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Published by the Catholic Lay men’s Association of Georgia “To Bring About a Friendlier Feeling Among Neighbors Irre spective of Creed" 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 (Continued on Page Ten) 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 (Continued on Page Twelve) 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.