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Rector of Catholic -University
of America Again Honored
At Louisville Convention
Louisville, Ky.—The convention of
the Catholic Educational associa
tion, which drew to this city more
than 1,000 Catholic educators from
all parts of the United States and
was greeted by three bishops, came
to a close with re-election of the
Rt. Rev. Bishop Thomas J. Shahan,
rector of the Catholic university of
America at Washington, D. C., as
president general.
As secretary general the conven
tion re-elected the Rt. Rev. Francis
W. Howard, bishop of Covington.
lh vice-presidents general also were
re-elected as follows: The Rt. Msgr.
John B. Peterson, Boston; the Very
Rev. James A, Burns, C. S. C., No
tre Dame, and the Rev. Dr. Ralph
Hunt, San Francisco. The Rt. Rev.
Msgr. Francis T. Moran, of Cleve
land was re-elected treasurer gen
eral.
The Rt. Rev. Msgr. Joseph F.
Smith. P. It., of New York, again
was chosen president of the parish
sdiool department and the Rev. Fe
lix K. Pitt, of Louisville, was add
ed as a vice-president of this de
partment. The Rev. John 33. i'll ray,
S. J.. of the Seminary of St. Mary
of the Lake at Mundelein. 111., was
re-elected president of the'seminary
department, and the Very Rv. Ber
nard P. O’Reilly, S. M„ of Davton,
was elected president of the depart-
men of college s and secondary
schools.
Close to a thousand nuns {ittmal-
cd the convention. They wfre en
tertained each day by the Federation
of Catholic Alumnae, and used the
cafeteria of the Manual Training
High school, through the courtesy
>f the Louisville board of cduca-
ion.
* A notable address on “Religion
Md Schools” was delivered at the
■neral session on the last day of
:e convention by the Rev. Paul L.
akely, S. J., of America, the Jcs-
journal, of New York city.
Religion and schools weer one for
-nturies Father Blakely declared,
he schools of the colonies gave re
gion an honored place, and the
gners of the Declaration of Inde
pendence were educated in such in
stitutions. The secular system as
t is known today, lie continued, did
«ot originate until a quarter of a
jpntury after the last signer had
■Led.
V Pontifical Mass in Cathedral.
A pontifical mass in the Cathe
dral of the Assumption, celebrated
by Bishop Howard, of Covington,
opened the convention. The Rt. Rev.
Msgr. George W. Schumann, Vicar
General of the Diocese of Louisville,
was assistant priest; the Rev. Dr.
Theodore H. Reverman, D. C. L., of
Louisville, was deacon, and the Rev.
Charles P. Raffo, also of Louis
ville was sub-deacon.
The Rt. Rev, John A. Floersh, S.
T. I)., Bishop of Louisville, formally
welcomed the delegates and express
ed his satisfaction and that of the
clergy, and faithful of lisi diocese
-that the national Catholic educa
tors should meet here, in an histori
cal setting which cherishes many
nolilc and fruitful traditions of
Catholic educational activity.
“The Catholic church has always
favored good schools,” he said, “not
only for the training of her clergy,
hut for the instruction of her peo
ple. In mediaeval France, before
tile Hundred Years’ War, there were
sixty thousand church schools. In
the Fifteenth century an English
bov could get a good classical edu
cation more easily than today.”
Shakespeare Lived and Died
Catholic, Anglican Asserts
Marquise de Chambrun, Sister of Nicholas Longworth
Speaker of U. S. House of Representatives, Declares
in Recent Book That Evide nee Is Convincing.
By M. MASSIANI
(Paris Correspondent, N. C. W. C.News Service)
Paris.—-Shakespeare was born a Catholic and died a Catholic. Such
is the conclusion reached by Madame Longworth dc Chambrun in
the very scholarly andi intensely , nteresting work which she has just
published in Paris under the title “Shakespeare, Actor-Poet.” This
testimony is the more important as the Marquis de Chambrun is not
a Catholic herself, but a member of the Anglican Church.
The Marquise de Chambrun is the sister of Nicholas Longworth,
Speaker of the House of Representatives of the United States. * She
married General de Chambrun, who recently was in command of an
important section of the French troops engaged in the war against
Alid-el-Krim in Morocco. The general is a descendant of Lafayette.
The Marquise already has won the esteem of the world of letters by
a certain number of works which have received much notice, name
ly three novels, a study on Giovanni Florio, which was crowned by
the French Academy, and a collection of Shakespeare’s sonnets, “New
Light and Old Evidence,” published in New York.
The work which she has now de
voted to Shakespeare was not under
taken solely as a study of the. poet’s
religion. It is a study of his whole
life and a comment on his work.
But here and there the author lias
been led by various and sundry in
cidents ip the career of her hero to
allude to'his religion, gnd all these
allusions agree in indicating that he
must have lx
ieen a Catholic.
His mother, Mary Arden, liad been
reared in the Catholic faith. She
was the daughter of an austere prac
ticing Catholic who did not hesitate
lo call the illustrious Count of I*ei-
cester a parvenu and to flay the
conduct of this favorite of the
Queen. Four of her near relations
perished as victims of their Catho
lic faith in the reign of Elizabeth.
Three days after his birth, Wil
liam was baptized at the baptismal
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font of the Holy Trinity, the old
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collegial church of Stratford.
The question 6f the poet’s relig
ion comes up again in connection
with his marriage. There is in ex
istence a marriage certificate issued
by the Anglican Archbishop of
Worcester. But this certificate is
dated six months before theb irth
of the first child and makes no
mention of the name of the church
in which the ceremony was per
formed nor the name of the pas
tor who performed it.
This, the author points out, is not
an unprecedented omission in that
diocese; such was the ease whenever
it was a question of “regularizing”
a marriage already blessed clandes
tinely by the Roman rile.
Cardinal Mundelein 54
Chicago Archbishop Remem
bered on Anniversary
(By N. C. W. C. News Service.)
Chicago. — George Cardinal
Mundelein, Archbishop of Chica
go, July 2 observed his fifty-
fourth birthday anniversary by
attending to his routine work at
the chancery office. Only the
telegrams and letters of congrat
ulations which flooded his office
marked the event.
Cardinal Mundelein was or
dained a priest in June, 1895,
and he was consecrated auxiliary
Bishop of Brooklyn in Septem
ber, 1909. He was appointed
Archbishop of Chicago in De
cember, 1915, and was created a
cardinal March 24, 1924.
The twenty-eighth Eucharistic
Congress was a result of the exe
cutive skill of the Cardinal.
German Cardinal Traveled to U. S.
Incognito, as Humble Priest
(By N. C. W. C. News Service.)
New York.—Clad as an humble
priest, in shabby black garb, tourist
cap and an ancient overcoat, His Em
inence Michael Cardinal von Faul-
haber. Archbishop of Munich and
one of the highest prelates of the
Catholic Church, arrived here on the
line Ballin to astound all collected
with the cereption of dignitaries of
the Church coming to the Eucharis
tic Congress at Chicago. He had
been reported as arriving in New
York, and as living incognito in
Brooklyn.
Cardinal Faulhaber traveled as
“Professor D. Michaclis,” and none
on tbe liner except bis immediate
party knew of his high ecclesiatical
rank. He had put away ail his
robes of office, and even his episco
pal ring, by which he higlit have
been identified. Tho reporters sal
utations of “Your Eminence” he re
fused to respond.
A delegation of German priests
met the cardinal and his party, lie
went immediately to the residence
of the Rev. Henry Kunig in Brook
lyn, where he will remain until he
leaves New York for Chicago
Cardinal Faulhabcr’s aversion to
publicity prompted his incognito
journey. It was asserted by a Eu
charistic Congress official here that
His Eminence was misquoted b- r re
porters on the occasion of a previ
ous visit to America. Those close to
arrangements for the reception of
distinguished Congress visitors were
ignorant of his whereabouts until
his arrivaL
Another commentator of the life
of Shakespeare has already written
that the marriage of William Shakes
peare and Anne Hathaway had been
performed by the Jesuit, Father John
Hall.
‘In those days it was not possible
officially to admit that a ceremony
had been performed by a priest of
the prescribed religion. The tragic
events in which the family of
Shakespeare's mother had been in
volved made such an admission par
ticularly dangerous. A nephew of
Mary Arden, John Sommerville, had
been cast into prison and then
strangled to death for having vio
lently protested against the perse
cutions of which Catholics were the
object and for having uttered threats
of death against the persecutors.
‘ LH-y’ ’ ■'
Edward Arden, M.lVy’s brother, had
been arrested with his wife and
children and with Father John Hall,
to whom they had given shelter. The
two men were killed and the wo
men put to the question.
Under these conditions, Madame
de Chambrun explains, it is easy
to understand the silence of the in
terested parties and that the dio
cesan authorities should have hesi
tated to recognize an infraction oi
the statutes of Elizabeth.
However this may lie, Madame de
Chambrun finds profound traces of
Catholic influence throughout the
work of Shakespeare. Living in
Stratford were monks whose mon
asteries had been close dand priests
who were forced h.v their proscrip
tion to exercise their ministry clan
destinely. Among Shakespeare’s
near relatives was an aunt, a nun
belonging to a community which had
been dissolved. She was still living
when he was 14 years old.
Shakespeare was thus brought into
contact with the ecclesiastical ele
ment. He knew how to derive ad
vantage from this. His plays show
(Continued on page 11.)
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Charles Murphy of New York
Jesuit College Winner in
Field of 25,000 \
New Archbishop of Oregon
Rt. Rev. Edward F. Howard, D.D.,
Auxiliary Bishop of Davenport, has
been appointed Archbishop of Ore
gon City, succeeding the late Most
Rev. Alexander Christie, D. D., who
died April G, 1925, and who in turn
succeeded Most Rev. William H.
Gross, C. SS. R., D. D., the Bish
op of Savanah from 1873 to 1885,
who died November 14, 1898, after
serving thirteen years as Archbishop
of Oregon City. As Archbishop of
Oregon City Archbishop Howari in
addition to heading the archdiocese
will he metropolitan of the Dioceses
of Baker City, Oregon, Boise, Idaho,
Great Falls and Helena, Montana,
Seattle and Spokane, Washington,
and the Vicariate-Apostolic of Alaska
BISHOP OF SUPERIOR
Rev. Dr. Reverman, Noted
Louisville Priest, Named to
Head Wisconsin Diocese
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
Los Angeles, Calif.—In the pres
ence of a crowd that filled every
available inch of space in the Bo-
vard auditorium, Charles Murphy of
Fordham university, Jesuit institu
tion of New York city won first
place in the national finals of the
second national intercollegiate ora
torical contest on the constitution
here June 25.
The Catholic orator’s subject was
YTh Constitution,” with first hon
ors lie was awarded a prize of $2,000
offered by the Better America Fed
eration of California. Second place
went to Elsworth Meyers of Pomo
na College, California. He received
a cash award of $1,000.
Third place, carrying a prize of
$500, went to Thomas Francis Kelly'
of Harvard university. ~
Other contestants finished in the
•following order: Phillip N. Krasne,
University of Michigan; A. Vance
Graham. Denver University; Thomas
Burns Drum, Buckncll University,
and John Gaylord Tarrant, Univer
sity of Virginia.
More than 25,000 students in all
sections of the United States par
ticipated in the sectional contests
from which the contenders were se-
ilected.
(By N. C. W. C. News Service.)
Washington.—The Rev. T. H
Reverman, 1). C. L, pastor of the
Church of St, F’rancis of Assisi at
Louisville, Ky., has been nominated
by the Holy Father as ■ Bishop of
Superior, Wis, it was announced at
the Apostolic delegation to Hie
United States here.
Bishop elect Revermfan succeeds in
the Superior Sec the Rt. Rev. Jos
eph (i. Pinten, whose transfer to
the Diocese of Grand Rapids was
announced within the last week.
The Diocese of Superior comprises
lfi counties in the State of Wiscon
sin with an area of 15,715 square
miles, and has 58,559 Catholics
within its border, with 102 priests
to care for them.
Bishop-elect Reverman was horn
of German parentage in Louisville,
August 9, 1877. He studied at Can-
World Prayers
for Mexico are
Asked by Pope
Letter Issued at Request of
Holy Father Sets Sunday
August 1, As Date
A letter calling upon the Catholics
of the world to pray for the relief
of persecuted Catholics in Mexico
and for the pardon of the persecu
tors has been issued by Cardinal
Gasparri, Cardinal Secretary of State,
at the direction of Pope Pius XI,
who has named Sunday, August 1,
Hie Feast of St. Peter in Chains, as
tile universal day of prayer. The
text of the letter and of an official
letter from Rt. Rev. Michael J.
Keyes, I). It., Bishop of Savannah, to
the pastors of the diocese in refer
ence to the day of prayer, are pub
lished on page six of this issue of
The Bulletin. The other dioceses in
the Southeast in common with those
throughout the world are making
plans to conform to the request of
Our Holy Father.
Two handwriting experts, A. S.
Osborn, of New York, and S. C. Ma
lone, of Baltimore, who have ex
amined a document being circulated
in the United States as proof of the
charge that ArchSbishop Caruana,
apoistolic delegate to Mexico, de
clared himself a Protestant and
made other untrue statements when
entering the Southern Republic, de
clare that the document was not
signed by the Archbishop Caruana;
that it was not attested, and that
even in its indistinct photostatic
form it gives evidence of at least
one erasure at a crucial point.
President Calles has issued a
proclamation banning reigious orders
and absolutely abolishing liberty of
speech in the religious press,
strengthening the regulations mak
ing churches and other religious
property the property of the state,
forbidding religious garb and othcr-
erwise abolishing rights, violations
of the provisions of the proclama
tion being punishable by fine and
imprisonment.
The Mexican officials who assert
they are only carrying out the pro
visions of the constitution are daily
violating the constitution in many
ways one of them being by their
interference with schools which are,
as in the United States, suhject to
local and state aauthority only ex
cept in a few cases.
Pamphlets being circulated in the
United States defending the Mexi
can government’s actions are being
distributed by Mexican consuls in
the United States, the N. C. W. C.
News Service declares. The pam
phlet repeats the charges against
Arehibishop Caruana, an American
citizen, and tile action of the con
suls distributing such literature is
declared to he a violation of diplo
matic custom. It was originally
planned to distribute such matter
at the Eucharistic Congress, but it
arrived too late.
isius College, Buffalo, after which
■j
he attended the University of Inns
brueck, Austria, where he was or
dained. He then spent two years
studying canon law at Rome, where
he received the degree Doctor of
Canon Law. Upon his return to the
United States, he taught for some
time in the Louisville diocesan
seminary, after which he became
pastor of the Church of St. F’rancis
of Assisi.
(Special Mexican Correspondence,
N. C \V. C. News Service)
Mexico City—With a genuine eco
nomic crisis looming on the hori
zon and with the political situation
becoming more and more unstable
as a result of the controversies
) reated by the approaching elec
tions, the Govcrnmer^s i s neverthe
less turning its attention to the re
ligious situation and is planning to
ado
opt a policy even more severe than
that which has been in effect dqr-
(Continucd on page 11.)
Presbyterian Ministers' Leaders
Praise Irish Catholic Tolerance
(By N. C. W. C. News Service.)
Dublin—At the Presbyterian gen
eral assembly for all Ireland, j”st
held in Dublin, both the newly elec
ted and the outgoing moderators
paid graceful compliments to the at
titude of the Catholics in Southern
Ireland to the Presbyterian minis
ters and their flocks.
The Rev. Dr. Haslan, outgoing
moderator, related several instances
showing the courtesy with which, on
his tours of inspection, he was
greeted by the Catholics, who, he
said, showed the greatest considera
tion to his ministers and flock.
The Rev. Dr. Hanna, newly elected
moderator, *pok c of the attitude of
the new Catholic governement in
Southern Ireland.
“We Presbyterians,” he said, “are
not aware of any religious disabil
ities. Government patronage’, 3ias
been distributed fairly among all.”
These expression' on the part of
the moderators show a contrast be
tween the treatment received by re
ligious minorities in the North and
in the South. It is well known that
all preferment is refused to Catho
lics under the Protestan Northern
government
'Hie moderators have received
numerous acknowledgements for
their recognition of the liberty and
inpartiality of the Catholic govern
ment and people.