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APRIL, 13, 1929
THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION. OF GEORGIA
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Belmont Convent Students
Present Religious Drama
Sacred Heart Academy Girls
Make Splendid Impression
(Special to The Bulletin)
Belmont, N. C Palm Sunday aft
ernoon in the presence of a large
assemblage taxing the seating ca
pacity of the auditorium, the pu
pils of Sacred Heart Academy pre
sented “Pontia to Christ,” a relig
ious drama in four acts.
The entire cast executed their
parts with ease and their excellent
interpretation throughout made a
deep impression upon the audience.
Again on Tuesday evening the play
was presented to a capacity houje.
This impressive drama formed a
beautiful setting for the services of
Holy Week.
The staging effects and lighting
were beautiful, Act I. showing the
garden of the Imperial Palace at
Rome in which Pontia, the daughter
of Pilate, encounters the Empress
with her flower girls, defies her and
flees in the night. Act II. shows
Pontia in her father’s palace in Je
rusalem, anxious over the fate, at
the hands of Pilate, of Jesus of Naz
areth, of whom she is a follower.
Act III. shows the “Upper Room,”
where the last supper had just been
partaken, and the fourth act shows
Jesus on the Cross, with His little
band of followers gathered about
Him. The costumes, representative
of that period, had been planned
with the greatest care and contrib
uted toward making the scenes very
realistic.
The principal parts were taken by
the young ladies who made such a
lasting impression in their excellent
presentation of “Mary Magdalene”
last year, and this drama, “Pontia
to Christ,” the story of the con
version of Pilate’s daughter to Chris
tianity, was still more impressive.
The characters and members of
the cast follow:
Pontia, the daughter of Pilate
Betty Lawrence
Ethelinda, a slave from Britain
Helen Leonard
Octavia and Miranda, children
of the Empress
.. Anna Corigan, Catherine Ford
Li via, the Empress.,. .Julia Jeffrey
Flavia, a noble Roman lady
Catherine Reilly
Cornelia, Roman Augur’s wife
Mary Agnes White
Dancing girls
..Lucille Frierson, Elizabeth Dunn
Slave girls: Louise Magee, Elizabeth
Ford, Carolyn McKnight, Dorothy
Goldstein, Biddie Gorman, Eliza
beth Shirley, Beatrice Aquin, Te
resa Barnhardt, Genevieve Mc-
Tague.
Pamphilia, slave mistress
Rowena Dickinson
Miriam, Ruth, Jewish girls
Francis McKnight, Elizabeth Dunn
Rebecca, servant girl
Dorothy Byrd
Dimonah, the daughter of Herodias.
Lucy Salvador
Corina, sister of Pontia
Elizabeth Wenz
Tulia, the daughter of Jairus
Helen Surbrug
Servia, Mistress of the Cenacle ....
Evelyn Nace
Claudia, Pontia’s Mother
Margaret Cleary
Samuel, her son... .Louise Sullivan
Mary Magdalen, the penitent
Ethel Irwin
Mary, the Mother of Jesus
Mary Ann Applewhite
Veronica, a Virgin
Margaret Campbell
John, the beloved disciple
Mary Wilson
Pharisees
Julia Feffreys, Rowena Dickinson
Soldier Mae Meder
21 SEMINARIANS ORDAINED
Cleveland, O Twenty-one semina
rians were ordained to the priest
hood in St. John’s cathedral here.
April 2. It was the largest class in
the history of the diocese.
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FRANK NORRIS REFUSED
TEXAS CITY AUDITORIUM
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
Amarillo, Tex,—The Amarillo city
government has refused the use of
the civic auditorium for an address
by Dr. J. Frank Norris, anti-Catho-
lic pastor of the First Baptist church
of Fort Worth. Dr. Norris was
scheduled to speak here on “The
Challenge of Rome to America.”
In cancelling the contract where
by the address would have been per
mitted, Mayor J. H. Harris said:
“Amarillo church people are in
harmony and we do not want any
strife to arise among the churches,
A public building is not the place for
such a lecture.”
The mayor pointed out that Cath
olics as well as persons of other
religious beliefs support the audito
rium,
Gen. Ludendroff Attacks
Jesuits, Jews and Masons
Former German War Lord
Now Plans New Religion
Vienna—General Eric von Luden-
dorff, a one time war lord of Ger
many, who lately has directed bar
rages of abuse against Jesuits, Jews
and Freemasons, now jjas turned his
efforts towards the establishment of
a sort of Teutonic paganism. In
these undertakings he is supported
by his wife, Dr. Mathilde Luden-
dorff.
No longer in a position to conduct
wars, nor even to aid in a modest
coup against the German republic.
General Ludendorff’s ambition is to
rescue the German nation from
Jewry and its “allies”—the Jesuits
and Freemasons—and from all Jew
ish institutions, among which he
counts the Bible, and to lead his
country back to a “Teutonic faith.”
In this campaign, which, in a let
ter tothe Union of German Students,
he declared to be of no less import
ance than the World war, General
Ludendorff encountered a certain
amount of opposition from the Prot
estant clergy of Germany. As a con
sequence, he separated himself from
the Protestant church by making
the following declaration:
“A church which anywhere and at
any time shields Freemasonic im
morality, has ceased to be a church
as much as has the other one which
surrenders to Jesuitism.”
Catholic Peace Society in
Session at Catholic U.
(Continued from page 1)
Columbia University, New York. Dr.
Haas is the first priest to head the
Association.
Miss Elizabeth B. Sweeney of the
Department of Social Action of the
National Catholic Welfare Confer
ence, was elected secretary, and be
comes the first woman to hold this
position. Bernard J. Rothwell of
Boston was reelected treasurer.
Dr. Hayes becomes an ex-offlcio
member of the Association’s execu
tive committee, while Prof. Charles
G. Fenwick of Bryn Mawr College,
Bryn Mawr, Pa., Edward Keating
of Washington and the Rev. Linus
A, Lilly of &t. Louis University,
St. Louis Mo., continue as members
of the committee with two years yet
to serve. P. H. Callahan of Louis
ville, Ky., Miss Anna Dill Gamble
of York, Pa., and the Rev. Charles
C. Miltner, C.S.C., of the University
of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Ind.,
continue as members with one year
yet to serve. The Rt. Rev. Archab
bot Aurelius Stehle, O.S.B., of Beat
ty, Pa., and Miss Marie Carroll of
Boston, librarian of the World Peace
Foundation, were elected members
of the committee to succeed the Rev.
Gregory Feige of New York and
Frederick P. Kenkel of St. Louis,
whose terms expired with the meet
ing.
REDEMPT0RIST FATHERS
TRANSFER PROVINCE
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
Esopus, N. Y.—The Most Rev. Pat
rick Murray, Superior General of the
Congregation of the Most Holy Re
deemer, has just announced an im
portant change affecting the Re-
demptorists in Canada. The Repub
lican Vice-Province, established in
the Dominion on August 2, 1913, and
until the present time dependent on
the Belgian Province, has been
transferred to the Toronto Province.
For more than fifteen years Belgian
Redemptorists have been working
among the Ruthenian Catholic Uni-
ates in Canada, adopting their Rite
and language.
CARDINAL DOUGHERTY
SPONSORS PILGRIMAGE
(By N. C. W, C. News Service)
Philadelphia, Pa Under the aus
pices of Cardinal Dougherty, there
will go forth from Philadelphia, in
May, a pilgrimage to Rome celebrat
ing the golden jubilee in the priest
hood of His Holiness, Pope Pius XI.
Official announcement of this
Philadelphia Pilgrimage to Rome, to
gether with an invitation to clergy
and laity alike, to participate has
just been made.
General Malone Speaks in
Atlanta April 10 to C. L A.
Special to The Bulletin.
Atlanta, Ga.—Major General Paul
B. Malone, U. S. A., commander of
the Sixth Corps Area, with head
quarters at Fort Sheridan, and mili
tary commander-designate of the
Phlippine Islands, a post he will as
sume In May, speaks Wednesday of
this week at a meeting of the Catho
lic Laymen’s association of Atlanta
at the Columbian club in tnis city.
President R. A. Magill will preside
at the meeting, and a report on the
work of the Augusta office will be
made by Richard Reid, publicity di-'
rector. Officers for the coming
year will be elected. It is antici
pated that this will be one of the
finest local meetings ever held in
the history of the Laymen’s as
sociation, because of the presence
and address of General Malone, who
has more than a national reputation
as an orator.
Dr. O’Hara Shows Chnrch
Makes Progress in South
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which was reported to have declined
from 97 to 73, has actually increased
from 56 to 60; Mississippi has one
more church than in 1916, instead oi
a loss of 28; Oklahoma has a gain
of 12 instead of a loss of 78; Idaho
a gain of 32 instead of a loss of 26.
In Oregon there are two dioceses,
the Archdiocese of Portland and the
Diocese of Baker. The Archdiocese
of Portland has increased from 105
to 121 and the Diocese of Baker has
increased from 49 to 54 as reported
by the Catholic Directory, making a
total gain for the state of Oregon
of 21 churches instead of the re
ported loss of 37.
The explanation of the apparent
discrepancy between the census re
port and the fact is very simple.
The census report includes under the
heading “churches” not only par
ishes and missions with church
buildings, but also “stations”—
places where there is no church, but
where a few families assembled per
haps in a private house for Mass
a few times a year. The number
of these “stations” showed a fall
ing off in the decade 1916-1926.
In the first place the report on
these “stations" has never been ac
curate and no reliance can be plac
ed upon the report of them from a
number of states. But what is of
equal importance, with the coming
of good roads and the auto during
the past ten years the people who
formerly assisted at Mass occasion
ally in private houses or small halls
have been more generally enabled to
attend Mass regularly in parish and
mission church. Consequently the
decline of the number of “stations”
has been a religious gain.
With two exceptions the Catholic
population has increased during the
past decade in the above mentioned
states.
Finally, there has been no closing
of the doors of Catholic Churches
in the United States to any notable
extent during the past decade. In
one or two states the number of
churches has actually declined by
six or seven, and of course here
and there a cross roads church has
been discontinued by incorporation
of its congregation with a better
organized parish. This has been
progress not retrogression.
The truth about the decline of
Catholic rural population in the
United States during the past two
decades is a challenge to the Church
in America. But we must be' on
our guard against giving currency
to exaggerated statements.
ROYAL ORIENTAL NUN
Descendant of Viceroy of
Cochinchina Is Carmelite
(Fides Service)
Hanoi (Tonkin) Indo China.—
Christians and pagans of Hanoi
were profoundly impressed when
on December 7 a great grand
daughter of Le-van Duyet, fa
mous Vicgroy of Cochinchina,
received the habit of Carmel at
the Monastery of the Sacred
Heart. Le-van served under
Kings Gia-long and Minh-menh
and though a strong Buddhist
recognized the services rendered
his masters by Bishop Pigeneau
de Behaine, one of the greatest
of the mission bishops of Indo
china. Wehn Minh-menh early in
the 19th century began a perse
cution of the Catholics Le-van
Duyet refused to put it in force.
Minh-menh feared him too
much to punish him while he
lived but after his death the king
desecrated his tomb.
Twenty years ago the descen
dants of Le-van Duyet were con
verted to Christianity and bap
tized by the present Yicar Apos
tolic of Hanoi, Bishop Gendreau.
The veteran bishop presided
again when this daughter of the
distinguished family received the
habit of the Carmelites.
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