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SEPTEMBER 28, 1940 THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA THREE News Review of the Catholic World Prominent Catholics Participate in CBS “Church of the Air” NEW YORK, N. Y. — Prominent Catholic leaders have appeared re cently and others are scheduled for addresses in early broadcasts of the Columbia Broadcasting System’s “Church of the Air” period. On Sunday, September 1, the Rev. Daniel A. Lord, S. J., National Di rector of the Sodality and Editor of The Queen’s Work, delivered the af ternoon sermon. On September 22, the Most Rev. Francis J. Spellman. Archbishop of New, York, extended greetings to the “Church of the Air” broadcast, while the Rev. Robert I. Gannon, S. J.. President of Ford- ham University, gave the regular discourse. The Right Rev. Monsignor Fulton J. Sheen, of the Catholic University of America, will speak in the broad cast of October 27. The Columbia Broadcasting Sys tem marked the tenth anniversary of the program last month. MOST REV. FRANCIS J. SPELL MAN. Archbishop of New York, was the luncheon guest of President Franki in D- Roosevelt recently at the latter’s family home at Hyde Park, N. Y. The Archbishop was the only caller on the President’s schedule for that day. The previous week Archbishop Spellman lunched with Wendell L Willkie. Republican nominee for the Presidency. THE SOCIETY OF JESUS has 26.309 members in 1,531 houses, divided into 56 provinces and vice-provinces throughout the world. These figures are given in Civilta Cattclica, organ of the Jesuits in Rome, in connection with the Aposto lic Letter which His Holiness Pope Pius XII has addressed to the So ciety of Jesus on the occasion of the fourth centenary of the canonical approbation of the Society. REPORTS THAT GERMAN BISHOPS, at their Fulda meeting just held, adopted “a solemn pledge of loyalty to Adolf Hitler” and gave expressions of “gratitude” to the Ger man army, are definitely to be re garded as spurious, according to in formed opinion in Geneva- It is further asserted that these re ports have been spread for obvious purposes by interested parties. Fur ther more it is learned reliably that Ihe Holy Father addressed a letter to the meeting the tenor of which precluded entirely any such resolu tion as the interested sources now intimate was passed. REY. E. J. BYRNE, professor of Sacred Scripture at St. Bernard’s Seminary, Rochester, was elected president of the Catholic Biblical Association of America at the fourth general meeting held in Toronto. A CONTEST on the best program put out by a club, class or school under the general head, “We Catholics and Our Country”, is being conducted by the Catholic Action Program Ser vice of the Social Action Department, Notional Catholic Welfare Confer ence. Washington- The contest, which will close March 1, 041. is open to all classes and clubs in educational institutions sub scribing to the Catholic Action Pro gram Service. MEMBERS OF THE HIERARCHY, distinguished priests and persons prominent in civil life are taking part in the exercises being held at Xavier University, Cincinnati, Sept. 22-29. The ceremonies will inaugurate the observance of the 400th anniversary of the- establishment of the Society of Jesus and the 100th anniversary of Jesuit service in Xavier institutions in Cincinnati- RELICS of the North American Martyrs and St. Francis de Sales will be sealed in the altar stone when the Queen of the Holy Rosary Cathedral is dedicated in Toledo. October 1 and 2. It is believed that the Queen of the Holy Rosary Cathedral will be the firs* cathedral church in the na tion to house relics of the North American Martyrs. ALTHOUGH GERMAN bombers had ranged over London all night until dawr. Sunday morning, the early morning Masses at all churches were attended by capacity congregations joining in the observance of the Na tion d Day of Prayer. In one River side* parish prayers and Mass were offered up in a bomb-shattered church with part of the congregation kneel ing in the open. DR JOSEPH C- MENENDEZ, elevated to the post of Commander- in--Chief of the v eterans o Foreign Wars of the United States at the 41st national encampment hela in Los Angeles has achieved distinc tion in the field of Catholic social action During the World War. after see ing service at Camp Jackson, S. C„ Dr Menendez was sent overseas to take charge of the American-Italian Fiel' Hospital at Vicenza, Italy. THE MOST REV. ALBERT JEROME DROSSAERTS. first Arch bishop of San Antonia, died Septem ber 3th. following a heart attack. Archbishop Drossaerts died within PRIEST-HERO HAS HIS DAY Paying his first visit to Washington, D C., the Rev. Francis X. Quinn, assistant pastor of the Church of the Guardian Angel. New York City, went to the White House to receive fronl President Roosevelt a gold medal bestowed upon him by the Congress of the United States for valor Ignoring his own safety. Father Quinn scaled a fire escape to save the lives of an elderly couple held hostages by an armed desperado cornered in a New York apart ment. Looking on. as President Roosevelt bestows the medal, are Representative James H Fay of New York City, Senator James M Mead of New York and Representative Michael J Kennedy of New York City, who introduced the Resolution by which Congress be stowed the medal (NC.WC. t Southern Conference of the South Publishes Its First Pamphlet The Cat.f^jiic Conference of the South, which was organized at the Southern Conference on Catholic Ac tivities, which was held in Atlanta in April of this year, and whase purpose is to unify and coordinate Catholic endeavor in the Southland, has published the first of a number of pamphlets which will be distrib uted throughout the South. This first pamphlet of the C. C. S. Service is entitled “The South Cath olic Discovers Itself,” and its author is the Reverend Francis J. Byrne, S. T. D., Diocesan Superintendent of Schools, Richmond Virginia. and first appeared in The Catholic Vir ginia, the official organ of the Dio cese of Richmond. Father Byrne begins his pamphlet with \yords spoken by the Most Rev erend Gerald P. O’Hara, Bishop of Savannah-Atlanta, at the Second An nual National Social Action Con ference in Cleveland last June: 'You have heard President Roosevelt say that the South is the country's No. 1 economic problem. Let me say to you that the South is the Church’s No. 1 religious opportunity. He then goes on to quote from an article by the Reverend Wilfred Par son, S. J.. which appeared in the Augusta issue of Columbia, the Knights of Columbus magazine, in which Father Parsons said: "Two large gatherings struck me as of par ticular significance. They were de voted to the Industrial South and the Agricultural South. . . Out of them the discussions of the Congress.” The pamphlet states that the estab lishment of the movement was due in great part to the tireless efforts of the Right Reverend Monsignor T. James McNamara, of Savannah, who is the Chairman of the Executive Board of the Catholic Conference of the South, and to Paul D. Williams, of Richmond, its Executive Secre tary with the active support and en couragement of Bishop O'Hara; the Most Rev Peter I. Ireton, Coadjutor Bishop of Richmond; the Most Rev. Emmet M. Walsh, Bishop of Charles ton; and the Most Rev. Robert E. Lucey, Bishop of Amarillo, Texas. There is a brief outline of the pro ceedings of the meeting in Atlanta, with comment on talks made by the Rev. Dr. John F. Cronin, S. S.. of St. Mary’s Seminary, Baltimore; the Rev. James F. Cunningham, who' is in charge of the Paulist Fathers’ Chapel Car in Tennessee; the Rev. Joseph G. Cassidy, director of the Trailer Chapel of the Diocese of Savannah- Atlanta; the Rev. Arthur W. Ter- minello, director of Saint Theresa Village, in Alabama, and the Rev. George Lewis Smith; of Aiken, who described the settlement work in the Horse Creek Valley section of South Carolina. The pamphlet’s author also com ments upon discussion of the Negro problem by the Most Rev. Thomas J. Toolen, Bishop of Mobile; Sister Peter Claver, M. S. SS. T.. the late John P. Grace, of Charleston; Stephens Mitchell and Miss Sarah Fahy, of At lanta. Mention is also made of addresses made by the Rev. C. C. McIntyre. O. M. I, of Sumter, S.-C.; the Rev. Vin cent D. Warren, of the Josephite Fathers in Mobile; the Rev. Andrew C. Smith, S. J., of Spring Hill; Sister Carmelita. C. S. J.. of Atlanta, ,.nd a number of others including Dr. Eva Ross, of New York; and Edward J. Heffron. executive secretary of the National Council of Catholic Men. A copy ot this pamphlet, which should be of interest to every Cath olic in the South, may be obtained by writing the Executive Headquart ers of the Catholic Conference of the South. 810 East Grace Street, Rich mond, Virginia. For those who would be interested in further details of the meeting held in Atlanta, a copy of proceedings of the Atlanta confer ence are available, from the same source, the cost of the latter being one dollar. Atanta Editor Pays Beautiful Tribule to Dominican Sisters three days of his seventy-eighth birth day MOST REV. JOHN J. CANTWELL, Archbishop of Los Angeles, speaking in commemoration of the Centennial celebration of the establishment of the Hierarchy in California, and in connectioi. with the Sixth National Congress of the Confraernity of Christian Doctrine, will be heard from noon until 12:15 p. m , Eastern Stan dard Time, over NBC-Red Network, Sunday. October 13. Archbishop Cant well wil discuss “The Youth of the Nation”. ECONOMIC RADICALS are least common among Catholics of any gtoup in the United States, accord ing to a survey conducted by Profes sor Goodwin Watson, of Columbia University, New York, and reported by him to the American Psycological Association in session at State Col lege, Pa. WITHDRAWAL from the American Youth Congress because its ethics proved “so flagrantly in opposition to its highest ideals” was voted by the National Council of Methodist Youth in meeting at /inona Lake. Ind. The National Council of Methodist Youth said the American Youth Con gress had undergone changes whose “nature and direction” were “dan gerous to the cause whihe the Con gress purposed to serve". REV- KELVIN NOYVLAN, S. J., ptofessor of mathematics at Spring Hill College, Mobile, has recently ce ebrated his fiftieth anniversary as a member of the Society of Jesus. Most of his life since ordination has has been spent in teaching in the of the Society in Alabama, Louisiana and Florida. MOST REV. GEORGE GAUTHIER, third Archbishop of Montreal, died August 31. at the age of 69. Spiritual leader of the largest Ca tholic diocese in Canada, and one of the largest on the continent, he was a native son of the see which numbers nearly 900-000 Catholics. A total of 1,400 priests, diocesan and members of religious communities, came under his jurisdiction. REV EDWARD C. PHILLIPS, S. J., has been named Dean of the Grad uate School of Georgetown Univer— sity, succeeding the Rev- Wilfrid Parsons S. J., who has joined the faculty of the Catholic University oi America. REPORTS PUBLISHED in certain secular newspapers stating that LOsservatore Romano was likely to abandon publication have been of ficially denied in Vatican City. THE UNIVERSALITY of the Catho lic Church will be strikingly illus trated during the commemoration of the centenary of the foundation of the California Hierarchy in Los An geles by the concelebration of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass in the Syrian, old Russian and Greek tongues while Melkiles, Russian Poles. Irish and Anglo-Saxons assist as ministers and representatives of the Latin and Scandinavian races participate in response led by a choir under the direction of a native of the Ukraine- WITH THE AGE LIMITS fixed at "21 and 35 years, inclusive, it is expect ed that a total of 16,500,000 individuals will register under the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940 as it finally passed Congress. “Regular or duly ordained ministers of religion, and students who are pre paring for the ministry in the theolog ical or divinty schools recognized as such for more than one year prior to the date of the enactment” of the Act will have to register if they are with in the age limits, but are exempt from training and service under the Act. A MANIFESTO being circulated among Belgian refugees in France has as its object the vindication of King Leopold of charges of treating with the enemy. The King is still held a prisoner by the Germans. The manifesto quotes from the let ter from His Eminence Joseph Cardi nal Van Roey, Primate of Belgium; the King's message to President Roosevelt; a statement by General Michiels, head of the Belgian Army, and ;. statement by a former cabinet member, a senator and the head of the Brussels Court of Appeal, two of whom are prominent Catholics. THEODORE McMANUS, automo bile advertising executive and prom inent Catholic lay leader, died Sep tember 11 at his summer home in Sudbury, Ohio. Mr. McManus was intimately iden tified with the growth of the auto mobile industry having served at va rious times as director of publicity and advertising counsel for Ford, General Motors, Peerless. Hupmobile, Chrysler, Dodge Brothers, Packard and other firms. He was named a Knight Command er of St- Gregory the Great by His Holiness Pope Pius XI in 1928 and a Knight of Malta in 1931. He was ap- p-inted a trustee of the Catholic Uni- v- sity of Peiping, China, and pro vided an endowment fund for the National Catholic Alumni Federation. AMONG MESSAGES from a num ber of church personalities of va rious denominations made public by the National Emergency Committee of tlii. Military Training Camps Asso ciation is one from the Most Rev. James H. Ryan, Bishop of Omaha, favoring compulsory military training and service. “As a citizen”, says Bishop Ryan’s message, I favor the selective mili tary draft because I consider it the only fair, democratic and. above all, realistic method of preparing to meet the probability of attack on our lib erties and institutions.” ECCLESIASTICAL AND LAY LEADERS from every part of the country will join social welfare dele- gr .as at the annual convention of the National Conference of Catholic Charities to be held in Chicago. No vember 17-20. The convention will be held in conjunction with the annual meeting of the Superior Court of the St. Vincent de Paul Society. Under the title of “Our Lady of Perpetual Help,” Ralph McGill, Ex ecutive Editor of The Atlanta Consti tution, devoted his “One Word More” column in a recent issue of that newspaper to an inspiringly beautiful tribute the Servants for the Relief of Incurable Cancer, the order of Domi nican Nuns who operate Our Lady of Perpetual Help Cancer Home in At lanta- Mr. McGill is a Mason, a member of '.he Presbyterian Church, and one of the South's outstanding newspaper editors. His column for Thursday, September 19, in its entirety; “OUR LADY OF PERPETUAL HELP” Ours is a large city but not large enough to have the roar of a great city. Yet there is roar enough to deafen us to some things- Ours is a beautiful city, yet it does not glitter with minarets or towers of polished steel and glistening stone. Yet, it glit ters enough to blind us to some tilings. About 40 years ago in New York the daughter of Nathaniel Hawthorne came upon an old person near death from cancer. Call it what you will, God or impulse, something caused that woman, beautiful and cultured to install herself in two small rooms. In one she placed the person who was near death from cancer. It was a help less person, penniless, and in a home where no treatment or help could be given. She began to give medicine and alleviate pain. When the time came for the soul of that person to quit the body and go out on the tide of eternity, there was another woman helping the daughter of Nathaniel Hawthorne. Rose Huber, an art student in New York, read about what the daughter of the great writer had done. Call it what you will, God or impulse, she went to see her because something said in her mind, “I wonder if there is not something in this that I can do?” Yesterday in the quiet office of the hospital in Atlanta called “Our Lady of Perpetual Help,” I talked for a brief while with a great woman- For ty years have touched her lightly. There is something in her face which only the faces of those who have wis dom and faith may have. Today she is Mother Rose, the young art student of 40 years ago. now become head of an order with few peers and no superior in Christian service. “The Servants for the Relief of Incurable Cancer,” branch of the Dominician Order. The order is, of course, a Catholic order- They are servants of the dy ing and not of any sect. To the clean, wholesome beds of the hospital wards come many patients. Most of them are of the Protestant faith. Some few are of the Catholic faith. A few are of no faith at all. They come to this hospital from shacks in rural slums ir isolated farms. There are wards for those of both our races. Most of them come afraid, watch ing with staring eyes the sisters in the habits of their order. Some, in their ignorance, have heard the words of demagogues and used their ignor ance to make a fearful bugagoo of the Catholic faith. All come to attain a serenity which is touching and astounding. All of them move inexorably toward the last day or night, the last minute of life, with a calm and even cheerful resignation which is an answer to many questions. There has never been a finer or more noble group of women than these sisters of the Catholic faith who give their lives to the care of the poor and the sick. And it seemed to me, coming from the quiet serenity of that hospital of perpetual help for the perpetual ar rival of the incurable sufferers from cancer, that perhaps these who give their lives to those without hope of life, perhaps will merit better than anyone else that best of epitaphs, “Well done, thou good and faithful servant.” They care each year for hundreds, taking only the most helpless cases It seemed to me on leaving them and the great woman who is head of their order and their hospitals, that a great many persons, wanting some worthy charity to assist, might think of this one which has hot asked for help and which does not seek it in the market places,, believing always God will pro vide. A doctc once described sarcoma as a beautiful and yet horrible flower, spreading its tendrils throughout the body and then devouring it. It comes to persons of all degrees of age and position. When it comes to those who live in complete poverty they move inexorably toward the same conclusion as others. But not as comfortably. The doors of the hospital, “Our Lady of Perpetual Help,” are open to those who have an incurable cancer and who are penniless and without help. This hospital is a sort of bridge. It takes a person who is to die. It puts th person in a clean bed, it gives treatment, it alleviates that person's pain, it cheers him while alive, it cleanses the horror of h ; reeking sores, it sends him to Death's door end into the door- Since the time Nathaniel Haw thorne’s daughter began to care for that first patient, devoured by the dreadful flower of sarcoma, there have been established five such hos pitals. They exist entirely through volun tary contributions. They are not en dowed. The sisters there do all the work. They bandage and clean the terrible wounds. They wash the clothes, the sheets, they do the work of nurses, of servants. They are there when the time comes for all that is mortal of man to breathe its last. They are nurses, servants, comforters, and their smiling faces are the last faces the dying person sees before they slip away into what waits beyond. It restores one’s faith in humanity to see them at work. Here, while the world destroys itself, is a harbor where the wrecks of poverty and sar coma may rest a while before the final tide- Here are women who give their lives to these wrecks of poverty and of sarcoma. Their faces show the work is good.