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MARCH 23, 1940
THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
THREE
News Review of the Catholic World
English Protestant
Prayers for Pius XII
CORONATION ANNIVERSARY
By GEORGE BARNARD,
(London Correspondent, N. C. W. V.
News Service)
LONDON—Religious differences in
this country have been notably re
duced as the result of the Holy
Father's recent pronouncements and
of reports of the Pope's interest in
world peace as shown by the Pap
acy's reconciliation with the King of
Italy and by His Holiness’ new con
tact with President Roosevelt.
At a service arranged here by the
World's Evangelical Alliance in con
nection with the Universal Week of
Prayer, prayers were offered for “all
rulers trying to find a way to peace,
especially for the Pope and the Pres
ident of the United States.”
Among those taking part in the ser
vice were the Recorder of London,
the Moderator of the Evangelical
Free Churches and the general sec
retary of the Evangelical Alliance.
The Pope’s recent Encyclical was
commended “to Methodists and
Christians everywhere” by the R'ev.
Harvey Cowle, minister of the Ulver-
ston Methodist Church. He called
it “a magnificent lead, noteworthy
for its unusually charitable refer
ences to non-Roman Christians.”
MOST REV. JOHN J. SWINT. D.D.,
LL.D., Bishop of Wheeling, is the au
thor of a booklet, “Catholic Marriage”,
published by the Church Supplies
Company.
“FALSE STANDARDS”, an article
contributed to Light magazine by the
Rev. Dr. Joseph F. Thorning, of Mt.
St. Mary's College, Emmitsburg, .YId.,
has been put in the Congressional
Record on the motion of Senator
George L. Radcliffe of Maryland.
ARTHUR KROCK, head of ‘he
Washington bureau of the New York
Times, in a column on the editorial
page of The Times declared that the
Poire is “deemed indispensable to
any peace-making,” and termed the
appointment of Myron C. Taylor as
the personal representative of Presi
dent Roosevelt at the Vatican “need
ful as well as desirable.” He express
ed the opinion that in all of the peace
proposals that have been placed before
the president for consideration there
was not one which “did not include
the Pope as an indispensable factor
in bringing about a conference.
Impressive rites marking the first anniversary of the coronation of
Pope Pius XII were held at the Catholic University of America,
March 3. Pictured in the Shrine of the Immaculate Conception are:
Archbishop Amleto Giovanni Cicognani, Papal Delegate, who cele
brated the Solemn Pontifical Mass; Monsignor Francesco G. Lardone,
Professor of Roman Law at the University, and two pages, Ben
Wells (left) and George Drobka, students of the Model School of
the Catholic Sisters’ College. (N.C.W.C.)
THE REV. DANIEL J. QUINN, S.J.,
of St. Ignatius Loyola Church, New
York, former president of Fordham
University, died March 9.
MOST REV. EDWARD MOONEY.
Archbishop of Detroit, has accepted
an invitation to address the dinner
meeting of the Catholic Press Asso
ciation of the United States at its an
nual convention in Detroit in May.
SOME FORTY PARAGRAPHS from
“The Church and Social Order”, the
statement recently issued by the
Archbishops and Bishops of the Ad
ministrative Board of the National
Catholic Welfare" Conference, were
put into the Congressional Record by
Representative Arthur D. Healey, of
Massachusetts.
BURTON A. GASKILL, Grand Sire
of the Independent Order of Oddfel
lows. has expressed assurance of sym
pathy and the promise of assistance
for the drive of the National Organi-
-zation for Decent Literature, in a let
ter addressed to the Most Rev. John
F. Noll, Bishop of Fort Wayne, and
Episcopal Chairman of the N. O. D
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THE MOST REV. JOHN F. O’HARA.
C.S.C., Auxiliary Bishop of the Army
and Navy Diocese, is one of eighteen
persons named by President Roosevelt
to constitute the Board of Visitors
which annually inspects the U. S.
Naval Academy at Annapolis.
AN HONOR conferred only twice
anywhere during the last two hun
dred years, and never before in the
history of the United States, was re
ceived by the Most Rev. Archbishop
Joseph Schrembs, Bishop of Cleve
land, when he was solemnly invested
with the sacred pallium, usually re
served for Archbishops who are Met
ropolitans. The fact that it was con
ferred upon Archbishop Schrembs.
who rules a suffragan See “must be
considered a symbol of deep esteem
and a token of particular affection”
on the part of His Holiness Pope
Pius XII, His Excellency the Most
Rev. Amleto Giovani Cicognani, Apos
tolic Delegate to the United States
declared.
OAKLEY THORNE, retired finan
cier, a non-Catholic, has given the 50-
acre Chancellor Estate at Millbrook,
Duchess County, New York, to the
Archdiocese of New York, as a me
morial to the late Cardinal Hayes,
who was his close personal friend.
The estate will be converted into a
children’s convalescent home to be
conducted by the Franciscan Mission
aries of Mary.
ed among the refugees who sought
shelter at the Maryknoll mission out
side the city of Kongmoon, South
China.
Upon the invasion of this territory
a thousand men, women, and chil
dren. from the surrounding villages,
were accommodated in all available
space at the seminary, the novitiate,
and the priests’ residence.
ACTIVITIES OF CATHOLIC Lay-
women and of women's Religious Or
ders in Ohio, from the days preced
ing the granting of State's rights to
the pre*nt day, are included in a
chapter entitled. “Religion in Ohio",
in the three-volume history, “Women
of Ohio", just released by the S. J.
Clark Publishing Company, of Spring-
field, under the sponsorship of the
Ohio Women's Press Club.
CATHOLIC COLLEGE STUDENTS
won five out of ten prizes in an es
say contest on “The Relationship of
Religion and Democracy” held by the
New York Round Table of the Na
tional Conference of Christians and
Jews.
THREE PROMINENT CHICAGO
Catholic laymen: William H. Sexton,
former Corporation Counsel; Walter J.
Cummings, president of the Continen
tal Illinois Bank; and Charles C. Ker-
win, president of the Catholic Chari
ties of Chicago; are incorporators of
a non-profit organization which has
been formed for the purpose of erect
ing a marble memorial altar to the
late Cardinal Mundelein in Holv
Name Cathedral.
LITTLE ROMANO MUSSOLINI,
and Anna Maria Mussolini, children
of Premier Benito Mussolini and Don
na Rachel Mussolini, received their
First Holy Communion and the Sacra
ment of Confirmation at the hands of
the Most Rev. Vittorio Faulinetti. Vi
car Apostolic of Tripoli. The Duce,
Donna Rachel, and the entire house
hold of the Premier attendee! the cere
mony.
MANY CONVERSIONS are report
PLANS FOR A NATIONAL Litur
gical Congress to be held during 1940,
at a place and time yet to be fixed, are
going forward as a result of a Bene
dictine Liturgical Conference held at
St. Procopius Abbey, Chicago.
The Abbot of the Benedictine Ab
bey nearest to the convention site will
serve as chairman of the commiilee.
The Very Rev. Michael Ducey. O. S
B„ Prior of St. Anslem's Priory,
Washington, D. C.. is secretary-treas
urer of the committee.
rence; the Most Rev. Emmet M.
Walsh, Bishop of Charleston and
Assistant to the Episcopal Chairman
of Lay Organizations; the Most Rev.
Gerald P. O’Hara. Bishop of Savan
nah-Atlanta; the Most Rev. Daniel F.
Desmond, Bishop of Alexandria; the
Most Rev. Richard O. Gerow, Bishop
of Natchez; and the Most Rev. Thom
as J. Toolen, Bishop of Mobile.
CECIL B. DeMILLE’S forthcoming
production of "The Queen of
Queens" will not be based upon the
play, “Family Portrait,” the produc
er declared in response to hundreds
of letters he has received from Ca
tholics, who regarded “Family Por
trait” as a travesty fo the Holy Fami
ly.
REVEREND JOHN FOSTER, C. S.
V., whose apointment as a full time
missionary of the Clerics of St. Via
tor has just been announced is a con
vert. Before entering the congrega
tion he was a practicing lawyer in
Chicago for many years. He was one
of the regular speakers of the Catho
lic Evidence Guild in Washington,
D. C., for several years.
JOHN N .KIRCHNER, postmaster
at St. Patrick’s. Missouri, for 19
years, has retired. Every year on St.
Patrick’s Day this postoffice does a
land office business, canceling pos
tage and depositing mail that has
been sent from all sections of the
country.
EXPRESSING DISAPPROVAL of
the campaign being conducted by the
Birth Control Federation of Ameri
ca, seniors at the College of New Ro
chelle. N. Y., expressed hope of hav
ing an average of 6.6 children each
when they are married, according to
the results of a poll taken on the
campus. Some of the young women
expressed the hope that they will
have as many as fourteen children,
and a decided preference was expres
sed for twins.
“PUBLIC CONFESSIONAL Schools”
of Holland, a dominantly Protestant
nation, in which is imparted “a
complete Catholic education” are
lauded in the Lenton Pastoral of the
Most Rev. Edwin V. Byrne, Bishop
of San Juan, P. R.
Supported by the State, the Bishop
says, these schools in Holland demon
strate “the possibility and conveni
ence and justice” of the proposition
for such institutions made by Pope
Pius XI in his encyclical on “The
Christian Education of Youth.”
A MEMORAIAL MASS has been
celebrated in the National Sanctu
ary of St. Therese of the Child Jesus
for Sister Mary of the Sacred Heart
of Jesus, oldest sister of The Little
Flower. The sanctuary is located
about 45 miles from Rome.
PRELATES expected to attend the
first Southern Regional Conference
of the National Council of Catholic
Women, which will be held in Bir
mingham, April 2 8and 29, are: the
Most Rev. Joseph F. Rummell, Arch
bishop of New Orleans and Episcopal
Chairman of the Lay Organizations of
tlie National Catholic Welfare Confe
“HIGHWAY TO HEAVEN", radio
series sponsored by the Defenders of
the Faith, is being carried this year
by more than fifty stations. The se
ries of 26 transcriptions, written and
produced under the direction of the
Rev. Richard Felix, O. S. B., is built
around a young priest in his study
discussing with a young man and a
young woman the problms of life
and religion.
FIS HOLINESS, POPE PIUS XII
cabled the Mikado an expression of
his well wishes on the observance of
the twenty-sixth centenary of the
founding of the Japanese Empire.
THE EMPEROR OF JAPAN >t-
sponded by extending to His Holiness
his best wishes for the Holy Father’s
personal happiness and the success of
nis pontificate.
THE NEW YORK TIMES applauds
the proposed plan to make Joyce Kil
mer's birthplace in New Brunswick,
N. J.. a part of the National parks
system as “a friendly gesture toward
tree lovers everywhere.”
“AMERICA,” national Catholic
weekly, is being distributed to select
ed newsstands in New York. Phila
delphia, Boston. Cleveland, Baltimore,
Ciiicago and Washington.
Charges Hitler Threatened
Destruction of Christianity
“Hitler Told Me”, Written by ex-President of Danzig
Senate, Quotes Fuehrer as Saying He Intended
to Wipe Out Religion in Reich
(Special Correspondence, N. C. W. C.
News Service.)
AMSTERDAM — “I shall destroy
Christianity in Germany,” Adolf Hit
ler told Dr. Hermann Rauschning.
former President of the Danzig Se
nate, the latter, now an exile in Lon
don, declares. Dr. Rauschning has
told of this conversation with the
Nazi leader shortly after the latter's
advent to power in Germany, in a
book just off the press in both Paris
and London. Its title is “Hitler Told
Me.”
The conversation is quoted fully in
the seventh chapter of the book,
which is headed, “Anti-Christ". Dr.
Rauschning quotes Hitler as follows:
“The religions? None of them has
any future. At least not for the Ger
mans. Fascism may make its peace
with the Church, if it wants to. I will
do the same. Why shouldn’t I? It
won't prevent me from destroying
Christianity in Germany. The Itali
ans. naive people, can be pagans an‘d
Christians at the same time. But the
Germans are different. They take
things seriously. They are either
Christians or pagans, not both.
“It all depends on whether the
Germans remain true to the Jewish-
Christian religion and to a slavish
morale of compassion, or whether
they will acquire a new faith which
is truly heroic, a faith in a God Who
is immanent in nature, immanent in
the very nation, in a God of their
destiny and their blood.
“Easter will then no longer be
Resurrection, but.the eternal regen
eration of our nation. Christmas will
be the birth of our Savior, that is of
the spirit of heroism -and liberation
. . . Then the liberal servants of re
ligion will teach our god in their
churches and substitute the crooked
cross for their own cross, and instead
of praising the blood of their Saviour
they will praise the pure blood of our
people and will make of the Host
the holy symbol of the produce of the
German soil and of the brotherhood
of our nation.”
Discussing the methods he thcr. b=> J
in mind to destroy the Church. Hitler
is reported as saying that he was
not going “to make martyrs” of the
priests and ministers, as was done
during Bismarck’s TCulturkampf. “I
will be satisfied to denounce them as
vulgar criminals,” he is quoted as
saying. “I will tear the mask of re
spectability off their faceh. And if
that is not sufficient, I will make
them appear ridiculous and despi
cable. I shall produce motion pictures
to tell the true story of the black
men (priests). Then one may view
at close range the stupidity, the dirty
egoism, the brutality and the frauds
of their church. One will then see
how they smuggled money out of the
country and how they rivalled the
Jews in greed.”
These preposterous statements of a
man now revealed as a sort of anti-
Christ have in effect had their an
swer in an inspiring Pastoral issued
recently by the Most Rev. Konrad
Groeber. Archbishop of Frieburg.
“Don't fear,” said that Ordinary to
the faithful, "for the cruel tyrant
Herod has died, but the Saviour lives
on through all time, and His King
dom will never end.”
Non-Catholics Laud
Bishop’s Statement
Protestant and Jewish Lead
ers Commend Pastoral
Giving Views of Catholic
Church on Social R-eforms
WASHINGTON. — The statement
on “The Church and Social Order”
issued by the Archbishops and
Bishops of the Administrative Board
of the National Catholic Welfare
Confer :nce has brought statements of
warm approval from leaders of other
religious groups and from prominent
figures in public life. Prominent
Protestant and Jewish leaders were
among those quoted in the secular
press of the nation commenting fa
vorably upon the statement, which
presents the teachings of the Catholic
Church on such subjects as Owner
ship, Property and Labor, Security,
Wages and the Establishment of So
cial Order.
The Rt. Rev. George Craig Stewart,
Episcopalian Bishop of Chicago, dis
cussing the remedies proposed by the
Bishops’ Statement for the ending of
industrial cinflict, said: “The sugges
tion is very interesting and I think
there is great virtue in it.”
Rabbi Solomon B. Freehof, of Pitts
burgh, said: “The mood of the pro
posal appears to me to sustain the
principle of all religion, namely that
the human personality is paramount.
As for the method of attaining se
curity for the individual, the guild
or any other system is worthy of de
bate.”
United States Senator James M.
Mead, of New York, acclaimed the
statement and said: “A moral regen
eration is vitally essential for stabil
ity.” He saw a similarity between
the guild suggestions in the statement
and the “aims and purposes of achiev
ing democracy within industrial or
ganizations.”
Dr. Charles G. Welch, former Mod
erator of the Assembly of Presbyter
ian Churches in America, remarked:
“For the last five years the assembly
has championed just such a step.” He
welcomed ‘the addition of such a
powerful group” as the Bishops of
the Catholic Church.
United States Senator Francis T.
Maloney of Connecticut declared he
was verv much in sympathy with the
ideas advanced by the Bishops. He
intends, he said, to make a detailed
study of the statement.
Arlo A. Brown, president of Drew
University. Madison. N. J.. a Metho
dist institution, and chairman of the
executive committee of the Interna
tional Council of Religious Education,
said it was apparent the Catholic
Bishops were “going along the right
line.
Pope’s Protest on Poland
In Congressional Record
WASHINGTON, D. C.— Reading
into the Congressional Record news
paper reports of the Holy Father’s
protests against atrocities in occu
pied Poland, Representative Samuel
Dickstein of New York told the
House of Representatives that “I
should like to see at least this de
mocracy raise its voice and to join
this great Pope Pius XII and others
in an appeal to the world.’’
POPE THANKS JEWS
FOR $125,000 GIFT
Expresses Gratitude for
Refugee Aid Fund Given
in Memoiy of Piux XI
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
NEW YORK — Conveying the
thanks of His Holiness Pope Pius XII
for the gift of $125,000 made by the
United Jewish Appeal for Refugees
and Overseas Needs, the Most Rever
end Bernard J. Sheil. Auxiliary Bi
shop of Chicago, has informed Rabbis
Abba Hillel Silver and Jonah P. Wise
that the Holy Father was particularly
happy in accepting the gift which was
given in memory of his predecessor.
Pope Pius XI.
“I have received an acknowledge
ment from the Secretary of State of
the Holy See of the correspondence
between us in reference to the muni
ficent gift of the United Jewish Appeal
to Pope Pius XII in memory of the
late Pius XI for the relief of refu
gees,” Bishop Sheil writes.
"The Secretary of State asked ~ie
to inform you that His Holiness wish
es to express to the donors his deep
appreciation of their generous and
noble gift and tell them how deeply
moved he was by the cooperation and
good-will between the Catholic and
Jewish people which our interchange
of letters so significantly revealed. The
Secretary of State added that His
Holiness was especially grateful that
the benefaction was intended as an
act of homage to the memory of his
great, predecessor. Pius XI. The memo
ry of Pius XI's magnificent struggle
against the inhumane and ..nti -Catho
lic doctrine of racialism continues to
inspire all of us.”
The gift of the United Jewish Ap
peal for Refugees and Overseas Needs
to Pope Pius XII was announced fin
January 2. At the same time $125,000
was given to the Federal Council of
the Churches of Christ in America for
allocation among Protestant organi
zations aiding refugees.
Vatican and San Marino
Consider New Concordat
By MSGR. ENRICO PUCCI
(Vatican City Correspondent,
N.C.W.C. News Service)
VATICAN CITY. -A Concordat be
tween the Holy See and San Marino,
tiny independent Republic of 13.000
inhabitants, is under consideration.
The primary purpose of the Concor
dat would be to make the ecclesias
tical arrangement of the territory co
incide with the state boundaries.
At present the territory of San
Marino is divided, portions of it be
ing in three ecclesiastical jurisdictions
—the Dioceses of Pennabilli, Moate-
feltre and Rimini. It has not been
decided whether to set up a new dio
cese or to revive the tradition of the
Abbot of San Marino ani establish an
Abbey Nullius.
There exist already diplomatic pacts
between the Holy See and San Mari
no, one of which regulates the cir
culation of their respective moneys.
MOTHER ROSE MARIE, of the
Holy Name Convent, San Antonio, a
pioneer in Catholic education work ,n
Florida, died three days before her
golden jubilee.