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U. S. Census Shows Catholic Gain 1926-1936
Bulletins
A SPEAKER IN VATICAN CITY,
heard by radio in England, expressed
the pleasure of the Holy Father of
the selection by President Roosevelt
of Our Lady’s birthday as the nation
al ilay of prayer for the people of
pie of the United States.
*THE ONE THING standing in
the present collapse and chaotic ruin
of our civilization” is the Catholic
Church, declares Hilaire Belloc, noted
British thinker and author, in the
current issue of America, Catholic
weekly published in New York by
the Jessuit Fathers .in New York.
The UNITED STATES Bureau of
Census in its Census of Religious
Bodies, 1936, lists 57 denominations
that were not included in the religi
ous census of 1926. In virtually all
cases the new groups are Protestant
sects, tlie majority of them separated
from the larger Protestant denomi
nations.
THE MOST REV. Bernard T. Es-
pelage, O. S. M., first Bishop of Gal
lup, will be consecrated October 9, in
Cincinnati, his native city.
STANDING READY to accept and
place in suitable homes Catholic
children who may come to the United
States from various European coun
tries to escape the liorrcrs of war,
iJishops’ Committee for Refugee
children is advised that it is imos-
sible to tell how many children, will
conus or when, and that, unless pre
vailing conditions should be modified,
they will come unannounced.
New Ordinary
Monsignor Joseph
THE CONGREGATION OF SA
CKED RITES has announced that the
ante-preparatory meet meeting to
discuss the heroism of the virtues of
Kateri Tekakwitha, “Lily of the Mo
hawks”, will be held November 26.
Her Cause of Beatification is now in
prog rest*
Right Reverend
P. Hurley, of Cleveland, attached t o
the papal secretariat of state in Vati-
“ n ^ty since 1935, who has been
named Bishop of St. Augustine, Fla.
Bishop of St. Augustine
Dies in Jacksonville
The Most Rev. Patrick
Barry Had Headed Florida
Diocese Since 1922
FUNERAL SERVICES
FOR BISHOP BARRY
IN ST, AUGUSTINE
THE MIRACLES proposed for the
Canonization ot Blessed Ludovico
Grignion de Montfort, Founder of tiie
Company of Mary and of the Filles
de la Sagesse, have been discussed at
an ante-preparatory meeting of the
Sacred Congregation of Rites.
Blessed Ludovico died in 1716 and
was Beatified by Pope Leo XII in
1888.
THE CATHEDRAL OF ST. GER
TRUDE, at Nivelies, Brabant, Bel
gium, was destroyed by the German
invasion, it was learned in Switzer
land. Confirmation was received of
the destruction of the Library of the
.University of Louvain. Several other
famous churches, including the Tour-
nay Cathedral and the Jesuit Church
of Maiines, were badly damaged.
FORMATION OF A PRO-AMER-
ICAN National Foundation for Amer
ican Youth to counteract the alleged
ly Communist-run American Youth
Congress was announced in New
iYork.
Gene Tunney, Catholic layman and
former world’s heavyweight boxing
champion, who recently led the fight
ogaiiLst Communism in the American
)Youtli Congress, lias accepted the,
temporary national chairmanship.
/
Holy Father Presides
at Nephew’s Wedding
By Monsignor Enrico Pucci
(Vaticiau City Correspondent, N. C.
W. C. News Service)
VATICAN CITY-Officiating in his
private chapel, His Holiness Pope
Pius XII blessed the marriage of his
nephew, the Marchese Jules Pacelli,
Colonel of the Pontifical Noble
p uarl L and Signorina Piera Bom-
iarini. daughter of the Marchese
tBombrini, former Mayor of Genoa.
Witnesses for the bridegroom were
the Marchese Carlo Pacelli, General
.Counsel for Vatican City, and the
■Marchese Filippo Serlupi Crescenzi,
^Minister of the Republic of San
Marino to the Holy See. A witness
for the bride was Marshal Enrico
Gaviglia Roch Piaggio, who makes
tus home in Genoa.
The Holy Father imparted the
nutral blessing, celebrated Mass and
pronounced a moving discourse re
calling specially the dead parents of
foe bridegroom. The bridegroom’s
fefoer, the Marchese Francesco
Pacelli, took a prominent part in the
negotiations which led to the set-
gement of the so-called Roman
Question with the signing of the
teran Treaty in 1929.
nly relatives and the closest
nds witnessed the ceremony, but
persons being present in alL
Bishop of Charleston Deliv
ers Sermon at Pontifical
Requiem Mass
the
to
sung
(Special to The Bulletin)
ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. — In
presence of throngs which filled
overflowing the historic Cathedral
of St. Augustine, funeral services for
the Most Reverend Patrick Barry,
Bishop of St. Augustine, were held
August 16. So large were the crowds,
composed of Catholic and non-Cath
olic. clery and laity, that many were
unable to find space in the Cathedral
for the low Mass which was said at
8:30 o’clock, or the Pontifical High
Mass of Requiem which 1
at 10 o'clock.
The Right Rev. Monsignor William
Barry, rector of St. Patrick’s Church,
Miami Beach, brother of Bishop Bar
ry, said the low Mass. The celebrant
at the Pontifical Mass was the Most
Rev. John W. Swint, Bishop of
Wheeling, who was named to that
See at the same time that B i sh op
Barry was appointed Bishop of St.
Augustine.
The sermon at the Mass was de
livered by the Most Reverend Em
met M. Walsh, D. D., Bishop of
Charleston.
Others participating in the services
were: Most Rev. John T. McNiclio-
las, D. D., archbishop of Concinnati,
Ohio; Bishop Edward F. Hoban of
Rockford, 111.; Bishop Gerald P.
O'Hara of Savannah-Atlanta; Bishop
C. E. Byrne ot Galveston, Texas; the
Most Rev. Vincent George Taylor,
O. S. B., Abbot-Ordinary of Belmont
Abbey, Belmont, N. C.; the Rev.
Lawrence M. Barry, S. J. M., princi
pal of St Ignatius College in Chica
go; the Reverends Thomas Comber
of the Little Flower Church in Cdr-
al Gables; Robert P. Brennan, pastor
of St Peter’s and Paul Church in
Miami; James J. Meehan, pastor of
tKe Church of the Imamculate Con
ception in Jacksonville; Janies F.
Enright, pastor of St. Paul’s Church
in St. Petersburg; the Rt. Rev.
Msgr. P. J. McGill of the local Ca
thedral, and the Rev. R. E. Philbin,
assistant pastor of St Paul’s Church.
Jacksonville.
Every parish in the Diocese of St
Augustine was the parish of Bishop
Barry, and each was represented at
the funeral services held for the be
loved prelate. All of the diocesan
clergy and members of religious or
ders serving in the Diocese were
present in the sanctuary.
Interment was in San Lorenzo
Cemetery.
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Aug. 16 —
The Most Rev. Patrick Barry, Bishop
of St. Augustine, died here early this
morning of a heart diseases. He was
in his seventieth year.
Bishop Barry, whose diocese in
cludes all of the State of Florida
east of the Appalachicola, had been
in ill health for some time. He re
cently came here for hospital treat
ment, and, his condition took a turn
for the worse last evening. He died
at approximately 12:30 o’clock this
morning.
A native of West Clare, Ireland,
Bishop Barry was one of eighteen
children born to his parents. Ten
boys and three girls of this family-
were alive when the Bishop was el
evated to the Episcopate and named
to govern the Diocese of St. Augus
tine in 1922. In addition to the Bish
op, two other sons embraced the
priesthood — the Rt. Rev. Msgr. Wil
liam Barry, pastor of St. Patricks’
Church, Miami Beach, and the Rev.
Joseph Barry of Youghal, Ireland.
A daughter became a member of the
Sisters of St. Dominic at Adrian,
Mich. Eleven of the children were
living in the United States at the
time of the Bishop’s elevation.
BISHOP FOR 18 YEARS
It was while Bishop Barry was re
ceiving his primary education in he
Inagh National School in his native
Clare, that the curate of the parish
—the Rev. Denis O’Dea — sensed his
vocation, began to counsel him and
taugh him Latin. The future Bishop
entered the celebarted Mungret Col
lege in October, 1887, at the age of
17 years. When he became Ordi
nary of St. Augustine 18 years ago.
Bishop Barry succeeded another
graduate of Mungret College — the
Most Rev. -Michael J. Curley, who
had been elevated to the Archepis-
copal See of Baltimore.
Bishop Barry entered St. Patrick’s
Seminary. Carlow, in the Fall of 1890
to conclude his philosophical and
theological studies. He was ordain
ed to the priesthood at Carlow on'
June 9, 1895. and in August of the
same year arrived in Florida to la
bor on the Mission. His first assign
ment he was assistant pastor to the
Rev. William John Kenny, who later
became Bishop of St. Augustine.
During his assignment to Jackson
ville, the future Bishop saw busy
and trying times. He was here dur
ing the Spanish-American War Pe
riod, and worked day and night
among the soldiers encamped in this
city, many of whom died of disease.
He was here in 1901 when fire laid
waste the entire city — the Cath
olic Church included.
Father Barry achieved wonders
with his church and missions at Pa-
Mourned by Florida
(Copyright By P. A. Wolfe)
The Late Bishop Barry
latka, and was transferred in 1913
to form a new parish in South Jack
sonville.
The Most Rev. Michael J. Curley,
who had been consecrated Bishop
of St. Augustine on June 30, 1914
called Father Barry in 1917 to be
iiis Vicar General and Rector of the
Cathedral of St. Augustine. He con
tinued in these offices until his ele
vation to the Episcopacy in 1922.
Bishop Barry’s consecration took
place in the St. Augustine Cathedral
on May 3, 19^2. His predecessor, then
Archbishop of Baltimore, returned to
consecrate his old friend. The co-
consecrators were Bishop William
Turner of Buffalo and Bishop John
J. Monaghan of Wilmington.
As Ordinary of the Diocese of St.
Augustine, Bishop Burry steadily ad
vanced its spiritual and material
goods. Notable among his accomplish
ments was the establishment of St.
Mary’s Home in Orange Park, here,
one of the finest-equipped orphan
homes in this section. The tenth an
niversary of his episcopal consecra
tion, in 1922, was an occasion for re
joicing throughout the See. When he
delivered the baccalaureate address
to the seniors of the University of
Florida in 1934. Bishop Barry was
said to have been the first Catholic
Bishop of the South ever invited to
deliver such an address at a State
university. Five years later — last
June — Bishop Barry again delivered
the baccalaureate sermon to the Uni
versity of Florida graduates.
WITH 1,309,934
INCREASE DURING
DECADE REPORTED
Protestant Population De
clines Half-Million, While
Number of Sects Increases
Monsignor Joseph Hurley
to Succeed Bishop Barry
Cleveland Priest Attached to Papal Secretariate of
State Since 1934 Becomes Bishop of St. Augustine
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
WASHINGTON—The Rt. Rev- Msgr.
Joseph P. Hurley, a priest of the
Diocese of Cleveland who for the last
six years has been attached to the
Papal Secretariate of State in Vatican
City, has been named by His- Holi
ness Pope Pius XII to be Bishop of
St. Augustine, Florida.
The appointment is announced in
word received here by His Excel
lency the Most Rev. Amleto Giovanni
Cicognani, Apostolic Delegate to t.*e
United States.
As Bishop of St- Augsutine. Mon
signor Hurley succeeds to a See left
vacant by the death of the Most Rev.
Patrick Barry on August 13.
BisiTop-elect Hurley was born in
Cleveland on January 21, 1894. and
attended Holv Name School and St.
Ignatius High School in his native
city. He made his philosophical
studies in St. Bernard’s Seminary,
Rochester; N. Y., and pursued his
theological courses in St. Mary’s
Seminary, Cleveland. He was
ordained to the priesthood on May 29,
2919, in the Cathedral of St. John the
Evangelist, Cleveland, by Bishop
John the Evangelist, Cleveland, by
Bishop John P. Farrelly, fourth
Bishop of Cleveland.
Following ius ordination. the
Bishoprelect served as assistant pas
tor in the St. Cotumba’s Church,
Youngstown; St. Philomcna’s Church,
Cleveland, and the Church of the Im
maculate Concention, Cleveland. He
was for a time Professor of Psychology
at the Ursuline College in Cleve
land. v
Bishop-Elect Hurley was Secretary
to Archbishop Edward Mooney of De
troit from 1928 to 1931. while the lat
ter was Apostolic Delegate to India.
He also served as Secretary to Arch
bishop Mooney from 1931 to 1933.
while the Archbishon was Apostolic
Delegate to Japan. He was Charges
d’Affaires of the Apostolic Delegation
in Tokyo from February. 1933, to De
cember, 1933. He has been an at
tache of the Secretariate of the Holy
See since 1934.
Pope Pius XI made the Bishop-Elect
a Domestic Prelate with the title of
Right Reverend Monsignor on March
6 1934 #
As ordinary of the Diocese of St.
Augustine, Bishop-Elect Hurley will
govern a See which embraces all of
the State of Florida east of the Ap
palachicola River- The diocese em
braces an area of 46,959 square miles
ar.d has a Catholic population of 66,-
767, according to the current issue of
“The Official Catholic Directory”.
(By N. C W. C. News Service)
WASHINGTON.—While the num
ber of Catholics in the United States
increased by more than a million and
a quarter in the decade from 1926 to
1936, according to a report made pub
lic today by the Bureau of the Cen
sus, Protestants decreased by more
than half a million. Members of Jew
ish congregations increased by more
than half a million.
One of the more noticeable things
about the census of religious bodies,
which is taken by the government
every ten years, is that while Protes
tants decreased both in adherents
and the. number of churches they
conduct, the number of Protestant
sects increased by 40. This indication
of disintegration affected particular
ly the larger Protestant bodies.
The number of Catholics in the
United States in 1936 was put at 19,-
914,947 as against 18,605,003 in 1926, an
increase of 1,309,934. The number of
churches was listed as 18,409, or 531
less than in 1926.
The census listed for the entire
country 256 religious bodies with
55,807,366 members in 1936, as com
pared with 213 denominations report
ing 54,576,346 members in 1926, an in
crease of 1,231,020, a figure 78,314 be
low the increase in the number of
Catholics alone.
Exclusive of Catholics and Jews,
the church membership in 1936 was
put at 31,251,245, or 638,856 less than in
1926, when the figure was 31,890,101.
The number of adherents to Jewish
congregations in 1936 was 4,641,184, as
against 4,081,242 in 1926, an increase of
559,942. \
Baptists were divided into 21 sep
arated groups. The total number of
Baptists was put at 8,262,287 in 1936 as
against 8,441,030 in 1926, a decrease of
178,743.
The Methodists, also divided into
21 separated groups, totaled 7,001,637
in 1936, as against 8,070,619 in 1926, a
decrease of 1.068,982.
The Presbyterians numbered 2,~
513,563 in 1936. In 1926 their total was
2,625,281. The decrease in the decade
was 111.721. They are divided into ten
separated groups.
The Protestant Episcopal Church
had 1,735,335 members in 1936, as
against 1,859,086 in 1926, a decrease of
123,751.
Lutherans Show Gain
The Lutheran Church, one of the
few Protestant denominations—large
or small—to show a gain, had 4,245,-
160 in 1936, as against 3,965.152 in
1926, an increase of 280,008. The Lu
therans are divided into twelve sep
arated groups.
The number of Spiritualists was
cut by almost one-half. Their total
in 1936 was 27,352, as compared with
1926. when they had 50,631.
The number of Christian Scientists
increased from 202,098 in 1926 to 268,-
915 in 1936, a gain of 66,817.
The Eastern Orthodox Churches
reported 356,638 members in 1936, as
against 259,394 in 1926, an increase of
97,244. They ared ivided into eleven
separated groups.
Membership in Congregational and
Christian Churches dropped from
994,491 in 1926 to 976,388 in 1936. a
decrease of 18,103.
The Evangelical jmd Reformed
Church registered a gain, reporting
723,877. members in 1936, as against
675,801 in 1926, an increase of 48,073..
Tiie Friends (Quakers) lost. They
had 110,422 members in 1926. In 1936
the figure had dropped to 93,697. a
loss of 16,725.
The number of Mormons iucreased*
Their total in 1936 “TVas 774,169, as
against 606,561 in 1926, a gain of 167,-
608.
The Salvation Army gained. Its to-'
tal for 1936 wac 103,038, as compared
with 74,768 in 1926, an increase of 26,-
270. The Volunteers of America, how
ever. dropped from 28,756 to 7.923 in
the decade.
Among the sects listed in the cen
sus are such organisations as: Ba
hai’s. Duck River and Kindred Asso
ciations of Baptists, Two-Seed-in-
the-Spirit Predestinarian Baptists,
Church of Daniel’s Band. Fire Bap
tized Holiness Church of the Ameri
cas. a group which bears the attenu
ated title “House of God, Holy
Church of the Living God, the Pil
lar and Ground ot Truth, House of
Prayer for All People,” The Church
of Illiihiination, Defenseless Mennon-
ites of North America, Primitive
Methodist Church in the United
States of America, National David
Spiritual Temple of Christ Churck
Union, and the Schwenken feider*.