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CARDINAL MERRY j ^Zd^TolT! National Weekly Broadcast i ARCHBISHOP RUIZ
DEL VALIS DEAD I ——— l of Catholic Hour Arranged ANSWERS CRITICS
Distinguished Prelate, Car
dinal at 38, Dies at 65. Held
Many Important Posts
(By N. C. W. C. News Service.'
ROME — The sudden death here,
February 26, from heart failure fol
lowing an operation for appendicitis,
of Raphael Cardinal Merry del Val
removed from the Sacred College of
Cardinals a member who was a for
mer Papal Secretary of State, Arch
priest of the Vatican Basilica, and
one of its most famous and colorful
figures.
His Eminence's death was entirely
unexpected. He was taken suddenly
ill with appendicitis the day before
His condition grew worse during the
night, and, on Wednesday, it was
thought necessary to operate. Pro
fessor Bastianelli performed the ope
ration, and, following it. the Cardi
nal rested comfortably until his heart
failed.
Cardinal Merry del Val was in his
sixty-fifth year and had been a Car
dinal for 26 years, having had the
unusual distinction of being elevated
to the Sacred College when only 38
years of age. He had been a Bishop
for 30 years. One description of Car
dinal Merry del Val published on the
occasion of the silver jubilee of his
elevation to the episcopacy in 1925,
declared him to be “Irish and Spanish
of blood, English by birth and educa
tion, cosmopolitan by office, and Ca
tholic in the deepest, truest and best
sense of the word.’’
CARDINAL HAYES
OPENS PROGRAM
National Council of Catholic
Men Secures Father Finn
of Paulists to Direct Music
(By N. C. W. C. News Service*
WASHINGTON, D. C.—Broadcast
ing of a weekly “Catholic Hour” over
a network of stations of the National
Broadcasting Company, for which the
National Council of Catholic Men has
been planning for the last several
months, was inaugurated from
WJZ. New York, at 6 p. m„ Eastern
Standard time, Sunday. March 2.
His Eminence Cardinal Hayes, in
a short address, then dedicated the
“hour” as a Catholic contribution to
the religious and spiritual life of
. America. The longer address that
inaugurated the Hour was then
given by the Rt. Rev. Joseph Scli-
rembs, Bishop of Cleveland and
Episcopal Chairman of the Lay Or
ganizations Department of the Na
tional Catholic Welfare Conference.
The programs will be presented
every Sunday from 6 to 7 p. m., East
ern Standard time, for at least a year.
„ , . ., OF MEXICAN PACT
President Appoints —
Kerney on Board! A P° stolic Delegate Recalls
That Agreement Was
Reached With Full Ap
proval of the Holy See
(By Telegraph to N. C. W. C. News
Service)
MEXICO CITY — His Excellency,
the Most Rev. Leopoldo Ruiz y
Flores, Apostolic Delegate to Mexico,
has just issued a statement in which
he answers two widely circulated
pamphlets which criticize in improp
er terms the arrangements made
for the resumption of worship in the
Catholic churches of the country,
and brands as insulting a discourse
circulated here, which is alleged to
have been written by a Mexican
prelate immediately following an au
dience with the Pope, and to have
been read at Louvain.
Raphael Merry del Val was born in
London, October 10, 1865. His father,
Don Raphael Marquis Merry del Val,
was at that time secretary to the
Spanish Embassy to the Court of St.
James, where the Cardinal’s brother,
Don Alfonso Merry del Val, served
in later years as Ambassador. The
Cardinal’s father subsequently be
came Spanish Ambassador to Austria,
and to the Holy See. The family
is one of the oldest in Spanish aris
tocracy and traces back its ancestry
for several hundred years.
After studying at ' Baylis House, j
Slough, Raphael del Val entered the
Jesuit College of St. Michael at Brus
sels, and later studied at Ushaw.
Completing the latter course, he was
selected by the court of Madrid to
be private tutor to King Alfonso
XIII. .
When his father- was named Am
bassador to the Holy See, Raphael ac
companied him to Rome. He was ad
mitted to the Academia dei Nobili
Ecclesiastiei, in Rome, in 18G6, and
was ordained to the priesthood on
October 30, 1888. In the preceding
year, however, he was sent to Lon
don, in the suite of Msgr. Ruffo
Scilla who presented the felicitations
of Pope Leo XIII, on the occasion
of the golden,jubilee of Queen Vic
toria. In March of 1888, he went to
Berlin with Msgr. Galimberti, to as
sist at the funeral of William I, and to
congratulate the new Emporor. In
November of the same year, he was
sent by the Holy Father to Vienna,
to present a gift to the Emperor
Francis Joseph.
Tire Rt. Rev. Aurelius Stehle, O. S.
B., Archabbot of the famous St.
Vincent Archabbey, Latrobe, Pa.,
and Chancellor of the Catholic Uni
versity of Peking, China, who died
recently at Pittsburg, Pa.
Nun and 9 Children
Lose Lives in Fire
Five Other Sisters Injured in
Manitoba Disaster
On January 1, 1892, Pope Leo XIII
nominated Father Merry del Val
Cameriere Segreto particepante. and,
in June, 1893, sent him as Pontifical
delegate, to present the red hat to
Cardinal Schlauch. In 1896. the Pope
entrusted to him the office of Secreta
ry of the Commission for the study
of the Validity of the Anglican Ordi
nations, and, in the following year,
named the young priest Domestic
Prelate.
In the early years of his priest
hood. it is said, Monsignor Merry del
Val displayed the qualities of a great
prffacher, and was well known
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THE PAS, Man.—Sister Margaret,
superior of the Cross Lake Indian
School, an isolated outpost, died with
nine of her charges in a lire that de
stroyed the school February 20, ac
cording to advices received here.
The superior died in a vain attempt
to lead the Indian girls, none of them
over nine years of age, from the
school. Sister Jeanne Deschantel was
seriously injured in a leap from the
second floor.
As soon as word of the tragedy was
received here, plans were made to
rush aid to the scene. The Rt. Rev.
Bishop Ovide Charlebois, O. M. L.,
Vicar Apostolic of Keewatin, prepar
ed to leave in an airplane, and an
other plane was made ready and dis
patched immediately, to bring out the
injured.
The fire was discovered about
three o’clock in the morning by the
Sister Superior, who awakened the
other nuns. All of thjm fought their
way throught the smoke to the dor-
1 mitory, where the little girls were
sleeping.
The superior remained behind with
the children, handing them out lo the
sisters waiting outside. When all but
nine of the children had been rescued,
a wall of flame shot up between the
sisters outside, and the superior, and
they were unable to get through to
her to bring her out.
News of the fire was first bi-ought
here by a man who drove fifty miles
through severe weather from Cross
Lake. The fire, the man believed, be
gan in the third floor of the school,
a brick structure built In 1914. The
cause has not been determined.
Damage to the building was esti
mated at $200,000.
The Rev. William J. Finn. C. S. P..
director ef the Paulist Choir of New
York, so widely known .to radio
audiences, has been appointed to di
rect the musical program. He will
have as one of his counselors the Rev.
William J. DesLongchamps. an
authority on Gregorian chant and
other forms of ecclesiastical music.
The Rev. Karl J. Alter. Director of
the National Catholic School of So
cial Service, Washington. D. C., is in
charge of the talks. Mr. Grattan
Kerans, a member of the staff at the
headquarters of the N. C. C. M., in
Washington, lias been chosen direc
tor of programs.
James Kerney, a distinguished
Catholic and publisher of Tren
ton, N. J., who has been named by
President Hoover to the commis
sion appointed to inquire into
conditions in Haiti. Mr. Kerpey is
author of “The Political Educa
tion of Woodrow Wilson,” a high
ly praised work.
A Finance Committee has been
created to supervise the disbursement
of funds contributed for the weekly
broadcasts. Major General Frank Mc
Intyre. U. S. Army, retired, of Wash
ington. is chairman, and Orio R.
Kelly, Vice-President of the American
Trust Company. New York, is
treasurer of the committee. The third
member, Charles P. Neill, of Wash
ington, is secretary.
A fund of $30,000 has already been
subscribed toward the expense of the
■weekly programs, but thus is not
deemed sufficient for their continu
ance for the remainder of this year.
An additional $25,000 will be neces
sary, and this will be sought. It is
the plan of the N. C. C. M„ hereafter
to raise $50,000 annually for this work.
Noted British Soldier
Dies a Catholic
Lieut.-Col. McKay Was
Winner of Victoria Cross
The talks to be included in the pro
grams -will be given by priests noted
for their scholarship and their elo
quence, and by laymen of distinc
tion. «A wide range of Catholic sub
jects, but all of them of religious or
cultural import, will be discussed by
(Continued on Page 11)
Knights of Columbus
Support Radio Hour
Supreme Knight Assures
Bishop Schrembs of
Order’s Assistance
Bishop, Two Priests, Three
Nuns Murdered in China
(By N. C. W. C. News Service.)
LONDON—The Salesian Bishop,
Msgr., Versiglia, Father Caravario
and three Chinese nuns, who were
captured by Communistic bandits
February 26th, have been killed, ac
cording to a Hong Kong dispatch re
ceived there.
The bandits, the dispatch relates,
attacked a boat on which the mis
sionary party was traveling at
Suipin. After an initial demand for
$500, which was refused, the brigands
fought the boat crew and others in
a successful attempt to carry off the
Bishop, priest and Sisters.
The party was taken into the
mountains, according to the dispatch,
and here murdered. Two other
priests who went to the stronghold
of the bandits in an effort to obtain
the freedom of the five mission work
ers were too late to save them.
The party was visiting missions in
Yinktak Distdict when the bandits
attacked it. Several Chinese Chris-
tions are reported also to have been
captured, but their fate has not been
learned.
born in Piedmont, Italy, nearly sixty
years ago. He was ordained in 1894
and became a Bishop in 1920, when he
was placed in charge of the Vicariate
Apostolic at Shiuchow, China.
The Bishop first went to China in
1905 as a priest. He founded the first
Salesian mission in the country, and
established many other works, most
of them for the benefit of Chinese
children. The difficulties that faced
him were tremendous, but he over
came them with great success, as is
attested by the fact that there are
now more than 100 Salcsians in China
caring for the spiritual needs of 40,000
Christians in schools and missions.
Bishop Versiglia also established the ^ the J
riTvIm- nf rhmo« bus will subscribe $5,000 to be paid
NEW YORK—Bishop Versiglia was
Order of Chinese Salesian Sisters.
The Bishop studied at the
Gregorian Universiy in Rome, and
entered the Salesiau Order in Turin.
Early in 1926 he came to this coun
try and established headquarters at
the Salesian Church of the Trans
figuration. in Mott Street, Chinatown,
where he delivered a series of lec
tures, some of them in Chinese. After
a year a critical situation in China
called for his presence there and he
returned.
• By N. C. W. C. News Service)
CLEVELAND, Ohio—-The letter of
Martin H. Carmody, Supreme Knight
of the Knights of Columbus, to the
Rt. Rev. Joseph Schfembs. Bishop of
Cleveland and Episcopal Chairman of
the N. C. C. M. Department of Lay
Organizations, assuring the generous
subscription of the Knights to the
fund for a nation-wide radio broad
cast under the auspices of the Na
tional Council of Catholic Men, is as
follows:
“It was a pleasure indeed to receive
Your Lordship’s kind letter of Feb
ruary 8, explaining further the work
to be undertaken by the National
Council of Catholic Men under your
direction in broadcasting the Relig
ious Hour. Especially do I appreciate
Your Lordship’s gracious expression
of commendation for the work of the
Knights of Columbus.
“While the Supreme Board of Di
rectors will not meet again until
early in April, I feel no hesitancy in
giving assurance of the whole-heart
ed support of that body to the splen
did work contemplated, and, accord
ingly, am happy to advise Your
Lordship that the Knights of Colum
LONDON — It is just revealed that
shortly before Lieut.-Col. John F. Mc-
' Kay, famous British soldier and win
ner of the Victoria Cross, died at
Nice the other day he became a Ca
tholic. News of his death was given
prominence in the daily press here,
but the fact of his conversion is made
known for the first time in a letter
received by a Catholic paper from
the soldier’s widow.
Col. MacKay had a remarkable mil
itary career and was the only officer
entitled to wear ribbons of medals
awarded for the Dargai. South Afri
can, Nigerian and World War cam
paigns, besides the Victoria Cross.
For thirteen years ly suffered from
serious wounds received in the world
war. Since last August he underwent
four operations. Before he died he
said he wanted his friends to know
that his conversion was an act of
thanksgiving to God for his recovery
from his fourth operation, and was
not a “deathbed conversion.”
Col. MacKay’s wife is a Catholic.
She has received letters of sympathy
in her bereavement from, among
others, the Princess Louise and the
Duke of Connaught.
CATHOLIC IS KNIGHTED
BOMBAY—(N. C. W. C„ Fides)—
Bombay’s Police Commisioner, Sir
Patrick A. Kelly, knighted by King
George in the New Year Honors List,
is a practicing Catholic and active
worker for the Church. On one occa
sion under Archbishop Goodier he
headed the annual Catholic Charities
fete.
The Delegate’s statement declares
the Holy Father was perfectly in
formed of all negotiations and” that
the arrangements for the resumption
of worship had his anyroval before
they were signed by the representa
tives of the Catholic Hierarchy.
These not in agreement with the
settlement, or with the rules which
the statement itself sets forth, have
the right, His Excellency states,
to have recourse lo the Holy Seee,
but they have not the right to sow
discord and distrust, thereby under
mining the respect and obedience
that is due to authority. Ihc Dele
gate hopes that his statement may
be an “antidote to the murmurings
and calumnies or the discontented.”
The statement in part is as fol
lows:
“Two pamphlets have recently ap
peared, one of which has the title
The Religious Settlement, and is
published under the pseudonym of
Arquimedes, and the other has the
title Grand Offertory of Opinions
and Hopes for a Sacrifice, by J.
Leopoldo Galvez, priest. These
pamphlets are written from a point
of view which, in appearance, is
Catholic, but in reality is undiscip
lined and criticizes in improper
terms the arrangement for the re
sumption of worship in the temples.
Hie competent one to judge the
licitness and convenience of these
arrangements was and is the Supreme
Pontiff. Armed defense could not
deprive him of his right to seek a
peaceful solution of the conflict,
even though to that end there would
be necessary both tolerance and
compromise, so long as principles
and conscience were safeguarded. It
is very easy to draw caricatures
and make persons say things which
are contrary to what they have said,
but such conduct is neither chari
table nor licit in a matter of such
transcendent importance involving
the faith and the discipline of the
Church. No one, therefore, either
of the faithful or of the clergy has
authority to pronounce judgment oil
the actions of the supreme authority
of the Church in these matters.
“We consider truly to be harmful -
these pamphlets published illicitly,
without permission of ecclesiastical
authority and distributed illicitly, or
read by the Catholics. Following
these pamphlets there has appeared
a discourse credited to a Mexican
prelate which is said to have been
read at Louvain, and it is stated al
together maliciously that this dis
course was written immediately af
ter the author had had an audience
with the Holy Father. We considei
the discourse, no matter who may
be the author, an insult to both
civil and ecclesiastical authority 7 .”
Tiger Claws Priest From
U. S. on Mission in India
at^ the late of $500 per month.
“As slated in my previous letter,
this action has already received the
unanimous endorsement of the Su
preme officers. However, before be
ginning the payment it must be of
ficially acted upon by the Supreme
Board of Directors.
“With the assurance of my pro
found esteem, I am, sincerely and
fraternally yours.
“MARTIN H. CARMODY.
“Supreme Knight.”
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
WASHINGTON.-How an American
Catholic missionary in India, seeking
to protect his native parishioners from
the attack of an infuriated Bengal
tiger, engaged the beast bare-handed
in a desperate struggle, has just be
come known herewith the receipt of
word that the missionary, who was
seriously injured in the encounter,
has completely recovered from his
wounds.
The missionary is Rev. Christopher
Brooks, C. S. C., whose home is in
Watertown, Wis., but who has been
stationed in India for nearly 10 y 7 ears.
His mother still lives in Wisconsin,
and a brother, the Rev. Peter A.
Brooks, S. J., is stationed at St. Louis
University, St. Louis. Mo.
On January 3, last. Father Brooks
and his assistants were working, in
the Church of the Little Flower at
their station. Suddenly, they 7 were
disturbed by a great commotion in
the little clearing outside the church,
and, rushing out. heard tne natives
shouting excitedly that a tiger had
been seen in the rice fields nearby.
There being no time to return to
his quarters for a rifle. Father Brooks
and a native priest, Father Anthony
Gomez, C. S. C., his assistant, and
Brother Bede, C. S. C.. an American,
started at once into the rice fields.
The tiger leaped from the rice, and.
striking one of the native men. The
beast made for Father Gomez, but
the native priest narrowly 7 escaped the
onslaught of the animal.
The tiger then fell upon an old
Christian native, an’, knocking him
to the ground, began to claw him.
Father Brooks, seizing a spear from
a man standing nearby, sought to
wound the animal in a vital spot. The
attempt was unsuccessful, and the
animal, transferring his attention to
Father Brooks, knocked him to the
ground and began to tear at his chest
and arms.
Brother Bede, seizing a gun Lam a
native standing nearby, who, though
possessing the rifle, was too fright
ened to use it, shot the beast through
the head, killing it instantly.
Father Brooks is a graduate of
the University of Notre Dame. Ind..
and received the degree of Doctor
of Philosophy at the Gregorian Uni
versity. in Rome. Returning from
Rome, he studied for three years at
Holy Cross College, in this city, where
he was ordained to the priesthood.