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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. XVII. No. 2.
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, FEBRUARY 29, 1936
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Bulletins
THE HOLY FATHER through Car
dinal Pacelli, Papal Secretary of State,
warmly iauds the magnificently suc
cessful Seventh National Eucharistic
Congress held in Cleveland in Sep
tember and specifically commends His
Eminence, Cardinal Hayes, Papal Le
gate to the Congress, and His Excel
lency, Bshop Schrembs, host to the
Congress.
CALVARY is the Cathedral of
Christ, the Rt. Rev. Msgr. Fulton J.
Sheen, Ph. D., declared in the course
of his address Sunday on “Calvary
and Sacrifice’ over the National
Broadcasting Company network un-
iler the auspices of the National
Council of Catholic Men. Monsignor
Sheen’s broadcasts are at six o’clock
Eastern Standard Time each Sunday
evening.
CATHOLIC STUDENTS were urg
ed to be as “radical as Christ’’ by
the Rev. Vincent do Paul Hayes,
S. J., moderator of the Western New
York-Canada Students’ Sodality Con
ference held in Buffalo.
STUDENTS seek adventure; all
students will share in the venture of
death and religion is the only prepara
tion for it, the Rev. Maurice S. Shee-
hy, Ph. D., of the Catholic Univer
sity of America declared in an ad
dress delivered Sunday over the Co
lumbia Broadcasting Company’s Sys
tem’s “Church of the Air’’ period
from Trinity College, Washington.
REV. GEORGE F. McDONALD, S.
J., whom the Daily Gleaner of King-
son, Jamaica, referred to as the most
popular priest in Jamaica, died last
week at his mission in the West In
dies.. He was from the Boston Prov
ince of the Jesuit Fathers originally.
THE HIGHEST American patriot
ism and the highest Americanism is
to promote social justice, the Rt. Rev.
Msgr. John A. Ryan, of the Catholic
University of America, declared at
the annual banquet of the Knights
of Columbus in Chicago.
..A WORLD CATHOLIC radio con
vention will be held in Prague,
Czechoslovakia, May 4-7 of this year,
with the opening address being de
livered by His Eminence. Cardinal
Kaspar.
REV. GEORGE MARIN, S. J., has
been named visitor of the missions of
the Jesuits in China, the Superior
General of the Society, the Very Rev.
Wladimir Ledochowski, S. J., an
nounces from Rome.
ST. CHRISTOPHER S U."*< at Gray-
moor, on the Albany Post Road, ex
tended hospitality to 150,000 wayfar
ers last year; 149,786 men were fed
and lodgings provided for 50,625.
SHIHKOU-CHIL special commis
sioner of inspection and pacification
commissioner of the 10th Provincial
Area of Anhwei and chief magistrate
of the Siuning District in China has
become a Catholic; he was baptized
by the Rev. Joseph Fofued.
UGANDA, AFRICA'S chief magis
trate, Stanislaus Mugwanya, at one
time regent for King Chwa II. re
cently observed the golden jub’lee of
his entering the Catholic Church. He
is 88 years old and has been honored
by the Holy Father and by the Eng
lish government.
MICHAEL LAWLOR, for forty-one
years prior to four years ago, when
he retired, publisher of The Catholic
Tribune of St. Joseph, Mo., died Jan-
ruary 21 at his home there at the
age of 94.
BY REV. MANUEL GRANA
) Cable, N. C. W. C. News Service)
MADRID. — Manuel Azana, who
heads the new Left-Republican
Government of Spain, will have as
collaborators in his cabinet eight
members of his own party. Martinez
Barrio’s Radicals, who separated
from the Lerroux Radicals, have
three posts. Neither the Socialists
nor the Catalonian Leftists figure in
the government. Martinez Barrio is
to be the president of the Cortes.
The government is granting imme
diate amnesty to all political and so
cial prisoners.
At present, the line of conduct to
be followed by the retiring Premier,
Manuel Portela Valladares, and his
Center Deputies is not known. The
C. E. D. A. Gil Robles’ party, will
have by far the largest minority
group in the Cortes. Gil Robles is
withdrawing for a few days’ rest,
leaving the active direction of the
party to Jimenez Fernandez, former
Minister of Agriculture.
Martial law has been declared in
four provinces, and the strike in
Saragossa is under control. Some
Bishop-Elect of the
Diocese of Nashville
MOST REV. WM. L. ADRIAN
BISHOP, JOHN MOODY
AT G. L. A, METING
Annual Meeting of Savannah
Branch There About March
23 to Be Notable Event
The Most Rev. Gerald P. O’Hara,
D. D., J. U. D., Bishop of Savannah,
and John Moody, K. M., of New,
York noted economist and author,
will address the annual meeting of
the Savannah branch of the Catho
lic Laymen’s Association of Georgia
in March; the details of the meeting
have not been completed but Mon
day, March 23, is the tentative date
and the Catholic Association Build
ing the place at which the meeting
will be held. The arrangements are
being completed by Judge James P.
Houlihan, local president.
It will be Bishop O’Hara’s first
Laymen's Association meeting and
will be held after His Excellency’s
return from Philadelphia, where he
will be on the Feast of St. Joseph,
March 19, for the consecration of his
successor, Bishop Lamb.
Mr. Moody is one of the most dis
tinguished Catholic laymert in the
United States, an economist of in
ternational reputation, and one of
the leading financial authorities and
authors of the day.
Mr. Moody’s conversion to the
Catholic Church a few years ago
was followed by his notable work,
“The Long Road Home’,’ one of the
most widely circulated religious
books of the time. A year ago Oc
tober Mr. Moody came to Georgia
to address the nineteenth annual
convention of the Catholic Lay
men’s Association at Augusta, and
the address he delivered at that time
has been reprinted in pamphlet
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attempts have been made to burn
churches, but on the whole the gov
ernment is maintaining order and
the normal life of the country is be
ing resumed.
Significance is attached to the fact
that Their Eminences Federico Car
dinal Tedeschini, Papal Nuncio to
Spain, and Isidro Cardinal Goma y
Tomas,, Archbishop of Toledo and
Primate of Spain, and the Most Rev.
Leopoldo Eijo, Bishop of Madrid,
were honor guests at a breakfast
given by President Alcala Zamora
on the eve of the election.
But even with the Leftists having
a slight majority in the Cortes, the
country has. been forwarned and
will not accept “the dictatorship of
the proletariat”. Revolution is not
likely. What is most probable is
an “ungovernable” parliament, a
condition to which Spain is inured
and, so fae, has given no signs of
remedying. With the election over,
each party, most likely, will proceed
to follow its own dictates, and a
coalition of Rightists and Centrists
in the Cortes can keep matters un
der control.
REV. WM. L. ADRIAN,
IOWA EDUCATOR, NEW
BISHOP OF NASHVILLE
Iowa Pastor, Distinguished
Educator, Named to Suc
ceed Late Bishop Smith
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
WASHINGTON—The Rev. William
L. Adrian, pastor of St. Bridget’s
Churcn, Victor, la„ and formerly
vice-president of St. Ambrose Col
lege, Davenport, la., has been ap
pointed Bishop of Nashville, accord
ing to word received here from Vati
can City. He succeeds to the See
left vacant by the death of the Most
Rev. Alphonse J. Smith.
With the appointment of Bishop-
elect Adrian, every See in the United
States is now filled, a rare occur
rence. k
As the seventh Bishop of Nashville,
he will have charge of a Diocese that
comprises the entire State of Ten
nessee. According to the latest fig
ures of the Official Catholic Direc
tory, it has a Catholic population of
32,323. There are 47 diocesan priests
and 22 priests of religious Orders.
There are 30 ecclestistical students
and three high schools for boys with
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johncarroTlpayne,
NOTED GEORGIAN,DIES
One of Atlanta’s Most Dis
tinguished Citizens Was
Knighted by Holy Father
(Special to The Bulletin)
ATLANTA, Ga. — John Carroll
Payne, K. S. G., one of Atlanta’s
Reading citizens, a distinguished mem
ber of the Georgia Bar and one of
the outstanding Catholic laymen of
the South, died in Miami February
19 of bronchial pneumonia. Mr.
Payne had not been in good health
for some time and was accustomed
to spend the winters in Miami; his
final illness, however, • was short and
his death a shock to the city and dio
cese. Col. Jack J. Spalding, K. S. G.,
K. M., was spending the winter in
Miami with Mr. Payne and J. J. Hav-
erty, K. S. G., Georgia’s third Knight
of St. Gregory, had just left Miami
after an extended stay at the same ho
tel.
The Most Rev. Gerald P. O’Hara,
D. D„ J. U. D., Bishop of Savannah,
officiated at the funeral Mass, assisted
by the Very Rev. James T. Reilly, S.
M„ pastor of Sacred Heart Church
and the clergy of the city; Bishop
O’Hara delivered the sermon, laud
ing Mr. Payne’s character and ser
vices. Interment was in West View
Cemetery.
Pallbearers were: Honorary, Jack J.
Spalding. K. S. G., K. M., j. J. Hav-
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ARCHBISHOP JIMINEZ
IS DEAD IN MEXICO
His Life a Standing Re
futation of Government’s
Charges Against the Church
MEXICO CITY, Feb 18—’The Most
Rev. Francisco Orozco Jimenez,
Archbishop of Guadalajara, died
February 18 at the age of 71 and at
the close of an eventful life which
included several periods of exile
from his native land and years spent
in hiding in the mountains of Jalis
co as a result of Mexican govern
ment persecution of the Church.
His life was a standing refutation
of many of the Government’s pres
ent day slanders against the Church.
He established scores of schools and
led in the advancement of education
in Mexico. Instead of amassing
wealth, he spent a large personal
fortune in charity and general ser
vice to the people. As a civic figure,
he promoted the good in modern
facilities, even devoting his private
funds to public works and installing
electric lights in one town.
Born in the city of Zamora, State
of Michigan November 19, 1846,
Francisco Orozco was the son of
pius and illustratious parents, Don
Jose Maria Orozco and Dona Maria
Ana Jimenez. Both were of Mexican
birth, as were his parental grand
parents, Don Juan de Orozco and
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Revolution in Spain Unlikely
Study of Voting Indicates
Holy Father Completes
14 Years of Pontificate
Montana Priest Is
Consecrated Bishop
BISHOP GILMORE
MS6R. GILMORE NEW
BISHOP OF HELENA
Apostolic Delegate Officiates
at First Ceremony of Kind
in Montana History
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
HELENA, Mont. — The solemn
consecration of the Most Rev. Jo
seph M. Gilmore as fifth Bishop of
Helena, which took place in the
Cathedral of St. Helena here, was
an epoch-making event.
His Excellency the Most Rev. Am-
leto Giovanni Cicognani, Apostolic
Delegate to the United States, was
the consecrating prelate. The co-
consecrators were the Most Rev. Jo
seph F. McGrath, Bishop of Baker
City, Ore., and the Most Rev. Edwin
V. O’Hara, Bishop of Great Falls,
Mont. The Most Rev. Edward D.
Howard, Archbishop of Portland in
Oregon, preached the sermon.
Bishop Gilmore’s censecration. it
was said, signalized the first visit
of the present Apostolic Delegate to
Helena as Delegate, marked the first
time that the ceremony of episcopal
consecration has ever been held in
this episcopate. Not only was Bishop
Gilmore a priest of the Diocese of
Helena, but he was a member of the
Western Montana laity before begin
ning his studies for the priesthood,
and personally recalls all of his
predecessors in office.
Following his consecration. Bishop
Gilmore gave his first blessing to his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. John F. Gil
more, of Anaconda, Mont.
His Mighty Achievements
Have Made Him Greatest
Figure of the Age
(BY N. C. W. C. NEWS SERVICE)
The fact that His Holiness Pope
Pius IX is entering upon the 15th
year of his Pontificate serves to re
call that the 14 years of his reign
have stamped him as the greatest fig
ure of his time.
Ruling the Church during a period
which, year for year, has been as mo
mentous, as trying, as colorful and
as portentous as any in the world’s
history, Pope Pius XI has distin
guished his occupancy of the Chair
of Peter in many ways. His settle
ment of the 60-year-old “Roman
Question” alone would make his
place in history secure. Generation
upon generation will revere him as
the Pope of Catholic Action. His in
scription of an unprecedented num
ber of names on the calendar of
Saints is a monument more lasting
than granite. His zeal for the spread
of the Gospel already has won him
the title “Pope of the Missions". His
widespread extension of the diplo
matic relations of the Holy See de
mands universal respect. His deep
and practical interest in the promo
tion of true science, his moderniza
tion of the ancient Vatican, and the
fact that he is the first Pontiff whose
voice has been carried throughout
the world by radio are hallmarks of
his eminent position among the
Popes.
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! DESPITE DIREFUL EVENTS 1
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That Pope Pius XI has accomplish
ed so much is cause for wonder. That
he has accomplished all these things
amid such trying circumstances is
truly amazing. A world already
spent in the most dreadful war in
history has writhed and struggled in
the morass of the most desperate
economic plight it has ever known.
Governments have come and gone,
revolutionary doctrines have been
raised up and spread abroad. Wars
and threats of wars have continued
to stalk the globe. Cries of despair
have been Heard on every hand. The
Church itself has been the subject of
vicious and unrelenting persecution
in a number of lands. The figure of
Pope Pius XI has shown brightly
above it all—serene and fatherly.
Crowned Pope on February 12, 1922,
Pius XI issued his first Encyclical
Ubi Arcano Dei on December 23 of
that year, proclaiming “The Peace of
Christ in the Reign of Christ” as the
program of his Pontificate.
Among the score or more of En
cyclicals that have followed have
been:
Maximan gravissimamque of Jan
18, 1924, putting the final seal on the
religious pacification of France; Quas
primas of December 11, 1925, in which
the Feast of Christ the King was in
stituted; Rerum Ecclesiae of February
28. 1926, giving new directions for
Catholic Mission activity; Iniquis af-
flictisquc of November 18. 1926, deal
ing with the sad conditions facing
the Church in Mexico; Mortalium an-
imos of January 6, 1928, recalling the
doctrine of real Unity of the Church
in the face of the errors of pan-
Christianism; Miserentissimus Re-
demptor of May 8, 1928, calling the
faithful to the duty of reparation to
wards Our Lord; Rerum Orientalium
of September 8, 1928, inviting Cath-
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Mass at Washington Marks
Anniversary of Coronation
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
WASHINGTON.With His Excellen-
cyl the Most Rev. Amleto Giovanni
Cicognani, Apostolic Delegate to the
United States; a brilliant throng of
notables among the clergy and laity.
United States government officials,
and members of the diplomatic corps
attending; and the Most Rev. John B.
Peterson, Bishop of Manchester,
preaching, the fourteenth anniversary
of the coronation of Pope Pius XI
was observed at services held in the
National Shrine of the Immaculate
Conception. The Most Rev. John M.
McNamara. Auxiliary Bishop of Bal
timore, represented this archdiocese.
Coincident with the commemmoration
in this city, similar observances were
held in See cities in other parts of
the country.
Bishop Peterson, in his sermon, de
scribed the significance and history
of the ceremony connected with the
coronation of the Sovereign Pontiffs.
He declared that “our own beloved
Pius XI’’ has proclaimed the “peace
of Christ in the kingdom of Christ.”
“Harassed by the ravages of irrelig-
ion in lands once fertile to Christ,"
he added, the present Pope continues
to seek peace, “with a comforting ac
cent of hope.”
The Rt. Rev. Msgr. Patrick J. Mc
Cormick, Acting Rector of the Cath
olic University of America, was cele
brant of the Mass at the National
Shrine. The following countries were
represented by Ambassadors: Great
Britain, Italy and Belgium. Those
represented by Ministers were: Aus
tria, Albania, Ed Salvador, Lithuania,
Yugoslavia, and the Dominican Re
public. Charge d’Affaires or attach-es
represented the following nations:
Poland. Chile, Spain, Czechoslovakia,
Peru, Germany, Japan, Brazil, Swit
zerland, Canada, Union of South Af
rica, and Venezuela.
Many other notables, including
Senators David I. Walsh, of Massa
chusetts and Henry F. Ashurst,
Arizona, attended.