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THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
APR T L 23. 1938
Atlanta Leaders Greet Bishop O’Hara
■{Courtesy Atlanta Journal)
Bishop O'Hara being greeted by Atlanta leaders as he arrived at the Biltmore Hotel, Atlanta, for the mass
meeting there. Left to right, Robert R. Otis, formerly president of the Atlanta branch of the Catholic Laymen’s
Association of Georgia, Bishop O'Hara and J. J. Haver ty, K.S.G., first vice-president and chairman of the fi-
nance committee of the Laymen’s Association.
Jesuits Throughout World
Now Number Over 25,000
U. S. Has 5,229 Members of Order, Statistics at General
Congregation at Rome Show—Father Shields, Fath
er Hines and Father Burke Attend From South
EFFORT BENEFITS
ENTIRE COMMUNITY
Editorial in the Atlanta
Constitution
The campaign to raise $100,000 for the
expansion of activities in the Savan
nah,-Atlanta Diocese, under the per
sonal supervision of Bishop Gerald P.
O'Hara, is now under way. The funds
are to be utilized largely in recon
ditioning and improving present facil
ities.
All too often church edifices and
schools, because of the lack of s. ici-
ent funds, are allowed to fall into dis
repair, frequently becoming the
neglected buildings in the community.
This is particularly true in the 1
areas, according to the Bishop. Im
provements in this respect will, no
doubt, soon be in evidence as a result
of the campaign.
More modern methods of serving the
outlying sections of the diocese are to
be inaugurated. In those areas where
the people cannot attend services be
cause of the distance, it is proposed to
carry the services to the. people. For
this purpose, trailer-chapels, purchas
ed with part of the funds to be rais
ed. are to be brought into use.
The Diocese of Savanah-Atlanta was
separated from the Diocese of Charles
ton 88 years ago. Laudable progress
in the spiritual development of the
people has been the result. A success
ful campaign will not only be of im
measurable service to tne Catholics
of the Diocese, but will inure to the
benefit of the community as a whole.
PRIESrslNVENTION
KILLS PLANT PESTS
Botanists Impressed by
Father Hugh’s Method
(By N.C.W.C. News Service)
WASHINGTON. —Leading botanists
and curators of museums and herba
riums in the United States recently
visited the Langlois Herbarium at the
Catholic University of America in
Washington, D. C., to view the inven
tion of the Rev. Dr. Hugh O'Neill, its
curator and a member of the depart
ment of biology, for the destruction of
pests and the preservation of plants in
collections. Father Hugh was former
ly of St. Leo Abbey. Florida.
Faced with the necessity of preserv-
ing-his own collection against the rav
ages of insect pests and finding poisons
and fumigants ineffective and obiec-
tionable. Father O'Neill had a steel
cabinet built with proper insulation
and, with the aid of the University
electrician, installed a heating appara
tus. He now “cooks” his specimens
before placing them on his shelves and
his difficulties seem to have been end
ed.
The apparatus is simple, inexpensive
and efficient. Dr. O'Neill was asked to
prepare a paper telling the story of his
invention for “Rhodora”, the journal
of the New England Botanical Club,
published under the direction of the
Gray Herbarium of Harvard Univer
sity.
Previously insect posts in plant col
lections were controlled by poisoning
the specimens, periodical fumigation,
the use of repellants or some combi
nation of the three.
New Zealand Marks
Church’s Centennial
Bishop Kelley Represents
Hierarchy of United
States There
By PAUL KAVANAGH
(New Zealand Correspondent, N. C.
W. C. News Service)
AUCKLAND. — Approximately one
quarter of the Catholic population of
New Zealand made a pilgrimage to
Auckland to participate in the firs'
centennial celebrations held in the
Dominion. The first centenary observ
ed was that of the celebration of the
Holy Sacrifice of the Mass.
That the celebrations were regarded
as important by the Church overseas
was amply manifest by the presence
of Archbishops. Bishops, clergy and
laity, under the leadership of His Ex
cellency (he Most Re\. Giovanni Pani-
co, Acostolic Delegate to Australia
and New Zealand. The American Hier
archy was represen d by the Mos*
Dev. Francis C. Kelley, Bishop of
Oklahoma City and Tulsa.
-l he proceedings were marked by
the enthusiasm of the laity. Thous
ands were unable to gain admission
to reme of the religious and civic func
tion?.
GATINS-CURTIS
NEW YORK. N. Y.—The Rev.
•Tames M. Gillis. C. S. P.. editor of
The Catholic World, officiated at
the mp'riage here of Miss Barbara
Hope Gatins, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Benjamin J. Gatins, of this c : ty
and granddaughter of the late Mr.
and Mrs. Joseph F. Gatins, of Atlanta,
and James Freeman Curtis. Jr., son
of Mr. and Mrs. James Freeman
Curtis of New York, Washington and
Rcslyn, L. I., Mr. and Mrs Curtis
will live at Roslyn, L I.
VATICAN CITY. — Remarkable
growth of the Society of Jesus
throughout the world, and notably in
the United States, since the last Gen
eral Congregation, in 1923, is reveal
ed in figures released at the recent
General Congregation held in Rome.
The twenty-eighth meeting was
opened on March 11 anniversary of
the Canonization of St. Ignatius Loy
ola and St. Francis Xavier, which
took place in 1623.
The meetings were held in the new
Mother House at the foot of the Jan-
iculum on territory which, under the
Lateran Treaty, has privileges of ex
tra-territoriality. They lasted until
Easter and the members were pres
ent at the canonization of the Polish
Jesuit martyr, Blessed Andrew Bob-
ola, in the Vatican Basilica on Easter
Sunday.
At that time the Society had 17,121
members, of whom 8,451 were priests,
4.549 students and 4,121 lay Brothers.
The Provinces into which the Order
was divided were 27. In the present
General Congregation they offer a
spectacle of extraordinary progress.
Today the Society of Jesus counts 42
Provinces and four Vice-Provinces,
with 25,460 Reliigous, of whom 11,365
are priests, 8.796 students and 5,299
lay Brothers. A century after the
foundation of the society it counted
16,000 members and in 1773, on the
eve of its suppression, it had 22,589.
One of the countries where the de
velopment of the society has been
notable in recent years in the United
States. In 1923, the Uinted States
was divided into four Provinces
(those of California, Maryland-New
York. Missouri and New Orleans)
with 2,626 Religious. At present
there are seven Provinces, those of
California, Chicago, Maryland-New
York, Missouri, New Orleans, New
England and Oregon. The number
of Reliigous has doubled ,there being
5.229. of whom 2,273 are pirests, 2.-
360 students and 596 Brothers. The
most numerous Province is that of
Marylar.d-New York and Missouri..
Chicago, New England,, California,
Oregon and New Orleans “-follow in
order. The seven Provinces are rep
resented in the General Curia by the
Assistant to the Father General for
America, who is Father Zaccheus
Maher.
Canada also has progressed. In
1923. it formed a single Province with
448 members. Now it is divided into
a Province and a Vice-Province and
the number of the Religious has more
than doubled, now numbering 942.
The Province of Lower Canada has
656, of whom 249 are priests, 234 stud
ents and 123 Brothers, and the Vice-
Province of Upper Canada, 286, of
whom 99 are priests, 148 students and
"9 Brothers.
In 1923. Ireland counted 397 Jesuits,
now 439. of which 181 are priests, 205
students and 53 Brothers.
Even Mexico, notwithstanding the
very fierce persecution of the last
years, has progressed, for while in
1923 there were 325 Jesuits, at pres
ent there are 456. of whom 211 are
priests, 153 students and 91 lay Broth
ers.
The members of the present Gen
eral Congregation are 171. namely
160 delegates formed by Provincials
and two delegates for each Province,
besides a delegate for each of the
principal Missions. There are also
added the eleven members of the
General Curia.
The program of the General Con
gregation is not made public but it
may be said with certainty that one
of the main points wit h which it has
dealt was to bring up-to-date with
the “Ratio Studiorum" or program of
the studies of the Society, according
to the Constitution Deus Scientiarum
Dominus with which Pope Pius XI
reformed the program of higher ec
clesiastical studies.
A report has been spead that Fath
er General, Father Wladimir Ledo-
chowski, who has governed the So
ciety since 1915. would hand in his
resignation. This is unfounded and
has been authoritatively denied by
the General Curia of the Jesuit Fath
ers. Another report that the Father
General would ask the Congregation
to appoint a Vicar with right of suc
cession also is untrue. It is possible
that the Father General may ask the
Congregation to appoint a Vicar
without right of succession (which,
however, he could do of his own au
thority) to assist in the vast amount
of work devolving upon him.
The United States was represented
at the General Congregation, in addi
tion to the Assistant Father General,
Rev. Zaccheus Maher, by the fol
lowing delegates of the various Prov
inces:
Province of California: Fathers
Francis J. Seeliger, Provincial; Eld-
ward J. Whelan, Los Angeles, and
William G. Dunne, Los Gatos.
Province of Chicago: Fathers Wil
liam M. Magee, Provincial; Charles
H. Cloud. Chicago; John F. McCor
mick, Chicago, and Francis N.
Loesch, Superior of the Patna Mis
sion in India, which depends on the
Province of Chicago.
Province of Oregon: Father Walter,
Fathers Joseph A. Murphy, Provin
cial; Edward C. Phillips, Woodstock,
Md.; William J. Duane, New York,
and John F. Hurley, Superior of the
Mission in the Philippine Islands,
which depends on the Province of
Maryland-New York.
Province of Missouri: Fathers Peter
A. Brooks, Provincial; Francis X.
McMenamy, Cleveland, and Herbert
C. Noonan, Omaha.
Province of New Orleans: Fathers
Thomas I. Shields, Provincial; John
W. Haynes. Spring Hill, Ala., and
Martin P. Burke, New Orleans.
Province of New England: Fathers
James H. Dolan, Provincial; Daniel
F. Creeden, Weston, Mass., and John
M. Fox, Pomfret, Conn.
Province of Oregon: Fathers J.
J. Fitzgerald, Provincial; Thomas R.
Martin. Sheridan, Ore., and Francis
C. Dillon, Spokane.
ARCHBISHOP CURLEY
DEPLORES NATION’S
POLICY ON MEXICO
Oil Deemed More Important
Than Lives, He Asserts in
Baltimore Address
BALTIMORE,— The government’s
prompt protest of the seizure of
American oil .properties by Mexico
and -he :c- ct th-a Vva~h"on
administration to protest similarly
Catholic persecutions in the Repub
lic, was contrasted by the Most Rev.
Michael J. Curley, Archbishop of
Baltimore, in addressing 700 Knights
of Columbus here. The Archbishop
declared that when Catholics were
killed and religious institutions were
dcsi'v/ :' 1 in '-aco ' ' r" ' il ad
ministration did nothing to prevent
this, despite his protest. When Ameri
can oil lands were expropriated by
Mexican officials, however, the
United States Ambassador in Mex
ico City immediately took action, he
pointed out. 'But oil meant more
than lives,” His. Excellency declar
ed.
The Archbishop recalled that the
Knights of Columbus hacLalso pro
tested against American inaction, but
hr"! ii'-. a'k .d :c: iiition. "You
only asked,” he said, “that the gov
ernment stop intervening in favor of
the persecutors of the Church in
Mexico, as the government had been
doing for decades.”
Tie Knights were told not to apol
ogize for having their rights respect
ed, nor to apologize for defending the
church and their co-religionists. The
Archbishop urged them to be strong
Catholics, respectful always of rights
of others, but at the same time re
fusing to be deprived of their own
tights.
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DRAMA IMPRESSIVE
National Council of Cath
olic Men Is Its Sponsor
WASHINGTON, — Highly enthus
iastic reports concerning the series
of radio dramatizations of the events
of the first Holy Week, entitled “The
Living God”, are reaching the offices
of the National Council of Catholic
Men, under whose auspices the se
ries was presented,- it was said here
today by Edward J. Heffron, N. C.
C. M., Executive Secretary.
The responses received to date have
spoken in the highest terms of the
impressions of the script and the
flawlessness of its execution in the
hands of the Hollywood cast, the
members of which volunteered their
services for the occasion, Mr. Hef-
ron said. The cast, composed with
one exception of names well-known
on stage and screen, was headed by
Walter Connolly, Pedro de Cordoba
and Una O’Connor. The one excep
tion was the Rev. Charles Logan,
Administrator of Our Lady of Guad
alupe Parish, Santa Ana. Cal., who
played the part of the Priest.
GEORGIA WISHES
CAMPAIGN SUCCESS
Editorial in the Augusta,
Ga. Herald
Catholics of the Savannah-Atlanta
diocese are being asked to subscribe
$100,000 toward a found to finance the
orphans, the missions, the religious va
cation schools, students for the priest
hood, and the Catholic Laymen’s As
sociation o'f Georgia.
It is the most ambitious program that
has been undertaken since the Most
Rev. Gerald P. O'Hara, bishop of Sa
vannah-Atlanta, was placed at the
head of this diocese.
Augustans have taken a prominent
part in the program which have been
featured with banquets in Savc-nah
and Atlanta and a mass assemblage in
Augusta, with Bishop O’Hara the prin
cipal speaker.
Those of other denominations will
wish their Catholic friends God-speed.
in this worthy endeavor. Augustans,
we are sure, will do their part toward
making this movement entirely suc
cessful.
alexiaFbrothers
MOVING TO SOUTH
Headquarters Are Changed
From Chicago to Chatt
anooga Suburb
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
CHICAGO.—What is expected to be
the last class to make its religious pro
fession in the local m therhouse of the
Alexian Brothers—those who pro
nounced their vows at St. John of God
Monastery on the Feast of St. Joseph
—was the largest class in the history
of the community.
The Chicago monastery of the Alex
ian Brothers, whose work is the care of
the sick, is the Motherhouse for the
United States. However, in a few
months the Motherhouse is to be re
moved to Signal Mountain, Tenn., just
outside of Chattanooga, where the
novitiate also will be situated. The
Brothers have acquired a building that
was once a hotel on Signal Mountain,
to which they are adding a chapel and
monastery. The former hr ' cl will be
opened by the Brothers as a place of
rest for men convalescing from ill
ness, and those who desire health-giv
ing retreats from everyday life. St.
John of God Monastery here will con
tinue to house the Brothers attached to
the Alexian Brothers’ Hospital in this
city.
Reorganization Bill
No Threat to Church
Cardinal Asserts
Archbishop of Chicago
Wires His Opinion on
Measure to the President
(Bv N. C. W. C. News Service)
WASHINGTON—As debate on the
Federal Government Reorganization
Bill grew warm and the measure
faced a crucial test. President Roose
velt permitted to be read on the
floor of the House of Representatives
a telegram he had just received from
his Eminence George Cardinal Munde
lein, Archbishop of Chicago, stating
that the measure in no way menaces
the welfare or freedom of the Catholic
Church.
Responding to this telegram, word
from Chicago states, President Roose
velt told Cardinald Mundelein that
he was “more grateful than I can
say” for “so frank and courageous
an expression of honest coinvietion”
made by His Eminence as “a sin
cere and outspoken champion of free
dom.”
The Cardinal’s telegram was read
to the House by Representative Lind
say C. Warren of North Carolina,
who had just introduced an amend
ment exempting the United States
Office of Education from any change
under the bill, and denying the pro
posed Welfare Department jurisdic
tion over educational matters. This
was an amendment which was agreed
upon in committee.
“As the House knows by this time,”
Representative Warren said, “the
mere word ‘education’ in the stan
dards set up in a part of this bill
by no stretch of the imagination could
ever have extended to any form of
Federal control over education.
“In this connection, Mr. Chairman,
I am authorized by the President of
the United States to read to the
House a telegram sent from Chicago,
dated today, and received at the
12:10 p. m. It is addressed to the
President and reads as follows:
“ ‘As a result of my own investi
gation gathered from reliable and in
formed sources I cannot find that
the welfare or freedom of the Catho
lic Church is in any way menaced by
the pending Reorganization Bill. My
sole purpose in stating this to you is
because we have been drawn into the
discussion and my personal knowl
edge of your fairness to us would
render any such action quite impos
sible on your part.
“CARDINAL MUNDELEIN.”
The reading of this message was
greeted with applause.