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VOL. XIX No. 7.
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, JULY 30, 1938
ISSUED MONTHLY—$2.00 A YEAR
Exaggerated Nationalism Condemned by Pope
Bulletins
REV. E. V. STANFORD, O. S. A.,
president of Villanova College, will
deliver the Catholic Hour address
each Sunday evening at five o’clock,
Eastern Standard Time, over the Na
tional Broadcasting Company net
work, succeeding Bishop Duane Hunt
of Salt Lake City, the current speak
er. The addresses are sponsored by
the National Council of Catholic Men.
REV. WILLIAM FLETCHER, a na
tive of Fall River, Mass., and for the
past fifteen years in the mission fields
of the Orient as a Maryknoll Father,
has been appointed personal secretary
to His Eminence Cardinal Pietro
Fumasoni-Biondi, perfect of the Sac
red Congregation for the Propagation
of the Faith.
HON. J. P. KENNEDY, United
States Ambassador to Great Britain,
was awarded an honorary degree by
the National University of Ireland,
flying from London through the rain
to receive it from the hands of Mr.
De Valera, ex officio chancellor of the
University. Honored with Mr. Ken
nedy was Sir Martin Melvin, govern
ing director of the Universe, London
Catholic Weekly.
BISHOP FRANCIS J. TIEF of Con
cordia, Kansas, has resigned his See
because of ill health. Born in East
Port Chester, Conn., March 7, 1881,
he was educated at St. Bonaventure's
in New York, labored in New York
and Kansas and served as vicar-gen
eral of the Diocese of Kansas; he was
consecrated Bishop of Concordia
March 30, 1921.
GEORGE J. GILLESPIE, one of the
leading laymen of the Archdiocese of
New York, was presented the Catho
lic Action Medal for 1938 by St. Bona-
venture College, His Eminence, Car
dinal Hayes, conferring the medal in
the name of the college at a ceremony
in New York.
POPE PIUS XI is one of the old
est members of the Third Order of
St. Francis, having been a Tertiary
62 years, His Holiness told Father
Maximus Poppy, O. F. M., national
secretary of the Third Order in this
country, during a recent audience
granted Father Popy.
ARTHUR F. MULLEN, prominent
Nebraska attorney, floor leader for
Franklin D. Roosevelt at the 1932
Democratic convention, and former
ly vice chairman of the Democratic
National Committee, died in his home
in Omaha at 65. Mr. Mullen, a lend
ing Catholic layman, was chief coun
sel in the Nebraska foreign language
case, which established a precedent
followed in the Oregon case. Mr.
Mullen was offered a Federal judge-
ship by President Roosevelt but de
clined.
FATHER O'FLANAGAN, touring
the United States in the interests of
the Spanish Leftists in an attempt to
indicate Catholic sympathy for the
Leftist Government of Spain, is a sus
pended priest, having ben suspended
by the Bishop of Elphin in Ireland
thirteen years ago.
THE HOLY FATHER has expressed
his personal appreciation to the offi
cials of the National Broadcasting
Company for their “invaluable coop
eration” in relaying the message of
His Holiness on the occasion of the
Canadian National Eucharistic Con
gress; he has also sent them a special
benediction.
CATHOLICS SEEK AID
FOR NAZI VICTIMS
Fund to Finance Those
Driven From Germany
Sought by Conference
(Radio, N. C. W. C. News Service)
EVIAN-LES-BAINS, France—Any
thing that can be done to induce the
Nazi Government v> refrain from
provoEIhg the exodus of refguees
who are being driven from Germany
by religious and racial persecution
is of the utmost importance, the Inter
national Conference on Refugees was
advised here.
This was stated in a memorandum
presented to the secretary of the con
ference. It was signed by the Rt. Rev.
Msgr. Michael J. Ready, general sec
retary of the National Catholic Wel
fare Conference, for the United States
Catholic Committee for German Refu
gees, of which the Most Rev. Joseph F.
Rummel, Archbishop of New Orleans,
is chairman; by John Eppstein for the
English Catholic Committee for Refu
gees, and by Father Odo, who was
authorized to represent Catholic com
mittees of France, Holland and
Switzerland.
The memorandum also suggested
that other governments, with Ger
man co-operation, establish a fund
from which refugees could obtain
loans to finance their travel and set
tlement. Denial of the fundamental
rights of human beings to “live their
own lives, to worship God and to
educate their children according to
their convictions”, the memorandum
said, has created the tragic problem
of refugees.
Reds Financed Them, Assert
U. S. Fighters for the Leftists
Honored by Pope
THE NAZI GOVERNMENT has
revolutionized the marriage laws of
Austria, sweeping away the legal
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Joseph A. Breen, of Los Angeles,
an official of the Motion Picture
Producers and Distributors of
America, who has been named a
Knight Commander of the Order
of St. Gregory the Great “cum
placca,” by His Holiness Pope
Pius XI,
N. E. A. Resolutions Ignore
Anti-Parish School Forces
U. S. ENVOY SECURES
RELEASE OF 28 NUNS
HELD RY LEFTISTS
Educators Resist Efforts to
Have Association Denounce
Federal Aid for Them
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
LONDON. — Their rescue effected
through the personal intervention of
Joseph P. Kennedy, United States
Ambassador to Great Britain, 28 Span
ish nuns who had been held in Barce
lona by the Leftist Government of
Spain arrived here July 22.
They are Sisters of the Sacred Heart
and its members of their community
who conduct Sacred Heart Convent at
Roehampton, which three of Mr. Ken
nedy’s daughters attend. The nuns at
Roehampton enlisted Mr. Kennedy’s
services in the rescue of the 28.
Originally there were 34 Sacred
Heart Sisters assigned to Barcelona.
Six of them were killed in an air raid.
Mr. Kennedy worked unremittingly
with the British Foreign Office to
bring about the release of the nuns.
They will be accommodated at vari
ous houses and institutions of their
community in this country.
Osservatore Romano Scores
Anti-Semitic Propaganda
(Cable. N. C. W. C. News Service)
VATICAN CITY.—An article in
“Der Stuermer”, German anti-Catho-
lic newspaper, asserting that Christ
could not have been a Jew, because
His doctrine has been followed for
two thousand years by all German
people, who, according to the law of
race, could not have accepted it if
it hadn’t originally been German,
has drawn an answer from Osserva
tore Romano.
Osservatore recalls the gigantic fig
ures belonging to the Jewish race,
such as Moses, David and the Pro
phets.
With regard to “Der Stuermer’s”
reference to Christ, Osserrvatore rid
icules the German paper’s statments,
adding that the sole explantion is
that Christ is not only man, but also
God.
Osservatore also said that anti-Jew-
ish pfapaganda has produced results
“unworthy of twenty centuries of
Christian civilization. Asserting that
some of the attitudes assumed toward
Jews have been ‘not only extremely
anti-Christian and anti-civil, but in
human,” the paper says it is inevit
able that when the life of the Gospels
is abandoned human lives perish.
At the same time, Osservatore criti
cizes a booklet, “Nomentanus”, writ
ten by anoymous authors and dealing
with the relations between the Cath
olic Church and Jews. After men
tioning that the famous Protocols of
the Elders of Sion are false, Osserva
tore says the book “Nomentaus” is
written with excellent intentions, but
has not sufficient information and has
many inaccuracies. Osservatore con
cludes by inviting another, or per
haps the same, author to deal with
this topic again with greater ac
curacy and more solid erudition.
(By N.C.W.C. News Service)
NEW YORK. — Despite that its Ed
ucational Policies Commission bluntly
opposed the use of any money raised
by taxation to aid pnivate or paro
chial schools, the National Education
Association completely ignored this
phase of the Commission’s report in
resolutions adopted at its seventy-sixth
annual convention here.
The N. E. A. resolutions state simply
that the organization is in favor of
Federal aid for schools provideu the
control of education remains in the
several states.
The Rev. Dr. William R. Kelly, su
perintendent of schools of the Arch
diocese of New York, delivered the
invocation at the opening of the con
vention’s first business session Tues
day morning, at the Hippodrome. The
Rev. Lawrence A. Walsh, S. J., Dean
of the Graduate School of Fordham
University, delivered the invocation at
the second business session, also at
the Hippodrome, Wednesday morning.
Some 1,200 delegates to the conven
tion attended the Solemn Pontifical
Mass in St. Patrick’s Cathedral, when
the Rt. Rev. Msgr. Fulton J. Sheen of
the Catholic University of America, in
his sermon, urged a return of educa
tion to religious influence. The Rev.
Dr. Edmund A. Walsh. S.J., vice-presi
dent of Georgetown University, Wash
ington, D. C., told the Department of
Secondary Education that Catholic
schools fill a civic obligation which
soon may prove a bulwark in the de
fense of civic and religious liberties
in the United States.
Through a special arrangement, Dan
iel Doherty, national commander of the
American Legion, addressed the final
business session of the N. E. A. to re
ply to the charge in a Teachers College
monograph that the Legion is "Fascist
and unpatriotic”.
In introducing the Legion comman
der, Willard E. Givens, executive sec
retary of the N. E. A. deplored the pub
licity given the monograph a report
by Prof. William Gellermann, inti
mating it has been deliberately timed
to steal the limelight from the N. E. A.
meeting.
as
New York Times Corres
pondent Quotes Them
Saying Communists Paid
Their Expenses to Spain
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
NEW YORK—Estimating that be
tween 4,000 and 4,500 Americans cross
ed the Atlantic to fight for the Left
ists in Spain, William P. Carney de
clares in the New York Times for
July 11 that “it is quite possible that
at least $800,000 was provided by
some agency, or agencies for traveling
expenses, for not more than 200 or
300 are likely to have paid or worked
their own way.”
Mr. Carney, a New York Times cor
respondent, makes this statement in a
story retailing his experiences in in
terviewing some 80 Americans cap
tured while fighting for the Left
ists and now interned by the Right
ists in a camp at San Pedro de Car-
dena.
“The prisoners,” says Mr. Carney,
“were hesitant about answering a
question as to just who had supplied
the funds for them to come to Spain.
They explained that they understood
that the responsible persons in the
United States might be liable to
prosecution and that they had all
sworn never to give this informa
tion.”
When told that there could be no
prosecution unless the contract exe
cuted between them and the agency
which recruited them could be pro
duced in court, the prisoners answer
ed the question, Mr. Carney states.
“They declared,” he says, “that
with the exception of the five who
had paid or worked their way over,
all had been sent by the Communist
Party in the United States, or ‘one
of the organizations working with the
party such as the North American
Committee to Aid Spanish Democracy
or the Friends of the Abraham Lin
coln Brigade.’
“They said the organization known
as the American Friends of Spanish
Democracy was simply ‘a propaganda
outfit’ connected somehow with the
United States Communists, because
party members were on its office
staff, but that it never did any ac
tual recruiting. Some had been re
cruited by answering advertisements
in Communist publications in New
York.
MOVEMENT HOSTILE
TO THE LAW OF GOO,
HOLY FATHER SAYS
Overemphasis of Race Im
pedes Salvation of Souls
and Sets Up Barriers, His
Holiness Asserts
BY MRS. ENRICO PUCCI
(Cable, N. C. W. C. News Service)
VATICAN CITY. — Speaking wtih
great vigor, His Holiness Pope Pius
XI condemned exaggerated nation
alism in addressing a group of Mis
sionary Sisters of the Cenacle to
whom he had accorded an audience at
Castelgandolfo.
There might be some spiritual ad
vantage for everybody concerned,
the Holy Father told the Nuns if con
sideration were given to the great
question now agitating the world un
der the name of nationalism, “a na
tionalism in many ways exaggerated,
an ill-conceived nationalism,” which
he already had had occasion to de
nounce as “erroneous and danger
ous.” Some years ago, His Holiness
said, he convoked the Procurators
General of Missionary Orders resid
ing in Rome to examine that male
diction, namely exaggerated nation
alism, which was producing apostolic
sterility.
“If they were not already members
of the Communist Party, they said,
they had to be vouched for by party
members when they sought enlist
ment at the offices of a well-known
committee aiding the Republicans.
There, they said, ‘to keep within the
law we were told to pretend that in
stead of fighting we were going to
drive ambulances or do some kind of
work in Spain’.”
BISHOP EPISCOPALIANS have
turned over to Cardinal O'Connell the
social center known as Emmanuel
House, which they have conducted
since 1905, the arrangement being that
the work conducted by the Episcopal
ian authorities be continued under
Catholic auspices.
(There has appeared in the Italian
press in recent days an Italian racial
credo prepared by a group of uni
versity professors under government
auspices. The proclamations of this
credo include: That great races and
small races exist; that the concept of
race is a purely biological one; that
the majority of the Italian popula
tion are of “Aryan” origin; that
movements of races in history are
purely legendary; that a pure Italian
race now exists; that it is time that
Italians proclaimed themselves rac
ists; that it is necessary to make a
definite distinction between Euro
pean Mediterraneans (Occidentals)
and Orientals and Africans; that Jews
do not belong to the Italian race; that
the purely physical and psychologi
cal European qualities of Italians
must not be altered in any way).
Exaggerated nationalist, His Holi
ness said, impedes the salvation of
souls and raises barriers between
peoples, which is contrary not only
to the law of God and the faith, but
also to the Credo itself, that same
Credo which is sung in all the cath
edrals of the world and which was
sung so enthusiastically by the great
throngs at the International Euchar
istic Congress at Budapest.
The words of the Credo, the Holy
Father continued, are the first words
that issued from the Apostolic Col
lege. the first formula of evangelic
teaching promulgated by Christ. And,
in the words of the Credo, “I believe
in the Holy Catholic Church,” the
word Catholic means universal and
it is impossible to translate—it other
wise in any language, His Holiness
said.
“Now the contrast between exag
gerated nationalism and Catholic doc
trine is evident.” Pope Pius continu-
ued. “The Catholic Credo means the
redemption and sactification of the
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Retreating Reds Dynamite
Churches, Cities in Spain
BY REV. MANUEL GHANA
(Spanish Correspondent, N. C. W. C.
News Service)
BILBOA. — In Nules and Burriana,
recently liberated by Nationalist
troops on the march toward Valen
cia. the Reds blew up the churches
with dynamite before retreating. At
Villarreal the finest church was
burned and with it the body of St.
Pascual Bailon, declared by Pope
Leo XIII the Patron of Eucharistic
workers and associations. An order
to “blow up everything” was found.
To save the lives of civilians and
to avoid destruction of property, the
Galacia battalions made an easy ap-
approach to Nules. Not a bomb was
dropped, nor was there an artillery
barrage. The city was taken easily.
But these humanitarian precautions
were useless. Only in certain cities
of Asturias had there been such sys
tematic destruction. The destruction
of Nules cannot be laid at the door,
of Franco’s armies. The city was de
stroyed by order of the Red military
command and there is proof of this.
As the soldiers of Galacia approached
the city and their entrance was in
evitable, whether the city was de
fended or abandoned, the dynamiters
within the city began their work.
The principal church was a muni
tions depot. The foundations and the
high tower were undermined. It
made a great explosion. The Nation
alists witnessed it from afar. This
explosion was followed by others as
one after another the principal edi
fices of Nules were dynamited. Only
a small church, which had been used
as a food commissary, remained, but
its towers were cracked by the ex
plosions. The mansions of the weal
thy, the modest homes of the poor,
public buildings, all were leveled to
the ground. The streets were mounds
of debris, and the troops had to move
cautiously when they entered because
of the menace of tottering walls.