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OCTOBER 26, 3940
THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN'S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
NINETEEN
Secular Daily Condemns Baptist
Paper y s Slur on Pope y s Peace Efforts
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
JACKSON, Miss.—The Daily News,
secular paper here, has taken to task
the Baptist Record, also published
here, for an editorial that charged
the only kind of peace the Pope will
work for is one that will be of inter
est to the Catholic Church, and in
timated the United States might be
come a catspaw for the Pope.
Under the head, “Slandering a
Church," the Daily News said:
"The following appears on the edi
torial page of the current issue ot
The Baptist Board: 'The news dis
patches tell us there has been an
ominous silence from officials in
Washington and Mr. Myron C. Taylor
as to the results of his efforts to co
operate with the pope in peace plans.
The truth is that about as near noth
ing has been done as possible, and
people are beginning to see that the
pope will work for no peace except
such as shall be in the interest of
the Catholic Church. It will be a bad
day for the United States when we be
come a cat’s paw for the pope to
pull his chestnuts out of the fire.’
"That Is nasty, unfair and untrue.
“Pope Pius, tike his p:
during the World War, has been a
sincere speaker for peace. His ap
peals to the nations of Europe will
go down in history as classics of earn
est and eloquent literature. That they
have fallen on deaf ears is not his
fault.
“The assertion that “the Pope will
work for no peace except such as
will be in the interest of the Cath
olic Church’ could emanate only
from an ignorant and bigoted mind
filled with hatred for a great branch
of the Christian fath.
“As for Myron Taylor, a Christian
gentleman and a great patriot, he
performed his work to the best of his
ability, at his own expense, and al
most at the sacrifice of his life. He
was critically ill in Rome for sev
eral months. On returning to the
United States, weak and emaciated,
Mr. Taylor made his report to the
President and his mission was ended.
“Also it is not amiss to 'tell the
Editor of the Baptist Record that it
is the custom among all educated
writers to Spell ’Pope’ with a capital
WORLD’S NEED OF POPE
IN PRESENT CRISIS CITED
BY GALVESTON BISHOP
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
GALVESTON.—Just as the Saviour
had need of a Pope to guide His
Church in its earliest days the world
today needs the Pope to lead the
fight against the forces which seek to
destroy Christian teaching and civil
ization itself, the Most Rev. Christo
pher E. Byrne, Bishop of Galveston,
declared in a sermon in St. Mary's
Cathedral.
Bishop Byrne spoke at the investi
ture ceremony of four members of
the clergy of this diocese who were
raised to the rank of Monsignor.
‘Just as the Master came glorious
ly from the tomb, the papacy rises in
the person of Pope Pius XII, above
the prejudices and the intolerenace of
our time, and stands today in honor
and renown, before the world. Please
God, continuining our prayers for
peace in union with Pope Pius XII,
the world may soon realize that again
its need is Christ’s need, the Pope,
the successor qf St. Peter, the R’ock
against which, in spite of all the ruin
about, the gates of hell have not pre
vailed.’’
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Nuns Aid Draft Registration
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Parochial school buildings in the county and City of Mobile were
among the places used for registration of men under the Selective
Service Act. Pictured are (upper photo) some of the Sisters being
sforn in as registrars, and (below) a scene at St. Vincent’s School,
Mobile, on National Registration Day. (N.C.W.C.)
Absence of Religion From Schools
Seen as Threat to National Life
Arcbbishop Mooney in Columbps Day Address Declares
America’s Defense Program "a Commonsense Move
for Self-Protection”
“Raleigh’s Largest and Finest Hotel”
RALEIGH. N. C.
ROLAND A. MUM FORD, Manager.
Pure refreshment
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
DETROIT. — The vast national de
fense program of the United States
is “only a commonsense move for
self-protection in what is fast be
coming a bully’s world,” but this
country must hew closely to “a high
ly cultivated sense of right and
wrong” to avoid becoming a bully
itself, declared the Most Rev. Edward
Mooney, Archbishop of Detroit, at a
Knights of Columbus banquet here.
Giving the principal address at the
dinner, held in anticipation of Co
lumbus Day. to a throng of prominent
guests, Archbishop Mooney asserted
that America has need, as has the
whole world, of this sense of right
and wrong, citing “the general lack of
systematic cultivation of the sense
of right and wrong” as ‘ the most dan
gerous symptom in American life to
day.”
Saying that while “the American
way of doing things” is "a tradition
based on the principles of right and
wrong.” His Excellency asked how
long the tradition will last “without
a general and systematic inculcation
of these principles in the rising gen
eration” and without it “how much
of that tradition is already weaken
ed.” He asserted that such training
ing can be achieved only “by for
mal education that is part of the
school training which a child re
ceives.” This, he added, is “to make
an invavuable contribution to the
permanance of a nation conceived in
liberty which represents for us
the crowning result of the work of
Columbus.” He feared that the pres
ent religionless schools of the coun
try are a threat to the maintenance
of America’s free institutions.
“The magnificent venture of Co
lumbus which opened up a vast area
to European colonization suggests to
my mind.” said the Archbishop, “an
other magnificent venture which cli
maxed the era of European coloniza
tion M?n this continent, and gave to
the world what Lincoln, in unforget
table phrase, has termed: ‘a new na
tion. conceived in liberty and dedi
cated to the proposition that all men
are created equal.’
“Like the venture of Columbus, it
was apparently bom of the circum
stances of the time. It was the gen- •
ius of the men who made it that gave
this political venture its distinctive
character. It was new and bold in
this: that for the first time in history
it set up a government on an explicit
and formal recognition of certain in
alienable rights that no government
can abrogate and of the proposition
that governments derive their just
powers from the' consent of the gov
erned.
"It would be an exaggeration to say
that this was a new political philos
ophy; in fact ,it was publicly taught
in a Roman University by a Jesuit
philosopher and theologian in lectures
that were published in 1576, just two
hundred years before the Declaration
of Independence. But the solemn
declaration of the Founding Fathers
was the first formal and written rec
ognition of these fundamental prin
ciples in the establishment of a na
tion.
DEVOTION TO AN IDEAL
"This summary statement of an
outstanding historical fact suggests
two reflections which 1 would briefly
put before you. The first is that
the origin of our nation on the basis
of the formal acceptance of these
democratic principles of government
gives a new and distinctive charac
ter to American patriotism. In old
er countries, patriotism is colored to
a far greater extent by values that
are sentimental, by love of the land,
by reverence for monuments that
dot the countryside and express a
traditional culture, and by pride in
historical achievements that make a
nation’s glory.
N.C.C.W. Deanery
Meeting Held in
Anderson, S. C.
ANDERSON, S. C^The Fall meet
ing of the Greenville Deanery of the
Charleston Diocesan Council of the
National Council of Catholic Women
was held here September 30, at the
home of Mrs. Joseph Lyons, with the
Anderson Council of Catholic Women
as hostesses. There were forty rep
resentatives of the various councils
present.
Mrs- C. M. McClure presided and
the meeting was addressed by the
Rev. Henry L. Spiesman, pastor of
St. Joseph's Church." In the course
of the regular business session, Mrs.
Carroll Magarahan, Diocesan Presi
dent. urged all members to attend
the Diocesan convention in Columbia.
After five years of service on the
Anderson Missions, the Rev. Charles
J- Baum, who was leaving for, his
new assignment in Columbus, said
a word of farewell.
Miss Mary Slattery, of Washington,
D. C„ a former Deanery President,
gave an informal talk, which was
followed by an address on Catholic
Action in Upper South Carolina, by
the Rev. Thomas F. Tierney, C- S. P.,
stationed at Clemson.
After those present were- enter
tained by Mrs. Lyons, with several
piano selections, a buffet supper waa
served from a beautifully appointed
table.