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AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, MAY 20, 1933
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Bulletins
( By N. C. W. C. News Service)
WASHINGTON, D. C.—The Rev.
George F. Strohaver, S. J., director
oC the Department of Science at
Georgetown University, will start a
series of addresses on “The Holy Eu
charist" June 4 over the National
Broadcas ing System in the Catholic
Hour sponsored hy the National
Council of Catholic Men. Rev. Dr.
Paul II. Furfcy of the Catholic Uni
versity is giving the current scries.
MADRID.—The government elected
only 4.356 councilmen of the 16,031
elected at the recent polling in Spain,
a result which while having no direct
effect on the present national admin
istration is nevertheless an indication
of the trend of opinion away from
anti-clericalism.
PARIS—A home for aged priests of
the Diccese of Verdun has been open -
ed through the generosity of an
American, William Skinner, of Holy
oke, Mass., in memory of his sister,
Miss Belle Skinner, who died a few
years ago. z
—
SYRACUSE, N. Y.—June 29 liar i
been selected as the tentative date j
for the consecration of the Rt. Rev. |
John A. Duffy, of Newark. Bishop- j
elect of Syracuse. Bishop Walsh will j
be the consecrator at Sacred Heart
Cathedral, Newark.
CHICAGO, 111.—The Rev. Dr. i
George Johnson, secretary-general of !
the National Catholic Educational As- j
sociation and Director of the Depart- ;
ment fo Education, of the National j
Catholic Welfare Conference, will ad- ■
dress the June 23 luncheon meeting j
of the Catholic Press Association here, •
President Richard Reid, of the C. P. 1
A. has announced.
TORONTO.—Protestants and Cath
olics .io'ned here in honoring the
memory of the late Brother Barnabas,
one of the nation’s great boy work
leaders and for years in charge of
that department of the Knights of
Columbus.
SACRAMENTO, Cal.—The Califor
nia Assembly has designated 1934 as
Junipero Scrra year, and August 29,
1934, as Junipero Serra Day. Father
Serra was the founder of the Cali
fornia missions.
NEW YORK. — The New York
Chapter. Knights of Columbus, rep
resenting forty councils, has arrang
ed a Holy Year Jubilee to Rome,
sailing June 12 on tlie Augustus.
HUNTINGTON, Ind —The Sunday
Visitor recently observed its “coming
of age” anniversary, the twenty-first
anniversary of its founding by the
present Bishop of Fort Wayne.
JARRELL, Texas.—Bishop Byrne of
Galveston has ordained the Rev. Tim
othy Jerome Valenta to the priest
hood in Holy Trinity Church, of
which the new priest’s brother is pas
tor. A third brother, Re. Joseph A.
Valenta. is vice president of St.
Mary’s University.
WASHINGTON, D. C.—Philip Tu
multy, son of Joseph P. Tumulty, sec
retary to President Wilson, won the
sophomore Latin contest for students
of Jesuit colleges in the New York-
Maryland Province; he is a student at
Georgetown.'
CHICAGO.—The Chapel car St.
Paul of tiie Extension Society, which
traveled 100,000 miles through the
South and Southwest since its dedi
cation by Cardinal Gibbons in .1915.
will be exhibited at the “Century of
Progress” which opens here in June.
. (By N. C. W. C. News Service)
WASHINGTON—The Fidac educa
tional medal was presented to
Georgetown University May 10 by
General Roman Gorecki of Poland,
president of the inter-allied federa
tion of World War veteran*; with
which the American Legion is af
filiated.
The formal ceremony in Gaston
Hall was attended hy diplomatic rep
resentatives of eight foreign coun
tries associated with the Fidac. The
Very Rev. Coleman Nevils, S. J.,
president of Georgetown, accepted
the medal on behalf of the univer
sity.
“The purpose of the Fidac”, Gen
eral Gorecki said in his address, “is
to dedicate comradeship developed
during the last struggle for a com
mon cause to the service of maintain
ing peace.
; “We stand for peace based upon
Receives Red Hat
His Eminence Elia Cardinal Dalla
Costa who became a member of
the Sacred College of Cardinals
at the recent consistory in Rome.
He was elected Bishop of Padua
in 1923 and drew the attention of
the Catholic world during the ob
servance of the Centenary of St.
Anthony. In 1931 ho was named
to succeed the late Cardinal Mis-
trangelo as Archbishop of Flor
ence, (Photo by Felici, Rome.)
Mendel Award Given
Princeton Professor
Villanova College Honors
Dr. Hugh Scott Taylor
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
VILLANOVA, Pa.—Villanova Col
lege has awarded the Mendel Medal
to Dr. Hugh Scott Taylor, chairman
of the Chemistry Department of
Princeton University. The presenta
tion was made hy the Rev. Edward
V. Stanford, O. S. A., president of
Villanova, at a faculty dinner.
In 1929, Villanoya established the
Mendel Medal to commemorate the
Biological Studies of Abbot Gregor
Mendel. The medal is awarded an
nually to Catholics who have
achieved distinction in promoting the
cause of science.
Dr. Taylor, English by birth, was
called to Princeton Univerity early
in 1914 soon after he had completed
his graduate studies at the University
of Liverpool. At Princeton, Dr. Tay
lor became professor of Physical
Chemistry in 1922. In 1926 he was
made chairman of the Chemistry De
partment and in 1927 he was appoint
ed the David B. Jones Professor of
Research Chemistry.
Dr. Taylor is a devout Catholic. He
is a frequent communicant and an
active worker in the affairs of the St.
Vincent de Paul Society of St. Paul's
Church, Princeton, N. J.
brotherly understanding and co
operation. Working for peace our
respective governments must be pru
dent and patient in the conduct of
international affairs.
“To promote these ideals, Fidac
grants every year for each country
three educational medals to institu
tions of learning which have become
particularly prominent in furthering
the cause of peace. The care which
your institution has always devoted
to the study of international relations
and the very high standing of your
Foreign Service School have prompted
the executive committee of tht Fidac
to accept heartily the suggestion of the
American Legion that Georgetown
University be thus honored this
year.”
Carlton College, of Minnesota, and
the University of Florida were like
wise recipients of the Fidac medal
this year.
Holy Year Pilgrims
Throng Vatican City
Economic Crisis Fails to
Stem Tide Toward Rome
By MSGR. ENRICO PUCCI
(Rome Corespondent. N. C. W. C.
News Service)
ROME — Those in Rome, who,
when His Holiness Pope Pius XI an
nounced the Extraordinary Holy
Year of Jubilee, last December, were
filled with pessimistic forebodings
and who predicted that, because of
the etonomic crisis afflicting th&
world, the number of pilgrims would
fall far short of the Holy Year 192N,
have forsaken their earlier opinions.
In the first weeks of the present
Holy Year, the wonderful scenes of.
1925 have been repeated with no evi
dence of a diminution in the number
of pilgrims attending.
From morn till night, St. Peter's
is thronged with pilgrims. Altho
the naves of the Basilica are im
mense and capable of holding enor
mous crowds, it is often difficult to
pass about.
St. Peter's Square is -constantly
swarming with people and is travers
ed by vehicles of every description
—from motorcars to taxis, autobuses
to charabancs laden with parties—
which arrive, deposit their load of
visitors, and go quickly to take
away or to bring others. This is the
case not only on the days of the
Papal ceremonies but every day. On
April 2, the day after the opening
of the Holy Door, it-is estimated that
not less than half a million persons
visited the Basilica.
The spectacle is not less impressive
in the great halls of the Vatican,
where collective audiences are held.
Twice daily, from noon to nearly
3 o’clock and again from 6 until 8
p. m., and some times even until 9,
all the halls are full of pilgrims wait
ing to see the Pope.
Ninety-Seven Per Cent of
Schools Approved by Amer
ican College of Suregons
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
ST. LOUIS — There are nearly 25.-'
000 students enrolled in Catholic
schools of nursing in the United
States and Canada, it is shown in
the current issue of Hospital Prog
ress, official journal of the Catholic
Hospital Association. "This marks a
sufficient .decrease when the figures
for this year are compared with those
for last year to indicate that an ap
preciable effort has been made
at restricting the school enrollment”,
it is stated in the study.
Of the total number of student
nurses reported in the survey 20,886
are in the United States while 3,909
are in Catholic schools in Canada.*
The number of Sisters enrolled in
the Catholic schools of nursing is 580
in the United .States and 140 in Cana
da, giving an average of about two
Sisters per school in each of the two
countries.
In the United States, it is also
shown, there arc 385 Catholic general
schools of nursing with two general
schools of nursing at present tem
porarily closed and ten special
schools of nursing and 21 hospitals
affiliated for Nursing Education on
a state-accredited basis. In Canada
there are 76 Catholic general schools
of nursing and two hosjl als af
filiated for Nursing Education pur
poses.
Of the 385 Catholic schools of nurs
ing in the United States, 370, or 97
per cent, have merited the recogni
tion of the American College of Sur
geons.
Only ton of the schools of nursing
in the United States have yet to
merit- unqualified state accrediting.
One hundred and nine of the Cath
olic schools of nursing in the United
States, or 28.3 per cent, have effect
ed educational affiliations with uni
versities and colleges.
Priest-Editor Heads
State Hospital Group
LITTLE ROCK, Ark.—The Rt. Rev.
Msgr. John P. Fisher was re-elected
president of the Arkansas State Hos
pital Association at the annual meet
ing of that group just held at Hot
Springs. The meeting of the Arkan
sas Hospital Association was held,
jointly with the Tennessee and Okla
homa Associations and with delegates
from the Mississippi Association.
Monsignor Fisher, who is editor of
The Guardian, Catholic paper, here,
is also secretary. to the Most Rev.
John B. Morris, of Little Rock, pas
tor of the Church of Clirist the King
at Fort Smith, and director of Ca
tholic Hospitals.
New Cardinal
The Most Rev. Angelo Maria
Dolci, Papal Nuncio to Rumania
and Titular Archbishop of Gerapo-
lis in Syria, who whs elevated to
the Cardinalate at the recent
Sacred Consistory in Rome, His
Eminence has served the Church
in the pastoral ministry and dip
lomatic. service for many years.
(Photo hy Felici, Rome.)
Cardinal Mundelein
to Be Host to C.P.A.
Archbishop of Chicago to
Address Catholic Editors
(By N. C. W. C. News CervTce)
CHICAGO—His Eminence George
Cardinal Mundelein, Archbishop of
Chicago, will receive the members of
the Catholic Press Association and
will deliver an address to them at the
Theological Seminary of St. Mary of
the Lake, at Mundelein, 111., Satur
day afternoon. June 24. At the in
vitation of the Cardinal, the C. P.
A., will hold its annual convention
in Chicago June 22-24.
On the trip to and from Munde
lein, the C. P. A. will be the guests
of The New World, official news
paper of the Archdiocese of Chicago.
The famous seminary at Mundelein
was the scene of one of the principal
events of the International Eucharis
tic Congress of 1926.
Tlie convention will be held at the
Stevens Hotel. Thursday, June 22,
will be Magazine Day. Joint sessions
will be held Friday and Saturday.
The Most Rev. Bernard J. Sheil,
Auxiliary Bishop of Chicago, will
represent the Cardinal and will de
liver an address of welcome at the
Friday morning session. Cardinal
Mundelein has extended an invita
tion to the Most Rev Hugh C. Boyle,
Bishop of Pittsburgh and Episcopal
chairman of the Press Department,
National Catholic Welfare Conference,
to attend the convention.
Richard Reid, editor of The Bulletin
of the Catholic Laymen's Association
of Georgia and president of the C.
P. A., is making final arrangements
for the , three-day convention. The
complete program will be announced
in the near future. Very Rev. Bene
dict Brown, O. S. B., editor of Tlie
Grand, and Prior of St. Meinrad Ab
bey. Indiana, is magazine chairman.
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
OKLAHOMA CITY. — Governor
William H. Murray'has signed House
Bill 686 providing for the unifying
of higher education in Oklahoma
and the appointment of a co-ordi
nating board for the study of the
whole educational system and to
make recommendations for its ad
vancement. The bill as proposed" by
Governor Murray was passed, with
amendments, by both houses the
closing day of the legislature.
The tentative hoard originally ap
pointed by Governor Murray, which
included Bishop Kelly, went out of
existence upon the passing of the
bill, Tlie permanent board will be
appointed soon by the governor and.
it is said, will include all tlie mem
bers of the tentative committee.
CARDINAL GERRETTi
IS DEAD AT ROME
Served as Auditor at Aposto
lic Delegation in Washing
ton From 1906 to 1914
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
WASHINGTON—News of the death
in Rome May 8 of Cardinal Cerretti
not only came as a shock, but carried
with it also a deep sense of personal
sorrow to the Very Rev. Msgr. Paul
A Marella. auditor of the Apostolic
Delegation here and charge d'affaires
pending the arrival of the new Apos
tolic Delegate to the United States.
At the same time, from all quar
ters of the United States have come
expressions of sorrow at the passing
of the distinguished member of the
Sacred College of Cardinals who had
a particular affection for the United
States. There have also been recalled
numerous incidents which strikingly
illuminate Cardinal Cerretti’s high
attainments, and put in new relief
his deep knowledge of and close at
tachment to the people of this coun
try.
Monsignor Marella had a high
esteem for Cardinal Cerretti. Im
mediately. too, there came to his mind
the very deep interest the late pre
late had in the United States and his
great and sincere admiration for this
country, so often expressed.
“I know His Eminence suffered
from physical infirmities,” Monsignor
Marella said, “but no one thought
that these would call him to his re
ward in so sudden a manner.
“Holding as I do the office of
Auditor of the Apostolic Delegation
to the United States, I cannot help
but note that Cardinal Cerretti
served here in the same capacity from
1906 to 1914 under Cardinals Falconio
and Bonzano, and this was the begin
ning of his ardent love for the Church
in America and for America itself—
a love which he carried always with
him and which his later visits gave
opportunity for him to renew had
that been necessary.
“I am sure it was an affection and
an esteem which were reciprocated
by his many American friends among
the Hierarchy, the clergy and the
laity. There have been too many evi
dences of this high regard by his
American friends to doubt that it ex
tended to all who knew him.
‘To these friends it will be dif
ficult, as it is difficult for me, to
think of him as silent in death. He
always appeared to be physically
vigorous. I recall his visit to the
Apostolic Delegation here in 1928,
when he was guest for a few days of
His Eminence Cardinal FumaSoni-
Biondi. I can still hear his voice,
loud and clear, ringing even in ordi
nary conversation through the house”.
Msgr. Cerretti served at Washing
ton from 1906 to 1914. when, the
Apostolic Delegation to Australasia
being set up, he was named first
Apostolic Delegate to that section.
Recalled to Rome in 1917. Arch
bishop Ceretti was named secretary
of extraordinary Ecclesiastical Af
fairs. and remained' in that office
until he was named Papal Nunicio
to Paris. The selection of Msgr. Cer-
reti for this latter office was hailed
with approval by ofticials of the
French Government, and by the Paris
and provincial press. Msgr. Cer-
retti's thorough knowledge of modern
international law and practices at
tracted world-wide attention; and it
has been said that the foundation for
this knowledge was laid during his
term as Auditor of the Apostolic
Delegation in Washington, where he
came in contact with some of the best
intellects in modern diplomacy.
Msgr. Ceretti was created and pro
claimed a cardinal on March 30, 1925,
and was proclaimed Cardinal Bishop
of Velletri on March 13, 1933.
Tlie speed with which the educa
tion bill became law was one of the
features of the measure. Tlie pro
posal was released to the public
press on Sunday, April 9. and view
ed favorably by the leading educa
tors of the state. A special meeting
of the Chamber of Commerce of
Oklahoma City was called on Wed
nesday, April 19, and Bishop Kelley
was asked to explain the proposal to
the educators and profesisonal men
of Oklahoma over the most power
ful radio station in the state. Three
days later the Senate anl House
passed the bill. Governor Murray,
after studying the amendments, sign
ed the measure five days later.
Tlie measure among other propo
sals offers aid to the independent
colleges in the state, which, of
course, includes religious schools.
Medal for Peace Efforts Is
Given GeorgetownUniversity
21,000 Students Attending
Catholic Nursing Schools
Governor Murray Signs Bill
for State Aid to Colleges