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AUGUSTA, GA., JULY 13. 1929
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Archbishop McNicholas
Again Heads Crusaders
Msgr. Thill Re-appointed
Secretary - Treasurer at
Washington Convention
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
WASHINGTON.—The sixth gen
eral convention of the Catholic
Students’ Mission Crusade closed at
the Catholic University of America
here June 23, with the conferring
of high honors upon members who
have distinguished themselves is
the movement.
The Most Rev. John T. Mc
Nicholas, O. P„ Archbishop of Cin
cinnati, was unanimously re-elected
national president of the Crusade.
The Rt. Rev. Francis J. Beckman,
Bishop of Lincoln, was unanimous
ly re-elected chairman of the na
tional executive board of the Cru
sade. As his first official act.
Bishop Beckman reappointed the
Very Rev. Msgr. Frank A. Thill, of
Cincinnati, secretary-treasurer of
the executive board, and lauded the
work done by the various officials
at the national headquarters, nam
ing especially the Rev. Roger C.
Straub, of Cincinnati, assistant
secretary-treasurer, and J. Paul
Spaeth, director of unit activities.
The Grand Cross of the Order of
Paladin—the supreme decoration of
the Crusade-—was conferred upon
the following:
The Rev. Walter Nott, Director
of the Pointifical Society for the
Propagation of the Faith in the
Diocese of Richmond Va.; the Rev.
John F. Knue, Director of the So
ciety for the Propagation of the
Faith in the Diocese of Louisville,
Ky.; the Rev. A. J. Link, Director
of the Society for the Propagation
of Faith in the Diocese of Buffalo;
Sister Mary Loretto and Sister
Mary James of Chicago, 111.; the
Rev. Michael J. Ready, Director of
the Society for the Propagation of
the Faith in the Diocese of Cleve
land; the Rev. Bernard Foote, S. J-.
of St. Louis University, St. Louis,
Mo.; the Rev. Thomas McCarthy,
C. S. Sp., field secretary of the
Pittsburgh local conference; Miss
Mary Louise Colliflower, president
of the Washington local conference,
and Miss Margaret Meade, presi
dent of the Baltimore local con
ference.
The rank of Paladin Leader was
conferred on Sister Mary Philemon,
of the College of Notre Dame of
Maryland, Baltimore, Md„ and
Joseph Johnson, president of the
Pittsburgh local conference. The
Paladin jewel, conferred as a mark
of merit on certain Crusaders at
tending the convention, was be
stowed on_some 400.
Phillip Kirrane, S. S. J., of St.
Joseph's Seminary, Baltimore, Md.;
Fred Weber, of St. Louis Uni-
versitv, St. Louis, Mo., and Frances
Taylor, of Sacred Heart Junior
College. Louisville. ICy.. were elect
ed student members of the execu
tive' board.
Tit© Rose of the South
By Denis A. McCarthy, LL. D.
Written for the Southern Club of Boston by Denis A. Mc
Carthy, LL.D., one of the earliest friends of the Cathoiic Lay
men’s Association of Georgia, for which he has lectured in this
state, and read by the author at the annual Rose Dinner of the
Southern Club at Boston June 6, 1929:
O Rose of the-South! You are blooming today
With a beauty triumphant o’er death and decay.
You are showing the world that the Southland can rise
From the gloom of the past with a smile in her eyes.
In the depth of your heart there’s a dew drop deep-hid—
’Tis the thought of the deeds that the Jore-fathers did
When they wrested your freedom from those’ who would dare
Keep the Rose of the South in the vale of despair.
You are blooming today as you bloomed when the blue
Of your own southern heaven Hast bent above you,
And we hail you, and bless, with a feeling that glows
The spirit of Dixie that lives in the Rose!
O Rose of the South! There were days when you drooped,
When the tempest of wrath on your sunny land swooped,
When your friends fell in battle, your name on their lips,
And the sun of the Southland went dark in eclipse.
But those days are long past, and the sun shines again
On a land still renowned for its chivalrous men,
On a land that still rings with the song and the mirth
Of the fairest and best of the daughters of earth.
Of a land that is proud to be back in the fold
Where the flag of the nation flies high as of old.
And the flower of the Northland in love ever grows
Entwined with the sweetness and grace of the Rose.
So, here’s to the bonnie bright Rose that has sprung
From the sod and the soil which the poets have sung.
From the sod that is drenched with the blood of the brave.
From the soil that is sacred with many a grave.
May the Rose of the South never fade from our sight!
May the soul of the South never swerve from the right!
May the cause of the South be the cause of the rest—•
The cause of the North and the East and the West!
The cause of the nation, thrice tried and refined,
The cause of the people, the cause of mankind.
And if ever we stand face to face with our foes,
May we stand with the men from the land of the Rose!
GENERAL GOURAUD IS
U. S. VETERANS’ GUEST
50,000 Attend Mass
at Mexican Shrine
Religious Services Resumed
After Three Years Amid
Universal Rejoicing
Prince Ordained Priest and
Wife Joins Carmelite Nuns
Bishop Howard President
Secretary for 29 Years Suc
ceeds Bishop Shahan—Dr.
Johnson New Secretary
(By N. C. W. C. News Service.)
TOLEDO. Ohio—The Rt. Rev.
Francis W. Howard, bishop of Cov
ington, Ky., was elected president
general of the National Catholic
Educational Association at its 26th
annual meeting which closeu here
June 27th. He succeeds in office
the Rt. Rev. Bishop Thomas J.
Shahan, Rector Emeritus of the
Catholic University of America,
whose resignation was announced
(Continued on Page Five)
NEWS BRIEFS
Wealthy Europeans Give Up
Royal Rank to Devote
Lives to Religion
(By N. C. W. C. News Service )
MILAN, Italy—Prince Ignatius
Paterno Casteilo was ordained to
the Catholic priesthood July 1st,
becoming Father Ignatius of the
Order of the Barnabites. July 9th,
he bestowed the veil on Donna An
gelina Auteri, his wife, who became
Sister Maria of Jesus, a Carmelite
nun.
A little over four years ago, the
Prince and his wife presented
themselves at the College of St.
Barnabas, annexed to the Church
of SS. Paul and Barnabas in Via
della Commenda, of this city, ask
ing for an audienc& with the Rev.
Giovanni Matterelli, the Father
Provincial. The Prince and his
wife were 45 years of age. They
had no children and both were
quite wealthy. He sought admis
sion to the Order of the Barna
bites, and she declared her inten
tion of becoming a Carmelite nun-
(From N. C. W. C. News Service)
QUEBEC.—A procession in which
30,000 persons participated, 600 of
them priests, featured the five-day
Marian Congress here late in June,
the first ever held here. The Papal
Delegate to Canada and Nev.'found-
land presided at the procession;
the Cardinal Archbishop of Quebec
pontificated at the Sunday Mass.
NEW YORK.—Rev. Anthony J.
Hastings, recently ordained at St.
Patrick's Cathedral, died before
taking up his duties in his first
parish; his funeral Mass was sung
at St. Jerome’s The Bronx, within
three weeks after his ordination.
He had been assigned to Mt. Kis-
co, N. Y.
$1,000,000 CONVENT
FIRE IN MONTREAL
MONTREAL—The Convent of
the Sacred Heart at Sault au Rec-
ollet, a suburb of Montreal, struck
by lightning the afternoon of
June 24, was burned to the ground
with a loss of $1,000,000; it was in
sured for $200,000. The convent,
which dismissed its classes for the
summer only a few days before,
will be rebuilt. Twenty-two con
valescent nuns, 79 other Sisters
and 30 girls making a retreat, all
escaped unharmed.
Catholic Summer School of Amer
ica, Rev. Dr. Francis P. Duffy,
president, and Bishop Conroy of
Ogdensburg, honorary president,
opened its 38th session here June
30. The Fordham University-Cath
olic Summer School extension
courses, with degree credits, open
ed July 1. The faculty is the most
distinguished the school ever had,
including members of the faculties
of many leading American and Eu
ropean universities.
LOWELL, Mass.—James O’Sulli
van, 83, a native of Ireland, an
active member of the St. Vincent
de Paul and Holy Name Societies,
and internationally known as a
manufacturer of rubber heels, died
here late in June. He retired from
business twenty years ago.
CLIFF HAVEN. N. Y.—The
LIUUOR-DERANGED MAN
SHOOTS AT PRIEST
CHICAGO.—Police here arrested
a man who gave h(is name as
Charles Foster, after he had shot
at Rev. Anselm Keenan, O. S. M.,
while Father Keenan was celebrat
ing Mass; he missed Father Kee
nan but wounded Richard Murphy,
to whom Father Keenan had just
given Communion. The man was
unknown to Father Keenan. After
the shooting Foster turned the gun
on himself, inflicting a slight
wound. He blamed poisoned liquor
for his act.
PARIS.—Abbe Henry Breuil, con
sidered the greatest authority on
matters of archaeology of the Stone
Age, the Jiolder of the Eliot Medal
in America and an honorary Doc
tor of Letters from Cambridge Uni
versity, has been appointed to the
faculty of the College of France,
the highest institution of superior
instruction in France, one which
does not grant degrees and open to
scholars who have received the
highest degrees elsewhere. Another
priest, Canon Rousselot, inventor of
the photography of sounds, has
taught there.
The interview at the Barnabite
College was the epilogue of a long
correspondence with the Holy See,
in which the consorts told their
purpose to the supreme ecclesiasti
cal authorities, and asked that they
be allowed to enter the religious
life as soon as possible.
The Father Provincial was able
on this occasion to offer his con
gratulations to Prince Paterno, who
was assigned to the Barnabite Col
lege of Monza, where all aspirants
to that rule pass their novitiate.
He departed at once. His wife was
permitted to witness the simple
ceremony of his admittance to the
house at Monza and then went
herself to the convent of the Car
melites at Modena, to become sub
ject to the strict seclusion fixed
by the rule of that Order.
An interesting discussion of can
non law followed this action of the
Paternos. It was pointed out at
that time that it was indispensible
that both husband and wife, in
such instances, embrace Holy Or
ders; that the matrimonial tie is
a Sacrament that for Catholics may
be dispensed with only in very ex
ceptional cases.
Undet; the old canonical law, it
was further pointed out it was
necessary for both to become reli
gious, while the newer law, not
cojjtent with this, provided that
tlie married couple Vnust wait for
the Holy See to grant these dis
pensations when “it knows there
is nothing to fear’’ that one of them
may return to secular life.
It was necessary for the Paternos
explicitly to renounce all their
wealth and put it at the disposal
of good works.
The Bishop of Lodi ordained
Father Ignatius.
General Henri J. E. Gouraud,
a distinguished French com
mander in the World War and
a devout Catholic, who is a
guest of honor of the American
Rainbow Division at its i s-
union at Baltimore, July 13 to
15. The Rainbow Division
served under Genera! Gouraud
in France.
(i ntef national Newsreel.)
Apostolic Delegate
Calls on President
Presents Him Engraved Copy
of Roman Treaty
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
WASHINGTON.—The Most Rev.
Pietro Fumasoni-Biondi, Apostolic
Delegate to the United States, call
ing at the White House, last week
presented toPresident Hoover a
handsomely bound and engraved
copy of the treaty between the
Holy See and Italy.
The Rev. Dr. John J. Burke, gen
eral secretary of the National
Welfare Conference, accompanied
the Apostolic Delegate to the White
House. The Apostolic Delegate
conveyed to President Hoover the
greetings of His Holiness, Pope
Pius XI, and paid his own respects.
(By N. C. W. C. News Service.
MEXICO CITY—After a silence
of nearly three years the bells of
the Churches of Mexico City rang
out June 30th calling the Faithful
to the celebration of Holy Mass.
Throughout the morning the house
of worship were crowded to over
flowing.
A throng estimated at 50,000 at
tended the services at the Shrine
of Our Lady of Guadaloupe, where
Archbishop Pascual Diaz. Primate
of Mexico, celebrated Mass. He
was assisted by Archbishop Fran
cisco Oroszcoy Jiminez, whose first
appearance in public after his se
clusion in the State of Jalisco
brought forth tumuluous applause.
Cries of “Long live the hero” and
“Long live the man who remained
at his post” were heard from the
great crowd outside the shrine.
While the Catholics of Mexico
were holding their celebrations.
President Portes Cil received a re
quest from the Governor of Vera
Cruz, leader of the anti-clerical
elements, asking permission to
stage a demonstration against the
Church at Vera Cruz. The presi
dent replied that although it was
not within his jurisdiction to de
cide such a request, he could not
give the desired permission since a
policy had been adopted which for
bid public demonstrations by either
side. '
The Most Rev. Pascual Diaz,
newly appointed Primate of All
Mexico, announced that other
churches will be re-opened a3
quickly as the government sur
render processes can be completed
and the priests returned to their
parishes. Because it is under re
pair. the National Cathedral will
not be/re-opened for the present.
Dispatches from San Luis Potosi,
where President Portes Gil is vaca
tioning, quote him as saying that
he will ont permit public demon
strations except those of thanks
giving in the churches.
The execution of Aristeo Pedroza,
reported by the War Department
to be a priest, was announced July
6th. He was captured at Arandas,
Jalisco, according to War Depart
ment dispatches, in a clash with
federal tropps.
Presentations of plays in local
theaters dealing with' the settle
ment of the religious controversy
and containing slighting references
to the government, brought an or
der from Dr. Jose Manual Puig,
head of the federal district govern
ment, prohibiting all plays dealing
with religious or political subjects.
A statement to the press, made
by Dr. Puig, said the plays had
caused agitation in certain politi
cal groups and had spread mis
understanding of the government
policy. Particular reference was
made to a play called “The Bells
are Ringing Again.”
Mexican Newspapers Rejoice
at Peace Prospects There
La Prensa: “Mutual unders end
ing, mutual good will, effective
patriotism, those are the factors
brought into action both on the
side of the chief of the nation as
on that of the representatives of
the Church to attain harmony.
“With this accomplished it is
now the turn of the Mexican peo
ple to appreciate the high action
of the government and support it
with equally great patriotism.
“A broad horizon of prosperity
opens to Mexico and it will be the
fault of the Mexicans if we do not
experience a renaissance in in
dustry, commerce and agriculture.
And now that a new sun rises and
a rainbow of peace spans our his
torical heavens. La Prensa con
gratulates the Mexican nation.”
El Universal: “With the govern
ment consolidated upon the bases
of material peace and the prestige
which the solution of the grave
religious conflict undoubtedly gives
it, and with the way open for the
Church, within the law, tj realize
its likewise elevated and worthy
mission, it can be said that a new
era is beginning for Mexico: a
new era of well being, of well
earned tranquility, of possible
economic—development. There is
much to be done and we Mexicans
must do it. "Without schisms which
divide and weaken the Mexican
family wi,h no other problems than
those which relate to material re
construction we can all in frratenal
unity work for the Improvement of
the present and security of the fu
ture.”
Excelsior: “The words of Portes
Gil as well as the brief phrases
that Archbishop Ruiz and Bishop
Diaz have addressed to the Mexi
can people erase all injuries and
dissipate even the shadow of the
slightest rancor. They close in an
absolute manner and if we were to
give free rein to our optimism we
should say also that it is forever;
they close a wound that has been
bleeding in the heart of the Mexi
can people eagerly desirous for
peace and concord, anxious to re
ceive spiritual balm that would
comfort and reanimate. There is
now a necessity as never before
that tolerance should deepen over
our institutions sheltering and cov
ering all the inhabitants of this
territory and opening the horizons
to the iight of hope with the rain
bow of the biblical promise.
“Blessed be this day in which
Providence extends us its hand and
shows us a full equivalent that we
had believed to be darkened for a
long time.
“The past with all its misfor
tunes has defini.ely gone. Let us
not meditate on it. Let us con
secrate ourselves to comply with
the duties of the present in order
to prepare for future recovery. Tol
erance and the concord as demon
strated by the government should
have compensation and that should
consist in respect and the con
sideration which we have won.
The government is the legitimate
government of the Republic, that
of all Mexicans without distinction
of creed or of political opinion and
as nothing is so necessary among
us as.the conservation of the prin
ciple of authority so that order
should not be disturbed we sincere
ly hold that this government will be
able to settle its problems without
obstacles or complications '*