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VOL. XIX. No. 2
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, FEBRUARY 26, 1938
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Bulletins
POPE PIUS XI has fixed Easier
Sunday as the date for the canoniza
tion of Blessed Andrew Bobola, Polish
Jesuit Martyr, Blessed Salvatore of
Horta, Spanish Franciscan, and Bless
ed John Leonardi. founder of the
Clerics Regular of the Mother of God.
ARCHBISHOP MOONEY was con-
sccrator and Bishop Plagens of Mar
quette and Bishop Hafey, Scranton
Coadjutor, co-consecrators when the
Most Rev. Stephen S. YVoznicki was
consecrated Auxiliary Bishop of De
troit. Bishop Woznicki’s parents, four
brothers and four sisters attended. He
Is a native of the Diocese of Scran
ton, Pa.
MSGR. FULTON SHEEN is the
current Catholic Hour speaker over
the National Broadcasting Company
network each Sunday evening from 6
to 6::30 Eastern Standard Time, un
der the auspices of the National
Council of Catholic Men.
NOTRE DAME University was host
to "0 of the world’s most noted math
ematicians last week. Harvard, Yale,
Princeton, Chicago, Louvain and the
Universities of Hamburg and Vienna
were some of the institutions repre
sented at the conference.
CARDINAL CAPOTOSTI, Apostolic
Datary, a Cardinal since 1926, died in
Rome last w’eek, one week before his
75th birthday.
THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY of the
United States at Washington has serv
ed notice on newsdealers that han
dling any one of 13 specified maga
zines which are barred from the mails
will result in prosecution under the
District's statute against the circula
tion of indecent publications.
MANILA ROTARIANS recently
heard an address by the Rt. Rev. Jo-
sep Billiet, Prefect-Apostolic of the
Mountain Province, on the introduc
tion of Catholicism to the Igorots in
the Philippines.
THE VATICAN pension regulations
are set forth in a current regulation,
providing for pensions for employes
at the age of 65 for those who have
been 20 years in service, or at any
age ' :r those forty years in service.
Pensions are also extended to the
widows and children of Vatican em
ployes.
PARIS will erect a monument to
the 600 French nurses who lost their
lives serving their country during the
World War. Three hundred of the
nurses were nuns, members of Cath
olic religious congregations.
BEATIFICATION of Father Joseph
Damien, heroic apostle to the lepers
on the Island of Molokai, where he
died after 16 years of labor, is sought
by proceedings which have been start
ed in Honolulu and Rome.
FATHER GILLIS, editor of The
Catholic World, told the Washington
Convert League of the Catholic
Daughters of America that “contempt
for the other fellow is the cause of
war. If you cherish that kind of
thinking, you are a war-maker.”
Red Cross Official
The Rev. Leo F. McGreal, S. J.,
American priest stationed at Gonzaga
College, China, who, according to an
announcement from the American
Red Cross, has been named a member
of the American Advisory Committee
in China, to aid in handling relief
funds being raised in the United
State.
ABBOT VINGENT ON
VISITATION TOUR
Paying Official Visits to
Benedictine Monasteries
BELMONT, N. C.—The Most Rev.
Vincent G. Taylor, O.S.B.. D.D., Ab
bot-Ordinary of Belmont, is on a vis
itation tour of the monasteries of the
American Cassinese Congregation, a
visit which will take him to all parts
of the country and to the Bahamas.
He will return in March.
ST. BENEDICT’S DAY, March 21,
will be made memorable this year by
the official visit of the Most Rev.
Eugene J. McGuinness, D.D , Bishop
of Raleigh, who will be celebrant of
the Pontifical Mass there.
REV. CUTHBERT ALLEN. O.S.B.,
rector and vice president of Belmont
Abbey College, represented Abbot
Vincent and Belmont at the inaugu
ration of Dr. Oliver C. Carmichael
as chancellor of Vanderbilt Univer
sity and Dr. Sidney C. Garrison, as
president of the George Peabody Col
lege for Teachers in Nashville early
in February.
Lo Pa-Hong’s Reorganization
Efforts Inspired His Murder
His Participation in Movement to Reduce Unemploy
ment and Restore Charity Blamed for Assassination
ROME, Feb . 14.—(N. C. W. C.
Fides).—Details concerning the as
sassination on December 30 of Joseph
Lo Pa-hong, P-esident of Chinese
Catholic Action, have reached Fides
Service.
At 2:30 p. m. Mr- Lo came out of
the house of a friend, with whom
he had been staying since the evacu
ation of Nantao. The house is situ
ated in the Rue Dubail in the French
Quarter of Shanghai. Scarcely had
he got into his car when shots rang
out. He was hit by three bullets—
one in the chest, one in the head and
one in the arm. Death was almost
instantaneous. His murder—or mur
ders—fled.
A few days before the crime some
Chinese orange sellers had set up a
stand in the street nearby and Mr.
Lo had bought some of their wares.
It is thought that these individuals,
disguised as fruit vendors, were the
assassins.
The motive underlying the crime is
to be found, with hardly a doubt, in
the fact thrat Mr. Lo had allowed his
name to appear on a list of commit
tee members who were to undertake
a reorganization of Shanghai after its
occupation by Japanese troops. No
political consideration prompted him
to join this committee but solely a
desire to reduce unemployment and
put his charitable organizations back
on a working basis.
For some time Mr. Lo had been
unwell and his doctors advised him
to avoid further strain on his health.
Shortly before the local press pub
lished that he was about to retire
from active participation in public
life. He altered his decision, how
ever, and joined the committee on
December 27. ‘I have done so,” he
told the Vicar Apostolic of Shang
hai, the Most Rev. August Haouisee,
S. J., “for the sole purpose of re
starting my own charitable organiza
tions with nothing in view but the
glory of God and the relief of those
in distress.”
These were the last words the
Bishop heard from his lips. Three
days later he saw him at St- Mary’s
Hospital—a corpse. The prelate had
lost a friend who had worked with
him for some 27 years. And the loss
came at a moment when his friend's
presence was more needful than ever
before.
MARYKNOLL PRIEST
KILLED BY BANDITS
Father Donovan of Pitts
burgh One of Three Broth
ers Missionaries in Orient
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
OSSINING, N. Y. — The Rt. Rev.
Msgr. Raymond A. Lane, Superior of
the Maryknoll Fathers in Manchu-
kuo, reports that the Tung Hau mil
itary authorities have just found the
body of the Rev. Gerald A. Dono
van, near Huaijen.
Father Donovan, a native of
Pittsburgh, was captured by bandits
on Octsober 5, 1937. He is the first
Maryknoll Martyr.
Father Donovan was the youngest
of three Maryknoll priest-sons of
Mr. and Mrs. Michael James Don
ovan, of Hazelwood, Pittsburgh. The
Rev. Joseph S. is stationed at Mary
knoll Seminary, and Thomas R., is
laboring in South China. Another
brother, Michael J., lives in Brad
ford. Pa., while a married sister, Mrs.
J. F. Kelly, lives at Beach View,
Pittsburgh.
Father Donovan was born in Pitts
burgh. October 14, 1904. He gradu
ated from St. Peter’s School in Mc
Keesport, and from Maryknoll Col
lege in Scranton, Pa. He received
the degrees of Bachelor of Sacred
Theology, and Bachelor of Canon
Law at the Catholic University of
America, Washington. Father Dono
van was ordained on June 17, 1928.
After teaching for a short period at
Maryknoll College, he departed for
Manchukuo in July, 1931.
In Manchukuo he worked in Hsin
Pin, and later at the isolated post of
Linkiang. Recently, he was sta
tioned at the relatively secure post
of Hopei near the large city of Fus-
hun, and it was from this place that
he was captured by bandits.
On the evening of October 4. he
was kneeling in the sanctuary of his
mission chapel at Hopei while the
Rev. James J. Rottner, of Cincinnati,
was officiating at Rosary and Bene
diction. A man quietly entered the
sacristy and went to Father Dono
van in the sanctuary. Father Dono
van quietly accompanied the strang
er to the sacristy, where an altar boy
was preparing the censor. Father
Donovan and the boy were spirited
away while the congregation, un
aware of the kidnapping, continued
to pray.
In the ensuing weeks, there yvere
reports that he had been sighted in
various places. Two weeks later the
altar boy returned to the mission,
bearing a ransom note from the kid
nappers demanding $50,000, a demand
which was not met. The boy stated
Father Donovan was well treated,
but that he lacked proper food. A
large force of police and soldiers en
gaged in the search for the abducted
priest.
Soviet Appeals to Workers
of World for Their Support
in Communistic Revolution
Press Leader
New York Evening Post
Editorially Says Stalin’s
Declaration Reveals Real
Dr. Frederic Funder, Vienna corre
spondent of the N. C. W. C. News
Service, who is leading in making
plans for, and who will be host to the
Third International Congress of the
Catholic Press, to be held at Vienna,
May 19 to 22. The Press Congress in
Vienna immediately precedes the 31ih
Eucharistic Congress, to be held at
Budapest, Hungary, May 25 to 28.
Purpose of the Communists
(By N. C. VV. C. News Service)
NEW YORK.—Quoting from a dec
laration made by Josef Stalin last
week, The Evening Post here says
that with a single statement by the
Soviet dictator “four years of bunk
have been wiped away".
“Stalin reveals that the Communists
have been sharpening the knife
against our system just as have the
Fascists”, the paper says.
"To talk of a united front for de
mocracy with men plotting a prole-
terian revolution and a dictatorship
of the proletariat is to talk non
sense.
“There can be no united front for
democracy with enemies of democ
racy.”
The Evening Post quotes Stalin as
saying: :
“ ‘We must also increase and
strengthen the international proleta
rian ties of the working class of the
U. S. S. R. with the working class of
bourgeois countries. We must organ
ize political help of the working class
of bourgeois countries to the working
class of our country in case of military
attack . . . Support of our revolution
by the workers of all countries and
particularly the victory of these
workers in at least several countries,
is a necessary condition for complete
guarantee of the first conquered coun
try (meaning Russia) from attempts
at intervention and restoration.’ ”
“Read those words slowly, careful
ly,” The Evening Post urges. “Get
their meaning clearly. Consider them
in relationship to democratic Amer
ica.
“There can be but one interpreta
tion.
Joseph Scott Named
to Represent U. S.
Laity in Budapest
LOS ANGELES. — Joseph Scott,
of this city, has been appointed to
represent the Catholic laity of the
United States at the Thirty-fourth
International Eucharistic Congress
to be held in Budapest, Hungary,
May 25-30. The appointment was
made by the Most Rev. Joseph
Schmembs, Bishop of Cleveland, and
President of National Eucharist Con
gresses in the United States.
Mr. Scott, Laetare Medalist, a Pa
pal Knight, was a speaker at the
Congresses in Chicago, Buenos Aires
and Manila.
“American workers MUST, accord
ing to Stalin, be prepared to fight for
Soviet Russia when he wants them.
Their loyalty must be to ‘the world
proletariat’ and to Russia—not to
their own country, despicable, bour
geois Unit States.
“The Post welcomes this new dec
laration from Josef Stalin. It clears
the air completely. Americans who
have approved Communist activities
in the United States; who have felt
that Soviet Russia, after all, was at
least friendly to democracy are not
undeceived.
“Labor leaders who have co-oper
ated with Communists; politicians
who have condoned Communism or
the principle that in fighting Fascism
they should join in ‘popular fronts’
with Communists now see that the
one ism is as evil as the other.”
America Spanish Relief Fund
Organization Is Expanded
National Committee Announced—Contributions to Aid
Suffering in Spain Sought
BISHOP FLOERSH
NOW ARCHBISHOP
Father Cotton Consecrated
Bishop This Week in
Kentucky
The newly erected Archdio
cese of Louisville is being
formally erected this week
with the Most Rev. John A.
Floersh, D. D., Bishop of
Louisville, as the first’ Arch
bishop. Bishop Floersh, like
Archbishop Samuel Stritch of
Milwaukee, is a native of
Nashville, Tenn. Bishops from
every section of the country,
including the Southeast, will
attend. This week also, the
Rev. Francis R. Cotton, chan
cellor of the Diocese of Louis
ville, will be consecrated
Bishop of the newly erected
Diocese of Owensboro, Ky.
This gives Kentucky, which
had the first Diocese west of
the Alleghanies, an Archdio
cese and two Dioceses.
(By N. C. \V. C. News Service)
NEW YORK—The America Spanish
Relief Fund, a national Catholic move
ment to aid orphaned children and
destitute, sick and ’njured non-com
batant victims of the civil war in
Spain, is being greatly expanded by
the establishment of affiliated groups
in various Catholic dioceses in the
United States, it was announced here
today.
The announcement was made by
the Rev. Francis X. Talbot, S. J.,
editor of the weekly “America”, and
national chairman of the Fund. To
date, he added, affiliates are being
formed in 30 dioceses. He said also
that the expansion program has been
endorsed by 29 members of the
American Hierarchy.
At the same time Father Talbot
made public the names of 27 promi
nent Catholic clergymen and laymen
who have agreed to serve on a na
tional committee which is being form
ed to confer with local diocesan and
civic committees of the America
Spanish Relief Fund. Among them
are editors of some of the best-
known Catholic publications in the
United States, as well as heads of
organizations numbering several mil
lion Catholics.
The appointment of John J. M.
O'Shea, New York attorney, to be
national director of the America
Spanish Relief Fund, was announced
recently by Father Talbot. Both Mr
O'Shea and Father Talbot, who will
continue as national chairman of the
Fund, emphasized that the Fund
has absolu' ly no connection with any
present or former Spanish relief
agency.
National headquarters of the
Americn Spanish Relief Fund have
been established at 342 Madison Ave
nue, New York City. Initial efforts
will be directed to securing con
tributions from American Catholics,
Mr. O’Shea said, but contributions
from non-Catholics interested in this
humanitarian project also will be
wecomed. Many non-Catholics, he
added, already have contributed to
the Fund.
“We have decided to place the
America Spanish Relief Fund on a
national basis for two reasons”, he
said.. “The first of these is the ob
vious need of relief at this time for
non-combatant victims of the Spanish
Civil War. The other is that we be
lieve American Catholics not only
willing but eager to aid in a material
way their Catholic brethren in Spain,
as well as non-Catholics in that un
happy country, who are in dire need
of asssitance.
“We will continue to forward all
funds raised to His Eminence Cardi
nal Goma y Tomas, Archbishop of To
ledo. and Primate of all Spain. These
funds will be devoted exclusively, as
they have been in the past, to the
relief of human distress, with spe
cial reference to the relief of orphan
ed. needy, and sick children".
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