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“To Bring About
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VOL. xxi. No. 3 TWENTY PAGES AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, MARCH 23, 1940
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PIUS XII RECEIVES
MYRON C. TAYLOR
Letter From President
Roosevelt Delivered to His
Holiness
(Cable, N. C. W_ C. News Service)
VATICAN CITY—His Holiness
Pope Pius XII received in audience
Myron C. Taylor, whom President
Roosevelt has sent to be a special
representative at the Vatican.
The Holy Father received from Mr.
Taylor's hand a letter from President
Roosevelt in which he expressed the
hope that his representative “may be
a channel of communication for any
views you and I may wish to ex
change in the interest of concord
among peoples of the world”.
The President addressed the Holy
Father as “my good and old friend”,
and told desires for the “re-establish
ment of a more lasting peace” among
nations.
This reception by the Sovereign
Pontiff followed by 24 hours a con
versation which Mr. Taylor had with
His Eminence Luigi Cardinal Mag-
lione, Papal Secretary of State, and
by less than two days his arrival at
Naples.
No Formal Speeches
The reception itself was marked
by simplicity. There was no formal
presentation of' credentials nor any
formal speeches such as usually ac
company such ceremonies. The
ceremony lasted 43 minutes, but for
33 Oi these the Holy Father engaged
Mr. Taylor in private conversation.
1 he audience took place in the
small throne room, rather than the
large one. The Sovereign Pontiff re
called his visit to the United States
in the Fall of 1936, when he was
Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli. His Holi
ness was Mr. Taylor’s guest in New
York at one time during this visit.
Saying he has great admiration and
affection for them, the Holy Father
asked Mr. Taylor to convey his best
wishes to President Roosevelt and
the people of the United States-
Mr. Taylor, who is staying at the
Hotel Excelsior in Rome, went to
the audience in an automobile sent
for him by the Vatican authorities.
He was conducted at once to the
throne room where the audience took
place, and after a few minutes all
others except the Holy Father and
Mr. Taylor withdrew from the room-
Following his private conversation
with the Sovereign Pontiff, Mr- Tay
lor presented Harold H. Tittman, Jr.,
United States Consul General at
Geneva, who has been assigned to
Mr. Taylor as secretary.
Subseuently, Mr. Taylor went to
make a formal call on Cardinal Mag-
lione. He told newspapermen that
Pope Pius received him with “great
dignity and kindness” and that he
found the Holy Father looking “very
well indeed”.
‘Channel of Communication’
The letter from President Roose
velt which Mr. Taylor presented to
Pope Pius XII read as follows:
“Your Holiness:
“In my letter of December 23,
1939, I had the honor to suggest that
it would give me great satisfaction
to send to you my own representa
tive in order that, our parallel en
deavors for peace and the allevia
tion of suffering might be assisted.
“Your Holiness was good enough
to reply that the choice of Mr. Myron
C. Taylor as my representative was
acceptable and that you would re
ceive him.
“I am entrusting this special
message to Mr. Taylor, who is a very
old friend of mine and. in whom I
repose the utmost confidence. His
humanitarian efforts in behalf of
those whom political disruption has
rendered homeless are well known
to Your Holiness.
“I shall be happy to feel that he
may be a channel of communication
for any views you and I may wish to
exchange in the interest of concord
among peoples of the world.
“I am asking Mr. Taylor to convey
m> cordial greetings to you, my old
and good friend, and my sincere hope
that the common ideals of religion
and humanity itself can have a
united expression for the re-cstablish-
ment of a more permanent peace on
the foundation of freedom and assur
ance of the life and integrity of all
nations under God-
“Cordially, your friend,
“FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT”.
MICHAEL J. KENNEDY, Member
of the house of Representatives, from
New York, introduced in the Con
gressional Record the sermon preach
ed by the Most FOev. Francis J. Spell
man, Archbishop of New York, on
the occasion of his solemn investiture
with the sacred pallium.
St. Catherine of Siena Church
Beauty and simplicity are combined in the Church o f St. Catherine of Siena, Wake Forest. North Carolina,
which was recently dedicated by the Most Rev. Eugene J. McGuinness, D. D.. Bishop of Raleigh. St. Catherine's
the first Catholic church at Wake Forest, erected throu gh the generosity of Papal Countess Katherine Price, of
Greenwich, Conn., was designed by Frank Frimmer, of Tampa, Florida.
St. Catherine of Siena Church,
Wake Forest, N. C., Dedicated
Most Reverend Eugene J. McGuinness, D. D., Bishop of
Raleigh Officiates at Dedication of New Church, the
Gift of Countess Price
WAKE FOREST, N. C- — Catholics received that honor in recognition of
arid Protestants, students and towns
people, gathered at Wake Forest, on
Sunday, February 25, ftr the Solemn
Pontifical High Mass and dedication
of the new Church of St. Catherine of
Siena.
His Excellency, the Most Reverend
Eugene J. McGuinness, D- D., Bishop
of Raleigh, officiated at the dedica
tion ceremony and was celebrant of
the Mass. The Rev. Denis A. Lynch,
Chancellor of the Diocese of Raleigh,
was Arch-Priest. The Rev. Frank
Scheurich. pastor of the Sacred Heart
Church, Dunn, N. C., was deacon of
the Mass, with the Rev. Arnold Joel,
O- M. C., sub-deacon. Deacons of hon
or were the Rev. Maurice McDonnell,
O S. B., and the Rev. William Mc
Laughlin, C.SS R. The Rev. John A.
Brown and the Rev. Thomas A. Wil
liams, acted as masters-of-ceremonies.
The dedication sermon was delivered
by the Rev. John A. Beshel of Re
gina Apostolorum Mission Center of
the North Carolina Apostolate, Naz
areth.
Bishop McGuinness thanked town
and college authorities for their
friendly attitude and commented up
on the presence of a number of pro
fessors in the congregation. He said,
“We are not in Wake Forest for the
purpose of proselyting. We despise
the word. We are here to strengthen
the faith in our own people and to
extend the hand of charity and friend
ship to others ”
To Appoint Pastor
He told the members of the new
parish of Wake Forest, to which the
mission at Wendell will be attached,
that a permanent pastor would be ap
pointed in the near future and ser
vices would be held each day.
Heretofore the Catholics of Wake
Forest and the Catholic students at
Wake Forest College had attended
Mass once a week in a railroad chap
el car and before that every other
Sunday in a private home.
The rectory is a two-story stone cot
tage which forms a right angle with
the rear of the church. The church
itself is a modified Gothic on the ex
terior and the Roman type of archi
tecture inside, with barrel ceiling, but
without the columns of a basilica. It
was designed by Frank Frimmer, 6f
Tampa, Florida, who also furnished
the plans for many other churches in
this section-
Gift of Papal Countess
Both church and rectory were built
through the generosity of Papal
Countess Katherine Price, of Green
wich. Connecticut, who was present
for the dedication. Tile donor of the
rew church is one of two papal.coun^
her great service to the Church. Oth
er evidence of her aid is the remod
eled interior of the Cathedral at Ral
eigh.
Music for the Mass was rendered by
the children’s choir of the Cathedral
Le tin School, Raleigh-
St. Catherine’s is the seventh new
church in the Diocese of Raleigh to
be dedicated in the»two years since
Bishop McGuinness succeeded Bish
op Hafey. Other new churches are
being constructed in several places
in North Carolina.
Mexican School Law
Bans Home Teaching
Imposes Censorship on Out-
of-School Religious Educa
tion
MEXICO CITY. — Mexico’s new
Education Law, now in effect, has
gone beyond the previous Godless
and socialistic mandates in the
schools themselves and imposed a
censorship on any institution, and
even individuals, who impart “out-
of-school” education. The purpose
is given as “preventing attack upon
.... the educative orientation cf
the State.”
The law is so worded that, presum
ably, not even a parent is safe from
the penalties of the law. There is
little doubt here that the purpose is
to strike a fatal blow at Catholic Ac
tion and other groups which have
sought, after school hours, to give
supplemental instruction calculated to
offset the Godless education required
in private as well as official schools
in Mexico.
One other feature of the new law
regarded as particularly dangerous is
that it is stipulated “there shall be
no appeal against the decision” of
the government that the law has been
violated. This decision is vested in
the Ministry of Public Education.
In general, the chief significance
of the law beyond these two things
lies not so much in new provisions as
in the fact that it clamps on the Mex
ican nation, with added firmness, the
devastating evils contained in the
Constitution and its amendment:
1. Religious education and Religious
are barred from all schools;
2. No “religious corporations or in
stitutions” or “ministers or any re
ligious creed or their dependents”
may have any part, direct or indi
rect, in education;
3. All education in kindergarten.
. _ primary, secondary and normal
tesses in the United States, having schools must be -Socialistic.
WRIOHTSVILLE BEACH
ERECTS NEW CHAPEL
Plans Are Alsd Accepted for
New Rectory at St. Mary’s
Church, Wilmington
(Special to The Bulletin)
WILMINGTON, N. C. —Plans for
the expenditure- of $28,009 for the
erection of a new chapel and rectory
at Wrightsvilie Beach, and a new rec
tory for St. Mary's Church, in Wil
mington, have been announced by
the Rev. James A. Manley, pastor of
St. Mary's.
Bids for the work at Wrightsvilie
Beach were opened before the Rev.
Michael J. Begley, rector of the
chapel. The lowest bid, $17,940 was
submitted by W. A. Simon. The
contract calls for the completion of
the new chapel and rectory, which
will be built on the site of the pre
sent chapel at Station 3, early in
May, which will insure completion
before the arrival of the summer visi
tors.
It was announced that the Most
Reverend Eugene J. McGuinness,
Bishop of Raleigh, intends to make
the rectory at Wrightsvilie Beach his
headquarters during the summer
months.
The chapel at Wrightsvilie will be
known as “Our Lady Star of the
Sea”. It will be constructed of brick
NCCM TO TAKE PART
IN EASTER TELECAST
Monsignor Sheen Will Ap
pear in First Religions
Television Program ,
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
WASHINGTON—The first reli
gious telecast in the United States
will be made on Easter Sunday by
NBC-RCA under Protestant and
Catholic auspices.
The Protestant part of the program,
under the sponsorship of the Religi
ous Radio Department of the Federal
Council of the Churches of Christ in
America, will go on the air from 11:30
a. m. to 12 noon. The Catholic phase
will be under the auspices of the
National Council of Catholic Men,
and will feature the Rt. Etev. Msgr.
Fulton J. Sheen, of the Catholic Uni
versity of America, current speaker
on the “Catholic Hour,” and Paulist
Choristers under the direction of.
Father Finn. The Catholic half hour
is scheduled for the period from
12:30 to 1:00.
Officials of the National Broadcast
ing Company say this will be the first
religious telecast in the United States,
and possibly in the world.
The program will be produced in
a specially constructed set in the tele
vision studios in the RCA Building,
Radio City, New York, and will be
transmitted by coaxial cable to the
television antennae on top Of the Em
pire State Building, whence it wll be
telecast to the metropolitan area.
There are at present 2,500 television
receivers in the metropolitan area.
Reception is guaranteed over a radius
of 60 miles, but possibly may be seen
and heard as far as 350 miles. The
top of the Empire State Building was
originally designed to be a mooring.
mast for dirigibles, but has now been
transformed into a television trans- •
mitter.
Father John LaFarge
Program Consultant
Named One of Group to
Supervise NBC “Light of
the World” Series
NEW YORK — The Rev. John La
Farge, S. J., Editor of America, and
Rabbi Robert Gordis, of the Jewish
Theological Seminary will be pro
gram consultants with Dr. James H.
Moffatt of Union Theological Semi
nary for the new NBC series Light
of the World.
The program, to make its debut over
an NBC network, Monday, March 18,
will be heard daily through Friday,
at 2 p. m„ EST, and will present in
dramatic form the Bible translated in
to modem prose.
Daily sequences will be introduced
by a reading from the Bible, and
when appropriate to the stories;
phrases from the Bible will be used
verbatim
Representative of the three major
religious groups of the country, the
program consultants have been re
tained by General Mills, sponsors of
the series, to insure authenticity in
the radio adaptations. ■
and will replace the present chapel
which was erected about 40 years ago
veneer with a seating capacity of 200, by the late Father Dennen.
Raleigh Newspaper’s Editorial
on “Catholics at Wake Forest”
Dedication of the Church of St. Catherine of Siena, at
Wake Forest, Was the Occasion of the Following
Comment in the Raleigh News and Observer
The establishment of a full-fledged
Roman Catholic parish at Wake For
est and the dedication of a handsome
church to serve the parishioners is
an interesting development. It is pro
bably more interesting than signifi
cant.
But the establishment of the church
at the seat of the principal Baptist
college in this state and in a village
which heretofore has never had a
church of any other faith within its
boundaries marks a certain change in
the college and the relationships in
this State between adherents of two
widely differing faiths.
Wake Forest College has not chang
ed its nature. It is still a Baptist
institution. But in recent years,
whether induced to do so because of
athletic or scholastic opportunities,
the college enrollment has included
some 35 Catholic boys, although they
are decidedly in the minority. There
are also a handful of Catholics in the
village.
Perhaps their presence lias pro
duced a better understanding alt
around. It might have been possible
for the church to have been estab
lished at any time, but it is not likely
that a large number of the faculty
members would have attended its de
dication at any time until the recent
past
Apparently the innovation was re
ceived cordially by all concerned;
That is as it should be. After all, the
Baptists and the Catholics, though
differing widely, have much in com
mon. The Baptists of Rhode Island
and Catholics of Maryland were the
principal advocates of the principle
of religious liberty which has become
firmly imbedded in the life of this
nation. Baptists and Catholics now
have an opportunity to practice both
religious liberty and brotherly love
at Wake Forest.
(Raleigh News and Observer)