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Catholic Lay
men's Association
of Georgia.
ulUlin
To Bring About
a Friendlier
Feeling Among
Neighbors Irre
spective of Creed”
VOL. XIX. No. 4
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, APRIL 23, 1938
ISSUED MONTHLY— $2.00 A YEAR
Campaign of Confraternity of the Laity
Practically Doubles Its $100,000 Objective
Bulletins
REV. FELIX KIRSCH, O. M., Cap.,
will start a radio series, “In Defense
of Chastity” May 1, running through
June 5, the series being delivered
over the National B- adcasting Co,
system each Sunday afternoon at six
o’clock. Eastern standard Time, un
der the auspices of the National
Council of Catholic Men. Monsignor
Sheen is delivering the current Cath
olic Hour series; this Sunday’s pro
gram, however, will be entirely of
music by the Faulist choristers.
Cardinal Innitzer Explains
Austrian Bishops 9 Statement
Laetare Medalist
Noted Bishop Dies
THE GAZETTE of Montreal lauds
Maurice Duplessis, Catholic premier
of the Province fo Quebec, and his
government for successfully support
ing a bill to provide a guarantee of
$750,000 for projected additions to the
Verdun, P. Q, Protestant Hospital
for the Insane.
THE BENEDICTINE Sisters of At
kinson, Kansas, will observe the gold
en jubilee of their college, Mount
St. Schoiastica, here May 3.
THE PHILIPPINES have two new
Bishops, the Most Rev. Miguel Ace-
bedo, Bishop of Calbayog, and the
Most Rev. Manuel Mascarinas, Bishop
of Palo, consecrated early in April
by Archbishop Piani. Apostolic Dele
gate. ^
A LONDON FROTESTANT, James
Henry Stephens, who left most of his
large estate to charity, included Car
dinal Hinsley and Archbishop Amigo
in his bequests, leaving them $10,000
each.
SIX PRIESTS, all sons of the de
ceased. assisted at the funeral of Leon
Basquin of Lille in France. M. Bas-
quin was president of the Chamber
of Underwriters of Lille and a Knight
of St. Gregory. Cardinal Lienart of
Lille presided at the Requiem Mass.
BOSTON’S Archdiocesan Chari
ties expended $671,032 during 1937, the
34th annual report submitted to His
Eminence, Cardinal O'Connell, states.
. .LIFE, the picture magazine, was
barred from the newsstands in num
erous cities early in April when it
published a series of pictures depict
ing “Tile Birth of a Baby”.. Catholic
organizations took the position that
such pictures might be proper for
medical circles or special groups but
were indefensible for general dis
tribution.
THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY has
announced the recipients of 44 fellow
ships and scholarships with stipends
ranging from $300 to $1,200 in tuition
allowances or in board, room and
tuition allowances at the University,
all for graduate work.
MSGR. M. J. 1 EADY. general sec
retary qf the National Catholic Wel
fare Conference, delivered the invoca
tion at the Easter morning sunrise
program, at Sylvan Park, near the
Washington Monument sponsored by
the National Park Service. The pro
gram was broadcast.
MILWAUKEE will be host to the
National Catholic Social Action Con
ference May 1 to 4, at the invitation
of Archbishop Stritch.
Head of Austrian Hierarchy
Has Audience With Holy
Father After Occupation
of Country by Hitler
BISHOP O'REILLY
DIES IN FLORIDA
Ordinary of Scranton Dio
cese 111 Many Months
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
MIAMI BEACH, Fla.—The Most
Rev. Thomas C. O’Reily. who was in
stalled as the third Bishop of Scran
ton, Pa., just ten years ago, died here
March 25 at the age of 65 years.
Bishop O’Reilly came here some
months ago after suffering a cerebral
hemorrhage. He was believed to be
recovering when he suffered an
other stroke.
Last October, due to the illness of
Bishop O’Reilly, the Most Rev. Wil
liam J. Hafey, Bishop of Raleigh,
was named Titular Bishop of Appia
and Coadjutor Bishop of Scranton
with faculties of Apostolic Adminis
trator. He was a priest bf the Dio
cese of Cleveland when made Bishop
(Radio, N. C. W. C. News Service)
VATICAN CITY. — The recent
joint declaration by the Austrian
Bishops urging the people to vote for
union with the German Reich in the
plebiscite obivously did not intend
to approve anything inimical to the
Catholic Church.
Moreover, neither the State nor the
Party has any right to regard this
statement as binding on the con
sciences of the people, nor has either
party any right to make use of the
declaration for propaganda purposes.
These assertions are contained in a
statement issued by His Eminence
Theodore Cardinal Innitzer, Arch
bishop of Vienna, in his own name
and the name of the Austrian Episco
pate. The statement is published in
Osservatore Romano. It sets forth
what the Austrian Bishops call for
in future relations between the
Church and the State in Austria.
Cardinal Innitzer left Rome follow
ing an 18-hour visit, during which he
was in conversation with His Holli-
ness Pope Pius XI and His Eminence
Eugenio Cardinal Pacelli, Papal Sec
retary of State, for a total of three
hours. As he left. Cardinal Innitzer
said his conversations were entirely
satisfactory.
Cardinal Innitzer arrived at 8:50
o'clock in the evening and went at
once to the Vatican where he was in
conversation with Cardinal Pacelb
for almost an hour. He returned io
the Vatican at 9:45 o’clock the fol
lowing morning, met briefly with
Cardinal Pacelli and then was ac
corded a two-hour audience by the
Holy Father. He left for Vienna at
2 o’clock in the afternoon.
The statement which Osservatore
publishes in the name of Cardinal
Innitzer and of the Austrian Hier
archy follows:
‘'The first solemn declaration issued
by the Austrian Episcopate on March
18 obviously did not intend to be an
approval of what was, or is, irrecon
cilable with the laws of God and the
freedom and rights of the Catholic
Church.
“Besides, that declaration must not
be interpreted by the State and by
the Party as an obligation of con
science, nor must it be employed for
propaganda purposes.
For the future, the Austrian
GEORGIA CATHOLICS
SUBSCRIBE $190,000
IN $100,000 EFFORT
$72,000 Subscribed at Din
ners in Savannah and At
lanta Launching Historic
Achievement
The campaign for 2,000 members
Bishop’s Confraternity of the Laity
to finance a seven-point program of
the Most Rev Gerald P. O’Hara clos
ed with over 2.600 members and
pledges of $190,000.
Contributions to this amount in a
diocese of 25.000 Catholics spread over
such an area as that of Georgia and
with the problems peculiar to such a
missionary diocese make this one of
the most successful campaigns of the
kind ever conducted in any Diocese
in the United States. The campaign
coming at n time when the country
was talking "recession” and in a sec
tion of the country which is mainly
agricultural make the achievement
the. more remarkable.
1 m
Program
MEDALIST FOR 19
Louisville Surg’eon Is Pres
ident-Elect of American
Medical Society
(By N. C. C. W. News Service)
NCTRE DAME, Ind. - Dr. Irvin
Abell of Louisville, president-elect of
the American' Medical Association,
will be the recipient of the Lae taro
Medal, bestowed annually since 1883
by the University of Notre Dame upon
an outstanding member of the Catholic
laity, it was announced here by th
Very Fiev. John F. O'Hara, C. " C..
president of the university. T > name
of the recipient is announced on Lac-
tare Sunday, the Fourth Sunday of
Lent.
(Continued on Page Ten)
Dean Inge Recalls Silence
as Reds Killed Throngs
(Cable N. C. W. C. News Service)
LONDON.—An incident has just
taken place which is similar to the
occurrence in recent days in the
United States, which Secretary of
State Hull expressed abhorrence at
the killing of some hundreds of civil
ians in Barcelona from the air, and
the Rt. Rev. Msgr. Michael J. Ready,
General Secretary of the National
Catholic Welfare Conference, prompt
ly reminded that the secretary had
been entirely silent when not hun
dreds but thousands of cilivians, in
cluding Religious, were murdered in
the same country by the Spanish
Reds.
The British government addressed
a protest to General Franco, the
Rightist leader, because of the Bar
celona kilings in air aids. Thereupon
William Ralph Inge, former dean
of St. Paul's, coming out of retire
ment. .mid at a public meeting:
"I am not sympathetic to Fascism
and I hold no brief for the Roman
Catholic Church in Spain. But I think
it strange that our government should
have addressed a ferocious protest to
France because 800 persons were, kill
ed in an air raid, whereas when 50,-
000 or 100,000—some say 250,000—inno
cent men. women and children were
butchered in cold blood, with every
accompaniment of cruelty, under the
eyes of a government we still choose
to recognize, not one word of Drotest
was made”.
Dr. Inge also made reference to the
burning of convents and churches “as
early as 1931,” and added that last
year, “experts estimated that 50.000
persons were butchered in Madrid
and Barcelona alone”.
(Continued on Page Three)
BISHOP^JOS, J.RICE
OF BURLINGTON DIES
Vermont
secrated
Prelate Con-
28 Years Ago
MSGR. M. J. READY, general sec
retary of the National Catholic Wel
fare Conference, while giving Secre
tary of State Hull credit for the
sincerity of his expressed grief at
the deaths resulting from the report
ed Barcelona bombings by the Na-
(Confinued on Page Three)
L? y N -C.W.C. News Service)
BUURLINGTON, Vt. - The Most
Rev. Joseph J. Rice, Bishop of Buiv
hngton, died March 31 at the age -f
ob years. Funeral services for the i
tinguished New England prelate were
held m the Cathedral of the Immacu
late Conception, with the Most Rev
James E. Cassidy, Bishop of Fall River,
celebrating the Solemn Requiem Mass,
a*}d the Most Rev. John B. Peterson,
Bishop of Manchester, delivering the
eulogy Burial was in the crypt of the
Cathedral, where Bishop Rice’s prede
cessors, Bishop De Goesbriand and
Bishop Michaud, are buried,
r in - Leicester, Mass., December
tt i U Bishop Ri ce was educated at
Holy Cross College, Worcester. Mass.;
Laval University, Montreal, where he
rec oive d the degrees Bachelor of S
cred Theology and Bachelor of Canon
Law, and the Gregorian University in
Rome, where he received the degrees
Licentiate of Sacred Theology and
Doctor of Divinity.
Ordained at Springfield, Mass., in
1894, he did parish work in Fitchburg
and Leominster, Mass., and then se~v-
ed among the Indians in North?
Maine, in the Diocese of Portland, be
fore becoming a professor, vice-rector
and rector of St. John’s Seminary,
Brighton, Mass. He established ‘a
French-speaking parish at PiiNfield
and served there 10 years before being
named Bishop of Burlington. He was
consecrated April 14, 1910.
In announcing the name of this
year’s medalist. Father O’Hara said:
The merit of Dr. Abell in his profes
sion has been signally recognized in
his election to the pres.dencv of the
American Medical Association, and his
varied service to ci y and St-te and
nation, as surgeon, citizen, soldier and
Christian gentleman, has endeared
him in the esteem of a numerous and
extensive public benefitted by his
years of devotion to the complete wel
fare of his fellowmen. most signifi
cant perhaps among the achievements
of this eminent man of medicine is
his contribution to the difficult sci :nce
of psychiatry and his efficient effort
toward the cure and prevention of
mental disorder. Hence, it is antici
pated that the selection of Dr. Irvin
William Abell as the one most worthy
of being added this year to the dis
tinguished company of Laetare meda-
(Continued on Page Ten)
The first step in the campaign was
taken when Bishop O'Hara after trav
eling over 40.0(0 miles through the
Diocese of Savannah-Atlanta during
the pas’ two years, and observing its
need, compiled a seven-point program
to meet, what is extended and close
study had convinced him was most
pressing. It included:
1. Assistance for the missions in the
smaller communities of the state
where Catholics are least numerous.
2. One or more auto chapel cars to
reach points where there are no
churches or chapels and where there
is no prospect of any for some time
to come.
3 Assistance to students for the
priesthood to increase the number of
priests and to give the candidates for
the priesthood the best possible train
ing.
•1. A fireproof home for the girl or
phans of the Diocese similar to the
one the Catholics of Georgia have pro
vided at Washington,”Ga., for the boy
ci'Dhans’.
5. Assistance for work .among the
colored.
6. Financing of the religious vaca
tion camps for the children in small
er communities and the providing of
schools for congregations able to sup
port them after they are once erect
ed.
7. Aiding the work of the Catholic
Laymen’s Association of Georgia.
The Census
To determine what could be done,
it was first necessary to discover the
resources of the Diocese in the num
ber of Catholics, and a state-wide
census was arranged. Bishop O'Hara
asked for 600 volunteer workers to
take census. Over twelve hundred
responded, and in one week visited
the Catholic homss in every nook and
(Continued on Page Five)
Soviet Envoy Lauds ‘Liberty’
as Mass Executions Continue
(By N.C.W.C. News Service)
WASHINGTON. — Referring to re
cent remarks by Alexander Troyan-
ovsky, ambasador of the Union of Sov
iet Socialist Republics, the Rev- Dr.
Edmund A. Walsh, S. J.. vice presi
dent of Georgetown University, told
an audience in Memorial Continental
Hall here that “on.e
Ambassador to the United States re
veals the low esiimate he places cn
the intelligence of the American peo
ple.
At the very moment when his gov
ernment is demonstrating its already
proved capacity for brutality and By
zantine hypocrisy,” Dr. Walsh said,
ne broadcasts a plea in our ears- to
the effect that his native land is the
fairest garden of Democracy and the
last refuge of liberty on this planet.
With the firing squad barely finished
with its 18 judicial murders, with the
next purge now being prepared—
probably with former Prosecutor Kry
lenko as the piece de resistance—with
news arriving daily of Continuing
mass executions in various provinces
of Russia; with the Soviet Arctic po
lar bears, walruses and icebergs; with
hundreds of thousands of bewildered
peasants still confined in concentra
tion camps; with Solovetsky Island
slowly grinding its selected victims to
death or insanity behind the veil of
government censorship; with his own
colleagues in the diplomatic corps de
serting Moscow in growing numbers,
with a baited wire encirclement,
guarding the Russian frontier night
and day to prevent escape. His Ex
cellency asks us to accent the Com
munist State as a streamlined exam
ple of true modern progress*’*