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JULY 31, 1937
THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
ELEVEN
C. D. of A. Convention Hears
Bishop Hafey Warn Against
Any Entangling Alliances
Repeats Washington’s Admonition at Address at Biennial
Convention of Organization at Bretton Woods, N.H.
(By N. C- W. C. News Service)
BRETTON WOODS, N, H.— Oppo
sition to birth control and a denun
ciation of communism and other un-
Christian movements that have
sprung up in American life were
contained in a report of the resolu
tions committee adopted at the seven
teenth biennial convention of the
Catholic Daughters of America in ses
sion here.
Religious, patriotic, civic, literary
and business exercises marked the
convention, which assembled leaders
of Catholic laywomen who gathered
from all sections of the country and
from Alaska, Canada, Cuba, Puerto
Rico and the Canal Zone to hear an
impressive array of speakers headed
by four members of the Hierarchy—
the Most Rev. Francis J. L. Beckman,
Archbishop of Dubuque; the Most
Rev. William J. Hafey, Bishop of
Raleigh and National Chaplain of the
C- D. of A.; the Most Rev. John B.
Peterson, Bishop of Manchester, and
the Most Rev. Edwin V. OHara, Bish
op of Great Falls.
ALLIANCES OPPOSED
At the opening banquet, the 600
delegates heard Bishop Hafey appeal
for this country to “eschew entang
ling alliances with foreign countries.”
He urged the organization to “ex
pose the true conditions of workers
and small property owners under the
collectivist nations.”
“To fail in our adherence to our
first President’s admonition,” Bishop
Hafey said, “may not only entrap us
in a war in which we have had no
part in making, but it might easily
lead to a most unnatural alliance side
by side with Red Russia or a totali
tarian regime such as dominates Ger
many today.”
Bishop O’Hara, also a banquet
speaker, warned that the “systematic
prosecution of religious instruction by
the parents in the home is the only
secure basis of hope for the future."
Miss Mary C. Duffy, of South
Orange, N. J-, was re-elected Su
preme Regent for a term of two years
She has headed the organization for
14 years. Miss Duffy reported to
the convention that more than 56,000,-
000 had been subscribed by the C. D.
of A., in the last 17 years for char
itable, educational and religious ac
tivities.
Named to serve with Miss Duffy
were: Miss Frances Maher, Kane.
Pa., supreme vice regent; Miss Kath
erine M. Rosney, New York City,
national secretary; Mrs. Mary F. Lar
kin, national editor; Mrs. Anna M.
Baxter, Dubuque, national treasurer;
Mrs. Lenora Z. Meder, Chicago, na
tional counselor, and the following
directors, Miss Mary E. McKeough,
Rutland, Vt.; Miss Veronica M.
O'Connor, Omaha; Mrs. Margaret
Broussard, New Orleans; Mrs. Lulu
Spilde, Mitchell, S. D.; Mrs. Anna
K. Ballard, East Milton, Mass., and
Mrs. Margaret A. Tynan, Poughkeep
sie, N Y.
St. Mary’s Church, Shelby, North Carolina
Religious Vacation Schools
Held in Diocese of Raleigh
Father R. J. MacMillan Superintendent—Bishop Hafey
Presides at Closing of Sessions at Nazareth
Religious Vacation Schools for
Catholic children who cannot attend
Catholic Parochial Schools are no
longer in the experimental stage.
For many years now they have been
organized in various parts of the
country, and the results achieved in
a missionary way have been abun
dantly satisfactory.
There are two methods of conduct
ing a Religious Vacation School—
the Day-School plan and the Board
ing-School plan. The personnel re
quirements for both types of school
are practically the same, but it is, of
course, more expensive to operate a
school where the children are lodg
ed and fed for the entire vacation
school course of several weeks. Both
types of school were operated in the
Diocese of Raleigh during the past
month of June. The Day-School
plan, with headquarters at Southern
Pines, was conducted by the Sisters
of Notre Dame, with an enrollment
of fifty-two pupils.
In the Diocese of Raleigh we have
experimented with a central board
ing school at the Nazareth Orphange
near the city of Raleigh, because of
the extensive territory—54,000 square
miles—over which our Catholic
children are scattered. There are
only twenty-four Catholic schools in
the state of North Carolina; there are
therefore several hundred Catholic
children who do not have the ad
vantage of parochial school training.
On Sunday, June 13, the fifth an
nual Summer School opened with an
enrollment of a hundred and seven
ty-five children from various parts
of the state. For purposes of instruc
tion the children were divided into
groups according to their classes in
the public schools, and the enroll-
evening talks. A short instruction
was given each morning after Mass
by the superintendent of the Sum
mer School.
The Rev. Robert J. MacMillan, of
the North Carolina Apostolate, was
placed in charge of the summer
school and devoted his entire time
during the few weeks to that work.
The services of Sisters from some of
the local Catholic Schools were en
listed, including Sisters of Mercy of
Sacred Heart Convent, Belmont, N.
C., and Sisters, Servants of the Im
maculate Heart of Mary. Scranton,
Pa. Four Seminarians, studying for
the Diocese of Raleigh at Mt. St.
Mary’s, Emmitsburg. Md.. assisted
Father MacMillan by conducting
some of the altar boy training classes
by taking care of the Chapel, and by
acting as assistant Spiritual Advisors
for the boys.
The Seminary students were also
used as disciplinarians for the boys’
dormitories. It was their task to sec
that the lads got to bed at night and
rose on time in the morning. How
ever, a couple of the Sisters usually
dropped around the sections where
the little boys slept in the morn
ings to see that each cne got his
clothes right side out and to help, if
need be, with the morning washing
of boyish faces.
Jacksonville Knights
Observe Anniversary
Institution of Bishop Kenny
Council Recalled at Banquet
ment ranged from the first Primary
grade through High School. _
The session opened Sunday eve- rious actions of the liturgy. It is in-
Every. child who attended the
school received a thorough training
in the course of Catechism laid out for
the two weeks’ perod. This meant for
some the preparation for first Con
fession and for First Holy Commun
ion; for the boys, special training
and practice in serving at Mass was
given, and only a Priest who has had
to say Mass in farm houses and ru
ral chapels cart appreciate what it
means to have a server who really
knows the Mass prayers and the va-
(Special to The Bulletin)
JACKSONVILLE, Fla.—Commemo
rating the eighteenth anniversary of
its institution, Bishop Kenny Council,
No. 1951, Knights of Columbus, held
a banquet at the Tropical Party
House, on Atlantic Boulevard, on the
evening of July 1.
The occasion was also a tribute to
a group of retiring officers of the
council, headed by C. A. Hartley, who
for the past seven years has served
with distinction as grand knght. The
affair was also a compliment to the
new grand knight, Charles I Bennett,
and more than a hundred were in at
tendance.
Mrs. T. M. Keller, president of the
recently organized Ladies Guild of the
Church of the Assumption Parish;
Mrs. Thomas Ybanez and Miss Ger
trude Duffy, grand regents of the
two Jacksonville Catholic Daughters
units, J- B. Clark and Leo Bowles,
officers of the State Council; and the
Rev. James J. Meehan, were among
the speakers.
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SMITH-CASEY
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ning with supper, sermon and bene
diction of the Meet Blessed Sacrament
and work began the first thing
Monday morning. The schedule of
hours and classes were as follows:
630 a. m., Mass; 9:00-12:30 classes;
12:30 p. m.. dinner; 1:30-3:30, choir
practice and classes in “Catholic Ac
tion’’; 3:30-6, recreation; 6:00, supper;
8:00, sermon and benediction: 9:00,
retiring.
The class periods were so ar
ranged that Christian Doctrine filled
two periods a day, history one pe
riod, and instruction on the Holy
Sacrifice of the Mass one period. In
the High School classes, Lau's course
in Religion and Church History to
gether with the work books for the
course -were used. In the afternoon,
lessons in Gregorian Chant were
conducted, the girls for a one hour
period and the boys during the sec
ond . hour. While the girls were at
music, the boys were receiving in
structions on how to serve Mass, and
a course in Communism was given
to the High School boys: and during
the boys’ musical period, the girls
were receiving special instruction on
general topics which were grouped
under the heading of “Catholic Ac
tion.” During this period also the
girls made altar linens for some of
the poorer missions of the Diocese.
The evening sermons were some
thing like retreat talks. Generally,
we had visiting priests tn give them,
and it was surprising with what in
terest the children followed these
credible that boys who had never
spoken a word of Latin in their lives
would be able to master all of the
Mass prayers in two weeks’ time,
but this was the fact.
But splendid as were these results,
the most striking achievement of the
summer school was the mastering of
the liturgical music by the boys and
girls alike. The entire group of chil
dren was taught the hymns and the
Ordinary of the Mass. Each night of
the summer school, the boys and
girls sang the hymns for benedic
tion, and the Solemn High Mass,
with the Most Reverend William J.
Hafey, D. D., presiding, the boys and
girls sang the Plain Chant Mass,
“Orbis Factor”, and the Gloria of the
Mass was the Ambrosian rendition.
The “Ecce Sacerdos’’ was sung in
honor of the Bishop.
Results, however, were not all
measurable i n terms of memory
work. The children showed a defi
nite grasp of more fundamental
things. They learned about the
meaning and the purpose of the Sac
rifice of the Mass and learned how
to assist at Mass intelligently and de
voutly. Following the priest in the
“Missa Recitata”, they read all of
the parts in English, as the priest
advance through the sacred action.
A special examination was conduct
ed among the children by the Bishop
on the matter of the Mass, Cate
chism and Church History, the
meaning of the prayers, the signifi
cance of the movements of the Priest
JACKSONVILLE, Fla.—Miss Teresa
Kathleen Casey, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Patrick B- Casey, and George
Curtis Smith, son of the late Mr. and
Mrs. Charlyes Curtis Smith, were
married at the home of the bride's
parents, 824 Mango Street, on the
evening of July 17. the Rev. F. M.
Monahan officiating.
The bride was attended by Miss
Adma Shamlaty, as maid-of- honor,
while James H. Hudgens acted as best
man.
Following the ceremony a recep
tion was held for friends of the
young couple, during which wedding
cake was served by Misses Nellie
Stevenson, Matilda Dietz, and Patty
Eversfield-
Mrs. Smith, a popular member of
the younger set,, received her educa
tion at the School of the Assumption
in Jacksonville, and at the Academy
of St. Joan of Arc, in Montreal. Mr.
Smith, formerly of Orlando, is con
nected with Southern Dairies, in
Jacksonville.
during the Holy Sacrifice, and the
various other subjects studied dur
ing the summer course.
On Sunday, June 27, the religious
training school formally closed with
a High Mass. The children returned
to their homes in the various parts
of the state with a deeper apprecia
tion, love and affection for their
holy faith, and more fully conscious
of the task that is theirs in the years
to come, as the future Catholic citi
zens of the Diocese of Raleigh, to
propagate and spread Catholicism in
the most non-Catholic state in the
Union.
SOUTHERN PINES has sixty regis
tered at its religious vacation school,
conducted by the Sisters of Notre
Dame de Namur at Notre Dame
Academy, at Southern Pines, where
Father Thomas A. Williams is pastor.
Thirty-eight were registered from
Southern Pines, seven from Aber
deen, two from Carthage, four from
Niagara, three from Pinebluff and six
from Sanford. Bishop Hafey and Fa
ther Herbert Harkins, chaplain at the
Academy, visited the school the day
after it opened. Ten young ladies also
assisted the Sisters, Miss Katherine
Lee, who will soon receive her Mas
ter of Arts degree from the Catholic
University. Miss Mary Reges, A. B.,
Trinity, Miss Lucille Morehouse
and Miss Mary Dimond, juniors at
Trinity. Miss Lucille Morehouse and
and Miss Marie Lee of Trinity Pre
paratory School, Ilchester, Md.. Miss
Rita Buddeke, Miss Marian Hartnett,
Miss Margaret O'Connor and Miss
Lucille Farduhn.
Shelby, N. C., Church, First
in City, Dedicated July 11
Chapel Erected by Family of Mrs. Antointte Bliley-
bot Vincent Officiates at Dedication
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SHELBY, N. C.—St. Mary’s Church
was blessed and dedicated to Al
mighty God July 11, through the pa
troness of His Mother our Blessed
Lady under the title of Mary Help
of Christians, by the Rt. Rev. Vin
cent Taylor, O.S.B., D.D., Abbot Or
dinary of Belmont Catherdal Abbey,
assisted by Monks from that Abbey
and by visiting clergy. After the ded
ication rites, High Mass was chant
ed by the Very Rev. Nicholas Bliley,
O.S.B., J.C.D., Prior and Vicar Gen
eral of Belmont Abbey. As chap
lains to the Rt. Rev. Abbot in the
sanctuary were the Rev. Arnold
Walters, O.F.M., superior of St.
Francis’ Friary, Lenoir, N. C., and
the Rev. Michael Mclnerney, O.S.B.
The Rev. Alphonse Buss, O.S.B., pas
tor of the new church, acted as mas
ter of ceremonies. The sremon was
preached by Abbot Vincent.
For the past two years the Cath
olics of Shelby have been assisting
at Mass at the home of Mrs. A. P.
Weldon, where her large parlors
were turned into a chapel on the oc
casion of each visit of the priest.
Surely a church was needed. Prayer
was resorted to, and quickly God an
swered the prayers of the people of
Shelby. A little more than a year
ago, Mrs. Antoinette Bliley of Rich
mond, Va., died. Shortly after the
funeral the bereaved children re
solved to erect a memorial to the
memory of their beloved mother. The
Very Rev. Father Nicholas Bliley,
O.S.B., suggested that this memorial
with exposed trusses and rafters
gives an impression of honesty, can
dor, and rugged strength.
The 14 Stations of the Cross, hav
ing no frames, are permanently fix
ed into niches in the walls. They are
wonderfully vivid reproductions af
ter the designs of a famous religious
painter. The stained glass windows
are of fine quality, as to materials,
craftsmanship, and artistic concep
tion. The pews, confessional, etc., are
all in keeping with the general
scheme of design of the church as a
whole.
This edifice was designed and de
tailed in all its structural and artis
tic appointments by the Rev. Mi
chael Mclnerney, O.S.B., A.I.A., of
Belmont Abbey. Southeastern Con
struction Company erected and com
pleted the building. He superintended
the work of the contractor and col
laborated with all the artists in the
development of their specialties. The
Southeastern Construction Company
erected and completed the building
with all its furnishings, whereas local
concerns supplied the plumbing, wir
ing, roofing and labor.
After the dedication Mass the par
ishioners of St. Mary’s acted as host
to over 100 visitors at a splendid din
ner at Hotel Charles. The Rt. Rev.
Abbot presided. At the end of the
meal the Very Rev. Father Nicholas
spoke touchingly of his departed
mother. Father Alphonse, pastor, also
addressed a few remarks to the din
ers. He emphasized the fine spirit
suggcMcu uiai uus memorial xne cmpuabizieu vitf inn; bpun
be in the form of a chapel in Shel- ; that is alive among his people. In
by, for he knew of the urgent need particular he heaped praise among
of a chapel there. The ten children
of the deceased Mrs. Bliley desig
nated the Shelby Mission as the re
cipient of sufficient funds to assure
the erection of a chapel in memory
of their mother.
At news of this bequest the Cath
olics of Shelby were jubilant. Quick
ly they themselves raised sufficient
money to purchase a suitable lot.
Contacts were made; several gener
ous benefactors assured the pastor
and his building committee of most
of the furnishings for the church.
Before long actual construction was
under way.
This strikingly beautiful church,
though small (it seats 100 persons),
has been erected and furnished strict
ly according to the liturgical regula
tion of the Church. It is an edifice
of most excellent quality, and, true
to the traditions of the Catholic
Church, makes use of the fine arts
to illustrate these traditions, ex
plain her doctrine, end develop her
devotions through the medium of
symbols.
The exterior immediately im
presses one with strength and solid
ity, for the walls and tower are of
granite, and the roof is tile. Upon
entering the chapel the visitor must
assuredly say: “Th : s is the House of
Ged and Gate of Heaven”. The altar
with its tabernacle at once attracts
the attention, as it should do. for
there is the center of Catholicity,
there is where the adorable Sacrifce
is offered, there is where the Silent
Master resides. The altar is made of
oak, executed by master craftsmen,
from original drawing. Above the
altor hangs a large oil painting of
the Crucifixion, done by the Rev.
Fastor. Father Alphonse, and sur
rounded by the dossel. a gorgeous
red drapery. Two shrines, not with-'
in the sanctuary limits, one to the
Blessed Mother, the other to St.
Joseph, add beauty and devotion to
the interior.
Tire nave or auditorium is in pro
portion to the general design: though
rather lone, as compared with the
width, it is yet high enough to be
uplifting. The open timbered ceiling
Mrs. A. P. Weldon, whom he called
the “Apostle of Shelby ’- A sincere
applause broke loose at the mention
of Mrs. Weldon’s name.
As special guests at the church
ceremonies and also at the dinner
were Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Eliley,
rnd Thomas Bliley, Jr., and Miss Sa
lome Bliley, of Richmond, Va.
Jacksonville KnigMs
Elect New Officers
Charles L Bennett to Head
Bishop Kenny Council, of
Knights of Columbus
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Charles L
Bennett, who succeeded C. A. Hart
ley as grand knight of Bishop Ken
ny Council, Knights of Columbus,
was installed at a meeting of the
council held on July 14.
Other officers for 1937-38 will be
John Andreau, deputy grand knight;
L. D. Utsey, chancellor; A. F. Mira,
warden; B. J. Salla. recorder; H. G.
Everett, treasurer; C. S. Dubose, fi
nancial secretary; C. Roland Bis-
beem. advocate; Joseph Sullivan, in
ner guard; John Miller .outer guard;
C. A. Hartley, trustee, and the Rev.
M. F. Monahan chaplain.
Sponsored by the membership of
the council a successful benefit dance
was held at Jacksonville Beach Pier
on July 21. The committee in charge
included, C. A. Hartley, chairman; C.
S. Dubose A. N. Sollee. John An-
clreau, Frank Mira, C. I. Bennett and
Harlo Everett
REV. JEROME MULHEB1N, for
merly provinicnl of the Servite Fath
ers in the United States, and the Rev.
Hilary Kieserling. superior of St.
Peter’s Priory of the Servite Fathers,
died unexpecte ’ey in Chicago late in
June.