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Published by the
Catholic Lay
men’s Association
of Georgia.
“To Bring About
a Friendlier
Feeling Among
Neighbors Irre
spective of Creed”
VOL. XVI. No. 12
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, DECEMBER 22, 1935
ISSUED MONTHLY —$2.00 A fLAK
Cardinal Dougherty to Install Bishop O’Hara
Bishop Smith
Bulletins
BISHOP SMITH DIES
SUDDENLY MONDAY
Bishop-Elect of Savannah
Beloved Ordinary of Diocese
of Nashville Stricken in
Church in 52nd Year
(Special to The Bulletin)
NASHVILLE, Tenn.—The Most Rev.
Alphonse J. Smith, D. D., for the past
eleven years Bishop of Nashville, one
of the most beloved memoers of the
hierarchy in the country, died here
at 4:30 Monday morning several hours
after being stricken with a heart at
tack white delivering a sermon at
St. Vincent’s Church, a church for
colored Catholics which he organized.
REV. DR. JOSEPH GILMORE,
chancellor of the Diocese of Helena,
has been appointed Bishop of Hele
na, Mont. Born in New York, he
Went with his parents to Montana
at the age of five. He made his cler
ical studies in Rome.
FATHER GILLIS and Monsignor
Fulton Sheen will be the speakers
on each of the Catholic Hour Christ
mas programs Sunday evening, De
cember 22, and December 29, over
the National Broadcasting network.
The programs will each last one
hour.
MONTANA Catholic institutions,
damaged to the extent of $.'>00,000 by
the recent earthquake there, is being
assisted by contributions from vari
ous parts of the country. A total of
$20,000 has been received at the
chancery office.
CUBA’S first Apostolic nuncio,
Archbishop Gerrge J. Caruana, pre
sented his credentials to the presi
dent of the republic in the presence
of thousands of "Cubans who assem
bled to witness the ceremony. Arch
bishop Caruana was formerly Apos
tolic Delegate to the Antilles, which
included Cuba-
BARONESS ELEANOR D’ANE-
THAN, sister of Sir Rider Haggard,
a convert to the Church in 1886, has
just died in England at 77. She was
a novelist and lecturer of note.
Nashville and the entire state were
shocked to learn of the death of
Bishop Smith, who in his decade of
labor in the diocese had endeared
himself to all classes. He was fifty-
one years old. The funeral arrange-
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SEVEN BISHOPS AT
RALEIGH OBSERVANCE
Diocese Marks Tenth An
niversary and Centennial of
Gaston’s Famed Address
10,000 PERSONS attended the pa
geant in Cleveland’s largest audito
rium marking the centenary of the
founding of the Ursuline Order.
ECONOMIC REFORM is necessary
to avert Communism or Fascism in
the United States, Msgr. John A. Ry
an told the Syracuse Industrial Prob
lems Conference last week.
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
RALEIGH, N. C-—The tenth anni
versary of the erection of the Diocese
of Raleigh, the tenth anniversary of
the elevation of the Most Rev. Wil
liam J. Hafey to the Episcopacy, and
the one hundredth anniversary of
Judge William Gaston’s religious
freedom address to the state consti
tutional conventon was commemor
ated in exercises held here Tuesday,
December 10.
Seven Bishops of the Province of
Baltimore, joined with B’shop Hafey,
Ordinary of the See, in the observ
ance of the anniversaries. They in
cluded: the Most Rev. Patrick Barry,
Bishop of St. Augustine; the Most
Rev.Emmet M. Walsh. Bishop of
Charleston; the Most Rev. Edmond
J. Fitzmaurice, Bishop of Wilming
ton; the Most Rev. Peter L. Ireton,
Coadjutor Bishop of Richmond; the
Most Rev. Gerald P. O’Hara, B ; shop-
Designate of Savannah; the Most Rev.
John M- McNamara, Auxiliary Bishop
of Baltimore, an j the Rt. Rev. Vin
cent Taylor O. S. B., Abbot Ordinary
of Belmor.t Abbey. Provincials of
seven religious orders attended-
Prominent Protestants joined with
their Catholic neighbors in the day’s
observances United States Senator
Josiah W. Bailey, a leading Baptist
layman, sharing the rostrum with the
Rt. Rev. Msgr. Peter Guilday, of the
Catholic University of America at the
evening’s exercises. Other prelates
present includes the Rt. Rev. Msgr.
A. R. Freeman. LL. D., V. G., Ral-
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Twenty New Cardinals Are
Proclaimed by Holy Father
(Cable, N. C W. C. News ervice)
VATICAN CITY.—Twenty Cardi
nals were proclaimed by His Holiness
Pope Pius XI at a secret C.-nsistory
held December 16, to be followed by
a public Consistory December 19.
Two of the Cardinals are Archbish
op Federico Tedeschini, Papal Nun
cio to Spam, and Archbishop Carlo
Salotti, Secretary of the Sacred Con
gregation for the Propagation of the
Faith, both of whom His Holiness
created Cardinals and preserved IN
PECTORE at the last Consistory.
The 18 new Cardinals will be:
Monsignor Ignatius Gabriel Tap-
pouni, Patriarch of Antioch, Syriac
Rite; Archbishop Enrico Sibilia, Pa
pa) Nuncio to Austria; Archbishop
Francesco Marmaggi, Papal Nuncio
to Po’and; Archbishop Luigi Magli-
one, Papal Nuncio to France; Arch
bishop Carlo Cremonesi, Secret Al
moner of His Holiness Pope Pius XI;
Archbishop Henri Marie Alfred Bau-
drillart, Rector of the Institut Cath-
olique of Paris and a member of the
French Academy; Monsignor Eman
uel Celestine Suhard, Archbishop of
Rheims: Monsignor Karl Kaspar,
Archbishop of Prague; Monsignor
Santiago Luis Copello, Archbishop of
Buenos Aires; Monsignor Isidoro Go-
ma y Tomas. Archbishop of Toledo,
Spain; Monsignor Camillo Caccia Do-
minioni, Maestro di Camera of His
Holiness Pope Pius XI; Monsignor
Nicola Canali, Assessor of the Sacred
Congregation of the Holy Office;
Monsignor Domenico Jorio, Secretary'
of the Sacred Congregation of the
Sacraments; Monsignor Vincenzo La
Puma, Secretary of the Sacred Con
gregation of Religious; Monsignor
Federico Cattani Amadori, Secretary
of the Apostolic Signatura; Monslg-
nor Massimo Massimi, Dean of the
Sacred Roman Rota; Monsignor Do
menico Mariani, Secretary of the Ad
ministration of the Patrimony of the
Holy See and Father Pietro Boetto,
Assistant for Italy to the General of
the Society of Jesus.
Of the Cardinals to be proclaimed
in December, 14 are Italians, two are
French, one is Syrian, one Czecho
slovak. one Spanish, and one Argen
tinian. The Sacred College, when
complete, consists of 70 Cardinals.
There are' at present 51 members,
counting two Cardinals in pectore
When all the new Cardinals are pro
claimed next month, the total will
then be 69, or one member short of
complete number of Cardinals,
Bishop O’Hara Consecrated
in Philadelphia 6 Years Ago
Has Served as Auxiliary to His Eminence, Cardinal
Dougherty Since 1929—Vicar-General of Archdiocese
When the venerable Bishop Michael
J. Crane, Auxiliary to His Eminence.
Cardinal Dougherty, Archbishop of
Philadelphia, died about seven years
ago, there were in the Archdiocese
735 archdiocesan • and 267 religious
clergy, over one thousand priests
from whom the Holy Father could se
lect a Bishop if be desired to confine
his choice to the See where the new
Auxiliary was to serve The r act hat
Father Gera’d Patrick O’Hara was
chosen for the honors of the Ep'sco-
pacy out of this vast group in which
great ability and effective zeal were
the rule rather than the exception is
most convincing evidence of his
distinguished attainments.
Bishop O’Hara was bom in Green
Ridge, near Scranton. Pa-, May 4, 1895.
the eldest son of Dr. and Mrs. Pat
rick J. O’Hara, his mother being Miss
Margaret Carney before her marriage;
both parents were spared to see their
son consecrated Bishop and it is an
ticipated will see him installed as Or
dinary^ the See of Savannah-
Baptized at St. Paul’s Church in
Green Ridge, the future Bishop spent
his first school year in St. Cecelia's
Academy, Scranton, and when he was
six years old the family moved to
West Philadelphia, where he attended
the parish school of Our Mother of
Sorrows Church. Here he received his
First Holy Communion and was con
firmed. From the parish school he
went to St. Joseph’s High School,
conducted by the Jesuit Fathers,
graduating in 1911.
In the fall of that year he entered
the Archdiocesan Seminary of St.
Charles Borromeo at Overbrook,
where he completed the four year
preparatory course in three years,
then studying philosophy for two
years and theology for an equal
length of time, when his splendid
scholastic record led to his selec’ion to
go to Rome to complete his course
in theology.
In Rome the young seminarian
studied theology for three years at
the Pontifical K'oman Major Semi
nary, being ordained before the end
of his course on April 3, 1920 by His
Eminence. Cardinal Basilio Pompili,
Cardinal Vicar of Rome- The follow
ing year he was awarded the degree
of Doctor of Divinity, and he then
entered the Law School of the Roman
Major Seminary. At the end o f anther
three years of study, he received the
JANUARY 15 IS DATE
NAMED-CEREMONY
TO BE IN SAVANNAH
0
His Eminence and Bishop
O’Hara Will Speak at In
stallation Mass and Dinner
The Most Kev. Gerald Patrick
O'Hara, D.D., J.U.D., Auxiliary Bish
op of Philadelphia, will be installed
as the ninth Bishop of Savannah at
the Cathedra] of St. John the Baptist
Wednesday, January 15, Savannah,
His Eminence Dennis Cardinal
Dougherty, Archbishop of Ph ladel-
phia, who consecrated Bishop O’Hara
his Auxiliary six years ago, presid
ing.
The Cathedral of St. John the Bap
tist, erected early in the centu
ry by the late Bishop Benjamin
Keiley. has been undergoing exten
sive renovation during the past few
months under the direction of Bishop
Keyes and the Rt. Rev. Msgr. Joseph
F. Croke, rector, and is ready for
the installation ceremonies, whick.
will be attended by the Bishops of
the Province, by many other mem
bers of the hierarchy, and by priests
and laity throughout the Diocese, the
South, and other parts of the coun
try.
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His Eminence, Cardinal Dougherty.
His Excellency, Bishop O’Hara, and
their party will leave Philadelphia
for Savannah Monday, January’ 13.
and arrive in Savannah the following
day, according to tentative plans. The
officers of the installation ceremony
have not been announced, but the
Card nal and Bishop O’Hara will
speak at the Mass, and the Rev. Dr.
Francis J. Furey, Cardinal Dough
erty’s secretary, will be master of
ceremonies.
The details of the dinner which
will follow the Mass have not been
arranged except that the speakers
will include the Cardinal and Bishop
O’Hara. A public reception to the
Cardinal and Bishop O'Hara is also be
ing planned. All arrangements are be
ing made by Bishop O’Hara, Bishop
Keyes and Diocesan officials. Among
those accompanying Bishop O'Hara to
Georgia will be his secretary, the
Rev. Joseph W. Kavanaugh.
It is anticipated that the installa
tion of Bishop O’Hara will bring to
Savannah one of the largest gather
ings of Bishops ever held in the
South. It is the first time in the his
tory of the Diocese that a Cardinal
lias officiated at a consecration or in
stallation ceremony.
His Eminence, Cardinal Dougherty,
is a native of Ashland, Pa., and made
his theological studies at St. Charles
Seminary, Overbrook. Pa., and at the
American College in Rome, Deing or
dained in 1890. From 1891 to 1903, he
was a member of the faculty of St.
Charles Seminary, and he was then
consecrated the first American Bish
op of Neuva Segovia in the Philip
pines. In 1908 he was transferred to
Jaro; -his achievements in the Phil
ippines led to his appointment in
1915 as Bishop of Buffalo, and in 1918
he succeeded the illustrious Arch-
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Philadelphia Archdiocesan
Organ Lauds Bishop O’Hara
Rejoices at Recognition of His Excellency’s Ability, But
Regrets Loss of His Kindly Personality to Archdiocese
(Editorial in The Catholic Standard
and Times. Official Organ of
the Archdiocese of Philadelphia)
News of the appointment of His Ex
cellency, the Most Rev- Gerald P.
O’Hara, D- D., to the See of Savan
nah, Georgia, is being received with
mixed emotions by the CathoFes of
t.his_ diocese. They rejoice Pat the
ability and efficiency of His Excilen-
cy have thus been recognized, but re
gret that the appoinhnent will mean
the loss of his kindly personality to
the Archdiocese of Phi'adelphia.
During the past half dozen years.
Bishop O'Hara has carried out his du
ties as Auxi' : ary Bishop with an en
ergy and dispatch that was truly
amazing. He never spared himself
when duty called, and his '•apaciiy
for work seems unlimited- H ; s love
for souls, his kindly interest in the
problems of others, his generosity, in
a word, his truly Catholic charity,
have endeared him alike to the clergy
and laity of Philadelphia.
These qualities of His Excellency
will be invaluable in his new field of
endeavor. The Diocese of Savannah
comprises the entire State of Georgia,
containing 59.980 square miles, To
care for this large area, there are less
than 75 priests. Because of the scat
tered Catholic population, much of
the work must be done at nrss’on
chapels and stations. Although it has
been a separate diocese for 85 y ears, it
is still to a great extent a missionary
field. In the cities, there is a stalwart
Catholicity that has made the Lay
men’s League of Georgia nationally
famous, but in the country dst-its.
Ca'holics are scat'ered and thsir in
fluence has been little felt. The zeal
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