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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. 7 AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, JULY 25, 1936 ISSUED MONTHLY—$2.00 A YEAH Bulletins A RELIGIOUS CENSUS of the na tion will be taken this year by the Bureau of Census, funds being al located for the work for the presi dent. FATHER SCHULTE, who recently arrived in Montreal on his way to or ganize the “aerial missions” in North western Canada, has left for the mis sions in the first of two planes which Will serve the vast territory. ..ARCHBISHOP HINSEEY of West minster has been awarded the honor ary degree of Doctor of Literature by the University of London. THE DOMINICAN Republic has renamed the town of Bonao“Monse- nor Nouei” in honor of the former Archbishop of Santo Domingo. CARDINAL MacRORY, Archbishop Of Armagh, in a recent address di rected attention to the fact that al though Catholics have a majority of 9,000 in Derry, arrangements have been made by the government to gerrymander it in such a way as to give them half as many seats in the council as the minority. SPEAKERS at Institutes of Human Relations at Estes Park, Col., Apple- ton, Wis., and Lakeville, Conn. ; with in the next few weeks will include Bishop Vehr of Denver, George N. Shuster of The Commonweal, Dr. John A. Lapp, the Very Rev. Michael J. O’Connell, C. M., president of De- Paul University, the Rev. Michael Ahearn, S.J., of Weston College, and others equally notable. QUEEN MARY recently visited St. Mary’s Training School conducted by the Vincentian Fathers near London; the visit was a surprise one. TWO SOLEMN MASSES Sunday, August 2, will open the three-day meeting of the National Conference of Catholic Charities in Seattle. Several Bishops will attend; Bishop Gerald Shaughnessy is host to the convention. THE HOLY NAME Society conven tion in New York September 17-20 will have its headquarters at the Waldorf-Astoria, the convention of ficials announce. ....“IGNATIUS LOYOLA”, a life of the founder of the Society of .Jesus, by the Rev. Robert Harvey, Protestant minister at Fort Garry, Winnipeg, Canada, has just been published by the Bruce Publishing Co. The fore word is by the Rev. Joseph Husslein, S.J., general editor of the Science and Culture of series. SAN ANTONIO will be host to the 81st annual convention of the Central Vcrcin September 13-16. His Excel lency, the Apostolic Delegate, three Archbishops and three Bishops have expressed their intention of attending. “THE RIM OF CHRISTENDOM”, by Herbert Eugene Bolton, a story of the early labors of the Catholic missionaires on the Pacific Coast, is the July choice of the Catholic Book Club. Dr. Bolton, professor of his tory at the University of Southern California, is not a Catholic. Noted Layman James F. McCarthy,’ of Wallace, Idaho, a leader in the mining in dustry, who has been chosen to receive the DeSmet Medal for 1936, from Gonzaga University, Spokane. The medal is presented each year to a Catholic layman for distinguished service to Church and State in the North west. Tom Meighan, Idol of Films, 57 y Dies Funeral Held From St. Pat rick’s Cathedral, N. Y. NEW YORK—Solemn funeral ser vices were held in St. Patrick’s Cathe dral here for Thomas Meighan, an idol of the American movie-goer in the old silent picture days. Mr- Meighan, 57, died at his home, Grenwolde, Great Neck. He had re ceived the last Sacraments a week before. A native of Pittsburgh, Mr. Meighan was prominent on the stage before entering the films. His greatest Hollywood success was ‘The Miracle Man”. After the talking picture was introduced, he made several “come back” attempts with success. He was stricken with pneumonia in Hollywood in January, 1935, under went an operation for a bronchial tube obstruction a year ago, and be came ill again last month. Survivors are his widow, Mrs. Frances Ring Meighan three brothers, and two sisters. Spanish Radicals Destroyed '■160 Churches Since Feh, 16 BY REV. MANUEL GRANA (Madrid Correspondent, N. C. W. C. News Service) MADRID.—The interpellation put to the government by the Catholic De puties Gil Robles, Galvo Sotelo and Ventosa Calvell, who denounced the burning of churches and other vandal acts before the Cortes, has produced a salutary ^effect elsewhere notwith standing the fictitious parliamentary triumph of the Popular Front. The terrible statistics divulged by Gil Ro bles, which censorship had kept out of the press, has agitated the govern ment itself, overflowing as it is with extremist elements unwilling to obey the dictates of their own followers. Since February 16, this year, Gil Robles informed the Cortes, 160 churches have been destroyed; at tempts have been made to burn or otherwise destroy 251 churches; 10 Catholic publishing plants have been destroyed and attacks made on 33 others, 260 persons have been killed and 1,287 injured; personal aggressions have been made upon 215 and actual attacks upon 138 others. These and other equally disturbing facts are the figures presented to the Cortes by Gil Robles, all of them revealing the in efficiency of the government. While Gil Robels was speaking in fire Cortes, a group of strikers were attacking a store in the center of Madriad. The proprietors could not defend themselves and, as usual, the police arrived upon the scene too late. There are times when the “Red Guard” prevents the functioning of the Civil Guard. Calvo Sotelo cited instances of great importance to the national order: Army officials dis missed or transferred to other posts by order of the Red Syndicate; strikers who refuse to supply coal for the Navy; Civil Guards locked up, some murdered, in the Casa del Pue blo (Communist center). What happened in the case of the nuns of Coruna is interesting. In the former city, they were ousted from the Provincial Hospital. In a few days employees of the Provincial Office went on strike and the sick were aban doned. The Provincial authorities ask ed the nuns to return to take charge of the sick “temporarily”. And since there were some deaths at the hospi tal, the Religious had to take charge of removing the bodies to the re spective homes of the dead. There was a similar incident in Valencia. The Board of Defense of Madrid, a most laic group, has given to the Municipal Council education statis tics and demanded that the teaching of religious be ended. According to those figures, there are still in the capital and vicinity 61,000 children without schools: Thus if the Catho lic schools are closed there will be in the streets 100,000 children withom educational facilities. To meet this, the socialist councillors ask 200 edu cational groups and 200 teachers. To pay for it, 8,000,000 pesetas will be re quired. , . .J, Holy Father Commends Legion of Decency as an Example to the World Number of Priests Accused by Nazis Now Dwindles to 18 His Holiness Issues En cyclical Lauding Movement and Urging Its Extension (Special Correspondent, N.C.W.C. News Service) AMSTERDAM. — What will prob ably be the most serious decisions taken by the German Catholic Hier archy since the advent of the Nazi regime in Germany are expected to come up on the agenda of the forth coming annual meeting of all the' German Bishops at Fulda. The meet- ting, which will begin the first week of August, may this time be attend ed by His Excellency the Most Rev. Cesare Orsenigo, Apostolic Nuncio to Germany. Now that the propaganda wave em anating from the Ministry of so-call ed ‘Popular Enlightenment” in Ber lin, which is headed by Dr. Joseph Goebbels, a born Catholic, but an apostate, has somewhat subsided, it is ciear the press reports concerning the alleged guilt of 276 Franciscan friars were grossly exaggerated. The Most Rev. Rudolf Bornewasser, Bishop of Treves, has just been able to report personally to the Holy Father of the results of his pertinent investigation, which, incidentally, be gan many weeks before the Nazi po lice opened their campaign of vilifi cation. The Nazi police confiscated some confidential documents in connection with their search of monasteries said to have been involved in illegal cur- FATHER GANNON NEW FORDHAM PRESIDENT Father Hogan Named Dean of Georgetown University Graduate School (By N. C. W. C. News Service) NEW YORK— The Very Rev. Robert I. Gannon, S. J., became President of Fordham University late in June, succeeding the Very Rev. Aloysius J. Hogan, S. J., whose six-year term of office has been completed. Father Hogan has been appointed Dean of the Graduate School of Georgetown University, Washington, D. C. Father Gannon comes to Fordham from St. Peter’s College, Jersey City, where he has been Dean. He taught at Fordham in the Graduate School. He is a native New Yorker, having been born at St. George, Staten Is land, 43 years ago. Father Gannon graduated from Loyola School, New York, George town University, entered the Society of Jesus in 1913, and was ordained in 1926. Like his predecessor Father Hogan, who received his Ph. D. De gree at Cambridge University, Eng land, Father Gannon was sent abroad after his ordination and male special studies in educational methods at Oxford, Cambridge, the Sorbonne, and the Universities of Perugia and of Louvain. Among his several degrees are that of Master of Arts from Cambridge and Doctor of Sacred Theology from Woodstock College, Maryland. Cuthbert Wright Is Received Into Church Noted Author and Educator Is Son of Minister (By N. C. W. C. News Service) EMMITSBURG, Md. — Cuthbert Wright, noted author and member of the faculty at Mount St. Mary’s Col lege, has been received into the Catholic Church by the Rev. J. Leo Barley, pastor of St. Anthony’s Shrine here. Professor Wright was confirm ed by the Most Rev. John M. McNa mara, Auxiliary Bishop of Baltimore, on the occasion of His Excellency’s recent pastoral visit to the college. Professor Wright was born in El mira, N. Y., where his father, a “High Churchman”, was the rector of Grace Episcopal Church. Later his father became pastor of the old and historic St. Peter’s Church at Freehold, N. J. rency transactions. These documents referred to disciplinarian action of a strictly ecclesiastical nature against a few misguided members of one or two religious orders, such action hav ing been taken by their Superiors some time before the Nazi police even knew about it. On the basis of these confidential documents, however, the Nazi police started criminal proceedings against the Rhineland friars, at the same time announcing in public, with a tremendous amount of sensational publicity, that hundreds of religious were involved, and implying that practically all religious orders were corrupt and degenerate. In the meantime it has been defi nitely established by the church au thorities that only 45, not 276, friers were actually arrested, that 27 of them are absolutely innocent and were taken into custody only to be used as witnesses against their 18 fel low religious, while others were ac cused of alleged political transgres sions and are in no way linked up with “immoral practices.” In addition, to understand fully the scandalous proceedings, it is impor tant to know that the witnesses against the defendants are recruited almost exclusively from among the feeble-minded patients entrusted to their care. MSGR. MONAGHAN IS CONSECRATED BISHOP Seton Hall President Be comes Coadjutor at Ogdensburg NEWARK, N. J.—An Archbishop and 24 Bishops were present at the solemn consecration of the Most Rev. Francis Joseph Monaghan, formerly president of Seton Hall College, as Titular Bishop of Mela and Coadju tor Bishop of Ogdensburg in Sacred Heart Cathedral here June 29. The Most Rev. Thomas J. Walsh, Bishop of Newark, officiated at Bish op Monaghan’s consecration. The Most Rev. Joseph H. Conroy, Bishop of Ogdensburg, and Bishop McLaughlin were the co-consecrators. The Rt. Rev. Msgr. John J. Murphy, rector of Sacred Heart Church, Vailsburg, Newark, preached the sermon. Among the 25 members of the Hier archy in attendance were Bishop Em met M. Walsh, of Charleston; Bishop Gerald P. O’Hara, of Savannah; Bish op William L. Adrian, of Nashville, and Bishop Peter L. Ireton, coad jutor of Richmond. (Cable, N. C. W. C. News Service) VATICAN CITY—Utilizing the for mal and impressive medium of an Encylical Letter, His Holiness Pope Piux XI has bestowed high praise on the crusade against immoral motion pictures conducted under the leader ship of the American Hierarchy; has expressed a wish for its continuance; and has called upon the Bishops of the entire world to take similar action, exercising “painstaking vigi lance over the motion pictures” for the protection of the morality of their people. His Holiness has then laid down “certain practical indications” which are to guide them in this work. The Encyclical is addressed “the Archbishops and Bishops of the United States of America, and to other Ordinaries enjoying peace and communion with the ApostoUc See.” It begins with a high laudation of the efforts put forward by the Hierarchy of the United States for the promotion of clean motion pictures, particularly the successful crusade of the Legion of Decency. It concludes by outlining a method of procedure in all nations that parallels the steps taken by the American Bishops. “It is an exceedingly great comfort to Us to note the outstanding success of the crusade”, His Holiness tells the Archbishops and Bishops of the United States in referenc to their own effors. Stating that it is “one of the su preme necessities of Our time to watch and to labor to the end that the motion picture be no longer a school of corruption but that it be trans formed into an effectual instrument for the education and elevation of mankind,” the Encyclical adds that “there must be no weariness in com batting whatever contributes to les sening the people’s sense of decency and honor.” Making it clear that the obligation in this respect extends not only to the Bishops, but also to priests and to the faithful, Pope Pius XI emphasizes the fact that the efforts exerted in this undertaking must be under the direc tion of the Bishops. Much of the Encyclical is devoted to a clear and telling exposition of the tremendous potentialities of the motion picture today for good or evil, with insistence that the world be saved from the moral evil possible in motion pictures. In giving “practical indications” for the guidance of Bishops throughout the world, Pope Pius XI sets down methods which already have been adopted by the Bishops of the United States and which are in practice in that country. These include: Establishment by the Bishops in each country of a permanent national (Continued on Page Three) Invocation of Bishop Lamb at Democratic Convention Following is the text of the invo cation delivered at the formal open ing of the Democratic National Con vention. in. Philadelphia, Tuesday, June 23, by the Most Rev. Hugh L. Lamb, Auxiliary Bishop of Philadel phia, in which capacity he succeeded Bishop Gerald P. O’Hara, now ol Savannah. (By N. C. W. C. News Service) In this solemn hour with the eyes of the nation fixed on this assembly, we humbly bow before Thee. O God of Wisdom, and we pray to Thee for help and guidance. Fully aware of the limitations of our human know ledge, we turn to Thee for light from on High so that the deliberations of this convention may be for Thy greater glory and for the welfare of our beloved country. Thy guiding Hand was with our fathers when, long ago, they pledg ed their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor, in the struggle for freedom; and Thy wisdom in spired their minds when, in this city of Philadelphia, they proclaimed to the world the immortal Declaration of Independence. Down through the years Thy lov ing Providence has helped us to pre serve the ideals of our founders and to make America the land of justice and freedom, and land where there is liberty without license, and au thority without despotism. We are grateful to Thee O God of Our Fathers, for Thy help in the days that are past; and we humbly beseech Thee to be with us still as we face the problems of the present and the difficulties of the uncertain future. Our ship of state is sailing over troubled waters with dark clouds hanging over it and angry waves and treacherous currents threatening its safety. This great assembly of the Demo cratic Party has gathered here to nominate a captain for that ship of state and to chart a course which will bring the vessel with its preci ous cargo of human lives safely into the harbor of peace and prosperity. O God of Light and Father of Mercy, be with us in this hour of need and help those assembled dele gates to sleet for this grave responsi bility a man of character and courage whose name will fill the great heart of America with hops and confidence,