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THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC L AYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
March 8,1930
CHARLESTON TO HAVE!
MORE NEW SCHOOLS
Building Permits Granted for j
Sacred Heart and Colored j
Parochial Schools There
(Special to The Bulletin)
CHARLESTON, S. C.—Charleston is
to have two move new parochial
schools, according to recent an
nouncements; permits have been
granted for the erection of a new
school in Sacred Heart parish. Rev.
John J. Hughes, pastor, and for an
other in St. Peter’s parish. Rev. Wm.
J. Long, pastor, tire latter to accom
modate the colored Catholic child
ren of the city. The plans were pre
pared by Rev. Father Michael. O. S.
B.. of Belmont Abbey, N. C.. who re
cently drew the plans for the new St.
Patrick’s parish school, Rev. Jos. L.
O'Brien, pastor.
The Sacred Heart parish school
rooms, and will accommodate the
will contain four classrooms and other
children of the parish until they fin
ish the fourth grade, after which they
will attend Sacred Heart School. It
will be of fireproof construction. The
colored school will contain fourteen
classrooms, brick-faced, two stories in
height. 150 by 60 feet, fireproof con
struction, and will cost in the neigh
borhood of $90,000. All three new
schools wlil be ready for occupancy
in September, according to present
plans.' *
BISHOP ENGLAND HIGH
INVITED TO TOURNAMENT
Bishop England High School Bas
ketball Team has received an invita
tion to participate in the Loyola
University Basketball Tournament in
Chicago, March 19-23, and Rev. Joseph
L. O’Brien, principal of the high
school announces it will accept. The
Bishop England five was similarly
honored last year and made a splen
did showing at the tournament.
The team has won all its out of town
games, losing only to the Charleston
High School Bantams.
The girls’ team of Bishop England
High has won the cup offered by the
Council of Catholic Women by de
feating Our Lady of Mercy Academy
15 to 11 in a well-played game.
The Catholic Young Men’s Associa
tion’s basketball five is making a
splendid record, and is a powerful
contender for the championship of the
City Basketball League.
Rev. Wm. G. Mulvihill was the
principal speaker at the February
meeting of the St. Patrick’s P.-T. A.
Mrs. Edward Powers presided.
The Holy Name Society of Our
Lady of Mercy Church sponsored a
Valentine party February 14 in the
parish half. Claude Escoffier was
chairman.
M. A. McLaughlin, deputy grand
knight of P. N. Lynch Council,
Knights of Columbus, and professor
of public speaking in the College of
Charleston, is director of the college
debating team which recently de
feated the debating team from the
University of Pittsburgh here. The
Charleston debaters supported the ne
gative of the question: Resolved: That
inode an advertising is more detrimen
tal than beneficial to modern so
ciety.
Rev. Henry Wolfe delivered the
principal address at the February
meeting of the Cathedral School P.-
T. A. Mrs. J. T. Reynolds presided.
Tire Holy Name Society of St. Pat
rick’s parish sponsored a social even
ing at the parish hall February 25.
Dr. Joseph I. Waring addressed the
February meeting of the St. Frances
Xavier Infirmary Training School
Alumnae on “Th Importance of Vita-
mine B in Child Hygiene.”
The Council of Catholic Women will
sponsor a spring fashion show at
Hibernian Hall soon, according to an
announcement recently made.
Mrs. James F. Condon presided at
the February meeting of the Ladies’
Auxiliary, A. O. H., at which a social
program was featured.
The Jurtior Sodality of the Cathe
dral entertained March 3 with a
bridge supper; Miss Mary Bremer
was chairman.
The February meeting of the St.
Anne’s Sewing Circle of Sacred Heart
Church was held at the home of Mrs.
W. B. Keenan.
Pray for Our Dead
W. C. Kennerty, prominent Char
leston County planter and business
man, and vestryman of St. Mary’s
Church, who died after a short ill
ness. He was forty-seven years old
and is survived by his wife, two chil
dren. two brothers and two sisters.
Capt. William G. Revel, 73. retir
ed tow-boat operator and prominent
member of Cathedral parish, from
which his funeral.was held.
Peter Conlin, 61, chief of janitors
at City Hall and a member of St.
Patrick’s parish, who died after a
short illness.
James William Hyer, 74, a member
of Sacred Heart Church and for many
vears connected with the Southern
Railway, who died after a short ill
ness.
FR. BRENNAN 'LECTURES
(Special to The Bulletin)
THOMASVILLE, Ga.-Rev. Thomas
A. Brennan of the Southwest Georgia
Missions delivered an illustrated lec
ture on “The Mass” at the mission
church here February 11. The lec
ture was splendidly attended and was
of great interest to those who heard
it.
Florida Holy Name _ Bishop Hafey Sends Labor
Many N„ t S5T coming to Encyclical to Ear oilmans
BISHOP TOOLEN IS
HOST TO WORKERS
Coral Gables
CORAL GABLES, Fla. — The annual
meting of the Holy Name Society of
the Diocese of St. Augustine will be
held here Sunday, and will be attend
ed by prelates and laymen of nation
al reputation- Father Comber of Cor
al Gables is arranging for the general
Communion which will feature the
convention; a breakfast wil be served
at the Coral Gables Country Club
imediately after the convention Mass,
which will be a field Mass. Judge
David J. Heffernan is in charge of the
lay details of the program. Speakers
scheduled include Senator David I.
Walsh of Massachusetts. Edward H.
Hurley of Chicago, formely chairman
of the Shipping Board, and Joseph
P. Tumulty, one-time secretary to
President Wilson.
TEXAS SENATOR ST.
PATRIGK'SSPEAKER
Senator Connally to Address
Savannah Hibernian
Society
(Special to The Bulletin)
SAVANNAH, Ga.—Senator Tom
Connally of Texas will deliver the
principal address at the 118th annual
dinner of the Hibernian Society
which will be held at the De Soto
Hotel St. Patrick’s Day, Hon. John
J. Bouhan, president, announces.
Senator Connally served in the
House of Representatives from the
G5th through the 70th Congresses
before being elected to the Senate;
he is regarded as one of the leading
orators of Congress.
The annual meeting of the Hi
bernian Society will be held the
morning of March 17. The customary
Mass at St. Patrick's Church will be
celebrated and the other time-hon
ored features of St. Patrick’s Day in
Savannah are also on the program.
Ground Broken for
Spring Hill Library
Grandchildren of Late Thos.
J. Byrne, Donor, Turn Soil
MOBILE, Ala.—Three little grand
children of Mrs. Nora Byrne, widow
of the late Thomas J. Bvme. on Feb
ruary 25th turned the sod at Spring
Hill College, with pick and shovel
in preparation for the actual con
struction of the Thomas Byrne Me
morial Library, a new unit to Greater
Spring Hill College as evisioned sev
eral years ago. The three children
were Mary Jane Byrne, Hugh Daly
Byrne and Thomas Byrne O’Donnell.
The ceremonies, led by Very Rev.
Father Joseph M. Walsh, 3 J., presi
dent of the century old institution,
began at three o’clock, when, attend
ed by two altar boys from the college
high school, he said the prayers of
the ceremony and blessed the ground.
Father Walsh in a brief address
thanked Mrs. Byrne for her gift to
the college and at tire same time re
leased the students from further
classes in commemoration of the day.
The donor was accompanied by Mrs.
Hyland, a sister, Mrs. Richard O’Don
nell, A daughter; Mr. Richard O’Don
nell and Paul Byrne, her son.
The new library will be erected at
a cost of $89,704. Construction is to
begin at once and it is expected it
will be completed by July. The
library will be a two-story structure
of brick, cast stone and stucco, with
a large marble stairway. It will be
built on classic lines and will include
faculty room, treasurer’s room and
study chamber, with monumental
lobby and. corridor.
Fake Priest Collects
Money in the South
MEMPHIS. Term.—Posing as the
Rev. Peter F. Oswald. S.V.D, a priest
of Techny, 111, an impostor has just
succeeded in victimizing the Rev.
Theodore Worm, O.F.M., of this city,
out of a sinn of money.
The swindler claims to be collect
ing funds for a Techny mission house,
at which Father Oswald is stationed.
Reports q£ the impostor’s thefts have
been received at the Techny house
from several sections of the country,
and Father Oswald, among others, is
eager to have the man’s activities
halted.
Rev. N. A. Murphy Is
Speaker at College
ORANGEBURG, S. C.-Rev. N. A.
Murphy, pastor of St. Peter’s Church
in Columbia, was the principal speak
er at the State Agricultural and Me
chanical College Sunday evening,
February 16. Father Murphy spoke
very interestingly on the “Passion
Play.” Having twice witnessed the
Passion Play at Oberamergau he gave
a graphic account of his experiences
before an audience of eleven hundred
people. A number of visitors were
present. A choir of 50 voices delight
fully rendered Gumod's “Twelfth
Mass.” Father Murphy was introduced
by the Rev. M. A. O'Neill of Orange
burg.
Widespread Favorable Com
ment Follows Its Receipt
by Non-Catholics
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
RALEIGH, N. C.—Widespread and
favorable comment has been received
by the Rt. Rev. William "J. Hafey,
Bishop of Raleigh, in response to his
distribution of 5,000 copies of Pope
Leo’s Encyclical Letter, “The Condi
tion of Labor.”
Bishop Hafey distributed the En
cyclical to leading industrialists,
clergymen and journalists in the state.
The volume contains, as a foreword,
a letter explaining the purposes of
the Encyclical’s distribution, in which
Bishop Hafey calls attention to the
increasing industralism in North
Carolina and the resultant problem of
capital and labor.
“North Carolina,” says the Bishop’s
letter, “has the opportunity of en-
lightning the minds of its citizens on
the vital question of the hour. North
Carolina, in union with the other In
dustrial states of the South, has the
opportunity of giving to America the
example of an amicable compact be
tween Capital and Labor. I deem it
my duty as a citizen, as well as
Bishop of the Catholic Church in
North Carolina to assist those who in
any special way by reason of talents
or position are able to inform and
guide the citizenry of this Common
wealth.”
The Encyclical was circulated by
the Bishop in a state numbering less
than 8,000 Catholics, and consequently
had its widest circulation among non-
Catholics. The letter went to educa
tors, legislators, Superior Court
judges, bankers, heads of furniture
factories and cotton mills, and news
paper editors.
Among the comments received by
the Bishop, the following are typical:
“X wish to acknowledge with thanks
the copy of the Encyclical Letter.
The message is quite timely. I unite
in wishing that the principles enun
ciated, based on the t eachings of Our
Lord, might be put into practice by
employers and employes alike. What
a changed world it would be if men
would only follow the footsteps of
Our Lord and Master!”
“I received the Encyclical Letter of
Pope Leo XIII on the Condition of
Labor and read it with interest. If
the letter had been written tin's year
instead of 1891 it could not have been
more appropriate. If Labor and
Capital would meet on the grounds
as outlined In the letter, this prob
lem would be solved.”
“It (the Encyclical) is a masterful
presentation of the rights of Labor
and an uncontrovertable showing .that
these rights cannot be attained
through the medium of Socialism.”
“If the truths in this letter are fol
lowed, what a great and glorious bro
therhood would come to us all! My
sincere wish is that it may bear fruit”
“The letter of Pope Leo XIII in 1891
is very pertinent to the problems be
fore us today.”
The Encyclical is bound in board
covers, and is attractively printed in
large, easily-read type.
Fr. Mitchell Speaks
Before Rotary Club
Addresses Civic Organiza
tion Members on “Why We
Love Savannah”
(Special to The Bulletin)
SAVANNAH, Ga.—Very Rev. Jos.
D. Mitchell, V.G.. pastor of St. Pat
rick’s Church, addressed the Rotary
Club at its first February meeting on
“Why We Love Savannah.” Father
Mitchell’s address is regarded as one
of finest made before the Rotary Club
in some time. He outlined the rea
sons why Savannah is so beloved, its
people, its climate, its beauty, its his
tory, its progress, and then gave his
hearers thoughts on improving it. He
summed up his talk in recalling a
thought he expressed to Ambassador
Claudel bn the occasion of the French
diplomat’s visit to the city some time
ago: “Savannah has the best Pro
testants, the best Catholics and the
best Jews in the world. And the best
colored people.”
James B. Copps, director of the
Cathedral choir, is president of the
Garden Club of Savannah and a re
cent article by him on the subject of
Southern gardens has been given
wide publicity in the press of this
section.
The annual show of the Marist
School boys was presented at the
Municipal Auditorium February 14
and was a splendid success both from
tlie standpoint of entertainment and
of attendance.
Rev. Fr. Boniface, O.S.B.. was the
principal speaker at the February
meeting of the Sacred Heart School
P.-T. A. The association will spon
sor a card party February 28 at the
Catholic Women’s Club quarters. The
girls of the eighth grade conducted a
Valentine party February 12 at the
Benedictine Armory.
MAN WHO CONVERTED
5,00 INDIANS IS DEAD
TUTICORIN, India—(N. C. W. C„
Fides)—In his humble cottage near
Tuticorin, Dairiam Pillai, veteran
apostle, has passed away. For 58 years
he had labored among non-Catholics.
It is estimated that he converted 5,000
in his career.
MONSIGNOR GWYNN
RECEIVES INSIGNIA
Bishop Walsh Invests Green
ville Pastor With Robes of
Prelate at St. Mary’s
MONSIGNOK GWYNN
The dedication of the new St.
Mary's School at Greenville,
erected under the direction of Rt.
Rev. Msgr. A. K. Gwynn, V.F.,
will take place some time after
Lent, according to present plans.
The school is practically com
pleted and is one of the finest of
its size in the South.
(Special to The Bulletin.)
GREENVILLE, S. C.—Rt. Rev.
Msgr. A. K. Gwynn, V.F., dean of
the Greenville district and for over
a quarter of a century pastor of St.
Mary’s Church, Greenville, and its
missions, was invested with the robes
of a domestic prelate at impressive
services here February 26 at which
Rt. Rev. Emmet M. Walsh, D. D.,
Bishop of Charleston, presided. The
Papal document confei-ring on Mon
signor Gwynn the rank and distinc
tion of a member of the Papal House
hold was read by Rev. Francis Ferri
of St. Mary’s Church. The sermon
was delivered by Bishop Walsh.
The ceremonies were attended by
clergy from points as far away as
Boston; the church was taxed to its
capacity by the congregation, which
included numerous non - Catholic
friends of Monsignor Gwynn as well
as Catholics from near and far. Rev,
Thomas J. Mackin was toastmaster at
the dinner to the visiting clergy at the
Poinsett Hotel. In the evening the
parishoners of St. Mary’s tendered a
reception to Monsignor Gwynn at St.
Mary’s Hall.
Monsignor Gwynn was born in
Baltimore but has been a resident
of the Piedmont section of South
Carolina since boyhood, being reared
in Spartanburg. He was educated
at Wofford College, All Hallows Col
lege, Dublin, and Mt. St. Mary’s Sem
inary, Emmitsburg, Md.; he was or
dained by the late Bishop Henry
Pinckney Northrop July 29, 1895.
After a few months as a curate he
was made pastor of Aiken and its
missions, erecting the brick church at
Blackvilie and renovating the church
at Orangeburg. In 1900 he was ap
pointed pastor of St. Mary’s, Green
ville. succeeding Rev. Joseph Dalton
Budds.
In Greenville Monsignor Gwynn has
erected a rectory, a church, a school,
now replaced by the new school
which will be dedicated alter Lent,
One of his first activities in Greenville
was his bringing of the Ursuline
Nuns under the direction of Mother
Patricia to the parish to open a school.
He has erected churches at Ander
son, Walhalla, Greenwood, Spartan
burg and elsewhere and for the thirty
years during which he has been pas
tor of St. Mary’s he has directed its
missions with the same ability and
zeal as he has guided the destinies of
St. Mary’s parish.
The erection of St. Mary's School,
described before in. the columns of
The Bulletin, is Mcnsignor Gwvnn’s
latest achievement. Bishop Walsh
and Monsignor Gwynn decided on the
erection of the school some time ago
at a time when it seemed to many an
impossible task, but its completion
now marks a new epoch for Catholic
ity in the Piedmont section. Mon
signor Gwynn is not only a zealous
and priestly pastor of his flock but
admired, respected and beloved by
others as well. He has found time
during his busy life to interest him
self in the hopes) aspirations and ac
tivities of his community, and al
though Greenville is a great center of
learning Monsignor Gwynn is regard
ed as a leader among its men of great
scholarship. The splendid feeling
existing in Greenville between Cath
olic and non-Catholic is largely due
to Monsignor Gwynn’s effective ef
forts to acquaint his fellow-citizens
with the facts about the Catholic
Church and to his exemplifying the
principles cf the church by his ex
emplary priestly life.
Over One Hundred Priests
and Laymen Active in
Drive His Guests at Dinner
(By E. B. KAY)
ATLANTA, Ga.—On Tuesday even
ing, February 18, Rt. Rev. Thomas J.
Toolen, D. D., Bishop of Mobile, gave
a dinner at St. Mary’s Asylum to
which he invited the pastor of Mobile
together with the team-captains and
members who participated in the cen
tennial drive during last November.
Over a hundred priests and laymen
responded to the Bishop^s invitation.
A fine course dinner was served by
the Sisters of Charity. Mr. Peyton
Norville. chairman of the Bishop’s
Confraternity of the Laity, presided,
calling upon His Lordship, who made
known the purpose of the gathering.
In a brief talk Bishop Toolen said in
part: “This is intended merely as a
little get-together meeting for the
purpose of reporting to you the re
sults of the centennial drive which
you men so generously and so suc
cessfully helped me with. I also
wish that this gathering shall serve to
make us better known to one an
other. We purpose to have these
meetings several times during the
year in the hope that, exchanging
ideas, we may uflite solidly and ef
fect every possible good work for the
cause of Christ in this city and in the
diocese. Some of the bishops who
attended the centennial celebration
told me that they were surprised as
well as greatly edified with the
unity, energy and smoothness which
characterized your work. Some of
these bishops have started organiza
tions like ours and are well pleased
in the results obtained thus far.”
Bishop Toolen then read a report cf
the results to the end of January
which showed that over $75,000 has
been paid upon the pledges. He an
nounced that plans are in prepara
tion for a now “Maternity Home” and
that tlie building would, very likely,
be started at the end of the coming
summer.
Realizing the power of united effort
and enthused with the results of
their work, the men present at the
dinner, following the suggestion of
Bishop Toolen. organized a perma
nent body, with Mr. Peyton Norville
as chairman, to carry on. under the
direction 'of the Bishop, in working
for tlie general advancement of the
diocese. There are to be no by-laws
or rules other than just getting to
gether wholeheartedly to work with
the Bishop. Each - pastor will be the
leader of his particular parish unit
and each city shall have its particu
lar local unit, but every priest ana
layman shall join in the work of the
entire diocese having the simple
motto “Ail for the love of God.”
In the assemblage at the dinner
were observed a goodly number of
young men. This is a healthful sign.
Tlie enthusiasm incident to the cen
tennial celebration has passed, as sucli
things usually do, but the willing
ness to get out and hustle remains
Bishop Toolen’s gentle, persevering
method of doing things is an inspira
tion to his people and they are hope
fully facing things and working with
an enthusiasm and determination
which promises much.
Bishoo Toolen will visit Birming
ham, Montgomery. Pensacola and
other centres in the diocese where
shall be held meetings similar to that
of Mobile.
Mrs. J. J. Powell, a sister of Rt
Rev. Msgr. Edw. J. Hackett, chan
cellor of the Diocese of Mobile, died
at Malden, Mass., on February 13.
Please remember Mrs. Powell in your
prayers.
Rev. Michael H. Pathe. C. SS. R.,
finished a mission at St. Joan of Arc
Church, Mobile, on Sunday night.
Feb. 23. Father Pathe, a native of
Ireland, is one of the most eloquent
preachers in the Redemptorist So
ciety. Capacity congregations heard
him each evening, many non-Catho
lics attending. The local press com
mented very favorably upon Father
Pathe’s sermons, especially featuring
the sermon on “The Christian
Family,” in the course of which the
speaker said: “Society depends upon
the integrity of the family. The in
tegrity of the family is tlueatened
by that false philosophy which tole
rates divorce and connives at race-
suicide. Ttie history of broken na
tions gives ample evidence that their
downfall was hastened when de
bauchery and effeminancy were per
mitted to cross the family threshold.
The laws of family life were estab
lished by God, and no man has a
right to break these laws to satisfy
passion and caprice.” Father Pathe
conducted novenas. in honor of “The
Little Flower, at St. Teresa's Church.
Mobile, and St. Margaret’s Church,
Bayou la Batre.
Rev. James F. Byrne, castor of Mo
bile’s newest church, “St. Teresa of
the Little Flower of Jesus,” is con
ducting a perpetual novena in honor
of the patroness. Services are held
everv Tuesday morning after Mass
and at 7:30 evening. Tlie novena re
cently given by Father Pathe. who
specializes in these novenas, has at
tracted many from the parish and
through the city to attend the ner-
petual nbvena devotions. Father
Bvme. a young priest, native of Mo
bile. happens to be sitting near me as
I write these lines and I am certain
that his humility would protest
against our remarking the wonderful
work which he is doing for the young
men of Mobile. He has organized
their athletic associations with great
success and l;as above all, effected a
very wonderful spiritual work among
these lads.