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THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
FEBRUARY 1. 1930
CARDINAL HAYES IS
BACK IN NEW YORK!
Returns From “Ad Limina” j
Visit to Rome
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
NEW YORK. Jan. 21.—His Emi
nence. Patrick Cardinal Hayes. Arch
bishop of New York, returned home
January 21 from his “Ad Limina"
visit to Rome and a Mediterranean !
cruise. It was. he said, “the long
est time I have ever been away- from
home," and he was delighted to be
back. He plunged immediately into
the duties of his office as Archbishop
of New York.
Declaring, in an interview, that he
was “deeply interested” in the en
cyclical on education of His Holiness,
Pope Pius XI, Cardinal Hayes said he
did not know of this latest letter of
the Holy Fatner until he reached
Quarantine. “Even then,” he added,
"when I was.asked my opinion of it
I thought my interrogators were re
ferring to two of the last encyclicals,
copies of which the Holy Father gave
me himself when I was privileged to
have an audience with him.”
Cardinal Hayes told his interview
ers he was not prepared to say any
thing as to the text of the encyclical,
because he had not seen it.
“I will say however.” he continued,
“that the supreme court of the United
States, in the Oregon school case, a
few years ago. decided as to the right
of the parent to educate the child.
... It is a matter of ‘in loco par
ents. in the place of parents. Noth
ing can take away from the parents
the right to educate the child. Tttfe
Church is only calling attention to
that fact.
“The point in regard to the en
cyclicals is that they are addressed
to the whole worlo—at least to the
whole Catholic world. And the Holy
Father simply states to his own peo
ple this fundamental principle.
“After all this is an old thing. We
believe that the Catholic child should
go to a Catholic school.”
Asked his opinion of the five-power
naval conference in London. His
Eminence said:
"I feel from what I have seen that
the average man throughout the
world is in favor of universal peace
and that the last resort should be
war—and then only a defensive war.
We Catholics pray for peace in the
Holy Sacrifice of the Mass every day
in the year. The Holy Father has
written much about peace.”
Cardinal Hayes was in Rome when
Pope Pius XI left the Vatican to acle-
brate Mass in the Church of St. John
Lateran. He was in San Remo at
the time of the wedding of Crown
Prince Humbert of Italy and Princess
Marie Jose of Belgium,
Florida Priests Increase
Nearly 20 Per Cent in Year
Number of Parishes With
Resident Priests Grows
Nearly One-Third in Period
The splendid progress being made
by the Church in the Diocese of St.
Augustine under the leadership of
Bishop Barry is indicated by the fact
that from 1928 to 1929. in a period of
widespread economie depression
which did not spare Florida, the num
ber of secular priests increased from
forty-four to fifty-two, arid the num
ber of priests of religious orders from
thirty-four to forty-one; the number
of priests, therefore increased from
seventy-eight to ninety-three in one
year. In the same short period the
number of parishes with resident
priests increased from thirty-four to
forty-nine. The Catholic population
of the state, 51,014, was substantially
the same for both years. The Dio
cese of St. Augustine. 46.959, includes
all of Florida east of the Apalachicola
River. Trie figures are from the offi
cial Catholic Directory.
There are 18it women in religion
in tne Diocese, including novices ana
postulants. Twenty parishes have
parochial schools; the number of
schools is twenty-seven. There are
two homes for orphans and two hos
pitals in the Diocese.
The Jesuit Fathers conduct a school
at Tampa, and have parishes there
and at West Palm Beach, Key West
and Miami. The Benedictine Fathers
have an abbey and school, at St. Leo,
Pasco County, and labor also at New
Port Richey, St. Joseph and San An
tonio. The Josephite Fathers are at
Jacksonville and St. Augustine, the
Redemptorist Fathers at New Smyrna,
and the Saiesian Fathers at Ybor City,
West Tampa and the Italian Missions.
Orders of women in the Diocese
include the Sisters of St. Joseph at
St. Augustine, Jacksonville, Coral
Gables, Fernandina, Loretto, Miami,
Orlando, Elkton, South Jacksonville
and Ybor City; the Daughters of
Charity of St. Vincent de Paul at
Jacksonville; the Sisters of the Holy
Names of Jesus and Mary at Key
West and Tampa; Sisters of St. Do
minic at Miami Beach, Fort Lauder
dale, Fort Pierce and West Palm
Beach; Sisters of St. Benedict at St.
Leo, and Missionary Servants of the
Blessed Trinity at Tampa.
Savannah Auxiliary,
A.O.H., Plans Dinner
Will Observe Feast of St.
Brigid February 4th
(Special ot The Bulletin)
SAVANNAH. Ga. — The Ladies’
Auxiliary A. O. H.. held an unusually
large and enthusiastic meetirig on
Tuesday evening, January 7, at the
Catholic Club. Plans for the annual
banquet in honor of its patron saint,
St. Brigid, were discussed. The ban
quet will be held on Tuesday eve
ning, February 4, at the Hotel Sa
vannah. Mrs. J. J. Clancy is chair
man of arrangements with Mrs.
Claudia Gannon, Mrs. T. J. Dowling,
Mrs. F. H. Oliver. Mrs. Jennie Mur
phy, Mrs. James B. McDonald. Mrs.
J. H. Heagerty, Miss None Doolin,
Mrs. Thomas J. Davis, Mrs. J. J-
Fitzpatrick and Mrs. J. J. McGould-
rick assisting her. A large card party
was held Tuesday afternoon and eve
ning, January 21 at the Marist School
with Mrs. F. Hermans Oliver in
charge with a committee helping her.
One of the most interesting features
of the meeting was the announcement
by President Gannon that a degree
team is to s be formed to carry out
the ritualistic work of the order. The
I team will be formed at an early date
! and it is expected that by' the early I
fall everything will be ready to con
fer the degrees on a very large class.
It has been many years since this
ritual work has been done, and it is
a very beautiful, instructive cere
mony carrying with it an impressive
ness which is edifying.
The obligation of the order was
given to Mrs. A. D. Bergen and Mrs.
Jane Murden. Mrs. Charles Farrell
and Miss Mary Gannon were receiv
ed for membership and several for
mer members were reinstated to
membership. We award an attend
ance prize at each meeting and Mrs.
Mary F. Graham was the fortunate
member this month.
The officers of the division who
were elected at the December meet
ing were installed by county presi
dent, Mrs. T. J. Dowling. After the
installation a social hour was greatly
enjoyed during which refreshments
were served by Mrs. Wm. F. Benet
and Mrs. Joseph W. Mehrtens. Mrs.
Mary F. Graham contributed largely
to the enjoyment of the members by
rendering a very delightful musical
program.
VERY REV. DR. JAMES
NUNAN, VICAR-GENERAL
Very Rev. Janies Nunan, D. D.,
rector of the Cathedral of St.
Augustine and vicar-general of
the Diocese, is an alumnus of
Mungret College in Ireland, the
Alma Mater of Archbishop Cur
ley. Bishop Barry. Bishop Turner
and numerous other distinguish
ed American priests and prelates,
He is one of the most widely
known priests in the Southeast,
and respected especially for his
scholarsliip.
PRIEST IN OKLAHOMA
STARTS RADIO LECTURES
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla.—A new
series on the Church was begun here
tonight with the_broadcast of “Cath-
o’ic Radiofacts,” by the Rev. John J.
Walde, pastor of the Corpus Christi
Church and one of the pioneer users
of the radio for disseminating truth.
The topic was: “Will Baptism Save
Us?”
There will be siv lectures ‘in the
series to be given Wednesday eve
nings over Station KFJF. Lectures
to follow and their i~ates are* “Was
Christ Mere Man?” January 29; “Why
Catholics Venerate Mary,” February
5; “Is Youth Irreligious?” February
12; “How Old Are the Churches?”
February 19; “The" One True Church,”
February 26.£
i POPE HONORS HEAD
OF TEACHING ORDER
Receives Mother General of
Religious o.f Christian Edu
cation in Private Audience
ASHEVILLE, N. C. — On Friday.
December twenty-seventh, His Holi
ness, Pope Pius XI, received in spec
ial audience Reverend Mother De
chaille, Superior General of the Con
gregation of the Religious of Chris-
ian Education. The Mother House ol
the Congregation is in Tournai, Bel
gium, and among its branch houses
is St. Genevieve-of-the-Pines, in
Asheville, N. C. During the interview
His Holiness expressed'his deep grat
itude for t ie Spiritual Bouquet of
fered by this Congregation on the
occasion of His Golden Jubilee. He
inquired about the members and
works of the Congregation, relative
to which especially consoling and
encouraging were his words: "En
trusted to you is the most precious
treasure that could be entrusted to
any one—Christian Education!” In
uttering these words did His Holiness
perhaps have in mind the subject of
one of his future encyclicals? — or
| is it a mere coincidence that one of
I his future encyclicals issued a few
! weeks later is on “Christian Educa
tion?” His Holiness bestowed on
Reverend Mother Dechaille and on
all the members of the Congregation
a very special blessing.
During her stay in the Eternal City
Reverend Mother Dechaille visited
His Eminence, Cardinal Lepicier.
Protector of the Congregation of the
Religious ot Christian Education.. His
Eminence, who had spent some year
' in America, showed great interest
in the works of the Congregation in
the different countries, and particul-
larly happy was he to learn of the
apostolic la'oors of the Sisters of
Christian Education in the South
land.
While in Rome, Reverend Mother
Dechaille had the great honor and
happiness of assisting at the Holy
Sacrifice of the Mass offered at St.
Peter’s by His Holiness, Pope Pius
XI, in His Golden Jubilee; of being
present at the magnificent ceremo
ny of the Beatification of the 136
English Martyrs; and of attending
the ceremony of the Beatification of
the Scotch Jesuit, Father Jean Ogil-
vie.
The main purpose of Reverend
Mother Dechaille’s visit to Rome was
to deposit ‘ with the Sacred Congre
gation of Rites, as she had been
delegated, the account of the pro
ceedings relative to the introduction
of the cause of the Holy Founder of
the Congregation of the Religious of
Christian Education, Father Louis-
Marin LaFosse.
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In
St. Augustine
Where History Began on the American
Continent—
Where Grim Fortress and Palatial Hotel
Contrast the Past and the Present—
Where Florida Sunshine Brings Health and
Happiness—
Where Welcome Visitors From the Lands
of Snow and Sleet Find Rest and Recrea-
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tion Beneath the Blue Skies—
{There Stand Ready to Serve, in Any
Financial Capacity
The Banks of St. Augustine