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Published by the Catholic Lay men’s Association of Georgia “To Bring About a Friendlier Feeling Among Neighbors Irre spective of Creed” VOL. XXt. No. g TWENTY PAGES AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, AUGUST 24, 1940 ISSUED MONTHLY —$2.00 A YEAR 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*.