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men’s Association
of Georgia.
'‘To Bring About
a Friendlier
Feeling Among
Neighbors Irre
spective of Creed”
VOL. XVII. No. 4.
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, APRIL 25, 1936
ISSUED MONTHLY—J2.00 A YEAR
Bishop Adrian Consecrated for See of Nashville
Bulletins
FLORENCE’S famous Cathedral
recently observed the fifth centen
ary of its consecration, Cardinal Del
la Costa, Archbishop of Florence,
being celebrant of the Mass and de
livering the sermon
THE CATHOLIC POETRY SO
CIETY will observe its fifth anniver
sary Sunday with a Mass of Thanks
giving at St. Leo’s Church, New
York.
ST. THOMAS MOORE is the sub
ject of “Tile King’s Good Servant,”
by Olive B. White, the April selec
tion of the Catholic Book Club.
MISS ROSE FOLEY, the oldest
member of the American colony in
Rome, died there early in April.
Miss Foley came to Rome after she
retired as a Boston school teacher
some years ago. The funeral was
held with a Requiem Mass at the
Paulist Church of Santa Susanna,
the Rev. Thomas L. O’Neill, C. S.
P., officiating.
DONALD MacLEAN, the father of
three priests and of three nuns, died
at Antigonish, N. S., last week. The
Rev. Dr. Donald A. MacLean, prof
essor of legal and social ethics at the
Catholic University of America, was
celebrant of the Requiem Mass for
his father, with his two brothers as
deacon and sub-deacon
REV. L. J. TIBESAR, O. F. M., of
Seattle, was named nresident of the
Ca'lio'ic Anthropological Conference
at that organization’s eleventh an
nual meeting at Fordham University
last week. Father Francis P. Le-
Euffe, S. J„ of “America” is vice-
president and the Rev. Dr. John M.
Cooper, of the Catholic University,
secretary-treasurer. The Rt. Rev.
Msgr. Joseph M. Corrigan, newly
appointed rector of the Catholic
University, was elected honorary
president.
ATLANTIC CITY will be host
May 24-30 to the sixty-third annual
meeting of the National Conference of
Social Work, of which the Very Rev.
Msgr. Robert F. Keegan, executive
director of the Catholic Charities of
the Archdiocese of New York, is
president. About 10,000 social work
ers from the United States and Can
ada are expected to attend.
JAPAN’S Premier has received a
goodwill message from the United
States signed by leading Americans,
Inducing Cardinal O'Connell, Arch
bishop McNicholas and Father
CTIara, president of Notre Dame
University.
CAPT. LEO REGAN, who single-
handedly quelled a riot between
American and British soldiers at
Winchester, in England, during the
World War. and was awarded the
British Military Cross, died in San
Antonio, Texas, last week at 45. Ma
jor-General John Biddle, provost
marshal of the American forces,
called Captain Regan's feat one of
the most remarkable of the war.
CARDINAL HAYES will be the
Catholic Hour speaker May 31, the
seventy-ninth birthday of His Holi-
nerr, Pope Pius XI. The program
will be broadcast over the National
Broadcasting Company from Station
WEAF and affiliated stations at 6 p.
m., daylight saving time.
College Will Honor
Gen. Paul Malone
St. Mary’s Labels Him Out
standing Catholic
(BY N. C. W. C. NEWS SERVICE)
SAN FRANCISCO. — General Paul
B. Malone, .whose retirement as com
mander of the Ninth Army Corps area
was announced here this month will
be awarded the Moraga Crest, given
annually by St. Mary's College for
outstanding Catholic service in con
formity with the European tradition
of culture.
General Malone, who saw distin
guished service in the World War has
been notable as a public speaker at
Catholic commencement and civic
celebrations held here since he was
assigned to the Pacific Coast area two
years ago. The award will be made
at graduation exercises, May 12.
General Malone, formerly com
mandant at Fort Benning, is widely
known to C. L. A. members whom he
has addressed.
BISHOTWALSHOF
MARYKOLL IS DEAD
Famed Missionary Associate
of Father Price inWork for
Church in China
(By N. C. W- C. News Service )
MARYKNOLL. N. Y.—The Most
Rev. James A. Walsh, M. M., Titular
Bishop of Siene and Superior General
of the Catholic Foreign Mission So
ciety of America, died April 14. He
was 69 years of age.
Funeral services for Bishop Walsh
were held in St. Patrick's Cathedral,
New York City. Burial was at the
Maryknoll Fathers’ headquarters
here.
Bishop Walsh, one of the best known
figures in the Catholic Church in
America, was co-founder of the
American Mission Society of which he
was Superior General- His elevation
to the Episcopacy, presumably in rec
ognition of his work in founding the
Maryknoll Fathers, took place in
Rome on June 29. 1933, exactly 21
years after the Maryknoll founders
obtained from the Sacred Congrega
tion for the Propagation of the Faith
the authorization to begin the pro
jected society. His Eminence Pietro
Cardinal Fumasoni-Bondi, Perfect of
the Sacred Congregation for the prop
agation of the Faith and former Apos
tolic Delegate to the United States,
was the consecrating prelate.
Bishop Walsh was born at Cam
bridge, Mass., on February 24, 1867. He
was graduated from the Boston Col
lege and attended Harvard University
in 1885-1886. He pursued his studies
for the priesthood at St. John’s Sem
inary, Brighton, Mass., and was or
dained to the priesthood in 1892. After
11 years of parish work at St. Patrick’s
Church, Roxbury, Mass., he became
the Director of the Pontifical Society
for the Propagation of the Faith for
the Archdiocese of Boston. This po
sition gave him a fuller appreciation
of Mission needs and he began to
think of an American Seminary for
Fereign Missions to enlarge the part
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Sisters of Saint Joseph’s
Centennial in U. S. Marked
(BY N. C. W, C. NEWS SERVICE)
ST. LOUIS. — High praise for the
achievements of the Sisters of St.
Joseph of Carondelet was voiced by
the Most Rev. Christopher E. Byrne,
Bishop of Galveston, in his sermon
at the Solemn Pontifical Mass at the
New Cathedral commemorating the
Order’s centenary. The Most Rev.
John J. Glennon, Archbihhop of St.
Louis, was the celebrant of the Mass.
The Archbishop also spoke.
Bishop Byrne traced in detail the
work done by the Sisters in this
country from the time of the arrival
of the original band of six nuns from
France, “who came one hundred
years ago, and devoted themselves
between Carondelet and Cahokia,
smiling, crying, fearing, daring, but
over all winning and triumphing un
til today the six are thousands, and
the log hut of the little French vil
lage is become the stately convent
in the bosom of a great city, its walls
bear marks of time and storm and
fire, but, plainly reflect the beauty of
the lives within.
“In reverence we stand to call the
names of Carondelet. Sister Febronie
Fontbonne, Sister Delphine Font-
bonne, both nieces of the great Moth
er St. John Fontbonne. Sister Mar
guerite Felicite Boute. Sister Febronie
Chappellon, Sister Saint Protais De-
boille, Sister Philomene Vilaine.
“From humble beginnings little
might, in human calculation, be ex
pected. But the spirit of the found
ers was of more than natural nobility;
they were possessed of the nobility of
grace, and strengthened in the bless
ing of God. They turned to the wil
derness and the impassable ways to
seek their road of progress.
“It is significant that orphans were
among their first charges; that the
Negro won their sympathy; and that
they carried on their finger tips the
silent language that reached the mind
and heart of the deaf and dumb.”
Bishop Adrian’s Installation
at Nashville Cathedral May 6
—Courtesy of Davenport Catholic Messenger
The Most Rev. William L. Adrian, D. D., Bishop of Nashville, who was
consecrated at Sacred Heart Cathedral, Davenport, Iowa, April 16, will be
installed at the Cathedral of the Assumption, Nashville, as the successor of
the late Most Rev. Alphonse J. Smith, D. D., Wednesday, May 6, Bishop
Adrian was celebrant of Pontifical Mass for the first time last Sunday in
the parish church at Victor, Iowa, where he was pastor, and he confirmed
in the church a class which he had prepared for the Sacrament as the
parish priest.
BISHOP PETERSON
HEADS EDUCATORS
Succeeds Bishop Howard of
Covington, Who Was Pres
ident for Seven Years
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
NEW YORK.—With the Apostolic
Blessing of His Holiness Pope Pius
XI, the thirty-third annual meeting
of the Nattional Catholic Education
al Association and its departments
was concluded here April 16 after
three days of discussion on current
Catholic educational problems.
The Holy Father’s blessing was re
ceived bv His Eminence Patrick Car
dinal Hayes, Archbishop of New
York and host to the 2,000 Catholic
educators, representing 10,000 col
leges, seminaries, and schools in the
United States, who attended the
meeting.
St. Patrick's Cathedral was crowd
ed with more than 5.0C0 persons
twice during the meeting, when the
meeting was inaugurated. Tuesday,
with the opening Pontifical Mass, and
again today during the closing cere
monies. Featuring today's ceremonies
was a procession to the Cathedral of
2,500 clergy, seminarians, nuns, fac
ulty members and students of educa
tional institutions in this Archdiocese.
An official statement condemning
attempts at Federal control of educa
tion in this country was issued by the
National Catholic Educational Asso
ciation prior to the close of the meet
ing.
While nearly every major field and
problem of Catholic education was
touched on at the meeting, speakers
turned their big guns on Communism
and other subversive influences, and
on trends towards governmental
control of education in the United
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K. of C. Convention
Will Be in Toronto
CHICAGO. —The fifty-fourth an
nual supreme convention of the
Knights of Columbus will be held at
Toronto, Ontario, August 18. 19 and
20.
The invitation to hold the annua!
gathering in the Canadian city was
accepted by the Supreme Board of
Directors at their quarterly meeting
here.
VATICAN CITY.—The reports
carried abroad by secular news
papers that His Holiness Pope
Pius XI is “sick”, “in failing
health” and “causing concern” to
those near him are regarded here
as being ridiculous.
His Holiness is in absolute good
health. On Holy Saturday the
Holy Father received and ad
dressed 4,000 people. Easter Sun
day he spent two hours visiting
the work being done in prepara
tion for the World Catholic Press
Exhibition which is to open here
next month. Each Monday, he
received at least a thousand per
sons, among whom were S'ster
Theodosia of Rosary College, Riv
er Forest. 111., and six students of
that institution who are now tak
ing courses at Fribourg, Switz
erland.
VATICAN CITY. — His Holiness
Pope Pius XI used French and Ger
man phrases alternately in .a dis
course he delivered to some 4,000 pil
grims whom he received in audience
Easter Saturday. Among the pil
grims were 1-500 Germans. 700 Hun
garians, 550 Frenchmen, 150 Austri
ans. 70 Czechoslovakians and 25 Hol-
1 landers.
NEARLY 40 BISHOPS
ASSIST AT CEREMONY
IN DAVENPORT, IOWA
Apostolic Delegate Officiates
—Bishops Rohlman and
Kiley Co-Consecratois
Archbishop Howard
Delivers Sermon
Zeal in Charity Character
istic of New Bishop
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
DAVENPORT, la; — With almost
two score of the Members of the
Hierarchy present, the Most Rev.
Williaqi L. Adrian, former Vice-
President of St. Ambrose College
here a ' for the last 15 months pas
tor of St. Bridget’s Church, Victor,
la.. as consecrated Bishop of Nash
ville in the Catnedral of the Sacred
Heart Aoril 16, Bishop Adrian’s 53rd
birthday. Four hundred priests at
tended.
His Excellency th Most Rev. Am-
leto Giovanni Cicognani, Apostolic
Delegat - to the United States, was
the consecrator and the co-consecra-
tors were the Most Rev. Moses Ki
ley, Bishop of Trenton, and the Most
Rev. Henry P. Rohlman, Bishop of
Davenport. The Meet Rev. Edward
D. Howard, Archbishop of Portland,
Ore., delivered the sermon.
Among those at the consecration
was Mrs. Paulus Adrian, 83, the
mother of Bishop Adrian.
Archbishop Howard, who formerly
was Auxiliary Bishop of Davenport,
i aid tribute to Bishop Adrian, whose
promotion, he said, has come to him
after 25 years of “faithful and dis
tinguished service.”
Dwelling at length on the duties of
Bishops and the trials that have con
fronted them through the ages since
the time of the Apostles, Archbishop
Ho./ard stressed their teaching mis
sion and added:
“The conditions of the modem
world have not lightened the burden
of Bishops in respect to their teach
ing mission. The world is flooded
with false and immoral teaching
which is depriving the young, un
dermining the family and making
marriage the most sacred of all com
pacts, the mere plaything of sensu
alism and caprice. With the loss of
faith in a Divine Christ, moral prin
ciples lose their authority and pre
cision; irreligion extinguishes piety,
and the soul forsakes the fountains
of the Saviour, which alone can gen
erate moral power.
“When Satan betrayed our first
parents he deceived them with an
alluring lie, telling them that they
would be as gods. The promise was
not kept. They forfeited the blessed
ness of Paradise and brought upon
themselves and their posterity a her-
Pope Pius expressed great joy in
receiving such a large number of his
spiritual children representing so
many different countries. He blessed
the pilgrims with particular refer
ence to the Easter solemnities, invit
ing all to respond to the divine de
sire and to adopt the program of new
spiritual life proposed by Our Lord
with the Resurrection. His Holiness
rejoiced particularly in the proposal
of the German pilgrims, who promis
ed a staunch defense of Catholic fam
ily life and faithfulness to God, to
Church and to country.
While the Holy Father recommend
ed his audiences on Holy Saturday,
there were no special ceremonies in
the Vatican on that day. The Most
Rev. Agostino Zampini, Vicar Gen
eral of His Holiness for Vatican City,
blessed the Papal apartments and the
apartments of His Eminence Eugenio
Car’inal Pacelli. Papal Secretary of
State. Father Fattorini. an Augustin-
ian and parish priest, blessed the es
tablishments of Vatican City.
The solemn Pontifical Mass in St.
Peter’s Basilica Easter Sunday was
sung by Cardinal Pacelli. The Pala
tine Guard Band gave an Easter Sun
day concert in the courtyard of St.
Damasus.
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Holy Father in Good Health
Despite Published Reports