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THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
APRIL 27, 1940
Bishop's Confraternity Pledges
Reported More Than
60 Per Cent Paid-in
ATLANTA, Ga„—Announcement is made by the Office of the Diocesan
Director of The Bishop’s Confraternity of the Laity, the Rev. Thomas L. Finn,
that as of March 25, 1940, the percentages of pledges paid in, for both the
Northern and Southern districts of the Diccese, were over 60% of the
amounts that were pledged when the Confraternity was launched two years
ago.
The Bishop's Confraternity of the Laity was organized in the Diocese of
Savennah-Atlanta to put into effect the program of the Most Rev. Gerald P.
O'Hara. D. D., J. U. D., Bishop of Savannah-Atianta, in the interest of rural
missions of the Diocese, students for the priesthood, St. Mary’s Home, work
among the colored, religious vocation camps. Catholic education, and Catho
lic Laymen's Association of Georgia. The S109,000 objective of the campaign
was practically 100% over-subscribed.
Tlie last payment to the Bishop’s Confraternity of the Laity was due in
February, and Father Finn is making an effort to collect the balance of the
amounts pledged as soon as possible.
St. Joseph’s Church, in Washington, reports its pledges 100% paid, being
the highest average in the Diocese. The next highest percentage in the
Northern district is reported by the Cathedral of Christ the King, in Atlanta.
St. Mary's-on-the-Hill. Augusta, and the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist,
in Savannah, are the leading parishes in the Southern district.
The following is a detailed report of the percentages of pledges paid by
the various parishes and missions of the Diocese:
BISHOPS CONFRATERNITY OF TUlf LAITY
Percentages Collected as of March 25th, 1840
SOUTHERN DIVISION—62%
St. Mary’s On the Hill, Augusta. Ga 69%
Cathedral St. John the Baptist, Savannah 68 b
Blessed Sacrament, Savannah 59%
Sacred Heart. Augusta 59%
St. Michael's, Tvbee 51%
St. Patrick’s, Augusta 55%
St Augustine's, Thomasville 55 %
Sacred Heart, Savannah - 54%
Mission, Thunderbolt 5.2 b
Immaculate Conception, Dublin 53%
Mission, Sugar Refinery 52%
St. Mary's (Colored, Savannah 52%
St. Patrick's Savannah 45%
Our Lady of Good Hope, Isle of Hope 49%
St. Francis Xavier. Brunswick 47%
St. Benedict the Moor (Colored. Savannah 41%
St. John the Evangelist, Valdosta 45%;
St. Paul’s, Douglas 44%
Mission, Waycross .... 42%
Immaculate Conception Colored) Augusta 19 •
NORTHERN DIVISION—65%
St. Joseph’s Washington 100%
Cathedral of Christ the King, Atlanta .'... 76%
Sacred Heart, Atlanta 70 %
St. Joseph’s, Atlanta 66%
Holy Family, Columbus 64%
St. Joseph’s, Macon 61 %
St. Peter's, LaGrange 60
Sacred Heart. Milledgeville 58%
Immaculate Conception, Atlanta 57%
SL Theresa's. Albany 57%
St. Mary’s, Rome 56%
St. Anthony’s, Atlanta 51%
Our Lady of Lourdes. Atlanta 51%
Church of the Purification, Sharon 50%
Marietta, Marietta 44%
St. Joseph's. Athens 35%
St. Peter Claver. Macon (Colored) 16%
Orangeburg Mission
For Negroes Has
Mass on Easter
Redemptorist Fathers Bap
tize Colored Converts at
Christ the King Mission
(Special to The Bulletin)
ORANGEBURG, S. C. — On Easter
Sunday the Redemptorist Fathers
celebrated the first Mass at the Mis
sion of Christ the King, on North
Boulevard, in Orangeburg.
In December last, the Redemptor
ist Fathers began their missionary en
deavor among the colored people of
Orangeburg, and eleven pupils of the
State College, Orangeburg, were bap
tized at Easter, and 25 more prospec
tive converts are under instruction.
Explanations of .Catholic doctrine
are given to adults on Sunday and
Wednesday evenings, and discussion
Clubs are conducted twice eacti week
at State College. Special instruction
classes for children are held every
Saturday morning at the Mission
Center. Students from the school
composed the choir which sung
hymns during the Mass on Easter
Sunday.
The Rev. Thomas Gilolley. C. SS. R.,
is in charge of the Mission, and has
been visiting the colored people, from
house to house .over a period of
nearly two months.
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Charleston Women at
Communion Breakfast
(Special to The Bulletin)
CHARLESTON, S. C. — The an
nual meeting of the Catholic Wo
men's Club of Charleston was held
following a breakfast - which was
served at the Francis Marion Hotel
after the members of the club had
attended Mass at the Sacred
Heart Church. The members of the
club approached Holy Communion
in a body during the Mass, at which
special music was rendered by Miss
Alice Moran, soloist, with Miss Mar
garet Mosimann, organist.
The speaker and guest of honor at
the breakfast was the Rev. Henry
F. Wolfe, pastor of the Sacred Heart
Church, who spoke on Literature and
the Spiritual Value of Reading, stres
sing the fact that the Bible is the
greatest of Literature and should be
read often.
The following officers were unani
mously elected at the meeting: Miss
Madeline Mosimann, president; Miss
May G. de Vineau, vice-president;
Miss Alice Moran, recording secre
tary; Mrs. L. Frank Thompson, cor
responding secretary; Mrs. Walter
F. Murphy, treasurer.
Miss Emily Riley, retiring presi
dent, presided, and was presented
with a corsage. A rising vote of
thanks was accorded Mrs. Jennings
Cauthen, who was general chairman
of the breakfast committee.
The following new members were
welcomed: Mrs. Morris McLaughlin,
Mrs. Jack Heneberry, Mrs. James F.
Condon. Mrs. William Burmester. Jr.,
Mrs. Thomas Hartnett, Miss Sera-
t'ino Mauro, Miss Jerry Fry, MisS
Louise Shachte, Miss Lucille Old-
mixon, Mrs. T. Willard Reynolds,
and Miss Margaret Mosimann.
BISHOP OF CHARLESTON
CONFERS CONFIRMATION
Administers Sacrament at
Charleston Churches
(Special to The Bulletin)
CHARLESTON, S. C— On Sunday
morning, April 7. the Most Reverend
Emmet M. Walsh, D. D„ Bishop of
j Charleston, administered the Sacra-
I ment of Confirmation to a class of
forty boys and girls at St. Patrick’s
Church.
The Rev. Lawrence McLoughlm,
was celebrant of the Mass, with the
Rev. William Doyle and the Rev.
Louis Williamson, of the faculty of
Bishop England high school, as dea
con and sub-deacon. Special music
was rendered by St. Patrick's choir,
under the direction of Mi&J Eliza
beth Kennedy.
BELMONT GLEE CLUB
VISITS CHARLESTON
Students of Abbey, and
Sacred Heart School for
Women, Present Program
(Special lo Tlie Bulletin)
CHARLESTON, S. C.— Sponsored
by the Sacred Heart Parish, a con
cert was given at Memminger Hall.
April 14, by the combined glee club
of Belmont Abbey College and the
Sacred Heart College for Women,
Belmont, N. C., under the direction of
John B. Houren.
Soloists included Miss Mary Eliza
beth Moor, Miss Dorothy C. Hogan,
John Rickman Ferris.
The members of Sacred Heart col
lege glee club are the Misses Mary
Elizabeth Moor, Mary Agnes Cathou,
Margaret Rankin. Miriam Cameron,
Margaret Bruce, Mary K. Kabas, Ann
McLean, Martha Seay. Ann Tiptin,
Bridie Madden. Betty Holton, Margie
O’Mears, Virginia Brookshire, Mary
Curlee, Vivian Haverty, Mary Eliza
beth Palmer, Frances Armstrong,
Beatrice Sumner, Anita Maristany,
Patricia Riley, Dorothy Hogan. Susan
Richardson, Eva Mae Moses, Marjorie
Roper, Dorothy Spain, Margherita
Marus, Margaret Reiser, Ellen New,
Ethelda McArver. Elizabeth Sanford.
The men of the glee club of Bel
mont-Abbey college are John Matta,
Victor Kelley, Robert Harris, Thom
as Scott, David Douglas, Hugh
Bradford, Bill Rawlings, Asa Hos-
ner, Murray Severance. Rick Ferris,
Joseph Haverty, J. W. Hawkins. Al
len Mack, Earl Wheeler, Edward
Jones, Benedict Berry, Leo Sugg,
William Copeland. John McClements,
Ben Jones, Neil Hurst, Ralph Hobbs,
John Kemp, Harry Bryson, Alex
Thompson and James Boyd.
The Committee from the Sacred
Heart parish that arranged for the
concert was headed by Gerald F. Mc
Mahan. and included, Homer Free,
James F. Condon. C. A. Armstrong,
Jr., William L. Schachte, John J.
Dodds. Jr., M. A. Condon, W. A. Con-
stine, Mrs. W. T. Kanapaux, and
Mrs. William F. Condon.
On Sunday morning a choir com
posed of glee club members sang the
Mass at the Sacred Heart Church.
Pope Urges Prayers
for Peace During May
BY MSGR. ENRICO PUCCI
(Vatican Cilv Correspondent, N. C.
W. C. News Service)
VATICAN CITY. — An eloquent
plea to Catholics throughout the
world, and particularly to children, to
offer up fervent prayers through the
entire month of May to the Blessed
Virgin to intercede w'th her Divine
Son to bring about the restoration of
peace in this war-torn world was
contained in a letter which His Holi
ness Pope Pius XII sent to His Emi
nence Luigi Cardinal Maglione, Papal
Secretary of State.
"Last year,” the Holy Father wrote,
“when dark clouds obscured the hori
zon and talk of armed strife, the
forerunner of war, held all in trepi
dation. We, Who share in Our pa
ternal heart the sufferings and straits
of Our children, adressed a letter to
you. Through you. We bade the
whole Catholic world to offer in the
month of May, then close at hand,
prayers and fervent aspirations to the
great mother of God that she might
conciliate her Son, offended by our
many sins, and that a just settlement
of opposing interests and the restora
tion of conf’dence to men’s minds
might effect the preservation of peace
among nations.
“Now that the situation is worse
and this terrible war has broken out,
bringing with it already untold iiarm
and suffering. We cannot but call
again on Our children scattered
through the world to gather around
the altar of the Virgin Mother of
God daily during the month of May,
which is consecrated to her, to offer
suppliant prayer.”
Bishop England Alumni
Communion-Breakfast
(Special lo The Bulletin)
CHARLESTON, S. C. — Approxi
mately 350, more than half, of the
alumni of the Bishop England high
school, received Holy Communion in
a body at St. Patrick's Church. April
7. the Right Rev. Monsignor Joseph
L. O'Brien, pastor of St. Patrick’s
and Diocesan Superintendent of
Schools, being celebrant of the Mass.
Following the services at the
church there was a breakfast at the
Francis Marion Hotel, at which the
speakers were the Most Rev. Emmet
M. Walsh, D. D., Bishop of Charles-
Charleston K. of C.
Receive Communion
Officer of Supreme Council
and Columbia Attorney
Speak at Communion
Breakfast*
(Special to The Bulletin)
CHARLESTON, S. C. — Members
of P. N. Lynch Council, Knights of
Columbus approached Holy Com
munion in a body at the Sacred Heart
Church on Sunday, March 1, and af
ter Mass assembled at the Francis
Marior Hotel for their annual Com
munion breakfast.
J. Albert Von Dohlen was general
chairman in charge of the arrange
ments for the affair, and presided at
the breakfast. Grand Knight Setli J.
Ferrar welcomed the guests. the
blessing being asked by the Rev. J.
J. McCarthy, chaplain of the coun
cil.
Speakers at the breakfast were Wil
liam P. Donelan, Columbia attorney,
former member of the South Caro
lina Legislature, who holds office as
state district deputy, and Charles J.
Dueey, of New Haven, service direc
tor of the Supreme Council.
Mr Ducey, who is a graduate of
St. Bononaventure’s College. New
York, and who received a Master’s
degree from the University of Notre
Dame, was associated with Brother
Barnabas in the boy's work bureau,
of which he was assistant director.
In 1935 he was made director of the
service department and under his
supervision is placed the activities of
the subordinate councils, in the de
velopment of council programs, in
surance, publicity and membership.
ton; the Rev. Henrv F. Wolfe, pas
tor of the Sacred Heart Church; and
the R'ev. Dr. John L. Manning, act
ing rector of Bishop England high
school.
PONTIFICIAL MASS OF REQUIEM
OFFERED FOR BISHOP RUSSELL
CHARLESTON, S. C.-Commemo-
rating the 13th anniversary of the
death of Bishop William T. Russell
the Most Rev. Emmet M. Walsh. D
D.. offered a Solemn Pontifical Mass
of Reauiem in the Cathedral of St
John the Baptist on April 8 with the
clergy of the city assisting.
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