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APRIL 3, 1926.
THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN'S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
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COURT UPHOLDS GIRL S
RIGHT TO BECOME NUN
Objection of Father, New
York Contractor, Does Not
Rob Her of It Judge Rules
l B.v X. C. W. C. News Service)
New York.—Vice Chancellor Bent
ley, of the Chancery Court in Jer
sey City, handed down a decision
March 16 upholding the right of Ger
aldine Bichc. 19-year-old daughter of
John- T. Riche, Coney Island con
tractor. to enter the Convent of St.
John the Baptist at Newark, N. J.
Riche, the girl’s father, had obtain
ed a writ of habeas corpus against
■Sister Illuminate, Mother Superior
of the Convent, several months ago,
in an effort to preveut her from en
tering the novitiate. He claimed
that his daughter had run away
from home, and was suffering from
religious insanity.
Miss Mary J. McCloskey, attorney
for Sister Iltuminata, brought about
the quashing of the writ today at
Jersey City, and informed Miss
Riche that she was free to enter
the convent, if she so desired.
Vice Chancellor Bentley appointed
an alienist to examine the girl sev
eral months ago, when she was also
examined by- a doctor representing
the father. The alienists found Miss
Riche to he in full possession of
her mental powers.
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AUGUSTA, GA.
Leper Parents Visit Their Babies,
Cared For By Nans,Every 2 Years
Franciscan Sister In Distant Pacific Isle Tells N. C. W. C.
Writer Touching Tale of Mo lokai Inhabitants’ Meeting
With Children From Whom Disease Separates Them
By HARRY G. DOWDALL
(Written for N. C. W. C. Editorial
Sheet)
There were sixty-two children in
the home when I called, whom
Mother Flaviana said ranged in age
from six months to twelve years—
most of them between the ages of
three and five These were the
children of leper parents, born either
on Molokai or at Kalihi Leper Hos-
ptial in Honolulu. They represented
in their mixture, more than a dozen
nationalities.
In order that the babies may not
contract leprosy, they are not ,-teit
with the leper mother alter birth.
The infants are passed to “strange
hands’’ which care for them from
that time on. The leper mother only
sees her baby_ for a short time after
birth, but cannot touch it; cannot
press it to her breast as a normal
mother would do; cannot even feel
its soft velvet-like skin against her
face, nor hear its tiny heart beat
aside her own. The child that she
bore and brought into the world is
destined to be raised by oth e rs who
are no kin to her baby.
From the spacious and well-ap
pointed reception room 1 was led
upstairs to the babies’ dormitories,
'these were a unique surprise, for on
all sides-and in every way there was
a real homelike atmosphere—not the
set regularity which one sees so of
ten in an orphanage. The large
rooms were partly indoor and par fy
outdoor—a lanai effect—Whir'll is
quite common in Hawaii, but nothing
in continental United Stales com
pares with this type of architecture.
It appears that every second year
the nuns take the children over to
see their parents. Last year, the
boys, wha are cared for in a home
in Honolulu, about a mile from the
Kapiolani Home, were taken over;
So this year was to be the bi-annual
visit of the girls to Molokai, it is
the greatest of all events; net so
much for the babies, for-few of
them realize what it means, but for
the parents on Molokai, who count
the months, the weeks, the days, and
then look out over the Kaiwi channel
to catch the first glimpse of the lit
tle Steamer “Likelike” with its prec
ious burden.
This year the little girls were re
hearsing a cantata, “the Brownies’
Picnic,” and Mother Flaviana ordered
a few of the soug and dance numbers
for niv benefit, Apd liow these chil
dren could dance and sing!
“It seems to be a natural gift with
them,”-said one of tile Sisters. “To
dance sing, or draw pictures is no
effort for them at all.”
This Sister had been at this home
for several years, and had conducted
these bi-annual baby excursions to
Molokai before.
“1 shall never forget the first
time we took the babies over,” she
said, “the channel was very rought
and the little boat'just danced on the
waves. Almost every baby Was sea
sick, but we arrived safely. Of
course the parents could not come
too close to their children, so the
authorities had constructed a double
pen with strong wire. The' babies
and the Sisters were placed inside
and then the parents were allowed
to surround tile inciosure. Excite
ment was intense. The mothers who
had long waited this day when they
would see their babies rushed to
the pen screaming, “My baby; my
baby. Look, look! Come to me, my
own darling baby.”
“These poor disfigured women,
some of them with features that did
hot seem human—lor the loathsome
disease had eaten away the nose, or
cheeks, or ears, and even hands
were gone in sonic cases—continued
to reach out and cry for their own
babies to notice them, to recognize
them! Their action threw the babies
into a panic. The little ones would
run lo the other side of the pen, on
ly lo face the crying, screaming
mothers who, continued to follow
their babies from one side to the
olher. In a short while we were
rescued and a better plan was pro
vided. Now, the children appear on
the stage in the theatre, in a series
o.l entertainments and demonstra
tions. during the week the babies
remain in the leper colony.”
They also buy the costumes. There
are no funds appropriated by the
Territory for expenses of this sort.
The day of departure when the ba
bies leave for the Home Honolulu is
a sad Aloha Hay for the leper col
ony. But these poor souls are hope
ful, and look forward to two years
hence when they shall see their Ir
bies—they always remain babies to
them—again, jf the good Lord spares
them that long.
Oh yes; Christmas is a great day
at the home. The leper parents sec
to jt_ that Santa Claus is properly
notified and the Christmas tree is
always loaded with good things.
"But, Sister,” l asked, “What be
comes of the girls when thev grow
up ?”
“Some arc adopted by good fami
lies. Many learn trades and receive
a business education at our convent
in the city, and some prefer to stav
here,’ she replied. “They help us
raise the other babies and are paid
a salary by the Territory. We never
send them away. This is always a
home for them—their own home—
a place where these orphaned chil
dren, who are not orphans at all
may come and stay as long as thev
like.”
NEW FEUDALISM FACES
U.S. DR. RYAN ASSERTS
Civil and Economic Freedom
Endangered Catholic Uni
versity Professor Declares
(By N. C. W, C. News Srevice.)
Cleveland.—A “new feudalism,
political and industrial in characte
is threatening the liberty of Amei
ica, said the Rev. John A. Ryan D
reetor of the Department of Sod;
Action of the N. C. W. C.. in a Lir
coin Day address here before Hi
Cleveland Forum.
PoRtieal liuerty in the United
States is not threatened, said Dr.
Ryan, hut civil and economic lib
erty “are today in greater danger
than at any time in tlie last ceuturv
and a quarter.” He deplored the
“tendency” of legislatures, execu
tives and courts “to diminish, un
der the stress of an assumed pres
ent emergency, such liberties as
freedom of. speech, of printing and
of association.
“the decline of both kinds of lib
erty is only one of many indications
that we are approaching a condition
ol society in which the great mas
ters of industry will be permitted to
do about what they please on the
theory that such a policy is the best
lor the common good
“After more than three centuries,
there, approaches a return to feu
dalism. The new feudalism is po
litical and industrial. Not improba
bly il will he more or less benevo
lent. The lords of industry will
realize, at least for a considerable
number of years, that their position
and profits will be more secure it
they refrain from the cruder and
coarser forms of injustice, and per
mit the dependent classes, both in'-
ban and rural, to obtain a moderate
share of the products of industry.
The masses will probably enjoy a
slightly higher degree of economic
welfare than lias ever been within
their reach before. But they will
enjoy it at the expense of genuine
freedom . . . The mind of the
masses will have become a slave
mind.
“Possibly this is the kind of so
ciety that we nat in ibis country,
but it is not the kind that made
and kept America free. R is em
phatically not the kind of society
that committed the destines of the
country to the custody of Abraham
Lncoln.”
Mississippi Nun Dies
Sister Beatrice of Hatties
burg Professed 44 Years
'Ihe Sister described tlie scene
when the curtain rose in the little
theatre during the visit made two
years before. Neither the world’s
greatest artist nor the best all-star
company on earth could have re
ceived a more heartfelt welcome.
Each parent was eager to locate her
own baby actress, by identifying
numbers, and when Ibis was accom
plished gradually a silence fell on
the audience.
“I could see the whole theatre
from where I stood in the wings,”
said the nun, “and it was like a gen
tle shower of snowflakes when all
the little white handkerchiefs ap
peared, Tlie mothers and fathers
wept for joy—the joy of seeing their
little ones once more.”
The entire expense of these excur
sions is home by the leper parents.
Special to The Bulletin.
Hattiesburg, Miss.—Rev. Sister M.
Beatrice, for forty-four years a
member of the sisters of Mercy, died
at Sacred Heart Convent here on
March 12 after an illness of sev
eral days. Death was due to pneu
monia. Mass for the repose of her
soul was sung at Sacred Heart
church, March 12, and interment was
in the cemetery of the Motlierhousc
at Vicksburg. Sister Beatrice was
Miss Mary Beatrice Delaney, and she
was born in Richmond, Va., seventy
years ago. The greater part of her
life as a religious was spent in Mis-
sissipi; for many years she was
connected with the Biloxi convent.
Last September Sister Beatrice came
to Hattiesburg, efficiently fulfulling
her duties as instructor until forced
to her bed by her final illness.
Priest Fifth of Family of
Eight to Be Ordained
((By N. C. W. C. News Service.)
St. Francis, Wis.—The Rev.
Joseph Stehllng, the fifth of a
family of seven boys and one
girl, to receive Holy Orders, was
ordained to the priesthood at St.
Francis Seminary here recently.
Four brothers had been ordain
ed before him: the Rev. Dr.
Charles Stehlhig, who died last
October; the Rev. Edward Steh-
ling, the Rev. John Stehling, and
the Rev. Henry Stehling.
When Father Joseph Stehling
celebrated his first Mass the ser
mon wzs preached by the Rt.
Rev. Msgr. Joseph Rainer, Rec
tor Emeritus of St. Francis Sem
inary, who had preached the
sermons at the first Masses of
each of the young priest’s bro
thers. Monsignor Rainer is
eighty-one years old. He has
been at St. Francis for about
sixty years and has preached
the sermons at the first Masses
of 108 priests.
During*a long interval of nearly
sixty years (1629-1685) during which
there was no resident Bishop in En
gland, the Holy See at the request
of James II., nominated four Bish
ops of sees ‘in partibus’ to he Vi
cars Apostolic in as mahy districts
into which England was divided -
the London, the Midland, the North
ern and the Western Districts. In
I860 by an Apostolic Brief of Pope
Pius IX.. the privilege of being gov
erned by Bishops in ordinary, after
an intermission of nearly 300 years,
was restored to the English Catho
lics.
CDRTIS-REED BILL NOT
POPULAR WITH EDITORS
Fifty-Six Out of Sixty Edi
torials Examined Disap
prove of Measure.
(By N. C. W, C. News Service)
Washington — At the recent hear
ings on the Curtis-Reed education
bill to create a federal department
of education with a cabinet member
at its head, advocates of the meas
ure repeatedly attempted to convince
the joint committee of house mem
bers and senators that there is a
general demand throughout the
country for the legislation. Oppo
nents of the bill replidd as persist
ently that it was a “lobby hill” and
that there is no general demand for
it whatever.
A survey of popular sentiment as
reflected by editorial comment on
the hill in secular newspapers
throughout the country, made by the
N. C. W. C. News Ser vice, would
seem to hear out opponents of the
measure. 'Hie editorial comments
thus far gathered show overwhelm
ing opposition.
Editorials from 60 papers in 20
states and the District of Columbia
have been collected. They come
from as widely separated common
wealths as New York, Florida, Wash
ington, Texas and Michigan. Of the
60 papers whose comments have
been gathered, 56 oppose the hill,
many assailing it vigorously as un-
American and bureaucratic; two fa
vor it with reservations, and only
two flatly approve it.
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