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VOL. XVin, No. 4
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, APRIL 30, 1937
ISSUED MONTHLY—52.00 A YEAR
Savannah See Diocese of Savannah-Atlanta
Bulletins
NEW ORLEANS will be host to the
eighth National Eucharistic Congress
October 17 to 21 of next year, Arch
bishop Rummell of the Archdiocese of
New Orleans announces.
BISHOP THOMAS WALSH of
Newark, N. J., last week broke ground
for a new seminary for the education
of priests for the Diocese. The semi
nary will accommodate 300 students
and will cost $1,500,000.
REV. JAMES J. McLARNEY, O. P.,
is giving the current Catholic Hour
series over the National Broadcasting
Company network, under the auspices
of the National Council of Catholic
Men. The Rev. R. A. McGowan will
begin his series May 9.
A CATHOLIC ACTION Summer
School will be conducted in New Or
leans, at Loyola University, for’ the
South August 2 to 7, and Archbishop
Rummel has given It his hearty ap
proval. Others will be held in Buffa
lo, August 16-21, and Chicago, Au
gust 30-September 4.
ROCHESTER, N. Y., will be host to
the annual convention of the Cath
olic Press Association May 20-22, with
Archbishop Mooney, Bishop Francis
Clement Kelley of Oklahoma City and
Tulsa and Bishop John Mark Gan
non of Erie, episcopal chairman of
the N.C.W.C. Department of Press, as
guests of honor.
THE DIOCESE OF NATCHEZ will
observe its centennial in the fall, at a
date to be announced later, Bishop
Richard O. Gerow of the Mississippi
See announces.
BIRTH CONTROL legislation adop
ted by the Puerto Rico Legislature
seems to have been inspired by of
ficials in Washington, Bishop Willing-
er, C. SS. R., Bishop of Ponce, says in
a statement to his priests and people
denouncing the bill.
Georgia Jesuit Scholastic,
Ceylon Missionary, Is Dead
Dies in Orient
REV. MR. JOHN J. O'CONNOR, S. J.
CATHOLIC U. RECTOR
HONORED RY POPE
ANNE O’HARA McCORMICK, not
ed Catholic newspaper woman, has
been awarded one of the four prizes
for professional achievement of the
New York Newspaper Women’s Club
by her New York Times feature story
on the “Hitler Legend.” Mrs. McCor
mick started her newspaper career on
the Cleveland Catholic Universe after
her graduation from St. Mary of the
Springs College twenty-five years ago.
MANUEL QUEZON, first President
of the Philippine Commonwealth, was
awarded the honorary degree of Doc
tor of Laws at Founders Day exer
cises at Georgetown University. Sim
ilarly honored also were Dr. D. Percy
Hickling of the Georgetown School of
Medicine and Charles A. Keikwin of
the Georgetown University School of
Law.
EDWARD K. HANLON, famed
manager of the old Baltimore Orioles
when they won five National League
pennants, died in Baltimore recently.
He was a devoted member of Corpus
Christi Church, and lived across the
street from the church for many
years.
Msgr. Corrigan Is Named
Prothonotary Apostolic
(Radio, N. C. W. C. News Service)
VATICAN CITY. — The Rt. Rev.
Msgr. Joseph M. Corrigan, Rector of
the Catholic University of America,
has been named a Prothonotary Apos
tolic and two members of the Univer
sity faculty have been named Domes
tic Prelates with the title of Right
Reverend Monsignor. The faculty
members honored are the Rev. Dr.
Francesco G. Lardone, Professor of
Roman Law, and the Rev. Dr. Patrick
Joseph Healy, Professor of Church
History.
His Holiness Pope Pius XI received
Monsignor Corrigan in audience
April 14. The Rector presented to the
Holy Father the first copy of the new
constitutions of the Catholic Univer
sity. His Holiness re-emphasized his
paternal affection and high regard for
the Catholic University of America,
and told Monsignor Corrigan that it
must grow always more resplendent
as a shining light in American life.
Pope Pius alsomanifested the utmost
interest in the golden jubilee of the
Catholic University at Washington, to
be observed in 1939.
Monsignor Corrigan sailed for the
United States aboard the liner Rex.
He leaves Rome in perfect health.
Rev. Mr. John J. O’Connor,
S. J., of Augusta, Was
Studying Theology in India
AUGUSTA, Ga.—The Rev. Mr.
John J. O’Connor, S. J., of this city,
who volunteered three years ago as
a -missionary in Ceylon, died early
in April in India, where he was
studying theology. Death was due
to pneumonia, according to word re
ceived here.
Mr. O’Connor was the son of Mrs.
J. J. O'Connor and the late Mr.
O’Connor, of Toledo, O., formerly of
this city. He was born here, a mem
ber of one of Augusta’s most widely
known and pioneer Catholic families,
his grandfather, the late J. J. O’Con
nor, being for many years sheriff of
Richmond County, of which Augusta
is the county seat. He was educat
ed at Sacred Heart Academy, Cath
olic High School and the Richmond
Academy; at Richmond Academy he
was star quarterback of the eleven,
and everywhere his genial, friendly,
modest character made him one of
the most popular of the city’s young
men.
Called to the religious life, he en
tered the Society of Jesus, and made
his novitiate at St. Charles College,
Grand Coteau, La., completing his
classical studies there also. He then
entered the Jesuit College of Phi
losophy at Spokane, Wash,, for his
studies in philosophy, returning to
Jesuit High School in New Orleans
for his regency or period of teaching.
Here in addition to being a member
of the faculty he was faculty direc
tor of athletics.
When the Jesuit Province of South
ern United States was asked to take
over the mission of Trincomali in
Ceylon, Mr. O’Connor immediately
volunteered for service there, half
way around the world, although it
meant that he would spend his entire
life there if he should live to be a
hundred. This was three years ago,
and before sailing for his new field
of labor via Europe and Home, he
paid a farewell visit to his relatives
and friends in Augusta and to his
parents and family in Toledo. At
Augusta he was tendered a recep
tion at the home of his aunt, Mrs.
G. Frank Bohler, where hundreds of
his friends. Catholic and non-Cath-
olic, bid him farewell.
Radio Speaker
Lutheran Minister Defends
Rights of Private Schools
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
COLUMBUS, Ohio.—A defense of
the right of parents to have their
children educated in schools of their
own choosing has been written by
Rev. F. J. Lankenau, a leader of the
Lutheran Synod, and is being circu
lated among members of the Ohio
General Assembly.
“It is not true,” he writes, “that
the best interests of democracy de
mand that all children attend our
public schools. Democracy would in
deed be a weak thing if it stood for
the closing of all church and private
schools and the compulsory sending
of all children to the public schools.
A spirit that would demand this
would come dangerously near smell
ing of that same German autocracy
that we fought not so very many
years ago, when we sent our sons to
Europe to fight it out on the bloody
fields of Flanders and France.
“Are we ready to deprive our
American parents of their Godgiven
rights to care for their children, also
along educational lines, as they see
fit and their conscience demands?
We are well aware of the fact that
the state has the right and even the
duty, to demand a proper standard
of education. But are we ready to to go on.”
recognize the state as the only edu
cator?
“Are we ready to recognize a state
paternalism which would make the
child the common property of the
state, which also must provide for
the child’s needs, physical, mental,
and moral?
“It is contrary to the very ideals of
democracy to compel me, the Chris
tian father, to turn my child over
into the care of a teacher who holds
religious views subversive to my
Christian faith, and if I, the Chris
tian father, am ready to provide an
adequate education for my child, out
side of the public school system, de
mocracy can surely not consistently
by any sort of legislation deprive me
of that right.
“The chief aim of education is
character building, as everybody
must concede. And if this is true, it
is fair to say that the advantage in
character education is on the side of
the private and parochial school.
“Therefore, rather than hamper
these Christian day schools by ad
verse legislation, the lawmakers of
our country could do their country
no better service than to protect them
in their work and encourage them
Arriving in Ceylon, he immediately
started to learn the language, and
he was soon teaching in the Jesuit
schools there, as he had been in New
Orleans. He was then sent to the Jes
uit School of Theology near Bombay,
to make his studies in theology, his
final step in preparation for the
priesthood in the Jesuit Order, which
he entered in October, 1924, It was
here that he was stricken and died.
Mr. O’Connor is survived by his
mother, his father having died since
he left for the Orient, and by four
brothers and four sisters, one of
whom, the former Miss Antoinette
O’Connor, is now a nun, a member
of the Dominican Sisters in Mich
igan.
Rev. Raymond A. McGowan, As
sistant Director, Social Action De
partment, National Catholic Welfare
Conference, Washington, who will
deliver a series of radio addresses
over the Catholic Hour Program, May
9 to May 23, under the sponsorship
of the National Council of Catholic
Men. Father McGowan will speak
on “America's Road Out”, the ap
plication of tlie great Papal Encycli
cals on economic life. (Hessler-
Henderson Photo.)
K. OF C, CONVENTION
TO MEET IN TEXAS
54th Annual Session Opens
at San Antonio Aug. 15
HOLY FATHER TAKES
AUTOMOBILE RIDES
U. S. Plans Observance of
80th Birthday of Pope
(Cable, N. C. W. C. News Service)
VATICAN CITY. — His Holiness
Pope Pius XI took a drive in an au
tomobile April 11 for the first time
since the beginning of his illness more
than four months ago. His Holiness
entered the machine in the courtyard
of St. Damascus and took a long ride
through the Vatican gardens. He took
other rides on subsequent days.
Pope Pius received the workmen
employed in Vatican City in audi
ence on a recent morning. The work
men, who had just completed their
Easter spiritual retreat, appeared in
their working uniforms and were
presented to the Holy Father by the
directors of the technical office. The
employes, 500 in number, enthusias
tically applauded His Holiness.
In two audiences last week, Pope
Pius received 1,100 newly married
couples. Blessing them, His Holiness
expressed the hope that they will al
ways be good Christians and that
they will raise their children as good
Christians.
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
DETROIT—The fifty-fourth annual
supreme convention of the Knights of
Columbus will be held this year at
San Antonio, Texas, the week be
ginning August 15.
The selection of the historic Texas
city was made at the quartrely meet
ing of the Supreme Board of Direc
tors held here. The Most Rev. M. S.
Garriga, Co-adjutor Bishop of Corpus
Christi and State Chaplain of the
Knights of Columbus in Texas, was
present at the meeting and presented
the invitation to San Antonio in be
half of the Most Rev. Arthur J. Dros-
saerts, Archbishop of San Antonio.
Bishop Garriga was accompanied by
State Deputy Charles K. Walsh and
Grand Knight Henry A. Guerra of
the San Antonio Council.
ARCHBISHOP GURLEY
PROCLAIMS DEGREE
ANNOUNCING CHANGE
Bishop O’Hara in Address at
Ceremony Outlines Reasons
for Historic Move
New Atlanta Church
to Be Co-Cathedral
Bishop Will Reside in Atlanta
at Intervals During Year
The Consistorial Decree regard
ing the Diocese of Savannah-At
lanta will be read at a Solemn
Pontifical Mass at the Church of
Immaculate Conception, Atlanta,
Sunday, May 9, at 11 o’clock, the
Most Rev. Gerald P. O’Hara DD,
B’sliop of Savannah-Atlanta, of
ficiating at the Mass and deliver
ing the sermon.
(Special to The Bulletin)
SAVANNAH, Ga.—In the presence
of the clergy of the Diocese and at
a ceremony attended also by laity
from the various sections of the state,
the Diocese of Savannah, established
in 1850 by a division of the Diocese
of Charleston, on April 16 became the
Diocese of Savannah-Atlanta through
the promulgation in the Cathedral of
St. John the Baptist of a decree of
His Holiness, Pope Pius XI, proclaim
ed by the Most Rev. Michael J.
Curley, D. D., Archbishop of Balti
more and Metropolitan of the Prov
ince, as the representative of the
Holy Father. Archbishop Curley was
appointed to execute the decree by
the Most Rev. Amleto Cicognani, D.
(Continued on Page Three)
Work on Atlanta’s
Co-Cathedral Starts
ATLANTA, Ga. — The contract for
the construction of the new Co-Cath-
cdral of Christ the King has been
awarded by the Most Rev. Gerald P.
O’Hara, D. D., Bishop of Savannah-
Atlanta, and ground for the edifice
broken Sunday, April 18, by the Very
Rev. Joseph E. Moylan, V. F.. pastor
of the new parish. Work on the par
ish school is also being started.. The
church will cost in the neighborhood
of $190,000, according to estimates, and
the school about $80,000. The school
will have eight classrooms, accommo
dating 320 pupils; it will be three
stories high, with an auditorium on
the ground floor. The co-cathedral is
being erected on Peachtree Road, in
the Bucklicad section of the city, one
of the leading residential sections, and
the site has a frontage on three
streets. It formerly was the “Imper
ial Palace” of the Ku Klux Klan, the
“Palace” now being used as a chapel
and residence of the priests, Father
Moylan and the assistant pastor, the
Rev. Thomas L. Finn.
Peace Is First Plea of New
Archbishop of Mexico City
BY CHARLES BETICO
(Mexico Correspondent, N. C. W. C.
News Service)
MEXICO CITY.—“Peace be with
you,” was the greeting of the Most
Rev. Luis Martinez y Rodriguez to
his people at his installation April
14 as Archbishop of Mexico City.
The new Archbishop was acclaimed
upon his arrival at the station by a
large crowd. He went immediately
to the Cathedral where he was met
by the Chapter and officially given
the use of the Cathedral. The Rt Rev.
Msgr. Gregorio Araiza. P.A., read the
Papal Bulls, after which Archbishop
Martinez pontificated at Mass, and
addressed his people. •
“A greeting, a promise, a supplica
tion!” His Excellency said. “My
greeting is the most effusive, the most
loving and the most paternal. It is
that of Christ: ‘Peace be with you.’
That peace which the world cannot
give; peace of the soul. My promise
is to give that peace to you and your
families. My supplication of God, like
the prayers of St. Therese of the
Child Jesus who threw herself bold
ly into the arms of her Father and
expected everything of God, my sup
plication of God is that of a son who
expects Him to give what is neces
sary to be both your pastor and your
father.”
Present at the ceremony were the
Archbishop of Oaxaca, the Bishops of
Chiapas, Tulancingo, Papantla, Cuer
navaca, Zamora San Luis Potosi, Vera
Cruz, Tehuantepec and Tabasco, and
the Titular Bishop of Derbe who is
Auxiliary to the Archbishop of Mex
ico City. Religious Orders and Con
gregations, the various branches of
Catholic Action and other associa
tions were represented. Seated with
other members of the diplomatic
corps were Ambassador and Mrs.
Josephus Daniels, and the Brazilian
ambassador and his wife.
A most unfortunate accident occur
red while Archbishop Martinez was
preaching. A small section of tire floor
gave way and some of the people fell
into the crypt. One was killed and a
number injured.
A banquet in honor of the new
Archbishop was tendered bor tba
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