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MARCH 23, 1940
THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN'S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
NINE
THREE YOUNG WOMEN
TAKE VOWS AS NUNS
Enter Sisters of St. Joseph
of Carondelet in Impres
sive Ceremony at Augusta
AUGUSTA, Ga—On the feast day
of the patron of the order, in a beau
tiful and impressive ceremony, three
^^femung ladies received the habit of
, ^Hthe Sisters of Saint Joseph Caron-
r delet, and three novices pronounced
their temporary vows, in the presence
of the Most Rev. Gerald P. O'Hara,
D. D., J. U. D., Bishop of Savannah-
Atlanta, at Mount St. Joseph’s Con
vent, in Augusta.
Sister Mary Gerald, Sister Mary
Victorine, and Sister Mary Helen, af
ter a novitiate of two years, pro
nounced the vows of poverty, chas
tity and obedience, according to the
Constitutions of the Sisters of St.
Joseph of Carondelet.
The three postulants who received
the habit of the order were Miss
Margaret Schweers, who will be
known as Sister Rose Margaret; Miss
Carie Comparato, as Sister Lillian
Joseph; and Miss Elizabeth Costa, as
Sister Loretta Joseph.
Sister Rose Margaret is the daugh
ter of Mr. J. B. Schweers, and the
late Margaret O'Connor Schweers, of
Augusta. Sister Lillian Joseph is the
daughter of Mr. L. Comparato. of St.
is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. L.
Costa, of Athens.
Assisting in the sanctuary were the
Very Rev. Father Boniface, O. S. B.,
Savannah, the Rev. J. J. Kennedy, of
Athens, the Rev. James E. King, of
Milledgeville, the pastors of the four
churches in Augusta, and other cler
gymen.
The little flower girls taking part
in the ceremony were Maureen
O'Connell, Julia Hagler, Mary Arm
strong, Carol O'Connor, Nancy
Cooney, Hermianne Thompson, Eliza
beth Garwood, Mary Jane Watkins,
Rosemary Burpee, Barbara Burbee,
Ann Lawless, Frankie Kearns, Jean-
etts Woods, and Dorothy Cashin. The
altar boys were Patrick K. Mulherin,
Noel Schweers, and Harry Nevin.
Many relatives and friends of the
newly received and professed attend
ed the ceremony.
AUGUSTA COMBATS
LEWD LITERATURE
Campaign to Rid Newsstands
or Objectionable Magazines
Beginning to Show Results
AUGUSTA, Ga. — In Augusta the
campaign to rid the newsstands of sa
lacious literature is beginning to show
results.
Representing the National Council
of Catholic Women of Augusta, which
is furthering the Crusade for Decent
Literature launched in the Diocese
last year by the Most Rev. Gerald P.
O'Hara, Bishop of Savannah-Atlanta,
Mrs- Ethel Keenan Lynch and Mrs.
Norman Boatwright, representing the
Augusta units of the National Coun
cil of Catholic Women, enlisted the
se) vices of the Rev. Harold Barr, pas
tor of St. Mary's-on-the-Hill, some
weeks ago.
Father Barr began a series of talks,
appearing before each of the civic
clubs, the Junior League, and practi
cally every Parent-Teacher group in
Richmond County- He was well re
ceived, and many resolutions endors
ing the movement, including one from
the Central Labor Union, resulted. In
both the Augusta Chronicle and the
Augusta Herald editorial endorsement
was given and splendid cooperation
accorded through their news columns.
Two meetings were held recently at
the Richmond Hotel, which were at
tended by representatives of the Au
gusta Ministerial Association, the W.
C- T. U., Hon. H. A- Woodward, Judge
of the Juvenile Court of Richmond
Cc-unty, S. D. Copeland, Superintend
ent of Schools, Richmond County,
Rabbi Louis Josephsen, and others,
the majority of whom were non-
Catholics.
Dr. John T. Knight, secretary of the
Augusta Independent Drug Store As
sociation, said that the druggists had
long desired a clean-up and would
remove objectionable magazines from
diug-store newsstands. A representa
tive of J. B. White & Company, de
partment store, stated that that firm
would continue its practice of hand
ling those magazines which would be
approved.
Following the meeting, W. Leroy
McLarty, manager of the Augusta
News Company, distributors for many
newspapers and magazines, reported
to Sam Moss, city editor of the Au-
. gusta Herald, who is taking an active
I part in the campaign, that his com
pany had cancelled orders for maga
zines which were on the list of ban
ned publications-
Eric W. Hardy, president of the
Junior College, has given a statement
to the press endorsing the movement,
while the retail newsdealers of the
city are displaying a spirit of wanting
to cooperate.
The Brotherhood Class of the Wood-
lawn Methodist Church, Augusta, of
which the Rev. Henry T- Smith is pas
tor, has adopted resolutions pledging
assistance in the effort to rid the
newsstands of all obscene magazines
that are being offered for sale. The
Rev. W. M. Barnett, pastor of Trinity
Methodist Church, Augusta; and the
Rev- J. P. Sheffield, pastor of the
Pope Pius Reviews
Year of Pontificate
(Continued from Page One)
because of the tempest on the earth,
in the sky and on the seas.”
Spiritual Thansformations
Pope Pius spoke as follows:
“Always vivid and sweet in Our
memory is the record of that hour
wherein, bowed under the weight and
responsibility of the Pontifical tiara,
you expressed to Us for the first time
—through the venerable and Our
dearest Cardinal Dean—felicitations
and well wishes which were offered
with love and with love received.
“It seems as though it were only
yesterday—that hour engraved on
Our heart. And yet, already We see
you gathered around Us again to
manifest to Us—at the dawn of the
second year of Our Pontificate—sen
timents which interweave betweeT*
Us and you, faithful collaborators and
counsellors given Us by an Admir
able Providence, a delicate bond of
trust and affection.
“How brief seems the time between
the present and last Ides of March!
Notwithstanding, what a fullness—one
might say of its kind unique—of ex
terior events, of material and spirit
ual transformations is enclosed there
in! If years are counted it seems a
short time; if events are considered
it seems centuries. This saying of
Pliny becomes a reality once more
this year—lived together and suffered
together by Us and you—a year
whose events, considered in the light
of their immediate precedents, would
suffice to fill a century in the normal
historical development of mankind.
Message of Light
“It has changed the external and
internal structure of Europe, it has
initiated political, economic and spir
itual changes whose last consequences
and repercussions no earthly mind
can calculate, but whose profundity
must be regarded with serious and
prompt care by those who—in the
midst of a humanity agitated and
shaken -n its innermost basis, lacer
ated by errors and passions—are call
ed upon to proclaim in the midst of
peoples the message of light and the
Kingdom of Christ.
“In a time wherein every human
forecast seems fallacious, wherein all
purely human means reveal their in
trinsic defectiveness, the grace of
believers turns towards the eternal
hills, wherefrom alone can come sal
vation. In this world, in the malign
ity of human lust, where men go
wandering as in a desert, among hal
lucinations and mirages which are
the darkness in which they clash and
wander, the Church walks, keeping
aloft the torch of the Way, the Truth
and the Life. Because, without the
Way the goal cannot be reached, the
Truth the intellect cannot be illumi
nated, without the Life will and work
cannot be animated.
"Between the Way and the Life,
truth is the light and guide; that
Truth which is the pedestal of jus
tice, that justice which is the foun
dation of peace. Yes, peace which is
supported by cognizance of God and
Our Lord Jesus Christ, the Way, the
Truth and the Life, is the longing
and wish of Our soul. It is the peace
that urges Our love toward all men
and We receive them all—from near
and far, faithful and erring, tranquil
and pugnacious—because We are
debtors to all in the service of the
truth and charity of Christ.
Pleads for Peace
“If around Us, for which thanks is
due to God, there is peace, beyond
the Alps and the seas and oceans
there are turbulent winds, and relig
ion and humanity invoke and implore
peace with a hundred voices. Our
hope and trust are reposed in God, in
Whose hands are the hearts of men
no less because of the tempest on
earth, in the sky and on the seas.
“You, Venerable Brothers, beloved
sons of the Senate. Our counsellors
and Our help, Our hope is with your
prayers and solicitude—so that, as
you-participate in Our troubles and
share the thorns, so may Our roses
of joys be your comfort, merit and
gloiy. Meanwhile, to implore the
abundance of gifts and lights of the
Holy Ghost over all the Sacred Col
lege, particularly its Dean, the inter
preter of its noble common senti
ments, and with the most grateful pa
ternal affection. We impart the Apos
tolic Blessing.”.
Miss Josephine Schnell
Dies at Macon Home
MACON, Ga.—Funeral services
were held from St. Joseph’s Church
for Miss Josephine Schnell, whose
death followed an extended illness.
She is survived by a daughter, Mrs.
Henry Kennington; and two sons,
Ernest Schnell and Sidney Schnell,
of Macon, and other relatives in
Savannah.
DEATH IN MACON OF
MRS. DENNIS CASSIDY
MACON, Ga.—Funeral services for
Mrs. Dennis Cassidy, whose death
took place February 18, were held
from St. Joseph’s Church, the Rev.
Peter McDonnell, S. J., officiating-
Mrs. Cassidy, who was 72 years old,
was a native of Ireland, but had made
her home in Macon for the greater
part of her life-
Basilica ol Gethsemane
North Augusta Baptist Church, have
shown active interest in the move
ment.
Augustans were also urged to write
their Senators that they favored the
passage of the Gillis Bill, aimed to
discourage inter-state commerce in
indecent literature.
Also known as the Basilica of the Agohy, this magnificent church was completed in 1924. It is built on
the site of a Twelfth Century church, and excavations for it revealed the floor of a Fourth Century
church, narts of which are to be seen today. The high altar is built over the sacred rock of Our Lord’s
agony. (Mombelli)
Christian Doctrine Sisters
Now Serving South Carolina
Community of Sisters of Our Lady of Christian Doctrine
Commence Welfare and Social Service Work in Aiken
County Industrial Centers
(Special to The Bulletin)
AIKEN, S. C. —Three Sisters of Our
Lady of Christian Doctrine have ar
rived here from New York to com
mence their welfare work among the
poor people in the Horse Creek Val
ley and other sections of Aiken
County where many people are in
dire need. The nuns are Sister Dol
ors, Sister Claire, and Sister Anne
Marie, all of whom are trained and
experienced in welfare and social ser
vice work.
For more than a year the Rev.
George Lewis Smith, of St. Mary
Help of Christians Church has been
laboring diligentiy to inaugurate a
constructive program of such work
among the people in this vicinity. For
several years a number of children
have been brought to St. Angela's
Academy on a school bus operated by
the parish, and many of these chil
dren had to be supplied with cloth
ing and other necessities.
Last November Father Smtih in
duced Very Reverend Mother Mari
anne, Mother-General of the Sisters
of Our Lady of Christian Doctrine,
and her assistant, Sister Elizabeth,
to come to Aiken and make a per
sonal survey of conditions existing in
this vicinity.
After seeing the acute need for
some constructive effort to do some
thing for the people living in de-
pldrable circumstances, Mother Mari
anne consented to send members of
her order to Aiken.
Maintain Madonna House
The Sisters of Our Lady of Chris
tian Doctrine have been engaged in
welfare and social service work in
the vicinity of New York for about
thirty years. They maintain the re
nowned Madonna House at 173 Cherry
Street, New York, which was de
scribed in the New York Times on
Monday, March 4, 1940. In addition
they also maintain several other wel
fare centers. The sisters recognize
that the proximate need of the poor
people living in deplorable circum
stances is to be taught something
about sanitation, hygiene, cooking
vegetables to avoid pellagra, sewing,
making clothes, and handicraft proj
ects, such as hooked-rug making, bas
ket work and other projects designed
to develop manual dexterity.
Mother Marianne is the former Mar
ian Gurney, the daughter of Gen
eral Gurney of the United States
Army. She was reared as an Episco
palian and graduated from Wellesley.
After college she was active in social
service work in New York before she
became a Catholic and affiliated witn
the Order of Our Lady of Christian
Doctrine, which was established un
der the direction of the late Cardinal
Farley, of the Archdiocese of New
York over 30 years ago. Miss Gurney,
who took the name of Sister Marianne,
became the first Mother-General of
the Sisters of Christian Doctrine and
she continuously served in that ca
pacity ever since.
Located at Garvan Cottage
The Sisters of Christian Doctrine
will work among those in need re
gardless of creed or denomination.
Temporarily they will live at the Gar-
van Cottage at 711 York Street in
Aiken, and go about their work m
a small automobile, but as soon as
it can be arranged, they intend to
have a Settlement House somewhere
between Gloverville and Langley,
consisting of living quarters for the
Sisters and an Assembly Room about
35 feet by 7Q feet, with facilities for
hooked rug looms, sewing instruc
tions, cooking demonstrations, and
handicraft; recreational and welfare
projects. The Sisters will also . visit
the families in need and render what
ever assistance they can.
The project is not particularly a
Catholic task, for the vast majority
those in need are not Catholics.
The task of the Sisters will not be
an easy one and they will need all
of the encouragement and cooperation
they can get from people of all de
nominations in their effort to fulfil a
humanitarian need.
‘Osservatore Romano’ Traces
Vatican-U. S. Relations
Arrival of Myron C. Taylor Occasions Comment by Count
Dalla Torre, Editor of News Organ of the Vatican
BY MSGR. ENRICO PUCCI
(Vatican City Correspondent, N. C.
W. C. News Service)
VATICAN CITY-On the uay of
the arrival of Myron C. Taylor the
Osservatore Romano published, on
the first page, an article by the
editor, Count Dalla Tone, entitled
“A Program of Liberty, of Coopera
tion, of Peace Characterizes the Con
stant Relations Between the Holy
See and the United States ”.
“Thirty years ago Charles Russell
Risk, a professor of the University
of Wisconsin, undertaking some re
searches in the Vatican regarding the
history of his country, declared that
he had read nothing more interesting
than the .documents which revealed
the first relations between the Holy
See and the Great Republic’”, he
wrote.
The article then dealt with the
early negotiations looking toward
diplomatic relations and 'how Benja
min Franklin heartily indorsed the
appointment of Archbishop John
Carroll,
“Thirteen stars shone on the Ameri
can flag”. Count Dalla Torre wrote.
“The Catholics were 44,500 in num
ber and had few churches, poor
chapels and not one parochial school.
The little American Church thus
took its first steps, breathing the
atmosphere of liberty.
“The period that was centralized in
the vigorous apologetic efforts of
Bishop England up to 1842 saw the
pulpits often transformed into tri
bunes of sociology and of civil doc
trine. Congress often invited Catholic
preachers to speak before the As
sembly- The preaching was support
ed by the press at Baltimore. Charles
ton, Cincinnati, Philadelphia, Pitts
burgh and New York. Sixty years
after the Treaty of Paris the few
thousands of Catholics had increased
to two million; the Church counted
33 Dioceses, an Archbishop, 1,300
priests, assisted by nine Congrega
tions of Religious, by seven of Sisters,
1,545 churches, a university at St.
Louis. 20 Seminaries, 17 boys’ and 91
girls’ colleges. Bishop Hughes, Bishop
DR. M. J. EGAN HEADS
HIBERNIAN SOCIETY
Savannah Organization
Holds 128th Annual
Meeting and St. Pat
rick’s Day Banquet
(Special to The Bulletin)
SAVANNAH, Ga. — The Hibernian
Society of Savannah, holding its 128
annual meeting at the Hotel De Soto,
selected as its president, Dr. Michael
J. Egan. Other officers elected were
Henry M. Dunn, vice-president; Wil
liam T. Walsh, secretary; John J.
Fowers, treasurer; and Jerome F. Sul
livan, assistant secretary.
Dr. Egan is the nineteenth presi
dent of the society, which was found
ed here March 17, 1812. He had fill
ed the office of president since De
cember of last year, when he was
elevated from the vice presidney
upon the death of the then president,
Cnristopher P. H. Murphy.
Mr. Dunn, the new vice president,
has been very active in the affairs of
the society, having served as a mem
ber of its board of stewards of three
during the past several years.
Mr. Walsh was elected secretary to
suxcceed Henry B. Brannan, who had
served during the past two years and
asked on account of the pressure of
other duties to be relieved of the of
fice. Mr. Walsh is an active member
of the society and responded to the
toast The Day We Celebrate” at ihe
1939 banquet of the society.
Mr. Fowers and Mr. Sullivan have
served tlie society for some years in
their respective offices, treasurer and
assistant secretary.
The officers were unanimously
elected when their names were pre
sented by a nominating committee
composed of Col. John G. Butler, Jos
eph B. Maddock, Judges James P.
Houlihan, James J. Mpnohan and C.
A. McCarthy.
Four hundred attended the 128th
banquet of the society. The speakers
included the Rev. Joseph Cassidy, of
Thomasville. responding to the toast,
"The Day We Celebrate”; William B.
Scott, of Savannah, “The City of Sa
vannah”; and Congressman Edward J.
Hart, of New Jersey,' “The United
States of America”.
THE CONSECRATION of the Most
Reverend Joseph M. Corrigan, Rector
of the Catholic University of Amer
ica, as Titular Bishop of Bilta has
been set for April 2, at the National
Shrine of the Immaculate Conception
in Washington.
England's successor, in a ferve
apostate, between 1842 and IS
dedicated all his efforts to increa
the interest in the Church-
“The diplomatic activities and cc
respondence between the Unit'
States and Rome, the personal obse
vations and remarks of the Minste
who succeeded one another hei
Jacob L. Martin, Major L. Cass, J
Join; P. Stockton Aleander W. Rai
dall, R. M- Blatchford, and Rul
King testify to that cordial unde
standing, that just appreciation i
the rectitude, of the loyalty, of tl
friendship in which lies the persuask
of a moral collaboration between tv
such diverse powers’”.
Of the appointment of Mr. Tayle
ho wrote: “That first distant mee
ing of minds, of intentions, of c!<
sires between Rome and the 13 State
between Pius VI and Franklin, b
tween Carroll and Washington, mi
tured through experience of 160 yeai
has reached its peak”.