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JANUARY 29, 1938 THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA THREE Bishop O'Hara Recalls Works of Holy Father At the Installation of Bishop McGuinness Notable Progress of Church in U. S. Outlined in Address at Installation at Raleigh His Eminence, the Cardinal, with his chaplains, the Very Rev. Msgr. Francis E. Hyland, secretary to the Apostolic Delegate at Washington (right), and the Rt. Rev. Msgr. John J. Bonner, D. D., LL. D., Archdiocesan Superintendent of Schools, Philadelphia. In the foreground to the left is the Rev. Salvator M. Burgio, C. M., professor of liturgy at Vincent’s Seminary, Philadelphia, who was master of ceremonies at the installation.— Raleigh Times Photograph. Bishop McGuinness with his chaplains, Father O’Brien of Durham (right) and Father Dillon of Pinehurst (left).—Raleigh Times Photograph. Bishops* Chaplains at the Installation The Rt. Rev. Msgr. Francis E. Hy land, secretary to His Excellency, the Apostolic Delegate, at Washington, and the Rt. Rev. John J. Bonner, D.D., LL.D., Archdiocesan Superintendent of Schools, Philadelphia, were chap lains to His Eminence, the Cardinal, at the installation, and the Rev. Wil liam F. O'Brien and the Rev. William J. Dillon were chaplains to Bishop McGuinness. Other chaplains to Bish ops were: Bishop O'Brien, of Chicago; the Rev. Walter Mack. O.M.I. and the Rev. John Ehmann, C.S3.R.; Bishop McNamara, of Baltimore, the Rev. Kevin Walsh, O.F.M., and the Rev. Arnold Walters, O.F.M.; Bishop Barry, of St. Augus tine, the Rev. Patrick Darrah, O. P., and the Rev. Julian Endler, C.P.; Bish op Walsh, of Charleston, the Rev. J. L. Federal and the Rev. Charles J. Gable; Bishop O'Hara, of Savannah- Atlanta, the Rev. Joseph Gallagher and the Rev, Andrew Graves, S.J., Bishop Ireton, of Richmond, the Rev. John A. Beshel and the Rev. Edward Gross; Bishop Fitzmaurice, of Wil mington, the Rev. Peter M. Denges, and the Rev. Leo Doetterl; Abbot Vin cent Taylor, Abbot-Ordinary of Bel mont, the Rev. Cuthbert Allen, O.S. B., and the Rev. William Regnat. O.S.B. HARTMAN-WHITE CHARLOTTE, N. C.—The Rev- Maurice McDonnell, O. S. B, pastor of St. Peter’s Church, officiated at the marriage of Miss Adleta Hartman and Frank White. LORETTO CONVENT and Aca demy at Falls View, Ont., overlook ing the American and Horseshoe Falls of Niagara, were burned early in January with a loss estimated at $350,- 000. All the Sisters and students escaped; acts of heroism of Sisters and the priests from nearby Mt. Carmel College were numerous. Raleigh-Wilmington Choirs at Ceremony The Rev. Robert J. MacMillan was director of the choir at the installa tion ceremonies at the Cathedral at Raleigh. The music was rendered by a joint choir from the Cathedral at Ra leigh and the Pro-Cathedral at Wil mington. The members included Mrs. J. B. Clements, organist; Mrs. Mar garet Murphy, Mrs. C. E. Johnson, Mrs. J. J. Fallon, Mrs. T. F. Maguire, Jr., Jacques Dement and the Rev. O. T. Carl. O.P., Raleigh, and Mrs. E. B. Bryan, Miss Elizabeth Bate, Miss Ma ry Sonday, Mrs. Jennie Sonday, Miss Ann Sonday, D. A. Lockfaw, Ed J. Farrelly, John Bremer and Thomas Croom, Wilmington. MSGR. JOSEPH WALSH, presi dent of St. Jatlath’s College, Taum, Ireland, has been named Auxiliary Bishop of Taum. He was born in Newport, County Mayo, Ireland, 48 years ago. Five New American Ecclesiastical Provinces and Nine Dioceses Created by Pope Pius XI—American Eccleciastics Elevated t o High Papal Posts (Address of the Most Rev. Ger ald O’Hara, D. D-, Bishop of Sa vannah, Atlanta, at the dinner fol lowing the installation of Bihsop McGuinness at Raleigh. Bishop O’Hara responded to the toast: “Our Holy Father.") Our Holy Father, Pope Pius XI, ascended the Throne of Peter in one of the most perilous times in his tory. His rise to that most exalted position was swift. “Raptim transit”. This was the motto of his coat-of- arms as Archbishop of Milan. How accurately it described the rapidly moving events from the sixty-first to the sixty-fourth year of his life. In 1918 he was a simple priest ;in 1922 he was Pope. In 1918 Monsignor Achilles Ratti is still leading the hidden life in the midst of his beloved books and manuscripts—the hidden life that had been his by preference and by appointment for the thirty-nine im mediately preceding years. That same year he is suddenly called by Pope Benedict XV to undertake the diffi cult post-war .diplomatic mission. In vain does the scholar prepare to plead his unfitness for the work of a diplomat, for Pope Benedict's first works c receiving him in audience are: “Well, Monsignor, when do you leave?”. The prepared plea was an “oratio habenda sed non habita.” On the Feast of Corpus Christi, 1918, Monsignor Ratti arrived in War saw, and carried the Blessed Sacra ment in procession to the Cathedral. The next year he was consecrated Titular Archbishop of Lepanto by Archbishop, later Cardinal Kakow- ski, in the Cathedral of Warsaw. Less than two years after that he was created Cardinal and Recognized Archbishop of Milan. After exactly one hundred and fifty days as Arch bishop of the See of St. Ambrose he was elected Pope. From comparative obscurity to the sublanest height on earth in less than four years! Surely, in view of the events that were to follow that rainy Monday, February 6, 1922, the day of the election, we are compelled to say: “Digitus Dei est hie-” Pope Pius brought to his exalted position the mind of a scholar and the heart of a priest. To that sub lime dignity he brought, too, the re sourcefulness, the skill, the energy of a trained executive, a rare gift ot statesmanship and a burning zeal that was matched only by his courage and fearlessness. Having the “solicitude of all the churches”, there is not a part of the world, not a department of the Church’s work to which he has not, at some time or other, directed his attention. He shrank from no prob lem, however formidable; no concern of the Church has proven too small to claim his interest. He has been known to give minute attention to the problems of individual parishes in re mote parts of the world. We know how he faced Russia and its com munism, and how nobly he has spok en out, protesting, exhorting, plead ing, as in the case of Germany. Mex ico and Spain; we have witnessed his paternal solicitude for the work ers of the world, and how he has taken up what is probably the most commanding problem of the age, as Leo XIII had Horetold, the social question. He confronted and solved the vexatious “Roman Question” which for so many years had seemed hopeless of solution. His activity has been nothing short of prodigious. Through the chan nels of the various Roman congrega tions the life of the Church has been quickened all along the line in its every part- Through the Congrega tion de Propaganda Fide he has given renewed impetus to the work of the missions. The growth of the Church in these countries has been one of the major consolations of the “Pope of the Missions", who, among other ac tivities, established Apostolic Dele gations in China, South Africa, In- do-China, Belgian Congo and British Africa. The Encyclical of the Mis sions, the Vatican Missionary Exhibit, his letters to the Vicars-Apostolic in China, his personal consecration of native Japanese and Chinese Bishops eloquently manifest the Pope’s solici tude for the Missions. Through the Secretariat of State Pope Pius XI has established rela tions with nations of the most varied political philosophies; Concordats and agreements of several kinds have been signed with Latvia, Bavaria, Po land, Lithuania, Rumania, Prussia, Baden, France, Czechoslovakia, Por tugal, the German Reich and Aus tria. In Ireland and Cuba Aposto lic Nunziaturas have been establish ed. The masterpiece of his diplomacy was the Lateran Treaty with the government of Italy, signed on Feb ruary 11, 1929, putting an end to the fifty-nine year old “Roman Ques-v tion” and assuring to the Roman Pon tiff that territorial independence and integrity, that liberty and sovereignty that are his due. Through the Sacred Congregation of Rites an unprecedented number of Servants of God have been raised to the honors of the altar. We owe to our present Holy Father over thirty canonized saints and over 300 Bless- eds- Particular interest attaches to the canonization of St. Theresa of Jesus; St. John Vianney, parish- priest; St. Bernadette; Sts. John de Breboeuf and Isaac Jogues and com panions, American martyrs; St. John Bosco, St. John Fisher and St. Thomas More. Through the Sacred Congregation of the Consistory our Holy lather has increased the number of Dioceses and Ordinaries throughout the world- In the United States we have seen nerv honors conferred on the Church; new ecclesiastical provinces formed; new Dioceses erected. It was because two American Cardinals just missed the last Conclave that the Constitu tion “Vacante Sancta Sede” was amended. The Encyclical “Vigilanli Cura” was addressed to the Bishops of the United States. Two American Cardinals were created by Pius XI, His Eminence George Cardinal Mun delein and His Eminence Patrick Cardinal Hayes. Cardinal Dougher ty was chosen to be the Legate “a latere” at the Thirty-Third Interna tional Eucharistic Congress at Manila last year. Two American priests. Archbishop George J. Caruana and Archbishop Edward Mooney, were ap pointed to high diplomatic posts, and two members of the faculty of the Catholic University, Washington. Archbishop Paschal Robinson and Archbishop Philip Bernardini, were made Papal Nuncios. When Pius XI began his reign there were fourteen ecclesiastical provinces in the United States. Now there are nineteen, San Antonio, Los Angeles, Detroit, Newark and Louis ville being raised to the rank of Metropolitan Sees- There has also been a considerable increase in the number of Dioceses in the United States. To Pius XI we owe the erection of the Dioceses of Monterey-Fresno, Raleigh, Amarillo, Reno. San Diego; Lansing, Pater son, Camden and Owensboro. The Diocese of Alton was transferees and became the Diocese Springfield in Illinois. The Archdio cese of Oregon City became the Archdiocese of Portland in Oregon. Lead became the Diocese of Rapid City. The Diocese of Oklahoma be came the Diocese of Oklahoma City and Tulsa, and, last but not least, “si licet parva componere magnis,” the Diocese of Savannah became the Diocese of Savannah-Atlanta. Thirteen of our nineteen Archbish ops were elevated by the present Pontiff, six of whom were first made Bishops by him. Pope Pius XI ap pointed also fifty-nine of the Bishops now governing Sees in United States and thirteen coadjutor and auxiliary Bishops. Moreover, American priests have been made Bishops or Vicars- Apostolic in the Philippines, Puerto Rico, Hawaii, Panama, Jamaica, Brit ish Honduras, the Solomon Islands, the Barbadoes, China and India. During the pontificate of our pres ent Holy Father the number of cler gy in the United States grew from 22,049 to 31,108, and the number of students in seminaries jumped from 8,698 ot 22,049. The number of churches increased from 16,615 to 18.- 387, and whereas there were 113 sem inaries in 1922, now there are 197. These are a few of the works of the eleventh Pius. I have said noth ing about the impetus that Pius XI has given to sacred studies and to scholarship in general, through the Sacred Congregation for Seminaries and Universities. Nor have I men tioned the lustre imparted to scien tific effort through the establishment of the Pontifical Academy, of Science, six of whose members are United States citizens. I have said nothing about Catholic Action, that ringing call that has gone out to the laity to do their part in a thousand and one one ways in winning the world to Christ. Future historians will fill volumes recounting the effects in the world of the Pontificate of Pius XI. But to us as priests there is one act of his that holds our particular interest. It is his admirable, beau tiful. touching letter on the priest hood. We have taken to heart no doubt this paternal instruction that came straight from the priestly heart of the Supreme Pontiff, and we take this cccasion, on the consecration of Bishop McGuinness, to pledge to Pius XI our devotion, our loyalty, and our love. Sanctissimo Domino Nostro Pio, Sumnr Pontifici, pax, vita et salus perpetua.
