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Published by the Catholic Lay men’s Association of Georgia. Ikiitt “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 Continued on Page 10 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- Continued on Page 10 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 Continued on Page 10 Continued on Page 9 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- Goniinued on