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Published by the
Catholic Lay
men’s Association
of Georgia.
“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
Mercy Hospital, Charlotte, Plans
Oratorian Fathers Achieve
Magnificent Results During
Four Years at Rock Hill
New Rock Hill Hospital, York Infirmary, Chapels and
Training School for Boys Among Results of Their
Labors in South Carolina Since 1934
PARENTS OF PRIESTS
MARRIED 55 YEARS
Mr. and Mrs. Diehl Observe
Anniversary in Philadelphia
WINSTON-SALEM, N. C.—Mr. and
Mrs. William Diehl, of Germantown,
Pa., parents of the Rev. Cornelius
Diehl, pastor of St. Leo’s ■ Church,
observed the 55th anniversary of their
marriage at Germantown recently.
Eight of the nine children of the
couple, twenty-one grandchildren and
a great-grandchild attended the ob
servance. Mr. and Mrs. Diehl first
met at Fairmont Park at the Cen
tennial Exposition in Philadelphia in
1876. Mr. Diehl is 87, and a retired
official of the Atlantic Refining Com
pany;- Mrs. Diehl is a few years
younger. Both are in good health.
A second son, like Father Cornelius,
also became a priest, the Rev. Dr.
Francis A. Diehl of the Augstinian
Fathers, now lecturing at Oxford
University.
FATHER CORNELIUS participated
in a recent round table discussion on
brotherhood sponsored by the Con
ference of Jews and Christians 'of
Winston-Salem.
RALEIGH CATHEDRAL
EASTER SERVICES
(Special to The Bulletin)
RALEIGH, N. C.—The Most Rev.
Eugene J. McGuinness, D. D.’, Bishop
of Raleigh, officiated at the Holy
Week ceremonies at the Cathedral of
the Sacred Heart Raleigh, and was
the celebrant of the Pontifical Mass
Easter Sunda.
REV. JOSEPH KING, a seminarian
for the Diocese and a student at Our
Lady of the Angels Seminary, Niagara
Falls, N. Y., received Tonsure and
Minor Orders from Bishop McGuin
ness during the Easter holidays. Mr.
King will be ordained to the priest
hood May 26 at the Cathedral of Sts.
Peter and Paul, Philadelphia, and
will serve in the Diocese of Raleigh.
REV. DR. T. J. CAREY, O. P., of
the Catholic University of America,
where he is professor of psychology,
delivered the sermon on Good Friday
at the Cathedral on the Agony of
Christ, and also preached at the Pon
tifical aMss on Easter.
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THE GREENVILLE, N. C., parish
for white Catholics, of which the
Rev. Charles J. Gable, is pastor will
have the pleasure of having sixteen
■persons converts baptized next Sun
day.
BY n. M. WARD
ROCK HILL, S. C.—Rock Hill
stands’ today as the center of Cath
olic life for a large part of South
Carolina. Yet only a few short years
ago it saw the erection of its first
modest chapel.
The Church has marked great
strides since the Rev- William Tobin
built the first chapel of St. Anne
here in 1920. Since the Oratorian
Fathers assumed the responsibility for
this territory in 1934 there has .been
provided adequate facilities for wor-
shit) for an increasing number of par
ishioners, missions which extend to
several nearby towns, a modem and
complete 60-bed hospital and a train
ing school for boys.
Until 1934 the parish was adminis
tered to by the secular priests and
priests of the Society of Jesus, such
as Father Joseph Farrell, S. J., and
Father P. A. Ryan. S. J. In 1934
Pope Pius XI confided to the Jesuit
Fathers of the New Orleans Province
a large mission territory in the Philip
pine Islands and they asked the most
Rev. Emmet M. Walsh, D. D„ Bishop
of Charleston to relieve them of the
care of Rock Hill and adjacent ter
ritory.
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I COMING OF ORATORIANS |
While in New York in 1934. Bishop
Walsh met the Rev. Paul Hatch, a
priest of the Congregation of the Ora
tory, who was engaged in preaching
missions in New York. He invited
Father Paul to look over the Rock
Hill territory and investigate its pos
sibilities. Father Paul offered Mass
in the Church of St. Anne here for
the first time May 26, 1934. The ac
ceptance of the territory by the Ora
torian Fathers Aupgust 15, 1934, made
the establishment of the Oratory of
St. Philip Neri here a reality. Father
Ernest Musial, of the Oratory of Leip-
siz, Germany, and one of the found
ers of the Oratory at Saxony, remain
ed with Father Paul here for a year.
Then he was recalled to Berlin to
organize an Oratory there.
The Oratory of St. Philip, to which
the Fathers here belong, was approv
ed in Rome in 1575. It was to the
Oratorians that Cardinal Newman be
longed. St. Philip made his institu
tion in many respects unique. It was
his wish that all income of his order
be expended in alleviating the suf
fering of the sick in hospitals and in
the formation of Christian character
in young boys.
It was to these two principles that
the Fathers of the Oratory dedicated
themselves and it was toward these
two objectives they began to labor in
Rock Hul-
As the Fathers began their work
here the number of persons seeking
guidance in the Church increased.
Soon there was evident a need for
a larger church. But other facilities
were worse needed. Hie possibility
of benefitting the community through
the establishment of a hospital was
seen. A hospital founded by the
late Dr. W. W. Fennell, and known
as Fennell Infirmary, was then being
operated by Dr. W. B. Ward. This,
the Fathers learned, could be pur
chased.
The Sisters of St. Francis, at Peoria,
111., were contacted and agreed to op
erate the hospital. Within a year of
the time the Oratorian Fathers had
first arrived here they saw the open
ing of a hospital to serve the sick
poor of this vicinity. The hospital
was given into the care of the Sis
ters August 15, 1935.
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1 DEDICATION BY BISHOP i
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Meanwhile the Fathers had caused
to be erected an Oratory building for
the use of the priests and the broth
ers and for the instruction of young
boys. T hospital and the Oratory
of St. Philip Neri were dedicated Sep
tember 8, 1935, by the Most Rev-
Emmet M. Walsh, Bishop of Charles
ton. In his dedication he pledged
“loyal, devoted service’’ on the part
of himself, the Sisters of the hospital
and the Fathers of the Oratory. The
Very Rev. John F. Brady, M. D., D.
D„ head of the department of hos
pitals of the Catholic Charities of
New York City has the celebrant at
a Solemn High Mass which followed
the blessing of the buildings.
Y/ith Sister Liliosa as Superioress
and with 15 nursing sisters on its ac
tive staff, the hospital began at once
its work of rendering service to an
entire county and to a considerable
part of the upportion of the State
of South Carolina—a section served
by no other .hospital.
As a means' of expressing greetings
and best wishes to the Sisters, Rock
Hill women presented the hospital
with a shower of linens and other
articles.
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The Franciscan Sisters who operate
the hospital are members of'one of
the oldest and certainly the most
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DEBT TO SPANISH
BY U. S. RECALLED
BY FR. THORNING
Mt. St. Mary’s Professor
Speaks at U. of North Car
olina Under Auspices of
Newman Club There
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
CHAPEL HILL, N. C. — Speakin™
under the auspices of the Newman
Club at the University of North Caro
lina, Dr. Joseph F. Thoming. Profes
sor of Sociology and Social History at
Mt. St. Mary's College, Emmitsburg.
Md., drew attention to the indebted
ness of North and South America to
Spanish inspiration in the sphere of
the Art, Literature and Social Recon
struction.
“As the war draws to a close in
Spain we Americans can unite in our
admiration for the civilizing influ
ence of the Spaniards in this hemis
phere,” he said. “How many recall
that the first book printed in the
North American Continent was the
‘Doctrina Breve’ composed by Bishop
Zumarraga in Mexico City, June,
1544? The printers and type for this
production were brought from Spain.
"Mexico City also established the
first university, the first library, the
first college of medicine, the first hos
pital. the first school of nursing and
the first orphanage in North America.
As for the first University in the New
World, embracing North and South
America, that was the fruit of Span-
1 ish initiative at Lima, Peru, where the
University of San Marcos was found
ed by another Snanish Bishon in 1551.
This celebrated institution of learning
is flourishing to this hour. No won
der Salvador de Madariaga could
claim that the ordinary Castilian pea
sant was educated sufficiently ‘to
think like Plato and talk like Cer
vantes.’ ”
President Honors
Charles Maginnis
Names His Chairman of U.
S. Architectural Delegation
(By N.-C. W. C. News Service)
WASHINGTON. — A distinguished
Catholic architect has been named by
President Roosevelt to be chairman of
the United States delegation to the
International Congress of Architects to
be held in his country next year.
The architect so honored is Dr.
Charles D. Maginnis of Boston, who
is also President of the American In
stitute of Architects. Dr. Maginnis is
a Laetare Medalist and an LL.D.,
from Boston College, and Holy Cross.
Addition
ANSWER TO CITY’S
HOSPITAL PROBLEM,
DAILY PAPER SAYS
Charlotte Observer Lauds
Work of “Kindly and Self-
Sacrificing Sisters of
Mercy” Serving There
(Special To The Bulletin)
CHARLOTTE, N. C.,—The Sisters
of Mercy who established Mercy
Hospital here in 1915 and who have
developed it into one of the finest
hospitals in the Southeast, have an
nounced plans for an addition which
will cost $100,000 and which will in
crease the capacity from 115 to 150
beds. Plans for the building have
been completed by Charles C. Hook
and W. W. Hook, Charlotte architects
with considerable hospital exper
ience.
The addition will be at the west
end of the hospital and it will be
three stories in height and approxi
mately sixty feet long. It will con
form to the general architectual plan
of the hospital, and will be devoted
mainly to a thoroughly modem pedi
atric and children’s department, a
complete operating room and addi
tional rooms to increase the general
capacity of the hospital.
From a modest start in 1915. Mercy
Hospital has grown steadily; the de
mand for the services of the Sisters
was so great that in 1930 the original
hospital was increased in size to 115
beds. The next step was the erection
in 1936 of a home for nurses, and
then as in 1330 the possibility of
growth was anticipated in providing
a home for nurses numerous enough
for a hospital of 150 neds. The heat
ing and dietary facilities provided
in 1930 also were designed with a
hospital of 150 beds in mind. This
size hospital was the ambition and
the aim of the Sisters when they
started work twenty-two years ago,
and they have worked steadily and
courageously toward that end.
The services rendered by the hos
pital to the community are indicat
ed in the party by the fact that the
records show that over a period of
years approximately fifty per cent
of the patients have been charity
patients. The place that the hospital
holds in the community is indicated
by the following leading editorial
in a recent issue of the Charlotte
Observer, one of the most influen
tial newspapers in the Southeast:
EDITORIAL IN CHARLOTTE,
N. C„ DAILY OBSERVER
“The Board of Directors of the
Mercy Hospital offer a tangible so
lution to the riddle of the com
munity’s hospital problem by the
announcement that this institution
will begin at once the building of a
30-room addition - to cost $100,006.
“The completion of a hospital
with 150 rooms has long been, the
ideal and goal of those in authority
at the Mercy.
“Step by step this objective has
gradually been approached until
now the culmination of this original
purpose is in sight, and from thence
forward the management can begin
laying its further programs for new
enlargements as may be required in
the future.
“The community will be rejoiced
over the prospect of a definite im
provement in its hospital situation
through this addition.
“Present accommodations in each
of the hospitals of Charlotte are
seriously overrun, bringing about a
condition of crowdedness that in-
te \!^ ies , the ur,?e for quick action.
The Mercy Hospital, one of the
accredited institutions of its kind
m Charlotte, is generally recognized
as among the most capable managed
in the South, manned and equipped
to offer a distinctively ageeable
service.
popularity with all classes of
the hospital public has long ago
been attested but in no circum
stance more impressively than is in
dicated by the decision of the di
rectors to proceed at once with this
construction in order to take care of
the patients applying for hospitali-
zation m this plant.
‘Staffed by a • competent, alert
corps of doctors and surgeons in all
of the specialities represented by
the profession in the citv, governed
m its business affairs by a board of
practical and successful business
men, and being attended and super
vised in its service of care and heal-
mg by the kindly and self-sacrific-
! n g bisters of Mercy and nurses, the
institution enjoys a prestige of
unique favor in the minds and
hearts of its large and ever-widen
ing circle of friends and patrons.”