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TWENTY-SIX
THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC. LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
SEPTEMBER 28, 1940
North Carolina Mission
Plcms Its First Church
Father Rohrbacher, of Vast Waynesville “Parish”, Pro
poses to Erect Church Near Great Smokey Mountain
Park
(Special to The Bulletin)
WAYNESVILLE. N. C. — In a mis
sion territory of the State of North
Carolina that extends over an area
equal to that of Massachusetts, Con
necticut, Vermont and Rhode Island
combined, the Rev. Ambrose Rohr
bacher, pastor of St John’s Mission,
has made splendid progress in his
plan to give his widespread field of
untiring efforts its first Catholic
Church.
The church which Father Rohr
bacher hopes to see erected in the
near future will be situated near the
Cherokee Indian reservation at the
entrance to the Great Smoky
Mountains National Park, recently
dedicated by President Roosevelt.
Eight North Carolina counties are
embraced in Father Rohrbacher’s
“parish” which covers 3.500 square
miles, but which contains but 50
C itholics out of a population of 125,-
000.
At present Masses are said occa
sionally in private homes at mission
stations located at Canton, in Hav-
wood County; Sylva in Jackson
County; Brown City, in Swain Coun
ty; Murphy, in Cherokee County;
Webster, in Jackson County, and in
Franklin. Dilsboro. Andrews. Rob-
insville and Nantahala.
A year ago a mission school, con
ducted by the Teaching Order of the
Sisters of St. Francis, was opened at
Waynesville, in a remodeled resi
dence. Out of the forty pupils that
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attended the school last year, thirty.
! were non-Catholics.
It is the only private grammar and
high school in North Carolina west
of Asheville, and it accommodates
boarding students as well as day
students. A special high school fea
ture is a two-year course in busi
ness science, and there are music and
kindergarten departments. Sister
Mary Cordea is the principal.
Because there are so few resident
Catholics, the Most Rev. Eugene J.
McGuiness, Bishop of Raleigh, can
not allow a debt to be contracted for
the church, so the funds necessary to
complete its construction will have to
be in hand before building will begin.
It is intended to erect an edifice
that will lend dignity to the Catholic
religion in a predominantly non-
Catholc secton.
There are no Catholics among the
Cherokee Indians’ reservation near
the plot of land upon which the
church will be built, but there are a
few Catholic Indians from Western
or Northern tribes on the reserva
tion. Some of the teachers on the
reservation are Catholics and their
influence made it possible for the
Church to gain access to this terri
tory.
The Rev. Richard Barrett, who was
in charge of the mission at Waynes
ville, before Father Rohrbacker was
named “locum tenens,” suffered a
nervous breakdown, and was direct
ed by his physicians to take a com
plete rest for one year. Some of the
mission trips are as far as 114 miles,
one way, from Waynesville.
Father Rohrbacher has reported
that he has raised more than half of
the $5,000 which will be required be
fore the work of building the much-
needed church is begun, and hopes
soon to be able to achieve this im
portant goal to his missionary en
deavor.
BARRY COLLEGE
OPENS IN FLORIDA
Sisters of St. Dominic Open
College for Women in
Miami
(Special to The Bulletin)
MIAMI, Fla.—Barry College for
Women, conducted by the Dominican
Sisters, opened for its first scholastic
year on September 16. bringing to Mi
ami an institution of higher educa
tion, which is named for the late Most
Rev. Patrick Barry, Bishop of St.
Augustine.
Located on a 40-acre campus at
Miami Shores, the new college com
prises an original group of five mod
ern buildings, complete in every de
tail as to furnishings and equipment,
with accommodations for 300 day and
boarding students this year. Ready
for occupancy' are the administration
building, two dormitories and a din
ing hall, first units of a proposed
group of 15 buildings.
The college will be conducted by
the Sisters of St. Dominic, of Adrian.
Michigan, under the direction of
Mother Mary Gerald, a sister of
Bishop Barry. The faculty will be
composed largely of members of the
Adrian community holding higher
degrees from universities in the
United States and Europe, assisted by
clerical and lay professors.
Courses offered include degrees in
arts, science, philosophy, home eco
nomics and commercial education, in
addition to special classes in art, mu
sic anfl dramatics. Sport facilities in
clude archery, basketball, baseball,
volleyball, dancing, hiking, swinl-
ming, tennis, golf and horseback rid
ing.
Charleston Diocesan N.C.C.W.
to Convene in Columbia
Progress of Eleventh Annual Conference of Charleston
Diocesan Council, National Council of Catohlic Wonr-
en and Conference of Diocesan Catholic Youth Coun
cil to Be Held October 5-6
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Veteran Chaplain
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Rev. Terence King, S.J., Re
turns as Member of Col
lege Faculty
(Special to The Bulletin)
SPRING HILL, Ala.—Among the
additions to the faculty of Spring-
Hill College for the current year is
the F,ev. Terence King, S. J., who
returns to the college after an ab
sence of thirty years full of varied
rctivity, including service as a chap
lain on the battlefields of the World
War.
In the records of the United States
Army, Father King is listed as Major
Terence King of the 336 Field Artil
lery. Commissioned as a first lieu
tenant. Father King landed in France
in July 1918 and #as assigned to the
First Division and joined the regi
ment prior to the opening of the
Meuse-Aisne offensive. From that
time until the Armistice was signed
he participated in almost every im
portant” battle, including service in
the Verdun sector, the reduction of
the St. Michiel salient, and the
Mause-Argonne attack.
After the Armistice he was with
the Army of Occupation in Germany,
returning to march in the victory
parades in New York and Washing
ton. He was demobilized at Camp
Gordon in 1919, and entered the re
serves in 1922.
During the vears since the World
War. Father King has been attach
ed to the Jesuit Province of New
Orlean. and comes to Spring Hill
from Loyola University in that city.
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NONE TOO SMALL”
N.C.W.C. Challenges
Church in Politics
Charge by Columnist
(By N. C. W. C. NEWS SERVICE)
WASHINGTON—Declaring that one
of their recent syndicated columns
contained ‘more than a suggestion”
that “the Church is m politics,” Ed
ward J. Heffron, executive secretary
of the National Council of Catholic
Men. has addressed to Joseph Alsop
and Robert Kintner, political com
mentators, a letter pointing to the
“unhappy experience with tfie injec
tion of a religious issue into the na
tional campaign of 1928,” and ex
pressing the hope that it will not be
repeated. It would be “a most cost
ly business in these days when na
tional unity is so essential to our
country’s welfare,” says Mr. Hef
fron.
“You say,” Mr. Heffron states to
Messrs. Alsop and Kintner, ‘the
greatest Democratic defections in
New York are in the ranks of the
Catholics, implying intentionally or
otherwise, that Catholics are leaving
the party because they are Catholics,
not because they approve Republican
policies or disapprove Democratic pol
icies just like any other citizen. In
fact the implication seems intentional
since you proceed to enumerate four
Catholic’ reasons.”
“Your first reason,” Mr. Heffron
continues, “is ‘the new foreign pol
icy of the Vatican, which no longer
runs parallel to that of the White
House.’ The latter half of that state
ment seems to be at variance with
press reports of Myron Taylor's con
ference with the president. But any
way, the Vatican has no ‘new’ for
eign policy, or if it has it cannot ex
pect Catholics in New York or any
where else to act on it, since we very
definitely have not been let in on the
secret. Certainly, therefore, no
Catholics are leaving the Democratic
party, or remaining in the Democratic
party, or joining the Democratic par
ty, on such purely imaginary grounds.
“Your second reason is that ‘there
is great opposition to the president
among such foreign groups as the
Germans and the Italians, many of
whom are of the Catholic faith.’ You
give your own case away there. Many
of them are Catholics, some of them
are not. Obviously, then, such peo
ple are leaving the party—if that is
true, again a very large assumption—
because they are Germans and Ital
ians, not because some of them hap
pen to be Catholic. In fact, as far
as the Germans are concerned, isn't
it a good bet that the majority of
them would not be Catholic? So why
bring in the Catholic issue at all?
“Your third reason is "that a great
many of New York’s Irish think Jim
Farley was treated badly by .the
President.’ Again, if that be true,
and even if it is not offset in any
measure by the Flynn and Walker ap
pointments—a still larger assumption
—is that a ‘Catholic’ reason, or, at
least in part, an Irish’ reason?
“Your fourth reason is ‘that repre
sentatives of the Church were incens
ed at the refusal of the Army to ex
empt clerical students from conscrip
tion.’ Since when does criticism of
‘the army’ (a vague charge) imply
criticism of the Democratic party?
And anyway, clerical students have
been exempted in the bill as it now
stands—by an amendment introduced
by a non-Catholic Democrat, and sup
ported by a majority of the Demo
cratic Senators.”
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and private schools ' c eligible to par
ticipate in the state free lunch pro
gram on the same basis as public
school pupils, according to opinion
handed down by W. D. Goff, First As
sistant Attorney General, to John E.
Coxe, State Superintendent of Educa
tion in Louisiana.
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COLUMBIA. S. C. — Final ar
rangements have been completed for
the Eleventh Annual Conference of
the Charleston Diocesan Council of
the National Council of Catholic Wo
men, which will be held at the Wade
Hampton Hotel, October 5-6.
In conjunction with the Diocesan N.
C. C. W. Conference, the annual con
ference of the Charleston Diocesan
Catholic Youth Council will be held.
Mrs. J. C. Magarahan, of Spartan
burg. president of the Diocesan Coun
cil N. C. C. W., will preside at the ses
sions of that group, while Miss Jean
Fraser, president of the Diocesan
Catholic Youth Council, will preside
over the meetings of the young peo
ple.
The Most Rev. Emmet M. Walsh, D.
D. , Bishop of Charleston, will ponti
ficate at the conference Mass, at
which the sermon will be delivered
by the Rt. Rev. Monsignor Michael J.
Ready, General Secretary of the Na
tional Catholic Welfare Conference.
Bishop Walsh will also address the
closing session. Among others who
will address the conference will be
the Rt. Rev. Monsignor Joseph L.
O'Brien, of Charleston; Mrs. J. W.
McCollum, national president of the
N. C. C. W., and Miss Agnes Regan,
executive secretary of the N. C. C. W.
The conference program is as fol
lows: -
Saturday, October 3
12:00 Noon — Registration, Mezzanine
Floor
00 p. m.—Board of Directors Quar
terly Meeting, Legion Room
00 p. m.—Diocesan Youth Council,
Opening Session, presiding.Miss
Jean Fraser, prescident; open
ing prayer, Very Rev. Martin
Murphy; Song; Greetings from
Columbia; Paper, Everyday Re
ligion, Miss Kathryn Riddock,
Diocesan Youth Chairman; Pa
per, A two-minute suggested
program from each group in the
Diocese; General discussions
and voting on business matters;
Song; Benediction, the Rev.
O 'Sha ughnessey
p. m.—Conference; Organization
Presidents. Deanery' and Dio
cesan Officers, “Problems of
NCCW”; Leader. Misss Agnes G.
Regan, executive secretary
6:30 p. m.—Tour of Capitol City
7:30 p. m.—Opening Session , S*w-
room; presiding, Mrs. J. C. Mag
arahan, president; opening
prayer, Most Rev. Emmett M.
Walsh, D. D.: National Anthem,
“Star Spangled Banner”; Ad
dress of Welcome, Mrs. John D.
Swygert, president, Columbia
Deanery; Response. Mrs. C. M.
McClure, Sr., president, Green
ville Deanery; Rules of Parlia
mentary Procedure, Mrs. T. W.
Reynolds, parliamentarian: Pres
ident’s annual message, Mrs. J.
C. Magarahan: Reports of of
ficers: Reports of standing com
mittees; Reading and adoption
of recommendations from Exe
cutive board; Unfinished busi
ness; Closing Benediction. Rev.
Thomas J. Mackin
9:30 p. m.—Receptton, Senior Coun
cil, Palmetto Room
10 p. m.—Dance. Ballroom
Sunday. October S
8 00 a. m.—Pontifical Low Mass. St.
Peter's Catholic Church; Cele
brant, the Most Rev. Emmet M.
Walsh. D. D.. Bishop of Charles
ton: Sermon, the Very Rev.
Monsignor Michael Ready, secre
tary. National Catholic Welfare
Conference.
10:00 a. m.—
Opening session. Ballroom; presid
ing. Mrs. J. C. Magarahan, presi
dent; Opening praver. Very Rev.
Martin' Murphy: Greetings. Mrs.
J. W. McCollum, president National
Council of Catholic Women; Miss
Agnes G. Regan, executive secre
tary, National Council of Catholic
Women; Panel Discussion on Or
ganization, presiding. Mrs. Curran
L. Jones, past president, chairman,
Columbia Deanery, committee on
organizations and development: Di
ocesan Council, tentative; Dean
ery Council: Parish organization,
purpose and function, tentative:
Muddle and Model Meeting of local
organization Discussion of Panel.
Guild: Model, St. Francis de Sales
organization of panel
12:30 p. m.—
Luncheon: program, under direc
tion of Miss Kathryn Riddick. Di
ocesan Youth chairman, and the
Charleston Youth Councils
2 30 p. m.—
Section Meetings (Round-Table dis
cussion); Study Class, Woodlawn
Room; Leader, Mrs. James G.
Crowley, chairman. Study * Club
committee; Parent-Teacher Asso
ciations, Leader. Mrs. J. J. Rey
nolds, chairman; Shrines-in-Homes,
Leader, Miss Agatha Spellman,
chairman; Press, Leader, Mrs. Mar
tin O’Brien, chairman; School of
Social Service, Leader, Mrs. G. Leo
Lowry, chairman
3 45 p. m.—
General Session, Ballroom; presid
ing, Mrs. J. C. Magarahan. presi
dent; Opening prayer, Rev. Thomas
J. Mackin/ Five-minute reports on
Section meetings; Study' Clubs, P.-
T. A.. Shrines, Press. NSSS; Ad
dress, Miss Agnes G. Regan, execu
tive secretary, National Council of
Catholic Women; Presented by Mrs.
John C. Molony, president. Charles
ton Deanery: Address, His Excel
lency, the Most Rev. Emmett M. J
Walsh: Closing Benediction. Sonqy'
‘Holy God We Praise Thy Name;/
Adjournment
3:30 p. m.—
Youth Council, Final Session
siding, Miss Jean Fraser, (Presi
dent; Opening prayer, Rev. J.
Mackin; Song; Address. His ('Excel
lency. Most Rev. Emmett M.
Walsh. Bishop of Charleston: ad
dress, Rt. Rev. Joseph L. O’Brien,
S. T. D.. LL. D. Diocesan Youth Di
rector; Song: Closing player. Rt.
Rev. J. L. O'Brien
Name;/
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MONSIGNOR IRWIN
FORMALLY INVESTED
Bishop McGuinness Invests
New Bern Pastor as Do
mestic prelate
(Special to The Bulletin)
NEW BERN, N. C.—Formal investi
ture of the Right Reverend Monsignor
Richard A. Irwin, pastor of St.
Paul's Church, as a Domestic Pre'ute,
by the Most Reverend Eugene J. Mc
Guinness, D. D.. Bishop of Raleigh,
was held before the Solemn High
Mass celebrated in St. Paul’s Church
on Thursday, September 26.
Monsignor Irw in was guest of honor
at a luncheon following the investi
ture ceremony and the Mass.
FATHER ENDLER
IN NEW RECTORY
NEW BERN, N. C.-The Rev. Julian
Endler, C. P„ pastor of St. Joseph’s
Church' which serves the colored
Catholics of this city, has recently
moved into his new rectory, a hand
some two-story frame residence, de
signed and constructed by Frank
Frimmer, architect, of Tampa, Fla.
Sumter Youth
Council Commends
Radio Station WFIG
fSuecial to The Bulletin)
SUMTER, S. C.—At a meeting of
St. Anne’s Catholic Youth Council,
of which Miss Mary Jennings is
president, the following resolutions
commending the local radio station
were adopted:
“Whereas, Radio Broadcasting Sta
tion WFIG. of Sumter. South Caro
lina. has shown such commendable
willingness at all times to present
programs of a religious nature, and
“Whereas, they have been so gene
rous in their time and interest, and.
“Whereas. Station WFIG has graci
ously and regularly broadcasted the
Ave Maria Hour, prepared by the
Franciscan Friars of the Atonement,
in cooperation with St. Anne’s
Catholic Parish, of Sumter, every
Sunday at 1:30 p. m . as well as other
church services, and
“Whereas, Station WFIG has al
ways been ready and willing to
broadcast such worthwhile programs
as the Belmont Abbey and Sacred
Heart Academy Choral, therefore, be
it
“Resolved. That we, the members
of St. Anne’s Catholic Youth Coun
cil, in meeting assembled, do com
mend by a rising vote of apprecia
tion. Station WFIG and its manage
ment. and be it further
‘Resolved, That a copy of these
Resolutions be forwarded to Station
WFIG, a copy sent to our Honorable
Mayor, a copy to the Sumter news*
Qjipers, and a further copy be in
corporated in the Minutes of St.
Anne's Catholic Youth Council.”
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