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men’s Association
of Georgia.
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“To Bring About
a Friendlier
Feeling Among
Neighbors Irre
spective of Creed”
VOL. XVII. No. 10
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, OCTOBER 17, 1936
ISSUED MONTHLY—$2.00 A YEAR
C. L. A. Convention in Augusta November 8
Bulletins
CATHOLIC ALUMNAE at the
convention of their International
Federation at Dallas, Texas, re-elect
ed Mrs. William H. Connell, Jr., of
Pittsburgh, president. Mrs. George
Bradford, of New York, Miss Mar
garet Shields, Dallas, and Mrs. Er
nest A. O’Brien, Detroit, were elect
ed vice presidents, Miss Naomi Lar
kin, Avalon, Pa., recording secretary,
Miss Anna Hassinger, New Orleans,
corresponding secretary, and Miss
Mabel Wingate treasurer.
REV. JOHN P. THILLMAN, C. S.
C., one of the founders of the Uni
versity of Portland, died at South
Bend, Ind., last week. He was for
many years pastor of Sacred Heart
Church on the Notre Dame campus.
CATHOLIC CHAPLAINS of state
and federal prisons will attend "a two
week institute at the Catholic Uni
versity of America, Washington, D.
CX, October 19-31.
A CONVENT at Venissieux, near
Lyons, France, was attacked by rad
icals last week who stoned the build
ing at night. This is the fourth inci
dent of its kind reported in France
recently.
SISTER ANTONIO, one of the six
Sisters of the Franciscan Communi
ty at Syracuse, N. Y„ who volun
teered to assist Father Damien at the
Leper Colony at Molokai in 1888, ob
served her Golden Jubilee at Molo
kai recently. All but two years of
her religious life lias been spent
working among the lepers.
REV. EDWARD B. JORDAN, of
he Catholic Sisters College _ at the
Catholic University of America, has
leen named a domestic prelate with
he title of Rt. Rev. Msgr., according
o an announcement received from
tome by the Most Rev. Thomas C.
I'Rcilly, D.D., Bishop of Scranton.
REV. THOMAS J. McDONNELL,
national director of the Society for
the Propagation of the Fatih, is giv
ing the current Catholic Hour series
over the National Broadcasting net
work each Sunday evening at six,
Eastern Standard Time; the series is
sponsored by the National Council of
Catholic Men.
QUEBEC, with a population of 130,-
000, has 119,000 French Canadians,
and of these all but 350 are Catho
lics, a recent census shows. There
are 4.100 Irish ,of whom 3,600 are
Catholics, 4,000 English, of whom 1,-
600 are Catholics, 1,143 Scots 600 of
Whom are Catholics, and some small
er groups, including 110 Chinese, of
whom 57 are Catholic.
FIVE FIRES have been discovered
recently in Ontario churches, all of
them evidently of incendiary origin;
two were discovered in one week.
The fires were discovered before ex
tensive damage was done. A fire at
the parish church at Chippewa, On
tario, caused damage of 870,000, how
ever; the cause of the fire has not
been determined.
Cardinal Pacelli Warmly
Welcomed to United States
His Excellency the Most Reverend
Amleto Giovanni Cicognani, Apostol
ic Delegate to the United States, will
deliver an address to the Sixteenth
annual convention of the National
Council of Catholic Women which
will be broadcast over the nation
wide blue network of the National
Broadpasting Company. Immediately
preceding the address of His Excel
lency, the Rt. Rev. Msgr. John J.
Burke, C. S. P., General Secretary of
the National Catholic Welfare Con
ference, will greet the delegates.
Archbishop Cicognani and Monsignor
Burke will speak from Washington,
D. C„ on Monday, October 19. The
broadcast will take place between
10:45 and 11:15 a. m„ Eastern Stand
ard Time. The Convention of the N.
C. C. W. is to be held in Galveston,
Texas, October 17 to 21.
LOS ANGELES GIVEN
ARGHDIOGESAN RANK
Bishop Cantwell First Arch
bishop of New Province
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
The Most Rev. John J. CantwelLD.D.
WASHINGTON—Word has been re
ceived at the Apostolic Delegation
here from Vatican City of the con
stitution of a new Ecclesiastical Prov
ince of Los Angeles and the erection
of the Diocese of San Diego.
The new Province will include,
besides the Archdiocese of Los An
geles, the Diocese of Monterey-Fres-
no, Tucson and San Diego as suffra
gan sees. The Most Rev. John J. Cant
well has been named Archbiship Of
Los Angeles.
The Diocese of San Diego will be
made up of San Diego, Imperial,
Riverside and San Bernardino coun
ties in California. The Church of St.
Joseph in San Diego will be its
Cathedral Church.
The new Province, according to the
1936 edition of “Th* Official Catho
lic Directory,” has a Catholic popu
lation of more than half a million
souls, divided as follows: Los Angeles
and San Diego, 322,000; Montgomery-
Fresno, 102,717; Tucson, 89,236.
With the constitution of the Prov
ince of Los Angeles, there are now
sixteen Ecclesiastical Provinces in the
United States, the others being: Balti
more, Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati,
Dubuque, Milwaukee, New Orleans,
New York, Philadelphia, Portland in
Oregon, St. Louis, St. Paul, San An
tonio, San Francisco and Santa Fe.
Cardinal Dougherty Named
Legate to Manila Congress
(Cable, N. C. C. W. News Service)
VATICAN CITY.—Appointment of
His Eminence Dennis Cardinal
Dougherty, Archbishop of Philadel
phia, as Legate of His Holiness Pope
Pius XI to the Thirty-third Interna
tional Eucharistic Congress, to be
held at Manila, Philippine Islands,
February 3-7, 1937, is announced offi
cially here in Osservatore Romano.
—PUCCI.
When Cardinal Dougherty goes to
Manila as Papal Legate to the Thirty-
third International Eucharistic Con
gress next February, he will be re
turning to a territory in which he
has already rendered brilliant service
to the Church. There he has governed
two Sees.
Thirty-three years ago Cardinal
Dougherty went out to the Philip
pines to confront a stupendous task.
In 1903, after having served as a pro
fessor in the Seminary of St. Charles
Borromeo, Philadelphia, for 13 years,
he was named the twenty-eighth
Bishop of Nueva Segovia, Philippine
Islands, a See which had been erect
ed in 1595. He was consecrated Bish
op in the Chapel of St. Paul of the
Cross in the Basilica of SS. John and
Paul, in Rome, on June 14, 1903.
The task which confronted the
newly consecrated Bishop was made
clear to him in Rome in these words:
“Your seminary is dismantled. Its
students are scattered we know not
where, and, therefore, at the very be
ginning of your administration, you
must take to the Philippine Islands
with you, in order to open that semi
nary, trained priests.”
The new Bishop proceeded to his
diocese by way of the United States,
passing some time in Philadelphia,
where he appealed for workers to as
sist him in the Islands. The appeal
was answered, and though the Bish
op and the priests who went out to
the Philippines with him found vir
tually everything in a state of chaos,
faith in God andindomitable zeal con
quered. Bishop Dougherty studied the
Spanish language that he might bet
ter serve his people, and in the five
years that he governed the See of
Neuva Segovia established an envi
able reputation as an administrator.
On April 18, 1908, Bishop Dougherty
was transferred to the Diocese of
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Bishop O’Hara Represents
Cardinal Dougherty in
Greeting Papal Secretary
of State in New York
BY HENRY Cl FLYNN,
(Staff Correspondent, N. C. W. C.
News Service).
NEW YORK.—Greeted as his liner
arrived at quarantine by the Apostol
ic Delegate to the United States and
members of the Heierarchy, includ
ing representatives of the four Amer
ican Cardinals, His Eminence Eu
genio Cardinal Pacelli, Papal Secre
tary of State and Camerlengo of the
Holy Roman Church, was acclaimed
by a throng of clergy, religious and
laity as he set foot on American soil
last Thursday.
The Cardinal’s visit is historic in
that it is the first time a Prince of the
Church holding the exalted office of
Papal Secretary of State has come
to this country.
In the party that made the early-
morning trip by cutter down New
York Bay to quarantine to board the
liner, “Conte di Savoia,” and accom
pany the Cardinal on the last few
miles of his memorable journey
were:
His Excellency the Most Rev. Am
leto Giovanni Cicognani, Apostolic
Delegate to the United States; the
Most Rev. John Gregory Murray,
Archbishop of St. Paul; the Most
Rev. Francis J. Spellman, Auxiliary
Bishop of Boston, formerly attached
to the Papal Secretariat of State, rep
resenting His Eminence William Car
dinal O'Connell, Archbishop of Bos
ton; the Most Rev. Stephen J. Dona
hue, Auxiliary Bishop of New York,
representing Cardinal Hayes; the
Most Rev. George L. Leech, Bishop
of Harrisburg; the Most Rev. Gerald
P. O’Hara, Bishop of Savannah and
former Auxiliary Bishop of Philadel
phia, representing His Eminence Den
nis Cardinal Dougherty, Archbishop
of Philadelphia; the Most Rev. Will
iam D. O’Brien, Auxiliary Bishop of
Chicago, representing His Eminence
George Cardinal Mundelein, Arch-
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ALL SEMINARIES IN
MEXICO ARE CLOSED
Twelve Mexican Bishops
Being Forced to Live Oujt-
side Their Dioceses
BY CHARLES BETICO,
(Mexico City Correspondent, N. C. W.
C. News Service)
MEXICO CITY.—Not one of the 33
Dioceses of the Mexican Republic has
a Seminary. All have been closed by
the authorities and the buildings and
properties that they occupied, owned
by the Dioceses, have been declared
the property of the National Govern
ment.
The law prohibits the establish
ment of seminaries and property
owners dare not rent their buildings
for such use lest they, too, lose then-
property through nationalization.
It is true that ecclesiastical stu
dents, seven or nine of them, study
together in their domiciles with such
assistance as t)iey can get from Cath
olics, but despite the smallness of
their numbers both teachers and stu
dents are frequently denonunced to
the authorities, persecuted and fined.
When the authorities surprise one of
these groups, it is dispersed but only
to meet in some other place.
TWELVE MEMBERS of the Mexi
can Hierarchy find it necessary to
reside outside their dioceses. Three
are in Texas; nine are in Mexico
City.
The three prelates residing in Tex
as are the Archbishop of Morelia, the
Bishop of Huejutla and the Bishop of
Tamaulipas. The first two are ex
iles, the third, the Most Rev. Serafin
Armora y Gonzalez, is permitted to
visit his diocese but finds it inadvis
able to reside there.
The prelates residing in Mexico
City are the Archbishops of Oaxaca
and Durango, and the Bishops of
Vera Cruz, Papantla, Huajuapam de
Leon, Tehuantepec, Chiapas, Hermo-
sillo and Campeche. These dioceses
are principally in the States of Oax
aca, Durango, Vera Cruz, Chiapas,
Tabasco, and Campeche.
BISHOPS, ABBOT AND
OTHER NOTABLES ARE
PLANNING TO ATTEND
Conferring of Laetare Medal
to Feature Twenty-First
Annual Gathering of Lay
men’s Association
Fr. O'Hara Coming
From the University
Bishop O’Hara to Preside at
Ceremony of Presentation
The Very Rev. John F. O’Hara, C.
S. C., president of the University o£
Notre Dame, who will represent the
University at the convention of the
Catholic Laymen’s Association of
Georgia and the conferring of the
Laetare Medal.
EYE-WITNESSES TELL
OF MURDERS BY REDS
Two Religious Saved by For
eign Citizenship See Their
Confreres Murdered
(By N. C. W. C. News Agencq)
WASHINGTON, D. C.—Two young
Claretian Missionaries released by the
Spanish radicals because they were
citizens of Argentina, and who were
eye-witnesses of the execution of
their brother religious, have written
the details to the Very Rev. Eugene
Sugranes, C.M.F., superior of the
Claretian College at the Catholic Uni
versity.
Sixty Red soldiers entered the
monastery at Barbastro in Spain and
arrested the religious there, ten
priests, forty students and ten lay-
brothers; no charges were preferred
against them. Six were shot on the
brink of their open graves, within
the hearing of the other prisoners; the
bodies were then covered with quick
lime and dirt. Then:
“The Communists returned at mid
night to the prison where the Clare-
tians were detained. Here they tied,
with strong ropes, by pairs, 20 Clare-
AUGUSTA, Ga. — Four Bishops,
the Most Rev. Gerald P. O'Hara, D,
D., Bishop of Savannah, the Most
Rev. Patrick J. Barry, D. D., Bishop
of St. Augustine, Rev. William J.
Hafey, D. D., Bishop of Raleigh,
and the Most Rev. Emmet M. Walsh,
Bishop of Charleston, the Rt. Rev.
Vincent Taylor, O. S. B., D. D.,
Abbot-Ordinary of Belmont, and
many other notables will attend the
twenty-first convention of the Cath
olic Laymen’s Association of Geor
gia here November 8, a convention
which will be featured by the con
ferring of the Laetare Medal on
Richard Reid, editor of The Bulle
tin, and publicity director of the
Laymen’s Association, by the Uni
versity of Notre Dame, through its
president, the Very Rev. John F.
Hara, C.S.C.,- who will be a guest
of honor at the convention.
The Laetare Medal will be con
ferred at ceremonies at the audi
torium of the Junior College of Au
gusta, at which Bishop O’Hara will
preside. His Excellency will be pre
sented by Alfred M. Battey, presi
dent of the Catholic Laymen's As
sociation of Georgia, and Bishop
O’Hara will in turn present the
speakers, who will include a repre
sentative of the Georgia Press, a rep
resentative of the Catholic Press, and
Father O’Hara, who will present the
award to Bishop O’Hara for bestow
al on the recipient. Bishop O'Hara's
address will follow, with a response
by the medalist.
The convention will open with a
Missa Cantata Coram Episcopo at
St. Patrick’s Church at nine o'clock,
the Rev. Leo M. Keenan, pastor, be
ing celebrant of the Mass; the ser
mon will be delivered by Bishop
O’Hara. Assisting at the Mass will
be Georgia's three Papal Knights,
in the uniforms of their rank, Sir
Jack J. Spalding, Knight of St.
Gregory and Knight of Malta, Sir
James J. Haverty, Knight of St.
Gregory, and Sir Andrew E. Martin,
Knight of Malta- \
The convention session will open
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Great Catechetical Congress
Ends Sessions in New York
(Special Correspondence, N. C. W. C.
News Service)
NEW YORK, N. Y.—The “extraord
inary success” of the National Cate
chetical Congress of the Confraterni
ty of Christian Doctrine, which closed
its four-day deliberations last week
with a banquet at the Waldorf-As
toria Hotel, was acclaimed by His
Eminence Patrick Cardinal Hayes,
Archbishop of New York, in a cable
gram he sent to the Holy Father.
Cardinal Hayes, who was patron of
the sessions, read the message to the
2,000 persons who attended the ban
quet.
Seventeen Bishops attended the
Congress, which included among its
speakers the Most Rev. Emmet M.
Walsh, D. D., Bishop of Charleston,
and the Most Rev. Gerald P. O’Hara,
D. D., Bishop of Savannah.
His Excellency the Most Rev. Am
leto Giovanni Cicognani, Apostolic
Delegate to the United States, was a
guest of honor at the banquet. He
brought the greetings of the Holy
Father to the Congress. Other guests
included the Most Rev. John T. Mc-
Nicholas, O. P., Archbishop of Cin
cinnati, and the Most Rev. John
Gregory Murray, Archbishop of St.
Paul, 15 Bishops, 19 monsignori, and
several score of prominent lay Cath
olics. Supreme Court Justice Edward
S. Dore, of New York, was toastmas
ter.
Cardinal Hayes thanked the dele
gates for giving an “inspirational
message” not only to Catholics but to
Americans of every creed. Addresses
were also given by Archbishop Cic-
ornani and by the Rt. Rev. Msgr.
Fulton J. Sheen, of the Catholic Uni
versity of America.
The obligations of American Cath
olics to promote the \ ork of the Con
fraternity of Christian Doctrine were
stressed by the Most Rev. Edwin V.
O’Hara, Bishop of Great Falls, in a
radio address over Station WLWL of
the Paulist Fathers. Bishop O’Hara
was chairman of the Episcopal Com
mittee on the Confraternity of
Christian Doctrine. More than 3,000
delegates from all parts of the Unit
ed States were in attendance.
FOUR MOTHERS gave their opin
ions concerning religious instruction
in the home at a general session of
the 3,000 delegates.
Representing the Catholic mothers
of America, the four mothers who
spoke urged a greater freedom of ex
pression and inquiry, and parental
example consistent with the teach-
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