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TEN CENTS A COPY. VOL. XIV., No. 14
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, JULY 22, 1933
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Bulletins
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
TOE REV. FRANCIS J. DOLAN,
S. J., dean of studies at Holy Cross
College for the past three years, has
been named president, succeding the
Rev. John M. Fox, S. J. who be
comes instructor of tertians.
PROF. JOHN A. STAUNTON of
Notre Dame University, formerly a
Protestant Episcopal clergyman, will
leave for Rome in September to study
for the priesthood. Dr. Staunton is
seventy years old.
THE REV. JOHN F. O’HARA, C. S.
C., has been named vice-president of
Notre Dame University and assistant
superior, succeeding the Rev. M. A.
Mulcaire, C. .S. C., who has been
given a year’s leave of absence in
Europe.
ARCHBISHOP STRITCH of Mil
waukee will sponsor the summer
school of Catholic Action in Milwau
kee August 21-26, one of three such
schools to be held this summer. The
first was at Loyola University, New
Orleans, June 5-10; the third will be
at Fordham University, New York,
August 28-September 2.
1 MISS NELLIE X HOWARD, sister
of Bishop Howard of Covington and
president general of the Catholic Ed
ucational Association, was killed in
an automobile accident last week
near Columbus, O.
THE REV. HENRY A. COFFEY, S.
J., professor of Dogmatic Theology at
St. Joseph's Seminary, Manila, has
been .named superior of all the Jesuit
missionaries in the Philippines. Fath
er Coffey was born in Ireland and
reared in Providence, R. I.
Educator Urges Catholic
Publications in Schools
Mar 1st Bishop
THE RT. REV. MSGR. MICHAEL
J. SPLAINE of Boston is leading the
Boston Pilgrimage to Rome and the
Holy Land; the pilgrimage, sponsored
by His Eminence Cardinal O’Connell,
sailed early in July.
AN AIRPLANE PILGRIMAGE to
Rome from London, the first of its
kind, is being arranged. The pilgrims
will fly from London to Zurich the
first day and to Rome the second;
the return, a distance of about 1,000
miles as the crow flies, will be made
in one day.
THE MOST REV. AMLETO CIGOG-
NANI, D. D., Apostolic Delegate to
the United States, visited Mount Ver
non July 5 and placed a wreath on
the tomb of George Washington.
MISS GWENDOLYN M’COR-
MACK, only daughter of John Mc
Cormack, is engaged to be married
to Edward Pyke, a member of a lead
ing Catholic family at Lancashire,
Eng . Mr. Pyke, a major in the Duke
of Lancaster’s Own Yeomanry and
active in business, was educated by
the Jesuits at Stonyhurst and Oxford.
THE REV. VERNON JOHNSON,
for many years a prominent Angli
can minister in England, was ordain
ed a priest by Cardinal Bourne re
cently. Another former Anglican
minister, the Rev. Ralph Edward Un
derwood, formerly vicar of Brig-
stock-with-Stanton, has just been or
dained in Rome,
THE VERY REV. THOMAS
PLASSMAN, O. F. M., president of
St. Bonaventure's College, St. Bona-
venture, N. Y., was reelected chair
man of tlie Franciscan Educational
Conference at the fifteenth annual
meeting at St. Anthony’s Monastery,
Marathon City, Mis.
The Rev. Dr Gerald Shaughnessy,
S. M., of the Marist College at the
Catholic University of America and a
member of the staff of the Apostolic
Delegation at Washington, whom His
Holiness Pope Pius X^ has named
Bishop of Seattle, Wash. Bishop-elect
Shaughnessy is a noted student, edu
cator, writer and orator. (Harris &
Ewing photo.)
St. Thomas College English
Department Head Urges
Catholic Institutions to
Utilize Them
CALIFORNIAN NEW
BISHOP OF FRESNO
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
ST. PAUL —The use of Catholic
newspapers and magazines in the
English classes of high schools was
advocated at the annual convention
of the National Catholic Educational
Association, by Brother D. Joseph. F.
S. C„ head of the English depart
ment and professor of journalism at
St. Thomas College, Scranton, Pa.
“No study of high school English is
complete unless a part of the text is
given over to types of journalistic
writing." said Brother Joseph. “Ir.
fact,” he added, “even down in the
elementary grades at least one lesson
should be devoted to the study of
newspapers and magazines.'
“Our high school students.” he
said, “need training in the reading
of newspapers and periodicals. Secu
lar papers and magazines should be
considered, but. above all. the dio
cesan newspaper and Catholic per
iodxcals should be utilized in the
English courses of our high schools.
‘Tf it is financially possible to have
all the members of the class sub
scribe -to a Catholic publication, do
so. Perhaps it would be better to use
the class funds to send in subscrip
tions to several different publications
These various copies could be placed
on the bulletin board and used in
English and other classes.
“The April meeting of the Superin
tendents Section of the N. C. E. A.
brought to our attention the recipro
cal relations between Catholic edu
cation and the Catholic Press. Sure
ly then. Catholic publications will fit
into the educational programs of our
Catholic schools. Once a year, the
Catholic high schools could conduct
an exhibit of Catholic periodical
literature. Thus shall the interests
of the Catholic press and Catholic
education be promoted.”
Bishop Scher Is Consecrated
in the West
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
FRESNO, Calif. — Six members of
the Hierarchy, numerous distinguish
ed monsignori and priests, and a
large congregation of laymen, in
cluding Tache and Tejon Indians,
were present at the consecration and
installation of the Most Rev. Philip
G, Scher as the second Bishop of
Monterey-Fresno here. The cere
monies took place in St. John’s Cath
edral here.
The Most Rev. Edward J. Hanna,
Archbishop of San Francisco was
consecrator of Bishop Scher. -The
Most Rev. John J. Cantwell, Bishop
of Los Angeles and San Diego, and
the Most Rev. Thomas K. Gorman,
Bishop of Reno, were the co-conse-
crators. The Most Rev. John J. Mit-
ty, Coadjutor Archbishop of San
Francisco, preached the sermon.
Other Bishops present at the conse
cration and installation were the
Most Rev. Robert J. Armstrong,
Bishop of Sacramento, and the Most
Rev. Daniel J Gercke, Bishop of
Tucson. ,
Anglican Archbishop Quotes
Cardinal 9 s Defense of Jews
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
LONDON — The Anglican Arch
bishop of Canterbury, Dr. Cosmo
Lang, quoted the late Cardinal Man
ning when speaking at a protest
meeting here against the activity
against Jews under the new regime
m Germany.
Cardinal Manning’s words were
spoken 51 years ago when the Cardi
nal was protesting against the treat
ment of Jews in Russia. Cardinal
Manning said, as quoted by Arch
bishop Lang;
“The laws of humanity, of nature,
and of Cod are the foundation upon
which ail other laws are based, and
if, in any legislation, these are vio
lated, all other nations of Christian
Europe, and indeed of the whole
commonwealth of civilized man,
would instantly acquire a right to
speak aloud."
Lord Iddesleigh, who was received
into the Church a few years ago,
was the Catholic spokesman at the
meeting, at which a nonconformist
minister also spoke.
Lord Iddesleigh said he spoke in
no spirit of hostility to Germany or
its National Socialist Government.
“We have heard of a large num
ber of high-handed and arbitrary
interferences with the freedom and
property of individuals, against
whom no definite accusation is
brought. Most of them are Jews,
though Catholic priests and other
persons have also been the victims.
“If these were merely the work
of hotheads in the party we would
be content to remind Herr Hitler
of the need for discipline among
his followers. But there appears to
be official encouragement for many
of these attacks”.
Lord Iddesleigh said one of the
worst of modern heresies is the wor
ship of the state. Intoxicated by
their own powers modem rulers for
get the rights of communities, he
said.
CATHOLIC WRITERS
DRAWN FROM SCHOOLS
Brother Joseph also spoke of the
opportunity in high schools of “steer
ing our young writers toward the
field of the Catholic newspaper and
magazine.” “Let them understand,”
he urged, “that the Catholic Press
can place them as successful writers,
and that they have a mission to place
the Catholic Press ever forward on
the road of progress. The teachers of
English should assist the promising
writers in making the necessary con
tacts with the diocesan paper and
the Catholic periodicals. In the past
much talent has gone astray be
cause there was no helpful guide to
direct it into the. noble fraternity of
Catholic writers."
Every high school ought to have
one or more publications of its own.
a newspaper, a magazine and a year
book, even if typewritten or mimeo
graphed, Brother Joseph said. He
urged “simple and dignified forms”
rather than “elaborate schemes.”
"‘It is altogether proper to stress the
fact,” he added, “that Catholic and
non-Catholic readers expect Catho
lic scholastic publications to give
evidence of their Catholicity.”
In conclusion, he urged an increas
ed membership in the Catholic
School Press Association.
Radio Speaker
Very Rev. Dr. Francis A. Walsh,
Q S. B., of St. Anselm's Priory, Re
gent of the Seminary of the Catholic
University of America, who began a
series of four lectures, begining July
16, during the Catholic Hour, spon
sored by (he National Council of
Catholic Men, over NBC network of
radio stations. Dr. Walsh, who is an
instructor in philosophy at Catholic
University and at Trinity College, is
also editor of the “Placidian,” Amer
ican Benedictine review. He will
speak of “Religion and Liturgy.”
BISHOP WALSH WILL
ADDRESS CRUSADERS
At Annual Convention to Be
Held in Cincinnati
Nun, Memphis Fever
Plague Heroine, Dies
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
ST. LOUIS.—Funeral services for
Sister M. Mechtildis, 85-year-old
nun, veteran nurse of the yellow
fever epidemic in Memphis in 1878,
have just been held here in the
Chapel of St. Mary of the Angels at
the motherhouse of the Sisters of St.
Mary.
Sister Mechtildis was born in Tyrol,
Austria; She joined the Sisters of
St. Mary in St. Louis in 1876 and
immediately volunteered for service
in the cholera epidemic, then raging
here. Two years later she volunteer
ed, with a group of 12 other nuns
among the 40 members of the Order,
to serve as a nurse in the yellow
fever epidemic.
In 1939 she and Sister Rose, the
only surviving member of the group,
went to Memphis to assist in the un
veiling of a monument to members
of Catholic nursing Orders who died
during the epidemic.
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
CINCINNATI, Ohio—The Apostol
ic Delegate to a distant mission land
of promise, a Bishop who is Superior
of one of the world's outstanding
Catholic mission congregations, and
another Bishop whose, diocese lies in
the heart of a home mission area
where the apostolate has yet much
to accomplish will be heard in ad
dresses at the eighth national con
vention of the Catholic Students'
Misison Crusade to be held here on
August 8-11.
They are His Excellency the Most
Rev. Edv.~rd A. Mooney, Apostolic
Delegate to Japan, the Most Rev.
James A. Walsh, M. M., Superior
General of Maryknoll, and newly
consecrated Bishop, and the Most
Rev. Emmet M. Walsh, Bishop of
Charleston.
APPOINTED EUCHARISTIC
CONGRESS GROUP HEAD
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
BUENOS AIRES—The Most Rev
Santiago Luis Cooello, Archbishop of
Buenos Aires, has named Msgr.
Daniel Figueroa as president of the
local committee for the International
Eucharistic Congress to be held in
Buenos Aires next year.
Monsignor Figueroa succeeds the
Most Rev. Fortunato Devoto, formerly
appointed to this position, whos;
resignation was made necessary be
cause of his many duties—since h
has been made Auxiliary Bishop of
Buenos Aires.
CATHOLIC EDUCATORS
ASK COOPERATION OF
SCHOOL AND PRESS
o i n t Responsibility of
School and Home Also
Emphasized in Educational
Convention Resolutions
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
ST. POUL.—Reaffirming its convic
tion that “the Catholic Press is an in
valuable asset to the Catholic school,”
the National Catholic Educational As
sociation urged its membership “to
co-operate actively with it in the dif
fusion of the news of the Catholic
world and in the proper interpre
tation of the church in the world at
large,” in a resolution adopted by the
thirtieth annual meeting of the N. C.
E. A. just held here.
The association expressed its fealty
to His Holiness Pope Pius XI “who in
many utterances has so nobly set
forth the principles and aims of the
Catholic school and college,” and
promised fidelity to his directions and
aspirations for Catholic education.
The association acknowledged with
respect “the gracious message” of His
Excellency the Most Rev. Amleto
Giovanni Cicognani, Apostolic Dele
gate to the United States, and assured
him of its “determination to pledge
its loyalty to his person and to con
tinue its co-operation with the work
of the Holy See represented in his of.
fice.‘”
Another resolution expressed the
body’s “thanks to the members of the
Hierarchy comprising the Administra
tive Committee of the N. C. W. C. for
their stirring ‘Statement on the Pres
ent Crisis,’ ” and noted with a speci'l
satisfaction the sections devoted to
the purpose and aims of Catholic edu
cation.”
Still another resolution urged “that
the schools and colleges 'comprising
the National Catholic Educational As
sociation once more proclaim to the
world the glorious heritage of the
truth of the religion of Christ and the
greatness of its own mission to in
corporate into the -Catholic consci
ousness the knowledge and beauty of
Catholicism both as a creed and as a
culture, and that we once more con
secrate ourselves to the task of
moulding the souls of all Catholic
youth to the image and likeness of
the Son of God.”
Pointing to the fact that “the na
tion is now entering upon a social
revolution that will profoundly modi
fy the relations of government with
industry and introduce into industry
standards of morality that are new
to it.” the association “as a group
of citizens and Catholics” urged
the proper and just ordering of so
ciety,” and pledged “its constant study
for a realization of its responsibility iri
and action to the end that this so
cial-economic revolution be conduct
ed with due regard to the rights of
all classes of society.” The asso
ciation also felicitated President
Roosevelt “upon his constant insist
ence upon this ideal of social justice
and the introduction of morality in
industrial relations,” and pledged its
“earnest efforts in co-operation with
him that a return to prosperity be
accomplished without a return to the
evils that have disgraced our civili
zation in the past.”
To counteract the evil forces con
stantly undermining the ideal of the
home arid “to give concrete expres
sion to the principles and ideals
enunciated by our Holy Father, Pope
(Continued on Page Six)
Readers Urged to Promote
Catholic Press Advertising
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
ALBANY. — How the Catholic
laity, by enhancing the value of
Catholic publications as media for
advertising, can strengthen the Cath-
olis Press as an “instrument of in
struction and defence,” is ' set forth
in an editorial in the current issue
of The Evangelist, of this city
Pointing to hundreds of millions of
dollars spent annually by national
and local advertisers, and stating that
with a few notable exceptions na
tional advertisers have not yet dis
covered the Catholic Press as a di
rect avenue to Catholic homes and
to Catholic institutions, and that
some local advertisers fail to take
advantage “of this valuable intro
duction to the millions of readers
of Catholic publications," the editor
ial continues;
“In many dioceses, including Al
bany, by editorial broadcasts, pulpit,
utterances, talks at numerous con
ventions and letters by Bishops, the
laity has been made aware of the
tremendous help it renders Catholic
papers when it patronizes their ad
vertisers, and informs the merchants
where their ads were seen. This
campaign for Catholic readers' co
operation is to become nation-wide
and advertisers will be told about it.
“This movement is of interest to
the laity. It can visualize what a
strong instrument of the instruction
and defense our Catholic Press can
be if it receives its share of the mil
lions spent for advertising.
“Our loyal laity can help bring
these advertising millions to our pa
pers by adding to the good reputa
tion of our Catholic publications as
valuable media for advertisers"