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VOL. xvm NO. 2
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, FEBRUARY 27, 1937
ISSUED MONTHLY—J2.00 A YEAH
“To Bring About
a Friendlier
Feeling Anung
Neighbors Irre
spective of Creed”
Published by the
Catholic Lay
men’s Association
of Georgia.
150,000 in Eucharistic Congress Procession
En Route to Congress
His Eminence, Dennis Cardinal Dougherty, Papal Legate to the inter
national Eucharistic Congress, on board the Conte Rosso in Naples, just be^
fore sailing for Manila. With His Eminence is Bishop O’Hara of Savanna!
and a representative of the Italian government.
Bulletins
BISHOP DUFFY, of Syracuse, wall
be installed as Bishop of Buffalo at
St. Joseph’s Cathedral, Buffalo, April
14, His Eminence, Cardinal Hayes,
Archbishop of New York, presiding.
HILAIRE BELLOC, lecturing at
Fordham University, in his fust ap
pearance there said that civilization
is coming to a most precarious crisis,
and men under forty will live to see
a revolutionary clash on a large scale.
ABBOT VALENTINE KOHLBECK,
O. S. B., of St Procopius Abbey,
Lisle, IlL for eighteen years, died last
week on his seventy-third birthday.
Born in Bohemia, now Czechoslova
kia, he was one of the highest rank
ing Czech prelates in the United
States. He was a Chicago pastor from
1888 to 1897.
JAMES A.. FARLEY,. Postmaster-
General, honored by the President
and other party leaders at a ^historic
testimonial dinner last week, is the
first Catholic ever appointed to serve
two full terms in the cabinet. He is
also the first Catholic to serve m the
cabinet in thirty-two years. Roger
Taney and Charles Bonaparte served
in two different posts in the cabinet.
THE CATHOLIC REVIEW of Bal
timore, editorially expresses its dis
approval of the President’s plan to
increase the Supreme Court by six
members. Monsignor John A. Ryan,
of the Catholic Univeristy, in an ad-
dress before the Manchester, N. H.,
City Club, favored the President’s
proposals.
RICHMOND will be host to the
convention of the Catholic Rural Life
Conference the week of November 7.
DOCTORS HEARTENED
BY POPE’S CONDITION
Although Still an Invalid,
Holy Father Is Much Better
(Radio. N. C. W. C. News Service)
VATICAN CITY.—Received in au
dience by His Holiness, Pope Pius XI,
today, Father Agostino Gemelli, O. F.
M., president of the Pontifical Acad
emy of Science, was astonished and
consoled to find the Holy Father’s
condition so much improved. Father
Gemelli, who is a physician, had vis
ited the Pope during the more se
rious stages of his illness.
While the Pope’s constitutional con
dition naturally remains the same,
because the recently revealed, illness
cannot be eliminated, and pains and
other evidences return periodically,
nevertheless, while consistently re
taining the full vigor of his intellec
tual faculties, he has now regained
the normal use of his physical facul
ties, so that he can attend to the or
dinary duties of his exalted office.
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CHURCH KILLINGS IN
MEXICO STIR ANGER
PRESIDEN QUEZON, of the Com
monwealth of the T-nilippines , and
Mrs. Quezon were awarded the Inter
national Eucharistic Congress Medal
at the Presidential Palace shortly be
fore he left for the United States on
official business. The only other
S erson receiving the medal was the
lost Rev. Guglielmo Piani, Aposto
lic Delegate to the. Philippines.
THE SIT-DOWN STRIKE is an
alien importation, the Rev. Dr. Ed
mund A. Walsh, S. J., of George
town University, said in a lecture last
week in Washington. It was the ide-
tical process sanctioned by Lenin and
elsewhere in Europe, he asserted and
it results in a weakening of respect
for the fundamental law of the land.
M. MASSIANI. Paris correspondent
of the N. C. W. C. News Service,
has been elected president of the
Syndicate of French Journalists.
Populace Forcibly Reopens
Edifices in Vera Cruz After
Worshippers Are Killed
WORLD WAR VETERANS have
been appointed to posts in the hier
archy in France. Bishop Dierre Dur-
ieux, Bishop of Le Puy, has been
named Archbishop of Chambery. Can
on Evrard of Calais is appointed
Bishop of Meaux. Both were ser
geants of infantry; Archbishop Dur-
ieux was cited on the battlefield in
1918 and Bishop Evrard was made a
prisoner at Fort Douamont in Feb
ruary, 1916.
LOUISVILLE will entertain the an
nual meeting of the National Catholic
Educational Association March 31-
April 2, despite the recent flood, the
Association and Louisville authorities
announce.
BISHOP McNALLY, of Hamilton,
Ont., has been named Archbishop of
Halifax, to succeed the late Arch
bishop O’Donnell. Bishop McNally
is a native of Canada, and was a fel
low student in Rome of Cardinal Pa-
ceili.
BY CHARLES BETICO
(Wire, N. C. W. C. News Service)
MEXICO CITY—Governmental re
pression of the religious feelings of
Catholics in the important Stats of
Vera Cruz, which has deprived the
people of religious service? and kept
the churches closed for several years,
finally resulted in an outDurst at
Orizaba, in Vera Cruz State, last
week which is causing the federal as
well as the state government grave
concern.
With the feelings of the people
roused to high pitch when two wor
shippers at a clandestine Mass were
killed (secular papers have reported
only one) and others were wounded,
it is believed, but are hiding to avoid
arrest, the net results of swiftly
moving events in the last few days
are:
1— At least half a dozen churches
have been reopened by a determined
throng of Catholic men and women,
50,000 of whom are guarding these
churches night and day- and, accord
ing to the latest advices from Orizaba,
are proceeding to reopen others which
had been reclosed after being opened
ed earlier in the week.
2— Federal troops that were lushed
to the scene to preserve order, are
looking on but, thus far, have shown
no disposition to reclaim the church
es or disperse the people.
3— It is understood that President
Lazaro Cardenas is exerting efforts
to avoid bloodshed and to see that
the churches which were illegally
closed are restored to the people.
4— The new governor of Vera Cruz,
Migouel Aleman, is understod to be
taking a like position, seeking to
avoid any further actual clash,
JESUIT KILLED—The Rev. Pedro
Maldonado S.J., was removed from
BISHOP O’HARA IS
PREACHER AT FINAL
MASS IN MANILA
200,000 at Ceremony—Holy
Father Addresses Congress
via Radio From Rome
Cardinal Dougherty, accompanied by Cardinal Ascalesi, Archbishop of
Naples, as he is about to board the Conte Rosso at Naples.
BY PABLO S. KATIGBAK
(Special Correspondent, N. C. W. C.
News Agency)
MANILA — A triumphant proces
sion in which more than 150,000 per
sons participated Sunday evening,
February 7, brought to a glorious
close the Thirty-third International
Eucharistic Congress, the vast throng
assembling in the Luneta for Benedic
tion of the Most Blessed Sacrament
and to hear over the radio from Vat-
ican City the voice of. His Holiness
Pope Pius XI extending his personal
blessing to all who took part in the
great demonstration of Faith. Fully
half a million, it is estimated thronged
the route to watch the great proces
sion. ,
In the morning another vast throng
—estimated at 200,000—attended the
Pontifical Mass celebrated by His
Eminence Dennis Cardinal Dougher
ty. Papal Legate and Archbishop of
Philadelphia, in the Luneta. The
Most Rev. Gerald P. O'Hara, D. D.,
Bishop of Savannah delivered the
sermon.
Following the Holy Father’s bless
ing in the evening, Cardinal Dough
erty delivered his final address and
then the Congress, the greatest event
in the history of the Church in the
Orient, was brought to a close.
Perhaps the most edifying events
of the Congress occurred on Satur
day, officially designated as “Chil
dren’s-Day”, when the youth of the
Philippines paid their reverential
tribute to the Eucharistic King. In
the morning some 60,000 children took
part in the ceremonies in the Luneta,
assisting at Mass and receiving Holy
Communion.
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I
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Message of the Holy Father
to the Eucharistic Congress
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Communism Would Bring
Slavery, Archbishop Asserts
(Cable, N. C. W. C. News Service)
VATICAN CITY—A fervent pray
er for peace was offered by His Ho
liness Pope Pius XI in a message
broadcast all the way from Vatican
City to Manila, Philippine Islands,
where hundreds of thousands were
gathered for the closing exercises of
the Thirty-third International Eu
charistic Congress.
Saying that, while he has already
addressed them in letters given his
Legate—His Eminence Dennis Car
dinal Dougherty, Archbishop of
Philadelphia—he was pleased to
speak to them “with the paternal
accents of Our own voice,” Pope
Pius called, upon the Congress pil
grims to “let all your energies be
bent to this goal: that your wander
ing brothers and all those ‘who sit
in darkness and in the shadow of
death’ may as soon as possible attain
GEN. FRANCO PLANS
TO SEEK CONCORDAT
through Him to light, truth and
life.”
- (By N. C. W. C. News Service)
CINCINNATI—Victorious Commun
ism would mean in America another
Civil War, not to abolish slavery but
to make slaves of American citizens,
the Most Rev. John T. McNicholas,
O. P„ Archbishop of Cincinnati, de
clares in a pastoral on “Communism:
Its Evils and Its Causes.”
The pastoral, published in pamphlet
form, was read in all churches in the
Archdiocese during Lent. Copies were
distributed by pastors to every Cath
olic family; permission has been given
pastors to divide the letter into three
parts to be read on successive Sun
days. Priests preached two sermons
on Communism during Lent.
Freedom of speech, the priceless
heritage of all Americans, would be
come under Communism Russian
freedom, that is, “the duty to speak
in favor of the Government.” the
Archbishop warns, and our freedom of
speech would be considered counter
revolution, the penalty of which is
death.
Discussing the causes of Commun
ism, Archbishop McNicholas rebukes
certain labor union officials who are
“prompted by motives of self-interest”
and declares that capitalists and in
dustrialists who still believe in in
dustrial slavery must “have a change
of heart.” These, he asserts, have “di
vorced religion from government,
education, social life and finances
with disastrous results to society.”
“This manifold divorce,” he says, “has
prepared the country for the spread
of-Communism.”
“The failure of our public schools
to train our youth in religion and
morality,” he states, “has deprived our
boys and girls of their greatest safe
guard against Communism.”
His Holiness prayed that all men
may acknowledge, adore and follow
Jesus Christ “for He alone ‘hath the
words of eternal life’ so that with the
general restoration of public tran
quility and the reconciliation of
souls in iustice and chanty, the
peace of Christ may finally shine
upon the wearied race of men.”
It was at exactly two o’clock that
Father Filippo Soccorsi, S. J., Direc
tor of the Vatican City radio station,
announced the Papal message to the
Manila Eucharistic Congress.
Pope Pius read his message from
the main hall of his private apart
ment where he now holds audiences.
A microphone was set up in this sa
lon expressly for this broadcast. The
only one present in the room at the
time of the broadcast were the Holy
Father’s secretaries Monsignor Carlo
Confalonieri and Monsignor Diego
Venini, His Holiness’ physician, Dr.
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“Republic” Failed Because
It Was Not a Republic,
Rightist Leader Says
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
NEW YORK. — If the Rightists wm
the present Spanish Civil War a Con
cordat will be drawn- up with the
Vatican to determine the Catholic
Church’s position under the new
government, General Francisco Fran
co, Rightist leader, cabled here in
answer to questions sent to him by
Roy W. Howard, president and edi
tor of the New York World-Telegram.
Citing American public in the civil
war, Mr Howard cabled inquiries tr
General Franco and Premier Largo
Caballero, of the Leftist Government.
General Franco’s reply was the only
one received up to thU time.
Mr. Howard's question regarding
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WOMEN’S DAY
With thousands of the nation’s lead
ing women celebrities and women so
cial workers attending, the Women’s
Day of the Thirty-third international
Eucharistic Congress culminated on
Thursday in a demonstration of un
paralleled devotion and reverence at
the Luneta. The memorable day was
featured by a general Communion
for women at 6:30 a. m., which was
followed by a Mass at which distin
guished visiting prelates officiated.
This was preceded from 4 to 6:30 a. m.
by Masses celebrated by various Car
dinals, Bishops, Prelates and priests
in all the city's leading churches and
chapels, notably in Quinapo, Paco,
Recoletos, Tercera Orden Chapel, San
Francisco, San Augustin, University
of Santo Tomas, St. Scholastica’s
Cathedral and San Sebastian.
The Mass in the Luneta was cele
brated by the Most Rev. Januarius
Hayasaka, Bishop of Nagasaki, Japan,
and the sermon, in Spanish, was de
livered by the Most Rev. Gabriel M.
Reyes, Archbishop of Cebu, Philip
pines.
Police authorities declined to make
an estimate of the huge crowd that
attended on Women’s Day, although
seasoned observers placed the im
mense gathering on the Luneta at
between 30,000 and 40,000—or more.
As on the previous day, during the
formal opening of the Congress, no
untoward incident marred ‘the cele
bration, and as usual the cordons of
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Journey of Legate’s Party
Recorded by Bishop O’Hara
In the previous issue, The Bulle
tin recorded the progress of the Pa
pal Legate, His Eminence, Cardinal
Dougherty, Archbishop of Philadel
phia, Bishop O’Hara and their party
from New York, where they left the
day after Christmas, to Havre, Paris,
through the French and Italian Alps,
Turin, Florence and Rome, where His
Eminence was received by the Holy
Father, who at that time was serious
ly ill, but whom His Eminence found
cheerful and happy. Cardinal Dough
erty in the course of his conference
with the Holy Father obtained from
His Holiness a special blessing for
Bishop O’Hara and the Diocese of Sa
vannah.
The Bulletin has the privilege of
presenting in this issue a most inter
esting account of the journey of the
Papal Legate and his party from His
Excellency, Bishop O'Hara, who in a
series of letters vividly describes for
his people in Georgia and other read
ers of The Bulletin the incidents of
the voyage from Italy to the Orient
via the Mediterranean, the Suez Ca
nal, the Red Sea, the Indian Ocean,
the China Sea and the Pacific. Bishop
O’Hara writes to The Bulletin as fol
lows:
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ABOARD THE CONTE ROSSO
We spent a week in Rome. During
that time many visitors called on His
Eminence, among them practically all
the Cardinals of the Roman Curia
and many others, Archbishops, Bish
ops and other prelates holding tha
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