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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. ~ - 0 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. o— — O 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. 0 : O 1 DEDICATION BY BISHOP i O- — O 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. ? FRANCISCAN SISTERS ° o o The Franciscan Sisters who operate the hospital are members of'one of the oldest and certainly the most (Continued on Page Eight) 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.”