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Member oi tne Na tional Catholic Wel fare Conference News Service- oft Tito Ijnttftm TEN CENTS A COPY, VOL. XIV., No. 17 AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, SEPTEMBER 23, 1933. The Unly Catholic Newspaper Between Baltimore and New Orleans ISSUED SEMI-MONTHLY —$2.00 A YEAR 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 (Continued cn Back Page) 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.