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AUGUST 22, 1936 THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA SEVEN ► Bishop Gunn Consecrated Twenty-Five Years Ago i PASTOR AT ATLANTA BISHOP OF NATCHEZ FOR THIRTEEN YEARS Had He Lived, This Would Be Silver Jubilee Year of Beloved Marist Prelate Twenty-five years ago this month, on August 29, 1911, the Very Rev. John E. Gunn, S. M., pastor of Sacred Heart Church, Atlanta, and one of the most beloved of the Marist Fathers, was consecrated Bishop of Natchez at Sacred Heart Church in Atlanta, one of the few times when a Bishop has been consecrated in this country outside a Cathedral or Epis copal City. For nearly thirteen years he labored without ceasing for the upbuilding of the Church in Mississippi, and twelve years ago, worn out with his toil, he was called to his reward amid mourn ing which hung like a pall over the Church in the entire South. Bishop Gunn was born in County Tyrone, Ireland, March 15, 1863, and therefore died in the vigor of his man hood. He was the eldest of eleven children, and was educated at St. Mary’s Dundalk, 1875-1880, in Paign ton, South Devonshire, England, 1880- 82, and in the Gregorian University in Rome, where he was ordained to the priesthood February 2, 1890. Coming to the United States, Dr. Gunn was appointed to the faculty of the new House of Studies of the Marist Fathers, of which society he was a member, at the Catholic Uni versity of America, Washington, D. C., and he remained there in that capaci ty until appointed pastor of Sacred Heart Church, Atlanta, in 1898, suc ceeding Father William Gibbons, S. M., the first pastor. In Atlanta Dr. Gunn did magnifi cent work. He erected the church, founded the college, of which he was president, extended and deepened the work of his predecessors, and built up in the city a spirit of good will to ward Catholics which is effective to day, and which was invaluable in the days when bigotry ran rampant in the state. The Holy See on June 29, 1911, ap pointed Dr. Gunn, Bishop of Natchez, succeeding the late Bishop Thomas Heslin; Bishop Gunn was consecrated August 29 of that year by the Most Rev. James M. Blenk, S. M., D. D., then Archbishop of New Orleans, with the late Most Rev. Edward P. Allen, D. D., Bishop of Mobile, and the Most Rev. John B. Morris. D. D., then as now, Bishop of Litle Rock as co-consecrators. He was installed at the Cathedral at Natchez September 14. Bishop Gunn’s first step was to be come acquainted with his people, and he traveled the state from end to end, meeting them and observing their needs. Additional churches and chap els were a great need, and he under took to provide them; during his years in Mississippi twenty - six new churches and chapels were built, some of them replacing older churches, but most of them providing edifices in places which had never had them be fore. He increased the number of priests, erected parochical schools, strengthened existing institutions, and renovated the Cathedral, its rectory and schools. An eloquent speaker, a man of deep learning, wtih a gentle, kindly, friendly character. Bishop Gunn soon made a deep impresison on the state, and the respect of all classes ripened into affection. He was be loved throughout the state by Cath olic and non-Catholic, and this af fection of the state placed new bur dens upon him, new demands for his talents, which he did not hesitate to assume. About 1920, his health began to fail, but he did not spare himself, forcing himself to efforts to sustain the works he had inaugurated. His health grew worse, but still he la bored, bringing his episcopal minis trations to every comer of the dio cese. On Thanksgiving Day, 1923, the Knights of Columbus had a great state banquet in Jackson and he was asked to attend and deliver an address. His physicians had warned him of the danger of any ac tivity, but he attended the dinner and delivered the address, as he had numerous others in the days of his failing health. It was one of his last public appearances; soon after wards he was forced to retire to Hotel Dieu in New Orleans, and here on February 19, 1924, he passed to his eternal reward. Bishop Gunn was always a warm friend of the Catholic Laymen’s As sociation of Georgia. At the Jack- son Knights of Columbus dinner in 1923, at which an official of the Lay men's Association spoke of the work, Bishop Gunn told of the growth of prejudice in Georiga, of the organization of the Association and of the character and calibre of the men who organized to meet the threat of prejudice. To his dying day he loved Georgia and particu larly Atlanta, but he could not pos- The Catholic World J. LEWIS MAY, noted English au thor, has been received into the Catholic Church in London. His reception took place quietly and has escaped notice until now. BROTHER GALLIMARD, of the Brothers of Christian Doctrine in France is still teaching near Paris at the age of 96; he started his teach ing career 77 years ago. NINETEEN different Catholic Ac tion activities of the Central Verein of America will be reported on at the 81st annual convention in San Antonio September 13-16. Several Archbishops and Bishops will attend the convention. THE CENTRAL VEREIN has 75,- 000 members and financial backing of over 5285,000. built up since its foundation in 1855. MONSIGNOR CASHIN, pastor of St. Andrews’ Church in New York, will lead a pilgrimage to the Thirty- Third International Eucharistic Congress in Manila February 3-7. THE C. D. OF A. pilgrimage, headed by Miss Mary C. Duffy, su preme regent, will sail on the same ship as Monsignor Cashin’s party, from New York early in January on the S. S. President Jefferson. THE PARIS World Exhibition next year will have a Catholic pa vilion, its authorities announce. LOYOLA UNIVERSITY of Chi cago, awarded 47 Bachelor and 37 Master of Arts degrees at summer school exercises July 30. The Very Rev. Edward V. Stanford, O. S. A., president of Villanova College, de livered the commencement address. THE KING OF BELGIUM by de cree has barred from admisison to the country more than a dozen Pari sian magazines on the ground that they are licentious. MRS. MARY A. PARKER, a nurse trained by Florence Nighten gale, and King George’s nurse when he was a boy, is dead at Hurstpier- point, Sussex, England, at 89. Mrs. Parker was a life-long Catholic. MSGR. MARTIN JOHNSON, of the newly created Diocese of Nelson, British Columbia. Bishop- elect Johnston, a native of Toronto, is 37 years old. edward McIntyre, vice-presi dent and manager of the publishing company of the Syracuse Catholic Sun, died in July at 52. Mr. McIn tyre was formerly connected in ex ecutive capacities with the Syracuse Daily Telegram, the Worcester Daily Gazette, the New Haven Daily Reg ister and other leading newspapers. RICHARD S. GRIMM, a sudent for the priesthood in the Holy Cross Order, which conducts Notre Dame University, plunged into Deep Creek Lake near Deer Park, Maryland, and rescued ten-year-old Eugene Sheldon Legget, Jr., whose father, was a former president of the Na tional Press Club. The youngster was in a boat with companions when a storm capsized it. Other Seminarians assisted Mr. Grimm in the rescue. TWENTY BISHOPS and Arch bishops will attend the fourteenth annual convention of the National Catholic Rural Life Conference, to be held in Fargo, N. D., the week of October 11. NOTRE DAME University will honor the memory of the late Fath er John W. Cavanaugh, C. S. C., formerly president of the Univer sity, with a large dormitory, work on which has already been started on the campus. Father Cavanaugh died in 1935; he was president from 1905 to 1919. FATHER ADALBERT,. 40 - year - Capuchin missionary from Canada, laboring in Ethiopia, was killed by pillaging natives 200 miles southwest of Addis Ababa, the Canadian gov ernment has informed Father Adal bert’s superiors at Ottawa. Brother Benoit, his companion, was left for dead. Father Adalbert was born in Montreal. THE HOLY FATHER, through the Papal Secretary of State, has ex pressed to King Edward VIII of England, through the British Lega tion to the Holy See, congratula tions on His Majesty's escape from grave danger when the apparent at tempt on his life was frustrated. CARDINAL DOUGHERTY, Arch bishop of Philadelphia, has been sued for 5200.000 by Joseph Ruther ford and the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society because the Ruther ford broadcasts have been rejected by Station WIP here. sibly have loved them more than the thousands and tens of thousands he had endeared himself to in Atlanta and Georgia loved him. Twenty-five years out of Georgia and twelve in the grave, the memory of Bishop Gunn is still as fresh in the memory of countless Georgians as if the passing years were weeks, 0GDENSBURG COADJUTOR The Rt. Rev. Francis J. Monaghan, D. D., formerly President of Seton Hall College, South Orange, N. J., who has been consecrated Titular Bishop of Mela and Coadjutor Bishop of Orangeburg in New York, Bishop Monaghan, who is 45, was ordained at St. John Lateran, Rome, in 1915, and has performed priestly duties in the Diocese of Newark. CARDINAL CAREJEIRA, Patri arch, of Lisbon, in Portugal, offi ciated at the solemn Mass at Oak land, Cal, on the occasion of the six hundredth anniversary of the death of St. Elizabeth, Queen of Portugal. THE REV. DR. EUGENE DEVAUD, a member of the Faculty of Letters, has been named rector of the University of Fribourg, in Switzerland. SHIRLEY TEMPLE, child motion picture actress, vacationing in the Northwest, met Sister Martina, of Los Angeles, a Maryknoll delegate to the Catholic Charities Conference, and an old friend at whose school she had entertained the pupils. She accompanied Sister Martina to the convention and made her first pub lic speech there, saying: “I am hap py to be here, and thanks for the pretty badge.” VERY REV. P. M. BRESNAHAN, O. S. M., is again provincial of the American Province of the Order oi the Servants of Mary, with the Rev. Jerome DePencier, O. S. M., editor of Our Lady of Sorrows Magazine and vice-president of the Catholic Press Association, as vice-provincial. Headquarters are in Chicago. CHURCHES are eligible for loans from the Federal Housing Adminis tration up to 550,000 through a re cent amendment of the National Housing Act, officials announced. The money must be used for “mod ernization” such as repairs, altera tions of additions; loans cannot be made for the erection of new churches. The former limit was $2,000. BY GEORGE BARNARD (London Correspondent, N. C. W. C. News Service) LONDON—An Anglican Bishop has withdrawn an attack on the Holy Father in which he said the Pope had not “dared to say a word in condem nation of the Italian ggression of Abyssinia”. He is Dr. A. W. F. Blunt, Bishop of Bradford. In his attack on the Pope he said also that the Holy Father “al though no longer a prisoner of the Vatican seems to have imprisoned his mind”. A reporter, armed with clippings from Catholic sources visited tbe Bishop, who read the reports of speeches by the Pope. Afterwards the Bishop said: “Of course we only see what the newspa pers choose to give us, and we can only go by them. I know quite well that the newspapers often misrepre sent what a man says—it has hap pened to me”. Dr. Blunt admitted to the reporter that, according to the evidence just shown him, the Pope had not ignored the matter, though he thought the Pope should have been “more spe- specific”. At the end of the interview the FATHER WILFRID PARSONS, S.J. former editor of “America”, now pro fessor of political economy at George town University, told the Institute of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia that there is no hope for us if in modern times our American sys tem of government is not compatible with social justice. SISTER HELEN LALINSKY of the Catholic Medical Missionaries, Wash ington, D. C., has completed her course in medicine at the Women’s Medical College and her internship at Misericordia Hospital, Philadelphia, and has been awarded the degree of Doctor of Medicine. She has been as signed to the Society’s hospital at Ra walpindi, India- BISHOP DESCHAMPS, Montreal auxiliary? offered the invocation at the dedication of the Canadian Me morial at Vimy, in the presence of King Edward VII and of President Albert Lebrun. THE TYROL Passion Play in the Tyrolese village of Thiersee is being presented this summer to large audi ences. The play is a development of the Procession Plays first presented at Bozen in 1341. FOUR PHILADELPHIA priests and three laymen have been honored by the Holy Father. The Rev. Vincent L. Burns, rector of St. Charles Bor- romeo Seminary, the Rev. James E. Heir,* Pottsville, the Rev. Edward Hawks, Philadelphia, and the Rev. J. Carroll McCormick, chancellor, are named Rt. Rev. Monsignori, and Matthew J- McClosky, Jr., Col. Vin cent A. Carroll and Furey Ellis are created Private Chamberlains of the Cape and Sword. BROTHER ANDRE, founder of the famed St. Joseph’s Oratory in Mon treal, observed his 91st birthday Au gust 10. SENATOR JAMES BYRNES of South Carolina was among the recent speakers at the Catholic Summer School at Cliff Haven, N. Y. FATHER JULIUS DILLON, O.F.M., a native of Hartford, Conn., where he was born 39 years ago, has been named Prefect Apostolic of the njw prefecture of Shasi, Hupeh, China. Father Julius has been laboring in this district since 1932. MISS MARY O’FLAHERTY, Hart ford, Conn., president of the Hart ford Diocesan Council of the Nation al Council of Catholic Women, has made a gift of 520,000 to St- Francis Hospital there in memory of her mother and father. BISHOP BOYLE of Pittsburgh lost his mother, Mrs. Anna Keelan Boyle, by death August 14. Mrs. Boyle was 84 years old, and lived at Johnstown, Pa. Surviving also is another son, Michael Boyle, sheriff at Johnstown. All the other members of the fami ly lost their lives in the Johnstown flood. IOWA’S attorney general, Edward L. O’Connor, has sustained the opin ion of County Attorney Kenneth B. Welty of Milton, Iowa, that children attending parochial schools have an equal right with pupils of public schools to bus transportation provid ed by the public authorities. Bishop said: “I admit that to say that the Pope said nothing is an exagger ation”. The report which appeared to im press Dr. Blunt was of a speech made by the Holy Father on April 1, 1935. In this His Holiness said: “Rumors of wars, current every where, are a cause of the deepest agitation to all, and rouse in all hearts the gravest fears. That the nations should again take up arms against one another, that the blood of broth ers should again be shed, that de struction and ruin should be poured out over land and sea and in the air, would be a crime so heinous, a mani festation of folly so mad, that we re gard it as absolutely impossible. “We cannot in fact persuade our selves that those who have at heart the nation’s prosperity and well-being can wish to drive to slaughter, ruin, and extermination, not only their own nation, but a great part of humanity as welL But if anyome should dare to commit this crime, we shall not be able to do otherwise than to pray to God with bitterness in our hearts: ‘SCATTER THOU THE NA TIONS THAT DELIGHT IN WARS.” SAN FRANCISCO MAN HEADS RETREATANTS Leo Cunningham Elected at Convention in Chicago (By N. C. W. C. News Service) CHICAGO. — Leo Cunningham, of San Francisco, was elected president of ( the National Laymen’s Retreat Conference at the concluding session of the sixth national conference here. He succeeds Daniel E. Morrissey, of Chicago, who becomes national treas urer. Other officers are Lawrence J. Tierney,Brookline, Mass., first vice- president; Walter J. Conaty, Rich mond, Va., second vice president; Fred P. Hanson, Chicago, third vice president; Frank Bering, Los An geles, fourth vice president, Pat rick F. Brown, Hot Springs, Ark., fifth vice president. John J. Craig, Little Rock, was elected national sec retary, succeeding Father Valerius, O.F.M., of Chicago. San Francisco was chosen as the place of the 1937 conference. The conference closed with a ban quet at which the speakers were the Most Rev. William D. O’Brien, Aux iliary Bishop of Chicago; the Very Rev. Raphael C. McCarthy, S.J., of St. Louis University; Joseph Scott, of Los Angeles, and Representative Clare Gerald Fenerty, of Pennsylva nia. His Eminence George Cardinal Mundelein, Archbishop of Chicago, officiated at a Holy Hour service held in the afternoon at Holy Name Ca thedral. The sermon was preached by the Rev. C. F. O’Connor, S.J., of New York. The delegates attended High Mass in the morning at St. Peter’s Church, at which the Most Rev. Francis J. L. Beckman, Archbishop of Dubuque, officiated. In his sermon, the Rev. Herman Storck, S.J., of Morristown, N.J., delivered a eulogy of the late ^ Father W. J. Lonergan, S.J. LAYWOMEN’S RETREAT CONFERENCE SUCCESS (By N. C. W. C. News Service) CHICAGO.—The first national con ference of the Laywomen’s Retreat Movement has been written in the pages of retreat history as marvel ously successful. The retreat representatives present decided not to form a new organiza tion, but to appoint a continuing com mittee consisting of one representa tive from each permanent retreat house represented at the conference to function for the ensuing year. The chairman is Miss Mary Gertrude Quick, Milwaukee; first vice chair man, Miss Nell Merrigan, New York; second vice chairman, Miss Etta Brown, Philadelphia; third vice chair man, Mrs. John J. Monaghan, De troit; recording secretary, Miss Mil dred McCauley, Chicago, executive secretary, the Rev. Mother Helen Clifford, Chicago. C. D. of A. Launches Anti-Red Movement Bishop Hafey Addresses Of ficers at Atlantic City (By N. C. W. C. News Service) ATLANTIC CITY. — A national movement among youth to counter act the efforts of Communists and atheists to win American school and college youths is planned by the Catholic Daughters of America as the result of deliberations here by the national officers and directors of the organization at the semi-annual con ference. The conference condemned, through a report by Miss Mary C. Duffy, su preme regent, what was called “much misguided financial support” being given to Communism by such organi zations as the Garland Foundation, the Duke Endowment, the Carnegie Foundation. “Catholic education, a religious training, regard for the sanctity of the home and love of parents, patriotic fervor and proper environment, are the mainstays for the right upbring ing of our children in America to day,” said the Most Rev. William J. Hafey, Bishop of Raleigh and nation- al chaplain of the order, who was present at the supreme board meet ings. _ He praised the members of the board for their keen and intelligent plans for striving to prevent the fur ther inroads of the forces of Com munism, Bolshevism and atheism, and stressed the need for an active and energetic plan of action to combat such forces- Bretton Woods, in the White Moun tains of New Hampshire, was select ed as the city for the 1937 convention. AN AGED CHINESE Christian not ed for his piety died recently near- Ichang; after his death his family found a little note book with daily entries showing that he had baptiz ed over one thousand dying pagan babies. Anglican Bishop Withdraws Charge Made Against Pope Bradford, Eng., Prelate Had Said Holy Father Had Not Dared to Say Word About Italy in Ethiopia