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VOL. XVin. NO. 7
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, JULY 31, 1937
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CARDINAL’S AID TO LABOR LAUDED
Representatives of 28 organizations, including the major Catholic
national groups, placed wreaths on the memorial statue of James
Cardinal Gibbons, in front of the Sacred Heart Church. Washington.
July 19, to observe the 103rd anniversary of his birth, and listened
to speakers laud the great prelate's contributions to the betterment
of relations between capital and labor. In the photo, left to right
are: George Herring, of Washington, representing the Supreme
Council of the Knights of Columbus; Dr. Agnes G. Regan, National
Council of Catholic Women and the National Catholic School of
Social Service; Mrs. William H. Connell, Jr., of Pittsburgh, Interna
tional Federation of Catholic Alumnae, and Edward Heffron, Na
tional Council of Catholic Men. (Reni photo.)
Justice, Not Birth Control,
Remedy, Father Cox Asserts
In Letter to New York Times He Answers Defense of A.
M. A. Resolution
Bulletins
THE VERY REV. JOHN F.
O’HARA, C. S. C., president of the
University of Notre Dame, has been
re-elected for another term of three
years, the University announces.
HIS EMINENCE EUGENIO, Cardi
nal Pacelli, Papal Secretary of State
and Legate of His Holiness to the
French National Eucharistic Congress
at Lisieux, on Sunday dedicated the
Basilica of St. Thcrese in the presence
of four Cardinals, 15 Archbishops, 60
Bishops and several thousand priests
and 250,000 pilgrims. ..
His Eminence Dennis Cardinal
Dougherty, Archbishop of Philadel
phia, was present with three French
members of the Sacred College.
DETROIT will ofliically welcome
its first Archbishop, the Most Rev.
Edward Mooney, D. D., now Arch
bishop-Bishop of Rochester on his
arrival in the city August 2.
BROTHER AMBROSE, of the
Xavcrisn Bortliers, a native of Louis
ville, Ky., has been elected head of
the Xaverian Brothers throughout
the world at a General Chapter in
Belgium. He succeeds Brother Paul,
C. F. X., also an American.
HOLY FATHER PRAISES
GARDINAL MUNDELEIN
Courage of Chicago Prelate
Lauded Before Illinois City
Pilgrims Visiting Vatican
VATICAN CITY. — The courage of
His Eminence George Cardinal Mun
delein, Archbishop of Chicago, in his
outspoken defense of things religious
was lauded by His Holiness Pope Pius
XI in a discourse to a group of Chi
cago pilgrims who have come to the
Eternal City after a visit to Lisieux.
Welcoming these pilgrims at an au
dience accorded at Castelgandolfo,
Pope Pius said their presence recalled
to him the greatness of their City of
Chicago “and also the greatness of
your wonderful Cardinal Archbishop,
so courageous in defending the rights
of God, the Church and the safety of
souls.”
A group of Spanish nuns were also
received by Pope Pius at the same au
dience. His Holiness invited all to
pray that an end may soon come to
Spain's time of tribulation and of ter
ror and that days of peace may dawn.
The Little Flower pilgrims from Chi
cago were headed by Carmelite priests.
One of the pilgrims was the Rt. Rev.
Msgr. James J. Horburgh, Archdioce
san Director of the Pontifical Society
for the Propagation of the Faith.
1,400 Men to Attend
Notre Dame Retreat
NOTRE DAME, lnd.—More than 1,-
400 Catholic laymen from all parts of
the country will gather on the Notre
Dame University campus, August 5 to
8, to take part in the nineteenth An
nual Laymen’s Retreat. The retreat
will be under the direction of Rev.
Patrick Dolan, C. S. C., and will be
preached by Rev. Leo F. Flood, C. S.
C.
Attendance is not limited to Notre
Dame alumni and hundreds of busi
ness and professional men from many
other sections of the counrty will
participate.
Conferences are held on the cam
pus at the Grotto of Lourdes and the
climax is a candlelight procession
from Sacred Heart through the
grounds of the Grotto for Benedic
tion.
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
WASHINGTON—The revival of the
Catholic spirit in Nationalist terri
tory is the strongest impression he
brings with him from Spain, where
he has spent considerable time in the
last three years and where he. has
just had an unbroken sojourn of a
month and a half, the Very Rev.
Sylvester Pancho, O. P., rector of the
University of Santo Tomas, Manila,
declared upon his arrival here yes
terday. He landed in New York on
the liner Vulcania from Lisbon, Port
ugal.
Father Sylvester, who was former
ly a professor at the University
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
NEW YORK.—The Rev. Ignatius W.
Cox, S.J., of Fordham University, in
a letter to the editor of the New York
Times referring to the recent action
of the American Medical Association
on birth control condemns what he
calls “a corporate action, possibly
medico-politically inspired, not of
American medicine, but of the Amer
ican Medical Association.”
“This is a distinction with a differ-
ference,” says Father Cox. “The action
of the American Medical Association
does not represent the views of all
of Santo Tomas, went to Europe in
1934. Since then he as been in and
out of Spain a number of times. He
spent a year in Madrid. From Feb
ruary to June. 1936, he was prior of
the Dominican convent at Avila, near
Madrid, and was called upon to spend
much of his time in the Spanish capi
tal. In that time, he saw two
churches and a Sisters’ school burned
in Madrid. He saw two priests and
four nuns shot down in the Las
Ventas district of that city.
Recalling interviews he had with
General Franco, Father Sylvester says
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the doctors and. as I suspect, will be
regretted by that very organization
itself.
“I condemn the committee report on
contraception as morally unsound,
both in its obscurity, in the inferences
drawn from it by the popular mind, as
well as in deductions derivable from
it by cold intellectual appraisal. There
can be no morally legal rights with
regard to contraception, and no so-
called medically human need, no med
ical approbation, can wash contracep
tive practice clean from the dirt of its
essential and intrinsic depravity.”
Father Cox’s letter is a reply to one
written by Guy Irving Burch to the
same paper in which the latter argued,
among other things, that contracep
tion encourages a high marriage rate.
The priest quotes from an article in
the Journal of the American Medical
Association for April 24, 1937, by Ray
mond Pearl, of the Department of Bi
ology, Johns Hopkins University, en
titled “Fertility and Contraception in
New York and Chicago,” in which it is
stated among other things that “the
data from both cities indicate that
women practicing birth control resort
to abortion more frequently than do
non-contraceptor women.”
Father Cox also quotes from The
National Financial Weekly, for June
29, on the “Economic Consequences
of Fewer Babies”. The quotation
reads:
“Declining birth rate in nearly
every country of the Western world
. . . fhe decrease in the proportion of
active workers threatens to lower the
standard of living of the entire na-
(Continued on page nine).
POPE PIUS GRIEVED
AT MARCONI DEATH
Holy Father Had Received
Great Inventor in Private
Audience Few Days Before
(Radio, N.C.W.C. News Service)
VATICAN CITY. — Informed of the
death today of Guglielmo Marconi, in
ventor of wireless communication, His
Holiness Pope Pius XI was scarcely
able to believe the report, because he
had received Senator Marconi in au
dience on Saturday and the noted sci
entist appeared to be m excellent
health.
As soon as he was stricken with the
heart attack that brought his death to
day, Senator Marconi sent for his par
ish priest, who administered the Last
Sacraments. The great inventor was
fully conscious and accompanied the
priest in the recitation of the prayers.
He expired while reciting the “Our
Father".
Senator Marconi had requested the
audience which the Holy Father ac
corded him on Saturday, that he
might personally present his excuse
that illness kept him from being pre
sent at the inauguration of the Ponti
fical Academy of Sciences. Pope
Pius kept him in conversation for a
half hour, and, when leaving, the
Senator declared he was deeply
touched by the paternal reception the
Supreme Pontiff had accorded him.
ENJOYED POPES’ FRIENDSHIP
Pope Pius’ friendship for Marconi is
well known. When, following the sign
ing of the Lateran Treaty, the Holy
Father decided to establish a radio
station in Vatican City, he asked Sen
ator Marconi to undertake the work.
The inventor placed himself at the
Pope's disposal. The great genius in
corporated the most modern inven
tions and improvements in this station
constructed lor the Pope, and when
it was completed it stood as the most
perfect project of its kind. With it,
if necessary, the Holy Father could
speak to all his spiritual children
throughout the world at the same time.
The Supreme Pontiff personally of-
ficated at the inauguration of the Vat
ican City radio station, delivering his
famous message which was broadcast
to the world. His Holiness then pre
sided at the meeting of the Papal
Academy of Sciences expressly con
voked to confer a gold medal on Sen
ator Marconi. The Holy Father's dis
course on this occasion called Marco
ni’s invention a providential means
placed at the disposal of the Papacy.
Later, Senator Marconi, conducting
experiments at the Vatican City sta
tion, perfected a system of short-wave
radio communication between the Vat
ican and Castelgandolfo, establishing
twin stations for this purpose. When
he went to examine this newly in
stalled radio equipment, Pope Pius
consented to be photographed with
Senator Marconi, an exceptional thing.
As he was leaving the Vatican on
Saturday, Senator Marcbni expressed
great joy in having seen again the
Holy I ather, for whom he had the ut
most admiration, and in having re
ceived the Pontiff’s affectionate and
paternal blessing for his family.
Today Pope Pius charged His Emi
nence Eugenio Cardinal Pacelli, Papal
Secretary of State, to send a telegram
of affectionate condolences to the
widow of Senator Marconi.
INVENTOR’S LIFE RECALLED
WASHINGTON. — The death of
Senator Guglielmo Marconi at his
home in Rome as the result of a heart
attack recalls many outstanding events
and achievements in the noted scien
tist’s life.
Wireless telegraph, his greatest in
vention, was bom in the spring of
1895 when he was only 21 years old,
and in the following year he was grant
ed the first patent for a practical sys
tem of wireless telegraphy in Eng
land where he had gone after his na-
(Spccial Correspondence, N. C. W. C.
News Service)
AMSTERDAM.—To discredit the
German Hierarchy in the eyes of the
faithful as alleged traitors of their
country appears to be the present
cliief aim of the Nazi campaign of
persecution of all things Christian, ac
cording to reports from across the
border.
Since the Most Rev. Ludwig Sebas
tian, Bishop of Speyer, Palatinate,
protested against the mock vote
among Catholic priests -in his diocese,
staged by Nazi officials to make it
appear that tire parents wanted to see-
HOLY FATHER ASKS
PRAYERS FOR PEACE
Delivers Radio Address at
Close of French National
Eucharistic Congress
By Msgr. Enrico Pucci
(Cable N. C. W. C. News Service)
VATICAN CITY— Addressing by
radio the vast outpouring of pilgrims
gathered at Lisieux for the French
National Eucharistic Congress and the
dedication of the Basilica of St. The*
rese — dual ceremonies to which he
sent His Eminence Eugenio Cardinal
Pacelli, Papal Secretary of State, as
his personal Legate— His Holiness
Pope Pius XI yesterday called for
prayers that “to this world so dis
traught and confused, and to all
peoples who are so oppressed by the
miseries of today and so fearful of
tomorrow,” God “may grant a little
tranquility in order and peace with
a return to those ways which are the
only ways— the recognition of His
Divine Sovereignty, obedience to His
holy laws and the practioe of justice
and charity, the more bountifully to
wards those who have less and who,
for that very reason, are in greater
need and suffering."
Pope Pius spoke at noon, radio
facilities carrying his voice through
out the world. He was seated at his
desk in his private library at Castel
gandolfo. On the table before him
was a little statue of St. Therese and
a relic of “The Little Flower.” Be
fore reading his own message to the
Lisieux pilgrims, which required
twelve minutes to finish, the Holy
Father heard by means of radio the
discourse delivered by Cardinal
Pacelli, at the Solemn Pontificial
Mass at Lisieux.
WORDS HEARD IN AMERICA
Immediately after he had finished
reading his massage. Pope Pius was
informed by radio that his discourse
was heard perfectly at Lisieux and in
the United States.
The only ones present as the Holy
Father read his message were Mon
signor Mell di Santelia, Maestro di
Camera; Monsignors Confalonieri and
Venini, Private Secretaries of His
Holiness, and Father Filippo Soccorsi,
S. J., Director of the Vatican City
radio station.
Pope Pius’ health has shown a re
markable improvement in recent days.
Every day last week His Holiness took
a ride in his motor car through the
park surrounding the Papal villa.
Sometimes His Holiness walked about
in the park for some minutes.
Rev. Thomas Carney
on “Catholic Hour”
To Be Heard in Nation-Wide
Broadcast During August
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
WASHINGTON.—The Rev- Thomas
A. Carney, pastor of the Shrine of
the True Cross at Dickinson, Tex.,
will deliver a series of five addresses
on the nation-wide Catholic Hour in
August, the National Council of Cath
olic Men, j-roducer of the CathoUc
Hour, announced-today.
The individual titles of Father Car
ney’s addresses are as follows: Au
gust 1, “Christian Service;; August 8,
“Christian Leadership”;' August 15,
“Christian Principle”; August 22,
“Christian Living”; August 29, “Chris
tian Loyalty’.’..
REV. T. J. McCLUSKEY, S. J.,
president of Fordham University
from 1910 to 1916, died in New York
early in July at the age of 79. Father
McCluskey was vice-rector of the
Cathedral in New York when he en
tered the Society of Jesus in 1891.
the parochial schools abolished, the
Nazi Governor of the State, Ludwig
Buerckey, has gone about the coun
try making violent attacks on the
Bishop.
The eighteen deacons of the dio
cese, thereupon, signed a joint state
ment refuting the assertions of
Buerckey and protesting that their
Bishop should not be exposed to so
unscrupulous a campaign of vinifica
tion. The Nazi authorities’ answer
was the arrest of the senior of th :
deacons, r.ther Josef Schroeder, a
(Continued on page nine)
Revival of Catholic Spirit in
Spain Impresses Priest
Rector of Philippine College Cites Piety of Nationalist
Forces—As Eye-Witness Refutes Guernica Charges
(Continued on page nine)
Nazis Inaugurate Campaign
Against German Hierarchy
Would Make Bishops Appear as Traitors for Reporting
to Holy See on Conditions in Reich