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AUGUST 24, 1935
THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC E AYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
SEVEN
Bishop Walsh Addresses National Youth Conference
father McDonnell
REPLIES TO ATTACK
Answers Letter From Pur
ported Catholic Who Writes
to Macon Telegraph
An attack on the Catholic Hier
archy and the Catholic Press in
the correspondence columns of the
Macon Telegraph late in July by
a correspondent from New York
who claims to be a Catholic
brought this reply from the Rev.
Peter McDonnell, S. J., pastor of
St. Joseph’s Church, Macon, pub
lished in the July 31 issue of The
Telegraph:
To The Editor:
It is an old saying that a half truth
is freqeuntly the most harmful kind
of a lie. Mr. Robert Costello’s letter
in your issue of July 20th is bristling
with half truths—not to use a harsh
er term. He says the Catholic Hierar
chy and the Catholic press, “jammed
through a bill in Louisiana authoriz
ing free text books for Catholic
schools.” He might have also added
free busses, for such is law in Louis
iana.
The half truth is contained in the
assertion that the Catholic Hierarchy
and the Catholic press were responsi
ble for this law. We challenge Mr.
Costello to mention a single member
of the Hierarchy who urged the pass
age of this law. Another half truth
is, that this law authorized free books
for Catholic schools, when as a mat
ter of fact it gave these books to all
schools in the state without excep
tion.
Mr. Costello asserts that to obtain
funds for the Catholic schools: “The
Catholic Church has renewed the agi
tation with increased vehemance, us
ing every kind of a specious and cas
uistic argument to justify its uncon
stitutional demands.” It is not easy
to see what Mr. Costello meant by
the words Catholic Church. He states
in his letter to Governor Lehman: “It
is exactly Catholic voters in large
numbers who vote against it.” That
is they vote against the law favored
by the Hierarchy. Mr. Costello ought
to be well satisfied if he, or his par
ty, control this majority of so-called
Catholic vote. It is something the
Hierarchy cannot do. Up and at them,
boy!
It is a matter of history that the
Louisiana school law was declared
constitutional by a unanimous verdict
of the Supreme Court of the United
States. Granting the baseless assertion
of Mr. Costello, that the Hierarchy
are demanding a share of the taxes
for schools other than the public
schools, they are only using their
right in a matter declared constitu
tional by the Supreme Court. Would
Mr. Costello deny freedom of speech
and of the press to those of his own
church? In his letter to Governor
Lehman he accuses the Catholic
Church of carrying on, “this unworthy
and un-American agitation which is
so opposed to the letter and the spirit
of the state constitution.” Mr. Costello
seems to be anxious to stress the fact
of his Catho’icism. Th's of course has
nothing to do with the merit of the
case. He may be a Catholic or he
may be a wolf in sheep’s clothing for
aught we know.
rev. peter McDonnell, s. j.
Father Mattern Dies
at His Post in Rome
Former Southern Provincial
and Macon College Rector
Stationed There 12 Years
(Continued from Page 1)
October 2, 1865, he entered the So
ciety of Jesus in October, 1884, in
New York, and last year observed his
golden jubilee as a Jesuit. From 1901
to 1907 he was president of St.
Charles’ College. Grand Coteau, La.,
and from 1907 to 1911 he was president
of Immaculate Conception College,
New Orleans.
Father Mattern then became presi
dent of St. Stanislaus’ College, Macon,
remaining until 1918, when he was
named provincial of the Jesuit Fath
ers of the South. This post he beld
until 1923, when he became American
Assistant to the Father-General of
th P Society of Jesus in Rome, hand
ling all the matters from all the
Jesuit provinces and houses going
from the United States to Rome.
He was one of the most distinguish
ed of American Jesuits, and his
ability is attested by the posts of the
greatest responsibility to which he
was appointed and which he filled
with such signal ability that he was
constantly advanced to positions of
even greater distinction, crowning his
career as a Jesuit by over a decade
as a member of the cabinet of the
Father-General at the world capital
of Jesuit activities adjacent to the
Vatican.
QUESTIONNAIRES for the Catho
lic Who’s Who have been mailed to
leading Catholics by the Walter Ro-
mig Company, Detroit, publishers.
This will be the second edition of the
work, which two years ago succeed
ed 4he 1911 project. ,
U. S. Editors Arrange
for Vatican Exhibit
National Committee Meets
in New York to Lay Foun
dations for Participation
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
NEW YORK—Foundations were
laid at conferences here last week
for a representation worthy of the
Catholic Press of the United States,
at the great World Catholic Press
exhibition to be held at Vatican City
April 1 to October 31, 1936.
Conceived as an act of homage by
the Catholic Press of the world to His
Holiness Pope Piux XI, the Exhibit
tion is being organized by a Central
Committee headed by Count Giuseppe
dalla Torre, editor of “Osservatore
Romano”, Vatican City daily. It is to
constitute a world-wide review of
Catholic life as expressed and repre
sented by the Catholic Press Already
the Holy Father, who is deeply in
terested, has set aside a prominent
site in Vatican City, and national
committees in various countries are
busy with plans.
Joseph J. Quinn, president of the
Catholic Press Association and chair
man of the U. S. National Committee
for the Exhibition, came to New
York from Oklahoma City, where he
is editor of the Southwest Courier,
to preside at the sessions here.
Charles H. Ridder, of the Catholic
News, New York; Richard Reid, editor
of The Bulletin, Augusta, and Frank
A. Hall, director of the N. C. W. C.
News Service, all members of the na
tional committee, attended.
A group of twenty, including be
sides the national committee mem
bers, editors and publishers of Ca
tholic periodicals in the New York
area, assembled at the Center Club
at the request of Mr. Ridder for a
luncheon discussion Monday noon.
Mr. Quinn presided and spoke brief
ly, after which the Rt. Rev. Msgr.
William Quinn, national director of
the Society for the Propagation of the
Faith, and Mr. Hall, addressed the
group. The national committee fol
lowed the luncheon with two sessons.
CARDENAS BREAKS
WITH ANTI-CATHOLIC
But Evidences of Anti-Re
ligious Persecution Con
tinue to Be General
PRESIDENT CARDENAS has
broken completely with Garridio
Canabal, former member of the cab
inet, “the arch-priest of anti-relig
ion and anti-Catholicism in Mexico.”
Canabal’s gunmen are blamed for
the death of the students at Tabas
co. His arrest has been demanded
but he has not been taken into cus
tody.
.. THE CHARGE that the Church in
Mexico is sending millions of pesos
out of the country in Rome is shown
to be grpundless by statistics re
vealing that in the Archdiocese of
Oaxaca, with a population of 1,100,-
000, the total Peter’s Pence collec
tion over a period of fourteen years
was $1,571.36, including a gift of $1,-
000.
UNITED STATES students at the
Summer School adopted resolutions
of protest on the assassinations and
offered their sympathy to the fam
ilies of the victims, who numbered
nine. Three thousand Mexican stu
dents staged a protest demonstra
tion.
THE ARCHBISHOP OF DURAN
GO, Monsignor Gonzales y Valen
cia, reports that in his Archdiocese
with 100 priests and 1,500,000 inhabi
tants, only seven are allowed to of
ficiate. In many places, including
Vera Cruz, not one priest may offi
ciate publicly. All Catholic build
ings remain confiscated.
IN DURANGO, where one priest
is all that is authorized by law, the
priest is incapacitated by illness,
and the authorit'es refuse- to allow
a substitute.
YUCATAN, now allows nine
priests, four in the capital city of
Merida and five outside the city-
Yucatan has a population of 938,-
964, and an area of 61,974 miles,
slightly larger than Georgia.
HILDAGO Catholics have peti
tioned the government to allow the
re-opening of churches, but no ac
tion has been taken. The laws there
allow one priest to every 50,000 peo
ple.
THE .RETURN, to the Catholic
Church of the famed Convent ot
Tepotzotlan is opposed by a com
munication addressed by the Su
preme Master Masonic Lodge No. 14
to the Masonic Lodges of the coun
try “so as to prevent the use of this
architectural jewel for propaganda
purposes.”
SATURNINO OSORNIO, deposed
governor of Queretaro, has been in
dicted for the murder of a Spaniard,
and must stand trial.
The Catholic World
FRANK P. O’CONNOR, prominent
Toronto business man, has presented
to Archbishop McGuigan of that
Archdiocese a check for $500,000 for
Catholic charities in the Province.
Previously Mr. O’Connor contributed
$125,000 to St. Michael’s College and
other sums to other institutions.
HIS EXCELLENCY, the Apostolic
Delegate, called the Catholic Stu
dents’ Mission Crusade “a beautiful
likeness of the Catholic Church it
self” and “takes part in the life lived
daily and hourly by the Supreme
Pontiff,” in an address at the nation
al convention of the Crusade at Du
buque, Iowa.
REV. HENRI J. WIESEL, S- J.,
has been named rector and president
of Georgetown Preparatory School,
Garrett Park, Md., succeeding the
Rev- Robert S. Lloyd, S. J., who be
comes director of Laymen’s Retreats
at th« Retreat House at Annapolis.-
ROSARY COLLEGE of River For
est, 111., has withdrawn from the
American Asociation of University
Women in protest against an item
concerning birth control in the pro
gram of the association’s legislative
committee.
VERY REV. COLEMAN BYRNE,
C. P., of St. Gabriel’s Monastery,
Brighton, Mass., has been elected
provincial of the Passionist Fathers
of the Eastern United States and
Canada, the Province of St. Paul of
the Cross.
MICHAEL H. SMITH of South Or
ange, N. J., who died early in August,
left four sons Dominican priests, who
officiated at his funeral. They are
Rev. Dr. Ignatius Smith, O. P., of the
Catholic University, noted radio
orator, Father George Smith, O. P.,
president of Aquinas College, Colum
bus, O., Father John R. Smith, O. P.
of Aquinas College, and Father Am
brose Smith, O. P., Dominican su
perior at Houston, Texas.
REV. EDGAR SCHMIEDLER, O
S. B., director of the Family Life Sec
tion. Social Action Department, N. C.
W. C., discussed present develop
ments in parent education before the
Fifth International Congress on Fam
ily Education at Brussels August 4.
EDINBURGH leaders are deploring
the “No Popery” riots in the city re
cently, ana leading Scotch news
papers have editorially condemned
them. The leader of the anti-Catho-
lic faction, however, announces that
the campaign against Catholics will
be continued, particularly in efforts
to have employers discharge Catholic
employers.
ARCHBISHOP KERSUZAN, titular
Archbishop of Sergiopolis and for
merly Bishop of Cap Haitien, Porto
Rico, the dean of the hierarchy of the
world in years in the Episcopacy, is
dead at Cap Haitien. He was a Bish
op 52 years, and was 88 years old. He
was bom in the Diocese of Vannes,
France.
PRESIDENT LEBRUN of France
has been decorated with the Supreme
Order of Christ by the Holy Father
in recognition of the reception given
by official France to Cardinal Pa-
celli, Papal Secretary of State, Papal
Legate to the Lourdes Triduum.
The Rev. Dr. James A. Reeves,
president of Seton Hill College,
Greensburg, Pa., who will be the
speaker in the Catholic Hour from
September 1 to 15, inclusive. The
Catholic Hour, a nation-wide radio
broadcast, is produced every Sunday
evening by the National Council of
Catholic Men.
ARCHBISHOP PETER HURTH, C.
S. C-, a native of Germany, formerly
president of St. Joseph’s College,
Cincinnati, and of St. Edward’s Col
lege. Austin, Texas, is dead at Manila
at the age of 78- He was named Bish
op of Dacca, India, forty-one years
ago, and in 1912 became Bishep of
Nueva Segovia in the Philippines. In
1926 he retired and was named titu
lar Archbishop of Bosra and Count
of the Holy See.
THE COMONWEAL urges Catho
lics to ignore the Olympic Games in
Berlin as a protest against racial and
religious persecution there.
CARDINAL O’CONNELL, Arch
bishop of Boston, has been awarded
the Grand Cross of the Legion of
Honor, the highest award France can
confer, in recognition of the Cardi
nal’s services to the people of French
extraction in the Diocese of Portland
and the Archdiocese of Boston. Am
bassador Andre de Laboulaye pre
sented the award to His Eminence.
A PRE-NUPTIAL agreement in
which a Jewish husband promised
his Catholic wife that all children
bem of the marriage would be raised
as Catholics was upheld as binding in
law by Supreme Court Justice Meier
Steinbrink of New York early in Au
gust.
ARCHBISHOP HINSLEY of West-
m'nster welcomed the Calvert Asso
ciates at the Archbishop’s House in
London on the occasion of their visit
there. They were led by Michael Wil
liams and the Rev. James M. Gillis,
C- S. P. The group was received by
the Holy Father at Rome and enter
tained at Paris and elsewhere.
Protestant Bishop Scores
intolerance of Ulsterites
YOUTH MOVEMENT IS
2000 YEARS OLD HE
TELLS ITS LEADERS
But New Emphasis Is Being
Placed Upon It—Coordina
tion of Activity Essential
He Asserts at Washington
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
WASHINGTON—That all Catholic
youth organizations of the United
States work together and have their
common point of contact in the or
ganization set up by the Bishops of
the nation—the National Catholic
Welfare Conference—was urged by
the Most P«ev- Emmet M. WaYh,
Bishop of Charleston, in an address
to the Youth Institute at the Na
tional Catholic School of Social Ser
vice here. The Institute was spon
sored by the National Council of
Catholic Women and is being at
tended by representatives of Cath
olic groups in various parts of the
country.
The Rev. Daniel A- Lord. S- J..
of St- Louis, Director of the So
dality of Our Lady, spoke on “Spir
itual Leadership”. Other speakers
were Miss Katherine R. Williams of
Milwaukee, First Vice President of
the National Council of Catholic
Women; Miss Anne M. Golden, Club
Director of the Catholic Young Wom
en’s Club of New York, and Miss
Marie Martaugh of the Catholic
Guardian Society of New Rork.
“The Youth Movement is nothing
new, it has been going on in the
Church for 2,000 years,” Bishop
Walsh told the members of the In
stitute, “and yet. the new emphasis
that is being placed upon it is neces
sary to prepare youth to meet the
problems of today.”
“We must face the necessity of a
national organiation of Catholic
youth,” Bishop Walsh continued. He
expressed pleasure in the fact that
the Youth Institute had been called
to bring together leaders from vari
ous parts of the country to compare
their problems and to exexhange
ideas for their solution. He was glad
that the N. C- C. W. had sponsored
the Institute, he added, because it is
very much needed that the Catholic
youth movement clear through the
National Welfare Conference.”
“If we take the Holy Father’s defi
nition of Catholic Action,” Bishop
Walsh said, “I don't see how any
Catholic organization, however wide
spread its activities, can truly be
said to be doing the work of Cath
olic Action in the national field, until
it is functioning in affiliation, and
in cooperation with the group set up
by the Bishops of the nation.”
Then, explaining that the National
Council of Catholic Women should
serve as a clearing house, as a cen
tral bond for groups in youth work
Bishop Walsh asked the members of
the Institute to remember when they
return to their homes that “you’ve
got something to give, and you need
something that someone else can give
you.” All Catholic youth organiza-
t ; ons must work together, and have
their common point of contact in
the organization set up by the Bish
ops of the United States, he said-
Georgians* Kinsman
Ordained in Kansas
Father Martin Berry Cousin
of Egans and Doulherys.
Father Egan Assists j
(Special Correspondence N. C. W- C.
News Service)
DUBLIN.—Protestantism voiced a
protest in the person of Dr. Mac-
Neece, Protestant Bishop of Down
and Connor, against the religion 3
intolerance that has existed so long
in the North of Ireland and has re
cently taken the form of violence
in which lives have been taken.
The antagonisms of factions in
Northern Ireland have been consist
ently deplored by men of good will
on all sides and the government has
been condemned for standing idly by
when stern measures might prevent
the brutality and bloodshed that fre
quently occur.
Addressing the congregation in the
Church of St. Thomas, Belfast, Dr.
MacNeece said: “It would be easy
to accentuate existing differences, but
the times demand an appeal to both
sides to remember that they are
brothers. Protestants and Catholics
are side by side in a small country,
not to destroy but to help one an
other. It would be well to remem
ber the good and forget the story of
old feuds, animosities, triumphs and
humiliations. ’
This address was hailed with joy
as a movement towards lasting peace
but unfortunately there have been
deplorable events. At the July
Twelfth Orange celebrations, two
persons were killed and 18 wounded
in a riot that occurred in the York
Street area of Belfast. These casual
ties must be charged to the violence
of extremists, for the speeches from
the Orange platforms were milder
than ever before. The Irish Inde
pendent in a leading article says: “In
the main the speeches were singu
larly free from incitement of passion
against Cathol'cs. A few speakers
were sufficintly courageous to plead
for toleration and neighborly feeling
towards the minority in the North
east. This is a welcome change of
heart”
NOTABLE ARTICLE
BY FATHER TOBIN
Carolina Daily Reprints His
Philippine Comment From
South African Publication
(Special to The Bulletin)
FLORENCE, S. C.—The Rev. Wm.
A. Tobin, pastor of St. Ann’s Church
here, recently contributed a scholar
ly article on the Philippines to the
Southern Cross. South Africa, which
the Morning News of Florence has
recognized by reprinting in full.
Father Tobin traces the history of the
Philippines, their development, their
culture, their religious background,
and he records the career there of
Governor-General Frank, Murphy
former Mayor of Detroit, whom
President Roosevelt appointed to rule
the Philippines, and who has done
the job so well that on the occasion
of Governor-General Murphy’s recent
visit to the United States President
Roosevelt publicly commended him
for his achievement.
(Special to The Bulletin)
TAMPA, Kansas.—The Rev. Martin
Berry, ordained a priest of the Re-
demptorist Order of Oconomowoc,
Wis., by Archbishop; Stritch of Mil
waukee, sang his first solemn High
Mass here in July at Holy Redeemer
Church, a ceremony attended by rela
tives from many parts of the United
States.
Father Berry is a member of a
family which has given many mem
bers to religion. He is a first cousin
of the Doulhery and Egan families
of Savannah, Ga.; the Doulhery
family has given two daughters to the
convent, and the Egan family three
daughters and a son, the Rev. Martin
J. Egan, Ph.D.. J. C. D., to religious
life. Besides these six cousins, Father
Berry also has an aunt and seven
other cousins who are nuns.
Father Egan assisted Archbishop
Stritch at the ordination of Father
Berry and his brother Redemptorists
and three Sacred Heart priests, and
assisted Father Berry at his first
Solemn High Mass, delivering the
sermon; Father Egan is the head of
the Diocesan Mission Band of the
Diocese of Wheeling, West Virginia.
Fresent at the Mass were Father
Berry’s mother, five brothers, two sis
ters, eight aunts, including Mrs.
Jennie Bouhan of Savannah, Ga., five
uncles, and literally hundreds of
cousins, including a number of religi
ous. After the Mass the parish altar
society served a dinner to about five
hundred relatives and friends in the
Rural High School Auditorium. Ten
members of the clergy were guests ot
honor. Father Berry will be sta
tioned at Oconomowoc, Wis., for the
present. , ,