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N. C.W.C. Gathering to Hear
Papal Delegate at St. Paul
Archbishop Murray, Bishop
Walsh and Other Prelates
to Address October Meeting
(BY N. C. W. C. NEWS SERVICE)
WASHINGTON—His Excellency the
Most Rev. Amleto Giovanni Cicog-
nani, Apostolic Delegate to the Uni
ted States, and at least six other mem
bers of the Hierarchy will take part
in the 13th annual convention of the
National Council of Catholic Women
to be held at St. Paul, October 7 to
11, inclusive.
The Apostolic Delegate will cele
brate the solemn Pontifical Mass with
which the convention will be open on
Sunday morning, October 8, in the
Cathedral of St. Paul. His Excellency
will also deliver an address on Cath
olic Action at a special session of the
convention Tuesday morning, Octo
ber 10, and will deliver the closing
message at the banquet session Thurs
day evening. Archbishop Cicognani
will give the solemn Pontifical Bless
ing at the Pontifical Mass on Sun
day.
The Most Rev. John Gregory Mur
ray. Archbishop of St. Paul and host
to the convention, will preach the ser
mon at the Mass to be celebrated by
the Apostolic Delegate.
The Most Rev. Joseph Schrembs,
Bishop of Cleveland and Episcopal
Chairman of the Department of Lay
Oganizations of the National Catho
lic Welfare Conference, will formally
open the business sessions of the con
vention Monday morning, when he
will address the delegates. Following
Bishop Schrembs’ address, the only
other business to be taken up by this
session will be the appointment of
committees and the reading of re
ports.
Archbishop Murray will also -deliver
an address at the meeting Sunday
evening, when the speakers will in
clude the Most Rev. Joseph Rummel,
Bishop of Omaha; the Most Rev. Em
met M. Walsh, Bishop of Charleston;
the Mayor of St. Paul, a representa
tive of the St. Paul Archdiocesan
Council of Catholic Women, and Mrs.
George V. McIntyre of Chicago, First
Vice President of the N. C. C. W.
Archbishop Murray will also pre
side at a session when the Most Rev.
Samuel A. Stritch, Archbishop of Mil
waukee, will speak on “Mobilizing
Youth”, and the Most Rev. Edwin V.
O'Hara, Bishop of Great Falls, will
speak on “The Parish and the Na
tional Council of Catholic Women”.
President to Speak
at Charity Meeting
(Special to The Bulletin)
NEW YORK. — According to an
nouncement coming from The Very
Rev. Monsignor Robert W. Keegan,
president of the National Conference
of Catholic Charities, which has been
published here, President Franklin
D. Roosevelt has accepted an invita
tion extended to him by His Emi
nence Patrick Cardinal Hayes, to at
tend and address the convention on
October 4, the fourth day of its ses
sion.
Other prominent lay speakers will
be Secretary of Labor Frances 1).
Perkins, Senator Robert F. Wagner,
Governor Herbert H. Lehman, former
Governor Alfred E. Smith, and Har
ley L. Hopkins, Federal Emergency
Relief Administrator.
CONVENTION SPEAKER
APOSTOLIC DELEGATE
His Excellency, the Most Reverend
Amleto Giovanni Cicogni, Apostolic
Delegate to the United States, Who
Will Speak At N. C. W. C. Conven
tion on “Catholic Action.”
Charities Conference
to Meet in New York
Cardinal Hayes to Be Host
to October Meeting
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
NEW YORK.—Declaring that never
before has the Catholic Church had
“a more imperative call to service” in
ministering to the woes of humanity,
His Eminence Patrick Cardinal Hayes,
Archbishop of New York, predicted
that the nineteenth National Confer
ence of the Catholic Charities, which
meets here October 1 on the Cardi
nals’ invitation, would “point the way
to an era of social reconstruction in
which the lessons drawn from the
trials of the past may be used to build
a firm defence against their recur
rence.” The Conference will mark the
Centenary of the Society of St. Vin
cent de Paul.
It will be the scene of the first offi
cial appearance in this archdiocese of
the new Apostolic Delegate, His Ex
cellency the Most Rev. Amleto Gio
vanni Cigognani will address the
Conference.. Approximately 100 Bish
ops have received personal invita
tions from Cardinal Hayes to attend.
The Conference will convene on
Sunday and continue through to
Wednesday, October 4, with head
quarters at the Waldorf Astoria Ho
tel. Approximately 5,000 delegates and
visitors from the United States, Can
ada and the West Indies will attend.
The conference will meet under the
presidency of the Rt. Rev. Msgr. Rob
ert F. Keegan of New York, Cardinal
Hayes’ Secretary for Charities.
Sixty Thousand Attend Mass
in the Evening at Lourdes
BY M. MASSIANI
(Pails Correspondent, N. C. W. C.
News Service)
PARIS. — Sixty thousand persons
attended the Mass celebrated, by
virtue of a special permission from
the Pope, at Lourdes at 6 o’clock in
the afternoon to commemorate the
seventy-fifth anniversary of the last
apparition of the Blessed Virgin, the
apparition having taken place at this
same hour in the afternoon.
The Mass was said on the place in
front of the Basilica of the Rosary by
the Most Rev. Ernest Mennechet,
Bishop of Soissons. His Eminence
Jean Cardinal Verdier, Archbishop
of Paris, presided surrounded by 22
Archbishops and Bishops, among
them the Most Rev. Boleslav Sloskan.
former Archbishop of Mohilew, in
Russia, who was long a prisoner in
Siberia, and six Chinese and Indo-
Chinese Bishops recently consecrated
at Rome by the Holy Father.
The sermon was delivered by the
Most Rev. Peter Gerlire, Bishop of
Lourdes. Solemn vespers preceding
the Mass and the sermon were given
by Father Lhande. S. J., who was the
confessor of Marshal Foch. Another
Pontifical High Mass was celebrated
in the open air during the morning
by Cardinal Verdier, and Masses of
Communion were said in the sanc
tuaries.
In the evening 60,000 persons took
part in a torch-light procession.
Bulletins
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
MOST REVEREND JOHN J.
DUNN, Auxiliary Bishop of New
York, and one of the best known
prelates of the Church in this coun
try, died at St. Vincent’s Hospital, in
that city, August 31, following a
heart attack.
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT extend
ed expression of condolence to His
Eminence Patrick Cardinal Hayes,
Archbishop of New York, upon the
occasion of the death of Bishop Dunn,
in the following telegram:
“Am deeply distressed to hear of
the death of my old friend Bishop
Dunn. I know that if Mrs. Roose
velt were with me she would join
me in extending condolences, All
who knew him will suffer a great
personal loss.
“FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT.”
THE MOST REV. RICHARD O.
Gerow, Bishop cf Natchez, officiated
at the solemn dedication of the new
seminary building of the Society of
the Divine Word, at St. Augustine's,
Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, St. Augus
tine’s is a seminary for colored aspi
rants to the priesthood.
MADAME KAWAI, widow of the
Japanese Minister to Poland, whose
conversion to the Catholic Faith,
just before his death has been re
ported from Warsaw, has long been
a Catholic.
Hiruyuki Kawai, who has repre
sented his government in Poland
since 1931, and who had previously
served at Paris, Petrograd, Stock
holm, Brussels, and with the Peace
Commission to Paris, was baptized a
Catholic by His Excellency Arch
bishop Marmaggi, Papan Nuncio to
Poland, on August 15, three hours
before he died.
Minister Kawai’s conversion has
served to recall that while Catholics
are few in Japan, they are found in
heavy proportion among the better
classes.
THE NATIONAL COUNCIL OF
CATHOLIC MEN will hold its thir
teenth annual convention in Chicago
on October 22, 23, 24 and 25.
The evening session on Monday,
October 23, will be devoted to the
“Catholic Hour” of radio broadcast
ing which is sponsored by the N. C.
C. M.
REVEREND BROTHER DIOGENE,
Superior General of the Marists, has
been honored by the French Gov
ernment with the cross of the Legion
of Honor.
During the war, having remained
in a commune of the Nord occupied
by (he German Army, he fulfilled
the functions of Mayor, took charge
of the civil affairs of the community,
administered supplies and through
intervention saved the lives of many
inhabitants who had been condemn
ed to death.
HIS EMINENCE WILLIAM CAR
DINAL O’CONNELL, directed that
priests of the Archdiocese of Boston
join in prayer that God would bless
the efforts of the National Recovery
Administration.
The Catholics of the Archdiocese of
Boston were not only asked to pray,
but also to work for the success of
the N. R. A. program. N
REV. WILLIAM FORCE STEAD,
Fellow chaplain of Worcester Col
lege, Oxford, England, has embraced
Catholicism.
Mr. Stead was at one time a stud
ent in the University of Virginia.
Ordained to the Angelican ministry
in 1916, he served as chaplain with
ihe American Army in the World
War.
BULLETIN EDITOR
VISITS VATICAN
Church’s Destruction Aim of
Socialists in Spain, Says
Correspondent ofN.Y.Times
Her Cause Advanced
f§ lllll
Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini,
foundress and first Superior Gen
eral of the Missionary Sisters of
the Sacred Heart of Jesus. A
canonical hearing of her cause for
beatification was recently held in
Chicago by a direct representative
of the Congregation of Sacred
Rites at the Vatican. Mother Ca
brini labored for a considerable
time in -Chicago where she died in
1917. The above exclusive photo
graph, taken some years before
her death, was made from a nega
tive long lost and recently found
by chance.
Frank Kluckhohn Quotes
Statements of Their News
papers. Church Cannot
Count on Police Protection
DOMINICAN MISSIONARY
BAND FOR THE SOUTH
I According to a press dispatch
| from Vatican City, received in
I Augusta, Richard Reid, Editor of
| The Bulletin, and President of
the Catholic Press Association of
America, was granted a special
audience by Pope Pius XI on j
| September i6. Mr. Reid was ac-
| companied by Monsignor Bres-
I iin, of the American College,
Rome.
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
NEW YORK. — Establishment by
the Dominican Fathers of the Prov
ince of St. Joseph of new mission
bands to conduct missions and re
treats for Catholics and non-Cath-
olics exclusively in the South has
been announced by the Very Rev. T.
S. McDermott, O. P., Provincial. The
headquarters for the missionaries
comprising these bands have been
established in Holy Rosary Vicar
iate, Houston, Texas.
The Rev. L. A. Smith, O. P., has
been appointed Superior of these
missionaries. Father Smith has suc
cessfully conducted numerous mis
sions and retreats throughout the
East and Mid-West in past years.
Other missionaries have been as
signed to assist in this work, and
will reside either in Houston or at
St. Peter’s Vicariate, Memphis.
Quoting Socialist newspapers as
saying that “the Church must be
destroyed” and recording church
burnings “carried out by about 3,-
000 organized youngsters,” Frank L.
Kluckhohn in Madrid correspond
ence in The New York Times in the
July 30 magazine section asserts:
“They drove home the fact that there
is an element quite willing to use
the flame and that, particularly with
a govermnent in which the Socialists
dominate, the Church cannot even
count on police protection.” Mr.
Kluckhohn’ article, which is not
without apparent sympathy for some
parts of the government’s program,
follows in part:
At the time staunch Isabella and
wily Ferdinand took the throne Spain
was divided into a number of small
kingdoms, and the south of the coun
try, or a fair portion of it, was held
by the Moors, who had swept up
through Spain into Europe in the
Eighth Century. When Isabella died
after doing battle for her kingdom,
Ferdinand was left to play chess with
an outwardly united nation. The
racial groups, however, were so
widely separated that Spain was. in
fact, anything but a unit. The
church offered the only unity, and
on this rock the Spanish state was
built. . . .
The church has been an integral
part of the nation’s life as long as
the nation has existed. For four
and a half centuries it has been a
dominant factor. It has baptized the
children, confessed the dying, edu
cated all those who have been edu
cated. It would be absurd to suppose
that a few decrees can smash it . . .
The danger to the church lies in
the administration of the measures
putting the separation in effect, in
the fact that the men called to exe
cute these measures are likely to be
frank and open enemies of the
church, seeking its destruction. The
church looks with more or less equa-
nmimity on c o r r e c t i o n. It con
templates with fear the abolition of
its right to teach and the other
measures against what it regards as
its divine rights.
Part 4 of Article XXVI is that
which has created the opposition. It
states, “Religious orders may not
take part in industry, commerce, or
teaching.”
The church itself was not much
concerned about this provision; it
was assured by Ministers of the gov
ernment that the article would not
be carried into full effect imme
diately, and this assurance was back
ed by the conviction that the whole
educational system could not be
changed in a day. But wh’n. after
a year and a half of haggling, the
religious law carrying the constitu-
tonl articles into effect was pass
ed, the government not only expro--
priated all churches and church
property, valued at 5500.000,000, but
it provided for sweeping changes in
the education system. A Protestant,
educated in one of the excellent
Protestant schools near Valencia, was
made director of primary education.
Eighty thousand monks and nuns
are to be forced to give up their
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Catholic School Enrollment
Estimated to Be 2,582,000
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
WASHINGTON.—A total of 2.582,-
000 Catholic students have begun the
1933-34 scholastic year in 10,594 Cath
olic institutions of learning in this
country, according to an estimate just
made by the Department of Educa
tion of the National Catholic Welfare
Conference.
This estimate is based on the en
rollments reported in the 1932 survey
of Catholic colleges and schools. Due
allowance was made for the effects of
the depression on the schools in cer
tain sections of the country. Al
though a recent survey of the N. C.
W. C. Department of Education show
ed the closing of Catholic Schools due
to the industrial degression had af
fected only one-eighth of one per cent
of the total Catholic school popula
tion, consideration was given to the
possibility that further losses may be
sustained before the schools have
fully recovered from the effects of the
depression.
It is confidently expected, how
ever. that the new school term will
show the following approximate en-
— tholic
rollments in Cath
institutions;
2,193.000 pupils in 7.942 Catholic ele
mentary schools; 250.000 students in
2.250 Ca'holic high schools and acad
emies; 9 000 students in 46 ncrlnal
schocls; 110.009 students in 174 col
leges, and 20.000 students in 182 Cath
olic seminaries. It is further esti
mated that these institutions will be
staffed with 83,230 instructors.
The encouraging outlook for Cath
olic schools, it is pointed out. is a
tribute to the sacrifice rf Catholic
parents and the devotion of the Eish-
ops, pastors, and the religious Broth
erhoods and Sisterhoods to the cause
cf Catholic education.