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APR. T L; 23. 1938 THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA THREE News Review of the Catholic World TALLAHASSEE HOST TO N. C. C. W. CONVENTION As announced in Ihe previous issue of The Bulletin, the St. Augustine Diocesan Council of the National Council of Catholic Women is meet ing this week in Tallahassee, with the Most Rev. Patrick Barry, D. D., Bishop of St. Augustine, officiating at the Pontifical Mass opening the convention. Mrs. George R. Coyle, president, is presiding at the sessions, and every section cf the state is rep resented, although Tallahassee is at the extreme end of one of the long est states in the union. BISHOP O'HARA of Savannah- At lanta is also honoring the convention by his presence and by participating in the program, being the principal speaker at a general meeting. REDS FOOL MINISTRY, EDITOR ASSERTS Ellery Sedwick Tells of Bombing’ by Leftists BY N. C. W. C. NEWS SERVICE NEW YORK—The fear that some Protestant clerics in the United States are being made the dupes of the Marixists was expressed by Ellery Sedgwick, editor of The Atlantic Monthly, in an interview printed in the New York Journal and Ameri can this week. The distinguished editor was at tacked in the statement issued by the American Friends of Spanish Democ racy with the signatures of 61 Protes tant bishops attached. Mr. Sedgwick said he was “grossly misrepresented” by the references to him in this state ment. * “As an American Protestant, with firm convictions on the right of a free conscience to worship God, I protest against the revolutionary so cial doctrines fostered by theological leaders in American Protestantism,” Mr. Sedgwick is quoted as saying in the interview dispatched from Bos ton. “The current flows toward Com munism. Why does a Communist smokescreen, like the League for the Defense of Spanish Democracy, con trol 61 Protestant bishops? It is a strange contradiction. “Either they are dupes of Marx ism, or they are deliberately inviting Communism into Protestant churches. And this at a time when Christianity has again been forced into a position o fbeing a fighting faith.” ‘ If only the Protestant clergymen had a little more imagination!” Mr. Sedgwick is also quoted as saying. “If they would put themselves in the place of their Catholic bretheren! If Protestant churches were burned, Protestant graveyards dug up, Protes tant priests beaten before their altars, the sacred elements of the Protestant communion swept from the table— then how different would be the feel ings of these bishops who in the safe ty of their own country criticize the Spanish Catholics who cry out in agony!” Mr. Sedgwick said he saw a coun- t> ( ' - j i-i Spanish Rightist ter ritory, “far from troops or munition stores, bombed without warning by Loyalists’ planes.” “At least 150 women and children worshiping in the church were killed or horribly mutilated," he said. Saying that many of the “Marxian dupes” are won by sentimentality, such as atrocity protographs allegedly showing the brutality of the Richtist forces, Mr. Sedgwick asserted that many of these photographs originated with Communist organizations and are fakes. MSGRreTlTEUSTACE REGOMES A BISHP New York Priest First Bis hop of Camden, N. J. (By N.C.W.C. News Service) NEW YORK. — The Most Rev. Bar tholomew J. Eustace, a native of this city, was consecrated March 25 as the first Bishop of the new Diocese of Camden. N. J. The ceremony was held in St. Patrick's Cathedral. His Eminence Patrick Cardinal Hayes, Archbishop of New York, was the consecrator, assisted by the Most Rev. Edward J. Kelly, Bishop of Boise, and the Most Rev. Stephen J. Donahue, Auxiliary Bishop of New York, as co-consecrators. A congregation of more than 5,000 persons, included the Most Rev. Thom as J. Walsh, Archbishop of Newa:’:, and the new Bishop’s immediate ec clesiastic superior, and the Most Rev. John G. Murray, Archbishop of St. Paul, 22 Bishops, including Bishop McGuiness of Raleigh, two Abbots, 60 Monsignori, and about 600 priests. Seated in a front pew were Bishop Eustace’s 86-year-old mother, Mrs. Bartholomew E. Eustace, and his brother Arthur Eustace. Former Pupils Present Scores of the priests in attendance had been students of Bishop Eustace's during the 21 years he taught at St. Joseph's Seminary, Dunwoodie, N. Y. Young Prelate Rev. Michael Augustine O'Connor, of Brooklyn, Dominican mission ary in China since 1933, who has been named head of the new Pre fecture Apostolic of Kienow, China. Ordained in June, 1931, formerly instructor in Latin at Providence College, Providence, R. I., the new Prefect Apostolic is only 35 years old. This photo was taken at the time of his ordina tion. (Bachrach photo.) GERMANY (Continued from Page One) Bishops ask that there be no modifi cation of the terms of the Austrian Concordat without previous agree ment with the Holy See, particularly that the application of all rules re ferring to schools, education and the formation of youth correspond to tne natural rights of parents and to the religious and moral training of Cath olic youth according to Catholic faith and principles; that propaganda against religion and the Church are prohibited; that Catholics enjoy the right of proclaiming, defending and practicing the Catholic faith and Catholic doctrine in all fields of hu man life with all means at the dis posal of contemporaneous civiliza tion.” GENERAL GOERING, Hitlers Frime Minister, asserts that there will be no change in the Nazi attitude to- war religiodn, and denies persecu tion of religion despite the hundreds of priests and ministers jailed on flimsy pretexts. SWISS PROTESTANTS have pro tested the detention of the Lutheran Pastor Niemoeller. ..ARCHBISHOP WAITZ of Salzburg in Austria was detained by Nazi po lice for several hours while Nazi po lice on their arrival in Austria search ed his home and confiscated two truck loads of official files. LONDON newspapers report that Cardinal Innitzer was interrupted while telephoning to Rome and told he was forbidden to communicate with anyone outside of the country. Subsequently he went to Rome. AUSTRIANS since the advent of Hitler find Nazi police at every tele graph and postoffice window to cen sor their communications with other countries. They rre required to open letters going to foreign countries and to submit them to censorship. Thou sands of Austrian officials are re ported to be under “protective ar rest”; the names of hundreds are known and numerous others have dis appeared, presumably held by the police. TWO ABBOTS, Abbot ‘Corbinian Mofmeister, O. S. B., of Metten, Ba varia and Abbot Jakobus Ffaettisch, O. S. B„ of St. Ottilien Abbey, have been arrested because they challenged the right of Nazi soldiers to seize their monastery records. They were not even permitted to take their Breviaries and Bibles along when locked up in jail; the general public is not aware of their arrest. THE VATICAN has disassociated itself from a broadcast by an un named priest from the Vatican radio station attacking the hierarchy of Austria for its statement when Hit ler entered Austria. The broadcast as it was delivered was not author ized by the Vatican. GERMANY, including Austria, now contains 27.000,000 Catholics, the pro portion being increased substantially by the annexation of Austria. NEWS BRIEFS i THE CATHOLIC population of the British East Indies, including India, Burma Ceylon and British Malaya, is 4,565-966, according to statistics re cently announced. PAUL CRESTON, organist and chorimaster at St. Malachys Church, New York, has been awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fel lowship for 1938. THE SEE OF PATERSON, newly created Diocese in New Jersey has a Catholic population of 105,000. The Most Rev. Thomas H. McLaughlin, D.D.. first Bishop, will be installed April 28. MRS. LORETTO HINES, widow of Edward Hines, like her husband, re sponsible for many Catholic benefac tions, died in Chicago early in April at the age of 65. The chapel at the Mundelein. 111., Seminary was a gift of Mr. and Mrs. Hines. A TRIBUTE at the Vatican for the solution of international problems of a njoral and humanitarian nature is suggested by the Most Rev. Martin S. Gillett. O.P., Master-General of the Dominicans, a recent visitor in the United States. THE N. Y. STATE Department of Education has ordered the school board of Centereach, L. I., to trans port children of Mr. and Mrs. Alvysius to St. John’s School, Bohemia, L. I., taking the positon that parochial as well as public school children are en titled to that services where it is pro vided. GOVERNOR LEHMAN of New York has vetoed the bill barring Communists from public office and passed by both houses of the legisla ture of New York. REV. HAROLD A. GONDER. of Cleveland has been named vice- president of the American College at Louvain. Belgium, succeeding the Rev Stephen A. Leven, who returns to Oklahoma. Father Gonder, now serving in Cleveland, will assume his new duties in September. He was ordained in 1932 after graduating at Louvain. THE ATENEO DE MANILA has awarded the Ozanam Medal to Dona Aurora A. Quezon, wife of the presi dent of the Commonwealth of the Philippines, the award being present ed at the Catholic college's graduation exercises. BIRTH CONTROL is “sexual atheism”, the Rev. Ignatius W. Cox, S.J., professor of ethics at Fordham University, asserted in a Lenten ser mon at St. Francis Xavier Church, New York, in which he deplored a campaign by the Citizens’ Committee for Planned Parenthood to raise $264,- 000 “to democratize birth control in formation". CATHOLIC COLLEGE and univer sity students to the number of 5,973 in 168 instiutions have received fed eral assistance from the National Youth Administraton to tlie amount of $807,125 during the past school year, Aubrey Williams, executive di rector, announces. The federal gov ernment in five years has expended or authorized a billion and a half dol lars for public educaton. an editorial in the April issue of “The Natoon’s Schools” asserts. THE CATHOLI C COLLEGE Club Federation will meet in Washington September 2-4, with the Newman Club of George Washington Univers ity as the host club. REV. PAUL SCHULTE . O.MX, “the Flying Missionary,” will pilot the ice-breaker “St. Therese” during July, August and September on its journey with 200 tons "of food and other supplies for the Arctic Mis sions. He will direct the ice-breaker by radio. Father Schulte is now engaged in a speaking tour of the United States. THE KNIGHTS OF MALTA have presented an automobile ambulance to the Sanitary Aid Station of the City of Prague. The gift is from the Czechoslovakiaian Province of the Order. ROBT. H. GORE, former Gover nor-General of Puerto Rico, has pre sented a set of chimes to his home parish. St. Edmund’s. Oak Park, Ill- school. where his nine children were educated REV. THOMAS M. McGLYNN, O. P., son of Frank McGlynn, famed ac tor, Has designed a sponge rubber hand of persons who have lost their hand or arm, one which has been widely commended by authorities for its naturalness. CATHOLIC U. Law School will hereafter require a bachelor’s degree before accepting students, the Rev- Dr. Robert J. White, dean, an nounces. It is one of eight law schools in the country making this require ment. BOSTON COLLEGE observed the seventy-fifth anniversary of its being granted a charter with a Solemn High w Heads Bar Group His Eminence Pierre Cardinal Gerlier, Archbishop of Lyon and Primate of Gaul, who was ac claimed president of the Associa tion of Secretaries and Former Secretaries of Advocates of the Appellate Court of Paris, at the annual meeting of the associa tion. Cardinal Gerlier, before en tering the priesthood was a prom inent member of the bar. Mass af the Church of the Immacu late Conception, His Eminence, Car dinal O'Connell, an alumnus of the college, presiding and many state of ficials attending. AMERICAN PRIESTS serving as missionaries abroad now number 820, the Catholic Students’ Mission Cru sade, announces. There are also 91 Brothers, 650 Sisters and 21 scholas tics engaged in the work from the United States. TWO CATHOLIC BOOKS, the Life of Si. John Fisher by Paul McCann and Thomas Morgan’s "A Reporter at the Fapal Court", and among the nine most popular current books among students at Harvard Universi ty. PITTSBURGH Taxicab drivers to the number of 500 v/ill attend the lirst Mass of Raymond H. Heintz a former taxicab driver in that city, when he is ordained in June. He is finishing his theological studies at St. Vincent's Seminary, Latrobe, Pa- conducted by the Benedictines. MRS. JOHN O'NEILL of Kinburn, Ont., mother of three priests and a nun, has been awarded the Bene Merenti medal by the Holy Father, Fope Pius XI. It will be presented by Archbishop Forbes on Easter Sunday, Mrs. O’Neill’s 80th birthday. FATHER COUGHLIN announces that he will be unable to leave the United States to speak in Budapest at the time of the International Eucha ristic Congress, and.therefore has had to decline an invitation extended to him. CLICK, a picture magazine pub lished in the United States, has been barred from Canada indefinitely on the ground of indecency. THE BISHOP OF AGEN, newly ap pointed, Msgr. Jean Rodie. was an of ficer in the regular French army be fore starting his Studies for the priest hood. During the World War he serv ed as captain of colonial artillery, af ter graduating from the artillery school. BISHOP CASSIDY of Fall River in a Lenten pastoral warns his people, “particularly the young, to beware of the dangers that lie in liquor drinking—dangers material, physical and spiritual.” HENRY R. LUCE, editor of Time, writes to Father Theophane Maguire, C. P.. editor of Tire Sign, to assure him that he did not approve of the seven employes of Time sponsoring a party for the benefit of the Spanish Leftists- As individuals they may do so, he said, but hereafter no group of Time employes as such will be per mitted to sponsor such activities. MSGR. JOHN E. HICKEY of Cin cinnati has willed practically all of his estate, valued at $60,060, to Cath olic institutions. SPAIN (Continued From Page One) tionalists raises the question of Mr. Hull’s silence when thousands of priests and nuns were being killed by the Madrid government in the earlier days of the war and when Catholics were being murdered in Mexico. , THE HOLY FATHER on two oc casions. in February and in March, appealed to General Franco “to avoid as far as possible the havoc wrought by aerial bombardments. TWENTY-SEVEN PRIESTS were slain by the Reds when the Leftist Government withdrew from Teruel before the davance of the Rightists. EDWARD J. SMYTHE, chairman of the Protestant War Veterans, in a leter to the Protestant Bishops pro testing the bombardment of Barce lona, asks them if they have protest ed the slaughter of thousands of Christians in Spain, Russia, Hungary and Mexico by Reds during the past few years. CARDINAL HAYES in an inter view with the press in New York, said he was praying for. General Franco's forces to win the war be cause the opposing government is con trolled by Communists and other radicals. The Catholic Church, how ever, has taken no official stand, His Eminence asserted. DONATIONS from the United States for the American Spanish Re lief Fund htrve reached the $35,000 mark, with the Diocese of Mobile re cently contributing nearly a thou sand dollars. PRIME MINISTER Juan Negrin. of the Madrid Government thanked the New York State Committee of the Communist Party for its “encourag ing and splendid” message of support given the Leftists, the communication being featured in the Daily Worker, New York official Communist pub lication. JAMES W. GERARD, war-time am bassador from the United States to Germany, in a copyrighted interview in Tiie New York Time, asserts that in Europe he found thinking people hoping for the sake of the future of the continent that Franco will win in Spain. SPANISH CHILDREN numbering thousands, sent out of their country by the Reds for propaganda purposes, have not returned home and their parents have not been able to locate them despite frantic efforts. SCOTT LUCAS, member of Con gress from Illinois and a non-Catho- lic.e assailed Communism in a radio address recently in a national broad cast, and said that the situation in Spain is directly due to its tactics. DR. CHARLES G. FENWICK, of Byrn Mawr College, president of the Catholic Association for International Peace, has written to Rabbi Stephen Wise expressing his deep regret at the Rabbi's attack on Cardinal Hayes, at a ‘peace” meeting in New York, the attack coming after Dr. Fenv/ick had left. He asked Rabbi Wise and Dr. Harry F. Ward, a New York min ister, why in their denunciation of dictatorships they did not include the Communist dictators as well as the Nazi and Fascist. THE SPANISH AMBASSADOR in Washington, has spent $13,000,000 for propaganda purposes in this country, the Rev. Dr. Joseph B. Code of the Catholic University of America told the New York alumni of Notre Dame University at their annual Com- munnion breakfast. The Spanish Em bassy is a center of propaganda, in violation of all diplomatic custom and ethics, Dr. Code asserted, and is using its franking privilege to send post free propaganda at the expense of American taxpayers. 239 CLARETIAN PRIESTS were executed in Spain by the radicals in the early days of the war, the gen eral headquarters of the Order in Spain, announces. There were 1,093 members of the order in the country then. Georgian to Lecture at LJ. of Notre Dame (Special To The Bulletin) NOTRE DAME. Ind. — Richard Reid, editor of The Bulletin and former president of the Catholic Press Association of the United States, will deliver a series of five lectures to the student body of the University of Notre Dame on “The Morals of Newspapers”, the first lecture to be given Sunday evening, April 24, at Washington Hall on the campus. The other lectures will fol low on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thurs day and Friday nights; Monday night will be Notre Dame night, and there will be no lecture then. Mr. Reid. Laetare Medalist in 1936. de livered a series of five lectures in May ot last year on "The Foundation of Goad Will.”