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SEPTEMBER 23, 1933
THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
THREE
CHINESE AT HOLY LAND SHRINES
A group of prominent Chinese Catholics photographed during a
recent visit to the Holy Places in Jerusalem. Among those shown
above are: seated, second from right, His Grace, the Right Revi
Monsignor Simone Tsu, Vicar Apostolic of Haimen, Kaingsu, and
standing on the right (in white robe and spectacles) is the son of
the famous Catholic Chinese philanthropist, Mr. ho. L (Mombelli
photo.)
Chinese CatholicWalks9000
Miles on Holy Year Journey
Current Comment
E. Allison Peers in The Common
weal: “The truth is that Spaniards
are by nature thoroughgoing indi
vidualists and do not easily band
themselves together in a common
cause. Without a leader they are lost;
and even a dynamic leader can often
fail to unite them. They lend them
selves easily to dictatorships. On the
whole they were happy under Primo
de Rivera, and, on the whole, they
will be happy under the next dictator,
of whatever political complexion,
who establishes himself. Whatever
party in Spain is judged must be
judged wtih that fact in mind. It
goes to the heart of the Spanish char
acter.”
Hilaire Belloc in America: “There
is something extraordinary going on
around us all the time in England,
which we Catholics especially ought
to remark as quite out of nature and
abnormal yet which we take f-v
granted as much as do the people
about us: and that is the amazing
habit of leaving out the Catholic
Church. When you come to think of
it, the practice is not only extraordi
nary and abnormal but at first inex
plicable. Here you have what is, in
the eyes of all Europe, the chief Eu
ropean _ institution. The Catholic
Church is that which made our civi
lization. It is that from which we in
herit all our morals (what is left of
them) all our tradition in literature,
architecture, manners, clothing and
everything else. On most of the few
occasions when the Catholic Church
is mentioned at all it is mentioned
with contempt; sometimes friendly,
sometimes unfriendly. Much more
rarely it is spoken of without open
hatred. In ninety-nine cases out of
the hundred it is simply left out. »The
reason they use the boycott is that
they are afraid.”
Cardinal Hayes to Newman Club
Members: “To know yourselves is to
recognize that you are children of
God, and love Him and obey His
Commandments. Without reverence
and obedience there can be no love,
and that is why the world is suffer
ing today. There are no supermen to
lead us out of the darkness; we must
look to the super-intelligence of God.
Reverence and obedience should be
our reaction to the upheavals of the
day—and without these things, which
result in love—all your higher, edu
cation is worthless.”
The Rev. James M. G'llis. C. S. P„
editor of The Catholic World in ad
dress to Newman Club Members:
“Be independent without being of
fensive or impertinent. Be sure of
your ground as you progress; analyze
and understand what you are study
ing; demand that your professor be
consistenta nd explain his theories;
ask that you be allowed to accept or
reject what is theoretical; and be pre
pared to get up and prove your view
when the opportunity present? itself.
The man in the street is better in
fundamental moral principles than
some of those who are proud of their
intellectual achievements.”
Rev. Dr. Roy Campbell. Pastor of
The First Congregational Church, San
Diego, Cal.: “What should be the at
titude of Protestants toward that part
of the recent Encyclical of the Pope
addressed to them? For many of us,
I believe, the attitude to be taken is
that of thoughtful attention. The Pro
testant Church is not so mighty in
strength or influence that it can with
disdain or indifference cast off any
hand that seeks in sympathetic con
sideration to prasn its own. The voice
of one who leads the thought and
religious aspirations of millions of
fellow Christians, when in sincere
tones it speaks to us, even though it
rigidly lays down the path of our ap
proach, is not to be met with deaf
ears and hardened hearts.”
The Rev. C. Leslie Glenn, rector
of Christ Episcopal Church, Cam
bridge: “The important factor is that
there is no religious leadership in the
colleges themselves with few excep
tions. Whatever may have been the
religious impulses that led to the
founding of the great Eastern col
leges, they have long since ceased to
play an important part in the policy
of the colleges. Faculties, for the
most part, are anti-Christian in the
field of psychology, sociology and
philosophy.
Col. Clarence T. Starr, in The Na
tion’s Business: “If the Russians or
Czechs or the Greeks in any city or
location in America wish to give
voice to their opinions, they can start
a newspaper. In Russia, nobody can
start a newspaper. Their censorship
is absolute. Opinions are simply not
tolerated, and the truth is only in
Bolshevik ideals. All speeches—and
they _are countless—are propaganda.
Even movies are planned to make
the worker more patroitic. The
thoughts of the masses are given to
them in predigested form. All are
conformists or they starve.”
John Moody (Moody’s Investors’
Service) to Catholic Convent League:
“I used to think ‘pagan’ morals just
as good as Christian morals—until I
found they didn’t work. ‘Morality’
cannot long stand alone; there must
be something to control it. And of
course that something is Faith. Our
forefathers had the right conception:
to them, Faith and Morals were one
and the same thing; the two sides of
one shield. When we drop Faith we
quite naturally drop or modify or re
vise our morals to fit our passing
needs or circumstances. In Philoso
phic thought we call this pragmatism;
but in business or political life it is
called ‘practicality.’ ”
Beaten and Twice Robbed,
He Finally Reaches Rome
for Jubilee Ceremonies
ROME.—(N. C. W. C.-Fides)-
Wearing out his seventh pair of
shoes, healthy of mien, and with a
smile which never fades, Joseph
Aloysius Wei has reached Rome. He
was present at the opening of the
Holy Door and he has been received
by the Holy Father.
Joseph Wei has covered on foot
9,000 miles in a journey he has made
from Singapore to Rome. He is of a
Shanghai family which has been
Catholic some 200 years and which
counts priests and Sisters among its
members. For five years Joseph was
primary school teacher in St. Fran
cis Xavier’s Parish, Shanghia, until
1927 when he went to Singapore as
teacher in Shanghai College.
“After two years in Singapore,”
Joseph tells us (he speaks some
French and English), “I determined
to come to Rome to see the Pope. I
had not much when I started except
confidence in the Lord, strong legs
and. a good stomach,” and Joseph
laughed again—his laugh, we suspect,
has brought him more miles than he
realizes.
“I went from Singapore to Siam;
many Chinese along the way .helped
me. At Bangkok I turned toward
Rangoon. But near Udai in interior
Siam I had my firs(t misfortune—
brigands attacked me and left me
with a bloody head from the blows
of their cudgels. The Udai station
master was my friend in need; he
sent me to the hospital where I was
patched up, rested,! found my cour
age again.
“Then over the mountains into
Burma. From Rangoon I went north
and walked and walked until I en
tered the province of Yunnan in
China. On and on, to the province of
Sikang near Tibet.
“My, it was hard through there—
cold in the mountains, roads diffi
cult, fevers, bad food or no food,
many a night in the open. I turned
south and got to Bhutan, to Darjeel
ing, to Calcutta in India.
“The cold was gone but now I had
rain, a soaking every day as I walk
ed the railroad to Madars. From
Madras on to Colombo and then up
through India again to Goa.
“That was beautiful—Goa! I knelt
at the tomb of St. Francis Xavier and
thought of China. I moved on. to
Bombay, to Karachi, to Quetta, and
then along the Afghan border. What
fierce ugly people there! I shiver
when I think of their menaces.
“Across southern Persia to Bender
Abbas where I took a boat to Basra,
through Iraq to Mosul and to Alep
po in Syria. I was getting near.
“But outside Damascus again I
was robbed and mistreated though
not as badly as in Siam. Then to
Beirut on the coast, to Port Said,
through Egypt, to Constantinople
through Greece, to Marseilles by
boat, to Lyons, Geneva, Fribourg,
Milan and Rome at last!
“I thank God who helped me get
here. I met some Christians along my
way and some missionaries, but oh
how many pagans! I never realized
there were so many pagans. Da
NAMES OF NOTABLE
SCIENTISTS LISTED
Five Catholics Among New
Names Added
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
WASHINGTON—The names of five
prominent Catholic scientists are be
ing added to the list of those who, in
the volume American Men of Science,
are credited with having made par
ticularly noteworthy contributions to
scientific discoveries, beyond their
doctorate dissertations.
These names, selected for the fifth
and latest edition of American Men of
Science, are:
The Rev. Julius A. Nieuwland. C.
S. C., Professor cf Chemistry at Uni
versity of Notre Dame; Dr. Edward
A. Doisy, Professor of Biological
Chemistry at the Medical School of
St. Louis University; Dr. J. C. Hub
bard, Professor of Physics at Johns
Hopkins University; Dr. F. O. Rice,
Professor of Chemistry at Johns Hop
kins University, and Dr. Joseph A.
Becker of the Bell Telephone Laboro-
tcries in New York.
JAPANESE GOVERNMENT
PRAISES MARYKNOLL
Commends Home Directed
by Massachusetts Priest
(By N. C. W. C. News Service.)
GISHU, Korea—The Home for the
Aged at the Maryknoll Mission here
has just been commended by the Ja
panese Government.
The pastor, the Reverend Thomas
Ray, of Peabody. Macs., received a
gift of money from the government
officials, as well as warm praise of
his work for the old people.
Most of the aged men and women
are pagans when they come to the
Maryknoll Home. But no catechist is
needed for their instruction. The
Christians in the Home are zealous
apostles!
Catholics in Western countries real
ize it?”
Apparently this sturdy little Chi
nese has taken a lesson from his
jaunt. Trudging the wild pathways
of strange remote lands he met folk,
he asked for food, for shelter, for
directors, he saw how many men
live, act, think—he remembers above
all else that they are pagans.”
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Creighton U. Graduate
Best Chemistry Student
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
OMAHA, Nebr.—The best chemis
try student in the State of Nebraska
is Robert J. Myers, a 1931 Creighton
University Graduate, according to the
findings of the Nebraska committee
which awarded the first annual
Cudahy Packing Company fellowship
in chemistry for this state.
The fellowship entitles Myers to
$1,000 per year for four years, to pur
sue post-graduate studies at Johns
Hopkins University. Myers was chos
en for the award from a field of some
50 candidates.
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