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VOL. XXI. No. 5
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AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, MAY 25, 1940
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Pope Sends Messages To Invaded Nations
Bulletins
THE EVENING STAR, Washington,
D. C., rebuked those who would have
protested President Roosevelt's ap
pointment of Myron C. Taylor as his
personal representative at the Vati
can in the following editorial note:
“A certain powerful Protestant
Church issues a clarion call to pa
rents to teach their children ‘the
facts of life.’ It might be mildly sug
gested that among these is the fact,
if a President has acute need of a
competent diplomatic observer at
Vatican City, that does not mean that
these United States are in the least
danger of becoming dominated by the
Church of Rome.”
FRENCH-AMERICAN
NUN IS BEATIFIED
Solemn Beatification of
Mother Duchesne Held in
St. Peter’s Basilica
CHURCH ATTRACTED FAMED NURSE
By MSGR. ENRICO PUCCI
THE AUREESVILLE SHRINE, of
Our Lady of Martyrs, located on the
site where Saints Isaac Jogues, Rene
oupil, and John Laland suffered death
at tiie hands of the Iroquois Indians
in the middle seventeenth century,
will be represented at the New York
World’s Fair this year, the Rev. Ray
mond R. Goggin, S. J., shrine direc
tor announces.
INTERPRETATIONS which some
section of the secular press put upon
“The Church and Social Order,” the
(Vatican City Correspondent, N. C.
W. C. News Service)
VATICAN CITY — Two phases of
her missionary labors in America—
her work among the white pioneers
in the Middle West and her ministra
tions to the Indians in the Far West—
were symbolized at the solemn beati
fication of Blessed Rose Philippine
Duchesne ,Foundress of the Religious
of the Sacred Heart in the United
States.
When His Holiness Pope Pius XII
descended to St. Peter’s Basilica to
venerate the new Beata for the first
time, the traditional memento pre
sented to the Sovereign Pontiff was a
silver reliquary containing little
statues of Blessed Rose Philippine and
?*■ two little girls—one of them an
Indian.
^statement issued last Ash ^Wednesday
ot
by the Archbishops and Bishops
the Administrative Board of the Na
tional Catholic Welfare Conference,
is taken by The Living Church, Epis
copalian Church publication, to prove
the necessity of a religious press to
print church news
THE WELL-KNOWN WRITER, Bi-
net Valmer, who originated the plan
for the burial of an unknown soldier
under the Arc de Triomphe and wag
ed an ardent crusade until the plan
was carried out, died recently and
was buried in a Catholic church. This
caused general surprise as only his
most intimate friends knew he had
embraced Cotholicism.
STATEMENTS in the secular press
tending to show that Germany has
reason to expect aid from a portion
of the Irish people in an attack upon
the British Isles, are vigorously re
futed by Robert Brennan, Irish Min
ister to the United States in a state
ment made public in Washington.
THE FIRST REPORT of the “Insti
tute for the Research into Jewish In
fluences in the Life of the German
Church” was made in the Luther
Chamber at Wittemberg, but Luther
would never recognize the “New Tes
tament” indorsed by the Institute.
It began its work with the elimina-
bon of the whole Gospel of St. John.
The Gospels of Saints Matthew. Luke,
and Mark have been thoroughly re
novated and all references to texts
or incidents in the Old Testament
expurgated.
FATHER O’CONNOR ON
‘CHURCH OF THE AIR'
Priest of Diocese of Savan-
nah-Atlanta Speaks on
Beligious Program of Co
lumbia Broadcasting Com
pany
(By N. C. VV. C. News Service)
NEW YORK—“American Catholics
cherish devotion to Mary not only
from the religious point of view but
from the historical”, declared the Rev.
Patrick J. O’Connor, assistant Pro
fessor of Sacred Eloquence at the
Preachers Institute of the Catholic
University of America, in the Co
lumbia Broadcasting System’s
'‘Church of the Air” program.
PIUS XII ADDRESSES
WORDS OF COMFORT
TO THREE RULERS
Holy Father Reassures King
of Belgium, Queen of Hol
land, Grand Duchess of
Luxembourg — Receives
Myron Taylor
Minister-Lecturer
Regrets Methodist
Conference Protest
Dr. Stanley High, Before
Inter-Church Convention,
Pleads for Moral Unity
GERMAN CATHOLICS have vir
tually become exiles in their own
country now that the war has pro
vided the Nazi regime with the last
excuse to wipe out the very rem
nants of Catholic influence in Ger
man public life.
ACCORDING TO THE estimates of
the distinguished Jesuit statis-
‘he Rev. H. K-rosc, there are
about 400,000.000 Catholics in the
world. 306,000,000 Moslems, 221,000,000
non™?’ 2OT ’ 000 Protestants, and
163.000000 members of Eastern
Churches not affiliated with Rome.
CATHOLIC TRIBUTE TO
EPISCOPALIAN BISHOP
rmrafnri' Ncws Service)
■ CHICAGO—Tributes of many Ca-
Biolic leaders over the death of
Bishop George Craig Stewart of the
episcopal diocese of Chicago, were
made public on his death here.
The Most Rev. Samuel A. Stritcli,
Archbishop of Chicago, said: “Chicago
«s conscientiously indebted to him
for his deep interest and beneficent
labors for the welfare and civic
progress of our community.” A fel
low townsman—the Rt. Rev. Msgr.
Francis J. Magner, pastor of St.
Mary’s Church, Evanston, said: “His
death is a great loss to all.”
_ Bishop Stewart some months ago
deeded a large tract of land for use
of the Catholic Bishop of Chicago
for youth work. The bequest had
been left to Bishop Stewart and in
transferring it to the Catholic Church
of Chicago he declared that it would
Benefit a greater number of the
younger generation if employed under
the Chicago archdiocesan youth pn>-
WORCESTER. Mass. — “If the best
the Protestant churches have to offer
world that has its back to the
wall is a resolution against Mr.
Roosevelt's appointment of Myron
Taylor to the Vatican, then it would
■? * ar „ be «er for Protestants to keep
silent, Dr. Stanley High, noted au
thor and lecturer ,told more than a
thousand Protestants assembled here
yesterday for the Massachusetts In
ter-Church Convention.
The resolution to which Dr. High
referred was one passed by the gen
eral convention of the United Meth
odist Church in Atlantic City, recent-,
ly- Dr. High himself is a minister
°f the Methodist denomination.
“What civilization has on its hands
is not a fight between conflicting po
litical idealogies,” Dr. High de
clared. “It is a fight between religion
and anti-religion—and the German
Nazis are the first to admit that fact.
To meet that engulfing menace
will require all the unity that the
moral forces of mankind can mus
ter. It will require moral unity be
tween Protestants and Catholics.
“At present, organized Protestant
ism seems bent, not on helping that
unity, but on hindering it. If it con-
tinues on that road, it is a safe as
sumption that, at the end of it. the
Protest Church deservedly will have
lost whatever right it has to speak
for the conscience of the nation!”
Criticizing those in Protestant
church circles who, while condemn
ing the Nazis, seemed to have a
blind spot when it came to Com
munists,” he_ declared:
“There isn’t a paganism unleased
by Hitler that hasn’t also been un
leashed by Stalin. Whether the shirts
they wear are brown or red, the con
sequences of totalitarism for demo
cracy are precisely the same.”
Letters to Cardinal Manning (left), brought to light only in recent
years, show that Florence Nightingale (right) had a deep attach
ment for the Catholic Faith although she never formally embraced
it- These letters also show that Catholic Sisters greatly helped Miss
•Nightingale in her nursing project in the Crimean War of 1854. and
that it was probably Cardinal Manning who suggested that the
“Lady of the Lamp” embark on this undertaking which was the
•foundation of her fame. May 12 is the 120th anniversary of Miss
Nightingale's birth. (N.C.W.C.)
Methodist Church Conference
Urges Recall of Myron Taylor
Resolutions Adopted at Atlantic City Conference
Protest President Roose velt’s Appointment
of Personal Envoy to Vatican
PROTESTANT GROUP ASKS
MYRON TAYLOR RECALL
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
ERIE, Pa. — A convention of Bap-
tisfcs from Northern States in session
here has adopted a resolution urging
the recall of Myron C. Taylor, per
sonal representative of President
Roosevelt at the Vatican.
(By N.C.W.C. News Service)
ATLANTIC CITY, N. J. — Presi
dent Roosevelt was urged to recall
Myron C. Taylor as his jfersonal en
voy to the Vatican, in a resolution
adopted today by the first General
Conference of the Methodist Church
in session here, but only after itrong
objection to such action was voiced.
Holding that Mr. Taylor’s appoint
ment violated the traditional Ameri
can and Protestant principle of *ep-
aration of church and state, the res
olution was adopted with few dis
senting vote.?, after a spirited debate.
Opponents of the resolution attack
ed it on the grounds that it might in
augurate “a new era of religious
hatred in this country.
The resolution reasserted the pre
vious stand of the Council of Bishops
*of fhe Methodist Church, which ex
pressed unalterable opposition to any
diplomatic relations between vhe
United States and the Vatican In
addition, it urged recall of Mr. Tay
lor.
Editor Opposes Resolution
An amendment eliminating that
part of the resolution urging Mr.
Taylor s recall was offered before the
resolution was put to a vote by the
Rev. Harold Paul Sloan of New York,
faitor ot The Christian Advocate, of
ficial Methodist publication.
Asserting that "we are still in fa
vor of the separation of Church and
State as our forefathers were before
us, the Rev. Mr. Sloan said *hat,
nevertheless, the Conference should
realize that the United States was
represented officially at the Vatican
from 1847 to 1870, when the Papal
States ceased to exist as such.
Through that period in American
history, the American government
did have a representative designat-
ed to the Papal States,” he added.
And it was in that period that
America was most dominantly Prot-
estant an dmost intensely conscious
of its need of keeping the separation
between Church and State”
The Rev. Mr. Sloan also held that
absolute separation of Church and
State was almost impossible and un-
American, and that the only places
where this ideal had ever really been
enforced were in revolutionary
France and Bolshevist Russia.
• th® United States, where the
Lords Day js reoognized.”--he said.
where the Christian Bible is used
to administer the oath, where Chris
tian chaplains are in our army and
navy, we do not have such seoara-
tion.
‘Let us guard the unity of Chris
tendom. Let us inject nothing in
this conference that will tend to di
vide the sympathy of the Christian
community.”
Mr. Sloan s amendment also was
supported, among others, by the Rev
Lynn Harold Hough, dean of Drew
University at Madison, N .J.
“A church with the history of our
church, he declared, “with the num
bers we possess, owes it to the Amer
ican Republic, owes it to Christen
dom . . to be incapable of an un
worthy parochialism, to be incapa'ale
of marking +he union of Methodist
(Cable, N. C. W. C. News Service)
VATICAN CITY. — His Holiness
Pope Pius XII sent reassuring mes
sages to the rulers of Belgium, Hol
land and the Grand Duchy of Luxem
bourg, telling King Leopold III of
Belgium that he is praying for the
restoration of his country's “full lib
erty and independence.”
His Holiness also received Myron
C. Taylor, President Roosevelt’s per
sonal representative at the Vatican,
in a private audience.
The Holy Father’s message to the
King of the Belgians, to which the
message to Queen Wilhelmina of The
Netherlands and the Grand Duchess
Charlotte of Luxembourg were simi
lar ,as follows:
“In a moment when, for the second
time against its will and right, the
Belgian people sees its territory ex
posed to the cruelties of war, We. be
ing profoundly moved, send Your
Majesty and to the entire nation so
beloved by Us assurance of Our pa
ternal affection and, while praying to
the all-powerful God that this stern
trial may end with the restoration of
full liberty and independence of Bel
gium, We send Your Majesty and
your people Our apostolic blessing
with all Our heart.”
The Holy Father’s message to Queen
Wilhelmina reads: “Learning with
great emotion that the efforts for
peace exerted by Your Majesty have
not been able to preserve your noble
» v, j oui .ivi/n.
country from becoming, contrary to
:n — J the •
■ mcniuu(al
by inaugurating a new era of relig
ious hatred.”
Sloan's amendment
was defeated by a vote of 393 to 234.
CHICAGO. — Those attending the
convention of the Illinois Lutheran
Synod were asked by its president,
Armin Weng, to voice opposition to
the appointment of Myron C. Taylor
as personal representative of Presi
dent Roosevelt at the Holy See.
Success Awaits Catholic
Conference of the South,
Declares Father Parsons
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
NEW HAVEN-The recendy-form-
ed Catholic Conference of the South
gives promise of “a vast increase of
interest in and knowledge of the
Church s religious and social pro-
gram”. the Rev. Wilfrid Parsons S
J-, of Georgetown University says
m an article titled “Dawn Over
Dixie to be published in the June
issue of Columbia”, national organ
of the Knights of Columbus.
Father Parson reviews in detail the
steps that brought about the forma
tion of the Conference, which was
accomplished at a Southern Catholic
Social Action Conference held in At
lanta last month.
Declaring that the organization has
an excellent chance to succeed he
noted that it has ‘that essential 'fac-
tor of all, Catholic Action, coopera
tion with the Hierarchy”. The Bishops
of the South, he said, have welcomed
the promise of so many new lay vol
unteers to cooperate with them in
their arduous apostolate.
its will and right, the theatre of war,
We beseech God, the Supreme Arbit
er of the destinies of nations to has
ten with His omnipotent help the re
establishment of justice and liber
ty.”
To Grand Duchess Charlotte, Pope
Pius XII sent the following: “In this
sorrowful moment, wherein the peo
ple of Luxembourg, in spite of their
love of peace, are convulsed in the
storm of war. We feel near them in
heart, imploring from the Heavenly
Patron help and protection, so that
they may live again in liberty and
independence, and We grant Your
Royal Highness and her faithful sub
jects Our Apostolic Blessing.”
King Leopold of Belgium sent the
following message to Pope Pius XII:
“In spite of formal and repeated un
dertakings to respect Belgian neu
trality, and in spite of our attitude
of absolute neutrality. Germany has
brutally attacked Belgium without
warning. My country, with consid-
ation for its honor and faithful to
its word, is defending itself with all
strength. I permit myself to ask
Your Holiness, head of the Catholic
Church, that you may, with vour high
moral authority, support the cause
for which we are fighting with in
vincible determination.”
Georgia K. of C.
Re-elect Gilmore
Thomas J. Gilmore, Atlanta,
Retained as State Deputy
by Georgia State Council
AUGUSTA, Ga. — Setting a prece
dent. the Georgia State Council,
Knights of Columbus, in session at its
annual convention here, elected
Thomas J. Gilmore, of Atlanta, to
succeed himself as state deputy, and
head of the order in this state.
Other officers named at the meet
ing, v hich was held at the K. of C.
Home, were George T. Flynt. Atlan
ta, state secretary; R. S. Heslen, Au
gusta, state treasurer; Leo Leonard
Columbus, state advocate; Thomas J.
Canty, Savannah, state warden
In the absence of the Most Rev.
Gerald P. O'Hara, Bishop of Savan-
nah-Atlanta. the state chaplain, the
Rev. Joseph G. Callaghan. *S. M., of
Brunswick, acted as chaplain for the
meeting.
It was voted to hold the next an
nual convention in Brunswick.
Speakers at the meeting included
Mr. Gilmore, William T. Walsh, past
state deputy, from Savannah; Joseph
Sheahan, district deputy. Savannah-
Hugh Casson, district deputy, Macon,’
and the retiring officers who render
ed reports. >
James B. Mulherin and Coleman
Dempsey headed the entertainment
committee from Patrick Walsh Qown-
cil. lusts W the couveaUua. , £