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( By N. C. W. C. News Service)
HILAIRE BELLOC and Gilbert K.
Chesterton have been honored by the
Holy Father with the rare Knight
Commandership with Star in the
Order of St. Gregory the Great in
recognition of the services they have
rendered the Church through their
writings.
GEORGETOWN’S President, the
Very Rev. W. Coleman Nevils, S. J.,
has been invited to represent the
American National Red Cross at the
Fifteenth International Red Cross
Conference at Tokyo, Japan, in Octo
ber, and has accepted. On only one
other occasion has a Catholic
ecclesiastic been so honored, in 1912,
when Archbishop Ireland was named
American delegate at Washington and
accepted.
FATHER P. J. BERGEN, C. S P.,
noted Paulist preacher, native of
Boston and formerly of the Church
of Santa Susanna, Rome, will start
a series of ten addresses on “The Sal-
\ation of Human Society” the first
Sunday in July over the Catholic
Hour, sponsored by the National
Council of Catholic Men through the
courtesy of the Natioal Broadcasting
Co. Father Daniel A. Lord, S. J.,
finishes his series the last Sunday of
June.
ST. PAUL’S GUILD, dedicated to
assisting former Protestant ministers
whose families are in financial dis
tress as a result of their entering the
Catholic Church, has launched a
publication, The Epistle, at present a
quarterly.
1,300 DELEGATES attended the
meeting at Scranton at which the
Scranton Diocesan Council of the Na
tional Council of Catholic Women was
organized. The Most Rev. Thomas C.
O’Reilly, D. D., Bishop of Scranton,
addressed the meeting.
CORPUS CHRISTI processions in
Germany were perhaps the largest in
modern history there, intended not
only as a demonstration of faith, but
as an indication of the devotion of
the laity to their clergy and Bishops
and of their unyielding, support of
their Bishops in their labors to pre
serve the freedom of the Church.
THE STATE OF TABASCO in
Mexico has gone a step further in its
anti-religious campaign and prohibit
ed religious objects, inscriptions and
sculptures in cemeteries. The decree,
issued by Governor Thomas Garridu
Canabal, is retroactive.
THE SISTERS OF MERCY in New
Hampshire have been granted by the
legislature a charter to open the Col
lege of Mt. St. Mary in the fall.. The
Most Rev. John B. Peterson, D. D.,
Bishop of Manchester, will be presi
dent of the college, which will be
located at Hooksett. It will grant
degrees in Arts, Education and
Science.
CARDINAL LEPLICIER, Prefect of
the Sacred Congregation on Religious,
will travel from Rome to Oregon to
attend the first Marian Congress in
the United States at the Sanctuary
of Our Sorrowful Mother, of the
Servite Fathers, August 12-15. Broad
casts each Sunday afternoon at five
p. m., Pacific Time, are devoted to
the coming Congress.
HENRY CARAVATI, business sec
retary of the National Council of Ca
tholic Men, announces a ninety per
cent increase in membership during
the past six months. Dr. Thomas E.
Purcell, K. S. G., dean of the dental
school of St. Louis University, is
president.
FATHER O'DONNELL
NOTRE DAME, DIES
Distinguished University
President, Famed Poet, 49,
111 More Than a Year
FATHER O’DONNELL
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
NOTRE DAME, Ind. — The Rev.
Charles L. O’Donnell, C. S. C., presi
dent of the University of Notre Dame,
died early on June 3, after a long ill
ness at the age of 49.
The death of the distinguished ed
ucator ends a notable career in the
fields of religion and letters, as well
as of education. It closed a period of
critical illness which began in March,
1933.
While Father O’Donnell lay at
death’s door a saddened gathering
took place at the university to carry
on, in spite of the rector’s absence,
and at his request, the traditional
alumni banquet .held in connection
with the annual commencement week
program.
Father O’Donnell’s long illness and
death were caused by a serious strep
tococcus infection. He rallied after
first being stricken in March last year
and improved steadily until a few
weeks ago, when he suffered a re
lapse and grew steadily worse until
the end.
The Rev. Charles Leo O’Donnell, C.
S. C., eleventh president of the Uni
versity of Notre Dame, was born in
Greenfield, Ind., November 15, 1884.
Graduated from the University of
Notre Dame in 1906, he studied later
at Harvard, the Catholic University
of America, Washington,. D. C., and
Holy Cross College, Washington. D. C.
receiving his Ph.D., in 1910 from the
Catholic University. He was ordain
ed to the priesthood June 24, 1910,
and then became professor of English
literature at Notre Dame, a position
he held until his election to the pres-
dency in 1928. He won distinction as
one of the world’s outstanding Cath
olic writers. He was elected presi
dent of the Catholic Poetry Society
of America when that group was
formed in 1930.
Father O’Donnell became an army
chaplain upon the entrance of the
United States into the World War, ac
companying the American Expedi
tionary Forces to France. He saw ser
vice also in Italy and Austria for nine
months.
He was elected Provincial of the
Congregation of Holy Cross (C. S. C.)
in 1920, succeeding the Very Rev.
Andrew Morrissey, C. S. C., president
from 1893 to 1905. Father O’Donnell
No American College, Rome,
Observes Diamond Jubilee
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(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
VATICAN CITY — Ceremonies
commemorating the 75th anniversary
of the North American College were
held here throughout the last week of
May.
On Tuesday a solemn Mass was
celebrated by the Very Rev. Msgr.
Eugene S. Burke, rector of the col
lege, assisted by His Eminence Caje-
tan Cardinal Bisleti, Prefect of the
Sacred Congregation of Seminaries
and Universities and Cardinal Pro
tector of the College. At a dinner that
evening there were present Their Em
inences Cardinal Bisleti, Pietro Cardi
nal Fumasoni-Biondi, Francesco Car
dinal Marchetti-Selvaggiani, Luigi
Cardinal Sincero and Lorenzo Cardi
nal Lauri.
HOLY FATHER RECEIVES
STUDENTS IN AUDIENCE
His Holiness Pope Pius XI granted
8 special audience on Friday to the
Rector, 200 students and 60 members
of the alumni of the college, who
came from America to be present.
After reading a message from the
Rev, George A. Parker, of Chicago,
president of the alumni association!
the Holy Father addressed a discourse'
to the assemblage,, telling those pres
ent he rejoiced because they repre
sent not only the present of the col
lege but also its 75 years of fruitful
existence
The 2,000 alumni of the North
American College, the Pontiff said,
constitute an imposing number
among the Catholic priesthood.
Among them, he noted, are two Car
dinals, four Archbiships and 24 Bish
ops. Tiis, he said, demonstrates how
S reat is the spiritual value of atten-
ance at the institution. He also re
joices, the Holy Father said, in the
existence and activities of the Alum
ni Association, with its 800 members.
100,000 Participate in Great
Baltimore Religious Pageant
Cardinal O’Connell Honored Religious Freedom’s
on Golden Jubilee as Priest £%%%%£
Holy Father, President and
Many Notables Laud Xllus-
trous Archbishop of Boston
( By N. C. W. C. News Service)
BOSTON, June 11. — Outstanding
world leaders, headed by His Holi
ness Pope Pius XI, paid high tribute
to His Eminence William Cardinal
O’Connell, Archbishop of Boston, in
messages felicitating the distinguish
ed prelate on the golden jubilee of
his priesthood, while the Catholics
of Boston, in a great demonstration
at Boston College June 9, massed to
honor the Ordinary of this See.
Congratulations from the Holy
Father, President Franklin D. Roose
velt; and President Eamon De Val
era of the Irish Free State led the
numerous messages received from
many parts of the world as His Emi
nence celebrated solemn High Mass
at the Boston College stadium and
reviewed 50,000 parochial school chil
dren in the great outpouring of the
Catholic laity to honor their Cardi
nal-Archbishop on his golden jubi
lee. •
The nation, the state of Massachu
setts, and leading cities of New Eng
land, joined, through distinguished
representatives, the following day to
pay a stirring tribute to His Emi
nence William Cardinal O’Connell,
Archbishop of Boston in a civic dem
onstration of esteem which drew 30,—
000 persons from all walks of life
to Fenway Park.
Although the central element of the
celebration was the solemnization of
High Mass, as it had been on the two
preceding days of the Cardinal’s
sacredotal jubilee observance, offi
cials of all creeds and beliefs attend
ed and united in lauding the Cardinal
as a distinguished citizen of the state
and nation.
The guest list included men and
women outstanding in public life.
Senator David I. Walsh, of Massa
chusetts, brought the tribute of the
nation to His Eminence. Governor
Joseph B. Ely bespoke the sentiments i
CARDINAL CRITICIZES
EXTREME PACIFISM
Archbishop of New York
Commends Navy for Efforts
Toward ‘Adequate Defense’
NEW YORK — “Extreme pacifism”
at the present critical period of his
tory was condemned by His Eminence
Patrick Cardinal Hayes, Archbishop
of New York, in speaking here at
St. Patrick’s Cathedral to 2,000 officers
and men of the United States fleet, j
Cardinal Hayes commended the na
vy for its dedication to “an adequate
defense of our altars and firesides
against foreign aggression.” Unpre
paredness at a time when there were
openly-avowed hatreds abroad and
disloyalties at home, he said, would
be “supreme folly”.
Describing peace throughout the
world as the “heart’s desire of the
American people,” he called the fleet
now at anchor in New York Harbor
“one of the best guarantees of peace
and good-will and security.”
Cardinal Hayes spoke as Chaplain-
Bishop of the Catholics in the armed
forces of the United States, an office
to which he was appointed by the
Pope at the outbreak of the World
War.
The Rev. Edward A. Duff, chaplain
at Brooklyn Navy Yard, delivered the
sermon at the solemn, high Mass. He
scored peace advocates who would re
fuse to answer any call of their coun
try to go to war.
After the Mass. Cardinal Hayes en
tertained the officers at luncheon in
his home and the sailors in Cathedral
College. The Most Rev. Stephen J.
Donahue, Auxiliary Bishop of New
York, was the celebrant of the Mass.
THE U. S. SENATE, on motion of
Senator McCarran of Nevada, shelved
for this session the Hastings Bill,
which would have amended sections
of the Criminal Code in such a way
as to permit the dissemination of
birth control, information an dde-
vices.
of the state of Massachusetts, and
Mayors Mansfield. Irwin, and Bruin
for the cities of Boston, Lowell, and
Medford, respectively. Addresses
were also made by Congressman
John W. McCormack and Judge
Robert Grant. Among the distin
guished persons attending the ob-
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This issue of The Bulle
tin features the develop
ment of the far-flung mis
sions of Southwest Geor
gia, covering an area of
22,000 square miles, and
activities in the Raleigh
district in North Carolina,
heartening evidence of the
progress of the Church not
only in the Dioceses of Sa
vannah and Raleigh but a
reflection of the general
situation throughout the
South.
O O
Apostolic Delegate, Arch
bishop Curley, Governor
Ritchie, General Malone
and Many Bishops Present
Messages From Holy
Father, President
Rev. Dr. Peter Guilday of the
_ Catholic University of Am
erica Delivers Sermon
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
. BALTIMORE—The Archdiocese of
Religious Freedom went on review
here May 30 in one of the most im
pressive pageants the country has
seen.
It then massed, 100,000 strong, to
thank God for two great gifts: The
planting of religious toleration on
American shores by the Catholic Cal
verts with the founding of Maryland
three centuries ago; and the birth,
two hundred years later, of James
Cardinal Gibbons, Prince of the
Church and American patriot.
Picked military and cadet units
marched in the review.
The parade “fronts” were doubled,
then trebled, the time quickened. Yet
it took almost twice the time allotted
for all to pass in review before the
Apostolic Delegate to the United
States, the Archbishop of Baltimore
and a dozen other distinguished
members of the Hierarchy; Governor
Ritchie of Maryland. General Malone,
Commander of the Third Corps Area,
U. S. A.; Mayor Jackson, of Baltimore
and other notables.
His Holiness Pope Pius XI, in a
message sent through his Apostolic
Delegate, declared himself present in
spirit, and blessed all, including the
Commonwealth of Maryland and its
citizens. President Roosevelt, in a spe
cial letter, extolled the contribution
of the Lords Baltimore to religious
freedom and the broad patriotism and
“gracious power” of Cardinal Gib
bons.
Eight thousand Catholic school
students chanted the responses at the
Mass in the big Baltimore Stadium,
sung by Archbishop Curley before
the tabernacle used by Father An
drew White, S. J., when he said the
first Mass on Maryaland soil three
centuries ago. Distinguished Jesuit
Father were officers of the Mass, in
honor of their spiritual forebears who
brought the Faith to Maryland. Arch
bishop Curley caused the entire stu
dent body of Woodstock, great Jesuit
seminary to be given an honor place
in the observance.
Georgetown University and St.
John’s College cadets from Washing
ton formed a uniformed Cross before
the field altar, which was flanked by
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Legion of Decency Effort
Worries Hollywood Leaders
The “Legion of Decency” move
ment, the crystalization of the dis
content and rebellion of Catholics
against the character of motion pic
tures presented to the public, is
giving the Hollywood producers se
rious concern. A theatrical magazine
quotes them as saying that the move
ment is not having any effect, but
asserts that the producers are thereby
only whistling to keep up their cour
age.
The pledge of the Legion of De
cency, as adopted by the St. Augus
tine Sodality Union and many other
organizations, reads:
“I wish to join the Legion of De
cency, which condemns vile, un
wholesale moving pictures. - 7 unite
with all who protest against them as
a grave menace to youth, to \ home
life, to country and to religion!
\
“I condemn absolutely those sala
cious pictures which with other de
grading agencies are corrupting
public morals and promoting a sex
mania in our land.
“I shall do all in my power to
arouse public opinion^^gainst the
portrayal of vice as a normal con
dition of affairs, and depicting crimi
nals of any class as heroes and
heroines. presenting their filthy
philosophy of life as something ac
ceptable to decent men and women.
“I unite with all who condemn the
display of suggestive advertisements
on bill-boards, at theatre entrances
and the favorable notices given to
immoral motibn. pictures.
“Considering these evils, I hereby
promise to remain away from all mo
tion pictures except those which, do
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