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APRIL 27, 1940
THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
THREE
News Review of the Catholic World
In First Religious Telecast
Participating in the world’s -first religious television program, Mon
signor Fulton J. Sheen, of the Catholic University of America, and
the Paulist Choristers are pictured in the NBC studios at Radio City,
New York, on Easter Sunday, when services were telecast, under the
auspices of the National Council of Catholic Men, (N.C.W.C.)
Taylor Appointment Doesn’t A fleet
Church-State Status Says President
Declares Again, in Letter to Dr. George A. Buttrick, That
There Has Been No Inauguration of Formal Diplomatic
Relations Between U. S. and Vatican
Tribunal of Rota
Announces Decisions
Publishes List of Causes Dis
cussed During 1939
BY MSGR. ENRICO PUCCI
con City Correspondent, N. C.
W. C. News Service)
VATICAN CITY.—The Tribunal of
the Sacred Rota has published a list
of the causes discussed and resolved
with definite sentence in the course
of the year 1939.
Out of a total of 59 causes. 56 were
ar-fRations to have marriages de
clared null.
The result of these 56 matrimonial
causes was as follows: 39 rejected. 14
af' irm: five, two favorable to the re
quest for dispensation from marriage
“rat-> et non consumato." one inter-
’ >ry through defect in procedure.
O f these causes 21 were defended
without cost to the applicant, with
favcrable result in seven of them, and
contrary in 14.
MAYOR LAGUARDIA, by striking
a $9,600 salary item from the budget,
has abolished the professorship in
the College of the City of New York
to which Bertrand Russell had been
appointed.
Mr. Russell was named Professor
of Mathematics and Philosophy, but
the appointment aroused a storm of
protest, it being charged that he
openly advocated companionate
marriage and other immoral prac
tices. and that he had given support
to Communism. The protests result
in a court action, and Suoreme Court
Justice John E. McGeehan voided
the appointment.
ROBERT CHARLES SULLIVAN,
of Washington, a freshman at Catho
lic University was awarded first
prize in a nation-wide essay contest
conducted by the American Patent
Law Association.
ROBERT H. KELLEY, of Houston,
and Paul D. Williams, of Richmond,
have been elected to the Board of
Directors of the National Council of
Catholic Men.
A NATIONAL FUNERAL was the
official honor paid the great French
scientist Edouard Branly, whose in
ventions made possible the realiza
tion of wireless telegraphy. A per
sonal message of condolence was
sent by His Holiness Pope Pius XII.
SAN MARCOS UNIVERSITY, old
est university in the Americas, an
nounced that it has organized a
summer school for American teach
ers and students, in cooperation with
the Catholic University of Peru, the
Institutio Cultural Peruano-Norte-
amerieano. and the Touring and Au
tomobile Club of Peru.
FOLLOWING PROTESTS initiated
by the St. Augustine Council of
Catholic Women, a production of
“Family Portrait", described as a
play dealing with the life of Christ,
was cancelled in Tampa.
THE REV. JOSEPH B. BACCICH,
S. J-. of Loyola University of the
South, gave the invocation at the
dedication of the $200,000 McAlister
auditorium of Tulane University,
non-sectarian institution in New
Orleans.
THE REV. WILFRED PARSONS,
S. J„ Dean of the Graduate School of
Georgetown University, has been ap
pointed to the faculty of the Catholic
University of America.
The appointment of Father Parsons,
who ill serve in the School of Social
Service, was said to mark the first
time that a member of the Society qf
Jesus has served as a regular mem
ber of the Catholic University Facul
ty
TO COMMEMORATE DECEASED
NEWSPAPERMEN, city employes
and other night-workers who attended
the 1:30 and 2:30 „ a. m. Masses there
since 1901, a memorial stained glass
window will be installed in St. An
drew's Church, New York which is
known as “the printers' church" be
cause of the large number of news
paper employes who attend it.
pfeESIDENT HUTCHINS, of the
University of Chicago, has upheld the
cancellation of a speech by Earl
Browder, Communist leader, by Will
iam Randall, Assistant Dean. Brow
der's engagement was sponsored by
the campus Communist group.
HIf> EMINENCE JEAN CARDINAL
VERDIER, Archbishop of Paris, died
April 9, at the age of 76 years
PLANS FOR A NATIONAL INSTI
TUTE for Catholic Prison Chaplains
were laid at a meeting held in Wash
ington. The Institute will be for all
priests having to do with the inmates
of penal institutions of all sorts
throughout the country and was sche
duled to be held at the National Cath-
oliq School of Social Service, in
Washington, June 24-28.
AN UNUSUAL ASSEMBLY in the
South's industrial annals made history
when noted economists, industrialists,
labor leaders, workingmen and labor
employers gather in New Orleans for
the first Catholic Conference on In
dustrial Problems in the South.
MRS. ANTON J. LANG. JR., who
played the part of Mary Magdalene
in the Oberammergau Passion Play in
1934, spoke on the life of this wo
man of the gospel in the “Call to
Youth" program broadcast over the
National Broadcasting Company, as
one of a series of talks sponsored by
the National Council of Catholic Wo
men.
SIMON N. STEIN, member of the
Rochester Lodge of B'nai B'rith made
an unsolicited contribution of $1,099
to the fund to pay off the debts of
the Catholic University of America.
THE TRIBUTE TO IRISH WOMAN
HOOD paid by the Very Rev. Robert
I. Gannon. S.J., president of Fordham
University, in his address to the
Friendly Sons of St. Patrick, was in
serted textually in tne Congressional
Record.
MOST REV. EDWARD MOONEY,
Archbishop of Detroit, will be host to
the annual convention of the Catho
lic Press Association to be held in
Detroit in May.
Anthony Beck, Editor of The Michi
gan Catholic, is chairman of the com
mittee on arrangements.
ARCHBISHOP SPELLMAN has an
nounced that a new archdiocesan
Catholic High school for boys, costing
$2,009,000 will be erected in The
Bronx. The school will accommodate
3,000 boys.
‘ THE CATHOLIC ANSWER" is the
title of the discourse which will con
clude on April 28 the current series
of talks-which the Rev. Wilfred Par
sons, S. J.. dean of the Graduate
School of Georgetown University, is
delivering as a feature of the "Cath
olic Hour’’ program.
WILBERT J. O’NEILL of Cleve
land, was elected to the presidency of
the National Council of Catholic Men
at the annual meeting of the Board
of Directors held in Washington. He
succeeds Louis Kenedy, of Hew York
City, resigned, who held the post since
1937.
WORK AMONG THE COLORED
people of this country, by priests and
nuns, was praised by Dr. Thomas W.
Turner, president ot the Federation of
Colored Catholics, in a radio address
heard on the “Wings Over Jordan”
program on a national net-work of
the Columbia Broadcasting System.
CATHOLIC CHARITIES, religious
and educational institutions, will
share equally with similar Protestant
and Jewish agencies in a philanthrop
ic trust fund of $8,000,009 established
by the late Charles E. Culpepper, New
York business executive. Mr. Culpep
per, founder and former head of the
Coca-Cola Bottling Company of New
York, was a Protestant-
VERY REV. FRANCIS J. KIEFFER.
S- M„ Superior General of the Society
of Mary, died at Nivelles, Belgium,
March 19.
MOST REV. JOHN F. O’HARA. C.
S. C.. Auxiliary Bishop of the Army
and Navy D'tocese, administered Con
firmation to forty officers and enlist
ed men on Palm Sunday, aboard the
U. S. S. Lexington, anchored off the
Pacific coast.
MONSIGNOR FELIX F. KAUP,
Vicar General of the Diocese of Rich
mond. died March 18. at the age of
61. He was a pioneer leader in the
movement against indecent motion
pictures
“FREEDOM UNDER GOD.” a new
book by the Right Rev. Monsignor
Fulton J. Sheen, of the Catholic Uni
versity of America, was chosen as the
Catholic Book of the Month, during
March,, by the Catholic Book Club,
New York-
ST. THERESA'S TRAILER CHAP
EL, recently donated by Monsignor
Fulton Sheen to St. Theresa's Mission
Band, is conducting an extensive cam
paign in the rural sections of Ala
bama. The Rev- A. W. Terminiello,
director, expects to have not only the
assistance of the Sisters in the work,
but also another priest and several
seminarians.
RABBI ABRAHAM BURSTEIN, ed
itor of the Jewish Outlook, will serve
as technical consultant for the new
National Broadcasting program “Light
of the World” in place of Rabbi Rob
ert Cordis, previously named as a
member of the advisory board.
The Rev. John LaFarge, S. J.. edi
tor of America, represents the Catho
lic Church on the board, which also
includes a Protestant minister.
THE MOST REV. JOHN F. O'HARA.
C- S. C„ Auxiliary Bishop of the
Army and Navy, has accepted an in
vitation of the Knights of Columbus
of V/ashington, D- C.. to preside over
and deliver the sermon at the Second
Annual Field Mass to be held at the
Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, Sun
day. May 26. The celebrant of the
Solemn Mass will be the Rev. Patrick
N. McDermott, National Chaplain of
the American Legion-
THREE PRIESTS have been ap
pointed First Lieutenants in the
Chaplain's Reserve Corps and two
have been named full-time CCC
chaplains, the Office of the Chief of
Chaplains. Washington, announces.
Fathers John A. Dunn, of St. Je
rome’s Church, Baltimore: Harold O.
Prudell, of Shorewood. Wis.; and Carl
L. Wilberding, of Evansville, Ind.;
have been commissioned First Lieu
tenants.
THE THIRTIETH ANNUAL sum
mer session of the Catholic University
of America, Washington, will begin
June 28 and close August 10. The ses
sion announced lists 414 courses of
'graduate and undergraduate rank, in
39 departments.
CARDINAL DOUGHERTY. Arch
bishop of Philadelphia, officiated at
the ground-breaking ceremony for
McShain Hall, new residence building
for faculty and students at LaSalle
College. Philadelphia which is con
ducted by the Christian Brothers.
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
NEW YORK—It is difficult for him
to see how any one can seriously take
the view that Myron C. Taylor's ap-
poinement as his specila representa
tive to the’’Vatican involved the ques
tion of the separation of Church and
State in this country, President Roose
Roosevelt asserts in a letters to the
Rev. Dr. George A. Buttrick, president
of the Federal Council, of the Chur
ches of Christ in America, which the
latter has made public here.
Dr. Buttrick' revealed the corres
pondence that passed between him
self and President Roosevelt follow
ing the criticism in some Protestant
circles that Mr. Taylor’s appointment
infringed upon the traditional separ
ation of Church and State in this
country.
President Roosevelt tells Dr. But
trick that Mr. Taylor's appointment
“does not constitute the inauguration I
of formal diplomatic relations with |
the Vatican." The executive com- |
mittee of the Federal Council of the
Churches of Christ in America says
it is “gratifying to receive the per
sonal and official assurance" of Presi
dent Roosevelt as-contained in his
letter, but adds:
“This assurance, however, does not
cover the entire ground of our ap
prehension. The unwarranted inter
pretation of the appointment to which
Dr. Buttrick's letter called attention
has not been explicitly denied.”
This is taken to refer to a press re
port from Rome that the Vatican
had decided that Mr. Taylor would
be “just as much an ambassador to
the Holy See as the representatives of
other nations.”
President Roosevelt begins his let
ter by stating to Dr. Buttrick his be
lief that “no public statement is re
quired. or indeed could be made, on
the basis of a mere press report,
which, so far as I know, has not ema
nated from a responsible source.”
“The status of Mr. Taylor's mis
sion is exactly as Mr. Messersmith
(Assistant Secretary of State) de
scribed it to you in his letter of Jan
uary 25," the President continues.
“Mr. Taylor is in Rome as my spec
ial representative. The appointment
does not constitute the inauguration
of formal diplomatic relations with
the Vatican. The President may
determine the rank for social pur
poses of any representative he may
send: in this case the rank corres
ponding to Ambassador was obvious
ly appropriate. The reason for and
circumstances surrounding his des
ignation were made clear in my
(By N. C. \V. C. News Service)
KANSAS. CITY. — Education con
stitutes one of Americas greatest
present-day problems, the Most Rev.
John J. Glennon. Archbishop of St.
Louis, said last night in delivering the
principal address at a session here
of the thirty-seventh annual con
vention of the National Catholic Ed
ucational Association.
Kansas City's huge municipal au
ditorium was thronged for the meet
ing, which was attended by Catholic
educators from all sections of the
country.
“Education." said Archbishop Glen-
non. "that is, the training of youth,
is today one of the nation's greatest
protyems. and the imparting of a fit
ting education is one of its most
pressing obligations. It may be that
at present the duty of feeding, cloth
ing and housing the multitude is
more pressing, but this latter duty
will, we hope, soon disappear, since
we believe that the conditions making
it necessary will not much longer
obtain. On the other hand the educa
tion question will be always before
us. because it has to do with the life
stream of the nation itself, and on the
method of its imparting will depend
the type of citizen and the style of
living he will pursue.
“Vast sums of money have been
voted; huge buildings have been
erected: scholarly teachers employed;
the health and transportation of the
pupils cared for; the ways of ac
quiring knowledge were made easy,
and yet in spite of all, something ap
peared to be lacking. The temple of
education looked imposing enough,
the brick and stone were all in place,
the outlines of the structure were
graceful and imposing, but it appear
ed aS if there was no mortar to bind
it together. The building was unable
to stand the rough weather. There
was the confusion even of the build
ers themselves who appeared to be
emulating Samson in an endeavor to
pull down the buildings which were
largely of their own creation.”
Need of Religion
Comparing the education of past
generations with that of today, Arch-
Christmas letter to the Pope; and in
the letter which I gave Mr. Taylor
for presentation to, the Pope, which
conforms to the Christmas message.
“Mr. Taylor was sent to Rome to
assist parallel endeavors for peace
and the alleviation of suffering; and
I am sure that ail men of good-will
must sympathize with this purpose.
“There of course was not the slight
est intention to raise any question
relating to the union of the functions
of the Church and State, and it is dif
ficult for me to believe that any one
could take seriously a contrary view,
or that the action taken could inter
rupt in any way the necessary and
healthy growth of interfaith comity."
RANK AND FILE APPROVE
ACTION OF PRESIDENT,
PROTESTANT PAPER SAYS
Christian-Evangelist Fears
Prejudice Blinds Those
Criticising Taylor Appoint
ment
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
ST. LOUIS.—A national Protestant
weekly published here asserts that
opposition to President Roosevelt’s
appointment of Myron C. Taylor as
his personal representative at the
Vatican is not representative of
American Prbtestantism.
A leading editorial in the Chris-
tian-Evangelist, national weekly of
the Disciples of Christ, declares it
has not been able to discover "rank
and file uprising against the Presi
dent’s appointment" and that “there
is some evidence that approval of the
appointment is widespread." The edi
torial expresses regret that “the op
position, unwittingly, we feel sure, is
creating a vicious and un-American
anti-Catfiolic prejudice.”
“We fear,” continues the editorial,
“that anti-Catholicism is still so
deeply ingrained in many Protestant
leaders in the United States that they
are biindt-J v/ith passionate preju
dice and unable to see that Mr.
Roosevelt has taken a tremendous
f orward step hv mobilizing the
strength of relieious forces in this
country in behalf, of peace. The pos
sibility of a just peace is the basic
issue in this matter.”
bishop Glennon said: “Our national
system of education, however, has
critics who declare that the decline
of our education is due chiefly if not
entirely to the fact that it refuses
a place in its curricula to religion and
all that religion implies, and that
within a system bereft of religion the
teacher is unable to present to the
pupil a code of morals or a sanction
for their acceptance, that a system
of education without religion has
no philosophy of life to offer, indeed,
no adequate explanation of life it
self. The exclusion of religion means'
the elimination of the supernatural,
and leaves to the teacher and the pu
pil only the purely natural to resort
to. but even the purely natural must
fail them because God is the author
thereof, and without Him even the
natural is without an explanation —
so that in the long run there is left
as a basis for secular education noth
ing but down-right materialism."
The Rev. W. J. McGucken, S. X.,
St. Louis University, in the second
address, deplored the lack of disci
pline in American education of to- 1
day when he talked on "Intelligence
and Character.” “The Catholic tra
dition in education, needless to say.”
said Father McGucken. “has always
insisted on the importance of authori
ty and discipline The Church, taught
by Christ, has regarded human na
ture as in need of discipline because
of the eifects of original sin. Chil
dren in Catholic schools need to have
disciplined minds, hearts, wills, emo
tions, tenses. But discipline does
not mean repression, does not imply
Prussian regimentation.”
Dr.Clarena Manion. professor of
Constitutional Law at the University
of Notre Dame Law School, made a
stirring address that brought forth
repeated rounds of applause when he
enlarged on a theme of the democra
cy of ttie United States being based on
the dignity of man.
The Most Rev. Edwin V. O’Hara,
Bishop of Kansas City, was the con
cluding speaker on the program, ex
pressing his gratitude to those who
had contributed to the success of the
evening, and iris pleasure at having
the convention in Kansas City.
Archbishop Glennon Addresses
Meeting of Catholic Educators
Kansas City Convention of National Catholic Educational
Association Told That Education Is One of Nation’s
Chief Problems