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AUGUST 24, 1940
THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
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News Review of the Catholic World
Monument to Christ Rises Ninety Feet
A towering white stone pile, setting oft a 20-foot green-bronze statue, will constitute the monument to
Christ the Light of the World, that is to be erected in Washington, D. C., as a result of a campaign for this pur
pose sponsored by "Our Sunday Visitor”. This architect’s rendering of the project shows the facade, 65 feet wide'
and 90 feet high, with a fluted niche which serves as the setting for the statue. The statue is approached by land
scaped terraces. The white wall is unbroken except for two small doors inconspicuously placed, which will lead to
the new headquarters building of the National Catholic Welfare Conference.
Vatican Seeks to
Safeguard Rome
Efforts of Holy Father to
Avert Bombing Reviewed
by Osservatore ‘ Romano
By MSGR. ENRICO PUCCI
(Vatican City Corespondent, N. C.
W. C. News Service)
VATICAN CITY — Steps taken by
His Holiness Pope Pius XII to avert
the catastrophe of aerial bombing of
Rome are reviewed in an article pub
lished in Osservatore Romano.
Immediately after the declaration of
war by Italy the Pope, preoccupied
with the danger of air bombardments
on Rome, charged the Nuncio at
Paris to call the attention of the
French Government to his desire that
Rome, in view of lier sacred character
be spared such danger. The same de
sire was made known to the English
Government by the British Minister
accredited to the Holy See.
France's reply to the Holy See
through the Nuncio was fully in the
afirmative.
England's reply, communicated by
means of the British Minister, was in
the affirmative only as regards Vati
can City. England promised to refrain
from any air incursion that might
strike Vatican City. But in regard to
the City of Rome ,she declared (hat
she could not make any promise be
cause that would depend on Italy’s
conduct.
The Vatican, facing the aerial dan
ger. has taken the same precautions
as Italy, creating refuges and adapting
suitable premises for safety. Not
withstanding the first opposition of
the Pope, a refuge expressly destined
for His Holiness has been finished
by the Technical Direction of Vati
can City. It is in direct comunication
with tiie Papal apartment so that in
case of danger the Holy Father can
reach it directly from his rooms.
From the beginning of the war,
there have been night alarms in the
City of Rome, sometimes with the
firing of anti-aircraft guns. Every
time the population of the Vatican
City, not excluding high dignataries,
has gone down to the refuges. How
ever the Pope will never leave his
rooms.
REV. CHAS. J. CALLAN ,0. P., of
Holy Rosary Church, Hawthorne, N-
Y.. has been appointed Consultor to
the Pontifical Biblical Commission.
He is the first American to be chosen
for this signal honor.
The Pontifical Biblical Commission
is a committee of Cardinals in_ Rome,
who. with the assistance of consultors,
are responsible for the proper inter
pretation and defense of Sacred Scrip
tures.
MONSIGNOR JAMES T. DELE-
HANTY, Rector of St. John's Cathe
dral. Paterson, N. J., died August 9,
as the result of injuries received in
an automobile crash.
HIS HOLINESS Pope Pius XII has
conferred the Apostolic Benediction
on all the pupils of school conducted
by the Roman Union of the Sisters of
St. Ursula as well as all the mem
bers of the Ursuline Institute as a
part of the commemoration of the
400lh anniversary of the death of St.
Angela Merici, foundress of the
Ursuline Order.
ACCEEDING TO A PETITION of
the German Hierarchy, the Holy
Father has granted that soldiers, war
prisoners, inmates of internee camps
and all those civilians exposed to ac
tual danger in war zones may partake
of Holy Communion without observ
ing the customary rule of previous
fasting, and may receive cumulative
absolution in groups where indivi
dual Confession seems unfeasible.
REV. FRED D. JARVIS, Baptist
minister, and his wife, each of whom
received an M. A. degree, were mem
bers of a class of 79 candidates that
received degrees at the summer con
vocation of Loyola University, Chi
cago.
DEMOCRACT MUST BE BASED
on religion, Mrs. Franklin D. Roose
velt declared in an address to a Con
ference of National Organizations
held in Washington at the call of
Commissioner Harriett Elliott, Con
sumer Advisor on the Advisory Com
mission to the Council of National
“Defense.
Miss Agnes G. Regan, Executive
Secretary of the National Council of
Catholic Women, was among the
threescore representatives of national
organizations who attended. Miss Re
gan said that ‘‘whatever be the out
come of the present emergency—and
we trust it will not be patricipation
in a world war—the calling of this
conference and the results of its de
liberation will have made a real con
tribution to the future welfare of
our country.”
UNDER TIIE TERMS of the will
of Mrs. Mary Anderson de Navarro,
famous American actress and dis
tinguished Catholic, who died at
Worchestershire, England, her house
at Floyd Knob, Indiana, was left to
the Province of Our Lady of Con
solation at Louisville.
Mrs. de Navarro achieved her
greatest fame as an actress in the
187Us and 1880s, playing under her
maiden name of Mary Anderson.
THE CONDITION of about 800.000
Polish prisoners of war now in Nazi
prisons is causing profound anxiety
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among their relatives in Poland, ac
cording to reports received in New
York by the Polish Information Cen
ter, official news agency of the Pol
ish Government-in-Exile.
The Nazis herded the enfeebled
prisoners in the trains without food
and with very little water, the dis
patch says, and the people of the
towns through which they passed
were forbidden to approach the
trains to supply the hapless prison
ers with food or water.
MASS DEPORTATION of men,
women and children, from Soviet-
occupied Poland into the interior of
Russia by Soviet authorities has in
fluenced the Polish National Coun
cil in Roumania to initiate a world
wide protest, it was revealed in a
letter from the Polish National Coun
cil to the Secretary General of the
Polish Alliance in America.
IMPORTANT STEPS toward the
coordination of Catholic youth ac
tivities throughout the United States
were taken at a meeting of the
Bishop’s Committee of Youth held at
Niagara University. Numerous re
ports were heard and there was con
siderable deliberation, all leading up
to the preparation of a program
which will be presented at the Gen
eral Meeting of the Archbishops and
Bishops of the United States to be
held at the Catholic University of
America in November.
The Bishops’ Committee gave par
ticular attention to the development
of the National Catholic Youth Coun
cil.
REV. AQUINAS BRINKER. O S.
B.. of the Physics Department of St.
Vincent's College, Latrobe. Pa., has
taken up aviation, and is taking fly
ing instructions at the Latrobe Air
port, which lies adjacent to the St.
Vincent College campus. St. Vin
cent’s College was one of the first
colleges in the United States to spon
sor a program of pilot training.
DE REBUS HISPANIAE, the bul
letin of international Catholic infor
mation directed by Father Bayle, S.
J., which has resumed publication in
Madrid, gives definite figures set-
of men’s Religious Orders killed by
Spanish Leftists in the civil war at
2.495.
These figures, which are authenti
cally based on data obtained from
the official Curias of Orders and dio
ceses, do not include diocesan priests
slain, members of women’s Orders, or
members of Religious Orders who
died as a result of exposure and de
privation resulting from persecution,
who succumbed in prison, or whose
deaths followed wounds or mistreat
ment.
Says Peace Would
Come If Dictators
Attended a Retreat
Non-Catholic Lawyer Much
Impressed by Experience
During Laymen’s Retreat
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
NEW ORLEANS. — If dictators
would attend a retreat the war would
soon be over, William A. Porteous,
Jr., a non-Catholic lawyer of New
Orleans, said over Station WWL, of
Loyola University of the South, rela
tive to the retreat he made under
Jesuit Fathers at Manrsa House, Con
vent, La.
Mr. Porteous termed the retreat
period “an opportunity to commune
with God, an opportunity to learn
many of the things of which I had
hitherto deprived myself.”
“I want to say that I recommend to
every one, may he be Catholic, Prot
estant or Jew, that he take advantage
of the opportunity to attend one of
the retreats,” Mr. Poreous said. “He
will feel inwardly better after hav
ing attended. If there is anything
troubling or worrying you, don’t put
off until tomorrow an engagement
you should keep today with God.
“Oh, how I wish the dictators of
the world could have attended the
retreat for only three days. They
would find themselves—they would
soon commune with God, afcd the war
would be over in no time. Too bad
all diplomats are not required to at
tend a retreat. They should learn
to be generous and considerate of the
rights of others.
“How difficult it is to keep an ap
pointment with some men who con
sider themselves important, and how
easy it is to keep an appointment
with God. A non-Catholic is as wel
come as a Catholic. No one even re
motely suggested to me joining the
Catholic Church. The purpose of the
retreat is not to proselytize; the pur
pose is to make better Christians. If
you want to commune with God, go
to the retreat; if you want to feel
better inwardly, don’t miss it; if you
want to do your duty to God, don’t
wait until tomorrow.”
VERY REV. J. HUGH O’DONNELL,
C. S. C., who has been serving as
acting president of the University of
Notre Dame since last January, has
been confirmed as president of the
university. The Rev. John Cava
naugh, C. S. C., will be vice-presi
dent.
DR. THOMAS O’CONOR, SLOANE,
scientist, author, editor, and inventor,
nephew of Charles O’Conor, distin
guished New York attorney, who was
first Catholic nominee for the Am
erican presidency, died in South
Orange, N. J., August 7. ^
Dr. Sloane often conferred with
Thomas A. Edison on scientific mat
ters. His son, John Eyre Sloane,
married Miss Madeline Edison,
daughter of the late inventor.
American Named
Auditor of Rota
(By N. C. W. C. News Service!
WASHINGTON — The Very Rev.
Francis James Brennan, D. D., J. U.
D., Professor of Moral Theology and
Canon Law in the Seminary of St.
Charles Borromeo. Philadelphia, has
been named by His Holiness Pope
Pius XII to be an auditor of the Sa
cred Roman Rota, it is announced
in word received at the Apostolic
Delegation, here.
This is the first time in history -hit
an American priest has been named
to this office.
Dr. Brennan was born at Shenan
doah, Pa., on May 7, 1894. He atten
ded school in Shenandoah and later
enrolled in the Seminary of St.
Charles Borromeo in Philadelphia,
He continued his studies at the Ro
man Seminary and The Appolinare in
Rome, taking courses in Sacred The
ology and in Canon and Civil Law.
He was ordained to the priesthood in
the Eternal City on April 4, 1920, by
Cardinal Pompeii. >
Since his return to the United
States from Rome. Dr. Brennan has
held parochial assignments in the
parishes of St. Charles Borromeo and
St. Carthage in Philadelphia, and has
taught in West Philadelphia Catholic
High School and in the Seminary
of St. Charles Borromeo. He is Of-
ficialis of the Archdiocesari Curia and
Moderator of' Ecclesiastical Confer
ences. He has also served as chap
lain to the Sisters of Mercy at Mer-
ion. Pa.
Dr. Brennan was one of the trans
lators of the authoritative work
"Canon Law,” by the present Apos
tolic Delegate to the United States.
His Excellency the Most Rev. Amleto
Giovanni Cisognani.
BEFORE A THRONG of nearly 5,-
000 persons, the Most Rev. Thomas
A. Boland was consecrated Titular
Bishop of Hirina and named Auxil
iary Bishop of the Diocese of New
ark at ceremonies held at Sacred
Heart Cathedral, Newark.
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