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TOLY 31, 1937
THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC E 'AYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
NINE
Non-Sectarian Group
to Assist Jesuits
Will Raise Fund to Aid
Education in Louisiana
NEW ORLEANS, La.—A committee
of Catholics, Protestants and Jews,
which includes Nicholas Bauer,
superintendent of the New Orleans
Public Schools, a Protestant, has been
formed to raise $10,000 to be given to
the Jesuits for the education of the
poor of Louisiana.
Presentation of the money will be
part of the celebration this fall of
the fiftieth anniversary of the recep
tion of the Rev. William A. Fillinger,
S. J., of the Jesuit High School
faculty into the Society of Jesus. He
is the only Jesuit of the Southern
Province, save one, who has taught
as long as 37 years.
Father Fillinger is said to be the
only Norwegian Jesuit in the world.
He was bom in Christiana (Oslo),
Norway. November 11, 1867, of a Pro
testant family and became a convert
to the Catholic Church through what
he regards as a miracle which took
place before his eyes in France, in
which country he was received into
the Church. He entered the Jesuit
Novitiate at Macon. Ga., in 1887 and
was ordained in 1902.
His mother, who came to America
for his ordination, became ill soon
after while visiting friends in
Menominee, Mich., embraced Ca
tholicism and from her son received
the last rites-
After studying in Christiana until
he was 14 years old Father Fillinger
went to Grenoble, France, to study.
About 70 miles away was the village
of Isere and near a mountain, at the
top of which was a shrine dedicated
to Our Lady. There were two foun
tains at the shrine and it was said
many miraculous cures had been ef
fected by the waters. He says he
saw a girl who was paralyzed from
the hips down rise and walk.
"As I stood there, hardly compre
hending what I had seen”, said Father
Fillinger, “some force threw me on
my knees. It was there I realized
the message it had conveyed. I went
into the church and prayed. I asked
for instruction in the Catholic reli
gion”.
He went to a Jesuit School in Bel
gium for a year and while there de
cided to enter the Society of Jesus.
He went back to Christiana to bid
his family goodbye, then came to
America.
MISS MITTIE A. SHEA
OF MACON PARISH DIES
MACON, Ga.—Miss Mitte A. Shea,
who retired several years ago from
the teaching staff of the Board of
Education of Bibb County, died on
July 24, funeral services were held
from the Sacred Heart Church, Mil-
ledgeville.
Miss Shea was a native of Jewell,
Georgia, and had made her home in
Macon for over 20 years. She was a
member of the congregation of St.
Joseph’s Church.
Several nieces and nephews sur
vive, among them being J. C. 1-con-
ard, Jacksonville; and Mrs. O. T.
O’Leary, Los Angeles.
RAYMOND
BLOOMFIELD
Catholic Funeral Director
Secretary Sam Greenberg
and Company
95 Forrest Ave., N. E.
ATLANTA, GA.
FR. GREELEY NAMED
ASSISTANT AT AUGUSTA
To Be Stationed at the
Sacred Heart Church
AUGUSTA, Ga. — Included in the
list of appointments announced by
the Very Rev. Thomas J. Shields, S.
J., provincial of the Southern Prov
ince of the Society of Jesus, New Or
leans, is the assignment of the Rev.
James A. Greeley, S . J., as assistant
pastor of the Sacred Heart Church, in
this city.
For some months Father Greeley has
been on a visit to Augusta, where he
has established himself as a pulpit
orator of distinction, and the an
nouncement that he will be stationed
here is heard with gratification by
the members of the congregation of
the Sacred Heart Church, the other
parishes in the city, and non-Cath-
olics as well. Upon several occasions
Father Greeley has spoken before lo
cal civic clubs and delighted all those
who heard him.
Mrs. Anna May Gerhardt
Dies in Jacksonville
(Special to The Bulletin)
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Mrs. An
na May Gerhardt 57, wife of William
J. Gerhardt, died on July 14, after a
short illness. Funeral services were
held with the Rev. John J. Nevin of
ficiating.
A resident of Jacksonville for a
quarter of a century, Mrs. Gerhardt
was a member of Court Holy Rosary,
Catholic Daughters of America, and
members of that organization joined
in the recitation of the rosary for the
repose of her soul at the chapel on
the evening of her death, with the
Rev. Bernard Weigl officiating.
Besides her widower, Mrs. Ger
hardt is survived by a sister, Mrs. J.
O. Holder, of Jacksonville.
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BARKOSIE-FONCE
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JACKSONVVILLE, Fla. — With
impressive and beautiful ceremony
the wedding of Miss Gertfude Fran
ces Ponce, daughter of the late Mr.
and Mrs. Milford Ponce, of St. Au
gustine, and Carroll Edward Barko-
skie, of Loretto, was solemnized on
the evening of July 10 at St. Joseph’s
Church, Loretto, the Rev. George
Rockett officiating.
The interior of the historic old
church was artistically decorated with
garden flowers and an abundance of
blue hydrangeas,and gleaming cath
edral candles added to the beauty of
the scene.
The bride entered the church on
the arm of her cousin, Rufus Strat
ton, of St. Augustine, and was met at
the altar rail by the bridegroom and
his best man, Charles Hartley. R.
M. Williams, of Bayard, acted as
usher.
Miss Evelyn Hartley attended the
bride as maid of honor, and Miss
Josephine Lourcey wa bridesmaid.
The nuptial music was rendered by
Sister Mary Edyth of St. Joseph’s
Academy.
Following the ceremony the young
couple left for a wedding trip, fol
lowing which they will be at home
to their friends at 419 East Second
Street, Jacksonville.
THE LITTLE SISTERS of the Poor
have had eight homes in Spain, taken
from them by the Reds, returned with
the capture of the territory from the
Nationalists.
THE DOMINICAN SISTERS of St.
Mary of the Springs Community
have received word of the death in
China of Sister M. Leocadia Moore,
33, formerly of Pittsburgh. Surviv
ors include her mother, four broth
ers and three sisters, two of whom
are also Dominican nuns.
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Loyola University
To Conduct School of Cath
olic Action August 2-9
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
NEW ORLEANS, La.—The Rev. G.
H. Ray, S. J., secretary for the sum
mer school of Catholic Action to be
held at Loyola University of the
South August 2-9, has announced that
170 persons have registered and that
at least 500 are expected to attend.
Besides that here, summer schools of
Catholic Action will be held in Chi
cago and Buffalo.
Catholicity in Spain
(Continued from page one)
the Nationalist leader is entirely at
a loss to understand why people
abroad, and especially Catholics, have
permitted themselves to be mistled
by Leftist radical propaganda. “If
there has been a Crusade in history”,
Father Sylvester says, “this is a real
crusade. The Nationalist volunteers
go forth to the front singing hymns.
They recite the Rosary every night’”.
General Franco goes to Mass every
day, Father Sylvester relates, and
with his wife and child and members
of his staff recite the Rosary every
evening. Three of General Franco’s
five aides de camp, whom he knows
personally, receive Holy Communion
every morning, Father Sylvester says.
He was in Guernica immediately
following its occupation by the Na
tionalists, Father Sylvester continues,
and saw complete proof that the de
struction wrought there did not re
sult from bombardment by the Franco
forces. As soon as the city was oc
cupied, he says, General Franco in
vited foreign newspaper correspond
ents to inspect it. They found that
the damage done to buildings result
ed from fires being set inside of them.
The outside walls were all intact,
showing that the damage could not
have been done by bombardment. The
Leftists had burned the buildings be
fore deserting them.
He was also on the outskirts of
Bilbao when that city was taken,
and entered as soon as permission
was given to do so, Father Sylvester
adds. Before fleeing the city, the
Leftists planted a large number of
mines in various parts of Bilbao, the
priest explains. General Franco knew
this, and would permit no civilians
to enter the city until after roldiers
had gone in, cut off the electric
powers so as to render the expolsives
ineffective and cleared out the mines-
Father Sylvester was a student at
the Dominican House of Studies here
and the Catholic University of
America in 1918 and 1919. He was
named rector of the University of
Santo Tomas in May, 1936. He went
to Europe this spring in connection
with business of the university. He
is returning to Manila, after spend
ing some weeks in the United States.
Marconi
(Continued from page one)
five country, Italy, had remained skep
tical of its possibilities. From that
lime the process of connecting all parts
of the world, even the remotest cor
ners, was a short one. More than 1,000
survivors of the great ‘ Titanic” disas
ter of April, 1916, thanked him in a
body for their lives which had been
saved through the instrumentality of
wireless.
In 1905 he married Beatrice O'Brien,
a lady-in-waiting to the Queen of Eng
land, in St. George’s Anglican Church,
London. This marriage was declared
null in 1927 by the Sacred Roman Rota,
affirming the annulment previously
declared by the Wesminister Curia.
PREMIER IS BEST MAN
After the declaration of nullity he
married the Countess Bezzi-Scale, and
Premier Benito Mussolini acted as best
man for the inventor. The couple had
one daughter, Elettra Elena, whose
.god-mother was Queen Elena of Italy.
Today is her eighth birthday.
When the Vatican Radio Station was
put under construction in 1929 Pope
Pius XI placed Marconi in complete
supervision of the operations. He was
filled with a deep personal interest in
this project and much time, on the
Vatican grounds, the site of the sta
tion. At the inauguration of the Vat
ican Station after its completion in 1931
Senator Marconi was the one who in
troduced His Holiness, Pope Pius,
when the Pontiff broadcast his first
message to the whole world. At the
same time the inventor was named by
the Pope to the Pontifical Academy of
Sciences.
In 1928 Premier Mussolini named
him president of the National Council
of Scientific Research, the body which
controls all scientific investigation in
Italy. Later, in 1930, the Premier also
made him president of the Royal
Academy of Italy.
He is said to have loved America
best of all the countries except his na
tive Italy and he visited here many
times. He was awarded degrees by
leading American universities and
was feted by Santa Clara University.
Santa Clara, Calif., where he visited
with the famous priest-scientist, the
Rev. Richard H. Bell, S.J.
It was within the last 10 days that
he is quoted as regretting the fact that
“the world’s scientific genius was be
ing used to create weapons of de
struction.”
THE KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS
will meet in annual convention in
San Antonio August 17-19; U. S. Sen
ators Bennett C. Clark, of Missouri,
and Joseph C. O’Mahoney, of Wyom
ing, will be among the speakers.
Nazi Campaign
(Continued from page one)
venerable priest who was then sen
tenced to pay a fine of 200 marks for
"resistance against the authority of
the government!”
In the course of this trial Buerckel
himself took the witness stand to avail
himself of the opportunity to add
more slander to that previously com
mitted against the Bishop, who had
also been called as a witness.
Shortly after this trial the quar
ters of the Vivar General of Cologne
and Aix-la-Chappelle were searched
without warrant by the Nazi police
and many documents, including cor
respondence between the Holy See
and the Ordinaries, were confiscated.
Both His Eminence Joseph Cardinal
Schulte, Archbishop of Cologne, and
the Most Rev. Franz Vogt, Bishop of
Aix-la-Chappelle, immediately enter
ed a formal protest with the Depart
ment of the Interior in Berlin against
these new and flagrant violations of
the Concordat. As has happened to
so many previous protests, these, too,
will probably remain unanswered.
Obviously the Nazi regime begins
to realize that all attempts to dis
credit the Church in the eyes of the
people are condemned to failure, de
spite the venomous propaganda which
Dr. Josef Goebbels, Catholic apostate
and now Nazi “Propaganda Minister”,
has been carrying on-
It is for this reason that the attempt
is now being made to find evidence
which would make it possible to ex
pose the Bishops as “traitors” to their
country who “committed high trea
son” by maintaining their legitimate
contacts with both the Holy See and
the Hierarchies in other c untries.
For some time the Nazi censors have
been very bitter because all impor
tant pronouncements of the German
Hierarchy which were being system
atically suppressed inside of Germany
have reached foreign destinations and
have been published abroad attract
ing considerable attention. No stone
is being left unturned, therefore, to
attempt to show that the Bishops
themselves were instrumental in es
tablishing such foreign contacts.
They seek thus to attack the'German
Bishops because they did their duty
in keeping the Holy See constantly
informed of the true state of affairs
in the Reich.
Justice Not Blind
(Continued from page one)
tion.” Father Cox continues:
“If Mr. Burch wants to increase the
marriage rate, why does he not come
out for a living cultural wage, social
justice and a more equitable distri
bution of wealth instead of seeking it
by the immoral means of contracep
tion.”
Father Cox assails what he calls Mr.
Burch's “assumption” that “whatever
improves the marriage rate is a moral
force”, the priest declaring that such
“is an implicit acceptance of the prin
ciple that the end justifies the means,
however wrong those means may be
in themselves.”
Father Cox also criticizes Mr.
Burch’s assumption that Ireland's de
clining population since 1845 has been
due to ‘ a low marriage rate where
contraception was taboo.” “This un
justifiable simplification in assigning
social casuality,” says Father Cox
“omits famines, persecutions, social
injustices, wholesale emigrations.”
“Finally,” Father Cox adds, “Mr.
Burch’s statements are in contradic
tion to an evident fact that birth con
trol has been disgenic, according to
(he standards of what constitutes de
sirable classes laid down by the birth
controllers.
“It has been asserted again and again
that the so-called desirable classes are
not having children in sufficient num
bers and the so-called undesirable
classes are those from which the na
tion is being recruited. I know of no
more undesirable classes than those
which promote or practice contracep
tion. They are undesirable eeonomic-
ally. socially, racially, patriotically.
NEWMAN CLUBS HOLD
MEETING IN DENVER
Bishops Address National
Conference of Students’
Clubs
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
DENVER, Colo.—A new method of
meeting the problem of religious ed
ucation for Catholic students in sec
ular colleges and universities through
Newman club study units working
with special material was outlined by
the Most Rev. Edwin V. O’Hara, Bish
op of Great Falls, in his address at the
22nd annual conference of the Feder
ation of College Catholic Clubs here.
Newman chapter representatives from
more than 35 institutions attended the
three-day session.
Based upon proven methods work
ing in about 80 dioceses using Con
fraternity of Christian Doctrine study
outlines and prepared by experts in
various fields of knowledge, the new
extra-curricular study system will not
conflict with credit courses in Chris
tian doctrine now offered by a num
ber of secular institutions, officials ex
plained at the conference.
Bishop O’Hara was the keynote
speaker of the large group of clerical
and lay leaders that included the Most
Rev. Urban J. Vehr, Bishop of Den
ver, who addressed the students three
times.
According to the outline presented
by Bishop O'Hara at two special chap
lains’ meetings and the final Banquet,
the first study outline to be prepared
for Catholic students on secular cam
puses will deal with six or eight di
visions of the Church’s history most
misunderstood on secular campuses.
CONFRATERNITY PROGRAM
About a day and a half of the third
annual Confraternity of Christian
Doctrine convention in St. Louis in
October will be given to the advance
ment of Catholic instruction on sec
ular college campuses through Con
fraternity units in Newman ciubs,
Bishop O'Hara announced.
Officers for 1937-38 elected at the
closing session Saturday are headed
by the re-elected president, John V.
Kingston, of New York. Miss Marga
ret M. Downey, of Boston, is the new
vice president. Theodore Quann, of
Philadelphia, is the corresponding sec
retary for another term; John Sulli
van, of the University of Wyoming,
was named treasurer, and Miss Regina
King, of Philadelphia, again was cho
sen recording secretary. The Rev.
Paul A. Deery, of the University of
Indiana, was re-named federation
chaplain. New members of the board
of governors are Miss Margaret A. Ho
gan, of Natick, Mass.- Edward W.
Kunkel, of Loveland, O., retiring
treasurer, and James Arceneaux, of
Louisiana State University.
FORMER AUGUSTAN DIES
IN AUTOMOBILE WRECK
AUGUSTA, Ga. — Funeral services
for Joseph Casella, whose death oc
curred in an automobile accident at
Saybrook, Conn., July 22. were held
from the Sacred Heart Church.
Mr. Casella, who lived in Augusta
until a few months ago, was employ
ed in New Haven, Conn., and met his
death when the truck which he was
driving was struck by another car
as it rounded a curve.
He is survived by his widow, Mrs.
Ann Parise Casella; his mother. Mrs.
Rosina Casella; four brothers, Louis,
Vincent, Leonard and Victor Casella,
all of Augusta; a sister, Miss Cenzina
Casella, Augusta; and aunt and uncle,
Mr. and Mrs. L. Casella, New Haven,
and other relatives.
morally and religiously.
“And, mark this, nature agrees with
me. She eliminates for their ineffi
ciency and undesirability the classes
which practice contraception.”
GREALISH, POTEET & WALKER
Funeral Directors
519 GREENE ST.—PHONE 2311.
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