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Published by the Catholic Lay men’s Association of Georgia. ’To Bring AOout a Friend hei Feeling Among Neighbors irre spective oi Creed 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.*®