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About The bulletin of the Catholic Laymen's Association of Georgia. (Augusta, Ga.) 1920-1957 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 24, 1932)
ill Member oi tne Na- jyUj tional Catholic Wel- tare Conference News ! Xj hr T&uUttxn f -jfee Only Catholic Newspaper Between Baltimore and New fty Service 1 Official Organ of the Catholic Laymens Association/Geor^a 1 1 "TO BRING ABOUT A FRIENDLIER. FEEUN6AM0HGGEORGIANS.UWESPKTIVBOI 8 CREED" O Orleans TEN CENTS A COPY. VOL. XIII., No. 24 AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, DECEMBER 24, 1932 ISSUED SEMI-MONTHLY-$2.oo a year News Briefs ( By N. C. W. C. News Service) $442,377 FOR CHARITY ST. LOUIS, Mo.—The annual report of the St Vincent de Paul Society here shows that the Metropolitan and 101 parish conferences in St. Louis and St. Louis County have spent $442,377.38 during the past year to re lieve distress. CREIGHTON ACTING PRESIDENT OMAHA, Neb.—Rev. Thomas J. Smith, S.J., former president of John Carroll University, Cleveland, has been named acting president of Creighton University her, relieving the Rev. Patrick J. Mahan, S.J., who will spend several months in the South in an effort to regain his health. 71 YEARS A NUN, DIES AT 90 TOLEDO, O.—Mother Aloysius, twice Mother Superior of Ursuline Convent here,' and a religious for 71 years, died recently at the age of SO. In 1863 she founded St. Patrick’s School here. BENEDICTINE GOLDEN JUBILARIAN LISLE, 111.—Brothi Godfry. O. S. B., the oldest member of the Benedictine Community here, has just observed his golden jubilee as a religious. He entered the Benedictine Order at St. Vincent’s Archabbev 50 years ago at the age of 30. SCHOLARSHIP FOR ORPHANS DAVENPORT, Iowa.—Bishop Rohl- man, of Davenport, announces a be quest of $6,000 to establish a schol arship at St. Ambrose College for boys from St. Vincent’s Orphan Home for Boys FR. McCLOREY, S.J.. STILL ILL DETROIT.—Rev. John A. McClorey, S.J. noted author, lecturer and ora tor, is still seriously ill at St. Joseph’s seph’s Mercy Hospital here. His ill ness followed a breakdown late in November in Louisville, where he was giving a series of sermons. SOLDIERS’ CHAPLAIN RETIRES MILWAUKEE.— Rev. Michael J. Huston, Catholic chaplain at the Na tional Soldiers’ Home here for the past 30 years, has been retired on reaching the government retirement age of 70. Rev. George C. Eilers, his assistant, and a world war chaplain, will succeed him. CAMPAIGN EXCEEDS QUOTA MONTREAL.—The Catholic chari ties campaign for $175,000 for the sup port of organizations devoted to the care of the poor, sick and aged ex ceeded its objective by $2,000. Over two thousand workers, with Col. H. J. Trihey as general chairman, conduct ed the campaign. 12,019 ENGLISH CONVERTS LONDON.—The Catholic Directory, soon to be published, will report that 12,019 persons were converted to the Faith in England and Wales last year. The Catholic population of these countries is estimated at 2,253,420, served by 4,708 priests PRIEST DIES AT 86 POTTSVILLE, Pa.—Rev. Frederick W. Longinus, pastor of St. John the Baptist Church here for 55 years, the oldest priest in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia, is dead at the age of 86. Father Longinus would have observed the 61st anniversary of his ordination December 23. NUN DIAMOND JUBILARIAN INDIANAPOLIS.— Sister Arestede, one of the original band of nuns who came here to found the Little Sisters Home for the Poor CO years ago, has just observed the 75th anniversary of her membership in the Order. Sister Arestede was bom in England 88 years ago R. I. CONVENT BURNS FROVIDENCE, R. I.—St. Patrick's Convent at Valley Falls was damaged to the extent of $25,000 when the heat ing apparatus exploded recently. CATHOLIC DOCTOR HONORED SAN FRANCISCO—Dr. Arthur W. Hebert, a native of New Orleans, alumnus of Villanova College and widely known in medical circles has been appointed to the State Social Welfare Department by Governor Rolph. IN CONGRESSIONAL RECORD WASHINGTON, D. C—-An address by Rev. Dr. John A. Ryan, of the Catholic University of America, direc tor of the Department of Social Ac tion of the National Catholic Welfare Conference, at a meeting of the Joint Unemployment Conference has been introduced into the Congressional Record by Senator Lynn J. Frazier, of North Dakota. POPE HONORS BISHOP O’DEA SEATTLE.—The Holy Father in a letter in his own handwriting felici tates the Most Rev. Edward J. O’Dea, D.D., Bishop of Seattle, who on De cember's, observes the golden jubi lee of his ordination. Secretary Wilbur Again Opposes School Control Congresswoman Miss Kathryn O’Loughlin, a mem ber of St. Joseph’s parish, Hays, Kas.. who has besen elected a member ol the United States House of Represen tatives from Kansas. Miss O’Lough lin, a lawyer, is the first woman ever elected to Congress from her State. Rev. Daniel Desmond Bishop of Alexandria Boston Priest, World War Chaplain, Appointed to Vacant See in Louisiana (By N. C. W. C. News Service) WASHINGTON.- The appointment of the Rev. Daniel F. Desmond, as sistant pastor at the Church of St. Clement, West Somerville, Mass., to be Bishop of Alexandria in Louisiana is announced in word just received- here from Rome. As Bishop of Alexandria, Father Desmond will succeed the Most Rev. Cornelius Van de Ven, who died on May 8. Bishop-designate Desmond was born at Haverhill, Mass., April 4, 1884. He attended St. James Parochial School and St. James High School in his native city, and later was grad uated from Holy Cross, Worcester. He made his theological studies at St. John’s Boston Ecclesiastical Sem inary, Brighton, and was ordaTned to the priesthood on June 9, 1911. On June 10, 1918, Father Desmond was commissioned a chaplain in the United States army with the rank of first lieutenant. In the course of participation by the United States in the World War, Father -Desmond served at Camp Meade, Md., at the Curtis Bay Ordnance Depot in Mary land, and aboard the transport U. S. S. Martha Washington. Following his discharge from tne the service on September 29, 1918, Father Desmond was assigned to St. Clement’s Church in West Somerville. At the present time he is also in charge of the Somerville Catholic Charitable Bureau. Cabinet Member in Annual Report Repeats Disap proval of Centralized Fed eralization of Education (By N. C. W. C. NEWS SERVICE) WASHINGTON. — Declaring that “education is a local responsibility, and must be so,” Secretary of the Interior Ray Lyman Wilbur, in his annual report once more took a stand against the proposal to expand government activities in the educa tional, field as is contemplated by advocates of a Department of Edu cation. “We have kept the Office of Edu cation out of the field of administra tion,” Dr. Wilbur said. “Its primary function is the finding out of facts about education and all its various phases throughout the States and for eign countries and the dissemination of such information in order to help the people in the States to establish more efficient school systems.” “The Federal Government’s main function,” Dr. Wilbur said, “is assist- 'ance to the States in improving their own systems and not in dominating those systems.” Assailing the movement for cen tralized control over education, Dr. Wilbur said: “We can keep democracy safe in the world by making the most of our opportunity to build in our schools strong, self-reliant, independent men and women united in sound, small units of self-support and self-gov ernment. In this era of too rapid growth, of amalgamation, of central ized power, we must fight for safety through effective local government, and local control. It is bad enough to have more people on the payroll than on the land without making it worse by overcentralization in Wash ington. So complete is the mastery of the nervous system over our bod ies that the prick of a knitting needle in one place in the upper spinal cord means death. We want no such mas tery of our central government over the welfare of the people of a con tinent. “The American public school sys tem, local and self-governed, is one of the outstanding achievements of democracy. From fitful and scattered beginnings it has developed that firm structure upon which the stability of our country depends.” At one point, in the foreword to his report, Secretary Wilbur said: “We have transformed the Office of Education from a semi-administrative agency into one of research and ser vice. The path of the Federal Gov ernment has been steered *vvay from dominance in local education.” School Press Group in World Congress U. S. Body Joins Inter national Association MILWAUKEE. — Affiliation of the Catholic School Press Association with the Interntaional Catholic Uni versity Student Press Congress, was announced in the November issue of The Catholic School Editor by J. L. O’Sullivan, director of The Catholic School Press Association. Jleadquart- ers of the International Catholic Uni versity Student Press Congress are at the Catholic University in Lille, France, where the organization meet ing was held last March, under the general auspices of the Pax Romana movement. Leon Verschave is the secretary general of the International Congress. The technical advisers are: Dr. John Wilhelm Naumann, professor of journalism at the University of Munich; M. Paul Verschave, director of the school of journalism at the Catholic University of Lille, and Dr. O’Sullivan, dean of the college of journalism of Marquette University. Patience and Determination Need of Hour, Cardinal Says (By N. C. W. C. News Service) BOSTON—Patience and determi nation to go forward, not to stand still or to go backward are the watch words of the day, His Eminence Wil liam Cardinal 0”Connell, Archbishop, of Boston, indicated in an interview! granted December 8, the seventy-third I anniversary of his birth. A large congregation, in which were/ many distinguished figures and per-, sons who had travelled considerable distances, attended the Mass celej- brated by His Eminence in the Cathe dral on his birthday. The wishes of the Cardinal that the observance take the form of a prayerful one were re spected by the clergy and people. In every parish throughout the Arch diocese the faithful offered prayers for the Cardinal Archbishop’s inten tions. Speaking of the present economic conditions, Cardinal O’Connell said that the sun will shine again, adding that when it does those who have earnestly tried to do their best in the face of adverse circumstances will have reason to rejoice and be glad. It was then that he indicated that pa tience and determination to go for ward, not to stand still or to go back wards are the watchwords of the day. Youngest Congressman . .Joseph P. Monaghan, 26-year-old attorney of Butte, Montana, was re cently elected to the U. S. House of Representatives. He has the distinc tion of being the youngest member of the 73rd Congress, which will con vene for its initial session probably next March. Mr. Monaghan, who is a Catholic, is a graduate of Carroll College, in Helena, the diocesan col lege. He served in the State legisla ture of Montana. Oldest Cardinal, 87, Honored on Jubilee Cardinal Fruehwirth Became a Bishop at 62 By MSGR. ENRICO PUCCI (Rome Correspondent, N.C.W.C. NEWS SERVICE) ROME—His Eminence Andrew Car dinal Fruehwirth, O.P., Chancellor of the Holy Roman Church, has just celebrated the 25th anniversary of his episcopal consecration. He is the eldest Cardinal, having been born on August 21, 1845. Cardinal Ehrle was born two months later. Pope Pius X, on October 31, 1907, appointed Father Fruewirth — who had up to then been Master General of the Order of Preachers (Domini cans), Apostolic Nuncio at Munich, Bavaria, and Archbishop of Eraclea. In November of the same year he received episcopal consecration at the hands of Cardinal Merry del Val, then Secretary of State, in the Church of Santa Maria dell’Anima. At the Consistory of December 6, 1915, he was created Cardinal by Pope Bene dict XV, with the title of SS. Cosmo and Damiano, Diaconia, raised for the occasion to the title of presby- terial. Dr. Sheen to Start New Radio Series Succeeds Father Gillis on Catholic Hour January 1 WASHINGTON—The Rev. Dr. Ful- on J. Sheen, professor of the Philosophy of Religion at the Catholic University of American and inter nationally known orator and author, will begin a series of 16 addresses over the “Catholic Hour” on New Year’s Day. Dr. Sheen, whose voice is already familiar to radio audiences, is a grad uate of St. Viator College, Kankakee, 111., with the class of 1917, and was or dained to the priesthood in 1919. After six years of graduate studies in the Universities of Washington, Paris, Louvain and Rome, he received at Louvain and Rome, respectively, his Ph.D. and D. D. degrees. In 1925, Dr. Sheen taught Dogmatic Theology in St. Edmund’s College, Ware, England, and the following year was aggregated to the faculty of the University of Louvain. In 1926. the University of Louvain awarded him the Cardinal Mercier prize for international philosophy. He was the first American to receive this honor. He is one of the American priests who delivered addresses at the International Eucharistic Congress held in Dublin, last June. MARYKNOLLERS ORDAINED Rome.—Rev. Leo Melancon, of Fall River, Mass., and Rev. Arthur Kier- nan, of Cortland, N. Y., members of the Society of Foreign Missions, were ordained here on the Feast of the Im maculate Conception MEXICAN NUNS HELD IN PRISON DESPITE FAILURE OF CHARGE Accuser Charged Them With “Crime” of Conducting a Convent, But Fails to Ap-; pear Against Them (By N. C. W. C. News Service) MEXICO CITY—Despite the fact that four Sisters from a House of the Good Shepherd in the Federal District, who were imprisoned last June when their institution was raided and closed, have been brought up for a hearing twice recently and their ac cuser has failed to appear, they are still held prisoners in the penal hos pital and there are fears that they are in danger of being sent to the prison at Islas de Marias. Two of them have tuberculosis. The House of the Good Shepherd, which was being conducted as a re formatory rather than a convent, was surrounded by Government soldiers without warning at midnight, June 29. Of the nine Sisters, five man aged to escape. The other four were taken to General Police Headquarters and tried soon after. They were charged with violation of the Law of Cults and the sequestration of girls and women. Upon being sentenced to six years’ imprisonment, the Sisters were taken to the worst type of penal institution, but two, found to be suf fering from tuberculosis, were sent to the prison hospital. Later the ocher two were allowed to join them, but this was no great favor as the hos pital is said to be worse than the prison. Last August, for the third time, an attempt was made to have the Sis ters released on bail pending appeal, but the case did not come up for fur ther hearing. The last date set for a hearing was September 15, but was postponed as the complaint failed to put in appearance. It was understood that if the Sisters’ accuser failed to appear for a hearing on September 17, they would be released. The com plainant did not appear, but contrary to all expectations the Sisters were not released. The House of the Good Shepherd was at San Pedro de los Pinos, within the Federal District. It was not a convent, strictly speaking, but a house of refuge for unfortunate women and girls. In order not to run afoul the religious regulations, the Sisters did not wear the habit of their Order but dressed as lay women. Regardless of the fact that the property was owned by an Englishwoman, it was con fiscated and the public allowed to carry off the furnishings. Catholics in Spain Labor Against Evils Hierarchy Launches Re ligious Schools as Antidote to Dechristianization MY MANUEL GRANA (Madrid Correspondent, N. C. W. C. News Service) MADRID—To counteract the plan for “national dechristianization” pro posed by the Government, the Span ish Hierarchy has re-organized the teaching of catechism and religion in all the dioceses. Confronted with the laicized and unified school system, the instrument through which the Govern ment would attain its sectarian ends, the nation could not fail to be de- christianized, but the Church and Ca tholic citizens are undertaking a vast plan for national religious instruction which will reach every part of the nation, all classes of society and espe cially those in modest circumstances. A National Council of Instruction, created by the Bishops, is now func tioning and is charged with co ordinating all the work of Catholic instruction. It has not been customary in Spain for the parishes to have schools, for since the religious conducted schools m every city and town, there was no lack of private Catholic schools. Here tofore, even the public schools gave religious instruction. But with this suppressed, the bishops are establish ing in every parish catechism classes in addition to the Sunday instruction obligatory by canon law and pontifical mandate. The pastors are making preparations so that catechism classes can be held two or three times a week.—if possible, daily—in churches, chapels, or private schools and build ings. Priests and other Religious of both sexes will be obliged to give this instruction under the direction of the pastors; even the “exempted” orders will be under this obligation. As the number of students hi each class is not to exceed forty, associa tions of men and women will be pa ganized,
