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VOL. XV, No. 4.
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, APRIL 28, 1934
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Bulletins
( By N. C. W. C. News Service)
Catholic Population Shows
Increase of 54,191 in Year
THE REV. DANIEL A. LORD, S. J.,
editor of The Queen’s Work, St. Louis,
and one of the most widely known of
the Jesuit Fathers in the United
.States, is the current speaker on the
Catholic Hour sponsored by the N. C.
C. M. each Sunday evening.
CARDINAL HAYES was honored at
a series of testimonial dinners in New
York on the occasion of his triple ju
bilee, twenty years as a Bishop, fif
teen years as an Archbishop and ten
years as a Cardinal.
THE REV. DR. WM. J. KERBY,
professor of sociology at the Catholic
University of America and an out
standing leader in the field of Cath
olic charities, was invested as a Mon
signor in the Chapel of Trinity Col
lege, Washington, April 19. Archbish
op Curley of Baltimore officiated.
THE HOLY FATHER has given his
approval to the first Marian Congress
in the United States, which will be
held at the Sanctuary of Our Lady of
Sorrow, Portland, Ore., August 12-15.
MISERICORDIA COLLEGE, con
ducted by the Sisters of Mercy at Dal
las, Pa., will entertain the twenty-
seventh annual meeting of the Classi
cal Association of the Middle Atlantic
States and Maryland May 4 and 5.
DR. JEREMIAH D. M. FORD, not
ed Catholic historian, chairman of the
Department of Romance Languages at
Harvard University, will receive an
honorary degree at Trinity College
this summer.
ST. JEROME’S CHURCH, the
mother church in Holyoke, Mass.,
was burned and totally destroyed re
cently. The Rt. ■ Rev. Msgr. John F.
Fagan, widely known hi the South,
Is pastor of St. Jerome’s.
SISTER ST. CHARLES of the Sis
ters of St. Joseph at St. Gregorie,
Quebec,lost her life in a fire which
destroyed the convent April 16. Sister
St. Charles was formerly Miss Irene
Trottier of Grondier, Pontneuf, Que.
ROME has 989,704 Catholics and 19,-
540 who are not Catholics, the most
recent census disclosed. Of the non-
Catholics, who constitute 1.4 per cent
of the population, there are 10,901
Jews, 5,984 Protestants, 744 Greek Or
thodox, 171 Moslems, 199 miscella
neous, and 1,225 who claim no reli
gious affiliation.
THE HOLY FATHER in a cable
gram from Cardinal Pacelli, Papal
Secretary of State, to Martin II. Car-
mody, Supreme Knight of the Knights
of Columbus, on the occasion of the
tenth anniversary of the inauguration
of the Knights of Columbus work for
boys in Rome, expresses his cordial
thanks to the officers and members of
the order and imparls his Apostolic
Benediction.
VERY REV. DR. JAMES B. TEN-
NELLY, S. S., of the Sulpician Sem
inary, Washington, D. C., has been re
elected president of the Catholic An
thropological Conference at the an
nual convention of the society recent
ly held at the Catholic University of
America. The Most Rev. Bishop James
H. Ryan, Rector of the University is
honorary president.
Indianapolis Bishop
The Most Rev. Alphonse J. Smith,
D. D„ Bishop of Nashville, pontificat
ed and the Most Rev. John T. Mc-
Nicliolas, D. D., Archbishop of Cin
cinnati, presided at the installation of
the Most Rev. Joseph E. Ridder, D. D.,
as Bishop of Indianapolis at the Ca
thedral of Sts. Peter and Paul there
Tuesday. Bishop Ridder, a native of
Indianapolis, succeeds the late Bishop
Joseph Chartrand, whose auxiliary he
was. Other bishops to be consecrated
or installed in the near future in ad
dition to Bishop Ridder and Bishop
O’Brien are Bishop Maurice McAu-
liffe of Hartford, who was coadjutor
to Bishop Nilan, Bishop-elect Gerald
T. Bergen of Des Moines, Bishop-elect
Moses E. Kiley of Trenton, Bishop-
elect Francis P. Keough of Providence
and Bishop-elect Robert E. Lucey of
Amarillo. Bishop-elect Bergen was
formerly of Peoria, Bishop-elect Ki
ley was spiritual director of the
North American College in Rome,
Bishop-elect Keough was assistant
chancellor of the Diocese of Hartford,
and Bishop-elect Lucey goes from the
Diocese of Los Angeles to Amarillo in
Texas.
N. Y. LEGISLATORS ASKS
FOR RADIO REVISION
(By N. C .W. C. News Service)
ALBANY—A resolution requesting
Congress to take steps to insure ade
quate radio facilities for Station
WLWL, New York, has been adopted
by the State Senate.
The station, owned and operated by
the Paulist Fathers, recently failed to
receive permission from the Federal
Radio Commission to extend its time
of broadcasting.
The Very Rev John B. Harney,
C. S. P„ Superior General of the
Paulist Fathers, recently proposed an
amendment to the Federal Commun
ications Bill which would give 25 per
cent of the country's radio facilities
over to institutions which would
broadcast educational and religious
programs.
Greed Is Main Foe of the
New Deal, Msgr. Ryan Says
20,322,594 Catholics in the
United States, 1934 Cath
olic Directory Reports
(By N. C W. C News Service)
NEW YORK—The Catholic popula
tion of the United States is put at
20,322,594 by The Offcial Catholic Di
rectory for 1934. published by P. J.
Kenedy & Sons here and relaesed this
week.
This total for 1934 indicates a gain
of 54,191 over the figure reported in
1933. Last year the increase was
32.012 over the total reported in 1932.
A particularly impressive figure in
the 1934 Directory is the total of 49,-
181 converts reported. This figure
represents an increase of 8,955 over
the total of 40,226 converts reported in
the 1933 Directory. The total re
ported in 1933 represented an increase
of 957 converts over the total reported
in 1932, which in turn was an in
crease of 741 over the total reported
in 1931.
There are two more Archbishops
and five more Bishops listed this
year.
The 1934 Directory reports an at
tendance at Catholic high schools
which is 24,356 greater than the
total attendance reported in the 1932
volume. The latest Directory reports
figures that represent a loss of 10 col
leges and a gain of 62 high schools
and 12 academies, when compared
with the statistics in the 1933 volume.
It also reports a Catholic parochial
school attendance that is 54,451 great
er than that reported in 1933, at the
same time showing a decrease of 33 in
the number of parochial schools.
The loss of one orphanage is re
flected by a comparison of the figures
reported in 1934 and 1933. The num
ber of orphans in Catholic institu
tions decrease by 3,880 in the year, the
figures indicate. A home for the aged
also was lost, but there was a gain
of 19 Catholic hospitals during the
year, the figures also show.
HOLY FATHER CLOSES
THE YEAR OF JUBILEE
Impressive Ceremonies Held
at Vatican Basilica
BY MSGR. ENRICO PUCCI
(Vatican City Correspondent, N. C.
W. C. News Serivce)
VATICAN CITY.—The final cere
mony of the Holy Year Extraordinary
of the nineteenth century of the Re
demption of mankind the closing of
the Holy Doors of the four Roman
Patriarchal Basilicas, was held April
second.
The closing of the Holy Door in the
Vatican Basilica by His Holiness
Pope Pius XI was preceded by the
veneration of the Greatest Holy
Relics shown by the Vatican Canons
from the balcony that opens on the
colossal pilaster of the cupola of St.
Peter’s-
Similar ceremonies were fulfilled
in the Basilica of St. Paul, by the
Cardinal Dean Granito Pignatelli de
Belmonte, in the Basilica of St. John
Lateran by the Cardinal Archpriset
Marchetti-Selvaggiani and in the
Basilica of St. Mary Major by the
Cardinal Archpriest Angelo Maria
Dolci
Bishop Defends Right
of Men to Organize
(By N. C. W C. News Service)
NOTRE DAME, Ind.—If the aims of
the New Deal are achieved this
country will have “genuine self
government in industry and a sane
and realistic measure of industrial
democracy”; failure will bring some
form of captalistic fascism”, the Rt.
Rev. Msgr. John A. Ryan, Director
of the Department of Social Action,
National Catholic Welfare Conference,
said in an address delivered at the
annual meetings of the Indiana
Association of Economists and So
ciologists. Msgr. Ryan spoke on “The
Philosophy of the New Deal and the
Opinions of the Economists.”
Tf the New Deal goes down in futil
ity, he said, the cause will not be
ity, weaknesses in its political and
economic-intruments. He added:
“When I consider the wholesale
violation of the NRA Codes: the sys
tematic efforts of the larger and
stronger business concerns to injure
and destroy the smaller and weaker;
the unscrupulous imposition of un
fair prices upon the consumer; the
defrauding of labor through uncon
scionably low wages and through va
rious forms of ‘chiseling’; the trick
ery and tyranny of wealthy and
powerful corporations in forcing their
employes into company unions, in
preventing the formation of. indepen
dent labor organizations and in vio
lating or evading the terms of the Re
covery Act through other crooked
devices; the enormous deception and
arrogance which many powerful in
dustrialists unblushingly displayed at
the hearings on the Wagner-Lewis
bill; the efforts of certain craft unions
to promote their minority interests at
the expense of effective organization
by all the workers in an industry:
the eagerness of certain co-operatives
of dairymen to join with milk dis
tributives in gouging the consumer—
when I think of all this I am tempted
to wonder whether, as a pegple we
have sufficient honesty left to get out
of the depression. If the New Deal
does not succeed in bringing about a
fair measure of recovery the main
cause of the failure will be a vice
which is as old as the human race.
And the name of that vice is greed.”
In Letter to Senate Commit
tee on Labor
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
WASHINGTON, D. C.—The right of
workingmen to form labor unions and
to bargain collectively is called an
inherent right and is eloquently de
fended in a statement which the
Administrative Committee of Bishops,
National Catholic Welfare Confer
ence, has asked to have filed with
the Committee on Education and
Labor of the United States Senate.
The Administrative Committee of
Bishops has asked that its statement
be made a part of the committee’s
hearings on the Wagner bill, which
provides for the protection of the
worker’s right to self-organization
and the establishment of a tribunal
for the adjudication of industrial con
troversies. The Bishops have filed the
statement in view of the fact that
His Holiness Pope Pius XI’s En
cyclical on Reconstructing the Social
Order, or portions of it, have been
placed in evidence at the hearings
on the bill.
Chicago Auxiliary
The Most Rev. Wiliam David
O’Brien, D. D., was consecrated Aux
iliary Bishop of Chicago Wednesday
at the Cathedral of the Holy Name
there, His Eminence, Cardinal Mun
delein, acting as consecrator. Nearly
one hundred Bishops and Archbish
ops, including practically all of those
from the South, were present.
Bishop O'Brien, who is president of
the Catholic Church Extension Socie
ty, is a first cousin of the Rev. Jere
miah O’Hara of St. Patrick’s Church,
Augusta, Ga. Father O'Hara’s mother
and Bishop O'Brien’s mother were
sisters.
BISHOP OF HARTFORD,
MSGR. NILAN, DIES
HARTFORD.—The Most Rev. John
Joseph Nilan, Bishop of Hartford, died
April 13 of pneumonia and arthritis.
At Bishop Nilan’s bedside were the
Most Rev. Maurice F. McAuliffe. who,
on March 26, was named Coadjutor
Bishop of Hartford with the faculties
of Apostolic Administrator, and the
Most Rev. Francis P. Keough, Bishop-
elect of Providence, R. I.
The Most Rev. John J. Nilan, sev
enth Bishop of Hartford, was born at
Newburyport, Mass., on August 1,
1855. He made his courses in philoso
phy and theology at St. Joseph’s Sem
inary, Troy, N. Y. Among his class
mates there was the Rt. Rev. Msgr.
Michael J. Lavelle, rector of St. Pat
rick’s Cathedral, New York. He was
ordained at Troy on December 21,
1878 for the Archdiocese of Boston.
In June, 1892, the late Archbishop
Williams promoted him to the Per
manent Rectorship of St. Joseph’s
Church, Amesbury, Mass.
He was appointed to the See of
Hartford on February 16. 1910, suc
ceeding the Most Rev. Michael Tier
ney, and was consecrated at St. Jos
eph’s Cathedral, Hartford, the follow
ing, April 28, by William Cardinal
O'Connell, Archbishop of Boston.
Under Bishop Nilan’s prudent and
capable administration the Diocese of
Hartford has made conspicuous prog
ress, its growth in numbers being
matched by its growth in influence
and prestige.
Four priests of the Diocese who
served under Bishop Nilan have been
advanced to the episcopal office; the
Most Rev. John Gregory Murray,
Archbishop of St. Paul; the Most Rev.
Maurice F. McAuliffe, Coadjutor
Bishop of Hartford; the Most Rev.
Joseph E. McCarthy, Bishop of Port
land, and the Most Rev. Francis P.
Keough, Bishop-elect of Providence.
BISHOP TOOLEN LEADS
MOVE AGAINST EVIL
PICTURES,LITERATURE
Pledge Cards Circulated in
Diocese of Mobile to
Crystalize Action to Elevate
Moral Tone
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
MOBILE—Saying that “unless we
are to become pagan, unless we are
to lose all idea of faith and morals,
we must take a stand against the evil
movie and bad literature,” the Most
Rev. Thomas J. Toolen, Bishop of
Mobile, has addressed a pastoral let
ter to his priests and people an
nouncing the circulation of pledge
cards which he asks the people to
sign.
“I call upon the priests and people
of the Diocese to take a determined
stand against the evil movie and the
obscene magazine and newspaper,”
Bishop Toolen says.
“Encourage the good, condemn the
evil. Show by staying away from all
that is evil in books and pictures that
you are a true child of Christ. Keep
your soul pure so that when Christ
comes to you, you will be ready to
receive Him.
"Keep before you the ideals of'
Mary Immaculate and you will be a
true child of Christ and His Church.
"Pledge yourself to stay away
from evil movies, not to read evil
books, magazines or papers. If we
hit the pocketbooks of the producer,
he will soon begin to give us pictures
that we will be glad to see.
“If we do not buy evil books, and
magazines, they will soon disappear
from the newsstands. Form a
vigilance committee in every parish
to watch the evil pictures.
“In God s name, I call upon the
Holy Name Society, the Sodalities,
the National Council of Catholic
Women, upon every man, woman, „nd
child of the Diocese of Mobile to
enter the fight for God and for the
souls of men.
“I am sending you pledge cards
and I am asking our people to sign
these cards. One part is to be kept
by the signer, the other returned to
the priest.
“I would like to know from each
pastor how many pledge themselves
to stay away from evil movies, books,
papers and magazines.”
Bishop Toolen says in nis letter that
“so corrupt have become the minds
of our youth by seeing sin glorified
that they no longer can distinguish
between right and wrong.”
CLEVELAND HOST TO
C.P. A, MAY 24-26
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
CHICAGO. — The annual conven
tion of the Catholic Press Association
will be held at Cleveland, May 24 to
26, at the invitation of the Most Rev.
Joseph Schrembs, Bishop of Cleve
land, and of The Catholic Universe
Bulletin, official diocesan newspaper.
At the direction of Richard Reid, Edi
tor of The Bulletin of Augusta, Ga.,
and President of the C. P. A.. J. H.
Meier, of this city, Secretary, Cleve
land, has notified all members of
the Association to this effect.
The Most Rev. James A. McFadden,
Auxiliary Bishop of Cleveland, is
chairman of the board of The Catholic
Universe Bulletin and A. J. Wey is
general manager.
Pope Piux XI Has Created 90
New Dioceses in 12 Years
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
VATICAN CITY.—The first copy of
the Annuario Pontificio 1934, the offi
cial Pontifical directory, has just been
presented to His Holiness Pope Pius
XI by Monsignor Alfredo Ottaviani,
Undersecretary of State, and the sec
ond to His Eminence Eugenio Cardi
nal Pacelli, Secretary of State.
At the close of the year 1933 the
Sacred College was composed of 56
Cardinals, besides two reserved in
petto, or a total of 58. This is an in
crease of five over the number at the
close of 1932. Six of the present Card
inals are of the order of Bishops, 47
of the order of Priests and three of the
order of Deacons. One of these was
created by Leo XIII, seven by Pius X,
12 by Benedict XV and 36 by the
reigning Poitiff. Since the total mem
bership of the Sacred College is 70,
there were 12 vacant places a, the
close of 1933. There were 17 vacancies
at the end of 1932. Eight Cardinals
were chosen in 1933 (two in petto),
and three died. The total number of
residential Sees increased in the year
by six, from 1144 to 1150.
The Holy See had at the end of 1933
diplomatic representation in 37 coun
tries. and 21 delegations without dip
lomatic status. Thirty-five nations and
the Sovereign Military Order of Mal
ta had dinlomatic representation at
the Holy See.
During his pontificate. His Holiness
Pope Pius XI. the Annuario records,
has created 90 dioceses and archdio
ceses, 17 abbeys and prelatures nulli-
us, and 35 vicariates apostolic; has
elevated 21 prefectures to vicariates
apostolic; has created 19 prefectures
apostolic later elevated to vicariates
apostolic ;and has created 70 prefec
tures apostolic and 26 missions and
districts sui juris.