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TEN CENTS A COPY. VOL. XIII.. No. 23
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, DECEMBER 10, 1932
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News Briefs
( By N. C. W. C. News Service)
BISHOP OF ANGERS IS
SIXTY YEARS A PRIEST
PARIS.—The Diocese of Angers has
just celebrated with impressive cere
monies the sixtieth sacerdotal jubilee
of its venerable Bishop, the Most Rev.
Joseph Rumeau, who has been ordi
nary of that diocese for 34 years.
In extending the felicitations of the
French Hierarchy, Cardinal Verdier
praised the work of Bishop Rumeau as
ordinary of his diicese and as a man
of letters, stressing particularly the
400 pastoral letters published by
Bishop Rumeau.
400 LONDON POLICE AT
MASS FOR WAR VICTIMS
LONDON.—Lord Trenchard, Com
missioner of the Metropolitan Police,
who is not a Catholic, was at the
head of 400 Catholic members of the
police force who, in uniform, attended
Requiem Mass at Westminster Cathe
dral for their comrades who fell in
the World War. A former policeman,
the Rev. Harold Carter, was the sub
deacon of the Mass, which was cele
brated by Canon Howlett, president
of the Catholic Police Guild, which
arranges the annual celebration.
FRENCH PRIEST OFFICER
OF LEGION OF HONOR
PARIS. — General Gouraud, Mili
tary Governor of Paris, was a recent
visitor to the headquarters of the
Congregation of the Holy Ghost Fath
ers where he pinned on the soutane
of Father Brottier the rosette of Of
ficer of the Legion of Honor. Father
Brottier. who rendered excellent ser
vice in Senegal, is now director of an
orphanage in Paris. He also con
ducted a campaign in France that re
sulted in the construction of the mag
nificent cathedral of Dakar.
NEW AUXILIARY BISHOP
OF PADERB0RN NAMED
PADERBORN, Germany. —At the
suggestion of the Most Rev. Caspar
Klein. Archbishop of Paderhorn, the
Holy Father has just appointed the
Rev. Augiist Baumann, pastor of St.
Anna’s Church in Dortmund, Auxil
iary Bishop of Paderborn.
U. S. PRIEST RECEIVES
RARE DEGREE IN ROME
ST. LOUIS.—The Very Rev. Joseph
E. Lilly, C.M., of the faculty of St.
Mary's Seminary, Perryville, Mo., is
the recipient of an unusual honor at
Rome, where he is now studying. A
cablegram received at Provincial
Headquarters of the Vincentian Or
der here announces that he has re
ceived the degree Licentiate of Sacred
Scripture. After another year’s study
in Palestine, Dr. Lilly will return to
Rome for his examination for the
Doctorate of Sacred Scripture, an ex
tremely rare degree.
FIRST WOMAN EVIDENCE
SPEAKER IS LICENSED
WASHINGTON.— The first woman
ever licensed by a Catholic Guild in
this country, as far as is known, made
her debut on the outdoor platform
of the Washington Guild November
21. She is Mrs. Frank O’Hara, wife
of the head of the Economics Depart
ment of the Catholic University of
America and sister-in-law of the
Most. Rev. Edwin V. O’Hara. Bishop
of Great Falls.
Memphis Plans Monument to
Nun-Nurses of 1878 Plague
New N.C.C.M. Head
Dr. Thomas E. Purcell, of Kansas
City, Mo., who was elected presi
dent of the National Council of
Catholic Men at its 12th Annual
Conference just held at Pitts
burgh. Dr. Purcell, a prominent
Catholic layman of Missouri, is a
Knight of St. Gregory.
N.C.C.M. CONVENTION
HELD IN PITTSBURGH
Dr. Thomas Purcell, Kansas
City, Succeeds Walter
Johnson as President
PITTSBURGH—With four Bishops
and many other high Church digni
taries and outstanding Catholic lay
men present, the twelfth annual con
ference of the National Council of
Catholic Men convened here with
delegates attending from all parts of
the country. The delegates were
officially welcomed to Pittsburgh by
the Most Rev. Hugh C. Boyle, Bishop
of Pittsburgh.
Walter T. Johnson, president of the
N. C. C. M., was general chairman
of the meetings, with Joseph H. Rei
man, of Pittsburgh, a member of the
national executive committee, pre
siding at the opening session.
Speakers at the morning session
were: Most Rev. Joseph Schrembs,
Bishop of Cleveland and Episcopal
Chairman of the Departasent of Lay
Organizations, National^ Catholic
Welfare Conference; Mr. Johnson,
who gave the President’s Address;
Francis R. Lowther, National
Executive Secretary, who made their
reports.
The Most Rev. Joseph F. Rummel,
Bishop of Omaha and Assistant
Episcopal Chairman of the Depart
ment of Lay Organizations, N. C. W.
C., and . the Most Rev. John J. Swint,
Bishop of Wheeling, also attended-
the conference.
Sister Aloysia, One of Surviv
ing Nun-Nurses, to Attend
Dedication Exercises
Bernard J. Bothwell, president of
the Bay State Milling Company,
Boston, spoke at the session devoted
to “Unemployment,, Its Causes, Re-
Continued on Page Eight)
N.Y. Radio Meeting Protests
Mexican Injustice to Church
(By -I. C. W. C. News Service)
NEW YORK.—At a radio mass
meeting held November 17 to protest
the treatment of the Catholic Church
in Mexico, former Judge Alfred J.
Talley, speaking over WLWL, the
station conducted by the Paulist Fath
ers, declared that “investment of
American capital in such a country is
folly, and American investors should
be warned and protected against it,
because no government that perse
cutes its people, as Mexico today is
persecuting hers, can endure.”
Judge Talley offered a resolution,
copies of which are to be sent to the
State Department at Washington and
the President of Mexico, calling on
“all fair and liberal-minded people o*
all religious and of no religion to ex
press their horror at the existence of
this unspeakable oppression imposed
upon a people living on this conti
nent.”
The Rev. Wilfrid Parsons, S.
J., editor of America and Miss Mary
G. Hawks, president of the National
Council of Catholic Women, were
among the speakers.
More than 10,000 votes for the res
olution on Mexico offered by Judge
Talley have been received at Station
WLWL. At the conclusion of the
meeting broadcast over the Paulist
Fathers’ station, a request was made
that listeners register their approval
of Judge Talley’s resolution by mail.
Responses have been received from
points in Florida, as far West as Ohio
and from Canada.
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
MEMPHIS, Tenn.—St. Agnes Acad
emy, the only Dominican convent,
here, will soon be the scene of a
monument dedication that will be of
interest to many througnout the land.
The monument will be erected to
the memory of the Dominican Nuns
who served during the yellow fever
days here. It will be a huge cross
and will stand on a knoll in the ex
tensive convent grounds. On the
cross will be carved the names of
those who served in the days of Yel
low Fever.
Both the old St. Agnes Academy,
and La Salette, also operated by the
Dominicans, as a boarding school for
girls, were at one period of the
scourge used as hospitals. The cross,
erected by the help of the Memphis
members of the International Federa
tion of Catholic Alumnae, will be
dedicated in May, when the I. F. C. A.
Dixie Conference, will hold their con
vention at the convent.
One of the unusual features of the
dedication will be the part taken in
it by Sister Mary Aloysia, who was
one of the outstanding nurses of that
day, and who will carve her own
name on the cross. In 1878, Sister
Aloysia was one of the youngest
members of the Order, and is today
but little beyond 70. She has charge
of the Students’ Hall of the Academy.
Sister Mary Bertrand, another sur
vivor also of St. Agnes, was, like Sis
ter Aloysia, very young at' that time.
She was orphaned by the fever, and
soon afterward joined the Dominican
Order. Other surviving nurses in
various Dominican convents over the
country are: Sister Reginald Condon,
Sister Cecelia Kennedy, Sister Francis
Mahoney, and Sister Dominica Canty.
Sister Mary Thomas O'Meara was
the only one of the original seventeen
nuns left in St. Agnes Convent after
the fever of 1878 had spent itself. She
was experienced in the care of Yel-
loy Jack, having served in the scourge
of 1873. She died in 1914.
Sister Aloysia, then scarcely more
than a school girl in years, was a
teacher in the old St. Peter’s Parochial
School—razed last year. She was sta
tioned at La Salette Acadertiy and
(Continued on Page Ten)
ARCHBISHOP DAEGER
OF SANTA FE DIES
Fall in Garage Fatal to Belov
ed Franciscan Prelate of the
Southwest
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
SANTA FE.—The Most Rev. Albert
T. Daeger, O. F. M., Archbishop of
Santa Fe, died here December 2, three
hours after he had fallen a distance
of 10 feet into the basement of a gar
age, receiving a fractured skull.
Archbishop Daeger had gone for a
walk, and is believed tc have receiv
ed his fatal injury as he was entering
the garage to chat with employes, as
was his custom. The basement of the
garage was dark, and it -s thought
that the Archbishop did not see the
steps as he entered through the door
leading from the street. Archbishop
Daeger was 60 years old.
Mission Board Aids
Missionary Dioceses
Several Southern Bishops At
tend Chicago Meeting
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
CHICAGO — The American Board
of Catholic Missions announces the
allotment of $308,234.71 to missionary
dioceses and missionary activities in
different parts of the United States
and its possessions. More than 50
members of the hierarchy were in
Chicago for the annual meeting of
the Board or to appear before the
executive members of the Board to
state their needs.
In presenting the report of the
Board on distribution of funds dur
ing the last year, His Eminence Geo.
Cardinal Mundelein, president, said:
“Considering the times and circum
stances thereof, it is favorable, in
deed. The shrinkage has been less
than 20 per cent of the preceding
prosperous year.”
Every diocese in the South was
assisted with sums varying from $3,-
333 to $6,666. Several Bishops from
the South attended the meeting.
Enters Monastery
Dr. Ernest Perrier, vice president
of the National Swiss Council and
president of the State Council of
Fribourg, who has deserted a bril
liant political career to enter the
Benedictine Monastery of La
Pierre Qui Vire in Burgundy. He
was a member of Parliament,
many times delegate to the
League of Nations, and presiding
officer of the last Disarmament
Conference. He is 51 years old.
BISHOPS CALL FOR
CLEAN LITERATURE
CRUSADE IN U. S.
National Catholic Welfare
Conference*in Annual Meet
ing Deplores Flood of Im
moral Books
BISHOP KEARNEY IS
INSTALLED IN WEST
Archbishop and Nine Bis
hops at Ceremony at Cath
edral in Salt Lake City
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
SALT LAKE CITY — An Arch
bishop and nine Bishops were pres
ent November 25. at the solemn in
stallation of the Most Rev. James E.
Kearney as the fourth Bishop of Salt
Lake.
The Most Rev. John J. Mitty, Co
adjutor Archbishop of San Francis
co, whom Bishop Kearney succeeds
in the Diocese of Salt Lake, officiat
ed at the installation. The other pre
lates present included:
The Most Rev. Louis B. Kucera,
Bishop of Lincoln; the Most Rev.
Stanislaus V. Bona, Bishop of Grand
Island; the Most Rev. Edward J. Kel
ly, Bishop of Boise; the Most Rev.
Thomas K. Gorman, Bishop of Reno;
the Most Rev. Robert J. Armstrong,
Bishop of Sacramento; the Most Rev.
John J. Cantwell, Bishop of Los An
geles and San Diego; the Most Rev.
Urban J. Vehr, Bishop of Denver; the
Most Rev. Joseph F. Rummel, Bish
op of Omaha, and the Most Rev. Pat
rick A. McGovern, Bishop of Chey
enne.
Archbishop Mitty delivered the ser
mon at the installation. Bishop Kear
ney also spoke, replying to a wel
come extended by Archbishop Mitty
and the welcome extended by the
Rev. Patrick Kennedy, of Ogden,
who spoke on behalf of the priests
of the diocese.
A large number of priests present
at the installation represented a
number of States and several religi
ous Communities. Among the priests
present were a group of a dozen
from New York, where Bishop Kear
ney was formerly pastor of St. Fran
cis Xavier Church, in the Bronx.
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
WASHINGTON—The Bishops of
the United States, assembled at the
Catholic University of- America here
for their annual meeting, pledged
their “sincere and effective coopera
tion” with the National Welfare and
Relief Mobilization Committee; con
demned “the increasing flood of
immoral and unmoral books, peri
odicals, pamphlets” as “one of the
most potent factors” in the “debas
ing of the individual and the public
conscience.’’
The meeting was attended by two
Cardinals, seven Archbishops and 58
Bishops, His Eminence William
Cardinal O’Connell, Archbishop of
Boston, presided at the opening sess
ion, His Eminence George Cardinal
Mundelein, Archbishop of Chicago,
presided at subsequent session.
The following Archbishops and
Bishops were elected by the meeting
to constitute the Administrative
Committee of the National Catholic
Welfare Conference, the new Com
mittee’s personnel being the same as
that of the last year:
The Most Rev. Edward J. Hanna
of San Francisco: the Most Rev. John
T. McNicholas. O. P., Archbishop of
Cincinnati; the Most Rav. John
Gregory Murray, Archbishop of St.
Paul; the Most Rev. Thomas F. Lillis,
Bishop of Kansas City; the Most Rev.
Joseph Schrembs of Cleveland; the
Most Rev. Hugh C. Boyle, Bishop of
Pittsburgh, and the Most Rev. John
F. Noll, Bishop of Fort Wayne.
The reports of the chairman of the
N. C. W. C. Administrative Com
mittee and of the Episcopal Chairmen
of the N. C. W. C. Departments were
presented and discussed, then
approved by the Bishops.
In pledging cooperation with tht
National Welfare and 'Relief Mobi
lization Committee, the resolution of
the Bishops says:
“In view of the most extraordinary
conditions which threaten so many
of our fellow citizens with want and
misery during the coming winter, the
Bishops of the National Catholic-
Welfare Conferesce urge upon then
people in the United States full co
operation with the effort of the
National Welfare and Relief Mobili
zation Committee to avert the wors(
consequences of the economic de
pression. They pledge themselves to
sincere and effective cooperation with
the' Committee in its work and they
pray that Almighty God may bless
and prosper its every endeavor.”
The resolution in condemnation of
indecent literature stated that “it
would be blindness not to recognize
the looseness and laxity of morals
which both hastened the economic
chaos of the world and now plays
its part in extending laxity in public
morals, loss of public decency; and
consequently, a lowering of the
standard of citizenship.”
The resolution also charges that
“great metropolitan dailies, literary
journals, carry laudatory advertise
ments of books that have always been
known as obscene;” that “publishers
repeatedly issue new books outdoing
the old ones in obscenity;” that
“public opinion has influenced the
(Continued on Page Four.)
Five More Churches Forced
to Close in Mexico City
By CHARLES BETICO
(Special Telegraph, N. C. W. C.
News Service)
MEXICO CITY — Five more
churches in the Federal District have
been closed by order of the President
in fulfillment of his threat made at
the time of the publication of the
Papal Encyclical Acerba Animi. One
of these is the Passionist Church at
Taeubapa here. The other four are
in Mexico City proper: Guadalupe
Hermitage Chapel. Rev. Jose Ordon
ez, pastor; St. Michael’s, Rev. Jose
Espinosa, pastor; Monserrat Church,
Rev. Nicasio Cepeda, pastor, and a
church in Los Ninos Heroes street
which was constructed wholly by
Mexican Catholics. The last named
was the first of this group to be clos
ed and has been turned over to the
Secretary of the Treasury for any
purpose for which he may see fit to
use it.
Prior to this three churches had
been closed by decree of President
Rodriguez. San Juanica at Tacuba,
San Andres Acahualtongo at Atzcapo-
zalco and the Church of the Incarnate
Word in Mexico City.
A number of Catholics in Guadala
jara have been imprisoned on the
charge of attending “public worship”,
because many had to stand on the
steps and in the streets in front of
the churches during Mass when they
were unable to find room within the
churches. As only one priest for ev
ery 25,000 inhabitants is allowed by
law in the State of Jalisco, and these
can officiate only in the churches for
which they are registered, it is im
possible to have enough Masses on
Sunday to enable all those who wish
to attend to be accommodated with
in the edifices. The police ordered
all those standing outside the church
es to move on. Some did, but others
who refused to obey the command,
were imprisoned and will have to
pay a fine in addition.
