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VOL. XXI. No. 7 TWENTY-EIGHT PAGES AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, JULY" 27, 1940
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Bulletins
MYRON C. TAYLOR, President
Roosevelt's personal feprescntative to
the Vatican, fully recovered from his
recent illness and operation, is leav
ing the hospital and returning tte, Ids
villa at Florence.
His Holiness Pope Piux XII receiv
ed .Mrs. Taylor in audience. Mrs.
Taylor thanked the Holy Father for
his many expressions of interest and
benevolence to her husband.
A DESCENDANT of St. Thomas
More, first lay Chancellor of Eng
land, who was beheaded at the di
rection of King Henry VIII, dis
charges the humble duties' of care
taker at El Rctiro, Jesuit retreat
house for men at Los Altos, Califor
nia.
Disclosure that Francis D. May
nard. the care taker, traces his an
cestry back to the great Catholic
Saint jurist was made by the Very
Rev. Harold E. Ring, S. J.. in the
course of a retreat sponsored by the
St. Thomas More Society, composed
of lawyers from San Francisco and
Oakland.
REV. LAWRENCE O'NEILL, S. J.,
has been appointed president and
principal of St. John’s College,
Shreveport. He was formerly secre
tary of St. Charles College, Grand
Coteau. Father O’Neill succeeds the
Rev. Gabriel Barras, S. J., who be
comes perfect of discipline and lec
turer in education at Spring Hill.
FORMAL OPENING of the fifty-
eighth annual Supreme Council
meeting of the Knights of Columbus,
in Indianapolis. August 20-22, will b#
preceded by Solemn High Mass at
SS. Peter and Paul Cathedral, cele
brated by the Most Rev. Joseph E.
Ritter, Bishop of Indianapolis. The
sermon will be preached by the Most
Rv. John F. O’Hara, C. S. C., Military
Delegate.
Speakers at the State Dinner, prin
cipal social function of the conven
tion will be United States Senator
David I. Walsh, of Massachusetts,
and Supreme Knight Francis P. Mat
thews, of Omaha.
FOUR STUDENTS of the College
of St. Teresa comprise the allotted
number of girls in the St. Mary’s
College government quota of 45 for
the Civil Aeronautics Course being
offered in preparing to solo.. Regu
lar flight instructions taken at the
Conrad Flying School of Winona
have been a part of the daily work
since early in the course.
REV. JAMES M. COTTER, S. J.,
widely known as a missionary died in
Washington, O. C.. July 16, on his
sixty-eightli birthday.
SECOND IN A PROPOSED Series
of three volumes is the new "Radio
Replies" just published by the Rev.
Dr. Leslie Rumble. M. S. C., of Syd
ney, Australia, and the RcV. Charles
M. Carty, diocesan missionary of St.
Paul, Minn.
Carrying a preface by the Most
Rev. John Gregory Murray. Archbish
op of St. Paul, this second volume is
a completely new 360-page book con
taining answers to 1,422 questions re
garding Catholic faith and practice,
the history of Catholicism and kind
red subjects.
HIS HOLINESS Pope Pius XII has
bestowed the rank of Knight Com
mander of the Order of St. Gregory
upon John F. O’Neill, of Jersey City,
a Supreme Dircclor of the Knights
of Columbus. Mr. O’Neil was made
a Knight of St. Gregory in 1920 by
Pope Benedict XV.
HIS HOLINESS POPE PIUS XII.
in order to give the comfort of his
presence to his spiritual sons living
in the Diocese of Rome, lias decided
to forego this ySwc the visit to his
summer residence at Castelgandolfo.
Honors for Detectives
Killed by Bomb in New York
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
NEW YORK, — Honors reserved
only for the highest officials of the
New York Police Department were
paid Detective Joseph J. Lynch, who
was killed in a bomb ’explosion at
the New York World’s Fair on July
4, at his Funeral Mass at St. John's
Catholic Church.
Similar honors were accorded to
Detective Ferdinand A. Socha, who
died in the same explosion, at his
Funeral Mass at St. Stanislaus Catho
lic Church, Brooklyn.
Headed by the highest police offici
als in the city, more than 1,200 po
licemen and firemen atended Detec
tive Lynch’s funeral. Mayor LaGuar-
dia also attended, together with Grov
er A. Whalen, president of the New
York World's Fair Corporation.
Henry Ford, II,
Becomes a Catholic
Grandson of Automobile
Manufacturer Received Into
Church by Msgr. Fulton
Sheen
(Bv N. C. W. C. News Service)
SOUTHAMPTON, L. I. — Previous
to his wedding here to Miss Anne
McDonnell, Henry Ford. II. grandson
and name-sake of the noted automo
bile manufacturer, was baptized in
the Catholic Church by the Rt. Rev.
Msgr. Fulton J. Sheen of the Catholic
University of America, who had had
him under instruction for some
time.
Mr. Ford's baptism took place in
the course of the week in the Church
of Sacred Hearts of Jesqs and Mary
here, where the wedding’took place.
Mr. and Mrs. James Francis McDon
nell, parents of the bride, were spon
sors at the baptism. Mr. Ford's
father is Edsel Ford. President of the
Ford Motor Company.
Rev. John J. Walde
on “Catholic Hour”
Oklahoma Priest Begins
‘America’s Debt to the
Catholic Church’ Series on
August 4th
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
WASHINGTON. — The Rev. John
J. Walde. pastor of Corpus Christi
Church, Oklahoma City, will be the
next speaker in the Catholic Hour, it
was announced at the offices of the
National Council of Catholic Men,
producers of the nation-wide broad
cast. Father Walde will begin his se
ries of four addresses entitled ‘‘Am
erica’s Debt to the Catholic Church”
on August 4.
The Catholic Hour is broadcast over
a nation-wide network of stations as
a public service feature of the Na
tional Broadcasting Company, each
Sunday at 6 o’clock Eastern Daylight
Time. Father Walde, born in Neier,
Mo., on January 2, 1900, was educated
in the parochial school of that town,
at St. Meinrad's, lnd., and at Ken
drick Seminary, St. Louis. Father
Walde began broadcasting in 1925. It
is believed that he was the first priest
in the United States to give a consec
utive series of broadcasts on religion.
He has broadcast continuously each
year since then
He has an unusual record of con
versions, having brought 385 persons
into the Church since his ordination
in 1922. Each year his number of
converts has increased, with a high
point last year of 55. Father Walde
is a journalist and lecturer as well as
a broadcaster. He writes a column
entitled “Library Gleams” for The
Southwest Courier, official organ of
the Diocese of Oklahoma City and
Tulsa, and has never missed an issue
in 17 years.
The dates and titles of Father
Walde's addresses will be: August 4.
“The March of the Cross”; August 11.
“The Torch of Liberty”; August 18,
‘ ‘The Torch, of Learning and Char
ity”: August 25, “The Bulwark of
the Nation ".
Communicants in London
Allowed to Break Fast
In Event of Air Raids
By GEORGE BARNARD
(London Correspondent, N. C. W. C.
News Service)
LONDON. June 24 — Emergency
regulations issued from Archbishop’s
House. Westminster, here, permit the
faithful to take non-alcoholic liquid
refreshment before Holy Conjmunion
if they have taken refuge at night
because of air raids.
Those who have care of the sick
during the night and who are unable
to keep the Eucharistic fast are also
given permission to take non-alco
holic liquid refreshment before Holy
Communion for the duration of the
war.
Priests are given permission in cer
tain circumstances, for the duration
of the war, to celebrate three Masses
on days of obligation. Individual ap
plication to the Chancellor is re
quired for this dispensation.
All these dispensations apply to : he
Westminster diocese.
REFUGEE NUNS REACH CANADA
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
QUEBEC, July 19—Five Canadian
Sisters of St. Jeanne d’Arc from the
convent of Beaulieu-les-Montaines,
France, have arrived here via New
York. Their convent is in German-
occupied territory. Other religious
from the same house are expected to
arrive later,
Holy See’s Relations With States
Misconceived by ‘Super-Patriots’
CONVENTION OPENS WITH PRAYER
■That God might aid in the task of "upholding in all circumstances
our free institutions," was the prayer of Archbishop Samuel A.
Stritch, of Chicago, at the opening session of the Democratic Na
tional Convention there. Pictured on the platform with the Arch
bishop is Postmaster General James A. Farley, Chairman of the.
Democratic National Committee. (N.C.W.C.)
WENDELL WILLKIE ’
FOE OF INTOLERANCE
Republican Nominee, an
Episcopalian, Was Open
Opponent of Klan in 1924
(Bv N. C. W. C. News Service)
PHILADELPHIA — Wendell L.
Willkie of New York, chosen by the
Republican Party to be its standard
bearer in the 1940 Presidential elec
tion, is an Episcopalian.
Persons closely Associated with Mr.
Willkie in his successful drive for the
Republican nomination describe him
as religious and a vigorous foe of in
tolerance. Ferdinand Rahter, Mr,
Willkie's secretary, points out that
the Republican candidate openly and
vigorously fought the Ku Klux Klan
in 1924, when Mr. Willkie was a young
attorney in Akron. O. “You will re
call,” said Mr. Rahter. “that it was
dangerous — both physically and eco
nomically — for one to take such a
stand at that time. It was particular
ly dangerous for Mr. Willkie, be
cause he had been established in Ak
ron for only about five years at that
time.” Mr. Rahter himself is a Cath
olic.
Then a Democrat. Mr. Willkie was
a member of the Ohio delegation to
the Democratic National Convention
in New York in 1924 and supported
the candidacy of Alfred E. Smith.
Inquiries among Mr. Willkie's col
laborators to reveal whether the Re
publican candidate has read the great
social Encyclicals of Pope Leo XIU
and Pope Pius XI. One said that if
Mr. Willkie has not already read
these encyclicals they are the only
important documents he has not read
in this connection.
Magazine Apologizes
for Offensive Story
The American Magazine Ex
presses Regret for Slurs
Cast on Catholic Clergy
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
NEW YORK.—The world has re
cently been given fresh testimony
that “union between Church and
State as the Vatican conceives it and
favors it, is far from the horror con
jured up by certain of modern pa
triots,” a speaker declared in one of
the regular broadcasts over the Vajj-
can City radio station. The address
was transcribed by the Columbia
Broadcasting System at one of its
stations here.
Announcing that His Holiness Pope
Pius XII had just addressed an En
cyclical Letter to the Portuguese peo
ple on the occasion of their eighth
centenary of political existence and
their third as an independent nation,
the speaker noted that this followed
upon the conclusion of a Concordat
between the Holy See and Portugal
“at the moment when concord in
Europe is a sadly distant echo or an
all but forlorn hope.”
“In neither of these ecclesiastical
documents, in neither treaty nor
Encyclical” the speaker said, “is
there any shread of evidence that
the Church has designs on the poli
tical independence of a nation she
has civilized. She does not propose
to take over or even to protect any
function that belongs to Caesar, who
ever he may be.”
The speaker pointed out that the
secular observer should note that
Caesar, in this case, was a Catholic.
“We are still being constantly
warned by the vigilantes in Am
erica,” he added, “against the fear
ful consequences of allowing Am
erica to become Catholic in popula
tion, or in its social institutions. A
Catholic President would have to be
the Pope's sacristan, and our Con
stitution an appendix to Canon Law,
according to these prophets of woe.
Let them be edified and reassured,
as well as confounded, bv the har
mony and mutual aid which marks
the agreement between the Catholic
Church and Catholic Portugal, in a
regime of complete separation of
Church and State.
“Dr. Salazar is no sacristan, al
though he was a seminarian once,
and is now a staunch defender of
the moral law, a dictator in the very
best sense of that terrible word. . .
The Church asks from him, as it asks
from every head of state, the liberty
of continuing to teach its doctrine.
“Portugal has acknowledged her
right and accepted this precious ser
vice. She has accorded no privilege
to Catholics, lay or clerical, which
fello.v-citizens or other institutions
cannot claim with equal right. She
has admitted the right of the Church
to serve with her the moral law
which dominates her constitution.
She has been able to come to terms
publicly with the Catholic Church at
a minimum of sacrifice. Some one
said the otter day at Rome that the
Concordat had cost Portugal about 50
cents. The reason is that already
honored in her political right, the
same moral principles, the same con
cepts of social and international life
as the Church of Christ. The Vati
can, far from being jealous of her
freedom, was eager to consecrate it
and guarantee it.”
“Thus,” the speaker continued,
“Portugal, after Catholic Ireland,
joins the long list of independent na
tions who have acknowledged a
separate sovereignty of Church and
State.” This, he declared, is to the
mutual benefit of “a united effort to
keep public and private morality
from degenerating into tyranny
under a pagan cult of force.”
The speaker also said the Portu
guese Concordat may help to lay the
fantastic ideas that “torment the
dreams of many a super-patriot who
busies himself on the subject of what
he calls ‘Vatican Politics’.”
BENEDICTINES URGE
RELIGION AS INTEGRAL
FACTOR IN EDUCATION
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
ST. LEO, FLA.,—Integration of all
branches of study by means of re
ligion was urged by the National
Benedictine Educational Association
at its twenty-third annual meeting
here.
Addresses were delivered by the
Rev. Alexander Korte, O. S. B., of
St. John's University, Collegeville,
Minn.; the Rev. Stephen Radke, O.
S. B., of St. Bernard's College, Cull
man, Ala.; the Rev. Malachy Bums.
O. S. B„ of St. Joseph’s Seminary, St.
Benedict. La.; the Rev. Benedict
Rcttger, O. S. B.. of Benedictine High
School, Savanna’n, Ga.; the Very Rev.
Thomas V. Moore, O. S. B., of the
Catholic University of America,
Washington, D. C.: the Rev. Damian
Milhone. O. S, B., of St. Bede’s Col
lege, Peru, III.; the Rev. William
Shonka, O. S. B., of St. Procopius
College, Lisle, 111.: and the Rev.
Thomas Hoffman, O. S. B., of St. Leo
College Preparatory here.
The Rt. Rev. Columban Thuis, O.
S. B., Abbot of St. Joseph Abbey and
Seminary, St. Benedict, La., was
elected vice-president of the associa
tion. Tire Rt. Rev. Lambert Burton,
O. S. B., Abbot of St. Martin's Ab
bey, Lacey, Wash., was unanimously-
re-elected secretary-treasurer. The
Rt. Rev. Alcuin Deutsch, O. S. B„
Abbot of St. John’s Abbey, remains
president ex officio. The Rev. Alex
ander Korte, of St. John's, was nam
ed a representative to the executive
board.
The next annual meeting of the
association will be held at Belmont
Abbey, Belmont, N. C
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
MILWAUKEE. — Apology for any
offense it may have given Catholics
in • publishing a fiction story which
contained passages insulting to the
Catholic clergy has ben made by
The American Magazine.. Summer
Blossom, editor of the magazine, ad
dressed his letter to The Catholic
Herald Citizen, achdiocesan weekly,
which protested publication of the
story.
The Catholic Herald Citizen also
received a letter from Thomas H,
Beck, president of the Crowell Pub
lishing Company, publishers of Tha
American Magazine.
Averring that the editors and pub
lishers of the magazine are “neither
anti-Catholic, anti-clerical, nor anti-
Christian, but, on the contrary,
staunch admirers of all religious, of
which by no means the least is tha
great Church of the Ages.” Mr. Blos
som wrote:
“We are extremely sorry that any
one could have read into any story
we publish anything offensive to tha
Catholic Church, its clergy, or iU
laity, and hasten therefore to offer
our apologies. We are now working
on our October issue. In that number,
published September 5. we will ex
press ourselves similarly.”
An editorial accompanying publi
cation of the letter in The Catholii
Herald Citizen states that the prompt
apology “will be welcome to all Cath
olics.”
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Six Texas Priests
Honored by Pope
(By N. C. VV. C. News Service)
GALVESTON.—Papal honors f o t
six priests of the Diocese of Galves
ton are announced in word which
the Most Rev. Christopher E. Byrne.-
Bishop of Galveston, has received
from His Execllency the Most Rev.
Amleto Giovanni Cicognani. Apos
tolic Delegate to the United States.
His Holiness Pope Pius XII has
named the Rt. Rev. Msgr. Louis J.
Reicher, Chancellor of the diocese,
a Protonotary Apostolic. Pope Pius
XI made Monsignor Reicher a Do
mestic Prelate in 1935.
The Holy Father has named the
Very Rev. Dr. James T. Fleming,
President of St. Mary's Seminary,
La Porte; the Very Rev. Dr. John S.
Murphy, Pastor of St. Patrick’s
Church here: the Very Rev. Dr.
Daniel P. O'Connell, Rector of St.
Mary's Cathedral; the Very Rev,
George A. Wilhelm, Pastor of fur.
Church of the Holy Name, Houston:
and the Very Rev. I. J. Szymanski,
pastor of St. Wary’s, Church, Bre-
mond. Texas, Domestic Prelates with
the title of Right Revereod, Mostsig*
nor. . t