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1 Published by the Catholic Lay men’s Association of Georgia “To Bring About a Friendlier Feeling Among Neighbors Irre spective of Creed" VOL. XXI. No. 7 TWENTY-EIGHT PAGES AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, JULY" 27, 1940 ISSUED MONTHLY—$2.00 A YEAR 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.” :f j 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