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TWENTY-EIGHT
THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
SEPTEMBER 28. 1940
WILL DEDICATE NEW
CHURCH IN OCTOBER
Formal Dedication of Our
Lady of Lourdes Church,
Port Wentworth, to Be
Held October 6
(Special to The Bulletin)
SAVANNAH, Ga.—Formal dedica
tion of the Church of Our Lady of
Lourdes, at Port Wentworth, will be
held on Sunday, October 6, at which
time a Solemn Pontifical Mass will
be celebrated by the Most Reverend
Gerald P. O’Hara, Bishop of Savan-
nah-Atlanta.
Construction of the new church,
which is located just north of Sa
vannah. on Highway 17, just across
the road from the entrance to the
Savannah Sugar Refining Company,
has advanced so far that Masses are
now being said in the church each
Sunday morning at 7:30 and 10
o'clock. ‘
The Rev. Thomas L. Sheehan, ad
ministrator of St. Patrick’s Church, is
the pastor of the new church of Our
Lady of Lourdes.
JAMES P. HOULIHAN. JR.
JOINS SAVANNAH LAW FIRM
SAVANNAH. Ga.—James P. Hou
lihan. Jr., popular young attorney,
has been admitted to membership
in the law firm of Anderson. Cann
and Dunn.
Mr. Houlihan, the son of Judge
lames P. Houlihan, is a graduate of
Benedictine College and holds an A.
B decree from Georgetown Univer
sity and received an LL.B. degree at
Harvard.
He has been a member of the Sa
vannah bar since 1933, when he was
the first lawyer, admitted to prac
tice by Judge John Rourke. Jr., of
the Superior Court of Chatham
County.
Church at Port Wentworth to Be Dedicated
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LEONARD O’HARA
CLAIMED BY DEATH
Brother of Bishop O’Hara
Dies in Pennsylvania
(Special to The Bulletin)
PH IL ADELPHI9, Pa—Leonard E.
O'Hara, brother of the Most Reverend
Gerald P. O’Hara. Bishop of Savan-
iir.n Atianta died Sept. 11 in the Fitz
gerald Mercy Hospital, at Upper
Darby. Pa., after an illness of seven
nonths.
Hi. Eminence Dennis. Cardinal
Dougherty, Archibshop of Phila
delphia, presided at the Solemn Ponti-
fieial Mass of Requiem which was
relebrated by Bishop O’Hara, in the
Church of our Mother of Sorrows.
The Very Rev. James J. Grady, of
Savannah, was deacon, and the Rev.
James. J. Rice, of Philadelphia, was
sub-eaeon. The Right Rev.* Monsig
nor F. J. Brennan, J. U. D., D. D., of
Overbrook, was assistant priest, and
the Rev. Salvator Burgio, C. M., acted
sr master of ceremonies-
Chaplains to Cardinal Dougherty
were the Right Rev. Monsignor Jo
seph E. Moylan, of Atlanta, and the
Right- Rev. Monsognor J. Carroll
McCormick. Bishop O'Hara's attend
ing clergy were the Right Rev. Mon-
signor Cornelius Brennen, Ph. D.
Cardinal Dougherty pronounced the
absolution, and the sermon was de
livered by the Right Rev. Monsignor
Thomas F. McNally.
More than a hundred clergy assist
ed in the sanctuary, among them be
ing the Rev. Peter McDonnell, S.
J. Macon; the Rev. Edward J. DocT-
well. Savannah; the Rev. Joseph W.
Kavanaueh. Savannah, and the Rev.
Maurice Dailey, C- S. V., of Gaines-
vill ■.
Intermcm was in Holy Cross Ceme
tery. where the priests chanted the
“Benedictus. and the blessing was
given by Bishop O’Hara.
Mr. O'Hara, who 'was thirty-five
years old, was the son of Dr- and
Mrs. Patrick J. O’Hara, of Phila
delphia, and had been living in Sa
vannah until he entered the hospital
last February.
In addition to his parents and the
Bishop. Mr. O'Hara is survived by his
wife; Mrs. Kathleen O'Hara; a sister,
Miss Margaret O’Hara; and three
brothers. Joseph O’Hara, Frank
O'Hara, and Edward O’Hara.
Savannah Exchangeites
Hear Thos. F. Walsh
(Special to The Bulletin)
' SAVANNAH, Ga—Thomas F.
Walsh, local attorney, addressed the
members of the Exchange Club at a
Constitution Day luncheon held at
• the Savannah Hotel.
Mr. Walsh warned that citizens
should be constantly on guard against
having their constitutional rights
taken away, and declared that the
mere e xistence of rights written in
the Constitution will nqt preserve
these rights unless the people are
eternally vigilant.
He also discussed the extension of
powers of the Federal Government
both by the abdication of the States
of many of their powers and the
change in construction of some of
these provisions by the Supreme
Court.
Mr. Walsh was presented on a pro
gram arranged by the Rev- J. O.
J. Taylor.
—Cletus W. Bergen, A. I. A., Architect.
The Church of Our Lady of Lourdes, at Port Wentworth, near Savannah, will he dedicated on Sunday, October
6, with a Pontificial Mass which will be celebrated by the Most Rev. Gerald P. O'Hara, D. D., J. U. D.. Bishop of
Savannah-Atlanta. The dedicatory sermon will be delivered by the Right Rev. Monsignor Joseph D. Mitchell, The
Rev. Thomas I. Sheehan is the pastor of the new church.
4,629 STUDENTS IN
DIOCESAN SCHOOLS
Enrollment Figures Given by
Msgr. McNamara for Dio
cese of Savannah-Atlanta
(Special to The Bulletin)
SAVANNAH, Ga.—The Right
Reverend T. James McNamara, su
perintendent of schools of the dio
cese' of Savannah-Atlanta, has an
nounced that the total enrollment
for the coming school year in the
Catholic schools of the state of
Georgia is 4,629 students.
Tlie elementary schools of the dio
cese of Savannah-Atlanta, parochi
al, private and institutional, number
21, with a teaching staff of 124, and
an enrollment of 1,009 girls and 1,-
800 boys.
There are eight high schools in
the diocese, with a teaching staff of
55, and an enrollment of 920 stu
dents.
These figures show an increase
over last year when 4,319 pupils
were reported at assending acade
mies and schools. ..nd 35 pupils in
the vocational school.
Take Final Vows
as Sisters of St.
Joseph of Carondelet
Solemn Professions of New
Members 'of Georgia Prov
ince — Atlantans Enter
Novitiate
Georgia Priest on
Einstein’s Idea
Father McDonnell of Macon,
Contributes Article to
Macon Newspaper
(Special To The Bulletin)
MACON, Ga.— The Rev. Peter
McDonnell, S. J., pastor of St.
Joseph's Church waj one of the Ma
con clergymen who were asked by
the editor of The Macon Telegraph
to express an opinion on Professor
Einstein’s recent talk in which the
noted scientist declared that the idea
of a personal God was out-of-datc.
Father McDonnell said that while
Einstein’s opinion in the field of
science would carry, weight, his
views when he left his particular
sphere should be of no greater value
than those of the ordinary intelli
gent human being.
“The man who wants to bolster up
his religion would fare better by go
ing to Moses or St. Paul, rather than
to Professor Einstein,” said Father
McDonnell. “Their brain power, in
all probability, was not one whit less
than his; and they were, moreover,
specilaists in the field of religion, as
he is in science.”
Father McDonnell pointed out that
Einstein declared that there was a
weakness attached to the idea of
God, in that a personal God in pun
ishing or rewarding men for their
actions, would be punishing or re
warding Himself.
“In taking this stand the profes
sor denies that man has the power
to choose between good and evil, or
to choose the lesser of two evils.
REGENTLY ORDAINED
PRIEST AT DOUGLAS
The Rev. Bernard Brady,
O.F.M., Fifth Member of
Community Serving South
Georgia Missions
DOUGLAS, Ga.—The Rev- Bernard
P Brady. O. M. I,, has been assigned
to the Mission House of the Oblates
of Mary Immaculate, at St. Paul’s
Church, here.
Father Brady was ordained at the
Oblate Scholasticate Chapel, Wash
ington. D. C., on May 27, 1940 by the
Most Reverend Francis J. Spellman,
Archbishop of New York. He is a
native of New York City, and studied
at St. Francis High School and Col
lege, Brooklyn, entering the congre
gation in September, 1933-
After completing his novitate near
Lowell, Mass., Father Brady began
his heological study at the Oblate
Schloasticate in Washington, which is
associated with the Catholic Univer
sity of America.
Father Brady was stationed at the
Sacred Heart Church, in Milledge-
ville, this summer, while the Rev.
James E. King was away on his
vacation.
The Oblate Father’s Community at
Douglas is served by the Rev. Gerald
L Kenealy, O. M- I„ the superior;
the Rev. Frederick Gilbert. O. M. I.,
the Rev- Joseph W. Bollard, O. M. I.,
the Rev. Charles A. McBennett, O. M.
I., and Father Brady
(Special to The Bulletin)
SAVANNAH, Ga. — Three mem
bers of the Sisters of St. Joseph,
daughters of well-known Savannah
families, have just returned from St.
Louis, whre they pronounced final
vows.
Sister Mary James, daughter of J.
B. McDonald and the late Teresa Mc-
Greal McDonald, was a graduate of
St. Vincent’s Academy.
Sister Mary Edward is the daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. William Lang,
a graduate of the Sacred Heart
School and the Savannah High
School.
Sister Mary Raymond, daughter of
the late Raymond G. McMahon and
Mrs. Marguerite Gallagher McMahon,
graduated from the Sacred Heart
School, and was Valedictorian of the
class of 1935 at St. Vincent’s.
Four other members of the Geor
gia Province of the Sisters of St.
Joseph made final vows at the same
time: Sister Annunciatiata Leslie, of
Oxford, Mass., and at one time a
member of the faculty of Sacred
Heart School: Sister Mary Margaret
Toomey, of Washington. Ga.; Sister
Aloysia Curran, of Los Angeles; and
Sister Roberta Joseph Sutton, Green
Bay, Wisconsin.
Sister Mary James is a teacher at
Sacred Heart School, Atlanta; Sister
Mary Edward is stationed at St.
Anthony’s School, Atlanta; and Sis
ter Mary Raymond is at St. Joseph’s
Academv, in Augusta.
Miss Martha McDevitt ,of Atlanta,
has entered the noviatiate at St. Jo
seph’s Convent in Augusta; Miss
Catherine Lynch, of Atlanta, for the
past two years a student at Font-
bonne College, in St. Louis, conduct
ed by the Sisters of St. Joseph of
Carondelet, enters the Mother House
in St. Louis, where., she will receive
her degrees and take final vows before
returning to the Georgia Province.
Hence Nefo or Hitler should not be
held responsible for their actions.
“Professor Einstein throws a sop
to religion when he says: Science
without religion is lame.” But how
can there be religion if there is r.o
personal God? The professor's god,
who is neither personal nor intelli
gent, must be a blind force of na
ture. such as the atheists admit. But
a blind force of nature could neither
create nor sustain the magnificent
order which reigns supreme through
out the universe.
RED CROSS PROMOTES
MISS BETTY KELLY
SAVANNAH, Ga. — Miss Betty
Kelly, who has been connected with
the Savannah office of the American
Red Cross for the last three years has
received a promotion from national
headquarters and was transferred to
Columbia on September 1. In her new
position she will be in the service of
the national association as secretary
to the field a-’tr.t o’ the American
Red Cross in that district.
“Blind forces of nature, as a rule,
such as an earthquake and hurricane,
do not create order or manifest in
telligence; they beget disorder and
chaos. We do not need more than
ordinary intelligence to see that
every creature, from the tiny atom
which gambols in the sunbeam to the
immeasurable worlds which revolve
in space, all proclaim the omnipo
tence and the dory of an infinitely
wise and intelligent Supreme Being,
or personal God.”
Father Zerfas Appointed
Fort Benning Chaplain
FORT BENNING, Ga.— The Rev.
Matthias E. Zerfas, formerly chaplain
at the Civilian Concentration Corps
Camp at Sidnaw. Michigan, is now
the Catholic chaplain of the new
Fourth Division at Fort Benning.
Father Zerfas holds the rank of a
first lieutenant.
District Deputies Named
by Georgia K. of C.
AUGUSTA, Ga—Edwin J. Dorr,
former grand knight of Patrick Walsh
Council, Knights of Columbus, has
been appointed district deputy for the
eastern district of Georgia by Thomas
J. Gilmore, of Atlanta, state deputy.
Joseph Spano, of Columbus, was
at the same time appointed District
Deputy for the Western District of
G: gia.
SAVANNAH KNIGHTS CANCEL
COLUMBUS DAY BANQUET
' SAVANNAH. Ga. — Due to the
changing world conditions in regard
to the war in Europe, Savannah
Council No. 631. Knights of Colum
bus, has voted to cancel its annual
Columbus Day banquet this year.
For th.e past several years the Co
lumbus Day celebration and banquet
of the council had been one of the
outsUadtutj yj tuc easapwaUy.
Christ the King
Senior High School
Opens in Atlanta
(Special to The Bulletin)
ATLANTA, Ga.—On September 9
the tenth grade of the Senior High
School of Christ the King, conducted
by the Grey Nuns of the Sacred
Heart, opened here at 5 East Wesley
Road. -
Only girls who have completed
Junior High School work have been
enrolled as students in the new
grade.
The faculty of the Grammar
School, Junior and Tenth Grade-now
numbers ten s’isters, with Sister
Mary Clement as the principal.
A total of 206 pupils have been en
rolled at the school.
Benedictine School
Announces Faculty
FRATER ADAMS
TAKES SOLEMN VOWS
Son of Mr. and Mrs. Chas.
LeHardy Adams, Macon,
Makes Profession as Mem
ber of Franciscans
(Special to Tlie Bulletin)
(Special To The Bulletin)
SAVANNAH, Ga.— Announcement
of the faculty for the school year at
Benedictine Military School has been
made by the Rev. Benedict Rettger
O. S. B., principal.
Faculty members include the Rev
Boniface Bauer O. S. B.. vice-presi
dent and rector: the Rev. Robert
Brennan, O. S. B., mathematics and
English; the Rev. Aloysius Wachter.
O. S. B., science and chemistry; the
Rev. Norbert McGowan. O. S. B„
Latin; the Rev. Paul Milde, O. S. B.,
modem languages; the Rev. Peter
Trizzino. O. S. B.. history, geometry,
civics; the Rev. Brendan Dooley, O.
S. B., Latin and mathematics. Father
Benedict, in addition to his duties as
principal. will teach Latin and
mathmetics.
Lieutenant-Colonel S. T. Wallis, U.
S. A., professor of military science
and tactics, will have charge of the
cadet corps. He will be assisted by
Sergeant Recy Rickson. Sergeant
William Vemey will serve as band
master, and Dennis Leonard will be
athletic director, with Michael Cor-
caran as his assistant.
MACON, Ga.—Mr. and Mrs. Charles
LeHardy Adams, Sr., of Macon, were
in Washington on September 17 to
attend the solemn profession in the
Order of Friars Minor of Frater Pat
rick Adams. ’
Frater Patrick Adams, who was
formerly Raphael Adams, of Macon,
made his profession at the Shrine of
the Immaculate Conception.
Also present at the profession was
Frater Francis Adams, a brother of
Frater Patrick Adams, and the Rev.
Raphael Adams, O. F. M„ of St. Jos
eph’s Serajhic Seminary. Callicoon,
N. Y., a brother of Mr. Charles Le
Hardy Adams.
Frater Patrick Adams graduated
from St. Joseph's Parochial School in
Macon in 1930, and completed his
high school education at St. Joseph's
Seminary, in New York. He entered
the Franciscan Order in August 1936,
at Paterson, N. J., and made his sam
ple vows the -'allowing .year. _
He received tus bachelor of arts de
gree in 1939, after study at St. Ste
phen’s House of Studies of the Order
of Friars Minor, Croghan, N. Y„ and
St. Anthony’s Monastery, the Fran
ciscan House of Philosophy, Butler,
N. J. In September of last year, he
entered Holy Name College,.Francis
can House of Studies for the Orders
of Friars Minor of St. Francis, in
Washington, for his theological study.
Successful Retreat
at Villa Marie
Father Kenealy Conducts
Retreat for Men of the
Savannah District
(Special to The Bulletin)
SAVANNAH, Ga.-The fifth an
nual retreat for laymen, for the Sa
vannah district, sponsored ■ by the
retreat section of the Catholic Lay-,
men’s Association of Georgia, wa3
held at Villa Marie, September IS
IS, with the Rev. Gerald L. Kenealy,
O. M. I., of St. Paul’s Church, Doug
las, Ga., as retreatmaster.
Father Kenealy, who also gave
the retreat held at St. Joseph's
Home, Washington, earlier in the
summer; was a happy choice as re
treatmaster, his conference and
meditations proving particularly at
tractive to the men who made the
retreat.
Much credit is due to Those who
are in charge of Villa Marie for the
splendid work that was done to
ward repairing the damage done by
the storm which did considerable
damage a short while before the
dates set for the retreat. The re
fectory was under the capable
managemeni of Miss Mary Cullum,
who had so successfully handled
this importnat feature for so
many gatherings at Villa Marie.
The retreatants sent a telegraphic
message to the Most Rev. Gerald P.
O'Hara, who had been called to
Philadelphia . on account of the
death of his brother, Mr. Leonard
O’Hara, who had lormerly made his
home in Savannah.
Officers elected to head the Sa
vannah Laymen’s E'etreat League
for the coming year were Joseph D.
Sheehan,, president; A. J. Sciiano,
vice president; Kenneth Helmly, sec
ond vice-president; Fortunato Straz-
zo, Brooklet, Ga., third vice-presi
dent, and J. Francis Kelly, secre
tary. All of the officers. except
Mr. Strazzo are from Savannah.
M. C. McCarthy was chairman of
the committee that made the ar
rangements for the retreat, and was
responsible in a great measure for
the fine attendance.
FRED DOYLE. SAVANNAH
HEADS HARDWARE FIRM
SAVANNAH. Ga.—Fred G. Doyle
has been elected president of the
-Semmes Hardware Company, suc
ceeding the late W. A. Semmes whose
death took place last month.
Mr. Doyle has been vice-president
of the company, which was founded
in 1398 by the late R, T. Serruucs.
Sixty-nine men attended the re
treat, the retreatants being: W. H.
Robinson, Palmer J. Rourke, Wal
ter P. Powers, John Powers, E. V.
R'ogerson, W. J. Cleary, John H. Da
vis, Jr., J. J. McLaughlin, John D.
Stapleton, Walter M. Crawford, J.
W. Lang, Fortunato Strazzo. Thomas
F. Walsh, Sr., Thomas F. Walsh. Jr.,
Peter Shreck, Harold Munson. N. J.
Edler, E. J. Whelan, J. M. Keating,
M. C. McCarthy, Kenneth A. Heim-
ly, John W. Gleason. J. M. McDon
ough, Jr., J. M. McDonough, A. L„
Saunders, Edwin J. Beranc, Frank
Damore, Hugh H. Grady, Arthur
Dunn, John F. Canty. John E. Joiner,
H. J. Melancon, A. J. Schano, Elton
E. Wright, John H. Hennesy, W. C.
Broderick, F. J. Beatty, John L. Ken
ny, John G. Butler, Jr., James J.
Collins, Joseph L. Hatch, J, H. Mc
Cormick, Joseph A. Logan. C. A.
McCarthy, James J. Pacifici, D. J.
McCarthy. George J. Steiber, L. J.
Steiber, John A. Hansen, James W.
Harte, L. B. Dunn, J. F. Beranc.
John J. Sullivan, William J. Mona
han, E. P. Daly. D. S. Sumner, L. J.
Michel, L. C. Flanagan, T. J. Fog
arty, Jr„ John N. Crotty, William A.
Saunders, John J. Sullivan, A. M.
Gruber, Joseph D. Sheehan, Retd
Broderick, J. C. O’Neill. William
HarHs, J. Francis^Kelly. Harold Has<-
Unga.