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AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, JUNE 26, 1937
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Bulletins
REV. DR. JOHN L. SHERIDAN
has ben elected president of Mount
St. Mary’s College, Emmitsburg,
Md., Archbishop Curley of Baltimore
announces. Dr. Sheridan, a native of
Troy, N. Y., was graduated from Mt.
St. Mary’s in 1917, and was recently
dean. He became acting president af
ter the death of Monsignor Bradley.
DR. CHAS. D. MAGINNIS, one of
the world’s most distinguished ec
clesiastical architects, has been elect
ed president of the American Insti
tute of Architects. The election was
unanimous. Dr. Maginnis, a Laetare
Medalist, is an honorary Doctor of
Laws of Holy Cross and Boston Col
leges.
THE BISHOPS of the United States
wil hold their general meeting at the
Catholic University in Washington
November 17-19, the National Catho
lic Welfare Conference announces.
SISTER M. BONIFACE, a member
of a distinguished Catholic family
and for many years a member of the
faculty of St. Mary’s College, Notre
Dame, Ind., is dead at the age of 88.
Four of her brothers are members of
the Holy Cross Order, and two of her
sisters were nuns.
MAJOR ARTHUR McKEOUGH,
managing editor of Good Housekeep
ing Magazine, who won the Disting
uished Service Medal for heroism in
action in France, is dead in New
York at 47. Among his works is “The
Real Calvin Coolidge”, written in co
llaboration with Mrs. Coolidge. He
was an alumnus of St. Francis Xav
ier College and Fordham University
Law School.
BISHOP PAVEL of the Russian Or
thodox Church, beaten by a group of
Communistic youths, was banished
from Gorki, his See City, for “calum
niating Communistic youth’’ when he
accused his attackers.
10,000' CATHOLIC Boy Scouts will
attend the World Jamboree of the
Boy Scouts at The Hague. The Pa
pal Intemunzio to Holland will offi
ciate at a Pontifical Mass for the
Catholic Scouts the first Sunday in
August, when the jamboree will be
in session.
A FORMER EDITOR, James Dillon,
was ordained at Edmonton, Alta., re
cently by Archbishop MacDonald,
Coadjutor of Edmonton. Father Dil
lon. who is 58, worked on newspapers
in the United States and Canada, and
was editor of the newspaper at Har-
disty, Alta.
REP. W. P. CONNERY of Massa
chusetts, chairman cf the House Com
mittee on Labor, who died suddenly
last week of food poisoning, was an
alumnus of Georgetown University
and widely known in Catholic cir
cles.
FRED. B. SNITE, JR., infantile pa
ralysis sufferer whose journey from
China home has attracted worldwide
interest and sympathy because of its
difficulties, is an alumnus of the Uni
versity of Notre Dame. Father Moore
of Peiping, China, accompanied the
patient.
A GIFT OF $50,000 from His Emi
nence, Cardinal O’Connell, Archbish
op of Boston, for the benefit of
students from the Archdiocese, is
among those announced by the Cath
olic University of America for the
current year. The Cardinal recently
made a similar gift to Boston College.
Archbishop Mooney Named
to Archdiocese of Detroit
Bishop Ten Years
BISHOP TOOLEN
BISHOP TOOLEN ENDS
DECADE AS BISHOP
Mobile Ordinary Observes
Anniversary of Consecration
MOBILE, Ala. — The Most Rev.
Thomas J. Toolen, Bishop of Mobile,
quietly celebrated the tenth anniver
sary of his consecration in May.
The observance was held in con
junction with the annual commemo
ration of Mary’s Day. The Bishop cele
brated Mass in the Cathedral, which
was attended by the parochial school
children of the city. At noon an infor
mal dinner was given for the clergy
at St. Mary’s Asylum and in the eve
ning a public reception was tendered
the Bishop.
In the course of the decade Bishop
Toolen has been Ordinary of this See,
43 churches and schools have been
erected, enlarged or renovated, 12 rec
tories and convents constructed, and a
memorial home and hospital built.
CHATTANOOGA HAS NEW
PARISH—FR. SHEA IS
NAMED FIRST PASTOR
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — Chatta
nooga, which has up to this time had
but one parish, that of Sts. Peter and
Paul, with the Rt. Rev. Msgr. Fran
cis T. Sullivan as pastor, now is to
have a second parish, Bishop Adrian
announces, and the Rev. J. Harold
Shea has been appointed its pastor.
Land for the new church has been
bought on Anderson Avenue, east of
Missionary Ridge.
Wealth” of Church in Spain
Used for Poor, Says Scholar
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
SAN FRANCISCO.—Th wealth of
the Catholic Church in Spain con
sisted mainly of institutions, the
property for which was given by the
rich and which were used for the
education of the poor as well as the
rich, declares Prof. Aurelio M. Es
pinosa, of the Department of Ro
mance Languages at Stanford Uni-
cersity, in an article in The Monitor,
archdiocesan weekly.
Professor Espinosa’s article was
written in response to a letter re
ceived from a correspondent desiring
authoritative information concerning
the wealth of the Church in Spain.
Professor Espinosa emphasizes that
the wealth of the Church in Spain
consisted of cathedrals, churches,
monasteries, convents and schools and
their properties. All of these, he said,
were given by the rich. “The poor,”
he added, “were never taxed or op
pressed to construct cathedrals and
churches or monasteries and schools.”
The Jesuits’ property in Spain be
fore they were banished by the re
public in 1931, he says, was stated to
have totalled about $30,000,000, which,
he said, is equivalent to the wealth
“of one American university, name
ly Stanford University.”
Declaring that all the properties of
the church have been confiscated
from time to time by the state, Pro
fessor Espinosa added that included
in the wealth of the church were
books, manuscripts, laboratories, sci
entific apparatus, all of which, he
points out, “was used for the educa
tion of the people, and in particular
the poor, who received instruction
free in many of the schools of the re
ligious.” .
“In transferable buying power,” the
scholar points out, the wealth of the
Church in Spain “has been quite neg
ligible.” “The greatest part of this,”
he added, “consisted in incoming and
immediately outgoing educational
funds that came from the rich who
could well afford to pay tuition. Any
check on the schools of the religious
orders was a check on the education
of the poor who were given free in
struction.”
Bishop Albers of Cincinnati
First Bishop of Lansing.
Bishops of Syracuse and
Leavenworth Appointed
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
WASHINGTON. — While felicita
tions and applause of His Holiness
Pope Pius XI rang round the world
and observances took place in every
parish of America, there came from
Vatican City what might be termed
a birthday gift of His Holiness to the
United States. It included:
Elevation of a diocese (Detroit) to
the rank of an archiepiscopal See.
Creation of a new ecclesiastical
Province including the entire State
of Michigan.
Creation of a new diocese—that of
Lansing, in Michigan.
Appointment of the Most Rev.
Archbishop Edward Mooney, Bishop
of Rochester, to be the first Arch
bishop of Detroit.
Naming of the Most Rev. Joseph H.
Albers, Auixliary Bishop of Cincin
nati, to be Bishop of Lansing.
Elevation of the Rev. Walter A.
Foery, Rochester, N. Y., to the rank
of Bishop and his assignment to the
Diocese of Syracuse.
Elevation of the Rev. Paul C.
Schulte, St. Louis, to the Episcopacy
as Bishop of Leavenwrth.
Thus the United States gains one
archdiocese, one province and one
added member of its Hierarchy. The
number of dioceses remains the
same.
Fifteen counties in Michigan will
make up the new Diocese of Lan-
S1 ARCHBISHOP MOONEY, a na
tive of Maryland, where he was bom
in 1882, was taken by his parents to
Youngstown, Ohio, as a child. After
studying at St. Mary’s Seminary,
Baltimore, and at Rome, he was or
dained in Rome April 10, 1909, at the
Basilica of St. John Lateran, then re
turned to the Diocese of Cleveland,
where he did parochial work, served
as professor of Dogmatic Theology in
St. Mary’s Seminary and as president
of the Cathedral Latin School. In
1922 Bishop Joseph Schrembs releas
ed him to become spiritual director of
the North American College in Rome.
In 1926 he was made an archbishop
and named Apostolic Delegate to In
dia, the first American ever to re
ceive such an honor. He filled that
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CARDINAL’S STAND
ON NAZIS LAUDED
Many Leaders Commend
Archbishop of Chicago
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
CHICAGO.—His Eminence George
Cardinal Mundelein, Archbishop of
Chicago, in an adress to his clergy at
their quarterly conference, assailed
the anti-Catholic propaganda of the
German Government and urged that
“the least we can do to help the Ger
man Church is to show our open sym
pathy in this hour of trial”.
He styled the war-propaganda as
“bed-time stories for children” in
comparison to the Nazi propaganda
against the Church and charged that
the trials of Religious there have been
motivated by a desire to shatter “pub
lic faith in Catholic education”.
The purpose of the so-called “im
morality trials” of German clergy on
faked evidence is to weaken the faith
of Catholic children in Germany, His
Eminence asserted. “The fight is to
take our children away from us. If we
show no interest in this matter now,
if we shrug our shoulders and mutter,
that there may be some truth in it or
that it is not our fight, if we do not
back up our Holy Father when we
have a chance, well, when our turn
comes, we too will be fighting alone.”
Numerous distinguished Americans
have voiced approval of Cardinal
Mundelein’s position, including Bish
op George Craig Stewart of the Pro
testant Episcopal Church in Chicago,
a number of Protestant ministers and
rabbis, and members of Congress.
THE NAZI persecution of the Church
in Germany is alienating the German
minorities of Hungary, Rumania, Ju
goslavia and other states along the
Danube, and also diminishing any
enthusiasm there exists in Austria for
the German government.
MONASTERIES in Germany may be
placed under the control of state com
missioners, according to the latest in
formation from Berlin, an arrange
ment which it is feared will result in
increased activity in persecuting reli
gious on fabricated evidence.
C.P.A. President
VINCENT FITZPATRICK
ROCHESTER IS HOST
TO C. P. A. EDITORS
Vincent Fitzpatrick Again
President—Three Members
of Hierarchy Speak
BY BURKE WALSH
(Staff Correspondent. N. C. W. C.
News Service)
ROCHESTER. —The Catholic Press
Association, closing its 27th annual
convention here, stoutly suported His
Eminence George Cardinal Munde
lein, Archbishop of Chicago, in his
recent statement upholding freedom
of conscience in Germany; expressed
its abhorrence of every totalitarian
state; and, decrying the failure of
many secular newspapers to provide
“impartial and truthful information”
on the Spanish situation, expressed
its “sympathy with the present Na
tional Party in Spain in its defense to
those human rights which all true
American hold fundamental.”
Treatment of the Spanish news by
some secular papers, a resolution as
serted, “is playing into the hands of
subversive elements, both here and
abroad, now plotting the overthrow
of our existing form of government.”
Thh resolution on Cardinal Munde
lein’s statement declared that the As
sociation “expresses ite strong ap
proval of the recent statement of His
Eminence George Cardinal Munde
lein, Archbishop of Chicago, uphold
ing the natural and God-given rights
of the German people to enjoy free
dom of conscience.”
Vincent de Paul Fitzpatrick, man
aging editor of The Catholic Review.
Baltimore, was re-elected President
for aonther term. Other officers re
elected are: The Rev. Charles Jerome
De Pencier, O. S. M., editor of The
Servite, Chicago, Vice-President;
Charles H. Ridder, publisher of The
Catholic News, New York, Treasurer;
Joseph H. Meier, publisher of the Of
ficial Catholic Press Directory, Chi
cago, Secretary, and Joseph J. Quinn,
eidtor of The Southwest Courier,
Oklahoma City; the Rev. Francis P.
Le Buffe, S. J., of America, New
York, and Dr. Thomas P. Hart, edi-
(B N. C. W. C. News Service)
LONDON. — Newly returned from
Spain, where he visited places in the
hands of the Leftists, the Anglican
Dean of Canterbury, Dr. Hewlett
Johnson, said:
“It is totally wrong to say these peo
ple (in Russia and Spain) are irreli
gious, even if they deny God. It does
not matter what they say with their
lips. It is what they mean in their
hearts.”
This statement was made from the
puplit of Canterbury Cathedral.
It is un3erstood that the members of
the delegation which went to Spain
as the guests of the Spanish Govern
ment will issue a joint report on their
observations.
The Morning Post, in an editorial
which deplored the use of the cathe
dral pulpit for secular controversy,
says:
“Our chief objection to the sermon
is not that it is ill-informed, but that it
is ill-natured.
TRUTH AROUT SPAIN
PRESENTED AT RALLY
15,000 Attend Great Mass
Meeting in New York
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
NEW YORK—The Catholic Church
in Spain has been defamed by vi-
ciously false Communist propaganda,
the Rev. Bernard Grimley, Editor of
The Catholic Times of London. Eng
land, charged here late in May at a
mass meeting of 15,000 ptrsons at
Madison Square Garden on “The
Truth About Spain.”
The meeting, held under the aus
pices of the American Committee for
Spanish Relief, had as its principal
patrons His Eminence Patrick Cardi
nal Hayes, Archbishop of New York,
and the Most Rev. Thomas E. Mol-
loy. Bishop of Brooklyn. Approxi
mately $20,000 was subscribed for the
American Committee for Spanish Re
lief, a non-partisan group recently or
ganized to aid the distressed non-
combatants in the war-tom sections
of Spain. Hundreds of distinguished
persons also were in attendance.
A pageant, “Democracy Imperiled”,
depicting major chapters in" Spanish
history, was presented by 500 players
from the Union City (N. J) Passion
Play, “Veronica’s Veil”, assisted by
500 others from various New York
and Long Island parishes. Pedro De
Cordoba, famous actor, and Mrs. S.
Stanwood Menken, prominent social
ly, took the principal roles.
The pageant was written and con
ceived by the Rev. Leonard Feeney,
S. J., and the Rev. Albert I. Wha
len, S. J., Associate Editors of Amer
ica. Supplemental music was fur
nished by a speial choir of 250 voices,
including the Paulist Choristers and
a half-dozen church choirs, and a
symphony orchestra of 125 pieces, all
under the direction of the Rev. Will
iam J. Finn, C. S. P., noted musical
director.
Basil Harris, Vice-President of the
International Mercantile Marine and
Chairman of the American Commit—
tee for Spanish Relief, presided at
the meeting. Other speakers included
Prof. E. Allison Peers, of Liverpool
University, an internationally recog
nized authority. on Spain; Pierre
Crabites, former Senior American
Judge on the Mixed International
Tribunal at Cairo, Egypt; Michael
Williams. Editor of The Common
weal, and the Rev. Dr. Edward Lodge
Curran, president of the American
Association Against Communism.
A FOREIGN BRIGADE of 80,000 is
the backbone of the Leftist army; the
Leftists armed the rabble of the larg
er cities and incited them to burn
churches, Dr. Grimley asserted. Com
munists poured into Spain to supple
ment the action of the Reds already
there, he asserted, and they have
murdered 140,000 men, women and
children in Madrid, Barcelona and
Valencia in a house to house cam
paign in which the possession of a
crucifix was sufficient evidence to
draw the death penalty. Dr. Grimley
charged that eleven Bishops and 15,-
700 priests. Brothers and nuns have
been slaughtered; three of the Bish
ops were burned to death. The
clergy have been living in poverty
for generations, he said, directing at
tention to the fact that an anti-reli
gious government one century ago
confiscated church property.
FATHER O'FLANAGAN from Ire
land, who has been brought to this
Country by Leftist sympathizers for
appearances at public meetings in an
effort to show that the Catholics of
Spain are backing the Leftist forces,
is a suspended priest, the Bishop of
“Here is a sister-church, a great
Catholic community, which is going
through the valley of the shadow of
death. Thousands of its priests have
been masacred, often burnt alive and
sometimes crucified, its shrines not
only destroyed but polluted, in such
a terrible orgy of sacrilege and mar
tyrdom as Europe has not witnessed
since the destruction of another sis
ter-church in Russia.
“Is it Christian or even human char
ity to ascribe these dreadful suffer
ings to the errors and the shortcom
ings of the sufferers? Did the Good
Samaritan behave thus? And has
this Very Reverend cleric no reason to
fear that the same unholy forces which
are ravening the Church in Spain to
day not assail the Church of England
tomorrow?
“As humble lay supporters of the
Church in which Dr. Johnson holds so
high and privileged a position, we can
not but deplore this unworthy use of
the sacred fane of Canterbury.”
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British Daily Chides Dean
for His Position on Spain