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AUGUSTA, GA., NOVEMBER 23, 1929
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MOBILE DIOCESE OBSERVES CENTENNIAL
Three Archbishops, Many
Bishops Present at Jubilee
Archbishops Curley, Glenno n and Hanna Deliver Notable
Addresses. Laity of Dioce se Present Bishop Toolen
Purse of $472,000 for Diocesan Institution
DEDICATE NEW ST,
MARY'S SEMINARY
Papal Delegate, Four Arch
bishops and Fifty Bishops
at Baltimore Ceremony
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
BALTIMORE — Dedication of the
new Saint Mary’s Seminary, this city,
November 5, was the occasion for a
religious and civic demonstration the
like of which seldom has been seen
in this country.
Four archbishops, fifty bishops, 36
monsignors, a score and more of
domestic prelates, hundreds of priests
and more than 1,000 boys and young
men who are studying for the priest
hood were present, as were about 4,-
000 of the laity.
His Excellency, the Most Rev.
Pietro Fumasoni-Biondi, Apostolic
Delegate to the United States, repre
sented the Pope at the dedication and
conveyed from the Holy Father a
f jecial message of appreciation to the
ulpician Fathers of Saint Mary’s
and other seminaries, to Archbishop
Curley and to the priests and people
of the Archdiocese of Baltimore.
This message, which was delivered
by His Excellency at the banquet
held in the commodious and beauti
ful refectory of the Seminary on
Tuesday night, was in addition to a
special cablegram ■ sent by the Holy
Father to the Rev. Dr. John F. Fen-
Ion. S. S., president of the Seminary
and provincial of the Sulpician
Fathers in the United States.
His Excellency, M. Paul Claudel,
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demaMansom for
AMERICAN PRIEST
Chinese Bandits Capture
Franciscan Missionary,
Native of Michigan
CINCINNATI, O. — The Very Rev.
Urban Freundt, O. F. M., Provincial,
has received the following cable
gram from Rt. Rev, Sylvester Espe-
lage, Prefect Apostolic of the Wu
chang Prefecture of the • Wuchang,
Hupeh Province: “Communists cap
tured Ulric yesterday. Want ran -
som.”
A few hours later, the secretary of
state, Henry L. Stimson, sent a tele
gram. giving a little more detail
about the capture. His wire reads:
“In a telegram just received here,
the American consul at Hankow,
China, states that the Rev. Mathias
(Ulric) Kreutzen, home Calmet,
Mich., was cautured by bandits at
Weiyuenkow, below Hankow, No
vember 8, and that a ransom of ten
thousand dollars is being demanded.
The consul states that he has in
formed the legation at Peiping and
has taken up the case with Chinese
authorities.”
Later bulletins declare that the
bandits threatened to torture and
kill Father Kreutzen unless the ran
som was forthcoming within four
days. He also has been taken up the
Yagntze River, it was reported.
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
MOBILE. Ala.—Three days of re
ligious and civic celebration of the
hundredth anniversary of the found
ing of the Diocese of Mobile began
here November 10, with many pre
lates; priests and Catholic laymen
attending.
The ceremonies, under the leader
ship of the Rt. Rev. Thomas J. Tool
en, D. D., Bishop of Mobile, began
shortly before eleven o’clock when
attending Archbishops and Bishops,
followed by a great concourse of lay
men, marched through the city to the
Cathedral of the Immaculate Con
ception.
Bishop Toolen pontificated at a sol
emn high Mass in the Cathedral, at
which the Most Rev. John J. Glen-
non, Archbishop of St. Louis, de
livered the sermon. An augmented
MEXICAN CHURCHES
TO BE RETURNED
Decree Orders Restoration
of Catholic Edifices
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
MEXICO CITY. — Another circu
lar ordering schismatics to turn over
churches still in their possession to
Catholic priests has been issued by
the Secretary of Gobernacion. The
secretary’s action is intended, it is
belived, to impress upon the few in
surgents who did not relinquish
churches when the reconciliation
was effected that it is the govern
ment’s wish that the Catholic Church
be given control of all its buildings.
The circular, sent to all governors
of states, orders them to proceed
without delay in turning the churches
over. The only schismatics permit
ted to retain possession of churches,
the order makes clear, are those
who were in possession before the
outbreak of the religious conflict;
and inasmuch as none of the
churches was in schismatic posses
sion at that time, the ruling is ab
solute in relieving them of their
present buildings.
The order to relinquish churches
was first issued immediately after
the reconciliation between the
church and state last June. Several
of the governers who were not in
sympathy with the agreement, how
ever, proved rebelious and refused
to oust the schismatics holding Cath
olic churches in their states. The re
sult in other orders, and, in one in
stance at Vera Cruz. _ it became
necessary for the Secretary of the
Gobernacion to send an agent into
the state to seize and return the
buildings to the church.
choir of 75 singers, under direction of
the Rev. Manuel Campodonico, of
Warrington, FTfr., sang the Mass.
Simultaneously with the Mass in
the Cathedral, another solemn Mass
was sung in the garden of St. Mary's
orphanage opposite tire Cathedral.
The Rt. Rev. Patrick Barry, D. D.,
Bishop of St. Augustine, Fla., cele
brated it, and the sermon of Arch
bishop Glennon was carried to those
attending by a loud-speaker system.
The second Mass was arranged when
it was found that a great number
of persons attending the opening
. .ass would be unable to find places
in the Cathedral.
Luncheon was served to the visit-
AUSTRALIA'S NEW
PREMIER CATHOLIC
Born There 53 Years Ago.
He Is of Irish Stock
(By N. C. W. C. News Service.)
CANBERRA—John Henry Scullin,
newly-elected Prime Minister of Aus
tralia, won his first oratorical laurels
in debates sponsored by the Catholic
Young Men’s Society of Ballarat. His
name has been identified with every
Catholic manifestation or develop
ment of recent years, and he is
equally famous as labor leader, jour
nalist, member of parliament and
defender of Catholic schools.
Mr. Scullin’s rise to power coin
cides with that of the Federal Labor
Party. His ministry will have the
support of a substantial majority in
the House of Representatives.
Although born in Australia 53 years
ago, the new premier comes of Irish
stock originally from Tipperary
and Clare counties. The Rev. Donal
A. Reidy, for a number of years resi
dent in Australia, prepared a special
article on “Jim” Scullin for The
Standard, of Dublin, in which he
presents him as the “A” Smith of
Australia. He calls him “a model of
civic virtue and an ideal type of
Catholic layman.”
Roosevelt Sends Son
to Catholic Academy
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
SAN JUAN, P. K.—Quentin Roose
velt, 10. son of Governor Theodore
Roosevelt, is entering San Augustin
Military Academy, a Catholic school
directed by the Rev. Eugene Bren
nan.
Governor Roosevelt, speaking of
his reasons for entering the boy in
the school, said he believed be would
-more quickly loam Spanish by asso
ciation with Porto Rico boys.
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ELECTED BY N. C. W. C.
The Most Rev. John T. McNichoIas,
O. P„ Archbishop of Cincinnati who
has been elected a member of the Ad
ministrative Committee of the Na
tional Catholic Welfare Conference,
to succeed the Most Rev. Austin
Dowling, Archbishop of St. Paul, who
resigned because of ill health.
NEW ORLEANS HOST
TO CHARITIES BODY
Conference Urges Wage
Control, Not Birth Control,
as Poverty’s Solution
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
NEW ORLEANS—(Bringing to a
close the five-day convention of the
National Catholic Charities Confer
ence, at which virtually every press
ing social problemof the modern day
was studied and discussed, the Most
Rev. Edward J. Hanna, Archbishop
of San Francisco, declared at the final
session that with the development
of lay activity in the welfare field,
“American charity today has been
made the greatest miracle of the
age.”
Nuns representing various charit
able orders joined the general ses
sions this year for the first time.
It was decided to hold next year’s
convention in Washington, D. C.
The convention was productive of
much pertinent discussion on modern
social evils, and many suggestions on
their rectification. Among the prin
cipal topics on which surveys were
reported were birth control, wages
and family life, mothers’ pensions,
desertion and non-support, child care
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Father Kretutzen was born at
Calumet, Mich., forty years ago. Af- j
ter attending parochial school in j
that city, he entered St. Francis
Seminary, Cincinnati, and pursued
the regular course of studies in the
Franc : scan schools until he was or
dained by Bishop Chartrand at Old-
denburg. Ind., June 5. 1915.
A zealous priest, he worked in the
states of Kansas, Illinois and Michi
gan before he departed for the
Franciscan Missions in the Hupeh
Province of China. Immediately ud-
on his arrival in China on April 16,
1923, he began teaching at the Cath
olic College at Wuchang. From 1921
to 1925 he was pastor of the foreign
population at Hankow and Procura
tor of the Wuchang Prefecture. In
September of 1925. he took charge of
the mission at Tia-ping-kiao. Un-
doubtedlv he was on a missionary
trip to Weiyuenkow when taken by
the bandits.
There are ten priests and two
brothers from Cincinnati working
with Father Ulric in the Chinese
Mission. They have charge of the
Province of Hupeh. Monsignor Es-
pelage, O. F. M„ is Prefect Aposto
lic of the mission field.
WASHINGTON, D. C.-Fides Serv
ice reports from Rome the death of
a native priest and the capture of
four priests and nine Sisters be
longing to the German Dominicans,
of Fukien, China. The captures are
said to have occurred in the Vicar
iate of Lachokow. Among the pris
oners is believed to be the Rev. W.
M. Wolff, Vicar Provincial of the
mission of Tingchow. Fukien.
Adm. Benson s Savannah Radio Address
America has set a noble example
to all the world for the last hundred
and fifty years. Her form of gov
ernment and her political institu
tions have served as the model for
some twenty nations in the Western
Hemisphere. Not always has the emu
lation of her example been success
ful. but every approach to her ideals
and her system has been a gain. She
has spread the doctrine of demo
cracy to the four corners of the
earth. Her great experiment in pop
ular government has profited all
mankind. So long as America re
mains true to her principles and tra
ditions she will continue to be what
she has been upwards of a century
—an inspiration and a stimulus to
all human progress. The overthrow
of a single institution or the sacri
fice of a single ideal that America
has fostered for the benefit of her
own people would be a loss to every
other people.
Of all the glories of America, her
religious and civil liberty is the
greatest and most precious. Without
that there would be and could be no
true equality among her citizens, no
just and even administration of our
laws. Whatever her wealth and pow
er and material greatness might be,
America could not forget or forsake
her principle of freedom of con
science without at the same time for
feiting her chief claim to the admira
tion and affection of her own people
and doing a detriment to all othes.
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The accompanying address was
delivered by Admiral William S.
Benson, U. S. N., Retired, Chief
of Naval Operations during the
World War, ever WTOC at the
De Soto Hotel, Savannah, at the
invitation of the Savannah Board
of Trade. We are informed that
Admiral Benson was the first
speaker to broadcast an address
from the studio of WTOC, which
was established not long before
the recent convention of the
Cathclic Laymen’s Association of
Georgia at Savannah, at which
Admiral Benson was the princi
pal lay speaker. This address is
similar to the one Admiral Ben
son delivered at the convention
the same day.
We who have this blessing of
religious liberty have also the duty
of preserving it. We are the trus
tees of a great treasure which we
must transmit, safe and unimpaired,
to the generations that are to follow
us. We must do nothing and permit
nothing that will deprive our pos
terity of the boon which ti.e found
ers of this republic purchased for us
at a great price. We must resist
every temptation and avoid every
provocation to surrender or abridge
this guarantee of the right of cur
citizens of every faith to worship
God as their consciences may coun
sel them. In a great and complex
population like ours, whose creed
would be preferred? Whose right
would be paramount? All creeds
are safe when all are equal before
the law, none would be safe without
that equality. For once a particular
religious faith were preferred all
others must necessarily be proscrib
ed, and if it is mine that is outlawed
today, who would say that his might
not be oppressed tomorrow?
It is one of the inconsistencies of
those who are fomenting religious
prejudices in the United States that
they justify their bigotry as a cru
sade to separate church and state, or
to insure the separation of church
and state. There is, of course, no
union of the church and state in
this country, and let us hope there
never will be. The only danger of
such a union lies in the effort to dis
criminate between one creed and
another; for the very legislation and
enforcement of such an attempt
would compel the state to prescribe
which faith was to be recognized by
law and which was to be condemned
by law. That would result in the
very partnership of church and state
these zealots feign to fear.
The men who built this republic
with religious liberty as one of the
corner-stones of her foundation had
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BISHOPS VOTE GIFT
TO POPE ON JUBILEE
Annual Conference of Hier
archy Thus Plans to Mark
Anniversary. Bishop Walsh
Elected a Secretary
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
WASHINGTON. D. C. — A 550,009
present is to be the offering of Am
erican Catholics to Pope Pius XI in
recognition of his fiftieth year in the
Catholic priesthood.
Such a gift was decided upon by
the Bishops of the National Catholic
Welfare Conference at their annual
meeting here November 6 and 7 at
the Catholic University of America.
The 550,000 is to come in the form
of donations from all the Catholic
dioceses of the country. The exact
use to which it is to be put is as yet
undetermined, but two ieading sug
gestions were made at the Bishops*
Meeting. One was that the sunt be
devoted to the fitting up and equip
ping of a special room in the great
Vatican Library in Rome, so dear to
the heart of the Pontiff since the
days when he was a librarian. The
other was that the money be given
to His Holiness to be used as burses
in such seminaries as he may choose,
for the education of priests for the
missions, in which the present Holy
Father also is intensely interested.
His Eminence George Cardinal
Mundelein, Archishop of Chicago, was
(Continued on Page Five)
EXTENllONSOCiETY
SEEKS ENDOWMENT
Annual Meeting Plans to
Secure Silver Jubilee Fund
of One Million Dollars
(By N. C. W. C. News Service.)
_ CHICAGO, 111. — Three Arch
bishops, 21 Bishops and more than 50
of the most prominent members of
the clergy and laity throughout the
country attended the twenty-fourth
annual meeting of The Catholic
Church Extension Society here No
vember 13th.. when the Rt. Rev.
Msgr. William D. O’Brien, president
of the society, reported that the total
receipts for the fiscal year ending
September 30th, last, amounted to
$1,662,065.26.
His Eminence, George Cardinal
Mundelein, Archbishop of Chicago
and chairman ofthe Board of Gover
nors of the Society, presided.
Disbursements, amounting to $814,-
577.05, according to the auditor’s re
port, were made by officials of the
society at an expenditure of two
and one-third per cent, of the funds
received. This, it was pointed out, is
a percentage of operation that is
far lower than that of any other
charitable organization of its kind in
the world.
The twenty-fifth fiscal year of The
Catholic Church Extension Society
began October 1st, last, and the presi
dent, with the approval of the
Hierarchy, proposed to the Board o£
Governors a plan for raising $1,000,«•
000 for the endowment of the Ex
tension Society during its silver jubi
lee year. The plan offered by the
president is as follows:
Ten thousand Catholics to give
$25 each, thereby raising $250,000; 25,«
000 Catholics to give $10 each, thereby
raising $250,000; 50,000 Catholics to
give $5 each, thereby raising $250,000,
and 250,00 Catholics to give $1 each,
thereby raising $250,000.
The annual interest on this fund,
it was pointed out, would supply al
tars, stations of the cross, vestments;
altar linens and altar plate, such as
chalices, ciboria and ostensoria, to
hundreds of poor missions each year,
besides paying the annual expenses
of. the society, such as rent, salaries
and current expenses.
Endowment Funds, the total re
ceipts from which amounted to $179,-
580.25 during the year, were credited
Monsignor O’Brien said, to any of
the following six funds for which
they were given:
Mission Students' Endowment
Fund, Mission. Priests’ Endowment
Fund, Mission Schools’ Endowment
Fund, Mission Community Endow
ment Fund, Mission Church Endow
ment Fund and Mission Society En
dowment Fund.
Interest on the Mission Church En
dowment Fund, since its inauguration
a few years ago, has made possibl*
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