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Sjl-X-TJUEIN THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA FEBRUARY 29, 1933 Enthusiastic Welcome Given Bishop O'Hara in Augusta Great Reception Tendered His Excellency—He Speaks at Communion Breakfast Speaker at Savannah Meeting of C. L. A. Many Study Clubs in Charleston Parishes Confraternity of Christian Doctrine Functioning Through Them in City (Special to The Bullet'n) CHARLESTON, S. C.—During the past few weeks the Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, or "Study Clubs", as the individual units are known, have been functioning in the various parishes. About 200 clubs have been organized in and around Charleston. The purpose of the clubs is to create a more widespread and fuller under standing of the Catholic religion among the laity through organized discussion from a standard study text. Through these study clubs quite a number of non-Catholics are becom ing interested and a number have asked for instructions. These meet ings are to last eight weeks. FATHER PAUL GIVES RETREAT AT CATHEDRAL A Retreat was given at the Cathe dral for the men of the parish. About one hundred and fifty men attended the special exercises. It was con ducted by Father Paul Hatch. Cong. Oratorian, of Rock Hill, who has done wonderful work not only in this state, but all over the country. On Sunday morning a Communion breakfast was held in the school hall which was presided over by Father John McCarthy, assistant pastor. Father McNamara, of Baltimore, a personal friend of Monsignor May, was the honorary guest. MATTHEW A. McLAUGHLIN, JR., state director of the NRA for South Carolina, has been appointed to the legal staff of the Reconstruction Fi nance Corporation at Washington and will leave for his new post soon. Mr. McLaughlin, an alumnus of the Col lege of Charleston, and of George town Lay School, is a former grand knight of P. N. Lynch Council. KELLY-BENNETT The Rev. Thomas O'Shaughnessy officiated at the marriage of Miss Lillian Claire Kelly, daughter of Mrs. J. Ryan Kelly and the late Mr. Kelly, and Richard Bowie Bennett, Jr., the marriage taking place here recently. ROBERTS -CONWAY The Rev. Henry F. Wolfe, .pastor of Sacred Heart Church, officiated at the marriage here early in February of Miss Margaret Virginia Roberts, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. Matthew Roberts, and Francis A. Conway, Jr. TENNESSEE POST FOR DOMINICAN LEADER Father Baxter, New Haven, Conn., Pastor, Comes to Johnston City Missions JOHNSON CITY, Tenn.—The Rev. Edmund A. Baxter, O, P.. until re cently prior of the Dominican Com munity at New Haven, Conn., and pastor of St. Mary’s Church, one of the leading churches of the Diocese of Hartford, has arrived here to as sume his new duties at St. Mary's Church and its missions. Father Bax ter has been pastor of some of the largest Dominican churches in the country! including parishes in Chi cago and St. Louis. He is one of the oustanding orators of the order, served in France during the war as a chaplain, and was twice decorated for gallantry under fire; his parish- oners here will include the veterans at the National Sanatorium,- and he will also serve the other missions of St. Mary's Church, Elizabethton, Greenville and Kingsport among them. Charleston Diocesan N.C.C. W.BoardM eets Council Will Hold Convention in Anderson in April COLUMBIA. S. C. — The Board of Directors of the Diocesan Council of Catholic Women met recently in the social hall of St. Francis de Sales Church in Shandon, in Columbia. In the absence of Miss Katherine Ryan, president, on account of illness, the vice-president. Mrs. George Wil liams of Charleston, presided. The annual convention will be held in Anderson, April 18-19-20. The nominating committee will be Mrs. T. E. Johnson, Sr., Columbia, Mrs. Cyril Driscol, Charleston, and Mrs. Thomas Armstrong. Spartanburg. The Most Rev. Emmet Walsh, D.D., Bishop of Charleston, addressed the gathering on Study Clubs. The Youth movement and junior councils were discussed. At the open meeting which follow ed, Bishop Walsh spoke on World Peace. Other clergy present were the Very Rev. Martin Murphy. V.F.. Father O’Brien, Father Barrett. Fath er Walsh, Father McElroy and Fath er Wilentz. Junior Catholic Clubs Meeting in Albany THE GEORGIA FEDERATION of Junior Catholic Clubs held its quar terly convention in Albany Sunday. February 23. with Salvador Spano, president, of Columbus, presiding. An account of the convention will appear in the next issue of The Bulletin. REV. THOMAS DALY, S. J. FATHER THOMAS OALY DIES AT SPRING HILL Beloved Jesuit Was Native of Macon and Brother of Sis ter M. Clare There MOBILE. Ala. — The Rev. Thomas Daly, S. J., of Spring Hill College, a native of Macon, and widely- known in the South, died here Feb ruary 14, after an extended illness. Father Daly was born in Macon 48 years ago. the son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Michael Daly, was educat ed in the schools of the city and en tered the Society of Jesus at St. Stanislaus College in Macon. He was ordained to the priesthood on June 26, 1921. Father Daly served as an instruc tor at the College of the Immaculate Conception. New Orleans, at St. Charles, Grand Coteau, La., and Tampa College, Tampa, Fla.: he was chaplain at El Paso. Texas, did mis sion work in North Carolina and Tennessee and served as prefect of discipline at Spring Hill College. When his health began to fail he was at St. Peter Claver Church, Grand Goteau, La., and he was transferred to Spring Hill in the hope that his health would improve. Wherever Father Daly served he impressed all who came in contact with him by his priestly character; his patience under suffering when his health failed was an example to all. Surviving him are two broth ers, J. J. Daly, and J. K. Daly, Ma con; three sisters. Sister M. Clare and Mrs. Annie Huthnance, Macon, and Sister M. George, Chicago, and several nieces and nephews. The fu neral was held from the chapel at Spring Hill with a Requiem Mass. Interment was in the Jesuit Ceme tery- ata Spring Hill. C. 0. OF A. TO AID RALEIGH ORPHANAGE National Organization Plans Thus to Show Appreciation of Bishop Hafey’s Labors NEW YORK CITY, N. Y.—Appro priately following the recent tenth anniversary of the foundation of the diocese of Raleigh, North Carolina, of which their National Chaplain, the Most Rev. Bishop William J. Hafey, D. D.. is the first Bishop, the member ship of the Catholic Daughters of America, the largest Catholic women’s organization in the world, is now en gaged in fulfilling a pledge made by national officers and leaders of the order at the tenth anniversary cere monies honoring Bishop Hafey. Prom ising to support the efforts of their beloved National Chaplain for the Raleigh diocesan Orphanage, at Naza reth, N. C„ where two hundred or phan kiddies depend on the goodness of charitable hearts through friends of Bishop Hafey and the Rev. John P. Manley, Superintendent of the Or phanage. Although one of the largest dioceses in North America, geographically speaking, the See of Raleigh has con siderably less than 10,000 Catholics. The Catholic Orphanage at Nazareth has been affectionately referred to as “The power-house of the Diocese". In an appeal to the state and subor dinate courts of the order, Supreme Regent Miss Mary C. Duffy pointed out that the present call for mainte nance of the North Carolina Catholic Orphanage is the first request ever maqp by the C. D. of A. for Bishop Hafey during his ten years’ National Chaplaincy, and the plea is being made “as a mark of our profound ap preciation for the countless sacrifices, intensive interest, direction and guid ance accorded us, during these last ten highly progressive and profitable years.” State and subordinate courts, and in dividual members and friends of the Catholic Daughters of America, were requested to send their contributions for the Catholic Orphanage at Naza reth, in care of Mis Katharine M. Ros- ney, National Secretary, C. D. of A, 10 West 71st Street, New York City, N. Y. AUGUSTA, Ga.—The Most Rev. Gerald P. O’Hara, D. D„ J. U. D„ Bishop of Savannah, came to Au gusta Sunday for his first public ap pearance since his installation, and His Excellency received here one of the most cordial and one of the most expansive welcomes ever extended by Augustans to anyone. Celebrant of the Communion Mass for the Knights of Columbus at St. Patrick's Church at 8:30, the princi pal and only speaker, except for wel coming and introductory addresses, at the Communion breakfast, the guest of honor at a great reception tendered him in the afternoon and the presiding prelate at the closing ceremonies of the mission at St. Pat rick’s Church in the evening, the first formal visit of Bishop O’Hara to the city will ever be treasured by the Catholics of Augusta as one of the most gratifying days in the Cath olic history of the community. At the Communion Mass at St. Pat rick's, at which Bishop O'Hara gave Holy Communion to the Knights of Columbus himself, assisted by the Rev. Leo M. Keenan, pastor, Bishop O'Hara felicitated the Knights of Co lumbus on their splendid demonstra tion of faith, a demonstration he said which brought great joy to his heart. C." Victor Markwalter, grand knight, presided at the Communion breakfast at the beautiful Forest Hills Hotel; the Rev. John J. Kennedy, chaplain of the Council, invoked the Divine blessing, and Bernard W. Franklin, of the Council and the Augusta Bar, extended the greetings of the Coun cil in an address distinguished for its appropriateness and notable for its eloquence. Alfred M. Battey, president of the Catholic Laymen’s Association of Georgia, presented Bishop O'Hara, quoting tributes to him from Philadelphia as an indica tion of the esteem in which he was held by those who knew him best. Bishop O’Hara referred to the splendid feeling existing in Augusta and to the work of the Catholic Lay men’s Association of Georgia, which he said was famous throughout the country and that any Bishop might be proud to have such an organiza tion and such zealous workers la boring with and for him. He told of the love that Bishop Keyes had for the people of Georgia, a love which the Bishop expressed in his last words before the train left to bear him from the state; the more he saw of the state and its people the more he could understand and the more he shared that affection and enthusiasm, the Bishop said. Bishop O’Hara held up as an example to the Knights a layman who was a husband, a fam ily man, a lawyer, who gave up the greatest post in his country save that of king, gave up his wealth, his home, family and finally life itself rather than violate his conscience — Sir Thomas More, now a canonized saint of the Church. Both newspapers welcomed Bishop O’Hara with extensive news displays and cordial editorials. Dr. William Lyon Phelps, for many years Lamp- son Professor of English Literature at Yale, editor of the “As I Like It” department of Scribner’s Magazine and one of the country's most dis tinguished literary critics, speaking at the First Baptist Church that morning in the absence of the pastor in Europe, directed the attention of the members of the congregation to Bishop O’Hara's presence and the re ception and suggested that those who could join in greeting the Bishop at the reception. A number adopted the suggestion. Richard Reid, editor of The Bulle tin, presided at the reception in the afternoon at Sacred Heart Hall in the parish of that name, the Rev. J. B. Donohoe, S. J., pastor. He pre sented Hon. Richard E. Allen, Jr., Mayor of the City of Augusta, who extended the greetings of the city to Bishop O’Hara and expressed the city’s appreciation of having him there. He referred to the war on religion in some of the countries of the world, a spirit which is foreign to America and particularly to Au gusta, the Mayor said, and he assert ed that this spirit of Augusta would be furthered and extended by Bishop O’Hara, whom he was proud to wel come both in his official capacity and as a citizen of the community. M. H. H. Duvall, President of the Chamber of Commerce, said that he reflected the feeling not merely of himself and of the business interests of the city but of all Augusta when he reiterated the Mayor’s sentiments, and he referred to the contributions which Catholics have made toward the upbuilding of the city. The Rt. Rev. Msgr. James A. Kane. V. F., dean of the Augusta District and pastor of St. Mary’s-on-The-Hill, whom the chairman introduced as a truly priestly priest whom three Bishops of Savannah have honored, presented Bishop O’Hara, whom he said Georgia learned to love as soon as he arrived within the borders of the state. Bishop O’Hara referred to the kind ness of the people of Savannah to him the moment he arrived and the con tinuous kindnesses since; he then re ferred to the demonstration with which Augusta was welcoming him, (Continued on Page Four) JOHN MOODY (Continued From Page One) form by the Laymen’s Association under the title: “The Outside Ap proach to the Church.” Mr. Moody, who stopped over in Augusta a few days on his way South, is now in Florida and very kindly agreed to address the Savan nah meeting on his return. The meeting, the first to be attended by His Excellency, and the first local meeting to be addressed by Mr. Moody, promised to be one of the finest gatherings of any kind ever sponsored by the Association. Bishop O’Hara to Be Hibernian Speaker Will Deliver Address on ‘The Day We Celebrate’ at 12 4th Annual Dinner SAVANNAH, Ga.—His Excellency, Bishop O'Hara, will respond to the toast, “The Day We Celebrate”, at the 124th annual dinner of the Hi bernian Society on St. Patrick’s Day. The day will be observed as usual with the St. Patrick’s Day Mass at the church of the Apostle of Ireland, the parade, the meeting of the Hiber nian Society, the dinner of the Hiber nian Society, the Irish Jasper Greens and other organizations, and a num ber of other affairs. John J. Bouhan is chairman of the committee on speakers for the Hibernian dinner; W. J. Ryan is chairman of the parade committee. ATLANTAN HONORED BY NEWMAN CLUBS Charles Bautz Southeastern President at Convention at Tallahassee TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Charles Bautz of Atlanta, a student at Geor gia Tech, was elected president of the Southeastern Province of the Fed eration of College Catholic Clubs, which held a week-end meeting at the Florida State College for Women here last week. Students from Georgia, South Caro lina and Florida were present. Others elected were George Morris of Charleston City College, vice presi dent; Miss Clolilde O’Rourke. Mi ami, Florida State College for Wom en, corresponding secretary; Clyde Atkins, Miami University of Florida, recording secretary; E. V. McMahon, Atlanta, Georgia Tech, treasurer; Miss Mauvis Lussler, Orlando. Florida State College for Women, publicity director. The spring convention, 1937, will be held at Georgia Tech in Atlanta, the date to be set later. Governor Smith and Curley Meet at Mass Foes of 1932 Democratic Convention Get Together at Palm Beach Church PALM BEACH, Fla.—Former Gov ernor Alfred E. Smith of New York and Governor James M. Curley of Massachusetts, who carne to the parting of political ways at the 1932 Democratic convention when Gov ernor Curley, formerly an ardent supporter of Governor Smith, be came an equally ardent advocate of the then Governor Roosevelt, got to gether again when both attended Mass at St. Edward’s Church here •m a recent Sunday. Governor Smith saw Governor Curley after Mass, walked over to him; “they shook hands and had a very pleas ant chat-” Governor Curley is still listed as a supporter of the Presi dent, although quoted as being du bious about some of his policies. BISHOP KEYES SIXTY YEARS OLD FEB. 28 The Most Rev. Michael J. Keyes, S. M., D. D., who recent ly retired as Bishop of Savannah because of ill health, observes his sixtieth birthday Friday of this week; he was born in Din gle, County Kerry, Ireland, Feb ruary 28, 1876. Bishop Keyes Is now the guest of his friend, Fa ther James J. Halligan, a pastor in the Archdiocese of New York who formerly served in the Dio cese of Savannah, and the peo ple of the Diocese of Savannah and of Georgia will rejoice to learn that his health has shown marked improvement since he has laid down the burdens of his Episcopal office. He plans a trip to Ireland in the near future. The Bulletin extends His Excel lency the best of good wishes on the occasion of his reaching the three score mark, and expresses the heartfelt and prayerful hope that he will be spared through many another joyous, blessed and fruitful decade with his re turn to perfect health as a spe cial intention in its prayerful hope. Savannah Rotarians Hear Bishop O’Hara His Excellency Outlines Or ganization of Church at Luncheon of Civic Club (Special to The Bulletin) SAVANNAH, Ga.—The Most Rev. Gerald P. O'Hara, D. D.. J. U. D., Bishop of Savannah, received a cor dial and enthusiastic welcome from the Rotary Club when he appeared before it February 4 to address it at a luncheon at De Soto Hotel.Mayor Thomas Gamble, Judge Arthur W. Solomon, chairman of the Chatham County Board of Commissioners and other Savannah leaders were special guests. Seated at the head table with Mayor Gamble, Judge Solomon and President Fred Davis of the Rotary Club were Judge J. P. Houlihan, Thomas F. Walsh, Jr., Judge John Rourke, Fred G. Doyle, John J. Bou han, Major Henry Blun, Col. John G. Butler, Wm. J. Bremer, Edward C. Brennan, and Cletus W. Bergen. Bishop O’Hara said that a speaker before a civic club is usually ex pected to discuss a subject about which he has some knowledge, and he therefore selected the Catholic Church as his subject. His Excellency ex plained the organization of the Church, from the parishes through the dioceses, provinces and the Pap acy itself, and outlined the functions of the various Roman congregations and the daily life of the Holy Father. He expressed his sincere appreciation of the kindnesses which Savannah had shown him and his great pleas ure at being sent to the Diocese of Savannah. Mr. Walsh presented Bishop O'Hara. BISHOP O’HARA VISITS BENEDICTINE SCHOOL His Excellency, Bishop O'Hara, on the occasion of his first visit to Bene dictine School was adopted as an hon- ory alumnus in the welcoming ad dress of the Very Rev. Boniface Bauer, O. S. B., prior of the Bene dictine Community, Cadet Mayor Ray delivered the address of welcome for the student body. The Cadets held a special drill at Forsyth Park in honor of the Bishop, and he and Capt. Stephen S. Koszewski professor of military science and tactics at the school, inspected the cadets. A re ception at the school followed, with the following program following the reception. The clergy of the city at tended. ST. VINCENT ALUMNAE WELCOMES BISHOP O’HARA The alumnae of St. Vincent Acad- ery welcomed the Bishop at a recep tion at the convent. Miss Margaret McNally, president, delivered the ad dress of welcome. The committee in charge of the reception was com posed of Miss McNally, Mrs. Joseph Alvarez, Mrs. J. M. Cox, Miss Mary Ellen Flynn and Miss Mary Miles. Miss Mary Hohenstein entertained with vocal solos, Miss Margaret Steeg being accompanist. Bishop O’Hara was the principal speaker at the Feb ruary meeting of the St. Vincent School P.-T. A. BISHOP TO DELIVER SERMONS DURING LENT His Excellency will deliver the Sun day evening sermons at the Cathedral, the subject of the series to be “Matri mony”. The Rev. Harold J. Barr, rector of the Cathedral, will deliver the Wednesday evening series on “The Necessity of Religion." A. O. H. AUXILIARY ENTERTAINS BISHOP Bishop O’Hara was the guest of honor and principal speaker at the February meeting of the Ladies’ Aux iliary, A. O. H„ Mrs. Claudia Gan non delivering the address of wel come. Father Daniel Bourke was named chaplain of the Auxiliary to succeed Father James H. Conlin. who has been appointed pastor of St. An thony’s Church, Atlanta. BISHOP VISITS SEVERAL CITIES OF HIS DIOCESE During the past several days Bishop O’Hara has visited Macon, Atlanta. Rome, Athens, Washington. Augusta, Milledgeville and other places in the diocese, visiting the schools and in stitutions.