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JULY 30, 1938 THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA FIVE News Review of the Catholic World CANADIAN CONGRESS HEARS HOLY FATHER His Holiness Broadcasts Sermon to Final Eucharis tic Ceremonies at Quebec THE HOLY FATHER addressed the closing ceremony of the National Eucharistic Congress of Canada in Quebec, the address being broadcast by a world-wide network. Cardinal Viileneuve was Papal Legate to the Congress. MSGR. MICHAEL READY, general secretary of the National Catholic Welfare Conference* read the English translation of the Holy Father's ad dress to the Canadian Eucharistic Congress, it, like the Holy Father's addess, being broadcast over a world wide network. BROOKLYN has an interparochial Eucharistic Congress late in June, the Italian parishes of the Diocese hold ing daily ceremonies at the same hour and joining in a closing procession and Benediction after a Field Mass, Bihop Molloy and Auxiliary Bishop Kearney participating. There were 10,000 in the procession. MSGR. FRANCIS GONNE, rector of St. Bede's College, Manchester, England, was drowned while bathing in the sea near Blackpool, Eng.; it is thought that he suffered a heart at tack and was carried out to sea. He became president of SL- Bede's in 1916. REV. WM. A. MERCHANT, O. P„ one of the most widely known Dominicans in the United States, was killed when he fell from the fifth floor of the Hotel Commodore, where he and several other Dominican Fathers were staying. It is believed that he lost his balance while stand ing by the window; he clutched the curtain as he fell. A former pastor at Memphis and in New York City, he was prior to the Dominican com munity in the Holy Land from 1934 to last December. A JAPANESE CONVERT, Miss Lil lian Jung, and a young woman from San Francisco’s Chinatown were among the 9 nuns received and pro fessed at the Maryknoll Sisters' Motherhouse at Maryknoll, N. Y., late in June. TWIN FRANCISCANS, Father Gerald McCormick and Father Ever- ard McCormick, of Springfield, 111., ordained by Bishop James A. Griffin, of Springfield, sang their first Sol emn High Masses the last Sunday of June at Holy Trinity Church, Stoning- ton, III. PARLIAMENT in England has be- before it a bill which would pre vent the proposed London Congress of the Godless by the enforcement of a bill to bar from the country the partici pation of aliens in assemblies for the purpose of propagating blasphemies or atheistic conferences. The bill has been introduced by CapL A. H. M. Ramsay. MSGR. JOS. M. CORRIGAN, rector of the Capitol University of America, has been named honorary president of the International Federation of Ca tholic Alumnae by a vote of the executive board, meeting in Pitts burgh. Msgr. Patrick J. McCormick, vice-rector of the University, was chosen director. REV. EDW. S. POUTHIER, S. J., of Fordham University, crawled through a smoke-filled car on the way to the National Conference on Social Work in Seattle and released a vestibule door, enabling passengers to hasten to safety from a fire on the train, the passengers reported to newspapers when the train reached Seattle. KT. REV. HENRIK IRGENS, vicar of the Vicariate of Oslo, is in Norway at 49. Monsignor Irgens, a convert, v/as the son of the Nor wegian Minister Plenipotentiary in London and Rome; he was received into the Church in 1928 and ordained in 1926, after studies at Paris. R„V. JAMES H. O’NEILL, captain in the chaplain corps of the United States Army, has been promoted to the rank of major. Father O'Neill, a priest of the Diocese of Helena, is stationed at Fort W. E. Warren, Wyo. CAPT. CECIL GRAVES, a convert to the Church, and second in com mand of the British Broadcasting Sys tem, is a source of concern to some suspicious non-Catholics in England because of the possibility that he may succeed Sir John Reith, who is leav ing to direct the Imperial Airways. Some Protestant organizations have recorded their objection in resolu tions, in striking contrast to the atti- I tude of the Catholics of South Ire land who have elected a Protestant president THE RESURRECTIONIST Fathers have re-named the Very Rev. Michael Jaglowics, formerly superior of the Kentucky house of the order, as superior-general at the General Chap ter held in Rome. o CARDNAL GERLIER, Archbishop of Lyon, returned to his See City by Beatifications Near Discussions by the Sacred Con gregation of Rites of the miracles, proposed in the cause of beatifica tion of Mother Philippine-Rose Duchesne (upper photo) . and Mother Francis Xavier Cabrini. have reached a favorable result, according to recent reports from Vatican City. Mother Duchesne, who was buried at St. Charles, Mo., in 1852, was foundress of the first houses of the Society of the Sacred Heart in America. Mother Cabrini, foundress of the Mission ary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, labored in the United States for 17 years, until her death at Chicago, in 1817. plane after the closing of the French Aviation Pilgrimage to Lourdes. Fifty- three planes brought the pilgrims to Lourdes. REV. WM. J. DOWNS of the Mary- knoll Fathers, wounded in China when a bomb struck his residence during an air raid, is a native of Meadsville, Pa., where he was born January 1, 1890; he has been a mis sionary in China for 13 years. RUTHERFORD followers in Phil- delphia who sued Cardinal Dougherty for $100,000 because of the cancella tion of radio broadcasts after an at tack on Catholics there, have lost their suit in the Court of Common Pleas. REV. HENRY F. RILEY, C. S. P„ former pastor of the Church of St. Paul, the Apostle, New York, the famel “Paulist Church" and for sev eral years director of Radio Station WLWL, is dead at 53. Father Riley was a native of New York City. 1940 EUCHARISTIC CONGRESS IN NICE NEW ORLEANS Cathderal’s 31 rec- tcrs, serving during a period of 218 years, will have their names inscribed on a plaque in the renovated edifice. The longest period of service in that capacity was that of a Capuchin, Father Antonio de Sedella, who served 41 years. SCOOP, a new novel by Evelyn Waugh, described by Father Wilfrid Parsons, S. J., dean of the graduate school of Georgetown University as “a hilarious satire on international news reporting”, is the July selection of the Catholic Book of the Month Club. It is published by Little, Brown and Company. By M. MASSIANI (Paris Correspondent, N. C. W. C. News Service) PARIS. — Upon his return from Budapest where he attended the Inter national Eucharistic Congress, the Most Rev. Paul Remond, Bishop of Nice, immediately began the task of preparing for the next Congress which will be held there in 1940. The dates selected are September 4 to 9. with the principal day on Sunday, Septem ber 8, the Feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin. ARCHBISHOP BELLOSO of El Salvador, injured six months ago by a piece of falling wood, has been taken by plane to the United States for treatment at Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, for partial paralysis. BLOCKADE, the picture protested by Catholics as Leftist propaganda and which the motion pitcture pro ducers assert is not, is warmly com mended by Communist newspapers, which urge their readers to write letters of appreciation of it to the producers. The Daily Worker, New York Communist newspaper, devoted a half-page of its Sunday supplement to it recently. MISS MARY HUBRICH of Chicago has founded a Chinese Sisterhood in Wuchang, China, and she is the only foreign member of it. Miss Huhrich started her work in 1928, and her order now has ten professed Sisters, seven novices, and twenty postulants and aspirants. The Sisters devote themselves to dispensaries, sick visit ing and teaching. TWELVE BENEDICTINE nuns who who joined the Catholic Church in a body in 1912 in England are ibserv- ing the silver jubilee of their enter ing religious life. They are members of an Anglican Order, 38 of whom came into the Church at the time; the others have since passed away. THE CATHOLIC HOUR is now heard regularly in Hawaii, being broadcast, through Station KGU. THE JESUIT FATHERS have open ed a new college in Maastricht, Hol land, where studies will be made for degrees in languages and Hebrew. REV. UBALD LANGLOIS of the Oblates of Mary Immaculate was con secrated Vicar-Apostolic of Grouard in Canada recently. Cardinal Vil- leneuve officiating in the Masilica at Quebec. Archbishop Forbes of Ottawa, delivered the sermon. REV. ALBERTO MARTIN of Vil- Iaverde, was consecrated Bishop of Mantanzas in Cuba July 4th, Arch- bisho Ruiz of Havana, officiating. Bishop Martin is 32 years old, and is a native of Havana. ALFREDO fTOROTTI, formerly a teacher, a salesman in South and Central America and a metal worker, attained his highest ambition in June when he was ordained a priest at the age of 58, his studies being inter rupted a long generation ago by the necessity of providing support for his orphaned brothers. CANON of the Cathedral at War saw, the Rev. Dr. Stephanus Szym- kiewicz, recently observed the 70th anniversary of his ordination. He was born in 1843. REV. JOSEPH C. MULHERN, S. J, principal of Jesuit High School, New Orleans, has been named a member of the executive committee of the Lousiana State High School Athletic Association. THE BHEIMS CATHEDRAL re opening in France was atended by 100.000 persons. Restoration was made possible by John D. Rockefeller. The Cathedral was one of only 17 build ings left standing after the ravages of German gunfire; the city had 100,- 000 inhabitants; 287 shells hit the Cathedral. , President LeBrun head ed the lay dignitaries at the re-open ing ceremony. BISHOP KEARNEY of Rochester, N. Y„ speaking at the dedication of the Catholic Chapel at the prison at Elmira, said that “it is unfortuante that the state must wait until men have fallen before it can take religion into their lives. A PROTESTANT publication in Bordeau, France reports that the Ca tholic Bishop of Cap Haitian, Haiti, is paying as high as fifty dollars to get out of the hands of his people copies of the Bible distributed by the organization sponsoring the pub lication. The Cap Haitien Bulletin expressed itself as amused at this report of the wealth of the Bishop. SACRED HEART Brothers from Brooklyn, N. Y., have sailed to Gulu, Uganda, British East Africa, to con duct a school there. They are Brother Camillus and Brother Colman, who taught on the missions there previous ly until compelled to retire for rea sons of health. They have taught also in the South, at schools conducted by the Brothers, St. Aloysius College, New* Orleans; Catholic High School, Baton Rouge, and McGill Institute, Mobile. REV. CALVERT ALEXANDER, S. J. St. Louis, widely known for his lit erary work, has been named editor of Jesuit Missions, New York, suc ceeding the Rev. Joseph Schwend, S. J., who returns to the Missouri pro vince of the Jesuit Fathers. Murdered Missioner The Rev. Jose Arnaldo. O P., 34- year-old missionary with the Pe ruvian Indians, in the Urubamba and Madre de Dios Vicariate Apostolic since 1932. Father Ar naldo was assassinated by Inaparl Indians and part of his corpse was recently found In the Madre de Dios River. He is shown here in structing a little Indian girl of the Toyeris tribe, near the fron tier between Peru and Bolivia. (N. C.-Fides photo.) 106, due to double pneumonia. The next day the child's temperature was normal. DISCUSSION CLUBS of the Diocese of Great Falls, Mont- have been ad vised by Bishop Edwin V. O’Hara of the Diocese that Father Isadore O’ Brien's Life of Christ has been select ed as the “Book of the Year” for the clubs. BROTHER ANTHONY Bruya, O. F. M„ for a number of years editor of The Crusader’s Almanac, published at the Franciscan Monastery, Wash ington, D. C., has been assigned to Palestine and has left for Jerusalem. JUNEAU, Alaska, was founded by and named for a Catholic, it was re called when Miss Genevieve Mary Juneau visited the grave of the founder, her granduncle, Joseph Juneau, in the Catholic plot at Ever green Cemetery, Juneau. Joseph Juneau in 1880 discovered gold in Gold Creek, which is now within the corporate limits of the city named for him. DAYTON U.PRESIDENT ORDER’S PROVINCIAL Father Tredtin Named Head of Society of Mary (By N. C. W. C. News Service) DAYTON, Ohio—The President of the University of Dayton, the Rev. Walter C. Tredtin, S. M., has been appointed Superior Provincial of the Cincinnati Province of the Society of Mary and Brother Bernard T. Schad, S M„ has been appointed Provincial Inspector of Schools. Father Tredtin's province extends from China to Puerto Rco and in cludes the Hawaiian Islands. In this territory are 40 schools and colleges conducted by the Society. Father Tredtin has been President of Day- ton since 1932. He was ordained at the University of Fribourg, Switzer land, in 1912. He was a professor at the University of Dayton until 1916 when he was sent to Philadelphia to open West Catholic High School. He remained there until 1922 when he became Superior of the Mt. St. John novitiate, near here. In 1930, he was made President of Trinity College, Sioux City, la. DR. FLICK, FAMED PHYSICIAN, DEAD Tubercular, He Cured Him self and Then Aided Others THE BENEDICTINE National Edu cational Association will meet at St. John's University, Collegeville. Minn., August 22-23, Abbot Lambert Burton, O. S. B„ Abbot of St. Martin Abbey, Lacey, Wash., announces. (By N.C.W.C. News Service) PHILADELPHIA. — A man whose early struggle to cure himself of tu berculosis led him from the practice of the law to become one of the world's leading authorities on that disease was buried here following a Mass of Re quiem in Old St. Mary's Church. He was Dr. Lawrence F. Flick, who died at the age of 81. Dr. Flick, upon whom the Univer sity of Notre Dame conferred the Lae- tare Medal and the Catholic Univer sity of America, Villanova College, and ottier institutions conferred honorary degrees, was born at Carrolltown, Pa., and studied at St. Vincent's College. Dr. Flick demonstrated by actual tests in a section of Philadelphia that tuberculosis was not hereditary. He was largely responsible for the estab lishment of the Benjamin Rush Hospi tal here and the White Haven Sanito rium, of which he was president front 1901 to 1935. A visit by Henry Phipps, steel magnate, to White Hayen, led to the founding and endowment of the Henry Phipps Institute for the Study, Treatment and Prevention of Tuberculosis. MOTHER CAMBRINI, foundress of the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart, will be solemnly beatified November 13. Gne of the miracles sub mitted in the beatification inquiry was that of a tiny infant in 3 New York Hospital whose sight was ac cording to specialists destroyed when a nurse through error put a fifty per cent nitrate of silver solution into its eyes instead of a one per cent solution. This was on March 14, 1921. The Missionary Sisters immediately started prayers to the Sacred Heart through the intercession of Mother Cabrini. The day following the doc tors again examining the infant's eyes found them perfectly sound; in an other day the child's temperature was REV. WILLIAM DEVLIN, S. J., a former president of Boston College, died in Wernersville, Pa., at the Jesuit novitiate, at the age of 62. Fa ther Devlin, who retired three years ago, also served as rector of -St. An drew's Novitiate at Poughkeepsie, N. Y„ and of St. Ignatius Loyola Church, New York. He was a native of New York and studied at Stonyhurst Col lege in England. MSGR. BERNARD GRIFFIN was consecrated Auxiliary Bishop of Birm ingham England, July 18, by Arch bishop Williams. BISHOP FRANCIS P. KEOUGH of Providence officiated at the Re quiem Pontifical Mass at St. Mary’s Church, New Britain, Conn., at the funeral of his mother, Mrs. Margaret Ryan Keough, who died at the age of 76. THE RED LEFTIST Government is leaving behind it a trail of blood and crime. General Francisco Franco charged in an address at Burgos on the second anniversary of the begin ning of the Spanish Civil War. He accussed the Reds of murdering 68,- 000 persons in Madrid, 34.000 in Bar celona. and 20,008 in Valencia. When the truth is known, he said, Marcel Rosenbery. agent of the Russian Com intern and actual master of Red Spain, will be held responsible. THE HOLY FATHER’S plea to com batants in the Spanish and Chinese Wars to limit aerial bombings have brought assurances from General Franco that only military objectives will be bombed, and that every pre caution will be taken to spare non- combatants. THE YOUNG COMMUNISTS in New York have dedicated the latest membership drive of their Young Communist League to Dave Doran, who was killed fighting for the Left ists in Spain, according to an article in The Daily Worker, the official Communist publication. THE PARK CENTRAL Hotel in New York has refused to allow sym pathizers of General Franco to have further affairs there because two pre vious meetings have been attacked by the Communists of New York and the hotel wishes to avoid trouble. Other hotels have taken a similar position. N.G.C.W.G0NVENT10N PLANNED FOR BILOXI Many Bishops to Attend National Meeting in October (By N. C. W. C. News Service) WASHINGTON—A dozen members of the Hierarchy already have signi fied that they will attend the eight eenth annual convention of the Na tional Council of Catholic Women, to be held at Biloxi. Miss., October 22 to 26, it was announced at the N. C. C. W. headquarters here today. A number of other members of the Hierarchy have been invited to par ticipate in the meeting. Among those who have announced to date that they will take part in the Biloxi convention are; The Most Rev. Joseph F. Hummel, Archbishop of New Orleans and Episcopal Chair man of the Department of Lay Or ganizations, National Catholic Wel fare Conference; the Most Rev. Emmet M. Walsh, Bishop of Charles ton and Assistant Episcopal Chair man of the Department of Lay Or ganizations; the Most Rev. Edward ©. Howard, Archbishop of Portland; the Most Rev. Edwin V. O'Hara. Bishop of Great FaMs: the Most Rev. Gerald P. O'Hara. Bishop of Savannah-At- lanta; the Most Rev. Janies A. Grif fin. Bishop of Springfield in Illinois; Most Rev. Thomas J. Toolen, Bishop of Mobile; the Most Rev. Louis B. Kueera, Bishop of Lincoln., the Most Rev. Henry P. Rohlman, Bishop of Davenport; the Most Rev. John F. Noll, Bishop of Fort Wayne; the Most Rev. Christopher E. Byrne, Bishop of Galveston, and the Most Rev. Wil liam L. Adrian, Bishop of Nashville. The Most Rev. Richard O. Gerow, Bishop of Natchez, will be host to the convention. MOTHER ISADORE of the Congre gation of Our Lady of the Apostles who has labored on the missions in Nigeria for forty years, was on the King’s recent honors list in London, being made a member of the Order of the British Empire. JOSEPH N. LANGAN, recently nominated for the Legislature of Ala bama in Mobile, has offered $150. the difference between his compensation as a legislator and his expenses, to ward a scholarship of the Exchange Club for worthy students at Spring Kill College.
