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SEPTEMBER 28. 1940 THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
VACATION SCHOOL
AT GRIFFIN CLOSES
Religious Instruction Given
Georgia Children During
Four-Week Session
NINE
(Special to The Bulletin)
GRIFFIN, Ga.—The Sacred Heart
Vacation School, of Griffin, • which
opened on August 5, with Mass cele
brated by the Rev. Joseph R. Smith,
pastor of the Immaculate Conception
Church, Atlanta, closed on Septem
ber 1. with Mass celebrated by the
Rev. Thomas P. O'Brien, C. S. V.,
who is in charge of the Mission here*
The vacation school was well atend-
ed, about twenty-five children at
tending the daily instructions, some
of them coming from a distance of
fifteen or twenty miles. The instruc
tors were Sister Mary Bernadine, R.
S. M.. and Sister Mary Kateri, R* S.
M., of St* Vincent Academy and the
Cathedral School, Savannah.
A demonstration of Catechetical
instruction given by the Sisters of
Mercy was presented for the parents
anu friends of the children attending
the school. The younger students
portrayed the parables of the Ten
Leoers and the Prodigal Son, while
the Junior High group explainer the
ceremonies of the Mass and dramat
izes incidents in the life of Berna
dette of Lourdes.
On the closing day of the school,
five of the smaller children received
First Holy Communion. Previous
to the closing all of the children were
enrolled in the Sodality of the Bless
ed Virgin Mary. Miss Mary L. Curry
was elected president, Miss Kate Mc-
Laurin, secretary.-
All of the students of the school
attended the administration of the
Sacrament of Baptism to Joy Agnes
Culter. elev nvears old, of Sunny-
side, Ga.
WOMEN’S RETREAT
AT MT. DE SALES
REV. J. E. O’DONOHOE, S. J.
Sacred Heart
REV. LEO M. KEENAN
St Patrick’s
Institute of Street Preaching
Ends Second Successful Year
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
-MUSKOGEE, Okla. — The National
Catholic Institute of Street Preachmg
just brought to a close at St. Josephs
Preparatory School here, with iuial
outdoor sessions at Tahlequah and
Checotah, saw a Bishop, 15 priests,
two seminarians and three laymen
taking part in the deliberations.
In the course of the Institute, suc
cessful outdoor meetings were held
in Fort Gibson, Checotah, Tahlequah,
Webbers Falls, in downtown Musco
gee and in Maxie Park. More than
55 talks were delivered in the four
days the Institute centered at" St.
Joseph’s here. Hundreds of questions
were answered relative to Catholic
teachings and practices. More than
3,000 copies of the Rt. Rev. Msgr. Ful
ton J. Sheen's prayerbook, “Prayers
for Our Times”, were distributed. As
many as 320 persons listened to a sin
gle lecture. On two days, groups of
priests visited the National Cemetery
near Fort Gibson and conducted me
morial services for the dead. Visits
also were made to the historical
stockade at Fort Gibson and to Sum
ner’s Ranch at Yahola, near Haskell,
Okla.
Participating in the Institute werq
the Most Rev. Albert L. Fletcher,
Auxiliary Bishop of Little Rock; the
Rt. Rev.Msgr. James P. Gaffney, Rector
of St. John's Seminary, Little Rock;
the Rev. John O'Donovan, S. S. C.,
Georgia Women in Annual
Retreat at Academy in!
Macon
REV. GEORGE LAUGEL, S. M. A.
Immaculate Conception
REV. HAROLD BARR
St. Mary’s-on-the-Hill
(Special To The Bulletin)
MACON, Ga.— The nineteenth an
nual retreat for women of the Dio
cese of Savannah-Atlanta was held
at Mt. de gales Academy here Au
gust 23-26, with the Rev. Ronald A.
. MacDonald, S. J., of Tampa, Flor
ida. as retreat-master.
Those who attended the retreat
we ' Miss Kathleen Starr, Miss Eliz
abeth Satzky. Miss Irene Pfeifer,
Mrs. R. I. Uhrbach, Miss Marvis
Keane. Mrs. E. V. Munson, Miss Mar
garet Deal. Miss Edyth Turner, Miss
Margaret Redding. Mrs. Mary Gerna-
zian. Mrs. W. R. Murray, Mrs. Lucile
Neal, Mrs. W. A. Wells, Mrs. A.W.
Chisnell, Mrs. Rosa Nassar, Atlanta;
Miss Mary Brosnan, Miss Agnes
Brosnan, Albany; Mrs. P. H. Rice,
Mrs. Nellie Bresnshan, Miss Anna
Rice, Mrs. Wofford Thompson, Mrs.
Jarp.es J. Joy, Augusta; Mrs. G. H.
Donnelly, Mrs. Regis G. Lomax. Mrs.
Wiliam J- Cassidy, Mrs. M. J. Calla-
* ban. Mrs. Charles Adams, Mrs. John
J. McBrearty, Mrs. J. P. McGould-
rick, Mrs. James C. Sanders. Mrs.
Margaret Embry, Mrs. J. H. Embry,
.Miss Mary Horne, Miss C. Brady,
Mrs. A. Huthnance, Miss Julia Mc
Creary, Miss Frances Jones, Mrs.
Duncan Brown. Mrs. W. B. Dove,
Mrs. Anastasia M. Garvin, Miss Mary
Roach. Macon; Miss Mary F. Miles,
Mrs. Regis O. Tarver. Savannah; Mrs.
R. W. Hatcher, Mrs. Y. A. Little, Miss
Eernice Fleury, Milledgeville; Miss
Daisy L. Renfroe. Abbeville; Miss
Sue Mixon, Mrs. B. J. O Brien, Val
dosta: Mrs. Claude Foster, Miss Nan
nie Valeir, LaGrange; Mrs. Jane Oli
ver, Lithia Springs: and Mrs. John B.
Greene, Upper Darby, Pa.
Parish Is Center of Catholic
Life Says Apostolic Delegate
His Excellency the Most Rev. Amleto Giovanni Cicogna-
ni Delivers Discourse at Celebration of 37 5th Anni
versary of Founding of First North American Parish
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(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
ST. AUGUSTINE' — The impor
tance of the parish, t‘he center of
Catholic life and the normal point
of contact between Christ and the
faithful,” was stressed by His Excel
lency the Most Rev. Amleto Giovan-
ni Cicognani, Apostolic Delegate to
the United States in an address deliv
ered at a reception in the civic center
in connection with the 375th anni
versary of the founding of -it. Au
gustine.
Hailing as ‘‘indeed an unusual
event” the celebrations marking the
375th anniversary of the establish
ment of the City of St. Augustine,
coinciding with the establishment of
the first Catholic parish on the North
American Continent, Archbishop Ci-
sognani said he would leave to others
the historical and other aspects of
the occasion, and for his part “speak
of a particular phase of today s so
lemnity, that of the parish, whose
normal and religious significance
transcends its own limits and consti
tutes in itself an institution of prime
importance.”
The Apostollic Delegate said that
“to speak of parish life here today
is to focus attention on the bene
ficent work” of the late Bishop Pat
rick Barry of St. Augustine “as cu
rate, parish priest and Bishop.”
ORIGIN OF PARISH
Beginning with a discussion of the
origin of the parish, Archbishop Ci
cognani spoke as follows:
“Its primacy is that of prayer and
of the spirit. There are today in the
United States 18,733 churches, parish
es and missions. Certainly there were
churches and parishes in the terri
tory that is now the United States
before the establishment of the Am
erican Catholic Hierarchy in 1789.
They were under the ecclesiastical
jurisdiction of London, Quebec, Mex
ico and Cuba. Among all of them
whether founded before or after the
establishment of American dioceses,
this parish of St. Augustine is the
first example and the model of that
unit which is the center of Catholic
Life and the normal point of con
tact between Christ and the faithful.
Hence the lofty significance of to
day’s religious celebration.
“The parish is in fact ^hat definite
territory with a church under the
direction of a priest, to which the
faithful of that area belong. In that
priest, they recognize their father,
their benefactor, their counsellor and
their guide in life. However various
ly he may be called among different
peoples, the priest is most fittingly
and affectionately called ‘Father’ —
the father of the souls entrusted to
him. Although the word ‘parish’, de
rived from the Greek, signifies ‘a
dwelling nearby/ he who is in
charge of a parish, must live within
it, as lives the shepherd with his
flock.
Vice-Superior of the Columban Fath
ers, Omaha; the Very Rev. Daniel H.
Conway, S. J.. Rector of St. Mary’s
College, St. Mary’s, Kans; the Rev.
Dr. Stephen A. Leven, of Tonkawa
and Blackwell, Okla.; the Rev. Co-
well O’Neill, of Ottawa, Kans., Direc
tor of Catholic Rural Life of the Di
ocese of Leavenworth; the Rev.
Charles Bus well, of Tonkawa, Okla.;
the Rev. Valerian Berger, O. S. B.. of
Burlington. Ia.; the Rev. Richard
Wersing, C. S. Sp., of Tulsa; the Rev.
Aloysius Lisco, of Blackwell, PRia.;
the Rev. Vernon Johnson, on Enid,
Okla.; the Rev. Auguset P. Koeperich,
Director of the Confranternity of
Christian Doctrine for the Diocese
of Concordia; the Rev. Paul V.
Brown, of Muskogee; the Rev. Thom
as Green, of Caldwell, Kans.!; the
Rev. Thomas Glynn, Director of the
Confraternity of Christian Doctrine
for the Diocese of Wichita; th«^ Rev.
Joseph B. Campbell, of Muskogee;
Anthony Isenbart. of Alva, and Ner-
bert Luecke, of Okenee, Okla., semi
narians; John J. Craig, of Tulsa, Na
tional Director of Catholic Ediv-ence
Guilds; Jack Kinsey, of Muscogee,
and William Craig, of Tulsa.*
This was the second National Insti
tute to be held this year in Musco-
kee Catholic Missions parish. The
first Institute was held in July when
over 60 talks were given to non-Cath-
olics in Haskell, JHTagoner, Eufaula,
Webbers Falls and Tahlequah.
Frank C* Walker, a Catholic,
Becomes Postmaster General
Successor to James A. Far
ley Is Eighth Catholic to
Serve in Cabinet
were those of dioceses, with a Bishop
at the head. The Apostles and many
of the first Bishops had spread the
gospel going from place to place. But
to consolidate and intensify their
apostolic work, it became necessary
to mark off territories and people. In
this manner dioceses came into be
ing. For the same reason, that is, to
intensify and deepen the spiritual
life of the faithful — further limita
tions and divisions were made, and
thus parishes came into existence.
Previously, the Bishop had been the
only parish priest in a city. But be
yond the city, there was the country
side. where many Christians resided.
Oddly enough country - folk were
more inclined to pagan superstition
than city - dwellers and conse
quently had great need- of having the
gospel preached to them. Hence the
first parishes were in the country.
Later on, with the growth of cities
and the increase of the faithful, they
were established there also.
“We call the church ^Mother’ be
cause tt is her role to give to her
children the life of grace, to educate
and instruct them, to nourish thetn
with the teachings of Christ, to feed
them with the Bread of Eucharist, to
sustain them amid life's hardships, to
recall them to duty if they are way
ward, and to assist them when they
are troubled in spirit. Just as our
earthly mother has need of a home
in which to fulfill her role, so also
does the Church. For this reason she
has chosen the parish as the place in
which to fulfill her mother role. There
the priest, living with his people, as
though in a- family, learns to know
them, and to provide for their needs
in such a way. however, as to make
the parish like home itself . .
PAROCHIAL LIFE
“The great legislator and restorer
of parish life was the sacred Council
of Trent. Promulgated but a year be
fore the foundation of this first par
ish of America, it made parish life
the center of that magnificent re
ordering of discipline among the
clergy and faithful. Here is the sort
of life that, as a result, came to be
established in this Parish as in all
others. The pastor must reside within
his parish. Every Sunday he should
preach the word of God. not things
profane or irrelevant to religion,
however learned they may be. He
must give catechetical instruction,
teach piety without any shade of sup
erstition. The basis of that piety must
be the Mass and /the Eucharist. He
must exercise a kindly vigilance over
moral abuses; nor be intimidated in
the giving of his precepts. The shep
herd of souls as the ‘pattern of the
flock from the heart’ (1 Peter V, 3),
should always be able to say to his
parishioners: ‘My children, of whom
I • am in labor again, until Christ be
formed in you’ (Galatians, IV, 19).
They in turn ‘beloved sons in faith'
(Special to The Bulletin)
WASHINGTON.—With his appoint
ment as Postmaster General of the
United States, announced by Presi
dent Roosevelt at his . Hyde Park
home. Frank C. Walker becomes the
eighth Catholic to serve in a Presi
dent’s cabinet since the founding of
this country. He is the 319th Cabinet
officer named in the history of the
United States.
It is also notable that Mr. Walker,
former treasurer of the Democratic
National Committee “and former
Chairman of the National Emergency
Council, is the third Catholic to serve
in a Cabinet post under the present
Chief Executive. In fact, President
Franklin D. Roosevelt has named
four Catholics to his cabinet—nearly
one-half of all the Catholics who
have been named to such office. Sen
ator Thomas J. Walsh, of Montana,
named Attorney General before
President R’oosevelt's first inaugura
tion, in 1933, died before he took the
oath of office.
Among the 319 Cabinet officers this
country has known, three others be
came Catholics after serving as ad
visers to the Chief Executive. At
least two others were known to have
been baptized Catholics but were not
considered Catholics at the time of
their nomination or service in the
Cabinet. . , _ .
Mr. Walker will be the th'rd Catho
lic to hold the office of Postmaster
General. . He will be the first Cath
olic to succeed another Catholic in a
Cabinet office.
Frank Comerford Walker was born
at Plymouth. Pa.. May 30, 1886, the
son of David and Ellen (Comerford.
Walker. He was educated at Gon-
zaga University, which he attended
from 1903 to 1906. and at the Univer
sity of Notre Dame, from which he
received the degree of Bachelor of
Laws in 1909. He.was admitted to
practice before the Montana bar in
1909, and was Assistant Attorney of
Silver Bow County, Mont, from 1909
to 1912, and was elected a member of
the Montana Legislature in 1913. He
was a first lieutenant in the World
War.
Mr. Walker became Treasurer of
the Democratic National Committee
in 1932, later resigning the office. He
became Executive Secretary of the
President's Executive Council in 1933.
and Chairman of the National Emer
Catholic Welfare
Work Is Theme of
Film Production
As a matter of fact, the first ter- (I Tim. I, 2), should show him sin
ritorial, divisions made in the church cere affection and obedience.
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
LOS ANGELES.—The .trial.-,-, of a
typical .Catholic family in times of
misfortune and the manner in -which
they are met through the aid p£ the
social agencies of the Church form
the theme of “We Meet Human
Needs”, first color motion picture of
Catholic welfare activities whicji, was
previewed here this week.
Featured in the three-reel film are
Jeanette MacDonald, who sing’s Gou
nod’s “Ave Maria”, and her husband,
Gene Raymond, who narrates tl»e
story dealing with the Church in so
cial action.
The production was filmed- with the
approval and under the supervision
of the Most Rev. John J. Cantwell,
acting through the Rt. Rev. “Msgr.
Thomas J. O'Dwyer of the Catholic
Charities Bureau, under whose aus
pices it will be distributed through
out the United States. Costs qf pro
duction were donated by an anony
mous Catholic layman.
Drama is woven about the simple
story of an ordinary Catholic family
which has seen the seamy side' Of life
in such a manner as to portray the
activities of all the family welfare,
child welfare and health agencies of
the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, The
Church in social action is phown
meeting the problems of soul and
body, from maternity and day homes
to institutions where aged men and
women are "cared for in the twilight
of life.
The special fields of the Confrater
nity of Christian Doctrine and the
Catholic Youth Movement are por
trayed and defined in the film ag one
of the functions of hospitals, clinics,
and health agencies, the activities in
behalf of neglected and dependent
children and problem bovs an<J girls
as well as the work for the poor, the
sick, the orphaned and the 1 aged,
whether individuals or families,,
RAJKOT COLLEGE, owned by the
State of Rajkot on the Kathiawar
Peninsula, has been placed under the
management of the Society of, Jesus
beginning with this academic year.
Thakur Saheb. ruler of the State; is a
Hindu in religion
the latter office to return to private
business. In addition to being a mem
ber of the firm of Walker and Walker
since 1914. Mr. Walker has been ac-
Theatres, Inc., and other interests.
He is a trustee of the University of
anu LlldUllldU VJi. U1C t acat. IV/IUJ.L “ , . - . . - c
gency Council in 1935. He resigned Notre Dame and the University of
.. ... . , . to C TKo rTmi/oreitir rtf Alflhro
tive in the direction of Comerford er in 1934.
Scranton. The University of Notre
Dame and the Montana School of
Mines conferred the honorary de
gree, Doctor of Laws upon Mr. Walk-
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