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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. ,