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VOL. XX. No. 11
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, NOVEMBER 30, 1939
ISSUED MONTHLY—*2.00 A YEAR
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“To Bring About
a Friendlier
Feeling Among
Neighbors Irre
spective of Creed”
Published by the
Catholic Lay
men’s Association
of Georgia
Carolina “State” Lauds Bishop McGuinness
CANONICAL VISIT
IS PAID BELMONT
Abbot Alcuin and Abbot Mar
tin Inspect Carolina Abbey
(BY RICHARD CRAWFORD)
BELMONT, N. C.—The Rt. Rev.
Alcuin Deutsch, O. S. B., D. D., Ab
bot-President of the American Cas-
sinese Congregation of the Order
St Benedict, Abbot of St. John's Ab
bey in Collegeville, Minn., and the
Rt Rev. Martin Veth. O. S. B„ D. D.,
Abbot of St. Benedict’s Abbey in
Atchinson, Kansas, paid Belmont
Abbey the official canonical visita
tion in November. Everything ' that
has taken place in the last three
years met with the approval of the
visitators. They were particularly
impressed with the new library and
science buildings. /-
GEORGIA RELATIONS—The Var
sity Football squad of Belmont Ab
bey played Georgia Military College,
November 11. Abbey was defeated,
one of the two defeats she has suf
fered in three years. Head Coach
Howard A. Wheeler received a let
ter from Major S. J. Whatley, the
athletic director of G. M. C., Novem
ber 15, saying that he was glad to
open athletic relations with the Ab
bey. He also complimented the squad
and school by saying that the team is
composed of real gentlemen which
reflects on the college from which
they come.
FOUR PAPAL BULLS on exhibi
tion in the college library—On exhi
bition in the College Library are four
Papal Bulls. One of the Bulls is con
cerned with the creation of Belmont
Abbey Nullius in 1910. The other
there are confirming the election of
the Rt. Rev. Vincent G. Taylor, O. S.
B.. as Abbot. The Bull concerning
the erection of the Nullius is of par
ticular interest since Belmont Abbey
Nullius is the only Abbey Nullius in
the United States. An Abbey Nullius
is an Abbey with a diocese attached
which is governed by the Abbot-
Ordinary.
At the Orphanage at Nazareth, N. C.
ARTICLE COMMENDS I
HIS GENEROUS AID (
TO HOMELESS JEWS '
Protestant Attorney Galls lb
Greatest Thing in State
Since Duke Foundation
Since the Orphanage has allowed the City of Raleigh
to use a section of the Orphanage property for the use
of a park, which includes a fine new swimming pool, the
City Fathers allow the children from Nazareth to use the
pool twice a {reek. And do they enjoy it!
“Toney” our “Head Man” with “Tommie,” who is
second in line, to his right, who were caught by Candid
Camera, just as they took a little time out.
ST. MONICA’S BAND
IS LEADER IN STATE
Dominican Father Doing
Splendid Work for Colored
People in Raleigh
(Special to The Bulletin)
RALEIGH. N. C —The Rev. Orville
T. Carl, O. P., and his assistants are
doing splendid work with the colored-
He has built up a playground which
is a credit to the city of Raleigh. Fa
ther Carl has built up his band to
about fifty, and it is the finest color
ed school band in Eastern Carolina.
The school this year has an enroll
ment of about 200 students. When
school opened this year about the
same number was turned away. The
playgrounds and band are a big
drawing card. The Sisters, Servants of
the Immaculate Heart, conduct the
school-
Father Carl and his band gave a
congest to the students at the Colored
High School on the first of Novem
ber at Sanford. It was a huge suc
cess-
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a valuable experience.
They are 90 children in the orphan
age at present, and this number is
about equally divided between boys
and girls, who range from Kinder-
gardners to “Dignified Seniors.”
Children of High School age attend
Cathedral High School in Raleigh,
which is a fully accredited High
School. There sure thirteen in the
graduating class of ’40.
About twenty-five of our boys and
girls who have graduated from Naza
reth are now employed in various
fields of endeavor in Raleigh. Some
not be
without
The Varsity, which is this year making the best record
of its history, with four conference victories. It plays
the Methodist Orphanage Team December 2 for the City
and the County Championship. Captain Graham Har
grove No. 17.
are with the State Department in the
Revenue section and others are with
the Royal Bakery, the Commercial
Printing Company, the Tire Sales and
Service Co., and other local concerns.
An Alumni Reunion is to be held at
Nazareth this fall.
Under the direction of His Excel
lency, the Most Reverend Eugene J.
McGuinness, the work of the North
Carolina Apostolate and the work of
the Orphanage have been combined.
The Orphanage is conducted by The
Sisters of Mercy, whose Mother House
is at Belmont, N. C. Father Cornelius
E. Murphy, is the head of the Apos
tolate, assisted by Father John A.
Beshel, Father Francis J. Morrissey,
Father Robert J. MacMillan and
Father Bernard J. McDevitte. Father
Beshel is the treasurer of the Apos
tolate and Orphanage. Other priests
engaged in the work of the Orphan
age are Father James F. Gallagher,
Father Francis A. Scheurich and
Father John P. Manley. The combi
nation, Apostolate and Orphanage,
work is now represented by the publi-
cation, “Apostolate and Orphanage."
City's First Pontifical Mass Marks Golden
Jubilee of Goldsboro, N. C., Parish Church
BISHOP MCGUINNESS
CELEBRANT OF MASS
Monsignor Freeman, Native
of City, Former Pastor of
Parish, Delivers Sermon
(Special to The Bulletin)
GOLDSBORO, N. C. — The first
Pontifical Mass ever offered up in
Goldsboro marked the observance of
the Golden Jubilee of St. Mary’s
Church, a ceremony which brought
to this city one of the largest groups
Dedication of Sacred Heart
Church, Charleston, Nov. 29
(Special to The Bulletin)
CHARLESTON, S. C.—Sacred Heart
Church, destroyed by the tornado last
year and completely rebuilt, is being
dedicated this week by the Most Rev.
Emmet M. Walsh, D. D„ Bishop of
Charleston, and the sermon is being
delivered by the Rt. Rev. Msgr. Fulton
Sheen, Ph. D., of the Catholic Univer
sity of America. A complete account
of the dedication ceremony will ap
pear in the next issue of The Bul
letin.
The Rev. Henry F. Wolfe is pastor
of Sacred Heart Church and the Rev.
James F. Guinea assistant pastor. They
and Father Michael Reddin miracu
lously escaped death when the torna
do destroyed the house and rectory;
Father Wolfe sustained painful in
juries and ‘Father Reddin minor ones.
Assisting Bishop Walsh at the dedi
cation Mass are the Rt. Rev. Msgr.
James J. May, V. G.. assistant priest;
Father Reddin and the Rev. Joseph
Driscoll, C. SS. R., New Smyrna, Fla.,
deacons of honor, the Rev. Jeremiah
W. Carmody, deacon of the Mass; Fa
ther Guinea, sub-deacon; the Rev. A.
W. Calner, cross bearer; the Rev. Mau
rice Daly and the Rev. J. Laurence
McLaughlin, acolytes; the Rev. Willi
am Doyle, crozier bearer; the Rev.
Laurence Sheedy, book bearer; rhe
Rev. Edward Keller, candle bearer; the
Rev. George Murphy, holy water bear
er; the Rev. John Walsh, censer bear
er; and the Rev. John J. McCarthy and
the Rev. Charles J. Baum, masters of
ceremony.
Assisting Bishop Walsh at the con
secration of the high altar will be the
Rt. Rev. Msgr. Joseph L. O’Brien, pas
tor of St Patrick’s Church; the Rev.
John P. Clancy, Sumter, the Rev. Ward
F. Cleary, C. S. Sp.; the Rev. Daniel
O’Brien and other members of the
clergy; Father Wolfe, Father McCar
thy and Father Guinea will be mas
ters of ceremony, , .... ..... ■ i....
of priests ever gathered here at one
time.
The Most Rev. Eugene J. McGuin
ness, D, D., Bishop of Raleigh, offi
ciated at the Pontifical Mass, assisted
by the Rev. John P. Manley, superin
tendent of the Orphanage at Naza
reth, and the Rev. Dennis A. Lynch,
chancellor of the diocese; the Rev.
Peter Denges, formerly pastor, was
master of ceremonies. The Rev. F.
C. Gorham, pastor of St. Mary’s, was
in charge of the arrangements. About
forty priests attended.
Bishop McGuinness at the conclu
sion of the ceremony expressed his
felicitations to the parish and its
parishioners, and voiced the hope
that the next half-century will see
equal progress. His Excellency par
ticularly complimented the choir of
St. Mary’s Church, trained by the
Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of
Mary, who conduct the parish school.
Bishop McGuinness and the clergy
were entertained after the Mass at a
luncheon at the Goldsboro Women’s
Club.
The sermon was delivered by the
Rt. Rev. A. R Freeman, V. G.,
LL.D., pastor at Kinston, and for
sixteen years starting with 1915, pas
tor of St. Mary’s, Goldsboro. Mon
signor Freeman, a native of Golds
boro, where his family was one of
five Catholic families a half-century
ago, was the first resident pastor of
the parish.
Monsignor Freeman recalled that
the church, the golden jubilee of
•which was being observed, was erect
ed by the saintly Father Thomas
Price, co-founder of the Maryknoll
Fathers, who died on the missions
in China. Others in charge of the
parish included, in succession, Fath
er M. P. Scales, Father Patrick
Quinn, Father Thomas W. Stapleton,
Father William T. Whearty, Father
Charles B. Harrigan, and Father
Francis J. Gallagher, all of whom
attended Goldsboro as a mission, re
siding elsewhere.
Monsignor Freeman, the first resi
dent pastor, had the Rev. John P.
Manley and the Rev. Philip O’Mai a
as his assistants at different times.
The Rev. George A. Watkins was the
next pastor, followed by the Rev.
Dr. Francis J. Morrissy, the Rev.
Peter Denges and the present pas
tor. the Rdv. Francis J. Gorman. As
sistant pastors have included the
Rev. John B. Murphy, the Rev. Hugh
Dolan and the Rev. Dennis Lynch.
The five Catholic families in the
community when the present church
was built a half-century ago, were
the Freemans, the Griswolds, the
Kolbs, the Piedmonts and the Robin
sons. The Robinson family gave to
the state Judge William Smith
O’Brien Robinson, of the State Su-
peiror Court, and Col. Joseph Ed
ward Robinson, for forty years edi
tor of The Goldsboro Argus, and one
of the state’s leading editors The
Freeman family included Col. George
Kilby -Freeman, who rendeied the
diocese distinguished service in a
legal way, and who was a leader in
the state at the time of his early and
untimely death. Another notable Cath
olic from Goldsboro, in addition to
Monsignor Freeman, one of the most
widely known and beloved priests
of the South, was Mrs. Mary Pearce
Griswold, who taught in the city’s
schools for over forty years, and
who was a founder of the. Sunday
School.
The following article, entitled
“Bishop Eugene J. McGuinness:
Brotherhood of Man”, was writ
ten by R. C. Lawrence, Esq.. Luni-
berton, N. C., a prominent mem
ber of the North Carolina Bar,
for The State, a magazine of wide
influence in the Carolinas publish
ed in Raleigh, and appeared in a
recent issue. Mr. Lawrence in
forms us that he is not a Ca
tholic; “in fact, I am a Baptist,
but I believe all Carolina will ap
prove the sentiments expressed
in my article save a very few”,
and these he says do not give
him any concern. The Bulletin is
pleased to present this article both
as a tribute to Bishop McGuinness,
which is eminently merited, and
as an indication of the spirit of
the representative people of the
state, whose attitude Mr- Law
rence so ably reflects.
BY R. C. LAWRENCE, ESQ.,
When His Eminence. Cardinal Gib
bons, visited North Carolina in 1868,
the Catholics were but a feeble folk,
and you could hardly find one in a
Sabbath day’s journey. And how the
different denominations did kick and
bite one another back in those days.
The Baptists snapped at the Pres
byterians; the Presbyterians barked at
the Methodists; and when a Catholic,
hove in sight ALL of them left off
what they were doing and took after
him. It’s a far cry from that time
to the day when Pius XI passed to
his great reward. Then every Pro
testant eye in Carolina was wet
with tears because of the passing
from this world of the great Apostle
in the cause of peace and Christian
brotherhood.
Then came the day of the persecu
tions of the Jews in Germany, the
stark horror and cruelty which beset
that unhappy race—cruelty before
which Atilla, the Hun would have
blushed in shame. It brought an
offer from His Excellency, the Most
Reverend Eugene J. McGuinness,
Bishop of Raleigh, to give two hun
dred of these Hebrew refugees a
home in the Catholic Orphanage,
and allow them to be ministered to.
if desired, by a Rabbi of their own
faith. I think this .by far the big
gest thing that has been done in
Carolina since that day in 1924 when
James B- Duke announced the estab
lishment of his great foundation.
WILLIAM GASTON
1492 Spanish Letter
in Florida Library
ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla.—George A.
Zabriskie of Ormond Beach and New
York has presented to the library of
the Florida Historical Society a letter
signed by King Ferdinand and Queen
Isabella, written in 1942, the year in
which Columbus discovered America,
according to an announcement made
by Dr. A. J. Hanna, president. The
letter, in Spanish, is perfectly pre
served and is protected by a beauti
fully embossed leather case lined with
silk.
-O
The Catholic jurist, William Gaston,
was one of the most distinguished
stateman the South ever produced,
and he v/as the father of our state
song. When Bishop McGuinness made
his generous offer, I felt that the
spirit of Gaston brooded over him,
and that when the offer was made,
the spirit of Gaston summoned the
angelic choir to join him in swelling
the chorus of
“Carolina! Carolina! Heaven’s bless
ings attend her.”
Surely, if there were any last ling
ering trace of bigotry or narrow
sectarianism, it should disappear in
the face of such an exhibition of
Christian brotherhood, and it should
serve to demonstrate that the time
is ripe in Carolina for what Tenny
son called
“The Parliament of man, the Fed
eration of the world ”
Catholics and other minority sects
had a tough time of it from the be
ginning. The Constitution of 1776
provided that no minister should be
eligible to public office, nor should
anyone be eligible who denied the
truth of the Protestant religion, of
the inspiration of either the Old os
New Testaments. This was com
monly supposed to be directed against
the Catholics, Jews, Quakers, Men-
rioites and other minorities.
GOVERNOR BURKE
Acting under his authority, the
legislature expelled two ministers
who had been elected to that body.
It is a singular fact that both . of
them were thereafter elected to Con
gress, as of course the State ConsU-
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