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APRIL 30, 1937
THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
FIVE
News Review of the Catholic World
ST. PROCOPIUS ABBEY, at Lode,
111, has a new Abbot in the Very
Rev. Procopius Neuzil, O.S.B., for
many years prior, who has been elect
ed to succeed the late Abbot Valen
tine Kohlbeck. Abbot Procopius will
observe the golden jubilee of his or
dination this year.
JOHN C. KELLY, leading advertis
ing exectuive of New York, and a
graduate of Villanova College, has
been named a Knight of St Gregory
by the Holy Father. Last fall, Mr.
Kelly handled the itinerary of His
Eminence, Cardinal Pacelli, during
his visit to this country. He is ac
tive in a number of Catholic organi
zations.
BISHOP BYRNE, of Galveston, will
be invested as a Knight Commander
of the Holy Sepulchre at Houston
April 25. and four noted Texas lay
men, Col. George W. Strake, Robert
Kelley, George Burkitt and Carl
Nessler. the latter mayor of Texas
City, will be made Knights of the or
der. Bishop Francis C. Kelley, Bish
op of Oklahoma City and Tulsa, and
American Prior of the order, will pre
side.
MARSHAL FOCH’S remains have
been placed in their last resting place
in the Invalides, near the tomb of
Napoleon, under the dome of the
chapel. A Requiem Mass was said in
the chapel, and Cardinal Verdier gave
the absolution.
THE STUDENT PEACE Federation
of the Catholic Association for Inter
national Peace in a meeting in Wash
ington heard Dr. Charles G. Fenwick,
the Association’s president, assert that
no nation will disarm unless certain
of protection while disarmed.
REV. LEOPOLD TIBESAR, of the
Maryknoll Fathers, pastor of the
Church of Our Lady. Queen of Mar
tyrs (Japanese) in Seattle, was re
elected president of the Catholic An
thropological Conference at the 12th
annual meeting held at Boston Col
lege. Msgr. Joseph M. Corrigan, rec
tor of the Catholic University of
America, was elected honorary presi
dent.
Explores Mine
MSGR. TIMOTHY CALLAGHAN,
pastor of St. Matthew’s Church, San
Mateo. Cal., since 1885, and the old
est priest in the Archdiocese of San
Francisco, is dead at the age of 92.
President Pledges Efforts
to Extend Religious Liberty
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
NEW YORK.—A message from
President Franklin D. Roosevelt de
claring there can be “no true na
tional life in our democracy unless
we give unqualified recognition to
freedom of religious worship and
freedom of education” was read at a
solemn Mass in St. Patrick’s Cathe
dral. The Mass marked observance
of the 303rd anniversary of the es
tablishment of religious liberty in
Maryland by Cecil Calvert, Lord Bal
timore.
Other letters read were from Gov
ernor Herbert H. Lehman, of New
York; Harry W. Nice, of Maryland;
George O. Peery, of Virginia, and
Robert E. Quinn, of Rhode Island;
Mayor F. H. LaGuardia and Dr. Nich
olas Murray Butler, president of Co
lumbia University. The letters were
read from the pulpit by the Rev.
John LaFarge, S. J., Associate Edi
tor of America.
President Roosevelt pledged him
self “with all the resources at my
command” to further the achievement
of “permanent harmony among the
various elements composing our na
tion.” "My prayer shall be,’’ he said,
“that this nation, under God, may
vindicate through all coming time the
sanctity of the right of all within our
borders to the free exercises of re
ligion according to the dictates of
conscience.”
Mayor LaGuardia's letter declared
that religious hatreds would be an
impossibility if they were not arti
ficially stimulated by “mean, cruel
and selfish men.” *The toleration acts
passed by the Maryland settlers, he
said, established the precedent of re
ligious freedom which “the average
American -regards as an important
part of American philosophy of gov
ernment.”
The Maryland settlers arrived in
this country on March 25, 1634. Since
that was the date on which Holy
Thursday' fell this year, the celebra
tion was postponed.
The Rev. T. Lawrence Riggs, Cath
olic chaplain at Yale University, cele
brated the Mass. The Rev. George B.
Ford, Catholic chaplain at Columbia
University, was deacon, the Rev.
Henry P. Fisher. C. S. P., Director
of the St Paul Guild,, was sub-dea
con.
REV. P. J. DIAMOND, a native ol
Derry, Ireland, and a member of the
Salesians, died in San Francisco at
the age of 74. Father Diamond knew
St. John Bosco personally, meeting
him in Turin when he was a student
for the priesthood. He labored in Can
ada and South America before com
ing to the United States where he
was pastor of the Salesian Church in
New York from 1903 to 1921.
HUGH O’DONNELL, New York
newspaper executive, has been
named temporary chairman of the
committee on American participation
in the Thirty-fourth International Eu
charistic Congress at Budapest, Hun
gary, May 23-27, 1938.
MSGR. JOHN ML HILPERT, assist
ant national treasurer for the Society
for the Propagation of the Faith, died
in his rectory, in St. Catherine of
Genoa Church, Brooklyn, in a fire
which trapped him. Monsignor Ilil-
pert was 52 years old.
FIVE MARYKNOLL NUNS, the first
to be assigned to Japan, have left for
their field of labor. They are Sister
Mary Rachel Jackson, Mansfield, O.,
formerly secretary to the president of
a large tire manufacturering com
pany; Sister Mary Edward Diener, of
New York, Sister Marie Barat of Hat-
sumi, the daughter of Catholic Japa
nese parents, Sister Mary Eleanor
Francis Andrews, graduate nurse of
the Boston City Hospital, and Sister
Maria Hostia Bruns of St. Louis.
This unusual pose of His Emi
nence Jean-Marie Rodrigue Cardi
nal Villeneuve, Archbishop of Que
bec, was taken recently .when, ac
companied by some of his clergy,
he donned a miner’s uniform for
a trip through the King Mine of
the Asbestos Corporation at Thet-
ford Mines, in the Province of
Quebec.
and those of Pittsburgh save the city
¥4,000,000. the Rev. Dr. Paul E. Camp
bell, Diocesan Superintendent of
Schools, says in his annual report.
REV. THOMAS J. McNICHOL, for
merly rector of the American Church
of Santa Susanna in Rome, and for
the past six years superior of the
Paulist Preparatory Seminary in Bal
timore, died late in March at the
age of 66.
MSGR. JOHN J. IIEALY refused to
pronounce the benediction at the con
clusion of the Arkansas Medical So -
ciety here at which sterilization was
advocated, but instead voiced a prayer
for the enlightenment of state officials.
BISHOP SCHLARMAN of Peoria in
a report to Governor Henry Horner
of Illinois on the prison system of the
state, as chairman of a committee
named for that purpose, states that the
prison system as now conducted is
wrong. The system should be chang
ed in such a way as to rehabilitate
those committed to it, he says.
BUDAPEST is already arranging
for the International Eucharistic Con
gress to be held there May 23-27, 1938.
REV. WM. J. RYAN, professor of
English and sacred oratory of St. Ber
nard’s Seminary, Rochester, N. Y., is
dead at the age of 63. Father Ryan
was a native of Rochester and ordain
ed in 1897.
THE INSECT MAN by Eleanor
Doorly (Appleton), and “King Rich
ard’s Squire,” by Regina Kelly (Cro-
ell). are the April book selections for
the Pro Parvulis Book Club, the for
mer for girls from 10 to 14, and the
latter for boys of that age.
RADIO IN FRANCE—Catholics sup
ported by certain Protestant elements
and some neutral groups scored a de
cided victory over the Leftists in the
recent election of members of ad
visory boards to pass on radio broad
casts, their endorsed lists of candi
dates winning in their entirety in the
ten out of twelve districts of the
nation. The result was a reaction to
the radical political propaganda with
which the state owned radio stations
have been loaded since the “Popular
Front” came into power. ?ach radio
owner was eligible to vote in the
election, his receipt for his radio tax
being his passport to the ballot box.
Ten additional members are appoint
ed by radio technicians and artists.
CORONATION DAY will be mark
ed at Liverpool by an open-air Mass
on the site of the new Cathedral of
Christ the King at Liverpool, Arch
bishop Downey presiding. The date
of the coronation is May 12.
CATHOLIC SCHOOLS in South
western Pennsylvania, the Diocese of
Pittsburgh, are freeing the taxpay
ers of a burden of $7,000,000 annually,
GERALD GROOTE and not Thomas
A Kempis is the author of “The Fol
lowing of Christ”, a new edition just
issued by the America Press in New
York asserts. Gerald Groote was the
founder of the Brethren and Sisters
of the Common Life in the fourteenth
century.
MRS. FITZHERBEET, wife of King
George IV of England, was remember
ed with a Requiem Mass at the Church
of St. John the Baptist, Brighton,
Eng., on the centennial of her burial.
Mrs. Fitzherbert, a Catholic, was mar
ried to King George when he was
Prince of Wales, but was never recog
nized as queen.
CARDINAL VERDIER, Archbish-
of Paris, and head of the Sulpicians
throughout the world, observed the
golden jubilee of his ordination ear
ly in April.
THE CHRIST CHILD SOCIETY,
founded by Miss Mary V. Merrick,
an invalid, fifty years ago, is about
to observe its golden jubilee. Miss
Merrick, a Laetare Medalist, and her
society reached nearly four thous
and children through the ministra
tions of her society last year.
JEHOVAH’S WITNESSES, the
anti-Catholic and anti-Protestant fol
lowers of “Judge” Rutherford, have
their transcriptions on 149 radio sta
tions in the United States, Father
Richard Felix, O.S.B., of Pilot
Grove, Mo., who has been making a
survey of their activities, reports.
NEW TESTAMENT Revision will
be completed within the year, if the
hopes of the Editorial Board for the
Revision of the New Testament of
the Catholic Biblical Association of
America are realized, Bishop Edwin
O’Hara of Great Falls, Mont, and
the board announced at a meeting
at the Sulpician Seminary in Bal
timore. More than four-fifths of the
work has been submitted to the ed
itorial board.
but to date no priests have been reg
istered and authorized by the govern
ment to function in the state.
THE REXIST Party with Fascist
tendencies went down to defeat by a
275,840 to 69,242 vote in the recent
Brussels election in Belgium. Cardi
nal Van Roey in a statement before
the election said that the Fascist Rex-
ist party was a danger to country and
Church.
FORMER FORDHAM U.
PRESIDENT IS DEAD
Father Tivnan Stricken in
New York
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
NEW YORK.—The Rev. Edward P.
Tivnan, S.J., former president of
Fordham University, died suddenly
here of a heart attack.
Father Tivnan, who was 55 years
old, was stricken on the sidewalk in
front of the Cenacle of St. Regis,
where he was directing retreats for
several days.
At the time of his death Father
Tivnan was Superior of the Bellar-
mine House of Retreats at Cohasset,
Mass. Bom in Salem, Mass., Father
Tivnan studied at Boston College and
after teaching chemistry there and at
Fordham and further study in Valk-
enburg, Holland, he was ordained in
1914.
Father Tivnan served as Regent of
the Fordham University Medical
School from 1916 to 1919. In the latter
year he was named president of Ford
ham and occupied that office until
1924. From 1924 to 1931 he was Supe
rior of the Fairview Jesuit House of
Studies at Weston. Mass. He became
Superior of the retreat house at Co-
hassett in 1931.
REV. CHARLES WOLF, subprovin
cial of the Southern Missions of the
Fathers of the Divine Word, died in
Bay £'t. Louis, Miss., last week, at the
age of 64. Father Wolf, a native of
Germany, first served in Africa, but
was taken prisoner during the World
War. In 1921 he came to the United
States, was pastor of St. Joseph’s
Church, Meridian, Miss., until 1931,
and then served at Greenville, Miss.,
until named subprovincial last year.
Bishop Gerow of Natchez presided at
the funeral services.
JUDGE ALFRED TALLY, of New
York, has been designated to receive
the DeSmet Medal from Gonzaga
University, Spokane. Wash., in recog
nition of Judge Talley’s outstanding
work for the Catholic Indian Mis
sions of this country and Alaska.
Judge Talley has been president of
the Marquette League for the past
fourteen years, during which the
league has secured nearly 51,000,000
for the Indian missions and erected
over 50 chapels, chiefly through the
Judge’s interest and efforts.
Rescued by Airplane
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THE GRACE LINER “Santa Elena’,’
delayed its sailing from San Francis
co to Mexico so that it would not ar
rive in port Good Friday, in keeping
with its co-operation with the move
ment to observe Good Friday rever
ently. All other ships of the line
took similar precautions.
GOVERNOR MURPHY, of Mich
igan, in an address before several
thousand members of the Holy Name
Society in Detroit, asserted that if
democratic processes - are to survive
there must be an intelligent obedience
to duly constituted authority. He
warned, however, against blind ad
herence to a legalistic philosophy
which ignores the spirit of the lav/.
WILLIAM P. O’CONNELL, manag
ing editor of the Catholic Northwest
Progress, has been named arbitrator
in a dispute on the jurisdiction of
longshoremen working on steam
schooners on the Pacific Coast, the
appointment being made by Secretary
of Labor Frances Perkins.
BISHOP E. V. O’HARA, of Great
Falls, Mont., episcopal chairman of
the Department of Social Action of
the N. C. W. C., has announced that
plans have been completed for sum
mer schools of Catholic Action for
priests in Milwaukee, San Francis
co, Los Angeles and Toledo, under
the auspices of the Ordinaries of
these Sees. The schools will be for
priests not only of these Sees but for
other pircsts interested. Additional
summer schools elsewhere are being
arranged.
Most Rev. Peter Fallaize, O. M. I.,
coadjutor in the Vicariate of the
MacKenzie, which comprises four
Tnillion square miles and numbers
7,000 Catholics. Photographed at
Seattle, where he is seeking treat
ment for “Arctic blindness”, the
missionary prelate was recently
rescued by airplane from the mis
sion station at the mouth of the
Hornaday River, which he
reached two months overdue be
cause of severe weather condi
tions.
Thomas McAvoy, C. S. C., archivist
of the University, being celebrant of
the Mass. A Communion breakfast
followed at the Center Club. March
31 was the sixth anniversary of the
famed coach's death in a plane crash
in Kansas.
THE SUPREME COURT plan of
President Roosevelt was opposed by
Dean Ignatius M. Wilkinson of Ford
ham University and Dr. William ^ M.
Cain of the faculty of the law school
of the University of Notre Dame, and
commended by Dean Thomas F.
Konop of Notre Dame Law School at
hearings conducted by the judiciary
committee of the United States Sen
ate.
CUBA has conferred its highest
honor, the Grand Cross with Special
Distinction of the National Order of
Merit of Carlos Manuel de Despedes,
on His Eminence, Eugenio Cardinal
Pacelli, Papal Secretary of State.
MISS AGNES REGAN, executive
secretary of the National Council of
Catholic Women, will be honored with
the degree of Doctor of Laws by Ro-
say College in Illinois at the com
mencement exercises June 7. Miss
Marguerite LeHand, secretary to
President Roosevelt, will be similarly
honored.
FATHER DUFFYS monument in
New York City, at Times Square, will
be unveiled Sunday, June 2, and an
niversary of the birth of the famed
chaplain of the 69th Regiment.
REV. ALOYSIUS PFEIL, S. J., for
merly president of Canisius College,
Buffalo. N. Y., is dead in New York
City at 75. Father Pfiel was bom in
Cleveland, Ohio and educated here, in
Holland and in England.
BISHOP HACBANG of Calbayog in
the Philippines, who was consecrated
for his native Diocese in 1919 in Ma
nila at the age of 32, is dead at the age
of 49. He visited the United States in
1925. His diocese had a Catholic pop
ulation of 1,244,989.
THE STATE OF OHIO’S proposed
aid to private and parochial schools,
passed by the Senate, was killed by
the House Committee on Education, a
foregone conclusion when the mea
sure was referred to that committee.
VFP.A CRUZ has allowed the Cathe
dra’. and ten churches to open there,
A BAILIFF in Naples, Giovanni
Battista Jossa, who died July 4, 1828.
after having predicted the day of his
death, and who reserved only 37 cen
times a day for his own expenses, and
spent 17,000 lire a year for the poor,
is being considered for beatification,
the process having been started. He
devoted his time to serving the poor,
visiting the sick and burying the un
claimed dead.
A CATHOLIC STUDENT, Miss
Mary F. Honnen’ of St. Joseph’s High
School, Newport, R. I., won first
prize in an essay contest, “The Path
of Coal.” in competition with 12,000
pupils of public, parochial and pri
vate schools in the eastern section of
the country. The prize is ?1,000 or a
four-year scholarshia in any college
of her selection. The judges were
professors from Yale. Columbia and
New York Universities, a rabbi and
a pirest; the priest, Father Michael
Earls, S. J., of Holy Cross College,
died the day before the contest closed
and no substitute was named for
him.
CATHOLIC COLLEGES and uni
versities will be surveyed by the As
sociation Commission of the National
Catholic Educational Association as
a result of action taken at the recent
convention of the Association in
Louisville.
JUAN DE PADILLA, the martyred
Franciscan who brought the first
tidings of the Redemption to the
plains of Texas 400 years ago, will be
honored with a monument to be ded
icated by Bishop Lucey of Amarillo
in Ellwood Park in the See City on
June 13.
U. S. NAVY officers and men to
the number of 1,500 from six ships at
San Pedro, Calif., received Holy
Communion Easter Sunday at Masses
aboard the ships.
MSGR. EUGENE P. DUFFY, direc
tor of Catholic Cemeteries of tile Di
ocese of Cleveland, died after a birth
day dinner in his honor at the home
of his sister there. He was 61. He
was chatting with members of the
family when he slumped back in his
chair, dying instantly.
KNUTE ROCKNE’S anniversary
was marked by the Notre Dame
Alumni of New York by Communion
at a special Mass in the Lady Chapel
of St. Patrick’s Cathedral, Father
LOYOLA UNIVERSITY
MARKS ITS JUBILEE
New Orleans Educational
Center Established in 1912
NEW ORLEANS, La.—Loyola Uni
versity, established by the Jesuit Fa
thers of the Southern Province twen
ty-five years ago, and which received
its charter from the State of Louis
iana July 10, 1912, is observing the
silver jubilee of its foundation.
The religious feature of the obser
vance was a Communion Mass for the
students the second Sunday in April
at Holy Name of Jesus Church, the
Rev. Wm. J. Harty, S.J.. pastor, de
livering the sermon. A two week pro
gram of educational and cultural
events followed, closing with a Pon
tifical Mass April 25 at Holy Name
Church, the Most Rev. Joseph F.
Rummel,. D.D.. Archbishop of New
Orleans, officiating, with Bishop
Jules B. Jeanmnrd. of Lafayette, and
Bishop Daniel F. Desmond, of Alex
andria attending.
The Rev. Albert H. Biever, S.J. was
tthe first president of Loyola Univer
sity, followed in the order named by
the Rev. Alphonse E. Otis, S.J.. the
Rev. E. J. Cummings. S.J., the Rev.
F. X. Twellmeyer, S.J.. the Rev. F.
D. Sullivan. S.J.. the Rev John W.
Hynes. S.J.. and the Rev. Harold A.
Grudin. S.J.. who is now president
Father Gaudin is a native of New Or
leans.