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CH 27, 1937
THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC L AYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
FIFTEEN
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DR. CHARLES COGHLAN,. one of
seven brothers who were physicians,
and the son of a physician, died at
Nottingham, England, early in March.
Dr. Coghlan, a Catholic, was amateur
heavyweight champion of Scotland in
3903.
NEW ORLEANS is completing its
eleventh Catholic Church for Negroes,
St. David's now in charge of the Jo-
sephite Fathers. Archbishop Rummel
will dedicate it..
PAUL V. MURRAY, a graduate stu
dent at the Catholic University of
America, has been named first prize
winner of the Intercollegiate Histor
ical Essay Contest sponsored by the
American Catholic Historical Society
of Philadelphia. His subject was:
"The Church and the First Mexican
Republic, 1822-1830.”
A CAPETOWN, South Africa, lis
tener of the Catholic Hour, broadcast
from New York each Sunday evening
at 6 o’clock, writes of the impression
the broadcast is making there, where
the broadcasting hour coincides with
an early hour Monday morning. It
took the letter the better part of a
month to reach the United States.
LOYOLA UNIVERSITY in New Or
leans will offer the degree of Bach
elor of Education, starting with the
new term in September, Father Har
old A. Gaudin, S.J., president, an
nounces.
The Cardinal in Japan
REV, EDWARD L. STEPHENS has
been named director of a diocesan
mission band, which will give mis
sions to non-Catholics in the Diocese,
Bishop Peter L. Ireton, coadjutor
Bishop of Richmond, announced at
the apnual conference of the clergy
of the Diocese.
EIGHT MARIANISTS from the
United States were ordained at the
University of Fribourg in Switzer-
land last week by the Bishop of Lau
sanne, Geneva, and Fribourg. They
will return to the United States in
August at the end of the summer ses
sion of the University.
TWO FRANCISCAN Missionaries,
Father Pegorario and Brother Pas
chal, captured at a leper settlement
in Tibet in 1934, are still held captive.
BISHOP GRANDIN, O. M. I., of
Edmonton, Canada, died in 1892, was
discussed as a prospect for beatifica
tion by the Congregation of Rites late
in February.
MRGR. JOHN W. McMAHON, of
Boston, oldest alumnus of the North
American College in Rome, is dead
at the age of 90. He was ordained in
Rome in 1872.
MRS. NICHOLAS F. BRADY, nee
Miss Genevieve Garvin, has present
ed her palatial Long Island residence,
"Inisfada,” to the Society of Jesus as
a house of philosophy and theology.
Cardinal Pacelli was entertained at
“Inisfada’’ on his recent visit; the
estate has an 87-room mansion and
about one hundred acres of land.
ST. PATRICK, MO., believed to be
the only city in the Uinted States
named for St. Patrick, observed its
centenary on St. Patrick's Day.
RUSSIA'S DIPLOMATS have been
ordered to become members of the
organization of the Godless as of Jan
uary 1 of this year, reports from Mos
cow say. Statues of the Savior, the
Saints and the Pope are being made
to be used by youths in their target
practice. The Godless organ com
plains thatinone district holy pic
His Eminence Dennis Cardinal Dougherty, Archbishop of Philadelphia,
Papal Legate to the International Eucharistic Congress, speaking at a din
ner tendered him by Premier Senjuro Hayashi of Japan, at the Premier's
official residence in Tokyo. The Premier is seated at the Cardinal’s left.
Archbishop Mitty of San Francisco and Bishop O’Hara of Savannah were
guests of honor.
tures were found in sixteen out of
eighteen homes. In a recent cross
word puzzle in a Moscow puzzle, the
answer prescribed for: “What do we
Russians no longer believe in?” was
“God.”
JUSTICE McCOOK, of New York,
recently overruled a petition for in
junction sought on the ground that
the transportation of students to Cath
olic schools by public buses was un
constitutional.
THE PAINESVILLE, O., Telegraph
devoted the first page of a special
section recently to tributes to Father
Paul J. Hallinan, a former member
of its editorial staff, on the occasion
of his first Solemn High Mass there
after his ordination as a priest.
TORONTO is recovering from a
tempest occasioned by the action of
a Protestant teacher in illustrating
current events by a picture among
others of Pope Pius XI, seriously ill.
Orange lodges protested vigorously,
but the school board refused to do
more than “receive” the letter of pro
test.
BEST SELLERS among Catholic
books in recent weeks are announced
by the Catholic Journal as follows:
Fiction. Coming of the Monster, Dud
ley (Longmans, Green); Angels’
Mirth, Eliot (Sheed and Ward);
King's Good Servant, White (Mac-
millan); As the Morning Rising, Van
Sweringen (Benziger); Rose Deep-
rose, Kape-Smith (Harper); non-fic
tion, Chesterton’s Autobiography,
Belloc’s Characters of the Reforma
tion and Lunn’s Within That City
(Sheed and Ward); Road to Peace,
Daly (Bruce), and Fire on the Earth,
Furfey (Macmillan).
REV. JEROME DePENCIER, edi
tor of The Servite and vice-president
of the Catholic Press Association, re
cently completed a series of four ad
dresses on the Catholic Press over
the radio from Chicago.
SENATOR WALSH, of Massachu
setts, in an address over the Nation
al Broadcasting network, cited Wash
ington’s dependence on divine assist
ance, and asserted that without such
reliance today civilization is doom
ed. The address was a Washington's
Birthday broadcast.
SENATOR PATRICK BURNS, of
Canada, one of the Dominion's great
ranchers, is dead at Calgary, Alta.,
at 81. Senator Burns once refused
a knighthood, and refused a seat in
the senate before subsequently ac
cepting it.
BISHOP JOHN CODY was conse
crated for the See of Victoria by the
Archbishop of Ottawa in the Cathed
ral at the Canadian capital late in
February.
HELEN P. McCORMICK. founder
and president of the Brooklyn Big
Sisters, died late in February. Bishop
Kearney and many other' notables
were at the funeral of the distin
Loyola s Retiring and New President
guished Catholic social worker.
FATHER HUBBARD, S. J., profes
sor of geology at Santa Clara Uni
versity, and famed as the “glacier
priest,” is about to leave on a two-
year stay in the Arctic during which
he hopes to prove definitely the ex
istence of land in that now unknown
area north of Siberia and northwest
of Point Barrow, Alaska, and carry
out other exploration efforts.
MRS. AGNES MOLEY, mother of
Raymond Moley, editor of News-
Week and a pioneer member of Pres
ident Roosevelt’s “Little Cabinet,”
died in Berea, O., late in February.
She was a member of St. Mary’s
Church, and was 83 years old. Mon-
signor Clement Treiber, pastor, was
celebrant of the Solemn High Mass
or Requiem.
ROBERT SHERWOOD, a student
in the Episcopal General Theological
Seminary in New York, where he
was preparing for the ministry, has
been received into the Catholic
Church at Benedictine Priory at
Portsmouth, R. I. Mr. Sherwood
is a resident of Indianapolis and a
graduate of Harvard University.
JOSEPH P. KENNEDY of Boston
has been selected by President Roose
velt as chairman of the Maritime Com
mission. He was formerly chairman of
the securities commission, in which ca
pacity he rendered distinguished ser
vice.
CHCAGO’S ALDERMEN recently
named a Chicago street Cabrini
Street in honor of Mother Cabrini,
foundress of the Missionary Sisters of
the Sacred Heart, who died in Chica
go in 1917. The order now has 4,000
members and conducts a large hospi
tal in the Midwest metropolis.
DANIEL McCORMACK, formerly
national president of the Ancient Or
der of Hibernians, died in Philadelphia
early in March. Mr. McCormack head
ed the national organization for nine
years.
MISS ANN S.HOOLEY, president of
the National Council of Catholic Wom
en, cited the essential objects of a pro
gram for youth in a national broad
cast over the National Broadcasting
network early in March, the first of a
series sponsored by the National Coun
cil of Catholic Women. Such a pro
gram must include recreation, cul
tural appreciation, intelectual balance
and vocational guidance, all against a
spiritual background, Miss Hooley
said.
REV. HARRY E. FOSDICK of River
side Drive Baptist Church, New York,
in an address before the Protestant
Teachers Association deplored the lack
of religious education for the youth of
America and said that “we must find
the means, even while we keep Church
and State separate, of giving the boys
and girls of the nation an opportunity
to become acquainted with, possessed
by, the great character-producing
faiths of our race.”
GOV. FRANK MURPHY of Michi
gan received the gold medal of the
American Irish Historical Society at
the 40th annual dinner of the organi
zation at Hotel Astor recently. James
McGurrin of New York, president gen
eral of the society, presided.
THE NATIONAL Broadcasting Com
pany in cooperation with the National
Council of Catholic Men will broad
cast addresses over a national net
work during Holy Week; they will in
clude programs Holy Thursday and
Good Friday from 10:30 to 11 p. m., and
Holy Saturday afternoon from 3 to
3:30. Monsignor Sheen will speajf Good
Friday night, and the St. Francis Sem
inary Choir. Milwaukee, will render
the Holy Saturday program. Mon-
signor Sheen will close his series Eas
ter Sunday at 0 p. m. All times here
recorded are Eastern Standard.
LIFE OF JESUS by Francis Mauriac,
translated from the French by Miss
Julie Kernan, is the Catholic Book of
the Month Club choice for March.
H a l'r>es,S. J- (left), distinguished educator, who recently retired as president of
he , f n v erS1 ^ i° £ th ? 5° ut £» New Oifrqns, and his successor, the Very Rev. H. A. Gaudin, S. J.. the fir-t
native of New Orleans to head the University. -
JOHN McCORMACK has presented
a statue of Abraham Lincoln to the
Irish Fre State, and President deVa-
lera has accepted the gift in the name
of the Free State.
THE KING OF ENGLAND will drop
the title ‘ Defender of the Faith” when
he is crowned in May: every King of
England since Henry VIII has included
that title in the coronation oath. The
King will promise to maintain the
Protestant Reformed Religion in the
United Kingdom; previously he made
such a promise for Britain's dominions
and colonies.
JOHN P. DEVANEY, president of the
newly organized National- Lawyers
Guild, was lauded for his “humanita
rian outlook on life” when Marquette
University conferred the honorary de
gree of Doctor of Laws on him in 1935.
He is a former chief justice of the Su
preme Court of Minnesota.
THE PRO FAKVL'LIS Book Club for
children announces as its current se
lections “Drums in the Forest”, Allan
Dwight (Macmillan), "Sword of the
Wilderness”, Elizabeth Coatswortb
(Macmillan), and “The Ship's Parrott".
Honore Mororw (Morrow). The first is
for boys from 10 to 14. the second for
girls the same age, and the last for
children under ten.
Speaker at Manila
MANILA—The need of an intel
ligent, vigilant and conscientious
laity to combat the enemies warring
upon the Church today was em
phasized by Joseph Scott, Los An
geles layman and noted public
speaker, in an eloquent address de
livered at the first international
assembly of the Manila Eucharistic
Congress.
The vast throng assembled on the
Luneta heard Mr. Scott point out
that just as the early missionaries
faced physical hardships and dangers,
and often martyrdom, those of today
must face infidelity, skepticism,
atheism and Communism, and must
bring with them the same gospel, the
same command for service, sacrifice
and self-denial.
priest-playwright, will direct it, and
leading playwrights of the United-
States and Europe will participate in
it.
REV. P. J. O’CONNOR, formerly of
Savannah, now of the faculty of the
Catholic University, will give a new
course, “Voice and Diction”, at the
University Summer School.
JOSEPH A. CARROLL was elected
president of the Baltimore section of
the Holy Name Society recently. Mr.
Carroll for a number of years was ac
tive in St. Martin’s Council of the Na
tional Council of Catholic Men.
Host to Educators
A DRAMATIC ARTS course will be
among these given this summer at the
Catholic University cf America; the
'Her. Dr. ' Urban ' Nagle',* O: P., 'ft'bted
The Most Kev. John A. Flocrsl
Bishop of Louisville (above), wh
will be host to the 34th annual meel
ing of the National Catholic Educs
ticnal Association, convening Marc
31 to April 2. (Rieger photo). Re'
Dr. Felix N. Pitt, (below) Secretai
of the Louisville Diocesan Soho
Eoard, chairman of committee on ai
rimgements. '' <*•>*(*-»>