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SEPTEMBER 28, 1940
THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
THREE—A
Mt. St. Joseph Auditorium, Augusta
Wt. St*Joseph’s Convent In Augusta is the motherhoiise of the Sisters of. St. Joseph of Carondelet for the
Province of Georgia. The Sisters conduct St.. Joseph’s Academy, including elementary grades for beys and girls
and a high school foi* girls. Above is the new Auditorium, one of the several buildings of a group which occupies
an entire block in the famed Sand Hills section of the city.
False Reports Seek
to Link Vatican
With Dictators
(By N. C. W. C. NEWS SERVICE)
NEW YORK—The suggestion that
the repeated false reports concern
ing Vatican attitudes and activities
may be put forward deliberately by
someone trying to create the im
pression “that the Church is, or
must .be, or would like to be, on the
side "of dictatorship,’’ is made in
America, Catholic review of the
week-
“The Vatican,” says America,”
reported working toward a Concor
dat with the Vichy Government. The
report was officialy denied. The
Vatican was reported seeking closer
relations with the Hitler regime. The
newspaper, the Osservatore Roma
no, was reported on the verge of
suspending publication. Publication
still goes on. A report had it that
the German Bishops in their gen
eral meeting had decided to make
no statement at this time, but await
the end of the war to thank Hitler
for all he has done for the Church
and for civilization. The report was
without foundation.
“The denials, of course, never got
the prominence of the first false re
ports, and the result is a growing
impression that the Church is, or
must be, or would like to be, in the
side of dictatorship. Conceivably,
person or persons unknown may be
using false reports to spread just
such an impression. Thinking peo
ple, of course, pay no attention these
days to reports that pretend to give
the mind of the Vatican or the direc
tion of Vatican policy. Every report
is suspect. Unthinking people, how
ever, are many, even among the ed
ucated; and one cannot help wonder
ing if there is a definite campaign
afoot to discredit the Vatican and
the Church in democratic minds.”
Phillip Keeney, Sr.
Fulton County Clerk,
Dies in Atlanta
ATLANTA. Ga. — Funeral services
for Philip Keeney, Sr., clerk at the
Fulton County Courthouse for more
than thirty years, were held from the
Church of the Immaculate Concep
tion. the Rev. Joseph R. Smith Offi
ciating.
Born in Ireland, Mr. Keeney had
beert a resident of Atlanta for half a
century, and was widely known
throughout Fulton County. He was
a member of the Knights of Colum
bus. the Holy Name Society,, the St.
Vincent de Paul Society,' and the
Elks.
He is survived by his wife; five
Manner of Wearing
Rosaries Betrays
Spies -in Nuns’ Garb
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
ST. LOUIS. — Rosaries worn on the
wrong side of the robe betrayed two
women spies attired as nuns in a
Paris railroad station last winter, Sis
ter Madeleine Morris said here, in
discussing activities of enemy agents
in France.
Sister Madeleine, who originally
came from Nashville, at the time of
the evacuation was American repre
sentative in the Paris motherhouse of
the Daughters of Charity of St. Vin
cent de Paul. She stayed at her post
sons. Philip Keeney. C. M. Keeney.
J. E. Keeney, Brady Keeney and
Vincent Keeney; four daughters, Mrs.
Slater Marshall, Mrs. John Hoffman,
Mrs. Ben Griffin and Miss Mary
Frances Keeney, and two grandchil
dren.
until the new Petain regime ordered
foreigners out of France. ' From Bor
deaux, she made her way on foot a
good part of the way, with an English
nun as her only companion, to the
Spanish border. .
The two women Tmpersonataing
nuns were detected when two Daugh
ters of Charity entered the railroad
Station. A policeman asked them if
they were acquainted with the other
pair, and the nuns were quick to de
tect the erroneous position of the
beads. The disguised agents were
quickly whisked away by the officers.
When war struck Paris in June, the
156 Daughters of Charity houses in
the city were, crowded to the doors
with refugees -from the north. The
Sisters and Red Cross nurses met the
refugee trains.
The Germans were at Paris a few
days later, and the motherhouse mov
ed to Bordeaux.
“There was no shelter,” Sister Mad-
elein said. “We went into the chapel
and prayed. We had 1,000 persons in
the Sister’s house—so crowded we d
sleep three or four hours and get up
and give our beds to someone else."
AMERICAN LEGION
HEARS ARCHBISHOP
Road Back to Christ Only
Way to Peace, Archbishop
Spellman Tells Veterans
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
BOSTON— “There is only one road
to Peace that I know of, the road
back to Christ and His teachings, in
personal life, in national life and in
international life,” the Most Rev.
Francis J. Spellman, Archbishop of
New York and Military Vicar of the
Army and Navy Diocese, declared in
an address at the opening session
here of the national convention of
the American Legion.
Telling the veterans that this road,
which he termed STS “Highroad ot
Democracy,” is marked by the sign
posts of the Ten Commandments, His
Excellency declared: "This is the
road for America to take.”
“Gathered at the rim of the ocean
it is natural that your mind should
go back in thoughtful retrospect to
that heroic embarkment of your
youth, upon the broad waters of the
Atlantic so fateful for yourselves and
so providential for our country,”
Archbishop Spellman said. “Be
yond the seas was France where bat
tle awaited you, into which you
threw the strength and courage of
your young manhood with such an
impetus as to turn the whole tide
of the war; nor did you rest until
peace was returned to the world
which at its announcement went de
lirious with joy.
CAUSES OF WAR
“When the combatants put down
their arms, historians took up the pen
to expose the origins of the san
guinary struggle, and many causes
of the war were listed in books that
have been published in the last two
decades. By these authors the World
War was explained in its beginnings
by the rivalry of nations for power
and wealth, their quest for territor
ial expansion and imperial domina
tion, their seeking of new markets,
motives, all of them, materialistic,
sordid and ignoble.
"If these were the underlying
causes of the World War you knew
nothing of them. These were not
the motives which stirred your minds
and inspired you with the will for
victory. Yours was an unselfish
crusade. You fought for pure and
high ideals. The spark that flamed
you into patriotic fervor was flashed
by the President of the United States,
and you judged it your task, what
ever thq sacrifice, to bring to accom
plishment the ardent hopes that our
Chief Executive had formulated in
matchless sentences vindicating the
inviolability of small nations, the
security of democracy and a world
rid of the threat and actuality of war.
Even though secretly mocked and
proposed by President Wilson and
by you as sincerely accepted. .
CAPTAIN PERRY MURPHY
DIES IN AUGUSTA
AUGUSTA, Ga.—Funeral services
for Captain Perry Murphy, of the
Augusta Fire Department, who died
September 24, were held from the.
Sacred Heart Church, the Rev. J. E.
O Donohoe. S. J., officiating.
Captain Murphy, who was 51 years
old, had been ill but a few days. He
served on the Mexican Border as
a member of the Richmond Hussars,
Troop K. of the National Guard of
Georgia, and as a sergeant during the
World War. Born in Clarke County,
Indiana, he had made his home in
Augusta since 189T.
He was the widower of Mrs. Irene
Hookey Murphy, and is survived by
two brothers, Jack Murphy, of Au
gusta. and Walter Murphy of Atlanta;
a sister. Miss Cadence Murphy; and
an aunt, Sister Ignatius, of Lexing
ton, Ky.
Members of the Augusta Fire De
partment formed an honorary escort
at the funeral '
DRAFT BRINGS U. S.
TO TURNING POINT,
SAYS FORDHAM HEAD
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
NEW YORK.—The Very Rev. Rob
ert I. Gannon, S. J., President of
Fordham University, warned in a na
tional broadcast against letting incon
sistent irreligious intellectuals shape
the program of training for young
men drafted into military training
under the selective service training
act.
Speaking on the tenth anniversary
program of the Columbia Broadcast
ing Systems “Church of the Air”
period, Father Gannon said “every
one recognizes that this peace-time
draft brings us to a turning point in
our history.” “It will probably re
sult in a great gain for the country,
but it may be the beginning of the
end," he declared.
“For either millions of our finest
youth, the fathers of our next gen
eration, will be given clear notions on
their real purpose in life, notions that
will not only preserve but enrich the
finest ideal of government in the.
world, or we Shall see developing
around us a fanatical nationalism and
a soulless militarism that will im
prove on any European model.
“It all depends on the use that is
made of the first page in the cate
chism. For patriotism, like the demo
cratic principle, if it is to mean any
thing, must spring from a clear grasp
of man's purpose in life; from the fact
that he is a spiritual being with a •
supernatural destiny; that his des
tiny is the only thing that matters
supremely; that everything else in the
world, including his Church and Ins'
country, is meant as a help toward
that destiny.”
Father Gannon said that country,
for which the people should be wilt-
] ing to suffer and even to die, is not
i a collection of mountains and rivers,
but “we the people . . . working
together for the good of all, the real
good, the lasting good, eternal happi
ness."
"Will these ideas then be part of
the training of our boys in patriotism
and democracy as they are called to
the colors year after year?” he asked.
"If so, then we shall have a genera
tion growing up not only sounder in
body but keener in mind and finer
in soul. Straight thinkers. Grand,
neighbors. Patriots. Servants of
God. .
“But what if the inconsistent in- ■
tellectuals are allowed to shape the
policies and the course? What if they
begin by tearing up the first page
of the catechism and saying ‘We don’t
know why man is here’ or ‘We don’t
care why man is here’ or ‘Man is here
for his own health, culture and com
fort.’
In this event, each new recruit to
the army will react according to his
temperament. The equality of man
and love of country will be phrases
to some, obsessions to others. Some
will be all for a dominant class or
a dominant race, with contempt and
hatred for everyone else. Some will
demand a blind accord with the poli
cies of the majority, no matter how
ignorant, dishonest or cruel the ma
jority may be. The cry will be ’My
country, right or wrong’. What coun
try? It doesn’t matter. The major
ity to some, the ruling class to otilers.
Working together for what? Power
to some, wealth to others, material
progress, military supremacy, i
“But what becomes of the lasting ■
happiness of families? It does not
exist. Lasting happiness involves a
belief in God. If this is what we
can anticipate in this peace-time
training for war, it might be better
business to submit to foreign con
quest here and now.”
• Father Gannon added, nevertheless,
that he had full confidence .in the
success of the national program. He
said that in reality the strength of
the country lies now, as always, in
“the common sense, the natural dig
nity and the religious conviction of
the man in the street."
“For fifty years," he said, “we have
watched certain schools and colleges
and universities trying to break him
down, trying to confuse him on»the
meaning of life, trying to substitute
emotion for reasoning, trying to befog
the issue. They have succeeded, how-’
ever, only in overcrawding the ivory
towers. The streets are as well-light
ed as ever.”
Discussing the inconsistency of
many intellectuals, Father Gannon
said that the recent New York con
ference at which Albert Einstein urg
ed in a message that the “concept of
a personal God” be abandoned, show
ed that too many influential leaders
in the world of thought “have no re
spect for common sense, have no de
sire. that is, to be consistent.”
"They have a curious weakness for
denying only fundamental truths,”
Father Gannon observed, “for se
lecting only indispensable dogmas to
store up in the attic of forgotten
things. The less important secondary
truths which depend on these funda
mentals are still in favor, though like
Mahomet’s coffin, they are floating
now in air. The typical modern still
chatters sympathetically about the
nobility of human nature, about the
necessity of defending one’s country
and the democratic principle and all
that sort of thing.’ but the first page
of the catechism on which all these
ideals finally rest is brushed aside as
superstition.”
Father Gannon said that once God
was taken out of the picture man no
longer were either free or equal.
“We enter the era of dog eat dog,
where rights and duties are deter
mined by force,” he said. 1 Ignore the
eternal destiny of man and all your
reasoning about the good, the noble,
and the true becomes purely senti
mental, a product of the einotioq,
, rather than of the intellect.” t
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