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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.
