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Harvard Professor, Convert While
in France With Wilson, Ordained
NEWS BRIEFS
Most Rev. Sebastian G. Messmer,
D. D., Archbishop of Milwaukee
who has been in poor health since
Christmas, has appointed Msgr. Ber
nard G. Traudt, his vicar-general,
to take over his duties. Archbishop
Messmer was ordained fifty-eight
years ago this July and was conse
crated Bishop of Green Bay, Wis.,
in 1892. He has been Archbishop of
Milwaukee since December 10, 1903.
Bt. Rev. George V. Kaupert, vicar-
general of the Diocese of Brooklyn,
died there March 29 in his seventy-
third year. He was a native of
Brooklyn and for thirty years pastor
of All Saints Church.
Sister Marin Rosine, of the Con
gregation of the Sisters of Mary-
Joseph, was presented a gold medal
at a public ceremony recently by
President Doumergue in acknowl
edgement of her services in the
prisons of Paris for the past thirty-
three years.
Father Gerald I.owry-('orry, for
merly an officer in the English
Army, a son of Admiral the Hon.
Armar Lowry-Corry, and a convert
to the faith, is dead in London at
the age of 57. He became a Cath
olic while in the army and left to
study for the priesthood, joining the
Oratorian Fathers.
Samuel T. Fisher of Albany, N. Y.,
left $37,000 to the Diocese of Al
bany and its activities in his will
recently probated here.
Otis Skinner, noted actor, was the
principal speaker at the tenth an
niversary banquet of Bishop Molloy
Council, Freeport, L. I. He traced
the history of the theatre from the
dawn of the Christian era to the
present.
Dr. John F. Moran, widely known
Washington, D. C., physician and
lecturer at Georgetown University
Medical School, left his valuable col
lection of medical films to the uni
versity. Dr. Moran died late in
March.
Rev. Eugene McDonald, senior
Catholic chaplain of the Navy and
for the past fours chaplain at the
Mare Island Navy Yard, California,
has been retired after twenty-seven
years of continuous service.
Brother Gilbert and Thomas I.
O’Connor scored bigotry in addresses
delivered at the annual St. Pat
rick’s Day dinner of the Ancient
Order of Hibernians at New Or
leans. More than half of the army
of the colonies in the Revolution
was Irish, Brother Gilbert asserted,
quoting statistics to sustain his
point.
Very Rev. Charles H. Cloud, S. J.,
president of the St. Louis Univer
sity, in a lecture before the faculty
and students of the graduate school
there, declared that a school of the
ology was essential in an ideal uni
versity; theology, he said, is “the
queen of the sciences."
Dr. Roy Joseph Deferrari, pro
fessor of Latin and associate pro
fessor of Greek at the Catholic Uni
versity of America, has been award
ed one of the seventeen grants in
aid of research made to American
scholars by the American Council
of Learned Societies.
Washington, D. C.—Senator Dav
id I. Walsh of Massachusetts, speak
ing at a luncheon of the Catholic So
ciety for Peace at the Catholic Uni
versity recently on “The Signifi
cance of the Kellogg Peace Pact,”
told the Association’s members that
as Catholics they have an unusual
opportunity to promote internation
al accord. The Catholic Church, he
said, stands for peace—its founder
was the Prince of Peace—and no
group in the world should love peace
more, or work more zealously to pro
mote it. He declared that as a result
of the World War the Catholic
Church is in a better position than
ever to bring to the peoples of the
world the lessons of peace and inter
national good-will, and urged the As
sociation to make every effort to en
list the cooperation of Catholic
groups abroad.
“It might be proper,” Senator
Walsh said speaking of the Kellogg
Treaty, “to ask what it is worth,
what is its value. Well, <t has just
the value that any \ promise any one
of you makes to your neighbor. If
you promise your neighbor that you
Dr. Robert Howard Lord At
tracted to Church While at
Versailles Peace Conference
Robert Howard Lord, formerly
professor of history at Harvard,
ordained a Catholic priest at the
Cathedral of the Holy Cross April 5,
has added the name of another dis-
tingpished New Englander to the first
of converts to the Catholic faith,
says Henry W. Harris in The Boston
Herald. He continues:
One of the earliest to become a
priest was John Thayer, born in
Boston in 1758 and graduated from
Yale 21 years later, who was for a
time a Puritan minister and chaplain
to John Hancock when he was gov
ernor. Later, Mr. Thayer went to
Europe and offered his services to
Benjamin Franklin, then ambassa
dor to France. Franklin is said to
have declined, on the ground that he
could say his own prayers. Later
the minister went to Rome, became
a convert to Catholicism and a
priest, returned to Boston and
preached at Holy Cross church in
School street.
Rev. Fr Johua P. Bodfish, a na
tive of Falmouth, on Cape Cod, who
was at one time rector of the
Cathedral of the Holy Cross in Bos
ton, had an adventurous career be
fore he devoted his life to religion.
For many years he followed the sea
and he served in the Civil war as
navigator on the Federal warship
Montgomery. Afterward he went to
Brown university and became an
Catholic Peace Society in
Session at Catholic U.
Rev. Dr. Haas Succeeds Dr.
Carlton Hayes As President
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
Washington—The efforts and ex
ample for peace put forth by the
Catholic Church and its Popes re
ceived considerable attention in the
discussions at the third annual meet
ing of the Catholic Association for
International Peace which closed at
the Catholic University of America
here April 3. The meeting saw all
of the Association’s committees
making tentative reports, and gave
promise that many interesting docu
ments will be published under the
auspices of the organization within
the next 12 months.
The Rt. Rev. Msgr. James H.
Ryan, Rector of the Catholic Uni
versity of America, was elected hon
orary president of the Association,
and the Rev. Dr. Francis J. Haas
of St. Francis Seminary, St. Francis,
Wis., was chosen president, suc
ceeding Dr. Carlton J. H. Hayes of
will not quarrel with him, that does
not mean that you will never quar
rel with him, but it does mean that
if you are a normal human being you
will try to avoid quarrels.
“Most treaties in the past have
ben a union of the nations for the
purpose of carrying on common war
fare against an enemy nation. .They
agree, two, three or four nations,
that when one nation takes arms
against any other nation they will
come together and make war upon
that nation. Now, nations have ac
cepted treaties of this character as
great solemn moral obligations. The
human family has pointed with de
rision at the nation that has failed
in time of war to do its part in car
rying out the terms of a joint treaty
for resisting a common enemy. They
have generally been effective and
beneficial and successful in carrying
out the provisions of such treaties in
time of war. Why? Because nations
and the peoples behind the nations
making such treaties believed they
entered into a solemn moral obliga
tion, which they were bound to car
ry out."
Convert Professor Priest
Episcopalian minister. Then he be
came interested in the British “Ox
ford movement,” which brought to
Rural Life Expert Corrects
Wrong Impression Created
By U. S. Bureau Figures
By REV. EDWIN V. O’HARA
(Director of Rural Life Bureau
N. C. W. C.)
Washington.—The Bureau of Cen
sus at Washington has just pub
lished statistics for the Catholic
Church in the United States in a
separate pamphlet. Very much valu
able information is given. Very in
teresting especially are the tables
giving comparative statistics of
church membership of 1906, 1916 and
1926. Certain tabulations, however,
are certain to convey a mistaken
impression in reference to the
growth or retrogression of the Cath
olic Church in a number of states
unless they are properly explained.
Since these particular tabulations
are concerned with rural situations,
the present writer undertakes to
make the explanation lest the sta
tistics in question be quoted to the
disadvantage of a number of rural
dioceses.
Briefly, table 4, of this compilation
reports that the number of Catholic
Church in the following states was
considerably less in 1926 than it was
in 1916: Virginia, North Carolina,
Georgia, Mississippi, Arkansas, Okla
homa, Idaho, Washington and Ore
gon. The same impression is given
in regard to the closing of a num
ber of Catholic Churches in several
other states.
Virginia is said to have declined in
the decade, from 143 in 1916 to 140
in 1926; North Carolina from 77 to
66; Georgia from 97 to 73; Missis
sippi from 140 to 112; Arkansas from
204 to 144; Oklahoma from 260 to
182; Idaho from 169 to 143; Oregon
from 144 to 207.
A cursory reading of these statis
tics would give an impression of a
very considerable loss to the church
in these states; an impression not
intended by the compilers of the
tables, nor borne out by the facts.
First as to the facts. The number
of churches in each diocese in 1916
and subsequent years can be readily
obtained from the official Catholic
Directory which is accurate on this
point whatever may be its inade
quacy in other matters. From the
Catholic Directory it is clear that
there has been no loss in the num
ber of churches, in any of the states
above mentioned since 1916. On the
contrary in practically all of them
there has been a substantial in
crease, as can be seen from the fol
lowing statement.
Since 1916 the number of Catholic
churches in Virginia has increased
by 13; North Carolina by 6; Georgia
(Continued on Page 3.)
Anton Lang Resigns Role
of Christ in Passion Play
By Rev. Dr. Wilhelm Baron von
Capitainc
(Cologne Correspondent, N. C.
W. C. News Service)
Cologne.—Anton Rang, the only
. man ever to play the part of
Christ in three Oberammergau
Passion Plays and proclaimed by
many as the greatest “Christus”
in the history of this centuries-
old spectacle, will resign his role
to another in the 1930 production.
This is due to Lang’s age and
increased weight. The choice of
a new actor for the leading role
lies between Anton’s cousin,
Aloys Lang, and the blacksmith,
Hugo Rutz.
Anton Lang’s seven children,
the youngest born in 1927, can
no longer as a group appear in
the scene “Suffer little children
to come unto Me.” At least
half of them are too old for such
roles but all ' will undoubtedly
appear in the 1930 play as every
citizen of Oberammergau aspires
to some part, if only to cry,
“Crucify Him!” Tony is old
enough to take his father’s place
but is a university student and
could not devote all his time to
preparation for the Passion Play.
Revolution Fails to Enlist
Catholic Aid Saenz Says
Calles-Gil Official Declares It
Is Therefore Doomed
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
New York.—The Mexican revolu
tionary leaders have failed tN enlist
the support of Catholics in that
country in their enterprise and the
rebel movement is doomed to failure,
Moses Saenz, assistant minister of
education under Presidents Calles
and Fortes Gil, declared in an in
terview issued here April 4.
Senor Saenz, a dominant figure in
his country’s educational develop
ment, termed the religious discon
tent in Jalisco and other states a
condition separate from the mili
tary uprising and said he felt it
would be settled by peaceful means.
Conflicting Battle Reports
Mexico Ciay.—Conflicting reports
continue to be received here of the
result of the fighting in Chihuahua.
Government officials report the reb
el forces thoroughly disorganized and
their leaders in flight. Federal cav
alry, it is reported, is pursuing the
remnants of the main rebel army,
which was routed at La Reforma
with 800 dead. The insurgents were
reported to have lost nearly 1,000 ad-
dtional in a futile two-day defense
of Jimenez.
From Juarez, however, came word
that rail passengers arriving there
had reported that General Juan Al-
mazan, federal leader who captured
Jimenez, had been caught in a trap
between insurgent forces in Jimenez
and Escalon. Almazan, they report
ed, was trapped between 5,000 rebel
cavalrymen in Escalon led by Gen
eral Marcelo Caraveo, Chihuahua
Governor, and more than 7,000 rebel
infantrymen in Jimenez led by Gen.
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
Washington—Detailed statistics on
the Catholic Church, gathered by
the Department of Commerce, were
released March 22. Previously the
department had made public its re
ligious census showing that there
were in the United States at the
close of the year 1926 a total of 18,-
940 Catholic Churches with a mem
bership of 18,605,003. The census
showed that there are in the coun
try 2,133 religious bodies with a to
tal membersship of 54,624,976, of
wh'ich the Catholic Church is by far
the largest. The statistics on the
Catholic Church, given in the report
issued, are of far greater local in
terest.
The report shows the State of
New York leading in the number
of Churches with 1,783 and in the
number of members with 3,115,424.
Pennsylvania is second with 1,730
Churches and 2,124,382 members. Illi
nois is third in the number of
Churches with 1,064, but Massachu
setts with only 705 Churches is third
in membership with a total of 1,-
629,424. Illinois’ Catholic population
is listed at 1,352,719.
In this connection it is interesting
to note that Minnesota, Michigan,
CARDINAL GASOUET OF
ENGLAND JES IN ROME
Noted Benedictine, 82, Editor
of Vulgate Bible, Active Until
Few Moments Before Death
(By N. C. W. C. News Service.)
Rome—Francis Aidan Cardinal
Gasquet, IJnglish Benedictine editor
of the modem translation of the
Latin Vulgate Bible and one of the
most learned church men of his
day, died April 5 at his residence
in the Palace of St. Calixtus of a
heart attack. The Cardinal’s sud
den death was attributed to exhaus
tion suffered by attending the fu
neral of Cardinal Lucidi. He is the
third member of the Sacred College
to die within a fortnight.
Cardinal Gasquet’s name is indis-.
solubly linked to the revision of the
Vulgate, one of the most monu
mental works of scholarship ever un
dertaken. The room in which he
died bore evidence that night of his
last historical work, at which he
labored until within a few moments
of his death. The work of revision
of the Vulgate was being carried on
by a commission of Benedictine
Fathers on the floor above his apart
ment.
The death of the Cardinal brought
grief to the Vatican, but Pope Piu3
was gratified that he had been able
to send his apostolic benediction “in
articulo mortis.”
The Benedictine Father Demestre
administered Extreme Unction just
before death and two other Benedic
tines, Abbot Deftottingen and Abbot
Amelli of the Monte Cassino Moth
er House, were at the bedside.
Cardinal Gasquet was born in
London, October 5, 1846. He was long
famed for his historical and literary
knowledge. Pope Pius X, in 1907,
appointed him president of the
Pontifical commission for Revision
of the Vulgate. In his researches
he came to the United States in
1913, at which time he preached in
St. Patrick’s Cathedral, New York.
On May 25, 1914, he was created
Cardinal Deacon and given title to
the Church of St. George in Velabro,
the church which hau ween the titu
lar of Cardinal Newman. This
church he resigned in 1916 for that
of Santa Maria in Porticu. Appoint
ed by Pope Benedict XV as archiv
ist and librarian of the Holy Roman
church, he had as one of his sub
ordinates the future Pope Pius XI,
then a simple perfect of the library.
A great friendship between the two
arose.
He was only 32 years old wjien he
was elected prior of Downside, an
office which he filled for seven
during which time the school was
modernized and the abbey church
began and carried to completion.
Great as was his interest in the
past of the monastic orders, his de
sire to servie his own Order in his
own day was equally keen. To those
who knew how ekger was his pur
suit of original sources and how
thorough his study of pre-Reforma-
tion documents and archieves it was
a constant marvel that he was never
so immersed in his favorite occupa
tion as to forget the needs of the
present. He presented the rare com-
Wisconsin, Ohio, Texas and Califor
nia exceed Massachusetts in the
number of church buildings, al
though none approaches the Bay
State in Catholic population. In the
case of Minnesota the number of
Catholics is but slightly more than
one-fourth that of Massachusetts.
In its statistics on Sunday Schools,
the report showed 8,239 Catholic
Churches reporting a total member
ship of 1,201,330 pupils. The number
of teachers in the Sunday Schools
was given as 49,498.
The value of Church edifices, with
16,254 Churches reporting, was
placed at $837,271,053, . while 5,361
Churches reported a total building
debt of $129,937,504. The figures on
parochial schools, also given in the
report, are not reprinted here since
they were published at the time of
their release by the Bureau of Ed-
ucatipn.
The report also contains a sec
tion on the history, doctrine and
organization of the Catholic Church.
This section of the report was re
vised later by the Rev. John J.
Burke, C.S.P., General Secretary of
the National Catholic Welfare Con
ference and approved by him in itf
present form.
(Continued on Page 3)
Catholic Church Stands For Peace
Senator Walsh Tells Peace Society
(Continued on page five.)
Records Reveal Gaip For Catholic
Church in South Dr. O’Hara Says
(Continuo-j on page 5.) (Continued on Page 5)
Department of Commerce Figures
Show 18,605,003 Catholics in U.S.