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THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
FEBRUARY 17',; 1934,'
NEW BISHOPS NAMED
FOR UNITED STATES
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John McMahon, was born in Somer
ville, Mass., March 13, 1876. and edu
cated at the College of St. Laurent,
Montreal, St. Mary’s Seminary, Bal
timore, in 1906. and in Rome, where
he was ordained to the priesthood for
the Archdiocese of Chicago. For eight
years he was in charge of the Holy
Cross Mission in Chicago. He was
also the organizer of the Diocesan
Charities. Since 1916, he has been in
Rome. In 1926, he succeeded Mon
signor O’Hern as Councillor for the
United States in the work of the
Propagation of the Faith.
Bishop-Elect Luoey becomes the
second Bishop of Amarillo, succeed
ing the Most Rev. Rudolph Aloysius
Gerken, now Archbishop of Santa Fe.
He was bom in Los Angeles, March
19, 1891. and was educated at Sacred
Heart School and St. Vincent's Col
lege. St. Patrick’s Seminary, Menlo
Park, CaL, and at the North American
College in Rome. He was ordained
in Rome on May 14, 1916, having re
ceived his doctorate in Sacred The
ology.
He held the position of Diocesan
Director of Charities from October
27, 1921 to 1926. He is a member
of the Executive Committee of the
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Protests against the Ruther
ford “Watch Tower” broad
casts, which attack the Cath
olic and Protestant clergy, are
being received by local sta
tions and by the Federal Radio
Commission by the tens of
thousands. An investigation of
a counter-petition filed by the
Rutherford organization pro
testing against his possible re
moval from the air reveals that
many of the signers are Cath
olics and others out of sympa
thy with the Rutherford blasts
against the Catholic and Prot
estant Churches, and that they
were tricked into signing by
misrepresentation. More than a
score of stations have recently
cancelled the Rutherford
broadcasts, and others are con
templating the step as the pro
tests continue to come in
floods.
O
Bishop Boyle Sounds Call for
Advance of Catholic Press
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Catholic Association for International
Peace.
Bishop-Elect O’Brien, who recently
celebrated the twenty-fifth anniver
sary of his connection with the Cath
olic Church Extension Society, has
been president of that organization
for the last nine years.
He was born in Chicago and, after
making his studies of philosophy and
theology in Kendrick Seminary, St.
Louis, was ordained to the priest
hood in 1903. When the Extension
Society was organized, three years
after his ordination, he volunteered
his services to the late Archbishop
Quigley for this new missionary or
ganization and became associated in
this work with Fathers Francis C.
Kelley, now Bishop of Oklahoma City
and Tulsa, and Emmanuel B. Ledvina,
now Bishop of Corpus Christi.
Since that time Bishop-Elect
O’Brien has been uninterruptedly
connected with the Extension Society,
first as second vice president, later
succeeding Bishop Ledvina as vice
president and general secretary, 13
years ago, and four years later be
coming president in succession to
Bishop Kelley. In addition to his du
ties with the Extension Society, he is
pastor of St. John’s Church, Chicago.
G. P. A. OFFICIALS
MEET IN AUGUSTA
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editor of the
Fitzpatrick, managing
Baltimore Review.
The board extended its grateful re
spects to the Most Rev. Michael J.
Keyes, D. D., Bishop of Savannah, and
also adopted a special resolution of
gratitude to His Eminence, Cardinal
Mundelein, Archbishop of Chicago,
for his gracious kindness to the
Catholic Press Association on the oc
casion of the Association’s convention
in Chicago.
Reports were made by Father Har
old on the work of the Circulation
Vigilance Committee, which has
headquarters in Chicago, by Father
Parsons for the Literature Bureau
and the Literary Awards Foundation,
by Mr. Elder and Mr. Hall on mat
ters common to the C. P. A. and the
News Service, by President Reid on
the work of the executive officers
since the Chicago convention, and by
Mr. Ridder, treasurer and other offi
cials.
The president was authorized to
draw up the program for the May
convention; the selection of the con-
tion city was left to the executive
officers.
The clergy of the city were special
to it regularly through the mails, but
they should be read by its members,
as a kind of mental antidote to the
papers and magazines and books with
which Catholic minds are too often
and too intensively employed. Much
of the hostile criticism of Catholic
publications which is directed by cas
ual readers at the journalistic faults
of editors and contributors is, I am
persuaded, an expression of the dis
taste of a Catholic mind gone a little
sour through a too constant diet of
a secular sort.
The financial difficulties of
diocesan weeklies and of our
other Catholic papers, as well as
the trials which our magazines
arc made to endure, av; an ar
raignment of the faith of our peo
ple. Instead of beginning our eco
nomies by giving up the Catho
lic paper it should be the last of
the things by which we curtail ex
penses.
Incidentally, it is good to remem
ber that paying for the publication
is really as important as subscribing
for it. The Catholic paper, like
nearly all other Catholic enterprises,
is pretty constantly embarrassed by
the narrowness of its financial re
sources. Unless its subscribers, and
its advertisers, pay it what they owe
it, it is doomed.
But these are unpleasant things to
write about. Our concern is with the
Catholic paper as an implement of
the Faith, and. as ay institution
whose excellence and vigor we must
build up by constant support and
constructive criticism. To be dis
pleased and angry is not very help
ful, unless one remains with the
group, and is stimulated by discon
tent to work for better things.
The admirable courage . of our
publications, all of them struggling in
the most untoward conditions they
have ever known, should stimulate
our people to give what assistance
they can. The most obvious help will
ome from patronizing those who use
our Catholic papers for advertising,
and from paid subscriptions. We
cannot listen to counsel of despair,
throw up our hands, and sink. We
must somehow, and chiefly by prayer
and sacrifice, save what we can of
the implements which we have re
ceived from those who have gone
before us in the Faith.
Almost alone today the Catholic
paper, devoted to advancing the in
terests of the Mystical Body of
Christ in this world, can speak out.
clear and unafraid, on the real merits
of public affairs. The daily jour
nals of the country which have the
largest circulations are slowly
coming into the control of a very
small group of men who actually
make public opinion by shaping the
news and controlling editorial com
ment upon it. If you will assume, on
the one hand, minds in their readers
that are easily made and unmade,
and on the other an astute selfish
ness campaigning for its own ends
through the papers it owns, you have
a potential danger whose magnitude
cannot easily be exaggerated. News
papers may make wars more easily
than governments, and newspapers
may dictate the nature of public
policies which government must
enact. To confirm this statement you
need only watch these newspapers at
their work. The confident air of ac
curate knowledge and judgment
which they assume coud only result
from the quality of omniscience sup
ported by the gift of infallibility.
Surely, in the absence of such
a condition, it is the obvious duty
of good citizens to support a press
in which real conflicts of opinion
point to a wholesome independ
ence, and where standards of
Christian justice and Christian
morals are acknowledged and
applied in judgments upon hu
man conduct, in the individual
and in the mass.
Catholic Press Month offers an op
portunity to all who are interested in
these things to break a lance in their
defense. 1 embrace this opportunity
to invite Catholic prelates to ad
dress their own dioceses during the
year in the interests of Catholic
publications originating in them, and
Catholic men and women every
where, to help, as they can. and
where they can. to support and
invigorate the Catholic Press.
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guests at a luncheon Saturday. Mr.
Reid presided, and informal talks
were made by the Rt. Rev. Msgr.
James A. Kane, pastor of St. Mary’s-
On-The-Hill, Augusta, Alfred M. Bat-
tey, president of the Catholic Lay
men's Association of Georgia, Sir
Andrew E. Martin, K. M., manager of
the Bon Air-Vanderbilt, the Rev. J.
B. Franckhauser, S. J., pastor of
Sacred Heart Church, Augusta, Mr.
Elder, Monsignor Smith and Father
Parsons.
The speakers referred particularly
to the work of the Catholic Lay
men’s Association of Georgia and
what it has done not only to make
the Catholic more favorable and cor
rectly known to Georgians, but what
it has done to make Georgia better
known to Catholics throughout the
United States. The efforts of the late
Capt. P. H. Rice, K. C. S. G., who was
a personal friend of most of those
present, of his successor and of their
associates were commended and cited
as example for the visiting speakers.
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BALTIMOREAN LEAVES
FORTUNE TO CHARITY
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the Redemptorist Congregation. The
Redemptorist Fathers are in charge
of St. Michael’s Church in which Mr.
Furst had a pew for 68 years- Mr.
Furst also had pews in the Cathedral
and St. Cecilia’s Church. The Asso
ciated Jewish Charities and the Com
munity Chest are each left ?125,000.
Mr. Furst was bom in Merbach,
Germany. His parents brought him
to this country when he was three
years old. He accumulated a fortune,
lost it. began over again and became
a millionaire. He had no children.
Governor Ritchie, Mayor Jackson,
United States Senator Millard E.
Tydings, Congressmen and others
were present at his funeral. Fifty
priests were in the sanctuary at the
Mass of Requiem for him at St. Ce-
ceilia’s Church.
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