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men’s Association
of Georgia
“To Bring About
a Friendlier
Feeling Among
Neighbors Irre
spective of Creed”
VOL. XXI. No. 6
SIXTEEN PAGES AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, JUNE 22, 1940 issued MONTHLY—J2.00 a YEAR >*
Bishop O’Hara Preaches to Congregation of 140,000
Bulletins
REFERENCE TO HIS HOLINESS,
Pope Pius XII as “the moral leader
of Christendom” is made in an edi
torial published in the Washington
Post, secular daily newspaper.
“A SYMPOSIUM ON BIRTH CON-
TROP,” a 72-page pamphlet which
treats of this subject from its moral,
social, legal, and economic aspects,
has just been published by the Na
tional Catholic Welfare Conference.
OF THE 1,969,788 patients In Cath
olic hospitals of the United States last
year 57.8 per cent were non-Catholies,
it is revealed in the 1910 Directory
Number of Hospital Progress, official
journal of the Catholic Hospital Asso
ciation of the United States and Can
ada.
REV. ARTHUR J. SAWKINS. pas
tor of Immaculate Conception Church,
Toledo, in an address over the “Cath
olic Hour” declared that the only
ones who fear any conflict between
science and religion “are, first, those
who do not know true science or se
condly, those who do not know true
religion.”
Delivering the third in a series of
four addresses in the “Catholic Hour”
Father Hawkins spoke on “The Crea
tion of Our World.”
THE SUPREME KNIGHT of the
Knights of Columbus, Francis P. Mat
thews. of Omaha, was awarded the
honorary degree, Doctor of Laws, by
Marquette University at commence-
mnt exercises held in Milwaukee.
SAN MARINO, California, a com
munity which for years barred tlte
establishment or erection of churches
of any denomination, has its first
place of worship, a combined chapel
and residence dedicated to SS. Fe-
licitas and Papetua.. The center of
parochial life is an historic old adobe.
Benedictine Clerics
Take Final Vows
Make Solemn Profession
at St. Leo Abbey
ST. LEO, Fla.—Having completed
four years of monastic life, the Ven.
Frater Gregory (Valentine) Traeger,
O. S. B., and the Ven. Frater Vin
cent (George K.) Crawford. O. S. B.,
made their solemn profession in the
St. Leo Chapel. June 18. the Right
Rev. Francis Sadlier, O. S. B„ D. D„
Abbot of St. Leo, celebrating the
Mass and receiving the vows of the
young monks. The Rev. Benedict
Weigand. O. S. B., was master of
ceremonies.
Frater Gregory was born in Vier-
heim, Germany. He came to Ameri
ca with his parents shortly after the
World War.
After attending the parochial school
in San Antonio, Fla.,' he entered St.
Leo College Preparatory School, and
later attended St. Bernard’s College.
He entered the novitiate at St. Leo
in 1936, and recently received minor
orders in preparation for” his ordina
tion to the priesthood.
Frater Vincent was born in Orlando,
later moving to Jacksonville, where
he was received into the church. Be
fore entering the novitiate at St. Leo
he was a student at St. Charles Col
lege, Catonsville, Md„ and at St.
Mary's Seminary, Baltimore. He is
completing his study for the priest
hood at St. Leo Seminary.
BIRTHDAY MASS IN
QUINTUPLETS’ CHAPEL
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
CALLANDER, Canada — Opening
the sixth birthday celebrations of
the famous Dionne quintuplets here
the Rev. Victor Pilon, parish priest
of Corbeil. celebrated mass at an im
provised altar in the quints’ nursery.
Each girl carried a rosary into the
little chapel and the parents and
grandparents of the girls received
Holy Communion. The little girls
themselves will receive first com
munion in the near future.
Special permission was obtained
from the Most Rev. C. L. Nelligan,
bishop of Pembroke and head of
the Canadian Catholic Chaplain
Service, to transfer candles and the
chalice from the little church in the
nearby Freneh-Canadian settlement
of Corbeil to the nursery so that the
mass could be celebrated. Young
Daniel Dionne, brother of the quints,
was the server at mass, after which
Father Pilon gave the quintuplets
Iris blessing. ... ,
Cardinal Dougherty Marks Golden Jubilee
A scene at the Municipal Stadium in Philadelphia where 140.000 persons attended the Sc-lenm Pontifical Field
Mass which climaxed the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the ordination of His Eminence Dennis Cardinal
Dougherty, Archbishop of Philadelphia. The Most Reverend Gerald P. O’Hara. Bishop of Savannah-Atlauta. who
delivered the sermon at the Mass, appears in the pulpit at the lower right. (N. C. W. C. Picture.)
American Ambassador to France
Visits Joan of Arc’s Birthplace
Ambassador Bullitt Presents Altar, Donated by
Americans, to Domremy Church Where the Saintly
Warrior Maid Was Baptized and Worshipped
Religious Census
Shows 19,914,937
U. S. Catholics
Bureau of Census Publishes
Figures Obtained
in 1936
By M. MASSIANI
(Cable, N. C. W. C. News Service)
PARIS— United States Ambassa
dor Wiliam A. Bullitt presented to
the village church at Domremy,
birthplace of St. Joan of Arc, an altar
donated by Americans. At the foot
of the statue of the Saint, in this
church where she was baptized and
worshiped five centuries ago, the
Ambassador placed a white rose in
the name of President Rooseevlt.
After Minister of State Lauis
Martin and the Most Rev. Roger
Beaussart. Vicar Capitular of Parfis,
had spoken, Ambassador Bullitt
praised the virtues of the France of
today that puts into action the vir
tues of Joan of Arc.
Donations for the altar, the Am
bassador said, had come from "Cath
olics and Protestants who wish to ex
press to their French brothers their
faith that Christians are right and
that the spiritual forces of the earth
will triumph over the forces of Sat
anism.” Americans, he added,
"know on which side stand right,
justice and Christian decency, and
on which side are wrong, cruelty and
bestiality.” and “believe in France
because they know that in the heart
of each Frenchman there burns al
ways, whether he is conscious of it
or not, the flame of Joan or Arc.”
“They are certain,” he added, "that
this flame will never be put out and
that, whatever may come, it will
never be conquered.”
"We know.” the Ambassador said,
"that the French blood flowing >o-
day is being spent for all the values
of two thousand years of Christian
civilization.”
In conclusion, the envoy said:
“Guard France! In the service of
God and man let your spirit lead
to Christian victory,”
Episcopalian Magazine Lauds
Peace Efforts of Pope Pius
’The Living Church’ Also Expresses Approval of
Appointment of Myron C. Taylor
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
MILWAUKEE—Lauding the peace
efforts of His Holiness Pope Pius XII.
The Living Church, publication of
the Episcopalian Church in the Unit
ed States, says that there is ample
justification for President Roosevelt’s
appointment of Myron C. Taylor as
his personal representative to the
Vatican.
“As the war in Europe spreads to
new areas and threatens to engulf
more nations,” The Living Church
says, “it is worth while to note for
the record that Pope Pius XII has
made courageous efforts to limit the
strife both in its methods and in its
extent. Unfortunately the din of
battle and the cries of bombed civil
ians and refugees have almost
drowned out his voice.”
The magazine declares “it was a
brave thing for the Pope to condemn
roundly the invasion of the Low
Countries at a time when Italy’s
entrance into the war on the Ger
man side seemed imminent.” It adds
that “his plea to the belligerent pow
ers not to bomb civilians and open
cities was also timely and courage
ous.”
“Even at the last moment when the
entry of Italy into the war appeared
to be a matter only of days or hours.
Pope Pius XII appears to have used
strenuous efforts to keep that coun
try out of war and to prevent the
spgead of hostilities into Southeast
ern Europe.
“We honor the Holy Father for
these efforts to keep the war from
spreading, even though they have
been unsuccessful. As we have said
lie fore, the Vatican and the United
States Government are two of the
greatest agencies for peace in the
world that is increasingly geared to
war. That is justification enough
for the appointment of Mr. Taylor
as the President's special repVesenta-
tive at the Vatican and for such co
operation between the Pope and the
President as may have any hope,
however remote, of mitigating the
evils of war or hastening the coming
of peace.”
NEW HEADQUARTERS OF
HOLY GHOST FATHERS
(Special to The Bulletin)
NEW YORK, N. Y.—The Ho
Ghost Fathers of the province of t
United'States have purchased a thre
story 25-room residence at 1615 Ma
Chester Lane, N. W., Washingto
D. C.. as a home for the officii
of the province, it was announc
by the Very Rev. George J. Collit
C. S. Sp.. provincial. It will al
house missionaries of the order w
will pursue graduate studies at t
Catholic University.
The province has jurisdiction ov
58 houses in Alabama, Arkansas, Co
nectieutt, Louisiana, Michigan, N<
York, Oklahoma, Ohio, Pennsylvan
Rhode Island, South Carolina and
Puerto Rico and Kilimanjaro, E;
Africa. ..........
WASHINGTON-The Catholic pop
ulation of the United States in
creased by 5,704,182, or approximately
25 percent, in the period 1906-1936,
covered by the four censuses of reli
gious bodies in the twentieth cen
tury. according to the figures obtained
in the 1936 religious survey of the
Bureau of Census, just published.
In 1906, the census reported 14,210.755
members of the Catholic Church,
while in the last, or 1936. survey, the
figure reached 19,914,937- Catholic
churches in the same period in
creased from 12,572 to 18.409 and Ca
tholic church edifices from 11.381 to
16,637.
According to the census figures.
8,274 of the Catholic churches, or 44.9
percent, were in urban territories, and
10,135. or 55.1 percent, in rural areas.
Catholic distribution was shown to
be: 16,041,764 in urban areas, or 80.6
percent, and 3,873.173, or 19 4 percent,
in rural territories.
A total of 6,825 parochial schools
with 2,095.254 students and 65,001 of
ficers and teachers is reported in
the figures. A percentage of 73.3,
or 5,001, of these instiutions were in
urban areas, while 1,824 or 26.7
percent, were in rural sections.
Strong Catholic population areas in
the statistics—States with a million
or more Catholic residents—were in
dicated to have been located in New
York, with 3,075,428; Pennsylvania, 2.-
275.062: Massachusetts. 1,696,708; Illi
nois, 1,448,650; New Jersey, 1.390,966;
and Ohio, 1,052,101.
A statement on the “History, oc-
trine and Organization” of the Catho
lic Church is contained in the
pamphlet. A footnote states the article
is substantially the same as that
published in Vol. II of the “Report
on Religious in 1936”, but has been
revised by the Rt. Rev. Msgr. Michael
J. Ready, general secretary of the
National Catholic Welfare Conference
and approved by him in its present
form.
Dean of Marist Brothers
Dies At Poughkeepsie
POUGHKEEPSIE. N. Y.-The Rev.
Brother Ptolemeus of the Marist
Brothers, died June 13 after an ex
tended illness. He was the , dean of
the Marist Brothers in the United
States, having been a member of the
order over 61 years.
During his long life Brother Ptole
meus served in many capacities of
authority and responsibility. Before
coming to this country he had been
director of the largest technical school
conducted by the Marist Brothers in
France. He was at one time provin
cial of the United States. His last
position was that of director-general
of the provincial house, St. Aim’s
Hermitage, at Poughkeepsie.
DELIVERS SERMON
AT JUBILEE MASS
IN PHILADELPHIA :
Vast Throng Attends
Ceremony Marking the
Golden Jubilee of
Cardinal Dougherty
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
PHILADELPHIA—In one of th«
greatest demonstrations of Catholic
faith ever witnessed in this city. 140,-
000 persons assembled in the Muni
cipal Stadium June 3 to assist at a
Solemn Pontificial Mass which mark
ed the golden jubilee of the ordina
tion of His Eminence Dennis Cardinal
Dougherty, Archbishop of Philadel
phia.
Previously, 52,000 men. members of
the Archdiocesan Union of Holy
Name Societies, had paraded from
South Broad street to the stadium.
At St. Agnes’ Hospital, the Most
Rev. Hugh L. Lamb, Auxiliary Bish
op of Philadelphia, and other digni
taries of the church reviewed the
paraders. Churches and other Cath
olic institutions along the line of
march were decorated with the
papal colors.
Within the stadium a great altar,
designed after that in the Basilica
of St. Peter at Vatican City, had been
erected. In the procession to the
altar Cardinal Dougherty was es
corted by six Papal Chamberlains.
Following came the Most Rev. Eu
gene J. McGuinness. Bishop of Ral
eigh: the Most Rev. Gerald P. O’Hara.
3ishop of Savannah-Atlanta, who de
livered the sermon, and the Most
Rev. James P. McCloskey, Bishop of
Jaro. Fhiliopine Islands, one of the
members of the band of missionaries
who accompanied Cardinal Dough
erty when he was assigned to that
diocese more than 30 years ago.
Assisting Cardinal Dougherty in
celebration of the votive mass in
honor of the Holy Ghost with the
special intention that “the United
States may be averted from War”,
was his nephew and Chancellor oj
the Philadelphia Archdiocese, the Rt.
F.'ev. Msgr. J. Carroll McCormick.
Deacon of the mass was the Rev.
Dr. Francis L. Burns; subdeacon, the
Rev. Hubert J. Cartwright. The Rev.
Joseph M. Corr, was master of cere
monies.
In his sermon Bishop O'Hara dra
matically described the ceremony in
the Basilica of St. John Lateraan,
Rome, a half-century ago. when Den
nis Joseph Dougherty, son of a Penn
sylvania arthracitc coal mining fam
ily, and a brilliant young student in
the North American College in Rome,
awaited his ordination to the priest
hood by Cardinal Parocchi.
Bishop O'Hara stressed the dignity
of the priest as “the only hope of
civilization and all true social re
form and regeneration.”
At the conclusion of the Mass, the
Jubilarian ascended the pulpit and
in a voice moved by emotion ex
pressed his thanks to all those who
participated in the celebration of his
Golden Jubilee.
When the Cardinal concluded his
remarks. Monsignor McCormick read
the announcement that by special di
rection of His Holiness Pope Pius
XII. in his message of congratula
tions to the Cardinal-Archbishop, “all
here present who are truly contrite
and who have confessed their sins
and partaken of Holy Communion.”
were granted a plenary indulgence.
The solemn ceremonies were ended
by the singing of “Holy God, We
Praise Thy Name,” and the “Star
Spangled Banner.”
Savannah Knights
Observe Flag Day
SAVANNAH. Ga.—Savannah Coun
cil, Knights of Columbus, held Flag
Day exercises, following the initiation
of a class of candidates in the first
degree.
Walter P. Powers, veteran mem
ber of the council, served as color-
bearer and upon his entrance with
the flag the members saluted the
national emblem and renewed their
pledge of allegiance. Grand Knight
A. J. Ryan, Jr., administered the
pledge. Accompanied by Arthur
Dunn, the council organist, the mem
bers sang the national anthem. The
Divine blessing was invoked by the
Rev. Daniel J. Bourke.
Following the program, Thomas
Corcoran, lecturer, and bis Ptvai^,
tee served a buffet suggas, “ ..a