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THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
NOVEMBER 18, 1933
Recent Converts to Church
Throughout World Recalled
Dutch Catholic Paper Cites
Long List of Notables Em
bracing the Faith
BY REV. ANTHONY COPPENS,
'Belgian Correspondent, N. C. W. C.
Vpu'fl ^prvicpi
BRUSSELS. - The Shield. Dutch
Catholic paper, has just published
survey of recent notable conversions
to the Catholic Church throughout the
world.
In listing the more outstanding
conversions which have taken place
in the course of those two years, the
paper expresses the hope that “Cath
olics may thereby appreciate more
deeply the great responsibility resting
upon them of extending the Kingdom
of God.” No pretense is made that
the list of the prominent converts and
conversion movements listed by The
Shield:
Africa: King Roehinda, of Roebya.
America: Joachim Perez, a former
priest and "patriarch” of the schis
matic Mexican National Church, who
became reconciled to the Catholic
Church; Dr. Seldon P. Delaney, note*
Episcopalian minister in the United
States; Lloyd Burdwin Holsapple
former Episcopalian chaplain in the
United States Army; Carlton Francis
Miller, Henry Arthur Shilling, and
Keble Herbert Jones, all Episcopalian
ministers; Edwin Showers, prominent
millionaire Mason; Harold R. Flower
of Chicago University; John Moody,
noted industrial analyst; Thomair
Boyer Campbell, American Anglo-
Catholic leader, and Miss Ruth Reed,
authoress.
Asia: The Jacobite prelates, Mar
Ivanios and Mar Theophilos, and
thousands of their followers; Josep’
George, one time editor of Ghandi’s
Young India; M. Benjamin Betteridge,
of Chittagong, a descendant of Bless
ed Thomas More, together with hi;
wife; M. Francis Sittling, Presbyte
rian minister in Sikkim, India, who
started a mass conversion in his dis
trict;! Luke Cheng, now professor o’
Painting at the Catholic University of
Peking; Dr. Francis Xavier Okayama
Japanese painter, who was baotized
after completing a painting of the 28
Japanese martyrs, and who now
teaches International Law at the Im
perial University of Fukuoko.
Palestine: Five hundred inhabitant;
of Transjordania, who left the Greek
Orthodox Church to embrace Cathol
icism.
Persia: Abul Hassan Khan Monha-
ghegi. former professor at the Tehe
ran University, who had at various
times been an adherent of Islam
Confucianism, Buddhism, Shintoism.
Judaism, and Protestantism and fin
ally became a Catholic in a Catholic
hospital at Zagreb. Croatia.
Canonization Near
Blessed Joan Antida Thouret,
foundress of the Congregation of
the Sisters of Charity of Besan-
con and of Naples, whose can
onization approaches its final
stages. Blessed Joan lived from
1765 to 1826 and during the
French Revolution gave inspiring
examples of charity and unswerv
ing loyalty to Christian teaching,
even in the face of threats of
death. She was beatified on May
23, 1926.
THE MARRIAGE OF JOHN
McCORMACK’S DAUGHTER
Inquires received by the Catho
lic Laymen’s Association of Geor
gia indicate that the circumstan
ces surrounding the marriage of
the daughter of John McCor
mack are being misunderstood
and misrepresented.
One report says that Miss Mc
Cormack was married at West
minster Cathedral. This is in
correct. She was married, ac
cording to our information at the
Oratory of the Immaculate Heart
of Mary, London, established by
Cardinal Newman as a branch of
the Oratorian Fathers in the early
years of his priesthood, not long
after he entered the church.
Had the othei*" report been cor
rect, there would have been no
occasion for criticism; Westmin
ster Cathedral is the Cathedral of
His Eminence Cardinal Bourne,
Archbishop of Westminster.
Someone has evidently confused
Westminster Cathedral and West
minster Abbey, the latter of which
has not been in Catholic hands
since 1540.
BISHOP-ELECT WINKLEMANN,
recently named auxiliary to Arch
bishop Glennon of St. Louis, will be
consecrated on the Feast of St. An
drew, which this year falls on
Thanksgiving Day, November 30.
Archbishop Glennon will be con-
secrator and Bishop Johannes of
Leavenworth an«t Bishop LeBlond of
St Joseph co-consecrators.
CARDINAL HAYES has named the
Rt. Rev. Msgr. William E. Cashin,
castor of Old St. Andrews Church,
New York, chaplain of the Catholic
Club.
MSG It. JOHN J. CURRAN, pastor
of St. Mary’s Church, Wilkes-Barre,
Pa., in an address to striking miners
at the Y. M. C. A. Hall, pleaded with
them to avoid acts of violence; and
pledged his ecorts to secure a just
settlement of the strike.
Vatican Librarian
The Catholic World
(From N. C. W. C. News Service)
..ABBE CALES of St Maxens
Church in the Charente observed that
insects ravaging the potato crop
France had an appetite for petunias
and died after eating the petunias;
they left the potatoes untouched. As
a result of his discovery petunias are
being planted in the middle of po
tato fields.
Philippines: Manuel Quezon, noted
Philippine leader, who attributes his
conversion to a reading of the life of
the Little Flower.
Belgium: Princess Astrid, consort of
the Belgian Crown Prince.
Denmark: Paul Andreas Erichsen,
noted Danish theologian.
Germany: Dr. Peterson, professor at
Bonn University, and Dr. Fritz Ger-
lich, former editor-in-chief of the
Muenucheuer-Neucster Nachrichten.
England: Twelve thousand nineteen
hundred conversions to Catholicism in
1932, among them Evelyn Waugh
novelist; Dr. William Orchard, prom
inent Anglican minister; Francis Sey
mour Stevenson, son of the formef
Governor of St. Mauritius: Daniel Da
vies, former minister at Ruabon; Lt.
Col. John F. MacKay; Lady Phillips,
wife of the British Ambassador at Vi
enna; Lord Tiverton; Dr. R. I. Beattie,
well known preacher at Edinburgh*
Professor Whittaker, dean of the Uni
versity of Edinburgh; Ellis Ashmead
Bartlett, foreign correspondent of the
London Daily Telegraph; Viscount
Torrington; W. R. Titterton and
Claude Fisher, well known journal
ists; Mrs. Viola Erskine. wife of thr
British Ambassador at Warsaw, and
Countess Mary Christian van Cutsem
France: The former Theosophist,
George Chevrier, and Louis Andrieux
former Prefect of the Paris Police, a
JVeemason, and friend of Clemen
cenu.
Italy: Professor G. Marchesini, of
the University of Padua, positivist
and anti-clerical lawyer, who died
reconciled with the Catholic Churclf
and Michael Bianchi, an official in the
Mussolini Government.
Holland: More than 10,000 converts
Norway: Alfred Hoogh, Lutherar
minister.
Poland: Nikita Denisenko, a cleric
in the National Orthodox Church.
Roumnnia: Miss Pretescu, sister o'
Ca v'sar Pretescu, noted author, who
stirred Orthodox Church' circles ir
her country by embracing Catholi
cism and becoming a Sister of the Sa
cred Heart.
Russia: Dr. Alla Ara Scheir.-Fogel,
physician and former Soviet propa
gandist, who entered the Church of
Naoles, and Alexandra Rachmanova.
Writer, who was converted in Austria
Switzerland: Dr. Oscar Bauhofer,
theologian; Dr. Eric Peterson Looser
•ocialist leader of Solothurn. who re
turned to the Church shortly before
his death and whose ecclesiastical
burial was attended bv many Social
ists, and Mau’ice Oahbud, editor of
the radical paoer, C , 'nfed o re, a"d vig
orous opoonent of the Catholic
Church, who became reconciled to tbc
Catholic Church on his deathbed.
BRITISH PILGRIMS to Rome this
year exceed in number those who
went in 1925, the most recent previous
Holy Year. Rome is one thousand
miles from London; about 5,000 have
made the trip from England, Scotland
and Wales.
104 CONVERTS have entered the
Church at the Farm Street Church
of the Jesuit Fathers, Mayfair, Lon
don, during the past nine months.
YELLOW RIVER floods in China
have wrought serious damage to the
missions. In the territory of the
Jesuits alone 600 villages have been
inundated and food crops damaged or
destroyed; in the territory of the
Fathers of the Divine Word Fath
ers 700 villages were destroyed.
BISHOP STEINMAN, vicar cap-
itudar of Berlin, in answering an at
tack on him in a New York German
newspaper, asserts that for Catholics
as well as for others the government
of Hitler “is the God-given authority
for Germany” and hence entitled to
their obedience. A further considera
tion, he says, is the fact that the Hit
ler government has conquered Bol
shevism in Germany.
religious matters” among its
form pledges.
plat-
HIS HOLINESS, Pope Pius XI, re
ceived in audience 300 linguists, Cath
olics and non-Catholics, gathered
Rome in convention. Premier Mus
solini received one from each group.
HIS HOLINESS, Pope Pius XI, in
an audience with William J. McGin
ley, supreme secretary of the Knights
of Columbus, inquired particularly
about the health of President Roose
velt.
SOUTH AFRICA now has a Cath
olic Action organization, the National
Catholic Action Council, resembling
in many respects the National Cath
olic Welfare Conference of the Unit
ed States.
FRENCH SEMINARY enrollments
ai ‘ showing a decided increase. Since
1926 they have increased in Paris from
620 to 820, at Versailles from 400 to
500. at Besancon from 800 to 950, and
at Lyon from 1,000 to 1,300.
100,000 participated in a reent Eu
charistic devotion near Buenos Aires
anticipation of the Eucharistic
Congress there next fall.
JAMAICA'S debt to the Catholic
Church was the subject of an edito
rial recently in the Jamaica Times,
the editorial being written by Basil
O. Porks, a Protestant. Catholic edu
cational and charitable efforts are
particularly commended by the edi
torial.
MEXICO’S Revolution Confedera
tion of Independent Parties in a re
cent manifesto includes “toleration in
THE HOLY FATHER has bestowed
his blesing on those helping to rear
the huge statue of Christ the King in
Haute-Savoy, opposite the Mount
Blanc chain.
AN INDIAN PILGRIMAGE from
the Orient has visited Rome for the
Jubilee, also going to the Holy Land,
Turin, Lourdes and other places in
Europe. Everywhere it has created a
most favorable impression.
KING ALBERT of Belgium has
made the Rev. Hubert Adons, O. F.
M., veteran Franciscan missionary in
Chica and brother of two priests mar
tyred there, a Knight in the Order of
Leopold.
FATHER AUGUSTE-HENRI, S. M.,
director of the College of the Sacred
Heart at Beauceville, Quebec, has
been named provincial counsellor of
the Marists in Canada.
ARCHBISHOP BARTOLONI, Apos
tolic Delegate to Palestine, Egypt,
Arabia and Ethiopia, died recently in
Palestine at the age of 48. He was
native of Florence.
EIGHT U. S. GIRLS have arrived
at Fribourg, Switzerland, for the
junior year at the European branch
of Rosary College, Lake Forest, 111.,
conducted by the Dominican Sisters.
LORD TREOWEN, distinguished
Catholic lay leader, is dead in Eng
land at the age of 82. A Major General
m the Army, he had charge of the
Canadian forces from 1890 to 1895.
EXCELSIOR. Mexico City daily,
editorially deplores the many assassi
nations, which it says are not sur
prising but the result of the hatred
which has been sown in the country.
THE REV. CAESAR BERTHET,
rector of the French Seminary of
Santa Chiara at Rome, and for forty-
three years a member of the Congre
gation of the Holy Ghost, died in
Rome late in October.
TWO SEMINARIES have been ded
icated in France in a single week,
one at Pamiers in the Pyrenees and
the other at Quimper in Brittany.
MAYORS of twelve French towns
bore the canopy in the procession at
the Eucharistic Congress at Dom-
front in Normandy late in October.
ST. MARY MAJOR Basilica in
Rome, which the Holy Father recent
ly visited, is to have new bronde
doors, the gift of Canon Mazzucchelli
o fthe Basilica.
LAWYERS advertising for clients
desiring to secure “annulments of
marriage in the Court of Rome” are
denounced by the Semaine Religieusc
de Paris, which emphasizes the fact
that all cases are decided on their
merits and that the enlisting of a
civil advocate is “useless expense and
time wasted.” In forty-five per cent
Rt. Rev. Msgr. Eugene Tisserant,
pro-prefect of the Vatican Li
brary, who took a prominent part
in the deliberations of the recent
convention of the American Li
brary Association and the Inter
national Library Association, at
Chicago, where he spoke over the
radio. Msgr. Tisserant reported
th^t the task of recataloging the
500,000 volumes of the Vatican
Library, now in progress, will re
quire about 40 years.
Monsignors Only in
Rome Until Recently
Not One in This Country a
Half Century Ago
(By N. C. W. C. News cSrvice)
CHICAGO—A century ago there
were no domestic prelates outside of
Rome, His Eminence George Cardinal
Mundelein, Archbishop of Chicago,
pointed out in the course of an ad
dress which he gave in connection
with the investiture of the Rt. Rev.
Msgr. Thomas F. Fagan, pastor of
St Sabina’s Church, here.
His Eminence explained the mean
ing of the rank, “domestic prelate”,
and traced its history, particularly
its later application to members of
the clergy in all parts of the world-
Declaring that before the last cen
tury, domestic prelates “were part of
the Papal Court, living in the Vatican
in attendance on the Holy Father,”
the Cardinal asserted that 50 years
ago there were no more than one or
two domestic prelates in this country
and 20 years ago none in this city.
McCARTY-SCHETTIG
Marriage Solemnized
Sacred Heart Church,
Atlanta
at
Riordan-Allen
Former Atlantans Married
at Pontiac, Mich.
(Special to The Bulletin)
PONTIAC, Mich.—Miss Agnes Elise
Riordan, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
William J. Riordan, Atlanta, and Wil
liam Henry Allen of this city, formerly
iy of Atlanta, son of Mrs. Margaret
Allen of Atlanta, were united in mar
riage at St. Vincent de Paul Church,
the Rev Francis Van Antwerp.offici
ating at the marriage ceremony and
the nuptial Mass. Mrs. Joseph C. Han
ley, sister of the bride, was maid of
honor and Joseph C. Hanley best
man. After the wedding trip to Can
ada, Mr. and Mrs. Allen will live in
Pontiac, where Mr. Allen is engaged
iu business. Mrs. Allen, a member of
a widely known Atlanta family, is a
S aduate of Immaculate Conception
hool and Sacred Heart High School
there; Mr. Allen is an alumnus of
Covington, Ky., High School and the
University of Cincinnati.
(Special to The Bulletin)
ATLANTA, Ga.—The Very Rev.
Edward P. McGrath, S. M., pastor of
Sacred Heart Church, officiated at the
marriage, with a nuntial Mass, of Miss
Frances Elizabeth McCarty, daughter
of Timothy James McCarty, Sr., of
this city, and Donald Anselm Schet-
tig, of Ebensburg, Pa.
Miss Margaret Jonnes, Atlanta,
Miss Rose Garrett, Springfield, O.,
Miss Phoebe Rhett, Atlanta, and Miss
Helen Schettig, Ebensburg, Pa., were
bridesmaids, Mrs. John Morton Smith
matron of honor, David Barry, Johns
town. Pa., best man. and John Mor
ton Smith, Dr. Douglas Kendrick and
P. J. Culhane, Atlanta, and Lee Ak
ers, Johnstown, Pa., ushers. The bride
was given in marriage by her brother,
Timothy James McCarty, Charlotte,
After the wedding breakfast at the
Piedmont Driving Club, Mr. and Mrs.
Schettig left on their wedding trip;
they will live in Evensburg, Pa.,
where Mr. Schettig is associated with
his father in business.
AN EPISCOPALIAN MINISTER,
the Rev. Frederick Sherman Arnold,
in an article in the Holy Cross Maga
zine. publication of an Anglican ^rio-
nastic order, pays high tribute to Fa
ther Rene Menard. Jesuit missionary,
whose t “Kyrie Eleison” and “Sursum
Corda” “were the first words in any
Eqropean language that echoed over
Cayuga’s waters” in Northern New
York.
Atlanta Business Guide
Church Directory
Sacred Heart: Rev. Edward Mc
Grath, S. M., Pastor; Sunday
Masses: 6. 7, 8:30. 9:30, 10:30 a. m.
Immaculate Conception: Rev.
Joseph Moylan, Pastor; Sunday
Masses: 7, 9:30, 11:15 a. m.
St. Anthony’s: Rev. H. F. Clark,
Pastor; Sunday Masses: 7 and
9:30 a. m.
Our Lady of Lourdes: Rev.
Peter Weiss, S. M. A., Pastor;
Sunday Masses: 7 and 10 a. m.
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