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JULY 25, 1936
THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
FIFTEEN
MURDERS DISAPPROVE
CLAIMS OF MEXICO
The Catholic World
BISHOP TURNER OF
BUFFALO DIES AT 65
Priests Assassinated, Prop
erty Seized as Americans
Laud Government
(From N. C. W. C. News Service)
While Ambassador Josephus Daniels
and other United States officials, in
cluding Vice-President Garner, Sena
tor Connally, of Texas and Senator
McAdoo were in Mexico extolling the
government there for the peace,
tranquility and progress of the na
tion, the newspapers of the country
were recording the assassination of
priests, the arrest of Catholic 'aymen
on suspicion of being “Cristeros”, the
teaching of communistic doctrines in
the schools by order of the govern
ment, the killing of alleged rebels
in Guadalajara, Monterey and Tam
pico, and other indications of con
ditions contradicting the thesis of the
addresses of the officials of the
United States.
ARCHBISHOP VALENCIA of
Durango has vigorously protested to
the government the execution of two
of his priests by federal troops and
the disappearance of four laymen be
lieved to have been executed. The
priests were Father Benjamin Guz
man and Father Rafael Aguilar, kill
ed without even any pretext.
TWENTY-FIVE MOTHERS called
to a school at Villaneuva and cen
sured for refusing to send their chil
dren to socialistic schools were ar
rested when they refused to yield,
fined 200 pesos, and kept in jail five
days when they would not or could
not pay.
THE ORPHANAGE at Tacubaya in
the Federal District, used by Sisters
to assist the homeless, has been seiz
ed by the government and the chil
dren there left without homes. Ca
tholic families in the neighborhood
are caring for them.
AT ACAMBORO, in Juanajuato,
the municipal authorities seized the
parish church and informed the
pastor that he must pay rent, and
at an exhorbitant figure- Refusing to
pay the rent he has been arrested
several times on various charges, in
a patent effort to drive him from the
parish an to leave the people without
a pastor or priest.
AT JOJUTLA, in Morelos, the
parishioners learning that their pas
tor was about to be seized by the
government ,have set up a guard at
the church, and trouble is anticipated
if the attempt to carry out the plan
is continued. No charges have Deen
made against the priest, the Rev.
Cyril Sanchez.
NATIONALIZATION of church
property continues, the latest victims
including Bishop Angeles, retired
Bishop of Chilapa, whose home left
to him by his mother has been appro
priated by the government.
THE BISHOPS of Mexico in their
recent pastoral pointing out the part
that the Church has played through
the centuries in the protection of the
people and their material as well as
spiritual advancement have refuted
the assertions of the “liberal” leaders
who promise prosperity for the peo
ple and then proceed to make them
selves wealthy.
THE UNIVERSITY of Mexico’s
head, Don Luis Chico Goerne, in a
recent address to the students, de
clared: “I am a Catholic.' Other Ca
tholics have not had the temerity to
make this declaration. I am a Catho
dic!” The students applauded him
vigorously. “Shall I retire?” he ask
ed. "No,” they shouted. The Uni
versity Council gave him a vote of
confidence, 40 to 22.
Catholic Book Club
Lauds Georgia Novel
Newsletter Commends ‘Gone
With, the Wind’ ‘Whose
Background Is So Catholic’
The Newsletter of the Catholic
Book Club of New York commends
“Gone with the Wind”, the July
“Book of the Month’’, by Margaret
Mitchell Marsh of Atlanta. The News
letter says:
“Lengthy and justly laudatory re
views are greeting this novel whose
background is so Catholic. Only some
one bred in the Southern tradition
could re-create the Atlanta of the
Civil War so realistically that we, of
another age, find ourselves living and
talking and sympathizing with its cit
izens—and sharing the burden of
Scarlett O’Hara, whom he met on her
way to her first party—pretty, self-
willed, slightly vain—and see for the
last time as a Sfelfish, successful, yet
disappointed woman.
"With a merciless insight into char
acter, Miss Mitchell shows the blight
ing effect of the bitter poverty of Re
construction days upon a nature not
fine enough to endure. One by one,
the ideals of her early home and re
ligion are sacrificed to the necessity
of the moment, till nothing remains
but an unconquerable physical cour
age,—a gallant quality which noth
ing could tarnish.
“Not a book for the immature,
but one whose inverse Catholicism
has much of Mauriac in it, and which
will prove a practical test for the
aesthetic theories expressed in ‘God
and Mammon.’ ”
CAMPION HALL, the new study
hall for the Jesuits at Oxford, was
opened early in July by the Duke
of Berwick and Alba.
MSGR. M. S. GARRIGA, pastor of
the Church of St. Cecelia at San An
tonio, Texas, has been appointed Co
adjutor to the Most Rev. Emmanuel
E. Ledvina of Corpus Christi. Mon
signor Garriga was bom in 1886 at
Point Isabel, Texas.
THE CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA
is to issue a revised “Bishop Shahan
Memorial” edition in honor of the late
rector of the Catholic University of
America.
A CATHOLIC CULTURE Guild has
been formed in San Francisco under
the patronage of Archbishop Mitty,
to foster a fuller understanding and
deeper appreciation of Catholic art,
thought and life, to safeguard and
promote the spiritual interests ‘ of
Catholic students at public institu
tions, and to maintain cultural cen
ters from which these activities will
radiate.
FATHER WILFRID PARSONS, S.J.
who recently retired as editor of
AMERICA, has been named a lectur
er at the graduate school of George
town University.
THE MARYKNOLL Foreign Mis
sion Society is holding a general
chapter in Hong Kong, the chapter
opening July 16. It was necessitated’
by the death of the co-founder and
first superior-general, Bishop James
Walsh.
DELEGATES from sixty Catholic
Youth organizations attended the
Youth Institute conducted at the Na
tional Catholic School of Social Ser
vice at Washington, D. C., under the
auspices of the National Council of
Catholic Women.
POPE PIUS XI received 200 Bishops
and 60 superiors of religious congre
gations, including the entire Italian
episcopate, in solemn audience late in
June. His Eminence, Dennis Cardinal
Dougherty, Archbishop of Philadel
phia, was also present.
FATHER JOHN O’CONNOR of
Bradford, who received Gilbert K.
Chesterton into the Church, was cele
brant of the Memorial Mass for the
great apologist at Westminster Cath
edral, London. Father O’Connor was
the original of the famed Chesterton-
ian character, Father Brown.
THE C. D. OF A. national officers
and directors will hold their semi
annual meeting at Atlantic City Au
gust 7-8.
CLEVELAND’S great National Eu
charistic Congress of last September
is being commemorated by a souve
nir volume, the first issue of which
was recently presented to Bishop
Schrembs.
DUBUQUE will be host to a con
vention of the Catholic Boy Scouts
chaplains October 13-15. It will be the
third annual convention.
V
VILLA NOVA’S new football coach
is Maurice J. Smith, formerly head
coach at Santa Clara University, Cal
ifornia. He succeeds Harry E. Stuhl-
dreher, who goes to the University of
Wisconsin. Lawrence Shaw, assistant
at Santa Clara, succeeds Coach
Smith. All three are Notre Dame
alumni.
THE UNIVERSITY of Wisconsin
has awarded the honorary degree of
Doctor of Laws to Father Francis J.
Haas, Ph.D., rector of St. Francis
Seminary, formerly director of the
N.C.C.W. Social Service School,
Washington, D. C., noted sociologist.
BISHOP JAMES II. RYAN of Oma
ha, formerly rector of the Catholic
University of America, delivered the
baccalaureate sermon at the Univer
sity of Nebraska exercises at Lincoln.
ST. PETER’S at Rome and the Cas
tle of St. Angelo will afford views of
each other through a new city pro
ject approved by Premier Mussolini
and the Holy Father, work on which
will start October 28.
MSGR. JOS. H. McMAHON, one of
the most beloved priests of the Arch
diocese of New York, pastor of Our
Lady of Lourdes Church, observed
the golden jubilee of his ordination
in June.
COMMISSIONER FRANK MUR-
phy of the Philippines, formerly gov
ernor-general and the first to occupy
his present post, was "awarded the
honorary degree of Doctor of Laws
by Loyola University of Los Angeles
in June.
• —
THE HOLY FATHER has named
two new members of the Sacred Col
lege of Cardinals, Monsignor Giovan
ni Mercati and Monsignor Eugene
Tisserant Vatican librarians.
SISTER ANTONIO McHUGH, pres
ident of the College of St. Catherine,
St. Paul, was honored with the degree
of Doctor of Laws by the University
of Minnesota at the recent commence
ment.
THE CENTENARY of the ordina
tion of Venerable John Nepomucene
Neumann. C.SS.R., fourth Bishop of
Philadelphia, recalls the distinguish
ed virtues of this saintly prelate, de
clared heroic December 11, 1921, by
His Holiness Pope Benedict XV.
MSGR. LEO BINZ, pastor of St.
James’ Church, Belvedere. 111., has
been appointed secretary of the Apos-
Blessed by Pope ~
Rachel K. McDowell, religious
news editor of “The New York
Times,” who has received the
Apostolic Benediction and an ex
pression of appreciation from His
Holiness Pope Pius XI, for her
booklet, “My Audience With the
Holy Father.” Miss McDowell, a
non-Catholic, wrote her article
originally for “The Catholic
News” of New York, but because
of its great interest it was re
printed widely.
tolic Legation at Washington, D. C.
Monsignor Binz was ordained in
Rome in 1924; he is a native of Stock-
ton, 111.
ARCHBISHOP MITTY of San
Francisco will lead a group of clergy
and laity from his archdiocese to the
International Eucharistic Congress at
Manila February 3-7, sailing from San
Francisco January 7, on the Tatsuta
Maru.
FATHER WILLIAM J. WALSH,
Ph.D., Scranton, Pa., has been named
director of Catholic Charities for the
Diocese of Seattle by Bishop Gerald
Shanughnessy, S. M.
SEATTLE will be host to the an
nual convention of the National Con
ference of Catholic Charities August
2-6.
REV. DR. J. F. BRACQ has been
named assistant to the Rev. Francis J.
Deery, editor of the Providence Visi
tor, official organ of the Diocese of
Providence.
THOMAS C. O’BRIEN, vice presi
dential nominee on the Union Party
ticket, has for years been an active
Vincentian in Boston, past grand
knight of Brighton Council, K. of C.,
and noted for his activities for social
justice. He succeeded Joseph Pelle
tier as District Attorney of Suffolk
County, and later headed Boston’s pe
nal department by appointment of
Mayor Peters.
THE THIRD ORDER of St. Francis
will meet in its third national con
gress in Louisville, Ky., October 6-8,
with ‘The. Message of St. Francis for
Our Times” or “Charity Through Self
Imposed Economic Moderation” as the
central theme.
REV. JOHN G. P. EWENS, C. M.,
widely known member of the Vin
centian Order, is dead in Philadelphia
at 71. Father Ewens was born in Ul
ster, Ireland, the son of an Anglican
minister, and was himself a minister
of the Protestant Episcopal Church
when he became a Catholic in 1908.
REV. JOSEPH J. BOYLE, C.S.C.,
president of the University of ’Port
land, and for many years a leading
member of the faculty of the Univer
sity of Notre Dame, died at Portland,
Ore., early in July at the age of 54.
THE CATHOLIC SUMMER School
at Cliff Haven, Lake Champlain, N.
Y., is now conducting its fifty-fourth
session.
ARCHBISHOP RUMMEL of New
Orleans recently confirmed a class of
fifteen patients at the National Lep
rosarium, including one girl of twen
ty-two in quarantine at the institu
tion. Those confirmed ranged in age
from six to sixty-five years.
REV. A. M. O'KEEFE. O. Praem.,
rector of St. Norbert’s College, Wis
consin, and a captain in the Organiz
ed Reserves, was re-elected national
chaplain of the Reserve Officers of
America at the annual convention
held recently in Springfield, Mass.
BISHOP JOHN A. DUFFY of Syra
cuse was named spiritual director of
the Knights of St. John and the La
dies’ Auxiliary at the biennial con
vention at Columbus, Ohio. Col.
Frank H. Biel of Rochester, N. Y., was
elected president, succeeding Henry
A. Leusch of Cleveland. Mrs. Teresa
Ganster of Rochester, president of the
auxiliary for twenty-six years, was
re-elected.
ARCHBISHOP .VILLERABEL of
Rouen, about whom there has appear
ed exaggerated stories in the Ameri
can press, has retired from his See
and been named titular Archbishop
of Militene, a title previously held by
Cardinal Baudrillart previous to his
elevation to the Sacred College.
PETER JOHN VENIOT. former
Prime Minister of New Brunswick
and former Postmaster-General of
Canada, has just died at the age of
72. Mr. Veniot was Postmaster-Gen
eral in the cabinet of Premier King of
Canada for about five years previous
to 1930.
REV. J. F. KELLEY. PH.D., has
been named president of Seton Hall
College, South Orange, N. J., suc
ceeding Bishop Francis J. Monaghan,
coadjutor of Ogdensburg. Dr. Kelley,
who is 34, and the youngest college
president in the United States, was
educated at Seton Hall, the University
of Louvain, the University of Lille
and the Sorbonne in Paris. He re
ceived his degree of Doctor of Philo
sophy from Louvain with highest
honors.
REV. D. J. KELLEY, editor-in-chief
of the Catholic Week of the Diocese
of Birmingham lost his father by
death early in July. Mr. Kelley, a
resident of Wilmington, Mass., was
active for years in the textile busi
ness. He was a brother-in-law of the
Rt. Rev. Msgr. E. J. Hackett, V.G., of
the Diocese of Mobile.
DR. MICHAEL FALLON, K. S. G.,
one of the leading surgeons of New
England, died late in June at his
home in Worcester, Mass. For many
years Dr. Fallon was chief of staff at
St. Vincent’s Hospital in his home
city-
MSGR. FRANCIS MACELWANE
has been appointed by Bishop Alter
of Toledo, president of the new De
Sales College there.
ARCHBISlfOP DOWNEY, of Liver
pool, who has been visiting in the
United States, sailed last week for
England.
MAYOR MANSFIELD of Boston
presented the Holy Father with a
clock in the name of the city. The
clock works through atmospheric
pressure. Mayor Mansfield was a
member of a pilgrimage from Bos
ton.
CARDINAL BINET, Archbishop of
Besancon in France, who died last
week, was three times decorated for
his service during the war. As Bishop
of Soissons he rebuilt 200 of the 4000
churches destroyed in that Diocese
during the war.
SENATOR MURPHY’S
DEATH LAMENTED
He Was Credit to Church and
Country, Archbishop
Beckman Says
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
DUBUQUE, Iowa. —United States
Senator Louis Murphy, who was
killed in an automobile accident
and whose funeral took place here
July 20, was “a credit and honor
both to Church and country,” the
Most Rev. Francis J. L. Beckman,
Archbishop of Dubuque, declared in
a tribute to the late statesman.
Archbishop Beckman pontificated
at the Solemn Mass of Requiem at
St. Mary’s Church here. Senator
Murphy was all his life a member
of St. Raphael’s Cathedral Parish,
Dubuque, but redecorating opera
tions made it impossible to hold the
funeral there. The Rev. Dr. Mau
rice S. Sheehy. assistant to the rec
tor of the Catholic University of
America, preached the sermon.
Senator Murphy's mother, Mrs.
Anna White Murphy, was a native
of Ireland. His father, the late Wil
liam S. Murphy, was born in Penn
sylvania .
The Senator was at the time of his
death Honorary President of the
Washington Chapter of the Friends
of Columbia College, Dubuque, con
ducted by priests of the Archdiocese
of Dubuque. He had announced the
intention of enrolling his eldest son,
Charles, at the college in Septem
ber.
The Rev. Paul Pitzenberger, pastor
of St. Paul’s Church, Bloomer, Wis.,
administered the last rites of the
Church to Senator Murphy while
he was still copscious, shortly before
his death.
THE HOLY FATHER has appoint
ed three new native Chinese Bishops,
Monsigner Paul Yu Pin. Vicar-Apos-
tolic of Nanking, Mons’gnor Joseph
Tchnng, Vicar-Apretclie of Sunanh-
p.-rfti,. rad. Monsignor. Fabian Yn
Tchgucn, Vicar-Apostolic of Yachow.
Famed Scholar Volunteered
as Seminarian to Labor as
Priest in Florida
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
BUFFALO. — The death here July
10 of the Most Rev. William Tur
ner, sixth Bishop of Buffalo, removes
from the ranks of the Hierarchy in
the United States one of its most dis
tinguished scholars. Bishop Turner
had been ill with a heart ailment for
several months. He was 65 years of
age.
Bishop Turner was a native of Kil-
mallock, County Limerick, Ireland,
where h e was born April 8, 1871. He
was the second son of Patrick and
Bridget Carey Turner, to whom four
sons and four daughters were bom.
All four sons and three of the daugh
ters entered religious life.
When he took the Bachelor of Arts
degree at the Royal University, Dub
lin. in 1888, Bishop Turner received
first honors in Philosophy. This dis
tinction, won at the age of only 17,
presaged the high place he was later
to hold in this field of learning. En
tering upon his studies for the priest
hood, for the Diocese of St. Augus
tine. the future Bishop received the
degree, Doctor of Sacred Theology, at
the North American College in Rome
in 1893, in which year he was or
dained. Archbishop Ireland then ar
ranged to have him join the faculty
of his seminary at St. Paul.
The following year, Father Turner
spent in study at the Institut Catho-
lique in Paris, and in 1894 he came
to the United States and became pro
fessor of Philosophy in St. Paul Sem
inary, St. Paul, Minn., remaining
there until 1906. It was during this
professorship that Bishop Turner
published, in 1903, "The History of
Philosophy”, which quickly won ac
ceptance as a textbook in many edu
cational institutions and won wide
spread recognition for its youthful
author. Another work, "Lessons in
Logic,” published in 1911, added still
further fame to Bishop Turner’s
name.
In the Fall of 1906 the future Bish
op joined the faculty of the Catholic
University of America. For nearly
13 years Dr. Turner was a member
of the university staff, resigning
early in 1919 to accept appointment
as Bishop of Buffalo. While occupy
ing the chair of philosophy at the
Catholic University, Dr. Turner also
became treasurer of that institution
and editor of its Bulletin. He was
also a member of the faculty of Trin
ity College, Washington, D. C„ and
lectured in the Brooklyn Institute of
Arts and Sciences in 1911, 1912 and
1913. He became editor of the Amer
ican Ecclesiastical Review in 1914. and
also served as associated editor of the
Catholic Historical Review.
When Bishop Turner was chosen
Ordinary of the Diocese of Euffalo in
1919. he succeeded Bishop, now Car
dinal, Dennis Dougherty, who had
been elevated to the Archdiocese of
Philadelphia. The late Cardinal Gib
bons officiated at Bishop Turner’s
consecration on March 30, 1919, and
His Eminence Patrick Cardinal Hayes,
Archbishop of New York, officiated at
his installation on April 10, of that
year.
In the decade after Bishop Turner
had been installed in this See, the
Diocese of Buffalo, there was an in
crease of 133 in the number of its
priests; 32 new parishes established,
and the number of pupils attending
Catholic institutions of learning of all
grades gained considerably. The or
ganization and advancement of Cath
olic Charities and the provision of
recreational facilities for Catholic
youths ox the See are among the oth
er outstanding accomplishments of
Bishop Turner.
Non-Catholics in great number join
with Catholics in mourning the pass
ing of Bishop Turner. He is hailed as
a great churchman, an outstanding
champion of learning, a valiant cru
sader for right, a great citizen, and
as one who “dwelt close to men and
understood their problems and com
plexities.” His Eminence Cardinal
Hayes presided at the funeral.
Fr. Braun’s Brother
Is Dead in New York
Florida Redemptorist Loses
One of Two Priest-Brothers
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
NEW YORK—The Rev. Lawrence
Braun, C. SS. R., assistant rector of
the Church of the Immaculate Con
ception, in the Bronx, one of three
brothers members of the Redemptorist
Congregation, died at the age of 39.
His death occurred on the thirteenth
anniversary of his ordination to the
priesthood. He was a native of
Buffalo.
His surviving elder brothers are the
Rev. John Braun, C. SS. R., of St.
James Church, Baltimore, and the
Rev. Michael J. Braun, of Our Lady
of Mercy Church. Ybor City, Fla.
Father Lawrence Eraun had served
for four years in St. James parish,
Baltimore.
FATHER MOSES McGARRY, C.
S.C., said to be the eldest member
of the Congregation of the Holy
Cress, is dead at Notre Dame Uni
versity at ninety. ,