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THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
SEPTEMBER 19, 1936
Father Michael Kenney, SJCHARLESTON COLORED
Observes His Golden Jubilee PARISH WORK LAUDED
New Hendersonville Church
Dedicated by Bishop Haiey
Famed Jesuit Member of Faculty of Spring Hill College
and Noted Author Was Member of Original Staff
of “Am erica”
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
SPRING HILL, Ala.—The Rev. Mi
chael J. Kenney, S. J., a member of
the* faculty of Spring Hill College
here and a widely known author, ob
served the fiftieth anniversary of his
entrance into the Society of Jesus on
September 6.
Father Kenny was for a number of
years the Regent of Loyola Univer
sity School of Law in New Orleans,
and in recognition of his golden ju
bilee former members of his law
classes are planning a reunion in New
Orleans early next month. Among
those who will attend are Governor
Richard Leche of Louisiana and sev
eral judges of the Supreme Court
and other courts of that state, all of
whom received tlier legal training
under Father Kenny.
Born in Tipperary, Ireland, June
28, 1863, Father Kenny took the Bach
elor of Arts and Master of Arts de
grees at Mungret College, Limerick,
before coming to the United States in
1886, the year that he entered the
Southern Province of the Society of
Jesus. Father Kenny made his philo
sophical and theological studies both
in this country and in Europe. He
was ordained in Ireland by Archbish-,
o*- Walsh and later took courses of
study in Belgium. He returned to the
United States in 1898 and took up the
work of teaching, serving on faculties
of Spring Hill College and Loyola
University.
Named in 1908 to represent the
Southern Province in the founding of
America the national weekly review.
Father Kenny served for seven years
as associate editor of that publication.
Returning to the South in 1915. Fa
ther Kenny became Regent of the
Loyola University School of Law, and
determined to put Christian ethics
and philosophy into his teaching of
law, arranged the curriculum of the
Loyola law school so as to provide
for compulsory attendance at courses
in jurisprudence and legal ethics.
When he was named to teach phil
osophy and sociology at Spring Hill
College here, in 1924, Father Kenny
continued his prolific writing, con
tributing hundreds of articles to en
cyclopedias and to national and for
eign journals. He also has lectured in
many educational centers. When
Sr ing Hill College observed the
hundredth anniversary of its found
ing a half-dozen years ago. Father
Kenny published a history of the in
stitution and its background in a
work entitled “Catholic Culture in
Alabama”. This work was warmly
praised both in this country and
abroad. He delivered the eulogy at
the funeral in Augusta of his friend.
James Ryder Randall, author of
“Maryland, My Maryland”.
Father Kenny has devoted much
time to the study of Mexican affairs
and has written and spoken exten-
sivelv on the religious persecution in
that country. Among Father Ken
ny’s work dealing with Mexico are
“The Mexican Crisis”, “Justice to
Mexico” and his latest work, “No
God Next Door”, of which some 30,-
000 copies already have been sold.
Other works of Father Kenny in
clude “The Romance of the Floridas,”
“Lourdes and Its Miracles,” “The
People’s Pope”, “Ireland’s Case” and
“American Masonry and Catholic
Education”.
German Minister Denounces
Nazi Attack on Catholicism
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
NEW YORK—“A political battle
against Catholicism, vaster than Bis
marck ever dared conceive, is rapidly
gaining momentum in Germany,”
Dr. Ewardt Edmund Turner, former
pastor of the American Church in
Berlin, declares in a copyrighted
article written for the National Con
ference of Jews and Christians News
Service. “Its announced purpose,” he
adds, "is to free the German people
from the political activities of Rome.
But its real purpose is to weaken
Christian faith and practice, and to
remove a chief obstacle. to the de-
Christianization of youth in the Third
Reich.”
Dr. Turner - says the Nazis have
used the currency-smuggling charges
and the trials of a grup of lay Broth
ers on charges of immorality as
weapons in “a ruthless campaign of
defamation such as no Christian
body has had to withstand in a hun
dred years, except in Marxist coun
tries.”
“Thus far,” Dr. Turner adds, “the
effort of the Nazis to drive a wedge
between Hierarchy and people has
failed. Bishops and priests in all parts
of Germany informed me that since
May, when the trials began, church
attendance has been larger than
ever.” “Crude Nazi propaganda” is
already beginning to work as a
boomerang, he says.
Dr- Turner asserts that ‘todaV the
fiercest encounter between Nazis and
Catholics concerns the Catholic
youth.” Freedom to maintain their
youth organizations is guaranteed Ca
tholics under the Concordat, he says,
but this and other provisions have
been “flagrantly violated” by the
Nazis.
The writer concludes with the ob
servation that “the spiritual life of
German Catholicism seems to be
deepening” and tha “the youth have
not been won away.”
Students Warned of
Activities of Reds
Federation of College Cath
olic Clubs Meets
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
ATLANTIC CITY—Warnings against
the dangers of insidious Communistic
activity in the United States were
sounded by speakers in addresses to
the twenty-first annual conference of
the Federation of College Catholic
Clubs just held here.
John V. Kingston, of the Brooklyn
Polytechnic Institute, was elected
president of the federation for the
coming term. Other officers elected
were Miss Margaret Ann Hogan, of
Simmons College, Boston, vice-presi
dent; Edward V. Qungel, of the Uni
versity of Cincinnati, treasurer; Harry
Reeves, of the University of Louis
iana. recording secretary, and Theo-
dcr Quann, of Temple University,
Philadelphia, corresponding secretary.
The Rev. Paul A. Deery, Catholic
chaplain at the University of Indiana,
Bloomington, Ind., was re-elected
chaplain of the federation.
Tlie Rev. John W. Keogh, chaplain
of the Newman Club at the Univers
ity of Pennsylvania, speaking with a
background of nearly a quarter of a
century of experience in colleges, ad
vise! the 150 men and women dele
gates to “watch ycur step” with re
gard to Communist activity in secular
colleges.
The Rev. Peter Baptist Duffee, O. F.
M., of the Church of St. Francis of
Assisi in New York, charged that in
1934 a total of S5.000.000 was spent for
Communist propaganda in the United
States, and added that a huge fund is
actually being used or is set aside
for potential use in the creation of
Red professors in this country.
Judge Harry S. McDevitt. of Phil
adelphia. told the delegates^ that
“Communistic summer schools” are
spreading progaganda into small com
munities as well as thickly populated
sections of the United States. These
schools numbered only two in 1925,
had increased to 20 in e : ght states in
1929, and now are numbered in the
hundreds, he said.
Dr. Colligan Heads
Guild of Writers
NEW YORK—The Catholic Writers’
Guild of America, at a meeting here
elected Dr. Eugene A. Colligan. presi
dent of Hunter College, president of
the organization. Dr. James J. Walsh
was named president emeritus.
Vice-presidents named were Joseph
A. Durkin, Daniel D. H. Halpin and
Joseph M. Branigan. Hugh A. O’Don
nell was chosen treasurer; Charles
Campbell, financial secretary; Clar
ence E. Heller, recording secretary;
Gertrude D. Healy. corresponding
secretary, and J. H. Bouillon, counsel.
The following were named to the
board of directors: The Rt. Rev. Msgr.
Fulton J. Sheen, the Rev. Joseph A.
Dalv, the Rev. Eckhard Koehle, O.S.
B. : Thomas F. Woodlock, Richard
Reid, Victor Ridder, George Adrian,
John Gilchrist, Alex Morrison, Ken
ton Kilmer, Mrs. Philip A. Brennan,
Miss Katherine Edgerl.y. Stanley No
wak and Nicholas Farley.
Nun Who Once Lived
at White House Dies
BALTIMORE. — The death of Sis
ter Eugenia Fealy of the Sisters of
Charity of St. Vincent de Paul hav
ing been reported from Marillac
Seminary, Normandy, Mo., the cur
rent issue of The Catholic Review
here reveals that many years ago
this nun, then Miss Abbey Fealy.
served as a seamstress and lived at
the White House in Washington.
“Fifty-nine years ago,” says the
Review, “when President Ulysses S.
Grant was about to leave the White
House at the end of his second term
of office. ~his wife said to a young
Irish girl, a seamstress at the White
House: 'Shortly after we leave the
White House the President and I
hope to take a trip to foreign lands.
We want you to go wtih us.’
“The young Irish girl looked up
at Mrs. Grant, blushed a little, and
then smiled. ‘I am afraid, Mrs.
Grant, I cannot accept your kind in
vitation. I intend to become a Sis
ter of Charity.’ ”
For a considerable number of the
57 years that she was a professed
nun. Sister Eugenia was head of the
Western Province of her Order in
the United States.
‘Otsr Colored Harvest’ Rec
ords Its Activities
The July issue of Our Colored
Harvest, published in New York,
carries the following story about
the work for the colored people
carried on in Charleston under
the direction of the Most Rev.
Emmet M. Walsh, D.D., Bishop of
Charleston, by the Holy Ghost
Fathers and the Oblate Sisters of
Providence. The article is illus
trated by a splendid picture of
Immaculate Conception School,
built by Bishop Walsh, and of the
student body, faculty and gradu
ating class.
The energetic and apostolic zeal of
the Most Rev. Emmet M. Walsh, D.D.,
Bishop of Charleston, in South Car
olina, has made it possible for the
colored Catholic youth of Charleston
to receive their elementary and sec
ondary education in one of the finest
schools in the city, if not in the coun
try.
The new Immaculate Conception
School, a fire-proof building contain
ing 14 classrooms and costing approx
imately $80,000, was built in 1930. The
former school, an old building, once
used as a chapel, served for 27 years.
There the Sisters of Our Lady of
Mercy of Charleston conducted a
grammar school for the colored for
13, years. These Sisters contributed
in no small measure to the success of
the Catholic schools for the colored
children in Charleston.,
The demand for workers in the ed
ucational field throughout his dio
cese caused the late Bishop Russell
to enlist the services of the Oblate
Sisters of Providence of Baltimore
for the colored schools. Under the
direction of these Sisters the enroll
ment of the Immaculate Conception
School increased yearly until the
new building was erected.
More than five hundred pupils have
been enrolled during one term in the
new school. A high school course
was begun in September, 1930, and
the first graduates received their di
plomas in 1934. The high school de
partment is state accredited.
With few exceptions, every one of
the two hundred colored Catholic
children of school age in the city at
tends the Immaculate Conception
School. The number of non-Catholics
in attendance is very large, the in
stitution being open to all irrespec
tive of creed. Many of the high
school students are received into the
Church before graduation while oth
ers come for instructions in after
years. The high school students are
also the instruments in interesting
many, adults in the teachings of the
Catholic Church.
This year 13 graduates received
their diplomas from the hand of Bish
op Walsh. His Excellency charged the
students with their duty of carrying
into practice the lessons inculcated
during their years spent in the
school.
A scholarship in Xavier University,
New Orleans, La., was awarded to
Portia Smith for general excellence
in her studies. Another scholarship
to Morehouse College, Atlanta, Ga.,
was won by Joseph English.
To Bishop Walsh who traveled the
country begging the funds with
which the school building was erect
ed, great credit is due. Certain it is
that his priestly heart must be cheer
ed at thought of the many Negro
leaders who will go out of the Im
maculate Conception School to in
fluence the lives of countless thou
sands with whom they will come in
contact. May God bless Bishop Walsh
for his foresight and breadth of vi
sion which is not hemmed in by the
suffocating prejudices of an anti
quated order.
To the Holy Ghost Fathers who
have charge of the colored work in
Charleston goes a congratulation
upon their part in bringing to pass
a new era in the mission history of
Charleston.
Mrs. Needham Visits
South African Lands
Columbus Parishoner Finds
Much of Interest There
COLUMBUS, Ga.—Mrs. Richard
Needham of this city, and a member
of Holy Family parish, recently ad
ded new territory to that she had
already visited as most traveled resi-
lent of Columbus when she toured
South Africa.
Johannesburg, which next month
observes its centennial, Mrs. Need
ham found a miniature New York;
fifty years ago there were only a few
scattered houses there. She visited
the Kimberly diamond mines, the re
nowned Victoria Falls, and the great
government parks which abound in
wild animals; Mrs. Needham saw
lions and other ferocious beasts there.
She went down into a gold mine in
the South African fields. On the re
turn via Europe, the boat stopped at
St. Helena, Napoleon’s isle of exile.
Mrs. Needhan is spending the sum
mer since her return in Asheville, the
custom of the Needham family for
thirty years.
BLESSED SACRAMENT
SISTERS PROFESSED
Cardinal Dougherty Of
ficiates at Philadelphia
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
PHILADELPHIA — Nine novices
made their profession in the Congre
gation of the Sisters of the Blessed
Sacrament in the chapel of the
motherhouse of the Congregation,
Cornwells Heights. (The Sisters con
duct our Lady of Lourdes School, At
lanta, and St. Peter Claver School,
Macon, Ga.)
His Eminence Dennis Cardinal
Dougherty, Archbishop of Philadel
phia, presided at the ceremony, and
received the vows of the Sisters. The
Rev. Thomas Murray, of Philadelphia,
celebrated the Profession Mass and
the Rev. Bonaventure McIntyre. O. F.
M., of Garfield, N. J., delivered the
Sermon.
Those who made their profession
are: Sisters Mary of Perpetual Help,
(Miss Grace Pilon, of Ecorse, Mich.);
Mary Rosalie, (Miss Rose Mary Can
non, of Cornwells Heights, Pa.); Ma
rie Michel. (Miss Eileen Marie Mc
Intyre, of Eden, N. Y.); Mary of the
Sacred Heart, (Miss Mary Josephine
Hickey, of Ireland); Mary Alma,
(Miss Etta Mary Egan, of Ireland);
Mary Miguel, (Miss Katharine Chris
tine Barrett, of Ireland); Mary John
Vianney, (Miss Mary Elizabeth Ma
han. of Boston); Mary Francita, (Miss
Anna Maria Mahoney, of Boston), and
Mary Albertine, (Miss Helen Geor
gette Wackerman, of Philadelphia).
EVIDENCE GUILD TO
MEET AT BALTIMORE
(By N. W. C. News Service)
BALTIMORE—The program for the
the fifth annual meeting of the Na
tional Catholic Evidence Guild Con
ference, to be held in this city, Sep
tember 18-20. has been completed and
announced. The Evidence Guilds are
meeting here at the invitation of the
Most Rev. Michael J. Curley, Arch
bishop of Baltimore.
Baltimore, will give an address of
• welcome and reports will be made
by Thomas J. Diviney, of New York,
and Henry B. Sullivan, of Detroit,
secretary and treasurer of the Na
tional Catholic Evidence Conference,
respectively. Justin McAghon, of
Newark, N. J-, president of the con
ference, will preside. O’Brien Atkin
son of the Catholic Evidence Guild,
of New York; J. Abel Mills, of the
Union County Catholic Evidence
Guild; Miss Helen Roach, of the Ca
tholic Evidence Guild, of Broolyn;
John J. O’Connor, of the Catholic
Evidence Guild, of Washington: Jas.
V. Hayes, of the Catholic Evidence
Guild of New York; and other lead
ers are on the program.
Father Philip O’Mara Pastor
—Father John LaFarge, S.
J,, Delivers the Sermon
(Special to The Bulletin)
HENDERSONVILLE, N. C.—The
Most Rev. William J. Hafey, D. D.,
Bishop of Raleigh, officiated at
the dedication here late in August
of the new Church of the Immaculate
Conception, a beautiful and stately
addition to the churches of the Dio
cese, Bishop Hafey was assisted by
the Rev- Philip O’Mara, pastor of the
parish, whose zeal is mainly respon
sible for the erection of the splendid
church.
The Rev. John B. O’Mara, pastor of
St. Rosalie’s Church. Brooklyn, N. Y.,
and brother of Father O’Mara, was
celebrant of the Mass, with the Rev.
Walter Arnold of Lenoir as deacon,
the Rev. Howard Lane as sub-deacon,
and the Rev. Father Ronald, of Ashe
ville as master of ceremonies.
Bishop Hafey felicitated Father
O’Mara and his parishioners on the
erection of the church and on the
flourishing spiritual life of the parish;
His Excellency recalled the early his
tory of the parish and its develop
ment, referring particularly to the
splendid school under the direction
of the Religious of Christian Educa
tion.
The sermon was delivered by the
Rev. John LaFarge, S. J.. associate
editor of America, New York, and
one of the most widely known Ca
tholic priests in the United States;
Father LaFarge. the son of the fa
mous painter of that name, is a des-
scendant of Benjamin Franklin.
The new church will be a perteural
reminder, Father LaFarge said, of
the promise of God that He will stand
by us if we are faithful to him. Fath
er La Farge traced the rise and fall
of nations to demonstrate that the
wages of sin is death for nation as for
individuals, and that peace and ma
terial propsperity are the rewards in
this life for peoples who obey the law
of God.
MRS. J. T. WILLIS DIES
IN MACON AT AGE OF 71
(Special To The Bulletin)
MACON, Ga.— Mrs. J. T. Willis, for
sixty years a resident of Macon, died
here early in September at the age of
71. Mrs. Willis had been ill three
months. She and Mr. Willis observed
the golden jubilee of their marriage
two years ago. Mrs. Willis was a de
voted member of St. Joseph’s Church,
from which the funeral was held, the
Rev. Peter McDonnell, S. J., pastor,
officiating. Interment was in St. Jo
seph's Cemetery. Surviving Mrs. Wil
lis in addition to her husband are
three sons. W. J. Willis, E. Willis and
R. A. Willis, all of Macon; two daugh
ters, Mrs. D- E. Moore of this city and
Mrs. W. J. Kressel of Jacksonville,
Fla.: one brothers. William Cull inane
of Charleston, S. C.. and two sisters,
Mrs. Jose Courier of Charleston and
Mrs. Ed Shinholser of Tampa, Fla.
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