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NOVEMBER 18. 1938
THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
FIVE
Priests’ Eucharistic Conference in Diocese of St. Augustine
Bulletins
( By N. C. W C. News Service)
AN APPEAL by members of the
St. Vincent de Paul Society to Presi
dent Roosevelt halted the execution
of Charles Edward Washington, color
ed, in Washington, when one of three
co-defendants exonerated Washing
ton of participation in the murder
of which he was found guilty. Wash
ington is not a Catholic.
METHODISTS near St. Louis have
extended to members of Mary. Queen
of Peace, Catholic Church the use
of their auditorium while their own
church, destroyed by fire, is being
rebuilt.
SIX DOMINICANS left New York
recently for work in the Chinese
missions. They are Fathers Peter
Manning, Michael O'Connor and
John F. Monroe, New York; James
G. Joyce, Clinton, Mass.; Raymond
S. Gillespie, Minneapolis, and W. F.
Cassidy. Michigan City, Ind.
REV. DR. RALPH GLOVER.
executive director of Catholic Chari
ties of the Diocese of Newark, de
livered the invocation at the dedica
tion of the Mortimer L. Schiff Boy
Scout Reservation at Mendham, N. J.
R. H. MACY AND CO., leading
New York department store, which
banned German goods because of the
persecution of Jews there, has been
congratulated on its stand by the
Brooklyn Catholic Action Council,
and requested to bar Russian goods
for persecution of Christians in the
Soviet Republic.
THE REV. THOMAS M. CONROY,
rector of the Cathedral of Fort
Wayne, was recently invested as a
domestic prelate by Bishop Noll.
COLORADO’S .great, statue, of
Christ the Redeemer, thirty feet
high, overlooking Camp Santa del
Monte, is nearing completion. The
statue is a gift of Mr. and Mrs. John
L. Dower.
FATHER J. ELIOT ROSS, Rabbi
Morris S. Lazaron and the Rev.
Everett Ross Clinchy, Presbyterian
minister, are about to start on a
coast-to-coast series of meetings,
seminars and round table conference
sponsored by the National Confer
ence of Jews and Christians.
BISHOP TURNER of Buffalo has
launched a campaign for the rebuild
ing of the plant of the Buffalo Union
and Times, official organ of the
Diocese; the publication’s plant was
destroyed by fire several months ago.
THE REV. M. A. PURTELL, S. J.,
pastor of Catholic deaf mutes in the
Archdiocese of New York, observed
his golden jubilee as a Jesuit and the
silver jubilee of his activities among
the deaf early in November.
JAMES P. FOLEY, first business
manager of the New World, official
organ of the Archdiocese of Chicago,
is dead. Mr. Foley has a son a Jesuit
priest and two sisters who are nuns.
THE FRANCISCAN Fathers in
New York have issued a warning
against a bogus seminarian claiming
to be raising money for the Francis
can Missionary Society after his
seminary was destroyed by fire.
There is no such society, and no
such seminary as the one he claims
to have attended.
10,000 ATTEND the closing sessions
of the Catholic Action Week and
Marian Congress of the Archdiocese
of Dubuque, held late in October,
Archbishop Beckman presiding.
THE PLACE for the church pen
nant in the navy is above the na
tional flag during religious services,
according to the Navy’s Signal
Manual. 1920, Capt. Sydney K.
Evans, U. S. N., chief of the chap
lains’ division, says in answer to an
inquiry of the Federal Council of
the Churches of Christ.
JOHN P. CHEW, for thirty years
manager of Church Progress, St
Louis, died in that city at the age of
75. Mr. Chew was widely known
among Catholic editors.
SENATOR MARCONI, famed Ital
ian inventor and father of wireless
telegraphy, who was recently award
ed an honorary doctorate at Notre
Dame University, was subsequently a
guest of.Santa Clara University, Cali
fornia.
the rev. Julius a. nieuw-
LAND, C. S. of the University of
Notre Dame, was elected president
of the Indiana Academy of Science
for 1933-34 at its recent meeting in
Bloomington.
Father Nieuwland has received the
Morehead Medal for outstanding
work in the field of chemistry.
He is also a Fellow of the Brit
ish Chemical Society.
A year ago Father Nieuwland an
nounced the discovery of synthetic
drying oil, which has the synthetic
rubber base he discovered in 1930,
after years of work. Synthetic dry
ing oil is a paint base that renders
paint invulnerable to ordinary cor
rosives.
Florida Sodalists
Arrange Convention
Father Lord to Address West
Palm Beach Meeting
(Special to The Bulletin)
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla.-Thc
third annual convention of the St.
Augustine Sodality Union will be
held here November 29-Dccember 3,
and will bo addressed by the Rev.
Daniel A. Lord, S. J., of St. Louis,
national sodality director, who will
be moderator of the high school
groups. Miss Dorothy Willmann, na
tional executive secretary of the
Sodality Union, will conduct the
special sessions for the parish groups.
Headquarters will be at the New
Palm Beach Hotel. Subjects for dis
cussion at the various conventions
will be the nature of a sodality, per
sonal holiness, the Sacraments and
especially the Mass. Catholic Action
and Catholic Education, The Sodalist
and some obstacles to Catholic liv
ing, such as drink, bad companion
ship, movies, public dancing, dang
erous reading, and dishonesty, and
other kindred subjects.
While the previous conventions of
the Diocesan Sodality Union, of
which the Rev. J. W. Courtney, S. J.,
of Tampa College, is moderator, have
been most successful, it is anticipat
ed that the 1933 convention will sur
pass the previous splendid meetings
in every respect.
SCHOOL FOR COLORED
OPENED IN VIRGINIA
Bishop Hafey Delivers Ser
mon—Governor, Mayor of
Richmond Present
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
ROCK CASTLE, Va — A new group
of trades buildings at the St. Emma’s
Industrial and Agricultural Institute,
which was founded by Mrs. Edward
D. Morrell, sister of Mother Kathe
rine Drexel, for the benefit of color
ed youth, was dedicated here Novem
ber 4 in the presence of the Gover
nor of Virginia, the Bishop of Rich
mond, the Mayor of Richmond, Mrs.
Morrell, and 600 visitors.
Tribute to the work being conduct
ed at this institution was paid by
Governor John G. Pollard, and Mayor
J. Fulmer Bright, of Richmond. The
Most Rev. Andrew J. Brennan, Bishop
of Richmond, in his address, said thb
Negro race needed intelligent leader
ship within its own ranks. ‘‘We are
trying to develop Negro men who can
be leaders who would be proud of
their race and its achievements,” the
Bishop said, ‘‘intelligent, energetic, re
ligious and with characters strong in
the virtues that make for good citi
zenship.”
In the morning Bishop Brennan
blessed the new buildings followed a
Mass, at which the Most Rev. Wil
liam J. Hafey, Bishop of Raleigh,
preached the sermon.
Governor Pollard declared at the
dedicatory exercises that ‘‘education
is no substitute for work.” ‘‘It should
serve to make one’s work easier of
accomplishment and give joy in its
operation,” he added. “No man is
strong enough to resist the tempta
tions of life without a heart fortified
by the teachings of Christianity. And
I heartily commend you for your ef
forts to inculcate religious teachings
in the heart of the youth.”
Mayor Bright sketched the progress
made by the colored race in the
United States declaring that Mrs.
Morrell in this work has contributed
to the Negro youth of America.
The school was founded in 1895 by
Col. and Mrs. Morrell to educate col
ored youth in the arts and technical
subjects, offering the student an op
portunity to acquire a standard high
school education and at the same time
fitting him for some gainful trade.
Among the new facilities provided
by the addition of the new buildings
is a central heating plant, water sys
tem , electrical plant and refrigeration
and ice-making equipment.
EXECUTIVE BOARD OF
N.C.C.W. HAS MEETING
District Conference Also
Held in Jacksonville
(Special to The Bulletin|
JACKSONVILLE, Fla.-Thc execu
tive board of the St. Augustine Dio
cesan Council of the N.C.W.C. con
vened here October 24-25. Delegates
from all parts of Florida attended.
Mrs. J. W. McCollum, Gainesville,
president of the St. Augustine Coun
cil, presided.
Breakfast, following Mass at St.
Paul’s Church, was presided over by
Mrs. Josephine K. Manor as hostess.
Luncheon at the Carling Hotel and a
banquet at the same hotel featured
the entertainment. A buffet suppei
at the Avondale home of Mrs. G. B.
Sawyers was an enjoyable affair. The
Altar and Rosary Society of the
Church of the Immaculate Conception
entertained at breakfast following
Jacksonville K. of C. Hear
Governor Sholtz of Florida
Directs Charities
The Very Rev. Msgr. R. Marcellus
Wagner, Ph. D., J. C. L., Director
of Catholic Charities of the Arch
diocese of Cincinnati during the
past seven years, was elected pres
ident of the National Conference
of Catholic Charities at the an
nual convention recently held in
New York. He succeeds the Very
Rev. Msgr. Robert F. Keegan.
BISHOP BARRY LOSES
BROTHER IN CHICAGO
Death Strikes for First
Time in Family of Thirteen
Brothers and Sisters
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
CHICAGO — Death has struck for
the first time among the 13 brothers
and sisters of the prominent Barry
family, in whose ranks is included
the Most Rev. Patrick Barry, Bishop
of St. Augustine.
The first of this unusual group of
13 Barrys to pass away is Gerald
Barry, 66. who was buried from the
Church of Our Lady, Help of Chris
tians, here, following a pontifical re
quiem Mass of which Bishop Barry
was celebrant. The deacon and sub
deacon—the Rev. Lawrence M. Bar
ry, S. J., of St. Ignatius High School,
this city, and the Rev. William B.
Barry, of Miami Beach. Fla.—are son
and brother of the deceased respec
tively. Another nephew, the Rev.
Lawrence Halloran, of St. Veronica’s
Church, here, was master of ceremo
nies.
Among the many clergy in the
sanctuary were the Most Rev. Edward
E. Hoban, Bishop of Rockford, the
Rev. Samuel Knox Wilson, S. J.,
president of Loyola University, this
city, and the Rev. Julian Garrity, S.
J.. principal of St. Ignatius High
School. The sermon was preached by
the Rev. William F. Robison, S. J., of
the Jesuit mission band.
Sister Mary Gerald, Mother General
of the Sisters of St. Dominic of
Adrian, a sister of Mr. Barry, also
attended the services.
The death of Mr. Barry breaks the
ranks of Bishop Barry's brothers and
sisters for the first time, although
physically all have been scattered
over two countries. Their first and
only reunion was held at the Interna
tional Eucharistic Congress in Chica
go in 1926. On that occasion, young
er members of the family came to
America from Ireland to meet for the
first time their older brothers and
sisters who had emigrated from
abroad before the younger ones were
boro.
Mr. Barry, a native of Ireland, was
active in efforts to improve the lot
of Catholics in his native land before
he came to America. In this coun
try, after serving in the mechanical
departments of several Chicago news
papers, he joined the Marquette colo
nization plan of the late Father Cash-
man and established a cotton planta
tion in Mississippi.
Mr. Barry is survived by another
brother, the Rev. Joseph Barry, of
Ireland. Four of Mr. Barry’s nieces
are nuns and another nephew is stud-
ing for the for the priesthood.
Another son. Gerald Barry, is ar
chitect of the church from which Mr.
Barry was buried.
Other Notables Also Attend
Columbus Day Observance
Addressed by Governor
Mass at that church the second day
of the conference. A district meet
ing to which all Catholic women were
invited to attend brought the meet
ing to a close. Mr. McCollum gave
an interesting account of the conven
tion at St. Paul. Miim.
(BY JOSEPHINE K. MANERi
JACKSONVIIXF. Fla.-Hon. David
Sholtz. governor of Florida was the
principal speaker and. with Mrs.
Sholtz, guest of honor at the Colum
bus Day celebration held at the
Windsor Hotel. The governor, who
made a splendid impression with his
well expressed appreciation of the
work of the Catholic citizens of Flor
ida, said in reference to his signing
the bill making Discovery Day a hol
iday in the state: “It is particularly
fitting for the people of Florida to
celebrate Discovery Day for it was
the vision, faith and religion of Co
lumbus that opened this country to
our ancestors. Thank God we still
have faith, a vision and hope in this
country. Intolerance, bigotry and ha
tred are fast losing their places in
this fair land of ours."
In speaking of the great Christopher
Columbus, Governor Sholtz said: “Co
lumbus was more than a man; he is
a symbol.’’ He referred to the early
settlers "as men who liad faith and
courage.” "The opening up of Amer
ica has given three precious privi
leges to its people,” he said; “the
right to worship God as we see fit, the
right to maintain a home and raise
children as we see fit, and the right
to exist under an orderly form of
government."
Eloquently the governor referred to
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt,
“as a man reaching above intolerance,
with no bigotry in his heart, with no
place in his mind for greed, a man
with no selfish interests, a man think
ing not of dollars and cents, but on
ly how it will help the little men, like
you and me.”
“All of us have a great mission to
perform. Some of us must carry the
torch of leadership, but there must
be followers. We need more people
in this world who give thanks to God
and who praise His name and who
say: ‘Blest be that there is a God
over this land’.”
Referring to the address of the Rev.
James J. Meehan. Governor Sholtz
said: “This country is here because
somebody sacrificed, somebody suf
fered.” He said that spiritual things
will be thought of more seriously in
days to come, and that “we should
thank God for the courage of Colum
bus who defied death to found this
land. We should offer thanks for the
privilege of living in Florida and this
United States." He sounded a most
optimistic note for the future.
The Governor and Mrs. Sholtz and
Mayor and Mis. John T. Alsop, Jr.,
were guests at the dinner preceding
the celebration. Father Meehan, pas
tor of the Church of the Immaculate
Conception, gave a splendid and edi
fying address on the life of Colum
bus. Father Median, in presenting to
Governor Sholtz a St. Christopher
medal said: "This indicates the great
interest we have in your personal
safety. The prayers of our people
follow you that you may carry on
your noble work with the courage of
Christopher Columbus."
The entertainment of dancing and
music in charge of Miss Genevieve
McMurray; games in charge of Mrs.
V. Pacetti; and general arrangements
in charge of Philip Whitaker, Owen
Altee. Wm. Mclnarney, J. Kodbard
Home, C. A. Arban. Guests of hon
or on this occasion included the aides
of Governor Scholtz, Lt. Col. Harold
Colee, Lt. Col. Robert Seitner, Lt.
Col. Robert Kloeppel. rs well as May
or Alsop and other city officials. Thos.
Imeson, Frank Ritter, Clyde Simpson,
R. H. Carswell, city commissioners;
District Deputy and Mrs. J. B. Clark;
Grand Knight C. A. Hartley, Depu
ty Grand Knight James Lopez, the
Rev. James Meehan, the Rev. John
Murphy, the Rev. Hugh Farrelly, the
Rev. J. Nixon of Ocala, the Rev. Mi
chael Fox. the Rev. Thomas Brophy,
the Rev. D. A. Lyons, and others.
THE MOST REV. THOMAS C.
O’REILLY, Bishop of Scranton, was
the celebrant of a Field Mass at
English Center for all the reforesta
tion camps in the Wyoming and
Tioga districts. Three thousand per.
soi\s, including officers and men of
the C. C. C. were in attendance.
Assisting Bishop O’Reilly were the
Rev. William Farrell. Vice-Chancel
lor of the diocese; the Very Rev.
Connel McHugh, Director of the
Catholic Chaplains serving the camps
in the diocese, and Father Conra-
han, C. P., who has been conducting
missions in the various camps.
THE MOST REV. WILLIAM
MARK DUKE, Archbishop of Van
couver, Canada, in a pastoral letter,
urges reform of the capitalistic sys
tem, denounces communism, declares
that socialism cannot cure the evils
of the universe, and recommends
some sort of government supervision
of industry similar to the NRA in the
United States.
FLORIDA CLERGY AT
ST.LEO ABBEY FOR
ANNUAL GATHERING
Every Section of Diocese
Represented at Third Con
secutive Meeting at Bene
dictine Monastery
(Special to The Dulle4in)
ST. LEO, Fla. — The third annual
Eucharistic Conference of the priests
of the Diocese of St. Augustine, held
at St. Leo Abbey, October 23 and 24.
was one of the finest gatlverings of
its kind ever held in this section.
Due to -the absence of the Most
Rev. Patrick Barry, D. D. Bishop of
St. Augustine, who was called to Chi
cago by the death of his brother, the
League members were without the
inspirational leadership for which
Bishop Barry is so well known. Due
to his convalescent condition, the Rt.
Rev. Abbot Francis Sadlier. O. S.
B. . S. T. D„ diocesan director, was
unable to preside at the meeting. He
attended, however, and the Very
Rev. James Nunan, D. D., V. G. t
presided at all sessions. The Rev.
Abbot Maycul de Caigney, O. S. B.,
S. T. D., was celebrant at the Sol
emn Pontifical Votive Mass. Abbot
Francis was well enough to officiate
at the Solemn Benediction on Tues
day afternoon.
The Pontifical Mass was at 8:30 on
Tuesday morning. At the Mass, the
Rev. James F. Enright delivered a
beautiful sermon on the dignity of
the priesthood. He closed with the
wonderful words on “The Priest”, by
Lacordaire. At 10 o’clock the lirst
session was held, at which papers
were read. The first, on the "Rules
and Regulations of the Church in
Administration of Holy Commun
ion", by the Rev. H. F. _ Courtney,
was followed by a discussion by the
Rev. Louis Rinaldi, S. C. After an
open discussion, the second paper,
"Church Music in Eucharistic Wor
ship", was read by Rev. J. J. Fahy.
and discussed by the Rov. lngatiua
McCarty.
Luncheon was served at 12:30. At
2 p. m. there was a meeting of the
secular clergy, and a half hour lat
er, the second session was brought
to order. The first paper was on the
"Personal Relation of the Priest to
the Holy Eucharist”, by the Rev.
Robert P. Brennan, which was then
discussed by the Rev. A. Doherty,
S. J. A general discussion followed,
then the second paper, one on the
"Liturgy of the Mass”, was read by
the Rev. J. J. Meehan, the Rev.
T. G. Jones discussed the matter, and
this was followed by an open dis
cussion. At 4 p. m., Benodiciion was
given, and the Third Annual Eucha
ristic Conference came to an end.
Among the members of tlxe clergy
present were the Very Rev. Dr. Jas.
Nunan, V. G., of St. Augustine; Rev.
J. J. O'Riordan. Rev. James H. Cann,
Rev. J. F. Enright, Rev. F. H. Court
ney and Rev. John Mullin, of St,
Petersburg; Rev. Theo. A. Ray, S. J.,
Rev. A. L. Wagner, S. J., Rev. Louis
Rinaldi, S. C., Father Mayerhoffer, S.
C. ; Rev. Anthony Besozai, S. C.,
Tampa.; Rev. John Bishop, Rev,
Benedict Rajeany, Orlando; Rev. W.
J. Mullally, Daytona Beach; Rev. M.
Farley, Lakeland; Rev. Patrick D.
O’Brien, 3radenton; Rev. P. E.
Nolan, S. T. D., Winterhavcn; Rev.
A. M. McGowan, Kissimmee; Rev.
P. J. Doyles, Eustis; Rev. Robert
Brennan. Fort Myer; Rev. M. Beer-
halter, Fort Pierce; Rov. M. Fennell,
Bartow; Rev. Charles Elslander, Sar
asota; Rev. J. J. Kcllaghan, Sanford;
Rev. J. J. Fahy, Stuart; Rev. A. Do
herty. S. J.. West Palm Beach; Rev.
D. J. O'Keefe. Hollywood; Rev.
Thomas Jones. Fernandina; Kev. Paul
Keegan. O. S. B., New Port Richey;
Rev. Bernard Weigl, O. S. B., San
Antonio.
Members of St. Leo Abbey Com
munity residing at St. Le.o who were
present were the Rt. Rev. Abbot
Francis Sadlier, O. S. B., S. T. D.,
Rev. John Schlict, O. S. B., Rev.
Felix Ullrich, O. S. B., Rev. Lewis
Feser, O. S. B., Rev. Jerome Wis-
nie-ski, O. S. B., Rev. Thomas Hoff
man, O. S. B., Rev. Marion Bowman,
O. S. B , Rev. Ernest Schultz, O.
S. B., Rev. Ignatius McCarty, O. S.
B„ and Rev. Charles McGinley, O.
THANKSGIVING MASS IN
DAYTONA BEACH PARISH
(Special to The Bulletin)
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla.-A
special Mass of thanksgiving will be
offered at nine o'clock on Thanks
giving day at St. Paul’s Church, the
Rev. William J. Mullally. pastor.
The attendance at St. Paul's School
this year is the largest in its history.
S(. Loo College Prep.
School
Accredited High School
Conducted by the Benedictine
Fathers
Ideal Location
St. Leo Paaco County, Florida.