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THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
APRIL 27. 1940
Three of the Bishops Attending Atlanta Conference
In the group above are three of the four Bishops of Southern Dioceses who were in attendance at the
Southern Catholic Conference for Social Action, held at the Anslev Hotel. Atlanta. April 14-16. Left to right:
The Most Rt. Thomas Toolen, Bisiiop or Mobile; the Meet Rev. Gerald P. O'Hara. Bishop of Savannah-Atlanta;
and the Most Rev. Peter L. Ireton, Bishop of Richmond. The Most Rev. Richard A. Gerow, Bishop of Natchez
also attended the conference. (Courtesy of The Atlanta Journal).
New Organization Formed
at Conference in Atlanta
FRENCH CARDINAL
CLAIMED BY DEATH
Universal Expressions of
Sorrow at Death of Car
dinal Verdier, Archbishop
of Paris
By M. MASSIANA
(Cable, N. C. W. C. News Service)
PARIS,— Universal expressions of
sorrow caused by the sudden death
of His Eminece Jean Cardinal Ver
dier, Archbishop of Paris, all stress
his incomparable leadership both in
his own country and in world af
fairs. Telegrams and cablegrams from
two continents have flooded the
chancellery.
His Holiness Pope Pius XII sent a
message expressing his profound sor
row. His Eminence Luigi Cardinal
Maglione, Papal Secretary of State,
spoke of his personal bereavement
and referred to the long and intimate
relations he had enjoyed with the
Cardinal when he was Nuncio at
Paris.
General Sikorski and Cardinal
Hlond wired condolences in the name
of captive Poland. Minister Osusky
and Monsignor Szrawek personally
expressed to the Chapter of Notre
Dame Cathedral the sorrow of Czech-
o-Slovakia.
President and Madame Lebrun
knelt for some time beside the bier
of the Cardinal and offered condol
ences to the Auxiliary Bishops of
Paris. Premier Reynaud also knelt
for some time.
The Most Rev. Valerio Valeri, Papal
Nuncio to France, pontificated at a
Mass celebrated near the remains of
the Cardinal at the Archiepiscopal
residence. His Eminence Alfred Car
dinal Baudrillart kissed the cold
hands of his brother Cardinal and
old personal friend and collaborator
at the Catholic Institute of Paris.
The Chief of Staff of Generalissimo
Gamelin called to pay respects in
the name of the Allied Commander.
All of the Ambassadors and Ministers
called with the exception of the
Charge d'Affaires of Soviet Russia.
Expressions of respectful sympathy-
have come from all Protestant federa
tions, the Grand Rabbi of Jewish
Communities in France and Africa,
and from the Salvation Army.
From early in the morning until
late in the evening, the people of
F'aris filed past the bier.
Atlanta High School
Presents Operetta
ATLANTA, Ga. —The Sacred Heart
High School Glee Club presented its
third annual operetta on Sunday af
ternoon, April 21, at the O’Keefe
Junior High Auditorium.
Appearing in the cast of “Heart
less House” were Virginia Forward.
Margaret McDevitJ, Marie Maloof,
Josephine Maloof, Mae Smith, Mary
Huey, Noel Bussey, Amy Varnedo-’,
Dorothy Guldenschuh, and a chorus
from the senior, junior, and sopho
more classes.
Sister Marie Cecile directed the
production, and Miss Gloria La Roche
was the musical director.
BOBBY JONES. Ill,
WINS A MEDAL
ATLANTA. Ga. — Bobby Jones,
III, son of the famous golfer, scor
ed a classroom victory at Marist Col
lege, where his rendition of “The
Supposed Speech of John Adams”
gained him the Mrs. P. O. Gilbert
Medal.
MARIST COLLEGE ELECTS
FRATERNITY OFFICERS
ATLANTA, Ga. — Frank McGaugh-
ey and Norman Kane, students at
Marist College, have been elected
president and vice-president, re
spectively', of the Omega Chapter of
the Kappa Delta Kappa fraternity.
Savannah Group to
Present “Rio Rita”
(Special to The Bulletin)
SAVANNAH, Ga.-The Rev. Jos
eph W. Kavanagh, spiritual director
of the Catholic Young People’s As
sociation, announces that Monday,
May 13, has been selected as -he
date for- the presentation of the mu
sical comedy, “Rio Rita,” by the dra
matic group of the association. The
performance will be given at the Mu
nicipal Auditorium.
Joseph Mendel is directing the cast
of 142, of which 80 are in the singing
chorus, 22 in the dancing ensemble,
and 16 have principal parts. Charles
E. Donnelly is the musical director,
Miss Marie Kenny, dancing director,
while Miss Sheila Pierce, Miss Cath
erine Ray. and Miss Rosemary Cof
fee arc designing the costumes for
the production.
FRANK IM’BER ELECTED
K. OF C. SECRETARY
SAVANNAH, Ga. - At the April
meeting of Savannah Council. No.
631, Knights of Columbus, Frank
Puder was chosen to succeed John
W. Davis as recording secretary. ;vlr.
Davis, who is connected with the
Post Office Department, was trans-
lererd from Savannah to Charlotte,
and resigned his office as recorder.
Plans were discussed for the an
nual outing of the Council, which
will be held during May.
The Rev. Hugh A. Schonhardt, for
mer chaplain of the Council, spoke
at the meeting, which apopinted a
nominating committee to report at
tire May meeting.
Henry L. Caravati, of Rich
mond, Heads Catholic Con
ference of the South, Or
ganized at Southern Cath
olic Conference for Social
Action
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
ATLANTA. — Southern Catholics
interested in the application of the
Papal Encyclicals to Southern prob
lems, meeting here, organized them
selves into the Catholic Conference
of the South, elected officers, held
round table discussions, and heard
A. A. Berle. Assistant Secretary of
State, give the principal address at
the concluding banquet.
Henry L. Caravati, of Richmond,
was elected president of the newly-
formed body. The Rt. Rev. Msgr. T.
James McNamara, of Savannah, was
elected chairman of the executive
board and Paul D. Williams, of
Richmond, executive secretary. Oth
er officers chosen were C. Ellis Hen-
ican, of New Orleans, first vice-pres
ident; Dr. A. L. Stabler, Birming
ham, vice-president and secretary,
and John P. Grace, Charleston, vice-
president and treasure .
Control of the organization was
vested in a board of governors com
posed^ of the Bishops of the dio
ceses participating in the conference
and an executive board made up of
one priest and one layman from each
member diocese. During the next
year the Conference will place em
phasis on the training of leadership.
The Catholic Conference of the
South is an outgrowth of the commit
tee on the South of the National
Catholic Social Action Congress held
in Cleveland last June.
In his banquet address Mr. Berle
declared: “I am convinced that toe
South has before it one of the great
est opportunities in the modem
world. It is now shifting from agri
culture to industrial development. It
is doing that late, as the country goes,
and therefore can avoid mistakes
made elsehere.” He stated that the
newly-formed Catholic Conference of
the South should try to see that
wealth created by new Southern-in
dustry “doesn’t go back to idle pools
in big cities”, and warned against the
dangers involved in attracting manu
facturers with promise of lower costs
because of lower living standards.
Mr. Berle, who took for his theme
The Ethics of Social Progress,” de-
clared that the “world is slowly di
viding itself into two great camps:
those who believe that civilization
and prograss have an ethical basis as
against those who rely on brute
force ” “No Christian whatever his
creed can dechne to join hands with
fellow Christians in an endeavor to
carry forward the work of social
progress,” he said.
Other speakers at the banquet were
Monsignor McNamara, toastmaster,
ihe Rev. Wilfrid Parsons, S. J.,
Charles S. Reid, Chief Justice of the
z-upreme Court of Georgia, and the
Most Rev. Gerald P. O’Hara, Bishop
of Savannah-Atlanta.
The morning sessions were devot
ed to round table discussions on the
Church and the Negro and Christian
education. The Rev. Vincent Warren,
S. S. J., of Mobile, advocated new
zea l an d greater courage for the
Christianizing of some four million
southern Negroes, who ‘‘are not now
affiliated with any organized
Savannah Men Join
In Prayer for Peace
Knights of Columbus and
Holy Name Society Ap
proach Holy Communion
i Special to The Bulletin)
SAVANNAH, Ga. — A united pray
er fer peace, joining in the request of
His Holiness, Pope Pius XII, was
said at St. Patrick’s Church, Sunday.
April 21, by the Catholic men of
Savannah who participated in the an
nual communion sponsored by the
Union of .Holy Name Societies, and
Savannah Council, Knights of Colum
bus.
Most Reverend Gerald P. O'Hara,
Bishop of Savannah-Atlanta, who
celebrated the low Mess, led the pray
er in which all Catholic men of the
city had been invited to join.
The men assembled at the Catho
lic Community Center, and under the
direction of Thomas J. Corcoran, mar
shal, and John Smith, assistant mar
shal, marched to St. Patrick's Church.
Hugh H. Grady is the president of
the Holy Name Society Union, and
the parish groups were headed bv
Capt. J. J. Clancy, of the Cathedral:
Joseph M. Colley. St. Patrick’s: A. J.
Ryan. Jr.. Sacred Heart: and Walt r
Murphy, Blessed Sacrament. A. J.
Ryan is Grand Knight of Savannah
Council, Knights of Columbus.
BENEDICTINE ALUMNUS
STUDYING FOR PRIESTHOOD
SAVANNAH, Ga.—The Rev. Mr.
Joseph Frese. S. J.. the son of Mr.
and Mrs. Fred J. Frese, formerly of
Savannah, now of Yonkers, N. Y..
has completed all but four years of
his preparation for ordination as a
priest of the Society of Jesus. Mr.
Frese is a graduate of Benedictine
College and Fordham University,
and has ben a student at St. Francis
Xavier College, New York, for ten
years.
THE FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY of
the Pan American Union was com
memorated at a Solemn Pontifical
Mass, in the National Shrine of the
Immaculate Conception, on April 15.
The Most Rev. Joseph M. Corrigan.
Rector of the Catholic University of
America pontificated for the first
time since his elevation to the Amer
ican Hierarchy.
church.” The Rev. George J. Flani-
gen, editor of the Nashville Register,
told of a “need for intellectual as
well as emotional conversion." Oth
ers participating in this round table
were the Rev. Hubert Roberg, Pensa
cola, Fla.|; the Rev. C. C. McIntyre,
O. M. I., Sumter, S. C.; Miss Sarah
Fahy. of Atlanta: Stephens Mitchell,
of Atlanta, and the Rev. Dixon
Beattie of Richmond. The Most Rev.
Thomas J. Toolen, Bishop of Mobile,
presided.
The Most Rev. Peter L. Ireton,
Coadjutor Bishop of Richmond, pre-
sided at the round table on Christian
Education.
The speaker at the afternoon ses
sion on lay organizations were Eva J.
Ross, of New York City, speaking on
youth; Mrs. J. W. McCollum of
Gainsville, Fla., national president of
the National Council of Catholic
Women, speaking on women, and
Edward J. Heffron, executive secre
tary of the National Council qf Cath
olic Men,. , ■ , in ; , ,
“Birth Control”
Display in Augusta
Arouses Controversy
AUGUSTA, Ga. — Vehement pro
test by the Most Rev. Gerald P.
O’Hara, D. D., J. U. D., Bishop of Sa
vannah-Atlanta, against disfeiay and
distribution of “birth contraor’ litera
ture at the Georgia Conference on
Social Work held at the Augusta Mu
nicipal Auditorium, brought reply
from the Rev. John E. Hines, rector
of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, and
others interested in the exhibit of
the Maternal Health Clinic of Rich
mond County.
Other expressions of disapproval of
the “birth control” booth were made
to Mayor James M. Wooddall and to
Mrs. W. K. Elliott, general chairman
of the conference bv the Augusta
Deanery. Council of Catholic Women,
and by Dr. J. Reid Broderick, presi
dent of the Catholic Laymen’s Asso
ciation of Georgia.
Following the receipt of the pro
tests, the Georgia Conference on So
cial Work adopted a resolution de
scribing the exhibit of the Mothers’
Health Clinic as “of the highest qual
ity.”
One of the most attractive exhibits
at the conference was that of the
Council of Catholic Women, which
had as its central figure a statue of
the Sacred Heart, as the inspiration
for the various forms of social ser
vice that were described on posters.
Church Ever Rises
to Another Easter,
Says Msgr. Sheen
NEW YORK—The Catholic Church
“in each generation is condemned
by the world and then rises to a
new and glorious Easter”, declared
the Rt. Rev. Msgr. Fulton J. Sheen
over the “Catholic Hour”, broadcast
over a network ol the National
Broadcasting Company through Sta
tion WEAF here and produced by
the National Council of Catholic Men-
Ending his current series of ad
dresses. Monsignor Sheen asserted
that "at least a thousand times the
bells have tolled in history for the
death of the Church, but the execu
tion never took place; the coffin is
ordered but the corpse never ap
pears; the mourners assist at her
burial but she sings a requiem over
her mourners; still doomed to death,
but fated not to die, she survives a
thousand crucifixions and a thousand
deaths; and alone has survived the
crash of all civilizations, because not
involved in their ruin. There is
often an hour when the world can
not understand the reason the Church
gives for her position, but there is
never a time when men do not live
to see her judgement reasonable".
Citing the authority of the Church,
Monsignor Sheen declared that “the
lesson that emerges from Easter is
that the world was wrong and Christ
was right; that there is a world of
difference between an authority on
which you rely when it pleases* you,
and one which you trust absolutely
whether it please you or not; for
what the world needs is a voice that
is right not when the world is right,
but right when the world is wrong”.
“To avoid another Calvary and its
colossal error that the majority is
always right”, Mcnsignor Sheen de
clared, “the world needs a standard
of. virtue, truth, and goodness, other
than the will of the masses. In those
moments when the popular will co
incides with God’s Will there is no
need of an external authority out
side the mass; but there is need of
one when there is a conflict between
lihe two, as there was on Calvary”.
INDUSTRY SESSION
AT NEW ORLEANS
Archbishop Hummel Outlines
Recent Statement of Bis
hops to Catholic Conference
of Industrial Problems
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
NEW ORLEANS — Giving a con
cise summary of “The Church and
Social Order,” the joint statement
which the Archbishops and Bishops
comprising the Administrative Board
of the National Catholic Welfare
Conference issued on Ash Wednes
day, and rallying his hearers to
the work of “restoring Christ to
. His true and proper place in human
society', ’ the Most Rev. Joseph F.
Kummel, Archbishop of New Or
leans, brought to a close Tuesday
evening a Catholic Conference on
Industrial Problems held here un
der his sponsorship.
Some 600 persons — members of
the clergy, employers, representa
tives of organized labor, unorganized
workers and others interested in in
dustrial problems from either a hu
manitarian or academic point of
view — were present at this closing
dinner meeting. All of the sessions—■
morning, afternoon and evening —
throughout the two days of the con
ference were marked by large at
tendances.
Notable Speakeres
Among the conference speakers
were the Rt. Rev. Msgr. John A. Ry
an, Director of the Social Action
Department of the National Catho
lic Welfare Conference, and the Rev.
R. A. McGowan, Assistant Director.
Other leaders chosen to present as
pects of industrial problems includ
ed men in high positions of the Gov
ernment that have to do with indus
try, university professors and mem
bers of the clergy interested in see
ing that justice is carried out for both
employer and employed. Speaking
from the floor where employers and
employes who challenged the state
ments or who sought clarification or
additional information.
CLERGY DISCUSS CHURCH’S
SOCIAL ORDER TEACHINGS
(By fir.' C. W. C. News Service)
NEW ORLEANS — The Most
Rev. Joseph F. Rummel, Archbishop
of New Orleans, led the discussions
at the conference of priests from the
Archdiocese of New Orleans and
the the Dioceses of Lafay
ette, Natchez and Little Rock on the
general subject of the social order
teachings of the Church and their ap
plication to the work of priests. This
followed a two-day Catholic Confer
ence on Industrial Prbblems for
clergy and laity.
Consistory Endorses
Two Canonizations
Foundress of Sisters of
Good Shepherd and Blessed
Gama Galgani to Be Raised
to Sainthood
By MSGR. ENRICO PUCCI
(Vatican City Correspondent, N. C.
IV. C. News Service)
VATICAN CITY — Twenty Car
dinals and 62 Archbishops and Bish
ops at a semi-public Consistory
Thursday unanimously indorsed ihe
proposed canonizations of the Bus
sed Mary St. Euphrasia Pelletier,
Foundress of the Sisters of the Good
Shepherd, and the Blessed Gemma
Galgani. a Passionist Tertiary of Luc
ca, Italy, and His Holiness Pope
Fius XII at once set May 2 as the
date on w'hich they will be solemnly
raised to sainthood.
The Most Rev. Ralph L. Hayes,
Titular Bishop of Geropoli and Rec
tor of the North American College in
Rome, was one of those participating
in the Consistory.
Pope Pius spoke briefly to open
the Consistory, recalling that its
purpose was to obtain the counsel
of the members of the Hierarchy liv
ing in and near Rome on the propos
ed canonizations.
The Holy Father rejoiced when in
formed that the vote was unanimous
ly in favor of proceeding with the
canonizations, and he at once set the
date — Ascension Thursday.
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