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JUNE 26, 1937
THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
NINE
—NEWS REVIEW OF THE CATHOLIC WORLD —-
THE HOLY GHOST Fathers Semi-
uary at South Norwalk, Conn., has
been recognized by the State of Con
necticut as a college and empowered
to grant degrees.
ST. AUGUSTINE’S Seminary at
Bay St. Louis, Miss., educating col
ored youths for the priesthood, grad
uated a class of six from the junior
college course recently. They will
enter the seminary of the Fathers of
the Divine Word at East Troy, Wis.
REV. DR. ROBT. J. WHITE, for
merly national chaplain of the Amer
ican Legion and a member of the Bar
in Boston before entering the priest
hood, has been named head of the
school of law at the Catholic Univer
sity of America. Dr. White, a mem
ber of the university’s faculty of law
for a number of years, was a prose
cuting attorney in Massachusetts in
his younger days.
DePAUL UNIVERSITY conferred
the honorary degree of Doctor of Lit
erature on the Rev. Richard R. St.
John, associate editor of Extension
Magazine, at its annual commence
ment exercises, at which 425 under
graduates and 25 graduate- students
received degrees.
CARDINAL DOUGHERTY presid-
at the Mass celebrated by the Most
Rev. George Leech, D. D., Bishop of
Harrisburg, Pa., marking the sesqui-
centennial of the Shrine of the Sa
cred Heart at Conewago, Pa.
The Rt. Rev. Msgr. Peter Guilday,
Phd,D.., professor of history _ at the
Catholic University of America, de
livered the sermon.
REV. JOSEPH P. ZUERCHER, S. J.,
has been named president of
Creighton University, Omaha, suc
ceeding the Very Rev. Patrick J. Ma
hon, S. J., who has completed two
terms of three years each. Father
Zuercher, formerly dean, is 39 years
old, a native of Wisconsin, and
Creighton’s youngest president.
NOTRE DAME University awarded
degrees to 479 at the annual com
mencement exercises, at which Bish
op Karl J. Alter -of Toledo delivered
the baccalaureate sermon and Dennis
F. Kelly, K. S. G., of Chicago the
commencement address.
MSGR. JAMES P. O’BRIEN, for
many years editor of the Providence
Visitor and formerly vice-president
of the Catholic Press Association died
in Providence late in May. Monsignor
O’Brien would have been ordained
twenty-five years June 18.
A COMMUNITY of Anglican Nuns
at Vancouver has entered the Catho
lic Church en masse, the Catholic
Register of Toronto announces. The
Community is that of the Society of
the Love of Jesus; it has charge of an
Angelican School and a home for el
derly women.
A CLEVELAND man and his wife,
Mr. and Mrs. Anthony J. Guthrie of
St. Ann's parish, both active in Cath
olic organizations, were admitted to
practice before the Supreme Court of
the United States recently. They
studied law together.
ABBOT PROCOPIUS Neuzil, O. S.
B., will be blessed as the third Abbot
of St. Procopius Abbey, Lisle, 111.,
July 5 by His Excellency, the Apos
tolic Delegate, Archbishop Amleto
Giovanni Cieognani.
ST. VINCENT’S COLLEGE, La-
trobe, Pa., conferred the honorary
degree of Doctor of Laws on the Very
Rev. Msgr. Michael J. Ready, gener
al secretary of the National Catholic
Welfare Conference, at the ninety-
first annual commencement exercises
June 4.
FATHER BERNARD HUBBARD,
S. J-, famed as the “glacier priest’*,
has sailed from Seattle to spend a
years among the Eskimos of King Is
land in-Alaska.
A SPRING HILL College scholar
ship will be awarded this summer to
a 1937 Boy Scout high school gradu
ate of the Diocese of Natchez, the
Rev. Peter J. Quinn, Diocesan Scout
Director and special National Field
Scout Commissioner, announces. The
scholarship is for four years.
N. Y. Times is Dubious About
‘Tolerance’ Move in Mexico
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
NEW YORK.—An editorial headed
“Mexican ‘Conciliation’ ”, published in
today’s New York Times, declares
that “progress in Mexico toward re
ligious tolerance is at a snail’s pace.”
The editorial is based on an inter
view granted Frank L. Kluckhohn by
Governor Victor Fernandez Manero,
of Tobasco. This interview, The Times
comments, “reveals—as have earlier
‘conciliatory’ statements by other of
ficials, including President Cardenas
—that for the millions of Mexican
Catholics there is no religious free
dom.”
Governor Fernandez Manero, the
editorial notes, permits the people of
Tobasco “to practice their religion
privately” but “makes no commit
ments _ about permission for Mass
other rites of the church” and does
not propose to repeal “that provision
of the state constitution which per
mits only married priests to offici
ate’.” “In other words,” the editorial
continues, “Catholics in Tobasco may
have the serti.es, if any, only of
priests who have violated their oaths
and broken the discipline of the
Church which requires them to be
celebate.”
The fact that such a statement is
called ‘ ‘conciliatory”, The Times
states,, “suggests the extremity of
the persecution to which the Church
has been subjected” in Tobasco under
Garrido Canabal.
After reviewing the status of the
Church in Tobasco, where every
church in VUlahermosa, the Capital
was destroyed, brick by brick, and
where citizens were encouraged to
inform one another of any suspicion
of the private practice of religion,
The Times comments that the gov
ernor’s promise of no further relig
ious persecution is “welcome as a
first small step—nothing more—to
ward religious peace.”
And much the same judgment can
be passed on other recent concessions
to Catholics in Mexico, The Times
states. “It marks an improvement for
even a small proportion of the
churches to be permitted to reopen,”
the editorial states, but hastens to
add, “permission for Masses and other
Church services is still exceptional.”
“President Cardenas,” the editorial
concludes, “is believed by many of
his friends in the United States to
desire the establishment of religious
tolerance in his country. Already he
has used his great influence to check
some of the worst abuses. Possibly
he has moved as rapidly as political
conditions permit; but certainly much
more remains to be done before Mex
ican citizens will enjoy freedom of
worship.”
MSGR. PATRICK J. HEALY, pro
fessor of Church history at the Cath
olic University of America, died in
May at the age of 66. Monsignor
Healy, one of the most distinguish
ed members of the University facul
ty, a native of Waterford, delivered
the sermon on the occasion of the
consecration of the Most Rev. Mi
chael J. Keyes, S. M., D. D., as Bish
op of Savannah.
THE CATHOLIC DIGEST will ap
pear hereafter on newsstands
throughout the United States and
Canada, its editors announce. The
publication presents condensed arti
cles of particular Catholic interest.
VILLANOVA College awarded hon
orary degrees of Doctor of Laws to
Dr. Charles H. Mayo and Dr. William
J. Mayo, distinguished Minnesota
physicians and surgeons, and Hon.
Herbert R. O’Connor, attorney-gen
eral of Maryland, at annual com
mencement exercises.
LOUISIANA State University an
nounces for the fourth year a course
in religion, taught by the Rev. Mau
rice Schexnayder, chaplain of Catho
lic students, for which university
credits are given.
THE TERCENTENARY of the birth
of Pere Jacques Marquette June 1
was recognized by a joint resolution
of Congress in which the President
was authorized to call on all officials
of the United States to display the
flag on government buildings, and to
invite the people to observe the day
fittingly.
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY con
ferred the degree of Doctor of Litera
ture on the Very Rev. Robt. I. Gan
non, S. J.. Ph.D., president of Ford-
ham University, at Georgetown com
mencement exercises.
SOVIET RUSSIA has appointed
“Godless Attaches” for the Soviet
embassies in Spain and Russia.
THE DAUGHTERS of Isabella ob
served the fortieth anniversary of the
founding of the order in May. The
first circle was started in New Haven
in 1897 as an auxiliary of the Knights
of Columbus.
ENGLAND’S HIERARCHY has pe-
tioned the Holy See to further the
cause of the canonization of Blessed
Oliver Plunket, who was martyred at
Tyburn Tree in 1681. The Bishops of
Wales have also joined in the peti
tion for the Martyr Primate of Ire
land.
— L
Stephen Foster’s Catholic
Prayer Book Is Preserved
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
PITTSBURGH. — To the famed
Gothic chapel on the University of
Pittsburgh’s campus Stephen Collins
Foster, the immortal composer of
American folk songs, has “come
home”.
Among the personal possessions of
the composer of “Old Folks at Home”
which now are “at home”, in the uni
versity’s new Foster Memorial is a
small Catholic prayer book which Ste
phen Foster purchased for himself.
On its fly leaf is inscribed in his
handwriting, “Stephen C. Foster’s
Christmas gift to himself, December
25, 1856.”
The little volume is printed in
French. Opposite its title page is a
I color illustration, showing Jesus
I Christ, holding a Holy Communion
k cup, and two angels.
B The prayer book is much worn, in-
■ dicating that Stephen Foster, although
an Episcopalian, spent many hours
reading it.
Some years after he purchased the
book, he gave it to a favorite relative,
John D. Scully, husband of his wife's
sister. It was from a Scully descend
ant. that the volume was secured by
Josiah Kirby Lilly, of Indianapolis,
who presented his priceless collection
of Foster manuscripts, first editions
and personal belongings to the Uni
versity of Pittsburgh” in trust for the
people of America.”
The first public showing of the Fos
ter prayer book and other valuable
articles of the Lilly Collection will be
held on June 1.
The following afternoon Pittsburgh
school children, will sing Foster songs
at the Memorial. General public in
spection of the Memorial and of the
great 42-story Cathedral of Learning
in whose shadow it stands will be
held June 4-7.
LOYOLA UNIVERSITY of New Or
leans graduated 182 candidates for
degrees June 7. Bishop Byrne of Gal
veston delivered the baccalaureate
sermon on June- 6; the commence
ment speaker will be Francis D. Mat
thews, K. S. G., of Omaha, Neb.
MRS. ED. A. CUDAHY, SR., in
whose honor her husband donated
the Elizabeth Murphy Memorial Li
brary at Loyola University in Chica
go, died in May at 78. Funeral ser
vices were held from the Cathedral
of the Holy Name in Chicago.
THE HOLY FATHER received for
mer Governor Alfred E. Smith of New
York in private audience at Castel-
gondolfo late in May; he was accom
panied by Bishop Ralph L. Hayes of
the American College. Later the Holy
Father received Mrs. Smith, Monsign
or Sheen and other members of the
Governor’s party.
THE CATHOLIC HOUR addresses
for June are being delivered over the
National Broadcasting Company net
work each Sunday evening at six
o'clock Eastern Standard Time by Fa
ther John Kallok, founder and editor
of The Chrysostom, under the aus
pices of the National Council of Cath
olic Men.
“FATHER BROWN”, Chesterton's
famed priest-detective in his “Father
Brown” stories, in reality Father John
O'Connor of Bradford, Eng., has been
created a domestic prelate by the,
Holy Father. Monsignor O’Connor re
ceived Chesterton into the Church.
DR. FRANCIS D. DONOVAN has
been named by Queen Mary dentist to
her household; he was first appointed
to a similar position by Queen Alex
andria.
THREE NOTED PAULISTS recently
observed the silver jubilee of their or
dination, the Rev. Henry F. Riley, C.
S. P., formerly director of Radio Sta
tion WLWL, the Rev. Francis P. Ly
ons, C. S. P., for a number of years
in Rome and recently in Chicago and
on the mission band, and the Rev
Theodore C. Peterson, C. S. P., a con
vert from Lutheranism, a doctor of
philosophy from the Catholic Univer
sity, a specilaist in Oriental languages,
and now stationed in Toronto.
REV. BERNARD A. CULLEN of
New York has been named to suc
ceed the late Rt. Rev. Msgr. William J.
Flynn as director general of the Mar
quette League for Catholic Indian
Missions.
HON. EDW. F. DUNNE, former
Mayor of Chicago and former Gover
nor of Illinois, died in Chicago late in
May at the age of 83. Governor Dunne
was active in efforts to secure justice
for Ireland, and was a member of the
American Commission at the Paris
Peace Conference for that purpose.
THE SUPREME COURT has inval
idated, in whole or in part, only 75
or 58,383 Federal statutes front 1789 to
date, the Rev. Edmund A. Walsh. S.
J., vice-president of Georgetown Uni
versity, asserted in a series of lec
tures on the Supreme Court in Wash
ington.
DR. FRANCIS M. CROWLEY, dean
of the School of Education of St.
Louis University, has accepted a sim
ilar position at Teachers’ College of
Fordham University. Dr. Crowley is
an alumnus of Holy Cross College
and did his graduate work at Catho
lic University.
THE HOLY FATHER went to his
summer quarters at Castelgandolfo
early in May; the journey required
forty-five minutes by automobile.
REV. JOHN X. PYNE, S. J, regent
of Fordham University Law School,
died in May at 66. Bom in Ayer,
Mass., Father Pyne taught at Holy
Cross as well as Fordham; he was
noted as an authority on political
economy.
Hindenburg Victim
Fr. Mackin’s Cousin
Columbia Pastor Officiates
at Funeral in Chicago
CHICAGO, 111. — The Rev. Thomas
J. Mackin, pastor of St. Francis de
Sales Church, Columbia, S. C., offi
ciated at the Requiem Mass here late
in May at the funeral of his cousin, J.
Curtis Dolan, who lost his life in the
Hindenburg disaster when the giant
Zeppelein was destroyed by fire
when about to land in New York.
Father Mackin also officiated at the
funeral Mass for his mother’s sister,
Mrs. Frances Fitzpatrick, in Chicago
the day following.
MARQUETTE HONORED
ON TERCENTENARY
Tributes to Saintly Explorer
in Congressional Record
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
WASHINGTON. — Impressive trib
utes to Father Jacques Marquette
were printed in the Congressional
Record as the tercentenary of the
birth of this intrepid missionary and
explorer was observed throughout the
nation by proclamation of President
Roosevelt —
Senator F. Ryan Duffy, of Wiscon
sin, who had taken part in commem
orative exercises at the Marquette
statue in Statuary Hall of the U. S.
Capitol, addressed the Senate on the
subject of Fpther Marquette, and his
remarks are carried as a part of that
body’s proceedings.
That same day, Representative
Louis C. Rabaut, of Michigan, had
printed in the Record under an ex
tension of remarks, the text of the
address which he delivered on Father
Marquette at the Saturday Hall cere
monies. Also that day, Representative
Edward L. O’Neill, of New Jersey,
had printed in the Record, also under
an extension of remarks, the text of
President Roosevelt’s Proclamation
on Father Marquette and excerpts
from an address delivered by the
Rev. Dr. Edmund A. Walsh, S. J.,
vice-president of Georgetown Uni
versity, at the same ceremonies.
PONTIFICAL MASS AT
BOY SCOUT JAMBOREE
Archbishop Rummel to Be
Celebrant in Washington
(By N.C.W.C. News Service)
WASHINGTON. — Plans for an im
pressive open-air Mass to be celebrat
ed at the National Jamboree of the
Boy Scouts of America, which will
take place in the National Capital from
June 30 to July-9, are now being made
by the Baltimore Archdiocesan Com
mittee on Scouting, which is in charge
of Catholic participation in the Jam
boree, under the direction of the Rev.
Louis C. Vaeth, Archdiocesan Director
of Scouting.
The pontifical field Mass, which will
be celebrated by the Most Rev. Joseph
F. Rummell, Archbishop of New Or
leans, will take place in the Jamboree
arena on the grounds surrounding the
Washington Monument.
The Most Rev. Michael J. Curley,
Archbishop of Baltimore, and the Most
Rev. Peter L. Ireton. Coadjutor Bish
op of Richmond, have given permis
sion for all visiting chaplains at the
Jamboree to exercise their ministry on
the Jamboree grounds. Thus daily
Mass and other religious services have
been assured the Catholic Scouts who
attend.
It is announced that the Rev. Mr.
Louis Barcelo, C. S. C. of Holy Cross
College, this city, has been named
Special Deputy National Field Com
missioner for the Boy Scouts of Ameri
ca. Mr. Barcelo has just completed ?0
years of scout work. He is also active
in Catholic preparations for the Jam
boree. having been assigned to this
work by his superiors.
FORMER SGOUT SINGS
FIRST SOLEMN MASS
, (By N. C. W. C. News Service)
PHILADELPHIA. — An event of
great interest in Philadelphia Catholic
Boy Scout circles took place at St.
Vincent’s Church, Germantown, when
the Rev. Robert McGlinchey, C. M„
a former scout of Troop 207„ of the
same church, sang his first Solemn
Mass.
This troop has a splendid record of
having as former scouts 11 ordained
priests and eight seminarians. The
troop is one of the group sponsored
by Ralph J. Shoettle. Special Nation
al Field-Scout Commissioner, who has
been cretary of the troop committee
for over 19 years.
8 SOUTHERN JESUITS
ORDAINED IN JUNE
One, Father Linehan, Will
Serve on Ceylon Missions
(Special to The Bulletin)
NEW ORLEANS, La—Eight mem
bers of the Society of Jesus have been
ordained for the Southern province,
which extends from North Carolina
through Texas. They are:
REV. JAMES D. CARROLL, of
Boston, Mass., a former member of
the faculty of Jesuit High School in
New Orleans, who made his philo
sophical stpdies at Mt. St. Michael’s,
Hillvard. Wash.
REV. WILLIAM G. COYLE, of New
Orleans, also formerly of Jesuit High
School, who studied at Mt. St. Mi
chael’s and theology at St. Mary’s, in
Kansas.
REV. JOHN M. GONZALEZ, a na
tive of Mexico, formerly of the fac
ulty of Jesuit High School, whose
home is now El Paso. Father Gon
zalez is an alumnus of Spring Hill
College.
REV. LOUIS F. HATREL, of New
Orleans, who taught at Jesuit High
School and Tampa College, where he
was a leader in the work of the So
dality.
REV. RAYMOND LEVELL, of Fall
River. Mass., who also taught at Jes
uit High School and Tampa College.
Father Levell was ordained at Wes-
ton College in Massachusetts.
REV. JOHN T. LINEHAN, pioneer
Southern Jesuit volunteer for the mis
sion field in Ceylon, who taught at
Jesuit High School and after a year
in Ceylon was sent to Belgium for
his theological studies; he was ordain
ed in Belgium.
REV. PETER F. McDONNELL. of
Algiers, La., whose period of teaching
was spent as a member of the facul
ty of Spring Hill College.
REV. EDWARD W. SHIELDS, of
New Orleans, who studied philosophy
at Mt. St. Michael’s and theology at
Woodstock, Md.; he taught at Jesuit
High School, He is a brother of the
Very Rev. Thomas J. Shields. S.J.,
provincial of the Jesuit Fathers in the
South.
NEWMAN CLUBS PLAN
DENVER CONVENTION
Notable' Americans on July
8-10 Program in the West
(By N.C.W.C. News Service)
NEW YORK.— Two Bishops, a Unit
ed States Senator, the chaplain and
former chaplain of the Federation,
other distinguished priests and promi
nent officials and business men are
among the speakers listed for the 22nd
Annual Conference of the Federa
tion of College Catholic Clubs, to be
held at Denver, Colo., July 8. 9 and 10,
according to the program made public
here.
The Rev. John McDevitt, of the In
termountain Province of the Federa
tion, who is in charge of arrange
ments for the forthcoming meeting,
announces that the Most Rev. Urban
J. Vehr. Bishop of Denver, will be the
principal speaker at the banquet ses
sion; that the Most Rev. Edwin V.
O'Hara, Bishop of Great Falls, will
speak to the meeting on “The Con
fraternity of Christian Doctrine in the
College Catholic Club,” and that Sen
ator Joseph C. O’Mahoney, of Wyo
ming, also has been invited to speak.
The addresses of welcome will be de
livered by Governor Ammons, of Col
orado. Mayor Stapleton, of Denver,
and the Rt. Rev. Msgr. Hugh L. Mc-
Menamin, of the Cathedral of the Im
maculate Conception, Denver.
GANADIANCATHOLICS
PRAY FOR THE KING
Special Services Held on Oc
casion of Coronation
(Bv N.C.W.C. News Service)
OTTAWA. — Throughout Canada
Catholics of all tongues joined on the
occasion of the Coronation of Their
Majesties King George VI and Queen
Elizabeth in prayers that their reign
might be long and happy, marked by
peace and justice. Solemn Te Deums
were sung and other liturgical prayers
offered in all Catholic churches of the
country beseeching divine aid and
blessing for the new monarchs. Bish
ops in pastoral letters and pastors in
their addresses referred to the spirit
ual significance of the coronation and
the joy which all must feel that His
Majesty had begun his reign with a re
quest for divine guidance.
His Eminence Rodrique Cardinal
Villeneuve. Archbishop of Quebec, be
spoke the loyalty of all Catholics in a
letter which read, in part, as follows:
“We wish to take this opportunity
of reiterating to His Majesty George
VI the homage of our loyalty . . . and
ask Our Lord to bless the reign which
has just begun and to make it favor
able to the prosperity of our dear
country. ..."