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MAY 19, 1934
THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC L AYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
FIVE
LJ. S. News Briefs
PENNSYLVANIA’S Catholic Edu
cation Association in convention in
Philadelphia entered a formal protest
against the State’s requirement of a
statement of religious affiliation by
applicants for positions in the public
schools. Msgr. John J. Bonner, Phil
adelphia, was re-elected president,
Cardinal Dougherty honorary presi
dent, and Archabbot Vincent Koch,
O.S.B., of St. Vincent’s Archabbey,
honorary president of the college sec
tion.
IION. CORDELL HULL, Secretary
of State, in an address to the mem
bers of the Associated Press in New
York April 23, asserted that the need
of “a moral and spiritual awakening”
in the United States is urgent.“Sound
liberal doctrines, humanitarianism,
social justice and social welfare can
live and thrive only in a moral and
spiritual atmosphere,” he asserted.
CINCINNATI will be host to the
annual National Conference of Char
ities October 7-10. The St. Vincent de
Paul Society will meet there at the
same time. Richmond was to have
been host this year and Cincinnati
in 1935, but the illness of Bishop
Brennan of Richmond occasioned the
change.
THE VERY REV. J. W. R. MA
GUIRE, C.S.V., president of St. Via
tor College in Illinois, nationally not
ed authority on economics, has been
appointed a member of the regional
labor board at Chicago by President
Roosevelt.
POPE PIUS XI “gave me the im
pression of a spiritual leader who is
living the daily life of all humanity,
deeply sympathetic to every effort to
free the world from its present tra
vail”, Frederick E. Murphy, pub
lisher of the Minneapolis Tribune,
says on his return from Europe. Mr.
Murphy also speaks of the Holy Fa
ther’s “tremendous capacity for ad
ministrative work”.
MR. ROBERT A. WEPPNER, JR.,
of Lakewood, Ohio, 27-year-old grad
uate and insrtuctor in architecture at
the Catholic University of America,
who won the coveted Prix de Rome
In Architecture, in a field of 130 con
testants. The fellowship, which has
an estimated value of $4,000, will en
able Mr. Weppner to study _ in
Europe for two years. His prize
winning design depicted a memorial
in Washington dedicated to the
founders of the republic.
FATHER FRANCIS KIEFFER, su
perior of the College of St. Etienne,
Strassbourg, has been chosen super!
or-general of the Society of Mary at
a general chapter in Belgium. He
succeeds the late Very Rev. Ernest J.
Sorret. The Society of Mary conducts
the University of Dayton and other
colleges in the United States.
250,000 CHILDREN will be enrolled
in the Catholic Vacation Schools this
summer, according to an estimate of
the Rural Life Bureau of the Nation
al Catholic Welfare Conference.
JAMES KERNEY, late Trenton, N.
J., newspaper editor, advisor of Pres
ident Wilson, Haitian Commissioner
under President Hoover and out
standing Catholic layman, was laud
ed by Oswald Garrison Villard in
The Nation recently. Mr. Kerney
was esteemed by those who knew
him, Mr. Villard said, “as a prince
among men because he had a heart,
because there was not a selfish trait
in him, and because they could even
come to him for sympathy, for un
derstanding and for justice.”
BISHOP SHAUGHNESSY, of Seat
tle, recently confirmed 50 Japanese at
the Maryknoll Mission there recently,
and 32 were confirmed at a similar
mission in Los Angeles.
THE REV. HAROLD J. RING, S.J
born in San Francisco December 13,
1893, has been named president of the
University of San Francisco.
THE REV. DR. EDWARD LODGE
CURRAN, president of the Interna
tional Catholic Truth Society and ed
itor of Light, started a month's speak
ing tour for non-Catholic audiences
in Oklahoma late in May.
FATHER JAMES M. GILLIS, C.S.P.
editor of the Catholic World, and
Michael Williams, editor of The Com
monweal. are among the speakers
who will address the first Catholic
Interracial Mass Meeting May 20 at
the Town Hall in New York. Cardinal
Hayes has given the meeting his en
dorsement.
..JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER, JR.
contributed $10,000 and Governor
Lehman, of New York, $1,000 ta the
Catholic Charities of New York in its
recent appeal.
MSGR RAYMOND R. NOLL,
pastor of St Philip Neri Church, In
dianapolis, and a cousin of Bishop
Noll, of Fort Wayne, has been ap
pointed vicar-general of the Diocese
of Indianapolis, succeeding the pres
ent Ordinary of the Diocese, Bishop
Joseph E. Ritter.
THREE CHRISTIAN BROTHERS,
Brothers Vantasian, George and Fe-
lan, of San Francisco, recently ob
served the golden jubilee of their re
Hgious profession. They are connect
ed with St Mary’s High School and
College there.
GEORGE E. HAMILTON, for
years dean of the law school of
Georgetown University, for 48 years
member of its faculty and a graduate
of the law school 60 years ago, was
honored at a dinner in Washington
April 23 attended by two members of
the Supreme Court of the United
States, Senators and other dignita
ries. Mr. Hamilton is the oldest
alumnus of the law school.
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The June issue of The
Bulletin will be commence
ment number. Catholic
schools m the Southeast
are requested to send their
commencement programs
to The Bulletin as early as
possible.
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BISHOP IS INSTALLED
IN INDIANAPOLIS SEE
Archbishop McNicholas Pre
sides—Bishop Smith of
Nashville Pontificates
BISHOP O’BRIEN, Chicago’s new
auxiliary, has presented to Cardinal
Mundelein for Mundelein Seminary
the purse of $7,000 presented to him
at his consecration by the clergy of
the Archdiocese.
FATHER CHARLES COUGHLIN,
of Detroit, noted radio speaker, on a
recent visit to Washington, confer
red with leaders interested in giving
silver a more prominent place in the
monetary system of the nation.
CARDINAL DOUGHERTY, of
Philadelphia, will head a pilgrimage
to the Eucharistic Congress at Bue
nos Aires in October, the Philadel
phia Catholic Standard and Times
announces.
(BY N. C. W. C. NEWS SERVICE)
INDIANAPOLIS. — An Archbishop,
seven Bishops, two Abbots, some 300
priests and a vast outpouring of the
faithful took part in the ceremonies
held Tuesday at the Cathedral of SS.
Peter and Paul to mark the solemn
enthronement of the Most Rev. Jo
seph E. Ritter as the seventh Bishop
of Indianapolis.
The Most Rev. John T. McNicholas,
O.P., Archbishop of Cincinnati, and
Metropolitan of the Province of Cin
cinnati, presided at the ceremonies
and led Bishop Ritter to the throne,
whereon he received the promises of
obedience and fidelity from the
priests of the See.
The Most Rev. Alphonse J. Smith,
Bishop of Nashville, pontificated at
the faldstool at the Pontifical High
Mass. Bishop Ritter himself preached
the sermon.
REV. DR. PETER GUILDAY, pro
fessor of Church History at the Cath
olic University of America, addressed
meeting of Methodist Episcopal
ministers May 1 at the Mount Vernon
Place Methodist Episcopal Church on
“The Beginnings of Catholicism in
Maryland."
A BEQUEST of $30,000 to Manresa-
on-the-Sevem, the layinen’s-house of
retreats of the Archdiocese of Bal
timore, near Annapolis, is contained
in the will of the late Mrs. Margaret
McDonald Cunningham of Baltimore.
THE ST. GREGORY SOCIETY of
America, devoted to the advancement
and development of sacred and lituri-
igcal music and to the promotion of
the observance of the rules of the
Church for the dignity of public ser
vices, is holding its convention in
Washington, His Excellency, the
Apostolic Delegate, presiding at the
Pontifical Mass opening the conven
tion; Bishop Ryan of the Catholic
University is celebrant.
FATHER WILLIAM ROSS of the
Techny Fathers of Illinois, a mission
ary ih New Guinea since 1926, has
plunged into the interior on a mis
sionary trip which will last until
Christmas and in which he will ex
plore territory seldom or never visit
ed by white men before and inhabit
ed by hostile tribes.
CALIFORNIA Catholic leaders, Mr.
and Mrs. Albert V. Mayrhofer, of
San Diego in the Diocese of Los An
geles and Monterey, . have been
named Knight and Lady of the Order
of the Holy Sepulclire by the Holy
Father. Both have been active in
Catholic movements for many years,
PENNSYLVANIA organizations t o
the number of over one hundred have
joined in a “Declaration of Tole
rance” condemning the “Silver Shirt
Legion of America”, an anti-Jewish,
anti-Catholic organization. Richard
J. Beamish, Secretary of State for
Pennsylvania, drew up the declara
tion, which was signed by civic, fra
ternal, labor and religious groups.
THE CATHOLIC WORKER, start
ed a year ago with a circulation ct
2,500 in New York, now has a cir
culation of 32(500. Communist pub
lications have maintained a campaign
of silence toward the Catholic Worker
in order to give workers the impres
sion that they alone are interested in
the workers and that the Catholic
Church is not.
FATHER DE SMET will be honor
ed by a monument to be erected in
the Salt Lake Valley by the Utah
Trails and Landmarks Association,
commemorating his labors in that
territory.
THE REV. DR. C. A. HART of the
Catholic University, founder and di
rector of the Catholic Evidence Guild
of Washington, will be the speaker
May 20 on the “Church of the Air”
program at noon, Eastern Standard
Timq. The Evidence Guild activi'
among the laity will be his subject.
The Catholic World
ABBOT VINCENT BACK
FROM ROME THIS WEEK
(Special to The Bulletin)
BELMONT, N. C.—The Rt. Rev.
Vincent Taylor, O. S. B., D. D., Ab
bot-Ordinary of Belmont, who left
for Rome a few weeks ago for his
‘Ad Limina” visit, is due to arrive
in New York this week on his return
trip on the Satumia. While in Rome
Abbot Vincent was the guest of the
Benedictine International College,
St. Anselm’s, on the Aventine Hill.
BELMONT ABBEY
COLLEGE ANNUAL
Belmont Abbey College this year
has an annual, Spire, for the first
time; it is dedicated to Abbott Vin
cent, president of Belmont Abbey
College, and is a splendid and even
magnificent work. The work was
done at the Abbey Printery.
DR. FREDERICK FUNDER, Vienna
correspondent of the N, C. W. C. News
Service, and editor-in-chief of the
Reichspost, whose life was imperiled
when his auto was fired upon by So
cialists in the recent Vienna rebellion.
The house in which he and two com
panions took refuge was struck by
shells fired by Federal artillery.
THE KING OF SIAM is benevolent
in his attitude toward Catholic Mis
sion activities in his country, his visit
to Europe and the United States re
calls. But there are but 35,000 among
th - 12,000,000 inhabitants of the coun
try.
GOVERNOR-GENERAL MURPHY
of the Philippines in an address to the
graduates of the University of Santo
Tomas at Manila paid high tribute to
the Dominicans conducting it and.
termed the university “among the best
the world.” Governor-General
Murphy was Mayor of Detroit when
appointed to the Philippine post by
President Roosevelt.
LIBERIA, with a population of 190,-
000, of whom 20,000 are American ne
groes, has been made a Vicariatae
Apostolic, and the Rt. Rev. John Col
lins, who has been Prefect Apostolic,
will be consecrated Bishop and serve
as Vicar Apostolic.
INDIA has a new Bishop in the per
son of Father Ansgar Sevrin, S. J., a
native of Belgium, where he was bom
in 1884; he will be Bishop of Ranchi,
succeeding the late Bishop Van Hoelc.
BROMPTON ORATORY in London,
founded by Father Raber, and “one
of the most powerful sources -of the
zeal that gave rise to the second spring
of the Church in England.” observed
the golden anniversary of its estab
lishment late in April.
CHINA’S Aurora University, con
ducted by Jesuit Fathers, has been
officially ranked among the five best
of the twenty-seven medical colleges
in China.
PRINCE GEORGE of England re
cently visited St. Francis College at
Marianhill, Africa, conducted by the
Marianhill Missionaries. At his re
quest an extra holiday was granted
fire students.
HOLLAND’S Minister of Economics,
T. J. Verschurr, a distinguished Cath
olic layman, has been forced by ill
ness to retire from his cabinet post.
He is but 48 years of age.
IN PARIS recently 11,000 children
gathered in Notre Dame Cathedral to
say the Rosary for the intention of
France, the Holy Father, the Arch
bishop of Paris and all the children
of the world. Similar services are
being held in other churches of Paris
and its suburbs.
JUGOSLAVIA’S official expendi
ture for religious purposes reveal that
the Orthodox Church gets 1,112,522
dinars more than it is entitled to on
a basis of population, Mohammedans
7,461,273 more, Protestants 258,885 less,
and Catholics 5,296,340 less.
THE HERALD-TRIBUNE of New
York, inquiries editorially about the
half-billkm dollars worth of business
farm products advocates of the
recognition of Russia promised. Rus-
is recognized and The Herald-
Tribune secs no change in the econo
mic situation due to such recogni
tion.
THE HOLY FATHER has expressed
his deep gratitude for the support
given the Propagation of the Faith by
the Catholics of the world; the 1933
income, despite the depression was
but 4.000,000 lire (about $350,000) less
than in 1932.
HYDERBAD, India, a Diocese as
large as France, has in the twenty-five
years Bishop Denis Vismara has oc
cupied the See, tripled in the num
ber of Catholics. There are today 385
Catholic villages in the state, against
98 a quarter of a century ago.
IN JAPAN, at Hokodate, Canadian
Dominicans are feeding 1,000 a day
after a great fire which destroyed 27,-
000 homes, causing the death of 2,000
and leaving 100,000 homeless in the
bitter cold of Northern Japan.
CHINESE Catholics last year con
tributed $10,000 to the Society for the
Propagation of the Faith; the or
ganization has been established in
China only three years.
CHINA’S two Catholic dailies, one
at Hongkong and one at Tientsin, have
a circulation of 30,000 and 15,000 re
spectively. There are also a number
of flourishing Catholic periodicals in
China.
Diocese of St. Augustine
of C. Convention at Tampa—Jacksonville District
N. C. W. C. Meets—Commencement at Key West
JACKSONVILLE DISTRICT
N. C. W. C. HAS MEETING
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The Jack
sonville District Council of the St.
Augustine Diocesan Council of the
National Council of Catholic Women
met in Gainesville May 8, Mrs.
George H. McIntyre, district presi
dent, presiding. Mrs. Thomas E.
Grady. Miami, Diocesan president,
was the guest of honor. Reports
were made by Mrs. G. B. Sawyers,
president of the Jacksonville Cath
olic Woman’s Club, Mrs. Frank Bed-
dow, chairman of the committee for
the orphanages, Mrs. J. R. Dalton,
Jacksonville C. D. of A.; Mrs. Jose
phine. K.. Maner, president of St.
Paul’s Guild, Miss Alice Byrne,
chairman of Constitution and by
laws, Mrs. Arthur White, of Gaines
ville, Mrs. Frank Westendinck, Tal
lahassee, Mrs. Emily Hobbs, Talla
hassee, Mrs. W. H. O’Neal and others.
MRS. McCOLLUM HOSTESS
TO DISTRICT MEETING
The delegates and visitors to the
district council meeting were enter
tained at luncheon at the home of
Mrs. J. W. McCollum, past president
of the Diocesan Council. Special
guests included the Rev. J. V. O’Sul
livan, the Rev. Jeremiah O’Mahoney
and the Rev. Michael Nixon. Mrs.
Helen Bodiford -entertained with vo
cal and piano numbers.
COMMENCEMENT AT
KEY WEST CONVENT
KEY WEST, Fla. — The Rev. Theo
dore Ray, S. J., Tampa, delivered
the commencement address at the
graduation exercises at St. Cecilia’s
Hall at the Convent Mary Immaculate
here recently. The Rev. F. X.
Dougherty, S. J., conferred the med
als and diplomas; it was one of
Father Dougherty’s last public ap
pearances), a , few; days later, He die.d
following an operation. Those re
ceiving diplomas at the commence
ment exercises were the Misses
Beulah Lee Williams, Cleo D. Kemp,
Mary Elizabeth Thompson, Dorothy
Knowles, Pauline Phelan and—Anna
Josephine James.
FLORIDA K. OF C.
CONVENTION AT TAMPA
TAMPA, Fla. — Tampa will be
host to the annual convention of the
Florida State Council, Knights of
Columbus, May 26 and 27. State
Deputy James A. Dunn, of Miami,
will preside. Joseph A. Sweeney,
past state deputy, is chairman of the
Tampa convention committee.
JACKSONVILLE I. C.
TEAM IS ENTERTAINED
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Th Im
maculate Conception High School
girls’ basketball team, which finish
ed the season with a record of 13
victories against seven defeats, was
entertained at a banquet at the
George Washington Hotel recently.
Special guests included the Rev,
James J. Meehan, pastor, Coach
Thomas Mahoney, Thomas E. Mal-
lem. C. E. Jones, coach of the St.
Paul’s sextet, Bonnie Danese, coach
of St Joseph’s Academy, Heeb Mo
ran, coach at St. Mary’s, and Preston
Romedy, manager. Team members
included the Misses Mary Lee Lan-
ahan, captain; Janie Brooks, alter
nate captain; Josephine Deese, Alva
Acosta, M. Barclay, Claudia Deese,
Louise Abood, Dorothy Anou and
Clara Bell Adams.
KEY WEST SODAUSTS
ISSUE MAY MADONNA
KEY WEST, Fla. — The Madonna
of Florida, official organ of the St
Augustine Sodality Union, was is
sued in May by the Convent of Mary
Immaculate here. The June issue
will be published by the Academy of
the Holy Names and Tampa College,
Tafnpa. 1
CARDINAL DIENART,, Bishop of
Lille, was the principal speaker at
the recent convention of the French
Catholic Journalists in Paris.
SLOVENA if the most Catholic
province of Jugoslavia, 96.5 per cent
of its 1,200,000 population being Cath
olics, current statistics show. The
Croatian province, with a population
of 1,950.000, has 79 Catholics in every
hundred of th.e population.
LISIEUX has new Stations of the
Cross on the hill near the Basilica
of the Little Flower, now being erect
ed; Cardinal Lienart, Bishop of Lille,
dedicated them late in April in the
presence of a congregation of 40,000.
BELGIUM through its government
has saved from ruin the Socialist
Belgian Bank of Labor”, which when
it was launched nearly twelve years
ago boasted that it would produce
everything, “even shrouds for capital
ists.”
SAUNDERS LEWIS, president of
the Welsh National Party, who re
cently became a Catholic and then
resigned in order that his party should
not be embarrassed by his action, has
been re-elected.
THE CATHOLIC TRUTH SOCIETY
of London has a membership of 12,-
631, an increase of 385 over last year,
the most recent report says.
ENGLISH PILGRIMS to Rome have
been urged by the Master-General of
the Dominicans to pray for the in
troduction of the cause of Father Bede
Jarrett, O. P., well known in the Unit
ed States where he lectured ten years
ago, and who died only recently.
KING LEOPOLD and Queen Astrid
of Belgium have donated royal jewels
for a statue of the Blessed Virgin
given to the church at Alsemberg by
the daughter of St. Elizabeth of Hun
gary centuries ago.
FRANCISCAN was inducted as su
perior of the Greyfraiars at Oxford, in
England late in April. Father Martin
of the Franciscans, who delivered the
sermon, referred to Father Dunstan’s
connection with Catholic education in
the United States, “notably in the
Universities of Fordham, Georgetown,
Holy Cross and Loyola.”
REICHSPOST, Vienna’s famed
Catholic daily, recently observed its
fortieth anniversary with a program
honored by the attendance of the
Chancellor to Dollfuss of Austria and
the Apostolic Nuncio to Austria. Dr.
Frederick Funder, chief editor of
Reichspost, is Vienna correspondent
of the N. C. W. C. News Service.
CARDINAL M’RORY, primate of
All-Ireland, commended the move
ment to keep the people on the land 1
and to make them happy there as
“Catholic Action of the very best
kind” in a message to the conven
tion of the movement at St. Mary’s
College, conducted by the Marist
Fathers at Dundalk.