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VOL. XX. No. 12
TWENTY-EIGHT PAGES AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, DECEMBER 23, 1939
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Reds Acclaim Atheistic Efforts in Poland
Bulletins
HEY WOOD BROUN, noted column
ist. who became a Catholic last May,
died Monday after an illness of onlv
a few days. The Rt. Rev. Msgr. Ful
ton Sheen of the Catholic University
of America delivered the sermon at
the funeral Wednesday in St. Patrick’s
Cathedral. New York. Mr. Broun was
received into the Church at St. Pat
rick’s the day Archbishop Spellman
was installed.
THE HOLY FATHER has not, as
reported in some secular publications
cancelled general audiences as a
health precaution. The report follow
ed the cancelling of one general audi
ence because it conflicted with an
Advent sermon to be delivered in the
presence of His Holiness.
OBERAMMERGAU announced that
its famed Passion Play will not be
Iield until one year after tire close of
the war. the second time in recent
decades that was has caused the can
celling of the 300 year presentation.
Y
MSGR. ALEXANDRE VACHON,
rector of Laval University and vicar-
general of the Archdiocese of Quebec,
internationally known as a scientist,
has been named coadjutor of Ottawa.
Holding doctorates in theolggy and
science in the fields of biology and
chemistry, Msgr. Vachon subsequently
did further work at Harvard and Mas
sachusetts Tech; two secular universi
ties, McGill at Montreal and Queen’s
at Kingston, Ont., have conferred on
him the degree of Doctor of Laws.
SISTER MARIE ELISE BLOUIN,
head of the French Department at
Seton Hill College, Grecnsburg, Pa.,
has had the honor of “Officier d’Acad
emic” conferred on her by the French
government. Sister Mary Elise holds
her master’s degree from McGill Uni
versity and her doctorate from the
University of Montreal.
MSGR. ARTHUR DOUVILLE, su
perior of the Apoltolic Colluge at
Levis, Quebec, has been named Aux
iliary Bishop of Ste. Hyacinthe. Mon
signor Douville received degrees ot
doctor of theology, philosophy and
canon law in Rome.
Auxiliary Bishop
Very Rev. John F. O'Hara, C.S.C.
NOTRE DAME HEAD
IS NAMED BISHOP
Father O’Hara Auxiliary to
Archbishop Spellman as
Army and Navy Ordinary
(By N. C. W. C- News Service)
W ASHINGT ON—The American
Hierarchy is given two additional
members; the Diocese of the Army
and Navy, without an Ordinary since
the death of Cardinal Hayes of New
York, is given both a new head and
an Auxiliary Bishop; and the resig
nation of one American Bishop is
announced, in connection with the
PATRICK CONDON, who recently
had the privilege of seeing his son
consecrated Bishop of Great Falls,
Mont., is dead in Spokane, Wash., at
81. Two of his daughters became
Benedictine nuns.
THE REV. JAMES M. GILHS, C. S.
P„ editor of The Catholic World, is
current Catholic Hour speaker, spoil-
sore by tire National Council of Cath
olic Men through facilities of the Na
tional Broadcasting Company every
Sunday at six, Eastern Standard Time.
MONSIGNOR LAVELLE, for over
a half-century rector of St. Patrick’s
Cathedral, New York, left an estate
valued at less than ten thousand dol-
lars, ?5,000 of which was bequeathed
to the Society for the Propagation of
the Faith and the residue to Arch
bishop Spellman for cliaritable pur
poses.
MSGR. JOSEPH A. CUNNANE, the
oldest pastor and the oldest priest in
the Archdiocese of Baltimore, died
there last week at 8G. Monsignor Cun-
nane was a native of Louisiana, was
reared in Baltimore, was a friend of
Cardinal Gibbons when the latter *. as
a seminarian and a visitor at the
family home.
Consistory held in Vatican City.
These announcements were made
in Washington by the Most Rev.
Amleto Giovanni Cicognani, Apos
tolic Delegate to the United States.
The Most Rev. Francis Ij. Spell
man, Archbishop of New York, is
named by the Holy Father to be
Bishop Ordinary for the Army and
Navy.
The Very Rev. John F. O’Hara, C.
S. C., president of the University of
Notre Dame, is named Auxiliary
Bishop of the Army and Navy
Diocese, with the Titular See of
Milasa. He will resign his post at
Notre Dame, which he has headed
since 1934. His canonical term would
expire next year.
The Rt. Rev. Msgr. Albert Lewis
Fletcher, Vicar General of the Diocese
of Little Rock, is named Auxiliary
Bishop of Little Rock, with the Titu
lar See of Samos.
The resignation is announced of
the most Rev. Vincent Wehrle. O.
S. B., Bishop of Bismarck, together
with his transfer to the Titular See
of Teos- The Very Rev. Joseph
Raith, who has been Vicar General
is designated Administrator of the
Diocese of Bismarck.
Holy Name Groups of Nation
Will Unite in Peace Prayers
(By N. C. W. News Service)
NEW YORK—In response to the
plea of His Holiness Pope Pius XII
for prayers for peace the Holy Name
men of the United - States are to
unite in a day of prayer and gen
eral Communion on January 14, the
second Sunday in January for the
intention of the Holy Father, it was
announced by the Rev. H. C. Gra
ham. O. P., national director of the
Holy Name Societies.
Under the guidance of the Hier
archy of the United States, the dio
cesan directors are organizing the
men in this concerted prayer that
hostilities might cease.
By a rescript of the Holy See, the
the second Sunday in January is
designated for the public celebra
tion of the Feast of the Holy Name.
It is planned to have tire entire mem
bership. as well as those men who
are not actively allied with the so
ciety, offer their Communion on
that day for tlie intention of the
Pope.
In his first Encyclical, Sununi
Pontificates, the Holy Father en
joined the faithful of the world to
storm Heaven with pleas that an
early end be brought to the de
vastation that is now threatening so
much of the world. It is with this
injunction in mind that the Holy
Name men will unite.
Father Graham will deliver the
sermon over the nation-wide hook
up of the “Church of the Air” series
of the Columbia Broadcasting Sys
tem on that Sunday. His topic will
be: “The Holy Name Man and the
Pope's Plea for Peace.” The broad
cast will take place between l and
1:30 p. m., Eastern Standard Time.
“RUSSIAN GODLESS”
DEMAND OFFICIALS
SUPPRESS GHURCHES
Hugh Kinchley of Augusta
Is Named Bulletin Editor
Editor of Bulletin
Mt. St. Mary’s Alumnus and
Former Newspaperman to
Manifesto Also Asks That
Priests and Ministers Be
Forbidden to Officiate
(Special Correspondence, N. C. W. C.
News Service)
AMSTERDAM.—"The twelfth hour
of the struggle against religion in East
ern and Southeastern Europe has
struck.” says a manifesto just re
leased by the Soviet Godless Associa
tion headquarters in Moscow.
“The victorious Red Army,” the
manifesto adds," has marched into
Finland,, Our troops will carry on
and will take with them proudly the
banner of the atheist movement. The
struggle against religious faith, now-
enters a decisive stage. Supported by
the bayonets of the Red Army, the
fighting godless are moving nearer the
hour of their great suceess in Eastern
and Southeastern Europe. While
marching'further on westward, they
will have to consider the Nazi Reich
as a territory of transit for the god
less movement. Hitler’s Reich will
(Continued on Page Fourteen)
HUGH KINCHLEY
Apostolic Delegate’s Book
Expresses Hope for Early
Canonization of Americans
Succeed Richard Reid
AUGUSTA. Ga. —Hugh Hinchley,
former Augusta newspaperman, and
in recent years a widely known ac
countant, has been named executive
secretary of the Catholic Laymen's
Association of Georgia and editor of
The Bulletin by the executive board
of the Catholic Laymen's Association,
succeeding Richard Reid, editor and
executive secretary for the past nine
teen years. Dr. J. Reid Broderick,
of Savannah, president of the Asso
ciation announces. Mr. Reid goes to
New York to become editor of The
Catholic News there. Mr. Kinchley
assumes his new duties January 1.
Bom in Augusta, Mr. Kinchley has
been a lifelong resident of the city,
except when his attendance at col
lege and his professional work called
him elsewhere temporarily. He is
the son of the late Edward Kinchley
and Mrs. Clair Dempsey Kinchley,
members of pioneer Augusta families.
He is a descendant of Colonel
Michael Boisclair, who was a French
refugee from San Domingo, and who
commanded the Richmond Hussars
at the time when LaFayette visited
Augusta. His maternal grandfather
was Hugh Dempsey, who came to
Augusta prior to the Civil War, and
who was for many years an official
of the Southern Express Company, of
which he was one of the incorpora
tors. The first Kinchley in Georgia
was Michael Kinchley. who came to
Savannah from Ireland more than
a century ago.
Heroic Careers of Religious
Reviewed in Work by Arch
bishop Cicognani
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
WASHINGTON.—“May it please Di
vine Providence to grant that America
may soon venerate in its churches a
goodly number of'its own saints; and
may the fervent prayers of the faith
ful hasten such a joyous event for
the spiritual glory of this great na
tion!”
This is the wish of His Excellency
the Most Rev. Amleto Giovanni Ci
cognani. Apostolic Delegate to the
United States, contained in the intro
duction to his book, “Sanctity in
America”. The publisher is the St.
Anthony Guild Press, Paterson, N. J.
Containing 154 pages and compris
ing seventeen chapters, each devoted
to Servants of God whose sanctity has
enriched this nation, the book is in
tended to bring to general knowledge
the heroism of the virtues of those
whose fame has aroused in the Amer
ican people a desire for canonical pro
cesses leading to the glory of the
altar.
“This unpretentious volume.” says
His Excellency in the Introduction,
‘is compiled in the desire to show that,
in the United States, ‘floribus eius nec
rosae nel lilia desunt’—‘neither roses
nor lilies are wanting among its flow
ers'.”
“The Supreme Pontiff Pope Pius XI.
of revered memory,"Archbishop Ci
cognani writes, “received with pater
nal love and special interest the peti
tions formulated to promote the
Causes of beatification and canoniza
tion of the Servants of God of this
nation. Such interest is attested by
the beatification of Mother Frances
Xavier Cabrini, the first American cit
izen elevated to the honors of the
altar. Many times the deceased Pon
tiff was pleased to repeat that such
beatifications would benefit Amer
ica, giving it ‘powerful spiritual cur
rents.'
“Our Holy Father Pope Pius 2JII,
gloriously reigning, has shown the
same paternal and heartfelt interest.
Many times His Holiness has men
tioned these American causes and ex
pressed his desire that they may be
completed. In the audience granted
to me on July 14 of the present year,
the august Pontiff made detailed men
tion of Venerable John Neumann,
Mother Philippine Duchesne, Mother
Elizabeth Seton and the Indian virgin
Cateri Tekakwitha. recalling how I
had spoken to him of Mother Seton
during his visit to the United States.
His Holiness even indicated the exact
time of our conversation, the evening
of October 21, 1836, while I had the
honor of motoring with him from
Baltimore to Washington.”
The first chapter of the book is de
voted to the Jesuit Martyrs of North
(Continued on Page Fourteen)
DECENT LITERATURE
CAMPAIGN ENDORSED
By Chamber of Commerce,
Boy Scouts, Newspapers
and Others in Augusta
AUGUSTA. Ga.—The campaign for
decency in literature being sponsored
by the Council of Catholic Women
here has been featured in recent days
by the adoption of resolutions en
dorsing it by the Chamber of Com
merce and the Augusta Area Council.
Boy Scouts of America. The Kiwanis
Club also approved of the campaign
after an address on it by; the Rev. Har
old J. Barr, who likewise described
the effort to the directors of the
Chamber of Commerce. The endorse
ment of the Boy Scouts came unso
licited. The Augusta Herald has en
dorsed the campaign editorially and
the Augusta Chronicle endorsed it
previously.
REV. J. W. COURTNEY. S. J., of
Spring Hill College, was the Decem
ber speaker at the evening meeting
of the Sacred Heart Council of the
National Council of Catholic Women,
his subject being “A Plea for Au
thority and Obedience '.‘Father Court
ney gave a series of Lenten sermons
in Augusta some years ago and has
many friends here.
(By. N. C. W C. News Service)
VATICAN CITY—“The new fable
and the old reality” is he heeling of
an editorial in which Conte Giuseppe
Dalla Torre, director of L’Osserva-
tore Romano, condemns Russian in
vasion of Finland. The editor draws
comparisons between the “lamb and
wolf’ peace protestations of Soviet
Russia last May. and the “elephant
and gnat” fear of Stalin that Finland
menaces Russia.
The Russo-Finnish conflict, the di
rector of L'Osservatore Romano com
ments. shows that there is nothing
to distinguish the “bolshevist human
morality" of Stalin and Molotov from
that of the bourgeoisie. When Stalin
spoke of peace last spring, it is re
called, the “victims of aggression”
were told they might rely on “the
Russian army and navy” and “the
moral support of the workers of the
entire world who have a vital in
terest in the maintenance of peace-"
After graduating from St. Patrick’s
School in Augusta, Mr. Kinchley at
tended Mount St. Mary's College,
Emmitsburg. Md., and then returned
to Augusta to enter the cotton busi
ness. becoming a member of the firm
of J. P. Doughty, Jr., leading Au
gusta cotton factors. Retiring from
the cotton business, he engaged in
accounting and auditing, his particu
lar field when a member of the cot
ton firm, and is now connected with
the income tax unit of the Depart
ment of Revenue of the State of
Georgia, from which he retires to ac
cept the post with the Catholic Lay
men's Association and The Bulletin.
He is married to the former Miss
Marie Brenner, of Augusta.
Newspaper work has for years
been an avocation of Mr. Kinchley.
He conducted a sports column for
some time in the Augusta Chronicle,
and Herald and has represented Uni
versal and International News Service
United Press and the New York
Herald-Tribune in Augusta, parti
cularly when doing auditing and ac
counting work at the Bon Air-Van-
derbilt Hotel, a noted Augusta tourist
center.
Mr. Kinchley has been active in
Catholic circles in Augusta since his
earliest years. He was the first sec
retary of the Augusta branch of the
Catholic Laymen's Associaiton of
Georgia, and attended the first re
treat sponsored by the Laymen’s
Association at St. Stanislaus' Col
lege. Macon, in 1921. making several
of the Georgia retreats since that
time in Augusta and North Caro-
But such talk, it is pointed out, is
“theorization” for “it is the mind
and the will of the great revolution
that it must compensate on earth
for the repudiated Paradise in
heaven.”
In a preceding issue of L'Osserva
tore, Gonella had said that the “bor
der incident" that brought on ttie
Russian invasion of Finland was one
of two things, “either pure fiction”
or an “unfortunate accident”. Fin
land, in its note, he added, had con
ceded the possibility of the second
hypothesis, but -Russia.- apparently,
had been waiting to take advantage
of “a possible incident to obtain by
threat a large part of what she had
not obtained through negotiation.”
As evidence of this contention, he
Pointed out that “within three hours
of the incident all Russia was in
formed of it, contrary to the tradi
tional tardiness of Soviet news ser
vices.”
(Continued on Page Fourteen)
Reds in Finland Denounced
by “Osservatore” Director