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Published by the Catholic Lay men’s Association of Georgia tun “To Bring About a Friendlier Feeling Among Neighbors Irre spective of Creed” VOL. XIX. No. 6. AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, JUNE 30, 1938 ISSUED MONTHLY— $2.00 A YEAR Bulletins BLOCKADE, a recently released film, has been protested by the na tional officers of the Knights of Co lumbus and other organizations as un varnished propaganda for the Leftists in Spain. CONGRESSMAN O’CONNELL of Montana, who has been associated with the propagandists for the Span ish Leftists, .made a torn- of Spain which was paid for by the Leftist government, Congressman Edward L. O’Neill of New Jersey stated in the House of Representatives. Congress man O’Neill quoted Congressman O’Connell to that effect. THE VATICAN states that it knows nothing of the reported annulment of the marriage of the Countess von Babenhausen, who was recently mar ried to Kurt Schuschnigg, former chancellor of Austria. It definitely states that no annulment was decreed there. MSGR. ANTONIUTTI, titular Arch bishop of Sinnada, recently Charge d'Affaires to the Nationalist Govern ment of Spain, has been named Apos tolic Delegate to Canada and New foundland, succeeding Archbishop Cassulo, now Apostolic Nuncio to Ru- THE N. C. W. C. Administrative Board, representing the Bishops of the National Catholic Welfare Con ference, has issued a statement urg ing Catholic youth not to participate in the “Second World Congress” at Vassar College on the ground that the first such Congress was irreligious in character and the second one promises to be no different. Communists are active in the movement. THE CHINESE CATHOLIC War Re lief organization, with headquarters at Hankow, has to date received §124,- 461.77, of which it has already distri buted §115,641.22 for relief work among the wounded and refugees. REV. JOSE CORONAS, S. J., famed throughout the world for his work in weather mapping in the Philippines, is dead in Manila at 67. Born in Spain, he made his studies there, at St. Louis University, at the weather bureau in Washington and elsewhere. Dr. JOHN G. BOWEN, for eight years secretary to the President of Georgetown University, has been named field secretary of the Nation al Council of Catholic Men, President Louis Kenedy announces. THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY at Fujen In China-refused to obey an or der from the invading Japanese that its students and faculty participate in a pro-Japanese demonstration. The University is sponsored by the Church in the United States. A NOTED DENTIST in Canada, Dr. William E. Cummer, for twenty-five years on the staff of the University of Toronto and the founder and first dean of the School of Dentistry at the University of Detroit, was recently or dained a priest of the Basilian Fathers In the Cathedral at Toronto. Dr. Cummer, who became a Catholic in 1917, resigned as dean at Detroit after the death of his wife in 1933, and start ed his studies for the priesthood. Deep Faith of Hungarians Described by U. S. Pilgrim Congress Speaker JOSEPH SCOTT, K. C. S. G. GERMANS FORBIDDEN TO GO TO BUDAPEST Nazi Secret Communication to Press Proves Ban (By N. C. W. C. News Service) That the Nazi government forbade the participation of German Catholics in the Thirty-fourth International Eu charistic Congress recently held at Budapest, and then strictly enjoined any mention of this great demonstra tion in the religious press of the Reich, is proved beyond any possibili ty of doubt by the official document involved, which has been made avail able to the N. C. W. C. News Service by European sources. This document is a "strictly confi dential” communication from the “Of fice of Propaganda of the Reich” to the press of Germany. After specifically- forbidding German participation, it then attempts an explanation which the event itself belied. The pretext set up by the Nazi gov ernment for officially keeping Ger man pilgrims away from the great re ligious exercise was that Catholics go ing to Budapest from the Reich might have experienced “a conflict of con science” involving their national and ecclesiastical duties. This would come about, it was explained, because it was anticipated that attacks would be made against Germany in the course of the Congress. No circumstance arose at the Con gress which might have given rise to this “conflict of conscience” for Ger man pilgrims. The discourse of His Eminence Eugenio Cardinal Pacelli, Papal Secretary of State and Legate of His Holiness Pope Pius XI to the Congress, made no mention of Ger many. Columbia Dean Sees Pope’s Leadership as World Need (By N. C. W. C. News Service) NOTRE DAME, Ind.—Catholics are among the priveleged people of the world to have His Holiness Pope Pius XI as their leader, because he per sonifies the world-wide need of peo ple “who are willing to devote their lives to defend and to extend the spiritual and the intellectual re sources of the world”. Graduates of St. Mary's College, here, heard Carl W. Ackerman, dean of the Graduate School of Journalism of Columbia University, make this statement in the commencement ad dress at exercises this week. Saying that “it requires more per sonal courage to live in active sup port of an ideal than it does to pro claim a willingness to give one’s life in defense of a cause,” Mr. Asker- man said that “in addition to his po sition as the ruler of the Catholic Church, Pope Pius XI is also a lead er of public opinion throughout the world”. “While other religious groups have their spiritual and intellectual leaders the Pope alone among them has a world audience,” he added. Continuing. Mr. Ackerman said that “we are becoming publicly aware of the -astounding fact that vcher the in- strumenatilities of communication are controlled by governments, the lines of supply and distribution to and from the spiritual and intellectual reservoirs of the world are blocked. Today many of the lines of communi cation to and from Vatican City, to and from the people of His Holiness, the Pope, are controlled or have been destroyed over vast and populous areas of the earth. Millions of peo ple are in danger of being isolated from his leadership”. Mr. Ackerman said that “the lead ership of the Pope is being endanger ed also by the spiritual exhaustion of peoples”, because, he added, “those who are seeking to destroy it or to restrict it are alert, active and ag gressive”. “To th epolitical leaders of totalitarian states,” he said, “the spiritual exhaustion of neighboring peoples is more welcome than poli tical or economic exhauston”. American citizens, he went on, have the duty of “remaining steadfast in the faith thtt spiritual seclurity is the only solid foundation for every other form of security”. “We can be of service,” he added, “because of our spiritual and our intellectual free dom”. Joseph Scott of California Speaker at' International Eucharistic Congress These impressions of the Thirty- fourth International Eucharistic Congress at Budapest have been written by Joseph Scott, K.C.S.G., of Los Angeles, noted Catholic layman. Mr. Scott spoke at the opening day ceremony, at the first American sectional meeting, and at the last General Assembly of the Congress. Visiting in Rome, enroute home, he addressed the students of both the North Amer ican and English colleges. By JOSEPH SCOTT (Written for N.C.W.C. News Service) It is difficult to epitomize the im pressions of this particular Eucharis tic Congress in Budapest. For those of us who were visitors for the first time to this outpost of primitive Christianity, we were struck by the simplicity and fervor of the faith of the Hungarian peasantry—the faith that the great scientist Pasteur prayed that he might have—the faith of a Breton peasant. It reached its summit on the night of the procession of illuminated boats up and down the Danube River, with the Papal Legate’s boat carrying the Blessed Sacrament exposed to .the veneration of the hundreds of thou sands lining both banks of the river. It was an unforgettable sight—and the climax of the evening came when at a given steam whistle signal from the Papal Legate’s boat, everybody knelt (Continued on Page 9) N. C. C. M. Official Dr. John G. Bowen, veteran work er of the Catholic Evidence Guild, and prominent Catholic lay leader, who has been appointed Field Secretary on the staff of the National Council of Catholic Men, in charge of organiza tion, youth and evidence work. Dr. Bowen has been secretary to the pres ident of Georgetown University for tlie past eight years. Bishop O’Hara Back Home From Eucharistic Congress (Special to The Bulletin) SAVANNAH, Ga. — The Most Rev. Gerald P. O'Hara, D. D_ Bishop of Savannah-Atlanta, arrived here Tues day, June 29, after attending the In ternational Eucharistic Congress at Budapest with His Eminence, Dennis Cardinal Dougherty, Archbishop of Philadelphia, whose Auxiliary Bishop he was before his appointment to Sa vannah. Bishop O’Hara sailed from New York with the Cardinal’s party May 14, arriving in Genoa a week later, going to Budapest via Milan and Ven ice; at Milan, Mass was said in the great Cathedral, which was the Holy Father’s Cathedral when he became Pope. After the impressive and inspiring ceremonies at Budapest, the party, which had made the Atlantic crossing on the Rex, made a Mediterranean cruise on the Vulcan ia, visiting Egypt, the Holy Land and Syria as well as Southern European territory. When the ship was approaching New York, a fog held it for 24 hours outside the Narrows, delaying the landing for that period. (Bishop O’Hara, whose articles on the International Eucharistic Congress at Manila constituted perhaps the most popular series The Bulletin has ever published, has acceeded to The Bulletin’s earnest plea for a series on the Budapest Congress, the first of which will appear in the next issue. —Ed Bulletin). BISHOP GUIZAN OF VERA GRUZ IS DEAD Athens Hospital to Open July 10—Church at Douglas July 17 Bishop O’Hara to Officiate at Dedication Ceremonies The Most Rev. Gerald P. O’Hara, D. D_, Bishop of Savannah-Atlanta, will offi ciate at the opening ceremo nies and preside at the open ing exercises of St. Mary’s Hospital at Athens, Ga., tlie Rev. Harold J. Barr, pastor, on Sunday, July 10. The cer emonies and exercises will be held in the afternoon. The following Sunday, July 17, His Excellency will offici ate at tlie dedication of the new St. Paul’s Church, Douglas, Ga., tlie Rev. John A. Mullins, pastor. Exiled Prelate Recently Re turned to His Native Mexico By CHARLES BETICO (Mexico City Correspondent, N. C. W. C. News Service) MEXICO CITY. — Tlie Most Rev. Rafael Guizar y Valencia, Bishop of Vera Cruz, and one of Mexico’s prom inent Catholic prelates, died here at the age of 60. The death of Bishop Guizar ends a notable ecclesiastical career, marked in its later years by the miseries and anxieties of religious persecution and by ecorts to restore a minimum of freedom to the harassed Church of Mexico. Last August, Bishop Guizar return ed to Jalapa, his See city and the Capital of Vera Cruz, after an absence of several years. His purpose was to seek official authorization to resume his ministry. While this authorization was never given, he went to Cordoba in December of last year and was al lowed to give a series of religious lec tures without interference, although he did not officiate as either priest or Bishop. BELIEVE BARCELONA BISHOP MURDERED Bishop of Teruel in Prison, Deprived of Right to Mass and Holy Communion (By N. C. W. C. News Service) WASHINGTON. — The virtual cer tainty that the Bishop of Barcelona met a martyr's death at the hands of assassins in Leftist Spain is contained in information received by the N. C. W. C. News Service from a European source of high reliability. The information states definitely .that the Bishop of Teruel is in prison and cannot celebrate Mass or receive Holy Communion. All search for the Bishop of Barce lona has been without avail, accord ing to this information, and it is al most certain he was slain, together with his major-domo, Don Marcos Goni, and two brothers named Tort, on the night of December 3-4, 1936. In Red Spain, it is stated, priests cannot wear their clerical attire nor appear as priests. They must have workers’ cards qualifying them as member of a syndicate. Following the murder of the Sale- sian, Don Julius Iunyer, Father Jo seph Masip and 16 lay persons were killed. Under political pretexts, it is stated the imprisonment of priests and faithful continues. The informa tion advises that it is dangerous to send money from outside the country to persons actually in Leftist Spain, as the recipients are accused of re ceiving ‘ White” support and are thrown into prison. GERTRUDE ATHERTON, noted au thor, attacked as taking sides with Franco in a pamphlet issued by the League of American Writers, writes to the Worid-Telegram that the League is a Leftist concern, and that she is proud to be counted as a Fran co supporter. DR FELIX SCHLAYER, Norweg ian Consul at Madrid, who has spent 40 years in Spain, in an address be fore the Spanish-American Institute in Berlin asserted that between 35,000 and 40,000 were killed in Madrid dur ing the first days of the war by the Leftists, and that the government was in large measure directly responsible for these crimes. COLLEGE LIFE in nationalist Spain is normal, Dr. A. G. Palencia, director of the Department of Literature at the University of Saragossa, asserted on his arrival last week from Spain at New York. There are fewer pupils, because of the number fighting with Franco’s army. The Univeristy of Madrid, with which he was formerly connected, is now a radical institu tion, he says. Dr. Palencia will give a lecture course this summer at Le- land Stanford Univeristy. JOSE SERT, decorator of the famed Sert Room in the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York, and painter of many of the murals at Rockefeller Center, asserts that every one of his paintings in the cathedrals and public buildings religious in tone have been destroyed by the Reds and he himself is marked for death by them. ..15,000 CHILDREN were exiled by the Reds from the Basque country and only 4,000 have been returned to their parents, the secretaries of the Nationalist Spain seeking to locate and return the children, states. WHEN THE COMMUNIST anthem was sung at a Madison Square Gar den, New York, meeting of the “North American Committee to Aid Spanish Democracy,” Bishop Francis J. Mc Connell, of the Methodist Episcopal Church, North, Dr. Walter D. Cannon, of the Harvard Medical School, Stan ley M. Isaacs, Borough President of Manhattan, and other leaders all stood. Dr. Cannon and Bishop Mc Connell were co-chairmen of the meeting. Msgr. Lavelle Scores Racial and Religious Persecution (By N. C. W. C. News Service) NEW YORK.—Declaring that the Christian’s battle of truth must not be waged with “the weapons of error” and that “faith must be propagated not by the sword but by the intellect,” the Rt. Rev. Michael J. Lavelle, rector of St. Patrick’s Cathedral, here, and Vicar General of the Archdiocese of New York, assailed the persecution of religious groups, in a sermon here. The sermon was preached in the Cathedral in the presence of His Emi nence Patrick Cardinal Hayes, Arch bishop of New York, and the Most Rev. Stephen J. Donahue, Auxiliary Eishop of New York. Monsignor La velle cited particularly lack of tol eration of the Jews, declaring that the expulsion of Jews from their na tive land is “un-Christian”. He add ed that the animating spirit of the Catholic Church imposes upon its members “total unwillingness to tol erate persecution anywhere forever”. “We Catholics were the first to es tablish that spirit in the United States,” he went on. “It is one of the fundamental principles of Ameri can rights—the freedom of con science. At present there is a great deal of persecution and intolerance throughout the world, persecution of religion in totalitarian states, in the Soviet, and of the Jews. “Persecution of the Jews, driving them out of their native lands, mak ing it impossible for them to stay in peace and comfort—that is totally against the spirit of Pentecost. May the spirit of love and of toleration prevail everywhere. The Holy Ghost came down in the form of tongues of flame to show that the faith must be propagated not by the sword but by the intellect”,
