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THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
JUNE 22. 1940
News Review of the Catholic World
Clergy and Religious
of Philadelphia Pay
Tribute to Cardinal
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
PHILADELPHIA— Priests, nuns,
brothers and seminarians of this
archdiocese paid their tribute to His
Eminence Dennis Cardinal Dough
erty, Archbishop of Philadelphia, on
the occasion of his golden jubilee in
the priesthood at Solemn Pontificial
Mass in the Cathedral of St. Peter
and Paul.
An impressive procession preceded
the Mass, the sermon at which was
preached by the Most Rev. Hugh
L. Lamb, Auxiliary Bishop of Phila
delphia, who traced the remarkable
progress made by the archdiocese
since the appointment of Cardinal
Dougherty as head of the See.
"The growth under Cardinal
Dougherty's leadership is an amazing
record, unsurpassed, I am sure, by
any diocese in America,” Bishop
Lamb said. "With seven new dio
eesam high schools, costing more .‘ban
$3,500,000, and with nearly 20,000 chil
dren enrolled, this city leads the
country. In that time there have
been also 120 new parish schools
established.”
Bishop Lamb said His Holiness
Pope Pius XII. when he visited here
•while Cardinal Secretary of State,
pronounced the Seminary of St.
Charles Borromeo one of the finest
in the world.
The Cardinal was the guest of the
clergy’ at a luncheon at the Bellevue-
Stratford hotel following the mass.
CATHOLICS OF THE various dio
ceses, encouraged and guided by their
Ordinaries, are co-operating in the
drive of the American Red Cross to
raise an emergency war relief fund
of $10,000,000.
In a letter addressed to the Rt.
Rev. Msgr. Michael J. Ready, Gen
eral Secretary of the National Cath
olic Welfare Conference, Norman H.
Davis, chairman of the Red Cross,
asked the co-operation of Catholic
organizations and individuals in the
drive. The appeal was communicated
to the various dioceses, in many of
■which immediate steps were taken to
bring about the desired co-opera
tion.
Raleigh Honors Silver Jubilarians
Among those attending'the luncheon given in honor of the Most Reverend Eugene J. McGuiness, D. D.. Bishop
cf Raleigh, and the Right Rev. Monsignor Arthur R. Freeman, V. G., in commemoration of the twenty-fifth anni
versary of their ordinations to the priesthood, were, left to right, front—Hon. Josephus Daniels, United States
Ambassador to Mexico: Monsignor Freeman; Bishop McGuinness; the Most Rev. Gerald P. O'Hara, D. D., J. U. D.,
Bishop of Savannah-Atianta; Hon. Graham H. Andrews, Mayor of Raleigh: back—Francis J. Heazel, K. S. G., of
Asheville: the Most Rev. Peter L. Ireton, D. D., Load j u tor Bishop of Richmond; the Most Rev. William D. O'Brien,
D. D., LL. D., Auxiliary Bishop of Chicago; and the Right Reverend Vincent Taylor, O. S. B., Abbot-Ordinary of
Belmont.
Sanavus and Auxiliary Bishop of
Newark, to be Bishop of Trenton, and
the Rev. Thomas Aloysius Boland,
Chancellor of the Archdiocese of
Newark, to be Titular Bishop of
Hiring and Auxiliary Bishop of New
ark.
AN EXPRESSION OF THANKS
and good wishes from His Holiness
Pope Pius XII has been received by
the National Breadcasting Company,
following a gift to the Holy Father
of a set of recordings of the nation
wide “Catholic Hour's” tenth anni
versary program.
SPEAKER WM. B. BANKHEAD
of the House of Representatives, and
a graduate of the Georgetown Law
School in the Class of 1835, at the in
vitation of the General Council of
Georgetown Clubs in Washington,
presided as general chairman of the
Annual Alumni Dinner held this
month.
A NEW AIRPLANE HANGAR, the
largest structure in the country using
laminated beams, is near completion
.at the Lewis Holy Name School o!
Aeronautics, Lockport, 111. All la
bor is being performed by the high
school students under John VI iIson,
superintendent of the school, who
drew the plans. The materials for
the building were provided by Frank
J. Lewis, noted Chicago Cuthcli:
layman, after whom the school v
named and whose gifts made it pos
sible. The school "as in >;' ■<’-] bv
the Most Rev. Bernard J. Shell,
Auxiliary Bishop of Chicao. as a
part of the Catholic Youth Organiza
tion program.
A CATHCLIC CADET received
more prize awards than any oiher
member of the 1940 graduating class
at the United States Military Acad
emy when commencement exercises
were held .Tune 9. He is 1-avrence
J. Legere. Jr., of Lcominister. Mass.
His career at (he Academy has been
outstanding, scholastically and other
wise.
REV. PATRICK N. McDERMOTT,
of Atlantic, Iowa, National Chaplain
cf the American Legion, was cele
brant of the second annual Held
Mass sponsored bv the Kninhls of
Columbus, with 55 other Catholic
groups co-coerating, in the / mphl-
theatre of Arlington National Ceme
tery.
BUDEL. a town of 4.303 on North
Brabant, Holland, is going to erect
a monument in the Beatrix Fark to
Doctor Matthyssen, Catholic inventor
of the plaster of Paris bandage. Doc
tor Mattbvssen bad cured many arm
and leg fractures by the us? of his
bandage when his invention became
known first in Holland then in the
medical world abroad.
THF POLISH PFOFLE have not
lost faith and confidence in the resur
rection of their country’, Baron Stelan
de Hoop, Commissioner General from
Poland to the New York World’s Fair,
said at a Kosciusko Memorial Day
program at the Fair.
More than 10,000 Polish-Amerieans
participated in ceremonies which
honored General Kosciusko, Polish
Catholic military leader who gave
his life for this country in the Am
erican Revolution.
DIPLOMATIC representatives of a
score of nations were present at
a solemn Te Deum at which His Ex
cellency the Most Rev. Amleto Gio
vanni Cicognani, Apostolic Delegate
to the United States, officiated in the
National Shrine of the Immaculate
Conception, Washington, to inaugu
rate the observance in (his country
of the Eighth Centenary of the Foun
dation of Portugal.
The ceremony was arranged for
by Joao Antonio de Bianchi, Portu
guese minister to the United States,
who attended with his family.
A CITY WIDE CATHOLIC LF.ND-
ing Library and reading room will be
open for the public this Fall, ac
cording to plans of a committee now
under way in Washington.
The new librarys volumes will be
restricted to those by Catholic auth
ors or authors who give their works
a thoroughly Catholic treatment.
THREE CATHOLIC STUDENTS.
two cf them pupils in a Catholic
parochial school and the third a for
mer pupil bf the same school, made
a clean sweep of prizes in an essay
contest on "Jews as American ’Pa
triots” sponsored by the West Hud
son Lodge of B'nai B'rith, Kearny,
New Jersey.
EDUCATION WITHOUT RELIG
IOUS TRAINING is nut an American
idea declared the Most Rev. Joseph
M. Corrigan, rector of the Catholic
University of America, speaking at
the commencement exercises at St.
John’s University’, Brooklyn. “The
non-sectarian school did not originate
in the United States. Our present
system is hardly more than 75 years
old and its introduction into this
country was bitterly opposed. It was
opposed by God-fearing citizens
whose whole tradition from colonial
times had been the inclusion of re
ligious training in the school,” said
Bishop Corrigan, who maintained that
the “spiritual (Illiteracy” which has
“grown by leaps and bounds” in the
United States since 1855 has been the
result principaly of the non-sectar
ianism of American education.
HIS EXCELLENCY, the Most Rev.
Amleto Giovanni Cicognani. Aposto
lic Delegate to the United States, an
nounces that His Holiness Pope Pius
XII has appointed the Most Rev.
William A. Griffin, Titular Bishop cl
THF. COMMUNIST PARTY of the
United States, at its convention in
New York, while opposing the De
fense Program of the Roosevelt ad
ministration, inserted in its platform
support for lire “Deace policy of the
Soviet Union.” The platform adopt
ed at the convention urged not only
opposition to the provision of war
material to belligerent nations in
Europe, but also any war prepara
tions in the United States.
PATHETIC STORIES are told by
Nuns who have arrived in London
from Belgium and Holland. One
cf them. Sister Mechtilde, Superior
of the Dominican Nuns in Brussels,
raid "fifth columnists” turned off the
city's water half an hour before
bombers rained fire on the place,
thus making fire-fighting impossible.
Twelve hours after the Nuns left
their convent it was blown up, she
raid.
MOST REV. JOHN F. O’HARA, C.
S. C.. Auxiliary Bishop of the Army
and Navy Diocese, gave the baccu-
laureate address to the Catholic
cadets graduating from the United
States Military Academy. Holy Trin
ity Church, at West Point, was
crowded with 129 graduates, and
equal number of second classmen,
the families of the graduates end
their friends.
Msgr. Charles D. Wood
Presides at Exercises
Held in New York City
(Special To The Bulletin)
NEW YORK, N. Y.—Right Rever
end Monsignor Charles Dubois Wood,
P. A., of Middletown, N. Y., presided
at the Commencement Exercises of
St. Ann's Academy, held at the Town
Hall, on the evening of June 7.
Richard Reid, K. S. G., Editor of
The Catholic News, delivered the ad
dress to the graduates.
Notre Dame Graduates
Warned of Propaganda
(B.v N. C. W. O. News Service)
NOTRE DAME, Ind.—Warning
against the foreign propagandist and
the "war racketeer” was the keynote
of a commencement address deliv
ered to 665 University of Notre Dame
graduates by Senator David Worth
Clark, of Idaho.
Conferring of degrees at the cere
mony climaxed three days of com
mencement activity, beginning with
alumni reunions, class day exercises,
and the annual alumni banquet. All
graduates and their guests attended
the Solemn Baccalaureate Mass cele-
bated by the Most Rev. John F.
O’Hara, C. S. C.. Auxiliary Bishop
cf the army and navy Diocese and
iormer President of Notre Dame. The
baccalaureate sermon was preached
by the Most Rev. John J. Cantwell,
archbishop of Los Angeles.
In addition to the regular degrees
conferred by the Rev. J. Hugh
O'Donnell, C. S. C.. the university's
president, at the exercises yesterday
afternoon the honorary degree Doc
tor of Laws was conferred on Sen-
ator Clark, Archbishop Cantwell,
Bishop O'Hara and the Very Rev.
John R. Hackett, Chancellor of the
Diocese of Lansing.
This year's graduating class repre
sented residents of forty-four states,
the District of Columbia, and five
foreign countries.
Canadian Editor Lauds
Vatican Peace Efforts
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
OTTAWA. — Calling Vatican City
“an oasis of peace and anti-paganism,”
an editorial in The Journal pays trib
ute to the heroic labors put forth by
His Holiness Pope Pius XII for the
promotion of peace. “No voice rose
more sternly against pagan barbarism;
none spoke more bravely for right
amid a welter of hate and violence,”
the paper declares.
The Journal editorial quotes from
the speech to Parliament by Prime
Minister MacKenzie King, who said:
“All members of the House will join
with me, I know, in paying a tribute
to the noble example set by the pres
ent occupant of the Holy See in his
unceasing work for the preservation
of peace, and the exaltation c: hu
manity itself, amidst discord and
clamor of the world which is falling
in ruins around us.”
The poper asserts that “though the
Papacy's position is one of desperate
difficulty, history proclaims its fu
ture.” “Down through the centuries,”
the editorial points out. “the Popes
have been driven from Rome and im
prisoned and have faced conquerors
and tyrants, but always they return
ed to confound their enemies.”
eludes graduates of high schools and
academies, normal schools, colleges
and universities.
A TOTAL OF 76,010 graduates from
Catholic educational institutions in
the United States this year sets a
new decord, according to the Nation
al Catholic Welfare Conference De
partment of Education. This esti- _
mate, based on recent study, in- ’ but each will conduct its own project.
CATHOLIC AND PROTESTANT
pastors of Jasper County, Illinois, are
cooperating in a “Campaign for
Christ,” the first step of which is a re
ligious survey of the county to se
cure data concerning church mem
bership. The “Campaign for Christ”
will be simultaneous among the reli
gious denominations of the county,
Editor Compares
Europe of Today—
Europe of 1540
Richard Reid Lauds Jesuits
in Address at Loyola
University, New Orleans
(By N.C.W.C. News Service)
NEW ORLEANS. — A com pari ton
between strife-torn Europe of four
centuries ago, at the time Pope Paul
III approved the constitution of the
Society of Jesus, and the world of
today into which the Jesuit-trained
graduates of Loyola University of the
South enter, was drawn by Richard
Reid, Editor of The Catholic News,
New York, and former executive-
secretary of the Catholic Laymen’s
Association of Georgia, at com
mencement exercises held in the Mu
nicipal Auditorium.
Degrees were conferred on 192
women and men, with the Most Rev
Joseph F. Ruminel. Archbishop of
New Orleans, presiding.
“Four hundred years ago.” said Mr.
Reid, “Europe was in a state of tragic
turmoil. The seamless garment of
Christendom was not merely rent
asunder, but in danger of being torn
to shreds. The entire continent and
indeed all western civilization were
racked with war; disregard for au
thority, civil as well as religious,
blighted ^ the people like the B1 jck
Death. The religious basis on which
western civilization was built seem
ed to the human eye to be tottering
ana about to fall, to bring down
with it all that the people of Europe
had succeeded in rearing through 15
centuries of Christian progress.
“Then, 400 years ago this year, Pope
Paul III approved the constitution of
the Society of Jesus and Ignatius of
Loyola and his Company of Jesus,
armed only with the weapons of the
teachings of Our Lord and Saviour.
Jesus Christ, turned back the tide of
the religious revolution and preserv
ed for the Church countries and peo
ples which have been citadels for the
spread of the Christian Catholic faith
throughout th£ world since.
“We have here tonight, therefore,
not merely another college or univer
sity commencement. It is the begin-
n i n l of . the . century of the work
of the Society of Jesus, not in Neto
Orleans alone nor in Louisiana, but
in the South, for Lovpla is the Jesuit
university of the South.”-
Japanese Mission
Received by Pope
BY MSGR. ENRICO PUCCI
(Vatican City Correspondent. N. C.
W. C. News Service)
VATICAN CITY-Members of the
Japanese mission visiting in Rome as
an expression of the friendship of
that country toward Italy were re
ceived in private audience bv His
Holiness Pope Pius XII.
The Japanese came to the Vatican
in motor cars which bore the Japanese
and Italian flags- Present were Am
bassador Naotake Sato, head of the
mission; Shinjire Iokibe. of Kobe
University, and Count Seichi Motono.
secretary of foreign affairs. The
latter two are Catholics.
The Holy Father presented to each
a medal of the first year of his Pon
tificate. Ambassador Sato presented
to the Pope a beautiful silver censer
in the form of a flying eagle-
Afterward the Japanese mission
called on His Eminence Luigi Cardi
nal Maglione. Papal secretary of state,
to -whom was presented a tortoise shell
case on which was carved a Japanese
landscape.
The mission also visited the Clem
entine Hall, meeting the Japanese
students of the Prqpaganda College,
and then visited St. Peters’ Basilica.
During the audience a group of Jap
anese newspapermen visited the Vati
can Museum, which was specially
opened for the purpose.
Negro Elks Honor
Cardinal Dougherty
Prelate Is Paid High
Tribute by Colored
People of Pennsylvania
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
PHILADELPHIA—The Negro Elks
of Pennsylvania paid an impressive
tribute to His Eminence Dennis Card
inal Dougherty, archbishop of Phila
delphia, on the occasion of the card
inal’s sacerdotal Golden Jubilee when
a reception was held in the Elks’
Octavius V. Catto Hall here.
Some 2,000 guests attended the re
ception, which was featured by the
presentation of a new painting of
the Cardinal and an address of trib
ute by Dr. Adolphus W. Anderson,
States President of the Negro Elks.
“Nine years before our great or
der was founded, there was ordain
ed as a priest a lad, named (Dennis
Dougherty, who was destined to re
serve a page in the history of world
service and to make an enviable rec
ord,” Dr. Anderson said. “As a young
bishop, he transformed the Philippine
Islands from an isle of misery, pov
erty and ignorance into a land of
opportunity. For 22 years, as arch
bishop of the Philadelphia diocese,
he has become the foremost builder
of educational institutions in the his
tory of America, secular or religious.
And may I add that always has he
been keenly alert to see that equal
ity of opportunity was afforded to
all, irrespective of race, creed or
color.”
Among those present, besides high
officials of tire Elks, were:
The Rev. Clarence Howard, S. V.
D., of Chicago; Rabbi Gerson Bren
ner; Dr. Hudson J. Oliver, of New
York, president of tire Catholic In
terracial Council; Judge Clare Ger
ald Fenerty, representing the high
er judiciary of Philadelphia; Mayor
Robert H. Lamberton; Walter White,
executive secretary of the National
Association for the Advancement of
the Colored People; Mrs. W. Wille
Layten, president of the National
Women's Baptist, Convention of
America, Inc.; Bishop David H. Sims
of the African Methodist Episcopal
church; Colonel Vincent A. Carroll,
assistant district attorney; Dr. Ed
ward A. Clarke, Dr. George F. Elli
son, representing the Presbyterian
church: Dr. Lorenzo H. King, repre
senting the Methodist Episcopal
church: Bishop C. M. Alleyne. of the
A. M. E. Zion church; Congressman
James P. McGranery; City Treasur
er Luther A. Harr; National Commis
sioner Michael Calpy; District Com
mander W. H. Bechtel, of the Vet
erans of Foreign Wars. U. S.
1 '
Richard Reid Addresses
Marymount Graduates
TRRYTOWN, N. Y.-Catholic wom
en, and those of kindred spirit must
assume their share of the responsi
bilities if Christian principles are to
survive- the present world crisis,
E’ichard Reid, editor of The Catholic
News, of New York, declared in an
address delivered here to the gradu
ating clas sof Marymount college.
Mr. Reid said that while the out
look was dark indeed, it was not
as dismal as many other crises in
the history of the Church, and what
Christian principles had done before,
they can accomplishe again.
“Examine the history of these
movements in the United States
States which are undermining the
home, dividing and limiting the fam
ily and scoffing at the Christian mo
rality which is the basis of our in
stitutions and our civilization,” said
Mr. Reid, “and you will find women
are not only among the leaders, but
are most active, most persistent and
most effective in their efforts. Our
religious minded women, and above
all our Catholic women, must be at
least no less weary in well-doing
than these women are in their un
fortunate efforts.”
Students’ Pilgrimage
Honors Mother Seton
EMMITSBURG, Md.—Four liundrec
students and 80 seminarians of Mt
St. Mary’s College, on Sunday in
augurated an annual pilarimage ti
the tomb of Mother Elizabeth Bay-
ley Seton. Foundress of the Daugh
ters of Charity of St. Vincent d<
Paul in the United States.
The students marched in processior
to St. Joseph's College, two mile:
distant, after which there was Bene
diction in the chapel of St- Joseph':
College. The celebrant was the
Rt. Rev- Msgr. John L. Sheridan
president of Mt. St. Mary's College
The sermon on Mother Seton wa:
delivered by the Rev. William F. Cul-
hane, vice-president of Mt- St. Mary’s
From the beginning there has beer
a close bond of friendship betweer
the twin institutions. Father Johr
DuBois, founder of Mt- St. Mary's
offered Mother Seton and her com
panions his log hut when first thej
arrived here and they lived in th<
cabin for six weeks when they movet
into their own new home. * Fathei
DuBoise was the first chaplain t<
St- Joseph’s.
A feature of the ceremonies Sun
day were tributes to Mother Setoi
by members of the Forensic Coun
cil of Mt. St. Mary’s College. The.si
talks were broadcast over Statioi
WFMD, Frederick, Md.