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AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, MARCH 27, 1937
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Communism, Curse to World, Holy Father Says
Bulletins
Laetare Medalist
THE HOLY FATHER has so much
Improved in health that he plans to
participate actively in the Holy Week
and Easter ceremories. His recent
encyclical, his letter to the Church in
Germany, and his presiding over a
meeting of twenty-six Cardinals on
March 11 one other indications of his
Improved health.
HIS HOLINESS presented the Gol
den Rose to the Queen of Italy on
Laetare Sunday, blessing the Golden
Rose for presentation to the Queen
through Archbishop Borgongini Du-
ca, Papal Nuncio to Itay.
THE MARYLAND House of Dele
gates killed a sterilization bill by a
vote of fifty to forty-seven.
NORTE DAME U. has announced
thirty scholarships in social service
training and apologetics in the grad
uate department, the scholarships to
taling §14,000
CARDINAL HAYES presided at a
Pontifical Mass St. Patrick's Day at
St Patrick’s Cathedral, New York,
Bishop Donahue being celebrant of
the Mass.. The annual parade had 50,-
000 marchers, and was viewed, it is
estimated, by a million persons. Gov
ernor Alfred E. Smith and Postmaster
General Farley were speakers at the
153rd Annual dinner and the Friendly
Sons of St. Patrick.
NEW YORK STATE’S Bishops ex
pressed their disapproval of the pro
posed “Child Labor Amendment” at
a public legislative hearing in Albany,
Bishop Gibbons of Albany acting as
their spokesman. Bishop Gibbons said
that the Bishops favor every proper
means to safeguard children and they
endorse the child labor laws of the
State ef New York, but they regard
this amendment as conferring exces
sive power on Congress, power which
belongs to the parents and which, if
conferred on any legislative body,
should be resolved to the legislatures
of the state.
Bishop O’HaraReturnsFrom
Manila Eucharistic Congress
His Excellency Welcomed by
Delegation as He Arrives at
Station in Savannah
BISHOP McATJLIFFE of Hartford
In a statement to the Connecticut
Legislature’s Federal Relations com
mittee asserted that the proposed
amendment makes possible the sup
planting of parental authority _ by
government power directly exercised
in the home, and opens the way for
compulsory education of a particu
lar and prescribed type, for compul
sory military training, for compul
sory camp life and similar plans
which it implicitly author) zs.
INTERRACIAL JUSTICE, by the
Rev. John LaFarge, S. J., associate
editor of “America”, is announced by
the American Press, a work develop
ing the thesis that racial disputes will
yield to the solvent of Catholic so
cial ethics.
DR. JEREMIAH D. M. FORD
HARVARD PROFESSOR
LAETARE MEDALIST
Dr. Jeremiah D. M. Ford
Chairman of Romance Lan
guages Department,Namet
MISS ANNE SARACHON HOOL-
ey, chairman of the youth committee
of the National Council, of Catholic
Women, and a past president of the
National Council, has been elected a
member of the national board of di
rectors of the Girl Scouts of America.
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
NOTRE DAME, Ind. — Dr. Jere
miah D. M. Ford, chairman of the
Department of Romance Languages
of Harvard University and Fellow of
the American Academy of Arts and
Sciences, was announced on Laetare
Sunday as recipient of the Laetare
Medal, bestowed annually since 1883
by the University om Notre Dame
upon an outstanding member of the
Catholic laity.
Recognized as the highest honor
Catholic layman can receive in the
United States, similar award has pre
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Holy Father Again Protests
Nazi Attacks on the Church
(Cable. N. C. W. C. News Service.)
VATICAN CITY.—In his Encycli
cal Letter addressed to the Bishops
of Germany and inspired by a father
ly benevolence toward the German
people, His Holiness Pope Pius XI
has put in bold relief the attacks
upon Catholic doctrine contained in
errors being widely propagated in the
Reich and vigorously protests against
the persecution to which the Church
is being subjected in that country.
Asserting that the Concordat nego
tiated between Germany and the
Holy See remains in large part un
fulfilled by the German government,
Pope Pius reveals that, it was “not
without effort’’ that he gave his con
sent when the Reich Government pe
titioned the re-opening of negotia
tions for this agreement nearly four
years ago.
“In spite of many and grave mis
givings,” the Holy Father says, “We
came then, though not without ef
fort, to a determination not to deny
our consent. We wished to spare
our faithful and our sons and daugh
ters of Germany insofar as it was
humanly possible the trials and trib
ulations which otherwise they would
have had to expect in view of the
conditions of the time.
“We desired to demonstrate, indeed,
to all that We were seeking only
Christ and things that belong to
Christ and not to refuse to extend to
anyone, if he himself does not spurn
it, the peaceful hand of the Mother
Church.”
The Most Rev. Gerald P. O’Hara,
D. D., Bishop of Savannah, arrived
home early Friday morning, March
12, from the International Eucharis
tic Congress at Manila which he at
tended as a member of the official
staff of the Papal Legate, His Emi
nence, Cardinal Dougherty, Arch
bishop of Philadelphia; Bishop O’Hara
was appointed a member of the Le
gate’s staff by the Holy Father. His
Excellency was met at the station
on his return by a delegation of cler
gy from the city.
During his absence from the city
and state, which he left on Christ
mas morning, Bishop O'Hara circum
navigated the globe, going from Sa
vannah to Philadelphia, where he
joined the Cardinal’s party, sailing
from New York December 27 for
Havre, and going to Rome via Paris.
From Rome, after Cardinal Dough
erty received his credentials from the
Holy Father, the party sailed from
Naples, stopping off in Egypt, going
through the Suez Canal, the Indian
Ocean and the South China Sea to
Manila, and returning via Japan and
the Pacific. At San Francisco Car
dinal Dougherty, Bishop O’Hara and
the other members of the party were
tendered a great reception at a ban
quet; Archbishop Mitty of San Fran
cisco accompanied the party from
Manila to San Francisco. Bishop
O’Hara paid a brief visit to his father
and mother in Philadelphia before
returning to Savannah.
BISHOP CONTINUES
VIVID DESCRIPTION
OF CONGRESS TRIP
In the January and February
issues The Bulletin was privileged
to present intensely interesting
accounts of the joumeyings of the
Papal Legate and his party from
the pen of His Excellency, Bishop
O’Hara. Despite the innumerable
demands on his time after his re
turn, Bishop O’Hara has favored
The Bulletin with the following
further description of the trip,
and proihises a further install
ment for the next issue of The
Bulletin.
Mexican Archbishop
MSGR. MARTINEZ
ARCHBISHOP NAMED
FOR MEXICO CITY
ENCYCLICAL LETTER
CALLS ON WORLD TO
OPPOSE TERRORISM
His Holiness Appeals for
Living Wage and Better
Conditions for Workers
Archbishop Martinez Suc
ceeds Late Archbishop Diaz.
Was Seminary Rector
Recounting how “We have done
everything to defend the sanctity of
the solemnly plighted word and the
involability of obligations voluntar
ily contracted,” the Encyclical says
His Holiness has not found it possi
ble to remain silent in a situation
where “from the other side, there
arose as an ordinary rule, distortion
of facts, their evasion, their voiding
and finally their more or less open
violation.”
Pope Pius says that “paternal solic
itude for the good of souls counsels
Us not to leave out of considera
tion any prospect, however slight, of
a return to the fidelity of contracts
and to an understanding such as Our
conscience will permit,” and adds
that “in this hour when Faith is tried
as true gold in the fire of tribula
tion and persecution," and “when
they are hemmed in by thousands of
forms of organized restriction of their
religious liberties,” his spiritual chil
dren “have a double right to a word
of truth and moral encouragement”
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On January 23rd at seven in the
morning, the “Conte Rosso” dropped
anchor in the choppy waters of the
Harbor of Colombo, “The Pearl of
the Orient” as it is called. Ceylon
is an isle of beauty, luxuriant in its
tropieal foliage, in the endless variety
of its flowers and in the luscious
ness of its fruits. Beautiful parks
elegantly laid out ore a delight to
the eye, and the shade of their trees
invites one to seek shelter there from
the blazing heat of the sun. We land
ed in Colombo from jo. launch, since
the “Conte Rosso” was too big a
ship to be docked at a pier. The
first person to greet the Cardinal and
our party was Bishop Pierre Marque,
O. M. I., the Bishop of Colombo. Our
visit there was all too brief. We saw
the splendid churches and other in
stitutions of the city, particularly the
large Cathedral. One notices how
in the construction of churches and
other buildings in this climate, provi
sion has to be made to admit as much
air as possible. As a consequence,
churches give the impression of being
made mostly of doors and windows.
Some of the passengers found time
to drive to Kandy, high in the in
terior of the island, where there is
located the Jesuit Seminary which
provides for the education of most
of the secular priests in Ceylon and
India. I made this trip on a former
occasion, and on the way it became
a commonplace to meet huge ele
phants slowly meandering along the
side of the road, almost as numerous
as the cows that one meets along
certain roads in Georgia! The ele
phants, of course, are domesticated
and merely give a lazy wink to pas-
sersby. Ceylon is, as everybody
knows, famous for its tea, and all
over the countryside one sees many
a future cup of orange pekoe in the
bud.
VATICAN CITY. — The Most Rev.
Luis Martinez, Titular Archbishop of
Mistia and Coadjutor Archbishop of
Morelia, has been named. Archbishop
of Mexico City by His Holiness Pope
Pius XI.
The appointment of Archbishop
Matinez as Archbishop of Mexico City
fills a See that has been vacant since
the death of Archbishop Pascual Diaz
last May.
Archbishop Martinez was bom in the
Archdiocese of Michoacan, Mexico, 56
years ago. He was ordained to the
priesthood in 1904, and two years lat
er became vice-rector of the Morelia
seminary. He was created Titular
Bishop of Anemurio and Auxiliary
Bishop of Morelia on July 8, 1823. He
was made Titular Archbishop of Mis
tia and Coadjutor Archbishop of
Morelia on November 10, 1934.
The Archbishop of Morelia, whose
Coadjutor Archbishop Martinez has
been, is His Excellency the Most Rev.
Leopoldo Ruiz y Flores, Apostolic
Delegate to Mexico, now living in
exile in the United States.
The appointment of Archbishop
Martinez has evoked splendid reac
tion. The Mexican newspaper Ul-
times Noticias de Excelsior, editorial
ly commends him as a man of knowl
edge and prudence, “who will know
how to ward off easily the eddies of
anti-Catholic fury in a manner com
patible with the dignity of his minis
try.” He is a former professor of
philosophy at the Seminary Triden-
tino at Morelia, and later prefect of
studies and rector. As rector he in
creased the library to 80,000 volumes
and equipped the observatory and
physics laboratory with the most
modem apparatus.
m JB j day
our next scheduled stop, which was
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VATICAN CITY—Pope Pius XI,
in an encyclical letter strongly de
nouncing “atheistic Communism”,
pleaded for proper living wages for
the working man as a matter of jus
tice and net “alms.” ....
The Holy Father showed that his
recent illness has not impaired his
vigor by writing an important social
document which in effect proposed
a charter of rights of labor.
The Pontiff said that in addition to
the sad plight in which “liberal eco
nomics had left the working man, two
other factors undoubtedly have hast
ened this diffusion of Communism by
clever, widespread propaganda, or
ganized with diabolical perfection,
and the inexplicable silence of a large
section of the press in the face of the
spread of Communism.
“The wage earner,” he added, “is
not to receive as alms what is due in
justice, and let no one attempt by
trifling chariatable donations to ex
empt himself from the great duties
imposed by justice”.
There was necessity, the encyclical
said, for a new, solemn document ex
posing the errors of Communism and
contrasting with them the salutary
truth taught in the Church.
The Pope proposed remedies to be
employed against “very modern ills”.
He epitomized the remedies by invit
ing “all our children to a renewal of
Christian life”. •
The Pope particularly urged upon
the faithful: “Detachment from
worldly goods and attachment^ to
Christian charity, especially justice.
. . . Justice above all, which should
induce employers of labor to recog
nize the inalienable right of the
workman to a salary which is suffi
cient to himself and his family, and to
safeguard even in labor his lasting
dignity as a man and child of God”.
The Catholic Action Organization,
the encyclical said, particularly
must distinguish itself in this field.
The encyclical appealed especially
to Catholic workers to “put aside
their vain and tragic differences and
unite in this great struggle”. It plead
ed to all those who believe in God
to resist the furious attacks of the
godless, adding “even the state should
play its vital part in the hope of vic
tory by assisting the activity of the
Church, by adopting timely measures
and by giving an example of wise and
prudent administration”.
BISHOP KEYES LOSES
SISTER IN IRELAND
Readers of The Bulletin will regret
to learn of the death in Ireland re
cently of the eldest sister of the Most
Rev. Michael J. Keyes, S.M., DJJ..
retired Bishop of Savannah, now of
Marist College at the Catholic Uni
versity of America. Bishop Keyes
some months ago lost an older broth
er by death. He visited his sister in
Ireland last spring. The sympathy
of all his friends go out to His Excel
lency, and their prayers for the re
pose of the soul of Miss Keyes as
well.
Anglican Bishop of Gibraltar
Tells of Burning of Churches
BY GEORGE BARNASD
(London Correspondent, N. C. W. C.
News Service)
LONDON.—The Anglican Bishop of
Gibraltar, Dr. Harold Buxton, de
clares that the report of the church
men who went to Spain on a tour of
investigation is “wholly inadequate”.
Writing to the Times, he says:
“Although it was stated in your col
umns that the Churchmen’s Mission
went to Spain ‘with the full knowl
edge and permission of the Church of
England,’ no reference was made by
them to me until after their plans had
been determined. If it had been, I
would have advised them to visit both
sides, and not to go as the guests of
either party.
“X must protest that their report is
wholly inadequate as an account of
‘alleged atrocities’ against the Church
in Spain.
“I have been visiting Spain each
year for four years past. I have seen
a progressive deterioration of the or
gans of government during this pe
riod and witnessed the burning of
the historic church at Niebla last
April (1936)—one of several hundreds
of buildings wantonly destroyed un
der the eyes of the authorities.
“The Churchmen’s Mission does no!
represent the Anglican Church, ot
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