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FEBRUARY 25, 1939
THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
FIVE
News Review of the Catholic World
Remains of Holy Father in Room Where He Died
CATHOLIC U. PLANS
NATIONAL CRUSADE
FOR GOD IN STATE
Movement Will Be Tribute
to Late Holy Father Who
Was Its Inspiration
THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY in
tribute to the memory of the late
Holy Father and in response to a direct
request from His Holiness made short
ly before, he died has inaugurated a
National Crusade for God in Govern
ment, the Rt. Rev. Msgr. Joseph M.
Corrigan, D. D., rector of the Uni
versity, announces. The Catholics en
listed in the crusade will be asked to
dedicate themselves annually to de
fend the Republic against atheistic
propaganda, to maintain respect for
rightly constituted authority and
Obedience to lawful administrators,
hnd combat fearlessly every invasion
Of the human rights of any citizen
or group of ohizenc
ST. MAI.ACHY'S prophecies, first
printed in 1595, regarded by many as
inspired, and which gave as the
motto of Pope Pius XI “Fides Intrep-
Ida" (Intrepid Faith), term the next
Pope ‘‘Pastor Angelicas” (Angelic Pas
tor). The mottoes for previous Popes
Were “Cross from a Cross” for Pope
Pius IX, ‘‘Light in the Heavens” for
Pope Leo XIII, “Burning Fire” for
Pope Pius X, and “Depopulated Re
ligion” for Pope Benedict XV, Pope
during the World War.. There are
mottoes given for six more Popes, but
this does not necessarily mean, ac
cording to those who attach impor
tance to the titles, that there will be
only six more Popes.. Tile last Pope
will be a Pope Peter, according to the
titles.
REV. EDW. V. STANFORD, presi
dent of Villanova College, invited to
join a Committee of Fifty-Six, a num
ber corresponding to the signers of the
Declaration of Independence, to urge
severing of all economic measures
with Germany, has declined because
the committee does not seek to give
the same treatment to Other coun
tries guilty of measures similar to
those of Germany, especially Russia,
Mexico and Leftist Spain.
BISHOP PAUL YU-PIN, vicar-
apostolic of Nanking, has been desig
nated by the Chinese Nationalist Gov
ernment to represent it in the United
States in the effort to secure aid for
refugees. Before coming here he had
an audience with the Holy Father, a
few days before the death of His Holi
ness, whom he found intensely inter
ested in the efforts for the suffering
people of China.
CATHOLICS cannot be Fascists
Cardinal Hinsley of Westminster de
clared in an address in London; be
cause the Church is anti-Commun-
istic she is not pro-Fascist he asserted
in the presence of eight Bishops and
2,000 people. .
MSGR. PETER C. DANNER, chan
cellor of the Diocese of Pittsburgh
for the past twenty years, died in the
home of Bishop Boyle at the age of
63 after an extended illness. Monsig
nor Danner was born in Allegheny,
Pa., one of six children, all of whom
embraced the religious life.
REV. WALTER FITZGERALD, S. J.,
will be consecrated Coadjutor Bishop
to the Vicar-Apostolic of Alaska in
St. Aloysius Church, Spokane, Wash.,
February 24. He will be consecrated
by Bishop R. Crimont, S. J„ Vicar-
Apostolic of Alaska. Father Fitzger
ald was formerly provincial of the
Oregon Province of the Jesuits and
was a professor and rector at Gonzaga
College, Spokane.
FATHER HUBBARD, “The Glacier
Priest”, delivered a lecture under the
auspices of Sienna College at Chancel
lor's Hall of the State Education Build
ing when Justice Gilbert V. Schenck
of the Supreme Court dismissed a
petition brought by the New York
League for Separation of Church and
State to bar him. Father Hubbard’s
subject was “Alaska”.
MISS LUCILLE MARTIN, a grad
uate of St. Mary’s-of-the-Woods Col
lege in Indiana, sang the role of "Rigo-
letto” in the .American Opera Com
pany production in Chicago last week;
it was Miss Martin's debut.
JEWS commended the Holy Father
for his stand against “the un-Chris
tian character” of all racial and reli
gious persecutions in a resolution
adopted by the biennial council of
the Union of American Hebrew Con
gregations at a meeting in Cincinnati.
THE BAPTIST MINISTER, Chicago
publication, urges Catholics and Pro
testants to unite in protest against
a. proposal to tax churches.
A NATIONAL ESSAY contest for
fmuors and seniors in high schools
oa the subjects of “Prevention of
Communicable Diseases” or “The
Need for Vitamins in the Diet" is
being sponsored by Georgetown Uni
versity; prizes are scholarships at
Georgetown for the boy winner and
one at Dunbarton College, Washing
ton, for the girl who wins. Essays
should not exceed J.,000 words and
must be mailed before March 17. The
only requirement is that the con
testants be high school students in
the junior and senior classes and
eligible to enter college. The Public
Health Forum Committee of Wash
ington announces the contest.
REV. THEODORE SUIIR, O. S. B.,
was consecrated the first Danish
Bishop since the Reformation in Rome
in January. Bom a Lutheran in
1896. Bishop Suhr became a Catholic
in 1926 and joined the Benedictines
He became Vicar-Apostolic of Den
mark.
FORDHAM UNIVERSITY has
started construction of St. Mary's
Hall, to cost $100,000, and to be used
as a home for nuns attending the
university. The Ursuline Nuns will
be in charge.
ALSACE’S oldest priest, the Rt.
Rev. Msgr. Georges Jost, honorary
vicar-general of the Diocese of Stras
bourg. died on his 95th birthday. Mon
signor Jost was administrator of the
Diocese when the German Bishop
Fritzen resigned in 1919 when the
French took over the territory.
RELIGIOUS membership in the
United States totals 64.156,895. in
248,410 churches in 200 religious bodies,
the Information Service of the Fed
eral Council of the Churches of
Christ in America states.
DR. WILLIAM J. O’SHEA, for ten
years superintendent of schools of
New York City, is dead at the age of
75. Dr. O'Shea who was a Catholic,
started as a teacher in the public
schools of New York.
SIR JOHN FRANCIS DE SALIS
hereditary Count of the Holy Roman
Empire, and formerly British minister
to Montenegro and Minister to the
Holy See, died recently at the age
of 75. He was received into the
Church in 1892.
A MONTREAL JESUIT, Father
Alphonse Daignault, S. J., who died
here recently at the age of 88, joined
the Papal Zouaves at 18 and went
to Rome in 1868 to defend the Holy
Father. In 1870 he entered the Jesuit
Novitiate in Rome.
REV. MARTIN J. BLAKE, C. M.,
vice-president of Niagara University,
is dead at the age of 57. Father
Blake was born in Danbury, Conn.,
and was ordained in 1909.
A BENEDICTINE Brother Wendelin
Bernhard. O. S. B., who died at
St. Joseph’s Abbey, Covington, La.,
in January at the age of 82, was
as a young man a member of the
king's bodyguard in his native Ba
varia.
SIR GILES SCOTT, a Catholic, has
been named the architect of the na
tional memorial statue to King George
to be erected near Westminister
Abbey in London.
MARGARET MARY BOGNER. a
Visitation nun in Hungary who died
in 1933, is now proposed for beatifi
cation. She worked as a typist in
a manufacturing plant orior to her
entrance into religious life and may
be the patron of typists and stenog
raphers; her life is an example of
deep spirituality and mysticism.
FORDHAM UNIVERSITY has made
available six full four-year college
scholarships for refugees from Ger
many. the VeFy Rev. Robert I. Gan
non, S. J., president of Fordham,
has advised the Most Rev. Joseph
F. Rummel, D. D.. Archbishop of
New Orleans, chairman of the Com
mittee for Catholic Refugees.
DR. MOYER FLEISHER of the
faculty of St. Louis University's
School of Medicine, has been dis
missed from his post for sponsoring
the appearance in that city of Father
Michael O’Flanagan, silenced priest
and Spanish Leftist lecturer, who
vilified the Catholic Church in his
lecture here.
JAMES M. McCORMACK. state
commissioner of insurance and bank
ing. and a prominent Memphis Ca
tholic. is commissioner for the Ama
teur Softball Association of America,.
He served for a time as insurance
and banking commissioner in the
cabinet of Governor Browning be
fore his appointment to that post in
the cabinet of Governor Prentice
Cooper.
NAZIS in Anhalt, Germany, have
forbidden the reading of the Epistles
of St. Paul; possibly, say commenta
tors, they stumbled across' this pass
age in his second epistle to the Corin
thians, XI. 22: “They are Hebrews:
so am I. They are Israelites: so am
I. They are the seed of Abraham;
so am I.”
CARDINAL BAUDRILLART, rec
tor of the Catholic Institute of Paris,
and a member of the Academie Fran-
caise. recently observed his eightieth
birthday. He is still active despite
his age.
SAN FRANCISCO’S International
Exposition will display the famed
half-million dollar model of St. Pet
er's Basilica in Rome, one sixtieth
the size of the original, begun in the
sixteenth century, completed in the
eighteenth, and shown 45 years ago
at the World's Columbian Exposition.
CUBA closed a Catholic Social Ac
tion week at Sagua la Grande with
an open-air Mass attended by 10.000
people, at which ten priests gave
Holy Communion.
FRAUD by alleged brass workers
has been exposed by priests in Eng
land. They offer to clean brass for
fifty cents an hour plus twelve dol
lars an ounce for a secret solution.
They return with the brass polish
ed and with a bill greatly in excess
of the sum expected. In many cases
they collect the entire sum; some
times they compromise. They farm
oi'l the work to firms for a fraction
of- the price they collect.
j COLLECTION TO AID
(REFUGEES MARCH 19
Archbishop Rummel Asks All
Dioceses to Cooperate
(By N.C.W.C. News Service)
NEW YORK. — A proposal that
Sunday, March 19, be set aside
throughout the United Stales for a
general collection for the aid of Cath
olic refugees from Germany, is made
to the Archbishops and Bishops of the
country in a letter written by the
Most Rev. Joseph F. Rummel, Arch
bishop of New Orleans, as chairman
of the Bishops’ Committee for Cath
olic Refugees.
It has been pointed out that Jev/s in
the Unitea States raised a total of
$5,100,0C0 last year foi the aid of their
suffering brethren, and are now work
ing towa d a new relief budget of $20,-
000,000. Drawing attention to the
righteous indignation exhibited over
the treatment of Jews in Germany,
observers here point out that ; t is not
so well known that Christians, too,
and Catholics in particular, suffer
greatly in Germany today. Not only
have Cardinals and priests been at
tacked and insulted but thousands
of honorable Catholic laymen have
been persecuted mereiv because of
their religious zeal, it is stated.
FATHER-IN-LAW OF
GEORGIAN MARSHAL
OF PAPALCONGLAVE
Son of Prince Chigi-Albani
Married Miss Marian Berry
of Mount Berry
(Special to The Bulletin)
ATLANTA Ga. — The Atlanta
Constitution directs attention to the
fact that Prince Don Ludovico Chigi-
Albani, head of the Knights of Malta,
and hereditary marshal of the Papal
Conclaves which elect the Popes, is
the father-in-law of the former Miss
Marian Berry of Mount Berry a mem
ber of one of Georgia's leading fami
lies. A Prince Chigi has been mar
shal of every Papal election since 1712;
the Catholic Encyclopedia says that
‘ access to the conclave is free through
one door only, locked from without
by the Marshal of the Conclave (since
1721 the head of the Chigi family) and
from within by the Cardinal Camer-
lengo.” It was the former Miss Ber
ry who presented to St. Mary's
Church in Rome. Ga.. the magnificent
old master above the high altar in
the church.
HITLER IN TIRADE
AGAINST CATHOLICS
No One Persecuted for Re
ligion in Germany, He Says
(Special Correspondence, N. C. W. C.
News Service)
AMSTERDAM—Complete disillus
ionment has been caused among
Catholics throughout Europe who
still were hoping against hope for
some sort of a compromise between
the Church and the Nazi regime, by
Clarcellor Adolf Hitler's recent
Reichstag spxvii.
For those who heard this two and
a-half hour address to what might
be termed the Congress of the Ger
man nation it apneared as one of the
most violent and most ruthless ever
delivered by the Nazi leader who
now emerges definitely as one of
the most dangerous foes of Christ
ianity in the history of the world.
For the first t me Hitler has now
given the stamp of his personal and
explicit approval to the Nazi per
secution of all things Catholic, which
heretofore had often been describ
ed as being merely excesses of irres
ponsible subordinates.
He devoted over 1,3)0 words of his
speech to religious matters, trying
to answer what he termed “the
charges raised ..in the so-called de
mocracies against Germany as being
a country hostile to religion.” He
then went on by saying:
“I solemnly declare that nobody
has so far been persecuted in Ger
many because of his religious views,
nor will anybody be persecuted for
this reason.”
This unqualified statement Hitler
dared to make despite the innum
erable acts of vandalism of Nazi
radicals who bodily attacked Ger
man Bishons on various occasions,
destroyed Church property, such as
in Vienna. Munich and Rothenburg,
suppressed the Catholic Press and
most Catholic parochial schools, eli
minated religious classes from the
public schools, carry on the most
vicious propaganda against all things
Catholic in their nress, in spite of
the Concordat with the Holy See,
adont legislation openlv hostile to
Catholic teachings and frankly coun
tenance all activities designed to
ridicule the Cburch in the public
eve, making it impossible for her to
defend herself.
CARDINAL VERDIER, of Paris,
condemned all totalitarian states in
an address under the auspices of the
Conferences des Ambassadeurs, and
asserted that French civilization,
which is essentially Christian, will
set itself resolutely against totalitar
ianism and assist at the birth of the
new order. The Cardinal’s address
was vigorously criticized by Nazi
newspapers in Berlin.