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AUGUST 24. 1940
THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA ELEVEN
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Dyeing
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Catholic Funeral Director
Sam Greenberg
& Co.
274 Ivy Street, N. E.
Phone Walnut 7908
ATLANTA. GA.
To All the Congregation
of Christ the King Church
and School wishing you a
most successful year.
CARDEN HILL
DELICATESSEN
Cherokee 3139
2827 Peachtree Road
ATLANTA, GA.
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GREALISH, POTEET & WALKER
FUNERAL DIRECTORS
519 GREENE STREET AUGUSTA, GEORGIA
The Liberty National Bank and Trust Co.
SAVANNAH,
GEORGIA
C. S. SANFORD, President
N. K. CLARK
Vice-President and
Trust Officer
R. H. G1GNILLIAT
Cashier
HUGH H. GRADY
G. W. UPCHURCH
Assistant Cashier and
Assistant Trust Officer
Assistant Cashier
Member Federal Deposit
Insurance Corporation
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Savannah or Savannah Beach
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Air-Conditioned Coaches
Tickets on sale every Friday and Saturday, also for
Sunday morning trains. Final Unfit Monday. Dates
of sale each week-end June 23 to September 1, 1940, in
clusive.
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information.
Central of Georgia Railway
GEORGIA STATE COUNCIL
KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS
Most Rev. Gerald P. O’Hara, D.D.. J.U.D.. Bishop of Savannah,
Atlanta. State Chaplain
Thomas J. Gilmore. Atlanta. State Deputy
William T. Walsh. Savannah." Past State Deputy
George T. Flynt, Atlanta. State Secretary
R. S. Hcsien. Augusta. Treasurer
Leo Leonard, Columbus. Advocate
Thomas J. Canty, Savannah, Warden
ATLANTA COUNCIL,
NO. 660
Grami Knight
Brian F. O'Brien,
627 Woodlawn Avenue, S. E.
Financial Secretary
George T. Flynt,
1356 Laner Blvd.. N. E.
Council Meets 1st and 3rd
Wednesdays, at 8 P. M.. at
the Council House, 1200
Peachtree St., N. E.
Club House Open Every Day
and Evening at the Above
Address.
SAVANNAH COUNCIL
No. 631
Jos. N. McDonough
Grand Knight
J. B. McDonald
Financial Secretary
Frank Puder. R. S.
Meets Second and Fourth
Wednesdays. 8 P. M.
3 West Liberty Street
Savannah. Ga.
Bishop Gross Council
No. 1019
Louis C. Kunze
Grand Knight
Jos J. Spano,
Financial Secretary
Meets First and Third Wednes
day, 8 P. M. 802 Broadway
Catholic Club Bldg..
Columbus Ga.
Patrick Walsh Council
No. 677
James B. Mulherin
Grand Knight
R. S. Heslcn, Financial Sec.
Visiting Brothels Welcome
1012 Greene SL Augusta. Ga.
Macon Council, No. 925
Chas. Le A. Adams, Sr.
Grand Knight
Herman Huhn
Financial Secretary
Meets the First and Third
Tuesday. 8:15 P M.,
in Mitchell Hall of the Catholic
Club. 521 New St.
Mulberry St_ Macon. Ga.
Henry Thomas Ross
Council, No. 1939
J. Boyd Touhey. Grand Knight
Kenneth E. Ammons,
Financial Secretary
P. O. Box 391
Meets Second and Fourth fues-
days at Knights of Co
lumbus Hall.
Brunswick. Ga.
THE SOCIETY FOR THE
DIOCESAN DIRI
Pev. James J. Grady
FOREIGN MISSIONS
v r
EAST HARRIS ST.
Savapnap. Ga.
“FOR SOCIAL WORKS
99
Mission Intention for the Month of September
Sodality Members
Donate Window to
St. Mary’s Home
(Special to The Bulletin)
SAVANNAH, Ga.—Completing the
group of stained glass windows in the
chapel of St. Mary’s Home, on July
31, the Sodality of Our Lady of the
home presented the final window to
His Excellency the Most Reverend
Gerald P. O'Hara, who is President
of the Female Orphan Benevolent
Society, which operates St. Mary's
Home.
The presentation was made by Miss
Anna Owens, secretary of the Sodal
ity, and Bishop O'Hara expressed his
appreciation of the effort Which the
organization had made in securing
the window. -
Later in the afternoon, a playlet
“A Miracle of Roses”, was presented
by the girls. The stage was convert
ed into a garden, the play being pre
sented against a setting of flowers.
The cast of characters was as fol
lows: Opening. Madeline Evans; Mis
tress of School,( Edna Casey: Lady
Clare, Catherine Evans; Grazella, La-
Vita Felton; A Milkmaid, Catherine
Benton; Mignon, Isabelle Pinckney;
Bertha, Christin Hill; Alice, Shirley
Wickboldt; scholars, Jane. Eva Usick;
Mary, Dora Dell Taylor; Flora, Helen
Marie Crowley; Anna, Barbara Rat-
terree; poor people. Betty Ann Le
noir, Lois Benton, Rose Stemberger,
M. A. McKenna, Joan Evans, M. R.
Lenoir, Edna Barfield, Annabelle
Wimpee.
At the close of the play the girls
sang “Ave Maria”, accompanied by
Mrs. Mary Gleason, who directed the
musical numbers featured during the
performance.
ALEXANDER J. WAY, General
Manager of The Catholic Universe
Bulletin, Vice President of the Cath
olic Press Association of the United
States, and Secretary of the St. Vin- ,
cent de Paul Society, is one of four 1
prominent Catholic laymen of the
Diocese of Cleveland whom His Holi
ness, Pope Pius XII has named
Knight Commanders of the Order of
St. Gregory the Great.
DENOMINATIONAL
ENDOWMENTS
ENDANGERED
Conger Explains These
Funds Are Jeopardized
By Gasoline Pipe Lines
In other advertisements facts
have been given to show that if the
Georgia Legislature should give
gasoline pipe line companies the
power to condemn public or private
property in acquiring right-of-
ways, Georgia and Georgia’s people
would be seriously injured—injured
through loss of revenue from rail
road taxes, through losses in com
mon school funds, through losses in
county taxes, through loss of jobs
for thousands of laborers, through
injury to the state’s interest in the
W. & A. Railway, through the con
stant danger of explosions, and
many other ways. All this, without
the people of Georgia benefiting in
any way from the gasoline pipe
lines themselves.
This is to call to the attention of
the religious denomination^ of
Georgia, and to the charitable and
public minded citizens of the state,
a special danger vto them. These
groups have hundreds of thousands
of dollars in endowment funds in
vested in railroad securities. Let’s
take the case of the South-Western
Railroad Company as an example.
The proposed gasoline pipe line
through Georgia from Port St. Joe
to Chattanooga parallels the South-
Western Railroad. So much of this
railroad’s revenue is from the
transportation of gasoline that if
the gasoline pipe line were built,
the road’s remaining revenues
would be insufficient to pay oper
ating expenses and its stock would
therefore become worthless. A list
of the stockholders of this com
pany shows that a large percentage
of its stock is held in the endow
ment funds of various charitable
and denominational institutions —
schools, colleges, hospitals, orphan
ages and other charities. _ Among
these are the State University,
Mercer University, Wesleyan Col
lege, the Berry Schools, the Acad
emy for the Blind, several churches
and old ministers’ funds.
Various interests opposed to giv
ing these powers of condemnation
to gasoline pipe lines which cannot
help Georgia, have collected and
placed information and literature
on this subject in the hands of the
undersigned. 1 will be glad to fur
nish it on request.
Be sure your candidates for the
legislature are opposed to granting
any gasoline pipe line companies
the right to condemn property in
Georgia, and be sure that if elected,
those candidates will continue to
oppose granting the extraordinary
powers these special interests are
seeking. Let these northern mil
lionaires learn that their millions
can’t buy the power to exploit
Georgia and Georgia’s citizens.
A. B. CONGER
1314 22 Marietta St. Bldg.
Atlanta, Ga.
In this country where social works,
even social security, take headline
space in the nations’ program, it is
to be hoped that there will be sym
pathetic and prayful interest in the
intention recommended by the Holy
See for the month of September. So
cial service, the handmaid of God's
charity, had deteriorated into a Phar
isaical nothingness when Christian
ity made its appearance in the world.
Then, with the advent of the Angel
of the Anunciation, we find the first
example of the new order as the
maiden Mary of Nazareth hurried to
her cousin Elizabeth in the hour of
her trial.
That action, however, found no re
percussions among the arrogant Ro
mans or self-sufficient Jews. “There
was no room in the inn” for the hum
ble carpenter, Joseph, nor for his
young wife even though it was evi
dent that “her days were accom
plished that she should be delivered.”
Only the beasts of the field were
available to render the service which
today our social works and workers
would undertake for even the hum
blest mother and child in the world.
THE PERFECT EXAMPLE
OF SOCIAL SERVICE
After the hidden years at Nazareth
Christ the Worker became Christ the
Teacher and that teaching included a
complete course in social service.
Jesus of Nazareth was a member of
the human society of His day. With
the Omnipotent Intelligence of the
Godhead He saw the needs of His
fellow creatures, and, with the all-
embracing charity of the Redeemer
He proved how necessary was the
application of the spiritual and cor
poral works of mercy to the daily life
of His followers.
The sick were made well .the lep
ers were cleansed, the mul
titudes were fed .the dead were
restored to life, the children were
gathered within His loving embrace,
and all men with His hearing were
taught the saving doctrines of Chris
tianity. None were omitted; rich and
poor became the beneficiaries, not
only of His society, but of His social
works.
LIVING CHARITY
After the Ascension the Church
founded by Jesus Christ put into ac
tual practice the doctrines He taught.
Thus we find St. Paul exhorting the
Romans to love “one another with
the charity of brotherhood . . com
municating to the necessities of the
saints . . . pursuing hospitality . . .
providing good things, not only in
the sight of God. but also in the sight
of all men.” (XII. 10, 13, 17). The in
terest and care manifested by their
Founder was continued by the early
Christians who vied with one anoth
er in the exercise of the spiritual and
corporal works of mercy, which to
day constitute “social works”.
As the gentle doctrines of the Re
deemer infiltrated even the most sav
age of the -European tribes, social
service became the privilege of king
and peasant alike. Pope Leo XII re
minds us ‘ civil society was renovated
in every part by the teachings of
Christianity . . . that it was brought
back from death to life. to so ex
cellent a life that nothing more per
fect had been known before or will
come to pass in the ages that are yet
to be.” Charity was a real, a living
thing, reaching a climatic peak under
the gentle administrations of St. Vin
cent de Paul. Then came the dark
day when heresy reared its ugly
head and the apostate Luther trod
underfoot not only obedience to the
Vicar of Christ, but to the principles
of Christian brotherhood and service
which had been the earmarks of
Catholicity since its foundation.
THE FLAME RELIGHTED
It remained for the zealous Catho
lic layman, Anthony Frederick Oza-
nam to scale the high wall of Protest
ant indifference to social service and
lay the foundation for the establish
ment of the great St. Vincent de Paul
Society. However, there was another
exponent of social service who la
bored simultaneously with the great
Ozanam. and. while the name Pau
line Jaricot is not enthroned as
foundress of The Society for the
Propagation of the Faith, she deserves
a high place in that other sphere for
which the prayers of the faithful are
requested during September.
In the January. 1910 issue of The
Catholic World the Rev. R. Corri
gan, S. J., wrote a scholarly and en
lightened article on the subject of
“A Catholic Lay Leader; Pauline Jar
icot”, from which we quote the fol
lowing: “Eighty years before our
present day champions of social
justice, and half a century before
the Rerum Novarum Pauline Jari-
cot’s heart and mind and imagination
were active in the cause of the work
ers. She was so far ahead of her
time in the sphere of social justice
that she was regarded as a visionary
who deserved to fail. Her failure
(however) was the failure of a Chris
tianity keyed too high for an age in
which Karl Marx was to be a proph
et.”
SOCIAL WORKS
MUST CONTINUE
Today, as in the time of the refor
mation, the world is entering upon
an entirely new era. Totalitarianism
will endeavor to reach the long arm
of the state into every walk of life,
into every phase of Christian endeav
or. But, as in that period four long
centuries ago, the Church founded by
the great Teacher and Social Worker
must prove the fortress to resist ibe
onslaughts against charity. Hospitals
must be maintained where the souls
as well as the bodies will be cured.
Orphanages must be enlarged where
children, recognized as the handiwork
of God, rather than the puppets of
the state, will be trained to become
future members of society and heirs
of heaven. Homes must be visited,
not by secret police, but by social
workers who will direct families
along the path to better health and
more contented living.
Knowing the difficulties which face
the world of tomorrow The Society
for the Propagation of the Faith,
uniting with the Holy See, begs the
prayers of every Catholic American
for the continuation and enlargement
of social works. The bulwark of
Christian charity must receive rein
forcements from every source if it
will resist the attacks of the future.
The missions of the Catholic Churchy
must be aided in their social endeav
ors, for already they have made
phenomenal progress—a progress
which is threatened seriously if the
European conflict extends much fur
ther. Like the nations of that unfor
tunate continent, the Catholic Church
must not be found unprepared for
what is coming, and She gives evi
dence of her preparedness by Her ap
peal to her children for the prayers
“for social works ’.
RT. REV. MSG. THOMAS J.
McDonnell,
National Director, The Society for the
Propagation of the Faith.
FOUR CENTURIES
CF PROGRESS
“The fourth century of the Society
of Jesus has a special significance in
a world of tottering institutions, for
the Society has somehow managed to
survived turbulent times. This would
be a shock to some historical figures;
those who have buried the Society
so often would fim^ it hard to be
lieve that their names are forgotten
and that their work is in vain. But
the Society has not only survived; it
is actually thriving today with life
and activity. Despite 400 years of
harried existence, it is still weaving
the threads of its colorful history.
This is the perennial 'Jesuit enigma’.”
(July-Aug, Jesuit Missions).
Added to the foregoing record of
achievement may be viewed the fac
tual side of the picture showing that
there are now working in the mission
fields 2,145 priests, 975 schclaslics
and 665 brothers, members of this
same Society.
German Protestant Bishop
Gives Permission to Hear
Confessions to His Clergy
(Special Correspondence, N. C. W. C.
« News Service)
GENEVA.—The Most Rev. Dr. Mei-
ser, Protestant Bishop of Bavaria, has
informed his clergy that he sees no
objection why the members of their
congregations should not be admitted
to Confession, if they so desire, al
though he does not wish the Sacra
ment to be administered in the Protes
tant Church on general terms.
The ruling shows that Protestant in
terest in Catholic tradition has by no
means died down in Germany despite
the violent anti-Christian campaign
of the Nazi regime-
A few years ago the Rev. Albrecht
Schoenherr. Protestant pastor of the
province of Uckermark, had publish
ed a study on “Martin Luther, the
Reformer, and Confession". The au
thor' took the position that both Lu
ther himself and quite a few of his
associates insisted that the church
should “take sin and grace seriously”
which was to mean that the Sacra
ment of Penance should have its
place in the Protestant Church as
well-
In one Protestant church of Mu
nich a "Mass” is now being said
which in many respects reminds of
the Catholic ritual. i
These and similar trends must hot "
be interpreted as an indication joS
rapid progress of the efforts directed
at an eventual reunion of Catholics
and Protestants, but they are un
doubtedly significant events.