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| | Member of the National 5 I Catholic Welfare Con- S l&hf 1 r h a Only Catholic tj Newspaper Between Bal- n?j| r j ference News Servica 1 Official Organ of the Catholic Laymens AssociationsfGeoigk I 1 “TO BRING ABOUT A FRIENDLIER FEELING AMONG GEORGIANS, IRRESPECTIVE OF CREED" | timore and New Orleans TEN CENTS A COPY VOL. 10. No. 7. AUGUSTA, GA., APRIL 13, 1929 ISSUED SEMI-MONTHLY $2.00 A YEAH 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.