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Published by the
Catholic Lay
men’s Association
of Georgia.
VOL. XVin, No. 5
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, MAY 22, 1937
“To Bring About
a Friendlier
Feeling Among
Neighbors irre
spective of Creed”
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Bulletins
THE COMMUNST PARTE has 40
weekly propaganda publications in
France, including 20 papers printed in
foreign languages, and also a daily,
not one of which is self-supporting,
but subsidized by the Soviet, Deputy
Jacques Doroit, formerly a Red sup
porter, asserted in an address to the
Chamber of Deputies.
ATHEISM is weakening in Russia,
Soviet leaders complain. Four years
ago the atheist society boasted of 5,-
000,000 members. Now the number is
estimated as 2,000,000.
ARGENTINA, newspapers report
the discovery of great amounts of Red
literature sent from TVIoscow for in
tensive propaganda work in the Ar
gentina Republic.
MANCHUKIO is aroused by Red
activities there, and a three-day
demonstration against anti-religious
efforts was held during the national
holidays, the various religious groups
participating.
AN AMERICAN NEGRO, Joseph
Parker, who renounced his American
citizenship and emigrated to Russia
five years ago, has been admitted to
the Atheist Institute in Moscow on
the basis of his anti-religious “His
tory of Religion Among the Negroes”.
He has been named professor of
Questions of Free Thought.
THE CATHEDRAL at Kronstadt,
confiscated in the early days of the
Soviet Revolution, has been turned
over to the “Red Pioneers”, and a
shooting gallery will be installed in
the crypt.
APPOINTMENT by the President
of a commission of five persons to
formulate plans for the celebration
in 1942 of the 450th anniversary of
the discovery o America by Christo
pher Columbus is provided for in a
resolution introduced in Congress.
NEW BLOW BY HITLER
TO RELIGIOUS PEACE
More Threats to Churches in
May Day Address
(Special Correspondence, N. C. W. C.
News Service)
AMSTERDAM. — Virtually killing
all hopes for the restoration of peace
between Church and State in Ger
many, Chancellor Hitler, in a May
Day address at a public gathering in
Berlin, voiced a threat that the Nazi
regime would see to it that the
churches opposing its totarian phil
osophies would be “repressed to the
spiritual tasks which are theirs if
they attempt by measures of any sort,
letters, Encyclicals, etc-, to arrogate
to themselves rights which belong to
the State”.
Insisting that ‘ 'authority of the
German people must not be chal-'
lenged by anybody, including all the
churches”, the Chancellor caustically
referred to the new so-called im
morality trials against various mem
bers of the German clergy and relig
ious Orders now instituted under
flimsy pretexts and on the basis of
most questionable evidence and said
he would not tolerate criticism of the
moral principles and practices of his
regime by those “who have ample
reason to look after their own moral
ity”.
_ Although the speaker did not men
tion the Holy Father, his pertinent re
marks were generally interpreted as
a _ retort to the receht Papal Ency
clical on the German religious situa
tion. Their uncompromising and
wholly negative tone amounts to a
full backing by the Chancellor of
the vioent anti-Catholic campaign
now being waged by lesser officials
throughout Germany.
PAY HOMAGE TO SOLDIER-PRIEST
NEW YORK HONORS
FR. FRANCIS DUFFY
Statue of Famed Chaplain
Unveiled in Times Square
A small portion of the thousands who jammed Times Square, New
York, May 2, to witness the unveiling of a heroic bronze statue to
one of the city’s most beloved citizens, the late Lieutenant Colonel
Francis P. Duffy, Chaplain of the old “Fighting 69th Regiment."
much-decorated hero of the World War. On the back of the large
Celtic cross standing behind the figure of the soldier-priest an in
scription hails his “life of service for God and country." (Wide
World photqj
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
NEW YORK. — At Times Square,
the Crossroads of the World, a statue
has been unveiled where no statue of
man has stood before.
Making more crowded the busiest
mart on earth, 30,000 persons jammed
into the famous triangle, bounded by
Forty-sixth and Forty-seventh Streets
and Broadway and Seventh Avenue,
to see a cloth drop from the statue of
a priest, who was pastor of the parish
which embraces the .Times Square
district. The presence of clergymen,
governmental officials, military men
SPIRITUAL PRIVILEGES
GRANTED TO AMERICANS
ON BIRTHDAY OF POPE
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
WASHINGTON. — Special priv
ileges have been granted for use
in aU archdioceses and dioceses
of the United States for the na
tion-wide observance in honor of
His Holiness Pope Pius XI’s 80th
birthday, may 31, it is announced
at the Apostolic Delegation here
today.
Every Bishop may impart the
Papal Blessing, with a plenary in
dulgence attached, at the Pontifi
cal Mass celebrated on Sunday,
May 30, or on Monday, May 31.
A plenary indulgence may be
gained by all the fatihful receiv
ing Holy Communion and praying
for the intention of the Holy Fa
ther on the 29th, the 30th, or an
any day within the Octave of May
31 on fulfillment of the usual con
ditions.
MARIST MISSIONARY
DIES IN FIJI ISLES
Father Bourdier Architect
Before His Ordination
SUVA, Eiji Islands— (N.C.WC.-
Fides).—The death of a veteran mis
sionary of the Fiji Islands, Father
Bourdier, has occurred here.
Father Bourdier was 80 years old
and had been in the South Seas ever
since his entry into the Marist So
ciety. His vocation was a late one,
for he was formerly an architect
and only joined the Society after the
death of his wife and infant child.
His professional training stood him
in good stead when he reached the
and plain citizens once more empha
sized how well known was this pirest,
the Rev. Francis P. Duffy, chaplain
of the Sixty-ninth Regiment in the
World War, and how well beloved.
Father Duffy’s importance to the
world was underscored by the notable
speakers who paid tribute to the
priest who was a noted figure in the
feverish life of this great city and in
the more tragic life of war service in
France. Leading in the tributes was
Postmaster General James A. Farley,
who read a letter from President
Roosevelt, in which the Chief Execu
tive said that “in the larger sense,
Father Duffy needs no monument,”
because his “true monument is in the
heart of every legionnaire who called
him friend, among whom I am proud
to be numbered, and in the lives of
those made better by his counsel and
example-”
Other speakers were Maj. Gen.
Frank R. McCoy, commander of the
Second Corps Area; Col. William J.
Donovan, commander of the 165th
Regiment when it was in France; for-
fer Governor Alfred E. Smith, of New
York; Samuel Levy, Borough Presi
dent of Manhattan, and Maj. Gen.
William N. Haskell, of the New York
National Guard.
Seated about the foot of the statue
were other close friends and asso
ciates of the chaplain-priest, includ
ing the Rt. Rev. Msgr. Michael J.
Lavalle, Vicar General of the Arch
diocese of New York, and Rector of
St. Patrick's Cathedral, Mayor Fiorel-
lo H. LaGuardia, and James J. Tun-
ney.
Mayor LaGuardia, who accepted the
statue on behalf of the city, declared
that Father Duffy “could do more
with a shake of his finger than a lot
of statutes or a posse of deputized
sheriffs.”
Postmaster General Farley, in his
address, said: “There are men who
rise above the status of an individ
ual on this earth; men whose lives
become symbols, signposts on the
road to heaven; men whose names
bring up in our minds not so much
the vision of a man but the blinding
light of a great inspiration; a tre
mendous surge of a pure and noble
thought. Such was Father Duffy, the
soldier-priest.”
Following the talks Rabbi Abra
ham L. Feinberg, of Neboh Temple,
pronounced the benediction. The
bugler sounded Taps. The band of
the 165th Infantry struck uf> again
and led the uniformed contingents
from Times Square.
Earlier, the invocation was pro
nounced by the Rev. Mr. Paul Moody,
and the statue was blessed by Maj.
Joseph A. McCaffery, Catholic chap
lain of the 165th Infantry.
(Father Duffy was a frequent visi
tor in the South, visiting Florida on
a number of occasions, and aslo Au
gusta; he addressed a meeting of vet
erans in Macon not long before his
death.—Editor, The Bulletin).
Coronation Envoy
The Most Rev. Giuseppe Pizzardo,
Papal Under-Secretary of State head
ed the Papal Mission to the Coronation
of His Majesty King George IV. Arch
bishop Pizzardo is Secretary of the
Congregation for Extraordinary Ec
clesiastical Affairs, and is head of
Catholic Action in Italy.—(Acme
Photo.)
Catholics Seek Only
Liberty in Spain
English Editor Says They.
Demand No Particular Gov
ernment
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
WASHINGTON.—Catholics as such
have no interest in the form of gov
ernment Spaniards set up for them
selves in Spain, so long as religious
freedom is provided, the Rev. Dr.
Barnard Grimley, editor of The
Catholic Times, London, declared
while on a visit here. As a matter
of fact, he added, the only champion
of religious freedom that has ap
peared in Spain in the present crisis
is General Franco.
What happened in Spain, said Dr.
Grimley, who has lectured widely on
the Spanish situation was that “the
legitimate government of Spain was
simply commandeered by Commun
ists”. Speaking on a point which
some have sought to dispute, Dr.
Grimley said he is firmly convinced
that there was a real attempt made
to set up a Soviet government in Ma
drid.
If a truce is to be agreed upon in
Spain, the. noted English editor con
tinued, it should come only after the
Leftist leaders give some definite in
dication of having effectively con
trolled the anarchists and Commun
ists, only after Valencia gives assur
ance of religious tolerance, only
after the churches are reopened in
Spain.
Dr. Grimley was a speaker at the
mass meeting held in Madison Square
Garden on May 19 under the auspices
of ‘Pie Commercial. He, Prof. E. Al
lison Peers, noted English scholar,
and Michael Williams, editor of The
Commonweal were speakers on this
occasion-
“BOOK OF THE MONTH”
NEW YORK.—“Leo XII and Our
Times” by Rene Fulop Miller, is the
May selection of the Catholic Book
Club.
Press Accused of Slighting
News of Spanish Rightists
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
NEW YORK. — The American sec
ular press as a whole “has failed in
its job of gathering and distributing
unbiased and reliable news from
both the rival camps in Spain,” Mich-
eal Williams, editor of The Common
wealth, charged in an open letter ap
pearing in the May 7 issue of that
publication.
Mr. Williams’ letter is addressd to
the “directors, stockholders, editors
and writers of the American press.”
In it he urges the need for directors
and editors’ point the news of all
sides of the Spanish Civil War.
It istataed also in The Commonweal
that copies of the Open Letter had
been sent to “several hundred gentle
men occupying executive or directing
or writing posts with the news agen
cies and papers of this country.”
The principal cause for the pro-
“Leftist” attitude of the greater part
of the American press, Mr. Williams
holds, is their instinctive sympathy
for what they believe to be a “demo
cratic” movement. This is wholly to
their credit, he states. But in apply
ing this motive to their treatment of
news from Spain, he declares, they
fail to be objective, and concentrate
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missions of Oceania. Frequent hur
ricanes had caused great damage to
the mission stations of the vicariate
and the Superiors were at a loss to
know how to build houses strong
enough to withstand the ravages of
the gales and other climatic difficul
ties. The new missionary, with his
technical knowledge, saw at a glance
the weak spots in the construction of
former missionary buildings and was
able to suggest changes particularly
suited to local needs. Not only did
he draw up plans for outlying mis
sion stations but he was also placed
in charge of the building of the Suva
Cathedral, no simple enterprise on
account of the importance of the
building and the lack of skilled
workmen available. Although the
cathedral is unfinished it will event
ually be completed according to his
plans.
In due course he was sent to New
Zealand for his novitiate and in 1900
was ordained a priest.
Soviet Sentences 102 Clergy
to Death During Year 1936
(Special Correspondence, N. C. W.
C. News Service)
GENVA—One hunred and two
ministers and priests were sentenced
to death in Soviet Russia in 1936, ac
cording to official Moscow statistics
available here. A total of 8,000 min
isters, priests and religious received
jail sentences for “anti-Soviet activi
ties” in the same period, and 4,680
churches, mosques and synagogues
were closed or destroyed in the year.
Following a request by Maxim Lit
vinov, Soviet Commissar of Foreign
Affairs, 6,700 members of the Soviet
diplomatic service abroad have joi—
ed the godless organization. ’They
must pay contributions in an amount
corresponding to one-half of one per
cent of their salaries, and the pay
ments must be made in foreign ex
change. An additional income in
foreign currency of between 30,000
and 50,000 roubles yearly is thus ac
cruing to the Moscow government
An orthodox priest of the name of
Barumow was sentenced to three
years in jail for having administered
the Sacrament of Baptism to a child
although the child’s father objected.
This was interpreted by the court as
“cruelty to a child and violation of
the freedom of conscience guaranteed
by the. Constitution”. The priest is
71 years old.