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VOL. xv., No. 2 AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, FEBRUARY 17, 1934 issued monthly—$2.00 a year
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ADMIRAL raby
Bishop Boyle Sounds Call
for Advance of Catholic
Press in the United States
Bulletins
( By N. C. W. C. News Service)
RICHMOND, Va., had a Catholic
Hour night recently attended by
three thousand persons, including
Bishop Brennan, Governor Perry
and Lieut.-Gov. Price, and addressed
by the Rev. Dr. Fulton Sheen and
the Rev. Michael J. Ready of the Na
tional Catholic Welfare Conference.
BROTHER DONATUS of the Fran
ciscan Brothers, who nursed Father
Abram Ryan, “poet-priest of the
South”, in his last illness, died last
week at Louisville, Ky.
THE VERY REV. GEO. P. JOHN
SON, rector of the Cathedral of the
Immaculate Conception, Portland,
Me., has been named vicar-general
of the Diocese of Portland by Bishop
McCarthy.
THE MESSENGER of the Sacred
Heart for March will be a Maryland
Tercentenary number, officials of
the Maryland Tercentenary observ
ance announce.
DR, P. C. DAGNEAU, widely
known Quebec surgeon, has been
named dean of the Faculty of Medi
cine of Laval University in succes
sion to the late Dr. Arthur Rous
seau. Dr. Dagneau’s family came to
Canada in 1649.
A LARGE CALVARY will be
erected beside the railroad tracks at
Poinponne, near Paris, where 214
passengers lost their lives in a crash
the night before Christmas.. All but
four of the victims had Catholic
funerals.
DR. JOHN J. A. SHERRY, of the
Medical Bureau at Lourdes, has sail
ed for China, where he will serve as
a medical missionary with the
priests of the Society of St. Colum-
ban.
ARCHBISHOP GLENNON, of St.
Louis, in his Lenten pastoral says
that “in a very special way do we
admonish the young against intoxi
cants. Lent, the holy season of ab
stinence and mortification, is a most
opportune tune for all to ponder the
problem of liquor, and, so far as it
concerns themselves, to solve it.”
MARRIAGES of the very young
must be classed with hasty marriages,
Archbishop Glennon says, in de
ploring hasty marriages. He points
out that one may not be ordained a
priest until he is twenty-four, and
that the marriage state is equally as
important as entering the religious
state.
ARCHBISHOP WILLIAMS of Bir
mingham, Eng., in an address at the
Birmingham Catholic Reunion, .pro
posed that a message of regret and
sympathy be sent to the son of the
late Lord Halifax, aged Anglican
leader, who died last month; the ap
proval was unanimously adopted.
CHALICES imported to the United
States may come duty free if they
are to remain the permanent proper
ty of the Diocese, but a tax must be
paid on them if imported to be held
as the personal property of priests, a
ruling of the Commissioner of Cus-
tomsstates.
“THE CROSS OF PEACE” by Sir
Philip Gibbs, is the February choice
of the Catholic Book of the Month
Club.
HERR VAN PAPEN, vice-chancel
lor of Germany, recently made an at
tack on the Christmas pastoral of the
Austrian Bishops—an attack which has
greatly astonished Austria, Herr Von
Papen is a Catholic.
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
PHILADELPHIA—President Frank
lin D. Roosevelt, amid the press of of
ficial duties, found time to take
cognizance of the one hundred fiftieth
anniversary of the ratification by
Congress of the Treaty of Paris of
1783, the treaty which concluded the
American Revolution and recognized
the independence of the United
States. The President’s action took
the form of a personal letter to His
Eminence Dennis Cardinal Dougherty,
Archbishop of Philadelphia on the
occasion of a Solemn Pontifical Mass
in commemoration of the anniversary.
The President particularly com
mended the American Catholic His
torical Society, under whose auspices
the observance was, arranged, for its
service to America in thus calling at
tention to “a landmark in the history
of the United States for progress and
DEATH OF ADMIRAL
RABY OCCASION OF
UNIVERSAL SORROW
Funeral of Charleston Navy-
Yard Commander Held From
Cathedral. Received Com
munion Day of His Death
(Special to The Bulletin)
CHARLESTON, S. C. — The death
of Rear Admiral James J. Raby, U.
S. N., from injuries received in an
automobile accident 30 miles south
of Savannah January 15 when he was
returning to Charleston from Miami,
removed not only one of the most
distinguished officers of the United
States Navy but one of the nation’s
outstanding Catholic laymen.
Admiral Raby was commander of
the Sixth Naval District and of the
Charleston Navy Yard, and of the
Seventh and Eighth Naval Districts
as well. He was returning from
Florida, where he was on an inspec
tion tour when the accident happen
ed; his aide, Lieutenant E. P. Aber
nethy, was also in the ear. In
swerving to avoid another car, the
automobile was capsized; Lieutenant
Abernethy was slightly and Mrs.
Abernethy more seriously injured.
Admiral Raby died within a few
minutes of the accident, at a home
nearby.
Sunday morning, Admiral Raby
received Holy Communion at Miami.
BALTIMOREAN LEAVES
FORTUNE TO CHARITY
Frank A. Furst Bequeathes
$2 50,090 to Archdiocesean
Bureau—Other Bequests
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
BALTIMORE. —' Generous legacies
to Catholic charitable and educational
institutions as well as to other chari
table institutions in Baltimore were
left by Frank A. Furst, Maryland po
litical and business leader, who died
last week and who was buried on
Friday. morning in the Frank Furst
Memorial Chapel in Holy Redeemer
Cemetery.
The Memorial Chapel was built by
Mr. Furst at a cost of $50,000 as a
burial place for members of the Re-
demptorist Congregation and for Mr.
Furst’s parents, his wife and him
self.
The chief beneficiary in Mr. Furst’s
will is the Bureau of Catholic Chari
ties of Baltimore. The will provides
that one half of the residue of the
estate is to go to the Most Rev. Mich
ael J. Curley, Archbishop of Balti
more, for the Bureau of Catholic
Charities—but this particular legacy
is not to exceed $250,000. Mr. Furst
was the largest contributor annually
to Catholic Charities in this city.
Thitry-four charitable agencies in all
were left bequests ranging from $1,000
to $10,000.
Special legacies are left members of
for peace among the nations.” The
Mass, presided over by His Eminence,
was celebrated by the Most Rev.
Gerald P. O’Hara, Auxiliary Bishop
of Philadelphia and president of the
American Catholic Historical Society.
A sermon of special historical in
terest was delivered by the Rev. Dr.
W. J. Lallou, professor at Overbrook
Seminary. Mentioning briefly the
political and social results of the
Revolution, Father Lallou emphasized
particularly the religious importance
of the Treaty of 1783. It was one of
the principal factors in the establish
ment “not only of political independ
ence”, said Father Lallou, “but of
religious independence as well. The
same year that witnessed the ratifica
tion of the Treaty (1784), he recalled,
saw also the establishment of an
American Catholic Hierarchy free
from the former control of the Vicar
Apostolic of London.”
O O
Sunday night he spent with the Re-
deptorist Fathers at New Smyrna,
Fla., and received Holy Communion
before starting on the fatal trip. He
was a daily attendant at Mass and
a daily communicant whenever that
was possible.
Greatly interested in Catholic Ac
tion, Admiral Raby was in demand
as a speaker at Catholic affairs as
well as at secular gatherings, and he
never failed to respond when it was
Catholic Press Leaders Come
to Georgia for Winter Ses
sions of Association
AUGUSTA, Ga. — Catholic press
leaders from various sections of the
nation gathered in Augusta during
the past week-end for the winter
meeting of the executive board of the
Catholic Press Association, the ses
sions of which were held at the Bon
Air-Vanderbilt Hotel.
Richard Reid, president of the
Catholic Press Association and editor
of The Bulletin of the Catholic Lay
men’s Association of Georgia, presid
ed. Those attending included the Rt.
Rev. Msgr. Albert E. Smith, Litt. D.,
editor-in-chief of the Baltimore
Catholic Review, vice-president;
Joseph H. Meier, publisher of the
Catholic Press Directory, Chicago,
secretary; Charles H. Ridder, business
manager of the New York Catholic
'News, treasurer; Benedict Elder, edi
tor of the The Record, official organ
of the Diocese of Louisville, general
counsel; the Rev. Harold Purcell, C.
P., editor of The Sign, New York,
James J. Brady, business manager of
The New World, official organ of the
Archdiocese of Chicago, and Bernard
Vaughan, editor of The Bulletin, offi
cial organ of the Archdiocese of St.
Paul, members o f the executive
board; the Rev. Wilfrid Parsons, S. J.,
president of the American Press and
editor of Thought and of America,
New York, chairman of the C. P. A.
Literature Bureau; Frank A. Hall, di
rector of the N. C. W. C. News Ser
vice, New York, and Vincent de Paul
(Continued on Page Ten)
Dr. O’Shea Retires
as N. Y. School Head
Superintendent of Public
Schools Educator 47 Years
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
NEW YORK. — Forty-seven years
as an educator is the record of Dr.
William J. O’Shea, superintendent of
New York City Public Schools, who
retired on January 31.
Doctor O’Shea, who is a Catholic,
began his educational career as a
public school teacher in 1886. Ten
years later he was appointed as a
principal. Still another decade later
he was named a district superitend-
ent and, in 1918, an associate super
intendent in charge of Manhattan’s
elementary schools.
Doctor O’Shea is the author of a
series of English textbooks and co
author of a work on mathematical
astronomy. He holds degrees from
Fordham University, Manhattan Col
lege, and the College of the City of
New York, i
N. C. W. C. Press Chairman
Says Dispensing With Cath
olic Paper Should Be a Last
Measure of Economy
BY MOST REV. HUGH C. BOYLE
(Bishop of Pittsburgh)
(Episcopal Chairman, N. C. W. C.
Press Department)
The coming of Press Month brings
the annual period in which a serious
effort is made to advance the in
fluence and effectiveness of Ca
tholic newspapers, magazines and
other publications, arpo ng Catholic
people of the United States.
We,—not only Catholics, but the
rank and file of adults among us,—
make up a newspaper reading nation.
The urban citizen will, normally,
read two papers a day, not casually
or superficially, but with astonishing
thoroughness. The habit, long con
tinued, is an educational process of
sorts, and we speak of men and
women whose culture has been its
product.
We fall into the way of automati
cally accepting as true all those
things which we read in the paper
and in which we have no personal in
terest; and a goodly portion of those
matters also in which we have a per
sonal interest, and which tell for our
case. The notion of examining the
news, and the color of the news,
critically, never enters our heads.
Commonly it is impossible. But, even
where it is possible, it is not done;
and our vision of the world and its
affairs , and our interpretation of
them, we accept as they are set forth
in the columns of the papers to
which we are addicted.
The world and its doings may
be seen from many angles, and
they may be interpreted in many
ways. While the office of a
secular newspaper can be asked
to see them fairly, and to inter
pret them according to the canons
of decency and honesty, it can
hardly be asked to see them or
interpret them in a Catholic way.
The effect of this is that even our
Catholic people come, eventually,
to be possessed of pagan or
rationalist or materialistic minds;
minds that are not made by the
Faith, but by the popular and
passing persuasions of the day.
These are commonly pagan.
It is not at all a difficult matter
to make the mind of a Catholic man
or woman inhospitableto the Faith.
Secular schools often do it for our
young people, when developing boys
and girls are subjected, out of social
considerations and sometimes for
years, to a scholastic atmosphere
which anaesthetizes the sense of the
supernatural. But more than any
thing else, this feeding of the mind
through secular newspapers, mag
azines and books, sets up a conflict
in which the Faith is hard put to it
to survive.
It is important, if the Faith is to
be made a vigorous quality in a Ca
tholic family, t hat Catholic news
papers and periodicals should find a
welcome. Not only should they come
BY REV. MANUEL GRANA
(Madrid Correspondent, N. C. W. C.
News Service)
MADRID—El Debate, leading Ca
tholic daily of Spain, has published
an important editorial on the ac
ceptance of the Republic by Spanish
Catholics. In the editorial, the paper
scores those whose would question
the loyalty and patriotism of Span
ish Catholics and counsels its read
ers to contihue to follow faithfully
the principles and standards of the
Church as defined under similar
conditions by Pope Leo XHI and
reiterated since the advent of the
Spanish Republic by the Spanish
Episcopate and by His Holiness Pope
Pius XI
The Catholic Church is not in
compatible with a republic form of
government, either through principle
or by exerience, says El Debate and
thereafter inquires: “It is not rather
the case %nd the Second Republic of
Spain has made itself and declared
itself incompatible with the Catholic
Church?”
? N. C. W. C. PRESS CHAIRMAN °
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BISHOP BOYLE
FOUR BISHOPS NAMED
FOR UNITED STATES
New Bishops of Providence,
Trenton and Amarillo and
Chicago Auxiliary Selected
(By N. C. W. C. News Service-
WASHINGTON.—Word has just
been received from Rome of the ap
pointment of four American Bishcps.
They are:
The Rev. Francis P. Keough, As
sistant Chancellor of the Diocese of
Hartford, who has been named Bish
op of Providence;
The Rt. Rev. Msgr. Moses Kiley,
Spiritual Director of the Ndcrth Amer
ican College in Rome, who has been
named Bishop of Trenton;
The Rev. Dr. Robert E. Lucey, pas
tor oi St. Anthony's Church, Los An
geles, named Bishop of Amarillo;
The Rt. Rev. Msgr. William D.
O’Brien, President of the Catholic
Church Extension Society, named Ti
tular Bishop of Calinda and Auxiliary
to His Eminence George Cardinal
Mundelein. Archbishop of Chicago.
Bishop-elect Keough, who succeeds
the late Most Rev. William A.
Hickey as Bishop of Providence, was
ordained to the priesthood in June.
1916. He was educated at the Hart
ford Diocesan Preparatory Seminary,
at Issy and Paris, France, and at St.
Bernard’s Seminary, Rochester, N. Y.
He has labored in the capacity of Dio
cesan Director o! Catholic Mission
Aid society, Diocesan Director of the
Propagation of the Faith. Chaplain of
the House of the Good Shepherd, and
Assistant Chancellor of the Diocese of
Hartford.
Bishop-elect Kiley, who becomes
fifth Bishop of the Diocese of Tren
ton, succeeding the late Most Rev,
The editorial says, in conclusion:
“To use the same words as those of
the Pope in the Encyclical Diicetissinia
Nobis, provided the Divine rights of
God and of Christian consciences are
safe Spanish Catholics, as such, should
find no difficulty in adapting them
selves to republican institutions."
In the same issue, El JJebate
quotes an editorial from L’Osscrvatore
Romano, in which the Vatican City
daily praises Spanish Catholics for
their concept of civil order and de
clares that “the enemies of the Re
public of the State and of the public
authorities are not the persecuted
priests religious and Catholics and
those recently expelled, but rather
their persecuters.” "The new regiment
has emerged from the recent elec
tions in a stronger position", the
quoted excerpts adds. ‘ It includes
groups who do not accept it. but
who are at last resigned to discussing
it. In turn, they ask of the Republic
that it now follow conservative
courses . . . The Spanish Reublic,
as a reflection of the true thouhgt of
i the nation, is not under discussion.”
(Continued on Page Ten)
President Calls Philadelphia
Mass “Landmark in History”
(Continued on Page Eight)
Executive Board of C. P. A.
Holds Meeting in Augusta
(Continued on Page Ten) (Continued on Page Ten)
Spanish Catholics Commend
Loyalty to the Republic