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Published by the
Catholic Lay
men’s Association
of Georgia.
“To Bring About
a Friendlier
Feeling Among
Neighbors Irre
spective oi Creed”
VOL. XVI. No. 11
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, NOVEMBER 16, 1935
ISSUED MONTHLY—$2.00 A HAH
Catholic Laymen's Association Convention Great
Demonstration of Affection for Bishop Keyes
Stirring, Touching Ovation
Tendered Beloved Prelate
on Eve of His Retirement
In Final Address to a C. L. A. Convention as Bishop of Sa
vannah, He Says He Has Received Nothing But Cour
tesy and Kindness From Georgians
HOLY FATHER SENDS
BLESSING TO G.L.A.
Apostolic Delegate Also
Telegraphs Greetings and
Blessing to Convention
The Holy Father, through His
Eminence, Cardinal Pacelli, Papal
Secretary of State, cabled his Apos
tolic Blessing to the Catholic Lay
men’s Association of Georgia in an
swer to a cablegram of filial devo
tion sent for the Laymen’s Associa
tion by His Excellency Bishop
Keyes. The Most Rev. Amleto Ci-
cognani, D. D„ Apostolic Delegate
to the United States, also sent his
best wishes.
The cablegram from Cardinal
Pacelli to Bishop Keyes follows:
“The Holy Father appreciates the
message of filial devotion of the
Catholic Laymen's Association of
Georgia, and sends paternal Apos
tolic Benediction as a pledge of
grace, a recompense of noble labors
and encouragement for continued
and greater efforts for the extension
of the Kingdom of God.”
Archbishop Cicoganani telegraph
ed Bishop Keyes from Washington:
“I am profoundly grateful for the
message, of the Catholic Laymen’s
Association of Georgia. Kindly con
vey to them my greetings and best
wishes. I bless all in the name of
the Holy Father.”
The cablegram and telegram
reached the convention in time to
be read at the afternoon session.
Bulletins
BISHOP HAYES and Governor
Cooney of Montana have issued an
appeal for assistance for the Diocese
of Helena where earthquakes have
done damages estimated as in ex
cess of $450,000. In a radio talk Gov
ernor Cooney stated that the home
for orphans and House of the Good
Sh'-pherd were utterly ruined.
BISHOP CANTWELL of Los An
geles and Father Edward A. Duff,
head of the Chaplains’ Division, Bu
reau of Navigation, U. S. N., will bo
speakers at the annual conference of
Navy Chaplains at Rancho Santa Fe,
Cal., November 25 and 26.
FATHER TIMOTHY BARRETT,
S. J., famed as the editor of the
Sabctti-Barrett Moral Theoiogy, is
dead at Woodstock College, Md., af
ter nearly sixty years as a Jesuit.
REV. DR. F. H. HAAS, director
of the National Catholic School of
Social Service, and President
Roosevelt’s appointee on a number
of labor boards, has been named
rector of St. Francis’ Seminary,
Milwaukee, succeeding Dr. Aloy-
sius J. Muench, recently consecrated
Bishop of Fargo.
TH K. OF C. Boy Workers Confer
ence to be held in New York No
vember 17, will be attended by
about .200 Catholic leaders in the
work; it is the sixth annual meeting
of its kind.
THE CATHOLIC BOY of St. Paul
has launched a “junior crusade for
decent reading, a movement it is
intended to make nationwide.
THEO. II. DORSEY, a former aide
of David Goldstein in his street
speaking tours, will now undertake
similar work, it is announced from
Baltimore. Mr. Dorsey is a former
Episcopalian minister.
FATHER COUGHLIN has inaug
urated a new series of national
broadcasts every Sunday afternoon;
the broadcasts are for forty-five
minutes and are carried over thirty-
three stations.
MSGR. JAMES CAFFREY, presi-
lent of Maynooth’s famed St. Pat
rick College, died in Ireland recent
ly at the age of 60. He was educated
in Ireland, France and at Freiburg,
where he received his doctorate in
history in 1906.
20,000 HOLY NAME men marched
in procession in Baltimore on the
Feast of Christ the King! Archbish
op Curley officiated at Benediction.
Noted Convert
FRANK W. STEARNS
COOLIDGE’S SPONSOR
BECOMES CATHOLIC
Frank W. Stearns Is Bap
tized in Boston
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
BOSTON, Mass—Frank W. Stearns,
prominent Boston merchant who
gained national prominence as the
political sponsor of the late Calvin
Coolidge in the career that led the
latter to the presidency of the Unit
ed States, has been received into the
Catholic Church. He is 79 years old.
Mr. Steams, who had been reared
as a Congregationalist, had become a
member of the Episcopalian Church
in the later years of his life. He is a
member of one of the oldest families
i in New England, his maternal an-
j cestry dating back to the Mayflower
i Pilgrims.
Mr. Steams’ son, Foster W. Steams,
of Hancock, N. H.. became a convert
to Catholicism in 1911, two years after
he had been ordained a minister of the
I Episcopalian Church. The younger
Mr. Steams served for some time as
librarian of Holy Cross College. He re
ceived his master’s degree at that
Jesuit institution in 1915, and was
made a Private Chamberlain of the
Cape and Sword bv His Holiness
Pone Pius XI in 1931.
The conversion of the elder Mr.
Steams is the culmination of a year
of reading and study. He was re
ceived into the Church by the Rev.
George A. Keelan, S.J.. in the chapel
of Boston College, on October 23.
Mr. Steams was bom in Boston,
November 8, 1856. He was graduated
from Amherst College in 1878 and
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MSGR. IRETON NOW
RICHMOND AUXILIARY
Baltimore Pastor Con
secrated Bishop
By N. C. W. C. News Service
BALTIMORE. — In the presence of
two Archbishops and 18 Bishops and
amid the impressive and colorful
rites of the Church that have been
witnessed 33 times in Baltimore’s
Cathedral, the Most Rev. Peter L.
Ireton, pastor of St. Ann’s Church
here, was consecrated titular Bishop
of Cime and Coadjutor to the Most
Rev. Andrew J. Brenan, Bishop of
Richmond.
The Most Rev. Michael J. Curley,
Archbishop of Baltimore, was the
consecrator and the co-consecrators
were the Most Rev. Thomas C.
O’Reillv. Bishop of Scranton, and the
Most Rev. James H. Ryan, Rector
of the Catholic University oi Amer
ica and Bishop-elct of Omaha.
Present also were relatives of the
new Bishop, State and civic digni
taries. more than 350 Monsignori and
priests. and scores of Brothers and
Sisters and many seminarians and
students from St. Charles’ College.
(BY N, C. W- C. NEWS SERVICE)
SAVANNAH, Ga-, —The twentieth
annual convention of the Catholic
Laymen’s Association of Georgia here
on the Feast of Christ the King, fea
tured by an address by Michael Wil
liams. editor of The Commonweal,
was climaxed by a great demonstra
tion of affection and love for the
Most Rev. Michael J. Keyes, S- M,
D- D., who recently retired as Bishop
of Savannah and is now acting as
Apostolic Administrator.
In his convention address Bishop
Keyes reiterated his affection and
love for the people of Georgia, Cath
olic and non-Catholic, and said that
since coming to the state he had never
received anything but courtesy and
better from its people, even in the
most backwoods country.
Bishop Keyes commended the
people of Georgia for their response
to the efforts of the Catholic Lay
men’s Association, calling the asso
ciation his “right hand” after his
clergy and Religious.
The convention adopted resolutions
declaring that Bishop Keyes had dur
ing his years in Georgia been the
heart and soul of the association, that
he had ever been the personification
of the Christlike spirit which it is
seeking to have permeate Georgia,
and that any success it may have at
tained in his 13 years as Bishop of
Savannah was due to his approval,
Asserting that since he had come
to Georgia thirteen years ago he had
never received anything but cour
tesy and kindness and better from
the people of the state. Catholic and
Protestant, Jew and Gentile, white
and colored, even in the most back-
woods communities, the Most Rev
Michael J. Keyes. S. M., D. D„ Apos
tolic Administrator of the Diocese of
Savannah, in his farewell address to
a convention of the Catholic Lay
men’s Association of Georgia in his
capacity as Ordinary of the Diocese,
expressed his heartfelt gratitude to
all the people of Georgia, and es
pecially to those of the Diocese, in
words and a manner which deeply
touched the audience which filled the
Catholic Association Hall for the fi
nal session of the annual meeting.
Bishop Keyes expressed his parti
cular gratitude to the Catholic Lay
men’s . Association of Georgia, which
he said had ever been his right arm,
after his priests and religious, and
which he declared had never given
him a minute’s concern but always
only the most wholehearted assis
tance and cooperation. He found the
Laymen’s Association laboring in
this manner when he came to the Di
ocese, Bishop Keyes said, with a
mighty reputation for service dur
ing the days of Bishop Keiley, and
in the thirteen years in which he has
been Bishop of Savannah it has
never faltered in its efforts.
Referring to the Feast of Christ
the King, on which the Laymen’s
Association meets, Bishop Keyes said
that it was the ideal day for the
convention, the Association seeking
as it does to make Christ better
known and better loved by the peo
ple of Georgia, seeking the extension
of the Kingdom of Christ on earth
and particularly in the state of
Georgia.
For we all belong to God, we all
belong to Christ, Bishop Keyes said,
not to a Stalin or a Hitler or any dic
tator, “v»n to the president of the
1 JiciUon, There are. many who light
encouragement and support. There
was a spontaneous demonstration by.
the members of the convention,
gathered from every section of the
state, many traveling three hundred
miles each way, when Bishop Keyes
arose for bis fareweil address to them
as Bishop of Savannah-
Mr. Williams outlined the princi
ples of Catholic Action and indicat
ed the manner in which the Catholic
Laymen’s Association of Georgia has
been. putting these principles into
practice It has been an example for
the nation. Mr. Williams said-
The problem of the future, Mr. Wil
liams declared, is not that of the bigo
try which faced the association in its
early days, but the problem of mili
tant and organized agnosticism and
ath-eism He urged the association to
continue its efforts against the new
dangers, exemplified by Communism
in its various forms, and by the at
tacks on religion in R'ussia, Germany.
Mexico, and elsewhere.
In his annual report, Mr. Reid stat
ed that a major activity of the asso
ciation during the year was the plac
ing of the facts on sterilization before
the people of Georgia through arti
cles in the newspaper, radio addres
ses. and in other ways, the Laymen’s
Association conducting the only or
ganized campaign in the state against
this idea, this ideal. Bishop Keyes as
serted; there are many who are wag
ing a diabolical fight against God, but
this fight is being waged not in
Georgia, not so much in the so-
called “backward states”, but in the
great metropolises.
This spirit, this movement is rag
ing like wildfire across the Rio
Grande; it is rampant in Mexico. His
Excellency declared, and threatens
to cross the border into our own fair
land. If and when it does come in
force into the United States, it will
not be through Georgia and the so-
called “backward states”, but through
our great centers, the Bishop said, for
in this state and in others like it the
people believe in God, they believe
in religion, they as a whole strive to
be faithful to the Christian convic
tions they have, and they will not
be so easily led astray as nlost of
those outside the Catholic Church in
some other parts of the nation.
In closing. Bishop Igeyes said that
his people in Georgia and particu
larly the members of the Laymen's
Association had taken many crosses
from his shoulders, “and there will
always be love in mv heart for Geor
gia and for you.” He asked that his
farewell go out through them to his
friends in Georgia not of the faith,
in the larger cities and in the small
communities, who have shown turn
such courtesy and consideration; he
asked that all his friends remember
him in their prayers.
Bishop .Keyes was greeted after his
presentation, by thunderous and
prolonged applause, the audience ris
ing. The address of the Bishop deep
ly touched those present, and when
he finished he was tendered an ova
tion such as it is given to few ever
to experience, an ovation renewed
when the resolutions on the retire
ment of His Excellency were present
ed. With this dramatic climax in
tribute to a gentle, kindly, modest,
priestly shepherd, the 1935 conven
tion. the most memorable in the his
tory of the CVth-lic Laymen’s As
sociation of Georgia, came to a close.
I
Again Heads C. L. A.
ALFRED I, BATTEY IS
RENAMED PRESIDENT
Elected for Third Term—J.
J. Haverty Vice-President
for Seventeenth Time
ALFRED M. BATTEY, of Augus
ta. was re-elected president of the
Catholic Laymen's Association for
his third term at the annual con
vention of the Association at Savan
nah October 27. Mr. Battey suc
ceeded Capt. P. H. Rice, K. C. S. G.,
two years ago at the Macon conven
tion; he is the fifth president of the
organization, li is predecessors being
A. J. Long, Macon: Jack J. Spald
ing, K. S. G... K. M.. Atlanta;
Thomas F. Walsh, Savannah, and
the late Captain Rice.
For the seventeenth consecutive
term J. J. Haverty, K. S. G.. Atlan
ta, was elected first vice-president
and chairman of the finance com
mittee: John B. McCa.Uum, Atlanta,
and Thomas S. Gray, Augusta, were
elected recording secretary and
treasurer, in which capac'tics they
have served the organization since
the earliest days. Miss Cecile C.
Ferry was re-elected financial sec
retary. and Alvin M. McAuliffe, of
Augusta, auditor, posts they have
held for many years.
Richard Reid, of Augusta, was re
named chairman of the publicity
committee, with Thomas F. Walsh.
Jr„ and Mrs. Joseph E. Kelly, of
Savannah; Evelyn Harris and Miss
Kate Murphy, Atlanta, and E. A.
Sheridan and William H. Mitchell, of
Macon, as committee members.
State vice-pres ; dents elected were
Dr. T. H. McHatton. Mrs. Bessie
Hines. Athens; Jack J. Spalding, K.
M„ Mrs. Mae M^Alpin Atlanta; R.
E. McCormack, Miss Mary Brosnan,
Albany; E. J. O'Connor, Mrs, John
P. Mulh°i-in, Augusta; John B.
Touhey. Mrs. J. C. Stiles, Bruns
wick: Louis C. Kunze. Mrs. H. C.
Sm’th. Columbus: P. F. Fitzgibbons,
Cordele: George Kratzer, Fitzgerald;
M. J. Callaghan. Mrs. E. A. Sheri
dan. Macon: R. W. Hatcher, Mrs. J,
A. Horne, Milledgeville: B. S. Fahv,
F. H. Oliver. Rome; Judge James P.
Houlihan, Mrs. J. P. McDonough,
Savannah; Mrs. F, V/. G'iberf.of
Washington; F,. M. Heagarty, Mrs.
J. W. Cason, Waycross.
Columbus to Be Host
to 1936 Convention
The invitation of Columbus to
hold the twenty-first annual con
vention of the Catholic Laymen’s
Association of Georgia there in 1936.
extended by I-ouis C. Kunze. presi
dent of the Columbus branch and
past state deputy of the Knights oi
Columbus, war accepted bv he con
vention by unanimous vet ■ On two
previous occasions Cob >bus has
entertained the cenventio . the first
time in 1922, and aga : n in 1930. and
these conventions sta ’ - the
most raer able ones in the Asso
ciation’s history.
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Bishop Keyes Expresses His
Thanks to People of State
Pays Warm Tribute to Catholic Laymen’s Association
and Urges It to Continue to Extend Its Efforts