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THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
APRIL 27, 1940
Catholic Women of Georgia-Convene
REV. T. A. CRONIN
CLAIMED BY DEATH
Beloved Jesuit Priest, Once
Pastor in Augusta, Dies in
New Orleans
AUGUSTA. Ga.—On Friday morn
ing. April 5, 1940 the sad news of
the death of Rev. Timothy A. Cronin,
S. J.. former Pastor of Sacred Heart
Church in this city, reached his many
friends here as a distinct shock.
Father Cronin, a brother of Rev.
Daniel Cronin, S. J.. who has been
until recently stationed at J5acred
Heart Church, was taken ill last Sun
day and brought to Hotel Dieu in
New Orleans, where an exploratory
operation was performed. Father
Cronin did not react favorably to the
operation, but hopes were held out
for his recovery until a sudden turn
proved fatal. At his bed side was his
brotrier. Father Daniel Cronin and
other Fathers of the Jesuit Order
in New Orleans.
Father “'Tim” as he was affection
ately called, came to this country
from Listowel, County Kerry. Ire
land. at the age of seventeen and en
tered the Jesuit Novitiate in Macon,
Georgia, on January 30, 1893. St.
Stanislaus College, in Macon, Geor
gia. was also the House for the Classi
cal Studies of the Jesuits of the Sou
thern Province, and here Fr. Cronin
spem five years. He made his Phil
osophical studies at St. Louis Uni
versity, St. Louis, Mo., and after
teaching for several years at Spring
Hill College, Spring Hill, Alabama, he
went to Woodstock College, in Mary
land. for his theological studies. He
was ordained at Woodstock by Cardi
nal James Gibbons in the Summer of
1916. After ordination, Father Cronin
spent one year at Poughkeepsie. New
York at the Jesuit House of Studies
ar.d then returned South to take up
the post of Principal at the Jesuit
High School in New Orleans. In
1923, he was appointed President of
St. John’s College. Shreveport.
Louisiana, where he served in this
capacity until 1927.
Father Cronin was appointed Pas
tor of the Sacred Heart Church. Au
gusta. on July 22, 1927 and held this
office until July 24, 1930. From this
time until his death he served as
Treasurer, first at Tampa College.
Tampa, Florida and in the same capa
city at Jesuit High School, in New
Orleans.
Father Timothy Cronin is affection
ately remembered by the people of
Augusta and his untimely death is a
cause of grief to those who enjoyed
his spiritual ministrations.
CHURCH SITE BOUGHT
AT PORT WENTWORTH
Diocese of Savannah-Atlanta
Acquires Lot Upon Which
Church of Our Lady of
Lourdes Will Be Built
(Special to The Bulletin)
SAVANNAH. Ga. — The Diocese
of Savannah-Atlanta has purchased
a tract of land 300 feet square, on the
Augusta Road, opposite the entrance
of the Savannah Sugar Refinery, for
the purpose of erecting a church to
serve the parishioners of Port Went
worth.
Announcement of the purchase was
made by the Rev. Thomas I. Sheehan,
administrator of St. Patrick's Church
here, who is to be the pastor of the
new church.
Plans are being completed and it is
expected that construction will begin
within the month. The new church
will be dedicated to Our Lady of
Lourdes.
Fine Attendance
at Deanery Meet
Several Hundred in Augusta
for Session of National
CounciFof Catholic Women
(Special to The Bulletin)
AUGUSTA. Ga. — Several hun
dred women were guests at St.
Mary’s Council of the National Coun
cil of Catholic Women at a tea which
followed the meeting of the Augusta
Deanery at Mt. *St. Joseph’s Audi
torium on the afternoon of Sunday,
March 31.
Miss Anna Rice, president, and the
other officers of the deanery council
were unanimously re-elected, and re
ports of the various commitees were
rendered. \
An interesting feature of the meet
ing was an address on “The National
School of Social Service,” delivered
by Mies Mary Sullivan
At the conclusion of the business
session, Mrs. Marion Stulb, Mrs.
Frank Mulherin, Mrs. Clerc ICemp,
and Mrs. James Grogan poured tea
at tables beautifully appointed with
silver service, gleaming candles and
.aavrura flowers.
Taking prominent parts in the deliberations of the second annual convention of the Savannah-Atlanta
Diocesan Council of Catholic Women were Miss Lenna Wilson, field secretary, National Council of Catholic
Women, of Washington, D. C.; Mrs. Reyburn L. Watkins, of Atlanta, president of the Diocesan Council, and the
Right Reverend Monsignor Joseph E. Moylan, spiritual director of the council. (Courtesy of The Atlanta Con
stitution).
Catholic Principles Hold
Solution of South’s Problems
Southern Dioceses Represented at First Annual South
ern Catholic Conference on Catholic
Action Held in Atlanta
Southern Educators
Hear Richard Reid
Former Editor of The Bul
letin Addresses Southern
Association of Colleges and
Secondary Schools
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
ATLANTA.— That the social and
economic problems of the South can
best be solved by the Catholic prin
ciples enunciated in the Papal En
cyclicals was the theme of the
speakers at the first annual Southern
Catholic Conference on Catholic
Action held here. Taking as their
text excerpts from the Encyclicals
of Popes Leo XIII. Pius XI and Pius
XII. eminent speakers from all parts
of the nation pointed out that the
South is the nation's No. 1 Religious
Opportunity.
Five hundred delegates from 13
southern States heard addresses by
the Most Rev. Gerald P. O'Hara,
Bishop of Savannah-Atlanta; the Rev.
Wilfred Parsons, ^S. J., Dean of the
graduate school. Georgetown Univer
sity. Washington, D. C.. and Paul
Williams, prominent Catholic laymen
of Richmond, executive secretary of
the Conference. The Rt. Rev. Msgr.
T. James McNamara, Rector of the
Cathedral of St. John the Baptist,
Savannah, was chairman. Four
Bishops from the 13 southern dio
ceses represented were present.
They were Bishop O'Hara, the Most
Rev. Thomas J. Toolen. Bishop of
Mobile: the Most Rev. Peter L. Ire-
ton. Coadjutor Bishop of Richmond,
and the Most Rev. Richard O. Gerow,
Bishop of Natchez.
Round table discussions, participat
ed in by outstanding leaders in their
fields of work, on labbr and in
dustry. education, the Negro prob
lem. rural life and lay organizations
attempted to make the South con-
Bishop O’Hara Approves
Cancer Control Campaign
SAVANNAH, Ga. — Most Rever
end Gerald P. O’Hara. Bishop of Sa
vannah-Atlanta, has indorsed the en
listment campaign of the Woman’s
Field Army of the American Society
for the Control of Cancer, being
conducted in Savannah.
“Public and private agencies in
Georgia,” said Bishop O’Hara, “are
waging a relentless war on cancer,
and their efforts deserve the whole
hearted cooperation of the public at
large. The drive that is now be
ing conducted in this state gives us
a convenient opportunity to show
our interest in so worthy a cause.”
JACK THOMPSON HEADS
BENEDICTINE ASSOCIATION
SAVANNAH. Ga. — Jack Thomp
son, who for three years kept the
football teams of Benedictine College
in the upper brackets in high school
competition, has been elected presi
dent of the Benedictine Athletic As
sociation, succeeding Robert F. Down
ing.
Other officers selected were: Sam
W. M .Haile, first vice-president;
Walter P. Corish, second vice-presi
dent; Aaron Robinson, third vice-
president; John G. Butler, secretary;
Hugh H, Grady, treasurer,.
scious of the problems confronting it
and to offer solutions.
Keynoting the conference. Mr. Wil
liams said: “This nation must return
to the religious foundation of demo
cracy, and when it does we shall see
that religion has a definite responsi
bility to do something about econo
mic welfare.”
“We are here, not to make patrio
tic utterances,” said Monsignor Mc
Namara. “but to face facts, and to
solve the South problems in the light
of Catholic principles ”
‘We must insist on the historical
fact that Christian principles are the
basis of the American conception of
citizenship and government," said
Father Parsons.
The panel discussion on “Industry
and Labor” brought out frank state
ments from labor leaders, agricul
turists, bankers nad merchants. T.
H. McHatton. professor of horticul
ture at the University of Georgia,
spoke of the “selfish shylocks who
are the industrialists.” He advocat
ed the repeal of the protective tariff
for the benefit of the farmer, and
concluded by saying that “if we are
to solve the South’s problems, we
must cease mere lip-service to Christ
and be motivated in all of our actions
by a spirit of real Christianity.”
Others, speaking on the labor prob
lem. were; William E. Davlin. Wash
ington, D.C.; Charles E. Aeyman,
representative of the American Fed-
ciation of Labor; Clarence Haverty,
industrialist, and Lewis Gordon,
banker.
New Mission Field
in South Georgia
Oblates Fathers Begin Mis
sionary Work Among
Negroes in Lakeland
(Special to The Bulletin)
DOUGLAS. Ga. — An enthusiastic
reception has been accorded mission
ary priests • of the Oblates of Mary
Immaculate, in Lakeland, where a
new mission station has been estab
lished to further the work among the
negro population of a section of
Georgia which borders the Okefen-
okee Swamp.
TJhe Rev. Gerald Kenealy, O. M I..
the Rev. Frederick V. Gilbert. O. M.
I., and the Rev. Joseph W. Bollard, O.
M. I„ stationed at St. Paul’s Church,
in Douglas, have visited the new mis
sionary territory.
The missionary priests found not
one Catholic in the Town of Lake
land, but the cordial reception which
the Fathers have received promises
that the nucleus of a growing Catho
lic population will soon result from
their efforts.
“MARGARET FULLER.” a biogra
phy of the eminent New England wo
man leader of the mid-nineties, by
Mason Wade, is the April "selection of
the Catholic Book Club.
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
ATLANTA,—Only to the extent that
religious principles are inculcated in
our people will the future of demo
cracy be guaranteed, Richard Reid,
Editor of The Catholic News, New
York, declared in an address to the
forty-fourth annual meering of the
Southern Association of Colleges and
Secondary Schools here.
Speaking on the topic. “Democracy
Challenges Education,” Mr. Reid told
the educators that “it. is only in the
souls of men that men are equal and
that men are free.”
‘This is the only principle that is
a basis for true freedom and true
democracy,” he declared, “for it is the
only principle that says to the work
er that you are equal to the mightiest
of the nation. Without this principle
and without the people being made
conscious of the fact that in the .per
iod beyond this life the most exalted
persons of today will have no intrinsic
preference over the humblest, there
can be no real equality and no real
democracy.”
Pointing out that the Declaration of
Independence “does not presume to
give man his inalienable rights,” but
recognizes that these come from God,
Mr. Reid said:
‘ These spiritual principles, these re
ligious principles, if you will, are the
only protection against totalitarian
ism, against the tyranny of the state
which has in so many countries made
a shambles of human liberty. And
only to the extent to which we suc
ceed in permeating the minds and
hearts of our people with them are
we guaranteed tlfat democracy as we
know it will flourish.”
Mr. Reid said “there is no place up
on which the future of democracy de
pends more than on the South, be
cause in the South the foreign "isms'
have not made the inroads they have
made in the great centers of the na
tion.” “I am convinced that their
power is waning,” he continued, “but
it still remains true that the South
is more free from them, and there
fore best able to battle them.”
Bishop O’Hara to Visit
Cornell University
(Bv N. C. W. C. News Service)
ITHACA, N. Y.—Coming events for
the Newman Club and students gen
erally of Cornell University arrang
ed by the Rev. Donald M. Cleary,
Catholic chaplain, are the annual
visit of the Most Rev. James E.
Kearney, Bishop of Rochester, the
Most Rev. Robert E. Lucey, Bishop
of Amarillo, on April 23, and the
Most Rev. Gerald P. O'Hara. Bishop
of Savannah-Atlanta, on Mother's
Day.
At two Masses on the occasion of
his visit Bishop Kearney spoke on
“You and Your Faith.” Bishop Lucey
will speak on “You and Your Na
tion.” Bishop O’Hara’s topic lias not
been announced, ..._,„ , ,....
ANNUAL CONFERENCE
DIOCESAN N.C.C.W.
HELD IN ATLANTA
Bishop O’Hara, Monsignor
Moylan, Dr. Ignatius P.
Smith, 0. P., and National
Officers of N.C.C.W. Attend
BY MRS. ELLA L. BUCKLEY
State Chairman
Publicity Committee, N. C- C. W.
The state convention of the Nation
al Council of Catholic Women open
ed wtih a brilliant function. Saturday
April 6. when six hundred guests
gathered at dinner in the banquet
room of the Ansley Hotel in Atlan
ta. Mrs. Reyburn Watkins presided.
Distinguished guests present were the
Most Reverend Bishop Gerald P.
O’Hara, Rt. Rev. Msgr. Joseph E.
Moylan. Mrs. J. W. McCollum, na
tional field secretary and the princi
pal speaker. Dr. Ignatius Smith, O. P.,
dean of philosophical studies at the
Catholic University of America.
Dr. Smith made a plea for com
plete education: He said, “Education
without religious training is only half
an education. The young of the na
tion have a right to know where they
came from, where they must go, and
how they can get there- Ten thousand
five hundred Catholic schools and
100.000 teachers are consecrating
themselves to that purpose.”
.Bishop Lauds Catholic Women
Bishop O’Hara paid tribute to Mrs.
Reyburn Watkins, state president,
Mrs. Joseph Kelly, past state presi
dent, and to the Catholic women of
Georgia for their enviable record of
achievement in the advancement of
the Kingdom of Christ. In the words
of St. Paul, the Bishop urged the
women of Georgia to “Serve the Lord
in gladness’’—that joy which is the
keynote of the Christian religion—joy
in nearness to God and God's love.
Monsignor Moylan urged the pro
pagation of the faith through the me
dium of the radio. He pointed out
that peoples' minds were more recep
tive in the quiet of their own living
rooms away from the rush of worldly
activity.
Mrs. McCollum, in a warm, friendly,
witty talk, paid tribute to the daunt
less faith of Georgia women.
Miss Lenna Wilson gave a brief his
tory of the twenty years' growth of
the N. C. C. W.
Tribute to Laymen's Association
Miss Corrigan of the Professional
and Business Women's Club of Atlan
ta paid tribute to the Catholic Lay
men’s Association of Georgia.
The convention continued through
Sunday with a Communion Mass and
breakfast, business sessions, a lunch
eon at the Ansley, Benediction of the
Blessed Sacrament at Sacred Heart
Church and a buffet supper at the
Georgian Terrace Hotel.
In the afternoon session panel dis
cussions on study club activities,
world peace, Catholic education,
press and literature, religious influ
ence in the home were led by the fol
lowing chairman: Mrs. D- J. O’Con
nor. Mrs. John Morton Smith. Mrs.
H. H. Smith. Mrs. Ethel K. Lynch,
Miss Alma Sheridan and Mrs. L. E.
Mock.
The Augusta Deanery was lauded
in a series of resolutions because of
the particularly outstanding work of
the committees on the campaign
against indecent literature under the
leadership of Mrs. Ethel Lynch and
Mrs. Norman Boatwright.
Invited to Augusta
At the close of the session Mrs
Marion Stulb extended an invitation
ior the state convention to be held in
Augusta next spring-
Mrs. Reyburn Watkins and her
state officers were, re-elected to of
fice- The officers for the Savannah-
Atlanta diocesan council are: Mrs
Reyburn Watkins, president; Mrs.
Joseph E. Kelly, Mrs. W. J. McAlpin,
Miss Anna Rice, Mrs. A. A. Benedetto,
vice-presidents; Mrs. John J. McGee,
corresponding secretary; Mrs. Bep
Boeckman. recording secretary; Miss
Helen Roe Nugent, treasurer; Mrs.
John S. Howkins. parliamentarian;
Miss Mary L. Brosrian. historian
Diocesan chairmen are Mrs. Joseph
E Kelly, organization; Miss Alma
Sheridan, religious education; Mrs. H.
H. Smith, Catholic P.-T. A.’s, Mrs. D.
J. O’Connor, study clubs; Mrs. Alex
W. Smith, Jr., legislation; Mrs. J.
Mark Mote, industrial relations; Mrs,
J. J. Nicholson. St- Thomas vocational
school; Mrs. Ethel K. Lynch, press and
iiterature; Miss Helen Roe Nugent,
National Catholic School of Social,
Service; Mrs. John T. Buckley, pub
licity: Mrs. John Morton Smith, in
ternational relations; Miss Kate La
tham. social service, Mrs. L. E. Mock
shrines in the homes.
\vm. a. McKenna named
TO MACON TAX BOARD
MACON. Ga.—William A. McKen
na, a charter member of Macon
Council. No. 925, Knights of Colum
bus. has been appointed chairman of
the Board of Tax Appeals for the City
of Macon.
Mr. McKenna has served in City
Council for several terms and this is
his second anointment to the Board
of Tax Appeals. , ... ■