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THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
FEBRUARY 24, 1940
News Review of the Catholic World
BOSTON JEWISH TAILOR
RECEIVES VATICAN AID
IN SEARCH FOR FAMILY
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
BOSTON. — After the Department
of State and the International Red
Cross had failed to find his wife and
two children in Poland, Jacob Freed-
'man, a Jewish tailor of this city,
wrote a letter to His Holiness Pope
Pius XII, and has now received word
from the Papal Secretary of State
that the members of his family are
well and safe in Warsaw, giving the
address.
This is set forth by The Boston
Globe in a copyrighted article, which
says Mr. Freedman received a letter
from His Eminence Luigi Cardinal
Maglione, Papal Secretary of State,
saying the Papal Secretariat of State
"begs to inform Mr. Jacob Freedman
that Mrs. Hanna Frydman and her
sons are in good health and reside
still in Warsaw, U-l Suadlecka, 18.”
The Globe quotes Mr. Freedman
as saying: “I don’t know the words
to express what I feel. That they
should take an interest in us, with
all the other things in the world to
worry them! I think it’s the finest,
most wonderful thing. So human, so
much love and humanity.”
SUPREME KNIGHT FRANCIS P.
MATTHEWS, in a message addressed
to all members of the Knights of Co
lumbus. printed in the magazine CO
LUMBIA. called for support of the
Catholic Press by active participation
in the observance of Catholic Press
Month in February.
THE K. OF C. have also circulated
a pamphlet entitled ' Catholic Press
Appeal—1940”, which announces a
subscription campaign and includes a
blank for use of those who wish to
subscribe to the paper in their dio
cese. The pamphlet gives in detail
the plan of the campaign, including
council, parish and community organ
izations and lists special projects to
accompany the observance of Catho
lic Press Month.
THE REV. JOHN BARRETT, noted
Redempto'ist missionary, stationed at
the Church of the Immaculate Con
ception, New York, is dead. Born in
Rutland. Vt., he was ordained by the
late Cardinal Hayes and won wide
note for the forceful sermons he
preached in his missions in New’
York City, Brooklyn, Boston and in
Orangeburg, S. C.
THE REV. HUGH O’DONNELL,
C. S. C- vice-president of the Uni
versity of Notre Dame, has been nam
ed acting president of the university
and superior of the Congregation of
.the Holy Cross at Notre Dame, suc
ceeding Bishop O'Hara. Father O'Don
nell will serve until the next formal
appointment of a president by the
provincial chapter which meets dur
ing the summer.
Spartanburg Women
Select New Officers
Mrs. Thomas F. Armstrong
Heads Council of Catholic
Women in Carolina City
(Spec’al to The Bulletin)
SPARTANBURG. S. C.-At a meet
ing of the Spartanburg Council of
Catholic Women, held at the rectory
of St. Paul’s Church, the following
officers were elected to serve for the
coming year: Mrs. Thomas F. Arm
strong, president: Mrs. Martin
O’Brien, vice-president; Miss Eliza
beth Rudisail, second vice-president:
Mrs. Guy Darst, Jr„ treasurer; Mrs.
James Crowley, as.-ystant treasurer;
Mrs. Adele M. Martin, secretary.
The following committee chairman
ship were announced: Membership,
Mrs. J. P. Siener; Social Service.
Mrs. Thomas K’iley and Mrs. Leonard
Becker; Publicity. Mrs. Leonard
Becker. Jr.: Visiting. Mrs. John S.
O’Neaill: Altars and Shrines. Mrs.
Theresa Sumner: Library and Litera
ture, Mrs. Guy Darst, jr.
As a subject the Study Club Group
has selected the encyclical of Pope
Pius VII on “Christian Unity,” and
the course, under the direction of
Mis. Guy Darst. Jr., will extend for a
six weeks’ period.
Mrs. Adele M. Martin will repre
sent the Council on the advisory
board of the new W. P. A. Home
Seivice Project, which has as its pur
pose the instruction of young women
in general duty in homes where the
family finances will not permit en
listing the services of paid nurses or
help.
Bishop of Raleigh Heads
Medical Mission Board
NEWy YORK.—All officers of the
Catholic Medical Mission Board were
re-elected at the annual meeting of
the Board held at headquarters here.
The Most Reverend Eugene J.\ Mc-
Guinness, Bishop of Raleigh, and the
Most Reverend William A. Griffin,
Auxiliary Bishop of Newark, will
again serve as Honorary Chairmen of
the Board and the Rev. Edward F-
Garesche, S. J., as President and Di-
sectM.
WATCHTOWER GROUP
FAILED TO COLLECT
Supreme Court Rejects Suit
for Damages Against Car
dinal Dougherty and Priests
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
PHILADELPHIA.—The decision of
an inferior court, finding for His
Eminence Dennis Cardinal Dougherty,
Archbishop of Philadelphia; the Rt.
Rev. Msgr. J. Carroll McCormick,
Chancellor; the Rev. James J. Clarke,
and the Archdiocese of Philadelphia
in a suit for $100,000 brought against
them by the Watch Tower Bible and
Tract Society, has been upheld and
reaffirmed in a decision handed
down by the Supreme Court of Penn
sylvania, Eastern District.
In its suit, the Watch Tower Bible
and Tract Society alleged that Father
Clarke had personally protested to a
Philadelphia radio station against its
broadcasting of “Judge” Rutherford
programs. It was also charged that
Father Clarke protested to the depart
ment store which controlled the radio
station, and asked that, if the Ruther
ford programs were to continue to be
broadcast, his name be taken from the
store’s charge account list. It was also
alleged that “defendants procured
their parishioners and other adherents
to write protesting and threatening
letters to the station and to the store
and to make personal visits and tele
phone calls to them.”
“The order of the court below was
proper,” the Supreme Court of Penn
sylvania states in settling the appeal.
“No valid cause of action was plead
ed. The defendants are leaders of
their church. They cannot be mulcted
in damage for protesting against the
utterances of one who they believe at
tacks their church and misrepresents
its teachings nor for inducing their
adherents to make similar protests. A
right of action does not arise merely
because a group withdraws its patron
age or threatens to do so and induces
others to do likewise where the ob
jects sought to be obtained are legiti
mate.”
Protestant Ministers
Ask for Prayer Book
by Monsignor Sheen
Non-Catholic Clergymen Ex
press Appreciation of
“Catholic Hour” Talk
(Bv N. C. W. C. News Service)
■WASHINGTON, — Included in the
avalanche of requests of copies of the
“Player Book for Our Times,” by the
Rt. Rev. Msgr. Fulton J. Sheen, and
for copies of the noted radio orator’s
current "Catholic Hour” addresses,
are many from Protestant ministers
and Sunday School teachers for dis
tribution to students in their schools,
the headquarters of the National
Council of Catholic Hen, producer of
the “Catholic Hour,' announces.
Following Monsignor Sheen’s an
nouncement in the "Catholic Hour”
on January 7 that the "Prayer Book
for Our Times” and his addresses
would be sent to listeners on request,
the headquarters of the National
Council of Catholic Men were flooded
with responses. This week the total
number of requests reached the 50,-
000 mark.
The requests from ministers were
in many cases accompanied by ex
pressions of praise and appreciation
for Monsignor Sheen's addresses. One
minister said he planned to read the
January 7 address from his own pul
pit.
One Reformed Church minister in
a New York suburb wrote:
“Dear Brother:
“I listened last evening with the
greatest of satisfaction and approval
to Father Sheen’s address over
WEAF. That address ought to be read
1 nevery pulpit in the United States.
Will you please send me a copy-
postage enclosed herewith. It will be
read from my own pulpit on the first
Lord's Day after it arrives.”
Another minister, of Dallas, Tex.,
wrote:
"Dear Sirs:
“I am addressing you for a copy of
the address delivered over the radio
this Sunday afternoon entitled
‘Whence Cometh War.’
“I am a minister of different faith,
but recognize the truth and virtue of
this masterful address and would like
to use it with full credit to the au
thor.
“It is high time men of all creeds
unite in an effort to turn the prodi
gal world back to God and the Sav
iour. God’s blessings on all honest
efforts to do so.”
The “Catholic Hour” is broadcast
each Sunday over a 94-station net
work of the National Broadcasting
Company through Station WEAF,
New York.
THE REVEREND TURIBUS Mulca-
hy, M. S. SST„ of St. Joseph’s Col
lege, Holy Trinity. Alabama, spoke on
the latest encyclical letter of Pope
Pius XII at a reecnt meeting of Altar
and Rosary Society of Fort Benning
Georgia.
Father Turibus served in the Ameri
can Army as an ofieer during the
World War and practiced law in New
York before catering the priesthood.
Travel Icy Roads
to Attend Mission
Tennesseans Brave Sub-
Zero Temperatures Night
After Night
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
ALTO, Tenn.—Persons traveled as
much as 29 miles each night with the
temperature at five degrees below
zero to attend a Mission given by
the Paulist Fathers in their new
Church of St. Margaret Mary, here.
The Paulist Fathers have made this
church one of the centers of their
trailer mission work out of Winchest
er, Tenn., and following the retreat
the Most Rev. William L. Adrian,
Bishop of Nashville, confirmed a
class of 40 adults and children, almost
all of them converts. Some of the
adults had been under instruction
for three years.
One hundred and seventy-five per
sons attended the Mission. More
than a hundred of these were non-
Catholics. The Catholic children
making the Mission offered up their
sufferings from the cold that mem
bers of their families and friends
might be brought into the Church.
Five persons were baptized on Sun
day, the last day of the Mission. Those
making the Mission came to the
church in the morning, had lunch
here at noon, and awaited the arrival
of Bishop Adrian in the afternoon.
Arrangements are being made for
the erection of a new Catholic church
in Tullahoma. Property has been
acquired on the Shelbyville pike,
three blocks from the center of Tul
lahoma.
Savannah Plans for
St. Patrick’s Day
Arrangements Being Made
for Festival’s Observance
This Y'ear on March 16th
SAVANNAH, Ga.—Due to the fact
that Palm Sunday falls on March
17th this year, plans are being made
for the usual elaborate observance of
the Feast of St. Patrick, which will
be advanced to March I6th.
Announcement has been made by
M. C. McCarty, chairman of a com
mittee that held a conference with
the Rev. Thomas I. Sheehan, pastor
of St. Patrick’s Church, relative to
the religious features of the celebra
tion, that services at the church will
be concluded in time to allow those
attending the mass to participate in
the parade, which will be one of the
features of the day's celebration.
Robert F. Downing has been chosen
as general chairman of the parade
committee, with Frank Rossiter as
secretary, and Captain F. E. Ducey,
commander of the Irish Jasper
Greens, as adjutant. Others of the
committee are Harry Middleton. J.
H. Heagarty, M.'C. McCarthy. W. F.
McKay, P. J. Buttimer, John J.
Fc„..rtv.
Speakers at the luncheon, which
will be served at the De Soto Hotel,
following the parade, will include
Major General James C. Breckin
ridge, U. S. M. C., commanding of
ficer at the Parris Island Marine
Base, and the Rev. Daniel J. Rourke,
of the Cathedral of St. John the Bap
tist. Andrew J. Ryan, Jr., assistant
solicitor general, and grand knight of
Savannah Council Knights of Colum
bus, will act as toastmaster.
It is expected that the Most Rev
erend Gerald P. O'Hara, Bishop of
Savannah-Atlanta, will return from
his South American voyage in time
for the affair. Mayor Thomas
Gamble and Judge James P. Houli
han, chairman of the Board of County
Commissioners, will be honor guests.
It has been announced that the
Reverend Joseph G. Cassidy, of
Thomasville, will respond to the
toast, "The Day We Celebrate”, at
the annual banquet of the Hibernian
Society which will be held in Savan
nah on March 16th.
NEW OFFICERS NAMED
BY SAVANNAH CENTRE
Col. John G. Butler Elected
President of the Catholic
Community Centre
SAVANNAH. Ga. — Election of
Col. John G. Butler, as president of
the Catholic Community Center, for
a seventeen term, has been announc
ed by James J. Monahan, secretary.
Other officers elected included Jo
seph M. Maddock, vice-president; C.
F. Powers, treasurer; J. J. Monahan,
secretary; and C. A. McCarthy, as
sistant secretary.
The new Board of Directors will
include Henry S. Ray. J. B. Maddock,
Dan J. Sheehan, William A. Saun
ders, J. P. McDonald. John S. Robert
son, Jr.. Hugh H. Grady. James F.
Glass, W. T. Walsh, M. J. O'Leary, C.
F. Powers, J. J. Monahan. A. J. Ryan,
Jr., Thomas F. Walsh, William J. Ry
an, Mrs. C. F. Powers, Mrs. Claudia
Gannon, John G. Butler, John J.
Powers, and C. A. McCarthy.
Various committee reports showed
that the affairs of the Catholic Com
munity Center were hi excellent con
dition. and it h*s been voted that
$1,000 in bends be setired during Feb
ruary. ... ......
Ohio Minister Advocates
“Secretary of Religion”
(By N.C.W.C. News Service)
CLEVELAND.—The suggestion that
a "Secretary of Religion” be appoint
ed in the president's cabinet was made
by Dr. Edwin McNeill Poteat of the
Euclid Avenue Baptist Church, speak
ing in the Cleveland Sunday Evening
Religious Hour.
It would be the concern of the sec
retary of religion, he said, to promote
and cultivate spiritual life throughout
the country. Political leaders, he re
marked, have come to realize de
mocracy cannot be saved without the
help of religion, yet they do little to
halt the wave of secularism in this
country.
“It is claimed that an army and a
navy are essential to the preservation
of democracy, and we have secretaries
for these departments,” he said.
"Would it not be logical also to have
a government secretary for religion,
especially since w’e are now discover
ing that democracy cannot exist with
out religion?
"The doctrine of the separation of
Church and State is uniquely Ameri
can. We should remember, however,
that it was the aim of the founders
of the Constitution to divide the in
stitution of religion from religion as
such. They had no intention of sep
arating religion power from govern
ment, or of crystallizing distrust of
religion. It is at this point we have
gone astray.
"We say that a State Church is a
hateful thing, but we need also to
say that an irreligious State is a dan
gerous thing. While we acknowledge
the disaster which followed the dose
union of the church with corrupt
government of Czarist Russia and the
subservience of the church to the gov
ernment of Germany, we must ask
ourselves: Is disaster to ensue here in
America through the indifference
which arises because the state cannot
interfere to maintain the religious life
necessary to the preservation of our
democracy? To my mind, the state
should be just as vigilant against ir-
religion as against the union of
Church and State.”
Augusta Combating
Indecent Literature
Catholic Women Invite
Protestants and Jewish
Leaders to Aid in Campaign
AUGUSTA, Ga.—At a round-table
conference sponsored by the Augusta
Deanery, National Council of Catholic
Women, the aid of Augusta's major
religious and civic groups was enlisted
in the campaign to rid the newsstands
of the city of indecent literature.
Plans were discussed for furthering
the movement, and suggestions were
offered for effectively combating the
sale of publications that are regarded
as a menace to morals.
Those invited to attend the session,
which was hedd at the Hotel Rich
mond, were the Rev. James A. Gree
ley, S. J., representing the Catholics,
the Rev. John E. Hines, pastor of St.
Paul’s Episcopal Church, and the Rev.
J. P. Sheffield, pastor of the North
Augusta Baptist Church, representing
the Ministerial Association; Rabbi
Louis A. Josephson, representing the
Jewish congregations; Mrs. I. C. Levy,
of the Federation of Womens Clubs;
Mayor James Wooddall, S. D. Cope
land, superintendent of public schools;
Judge H. A. Woodward of the Juvenile
Court, representatives from the local
newspapers, and The Bulletin. Mrs.
Ethel K. Lynch and Mrs. Norman
Boatwright, represented the N. C.
C. W.
Atlanta Parish N. C. C. W.
Installs New Officers
ATLANTA Ga—Mrs. Reyburn L.
Watkins, state president of the Na
tional Council of Catholic Women
delivered an address at the recent
meeting of the Immaculate Concep
tion Parish Branch, and Mrs. W. J.
McAlpin, president of the Atlanta
Deanery, N. C. C. W. was another
guest speaker.
Officers installed for the ensuing
year were: Mrs. H. H. McLauchlin,-
president; Mrs. W. D. Zink, vice-
president; Mrs. L. B. Bowen, secre
tary; Mrs. Grover Heyser. modera
tor; Mrs. Willa Belle McLauchlin,
publicity chairman; Mrs. L. A.
Karst, library and literature chair
man; Mrs. D. A. Salome, shrines in
the home chairman; Mrs. M. B. Cole
and Mrs. J. L. Metcalf, committee
chairman, St. Thomas Vocational
School.
Affiliated with the parish council of
the N. C. C. W. are the Immaculate
Conception Parent-Teachers Associa
tion, Young Matrons Circle, and
Altar Society.
IMMACULATE CONCEPTION
ALTAR SOCIETY OFFICERS
At the January meeting of the
Immaculate Conception Altar Society
the following officers were installed:
Mrs. J. J. Bart, president; Mrs. Grover
Heyser, vice-president; Mrs. Hilda
Johann, second vice-president; Mrs.
J. J. Nicholson, third vice-president;
Mrs. Mary B. Cole, treasurer; Mrs.
Willa Belle McLaughlin, secretary;
and the telephone committee com
posed of Mrs. Victor Lambert, Mrs
Mary Nicholson. Mrs. Ella Tribble
and Mrs. W. T. Weymouth.
Photoplay Portrays
Noted Father Duffy
“The Fighting 69” Based on
Exploits of Chaplain of
New York Regiment
NEW YORK—“The Fighting 69th”,
a motion picture in which the late
Rev. Francis P. Duffy, Catholic chap
lain of “the fighting 69th”, is portray
ed as the hero, had its premiere here.
Also portrayed in the film was
Sgt. Joyce Kilmer, Catholic poet,
who was one of the members of the
“69th”, which was a predominantly
Irish regiment of New Yorkers, also
known as the 165th Infantry. He was
killed in action in France on July
30.
The picture closes with a scene in
which Father Duffy is shown in a
prayer for peace. A bronze statue
of Father Duffy, showing him in
the uniform of a major, stands now
in a section at the northern end of
Times Square. The area where the
statue stands has been named Duffy
Square.
As a prelude to the premiere of the
motion picture tribute to Father
Duffy, the Most Rev. John F. O'Hara,
Auxiliary Bishop of the Army and
Navy Diocese, and three leading
actors in the film, Pat O'Brien, Jim
my Cagney and Jeffrey Lynn, paid
tribute to Father Duffy Wednesday
in ceremonies at the statue in Times
Square.
About 5,000 persons attended the
ceremony. Bishop O’Hara said their
presence was a tribute to men who
gave their lives to make a world safe
from war.
“The issue today is clearer than
ever before”, he said. “There will
be no peace until the recognition of
God and of the Prince of Peace is
universal. In revering these brave
men as you have done today, you
pay reverance to their heavenly
Father, from Whom, alone, the bless
ings of peace may come”.
sisterTof providence
OPEN CENTENNIAL YEAR
North Carolina Community
Commemorates Founding
of Order in United States
WILSON, N. C.—The Chapel of St.
Therese was filled with pupils and
friends of the Sisters of Providence
who celebrated the formal opening of
the Centenary Year of their com
munity with a high mass at which
the Rev. Francis J. McCloud was
celebrant.
The girls’ choir of St. Therese
School sang, with Mrs. Harry Pelton
at the organ.
Father McCodrt delivered an in
teresting discourse on the foundation
of this community at St. Mary-of-
the-Woods, Indiana, by the Venerable
Anne Therese Guerin, of Etables,
France, known in her community as
Mother Theodore.
This congregation is now active
in the archdioeses of Baltimore,
Washington, Boston. Chicago and
in the dioceses of Fort Wayne Indian
apolis, Los Angeles. San Diego. Okla
homa City, Peoria. Rockford and
Raleigh, and maintains missions in
China.
The centennial will extend through
next October 22 the 100th anniversary
of the arrival at St. Mary-of-the-
Woods of six Sisters of Providence
from Ruille sur Loir. France, under
the leadership of Mother Theodore
Guerin.
St. Mary's-of-the-Woods, founded
in 1840 as a convent of the Sisters of
Providence, and a school for gills,
is now the Mother Hosue of the Sis
ters of Providence in America and
one of the country's leading institu
tions of learning. The order now
maintains seventy-eight subordinate
convents and schools throughout the
United States.
The Most Reverend Joseph E. Ritter,
Bishop of Indianapolis, and Right
Rev. Monsignor Raymond R. Noll. V.
G., participated in the opening cere
mony of the centennial observance
at St. Mary-of-the-Woods.
CENTENNIAL MASS SUNG
AT BURLINGTON. N. C.
BURLINGTON, N. C.-Commemo-
rating the foundation of the Sisters
of Providence in America, one hun
dred years ago, at St. Mary-of-the-
Woods, Indiana, a high mass was
celebrated by the Reverend John F.
Roueche, at the Blessed Sacrament
Church, on January 23, for the Sisters
and pupils of the Blessed Sacrament
School, which is conducted by the
Sisters of Providence.
All of the students of the school,
and their parents attended the ser
vices, during which the children's
choir sang the Choral Mass, by March.
North Carolina Priest
Offers Requiem Mass
MT. AIRY, N. C.—A Requiem Mass
was celebrated in the Church of the
Holy Angels, by the Rev. Herbert A.
Harkins, pastor, for the repose of the
soul of Sister Marie de Sacre Couer,
eldest sister of Saint Therese of the
Child Jesus, whose death occurred at
Lisieux, France, last month.
During the summer of 1939, when
Father Harkins visited Lizieux. the
sister of the "Little Flower” was pres
ent on several, occasions when be said