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THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
SEPTEMBER 19, 1936
Mexico Again Cuts
Number of Priests
But Several States Will Not
Permit Even Curtailed Au
thorized Number
BY CHARLES BETICO
(Mexico City Correspondent, N. C.
W. C. News Service)
MEXICO CITY.—The total number
of registered priests in Mexico, pre
viously reported as 576, must now be
reduced to 555; for, in addition to the
cancellation of the permit of the one
priest allowed to function in the Dio
cese of Papantla and Teziutlan, the
20 priests authorized recently by the
Legislature of Nayarit have not been
registered by the local authorities.
DIOCESE WITHOUT PRIEST—In
the city of Teziutlan, Puebla, the See
city of the Diocese of Papantla and
Teziutlan. The authorization of the
one priest registered to function in
the entire Diocese has been cancelled
by the Puebla State Government.
Not all or resident priests are al
lowed to function as parish priests;
for example, in the State of Sonora 16
priests were registered according to
law but their permits were arbitrar
ily suspended due to orders issued
over the telephone by Rodolfo Elias
Calles when he was Governor, al
though he had no legal authority to
do so. Sonora is still without service,
At the same time. Governor Calles
converted 40 churches into cultural
centers, headquarters for labor and
peasant organizations and for the use
of the National Revolutionary Party
the sole prerogative of the Federal
Government under the Constitution.
STATES .IGNORE .LAW—In five
States affecting the registration of
priests have been changed since
March, at which time general relaxa
tion of persecutory laws were report
ed in the secular press of the United
States. In one instance, Chihuahua,
the law was made more stringent; in
the other four—Sinaloa, Nayarit,
Queretaro and Guerrero—there was
some improvement over previous
conditions, but in not one instance
does the law comply with the Con
stitutional provision that State Leg
islatures shell determine the maxi
mum number of priests “according to
the needs of each locality.”
There were approximately 50
priests functioning in Sinaloa prior to
1926. A law was passed limiting the
number to 45. This was later reduced
to 16. but since October, 1934, Sina
loa has been without registered
priests. Last April the law was chang
ed to authorize the registration of 20
priests.
11 PRIESTS IN STATE—Although
Queretaro normally had 150 priests,
the law of June 20, 1928, limited the
number to 29. In November, 1933, the
Governor decreed that only seven
priests should be allowed to register;
but later the law reduced the number
to one and that one was never to
register. On June 29, this year, the
Legislature passed a law authorizing
the registration of three priests for
the City of Queretaro and one for
each of the eight remaining munici
palities, or 11 for the entire State.
The Queretaro Law and those of
other States provide that local offi
cials who in any way tolerate viola
tions of this law shall be suspended
from office pending trial. This pro
vision is due to the fact that in some
localities, the officials either because
of sympathy for the Catholic cause,
or for reasons of graft, allow unau
thorized priests to conduct services,
to attend the dying, or to baptize. On
the other hand, there have been nu
merous instances where local offi
cials arbitrarily prohibited the func
tioning of registered priests.
Dr. McGuire on Background
of Revolution in Spain
(Continued from Page Nine)
created. The electors were the
members of the “Professional Col
leges.” The result was five to one
against the Government nominees.
Still he refused to resign. Finally
two vacancies occurred in the Cab
inet, one by death and another by
promotion to an Ambassadorship.
When he presented the list of new
Government for Presidential approv
al, Premier Zamora asked if this
were a fit Cabinet to make the elec
tions. That was taken as a with
drawal of confidence and he re
signed.
A Government presided over by
Martinez Barrio held the elections.
No one, not even Azana, has ever
claimed that the electors were not
given perfect freedom. Lerroux re
turned with 103 Deputies, Gil Robles
with 114, the moderate League swept
the board in Catalonia. Azana’s
group was reduced from 26 to 6; Al-
bornoz’s (as fanatical as Azana)
from 59 to 5. Azana and the other
extremists cried that the Republic
was in danger, in the hands of its
enemies and tried to intimidate
President Zamora into closing the
Cortes until the Republic recovered
and a new election held by authen
tic Republicans. When Zamora an
swered “What comes out of the urns
(Ballot-boxes) is what must govern
in Spain.” Azana protested arid
never entered the Cortes for two
years.
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Lerroux again asked for an all-
Republican Government. The Lefts
would have nothing to do with him.
He formed “a minority Govern
ment.” that is all of his own party
who had not a majority in the
STATE DEPUTY AT
TORONTO MEETING
John J. McCreary Tells Ma
con Council of Convention
(Special to The Bulletin)
MACON, Ga.—State Deputy John
J. McCreary of the Georgia State
Council, Knights of Columbus, has
returned from Toronto, where he and
Louis C. Kunze, Columbus, past state
deputy, represented the Georgia
Knights of Columbus- Other state
deputies from the Southeast in at
tendance included: J. Herman
Manucy, Florida; Walter B. Hudson,
Tennessee; Judge John I. Cosgrove,
South Carolina; Dr. A. J. Stabler,
North Carolina. A past state deputy
also represented each state.
Mr. McCreary was a member of the
committee on Greetings to the
Apostolic Delegate to the United
States, and seconded the nomination
of Francis J. Heazel of North Caro
lina, re-elected to the Supreme Board
of Directors.
State Deputy McCreary is planning
to visit the councils of the first dis
trict, Savannah, Augusta and Bruns
wick, this month and the others in
the state at an early date. The of
ficers of the Macon Council were
installed the first September meet
ing by District Deputy J. I. Oberst,
and Mr. McCreary made a report on
the national convention. Grand
Knight M. J. Callaghan presided at
the meeting-
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Cortes. They were promised the
support, however, of three other Re
publican parties of the Right and
Center. This clearly could not last,
a party having to vote measures in
whose formulation in the Cabinet
they had no part. So Lerroux after
some months reconstructed his Cab
inet bringing in Ministers from three
other parties.
(a) The Government thus formed
had seven Radical Ministers, three
of the Ceda (Gil Robles), one of the
Liberal Democratic party and one of
the Agrarians, Lerroux and Prem
ier. It was therefore principally a
Government of the oldest and larg
est Republican party in Spain. It
is false, therefore, that the Govern
ment had “been handed over to Gil
Robles.”
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(b) It is equally false that Gil
Robles was “a Monarchist and im
placable enemy of the Republic. Gil
Robles as a politician was made by
El Debate and both have been Re
publicans since the Republic came
in. He has also repeatedly declared
his Republicanism. Neither Lerroux
nor Zamora would admit him to a
place in a Republican Cabinet if he
were not a Republican.
(c) The rising in Asturias was
a strictly Communist-Anarcho-Syn-
dicalist rising, supported eventually
by the Socialists. It was put down
not by General Franco but by Gen
eral Ochoa, a declared atheist and
Freemason, but like Lerroux a pat
riotic Spaniard. It was not put down
with savagery. The horrible savag-
eray was all on the other side. Fin
ally it was put down by a Lerroux
Government and not solely by the
Gil Robles minority in that Govern
ment. The Left Wing Republicans
are to blame for not uniting with
the oldest and largest Republican
party in forming an “all-Republi-
can" Government.
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GOVERNMENT
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When Gil Robles first protest
ed in Parliament against the
daily increasing atrocities of the
armed mobs, Azana, then Prem
ier, met his protest with levity,
mockery and calculated insult:..
“Some Spaniards,” he answered,
“have an urge for burning. For
merly they burned heretics. Now
they burn Santos.” Which was
as much as to say. to the mob:
Brave fellows! go ahead. This
was the last straw which strain-
patience beyond the breaking
point. The revolt flared on a
dozen fronts. Small wonder that
thus encouraged one deputy
screeched acorss the chamber to
Gil Robles; “And you are not
grateful to be allowed to live?”
And another chimed in: “I can
tell Gil Robles he will die with
his boots on.”
The press was censored. It could
not publish, and the public did not
know of the atrocities committed
throughout the country except where
they took place under their eyes.
Then Gil Robles resorted to the only
means left of letting the public
know. Debates in Parliament are
“privileged.” They are _ published
daily in the official Diario de Ses-
siones. They can be published in
the press although all comment can
be censored—as it was in papers of
the Right and Center. Gil Robles
made then in Parliament a detailed
and documented statement of the
murders and destructions of the first
three months after the elections.
Over fifteen churches have been
burned. It horrified the country.
The atrocities continued and increas
ed. Calvo Sotelo after a week made
another statement adding to the list.
Nothing was done. Up to this day
not one culprit has been brought to
justice. The mob is now armed and
can do as it pleases; and the only
encouraging news we have had in
weeks of the Associated Press that
Madrid was on those days quieter
“because the militia (organized to
patrol the city) had gone to the
front.” Madrid was quiet when
those the Government had armed to
preserve had left the city unpro
tected!
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MURDER OF SOTELO
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Sept. 20 Mexican
Seminary Sunday
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
ERIE, Pa.—Sunday, September 20,
has been designated as Mexican Sem
inary Sunday, it is announced in a
letter which the Committee of Bish
ops on the Mexican Seminary has
addressed to all the Archbishops and
Bishops of the United States.
It is recommended in the letter that
the etpoial collection in behalf of the
seminary for the training of Mexican
clergy be taken up on that day. It is
requested that reports on ail collec
tions be filed with the Committee be
fore November 1, in order to afford
the Committee time to prepare an of
ficial report to the annual meeting of
the American Hierarchy.
CHANGES ANNOUNCED
BY BISHOP HAFEY
Pastors Named for New
Parishes of Diocese
of Raleigh
(Special to The Bulletin)
RALEIGH, N C.—The Most Rev.
William J- Hafey, D. D., has an
nounced the following changes and
appointments among the clergy of the
Diocese of Raleigh:
The Rev. Edward L. Gross, former
ly pastor of St. James Church. Ham
let. has been designated at the first
resident pastor of St. Anne’s, Eden-
ton. effective October 5th.
The Rev. Francis J. McCourt goes
from St. Joan of Arc Church, West
Asheville, to St. James, Hamlet, ef
fective October 3.
The Rev, Arthur J. Racette, pastor
of St. Edward's, High Point, becomes
pastor of St. Joan of Arc Church,
West Asheville, effective September
26th
The Rev. Michael J- Begley has
been transferred from St. Thefese
Church, Wilson to St. Edward’s. High
Point, effective September 19.
The Rev. Hugh A. Dolan, assistant
pastor St. Mary’s. Goldsboro, is as
signed as pastor of St. Therese’, Wil
son. effective September 12.
The Rev. Paul A. Murphy is
transferred from assistant at St.
Mary’s Wilmington, to assistant at
St. Mary's, Goldsboro.
The Rev. J Lennox Federal, assis
tant at St. Peter’s. Greenville, is
made administrator of the new parish
of St- Margaret Mary, Swannanoa,
effective Sentember 9.
The Rev. James J. Noonan, recently
ordained and assigned for the sum
mer to the Catholic Orphange Camp,
Wildwood, goes to St. Peter’s, Green
ville, as assistant pastor.
In addition to the above diocesan
appointments, the Rev. William Mc
Laughlin C. SS. R.. is now superior
of the Redemptorist Mission Band
and pastor of St. Mark’s Newton
Grove.
The Rev. Walter F Mack. O. M.
I. succeeds Rev- Matthew J. Noonan,
O. M. I„ as assistant at St. Patrick’s,
Favetteville.
The Rev. Timothy Holland. S. S.
J. . has been assigned as assistant at
St. Thomas’ Church for the colored
at Wilmington.
REV. EUGENE HARRIGAN. S. S.
president emeritus of St. Charles
College in Maryland, the alma mater
of hundreds of American priests, died
late in August. He was related tc
Archbishop G’Doherty of Manila and
Bishop O'Dohertv of Galway and
Kilmacduagh, Ireland.
Lastly. On the night Calvo Sotelo
was murdered the Government clos
ed the Cortes. There would be no
more debates or revelations. While
the Cortes are not in session there is
a Deputacion Permanente (a stand
ing Committee of 21 members
drawn from the various parties).
The Government on this day aked
the Deputacion for faculties to have
the “State of Alarm” extended for
aonther month. In debate on this
Gil Robles made a statement: Some
days before the murder, Calvo So
telo came to him and told him that
his police guard had been changed
without notifying him and that he
did not trust the new guards. He
asked for advice on what to do.
Both consulted another Deputy and
all three agreed that he should go
to the Minister of the Interior and
tell him. He went. The other two
went separately. The Minister said
he had no knowledge of the change
and had not ordered it. He would
call up the responsible Chief of As
sault Guards. He did. But there
was some delay and when the Chief
responded he said he had just re
ceived information that Calvo Sotelo
had been taken from his home by
men in his men’s uniform. Later in
the night his dead body was found
in the cemetery. The Minister was
called to the Deputacion. He and the
other Deputy confirmed the state
ments of Gil Robles, u
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Dr. P. J. Vaughan of
Augusta Parish Dies
Was for Many Years Leading-
Dentist of Georgia City
AUGUSTA, Ga.—Dr. Patrick Jo
seph Vaughan, for many years a
leading dentist, and a member of
pioneer Augusta Catholic families,
died here late in August after an ex
tended illness.
Dr. Vaughan was born in Augusta,
the son of Mr. and Mrs. John F.
Vaughan; he was educated at St.
Patrick’s School and made his dental
studies in Baltimore, Md. He had
practiced his profession here until
ill health forced his retirement. He
was married to Miss Mary O'Calla
ghan, a member of a prominent Au
gusta Catholic family, and she sur
vives him. Dr. Vaughan was be
loved in Augusta, quiet, gentle, and
genial in disposition, and respected by
all who knew him.
The funeral was held from Sacred
Heart Church, where for many years
he was a daily communicant. The
Rev. Sebastian Doris, O.S.B., his
nephew, officiated at the Requiem
Mass. Interment was in Magnolia
Cemetery. Assisting Father Sebastian
at the Mass were the Rev. J- B.
O’Donohoe, S.J., pastor, the Rev. M.
A. Cronin, the Rev. J. J. Kennedy,
the Rev. Leo M. Keenan, the Rev.
George Laugel, S.M.A.. the Rev.
John M. McCreary, S.J.. the Rev. J.
A. Brennan. S.J., of Augusta, and
the Rev. William Austin Mulherin,
S.J., of Spring Hill College.
Surviving Dr. Vaughan in addition
to his widow are his sister, Miss
Elizabeth Vaughan; his brother, C. J.
Vaughan; two nieces, Mrs. Ben B.
Boeckman and Mrs. T. P. Danehey,
a nephew, Lester F. Vaughan, and
other relatives.
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