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Published by the Catholic Lay men's Association of Georgia. tiAUiiu 'To Bring About a Friendlier Feeling Among Neighbors Irre spective of Creed” VOL. XIX. No. 2 AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, FEBRUARY 26, 1938 ISSUED MONTHLY—$2.00 A YEAR 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". Since it was chartered by tb« (Continued on Page Nine)