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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. XX. No. 3. AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, MARCH 25, 1939 ISSUED MONTHLY—$2.00 A year Cardinal Pacelli Becomes Pope Pius XII and 262nd Member of Line of Supreme Pontiffs Bulletins MSGR. FULTON SHEEN will de liver his Good Friday address over the NBC network from 8:30 to 9:00; he is the current speaker on the Catholic hour, sponsored by the Na tional Council of Catholic Men over the NBC network. ARCHBISHOP CICOGNANI, Apos tolic Delegate to the United States, asserted that “to save the family is to save the state'* at the National Conference on Christian Marriage held at the Catholic University Sun day. AMBASSADOR KENNEDY, the U. S. Envoy to Great Britain and the U. S. representative at the corona tion of Pope Pius XII, addressed the students at the North American Col lege in Rome at a reception tendered to him St. Patrick’s Day. Members of the American colony and visiting pre lates also attended. MSGR. JOS. M. CORRIGAN, rec tor of the Catholic University, was received last week by the Holy Fath er, who recalled his visit to the Uni versity three years ago. CARDINAL TEDESCHINI has been named archpriest of the Vatican, an office Pope Pius XII held when he was at the same time Secretary of State. TENNESSEE has tabled the steril ization measure introduced into the state legislature and vigorously op posed by the Nashville Diocesan Council of Catholic Men. RACISM, the anti-Semitic policy of the Nazi government to which the Fascist regime has given endorsement, was deplored in recent sermons of Cardinal Schuster, Archbishop of Mi lan, and Cardinal Piazza, Patriarch of Venice. The Church can never cause conflict among the different races, Cardinal Piazza said, “without ab juring her origin, her end and her divine mission.” The mission of the Church, Cardinal Schuster asserted, is to teach all nations and all peoples, excepting none. PARIS CATHOLIC journals are in dignant over the barring from Italy by the Fascist government of Rene Pinon, noted Catholic writer, who endeavored to enter the country to write articles for French publications on the conclave. MISS MERCEDES MUELLERLEI- LE, a student of Good Counsel Acad emy, Mankato, Minn., won national honors for having the best news story on the Christmas seal sale and tuberculosis in a nation-wide contest sponsored by the National Tubercu losis Association. The story was pub lished in the Christmas issue of “Echoes,” the school paper, published by the students. SISTER M. JUSTINA of the Notre Dame nuns, Toledo, who was one of the religious forced to leave Germany during Bismarck's “Kulturkampf,” has observed the seventieth anniver sary of her first religious vows. En tering religious life in 1869, she came to the United States in 1875, with other exiled nuns. FORDHAM UNIVERSITY is spon soring a Congress April 22-24 which will discuss peace in the Americas. LITHUANIA JEWS have contribut ed $1,700 to Catholic charities in memory of Pope Pius XI. The sum was presented to Bishop Bucys at Kaunas. THE FATHER FINN Medal will be awarded annually hereafter by the Pro Parvulis Book Club to the au thor of the best book for boys and girls. The first award will be made in t»10. REV. T. J. LOVE, S. J„ head of the department of physics at Georgetown University, has been appointed pres ident of St. Joseph’s College in Phil adelphia, succeeding the Rev. Thomas J. Higgins, whose canonical terms had expired. MOTION PICTURE Theater Com mittee lias presented to the Bishops Committee for Catholic Refugees the sum of $3,277.50, representing the share If the Catholic Committee in the pro ceeds of performances in cities of Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas, Ala bama and Florida theaters, co-oper ated by' the committee, Para- mount-Richards, Inc., Malco Theaters, Inc, and Wolf son and Meyers. , OVER 500,000 SEE HISTORIC CEREMONY OF THE CORONATION With his face showing a solemnity and respect fitting the occasion, Pope Pius XII, as Cardinal Pacelli, Papal Secretary of State, places a floral tribute on the tomb of George Washington, at Mount Vernon, Va., during his one.'day visit to the Nation’s Capital, October 22, 1936. In this picture. Archbishop Amleto Cicognani, Apostolic Delegate to the United States, is immediately behind Cardinal Pacelli, who was assisted by Bruce Mohler, director of the N. C. W. C. Bureau of Immigration, and a caretaker, (N.C.W.C.) “Peace for All the World” Theme of First Address of Holy Father Day After Election LATE POPE LEAVES ESTATE TO CHURCH Pope Pius XI Left Nothing of Great Pecuniary Value, He Says in Wlil BY MSGR. ENRICO PUCCI (Vatican Correspondent, N. C. W. C. News Service) VATICAN CITY.—His Holiness Pope Pius XI wrote his last will and testa- went on a few correspondence cards, beginning it on March 31, 1927, and completing it on January 16, 1939, less than a month before his death, it is revealed by the publication of that interesting document. Aside from a few bequests from his personal affects, Pope Pius XI left all his possessions to the Holy See, and, through it, to his successor. From his personal possessions, which he described as being of no great pe cuniary value, the late Pontiff made some bequests to those who had been closely associated with him in his work, and those who attended him. He left some objects of artistic value to the Vatican Library, to the Chris tian Museum of the Vatican Library, and to other institutions in which he had a particular interest. As the executors of his last will and testament, Pope Pius named two priests who were his private secre taries and who had come with him from Milan when he was elected Pope seventeen years ago—Monsig nors Carlo Confalonieri and Diego Venini. “I dispose with particular desire,” wrote Pope Pius XI in his will, “that my body be interred intact near and behind the tomb of Pius X, of dead and venerated memory, who called me to the Vatican Library, and not far from that of Benedict XV, also of dear and .(Continued on Page Three) Initial Message Is Broadcast to World His Holiness Assures Those Not of Church of Prayers, as Well as Those Within BY MONSIGNOR ENRICO PACCi i Vatican City Correspondent, N. C. W. C. News Service) VATICAN CITY— Peace for aU the world! This is the key to the “first wish” rising from his heart as he mounts the throne of St. Peter. His.Holiness Pope Pius XII declared in his first address. It was less than 24 hours after the Sacred College, in a swift election, had chosen him two hundred and sixty-second Pope, that the Holy Father availed himself of the magic facilities of radio to make his “first paternal word ’ known to the world. His Holiness was seated on the throne in the Sistine Chapel, where the Cardinals of the Church had just tendered him their third obedience. The Sovereign Pontiff blessed “all Our Children scattered everywhere throughout the world," and reserved a special blessing for “those who suf fer in poverty or in pain.” He told “all those outside the Church” that the Pope sends up to God his “best and greatest prayer” for them. Pope Pius XII directed the atten tion of men to that peace—based on charity and justice—for which his predecessor had labored, prayed, and offered his life to God. and offered himself unstintingly in the combat that must be waged against “the enormous evils afflicting the world.” “Use Us,” His Holiness urged all those who heard him. Pope Pius XII prayed God to “make fruitful this Our wish,” so that it might be as “a messenger of holy consolation for all the world.” He expressed confidence that his spiritual children and brothers would not let his wish be in vain. “After the Grace of God, it is in your good will that Our soul so greatly trusts,” he SaM. . I.-.- I ..... | ; i : , .. ANTI-CATHOLIC ACTS IN REICHGONJINUE Nazi Organs Publish Attacks While Hitler Is Expressing Felicitations to Pope (Special Correspondence, N. C. W. C.. News Service) AMSTERDAM. — Though Chancel lor Hitler is reported to have address ed a personal letter of congratula tions, couched in cordial terms and written in longhand, to His Holiness Pope Pius XII, and also conveyed his official congratulations through the German Ambassador at the Holy See, the Nazi press indicates clearly that the policy of the regime toward the Church will hardly change. Not even the universal mourning over the passing of Pope Pius XI de terred Nazi organs such as Der An- griff and Das Schwarze Korps from publishing vicious attacks on the Church. All Catholic churches in Germany, where Requiem Masses were said in memory of the late Pon- tif, were crowded beyond capacity, showing the real feeling of the peo ple. In the Cathedral of Berlin the services were led by the Apostolic Nuncio to Germany in the presence of the Berlin Bishop, me Army Bishop, official representatives of both the Reich Chancery and the Foreign Office, and the whole diplo matic corps. Flags on all public buildings were carried at half-staff, but these papers carried articles ac cusing the late Pope of having “al- ligned himself with Judaistic-Bolshe- vistic-Masonic forces,” and slander ing him as “a political adventurer” the very day of his death. Previously Pius XI had been called “the Grand Rabbi of all Christians” in the Schwarzes Korps, influential Nazi Black Guard organ, while the Voelkische Beobatehter, Chancellor Hitler’s own newspaper, in its apprai sal of the late Pontiff alluded to what it called “fraternizing of the Church with the Popular Front” in France and to “the Church's attempt to come to terms with Soviet Russia.” Triple Tiara Placed on Holy Father’s Head in Balcony of St. Peter’s , By MSGR. ENRICO PUCCI (Vatican City Correspondent, N.C.W.C. News Service) VATICAN CITY.—“By this sacred tiara, adorned with three crowns, know that thou art the Father of Princes and Kings, Rector of the World, and Vicar on Earth of Our Lord Jesus Christ, Who is the Honor and Glory now and forever, world without end.” These were the words uttered at the solemn coronation of His Holiness Pope Pius- XII, a ceremony which marked the formal inauguration of his Pontificate as the two hundred and sixty-first successor to St. Peter. In impressiveness, the coronation was probably unexcelled in history. They were spoken by His Eminence Camillo Cardinal Caccia Dominioni, the Cardinal First Deaqon, who ten days before, and on the same spot, announced to a breathless world that His Eminence Eugenio Cardinal Pa celli had been elected Supreme Pon tiff of the Holy Roman Church and bad taken the name of Pius. The Holy Father could look upon a veritable sea of upturned human faces, for, by a departure from tradition, the coronation took place on the cen tral balcony at St. Peter’s Basilica, overlooking St. Peter's Square. By custom, it should have taken place within the Basilica. Pope Pius XII di rected that it be held in the hall over the portico, so that as many as might wish could see the coronation. It is estimated that over 500,000 crowded the great square. And elsewhere, in the farthest cor ners of the world, the devout and even the unreligious heard the great ceremony by the mililons through the radio. For the coronation was lavish ly broadcast everywhere. And how the people reacted to this thoughtfulness on the part of the common Father! Whereas there were representatives of the heads of some 40 states among the vast congregation that had filled St. Peter’s Basilica for the earlier ceremonies, here were prelates and priests, laymen and laywomen of high and low degree, people of every race, representatives of every quarter of the globe, included in a throng that totaled many thousands. The spontan eous, enthusiastic acclaim given the new Pontiff by this vast expanse of persons was like the booming of the surf. And, rising above the rousing exultation, as if in jealous competi tion to spread the good news, was the joyous ringing of all the bells in Rome’s 550 churches. Occupying special places within the great edifice were the representa tives specially sent to the coronation by the heads of the following states: The United States, Argentina, Bel gium, Bolivia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Czecho-Slovakia, Chile, China, Co lombia, • Cuba, France, Guatemala, Great Britain, Honduras, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Jugoslavia, Latvia, Li thuania, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Monaco, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Rou- mania, San Marino, El Salvador, Spain, Switzerland and Venezuela. The Italian delegation at the cori- nation included Crown Prince Um berto, representing King Victor Eman uel III; Count Ciano, Minister of For eign Affairs, representing the govern ment, and 21 other personages in cluding various Cabinet Ministers. Premier Eamon De Valera headed Ire land's representation at the corona tion. and Hon. Joseph P. Kennedy, U. S. Ambassador to England, repre sented the United States. Appearance of Pope Pius XII with in the Vatican Basilica was the sig nal for a tremendous outburst of spontaneous acclaim on the part of the vast congregation, and it continued incessantly as the Papal procession moved from point to point within the great edifice. When he had arrived at the altar built over St. Peter’s tomb, Pope Pius XU began Mass. During the Mass, the Epistle and the Gospel were sung in Greek by the Sub-Deacon and .(Continued Qu Page Three) .ft PIUS XII AT GEORGE WASHINGTON’S TOMB
