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TEN CENTS A COPY. VOL. XIV., No. 12
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, JUNE 17, 1933
Bulletins
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
WASHINGTON, D. C. — President
Franklin D. Roosevelt will receive
41ie honorary degree of Doctor oi
Laws at the commencement exercises
at the Catholic University of America,
here this week.
ROME. — The Rev. Dr. Fulton
Sheen, of the Catholic University ol
America delivered the Pentecost
Sunday sermon at the Church of
Saint Susanna, conducted by the
Paulist Fathers of the United States,
here.
WASHINGTON, D. C. — There arc
1,092 Episcopal Sees of the Latin Rite,
634 of which are in Europe, the An-
mario Pontificio for 1933 reports.
Eighty-two sees were created dur
ing the year.
MUNICH. —. Cardinal von Faulha-
Iber delivered a sermon at the Bene
dictine Abbey Cathedral at Weingar-
ten near Lake Constance to a con
gregation of 20,000, deplored racial
hatred and concluded with an appeal
for world peace through the appli
cation of the principles of Christ.
Archbishop-Elect
NEW YORK. — Tiie sixth annual
convention of the National Catholic
Federation will he held here June
22-25 at the Centre Club. About
75 Catholic colleges and universities
will he represented.
CHICOPEE, Mass. — Our lady of
the Elms College here will award
Mrs. Alfred E. Smith the Via Verita-
tis Medal at the commencement ex
ercises; the medal is awarded an
nually to the Catholic laywoman
whose works most nearly reflect the
teachings of the Catholic Church.
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.—The
Most Rev. William J. Ifat'ey, D. D.,
Bishop of Raleigh and national chap
lain of the Catholic Daughters of
America, and the Most Rev. Urban
J. Vehr, D. D., Bishop of Denver,
will he the principal speakers at the
“Dinner of States” at the interna
tional convention of the C. D. of A.,
which will be held here July 3-7.
The Most Rev. Rudolph Aloysius
Gerken, Bishop of Amarillo, who has
ben named Archbishop of Santa Fe,
by His Holiness Pope Pius XI. The
Archbishop-designate succeeds the
Most Rev. Albert T. Daeger, O.F.M.,
who died as the result of a fall on
December 2, 1932. The new archbish
op is a native of Dyersville, Iowa,
and was named the first Ordinary of
the Diorese of Amarillo, Texas, in
1926. *
Restoration of Principles
of Christ Recovery Basis
Statement of Bishops Says
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
WASHINGTON—“There can be r.o
hope for/the restoration of human so
ciety without restoring Christ, with
out striving to accord to man the dig
nity that He, as God, conferred on
every human being”, the Bishops of
the Administrative Committee of the
National Catholic Welfare Conference
declare in an extended and critical
“Statement on the Present Crisis”
made public here June 5.
Beginning with the assertion that
“we are passing through crucial
years” and that “hone is the mark of
the present moment”, the first part of
the statement deals with the current
universal distress, the alleged causes
of the depression, false social philoso
phy prevalent during recent centuries,
education, the rejection of moral
standards, the undermining of the
home, economic nationalism, the farm
problem, unemployment and old age
pensions. It declares that “our whole
educational system deserves the most
serious consideration of the Govern
ment and of all thinking and informed
men who have at heart the best in
terest of their country. Great evils
are to be corrected.”
The second part of the statement,
dealing with “Remedies”, begins with
the declaration that in the restora
tion of society the restoration of
Christ “must be the starting-point."
It emphasizes “the work that can be
accomplished by an earnest lay
apostolate”; declares that “the Catho
lic Press during the years of depres
sion has given proof of its many
virtues”; urges prayers “that Christ
be given His rightful place in the na
tion and in the hearts of individuals.”
“Grave as are the problems of the
present, r-.d dark as the economic
outlook may now appear, there is no
reason,” the statement says, “why
Catholics should not face the future
with confidence and courage.”
St. Vincent de Paul Society
Observes Centennial at Paris
CATHOLIC EDUCATORS
TO MEET IN ST, PAUL
7,.000 Members From 27
Nations Present—President
de Valera in Attendance
One Session Will Study Par
ent-Teacher Problems
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — The
will of the late Thomas J. O'Brien,
former U. S. Minister to Japan,
leaves a total of $10,000 to Catholic
chariiies.
MINNEAPOLIS. — The ®t. Rev.
Msgr. James M. Cleary, founder of
the Church of the Incarnation here,
and an outstanding champion of
temperance, has just died here at
the age of 83.
SAN FRANCISCO. — Over 750
delegates are attending the Pacific
Coast convention of the American
Catholic Philosophical Association at
the University of San Francisco.
Archbishop Hanna was celebrant of
the Pontifical Mass which opened the
gathering.
WASHINGTON, D. C. — The Very
Rev. W. Coleman Nevils, S. J„ pres
ident of Georgetown University, who
«s a commander of the Crown of
Italy, has received from the King of
Italy the further honor of Grand
Officer of the Order for his work in
fostering and promoting ,Italian cul
ture and the study of the Italian lan
guage. and Dr, Thomas II. Healy. as
sistant dean of the Georgetown
School of Foreign Service, has been
made a commander of the order, the
decorations being conferred by the
Italian Ambassador to the United
States.
CHICAGO. — The late Fred B.
Jones in his will bequeathed $25,000
to the Little Sisters of the Poor. Mr.
Jones left most of ids estate of $750,-
900 to charity.
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
ST. PAUL. - The Most Rev. John
Gregory Murray, Archbishop of St.
Paul; the Most Rev. Francis W. How
ard, Bishop of Covington, and Pres
ident General of the National Cath
olic Educational Association; the
Most Rev. Edwin V. O'Hara, Bishop
of Great Falls, and Chairman of the
Parent-Educator Committee, the
Most Rev. John B. Peterson, D. D.,
Bishop of Manchester, and Miss
Agnes G. Regan, Executive Secretary
of the National Council of Catholic
WOmen, are among those who will
play leading parts in a session to be
devoted to problems of Parent-
Teacher Associations at the conven
tion here of the National Catholic
Educational Association. Sessions
will be held June 26 to 29.
Arrangements for the Parent-
Teacher Association portion of the
program, which will occupy the first
day. have been entrusted to the Na
tional Council of Catholic Women.
P1 a s s for this Parent-Teacher
meeting are being developed now by
the Rev. James A. Byrnes, St. Paul
Archdiocesan Superintendent of
Schools. The session is to open on
Monday morning, will continue all
day and in the evening will merge
with the Archbishop's reception.
Father Byrnes will deliver the key
note speech Monday morning. In it
he will define the aims of Parent
Teacher Associations, and will an
nounce the need of new objectives
for the future. Among the papers
to be presented will be those dealing
with “Lay Participation in Catholic
Educational Endeavor”; “The Church
as Educator”; “Tire Parent as Edu
cator”; “The Parent-Teacher Associa
tion a Training School for Christian
Parenthood”; “Catholic Education
and the Parent-Teacher Association
and papers on other phases of Cath
olic Parent-Teacher endeavor.
Aged Russian Writes of Her
Sufferings in Persecution
(Special Correspondence, N. C. W. C.
NEWS SERVICE)
COLOGNE—Religious persecution
continues unabated in Soviet Russia,
according to a heart-rending letter by
a 70-year-old unnamed Christian
which was smuggled out of the coun
try under greatest difficulties and is
now published by the Koelnische
Volkszeitung, Catholic daily.
“Praise be to the Lord!” the letter
says in part. “Once more we will
use this beautiful greeting of our
faith, of this faith which causes us
to be vilified and despised, on whose
account we are treated worse than
animals, for which, if the Lord
doesn't help us, we must die the
death of starvation. But we die glad
ly, we are tired of living. If God
will only grant us the one grace to
deliver us soon from our persecu
tors. My dear child, pray, pray for
the death of your poor parents,
brothers and sisters!
“We cannot write you all that is
done to us. We are carried from one
prison to another, from one ice cel
lar to another. We have no peace
day and night. We must work like
horses, but they are at least fed,
while we are only beaten. We are not
given one piece of bread, and that
in wealthy Russia, the land of grain,
where they take everyhing and send
it abroad. But we must not touch
anything. We don’t even know any
more what bread tastes like. We
want to die for our holy faith. May
the Lord forgive our persecutors and
grant us a good death, in accordance
with His holy will. My dear child
you cannot imagine what offenses are
perpetrated here against Our Loro.
One cannot understand why no pun
ishment has yet been inflicted upon
this country as upon Sodom and Go
morrha. For the last time I bless you,
my dear child, in the Name of Je
sus."
2,000 CONVERTS IN YEAR
IN ONE INDIA DIOCESE
SPAIN’S “RELIGIOUS"
LAWS ARE ASSAILED
Holy Father’s Encyclical
Protests Violation of Bights
and Seizure of Property
(N. C. W. C. News Service)
VATICAN CITY. — In a vigorous
Encyclical Letter, issued on June 3,
Pope Pius XI assailed the “factions
subversive of every religious order,
and against Christ,” wjpeh put into
effect in Spain the drastic new anti
church law.
This legislation, despite the Con
cordat and the known Catholicity of
the Spanish people, confiscated all
Catholic Church property in Spain
without compensation, barred all re
ligious Orders from the right to
teach, and otherwise heaped disabil
ities upon the ancient Faith of the
people.
Characteristic clarity and vigor
mark the Holy Father’s pronounce
ment, which is addressed to all the
Bishops of the world. “We solemnly
protest with all Our strength,’
declares.
he
BY M. MASSIANI
(Paris Correspondent,. N. C. W. C.
News Service)
PARIS.—The celebration of the cen
tenary cf the founding of the Society
of St. Vincent de Paul brought to
Paris 7,000 members representing 27
nations. The President of the Irish
Free State was there in person and
the President of France was officially
represented by the chief of his mili
tary staff at the pontifical high Mass
celebrated in the Cathedral of Notre
Dame. The Municipality of Paris had
two-fold part in the celebration,
he solemn reception of the Cardinal
Legate at the City Hall, and the in
auguration of the Place Oranam,
named in honor of Frederic Ozanam.
founder of the St. Vincent de Paul
Society.
The ceremonies opened with the
solemn reception in the Church of
St. Sulpice. of His Eminence Jean
Cardinal Verdier, Archbishop of Paris,
as Pontifical Legate. He was at
tended by a pontifical mission that
had come from Rome and was com
posed of 'many prelates and private
chamberlains .of the Pope. The Most
Rev. Luigi Mrglione. Apostolic Nun
cio to France. ibid a great many Bish
ops were present.
The Bull of the Sovereign Pontiff
designating the Cardinal Legate was
read. This bull contained a mag
nificent tribute to the Society which
in the space of a century has grown
up. increasing from day to day
throughout the world, procuring a
great alleviation of misery and a
growth of religion as well.”
Cardinal Verdier recalled the coin-
NELLARE, India. —More than
009 converts have been baptized in
the last year in this diocese, it is an
nounced by the Most Rev. William
ISO Her, Bishop of Neliore. Threo
thousand catechumens are under in
struction.
Among the accomplishments of the
diocese in the year were the enlarge
ment of the seminary, the erection
of St. Joseph’s School for the train
ing of teachers and catechists and
the opening of two new mission cen
ters. *
(Continued on Page Two!
NOTRE DAME HONORS
JOHN McOORMAGK
Archbishop Opposes
Any Subjugation of
Medical Profession
Gov. Smith, J. J. Spalding
Among Notables Present
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
ROCHESTER, Minn. — The hope
that there would be no "experiment
in government that would tend to
subjugate the medical profession,”
was expressed by the Most Rev.
John Gregory Murray, Archbishop
of St, Paul in an address delivered
before the Minnesota State Medical
Association at its eightieth annual
meeting here.
“I hope,” Archbishop Murray said,
“that every one, laymen as well as
members of the medical profession,
will see to it that there will be no
experiment in government that will
tend to subjugate the medical pro
fession or say to its members that
they shall become mere hirelings to
work for a wage, as <as been sug
gested in proposed slate medicine,
rather than to be men in their re
spective professions to receive an
honorarium, which is only an ex
pression of gratitude by those who
receive their services because they
know they cannot repay that ser
vice.”
The services of any true profes
sional man cannot be measured in
terms of money, he continued, say
ing the object of the genuine profes
sional man is an interest not in him
self hut in society in general.
It is not for political reasons he
protests, His Holiness makes clear
at the outset, because the Church ac
commodates herself to every politi
cal form of government, provided the
rights of God and Christian on-
science be safeguarded. This, he
adds, is proved by the many Con
cordats concluded with new repub
lics since the World War. “Nor"
he observes, “is the Spanish Cover i-
ment ignorant of the good disposi
tion of the Holy See” in this respect.
His Holiness protests because, he
asserts, the Spanish regime has act
ed against the Faith professed by a
majority of the Spanish people, and
has thereby denied the very liberty
and inherent rights of its citizens
which it professes to protect.
“The Azana-Alala Zamora gov
ernment of the Spanish Republic
has repudiated solemn contractual
obligations existing between Church
and State in Spain, and has done
this in spite of the assurance it pub
licly gave before its election that it
would negotiate a concordat with the
Holy See. The men who are guiding
the destinies of Spain are making
the mistake others have made, set
ting up a tyrannical absolutism
which is not necessary and which if
persisted in can bring only disaster
to the Spanish Republic itself.
“We can only hope and pray that
those men, respecting enlightened
world opinion, will reconsider what
they have done, revising their enact
ments to the end that the consti
tution of the new Spanish Republic
may be broad enough in its princi
ples to provide for those religious
rights and the exercises thereof
which are inalienable to ever one
of its citizens.”
ORATORY REVIVED
NEW YORK—An oratorical con
test similar to the one in* which Gov.
cnior Smith took first honors nearly
a half-century ago, and laid the
foundation of his oratorical ability,
was organized this year by the
Christian Brothers, 21 schools par
ticipating. Edward Reynolds, of
Sacred Heart School, won first
honors.
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
NOTRE DAME, Ind. — Former
Governor Alfred E. Smith, of New
York. 1929 recipient of the University
of Notre Dame Laetare medal, was
chairman of the program for the
awarding of the 1933 Golden Jubilee
Medal to John McCormack.
The award was made Sunday,
June 4, at the 89th annual com
mencement exercises of Notre Dame,
when 523 received bachelor degrees.
The Most Rev. John F. Noll, Bishop
of Fort Wayne, sang the baccalau
reate solemn High Pontifical Mass,
and presided at the Laetare Medal
ceremony.
Dr. James J. Walsh famous Cath
olic scholar, Margaret Anglin, noted
New York actress, Jack J. Spalding,
distinguished Southern lawyer and
layman, former medalists, were
among the notables at the Laetare
presentation gathering. The Rev,
Charles O’Donnell. C. S. C.. president
of the university, made the presen
tation.
The Rev. Charles E. Coughlin, not.
ed priest-radio-speaker, gave the
baccalaureate sermon. Gov. Paul V
McNutt, of Indiana, was the com
mencement speaker.
Catholics of World Number
363,764,793, New Estimate
(BY N. C. W. C. NEWS SERVICE)
LONDON.—A new estimate of the
Catholic population of the world
gives the huge total of 363,764,793.
This figure is much in excess of
the estimate printed in the British
“Catholic Directory” —334.664,791 —
and of the estimate in “Whitaker’s
Almanack,” an old established gen
eral work of reference, which gives
331.500,000.
The new estimate appears in the
“Holy Rood Chronicle” published by
Msgr. Canon Arthur Jackman in his
parish at Watford, near here. Msgr.
Jackman, formerly secretary to His
Eminence Francis Cardinal Bourne,
Archbishop of Westminister, was the
editor of the “Catholic Directory” for
Europe
Asia ...'.A
Africa
America
Australasia .....
Grand totals
many years.
Msgr. Jackman inlorms the N. C.
W. C. correspondent that the new
figure is the result of painstaking re
search undertaken by a distinguished
Hungarian priest who has been en
gaged on statistical work for a long
time.
Census figures were relied upon
wherever the state took cognizance
of religious affiliation in its inqui
ries.
It is reckoned that the total num
ber of human beings on this earth is
1,849.500,000.
Of this number about one in five
is a Catholic.
The continental totals are now es
timated as follows:
Rites other
than Latin
5,900.814
1,109,316
62,137
708,378
Latin Rite
. 200,274,033
, 7,455.631
. 5,735.548
. 129,829,063
. 12,689,868
. 355,984,148
7,780,645
Total
206,174.847
8,564.947
5,797,685
103,537.446
12,689.868
363.764.7tS