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THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
SEPTEMBER 19, 1936
The Catholic World
MRS. McCARTNEY OF Rome Parish and Community
TIFTON PARISH DIES Bid Fr« Cassidy Godspeed
THE BALTIMORE CATECHISM
is being revised by the Episcopal
Committee on the Confraternity of
Christian Doctrine, with more than
150 theologians cooperating. The first
draft will be discussed at a meeting
in New York October 3 to 6.
NOVA SCOTIA’S famed cooperative
movement sponsored by St. Francis
Xavier University Extension Depart
ment at Antigonish, brought an un
precedented number of people here
to study it at a conference late in
August. Bishop Morrison of Antigo
nish, Michael Williams, editor of The
Commonweal, and other notables
Catholic and non-Catholic, were
among the speakers.
JESUIT COLLEGE editors met at
Xavier University, Cincinnati, late in
August, and Vincent E. Smith, edi
tor of The Xavierian, Cincinnati, was
elected president. The meeting made
plans to stress positive Catholic doc
trines, to oppose Communism active
ly and to adopt a vigorous stand for
world peace.
ST VINCENT’S COLLEGE football
team at Latrobe, Pa., will plan all its
home games this year in a newly-
erected college stadium seating 7,000
and equipped for night games. St
Vincent’s is conducted by the Bene
dictine Fathers and is the mother ab
bey of Belmont Abbey.
REV. ARTHUR O’LEARY, £. J.
president of the Georgetown Uni
versity, delivered the address over
the ’’Church of the Air" period of the
Columbia Broadcasting System Sun-
clay. September 6. His subject was:
“Catholic Education and the State.’’
THE REVUE DE LOURDES in a
recent issue records the visit of King
Edward VIII to Lourdes in 1932 when
he was Prince of Wales. The Prince
insisted on going incognito, took his
place with the other pilgrims, and
reverently followd the ceremonies.
FRANK A. HALL, director of the
N. C.l W. C. News Service, Washing
ton, D. C., is in Rome to attend the
International Congress of Catholic
Journalists there this month.
MSGR. HENRY J. POSKITT, rec
tor of St. Joseph’s Seminary, Leeds
Eng., has been named Bishop of
Leeds. Monsignor Poslcitt, who is fif
ty-two, was an Anglican minister be
fore becoming a Catholic in 1915.
MISS KATE P. CLIFFORD of Chi
cago left bequests of half a million
dollars to Catholic institutions and
charities. She was the last surviving
member of a pioneer Catholic fam
ily. Colleges, seminaries, missions
hospitals and institutions for the poor
received the bulk of these bequests.
CLEVELAND will hold its first
Diocesan Eucharistic Congress at
Youngstown, O., September 23 and 24
N. CAROLINA GIRLS
BECOME RELIGIOUS
Abbot Vincent Offic 7 tes at
Sacred Heart Academy
Ceremony
BELMONT, N. C.—The chapel of the
Sacred Heart Convent at Belmont was
the scene of one of the most beauti
ful and impressive ceremonies of
the Church ritual, when two young
ladies were invested with the religious
habit of the Sisters of Mercy. They
were Miss Olive C. Pickering of Rox-
boro, N. C., and Miss Agnes Milligan
of Durham, N. C., now to be known
in religion as Sister Mary Edmund
and Sister Mary Eucharia.
Into the beautiful chapel, crowded
with friends and relatives of the Sis
ters, the two postulants, dressed as
brides, entered, escorted by the Mother
Superior and Mother Assistant. The
procession approached the altar and
the aspirants each received from the
hands of Rt. Rev. Vincent Taylor.
O. S. B., D. D.. Abbot, ordinary of
Belmont, a candle, emblematic of in
terior light. Abbot Vincent, then de
livered a most eloquent sermon on the
Religious Life. He congratulated the
young ladies and dwelled on the
priceless gift of their religious vo
cation. In conclusion he bestowed up
on the novices-elect his blessing and
they retired to change their bridal
array, returning a few minutes later
clothed in the habit and white veil
of novice of the Sisters of Mercy. The
ceremony closed with Benediction of
the Blessed Sacrament.
On the Feast of the Assumption of
our Blessed Mother. Sister Mary John
Madden of Limerick, Ireland, pro
nounced her perpetual vows of pover
ty. charity, and obedience, thus com
pletely surrendering her heart to her
Eucharistic Spouse, Right Reverend
Abbot Vincent Taylor, O. S. B., re
ceived the vows and addressed a few
words of congratulation and encour
agement to the newly professed Sis
ter.
Among the out-of-town guests pres
ent for the two ceremonies were the
Rev William F. O’Brien, Durham,
N. C.; Mr. and Mrs. William Picker
ing. parents of Sister Mary Edmund,
and two children. Lois and Billv. of
Roxboro. N. C.: Miss Olive Wilson
and Miss Rose Berube of Fall River,
Massachusetts; Miss Annie Milligan,
sister of Sister Mary Eucharia, of
Convent Station, New Jersey; and
Misses Teresa and Catherine Mono-
lian. Charlotte, N. C. „ .........
FORTY MOSCOW Catholic resi
dents of foreign nationality have been
arrested by the Soviet police because
they encouraged Russian Catholics to
attend Mass in the few remaining
Catholic Churches in Moscow, the
churches being under foreign diplo
matic protection, advices received in
Berlin state. The majority of those
arrested are women.
AN IRISH AVIATRIX, Miss Mar
jory Bayley Butler, daughter of Pro
fessor J. Bayley Butler of the National
University, Dublin, and granddaugh
ter of the noted Theophilus McWee-
ney, for 40 years an editor of the
Freeman’s Journal, has entered the
novitiate of the Sisters of Charity at
Milltown. County Dublin. One week
before entering the convent Miss
Butler, who is twenty-one, was
awarded her “A’’ grade Flying Cer
tificate with Dublin Air Ferries.
KING EDWARD of England on va
cation in Yugoslavia recently visited
"The Pharmacy of the Little Brothers”
at Dubrovnik, conducted by the Fran
ciscans; founded in 1315, it is said to
be the oldest drug store in the
world.
LO PA HONG, famed Chinese Cath
olic laymen, has undertaken another
great project, the erection of a new
orphanage in Shanghai, to care for 4,-
000 children.
BISHOP LAMY of Meaux, an in
fantry sergeant in the French army
during the World War, the first
priest-soldier decorated for bravery,
has been named Archbishop of Sens.
He is 49.
DR. JOHN J. O’CONNOR, a founder
of the Washington Catholic Evidence
League, has been named professor »f
history in the graduate department of
St. John’s University, Brooklyn.
MYLES PAIGE, a leader of New
York’s colored Catholics, has been ap
pointed a magistrate in that citv. the
first member of his race to be so hon
ored.
Philippine Article in
Collier's Is Refuted
But Magazine Will Not Re
tract or Carry Refutation
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
NEW YORK. — Charges that the
Catholic Church in the Philippine Is
lands is “opposed to democracy’’ and
that the president of the Common
wealth, Manuel Quezon, is “presum
ably still a Mason,” as published in
the May 20 issue of Collier's maga
zine, were refuted this week in an
open letter to Collier's published by
the Jesuit Philippine Bureau of this
city and written by the Rev. Ferdi
nand Schoberg, S. J., of Georgetown
University, Washington, D. C. Col
liers, however, has refused to publish
the refutation-
A complete refutation of these false
charges may be found in Father
Schoberg’s open letter to Collier’s, a
copy of which may be obtained in the
Jesuit Philippine Bureau, 51 East
83rd Street, New York City, it was
announced.
NEW YORK IS HOST TO
HOLY NAME CONVENTION
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celebrant will be the Most Rev. Ber
nard J. Sheil, Auxiliary Bishop of
Chicago anc! spiritual director of the
Chicago Archdiocesan Holy Name
Union. The Most Rev. John A. Duffy.
Bishop of Syracuse, will preach the
sermon.
The convention will close with a
Grand Rally in the Randall’s Island
stadium on Sunday afternoon, Sep
tember 20. This assembly will mark
the six hundred and sixty-second an
niversary of the Holy Name move
ment. It will close wtih Solemn
Benediction at which Cardinal Hayes
will preside. The occasion will be
honored also by the presence of His
Excellency the Most Rev. Amleto Gio
vanni Cieognani. Apostolic Delegate to
the United States.
HOLY NAME MEETING
PROGRAM ARRANGED
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
NEW YORK. — At a meeting of the
National Executive Committee of the
Holy Name Society action was tak
en on the plans which have been
made for the national convention to
be held September 17 to 20.
The Spiritual Directors will discuss
the Holy Name Society—its real ob
jective; its monthly meetings; Com
munion breakfasts; annual diocesan
rallies and parades; laymen’s retreats;
the Society and radio programs; the
Society as a factor in college pro
grams.
Lay leaders will read papers on the
Holy Name Society as a bulwark
against Communism; its relation to
fraternal societies; the Holy Name
Emblem; the perfect system of society
organization; social justice; parish and
diocesan organization; a speakers bu
reau; the national program; the So
ciety and the Catholic Press. Satur
day has been set aside for the Junior
Holy Name Society,
Was Beloved Leader in
South Georgia Catholic
Circles
(Special to The Bulletin)
TIFTON, Ga.—Mrs. Elizabeth E.
McCartney, one of the most beloved
women of this section of Georgia,
died late in July at the home of her
daughter, Mrs. John T. Israel, West
Palm Beach, Fla., where she had
beeen making her home most of the
time in recent years.
The funeral was held from St.
Ann’s Church, West Palm Beach,
with a Requiem Mass, the Rev. Rob
ert Bryant, S. J., officiating. Inter
ment was in Stubbs Cemetery, Ab
beville, Ga., the Rev. Thomas A.
Brennan, pastor of St. Theresa’s
Church and the Southwest Georgia
missions, officiating. Father Brennan
spoke at the grave on the immortal
ity of the soul and the real purpose
of life.
Mrs. McCartney was bom in Bibb
County, Georgia, July 4, 1854, and
went to Abbeville as a child. In
1868 she was united In marriage to
John McCartney, who died in 1900.
Surviving are three daughters, Mrs.
Israel, Mrs. B. L. Crow of Americus
and Miss Janie McCartney, Tifton,
two sons, Dr. W. H. McCartney of
New Orleans and Dr. J. T. McCart
ney, Tifton, and nine grandchildren.
Mrs. McCartney’s daughters were
with her in West Palm Beach when
she died, and all her children were
here at the funeral. Mrs. McCartney
had been ill for some time, her ill
ness preventing her return from
Florida to Georgia for the summer,
her custom for the past several
years.
CHANGES ANNOUNCED
BY BISHOP ADRIAN
Father John F. Hardeman,
Nashville, Appointed Dean
of Middle Tennessee
(Special to The Bulletin)
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The Most
Rev. William L. Adrian, D.D., Bishop
of Nashville, has appointed the Very
Rev. John F. Hardeman, P.R., pastor
of Holy Name Church, Nashville,
Dean of Middle Tennessee, and has
also made the following changes in
the Diocese:
The Rev. Walter Bush, who has just
returned from Rome where he has
been making graduate studies, has
been assigned as assistant at St.
Mary’s Church, Nashville, and chap
lain at St. Cecilia Academy.
The Rev. Frank Pack, whom Bish
op Adrian ordained this summer, has
been assigned as assistant to St.
Thomas Church, Memphis.
The Rev. Robert Wiley, assistant to
St. Thomas Church, Memphis, has
been transferred to St. Patrick’s
Church, Memphis.
The Rev. William K. Graw, former
ly assistant at Chattanooga, has been
transferred to the Church of the Im
maculate Conception, Memphis.
The Rev. Joseph H. Steiner, D.D.,
assistant from the Immaculate Con
ception, Memphis, has been transfer
red to the Cathedral at Nashville.
The Rev. John A. Welsh, at the
Cathedral, is appointed to Chatta
nooga, as assistant to Monsignor Fran
ces T. Sullivan.
The Rev. J. William Willey has
been transferred from the Blessed
Saprament, Memphis, to St. Mary’s
Memorial Hospital, Knoxville, as
chaplain.
The Rev. Joseph W. Cunningham of
St. Mary’s Memorial Hospital, Knox
ville, is named assistant at Blessed
Sacrament Church, Memphis.
The Rev. Harold Des Champs, for
merly assistant at St. Brigid’s Church,
Memphis, becomes assistant at the
Immaculate Conception, Knoxville,
Tenn., and supervisor of the Knox
ville Catholic High School.
The Rev. Raymond Guillozet, C.
PP.S., is now assistant at St. Brigid,
Memphis, and the Rev. Samuel Horn
sey, C.PP. S., has been assigned at the
Cathedral. Father Guillozet and the
Rev. Samuel Hornsey, are both Prec
ious Blood Fathers.
Plans for the restoration of the
Church of St. Lawrence at Paradise
Ridge have been submitted to the
Building Committee for approval,
this church having been destroyed by
fire this spring.
The remodeling of Sts. Peter and
Paul Church, Chattanooga, is now
taking place under the direction of
Monsignor Sullivan. Both interior and
exterior are being remodeled. The
work will have cost $45,000.00 when
completed.
Repairs on the Chapel of the Na
tivity in Memphis are being made and
the chapel will soon be reopened.
L. T. BRAGASSA LOCATES
IN KEY WEST, FLORIDA
(Special to The Bulletin)
KEL WEST, Fla.—L. T. Bragassa,
who recently graduated from _ the
School of Pharmacy of the Univer
sity of Florida, will locate in Key
West, where he has accepted a posi
tion- Mr. Bragassa, a member of a
prominent family here, is a parish
ioner of St. Mary, Star of the Sea,
Church. - i, i l .1 c rljii.l_l_l _ -'
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you have remained a man full of
humanness, so full there has been
no room for sanctimoniousness.
“That is why our eyes were
dimmed this morning, Father Cassi
dy; that is why we shall feel an aw
ful loneliness when you are gone.
While we will try to remember you
are needed elsewhere for greater
things in a greater field and rejoice in
your growth in greater sueveesses,
still we will miss you and want you
ever so much.
“I know I speak of all Saint
Mary’s Church when I say this. So,
’goodbye, in the name of the whole
congregation. May God keep you
and bless you and sometime bring
you back to us.”
In reply to Mr. Fahy, Father Cas
sidy said that it was not very easy
for him to leave Rome. He spoke
in high praise of the incoming priest,
Father James H. Grady, saying: “I
am glad that he is coming to you,
because I know that he will carry
out all plans that have been
made.
“In the future I shall always have
the beautiful memories of what you
are and what you have done. I feel
that you have given me your hearts.
... But I don't want to say farewell.
I am too interested in you, your
welfare and future ... and, when I
leave Rome I shall certainly have
choice memories. I am going away
but I will still belong to you. I
will always have the satisfaction of
saying, well, I came here first.”
JOHN R. HORNADY, editor of the
Rome News-Tribune then spoke. He
praised Father Cassidy and his work
in glowing terms. Mr. Hornady
stressed the fact that “it is of the
most vital interest that a man makes
progress,” thet he must go higher.
“Father Cassidy,” he said, “has done
a great work in this community and
left an impression here that will be
felt for many years to come.”
FATHER CASSIDY was born and
reared in Flushing, Long Island,
New York, where he received his
early training. As a student at the
Archdiocesan seminary at Dun-
woody, he learned the of Church in
Georgia through the Catholic Lay
men’s Association.
After his ordination, Father Cassi
dy came to Georgia and was as
signed to Saint John’s Cathedral,
Savannah, by Bishop Michael J.
Keyes, S. M. He was later trans
ferred to the Immaculate Concep
tion Church, in Atlanta, as an as
sistant to the Rev. Emmet M. Walsh,
now the Bishop of Charleston, and
later to the Very Rev .Joseph E.
Moylan.
Coming to Rome when Saint
Mary’s was created a parish in 1929,
succeeding the part-time pastor, the
Rev. Louis Emmerth, S. M., he un
dertook the construction of the new
church, on North Broad Street, at
the cost of $30,000.
On March 15, 1931, the third year
of Father Cassidy’s pastorate, the
new church was dedicated by Bishop
Keyes, in the presence of Father
Cassidy’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ed
ward T. Cassidy, of Flushing, N. Y.,
and a large gathering of the clergy,
religious and laity. The dedication
sermon was preached by Father Cas
sidy, his text being ‘:‘How lovely
are Thy Tabernacles, O Lord of
Hosts,” from the 83rd Psalm. In
January of this year, to the delight
of his parishoners, Father Cassidy
announced that the debt on the
church had been liquidated.
An eloquent preacher and speaker
of the day; dutiful, kind and gen
erous to the needy, the gentle priest
has a warm spot in the hearts of the
people of Rome and Northwest
Georgia, his mission field, which
covered an area of six thousand
square miles. Only recently Father
Cassidy returned from an extensive
tour of Europe and the Holy Land.
J. J. Horrigan Named
Trustee by Eagles
National Body Again Honors
Savannah Leader
(Special to The Bulletin)
SAVANNAH, Ga.—J. J. Horrigan,
one of the South’s leaders in the Fra
ternal Order of Eagles, was re-elect
ed a grand trustee of the order at
the annual convention held recently
in Chicago. There are only five trus
tees in the order, and Mr. Horrigan’s
election is regarded as a great dis
tinction for Georgia as well as an
honor for Mr. Horrigan.
Laetare Medal to Be
Presented Nov. 8th
President of Notre Dame
Coming to Georgia
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most distinguished priests and educa
tors.
The Augusta convention will be the
first since the resignation of the Most
Rev. Michael J. Keyes, S. M., D. D„
as Bishop of Savannah, and hence
the first attended by Bishop O’Hara.
It is anticipated that it will be one
of the largest attended conventions
in the history of the Association, and
a general invitation is being extend
ed not only to all members of the As
sociation to attend, but to all friends
of the Association and of the Medal
ist.
GERMAN BISHOPS AGAIN
APPEAL FOR JUSTICE
(Continued from Page One)
not understand why, in these circum
stances, the influence of the Church
in their Fatherland is :onstantly be
ing restricted, Catholic associations
restrained. Catholic charities imped
ed, the Catholic Press strangled, the
younger generation exposed to pagan
influences and even the parochial
schools in some states threatened with
extinction.
The members of the Hierarchy in
sist the Church must have at least
that liberty and independence which
her foes claim for themselves. “It
is our unswerving lesolution”, they
say, “to preserve and to protect those
rights and liberties of the Church
guaranteed by natural civil law in
the interest of the whole German peo
ple".
The pastoral concludes by appeal
ing to German Catholics to remain
steadfast in their faith.
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