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AUGUST 24, 1940 THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA THREE 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 X 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. 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