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SEPTEMBER 28, 1940
THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
SEVEN-A
Ohio Jurist Assails Divorce
as Primary Peril of Nation
Judge of Domestic Relations Court Says Divorce Is a
Result of Irreligion
<By N. C. W. C. News Service)
CLEVELAND.—‘ Divorce is the re
sult of irreligion.” This is the opin
ion of a jurist whose job it is to deal
with thousands of domestic tragedies
every year.
To back up his statement. Com
mon Pleas Judge Frank S. Day here,
a Catholic, has dipped into the
records of Cuyahoga County Domes
tic Relations Court and discloses that
95 per cent of the 6,000 divorce cases
filed in his court each year are
“justice of the peace marriages” gone
on the rocks. Only the remaining
five per cent are marriages perform
ed with a religious ceremony.
Assailing divorce as “the most
vicious factor in a vicious circle of
evil that will eventually destroy this
nation.” Judge Day asserted divorce
is the result “of irreligious family
life, irreligious schools, irreligious
boys and girls who grow up to be
irreligious citizens.”
Referring to marriages performed
by justices of the peace, Judge Day
asked: "What chance is there for re
ligion to'-form a part of the lives of
these people, to help them practice
the Christian virtues which make
successful marriages possible? There’s
nothing, absolutely nothing, to hold
them together when the going is
hard. Divorce is the result, another
wrecked marriage, more children to
join that great army which has been
literally orphaned by a stroke of the
judge’s pen.”
Judge Day said ‘^divorce is the
great underlying reason for decad
ence in government, because divorce
in itself shows an utter responsi
bility toward the very things that
constitute good government.” He
said “religion is the greatest force
for moral, ethical living, law enforce
ment and civilization that we have.”
“If man recognizes a Supreme Being
and abides by His laws he will not
deliberately go out and- destroy his
home, community and eventually his
nation,” he added.
Connected with Judge Day's court
is a Domestic Relations Bureau,
where attempts are made to patch
up unsuccessful marriages, and
while some reconciliations are effect
ed, the judge warns that a great deal
more will have to be done ,to check
the divorce evil. He urged, among
other things, the following: Put re
ligion back in the family and schools;
abolition of magazines in this coun
try exploiting “sloppy, irreligious
and immoral ideas about love and
marriage”; more church-going; uni
form divorce laws; a compulsory
period of waiting after a divorce be-
force another marriage can be con
tracted; and compulsory education of
marriage applicants as to their duties
to each other, their fellowir.an and
God.
“If we don’t get God back into our
national life through the family we’ll
be engulfed in the world godlessness
that is on the verge of destroying
Christian civilization in Europe,” he
said.
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MANIFESTO CIRCULATED
IN FRANCE VINDICATES
KING OF THE BELGIANS
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
LYON, France.—A manifesto being
circulated among Belgian refugees in
France has as its object the vindica
tion of King Leopold of charges of
treating with the enemy. The King
still is held a prisoner by the Ger
mans.
The manifesto quotes from a pas
toral letter of His Eminence Joseph
Cardinal Van Roey, Primate of Bel
gium; the King-’s mesage to President
ROosevelt, a statement by General Mi-
chiels, head of the Belgian Army, and
a statement by a former Cabinet
member, a Senator and the head of
the Brussels Court of Appeals, two of
whom are prominent Catholics.
“Contrary to what has been said,”
the manifesto asserts, - “the King has
not treated with the enemy. He has
not signed either a treaty or conven
tion. He merely gave the order to
cease fightin.g A treaty or conven
tion must be signed by a responsible
Cabinet member:
“The word of capitulation was given
by the chief of the General Staff.
The King has preferred the fulfill
ment of his military duty to the ad
vantage he had of leaving the coun
try. By acting thus, His Majesty has
given magnificent proof of his per
sonal valor.”
Bishop Cushing
on “Catholic Hour”
(Bv N. C. W. C. News Service)
WASHINGTON.-The Most Rev.
Richard J. Cushing, Auxiliary Bish-
of of Boston, a member of the Na
tional Board of the Society for the
Propagation of the Faith, and Arch
diocesan Director of the Society in
Boston, will conclude a series of two
addreses over the nation-wide “Cath
olic Hour” September 29, according to
an announcement by the national
headquarters here of the National
Council of Catholic Men, producer of
the broadcast.
The “Catholic Hour” is broadcast
over a network of- the National
Broadcasting Company through Sta
tion WEAF, New York.
Bishop Cushing, who has been an
active and ardent promoter of the
missions tor nearly 20 years, will
speak on the general topic, "Mission
ary Responsibility”. On September
22 his address dealt with “Misionary
Zeal, and on September 29 will deal
with “Missionary Cooperation.”
Bishop Cushing was born in South
Boston August 24, 1895. Graduated
from Boston College in 1817, he was
ordained in 1921 and with the excep
tion of a few months as curate at St.
Patrick’s Church, Roxbury, and St.
Benedict’s, East Somerville, served
for 18 years in the Society for the
Propagation of the Faith. He was
appointed Archdiocesan Director in
1929 and continues in that office to
day.
Bishop Cushing was consecrated
Auxiliary Bishop ol Boston June 29,
INVESTITURE RITES
AT RALEIGH, OCT, 6
Monsignor Freeman, Msgr.
Lynch, Raymond Streb, J.
J. Fallon to Receive Papal
Honors
RALEIGH, N. C—Two clergymen
and two laymen of the Diocese of
Raleigh will be invested with Papal
honors here on October 6, at a Pon
tifical Mass at the Sacred Heart Ca
thedral.
His Excellency the Most Rev. Eu
gene G. McGuinness, D. D., Bishop
of Raleigh, will formally invest the
Right Kev. Monsignor Arthur L
Freeman, pastor of the Holy Trinity
Church, Kinston, and Vicar General
of the Diocese of Raleigh, with the
title of Prothonotary Apostolic, a dis
tinction which is rarely conferred by
the Holy See.
Bishop McGuinness will at the same
time invest the Rev. Dennis A. Lynch,
Chancellor of the Diocese of Raleigh,
as a Papal Chamberlain, with the title
of Very Reverend MonSignor.
Papal knighthood in the Order of
St. Gregory the Great will be con
ferred on Raymond Streb and J. J.
Fallon, two of the leading Catholic
laymen of North Carolina.
On the evening of October 5, Mon
signor Freeman, Monsignor Lynch,
and the two Knights of St. Gregory
will be honored by Father Price
Council, Knights of Columbus, at a
dinner at the Sir "Walter Raleigh
Hotel.
»
War Brings New
Regulations for
German Catholics
GENEVA— The frequent Biitish
air raids over Germany, which force
a large section of the population,
especially in the industrial sections,
both in the Rhineland and in West
phalia, to spend .many hours every
night in underground shelters, have
prompted the Archiepiscopol Ordina-
riat of Cologne to issue instructions
to the clergy whereby Sunday Masses
are to be said at later hours than us
ual so the faithful can catch up on
some of the sleep lost in the course
of the W’eek.
Also Holy Communion is to be dis
pensed at all the Masses, the faith
ful being informed that solar and not
daylight saving time must be observ
ed as far as the rules of fasting are
concerned.
Another consequence of the war
in Germany is the ruling of the Holy
See, issued at the suggestion of the
German Hierarchy, whereby the
young people enrolled in Nazi labor
camps may partake of Holy Com
munion even if they cannot observe
more than three hours of fast due to
camp-discipline.
Petty measures which are now
strictly being enforced by the Nazi
regime under the pretex of the ex
isting state of war provide, among
•ether things, that pastors and priests
may not address printed or mimeo
graphed material of any kind to their
parishioners at the Trent. Only army
chaplains are allowed to distribute
reading matter among soldiers and
officers.
In the territory of what was form
erly Czecho-Slovakia all vestiges of
the former national allegiance in ihe
churches, such as memorial tablets,
etc., must be destroyed by order of
the Nazi invaders.
DESTRUCTION IN BELGIUM
LYONS— Many Belgian refugees,
who went to the unoccupied pa: ts • f
France, are returning to their native
country by special trains placed at
their disposal.
The royal children—Princess Char
lotte, Prince Baldwin and Fiince
Albert—have been brought from Lis
bon to. Brussels in a German airplane
and have rejoined their father, King
Leopold, who is confined in the
Lficken Palace.
Belgium is in an upset condition,
trade being considerably hampered
by the destruction of railroads, tele
phones and other necessary facilities.
Marks of the recent war in Belgium
are everywhere. Many Catholic,
buildings and properties were tie-*
stroyed, including such important in
structions as the Jesuit College of
Reviewers (Liege), the Jesuit Semi
nary of Eegeniiovcr? LouVain. the
famed library at the University of
Louvain, and the convent of the
Dominican Sisters at Enghein, Hain-
aut.
The Germans have accupied such
places as St. Earbara College at
Ghent. St. Michael’s College in Brus
sels, and the French Jesuit seminary
at Enghien, while the diocesan col
lege in Engheirr has been turned into
a hospital for French wounded sold
iers.
The celebrated library of the Bol- ^ y
landists, which occupies a wing of
St. Michael’s College in Brussels, to
gether with the church and jiving*
quarters of the priests, have been
untouched.
Many Belgian priests and Religious
lost their lives in the recent hostili
ties. Fourteen students of Verviers
Apostolic School and two Jesuit Bro
thers were killed and 10 students, a
priest—Father de Marneffe— wound
ed when a stream of refugees was
machine-gunned by enemy airmen.
Father Leonard Van Maldern was
killed by a bomb near Ypres while
he w*as rescuing wounded and Father
Paul B Bigot was mistaken lor a
parachutist and shot. Father Jean
Servais was killed by mistake by a
Belgian soldier. Father Merseh,
Professor of Theology at Louvain,
died from exhaustion near St. J-'ol,
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