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THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
MARCH 28, 1936
Bishop O’Hara, John Moody Address Savannah C. L. A. Meet
MATERIALISM BASIC
COMMUNISTIC ERROR
MR. MOODY ASSERTS
Bishop Warmly Endorses Ef
forts of Laymen’s Associa
tion and Commends Hope
for Weekly Bulletin
(Special to The Bulletin)
SAVANNAH, Ga. — The Most
Rev. Gerald P- O’Hara, D. D., J. U.
D., Bishop of Savannah, made his
first appearance and delivered his
first address before a Catholic Lay
men’s Association audience at a local
meeting of the Savannah branch
here Sunday, a meeting at which the
principal lay address was delivered
by John Moody, K. S. H. S., of New
Yorb, distinguished financial au
thority and writer and one of the
country’s outstanding Catholic lay
men. The meeting was one of the
finest local meetings in the history
of the Laymen’s Association, and
was held in the spacious hall of the
Catholic Association building.
Judge James P. Houlihan, presi
dent. of the Savannah brach of the
Laymen's Association presided, and
President Alfred M. Battey of the
state association and Richard Reid,
publicity director, addressed the
meeting informally and briefly, their
reports to the Savannah branch hav
ing been made at the time of the
sta convention ther in October.
Thomas F. Walsh, Jr., introduced
Mr. Moody-
Mr. Moody, who is an old friend
of the Laymen’s Association, the
principal speaker at the great Au
gusta conention in 1934, whose book,
“The Long Road Home”, written
shortly after his entering the Church
a few years ago is regarded as one
of the classics of its kind, took as
his subject “The Everlasting Man”,
man's immortal soul.
Mr. Moody analyzed Commun
ism, saying that it is based strictly
on materialism, that man is merely
material and that he has his begin
ning and his end on this earth. Be
cause the man on the street does
not know the fundamental fallacy
behind Communism, he does not
know how to oppose it, Mr. Moody
said, and he pointed out that the
only successful way in which to
combat this materialism and its
fruits, the titalitarian state and
Communism, is by opposing to it the
fact of the immortality of the soul.
The movement and spirit and phil
osophy of Communism and its kind
red evils can be effectively opposed
only by a movement with this fun
damental fact as its basis.
The Catholic Laymen’s Association
of Georgia is distinguished through
out the United States for its activi
ty for the diffusion of Christian,
Catholic principles and the spirit of
good will, Mr. Moody said, and he
referred to the honor which the
University of Notre Dame has con
ferred on its publicity director that
day in the awarding of the Laetare
Medal to him.
Bishop O’Hara also referred to the
awarding of the Laetare Medal to the
publicity director of the Catholic
Laymen's Association of Georgia and
expressed his happiness at the fact
that its recipient was on Savannah
for this meeting on the occasion of
its announcement. He requested the
audience to rise in tribute to the
Laetare Madalist. It was recalled
that eight years ago when Col. Jack
J. Spalding, K. M., K. S. G., was
awarded the medal, he was also in
Savannah when the announcement
came.
Recalling the remarks of Mr. Bat
ty and the publicity director on the
hope of the Association that The
Bulletin will become a weekly.
Bishop O’Hara said that the South
east needs a strong Catholic week
ly such as The Bulletin would be,
and he urged increased support of
the Laymen’s Association in order to
make this hope possible. His Excel
lency referred to the reputation
which the Laymen's Association has
throughout the nation and expressed
the hope that it will continue to
grow and flourish, asked for contin
ued and increased support from the
people of Savannah and Georgia for
it, and begged God’s blessing on its
efforts, its work and its members.
Mrs. Moody, who was in Savannah
with her husband, was a guest of
honor at the meeting and was pre
sented by Bishop O'Hara to the
audience, which rose in tribute to
her. Mr. and Mrs. Moody were ten
dered an informal reception by Mrs.
John 3. Howkins at her home after
the meeting, with Bishop O’Hara
and Judge Samuel B. Adams as
guests of honor.
MSGR. MICHAEL J. READY, as
sistant general secretary of the Na
tional Catholic Welfare Conference,
told the Senate Committee on Immi
gration that the N. C. W. C. en
dorses the Coolidge-Kerr Immigra
tion Bill as “just and humane.” The
Federal Council of the Churches of
Christ, the Y. W. C. A. and the
Council of Jewish Women also en-
.jdnrsed the bilL
Supreme Knight Speaker in
Columbia, Atlanta, Memphis
Attack on Religion in Mexico Part of World-Wide Move
ment Inspired by Soviet, He Declares
Dedication April 26
of LaGrange Church
Bishop O’Hara to Officiate.
Edifice on Athens Missions,
Father King Pastor
Martin H. Carmody, Supreme
Knight of the Knights of Columbus,
came to the Southeast early in
March and delivered notable ad
dresses under the auspices of the K.
of C. Councils at Columbia, S. C.,
Atlanta, Ga„ and Memphis, Tenn.,
his addresses being preceded and
followed by others in other states.
Mr. Carmody emphasized the prob
lem presented the nation by the sit
uation in Mexico, where he said that
the right to religious liberty, the ba
sis and foundation of all other rights,
is being attacked as a part of a world
wide movement based on the pre
mise that there is no Supreme Be
ing, no God. He traced the connec
tion between the movement in Mex
ico and Soviet Russia, and said that
despite this connection we are ask
ed to extend the hand of fellow
ship to the government of the South
ern Republic. The Knights of Colum
bus do not demand or ask or want
intervention on the part of our gov
ernment, but he said, do wish to direct
the attention of the American peo
ple to the situation so that public
STJOSEPH SISTERS
RECEIVED, PROFESSED
Two Nuns Complete and One
Starts Novitiate at Augusta
AUGUSTA, Ga. — Miss Isabelle
Gallagher, of Atlanta, was received
as a Sister of St. Joseph and given
the name of Sister St. John, and
Sister Annunciata Leslie of Oxford,
Mass., Sister Dolores Marie Kude,
of Chicago, and Sister Mary Louise
Herman, of Augusta, were professed
at impressive ceremonies on the
Feast of St. Joseph’s here.
The Rev. J. E. O'Donohoe, S. J.,
pastor of Sacred Heart Church, was
celebrant of the Mass, and the ser
mon was delivered by the Rev. P. J.
O'Connor, of St. Mary’s-on-The-Hill.
Present at the Mass and ceremony
were the Rt. Rev. Msgr. James A.
Kane. V. F., the Rev. J. J. Kennedy,
the Rev. M A Cronin, S. J., and the
Rev. George Laugel, S. M. A., Au
gusta, and the Very Rev. James T.
Reilly, S. M., and the Rev. Edward
P. McGrath, S. M., Atlanta.
The flower girls for the ceremony
were the Misses Dorothy Armstrong,
Rose Mary and Louise Brittingham,
Margie and Kay Cashin. Alice Er-
bclding, Agnes Markwalter, Mary
McDonald, Catherine Stulb and
Mariam Weigle.
The day of the ceremony was
doubly memorable at Mt. St. Jo
seph's, because it marked also the
silver jubilee of the Rev. Sister Bir-
gitta, mistress of novices.
REV. HUGH FARRELLY
IS DEAD IN FLORIDA
Death Comes Suddenly to
Beloved Pastor in 39 th
Year
(Special To The Bulletin)
LORETTO, Fla.—The Rev. Hugh
Farrelly, pastor of St. Joseph’s
Church here, died suddenly her® last
week of a heart attack. Father Far
relly was found dead in bed by par-
ishoners who came to the rectory
when he did not appear in the church;
he died suddenly during the night.
Father Farrelly was born at Long
ford, Ireland, 37 years ago, and made
his studies there, being ordained in
Waterford. He came to the Diocese of
St. Augustine and was first appoint
ed assistant pastor at Coral Gables; he
was named pastor at Loretto five
years ago. Father Farrelly was be
loved by his parishoners here and by
the others who came in contact with
him and his sudden death at such an
early age is a source of heartfelt re
gret and keen sorrow to them.
The Most Rev. Patrick Barry, D. D.,
Bishop of St. Augustine, officiated at
the funeral of Father Farrelly here,
assisted by clergy from every section
of the Diocese. Interment was in Lo
retto Cemetery.
Abbot Vincent Back
From Visitations
Was Official Visitor to Ala
bama, Florida and
Bahamas
BEILMONT, N. C.—The Rt. Rev.
Vincent Taylor, O.S.B., D.D., Ab-
bot-Ordianry, of Belmont, has re
turned from an official visitation
with Abbot Alcuin, president of the
American Cassinese Congregation of
Benedictines, to St. Bernard’s Abbey,
Alabama, St. Leo's Abbey, Florida,
and the Benedictine Abbey in the
Bahama Islands.
sentiment will require our govern-
mnt to make representations to the
Mexican government “such as have
been made on many occasions to
other nations in the past.”
In Columbia, where Richard T.
Maher is grand knight, Supreme
Knight Carmody was tendered a
luncheon which was attended by
Governor Olin D. Johnston and Dr.
L. B. Owens, Mayor, and by the
state officers of the Knights of Co
lumbus. Judge John I. Cosgrove pre
sented Mr. Carmody. who also dis
cussed with state officers here the
“F o r w a r d” movement of the
Knights.
IN ATLANTA Mr. Carmody was
greeted by State Deputy J. M. Jones,
Grand Knight John J. Bradley and
state and local officials, and his ad
dress was received as -enthusiastical
ly as in Columbia. From Atlanta he
went to Memphis, these being three
of the one hundred key cities in
which he is making the address on
Mexico and conferring with the
Knights on the “Forward” move
ment.
SISTERS OF MERCY
FINISH NOVITIATE
Six Savannah Young Women
Professed in Baltimore
SAVANNAH, Ga— Six young Sa
vannah women were among the six
teen novices who made their Reli
gious Profession as Sisters of Mercy
in the Providence of Baltimore at
Mount St. Agnes, Mount Washing
ton, Maryland on the morning of
March 12.
The newly professed included Sr.
M. Incarnata, who were Miss Gene
vieve McDonald and Sr. Maria del
Rey, Miss Mary Trapani, graduates
of St. Vincent’s Academy; Sr. Cor-
nile Marie, Miss Lucile Dulohery,
Sr. Mary Silvana, Miss Irene Zeig-
ler, and Sr. M. Gratiana, Miss Helen
Sumner, nurses of St. Joseph’s Hos
pital, Savonnah, and Sr. Mary Gil
bert. Miss Angela Maggioni, alumna
of Mount de Sales Academy, Macon,
Go.
Two and a half years ago, these
aspirants entered the Novitiate of the
Sisters of Mercy to begin their train
ing as religious teachers and nurses.
Upon the completion of the time of
prohibition, they were accepted as
members of the Order of Mercy and
accordingly pronounced the vows of
Poverty, Chasity, and Obedience.
The two young girls of Savannah
recently entered the religious life,
Miss Helen Dunn, who became a
postulant at Mount St. Agnes novi
tiate, and Miss Helen Brown who be
gan her training as a Litle Sister of
the Poor, in Baltimore.
M. J. CALLAGHAN IS
MACON C. L. A. HEAD
Re-elected President of the
Branch at Annual Meeting
MACON, Ga.—Martin J. Callaghan,
who has served valiantly and effec
tively in that capacity for several
years, was elected president of the
Catholic Laymen’s Association here,
and J. C. Sanders was named first
vice-president, at a meeting in the
Catholic Club house.
Other officers named included
Frank Burch, second vice president;
Mrs. Herman Huhn, third vice pres
ident; Mrs- W. C. Sherrer, fourth
vice president; R. Habenicht. Casson,
secretary; Miss Julia McCreary,
treasurer; and T. J. Murphy, cor
responding secretary.
An executive committee was also
named br the group. It includes A.
A. Benedetto, Dr. W. D. Wells, Mrs.
J. D. McMurray, Raymond McDon
ald, Mrs. Regis Lomax, Mrs. J. V.
Sheridan, Mrs. R. F. Wynn, Jr., and
Miss Genevieve Wejsz.
The election meeting at Macon fol
lowed the anual report meeting re
corded in the recent issue of The
Bulletin, at which the state officers
outlined the work during the past
year and the plans for the year to
come.
The committees responsible for the
success of the annual meeting, which
was addressed by Father Peter Mc
Donnell, S. J., pastor, with Haber-
nicht Casson presiding, included Mrs.
Regis Lomax, chairman, with Mrs.
M. J. Callaghan, Mrs. A. A. Bene
detto, Mrs. E. A. Sheridan, Mrs. R
F. Wynne, Jr., Mrs. J. D. McMurray,
Mrs. Herman Huhn and P- J. Mur
phy as members of the committee
on reception, Mrs. S. Giglio and Mr.
Casson, music committee, Mrs. W. C.
Shafer and Miss Rosa Lee, refresh
ments, Mrs. Q. R. Nolan decorations,
and the Misses Mary and Gertrude
Benedetto, Agnes and Mabel McNe-
lis, Anne McGouldrick, Mary Rogero
and Katherine McNelis assiting with
the refreshments. . ,. .
(Special to The Bulletin)
ATHENS, Ga.—Georgia’s new
est church, at LaGrange on the
Athens missions of which the
Rev. James E. King is pastor,
will be dedicated April 26 by the
Most Bcv. Gerald P. O’Hara,
J. U. D-. Bishop of Savannah,
Father King announces. The Ath
ens missions stretch from Suth
Carolina to Alabama across
North Central Georgia, and the
new church at LaGrange will
serve the LaGrange-West Point
territory adjacent to Alabama.
This is the second church to be
erected on the Athens missions
by Father King in recent years;
not long ago Bishop Keyes dedi
cated St. Michael’s at Gainesville.
In both LaGrange and Gaines
ville thee hurches are the first
in the history of the city. The
next issue of The Bulletin will
feature the LaGrange church and
the Athens missions.
BISHOP KEYES LOSES
RROTHER IN IRELAND
Oldest of Family Dies in
Kerry at Age of Eighty
News has been received of the
death at Dingle, Kerry, Ireland, Sun
day of Mr. John Keyes, the oldest
brother of the Most Rev. Michael J.
Keyes, D. D., retired Bishop of Savan
nah, and The Bulletin extends to
Bishop Keyes and to his relatives its
heartfelt sympathy. Mr. Keyes was
one of the most highly respected men
in Dingle and Kerry; he was about
eighty years old at the time of his
death. Surviving him are ten chil
dren, nine of whom are in the United
States.
Bishop Keyes, who has been in New
York visiting Father James Halligan
since his retirement, will leave for
a visit to Ireland within the next
several days. The death of Mr. Keyes
• is rendered the more poignant to
Bishop Keyes by the fact that he an
ticipated visiting him in the immedi
ate future.
BISHOP COMMENDS
BOY SCOUT EFFORTS
In Letter to Diocesan Chair
man His Excellency Ex
presses Hope for Extension
SAVANNAH, Ga.—In a letter to
John S. Robertson, Jr., chairman of
the Diocesan Committee on Scout
ing, the Most Rev. Gerald P. O’Hara,
D. D., J. U. D., Bishop of Savannah,
expresses his pleasure at the recent
meeting in Savannah to promote
Scouting among Catholics, and ex
presses the hope that Scouting will
be extended in the parishes of the
state. His Excellency’s letter to Mr.
Robertson follows:
“Dear Mr. Robertson:
“ It was a pleasure to attend the
recent meeting held in Savannah for
the purpose of promoting interest in
the Boy Scout Movement in this city;
I was happy to notice the presence
of so many priests and laymen.
“I gladly seized that opportunity to
speak in behalf of the Boy Scout
movement, which, I feel confident,
can be made productive of much
good in the religious formation of
youth, and particularly in places
where we have no parochial schools,
it will bring boys into closer con
tact with the Church, and is calcu
lated to build up strong character
by the civilization of the natural
and supernatural virtues-
“I should like to see a troop of Boy
Scouts in as many parishes as can
possibly arrange it.
“With kindest personal regards and
every good wish, I remain, dear Mr.
Mr. Robertson,
Faithfully yours in Christ,
GERALD P. O’HARA
Bishop of Savannah.”
Meetings similar to that in Savan
nah were held in Atlanta, Augusta
and Macon, and plans are already un
der way there and in other places for
the formation of troops. Patrick
Walsh Council, Knights of Columbus,
is arranging to sponsor a troop at St.
Joseph’s Home, Washington, Ga., co
operating with Father Thomas I.
Sheehan, manager of the home.
PRESIDENT DE VALERA, of the
Irish Free State, lost his third son,
Brian, in a riding accident in Phoe
nix Park, Dublin, recently. Brian
was twenty years old. Among the
messages of sympathy received were
those from the Holy Father, King
Edward VIII and Lord Craigavon,
Premier of Northern Ireland.
GENERAL, SENATOR,
FR. BURKE SPEAK AT
CHARLESTON DINNER
Annual Dinner of Hibernian
Society One of Most Bril
liant of Series
BISHOP WALSH CELEBRANT
OF MASS AT PHILADELPHIA
(Special to The Bulletin)
CHARLESTON, S. C. — The
Most Rev. Emmet M. Walsh, D.
D„ Bishop of Charleston, was
celebrant of the Pontifical
Mass at St. Patrick’s Church,
Philadelphia, on St. Patrick’s
Day, His Eminence, Dennis
Cardinal Dougherty, Arch
bishop of Philadelphia, presid
ing. The sermon at the Mass
was delivered by the Rev.
Joseph A. M. Quigley of St.
Charles Borromeo Seminary,
Overbrook, Pa.
(Special to The Bulletin)
CHARLESTON, S. C.—Major-Gen
eral Johnson Hagood, U. S. A., a
native of South Carolina, U. S.
Senator Thomas F. Gore, of Oklahoma
and the Rev. Edmund Burke, of
Charleston, were the speakers at the
136th annual Hibernian Society din
ner the chief social event in the ob
servance of St. Patrick’s Day.
Father Burke, assistant pastor of
St. Patrick's Church, responded to
the toast “The Day We Celebrate”.
General Hagood’s subject was “South
Carolina” and Senator Gore’s “The
United States.” The dinner was one
of the most brilliant of the magnifi
cent series; Former Mayor John P.
Grace of Charleston, president, pre
sided, and was re-elected at the an
nual meeting.
FATHER WOLFE SPEAKER
AT COMMUNION BREAKFAST
The annual Communion of P. N.
Lynch Council, Knights of Columbus,
was held at Sacred Heart Church,
March 15, with the Rev. Henry F.
Dolfe, pastor, as celebrant of the
Mass, assisted by the Rev. John
Guinea, aFther Wolfe addressed the
250 memheirs who attended the Com
munion breakfast, and Judge John
I. Cosgrove also spoke; Simon Fog
arty, general chairman, presided.
COUNCIL OF CATHOLIC
WOMEN HOLDS MEETING
Mrs. Ella M. Hurley presided at
the monthly meeting of the local
Council of Catholic Women, at which
plans for participation in the Dioce
san convention at Anderson were
made. Reports were made by Mrs.
Hurley and Miss Margaret Speis-
segger of the child welfare commit
tee, Mrs. Andrew J. Riley read a
paper on “Catholic Action”, and Mrs,
J. Albert Von Dohlen reported on the
Reciprocity Day meeting of the Fed
erated Clubs at Walterboro.
JUNIOR COUNCIL OF
N. C. C. W. IN MEETING
Mrs. Jennings Cauthen, president
of the Junior Council of Catholic
Women, presided at the monthly
meeting of the Council, at which
plans for the second annual Com
munion and Communion breakfast
Sunday, April 5, were made.
DEATH CLAIMS WIDELY
KNOWN CAROLINIANS
Death in recent weeks has claimed a
number of widely known Charles
tonians and South Carolinians.
MISS CELIA EMMA BRUX, a
native of Augusta and a member of a
leading Charleston family, died last
week at the age of 69. Miss Brux
was a member of Cathedral parish
and active also in the Daughters of
the Confederacy.
MRS. ANN JANE CAREY, a mem
ber of St. Mary’s Church, died early
in March. She was well-known in
the parish and city.
MRS. CATHERINE MANSFIELD,
a member of Cathedral parish, died
late in February. Mrs. Mansfield was
the wife of John G. Mansfield.
JOHN JOSEPH KEANE, a member
of St. Patrick’s Church died here last
week. Mr. Keane was a World War
veteran and for a number of years
connected with the local postoffice.
CHARLES FRANCIS LYNCH, a
member of St. Joseph’s Church, is
another well-known member of the
parish recently claimed by death.
MRS.. INEZ ST. CLAIR McMAHON.
wife of Francis A. McMahon, died
here late in February; she was an
active member of St. Mary’s Church.
MISS GENEVIEVE TIGUE, a well-
known member of St. John’s Church,
Summerville, died early in March.
JAMES E. McQUADE, of the
Georgetown parish, who retired re
cently after 42 years with the Marine
Dredge and Construction Co., died
early in March at Georgetown.
JAMES P. MEEHAN, well-known
in Sumter, Charleston and Columbia,
and a member of the Sumter parish,
died recently in Birmingham, where
he was visitin ghis brother.
JAMES ELLIOTT DARBY, leading
business man of St. Matthew’s, S.
C., died .after a brief illness. The
Rev. Thomas A. Cronin, C. SS. R., of
Orangeburg, officiated at the funeral
services. ,