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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- (Continued on Page Forty) 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- (Continued on Page Nine) 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. (Continued on Page Thirty) 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- (Continued on page eleven) 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 (Continued- on Page Forty)