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APFJL 23. 1938 THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA SEVEN OR. ABELL GREAT SOUTHERN CATHOLIC An Estimate of This Year’s Laetare Medalist in The Record, Louisville, Ky. (Benedict Elder in The Record) Once more Dr. Abell brings honor to Louisville. A year ago he was pre elected president of the American Medical Association for 1938, and we noted this distinction at that time. About the same time, the University of Louisville, celebrating its centen nial, honored him with the degree of Doctor of Medical Science. Now comes recognition from the Universi ty of Notre Dame which confers upon him its most coveted honor, the Lae tare Medal which thus gives to Louis ville and the Catholics of the nation another honor. Because, in all of his work, studies, professional teaching; in all of his public addresses, Dr. Abell, great surgeon, has never failed to exemplify the Catholic philosophy of life and the Catholic attitude to ward science. On such questions as birth control, sterilization, euthanasia, and the application of modern psy chiatry, he is scientist not only but Catholic as well. On the question of the socialization of medical practice, he is still scien tist not only, but charitable also, rec ognizing his profession as one sacred according to the oath of Hippocrates, and yet not unaware of modern con ditions of society which make the life of the family physician, particularly in rural districts, one hard to bear. In a word, he is a scientist and a Catholic all through, with great tal ents of mind and great charity of heart. All Louisville honors him and welcomes the recognition w'hich Notre Dame has given him. The Record joins in, with its most hearty felicita tions. U h S HonZedin r Rome Dayton University Debaters Visit Southern Universities Process of Beatification of Franciscan Killed by Com munist Is Started (By N. C. W. C. News Service) WASHINGTON— His Eminence Camillo Cardinal Laurenti, Prefect of the Sacred Congregation of Rites, having signed the decree officially opening the “non cultus” process in the cause of the Rev. Leo Heinrichs, O. F. M., who was killed in Denver 30 years ago, an important step has been taken in the long and exacting process looking to the beatification of this American martyr. Father Leo met his death at the hand of a Communist while celebrat ing Mass on Sunday morning, Feb ruary 23, 1908, in St. Elizabeth's Church, Denver. He was born on the feast of the Assumption, 1867, in Germany, but came at the age of 19 to the United States to enter the Franciscan Order at St. Bonaventure’s Monastery, Paterson, N. J. He was invested with the habit December 4, 1886, and was guided in the prin ciples of the spiritual life by his master of novices, Father Denis Schuler, later to become fhe Minister General of the Order and subsequent ly Titular Archbishop of Nazienzen. The young novice early gave indica tions of great holiness, and through out the period of his preparation for the priesthood was an example of sanctity and mortification. His ordi nation took place in St. Bonaven- ture's Church, Paterson. . In 1788 Robert Abell, with his fam ily, migrated from Maryland to Ken tucky. His father, Samuel Abell, a non-Catholic, had been high sheriff of St. Mary's County, Maryland. His mother, Ellen O'Brien, was a Catho lic. Samuel permitted his wife to rear their daughters Catholic, but insisted on the sons being Protestant. How ever, when his oldest son Phillip had grown to manhood, and the father wished him to be sworn in as deputy sheriff, the young man declined to take the oath because it was equiva lent to the denunciation of the Cath olic faith. On his deathbed Samuel Abell became a Catholic. His son, Robert, who came to Kentucky, was the only Catholic in the constitution al convention of 1799 which formed the first organic law of Kentucky. He had previously represented Nelson County in the state legislature of 1792, the first meeting of the body after the admission of the commonwealth into the Union of States. SOVIET EXECUTES ORTHODOX BISHOPS No Relaxation of Religious Persecution in Russia DAYTON Ohio. — William O’Con- nor and Kark Schreiber, University of Dayton debaters, recently completed a debate tour through the Southern part of the United States which took them into competition with 11 college teams. Beginning with a contest against Xavier U. of Cincinnati, they contin ued to Mount Berry College, Mount Berry, Ga., Emory U. of Atlanta, Ga., Stetson U. of Deland. Fla., Rollins College, Winter Park, Fla., St. Peters burg Junior College, Southern College, Lakeland, Fla., Georgia Southwestern College, Amerieus, Ga., Mercer U. of Macon, Ga., Georgia School of Tech nology, Atlanta, Ga., and University of Chattanooga, Chattanooga, Tenn. In each debate the national inter collegiate debate subiect, “Resolved: That the National Labor Relations Board shall be 'empowered to enforce arbitration in all industrial disputes,” was used. The University of Dayton annual 7 sends out three teams on extensive de bate tours. A not''.:- t :■?-"» at the same time toured the eastern United States. IGKES IS ANSWERED BY FATHER THORNING Communism, Not Fascism, Growing in U. S., He Says (By N. C. W. C. News Service) NEW YORK—The assertion reite rated by Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes, that Fascism is a much more serious and imminent peril than Communism has drawn an other reply from the Rev. Dr. Joseph F. Thorning of Mount Saint Mary’s College, Emmitsburg, Md. Addressing an assembly of faculty members and students at the Manhat- tanville College of the Sacred Heart, Dr. Thorning said: “Although it is not my intention, after the fashion of the Hon. Harold Ickes, secretary of the interior, to attack either the motives or the intelligence of those who happen to differ with me, it is my right and duty to point out that the secretary, in his recent radio address, signally failed to cope with any of the five facts I adduced at a mass meeting in Washington, D. C., to contradict his view. Since my criticism on that oc casion was the only one to be car ried on the wires of the national and international news syndicates in protest against what seems to me to be a faulty perspective on these twin menaces to Christian society, 1 am obliged to suggest that communistic ‘totalitaranism’ is much more ‘insid iously boring from within the temple of our liberties’ than etiher the Ger man or Italian brand of monolithic State materialism. Another Robert . Abell, the priest, was the orator when the Cathedral of Bards, town was dedicated in 1819. Agajn, he was the orator when the golden jubilee of this proto-Cathedral was celebrated. Dr. Abell himself, an other scion of this distinguished Catholic family, was the speaker at the centennial celebration of the pro to-Cathedral of Bardstown in 1919, and now he brings further honor to Catholics in the state and nation. BY M. MASSIANI (Paris Correspondent, N. C. W. C. News Service) PARIS. —One learns from Moscow, via the Gournier Agency, that the Soviet Government has again inten sified its persecution of the Orthodox clergy. Recently two Metropolitans have been executed: Metropolitan Theophane and Metropolitan Plotini off, it is reported. They were accus ed of anti-Soviet activities. In one of the provinces of Northern Caucasus . the Metropolitan Tetetni- koff and about 100 priests have been arrested. There is no basis in fact for the re ports spread abroad some little while ago about many churches being open in Russia. Despite reports to the contrary, there is no verification of a Protest ant church in Russia that is being served by a minister, except per haps a “Reformed Lutheran” group which meets in Moscow, but in an ordinary building not a church. All the regular Lutheran pastors have been arrested. In Moscow a Luth eran church is still open, but it has not had a minister for 16 months. Periodically a minister goes from Leningrad for special occasions, but all these have been arrested. Bishop O’Hara Gives Retreat to Soldiers at Fort Benning ARCHBISHOP SCORES BABY BIRTH SERIES Unnecessary and Danger ous, Mgr. Rummel Asserts (By N. C. W. C. News Service) NEW ORLEANS. — Reproduction in the current issue of Life maga zine of a series of pictures from the film “Birth of a Baby” is declared to be “unnecessary and dangerous from a moral standpoint” in a statement issued by the Most Rev. Joseph F. Rummel, Archbishop of New Or leans. The sale of the magazine contain ing these pictures has been banned here by Mayor Robert S. Maestri, acting on the advice of District At torney Chcries A. Byrne. Dr. Frank E. Gomila, Commissioner of Safety, who said ‘ I am absolutely opposed to the showing of the pictures, both as official and as a doctor,” brought the matte * to the mayor’s attention. “In our age we have lost to our det riment those delicate and modest un derstandings of certain conditions of life which were characteristic of our best religious and moral traditions,” Archbishop Rummell said. “I am sure that much of the laixty that charac terizes our modern moral and social relationships is due to the fact that there has been entirely too much emphasis laid upon so-eaJled frank ness, which frequently has at its base a veiled desire to gratify sex instincts and possibly commercialize sex curiosity. I do not know what attitude the public authorities may take, but 1 certainly disapprove absolutely of tne circulation of this type of litera ture among the general public. The publishers and editors of Life should be strongly advised to exercise great er discretion in the selection of spe cial features that are bound to have a definite influence upon the minds and emotions of their readers.” NEW ORLEANS HOST TO CATHOLIC PRESS General Singleton, Com mandant, His Host, Says It Was “an Inspiration to the Entire Post” ' (By N. C. W. C. News Service) FORT BENNING. Ga.—The com manding officer of the celebrated infantry school, here, a non-Catholic, has expressed the warmest praise of a visit paid to this Army post by the Most Rev. Gerald P. O’Hara, D. D., Bishop of Savannah-Atlanta. The commanding officer, Brig. Gen. Asa Singleton, v.as host to Bishop O’Hara. General Singleton said of the Bishop’s visit that it was “an inspiration to the entire post.” He added that never has he seen anyone win the hearts of ;Army personnel— non-Catholics as well as Catholics— more completely, and that from the Ordinary of Sav, nnah-Atlanta the of ficers and-men of Fort Benning learn ed the meaning of the word “Bishop.” The simple fact is clear for all who wish to see; the broad Atlantic stretches between the United States and any Fascist nation, whereas the Red Fascists, emissaries of Moscow, boast of a 22,000 increase in member ship in the American ranks of the Third International within the past few years. Has Secretary Ickes any comparable figures to submit rela tive to the membership growth in any hypothetical branch of the Fascist international in the United States? If not, Mr. Ickes w uld do well to explain to us in what sense Com munism is a purely ‘imaginary’ threat.” THREE PROCLAIMED SAINTS ON EASTER Holy Father Presides at Ceremonies at St. Peter’s Annual Convention to Be Held There Mav 19 to 21 (By N. C. W. C. News Service) NEW ORLEANS.—Many social events appear on the program for the twenty-eighth annual convention of (he Catholic Press Association, to be held here May 19 to 21, the Rt- Rev. Msgr. Peter M. H. Wynhoven makes know . in a letter he has sent out. Monsignor Wynhoven is in charge of local arrangements for the conven tion, to which the Most Rev. Joseph F. Rummel, Archbishop of New Or leans, will be host. It has been ar ranged to open the convention with a Solemn Pontifical Mass. The Pontifical Mass, a get-together luncheon, a general meeting and the convention anquet have all been ar ranged for the first day of the con vention, to accommodate members of the Hierarchy, more of whom are coming to New Orleans than for any previous C. P. A. convention. The retreat was -a great success. The post chapel was crowded for every spiritual exercise, and the final morning every retreatant received Holy Communion. General and Mrs. Fmgleton attended the concluding service. Priests from Georgia and Alabama escorted into the chaoel was signalized by the singing of “Eece Grcerdsr." by the chapel choir direct ed by Cr-nt. John Casey, of Denver. Baptismal vows were renewed and the Holy Name pledged was recited with everyone holding a candle and (he lights of the chapel extinguished. Children of the post received First Hcly Communion at the Bishop’s Mass on Sunday morning. The Bishop confirmed a class of 36 in the course of the retreat. Twelve of these were adult converts. The Bishop received three adults into the Church on Saturday, and during the week of the retreat five converts were re ceived into the Church. Three per sons are under instructon as a re sult of the retreat. A number of fallen-away Catholics returned to the Sacraments, and many non-Catho'ics attended thu retreat. This is believed to be the first retreat ever given by a Bishop at a U. S. Army Post. Two of the childrc x to whom Bishop O Hara was to administer Con- tirmation were ill in bed. The Bishop, accompanied by Chaplain Joseph R Kbcb and the Kci . Xnomas O’Keeffe, M. S. SS. T„ went fo the homes of these children, vested and administ ered the Sacrament of Confirm 'ion in the sick 'rooms. One child was the daughter of an officer, the other was the daughter of an enlisted man. Saturday evening, five priests were busily engaged hearing confessions. Catholic Hour Radio Broadcasts in South The Catholic Hour over the Nation al Broadcasting System each Sunday even mg at six o'clock. Eastern Stan dard Time, is broadcast over the fol lowing stations in the South: WBRC Birmingham; WJAX, Jacksonville- WIOD, Miami; WFLA and WSUN’ Tampa; WSB, Atlanta; WAVE, Louis ville; WJDX. Jackson. Miss.; WWNC Asheville; WPTC, Raleigh; WSOC, Charleston; WIS, Columbia; WFBC, Greenville; WSM, Nashville; WBT, Charlotte. BY MSGR. ENRICO PUCCI (Vatican City Correspondent, N.C.W. C. News Service) VATICAN CITY. - For the second time His Holiness Pope Pius XI unit ed the solemnity of Easter Sunday to that of a Canonization. The first oc casion was in 1934 when Don Bosco, the Founder of the Salesians, was proclaimed Saint and it was the first time in history that this had ever happened on Easter Sunday. The Cardinals, Archbishops, Bish ops and other prelates participated in the procession. Also included were representatives of the diocesan and regular clergy. The mendicant Orders led. followed by the monastic Orders, then the Canons Regular and the rep resented, ves of the Roman clergy, namely the alumni of the Pontifical Roman Seminary, the parish priests cf the city and the Chapters of the Basilicas. The ranks of the clergy concluded with Archbishop Traglia, Vinceregent of Rome, surrounded by the officials of the Vicariate. The Papal Court, brilliant with the richness of the vestments and the splendor of the picturesque uniforms, was escorted by the Swiss Guard in armor with halbards. First in line c ame the Private Chamberlains in their costumes which preserve the splendor of the fifteenth century courts; then the ecclesiastical digni taries in red or violst soutanes and capes according to their rank. Among them were the Pope’s Chaplains, and the Consistorial Advocates, who wore the prelatic habit although they are all laymen. The choir of the Sistine Chapel singing “Ave Maris Stella,” was led by Monsignor Lorenzo Perosi. Then the representatives of the various pre latic colleges, the Auditors of the Tribunal of the Sacred Rota with the Maestro of the Sacred Apostolic Pal aces wearing the habit of the Domini- cian Order, and the Grand Master of Sacred Hospitality, Prince Ruspoli, and the Conventional Friars. After them came the ecclesiastical dignitaries: Abbots, Bishops. . bishops, Patriarchs, Cardinals one according to the order of his rank and wearing sacred vestments orna mented according to rank. At the end, raised high in the Ges- tatorial Chair, was Pope Pius XI in the full splendor of his majesty as Head of the Catholic Church. At the sides of the Gestatorial Chair two Monsignors carried the big ostrich fans and above the Pontiff eight pre lates supported the gigantic canopy of silver material embroidered in gold. Around the Gestatorial Chair march ed a picturesque group of Noble Guards in their splendid uniform with red coats, Swiss Guards carry? mg on their shoulders the historic medieval swords with crocked blades, and all the other high digi». taries attached to the person of thr Pope.