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VOL. XVII. No. 9
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, SEPTEMBER 19, 1936 - issued monthly— jz.oo a hear
Number of Religious Slain in Spain Mounts
New York Host to National
Meeting of Holy Name Meni_
Laetare Medal Presentation
at C.L.A. Convention Nov. 8
Bulletins
THE VERY REV. JOHN F. O’HARA,
C. S. C., President of the University
of Notre Dame, is the current Catho
lic Hour speaker sponsored by the Na
tional Council of Catholic Men over
the N. B. C. network.
REV. JONES I. CORRIGAN, S. J„
professor of Social Ethics at Boston
College and nationally known as an
authority in his field died last week at
the age of 57. Father Corrigan was a
native of Chelsea, Mass.
GALVESTON. Texas, will be host
to the sixteenth annual convention
of the National Council of Catholic
Women October 7 to 21. Miss Kather
ine R. Williams, president, of Mil
waukee, will preside.
JAMES DONAHOE, a pioneer
Knight of Columbus in Illinois and a
member of the Supreme Board of the
Order, died last week in Chicago.
A MICHIGAN Catholic school St.
Joseph’s at Lake Linden, about to
close because of financial difficulties,
is being financed by the local school
board which had no accommodations
for the children and no funds to erect
new schools.
WILLIAM F. PLUNKETT, connect
ed with the chancery office of the
Archdiocese of New York since 1885,
died last week. Mr. Plunkett was
sixty-five.
MONSIGNOR PUCCI, N. C. W. C.
News Service correspondent at the
Vatican, cables that “it has been con
firmed at the Vatican that the note
recently published in Osservatore
Romano concerning Father Coughlin,
although neither official or semi-offi
cial, reflects the thought of respon
sible Vatican officials.'’
THE HOLY SEE. say the responsible
Vatican officials, “cannot regard with
indifference the fact that in public
polemics, especially when participated
in by a priest, authority is attacked in
the persons of those who represent it,
with the inevitable result of lessening
respect toward the same authority.”
23 MARYKNOLL NUNS will leave
the United States for missions in the
Orient, within the next few weeks.
They will go to China, Korea, the
Phillippines and Hawaii. All are from
this country, and most of them from
the East.
THE THIRD ORDER OF ST. Fran
ces will hold its convention in Louis
ville. Ky., October G-8. The Most Rev.
Bede Hess, O. M. C., the first Ameri
can to head the Franciscan Friars
Minor Conventual, will attend, the
first head of the Franciscans ever
participating in a convention in the
United States.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON left an
estate valued at $141,945. and his wife
is executrix.
CARDINAL HAYES TO
PRESIDE—APOSTOLIC
DELEGATE TO ATTEND
Canada, Puerto Rico and
Bahamas and All Parts of
U. S. to Be Represented
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
NEW YORK.—Catholic men from all
walks qf life and from every part of
the country will come together for
the national convention of the Holy
Name Societies here September 11-20.
Members of the Hierarchy and
clergy from most of the dioceses in
the United States will take part in
the great religious ceremonies which
are to be the principal exercises of the
convention. Some from Canada,
Puerto Rico, the Bahamas and other
places outside the country have made
reservations. Former Governor Alfred
E. Smith is general chairman of the
lay committee.
The convention opens with a
Solemn Pontifical Mass in St. Pat
rick’s Cathedral Thursday, September
17. His Eminence Patrick Cardinal
Hayes, Archbishop of New York, will
preside. The Most Rev. Stephen J.
Donahue, Auxiliary Bishop of New
York, will be celebrant. The assistant
priest at throne will be the Rt. Rev.
Msgr. Michael J. Lavelle, Vicar Gen
eral, of the Archdiocese of New York
ana rector of the cathedral.
A Solemn Memorial Pontifical Mass
for the deceased members of the
Holy Name Societies will be cele
brated in the Cathedral on the second
day of the convention, September 18.
The celebrant of the Mass will be the
Most Rev. John F. Noll, Bishop of
Fort Wayne, Indiana. The Most Rev.
Peter L. Ireton, Coadjutor Bishop of
Richmond, will preach the sermon.
One of the great meetings of the
convention will be the Holy Hour,
which will be held that evening in
the Stadium at Randall's Island. The
meditations will be led by the Most
Rev. John T. McNicholas, O. P., Arch
bishop of Cincinnati.
The Youth Day will be opened with
a Solemn Pontifical Mass in the Ca
thedral, Saturday, September 19. The
Monsignor Burke
Very Rev. Dr. John J. Burke, C.S.P.,
General Secretary of the National
Catholic Welfare Conference, Wash
ington, whom His Holiness Pope Pius
XI has created a Domestic Prelate
with the title of Right Reverend Mon
signor. Monsignor Burke is the first
priest of a religious community in
the United States to be so honored
by the Holy Father. He is a member
of the Missionary Society of St. Paul
the Apostle. (Underwood photo.
APPEAL OF BISHOPS
TO HITLER RENEWED
Church Only Bulwark
Against Menace of Com
munism, They Assert
Very Rev. John F. O’Hara,
C.S.C., to Represent Notre
Dame at Augusta—-Bishop
O’Hara to Present Award
The Very Rev. John F. O’Hara, C.
S. C„ president of the University of
Notre Dame, will represent the Uni
versity at the twenty-first annual
convention of the Catholic Laymen’s
Association of Georgia in Augusta,
Sunday, November 8, at which the
Laetare Medal for 1936 will be con
ferred on Richard iteid, editor of The
Bulletin and publicity director of the
Catholic Laymen’s Association of
Georgia. The Most Rev. Gerald P.
O’Hara, D. D., J. U. D., Bishop of Sa
vannah, will present the medal in the
name of the University and Father
O’Hara, and the presentation cere
mony will be sponsored by the Cath
olic Laymen’s Association of Geor
gia, of which Alfred M. Battey, of
Augusta, is president. Col. Jack J.
Spalding, K. S. G., K. M., of Atlanta,
a former president of the Association,
who was awarded the medal in 1928,
and the only other living Southern
er who has received it, will be a
guest of honor at the presentation
ceremonies.
Plans for the convention and pre
sentation ceremony have not been
completed, but they will include the
annual sessions of the Association
convention in the morning after the
convention Mass, the convention
luncheon and the presentation cere
mony and program. Many distin
guished Catholics and other friends
of the Catholic Laymen’s Association
and of the medalist from outside of
Georgia as well as within the state,
including a number of leading jour
nalists, have already indicated their
intention of attending.
Father O’Hara will come to Augus
ta from Baltimore where Notre Dame
will play the Naval Academy football
team the day previous. He is deliv
ering the current Catholic Hour se
ries of addresses over the National
Broadcasting Company’s national
network each Sunday evening at six
o’clock. Even before becoming presi
dent of Notre Dame University. Fa
ther O'Hara was one of the nation’s
(Continued on Page Twelve)
FIVE BISHOPS AND
HUNDREDS OF NUNS
AND PRIESTS DEAD
Communists and Anarchists
Destroy Hundreds of the
Churches and Convents
BY MSGR. ENRICO PUCCI,
(Radio, N. C. W. C. News Service)
VATICAN CITY.—Information re
ceived here lists at least five mem
bers of the Spanish Hierarchy, who
have been martyred in the terrible
carnage that has accompanied the
civil war in that country. The Episco
pal heads of the Dioceses of Jaen, Se-
gorbia, Lerida and Barbastro are re
ported to have been shot to death
and fhe Bishop of Siguenza to have
been burned alive by the blood-
crazed Communist mobs.
(EDITOR’S NOTE: The 1936
number of t,.; Annuario Ponti-
ficio gives the following identi
fication of the prelates mentioned
in this radiogram:
The Most Rev. Manuel Basulto y
Jimenez, Bishop of Jaen; The Most
Rev. Miguel Serra y Succarrats,
Bishop of Segorbia; The Most Rev.
Salvio Huix Miralpeix. Bishop of Le-
’■ida: The Most Rev. Eustaquio Nieto
y Martin, Bishop of Sigenza.
The See of Barbastro was listed as
vacant at the time of the printing of
the 1936 Annuario).
Previous dispatches had reported
the killing of the Bishops of Jaen and
Siguenza. (With the former perish
ed his aged mother and his sister.)
Advices received here were to the
effect that with Bishop Basulto y
Jimenez, of Jaen, there were slain 500
Nationalist prisoners.
In Madrid, dispatches received here
said, five Carmelite nuns were cru
cified by a group of women anarch
ists, who stood in groups laughing at
the horrible agony of their victims.
In Almendrelejo, dispatches said,
38 Nationalists were crucified and
burned alive.
In Malaga, 73 persons were report-
(Continued on Page 3)
The text of the Holy
Father’s discourse to the
Spanish refugees, broad
cast over the Vatican City
Radio Station Monday,
and relayed to the United
States by the National
Broadcasting Co., is pub
lished on Page Seven of
this issue of The Bulletin.
(Continued on Page Twelve)
‘Public Education’ Includes
Private Schools, Report Says
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
NEW YORK.—The right of private
and parochial schools to benefit from
federal aid and support of public ed
ucation is admitted in “Federal Sup
port for Education”, a report made
under the auspices of the Columbia
University Council for Research in
the Social Sciences.
The book, which is published by
the Bureau of Publication of the Co
lumbia University Teachers’ College,
is described as “a report of an inves
tigation of educational need and rel
ative ability of states to support ed
ucation as they bear on federal aid
to education”. The survey was made
under the direction of Dr. Paul R.
Mort, professor of Education in the
Teachers’ College.
In the chapter on “The Scope of
Federal Support”, the report states
that “the question of what constitutes
public education from the viewpoint
of the federal government is a per
plexing one”. “While the Constitu
tions of most of the states accepted
into the Union after the establishment
of the nation required the setting up
of some type of public education,” the
report goes on, “the nature of the
schools included is left entirely to the
states themselves.”
“So far as the federal Constitution
is concerned,” asserts the book,
“states are sovereign with respect to
these matters. The Dartmouth case
established the right of private high
er education, to maintain its organiza
tion over against the action of the
states. The Oregon case established
the right of the private and parochial
schools to operate independently. In
other words, the state may not void
the charter of the higher educational
institutions nor may it deny the right
of special groups to establish their
own schools. Courts have held that
a state legislature, within constitu
tional limitations, may support either
public or private schools as instru
mentalities for the performance of its
constitutional duty.
“It would seem to be obvious, there
fore, that from the viewpoint of the
federal government the term public
education cannot be limited-to schools
which are completely tax-supported.
The safest procedure would seem to
be for the federal government to
grant aid to be used for those schools
which the states themselves recognize
as eligible to receive support from
public funds. This is one of the rea
sons that average daily attendance is
preferred to census as the basic meas
ure of need.”
CONCEPTION COLLEGE present
ed the Immaculata Medal to Miss
Anne Sarachon Hooley of Kansas
City, formerly president of the Na
tional Council of Catholic Men, at
ceremonies at Conception, Mo., Abbot
Philip Ruggle, O. S. B., presiding
and Bishop C. Hubert LeBlond of
St. Joseph delivering the sermon at
-the ceremony, .... . , -
(Cable, N. C. W. C. News Service)
AMSTEDRAM- — Pointing to the
gruesome events which are taking
place in Spain and emphatically in
sisting that the Catholic Church is the
only true bulwark against Bolshe
vism, the German Hierarchy has ad
dressed another most earnest appeal
to the Nazi government urging that
peace between State and Church be
restored.
A pastoral was agreed upon by all
the German bishops at their annual
meeting at Fulda last week, and was
read from all pulpits. It informed the
faithful that the bishops have ad
dressed another memorandum to
Chancellor Hitler despite the fact that
their urgent appeal of a year ago has
gone unanswered.
The bishops point out that the slan
derous allegation of connivance be
tween Catholicism an d Communism
is fully disproved by events in
Spain, since obviously the Bolshevists
of Spain and Russia consider the
Church their most dangerous enemy
and are fully aware they can main
tain their position only when relig
ion, which they term the “opiate of
the people”, is outlawed.
It is impossible, the pastoral asserts,
to eradicate Bolshevism by military
means unless its spiritual sway is
eliminated through Jesus Christ. “If
Bolshevism is not averted in the re
ligious realm,” it states, “its inroads
in the political and economic fields
cannot be prevented”.
The German bishops say they- can-
., _ IGoiU.muetl Pa^e Twelve).
Crucifixion of Priests and
Nuns in Spain by Radicals
WHO’S WHO in the war in Spain—
Monsignor Edwin Henson, rector of
the English _ College at Valladolid,
Spain, describes the warring factions
as follows: The Rightists, whom the
newspapers call “Fascists” and
“rebels” include Conservative Re
publicans, Militarists, Anti-Radicals,
Catholics, Fascists and Moors: the
“Loyalists” or “Leftists” include the
Anti-Clericals, Communists, Anar
chists, Leftist Republicans, Govern
ment Forces, Socialists and Anarco-
Syndicalists.
F, G. STURRUP, an Englishman
who lived for twenty years in Spain,
on his return to London, escaping
from prison when his Red captors
were intoxicated, reports seeing two
mutiliated priests crucified, after
their eyes had been cut out. Nuns are
treated in the vilest manner imagi
nable, he says; death comes as a mer
ciful release. Many have been cruci
fied.
NO FASCISTS—In no sense can the
revolution be described as a Fascist
uprising, Mr. Sturrup asserts. General
Mola is a Republican and General
Franco a Royalist. The government is
unable to control those it armed, he
asserts
THE DAIRY of a priest of St. John
of God, the Rev. Adolfo Munne,
which reached the N. C. W. C. News
Service through its Vatican City cor
respondent, records the events
seven tragic days during which eight
een of his brother priests were mas
sacred before his eyes when the Reds
invaded the orphan asylum of the
order at Calaselles, Spain. He was
spared because he was an Argentine
citizen.
THE MADRID correspondent of The
Universe of London reports fifteen
churches burned in Madrid in one
day.
THE CHRISTIAN BROTHERS have
received word in Rome that twenty-
two brothers in Spain have been slain
and their college at Barcelona confis
cated.
A SPANISH PRIEST, condemned to
die in Madrid by the Reds, asked for
permission to go and bid farewell to
his mother and sister, giving his word
that he would return. The militia de
cided to trust him and permitted him
to depart. At the appointed time he
returned, announcing, according to the
New York American, that he was
ready to die. He walked in front of
the execution squad without flinching.
His bravery won the admiration of
the troops, who refused to shoot him
and allowed him to go free.
A COMMUNIST official in Bar
celona, Andre Nin, is quoted in the
Vanguardina, the Barcelona daily
seized by the Reds, as saying in a
meeting in the Barcelona theatre that
“we have solved the Church prob
lem by. destrPYim. aU the churches.*®