on Education and
Labor, discards wholly the idea of
a Department of Education and Fed
eral subsidy to flic States, and seeks
to fill educational needs by streng
thening the present Federal Bureau
of Education. It was the Depart
ment plan and the specter of Fed
eral subsidy which brought vigorous
opposition to the Curtis-Reed Bill
from Catholic and non-Catholic bo
dies alike who feared F’ederal con
trol, standardization and politics in
education.
“The Phipps Bill is a forward
ing, constructive piece of educational
legislation, and should it become law
will undoubtedly satisfy all who are
interested in tlie progress of educa
tion.” Archbishop Dowling’s state
ment declared.
“It is, too, a statesmanlike plea
sure, because it avoids altogether
the serious objections which have
been brought against the Curtis-
lleed Bill. Anyone acquainted with
tlie facts knows that no educational
organization in the country is doing
more for education than tlie Fed
eral Bureau. But, as Dr. Tigert, the
Commissioner, pointed out in ids
last report, additional money is re
quired to carry out the extensive and
necessary surveys which have been
ulanncd. The appropriation of $250,-
000 in this hill will permit the Bu
reau to develop its research plans
in more extended fields and with
further scientific equipment. With
this additional money tlie Bureau
will soon become the most important
educational research agency in the
United States and need not apply
any longer to private foundations for
financial assistance.
“Tlie proposed Phipps Bill is
statesmanlike for another reason.
Everybody knows that the educa
tional work of the Federal Govern
ment should be reorganized. The
Smoot-Mapes Bill now before Con
gress will make such reorganization
possible. Until the general plan of
governmental reorganization is
worked out, the I’cderal Bureau of
Education can well afford to work
along the present lines and permit
the Tciftaiuing educational work of
the Government to lie administered
as , it is now administered.
“The Phipps Bill would establish
a Federal Council on Education, the
purpose' of which is to bring to-
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Ireland’s First Inhabitants Came
From North of Spain Scholar Says
Dublin.—The Irish Academy in |
Dublin has had a statement from
the celebrated Dr. Brewer on the
first inhabitants of Ireland. He said
that the original inhabitants of tlie
country came from Spain, across the
Bay of Biscay, about the year 400
B. C. In the “polished’ prehistoric
period, decoding to the expert, there
liad been intercourse between Ire
land and Spain, principally through
Uritanv, tlie Celtic province of
France Pottery of the new stone
age—bell-shaped vessels of the
French type-lias been found in tlie
island, giving evidence of tlie close
connection between the most civil
ized people of the European conti
nent and tlie inhabitants of the ul
timate island’of Europe.
From the enlightened people of
the Mediterranean, Ireland obtained
a knowledge of metals earlier than
Great Britain. The Irish were thus
in a position to develop tlie re
sources of foreign territories. In
the opinion of Dr. B rewel '. at the
very beginning of the bronze age,
when art and industry were belter
developed in-Ireland than elsewhere,
tlie Irish people controlled and
worked the tin mines of Cornwall in
England centuries before the Norse
men, who invaded Britain, exploited
the mineral wealth of (hat region.
By coincidence, much tlie same
subject was dealt with by Mr. Elli
ott O’Donnell, who told the Irish
Literary Society in London 1hat Ire
land was colonized by Spain, lie
traced the remarkable connection
and sympathy that continued be
tween tlie two nations right dwn
the centuries. The ODonncil family
for three hundred years has played
a great part in Spanish history. The
present Duke of Tetuan, in Spain, is
an O'Donnell.
Archbishop in Boyhood Church.
Youngstown, Ohio. —Archbishop
Edward A. Mooney, recently named
Apostolic Delegate to the East In
dies, was celebrant of solemn Pon
tifical Mass in St. Columbia's Church
liis home palish, here recently, The
service was tlie most elaborate at
which tlie Delegate has officiated
in liis home city since liis reccni
promotion. Mre than 100 priests oT
this and nearby cities and from
Cleveland attended tlie service which
was marked with the full solemnity
of the church. ,,