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Published by the 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*’*