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VOL. XIX. No. 6.
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, JUNE 30, 1938
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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
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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”,