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men’s Association
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VOL. XVI. No. 4
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AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, APRIL 20, 1935
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“To Bring About
a Friendlier
Feeling Among
Neighbors Irre
spective of Creed’’
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Snap Shots
Mussolini certainly stands out from
the cowed.
There’s many a foul deed in poli
tical coups.
Were you surprised to hear that
Eden was in Russia?
Maybe the exploding star the
astronomers saw was Dizzy Dean.
The Pullman people were the first
to get the alphabet name idea.
The frank Filipinos call their legis
lators the Insular Senate.
It was Horace Greeley, not General
Greeley, who advised young men to
go West
The administration is beginning to
find out how little it takes to change
cheers to jeers.
We would be more enthusiastic
about grand slams if we could direct
their application.
They’ll have to call them something
miracles are the only ones demand
ing them in every thunderstorm.
They’ll have to call the msomething
besides old age pensions before the
ladies will apply for them.
Genera] Travis tells the D A- R.
that the United States is friendless.
We did not know we were that broke.
It's the three-mile parachute jumps
without ether rather than those with
out oxygen that amaze us.
Princess Astrid, daughter of the
King and Queen of Sweden, is en
gaged to the Crown Prince of Den
mark. Tlie Swedes are the world’s
leading match makers.
IRELAND RESOLUTE
AGAINST COMMUNISM
Lord Mayor of Dublin Visit
ing U. S. Says Loyalty to
Church Safeguards People
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
WASHINGTON. — Comm unism,
against which Irish Bishops have re
cently issued vigorous warnings, will
never gain a real foothold in the
Irish Free State, the Right Honorable
Alfred Byrne, Lord Mayor of Dub
lin, told the N. C. W. C. News Ser
vice here.
“I think 1 can see the seed of Com
munism in the Irish Free State,’’ the
Lord Mayor said, “but it will not
take root; it will never blossom. The
loyalty of the Irish people to their
Cardinal, their Archbishops, their
Bishops and their Church is too great
for that. But we must not take the
threat of Communism too light. If
we meet the situation squarely and
promptly we will overcome it.”
The Lord Mayor said that he came
to the United States for a holiday,
but since his arrival has decided to
do whatever he can to promote trade
between the Irish Free State and the
United States. The Lord Mayor—
and P. T. Kelly, his traveling com
panion-have visited New York, Bos
ton, Philadelphia, Bridgeport, Conn.,
Toronto and Baltimore. He sails for
home from New York.
London’s Archbishop
Most Rev. Arthur Hensley, D. D.
GERMAN RELIGIOUS
LEADERS DOWNCAST
Efforts to Effect Modus
Vivendi Vain
(Special Correspondence, N. C. W. C.
News Service)
AMSTERDAM.— All efforts of the
Christian churches in Germany to
bring about a modus vivendi with
the Nazi regime which would pro
vide protection for the essential reli
gious requirements of the faithful
may soon be doomed to failure, both
for the Catholics and the Protestants,
according to present indications.
Despite the many vigorous protests
from Catholics and Protestants
against the activities of Alfred Ro
senberg, Nazi cultural dictator, the
Bavarian police have just issued in
structions, according to a report of
Germania, leading Catholic daily of
Berlin, that all discussions, public or
private, of Rosenberg’s book “The
Myth of the Twentieth Century”
(which has been put on the Index of
books forbidden for Catholics be
cause of slanders it contains against
the Church), are strictly forbidden-
The only exception made applies to
the churches. The reason given for
this order is that considerable excite
ment lias been caused by the discus
sions.
The Nazi press now demands that
the Munich example be followed by
the police of Prussia, asserting that
the attacks of the churches against
the Rosenberg paganism are in
reality directed against the Nazi re
gime and its basic philosophies.
Christians everywhere in Germany
are incensed at seeing that the
Rosenberg book is being made the
new Bible of Nazi Germany, its con
tents being forced on the young peo
ple everywhere while the efforts of
the Churches to counteract this
pagan propaganda are hampered by
the authorities in every imaginable
manner. In the churches discussions
of this sort cannot possibly be carried
on properly and it is necessary for
this reason that private and public
meetings be held as frequently as
possible to instruct the faithful about
the pernicious consequences of
Rosenberg’s writings.
Pope Pius XI Has Created
103 Dioceses, 13 in 1934
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
VATICAN CITY. — Thirteen new
dioceses, two new prelatures nullius
and the elevation of seven Sees 10
archiepiscopal • rank are reported in
the Annuario Pontificio 1935.
All but one of the new dioceses and
six of the seven of the new archdio
ceses are in the Western Hemisphere.
The seventh archdiocese is under the
flag of the United States. It is in
teresting that 1934 was the first year
in his pontificate that the present
Holy Father ha s elevated any diocese
to the rank of archdiocese, and that
six or seven such elevated in the
year were in South Amrecia.
The creation of new dioceses and
other ecclesiastical units is decidedly
the most important feature for it
shows the constant growth of the
Church. Six of the seven new arch
dioceses are in Argentina—Cordoba,
La Plata, Parana, Salta, San Juan de
Cuyo and Sante Fe— and ten of the
new diceses-yAzul, Bahia, Blanca, Ju-
juy, La Rioja, Mendoza, Mercedes,
Rio Cuarto, Rosario, San Luis and
Viedma. The dioceses—Caxias and
Mossoro—and the new Prelatures
Nullius of Vaccario and Xingu. The
remaining new diocese is that of Shi-
long in India.
In the mission field, three new vi
cariates apostolic have been created,
six prefectures have been raised to
the rank of vicariates, six prefectures
have been established, and one mis
sion sui juris. China, for example,
has 81 instead of 79 vicariates, 30 in
stead of 29 prefectures and ten in
stead of 12 missions.
The Hierarchy, as reported in the
1935 Annuario, is composed of seven
suburbican Sees, ten residential and
four titular Patriarchates, these de
tails being the same as a year ago;
214 residential metropolitan Sees, as
against 207 a year ago, 38 residential
archiepiscopal Sees, 911 residential
episcopal Sees 688 titular metropo
litan, archiepiscopal and episcopal
(Continued on Page Four).
Archbishop Hinsley
Succeeds Cardinal
Former Rector of English
College in Rome Named
Archbishop of Westminster
Archbishop Curley Queries
Envoy About Persecution
Golden Jubilarian
Questions Mexican Ambas
sador to the United States
BY GEORGE BARNARD
(London Correspondent, N. C. W. C.
News Service)
LONDON.—The romance of Arch
bishop Arthur Hinsley’s appointment
to the See of Westminster at the end
of what was thought to be a finished
career has given great satisfaction
throughout the country.
He follows in the footsteps of Car
dinals Wiseman, Manning. Vaughan
and Bourne, and it is thought that,
even though his expectation of life
is not so great as was theirs on their
appointment, his reign may well
prove to be as notable.
There are many problems to be
solved, and it is felt that the experi
ence of Archbishop Hinsley may aid
their solution. The new Archbishop
was the confidante in Rome of many
of the English Bishops. He comes
back, therefore, with a complete un
derstanding of their many difficulties
and he has their complete confidence.
Once again, in the democracy of
Church government, a man of modest
origin has risen to a place of great
eminence. Arthur Hinsley was born
in the little Yorkshire township of
Carlton, near Selby. His father was
a builder and joiner, and young Ar
thur often worked in the carpenter's
shop beside the little cottage which
was his home.
He was baptized, when two days
old, in St. Mary's Church, and later
attended the village school which had
30 pupils and one teacher,
His father and mother were both
anxious that Arthur should become a
priest, and when the boy had made
up his mind to tiy his vocation he
had the sympathetic interest of a re
tired farmer, Thomas Hinsworth, up
on whom late from the Holy Father
conferred a Knighthood of St. Gre
gory the Great.
Arthur Hinsley had a brilliant ca
reer at school; taught at Ushaw; be
came first headmaster of St. Bede's
College, Bradford; taught^ at the
Woners Seminary; did parish work
in the Southwark Diocese; and then
went to Rome as rector of the English
College.
In the same field a greater honor
fell to him. He was made an
Archbishop and appointed Apostolic
Delegate in Africa. He was then
the only Englishman in the diplo
matic service of the Holy See. He had
60 ecclesistical territories under his
care, with a population of 80,000,000
in an area which took in fourfifths of
the whole continent.
Tremendous journeys were neces
sary in Africa. In 20 months he cov
ered 50,000 miles. In May last year
he was compelled, owing to the state
of his health, to request the Holy
Father to relieve him of his task In
Africa.
He retired to Rome, where the Holy
Father made him a Canon of St. Pe
ter’s. There it was thought his pic-
urtseque career would end, and he
himself has since said that he had
hoped to finish his days there.
Archbishop Rummel’s
Installation May 15
Apostolic Delegate to Of
ficiate at New Orleans
NEW ORLEANS—The Most Rev.
Joseph F. Rummel will be installed as
Archbishop of New Orleans in the St.
Louis Cathedral, here, on May 15.
His Excellency the Most Rev. Am-
leto Giovanni Cigognani, Apostolic
Delegate to the United States, will of
ficiate at the ceremonies. Dignitaries
of the Catholic Church will attend the
ceremonies. The Most Rev. John J.
Glennon, Archbishop of St. Louis, will
preach the sermon.
MONSIGNOR HARTLEY
Rt. Rev. Msgr. James J. Hartley,
first rector of St. Bernard's Semi
nary, Rochester, N. Y.. who lias just
celebrated the Golden Jubilee of his
ordination to the Holy Priesthood.
In 1932, Monsignor Hartley was
elevated by Pope Pius XI to the
dignity of Protonoiary Apostolic.
Friests now located in 32 dioceses
were lus students at the seminary.
Cl,A. RESOLUTIONS
SCORE PERSECUTION
Savannah Branch Urges
President to Cease Inter
vention in Support of Per
secutors of Church
(Special to The Bulletin)
SAVANNAH, Ga.—A resolution de
ploring the persecution of religion by
the Mexican government, requesting
prayers for the persecuted people be-
lpw the Rio Grande, and urging the
government of the United States to
express to that of Mexico its con
cern and displeasure at Mexico's vio.
lations of the agreement on which the
recognition of that government was
based and at the Mexican govern
ment’s violation of the principles of
justice on which civilization rests was
unanimously adopted at the annual
meeting of the Savannah branch of
the Catholic Laymen's Association
herq Sunday. The resolution requests
the government to cease its interven
tion in Mexican affairs, intervention
it is practicing through its support of
a government “which scorns all that
the people of the United States hold
sacred.” The resolution follows:
“Whereas liberty of conscience and
the right to worship God according to
one's own convictions are fundamen
tal human rights, recognized and
guaranteed by the constitution of the
United States, and
“Whereas the United States insisted
on the guarantee of such rights to
citizens of our nation as a considera-
on Numerous Outrages Be
low Rio Grande
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
BALTIMORE—A list of 25 ques
tions dealing with specific instances
of the persecution of religion in Mex
ico has bscn submitted to Francisco
Castillo Napera, Mexican Ambassador
in Washington, by the Most Rev. Mi
chael J. Curley, Arshbishop of Balti
more.
Following are the questions asked
by Archbishop Curley:
1. Is it not true that Calles, in
his message to congress in 1926 boast
ed of his closing 139 colleges?
2. Could you please tell us how
many hospitals Mexico had at the
beginning of the nineteenth century.
.and who supported and cared for
them?
BUILDINGS CONFISCATED
3- Ccuid you tell us how many of
them are still there today, and how
many have disappeared through con
fiscation of the buildings by your
government-
4- Is it not true that during Span
ish domination in Mexico a great
number of colleges were opened up
by the relig’ous Orders?
5- Is it not true that all of them
have been closed through the con
fiscation of the buildings by the rad
ical governments since the independ
ence?
6 Is it not true that Justo Sierra,
a noted liberal writer, and Secretary
of Education at the time of Porfirio
Diaz. admits the benefits of the
Church and the Spaniards to Mexico
through their educational program,
and that their destruction has been
a national calamity?
7 Is it not true that at the time
of Porfirio Diaz prominent Catholics
and the Church itself preoccupied
themselves with the social reforms
(hat later on have been carried out
by the regulations?
8. Is it not true that several Mex
ican consuls have tried to carry out
(Continued on Page Four)
Archbishop Scores
Government Silence
Compares It With Official
Action on Other Occasions
In an address before the Sodality
Union of Baltimore recently, Arch
bishop Curley recalled the many in
stances in which the United States
Government had used its good offices
on behalf of the persecuted peoples in
many nations. One word from the ad
ministration would secure favorable
consideration for the rights of the
persecuted Catholics of Mexico, he
said, “but that word has not been ut
tered. Contrary to what we have a
right to expect, a positive, determin
ed stand or compromise has been
taken in opposition. There is no hint
of modification or compromise in this
attitude.”
There are 20,000.000 Catholics in this
country; there are 15,000,000 Jews
throughout the world, the Archbishop
said. “Yet when Hitlerism was rife in
Germany the Jews got action. I re
spect the Jews for it. The 20,000,000
Catholics of this country are becom
ing tired of waiting. They are becom
ing impatient.”
(Continued on page three)
659 Catholic Hospitals in
U. S.-Increase of 10 in Year
BLESSING OF ABBOT
FREDERIC ON MAY 1
Bishop Floersh Will Officiate
at Kentucky Ceremony
Louisville, Ky.—The Rt. Rev.
Frederic M. Dunne, O. C. S. O., Ab
bot-elect of Gethesemani Abbey,
here, will be blessed and installed on
May 1. The Most Rev. John A.
Floersh, Bishop of Louisville, will of
ficiate.
Abbot-elect Dunne is a native of
Ironton, O., and a boyhood resident
of Atlanta. San Antonio, Fla., and
Jacksonville.
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
ST. LOUIS.—Catholic hospitals in
the United States totaled 659 at the
beginning of 1935, an increase of 10
as compared with 1934, it is revealed
in a directory reported upon by the
Rev Alohonse M. Schwitalla, S.J.. and
M. R. Kneifl in the current issue of
Hospital Progress, official journal of
the Catholic Hospital Association of
the United States and Canada. Father
Schwitalla and Mr. Kneil are presi
dent and executive secretary, re
spectively, of the association.
The total number of Catholic hos
pitals in Canada at the beginning of
1935 was 170, according to the direc
tory.
The number of beds in Catholic in
stitutions in the United States in
creased from 84,110 in 1934 to 85.238
in 1935, or 1 3 per cent. The increase
in ^Canada was from 25,174 in 1934 to
27.501 in 1935, or eight per cent.
The report says there was “another
significant increase” last year in the
number of approvals of Catholic hos
pitals by the American College of
Surgeons, and that there was also an
increase in the number of instiutions
approved for interneships by the
American Medical Associaiton. The
addition of ten Catholic institutions to
the list of hospitals provisionally ap
proved by the Canadian Medical As
sociation also is reported. “A very
significant” increase in the number
of out-patient departments of Catho
lic hospitals in the United States was
reported, while a 33 per cent increase
in such departments was reported by
Catholic instituitons in Canada.
Still other studies by Father
Schwitalla and Kneifl show that there
are a total of 412 Catholic schools
of nursing in the United States anci
posses sons as compared with 413 for
the year before: that “practically all
of th 412 schools reported a total of
19,591 students in 1934. There was an
average of 49.3 students in each Cath
olic school of nursing last year. The
average for 1933 was 49.5 students.