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VOL. XIX. No. 5
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, MAY 28, 1938
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Bulletins
REV. FELIX KIRSCH, O. M. Cap.,
is the current Catholic Hour speaker
each Sunday evening over the Na
tional Broadcasting System under the
auspices of the National Council of
Catholic Men. The broadcasts are at
six o'clock, Eastern Daylight Saving
Time.
4,600 Register at Milwaukee
Conference of Social Action
C. P* A. President
Mendel Medalist
ANTON LANG, noted for his por-
rayal of Christus in the Oberammer-
gau Passion Play, in 1900, 1910 and
1922, is dead at the age of 63. Mr.
Lang came to the United States in
1923 for a Passion Play tour. His son,
Anton Lang, Jr., is professor of Ger
man and German Litreature at
Georgetown University.
NINE JESUITS, five priests and
four scholastics, will leave the Unit
ed States for the Philippine Missions
after a departure ceremony at the
Church of St. Ignatius Loyola, New
• York, Sunday. They are from the
New' York and New England Prov
inces
I
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THE HOLY FATHER has named
Archbishop Gaetano Cicognani, for
merly Papal Nuncio to Austria, Papal
Nuncio to the Spanish Nationalist
Government. He is a brother of the
Apostolic Delegate to the United
CARDINAL HAYES presided at
the exercises last week at which for
mer Goveronr Alfred E. Smith, John
S. Burke and John Thomas Smith re
ceived the Papal honor of Private
Chamberlains of the Cape and
Sword. (Word now comes of the death
* of Mr. John Thomas Smith within a
V week of his receiving the honor.)
MSGR. JOHN L. BELFORD of
Brooklyn, one of the most widely
known priests in the United States,
observed the golden jubilee of his or
dination last week.'The Holy Father
sent his “most cordial greetings and
congratulations” and the Apostolic
blessing. Bishop Malloy of Brooklyn
presided at the observance, and Aux
iliary Bishop Raymond A. Kearney
was also present.
DR. THOMAS PARRAN, Surgeon-
General of the United States, Public
Health Service, has been awarded the
Mendel Medal by Villanova College
in recognition of his achievements in
the field of medical science. He was
formerly head of the department of
health of the State of New York.
(By N. C- W. C. News Service)
MILWAUKEE — Bringing together
enormous throngs in truly American
and truly Catholic assemblies, chal
lenging the imagination with color,
mingling rich and poor, employer
and employe, in earnest study, earn
ing the highest acclaim for its forth
right and diligent pursuit of true prin
ciples, the first National Catholic So
cial Action Conference, held here,
gave a complete and conclusive an
swer to the advocates of irreligion and
atheism—to those who assert that re
ligion is outmoded and antiquated.
The Conference, hailed as the great
est meeting of its kind conducted by
any religious group in the history of
the United States, was held under the
patronage of the Most Rev. Samuel^
A. Stritch, Archbishop of Milwaukee.'
The program was under the direction
of the Department of Social Action
of the National Catholic Welfare Con
ference.
THE CHURCHMAN, non-Catholic
religious journal, in an article signed
by the editor and circulated among
members of Congress, urges the
abandonment of the United States of
neutrality in the Spanish struggle by
the lifting of the arms embargo. The
article attacks the Spanish hierarchy
and is critical also of the Catholic
Church in the United States.
VV. CAMERON FORBES, formerly
U. S. Ambassador to Japan and for
mer Governor-General of the Philip
pines in a letter which Senator Da
vid I. Walsh read into the Congres
sional Record, opposes the lifting of
the arms embargo. The United States
must live as a fellow-member in the
Commonwealth of Nations with the
new Spanish Republic, Mr. Forbes
says, and the lifting of the arms em
bargo will not be conducive to
friendship between tl»e nations.
THE HOLY FATHER has gone from
the Vatican to the Papal summer
home at Castelgondolfo, he and his
entourage going in four automobiles,
thijee of them of American make. The
trip was made in a little more than
3 half-hour.
MSGR. MURPHY NOW
RISHOP OF SAGINAW
Detroit Pastor First Ordin
ary of New Michigan
Diocese
Members of the Hierarchy, priests,
Brothers, Sisters and a huge outpour
ing of the laity took part in the Con
ference. More than 4,600 delegates had
registered the first day. Throngs by
thousands packed the Milwaukee
Auditorium for the Solemn Pontifi
cal Mass with which the Conference
was opened, and for the mass meet
ings. Two general conferences drew
thousands of persons, and numerous
sectional meetings treating of a wide
variety of social problems were all
well attended.
While the Most Rev. Edward Moon
ey, Archbishop of Detroit and
Chairman of the Administrative Board
of the N. C. W. C„ told the closing
meeting that the cry of government
absolutism raised by “intellectually
bankrupt” individualism is valid
against a Christian social order, Arch
bishop Stritch exhorted the '.elegates
to carry back to their communities,
and to give application to, the princi
ples they had learned at the Confer-
CHARLES H. RIDDER
IS NEW G. P. A. HEAD
New York Publisher Honor
ed by Editors at Annual
Convention in New Orleans
CARDINAL PAGELLI
PAPAL LEGATE-15
CARDINALS ATTEND
Hungarian Capital Presents
Picture of Deep Faith as
Congress Opens
(Special Correspondent, N. C. W. C.
News .Service)
BUDAPEST—In settings of breath
taking magnificance, hundreds of
thousands of pilgrims speaking the
languages of more than 40 countries
are united here in paying devout and
edifying homage to our Divine Savi
our in the Blessed Sacrament.
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
DETROIT.—At impressive ceremo
nies attended by two Archbishops, a
score of Bishops and 700 priests, the
Most Rev. Wililam F. Murphy, found
er and pastor of St. David’s Church,
was consecrated first Bishop of the
newly-erected Diocese of Saginaw in
the Cathedral of the Blessed Sacra
ment, here.
The Most Rev. Edward Mooney,
Archbishop of Detroit, was the con-
secrator and he was assisted by the
Most Rev. Joseph C. Plagens, Bishop
of Marquette, and the Most Rev. John
A. Duffy, Bishop of Buffalo, as co-
consecrators. The sermon was preach
ed by the Most Rev. Samuel A.
Stritch, Archbishop of Milwaukee.
Included among those present were
clasmates of Bishop Murphy at the
North American College in Rome,
and friends and relatives, among
whom were three sisters who are
nuns.
Papal Delegate Commends
Catholic Press’s Position
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
NEW ORLEANS.- Tire Catholic
Press, under the guidance of the
hierachy, is serving as a powerful
means of disseminating Christian doc
trine and combating “error and in
decency in every form,” His Excell
ency the Most Rev. Amleto Giovanni
Cicognani, Apostolic Delegate to the
United States, declared in a message
sent to the 28th annual meeting of the
Catholic Press Association of the
United States in session here.
The message of the Apostolic Dele
gate, sent to Vincent de Paul Fitz
patrick, Managing Editor of The
Catholic Review Baltimore and
President of the Association reads as
foUows:
“Dear Mr. Fitzpartick:
“I have learned with great pleasure
mat the annual convention of the
Catholic Press Association of the
United States will be held in New
Orleans from May 19 to May 21 and
I desire to express herewith my good
wishes for the success of its sessions.
To those who are dedicated to this
special a postulate I need not stress
the importance of the Catholic Press;
but I shall be pleased if the present
convention inspires the members of
your association with new courage in
carrying on their work. In these
days, when so many agencies are at
tempting to undermine the faith with
thier perverted philosophies, and
when a veritable deulge of evil liter
ature is flooding the nation to the
great detriment of morals, there is
greater need than ever that
the teachings of the Divine Master
should be made known. Under the
guidance of the Hierachcy our Cath
olic papers are a powerful means of
disseminating the doctrines of Christ
and of combating error and indecency
in every form. That the Cath
olic Press may become ever a
more potent instrument for good in
the hands of those commissioned by
God to teach and sanctify and rule
the Church is the special prayer
with which I ask God to bless the
work of your convention.
“With sentiments of esteem, and
with all good wishes, I remain,
“Sincerely yours in Christ,
(Signed) “A. G. CICOGNANI,
‘Archbishop of Laodicea,
Apostolic Delegate”.
The Most Rev. Edwin V. O’Hara,
Bishop of Great Falls, Mont., and
Episcopal Chairman of the N. C. W.
C. Department of Social Action,
brought this particular general con
ference to a close by giving, in a
series of short statements, a resume
‘of the principles which may be
regarded as basic to the develop
ment of a Christian social order in
a democratic society.”
(Among leaders present at the
Congress were the Rt. Rev. Msgr. Jos.
F. Croke, Chancellor of the Diocese
of Savannah-Atlania and the Rev.
Joseph G. Cassidy, Savannah—Ed.
The Bulletin.)
ARCHBISHOP WALSH
REGEIVES PALLIUM
New Metropolitan on
lowing Day Installs
Bishop of Paterson
Fol-
First
NEWARK.—A brilliant outpouring
of prelates," priests and laity wit
nessed the solemn conferring of the
Pallium upon the Most Rev.'Thomas
J. Walsh, first Archbishop of Newark,
in the new Sacred Heart Cathedral
here April 27. Thirty-eight members
of the Hierarchy, four Abbots, a hun
dred Monsignori and some 900 priests
were among the 5,000 persons gath
ered within the Cathedral for the
ceremonies. Bishop Gerald P. O’Hara
of Savannah-Atlanta was among the
ordinaries present.
His Excellency the Most Aev.
Amleto Giovanni Cicognani. Aposto
lic Delegate to the United States, of
ficiated at the bestowal of the Pall
ium and preached the sermon. His
Excellency called the marvelous
growth of Catholicism in New Jer
sey “a moral miracle,” and lauded
the zeal and sacrifices of Bishops,
priests and laity in contributing to
this development. A group of Papal
Knights headed by Alfred E. Smith
assisted at the ceremony.
On the following day Archbishop
Walsh officiated at the solemn in
stallation of the Most Rev. Thomas
H. McLaughlin as the first Bishop of
Paterson. Bishop McLaughlin was
formerly Auxiliary to Archbishop
Walsh in Newark. The erection of
the new Diocese of Paterson and the
new Diocese of Camden are part of
the ecclesiastical changes which have
established the State of New Jersey
as a new Ecclesiastical Province—the
nineteenth in the United States. The
State of New Jersey was formerly
embraced by the Ecclesiastical Pro
vince of New York.
BY BURKE WALSH,
(Staff Correspondent, N.C.W.C. News
Service)
NEW ORLEANS.—Charles H Rid-
der, publisher of “The Catholic News,”
New York, was elected president of
the Catholic Press Association of the
United States at the closing session
of its twenty-eighth meeting here. The
Rt. Rev. Msgr. Feter M. H. Wynhoven,
editor of “Catholic Action of the
South,” New Orleans, was chosen vice
president.
Other officers elected were: Joseph
H. Meier, of Chicago, secretary; the
Rev. Charles J. Mullaly, S. J„ editor
of “The Messenger of the Sacred
Heart” New York treasurer and Vin
cent de Paul Fitzpatrick, managing
editor of ‘The Catholic Review," Balti
more; the Rev. Dr. Edward Lodge Cur
ran, editor of "Light," Brooklyn, and
Simon a Baldus, managing editor of
“Extension Magazine,” Chicago, mem
bers of the executive board.
The Rev. Patrick J. Carroll, C. S. C..
editor of “The Aye Maria,” Notre
Dame, Ind.; the Rev. Theophane Ma
guire, C. P. editor of "The Sign.”
Union City, N. J.. and Richard Reid,
editor of “The Bulletin,” Augusta,Ga.,
were elected on constitute the Literary
Bureau for the coming year.
Tile Rev. J. Fred Kriebs, of The
Witness,” Dubuque; Humphrey Des
mond, general manager of “The Catho
lic Herald-Citizen," Milwaukee, and
the Rev. John J. A. O'Connor, editor
of “The Evangelist,” Albany, were
named to the Advertising Bureau.
Reporting for the retiring Literary
Bureau, Mr. Reid announced that five
prizes totaling $1,000 will be awarded
by the C. P. A. Literary Aw'ards
Foundation for the best theses submit
ted in graduate schools of "American
colleges on subjects dealing with the
Catholic Press. All theses entered in
the contest must be submitted by
March 1 next and must De prepared
in partial fulfillment of the require
ments for a graduate degree. They
must be accepted by the universities
(Continued on Page Three)
It is the Thirty-fourth International
Eucharistic Congres’s, over which His
Eminence Eugenio Cardinal Pacelli,
Papal Secretary of State, presides as
the Legate of His Holiness Pope Pius
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Hungary is the host, and the Gov
ernment is cooperating whole-heart
edly in making this tremendous dem
onstration of faith a supreme success.
Nicholas de Horthy, Regent of Hun
gary, and his wife have the Papal
Legate as their personal guest during
his stay here They are participating
actively in various Congress functions,
despite the fact that both are non-
Catholics, and Madame Horthy is pat
roness of the Congress. Other Govern
mental officials' are participating in
the Congress, five of them being
scheduled speakers- Non-Catholic
citizens are joining their fellow Hun
garians in reverent scenes that dim
observers’ eyes with tears.
The already impressive beauty of
the settings, heightened by the robes
of the many ecclesiastical dignitaries,
is still further accentuated by the fact
that groups in native costume invar
iably head the national units. Add
to this the garbs of various religious
Orders, the resplendent uniforms of
military detachments and municipal
policemen, the flags, the festooned
buildings, the blossoming flowers, the
music of great massed choruses, and a
hundred other details, and one begins
to get a picture of the grandeur that
surrounds the events of the Congress.
In addition to His Eminence Justin
Cardinal Seredi, Archbishop of Strig-
onia. Prince Primate of Hungary and
host to the Eucharistic Congress, there
are in attendance 15 other members
of the Sacred College of Cardinals
from eleven foreign countries. There
are also present 70 Archbishops from
26 countries, and 223 Bishops from 40
countries.
The countries represented include
Vatican City, Italy, the United States,
England, Ireland, Belgium, Fiance,
Germany, Poland, Switzerland, Czech
oslovakia, Jugoslavia. Denmark, Rou-
mania, Albania, Holland. Bulgaria,
Sweden, Monaco, Spain, Malta, Tur
key, Cyprus, Egypt, Lebanon, Sicily,
Lithuania, South Africa, West Africa,
Canada, Mexico, Argentina, Brazil,
San Salvador, Bolivia. Peru. China,
Korea, Syria, the PhillipineS, Panama
arid Finland.
The members of the Sacred College
of Cardinals present include: Their
Eminences Alessio Cardinal Ascalesi,
Archbishop of Naples; Alexander
Cardinal Kakowski, Archbishop of
Warsaw; Dennis Cardinal Dougherty,
Archbishop of Philadelphia, who was
Papal Legate to the Thirty-third In
ternational Eucharist Congress, held
at Manila; Joseph El-neat Cardinal
Van Roey, Archbishop of Malines;
(Continued on Page Seventeen)
Jesuits Returned to Spain
by Decree of Nationalists
BY REV. MANUEL GRANA,
(Spanish Correspondent. N. C. W. C.
News Service)
BILBAO.—By decree of the Franco
Government, the Society of Jesus is
to be restored to Spain and all its
property, confiscated by the Republic
in 1932, is to be returned. Dissolved
by the decree of the Republic, the
Jesuits were not allowed to teach or
to exercise their ministry in their
churches. Their novitiates and
schools were confiscated. Some of
their teaching centers were transfer
red abroad, the faculty being follow
ed by the student body. The notable
example of this was the Catholic In
stitute of Arts and Industries.
While Nationalist Spain opens its
arms anew to its illustrious sons, the
members of the Society founded by
St. Ignatius of Loy-ola. the Reds have
but recently destroyed the famous
observatory of the Ebro, founded and
directed by eminent Jesuits, and
forcibly removed Fa the- Rodes and
his assistants to Barcelona.
The Reds knew the standing of the
Jesuit Observatory in the scientific
world and its relations with similar
statiohs and observatories abroad.
They exploited its universal renown
by allowing Father Rodes to go
abroad to purchase scientific mate
rial. His friends and superiors coun
seled him not to return to Red Span
where he had narrowly escaped exe
cution early in the war. But they did
not know, as did Father Rodes, that
his three associates were held as hos
tages; that their safety depended up
on his silence abroad and upon hia
voluntary return to the Observatory.