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THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC L AYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
JUNE 26, 1937
G. P. A. CONVENTION
HELD IN ROCHESTER
Archbishop Mooney Epis
copal Host to 26th Annual
Catholic Press Meeting
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tor of The Catholic Telegraph, Cin
cinnati, members of the Executive
Board. Benedict Elder, editor of The
Record, Louisville, again was chosen
by the Board as General Counsel of
the Association.
The Rev. James M. Gillis, C. S. P.,
editor of The Catholic World. Rich
ard Reid .editor of The Bulletin of
the Catholic Laymen’s Association of
Georgia, and Dr. Patrick F. Scan
lon, managing editor of The Brook
lyn Tablet, were renamed members
of the Literature Bureau, which an
nounced one thousand dollars in
prizes to be awarded for the best
theses on some phase of the Catholic
press, the theses to be submitted in
partial fulfillmnt of the requirements
for graduate degrees.
ARCHBISHOP EDWARD
MOONEY, Bishop of Rochester, was
episcopal host to the convention, and
the Most Rev. John Mark Gannon. D.
D.. Bishop of Erie. Episcopal chair
man of the N. C. W. C. Press Depart
ment, and the Most Rev. Francis
Clement Kellev, D. D„ LLD.. Bishop
of Oklahoma City and Tulsa and the
first editor of Extension Magazine,
also addressed the convention at the
convention dinner. William C. Lang,
associate editor of The Catholic Cour
ier, was toastmaster, and other speak
ers were President Fitzpatrick and
John B. Kennedy, noted radio com-
menator, also a former member of
the staffs of Extension and of Colum
bia.
Speakers the first day of the con
vention included the Rev. J. W. De-
Pencier, O. S. M., editor of The Serv-
ite, Chicago; the Rev. Dr. Edward
Lodge Curran, editor of Light, Brook
lyn; the Rev. J. B. Lux, of Extension,
Chicago; the Rev. Leonard Feeney,
of America, New York; the Rev. Dr.
George J. Johnson, of the N. C. W.
C., Washington, Benedict Elder, edi
tor of The Record, Louisville, Ky.;
the Rev. Richard S. Cartwright. C. S.
P., editor of The Missionary. Wash
ington; the Rev. Francis Donohoe, ed
itor of St. Francis Home Journal,
Herman. Pa.; Dr. Ray O. Wyland, di
rector of education of the Boy Scouts
of America; the Rev. Frederick Lynk,
S. V. D., editor of The Christian
Family, Techny, 111., and others. The
opening prayer was offered by the
Rt. Rev. Msgr. M. J. Foley, editor of
The Western Catholic, Quincy, 111.
C. L. A. Methods Are Subject
of Lectures at Notre Dame
Knowledge of Faith, Enthusiasm, Charity and Patience
Necessary in Work, C. L. A. Official Asserts
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
NOTRE DAME, Ind.—Non-Catholics
of the United States are entitled to
an explanation of Catholic doctrine
and conduct from their neighbors,
Richard Reid, Georgia editor, declar
ed in the opening address of a series
of five lectures he delivered at the
University of Notre Dame on the sub
ject of Practical Apologetics.
Mr. Reid, who is editor of The Bul
letin, of the Catholic Laymen’s As
sociation of Georgia, and recipient of
the Laetare Medal in 1936, asserted
that much of the prejudice in the
country today is the cumulative re
sult of 400 years of misinformation
which Catholic laymen have seldom
bothered to refute.
‘’The anti-Catholic point of view of
many non-Catholics is exactly the
point of view that most Catholics
would undoubtedly hold if reared in
the same atmosphere and tradition.”
Mr. Reid contended, blaming early
historical inaccuracies and misrepre
sentations that later were sincerely
accepted as facts.
“Consequently the truly Catholic-
minded and Catholic-hearted man
and woman regards this as the mis
fortune and not the fault of their
non-Catholic neighbors, and this in a
sincere and not patronizing way,” he
said.
Mr. Reid cautioned that enthusiasm
in apologetics must be tempered with
patience. He contended that the mis
understanding of Catholics and things
Catholic has been four hundred years
growing. In medicine, he said, some
diseases require a proportionate time
for cure as for development of the
disease, and he believes that preju
dice is such a malady.
Mr. Reid outlined the work of the
Catholic Laymen’s Association of
Georgia in its efforts to re-establish
Christian principles in true light, say
ing that “the laymen of Georgia
knew that the anti-Catholic attitude
was the result of years of misin
formation, for which the antidote is
information.”
Miss Loretto Powers
School Press Head
St. Vincent’s Girl Elected at
University of Georgia
Meeting
MSGR. READY, executive secre
tary of the National Catholic Wel
fare Conference, made his first ap
pearance before a C. P. A. conven
tion in that capacity; his predecessor,
the late Father John J. Burke, C. S.
P., a founder of the association as ed
itor of The Catholic World, was a
guest of honor at the previous con
vention in Columbus. 0.. the silver
jubilee convention. Frank A. Hall
submitted the report of the N. C. W.
C. News Service, of which he is di
rector. An exhibit of the Catholic
publications of the United States was
a feature of the convention, which
was held at the Sagamore Hotel.
Archbishop Mooney welcomed the
convention at its formal opening
and the Rt. Rev. Msgr. Peter Wyn-
hoven, eidtor of Catholic Action of
the South, New Orleans, responded.
Speakers at the first formal session
were Dr. Michael Williams, editor of
The Commonweal, Monsignor Wyn-
hoven, Bishop Gannon and the offi
cers, who made their annual reports.
Richard Reid presided at the edi
torial round-table session, the speak
ers at which included Father Gillis,
the Rev. Francies P. LeBuffe. S. J.,
of America; the Rev. Patrick J. Car-
Special to The Bulletin
ATHENS, Ga. — Miss Loretta Pow
ers, editor of The Flash, published
by the students of St. Vincent Acad
emy, Savannah, was elected president
of the Georgia Scholastic Press As
sociation at the annual meeting held
at the University of Georgia late in
May. The Flash was awarded the as
sociation loving cup for the best pub
lication in its class, from schools of
the lower bracket of enrollment.
roll, C. S. P.. editor of the Ave Ma
ria; Dr. Pat Scanlon, of The Tablet;
the Rev. Theophane Maguire, C. P.,
editor of The Sign; Simon Baldus,
managing editor of Extension Maga
zine; Father John J. Gough .editor-
in-chief of The Catholic Light, Scran
ton, Pa., and Peter Maurin and Wil
liam Callahan, of The Catholic Work-
In the circulation section the speak
ers including Anthony J. Beck, editor
of The Michigan Catholic; James E.
Horrigan, editor of The Catholic
Courier, Rochester, and Lawrence A.
Sykora, circulation manager of The
Universe-Bulletin, Cleveland. A. J.
Wey, general manager of the Uni
verse-Bulletin, presided at the adver
tising round-table discussion, with
Walter J. Abel, advertising manager
of The Catholic Herald-Citizen, Mil
waukee, and D. A. Gazzanella, busi
ness manager of the San Francisco
Monitor, leading the discussion.
A series of radio addresses in con
nection with the C. P. A. convention
were made by Bishop Gannon. Fath
er Gillis, Father DePencier and Rich
ard Reid over Station WHAM. Wil
liam A. Lang, associate editor of the
Catholic Courier, interviewed Bishop
Gannon and Father DePencier over
the radio, and presented the other
speakers.
REV. LEO C. MOONEY, editor of
The Catholic Courier, was the cele
brant of the annual memorial Mass
at the Cathedral the closing day of
the convention. Father Mooney, re
cently returned from the Eucharist-
tic Congress in Manila, was general
chairman of the convention commit
tee, with Howard W. Klippert. man
ager; Thomas H. O’Connor, news edi
tor. and Mr. Lang his associates. Sev
eral hundred attended the dinner in
the Powers Hotel.
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Archbishop Mooney Named
Ordinary of Michigan See
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post with distinction for five years,
when he was transferred as Apostolic
Delegate to JBpan. Two years later
he was named Bishop of Rochester.
In recent weeks he was host to the
Catholic Press Association of the
United States in convention in
Rochester. Meantime, upon the re
tirement of Archbishop Edward J.
Hanna, he was selected by his con
freres as Chairman of the Adminis
trative Board of the N. C. W. C.
BISHOP ALBERS, who becomes the
first Bishop of Lansing, is a native of
Cincinnati, where he was born March
18, 1891. His studies were made at Mt.
St. Mary’s of the" West. He served for
six years as secretary to the late
Archbishop Moeller of Cincinnati. In
the World War he saw service as a
chaplain. Appointed Chancellor of
the Cincinnati archdiocese in 1924,
he went to Rome two years later to
study Canon Law, and there received
the degree Doctor of Canon Law. In
1928, upon his return, he resumed his
position of Chancellor. In 1929 he was
named Auxiliary Bishop of Cincin
nati. He was consecrated December 27
of that year. In recent months he
had been active in the efforts of Ohio
parochial schools to obtain a just
share of State taxation for education
al purposes.
BISHOP-ELECT FOERY was bom
in Rochester on July 6, 1890, and was
educated at St. Bridget’s School, St.
Andrew's Preparatory Seminary and
St. Bernard’s Seminary, all in Roch
ester. He was ordained to the priest
hood in St. Patrick’s Cathedral her
in June, 1916.
Assistant pastor at Mt. Carmel
Church in Rochester in 1916, he was
named pastor six years later, in June,
1922, and ten years after that, in June,
1932, was named pastor of the
Church of the Holy Rosary here, an
assignment he has held up to the
present time. In addition to his pas
toral duties, Bishop-elect Foery has
served as the Director of the Roches
ter Diocesan Agency for Catholic
Charities since 1930. He also has serv
ed as the Director of the Columbus
Civic Center building here in Roch
ester.
Last year, Bishop-elect Foery was
chosen to represent the National
Catholic Welfare Conference at the
International Conference on Social
Welfare, held at London, England,
from July 12 to July 18.
BISHOP - ELECT SCHULTE was
born at Fredericktown, Mo. , on
March 18, 1690. He attended St. Fran
cis Solanus College, Quincy, 111., and
Kenrick Seminary, and was ordain
ed to the priesthood by the Most
Rev. John J. Glennon, Archbishop of
St.J_.ouis, on June 11, 1915.
All of Bishop-elect Schulte’s pas
toral service has been rendered in the
Old Cathedral parish here. He was
assigned to that parish as an assist
ant pastor immediately following his
ordination. In December, 1922, when
Monsignor Tannrath, the pastor, was
transferred, the now Bishop-elect of
Leavenworth was named Adminis
trator of the Old Cathedral. Some
time later he was named pastor of
the parish. He is an author and histo
rian of note.
Elphin, Ireland, cabled Archbishop
Curley. Father O’Flanagan has been
suspended since 1925; he was sus
pended also years ago because of po
litical activities in Sinn Fein days,
when he deserted his post in Ireland
to come to the United States against
the orders of his superiors.
ENGLISH CATHOLICS are caring
for one thousand of the four thousand
Basque children brought to England
from Bilbao. Most of the children, all
Catholics, have been assigned to non-
Catholic homes and organizations.
THE VATICAN denies the report
printed in some secular newspapers
in this country that the Holy See is
attempting to effect an armistice to
put an end to the fighting around
Bilbao.
UNITED STATES organizations col
lecting funds for war relief in Spain
must register with the Department of
State under the terms of the neutral
ity act, must be authorized to act in
the manner set out in its petition for
registration, and must make a sworn
report the first of each month.
CARDINAL O’CONNELL and oth
er members of the American hier
archy have expressed vigorous op
position to the plan of bringing thou
sands of Basque children to the Unit
ed States as refugees, on the ground
that their faith would be endangered
and that nothing could be done for
them here which could not be done
for them in neighboring countries.
Funds are being raised by Catholic
organizations in this country to assist
them. The State Department is in
vestigating the plan of bringing the
children to this country. Congress
man John W. McCormack of Massa
chusetts expresses the suspicion that
the Spanish Reds have some ulterior
motive in sending the children to the
United States instead of to their own
Basque people across the border in
France.
G. D. OF A. NATIONAL
MEETING JULY 5 TO 9
Biennial Convention to Be
Held in Breton Woods, N.H.
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
NEWARK, N. J.—With delegates,
representatives and visitors expected
from every state in the union, and
also from Canada, Alaska, Puerto
Rico, Cuba and the Panama Canal
Zone, final preparations are under
way for the 1937 Supreme Interna
tional Biennial Convention of the
Catholic Daughters of America at
Bretton Woods, N. H., July 5-9.
His Eminence William Cardinal
O’Connell, Archbishop of Bos
ton, is Honorary Chairman of the
1937 Convention Committee, consist
ing of state and subordinate courts of
New England. The Most Rev- William
J. Hafey, D. D., Bishop of Raleigh, is
national chaplain.
FLORIDA FRANCISCAN
DISSERTATION TOPIC
California Historian Re
ceives Degree at Catholic U.
(By N.C.W.C. News Service)
WASHINGTON. — The Rev. May
nard Geiger, O.F.M., of the Franciscan
Province of Santa Barbara, Cal., a
graduate student in the Department of
History at the Catholic University of
America, received his doctor’s degree
at the forty-eighth Commencement
on June 16. He has just published his
dissertation entitled “The Franciscan
Conquest of Florida.”
This is Volume I of “Studies in His-
panic-American History,” which will
be published by the Catholic Univer
sity. It is the first dissertation in the
field. More will follow in both his
tory and literature, since the Catholic
University possesses one of the largest
libraries on Hispanic-American topics
in the United States.
MRS. W. S. KEPPLER
DIES IN NEW YORK
Noted Social Worker Was
Native of Charleston
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
SCARSDALE, N. Y.-Funeral ser
vices were held here for Mrs. Wil-
helmina S. Keppler, noted social
worker in this country and in Ger
many. She was 53 years old.
Twice decorated for her social work
in Germany, she helped to promote a
system of kindergarten nurseries and
maternity homes, chiefly in the state
of Wurtemburg. His Holiness Pope
Pius XI awarded his Pro Ecclesia
Pontifice in 1925. Ten years pre
viously she had received a cross from
the then Kaiser Wilhelm II. She was
a native of Charleston, S. C. With
her late husband, John Keppler, a
language teacher, she conducted a
private school in Jacksonville. Fla.,
but removed to Germany in 1900 after
it was destroyed by fire- She re
turned to the United States in 1922.
In recent years she has been residing
with her son, Paul Keppler, here.
At one of the early conventions of
the National Council of Catholic
Women, Mrs. Keppler brought a
message from the Catholic women of
Germany.
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BOSTON will entertain the Second
National Conference of the Laywo-
men’s Retreat Movement July 3 and
4.
FLOYD COUNTY
DAIRIES
You Can Whip Our Cream,
But You Can't Beat Our
Milk.
SEARS, ROEBUCK & CO.
Rome, Georgia
Georgia Priests Go
to European Meeting
AUGUSTA, Ga. — The Rev. George
Laugel, S.M.A., pastor of the Church
of the Immaculate Conception, Au
gusta, and the Rev. F. J. Weiss, S.M.
A., pastor of Our Lady of Lourdes
Church, Atlanta, has gone to France
for a general chapter of the Society of
African Missions late in June. A pro
vincial chapter will also be held later
in Alsace. Father Laugel represents
the members of the society in the
United States, and Father Weiss rep
resents the Very Rev. Ignatius Liss-
ner. S. M. A., superior of the society
in the United States. Father Lissner
will take Father Weiss’s place in At
lanta until he returns.
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